November 25, 2024 • 33 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM sixty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
It's four seven on a Monday afternoon, the twenty fifth
day of November. I'm Doug mcatar in for Tim Conway Junior,
and I'll be with you for the next three hours.
That's not too much to ask, Just three hours of
your life and we'll fly along here as we get
right up to Turkey Day. Mister Conway taking a few
days off to recharge the batteries, and we got tons
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of stuff to talk about, and hopefully you're in a
good mood, and hopefully we won't ruin the mood. I
am perplexed though, because I saw the term again, and
I guess I'm just gonna ask and admit that I'm
old and out of touch. But I don't know what
yacht rock is. I know this isn't like one of
the bigger questions in life, but does anybody know what
the hell actual? What the hell is yacht rock? Yes,
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you know what it is. Yeah, so that's like a
soft rock genre. That's Andrew Caravella, by the way. Yeah,
the Kfikniseram thank you so softra but they used to
just call it soft rock or elevator music.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
What was the seventies and eighties?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
What does that have to do with yachts?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Well, you know, listening to yacht rock like that last song,
that's definitely something I would hear on a yacht. Really,
do you.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Have a lot of experience with yachts?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yes, in the in the game GT eight five.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Okay, now I see, so cyber yachts got it that
I get?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, all right, well, I see the show is already
not even two minutes old. It's already been educational. Meanwhile,
today's show is pumpkin spiced in the keeping with the holidays.
So I was talking to John briefly before he slid
down the batpole and tore out of here with his
turbot charged car shooting fire. But we're sports fans, both
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John and I and many many of you are. Sports
have never been more popular, and it's kind of fascinating
to watch how the fatter we get as a nation,
the more popular sports get. It's almost as if we
have outsourced being in shape to this small band of
incredibly fit super athletes who we now reward like Caligula
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they can do anything. We'll just give them fantastic riches.
And by the way, if you think ballplayers baseball players
make a ton of money, you want to see what
they're paying Formula one drivers over in Europe. Holy mackerel.
And so some of those soccer guys they're making like
all of them are making Otani money. It's just staggering
sums of money. But as we continue to elevate entertainers
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and athletes, specifically athletes, because I guess there's just you know,
a ton of money attached to it, because we just
it's the last thing on television other than freeway chases.
It's the last thing on television that's completely unscripted, unless
you're one of those people thinks the NBA is cooked.
But largely I think that's one of the reasons why
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we are so hooked on it because everything else you've seen,
all the procedural shows, a press conference from a politician,
police there is nothing more phony than that. So this
is absolute sponsana. You don't know what's gonna happen, nobody
really knows the end, and we just can't get enough
of it, and as a result, advertisers want a piece
of it. You know, the exact demographics, so it's never
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been worth more. I mean baseball, you might think a
Tuesday afternoon game in June is boring, but it's programming
for all those networks. You can put beer commercials in
there and everything, and they just love it. And the
more they love it, the more we find ways to
elevate it to demigogue status. Now, it used to be
that the highest honor that you could have as a
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player in sports was to make the Hall of Fame.
You made the Hall of Fame for your respective sport
and you had reached Mount Olympus. But then teams would
also retire numbers. And you know the Yankees, of course,
they've had a lot of great players over the many decades.
They're gonna have to go to letters. They've retired so
many numbers. They're gonna have to go to like three
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A because you know was Babe Ruth. That's been done.
But they've retired most of the numbers unless they want
to go to triple digits, and we're getting close to
that with Aaron Judge at ninety nine. So you know,
sooner or later there's going to be one hundred and
fourteen that we'll get retired. But now retiring a number
is not enough. Now it has become statues. You got
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to have a statue outside the arena for your truly
great players. And the latest one to join the pantheon
of idolatry is pat Riley. Lakers coach pat Riley is
getting a statue. He won six NBA championships with the Lakers,
four as their head coach, one as an assistant coach,
and one as a player. And then of course he
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went on too a career in Miami, etc. But he's
getting a statue outside the Crypto dot Com arena. It'll
be commissioned and it's going to be installed sometime in
twenty twenty six apparently. And he joins statues that are
already out there of Magic Johnson, of Kareem abdul Jabbar,
Elgin Baylor, Jerry West, Shaquille O'Neal, and of course the
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late great Chick hern And I think Kobe's got two, right,
doesn't he have two statues out there? So it is
I wonder what this is going to look like when
we get you know, once we get a thousand years
down the road and some future archaeologist, if we still
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have such things. Is poking around in the tetris, the
flotsam and jetsam of what was once our civilized h
and you know, they're digging through the ash heap that
we left behind when we finally screw the pooch and
we blow all this up, and they start finding these
gigantic statues of people with numbers on them. You know,
because I've always suspected that a lot of the stuff
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that we put in museums, they have no idea what
it really is. You know, who knows if that's what
a Torontosaurus rex really likes. Is that they could get
the hip bone and they could put a femur and
it fits, so that's where they put it. You know,
it could be three different animals. They just cobbled it together.
But nonetheless, there it is. It's got a sign and
it's got dates on it. So people go and they
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put it on postcards and take pictures and make lego
sets out of it. But you have to wonder whether
or not, you know, I know, the late great Jean Shepherd,
who was a radio storyteller years ago, he used to
talk about Howard Johnson's motor inns when they had the
orange roof buildings and the thirty one flame or the
twenty eight flavors. I think it was Baskin Robbins had
thirty one flavors, but Howard Johnson's had twenty eight flavors.
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And they had a weather vein up on the roof
with a little dog chasing Howard Johnson. And you know
that four thousand years in the future, they'd find these
orange roof buildings and think there are temples, because what
are they gonna know? They're just gonna see these things
all over America. What were the twenty eight flavors? Where
they like the Ten Commandments? So sooner or later they're
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gonna start excavating these ballparks and these arenas all over
the country and find statues of these giant people. Kareem
abdul Jabbar with the sky hook, and you know Shaquille
O'Neill and all these statues of Kobe and Kobe Bryant.
Clearly is that God. We must worship him, and we
certainly did. As a player. Hard to find a better
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player than all. None of this, by the way, is
a knock on their abilities, including pat pat Riley, not
just he wasn't just a hairstyle. He was. I mean,
he was the real deal when it came to coaching,
not just with the Lakers, he did at other places.
