June 20, 2025 • 29 mins
Mayor Bass said that ICE agents are showing up in a vest they got from Amazon –needs a better reference to really take the shot, like “Dollar Tree” -WHIP: What is the most expensive item on Amazon? In 2024, the most expensive item listed on Amazon is a piece of artwork called "The Way' by Gafur Timeryanov, listed for $32 million. Hotel Del haunted? // L.A. is a very complicated and expensive place to live. Bell & Maywood ICE protests, JD Vance & Mayor Bass pressers today. Israel v Iran. The Dodgers' manager was suspended. The growing number of people experiencing homelessness is 55 +. Heist in broad daylight take ATM // Casa Fina Restaurant & Cantina L.A. ‘Jaws’ celebrating 50 years Inspired Wave of Shark Research and Conservation // First heart transplant using a robot. "Zynfluencers Hooking a Generation". Popular nicotine pouches pack a powerful punch. What to know about health risks#Amazon #HotelDelCoronado #DollarTree #HauntedHotels #Homeless #ElderlyHomelessness #Heist #Jaws #Sharks #Robotics #HEartTransplant
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF I am sixty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Mayor
Bass has just spoken. She's angry, she's pissed, and she
said that these federal officers are showing up and she said,
in her her words, she said, they're they're showing up
(00:23):
with vess like they got on Amazon. And I thought, oh,
that's that's not a good reference, because you can buy
a you know, two or three hundred dollars vest that
looks great on Amazon. She's got to change that reference.
She's got to say, oh, they're showing up with ves
that you you would get from Ross. You know, she's
got to take it a she's got to attack a
(00:44):
lower end of place like Ross or Oh, yeah, they
show up with vest that they look like they just
picked up from TJ Max or what are some other ones, Marshall's. Yeah,
it looks like the Marshall's got their vest at Marshall's
or Kmart any kmarts around anymore. I don't think so
they've all disappeared.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Maybe they bought them years ago.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah maybe right, yeah, yeah, okay, that's a that's a
that's possibility. You have a big Kmart family growing up.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, we went to kmart.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, we love that blue light special. Sit in that
Kmart and that coffee shop and wait for that blue
light to go up so you can save thirty cents
on socks somewhere. That is a lot. You're right, but
she should she should have said, you know, these federal
officers show up with vests, looks like they got from
the dollar tree. Right, that's a better dig.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, yeah, yeah than that.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
That's good, you know, but you can't say, oh, they
bought cheap crap on Amazon, because Amazon says sells high
end stuff, very high end. Yes, oh you know, that's
a great whip around. All right, we're going to do this. Okay,
I'm going to look this up here. What's the most
expensive item on am zon? Okay, all right, I got it,
(02:03):
the most expensive item on Amazon? What do you think
the most expensive item on Amazon is? And how much?
You know, you don't have to say what it is,
but why don't you try to guess the price the
most expensive item you can buy on Amazon? Steperoni, Tony
Steph Lush, what do you think? I'll say, three hundred thousand,
(02:28):
three hundred thousand, all right, you're a guest Brooker. What
do you say on Amazon?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I'm gonna say six ninety two, six hundred ninety two thousand.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Okay, all right, Angel Martinez, what do you think?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I'm going with a solid fifty k fifty thousand, all right.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
And BELLYO, I'll go seventy five.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Thousand, seventy five thousand dollars. All right. It turns out
I think Brook is correct. Wait a minute, wait, miitut.
That's one hundred and ninety one, one hundred. No, I
think it's Steph Fusche. Yeah, he's one hundred and six. No,
he's too sixty one off. No, okay, all right, it
(03:12):
is Heather Heather wins. Yes, it's a Cal Ripken junior
nineteen eighty one rookie Major League Baseball debut, signed jersey,
and it's all yours for five hundred and sixty one thousand,
two hundred and seventy dollars and fifty nine cents. Not
sure why they had the fifty nine cents in, but
(03:34):
they did shipping. Yeah, you can buy a Babe Ruth
baseball for two hundred and forty thousand. That's cheap. You
can also buy a look at this. It's a it's
a baseball card. A let me see an o kid. Oh,
Christy Matthewson. I don't even know who that is to
four hundred nine thousand dollars. Who's buying a four hundred
(03:56):
thousand dollars item on Amazon? Who is that? Who are
these people? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
There's something here.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
I saw this this well, this was in twenty twenty
four something for thirty two million.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
What on Amazon?
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Yeah, it was a piece of artwork called wow Way
and it was listed for thirty two million dollars.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Man, oh man, you imagine I have that kind of money, Fellio.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I can't imagine that. Yeah, that'd be great.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
All right, We're gonna keep an eye on everything in La.
If anything up breaks out, we will have for you immediately.
But speaking of money. Hotel Coronado, Hotel del Coronado in
San Diego, one of the most spectacular buildings and spectacular
hotels in the entire world. Well it reopened. They closed
down to do renovations because every time you walk through
(04:44):
the place is falling apart. The floorboards were creaking and squeaking.
Some of the doors didn't close because it's you know,
it's on the ocean, and it's been around for close
to one hundred years. And so they shut it down
and they did a six year rehab on it, five
hundred and fifty million dollars and six years to put
(05:06):
Hotel del Coronado back together. And I guess it looks unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
It's been a while since the Hotel del Coronado hasn't
had any scaffolding on any part of it. Well, that's
what six years and half a billion dollars will get you.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
I must say it looks better without the scaffolding.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Everything does.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Miss about that guy.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
I must say it looks better without the scaffolding.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Everything does, especially the Dell's iconic facade.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
There's never been a refurbishment like this in the one hundred
and thirty seven years of this property.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Oh I didn't know that, Okay, one hundred and thirty
seven years.
Speaker 8 (05:37):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
JP Oliver is the hotel's area managing director. He says
more than six years and five hundred and fifty million
dollars led to this.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
This is a very special day.
Speaker 9 (05:50):
I am for.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Shields, the grand reopening the full hotel.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
We put in stained glass windows, more.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Than seven hundred and fifty rooms are available to new
restaurants opened, and hundreds of jobs were added to the resort.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I'm so proud of this place.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
We believe they will certainly take us into the next century.
