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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's kf I am six forty and you're listening to
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
We're gonna get a lot of rain. Thursday is gonna
be the big day. Wednesday night into Thursday day is
going to be brutal for a lot of people. Much wise, careful, Yeah,
all kinds of stuff, and especially the burn scar areas.
I think the burn Scar areas are going to be
a big story whenever it rains for the next three
or four years.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
You know, it's horrible and these people not only are
they getting beat up by they got beat up by
the fire, then the rain and the mud, and now
there's constantly earthquakes in Malibu as well.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I mean, it's just.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
The trifecta of a horrible, horrible year so far. But
maybe it'll turn around. All I hope it does, right,
All right? Teenage drinking Bellio, Did you drink as a teen?
You seem to be probably hitting it pretty hard.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
That's that funny, Mark.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I did not doing funny because you do not seem like.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Do you remember your first drink?
Speaker 6 (01:06):
I mean, I think like my parents did give me
like a sip of wine oh, okay, Christmas parties and stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
So you hooked into that huh yep, pretty young. Yeah,
and now you drink it by the box.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Yeah, a couple of boxes a week.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
What's your favorite box wine? Probably the Yeah, you like that,
and you'd buy the five gallon boxes or the smaller ones,
usually the five five gallons. Yeah, how long will five
gallons of wine?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Last year?
Speaker 5 (01:34):
By two a week?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Two weeks? Wait?
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Two weeks last year? One box last year two weeks?
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Two?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
She buys two a week. You're drinking ten gallons of wine?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
The implication it seems like.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
A long Is that bad?
Speaker 7 (01:47):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
No, Look, I'm not judging you.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
It just seems on the surface for a lady that
lives in in Irvine to be downing ten gallons of
wine in a week seems high.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
It seems to work out for it, though.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
I got to say, I do spill a lot?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
You do?
Speaker 7 (02:01):
Okay? How many like eight gallons up? How many gallons
in are youinning to spill a lot?
Speaker 6 (02:07):
I'm probably usually three gallons in, spill about a gallon
and a half.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I could see that.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Does John drink wine? Yeah? Okay, yeah, got the yes,
we're both enablers.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, you enabled each other. It was like codependant is
what they call it.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah? Is he you double fisted? You'd got both hands
or just one?
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Well, by the time I'm a couple of gallons in,
I need both hands.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yeah. No.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Do you ever do this where you have a wine
next to you on the couch that you're you know,
you're chug gug glugging, and then you go to the
kitchen and you forgot you had one.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Next year you bring another one.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah that's right.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, you get a newbie. Yeah, the newbie comes in. Yeah,
that's that's and then bang, do you have wine glasses?
You just go with the big jars.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
We have wine glasses.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
You have wine glasses. So you try to put take
the stink off with like a wine glass.
Speaker 8 (03:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
It makes you feel more fancy.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Right, makes you feel like less of an alcoholic. Yeah,
have a wine glass.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
Yeah nice.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
You'd never just go bring the box in and just down,
you know, hit the box.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Well, I mean I set the box down, but I
put it in a glass. Oh, I see it, bring
it to me so I don't have to keep getting
up to go get it.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
That's a good idea. Yeah, yeah, it seems.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Like that's why the box is so practical.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Okay, you're not supposed to let your drink your teen
drink at home.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
I guess, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I guess that's the story.
Speaker 9 (03:32):
So some parents think letting their team have a drink
at home under supervision might take away some of the
curiosity about alcohol. But it turns out this may not
be the best approach.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I think it is a good approach though, because you know,
in Italy, you know, a lot of kids are given
wine early on, and a lot I don't know what
any Italians that are radical alcoholics like that. You know,
they sort of just they understand what it is, and
you know, they're not afraid of it. You know, it's
keeping kids away from it until they're twenty one and
they go nuts.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
You're saying, you create such an aura around it right
by letting them go.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
And then you know, it's not a big deal if
you're you know, kid at nine is having a you know,
sip of wine. But it's you know, keeping your kids
and yelling at them, don't drink till you twenty one.
Then turn twenty one and bang, man, they're into it.
Speaker 9 (04:17):
A new study published in the Journal Addictive Behaviors finds
that parents providing drinks, even just letting underage kids taste alcohol,
is linked to heavy drinking and alcohol related issues down
the line.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Okay, but what else are we going to expect from
that publication? Did you get the name of the publication?