So he had real talent for this. But it's the
idea that some players and you have to wonder because
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there's a lot of great players. There's a lot of
people in the halls of fame, whether it's in Springfield
for the NBA, or Canton, Ohio for the NFL, or
obviously Cooperstown, you know, and they have to be sitting
and said, why I have a statue? And that's that's
got to be an odd place to be in life
when you have statue envy. I mean, I know than
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a lot of people in Hollywood. Every year they watch
the Academy Awards and they say, I got a crummy
Daytime Emmy or you know a worse I got a
Golden mic Award. You know, that's, you know how humiliating
because you know, in the hierarchy of awards, the one
that Trump's all, of course is the Oscar. It's better
than it's better than an Emmy. It's better than a Grammy.
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I mean, for God's sakes, a Grammy. Half of them
they don't even put on the telecast. They give out
so many of them. So at some point you're going
to start to have ballplayers have it written into their
deals that it's that they guarantee a statue because it's
good Brandy. You know that Dodger Stadium, We're going to
have a sho Heel Tani statue out there. And then
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you got to have a Mookie Betts, right, or how
about a Freddie Freeman after what just happened? And is
there a Tommy Lasorda statue out there? I don't know yet.
I don't know if there's enough rock to make one.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, lots of stuff to talk about.
We've got Eric and Lyle had their day in court again.
They've had a lot of days in court. It's been
a few years, so they're in court. Their parents are
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still dead. We'll talk about that because there's a lot
of interesting politics that this case is freighted with. With
a brand new auditioned attorney Nathan Hakman the one who's
going to have to make this decision. So which way
does he lean? Does he allow the political dynamic that's
in play here impact the decision that he ultimately has
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to make and a bunch of people are quitting the
news altogether because they didn't like the outcome of the election.
So we'll talk about that.
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In a courtroom in Van Nuys today, Lyle and Eric Menendez,
the Menendi we're back in court for the first time
in many, many moons after being sentenced to life in
prison for murdering their parents back in nineteen eighty nine.
And of course, as you know by now, the judge
they've appealed saying there's new evidence that had it been
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taken into consideration at the time, the verdicts would have
been different, the sentence would have been different. And of
course La County addition, Attorney George Gascaum, who was just
thumped out of office, he's going to be replaced by
Nathan Hochman next week and Hakman's going to have to
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make this ultimate decision. Guess going recommended resentencing for the
brothers back in October, which would let them out of
prison after almost thirty years. Now here's the situation that
Nathan Hockman I think finds himself in because you know,
there's always the law, there's always the evidence that's put
before you. Everybody always says, well, I'm going to go
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where the facts lead me. But then there's pressures. There's
always a political pressure that politicians face. And Nathan Hockman
just elected to office. This is gonna be his first
major decision. This is kind of like his first entree
to La County is having to make this controversial decision now.
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The reason it's controversial, of course, is because after all
these years, the horror of the crimes and the testimony
that people were gobbling up thirty years ago is largely forgotten,
except for how it's been recast in a documentary series
and then a made for TV movie. And I didn't
see either the documentary or the made for TV movie.
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My wife did see the documentary, by the way, and
she thought, well, you know, and we definitely have a
different attitude society wise about child abuse then we did
necessarily thirty years ago. And on that topic, as just
a little sidebar, it's astonishing how many stories a day
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pop up of kids being abused at the hands of
some pervert somewhere in some in some way, shape or form,
a urologists in New York who was doing it to guys,
all the gymnastics coaches in the Catholic Church, and on
and on and on.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
It ghosts.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
So anyway, we like to think that we have a
different attitude about child abuse, but boy, there's an awful
lot of it going on. And maybe the Internet has
accelerated that because it allows, you know, pervs who get
off on this stuff to pretend that they're kids and
go in and groom them, et cetera, et cetera. You
know all those stories. But the Menendi are in court.
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No decision was actually made. Nothing is going to happen,
I guess until after the first of the year. But
Hawkman's going to have to make this decision, and the
facts may lead him to conclude that, yeah, they should
be resentenced, which is going to be a bit of
a shock to the folks who want a tough on
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crime distioned attorney in La County after George Gascone his
reign of terror. And then on the other side, if
Nathan Hoffman would decide that the Menendous brothers should be
released from prison after thirty years. The other side of
the coin is the morale of the prosecutors within the department,
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because the original prosecutor of the case strongly believes that
they should stay in prison for the rest of their
lives as sentenced, and has been very open at talking
about how the movie didn't show them laughing and clowning
around in the courtroom until the jury came back in,
and then they get all stonefaced and look all serious,
and when no one was looking, they'd be clouding around. Now,
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I wasn't in the courtroom. I wasn't there. I barely
remember thirty years ago. I barely remember thirties years ago
when it was thirty years ago. That's for a whole
different story. But the bottom line is I'm not going
to readjudicate the case, because if you're a court junkie,
you remember it, and if not, my foggy memory of
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the details of the case aren't going to clarify anything.
But I do have one thing that I'm really clear about.
Even if you believe that the father was abusing his kids,
which may very well be the case, there's certainly a
lot of circumstantial evidence to suggest he was the mother
at worst, was an enabler. Now, child abuses a terrible thing,
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but enabling is not justification for shotgunning mom. So even
if you buy and this is Doug's view, all right,
thank god it's not legal hearing, but in my opinion,
even if you believe that, they believe that the father
was a grave threat to their safety and well being
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in their very lives, so they had to polish off dad.
Mom was sitting on the couch and she took one
in the head too, And I just don't see how
that's justifiable. But Nathan Hawkman has to make the decision,
and he's going to have to calculate it not just
based on the merits of the case, but he's also
got away the political reality of what do the people
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who just elected him to be the DA of La County,
what do they expect? And how does his decision should
he choose to let them walk after nearly thirty years
in prison, how does that impact the morale of the
prosecutors and the assistant das and all the people who
have had such a tough time of dealing with Georgia
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gascon of these last X number of years.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
For thirty six the Tim Conway Junior Show. I'm Doug
mcatar in for Timmy of course at seven o'clock, mo'kelly
will be here and I'll be here for a couple
of days. Hopefully you'll hang around if you're in town.
If you're making it to lax, good luck, that's all
I can tell you. Good luck. By the way, speaking
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of airport, it's a single engine plane crash near Fullerton Airport,
smashing into a tree, sustaining heavy damage to the cabin area.
Firefighters transported two patients from the scene in moderate condition.
The injuries are not believed to be life threatening, which
of course is the good news. All right, ladies and gentlemen.
So are you one of those people? Of course not,
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because you couldn't be happier. Donald Trump won, So you're
wallowing in it, right. A lot of people just have
done a news blackout. They voted for Kamala Harris. They
can't believe the Trump won and they don't want to
hear about it. And we've seen this reflected. I guess
there's been a just a plunge in viewership over at
MSNBC since the election. Now, maybe eventually it'll start to
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creep back, but a lot of people are just tuning out.
