December 12, 2025 âą 30 mins
This segment tackles the biggest issues and the wildest contrasts of the day. CNN anchor Elex Michaelson joins the show to dive into the question everyone is asking — how do we actually eliminate homelessness? He also opens up about the intense workload and pressure that comes with hosting a national news program and staying plugged into the biggest stories in the country.
The mood lightens as engineer Tony Sorrentino reveals a King Kong pinball machine that proves nostalgia doesn’t come cheap.
Back on the local front, businesses are left scrambling after the sudden announcement that the longtime Fontana swap meet is shutting down, sparking a lively discussion about local culture, reputations, and whether Claremont really deserves its “snob” label — and if you know someone who fits it.
The hour wraps with a holiday reality check as Christmas arrives in less than two weeks, followed by a deep freeze update from Fargo, North Dakota, currently the coldest spot in the country, with brutal subzero temperatures and wind chills that sound downright uninhabitable. đđ„¶ Taylor Swift Docuseries first two episodes are out on Disney!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's camp.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We have one
of our favorite guests on who comes on with us
every week. He's the star over there at CNN, Elex Michaelson.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
How you Bob ding Jong with you?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Take Dong with you from CNN? This is CNN. So
how do you like it? Are there? You still enjoying it?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yeah, I'm having a great time. I mean, it's a
ton of work, but it's a really interesting challenge and
it's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Hey, the CNN reporter at the White House got into it.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
The President you see that.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I did wild. Yeah, he doesn't seem to be a
big fan of the network these days, but you know,
a change by the day.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
So you know what, maybe he's a big fan of yours.
Maybe you give him a fair shake and you're I'm
banging on him all the time.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I'm and he'll warm up to that.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I've had a good relationship with that Trump administration and
appreciate all the interviews with them, and have some of
those players from their administration coming on next week. So
looking forward to that.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
You know who's coming on with from the Trump administration.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Well, we have Bill Stately, who is the US attorney
from the Strageon who's leading on all these different lawsuits,
so he's going to be with us. We're going to
have Steve Moore, who is one of the President Trump's
top economic advisors, going to be joining next week, and
likely the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner,
who's leading the homelessness approach for the Trump administration, which
(01:41):
is very different than the Biden administration's approach. And so yeah,
I mean it's good to be able to talk to
people from all over the map.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, that is nice. So what celebrities you got coming up?
I know, Dick Van Dyke turns one hundred tomorrow. Did
you grab him?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I had not. I would love to be a thrill.
I've had the chance to meet him a few times.
He is the best. Yeah, yeah, I mean we uh yeah. Well,
next week there's going to be a really cool thing
happening at the iHeart Radio studios. Have you heard about that?
That Tony That Tony Robbins and Jimmy jam are leading
this thing called the Next Verse. It's sort of the
(02:20):
modern take on we Are the World and Iheart's one
of the big sponsors, and it's happening in your building
on Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
You know, I heard wind of it.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
It's happening I think across the street in our performance studio.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yes, yeah, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
That's that's going to raise a ton of money.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I'm gonna raise a ton of money. You know, big
time people from Bruno Mars to doctor Dre to Janet
Jackson to Andrea Bocelli to pit Bull, all coming together
to be part of this will be really cool.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
You know, back when what was a comedy jam? What
was the thing that Robin Williams did with Whippy Goldberg?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Really really comic relief comic really yeah? I remember the
second year they did it.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
What be Goldberg said, I bet we'll raise enough money
tonight to wipe out homelessness for good in the United States.
That was nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I remember govin Newsom's ten year plan to get rid
of homelessness.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
How's that going going? What is the solution?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Does anybody you know, people are at CNN are smart.
You've got a lot of smart employees. There, a lot
of reporters, a lot of you know, news directors. Is
there anybody that has come up with a plan on
how to wipe out homelessness or is it just going
to be with us forever?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
You know, I don't know if there's the political will
to do it, because the problem, as you know, is
it's such a it's there's so many different things. It's
not doing one thing right. I mean, it's dealing with
substance abuse and addiction and dealing with that in a
random bad way. It's dealing with our housing affordability crisis.
It's dealing with all the mental illness. It's doing with
(04:01):
all of these things at the same time. But it
is remarkable when you travel to other cities and you
walk around some of their downtowns and you really don't
see a whole lot of homeless people, right, because come
back here and you're like, what are they doing that
we're not doing?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Right? They make it illegal.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah, Well, it is remarkable when you look at different
jurisdictions in southern California, Like you have a home a
lot of homeless people in Beverly.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Hills, No, and you also don't see them a nervine either.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
No, no, Yeah, And go.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
To Balboa Island or Newport and to take a look
see you around there.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, yeah, you got you got a great ferry, but
not a lot of ten Yeah about Balboa Bar, that's
about it.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah yeah, But buddy, I know you're celebrating what two
months being on that network?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Is it two months?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, it's about that.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
But that's gotta be a lot of work. I mean,
to do two hours live every night is nerve wracking.
I mean, you know, we do three hours. Yeah, we
had a lot of commercials. We're not on TV. We'd
have to do makeup, we don't have to have a
lot of celebrities in here. But I imagine doing two
hours of live TV is a lot of work. That's
doing two Saturday night or a Saturday at live every
week every day.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Well, I think of it this way because you know
how hard I worked on the Issue is Yes, Box eleven,
which which was which I worked all week to do
that show, which was a half hour once a week
for twenty two minutes, And now we are doing the
equivalent of five issue is episodes every night live. So
(05:33):
it's it's crazy. Yeah, I mean we're doing you know,
six or seven guests a night on all different topics.
So it's certainly the most challenging thing that I've done,
and sort of being up on all these different topics.
