The Tim Conway Jr Show Hour 1 (7.14)
Tim shares the story of an uncomfortable landing out of Hollywood Burbank Airport just as the airport's brand-new $1.3 billion terminal is nearing completion. Plus, California is leading a lawsuit to block the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros. mega merger, raising major questions about the future of the entertainment industry. The conversation also turns to Culver City's growing backlash over a controversial bike lane project and Newport Beach officials looking at new ways to prevent the unruly crowds and arrests that marred this year's Fourth of July celebrations.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k If I am six forty and you're listening
to The Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps.
If I am at sixty, it is The Conway Show,
ding Dog, Yes, sir, all right, a lot to cover here.
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We'll also follow the All Star Game for you, so
in case you're not watching it like a lot of people.
The National League is being no hit in the third inning.
So I don't know if that's ever happened in an
All Star Game. If if at one side or the
other pitch to no hitter, maybe, but it seems improbable.
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You know, you have on each team that the twenty
five best hitters in baseball, who would seem really sort
of odd. Plus, you don't get great pictures in the
All Star Game anymore. All the great pitchers say no,
they don't want to burn their arm out for no reason.
So winning the World Series is important to a player.
(01:05):
Winning the World Series is not I mean, I'm sorry,
winning the All Star Game is not. Winning the World
Series extremely important. You know, you can't really at the
end of your career unless you won the final game
of the season. You don't feel like it's up there
with the greats, like there are a couple of guys
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who are some of the greatest basketball players in the
history of the NBA who don't have a ring, And
I think that bothers them. And I think that that
they you know, obviously they wish they had one, but
it just never came together. You know. Charles Barkley is
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one of them who never got a ring. As great
as he was, he never got a ring and one
of the great basketball players of all time. And I
think he lives locally here. Reggie Miller didn't have doesn't
have a ring either. I think I'm pretty sure that's
that's correct. And and I think they they think that
there's a piece missing in their career. If you don't have, uh,
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you know, an NBA championship ring or in hockey Stanley Cup,
or a World Series or a Super Bowl. You know,
I think you have to win the last game of
the season. And the only way you get one of
those championships is you have to win the last game
of the season. You have to be on the winning
team of the last game of the season, and then
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you get a ring. And and if and if you
don't have one, I do think there's uh they consider
that to be something missing, something missing, all right, Burbank Airport.
There's not a lot going on. There's not a lot
of heavy traffics, not a lot of you know, heavy
heavy breaking news. I think we sort of, you know,
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news comes in a pattern, and I think we sort
of burned out on on the news with the World
Cup here, then you had the Boyle Heights building catch
on fire, and then before that you had the Garden
Grove building about to explode. And now the big story
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is Warner Brothers and Paramount Writers Guild is suing to
block the Paramount merger deal. And so we'll get into
that in a little bit. There are there's a little
development in Boile Heights. The warehouse was sighted for odors.
Not nothing new, nothing shocking there coming from the rotting food.
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And then there's one one person died too, missing after
a boat sinks near the near Alcatraz. So while those
are you know, somewhat major stories, they're not Boyle Heights level,
you know, where everybody in the city is choking to
death because of fire that lasted for eight days, eight days,
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and and so lighter news, lighter news, all right, Burbank Airport.
I flew to Burbank on Sunday coming back from Portland, Oregon,
and I was not happy with that landing. Man, I
know the speed coming into Burbank, and I know when
that plane's going too fast. I just sort of have
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that feeling. I've been flying in at airport for sixty years,
and I know when you're coming in too fast. I'm
one hundred percent sure that that plane was coming in
way too fast. And when it did come in, it
missed the first about twenty five percent of that runway.
And when you come into Burbank Airport, that's a very
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very short runway and you can't afford to miss much
of that runway. And so he slammed that plane down
and came to a halt at the end with I
don't know how much room to spare, but it didn't
seem like a lot. Didn't seem like much. And that's
the first time in my life that I nearly got
emotional over it. So I was sitting next to my daughter,
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and look, if I'm alone flying, I could care less.
You know, whatever happens that plane, you know, it goes
into the toilet, it goes into a mountain, it goes
into the ocean, I got no control over it, and
I don't worry. But when I'm with my daughter, I
sort of panic, you know, for her, because she's got
a big, huge, hopefully great life in front of her herself.
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But so the airport is under construction. They're going to
have a new terminal one point three billion dollars. It
is going to be the premier airport in Los Angeles
perhaps for I don't know, five, ten, fifteen years. I
know a buddy of mine in Burbank, a guy named
Sean Murphy, hates when I talk about the Burbank Airport.
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He wants to keep it our little secret and how
great it is. But it also raises the property value
in Burbank. When you have a state of the art, beautiful,
brand new airport within five minutes of your house, that's
a huge plus, especially if you do a lot of traveling.
You know, you're traveling businessman. I don't know if those
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still exist.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
So they're gonna they're doing. They're gonna do like they
do with Ontario, where the old terminals just not gonna
exist anymore.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
They'll they'll tear it down.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
They're just gonna move it completely.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I like that they're still having They're gonna still gonna
have you walk on the tarmac to the planes at Burbank.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah, that was one of the That was one of
the things that the residents wanted to, you know, to
keep that sort of little nostalgia to it.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah. I wish Ontario had done that. That would have been cool.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Yeah, I like that. I do like that. I like
going out of the runway. One of the reasons I
like going out of the runway is you get a
sense of how big and powerful those planes are you're
getting on.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, Yeah, it's something comforting sort of respect that you
get for what you're about to do.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
And and you can eyeball the guys putting the luggage
in so they're not half passing it right, you're next
to them, little head nod, Hey, yeah, you're standing here.
You're there. That's my bag, my bag. See those letters,
that's my letters. And then you also get a sense
of how powerful those jet engines are when when a
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plane comes in while you're standing out there boarding yours
and and I think it's comforting to get a sense
of how powerful and how beautiful and how you know,
all the redundancies on safety on these Boeing planes. You know,
to die in a plane crash is really really rare.