A story in the Washington Post quotes this guy, Brandon Wilson,
who's a professor in California, and he said he used
to wallow in MSNBC on Sirius XM driving on his
long commute every day. No more push Alerts, news podcast,
no more cable broadcast. I pretty much stopped on a dime,
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he said, because I just can't take it. He's really what,
It's bad for my blood pressure. Now, I kind of
understand the dynamic on this because I'm that way with sports.
I'm a Met fan. That's my cross to bear. We
had a pretty good season this year until the Dodgers
came along. But basically, if the Mets during the baseball season,
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if the Mets excuse me, when the Mets lose, I
don't read the paper, I don't read the sports section.
If the Mets win, then I love read. I'll spend
an hour reading every story I can find about the
game I watched in its entirety, all nine innings of it.
I'll read about it the next day just so I
can wallow in the in those fleeting moments of glory.
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That's occasionally life deals you so on an election where
people are so passionate about it. The people who lost
their side lost on election day, Donald Trump won. They
can't conceive of that. They can't imagine having to put
up with another four year of Donald Trump nothing, crickets.
They're just putting on SPA music. There's a station on
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Serious XM by the way called SPA and they play
this kind of wind shimey stuff. And the station should
be called Anesthesia. It really it should come with a
warning do not operate a motor vehicle while listening to
SPA because you will nod off and drive off the
first sharp turn in the road. But again I digress.
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But there are people who are listening to things like
SPAT to just stay real coming. I know, John earlier
was talking about how the State Department is offering crisis counselors,
you know, therapy to State Department employees because Trump won
the election. Well, the other side of the coin is
also happening where the people were deliriously happy. All those
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guys with the pickup trucks with the Trump flags are
so happy that I guess they're just they're just you know,
gobbling down everything that Fox is offering up or you know,
one news in the Newsmax, whatever they can cook up.
They just can't get enough of it, because again it's
they get to wallow in it. They won, you know,
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it's a triumph, and so often you don't. Now meanwhile,
forget about the election. There's also people who are just
looking at the news in general, the state of the world,
and thinking, you know, for my sanity, a little less
news would be good for me. And I just you know,
I'm a Drudge Report junkie because I think it's the
best clip service on the web. And I've always told
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people if you miss my show, just go on Drudge
you can read it there. But the Drudge Report, you know,
it's got nothing but stories about how NATO is calling
on businesses to prep for wartime scenario fifteen minutes from disaster,
Germany's bunker list UK and France mulling troops to Ukraine,
British Strato bombers or buzzing Russia. The Kremlin is considering
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sending missiles to Asia, and on and on. I mean,
and they're literally talking about World War three. And there's
a lot of World War three talk in the world,
and not just from like lunatic fringe, not just from bloggers,
but actual we're leaders, including Vladimir Putin, who continues to
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threaten the use of nuclear weapons over Ukraine. And meanwhile,
as we speak, there's a swarm of drones attacking Kiev
in Ukraine as we speak. And all of this, by
the way, is the direct result of the election, because
Joe Biden, in order to push back to strengthen Ukraine's
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hand as much as possible. Okay, the use of US
missiles deep into Russia, and the Russians now are whacking
back with larger missiles into Ukraine. And it's all this
brinksmanship that's very, very dangerous stuff. So there's reasons to
be nervous. And if you can't take it, a little
news break might not be the worst thing you could
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do for yourself, because remember, we used to have long
news breaks. News used to be Walter Cronkite or Huntley Brinkley.
For a half an hour period, you'd have some local
news and that was it. There was none of this
twenty four hour stuff. There was none of this stuff
coming into your phone every ten seconds, you weren't getting
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news alerts about you know, you know, a rebellion in
East Tmoor. I get this this alert there's a rebellion
in East Tmar And I started to get my blood
pressure up and I realized, I don't know where East
Tmoor is. I couldn't find East Tmoor on a map
if you spotted me West Tmoar. I have no idea
how this impacts my life. And you start to think
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about how life was lived for millennium, and most people
went about their lives while the kings and the earls
and the various potentates went about their business creating, you know,
dangerous situations and wars and battles and sending people out
as cannon fodder. And they had absolutely no idea what
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was happening. They just went it was local sunrise. I
gotta go plow the land. It's local sunset. I got
to melk the cows. And it went on, day after
day after day. And that stuff that was happening over
there had no impact on their lives whatsoever. It really didn't.
And one of the most fun things to read about
is when you read at the turn of the last century,
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when people the weapon of mass destruction were battleships. They
called them dreadnoughts, which is kind of a cool name.
But everybody was worried about dreadnoughts, and it was this
massive arms race to build dreadnoughts because of a book
that was written in the eighteen nineties by a naval
captain named Alfred thayer Mann. The book is called The
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Influence of Seapower upon History, one of the most important
books ever, because he posited a theory that said that
he who controls the oceans controls the world. That ruled
the waves literally for a whole bunch of years until
the airplane came along, and then it became he who
rules this sky rules the world. And then it became
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now with Space Force, he who controls the uh, you know,
Earth's orbit and the satellite trajectory rules the world. And
that's where we're headed, very very quickly, which is why
the Space Force was created. Because the Russians and the
Chinese and presumably US have already invented laser weapons that
can knock out communication satellites and all of these things,
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the GPS and all the stuff that we take for
granted could be obliterated in seconds, and that's a real
problem for the modern world. But back in the dreadnought days,
when everybody was building battleships, there were people in Ohio
and North Dakota who would read their paper in the
morning and they'd go, Caleb, what are we going to
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do about these dreadnoughts, even though they're eighteen hundred miles
from the nearest ocean. But that was what the fear
mongering was of. I was about the dreadnaughts and everybody,
you know, the Germans were building them, and we were
building them, and the British had them, and the Spanish
built sam and the Russians had them, and the Japanese
started building them. And that's how we ended up with Hawaii.
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By the way, we had to get Hawaii because everybody
was going for Hawaii because they needed a coaling station
for dreadnaughts. You had to put coal in the bunkers
to send them around the world, and everybody wanted to
grab Hawaii. We got it first. But meanwhile, the news blackout.
And here's the thing about news blackouts. I certainly understand
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the desire to take a vacation from the constant you know,
drone of anti Trump stories or anti libtard stories. If
you're a Trump person, you can't stand all the stuff
that the liberal stow. All right, I understand that, you know,
especially as we come up on Thanksgiving. You know, an
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Uncle Carl's gonna wear his MAGA hats at the table
and all of you people PEDA memberships. That's not going
to go well at your vegetarian, your fake turkey dinner.