It's not a lot of teleprompter reading. It's you kind
of have to be able to talk about all these
different things. But what a joy again, what a privilege
(05:53):
to be able to do it. This is something I've
dreamed about my whole life, and to be able to
actually do it now is so cool and fun. And
what I really love also is that we are doing
a lot of topics. It's not just you know, Donald
Trump sucks, you know. I mean, it's like, there's more
to Our show has a lot of different things in
it that you don't see necessarily throughout the rest of
the day. So we have a lot of entertainment, and
(06:15):
we have sports, and we have tech, and we have
a lot of international news and you know, stories that
you don't see all day long, which I think makes
it really refreshing and makes it fun to be able
to do that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Alex Michael said, as well, as he's on nine pm
to eleven PM live here in Los Angeles and throughout
the world on CNN every single weeknight. The Issue, it's
not called the Issue is anymore. The Fox kept that
what is the name of the show now.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
It's called the story? Is the story not just politics? Yes,
beyond issue the story. Every issue has a story.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yes, you know, I heard Stephen Miller complained that CNN
never has him on. Is he just complaining or has
CNN said no to that cat?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
To be totally honest, I really don't know the backgard.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I don't either.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
So yeah, but have you tried to get Trump to
come on or Biden or one of the you know,
president or former president.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I've put in I've put in my offers. Yeah, I
would love to love to do that. We're taking it
one step at a time. I'm still the new guy,
but it would be uh, I would be honored to
talk to the either one of them, would be would
be amazing.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Are you set up to do remotes during World Cup
or the Olympics or anything, because that's gonna be a
big deal in La. We got we got the Olympics
coming up, We have the World Cup coming up and
a super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
We got three big events coming up.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah, and then the uh and and I think we're
going to be live from the Super Bowl in Santa
Clara Wow this year too. So it's Northern California's got
a big thing going as well. You were born and
raised year now, it's exciting.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You and I were both born and raised here in
Los Angeles. I've been around a little longer than you have.
So I'll ask you this question because somebody asked me
things exact same question last night. Structurally, monetarily, physically, emotionally.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Are we ready for the Olympics?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yes, okay, I think so. So I think we are.
I mean, I mean, you know, it's crazy. We did
a story last night from Italy. We had a correspondent
in Courtina Milt where they're preparing for the Winter Olympics
in like a month, right, and they're like barely ready.
They're still building stuff and worried if this stuff is
(08:32):
going to be ready. I mean, the crazy part about
LA they call this the no Build Olympics. They don't
have to build anything because all the infrastructure, at least
for the games are already here. I mean, it's not
like Sochi, Russia, where at the last minute that like
paint is drying because they haven't furnished these complexes. LA
(08:53):
is better situated for the Olympics than just about any
place Obviously there's concerns about homelessness and traffic and infrastructure
and and some of the rest of that. But when
we had the Olympics before, a lot of that stuff
has just sort of worked itself out.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
And another reason why they don't build anything here for
the Olympics is because they can't.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
There's no space and building building costs are so high.
That's right.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
But let me tell you something though, young man. If
you go to Courtina, I think that's how you pronounce it, right, Courtina, Italy. Yeah,
it is one of the most beautiful cities in the
entire world.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Sure it is, but they didn't have as much infrastructure
set to do the Olympics. I mean, think about the
structures we have in place here, from from Sofi Stadium
the into it Dome to all the different places that
you can host events here. I mean, it's la is
an amazing place. As much as we all dump on it,
that's right, And it's certainly easy to do that, and
(09:54):
easy to dump on the government and the regulations and everything.
It's a spectacular place. There's a reason we all live here,
and I think I think the Olympics are going to
be a proud moment for our region.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
By the way, the reason why it's easy to dump
on California and Los Angeles is they make it that
way well.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
And there are some people that actually literally dump them.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
That's right, California, that's correct, certain part, buddy, I'll be
watching tonight. The story is nine pm to eleven pm
every weeknight on CNN.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
It must be really cool to work for CNN.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I mean that, you know, since I was just out
of high school when CNN started. They got their first
big break during the Gulf War, and that's the big
go to station whenever there's a big story.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Yeah, it's pretty wild to be there for that sort
of thing. And it is pretty cool to be able
to toss the correspondence all over the world. I mean
the other night. In one night, we went from you know,
Ukraine to Sydney, Australia, Venezuela to you know. So it's
like wild to be able to do that, and that's
something you could never do at a local station. So
(11:02):
I do. I feel honored and privileged to be.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Able to do it right, and it's there and you're
not going to just any reporter. You're going to a
CNN reporter who are all pretty buttoned up.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yeah, yeah, I mean they know, they're some pretty smart people.
It can be it can be a little intimidating, but
but you know, I'm learning my way around.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Have they embraced you or do you feel like they're
backstabbing you when you're not around?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I think the tea team's actually been very very nice.
So who knows what they're saying when I'm not there,
but at least publicly, they've been very nice.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Right.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
But you know, my dad told me when I was young,
he said, the reason why people talk behind your back
is because they don't want you to hear that simple
simple man, simple man, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah, yeah, for a lot of people, little more than
a simple it's a little more than a simple man.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
That's buddy.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Thanks for coming on, have a great weekend and maybe
well we'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
All right, ding gone with.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Giant stud all right, dig DeLong with you Alex Michaelson
every weeknight on CNN, and we've been following that cat's
career from ABC to Fox and then on CNM, and.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
He always calls us.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
You know, he's a early, upbeat dude, very successful guy,
and never forgot us little guys and comes on with
us every Friday.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Cool guy like that.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Dude, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KF.
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I am so jealous of our board up Tony. He's
buying a brand new King Kong pinball game that is spcatacular.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
It's on the list, but I take.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
A little It's got a big King Kong, it's got
a gong, it's got that spider that's magnetic planes and
uh it's and railroad cars or subway cars.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Oh, that's the multi ball so that he flips the
car in the air and falls fly out of it.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Oh, that's great. And I guess the King Kong is too.
They made it too big for the game. And what
is it bangs on the glass?
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Well, they realized it, so they just programmed until he
punches the glass on the timball machine.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
But ten Grand huh yeah, yeah, but it's new. Is
Stern the only company that makes some stones?
