June 2, 2025 • 34 mins
Longtime West Hollywood Chinese restaurant to close its doors after 45 years. Disney cut hundreds of employees in latest round of layoffs. LIVE sports huge profit center. Powerball winner in Arleta $207 M // Fewer tourists are traveling to Las Vegas as prices surge. Las Vegas may still dazzle, but its sparkle is coming at a steeper price: "No longer a bargain vacation" // A.I. stopping and a new stinger for Mark // Cross With Mo
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
You know, chin Chin.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
They're in Sunset Plaza in West Hollywood. It's been at
that location for a long long time, more than four decades.
I think of all those milestones celebrated there, lunches, dinners,
unforgettable cherished moments. It's all, God, forget it. It's closing,
(00:34):
move a law. The public is bumming that this is
the second closure in this strip of kind of it's
the action strip on Sunset Boulevard there in West Hollywood,
along with this Putty four, which is the French style bakery.
(00:55):
And there are a lot of businesses that are struggling
along that area. I mean it's a I rent area
and in a lot of ways, the region is changing.
The money is changing, and who's got the money, how
they're willing to spend the money, that's all changing too.
Chinchin has other locations. They have a location in Brentwood
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and Studio City and in Las Vegas, and all those
locations remain open, but the Sunset Boulevard location there is
going to close. I remember I saw Rod Stewart when
I first got to town, Rod Stuart sitting at chin
Chin right there, that one the one that's closing. So
(01:37):
now when I read the Chin Chin story, I think
back to Rod Stewart. It was really wild, like the
first time you see some of these celebrities in Los
Angeles and you just moved here.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
It was super cool. I want to say, it was.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Like nineteen ninety one maybe, and he was eating at
Chin Chin. So, I mean, I wish I had a
better story, like better finished for that. I think it
does need a finish just to say, I mean, maybe
a rewrite.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
It was okay.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I think that was okay.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
It's more of a slice of life story than like
and then what happened story?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
You know what I mean? Yeah, Yeah, Anyway, I.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Was a fresh faced young guy just got to LA
and I see this superstar Rod story.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
That was your first like big star sighting.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
My very first star sighting was Albert Brooks. I saw
Albert Brooks in West Hollywood, the director Comic. Now, for
me that was huge because I'm a huge Albert Brooks fan.
And he was driving, as I recall, a brown Volvo.
But you know, god, what is that just makes total sense?
(02:44):
He and I rolled down the window because it was
the passenger side. So I'm and he's driving and I yelled,
you're the greatest, You're the greatest, I love you or
whatever something like that, and he held up something. I
forget what it was like, you know. No, he held
up something and he said, please say it again into
the microphone, if you would.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
He was very cute a microphone.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
It was very, very cute. But that was my very
first celebrity setting was Albert Brooks. But Rod Stewart, yeah,
superstar guy. And that was a Chimchin. So Chimchin closes
after forty eight years at that location.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
So I mentioned that things are changing in.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
LA as you know, the nature of show business is changing,
the nature of show business employment is changing, and there
are sadly job cuts at Disney.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Disney is cutting hundreds of jobs across its TV and
film divisions to focus on streaming. Most of the job
losses are here in Los Angeles. They mainly target their marketing, publicity,
and corporate divisions as the company aims to streamline operations
prey time. Disney is heavily pushing its new ESPN streaming
service as competition in the streaming market continues to heat up.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah, ESPN really key to their plans. Live sports is
a big part of the streaming world, as you know.
And now moving over to ESPN is that NBA on
TNT won't be on TNT anymore. It'll be inside the
NBA with Shack and you know, Charles Barkley. And the
(04:22):
reality is that that will still be produced by the way,
by TNT, but they essentially licensed it to ESPN. But
the reality is that live sports continues to be a
huge profit center. And it's also real expensive undertaking for
a lot of these streaming services, right, it's really costly
to broadcast live sports. The license agreements are you know,
witheringly expensive, but they are the things that are paying off.
(04:45):
And speaking of paying off powerball winner, there.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Are two winners in this case, the ticket holder and
the store. We'll get one million dollars off the sale.
Store clerks had no idea. Here's the moment they find out.
Call the store owner, you.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
Know today Monday store gap pot two hundred.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
Seven million dollar winner.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
How much to two hundred seven million today?
Speaker 9 (05:15):
Hand to Pete.
Speaker 10 (05:18):
So great?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Well, the ticket hoolder has yet I have to hear
that again, you know today your Monday store gap po
to two hundred seven million dollar winner.
Speaker 8 (05:30):
How much too?
Speaker 7 (05:31):
Two hundred seven million today?
Speaker 9 (05:37):
Hand to pee?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
So great?
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Well, the ticket hoolder has the option of taking the
jackpot in thirty installments or a ninety million dollar lump
sum payment, but they have a whole year to come forward.
Winning Mega millions or powerball tickets must be postmarked or
received within they have time to do some financial planning.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
No, there you go. So the jackpot was two hundred
and seven million, but after all.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
The tallying up of final sales, the total was adjusted
to two hundred and four point five million for those
of you who are adjusting your own programs and logging
all the final payouts. So that's why they said two
hundred and seven million. But it's going to be two
hundred and four and a half million. So the store
manager and the store get how much a million dollars?
(06:27):
It was actually quite unbelievable, said the store manager. I've
been working here for a long time, and it's the
most exciting thing that's happened. I guess that's a good thing.
It was a seven to eleven in Arlida. The odds
of matching all five numbers and the powerball number one
in two hundred and ninety two point two million.
Speaker 11 (06:50):
We have.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
The lottery group here. I don't know how many people
are in it.
Speaker 12 (06:57):
Like seventy that was a lot Yeah, we won twenty
three dollars and they.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Send out an email with that twenty three dollars win
like we had just scored huge. I mean, that's how
lame the whole thing is, right, we are such losers
that when we hit twenty three dollars, where she's.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Hunting out like great news, everybody.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah, meet me down at iHeart for the big party,
twenty three dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Well, I think part of it is Michelle Cube.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Phil's obligated because Conway calls her out that she's the
worst lotto captain ever.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Well, Conway and I of course disagree about that, but
I think that it's a nice runner that he has going.
But I do think she feels obligated to share any
good news because month after month there is no good news,
and the only thing you hear from her occasionally is.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I still need forty dollars. Yeah you're out. It's still
oh forty dollars.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
People on this email all, oh forty dollars like okay,
so twenty three doesn't really get it and some of
the mob boss is putting the bite on us. There's
no question about it. Anyway, congratulations with that lottery winner.
We still don't know who they are, but they're coming
into some major cash when we come back. The major
(08:15):
cash required to stay in a place that used to
be a discount of vacation.
Speaker 13 (08:23):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I have not mentioned my YouTube show, and I'll just
mention it briefly. I've got a show on YouTube every day.