You have a much better chance of dying about a
million different ways. You know, you have a much chance
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but much higher, like astronomically higher chance of dying. If
you are elected President of the United States, then you
are flying in an airplane like beyond belief, hundreds of
times more if you're elected President of the United States
as opposed to just flying around. But anyway, Burbank Airport's
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gonna be done soon, and man, is that beautiful. If
you've ever been to Portland or sat on Portland or
San Jose, it's gonna have that sort of vibe to it,
sort of a new age vibe by really spectacular, and
it is going to be. It's going to also lure
a lot of people in to move to Burbank because
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you know, when we have a flight, you know, if
we were five seven minutes from the airport max and
so if I have a one o'clock flight, I'll sometimes
leave at twelve twelve fifteen if I'm not having if
I re luggage twelve fifteen and I get there and
plenty of time, I'm at the gate for ten to
fifteen minutes before boards, sometimes twenty minutes. Oh here's a
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This is a great example of how a Burbank airport
and how convenient is. I was flying last week to
Portland with my daughter and we're going through TSA and
I realized, I just have my license, but I don't
have the forever license or the what is that called
the where you have that mark on your license, the
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real I TA holog. I don't have a real ID.
I have a passport, but I forgot it at home.
So I jumped in a cab when home came back
and still had plenty of time to go through TSA
and set the gate and wait for the plane to leave.
That's how convenient this airport is. All right, let me
as I think we can do this here we got
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down about a minute here.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
A few months the Burbank Airport will reveal its new
one point three very lower terminal. The airport released a
couple of pictures showing the construction process progress. I should
say this was yesterday they showed these pictures. New terminal
will replace the two smaller concourses that have been used
for decades. This is the grand hall of the new
terminal that will feature fourteen food options, including a bar
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with a big picture window view of the runways and
Verdugo Mountains. The new terminal will be about fifty percent
larger than the current two terminals. The new design cuts
the distance from the terminal's entrance to the farthest gate
by more than three hundred feet. It also increases the
since between the terminal and you're runway to about eight
hundred and eighty feet, which brings it into compliance with
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FAA standards. The new terminal is set to open October October.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
What October thirteenth?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
And I filled, oh, how about that? She said, October
October fifth. That's my daughter's birthday, thirteenth night, and thirteenth
is mine. How odd is that that she goofed on
those numbers. And one's my daughter's birthday and one's mine.
And this is our own Burbank Airport Strange.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Strange is set to open October thirteenth. And I feel
like that happened quickly.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yeah right, yes, much work.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
We've been a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
We do things. That is right, brand new, big ass
beautiful Burbank Airport months away. So let's go Burbank Airport.
The only way to fly. What was that Western Airlines?
I think it was Western Airlines.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Here's an interesting story. I found this on a couple
of different websites. This one is from NBC Channel four
in La k NBC. The Writers Guild of America Tuesday
that's today, sued to block the proposed merger of Paramount
Sundance and Warner Brothers Warner Brothers Discovery on the grounds
that it violates federal anti trust law and would cause
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harm to writers. The guild's lawsuit, filed jointly by the
Writers Guild of America East and West in the Northern
District of California, alleges that Paramount sky Dance, pending one
hundred and ten billion dollar acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery,
would reduce opportunities, lower pay, and worsen working conditions for writers.
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The WGA suit comes a day after California and eleven
other states sued to block the proposed takeover. The WGA
Right Skilled in America argues that the elimination of key
competitors and the creation of a new dominant firm would
result in the reduction in the quality and quantity, probably
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quantity and variety of theatrical films and television series, as
the merged company would have a greater ability to reduce output. Furthermore, though,
the complaint asserts that the merger would increase the ability
for the few remaining companies, would increase the ability for
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the few remaining companies to to coordinate to further suppressed
competition for writers. Guilden goes on and on that, So
here's the deal. You got to be if you're in Hollywood,
you know you're a writer, producer, director, actor, I don't
know whatever is left, and and you are really pissed
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off about this merger, I would be very careful because
this merger, if it, if it does go through, and
if you're against it, you're gambling that you know that
you're going to win that fight, and you may not.
You might, you probably won't, you may not. And if
you are one of the big face, is one of
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the big names attached to that fight, you might find
it a little difficult to find work over at the
new Paramount Warner Brothers lot or lots. And I know,
I know what you're saying. Well, if you're not going
to stand up. Now, when are you going to stand up?
I get that, I totally get that. But if you're
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older and established and you've made your three hundred million
dollars knock yourself out, you should be the face of that.
You should be you should take one on the chin
for the rest of the writers. But if you're a young,
up and coming writer, you know, you've just sold one
or two projects, you're in your early twenties, maybe late twenties,
you're an up and coming director, writer, producer, actor, I
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wouldn't really, you know, get too heavy and too deep
into putting up stuff on social media with this, because
that the word goes around real quickly, and the studios,
not not just Warner Brothers and Paramount, but all of them,
you know, MGM, Fox, Disney, all of them they hate troublemakers,
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they hated and that word gets around very quickly that
you're going to be out there making waves and they're
not going to tell you directly why they didn't pick
up your script or why they didn't hire you as
a writer or director or producer whatever. But it's it's
sort of like the new black balling and the new
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blacklisting in Hollywood. So well, I think it's up to
you know, the premier top A list actors. You've got
to go out and do this. You can't let the
kids run around the lots and protest because they have
to have a future in show business so they can
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make money to support their family. If you have one
hundred million, you know, thirty forty fifty, one hundred million,
two undred million, five hundred million, and you've made it,
then you you owe the other people in the guild,
especially the writers Guild, because most of them are not
making Most of the people in the Writers Guild, I
bet are worth less than a million dollars. I would
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say that's probably true that most more than fifty percent
of the writers in the Writer's Guild are worth less
than a million dollars.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Oh my god, Yes, it's got to be. Yeah, I mean,
I think anything like that Entertainment Day is union stuff.
It's the percentages are not.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Crazy, it's really really low. But so it's up to
the you know, the George Kloones, the the Tom Hanks,
the ones who've made you know, a couple of three four,
five hundred million dollars. If you want to take that
fight on that's up to you, and I think maybe
you should, you know, to show the rest of Hollywood
that you got their back. But if you're a young
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up and coming writer, director, actor, don't do it. Don't
do it, you know, don't give into the pressure to
start posting crap on social media and going after these
studios because they all look at social media now before
they hire you, all of them. And if you're perceived
as a guy or a gal who is going to
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make waves by going to the union and going to
the press and outing you know, these these secrets that
fly around these these studio lots, they don't want that.
