June 5, 2025 • 36 mins
Mark drops off his Tesla. Insurance companies are taking advantage of us BIG TIME! Rates are outrageous // Holding your cellphone while driving for navigation is illegal, California court rules. Turning his Tesla in // Trump vs. Elon Musk: is the Bromance over? // Neglected, abused and overbred: The dogs of L.A.’s Skid Row. Mark’s Price is Right Bob Barker story.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And it's the Conway Show. Everyone.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Mark Thompson sitting in for Tim on KFI AM six
forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Conway.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I was fully expecting would be at full strength, or
at least mostly full strength, and would be able to
make it in today, but he continues ill ailing. I
am I'm sorry to hear that he's gone for another day,
but I'm happy to be here with the crew. Got
the Conway Kids, Michael Krozer watching all news events, Steffusch
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on the board, our son.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Doing the sound design. Whoa, that's what they call it.
It's set. You do sound design, You're not just a
board op take it.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah, I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
That's what my daughter does.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
The Angel of Traffic, Angel Martinez, is that right?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yes, sounds no kidding for shows and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I want to double back on this and just to
mention that the gorgeous Sharing Bellio yeah producing this show.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
By the way, tomorrow is Angel Martinz's birthday and she
will be with us, So happy.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Birthday, Angel. That's awesome, angel. What do you have planned
for the birthday? Some evening activity after you get off
work type thing. What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Well, I won't be here tomorrow, so the.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Whole day it'll be wall to wall activity.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
That's right. That's why I won't be here.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Edible in the morning, and then you're buzzing all day?
Is that what your like? Singular?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Happy angel fest?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Everyone enjoy angel fast. I love the sound of it. Well,
happy birthday in advance. I just.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I just dropped off my Tesla. The leases up and
I dropped it off. It's kind of a scramble and
emotional thing they've got. They've got it down to a
pretty well oiled machine. You pull into a spot, you
give them your license number, you sign the thing, and
you're out of there. I was scrambling, though, and I
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got the call that Tim wasn't going to be here.
So what I did was I loaded into the car
sort of whatever you know, s another pair of sunglasses
or whatever you have. You know, those things you got
to take out of the car, you know. So I
put them all in a bag, and I had my
headphones because you always have your headphones. You're at the
registation that's one of the most surprising things about coming
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to KFI.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And I learned this.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I don't know when I came here the fifteen years ago,
whenever it was that I started, just you know, being
on the air here and there. The thing that you
learn is that you need to bring a headphones. You
need to bring your own headphones. And I don't care
how big a star you are, like if your Bill
Handle or John Callbelder, Tim Conway Junior, Everybody's got their
own her headphones. I mean Gary and Shannon, they bring
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their own headphones in the studio. And I had the
headphones there and of course you know what happened. I'm scrambling,
I grab my stuff, I run out. This is again
after I've dropped the car off. You drop it off
in North Hollywood is where there's big Tesla place is.
And my lovely other half drove me back in her car,
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and then I realized that I don't have the headphones.
Oh no, yeah, So the headphones will be the they're
in the new Tesla or the new lease for whomever
picks up the It's one of those things.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
We're new headphones. What are they?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Sharon, I would say, they're seventy dollars something in that area. Okay,
so you're going I don't know it's is it worth
calling going there trying to find the car again.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
They call you and say, hey, you left this in
the car.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I don't think that. Maybe something tells me. I mean,
if they were to do that, I'm I'm sure a
lot of people leave stuff in the car.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I think it's right, and so they should have a
system of letting those people know. Maybe that's true. Honestly,
I feel like it's.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Incumbent upon me to be able to survey the car.
But you're right, I mean, maybe they should just take
give it a once over. But they didn't even look
at the car. Because the way Tesla works is you
do your own checkout, So you do the wear and
tear on the tires, you do the wear and tear
on the car, you take all of these pictures. They
have a very interesting system. And in other leases I've had,
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they'll send somebody out like with the leasing company, and
he'll do or she'll do the evaluation of how much
wear and tear there's been in the car. But with Tesla,
you go and you have to be connected to the internet,
and you send them through their app pictures of the car,
the front, the side, closeups of the tires, close, et cetera.
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They evaluate it, and then on tire tread they ask
you to take a picture with the of course, I've
replaced the tires because it's la you're having to replace
your tires every two seconds because they're all kinds of
road hazards and you know, nails in the road and
construction going on. I mean, I feel like I know
my tire guys. You know, I see them more than
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I see relatives at Thanksgiving. So in any way, they
they have this thing where you send it all virtually,
so you're never really dealing with any person. And then,
of course what do they do. They send you back
something saying, oh, it looks like we're in tear in
your car. It's going to be another five hundred dollars
or whatever it is. It's actually mine was even more
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than that, and my car is pristine. I mean, I
don't understand how they see any So you have to,
you know, do it back and forth with them. The
guy even said, don't worry about it. You know this happens.
Just send them an email and it'll work out. But
in all of that, you never have a guy of
any sort. No one with Tesla actually comes out to
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your vehicle. You just so that's my point. Nobody else
is looking in the vehicle. Everything else is done. The
inspection that I just mentioned is done a few days ago.
I dropped the car off and so it's really incumbent
on me to grab everything out of the car. So
apparently I, in the scramble left the headphones. And my
point in mentioning at Sharon the seventy dollars is it's
right on. You know, may not be worth going there,
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and on the other hand, maybe it is.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
I think it is all right.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I'm glad to hear you say that.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
So I'll give you directions to the North Hollywood place
and if you wouldn't mind, yeah, I'll kick you back
twenty thirty.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Okay, I'll do it.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I'll do it.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I'm looking at another car, and you know, I'm focusing
on how much I'm paying in insurance. And I mentioned
this because I know all of you listening. This is
outrageous what these insurance companies are doing to us. It's terrible.
I mean, it really is awful. I'm not even talking
about homeowner's insurance. It's the inability to get it. Insurance
companies pulling out of California, insurance companies constantly getting the
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green light on rate increases. I'm not talking about any
of that. I'm just talking about auto insurance in California.
It's outrageous, absolutely outrageous. And now I'm I'm looking at
withering costs on insurance.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
And then I told you about the thing I had
the other day with that doctor. He's out of network.
I found that that's the reason it's so expensive. It's
incredibly expensive, thousands of dollars. So all of a sudden,
I'm glad Tim isn't here today. I need the money.
I need Tim to stay out day after day, conaway,
never come back.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I need this money.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Anyway, if you're if you're in the insurance game, if
you have a good insurance person, contact me the Mark
Thompson Show at gmail dot com. That's my email, Mark
Thompson Show at gmail dot com. I'm I'm shopping. Yeah,
I'm single and ready to mingle when it comes to insurance.