Speaker 8 (06:07):
This is like a really defining characteristic of our whole region.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Congressman Scott Peters hopes the good news keeps going for Coronado,
which is also dealing with the ross.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
You've been down there, belly O with John. You ever
go down to Hotel del Coronado.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I have been down there. I didn't stay at it,
but we did walk around.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Man. There's nothing more beautiful. Man, so beautiful everywhere you walk,
like in the basement area where the shop is, the restaurants,
overlooking the ocean, the suits there. It is unbelievable. You
ever get down the Rangel to help the Hotel del Coronado.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Oh yeah, it's gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
It's gorgeous.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
I haven't been since they've reopened.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
You gotta go, You gotta go. Five hundred and fifty
million dollars, so they need people like you to go
down and spend a couple of bucks.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
It's haunted.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Wait, it's haunted. Yes, I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
And there're one time. I got so scared because everybody
was sending me messages like good luck tonight.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Did you hear anything?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I did, But I don't know if it was in
my mind because I was already scared, or if it
was actual ghost. It's expensive to stay there, it is,
but it's worth it is really beautiful.
Speaker 10 (07:11):
Yeah, right on the ocean man oh Man, which is
also dealing with the ross sewage in the ocean water
all the way from Mexico. What which is also dealing
with the ross sewage in the ocean water all the
way from Mexico.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I wouldn't mention that in the AD. I would pass
on that you don't want to mention this raw sewage
from Mexico on the beach.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
God, we've been working really hard on making sure that
the water's clean here.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
We've been making a really great progress.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
Recently repaired and soon to be upgraded wastewater treatment plants
on both sides of the border may eventually mean these
yellow signs come down more often.
Speaker 11 (07:47):
And we hope that in the summer that means cleaner
beach us here.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
It would give Dell guests the full experience inside the
historic hotel and out.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
I want to welcome everyone back with our arms wide open.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
That was called the lady entrance. It's worth it for
a hotel that first welcome guests in eighteen eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Wow, they used to have a male entrance and a
female entrance. That's an old old school, old school where
the women couldn't use the male entrance.
Speaker 12 (08:16):
That's what I like that.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I mind going back to that. The hell Yeah, everybody
knows their place, you know, the kitchen.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Barefoots are done.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
And Oliver says, that's a great.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Cool thing about the Hotel del coronatdo is that they
have this professional sand castle builder. Oh really that always
has like some beautiful sand castle on display out in
the sand out in front of the hotel.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
It's beautiful. It's great. My mom used to love that hotel.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
And Oliver says, it's ready to welcome them for many
more years to come. In Coronado.
Speaker 7 (08:55):
One of the rare icons left in America.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Joe Little NBC seven.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
It's beautiful, isn't it?
Speaker 13 (09:01):
The Hotel del Coronado renamed or reimagine opening during.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
It's referred Okay, let's see the average night stay at
Hotel del corp uhnine, Oh, you're talking about whoa three
hundred and fifty four to seven hundred dollars a night.
(09:26):
Standard rooms, standard rooms, nothing special, starting at four hundred
and thirty two bucks a night. Well, King rooms, Queen
rooms can go for three fifty four to four hundred bucks.
All right, Well, if you go down there once, you know,
every ten years, you know, enjoy yourself. Double rooms go
from six hundred and eight to eleven hundred and fifty
bucks per night. That is expensive, but I'm looking at
(09:52):
pictures of it right now. It's spectacular. It is beautiful.
All right. We'll keeping eye in LA. We've got everything
covered for you. Jd Vance is in town. The Dodgers
have made a statement about the unrest going on here
in Los Angeles, the Ice raids and border patrol and
the Marines and the National Guard. Everybody's here. Bell and
(10:13):
Maywood earlier this afternoon, some confrontations there with Ice. Mayor
Pass gave a speech a little while ago in a
press conference. Governor Newsmith's challenge jd Vance to a debate,
and also keep an eye on Israel and Iran, and remember,
on a lighter note, tomorrow is going to be one
of the most spectacular days. Of the year weatherwise, it's
(10:34):
going to be in the seventies low eighties. Time to
get out and enjoy yourself.
Speaker 12 (10:39):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty man oh Man.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
It's Los Angeles is very complicated, a very complicated place
to live, very complicated place to work, very expensive to
live here. And then we have all of the extra activity.
What's going on, the vice presidents in town, the Dodgers
that made a statement on the ice actions in town,
(11:09):
in Bell and Maywood, there was earlier protests against ice
and border patrol. Mayor Pass had a press conference. Governor
Knew some challenged jd Vance to a debate. It's all
going on right here in southern California. Any one of
those stories is a you know, above the fold top
leading story, and they're all happening at the same time.
Israel and Iran going at it, and we might get
(11:32):
involved with that, so really got to keep it on KFI.
And then in Sporting News, Dave Roberts getting suspended for
a day for a game because of what happened last
night with the pitchers throwing a different hitters with the
San Diego Padres, it's a big deal, big big deal.
And then we had Alex Michaelson come on with us.
(11:54):
Lot going on, lot going on here. All right, let's
get into some other news, maybe stuff that's not as important.
The homeless population. They've sort of gotten zero attention over
the last couple of weeks because of other activity in
Los Angeles. But there's a growing number of Americans that
are experiencing homelessness who are fifty five years and older.
(12:18):
How about that sad tale, fifty five years the homeless
population getting so much older.
Speaker 14 (12:25):
Well, we've had this aging trend that's actually been going
on for over thirty years. The population born between nineteen
fifty five and nineteen sixty five, that would be the
second half of the.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Baby Boom generation.
Speaker 14 (12:38):
They have constituted the largest sub segment of the population
since nineteen ninety. So what we're seeing is these folks
are now between the ages of sixty and seventy and
so they're of course we're seeing all sorts of increases
in elderly homelessness as a result.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Imagine a sad I mean, how sad that term is.
Elderly homelessness increases in oldly homelessness is elderly homelessness. God
a mighty elderly homelessness as a result.
Speaker 15 (13:06):
And why are they put Are they uniquely vulnerable or
is it the fact that they're just more of them,
you know, because of the baby boom and so forth.
Speaker 14 (13:16):
Actually, both of those things are true, because there are
more of them that put them at greater risk. And also,
you know, they came of age in the early nineteen
eighties at a time when there was very high unemployment
and housing costs were rising, and so a lot of
these folks were unable to get into the labor market
by their mid twenties, and so they've struggled for years
(13:36):
trying to get a toe hold in the workforce.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Yeah, that's a big deal, all right. A downtown LA business,
I believe, near Echo Park was robbed. They had an
outdoor ATM. Guy pulled up the white van with three
other lads, got out and took the atm and now
it's gone. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
They are seeing a drastic drop off in business. And
I just talked with a woman who owns a flower
market just down the street. She comes here to buy
all of her supplies and she says this we see
here this morning is drastically different than what we saw
just a few weeks ago. And then, of course we
know that the flower market, the Los Angeles flower Market
(14:18):
that has been here for over a century, posted this online.
