Rick Caruso was floated as the solution to revitalize Santa Monica’s struggling 3rd Street Promenade, while the massive West Hollywood Carnival was crowned California’s biggest Halloween party. Conway called out people stepping on dogs in upscale restaurants.
Across the U.S., businesses like McDonald’s are “rounding up” receipts as banks and retailers face a penny shortage due to the U.S. Mint halting production.
Elex Michaelson previewed “The Story Is…” on CNN, featuring Mayor Karen Bass and comedian Matt Friend, with John Kobylt set to appear Monday.
And the Dodgers face a must-win World Series matchup against Toronto.
Across the U.S., businesses like McDonald’s are “rounding up” receipts as banks and retailers face a penny shortage due to the U.S. Mint halting production.
Elex Michaelson previewed “The Story Is…” on CNN, featuring Mayor Karen Bass and comedian Matt Friend, with John Kobylt set to appear Monday.
And the Dodgers face a must-win World Series matchup against Toronto.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KMF I am sixty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Big party
going out in West Hollywood. That place will get mobbed.
It looks pretty vacant now, but that crew doesn't party
until eight o'clock, nine ten o'clock. That's when we'll really
get rolling out there. So the Third Street Promenade in
(00:23):
Santa Monica. I think I'm more of the guy they
can put this together than the guy we just aired.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And nothing against him. I don't know him.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Maybe he's got some good ideas, but he needs to
follow this plan. I just put this plan together during
the commercial break. Okay, here's the plan to turn Santa
Monica around. Take Third Street Promenade and give it to
Rick Caruso for one hundred year lease for free.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
He started.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
He created the Commons in Calabasas, the Shops in Pacific Palisades,
the Grove in the Fair District, and the Americana in Glendale.
All of those places are spectacular and they're all very
well attended. People feel safe, and people go there and
spend their money. So Rick Caruso offered his services to
(01:14):
become the mayor of Los Angeles, and you guys said no,
and now you're paying the price. So give Rick Caruso
one hundred year lease on that property and then it
reverts back to Santa Monica. Step number two, move the
homeless cats out of there. Sorry, find a place for
him and move them out. That's step number two. Number three,
(01:37):
level the seers there. There's a big seers there. Bring
that down and put up a parking lot like they
have at Disneyland, where there's you know, five thousand parking
spots and people will come and park if you can
get onto the freeway and off the freeway with ease.
And then take the ten best restaurants in Southern California
(01:59):
and offer them a forty year free lease on a
piece of property on Third Street Promenade and give them
a thirty or forty year lease for free. And the
ten best restaurants in Southern California. That's a plan that
can work. But this other thing with you know, while
we're gonna ask people what they want and then we'll
(02:20):
you know, take another step and off for a rooftop
bar and people will be great. It's not gonna happen.
You gotta go with my plan and that will work
your plan.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
No good? All right? We Hoe Carnival in West Hollywood.
What a party. That's the place to be tonight in
southern California.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Happy Halloween, you guys, Happy Halloween.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Everybody.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
That spectacle gets underweight in just about two hours, running
from six pm to eleven PM tonight. Apparently it ran
until midnight in the past, so it's pared down a
little bit this year.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
But why are they closing that down at eleven PM?
And that's what time people in that area go out
to party. That's when they leave the house at eleven PM.
Why would you close it down at eleven No less fun.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
We are right across the main stage at San Vicenti
and Santa Monica Boulevard in the heart of the Rainbow District.
West Hollywood looked like a ghost town Friday afternoon. Get it,
ghost town, got it fitting for Halloween. But come on,
(03:32):
this is one of the biggest parties in the world,
the West Hollywood Halloween Carnival twenty twenty five. This was
the Spooky Spectacle last year. This year, organizers are expecting
tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of visitors
to pack Santa Monica Boulevard between Doheeny Drive and Las
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Jenega Boulevard, known as the city's Rainbow district.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
With its vibrant nightlight.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
People come from near and far for the killer experience,
complete with music and DJs and food and fun and
libations and of course all of those outrageous and wild costume.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
So you're just a monkey, right, I'm a monkey right now?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Easy, simple. I just came out.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
We were going down to CBS to get some more candy,
and then so.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I just thought, you know, whip something on real quick man.
Quite a night for this young man. Candy for trigger treaders. Yeah,
and along the street and everything. We celebrate really good costumes.
The hottest costumes will hand out candy and stuff. You
win the prize back.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
You're live across from the main stage for West Hollywood's
Halloween Carnival twenty twenty five, officials say bringing pets and children.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
By the way are no good is not advised.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Ah, okay, leave the pets and the kids at home.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Is not advised.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
And quite honestly, some of the costumes are out fits
are much more revealing than others, especially as the night progresses. Right,
So keep that in mind, and of course that's going
to be a draw for many people.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
We know that also, Well.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Who brings their dog anyway? I mean, you're going to
a party that's that loud and you don't want to
and if you bring your dog, there's something wrong with you.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Been talking about that more lately as people take their dogs.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Everywhere, everywhere, they go everywhere restaurants, high end restaurants too.
I was at we went from my wife's fiftieth birthday.
We went to Montes. Oh, I never say the name
of the restaurant. Sorry, I always tell that. Sorry, that's
saying the name of the restaurant.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Anyway, Montes in Woodland Hills, and I went outside, I
don't know, to get something. I forgot Suth in the car,
and as I came back in, I fell.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I tripped over a dog.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
There was a dog at a table that was near us,
and the dog flipped out because I stepped on the
dog's paw because I wasn't looking for dogs. I didn't
expect the dog in the restaurant, so I stepped on
the pad. The dog went crazy, and then another dog
flipped out because that dog was barking and it sounded
like a zoo and and I thought, God almighty, everybody
(06:14):
brings their dogs everywhere.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Now, and if there were any other dogs in there,
they would have lost their mind hearing that one.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Dog lose it. Yeah, that happened. There was another dog there.
Domino effect. Yeah, they went.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It was all of a sudden. It sounded like a
pet you know, like a pet store. And I'm and
it wasn't a you know, a service animal. It was
just the guy's dog. And people bring them everywhere. Now,
you know, I understand that they're family members. I get that,
but in restaurants, it's it's just it's looked down upon.
When you bring your dog to a restaurant. People may
(06:47):
not say it to your face, you know, because they
want to remain friends with you. They don't want to
piss you off. Maybe you work for them or they
work for you, and they want to keep the relationship going.
But every time somebody leaves a party or a restauran
and you also brought your dog, that's all they talk
about on the way home, About what a hole you
were to bring your dog. That's all they discuss on
(07:09):
the way home. Yeah, Jeff brought his dog. An't believe
that yeah. He brought his a gd dog with him
the whole time. His dog was there, you know, and
his dog, yeah, all the way back to Northridge.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, the dog. Yeah, he brought his dog. Who brings
their dog.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, you don't know it, but once you leave that restaurant,
everyone's talking about you and your dog.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
That's what they want. I guess. So that's what they want.
I guess right, I guess you're right. Why would they
bring the dog in the first place. Everybody's gonna love
my dog, I know. And you see those people.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
They are so like they get so excited when somebody
pays attention to.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
The look at your dog, Yeah, what brought I know?
