June 17, 2025 • 30 mins
Mark Thompson’s & Crozier’s accidental auction purchase. Ever get in a charity-auction situation where you “accidently” bid and had to pay? // More Mark T stories // Dodger’s Shohei Ohtani pitches for the first time with Dodgers. Shohei talks to our David Vassegh // D.A. Nathan Hochman announced a new round of charges tied to violence at the recent immigration protests. What protests will cost the city and tax payers? $19M
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's kf AM sixty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
KFI AM six forty. It is The Conway Show. Mark
Thompson's here.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Thank you, Tim, and thank you everyone and collected masses.
Please be seated.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I was so jealous on Sunday that you were here.
Krozier was here, and I was listening on the way
to getting my ass kicked at sant Anita, and I
heard you guys talking about how you both got worked
in auctions.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah, we tell the story.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I thought, can you tell that story again?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Sure, I'll tell it again. Krozier story. I thought it
was even better.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah that was So we'll save Kroziers for a second
because he leapfrogged over you.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Oh his is really good, but sort of in the
same general vein. I was am seeing an event this
past weekend and it just seemed as though it was
an autism event and you know, a beautiful and tie.
It was for the ed Asner Center. They do a
lot of treatment and outreach with families and those who
(01:05):
are Yeah, exactly what it's a callism world. It's called
ed Asner Family Center and So this is a fundraiser
for that center, and Matt, who is Ed's son, is
heading things up with his wife Nova. Anyway, so you
get to the auction part of things, and it's a fundraiser,
(01:26):
and there are these four nights in Thailand somewhere. I
didn't really pay attention to what it was. I saw
a villa. It was a villa.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
How does that auction operate? You have a paddle with
your number on.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
People had paddles. I didn't even have a paddle. That's
how pathetic this is. I wasn't planning on all. I mean, MC,
I didn't plan on buying anything or bidding on anything necessarily.
Or maybe you're just an oversight. But we started the
bidding at one thousand dollars and somebody in the crowd
bids one thousand dollars and he says, so do I
hear two thousand dollars? And this I'm am seeing it.
I'm not actually on stage though, I'm just was kind
(02:00):
of like there with the opening remarks and remarks through
the night.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
You feel able is that you're all that you're an
MC and they don't have somebody with autism.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Oh I never thought of it. That way. Yeah, well,
we have autism in my family, so I feel connected
to it. But you make a good point. Maybe i'll
be disqualified next year, but after this they probably will
want me back. Because I noticed that there was nobody
bidding two thousand, only the thousand, and I just felt bad.
So I said two thousand. It's a trip to where.
(02:28):
It's not a trip that would be different. It's not
a trip four days you get there on your own.
It's four days in this villa in time Thailands. It's
like a like, are the what are the famous vacation
spots in Thailand? It's one of them? Okay, So then
like nobody's bidding anything more, and he goes three, please
(02:51):
bid something more. But then somebody said three thousand, and
they were pretty quick with it. Tim. You know, it
wasn't like sure so ipanic maybe a little thought. Oh good,
now people are getting on board. We're picking a momentum.
And so then he says, how about four thousand, and
nobody it's quiet. I'm thinking this thing is going to
(03:11):
go for three thousand dollars. It's kind of insulting, I
would sort of, so I'm going to push it along.
So I yell and raise my hand. Four thousand. Wow.
And uh they said, oh, that's so great. Mark Thompson,
A wow, you're gonna you're gonna have four thousand dollars.
That's just terrific. And I'm thinking somebody else is going
to come in here for whatever, and nobody did come
(03:32):
in forever, Oh no, for whatever. And I ended up
buying a trip. When do you have to use it
by I don't know. I don't know any of the
details except for the fact that it's I'm gonna need
to go fund me to pay for it. That's all
I know. Yeah, the American Express swat team met me
on the way out. Yeah, you you know you bumped it.
You bumped the card. That's wid. But Krozier had a
better story even than that.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
You got you got to hit with these hit with
with a an accidental purchase.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Yes, my first wife and I were at a some
some charity thing for some medical thing. I couldn't even
tell you what it was, something that's starting to pop
up in people about over twenty years ago. And Holly
Robinson Pete Rodney Pete's wife was one of the sort
of co hosts and Jason Ritter. John R's kid was
there was part of it as well, and all night
(04:23):
and it was like at the Beverly Hills, you know, hotels.
So it was like high fluting, a lot of money
flowing and all this stuff running the risk of radically
insulting you. How were you invited? My ex worked for
a medical company that had something to do with the condition,
So yeah, I had nothing to do with me personally.
I was along for the ride, but you know, so
(04:43):
they were. They had a silent auction and then they
had the big auction afterwards, and money's flowing, you know,
everybody's bidding big bids, you know, thousand, But the biggest
one of the night was the very last one, and
it was a set of earrings and a necklace matching necklace.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
It was like blue sapphire something like that. Ye, beautiful stuff.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
And uh and we hadn't bid on anything, you know,
we paddle hadn't.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Moved all night.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
And they said, all right, we'll start the bid off
with eight thousand dollars and wife looks at me, and
I go, all right, our goose a little bit eight.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Thousand, not a single bit after that? How did you
pay for it? Did you have that kind of do.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
It was on a credit card.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Oh my god, my wife got it in the divorce,
got the set.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Oh that's horrible.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
So it's eight thousand plus twenty seven percent you know interest,
you know every time every month you don't pay it off.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah, oh my god. That for that gleaming moment.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Everybody's like, look at you, nice young man, well done.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I just.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Well you at least buzzed. Is that why you did it?
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I honestly couldn't remember, but it was a fairly sober
It was, you know, it was a thought out sort
of thing. People are bidding. Nobody seemed to be shy
on any of the items. So I thought, right, you know,
I'll partake in the fun and the festivities.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
You know, I don't have a story like that, but
I went to one of those big events that was
an auction. And what you do when you get there,
you give them your credit card information and then it's
associated with your paddle and they can make it the
association pretty quickly once you buy it, so it speeds
things along. So I get to this auction and or
this charity event, and they said, hey, you know you
(06:32):
want to give us your credit card, we'll give you
a paddle. And I said, buddy, I'm busted out, don't
I don't get anything going. I got I barely. I
mean I park down the street. I didn't even use
the valid parking here. This is not not the guy
that's going to cure AIDS or cancer or whatever is
rolling around this auditorium. I said, I'm not that guy.
(06:54):
And he said, well, everybody has.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
It gives a credit card and then you give the
paddle even if you don't use it. You know, just
I said, okay, get in the credit card. So all
night long my paddle was frozen. It was just you know,
it was iced. It was in you know, like it's
still in an ice a on it. Yeah, I went,
I purposely burned it.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I took it out and burned it out of the
battle right away.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
And so the next uh, like, I'm like two weeks later,
I see my credit card statement and they charged me
thirty five hundred dollars for an item. And I'm like, oh,
I didn't buy an item. It must have got mixed
up with somebody else's. So I called the auction I said, hey,
I didn't buy anything. They charged me thirty five hundred dollars.