Speaker 9 (04:35):
A new study published in the Journal Addictive Behaviors.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Okay, that's the name of the publication.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Journal Addictive Behavior, a Journal of addictive behavior.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Of course, it's self serving.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
They want people to be addicted, you know, that's how
they make money.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
They're going to throw the addiction flag. You're saying much
sooner than that actually should be thrown.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Maybe if there was no addiction in this country, that
publication goes out of business. Oh, of course, So that's
how they make money.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
You always think to the next level. That's right, that's right.
Speaker 9 (05:03):
Journal Addictive Behavior, the Journal.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Of addicted Behavior.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
I want to get I want to get a subscription.
I think it sounds interesting. God knows what I'm addicted do.
Speaker 8 (05:10):
You know?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
What I can't stand is when we do a commercial
here for like a casino or or online any kind
of online gaming. At the end, you know it's hey,
call this eight hundred number if you can't handle it.
You know, the gambler is anonymous. But you don't get
that with fast food. You know, if you're nine hundred
pounds at the end of a fast food commercial, they
don't say, hey, by the way, if you're eight hundred pounds,
(05:31):
call this number.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, if you have a problem with the weight called
ouh blah blah.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Right, they don't do that.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You're right, and they should because a lot more people
die of being fat in this country than gambling.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
That is an interesting Again, you're thinking at another level.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Thank you, buddy, Thank you. I take it personally.
Speaker 9 (05:45):
So what is the right way to talk to your
kids about alcohol? Clinical psychologist Lisa de Moore is the
author of The Emotional Lives of Teenagers. She joins us
now with more Good Morning again, Adriana. I bombarded Lisa
when I saw her because I have a teenager. My
parents gave me SIPs.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
And let me taste.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
You send yours.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
I'm freaking out here, okay, No need to freak out, okay.
And it's true.
Speaker 10 (06:07):
There are plenty of families that let their kid have
a taste of their drink and that child does not
have problems in the moment or.
Speaker 8 (06:12):
Down the line.
Speaker 10 (06:12):
But on balance, what the data tell us is that
this is not necessarily the right choice. And what it
can do is it can normalize the idea of underage drinking,
which is not something we want to do.
Speaker 9 (06:23):
It doesn't mean it's not correlative. If you do this,
this will happen.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
It's not a one to one correlation, but it's possible.
But the findings are pretty consistent.
Speaker 11 (06:30):
But I'm having trouble. I mean, I believe the data obviously,
but it just you would think that exposing your kids
to alcohol, letting them drink in a safe environment, is
better than letting them experiment.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
On their own. That's right, that's my point.
Speaker 11 (06:43):
Or when they go to college. So why are we
finding that these are the results?
Speaker 8 (06:47):
Well so, and that is what people think, right.
Speaker 10 (06:49):
They think it's safer for you to drink here than
with your friends, which, well, that is true. It's also
safer to not drink at all underage. And we do
think that if we let you try it at home
and you do it with supervision, that down the line
you'll be much more measured in your approach. But what
the data consistently tell us, you know, and sometimes the
data don't say what we want them to say.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Think they're going to say.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Data don't say. Data don't say they tell us.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
You know.
Speaker 10 (07:12):
And sometimes the data don't say what we want them
to do.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Dat don't say date. I gotta get a shirt like that.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
You know. I'm sorry, but I can't get past the
notion that if she were buzzed and slurring.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Her words, this would be an even better interview.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Well, look, I don't know how she's going to, you know,
tackle data don't say if she was buzzed.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah, that's true, you know.
Speaker 10 (07:32):
And sometimes the data don't say what we want them
to say. What I think they're going to say? What
the data, you know?
Speaker 8 (07:38):
And sometimes the data don't say what we want them
to say. What I think they're going to say.
Speaker 10 (07:41):
What the data say is the kids who drink under
supervision at home go on to drink more, to drink
more frequently, and.
Speaker 8 (07:47):
To have more trouble with alcohol.
Speaker 10 (07:49):
And this is also just tasting even SIPs has been found.
Speaker 8 (07:53):
It was in the data set. It's a pretty good data.
Speaker 11 (07:55):
So we're talking about a very strong correlation or just
kind of like slightly more enough.
