Speaker 1: It's CAMF I am six forty and you're listening to
Speaker 1: the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: I'm usually a slow adopter of certain technology. I love technology,
Speaker 2: but I'm kind of slow on the uptick, if only
Speaker 2: because I want to make sure that it's safe. It's secure,
Speaker 2: it sound, and it also makes sense. I can use
Speaker 2: it a number of places. I was really slow adopting
Speaker 2: the idea of uber. I was really slow using an
Speaker 2: actual digital boarding pass to get on a plane. I've
Speaker 2: always had a hard copy backup because I was worried
Speaker 2: about my phone not working or not being able to scan,
Speaker 2: which did happen at least early on. And then the
Speaker 2: technology got better, and now I will never print out
Speaker 2: a boarding pass again if I can avoid it along
Speaker 2: those sab lines. A few weeks ago I added my
Speaker 2: California driver's license, a digital version I added to my
Speaker 2: Google wallet.
Speaker 3: I had that a few weeks ago. You said, yes,
Speaker 3: didn't just get available a few weeks ago for you?
Speaker 3: Or you just did it that.
Speaker 2: No, it's been it's been available for a while, but Apple,
Speaker 2: as the news was announced today, Apple was late to
Speaker 2: the game. I guess I could do it on Google
Speaker 2: because it took me about maybe five ten minutes. I
Speaker 2: had to go through the DMV website to do it,
Speaker 2: which I think is different from iPhone. You could do
Speaker 2: it straight from your phone and it will direct you.
Speaker 3: I wonder if that's tied to the Apple wallets whole,
Speaker 3: you know, things with them, with them being sued about
Speaker 3: allowing other credit cards and banks and stuff to be
Speaker 3: to allow you to put other credit cards onto your wallet,
Speaker 3: which they hadn't done. They'd made it so tight knit
Speaker 3: that you couldn't get anything on there. And I'm wondering
Speaker 3: if it was sort of intermixed with that and not
Speaker 3: being able to put your license on your way.
Speaker 2: Maybe because Apple has always had a tighter ecosystem Google,
Speaker 2: I have other documents and credit cards which are in
Speaker 2: the Google Wallet that I can use be at a
Speaker 2: deeper card like for e, say, I if I forget
Speaker 2: my wallet at home, I can even forget my phone
Speaker 2: at home. I can use my watch at Google and
Speaker 2: at Google Pay. It's like, oh my gosh, I forgot
Speaker 2: everything and I can go and still pay for stuff.
Speaker 3: And Apple, of course they've been losing like all of
Speaker 3: the lawsuits in Europe over this exact thing with that
Speaker 3: their Apple wallet.
Speaker 2: They have, and and they've they've had to just figure
Speaker 2: out how to you know, remain current in that regard. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and my phone is talking to me right now? Is
Speaker 2: that what it is? Yeah? Because it thought I was
Speaker 2: talking to it. You know, I wasn't trying to Wait,
Speaker 2: you don't have an Apple phone, do you? No?
Speaker 3: And I never just randomly starts talking, does it? Because
Speaker 3: like it's a great piece of technology.
Speaker 2: Oh, here we go. What I could do? I could say, Hey,
Speaker 2: s I r I and messed up everybody's day. Everybody's day.
Speaker 2: Mine doesn't work. I have never really had that issue before. Really. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: If it's just to have you voice activated, you know,
Speaker 2: set up your your voice what it is. Maybe it's
Speaker 2: a setting in there that I turned. Yeah, I have
Speaker 2: to do that on my you know, you get a
Speaker 2: new phone wherever, you have to train it to recognize
Speaker 2: your voice and then I can say, like, you know, okay, Google,
Speaker 2: hey Siri, setting alarm for eight pm tomorrow. Yes, they
Speaker 2: won't talk to me now. It's just you know, it's
Speaker 2: just it's like it's like a it's like a circus animal.
Speaker 2: Now you know when it's when it's time to show
Speaker 2: out and perform. They don't want to perform, but anyhow,
Speaker 2: Apple has now added the capability where you can use
Speaker 2: your iPhone and add your California driver's license to your
Speaker 2: Apple Wallet, and it can only be used in certain locations.
Speaker 2: You can't like show it to a law enforcement officer
Speaker 2: when you get pulled over for speeding and say it's
Speaker 2: on my phone, or you might do it. No, it's
Speaker 2: not going to help you. You have to have the
Speaker 2: physical driver's license or you'll be taking to jail or
Speaker 2: at least cited for not having proper identification.
