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Speaker 1: It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app Conway Show. Ah, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: We've got a lot more news to get into here, including this Paramount merger with Warner Brothers that is at risk of being a real distraction and a real complicated deal. And if it doesn't happen, the owners of Paramount are threatening to take Paramount to either Texas, Georgia or Tennessee, and that could really spell the end, the beginning of the end for show business in LA. And we cannot let that happen. We've got to make sure that merger comes together.
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Speaker 3: This report from an economics consulting firm finds the merger would threaten more than five hundred million dollars in tax revenue and more than a billion dollars in wages. Today we're hearing from LA's mayor on the merger and getting entertainment industry response to those new economic projections, which include thousands of job losses.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Mayor Bass is saying, hey, both sides need to sit down and figure this out because we cannot afford to lose Paramount. That's tens of thousands of jobs that would leave the state.
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Speaker 4: I don't think anyone who works in Hollywood is surprised, but it's good to see the hard numbers that a merger will result in massive job losses. I and many of my colleagues have lost jobs in the past because of mergers like these.
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Speaker 3: Reaction from a Writer's Guild board member after an analysis commissioned by La County finds Paramounts acquisition of Warner Brothers would amount to major job losses.
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Speaker 1: Okay, but you also amount to more job losses Paramount leaving the state of California. That would really affect tens of thousands of people, not just working for Paramount, but all their paychecks. They spend their money, hotels, restaurants, cars, insurance, second homes, are boats, all that stuff would all be affected here in La.
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Speaker 3: The report estimates around forty five hundred film and TV jobs could be lost in La County over the three years when the companies combine operations when considered.
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Speaker 1: Okay, forty five hundred if they combine operations, tens of thousands if they leave and head up and set up shop in Tennessee.
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Speaker 3: When considering the ripple effect across the local economy. Total job losses are estimated to top ten thousand.
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Speaker 4: It's not just film and TV jobs. Thousands and thousands of Angelino's working industries that support the film and TV industry. That's why LA County said that we could lose as many as ten thousand jobs total.
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Speaker 1: That's right, Angelinos. We need to keep Paramount and Warner Brothers angelinos. That's the only the second guy I've ever heard use that term. I hear Mayor Bass use it angelinos, and this guy used it angelinos. But let me tell you how rare that term is. Have you ever heard it. Has any one of your friends ever said, Oh, I'm going to dinner Saturday night with four of my favorite angelinos. You never hear because nobody talks that way.
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Speaker 4: Not to mention the amount of tax revenue loss, I have to see the merger stopped.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, if the merger stopped and they take Paramount out of La, tens of thousands of jobs are going with it.
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Speaker 3: The estimates come following a downturn in LA entertainment production already, which has cost thousands of jobs over the last four years.
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Speaker 1: What Paramount would say about it is.
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Speaker 4: Yes, there is a severe downturn in production, and that's why we need to do this merger. We need to get stronger, we need to get bigger so that we can make more shows and compete.
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Speaker 1: And Paramount is saying, and I don't I can't believe this number is true. But Paramount said, if they merge with Warner Brothers, they're going to put thirty three, zero thirty movies in movie theaters every year. That is a lot considering they do ten. Now, Paramount does ten, Warner Brothers does ten, and somehow they're gonna do thirty. Well, maybe it's possible, but it's gonna be a lot of work. By the way, the people that own theaters want to see this merger happen. They've been promised the moon with the merger of Warner Brothers in Paramount, and they are very much in favor of these two companies getting together.
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Speaker 3: Paramount says they plan to invest thirty billion dollars a year in production and release at least thirty films annually.
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Speaker 1: Okay, see I was right. I was right. Thirty films annually into theaters.
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Speaker 3: Production, they claim supports more jobs over time. The new LA County findings come as the merger is being challenged in court by twelve state attorneys general, including California's. The antitrust lawsuit has the merger on hold, with a trial set next spring.
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Speaker 1: Okay, this is all political again. If it was Netflix that bought Warner Brothers, there would be no complaints because the guys who own Netflix are on the right side of the political aisle. But because these guys who run Paramount or not, that's where the battle starts.
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Speaker 3: Paramount has threatened to leave California unless a settlement is reached. Did you hear that Paramount has threatened to leave California unless a settlement is reached.
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Speaker 1: They're going to leave. Let's not take this threat lightly. If you get a paycheck from Paramount, this has got to be scaring the hell out of you.
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Speaker 3: And today La may Or Karen Bass called for parties to come together.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Mayor Karen Bass wants these two parties to come up with a deal. She does not want this to happen on her watch because she'll probably be re elected mayor in November. Right. I mean, as awful as she was with a lot of her decisions, at least you know her decisions. This other woman has missed thousands of votes when she was an LA City Council member, thousands.
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Speaker 5: While there are varying perspectives on the proposed transaction, today we are united around one clear.
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Speaker 1: Message, all right, and what is that message?
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Speaker 5: It is time for all parties to come to the table.
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Speaker 1: Okay. I agree with her. I agree with Karen Best well.
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Speaker 3: After meeting with union leaders from the Directors Guild and IAZI, which represents many behind the scenes workers, she urged a resolution.
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Speaker 5: It must include meaningful and enforceable commitments to keep Paramount and Warner Brothers Discovery in La, as well as maintaining jobs, productions, and investments in LA and California.
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Speaker 1: I agree with her.
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Speaker 3: A Paramount spokes first in telling us the counties report underscores and industry and decline, arguing their stated plans as part of the merger is how to regain ground with quote more production that supports more jobs over time.
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Speaker 1: There you go, all right, We'll keep an eye on that. There was a pursuit today, maybe you saw some of it pretty wild and ended up in the valley on the four All five guy flipped a yearly and was going to go the wrong way on the four All five, and that's when the cops put a stop to it.
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Speaker 6: This pursuit, which went through the San Fernando Valley starting in North Hollywood, had it all. And students here that we've spoken with on the campus of cal State northward to say that they're relieved that there were no serious injuries, but there were so many close calls.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and unfortunately during one of these chases. We are so lucky that we have not seen somebody get run over and killed. That is going to be a nightmare when that happens.
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Speaker 6: At one point, the driver of the black Honda Cord, a burglary suspect, was seen doing drugs. The suspect even entered freeways going the wrong way, then would turn around to go with the flow of traffic. He didn't just do this on the freeway, but also off the freeway in an effort to avoid the LAPD and highway patrol units following him. Suspect traveled from Encino to North Hills, getting gas at one point. Then in a bizarre twist, Now that.
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Speaker 1: Is a new move by these guys running from the cops, pulling over and topping off.
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Speaker 6: A person on a motorcycle engaged the fleeing vehicle, driving alongside it as the helmeted rider gestured toward the suspect at eleven fifteen, the motorcyclist tried to open the front passenger door before the suspect drove away. That's when the suspect drove into a parking structure at cal State Northridge. The suspect then exited the parking structure, then t boned an innocent driver, and drove through Granada Hills, losing air and attire, possibly because the car hit a spike strip. The pursuit finally came to an end on the four or five Freeway.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, here's the ending.
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Speaker 6: Crazy ending when the Honda, trying to avoid patrol cars, made a turn in the middle of the four or five and then crashed head on into a CHPSUV. The suspect then tried to flee on foot, running across lanes of the freeway.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he didn't get far. I don't know what he was doing, what he was thinking. Nineteen thousand cops on the freeway and he was going to run from them.
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Speaker 6: But had nowhere to go and was quickly tackled by several officers. We spoke with a Sea Sun student about this safety message he got from his school.
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Speaker 7: Tess about incidents on campus and other whatnot. And you know, it's good to know where the activity is to avoid to be saved.
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Speaker 6: Here's video of the aftermath of the crash where the pursuit ended on the four or five freeway, creating quite the traffic mess.
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Speaker 1: It was horrible, just horrible. It's one hundred and seven degrees out. People stopped on the freeway and they're just pulling their hair out.