Check it out here. It's an online plea for support.
It says, ice activity and.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Our Wait, that's the wrong story. This is the heist
where the guy took the ATM.
Speaker 16 (14:32):
Bold ATM heist unfolding in the middle of the day
in downtown Los Angeles. This happened near Olympic Boulevard in
Santee Street. Police say two mass men pull a vehicle
onto a sidewalk in front of Mirrigold Dresses and cut
the chain off of an ATM. Then they put it
in the back of a white suv and drove off.
The owners of the store say scared customers.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Right by the way. They did not do this at
four am on a Sunday or two am on a
f Friday. They did this in broad daylight at four
pm on a Thursday. They brought this van in the
middle of hustling, bustle streets. Everybody's doing something, and they
grabbed the ATM right in front of everybody, and they
(15:14):
had no shame. They weren't embarrassed, they weren't scared. They
just grabbed it and took off.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Scared.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Customers watched all of it unfold.
Speaker 17 (15:23):
We had customers, there was a family here with a
little girl. My employees they told them to go inside,
so they put all the customers that were here inside
fitting rooms because you just never know with all this
going on. Honestly, this just adds a little bit more
to the I mean, the fear that people have right now.
Speaker 16 (15:45):
Anyone with cell phone or surveillance video of the incident
asked to please contact the LAPD.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
That is unbelievable, the crime in this town. It is.
It's like a different world. You never saw that before,
where a guy would say an ATM right in the
middle of the day, four pm. Unbelievable. All right, well
we come back. We have some other stories to get to,
but we're also keeping an eye on the streets of
Los Angeles. Any unrest, any protests, we'll have that for you.
(16:12):
Live right here on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 12 (16:15):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
It is The Conway Show and earlier, Mary Karen Bass
had a small press conference responding to JD. Vans, the
vice president is in town, and she had the owner
of a restaurant called Casa Fina. I've never heard of
it before, so I looked it up. It looks spectacular.
(16:44):
It's in Boyle Heights. It's right where the one oh
one and the ten freeway meet and Bellion. They have
what looks like at least in the picture. Yeah, the
best what taketos, that's our.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Fit favorite ever and if they look good in a
photo and you know they're really good.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
They also have a beautiful starter dish. Where is that?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
How do you spell Casa.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Cosaffina f I n a cosafina. And it's spectacular. So
if you want to, they have this thing, the Appetizer.
It's called the Appetizer sampler. Four buffalo wings, two taketos,
two flopters, two cheese enchiladas no to cheese casadillas, your
favorite chicken nachos, a side of beans, guacamole and sour
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cream for twenty seven dollars or so. But it's enough
food for football team. So if you want to, uh,
that's all one meal. It's appetizer, Wow, appetizer, it's start. Yeah,
it's a great start. I think it's a.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Finish taiketos look delicious.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
You do. Yeah, So in a very small, you know,
way to support people, you know, because you always want
to know what you can do to support you know,
people who are going through you know, the the unrest
in La. I'm talking about financial as well as you know,
the deportations everything. If you want, I think that's a
(18:13):
great way to help the community out is slide into
a place like Casa Fina Kasa Cisa Fena fi n
A in Boyle Heights. The food looks unbelievable and it's
not that expensive. For the taketos, your choice of meat
and rice and beans, I think, oh maybe it's just
(18:36):
the teketo's nine dollars fifty cents. Sweet deal. So get
on down there and they're open at eleven o'clock tonight
and the bar stays open till one am. So enjoy yourself.
Cosafina great way to celebrate a business, you know. Have
that person at the press conference and everybody was listening
(18:58):
or watching that, and so thousands of people who perhaps
may not have not have heard the restaurant or forgot
about it or just haven't been in a while. Now
know that it's open and ready for business. So get
on down there, consa fina and help a brother up.
(19:19):
All right, let's talk about Jaws here, because there's nothing
really going on on the streets yet that we've been watching.
We're monitoring all the news. It looks like everything's pretty calm.
Jaws inspired a wave of shark research and conservation as well.
With these sharks, people, you know, we're afraid for many,
(19:40):
many years, and now we're getting we're getting million more sharks.
I don't know if the water is getting warmer, they're
coming up here from Mexico or where they're coming from.
But it seems when I was growing up, you would
have one shark attack off the coast of California, and
it always happened in northern California, never in southern California.
Maybe once every five years. Now you hear about every day.
Sharks are in the water, every single day off the
(20:01):
coast of California.
Speaker 18 (20:03):
Fifty years ago. A fictional movie shark mate, real life
beach goer is a little nervous about jumping in the water.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
That's right, people, are apprehensive about going too far into
the water.
Speaker 18 (20:13):
But the story of Jaws actually began with a novel
written by someone. Fans of the movie, he might recognize
a cloud has.
Speaker 11 (20:20):
Appeared on the horizon of this beautiful resort community.
Speaker 18 (20:23):
Peter bench made a cameo playing a journalist penned the
book that inspired the film, Motivated not by fear but
by luck.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
You know, Peter Benchley had a great line. He wrote Jaws,
and he's written some other books as well. And he
used to rent a home or he owned a home
on the ocean, and he would stand on his balcony
and look out at the ocean thinking about the story
he was writing. And he said, the most difficult thing
to do in the world is to convince his wife
while he's sitting on a chair drinking a margarita and
(20:54):
looking at the ocean that he was actually working. That's right,
that's a great line. Yeah, it's like, honey, please, I'm working.
I'm working here, I'm working.
Speaker 19 (21:04):
He's fascinating with sharks. He was fascinated with people's react
to this kind of a force that they couldn't control.
Speaker 18 (21:11):
Benjy's wife, Wendy, says the blockbuster movie launched a wave
of discovery a surgeon, people who wanted to become marine scientists, and.
Speaker 19 (21:19):
Peter got hundreds thousands of letters from around the world
from people saying, yeah, I was a little afraid, but
boy was I fascinated.
Speaker 18 (21:27):
One of those fascinated theater goers a kid from Massachusetts
named Greg scom.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Who are you, Matt Hooper? Up from the Oceanographic Institute?
Is childhood hero?
Speaker 18 (21:36):
Is Matt Hooper, the marine biologist in Johns You study sharks?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
How much did Jaws have to do with that?
Speaker 20 (21:43):
You know? I saw it in a movie theater when
I was thirteen years old, and I immediately fell in
love with both the shark and the sharks scientist.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
He's now doctors. Odd kid, Odd kid. You know most
of us just went to see the movie and we're
scared to death of sharks. I wanted to study him
for his life.