Speaker 4: Californians with iPhones can now store their driver's license right
Speaker 4: in their digital wallet. Governor Gavin Newsom announced today the
Speaker 4: option is now available for iPhones and Apple watches. To
Speaker 4: add your ID, click the plus symbol at the top
Speaker 4: of the screen in your Apple Wallet and follow the
Speaker 4: prompts to verify your ID card. The feature is part
Speaker 4: of the dmb's broader Mobile Driver's License Pilot program that
Speaker 4: launched last year. Digital IDs can be shown at select
Speaker 4: businesses and TSA checkpoints, but carrying a physical card is
Speaker 4: still required.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it can be very handy. If and when it's
Speaker 2: accepted in all the places. Now on my version of it,
Speaker 2: I can use it. I can use it to generate
Speaker 2: a QR code, and then I can give it to
Speaker 2: send that to like a bartender if I had to
Speaker 2: verify my age, if I actually looked under twenty one
Speaker 2: or something, or if they wanted to verify my ID. Man, Look,
Speaker 2: those days are long gone. Yeah, but it was nice
Speaker 2: because when I went to Disneyland Resort a couple of
Speaker 2: weeks ago, and maybe the bartender was hitting on me
Speaker 2: or something, I would look, that's what I want to
Speaker 2: tell myself, fella or lady. It was lady. And my
Speaker 2: wife was like sitting like a ways away and she
Speaker 2: asked me. It was one of the bars in downtown
Speaker 2: Dizzy Disney, and she asked, hey, I got to see
Speaker 2: your ID, you know. And I was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 2: well I'm closer than ninety than I am twenty, but okay,
Speaker 2: why not? Then I should have said, wait, oh, you
Speaker 2: you look a lot younger than your A suggests. I said, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know why.
Speaker 3: Because you shave your head for the most part, yeah,
Speaker 3: for the most part. Yeah, yeah, because my grade's been
Speaker 3: coming in. It's been a few years since I got that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and I'm not shaving my head. That is not a
Speaker 3: pretty safe for anybody.
Speaker 2: Look, the little things mean so much as you get older.
Speaker 2: My wife was looking as she was not hitting on you.
Speaker 2: It's like, look, that's that is what I'm going to
Speaker 2: tell myself. I need that ego boost every now and then. Woman,
Speaker 2: I got my own mind to think of right, you're
Speaker 2: gonna argue with me about whether or woman was hitting
Speaker 2: on me. We're not going to have that argument. It's
Speaker 2: gonna be what I think it is. And I think
Speaker 2: that she wanted some of me. That's what I'm That's
Speaker 2: what I'm going to think. Going to sleep tonight, all right,
Speaker 2: slice of this cake. She was not happy with me,
Speaker 2: But you know, you know, Michael so is that's you know,
Speaker 2: that's what we need the ladies to keep our egos
Speaker 2: in check. We do. And I try to explain that
Speaker 2: to my wife. Men are ego driven and it's not
Speaker 2: about whether you are trying to get with someone. It
Speaker 2: don't mean anything to you, baby, but it means everything
Speaker 2: to me because I would like to feel like if
Speaker 2: I had to, I could still do the way I
Speaker 2: can put it. It's got to be there. You know
Speaker 2: it's going to go downhill, and none of us want
Speaker 2: We'll never know. But at least I can tell myself
Speaker 2: that I could.
Speaker 3: Have working out doing all those things, that it's not
Speaker 3: just for her. But she don't need to know.
Speaker 2: You can't explain that to women. You can't explain that
Speaker 2: to whys. It's like, why are you working out all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, nothing for reason, just for me.
Speaker 5: I want to stick around a little longer for you.
Speaker 5: I like to look at myself when I'm naked in
Speaker 5: the mirror. All right, there was the wait, wait, wait
Speaker 5: a minute, I'm I'm the only one. I don't I'm
Speaker 5: the only one who likes to look at myself. Seem
Speaker 5: to laugh at that too, he almost played.
Speaker 2: He said, I Am not going to get near that
Speaker 2: with a rim shot. No sir, no thank you. I
Speaker 2: think it's time to go to break when we come back.