It's a live two hour show. Of course YouTube you
know you can watch that crap anytime, right, that's the
idea of YouTube and anyway, it's called The Markt Tompsons.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
It's a lot of politics and news and stuff. I
don't know. I don't know if it's for you, but
it's definitely out there. So I mentioned it.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
If you're going to Vegas, it's going to cost you more,
to the point that Vegas is seeing fewer tourists as
these prices continue.
Speaker 10 (09:03):
To go off, So welcome to fabulous Las Vegas. Sign
is usually the first stop for millions of tourists. The
line for that photo is noticeably shorter this spring, and
since city visitors are paying.
Speaker 14 (09:14):
More, well, hey, last year almost exactly the same time.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I think it was probably twenty percent month this year.
Speaker 10 (09:20):
Even the little luxuries stick nine US.
Speaker 11 (09:22):
Dollars for a coffee, Like in the UK, that's what
we paid.
Speaker 14 (09:25):
Four pound five pound for a coffee.
Speaker 10 (09:27):
So yeah, crazy.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yes, that nine dollars coffee is a Vegas thing, but
I would also say that I think you can do
better than that.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Just looking around.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I don't know what you're having in your coffee, but
nine bucks is probably a little north of what you
need to pay.
Speaker 10 (09:42):
Those higher prices haven't stopped convention traffic, but casual trips
are down. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority says
three point thirty nine million people came to town in March,
down seven point eight percent from the same time last year.
April saw a five point one percent drop. Hotel occupancy
also slipped.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I got to tell you, I mean.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Every time I'm trying to do anything in Las Vegas,
from buying concert tickets to getting a seat in a restaurant,
it's crowded. I don't quite understand. Maybe overall the crowd
is diminishing, the traffic to Las Vegas is going down,
but literally everything that you try to do in Las Vegas,
(10:28):
at least on weekend trips, and I understand weekend is
sort of the surge of Angelino's and other Californians who
had there, But if you're trying to get a taxi
or you're trying to get a table at a restaurant,
it is crowded. So for all of this what they
talk about a diminishing flow of people coming to Las Vegas,
it still seems pretty crowded to me.
Speaker 10 (10:49):
As the average nightly rate on the Strip reached two
hundred and three dollars in April.
Speaker 14 (10:54):
I think what's driving that largely now is just a
drop in consumer confidence.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Another or spot.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
Fewer international visitors, the ones who stay longer and spend more,
and so.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
When we lose them, we're losing a very valuable customer.
Speaker 15 (11:09):
Tourists who do roll the dice here hate traffic. Months
of construction act that roll the dice. Tourists who do
roll the dice here hahte traffic. Months of construction and
road closures for special events can turn a ten minute
ride into a crawl.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
We've had so many customers say we're never coming back
to this city.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
You can't get anywhere.
Speaker 10 (11:29):
Will and don A try on operate Adventure photo tours.
They say higher fuel and insurance costs leave little room
to cut prices. Some tours priced at seventy five dollars
before COVID now cost one hundred and nine dollars.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
That may be, but I'll tell you the one thing
that they could definitely change the resort fees. And I
know the resort fee saying now you have to indicate
what the resort fee is. I think it's now folded
into the overall number. They've changed that, so you know
they can't tack it on later. But the resort fees
(12:03):
can be withering. The resort fees can be way out
of whack. The resort fees. You know, if you're staying
at a higher end hotel on the strip, like you
stay at that Win hotel, the resort fees are seventy
five dollars a day. I mean you can stay get
a room at New York New York for less than that.
So I think those resort fees and some of these
(12:25):
congestion issues that they're talking about with Las Vegas. They're
real and they really can blunt your enthusiasm. They're setting
up for F one, they're setting up for whatever other events.
Some of the F one setup is permanent, like the
grand stands, and they have a central area that is
now very much a part of Las Vegas. But it
(12:47):
does seem more congestive than it used to be. So
between the congestion and the cost, it's interesting that it
actually is having an effect on visitors see.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Economy, the money they don't have the money to spend,
and the fact that Loss Vegas is no longer a
bargain vacation.
Speaker 10 (13:03):
Even so, plenty of visitors are shelling out for the
hot tickets like Dead and Company's trippy light show Inside
the Sphere and Beyonce coming to Allegiance Stadium this summer.
Speaker 15 (13:13):
It's like, you can go for the fancy experience, but
then you can find a place that's a pretty good price.
Speaker 10 (13:18):
And with a summer calendar full of concerts, festivals and
sporting events, the city insists there is a price point
for every visitor. On RISCU of here is CBS News,
Las Vaga Thank.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
You andras Yeah I'm just looking at these resort fees
resort fees or call or destination or amenity fees that
they add to the hotel room rates to cover various
amenities thirty to fifty five dollars a night on average
common practice, They are not illegal. The FDC requires hotels
(13:53):
to clearly disclose the total cost upfront, including resort fees.
But if you're traveling to Las Vegas, Reno and other
parts of Nevada, travelers are asking, when they see an
extra thirty to fifty five dollars a night added in
taxis and resort fees, a checkout whether there's a way
(14:14):
around that, and the answer is no. Widespread in Nevada's
major hotel markets, particularly Vegas and Reno, resort fees can
run up to fifty five dollars none. I just told
you at seventy five dollars a night at the Win
and I know that because I booked to stay at
the Win recently. So they want to increase the transparency
(14:37):
around resort fees, and they are expanding the transparency. The
FTC published that rule in December of last year, took
effect just last month, banning quote unfair and deceptive pricing
requiring hotels to disclose the total cost upfront. But they're
not illegal. They just have to break it out. They
(14:59):
just have to tell you what's happening. Vegas. Still, I
would say, now finds way to bring finds ways to
bring you in. You know, you'll go for a Bruno
Mars concert, you'll go for Beyonce, You'll go for any
number of incredible shows shows at the sphere. The amazing
(15:20):
profit center for Las Vegas is the summer pool jams,
huge DJs. One manager of a resort was telling me
and one of these you know hotel resorts, was saying,
that's their biggest profit center, more than the casino, is
these daytime events at daytime that's you know, slosh into
(15:43):
nighttime around the pool with DJs and parties, huge cover fees,
incredible costs when it comes to buying a drink. I mean,
if that British traveler didn't like a nine dollars coffee,
you'll really not like a twenty nine dollars martini anyway.
These are all things that still exist in Las Vegas
(16:03):
to bring the crowds in. And as I mentioned, f
one is there now, so Vegas don't shed any tears
for them.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
They're still doing fine.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
When we come back AI catching thieves before they walk
out the door. It's a fascinating thing being used by
more and more stores and even convenience stores.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
As we continue, we'll have that.
Speaker 13 (16:28):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
There is a concern in Hollywood, the changing face of Hollywood.
We talked about it, Hollywood writers and actors month long
strikes in twenty twenty three, production ground to a halt.
