May 21, 2025 • 31 mins
Gas Prices 10 years ago. Tina & Billy, the elephants at LA Zoo have now been moved to Tulsa Zoo.
#Tina&Billy #elephants #LAZoo // Summer travel may be affordable this summer even with inflation. Kung Pao Chicken = Delish
Jim Irsay, Indianapolis Colts owner, dies at 65 #SummerTravel #KungPaoChicken #JimIrsay #NFL // Fire in Sepulveda Basin. Palm Srpings bomber online trail. Stolen chickens in Vegas // Ellen Leyva, ABC 7 retires after 30 years
#Tina&Billy #elephants #LAZoo // Summer travel may be affordable this summer even with inflation. Kung Pao Chicken = Delish
Jim Irsay, Indianapolis Colts owner, dies at 65 #SummerTravel #KungPaoChicken #JimIrsay #NFL // Fire in Sepulveda Basin. Palm Srpings bomber online trail. Stolen chickens in Vegas // Ellen Leyva, ABC 7 retires after 30 years
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. This is
Memorial Day weekend and a lot of people are gonna
be getting out there and going I'm spending three days
traveling around and we have audio. I just looked in
(00:21):
our folder. This is from ten years ago. It was
the Thursday or Wednesday before Memorial Day, ten years ago.
And what was everybody talking about ten years ago in
twenty fifteen. Gas prices. Let's find out what they were
ten years ago. Trip back into the Conway Show ten
(00:43):
years ago.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Today, you remember the.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Good old days when we played outside until dark. There
were no cell phones, we'd trank.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Out of the water holes, there was no bottled water.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Are you kidding me? In gas prices back then a
buck twenty five at best. Not today. At this gas station,
three ninety nine a gallon regular unletted. Wow, the same
as many of the pumps in this area. Even though
gas prices have inched down over the last six days,
not good enough for many motorists to ease the pain
at the pump.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
We're under four dollars a gallon ten years ago, and
we all complained.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Charging so much right now for gas.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
I'm just passing through.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
It's not cool, not cool, not cool. Four bucks a gallon,
Well it was hired before.
Speaker 6 (01:26):
At least it's coming down.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It's expensive.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
It's a little cheaper out here, but in the valley
it's a lot more expensive.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
How much more expensive it's say in the force four bucks?
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Yeah, like great, it's in the forest.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Well it's three ninety nine here, so you'll save a
penny or twenty five?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Man ouch? Yeah, yeah, you don't go to Calabasas.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Even worse, even what is it up there? Four thirty?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Do tail? Like what close to five bucks? I think?
Speaker 7 (01:52):
Get out of here.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Wow, go up there, check it out. I want to
tell you.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Unless that's ten years ago today, ten years ago, and
we're all we always complaining about gas prices, no matter
what it is, always complained. All right, The La Zoo
has gotten rid of their elephants. They left in the
dark of night. Yeah, sort of like an NFL football team,
(02:16):
you know, leaving Cleveland for Baltimore wherever they're going. They
packed up the two big elephants, Tina and Billy, and
they're off to Oklahoma, which is beautiful. This time of
year you get into June, July, August, nice, it's like
fifty eight fifty nine degrees raining, beautiful weather up there.
Speaker 8 (02:36):
Questions about these two elephants. We just received a statement
from the LAZO. It came down a little bit before
nine am this morning, but it comes after Billy and
Tina were moved in secret from the La Zoo to
the Tulsa Zoo, and it has left animal advocates feeling
heartbroken and outraged.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Oh no, it's not.
Speaker 8 (02:57):
Content controversy over forty year old Billy and fifty nine
year old Tina. This Air seven video showing their elephant
enclosure now empty. This morning, zoo officials put out a
statement saying.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Ques that's one of the only reasons to go to
the zoo to see the elephants.
Speaker 8 (03:12):
The Los Angeles Zoo Asian elephants have arrived safely at
the Tulsa Zoo, but reports say the two were moved
in secret in the middle of the night. Activists say
they wanted Billy and Tina to retire at a sanctuary.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Nah, they didn't get their wish right. Hey, look, I
want the one on one to be nine lanes both ways,
but I didn't get that. So sometimes you don't get
your wish.
Speaker 8 (03:34):
Activists say they wanted Billy and Tina to retire at
a sanctuary.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Okay, well you didn't get that.
Speaker 9 (03:42):
Sorry, we're angry because we've given the zoo an alternative.
We've said over and over again that they can go
to sanctuary. If you're getting rid of them, why can't
they go to a better life.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
Animal advocates have long criticized the zoo on history of
deaths and health challenges. They've protested the limited enclosure space
for years.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I have a feeling that zoos in thirty years, you know,
kids would be like, wait a minute, you guys had
animals all caged up and people go look at them.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
I think the zoos are coming to an end. I
love the zoo.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I'm a big, huge fan of zoos. I love the
Santa Barbara One. I had a membership there my daughter
was younger. I love the La Zoo. One of my
favorite days of my life is we were going to
Oregon for Thanksgiving and we were leaving on the Wednesday
before Thanksgiving. So the day before Thanksgiving we got to
(04:43):
the airport and our flight was canceled. We couldn't get
on another flight, and so we had to wait till
the next day or Friday. And I didn't mind whenever
flight's canceled, I don't make a big stink.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
I just go home.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And I went home. It was raining, and it was
the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving was to be the very
next day, and I said to my daughter, who I
think was like six, No, she had to be younger
than she was in a stroller, she might have been
three or four. I said, hey, you want to go
to the zoo. And she goes, Dad, it's raining. I said, yeah,
but they're open on five o'clock. We'll have the whole
zoo to ourselves. We went to the zoo. It was raining,
(05:16):
and she had an umbrella. I had an umbrella. We
had her a little stroller and her little, you know,
bag of food and whatever you know you carry around
when a four year old, and we walked around the
zoo and we never saw another person. We had the
entire zoo to ourselves, and we stayed there until they closed,
like around five thirty. It got dark, and we walked
(05:37):
around the entire place. It was raining and not a
single person. We never saw a zoo keeper. We never
saw anything but animals. We never saw another person working
there or another person visiting. Everybody was gone for Thanksgiving
and we're the only ones there.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
What are the great days of my life? So zoos
can be great.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I think zoos offer kids this sympathy or empathy to
h with these animals, to see them up closed and
in person. I think that it offers the kids, you know,
an opportunity in life to become closer to animals and
care about them more so.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
It's hard to say whether they In my opinion, zoos
should always be open and always have plenty of animals
for people to go see. But there are a lot
of animal actors out there that say there should be
zero zoos, no animals.
Speaker 9 (06:27):
Ever, they've been in confinement in areas that are not
conducive to good health, to their well being, to their
mental health. Sanctuaries give the elephants freedom of a nature
similar to in the wild.
Speaker 8 (06:43):
The La Zoo says two elephants who died in twenty
twenty four were in declining health due to issues unrelated
to the zoo's enclosure or care. The La Zoo justified
the move saying, in part quote, the Tulsa Zoo was
the top recommendation based on space, herd dynamics and expertise
of the staff.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, and I believe that I agree with them without
doing any research.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
The people work at the zoo.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
For you animal activists out there who are protesting this,
without exception, every single person I've ever met who works
at SeaWorld or the Zoo, San Diego Zoo, Santa Barbara Zoo,
Wild Animal Park, they all work there because of their
overwhelming love for animals. That's why they work there. So
(07:28):
let's not get down on them. They're beautiful people. They
love animals, probably more than you do. They spend their
whole lives around them, and so let's not s on them.
