July 25, 2025 • 35 mins
Southwest flight out of Burbank abruptly descends to avoid 'mid-air collision' with another plane. // Michael Monks on the new interim head of LAHSA // Elex Michaelson from Fox 11 LA on close call with Southwest Airlines at Burbank Airport and whats on The Issue is...//Chuck E. Cheese arrested. Mascot arrested in full costume for credit card fraud
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. It is The
Conway Show, All right, Ding and Dog with everybody gang.
You are in for the most beautiful weekend of your life.
I have been living in Los Angeles for the better
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part of nearly a century. Don't do the math, but
that's close the better part of a century, how about that.
And I have never had a July weekend where you
could walk and play and go outside and play golf
and swim and go to the beach where you didn't
have to put mounds of sunscreen on, take a break,
get in the shade, get in air conditioning. You know,
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all these local TV stations tell us how to survive
the heat. You don't have to do that this weekend.
This is going to be the most spectacular weekend in
the history of Los Angeles. And I'm not and I'm
not and I'm not bsing you. The high tomorrow in
the San Fernando Valley, the high is seventy seven degrees.
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It's going to feel like a late fall day or
an early spring day in the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
And look Sandy. I the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
The San Fernando Valley is my barometer because I was
born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, first in Tarzana.
That we moved to Incino off of Magnolia and Balboa
and my dad lived. My mom and dad when I
was born, lived up in the hills, and then they
had six kids. They had moved the flats because you
can't spend all day in the car driving your kids around,
so you have to move to the flatlands. There are
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very few families who live up in the hills who
have six kids. It would drive you crazy because you'd
have to drive them everywhere. But if you live in
the flats, they can get on their bikes, they can
move around, they can enjoy themselves. So it's going to
be seventy seven degrees in Burbank, seventy seven degrees Huntington
Beach Saturday, the low sixty three the high I have
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seventy three degrees in Huntington Beach. It's sweater weather in
the evening. Lancaster, Lancaster, where we have a huge audience,
massive audience, Pella. You don't if you know that in
Lancaster huge. Yeah, we're number one. In Lancaster, Lancaster, Palmdale.
The high tomorrow, Saturday, late summer, late July, I should
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say eighty four degrees. Eighty four degrees. You could get
eighty four degrees on Christmas Day in Palmdale and not
and not blink and eye, eighty four degrees in Palmdale, Lancaster,
Inland Empire. That'll gonna be a little difficult for you
in the Inland Empire, but you've had that before. The
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Inland Empire is usually one o five to one oh
seven this time of year. Ninety five degrees tomorrow, A
cool ninety five degrees Malibu. If you live in the
like the Northern Pacific. I call that the Northern Pacific
because well, I really don't venture further north than Zuma
ever ever, But Saturday, the high in Malibu seventy two degrees.
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Seventy two in Malibu, and one more and then I'll
back off here. Long Beach, California. Long Beach, California, beautiful city.
They redesigned downtown. The waterfront there is terrific. You have
a Belmont Shore, which is one of the nicer areas
in the world. Seal Beach Sunset Beach than into Huntington Beach.
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The high in Long Beach tomorrow is seventy three degrees.
Seventy three degrees is a January or February in Long Beach.
Yet we're going to be in late July. Now, this
is going to go away. This weather is not going
to be here even next weekend or maybe even the
following weekend. But it's going to go away, and you
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have to get out and enjoy this. Don't drink tonight
to the point where you're so hungover tomorrow that you
don't that you waste all day inside you know, uh,
drinking you know, coffee and trying to get over your hangover.
You've got to get to bed early to night and
go out tomorrow and really enjoy it. Play pickleball, tennis,
go on a walk, to go on a bike ride,
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go to the beach, you know, whatever you want to
do outside, maybe take a hike. It's going to be spectacular.
It's gonna be one of the most beautiful days in
the history of Los Angeles. Late July seventies in LA
is unheard of. So I'm telling you you're if you
really want to experience California on a day where it
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may never ever happen again. You've got to get outside
tomorrow and and uh and do something you like. Maybe
do something with the kids. Maybe go to the zoo,
I don't know, Maybe go to Disneyland, Nott'sbury Farm, maybe
want to slide out to six Flags Magic Mountain. But
you got to get out tomorrow and do something. Please
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promise me you'll get out and do something. Mark, Okay,
all right there, I'll layoff. I'll lay off, but it's
going to be spectacular, unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Southwest Airlines, Southwest Airlines, we've got a and abruptly dives
to avoid a mid air collision. Another reason to be
paranoid with flying around.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Mid air scare over Burbank Airport for passengers headed out
to Las Vegas.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Yeah, they describe a harrowing experience as the pilot made
drastic maneuvers to avoid another jet. This was Southwest flight
fourteen ninety six headed to Las Vegas. Not long after takeoff,
passengers described the pilot needing to make evasive action. The
website flight Aware shows the jet dropping hundreds of feet
that eventually landed safely, but not before a very unsettling experience.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Here's what one passenger posted on X.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Okay, here's the video from inside.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
That one of the crazy turbulence plan.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Like Jimmy and I ever.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
Had that experience with the point that next ship turns.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
On that curbulance.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Okay, so they're describing the turbulence. You know, if you're
familiar with flying to Las Vegas in the summer, you
know that the that the heat rises off the desert
and when you go to land in Vegas, it's like
a world class roller coaster. It's you know, twenty thirty
feet up and down and banging back and forth. And
people are not used toward yelling and screaming and praying
to God that they'll make.
Speaker 9 (06:31):
It My got you get those people that oh, okay, overreact.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, well look you had. You have no control over it.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
The only thing you can control in that situation is yourself,
and you got to control yourself. There's kids on that plane,
Yeah you want to flip kids out. You got to
control yourself and be calm. But it was it was horrible.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
More passengers posted their horrifying experience on x saying, in
part quote, the pilot had to aggressively avoid a mid
air collision over Burbank Airport. Myself and plenty of people
flew out of their seats and buffed heads on the ceiling.
One flight attendant needed medical attention. The pilot said his
collision warning went off and he needed to avoid a
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plane coming at us.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
And the people who hit their heads on the ceiling
and the luggage tracks are the people who ignore the
fastened seatbelt sign. It's not just for landing and takeoff anymore.
It's every second you're on that flight if you don't
want your neck broken.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
A Southwest just released this statement to KTLA that reads, quote,
the crew of Southwest Flight fourteen ninety six responded to
two on board traffic alerts Friday afternoon while climbing out
of Burbank, California, requiring them to climb and descend to comply.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
With those alerts. Wait a minute, they had to do what.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Requiring them to climb and descend to.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
At the same time.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
That's impossible climb and descend to comply with those alerts?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Oh man, can you imagine?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
And then look? Look Once they do that, then you're
still on board. You know, you're still flipping out.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
The flight continued to Las Vegas.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
The flight continued to Vegas.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Everybody almost died in Burbank, and then you have another hour. Yeah,
I remember the comedian's name, and I'll think of it.
But remember that that airliner in Hawaii where the roof
fell off, the roof was torn off. Yes, it was
on a flight from Honolulu to Maui, and Jake Johnson
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is the comedian.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Man, I can't believe remember that.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Once a week I look in and say, you know,
more news now, And I can't remember Crozier's name, but this,
ja Johnson said, can you imagine being on this flight
where one day, you know, one second you're in your seat,
and then the next minute there's no roof on the plane.