Speaker 2: If you're like me, you probably get eaten up by
Speaker 2: mosquitoes this time of year. And the mosquitos in California
Speaker 2: seem to be far more aggressive than anywhere else in
Speaker 2: the country. They're just really, really aggressive, and they won't
Speaker 2: take no for an answer. No means no. They don't
Speaker 2: listen to that. They just keep biting. And there might
Speaker 2: be a reason, and we'll tell you why. It has
Speaker 2: everything to do with what you may drink. So if
Speaker 2: you drink this one drink, you might make yourself more
Speaker 2: attractive to mosquito. We'll tell you about it. Next is
Speaker 2: The Conway Show Mo Kelly in for Tim k IF
Speaker 2: I am six forty. I still got it.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Speaker 6: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: I get bitten by mosquitos all the damn time. I
Speaker 2: don't know why. It is sweet me. Maybe that's it.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's it. There's something special. I can't say that.
Speaker 2: I can't say that. Yes, you're rightful to tell you
Speaker 2: know that's not the case. It's so weird because the
Speaker 2: people that we love and the people are supposed to
Speaker 2: support us the most are the ones who always make
Speaker 2: sure that we never get a big head.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's good and it sucks. Yeah, it's like, can
Speaker 3: you be my biggest fans?
Speaker 2: Just why not that, you know, just be a cheerleader
Speaker 2: in a little cheerleading outfit. And it always just.
Speaker 3: Seems like it's at the perfect moment too, just when
Speaker 3: you're starting to feel a little bit comfortable and full
Speaker 3: of yourself.
Speaker 2: There they come into Yeah. It's like, hey, I've been
Speaker 2: losing weight. Doesn't look like I've been losing weight now.
Speaker 2: It looks about the same to me. It's moving around.
Speaker 2: I would say loss, yeah, yeah, I mean your butts
Speaker 2: bigger forgetting. I don't know, I haven't seen you on
Speaker 2: a scale. Get on a scale. Never mind, never mind marriage,
Speaker 2: you gotta love it, love me some me, Well that's
Speaker 2: one of us. That's right. If you're not gonna be
Speaker 2: your own biggest cheerleader, then who thank you? Anyhow, back
Speaker 2: to mosquitoes. They tear me up for some reason. I think,
Speaker 2: is there something that I'm doing? Is there something that
Speaker 2: I'm eating? Is there something that I'm drinking which makes
Speaker 2: me more appealing or attractive to the mosquitoes. Well, there's
Speaker 2: a drink which does make mosquitoes more attracted to you.
Speaker 2: And there's a National geographic experiment which reported that forty
Speaker 2: three men were recruited in West Africa and were sent
Speaker 2: into one of two outdoor tents that were sealed. One
Speaker 2: tent was unoccupied, but in the second, volunteers either drink
Speaker 2: a liter of water or a leader of beer. We
Speaker 2: do know that mosquitos track down their prey via smell,
Speaker 2: so to ensure these mosquitos got a whiff of the volunteers,
Speaker 2: a fan started to pump air from each of the
Speaker 2: tents down various tubes into a full cup of mosquitoes.
Speaker 2: The smell of a beer drinker fifteen minutes after downing
Speaker 2: a leader increased the proportion of mosquitos inclined to fly
Speaker 2: into the tubes by sixty five percent. The takeaway, obviously,
Speaker 2: is if you're drinking beer, you are more attracted to mosquitos.
Speaker 2: The drink that makes mosquitos infinitely more attracted to you
Speaker 2: is only listed here as beer. I'm tending to believe
Speaker 2: it's alcohol because I don't drink beer. The only time
Speaker 2: I drink beer is if I'm at a Dodger game.
Speaker 2: That's the only time I drink beer. Yeah, because I
Speaker 2: like to have beer, peanuts and some Dodia dogs. But
Speaker 2: I'll get eaten up by mosquitos whenever they're around. It's
Speaker 2: so bad where I try not to go down South
Speaker 2: in the summer for that reason, or anywhere it's hot
Speaker 2: and humid. Stop at Michael, stop it stop.
Speaker 3: See it's a different kind of mosquito too, because here
Speaker 3: we've talked about, you know, the last few years, the
Speaker 3: proliferation of these ankle bier mosquitos specifically, and those are
Speaker 3: the ones that hang around during the day, not like
Speaker 3: in the in the morning or in the evening like
Speaker 3: regular mosquitoes would normally do. But they hang around in
Speaker 3: the day and they stay. They float south of basically
Speaker 3: your knees, unlike regular mosquito, so you can't see them.