When Uncle Carl starts to besides pull my finger, he's
going to start talking about, you know, the merits of
Project twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
You know, Uncle Carl would do that whether it was
a vegan turkey or it was a real turkey exactly.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
And he's the ultimate turkey. But there's gotta be tables
too where it's all you know, where it's all Uncle Carl's.
And they got that one nephew, you know, who went
to an Ivy League school that comes back and wants
to have you know, artesian well water served and everything's
got to be organic. He's not going to go home
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for the holidays. No, Well that's why. And we'll talk
about this later on because we're hitting the booze. But
you know, to me. They actually make two liquors specifically
to get you through Thanksgiving, and that is Harvey's Bristol
Cream and dry Sack on the Rocks, which sounds like
a medical condition. But the and the reason I say
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that because you only see these things around the holidays
and then they vanished. No one's drinking dry Sack on
the fourth of July or Harvey's Bristol Cream at Labor Day.
They bring it out for Thanksgiving just so you can
tolerate your family. It's got some kind of special formulation
in there. But you know that that that the problem
about blacking out from the news or boycotting the news
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is it doesn't stop it from happening. So you know
you can and this is one of the problems. I mean,
it almost seems quaint to say this, but being an
informed electorate. Part of the responsibility of being a citizen
and a self governing country is that you have to
have some base in others because having strong opinions is easy.
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You know, I've got lots of strong opinions. I try
to base them on some kind of fact factual base
because look, as much as I like opinions, I don't
want to go over a bridge that was built on
an opinion. I'd like that person understand math who designed it.
So that's the problem. You can you can put the
blinders on and not pay attention to the news as
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it's reported from whatever source you choose, but it doesn't
stop it from happening, and you're still gonna have to
deal with the consequences. I don't think that the talk
radio audience is likely to be those kinds of people, because,
by definition, the talk radio audience you have to spend
in thirty years doing this, is really well informed. It
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might be well informed on one side of the political
aisle more so than the other, but at least they
know who the Secretary of State is. At least they
understand this somebody called the majority leader and the minority
leader in the House of the Senate. And boy, you
can go through life and talk to a lot of people,
have no idea who those people are.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty Tim comi.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Junior Show right here on KFI AM six forty live
everywhere in the KFI app in the iHeartMedia. So here's
my favorite crime story I think ever a bunch of
years ago, I did a story about these guys who
are making bootleg helicopter parts in their home oven, and
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and that story took a terrible turn because they killed somebody.
They had made a rear rotor blade. I don't know
how big there, and we can't even fit the turkey
oven in their home oven. They made helicopter a rear
rotor blade, and it got into the food chain somehow,
and it of course blew apart as soon as they
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lifted off the ground, and it killed somebody somewhere. And
that always struck me as how do you conceive of
that idea? It's not that they even did it, but
how do you come up with the idea This is
my crime. I'm going to make fake helicopter parts at
home and somehow sell them to people. But this one
tops them. This from a couple of weeks ago, I've
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been saving it just for you, was in the Los
Angeles Daily News for Los Angeles area residents were arrested
on suspicion of insurance fraud and conspiracy after alleged falsely
claiming a bear got into their vehicles and damaging them.
Have you heard about this? Andrew did you hear this story?
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Yeah, I did that one about a week ago.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Oh, it's fantastic. It's amazing, and especially when you hear
the details. A person in a bear costume was seen
in a video footage provided with insurance claims Operation bear Claw.
As the California Department of Insurance began the investigation, they
dubbed the case Operation bear Claw. They suspected fraud when
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the suspects, who apparently live in Glendale and Valley Village
in January, reported that a bear had gotten into their
Rolls Royce Ghost in Lake Arrowhead. That's an expensive car.
Video footage provided to the insurance company with the fraudulent
claim was determined to be a person in a bear costume.
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They even got a biologist from the California Department of
Fish and Wildlife who looked at the footage and said, oh,
that's very clearly a human in a bear suit. By
the way, I've seen. They got a picture here in
the paper of the bear costume. This looks like every
sitcom bear you've ever seen, every comedy sketch like the
one that used to be on Conan O'Brien. You don't
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need to be a biologist to determine that this was
not an actual bear. I am not. I have a
BA in English from Stonehill College. I could have said,
that's not a bear, that's a guy in a bear costume.
And the clause the clause look like the salad tongs
from the utensil drawer at our house. My wife has
these exact salad tongs. Anyway, apparently this isn't the first
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time they pulled this stunt. They did it on another allegedly.
You have to say that so you don't get sued,
by the way. Allegedly they did it on a Mercedes
G sixty three AMG and a Mercedes E three fifty.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I don't know what this is the same people.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
It's the same people. And here's the thing. These are
really pricey cars. I mean, these are a Rolls Royce ghost.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Some bears just that that's what they like. That's their taste.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
I don't understand they damage the cars, honey, They actually
damaged the cars, and they the claims were for one
hundred and forty thousand dollars. So what were they planning
on doing? Just you know, maybe they had a friend
who can fix a Rolls Royce ghost with fake parts.
Out of their home oven. I don't know, but it
would seem to me that you're going to need one
hundred and forty thousand you got from the insurance fraud
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in order to repair the damage you did to the cars.
Otherwise you own three really expensive cars that are all
banged up. You know. I don't know some people, some
people come up with crimes that if they get sent
away for this, what's what's their first day on the
yard at Corcoran going to be?
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Like?
Speaker 2 (32:47):
What are you in for? I shut up a school bus,
you know, full of kids because I was and what
are you? While I dressed in a bear costume and
I scratched my rolls. Royce, You're not going to do
well in prison with that story. You gotta You're gonna
have to polish that story a little bit, or it's
gonna be tough you during exercise hour. All right, ladies
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and gentlemen, we got two more hours to fly here,
including uh, the sudden explosion of alcohol abuse ever since COVID.
Apparently we are uncorking the jug and California here they come.
All those stories that we've had about people fleeing California.
Apparently the exact opposite is happening. And if you're going
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to lax Well, you have all of our Sympathy.
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Now, you can always hear us live on kf I
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
It's four seven on a Monday afternoon, the twenty fifth
day of November. I'm Doug mcatar in for Tim Conway Junior,
and I'll be with you for the next three hours.