The whole roof of the plane came off for the
first twelve rows of first class. So you're sitting there
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enjoying yourself, and now you got a four hundred mile
an hour wind in your face and there's no roof
on the plane.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
You could see the sky, the stars. Hey, he said.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
At that point he wanted to reach for the stewardess button,
which wasn't there anymore. So he wanted to flag down
the stewardess and said excuse me, ma'am. Everybody in our
row needs another drake. That's a classic line. Hey, yeah,
everybody in our row needs a solid one.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
The flight continued to Las Vegas, where it did land uneventfully.
Southwest is engaged with Federal Aviation Administration to further understand
those circumstances.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
You know, if that flight, if they crashed, that would
have been over Burbank or North Hollywood, and we would
have there would have been a major story for a
week or two. There have been hundreds dead and we
all would have been shocked to you know, to our core.
But that pilot saved all those lives, all of those lives.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
No injuries were immediately reported by customers, but two flight
attendants are being treated for injuries. We appreciate the professionalism
of our flight crew and flight attendants and responding to
this event. Nothing is more important to the Southwest to
Southwest rather than the safety of our customers and employees unquote.
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We also spoke to an aviation.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
Of the traffic God.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
This is the aviation expert.
Speaker 10 (10:20):
Don't see each other, They're pointed out by the air
traffic controller. They get too close to each other.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
Pilots could make a mistake.
Speaker 10 (10:29):
And it happens every day where air traffic controller tells
him to turn to such and such or go to
such and such place, and they don't do it in
a timely matter. So it could be many reasons, pretty
vague though, Huh, turns you such and such or turn
to such and such, or what's the next one?
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Go to such and such place?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
How about that guy in the tower southwest fourteen nine
turn into such and such?
Speaker 8 (10:56):
Wow?
Speaker 9 (10:57):
Is that somewhere over there?
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Or go to such and such?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I what? I'm glad we avoided that. That would have
been a major story. We'd have been live wall to
wall without any fun today because it's posted that too.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
What is that?
Speaker 9 (11:10):
A couple of comedians were on the flight and post.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 9 (11:13):
Think you talk about Jimmy Door.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Oh yeah, Jimmy Door is on that flight.
Speaker 9 (11:16):
Yeah, he posted about it on edge.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Get out of here.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Oh, we got to get Jimmy Door on, belly out,
get Jimmy Door on, get his number through. Mark Thompson,
Mark knows everybody.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Isn't that the stripper flight? Ooh Thursday? What time did
that flight take off?
Speaker 8 (11:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I think that is I think that's the stripper hooker
flight to Vegas. All the single attractive women are on
that flight. Yeah, they fly out Thursday afternoon alone to Vegas.
Then they come back Sunday, Sunday night. What was that?
Steph stephoosh, whispered in my ear? He goes, He goes,
how do you know that?
Speaker 8 (11:52):
How dare you?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I brought in hot dogs yesterday? How you turn on me?
Speaker 8 (11:56):
How dare you?
Speaker 6 (11:57):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on from KF. I
am six forty.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Monks is with us? How you monk?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I'm well, good afternoon and happy Friday to you. So yeah,
same to you. I'm glad you weren't on that Southwest flight.
I know, and you know I've never been to Vegas.
Wait a minute, is that true? Yeah, that's true. That
would have been an interesting flight today.
Speaker 11 (12:16):
I have never been any desired to go or what
he kept about big You know. I like the ponies
a little bit, and I like a little rapid roulette.
But otherwise I'm not good at table games or any
of that. But I think the atmosphere of Vegas is appealing.
We had a guy who worked here. I don't want
to say his name, but it sounds like Baron Bendern.
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Is that too close? No, yeah, I can tell by
Uh so what is that A yes, Aaron bend Hell.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
But he he used to go to Vegas and he'd
go to shows, he would go to dinners, he would dance.
He never gamed And I thought to myself, God, if
it wasn't for the show, I would have never met him. Yeah,
you know, I don't know anybody that goes to Vegas
that doesn't gamble.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Well.
Speaker 11 (13:08):
Look, and I say this with love. You're a bit
of a degenerate, the bit. Yeah, And I relate to
that because I'm also a bit of a degenerate, just
not in that way.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
Icee.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
See, we have our vices, that's right, and I and
I know your your vices and I respect them. They're
good they're good ones, all right. So we have a
new head of LASA.
Speaker 11 (13:29):
Speaking of losing money, let's talk about the LA Homeless
Services Authority, because this has been an agency that we
talked about a lot on this here fine radio station,
because they handle a lot of the billions of dollars
that are spent to address homelessness in Los Angeles City
and County.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Now, for people who.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Don't know it's LA Homelessness Service Authority exactly. Often just
a shorthand loss lossa like we lost your money. Indeed,
great joke, thank you, I heard that in the whole.
Speaker 11 (13:59):
And so this CEO, Velicia Adams Kellum, has been under
a lot of fire because multiple audits ordered by a
federal judge have shown, Hey, you're not keeping good track
of about two billion dollars. We don't know if you're
getting the results that you asked for. These contracts look messy,
the accounting is very poor. Oh and by the way,
the homeless counts not really dropping all that much. So
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we're not sure that this organization is effective. It's been
so bad lately that this agency, which was formed by
the city and the county is part of a joint partnership.
The county said no more, we're leaving and we're taking
three hundred million dollars with us and we'll have our
own homeless department. So there's been some problems, okay, So
Felicia Adams Kellum announced her resignation a couple months ago.
Today was her last day. In spite of all of
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the bad headlines, Steph, here's what she had to say.
Speaker 12 (14:47):
We addressed audit findings directly. We strengthened our rehousing efforts
and took on tough truths with courage and clarity, and
doing so we've helped losts of become more agile, more transparent,
and responsive. It's not that real lasting change takes time,
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especially when confronting issues that have persisted for decades. But
I'm incredibly proud of what we've accomplished at LASA and
for the momentum the agency continues to build.
Speaker 11 (15:23):
So if you are out in the public and you're
reading headlines or listening to shows like this related to
homelessness in La and La County, there's no way you
think that it's been successful. And the loss of board
had a meeting today because this was Adams Kellum's last
day and they were naming a new interim CEO, and
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you would have thought there was much to celebrate.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
Oh really.
Speaker 11 (15:46):
In fact, Elie Mayor Bass, who serves on this board,
had this to say about the mischaracterizations of alas Keller.
Speaker 13 (15:53):
I can't wait, and I feel that you were targeted
and charged with all sorts of things that later came
out to be absolutely untrue. But once that Genie is
out of the bottle, nobody goes and puts it back,
and it harmed your reputation. And unfortunately, that is what
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happens to leaders a lot of times when they choose
to be disruptive assist.
Speaker 11 (16:22):
Velicia Adams Kellum is close to Mayor Bass. She was
originally to serve in the Bass mayoral administration. She is
in fact the architect of the Inside Safe program that
is operated to address homelessness out of the Mayor's office.
But LASA when they had the opening for the CEO
of former City Controller Wendy Gruhle, who is the chair
of the board, she really wanted to Felicia Adams Kellum
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to serve as CEO, so they recruited her over to that.
Today's her last day, but where is she going. She's
leaving Las Okay, but we don't know what her next
move is. Mayor Bass expressed concern for Felicia Adams Kellum's
future because of the way that her reputation may have
been damaged while leading LASSA. Now the organization has turned
to La City Hall again for its next CEO. They've
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gone to the City Attorney's office where they found Gedo O'Neill,
who is an assistant there and.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
His point appointed one.
Speaker 11 (17:11):
Right, it is okay, she'll make a little bit less
than Alicia Adams Kellum, who was paid four hundred and
thirty thousand dollars every year in this job. Wow, Gedo
O'Neil will be paid thirty one thousand dollars a month,
or about three hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
So it is interesting that they keep shuffling people around
there and that yet you know, the money has gone.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I did some I did quick math though.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
You know the high speed train that was supposed to
go from well, originally from San Diego to San Francisco.