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Speaker 6: The airbag's deployed in the suspects car. Now, we're told that that motorcyclist who tried to interfere was taken into custody by the LAPD. We are working to get more information on his status in Northward. Josh Haskell, ABC seven Eyewitness Snooze.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you've not gotten the word yet, LAPD and the Highway Patrol hate when you tried to get involved with one of their chases. They will take you into custody as well. All right, real quickly, don't forget your Los Angeles Dodgers. Your official home for Dodger Baseball is AM five seventy LA Sports Tonight back to back World Champs take on the Pirates. You can listen to it on five seventy AM. That's a AM five seventy LA Sports and stream on the iHeartRadio app live from the gallpin Ford Broadcast Booth. So hope you enjoy that all that coming live from gaalpin Ford Broadcast Booth.
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Speaker 2: You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM six forty.
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Speaker 1: Hey, we got a big deal going on tomorrow, August twenty second. A lot of things going on tomorrow, but it's there's a thing called leveling out with Stu Mundel. He's the reporter in Skyfox on channel eleven in the mornings. It's a meet and greet at Dave and Busters out in Orange. So that's it. The address is twenty City Boulevard in Orange and it starts at two o'clock and there you go. So I think Tim Lintle be there as well. He used to fly for KTLA. I think a lot of the pilots and reporters will be there. I don't know, maybe Chris Christy, I don't know if he's going or not. I think it's a Fox deal, but it's called leveling out with Stu Mundell meet and greet Saturday tomorrow, Dave and Busters in Orange twenty City Boulevard in Orange nine two eight six eight for you zip code nuts and that'll be a cool cool people. The rumor has it that there'll be a lot of news people out there tomorrow. Belly, are you gonna.
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Speaker 7: Go to that?
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Speaker 8: I would like to go to that, but you're gonna be prepping for I got to find a costume.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, how'd you get caught costumeless?
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Speaker 6: What?
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Speaker 8: I don't have an answer for that, sim Yeah, yeah, that's too bad.
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Speaker 9: But it's not an easy you know, superheroes, villains.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you. Yeah, I'm totally with you. So I hope I hope that comes together for you though, Thank you so much, you got it all right. Another water main break Los Felis effected after a water main breank. What's going on?
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Speaker 10: Well, thank you?
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Speaker 3: A water main rupture and lost Felis is now fixed.
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Speaker 9: This morning. We saw it and it left a number of residents.
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Speaker 1: Waking up without running.
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Speaker 9: Yes, we even saw a road buckle from that rupture.
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Speaker 3: Cbsla's and made a Starentino's light NI from I.
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Speaker 1: Saw a road buckle even saw a road bubble, road buckle. Man, it sounds like don Imus forty minutes a road buckle, road buckle.
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Speaker 9: Out there, man, a road buckle from that rupture.
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Speaker 3: Cbsla's made a Starentino's light live live from that site of the break.
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Speaker 1: In any updates now, Amanda, Nope, back to you.
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Speaker 11: Yes, there's actually been a lot of that'd.
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Speaker 1: Be great if she did that one day break in any updates now, Amanda.
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Speaker 12: No, nothing here.
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Speaker 1: Back to you guys.
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Speaker 11: Yes, there's actually been a lot of progress made. We have found out there is seven residents impacted. They didn't have water overnight. That water has since been restored and they've made all the repairs to the actual six inch water main break and that was right here. You can see that spot where they actually just recently finished backfilling. But now the problem is that driveway. And I actually talked to the homeowner here. He didn't want to go on camera. But why wouldn't you want to go on camera? I understand if you know the mafia is after you or I don't know, you interrupted some kind of drug bust and there's drug guys looking for you.
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Speaker 1: But we're just talking about water main. You don't want to go on camera because of a water main.
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Speaker 11: But he said he was outside last night when he saw the water start, just coming out of his driveway right there. He's the one that called EWP to report the water main brake, and he was actually pretty smart. He moved one of his cars out of the driveway and depth, there's.
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Speaker 1: A smart man, you know. He saw water in his driveway, he moved one of his cars, and she said, he's a smart man, just coming.
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Speaker 9: Out of his driveway right there.
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Speaker 11: He's the one that called DWP to report the water main brake, and he was actually pretty smart. He moved one of his cars out of the driveway. Hear that he was actually pretty smart.
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Speaker 1: He was actually pretty smart. He saw water in his driveway and he moved one of his cars out.
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Speaker 11: Of the driveway and down the street so that he could get out this morning. But you can see mark just how much work still needs to be done right here. No word on how long that part's going to take. The brilliant pairs have since been done. But take a look at what we saw fornight.
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Speaker 1: Ah, right here we go.
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Speaker 11: It started just after eleven o'clock near Commonwealth and Avocado but before cars could shut it down, water rushed through the neighborhood.
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Speaker 1: I how long it took to shut it down three four hours.
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Speaker 11: Flowing for more than a dozen blocks. Drivers were navigating flooded streets as the water made its way toward Hillhurst Avenue. The force of that water left portions of the street buckled, water spilled across sidewalks, flooded outdoor dining areas. DWP was able to shut the water off roughly forty five minutes after arriving.
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Speaker 1: It's not bad. Forty five minutes. They're on their toes.
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Speaker 11: MLDWP has not determined what caused this particular mean to rupture. The break is odding to concerns we've been hearing from people who live here about the condition of the city's underground infrastructure.
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Speaker 1: That's right, and those concerns are not going away.
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Speaker 11: Residents we spoke with say they're worried about the age of some of the pipes beneath LA and how much work may still need to be done.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and when the big one hits, what's this going to look like?
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Speaker 6: The pipes are old like all over the city and just so much work needs to be done, and it hasn't been done.
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Speaker 4: It's all the time.
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Speaker 7: Now.
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Speaker 12: I know these pipes are one hundred years old plus.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, we're more than one hundred years old.
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Speaker 4: But the timing of all this in the middle of summer, high temperatures, people losing their water power, it's it's very discerning.
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Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, No one wants to lose their water power.
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Speaker 11: Now DWP has not stated exactly why this happened. They said they're still investigating, and they weren't able to tell me how.
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Speaker 1: Much pressure and two weeks the pipes are week the pressure's high and that's why they're breaking. Pressure too high for the weak pipes.
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Speaker 12: We talked, I don't know two three years ago when this really first started coming up. Men could have been even longer that these pipes were over one hundred years old and all they were all going to need to be replacing. How long and how much that was gonna take and cost? You got to wonder at some point, you know, they've had the discussions of just fix and replace them as they break.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's.
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Speaker 12: Rather than doing a wholesale, you know, street by street thing.
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Speaker 1: That's got to be their policy. It has to be because they they said if they replaced that they can replace. I think they said four and a half miles a year. If they really were on their toes, and there's thousands of miles, it would take two hundred years to replace everything. And by the time they replaced everything, it would need to be replaced again. So we're sol all right. The big question everybody has. I see it every time I go to Starbucks or where's another place I saw it? Oh, I saw it at a pizza place, pizza by the slice. I saw it today. Do you tip or do you not tip? I think people are exhausted from tipping. They've reached their limit where they just can't take it anymore. Everything is now with the tip jar, and I think people are at their wits end.
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Speaker 2: You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KF I am six forty.
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Speaker 1: Let's do a whip around the final last they whip around?
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Speaker 5: Ever?
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Speaker 1: No, just for Friday, I think for the week too. Yeah, So I'm gonna write down all that is. Angel still with us? No, No, what a life she's got? Hume, Randy Fuller, Randy, are you with us? Are you gonna play?
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Speaker 2: Sure?
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Speaker 1: No? No, angels out. Okay, So if you have a pen and you have a program, scratch Angel scratch, Steff foosh and plugging Adams. Okay, so we got Adam, Bellio, Krozier and Randy. All right, what's the total that Americans spend every year collectively on tips? All right? Wow, it's gonna be American average? No, a total of how much, like how much I spend, Krozier spends, Adams to everybody combined annually. I have the number. Here we go, what is the total amount that Americans spend on tips every year? We're exhausted, we know we got to keep tipping. Keep these lads and glasses in their apartments and with their cars. How much we spend annually? Let's go with Randy.
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Speaker 12: Mm hmm.
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Speaker 1: It's gotta be a big number, all right. That it's gotta be over it's gotta be over a billion dollars. All right, give me a give me your best guess me. Let me go with one point three billion. All right, Crozier, I'm gonna go five bill five billion, right, Adam, let's go. Uh, I'll go three bill three billion and Bellio.
