February 26, 2025 • 35 mins
Tim opens the show with an update on yesterday’s close call with a Southwest flight, and a private jet as pending further investigation the private jet pilot is currently being blamed for the near-accident. // iHeart White House Correspondent, Jon Decker joins the show to discuss his receiving an official bill-signing pen from President Trump and provide some behind-the-scenes insight on reporting from The White House. // Tim continues his conversation with iHeart White House Correspondent about the hours that President Trump keeps and his efforts to // Tim surmises that private planes are becoming a bit of a nuisance for commercial airline travel. And Tim gets a call from special guest Jay Leno about the real costs of flying private.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app AM and sixty.
It is the Conway Show. All right, let's go. We
got a full show today. Man, we got a lot
going on. John Decker's coming on with us. He's the
White House correspondent for iHeartMedia. That guy's great and he's
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in the room every time Trump speaks, and I think
he Trump even gave him one of the pens after
he signed one of those executive orders.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
We'll have him on a four to twenty.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
And then a guy named Rick Polizi Palazi, poll pol
is Zzi Palazi, He's gonna come Pilozzi Plozzi Plotzi. He's
coming on and he's the owner of Boney Island. That's
that treehouse in that house. Did they decorate for Halloween
every year in Sherman Oaks or Studio City? I think
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it's Studio City off Cold Water and I've been to
it twice. I'm not a big Halloween guy. I was
when I was a kid.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Is it not up and about or and then some
sort of fashion outside of the Halloween.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yes, because they have a treehouse there, so the treehouse
is there. The neighbors want that treehouse to be to
come down. You know how I think you can save it.
Take somebody who's been burned out of their home and
have them live there. They'll never tear it down, never
tear it down. And it's and it's built well enough
where people could live in it. It's beautiful, it's great.
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And so he's gonna be calling from the treehouse. Oh nice, Yeah,
at five oh five, So you want to be back
here for that. And then we have we're talking about
sport fishing. Courseud you ever get into sport fishing now?
I was wondered about that. What do you mean by
sport fish? Sho you go out on a boat all
day long, and you know, you go for the big salefish,
you know, the big ones.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Well, I used to do fishing a lot with my
dad when we had boats and yachts and all that
crap I was just made. I don't know what you
classify sport fishing is like a competitive thing? Are you
just going out trying to catch a bunch of big fish?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I think both. I think both. You remember not competitive? Yes,
I've done that.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Do you remember the guy in Cleveland, who there was
a bass contest there were you know, whoever got the
biggest bassy wins twenty five grand And he caught a
bas then he stuffed it with weights.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah. That's an wasted thing.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Everybody, whenever you go out fishing, that comes up at
some point.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Some people are like, fill it with ice, fill it
with other fish. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So that guy, you know, the fish they take fishing
very seriously. That guy got thrown out of the competition
for life, got a lifetime band.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Out we went. One time I did it out here
off the west. I've done it a couple of times
out here, but one time we went, we did a
private charter. We had like ten of us for my birthday.
And one of the guys you used to work in,
Mike Shaeffer, he caught a huge, like I gain almost
as big as him fish.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
And the captain you know, has to, you know, let
everybody know, hey, I got this guy caught it. And
he caught like the second biggest fish out there that day.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
And as soon as as soon as like he was
reeling him in, you see all these other boats start
come towards where he was.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Oh that's great. Just to check it out. Yeah, yeah,
oh that's awesome. A buddy of mine called me. I
was back, I was in high school, and he said, hey,
I all right, my dad can't go on this fishing
on this sport fishing thing.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
It's an all day event. Do you want to go?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
And that's what I like, energy and you know, enthusiasm
and cramp like that. So I said, yeah, I'll go.
And he said, all right, we got to leave out
of sam Pedro at eight thirty. And I said, eight thirty.
That seems late. You know those those those boats leave
at three thirty, four, four thirty five in the morning.
Nobody leaves after six eight thirty. Okay, all right, well
we'll go at eight thirty. And I said, was it
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times come back? He said, it's not in on the brochure.
I said, okay. So we get down there. We got
fishing poles. I got his dad's pole, he's got his pole.
We've got all the you know, the tackle and everything.
And we leave at eight thirty. You know, we get
on the boat and it leaves at eight thirty and
we're screaming out towards the ocean, really going really fast
to get out there to you know to go fishing.
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And we pull in to Avalon and and we go
and the guy, the captain goes, all right, we're pulling
an Avalon. Everybody out and you know, enjoy your time
in Avalon. And I'm like, buddy, did you just get
us on a on an Avalon charter?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
This isn't a fishing boat. We went to Catalina. Yeah,
we just went to Catalina.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
We looked like two a holes with fishing poles and
tackle and hats and sun block, didn't have stuff, and
everybody was staring at us.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
It was horrible.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Then, so we we fished off the dock in Avalon
all day and then went home anything. It was not nothing.
It was the worst trip ever, is there? Yeah, but
I suspected something was wrong though. Eight thirty for an
all day fishing trip. That's four hours too late. That's
way too late for that kind of crap. So we'll
talk about sport fishing.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
And then also doctor Ray CACHERI, the world class pulmonologist
out of Saint Joon's, Saint Joe's. We'll have him on
at six oh five. We'll be talking about measles. It's
a big deal in Texas and also the flu. Flu
deaths in California are over nine hundred, making this the
deadliest in years. Nine hundred people died of the flu.
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So you got to avoid that. You got to avoid
the flu. It's a big deal and we're going to
try to save lives at six bells, So come on back.
Are we have more information on the close call. Southwest
Airlines almost ran into a private jet at Midway Airport
in Chicago. This could have been a huge disaster. This
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could have this could have been the biggest one of
them all. You know, a couple hundred people die, two
planes collide. This could have been unreal because the private
plane was about to take off, so it was fully
loaded with jet fuel and the Southwest plane was landing
probably had enough jet fuel for another, you know, an
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hour or so, so it would have been a major
explosion right in the middle of Chicago.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
It would have been bad. Close call.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Close because you had another near catastrophe at an American airport,
this time a private business jet crossing directly in front
of US Southwest seven thirty seven, just seconds from touchdown.
Watch this video here the Southwest jet making its final
approach when the pilots noticed that private jet entering the runway.
You can see that right there, the crew aborting the
landing feet from the runway, the Southwest plane pulling up,
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clearing that private jet by just two hundred and fifty feet.
The pilot's asking air traffic control, how did that happen?
It turns out air traffic controllers told the business jet
not to enter the runway. The private pilot even read
back the command. It wasn't until those Southwest pilots saw
the jet with their own eyes that they averted disaster. Now,
there have been more than sixty serious near collisions at
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US Airport since twenty twenty one. Many airports across the
country still lack technology to prevent them.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
So while this.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
Appears to be a pilot issue, the air traffic control
shortage is still a major issue as well. The NTSB
and FAA are now investigating this very serious close call.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Guys, Yeah, that was a big deal. That could have
been a major, major disaster.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Do you see how many times the pilot was warned cold,
I think it was like nine times.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, and then at the end, the pilot heard something
that no pilot ever wants to hear. I'm gonna play
that for you. It is the pilot's second worst nightmare.
The worst nightmare is the plane explodes and everybody dies.
The second one is you nearly hit. It's a near hit.
As George Carlin said, you know they nearly hit. But
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then at the end, whenever a pilot is given a
phone number and told to call the tower, it's a
big deal. It's a big deal. Yeah, you got a
pen I do. Here's the number, and you're gonna get
lit up. Shut down this number. Here, here's the ending.