Then it was LA to San Francixo. Now it's like
Bakersfield and North Bakersfield. Well, they they had one hundred
and thirty three billion dollars to play with. If they
divided that amongst the sixty nine thousand homeless people in LA,
they could have given each homeless person one point nine
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million dollars.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
I would have very quickly signed up to be homeless.
I would have.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I would think that the homeless situation would go away
if you gave every homeless person almost two million dollars.
Speaker 11 (18:06):
A lot of them would probably take that opportunity.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Sure, you know, click up.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
See the problem with with a lot of them would
be on the next burbank flight to Vegas.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yes, yes, and enjoy themselves.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
A lot of the problem, at least with KFI, that
they run into with telling the truth and trying to
lie to everybody is that you live downtown. We've never
had a reporter who is living in the soup reporting
on the soup.
Speaker 11 (18:32):
Soup's the right way to call it, because you can
feel it on your skin when you leave your apartment,
you hear it in the night. And when they talk
about the reduction in homeless numbers, and then you see
the data that says, yeah, it's down in Venice Yads,
down in Hollywood, but apparently skid Row's homeless population is increased.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I can give you a bird's eye view of that
right outside. How far do you live from skid Row?
A block and one block? Skid Row is starting to
eat the Fashion District. And I'm in the Fashion District
which is next to skid Row. And yes, my block
is now surrounded by tents. Have you been have you
ever been assaulted?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I have not been.
Speaker 11 (19:05):
I've been scared enough to where I felt like I
needed to arm myself because these good for one of them,
are having mental episodes where you don't know what their
next move is going to be, and you want to
know what your next move is in case it gets
a little hairy mash A quick personal question, Yeah, sure,
what happened to the wide eyed Kentucky liberal coming out
here to report on how beautiful is placed? First of all,
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I've never disclosed my politics. I'm not a conservativeation of
my politics journey independent. Indeed, I'm an optimist. I like
to be part of the change I want to see
in the world, and that's why I'm committed to staying
downtown until that ship sinks.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
And you do it.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Every Saturday seven to nine pm, Michael Monks reports seven o'clock.
That's nine o'clock, the number one talk show. That's the
number one talk show. Don't ask on yourself. That's the
only way to get ahead is tell everybody how great
you are.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Every single week we check in with our buddy Alex
Michaelson from Fox eleven News, Alex.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
How you bob ding dong with you?
Speaker 9 (20:08):
Buddy?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
This is the first week in a month where we
have you on where there's a big breaking news story
or a big weather event and we can actually talk
like two human beings and just bs.
Speaker 8 (20:20):
Yeah, which I've been missing. So how's it going.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
I'm doing okay.
Speaker 8 (20:25):
How are you doing? I'm good? Good man?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
We need more news.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
Huh. What do you want to get into?
Speaker 8 (20:38):
There's plenty of stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
All right, let's get into everything, buddy. I don't know
if you heard about that plane crash near air collision
over Burbank Airport. Can you imagine how horrible that would
have been. It would have happened literally two miles from
where I live. It would have happened two miles from
where I work. We could have been talking about one
hundred and fifty two hundred people in California or in
Burbank dead and people on the ground dying as well.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Yeah. So shout out to the pilots, I say, for
some quick thinking there.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
And able to make this.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
And then it raised us bigger questions about what's happening
with our air traffic control system and which we know
is outdated and underfunded and all the rest of that too,
Like what's going on with all you think about that.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
When you travel? Do you think about how dangerous it
is nowadays when you travel?
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Well, I mean, let's keep let's keep things in perspective.
Though still unbelievably safe, right, I mean air travel is
one of the safest ways and you're still way likely
to get into a crash and the.
Speaker 8 (21:34):
Car ride to the airport.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
You are a plane, all right, I get that, And
that never hit home with me.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
That analogy is like what But I will say that,
you know, I never worried when I was growing up
about the plane, about the pilots throwing that thing into
a mountain or shutting the engines off or shutting the
gas off. But that's another thing we got to worry about. Yeah,
it's happened twice, once at Air India and then once
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in Portland where they that lunatic who was on mushrooms
tried to shut the the fuel off to the engines.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
That that stuff's crazy. And and the other thing that's
that's crazy to me is how do we not have
the sort of bipartisan consensus that we want air traffic
control to be funded well and to work.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
Well, that's right, right, that's not right.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
That's not a Republican or democratic issue. You're everybody should
be able to get behind that concept, and I.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Think we all are. What's what's on the big show?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I know that last week you had a huge show,
but we had a much bigger story than that. We
had the horrible story of the three deputies that died
in the LA Sheriff's explosion, and and so we didn't
really talk much about your show. But so we're gonna
give you an opportunity to tell us what's on tonight's show.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Yeah, yeah, Well, the issue is the head of the
Border Patrol for the region on the issue is it's
a really interesting conversation which people can check out at
YouTube dot com slash Alex Michaelson. It's one of our
best performing shows of the year. Here's a lot of
interest in the border patrol issue, and that's something that
was shared out by Ice and Border Patrol and all
the rest of them this week. But this week we're
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talking with Polster Frank Lunz, who's got you know, one
of the most experienced guys in the political world, who's
talking about what's happening in politics this week, but also
he has been teaching for the last couple of years
at West Point, and what we all can learn from
the cadets of West Point at this moment of all
the cynicism and all this bad news and all this craziness,
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how those kids are kind of remind us of the
best of us, so we get an inspiration from them.
We talked to Corrinn Rankin, who is the chairperson of
the California Republican Party, about their response to what Governor
Newsom is potentially doing with this redistrict thing that could
end up changing all the congressional districts in the state.
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And then we head out to the Dream Center, one
of my favorite places where they help a lot of
folks experiencing homelessness and addiction. With Clayton Kershaw, the Dodgers legend.
We were out up there with him as he handed
out three thousand backpacks for his three thousand strikeouts. He's
been investing in that community for years, had his big
community festival for all the local kids, and so we
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talked to him exclusively one on one about that about
giving back, about Kershaw's Challenge, which is his nonprofit that's
raised twenty three million dollars and helped all these big
organizations around the world. He builds homes in Africa and
the Dominican Republic and helps kids here. I talked to
him about his faith and his Family's got his fifth
kid on the way. It was just the All Star Game.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Wait, Kershaw's his fifth kid on the way?
Speaker 8 (24:35):
Yeah, yeah, man, Hey, you know what.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Going back to Frank Lunz, he's teaching at West Point.
I think it also says something great about this country
when everybody is so you know, negative and so worried
about this next generation of kids that are coming up
with you know, cell phone in their hands twenty four
hours a day, and I think we overlook that we've
had the highest the highest services volunt here for armed
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services in the history of this country.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
That I mean outside of wartime.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
That many of these young kids are now volunteering to
go into the armed services at record levels.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
I think it's sensational.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Yeah, and there is I know a lot of people
like to slam gen Z and there's plenty of reasons
to do that, but yeah, I think a lot of
that generation is also very focused on serving their community
in a variety of ways, whether that be charity, but
also you know, obviously giving back in terms of being
service members for the country. And as much as all
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the negative stories have been written about that generation, what
you're seeing at West Point is the opposite of that.
I mean, it really is. It's about service and discipline,
and I think we all can learn from that. At
this moment. I mean, the military is the only institution
left in American life that people trust right now. Yeah,
you know, trust is at an all time low for
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almost everything, but there's still a lot of people that
that really respects what are men and women in uniform
are doing. You know.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I saw Alex Michaelson's with Us, the host of the
issue is ten thirty on Channel eleven every Friday night.