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Speaker 9: Three point one billion.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, you know somebody went with five, so you're sort of pigeonholing yourself into three point one five to five. But they also, we're not doing over under.
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Speaker 9: So you guys here, what you're saying, So I should go four? Oh no, no, go six six six billion, six billion.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so dumb. Okay, you're not going to believe this. Americans spend approximately seventy seven billion dollars a year on tips. According to Food and Wine magazine, Americans spends seventy seven point six billion dollars annually on tipping. This calculation reported by Food and Wine via a Lending Tree analysis, and it goes on and explain how they got that number. So that's a lot. We spend about three hundred and sixty dollars a person on tips every year.
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Speaker 12: Oh man, I spend a heck of a lot more than that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I do too, fu Yeah. I was with my sister today. We were having lunch and it and I bought lunch, you know, once in a while I can afford a pizza. And she said, let me leave the tip so that the bill can out to twenty three dollars. And she was gonna leave a ten dollars tip I'm like, baby, baby, baby, that's way too much, you know on a twenty three dollars meal, six dollar tip. That's where I.
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Speaker 12: Can always feel Gen's side eye when I go to tip I'm going to get coffee or something like that. I'm like, I kind of shield my body from the tip thing so she doesn't see.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you load up, I bet I do. I'm a good tipper. I see that. I see that. You know, so BELLYO, you won? Congratulations, thank you? Yeah you did, you did well. Yeah, all your research.
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Speaker 9: I know, tipping.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know you sound like you're you're sort of panicked with the costume with the costume party tomorrow coming out, so little yeah, yeah, I will.
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Speaker 9: We're not good.
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Speaker 1: I'm with you.
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Speaker 13: Now.
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Speaker 12: Are you going for a costume where it's got a mask where your face is completely do not know?
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Speaker 1: I hate that makeup?
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Speaker 9: Then I hate that.
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Speaker 12: So you just do something where the face isn't isn't obstructed or changed or.
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Speaker 9: Usually I just don't do it.
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Speaker 1: I don't like street clothes. Getting your hero some cat ears Superheroes is a tail and chick Neil Sevagra has such an elaborate mask that he's making that he put two speakers in his ears and a microphone so he can hear people while they're talking to him. Man, wow, I think he went overboard all right? Tipping, I think we've had it right. Has a crew we have had.
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Speaker 13: While Americans love to reward good service, many are having second thoughts about the barrage of tip requests on practically everything. It seems that tipping screen pops up in just about every sale.
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Speaker 4: Are we tipping every single time that we go to a coffee shop?
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Speaker 9: I have been home so good a pressing that no tip button?
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Speaker 1: I'm paint, Well, that's kind of an odd brag.
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Speaker 9: I have been home so good a pressing that no tip button.
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Speaker 1: That's not who you want to be with in life.
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Speaker 6: Paint fifty Bucks.
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Speaker 1: Brags about how great they are about hitting that note tip button. That's a turnoff.
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Speaker 3: Pay fifty bucks for two drinks.
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Speaker 1: At a Phillies game, I'm not tipping you.
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Speaker 13: Shoppers are being nudged to tip when ordering a sandwich, a single cup of coffee, even for things like tires, I.
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Speaker 1: Would you go get new tires on my truck?
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Speaker 11: And they literally had the screen turn around and had the audacity to say, would you like to tip, and I said no.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I'm with them on that tipping out. Maybe it throw the guy at twenty at the end, But if you buy a thousand dollars worth of tires, you're gonna tip twenty percent, You're gonna tip two hundred dollars get out of here.
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Speaker 13: So it's tipping out of control a little bit. Yeah, although it's a custom that isn't going anywhere, people are pulling back on where, when, and how much to tip. Restaurant technology platform pop Menu says forty percent of consumers are tipping less this year than last year because of tipping fatigue, tighter budgets, and rising prices with three point four percent inflation over the past year.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really Look, I love tipping. I love the idea of it, especially when somebody's really good at what they do. Yeah, but man, oh man, it's just it's too much.
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Speaker 6: If you go to an establishment and every other month the price for that same item or service goes up and start to get fatigued there and you have to make up for that. You can't just eat that all yourself.
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Speaker 13: There is also the anxious, somewhat guilty feeling as you stare at the large tip screen that appears before the require customers signature.
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Speaker 1: Right, and they always say, don't worry if you don't want to leave a tip, which is, you know, shining a spotlight on you and now you are under more pressure to tip.
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Speaker 12: It's always funny to me. Also when they turn when they turn away, yeah, so that you can do it without them noticing, like they're not going to turn right back around and look at what you just did, you.
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Speaker 1: Know, I know, but you know, the guy that makes the drinks got I'd like to remember his name. I'm just not that capable of doing that much anymore. But I go to Jamba Juice and there's one guy that makes that drink perfect, and I always lay a big tip on him. You know, there's no ice chunks in it. It's smooth, it's great.
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Speaker 12: You seem like you're still doing a cash thing for tips. Do you do that or do you do the electronic No, I try to.
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Speaker 1: Do always cash. Yeah, yeah, you know, so they can take it home.
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Speaker 12: When you when you come across the electronic version, don't have a cash on your whatever. And you see the fifteen twenty and then the twenty five.
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Speaker 1: No, fifteen. Really, yeah, I live in the fifteen world. Wow.
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Speaker 9: Do you ever customize it once in a while?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'll customize it once in a while.
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Speaker 12: I'll do twenty.
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Speaker 8: They have my eyelasher eyebrow lady, it's the machine had it starts it at thirty five?
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Speaker 13: Way what?
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Speaker 9: Yes, it goes up.
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Speaker 1: You got to be kidding me.
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Speaker 9: No, So I always have to customize that.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god. I thought John was just going to get a weed whacker and you guys are going to do it at home.
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Speaker 9: But we decided against that.
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Speaker 1: No, okay, okay, okay.
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Speaker 13: Do you feel like you're seeing like the tip screen more than you used to?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. Within the last few years, I'm saying a lot more like iPad.
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Speaker 1: Would you like to tip?
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Speaker 13: As people cut back on tips, some consider the cost of the item. When do you say no when it's about like less than twenty dollars?
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Speaker 1: For others it's about okay, that's interesting, I think, but that's where you have to tip. Yeah, you know, when it's less than twenty it guy's not making much money and throw them a buck.
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Speaker 13: When do you say no when it's about like less it's.
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Speaker 12: A bigger amount you're tipping far more.
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Speaker 1: You gotta duke them at that point, you got to top them off.
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Speaker 13: For others, it's about the service.
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Speaker 5: If it's somebody working in like a sandwich.
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Speaker 1: Shop, noah, I know. But look, these guys are working at a coffee shop or sandwich shop. They're not filling up. They're just getting by in life. And that those are not the people you can you can screw.
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Speaker 12: And they make me a nice sandwich, then I might lay them a tip.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, But if I'm just buying some thing like from course.
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Speaker 13: Or absolutely not, it's not always comfortable to hit no tip.
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Speaker 1: It is always uncomfortable hitting no tip. Well, they're staring at.
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Speaker 13: You, especially when an employee is.
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Speaker 1: You know what, the you know what? The no tip button should be the whole F word and then you and that would be more honest with everybody. Hey, where's the FU button? Oh that's right here, all right, FU right.
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Speaker 13: There, Especially when an employee is watching and waiting for the sale to be completed.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then the guy behind you is staring at you at the screen as well. Yes, let those.
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Speaker 12: People out too.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, doesn't make it feel guilty not to give the tip sometimes, Yeah, popman, you, says more than fifty six percent of people don't typically tip at fast food spots, and forty four percent don't tip for fast casual, but most are tipping at sit down restaurants, carry out counters, and coffee shops.
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Speaker 1: Well, what's fast casual? Is that like an applebee? Is that fast casual? It's yeah? Or one of the what's that steak shop from down under? What is the outback? Outback? Yeah? Outback right? Yeah, yees, one hundred percent love of garden.
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Speaker 4: I think about the people that rely on tips as a primary source of income, but also the more personalized I get, for example, your hairstyle, so people that you see on a more frequent basis.
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Speaker 6: So you start to develop a more personal relationship.
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Speaker 1: That's you, belly one, you got to hit it with that thirty five cent for those brows. To me, that is how often do you get your eyebrows done? Like once a month?