I'm telling you what. I'm dropping this guy I have
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like a bad habit. I'm gonna ghost him, I'm gonna
stuff him. Forget it, I'm out. I'm done. The thing
that is now illegal when you drive, it's something that
we all do, and if they see you doing it,
they are going to bust you.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I will tell you what that is next.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
The idea somehow that you would tell the cop who
stops you for texting while driving that you are just
looking at your nav. That no longer is an excuse
that you can use. I don't know really how effective
an excuse it was to begin with, but a state
appeals court ruling today or this week that the state
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law prohibiting drivers from texting or talking on a cell
phone while driving is also making it illegal to hold
a phone of any kind or device to look at
a map on that device's screen. The driver doesn't need
to be swiping or tapping, as had formerly been the case.
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Remember when texting first started. Yeah, back when I was
a kid, tapping a screen to send a text was
just starting.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
What if I have my map quest printed out in
the steering wheel? Can I look down at that? Would
that be okay?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
You can roadtest that literally see how that works. Yeah,
remember when map quest was the thing. Everybody map quested
it right now you know you you navi it or whatever.
No one literally map questing. It became like a verb,
a map questing. I'm map quested to Sharon's house, et cetera.
Now map quest, I don't know where they sit. Like
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everybody's got their own nav through Google. Apple's got one.
If you're on an Android, it's probably through Google. Two
people use ways. In other words, the map quest used
to be king of the hill. Now I think they're
somewhere lower down on the hill. But the driver doesn't
need to be swiping or tapping at the navigation app
to break the law is the rule. The court has
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ruled that just looking at the map on the screen
with the phone in hand can get you justifiably pulled
over to be ticketed. When legislators adopted this state law
prohibiting drivers from quote operating a cell phone while driving,
they did it to quote reduced distracted driving resulting from
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advancements in modern phones, and to encourage drivers to keep
their eyes on the road. This is, according to the
Court of Appeals, mounted phones and drivers operate those with
a single swipe are.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Exempted.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Now, why is that it's the same thing.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Isn't it much safer?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
It probably is much safer because you don't have one
hand engaged in holding the phone. Just to be fair,
so mount that phone. I feel like every four offerings
on Instagram are a phone mount that I should get.
Anybody on TikTok it always they're pitching different kinds of
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phone mounts.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
You know the foo she's an Uber driver and he
has four mounts.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
That's so studley, my god, try to stay safe. Hey baby,
I got four mounts in my car. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
A lot of Uber drivers only have the one or
maybe two. I've got four. Now, why would you have four?
Because the let me guess, one is for Uber that
is to contact you for a job, one is for lift.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Maybe do you drive for both? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Yeah, and then put the other two and then in
the back it's it's for the chargers.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I see.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah, that's pretty great, pretty great.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
So that distracting though, having all those screens.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Up, I would think, So, I mean, come on.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
And he's probably eating a burrito.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Well that's not covered, especially not covered in this legislative session. Yeah,
I would say that you get used to all the screens.
When I first got that Tesla and it's got that
big screen in the middle, and that was before everybody
now has a big screen in the middle, I thought, man,
that's too big a screen.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I don't want the big screen.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
But you kind of just begin to ignore it and
begin to not pay much attention to it. So I'm
sure that's what steffush. You have those four you know,
cell phones going four amounts going.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
It's it's funny because, yeah, I can easily navigate through
it really easily. And one time I had my dad
in the car was we were just going to like
get food or whatever, and he was like, how do
you go through that so fast?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I'm like, because they do this eight hours a day. Yeah,
it's not a big surprise. No, it's almost like selective perception.
You don't see it all anymore, you know what you're
supposed to keep an eye on. Yeah, anyway, they will
allow you with a single swipe to take care of
whatever you got to do on a mounted phone. They're
exempted from this recent court decision. But looking at a
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map while holding the phone, we'll violate the law allowing
a driver to hold a phone and view a mapping application,
even if not touching the phone screen, we'll be illegal. Apparently,
this dude was ticketed after looking at a mapping app
while holding his phone in his left hand and driving.
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He contested the ticket, lost his initial court appearance, was
ordered to pay one hundred and fifty eight dollars, and
then he appealed that decision and with the appellative vision
of the Santa Clara County Superior Court up in northern California,
the decision was reversed. The Superior Court said that quote,
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operating a cell phone required active use or manipulation of
the device. So they said, again it was a lengthy
court ruling, quote merely observing GPS directions on the phone
does not constitute the kind of active use or manipulation
to trigger an infraction. But the California Appeal for the
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sixth Depella District disagreed.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
They said.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
That the law as written and intended, means that looking
at and holding the phone while driving is a violation,
and that will be the law in California. So, I mean,
there have been all these court decisions, and it's interesting
how many people go to court and appeal this stuff
and based on the appeal and based in contesting the ticket.
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There's actually new law being written, so again through the courts,
through the Court of Appeal, and now the law amended,
modified and again if you're playing games on cell phones
browsing the internet, if you're holding the device, you're breaking
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the law.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
And does it Tesla have that like a Pong game
or something that you can play on the screen. Dude,
they have so much stuff on that Tesla. I have
no idea.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
You have a thing where you can while the car
is parked. It'll play music for you and there'll be
a whole light show, like if you wanted to, like
dance outside, I'm talking about all the lights on the
car will go back and forth, multi colored. Not kidding.
And I didn't like pay for that feature. That's just
part of it. That's border plate.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
So you turned in your TESTA. Are you getting another Tesla?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I'm not. I'm not getting another test streaking news. I'm
not well. I don't know. Just seems like a problematic
purchase at the moment. I don't know. To keep peace
in my house, I have to. I can't. I can't
get one. This goes he's on the streets too, man.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
He's on the streets exactly. Look there, you know, I'm
not looking to make a political statement every time I
pull up to a parking lot. You know. Uh, it's
just it's sad. But this is kind of the state
of the of the world at the moment. But it's
weird too. In southern California. We really know this. In
California car culture generally it is weird. How leave the
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politics out, Like when you go for a car, there's
some part of you. And this is true beyond California,
but I'm just saying California is sort of the classic
car culture where you know, a car's reflection of who
you are or what you like. Like, you know, somebody
pulls up in a hummer you have, you know, it's
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generally a dude getting out of there. Maybe he's a
you know what I mean. You make certain presumptions about
the person based on and to be fair to that
person in the hummer, they kind of feel like, yeah,
this is me, man, I'm a you know, I'm a guy.
I'm a hummer guy. I don't know, you get what
I mean, right. That's why so many of these brands
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do all the car advertising. They do, and they these
car ads are very important. How they show you the car,
how they I remember I was sitting with Sam Simon,
who was just one one of the greatest guys.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
A friend, are you want to pick that up? That
name you just dropped over there? Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
For those who don't know, he's one of the creators
of the Simpson co created the Simpsons.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Uh and uh.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Good friend of Tim's also is good friend of ours both.
And I'm watching We're watching football or something, and there's
an ad for the Ford. Is it called like the
Ford Escort or something or the Ford I forget what
it was, something like like that, and it was gorgeous,
add a silver car, and they had the car leaping
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over a train that was going There's like a locomotive
going through the center of the picture and the Ford
leaps over it. And I just like the way it looked,
you know, slow mow and all the rest. And I
turned to Sam and I said, I think I'm gonna
get that car. I like that car. And he turned
to me and he said, you know, it can't fly.
