February 28, 2025 • 34 mins
Guest: Elex Michaelson, extremely historic meeting between Zelensky and Trump/ Elex joins TMZ LIVE, Harvey Levin to discuss Gene Hackman, wife and dog death mystery.// The Oscar's, the biggest night in Hollywood after the fires/ A bill that would make public hydrants off-limits to private fire crews in LA. // The Oscars boosts the economy as its estimated to bring in $134M to LA County economy // Microsoft is shutting down Skype after buying it 14 years ago for $8.5 billion
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF. I am six forty and you're listening
to the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
And at five o'clock we're going to talk to Doug O'Neill,
who's a world class trainer out at Santannita, and also
Mike Smith, Hall of Fame jockey. That's moved to six o'clock.
So at six o'clock we'll try to figure out who's
(00:21):
gonna win tomorrow at Sannita. Maybe give you a horse
or two you can make a couple of bucks, although
if I leave it up to those two, you'll go
broke broke, all.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Right, Alex Michaelson's with us, Alex? How you Bob?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Being done with you? Big dog? Sounds like at six
you're going to be doing this story you really really
care about? Which is horse? Right?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Buddy?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I don't know what you're talking about. I always prefer
talking to you.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah right, okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
So what's going on?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah? Nice to you?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
All right?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
All right?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Hey, buddy, Look, I can't believe the amount of news
that's coming out of Washington, DC. You know, look, if
this was a normal week, the Eric Adams story would
have been huge. The Jeffrey Epstein story would have been huge.
Either one of those stories would have lasted a week
or two, and those were both buried along with Doge
because of what happened in the White House today.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah, I mean, I was planning on doing a whole
show today about Elon Musk, and then that seemed almost
quaint and dated by the time we got to taping
today's show because of this extremely unusual historic meeting between
President Trump and President Zelenski that's really unlike anything we've
ever seen before in American history.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
You know, I will say, look, I don't know enough
about this ward to know, you know, all the intricacies
and who's right who's wrong. I will say that I
do feel bad for Zelenski when one of Trump's guys said, hey,
why don't you ever wear a suit? I mean, the
guy's running a country, he's getting you know, they're getting
their ass kicked by Russia, They're losing a lot of people.
And a guy brings up, why don't you wear a suit?
(01:58):
I felt bad for him.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah. That's a quote unquote reporter who works for a
far right outlet who's also the boyfriend of Marjorie Taylor.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Green so oh okay, all right, Well, now that.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Now that the rep now that they there, the Trump
people are doing their own list in terms of the
White House press pool, that's who's making up the White
House press pool. But yeah, I mean that's that's clearly
an issue for for Donald Trump. Because when Zolenski first
walked in today, you could hear in the audio he said,
thanks for dressing up for me when he saw his outfit. Uh,
(02:31):
And I do that all the time. Yeah. This is
something that that Trump has pointed out to Zolensky and
away from Zelenski often. You know, he's so focused on
the way somebody looks or dresses or their appearance or
casting for TV, uh that he finds it disrespectful that
Vilenski isn't dressing up for his Oval Office visit.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I will say this, if I ever were going to
the White House representing my country, I would wear a
suit time.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
And you're asking for like a few hundred billions.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, I would put anything they want on, anything they want.
But because of this happened today, the Gene Hackman story
has been buried. And this should have been the big
story should have been today, should have been Oscars and
that's buried as well.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, well, it seems like nobody's really seen any of
the Oscar movies, so there doesn't seem to be as
much buzz about that. The Gene Hackman story is a
is a wild story. What do you actually Yeah, well,
I also filled in on TMZ Today, So TMZ Live,
I'm co hosting that with Harvey Levin, which is on
from eight to nine o'clock to night on Fox eleven.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
And we delve into this and talked with a former
LAPD detective and sort of one of the theories that this
detective was saying that that seems to make the most
sense is that maybe Gene Hackman had a heart attack
or some sort of thing where he suddenly died. Wife
maybe found him and couldn't you know, knew he was
(04:04):
already dead, and maybe started to take some pills or
something because maybe couldn't feel like she could live without him,
and then maybe she started to get woozy or it
wasn't working. She came back, took more pills, collapsed on
the floor, the pills fall on the floor, the dog
in ingest some of the pills, so then she's gone.
The other dog is gone. But the other dogs who
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didn't eat the pills ended up living. And then because
they weren't in that much communication with other people, their
bodies maybe were there for days, if not weeks, before
anybody even noticed.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Okay, all right, Alex Michaelson's with us. You got about
sixty percent of that right, so congratulations.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
The part that you missed is this is how it happened.
He died of a massive heart attack. You got that right.
But he died late in the late, late in the evening,
like eight, nine, ten o'clock at night, and she didn't
want to deal with it. She didn't want, you know,
people to come over that late at night. She didn't
want to, you know, to have ambulance there and cops
(05:04):
there all night. She wanted to give him one more
night at home. And she accidentally overdosed while she went
to sleep, and and now and his body was still
in the house. Okay, so that's what happened. The dog
died because the dog was in the kennel. They had
three dogs. One dog was locked up in their kennel,
and that dog starved to death.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Okay, all right, maybe.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Oh, okay, that's my theory.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
But but but also uh and and and this hasn't
come out yet, but it probably will when you when
you die in that house and that dog has no
more food in the ball, you're next.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Well let's so, but this was the dog locked in
the kennel. The dog locked in.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
The kennel couldn't get the food, but those other two
dogs probably probably ate Gene Hackman and his wife.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Ask any cop as an l.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
A PD officer if that's true, and he'll tell you
if he's worth it, if he's if he has any
experience on the street like I do, he'll tell you.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
That's the truth.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
What a great image to put into the universe as
we head into this weekend, and also the Hoosiers instead.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Look, the Jeffrey Epstein story would have been a big
deal this week too, but that wasn't even mentioned today,
and because of what happened to the White House, it's
a big deal. What happened to the White House today?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Well, yeah, and the Jeffrey Epstein thing turned out to
kind of be a big nothing.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Right, But that would have been a story because it
was that would have been the story.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
It was nothing, Yeah exactly, Yeah, no, it is it
is crazy how much news is happening, and it's very,
very difficult to cover it. But that's the strategy, right
Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's longtime strategist, has talked about that's
that's the point. They're not really battling the Democrats, They're
(06:54):
battling the media. And the more. If you put that
much stuff out there, the media can't keep up. And
then and you know, even if there's an outrage of something,
you just move on to the next story and people
forget about it. And that seems to be working for
him right now.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Well, you know, if you don't follow the war in Ukraine,
you think that Russia is fighting Ukraine, and they're not.