Speaker 2: You can't. And you'll walk through, let's say, a grassy patch,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, for me, I start scratching vigorously.
Speaker 2: I'm one thing I left out. I'm actually allergic to
Speaker 2: mosquito bites. And if I get too many, yeah, if
Speaker 2: I get too many, I will start swelling up like
Speaker 2: a balloon. Wow. And I have to usually take some
Speaker 2: sort of benadrill to calm down the reaction because I
Speaker 2: will swell up like golf balls on my face. If
Speaker 2: I get one on my face, I don't have to
Speaker 2: scratch it or anything. It's almost like someone punched me.
Speaker 3: Regardless of the type of mosquito. I mean, as far
Speaker 3: as you've been able to tell.
Speaker 2: As far as I can tell, it does not matter
Speaker 2: if I'm bitten by mosquito in Washington, DC, or LA
Speaker 2: or Long Beach. It does not matter.
Speaker 3: And that's the other problem with these, with these ankle
Speaker 3: biter mosquitos, is that you don't I mean, with regular mosquitos,
Speaker 3: usually you kind of get a feel for when they're
Speaker 3: on you at some point. With these ankle biters, it's
Speaker 3: like they've full in done their damage before you even
Speaker 3: realize it. Like you say, all of a sudden, you're
Speaker 3: just scratching the hell out of it.
Speaker 2: It's like I want to scratch to the bone. Yes,
Speaker 2: But one thing I have found, Benadrill has a cream now,
Speaker 2: an anti itch cream four bites, and it's wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 2: I found it in the past month or so, and
Speaker 2: I tried it a few times. It's great. So that's
Speaker 2: the only way that I can usually counteract it. But
Speaker 2: I don't drink beer. But I've heard that alcohol still
Speaker 2: in general, produces the same effect. So if you want
Speaker 2: to avoid as many mosquito bites as possible, especially if
Speaker 2: you're in the outdoors, try not to drink any alcohol
Speaker 2: because the sweetness of alcohol from what I understand draws
Speaker 2: them in. This study is more confirmation of that. Now,
Speaker 2: if they don't bite you, that means you're probably just
Speaker 2: you know, nasty smelling or something like that. Nasty, nasty, nasty. Now,
Speaker 2: but I don't drink beer. And the only time I
Speaker 2: ever really drank beer was a couple of times in
Speaker 2: high school because I went to a high school where
Speaker 2: people drank beer. They didn't drink hard liquor. So you
Speaker 2: go to a rage and cager party. Shout out South
Speaker 2: High School class of eighty seven. Now, But that's about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, as I've gotten older, lesson, I'm less and less
Speaker 3: inclined to beer. I mean, I was never really a
Speaker 3: big beer drinker anyways, but it's it's just too heavy
Speaker 3: for me.
Speaker 2: It's like it doesn't take much before it. Now I'm good.
Speaker 2: If I do have a beer, it's usually just one
Speaker 2: or two and I'm good.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's almost like a special occasion thing where it fills
Speaker 2: you up. Man, It just it fills you up. And
Speaker 2: I have never really loved the taste. There's certain beers
Speaker 2: I like the taste. I like them a modello, I
Speaker 2: like a China can absolutely, I like it, but it's
Speaker 2: not like I wake up it's like, you know what,
Speaker 2: I think I want to have a beer today. I
Speaker 2: don't have like a taste for it. I never have
Speaker 2: a desire for it, except for when I'm going to
Speaker 2: watch the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Yeah and yeah, you do have those occasions, Like I'm
Speaker 3: the same way with like SODA's the same thing. It's like,
Speaker 3: I'm not a big drinker of sodas or beer, but sometimes, man,
Speaker 3: when you get that really cold one and you it
Speaker 3: just hits right.
Speaker 2: I don't drink sodas either, and part of the reason
Speaker 2: was growing up I wasn't allowed to drink sodas. It
Speaker 2: wasn't in the house. But if I go back East,
Speaker 2: if I go to like the Detroit, I have the
Speaker 2: taste for certain type of soda. They have this soda
Speaker 2: called Fago Oh yeah, and they call it red pop,
Speaker 2: one of the flavors. So if I'm in a certain
Speaker 2: location the nostalgia of having certain drinks, then I'll have
Speaker 2: a soda. But I don't like, you know, we have
Speaker 2: sodas in our kitchen and the vinie machines. I've never
Speaker 2: ever wanted to buy one, never will buy one. Are
Speaker 2: you familiar with the ICP Fago concerts. That's what I
Speaker 2: was thinking about.