Here's how it ended for that pilot of the private
jo for.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Climbing three thousand Chicago Approach one.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Okay, so that's the Southwest who had to take off
again and do it and do a fly around here
it comes here, go.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
All right.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
That was the calm voice of the Southwest pilot. He
nearly had an AX where everybody died, and he's still
very calm.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Plus at five sixty possible pilot deviation advis you contact
by the way tower at a number when you're ready
to copy.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Oh no, oh, no, anytime a number ready to copy.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
You're cooked.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Take down these digits, buddy, that might it's it. Sometimes
it's the end of your license. You got to go
find another hobby or another livelihood. You're done. And here's
the response from the flex jetty ready come oh oh,
somebody closed up and says, get ready to take down
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a phone number.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
It's going to be a really, really long day.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
At five sixty at seven seven eight eight four four five.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Sixty. There it is. This is from a I love.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
This guy on YouTube is Captain Steve with three e's
Captain st eee Vee.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
And this guy's great.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I think he's a retired pilot and this guy man,
he's on top of it.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
So I think that's it.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
And I think the next jet or whatever the you know,
the plane was that that almost hit the Southwest flight
I think or flex jet it was what it was.
I think that. I don't think he makes the trip.
I think they pull him out of that plane. And
now he's got to explain to the very wealthy people
behind him why they're going to be delayed for a
couple hours because they all almost died because he made
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a mistake that is wild.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
You know, nine times ignoring a hold.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Oh but he didn't even know which runway or which taxiway.
He was on He said he was on alpha and
he was on F. He said he was on A
and he was on F. He wasn't even close.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
How quickly do you think they made him p in
a cup?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Oh yeah, right, a bleed and p After that, they're
gonna take a blood sample, and they're gonna take urine
sample as well. But man, that guy's look he is.
On one hand, he's the luckiest man in the world
because one hundred or two hundred people didn't die because
of his mistake. On the other hand, he's done. He's done,
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and you know, and I have a theory on why
this is happening more often than with these private jets.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
We'll come back, I'll tell you about it.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I have a theory that I think is pretty pretty good,
pretty pretty good.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Have we got a pat show today?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
John Decker is going to come on with us next,
So I will tell you after John Decker my theory
on why these private planes are becoming a nuisance. When
we come back, I'll tell you why. I think you'll agree.
I think you will, and if you don't, you'll come wrong.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
John Decker is the White House correspondent for iHeartMedia.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
He's great and he's with us.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
John.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
How you Bob?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I'm doing great, Tim, hope you're doing well.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Man.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I think I saw dom Old Trump give you a
pen after signing one of his executive orders?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Is that true?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
That is true? Is the second pen that I've received
from President Trump. I received a pen in his first term.
The pen I received in his first term was the
pen that he signed the big tax cut bill first
year in office. And yesterday you probably saw him toss
a pen to me. That was the executive order related
to Jack Smith, Yeah, the former special counsel.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I think when he gave you that pen, he threw
it to you and he said, hey, go give that
to Jack Smith.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
He's a lunatic.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yeah. I caught it with one hand. And that was
in the Oval office yesterday.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Pretty funny, John.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Is there any way to authenticate those pens where you
can put them in in a plexiglass and tell your
kids and grandkids about him?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
You know, I just put it. I put those tents
in a drawer, you know, with the first pen. With
the first pen, he gave me a box for the pen.
You know, it was very nice. This one was just
you know, the sharpie that he signed the executive order
and it has his signature on the outside and the
White House logo as well. So pretty cool momento. And
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I'll take it. You know, if the president offers you something,
you don't say no. Sure, that's why I took it.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I also saw him giving hats out, saying that every
I was right on everything.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Right, Well, he offered those hats. I didn't say anything
whether I'm not a hat guy. So I took the pen.
But and it's difficult, where am I going to wear that?
I cover the White House in any case? I declined
the hat.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Yeah, you can really only wear those at Thanksgiving where
everybody's on the same.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Side, you know what I mean? Right, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
John Digger's with his White House White House correspondent for
iHeart Radio, iHeartMedia. I know that that Associated Press was
thrown out of the press pool because they wouldn't change
the name of the Golf Mexico to Gulf America. But
then just today or late last night, Huffington Post was
thrown out as well as a couple of other news organizations.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Why were they tossed out.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Well, what the White House, I'm going to give their
perspective first, and you know you can certainly, you know,
follow up with any questions you have after that. What
the White House has decided is that they will determine
the small groups that go in to places like the
Oval Office, the Cabinet Room, the Roosevelt Room. Prior to
the White House deciding that, it was the w HCA,
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the White House Correspondence Association that determined all of those
pool rotations in terms of news organizations that would represent
the press corps as a whole to go into these
intimate settings, so to speak. And so what they did
today is they removed three news organizations that were set
to be in the pool, Reuters, the Huffington Post, and
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there was one other one as well, maybe you have
it off the top of your head, and they've replaced
them today anyway with other news organizations. I think Axios
was one, the Blaze was another, and Newsmax was the third.
And so they will determine that there are different rotations.
There's a rotation for television, there's a rotation for radio,
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there's a rotation for print. And it seems to me
what they've decided to do is really control the print rotation.
In particular. I think that they understand that they can't
replace what the TV pool does, or for that matter,
what the radio pool does. But we'll have to wait
and see. It's really uncertain in terms of what this
looks like a few weeks from now, or for that matter,
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for the rest of the president's term in the White House.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Right again, John Diggers with US White House corresponded, I noticed,
I'm a big news junkie, so I tried to watch
every White House Press conference through any administration, whether it's
you know, liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican. Sure, and I noticed
in the Biden administration that room was probably sixty to
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seventy percent full most of the days. But now with
Trump in there, it seems to be standing room only.
Where there's a there's a you know, an offshoot of people,
you know, even trying to get in there, and it's
full every time.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Is that true?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
It's one hundred percent full. I mean, in the way
you described it is accurate what you see on television.
It is standing room only. Yesterday was a good day
for me. I first of all, I have a seat
in the briefing room. But I got three questions to
Caroline Leavitt. She called on me in the briefing and
then I got about a dozen questions taken by President
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Trump in the Oval office. That was a particularly good
good day for me and covered a lot of ground,
all important issues, you know. In terms of the questions
that I asked the president. News organizations using mys for
their newscast. ABC News, for instance, used one of my
questions in their newscast last night. ESTN used my question
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regarding whether the Eagles would be invited to the White
House after winning the Super Bowl and the President extending
an invitation to the Eagles, so pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
So you asked him that question?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Is that when he turned to one of his assistants says, hey,
get that done, let's ask him to let's ask the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
That was you.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
That was me, right, absolutely. So I made some work
for someone to put the invitations together and get them
out the door. But it seemed as if I put
that idea in the President's head. But in any case,
an invitation, a formal invitation will be extended to the
Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
And then the first official Cabinet meeting was today. Is
that correct?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
That is correct? And Elon Musk was there, not a
member of the cabinet, but certainly a part of the
administration in terms of trying to diminish the size of
the federal government and so the president. You know, I
actually spoke to two cabin and officials after the meeting concluded.
I interviewed both the Interior Secretary, Doug Bergham and the
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Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins. And she's got a lot on
her plate because her big issue how do you bring
down the price of eggs? And that's impacting the entire
country right now?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Hey, John, I know you're very busy. Can you stay
with us or do you got to go.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
With you?