California lost about forty thousand film and TV jobs just
(16:55):
in that year. And now things are settling out again,
and it's difficult. It's difficult to get things back up
and get any kind of momentum. Things truly changing in
Southern California. We mentioned already the closure of a lot
of restaurants and Southern California institutions that are responding to
(17:19):
a change in the marketplace of demand. You know, Gavin
Newsom wants to try to stop the bleeding. Double the
state's annual film and TV tax credits to bring production
back here to Southern California went from three hundred and
thirty million in TV and film tax credits to seven
hundred and fifty million a year. It's tough though, because
(17:42):
already a lot of that production is going elsewhere. Now
you've heard the threats from the president, you know, one
hundred percent tariffs on overseas film production and television production.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
We'll see what happens.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
But they're literally production people who've worked in production all
their lives that are applying for jobs at Costco. They're
having to get out of this Hollywood world. Truly a
changing face of Southern California. Thieves are now subject to AI,
(18:20):
catching them before they leave the store.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Check it out.
Speaker 11 (18:24):
AI everywhere. Yeah, really the future, and this is one
way it's being used, just part of many ways that
AI is being used. We know shoplifting is a big
problem for small business owners and the damage can add
up quickly. Well, now one startup is helping stores fight
back using AI to detect theft in near real time.
Seven to eleven franchise owner Jaspal Sandu says a new
(18:44):
AI system is a game changer.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
Since I've got this application maybe about a month ago,
probably done saving about ten.
Speaker 11 (18:50):
Thousand, ten thousand dollars pain theft theft field. The system
connects to existing.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
In one second, you're telling me that in a month,
he just got the system a month ago, it saved
him ten thousand dollars. There's that kind of merchandise walking
out the front door every month, ten thousand dollars worth.
I mean, that's an extraordinary facto.
Speaker 11 (19:18):
Ten thousand dollars. In theft theft field, the system connects
to existing security cameras and monitors footage twenty four to seven,
alerting owners in near real time when it detects potential theft.
Speaker 9 (19:36):
It definitely saves me time, saves me headache, a stealing
game in my employee stealing room.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Is that music is the is the music playing in
the convenience store or is that like music that Rich
Demura put on it while he shows the AI work.
It sounds at it. Yeah, I think it's he's showing that.
It's kind of catchy.
Speaker 8 (19:54):
Is that you know that?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
But yeah, really like to meet our shoplifters. Yeah, it
just has that kind of upbeat shoplifting thing.
Speaker 16 (20:12):
I don't know, like seventies daisy flowers all behind one
hand on your waist, the other hand waving just wildly
because you're so excited to be there, take out.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Your haul to your Volkswagen bus with the flowers on it.
Speaker 9 (20:29):
It definitely saves me time, saves me headache. Stealing game
in my employee stating animal stealing and I don't feel
that now.
Speaker 11 (20:36):
The technology comes from a startup named Vision. It uses
artificial intelligence to detect suspicious gestures.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
The AI detects a dozen different suspicious gestures. It can
be anything from sliding an item into your jackets, into
your paints, onto your backpack, anything like that.
Speaker 11 (20:55):
It's trained on millions of interactions from over five thousand
clients worldwide.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Story it is too late when they go and rewind
the cameras. Now they can focus on the customers, on
the inventory, on managing their staff, and basically just leave
the AI watching for them.
Speaker 11 (21:12):
Set up as simple. A small box plugs into the
router that connects to existing cameras.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
When we think AIO, we think it's expensive.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
It's not at all.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
It's way less than an employee would cost you to
monitor the cameras.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Twenty four seven.
Speaker 11 (21:26):
To test it out, I slipped some batteries into my bag.
Within seconds, an alert popped up, flagging my suspicious behavior.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I wish there was an alert to flag you on
the use of that music, because it really it doesn't
help your story. Rich I'm sorry, but I am at
the same time amazed by this technology.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
It really is great.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
You get an alert every time there's like a movement,
like the hand into the pocket. This is AI technology
applied and it's quite remarked.
Speaker 11 (22:00):
To test it out, I slipped some batteries into my bag.
Within seconds, an alert popped up, flagging my suspicious behavior.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
It has nothing to do with facial recognition or how
a person looks like. It's really based on suspicious gestures.
Speaker 11 (22:14):
Alerts are graded low, medium, or critical to help store
owners decide whether to take action. Are you okay with
confronting people that are stealing.
Speaker 9 (22:23):
Something because the camera's under you know, it's on the camera.
I'm not saying any dude, look at the camera, the camera,
what's in front of them?
Speaker 11 (22:30):
Just Spaull estimates the system has saved him nearly ten
thousand dollars in just a month.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I mean again, I just am amazed by that that
in one month, ten thousand dollars worth of merch is
walking out the door.
Speaker 11 (22:41):
Nearly ten thousand dollars in just a month, And what
do they.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Do most of the time.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
End up thing, sorry giving you a background up pin Cort, Oh.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Well, I didn't know there's a stinger on the end.
I kind of like it now. I like the music
because there's a stinger on.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
The end, Pink Cord.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah, I mean that's yeah. No, I get it. I
didn't get it before. Yeah, and I really do kind
of dig it now.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 16 (23:07):
If Justin chooses you to be his dad, we're gonna
side you want a lovely trip along the beach on
a two person bike, stop.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
By saving I love them, but don't try to steal
anything because the AI ha is gonna get you. Yeah right,
Oh my god, that's really something man. Well, that is
again AI applied, And I hate to say it because
it's oftentimes talked about in conjunction with artificial intelligence. But
(23:36):
you are taking a job away from someone, right, That
would be a job that would be normally taken by
someone who is a store detective.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
They used to call them.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Now they they have some other name for it, like
you know, robbery interdiction or something. But no one's watching
those cameras now. Now there's automatic electronic notifications.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yeah, so the uh you know.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
And by the way, that should be the notification whenever
anybody trying to steal anything you should get to you. Yeah,
excuse me, I'm sorry. Could I look inside your purse?
We got the notification that you got it exactly right,
it would be that is an awkward conversation when you're
actually saying to the what do you say? You say, Hey,
(24:20):
I'm sorry, I'm sure you meant to pay for that,
but I have to ask you to, you know, get
the batteries out of your bag, take the batteries out
of your pants, which is yeah. Anyway, I am fascinated
by this new AI and I'm fascinated by my new stinger,
which I'm going to be easier. All right. That's it. Well,
that's it for this segment. We will return and there
(24:45):
is a lot more. It's a big finish. If you've
never heard the finish on The Conway Show, you are
in for a treat.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
We'll be doing it next.
Speaker 13 (24:56):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from k
F I am six.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Forty oh yeah, I am six forty live everywhere in
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I saw Mo warming up in the hallway in the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Getting loose with his Crew's got a whole crew, Mark
Thompson filling in for Tim. He's got a big crew,
you know, a crozer. Sometimes I feel like the Conway Show.
There's a big crew, but Mo's got an even bigger crew.