Russia is fighting Ukraine, the European Union, NATO and the
United States and that and that, and their eastern flank
is moving west. They're actually winning part you know, that war,
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and this is really really bad news for America, NATO,
and the European Union.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Right, and then what's the message? I mean, this is
what the Republicans for many years have been saying. So
if Russia is able to get away with this, then
what country is next? That's right, I don't know if
we're in NATO. We're NATO, so we've got to defend
countries like Poland or all these other countries along the
border if he goes after them, meaning Putin, and then
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the US gets dragged into one of these wars. And
that's a real problem.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Alex Michaelson, it's a mess. What's on the big shownight
is that all Zelenski and Trump.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Tonight we got a lot of different stuff. So we've
got a Congressman Robert Garcia, the Democrat, who is talking
about Zelenski, but also he's the only California on the
Doge Committee in Congress, so their whole thing is looking
into what Elon Musk is doing. We have Sheriff Chad
Bianco out of Riverside County, Republican, first Republican running for
(08:25):
governor of California, giving his take and why he's running
and also responding to a lot of us. He's a
big Trump supporter, so you hear that perspective. We kind
of have polar opposite views on. And then we have
Harvey Levin, who I hosted TMZ Live with. He talks
about he had a really interesting interview with the Menendez
brothers in prison this week. Wow, so we place some
of that and talk about what's going on behind the
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scenes with them.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Excellent, buddy, I'll be watching, Thank you very much, ten
thirty tonight on KTTV.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Does anyone call it kt TV anymore?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Some people do? Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Okay, I'm old school, old school. I used to watch
Felix the Cat on kt TV and I enjoyed that. Buddy,
I appreciate coming on. Tell your mom and dad. I said, hi,
and tell your dad I didn't take a shot at
him today.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I know he's going to be thrilled about that.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, I like your dad.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
All right, you're yeah, alright, there he goes. Alex Michaelson
back to Fox News. Over there at kt TV Channel eleven.
He used to be over off the one oh one
on Sunset or Hollywood Hollywood Sunset, I think Sunset, and
now they've moved over to the West Side, and so
I don't know if you're into geography, that's where they are.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am six.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Forty oscars this Sunday. That's a big deal. It might
rain for the oscars. That's not unusual. Kind of usually
does rain on Oscars Sunday, So I don't know if
you're looking forward to watching. You know, Oscars went from
the US they have four or five movies that are
nominated for Best Picture. Then they expanded it to ten,
(10:09):
so now there's ten movies that nobody saw instead of five.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
So there's not a lot of buzz around the Oscars
this year. I think the biggest story is Demi Moore
going to win for Best Female Actor, a term nobody uses,
but they're trying to sell that to us female actor.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Nobody uses that, but they do in Hollywood. They do
in Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
All Right, Oscars, the biggest night in Hollywood after the fires,
is gonna be a big deal. There's gonna be a
lot of mentions of the fires during Oscar, the lead
up to it, the Red Carpet, the nineteen hours they
do on the Red Carpet before then they're gonna have
the Oscars, then they'll have parties, then they'll replay the Oscars.
(11:02):
It's going to be a big Sunday, big deal on Sunday.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Yeah, you know, each year we look forward to a
f I think this is Rob Hay, Yeah, you know,
each year, we look forward to a fun and entertaining
Oscar show. Post Conan O'Brien this year says he hopes
to do to deliver the same kind of show, but
he also plans on I guess you would say acknowledging
the losses of all the folks around here who experienced
losses because of the fires. When the world's biggest stars
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phil Hollywood Sunday night for the Oscars, I'll be sitting
in a theater that less than two months ago faced
an existential threat. We're talking about a mile and a
half north of Hollywood Boulevard.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Oh, that's right, the Hollywood fire that started, you know
in I think what's the seventh I think it was,
or maybe it was the eighth. I don't when the
Hollywood fire was the eighth, the eighth man. It was
Chris Christie that broke right here. Yeah, yeah, we broke
that on the well, Chris Christy broke it on TV
and then and then we stole it from him. And
(11:59):
we were the first day on that and we're telling
everybody to get the hell out Franklin Gardener sunset, all
those streets around there.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
That looks really scary, but it was amazing how they got.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Ahold of that, and those those brave guys and gals,
mostly guys, they took those fire engines and they put
them on Franklin and they said to the flames, you
ain't going anywhere, and they kept that fire away from
apartments and homes, and they did an unbelievable job.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
You shall not pass.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, that is.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Now on fire in specific Palisade.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I think that was Chris Christie there was that. They
were playing the audio back.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
A mile and a half.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Yeah, north of Hollywood Boulevard.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
That is now on fire in Pacific Palisades and Altadina
burned in January another place, the sunset fire started ripping
a pass through the Hollywood Hills just above the Adobe Theater.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
What's happened here needs to be addressed.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
Now with the Oscars just days away, host Conan O'Brien
making a point to acknowledge all the people of southern
California who've lost homes and businesses and sometimes even more.
The wildfires still front and center in the home of
the Oscars, which O'Brien says needs to get a boost
from the show.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
The Oscars in the same vein should reflect some I
hope sense of lifting people up, that this town gets
back to work. That's right, this town's got to get
back to work. A lot of people lost their jobs,
a lot of people lost their their green lip projects.
A lot of things went sideways when those fires hit
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in early January.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
One popular oscar viewing party takes place every year on
the coast, the Malibu Film Society choosing to host its
bash at Olo Restaurant. It made it through the wildfires,
but the family that owns the restaurant still pay this
steep price.
Speaker 9 (13:52):
The owners are among those who lost their homes. Our
local businesses have really been decimated.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
This year, proceeds from their Oscar party will go to
wildfire recovery efforts. But despite the sad situation surrounding the event,
the Malibu Film Society is still looking forward to a
successful oscar showing.
Speaker 9 (14:10):
Every year since we've started, one of our Q and
A guests went on to win his first Oscar Wow,
and every year since then that's been an unbroken street.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Well, let's hope the Malibu Film Society keeps that streak
alive again. They still have tickets available for their show,
and they tell us every penny raised goes to fire victims.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
That's a great cause, a great cause.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
All right.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Speaking of fire, there's a fire hydrant news. Normally we
don't bring you fire hydrant news, but we've got fire
hydrant news.
Speaker 10 (14:43):
Two Los Angeles Democrats have introduced legislation targeting private fire crews,
like the one developer Rick Ruso hire to protect his
properties during the Palisades fire. Political says the new bill
would make public fire hydrants off limits to private crews.
The state's largest fire fighter union has long said private
crews can hinder firefighters work. Crusos Palisades village shopping malls,
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one of the few structures still standing in the Palisades.
CRUs who has said the private cruise did not use
any city water.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah, Crusoe had a really good line. We had him
on the show and he said one of the reasons
he wanted to bring in his own firefighters well, obviously
to save his buildings, but number two is that so
the LAFD in La County Fire wouldn't have to, you know,
put resources on his buildings.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
They could use it for homes where you got water from.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I think at BYW I think I brought with him
on the big trucks, big ass water trucks. But anyway,
so the fire hydrants are off limits to the private firefighters.