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I'd like another five or ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yeah, sure, okay, all right, John Digger's with us, the
White House correspondent. I got to ask them with some
questions about the vibe in Washington, DC. It seems like
a lot of people are getting fired, a lot of
people are nervous for their jobs. There's a lot of
you know, departments being closed down. You know, the us
AID was closed down. I think they're going after you know, education,
small business administrations, a lot of them that are going
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to either be closed down or be you know, combined
and and folded into other department. So I want to
ask him what the vibe is in Washington, DC, because
I don't think it's good. I think it's a lot
of nervous people who live and work in our nation's capital.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
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Speaker 2 (18:17):
We've got the guy who owns that Boney Island treehouse
in Studio City.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
They want that treehouse to come down.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Then we're talking a little about sport fishing, and then
doctor ray Kuscherry coming on at six five. All right,
let's talk a little more about this Southwest airliner that
almost flew into this private jet. And I have a
theory on what's going on at least with these private jets.
You know, back in the day, in the old days,
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in order to own a private jet, you had to
be really, really wealthy to own a private jet, and
there were there were no there were very few charter companies.
Either you were wealthy enough to own a private jet,
or you did and have a private jet. Those are
your only two options, all right, But let's I didn't
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see that. I thought John had dropped off. Here John
Decker's whether he has the White House Correspondent. Sorry, John,
I thought I looked at the phone. I thought you
dropped off. We were trying to.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Get back on. All right, that was my phone.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Here, I am.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I love that thought.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Oh absolutely.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
So John Decker, White House Correspondent. What is the vibe
in Washington right now with everyone getting fired or having
to you know, email the five things they did last week?
Is there a sort of a doom and gloom vibe
in the Capitol.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Well, it's not as if everybody in Washington, d C.
Knows a federal worker, you know. I mean, it depends
you know, who's in your circle. Sure, And it's also
important to keep in mind him that eighty percent of
federal workers don't even work or live in Washington, d C.
So this impacts literally the entire country. When you're talking
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about cutting significantly the size of the federal workforce, set
all that. For those that work in the federal government,
I think there's some nervousness because they always viewed it,
you know, the way you know, certain professors view their
tenured professorships. I can't get fired. You know, I'm in
for life, and I think that the reality setting in
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that this is not a lifetime position, potentially because of
the work of Elon Musk and his Department of Government efficiency.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Well, you know, I saw a video yesterday, I think
it was on YouTube where a young lady who works
for the government. She didn't say her name or what
she did, but I believe her. You know, why would
you say you work for the government you don't. And
she was complaining. She said that one hundred percent of
the work in Washington, d c. With the federal workers
is done by twenty percent of the workers.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah, I mean that's one person, and it's one person
who works at one specific a department or agency, and
that's certainly. You know, there's a different culture at each
federal department and agency. So the culture at the CIA
or the Defense Intelligence Agency or the Pentagon is going
to be a much different culture than if you're a
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federal worker, a civil servant working at the Department of
Education or working at the Department of Commerce.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
You know, I saw something also, and maybe you saw
this in the news, but some of the guys or
gals in the CIA that are going to be let go.
They somebody contacted CNN and said, if we're going to
be let go, we're gonna be treated like this, maybe
we'll sell secrets to the Russians.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I can't believe that.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
That's crazy. That's an interesting response. But you know, I,
you know, I can't put myself in the shoes of
someone who has just been laid off. You know, there
are lots of people that fall into that category, you know,
working at places like USAID or working at the Consumer
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Financial Protection Bureau. Those agents and sees have essentially been
shuttered because of the work of Elon Musk and his teams.
So you know that means, you know, if you lose
your job, just think of all the things associated with
paying a mortgage or paying your rent, and all the
things that you know are associated with living your life.
It must be a difficult time right now for those
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It must be horrible.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I saw though that also that Elon Musk said there's
gonna be a major firings in this coming this fall.
I mean, I thought that was going on right now.
It's going to be even worse or bigger in this fall.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Well, this is what the President said today at the
cabinet meeting that he held. He said a million people
potentially are, in his words, on the bubble. That's what
he spoke about yesterday. When I was in the Oval office,
I asked the President. I said, right now, the federal
workforce is approximately two million people. I asked him, by
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the end of your term, what do you want that
number to be? Where do you want that number to
be a million less than you know, five hundred thousand.
He didn't say a specific number, but he said he's
looking as well as Elon Musk in terms of helping
him out lowering the number of individuals who are employed
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by the federal government. And a memo is sent out
today indicating that mass layoffs, mass reductions in force will
take place at some point during the course of this year.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Wow, you know, I've read a poll recently that seventy
four percent of the people who are asked this question
agree that downsizing the federal government is a good idea
and cutting out waste is a good idea.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Well, I think that you know, there's always waste you
can probably find in the federal government. So include me
among those people who believe that there is waste. I
wouldn't say fraud, I wouldn't say abuse, but there's waste.
There's waste in the government. You know. Look, you know,
I see certain news organizations and I think to myself,
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I'm not looking to see anybody lose their job, but
I think, wow, there's some fat there at that news organization.
If they were looking to cut costs, that they could
certainly do so. And the same thing applies to those
that work in the public sector, those that work for
the government. There is fat. And you know, I'm certainly
not in favor of anybody losing their job period and
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a sentence. But if you can find some ways to
you know, cut costs, I applaud that effort.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
You know, John, I know you've been there through what
four or five administrations?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Is that true?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
It goes all the way back to Bill Clinton's first term. Okay,
so nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Okay, So the schedule that I constantly read when Joe
Biden was president was ten am to four pm. Is
a sweet spot, nothing before and nothing afterwards? Is what
is what are Trump's hours that he's keeping in the
Oval office?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Well, like President Biden, nothing really takes place at ten am. Generally,
I say generally this has been a really busy week. However,
this is I would say this is the busiest week
that I can recall in many years, because you had
President Macron of France having a bilateral meeting with the
(25:21):
President on Monday. Today was his first cabinet meeting. Tomorrow
the President will have a bilateral meeting at the White
House and a joint press conference with the UK Prime
Minister here Starmer, and then on Friday he will be
meeting with President Zelenski at the White House. So really
busy week. And you know, when we get what's called
(25:42):
the lid, meaning that we can go home no other events,
it's typically around six point thirty seven pm when we
get that word from the White House. The President works late.
He may, you know, go into the Oval office in
the ten o'clock eleven o'clock hour, but he works late
every day that he's been in office since being sworn
(26:03):
in in January.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
And then, real quickly, one last question and I'll let
you go.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
There's a rumor going around on the internet that his
desk was taken out of the White House because they
found recording devices in that desk.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Is that true?
Speaker 1 (26:17):
What the President said yesterday in the Oval Office was.
That is a desk. It's called the Resolute desk, and
you may recall it from those very famous pictures of
little John John under the desk with John F. Kennedy.
The desk is being refinished. That's the reason why the
desk has been taken away. That's coming from the President himself.
So that's the President's saying that. So I trust what
(26:39):
the President said.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
All right, So it may have more to do less
with recording devices and more to do with maybe Elons,
Elon's kids boogers.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
That's right. I like the way you put that possibility
of that.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Tim for sure, John, I really appreciate coming on. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Always nice to check in with you, and hopefully we
can check him more often.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yeah, I look forward to it. Have a great night,
thank you, Jim, and we'll talk real soon.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Thanks, right, I appreciate it, all right. John Decker, that
guy's great.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
He's been there since the literally since the Clinton administration
first term Clinton administration. A long time man. He knows
everybody in town, John Decker, and he's our correspondent with iHeartMedia.