(07:39):
And they said, oh, no, you bid on something. I said, no,
I didn't. I didn't bid on anything. And then they said, okay,
then we'll try to figure it out. And so like
took another week and they and they said, okay, what
was somebody else's bid? But we had four of them,
and somebody thought they saw your paddle being raised.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
So we're going to send you the item.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
And I said no, no, no, no, no, yeah, I said,
but I said, what's the item?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
And they said it's.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
It's a balloon ride in del Mar. Two nights at
a hotel with a balloon ride and wine and cheese
and I two.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Nights at the waste of money hotels.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, And I said, sweet, I'm at del Mar at
the track. I'm not with the balloons and the wine
and the crackers and the you know, couterie board or
coutery board or whatever it is. And I said, I said,
And then she says, so you want me to reverse
the charges and it's going to affect all these kids
that otherwise would have benefited.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
What a great play from your thirty five hundred dollars?
And I said, one hundred percent. Give the kids my
number one.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
I am.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I am not going down.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I don't have that kind of dough and another kind
of money of cells.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
I get sucked under those all the time. Sadly, it's
just in the moment you do it. But yours is
truly a mistake though at least right.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
But you've got to watch giving your credit card because
another buddy of mine that happened to him at an
auction where somebody made a mistake. And some some people
are too wealthy, they don't look at their credit card statement,
you know, and then or in that.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Last moment when she pushed on you, they would have
done yeah, you're right, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Right, yeah, I think i'd do some of that on purpose.
And she she got the wrong cat.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Well, these you know, these babies are dying of you
know whatever they were selling it to you.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
It's a beautiful ride where you see the landscape.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
That's not me, sweetie. I'm sorry, I'm not. I told
you when I got there, I'm not your type.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
You don't like the taste of the grapes, sister Conway,
but those things are really.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Reserved for wealthy people, you know, man, everybody there had
a high end car. Everybody was bidding, you know, throwing
their paddle up at forty thousand dollars car.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I have it when we come back. I have a
story about that, and that isn't always true. You're in
a room drenched with money and like, I'm the only
one who bids on something. Oh really, your people could
buy and something what you have in your pockets.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am six four.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
You got a quick follow up that story before you go.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Just you were saying that, oh, you know, those auctions
are made for people to have all this money. And
I just remember going to a really great cause. It
was in bel Air, this fundraiser for these doctors who
actually use technology to council surgeons in Africa. You know,
in Africa there's there are very few, many many fewer
(10:25):
doctors than we have. And sometimes for a wide area,
I mean huge area one hundreds and hundred of miles,
there might be three doctors. So if you can get
a surgeon who actually knows anything, he needs outside help.
So anyway, this technology allows guys in Beverly Hills or
whatever in LA to connect with that surgeon to actually
look through the surgeon's eyes. He wears these special glasses.
(10:46):
So I wanted to go there and support this technology,
to get this sort of life saving technology to support it. Right.
So I go there and it said fundraiser in bel
Air and it's a huge house, like one of the
biggest houses I've ever seen, like the Aaron Spelling mansion,
and with this big roundabout in front, and I just thought,
oh my god, this is These people are cripplingly rich,
(11:07):
you know. I don't I feel so insecure right now.
So I get out of the car, I go in
and they have art from like the most famous artist.
Every word's hanging on the wall crazy and around the room.
I look and I see other people. It's clearly, you know,
a lot of people with a lot of money. So
I'm thinking, all right, you know, I've got to knock
(11:28):
these people down some money. But I don't have a
ton of money right now, so I don't know. You know,
they get us all in this room, they say we're
going to have this movie. You're going to see this
move is a short movie about what we do. And
then this lady comes on. She says, okay, I've seen
the movie. We're gonna now ask you to support us,
and I'll start and I'm thinking in my mind, all right,
(11:49):
five hundred dollars. I'm going to give these guys five
hundred dollars, which for me was a really like a
big you know, extending myself in a big way. So
she goes, we're going to start at one hundred thousand dollars.
That's how I said, Okay, I'll go to five hundred,
because I think I was thinking about one hundred, so FI.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
They wanted the minimum.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
BI you know, they're going to start at one hundred thousand,
and we're going to drop it down until you get
to a number where you feel comfortable and then you
can bid. Right, And I'm thinking, oh my god, because
there's so many wealthy people in this room, this is
going to be extraordinary to see. And it was. There
was a lady who I think pledge two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. I mean it was incredible. I mean,
that's the kind of wealth that was here. But it
was all for this wonderful cause. So they go down
(12:33):
to one hundred thousand, then they went down to fifty thousand.
Then I think they went down to twenty five thousand,
and she said, we're going to keep going all the
way down. I'm thinking we're going to go all the
way down to whatever you can afford. I was expecting
whatever you can afford. Instead, she said, we're going all
the way down to a thousand. A thousand, that's twice
(12:55):
what I had budgeted for this. So they go down
and I'm noticing that most of the room isn't bidding,
most of the room is not using their paddle, and
I'm thinking these people are all really rich. I don't
understand what's going on. Like I thought some number like
twenty five, ten thousand, whatever it would be, they would
(13:16):
get there. So finally they got down to a thousand,
I thought, this is the last number they're going to
go with. There's nothing under this, this iss lowers you're
going to go. So I thought I had to take
my five hundred and I have to make it a thousand,
which is a little bit more than I wanted. But
more to the point, I'm sure this whole room is
going to explode to the thousand because these people have
all been sitting on their pals this whole time, and
they've all got dough so a thousand. She calls it up,
(13:42):
and I lift up my paddle and I look around
and maybe I don't know five other people in this
huge room filled with people, I'm thinking, man, these people
definitely have money. No, maybe they did it in a
private way, they put it on some envelope or something
like that that I wasn't aware of. But it just
your point. You think, well, all these rich people, they're
(14:03):
really gonna support this. Not always I it's.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Weight now, but you know, and I think people get
burned out. You know, if you do like three, four,
five of those a year, you just you know, you
don't have that kind of doubt.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Yeah, there's something in the charity world called donor fatigue,
that right, and it does happen, like if.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You with it with the title that dead on. I
mean it is with all these creative people in this city,
they came up with donor fatigue.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
I don't think it's a marketing thing. I think it's
just a fact, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Uh, tired of but tired of supporting charity fatigue.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
But at the point is you can only squeeze so much.