You got the LAFD or La County or you know,
if Torrents fire comes up, they can use it. But
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the private company these they got to hands off, hands
off the hydrants. You see one blue today, one exploded
today fire hunder and some idiot ran into it with
his car off to the races. And then they got
to look for the hot turnoff valve. You know, it's
it's never in the same area twice. You know, the
guy's getting you know, eight million gallons falling. You would
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think universally it would be like ten steps to the
you know, to the north period and that's where it
or there'd be a sign right here, but no, they
got to constantly look for it. Well, while a million
gallons is falling on their head too. It's you know,
and I would have put it further away from the hydrant.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
That's just me.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Maybe I'm not a good city planner. But the cutoff
they shut off for the hydrant, I'd put it about
forty feet away from that hydrant. So when you have
to shut it off, you don't get eight million gallons
of water on your head.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
But who am I? Who am I?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Just some dumb radio guy right now? It's a good
ton for the show.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah thing don't. All right.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
We're live on KFI AM six forty the Friday before
Oscar Sunday. It's always buzzing around here. People always they
they dress up like their favorite you know, movie star,
their favorite you know picture or whatever. Not this year,
but some years we do that.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demayo from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Let's do a quick whip around. You got the music there,
stuff around a tony all right. I'm gonna have to
explain this whip around to you heathens because you guys
aren't racetrack fans. But when a jockey wins a race,
let's say it's a thirty thousand dollars race, that that
gets put.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Into his earnings, right it, And.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
You add those up through over a lifetime, and a
jockey will have his earnings. How much has the jockey
earned over his lifetime? So if he wins a thirty
thousand dollars raise, then he wins one hundred thousand dollars raised,
then he wins a twenty thousand dollars raise, and if
that's all he won that month, he would have one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars in his earnings. So Mike
(18:04):
Smith is coming in Hall of Fame jockey who's fifty
nine years old and still riding horses. I don't think
anyone's ever done this before. All right, here's the whip
around Mike Smith. What are his total earnings of all
the races he won? Horse racing? How much has he
(18:27):
earned in total earnings? Total earnings Stepperoni Toning, one hundred thousand,
one hundred thousand, All right, A crouch.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
I think Steph just messing with you there.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yeah, I think we'll reef visit that.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
I'm gonna go a quarter billion, two.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Hundred and fifty million, A right, Angel Martinez, I'm.
Speaker 11 (18:57):
Gonna go with seventy five million, seventy five million, Ritchie,
fifty million, fifty million.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Now you're saying it's now, I feel done. You want
to jumping again? Steppers?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Do over for stuff?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah? Can I get a due over? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
You won't go two hundred thousand, all right? How much steppers?
I'll do forty five million, forty five million.
Speaker 12 (19:22):
Okay, Now earnings you mean how much he won, not
how much he pocketed, right right, exactly how much the
the owner? How much the races were it.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
So if it's a sixty thousand dollars race and he won, that,
get that gets put into his earnings.
Speaker 11 (19:36):
Okay, because I thought you meant in his pocket?
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no is what I thought.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Oh steppers, No, I would I would.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Stop say all guesses have been done.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Well, okay, all right, the actual Mike Smith's actual lifetime
earnings over all the races he's written, three hundred and
thirty six million dollars. Man, three hundred and thirty six
million dollars. Now I can figure out how much went
into his pocket. That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 11 (20:07):
Yeah, like ten percent.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Usually, well, the winner gets fifty five percent. So it's
three hundred and thirty six million. Let me see here,
bomp up, bomp, and then times zero point five five
the winner gets fifty five percent of that, and then
he gets ten percent of that. So eighteen million, five
hundred thousand dollars over lifetime, eighteen million, five hundred thousand.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
You know how many years he's been doing it.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
He's been.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
He's fifty nine, so he started writing at fourteen. I
think I think he got a license out of New Mexico.
I'd have to look that up, but I think he
started relatively early, and I think he was fourteen, fifteen
or sixteen, and I'd have to look that up.
Speaker 12 (20:50):
But see, he's got to be close to number one, right, Oh,
I would think he is. Yeah, I can't imagine anybody's
even close. Three hundred thirty six million dollars.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I mean, that's a lot of dough.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I'd have to look up when he started. I think
he's he was fourteen or fifteen, maybe sixteen when he started,
but he's coming up his sixtieth birthdays coming up. That's
a big deal for jockey. I mean there you have
to be a pound for pound.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Those are the strongest guys in the in the universe.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Oh my god, I just looked up highest lifetime jockey earning.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Is it him?
Speaker 4 (21:22):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Really? Who is it?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Early?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Third? No way? Is it a shoemaker?
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Japan?
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Japan? Oh yeah, okay, you taka Taki? Oh boy?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
What is hed? Four hundred million? Five hundred no a billion?
Just under no way?
Speaker 4 (21:40):
One million?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Well, you know what, but Mike Smith was running when
these were you know, eight thousand dollars claimers when he started,
or actually rather less than that. I'd say, like nine
hundred dollars claimers when he started. And I bet he's written.
Will ask him. He'll be in at six o'clock. I
bet he's ridden in a race. When he was younger,
there were five or six hundred dollars claimers, you know,
and you don't find those races anymore anywhere.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Who's second on that list?
Speaker 12 (22:07):
I'm looking at a different list here, and this one
says it's it might not include the the Japanese guy
because it's not on the He's not on this list
at all. But Mike's miss third behind John Velasquez and
Jabier Costellano.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Okay, Shoemaker's way down there.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah, well shee was.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Riding again when they're you know, paying nine dollars for
a purse and thirty something. I think, Yeah, I remember
yelling at Shoemaker one day. I didn't I didn't realize
it was him, and he pulled a horse up early
and got photoed out at the finishing line and like you,
son of you and the guy goes hey, that shoemake like,
oh sorry, sorry, I didn't know the shoemaker on that horse.
(22:55):
Shoemakers A great guy, man. I love that dude, except
in that race. I didn't like him in that race.
I thought he blew that race for me. As a
matter of fact, he did.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
All right, we got it. What we the oscars.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Oscars is going to boost the economy and we need
that here in southern California. Richie's put together an unbelievable
story here for everybody, this is unbosnn knock your socks
off here.
Speaker 13 (23:18):
The Oscars have a considerable economic impact on La. The
show brings an estimated one hundred and thirty four million
dollars in La County, according to a report by the
Motion Picture Academy.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Okay, people coming in, you know, flights, hotel rooms meals
uber limos, all that stuff, dresses, makeup, wardrobe, hairs.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Enough is enough.
Speaker 13 (23:43):
And this isn't from the event itself, but from related
activities from drivers, restaurants, hotels, so much more. Business owners
are noticing the boost in sales.
Speaker 14 (23:55):
We just kind of humans. We have a real who
says it's a lot of people walking around on a
lots of bit vist tries.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Are you guys, I'm playing the video here. You can't
see this. This is the guy that owns the RB's
up the street.
Speaker 14 (24:06):
He's we just kind of events. We have a who
says it's a lot of people walking around, a lots
of bit vists try to get some photo or say
some features of the events or the recovers.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
So he's great for.
Speaker 13 (24:20):
Us, and the event is bridging the gap between the
film industry and the global audience, drawing crowds from all
over the world.
Speaker 15 (24:28):
Since reopening, we have been consistently getting busier year by year,
which has been really nice. The fires hit, you know,
we saw a little dip down, but now with the
Oscars coming this weekend, we've seen a lot of people
starting to come from different places around the world to
come out and see.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
La that's great. That's great.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Tourism is on its way back and perfect timing spring summer.
Hope we recover here.
Speaker 13 (24:49):
And it's just two days to go until Hollywood's biggest night.
Expect even more traffic in the area, but especially with
the road closures leading up to Oscar Sunday.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah, road closures, then we're gonna have rain. It's gonna
be a mess. It's gonna be a mess on Sunday,
but you can sit in your home and watch it
and enjoy the Oscars hosted by Conan O'Brien.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
That should be funny, right, funny guy?
Speaker 3 (25:13):
The hell?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
The hell.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I don't know why you guys get down on him, right.
I think he's great. I think he's terrific.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Man.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Maybe your old school like me. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Krozier is a little younger than me. You ever use Skype?
Do use Skype?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Microsoft is shutting Skype down after buying it fourteen years
ago for eight point five billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Microsoft is yeah. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I don't I don't think so. Yeah, they're pulling Skype
off and throwing it on the shelf. It was the
Internet telecommunication video platform before Memes and Zoom, and people
use Skype.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I don't think. I hear George Nori talk about it.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Ye, Skype.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Call me on Skype on the skipe line west of
the Rockies, East of the Rockies on the Skype Call
me on Skype. You can text me nine hundred ways
to get hold of them.