Speaker 6 (13:18):
There's Stern, There's Jersey Jack there, there's like barrels of fun.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Just put a cool one out and there's.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
A couple of companies.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
But ten Grand is not bad for all that that
that machine does.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
It's a commercial machine.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Right, and you can you can put your phone into
it and it takes a photo.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
It tracks your score.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
It's just what they do new so that you canically
track your score and you know, rank globally and that
kind of stuff. It's just, you know, you got to
add those little extra features now with because with everyone
has a cell phone.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
So, buddy, I can't tell you I would never leave
my house if I had that thing. Sub day, I've
worked it towards it. It's gonna be a while. The art,
the the art on the side of it. I mean,
it must take them. It must take a guy or
a group of you know, three or four guys a
week to put one of those together.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
It's got to it's it's one main guy that's like
one of the main artists. I don't I can't remember
his role name, but they all call him Zombietti.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Would he come on with us? You're think he'd come on?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Or is he like a reclosed I don't know, I
am so.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
So what do you have at home? How many pinball
games machines?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
One right now, a nineties Jurassic Park from Diddy East,
and then how many video games again, the emulators and
stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
So those cabinets.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Are ten of those, and then how many slot machines
one or just one and one video poker machine. I'd
love video parks and one pachinko machine if I had
a video poker.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Machine, honestly, God, I would never eat. I wouldn't, I would.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I would just you know, I go to a casino
and play it until four am. Why would't I play
it at home every night till four am?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Well it took me.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Because I bought it on Facebook parking place, you know,
and it was like, oh, it works cool, and I'm
playing were fast like when you play you know, casino
poke like the poker machine, right, it's like always keep
the face cards and all that.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Right, But it kept losing them, like I don't know
what's going on.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
I figure out later as a deuces wild machine, so
it's all, okay, that's.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Classic. Yeah, deuce is wild. You throw everything away except
the deuces. It's it's go for straights or flushes. That's
nothing else pays, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, you have to
have three of a kind to get even bringing your
money back.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Even on it.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
That's great, buddy, I I love that I if I again,
if I had a video poker machine. You know, they
should have they should have video poker machines you can
rent at your house and they pay you off if
you win. You know, I think that might be the
problem part there. But see I would eventually be homeless.
My wife and I would be in a car with
(15:37):
our you know, video poker machine, be living in a
you know, suv somewhere. But I'd still have my video
poker machine. That's got to be a great scene in
a in a movie where a guy gets wiped out
on video poker and he's end up ends up in
a car with his wife and his kid, and he's
in the.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Back still with that video poker machine. You know, he
still thinks he has a shot.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
That that's me.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
That's me something I got to show.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
The first thing about video poker machine. It smells like casino. Okay,
it like bellows out nicotine.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Still.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Oh, that's classic. That is great, buddy. All right, let's
talk about the when we come back.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
There's something closing in Fontana that is going to get
a lot of people depressed. So if you live in
the Inland Empire, you may know what I'm already talking
about maybe not, maybe not. It just happened, and it's
going to be coming to an end, and a lot
of people are going to be depressed, so we come back.
I'm gonna tell you what is closing in the Inland
(16:35):
Empire that may never come back.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on De Mayo from
KFI AM six forty Fontana.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
One of my favorite hangs is the Inland Empire. I
like how big the streets are. I like going back
to nineteen seventy two. It looks like the San Fernando
Valley back in the seventies. Big walmarts, big lows, big
home depots.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Everything's big in the I e.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
The Ie and I was very sad to see one
of these swap meets closing because I think fontana in Spanish,
I think means swap meat. I think that's how it's translated.
And there are some cool ones out there. There's the
Colton Indoor Swap Meet, There's the Paris Indoor Swap Meet,
Waterman Discount Mall, and the Fontana Indoor Swap me They
(17:24):
also called the bell Air Swap Meet. That didn't really
sort of catch on. People saw through that it's not
really a bell Air ish and then the Valley Indoor
swap Meat and the one that's closing, I think is
the one on San Bernardino and Sierra. Now I've never
been to this one, but I've been to the King
Taco across the street.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
If this is the one.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
They're talking about on Sierra and San Bernardino, and it's beautiful,
it's great. There's a lot of action there, especially around
the holidays and people like swap meets, and it's closing,
and they didn't give a lot of these a lot
of you know, long term notice and that they have
to pack up their goods and get the hell out
of there. I think the last day is in the
(18:05):
second or third week of January and it's over. I
don't know what they're gonna put there, but that's a
big piece of property. There's an eye hop out there
right on the same property, also an in and out
you know Starbucks. But it really is it looks like
a cool hang, and it looks like the days are numbered.
And now these people own the boots inside the swap
meet have to go find another swap meet or another location.
(18:29):
It's very tough to do with short short notice here
you know, three D house of short notice for.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
Very sad day after thirty two years. This thirty two years.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
This place has been open and they're closing.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
Day after thirty two years.
Speaker 9 (18:43):
This popular Fontana indoor swap meet says they're closing their
doors for good. We talked to vendors who got very emotional.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I don't want to talk, but it's sad.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
It's very sad.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Just shot.
Speaker 10 (18:55):
I have a no idea where to go.
Speaker 9 (18:57):
June Junk, owner of JJ Portrait Studios, one of more
than seventy family owned vendors, says they were told Wednesday
they have to pack up and move out by January nineteenth.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
God, there's a guy who's really holding on a portrait
studio in a swap meet. Man oh Man, I can't
imagine he's shocked.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
He's still got the backdrops there.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah, that the life is moving beyond him. God.
Speaker 10 (19:23):
Another thing is though we have a security deposit, and
most people they have a security deposit.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yeah, but the security deposit was eight dollars. You put
it down in nineteen seventy four, but.
Speaker 10 (19:32):
We are not going to give you back because we
asked why. And then he said during the Kolobe, the
nineteen pandemic, and then you didn't pay the when.
Speaker 9 (19:42):
Some business owners scrambling right after they stocked up with
tens of thousands in new merchandise for the holidays.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yeah, they got to get rid of a lot of
this stuff. So I did find it here. It is
the one on Sierra. It's Sierra and Sam Bernardino. So
if you're on the ten Freeway, it's just a little
bit east of the Fontana Speedway and east of the
Ontario Airport. You get off at Sierra, you go north
and it's two blocks down on your right hand side,
San Bernardino Avenue and Sierra. And there's gonna be a
(20:13):
lot of sweet deals there because people have to get
rid of a lot of merchandise. So maybe you can
get a good deal for Christmas. But it looks like
a great, great swap. Meet a lot of family owned businesses.
I'm sure everybody knows each other in there, and now
they're all scrambling to find somewhere else to open up
their shop.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Shoppers stunted.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
For us neighborhood kids that grew up here, this is
all we've ever that's right, Tame two.
Speaker 8 (20:35):
This was everything to everybody.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
I really hope that they find, you know, nearby location
so we can continue to, you know, bring business to them,
and you know, keep this legacy going.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Last minute seventy percent Queen of you knows, the you
know queen.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
See how many times she banged that out with the Unos.
Speaker 8 (20:54):
Game two, This was everything to everybody.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Okay, here we go, let's count the unos.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
I really hope that they find, you know, nearby location
so we can continue to, you know, bring business to them,
and you know, keep this strikes.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
You're out with the Queen you knows legacy.