Speaker 20 (22:02):
Fell in love with both the shark and the sharks scientist.
Speaker 18 (22:05):
He's now doctor Scomo, a world renowned shark scientist with
more than forty years of research and conservation work on
his resume.
Speaker 20 (22:13):
I started to realize the more I looked into sharks,
how little we actually knew about their basic biology, how
long do they live?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
What did they eat?
Speaker 20 (22:23):
Really simple questions we knew nothing about.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
What's the answer.
Speaker 18 (22:27):
What he would learn is that the population of this
essential ocean predator was declining. Since nineteen seventy, the number
of sharks has plummeted seventy one percent.
Speaker 20 (22:36):
Yeah, there are a lot of folks who think that
jaws caused the demise of shark populations, but that's simply
not true. It was really the development of commercial fishing
operations that targeted sharks that led to their demise.
Speaker 18 (22:49):
Still, shark attacks are constantly making headlines.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
That's right, Well, the number, yeah, that's right, derv consin
making headlines because people are scared to death of it
and eating alive by a shark. I gotta take a
final break here, and then Heatherberker will have the news,
and then Moe Kelly starts at seven bells, We're lives
Conways Show.
Speaker 12 (23:08):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
KFI AM sixty. It is The Conway Show and this
is kind of a cool story. We're keep an eye
on everything here in La. It's getting hot again. There
are probably a lot of protests and a lot of
you know, anti protest pro protests, a lot of protests
over the weekend. We will keep an eye on that
all weekend long. But there was a story here about
(23:37):
a heart transplant. It was pretty cool. The first fully
robotic heart transplant. Right, you don't have to have a
transplant for another human or a pig or some other animal.
Fully robotic and that this is an absolute game for
forty five.
Speaker 9 (23:53):
Year old Tonyabara is a one of a kind patient,
the first US adult to undergo a success fully robotic
heart transport.
Speaker 14 (24:02):
Wow, I'm always gonna have lost car, But I mean,
I it's okay.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
That's great.
Speaker 9 (24:07):
You Borrow suffered a stroke in twenty twenty two, leading
to advanced heart failure. Surgeons at Baylor Saint Luke's Medical
Center in Houston say in March they used a surgical
robot to make small incisions to replace his heart with
a donor organ, eliminating the need to break his breastbone
and open his chest.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Oh I see, okay, Well it's still a heart. That's
just the way they put it in where they didn't
have to crack open his ribs and pull his chest apart,
because that's where all the rehab is focused on. You know,
the heart's nothing but to you know, separate your ribs
and crack it open. That is extremely painful and it
(24:44):
takes six to eight months to really heal from that.
I'm just createful that they did what they did everything
they could do for me.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
That's what I asked. I told him, do what you
can to save my life, and that's what they did.
Speaker 9 (24:56):
You borrow walked out of the hospital healthy one month later.
Speaker 11 (24:59):
You don't have the major opening of the chest. That's
what that allows is that allows for a quicker recovery
time because the less you need to break open the skin,
the muscles, the bone.
Speaker 9 (25:11):
Doctor m god Macarius is a cardiologist at New York's
north Well Health.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Here's a tip for you. If you're gonna get surgery
where they have to cut you open and cut your bones,
whether it's your chest, whether it's a leg or whatever,
here's a tip from a guy who used to be
in this business. You may want to bring your own
surgical instruments that are sharp because if the if the
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hospital sharpens them, sometimes they sort of half ask that
and the sharper, the knives and the saws are that
are gonna operate on you. It can cut down the
rehab time by fifty or sixty percent. Just a tip,
if you're gonna have that kind of surgery, you may
want to bring in your own guy to sharpen those instruments.
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I know it seems odd, but it happens to be true.
Speaker 11 (26:04):
Allowing this type of device to be able to do
an actual heart transplant is really a major advance because
now you're talking more precise targeting of the area that
you're looking at, decreased infection rates, reduced even sometimes surgery.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Time for citys mornings.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
That's wild, man. A lot of advance is going on.
That is a cool deal. All right, Let's talk about nicotine.
Sorry to do this on a Friday, but nicotine addiction
is on the rise. And they have these pouches too,
that people stick a pouch in and get the nicotine
that way.
Speaker 21 (26:43):
Troubling.
Speaker 13 (26:43):
They're very small, they're very sneaky. You can't even tell
when someone has a pouch in their mouth. But even
though this form of nicotine is not smoked or chewed,
does it have its own health risks? So little is
known meantime, nicotine pouches are growing in popularity. These discrete
pouches are the latest stop along Haley Trickt's path with nicotine.
Speaker 7 (27:03):
I probably go through about a can a day, which
is like fifteen pouches.
Speaker 21 (27:07):
Her nicotine addiction began when the thirty three year old
musician was fourteen.
Speaker 14 (27:11):
I smoked for five years, and then I vaped for
five years, and then I ended up with nicotine pouches.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Haley is not alone.
Speaker 21 (27:19):
The trend is taking social media by storm, and kids
are taking notice.
Speaker 15 (27:23):
We found a doubling of nicotine pouch use amongst teens,
and so about one out of every twenty teens and
year twenty twenty four in America had used these nicotine pouches.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Wait how many?
Speaker 15 (27:39):
And so about one out of every twenty teens and
year twenty twenty four in America had used these nicotine pouches.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
That's a lot. I don't know anybody's ever done that,
but those pouches.
Speaker 21 (27:50):
Doctor Adam Leveenthal and his team at Kick School of
Medicine of USC surveyed more than ten thousand high school students.
Content creators called zinfluencers coined from ZIN, the most popular
brand tell different flavors. They often connect pouch use to
better workouts, confidence, and focus.
Speaker 15 (28:06):
There's a little bit of a culture happening that's causing
certain groups to use these products more than others.
Speaker 21 (28:14):
But Levenhal says there's more to it. Warning nicotine dependency
is dangerous. Levenhal said nicotine absorption through the bloodstream can
increase heart rate and blood pressure, which are known risk
factors for cardiovascular issues. Preliminary research also warns a potential
damage to young brains.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
God almighty, it sounds like it's better to go back
to the cigarettes.
Speaker 15 (28:36):
It may interfere with the development of the brain pathways
that are associated with mood regulation and attention and control.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Oh, that's not good. That means depression.
Speaker 21 (28:47):
Earlier this year, the FDA authorized nicotine pouches for sale
in various flavors. Experts say it's a surprising move given
the limits on flavored vaping products. Due to the flavors
appeal to teens. The pouches are available online and at
most convenience stores. Leventhal hopes to research such as his
will be enough to sway regulators.