Speaker 12 (26:23):
They go through everyone, good morning and evening, wherever you were,
wherever you may be.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Maybe this is like, Yeah, they go through sometimes the
getting a hold of George Nori is the whole segment,
you know, West the Rockies, first time callers, last time callers,
your brother one's called, your sister never listens.
Speaker 12 (26:42):
Yeah, whenever they come into the hour, they always do
that whole big long intro with all that stuff, and then.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
They take another.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
We should do that. That seems like a cool way
to belt the show out. Anyway. Skype is gone. Did
you use an angel? You seem like a Skype lady.
Speaker 11 (26:58):
I did. I used it. It was great for like
international calls, and it was kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Yeah, that's gone.
Speaker 11 (27:06):
I'm sad.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Well you could what I'm sorry admitting interruption.
Speaker 11 (27:09):
I was gonna say, you could use it, you know,
over the internet, so you could avoid all of those
ridiculous other charges from your cell phone and everything.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I remember, Stephanus, you're too younger remember this, But I
remember when I was young, my and we wanted to
call my grandparents in Cleveland. We couldn't do it until
after seven o'clock at night because the oh I remember, yeah,
message units were my mom would yell at.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Us message units, message units.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Like I'm calling my grandfather who's dying. I don't care
who you're calling. It's not seven o'clock yet, yeah, seven o'clock. No,
two things. So my dad kept his phone so long
at the time that you couldn't text after seven, and
he had it so long that he was able to
(27:58):
text after seven, and then and once he changed his phone.
Oh now it's nine pm, Is that right?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Change that?
Speaker 1 (28:04):
But for me, skype was good if you were in
which now that you can do it on your phone now,
but you can do long long distance relationships. Oh is
that right? That's basically for me that's what it was.
Oh wait a minute, there is a whole new side
of you. What countries did you were you fishing out of?
That's the funniest part. She wasn't even like she was
(28:28):
just an organ. Oh she was. Yeah, okay. So it
was just one of those things where it's like, but
you couldn't. It was it costs more to talk than
to just do skype.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Oh I see right.
Speaker 8 (28:39):
It's funny because a friend sent me a post on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
I'm sorry, Rachel, hold them on sec steph. Fush, buddy,
you are a stud. You are getting chicks all over
the world, man all over the world. Got it right,
God Almighty, I'm sorry, Rich.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
I was just friendly.
Speaker 8 (28:53):
Reminders are always welcome here.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
No.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
So, my friend sent me a post on Instagram yesterday
and it read, remember when we used to wait until
nine pm to talk to people for unlimited minutes? Yeah,
twenty years later, we all pay for unlimited minutes and
don't call anyone.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Tell me I think you I think it's a Jay
Leno joke where he said MCI. Remember MCI, they were
a long distance company and and they, you know, you
could have MCI as your long distance and they would,
you know, charge you for long distance calls. And on
Father's Day they were selling a twenty minute MCI card.
(29:30):
It can get you twenty minutes to talk to anybody
in the in the United States for a dollar, And
Jay Leno the joke was something like twenty minutes. When's
the last time you talked to your dad for twenty minutes? Yeah,
when dad picks up the phone, it's Jay is Jay,
it's you, it's your son. Jay. Hold on was say, hey, Ma,
Jay's on the phone. Is give it a mom. That's
(29:52):
what my dad did all the time. Anytime you called
my dad picked up Hey, Dad's Tim, hold on, Hey,
I'm Mary Anne. The kids are on the phone. But
the you know, the these kids that grew up, that
grew up today, they'll never they'll never know what it's
like to pick up a phone and not know who
(30:12):
it is.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
I mean, if you have a block number, maybe, or
you know a stranger is calling you. But we used
to pick up the phone and it was just Roulette.
Speaker 14 (30:22):
Man.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
You had no idea who that was, no idea, you
just picked it up.
Speaker 11 (30:26):
That was That was the name of a really scary movie. Tim,
when a stranger called.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yes, that's right, you know I had. This is something
I still regret to this day. I was in high
school at my own room at my dad's house, and
my dad got me a phone in my room for
after I graduate, after eleventh grade from my senior year,
because he was tired of me using his phone. So
I got me my own.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Number, my own room, my own phone.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
And.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
About June, so I did the whole school year and
in June, a buddy of mine. Matt McDaniel was over
and he was on my phone in my room and
he's talking to his girlfriend or something, and he says
to her, oh, hold on one sect there's another call
coming in. And he clicks the receiver and there's another call.
(31:17):
Was my sister calling me? And he goes hold on,
clicks it again and says, hey to his girlfriend, Haye,
it's I'm Tim's sister.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Let me call you back.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Clicks it again, and I talked to my sister and
I said to him, I said, what did you just do?
And he said, that's call waiting. And I said, how
do you know there was call waiting? He goes, because
there was a beep and you could hear that beep.
I said, oh my god. I spent my entire senior
year not knowing what that beep was. I never picked
(31:51):
up a single call waiting.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Call.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
You missed so many times.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
I miss parties, I missed drinking nights out, I missed everything.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
No idea a call.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
I had it for a year and didn't know what
it was until my buddy was over. Oh my god,
I could have had a great senior year in high school.
I still think about that every single day.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Who did I miss? What did I miss?
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Was I invited something that I thought I was not
invited to.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I could have had a senior year. It was a
lot of fun. That call waiting killed me?
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Killed me.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
I was in I was at Marongo and my daughter
was three or four and she said, where's mom? And
I said, she's down in the pool area. And she goes,
I want to talk to her. I said, okay, I
don't teach try to use the phone. I said, pick
up the phone and call the operator and have your
mom paged in the pool area.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
And she goes, okay.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
So she picks up the phone, she puts it back
down and she goes, it's broken. I said, what do
you mean? She goes, it's making a buzzing noise. Never
heard a dial tone in her life, never never heard
of dial tone? Isn't that wild?
Speaker 8 (33:04):
That?
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Never?
Speaker 1 (33:06):
These kids today will never hear dial tone? Never you
grew up today. Let me you can play when I
see the.
Speaker 12 (33:12):
Videos of you know, people putting regular phones in front
of a couple of kids and asking them what to
do with it.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Oh yeah, I saw that, And those aren't those aren't jokes.
That's real.
Speaker 12 (33:20):
Yeah, let's see her die, I'll plunge the number in
and then pick up the headset right, and.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
They have no idea how a rotary. They're uchred.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
All right, here's what a dial tone sounds like for
people who are you know eight, that's what it sounds like.
That's a that's a dial tone. You'll never hear that
in your life. We'll never hear it again. And you
dial away when you had to call, when you had
(33:47):
to call someone, and that was always like just it
was a visual stare in your face.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Because you're just like, all right, I'm gonna talk to
this girl, Oh buddy. I used to take notes.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
I used to write notes down, like like I had
twenty different notes in case the conversation got slow. I
had twenty things written down because I was the worst.
I was the worst dead silence with me on the phone.
I remember in third grade calling girl named Carrie. Hey,
carry's Tim?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Oh hey Tim? Howre you doing?
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Pretty good? Why are you calling good?