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Speaker 12: What's the day?
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Speaker 1: Six weeks or every six weeks? Okay? Do you ever push it off? Or you show up every you show up after like nine weeks, then guys like whoa.
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Speaker 9: Who were you? I?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I've had that where I was like whoa when John starts plucking them.
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Speaker 9: I know, I gotta go.
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Speaker 1: That's an odd way to wake you up, you know, bang bang, a damn job play. Is that a want or need a need to me?
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Speaker 6: That is where I put the extra dollars?
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Speaker 13: All right, So if you do decide to tip, is like twenty percent still the standard fifteen to twenty percent. You just heard that guy talk about if it's somebody you're going to see again, somebody you have a relationship with, you need to tip. You want to tip for good service, especially if it's something that's part of their pay and their salary. A candy bar at the corner store. I'm hitting no tip, and I don't feel badly about it. And we talked to a lot of men on the street and also a lot of experts who told us you don't have to feel guilty if you skip the tip. If it's just a kiosk or just the screen, the iPad screen. In many cases, it's just built into their payment software. It's not maybe even necessarily that the company's asking you to tip. It's just how that's been.
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Speaker 1: Oooh, you know, I think that was Nancy Guthrie's mom. I mean, our daughter was that Savannah Cuthrie. I think of Savannah cuthriy she should always bring it back to her own story, like, oh I wish you know my mom was a big tipper, Like, oh God, almighty, all right, where is this thing?
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Speaker 12: The chase? Yeah, HP pursuit us one on one Woodland Hills with channel I'm seeing on k cal.
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Speaker 1: K Cow channel nine. Here we go, we got our cells a chase on channel nine.
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Speaker 12: He's hitting there. They said he'd been hitting one hundred and twenty eight points. Okay, I mean even right now he's hitting one oh five.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is on the wow another Woodland, another valley chase, the second valley chase of the of the day. And he's on the southbound one oh one, coming up on Winecta. Now he's getting to get off the freeway here, so he'll be in the Woodland Hills area. CHP following this chap fairly closely. But now he's getting off. Maybe he's seen his errors and he's gonna pull off and pull over and give up here. Oh my kidding, of course he's not. This is la.
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Speaker 12: Looks like he's got his hazards on.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so he's gonna pull over, Okay, I was right, Yeah, he's gonna pull over slowly.
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Speaker 12: How do you go one hundred and twenty and then just go yeah, I'm good.
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Speaker 1: I think he realized he's on TV.
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Speaker 12: He's only gonna get worse.
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Speaker 1: He's done. Yeah, okay, So this chase is overt. He pulled into a parking lot here. I don't know what restaurant or there's a oh. He pulled over to a clean air vehicle spot.
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Speaker 12: Dang, he just got out and went right on the ground.
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Speaker 1: Is that a BMW? It looks like a BMW a Honda Okay, pink shorts?
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Speaker 12: All right, no comment.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's uh pulled over and now he's got five guys with guns pointing at him. What a dumb, dumb decision. All right, Chase is over. If you're flying over the one oh one or flying anywhere around the one o one southbound or northbound and you see the helicopters with the lights, that's what this is. Winetka and Ventura Ventura Freeway at Winnetka in the Woodland Hills area, Chase is over. A CHP got their guy.
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Speaker 2: That's a code for You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI am six forty.
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Speaker 1: Eh ding dong with you people. There's an interesting story on the La Times. SeaWorld, which is one of my favorite places growing up. I really enjoyed it. I ignored all the people screaming and yelling about the whales and the dolphins being held in captivity. I just enjoyed going. I wasn't going to get into the whole political deal, but SeaWorld San Diego's Throwback Summer concert series is turning the Marine Park into a multi generational phenomenon. Music fans are traveling from around the country to attend these hip hop or R and B concerts that are taking off. It's becoming huge. SeaWorld launched the event back in twenty nineteen, but it only recently took off with TikTok videos. But it's it's a big, huge deal for SeaWorld. A brand new audience. People have never been to SeaWorld before, coming into these concerts and sitting there and watching the you know, it's a perfect venue for it because they have all these you know, little stadiums that are set up and the band can be out in the water. The band's like thirty or forty feet out in the ocean and boats are pulling up to see what's going on. You know, thousands of fans in SeaWorld. It's become a really hip, cool phenomenon that just took off recently. So that's that's interesting. It's breathing a whole new life into SeaWorld that has been gone for a long long time by one of my favorite places. I loved SeaWorld. The people have worked at SeaWorld and currently work at SeaWorld are great. They're all animal lovers. That took a bad rap for a long time, and it was tough on the people who work at SeaWorld because they love animals. That's why they worked there. If you didn't love animals, sea animals, fish, sea mammals, sea turtles, all that stuff, you would never work at sea World. So they all enjoy and love animals. That's why they worked there. And then they were constantly getting hammered by people who are protesting, saying you've got to release the big whales. It's horrible to keep whales in captivity their entire life. And now they got this concert series that's taken off. Okay, staying with our animal news, remember we had that pig that was on the loose, the popular we Ho pig It now has a brand new hal.
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Speaker 15: So the last time we talked, I believe, is when I lost my seventeenth oscar and I kind of made history as the biggest lose.
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Speaker 1: We It is Diane Warren and she adopted this pig.
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Speaker 5: Loser, but today's for a different reason.
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Speaker 15: I want a pig. So she's the woman behind some of the most famous tracks on the big screen. But Diane Warren is also a huge animal lover, and today she took home West Hollywood's famous or runaway pig. Like so many of us, Warren watch Wilber's story unfold on TV this week. Well, since the owner never came forward to claim him, the shelter put him up for adoption. This morning, NBC Forest Camilla Frombaldi joins his life from the shelter with how this all played out? Camilla, What a great story and.
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Speaker 10: What a remarkable ending here. It all started in West Hollywood to this animal shelter here in West la and now thanks to a silent auction, Wilbur was able to leave here this morning to his new home in Malibu.
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Speaker 1: This Diane Warren is the real deal. Remember that cow that was on the loose years ago. She adopted that cow and gave that cow a whole new life. This woman puts her money where her mouth is and adopts and puts together homes for hundreds of animals.
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Speaker 11: Hey come back.
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Speaker 16: A runaway piglet who captured hearts in West Hollywood and across social media is no longer on the move.
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Speaker 11: Well, oh my god, Wilver, look at it.
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Speaker 13: He's a tiny boy.
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Speaker 16: He has a new place to call home and a new last name.
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Speaker 9: I won on behalf of Diane Warren.
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Speaker 1: We want to thank you.
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Speaker 16: Wilbur was adopted this morning from the West Los Angeles Animals Shelter by award winning songwriter Diane Warren.
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Speaker 1: That's right. What did Diane Warren? And I know she wrote a lot of songs, and she also performed in a lot of songs. But I think she wrote that song if I could turn back Town with chaer. I think she wrote that that share song and uh and I think she did? Did she? Okay? But I think she also wrote why did another Lady Gaga song? Why did I? Why did you do that? I'm not asking you, Belly, I'm just saying that's the name of the song. Yeah, no, it's the name of the song only lady song, yes, Lady Gaga song called why did You Do That question mark? But this is a at well. I don't want to miss a thing from Aerosmith. She wrote that song as well. This is an unbelievable woman, so thank god that she is around. This is KFI. This has been the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app Dere's Live. Join Us on KFI AM six forty weeknight six to ten pm Monday through Friday, tinged along with this app
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: We've got a lot more news to get into here, including this Paramount merger with Warner Brothers that is at risk of being a real distraction and a real complicated deal. And if it doesn't happen, the owners of Paramount are threatening to take Paramount to either Texas, Georgia or Tennessee, and that could really spell the end, the beginning of the end for show business in LA. And we cannot let that happen. We've got to make sure that merger comes together.
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Speaker 3: This report from an economics consulting firm finds the merger would threaten more than five hundred million dollars in tax revenue and more than a billion dollars in wages. Today we're hearing from LA's mayor on the merger and getting entertainment industry response to those new economic projections, which include thousands of job losses.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Mayor Bass is saying, hey, both sides need to sit down and figure this out because we cannot afford to lose Paramount. That's tens of thousands of jobs that would leave the state.