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That's just in the commercial. That's the point though. They
show you the car in slow motion flying on a
driver's track with that small print that says, you know,
this is a professional driver. Don't try this at home,
of course, completely supervised. But all I'm saying, Sharon is
that there's a lot wrapped up into a car purchase
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that there probably shouldn't be, but now there's even more
because it's all been politicized. So that's that whatever you're driving,
however you're driving, don't hold the phone and look at
the NAB. At the same time, speaking of politics, I
guess the bromance is over between Elon and the President.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
We will get into some of that next.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
We are seeing the undoing and boy, it is quick
of the Elon Musk Donald Trump bromance. I mean it
seems like just yesterday weren't they on the White House
lawn and Trump was pitching Tesla's. It's crazy. I mean,
how does the you know, how the mighty have fallen?
I mean, it was not that long ago. Trump gave
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Musk the keys to the Kingdom. He let Musk and
you know, a bunch of T shirt clad nineteen year
olds go into the Treasury Department and basically scrape all
the government computers of all his data, went into EPA
and USAID and dismantled everything and fired all those workers,
and you know, looked for a waste, fraud and abuse
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and all that.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Remember that was not long ago.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Now they are in such adversarial time on footing that
is so oppositional that Steve Bannon is suggesting that Trump
deport Elon Musk. Seriously, that just is the news of
the last hour. How did this happen?
Speaker 7 (20:16):
Not only did President Trump and Elon Musk have a
falling out, but a public feud between the two intensified
today and escalated to personal attacks. Both made multiple posts
to social media.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Take a look.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Billionaire Elon Musk posted this on X Time to drop
the really big bomb and allege that President Trump's name
is in the Epstein files, referring to the documents and
investigative files related to sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.
He said quote that is the real reason they have
not been made public. He followed that by saying, mark
this post, the truth will come out. The statements came
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after the President made post to truth social Trump suggested
that he may turn the federal government against Musk's companies,
Tesla and SpaceX. Trump posted, the e busiest way to
save money in our budget is to terminate Elon's governmental
subsidies and contracts.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I mean this, I'm also saying.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I say it only because one of the beneficiaries of
this Department of Government efficiency, the DOGE thing, one of
the big beneficiaries was Musk himself. I don't know how
much you were following the bouncing ball, but Musk and
his starling were finding ways to increase government contracts that
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they weren't necessarily already part of. There was existing legislation
and an existing contract to build out, for example, in
rural America, access to broadband.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
There are whole parts of this country that.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
You as you probably know that don't get broadband, like
here in California. You may not realize it, but there
are wide swaths of America that don't have broadband access.
So there's actually government moneies that is now their government
money is being set aside, and they are already in
the process of trying to build that broadband network out
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so that these rural areas can get it. So anyway,
cut to DOGE and the Trump Musk brotherhood when it
was good and Musk actually was able to shoehorn Starlink
in and the existing deal to build up broadband was scuttled.
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It was back Burnard in favor of Elon Musk and Starlink.
So that's just one example. There are a bunch of examples.
I mean it was he's made billions of dollars of
additional contract work just based on some of the work
he was doing with DOGE and the additional contract work
he's been able to get with his companies. Now, Trump,
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in his back and forth with Monk, this is just today,
is saying, Hey, you want to save money, Let's drop
all of these contracts that Elon Muskas with the US government.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
It's to terminate Elon's governmental subsidies and contracts. Trump also
said he asked mus to leave DOGE the White House
Department of Government Efficiency and wrote, quote, I took away
his ev mandate that forced everyone to buy electric cars
that nobody else wanted, and he just went crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Trump also wrote, I.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
Don't mind Elon turning against me, but he should have
done so months ago. This is one of the greatest
bills ever presented to Congress.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
The feud escalated after.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
Must slam Trump's signature bill of tax cuts and spending plans.
Mus has called trump so called Big Beautiful Bill a
disgusting abomination and warned it will increase the federal deficit.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
It does seem like there's a lot of daylight between
big beautiful bill and disgusting abomination. I don't see those
two being able to, you know, reach some kind of
rapproach mall. You know, some kind of understand zoo night,
Thank you. I've been looking for a way I could
work in the word rapproach mam for the last month.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
So he's your goal. I finally found it.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Must has called trump so called Big Beautiful Bill a
disgusting abomination and warned it will increase the federal deficit.
Trump said, Must, the CEO and founder of Tesla, developed
a problem with the bill because it rolls back tax
credits for electric vehicles.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
I'd rather have.
Speaker 8 (24:17):
Him criticized me than the bill, because the bill is incredible.
It's the biggest cut in the history of our country.
We've never cut. It's about one point six trillion in cuts.
And you know, Elon's upset because we took the ev
mandate and you know, which was a lot of money
for electric vehicles, and you know, they're having a hard
time the electric vehicles, and they want us to pay
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billions of dollars in subsidy. And you know, I elon
knew this from the beginning.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Musk fired back, saying Trump wouldn't have gotten elected without
his help. Must pumped a quarter of a billion dollars
into his twenty twenty four campaign.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
I don't know if it's true that that Trump wouldn't
have been elected without Must. I think Trump is a
generational political figure. This has nothing to do with politics,
whether you're left or right or whatever. I'm just talking
about the effectiveness of Trump as a communicator and how
he's been able to you know, He's won enough of
a coalition that it was just sufficient enough to get
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into the presidency. And I think he might have been
able to do that without the Musk money. But I
will say this, the Musk money made it a lot easier.
And it wasn't just the Musk money. It was the
use of a major social media platform, which is a
formerly Twitter x, you know, owned by Musk. So I
do feel as though Musk was a game changer that way.
He certainly got Trump out there to a lot more people.
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But again, I'm not so sure that he can take
full credit for Trump's victory.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
Shares of Tesla stock plunge more than fourteen percent Thursday
amid the dispute.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Putting like I will say this, he's got a real
problem Alow Musk with Tesla. I don't know if he
can build it back or you know, improve the rep
or what he's He's put a stink on that brand,
and that is really going to be a problem for him.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
We'll have to see.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
And I, on the other hand, think that Trump, with
tremendous political capital, I mean, really able to get a
lot of these legislator, senators and congress people to stay
within the lines that Trump lays down all of a
sudden in the Senate, which is already going to make
some modifications to this bill. Right the House passes this bill,
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there's all this stuff stuck in there, you know. You know,
there are provisions about the executive brand. There are provisions
about no regulation on AI. That was one of the
things that Marjorie Tedda Green said. I didn't know. I
didn't see it, I didn't read it. They're going to
be changes in the Senate side. But what this feud
has done is it's created again a little bit of
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a question mark around the bill that it wasn't there before.
If Musk and Trump had had solidarity on this, it
might have had politically a better chance. Now it might
still go through. I mean, Trump's such a strong political figure.
But I'm just saying that the the problem with this
feud legislatively now I'm leaving a side, whatever else happens,
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is that there is now maybe a question mark, and
Musk is sort of fanning those flames of questions around
that bill. So that's the last what man, The back
and forth is wild. I mean it is. You know Epstein,
He's in the Epstein files. I take credit. He wouldn't
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even be president if it weren't for me. Musk doesn't
know what he's doing. Bannon's saying that Trump should deport Musk.