Speaker 16 (25:24):
What I got it was one, two, three.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Yeah it's four five. Oh wow, I counted three. I
mean not counting Mark and Mo. So five on the
you know involved in the show. The three people out
there who are associated with like because Mos like a
multi media experience.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
He is always has been.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Yeah, he really and you know he comes with the
background in production and recording industry, et cetera.
Speaker 16 (25:49):
He plays like seven instruments or he's a really interesting guy.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Yeah, but uh but I liked that he comes in
like it really feels like show business when when when
when most shows.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
It doesn't feel like a production.
Speaker 16 (26:01):
It's like you see, I see him go by in
the hallway and he'll go up to somewhere and he' say, hey,
you got this, you got this rage?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I need to get this point.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
And I'm like, they are four four monitors and laptops
are set up out there and all these ring what
are the cameras that are the ring light, the big
ring light.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Yes, and it's like a three ring circuit.
Speaker 11 (26:19):
It is.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
It's really really cool. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
So now you guys know not to make eye contact
with Mo right, Yo, that absolutely never never mad respect Mark.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
You're absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Tali refineries, what's going to happen as they close?
Speaker 14 (26:36):
There's an interesting hearing this past week in the state
capitol as members of the California Legislature listened to the
head of the California Air Resources War the Energy Commission,
about the closure of two refineries in California next year,
one in Southern California and Carson, another in the San
Francisco Bay area. Those refineries themselves represent about twenty percent
of the fuel that is used in the state, and
(26:58):
some concerns are whether or not that's going to increase
the cost of the pump or increase the amount of
fuel that's actually imported to the ports of Long Beach
and Los Angeles. Assembly bumber Mike Gibson is a Democrat
from Guardina. He chairs the Assembly Taxation and Revenue Committee.
Assembly went, thanks for taking the time, So I believe
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that Phillips sixty six refineries in your district.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
If it's not it's close to your district.
Speaker 14 (27:24):
Are you Are you glad to see them closing this facility.
Speaker 8 (27:29):
I'm not glad to see them close.
Speaker 17 (27:31):
I'm very concerned with Phillips sixty six closing, and it's
adjacent to my district. It's literally fifty feet away from
my district.
Speaker 8 (27:40):
But the jobs that.
Speaker 17 (27:42):
It holds, the individuals that rely every day on going
to that place, to that refinery working.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
I just know that every time somebody hiccups at a
refinery in California, every time there is a flu outbreak
in a refinery area, prices for gas go up. When
the interruptions in refinery supply, they're always the excuse for
gas prices going.
Speaker 17 (28:10):
Working each and every day, those individuals that live in
my district, they shop in my district, They add to
the economy in my district. This is a tremendous loss
to my district. So I'm very concerned with.
Speaker 8 (28:22):
Phillips sixty six closing its doors.
Speaker 17 (28:24):
I've sat down with them and try to do everything
that I can to convince them to remain here in
southern California, in California as a whole, and they have
said that they cannot do business in the State of California.
Speaker 14 (28:40):
Expand on that for a moment, because from what I've
been reading, they said, well, listen, you know, the market
is changing, they're more evs.
Speaker 17 (28:47):
The regulatory agencies have imposed on the refineries in California
very stringent regulation that makes it very difficult for them
to remain in the state of California. That means that
they won't have the tax they won't pay the taxes
to the State of California, and that also means that
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they won't be able to provide the jobs.
Speaker 8 (29:10):
We should all be concerned by that.
Speaker 17 (29:12):
But also we should be concerned by that the fact
that if they go down and they leave, then what
will happen to supply.
Speaker 14 (29:20):
They have said to the state, Listen, we will still
get gas to burn, but it will have to be imported.
That means refined somewhere else, and not just refine somewhere
else in the United States, but some foreign refinery and
then shipped into the port.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Is that your understanding that all equals more expensive, all
of these things. And certainly if you lose you know,
twenty percent of your refineries in California, it certainly means
it's going to be price here. So all of that
is tough to look forward to it. It's not easy.
(29:56):
It's not easy these days. As I say, any change
in the refineries system, it just leads to higher prices
at the pump. The great mo Kelly, we were speaking
about you before.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Oh what did I do?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
No, Well, we're fans, so it was pretty positive. You mean,
you know, but watch your step. That's all I have
to say. We could turn on you like rabbit animals.
I see Michael Kroser walking behind me. I don't trust him.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
He's uh mo, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
You've got First of all, I was let me just
share something I was mentioning to everyone that when you're
about to come on, I feel like it's real show
business about to happen. There are a bunch of people
in the hallway. They've set up lights, They've got all
this stuff. There's like a production element to your show
that no other show has, and it's good feeling. Like
I walk past it and I feel like, yeah, like
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something big is happening.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
All I can say is.
Speaker 12 (30:48):
I love the people that I work with, and I
think that they understand who I am, and they buy
in and believe in what I do. Very and so
we have a combined fight approach as far as everything
we do. I try to get in here as early
as possible and everything one else gets in here because
we don't. We can't do our jobs as well as
(31:09):
we would like if we're not putting in the time
prior to Wow, it's really.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Really cool to see them all here, and it's as
I say, for me, there's kind of a buzz reminds
me of when I was a teen. Moh, you don't
realize this, but I was an outstanding community theater performer.
Yes before American Idol. There was way, way way before
American Idol. And I kind of feel like I'm back
(31:36):
in show business when you're here. So again, it might
just be a feeling or what it canotes, but I
like it.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
There's something you would I would say.
Speaker 12 (31:45):
When I'm doing basketball officiating with kids, I say, it's
important to you, it's important to me, And when the
kids show up to play, it's everything for them. Sure,
And I have to approach it the same way with radio.
If people are going to be kind enough to spend
some time with me or share some of their day
with me, allow me to be in their car, or
if they're in the gym, you know, they got the
(32:06):
earbuds in. Then I have to meet them where they are,
and I should show the same type of.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Just how seriously I take it. That's very great.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
You're sincere about this, and I think you're the only
sincere person in the building.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
So I.
Speaker 12 (32:23):
Hope that there's more than just me. I hope there is.
I won't speak for anything.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
I don't listen to my cynical screed. Now what's on
the big show? You have another metro stabbing we have
to talk about.
Speaker 12 (32:35):
Oh my god, if you didn't know, well, we'll bring
you up to speed. And yes someone was hurt, Yes
someone was shot. Beyond the stabbing, we'll tell you about
that deep layoffs at Disney with to tell you how
that's going to impact the same news space as their
seventieth anniversary. We've got to go beyond the box score
with Jackie Ray because there are two major stories, you
(32:56):
know about the trans athlete and the CIF State finals.
How that's going to play out not only in sports
going forward, but also against the Trump administration their investigation.
There's a lot of news there and there was a
head to head between Tesla Robotaxi and Waimo.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Oh we got the weekend.
Speaker 12 (33:14):
Box office and a woman suffers from a seven year
infection because her boyfriend farted in.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Her face allegedly. Allegedly. I can't confirm it tonight, but
that's her contention.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
The show is sounding so heady before you got to
that lat last story.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Well, we try to lighten it up as we go.