And people always be asked. You're like, oh, your dog's
so great? Yeah, yeah, that dog's not that great. Nope,
you know dogs, some dogs are great, not all of them.
They're not all great.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Then yeah, sometimes you got a bad dog, you know,
you gotta be a bum dog, you all right. We
keep an eye on the Dodger game. It has started,
top of the first inning, two outs, nobody on for
the Dodgers, and if they don't win this game, it's
lights out.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
The season's over Unless they win tonight.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
It is Halloween. Be careful out there with the kids.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Please please, please, please, and we'll keep you a Dodger
scores all night long. It looks like the Dodgers are
in the it's in the bottom of the first one
out zero zero tie, all right. It looks like the
pennies are going away. If you have maybe you're a
collector of pennies, hold on to them because they could
(08:45):
be collectors items. They're going away. Stores restaurants are now
going to start rounding up or rounding down and leaving
the pennies out of your change, which is great because
it's just sort of it's a waste of time to
sit there and you know, and have the cashier count out,
(09:06):
you know, fifty eight cents. It just rounded up, around
it down. Nobody cares they're pennies. So it looks like
a lot of places are going to start doing this.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
You might want to finally round up those forgotten pennies
on the floor of your car or in between your
couch cushions. Several retailers around the country have started posting
signs and drafting policies on what to do if cashiers
cannot give out exact change, because we may be seeing
the beginning of a penny shortage.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yes, and if you have pennies out there, they're going
to be worth a lot of money eventually, you know,
if they go away, maybe just in the copper, you know,
if they're older pennies, or just as collector's items.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
We may be seeing the beginning of the end for
the penny. Local shortages may already be happening in pockets
of the country, but most Americans haven't felt it yet.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
Both transfactions today are digital, but the people who tend
to use cash and rely on cash will definitely feel
the penny shortage before the rest of us.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Thanks for the energy from the young lady.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
She's gonna be on camera once in her life talking
about pennies. Calm down, and she can't get a cup
of coffee or anything.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Definitely feel the penny shortage before the rest of us.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
That sounds like she's falling asleep.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
It sounds like, you know, she her head's on the pillow,
she's a washed her you know, brush, her teeth, washed
her face, and she's about to fall asleep and then boom,
the reporter pops in her bedroom and interviews her.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
The people who tend to use cash and rely on
cash will definitely feel the penny shortage before the rest
of us.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
There she goes without pennies.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Businesses will have to decide whether to round prices to
the nearest nickel or even dollar, changing the familiar ninety
nine cent effect, where a price just under a dollar
feels cheaper.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
This is called the left digit effect because our brain
tends to process information from left to right.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Some companies are already making adjustments. Kroger stores are asking
customers for exact change, truck stop Loves and gas station
Quick Trip are rounding totals to the nickel.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I think that there are some practical now implementation of
rounding that. You know, another burned out guy. You know,
you can't get it up for talking about pennies in public.
Nobody can. I guess it's impossible. You're never going to
get a guy going you with tons of energy. Oh yeah, no,
pennies are going away. Man, it's gonna be Nickels, Nichols, nickel.
(11:32):
You know you don't get that energy. Nobody has that
energy for penny no implementation that.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
You know that businesses are going to do on the fly.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I don't know where the humor was there. I missed
the punchline or the setup that you.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Know that businesses are going to do on the fly.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
What I don't necessarily think it's going to be have
a significant impact on a lot of consumers or businesses.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Under federal rules, retailers that accept snap benefits are required
to treat customers equally, making rounding totals for cash customers
and not for digital transactions a difficult policy decision. The
national Retail groups sent a letter to Congress in September
asking the government to make rules before the shortage issue
becomes widespread.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Well, there's companies already starting it. McDonald's is already I
think getting rid of the penny.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
Well check this out. If you're paying where cash at McDonald's,
listen up. The fast food chain says they will be
making some price changes coming up.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah, you're done with these pennies.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
Donald says they'll be rounding cash change to the nearest
five cents. So the move comes as penny production is stopping.
So now, depending on how much your order costs, your
total could round up or down by a few cents.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
I wonder which way it's going to go. I wonder
which way businesses are going to go. Are they going
to round up? Are they going to round down? Nobody,
We'll be rounding down.
Speaker 8 (12:52):
So now, depending on how much your order cost, your
total could round up or down by a few cents.
The new system will not apply to cash list purchases
or online app order.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
All right, the penny is going away, and that that
that's probably right.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I mean, you know who needs it. It's uh.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
It just when you have pennies in your pocket, you
feel like you know you're you're not doing well anyway.
You know, you got change the last time somebody had
change on them. Do you have change on you, Krozer,
do you have any they change, quarters, dimes, nickels, anything.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Dang, I don't have it. I don't have any change,
but Tony, you have change on you. I don't even
have cash on you.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
You have no cash on you, like my wife. My
wife never has any money on her. Every time I.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Turned to it, hey you got a couple of bucks.
Zeroed out? Zero it out? All right, Well we come back.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
We'll talk to Alex Michaelson and I'm sorry. I went
to push it and punch him up here and I
couldn't hear him. So he did the story and the pennies.
We came back. We'll talk to him. Hopefully he can
stick around. He's got a great show on CNN and
we got to promote the hell out of it, so
he sticks around.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demyan from kf
I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Row zero in Toronto in the middle or bottom half
of the second inning.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
So we'll see.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Dodgers have to win tonight and if they don't, they're
coming home and we'll get them next year.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
We'll get them next year. It's game six.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Hey, look, it's a good it's it's a good sign
because for the first time, and I don't know how
many games, the Blue Jays didn't score in.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
The first inning. Yeah, two home runs in the first inning.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
So Dodger fans have you got to respect them. They
travel and go watch this team, and a ton of
Dodger fans showed up in Toronto, so that's really cool.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
All right.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Alex Michaelson has his own show now on CNN and
he's with us.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Alex how you.
Speaker 9 (14:39):
Bob ding Don with you and go Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yes, we got the Dodgers have got to win this game,
and if they do, then you'll be on the air
when they win. Probably, you know, nine o'clock.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
What do you start at nine?
Speaker 9 (14:54):
We start at nine o'clock. Yeah, so we've got We've
got reporters in Toronto, We've got my how Steve Mason
from ESPN gonna be on set with me. We're doing
a lot of Dodger talking. The Mayor of Los Angeles
is also here tonight live in the studio. Were in
bath But yeah, we've Yeah, so it's a I'm excited,
I'm optimistic about tonight. I am jamoo on the mound.
(15:17):
Makes me feel good. And then you get the two
best words in all the sports game seven and anything
can happen.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
How is it going over at CNN? I imagine the
resources that they have with reporters around the world makes
it a lot easier, a lot more fun to do
a show.
Speaker 9 (15:33):
Well, it's been pretty wild to see that sort of
in effect. You know the other night when President Trump
meets President She and they walk out, and it happened
about a minute and a half before my show started.
I was like, oh my god, I'm the anchor of CNN.
Here go yeah, sort of consequential world moment, and I'm like,
(15:56):
it's me okay. And then you know, and there's reporters
and Free Asian country that is involved in this. We
had reporters and you know, all the countries impacted by
the hurricane and everything happening here. I mean, it is.