To be continued.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
I was talking about insurance before and cars, and I said,
if you've got a good insurance plan, car insurance person
pushed my way, and I did get an email and
this guy read has been on the Conway Show before,
and he has some thoughts and I'm going to follow up.
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But the one thing that jumped out in his email
had nothing to do with insurance or driving.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
It was.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Something that is related to game shows. And I've only
met one other person at this radio station. Actually I
met her who falls into this category with game shows.
This guy Reid is a friend of the of the show.
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He's called the traffic Guy read Barry. He was a
Showcase Showdown winner on The Price Is Right, and he
wanted to win a car but ended up with a boat,
which I think is very funny. Chris Little's wife, Julie,
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I remember she was a double Showcase Showdown winner. She
won it all. They got cars and whatever. Yeah, trips
and ski dudes and whatever. Pretty crazy. I told you
that when I was breaking up with my girlfriend who
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was working down there at Television City. We were having
like the breakup conversation. And it's right outside the big
elephant doors at the Prices right, We're having this very
serious conversation. No one wasn't crying per se, but you know,
it's kind of the end of a relationship, sort of
a big deal. And as we're speaking, they are wheeling
all of that stuff past us. Literally a jacuzzi is
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being wheeled past us as we're talking about like there's
no real future in the relationship.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Such a great scene for a movie.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Oh it was. It was truly, You're right, it was.
It was something out of a fa out of a
rom com. And I remember two of those. Yeah, they
were ski dudes. I think they were literally wheeled fast
and then and this was the and I didn't comment
on it. I noted it, but we were in too
kind of heavy a conversation for me to comment on
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it to her. So at one point I see out
of the corner of my eye Bob Barker, he was
the host before Drew, of course, and he's walking past
us carrying his wardrobe. He's carrying his own wardrobe. And
that's when I stopped the conversation. I said, start did interrupt,
but you have to take this in. That is Bob Barker.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Was she able to pivot?
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah, she was. She got the moment. The moment was special,
you know what I mean, It was really pretty great.
It was really pretty great. So but anyway, read, thank
you for reaching out. I'll try to follow up on
some of what you've said, and I really appreciate your
help on the car insurance thing, and sorry you won
the boat and didn't win the car. There is, as
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you know, their concerns in the city on any number
of fronts about dire conditions faced by dogs in the
shelters out of the shelters, and there's a homelessness crisis
on skid Row and a lot of these skid Row
folk they have animals too, and as a result, you
begin to see how the cruelty and the abuse and
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the neglect spills over to that homeless community in the
form of how these dogs are treated.
Speaker 9 (31:33):
When do you get this dog?
Speaker 10 (31:35):
Victoria Parker has been coming to help dogs in need
on skid Row for eight years. In twenty twenty, she
co founded the nonprofit Starts with One Today to help
provide vital resources to people on pets living here. In
the last few years, she says, the animal abuse and
neglect has gotten worse.
Speaker 9 (31:51):
We've seen pitbulls covered under tarps in the sun, dogs
without access to food, water.
Speaker 10 (31:59):
Many of the animals are also being denied medical care,
like this sick dog left to suffer for months before
Victoria was able to convince her owner to let her
take her dog to the vet. Turns out her spleenhead ruptured,
her belly was full of fluid, and she had cancer.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
The eight year old didn't make it.
Speaker 11 (32:15):
You're letting them walk around hurting in pain.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
That's torture.
Speaker 10 (32:19):
Victoria's husband Jonathan, also volunteers with Starts with One Today,
attempting to help get basic supplies to pet owners.
Speaker 11 (32:26):
These people, they don't know how to treat dogs, They
don't know how to take care of them, and they
don't look for certain things that a normal person to
look for, because as you can see, as we live
in this is not normal.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I mean, I got to say these animal rescue volunteers are.
They're heroic in the work they do. I mean, do
you want to go down there to these homeless encambments.
You don't know what you're going to be getting. They've
got pit bulls, you don't know if the animals are aggressive,
you don't know what the situation is, you know what
the person's aggressive. And these volunteers go down there to
try to make a difference with these animals that are
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suffering horrible negle.
Speaker 10 (33:00):
Well, many dog owners appreciate the assistance. Victoria says many
who live on skid row won't accept their help.
Speaker 9 (33:06):
They just say, you know, don't bother. This is my dog.
He's fine, she's fine. I don't want to span a
neod on my dog because I need to get more puppies.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
I mean, that is that's the other part of this.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
You see just how God twisted that situation is, you know,
and now animals continue to be victimized and all of that,
you know, in the heat, beaten, abused, more pregnant dogs,
more puppies, and just the cycle continues. And by the way,
it's illegal, right, I mean, animal cruelty is a serious
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crime in Los Angeles and in California. But you have
to submit these cases to the DA's office. They've got
to be reviewed. There's got to be action.
Speaker 9 (33:50):
They want to sell their puppies, they want to make money.
Speaker 10 (33:53):
This pregnant dog will likely give birth on the street
without medical care. It's Okayboddy, And we saw this dog
tied up and twisted in rope, left unattended, but you
can't even move. Volunteers say dogs are being crammed in
tiny cages for days, tied up on the street without shade,
beaten and abused with the whole fensonal going on everywhere.
Speaker 9 (34:17):
A lot of their drugs are laced, so they test
them on their dogs before testing them on themselves.
Speaker 10 (34:23):
Animal advi coulds say they've called police, animal control and
the DA's office with very little response. Even after viral
videos on social media. They say there's still no enforcement.
Speaker 11 (34:34):
Have a vet on call for these people, you know,
if you allow them to sleep here, allow them to
get the proper treatment as well.
Speaker 10 (34:40):
The Los Angeles County District Attorneys.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
That wouldn't be such a bad idea, would it. You know,
there are vets who do pro bono work. You could
even they're even rescue organizations that have resources perhaps too. Again,
you can get together a go fund me the kind
of resources necessary to get of it down there to
try to make a difference of positive difference in looking
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at some of these animals.
Speaker 11 (35:05):
How of that on call for these people, you know,
if you allow them them to sleep here, allow them
to get the proper treatment as well.
Speaker 10 (35:12):
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office says animal cruelty
is a serious crime and their office will continue to
treat it as such. They release a statement saying, in part,
law enforcement agencies are the first to investigate these crimes.
A case must be presented to our office for legal
review and consideration before we connect.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 10 (35:31):
The nonprofit Starts with One Today is organized a rally
this weekend on Sunday at eleven am outside of the
LAPD Central Community Police Station. They say they want to
bring awareness to this issue and hopefully get the attention
of some city officials.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Well, you know that is the I got to give
them credit. The nonprofit that might make a difference on
this issue. They're called Starts with One. Starts with One Today.
Is that it Starts with One Today and again the
rally is at eleven am. You can check them out.
Starts with One Today in an effort to raise awareness
and to try to address the situation. It sucks for
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everybody homeless, the city and those sweet innocent creatures. Hey,
it's the Conway Show. Tim is under the weather for
yet another day. Thompson sitting in on KFI AM six forty.