Speaker 8 (07:59):
To betically significant. And so the point here.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Okay, Well, I think that's a dumb question because most
parents are not allowing their kids to beer bong vodka
at home. That's not that we're talking about, right, They're
not talking about letting you know, uh, you know, a
nine year old kid do belly shots off of you know,
her mom. That's not what we're talking about here. We're
talking about just you know, a sip here or sit
there and find out where your buzz is.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Data don't lie, Data don't lie.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
Data says that even a sip is bad, bad, bad man.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
And what about the data?
Speaker 10 (08:32):
You know?
Speaker 8 (08:32):
And sometimes the data don't say what we want.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Data don't say. Don't say what we want, Data don't say,
we just.
Speaker 8 (08:38):
Want to be aware.
Speaker 10 (08:39):
It's not the harm reduction approach we've thought it is.
This is not to say every child's going to go
on to have a problem, but it does come from
a well meaning place when parents do this. And so
it's our job as scientists to say, you know, the
data don't match.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
What we think she did it again, data don't match
because data is one of those weird words.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I think, right, well, you know, to.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
Do well, but yeah, data don't match.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Data don't match.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
You got it. You say data doesn't data doesn't. That's right.
Speaker 8 (09:05):
Yeah, the data don't match what.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
We think is I think this one.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
Data is plural, so it's they don't data. That's what
she's being pure to that. But it sounds weird.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Data don't match, data don't.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Do you know?
Speaker 8 (09:18):
Sometimes the data don't say what we.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Data don't say.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, and this woman's telling everybody not to drink on
a ship. Oh all right, well then do that.
Speaker 12 (09:29):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I Am sixty.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Conway Show with Thompson sitting in with Tim.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I don't know if I could move.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
I know people are talking about moving and stuff, but
I can't even leave California. I love it here, I
know it, and believe me, I'm We've got PTSD over
the fires and everything, but I just think California is
an extraordinary place.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
The weather, the topography, the mountains, the coast.
Speaker 7 (09:57):
And please, I say this in the shadow of this
tragedy we've just been through, you know, with the fires,
but and the continued threat of that. But man, I
just think there's a lot great So when people tell
me they're moving to Italy or Portugal or whatever. And
I get it. I mean they may not help, like
the government, they don't like things are proceeding here. I
(10:18):
just feel as though, I, you know, I would have trouble, uh,
basically acclimatizing myself, you know, getting accustomed to so many
things I've just taken forget the NFL season alone, you know,
it would just be a But maybe you don't need
to be.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
In a specific place anymore. I don't know.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
I mean, it's certainly possible to work remotely, and a
lot of jobs can let you do that from all
over the world. So from that standpoint, and if you
accept that, maybe you can live anywhere. But when I hear,
you know, Handle talking about the fact that many people
are moving to what I presume is Italy or and
I've heard Portugal, which is an extremely inexpensive place to move.
(11:00):
You know, a lot of places when you move there,
if you're really going to leave the country and you've
got to, it can cost millions of dollars.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
But Portugal is not like that. It's much lower.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Costs for Portugal in Spain are the two that that
for a lot of times there are the cheapest ways
to go if you want to do that sort of
golden ticket exactly.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yeah, so here is our host.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Sorry Conway, I was I went to use the three
whole punch to put those.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Oh yeah, your speech, he's going sixty one pages of.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, hunting the Beach Police Department was crazy enough to
ask me to come down and present their awards for
on Thursday to the best cops in Huntington Beach.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
That's terrific. That's a real honor.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
What I miss is gone nothing. A Handle was doing
a promo that I was just riffing off of. Oh
what was the promo? It was about people leaving the
stage to go to Italy. Oh was that right to
move like to kind of move away?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yeah, people have people, you know the big thing now
because some of my friends are richies, you.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
Know Quar Yeah, you travel pretty high. Yeah, I mean
I want you've got the full spectrum.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I've got like two or three friends who've made a
lot of dough and they're all getting second passports. You
heard of this, Yeah, they're getting second passports, like a
passport there. You know, Poland's the hot place to get it.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
Oh I didn't know that because Handle was just kind
of referencing maybe Italy, but you're saying Poland is the
is the joint?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
That's right? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (12:24):
And well it's cold and Poland man, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
I don't want to live in Poland's just so cold.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Yeah and yeah, I've never been in Poland. But it's
supposed to beautiful. Oh, I'm well, the women are gorgeous.