Speaker 9 (21:10):
Going last minute seventy percent off signs. Many of these
vendors are in their sixties and seventies, making the set
and move even harder for their employees and families.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yeah, you gotta get out there.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Seventy percent off at the indoor Fontana indoor swap made
sam Berndino Avenue in Sierra.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
It's their choice to sell the property.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
That's not my choice.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
But at least they should have let us know.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
Earlier and then so we don't have to buy so
much much.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Ndise, Yeah, she's right, This lady's one hundred percent correct.
They should have told them months ago. They've only they're
only giving them three four weeks. Notice I've been here.
Speaker 8 (21:53):
Thirty one years.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I raised my kids and this business, and I think
they could be a little polize to tell me ahead
of time so I could prepare myself.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah, that's right. I'm you can tell of the emotion
in this woman's voice. She raised her kids there. She
probably owns one of the little stores with the little
shops in there, and it's going away, and I'm I
can empathize with her or sympathize with her. I have
a car that I drive. It's a twenty two thousand
(22:23):
and six Lincoln Navigator. It only costs me money. Now
it breaks down all the time. It needs some electric work.
The air conditioning doesn't work unless I hit a speed
bump and then it turns on. So that's where I
am during summer. I'm looking for speed bumps to crank
the AC on. And I got a parking ticket today
(22:44):
for fifty one dollars. So it's cost me a lot
of money. But the point is I physically, emotionally can't
get rid of it because every time I look at
the rearview mirror, my beautiful daughter, Sophia is in that
rearview mirror.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I raised that key in that car.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
She went with me everywhere I went, and I can't
get rid of that car.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
It's a money pit.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
It's it's it barely runs, and I can't get rid
of it. You know, a guy offered me six hundred
dollars for it, six hundred dollars. I put twelve hundred
dollars in tires on it six months ago. It's worth
six hundred dollars on it, one hundred and twenty five thousand.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Oh right, that's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Uh, it's worth six hundred bucks. My deductible with my
insurance is two thousand for that. So if I get
an accident, I owe the insurance company fourteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Gott to avoid all these guys?
Speaker 8 (23:39):
Nice?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
All right?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
The Fontana? Have you been there?
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Crows?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
You're a fontana?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
No?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
I have not.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Are you? Will you consider you? Do you consider yourself
a fontana?
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Guy?
Speaker 4 (23:47):
I do not?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
You do not a little far away from me? Okay,
on a couple levels. Okay, I get it. Snobby Claremont,
that's you, is Claremont? Snob Polize too, Tommy. Is there
such thing as a Claremont stop.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Oh sure they're there. Oh yeah, it's more than half
of the city.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Yeah, polize too tummy ahead of time so I could
prepare myself.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yeah, she's right, she's right. They did her.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Wrong to to look for another place.
Speaker 9 (24:22):
The vendors say, if you can come here before January nineteenth,
the shop, they would greatly appreciate it. Reporting here in
Fontana Jean Kan Katie A five names.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, they're out there, you know.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I hit my knee the same place all the time
on this.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Like a permanent bruise there, dude.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Ah man, it's sharp too. Two days of pain, all right.
This this desk just raw dogs me. I don't know
what the term means, but I think that's right now.
Whatever that term means, that's just raw dog means.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Oh, it's the weekend before everybody, Well, it's the weekend
that is going to be spent shopping, tree lighting, you know,
maybe decorating the next ear of the house because we're
very close to Christmas. I don't know if you know this,
Maybe you do, Maybe you're you know, your hip to
the quip here and you know this, but Christmas is
(25:36):
two weeks from yesterday. Two weeks from yesterday, Christmas Eve
is a week from next Wednesday. You have less than
two weeks until Christmas is here, so you've got to
get out there. I was looking at weather here in
I want to see what the coldest place was in
(25:57):
the United States. You are not going to leave this.
It's usually Borrow, Alaska. They don't call it Borrow anymore.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
They call it.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Tv utiafic Utiavik. I think it's a Native American name.
Utiavik used to be called Borrow, Alaska. It's minus three
degrees there right now, minus three Okay, that's about twelve
hundred miles north maybe two thousand miles north of Fargo,
(26:29):
and Fargo is going to be much much colder Fargo
North Dakota. I'm reading this on Google right now. Listen
to this.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Okay. If you think you're cold in La right now,
how about this.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Fargo is experiencing dangerously cold wind chills right now with
the current feels like temperature. That's the windshield with wind
chill this weekend minus thirty six degrees. The high temperature
on Saturday in Fargo, North Dakota is five minus five degrees.
(27:08):
The high temperature in Fargo is minus five degrees. On Saturday,
the low is minus sixteen, and the wind chill the
wind chill factor minus thirty six degrees minus thirty six. Okay,
(27:29):
let me do a quick math here. I'm gonna look
at the weather in the San Fernando Valley for tomorrow.
Is gonna be seventy today with seventy nine degrees. Okay,
let's do a quick math here. Maybe you've already done it.
Seventy nine minus one hundred and thirty six. Okay, Now
(27:50):
I can't be right, so it's it's minus Let me
see here. Okay, it's thirty six.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Here's how we can do it. Thirty six plus seventy nine. Okay.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
It's one hundred and fifteen degrees colder in Fargo, North
Dakota than it is in Burbank today, one hundred and
fifteen degree difference. It's one hundred and fifteen degrees warmer
today in Burbank than it was in Fargo, North Dakota.
One hundred and fifteen degree difference, minus thirty six. That's
(28:23):
your wind chill factor. That's incredible. Minus thirty six. So
guess what those people. Guess where those people are coming
who have money, they have had it with this wind chill,
and they're coming to Los Angeles or they're going to Phoenix.
Most of them will come to LA because they can't
(28:44):
stand the heat in Phoenix and they'll come to Los
Angeles with their oil money or whatever they're you know,
they may be made out of farm or cattle ranch
and they have a ton of money and they're coming
to LA and they're going to spend it and they're
going to buy homes because they have effing had with
minus thirty six degrees minus thirty six. So think about
(29:05):
that while you're out today tonight.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Shopping in LA.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Also, for you kids out there, for you young people
out there, Taylor Swift docuseries has just been released. Part
one and part two of her docuseries, it's a six
part deal, has just been released. So maybe you can
spend the weekend with your kids watching that. I know
it may not be for you, but your kids will
love it, especially if your kids are huge Taylor Swift fans.