Speaker 3: I had a feeling Steph had that look on his face. No, No,
Speaker 3: insane clown posse. You just got to look it up.
Speaker 3: It's what they do during their contents. It's like their thing.
Speaker 3: They'll just open up bottles and spray the crowd with
Speaker 3: Fago like you, and you'll see whole containers going through
Speaker 3: the people like injured. Yeah, it's a whole big thing.
Speaker 2: So when you said that nasty, that's sticky stuff all
Speaker 2: over you. Yeah, well it's insane clown posseic there was true. Yeah.
Speaker 2: When we come back, we'll get an update on Metro
Speaker 2: and possibly the addition of cameras to help quell some
Speaker 2: of the violence. I don't know, maybe they'll just get
Speaker 2: all the crimes on camera. Now, we'll talk about it
Speaker 2: with Michael Monks. In just a second.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Tim conwayjun you're on demand from KFI
Speaker 6: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: And on my show would later with Monk Kelly from
Speaker 2: seven to ten PM. I often talk about the ills
Speaker 2: of Metro, the issues, the problems, the violence, the unsanitary conditions,
Speaker 2: the reticence of Metro to actually engage in dialogue with me,
Speaker 2: But one person who they will speak to is kfi's
Speaker 2: own Michael Monks, who joins me right now. Michael, how
Speaker 2: are you doing this evening.
Speaker 7: I'm doing well, although I have to say I'm a
Speaker 7: little upset with you and Krozer and the slander you
Speaker 7: engaged in about pineapple on pizza earlier in the program.
Speaker 2: Bite your tongue. I will deal with you in a moment, sir,
Speaker 2: But I was being serious about how Metro has reached
Speaker 2: out to you, has spoken to you about cafi's coverage
Speaker 2: of the issues of Metro? Have they reached out to
Speaker 2: you recently?
Speaker 7: You know, they know I'm a journalist, and they know
Speaker 7: I'm a commuter who uses public transit with relative frequency,
Speaker 7: so a frequency. So I think they, you know, understand
Speaker 7: that I might have a better understanding than regular journalist
Speaker 7: and USO. I'm not dumping on them all the time.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 7: For me, you know, I'm an editorial guy. I'm not
Speaker 7: somebody's who's speaking my personal views. But what you say
Speaker 7: is not inaccurate. You know, it is a challenge system
Speaker 7: with some difficult conditions and some varieties of unpleasantness when
Speaker 7: one goes about traveling upon it. So I think it's
Speaker 7: worth a dialogue. You danced around that like you were
Speaker 7: on Dancing with the Stars. That was well done, very
Speaker 7: very agile, but thank you.
Speaker 2: But out of that I wanted to have a conversation
Speaker 2: with Metro about what they were trying to do to
Speaker 2: improve the situation, change the conversation and what are they
Speaker 2: recommending right now or hoping to do well.
Speaker 7: They might get some more cash because they are tired
Speaker 7: of people parking the bike lanes, and so is the city,
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, the bus lanes, and so is the city
Speaker 7: of La So they've collaborated on installing cameras on the
Speaker 7: fronts of certain buses so that they can bust the
Speaker 7: folks who are doing this. You know, if you're riding
Speaker 7: on some of the freeways around here, you see some
Speaker 7: signs that say, hey, you know, if you were on
Speaker 7: a bus right now, you'd save about twenty minutes. And
Speaker 7: that's what public transportation is trying to tell folks that
Speaker 7: it should, or at least that's what folks are telling
Speaker 7: public transportation, that it should be incentivized, make it easy
Speaker 7: and convenient, and make it worth my while. So if
Speaker 7: you're taking a bus around downtown hoping to save on parking,
Speaker 7: hoping to save on your commute time, that can be
Speaker 7: disrupted if somebody has parked in the designated bus lanes.
Speaker 7: So they're looking to find these folks. They're going to
Speaker 7: get you on camera. Then they're going to check to
Speaker 7: see if you were in fact breaking the lawn. They're
Speaker 7: going to mail you a fat ticket.