Speaker 8 (07:38):
This option also ensured that Billy and Tino would be
able to remain together. The Lazoo announced the transfer April
twenty second, and was met with protests and the lawsuit
over the relocation. Now this morning, we haven't seen any
big protests take place outside of the La Zoo, but
one group we talked to, Los Angeles for Animals says
they'll be out here on sound and that they won't
(08:01):
stop speaking out until Billy and Tina are in a sanctuary.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
All right, Well they're gone. Billy and Tina have left
the building. They're not coming back. They're not going to sanctuary.
The people at the La Zoo I thought that Oklahoma
was the best place for them, and that's where they are.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
So you knew the rules, you knew the boundaries. Mahalla.
Speaker 10 (08:23):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
All right, ding dong.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
A lot of people are gonna be traveling over the summer.
You're gonna have a summer vacation. That'll be nice. You'll
enjoy yourself hopefully, and you might be able to save
a lot of money this year, despite or in spite
of inflation. So get out there and save some money
and look around.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
The cost to take your summer vacation is actually a
little bit.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Less that was last Memorial Day.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
And because economic uncertainty is playing into airline bookings and
there's some weakness there, there may be some deals to
be had in Music City. The sounds of the summer
are already rocking along Lower Broadway where we met the
Smith family from Arkansas.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Did you guys plan it now? So you can do
it while it was nice.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
But what do they call Krozier Music City? Is that
Nashville or New Orleans? Not in Nashville, Nashville.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Okay, did you guys plan it now so you can
do it.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
While dose New Orleans? Bummed that they called Nashville music City?
I bet they are not at all? No, not at all.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Did you guys plan it now so you can do
it while it was nice?
Speaker 10 (09:36):
But before the crowds?
Speaker 9 (09:37):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Yes, by heading to Tennessee ahead of Memorial Day, they
also got a better deal. Are you doing anything to
try to sort of maximize your back while you're on vacation?
Speaker 11 (09:47):
Where we got you the calls gs, we got online
before we came to get special processing.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
She gets in.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
Free at Hollywood compared to Memorial Day twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Kind of brag, right, cool Southern bragg. She gets in
free at Dollarwood. She gets in free at Dollywood. It's
kind of a cool deal.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
Compared to Memorial Day twenty twenty four. The overall cost
of travel is down two percent. Wow, but still expect
to spend nearly three hundred dollars more this summer than last. Hell,
airfare is off nearly eight percent, and rental car costs
dropped two percent, But vacationing in twenty twenty five still
costs you twelve percent more than before the pandemic.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Wait a minute, how is that possible.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Flights are down, rental cars are down, meals are down,
hotels are down. Yet it's going to be more expensive.
Speaker 12 (10:35):
A lot of people are still taking those big international
trips this year that they booked many many months.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
Agow Sally French tracks vacation inflation for nerd Wallet.
Speaker 12 (10:45):
There are a lot of unanticipated expenses that cost more,
and these are the things that can really add up.
These are the lift and uber rides, These are the
parking expenses, these are the tips.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Man, I think you're a real gambler if you take
a summer vacation and you're going to Europe or you know,
South America, Asia, Africa, I don't know the Middle East.
There's so many things that can go wrong on your
trip just to get where you're going, and then when
you're there everything can blow up.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
It's I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
And this country that we live in is so beautiful
that I think it's it's it's a cooler thing to
drive around America and see how beautiful it is. You know,
you don't always have to go to Europe or Spain,
or you know, London or England. You don't always have
to go to France or you know, South America. This
(11:41):
country here's beautiful. Go see this country. Go see how
beautiful the United States is awesome.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
Newlyweds Latasha and Alan Scott were loving the gas prices
on their drive to Tennessee from Fredericksburg, Virginia, about forty
cents a gallon, cheaper than last Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Anything surprised you about this trip?
Speaker 13 (12:00):
Some of the hotels were like, I think it was
like three thousand dollars a night.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
We were like, what the heck? This is the apartment
you got to sign a lease.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
But hotels on average are actually a bit cheaper this year.
Entertainment doing things while you're on vacation that rose three
point four percent, and all those meals eaten out will
once again cost you more this summer, and thirty four
percent more than twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, it's amazing how expensive meals are. There's a Chinese
place I like to go to in Glendale, and I
went there the other day to get Kung pow chicken.
That's my meal. And I usually don't look at the
at the price. I just get it, you know. But
I looked at the price twenty seven ninety five or
just kungk pow chicken for just the meal.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Yeah, I was. I thought it was like thirteen dollars.
Speaker 14 (12:46):
Surprised You like that spicy stuff?
Speaker 9 (12:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (12:48):
I do like it me too. I love it.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Kung pow chicken is the greatest meal ever made in
the history of the world. There's nothing like that. But
it does come back on you. It lets you know
it's still in your system. It does as a way
of let you know it's still there. And I sort
of like that as well.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Odd.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Odd is anybody.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Going to crows You going on vacation, Somebody driving to
New Orleans or South Carolina, go anywhere?
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Probably not now, not at all?
Speaker 14 (13:18):
All saving money? Man, Oh i's go knock down debt,
trying to be responsible adults and all that. I just
heard a Colt's owner, Jim Mersey, just died.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
No way, Oh that's sleep yeah, oh man, oh man,
how old he's got to be in his.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Eighty sixty five? He's only sixty five.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
It looks like definitely didn't look like it. It looks
like you really just living life in the diamond lane.
What does the team go to is kids or are
they gonna sell it or I.
Speaker 14 (13:43):
Haven't seen that yet, but I think his kids are
pretty involved. Uh yeah, yeah, that's a big deal.
Speaker 10 (13:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (13:48):
Wow, yeah, one of the old owners of the NFL.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
That's horrible. Stephu's you going on were vacation the summer? Nope,
I need the money. You're gonna stick around, bellyo.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
You're going anywhere of a cruise or camping or traveling,
driving anywhere.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
I am going on a cruise, I'm going camping, I'm driving.
You're getting out the train and I'm walking and bicycling. Yes,
doing it all this summer except going to see the
Great Park. I can't make it. I'm get busy with
all my other travel. Are you going to Denford? You
to go anywhere? Probably? Yeah, go to see mom, going
to see my mama. Yeah that you're a good daughter.
(14:26):
She's a great mom. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
But you always sacrifice your fun to go see mom,
you know, Yeah, because you go to mom's house and
you just work for a week. I do, I do
clean up the house, straighten it out. Yes, you come
back exhausted.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
That's in the chands. I ruined her pants, her sea pans.
Angel You going anywhere?
Speaker 14 (14:49):
I don't know, probably, I don't really have anything planned
right now.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Yeah, very spontaneous you.
Speaker 14 (14:56):
Yeah, just being a sherpa for my mom.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Okay, all right, Yeah, you're very closely with your mom
as well. That's really a cool deal. All right.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
But this is gonna be a great summer to get
out the everything's lower in price, and it's it's just
going to be a you know, hotels are cheaper, flying
is cheaper. You may not make it on the flight
because all the FAA computers are going down, but if
you do make it, everything is gonna be less expensive
and it's gonna be a nice time to get out
(15:25):
of California.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Not actually not this year.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Next year is because next year we have the World
Cup coming in, and so LA is going to be
swamped with people. Next year we've got the World Cup
coming in, then we have the Super Bowl, then we
have the Olympics. So in starting after this is your
last summer to enjoy yourself because for the next three years,
LA is going to be filled with people from internationally,
(15:51):
I mean from foreign countries and all over the world.