Speaker 15 (29:06):
They're going to keep a close eye to see whether
youth use increases and if it does, they'll reconsider allowing
these products to be sold in.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
All right, well, kids, they'll try anything, you know. I
think we're all kids and doing that stupid crap. Anyway,
all right, mo Kelly is up next. Keep it on
KFI all weekend. There. You know, Ice is in town,
the Border patrols in town, so's the National Guard and
the US Marines. So we're in for another crazy weekend.
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It's gound by show me Kelly next right here on
KFI AM six forty
It's k IF I am sixty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Mayor
Bass has just spoken. She's angry, she's pissed, and she
said that these federal officers are showing up and she said,
in her her words, she said, they're they're showing up
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with vess like they got on Amazon. And I thought, oh,
that's that's not a good reference, because you can buy
a you know, two or three hundred dollars vest that
looks great on Amazon. She's got to change that reference.
She's got to say, oh, they're showing up with ves
that you you would get from Ross. You know, she's
got to take it a she's got to attack a
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lower end of place like Ross or Oh, yeah, they
show up with vest that they look like they just
picked up from TJ Max or what are some other ones, Marshall's. Yeah,
it looks like the Marshall's got their vest at Marshall's
or Kmart any kmarts around anymore. I don't think so
they've all disappeared.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Maybe they bought them years ago.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah maybe right, yeah, yeah, okay, that's a that's a
that's possibility. You have a big Kmart family growing up.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, we went to kmart.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, we love that blue light special. Sit in that
Kmart and that coffee shop and wait for that blue
light to go up so you can save thirty cents
on socks somewhere. That is a lot. You're right, but
she should she should have said, you know, these federal
officers show up with vests, looks like they got from
the dollar tree. Right, that's a better dig.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, yeah, yeah than that.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
That's good, you know, but you can't say, oh, they
bought cheap crap on Amazon, because Amazon says sells high
end stuff, very high end. Yes, oh you know, that's
a great whip around. All right, we're going to do this. Okay,
I'm going to look this up here. What's the most
expensive item on am zon? Okay, all right, I got it,
(02:03):
the most expensive item on Amazon? What do you think
the most expensive item on Amazon is? And how much?
You know, you don't have to say what it is,
but why don't you try to guess the price the
most expensive item you can buy on Amazon? Steperoni, Tony
Steph Lush, what do you think? I'll say, three hundred thousand,
(02:28):
three hundred thousand, all right, you're a guest Brooker. What
do you say on Amazon?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I'm gonna say six ninety two, six hundred ninety two thousand.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Okay, all right, Angel Martinez, what do you think?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I'm going with a solid fifty k fifty thousand, all right.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
And BELLYO, I'll go seventy five.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Thousand, seventy five thousand dollars. All right. It turns out
I think Brook is correct. Wait a minute, wait, miitut.
That's one hundred and ninety one, one hundred. No, I
think it's Steph Fusche. Yeah, he's one hundred and six. No,
he's too sixty one off. No, okay, all right, it
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is Heather Heather wins. Yes, it's a Cal Ripken junior
nineteen eighty one rookie Major League Baseball debut, signed jersey,
and it's all yours for five hundred and sixty one thousand,
two hundred and seventy dollars and fifty nine cents. Not
sure why they had the fifty nine cents in, but
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they did shipping. Yeah, you can buy a Babe Ruth
baseball for two hundred and forty thousand. That's cheap. You
can also buy a look at this. It's a it's
a baseball card. A let me see an o kid. Oh,
Christy Matthewson. I don't even know who that is to
four hundred nine thousand dollars. Who's buying a four hundred
(03:56):
thousand dollars item on Amazon? Who is that? Who are
these people? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
There's something here.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
I saw this this well, this was in twenty twenty
four something for thirty two million.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
What on Amazon?
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Yeah, it was a piece of artwork called wow Way
and it was listed for thirty two million dollars.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Man, oh man, you imagine I have that kind of money, Fellio.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I can't imagine that. Yeah, that'd be great.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
All right, We're gonna keep an eye on everything in La.
If anything up breaks out, we will have for you immediately.
But speaking of money. Hotel Coronado, Hotel del Coronado in
San Diego, one of the most spectacular buildings and spectacular
hotels in the entire world. Well it reopened. They closed
down to do renovations because every time you walk through
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the place is falling apart. The floorboards were creaking and squeaking.
Some of the doors didn't close because it's you know,
it's on the ocean, and it's been around for close
to one hundred years. And so they shut it down
and they did a six year rehab on it, five
hundred and fifty million dollars and six years to put
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Hotel del Coronado back together. And I guess it looks unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
It's been a while since the Hotel del Coronado hasn't
had any scaffolding on any part of it. Well, that's
what six years and half a billion dollars will get you.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
I must say it looks better without the scaffolding.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Everything does.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Miss about that guy.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
I must say it looks better without the scaffolding.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Everything does, especially the Dell's iconic facade.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
There's never been a refurbishment like this in the one hundred
and thirty seven years of this property.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Oh I didn't know that, Okay, one hundred and thirty
seven years.
Speaker 8 (05:37):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
JP Oliver is the hotel's area managing director. He says
more than six years and five hundred and fifty million
dollars led to this.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
This is a very special day.
Speaker 9 (05:50):
I am for.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Shields, the grand reopening the full hotel.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
We put in stained glass windows, more.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Than seven hundred and fifty rooms are available to new
restaurants opened, and hundreds of jobs were added to the resort.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I'm so proud of this place.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
We believe they will certainly take us into the next century.
Speaker 8 (06:07):
This is like a really defining characteristic of our whole region.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Congressman Scott Peters hopes the good news keeps going for Coronado,
which is also dealing with the ross.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
You've been down there, belly O with John. You ever
go down to Hotel del Coronado.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I have been down there. I didn't stay at it,
but we did walk around.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Man. There's nothing more beautiful. Man, so beautiful everywhere you walk,
like in the basement area where the shop is, the restaurants,
overlooking the ocean, the suits there. It is unbelievable. You
ever get down the Rangel to help the Hotel del Coronado.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Oh yeah, it's gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
It's gorgeous.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
I haven't been since they've reopened.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
You gotta go, You gotta go. Five hundred and fifty
million dollars, so they need people like you to go
down and spend a couple of bucks.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
It's haunted.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Wait, it's haunted. Yes, I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
And there're one time. I got so scared because everybody
was sending me messages like good luck tonight.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Did you hear anything?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I did, But I don't know if it was in
my mind because I was already scared, or if it
was actual ghost. It's expensive to stay there, it is,
but it's worth it is really beautiful.