Speaker 2: Do we know? I remember this story originally being reported,
Speaker 2: but now we're at that point where it's actually going
Speaker 2: to be implemented. Do we know, at least first offense,
Speaker 2: how much these tickets would be?
Speaker 7: We do, indeed, And this is this has past the
Speaker 7: City Council's Transportation Committee, so now it's waiting that last
Speaker 7: step before the City Council, and then they'll have a
Speaker 7: couple of months of what they're calling a warning period.
Speaker 7: So the first thing you'll get in the mail or
Speaker 7: maybe on your dash is hey, don't do this again,
Speaker 7: because if you do it again, they're going to have
Speaker 7: a fine of about three hundred and eighty three dollars
Speaker 7: or a first time offense, and then if you're late,
Speaker 7: it goes up. I'm sorry, it's two hundred and eighty
Speaker 7: three dollars. It's after that if you're late, it's three
Speaker 7: hundred and eighty dollars. If you do it again, if
Speaker 7: they find you a second time, it's about four hundred
Speaker 7: dollars that they're going to be ticketing you for doing this.
Speaker 7: The LA Department of Transportation thinks that they'll be able
Speaker 7: to get about five million dollars a year off of
Speaker 7: this because they ran a pilot program. They tested it
Speaker 7: for just one month a few years ago, actually on
Speaker 7: just a few routes, and they think they can ticket,
Speaker 7: based on that estimation, over one hundred thousand offenders every year.
Speaker 2: I know why Metro would like to do this. My
Speaker 2: question is me as a driver, Let's say I ran
Speaker 2: a foul and I was ticketed. Is this considered like
Speaker 2: a parking violation and they could uphold my registration the
Speaker 2: next year, or is it considered like a moving violation.
Speaker 7: And I could be hauled in the court or a
Speaker 7: failure to appear. I will find out the specifics of that.
Speaker 7: All I know at this point is what the fines
Speaker 7: are supposed to be. This is a parking violation as
Speaker 7: far as I know, because it's enforced right now by
Speaker 7: the parking officers. And those aren't always lapd you know.
Speaker 7: The l DOOT has its own branch of folks who
Speaker 7: are out there enforcing parking regulations in the city. They're
Speaker 7: not police, they're not sworn officers, but they do enforce
Speaker 7: the traffic laws, and so that's the entity that's enforcing this.
Speaker 7: And right now they say, look, we're out there with
Speaker 7: a few guys here and there, but some folks will
Speaker 7: see our officers and they're so hell bent on parking
Speaker 7: in a bus lane that they'll drive around the block.
Speaker 7: The officers walk away, and then they snag that spot,
Speaker 7: and now you won't be able to get away with that,
Speaker 7: because if a bus is coming up, they're gonna get
Speaker 7: you on camera. It's not all over the city. It's
Speaker 7: just a few specific lines that they're hitting. It'll start
Speaker 7: first on the two to one two on Librea, and
Speaker 7: then the seven to zero on Wilshire, and then a
Speaker 7: couple months after that they're gonna get on the Silver Line,
Speaker 7: and then another one in the downtown area, the seventy
Speaker 7: on Oliven Grand.
Speaker 2: For those who don't know, I used to ride Metro
Speaker 2: every single day. You presently ride it almost every single day,
Speaker 2: so our experiences may be somewhat different. Can I get you,
Speaker 2: Michael Monkster, stay for another segment because I would like
Speaker 2: to get your assessment of what it's like riding Metro
Speaker 2: on a consistent basis. Can you do that for me?
Speaker 7: If you pour me a nice cold glass of Fago?
Speaker 7: I'm here all night.
Speaker 2: What do you know about fago? I'm not gonna get
Speaker 2: you pizza with damn pineapple on it. That's for damn sure,
Speaker 2: that's fair, all right, it's Colways show Mo Kelly in
Speaker 2: for Conway. Yeah, Michael, that pizza is not gonna have.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Speaker 6: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Bubble was right in the middle of a conversation with
Speaker 2: kfi's own Michael Monks about Metro. Last segment, we talked
Speaker 2: about the cameras which are in process of being installed
Speaker 2: on the Metro buses, which will ticket drivers who may
Speaker 2: be illegally parked in bus lanes through the use of AI.
Speaker 2: You won't even know it until you receive the ticket
Speaker 2: in the mail. It's not like they're going to stop.