They don't want you. They want everything they want. They're
almost like cops. Like when a cop pulls you over,
they want one hundred percent order when they pull you over,
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not ninety not ninety five, not ninety eight, one hundred
percent order when they pull you over. Same thing with
these lots, these Hollywood lots and these studios. They want
one hundred percent order. They don't want mischief makers. They
don't want guys going to the union. They don't want
you know, busting their balls. They are not into it.
It's it's old school. It's like old uh, you know
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old school Hollywood, where you know, there are some pretty
radical secrets in Hollywood and they want to keep them there,
and so they don't want people, you know, going in
messing with their business. So it's just a word of advice.
I've been around for a while and I know how
I know some guys who work at these studios, and
I know that the quiet guys have long careers and
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that the really loud people touch and go. Some do,
some don't, most don't. But you know, keep keep your
eye on the quiet guy. That's that's set, that's that
is bs, and we gotta take a break. But I
always like telling this this George Carlin line. George Carlin
used to say he hated that line, keep your eye
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on the quiet guy, right, keep your eye on the
quiet guy, because he said, you walk into a bar
and there's two guys at the bar. One of them
is in a an Oxford sweater with penny loafers, sipping
on a iced tea and reading poetry to himself. The
other guy is shirtless and he's sweating, and he's got
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a sharp axe and he's pounding it against the bar, saying,
if I don't get a drink of the next minute,
I'm gonna kill someone. Who do you keep an eye on?
Keep your eye on the quiet guy. Sometimes that's you
know that sometimes that works, you know, like all these
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kids that shoot up these schools are always the quiet ones.
But in that case, it's to keep your ryding the
guy with the with the act. Anyway, just a word
of advice. You know, I know that you hate this merger,
that you hate the parties involved, you hate the Trump
you know connection to it. But be careful. You know,
you've got a family to support. And as much as
you want to get out there and be loud and
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do the right thing, you've got to think about your
family as well.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Culver City's been in the news lately. They don't want
the in and out there and in and out is
trying to fight that. There's a lot of customers, a
lot of people live in Culver City who enjoy those burgers, fries, milkshakes,
open late. They love in and out and Culver City
has a stick up there took us over that, so
they're fighting that, and that's the residence some residents are
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fighting that, but there are more than some residents fighting
a new proposal for a bike lane in Culver City.
Culver City is is a pretty bike friendly place. You know.
You've got Venice, that's another proposed bike lane they're going
to have there, but it's not Venice is so wide
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that it's not going to bother a lot of people there.
And then you have the Bologna Creek that's not gonna
bother anybody because there's no cars there, just runs like
along the La River like we do in the San
Fernando Valley, and then it only gets wiped out when
it rains, and then you float out to Long Beach.
But there there's gonna be There's a proposal that everybody,
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or a lot of people in Culver City can't stand,
and they want this thing overturned. And it's on Overland.
And when I read this last night, I thought, I
thought they meant Overlin at the at the ten Freeway,
and I thought, well, that's dumb, because you have to
have an electric bike to get up that hill. There's
an awfully steep hill when you're going northbound on Overlin
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up towards the ten Freeway. But I was mistaken. It's not.
It's much further south. It's from over Boulevard to the
Bologna Creek bike Path and it runs right along the
road there. And one of the reasons they don't want
it there they don't want the bike path there is
because you do have a lot of businesses and you
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also have I believe the plunges there. I have to
look up where the plunge is, but I think it's
it would be involved here. Let me look at a map. Yes, yeah,
the Plunge, which is their big public pool, Culver City's
public pool. I think it's a public A city pool
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is there called the Plunge, and it's operated by the city,
Culver City Parks, Recreation, Community Services Development and it opened
back way back, way, way way back in nineteen forty
nine and they have swim lessons, adult exercise, lap swimming,
recreational swim. They got the whole deal there, and they're
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going to eliminate a lot of parking spots for this
bike path. And the people in Culver City, they're not
opposed to a bike path going in the area, they
just don't want it on overland because of all the
spots that they'll be losing parking spots. So there's a
fight in city hall over this bike path.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Please support bicycle safety, but not at the expense of accessibility.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
Culver City neighbors put on a dramatic show at Monday's
city council meeting.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Okay, now see this fight is this is an odd
time for Culver City because the people fighting the bike
path are are longtime residents and people that go to
the pool and people use you know, the businesses there
and business owners there. And that's a different group that
are fighting the in and out burger. So there's two
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separate groups of people there fighting city hall. One of
them don't want the bike path. That's one group, and
the other one doesn't want in and out and that's
an entirely different group. There might be some crossover there,
but not much.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
These signatures demonstrate that this pro project does not have
the broad support from the community.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
The group Save Overland rolled out a scroll of signatures
from neighbors demanding cancel put a palls on this.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
And one of the reasons why they don't want that
bike path on Culver between I'm sorry, on an overland
between Culver and then south to blowna Creek is. There's
also a lot of homes and apartment buildings there. And
when you are an apartment building, you know this. You
can't have anybody over ever if you have an apartment
in LA because there's nowhere to park, you know, you
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have a party of twenty people over your apartment, half
of them marking the show because they can't find you parking,
or they park like three miles away, and they sort of,
you know, blame that on you, and you feel the
sting of that. You know, they're like, oh, we got
to get out of here. We park near lax And
and so there's a lot of reasons why they don't
want this bike path.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
A two point five mile bicycle pedestrian sidewalk traffic project
along Overland Avenue going south toward Fox Hills.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Overland is a major thoroughfare.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
That's right, she's right. She's not lying this woman. When
I used to drive limousine Overlin every day when I
was on the West Side, I used Overland a lot,
and then when I worked at at MGM, I used it.
I used it when I worked over at in Beverly Hills,
when I worked for Paul Mazerski, I use Overlin a lot,
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especially if you're an uber driver, taxi driver, or limo driver.
That's the next great parallel to the four h five
when that's jam. So she's right, she's right.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Overland is a major thoroughfare.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
That's right.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
And they're going to be taking away all of the
parking on the left hand side at the west side
of the street, which means that's going to be in
front of the plot stauditorium, that'll be in front of
the plant.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Those are used. Those parking spots are we used all
of the time.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
The city says impacted parking spots will be reallocated to
a connecting street less than a one minute walk away.