Speaker 10 (07:11):
Yeah, right on the ocean man oh Man, which is
also dealing with the ross sewage in the ocean water
all the way from Mexico. What which is also dealing
with the ross sewage in the ocean water all the
way from Mexico.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I wouldn't mention that in the AD. I would pass
on that you don't want to mention this raw sewage
from Mexico on the beach.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
God, we've been working really hard on making sure that
the water's clean here.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
We've been making a really great progress.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
Recently repaired and soon to be upgraded wastewater treatment plants
on both sides of the border may eventually mean these
yellow signs come down more often.
Speaker 11 (07:47):
And we hope that in the summer that means cleaner
beach us here.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
It would give Dell guests the full experience inside the
historic hotel and out.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
I want to welcome everyone back with our arms wide open.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
That was called the lady entrance. It's worth it for
a hotel that first welcome guests in eighteen eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Wow, they used to have a male entrance and a
female entrance. That's an old old school, old school where
the women couldn't use the male entrance.
Speaker 12 (08:16):
That's what I like that.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I mind going back to that. The hell Yeah, everybody
knows their place, you know, the kitchen.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Barefoots are done.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
And Oliver says, that's a great.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Cool thing about the Hotel del coronatdo is that they
have this professional sand castle builder. Oh really that always
has like some beautiful sand castle on display out in
the sand out in front of the hotel.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
It's beautiful. It's great. My mom used to love that hotel.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
And Oliver says, it's ready to welcome them for many
more years to come. In Coronado.
Speaker 7 (08:55):
One of the rare icons left in America.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Joe Little NBC seven.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
It's beautiful, isn't it?
Speaker 13 (09:01):
The Hotel del Coronado renamed or reimagine opening during.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
It's referred Okay, let's see the average night stay at
Hotel del corp uhnine, Oh, you're talking about whoa three
hundred and fifty four to seven hundred dollars a night.
(09:26):
Standard rooms, standard rooms, nothing special, starting at four hundred
and thirty two bucks a night. Well, King rooms, Queen
rooms can go for three fifty four to four hundred bucks.
All right, Well, if you go down there once, you know,
every ten years, you know, enjoy yourself. Double rooms go
from six hundred and eight to eleven hundred and fifty
bucks per night. That is expensive, but I'm looking at
(09:52):
pictures of it right now. It's spectacular. It is beautiful.
All right. We'll keeping eye in LA. We've got everything
covered for you. Jd Vance is in town. The Dodgers
have made a statement about the unrest going on here
in Los Angeles, the Ice raids and border patrol and
the Marines and the National Guard. Everybody's here. Bell and
(10:13):
Maywood earlier this afternoon, some confrontations there with Ice. Mayor
Pass gave a speech a little while ago in a
press conference. Governor Newsmith's challenge jd Vance to a debate,
and also keep an eye on Israel and Iran, and remember,
on a lighter note, tomorrow is going to be one
of the most spectacular days. Of the year weatherwise, it's
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going to be in the seventies low eighties. Time to
get out and enjoy yourself.
Speaker 12 (10:39):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty man oh Man.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
It's Los Angeles is very complicated, a very complicated place
to live, very complicated place to work, very expensive to
live here. And then we have all of the extra activity.
What's going on, the vice presidents in town, the Dodgers
that made a statement on the ice actions in town,
(11:09):
in Bell and Maywood, there was earlier protests against ice
and border patrol. Mayor Pass had a press conference. Governor
Knew some challenged jd Vance to a debate. It's all
going on right here in southern California. Any one of
those stories is a you know, above the fold top
leading story, and they're all happening at the same time.
Israel and Iran going at it, and we might get
(11:32):
involved with that, so really got to keep it on KFI.
And then in Sporting News, Dave Roberts getting suspended for
a day for a game because of what happened last
night with the pitchers throwing a different hitters with the
San Diego Padres, it's a big deal, big big deal.
And then we had Alex Michaelson come on with us.
(11:54):
Lot going on, lot going on here. All right, let's
get into some other news, maybe stuff that's not as important.
The homeless population. They've sort of gotten zero attention over
the last couple of weeks because of other activity in
Los Angeles. But there's a growing number of Americans that
are experiencing homelessness who are fifty five years and older.
(12:18):
How about that sad tale, fifty five years the homeless
population getting so much older.
Speaker 14 (12:25):
Well, we've had this aging trend that's actually been going
on for over thirty years. The population born between nineteen
fifty five and nineteen sixty five, that would be the
second half of the.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Baby Boom generation.
Speaker 14 (12:38):
They have constituted the largest sub segment of the population
since nineteen ninety. So what we're seeing is these folks
are now between the ages of sixty and seventy and
so they're of course we're seeing all sorts of increases
in elderly homelessness as a result.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Imagine a sad I mean, how sad that term is.
Elderly homelessness increases in oldly homelessness is elderly homelessness. God
a mighty elderly homelessness as a result.
Speaker 15 (13:06):
And why are they put Are they uniquely vulnerable or
is it the fact that they're just more of them,
you know, because of the baby boom and so forth.
Speaker 14 (13:16):
Actually, both of those things are true, because there are
more of them that put them at greater risk. And also,
you know, they came of age in the early nineteen
eighties at a time when there was very high unemployment
and housing costs were rising, and so a lot of
these folks were unable to get into the labor market
by their mid twenties, and so they've struggled for years
(13:36):
trying to get a toe hold in the workforce.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Yeah, that's a big deal, all right. A downtown LA business,
I believe, near Echo Park was robbed. They had an
outdoor ATM. Guy pulled up the white van with three
other lads, got out and took the atm and now
it's gone. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
They are seeing a drastic drop off in business. And
I just talked with a woman who owns a flower
market just down the street. She comes here to buy
all of her supplies and she says this we see
here this morning is drastically different than what we saw
just a few weeks ago. And then, of course we
know that the flower market, the Los Angeles flower Market
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that has been here for over a century, posted this online.
Check it out here. It's an online plea for support.
It says, ice activity and.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Our Wait, that's the wrong story. This is the heist
where the guy took the ATM.
Speaker 16 (14:32):
Bold ATM heist unfolding in the middle of the day
in downtown Los Angeles. This happened near Olympic Boulevard in
Santee Street. Police say two mass men pull a vehicle
onto a sidewalk in front of Mirrigold Dresses and cut
the chain off of an ATM. Then they put it
in the back of a white suv and drove off.