I saw Paul on TikTok that I thought was really
cool and really refreshing. They asked a bunch of kids,
I think Generation Z, that would you be more proud
of your daughter? Like, let's say you had a daughter,
would you be more proud of your daughter if she
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won the OSCAR for Actress of the Year, Best Actress
or Teacher of the Year, And eighty four percent said
Teacher of the Year.
Speaker 8 (26:38):
That's great, that's sensational.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
Yeah, it might be a testament to how much the
oscars have sort of sunken in the way that people
think about it these days.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Oh, come on, Alex, give these that give us generation
a break that they're just good people. All right, So
the issue is going to be great. What is the
what now? At five o'clock today? I know you're going
to take it. Ten eleven is going to take it.
There's going to be an update, a presser on the
explosion that happened one week ago today. It seems like
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a month ago, but one week could go today. You know,
if there's going to be any new information of what
are you hearing anything? As a news person.
Speaker 7 (27:17):
Yeah, I mean there's got to be some new information.
To hold a press conference last minute at five o'clock
on a Friday, that means you've got something to say.
And the way that this is happening, my guess is,
my hope is that that we're going to get word
of an arrest or at least something really imminent and
something big on this case. I mean, we know that
they've been focused for days on Marina del Rey, that
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they searched a boat in the area. They searched this
storage facility, and there were questions about how did these
explosives end up in the sheriff's deputy's hands, and with
there's something else going on there that was not really
above board. And so the fact that you're having this
sort of last minute Friday press conference leads you to
believe that they've they've come to some real conclusion.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Okay, well you convinced me, we'll take it live. Then,
you know, it is sort of like a like a
weird magnum Pi, you know, where all of a sudden,
we're in the marina with the best detectives sniffing around
that it reads like a magnum Pi script or Hawaii five.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Oh, you know.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
Yeah, And let's hope they did a good job. Yeah,
and they're able to I mean, if it really was
somebody who was doing something wrong that led to these
guys's deaths, and they should be held accountable, all.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Right, and real quickly, because we got to take a break.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
This is gonna be seventy seven degree weather this tomorrow
in July in the summer. It's never been like that.
How are you going to celebrate? Are you going to
go outside at all? You're gonna surf, You're gonna play tennis,
We're gonna play golf.
Speaker 7 (28:49):
I'm gonna hopefully going to spend some time at the beach.
And then we have the LA at the LA Area
Emmy Awards tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
So, oh, I didn't know that. Are you up for one?
Speaker 8 (28:59):
We're up for one?
Speaker 7 (29:00):
For the issue is yeah, for our supporting fielding, actually
for our athletes who serve special speaking in Clayton Kershaw.
So where is it going to be held at the
Skirball Center this year for the first time?
Speaker 8 (29:12):
What? All right?
Speaker 2 (29:17):
You're not a fan of No, it seems like it
should be celebrated a big auditorium, live on TV.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
It's a big event.
Speaker 8 (29:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Scurball.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah all right, buddy, I appreciate you coming on tonight
ten thirty on the issue is thanks Ben d all right,
dig talk with you, buddy.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
All Right.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
There he goes, and he's up for an Emmy, a
local Emmy award, which I already knew because anytime Alex
brings up the Emmy Awards, that means he's up for one.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
If he wasn't, he would have never brought it up.
That's my kind of guy.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
All right, real live, we're gonna take that press conference.
Hopefully there's new information at five o'clock on that horrific
explosion that took the lives of three brave members of
the LA Sheriff's Department last week.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
It's Conway Show.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
There's a press conference going to be held today at
five pm, so in about six minutes or so, we
will break into whatever we're doing. They have new information
on the LA Shriff's Department investigation into the explosion that
killed three deputies a week ago today, so hopefully they
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have some arrests or they have some new information and
they can sort of for all of us who are
wondering what the hell happened, they can put it together
for us.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
So that'll be great. That'll be great.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
We hope there's new information and the families of these
three men can get some closure. They leave behind sixteen children,
sixteen kids, seven six and three sixteen children are left
without a father, and that's tough. It's very, very tough.
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So hopefully we'll have some new information on at five o'clock.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
There's a.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Mascot arrested in full costume at Chuck E Cheese for
credit card fraud. And I always thought that Chuck E
Cheese didn't need a credit card. You know, he owned
the place he can get a slice of pizza, soda,
scoop of ice cream. But the guy, evidently it was
a guy playing Chuck E Cheese who's had some problems
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with credit cards. And he was arrested in front of
all the kids at Chuck E Cheese. That's got to be,
you know, very demoralizing for the kids, Very shocking for
the kids to.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Have your traumatized.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Traumatize if you're sure to have the mascot arrested in
front of you.
Speaker 8 (31:50):
Please, all right, let's.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Talk about this arrest caught yea Chucky Cheese in a Tallahausee, Florida.
The Chuck each Cheese mascot was arrested in full costume.
Police arrested this guy.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
He's forty one years old.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Wow, old to be in the mascot game, if you
don't mind me observing so forty one.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
He's forty one years old, Oh Bobo.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Jermel Jones was allegedly creating and committing credit card fraud.
Families looked on as the arrest happened in front of
the kids, in the middle of a child's birthday party.
Kids and the police said they were planning to put
the cuffs on him outside of the public view, but
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this guy Jones tensed up and started resisting, and so
they had to put the cuffs on him in front
of the kids.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Okay, Pilly, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
You seem to have a level head on your shoulders, right, yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
If I gave you.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Mascots from around the United States, around the world, right,
I gave you Mickey Mouse, the Stanford Tree from State,
Anford Brutus, the buck Eye from Ohio State, the West
Virginia Mountaineer, and you know, on and on, whether it's
you know, the Michelin man Otto, the Orange, the Nitley Lion.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Whatever whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
And I said, one of them was arrested today for
credit card fraud. Wouldn't you immediately mentioned Chuck E Cheese
as the front runner?
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Would be my top three?
Speaker 9 (33:26):
Yeah, it would have.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
To be, you know, before the Monopoly guy, mister Peanut,
the Geico Lizard, you know, the eminem Wendy from Wendy's.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Ronald McDonald.
Speaker 8 (33:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I would never suspect Wendy from Wendy's or Colonel Sanders.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
It would have to be immediately like nobody else is
even in the mix.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
It wouldn't be Tony the Tiger or the Pillsbury dough Boy.
That's a good impression. I would if the Pillsbury dough
Boys are married. I guess related to the Michelin man.
They some people come out of the same mold, or
the Doura cell Bunny. I wouldn't suspect the dour of
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Cell Bunny at all. But they arrested Chuck E Cheese.
Oh boy, Well, I think Tony the Tiger would be
a maybe a second.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
And also ran why do you say that? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
He seems to be getting old. They're disrespecting him. You
know they're going to take away that. That's good, right,
they took away you know that that catchphrase from him.
What about Morton the Salt Girl. I don't I don't
know morts Salt Girl.
Speaker 9 (34:40):
That's the Sentin Ocean Girl too.
Speaker 8 (34:42):
Oh that might be.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
I don't know if it's the same goal. But you
know Morton the son the Morton the Salt Girl. She's
walking with an umbrella, and then she's accidentally pouring out
all the huge canister of Morton salt, so she's disrespecting
the actual product that she's endorsing. I don't get that
at all. What's another one? Maybe maybe Jolly Green Giant.
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I don't think you'd do it. The Quaker oats guy,
the old guy with the gray hair, Dura cell bunny,
Brownie man. Maybe the Brownnie Man. That's a possibility. You know,
he got tired of you know that, that plaid shirt,
eyes Hotter in Hell in the Summer, went out with
a credit card and bought themselves. May see, I don't know.