Speaker 2: But also it got me thinking about the fact that
Speaker 2: Michael is a regular writer of Metro. I used to
Speaker 2: be a regular writer of Metro. So Michael, let me
Speaker 2: ask you, what is your assessment of the Metro experience
Speaker 2: day to day.
Speaker 7: Well, you know, we've talked about this a little bit before. Statistically,
Speaker 7: the problems that we encounter and that KFI reports on
Speaker 7: other media outlet's report on. Statistically, that's not going to
Speaker 7: happen to you. Unfortunately, events have happened, though, and it
Speaker 7: raises people's concerns about taking it. So from a public
Speaker 7: relations standpoint, it's detrimental for Metro, and I'm sure they
Speaker 7: know that. For writers, it reminds you that, in spite
Speaker 7: of the fact that you're not being attacked, you got
Speaker 7: to keep your eyes and ears open. You know there
Speaker 7: I mentioned unpleasantness, and that's what you can't really quantify
Speaker 7: when reporting about incidents that have taken place. You can't
Speaker 7: really find statistics on how bad the trains smelled, or
Speaker 7: how deeply uncomfortable you were by the behavior of someone
Speaker 7: who didn't hurt you, who didn't hit you, but who
Speaker 7: was having a mental health episode right before you, and
Speaker 7: how that impacts whether you would want to take that
Speaker 7: train ride again. The thing that really stands out to
Speaker 7: me is, you know, look, I live downtown. I see
Speaker 7: it right outside my apartment building. How challenged some individuals
Speaker 7: are with their mental health. And it's scary and it's uncomfortable.
Speaker 7: But this is La I mean, this is a global city.
Speaker 7: People come from all over to see what we have
Speaker 7: to offer here. And often if I'm taking the V
Speaker 7: line up to Burbank to visit you all in the studio,
Speaker 7: I see a tourists who appear, you know, based on
Speaker 7: their language, that they've come from abroad, and I think
Speaker 7: they probably had no idea what this experience was going
Speaker 7: to be like with somebody either misbehaving or just creating
Speaker 7: an all around uncomfortable experience in one of the cars.
Speaker 7: Is they make their way to Universal Studios and then
Speaker 7: what story do they have to tell when they go
Speaker 7: back home.
Speaker 2: But you're not from La yourself, are you.
Speaker 7: I am from Covington, Kentucky, right so metropolis on the
Speaker 7: Ohio River.
Speaker 2: But you also did have an outside in view of
Speaker 2: mass transit here in the city that I wouldn't have
Speaker 2: because I'm looking at it through a native Angelino's eyes exactly.
Speaker 7: And And the thing is is you know, Covington, Kentucky
Speaker 7: is part of the Cincinnati metro area, and Cincinnati has
Speaker 7: a street car, and for urban enthusiasts people who like
Speaker 7: public transportation, that was a big deal when it came,
Speaker 7: but you know, it basically is a loop that goes
Speaker 7: around some of the downtown attractions. For me, the metro
Speaker 7: line was one of the main draws that convinced me
Speaker 7: I could live in LA. I didn't bring a car.
Speaker 7: I sold my car before I fled Kentucky and moved
Speaker 7: because I knew I could take these trains to wherever
Speaker 7: I needed to be, wherever I ended up working. And
Speaker 7: sure enough, by the time Chris Little called me to
Speaker 7: offer me a job at KFI was really excited to
Speaker 7: know that. Until you know, iHeart gave me a lovely
Speaker 7: vehicle that I could take, I take away.
Speaker 2: I got to jump in there. You actually thought that
Speaker 2: LA's metro system was sufficient to accommodate you wherever you
Speaker 2: would end up working.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, because I had been visiting LA with dreams of
Speaker 7: moving here for a decade before I finally was courageous
Speaker 7: enough to do it. And I always stayed downtown and
Speaker 7: always took the train because like I can go to
Speaker 7: Santa Monica. I could go to Long Beach, I can
Speaker 7: go to Pasadena. I can go you know, and sometimes
Speaker 7: you have to get on a couple trains. Sometimes you
Speaker 7: have to get on a train and a bus. Sometimes
Speaker 7: you have to get on a little train and then
Speaker 7: get on big train. But with the right planning and
Speaker 7: you know, resourcefulness, you can make it work.
Speaker 2: And so La is a.