But the group doesn't buy that and has been protesting
the project at every council meeting since the start of
the new year. Around the same time, the first phase
of the one point two million dollar construction project was
approved by council.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
We're serious, We're not going away.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
In response, the city says it has conducted extensive community
outreach and input on the Better Overland project beginning back
in twenty twenty four. We appreciate the ongoing in.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I like how they called that they called the Better
Overland project, So it's harder to fight that harder to
show up for that. We don't want it better. We
don't want better Overland. Oh no, what we do, but bro,
and I'm out of here, going to the plunge.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
We appreciate actium that any political anything that's politically named,
whatever is named, just expected to do the exact colo.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
That's exactly right. Yeah, the lower tax propositions are always
a higher tax.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Appreciate the ongoing engagement, and continue to listen to our
community's thoughts. That includes neighbors who support the project.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah, you know what, Culver City, the loud person wins
on that one. So keep showing up at those La
City meetings and loud. You got to be loud. The
one thing you got going for yourself is that all
the people who work in La City Council, all the
city council members, they're all your neighbors, and your neighbors
don't want you to hate them, so you have some
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sway there, So keep up the fight if you know. Look,
I could care less about this, but I know you
people live in Culver City care and you got to
be loud. You got to be loud and you got
to be consistent, you know, you got to show up
at these meetings, because we've did that. We've done that
in Burbank where you showed up about a cell tower
that was going to go up right across the street
from a church in the school, and we got one
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of these big, you know, cell companies to change their
mind and not put that cell tower up, which I
thought was great idea at the time. You know, we won,
and now I can can't get any cell service anywhere
around my house. So in the long term, I lost.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
We'll keep an eye. I'll keep an eye on the
All Star Game, so you don't have to. You know,
it's not what it used to be back in the seventies.
I remember I used to watch it religiously and then
I think it was nineteen seventy three or seventy four
came to Dodger Stadium, maybe seventy five, seventy six. I'd
have to look that up. And unfortunately I was in Cleveland, Ohio,
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visiting my grandparents while the World Series was a Dodger
Stadium in the seventies and I don't know what year
that was. I think I'm trying. I think it was
seventy four. So I remember watching it on TV and
that's when they revealed the big Mitsubishi JumboTron. They revealed
it for that game, and I couldn't wait to get
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back to Los Angelus in September after visiting my grandparents
to go see that. It was the premiere big screen
in the world at that time. You know, now it's
you know, it's nothing to write home about. There are
hundreds of them that are bigger, but it was the
premiere big screen. Nobody had that before Dodger Stadium. Nobody
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had one that big and that powerful and that clear,
and that was revealed at that All Star Game and
that was a big deal. Or perhaps it was revealed
that season. Maybe the first time I saw it was
at the All Star Game because I was in Cleveland,
Ohio visiting my grandparents. All Right, we talked yesterday about
the Newport Beach Crew, the four hundred teens that got
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arrested on July fourth for breaking in, not breaking in,
but walking into pavilions and fing that store up. And
I try to tell, you know, I try to help
teens as much as I can on the air, you know,
because I was an idiot when I was younger, and
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you know, you're just dumb. You know, you don't know
what's going on. You feel like you're invincible. You feel
like you're canna live forever, and you can withstand being arrested,
and you could have. Back in the seventies when I
grew up, you get arrested, nobody would know it. You know,
your family would know it. Some of your friends, if
you told them, they would know it. But now it's
on websites, it's on social media, it's on the news,
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it's everywhere. You would have a very tough time missing it.
You know, if one of your friends was arrested. There's
a lot of different ways that gets around. So you
got to be careful out there. Teens. Got to be careful.
Can't have an arrest record, not good for your future.
So Newport Beach cops are talking about what measures to
put in place to prevent this from happening again. Because
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the people live in Newport, they're called one offs. They'll
give the cops one of these and say, hey, you
know got away from you this time. But that's it.
There's no second time. And the Newport Beach cops they're
amongst the finest in the world, and they are going
to have meetings and conferences and cameras and more guys
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and and and more, you know, help from surrounding precincts
and police departments. They're on it. There's meetings all day long,
I'll bet still, and this happened on July fourth, they're
still talking about how to prevent this in the future,
because this is not going to happen again in Newport.
Speaker 8 (30:34):
What you see behind me is just the overflow seating
as hundreds of people have shown up to this meeting.
So far, we have heard presentations from the city manager,
police and fighting.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
The heats on. The heats on from wealthy people, the richies.
They don't want this happening again, so they showed.
Speaker 8 (30:49):
Up, police and fire departments talking about their response. And
now we are hearing from members of the public giving
their input with hopes of preventing something like this from
happening again.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
We go.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
I do believe that government is a partnership, which is.
Speaker 8 (31:03):
Why Newport Beach City Council member Robin Grant says they
decided to host this public study session talking about the
chaos that ensued on the fourth of July.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
We cannot accept or tolerate any kind of damage or
intimidation in our community.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
The city says, more than four hundred.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Twenty By the way, that woman's opinion is shared by
one hundred percent of the people who live in Newport Beach.
One hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Us that ensued on the fourth of July.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Here's what one hundred percent of the people in Newport
Beach think.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
We cannot accept or tolerate any kind of damage or
intimidation in our community.
Speaker 8 (31:37):
The city says more than four hundred twenty thousand people
visited Newport Beach over the fourth of July weekend, and
expanded enforcement measures and enhanced staffing were in place. But
on the holiday itself, after social media allegedly drew in
a large influx of juveniles and young adults, the crowds
grew out of control.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Here we go.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
Four works and projectile were launched at police officers and bystanders.
Roads were blocked, businesses had to shut down as police
activated a mutual aid.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Plan to restore order.
Speaker 8 (32:11):
Preliminary data shows from July third to the morning of
July fifth, Newport Beach Police made four hundred thirty nine arrests.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Is that right, God Almighty, they stepped you quick and
Newport huh.
Speaker 8 (32:23):
Preliminary data shows from July third to the morning of
July fifth, Newport Beach Police made four hundred thirty nine arrests.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Thirty nine arrests. Wow, all right, we'll finish up. We
got to take a small break. We'll finish this up
when we come back. Don't do it, kids, Newport Beach
ain't your friend with this kind of crap. They are
not going to tolerate. This is KFI. This has been
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ding Dog, Yes, sir, all right, a lot to cover here.