(29:32):
Huge Tony Who's coming on tonight at seven bells?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Bub is it?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Chris is Chris on tonight.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
We do have Chris.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Oh, Chris, okay, Chris is on Tony And that was
Richie's voice. Yeah, all right, Richie's on. You're producing tonight, yes, sir,
all right, excellent, all right. It should be great, all right,
and also Ronner is with Chris tonight, so it should be.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
A great show.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Starts off immediately after these commercials. Have a great weekend.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
We'll see on Monday at four pm right here on
KFI AM six forty Conway Show on demand on the
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KFI AM six forty four to seven pm Monday through Friday,
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It's camp.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We have one
of our favorite guests on who comes on with us
every week. He's the star over there at CNN, Elex Michaelson.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
How you Bob ding Jong with you?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Take Dong with you from CNN? This is CNN. So
how do you like it? Are there? You still enjoying it?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yeah, I'm having a great time. I mean, it's a
ton of work, but it's a really interesting challenge and
it's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Hey, the CNN reporter at the White House got into it.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
The President you see that.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I did wild. Yeah, he doesn't seem to be a
big fan of the network these days, but you know,
a change by the day.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
So you know what, maybe he's a big fan of yours.
Maybe you give him a fair shake and you're I'm
banging on him all the time.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I'm and he'll warm up to that.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I've had a good relationship with that Trump administration and
appreciate all the interviews with them, and have some of
those players from their administration coming on next week. So
looking forward to that.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
You know who's coming on with from the Trump administration.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Well, we have Bill Stately, who is the US attorney
from the Strageon who's leading on all these different lawsuits,
so he's going to be with us. We're going to
have Steve Moore, who is one of the President Trump's
top economic advisors, going to be joining next week, and
likely the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner,
who's leading the homelessness approach for the Trump administration, which
(01:41):
is very different than the Biden administration's approach. And so yeah,
I mean it's good to be able to talk to
people from all over the map.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, that is nice. So what celebrities you got coming up?
I know, Dick Van Dyke turns one hundred tomorrow. Did
you grab him?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I had not. I would love to be a thrill.
I've had the chance to meet him a few times.
He is the best. Yeah, yeah, I mean we uh yeah. Well,
next week there's going to be a really cool thing
happening at the iHeart Radio studios. Have you heard about that?
That Tony That Tony Robbins and Jimmy jam are leading
this thing called the Next Verse. It's sort of the
(02:20):
modern take on we Are the World and Iheart's one
of the big sponsors, and it's happening in your building
on Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
You know, I heard wind of it.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
It's happening I think across the street in our performance studio.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yes, yeah, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
That's that's going to raise a ton of money.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I'm gonna raise a ton of money. You know, big
time people from Bruno Mars to doctor Dre to Janet
Jackson to Andrea Bocelli to pit Bull, all coming together
to be part of this will be really cool.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
You know, back when what was a comedy jam? What
was the thing that Robin Williams did with Whippy Goldberg?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Really really comic relief comic really yeah? I remember the
second year they did it.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
What be Goldberg said, I bet we'll raise enough money
tonight to wipe out homelessness for good in the United States.
That was nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I remember govin Newsom's ten year plan to get rid
of homelessness.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
How's that going going? What is the solution?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Does anybody you know, people are at CNN are smart.
You've got a lot of smart employees. There, a lot
of reporters, a lot of you know, news directors. Is
there anybody that has come up with a plan on
how to wipe out homelessness or is it just going
to be with us forever?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
You know, I don't know if there's the political will
to do it, because the problem, as you know, is
it's such a it's there's so many different things. It's
not doing one thing right. I mean, it's dealing with
substance abuse and addiction and dealing with that in a
random bad way. It's dealing with our housing affordability crisis.
It's dealing with all the mental illness. It's doing with
(04:01):
all of these things at the same time. But it
is remarkable when you travel to other cities and you
walk around some of their downtowns and you really don't
see a whole lot of homeless people, right, because come
back here and you're like, what are they doing that
we're not doing?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Right? They make it illegal.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah, Well, it is remarkable when you look at different
jurisdictions in southern California, Like you have a home a
lot of homeless people in Beverly.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Hills, No, and you also don't see them a nervine either.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
No, no, Yeah, And go.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
To Balboa Island or Newport and to take a look
see you around there.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, yeah, you got you got a great ferry, but
not a lot of ten Yeah about Balboa Bar, that's
about it.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah yeah, But buddy, I know you're celebrating what two
months being on that network?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Is it two months?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, it's about that.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
But that's gotta be a lot of work. I mean,
to do two hours live every night is nerve wracking.
I mean, you know, we do three hours. Yeah, we
had a lot of commercials. We're not on TV. We'd
have to do makeup, we don't have to have a
lot of celebrities in here. But I imagine doing two
hours of live TV is a lot of work. That's
doing two Saturday night or a Saturday at live every
week every day.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Well, I think of it this way because you know
how hard I worked on the Issue is Yes, Box eleven,
which which was which I worked all week to do
that show, which was a half hour once a week
for twenty two minutes, And now we are doing the
equivalent of five issue is episodes every night live. So
(05:33):
it's it's crazy. Yeah, I mean we're doing you know,
six or seven guests a night on all different topics.
So it's certainly the most challenging thing that I've done,
and sort of being up on all these different topics.
It's not a lot of teleprompter reading. It's you kind
of have to be able to talk about all these
different things. But what a joy again, what a privilege
(05:53):
to be able to do it. This is something I've
dreamed about my whole life, and to be able to
actually do it now is so cool and fun. And
what I really love also is that we are doing
a lot of topics. It's not just you know, Donald
Trump sucks, you know. I mean, it's like, there's more
to Our show has a lot of different things in
it that you don't see necessarily throughout the rest of
the day. So we have a lot of entertainment, and
(06:15):
we have sports, and we have tech, and we have
a lot of international news and you know, stories that
you don't see all day long, which I think makes
it really refreshing and makes it fun to be able
to do that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Alex Michael said, as well, as he's on nine pm
to eleven PM live here in Los Angeles and throughout
the world on CNN every single weeknight. The Issue, it's
not called the Issue is anymore. The Fox kept that
what is the name of the show now.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
It's called the story? Is the story not just politics? Yes,
beyond issue the story. Every issue has a story.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yes, you know, I heard Stephen Miller complained that CNN
never has him on. Is he just complaining or has
CNN said no to that cat?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
To be totally honest, I really don't know the backgard.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I don't either.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
So yeah, but have you tried to get Trump to
come on or Biden or one of the you know,
president or former president.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I've put in I've put in my offers. Yeah, I
would love to love to do that. We're taking it
one step at a time. I'm still the new guy,
but it would be uh, I would be honored to
talk to the either one of them, would be would
be amazing.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Are you set up to do remotes during World Cup
or the Olympics or anything, because that's gonna be a
big deal in La. We got we got the Olympics
coming up, We have the World Cup coming up and
a super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
We got three big events coming up.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah, and then the uh and and I think we're
going to be live from the Super Bowl in Santa
Clara Wow this year too. So it's Northern California's got
a big thing going as well. You were born and
raised year now, it's exciting.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You and I were both born and raised here in
Los Angeles. I've been around a little longer than you have.