We've got three major events going on. We've got the
World Cup, which is a big, big party for the
world and all eyes will be on LA. Then we've
got the Super Bowl, and then we have the Olympics.
So get out there and enjoy this year because we've
got three big parties coming up and everyone's gonna have
to be on their best behavior. So again, one last
(16:12):
summer to get out and then you're gonna be home
for three years helping us show people that LA is
not an shole and we need your help to clean
up and to be kind to people when they come here.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
That's all we're asking.
Speaker 10 (16:25):
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Speaker 1 (16:33):
KFI AM six forty its Conway Show. If you're driving
around the Suppulvita basein earlier today and you saw smoke,
there was a fire there near Woodley and Burbank, I
believe is where it was Woodley and Victory, that area
where the Orange line is. I'm not gonna say it's
a homeless guy, but we've had homeless fires in that
(16:56):
area before.
Speaker 15 (16:57):
Cruiser're battling a brush fire in the Suppulvit Debase sitting
there Victory in Balboa Boulevards. It started in the last
hour with approximately one point five acres burn. The fire
extended into palm trees and has jumped to the Metro
Orange line. One person is being treated for burn injuries
by paramedics on the scene right now. The Orange line
is closed from Woodley to White Oak. We'll continue to
(17:20):
monitor this situation and we'll give you an update when
we get more information.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
All right, the Orange line closed for some time. That
means like six people will be affected. Nobody's ever on
that Orange line, nobody. All right, let's talk about this
Palm Springs bomber. There's an online trail reportedly that goes
back to this kid who blew up his car and
himself outside of that fertility clinic on Saturday morning.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
We're getting some new insights on the Palm Springs bombing.
The LA Times combed through twenty five year old Guy
Barcas's online trail and found a website dedicated to the bombing.
Oh The site features a thirty minute recording from Bark
that was uploaded at the time of the explosion.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
The Times says.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Barcas promised a video of the Palm Springs blast, but
never posted it. He was killed in Saturday's explosion. Investigators
believe he built the bomb in the garage of his
twenty nine Palms home. Thomas Bickell lives next door and
talked with one of the investigators.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Man, he could have been killed. This next door neighbor.
What's his name, Thomas.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Bikell lives next door.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
What's the guy's name, Thomas Bickell, Thomas Bickell, Ah, he
could have been worked.
Speaker 16 (18:29):
All they really told me was, like guy's exact words
was he had like an explosive laboratory in there, and
that although he built a pretty big bomb that he
took down to Palm Springs, there was still enough material
material in there to do serious damage.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Investigators say Barcas also left behind a manifesto expressing anger
at procreation and overpopulation.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Yeah, he didn't want to be born.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
He didn't sign on the dotted line, didn't give his
permission to be born.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Kind of a nutty guy. And now he's no longer
with us.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
All there is stolen chickens in Las Vegas.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
What's going on? Somebody stealing chickens.
Speaker 17 (19:08):
A local farm asking for the communities held tonight after
hundreds of their chickens were stolen after hours on Friday.
Eight News Now reporter Madison Kimberle live in studio tonight
with what we know so far?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Who's stealing chickens in twenty twenty five? What is this
from eighteen twenty five?
Speaker 13 (19:25):
Yeah, Brian, Las Vegas Livestock has an array of animals,
but they never thought their birds would become a target.
And their coop that was once filled with over two
hundred and fifty chickens is now down to four. From
this to this.
Speaker 11 (19:38):
I left around six twenty and I got a call
the next morning at seven am saying that all the
chickens were gone.
Speaker 13 (19:45):
Las Vegas Livestock for manager Sarah Stallard still in disbelief
that nearly two hundred and fifty chickens were stolen from
her property. At first, she thought it could have been
a wild animal who came in and invaded the coop,
but there was no evidence left behind.
Speaker 11 (20:00):
Others hadn't really no sign of anything, so you kind
of ruled out animal predation. Anyone that's dealt with coyotes
or any sort of predator. Animal taking livestock they're usually is.
Speaker 13 (20:11):
Some sign, Sarah telling me she believes the thief was
someone familiar with the property, someone who knew how to
handle chickens, not an easy feat, particularly when dealing with
hundreds of them.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Who the hell is doing this? And where do you
put them? How do you hide them?
Speaker 13 (20:25):
So? What could be the reason someone would steal so many?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
It's exactly what I was just thinking, exactly what I
was just gonna say, How the hell and why would
someone do this?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
So?
Speaker 13 (20:35):
What could be the reason someone would steal so many?
The plot chickens, Stallard has her theories.
Speaker 11 (20:40):
Like the price of eggs has kind of been like
a thing that everyone's talking about.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Yeah, that's come down if you've seen a newspaper in
the last two months.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
But that's not a story anymore, darling.
Speaker 11 (20:51):
So you know, maybe somebody thought this is their quick
wait is to become a millionaire or something.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
With two hundred and fifty chickens, you can become a millionaire.
I this I think the Vegas sun has gotten to this,
the one, this young lady.
Speaker 13 (21:08):
And as for the chickens well being, she says that's
top concern above everything else.
Speaker 11 (21:12):
We do have a fear for their welfare. We spend
a lot of time raising our flock. So to think
that someone just kind of grabbed them and now we
have no idea how they're being cared for or even
if they're alive, is one of the souder parts of
a theft like this.
Speaker 13 (21:28):
No Republic Services, which is located right near their farm,
was able to catch what they believe was the thief's
car exiting their property after hours.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
How big a car do you need? I mean, you've
got to have a huge eighteen wheeler. Two hundred and
fifty chickens is a lot.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Now.
Speaker 13 (21:43):
As for Las Vegas livestock, they plan to install their
own cameras on their property.
Speaker 17 (21:48):
Brian Overall Stallar tells Madison that the monetary loss adds
up to around five thousand dollars and for now they'll
order from hatcheries to replace all those chickens lost.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
All right, so it's not becoming a millionaire, and two
hundred and fifty chickens are worth five thousand dollars max maximum.
It's very very difficult it become a millionaire with chickens,
all right. I know animal heavy today, I get it.
We had the zoo with the elephants. Then we have
the chicken story.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Right, okay, all right? People like people like those stories.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
They enjoy them, so we bring them to you every
single day.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Don't have any pets. I don't remember. Do I have pets? Yeah? Yeah,
I have had two dogs, Ernie and Abby.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
No like as a kid, Oh yeah, yeah, we always
had a dog run yeah, yeah, dog, but we had
we never had chickens. My mom was never exotic like that,
never crazy, but yeah we had dogs growing up, but
they were outdoor dogs.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
You know.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
The dog was never inside. If that dog was inside,
my mom would be questioning everybody why that dog is inside?
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Why is that dog inside? Get that dog the f.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Out of the house.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
That dog was never allowed in the house because that's
where it was in the seventies. You've got a dog,
never in the house, always outside like snoopy.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Yeah. Now that's why there's doghouses.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
And now if you have a dog and it's only
an outdoor dog, your neighbors are gonna call d Anibal
Protective Services on you, like, Hey, what's going on with
this guy? That dog's been outside for two nights. This
guy must be a killer or a murder or something.