Love it. Moe Kelly next with his crew.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
I'm taking the Conway crew out and we'll bring them
back tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Thanks everybody.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
You know, chin Chin.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
They're in Sunset Plaza in West Hollywood. It's been at
that location for a long long time, more than four decades.
I think of all those milestones celebrated there, lunches, dinners,
unforgettable cherished moments. It's all, God, forget it. It's closing,
(00:34):
move a law. The public is bumming that this is
the second closure in this strip of kind of it's
the action strip on Sunset Boulevard there in West Hollywood,
along with this Putty four, which is the French style bakery.
(00:55):
And there are a lot of businesses that are struggling
along that area. I mean it's a I rent area
and in a lot of ways, the region is changing.
The money is changing, and who's got the money, how
they're willing to spend the money, that's all changing too.
Chinchin has other locations. They have a location in Brentwood
(01:16):
and Studio City and in Las Vegas, and all those
locations remain open, but the Sunset Boulevard location there is
going to close. I remember I saw Rod Stewart when
I first got to town, Rod Stuart sitting at chin
Chin right there, that one the one that's closing. So
(01:37):
now when I read the Chin Chin story, I think
back to Rod Stewart. It was really wild, like the
first time you see some of these celebrities in Los
Angeles and you just moved here.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
It was super cool. I want to say, it was.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Like nineteen ninety one maybe, and he was eating at
Chin Chin. So, I mean, I wish I had a
better story, like better finished for that. I think it
does need a finish just to say, I mean, maybe
a rewrite.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
It was okay.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I think that was okay.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
It's more of a slice of life story than like
and then what happened story?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
You know what I mean? Yeah, Yeah, Anyway, I.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Was a fresh faced young guy just got to LA
and I see this superstar Rod story.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
That was your first like big star sighting.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
My very first star sighting was Albert Brooks. I saw
Albert Brooks in West Hollywood, the director Comic. Now, for
me that was huge because I'm a huge Albert Brooks fan.
And he was driving, as I recall, a brown Volvo.
But you know, god, what is that just makes total sense?
(02:44):
He and I rolled down the window because it was
the passenger side. So I'm and he's driving and I yelled,
you're the greatest, You're the greatest, I love you or
whatever something like that, and he held up something. I
forget what it was like, you know. No, he held
up something and he said, please say it again into
the microphone, if you would.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
He was very cute a microphone.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
It was very, very cute. But that was my very
first celebrity setting was Albert Brooks. But Rod Stewart, yeah,
superstar guy. And that was a Chimchin. So Chimchin closes
after forty eight years at that location.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
So I mentioned that things are changing in.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
LA as you know, the nature of show business is changing,
the nature of show business employment is changing, and there
are sadly job cuts at Disney.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Disney is cutting hundreds of jobs across its TV and
film divisions to focus on streaming. Most of the job
losses are here in Los Angeles. They mainly target their marketing, publicity,
and corporate divisions as the company aims to streamline operations
prey time. Disney is heavily pushing its new ESPN streaming
service as competition in the streaming market continues to heat up.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah, ESPN really key to their plans. Live sports is
a big part of the streaming world, as you know.
And now moving over to ESPN is that NBA on
TNT won't be on TNT anymore. It'll be inside the
NBA with Shack and you know, Charles Barkley. And the
(04:22):
reality is that that will still be produced by the way,
by TNT, but they essentially licensed it to ESPN. But
the reality is that live sports continues to be a
huge profit center. And it's also real expensive undertaking for
a lot of these streaming services, right, it's really costly
to broadcast live sports. The license agreements are you know,
witheringly expensive, but they are the things that are paying off.
(04:45):
And speaking of paying off powerball winner, there.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Are two winners in this case, the ticket holder and
the store. We'll get one million dollars off the sale.
Store clerks had no idea. Here's the moment they find out.
Call the store owner, you.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
Know today Monday store gap pot two hundred.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
Seven million dollar winner.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
How much to two hundred seven million today?
Speaker 9 (05:15):
Hand to Pete.
Speaker 10 (05:18):
So great?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Well, the ticket hoolder has yet I have to hear
that again, you know today your Monday store gap po
to two hundred seven million dollar winner.
Speaker 8 (05:30):
How much too?
Speaker 7 (05:31):
Two hundred seven million today?
Speaker 9 (05:37):
Hand to pee?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
So great?
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Well, the ticket hoolder has the option of taking the
jackpot in thirty installments or a ninety million dollar lump
sum payment, but they have a whole year to come forward.
Winning Mega millions or powerball tickets must be postmarked or
received within they have time to do some financial planning.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
No, there you go. So the jackpot was two hundred
and seven million, but after all.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
The tallying up of final sales, the total was adjusted
to two hundred and four point five million for those
of you who are adjusting your own programs and logging
all the final payouts. So that's why they said two
hundred and seven million. But it's going to be two
hundred and four and a half million. So the store
manager and the store get how much a million dollars?
(06:27):
It was actually quite unbelievable, said the store manager. I've
been working here for a long time, and it's the
most exciting thing that's happened. I guess that's a good thing.
It was a seven to eleven in Arlida. The odds
of matching all five numbers and the powerball number one
in two hundred and ninety two point two million.
Speaker 11 (06:50):
We have.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
The lottery group here. I don't know how many people
are in it.
Speaker 12 (06:57):
Like seventy that was a lot Yeah, we won twenty
three dollars and they.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Send out an email with that twenty three dollars win
like we had just scored huge. I mean, that's how
lame the whole thing is, right, we are such losers
that when we hit twenty three dollars, where she's.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Hunting out like great news, everybody.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah, meet me down at iHeart for the big party,
twenty three dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Well, I think part of it is Michelle Cube.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Phil's obligated because Conway calls her out that she's the
worst lotto captain ever.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Well, Conway and I of course disagree about that, but
I think that it's a nice runner that he has going.
But I do think she feels obligated to share any
good news because month after month there is no good news,
and the only thing you hear from her occasionally is.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I still need forty dollars. Yeah you're out. It's still
oh forty dollars.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
People on this email all, oh forty dollars like okay,
so twenty three doesn't really get it and some of
the mob boss is putting the bite on us. There's
no question about it. Anyway, congratulations with that lottery winner.
We still don't know who they are, but they're coming
into some major cash when we come back. The major
(08:15):
cash required to stay in a place that used to
be a discount of vacation.
Speaker 13 (08:23):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I have not mentioned my YouTube show, and I'll just
mention it briefly. I've got a show on YouTube every day.
It's a live two hour show. Of course YouTube you
know you can watch that crap anytime, right, that's the
idea of YouTube and anyway, it's called The Markt Tompsons.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
It's a lot of politics and news and stuff. I
don't know. I don't know if it's for you, but
it's definitely out there. So I mentioned it.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
If you're going to Vegas, it's going to cost you more,
to the point that Vegas is seeing fewer tourists as
these prices continue.