That's not too much to ask, Just three hours of
your life and we'll fly along here as we get
right up to Turkey Day. Mister Conway taking a few
days off to recharge the batteries, and we got tons
(00:28):
of stuff to talk about, and hopefully you're in a
good mood, and hopefully we won't ruin the mood. I
am perplexed though, because I saw the term again, and
I guess I'm just gonna ask and admit that I'm
old and out of touch. But I don't know what
yacht rock is. I know this isn't like one of
the bigger questions in life, but does anybody know what
the hell actual? What the hell is yacht rock? Yes,
(00:51):
you know what it is. Yeah, so that's like a
soft rock genre. That's Andrew Caravella, by the way. Yeah,
the Kfikniseram thank you so softra but they used to
just call it soft rock or elevator music.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
What was the seventies and eighties?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
What does that have to do with yachts?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Well, you know, listening to yacht rock like that last song,
that's definitely something I would hear on a yacht. Really,
do you.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Have a lot of experience with yachts?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yes, in the in the game GT eight five.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Okay, now I see, so cyber yachts got it that
I get?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, all right, well, I see the show is already
not even two minutes old. It's already been educational. Meanwhile,
today's show is pumpkin spiced in the keeping with the holidays.
So I was talking to John briefly before he slid
down the batpole and tore out of here with his
turbot charged car shooting fire. But we're sports fans, both
(01:46):
John and I and many many of you are. Sports
have never been more popular, and it's kind of fascinating
to watch how the fatter we get as a nation,
the more popular sports get. It's almost as if we
have outsourced being in shape to this small band of
incredibly fit super athletes who we now reward like Caligula
(02:07):
they can do anything. We'll just give them fantastic riches.
And by the way, if you think ballplayers baseball players
make a ton of money, you want to see what
they're paying Formula one drivers over in Europe. Holy mackerel.
And so some of those soccer guys they're making like
all of them are making Otani money. It's just staggering
sums of money. But as we continue to elevate entertainers
(02:33):
and athletes, specifically athletes, because I guess there's just you know,
a ton of money attached to it, because we just
it's the last thing on television other than freeway chases.
It's the last thing on television that's completely unscripted, unless
you're one of those people thinks the NBA is cooked.
But largely I think that's one of the reasons why
(02:55):
we are so hooked on it because everything else you've seen,
all the procedural shows, a press conference from a politician,
police there is nothing more phony than that. So this
is absolute sponsana. You don't know what's gonna happen, nobody
really knows the end, and we just can't get enough
of it, and as a result, advertisers want a piece
of it. You know, the exact demographics, so it's never
(03:16):
been worth more. I mean baseball, you might think a
Tuesday afternoon game in June is boring, but it's programming
for all those networks. You can put beer commercials in
there and everything, and they just love it. And the
more they love it, the more we find ways to
elevate it to demigogue status. Now, it used to be
that the highest honor that you could have as a
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player in sports was to make the Hall of Fame.
You made the Hall of Fame for your respective sport
and you had reached Mount Olympus. But then teams would
also retire numbers. And you know the Yankees, of course,
they've had a lot of great players over the many decades.
They're gonna have to go to letters. They've retired so
many numbers. They're gonna have to go to like three
(03:58):
A because you know was Babe Ruth. That's been done.
But they've retired most of the numbers unless they want
to go to triple digits, and we're getting close to
that with Aaron Judge at ninety nine. So you know,
sooner or later there's going to be one hundred and
fourteen that we'll get retired. But now retiring a number
is not enough. Now it has become statues. You got
(04:20):
to have a statue outside the arena for your truly
great players. And the latest one to join the pantheon
of idolatry is pat Riley. Lakers coach pat Riley is
getting a statue. He won six NBA championships with the Lakers,
four as their head coach, one as an assistant coach,
and one as a player. And then of course he
(04:40):
went on too a career in Miami, etc. But he's
getting a statue outside the Crypto dot Com arena. It'll
be commissioned and it's going to be installed sometime in
twenty twenty six apparently. And he joins statues that are
already out there of Magic Johnson, of Kareem abdul Jabbar,
Elgin Baylor, Jerry West, Shaquille O'Neal, and of course the
(05:02):
late great Chick hern And I think Kobe's got two, right,
doesn't he have two statues out there? So it is
I wonder what this is going to look like when
we get you know, once we get a thousand years
down the road and some future archaeologist, if we still
(05:25):
have such things. Is poking around in the tetris, the
flotsam and jetsam of what was once our civilized h
and you know, they're digging through the ash heap that
we left behind when we finally screw the pooch and
we blow all this up, and they start finding these
gigantic statues of people with numbers on them. You know,
because I've always suspected that a lot of the stuff
(05:47):
that we put in museums, they have no idea what
it really is. You know, who knows if that's what
a Torontosaurus rex really likes. Is that they could get
the hip bone and they could put a femur and
it fits, so that's where they put it. You know,
it could be three different animals. They just cobbled it together.
But nonetheless, there it is. It's got a sign and
it's got dates on it. So people go and they
(06:07):
put it on postcards and take pictures and make lego
sets out of it. But you have to wonder whether
or not, you know, I know, the late great Jean Shepherd,
who was a radio storyteller years ago, he used to
talk about Howard Johnson's motor inns when they had the
orange roof buildings and the thirty one flame or the
twenty eight flavors. I think it was Baskin Robbins had
thirty one flavors, but Howard Johnson's had twenty eight flavors.
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And they had a weather vein up on the roof
with a little dog chasing Howard Johnson. And you know
that four thousand years in the future, they'd find these
orange roof buildings and think there are temples, because what
are they gonna know? They're just gonna see these things
all over America. What were the twenty eight flavors? Where
they like the Ten Commandments? So sooner or later they're
(06:53):
gonna start excavating these ballparks and these arenas all over
the country and find statues of these giant people. Kareem
abdul Jabbar with the sky hook, and you know Shaquille
O'Neill and all these statues of Kobe and Kobe Bryant.
Clearly is that God. We must worship him, and we
certainly did. As a player. Hard to find a better
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player than all. None of this, by the way, is
a knock on their abilities, including pat pat Riley, not
just he wasn't just a hairstyle. He was. I mean,
he was the real deal when it came to coaching,
not just with the Lakers, he did at other places.
So he had real talent for this. But it's the
idea that some players and you have to wonder because
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there's a lot of great players. There's a lot of
people in the halls of fame, whether it's in Springfield
for the NBA, or Canton, Ohio for the NFL, or
obviously Cooperstown, you know, and they have to be sitting
and said, why I have a statue? And that's that's
got to be an odd place to be in life
when you have statue envy. I mean, I know than
(08:00):
a lot of people in Hollywood. Every year they watch
the Academy Awards and they say, I got a crummy
Daytime Emmy or you know a worse I got a
Golden mic Award. You know, that's, you know how humiliating
because you know, in the hierarchy of awards, the one
that Trump's all, of course is the Oscar. It's better
than it's better than an Emmy. It's better than a Grammy.