Speaker 7: Transit city, and there are not a lot of cities
Speaker 7: in this country making the investments that La is making
Speaker 7: in its transit system. I mean there are lines sprouting
Speaker 7: out everywhere. It really is, on paper on the map,
Speaker 7: a pretty good system for a city that is celebrated
Speaker 7: around the world or at least known around the world
Speaker 7: for traffic car traffic. So it's pretty great in that respect.
Speaker 7: It just needs to clean up its act to make
Speaker 7: what looks good on paper translate to real life.
Speaker 2: How long is your commute?
Speaker 7: Usually if I'm taking from downtown to Burbank and I
Speaker 7: get lucky, Let's say I walk over to Pershing Square,
Speaker 7: which again that's where you get an environment where like
Speaker 7: come on, you know, just outside of the station. It's
Speaker 7: just why is this allowed? You know, like, why isn't
Speaker 7: there anybody who can make this cleaner so that I
Speaker 7: don't feel like I need to look behind my shoulder.
Speaker 2: Let's be specific. You're talking about homeless defecation, urination. What
Speaker 2: are we dealing with?
Speaker 7: Check check check checkay, you know, I mean the drug
Speaker 7: use that's going on, and it just stuff that will
Speaker 7: make you uncomfortable outside the station. So if I walk
Speaker 7: to Pershing Square, that takes about ten minutes. If I'm
Speaker 7: there and the train is coming, it can be anywhere
Speaker 7: from one to twelve minutes to wait for the train
Speaker 7: with the frequency of the B line. And then the
Speaker 7: train ride itself is exactly twenty three minutes from the
Speaker 7: Pershing Square station to the Studio City Universal City station
Speaker 7: and then I hop on the Burbank pink bus route
Speaker 7: and that takes about eight minutes to drop me off
Speaker 7: there on Olive Avenue.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, the Burbank Pink bus will pick you
Speaker 2: up from the Universal City stoff. Because I had to
Speaker 2: take the one fifty eight bus. Don't take some of
Speaker 2: the metro buses.
Speaker 7: I usually schedule my commute to take the pink bus
Speaker 7: because its frequency is a little more predictable because they
Speaker 7: will be there in the high traffic hours the morning rush,
Speaker 7: in the afternoon rush, they've got every fifteen minutes. So
Speaker 7: whenever the train comes down here, I know I'm going
Speaker 7: to catch a bus, and it's not as scary as
Speaker 7: Oh no, the two two two is leaving in right
Speaker 7: twelve minutes. I'm still fifteen minutes out. I know I'm
Speaker 7: going to get a Burbank bus, even if I missed
Speaker 7: the more recent one, And that drops you right in front,
Speaker 7: on a right in front, right across from the Whole
Speaker 7: Foods across from our office.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how late does that run? If you were to
Speaker 2: leave here, like you had a long day, you're at
Speaker 2: the office and you want to get back downtown, Like
Speaker 2: I'm usually not getting off work until ten o'clock, So
Speaker 2: it's not an option for me, But how late would
Speaker 2: it be an option for you?
Speaker 7: The Burbank bus, I believe, stops at about nine o'clock.
Speaker 7: That's what I thought from running there. But there's still
Speaker 7: the Metro buses that go down a similar pass, not
Speaker 7: the exact same paths, but the Burbank bus will let
Speaker 7: use your Metro card to transfer on there.
Speaker 2: Well, all I can do is say I'm glad that
Speaker 2: you're safe. I'm glad that you haven't fallen victim to
Speaker 2: anything on Metro, and please give Metro my love. I'm
Speaker 2: still waiting for them to come on my show with
Speaker 2: me and talk about all things Metro.
Speaker 7: They really should, because it would be important for the
Speaker 7: for an organization that has as much money allocated to
Speaker 7: it to come on to a platform that may not
Speaker 7: be overly inviting and have some hard questions for them.
Speaker 7: But you know, it's a it's a it's an important
Speaker 7: agency and they're doing a lot of important work that
Speaker 7: will have an impact on this region for decades to come.
Speaker 7: So I hope they do heed your call.
Speaker 2: My friend. Yeah, I'm a teddy beard. There's nothing to
Speaker 2: worry about. I'll be nice.
Speaker 7: I'll bee you're pretty mean to pineapple on pizza. I'm
Speaker 7: not letting that go.
Speaker 2: That's different. Okay, that's justifying what's wrong to hmm. I'll
Speaker 2: tell you you, Kentucky folk. Aha, here's the problem by Michael,
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