Speaker 10 (09:03):
To go off, So welcome to fabulous Las Vegas. Sign
is usually the first stop for millions of tourists. The
line for that photo is noticeably shorter this spring, and
since city visitors are paying.
Speaker 14 (09:14):
More, well, hey, last year almost exactly the same time.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I think it was probably twenty percent month this year.
Speaker 10 (09:20):
Even the little luxuries stick nine US.
Speaker 11 (09:22):
Dollars for a coffee, Like in the UK, that's what
we paid.
Speaker 14 (09:25):
Four pound five pound for a coffee.
Speaker 10 (09:27):
So yeah, crazy.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yes, that nine dollars coffee is a Vegas thing, but
I would also say that I think you can do
better than that.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Just looking around.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I don't know what you're having in your coffee, but
nine bucks is probably a little north of what you
need to pay.
Speaker 10 (09:42):
Those higher prices haven't stopped convention traffic, but casual trips
are down. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority says
three point thirty nine million people came to town in March,
down seven point eight percent from the same time last year.
April saw a five point one percent drop. Hotel occupancy
also slipped.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I got to tell you, I mean.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Every time I'm trying to do anything in Las Vegas,
from buying concert tickets to getting a seat in a restaurant,
it's crowded. I don't quite understand. Maybe overall the crowd
is diminishing, the traffic to Las Vegas is going down,
but literally everything that you try to do in Las Vegas,
(10:28):
at least on weekend trips, and I understand weekend is
sort of the surge of Angelino's and other Californians who
had there, But if you're trying to get a taxi
or you're trying to get a table at a restaurant,
it is crowded. So for all of this what they
talk about a diminishing flow of people coming to Las Vegas,
it still seems pretty crowded to me.
Speaker 10 (10:49):
As the average nightly rate on the Strip reached two
hundred and three dollars in April.
Speaker 14 (10:54):
I think what's driving that largely now is just a
drop in consumer confidence.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Another or spot.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
Fewer international visitors, the ones who stay longer and spend more,
and so.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
When we lose them, we're losing a very valuable customer.
Speaker 15 (11:09):
Tourists who do roll the dice here hate traffic. Months
of construction act that roll the dice. Tourists who do
roll the dice here hahte traffic. Months of construction and
road closures for special events can turn a ten minute
ride into a crawl.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
We've had so many customers say we're never coming back
to this city.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
You can't get anywhere.
Speaker 10 (11:29):
Will and don A try on operate Adventure photo tours.
They say higher fuel and insurance costs leave little room
to cut prices. Some tours priced at seventy five dollars
before COVID now cost one hundred and nine dollars.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
That may be, but I'll tell you the one thing
that they could definitely change the resort fees. And I
know the resort fee saying now you have to indicate
what the resort fee is. I think it's now folded
into the overall number. They've changed that, so you know
they can't tack it on later. But the resort fees
(12:03):
can be withering. The resort fees can be way out
of whack. The resort fees. You know, if you're staying
at a higher end hotel on the strip, like you
stay at that Win hotel, the resort fees are seventy
five dollars a day. I mean you can stay get
a room at New York New York for less than that.
So I think those resort fees and some of these
(12:25):
congestion issues that they're talking about with Las Vegas. They're
real and they really can blunt your enthusiasm. They're setting
up for F one, they're setting up for whatever other events.
Some of the F one setup is permanent, like the
grand stands, and they have a central area that is
now very much a part of Las Vegas. But it
(12:47):
does seem more congestive than it used to be. So
between the congestion and the cost, it's interesting that it
actually is having an effect on visitors see.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Economy, the money they don't have the money to spend,
and the fact that Loss Vegas is no longer a
bargain vacation.
Speaker 10 (13:03):
Even so, plenty of visitors are shelling out for the
hot tickets like Dead and Company's trippy light show Inside
the Sphere and Beyonce coming to Allegiance Stadium this summer.
Speaker 15 (13:13):
It's like, you can go for the fancy experience, but
then you can find a place that's a pretty good price.
Speaker 10 (13:18):
And with a summer calendar full of concerts, festivals and
sporting events, the city insists there is a price point
for every visitor. On RISCU of here is CBS News,
Las Vaga Thank.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
You andras Yeah I'm just looking at these resort fees
resort fees or call or destination or amenity fees that
they add to the hotel room rates to cover various
amenities thirty to fifty five dollars a night on average
common practice, They are not illegal. The FDC requires hotels
(13:53):
to clearly disclose the total cost upfront, including resort fees.
But if you're traveling to Las Vegas, Reno and other
parts of Nevada, travelers are asking, when they see an
extra thirty to fifty five dollars a night added in
taxis and resort fees, a checkout whether there's a way
(14:14):
around that, and the answer is no. Widespread in Nevada's
major hotel markets, particularly Vegas and Reno, resort fees can
run up to fifty five dollars none. I just told
you at seventy five dollars a night at the Win
and I know that because I booked to stay at
the Win recently. So they want to increase the transparency
(14:37):
around resort fees, and they are expanding the transparency. The
FTC published that rule in December of last year, took
effect just last month, banning quote unfair and deceptive pricing
requiring hotels to disclose the total cost upfront. But they're
not illegal. They just have to break it out. They
(14:59):
just have to tell you what's happening. Vegas. Still, I
would say, now finds way to bring finds ways to
bring you in. You know, you'll go for a Bruno
Mars concert, you'll go for Beyonce, You'll go for any
number of incredible shows shows at the sphere. The amazing
(15:20):
profit center for Las Vegas is the summer pool jams,
huge DJs. One manager of a resort was telling me
and one of these you know hotel resorts, was saying,
that's their biggest profit center, more than the casino, is
these daytime events at daytime that's you know, slosh into
(15:43):
nighttime around the pool with DJs and parties, huge cover fees,
incredible costs when it comes to buying a drink. I mean,
if that British traveler didn't like a nine dollars coffee,
you'll really not like a twenty nine dollars martini anyway.
These are all things that still exist in Las Vegas
(16:03):
to bring the crowds in. And as I mentioned, f
one is there now, so Vegas don't shed any tears
for them.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
They're still doing fine.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
When we come back AI catching thieves before they walk
out the door. It's a fascinating thing being used by
more and more stores and even convenience stores.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
As we continue, we'll have that.
Speaker 13 (16:28):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
There is a concern in Hollywood, the changing face of Hollywood.
We talked about it, Hollywood writers and actors month long
strikes in twenty twenty three, production ground to a halt.