In the very short span of twenty last twenty thirty
forty years, dogs have come from being outdoors and just
(23:26):
discarded as another object and not really you know, loved
but not really crazy to family members. Now they are
family members and you treat them better than you do
the rest of your family.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
You do. You treat them better, and you.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Have a better relationship with your dog than you do
with your kids, or your wife, or your husband or
your parents. You just do their life savers. These dogs,
they're the best. Everyone should have a dog.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Ellen Leava has been on the air on Channel seven
for thirty years. If you are in your forties, since
high school or junior high, you've seen her on TV
every single day and she's become a staple of Los
Angeles thirty years.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
And now she's retiring.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
She's leaving, leaving the building and ABC News will continue on.
But it's sad to see somebody you've watched on TV
every day for thirty years not be there. It's it's
you know, whether they retire or whether unfortunately, like Sam Rubin,
they pass away. For them not to be there on
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your TV every day is a big deal.
Speaker 8 (24:43):
Yeah, there's something comforting when you see them there, and
when they're not there, you feel.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
That's right uncomfortable. Yeah, and you you know, it's like
losing a friend. You know, it's like a friend who's
moving out of state or or retiring and not going
to be in your life anymore. Because you know, we're
go to see Ellen Laie was a pretty private person.
She's not going to be going on to do you know,
much of anything. She probably just retired and enjoy yourself.
And she's been here a long long time. And they
(25:10):
did a great tribute over there at ABC. We're gonna
play some of it here.
Speaker 18 (25:13):
A bittersweet moment for everyone here at ABC seven. It's
time to say goodbye to a dear friend. By co
anchor Ellen Lava. My friend. I don't just mean someone
I've said next to you for the last thirty years,
but someone I've witnessed the world with, evolved with, but
most importantly, someone I've had fun with. And that's the
part that people don't get to see, the joy between
(25:33):
all that seriousness. In this sad but happy story. I
sit down with Ellen as she relives all that fun
in a beautiful career.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Say in spell your name of your physician?
Speaker 19 (25:44):
Okay, Ellen, Lava, l Ellie.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
What did you dread the most about this interview? Your questions?
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
What'd you think I was gonna ask her?
Speaker 19 (25:54):
I don't know anything can come out of your mouth.
And my worry was that we were just going to
look at each other start laughing like we do. Which
shoot those promos?
Speaker 18 (26:01):
How do you describe thirty years where every day is
an adventure?
Speaker 19 (26:06):
The eyes processed the light, which then stimulates melatonin.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
From a health.
Speaker 18 (26:10):
Reporter to a morning anchor, and then to the evenings,
all the while a mother who raised two wonderful girls.
So many moments in a fascinating job where you never
know what's.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Going to happen. Most moments are serious.
Speaker 19 (26:24):
We're expected an update from fire authorities in Pasadena at
any moment, but hot dog on a.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Stick Scattered between, there's laughter.
Speaker 18 (26:34):
What was your biggest hope when you walked in that
first day.
Speaker 19 (26:38):
I didn't know what to expect. I just knew that
I couldn't believe I was working at KBC, you know,
and I'd only been in the business of like maybe
four years. My biggest fear is that I would not
make it, and that I wouldn't be good enough to
stay on the air.
Speaker 18 (26:51):
What is your most memorable moment here? And that's a
tough one.
Speaker 19 (26:54):
Oh my goodness, it has to be some of those
early morning days. Anything could happen, you know, the Fredericks
of Hollywood, mall else, we'd come on and you turn red.
Speaker 18 (27:02):
Tucked away in the deep corners of our offices, we
find old photos from the nineties reminding us of a
time when we both were trying to navigate our new
lives in La on a crazy morning show.
Speaker 19 (27:13):
We are so young, Look at you baby.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
That was in the early days of our morning show,
Eddie Money.
Speaker 19 (27:21):
That was so great. So we got to meet a
lot of cool people. And then Cheryl Tiggs. Wow, we
had all these supermodels come in and they were always so.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Sweet to you. I love this one. This is one
of my favorites of us.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Yeah, do you see that?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
That is so cute.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
By the way, old school, when they used to have
supermodels come in on the news, you know, just to
talk with them. I'd boost the ratings a little. Old
school doesn't happen much anymore. Doesn't happen much at all anymore.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
Ellen, thirty years.
Speaker 19 (27:57):
Yeah, I'm really lucky, re Ending, writes the first line
to a new chapter.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Okay, don't do that.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
I don't want to cry.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Ellen's happy and moving to a new life.
Speaker 18 (28:08):
The Eyewitness News family will continue on, but the friendship
and the memories will.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Always be with us. And give me a hug. Here's
to a job well done.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Thirty years.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
And then all the groom, all the make up, wardrobe people,
they all came on.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Today, you folks going on.
Speaker 19 (28:34):
Damn it, I'll take the I can't believe everyone's here.
You are such an incredible storyteller. I mean, you know,
I'm your biggest fan, and you're an incredible news reporter
and there's no one like you, and I can't believe
that story. That's so wonderful. I'm going to cherish that forever,
and thank you so much for everybody for being here.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
This is like so crazy.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I love it. I feel your love.
Speaker 19 (28:56):
And I appreciate that my friends and family are here,
and it's just been a wonderful ride.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I mean, can you three years, David? I know you
so well.
Speaker 18 (29:04):
Deep down inside you're dying because.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
This public stuff I don't like.
Speaker 18 (29:08):
They're great on television, but being in front of a
whole bunch of people, it's tough for you.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
But yeah, we want to show our love for you.
And just now that.
Speaker 18 (29:19):
We have everybody here and it's your last day and
you can say anything, yeah, but.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Don't put me on the spot at all.
Speaker 19 (29:26):
No, this place has been the most incredible place to work.
I cannot believe my luck to be here for thirty years.
And I want to say thank you to the viewers
at home. It has been an honor and a privilege
to be welcomed into your living rooms every afternoon, and
you've always made me feel like a welcome guest. And
while I won't be on the air, I'm going to
be one of you. I'm going to be an eyewitness
news viewer. And I can't wait to see where our
(29:46):
leadership takes us on this and Wendy Granado, our new
general manager, and with Pam Chin our news director, and
you guys all, it's going to be really fun to
watch and I get to see it from my living room.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
And then this has been an.
Speaker 19 (29:59):
Incredible opportunity for me working alongside the best in the business,
and it's been. No, I didn't mean that, Yeah you did.
It's been a love wonderful love hate relationship.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Everyone knows.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
We tease each other.
Speaker 19 (30:19):
Like David Near said, you know, it's been it. We're
like an old married couple.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
You know.
Speaker 18 (30:24):
It's a great chemistry experiment, so to speak, because you
and I are absolute opposites.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yet it worked.
Speaker 18 (30:30):
Yeah, I nelverready talked about our chemistry because you're the kind,
warm one.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
I'm the stern on fun one. Okay that's fair, Okay,
I'll be honest.
Speaker 18 (30:39):
But you know we're on the last few seconds. I
want to give you one final time to say good
night and throw it to David Neir.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
But we love that one.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Oh.