The owners of the store say scared customers.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Right by the way. They did not do this at
four am on a Sunday or two am on a
f Friday. They did this in broad daylight at four
pm on a Thursday. They brought this van in the
middle of hustling, bustle streets. Everybody's doing something, and they
grabbed the ATM right in front of everybody, and they
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had no shame. They weren't embarrassed, they weren't scared. They
just grabbed it and took off.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Scared.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Customers watched all of it unfold.
Speaker 17 (15:23):
We had customers, there was a family here with a
little girl. My employees they told them to go inside,
so they put all the customers that were here inside
fitting rooms because you just never know with all this
going on. Honestly, this just adds a little bit more
to the I mean, the fear that people have right now.
Speaker 16 (15:45):
Anyone with cell phone or surveillance video of the incident
asked to please contact the LAPD.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
That is unbelievable, the crime in this town. It is.
It's like a different world. You never saw that before,
where a guy would say an ATM right in the
middle of the day, four pm. Unbelievable. All right, well
we come back. We have some other stories to get to,
but we're also keeping an eye on the streets of
Los Angeles. Any unrest, any protests, we'll have that for you.
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Live right here on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 12 (16:15):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
It is The Conway Show and earlier, Mary Karen Bass
had a small press conference responding to JD. Vans, the
vice president is in town, and she had the owner
of a restaurant called Casa Fina. I've never heard of
it before, so I looked it up. It looks spectacular.
(16:44):
It's in Boyle Heights. It's right where the one oh
one and the ten freeway meet and Bellion. They have
what looks like at least in the picture. Yeah, the
best what taketos, that's our.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Fit favorite ever and if they look good in a
photo and you know they're really good.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
They also have a beautiful starter dish. Where is that?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
How do you spell Casa.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Cosaffina f I n a cosafina. And it's spectacular. So
if you want to, they have this thing, the Appetizer.
It's called the Appetizer sampler. Four buffalo wings, two taketos,
two flopters, two cheese enchiladas no to cheese casadillas, your
favorite chicken nachos, a side of beans, guacamole and sour
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cream for twenty seven dollars or so. But it's enough
food for football team. So if you want to, uh,
that's all one meal. It's appetizer, Wow, appetizer, it's start. Yeah,
it's a great start. I think it's a.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Finish taiketos look delicious.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
You do. Yeah, So in a very small, you know,
way to support people, you know, because you always want
to know what you can do to support you know,
people who are going through you know, the the unrest
in La. I'm talking about financial as well as you know,
the deportations everything. If you want, I think that's a
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great way to help the community out is slide into
a place like Casa Fina Kasa Cisa Fena fi n
A in Boyle Heights. The food looks unbelievable and it's
not that expensive. For the taketos, your choice of meat
and rice and beans, I think, oh maybe it's just
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the teketo's nine dollars fifty cents. Sweet deal. So get
on down there and they're open at eleven o'clock tonight
and the bar stays open till one am. So enjoy yourself.
Cosafina great way to celebrate a business, you know. Have
that person at the press conference and everybody was listening
(18:58):
or watching that, and so thousands of people who perhaps
may not have not have heard the restaurant or forgot
about it or just haven't been in a while. Now
know that it's open and ready for business. So get
on down there, consa fina and help a brother up.
(19:19):
All right, let's talk about Jaws here, because there's nothing
really going on on the streets yet that we've been watching.
We're monitoring all the news. It looks like everything's pretty calm.
Jaws inspired a wave of shark research and conservation as well.
With these sharks, people, you know, we're afraid for many,
(19:40):
many years, and now we're getting we're getting million more sharks.
I don't know if the water is getting warmer, they're
coming up here from Mexico or where they're coming from.
But it seems when I was growing up, you would
have one shark attack off the coast of California, and
it always happened in northern California, never in southern California.
Maybe once every five years. Now you hear about every day.
Sharks are in the water, every single day off the
(20:01):
coast of California.
Speaker 18 (20:03):
Fifty years ago. A fictional movie shark mate, real life
beach goer is a little nervous about jumping in the water.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
That's right, people, are apprehensive about going too far into
the water.
Speaker 18 (20:13):
But the story of Jaws actually began with a novel
written by someone. Fans of the movie, he might recognize
a cloud has.
Speaker 11 (20:20):
Appeared on the horizon of this beautiful resort community.
Speaker 18 (20:23):
Peter bench made a cameo playing a journalist penned the
book that inspired the film, Motivated not by fear but
by luck.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
You know, Peter Benchley had a great line. He wrote Jaws,
and he's written some other books as well. And he
used to rent a home or he owned a home
on the ocean, and he would stand on his balcony
and look out at the ocean thinking about the story
he was writing. And he said, the most difficult thing
to do in the world is to convince his wife
while he's sitting on a chair drinking a margarita and
(20:54):
looking at the ocean that he was actually working. That's right,
that's a great line. Yeah, it's like, honey, please, I'm working.
I'm working here, I'm working.
Speaker 19 (21:04):
He's fascinating with sharks. He was fascinated with people's react
to this kind of a force that they couldn't control.
Speaker 18 (21:11):
Benjy's wife, Wendy, says the blockbuster movie launched a wave
of discovery a surgeon, people who wanted to become marine scientists, and.
Speaker 19 (21:19):
Peter got hundreds thousands of letters from around the world
from people saying, yeah, I was a little afraid, but
boy was I fascinated.
Speaker 18 (21:27):
One of those fascinated theater goers a kid from Massachusetts
named Greg scom.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Who are you, Matt Hooper? Up from the Oceanographic Institute?
Is childhood hero?
Speaker 18 (21:36):
Is Matt Hooper, the marine biologist in Johns You study sharks?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
How much did Jaws have to do with that?
Speaker 20 (21:43):
You know? I saw it in a movie theater when
I was thirteen years old, and I immediately fell in
love with both the shark and the sharks scientist.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
He's now doctors. Odd kid, Odd kid. You know most
of us just went to see the movie and we're
scared to death of sharks. I wanted to study him
for his life.
Speaker 20 (22:02):
Fell in love with both the shark and the sharks scientist.
Speaker 18 (22:05):
He's now doctor Scomo, a world renowned shark scientist with
more than forty years of research and conservation work on
his resume.
Speaker 20 (22:13):
I started to realize the more I looked into sharks,
how little we actually knew about their basic biology, how
long do they live?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
What did they eat?
Speaker 20 (22:23):
Really simple questions we knew nothing about.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
What's the answer.