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Speaker 4: I don't think anyone who works in Hollywood is surprised, but it's good to see the hard numbers that a merger will result in massive job losses. I and many of my colleagues have lost jobs in the past because of mergers like these.
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Speaker 3: Reaction from a Writer's Guild board member after an analysis commissioned by La County finds Paramounts acquisition of Warner Brothers would amount to major job losses.
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Speaker 1: Okay, but you also amount to more job losses Paramount leaving the state of California. That would really affect tens of thousands of people, not just working for Paramount, but all their paychecks. They spend their money, hotels, restaurants, cars, insurance, second homes, are boats, all that stuff would all be affected here in La.
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Speaker 3: The report estimates around forty five hundred film and TV jobs could be lost in La County over the three years when the companies combine operations when considered.
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Speaker 1: Okay, forty five hundred if they combine operations, tens of thousands if they leave and head up and set up shop in Tennessee.
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Speaker 3: When considering the ripple effect across the local economy. Total job losses are estimated to top ten thousand.
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Speaker 4: It's not just film and TV jobs. Thousands and thousands of Angelino's working industries that support the film and TV industry. That's why LA County said that we could lose as many as ten thousand jobs total.
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Speaker 1: That's right, Angelinos. We need to keep Paramount and Warner Brothers angelinos. That's the only the second guy I've ever heard use that term. I hear Mayor Bass use it angelinos, and this guy used it angelinos. But let me tell you how rare that term is. Have you ever heard it. Has any one of your friends ever said, Oh, I'm going to dinner Saturday night with four of my favorite angelinos. You never hear because nobody talks that way.
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Speaker 4: Not to mention the amount of tax revenue loss, I have to see the merger stopped.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, if the merger stopped and they take Paramount out of La, tens of thousands of jobs are going with it.
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Speaker 3: The estimates come following a downturn in LA entertainment production already, which has cost thousands of jobs over the last four years.
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Speaker 1: What Paramount would say about it is.
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Speaker 4: Yes, there is a severe downturn in production, and that's why we need to do this merger. We need to get stronger, we need to get bigger so that we can make more shows and compete.
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Speaker 1: And Paramount is saying, and I don't I can't believe this number is true. But Paramount said, if they merge with Warner Brothers, they're going to put thirty three, zero thirty movies in movie theaters every year. That is a lot considering they do ten. Now, Paramount does ten, Warner Brothers does ten, and somehow they're gonna do thirty. Well, maybe it's possible, but it's gonna be a lot of work. By the way, the people that own theaters want to see this merger happen. They've been promised the moon with the merger of Warner Brothers in Paramount, and they are very much in favor of these two companies getting together.
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Speaker 3: Paramount says they plan to invest thirty billion dollars a year in production and release at least thirty films annually.
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Speaker 1: Okay, see I was right. I was right. Thirty films annually into theaters.
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Speaker 3: Production, they claim supports more jobs over time. The new LA County findings come as the merger is being challenged in court by twelve state attorneys general, including California's. The antitrust lawsuit has the merger on hold, with a trial set next spring.
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Speaker 1: Okay, this is all political again. If it was Netflix that bought Warner Brothers, there would be no complaints because the guys who own Netflix are on the right side of the political aisle. But because these guys who run Paramount or not, that's where the battle starts.
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Speaker 3: Paramount has threatened to leave California unless a settlement is reached. Did you hear that Paramount has threatened to leave California unless a settlement is reached.
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Speaker 1: They're going to leave. Let's not take this threat lightly. If you get a paycheck from Paramount, this has got to be scaring the hell out of you.
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Speaker 3: And today La may Or Karen Bass called for parties to come together.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Mayor Karen Bass wants these two parties to come up with a deal. She does not want this to happen on her watch because she'll probably be re elected mayor in November. Right. I mean, as awful as she was with a lot of her decisions, at least you know her decisions. This other woman has missed thousands of votes when she was an LA City Council member, thousands.
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Speaker 5: While there are varying perspectives on the proposed transaction, today we are united around one clear.
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Speaker 1: Message, all right, and what is that message?
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Speaker 5: It is time for all parties to come to the table.
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Speaker 1: Okay. I agree with her. I agree with Karen Best well.
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Speaker 3: After meeting with union leaders from the Directors Guild and IAZI, which represents many behind the scenes workers, she urged a resolution.
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Speaker 5: It must include meaningful and enforceable commitments to keep Paramount and Warner Brothers Discovery in La, as well as maintaining jobs, productions, and investments in LA and California.
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Speaker 1: I agree with her.
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Speaker 3: A Paramount spokes first in telling us the counties report underscores and industry and decline, arguing their stated plans as part of the merger is how to regain ground with quote more production that supports more jobs over time.
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Speaker 1: There you go, all right, We'll keep an eye on that. There was a pursuit today, maybe you saw some of it pretty wild and ended up in the valley on the four All five guy flipped a yearly and was going to go the wrong way on the four All five, and that's when the cops put a stop to it.
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Speaker 6: This pursuit, which went through the San Fernando Valley starting in North Hollywood, had it all. And students here that we've spoken with on the campus of cal State northward to say that they're relieved that there were no serious injuries, but there were so many close calls.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and unfortunately during one of these chases. We are so lucky that we have not seen somebody get run over and killed. That is going to be a nightmare when that happens.
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Speaker 6: At one point, the driver of the black Honda Cord, a burglary suspect, was seen doing drugs. The suspect even entered freeways going the wrong way, then would turn around to go with the flow of traffic. He didn't just do this on the freeway, but also off the freeway in an effort to avoid the LAPD and highway patrol units following him. Suspect traveled from Encino to North Hills, getting gas at one point. Then in a bizarre twist, Now that.
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Speaker 1: Is a new move by these guys running from the cops, pulling over and topping off.
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Speaker 6: A person on a motorcycle engaged the fleeing vehicle, driving alongside it as the helmeted rider gestured toward the suspect at eleven fifteen, the motorcyclist tried to open the front passenger door before the suspect drove away. That's when the suspect drove into a parking structure at cal State Northridge. The suspect then exited the parking structure, then t boned an innocent driver, and drove through Granada Hills, losing air and attire, possibly because the car hit a spike strip. The pursuit finally came to an end on the four or five Freeway.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, here's the ending.
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Speaker 6: Crazy ending when the Honda, trying to avoid patrol cars, made a turn in the middle of the four or five and then crashed head on into a CHPSUV. The suspect then tried to flee on foot, running across lanes of the freeway.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he didn't get far. I don't know what he was doing, what he was thinking. Nineteen thousand cops on the freeway and he was going to run from them.
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Speaker 6: But had nowhere to go and was quickly tackled by several officers. We spoke with a Sea Sun student about this safety message he got from his school.
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Speaker 7: Tess about incidents on campus and other whatnot. And you know, it's good to know where the activity is to avoid to be saved.
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Speaker 6: Here's video of the aftermath of the crash where the pursuit ended on the four or five freeway, creating quite the traffic mess.
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Speaker 1: It was horrible, just horrible. It's one hundred and seven degrees out. People stopped on the freeway and they're just pulling their hair out.
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Speaker 6: The airbag's deployed in the suspects car. Now, we're told that that motorcyclist who tried to interfere was taken into custody by the LAPD. We are working to get more information on his status in Northward. Josh Haskell, ABC seven Eyewitness Snooze.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you've not gotten the word yet, LAPD and the Highway Patrol hate when you tried to get involved with one of their chases. They will take you into custody as well. All right, real quickly, don't forget your Los Angeles Dodgers. Your official home for Dodger Baseball is AM five seventy LA Sports Tonight back to back World Champs take on the Pirates. You can listen to it on five seventy AM. That's a AM five seventy LA Sports and stream on the iHeartRadio app live from the gallpin Ford Broadcast Booth. So hope you enjoy that all that coming live from gaalpin Ford Broadcast Booth.
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Speaker 2: You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM six forty.