Speaker 19 (30:46):
I love you, and I love everybody here, and thank
you again so much. I mean, it's been such a
privilege to be in your living rooms for almost thirty years.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
It's just incredible.
Speaker 19 (30:55):
And now I'm going to feel like this America because
the roses are coming my way. I want to thank
you so much for joining us for Eyewitness News, and Randy,
thank you so much, and thank you for the suendoff.
It could not have been a better beautiful thank you
there you.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Going here coming up next thirty years in LA. That
is great.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
That is fantastic, Ellen Leva, all right, mo Kelly is
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It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. This is
Memorial Day weekend and a lot of people are gonna
be getting out there and going I'm spending three days
traveling around and we have audio. I just looked in
(00:21):
our folder. This is from ten years ago. It was
the Thursday or Wednesday before Memorial Day, ten years ago.
And what was everybody talking about ten years ago in
twenty fifteen. Gas prices. Let's find out what they were
ten years ago. Trip back into the Conway Show ten
(00:43):
years ago.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Today, you remember the.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Good old days when we played outside until dark. There
were no cell phones, we'd trank.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Out of the water holes, there was no bottled water.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Are you kidding me? In gas prices back then a
buck twenty five at best. Not today. At this gas station,
three ninety nine a gallon regular unletted. Wow, the same
as many of the pumps in this area. Even though
gas prices have inched down over the last six days,
not good enough for many motorists to ease the pain
at the pump.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
We're under four dollars a gallon ten years ago, and
we all complained.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Charging so much right now for gas.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
I'm just passing through.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
It's not cool, not cool, not cool. Four bucks a gallon,
Well it was hired before.
Speaker 6 (01:26):
At least it's coming down.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It's expensive.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
It's a little cheaper out here, but in the valley
it's a lot more expensive.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
How much more expensive it's say in the force four bucks?
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Yeah, like great, it's in the forest.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Well it's three ninety nine here, so you'll save a
penny or twenty five?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Man ouch? Yeah, yeah, you don't go to Calabasas.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Even worse, even what is it up there? Four thirty?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Do tail? Like what close to five bucks? I think?
Speaker 7 (01:52):
Get out of here.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Wow, go up there, check it out. I want to
tell you.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Unless that's ten years ago today, ten years ago, and
we're all we always complaining about gas prices, no matter
what it is, always complained. All right, The La Zoo
has gotten rid of their elephants. They left in the
dark of night. Yeah, sort of like an NFL football team,
(02:16):
you know, leaving Cleveland for Baltimore wherever they're going. They
packed up the two big elephants, Tina and Billy, and
they're off to Oklahoma, which is beautiful. This time of
year you get into June, July, August, nice, it's like
fifty eight fifty nine degrees raining, beautiful weather up there.
Speaker 8 (02:36):
Questions about these two elephants. We just received a statement
from the LAZO. It came down a little bit before
nine am this morning, but it comes after Billy and
Tina were moved in secret from the La Zoo to
the Tulsa Zoo, and it has left animal advocates feeling
heartbroken and outraged.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Oh no, it's not.
Speaker 8 (02:57):
Content controversy over forty year old Billy and fifty nine
year old Tina. This Air seven video showing their elephant
enclosure now empty. This morning, zoo officials put out a
statement saying.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Ques that's one of the only reasons to go to
the zoo to see the elephants.
Speaker 8 (03:12):
The Los Angeles Zoo Asian elephants have arrived safely at
the Tulsa Zoo, but reports say the two were moved
in secret in the middle of the night. Activists say
they wanted Billy and Tina to retire at a sanctuary.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Nah, they didn't get their wish right. Hey, look, I
want the one on one to be nine lanes both ways,
but I didn't get that. So sometimes you don't get
your wish.
Speaker 8 (03:34):
Activists say they wanted Billy and Tina to retire at
a sanctuary.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Okay, well you didn't get that.
Speaker 9 (03:42):
Sorry, we're angry because we've given the zoo an alternative.
We've said over and over again that they can go
to sanctuary. If you're getting rid of them, why can't
they go to a better life.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
Animal advocates have long criticized the zoo on history of
deaths and health challenges. They've protested the limited enclosure space
for years.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I have a feeling that zoos in thirty years, you know,
kids would be like, wait a minute, you guys had
animals all caged up and people go look at them.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
I think the zoos are coming to an end. I
love the zoo.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I'm a big, huge fan of zoos. I love the
Santa Barbara One. I had a membership there my daughter
was younger. I love the La Zoo. One of my
favorite days of my life is we were going to
Oregon for Thanksgiving and we were leaving on the Wednesday
before Thanksgiving. So the day before Thanksgiving we got to
(04:43):
the airport and our flight was canceled. We couldn't get
on another flight, and so we had to wait till
the next day or Friday. And I didn't mind whenever
flight's canceled, I don't make a big stink.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
I just go home.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And I went home. It was raining, and it was
the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving was to be the very
next day, and I said to my daughter, who I
think was like six, No, she had to be younger
than she was in a stroller, she might have been
three or four. I said, hey, you want to go
to the zoo. And she goes, Dad, it's raining. I said, yeah,
but they're open on five o'clock. We'll have the whole
zoo to ourselves. We went to the zoo. It was raining,
(05:16):
and she had an umbrella. I had an umbrella. We
had her a little stroller and her little, you know,
bag of food and whatever you know you carry around
when a four year old, and we walked around the
zoo and we never saw another person. We had the
entire zoo to ourselves, and we stayed there until they closed,
like around five thirty. It got dark, and we walked
(05:37):
around the entire place. It was raining and not a
single person. We never saw a zoo keeper. We never
saw anything but animals. We never saw another person working
there or another person visiting. Everybody was gone for Thanksgiving
and we're the only ones there.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
What are the great days of my life? So zoos
can be great.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I think zoos offer kids this sympathy or empathy to
h with these animals, to see them up closed and
in person. I think that it offers the kids, you know,
an opportunity in life to become closer to animals and
care about them more so.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
It's hard to say whether they In my opinion, zoos
should always be open and always have plenty of animals
for people to go see. But there are a lot
of animal actors out there that say there should be
zero zoos, no animals.
Speaker 9 (06:27):
Ever, they've been in confinement in areas that are not
conducive to good health, to their well being, to their
mental health. Sanctuaries give the elephants freedom of a nature
similar to in the wild.
Speaker 8 (06:43):
The La Zoo says two elephants who died in twenty
twenty four were in declining health due to issues unrelated
to the zoo's enclosure or care. The La Zoo justified
the move saying, in part quote, the Tulsa Zoo was
the top recommendation based on space, herd dynamics and expertise
of the staff.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, and I believe that I agree with them without
doing any research.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
The people work at the zoo.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
For you animal activists out there who are protesting this,
without exception, every single person I've ever met who works
at SeaWorld or the Zoo, San Diego Zoo, Santa Barbara Zoo,
Wild Animal Park, they all work there because of their
overwhelming love for animals. That's why they work there. So
(07:28):
let's not get down on them. They're beautiful people. They
love animals, probably more than you do. They spend their
whole lives around them, and so let's not s on them.
Speaker 8 (07:38):
This option also ensured that Billy and Tino would be
able to remain together. The Lazoo announced the transfer April
twenty second, and was met with protests and the lawsuit
over the relocation. Now this morning, we haven't seen any
big protests take place outside of the La Zoo, but
one group we talked to, Los Angeles for Animals says
they'll be out here on sound and that they won't
(08:01):
stop speaking out until Billy and Tina are in a sanctuary.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
All right, Well they're gone. Billy and Tina have left
the building. They're not coming back. They're not going to sanctuary.