California lost about forty thousand film and TV jobs just
(16:55):
in that year. And now things are settling out again,
and it's difficult. It's difficult to get things back up
and get any kind of momentum. Things truly changing in
Southern California. We mentioned already the closure of a lot
of restaurants and Southern California institutions that are responding to
(17:19):
a change in the marketplace of demand. You know, Gavin
Newsom wants to try to stop the bleeding. Double the
state's annual film and TV tax credits to bring production
back here to Southern California went from three hundred and
thirty million in TV and film tax credits to seven
hundred and fifty million a year. It's tough though, because
(17:42):
already a lot of that production is going elsewhere. Now
you've heard the threats from the president, you know, one
hundred percent tariffs on overseas film production and television production.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
We'll see what happens.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
But they're literally production people who've worked in production all
their lives that are applying for jobs at Costco. They're
having to get out of this Hollywood world. Truly a
changing face of Southern California. Thieves are now subject to AI,
(18:20):
catching them before they leave the store.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Check it out.
Speaker 11 (18:24):
AI everywhere. Yeah, really the future, and this is one
way it's being used, just part of many ways that
AI is being used. We know shoplifting is a big
problem for small business owners and the damage can add
up quickly. Well, now one startup is helping stores fight
back using AI to detect theft in near real time.
Seven to eleven franchise owner Jaspal Sandu says a new
(18:44):
AI system is a game changer.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
Since I've got this application maybe about a month ago,
probably done saving about ten.
Speaker 11 (18:50):
Thousand, ten thousand dollars pain theft theft field. The system
connects to existing.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
In one second, you're telling me that in a month,
he just got the system a month ago, it saved
him ten thousand dollars. There's that kind of merchandise walking
out the front door every month, ten thousand dollars worth.
I mean, that's an extraordinary facto.
Speaker 11 (19:18):
Ten thousand dollars. In theft theft field, the system connects
to existing security cameras and monitors footage twenty four to seven,
alerting owners in near real time when it detects potential theft.
Speaker 9 (19:36):
It definitely saves me time, saves me headache, a stealing
game in my employee stealing room.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Is that music is the is the music playing in
the convenience store or is that like music that Rich
Demura put on it while he shows the AI work.
It sounds at it. Yeah, I think it's he's showing that.
It's kind of catchy.
Speaker 8 (19:54):
Is that you know that?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
But yeah, really like to meet our shoplifters. Yeah, it
just has that kind of upbeat shoplifting thing.
Speaker 16 (20:12):
I don't know, like seventies daisy flowers all behind one
hand on your waist, the other hand waving just wildly
because you're so excited to be there, take out.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Your haul to your Volkswagen bus with the flowers on it.
Speaker 9 (20:29):
It definitely saves me time, saves me headache. Stealing game
in my employee stating animal stealing and I don't feel
that now.
Speaker 11 (20:36):
The technology comes from a startup named Vision. It uses
artificial intelligence to detect suspicious gestures.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
The AI detects a dozen different suspicious gestures. It can
be anything from sliding an item into your jackets, into
your paints, onto your backpack, anything like that.
Speaker 11 (20:55):
It's trained on millions of interactions from over five thousand
clients worldwide.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Story it is too late when they go and rewind
the cameras. Now they can focus on the customers, on
the inventory, on managing their staff, and basically just leave
the AI watching for them.
Speaker 11 (21:12):
Set up as simple. A small box plugs into the
router that connects to existing cameras.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
When we think AIO, we think it's expensive.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
It's not at all.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
It's way less than an employee would cost you to
monitor the cameras.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Twenty four seven.
Speaker 11 (21:26):
To test it out, I slipped some batteries into my bag.
Within seconds, an alert popped up, flagging my suspicious behavior.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I wish there was an alert to flag you on
the use of that music, because it really it doesn't
help your story. Rich I'm sorry, but I am at
the same time amazed by this technology.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
It really is great.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
You get an alert every time there's like a movement,
like the hand into the pocket. This is AI technology
applied and it's quite remarked.
Speaker 11 (22:00):
To test it out, I slipped some batteries into my bag.
Within seconds, an alert popped up, flagging my suspicious behavior.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
It has nothing to do with facial recognition or how
a person looks like. It's really based on suspicious gestures.
Speaker 11 (22:14):
Alerts are graded low, medium, or critical to help store
owners decide whether to take action. Are you okay with
confronting people that are stealing.
Speaker 9 (22:23):
Something because the camera's under you know, it's on the camera.
I'm not saying any dude, look at the camera, the camera,
what's in front of them?
Speaker 11 (22:30):
Just Spaull estimates the system has saved him nearly ten
thousand dollars in just a month.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I mean again, I just am amazed by that that
in one month, ten thousand dollars worth of merch is
walking out the door.
Speaker 11 (22:41):
Nearly ten thousand dollars in just a month, And what
do they.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Do most of the time.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
End up thing, sorry giving you a background up pin Cort, Oh.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Well, I didn't know there's a stinger on the end.
I kind of like it now. I like the music
because there's a stinger on.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
The end, Pink Cord.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah, I mean that's yeah. No, I get it. I
didn't get it before. Yeah, and I really do kind
of dig it now.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 16 (23:07):
If Justin chooses you to be his dad, we're gonna
side you want a lovely trip along the beach on
a two person bike, stop.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
By saving I love them, but don't try to steal
anything because the AI ha is gonna get you. Yeah right,
Oh my god, that's really something man. Well, that is
again AI applied, And I hate to say it because
it's oftentimes talked about in conjunction with artificial intelligence. But
(23:36):
you are taking a job away from someone, right, That
would be a job that would be normally taken by
someone who is a store detective.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
They used to call them.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Now they they have some other name for it, like
you know, robbery interdiction or something. But no one's watching
those cameras now. Now there's automatic electronic notifications.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yeah, so the uh you know.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
And by the way, that should be the notification whenever
anybody trying to steal anything you should get to you. Yeah,
excuse me, I'm sorry. Could I look inside your purse?
We got the notification that you got it exactly right,
it would be that is an awkward conversation when you're
actually saying to the what do you say? You say, Hey,
(24:20):
I'm sorry, I'm sure you meant to pay for that,
but I have to ask you to, you know, get
the batteries out of your bag, take the batteries out
of your pants, which is yeah. Anyway, I am fascinated
by this new AI and I'm fascinated by my new stinger,
which I'm going to be easier. All right. That's it. Well,
that's it for this segment. We will return and there
(24:45):
is a lot more. It's a big finish. If you've
never heard the finish on The Conway Show, you are
in for a treat.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
We'll be doing it next.
Speaker 13 (24:56):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from k
F I am six.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Forty oh yeah, I am six forty live everywhere in
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I saw Mo warming up in the hallway in the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Getting loose with his Crew's got a whole crew, Mark
Thompson filling in for Tim. He's got a big crew,
you know, a crozer. Sometimes I feel like the Conway Show.
There's a big crew, but Mo's got an even bigger crew.
Speaker 16 (25:24):
What I got it was one, two, three.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Yeah it's four five. Oh wow, I counted three. I
mean not counting Mark and Mo. So five on the
you know involved in the show. The three people out
there who are associated with like because Mos like a
multi media experience.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
He is always has been.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Yeah, he really and you know he comes with the
background in production and recording industry, et cetera.