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I'm onto something. All right, we're gonna take that pres
It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. It is The
Conway Show, All right, Ding and Dog with everybody gang.
You are in for the most beautiful weekend of your life.
I have been living in Los Angeles for the better
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part of nearly a century. Don't do the math, but
that's close the better part of a century, how about that.
And I have never had a July weekend where you
could walk and play and go outside and play golf
and swim and go to the beach where you didn't
have to put mounds of sunscreen on, take a break,
get in the shade, get in air conditioning. You know,
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all these local TV stations tell us how to survive
the heat. You don't have to do that this weekend.
This is going to be the most spectacular weekend in
the history of Los Angeles. And I'm not and I'm
not and I'm not bsing you. The high tomorrow in
the San Fernando Valley, the high is seventy seven degrees.
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It's going to feel like a late fall day or
an early spring day in the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
And look Sandy. I the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
The San Fernando Valley is my barometer because I was
born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, first in Tarzana.
That we moved to Incino off of Magnolia and Balboa
and my dad lived. My mom and dad when I
was born, lived up in the hills, and then they
had six kids. They had moved the flats because you
can't spend all day in the car driving your kids around,
so you have to move to the flatlands. There are
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very few families who live up in the hills who
have six kids. It would drive you crazy because you'd
have to drive them everywhere. But if you live in
the flats, they can get on their bikes, they can
move around, they can enjoy themselves. So it's going to
be seventy seven degrees in Burbank, seventy seven degrees Huntington
Beach Saturday, the low sixty three the high I have
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seventy three degrees in Huntington Beach. It's sweater weather in
the evening. Lancaster, Lancaster, where we have a huge audience,
massive audience, Pella. You don't if you know that in
Lancaster huge. Yeah, we're number one. In Lancaster, Lancaster, Palmdale.
The high tomorrow, Saturday, late summer, late July, I should
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say eighty four degrees. Eighty four degrees. You could get
eighty four degrees on Christmas Day in Palmdale and not
and not blink and eye, eighty four degrees in Palmdale, Lancaster,
Inland Empire. That'll gonna be a little difficult for you
in the Inland Empire, but you've had that before. The
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Inland Empire is usually one o five to one oh
seven this time of year. Ninety five degrees tomorrow, A
cool ninety five degrees Malibu. If you live in the
like the Northern Pacific. I call that the Northern Pacific
because well, I really don't venture further north than Zuma
ever ever, But Saturday, the high in Malibu seventy two degrees.
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Seventy two in Malibu, and one more and then I'll
back off here. Long Beach, California. Long Beach, California, beautiful city.
They redesigned downtown. The waterfront there is terrific. You have
a Belmont Shore, which is one of the nicer areas
in the world. Seal Beach Sunset Beach than into Huntington Beach.
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The high in Long Beach tomorrow is seventy three degrees.
Seventy three degrees is a January or February in Long Beach.
Yet we're going to be in late July. Now, this
is going to go away. This weather is not going
to be here even next weekend or maybe even the
following weekend. But it's going to go away, and you
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have to get out and enjoy this. Don't drink tonight
to the point where you're so hungover tomorrow that you
don't that you waste all day inside you know, uh,
drinking you know, coffee and trying to get over your hangover.
You've got to get to bed early to night and
go out tomorrow and really enjoy it. Play pickleball, tennis,
go on a walk, to go on a bike ride,
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go to the beach, you know, whatever you want to
do outside, maybe take a hike. It's going to be spectacular.
It's gonna be one of the most beautiful days in
the history of Los Angeles. Late July seventies in LA
is unheard of. So I'm telling you you're if you
really want to experience California on a day where it
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may never ever happen again. You've got to get outside
tomorrow and and uh and do something you like. Maybe
do something with the kids. Maybe go to the zoo,
I don't know, Maybe go to Disneyland, Nott'sbury Farm, maybe
want to slide out to six Flags Magic Mountain. But
you got to get out tomorrow and do something. Please
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promise me you'll get out and do something. Mark, Okay,
all right there, I'll layoff. I'll lay off, but it's
going to be spectacular, unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Southwest Airlines, Southwest Airlines, we've got a and abruptly dives
to avoid a mid air collision. Another reason to be
paranoid with flying around.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Mid air scare over Burbank Airport for passengers headed out
to Las Vegas.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Yeah, they describe a harrowing experience as the pilot made
drastic maneuvers to avoid another jet. This was Southwest flight
fourteen ninety six headed to Las Vegas. Not long after takeoff,
passengers described the pilot needing to make evasive action. The
website flight Aware shows the jet dropping hundreds of feet
that eventually landed safely, but not before a very unsettling experience.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Here's what one passenger posted on X.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Okay, here's the video from inside.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
That one of the crazy turbulence plan.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Like Jimmy and I ever.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
Had that experience with the point that next ship turns.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
On that curbulance.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Okay, so they're describing the turbulence. You know, if you're
familiar with flying to Las Vegas in the summer, you
know that the that the heat rises off the desert
and when you go to land in Vegas, it's like
a world class roller coaster. It's you know, twenty thirty
feet up and down and banging back and forth. And
people are not used toward yelling and screaming and praying
to God that they'll make.
Speaker 9 (06:31):
It My got you get those people that oh, okay, overreact.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, well look you had. You have no control over it.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
The only thing you can control in that situation is yourself,
and you got to control yourself. There's kids on that plane,
Yeah you want to flip kids out. You got to
control yourself and be calm. But it was it was horrible.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
More passengers posted their horrifying experience on x saying, in
part quote, the pilot had to aggressively avoid a mid
air collision over Burbank Airport. Myself and plenty of people
flew out of their seats and buffed heads on the ceiling.
One flight attendant needed medical attention. The pilot said his
collision warning went off and he needed to avoid a
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plane coming at us.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
And the people who hit their heads on the ceiling
and the luggage tracks are the people who ignore the
fastened seatbelt sign. It's not just for landing and takeoff anymore.
It's every second you're on that flight if you don't
want your neck broken.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
A Southwest just released this statement to KTLA that reads, quote,
the crew of Southwest Flight fourteen ninety six responded to
two on board traffic alerts Friday afternoon while climbing out
of Burbank, California, requiring them to climb and descend to comply.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
With those alerts. Wait a minute, they had to do what.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Requiring them to climb and descend to.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
At the same time.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
That's impossible climb and descend to comply with those alerts?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Oh man, can you imagine?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
And then look? Look Once they do that, then you're
still on board. You know, you're still flipping out.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
The flight continued to Las Vegas.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
The flight continued to Vegas.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Everybody almost died in Burbank, and then you have another hour. Yeah,
I remember the comedian's name, and I'll think of it.
But remember that that airliner in Hawaii where the roof
fell off, the roof was torn off. Yes, it was
on a flight from Honolulu to Maui, and Jake Johnson
(08:29):
is the comedian.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Man, I can't believe remember that.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Once a week I look in and say, you know,
more news now, And I can't remember Crozier's name, but this,
ja Johnson said, can you imagine being on this flight
where one day, you know, one second you're in your seat,
and then the next minute there's no roof on the plane.
The whole roof of the plane came off for the
first twelve rows of first class. So you're sitting there
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enjoying yourself, and now you got a four hundred mile
an hour wind in your face and there's no roof
on the plane.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
You could see the sky, the stars. Hey, he said.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
At that point he wanted to reach for the stewardess button,
which wasn't there anymore. So he wanted to flag down
the stewardess and said excuse me, ma'am. Everybody in our
row needs another drake. That's a classic line. Hey, yeah,
everybody in our row needs a solid one.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
The flight continued to Las Vegas, where it did land uneventfully.