The guys are these big, you know, strong dudes. Just
by I mean, I think there's a lot great I'm
sure about Poland, but I'm just saying the weather, it's
like Canada.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
It's Chili, Is that right? I think so.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I don't know anything about it, but but.
Speaker 7 (12:51):
I anyway, so people are moving there, your friends, your
high end friends.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
And I and I sort of you know, I didn't
get down on him for or I, but you know,
I was like, why do you need a second passport?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
You know, I mean, what do you is it you
think the United States is going to financially collapse? Or
is it a Trump thing? Or you know, what's the
need for the second passport? Because I think you made it.
You know, you got a US passport and doesn't get
much better than that. What do they say in response, well,
(13:26):
let's see here. I there's eight people on this text chain. Okay, okay.
And then so I got this and I'm not going
to read any of the names, but it says here
looking for a second passport. I know a lot of
(13:46):
people are getting a passport other than the United States.
Might be down the road for us. And then another
one said, my cousin sent me this yesterday, and I'm
not sure Poland is the answer, but a lot of
people are getting Polish passports, and that it said Polish
(14:11):
citizenship is available to let me read this directly here,
Polish citizenship is available to direct descendants of Polish people
who are born after nine eighteen ninety nine. It's got
to be most of us, don't you think born after
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eighteen ninety nine, who didn't leave the country before nineteen eighteen.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I don't understand that. So if you're in Poland, so
you're a direct.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Descendant of Polish people who were born after nineteen after
eighteen ninety nine, that's everybody, and who didn't leave the
country before nineteen.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Eighteen, right, So that would be a lot of everybody.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Again, a lot of every because you have to be
one hundred and six years old, one hundred and seven
years old not to qualify for this.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
Yeah, maybe I didn't follow up, But it's open to
people who's descendants, the descendants right right, who you would
have had to have been in Poland past that deadline
in the twenties.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Yeah, nineteen eighteen.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Oh, in nineteen eighteen. Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Yeah, so I don't know. That's World War world that's
what makes it interesting. So they want somebody who's been
there through World War One and World War two?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Right?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
And then I responded this way and it well, won't
come back. I'll tell you how I respond Oh, okay, good,
And it was controversial.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
I sew even more interesting.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I responded like, all right, I'll read it. All right, wait,
come back. I'll tell you how I responded to my
buddy's getting second passports. And I don't want to get
second passports because I would never go to visit them
in another country and I would miss them, sure, And
I'd like them to stay in this county.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Oh that's sweet.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yeah, that's the truth. That's the truth.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah, I would I would not go to Poland to
visit them.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah, you want them to stay here that's right.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
I barely visit them now they're on the West side. Oh, am,
I gonna pull it.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Well, maybe that's what they're going to say back to you,
like you barely visit us. Now what do you go?
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Yeah, one of them is in Santa Monica. I've seen
maybe twice.
Speaker 12 (16:16):
Yeah, you're listening to Tim conwayjun you're on demand from KFI.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Am six forty buddies of mine are looking for second passports.
And then I got a text. One of my buddies
was listening and he said, you idiot, we're not leaving
the country. It's just easier to travel with a Poland
passport than is an American passport.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Now why is that easier?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Well, because in some countries you can get your ass
kicked or killed when you when they find out.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
You're an American. I see yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
And you go into certain countries and they see an
American passport, you can also get robbed, you know, you know,
not that they're rob it, not robbing everybody else but Americans.