Speaker 4 (34:29):
I had a few of those myself.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
I'll call you back, all right, we'll become back, world
class jockey, world class trainer. We'll try to figure out
who's going in to the big cap Tomorrow, Sanity It's
Conway Show Live on KFI AM six forty Conway Show
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(34:53):
the iHeart Radio app
It's k IF. I am six forty and you're listening
to the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
And at five o'clock we're going to talk to Doug O'Neill,
who's a world class trainer out at Santannita, and also
Mike Smith, Hall of Fame jockey. That's moved to six o'clock.
So at six o'clock we'll try to figure out who's
(00:21):
gonna win tomorrow at Sannita. Maybe give you a horse
or two you can make a couple of bucks, although
if I leave it up to those two, you'll go
broke broke, all.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Right, Alex Michaelson's with us, Alex? How you Bob?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Being done with you? Big dog? Sounds like at six
you're going to be doing this story you really really
care about? Which is horse? Right?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Buddy?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I don't know what you're talking about. I always prefer
talking to you.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah right, okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
So what's going on?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah? Nice to you?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
All right?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
All right?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Hey, buddy, Look, I can't believe the amount of news
that's coming out of Washington, DC. You know, look, if
this was a normal week, the Eric Adams story would
have been huge. The Jeffrey Epstein story would have been huge.
Either one of those stories would have lasted a week
or two, and those were both buried along with Doge
because of what happened in the White House today.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah, I mean, I was planning on doing a whole
show today about Elon Musk, and then that seemed almost
quaint and dated by the time we got to taping
today's show because of this extremely unusual historic meeting between
President Trump and President Zelenski that's really unlike anything we've
ever seen before in American history.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
You know, I will say, look, I don't know enough
about this ward to know, you know, all the intricacies
and who's right who's wrong. I will say that I
do feel bad for Zelenski when one of Trump's guys said, hey,
why don't you ever wear a suit? I mean, the
guy's running a country, he's getting you know, they're getting
their ass kicked by Russia, They're losing a lot of people.
And a guy brings up, why don't you wear a suit?
(01:58):
I felt bad for him.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah. That's a quote unquote reporter who works for a
far right outlet who's also the boyfriend of Marjorie Taylor.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Green so oh okay, all right, Well, now that.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Now that the rep now that they there, the Trump
people are doing their own list in terms of the
White House press pool, that's who's making up the White
House press pool. But yeah, I mean that's that's clearly
an issue for for Donald Trump. Because when Zolenski first
walked in today, you could hear in the audio he said,
thanks for dressing up for me when he saw his outfit. Uh,
(02:31):
And I do that all the time. Yeah. This is
something that that Trump has pointed out to Zolensky and
away from Zelenski often. You know, he's so focused on
the way somebody looks or dresses or their appearance or
casting for TV, uh that he finds it disrespectful that
Vilenski isn't dressing up for his Oval Office visit.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I will say this, if I ever were going to
the White House representing my country, I would wear a
suit time.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
And you're asking for like a few hundred billions.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, I would put anything they want on, anything they want.
But because of this happened today, the Gene Hackman story
has been buried. And this should have been the big
story should have been today, should have been Oscars and
that's buried as well.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, well, it seems like nobody's really seen any of
the Oscar movies, so there doesn't seem to be as
much buzz about that. The Gene Hackman story is a
is a wild story. What do you actually Yeah, well,
I also filled in on TMZ Today, So TMZ Live,
I'm co hosting that with Harvey Levin, which is on
from eight to nine o'clock to night on Fox eleven.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
And we delve into this and talked with a former
LAPD detective and sort of one of the theories that this
detective was saying that that seems to make the most
sense is that maybe Gene Hackman had a heart attack
or some sort of thing where he suddenly died. Wife
maybe found him and couldn't you know, knew he was
(04:04):
already dead, and maybe started to take some pills or
something because maybe couldn't feel like she could live without him,
and then maybe she started to get woozy or it
wasn't working. She came back, took more pills, collapsed on
the floor, the pills fall on the floor, the dog
in ingest some of the pills, so then she's gone.
The other dog is gone. But the other dogs who
(04:25):
didn't eat the pills ended up living. And then because
they weren't in that much communication with other people, their
bodies maybe were there for days, if not weeks, before
anybody even noticed.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Okay, all right, Alex Michaelson's with us. You got about
sixty percent of that right, so congratulations.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
The part that you missed is this is how it happened.
He died of a massive heart attack. You got that right.
But he died late in the late, late in the evening,
like eight, nine, ten o'clock at night, and she didn't
want to deal with it. She didn't want, you know,
people to come over that late at night. She didn't
want to, you know, to have ambulance there and cops
(05:04):
there all night. She wanted to give him one more
night at home. And she accidentally overdosed while she went
to sleep, and and now and his body was still
in the house. Okay, so that's what happened. The dog
died because the dog was in the kennel. They had
three dogs. One dog was locked up in their kennel,
and that dog starved to death.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Okay, all right, maybe.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Oh, okay, that's my theory.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
But but but also uh and and and this hasn't
come out yet, but it probably will when you when
you die in that house and that dog has no
more food in the ball, you're next.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Well let's so, but this was the dog locked in
the kennel. The dog locked in.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
The kennel couldn't get the food, but those other two
dogs probably probably ate Gene Hackman and his wife.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Ask any cop as an l.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
A PD officer if that's true, and he'll tell you
if he's worth it, if he's if he has any
experience on the street like I do, he'll tell you.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
That's the truth.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
What a great image to put into the universe as
we head into this weekend, and also the Hoosiers instead.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Look, the Jeffrey Epstein story would have been a big
deal this week too, but that wasn't even mentioned today,
and because of what happened to the White House, it's
a big deal. What happened to the White House today?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Well, yeah, and the Jeffrey Epstein thing turned out to
kind of be a big nothing.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Right, But that would have been a story because it
was that would have been the story.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
It was nothing, Yeah exactly, Yeah, no, it is it
is crazy how much news is happening, and it's very,
very difficult to cover it. But that's the strategy, right
Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's longtime strategist, has talked about that's
that's the point. They're not really battling the Democrats, They're
(06:54):
battling the media. And the more. If you put that
much stuff out there, the media can't keep up. And
then and you know, even if there's an outrage of something,
you just move on to the next story and people
forget about it. And that seems to be working for
him right now.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Well, you know, if you don't follow the war in Ukraine,
you think that Russia is fighting Ukraine, and they're not.
Russia is fighting Ukraine, the European Union, NATO and the
United States and that and that, and their eastern flank
is moving west. They're actually winning part you know, that war,
(07:27):
and this is really really bad news for America, NATO,
and the European Union.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Right, and then what's the message? I mean, this is
what the Republicans for many years have been saying. So
if Russia is able to get away with this, then
what country is next? That's right, I don't know if
we're in NATO. We're NATO, so we've got to defend
countries like Poland or all these other countries along the
border if he goes after them, meaning Putin, and then
(07:55):
the US gets dragged into one of these wars. And
that's a real problem.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Alex Michaelson, it's a mess. What's on the big shownight
is that all Zelenski and Trump.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Tonight we got a lot of different stuff. So we've
got a Congressman Robert Garcia, the Democrat, who is talking
about Zelenski, but also he's the only California on the
Doge Committee in Congress, so their whole thing is looking
into what Elon Musk is doing. We have Sheriff Chad
Bianco out of Riverside County, Republican, first Republican running for
(08:25):
governor of California, giving his take and why he's running
and also responding to a lot of us. He's a
big Trump supporter, so you hear that perspective. We kind
of have polar opposite views on. And then we have
Harvey Levin, who I hosted TMZ Live with. He talks
about he had a really interesting interview with the Menendez
brothers in prison this week. Wow, so we place some
of that and talk about what's going on behind the
(08:47):
scenes with them.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Excellent, buddy, I'll be watching, Thank you very much, ten
thirty tonight on KTTV.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Does anyone call it kt TV anymore?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Some people do? Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Okay, I'm old school, old school. I used to watch
Felix the Cat on kt TV and I enjoyed that. Buddy,
I appreciate coming on. Tell your mom and dad. I said, hi,
and tell your dad I didn't take a shot at
him today.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I know he's going to be thrilled about that.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, I like your dad.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
All right, you're yeah, alright, there he goes. Alex Michaelson
back to Fox News. Over there at kt TV Channel eleven.