That's yeah. Anyway, So there you go. Did you end
up giving a thousand I did, yeah, a thousand and
and hopefully that you know, it goes to good, good causes. Yeah,
you're the best.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
All right, all right, ding dong with you more now
with Croche.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
You're listening to Tim Conway jun you're on from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You see Otani pitch last night. How about that man? Man,
that guy can still throw. He has some talent.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
What you know, I've ever.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Said, I haven't seen that in after Little League where
a guy pitches, doesn't even go on the dugout, grabs
his bat and goes to the plate.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Yeah, I've never seen that before in the major leagues. Yeah,
it is wild. You're right, we're just not used to
seeing that. I mean the days of pitchers who are
also hitters, but not only hitters leadoff hitters, right, I
mean yeah, I mean he's.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
He leads, he leads off. For the Dodgers that are
are are are swamped in talent. Yeah, they have more talent.
That's an all Star team sure, Now that's a murderer's
row of hitters. I think that the Dodgers could beat
the American League All Star team, you know, I mean
that's and that's what they should do. They should put
(15:52):
up the World Series winner against all of baseball.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
That's a that's a great spectacle kind.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Of Yeah, it would be better than and you know,
two teams that don't care about it. Yeah, you know,
so you and you put it in a home city
of whoever wins the World Series. He gives them another
incentive to win the World Series, you know. And if
you don't win the World Series, you never get the
All Star Game. Screw it, you know you're not that good.
How about Colorado Rockies twenty eight or twenty nine games
(16:20):
out before the All Star break?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Yeah, that's the problem that you know, some teams are
just stacked with talent, like the Dodgers, and then you know,
you find the bottom of the league just doesn't really
you know, can't compete, right, but it.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
But to the argument of that is, then why aren't
the Angels really good? You know, if the Angels are
in the same market, they have the same money, they
have the same you know, talent that would would love
to live in southern California and play baseball. Why haven't
the Angels put it together?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Like well, why why aren't the Angels the same brand
as the Dodgers. I mean the Angels had Otani, right
and they didn't. Yeah, so virtually nothing. But it's it
comes to management. It comes to brand management and and
and basic baseball management, I guess. But there is a difference,
isn't there In it's not like the NFL. There's a
difference in the profit sharing, and different markets do have
(17:14):
different budgets, right Tim.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I think you're right. Yeah, I think I think it.
I think that, well, the Dodgers make a ton of
money off merchandising. I don't think that's shared with the league.
I think that, you know, the Dodgers get to keep that. Sure,
they make forty to fifty million dollars just in Japan
on merchandising. You know, it's a ton of money.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
But Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Last night showe Aotani started for the Dodgers and they
talked to our own David Vase after the game. Let's
find out what happened there show.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
Hey, I know you're a team guy, and you guys
won the ball game tonight, but the fans are curious
to know how did it feel to be back on
the mountain tonight?
Speaker 8 (17:49):
Monthony, I don't know, I got take money, I don't
know what.
Speaker 9 (18:01):
Well. First of all, I'm very grateful for all this,
you know, staff members, people who supported me throughout this
whole progress. I'm very grateful that I'm back here healthy
and pitching again.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Show Hey, did you feel whole again as a baseball
player tonight?
Speaker 10 (18:16):
God?
Speaker 6 (18:22):
Second off, I'm.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
Not quite happy with the results, but there were a
lot that I was able to take away from today's
out In today.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
He only pitched one inning. You know, he didn't come
back and pitch a nine inning shutout. He pitched one inning. Yeah,
but he's just getting back right right, But there are
some position players that have pitched one inning.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
I see on a night like tonight where you got
so many contributions from so many of your teammates, how
much more special is a win and a night like tonight?
Speaker 3 (18:53):
How much? How much? What more special? What was the
question here?
Speaker 7 (18:56):
On a night like tonight where you got so many
contributions from so many of you your teammates? How much
more special is a win and a night like tonight?
Speaker 9 (19:04):
It's a really great team win offensively, and also they
both ended up amazing job holding on to the win,
and it was a really really nice win.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
Congratulations on the Great Night Show. Hey, great to have
you back on the Man. And great to see the
Dodgers win again tonight.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Thank you. There you go.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Man Daviday talks like he owns the team.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
Congratulations on the Great Night Show. Hey, great to have
you back there.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Great to have your back. Yeah, I knew I should
have drat. I secured you with my check book for
seven hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
There'll be a little lyrics or something and you're envelope
at the end of the week.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
Great to have you back on the Man and great
to see the Dodgers win again tonight. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Dodgers win. They beat the Podreys. They got three more
with the Podreys and I they man every team in
that in the National League West, with the exception of
Bello's Rockies is great. You know San Francisco Competitive Division, Dodgers.
I think Arizona is doing good and then the Rockies
are four hundred games out.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
But I thought the Dodgers are going to steamroll everybody,
and that had I thought. I thought so too. It's pitching.
Pitching is a little bit of an issue, but you
know what they should do.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
If you're thirty games out by All Star Break. They
should just call it.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
You can't do that. I mean, these are these are markets.
Sometimes it's more fun for a lot of people in
the market to go with the team. They just go
for the fun of seeing the team play lose. Yeah,
and there's a there's a virtue in the suffering, like
the Cubs. Yeah, the long suffering Cubs fans.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Hey, belly, Oh, you're from Colorado and you love the Rockies.
Were they ever good?
Speaker 10 (20:39):
Yeah? They were good once?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
They were good?
Speaker 11 (20:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Did they win an it? Did they ever win the
World Series or go to playoffs?
Speaker 10 (20:45):
Or I believe they've been in the playoffs. They have
not won the World Series?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
And what do they call that wall there you sit
in the outfield, that's the rock pile.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
The rock pile.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Oh boy, all right, you worked for them for a while,
didn't you that you worked for the Rockies.
Speaker 10 (21:01):
I worked for a sports station that covered the Rockies.
It's the station that actually got major League Major League
Baseball into Colorado.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Oh not right, So they were they played a big
part of.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
It, all right, did they? Did you?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Were you auctioned off in Colorado?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
What does that mean? She was auctioned off? Here? At
kles Kay date where Yeah, you didn't know that, so
now I did not. That's how she met her husband.
Oh that's right. Was a contest or something somebody?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
John was the highest bidder.
Speaker 10 (21:32):
It wasn't a bid Yeah wait, Angel I'm just going
to ride back up here.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Well wasn't it. It wasn't a bit win.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
A date with me?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Contest?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
You wraffled off and it came down to two guys, right.
Speaker 10 (21:50):
Well we did, you know, like the Sweet sixteen, the
Elite eight four? Yeah, and then I picked two and
then the listeners got to vote on line and.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
They chose the same person I did. Really yeah, ah,
where what's the other guy doing?