It's the biggest news organization in the world. You know,
our show area two hundred countries, and it's it's wild
to see how that works, especially on the big breaking news,
(16:17):
especially the big international breaking news. It's really something and
it's very cool to be a part of it.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Are you getting feedback, ratings comments from management?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Are they excited about the show?
Speaker 9 (16:29):
Yeah, everybody seems pretty pretty happy with it, and it's
doing well digitally. That night, particularly that the night when
we had the breaking news, it did especially well from
a ratings perspective, and everybody seems to be happy. I mean, look,
we and frankly now a lot of it's based off
of digital. You know what clips do well. We did
an interview with Governor Newsom that kind of went all
over the place, and then we've highlighted a lot of
(16:52):
you know, conservative leaders too. Last night we had Harmie Dillon,
who's the deputy Attorney General for the Trump administration, with
a very different perspective than Governor Newsom. I mean, we've
really gone out of our way to bring all sides
to the table, to have you know, actual dialogue. And
it's been pretty cool because I don't think that happens
in a lot of places these days.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Is Bernard Shaw still there?
Speaker 9 (17:15):
It's been it's what twenty thirty years since Bernard's show.
I'm guessing you have you haven't. I'm guessing you haven't
watched in a minute.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I thought I last time I turned on he was on.
Maybe I was mistaken he was on.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
So your boss over.
Speaker 9 (17:32):
There, Will Flitzer. Will Flitzer is still on?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Okay, Will Flitzer will be there forever. Your boss is
Mark Thompson then over there?
Speaker 9 (17:41):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Is that who you meet?
Speaker 9 (17:44):
Is the British Mark Conson not our Mark Thompson? Right? Yes,
very very different vibe.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
And what is is he hands on? And on the
West coast? Is he on the East coast?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Is in Atlanta?
Speaker 9 (17:56):
He's in New York?
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Is uh?
Speaker 9 (17:59):
You know? His his instruction to me was to make
the most fun show on CNN and and don't feel pressure.
Try to do stuff that's creative and make it feel
very West Coast. That was his instruction to me, which
was great.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah that sounds good.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, that sounds like they're giving you a you know,
a clean canvas to you know, bring that show over
from the Issue Is from Fox. I noticed you didn't
use the issue is was did Fox not allow you
to use that name?
Speaker 9 (18:29):
Fox owns that and copy wrote that, so we used
a different name. The story is. It's the name of
the show and it has it has a lot of
the best elements of the Issue Is with a lot
of cool live elements and more and honestly more cultural stuff.
Right again, certainly see that tonight We got comedians on,
(18:50):
like how Matt Friend is coming on Roywood Junior is
on tonight.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Is Matt brand the guy that does the impressions?
Speaker 9 (18:56):
He does the impressions?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yeah, he's great.
Speaker 9 (18:59):
So he's a lot of fun and so it's that
kind of stuff that you don't see on most of
the cable news, right.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
And it must be a lot more work though than
the Issue Is. I mean, you're on two hours live
every night.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
Yeah. The issue is was twenty minutes once a week.
This is two hours live every night. So it's insane.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
What time do you get in every day.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
The amount I have been I've literally been working from
like eight or nine in the morning till about midnight.
I mean, it's been crazy. It's the first week, but
it's been it's been insane. But we've had great stuff,
you know, and we had you know, everybody you know,
Gavin Newsom, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown. We've had here
at three Calibernia government. We've had people from all over
the map, have all you know joined us. It's been,
(19:41):
it's been great.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Do you have a Mayor Baths in studio?
Speaker 9 (19:46):
Mayor Baths is live in studio tonight.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Nine o'clock, okay, all right, ninth nine o'clock. Yet I
will I will take a look at that.
Speaker 9 (19:53):
I have not done that. And then Monday night, Monday Night,
John Cobalt, it's going to be live wow.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
At nine o'clock. Okay, all right, So I'll tune in
for that as well. Man, you got to going on
over there.
Speaker 9 (20:04):
Yeah, and then we'll be on Tuesday night, I'll be
anchoring our election coverage from Sacramento with Governor Newsom and
the Prop fifty stuff, and so that's going to be
quite a night.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
And what is the vibe over there? I mean, who
else broadcast from the West Coast or who's who's at
CNN West Coast anybody or everybody's back east?
Speaker 9 (20:26):
Well, I mean there's there's reporters that are here, but
I'm the first show to be here and the first
anchor to be here since Larry King Live.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
So is that right?
Speaker 9 (20:37):
It's a new vibe. Yeah. Yeah. So they built a
new studio for this, and it's cool to kind of
have that space kind of to myself to be honest.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Are you going to Nate Now's after every show?
Speaker 9 (20:49):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, that's goals.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Hello douke Zieberts, Buddy, that's great. This is a very
This is a huge deal for you, you know.
Speaker 9 (21:01):
Yeah, yeah, I know. We got to get you on
the show.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Na, buddy, I don't want to f it up. I've
always said to my friends, like my friend wrote a sitcom,
he Goes, Buddy Goes, I want you to play a
lead role. And I said, Buddy, you only get like
two chances in Hollywood. You got to get actors to
do that not people you know off the I don't
want to ruin it. You would be great, Thank you, Budge.
I appreciate that. And you're literally across the street from us.
(21:26):
I can see the driveway where you pull in every day.
I'm on the drive I'm in the driveway across the street.
Speaker 9 (21:33):
I know. So I hope we can actually do this
segment in person.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yes, and maybe we can grab lunch because you know,
on one of your breaks.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
So what is what are your schedule?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I'm fascinated by you know, CNN, you know, putting this
live show on and taking a chance with you. I
think it's a great opportunity for you. But what what
are you You get in eight o'clock, nine o'clock, you
rehearse and then you take up, you know, an hour break,
and then you come back.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Do you have writers? What's what's going on?
Speaker 9 (21:58):
We haven't really been rehearsed, to be honest. We've been
doing some pre tapes, you know, interviews with people in advance,
because it's hard for everybody to be on at eight
or nine or ten, especially people in the East Coast. Sure,
so so we've kind of been taping honestly throughout the day.
I've been working on tape pieces in the field. We
did something with Josh Grobin, we did something with Arnold Schwarzeneger.
(22:20):
We've done other stuff too, so I I mean it's
the first week. I hope it doesn't stay this way
because it's not sustainable. But I've basically been working every
hour of the day to try to get this thing
off the ground, and I'm proud of what we've done.
I hope it doesn't stay that way forever, but at
least it's uh, you know, we're in the early days
when you have.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Mayor bas On.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Does she acknowledge that you are principally responsible for her
becoming mayor?
Speaker 9 (22:45):
Well, I mean I don't think that that's actually true, true,
but but the fact that she's coming on maybe said something, right.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah, right, Look, I didn't know who she was until you,
until you had her on the issue is and then
everybody knew who she was.
Speaker 9 (23:00):
Yeah, we her and we had Rick Caruso on last night.
You know, we've got kind of let's bring everybody to
the table and then viewers can decide who they who
they like, and who they want.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I think that La you know, nothing against Mayor baths.