There's a lot of people in this world that hate Americans,
and when you have American passport, they look down on you.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Oh interesting, Yeah, sad, sad.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
So I didn't understand that that's the reason they were
getting them. So I wrote back, as a few of
my friends are wanting to get second passports, and I
thought they were leaving the country. It's just no, it's
just easier to travel with a Polish passport than is
an American passport. So I didn't get it because I'm
not that bright, So I wrote back to them. Look,
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every single year, there are hundreds of women walking two
to three thousand miles through Hellish countries carrying their newborn
no cash. Many of them don't speak English fluently and
dream of a US passport, and they know one day
in the distance future, if they're really lucky and they
(17:56):
get one, they break down crying that because they're one
of us. Guys, you're born in this country, you won
the lottery. That's beautiful as far as well as far
as you know, I still think this is the greatest
country in the world. And I get a lot of
crap for that too, you know, I get a lot
of people, uh say, oh, you know, this country is
(18:18):
not that great. It sucks and it you know, and
it's not.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I don't fish out of those ponds. Yeah, I like
to look at. This country is great. Yeah, every country
has its problems. There are some really crappy countries out there,
and and I think this country for the most part,
you know, there's there were what two point four million
people tried to get here last year. I didn't see
(18:43):
two point four million people trying to get into you know,
Japan or China or Vietnam or you know, Brazil. They
everybody wants to come here. This is where the party
is in the world. The world Party is happening in
this country.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Yeah, it is. I mean the idea.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
I think one of the key aspects of America is
a sense of equality, sense of justice. I don't think
you get that in a lot of in some of
the countries that I think You're right that border, I mean,
particularly Mexico and Latin America, it's harder to come by.
And so you see that progression that you're talking about,
that migration into our southern border.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
You're right, yeah, and you can you know, you can
really go from nothing to everything in this country in
one generation.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Sure, sure, And I'm sure there are people.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Lima Harri is a great example, right, right, Yeah, that's
exactly right. She was a breath away from being president
of the United States. Well, not breath, but you know,
votes right away from that.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
Well, I mean if if if what's his name, Joe
Biden had stopped with the breath, she would have been president.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
She probably would have been. I mean, she would have
at least been from if.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
He went in, if he went in and said I'm
only I'm only going one one term four years, there
would have been primaries.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Oh that's a different question. Sure, then you would have
maybe you end up with a different candidate.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Right, but then, but that candidate probably could have won.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
It certainly would have been more battle tested if that.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Or if Joe Biden had bailed out eighteen months before
the election instead of one hundred days. Yeah, anyway, that's
old news by now.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
Yeah, But to your point about it, and that's a
lovely text that you sent, lovely patriotic.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Text that you sent.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
It was I don't know it was.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
That Polish thing. I didn't know anything about that. I
didn't even know what's what's entailed in trying to get
a Polish passport. You must have to pay some generally money, yeah,
money work thing, yeah money?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah, Well, look, wealthy people are you know that's why
these fires affected wealthy people in a way they've never
been affected before in their lives. Because wealthy people are
they if they have if they have a problem, they
throw money at it and it goes away. You know,
if they get a car crash, they throw money at
it goes away. If they're moving, they're not like me
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or you, where we go to U haul and we
get the cards, some of the boxes are cells and
put all that crap in ourselves. They get people to
come move them, and they go to a hotel while
they're being moved, and all their crap goes into the
new house and they move into the new house because
the problem is they don't want to deal with U
haul and the boxes and the moving and everything. They
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hire people to do that. You throw money at it.
You know, if you want to go to a Laker game,
if you want to go to Game seven Lakers Boston
and you don't have tickets, you throw money at it.
And you could sit almost anywhere at Staples Center or
what is it Qualcomm or Crypto dot com. You can
sit almost anywhere because you threw money at it. But
this is the first time that wealthy people, especially with
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the Pacific Palisades. They can't throw money at this problem
and go and it goes away, and it frustrates the
hell out of them. Yeah, I mean, I think you
make a good point.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
The fact is money, no matter how much you had,
couldn't mitigate the damage.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
And now the horror, I mean, what happened during that
one day.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Even you're right, these people have had, you know, ten
to fifteen million dollar homes on the beach or have
been reduced to nothing, and now they have to live
with friends or family or hotel or whatever. And and
it's driving them crazy that they, you know, they have
all that money in the bank and yet they can't
you know, in a in a with a you know,
a magic wand make their house reappear. And it's frustrating
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the hell out of a lot of them.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Yeah, And their future is very much in doubt. That
it's to say where they're going to set up, where
they're going to live again, and what's going to happen
to their old property.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
And and and again Altadena is the same way. There
was a sense of community in Altadena that we didn't
find out about until it burned down. You know, nobody
really knew what the community was unless you lived in
Altadena because it was very closed. It's a very closed
community where everyone knows each other. But if you don't
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live in Altadena, you wouldn't know that. Pacific Palisades the
same way. Everybody knew each other and they live beautiful
lives in these beautiful homes.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
And we sort of suspected that was going.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
On on and but we didn't really know until it's
gone how close all those families were. Sure, you know,
when in Altadena and Pacific Palisades have a lot in common,
not money wise, but community wise. That the community of
Altadena has been there for generations and everybody knew each other,
and everybody, you know, they family members, knew grandmother, grandparents
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of neighbors and great grandparents, and that tradition is priceless.