Speaker 11 (22:06):
Now?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
He's drinking himself the same last night? He's great. You
ever think about the other guy every day?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Man? This took an ugly turn.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah, no, I know John's not listening hyal one, but
that uh yeah, the thing was unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
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Speaker 2 (22:33):
We have the District Attorney in the City of Los
Angeles or the County of Los Angeles. New charges announced
against some of the LA protesters.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
I guess they got a lot of footage.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Online and could oh, sure, of course trace these guys back.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I hope they get all those guys are throwing stuff
and who were wrecking police car. I hope they just
they they've got to prosecute those people and put them away.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I don't understand videotaping your self or and then putting
it up online knowing that the cops. I mean, you're
just handing that to the cops. They can't help it.
The DA's office just looks through all that social media
all day long, like, oh that guy, that guy's uh,
and then they match you with another picture of a guy.
A lot of those guys are already on file, surprisingly
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and then they go to their house, knock on their door,
and it's you know, over four years.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I don't understand that at all.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Guy committing crimes then puts it on social media got
al mighty its just never.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I just don't understand that mentality.
Speaker 12 (23:34):
We heard not only from the LA County District Attorney,
but also the United States Attorney, the lead federal prosecutor
for Southern California, highlighting what they say are some of
the nearly held so far. Keep in mind these are felonies.
They describe them as some of the most egregious examples
of some of the vandalism and violence that's followed some
of those protests in downtown LA. And the prosecutors from
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both agencies say they're trying to draw a very clear
line here between the people who went out to exercise
their First Amendment rights and demonstrate peacefully and those they
say went out to cause trouble and mayhem as a result.
Speaker 11 (24:08):
And I'm here to tell you that ninety nine zero
point nine to nine percent of the people who protested
did so lawfully. This smaller group, which numbers probably in
the hundreds, not even in the thousands, this group wanted
to commit crimes. They looked at the protests as a cover,
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an opportunity to go ahead and apply their illegal trade
and commit a whole variety of crimes.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Now.
Speaker 12 (24:36):
Also among the new charges announced today the man suspective
of throwing bricks onto CHP officers and cars that were
stopped on the one oh one Freeway back on June eighth.
He's been accused in federal court of arson and in
local court were assaulting.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Officers and arson.
Speaker 12 (24:50):
Some other cases announced and alleged people through fireworks at
police or burglarized businesses following those large demonstrations in downtown LA.
One person was caught a qu to now of ilegally
carrying a gun. Another facing a federal conspiracy charge for
handing out protective equipment to people out doing some of
the or participating in some of these demonstrations.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I didn't know that was illegal to hand out face masks.
You know, they had the bionic face mask that they're
handing out to like fifty or sixty people, and that
guy got busted for doing that.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
And you're not allowed to I guess edition those.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, man, were you a big fan of the six
million Dollar Man?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
My friend? When I moved to La Harve Bennett he
created this Sema Wow, and he told me a story
about the six million Dollar Man. Then I'm going to
tell you right now. It's a little quick story. Sure.
He said, when they were developing the six million Dollar Man,
they couldn't figure out how to communicate that he was
running really fast without it looking like a Benny Hill movie,
you know, like they sped it up, and so they
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really were stuck. And he said, I was sitting around
one day and they were showing a film of Gail Sayers,
who at that time was the the running back from
the Bears. It was just amazing and he was just
like he was faster than everybody on the field. He
was quit longer and better. It was in slow motion. Ah,
and he said, that's it. We're going to show Lee
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Majors in slow motion. When he's running. We're going to
go the other way. We're not going to speed it up.
And so that is why this six million Dollar Man
was always in slow motion on the Krozier.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Are you old enough to do you remember the six
million Dollar Man?
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Oh my god, yeah, dude, that was like everything for
me as a kid. I had the action figure and everything.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I and did you ever do this? Because I but
me and my lame buddies in the valley. We used
to go out and and hum that song that bomb
yeah right, And then when you're looking at something that
you know, yeah, you like mimic those sounds when you
throw things. Yes, indeed, man, I'm sure all of our
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parents thought, Man, these kids are all about two weeks
away from being incarcerated into a nuthouse.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
You know.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
They had an episode for six million Dollar Man that
preceded the infamous Happy Days episode where the where the
term jumping the shark took place and for six million
dollars man just before the Fonzie episode on Happy Days,
he had a visit.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
With sasquatch.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Like it was the whole thing was that alien sasquatch
thing and six million dollars really that jumped the shark
for there?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yea, so they jumped the sasquat, they jumped the big foot.
Yeah yeah, oh that's that's wild man. Well, I took
it back to the charges here post post post protest charges.
Speaker 12 (27:30):
But authorities say some of the people who got those
gas masks and other equipment were actually causing violence. The
La County District Attorney's offices has filed about thirty felony
cases tied to vandalism or violence that followed protests. Federal
prosecutors say that office has filed about twenty of these
cases so far.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Now.
Speaker 12 (27:49):
Authorities say there are lots of other incidents and events
that happened following these protests that are still being investigated,
and they say there's going to be announcements and filings
of criminal charges, both in state and federal court repeatedly
in the coming weeks and months. Interestingly, at the end
of the news conference today, the US Attorney said his
office is also investigating some of the nonprofit groups that
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may have been organizing or helping to supply the people
involved in these demonstrations. The US Attorney Bill as Saley
said the IRS's Criminal Investigation Division is now looking into
some of these organizations to find out if they were
part of what he began to describe as potentially a
conspiracy to commit crimes or violence at the ends of
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these protests.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Oh man, all right, let's find out what this thing
caused the protests. Whereas here it is what did this
thing costs LA?
Speaker 13 (28:40):
With thousands of officers working overtime and some agitators turning destructive,
we knew there was going to be a huge cost
to you, the taxpayer.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
And now we have the numbers.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
What's the number here?
Speaker 13 (28:51):
Protests have cost the city a whopping nineteen point seven
million dollars. That's according to the city's administrative officer. Now
much of that nineteen point seven million is coming from
the LAPD at nearly seventeen million. We're gonna break down
this number a little bit further in just a few seconds,
but we can also see. The response from the LAFD
has cost one point two million. There's been nearly six
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hundred grand in damage to city buildings. The street cleaning
for city streets has cost over five hundred grand, and
there's been at least eighty five thousand dollars in graffiti cleanup.
But we are told that number is going to climb,
So let's kind of hone in on that la million dollars.
The vast majority of that more than eleven million, is
just because of officer over time. The city administrator officer says,
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on Saturday, during those huge protests, nearly every single LAPD
officer was working, so as you can imagine, the ot
was just racking up. There's also been two hundred and
forty thousand dollars in vehicle damage to LAPD cruisers. The
city administrative officer, Matt Zabo tells seven on your Sides
that these are extraordinary events with of course now an
extraordinary cost.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yeah, wow, nineteen million dollars and we're city of vla
Is Broke.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
How does some street and then cost half a million dollars?