But I think l A needed Rick Caruso at that moment,
and I would be interested to see if Rick Ruso
was mayor how things would be different in Ellen.
Speaker 9 (23:23):
I'm sure Rick Caruso feels similarly. You know, Rick Ruso,
we may, we may, we may get an opportunity to
see it soon. Based off of his decision making process,
Rick Cruz so interesting last night. Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
He created the Commons and Calabasses, the shops of Pacific,
uh and Palisades, the Grove in the Fairfax District, and
the Americana. All four of those places are beautiful areas.
If LA looked like a Rick Caruso project, we would
be the destination of the world for for visitors.
Speaker 9 (23:54):
Stay queen, welcoming, family friendly, that's right, all those things. Yeah,
and so one thing that was interesting where I think
Racruiser made a little bit of news last night on
the story is some folks have said, don't run for mayor,
don't run for governor because it's going to be hard
to win. That there's a new job coming in a
couple of years. Voters pass called the La County CEO,
(24:17):
who will basically be an executive branch in charge of
La County, ten million people, in charge of overseeing all
eighty seven mayors, the entire county government. And they thought
he'd be great for that, and he's I don't think
he'd ever been asked about that, and he said, no,
not interested.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (24:34):
I think looking at both, I think.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
He'd be a great president. I don't know if his
interest is nationally, but I think he you know, he
could literally bring pictures in and show everybody what he's
done and said, I can turn America into a Rick
Caruso project.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (24:50):
Well, I mean I think he's got to start start
with one of these and we'll see if there's a
if there's a market for him. But clearly he's taking
it seriously and I think he's going to make a
decision in the coming weeks in terms of which way
to go.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
But he has great people skills and great managerial skills,
and that's what you need as a mayor or a
governor or president.
Speaker 9 (25:11):
The question is is California just too democratic? You know,
this state votes very much down party line, and Rick
Caruso has been a Republican, he's been independent, he's been
a Democrat, right and as we're seeing with this Prop
fifty thing. If you can just make things, you know,
anti Trump, pro Democrat, you can win when it has
(25:34):
nothing to do with the merits. I mean, you watch
the ads for Prop fifty, which is about redistricting. They
have nothing to do with redistricting. They're just don't do
you want to send a middle finger to Donald Trump? Right,
They're just the challenging for Rick Caruso.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Right, They're stealing five seats from elected officials. And I
can't imagine how infuriating that is for the five Republicans
that might lose next time around.
Speaker 9 (25:57):
Yeah, and one of them is Kevin Kylie, who was
also on the story is this week who's pushing legislation
to say, let's not Jerrymander anywhere in the country.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Let's all there, you go, all right, buddy, and.
Speaker 9 (26:07):
Both parties are not backing it.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I will be watching tonight nine o'clock Mayor Bass on CNN, Yes,
and then Monday John Colebelt at nine o'clock Yes, Buddy.
Speaker 9 (26:20):
And Nancy Pelosi. That's the show, those two together on
the same show.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Gir Is Pelosi going to be in studio.
Speaker 9 (26:28):
See, I'm going to her. I'm interviewing her Monday morning
at San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Okay, excellent, Okay, all right, buddy. I wish you the
most success. You've been a great friend of the show
and a personal friend of mine. I hope that you're
on for thirty years and you retire as the king
of CNN.
Speaker 9 (26:46):
Thank you very much. Came down with you.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
I think talk with you all right.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
There he goes Alex Michaelson brand new show on CNN
every night, local show. He's on from LA for the
San Fernando Valley across the street here at nine pm
every night. So if you have a chance to flip
that on. We're live on KFI M six forty Dodgers zero,
Toronto zero in the top of the third inning.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
In the going back and forth to the Dodgers station.
The guys are next door, Colin Y and Tim Kates,
and they said, there's gonna be something good happen here
to the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
There they are listening to radio, so they're hit listening to.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
It live, base hit, base hit, and two runs are
gonna score and the Dodgers are up three nothing in
Game six, Here come the bats, Here come the bets.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Here come the bets.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
That's great, he come to bet, Here come the bets.
Here comes a judge who's at flip Wilson to the
He comes a judge, He.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Comes Davis did a two oh man bets. What a
key hit for this guy.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Dodgers three, Toronto nothing with Yamamoto on the mound.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I like it so.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
Farbor leads through by three runs at any point in
the wins that.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
They have not since nineteen seventy eight. Free nothing against
the Giants this week, and it felt like exactly what
you're saying. It was horrible to watch for people to
spend all that money to go to the stadium and
the first three pitches to of them went over the offence,
and the crowd was taken out of the last game,
Game five, it was. It was horrible for the fans.
(28:29):
Horrible Mookie Batsman. He's friends with everybody. Every time he
goes to a base he's laughing and high fiving and
exchanging numbers. And ah, this guy's good talent, for he
is the most social guy in the world. Dodgers three
and Toronto's zero. Horrible swing by Teoscar and if it's
(28:52):
there's two outs in the top of the third, it's
three nothing Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
I gotta say, you know, watching the game on this
MLB game day, where it's like the visual of it
and you get the breakdown on the side the summaries,
and it shows what kind of pitch it was, how
fast it was, and then obviously the results swinging strikes. Right.
One thing I've noticed in a pattern all this week
and all these games Toronto, they're throwing balls at mid eighties.
(29:22):
Got like, they're not throwing fast balls, and they're just
swinging and missing on not great speed balls, and it's
it's interesting thing that they hadn't adjusted.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Taoskar Hernandez missed that ball by three feet.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
Ye last pitch, that one was eighty five and a
half miles an hour, as were the other two that
he swung.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Yeah, I mean, you know what the problem And I
heard this from somebody I think it was David say.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
The problem with these pitchers.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
They're so good now that they released the ball at
the exact same place where a fast ball would be
released or a curve ball or a slider, and so
the pitcher, the batter can't tell what's coming. Yeah, because
the release point is relatively exactly the same.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
He swung three times and struck out. The first one
was a foul on a slider five and a half
and the next two swinging strikes on eighty five and
a half mile four hour splitters.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Both of them are splitters.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
They they know the weakness of these batters, and they
give you a overdose of what you can't hit.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
Yeah, it's been interesting to watch it from this vantage
point to see, oh, that breakdown, you know exactly what
they're screwing up on.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Yeah, once they find out your weakness, you get a
diet of that all night. You know, it's the curveball.
You can't hit the fastball. Most of these guys can
hit fastballs up.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Do it till they stop it. Yeah, and you.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Got to you gotta, you know, adjust your swing or
else you're in Albuquerque.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
So they're out of the inning now. Yep.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Three nothing Dodgers, three nothing Dodgers. What a great night
so far. Three nothing Dodgers. And you know what, even
if the Dodgers lose this game, they gave me that
energy with that three nothing lead. I love that team.