Same thing in Pacific Palisades. People knew each other for
a long long time. And now that's gone and you
don't have that in your life. It's depressing the hell
out of a lot of people.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Yeah, I think the psychological effects are profound.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
I think you're right.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I think you're right, and I don't think enough attentions
being paid to that, you know, that level of it.
Speaker 12 (23:46):
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Speaker 2 (23:52):
Rain is the big story, according to Mark Thompson, who's
with us.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yes, a lot of rain.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
Yeah, I guess it's not really the worst of it
comes in Thursday. Yeah, late Wednesday into Thursday morning, so
it'll be late Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Somebody on this show.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Got a speeding ticket, you know, Mark, without identifying who
it is, let me you know, I'd like to say
something you. I don't want to judge you, but I
would like to tell you something. Okay, okay, And I've
been told this in the past, and I believe it.
I'd like you to believe it as well.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
All right, the.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Laws in California were made for your protection.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Who told you that? Police? Yeah, so please try to
obey them. Yeah, you know, well how fast were you going?
Speaker 7 (24:37):
I will get to that, But I I hadn't first,
I'd like to say, if it pleased to court, I
hadn't received in any kind of ticket at all in years.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
It has been a long long time.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
And I mean, you know, fifteen years something like that,
and something happens after all that time. I think, you
you know, just maybe whatever I was driving back from
the desert, and it was night, and my pal was
in the car with me, and I'm talking to him,
and we're in that because he's there are two of us,
I can drive in that car full lane, and I'm
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all of a sudden, I'm lit up. And I'll tell you,
I don't know what they're driving now. I mean think
it was some kind of truck car hybrid thing. It
looked like like the Klingon Bird of Prey had like
settled in behind me, huge red lights and huge white
lights just blaring into my car.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
And there's a whole there's a whole strip on top
that lights up.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
I mean this strip of a was on the hood
of the hood of the car, now the hood the
grill of the car, like the grill area. But so
of course I looked out of this phenometer. I thought,
oh man, I am toast. So I pull off of
the off of the exit.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
After a does a part of you think to hit
the accelerator and go for it?
Speaker 7 (25:56):
Well, I look, I fled for about eight or nine minutes,
but then I realized, no, I'm super cooperative, of course,
and I go over get off, And then I got.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Off on the exit, full over to the side.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
And the first thing that was weird is I rolled
down my window the driver's side, and he comes around.
I don't realize that he's over on the other side
of the car, the passenger side, which is so he's
there at the door, and I'm like, oh, oh my god,
I'm so sorry. I thought you were gonna come up
on this side. And he was like super nice, right,
he was HP and CHP. You cannot negotiate with what
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freeway were you on on the ten Officer Torres and
Officer Torres was like the nicest, but I'm super nice,
and I think you get that back.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
I understand not always. I'm not saying every cop.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
How nice you guys go into a Laker game.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
We asked We asked him to do a lot police officers,
and so sometimes they may not arrive, you know, in
the best mood. But I know I'm you know, I'm
a yes sir, no ser guy all the time.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I mean, no matter what, yes, ma'am, no ma'am. And
he buzzed no, no, no, I hadn't had a drink all
day or and so.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
He said he was really nice, but he asked for
the license and the registration. I gave it to him,
and when he came back, came back with that little
clipboard that you're going to sign, and you know that's
going to be uh. And so then I asked how
fast was I going? And he said, I got you
going eighty three in a sixty five.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
I thought the ten is like seventy maybe seventy.
Speaker 7 (27:27):
Yeah, and so I'm thinking, really, dude, that's not so bad.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
I ninety five ninety three.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I mean, you know, did you blame it on the car,
like all these things really take off?
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I thought of it, but I thought the cake is baked.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
Man, there's no sense talking, as I said, CHP usually
won't cut you any slack.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
How long did it take for to write the ticket?