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I was fully expecting would be at full strength, or
at least mostly full strength, and would be able to
make it in today, but he continues ill ailing. I
am I'm sorry to hear that he's gone for another day,
but I'm happy to be here with the crew. Got
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
Doing the sound design. Whoa, that's what they call it.
It's set. You do sound design, You're not just a
board op take it.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah, I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
That's what my daughter does.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
The Angel of Traffic, Angel Martinez, is that right?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yes, sounds no kidding for shows and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I want to double back on this and just to
mention that the gorgeous Sharing Bellio yeah producing this show.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
By the way, tomorrow is Angel Martinz's birthday and she
will be with us, So happy.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Birthday, Angel. That's awesome, angel. What do you have planned
for the birthday? Some evening activity after you get off
work type thing. What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Well, I won't be here tomorrow, so the.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Whole day it'll be wall to wall activity.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
That's right. That's why I won't be here.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Edible in the morning, and then you're buzzing all day?
Is that what your like? Singular?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Happy angel fest?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Everyone enjoy angel fast. I love the sound of it. Well,
happy birthday in advance. I just.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I just dropped off my Tesla. The leases up and
I dropped it off. It's kind of a scramble and
emotional thing they've got. They've got it down to a
pretty well oiled machine. You pull into a spot, you
give them your license number, you sign the thing, and
you're out of there. I was scrambling, though, and I
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got the call that Tim wasn't going to be here.
So what I did was I loaded into the car
sort of whatever you know, s another pair of sunglasses
or whatever you have. You know, those things you got
to take out of the car, you know. So I
put them all in a bag, and I had my
headphones because you always have your headphones. You're at the
registation that's one of the most surprising things about coming
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to KFI.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And I learned this.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I don't know when I came here the fifteen years ago,
whenever it was that I started, just you know, being
on the air here and there. The thing that you
learn is that you need to bring a headphones. You
need to bring your own headphones. And I don't care
how big a star you are, like if your Bill
Handle or John Callbelder, Tim Conway Junior, Everybody's got their
own her headphones. I mean Gary and Shannon, they bring
(03:02):
their own headphones in the studio. And I had the
headphones there and of course you know what happened. I'm scrambling,
I grab my stuff, I run out. This is again
after I've dropped the car off. You drop it off
in North Hollywood is where there's big Tesla place is.
And my lovely other half drove me back in her car,
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and then I realized that I don't have the headphones.
Oh no, yeah, So the headphones will be the they're
in the new Tesla or the new lease for whomever
picks up the It's one of those things.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
We're new headphones. What are they?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Sharon, I would say, they're seventy dollars something in that area. Okay,
so you're going I don't know it's is it worth
calling going there trying to find the car again.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
They call you and say, hey, you left this in
the car.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I don't think that. Maybe something tells me. I mean,
if they were to do that, I'm I'm sure a
lot of people leave stuff in the car.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I think it's right, and so they should have a
system of letting those people know. Maybe that's true. Honestly,
I feel like it's.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Incumbent upon me to be able to survey the car.
But you're right, I mean, maybe they should just take
give it a once over. But they didn't even look
at the car. Because the way Tesla works is you
do your own checkout, So you do the wear and
tear on the tires, you do the wear and tear
on the car, you take all of these pictures. They
have a very interesting system. And in other leases I've had,
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they'll send somebody out like with the leasing company, and
he'll do or she'll do the evaluation of how much
wear and tear there's been in the car. But with Tesla,
you go and you have to be connected to the internet,
and you send them through their app pictures of the car,
the front, the side, closeups of the tires, close, et cetera.
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They evaluate it, and then on tire tread they ask
you to take a picture with the of course, I've
replaced the tires because it's la you're having to replace
your tires every two seconds because they're all kinds of
road hazards and you know, nails in the road and
construction going on. I mean, I feel like I know
my tire guys. You know, I see them more than
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I see relatives at Thanksgiving. So in any way, they
they have this thing where you send it all virtually,
so you're never really dealing with any person. And then,
of course what do they do. They send you back
something saying, oh, it looks like we're in tear in
your car. It's going to be another five hundred dollars
or whatever it is. It's actually mine was even more
(05:42):
than that, and my car is pristine. I mean, I
don't understand how they see any So you have to,
you know, do it back and forth with them. The
guy even said, don't worry about it. You know this happens.
Just send them an email and it'll work out. But
in all of that, you never have a guy of
any sort. No one with Tesla actually comes out to
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your vehicle. You just so that's my point. Nobody else
is looking in the vehicle. Everything else is done. The
inspection that I just mentioned is done a few days ago.
I dropped the car off and so it's really incumbent
on me to grab everything out of the car. So
apparently I, in the scramble left the headphones. And my
point in mentioning at Sharon the seventy dollars is it's
right on. You know, may not be worth going there,
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and on the other hand, maybe it is.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
I think it is all right.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I'm glad to hear you say that.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
So I'll give you directions to the North Hollywood place
and if you wouldn't mind, yeah, I'll kick you back
twenty thirty.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Okay, I'll do it.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I'll do it.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I'm looking at another car, and you know, I'm focusing
on how much I'm paying in insurance. And I mentioned
this because I know all of you listening. This is
outrageous what these insurance companies are doing to us. It's terrible.
I mean, it really is awful. I'm not even talking
about homeowner's insurance. It's the inability to get it. Insurance
companies pulling out of California, insurance companies constantly getting the
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green light on rate increases. I'm not talking about any
of that. I'm just talking about auto insurance in California.
It's outrageous, absolutely outrageous. And now I'm I'm looking at
withering costs on insurance.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
And then I told you about the thing I had
the other day with that doctor. He's out of network.
I found that that's the reason it's so expensive. It's
incredibly expensive, thousands of dollars. So all of a sudden,
I'm glad Tim isn't here today. I need the money.
I need Tim to stay out day after day, conaway,
never come back.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I need this money.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Anyway, if you're if you're in the insurance game, if
you have a good insurance person, contact me the Mark
Thompson Show at gmail dot com. That's my email, Mark
Thompson Show at gmail dot com. I'm I'm shopping. Yeah,
I'm single and ready to mingle when it comes to insurance.
I'm telling you what. I'm dropping this guy I have
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like a bad habit. I'm gonna ghost him, I'm gonna
stuff him. Forget it, I'm out. I'm done. The thing
that is now illegal when you drive, it's something that
we all do, and if they see you doing it,
they are going to bust you.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I will tell you what that is next.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
The idea somehow that you would tell the cop who
stops you for texting while driving that you are just
looking at your nav. That no longer is an excuse
that you can use. I don't know really how effective
an excuse it was to begin with, but a state
appeals court ruling today or this week that the state
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law prohibiting drivers from texting or talking on a cell
phone while driving is also making it illegal to hold
a phone of any kind or device to look at
a map on that device's screen. The driver doesn't need
to be swiping or tapping, as had formerly been the case.