(00:22):
We'll also follow the All Star Game for you, so
in case you're not watching it like a lot of people.
The National League is being no hit in the third inning.
So I don't know if that's ever happened in an
All Star Game. If if at one side or the
other pitch to no hitter, maybe, but it seems improbable.
(00:45):
You know, you have on each team that the twenty
five best hitters in baseball, who would seem really sort
of odd. Plus, you don't get great pictures in the
All Star Game anymore. All the great pitchers say no,
they don't want to burn their arm out for no reason.
So winning the World Series is important to a player.
(01:05):
Winning the World Series is not I mean, I'm sorry,
winning the All Star Game is not. Winning the World
Series extremely important. You know, you can't really at the
end of your career unless you won the final game
of the season. You don't feel like it's up there
with the greats, like there are a couple of guys
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who are some of the greatest basketball players in the
history of the NBA who don't have a ring, And
I think that bothers them. And I think that that
they you know, obviously they wish they had one, but
it just never came together. You know. Charles Barkley is
(01:49):
one of them who never got a ring. As great
as he was, he never got a ring and one
of the great basketball players of all time. And I
think he lives locally here. Reggie Miller didn't have doesn't
have a ring either. I think I'm pretty sure that's
that's correct. And and I think they they think that
there's a piece missing in their career. If you don't have, uh,
(02:11):
you know, an NBA championship ring or in hockey Stanley Cup,
or a World Series or a Super Bowl. You know,
I think you have to win the last game of
the season. And the only way you get one of
those championships is you have to win the last game
of the season. You have to be on the winning
team of the last game of the season, and then
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you get a ring. And and if and if you
don't have one, I do think there's uh they consider
that to be something missing, something missing, all right, Burbank Airport.
There's not a lot going on. There's not a lot
of heavy traffics, not a lot of you know, heavy
heavy breaking news. I think we sort of, you know,
(02:53):
news comes in a pattern, and I think we sort
of burned out on on the news with the World
Cup here, then you had the Boyle Heights building catch
on fire, and then before that you had the Garden
Grove building about to explode. And now the big story
(03:15):
is Warner Brothers and Paramount Writers Guild is suing to
block the Paramount merger deal. And so we'll get into
that in a little bit. There are there's a little
development in Boile Heights. The warehouse was sighted for odors.
Not nothing new, nothing shocking there coming from the rotting food.
(03:36):
And then there's one one person died too, missing after
a boat sinks near the near Alcatraz. So while those
are you know, somewhat major stories, they're not Boyle Heights level,
you know, where everybody in the city is choking to
death because of fire that lasted for eight days, eight days,
(03:59):
and and so lighter news, lighter news, all right, Burbank Airport.
I flew to Burbank on Sunday coming back from Portland, Oregon,
and I was not happy with that landing. Man, I
know the speed coming into Burbank, and I know when
that plane's going too fast. I just sort of have
(04:19):
that feeling. I've been flying in at airport for sixty years,
and I know when you're coming in too fast. I'm
one hundred percent sure that that plane was coming in
way too fast. And when it did come in, it
missed the first about twenty five percent of that runway.
And when you come into Burbank Airport, that's a very
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very short runway and you can't afford to miss much
of that runway. And so he slammed that plane down
and came to a halt at the end with I
don't know how much room to spare, but it didn't
seem like a lot. Didn't seem like much. And that's
the first time in my life that I nearly got
emotional over it. So I was sitting next to my daughter,
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and look, if I'm alone flying, I could care less.
You know, whatever happens that plane, you know, it goes
into the toilet, it goes into a mountain, it goes
into the ocean, I got no control over it, and
I don't worry. But when I'm with my daughter, I
sort of panic, you know, for her, because she's got
a big, huge, hopefully great life in front of her herself.
(05:23):
But so the airport is under construction. They're going to
have a new terminal one point three billion dollars. It
is going to be the premier airport in Los Angeles
perhaps for I don't know, five, ten, fifteen years. I
know a buddy of mine in Burbank, a guy named
Sean Murphy, hates when I talk about the Burbank Airport.
(05:46):
He wants to keep it our little secret and how
great it is. But it also raises the property value
in Burbank. When you have a state of the art, beautiful,
brand new airport within five minutes of your house, that's
a huge plus, especially if you do a lot of traveling.
You know, you're traveling businessman. I don't know if those
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still exist.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
So they're gonna they're doing. They're gonna do like they
do with Ontario, where the old terminals just not gonna
exist anymore.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
They'll they'll tear it down.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
They're just gonna move it completely.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I like that they're still having They're gonna still gonna
have you walk on the tarmac to the planes at Burbank.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah, that was one of the That was one of
the things that the residents wanted to, you know, to
keep that sort of little nostalgia to it.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah. I wish Ontario had done that. That would have been cool.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Yeah, I like that. I do like that. I like
going out of the runway. One of the reasons I
like going out of the runway is you get a
sense of how big and powerful those planes are you're
getting on.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, Yeah, it's something comforting sort of respect that you
get for what you're about to do.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
And and you can eyeball the guys putting the luggage
in so they're not half passing it right, you're next
to them, little head nod, Hey, yeah, you're standing here.
You're there. That's my bag, my bag. See those letters,
that's my letters. And then you also get a sense
of how powerful those jet engines are when when a
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plane comes in while you're standing out there boarding yours
and and I think it's comforting to get a sense
of how powerful and how beautiful and how you know,
all the redundancies on safety on these Boeing planes. You know,
to die in a plane crash is really really rare.
You have a much better chance of dying about a
million different ways. You know, you have a much chance
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but much higher, like astronomically higher chance of dying. If
you are elected President of the United States, then you
are flying in an airplane like beyond belief, hundreds of
times more if you're elected President of the United States
as opposed to just flying around. But anyway, Burbank Airport's
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gonna be done soon, and man, is that beautiful. If
you've ever been to Portland or sat on Portland or
San Jose, it's gonna have that sort of vibe to it,
sort of a new age vibe by really spectacular, and
it is going to be. It's going to also lure
a lot of people in to move to Burbank because
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you know, when we have a flight, you know, if
we were five seven minutes from the airport max and
so if I have a one o'clock flight, I'll sometimes
leave at twelve twelve fifteen if I'm not having if
I re luggage twelve fifteen and I get there and
plenty of time, I'm at the gate for ten to
fifteen minutes before boards, sometimes twenty minutes. Oh here's a
(08:35):
This is a great example of how a Burbank airport
and how convenient is. I was flying last week to
Portland with my daughter and we're going through TSA and
I realized, I just have my license, but I don't
have the forever license or the what is that called
the where you have that mark on your license, the
(08:59):
real I TA holog. I don't have a real ID.