It was filthy dirty.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
She was like, I don't know, I'd like to look
at some I don't know, Debris, I guess I don't know,
all right. We're live on KFI AM six forty Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Now you can always
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Hear us live on KFI AM six forty four to
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
KFI AM six forty. It is The Conway Show. Mark
Thompson's here.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Thank you, Tim, and thank you everyone and collected masses.
Please be seated.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I was so jealous on Sunday that you were here.
Krozier was here, and I was listening on the way
to getting my ass kicked at sant Anita, and I
heard you guys talking about how you both got worked
in auctions.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah, we tell the story.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I thought, can you tell that story again?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Sure, I'll tell it again. Krozier story. I thought it
was even better.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah that was So we'll save Kroziers for a second
because he leapfrogged over you.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Oh his is really good, but sort of in the
same general vein. I was am seeing an event this
past weekend and it just seemed as though it was
an autism event and you know, a beautiful and tie.
It was for the ed Asner Center. They do a
lot of treatment and outreach with families and those who
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are Yeah, exactly what it's a callism world. It's called
ed Asner Family Center and So this is a fundraiser
for that center, and Matt, who is Ed's son, is
heading things up with his wife Nova. Anyway, so you
get to the auction part of things, and it's a fundraiser,
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and there are these four nights in Thailand somewhere. I
didn't really pay attention to what it was. I saw
a villa. It was a villa.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
How does that auction operate? You have a paddle with
your number on.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
People had paddles. I didn't even have a paddle. That's
how pathetic this is. I wasn't planning on all. I mean, MC,
I didn't plan on buying anything or bidding on anything necessarily.
Or maybe you're just an oversight. But we started the
bidding at one thousand dollars and somebody in the crowd
bids one thousand dollars and he says, so do I
hear two thousand dollars? And this I'm am seeing it.
I'm not actually on stage though, I'm just was kind
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of like there with the opening remarks and remarks through
the night.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
You feel able is that you're all that you're an
MC and they don't have somebody with autism.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Oh I never thought of it. That way. Yeah, well,
we have autism in my family, so I feel connected
to it. But you make a good point. Maybe i'll
be disqualified next year, but after this they probably will
want me back. Because I noticed that there was nobody
bidding two thousand, only the thousand, and I just felt bad.
So I said two thousand. It's a trip to where.
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It's not a trip that would be different. It's not
a trip four days you get there on your own.
It's four days in this villa in time Thailands. It's
like a like, are the what are the famous vacation
spots in Thailand? It's one of them? Okay, So then
like nobody's bidding anything more, and he goes three, please
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bid something more. But then somebody said three thousand, and
they were pretty quick with it. Tim. You know, it
wasn't like sure so ipanic maybe a little thought. Oh good,
now people are getting on board. We're picking a momentum.
And so then he says, how about four thousand, and
nobody it's quiet. I'm thinking this thing is going to
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go for three thousand dollars. It's kind of insulting, I
would sort of, so I'm going to push it along.
So I yell and raise my hand. Four thousand. Wow.
And uh they said, oh, that's so great. Mark Thompson,
A wow, you're gonna you're gonna have four thousand dollars.
That's just terrific. And I'm thinking somebody else is going
to come in here for whatever, and nobody did come
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in forever, Oh no, for whatever. And I ended up
buying a trip. When do you have to use it
by I don't know. I don't know any of the
details except for the fact that it's I'm gonna need
to go fund me to pay for it. That's all
I know. Yeah, the American Express swat team met me
on the way out. Yeah, you you know you bumped it.
You bumped the card. That's wid. But Krozier had a
better story even than that.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
You got you got to hit with these hit with
with a an accidental purchase.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Yes, my first wife and I were at a some
some charity thing for some medical thing. I couldn't even
tell you what it was, something that's starting to pop
up in people about over twenty years ago. And Holly
Robinson Pete Rodney Pete's wife was one of the sort
of co hosts and Jason Ritter. John R's kid was
there was part of it as well, and all night
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and it was like at the Beverly Hills, you know, hotels.
So it was like high fluting, a lot of money
flowing and all this stuff running the risk of radically
insulting you. How were you invited? My ex worked for
a medical company that had something to do with the condition,
So yeah, I had nothing to do with me personally.
I was along for the ride, but you know, so
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they were. They had a silent auction and then they
had the big auction afterwards, and money's flowing, you know,
everybody's bidding big bids, you know, thousand, But the biggest
one of the night was the very last one, and
it was a set of earrings and a necklace matching necklace.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
It was like blue sapphire something like that. Ye, beautiful stuff.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
And uh and we hadn't bid on anything, you know,
we paddle hadn't.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Moved all night.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
And they said, all right, we'll start the bid off
with eight thousand dollars and wife looks at me, and
I go, all right, our goose a little bit eight.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Thousand, not a single bit after that? How did you
pay for it? Did you have that kind of do.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
It was on a credit card.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Oh my god, my wife got it in the divorce,
got the set.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Oh that's horrible.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
So it's eight thousand plus twenty seven percent you know interest,
you know every time every month you don't pay it off.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah, oh my god. That for that gleaming moment.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Everybody's like, look at you, nice young man, well done.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I just.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Well you at least buzzed. Is that why you did it?
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I honestly couldn't remember, but it was a fairly sober
It was, you know, it was a thought out sort
of thing. People are bidding. Nobody seemed to be shy
on any of the items. So I thought, right, you know,
I'll partake in the fun and the festivities.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
You know, I don't have a story like that, but
I went to one of those big events that was
an auction. And what you do when you get there,
you give them your credit card information and then it's
associated with your paddle and they can make it the
association pretty quickly once you buy it, so it speeds
things along. So I get to this auction and or
this charity event, and they said, hey, you know you
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want to give us your credit card, we'll give you
a paddle. And I said, buddy, I'm busted out, don't
I don't get anything going. I got I barely. I
mean I park down the street. I didn't even use
the valid parking here. This is not not the guy
that's going to cure AIDS or cancer or whatever is
rolling around this auditorium. I said, I'm not that guy.
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And he said, well, everybody has.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
It gives a credit card and then you give the
paddle even if you don't use it. You know, just
I said, okay, get in the credit card. So all
night long my paddle was frozen. It was just you know,
it was iced. It was in you know, like it's
still in an ice a on it. Yeah, I went,
I purposely burned it.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I took it out and burned it out of the
battle right away.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
And so the next uh, like, I'm like two weeks later,
I see my credit card statement and they charged me
thirty five hundred dollars for an item. And I'm like, oh,
I didn't buy an item. It must have got mixed
up with somebody else's. So I called the auction I said, hey,
I didn't buy anything. They charged me thirty five hundred dollars.