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Remember when texting first started. Yeah, back when I was
a kid, tapping a screen to send a text was
just starting.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
What if I have my map quest printed out in
the steering wheel? Can I look down at that? Would
that be okay?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
You can roadtest that literally see how that works. Yeah,
remember when map quest was the thing. Everybody map quested
it right now you know you you navi it or whatever.
No one literally map questing. It became like a verb,
a map questing. I'm map quested to Sharon's house, et cetera.
Now map quest, I don't know where they sit. Like
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everybody's got their own nav through Google. Apple's got one.
If you're on an Android, it's probably through Google. Two
people use ways. In other words, the map quest used
to be king of the hill. Now I think they're
somewhere lower down on the hill. But the driver doesn't
need to be swiping or tapping at the navigation app
to break the law is the rule. The court has
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ruled that just looking at the map on the screen
with the phone in hand can get you justifiably pulled
over to be ticketed. When legislators adopted this state law
prohibiting drivers from quote operating a cell phone while driving,
they did it to quote reduced distracted driving resulting from
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advancements in modern phones, and to encourage drivers to keep
their eyes on the road. This is, according to the
Court of Appeals, mounted phones and drivers operate those with
a single swipe are.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Exempted.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Now, why is that it's the same thing.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Isn't it much safer?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
It probably is much safer because you don't have one
hand engaged in holding the phone. Just to be fair,
so mount that phone. I feel like every four offerings
on Instagram are a phone mount that I should get.
Anybody on TikTok it always they're pitching different kinds of
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phone mounts.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
You know the foo she's an Uber driver and he
has four mounts.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
That's so studley, my god, try to stay safe. Hey baby,
I got four mounts in my car. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
A lot of Uber drivers only have the one or
maybe two. I've got four. Now, why would you have four?
Because the let me guess, one is for Uber that
is to contact you for a job, one is for lift.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Maybe do you drive for both? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Yeah, and then put the other two and then in
the back it's it's for the chargers.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I see.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah, that's pretty great, pretty great.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
So that distracting though, having all those screens.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Up, I would think, So, I mean, come on.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
And he's probably eating a burrito.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Well that's not covered, especially not covered in this legislative session. Yeah,
I would say that you get used to all the screens.
When I first got that Tesla and it's got that
big screen in the middle, and that was before everybody
now has a big screen in the middle, I thought, man,
that's too big a screen.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I don't want the big screen.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
But you kind of just begin to ignore it and
begin to not pay much attention to it. So I'm
sure that's what steffush. You have those four you know,
cell phones going four amounts going.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
It's it's funny because, yeah, I can easily navigate through
it really easily. And one time I had my dad
in the car was we were just going to like
get food or whatever, and he was like, how do
you go through that so fast?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I'm like, because they do this eight hours a day. Yeah,
it's not a big surprise. No, it's almost like selective perception.
You don't see it all anymore, you know what you're
supposed to keep an eye on. Yeah, anyway, they will
allow you with a single swipe to take care of
whatever you got to do on a mounted phone. They're
exempted from this recent court decision. But looking at a
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map while holding the phone, we'll violate the law allowing
a driver to hold a phone and view a mapping application,
even if not touching the phone screen, we'll be illegal. Apparently,
this dude was ticketed after looking at a mapping app
while holding his phone in his left hand and driving.
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He contested the ticket, lost his initial court appearance, was
ordered to pay one hundred and fifty eight dollars, and
then he appealed that decision and with the appellative vision
of the Santa Clara County Superior Court up in northern California,
the decision was reversed. The Superior Court said that quote,
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operating a cell phone required active use or manipulation of
the device. So they said, again it was a lengthy
court ruling, quote merely observing GPS directions on the phone
does not constitute the kind of active use or manipulation
to trigger an infraction. But the California Appeal for the
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sixth Depella District disagreed.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
They said.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
That the law as written and intended, means that looking
at and holding the phone while driving is a violation,
and that will be the law in California. So, I mean,
there have been all these court decisions, and it's interesting
how many people go to court and appeal this stuff
and based on the appeal and based in contesting the ticket.
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There's actually new law being written, so again through the courts,
through the Court of Appeal, and now the law amended,
modified and again if you're playing games on cell phones
browsing the internet, if you're holding the device, you're breaking
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the law.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
And does it Tesla have that like a Pong game
or something that you can play on the screen. Dude,
they have so much stuff on that Tesla. I have
no idea.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
You have a thing where you can while the car
is parked. It'll play music for you and there'll be
a whole light show, like if you wanted to, like
dance outside, I'm talking about all the lights on the
car will go back and forth, multi colored. Not kidding.
And I didn't like pay for that feature. That's just
part of it. That's border plate.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
So you turned in your TESTA. Are you getting another Tesla?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I'm not. I'm not getting another test streaking news. I'm
not well. I don't know. Just seems like a problematic
purchase at the moment. I don't know. To keep peace
in my house, I have to. I can't. I can't
get one. This goes he's on the streets too, man.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
He's on the streets exactly. Look there, you know, I'm
not looking to make a political statement every time I
pull up to a parking lot. You know. Uh, it's
just it's sad. But this is kind of the state
of the of the world at the moment. But it's
weird too. In southern California. We really know this. In
California car culture generally it is weird. How leave the
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politics out, Like when you go for a car, there's
some part of you. And this is true beyond California,
but I'm just saying California is sort of the classic
car culture where you know, a car's reflection of who
you are or what you like. Like, you know, somebody
pulls up in a hummer you have, you know, it's
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generally a dude getting out of there. Maybe he's a
you know what I mean. You make certain presumptions about
the person based on and to be fair to that
person in the hummer, they kind of feel like, yeah,
this is me, man, I'm a you know, I'm a guy.
I'm a hummer guy. I don't know, you get what
I mean, right. That's why so many of these brands
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do all the car advertising. They do, and they these
car ads are very important. How they show you the car,
how they I remember I was sitting with Sam Simon,
who was just one one of the greatest guys.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
A friend, are you want to pick that up? That
name you just dropped over there? Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
For those who don't know, he's one of the creators
of the Simpson co created the Simpsons.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Uh and uh.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Good friend of Tim's also is good friend of ours both.
And I'm watching We're watching football or something, and there's
an ad for the Ford. Is it called like the
Ford Escort or something or the Ford I forget what
it was, something like like that, and it was gorgeous,
add a silver car, and they had the car leaping
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over a train that was going There's like a locomotive
going through the center of the picture and the Ford
leaps over it. And I just like the way it looked,
you know, slow mow and all the rest. And I
turned to Sam and I said, I think I'm gonna
get that car. I like that car. And he turned
to me and he said, you know, it can't fly.
(18:11):
That's just in the commercial. That's the point though. They
show you the car in slow motion flying on a
driver's track with that small print that says, you know,
this is a professional driver. Don't try this at home,
of course, completely supervised. But all I'm saying, Sharon is
that there's a lot wrapped up into a car purchase
(18:32):
that there probably shouldn't be, but now there's even more
because it's all been politicized. So that's that whatever you're driving,
however you're driving, don't hold the phone and look at
the NAB. At the same time, speaking of politics, I
guess the bromance is over between Elon and the President.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
We will get into some of that next.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
We are seeing the undoing and boy, it is quick
of the Elon Musk Donald Trump bromance. I mean it
seems like just yesterday weren't they on the White House
lawn and Trump was pitching Tesla's. It's crazy. I mean,
how does the you know, how the mighty have fallen?