I have a passport, but I forgot it at home.
So I jumped in a cab when home came back
and still had plenty of time to go through TSA
and set the gate and wait for the plane to leave.
That's how convenient this airport is. All right, let me
as I think we can do this here we got
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down about a minute here.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
A few months the Burbank Airport will reveal its new
one point three very lower terminal. The airport released a
couple of pictures showing the construction process progress. I should
say this was yesterday they showed these pictures. New terminal
will replace the two smaller concourses that have been used
for decades. This is the grand hall of the new
terminal that will feature fourteen food options, including a bar
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with a big picture window view of the runways and
Verdugo Mountains. The new terminal will be about fifty percent
larger than the current two terminals. The new design cuts
the distance from the terminal's entrance to the farthest gate
by more than three hundred feet. It also increases the
since between the terminal and you're runway to about eight
hundred and eighty feet, which brings it into compliance with
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FAA standards. The new terminal is set to open October October.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
What October thirteenth?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
And I filled, oh, how about that? She said, October
October fifth. That's my daughter's birthday, thirteenth night, and thirteenth
is mine. How odd is that that she goofed on
those numbers. And one's my daughter's birthday and one's mine.
And this is our own Burbank Airport Strange.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Strange is set to open October thirteenth. And I feel
like that happened quickly.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yeah right, yes, much work.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
We've been a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
We do things. That is right, brand new, big ass
beautiful Burbank Airport months away. So let's go Burbank Airport.
The only way to fly. What was that Western Airlines?
I think it was Western Airlines.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Here's an interesting story. I found this on a couple
of different websites. This one is from NBC Channel four
in La k NBC. The Writers Guild of America Tuesday
that's today, sued to block the proposed merger of Paramount
Sundance and Warner Brothers Warner Brothers Discovery on the grounds
that it violates federal anti trust law and would cause
(11:29):
harm to writers. The guild's lawsuit, filed jointly by the
Writers Guild of America East and West in the Northern
District of California, alleges that Paramount sky Dance, pending one
hundred and ten billion dollar acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery,
would reduce opportunities, lower pay, and worsen working conditions for writers.
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The WGA suit comes a day after California and eleven
other states sued to block the proposed takeover. The WGA
Right Skilled in America argues that the elimination of key
competitors and the creation of a new dominant firm would
result in the reduction in the quality and quantity, probably
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quantity and variety of theatrical films and television series, as
the merged company would have a greater ability to reduce output. Furthermore, though,
the complaint asserts that the merger would increase the ability
for the few remaining companies, would increase the ability for
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the few remaining companies to to coordinate to further suppressed
competition for writers. Guilden goes on and on that, So
here's the deal. You got to be if you're in Hollywood,
you know you're a writer, producer, director, actor, I don't
know whatever is left, and and you are really pissed
(12:57):
off about this merger, I would be very careful because
this merger, if it, if it does go through, and
if you're against it, you're gambling that you know that
you're going to win that fight, and you may not.
You might, you probably won't, you may not. And if
you are one of the big face, is one of
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the big names attached to that fight, you might find
it a little difficult to find work over at the
new Paramount Warner Brothers lot or lots. And I know,
I know what you're saying. Well, if you're not going
to stand up. Now, when are you going to stand up?
I get that, I totally get that. But if you're
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older and established and you've made your three hundred million
dollars knock yourself out, you should be the face of that.
You should be you should take one on the chin
for the rest of the writers. But if you're a young,
up and coming writer, you know, you've just sold one
or two projects, you're in your early twenties, maybe late twenties,
you're an up and coming director, writer, producer, actor, I
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wouldn't really, you know, get too heavy and too deep
into putting up stuff on social media with this, because
that the word goes around real quickly, and the studios,
not not just Warner Brothers and Paramount, but all of them,
you know, MGM, Fox, Disney, all of them they hate troublemakers,
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they hated and that word gets around very quickly that
you're going to be out there making waves and they're
not going to tell you directly why they didn't pick
up your script or why they didn't hire you as
a writer or director or producer whatever. But it's it's
sort of like the new black balling and the new
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blacklisting in Hollywood. So well, I think it's up to
you know, the premier top A list actors. You've got
to go out and do this. You can't let the
kids run around the lots and protest because they have
to have a future in show business so they can
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make money to support their family. If you have one
hundred million, you know, thirty forty fifty, one hundred million,
two undred million, five hundred million, and you've made it,
then you you owe the other people in the guild,
especially the writers Guild, because most of them are not
making Most of the people in the Writers Guild, I
bet are worth less than a million dollars. I would
(15:39):
say that's probably true that most more than fifty percent
of the writers in the Writer's Guild are worth less
than a million dollars.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Oh my god, Yes, it's got to be. Yeah, I mean,
I think anything like that Entertainment Day is union stuff.
It's the percentages are not.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Crazy, it's really really low. But so it's up to
the you know, the George Kloones, the the Tom Hanks,
the ones who've made you know, a couple of three four,
five hundred million dollars. If you want to take that
fight on that's up to you, and I think maybe
you should, you know, to show the rest of Hollywood
that you got their back. But if you're a young
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up and coming writer, director, actor, don't do it. Don't
do it, you know, don't give into the pressure to
start posting crap on social media and going after these
studios because they all look at social media now before
they hire you, all of them. And if you're perceived
as a guy or a gal who is going to
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make waves by going to the union and going to
the press and outing you know, these these secrets that
fly around these these studio lots, they don't want that.
They don't want you. They want everything they want. They're
almost like cops. Like when a cop pulls you over,
they want one hundred percent order when they pull you over,
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not ninety not ninety five, not ninety eight, one hundred
percent order when they pull you over. Same thing with
these lots, these Hollywood lots and these studios. They want
one hundred percent order. They don't want mischief makers. They
don't want guys going to the union. They don't want
you know, busting their balls. They are not into it.