He used to be over off the one oh one
on Sunset or Hollywood Hollywood Sunset, I think Sunset, and
now they've moved over to the West Side, and so
I don't know if you're into geography, that's where they are.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am six.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Forty oscars this Sunday. That's a big deal. It might
rain for the oscars. That's not unusual. Kind of usually
does rain on Oscars Sunday, So I don't know if
you're looking forward to watching. You know, Oscars went from
the US they have four or five movies that are
nominated for Best Picture. Then they expanded it to ten,
(10:09):
so now there's ten movies that nobody saw instead of five.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
So there's not a lot of buzz around the Oscars
this year. I think the biggest story is Demi Moore
going to win for Best Female Actor, a term nobody uses,
but they're trying to sell that to us female actor.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Nobody uses that, but they do in Hollywood. They do
in Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
All Right, Oscars, the biggest night in Hollywood after the fires,
is gonna be a big deal. There's gonna be a
lot of mentions of the fires during Oscar, the lead
up to it, the Red Carpet, the nineteen hours they
do on the Red Carpet before then they're gonna have
the Oscars, then they'll have parties, then they'll replay the Oscars.
(11:02):
It's going to be a big Sunday, big deal on Sunday.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Yeah, you know, each year we look forward to a
f I think this is Rob Hay, Yeah, you know,
each year, we look forward to a fun and entertaining
Oscar show. Post Conan O'Brien this year says he hopes
to do to deliver the same kind of show, but
he also plans on I guess you would say acknowledging
the losses of all the folks around here who experienced
losses because of the fires. When the world's biggest stars
(11:27):
phil Hollywood Sunday night for the Oscars, I'll be sitting
in a theater that less than two months ago faced
an existential threat. We're talking about a mile and a
half north of Hollywood Boulevard.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Oh, that's right, the Hollywood fire that started, you know
in I think what's the seventh I think it was,
or maybe it was the eighth. I don't when the
Hollywood fire was the eighth, the eighth man. It was
Chris Christie that broke right here. Yeah, yeah, we broke
that on the well, Chris Christy broke it on TV
and then and then we stole it from him. And
(11:59):
we were the first day on that and we're telling
everybody to get the hell out Franklin Gardener sunset, all
those streets around there.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
That looks really scary, but it was amazing how they got.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Ahold of that, and those those brave guys and gals,
mostly guys, they took those fire engines and they put
them on Franklin and they said to the flames, you
ain't going anywhere, and they kept that fire away from
apartments and homes, and they did an unbelievable job.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
You shall not pass.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, that is.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Now on fire in specific Palisade.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I think that was Chris Christie there was that. They
were playing the audio back.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
A mile and a half.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Yeah, north of Hollywood Boulevard.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
That is now on fire in Pacific Palisades and Altadina
burned in January another place, the sunset fire started ripping
a pass through the Hollywood Hills just above the Adobe Theater.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
What's happened here needs to be addressed.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
Now with the Oscars just days away, host Conan O'Brien
making a point to acknowledge all the people of southern
California who've lost homes and businesses and sometimes even more.
The wildfires still front and center in the home of
the Oscars, which O'Brien says needs to get a boost
from the show.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
The Oscars in the same vein should reflect some I
hope sense of lifting people up, that this town gets
back to work. That's right, this town's got to get
back to work. A lot of people lost their jobs,
a lot of people lost their their green lip projects.
A lot of things went sideways when those fires hit
(13:36):
in early January.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
One popular oscar viewing party takes place every year on
the coast, the Malibu Film Society choosing to host its
bash at Olo Restaurant. It made it through the wildfires,
but the family that owns the restaurant still pay this
steep price.
Speaker 9 (13:52):
The owners are among those who lost their homes. Our
local businesses have really been decimated.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
This year, proceeds from their Oscar party will go to
wildfire recovery efforts. But despite the sad situation surrounding the event,
the Malibu Film Society is still looking forward to a
successful oscar showing.
Speaker 9 (14:10):
Every year since we've started, one of our Q and
A guests went on to win his first Oscar Wow,
and every year since then that's been an unbroken street.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Well, let's hope the Malibu Film Society keeps that streak
alive again. They still have tickets available for their show,
and they tell us every penny raised goes to fire victims.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
That's a great cause, a great cause.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
All right.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Speaking of fire, there's a fire hydrant news. Normally we
don't bring you fire hydrant news, but we've got fire
hydrant news.
Speaker 10 (14:43):
Two Los Angeles Democrats have introduced legislation targeting private fire crews,
like the one developer Rick Ruso hire to protect his
properties during the Palisades fire. Political says the new bill
would make public fire hydrants off limits to private crews.
The state's largest fire fighter union has long said private
crews can hinder firefighters work. Crusos Palisades village shopping malls,
(15:06):
one of the few structures still standing in the Palisades.
CRUs who has said the private cruise did not use
any city water.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah, Crusoe had a really good line. We had him
on the show and he said one of the reasons
he wanted to bring in his own firefighters well, obviously
to save his buildings, but number two is that so
the LAFD in La County Fire wouldn't have to, you know,
put resources on his buildings.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
They could use it for homes where you got water from.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I think at BYW I think I brought with him
on the big trucks, big ass water trucks. But anyway,
so the fire hydrants are off limits to the private firefighters.
You got the LAFD or La County or you know,
if Torrents fire comes up, they can use it. But
(15:58):
the private company these they got to hands off, hands
off the hydrants. You see one blue today, one exploded
today fire hunder and some idiot ran into it with
his car off to the races. And then they got
to look for the hot turnoff valve. You know, it's
it's never in the same area twice. You know, the
guy's getting you know, eight million gallons falling. You would
(16:23):
think universally it would be like ten steps to the
you know, to the north period and that's where it
or there'd be a sign right here, but no, they
got to constantly look for it. Well, while a million
gallons is falling on their head too. It's you know,
and I would have put it further away from the hydrant.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
That's just me.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Maybe I'm not a good city planner. But the cutoff
they shut off for the hydrant, I'd put it about
forty feet away from that hydrant. So when you have
to shut it off, you don't get eight million gallons
of water on your head.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
But who am I? Who am I?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Just some dumb radio guy right now? It's a good
ton for the show.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah thing don't. All right.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
We're live on KFI AM six forty the Friday before
Oscar Sunday. It's always buzzing around here. People always they
they dress up like their favorite you know, movie star,
their favorite you know picture or whatever. Not this year,
but some years we do that.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demayo from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Let's do a quick whip around. You got the music there,
stuff around a tony all right. I'm gonna have to
explain this whip around to you heathens because you guys
aren't racetrack fans. But when a jockey wins a race,
let's say it's a thirty thousand dollars race, that that
gets put.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Into his earnings, right it, And.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
You add those up through over a lifetime, and a
jockey will have his earnings. How much has the jockey
earned over his lifetime? So if he wins a thirty
thousand dollars raise, then he wins one hundred thousand dollars raised,
then he wins a twenty thousand dollars raise, and if
that's all he won that month, he would have one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars in his earnings. So Mike
(18:04):
Smith is coming in Hall of Fame jockey who's fifty
nine years old and still riding horses. I don't think
anyone's ever done this before. All right, here's the whip
around Mike Smith. What are his total earnings of all
the races he won? Horse racing? How much has he
(18:27):
earned in total earnings? Total earnings Stepperoni Toning, one hundred thousand,
one hundred thousand, All right, A crouch.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
I think Steph just messing with you there.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yeah, I think we'll reef visit that.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
I'm gonna go a quarter billion, two.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Hundred and fifty million, A right, Angel Martinez, I'm.