Speaker 16 (25:49):
He plays like seven instruments or he's a really interesting guy.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Yeah, but uh but I liked that he comes in
like it really feels like show business when when when
when most shows.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
It doesn't feel like a production.
Speaker 16 (26:01):
It's like you see, I see him go by in
the hallway and he'll go up to somewhere and he' say, hey,
you got this, you got this rage?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I need to get this point.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
And I'm like, they are four four monitors and laptops
are set up out there and all these ring what
are the cameras that are the ring light, the big
ring light.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Yes, and it's like a three ring circuit.
Speaker 11 (26:19):
It is.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
It's really really cool. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
So now you guys know not to make eye contact
with Mo right, Yo, that absolutely never never mad respect Mark.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
You're absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Tali refineries, what's going to happen as they close?
Speaker 14 (26:36):
There's an interesting hearing this past week in the state
capitol as members of the California Legislature listened to the
head of the California Air Resources War the Energy Commission,
about the closure of two refineries in California next year,
one in Southern California and Carson, another in the San
Francisco Bay area. Those refineries themselves represent about twenty percent
of the fuel that is used in the state, and
(26:58):
some concerns are whether or not that's going to increase
the cost of the pump or increase the amount of
fuel that's actually imported to the ports of Long Beach
and Los Angeles. Assembly bumber Mike Gibson is a Democrat
from Guardina. He chairs the Assembly Taxation and Revenue Committee.
Assembly went, thanks for taking the time, So I believe
(27:19):
that Phillips sixty six refineries in your district.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
If it's not it's close to your district.
Speaker 14 (27:24):
Are you Are you glad to see them closing this facility.
Speaker 8 (27:29):
I'm not glad to see them close.
Speaker 17 (27:31):
I'm very concerned with Phillips sixty six closing, and it's
adjacent to my district. It's literally fifty feet away from
my district.
Speaker 8 (27:40):
But the jobs that.
Speaker 17 (27:42):
It holds, the individuals that rely every day on going
to that place, to that refinery working.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
I just know that every time somebody hiccups at a
refinery in California, every time there is a flu outbreak
in a refinery area, prices for gas go up. When
the interruptions in refinery supply, they're always the excuse for
gas prices going.
Speaker 17 (28:10):
Working each and every day, those individuals that live in
my district, they shop in my district, They add to
the economy in my district. This is a tremendous loss
to my district. So I'm very concerned with.
Speaker 8 (28:22):
Phillips sixty six closing its doors.
Speaker 17 (28:24):
I've sat down with them and try to do everything
that I can to convince them to remain here in
southern California, in California as a whole, and they have
said that they cannot do business in the State of California.
Speaker 14 (28:40):
Expand on that for a moment, because from what I've
been reading, they said, well, listen, you know, the market
is changing, they're more evs.
Speaker 17 (28:47):
The regulatory agencies have imposed on the refineries in California
very stringent regulation that makes it very difficult for them
to remain in the state of California. That means that
they won't have the tax they won't pay the taxes
to the State of California, and that also means that
(29:08):
they won't be able to provide the jobs.
Speaker 8 (29:10):
We should all be concerned by that.
Speaker 17 (29:12):
But also we should be concerned by that the fact
that if they go down and they leave, then what
will happen to supply.
Speaker 14 (29:20):
They have said to the state, Listen, we will still
get gas to burn, but it will have to be imported.
That means refined somewhere else, and not just refine somewhere
else in the United States, but some foreign refinery and
then shipped into the port.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Is that your understanding that all equals more expensive, all
of these things. And certainly if you lose you know,
twenty percent of your refineries in California, it certainly means
it's going to be price here. So all of that
is tough to look forward to it. It's not easy.
(29:56):
It's not easy these days. As I say, any change
in the refineries system, it just leads to higher prices
at the pump. The great mo Kelly, we were speaking
about you before.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Oh what did I do?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
No, Well, we're fans, so it was pretty positive. You mean,
you know, but watch your step. That's all I have
to say. We could turn on you like rabbit animals.
I see Michael Kroser walking behind me. I don't trust him.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
He's uh mo, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
You've got First of all, I was let me just
share something I was mentioning to everyone that when you're
about to come on, I feel like it's real show
business about to happen. There are a bunch of people
in the hallway. They've set up lights, They've got all
this stuff. There's like a production element to your show
that no other show has, and it's good feeling. Like
I walk past it and I feel like, yeah, like
(30:45):
something big is happening.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
All I can say is.
Speaker 12 (30:48):
I love the people that I work with, and I
think that they understand who I am, and they buy
in and believe in what I do. Very and so
we have a combined fight approach as far as everything
we do. I try to get in here as early
as possible and everything one else gets in here because
we don't. We can't do our jobs as well as
(31:09):
we would like if we're not putting in the time
prior to Wow, it's really.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Really cool to see them all here, and it's as
I say, for me, there's kind of a buzz reminds
me of when I was a teen. Moh, you don't
realize this, but I was an outstanding community theater performer.
Yes before American Idol. There was way, way way before
American Idol. And I kind of feel like I'm back
(31:36):
in show business when you're here. So again, it might
just be a feeling or what it canotes, but I
like it.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
There's something you would I would say.
Speaker 12 (31:45):
When I'm doing basketball officiating with kids, I say, it's
important to you, it's important to me, And when the
kids show up to play, it's everything for them. Sure,
And I have to approach it the same way with radio.
If people are going to be kind enough to spend
some time with me or share some of their day
with me, allow me to be in their car, or
if they're in the gym, you know, they got the
(32:06):
earbuds in. Then I have to meet them where they are,
and I should show the same type of.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Just how seriously I take it. That's very great.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
You're sincere about this, and I think you're the only
sincere person in the building.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
So I.
Speaker 12 (32:23):
Hope that there's more than just me. I hope there is.
I won't speak for anything.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
I don't listen to my cynical screed. Now what's on
the big show? You have another metro stabbing we have
to talk about.
Speaker 12 (32:35):
Oh my god, if you didn't know, well, we'll bring
you up to speed. And yes someone was hurt, Yes
someone was shot. Beyond the stabbing, we'll tell you about
that deep layoffs at Disney with to tell you how
that's going to impact the same news space as their
seventieth anniversary. We've got to go beyond the box score
with Jackie Ray because there are two major stories, you
(32:56):
know about the trans athlete and the CIF State finals.
How that's going to play out not only in sports
going forward, but also against the Trump administration their investigation.
There's a lot of news there and there was a
head to head between Tesla Robotaxi and Waimo.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Oh we got the weekend.
Speaker 12 (33:14):
Box office and a woman suffers from a seven year
infection because her boyfriend farted in.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Her face allegedly. Allegedly. I can't confirm it tonight, but
that's her contention.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
The show is sounding so heady before you got to
that lat last story.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Well, we try to lighten it up as we go.
Love it. Moe Kelly next with his crew.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
I'm taking the Conway crew out and we'll bring them
back tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Thanks everybody.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
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