(08:21):
I mean, for God's sakes, a Grammy. Half of them
they don't even put on the telecast. They give out
so many of them. So at some point you're going
to start to have ballplayers have it written into their
deals that it's that they guarantee a statue because it's
good Brandy. You know that Dodger Stadium, We're going to
have a sho Heel Tani statue out there. And then
(08:41):
you got to have a Mookie Betts, right, or how
about a Freddie Freeman after what just happened? And is
there a Tommy Lasorda statue out there? I don't know yet.
I don't know if there's enough rock to make one.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, lots of stuff to talk about.
We've got Eric and Lyle had their day in court again.
They've had a lot of days in court. It's been
a few years, so they're in court. Their parents are
(09:03):
still dead. We'll talk about that because there's a lot
of interesting politics that this case is freighted with. With
a brand new auditioned attorney Nathan Hakman the one who's
going to have to make this decision. So which way
does he lean? Does he allow the political dynamic that's
in play here impact the decision that he ultimately has
(09:26):
to make and a bunch of people are quitting the
news altogether because they didn't like the outcome of the election.
So we'll talk about that.
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You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
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Two on the twenty fifth day of November. Doug mcintarre
in for Tim Conray. What's his name? Tim Conway, Right?
Tim Conway Junior, right, and thanks for being with us.
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In a courtroom in Van Nuys today, Lyle and Eric Menendez,
the Menendi we're back in court for the first time
in many, many moons after being sentenced to life in
prison for murdering their parents back in nineteen eighty nine.
And of course, as you know by now, the judge
they've appealed saying there's new evidence that had it been
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taken into consideration at the time, the verdicts would have
been different, the sentence would have been different. And of
course La County addition, Attorney George Gascaum, who was just
thumped out of office, he's going to be replaced by
Nathan Hochman next week and Hakman's going to have to
(11:31):
make this ultimate decision. Guess going recommended resentencing for the
brothers back in October, which would let them out of
prison after almost thirty years. Now here's the situation that
Nathan Hockman I think finds himself in because you know,
there's always the law, there's always the evidence that's put
before you. Everybody always says, well, I'm going to go
(11:53):
where the facts lead me. But then there's pressures. There's
always a political pressure that politicians face. And Nathan Hockman
just elected to office. This is gonna be his first
major decision. This is kind of like his first entree
to La County is having to make this controversial decision now.
(12:15):
The reason it's controversial, of course, is because after all
these years, the horror of the crimes and the testimony
that people were gobbling up thirty years ago is largely forgotten,
except for how it's been recast in a documentary series
and then a made for TV movie. And I didn't
see either the documentary or the made for TV movie.
(12:37):
My wife did see the documentary, by the way, and
she thought, well, you know, and we definitely have a
different attitude society wise about child abuse then we did
necessarily thirty years ago. And on that topic, as just
a little sidebar, it's astonishing how many stories a day
(13:00):
pop up of kids being abused at the hands of
some pervert somewhere in some in some way, shape or form,
a urologists in New York who was doing it to guys,
all the gymnastics coaches in the Catholic Church, and on
and on and on.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
It ghosts.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
So anyway, we like to think that we have a
different attitude about child abuse, but boy, there's an awful
lot of it going on. And maybe the Internet has
accelerated that because it allows, you know, pervs who get
off on this stuff to pretend that they're kids and
go in and groom them, et cetera, et cetera. You
know all those stories. But the Menendi are in court.
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No decision was actually made. Nothing is going to happen,
I guess until after the first of the year. But
Hawkman's going to have to make this decision, and the
facts may lead him to conclude that, yeah, they should
be resentenced, which is going to be a bit of
a shock to the folks who want a tough on
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crime distioned attorney in La County after George Gascone his
reign of terror. And then on the other side, if
Nathan Hoffman would decide that the Menendous brothers should be
released from prison after thirty years. The other side of
the coin is the morale of the prosecutors within the department,
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because the original prosecutor of the case strongly believes that
they should stay in prison for the rest of their
lives as sentenced, and has been very open at talking
about how the movie didn't show them laughing and clowning
around in the courtroom until the jury came back in,
and then they get all stonefaced and look all serious,
and when no one was looking, they'd be clouding around. Now,
(14:41):
I wasn't in the courtroom. I wasn't there. I barely
remember thirty years ago. I barely remember thirties years ago
when it was thirty years ago. That's for a whole
different story. But the bottom line is I'm not going
to readjudicate the case, because if you're a court junkie,
you remember it, and if not, my foggy memory of
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the details of the case aren't going to clarify anything.
But I do have one thing that I'm really clear about.
Even if you believe that the father was abusing his kids,
which may very well be the case, there's certainly a
lot of circumstantial evidence to suggest he was the mother
at worst, was an enabler. Now, child abuses a terrible thing,
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but enabling is not justification for shotgunning mom. So even
if you buy and this is Doug's view, all right,
thank god it's not legal hearing, but in my opinion,
even if you believe that, they believe that the father
was a grave threat to their safety and well being
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in their very lives, so they had to polish off dad.
Mom was sitting on the couch and she took one
in the head too, And I just don't see how
that's justifiable. But Nathan Hawkman has to make the decision,
and he's going to have to calculate it not just
based on the merits of the case, but he's also
got away the political reality of what do the people
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who just elected him to be the DA of La County,
what do they expect? And how does his decision should
he choose to let them walk after nearly thirty years
in prison, how does that impact the morale of the
prosecutors and the assistant das and all the people who
have had such a tough time of dealing with Georgia
(16:29):
gascon of these last X number of years.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
For thirty six the Tim Conway Junior Show. I'm Doug
mcatar in for Timmy of course at seven o'clock, mo'kelly
will be here and I'll be here for a couple
of days. Hopefully you'll hang around if you're in town.
If you're making it to lax, good luck, that's all
I can tell you. Good luck. By the way, speaking
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of airport, it's a single engine plane crash near Fullerton Airport,
smashing into a tree, sustaining heavy damage to the cabin area.
Firefighters transported two patients from the scene in moderate condition.
The injuries are not believed to be life threatening, which
of course is the good news. All right, ladies and gentlemen.
So are you one of those people? Of course not,
(17:19):
because you couldn't be happier. Donald Trump won, So you're
wallowing in it, right. A lot of people just have
done a news blackout. They voted for Kamala Harris. They
can't believe the Trump won and they don't want to
hear about it. And we've seen this reflected. I guess
there's been a just a plunge in viewership over at
MSNBC since the election. Now, maybe eventually it'll start to
(17:44):
creep back, but a lot of people are just tuning out.