I will always be a Dodger fan. I don't care
what that team does. That team has brought me more
(31:05):
joy than almost anything else in life. From my very
first ballgame I went to in nineteen sixty nine until
that last you know inning, It's been a great run
with these Los Angeles Dodgers, and I think a lot
of people will feel the same way. You see Dodger
hats and Dodger jerseys everywhere. Every story you go into,
whether it's Walmart or Dick Sporting Goods, they all offer,
(31:25):
you know, Dodger jerseys and Dodger hats, and everybody's loaded
up and Dodger fans have traveled. There's a lot of
Dodger fans that went to Toronto to support the team.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
We'll come back and play that clip.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
We're live Dodgers three, Toronto zero in the bottom of
the third inning.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
We're live on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now you
can always hear us live on KFI AM six forty
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demand on the iHeart Radio app.
It's KMF I am sixty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Big party
going out in West Hollywood. That place will get mobbed.
It looks pretty vacant now, but that crew doesn't party
until eight o'clock, nine ten o'clock. That's when we'll really
get rolling out there. So the Third Street Promenade in
(00:23):
Santa Monica. I think I'm more of the guy they
can put this together than the guy we just aired.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And nothing against him. I don't know him.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Maybe he's got some good ideas, but he needs to
follow this plan. I just put this plan together during
the commercial break. Okay, here's the plan to turn Santa
Monica around. Take Third Street Promenade and give it to
Rick Caruso for one hundred year lease for free.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
He started.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
He created the Commons in Calabasas, the Shops in Pacific Palisades,
the Grove in the Fair District, and the Americana in Glendale.
All of those places are spectacular and they're all very
well attended. People feel safe, and people go there and
spend their money. So Rick Caruso offered his services to
(01:14):
become the mayor of Los Angeles, and you guys said no,
and now you're paying the price. So give Rick Caruso
one hundred year lease on that property and then it
reverts back to Santa Monica. Step number two, move the
homeless cats out of there. Sorry, find a place for
him and move them out. That's step number two. Number three,
(01:37):
level the seers there. There's a big seers there. Bring
that down and put up a parking lot like they
have at Disneyland, where there's you know, five thousand parking
spots and people will come and park if you can
get onto the freeway and off the freeway with ease.
And then take the ten best restaurants in Southern California
(01:59):
and offer them a forty year free lease on a
piece of property on Third Street Promenade and give them
a thirty or forty year lease for free. And the
ten best restaurants in Southern California. That's a plan that
can work. But this other thing with you know, while
we're gonna ask people what they want and then we'll
(02:20):
you know, take another step and off for a rooftop
bar and people will be great. It's not gonna happen.
You gotta go with my plan and that will work
your plan.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
No good? All right? We Hoe Carnival in West Hollywood.
What a party. That's the place to be tonight in
southern California.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Happy Halloween, you guys, Happy Halloween.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Everybody.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
That spectacle gets underweight in just about two hours, running
from six pm to eleven PM tonight. Apparently it ran
until midnight in the past, so it's pared down a
little bit this year.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
But why are they closing that down at eleven PM?
And that's what time people in that area go out
to party. That's when they leave the house at eleven PM.
Why would you close it down at eleven No less fun.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
We are right across the main stage at San Vicenti
and Santa Monica Boulevard in the heart of the Rainbow District.
West Hollywood looked like a ghost town Friday afternoon. Get it,
ghost town, got it fitting for Halloween. But come on,
(03:32):
this is one of the biggest parties in the world,
the West Hollywood Halloween Carnival twenty twenty five. This was
the Spooky Spectacle last year. This year, organizers are expecting
tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of visitors
to pack Santa Monica Boulevard between Doheeny Drive and Las
(03:54):
Jenega Boulevard, known as the city's Rainbow district.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
With its vibrant nightlight.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
People come from near and far for the killer experience,
complete with music and DJs and food and fun and
libations and of course all of those outrageous and wild costume.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
So you're just a monkey, right, I'm a monkey right now?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Easy, simple. I just came out.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
We were going down to CBS to get some more candy,
and then so.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I just thought, you know, whip something on real quick man.
Quite a night for this young man. Candy for trigger treaders. Yeah,
and along the street and everything. We celebrate really good costumes.
The hottest costumes will hand out candy and stuff. You
win the prize back.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
You're live across from the main stage for West Hollywood's
Halloween Carnival twenty twenty five, officials say bringing pets and children.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
By the way are no good is not advised.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Ah, okay, leave the pets and the kids at home.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Is not advised.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
And quite honestly, some of the costumes are out fits
are much more revealing than others, especially as the night progresses. Right,
So keep that in mind, and of course that's going
to be a draw for many people.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
We know that also, Well.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Who brings their dog anyway? I mean, you're going to
a party that's that loud and you don't want to
and if you bring your dog, there's something wrong with you.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Been talking about that more lately as people take their dogs.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Everywhere, everywhere, they go everywhere restaurants, high end restaurants too.
I was at we went from my wife's fiftieth birthday.
We went to Montes. Oh, I never say the name
of the restaurant. Sorry, I always tell that. Sorry, that's
saying the name of the restaurant.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Anyway, Montes in Woodland Hills, and I went outside, I
don't know, to get something. I forgot Suth in the car,
and as I came back in, I fell.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I tripped over a dog.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
There was a dog at a table that was near us,
and the dog flipped out because I stepped on the
dog's paw because I wasn't looking for dogs. I didn't
expect the dog in the restaurant, so I stepped on
the pad. The dog went crazy, and then another dog
flipped out because that dog was barking and it sounded
like a zoo and and I thought, God almighty, everybody
(06:14):
brings their dogs everywhere.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Now, and if there were any other dogs in there,
they would have lost their mind hearing that one.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Dog lose it. Yeah, that happened. There was another dog there.
Domino effect. Yeah, they went.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It was all of a sudden. It sounded like a
pet you know, like a pet store. And I'm and
it wasn't a you know, a service animal. It was
just the guy's dog. And people bring them everywhere. Now,
you know, I understand that they're family members. I get that,
but in restaurants, it's it's just it's looked down upon.
When you bring your dog to a restaurant. People may
(06:47):
not say it to your face, you know, because they
want to remain friends with you. They don't want to
piss you off. Maybe you work for them or they
work for you, and they want to keep the relationship going.
But every time somebody leaves a party or a restauran
and you also brought your dog, that's all they talk
about on the way home, About what a hole you
were to bring your dog. That's all they discuss on
(07:09):
the way home. Yeah, Jeff brought his dog. An't believe
that yeah. He brought his a gd dog with him
the whole time. His dog was there, you know, and
his dog, yeah, all the way back to Northridge.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, the dog. Yeah, he brought his dog. Who brings
their dog.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, you don't know it, but once you leave that restaurant,
everyone's talking about you and your dog.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
That's what they want. I guess. So that's what they want.
I guess right, I guess you're right. Why would they
bring the dog in the first place. Everybody's gonna love
my dog, I know. And you see those people.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
They are so like they get so excited when somebody
pays attention to.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
The look at your dog, Yeah, what brought I know?
And people always be asked. You're like, oh, your dog's
so great? Yeah, yeah, that dog's not that great. Nope,
you know dogs, some dogs are great, not all of them.