That's great to have somebody right there in the Oval Office. Literally,
a guy who's who Donald Trump is giving him pens
after he signs, you know, an executive order gives John
(27:34):
the pen. That's how close he is to the President
of the United States. And we got him on our
show That's Cold Deal, Cold Deal.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
All right, let's get back to these plane accidents or
near missus, near hits, whatever you.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Want to call him.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
But back when, you know, in the nineteen seventies nineteen eighties,
there are very few charge companies for private jets. You
either had to be a very wealthy person or you
had to work for a fortune five hundred a big
company in order to get a private jet. And otherwise
they weren't available to everybody. But now you've got these
(28:15):
charter companies. What are they like, Next Jet, Flexjet, I
think there is Black Jet. There's another one called Wheels Up,
and I think the other one is Vista Jet.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
I think those are the top five.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Let me see Wheels Up, net Jets, Flex Jet, Black Jet,
Vista Jet. I think those are the top five. And
so you can rent these jets out. You can literally
charter them for between four thousand and eight thousand dollars
an hour. So if you're flying to Vegas with you know,
eight of your stupid buddies and you want to be
(28:50):
a big shot, you can rent one of these jets
from one of these charter companies and literally go to
Vegas with you know, eight guys. It's four thousand dollars
or eight thousand dollars, whatever it is. Let's say it's
let's say it's on the high end. Let's say it's
six thousand dollars. You got six guys. Everyone pays a
grand well for a lot of people out there, a
thousand bucks to get a private jet with all your
(29:10):
stupid buddies to go to Vegas is a big deal.
And the jet part of that, and flying to Vegas
on a private jet is something you can brag about.
You can take photos of it, and you know, drink
and you can smoke. By the way, you can smoke
cigarettes on private jets. I don't know about these charter jets,
but if you have your own jet, you can smoke jets. Yeah,
(29:31):
you can smoke nine packs of cigarettes, like having your
own car.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
That's right, Yeah, you can do whatever you want.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Charter jets I would imagine it's per company whatever they
I bet charter jets say no, Yeah, I bet they
they say no. It's like, you know, you put a
deposit for it smoking in a room. If they get
catch your smoking a room, you lose your twohundred and
fifty bucks. I was looking at the charter jets, you know,
the best private jet charters.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
There are so many companies. But that's what that's my point.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I think there are because you don't have to be
wealthy anymore to get at private jet. There are a
lot of Now, now I'm not blaming these private jets
for what happened at Midway Airport. I'm just saying there
are more jets flying around now because any because the
typical person can afford them.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Now, I've seen some of these companies have They say
they have access to more than seven thousand jets. Some
of them have fifteen hundred aircraft. These are the individual
companies that have that many jets.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Well, here's what they do.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
They they you know, remember the original CROs Remember when
when Uber came out. I was with the guys that
started Uber. They didn't start the actual company, but I
used to drive limousine nineteen eighty four. Yeah, and sometimes
we would go to a concert and you know, we'd
drop people off at Hollywood Bowl and it would be
a long concert and we wouldn't have to.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Be back there for four hours.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Or we go to a football game, you know, drop
a guy off at coliseum and you wouldn't have to
be back for four hours. Right, So in those four hours,
we'd drive around La picking people up and dropping them off.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
I always wondered about that. Yeah, it was at where
you guys went during that when I was actually in
their party.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
In right, we have we had our you know, owned
you know pages, and people of Pages go hey, I'm
going from here to here. We pay, Yeah, we'd pick
them up and you know, take them for twenty bucks,
thirty bucks, whatever it was. And that was basically the
start of Uber, you know, not not the start of
the company, but started the idea.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Yeah, the idea.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
And now there's these jet companies, you know these you know,
Black Jet, Vista, Jet, Wheels up. These are all like Uber.
You know, they're expensive Ubers, but they're still you can
afford them if you're not making ten million dollars a year.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
As of last year, there are over what two thousand
businesses and the private jet charters in the in the US.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Yeah, and they they said there's fifteen thousand private jets
in America, but a lot of them are double or
triple counted, because you know, if you own a private jet,
you you know, you use you know, maybe I don't know,
three times a month you'll let Vista Jet or Wheels
Up or or Flexjet use that jet while it's down
and you get the money.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
That's that's the.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Difference between as we all use Google more now and
the AI aspect jumps into it. If you do a search,
you always have to be careful at the top because
the first thing that comes up now isn't the actual
information that you're looking for.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
It's an AI overview, right, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
AI overview, like you were saying, says there were fourteen
thousand charter flight businesses, but if you look a little
further down to the actual numbers, it's like as of
last year was.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Two thousand in the US.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Those numbers, yeah, are way off the scum off.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Yeah, they're they're you know, everything that AI finds that
says private jet, all of a sudden it's a company, yes,
you know, so it's crazy. But I will say this.
I heard a piece of audio that we did like
a year ago, and I took a really harsh position
(32:50):
on abortion, and I said, God, I don't remember saying
that about abortion. I played it again. I played it again.
Then I sent it to a bu do you of
mine who's in the AI business? And I said, can
you check out to see if this is Ai? And
he said, yep, that's Ai. Oh j Leto's with us?
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Hey, j Letto, how you Bob?
Speaker 5 (33:18):
I'm hilarious. If you're playing in Vegas for six thousand dollars,
you have one pteller and it's in.
Speaker 8 (33:24):
The front flapping them arms.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
How much is it to fly to Vegas?
Speaker 5 (33:38):
It's thirty glass?
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Get out of here. It's thirty grand Is that right?
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Yeah? Yeah, well it's between If you use a lot,
you might get down to twenty three. It's about thirty grands.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Yeah, okay, all right?
Speaker 2 (33:52):
But even even are you on a private jet right now?
It sounds like you are.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
No, No, I don't private car, right, I'm just laughing
at circles.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
That's great.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
But the last time with William, the next night.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
We were losing him here all right, Jan we're losing
you here, man, I mean it must be going through that.
Ye must be going through a canyon or something.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
That's great. Let him was pissed off in his car.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Six thousand, I mean six thousand and then the signal
isn't even clear.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Is he using antique phones just like he has antique cars?
Speaker 5 (34:34):
You know?
Speaker 2 (34:34):
I offered Jade offered to buy Jay a new phone,
and and I don't know, you never took me up
on does.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
He have an old phone or something? Because he's the
only one you.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Can think of that that this issue keeps cropping up
with him.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeah, he has a phone that he bought before he
did the Tonight.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Show, a crank phone.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
And I'm not and I'm not talking hosting. I'm talking
about his first appearance.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Love how your phone said?
Speaker 6 (35:00):
I think it's great.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Yeah, it's one of those big boxes in the car
to go to an operator.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Patch me into the Conway show. That's classic. Hey, j
on Friday is going to be at Flappers.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Go see him at Flappers and you can hear him
talk about guest themates, of what it costs to fly
from Burbank to Las Vegas on a private Yet then
all right, when we come back. We have a great
guest at five oh five. This poor guy built a
beautiful treehouse for his kids. Now the city of La
wants to take it down. Very sad. We'll talk him,
we'll come back. Rick is with us from Boney Island.