Southwest is engaged with Federal Aviation Administration to further understand
those circumstances.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
You know, if that flight, if they crashed, that would
have been over Burbank or North Hollywood, and we would
have there would have been a major story for a
week or two. There have been hundreds dead and we
all would have been shocked to you know, to our core.
But that pilot saved all those lives, all of those lives.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
No injuries were immediately reported by customers, but two flight
attendants are being treated for injuries. We appreciate the professionalism
of our flight crew and flight attendants and responding to
this event. Nothing is more important to the Southwest to
Southwest rather than the safety of our customers and employees unquote.
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We also spoke to an aviation.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
Of the traffic God.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
This is the aviation expert.
Speaker 10 (10:20):
Don't see each other, They're pointed out by the air
traffic controller. They get too close to each other.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
Pilots could make a mistake.
Speaker 10 (10:29):
And it happens every day where air traffic controller tells
him to turn to such and such or go to
such and such place, and they don't do it in
a timely matter. So it could be many reasons, pretty
vague though, Huh, turns you such and such or turn
to such and such, or what's the next one?
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Go to such and such place?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
How about that guy in the tower southwest fourteen nine
turn into such and such?
Speaker 8 (10:56):
Wow?
Speaker 9 (10:57):
Is that somewhere over there?
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Or go to such and such?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I what? I'm glad we avoided that. That would have
been a major story. We'd have been live wall to
wall without any fun today because it's posted that too.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
What is that?
Speaker 9 (11:10):
A couple of comedians were on the flight and post.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 9 (11:13):
Think you talk about Jimmy Door.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Oh yeah, Jimmy Door is on that flight.
Speaker 9 (11:16):
Yeah, he posted about it on edge.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Get out of here.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Oh, we got to get Jimmy Door on, belly out,
get Jimmy Door on, get his number through. Mark Thompson,
Mark knows everybody.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Isn't that the stripper flight? Ooh Thursday? What time did
that flight take off?
Speaker 8 (11:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I think that is I think that's the stripper hooker
flight to Vegas. All the single attractive women are on
that flight. Yeah, they fly out Thursday afternoon alone to Vegas.
Then they come back Sunday, Sunday night. What was that?
Steph stephoosh, whispered in my ear? He goes, He goes,
how do you know that?
Speaker 8 (11:52):
How dare you?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I brought in hot dogs yesterday? How you turn on me?
Speaker 8 (11:56):
How dare you?
Speaker 6 (11:57):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on from KF. I
am six forty.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Monks is with us? How you monk?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I'm well, good afternoon and happy Friday to you. So yeah,
same to you. I'm glad you weren't on that Southwest flight.
I know, and you know I've never been to Vegas.
Wait a minute, is that true? Yeah, that's true. That
would have been an interesting flight today.
Speaker 11 (12:16):
I have never been any desired to go or what
he kept about big You know. I like the ponies
a little bit, and I like a little rapid roulette.
But otherwise I'm not good at table games or any
of that. But I think the atmosphere of Vegas is appealing.
We had a guy who worked here. I don't want
to say his name, but it sounds like Baron Bendern.
(12:42):
Is that too close? No, yeah, I can tell by
Uh so what is that A yes, Aaron bend Hell.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
But he he used to go to Vegas and he'd
go to shows, he would go to dinners, he would dance.
He never gamed And I thought to myself, God, if
it wasn't for the show, I would have never met him. Yeah,
you know, I don't know anybody that goes to Vegas
that doesn't gamble.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Well.
Speaker 11 (13:08):
Look, and I say this with love. You're a bit
of a degenerate, the bit. Yeah, And I relate to
that because I'm also a bit of a degenerate, just
not in that way.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
Icee.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
See, we have our vices, that's right, and I and
I know your your vices and I respect them. They're
good they're good ones, all right. So we have a
new head of LASA.
Speaker 11 (13:29):
Speaking of losing money, let's talk about the LA Homeless
Services Authority, because this has been an agency that we
talked about a lot on this here fine radio station,
because they handle a lot of the billions of dollars
that are spent to address homelessness in Los Angeles City
and County.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Now, for people who.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Don't know it's LA Homelessness Service Authority exactly. Often just
a shorthand loss lossa like we lost your money. Indeed,
great joke, thank you, I heard that in the whole.
Speaker 11 (13:59):
And so this CEO, Velicia Adams Kellum, has been under
a lot of fire because multiple audits ordered by a
federal judge have shown, Hey, you're not keeping good track
of about two billion dollars. We don't know if you're
getting the results that you asked for. These contracts look messy,
the accounting is very poor. Oh and by the way,
the homeless counts not really dropping all that much. So
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we're not sure that this organization is effective. It's been
so bad lately that this agency, which was formed by
the city and the county is part of a joint partnership.
The county said no more, we're leaving and we're taking
three hundred million dollars with us and we'll have our
own homeless department. So there's been some problems, okay, So
Felicia Adams Kellum announced her resignation a couple months ago.
Today was her last day. In spite of all of
(14:44):
the bad headlines, Steph, here's what she had to say.
Speaker 12 (14:47):
We addressed audit findings directly. We strengthened our rehousing efforts
and took on tough truths with courage and clarity, and
doing so we've helped losts of become more agile, more transparent,
and responsive. It's not that real lasting change takes time,
(15:09):
especially when confronting issues that have persisted for decades. But
I'm incredibly proud of what we've accomplished at LASA and
for the momentum the agency continues to build.
Speaker 11 (15:23):
So if you are out in the public and you're
reading headlines or listening to shows like this related to
homelessness in La and La County, there's no way you
think that it's been successful. And the loss of board
had a meeting today because this was Adams Kellum's last
day and they were naming a new interim CEO, and
(15:43):
you would have thought there was much to celebrate.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
Oh really.
Speaker 11 (15:46):
In fact, Elie Mayor Bass, who serves on this board,
had this to say about the mischaracterizations of alas Keller.
Speaker 13 (15:53):
I can't wait, and I feel that you were targeted
and charged with all sorts of things that later came
out to be absolutely untrue. But once that Genie is
out of the bottle, nobody goes and puts it back,
and it harmed your reputation. And unfortunately, that is what
(16:15):
happens to leaders a lot of times when they choose
to be disruptive assist.
Speaker 11 (16:22):
Velicia Adams Kellum is close to Mayor Bass. She was
originally to serve in the Bass mayoral administration. She is
in fact the architect of the Inside Safe program that
is operated to address homelessness out of the Mayor's office.
But LASA when they had the opening for the CEO
of former City Controller Wendy Gruhle, who is the chair
of the board, she really wanted to Felicia Adams Kellum
(16:43):
to serve as CEO, so they recruited her over to that.
Today's her last day, but where is she going. She's
leaving Las Okay, but we don't know what her next
move is. Mayor Bass expressed concern for Felicia Adams Kellum's
future because of the way that her reputation may have
been damaged while leading LASSA. Now the organization has turned
to La City Hall again for its next CEO. They've
(17:04):
gone to the City Attorney's office where they found Gedo O'Neill,
who is an assistant there and.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
His point appointed one.
Speaker 11 (17:11):
Right, it is okay, she'll make a little bit less
than Alicia Adams Kellum, who was paid four hundred and
thirty thousand dollars every year in this job. Wow, Gedo
O'Neil will be paid thirty one thousand dollars a month,
or about three hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
So it is interesting that they keep shuffling people around
there and that yet you know, the money has gone.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I did some I did quick math though.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
You know the high speed train that was supposed to
go from well, originally from San Diego to San Francisco.
Then it was LA to San Francixo. Now it's like
Bakersfield and North Bakersfield. Well, they they had one hundred
and thirty three billion dollars to play with. If they
divided that amongst the sixty nine thousand homeless people in LA,
they could have given each homeless person one point nine
(17:56):
million dollars.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
I would have very quickly signed up to be homeless.