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And they said, oh, no, you bid on something. I said, no,
I didn't. I didn't bid on anything. And then they said, okay,
then we'll try to figure it out. And so like
took another week and they and they said, okay, what
was somebody else's bid? But we had four of them,
and somebody thought they saw your paddle being raised.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
So we're going to send you the item.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
And I said no, no, no, no, no, yeah, I said,
but I said, what's the item?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
And they said it's.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
It's a balloon ride in del Mar. Two nights at
a hotel with a balloon ride and wine and cheese
and I two.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Nights at the waste of money hotels.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, And I said, sweet, I'm at del Mar at
the track. I'm not with the balloons and the wine
and the crackers and the you know, couterie board or
coutery board or whatever it is. And I said, I said,
And then she says, so you want me to reverse
the charges and it's going to affect all these kids
that otherwise would have benefited.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
What a great play from your thirty five hundred dollars?
And I said, one hundred percent. Give the kids my
number one.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
I am.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I am not going down.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I don't have that kind of dough and another kind
of money of cells.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
I get sucked under those all the time. Sadly, it's
just in the moment you do it. But yours is
truly a mistake though at least right.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
But you've got to watch giving your credit card because
another buddy of mine that happened to him at an
auction where somebody made a mistake. And some some people
are too wealthy, they don't look at their credit card statement,
you know, and then or in that.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Last moment when she pushed on you, they would have
done yeah, you're right, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Right, yeah, I think i'd do some of that on purpose.
And she she got the wrong cat.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Well, these you know, these babies are dying of you
know whatever they were selling it to you.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
It's a beautiful ride where you see the landscape.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
That's not me, sweetie. I'm sorry, I'm not. I told
you when I got there, I'm not your type.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
You don't like the taste of the grapes, sister Conway,
but those things are really.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Reserved for wealthy people, you know, man, everybody there had
a high end car. Everybody was bidding, you know, throwing
their paddle up at forty thousand dollars car.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I have it when we come back. I have a
story about that, and that isn't always true. You're in
a room drenched with money and like, I'm the only
one who bids on something. Oh really, your people could
buy and something what you have in your pockets.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am six four.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
You got a quick follow up that story before you go.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Just you were saying that, oh, you know, those auctions
are made for people to have all this money. And
I just remember going to a really great cause. It
was in bel Air, this fundraiser for these doctors who
actually use technology to council surgeons in Africa. You know,
in Africa there's there are very few, many many fewer
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doctors than we have. And sometimes for a wide area,
I mean huge area one hundreds and hundred of miles,
there might be three doctors. So if you can get
a surgeon who actually knows anything, he needs outside help.
So anyway, this technology allows guys in Beverly Hills or
whatever in LA to connect with that surgeon to actually
look through the surgeon's eyes. He wears these special glasses.
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So I wanted to go there and support this technology,
to get this sort of life saving technology to support it. Right.
So I go there and it said fundraiser in bel
Air and it's a huge house, like one of the
biggest houses I've ever seen, like the Aaron Spelling mansion,
and with this big roundabout in front, and I just thought,
oh my god, this is These people are cripplingly rich,
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you know. I don't I feel so insecure right now.
So I get out of the car, I go in
and they have art from like the most famous artist.
Every word's hanging on the wall crazy and around the room.
I look and I see other people. It's clearly, you know,
a lot of people with a lot of money. So
I'm thinking, all right, you know, I've got to knock
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these people down some money. But I don't have a
ton of money right now, so I don't know. You know,
they get us all in this room, they say we're
going to have this movie. You're going to see this
move is a short movie about what we do. And
then this lady comes on. She says, okay, I've seen
the movie. We're gonna now ask you to support us,
and I'll start and I'm thinking in my mind, all right,
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five hundred dollars. I'm going to give these guys five
hundred dollars, which for me was a really like a
big you know, extending myself in a big way. So
she goes, we're going to start at one hundred thousand dollars.
That's how I said, Okay, I'll go to five hundred,
because I think I was thinking about one hundred, so FI.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
They wanted the minimum.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
BI you know, they're going to start at one hundred thousand,
and we're going to drop it down until you get
to a number where you feel comfortable and then you
can bid. Right, And I'm thinking, oh my god, because
there's so many wealthy people in this room, this is
going to be extraordinary to see. And it was. There
was a lady who I think pledge two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. I mean it was incredible. I mean,
that's the kind of wealth that was here. But it
was all for this wonderful cause. So they go down
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to one hundred thousand, then they went down to fifty thousand.
Then I think they went down to twenty five thousand,
and she said, we're going to keep going all the
way down. I'm thinking we're going to go all the
way down to whatever you can afford. I was expecting
whatever you can afford. Instead, she said, we're going all
the way down to a thousand. A thousand, that's twice
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what I had budgeted for this. So they go down
and I'm noticing that most of the room isn't bidding,
most of the room is not using their paddle, and
I'm thinking these people are all really rich. I don't
understand what's going on. Like I thought some number like
twenty five, ten thousand, whatever it would be, they would
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get there. So finally they got down to a thousand,
I thought, this is the last number they're going to
go with. There's nothing under this, this iss lowers you're
going to go. So I thought I had to take
my five hundred and I have to make it a thousand,
which is a little bit more than I wanted. But
more to the point, I'm sure this whole room is
going to explode to the thousand because these people have
all been sitting on their pals this whole time, and
they've all got dough so a thousand. She calls it up,
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and I lift up my paddle and I look around
and maybe I don't know five other people in this
huge room filled with people, I'm thinking, man, these people
definitely have money. No, maybe they did it in a
private way, they put it on some envelope or something
like that that I wasn't aware of. But it just
your point. You think, well, all these rich people, they're
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really gonna support this. Not always I it's.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Weight now, but you know, and I think people get
burned out. You know, if you do like three, four,
five of those a year, you just you know, you
don't have that kind of doubt.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Yeah, there's something in the charity world called donor fatigue,
that right, and it does happen, like if.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You with it with the title that dead on. I
mean it is with all these creative people in this city,
they came up with donor fatigue.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
I don't think it's a marketing thing. I think it's
just a fact, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Uh, tired of but tired of supporting charity fatigue.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
But at the point is you can only squeeze so much.
That's yeah. Anyway, So there you go. Did you end
up giving a thousand I did, yeah, a thousand and
and hopefully that you know, it goes to good, good causes. Yeah,
you're the best.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
All right, all right, ding dong with you more now
with Croche.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
You're listening to Tim Conway jun you're on from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You see Otani pitch last night. How about that man? Man,
that guy can still throw. He has some talent.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
What you know, I've ever.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Said, I haven't seen that in after Little League where
a guy pitches, doesn't even go on the dugout, grabs
his bat and goes to the plate.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Yeah, I've never seen that before in the major leagues. Yeah,
it is wild. You're right, we're just not used to
seeing that. I mean the days of pitchers who are
also hitters, but not only hitters leadoff hitters, right, I
mean yeah, I mean he's.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
He leads, he leads off. For the Dodgers that are
are are are swamped in talent. Yeah, they have more talent.