(35:39):
I think he's going to be in the tree house
when he calls us. How'd be Call Conway Show on
demand on the iHeart Radio app. Now you can always
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app AM and sixty.
It is the Conway Show. All right, let's go. We
got a full show today. Man, we got a lot
going on. John Decker's coming on with us. He's the
White House correspondent for iHeartMedia. That guy's great and he's
(00:22):
in the room every time Trump speaks, and I think
he Trump even gave him one of the pens after
he signed one of those executive orders.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
We'll have him on a four to twenty.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
And then a guy named Rick Polizi Palazi, poll pol
is Zzi Palazi, He's gonna come Pilozzi Plozzi Plotzi. He's
coming on and he's the owner of Boney Island. That's
that treehouse in that house. Did they decorate for Halloween
every year in Sherman Oaks or Studio City? I think
(00:50):
it's Studio City off Cold Water and I've been to
it twice. I'm not a big Halloween guy. I was
when I was a kid.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Is it not up and about or and then some
sort of fashion outside of the Halloween.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yes, because they have a treehouse there, so the treehouse
is there. The neighbors want that treehouse to be to
come down. You know how I think you can save it.
Take somebody who's been burned out of their home and
have them live there. They'll never tear it down, never
tear it down. And it's and it's built well enough
where people could live in it. It's beautiful, it's great.
(01:24):
And so he's gonna be calling from the treehouse. Oh nice, Yeah,
at five oh five, So you want to be back
here for that. And then we have we're talking about
sport fishing. Courseud you ever get into sport fishing now?
I was wondered about that. What do you mean by
sport fish? Sho you go out on a boat all
day long, and you know, you go for the big salefish,
you know, the big ones.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Well, I used to do fishing a lot with my
dad when we had boats and yachts and all that
crap I was just made. I don't know what you
classify sport fishing is like a competitive thing? Are you
just going out trying to catch a bunch of big fish?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I think both. I think both. You remember not competitive? Yes,
I've done that.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Do you remember the guy in Cleveland, who there was
a bass contest there were you know, whoever got the
biggest bassy wins twenty five grand And he caught a
bas then he stuffed it with weights.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah. That's an wasted thing.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Everybody, whenever you go out fishing, that comes up at
some point.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Some people are like, fill it with ice, fill it
with other fish. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So that guy, you know, the fish they take fishing
very seriously. That guy got thrown out of the competition
for life, got a lifetime band.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Out we went. One time I did it out here
off the west. I've done it a couple of times
out here, but one time we went, we did a
private charter. We had like ten of us for my birthday.
And one of the guys you used to work in,
Mike Shaeffer, he caught a huge, like I gain almost
as big as him fish.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
And the captain you know, has to, you know, let
everybody know, hey, I got this guy caught it. And
he caught like the second biggest fish out there that day.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
And as soon as as soon as like he was
reeling him in, you see all these other boats start
come towards where he was.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Oh that's great. Just to check it out. Yeah, yeah,
oh that's awesome. A buddy of mine called me. I
was back, I was in high school, and he said, hey,
I all right, my dad can't go on this fishing
on this sport fishing thing.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
It's an all day event. Do you want to go?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
And that's what I like, energy and you know, enthusiasm
and cramp like that. So I said, yeah, I'll go.
And he said, all right, we got to leave out
of sam Pedro at eight thirty. And I said, eight thirty.
That seems late. You know those those those boats leave
at three thirty, four, four thirty five in the morning.
Nobody leaves after six eight thirty. Okay, all right, well
we'll go at eight thirty. And I said, was it
(03:30):
times come back? He said, it's not in on the brochure.
I said, okay. So we get down there. We got
fishing poles. I got his dad's pole, he's got his pole.
We've got all the you know, the tackle and everything.
And we leave at eight thirty. You know, we get
on the boat and it leaves at eight thirty and
we're screaming out towards the ocean, really going really fast
to get out there to you know to go fishing.
(03:50):
And we pull in to Avalon and and we go
and the guy, the captain goes, all right, we're pulling
an Avalon. Everybody out and you know, enjoy your time
in Avalon. And I'm like, buddy, did you just get
us on a on an Avalon charter?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
This isn't a fishing boat. We went to Catalina. Yeah,
we just went to Catalina.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
We looked like two a holes with fishing poles and
tackle and hats and sun block, didn't have stuff, and
everybody was staring at us.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
It was horrible.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Then, so we we fished off the dock in Avalon
all day and then went home anything. It was not nothing.
It was the worst trip ever, is there? Yeah, but
I suspected something was wrong though. Eight thirty for an
all day fishing trip. That's four hours too late. That's
way too late for that kind of crap. So we'll
talk about sport fishing.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
And then also doctor Ray CACHERI, the world class pulmonologist
out of Saint Joon's, Saint Joe's. We'll have him on
at six oh five. We'll be talking about measles. It's
a big deal in Texas and also the flu. Flu
deaths in California are over nine hundred, making this the
deadliest in years. Nine hundred people died of the flu.
(05:03):
So you got to avoid that. You got to avoid
the flu. It's a big deal and we're going to
try to save lives at six bells, So come on back.
Are we have more information on the close call. Southwest
Airlines almost ran into a private jet at Midway Airport
in Chicago. This could have been a huge disaster. This
(05:23):
could have this could have been the biggest one of
them all. You know, a couple hundred people die, two
planes collide. This could have been unreal because the private
plane was about to take off, so it was fully
loaded with jet fuel and the Southwest plane was landing
probably had enough jet fuel for another, you know, an
(05:45):
hour or so, so it would have been a major
explosion right in the middle of Chicago.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
It would have been bad. Close call.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Close because you had another near catastrophe at an American airport,
this time a private business jet crossing directly in front
of US Southwest seven thirty seven, just seconds from touchdown.
Watch this video here the Southwest jet making its final
approach when the pilots noticed that private jet entering the runway.
You can see that right there, the crew aborting the
landing feet from the runway, the Southwest plane pulling up,
(06:15):
clearing that private jet by just two hundred and fifty feet.
The pilot's asking air traffic control, how did that happen?
It turns out air traffic controllers told the business jet
not to enter the runway. The private pilot even read
back the command. It wasn't until those Southwest pilots saw
the jet with their own eyes that they averted disaster. Now,
there have been more than sixty serious near collisions at
(06:35):
US Airport since twenty twenty one. Many airports across the
country still lack technology to prevent them.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
So while this.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
Appears to be a pilot issue, the air traffic control
shortage is still a major issue as well. The NTSB
and FAA are now investigating this very serious close call.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Guys, Yeah, that was a big deal. That could have
been a major, major disaster.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Do you see how many times the pilot was warned cold,
I think it was like nine times.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, and then at the end, the pilot heard something
that no pilot ever wants to hear. I'm gonna play
that for you. It is the pilot's second worst nightmare.
The worst nightmare is the plane explodes and everybody dies.
The second one is you nearly hit. It's a near hit.
As George Carlin said, you know they nearly hit. But
(07:22):
then at the end, whenever a pilot is given a
phone number and told to call the tower, it's a
big deal. It's a big deal. Yeah, you got a
pen I do. Here's the number, and you're gonna get
lit up. Shut down this number. Here, here's the ending.