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Speaker 1: Hey, we got a big deal going on tomorrow, August twenty second. A lot of things going on tomorrow, but it's there's a thing called leveling out with Stu Mundel. He's the reporter in Skyfox on channel eleven in the mornings. It's a meet and greet at Dave and Busters out in Orange. So that's it. The address is twenty City Boulevard in Orange and it starts at two o'clock and there you go. So I think Tim Lintle be there as well. He used to fly for KTLA. I think a lot of the pilots and reporters will be there. I don't know, maybe Chris Christy, I don't know if he's going or not. I think it's a Fox deal, but it's called leveling out with Stu Mundell meet and greet Saturday tomorrow, Dave and Busters in Orange twenty City Boulevard in Orange nine two eight six eight for you zip code nuts and that'll be a cool cool people. The rumor has it that there'll be a lot of news people out there tomorrow. Belly, are you gonna.
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Speaker 7: Go to that?
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Speaker 8: I would like to go to that, but you're gonna be prepping for I got to find a costume.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, how'd you get caught costumeless?
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Speaker 6: What?
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Speaker 8: I don't have an answer for that, sim Yeah, yeah, that's too bad.
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Speaker 9: But it's not an easy you know, superheroes, villains.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you. Yeah, I'm totally with you. So I hope I hope that comes together for you though, Thank you so much, you got it all right. Another water main break Los Felis effected after a water main breank. What's going on?
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Speaker 10: Well, thank you?
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Speaker 3: A water main rupture and lost Felis is now fixed.
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Speaker 9: This morning. We saw it and it left a number of residents.
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Speaker 1: Waking up without running.
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Speaker 9: Yes, we even saw a road buckle from that rupture.
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Speaker 3: Cbsla's and made a Starentino's light NI from I.
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Speaker 1: Saw a road buckle even saw a road bubble, road buckle. Man, it sounds like don Imus forty minutes a road buckle, road buckle.
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Speaker 9: Out there, man, a road buckle from that rupture.
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Speaker 3: Cbsla's made a Starentino's light live live from that site of the break.
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Speaker 1: In any updates now, Amanda, Nope, back to you.
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Speaker 11: Yes, there's actually been a lot of that'd.
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Speaker 1: Be great if she did that one day break in any updates now, Amanda.
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Speaker 12: No, nothing here.
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Speaker 1: Back to you guys.
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Speaker 11: Yes, there's actually been a lot of progress made. We have found out there is seven residents impacted. They didn't have water overnight. That water has since been restored and they've made all the repairs to the actual six inch water main break and that was right here. You can see that spot where they actually just recently finished backfilling. But now the problem is that driveway. And I actually talked to the homeowner here. He didn't want to go on camera. But why wouldn't you want to go on camera? I understand if you know the mafia is after you or I don't know, you interrupted some kind of drug bust and there's drug guys looking for you.
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Speaker 1: But we're just talking about water main. You don't want to go on camera because of a water main.
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Speaker 11: But he said he was outside last night when he saw the water start, just coming out of his driveway right there. He's the one that called EWP to report the water main brake, and he was actually pretty smart. He moved one of his cars out of the driveway and depth, there's.
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Speaker 1: A smart man, you know. He saw water in his driveway, he moved one of his cars, and she said, he's a smart man, just coming.
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Speaker 9: Out of his driveway right there.
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Speaker 11: He's the one that called DWP to report the water main brake, and he was actually pretty smart. He moved one of his cars out of the driveway. Hear that he was actually pretty smart.
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Speaker 1: He was actually pretty smart. He saw water in his driveway and he moved one of his cars out.
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Speaker 11: Of the driveway and down the street so that he could get out this morning. But you can see mark just how much work still needs to be done right here. No word on how long that part's going to take. The brilliant pairs have since been done. But take a look at what we saw fornight.
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Speaker 1: Ah, right here we go.
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Speaker 11: It started just after eleven o'clock near Commonwealth and Avocado but before cars could shut it down, water rushed through the neighborhood.
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Speaker 1: I how long it took to shut it down three four hours.
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Speaker 11: Flowing for more than a dozen blocks. Drivers were navigating flooded streets as the water made its way toward Hillhurst Avenue. The force of that water left portions of the street buckled, water spilled across sidewalks, flooded outdoor dining areas. DWP was able to shut the water off roughly forty five minutes after arriving.
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Speaker 1: It's not bad. Forty five minutes. They're on their toes.
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Speaker 11: MLDWP has not determined what caused this particular mean to rupture. The break is odding to concerns we've been hearing from people who live here about the condition of the city's underground infrastructure.
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Speaker 1: That's right, and those concerns are not going away.
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Speaker 11: Residents we spoke with say they're worried about the age of some of the pipes beneath LA and how much work may still need to be done.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and when the big one hits, what's this going to look like?
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Speaker 6: The pipes are old like all over the city and just so much work needs to be done, and it hasn't been done.
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Speaker 4: It's all the time.
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Speaker 7: Now.
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Speaker 12: I know these pipes are one hundred years old plus.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, we're more than one hundred years old.
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Speaker 4: But the timing of all this in the middle of summer, high temperatures, people losing their water power, it's it's very discerning.
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Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, No one wants to lose their water power.
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Speaker 11: Now DWP has not stated exactly why this happened. They said they're still investigating, and they weren't able to tell me how.
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Speaker 1: Much pressure and two weeks the pipes are week the pressure's high and that's why they're breaking. Pressure too high for the weak pipes.
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Speaker 12: We talked, I don't know two three years ago when this really first started coming up. Men could have been even longer that these pipes were over one hundred years old and all they were all going to need to be replacing. How long and how much that was gonna take and cost? You got to wonder at some point, you know, they've had the discussions of just fix and replace them as they break.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's.
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Speaker 12: Rather than doing a wholesale, you know, street by street thing.
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Speaker 1: That's got to be their policy. It has to be because they they said if they replaced that they can replace. I think they said four and a half miles a year. If they really were on their toes, and there's thousands of miles, it would take two hundred years to replace everything. And by the time they replaced everything, it would need to be replaced again. So we're sol all right. The big question everybody has. I see it every time I go to Starbucks or where's another place I saw it? Oh, I saw it at a pizza place, pizza by the slice. I saw it today. Do you tip or do you not tip? I think people are exhausted from tipping. They've reached their limit where they just can't take it anymore. Everything is now with the tip jar, and I think people are at their wits end.
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Speaker 2: You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KF I am six forty.
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Speaker 1: Let's do a whip around the final last they whip around?
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Speaker 5: Ever?
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Speaker 1: No, just for Friday, I think for the week too. Yeah, So I'm gonna write down all that is. Angel still with us? No, No, what a life she's got? Hume, Randy Fuller, Randy, are you with us? Are you gonna play?
00:17:56
Speaker 2: Sure?
00:17:57
Speaker 1: No? No, angels out. Okay, So if you have a pen and you have a program, scratch Angel scratch, Steff foosh and plugging Adams. Okay, so we got Adam, Bellio, Krozier and Randy. All right, what's the total that Americans spend every year collectively on tips? All right? Wow, it's gonna be American average? No, a total of how much, like how much I spend, Krozier spends, Adams to everybody combined annually. I have the number. Here we go, what is the total amount that Americans spend on tips every year? We're exhausted, we know we got to keep tipping. Keep these lads and glasses in their apartments and with their cars. How much we spend annually? Let's go with Randy.
00:19:00
Speaker 12: Mm hmm.
00:19:02
Speaker 1: It's gotta be a big number, all right. That it's gotta be over it's gotta be over a billion dollars. All right, give me a give me your best guess me. Let me go with one point three billion. All right, Crozier, I'm gonna go five bill five billion, right, Adam, let's go. Uh, I'll go three bill three billion and Bellio.
00:19:33
Speaker 9: Three point one billion.
00:19:36
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, you know somebody went with five, so you're sort of pigeonholing yourself into three point one five to five. But they also, we're not doing over under.
00:19:48
Speaker 9: So you guys here, what you're saying, So I should go four? Oh no, no, go six six six billion, six billion.
00:20:01
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so dumb. Okay, you're not going to believe this. Americans spend approximately seventy seven billion dollars a year on tips. According to Food and Wine magazine, Americans spends seventy seven point six billion dollars annually on tipping. This calculation reported by Food and Wine via a Lending Tree analysis, and it goes on and explain how they got that number. So that's a lot. We spend about three hundred and sixty dollars a person on tips every year.
00:20:41
Speaker 12: Oh man, I spend a heck of a lot more than that.
