Hour 2 (10.08) Rough week for LAFD: An emergency truck flipped in South Los Angeles racing to a homeless encampment fire, both firefighters OK, and four more were hurt in a fridge explosion at a Silver Lake house. California and Texas remain two different planets. Death row here almost never ends in an execution. Texas uses a firing squad, and those are set to be televised.  

Costco’s Kirkland is somehow a fashion brand now. Some guy on the 5 was yelling at CHP and Caltrans to open the freeway — or he wasn’t. Clap, then snap. Timmy put $40 on the Padres to win the Series so they’d get wiped out, and now he’s off to Vegas to curse Milwaukee the same way. He’s still shocked his name isn’t on the Stanley Cup after betting against the LA Kings every game so they’d win two out of three. Hollywood filming money is back: Gavin Newsom says more than $1 billion in tax credits and 35 new films are coming to Greater LA, including the last “Friday,” with 30,000-plus cast, crew, and background. Air Supply finally gets a Hollywood Walk of Fame star this weekend. Timmy’s a fan. Atta boys. Then a quieter close: ten years ago today, Palm Springs Officer Lesley Zerebny — daughter of Timmy’s buddy, CHP Officer David Kling, a new mom who followed her dad into the job — was killed in the line of duty with her partner, veteran Officer Jose Gilbert Vega, two months from retirement. 

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Hour 3 (10.08) Timmy took his daughter to Vegas for her 21st, which looked nothing like his own. Back then he and the boys chartered a bus for a pittance, hit Caesars to gamble legally for the first time, and his roommate blew $2,000 in minutes and fled Sin City. The replacement roommate was a little too naked.  

Laughing gas is on the way out in LA, with nitrous oxide headed for a recreational ban, and Starlink Wi-Fi is coming to American Airlines. Long Beach is in for a rough weekend: high tide, 30-foot waves, El Niño, Tropical Storm Rachel dumping rain, Kelvin waves Sunday, so get the sandbags. Tropical Storm Simon has strengthened into a hurricane in the Pacific, Big Bear is dropping toward snow, and there’s a fire in Chinatown with locals told to shelter in place.  

Gen Z is leaving LA, but not for Texas the way everybody assumed. U-Haul’s top five: Dallas, Houston, Bakersfield, Fresno, and — number one — San Francisco and the Bay Area. Chargers and Rams both play SoFi this weekend, so LA sports is stacked. And the new Burbank Airport finally opens for real on Tuesday after a renovation that felt endless, complete with mock flights to make sure the whole thing actually works. 

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 Hour 4 (10.08) LA city folks are opening summer utility bills and losing their minds — water, electricity, the whole sticker-shock package. Not Timmy. He lives in the Valley. A Change.org petition, “Cap the Heat Tax,” wants an independent audit of those LADWP heat-wave bills.  

Soup Plantation, the buffet he loved, died in 2020 and is clawing back into California. The salad bar lives. Bellio wants to know why Koo Koo Roo ever closed.  

Petros from “Petros & Money” called to test the gear and stayed. The Padres went down in flames. Owner Jose E. Feliciano’s wife Kwanza Jones won amateur night at the Apollo and released “We Gonna Win.” Spoiler: They did not in fact win.  

UCLA’s eight-clap is a mess — better than USC? Why did San Diego lose? Timmy put $40 on them. Never bet his predictions. He and Petros then get into a Dodgers three-peat and why players keep grabbing sports journalist David Vassegh’s nipples in the locker room.  

Some guy on the 5 was screaming at CHP and Caltrans to open the freeway. Or he wasn’t. Clap, then snap. Next curse: $40 on Milwaukee in Vegas. And Timmy’s still shocked his name isn’t on the Stanley Cup after he bet against the LA Kings every game so they’d win two out of three. You’re welcome, Los Angeles. 

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Hour 1 (10.07)  The Dodgers bounced Atlanta and are headed to the NLCS — yes, yes, yes — with Milwaukee or the Padres waiting, and eight wins from a Natty. Do they still say Natty, or is it Wussy? Timmy doesn’t care. He grew up a Dodgers fan and hasn’t been this wired since 1981, already talking parade if they match the last team to string three titles together.  

Then his old friend, Emmy-nominated author Brad Meltzer, stops by with the latest in the 40-book “I Am” series, “We Are the Wright Brothers,” to talk about putting good into the world, teaching kids history, and working with icons like Jane Goodall and Dolly Parton. Timmy’s editorial notes: add Caitlin Clark, Spielberg and Simone Biles are already on the list, and somebody needs to launch an “I Was” series starting with Bruce Jenner. 

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Hour 2 (10.07)  Rick Monday called it before it happened, saying Andy Pages was “gonna put a charge into one of these soon,” and Pages did it with the go-ahead single in the seventh. Timmy nearly missed the win because he was stuck in an hour of workplace sexual harassment training, which goes pretty deep. His question: Do men whose equipment has retired still have to sit through it? “SNL” already did the sketch, so we play it.  

Then the KFI snack room, stocked like a high school vending machine, all spicy and Flaming Hot. Tim’s traffic idea: A brown spinning turd on the roof so everybody gets out of the way.  