Speaker 11 (18:57):
Gonna go with seventy five million, seventy five million, Ritchie,
fifty million, fifty million.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Now you're saying it's now, I feel done. You want
to jumping again? Steppers?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Do over for stuff?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah? Can I get a due over? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
You won't go two hundred thousand, all right? How much steppers?
I'll do forty five million, forty five million.
Speaker 12 (19:22):
Okay, Now earnings you mean how much he won, not
how much he pocketed, right right, exactly how much the
the owner? How much the races were it.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
So if it's a sixty thousand dollars race and he won, that,
get that gets put into his earnings.
Speaker 11 (19:36):
Okay, because I thought you meant in his pocket?
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no is what I thought.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Oh steppers, No, I would I would.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Stop say all guesses have been done.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Well, okay, all right, the actual Mike Smith's actual lifetime
earnings over all the races he's written, three hundred and
thirty six million dollars. Man, three hundred and thirty six
million dollars. Now I can figure out how much went
into his pocket. That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 11 (20:07):
Yeah, like ten percent.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Usually, well, the winner gets fifty five percent. So it's
three hundred and thirty six million. Let me see here,
bomp up, bomp, and then times zero point five five
the winner gets fifty five percent of that, and then
he gets ten percent of that. So eighteen million, five
hundred thousand dollars over lifetime, eighteen million, five hundred thousand.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
You know how many years he's been doing it.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
He's been.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
He's fifty nine, so he started writing at fourteen. I
think I think he got a license out of New Mexico.
I'd have to look that up, but I think he
started relatively early, and I think he was fourteen, fifteen
or sixteen, and I'd have to look that up.
Speaker 12 (20:50):
But see, he's got to be close to number one, right, Oh,
I would think he is. Yeah, I can't imagine anybody's
even close. Three hundred thirty six million dollars.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I mean, that's a lot of dough.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I'd have to look up when he started. I think
he's he was fourteen or fifteen, maybe sixteen when he started,
but he's coming up his sixtieth birthdays coming up. That's
a big deal for jockey. I mean there you have
to be a pound for pound.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Those are the strongest guys in the in the universe.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Oh my god, I just looked up highest lifetime jockey earning.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Is it him?
Speaker 4 (21:22):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Really? Who is it?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Early?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Third? No way? Is it a shoemaker?
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Japan?
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Japan? Oh yeah, okay, you taka Taki? Oh boy?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
What is hed? Four hundred million? Five hundred no a billion?
Just under no way?
Speaker 4 (21:40):
One million?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Well, you know what, but Mike Smith was running when
these were you know, eight thousand dollars claimers when he started,
or actually rather less than that. I'd say, like nine
hundred dollars claimers when he started. And I bet he's written.
Will ask him. He'll be in at six o'clock. I
bet he's ridden in a race. When he was younger,
there were five or six hundred dollars claimers, you know,
and you don't find those races anymore anywhere.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Who's second on that list?
Speaker 12 (22:07):
I'm looking at a different list here, and this one
says it's it might not include the the Japanese guy
because it's not on the He's not on this list
at all. But Mike's miss third behind John Velasquez and
Jabier Costellano.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Okay, Shoemaker's way down there.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah, well shee was.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Riding again when they're you know, paying nine dollars for
a purse and thirty something. I think, Yeah, I remember
yelling at Shoemaker one day. I didn't I didn't realize
it was him, and he pulled a horse up early
and got photoed out at the finishing line and like you,
son of you and the guy goes hey, that shoemake like,
oh sorry, sorry, I didn't know the shoemaker on that horse.
(22:55):
Shoemakers A great guy, man. I love that dude, except
in that race. I didn't like him in that race.
I thought he blew that race for me. As a
matter of fact, he did.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
All right, we got it. What we the oscars.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Oscars is going to boost the economy and we need
that here in southern California. Richie's put together an unbelievable
story here for everybody, this is unbosnn knock your socks
off here.
Speaker 13 (23:18):
The Oscars have a considerable economic impact on La. The
show brings an estimated one hundred and thirty four million
dollars in La County, according to a report by the
Motion Picture Academy.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Okay, people coming in, you know, flights, hotel rooms meals
uber limos, all that stuff, dresses, makeup, wardrobe, hairs.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Enough is enough.
Speaker 13 (23:43):
And this isn't from the event itself, but from related
activities from drivers, restaurants, hotels, so much more. Business owners
are noticing the boost in sales.
Speaker 14 (23:55):
We just kind of humans. We have a real who
says it's a lot of people walking around on a
lots of bit vist tries.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Are you guys, I'm playing the video here. You can't
see this. This is the guy that owns the RB's
up the street.
Speaker 14 (24:06):
He's we just kind of events. We have a who
says it's a lot of people walking around, a lots
of bit vists try to get some photo or say
some features of the events or the recovers.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
So he's great for.
Speaker 13 (24:20):
Us, and the event is bridging the gap between the
film industry and the global audience, drawing crowds from all
over the world.
Speaker 15 (24:28):
Since reopening, we have been consistently getting busier year by year,
which has been really nice. The fires hit, you know,
we saw a little dip down, but now with the
Oscars coming this weekend, we've seen a lot of people
starting to come from different places around the world to
come out and see.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
La that's great. That's great.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Tourism is on its way back and perfect timing spring summer.
Hope we recover here.
Speaker 13 (24:49):
And it's just two days to go until Hollywood's biggest night.
Expect even more traffic in the area, but especially with
the road closures leading up to Oscar Sunday.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah, road closures, then we're gonna have rain. It's gonna
be a mess. It's gonna be a mess on Sunday,
but you can sit in your home and watch it
and enjoy the Oscars hosted by Conan O'Brien.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
That should be funny, right, funny guy?
Speaker 3 (25:13):
The hell?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
The hell.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I don't know why you guys get down on him, right.
I think he's great. I think he's terrific.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Man.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Maybe your old school like me. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Krozier is a little younger than me. You ever use Skype?
Do use Skype?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Microsoft is shutting Skype down after buying it fourteen years
ago for eight point five billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Microsoft is yeah. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I don't I don't think so. Yeah, they're pulling Skype
off and throwing it on the shelf. It was the
Internet telecommunication video platform before Memes and Zoom, and people
use Skype.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I don't think. I hear George Nori talk about it.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Ye, Skype.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Call me on Skype on the skipe line west of
the Rockies, East of the Rockies on the Skype Call
me on Skype. You can text me nine hundred ways
to get hold of them.