The people at the La Zoo I thought that Oklahoma
was the best place for them, and that's where they are.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
So you knew the rules, you knew the boundaries. Mahalla.
Speaker 10 (08:23):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
All right, ding dong.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
A lot of people are gonna be traveling over the summer.
You're gonna have a summer vacation. That'll be nice. You'll
enjoy yourself hopefully, and you might be able to save
a lot of money this year, despite or in spite
of inflation. So get out there and save some money
and look around.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
The cost to take your summer vacation is actually a
little bit.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Less that was last Memorial Day.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
And because economic uncertainty is playing into airline bookings and
there's some weakness there, there may be some deals to
be had in Music City. The sounds of the summer
are already rocking along Lower Broadway where we met the
Smith family from Arkansas.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Did you guys plan it now? So you can do
it while it was nice.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
But what do they call Krozier Music City? Is that
Nashville or New Orleans? Not in Nashville, Nashville.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Okay, did you guys plan it now so you can
do it.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
While dose New Orleans? Bummed that they called Nashville music City?
I bet they are not at all? No, not at all.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Did you guys plan it now so you can do
it while it was nice?
Speaker 10 (09:36):
But before the crowds?
Speaker 9 (09:37):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Yes, by heading to Tennessee ahead of Memorial Day, they
also got a better deal. Are you doing anything to
try to sort of maximize your back while you're on vacation?
Speaker 11 (09:47):
Where we got you the calls gs, we got online
before we came to get special processing.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
She gets in.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
Free at Hollywood compared to Memorial Day twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Kind of brag, right, cool Southern bragg. She gets in
free at Dollarwood. She gets in free at Dollywood. It's
kind of a cool deal.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
Compared to Memorial Day twenty twenty four. The overall cost
of travel is down two percent. Wow, but still expect
to spend nearly three hundred dollars more this summer than last. Hell,
airfare is off nearly eight percent, and rental car costs
dropped two percent, But vacationing in twenty twenty five still
costs you twelve percent more than before the pandemic.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Wait a minute, how is that possible.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Flights are down, rental cars are down, meals are down,
hotels are down. Yet it's going to be more expensive.
Speaker 12 (10:35):
A lot of people are still taking those big international
trips this year that they booked many many months.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
Agow Sally French tracks vacation inflation for nerd Wallet.
Speaker 12 (10:45):
There are a lot of unanticipated expenses that cost more,
and these are the things that can really add up.
These are the lift and uber rides, These are the
parking expenses, these are the tips.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Man, I think you're a real gambler if you take
a summer vacation and you're going to Europe or you know,
South America, Asia, Africa, I don't know the Middle East.
There's so many things that can go wrong on your
trip just to get where you're going, and then when
you're there everything can blow up.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
It's I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
And this country that we live in is so beautiful
that I think it's it's it's a cooler thing to
drive around America and see how beautiful it is. You know,
you don't always have to go to Europe or Spain,
or you know, London or England. You don't always have
to go to France or you know, South America. This
(11:41):
country here's beautiful. Go see this country. Go see how
beautiful the United States is awesome.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
Newlyweds Latasha and Alan Scott were loving the gas prices
on their drive to Tennessee from Fredericksburg, Virginia, about forty
cents a gallon, cheaper than last Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Anything surprised you about this trip?
Speaker 13 (12:00):
Some of the hotels were like, I think it was
like three thousand dollars a night.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
We were like, what the heck? This is the apartment
you got to sign a lease.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
But hotels on average are actually a bit cheaper this year.
Entertainment doing things while you're on vacation that rose three
point four percent, and all those meals eaten out will
once again cost you more this summer, and thirty four
percent more than twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, it's amazing how expensive meals are. There's a Chinese
place I like to go to in Glendale, and I
went there the other day to get Kung pow chicken.
That's my meal. And I usually don't look at the
at the price. I just get it, you know. But
I looked at the price twenty seven ninety five or
just kungk pow chicken for just the meal.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Yeah, I was. I thought it was like thirteen dollars.
Speaker 14 (12:46):
Surprised You like that spicy stuff?
Speaker 9 (12:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (12:48):
I do like it me too. I love it.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Kung pow chicken is the greatest meal ever made in
the history of the world. There's nothing like that. But
it does come back on you. It lets you know
it's still in your system. It does as a way
of let you know it's still there. And I sort
of like that as well.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Odd.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Odd is anybody.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Going to crows You going on vacation, Somebody driving to
New Orleans or South Carolina, go anywhere?
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Probably not now, not at all?
Speaker 14 (13:18):
All saving money? Man, Oh i's go knock down debt,
trying to be responsible adults and all that. I just
heard a Colt's owner, Jim Mersey, just died.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
No way, Oh that's sleep yeah, oh man, oh man,
how old he's got to be in his.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Eighty sixty five? He's only sixty five.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
It looks like definitely didn't look like it. It looks
like you really just living life in the diamond lane.
What does the team go to is kids or are
they gonna sell it or I.
Speaker 14 (13:43):
Haven't seen that yet, but I think his kids are
pretty involved. Uh yeah, yeah, that's a big deal.
Speaker 10 (13:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (13:48):
Wow, yeah, one of the old owners of the NFL.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
That's horrible. Stephu's you going on were vacation the summer? Nope,
I need the money. You're gonna stick around, bellyo.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
You're going anywhere of a cruise or camping or traveling,
driving anywhere.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
I am going on a cruise, I'm going camping, I'm driving.
You're getting out the train and I'm walking and bicycling. Yes,
doing it all this summer except going to see the
Great Park. I can't make it. I'm get busy with
all my other travel. Are you going to Denford? You
to go anywhere? Probably? Yeah, go to see mom, going
to see my mama. Yeah that you're a good daughter.
(14:26):
She's a great mom. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
But you always sacrifice your fun to go see mom,
you know, Yeah, because you go to mom's house and
you just work for a week. I do, I do
clean up the house, straighten it out. Yes, you come
back exhausted.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
That's in the chands. I ruined her pants, her sea pans.
Angel You going anywhere?
Speaker 14 (14:49):
I don't know, probably, I don't really have anything planned
right now.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Yeah, very spontaneous you.
Speaker 14 (14:56):
Yeah, just being a sherpa for my mom.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Okay, all right, Yeah, you're very closely with your mom
as well. That's really a cool deal. All right.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
But this is gonna be a great summer to get
out the everything's lower in price, and it's it's just
going to be a you know, hotels are cheaper, flying
is cheaper. You may not make it on the flight
because all the FAA computers are going down, but if
you do make it, everything is gonna be less expensive
and it's gonna be a nice time to get out
(15:25):
of California.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Not actually not this year.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Next year is because next year we have the World
Cup coming in, and so LA is going to be
swamped with people. Next year we've got the World Cup
coming in, then we have the Super Bowl, then we
have the Olympics. So in starting after this is your
last summer to enjoy yourself because for the next three years,
LA is going to be filled with people from internationally,
(15:51):
I mean from foreign countries and all over the world.
We've got three major events going on. We've got the
World Cup, which is a big, big party for the
world and all eyes will be on LA. Then we've
got the Super Bowl, and then we have the Olympics.