Paramount Skydance swallowing Warner Bros. has Hollywood asking who’s next for layoffs. Corona was a parking lot this morning — a Caltrans slab job on the 91 ran long, and some Riverside commutes hit three hours. The heat wave has the mosquitoes out, including West Nile. One kid landed in the hospital with a rash and a fainting spell. Bring on the cooler air.  

Mario Solis of NBC Sports was in the Dodgers clubhouse after they closed out Atlanta, bottles popping. Three-peat talk is official. Go team. 

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Hour 3 (10.07) Say, did you hear the news? Your Los Angeles Dodgers are moving onto the NCAA! Sad news coming out of Malibu, with another family ripped apart, after 51-year-old Chef Ryo Uchimiya of Nobu was wiped out on the dangerous Pacific Coast Highway. He was sleeping in his car prior to his shift when a speeding 16-year-old driving a Range Rover smashed into the back of his vehicle, killing Uchimiya on impact. He leaves behind a wife and two children. There is also a city-wide national emergency in anticipation of El Nino, centering on Malibu. Will those fancy coastal towns survive the rising surf and incoming storms?

Timmy just returned from Las Vegas with the family to celebrate his daughter turning 21. It was 11:58 p.m., and the lady bartender made Timmy’s one and only stand outside ’til the clock struck midnight. How rude. He did leave his wallet in the bar, but it was easily traced back to Timmy because of all the photos of himself he keeps in there. Meanwhile, down in Orange County’s John Wayne Airport, a man from Washington trespassed and stole an airport tug — which only goes about five miles an hour — before stealing a lavatory truck. What a classy guy. 

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Hour 4 (10.07)  The Dodgers bounced Atlanta and are headed to the NLCS — yes, yes, yes — with Milwaukee or the Padres waiting, and eight wins from a Natty. Do they still say Natty, or is it Wussy? Timmy doesn’t care. He grew up a Dodgers fan and hasn’t been this wired since 1981, already talking parade if they match the last team to string three titles together.  

Then his old friend, Emmy-nominated author Brad Meltzer, stops by with the latest in the 40-book “I Am” series, “We Are the Wright Brothers,” to talk about putting good into the world, teaching kids history, and working with icons like Jane Goodall and Dolly Parton. Timmy’s editorial notes: Add Caitlin Clark, because Spielberg and Simone Biles are already on the list — and somebody needs to launch an “I Was” series starting with Bruce Jenner. 

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Hour 1 (10.02) A comment from President Trump about Los Angeles and San Diego sparked outrage across California, while an Arcadia child abuse investigation took another major turn. Plus, the Warner Bros. water tower gets a new look and KFI debates a first-class travel dilemma. 

6:05 – Andy Riesmeyer fills in for Tim Conway Jr. and opens the show with a tour through the week's biggest headlines, including concerns over a reported Siberian anthrax outbreak and escalating international tensions. Andy and Crozier also compare Russian to the Romance languages and debate how languages evolve. 

6:20 – President Trump faces criticism after remarks at a Nebraska rally in which he referenced Los Angeles and San Diego while discussing Iran and national security. Andy also talks about the iconic Warner Bros. water tower, which was quickly updated following the completion of the Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery merger.  

6:35 – Andy tests the studio's knowledge of Yakko, Wakko, and Dot from Animaniacs, the famous cartoon siblings who lived in the Warner Bros. water tower. Then he covers the shocking Arcadia surrogacy case, where authorities arrested Silvia Zhang and Guojun Xuan on child abuse-related charges connected to a home that housed 21 children.  

6:50 – A viral TikTok reignites a classic relationship debate: if a couple is offered only one first-class seat, who gets it? Andy, Crozier, and the KFI crew weigh in on travel etiquette, expectations, and whether sharing an upgrade is the right move. 

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Hour 2 (10.06) Southern California could be heading toward an unusually wet winter after a climate scientist issued his strongest El Niño warning yet. Andy also tackles the first-class airplane debate, a bizarre parking championship, and a Taco Bell-fueled endurance race. 

7:05 – Andy Riesmeyer fills in for Tim and breaks down growing concerns over a developing "Super El Niño" that forecasters say could bring a particularly wet California winter. He also discusses recent underground electrical vault explosions in Los Angeles before diving back into listener talkbacks on the first-class airplane seat controversy.  

7:20 – Andy takes a trip down memory lane, sharing stories about his favorite diner and the excitement of early-morning food runs when he was younger. The conversation turns nostalgic as the crew reminisces about memorable local hangouts and routines. 

7:35 – Not all of the talkbacks are friendly as some listeners make it clear they'd rather have Tim back in the host chair. Andy also covers Philadelphia's inaugural parallel parking championship and a listener comment sparks a conversation about iconic teen dramas from the 2000s.  

7:50 – The first-class seat debate continues as the studio argues whether airlines would allow passengers to switch between cabins during a flight. Plus, Andy looks at the Taco Bell 50K, the ultramarathon that requires runners to eat Taco Bell along the route.  

Thanks for listening to Tim Conway Jr. on KFI! 🎙️ 

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