00:20:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do too, fu Yeah. I was with my sister today. We were having lunch and it and I bought lunch, you know, once in a while I can afford a pizza. And she said, let me leave the tip so that the bill can out to twenty three dollars. And she was gonna leave a ten dollars tip I'm like, baby, baby, baby, that's way too much, you know on a twenty three dollars meal, six dollar tip. That's where I.
00:21:12
Speaker 12: Can always feel Gen's side eye when I go to tip I'm going to get coffee or something like that. I'm like, I kind of shield my body from the tip thing so she doesn't see.
00:21:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, you load up, I bet I do. I'm a good tipper. I see that. I see that. You know, so BELLYO, you won? Congratulations, thank you? Yeah you did, you did well. Yeah, all your research.
00:21:35
Speaker 9: I know, tipping.
00:21:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know you sound like you're you're sort of panicked with the costume with the costume party tomorrow coming out, so little yeah, yeah, I will.
00:21:44
Speaker 9: We're not good.
00:21:46
Speaker 1: I'm with you.
00:21:47
Speaker 13: Now.
00:21:47
Speaker 12: Are you going for a costume where it's got a mask where your face is completely do not know?
00:21:51
Speaker 1: I hate that makeup?
00:21:53
Speaker 9: Then I hate that.
00:21:55
Speaker 12: So you just do something where the face isn't isn't obstructed or changed or.
00:21:58
Speaker 9: Usually I just don't do it.
00:22:00
Speaker 1: I don't like street clothes. Getting your hero some cat ears Superheroes is a tail and chick Neil Sevagra has such an elaborate mask that he's making that he put two speakers in his ears and a microphone so he can hear people while they're talking to him. Man, wow, I think he went overboard all right? Tipping, I think we've had it right. Has a crew we have had.
00:22:27
Speaker 13: While Americans love to reward good service, many are having second thoughts about the barrage of tip requests on practically everything. It seems that tipping screen pops up in just about every sale.
00:22:39
Speaker 4: Are we tipping every single time that we go to a coffee shop?
00:22:42
Speaker 9: I have been home so good a pressing that no tip button?
00:22:45
Speaker 1: I'm paint, Well, that's kind of an odd brag.
00:22:48
Speaker 9: I have been home so good a pressing that no tip button.
00:22:52
Speaker 1: That's not who you want to be with in life.
00:22:54
Speaker 6: Paint fifty Bucks.
00:22:56
Speaker 1: Brags about how great they are about hitting that note tip button. That's a turnoff.
00:23:02
Speaker 3: Pay fifty bucks for two drinks.
00:23:05
Speaker 1: At a Phillies game, I'm not tipping you.
00:23:08
Speaker 13: Shoppers are being nudged to tip when ordering a sandwich, a single cup of coffee, even for things like tires, I.
00:23:15
Speaker 1: Would you go get new tires on my truck?
00:23:17
Speaker 11: And they literally had the screen turn around and had the audacity to say, would you like to tip, and I said no.
00:23:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I'm with them on that tipping out. Maybe it throw the guy at twenty at the end, But if you buy a thousand dollars worth of tires, you're gonna tip twenty percent, You're gonna tip two hundred dollars get out of here.
00:23:35
Speaker 13: So it's tipping out of control a little bit. Yeah, although it's a custom that isn't going anywhere, people are pulling back on where, when, and how much to tip. Restaurant technology platform pop Menu says forty percent of consumers are tipping less this year than last year because of tipping fatigue, tighter budgets, and rising prices with three point four percent inflation over the past year.
00:24:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really Look, I love tipping. I love the idea of it, especially when somebody's really good at what they do. Yeah, but man, oh man, it's just it's too much.
00:24:10
Speaker 6: If you go to an establishment and every other month the price for that same item or service goes up and start to get fatigued there and you have to make up for that. You can't just eat that all yourself.
00:24:21
Speaker 13: There is also the anxious, somewhat guilty feeling as you stare at the large tip screen that appears before the require customers signature.
00:24:28
Speaker 1: Right, and they always say, don't worry if you don't want to leave a tip, which is, you know, shining a spotlight on you and now you are under more pressure to tip.
00:24:39
Speaker 12: It's always funny to me. Also when they turn when they turn away, yeah, so that you can do it without them noticing, like they're not going to turn right back around and look at what you just did, you.
00:24:47
Speaker 1: Know, I know, but you know, the guy that makes the drinks got I'd like to remember his name. I'm just not that capable of doing that much anymore. But I go to Jamba Juice and there's one guy that makes that drink perfect, and I always lay a big tip on him. You know, there's no ice chunks in it. It's smooth, it's great.
00:25:12
Speaker 12: You seem like you're still doing a cash thing for tips. Do you do that or do you do the electronic No, I try to.
00:25:16
Speaker 1: Do always cash. Yeah, yeah, you know, so they can take it home.
00:25:19
Speaker 12: When you when you come across the electronic version, don't have a cash on your whatever. And you see the fifteen twenty and then the twenty five.
00:25:26
Speaker 1: No, fifteen. Really, yeah, I live in the fifteen world. Wow.
00:25:30
Speaker 9: Do you ever customize it once in a while?
00:25:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'll customize it once in a while.
00:25:35
Speaker 12: I'll do twenty.
00:25:36
Speaker 8: They have my eyelasher eyebrow lady, it's the machine had it starts it at thirty five?
00:25:43
Speaker 13: Way what?
00:25:44
Speaker 9: Yes, it goes up.
00:25:46
Speaker 1: You got to be kidding me.
00:25:48
Speaker 9: No, So I always have to customize that.
00:25:51
Speaker 1: Oh my god. I thought John was just going to get a weed whacker and you guys are going to do it at home.
00:25:56
Speaker 9: But we decided against that.
00:25:57
Speaker 1: No, okay, okay, okay.
00:26:00
Speaker 13: Do you feel like you're seeing like the tip screen more than you used to?
00:26:04
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. Within the last few years, I'm saying a lot more like iPad.
00:26:09
Speaker 1: Would you like to tip?
00:26:10
Speaker 13: As people cut back on tips, some consider the cost of the item. When do you say no when it's about like less than twenty dollars?
00:26:19
Speaker 1: For others it's about okay, that's interesting, I think, but that's where you have to tip. Yeah, you know, when it's less than twenty it guy's not making much money and throw them a buck.
00:26:28
Speaker 13: When do you say no when it's about like less it's.
00:26:33
Speaker 12: A bigger amount you're tipping far more.
00:26:35
Speaker 1: You gotta duke them at that point, you got to top them off.
00:26:39
Speaker 13: For others, it's about the service.
00:26:42
Speaker 5: If it's somebody working in like a sandwich.
00:26:44
Speaker 1: Shop, noah, I know. But look, these guys are working at a coffee shop or sandwich shop. They're not filling up. They're just getting by in life. And that those are not the people you can you can screw.
00:26:55
Speaker 12: And they make me a nice sandwich, then I might lay them a tip.
00:26:57
Speaker 7: Yeah, But if I'm just buying some thing like from course.
00:27:01
Speaker 13: Or absolutely not, it's not always comfortable to hit no tip.
00:27:05
Speaker 1: It is always uncomfortable hitting no tip. Well, they're staring at.
00:27:09
Speaker 13: You, especially when an employee is.
00:27:11
Speaker 1: You know what, the you know what? The no tip button should be the whole F word and then you and that would be more honest with everybody. Hey, where's the FU button? Oh that's right here, all right, FU right.
00:27:25
Speaker 13: There, Especially when an employee is watching and waiting for the sale to be completed.
00:27:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then the guy behind you is staring at you at the screen as well. Yes, let those.
00:27:35
Speaker 12: People out too.
00:27:35
Speaker 14: Yeah, doesn't make it feel guilty not to give the tip sometimes, Yeah, popman, you, says more than fifty six percent of people don't typically tip at fast food spots, and forty four percent don't tip for fast casual, but most are tipping at sit down restaurants, carry out counters, and coffee shops.
00:27:57
Speaker 1: Well, what's fast casual? Is that like an applebee? Is that fast casual? It's yeah? Or one of the what's that steak shop from down under? What is the outback? Outback? Yeah? Outback right? Yeah, yees, one hundred percent love of garden.
00:28:16
Speaker 4: I think about the people that rely on tips as a primary source of income, but also the more personalized I get, for example, your hairstyle, so people that you see on a more frequent basis.