I mean, it was not that long ago. Trump gave
(19:29):
Musk the keys to the Kingdom. He let Musk and
you know, a bunch of T shirt clad nineteen year
olds go into the Treasury Department and basically scrape all
the government computers of all his data, went into EPA
and USAID and dismantled everything and fired all those workers,
and you know, looked for a waste, fraud and abuse
(19:50):
and all that.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Remember that was not long ago.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Now they are in such adversarial time on footing that
is so oppositional that Steve Bannon is suggesting that Trump
deport Elon Musk. Seriously, that just is the news of
the last hour. How did this happen?
Speaker 7 (20:16):
Not only did President Trump and Elon Musk have a
falling out, but a public feud between the two intensified
today and escalated to personal attacks. Both made multiple posts
to social media.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Take a look.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Billionaire Elon Musk posted this on X Time to drop
the really big bomb and allege that President Trump's name
is in the Epstein files, referring to the documents and
investigative files related to sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.
He said quote that is the real reason they have
not been made public. He followed that by saying, mark
this post, the truth will come out. The statements came
(20:50):
after the President made post to truth social Trump suggested
that he may turn the federal government against Musk's companies,
Tesla and SpaceX. Trump posted, the e busiest way to
save money in our budget is to terminate Elon's governmental
subsidies and contracts.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I mean this, I'm also saying.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I say it only because one of the beneficiaries of
this Department of Government efficiency, the DOGE thing, one of
the big beneficiaries was Musk himself. I don't know how
much you were following the bouncing ball, but Musk and
his starling were finding ways to increase government contracts that
(21:30):
they weren't necessarily already part of. There was existing legislation
and an existing contract to build out, for example, in
rural America, access to broadband.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
There are whole parts of this country that.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
You as you probably know that don't get broadband, like
here in California. You may not realize it, but there
are wide swaths of America that don't have broadband access.
So there's actually government moneies that is now their government
money is being set aside, and they are already in
the process of trying to build that broadband network out
(22:08):
so that these rural areas can get it. So anyway,
cut to DOGE and the Trump Musk brotherhood when it
was good and Musk actually was able to shoehorn Starlink
in and the existing deal to build up broadband was scuttled.
(22:28):
It was back Burnard in favor of Elon Musk and Starlink.
So that's just one example. There are a bunch of examples.
I mean it was he's made billions of dollars of
additional contract work just based on some of the work
he was doing with DOGE and the additional contract work
he's been able to get with his companies. Now, Trump,
(22:53):
in his back and forth with Monk, this is just today,
is saying, Hey, you want to save money, Let's drop
all of these contracts that Elon Muskas with the US government.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
It's to terminate Elon's governmental subsidies and contracts. Trump also
said he asked mus to leave DOGE the White House
Department of Government Efficiency and wrote, quote, I took away
his ev mandate that forced everyone to buy electric cars
that nobody else wanted, and he just went crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Trump also wrote, I.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
Don't mind Elon turning against me, but he should have
done so months ago. This is one of the greatest
bills ever presented to Congress.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
The feud escalated after.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
Must slam Trump's signature bill of tax cuts and spending plans.
Mus has called trump so called Big Beautiful Bill a
disgusting abomination and warned it will increase the federal deficit.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
It does seem like there's a lot of daylight between
big beautiful bill and disgusting abomination. I don't see those
two being able to, you know, reach some kind of
rapproach mall. You know, some kind of understand zoo night,
Thank you. I've been looking for a way I could
work in the word rapproach mam for the last month.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
So he's your goal. I finally found it.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Must has called trump so called Big Beautiful Bill a
disgusting abomination and warned it will increase the federal deficit.
Trump said, Must, the CEO and founder of Tesla, developed
a problem with the bill because it rolls back tax
credits for electric vehicles.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
I'd rather have.
Speaker 8 (24:17):
Him criticized me than the bill, because the bill is incredible.
It's the biggest cut in the history of our country.
We've never cut. It's about one point six trillion in cuts.
And you know, Elon's upset because we took the ev
mandate and you know, which was a lot of money
for electric vehicles, and you know, they're having a hard
time the electric vehicles, and they want us to pay
(24:40):
billions of dollars in subsidy. And you know, I elon
knew this from the beginning.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Musk fired back, saying Trump wouldn't have gotten elected without
his help. Must pumped a quarter of a billion dollars
into his twenty twenty four campaign.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
I don't know if it's true that that Trump wouldn't
have been elected without Must. I think Trump is a
generational political figure. This has nothing to do with politics,
whether you're left or right or whatever. I'm just talking
about the effectiveness of Trump as a communicator and how
he's been able to you know, He's won enough of
a coalition that it was just sufficient enough to get
(25:16):
into the presidency. And I think he might have been
able to do that without the Musk money. But I
will say this, the Musk money made it a lot easier.
And it wasn't just the Musk money. It was the
use of a major social media platform, which is a
formerly Twitter x, you know, owned by Musk. So I
do feel as though Musk was a game changer that way.
He certainly got Trump out there to a lot more people.
(25:40):
But again, I'm not so sure that he can take
full credit for Trump's victory.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
Shares of Tesla stock plunge more than fourteen percent Thursday
amid the dispute.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Putting like I will say this, he's got a real
problem Alow Musk with Tesla. I don't know if he
can build it back or you know, improve the rep
or what he's He's put a stink on that brand,
and that is really going to be a problem for him.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
We'll have to see.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
And I, on the other hand, think that Trump, with
tremendous political capital, I mean, really able to get a
lot of these legislator, senators and congress people to stay
within the lines that Trump lays down all of a
sudden in the Senate, which is already going to make
some modifications to this bill. Right the House passes this bill,
(26:32):
there's all this stuff stuck in there, you know. You know,
there are provisions about the executive brand. There are provisions
about no regulation on AI. That was one of the
things that Marjorie Tedda Green said. I didn't know. I
didn't see it, I didn't read it. They're going to
be changes in the Senate side. But what this feud
has done is it's created again a little bit of
(26:52):
a question mark around the bill that it wasn't there before.
If Musk and Trump had had solidarity on this, it
might have had politically a better chance. Now it might
still go through. I mean, Trump's such a strong political figure.
But I'm just saying that the the problem with this
feud legislatively now I'm leaving a side, whatever else happens,
(27:13):
is that there is now maybe a question mark, and
Musk is sort of fanning those flames of questions around
that bill. So that's the last what man, The back
and forth is wild. I mean it is. You know Epstein,
He's in the Epstein files. I take credit. He wouldn't
(27:33):
even be president if it weren't for me. Musk doesn't
know what he's doing. Bannon's saying that Trump should deport Musk.
To be continued.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
I was talking about insurance before and cars, and I said,
if you've got a good insurance plan, car insurance person
pushed my way, and I did get an email and
this guy read has been on the Conway Show before,
and he has some thoughts and I'm going to follow up.