It's it's old school. It's like old uh, you know
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old school Hollywood, where you know, there are some pretty
radical secrets in Hollywood and they want to keep them there,
and so they don't want people, you know, going in
messing with their business. So it's just a word of advice.
I've been around for a while and I know how
I know some guys who work at these studios, and
I know that the quiet guys have long careers and
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that the really loud people touch and go. Some do,
some don't, most don't. But you know, keep keep your
eye on the quiet guy. That's that's set, that's that
is bs, and we gotta take a break. But I
always like telling this this George Carlin line. George Carlin
used to say he hated that line, keep your eye
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on the quiet guy, right, keep your eye on the
quiet guy, because he said, you walk into a bar
and there's two guys at the bar. One of them
is in a an Oxford sweater with penny loafers, sipping
on a iced tea and reading poetry to himself. The
other guy is shirtless and he's sweating, and he's got
(18:32):
a sharp axe and he's pounding it against the bar, saying,
if I don't get a drink of the next minute,
I'm gonna kill someone. Who do you keep an eye on?
Keep your eye on the quiet guy. Sometimes that's you
know that sometimes that works, you know, like all these
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kids that shoot up these schools are always the quiet ones.
But in that case, it's to keep your ryding the
guy with the with the act. Anyway, just a word
of advice. You know, I know that you hate this merger,
that you hate the parties involved, you hate the Trump
you know connection to it. But be careful. You know,
you've got a family to support. And as much as
you want to get out there and be loud and
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do the right thing, you've got to think about your
family as well.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Culver City's been in the news lately. They don't want
the in and out there and in and out is
trying to fight that. There's a lot of customers, a
lot of people live in Culver City who enjoy those burgers, fries, milkshakes,
open late. They love in and out and Culver City
has a stick up there took us over that, so
they're fighting that, and that's the residence some residents are
(19:49):
fighting that, but there are more than some residents fighting
a new proposal for a bike lane in Culver City.
Culver City is is a pretty bike friendly place. You know.
You've got Venice, that's another proposed bike lane they're going
to have there, but it's not Venice is so wide
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that it's not going to bother a lot of people there.
And then you have the Bologna Creek that's not gonna
bother anybody because there's no cars there, just runs like
along the La River like we do in the San
Fernando Valley, and then it only gets wiped out when
it rains, and then you float out to Long Beach.
But there there's gonna be There's a proposal that everybody,
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or a lot of people in Culver City can't stand,
and they want this thing overturned. And it's on Overland.
And when I read this last night, I thought, I
thought they meant Overlin at the at the ten Freeway,
and I thought, well, that's dumb, because you have to
have an electric bike to get up that hill. There's
an awfully steep hill when you're going northbound on Overlin
(20:54):
up towards the ten Freeway. But I was mistaken. It's not.
It's much further south. It's from over Boulevard to the
Bologna Creek bike Path and it runs right along the
road there. And one of the reasons they don't want
it there they don't want the bike path there is
because you do have a lot of businesses and you
(21:19):
also have I believe the plunges there. I have to
look up where the plunge is, but I think it's
it would be involved here. Let me look at a map. Yes, yeah,
the Plunge, which is their big public pool, Culver City's
public pool. I think it's a public A city pool
(21:40):
is there called the Plunge, and it's operated by the city,
Culver City Parks, Recreation, Community Services Development and it opened
back way back, way, way way back in nineteen forty
nine and they have swim lessons, adult exercise, lap swimming,
recreational swim. They got the whole deal there, and they're
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going to eliminate a lot of parking spots for this
bike path. And the people in Culver City, they're not
opposed to a bike path going in the area, they
just don't want it on overland because of all the
spots that they'll be losing parking spots. So there's a
fight in city hall over this bike path.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Please support bicycle safety, but not at the expense of accessibility.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
Culver City neighbors put on a dramatic show at Monday's
city council meeting.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Okay, now see this fight is this is an odd
time for Culver City because the people fighting the bike
path are are longtime residents and people that go to
the pool and people use you know, the businesses there
and business owners there. And that's a different group that
are fighting the in and out burger. So there's two
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separate groups of people there fighting city hall. One of
them don't want the bike path. That's one group, and
the other one doesn't want in and out and that's
an entirely different group. There might be some crossover there,
but not much.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
These signatures demonstrate that this pro project does not have
the broad support from the community.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
The group Save Overland rolled out a scroll of signatures
from neighbors demanding cancel put a palls on this.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
And one of the reasons why they don't want that
bike path on Culver between I'm sorry, on an overland
between Culver and then south to blowna Creek is. There's
also a lot of homes and apartment buildings there. And
when you are an apartment building, you know this. You
can't have anybody over ever if you have an apartment
in LA because there's nowhere to park, you know, you
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have a party of twenty people over your apartment, half
of them marking the show because they can't find you parking,
or they park like three miles away, and they sort of,
you know, blame that on you, and you feel the
sting of that. You know, they're like, oh, we got
to get out of here. We park near lax And
and so there's a lot of reasons why they don't
want this bike path.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
A two point five mile bicycle pedestrian sidewalk traffic project
along Overland Avenue going south toward Fox Hills.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Overland is a major thoroughfare.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
That's right, she's right. She's not lying this woman. When
I used to drive limousine Overlin every day when I
was on the West Side, I used Overland a lot,
and then when I worked at at MGM, I used it.
I used it when I worked over at in Beverly Hills,
when I worked for Paul Mazerski, I use Overlin a lot,
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especially if you're an uber driver, taxi driver, or limo driver.
That's the next great parallel to the four h five
when that's jam. So she's right, she's right.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Overland is a major thoroughfare.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
That's right.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
And they're going to be taking away all of the
parking on the left hand side at the west side
of the street, which means that's going to be in
front of the plot stauditorium, that'll be in front of
the plant.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Those are used. Those parking spots are we used all
of the time.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
The city says impacted parking spots will be reallocated to
a connecting street less than a one minute walk away.