00:28:25
Speaker 6: So you start to develop a more personal relationship.
00:28:28
Speaker 1: That's you, belly one, you got to hit it with that thirty five cent for those brows. To me, that is how often do you get your eyebrows done? Like once a month?
00:28:38
Speaker 12: What's the day?
00:28:38
Speaker 1: Six weeks or every six weeks? Okay? Do you ever push it off? Or you show up every you show up after like nine weeks, then guys like whoa.
00:28:47
Speaker 9: Who were you? I?
00:28:49
Speaker 8: Yeah, I've had that where I was like whoa when John starts plucking them.
00:28:55
Speaker 9: I know, I gotta go.
00:28:58
Speaker 1: That's an odd way to wake you up, you know, bang bang, a damn job play. Is that a want or need a need to me?
00:29:09
Speaker 6: That is where I put the extra dollars?
00:29:11
Speaker 13: All right, So if you do decide to tip, is like twenty percent still the standard fifteen to twenty percent. You just heard that guy talk about if it's somebody you're going to see again, somebody you have a relationship with, you need to tip. You want to tip for good service, especially if it's something that's part of their pay and their salary. A candy bar at the corner store. I'm hitting no tip, and I don't feel badly about it. And we talked to a lot of men on the street and also a lot of experts who told us you don't have to feel guilty if you skip the tip. If it's just a kiosk or just the screen, the iPad screen. In many cases, it's just built into their payment software. It's not maybe even necessarily that the company's asking you to tip. It's just how that's been.
00:29:49
Speaker 1: Oooh, you know, I think that was Nancy Guthrie's mom. I mean, our daughter was that Savannah Cuthrie. I think of Savannah cuthriy she should always bring it back to her own story, like, oh I wish you know my mom was a big tipper, Like, oh God, almighty, all right, where is this thing?
00:30:05
Speaker 12: The chase? Yeah, HP pursuit us one on one Woodland Hills with channel I'm seeing on k cal.
00:30:10
Speaker 1: K Cow channel nine. Here we go, we got our cells a chase on channel nine.
00:30:15
Speaker 12: He's hitting there. They said he'd been hitting one hundred and twenty eight points. Okay, I mean even right now he's hitting one oh five.
00:30:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is on the wow another Woodland, another valley chase, the second valley chase of the of the day. And he's on the southbound one oh one, coming up on Winecta. Now he's getting to get off the freeway here, so he'll be in the Woodland Hills area. CHP following this chap fairly closely. But now he's getting off. Maybe he's seen his errors and he's gonna pull off and pull over and give up here. Oh my kidding, of course he's not. This is la.
00:30:50
Speaker 12: Looks like he's got his hazards on.
00:30:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, so he's gonna pull over, Okay, I was right, Yeah, he's gonna pull over slowly.
00:30:58
Speaker 12: How do you go one hundred and twenty and then just go yeah, I'm good.
00:31:01
Speaker 1: I think he realized he's on TV.
00:31:04
Speaker 12: He's only gonna get worse.
00:31:05
Speaker 1: He's done. Yeah, okay, So this chase is overt. He pulled into a parking lot here. I don't know what restaurant or there's a oh. He pulled over to a clean air vehicle spot.
00:31:17
Speaker 12: Dang, he just got out and went right on the ground.
00:31:19
Speaker 1: Is that a BMW? It looks like a BMW a Honda Okay, pink shorts?
00:31:29
Speaker 12: All right, no comment.
00:31:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's uh pulled over and now he's got five guys with guns pointing at him. What a dumb, dumb decision. All right, Chase is over. If you're flying over the one oh one or flying anywhere around the one o one southbound or northbound and you see the helicopters with the lights, that's what this is. Winetka and Ventura Ventura Freeway at Winnetka in the Woodland Hills area, Chase is over. A CHP got their guy.
00:31:56
Speaker 2: That's a code for You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI am six forty.
00:32:04
Speaker 1: Eh ding dong with you people. There's an interesting story on the La Times. SeaWorld, which is one of my favorite places growing up. I really enjoyed it. I ignored all the people screaming and yelling about the whales and the dolphins being held in captivity. I just enjoyed going. I wasn't going to get into the whole political deal, but SeaWorld San Diego's Throwback Summer concert series is turning the Marine Park into a multi generational phenomenon. Music fans are traveling from around the country to attend these hip hop or R and B concerts that are taking off. It's becoming huge. SeaWorld launched the event back in twenty nineteen, but it only recently took off with TikTok videos. But it's it's a big, huge deal for SeaWorld. A brand new audience. People have never been to SeaWorld before, coming into these concerts and sitting there and watching the you know, it's a perfect venue for it because they have all these you know, little stadiums that are set up and the band can be out in the water. The band's like thirty or forty feet out in the ocean and boats are pulling up to see what's going on. You know, thousands of fans in SeaWorld. It's become a really hip, cool phenomenon that just took off recently. So that's that's interesting. It's breathing a whole new life into SeaWorld that has been gone for a long long time by one of my favorite places. I loved SeaWorld. The people have worked at SeaWorld and currently work at SeaWorld are great. They're all animal lovers. That took a bad rap for a long time, and it was tough on the people who work at SeaWorld because they love animals. That's why they worked there. If you didn't love animals, sea animals, fish, sea mammals, sea turtles, all that stuff, you would never work at sea World. So they all enjoy and love animals. That's why they worked there. And then they were constantly getting hammered by people who are protesting, saying you've got to release the big whales. It's horrible to keep whales in captivity their entire life. And now they got this concert series that's taken off. Okay, staying with our animal news, remember we had that pig that was on the loose, the popular we Ho pig It now has a brand new hal.
00:34:35
Speaker 15: So the last time we talked, I believe, is when I lost my seventeenth oscar and I kind of made history as the biggest lose.
00:34:41
Speaker 1: We It is Diane Warren and she adopted this pig.
00:34:45
Speaker 5: Loser, but today's for a different reason.
00:34:48
Speaker 15: I want a pig. So she's the woman behind some of the most famous tracks on the big screen. But Diane Warren is also a huge animal lover, and today she took home West Hollywood's famous or runaway pig. Like so many of us, Warren watch Wilber's story unfold on TV this week. Well, since the owner never came forward to claim him, the shelter put him up for adoption. This morning, NBC Forest Camilla Frombaldi joins his life from the shelter with how this all played out? Camilla, What a great story and.
00:35:18
Speaker 10: What a remarkable ending here. It all started in West Hollywood to this animal shelter here in West la and now thanks to a silent auction, Wilbur was able to leave here this morning to his new home in Malibu.
00:35:32
Speaker 1: This Diane Warren is the real deal. Remember that cow that was on the loose years ago. She adopted that cow and gave that cow a whole new life. This woman puts her money where her mouth is and adopts and puts together homes for hundreds of animals.
00:35:53
Speaker 11: Hey come back.
00:35:55
Speaker 16: A runaway piglet who captured hearts in West Hollywood and across social media is no longer on the move.
00:36:02
Speaker 11: Well, oh my god, Wilver, look at it.
00:36:06
Speaker 13: He's a tiny boy.
00:36:08
Speaker 16: He has a new place to call home and a new last name.
00:36:12
Speaker 9: I won on behalf of Diane Warren.
00:36:15
Speaker 1: We want to thank you.
00:36:17
Speaker 16: Wilbur was adopted this morning from the West Los Angeles Animals Shelter by award winning songwriter Diane Warren.
00:36:23
Speaker 1: That's right. What did Diane Warren? And I know she wrote a lot of songs, and she also performed in a lot of songs. But I think she wrote that song if I could turn back Town with chaer. I think she wrote that that share song and uh and I think she did? Did she? Okay? But I think she also wrote why did another Lady Gaga song? Why did I? Why did you do that? I'm not asking you, Belly, I'm just saying that's the name of the song. Yeah, no, it's the name of the song only lady song, yes, Lady Gaga song called why did You Do That question mark? But this is a at well. I don't want to miss a thing from Aerosmith. She wrote that song as well. This is an unbelievable woman, so thank god that she is around. This is KFI. This has been the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app Dere's Live. Join Us on KFI AM six forty weeknight six to ten pm Monday through Friday, tinged along with this app