That's an all Star team sure, Now that's a murderer's
row of hitters. I think that the Dodgers could beat
the American League All Star team, you know, I mean
that's and that's what they should do. They should put
(15:52):
up the World Series winner against all of baseball.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
That's a that's a great spectacle kind.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Of Yeah, it would be better than and you know,
two teams that don't care about it. Yeah, you know,
so you and you put it in a home city
of whoever wins the World Series. He gives them another
incentive to win the World Series, you know. And if
you don't win the World Series, you never get the
All Star Game. Screw it, you know you're not that good.
How about Colorado Rockies twenty eight or twenty nine games
(16:20):
out before the All Star break?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Yeah, that's the problem that you know, some teams are
just stacked with talent, like the Dodgers, and then you know,
you find the bottom of the league just doesn't really
you know, can't compete, right, but it.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
But to the argument of that is, then why aren't
the Angels really good? You know, if the Angels are
in the same market, they have the same money, they
have the same you know, talent that would would love
to live in southern California and play baseball. Why haven't
the Angels put it together?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Like well, why why aren't the Angels the same brand
as the Dodgers. I mean the Angels had Otani, right
and they didn't. Yeah, so virtually nothing. But it's it
comes to management. It comes to brand management and and
and basic baseball management, I guess. But there is a difference,
isn't there In it's not like the NFL. There's a
difference in the profit sharing, and different markets do have
(17:14):
different budgets, right Tim.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I think you're right. Yeah, I think I think it.
I think that, well, the Dodgers make a ton of
money off merchandising. I don't think that's shared with the league.
I think that, you know, the Dodgers get to keep that. Sure,
they make forty to fifty million dollars just in Japan
on merchandising. You know, it's a ton of money.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
But Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Last night showe Aotani started for the Dodgers and they
talked to our own David Vase after the game. Let's
find out what happened there show.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
Hey, I know you're a team guy, and you guys
won the ball game tonight, but the fans are curious
to know how did it feel to be back on
the mountain tonight?
Speaker 8 (17:49):
Monthony, I don't know, I got take money, I don't
know what.
Speaker 9 (18:01):
Well. First of all, I'm very grateful for all this,
you know, staff members, people who supported me throughout this
whole progress. I'm very grateful that I'm back here healthy
and pitching again.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Show Hey, did you feel whole again as a baseball
player tonight?
Speaker 10 (18:16):
God?
Speaker 6 (18:22):
Second off, I'm.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
Not quite happy with the results, but there were a
lot that I was able to take away from today's
out In today.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
He only pitched one inning. You know, he didn't come
back and pitch a nine inning shutout. He pitched one inning. Yeah,
but he's just getting back right right, But there are
some position players that have pitched one inning.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
I see on a night like tonight where you got
so many contributions from so many of your teammates, how
much more special is a win and a night like tonight?
Speaker 3 (18:53):
How much? How much? What more special? What was the
question here?
Speaker 7 (18:56):
On a night like tonight where you got so many
contributions from so many of you your teammates? How much
more special is a win and a night like tonight?
Speaker 9 (19:04):
It's a really great team win offensively, and also they
both ended up amazing job holding on to the win,
and it was a really really nice win.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
Congratulations on the Great Night Show. Hey, great to have
you back on the Man. And great to see the
Dodgers win again tonight.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Thank you. There you go.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Man Daviday talks like he owns the team.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
Congratulations on the Great Night Show. Hey, great to have
you back there.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Great to have your back. Yeah, I knew I should
have drat. I secured you with my check book for
seven hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
There'll be a little lyrics or something and you're envelope
at the end of the week.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
Great to have you back on the Man and great
to see the Dodgers win again tonight. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Dodgers win. They beat the Podreys. They got three more
with the Podreys and I they man every team in
that in the National League West, with the exception of
Bello's Rockies is great. You know San Francisco Competitive Division, Dodgers.
I think Arizona is doing good and then the Rockies
are four hundred games out.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
But I thought the Dodgers are going to steamroll everybody,
and that had I thought. I thought so too. It's pitching.
Pitching is a little bit of an issue, but you
know what they should do.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
If you're thirty games out by All Star Break. They
should just call it.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
You can't do that. I mean, these are these are markets.
Sometimes it's more fun for a lot of people in
the market to go with the team. They just go
for the fun of seeing the team play lose. Yeah,
and there's a there's a virtue in the suffering, like
the Cubs. Yeah, the long suffering Cubs fans.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Hey, belly, Oh, you're from Colorado and you love the Rockies.
Were they ever good?
Speaker 10 (20:39):
Yeah? They were good once?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
They were good?
Speaker 11 (20:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Did they win an it? Did they ever win the
World Series or go to playoffs?
Speaker 10 (20:45):
Or I believe they've been in the playoffs. They have
not won the World Series?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
And what do they call that wall there you sit
in the outfield, that's the rock pile.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
The rock pile.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Oh boy, all right, you worked for them for a while,
didn't you that you worked for the Rockies.
Speaker 10 (21:01):
I worked for a sports station that covered the Rockies.
It's the station that actually got major League Major League
Baseball into Colorado.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Oh not right, So they were they played a big
part of.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
It, all right, did they? Did you?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Were you auctioned off in Colorado?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
What does that mean? She was auctioned off? Here? At
kles Kay date where Yeah, you didn't know that, so
now I did not. That's how she met her husband.
Oh that's right. Was a contest or something somebody?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
John was the highest bidder.
Speaker 10 (21:32):
It wasn't a bid Yeah wait, Angel I'm just going
to ride back up here.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Well wasn't it. It wasn't a bit win.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
A date with me?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Contest?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
You wraffled off and it came down to two guys, right.
Speaker 10 (21:50):
Well we did, you know, like the Sweet sixteen, the
Elite eight four? Yeah, and then I picked two and
then the listeners got to vote on line and.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
They chose the same person I did. Really yeah, ah,
where what's the other guy doing?
Speaker 11 (22:06):
Now?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
He's drinking himself the same last night? He's great. You
ever think about the other guy every day?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Man? This took an ugly turn.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah, no, I know John's not listening hyal one, but
that uh yeah, the thing was unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
We have the District Attorney in the City of Los
Angeles or the County of Los Angeles. New charges announced
against some of the LA protesters.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
I guess they got a lot of footage.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Online and could oh, sure, of course trace these guys back.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I hope they get all those guys are throwing stuff
and who were wrecking police car. I hope they just
they they've got to prosecute those people and put them away.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I don't understand videotaping your self or and then putting
it up online knowing that the cops. I mean, you're
just handing that to the cops. They can't help it.