So I'll ask you this question because somebody asked me
things exact same question last night. Structurally, monetarily, physically, emotionally.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Are we ready for the Olympics?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yes, okay, I think so. So I think we are.
I mean, I mean, you know, it's crazy. We did
a story last night from Italy. We had a correspondent
in Courtina Milt where they're preparing for the Winter Olympics
in like a month, right, and they're like barely ready.
They're still building stuff and worried if this stuff is
(08:32):
going to be ready. I mean, the crazy part about
LA they call this the no Build Olympics. They don't
have to build anything because all the infrastructure, at least
for the games are already here. I mean, it's not
like Sochi, Russia, where at the last minute that like
paint is drying because they haven't furnished these complexes. LA
(08:53):
is better situated for the Olympics than just about any
place Obviously there's concerns about homelessness and traffic and infrastructure
and and some of the rest of that. But when
we had the Olympics before, a lot of that stuff
has just sort of worked itself out.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
And another reason why they don't build anything here for
the Olympics is because they can't.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
There's no space and building building costs are so high.
That's right.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
But let me tell you something though, young man. If
you go to Courtina, I think that's how you pronounce it, right, Courtina, Italy. Yeah,
it is one of the most beautiful cities in the
entire world.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Sure it is, but they didn't have as much infrastructure
set to do the Olympics. I mean, think about the
structures we have in place here, from from Sofi Stadium
the into it Dome to all the different places that
you can host events here. I mean, it's la is
an amazing place. As much as we all dump on it,
that's right, And it's certainly easy to do that, and
(09:54):
easy to dump on the government and the regulations and everything.
It's a spectacular place. There's a reason we all live here,
and I think I think the Olympics are going to
be a proud moment for our region.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
By the way, the reason why it's easy to dump
on California and Los Angeles is they make it that
way well.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
And there are some people that actually literally dump them.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
That's right, California, that's correct, certain part, buddy, I'll be
watching tonight. The story is nine pm to eleven pm
every weeknight on CNN.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
It must be really cool to work for CNN.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I mean that, you know, since I was just out
of high school when CNN started. They got their first
big break during the Gulf War, and that's the big
go to station whenever there's a big story.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Yeah, it's pretty wild to be there for that sort
of thing. And it is pretty cool to be able
to toss the correspondence all over the world. I mean
the other night. In one night, we went from you know,
Ukraine to Sydney, Australia, Venezuela to you know. So it's
like wild to be able to do that, and that's
something you could never do at a local station. So
(11:02):
I do. I feel honored and privileged to be.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Able to do it right, and it's there and you're
not going to just any reporter. You're going to a
CNN reporter who are all pretty buttoned up.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yeah, yeah, I mean they know, they're some pretty smart people.
It can be it can be a little intimidating, but
but you know, I'm learning my way around.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Have they embraced you or do you feel like they're
backstabbing you when you're not around?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I think the tea team's actually been very very nice.
So who knows what they're saying when I'm not there,
but at least publicly, they've been very nice.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Right.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
But you know, my dad told me when I was young,
he said, the reason why people talk behind your back
is because they don't want you to hear that simple
simple man, simple man, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah, yeah, for a lot of people, little more than
a simple it's a little more than a simple man.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
That's buddy.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Thanks for coming on, have a great weekend and maybe
well we'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
All right, ding gone with.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Giant stud all right, dig DeLong with you Alex Michaelson
every weeknight on CNN, and we've been following that cat's
career from ABC to Fox and then on CNM, and.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
He always calls us.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
You know, he's a early, upbeat dude, very successful guy,
and never forgot us little guys and comes on with
us every Friday.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Cool guy like that.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Dude, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KF.
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I am so jealous of our board up Tony. He's
buying a brand new King Kong pinball game that is spcatacular.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
It's on the list, but I take.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
A little It's got a big King Kong, it's got
a gong, it's got that spider that's magnetic planes and
uh it's and railroad cars or subway cars.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Oh, that's the multi ball so that he flips the
car in the air and falls fly out of it.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Oh, that's great. And I guess the King Kong is too.
They made it too big for the game. And what
is it bangs on the glass?
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Well, they realized it, so they just programmed until he
punches the glass on the timball machine.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
But ten Grand huh yeah, yeah, but it's new. Is
Stern the only company that makes some stones?
Speaker 6 (13:18):
There's Stern, There's Jersey Jack there, there's like barrels of fun.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Just put a cool one out and there's.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
A couple of companies.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
But ten Grand is not bad for all that that
that machine does.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
It's a commercial machine.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Right, and you can you can put your phone into
it and it takes a photo.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
It tracks your score.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
It's just what they do new so that you canically
track your score and you know, rank globally and that
kind of stuff. It's just, you know, you got to
add those little extra features now with because with everyone
has a cell phone.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
So, buddy, I can't tell you I would never leave
my house if I had that thing. Sub day, I've
worked it towards it. It's gonna be a while. The art,
the the art on the side of it. I mean,
it must take them. It must take a guy or
a group of you know, three or four guys a
week to put one of those together.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
It's got to it's it's one main guy that's like
one of the main artists. I don't I can't remember
his role name, but they all call him Zombietti.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Would he come on with us? You're think he'd come on?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Or is he like a reclosed I don't know, I
am so.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
So what do you have at home? How many pinball
games machines?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
One right now, a nineties Jurassic Park from Diddy East,
and then how many video games again, the emulators and
stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
So those cabinets.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Are ten of those, and then how many slot machines
one or just one and one video poker machine. I'd
love video parks and one pachinko machine if I had
a video poker.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Machine, honestly, God, I would never eat. I wouldn't, I would.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I would just you know, I go to a casino
and play it until four am. Why would't I play
it at home every night till four am?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Well it took me.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Because I bought it on Facebook parking place, you know,
and it was like, oh, it works cool, and I'm
playing were fast like when you play you know, casino
poke like the poker machine, right, it's like always keep
the face cards and all that.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Right, But it kept losing them, like I don't know
what's going on.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
I figure out later as a deuces wild machine, so
it's all, okay, that's.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Classic. Yeah, deuce is wild. You throw everything away except
the deuces. It's it's go for straights or flushes. That's
nothing else pays, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, you have to
have three of a kind to get even bringing your
money back.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Even on it.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
That's great, buddy, I I love that I if I again,
if I had a video poker machine. You know, they
should have they should have video poker machines you can
rent at your house and they pay you off if
you win. You know, I think that might be the
problem part there. But see I would eventually be homeless.