A story in the Washington Post quotes this guy, Brandon Wilson,
who's a professor in California, and he said he used
to wallow in MSNBC on Sirius XM driving on his
long commute every day. No more push Alerts, news podcast,
no more cable broadcast. I pretty much stopped on a dime,
(18:05):
he said, because I just can't take it. He's really what,
It's bad for my blood pressure. Now, I kind of
understand the dynamic on this because I'm that way with sports.
I'm a Met fan. That's my cross to bear. We
had a pretty good season this year until the Dodgers
came along. But basically, if the Mets during the baseball season,
(18:25):
if the Mets excuse me, when the Mets lose, I
don't read the paper, I don't read the sports section.
If the Mets win, then I love read. I'll spend
an hour reading every story I can find about the
game I watched in its entirety, all nine innings of it.
I'll read about it the next day just so I
can wallow in the in those fleeting moments of glory.
(18:47):
That's occasionally life deals you so on an election where
people are so passionate about it. The people who lost
their side lost on election day, Donald Trump won. They
can't conceive of that. They can't imagine having to put
up with another four year of Donald Trump nothing, crickets.
They're just putting on SPA music. There's a station on
(19:09):
Serious XM by the way called SPA and they play
this kind of wind shimey stuff. And the station should
be called Anesthesia. It really it should come with a
warning do not operate a motor vehicle while listening to
SPA because you will nod off and drive off the
first sharp turn in the road. But again I digress.
(19:30):
But there are people who are listening to things like
SPAT to just stay real coming. I know, John earlier
was talking about how the State Department is offering crisis counselors,
you know, therapy to State Department employees because Trump won
the election. Well, the other side of the coin is
also happening where the people were deliriously happy. All those
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guys with the pickup trucks with the Trump flags are
so happy that I guess they're just they're just you know,
gobbling down everything that Fox is offering up or you know,
one news in the Newsmax, whatever they can cook up.
They just can't get enough of it, because again it's
they get to wallow in it. They won, you know,
(20:12):
it's a triumph, and so often you don't. Now meanwhile,
forget about the election. There's also people who are just
looking at the news in general, the state of the world,
and thinking, you know, for my sanity, a little less
news would be good for me. And I just you know,
I'm a Drudge Report junkie because I think it's the
best clip service on the web. And I've always told
(20:34):
people if you miss my show, just go on Drudge
you can read it there. But the Drudge Report, you know,
it's got nothing but stories about how NATO is calling
on businesses to prep for wartime scenario fifteen minutes from disaster,
Germany's bunker list UK and France mulling troops to Ukraine,
British Strato bombers or buzzing Russia. The Kremlin is considering
(20:56):
sending missiles to Asia, and on and on. I mean,
and they're literally talking about World War three. And there's
a lot of World War three talk in the world,
and not just from like lunatic fringe, not just from bloggers,
but actual we're leaders, including Vladimir Putin, who continues to
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threaten the use of nuclear weapons over Ukraine. And meanwhile,
as we speak, there's a swarm of drones attacking Kiev
in Ukraine as we speak. And all of this, by
the way, is the direct result of the election, because
Joe Biden, in order to push back to strengthen Ukraine's
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hand as much as possible. Okay, the use of US
missiles deep into Russia, and the Russians now are whacking
back with larger missiles into Ukraine. And it's all this
brinksmanship that's very, very dangerous stuff. So there's reasons to
be nervous. And if you can't take it, a little
news break might not be the worst thing you could
(21:57):
do for yourself, because remember, we used to have long
news breaks. News used to be Walter Cronkite or Huntley Brinkley.
For a half an hour period, you'd have some local
news and that was it. There was none of this
twenty four hour stuff. There was none of this stuff
coming into your phone every ten seconds, you weren't getting
(22:18):
news alerts about you know, you know, a rebellion in
East Tmoor. I get this this alert there's a rebellion
in East Tmar And I started to get my blood
pressure up and I realized, I don't know where East
Tmoor is. I couldn't find East Tmoor on a map
if you spotted me West Tmoar. I have no idea
how this impacts my life. And you start to think
(22:40):
about how life was lived for millennium, and most people
went about their lives while the kings and the earls
and the various potentates went about their business creating, you know,
dangerous situations and wars and battles and sending people out
as cannon fodder. And they had absolutely no idea what
(23:03):
was happening. They just went it was local sunrise. I
gotta go plow the land. It's local sunset. I got
to melk the cows. And it went on, day after
day after day. And that stuff that was happening over
there had no impact on their lives whatsoever. It really didn't.
And one of the most fun things to read about
is when you read at the turn of the last century,
(23:26):
when people the weapon of mass destruction were battleships. They
called them dreadnoughts, which is kind of a cool name.
But everybody was worried about dreadnoughts, and it was this
massive arms race to build dreadnoughts because of a book
that was written in the eighteen nineties by a naval
captain named Alfred thayer Mann. The book is called The
(23:49):
Influence of Seapower upon History, one of the most important
books ever, because he posited a theory that said that
he who controls the oceans controls the world. That ruled
the waves literally for a whole bunch of years until
the airplane came along, and then it became he who
rules this sky rules the world. And then it became
(24:10):
now with Space Force, he who controls the uh, you know,
Earth's orbit and the satellite trajectory rules the world. And
that's where we're headed, very very quickly, which is why
the Space Force was created. Because the Russians and the
Chinese and presumably US have already invented laser weapons that
can knock out communication satellites and all of these things,
(24:31):
the GPS and all the stuff that we take for
granted could be obliterated in seconds, and that's a real
problem for the modern world. But back in the dreadnought days,
when everybody was building battleships, there were people in Ohio
and North Dakota who would read their paper in the
morning and they'd go, Caleb, what are we going to
(24:52):
do about these dreadnoughts, even though they're eighteen hundred miles
from the nearest ocean. But that was what the fear
mongering was of. I was about the dreadnaughts and everybody,
you know, the Germans were building them, and we were
building them, and the British had them, and the Spanish
built sam and the Russians had them, and the Japanese
started building them. And that's how we ended up with Hawaii.
(25:12):
By the way, we had to get Hawaii because everybody
was going for Hawaii because they needed a coaling station
for dreadnaughts. You had to put coal in the bunkers
to send them around the world, and everybody wanted to
grab Hawaii. We got it first. But meanwhile, the news blackout.