Here's how it ended for that pilot of the private
jo for.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Climbing three thousand Chicago Approach one.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Okay, so that's the Southwest who had to take off
again and do it and do a fly around here
it comes here, go.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
All right.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
That was the calm voice of the Southwest pilot. He
nearly had an AX where everybody died, and he's still
very calm.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Plus at five sixty possible pilot deviation advis you contact
by the way tower at a number when you're ready
to copy.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Oh no, oh, no, anytime a number ready to copy.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
You're cooked.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Take down these digits, buddy, that might it's it. Sometimes
it's the end of your license. You got to go
find another hobby or another livelihood. You're done. And here's
the response from the flex jetty ready come oh oh,
somebody closed up and says, get ready to take down
(08:37):
a phone number.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
It's going to be a really, really long day.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
At five sixty at seven seven eight eight four four five.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Sixty. There it is. This is from a I love.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
This guy on YouTube is Captain Steve with three e's
Captain st eee Vee.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
And this guy's great.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I think he's a retired pilot and this guy man,
he's on top of it.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
So I think that's it.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
And I think the next jet or whatever the you know,
the plane was that that almost hit the Southwest flight
I think or flex jet it was what it was.
I think that. I don't think he makes the trip.
I think they pull him out of that plane. And
now he's got to explain to the very wealthy people
behind him why they're going to be delayed for a
couple hours because they all almost died because he made
(09:32):
a mistake that is wild.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
You know, nine times ignoring a hold.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Oh but he didn't even know which runway or which taxiway.
He was on He said he was on alpha and
he was on F. He said he was on A
and he was on F. He wasn't even close.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
How quickly do you think they made him p in
a cup?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Oh yeah, right, a bleed and p After that, they're
gonna take a blood sample, and they're gonna take urine
sample as well. But man, that guy's look he is.
On one hand, he's the luckiest man in the world
because one hundred or two hundred people didn't die because
of his mistake. On the other hand, he's done. He's done,
(10:12):
and you know, and I have a theory on why
this is happening more often than with these private jets.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
We'll come back, I'll tell you about it.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I have a theory that I think is pretty pretty good,
pretty pretty good.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Have we got a pat show today?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
John Decker is going to come on with us next,
So I will tell you after John Decker my theory
on why these private planes are becoming a nuisance. When
we come back, I'll tell you why. I think you'll agree.
I think you will, and if you don't, you'll come wrong.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
John Decker is the White House correspondent for iHeartMedia.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
He's great and he's with us.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
John.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
How you Bob?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I'm doing great, Tim, hope you're doing well.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Man.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I think I saw dom Old Trump give you a
pen after signing one of his executive orders?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Is that true?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
That is true? Is the second pen that I've received
from President Trump. I received a pen in his first term.
The pen I received in his first term was the
pen that he signed the big tax cut bill first
year in office. And yesterday you probably saw him toss
a pen to me. That was the executive order related
to Jack Smith, Yeah, the former special counsel.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I think when he gave you that pen, he threw
it to you and he said, hey, go give that
to Jack Smith.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
He's a lunatic.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yeah. I caught it with one hand. And that was
in the Oval office yesterday.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Pretty funny, John.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Is there any way to authenticate those pens where you
can put them in in a plexiglass and tell your
kids and grandkids about him?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
You know, I just put it. I put those tents
in a drawer, you know, with the first pen. With
the first pen, he gave me a box for the pen.
You know, it was very nice. This one was just
you know, the sharpie that he signed the executive order
and it has his signature on the outside and the
White House logo as well. So pretty cool momento. And
(12:11):
I'll take it. You know, if the president offers you something,
you don't say no. Sure, that's why I took it.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I also saw him giving hats out, saying that every
I was right on everything.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Right, Well, he offered those hats. I didn't say anything
whether I'm not a hat guy. So I took the pen.
But and it's difficult, where am I going to wear that?
I cover the White House in any case? I declined
the hat.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Yeah, you can really only wear those at Thanksgiving where
everybody's on the same.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Side, you know what I mean? Right, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
John Digger's with his White House White House correspondent for
iHeart Radio, iHeartMedia. I know that that Associated Press was
thrown out of the press pool because they wouldn't change
the name of the Golf Mexico to Gulf America. But
then just today or late last night, Huffington Post was
thrown out as well as a couple of other news organizations.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Why were they tossed out.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Well, what the White House, I'm going to give their
perspective first, and you know you can certainly, you know,
follow up with any questions you have after that. What
the White House has decided is that they will determine
the small groups that go in to places like the
Oval Office, the Cabinet Room, the Roosevelt Room. Prior to
the White House deciding that, it was the w HCA,
(13:36):
the White House Correspondence Association that determined all of those
pool rotations in terms of news organizations that would represent
the press corps as a whole to go into these
intimate settings, so to speak. And so what they did
today is they removed three news organizations that were set
to be in the pool, Reuters, the Huffington Post, and
(13:59):
there was one other one as well, maybe you have
it off the top of your head, and they've replaced
them today anyway with other news organizations. I think Axios
was one, the Blaze was another, and Newsmax was the third.
And so they will determine that there are different rotations.
There's a rotation for television, there's a rotation for radio,
(14:22):
there's a rotation for print. And it seems to me
what they've decided to do is really control the print rotation.
In particular. I think that they understand that they can't
replace what the TV pool does, or for that matter,
what the radio pool does. But we'll have to wait
and see. It's really uncertain in terms of what this
looks like a few weeks from now, or for that matter,
(14:45):
for the rest of the president's term in the White House.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Right again, John Diggers with US White House corresponded, I noticed,
I'm a big news junkie, so I tried to watch
every White House Press conference through any administration, whether it's
you know, liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican. Sure, and I noticed
in the Biden administration that room was probably sixty to
(15:10):
seventy percent full most of the days. But now with
Trump in there, it seems to be standing room only.
Where there's a there's a you know, an offshoot of people,
you know, even trying to get in there, and it's
full every time.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Is that true?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
It's one hundred percent full. I mean, in the way
you described it is accurate what you see on television.
It is standing room only. Yesterday was a good day
for me. I first of all, I have a seat
in the briefing room. But I got three questions to
Caroline Leavitt. She called on me in the briefing and
then I got about a dozen questions taken by President
(15:46):
Trump in the Oval office. That was a particularly good
good day for me and covered a lot of ground,
all important issues, you know. In terms of the questions
that I asked the president. News organizations using mys for
their newscast. ABC News, for instance, used one of my
questions in their newscast last night. ESTN used my question
(16:11):
regarding whether the Eagles would be invited to the White
House after winning the Super Bowl and the President extending
an invitation to the Eagles, so pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
So you asked him that question?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Is that when he turned to one of his assistants says, hey,
get that done, let's ask him to let's ask the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
That was you.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
That was me, right, absolutely. So I made some work
for someone to put the invitations together and get them
out the door. But it seemed as if I put
that idea in the President's head. But in any case,
an invitation, a formal invitation will be extended to the
Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
And then the first official Cabinet meeting was today. Is
that correct?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
That is correct? And Elon Musk was there, not a
member of the cabinet, but certainly a part of the
administration in terms of trying to diminish the size of
the federal government and so the president. You know, I
actually spoke to two cabin and officials after the meeting concluded.
I interviewed both the Interior Secretary, Doug Bergham and the
(17:13):
Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins. And she's got a lot on
her plate because her big issue how do you bring
down the price of eggs? And that's impacting the entire
country right now?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Hey, John, I know you're very busy. Can you stay
with us or do you got to go.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
With you?