Speaker 18 (22:27):
What he would learn is that the population of this
essential ocean predator was declining. Since nineteen seventy, the number
of sharks has plummeted seventy one percent.
Speaker 20 (22:36):
Yeah, there are a lot of folks who think that
jaws caused the demise of shark populations, but that's simply
not true. It was really the development of commercial fishing
operations that targeted sharks that led to their demise.
Speaker 18 (22:49):
Still, shark attacks are constantly making headlines.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
That's right, Well, the number, yeah, that's right, derv consin
making headlines because people are scared to death of it
and eating alive by a shark. I gotta take a
final break here, and then Heatherberker will have the news,
and then Moe Kelly starts at seven bells, We're lives
Conways Show.
Speaker 12 (23:08):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
KFI AM sixty. It is The Conway Show and this
is kind of a cool story. We're keep an eye
on everything here in La. It's getting hot again. There
are probably a lot of protests and a lot of
you know, anti protest pro protests, a lot of protests
over the weekend. We will keep an eye on that
all weekend long. But there was a story here about
(23:37):
a heart transplant. It was pretty cool. The first fully
robotic heart transplant. Right, you don't have to have a
transplant for another human or a pig or some other animal.
Fully robotic and that this is an absolute game for
forty five.
Speaker 9 (23:53):
Year old Tonyabara is a one of a kind patient,
the first US adult to undergo a success fully robotic
heart transport.
Speaker 14 (24:02):
Wow, I'm always gonna have lost car, But I mean,
I it's okay.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
That's great.
Speaker 9 (24:07):
You Borrow suffered a stroke in twenty twenty two, leading
to advanced heart failure. Surgeons at Baylor Saint Luke's Medical
Center in Houston say in March they used a surgical
robot to make small incisions to replace his heart with
a donor organ, eliminating the need to break his breastbone
and open his chest.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Oh I see, okay, Well it's still a heart. That's
just the way they put it in where they didn't
have to crack open his ribs and pull his chest apart,
because that's where all the rehab is focused on. You know,
the heart's nothing but to you know, separate your ribs
and crack it open. That is extremely painful and it
(24:44):
takes six to eight months to really heal from that.
I'm just createful that they did what they did everything
they could do for me.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
That's what I asked. I told him, do what you
can to save my life, and that's what they did.
Speaker 9 (24:56):
You borrow walked out of the hospital healthy one month later.
Speaker 11 (24:59):
You don't have the major opening of the chest. That's
what that allows is that allows for a quicker recovery
time because the less you need to break open the skin,
the muscles, the bone.
Speaker 9 (25:11):
Doctor m god Macarius is a cardiologist at New York's
north Well Health.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Here's a tip for you. If you're gonna get surgery
where they have to cut you open and cut your bones,
whether it's your chest, whether it's a leg or whatever,
here's a tip from a guy who used to be
in this business. You may want to bring your own
surgical instruments that are sharp because if the if the
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hospital sharpens them, sometimes they sort of half ask that
and the sharper, the knives and the saws are that
are gonna operate on you. It can cut down the
rehab time by fifty or sixty percent. Just a tip,
if you're gonna have that kind of surgery, you may
want to bring in your own guy to sharpen those instruments.
(26:01):
I know it seems odd, but it happens to be true.
Speaker 11 (26:04):
Allowing this type of device to be able to do
an actual heart transplant is really a major advance because
now you're talking more precise targeting of the area that
you're looking at, decreased infection rates, reduced even sometimes surgery.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Time for citys mornings.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
That's wild, man. A lot of advance is going on.
That is a cool deal. All right, Let's talk about nicotine.
Sorry to do this on a Friday, but nicotine addiction
is on the rise. And they have these pouches too,
that people stick a pouch in and get the nicotine
that way.
Speaker 21 (26:43):
Troubling.
Speaker 13 (26:43):
They're very small, they're very sneaky. You can't even tell
when someone has a pouch in their mouth. But even
though this form of nicotine is not smoked or chewed,
does it have its own health risks? So little is
known meantime, nicotine pouches are growing in popularity. These discrete
pouches are the latest stop along Haley Trickt's path with nicotine.
Speaker 7 (27:03):
I probably go through about a can a day, which
is like fifteen pouches.
Speaker 21 (27:07):
Her nicotine addiction began when the thirty three year old
musician was fourteen.
Speaker 14 (27:11):
I smoked for five years, and then I vaped for
five years, and then I ended up with nicotine pouches.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Haley is not alone.
Speaker 21 (27:19):
The trend is taking social media by storm, and kids
are taking notice.
Speaker 15 (27:23):
We found a doubling of nicotine pouch use amongst teens,
and so about one out of every twenty teens and
year twenty twenty four in America had used these nicotine pouches.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Wait how many?
Speaker 15 (27:39):
And so about one out of every twenty teens and
year twenty twenty four in America had used these nicotine pouches.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
That's a lot. I don't know anybody's ever done that,
but those pouches.
Speaker 21 (27:50):
Doctor Adam Leveenthal and his team at Kick School of
Medicine of USC surveyed more than ten thousand high school students.
Content creators called zinfluencers coined from ZIN, the most popular
brand tell different flavors. They often connect pouch use to
better workouts, confidence, and focus.
Speaker 15 (28:06):
There's a little bit of a culture happening that's causing
certain groups to use these products more than others.
Speaker 21 (28:14):
But Levenhal says there's more to it. Warning nicotine dependency
is dangerous. Levenhal said nicotine absorption through the bloodstream can
increase heart rate and blood pressure, which are known risk
factors for cardiovascular issues. Preliminary research also warns a potential
damage to young brains.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
God almighty, it sounds like it's better to go back
to the cigarettes.
Speaker 15 (28:36):
It may interfere with the development of the brain pathways
that are associated with mood regulation and attention and control.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Oh, that's not good. That means depression.
Speaker 21 (28:47):
Earlier this year, the FDA authorized nicotine pouches for sale
in various flavors. Experts say it's a surprising move given
the limits on flavored vaping products. Due to the flavors
appeal to teens. The pouches are available online and at
most convenience stores. Leventhal hopes to research such as his
will be enough to sway regulators.
Speaker 15 (29:06):
They're going to keep a close eye to see whether
youth use increases and if it does, they'll reconsider allowing
these products to be sold in.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
All right, well, kids, they'll try anything, you know. I
think we're all kids and doing that stupid crap. Anyway,
all right, mo Kelly is up next. Keep it on
KFI all weekend. There. You know, Ice is in town,
the Border patrols in town, so's the National Guard and
the US Marines. So we're in for another crazy weekend.
(29:37):
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