Speaker 7 (27:48):
No time, I really hop thing took five minutes, really,
not even maybe it was.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Like he was so queck.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I know, what are your options? You got to pay
somebody to get a go to driving school.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
Well, he said, there's traffic school. It looks like you're
eligible for that. And I'm uh, and I said, okay,
thank you. You know I'm not going to go to
traffic school.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Now, are you hands on the wheel? When the cop
pulls you over.
Speaker 7 (28:09):
Uh not, maybe I'm conscious. I guess I should have been. Yeah,
I think I was. I'm pretty you know it looks
like a pretty low buckled up. Oh yeah, of course
I'm buckled up.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
The registration. I don't know where the registration and my
insurance is. I got to have to look for it
in the car.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
You seriously don't know where it is. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I think it's in the glove compartment, might be in
the middle console. I don't know, no, but I got
to I should know, so when I get pulled over,
I don't go through the glove compartment and then get tased.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
There's the.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
I don't think there's much threat of that, but there
is that moment though you're kind of and it has
to be done at the beginning where you're going to
serve up an excuse, an explanation question something, some kind
of interaction where you'll establish instantly that there is no
wiggle room or there is wiggle room, and this is
(28:59):
what's happened to me. Now the fight is out of me. Man,
I don't even look for that moment. It's just like, dude,
what I did say is I'm so sorry. You know,
the minute I saw your lights, I looked down. I
saw I was going too fast. I'm really sorry.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
I gotta pulled over on the two ten years ago
and maybe five or six years ago, and the cop
pulls me over. Highway patrol and he said, you're in
the diamond lane going seventy by yourself, and that's for
two or more people. And he said, if you tell
(29:34):
me honestly why you were doing that, i'll write your
warning and you can go about your day. And I thought, okay,
I'm gonna be honest with him. He asked me to
be honest with him. Sure, I'll be completely honest with him.
And I said to him, which now looking back on it,
probably was the wrong thing to say. I said, he,
(29:58):
I think he was looking for going to the hospital.
My wife's choking at home. You know, my house has
a car flew into it, and you know the cops
are at my house. There's a you know, a burglary
at my house. Something like that he was looking for,
I think. But when he said, just tell me honestly
(30:19):
why you were in this lane by yourself going seventy,
and I said, well, that lane has less cars, and
I was reading a text and I had less of
a chance of crashing. And you know what he said,
He walked away from the car, and he still gave
(30:41):
me a ticket. But he walked away from the car,
and it sounded exactly like this. After I said, well,
I'm I'm. I was driving that lank so I was
reading a text. There was less cars. I thought I
would less chance of getting an accident. And he went hmm, Jesus.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Christ, wow, and walked away.
Speaker 7 (31:00):
You got to walk away, Jesus Christ walked away and
I got a ticket for them.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Oh, he did give you a ticket, so no warning. Yeah,
you really were. You know, sometimes when people said.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
But he said honestly, he renigged.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
Yeah, no, I get it. But sometimes when people say honestly,
they're saying it with a wink. This is what I'm
very tough. It's tough for me to pick a line to.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
So I encountered this with parking. When I go into
a lot and there's no parking anywhere. I go into
a lot and they say where are you going that
you need the lot is dedicated to a certain business.
You need to answer with the certain business as a
price to honestly where you're going. Oh, I'm going across
the street to a restaurant. They have no parking over there,
(31:40):
so I'm over here. And I've had this happen recently
where the guy looks at me and he says, honestly,
where are you going? Because I need or he or
the honestly is implied. He says, sir, where are you going?
And I realize, oh, he wants me to give him
the right answer to cover his butt, right right. So
that's just like the cop when he says, honestly, he's
(32:01):
not expecting.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
You to go. Well, I was driving here.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
I was driving to that lane quickly because I've got
all this pot in the backseat, and I just to
you know, he's not expecting you to be that honest.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Well, then don't lie to me. Ye, But this happened
to me in Burbank. I was going to Denny's. I
couldn't find a spot at denny so I parked next
door and I'm walking away from the car and the
guy goes, sir, where are you going? And I said,
I'm having my vacuum cleaner repaired. And he said where.
I said, at Oric vacuum cleaning Repair. He goes Sir
(32:31):
Oric is a weight laws center. I'll move nice bluff,
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