They're not all great.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Then yeah, sometimes you got a bad dog, you know,
you gotta be a bum dog, you all right. We
keep an eye on the Dodger game. It has started,
top of the first inning, two outs, nobody on for
the Dodgers, and if they don't win this game, it's
lights out.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
The season's over Unless they win tonight.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
It is Halloween. Be careful out there with the kids.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Please please, please, please, and we'll keep you a Dodger
scores all night long. It looks like the Dodgers are
in the it's in the bottom of the first one
out zero zero tie, all right. It looks like the
pennies are going away. If you have maybe you're a
collector of pennies, hold on to them because they could
(08:45):
be collectors items. They're going away. Stores restaurants are now
going to start rounding up or rounding down and leaving
the pennies out of your change, which is great because
it's just sort of it's a waste of time to
sit there and you know, and have the cashier count out,
(09:06):
you know, fifty eight cents. It just rounded up, around
it down. Nobody cares they're pennies. So it looks like
a lot of places are going to start doing this.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
You might want to finally round up those forgotten pennies
on the floor of your car or in between your
couch cushions. Several retailers around the country have started posting
signs and drafting policies on what to do if cashiers
cannot give out exact change, because we may be seeing
the beginning of a penny shortage.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yes, and if you have pennies out there, they're going
to be worth a lot of money eventually, you know,
if they go away, maybe just in the copper, you know,
if they're older pennies, or just as collector's items.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
We may be seeing the beginning of the end for
the penny. Local shortages may already be happening in pockets
of the country, but most Americans haven't felt it yet.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
Both transfactions today are digital, but the people who tend
to use cash and rely on cash will definitely feel
the penny shortage before the rest of us.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Thanks for the energy from the young lady.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
She's gonna be on camera once in her life talking
about pennies. Calm down, and she can't get a cup
of coffee or anything.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Definitely feel the penny shortage before the rest of us.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
That sounds like she's falling asleep.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
It sounds like, you know, she her head's on the pillow,
she's a washed her you know, brush, her teeth, washed
her face, and she's about to fall asleep and then boom,
the reporter pops in her bedroom and interviews her.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
The people who tend to use cash and rely on
cash will definitely feel the penny shortage before the rest
of us.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
There she goes without pennies.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Businesses will have to decide whether to round prices to
the nearest nickel or even dollar, changing the familiar ninety
nine cent effect, where a price just under a dollar
feels cheaper.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
This is called the left digit effect because our brain
tends to process information from left to right.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Some companies are already making adjustments. Kroger stores are asking
customers for exact change, truck stop Loves and gas station
Quick Trip are rounding totals to the nickel.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I think that there are some practical now implementation of
rounding that. You know, another burned out guy. You know,
you can't get it up for talking about pennies in public.
Nobody can. I guess it's impossible. You're never going to
get a guy going you with tons of energy. Oh yeah, no,
pennies are going away. Man, it's gonna be Nickels, Nichols, nickel.
(11:32):
You know you don't get that energy. Nobody has that
energy for penny no implementation that.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
You know that businesses are going to do on the fly.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I don't know where the humor was there. I missed
the punchline or the setup that you.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Know that businesses are going to do on the fly.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
What I don't necessarily think it's going to be have
a significant impact on a lot of consumers or businesses.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Under federal rules, retailers that accept snap benefits are required
to treat customers equally, making rounding totals for cash customers
and not for digital transactions a difficult policy decision. The
national Retail groups sent a letter to Congress in September
asking the government to make rules before the shortage issue
becomes widespread.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Well, there's companies already starting it. McDonald's is already I
think getting rid of the penny.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
Well check this out. If you're paying where cash at McDonald's,
listen up. The fast food chain says they will be
making some price changes coming up.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah, you're done with these pennies.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
Donald says they'll be rounding cash change to the nearest
five cents. So the move comes as penny production is stopping.
So now, depending on how much your order costs, your
total could round up or down by a few cents.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
I wonder which way it's going to go. I wonder
which way businesses are going to go. Are they going
to round up? Are they going to round down? Nobody,
We'll be rounding down.
Speaker 8 (12:52):
So now, depending on how much your order cost, your
total could round up or down by a few cents.
The new system will not apply to cash list purchases
or online app order.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
All right, the penny is going away, and that that
that's probably right.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I mean, you know who needs it. It's uh.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
It just when you have pennies in your pocket, you
feel like you know you're you're not doing well anyway.
You know, you got change the last time somebody had
change on them. Do you have change on you, Krozer,
do you have any they change, quarters, dimes, nickels, anything.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Dang, I don't have it. I don't have any change,
but Tony, you have change on you. I don't even
have cash on you.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
You have no cash on you, like my wife. My
wife never has any money on her. Every time I.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Turned to it, hey you got a couple of bucks.
Zeroed out? Zero it out? All right, Well we come back.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
We'll talk to Alex Michaelson and I'm sorry. I went
to push it and punch him up here and I
couldn't hear him. So he did the story and the pennies.
We came back. We'll talk to him. Hopefully he can
stick around. He's got a great show on CNN and
we got to promote the hell out of it, so
he sticks around.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demyan from kf
I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Row zero in Toronto in the middle or bottom half
of the second inning.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
So we'll see.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Dodgers have to win tonight and if they don't, they're
coming home and we'll get them next year.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
We'll get them next year. It's game six.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Hey, look, it's a good it's it's a good sign
because for the first time, and I don't know how
many games, the Blue Jays didn't score in.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
The first inning. Yeah, two home runs in the first inning.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
So Dodger fans have you got to respect them. They
travel and go watch this team, and a ton of
Dodger fans showed up in Toronto, so that's really cool.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
All right.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Alex Michaelson has his own show now on CNN and
he's with us.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Alex how you.
Speaker 9 (14:39):
Bob ding Don with you and go Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yes, we got the Dodgers have got to win this game,
and if they do, then you'll be on the air
when they win. Probably, you know, nine o'clock.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
What do you start at nine?
Speaker 9 (14:54):
We start at nine o'clock. Yeah, so we've got We've
got reporters in Toronto, We've got my how Steve Mason
from ESPN gonna be on set with me. We're doing
a lot of Dodger talking. The Mayor of Los Angeles
is also here tonight live in the studio. Were in
bath But yeah, we've Yeah, so it's a I'm excited,
I'm optimistic about tonight. I am jamoo on the mound.
(15:17):
Makes me feel good. And then you get the two
best words in all the sports game seven and anything
can happen.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
How is it going over at CNN? I imagine the
resources that they have with reporters around the world makes
it a lot easier, a lot more fun to do
a show.
Speaker 9 (15:33):
Well, it's been pretty wild to see that sort of
in effect. You know the other night when President Trump
meets President She and they walk out, and it happened
about a minute and a half before my show started.
I was like, oh my god, I'm the anchor of CNN.
Here go yeah, sort of consequential world moment, and I'm like,
(15:56):
it's me okay. And then you know, and there's reporters
and Free Asian country that is involved in this. We
had reporters and you know, all the countries impacted by
the hurricane and everything happening here. I mean, it is.
It's the biggest news organization in the world. You know,
our show area two hundred countries, and it's it's wild
to see how that works, especially on the big breaking news,
(16:17):
especially the big international breaking news. It's really something and
it's very cool to be a part of it.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Are you getting feedback, ratings comments from management?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Are they excited about the show?