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I'd like another five or ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yeah, sure, okay, all right, John Digger's with us, the
White House correspondent. I got to ask them with some
questions about the vibe in Washington, DC. It seems like
a lot of people are getting fired, a lot of
people are nervous for their jobs. There's a lot of
you know, departments being closed down. You know, the us
AID was closed down. I think they're going after you know, education,
small business administrations, a lot of them that are going
(17:54):
to either be closed down or be you know, combined
and and folded into other department. So I want to
ask him what the vibe is in Washington, DC, because
I don't think it's good. I think it's a lot
of nervous people who live and work in our nation's capital.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
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Speaker 2 (18:17):
We've got the guy who owns that Boney Island treehouse
in Studio City.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
They want that treehouse to come down.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Then we're talking a little about sport fishing, and then
doctor ray Kuscherry coming on at six five. All right,
let's talk a little more about this Southwest airliner that
almost flew into this private jet. And I have a
theory on what's going on at least with these private jets.
You know, back in the day, in the old days,
(18:46):
in order to own a private jet, you had to
be really, really wealthy to own a private jet, and
there were there were no there were very few charter companies.
Either you were wealthy enough to own a private jet,
or you did and have a private jet. Those are
your only two options, all right, But let's I didn't
(19:06):
see that. I thought John had dropped off. Here John
Decker's whether he has the White House Correspondent. Sorry, John,
I thought I looked at the phone. I thought you
dropped off. We were trying to.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Get back on. All right, that was my phone.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Here, I am.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I love that thought.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Oh absolutely.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
So John Decker, White House Correspondent. What is the vibe
in Washington right now with everyone getting fired or having
to you know, email the five things they did last week?
Is there a sort of a doom and gloom vibe
in the Capitol.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Well, it's not as if everybody in Washington, d C.
Knows a federal worker, you know. I mean, it depends
you know, who's in your circle. Sure, And it's also
important to keep in mind him that eighty percent of
federal workers don't even work or live in Washington, d C.
So this impacts literally the entire country. When you're talking
(19:55):
about cutting significantly the size of the federal workforce, set
all that. For those that work in the federal government,
I think there's some nervousness because they always viewed it,
you know, the way you know, certain professors view their
tenured professorships. I can't get fired. You know, I'm in
for life, and I think that the reality setting in
(20:17):
that this is not a lifetime position, potentially because of
the work of Elon Musk and his Department of Government efficiency.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Well, you know, I saw a video yesterday, I think
it was on YouTube where a young lady who works
for the government. She didn't say her name or what
she did, but I believe her. You know, why would
you say you work for the government you don't. And
she was complaining. She said that one hundred percent of
the work in Washington, d c. With the federal workers
is done by twenty percent of the workers.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah, I mean that's one person, and it's one person
who works at one specific a department or agency, and
that's certainly. You know, there's a different culture at each
federal department and agency. So the culture at the CIA
or the Defense Intelligence Agency or the Pentagon is going
to be a much different culture than if you're a
(21:09):
federal worker, a civil servant working at the Department of
Education or working at the Department of Commerce.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
You know, I saw something also, and maybe you saw
this in the news, but some of the guys or
gals in the CIA that are going to be let go.
They somebody contacted CNN and said, if we're going to
be let go, we're gonna be treated like this, maybe
we'll sell secrets to the Russians.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I can't believe that.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
That's crazy. That's an interesting response. But you know, I,
you know, I can't put myself in the shoes of
someone who has just been laid off. You know, there
are lots of people that fall into that category, you know,
working at places like USAID or working at the Consumer
(21:57):
Financial Protection Bureau. Those agents and sees have essentially been
shuttered because of the work of Elon Musk and his teams.
So you know that means, you know, if you lose
your job, just think of all the things associated with
paying a mortgage or paying your rent, and all the
things that you know are associated with living your life.
It must be a difficult time right now for those
(22:18):
It must be horrible.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I saw though that also that Elon Musk said there's
gonna be a major firings in this coming this fall.
I mean, I thought that was going on right now.
It's going to be even worse or bigger in this fall.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Well, this is what the President said today at the
cabinet meeting that he held. He said a million people
potentially are, in his words, on the bubble. That's what
he spoke about yesterday. When I was in the Oval office,
I asked the President. I said, right now, the federal
workforce is approximately two million people. I asked him, by
(22:55):
the end of your term, what do you want that
number to be? Where do you want that number to
be a million less than you know, five hundred thousand.
He didn't say a specific number, but he said he's
looking as well as Elon Musk in terms of helping
him out lowering the number of individuals who are employed
(23:17):
by the federal government. And a memo is sent out
today indicating that mass layoffs, mass reductions in force will
take place at some point during the course of this year.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Wow, you know, I've read a poll recently that seventy
four percent of the people who are asked this question
agree that downsizing the federal government is a good idea
and cutting out waste is a good idea.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Well, I think that you know, there's always waste you
can probably find in the federal government. So include me
among those people who believe that there is waste. I
wouldn't say fraud, I wouldn't say abuse, but there's waste.
There's waste in the government. You know. Look, you know,
I see certain news organizations and I think to myself,
(24:04):
I'm not looking to see anybody lose their job, but
I think, wow, there's some fat there at that news organization.
If they were looking to cut costs, that they could
certainly do so. And the same thing applies to those
that work in the public sector, those that work for
the government. There is fat. And you know, I'm certainly
not in favor of anybody losing their job period and
(24:26):
a sentence. But if you can find some ways to
you know, cut costs, I applaud that effort.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
You know, John, I know you've been there through what
four or five administrations?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Is that true?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
It goes all the way back to Bill Clinton's first term. Okay,
so nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Okay, So the schedule that I constantly read when Joe
Biden was president was ten am to four pm. Is
a sweet spot, nothing before and nothing afterwards? Is what
is what are Trump's hours that he's keeping in the
Oval office?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Well, like President Biden, nothing really takes place at ten am. Generally,
I say generally this has been a really busy week. However,
this is I would say this is the busiest week
that I can recall in many years, because you had
President Macron of France having a bilateral meeting with the
(25:21):
President on Monday. Today was his first cabinet meeting. Tomorrow
the President will have a bilateral meeting at the White
House and a joint press conference with the UK Prime
Minister here Starmer, and then on Friday he will be
meeting with President Zelenski at the White House. So really
busy week. And you know, when we get what's called
(25:42):
the lid, meaning that we can go home no other events,
it's typically around six point thirty seven pm when we
get that word from the White House. The President works late.
He may, you know, go into the Oval office in
the ten o'clock eleven o'clock hour, but he works late
every day that he's been in office since being sworn
(26:03):
in in January.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
And then, real quickly, one last question and I'll let
you go.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
There's a rumor going around on the internet that his
desk was taken out of the White House because they
found recording devices in that desk.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Is that true?
Speaker 1 (26:17):
What the President said yesterday in the Oval Office was.
That is a desk. It's called the Resolute desk, and
you may recall it from those very famous pictures of
little John John under the desk with John F. Kennedy.
The desk is being refinished. That's the reason why the
desk has been taken away. That's coming from the President himself.
So that's the President's saying that. So I trust what
(26:39):
the President said.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
All right, So it may have more to do less
with recording devices and more to do with maybe Elons,
Elon's kids boogers.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
That's right. I like the way you put that possibility
of that.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Tim for sure, John, I really appreciate coming on. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Always nice to check in with you, and hopefully we
can check him more often.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yeah, I look forward to it. Have a great night,
thank you, Jim, and we'll talk real soon.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Thanks, right, I appreciate it, all right. John Decker, that
guy's great.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
He's been there since the literally since the Clinton administration
first term Clinton administration. A long time man. He knows
everybody in town, John Decker, and he's our correspondent with iHeartMedia.