My wife and I would be in a car with
(15:37):
our you know, video poker machine, be living in a
you know, suv somewhere. But I'd still have my video
poker machine. That's got to be a great scene in
a in a movie where a guy gets wiped out
on video poker and he's end up ends up in
a car with his wife and his kid, and he's
in the.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Back still with that video poker machine. You know, he
still thinks he has a shot.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
That that's me.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
That's me something I got to show.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
The first thing about video poker machine. It smells like casino. Okay,
it like bellows out nicotine.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Still.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Oh, that's classic. That is great, buddy. All right, let's
talk about the when we come back.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
There's something closing in Fontana that is going to get
a lot of people depressed. So if you live in
the Inland Empire, you may know what I'm already talking
about maybe not, maybe not. It just happened, and it's
going to be coming to an end, and a lot
of people are going to be depressed, so we come back.
I'm gonna tell you what is closing in the Inland
(16:35):
Empire that may never come back.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on De Mayo from
KFI AM six forty Fontana.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
One of my favorite hangs is the Inland Empire. I
like how big the streets are. I like going back
to nineteen seventy two. It looks like the San Fernando
Valley back in the seventies. Big walmarts, big lows, big
home depots.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Everything's big in the I e.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
The Ie and I was very sad to see one
of these swap meets closing because I think fontana in Spanish,
I think means swap meat. I think that's how it's translated.
And there are some cool ones out there. There's the
Colton Indoor Swap Meet, There's the Paris Indoor Swap Meet,
Waterman Discount Mall, and the Fontana Indoor Swap me They
(17:24):
also called the bell Air Swap Meet. That didn't really
sort of catch on. People saw through that it's not
really a bell Air ish and then the Valley Indoor
swap Meat and the one that's closing, I think is
the one on San Bernardino and Sierra. Now I've never
been to this one, but I've been to the King
Taco across the street.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
If this is the one.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
They're talking about on Sierra and San Bernardino, and it's beautiful,
it's great. There's a lot of action there, especially around
the holidays and people like swap meets, and it's closing,
and they didn't give a lot of these a lot
of you know, long term notice and that they have
to pack up their goods and get the hell out
of there. I think the last day is in the
(18:05):
second or third week of January and it's over. I
don't know what they're gonna put there, but that's a
big piece of property. There's an eye hop out there
right on the same property, also an in and out
you know Starbucks. But it really is it looks like
a cool hang, and it looks like the days are numbered.
And now these people own the boots inside the swap
meet have to go find another swap meet or another location.
(18:29):
It's very tough to do with short short notice here
you know, three D house of short notice for.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
Very sad day after thirty two years. This thirty two years.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
This place has been open and they're closing.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
Day after thirty two years.
Speaker 9 (18:43):
This popular Fontana indoor swap meet says they're closing their
doors for good. We talked to vendors who got very emotional.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I don't want to talk, but it's sad.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
It's very sad.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Just shot.
Speaker 10 (18:55):
I have a no idea where to go.
Speaker 9 (18:57):
June Junk, owner of JJ Portrait Studios, one of more
than seventy family owned vendors, says they were told Wednesday
they have to pack up and move out by January nineteenth.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
God, there's a guy who's really holding on a portrait
studio in a swap meet. Man oh Man, I can't
imagine he's shocked.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
He's still got the backdrops there.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah, that the life is moving beyond him. God.
Speaker 10 (19:23):
Another thing is though we have a security deposit, and
most people they have a security deposit.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yeah, but the security deposit was eight dollars. You put
it down in nineteen seventy four, but.
Speaker 10 (19:32):
We are not going to give you back because we
asked why. And then he said during the Kolobe, the
nineteen pandemic, and then you didn't pay the when.
Speaker 9 (19:42):
Some business owners scrambling right after they stocked up with
tens of thousands in new merchandise for the holidays.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yeah, they got to get rid of a lot of
this stuff. So I did find it here. It is
the one on Sierra. It's Sierra and Sam Bernardino. So
if you're on the ten Freeway, it's just a little
bit east of the Fontana Speedway and east of the
Ontario Airport. You get off at Sierra, you go north
and it's two blocks down on your right hand side,
San Bernardino Avenue and Sierra. And there's gonna be a
(20:13):
lot of sweet deals there because people have to get
rid of a lot of merchandise. So maybe you can
get a good deal for Christmas. But it looks like
a great, great swap. Meet a lot of family owned businesses.
I'm sure everybody knows each other in there, and now
they're all scrambling to find somewhere else to open up
their shop.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Shoppers stunted.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
For us neighborhood kids that grew up here, this is
all we've ever that's right, Tame two.
Speaker 8 (20:35):
This was everything to everybody.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
I really hope that they find, you know, nearby location
so we can continue to, you know, bring business to them,
and you know, keep this legacy going.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Last minute seventy percent Queen of you knows, the you
know queen.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
See how many times she banged that out with the Unos.
Speaker 8 (20:54):
Game two, This was everything to everybody.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Okay, here we go, let's count the unos.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
I really hope that they find, you know, nearby location
so we can continue to, you know, bring business to them,
and you know, keep this strikes.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
You're out with the Queen you knows legacy.
Speaker 9 (21:10):
Going last minute seventy percent off signs. Many of these
vendors are in their sixties and seventies, making the set
and move even harder for their employees and families.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yeah, you gotta get out there.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Seventy percent off at the indoor Fontana indoor swap made
sam Berndino Avenue in Sierra.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
It's their choice to sell the property.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
That's not my choice.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
But at least they should have let us know.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
Earlier and then so we don't have to buy so
much much.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Ndise, Yeah, she's right, This lady's one hundred percent correct.
They should have told them months ago. They've only they're
only giving them three four weeks. Notice I've been here.