And here's the thing about news blackouts. I certainly understand
(25:34):
the desire to take a vacation from the constant you know,
drone of anti Trump stories or anti libtard stories. If
you're a Trump person, you can't stand all the stuff
that the liberal stow. All right, I understand that, you know,
especially as we come up on Thanksgiving. You know, an
(25:56):
Uncle Carl's gonna wear his MAGA hats at the table
and all of you people PEDA memberships. That's not going
to go well at your vegetarian, your fake turkey dinner.
When Uncle Carl starts to besides pull my finger, he's
going to start talking about, you know, the merits of
Project twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
You know, Uncle Carl would do that whether it was
a vegan turkey or it was a real turkey exactly.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
And he's the ultimate turkey. But there's gotta be tables
too where it's all you know, where it's all Uncle Carl's.
And they got that one nephew, you know, who went
to an Ivy League school that comes back and wants
to have you know, artesian well water served and everything's
got to be organic. He's not going to go home
(26:38):
for the holidays. No, Well that's why. And we'll talk
about this later on because we're hitting the booze. But
you know, to me. They actually make two liquors specifically
to get you through Thanksgiving, and that is Harvey's Bristol
Cream and dry Sack on the Rocks, which sounds like
a medical condition. But the and the reason I say
(26:58):
that because you only see these things around the holidays
and then they vanished. No one's drinking dry Sack on
the fourth of July or Harvey's Bristol Cream at Labor Day.
They bring it out for Thanksgiving just so you can
tolerate your family. It's got some kind of special formulation
in there. But you know that that that the problem
about blacking out from the news or boycotting the news
(27:20):
is it doesn't stop it from happening. So you know
you can and this is one of the problems. I mean,
it almost seems quaint to say this, but being an
informed electorate. Part of the responsibility of being a citizen
and a self governing country is that you have to
have some base in others because having strong opinions is easy.
(27:41):
You know, I've got lots of strong opinions. I try
to base them on some kind of fact factual base
because look, as much as I like opinions, I don't
want to go over a bridge that was built on
an opinion. I'd like that person understand math who designed it.
So that's the problem. You can you can put the
blinders on and not pay attention to the news as
(28:02):
it's reported from whatever source you choose, but it doesn't
stop it from happening, and you're still gonna have to
deal with the consequences. I don't think that the talk
radio audience is likely to be those kinds of people, because,
by definition, the talk radio audience you have to spend
in thirty years doing this, is really well informed. It
(28:22):
might be well informed on one side of the political
aisle more so than the other, but at least they
know who the Secretary of State is. At least they
understand this somebody called the majority leader and the minority
leader in the House of the Senate. And boy, you
can go through life and talk to a lot of people,
have no idea who those people are.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty Tim comi.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Junior Show right here on KFI AM six forty live
everywhere in the KFI app in the iHeartMedia. So here's
my favorite crime story I think ever a bunch of
years ago, I did a story about these guys who
are making bootleg helicopter parts in their home oven, and
(29:06):
and that story took a terrible turn because they killed somebody.
They had made a rear rotor blade. I don't know
how big there, and we can't even fit the turkey
oven in their home oven. They made helicopter a rear
rotor blade, and it got into the food chain somehow,
and it of course blew apart as soon as they
(29:27):
lifted off the ground, and it killed somebody somewhere. And
that always struck me as how do you conceive of
that idea? It's not that they even did it, but
how do you come up with the idea This is
my crime. I'm going to make fake helicopter parts at
home and somehow sell them to people. But this one
tops them. This from a couple of weeks ago, I've
(29:49):
been saving it just for you, was in the Los
Angeles Daily News for Los Angeles area residents were arrested
on suspicion of insurance fraud and conspiracy after alleged falsely
claiming a bear got into their vehicles and damaging them.
Have you heard about this? Andrew did you hear this story?
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Yeah, I did that one about a week ago.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Oh, it's fantastic. It's amazing, and especially when you hear
the details. A person in a bear costume was seen
in a video footage provided with insurance claims Operation bear Claw.
As the California Department of Insurance began the investigation, they
dubbed the case Operation bear Claw. They suspected fraud when
(30:31):
the suspects, who apparently live in Glendale and Valley Village
in January, reported that a bear had gotten into their
Rolls Royce Ghost in Lake Arrowhead. That's an expensive car.
Video footage provided to the insurance company with the fraudulent
claim was determined to be a person in a bear costume.
(30:51):
They even got a biologist from the California Department of
Fish and Wildlife who looked at the footage and said, oh,
that's very clearly a human in a bear suit. By
the way, I've seen. They got a picture here in
the paper of the bear costume. This looks like every
sitcom bear you've ever seen, every comedy sketch like the
one that used to be on Conan O'Brien. You don't
(31:12):
need to be a biologist to determine that this was
not an actual bear. I am not. I have a
BA in English from Stonehill College. I could have said,
that's not a bear, that's a guy in a bear costume.
And the clause the clause look like the salad tongs
from the utensil drawer at our house. My wife has
these exact salad tongs. Anyway, apparently this isn't the first
(31:35):
time they pulled this stunt. They did it on another allegedly.
You have to say that so you don't get sued,
by the way. Allegedly they did it on a Mercedes
G sixty three AMG and a Mercedes E three fifty.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I don't know what this is the same people.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
It's the same people. And here's the thing. These are
really pricey cars. I mean, these are a Rolls Royce ghost.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Some bears just that that's what they like. That's their taste.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
I don't understand they damage the cars, honey, They actually
damaged the cars, and they the claims were for one
hundred and forty thousand dollars. So what were they planning
on doing? Just you know, maybe they had a friend
who can fix a Rolls Royce ghost with fake parts.
Out of their home oven. I don't know, but it
would seem to me that you're going to need one
hundred and forty thousand you got from the insurance fraud
(32:25):
in order to repair the damage you did to the cars.
Otherwise you own three really expensive cars that are all
banged up. You know. I don't know some people, some
people come up with crimes that if they get sent
away for this, what's what's their first day on the
yard at Corcoran going to be?
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Like?
Speaker 2 (32:47):
What are you in for? I shut up a school bus,
you know, full of kids because I was and what
are you? While I dressed in a bear costume and
I scratched my rolls. Royce, You're not going to do
well in prison with that story. You gotta You're gonna
have to polish that story a little bit, or it's
gonna be tough you during exercise hour. All right, ladies
(33:07):
and gentlemen, we got two more hours to fly here,
including uh, the sudden explosion of alcohol abuse ever since COVID.
Apparently we are uncorking the jug and California here they come.
All those stories that we've had about people fleeing California.
Apparently the exact opposite is happening. And if you're going
(33:29):
to lax Well, you have all of our Sympathy.
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