Speaker 12 (26:23):
They go through everyone, good morning and evening, wherever you were,
wherever you may be.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Maybe this is like, Yeah, they go through sometimes the
getting a hold of George Nori is the whole segment,
you know, West the Rockies, first time callers, last time callers,
your brother one's called, your sister never listens.
Speaker 12 (26:42):
Yeah, whenever they come into the hour, they always do
that whole big long intro with all that stuff, and then.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
They take another.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
We should do that. That seems like a cool way
to belt the show out. Anyway. Skype is gone. Did
you use an angel? You seem like a Skype lady.
Speaker 11 (26:58):
I did. I used it. It was great for like
international calls, and it was kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Yeah, that's gone.
Speaker 11 (27:06):
I'm sad.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Well you could what I'm sorry admitting interruption.
Speaker 11 (27:09):
I was gonna say, you could use it, you know,
over the internet, so you could avoid all of those
ridiculous other charges from your cell phone and everything.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I remember, Stephanus, you're too younger remember this, But I
remember when I was young, my and we wanted to
call my grandparents in Cleveland. We couldn't do it until
after seven o'clock at night because the oh I remember, yeah,
message units were my mom would yell at.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Us message units, message units.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Like I'm calling my grandfather who's dying. I don't care
who you're calling. It's not seven o'clock yet, yeah, seven o'clock. No,
two things. So my dad kept his phone so long
at the time that you couldn't text after seven, and
he had it so long that he was able to
(27:58):
text after seven, and then and once he changed his phone.
Oh now it's nine pm, Is that right?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Change that?
Speaker 1 (28:04):
But for me, skype was good if you were in
which now that you can do it on your phone now,
but you can do long long distance relationships. Oh is
that right? That's basically for me that's what it was.
Oh wait a minute, there is a whole new side
of you. What countries did you were you fishing out of?
That's the funniest part. She wasn't even like she was
(28:28):
just an organ. Oh she was. Yeah, okay. So it
was just one of those things where it's like, but
you couldn't. It was it costs more to talk than
to just do skype.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Oh I see right.
Speaker 8 (28:39):
It's funny because a friend sent me a post on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
I'm sorry, Rachel, hold them on sec steph. Fush, buddy,
you are a stud. You are getting chicks all over
the world, man all over the world. Got it right,
God Almighty, I'm sorry, Rich.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
I was just friendly.
Speaker 8 (28:53):
Reminders are always welcome here.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
No.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
So, my friend sent me a post on Instagram yesterday
and it read, remember when we used to wait until
nine pm to talk to people for unlimited minutes? Yeah,
twenty years later, we all pay for unlimited minutes and
don't call anyone.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Tell me I think you I think it's a Jay
Leno joke where he said MCI. Remember MCI, they were
a long distance company and and they, you know, you
could have MCI as your long distance and they would,
you know, charge you for long distance calls. And on
Father's Day they were selling a twenty minute MCI card.
(29:30):
It can get you twenty minutes to talk to anybody
in the in the United States for a dollar, And
Jay Leno the joke was something like twenty minutes. When's
the last time you talked to your dad for twenty minutes? Yeah,
when dad picks up the phone, it's Jay is Jay,
it's you, it's your son. Jay. Hold on was say, hey, Ma,
Jay's on the phone. Is give it a mom. That's
(29:52):
what my dad did all the time. Anytime you called
my dad picked up Hey, Dad's Tim, hold on, Hey,
I'm Mary Anne. The kids are on the phone. But
the you know, the these kids that grew up, that
grew up today, they'll never they'll never know what it's
like to pick up a phone and not know who
(30:12):
it is.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
I mean, if you have a block number, maybe, or
you know a stranger is calling you. But we used
to pick up the phone and it was just Roulette.
Speaker 14 (30:22):
Man.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
You had no idea who that was, no idea, you
just picked it up.
Speaker 11 (30:26):
That was That was the name of a really scary movie. Tim,
when a stranger called.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yes, that's right, you know I had. This is something
I still regret to this day. I was in high
school at my own room at my dad's house, and
my dad got me a phone in my room for
after I graduate, after eleventh grade from my senior year,
because he was tired of me using his phone. So
I got me my own.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Number, my own room, my own phone.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
And.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
About June, so I did the whole school year and
in June, a buddy of mine. Matt McDaniel was over
and he was on my phone in my room and
he's talking to his girlfriend or something, and he says
to her, oh, hold on one sect there's another call
coming in. And he clicks the receiver and there's another call.
(31:17):
Was my sister calling me? And he goes hold on,
clicks it again and says, hey to his girlfriend, Haye,
it's I'm Tim's sister.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Let me call you back.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Clicks it again, and I talked to my sister and
I said to him, I said, what did you just do?
And he said, that's call waiting. And I said, how
do you know there was call waiting? He goes, because
there was a beep and you could hear that beep.
I said, oh my god. I spent my entire senior
year not knowing what that beep was. I never picked
(31:51):
up a single call waiting.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Call.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
You missed so many times.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
I miss parties, I missed drinking nights out, I missed everything.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
No idea a call.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
I had it for a year and didn't know what
it was until my buddy was over. Oh my god,
I could have had a great senior year in high school.
I still think about that every single day.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Who did I miss? What did I miss?
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Was I invited something that I thought I was not
invited to.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I could have had a senior year. It was a
lot of fun. That call waiting killed me?
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Killed me.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
I was in I was at Marongo and my daughter
was three or four and she said, where's mom? And
I said, she's down in the pool area. And she goes,
I want to talk to her. I said, okay, I
don't teach try to use the phone. I said, pick
up the phone and call the operator and have your
mom paged in the pool area.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
And she goes, okay.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
So she picks up the phone, she puts it back
down and she goes, it's broken. I said, what do
you mean? She goes, it's making a buzzing noise. Never
heard a dial tone in her life, never never heard
of dial tone? Isn't that wild?
Speaker 8 (33:04):
That?
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Never?
Speaker 1 (33:06):
These kids today will never hear dial tone? Never you
grew up today. Let me you can play when I
see the.
Speaker 12 (33:12):
Videos of you know, people putting regular phones in front
of a couple of kids and asking them what to
do with it.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Oh yeah, I saw that, And those aren't those aren't jokes.
That's real.
Speaker 12 (33:20):
Yeah, let's see her die, I'll plunge the number in
and then pick up the headset right, and.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
They have no idea how a rotary. They're uchred.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
All right, here's what a dial tone sounds like for
people who are you know eight, that's what it sounds like.
That's a that's a dial tone. You'll never hear that
in your life. We'll never hear it again. And you
dial away when you had to call, when you had
(33:47):
to call someone, and that was always like just it
was a visual stare in your face.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Because you're just like, all right, I'm gonna talk to
this girl, Oh buddy. I used to take notes.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
I used to write notes down, like like I had
twenty different notes in case the conversation got slow. I
had twenty things written down because I was the worst.
I was the worst dead silence with me on the phone.
I remember in third grade calling girl named Carrie. Hey,
carry's Tim?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Oh hey Tim? Howre you doing?
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Pretty good? Why are you calling good?
Speaker 4 (34:29):
I had a few of those myself.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
I'll call you back, all right, we'll become back, world
class jockey, world class trainer. We'll try to figure out
who's going in to the big cap Tomorrow, Sanity It's
Conway Show Live on KFI AM six forty Conway Show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now, you can always
hear us live on KFI AM six forty four to
seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime on demand on
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