So get out there and enjoy this year because we've
got three big parties coming up and everyone's gonna have
to be on their best behavior. So again, one last
(16:12):
summer to get out and then you're gonna be home
for three years helping us show people that LA is
not an shole and we need your help to clean
up and to be kind to people when they come here.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
That's all we're asking.
Speaker 10 (16:25):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
KFI AM six forty its Conway Show. If you're driving
around the Suppulvita basein earlier today and you saw smoke,
there was a fire there near Woodley and Burbank, I
believe is where it was Woodley and Victory, that area
where the Orange line is. I'm not gonna say it's
a homeless guy, but we've had homeless fires in that
(16:56):
area before.
Speaker 15 (16:57):
Cruiser're battling a brush fire in the Suppulvit Debase sitting
there Victory in Balboa Boulevards. It started in the last
hour with approximately one point five acres burn. The fire
extended into palm trees and has jumped to the Metro
Orange line. One person is being treated for burn injuries
by paramedics on the scene right now. The Orange line
is closed from Woodley to White Oak. We'll continue to
(17:20):
monitor this situation and we'll give you an update when
we get more information.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
All right, the Orange line closed for some time. That
means like six people will be affected. Nobody's ever on
that Orange line, nobody. All right, let's talk about this
Palm Springs bomber. There's an online trail reportedly that goes
back to this kid who blew up his car and
himself outside of that fertility clinic on Saturday morning.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
We're getting some new insights on the Palm Springs bombing.
The LA Times combed through twenty five year old Guy
Barcas's online trail and found a website dedicated to the bombing.
Oh The site features a thirty minute recording from Bark
that was uploaded at the time of the explosion.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
The Times says.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Barcas promised a video of the Palm Springs blast, but
never posted it. He was killed in Saturday's explosion. Investigators
believe he built the bomb in the garage of his
twenty nine Palms home. Thomas Bickell lives next door and
talked with one of the investigators.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Man, he could have been killed. This next door neighbor.
What's his name, Thomas.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Bikell lives next door.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
What's the guy's name, Thomas Bickell, Thomas Bickell, Ah, he
could have been worked.
Speaker 16 (18:29):
All they really told me was, like guy's exact words
was he had like an explosive laboratory in there, and
that although he built a pretty big bomb that he
took down to Palm Springs, there was still enough material
material in there to do serious damage.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Investigators say Barcas also left behind a manifesto expressing anger
at procreation and overpopulation.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Yeah, he didn't want to be born.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
He didn't sign on the dotted line, didn't give his
permission to be born.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Kind of a nutty guy. And now he's no longer
with us.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
All there is stolen chickens in Las Vegas.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
What's going on? Somebody stealing chickens.
Speaker 17 (19:08):
A local farm asking for the communities held tonight after
hundreds of their chickens were stolen after hours on Friday.
Eight News Now reporter Madison Kimberle live in studio tonight
with what we know so far?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Who's stealing chickens in twenty twenty five? What is this
from eighteen twenty five?
Speaker 13 (19:25):
Yeah, Brian, Las Vegas Livestock has an array of animals,
but they never thought their birds would become a target.
And their coop that was once filled with over two
hundred and fifty chickens is now down to four. From
this to this.
Speaker 11 (19:38):
I left around six twenty and I got a call
the next morning at seven am saying that all the
chickens were gone.
Speaker 13 (19:45):
Las Vegas Livestock for manager Sarah Stallard still in disbelief
that nearly two hundred and fifty chickens were stolen from
her property. At first, she thought it could have been
a wild animal who came in and invaded the coop,
but there was no evidence left behind.
Speaker 11 (20:00):
Others hadn't really no sign of anything, so you kind
of ruled out animal predation. Anyone that's dealt with coyotes
or any sort of predator. Animal taking livestock they're usually is.
Speaker 13 (20:11):
Some sign, Sarah telling me she believes the thief was
someone familiar with the property, someone who knew how to
handle chickens, not an easy feat, particularly when dealing with
hundreds of them.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Who the hell is doing this? And where do you
put them? How do you hide them?
Speaker 13 (20:25):
So? What could be the reason someone would steal so many?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
It's exactly what I was just thinking, exactly what I
was just gonna say, How the hell and why would
someone do this?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
So?
Speaker 13 (20:35):
What could be the reason someone would steal so many?
The plot chickens, Stallard has her theories.
Speaker 11 (20:40):
Like the price of eggs has kind of been like
a thing that everyone's talking about.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Yeah, that's come down if you've seen a newspaper in
the last two months.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
But that's not a story anymore, darling.
Speaker 11 (20:51):
So you know, maybe somebody thought this is their quick
wait is to become a millionaire or something.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
With two hundred and fifty chickens, you can become a millionaire.
I this I think the Vegas sun has gotten to this,
the one, this young lady.
Speaker 13 (21:08):
And as for the chickens well being, she says that's
top concern above everything else.
Speaker 11 (21:12):
We do have a fear for their welfare. We spend
a lot of time raising our flock. So to think
that someone just kind of grabbed them and now we
have no idea how they're being cared for or even
if they're alive, is one of the souder parts of
a theft like this.
Speaker 13 (21:28):
No Republic Services, which is located right near their farm,
was able to catch what they believe was the thief's
car exiting their property after hours.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
How big a car do you need? I mean, you've
got to have a huge eighteen wheeler. Two hundred and
fifty chickens is a lot.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Now.
Speaker 13 (21:43):
As for Las Vegas livestock, they plan to install their
own cameras on their property.
Speaker 17 (21:48):
Brian Overall Stallar tells Madison that the monetary loss adds
up to around five thousand dollars and for now they'll
order from hatcheries to replace all those chickens lost.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
All right, so it's not becoming a millionaire, and two
hundred and fifty chickens are worth five thousand dollars max maximum.
It's very very difficult it become a millionaire with chickens,
all right. I know animal heavy today, I get it.
We had the zoo with the elephants. Then we have
the chicken story.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Right, okay, all right? People like people like those stories.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
They enjoy them, so we bring them to you every
single day.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Don't have any pets. I don't remember. Do I have pets? Yeah? Yeah,
I have had two dogs, Ernie and Abby.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
No like as a kid, Oh yeah, yeah, we always
had a dog run yeah, yeah, dog, but we had
we never had chickens. My mom was never exotic like that,
never crazy, but yeah we had dogs growing up, but
they were outdoor dogs.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
You know.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
The dog was never inside. If that dog was inside,
my mom would be questioning everybody why that dog is inside?
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Why is that dog inside? Get that dog the f.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Out of the house.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
That dog was never allowed in the house because that's
where it was in the seventies. You've got a dog,
never in the house, always outside like snoopy.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Yeah. Now that's why there's doghouses.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
And now if you have a dog and it's only
an outdoor dog, your neighbors are gonna call d Anibal
Protective Services on you, like, Hey, what's going on with
this guy? That dog's been outside for two nights. This
guy must be a killer or a murder or something.
In the very short span of twenty last twenty thirty
forty years, dogs have come from being outdoors and just
(23:26):
discarded as another object and not really you know, loved
but not really crazy to family members. Now they are
family members and you treat them better than you do
the rest of your family.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
You do. You treat them better, and you.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Have a better relationship with your dog than you do
with your kids, or your wife, or your husband or
your parents. You just do their life savers. These dogs,
they're the best. Everyone should have a dog.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Ellen Leava has been on the air on Channel seven
for thirty years. If you are in your forties, since
high school or junior high, you've seen her on TV
every single day and she's become a staple of Los
Angeles thirty years.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
And now she's retiring.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
She's leaving, leaving the building and ABC News will continue on.