Speaker 9 (16:29):
Yeah, everybody seems pretty pretty happy with it, and it's
doing well digitally. That night, particularly that the night when
we had the breaking news, it did especially well from
a ratings perspective, and everybody seems to be happy. I mean, look,
we and frankly now a lot of it's based off
of digital. You know what clips do well. We did
an interview with Governor Newsom that kind of went all
over the place, and then we've highlighted a lot of
(16:52):
you know, conservative leaders too. Last night we had Harmie Dillon,
who's the deputy Attorney General for the Trump administration, with
a very different perspective than Governor Newsom. I mean, we've
really gone out of our way to bring all sides
to the table, to have you know, actual dialogue. And
it's been pretty cool because I don't think that happens
in a lot of places these days.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Is Bernard Shaw still there?
Speaker 9 (17:15):
It's been it's what twenty thirty years since Bernard's show.
I'm guessing you have you haven't. I'm guessing you haven't
watched in a minute.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I thought I last time I turned on he was on.
Maybe I was mistaken he was on.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
So your boss over.
Speaker 9 (17:32):
There, Will Flitzer. Will Flitzer is still on?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Okay, Will Flitzer will be there forever. Your boss is
Mark Thompson then over there?
Speaker 9 (17:41):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Is that who you meet?
Speaker 9 (17:44):
Is the British Mark Conson not our Mark Thompson? Right? Yes,
very very different vibe.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
And what is is he hands on? And on the
West coast? Is he on the East coast?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Is in Atlanta?
Speaker 9 (17:56):
He's in New York?
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Is uh?
Speaker 9 (17:59):
You know? His his instruction to me was to make
the most fun show on CNN and and don't feel pressure.
Try to do stuff that's creative and make it feel
very West Coast. That was his instruction to me, which
was great.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah that sounds good.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, that sounds like they're giving you a you know,
a clean canvas to you know, bring that show over
from the Issue Is from Fox. I noticed you didn't
use the issue is was did Fox not allow you
to use that name?
Speaker 9 (18:29):
Fox owns that and copy wrote that, so we used
a different name. The story is. It's the name of
the show and it has it has a lot of
the best elements of the Issue Is with a lot
of cool live elements and more and honestly more cultural stuff.
Right again, certainly see that tonight We got comedians on,
(18:50):
like how Matt Friend is coming on Roywood Junior is
on tonight.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Is Matt brand the guy that does the impressions?
Speaker 9 (18:56):
He does the impressions?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yeah, he's great.
Speaker 9 (18:59):
So he's a lot of fun and so it's that
kind of stuff that you don't see on most of
the cable news, right.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
And it must be a lot more work though than
the Issue Is. I mean, you're on two hours live
every night.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
Yeah. The issue is was twenty minutes once a week.
This is two hours live every night. So it's insane.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
What time do you get in every day.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
The amount I have been I've literally been working from
like eight or nine in the morning till about midnight.
I mean, it's been crazy. It's the first week, but
it's been it's been insane. But we've had great stuff,
you know, and we had you know, everybody you know,
Gavin Newsom, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown. We've had here
at three Calibernia government. We've had people from all over
the map, have all you know joined us. It's been,
(19:41):
it's been great.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Do you have a Mayor Baths in studio?
Speaker 9 (19:46):
Mayor Baths is live in studio tonight.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Nine o'clock, okay, all right, ninth nine o'clock. Yet I
will I will take a look at that.
Speaker 9 (19:53):
I have not done that. And then Monday night, Monday Night,
John Cobalt, it's going to be live wow.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
At nine o'clock. Okay, all right, So I'll tune in
for that as well. Man, you got to going on
over there.
Speaker 9 (20:04):
Yeah, and then we'll be on Tuesday night, I'll be
anchoring our election coverage from Sacramento with Governor Newsom and
the Prop fifty stuff, and so that's going to be
quite a night.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
And what is the vibe over there? I mean, who
else broadcast from the West Coast or who's who's at
CNN West Coast anybody or everybody's back east?
Speaker 9 (20:26):
Well, I mean there's there's reporters that are here, but
I'm the first show to be here and the first
anchor to be here since Larry King Live.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
So is that right?
Speaker 9 (20:37):
It's a new vibe. Yeah. Yeah. So they built a
new studio for this, and it's cool to kind of
have that space kind of to myself to be honest.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Are you going to Nate Now's after every show?
Speaker 9 (20:49):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, that's goals.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Hello douke Zieberts, Buddy, that's great. This is a very
This is a huge deal for you, you know.
Speaker 9 (21:01):
Yeah, yeah, I know. We got to get you on
the show.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Na, buddy, I don't want to f it up. I've
always said to my friends, like my friend wrote a sitcom,
he Goes, Buddy Goes, I want you to play a
lead role. And I said, Buddy, you only get like
two chances in Hollywood. You got to get actors to
do that not people you know off the I don't
want to ruin it. You would be great, Thank you, Budge.
I appreciate that. And you're literally across the street from us.
(21:26):
I can see the driveway where you pull in every day.
I'm on the drive I'm in the driveway across the street.
Speaker 9 (21:33):
I know. So I hope we can actually do this
segment in person.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yes, and maybe we can grab lunch because you know,
on one of your breaks.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
So what is what are your schedule?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I'm fascinated by you know, CNN, you know, putting this
live show on and taking a chance with you. I
think it's a great opportunity for you. But what what
are you You get in eight o'clock, nine o'clock, you
rehearse and then you take up, you know, an hour break,
and then you come back.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Do you have writers? What's what's going on?
Speaker 9 (21:58):
We haven't really been rehearsed, to be honest. We've been
doing some pre tapes, you know, interviews with people in advance,
because it's hard for everybody to be on at eight
or nine or ten, especially people in the East Coast. Sure,
so so we've kind of been taping honestly throughout the day.
I've been working on tape pieces in the field. We
did something with Josh Grobin, we did something with Arnold Schwarzeneger.
(22:20):
We've done other stuff too, so I I mean it's
the first week. I hope it doesn't stay this way
because it's not sustainable. But I've basically been working every
hour of the day to try to get this thing
off the ground, and I'm proud of what we've done.
I hope it doesn't stay that way forever, but at
least it's uh, you know, we're in the early days
when you have.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Mayor bas On.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Does she acknowledge that you are principally responsible for her
becoming mayor?
Speaker 9 (22:45):
Well, I mean I don't think that that's actually true, true,
but but the fact that she's coming on maybe said something, right.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah, right, Look, I didn't know who she was until you,
until you had her on the issue is and then
everybody knew who she was.
Speaker 9 (23:00):
Yeah, we her and we had Rick Caruso on last night.
You know, we've got kind of let's bring everybody to
the table and then viewers can decide who they who
they like, and who they want.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I think that La you know, nothing against Mayor baths.
But I think l A needed Rick Caruso at that moment,
and I would be interested to see if Rick Ruso
was mayor how things would be different in Ellen.
Speaker 9 (23:23):
I'm sure Rick Caruso feels similarly. You know, Rick Ruso,
we may, we may, we may get an opportunity to
see it soon. Based off of his decision making process,
Rick Cruz so interesting last night. Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
He created the Commons and Calabasses, the shops of Pacific,
uh and Palisades, the Grove in the Fairfax District, and
the Americana. All four of those places are beautiful areas.