Speaker 8 (21:53):
Thirty one years.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I raised my kids and this business, and I think
they could be a little polize to tell me ahead
of time so I could prepare myself.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah, that's right. I'm you can tell of the emotion
in this woman's voice. She raised her kids there. She
probably owns one of the little stores with the little
shops in there, and it's going away, and I'm I
can empathize with her or sympathize with her. I have
a car that I drive. It's a twenty two thousand
(22:23):
and six Lincoln Navigator. It only costs me money. Now
it breaks down all the time. It needs some electric work.
The air conditioning doesn't work unless I hit a speed
bump and then it turns on. So that's where I
am during summer. I'm looking for speed bumps to crank
the AC on. And I got a parking ticket today
(22:44):
for fifty one dollars. So it's cost me a lot
of money. But the point is I physically, emotionally can't
get rid of it because every time I look at
the rearview mirror, my beautiful daughter, Sophia is in that
rearview mirror.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I raised that key in that car.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
She went with me everywhere I went, and I can't
get rid of that car.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
It's a money pit.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
It's it's it barely runs, and I can't get rid
of it. You know, a guy offered me six hundred
dollars for it, six hundred dollars. I put twelve hundred
dollars in tires on it six months ago. It's worth
six hundred dollars on it, one hundred and twenty five thousand.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Oh right, that's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Uh, it's worth six hundred bucks. My deductible with my
insurance is two thousand for that. So if I get
an accident, I owe the insurance company fourteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Gott to avoid all these guys?
Speaker 8 (23:39):
Nice?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
All right?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
The Fontana? Have you been there?
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Crows?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
You're a fontana?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
No?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
I have not.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Are you? Will you consider you? Do you consider yourself
a fontana?
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Guy?
Speaker 4 (23:47):
I do not?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
You do not a little far away from me? Okay,
on a couple levels. Okay, I get it. Snobby Claremont,
that's you, is Claremont? Snob Polize too, Tommy. Is there
such thing as a Claremont stop.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Oh sure they're there. Oh yeah, it's more than half
of the city.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Yeah, polize too tummy ahead of time so I could
prepare myself.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yeah, she's right, she's right. They did her.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Wrong to to look for another place.
Speaker 9 (24:22):
The vendors say, if you can come here before January nineteenth,
the shop, they would greatly appreciate it. Reporting here in
Fontana Jean Kan Katie A five names.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, they're out there, you know.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I hit my knee the same place all the time
on this.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Like a permanent bruise there, dude.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Ah man, it's sharp too. Two days of pain, all right.
This this desk just raw dogs me. I don't know
what the term means, but I think that's right now.
Whatever that term means, that's just raw dog means.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Oh, it's the weekend before everybody, Well, it's the weekend
that is going to be spent shopping, tree lighting, you know,
maybe decorating the next ear of the house because we're
very close to Christmas. I don't know if you know this,
Maybe you do, Maybe you're you know, your hip to
the quip here and you know this, but Christmas is
(25:36):
two weeks from yesterday. Two weeks from yesterday, Christmas Eve
is a week from next Wednesday. You have less than
two weeks until Christmas is here, so you've got to
get out there. I was looking at weather here in
I want to see what the coldest place was in
(25:57):
the United States. You are not going to leave this.
It's usually Borrow, Alaska. They don't call it Borrow anymore.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
They call it.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Tv utiafic Utiavik. I think it's a Native American name.
Utiavik used to be called Borrow, Alaska. It's minus three
degrees there right now, minus three Okay, that's about twelve
hundred miles north maybe two thousand miles north of Fargo,
(26:29):
and Fargo is going to be much much colder Fargo
North Dakota. I'm reading this on Google right now. Listen
to this.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Okay. If you think you're cold in La right now,
how about this.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Fargo is experiencing dangerously cold wind chills right now with
the current feels like temperature. That's the windshield with wind
chill this weekend minus thirty six degrees. The high temperature
on Saturday in Fargo, North Dakota is five minus five degrees.
(27:08):
The high temperature in Fargo is minus five degrees. On Saturday,
the low is minus sixteen, and the wind chill the
wind chill factor minus thirty six degrees minus thirty six. Okay,
(27:29):
let me do a quick math here. I'm gonna look
at the weather in the San Fernando Valley for tomorrow.
Is gonna be seventy today with seventy nine degrees. Okay,
let's do a quick math here. Maybe you've already done it.
Seventy nine minus one hundred and thirty six. Okay, Now
(27:50):
I can't be right, so it's it's minus Let me
see here. Okay, it's thirty six.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Here's how we can do it. Thirty six plus seventy nine. Okay.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
It's one hundred and fifteen degrees colder in Fargo, North
Dakota than it is in Burbank today, one hundred and
fifteen degree difference. It's one hundred and fifteen degrees warmer
today in Burbank than it was in Fargo, North Dakota.
One hundred and fifteen degree difference, minus thirty six. That's
(28:23):
your wind chill factor. That's incredible. Minus thirty six. So
guess what those people. Guess where those people are coming
who have money, they have had it with this wind chill,
and they're coming to Los Angeles or they're going to Phoenix.
Most of them will come to LA because they can't
(28:44):
stand the heat in Phoenix and they'll come to Los
Angeles with their oil money or whatever they're you know,
they may be made out of farm or cattle ranch
and they have a ton of money and they're coming
to LA and they're going to spend it and they're
going to buy homes because they have effing had with
minus thirty six degrees minus thirty six. So think about
(29:05):
that while you're out today tonight.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Shopping in LA.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Also, for you kids out there, for you young people
out there, Taylor Swift docuseries has just been released. Part
one and part two of her docuseries, it's a six
part deal, has just been released. So maybe you can
spend the weekend with your kids watching that. I know
it may not be for you, but your kids will
love it, especially if your kids are huge Taylor Swift fans.
(29:32):
Huge Tony Who's coming on tonight at seven bells?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Bub is it?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Chris is Chris on tonight.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
We do have Chris.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Oh, Chris, okay, Chris is on Tony And that was
Richie's voice. Yeah, all right, Richie's on. You're producing tonight, yes, sir,
all right, excellent, all right. It should be great, all right,
and also Ronner is with Chris tonight, so it should be.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
A great show.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Starts off immediately after these commercials. Have a great weekend.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
We'll see on Monday at four pm right here on
KFI AM six forty Conway Show on demand on the
iHeartRadio app. Now, you can always hear us live on
KFI AM six forty four to seven pm Monday through Friday,
and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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