I would have.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I would think that the homeless situation would go away
if you gave every homeless person almost two million dollars.
Speaker 11 (18:06):
A lot of them would probably take that opportunity.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Sure, you know, click up.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
See the problem with with a lot of them would
be on the next burbank flight to Vegas.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yes, yes, and enjoy themselves.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
A lot of the problem, at least with KFI, that
they run into with telling the truth and trying to
lie to everybody is that you live downtown. We've never
had a reporter who is living in the soup reporting
on the soup.
Speaker 11 (18:32):
Soup's the right way to call it, because you can
feel it on your skin when you leave your apartment,
you hear it in the night. And when they talk
about the reduction in homeless numbers, and then you see
the data that says, yeah, it's down in Venice Yads,
down in Hollywood, but apparently skid Row's homeless population is increased.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I can give you a bird's eye view of that
right outside. How far do you live from skid Row?
A block and one block? Skid Row is starting to
eat the Fashion District. And I'm in the Fashion District
which is next to skid Row. And yes, my block
is now surrounded by tents. Have you been have you
ever been assaulted?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I have not been.
Speaker 11 (19:05):
I've been scared enough to where I felt like I
needed to arm myself because these good for one of them,
are having mental episodes where you don't know what their
next move is going to be, and you want to
know what your next move is in case it gets
a little hairy mash A quick personal question, Yeah, sure,
what happened to the wide eyed Kentucky liberal coming out
here to report on how beautiful is placed? First of all,
(19:25):
I've never disclosed my politics. I'm not a conservativeation of
my politics journey independent. Indeed, I'm an optimist. I like
to be part of the change I want to see
in the world, and that's why I'm committed to staying
downtown until that ship sinks.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
And you do it.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Every Saturday seven to nine pm, Michael Monks reports seven o'clock.
That's nine o'clock, the number one talk show. That's the
number one talk show. Don't ask on yourself. That's the
only way to get ahead is tell everybody how great
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Speaker 8 (19:51):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Every single week we check in with our buddy Alex
Michaelson from Fox eleven News, Alex.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
How you bob ding dong with you?
Speaker 9 (20:08):
Buddy?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
This is the first week in a month where we
have you on where there's a big breaking news story
or a big weather event and we can actually talk
like two human beings and just bs.
Speaker 8 (20:20):
Yeah, which I've been missing. So how's it going.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
I'm doing okay.
Speaker 8 (20:25):
How are you doing? I'm good? Good man?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
We need more news.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
Huh. What do you want to get into?
Speaker 8 (20:38):
There's plenty of stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
All right, let's get into everything, buddy. I don't know
if you heard about that plane crash near air collision
over Burbank Airport. Can you imagine how horrible that would
have been. It would have happened literally two miles from
where I live. It would have happened two miles from
where I work. We could have been talking about one
hundred and fifty two hundred people in California or in
Burbank dead and people on the ground dying as well.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Yeah. So shout out to the pilots, I say, for
some quick thinking there.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
And able to make this.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
And then it raised us bigger questions about what's happening
with our air traffic control system and which we know
is outdated and underfunded and all the rest of that too,
Like what's going on with all you think about that.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
When you travel? Do you think about how dangerous it
is nowadays when you travel?
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Well, I mean, let's keep let's keep things in perspective.
Though still unbelievably safe, right, I mean air travel is
one of the safest ways and you're still way likely
to get into a crash and the.
Speaker 8 (21:34):
Car ride to the airport.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
You are a plane, all right, I get that, And
that never hit home with me.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
That analogy is like what But I will say that,
you know, I never worried when I was growing up
about the plane, about the pilots throwing that thing into
a mountain or shutting the engines off or shutting the
gas off. But that's another thing we got to worry about. Yeah,
it's happened twice, once at Air India and then once
(22:02):
in Portland where they that lunatic who was on mushrooms
tried to shut the the fuel off to the engines.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
That that stuff's crazy. And and the other thing that's
that's crazy to me is how do we not have
the sort of bipartisan consensus that we want air traffic
control to be funded well and to work.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
Well, that's right, right, that's not right.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
That's not a Republican or democratic issue. You're everybody should
be able to get behind that concept, and I.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Think we all are. What's what's on the big show?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I know that last week you had a huge show,
but we had a much bigger story than that. We
had the horrible story of the three deputies that died
in the LA Sheriff's explosion, and and so we didn't
really talk much about your show. But so we're gonna
give you an opportunity to tell us what's on tonight's show.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Yeah, yeah, Well, the issue is the head of the
Border Patrol for the region on the issue is it's
a really interesting conversation which people can check out at
YouTube dot com slash Alex Michaelson. It's one of our
best performing shows of the year. Here's a lot of
interest in the border patrol issue, and that's something that
was shared out by Ice and Border Patrol and all
the rest of them this week. But this week we're
(23:09):
talking with Polster Frank Lunz, who's got you know, one
of the most experienced guys in the political world, who's
talking about what's happening in politics this week, but also
he has been teaching for the last couple of years
at West Point, and what we all can learn from
the cadets of West Point at this moment of all
the cynicism and all this bad news and all this craziness,
(23:29):
how those kids are kind of remind us of the
best of us, so we get an inspiration from them.
We talked to Corrinn Rankin, who is the chairperson of
the California Republican Party, about their response to what Governor
Newsom is potentially doing with this redistrict thing that could
end up changing all the congressional districts in the state.
(23:49):
And then we head out to the Dream Center, one
of my favorite places where they help a lot of
folks experiencing homelessness and addiction. With Clayton Kershaw, the Dodgers legend.
We were out up there with him as he handed
out three thousand backpacks for his three thousand strikeouts. He's
been investing in that community for years, had his big
community festival for all the local kids, and so we
(24:12):
talked to him exclusively one on one about that about
giving back, about Kershaw's Challenge, which is his nonprofit that's
raised twenty three million dollars and helped all these big
organizations around the world. He builds homes in Africa and
the Dominican Republic and helps kids here. I talked to
him about his faith and his Family's got his fifth
kid on the way. It was just the All Star Game.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Wait, Kershaw's his fifth kid on the way?
Speaker 8 (24:35):
Yeah, yeah, man, Hey, you know what.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Going back to Frank Lunz, he's teaching at West Point.
I think it also says something great about this country
when everybody is so you know, negative and so worried
about this next generation of kids that are coming up
with you know, cell phone in their hands twenty four
hours a day, and I think we overlook that we've
had the highest the highest services volunt here for armed
(25:01):
services in the history of this country.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
That I mean outside of wartime.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
That many of these young kids are now volunteering to
go into the armed services at record levels.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
I think it's sensational.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Yeah, and there is I know a lot of people
like to slam gen Z and there's plenty of reasons
to do that, but yeah, I think a lot of
that generation is also very focused on serving their community
in a variety of ways, whether that be charity, but
also you know, obviously giving back in terms of being
service members for the country. And as much as all
(25:35):
the negative stories have been written about that generation, what
you're seeing at West Point is the opposite of that.
I mean, it really is. It's about service and discipline,
and I think we all can learn from that. At
this moment. I mean, the military is the only institution
left in American life that people trust right now. Yeah,
you know, trust is at an all time low for
(25:56):
almost everything, but there's still a lot of people that
that really respects what are men and women in uniform
are doing. You know.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I saw Alex Michaelson's with Us, the host of the
issue is ten thirty on Channel eleven every Friday night.
I saw Paul on TikTok that I thought was really
cool and really refreshing. They asked a bunch of kids,
I think Generation Z, that would you be more proud
of your daughter? Like, let's say you had a daughter,
would you be more proud of your daughter if she
(26:25):
won the OSCAR for Actress of the Year, Best Actress
or Teacher of the Year, And eighty four percent said
Teacher of the Year.