If LA looked like a Rick Caruso project, we would
be the destination of the world for for visitors.
Speaker 9 (23:54):
Stay queen, welcoming, family friendly, that's right, all those things. Yeah,
and so one thing that was interesting where I think
Racruiser made a little bit of news last night on
the story is some folks have said, don't run for mayor,
don't run for governor because it's going to be hard
to win. That there's a new job coming in a
couple of years. Voters pass called the La County CEO,
(24:17):
who will basically be an executive branch in charge of
La County, ten million people, in charge of overseeing all
eighty seven mayors, the entire county government. And they thought
he'd be great for that, and he's I don't think
he'd ever been asked about that, and he said, no,
not interested.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (24:34):
I think looking at both, I think.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
He'd be a great president. I don't know if his
interest is nationally, but I think he you know, he
could literally bring pictures in and show everybody what he's
done and said, I can turn America into a Rick
Caruso project.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (24:50):
Well, I mean I think he's got to start start
with one of these and we'll see if there's a
if there's a market for him. But clearly he's taking
it seriously and I think he's going to make a
decision in the coming weeks in terms of which way
to go.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
But he has great people skills and great managerial skills,
and that's what you need as a mayor or a
governor or president.
Speaker 9 (25:11):
The question is is California just too democratic? You know,
this state votes very much down party line, and Rick
Caruso has been a Republican, he's been independent, he's been
a Democrat, right and as we're seeing with this Prop
fifty thing. If you can just make things, you know,
anti Trump, pro Democrat, you can win when it has
(25:34):
nothing to do with the merits. I mean, you watch
the ads for Prop fifty, which is about redistricting. They
have nothing to do with redistricting. They're just don't do
you want to send a middle finger to Donald Trump? Right,
They're just the challenging for Rick Caruso.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Right, They're stealing five seats from elected officials. And I
can't imagine how infuriating that is for the five Republicans
that might lose next time around.
Speaker 9 (25:57):
Yeah, and one of them is Kevin Kylie, who was
also on the story is this week who's pushing legislation
to say, let's not Jerrymander anywhere in the country.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Let's all there, you go, all right, buddy, and.
Speaker 9 (26:07):
Both parties are not backing it.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I will be watching tonight nine o'clock Mayor Bass on CNN, Yes,
and then Monday John Colebelt at nine o'clock Yes, Buddy.
Speaker 9 (26:20):
And Nancy Pelosi. That's the show, those two together on
the same show.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Gir Is Pelosi going to be in studio.
Speaker 9 (26:28):
See, I'm going to her. I'm interviewing her Monday morning
at San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Okay, excellent, Okay, all right, buddy. I wish you the
most success. You've been a great friend of the show
and a personal friend of mine. I hope that you're
on for thirty years and you retire as the king
of CNN.
Speaker 9 (26:46):
Thank you very much. Came down with you.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
I think talk with you all right.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
There he goes Alex Michaelson brand new show on CNN
every night, local show. He's on from LA for the
San Fernando Valley across the street here at nine pm
every night. So if you have a chance to flip
that on. We're live on KFI M six forty Dodgers zero,
Toronto zero in the top of the third inning.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
In the going back and forth to the Dodgers station.
The guys are next door, Colin Y and Tim Kates,
and they said, there's gonna be something good happen here
to the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
There they are listening to radio, so they're hit listening to.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
It live, base hit, base hit, and two runs are
gonna score and the Dodgers are up three nothing in
Game six, Here come the bats, Here come the bets.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Here come the bets.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
That's great, he come to bet, Here come the bets.
Here comes a judge who's at flip Wilson to the
He comes a judge, He.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Comes Davis did a two oh man bets. What a
key hit for this guy.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Dodgers three, Toronto nothing with Yamamoto on the mound.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I like it so.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
Farbor leads through by three runs at any point in
the wins that.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
They have not since nineteen seventy eight. Free nothing against
the Giants this week, and it felt like exactly what
you're saying. It was horrible to watch for people to
spend all that money to go to the stadium and
the first three pitches to of them went over the offence,
and the crowd was taken out of the last game,
Game five, it was. It was horrible for the fans.
(28:29):
Horrible Mookie Batsman. He's friends with everybody. Every time he
goes to a base he's laughing and high fiving and
exchanging numbers. And ah, this guy's good talent, for he
is the most social guy in the world. Dodgers three
and Toronto's zero. Horrible swing by Teoscar and if it's
(28:52):
there's two outs in the top of the third, it's
three nothing Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
I gotta say, you know, watching the game on this
MLB game day, where it's like the visual of it
and you get the breakdown on the side the summaries,
and it shows what kind of pitch it was, how
fast it was, and then obviously the results swinging strikes. Right.
One thing I've noticed in a pattern all this week
and all these games Toronto, they're throwing balls at mid eighties.
(29:22):
Got like, they're not throwing fast balls, and they're just
swinging and missing on not great speed balls, and it's
it's interesting thing that they hadn't adjusted.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Taoskar Hernandez missed that ball by three feet.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
Ye last pitch, that one was eighty five and a
half miles an hour, as were the other two that
he swung.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Yeah, I mean, you know what the problem And I
heard this from somebody I think it was David say.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
The problem with these pitchers.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
They're so good now that they released the ball at
the exact same place where a fast ball would be
released or a curve ball or a slider, and so
the pitcher, the batter can't tell what's coming. Yeah, because
the release point is relatively exactly the same.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
He swung three times and struck out. The first one
was a foul on a slider five and a half
and the next two swinging strikes on eighty five and
a half mile four hour splitters.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Both of them are splitters.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
They they know the weakness of these batters, and they
give you a overdose of what you can't hit.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
Yeah, it's been interesting to watch it from this vantage
point to see, oh, that breakdown, you know exactly what
they're screwing up on.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Yeah, once they find out your weakness, you get a
diet of that all night. You know, it's the curveball.
You can't hit the fastball. Most of these guys can
hit fastballs up.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Do it till they stop it. Yeah, and you.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Got to you gotta, you know, adjust your swing or
else you're in Albuquerque.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
So they're out of the inning now. Yep.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Three nothing Dodgers, three nothing Dodgers. What a great night
so far. Three nothing Dodgers. And you know what, even
if the Dodgers lose this game, they gave me that
energy with that three nothing lead. I love that team.
I will always be a Dodger fan. I don't care
what that team does. That team has brought me more
(31:05):
joy than almost anything else in life. From my very
first ballgame I went to in nineteen sixty nine until
that last you know inning, It's been a great run
with these Los Angeles Dodgers, and I think a lot
of people will feel the same way. You see Dodger
hats and Dodger jerseys everywhere. Every story you go into,
whether it's Walmart or Dick Sporting Goods, they all offer,
(31:25):
you know, Dodger jerseys and Dodger hats, and everybody's loaded
up and Dodger fans have traveled. There's a lot of
Dodger fans that went to Toronto to support the team.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
We'll come back and play that clip.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
We're live Dodgers three, Toronto zero in the bottom of
the third inning.
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