But the group doesn't buy that and has been protesting
the project at every council meeting since the start of
the new year. Around the same time, the first phase
of the one point two million dollar construction project was
approved by council.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
We're serious, We're not going away.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
In response, the city says it has conducted extensive community
outreach and input on the Better Overland project beginning back
in twenty twenty four. We appreciate the ongoing in.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I like how they called that they called the Better
Overland project, So it's harder to fight that harder to
show up for that. We don't want it better. We
don't want better Overland. Oh no, what we do, but bro,
and I'm out of here, going to the plunge.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
We appreciate actium that any political anything that's politically named,
whatever is named, just expected to do the exact colo.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
That's exactly right. Yeah, the lower tax propositions are always
a higher tax.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Appreciate the ongoing engagement, and continue to listen to our
community's thoughts. That includes neighbors who support the project.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah, you know what, Culver City, the loud person wins
on that one. So keep showing up at those La
City meetings and loud. You got to be loud. The
one thing you got going for yourself is that all
the people who work in La City Council, all the
city council members, they're all your neighbors, and your neighbors
don't want you to hate them, so you have some
(26:29):
sway there, So keep up the fight if you know. Look,
I could care less about this, but I know you
people live in Culver City care and you got to
be loud. You got to be loud and you got
to be consistent, you know, you got to show up
at these meetings, because we've did that. We've done that
in Burbank where you showed up about a cell tower
that was going to go up right across the street
from a church in the school, and we got one
(26:50):
of these big, you know, cell companies to change their
mind and not put that cell tower up, which I
thought was great idea at the time. You know, we won,
and now I can can't get any cell service anywhere
around my house. So in the long term, I lost.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
We'll keep an eye. I'll keep an eye on the
All Star Game, so you don't have to. You know,
it's not what it used to be back in the seventies.
I remember I used to watch it religiously and then
I think it was nineteen seventy three or seventy four
came to Dodger Stadium, maybe seventy five, seventy six. I'd
have to look that up. And unfortunately I was in Cleveland, Ohio,
(27:37):
visiting my grandparents while the World Series was a Dodger
Stadium in the seventies and I don't know what year
that was. I think I'm trying. I think it was
seventy four. So I remember watching it on TV and
that's when they revealed the big Mitsubishi JumboTron. They revealed
it for that game, and I couldn't wait to get
(27:59):
back to Los Angelus in September after visiting my grandparents
to go see that. It was the premiere big screen
in the world at that time. You know, now it's
you know, it's nothing to write home about. There are
hundreds of them that are bigger, but it was the
premiere big screen. Nobody had that before Dodger Stadium. Nobody
(28:20):
had one that big and that powerful and that clear,
and that was revealed at that All Star Game and
that was a big deal. Or perhaps it was revealed
that season. Maybe the first time I saw it was
at the All Star Game because I was in Cleveland,
Ohio visiting my grandparents. All Right, we talked yesterday about
the Newport Beach Crew, the four hundred teens that got
(28:44):
arrested on July fourth for breaking in, not breaking in,
but walking into pavilions and fing that store up. And
I try to tell, you know, I try to help
teens as much as I can on the air, you know,
because I was an idiot when I was younger, and
(29:05):
you know, you're just dumb. You know, you don't know
what's going on. You feel like you're invincible. You feel
like you're canna live forever, and you can withstand being arrested,
and you could have. Back in the seventies when I
grew up, you get arrested, nobody would know it. You know,
your family would know it. Some of your friends, if
you told them, they would know it. But now it's
on websites, it's on social media, it's on the news,
(29:29):
it's everywhere. You would have a very tough time missing it.
You know, if one of your friends was arrested. There's
a lot of different ways that gets around. So you
got to be careful out there. Teens. Got to be careful.
Can't have an arrest record, not good for your future.
So Newport Beach cops are talking about what measures to
put in place to prevent this from happening again. Because
(29:51):
the people live in Newport, they're called one offs. They'll
give the cops one of these and say, hey, you
know got away from you this time. But that's it.
There's no second time. And the Newport Beach cops they're
amongst the finest in the world, and they are going
to have meetings and conferences and cameras and more guys
(30:14):
and and and more, you know, help from surrounding precincts
and police departments. They're on it. There's meetings all day long,
I'll bet still, and this happened on July fourth, they're
still talking about how to prevent this in the future,
because this is not going to happen again in Newport.
Speaker 8 (30:34):
What you see behind me is just the overflow seating
as hundreds of people have shown up to this meeting.
So far, we have heard presentations from the city manager,
police and fighting.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
The heats on. The heats on from wealthy people, the richies.
They don't want this happening again, so they showed.
Speaker 8 (30:49):
Up, police and fire departments talking about their response. And
now we are hearing from members of the public giving
their input with hopes of preventing something like this from
happening again.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
We go.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
I do believe that government is a partnership, which is.
Speaker 8 (31:03):
Why Newport Beach City Council member Robin Grant says they
decided to host this public study session talking about the
chaos that ensued on the fourth of July.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
We cannot accept or tolerate any kind of damage or
intimidation in our community.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
The city says, more than four hundred.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Twenty By the way, that woman's opinion is shared by
one hundred percent of the people who live in Newport Beach.
One hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Us that ensued on the fourth of July.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Here's what one hundred percent of the people in Newport
Beach think.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
We cannot accept or tolerate any kind of damage or
intimidation in our community.
Speaker 8 (31:37):
The city says more than four hundred twenty thousand people
visited Newport Beach over the fourth of July weekend, and
expanded enforcement measures and enhanced staffing were in place. But
on the holiday itself, after social media allegedly drew in
a large influx of juveniles and young adults, the crowds
grew out of control.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Here we go.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
Four works and projectile were launched at police officers and bystanders.
Roads were blocked, businesses had to shut down as police
activated a mutual aid.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Plan to restore order.
Speaker 8 (32:11):
Preliminary data shows from July third to the morning of
July fifth, Newport Beach Police made four hundred thirty nine arrests.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Is that right, God Almighty, they stepped you quick and
Newport huh.
Speaker 8 (32:23):
Preliminary data shows from July third to the morning of
July fifth, Newport Beach Police made four hundred thirty nine arrests.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Thirty nine arrests. Wow, all right, we'll finish up. We
got to take a small break. We'll finish this up
when we come back. Don't do it, kids, Newport Beach
ain't your friend with this kind of crap. They are
not going to tolerate. This is KFI. This has been
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. There
is live Join us on KFI AM six forty weeknight
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