The DA's office just looks through all that social media
all day long, like, oh that guy, that guy's uh,
and then they match you with another picture of a guy.
A lot of those guys are already on file, surprisingly
(23:20):
and then they go to their house, knock on their door,
and it's you know, over four years.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I don't understand that at all.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Guy committing crimes then puts it on social media got
al mighty its just never.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I just don't understand that mentality.
Speaker 12 (23:34):
We heard not only from the LA County District Attorney,
but also the United States Attorney, the lead federal prosecutor
for Southern California, highlighting what they say are some of
the nearly held so far. Keep in mind these are felonies.
They describe them as some of the most egregious examples
of some of the vandalism and violence that's followed some
of those protests in downtown LA. And the prosecutors from
(23:55):
both agencies say they're trying to draw a very clear
line here between the people who went out to exercise
their First Amendment rights and demonstrate peacefully and those they
say went out to cause trouble and mayhem as a result.
Speaker 11 (24:08):
And I'm here to tell you that ninety nine zero
point nine to nine percent of the people who protested
did so lawfully. This smaller group, which numbers probably in
the hundreds, not even in the thousands, this group wanted
to commit crimes. They looked at the protests as a cover,
(24:29):
an opportunity to go ahead and apply their illegal trade
and commit a whole variety of crimes.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Now.
Speaker 12 (24:36):
Also among the new charges announced today the man suspective
of throwing bricks onto CHP officers and cars that were
stopped on the one oh one Freeway back on June eighth.
He's been accused in federal court of arson and in
local court were assaulting.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Officers and arson.
Speaker 12 (24:50):
Some other cases announced and alleged people through fireworks at
police or burglarized businesses following those large demonstrations in downtown LA.
One person was caught a qu to now of ilegally
carrying a gun. Another facing a federal conspiracy charge for
handing out protective equipment to people out doing some of
the or participating in some of these demonstrations.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I didn't know that was illegal to hand out face masks.
You know, they had the bionic face mask that they're
handing out to like fifty or sixty people, and that
guy got busted for doing that.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
And you're not allowed to I guess edition those.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, man, were you a big fan of the six
million Dollar Man?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
My friend? When I moved to La Harve Bennett he
created this Sema Wow, and he told me a story
about the six million Dollar Man. Then I'm going to
tell you right now. It's a little quick story. Sure.
He said, when they were developing the six million Dollar Man,
they couldn't figure out how to communicate that he was
running really fast without it looking like a Benny Hill movie,
you know, like they sped it up, and so they
(25:49):
really were stuck. And he said, I was sitting around
one day and they were showing a film of Gail Sayers,
who at that time was the the running back from
the Bears. It was just amazing and he was just
like he was faster than everybody on the field. He
was quit longer and better. It was in slow motion. Ah,
and he said, that's it. We're going to show Lee
(26:10):
Majors in slow motion. When he's running. We're going to
go the other way. We're not going to speed it up.
And so that is why this six million Dollar Man
was always in slow motion on the Krozier.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Are you old enough to do you remember the six
million Dollar Man?
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Oh my god, yeah, dude, that was like everything for
me as a kid. I had the action figure and everything.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I and did you ever do this? Because I but
me and my lame buddies in the valley. We used
to go out and and hum that song that bomb
yeah right, And then when you're looking at something that
you know, yeah, you like mimic those sounds when you
throw things. Yes, indeed, man, I'm sure all of our
(26:48):
parents thought, Man, these kids are all about two weeks
away from being incarcerated into a nuthouse.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
You know.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
They had an episode for six million Dollar Man that
preceded the infamous Happy Days episode where the where the
term jumping the shark took place and for six million
dollars man just before the Fonzie episode on Happy Days,
he had a visit.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
With sasquatch.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Like it was the whole thing was that alien sasquatch
thing and six million dollars really that jumped the shark
for there?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yea, so they jumped the sasquat, they jumped the big foot.
Yeah yeah, oh that's that's wild man. Well, I took
it back to the charges here post post post protest charges.
Speaker 12 (27:30):
But authorities say some of the people who got those
gas masks and other equipment were actually causing violence. The
La County District Attorney's offices has filed about thirty felony
cases tied to vandalism or violence that followed protests. Federal
prosecutors say that office has filed about twenty of these
cases so far.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Now.
Speaker 12 (27:49):
Authorities say there are lots of other incidents and events
that happened following these protests that are still being investigated,
and they say there's going to be announcements and filings
of criminal charges, both in state and federal court repeatedly
in the coming weeks and months. Interestingly, at the end
of the news conference today, the US Attorney said his
office is also investigating some of the nonprofit groups that
(28:11):
may have been organizing or helping to supply the people
involved in these demonstrations. The US Attorney Bill as Saley
said the IRS's Criminal Investigation Division is now looking into
some of these organizations to find out if they were
part of what he began to describe as potentially a
conspiracy to commit crimes or violence at the ends of
(28:31):
these protests.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Oh man, all right, let's find out what this thing
caused the protests. Whereas here it is what did this
thing costs LA?
Speaker 13 (28:40):
With thousands of officers working overtime and some agitators turning destructive,
we knew there was going to be a huge cost
to you, the taxpayer.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
And now we have the numbers.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
What's the number here?
Speaker 13 (28:51):
Protests have cost the city a whopping nineteen point seven
million dollars. That's according to the city's administrative officer. Now
much of that nineteen point seven million is coming from
the LAPD at nearly seventeen million. We're gonna break down
this number a little bit further in just a few seconds,
but we can also see. The response from the LAFD
has cost one point two million. There's been nearly six
(29:12):
hundred grand in damage to city buildings. The street cleaning
for city streets has cost over five hundred grand, and
there's been at least eighty five thousand dollars in graffiti cleanup.
But we are told that number is going to climb,
So let's kind of hone in on that la million dollars.
The vast majority of that more than eleven million, is
just because of officer over time. The city administrator officer says,
(29:32):
on Saturday, during those huge protests, nearly every single LAPD
officer was working, so as you can imagine, the ot
was just racking up. There's also been two hundred and
forty thousand dollars in vehicle damage to LAPD cruisers. The
city administrative officer, Matt Zabo tells seven on your Sides
that these are extraordinary events with of course now an
extraordinary cost.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yeah, wow, nineteen million dollars and we're city of vla
Is Broke.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
How does some street and then cost half a million dollars?
It was filthy dirty.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
She was like, I don't know, I'd like to look
at some I don't know, Debris, I guess I don't know,
all right. We're live on KFI AM six forty Conway
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