That's great to have somebody right there in the Oval Office. Literally,
a guy who's who Donald Trump is giving him pens
after he signs, you know, an executive order gives John
(27:34):
the pen. That's how close he is to the President
of the United States. And we got him on our
show That's Cold Deal, Cold Deal.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
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Speaker 2 (27:47):
All right, let's get back to these plane accidents or
near missus, near hits, whatever you.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Want to call him.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
But back when, you know, in the nineteen seventies nineteen eighties,
there are very few charge companies for private jets. You
either had to be a very wealthy person or you
had to work for a fortune five hundred a big
company in order to get a private jet. And otherwise
they weren't available to everybody. But now you've got these
(28:15):
charter companies. What are they like, Next Jet, Flexjet, I
think there is Black Jet. There's another one called Wheels Up,
and I think the other one is Vista Jet.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
I think those are the top five.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Let me see Wheels Up, net Jets, Flex Jet, Black Jet,
Vista Jet. I think those are the top five. And
so you can rent these jets out. You can literally
charter them for between four thousand and eight thousand dollars
an hour. So if you're flying to Vegas with you know,
eight of your stupid buddies and you want to be
(28:50):
a big shot, you can rent one of these jets
from one of these charter companies and literally go to
Vegas with you know, eight guys. It's four thousand dollars
or eight thousand dollars, whatever it is. Let's say it's
let's say it's on the high end. Let's say it's
six thousand dollars. You got six guys. Everyone pays a
grand well for a lot of people out there, a
thousand bucks to get a private jet with all your
(29:10):
stupid buddies to go to Vegas is a big deal.
And the jet part of that, and flying to Vegas
on a private jet is something you can brag about.
You can take photos of it, and you know, drink
and you can smoke. By the way, you can smoke
cigarettes on private jets. I don't know about these charter jets,
but if you have your own jet, you can smoke jets. Yeah,
(29:31):
you can smoke nine packs of cigarettes, like having your
own car.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
That's right, Yeah, you can do whatever you want.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Charter jets I would imagine it's per company whatever they
I bet charter jets say no, Yeah, I bet they
they say no. It's like, you know, you put a
deposit for it smoking in a room. If they get
catch your smoking a room, you lose your twohundred and
fifty bucks. I was looking at the charter jets, you know,
the best private jet charters.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
There are so many companies. But that's what that's my point.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I think there are because you don't have to be
wealthy anymore to get at private jet. There are a
lot of Now, now I'm not blaming these private jets
for what happened at Midway Airport. I'm just saying there
are more jets flying around now because any because the
typical person can afford them.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Now, I've seen some of these companies have They say
they have access to more than seven thousand jets. Some
of them have fifteen hundred aircraft. These are the individual
companies that have that many jets.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Well, here's what they do.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
They they you know, remember the original CROs Remember when
when Uber came out. I was with the guys that
started Uber. They didn't start the actual company, but I
used to drive limousine nineteen eighty four. Yeah, and sometimes
we would go to a concert and you know, we'd
drop people off at Hollywood Bowl and it would be
a long concert and we wouldn't have to.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Be back there for four hours.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Or we go to a football game, you know, drop
a guy off at coliseum and you wouldn't have to
be back for four hours. Right, So in those four hours,
we'd drive around La picking people up and dropping them off.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
I always wondered about that. Yeah, it was at where
you guys went during that when I was actually in
their party.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
In right, we have we had our you know, owned
you know pages, and people of Pages go hey, I'm
going from here to here. We pay, Yeah, we'd pick
them up and you know, take them for twenty bucks,
thirty bucks, whatever it was. And that was basically the
start of Uber, you know, not not the start of
the company, but started the idea.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Yeah, the idea.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
And now there's these jet companies, you know these you know,
Black Jet, Vista, Jet, Wheels up. These are all like Uber.
You know, they're expensive Ubers, but they're still you can
afford them if you're not making ten million dollars a year.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
As of last year, there are over what two thousand
businesses and the private jet charters in the in the US.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Yeah, and they they said there's fifteen thousand private jets
in America, but a lot of them are double or
triple counted, because you know, if you own a private jet,
you you know, you use you know, maybe I don't know,
three times a month you'll let Vista Jet or Wheels
Up or or Flexjet use that jet while it's down
and you get the money.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
That's that's the.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Difference between as we all use Google more now and
the AI aspect jumps into it. If you do a search,
you always have to be careful at the top because
the first thing that comes up now isn't the actual
information that you're looking for.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
It's an AI overview, right, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
AI overview, like you were saying, says there were fourteen
thousand charter flight businesses, but if you look a little
further down to the actual numbers, it's like as of
last year was.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Two thousand in the US.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Those numbers, yeah, are way off the scum off.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Yeah, they're they're you know, everything that AI finds that
says private jet, all of a sudden it's a company, yes,
you know, so it's crazy. But I will say this.
I heard a piece of audio that we did like
a year ago, and I took a really harsh position
(32:50):
on abortion, and I said, God, I don't remember saying
that about abortion. I played it again. I played it again.
Then I sent it to a bu do you of
mine who's in the AI business? And I said, can
you check out to see if this is Ai? And
he said, yep, that's Ai. Oh j Leto's with us?
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Hey, j Letto, how you Bob?
Speaker 5 (33:18):
I'm hilarious. If you're playing in Vegas for six thousand dollars,
you have one pteller and it's in.
Speaker 8 (33:24):
The front flapping them arms.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
How much is it to fly to Vegas?
Speaker 5 (33:38):
It's thirty glass?
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Get out of here. It's thirty grand Is that right?
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Yeah? Yeah, well it's between If you use a lot,
you might get down to twenty three. It's about thirty grands.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Yeah, okay, all right?
Speaker 2 (33:52):
But even even are you on a private jet right now?
It sounds like you are.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
No, No, I don't private car, right, I'm just laughing
at circles.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
That's great.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
But the last time with William, the next night.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
We were losing him here all right, Jan we're losing
you here, man, I mean it must be going through that.
Ye must be going through a canyon or something.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
That's great. Let him was pissed off in his car.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Six thousand, I mean six thousand and then the signal
isn't even clear.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Is he using antique phones just like he has antique cars?
Speaker 5 (34:34):
You know?
Speaker 2 (34:34):
I offered Jade offered to buy Jay a new phone,
and and I don't know, you never took me up
on does.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
He have an old phone or something? Because he's the
only one you.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Can think of that that this issue keeps cropping up
with him.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeah, he has a phone that he bought before he
did the Tonight.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Show, a crank phone.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
And I'm not and I'm not talking hosting. I'm talking
about his first appearance.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Love how your phone said?
Speaker 6 (35:00):
I think it's great.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Yeah, it's one of those big boxes in the car
to go to an operator.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Patch me into the Conway show. That's classic. Hey, j
on Friday is going to be at Flappers.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Go see him at Flappers and you can hear him
talk about guest themates, of what it costs to fly
from Burbank to Las Vegas on a private Yet then
all right, when we come back. We have a great
guest at five oh five. This poor guy built a
beautiful treehouse for his kids. Now the city of La
wants to take it down. Very sad. We'll talk him,
we'll come back. Rick is with us from Boney Island.
(35:39):
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