Speaker 8 (26:38):
That's great, that's sensational.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
Yeah, it might be a testament to how much the
oscars have sort of sunken in the way that people
think about it these days.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Oh, come on, Alex, give these that give us generation
a break that they're just good people. All right, So
the issue is going to be great. What is the
what now? At five o'clock today? I know you're going
to take it. Ten eleven is going to take it.
There's going to be an update, a presser on the
explosion that happened one week ago today. It seems like
(27:10):
a month ago, but one week could go today. You know,
if there's going to be any new information of what
are you hearing anything? As a news person.
Speaker 7 (27:17):
Yeah, I mean there's got to be some new information.
To hold a press conference last minute at five o'clock
on a Friday, that means you've got something to say.
And the way that this is happening, my guess is,
my hope is that that we're going to get word
of an arrest or at least something really imminent and
something big on this case. I mean, we know that
they've been focused for days on Marina del Rey, that
(27:41):
they searched a boat in the area. They searched this
storage facility, and there were questions about how did these
explosives end up in the sheriff's deputy's hands, and with
there's something else going on there that was not really
above board. And so the fact that you're having this
sort of last minute Friday press conference leads you to
believe that they've they've come to some real conclusion.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Okay, well you convinced me, we'll take it live. Then,
you know, it is sort of like a like a
weird magnum Pi, you know, where all of a sudden,
we're in the marina with the best detectives sniffing around
that it reads like a magnum Pi script or Hawaii five.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Oh, you know.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
Yeah, And let's hope they did a good job. Yeah,
and they're able to I mean, if it really was
somebody who was doing something wrong that led to these
guys's deaths, and they should be held accountable, all.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Right, and real quickly, because we got to take a break.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
This is gonna be seventy seven degree weather this tomorrow
in July in the summer. It's never been like that.
How are you going to celebrate? Are you going to
go outside at all? You're gonna surf, You're gonna play tennis,
We're gonna play golf.
Speaker 7 (28:49):
I'm gonna hopefully going to spend some time at the beach.
And then we have the LA at the LA Area
Emmy Awards tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
So, oh, I didn't know that. Are you up for one?
Speaker 8 (28:59):
We're up for one?
Speaker 7 (29:00):
For the issue is yeah, for our supporting fielding, actually
for our athletes who serve special speaking in Clayton Kershaw.
So where is it going to be held at the
Skirball Center this year for the first time?
Speaker 8 (29:12):
What? All right?
Speaker 2 (29:17):
You're not a fan of No, it seems like it
should be celebrated a big auditorium, live on TV.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
It's a big event.
Speaker 8 (29:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Scurball.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah all right, buddy, I appreciate you coming on tonight
ten thirty on the issue is thanks Ben d all right,
dig talk with you, buddy.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
All Right.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
There he goes, and he's up for an Emmy, a
local Emmy award, which I already knew because anytime Alex
brings up the Emmy Awards, that means he's up for one.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
If he wasn't, he would have never brought it up.
That's my kind of guy.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
All right, real live, we're gonna take that press conference.
Hopefully there's new information at five o'clock on that horrific
explosion that took the lives of three brave members of
the LA Sheriff's Department last week.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
It's Conway Show.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
There's a press conference going to be held today at
five pm, so in about six minutes or so, we
will break into whatever we're doing. They have new information
on the LA Shriff's Department investigation into the explosion that
killed three deputies a week ago today, so hopefully they
(30:33):
have some arrests or they have some new information and
they can sort of for all of us who are
wondering what the hell happened, they can put it together
for us.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
So that'll be great. That'll be great.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
We hope there's new information and the families of these
three men can get some closure. They leave behind sixteen children,
sixteen kids, seven six and three sixteen children are left
without a father, and that's tough. It's very, very tough.
(31:06):
So hopefully we'll have some new information on at five o'clock.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
There's a.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Mascot arrested in full costume at Chuck E Cheese for
credit card fraud. And I always thought that Chuck E
Cheese didn't need a credit card. You know, he owned
the place he can get a slice of pizza, soda,
scoop of ice cream. But the guy, evidently it was
a guy playing Chuck E Cheese who's had some problems
(31:35):
with credit cards. And he was arrested in front of
all the kids at Chuck E Cheese. That's got to be,
you know, very demoralizing for the kids, Very shocking for
the kids to.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Have your traumatized.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Traumatize if you're sure to have the mascot arrested in
front of you.
Speaker 8 (31:50):
Please, all right, let's.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Talk about this arrest caught yea Chucky Cheese in a Tallahausee, Florida.
The Chuck each Cheese mascot was arrested in full costume.
Police arrested this guy.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
He's forty one years old.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Wow, old to be in the mascot game, if you
don't mind me observing so forty one.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
He's forty one years old, Oh Bobo.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Jermel Jones was allegedly creating and committing credit card fraud.
Families looked on as the arrest happened in front of
the kids, in the middle of a child's birthday party.
Kids and the police said they were planning to put
the cuffs on him outside of the public view, but
(32:35):
this guy Jones tensed up and started resisting, and so
they had to put the cuffs on him in front
of the kids.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Okay, Pilly, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
You seem to have a level head on your shoulders, right, yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
If I gave you.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Mascots from around the United States, around the world, right,
I gave you Mickey Mouse, the Stanford Tree from State,
Anford Brutus, the buck Eye from Ohio State, the West
Virginia Mountaineer, and you know, on and on, whether it's
you know, the Michelin man Otto, the Orange, the Nitley Lion.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Whatever whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
And I said, one of them was arrested today for
credit card fraud. Wouldn't you immediately mentioned Chuck E Cheese
as the front runner?
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Would be my top three?
Speaker 9 (33:26):
Yeah, it would have.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
To be, you know, before the Monopoly guy, mister Peanut,
the Geico Lizard, you know, the eminem Wendy from Wendy's.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Ronald McDonald.
Speaker 8 (33:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I would never suspect Wendy from Wendy's or Colonel Sanders.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
It would have to be immediately like nobody else is
even in the mix.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
It wouldn't be Tony the Tiger or the Pillsbury dough Boy.
That's a good impression. I would if the Pillsbury dough
Boys are married. I guess related to the Michelin man.
They some people come out of the same mold, or
the Doura cell Bunny. I wouldn't suspect the dour of
(34:10):
Cell Bunny at all. But they arrested Chuck E Cheese.
Oh boy, Well, I think Tony the Tiger would be
a maybe a second.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
And also ran why do you say that? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
He seems to be getting old. They're disrespecting him. You
know they're going to take away that. That's good, right,
they took away you know that that catchphrase from him.
What about Morton the Salt Girl. I don't I don't
know morts Salt Girl.
Speaker 9 (34:40):
That's the Sentin Ocean Girl too.
Speaker 8 (34:42):
Oh that might be.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
I don't know if it's the same goal. But you
know Morton the son the Morton the Salt Girl. She's
walking with an umbrella, and then she's accidentally pouring out
all the huge canister of Morton salt, so she's disrespecting
the actual product that she's endorsing. I don't get that
at all. What's another one? Maybe maybe Jolly Green Giant.
(35:07):
I don't think you'd do it. The Quaker oats guy,
the old guy with the gray hair, Dura cell bunny,
Brownie man. Maybe the Brownnie Man. That's a possibility. You know,
he got tired of you know that, that plaid shirt,
eyes Hotter in Hell in the Summer, went out with
a credit card and bought themselves. May see, I don't know.
(35:27):
I'm onto something. All right, we're gonna take that pres
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