(28:11):
But the one thing that jumped out in his email
had nothing to do with insurance or driving.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
It was.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Something that is related to game shows. And I've only
met one other person at this radio station. Actually I
met her who falls into this category with game shows.
This guy Reid is a friend of the of the show.
(28:42):
He's called the traffic Guy read Barry. He was a
Showcase Showdown winner on The Price Is Right, and he
wanted to win a car but ended up with a boat,
which I think is very funny. Chris Little's wife, Julie,
(29:05):
I remember she was a double Showcase Showdown winner. She
won it all. They got cars and whatever. Yeah, trips
and ski dudes and whatever. Pretty crazy. I told you
that when I was breaking up with my girlfriend who
(29:27):
was working down there at Television City. We were having
like the breakup conversation. And it's right outside the big
elephant doors at the Prices right, We're having this very
serious conversation. No one wasn't crying per se, but you know,
it's kind of the end of a relationship, sort of
a big deal. And as we're speaking, they are wheeling
all of that stuff past us. Literally a jacuzzi is
(29:50):
being wheeled past us as we're talking about like there's
no real future in the relationship.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Such a great scene for a movie.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Oh it was. It was truly, You're right, it was.
It was something out of a fa out of a
rom com. And I remember two of those. Yeah, they
were ski dudes. I think they were literally wheeled fast
and then and this was the and I didn't comment
on it. I noted it, but we were in too
kind of heavy a conversation for me to comment on
(30:16):
it to her. So at one point I see out
of the corner of my eye Bob Barker, he was
the host before Drew, of course, and he's walking past
us carrying his wardrobe. He's carrying his own wardrobe. And
that's when I stopped the conversation. I said, start did interrupt,
but you have to take this in. That is Bob Barker.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Was she able to pivot?
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah, she was. She got the moment. The moment was special,
you know what I mean, It was really pretty great.
It was really pretty great. So but anyway, read, thank
you for reaching out. I'll try to follow up on
some of what you've said, and I really appreciate your
help on the car insurance thing, and sorry you won
the boat and didn't win the car. There is, as
(31:02):
you know, their concerns in the city on any number
of fronts about dire conditions faced by dogs in the
shelters out of the shelters, and there's a homelessness crisis
on skid Row and a lot of these skid Row
folk they have animals too, and as a result, you
begin to see how the cruelty and the abuse and
(31:27):
the neglect spills over to that homeless community in the
form of how these dogs are treated.
Speaker 9 (31:33):
When do you get this dog?
Speaker 10 (31:35):
Victoria Parker has been coming to help dogs in need
on skid Row for eight years. In twenty twenty, she
co founded the nonprofit Starts with One Today to help
provide vital resources to people on pets living here. In
the last few years, she says, the animal abuse and
neglect has gotten worse.
Speaker 9 (31:51):
We've seen pitbulls covered under tarps in the sun, dogs
without access to food, water.
Speaker 10 (31:59):
Many of the animals are also being denied medical care,
like this sick dog left to suffer for months before
Victoria was able to convince her owner to let her
take her dog to the vet. Turns out her spleenhead ruptured,
her belly was full of fluid, and she had cancer.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
The eight year old didn't make it.
Speaker 11 (32:15):
You're letting them walk around hurting in pain.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
That's torture.
Speaker 10 (32:19):
Victoria's husband Jonathan, also volunteers with Starts with One Today,
attempting to help get basic supplies to pet owners.
Speaker 11 (32:26):
These people, they don't know how to treat dogs, They
don't know how to take care of them, and they
don't look for certain things that a normal person to
look for, because as you can see, as we live
in this is not normal.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I mean, I got to say these animal rescue volunteers are.
They're heroic in the work they do. I mean, do
you want to go down there to these homeless encambments.
You don't know what you're going to be getting. They've
got pit bulls, you don't know if the animals are aggressive,
you don't know what the situation is, you know what
the person's aggressive. And these volunteers go down there to
try to make a difference with these animals that are
(32:58):
suffering horrible negle.
Speaker 10 (33:00):
Well, many dog owners appreciate the assistance. Victoria says many
who live on skid row won't accept their help.
Speaker 9 (33:06):
They just say, you know, don't bother. This is my dog.
He's fine, she's fine. I don't want to span a
neod on my dog because I need to get more puppies.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
I mean, that is that's the other part of this.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
You see just how God twisted that situation is, you know,
and now animals continue to be victimized and all of that,
you know, in the heat, beaten, abused, more pregnant dogs,
more puppies, and just the cycle continues. And by the way,
it's illegal, right, I mean, animal cruelty is a serious
(33:41):
crime in Los Angeles and in California. But you have
to submit these cases to the DA's office. They've got
to be reviewed. There's got to be action.
Speaker 9 (33:50):
They want to sell their puppies, they want to make money.
Speaker 10 (33:53):
This pregnant dog will likely give birth on the street
without medical care. It's Okayboddy, And we saw this dog
tied up and twisted in rope, left unattended, but you
can't even move. Volunteers say dogs are being crammed in
tiny cages for days, tied up on the street without shade,
beaten and abused with the whole fensonal going on everywhere.
Speaker 9 (34:17):
A lot of their drugs are laced, so they test
them on their dogs before testing them on themselves.
Speaker 10 (34:23):
Animal advi coulds say they've called police, animal control and
the DA's office with very little response. Even after viral
videos on social media. They say there's still no enforcement.
Speaker 11 (34:34):
Have a vet on call for these people, you know,
if you allow them to sleep here, allow them to
get the proper treatment as well.
Speaker 10 (34:40):
The Los Angeles County District Attorneys.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
That wouldn't be such a bad idea, would it. You know,
there are vets who do pro bono work. You could
even they're even rescue organizations that have resources perhaps too. Again,
you can get together a go fund me the kind
of resources necessary to get of it down there to
try to make a difference of positive difference in looking
(35:04):
at some of these animals.
Speaker 11 (35:05):
How of that on call for these people, you know,
if you allow them them to sleep here, allow them
to get the proper treatment as well.
Speaker 10 (35:12):
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office says animal cruelty
is a serious crime and their office will continue to
treat it as such. They release a statement saying, in part,
law enforcement agencies are the first to investigate these crimes.
A case must be presented to our office for legal
review and consideration before we connect.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 10 (35:31):
The nonprofit Starts with One Today is organized a rally
this weekend on Sunday at eleven am outside of the
LAPD Central Community Police Station. They say they want to
bring awareness to this issue and hopefully get the attention
of some city officials.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Well, you know that is the I got to give
them credit. The nonprofit that might make a difference on
this issue. They're called Starts with One. Starts with One Today.
Is that it Starts with One Today and again the
rally is at eleven am. You can check them out.
Starts with One Today in an effort to raise awareness
and to try to address the situation. It sucks for
(36:07):
everybody homeless, the city and those sweet innocent creatures. Hey,
it's the Conway Show. Tim is under the weather for
yet another day. Thompson sitting in on KFI AM six forty.
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