But it's sad to see somebody you've watched on TV
every day for thirty years not be there. It's it's
you know, whether they retire or whether unfortunately, like Sam Rubin,
they pass away. For them not to be there on
(24:41):
your TV every day is a big deal.
Speaker 8 (24:43):
Yeah, there's something comforting when you see them there, and
when they're not there, you feel.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
That's right uncomfortable. Yeah, and you you know, it's like
losing a friend. You know, it's like a friend who's
moving out of state or or retiring and not going
to be in your life anymore. Because you know, we're
go to see Ellen Laie was a pretty private person.
She's not going to be going on to do you know,
much of anything. She probably just retired and enjoy yourself.
And she's been here a long long time. And they
(25:10):
did a great tribute over there at ABC. We're gonna
play some of it here.
Speaker 18 (25:13):
A bittersweet moment for everyone here at ABC seven. It's
time to say goodbye to a dear friend. By co
anchor Ellen Lava. My friend. I don't just mean someone
I've said next to you for the last thirty years,
but someone I've witnessed the world with, evolved with, but
most importantly, someone I've had fun with. And that's the
part that people don't get to see, the joy between
(25:33):
all that seriousness. In this sad but happy story. I
sit down with Ellen as she relives all that fun
in a beautiful career.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Say in spell your name of your physician?
Speaker 19 (25:44):
Okay, Ellen, Lava, l Ellie.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
What did you dread the most about this interview? Your questions?
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
What'd you think I was gonna ask her?
Speaker 19 (25:54):
I don't know anything can come out of your mouth.
And my worry was that we were just going to
look at each other start laughing like we do. Which
shoot those promos?
Speaker 18 (26:01):
How do you describe thirty years where every day is
an adventure?
Speaker 19 (26:06):
The eyes processed the light, which then stimulates melatonin.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
From a health.
Speaker 18 (26:10):
Reporter to a morning anchor, and then to the evenings,
all the while a mother who raised two wonderful girls.
So many moments in a fascinating job where you never
know what's.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Going to happen. Most moments are serious.
Speaker 19 (26:24):
We're expected an update from fire authorities in Pasadena at
any moment, but hot dog on a.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Stick Scattered between, there's laughter.
Speaker 18 (26:34):
What was your biggest hope when you walked in that
first day.
Speaker 19 (26:38):
I didn't know what to expect. I just knew that
I couldn't believe I was working at KBC, you know,
and I'd only been in the business of like maybe
four years. My biggest fear is that I would not
make it, and that I wouldn't be good enough to
stay on the air.
Speaker 18 (26:51):
What is your most memorable moment here? And that's a
tough one.
Speaker 19 (26:54):
Oh my goodness, it has to be some of those
early morning days. Anything could happen, you know, the Fredericks
of Hollywood, mall else, we'd come on and you turn red.
Speaker 18 (27:02):
Tucked away in the deep corners of our offices, we
find old photos from the nineties reminding us of a
time when we both were trying to navigate our new
lives in La on a crazy morning show.
Speaker 19 (27:13):
We are so young, Look at you baby.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
That was in the early days of our morning show,
Eddie Money.
Speaker 19 (27:21):
That was so great. So we got to meet a
lot of cool people. And then Cheryl Tiggs. Wow, we
had all these supermodels come in and they were always so.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Sweet to you. I love this one. This is one
of my favorites of us.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Yeah, do you see that?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
That is so cute.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
By the way, old school, when they used to have
supermodels come in on the news, you know, just to
talk with them. I'd boost the ratings a little. Old
school doesn't happen much anymore. Doesn't happen much at all anymore.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
Ellen, thirty years.
Speaker 19 (27:57):
Yeah, I'm really lucky, re Ending, writes the first line
to a new chapter.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Okay, don't do that.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
I don't want to cry.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Ellen's happy and moving to a new life.
Speaker 18 (28:08):
The Eyewitness News family will continue on, but the friendship
and the memories will.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Always be with us. And give me a hug. Here's
to a job well done.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Thirty years.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
And then all the groom, all the make up, wardrobe people,
they all came on.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Today, you folks going on.
Speaker 19 (28:34):
Damn it, I'll take the I can't believe everyone's here.
You are such an incredible storyteller. I mean, you know,
I'm your biggest fan, and you're an incredible news reporter
and there's no one like you, and I can't believe
that story. That's so wonderful. I'm going to cherish that forever,
and thank you so much for everybody for being here.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
This is like so crazy.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I love it. I feel your love.
Speaker 19 (28:56):
And I appreciate that my friends and family are here,
and it's just been a wonderful ride.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I mean, can you three years, David? I know you
so well.
Speaker 18 (29:04):
Deep down inside you're dying because.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
This public stuff I don't like.
Speaker 18 (29:08):
They're great on television, but being in front of a
whole bunch of people, it's tough for you.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
But yeah, we want to show our love for you.
And just now that.
Speaker 18 (29:19):
We have everybody here and it's your last day and
you can say anything, yeah, but.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Don't put me on the spot at all.
Speaker 19 (29:26):
No, this place has been the most incredible place to work.
I cannot believe my luck to be here for thirty years.
And I want to say thank you to the viewers
at home. It has been an honor and a privilege
to be welcomed into your living rooms every afternoon, and
you've always made me feel like a welcome guest. And
while I won't be on the air, I'm going to
be one of you. I'm going to be an eyewitness
news viewer. And I can't wait to see where our
(29:46):
leadership takes us on this and Wendy Granado, our new
general manager, and with Pam Chin our news director, and
you guys all, it's going to be really fun to
watch and I get to see it from my living room.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
And then this has been an.
Speaker 19 (29:59):
Incredible opportunity for me working alongside the best in the business,
and it's been. No, I didn't mean that, Yeah you did.
It's been a love wonderful love hate relationship.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Everyone knows.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
We tease each other.
Speaker 19 (30:19):
Like David Near said, you know, it's been it. We're
like an old married couple.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
You know.
Speaker 18 (30:24):
It's a great chemistry experiment, so to speak, because you
and I are absolute opposites.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yet it worked.
Speaker 18 (30:30):
Yeah, I nelverready talked about our chemistry because you're the kind,
warm one.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
I'm the stern on fun one. Okay that's fair, Okay,
I'll be honest.
Speaker 18 (30:39):
But you know we're on the last few seconds. I
want to give you one final time to say good
night and throw it to David Neir.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
But we love that one.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Oh.
Speaker 19 (30:46):
I love you, and I love everybody here, and thank
you again so much. I mean, it's been such a
privilege to be in your living rooms for almost thirty years.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
It's just incredible.
Speaker 19 (30:55):
And now I'm going to feel like this America because
the roses are coming my way. I want to thank
you so much for joining us for Eyewitness News, and Randy,
thank you so much, and thank you for the suendoff.
It could not have been a better beautiful thank you
there you.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Going here coming up next thirty years in LA. That
is great.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
That is fantastic, Ellen Leva, all right, mo Kelly is
up next right here on KFI AM six forty Conway
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