Tim Conway Jr. on Demand

Hour 1 (09.15) A speeding SUV slammed into a Metro bus in Chatsworth, killing two people and sending six others to hospitals. Tim tracks the rapidly developing scene, witness accounts, and a major update in the Nick Reiner murder case.  6:05 PM A violent collision between an SUV and a Metro bus shut down part of Chatsworth Tuesday evening. Tim follows breaking developments as first responders work the scene and investigators begin piecing together what happened.  6:20 PM Traffic grinds to a halt around Nordhoff Street and De Soto Avenue as the crash investigation expands. Authorities confirm two fatalities and six people transported to hospitals with injuries ranging from minor to critical.  6:35 PM A witness tells ABC7 the SUV sped through a red light before crashing into the side of the Metro bus. Tim breaks down the latest accounts from the scene, where firefighters had to remove the SUV from the bus after the impact.  6:50 PM Los Angeles County prosecutors announce they will not seek the death penalty against Nick Reiner, who is charged with murdering his parents, filmmaker Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Reiner. If convicted, he would instead face life without the possibility of parole. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 2 (09.15) A news helicopter covering a deadly Chatsworth Metro bus crash suddenly went down just blocks from the original disaster. Tim follows the extraordinary double tragedy as authorities work to confirm victims, causes, and the aircraft's affiliation.  7:05 PM Just hours after a fatal SUV-versus-Metro-bus collision shook Chatsworth, a helicopter crashes nearby and bursts into flames. Tim tracks breaking reports that the aircraft may have been covering the bus crash for a television news outlet.  7:20 PM Authorities and reporters work to confirm details as emergency crews secure the helicopter crash scene. Early reports identify the aircraft as a television news helicopter, while officials provide initial information about fatalities and the ongoing investigation.  7:50 PM The story continues to develop as news organizations seek confirmation about the aircraft and those aboard. NBC reports that it has lost contact with personnel who were in the helicopter while investigators continue gathering facts from the scene. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 3 (09.15) An NBC news helicopter crashed while covering a deadly Chatsworth Metro bus collision, turning one tragedy into a second major emergency. Tim follows developments throughout the evening as reporters, pilots, and officials work to determine what happened.  8:05 Tim continues coverage of the helicopter crash that occurred near the scene of the deadly Chatsworth collision between an SUV and a Metro Line 166 bus. NBC4's Robert Kovacik reports what he witnessed leading up to the crash as uncertainty remains about who was aboard the aircraft.  8:20 Breaking-news coverage continues as investigators begin piecing together the circumstances surrounding the helicopter crash. Tim tracks updates from the scene and discusses the unanswered questions facing authorities.  8:35 Former Los Angeles helicopter pilot and reporter Tim Lynn joins Tim to explain how news helicopters operate during major breaking-news events and what factors investigators will likely examine. He also addresses rumors that circulated in the immediate aftermath of the crash.  8:50 NBC confirms the crashed aircraft was its news helicopter. Tim reflects on the tragedy, the risks faced by airborne news crews, and the impact the story has had on Southern California's broadcast community as officials work to identify those involved. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 4 (09.15) A veteran NBC reporter reflects on years spent aboard the same helicopter that crashed in Chatsworth, while city leaders and aviation experts weigh in on a night that shook Southern California newsrooms.  9:05 Tim recaps the devastating events in Chatsworth and speaks with Will Kohlschreiber, who spent years reporting from the NBC helicopter involved in the crash. He shares insight into the aircraft, the crew culture, and the emotional impact of the loss.   9:20 Coverage continues as Tim walks through how the evening unfolded. He highlights the professionalism of the NBC news team during the crisis and replays the station's official announcement confirming the helicopter belonged to NBC.   9:35 Tim carries live remarks from Karen Bass, Rico Gross, and Lindsey Horvath as officials address the helicopter crash and the ongoing investigation. The latest response efforts and next steps are discussed.   9:50 Desmond Shaw, helicopter pilot for KCAL, explains the operational and technical issues investigators may examine as they work to determine what happened. Tim also revisits NBC's public confirmation regarding the aircraft involved in the crash.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 1 (9.14) 6:05 — Mark Thompson is in the Tim Conway Jr castle, and the lads are talking all things sports betting and the death of their favorite fur babies. Aside from his cat dying, Mark admits to a pretty good weekend of wins and grins thanks to his sporting prowess. There’s a fire burning in La Habra Heights — and it’s burning homes, even with five water-dropping helicopters fighting the flames.  6:20 — Marky Mark and Timmy C talk all things football, and it’s not such a ding-dong moment that the Rams and Chargers aren’t doing so well. With the city heat in Los Angeles, people are fighting. Even Bellio is flipping people off on the 5, and Mark’s getting Facebook critiqued for his delightful laugh. F that guy. Not Mark, F his troll.  6:35 — It’s been more than a year since The Foosh’s near-fatal road accident, and Tim’s getting soppy. Without The Foosh, who would send Timmy all those funny memes? There’s been an E-bike buyback in Orange County because parents no longer want their kids on those dangerous death traps. The electronic bikes are getting exchanged for gift cards and Angels tickets.  6:50 — The Emmys have started, and Michael J. Fox is getting the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award. Back in the ’80s, Conway had a fun run-in with Michael J. Fox right after he won his two Emmys. Timmy takes a whip-around with them to ask if they’d bring their winning Emmy with them to a restaurant or bar following the ceremony. And now? There’s a high-speed chase in downtown LA.  #USOpen #SamSimon #NFL #Chargers #Rams #LaHabrafire #MarkThompson #TheFoosh #ebike #ebikebuyback #OrangeCounty #Angels #ToddSpitzer #Emmys #MichaelJFox #DTLA #Emmywinners #highspeedchase #TimConwayJr See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 2 (9.14) The downtown high-speed chase blew right past KFI’s own Michael Monks — he’s on the phone with the play-by-play — while Heather Brooker is in studio after a full day on the Primetime Emmys red carpet, grilling winners and walkers in the heat. Noah Wyle took one for HBO Max’s “The Pitt,” Apple TV’s “Pluribus” and Widow’s Bay cleaned up, and Jean Smart just made history with five straight Emmys for Hacks. Then it’s football pain: the only two teams that scored seven or fewer in Week 1 were Timmy’s Chargers and Bellio’s Broncos, and the Rams are already a MASH unit, with Myles Garrett done for the season after knee surgery. Mark’s never had hair extensions; Timmy almost went blond this weekend. Vegas is printing money on concerts and sports, not just the tables. And the hour turns grim: a McLaren hit a tree in Irvine, killing both people in the car, including 27-year-old James Wehr, co-founder of South OC Cars & Coffee, plus a fire at a Target in Silver Lake.  7:05 — The high-speed chase downtown went right past the home of KFI’s own Michael Monks! He’s on the phone to spill the speedy tea. Meanwhile, Heather Brooker is here to talk all things Emmys. She’s been down there all day on the red carpet interviewing the stars as they traipse their stilettos, gowns and tuxes down the ruby rug.   7:20 — Back with Heather Brooker, who’s been standing in the beating sun all day to interview Hollywood’s winners, grinners, gurners and head-turners on the Primetime Emmys red carpet. Noah Wyle won for HBO Max’s “The Pitt,” while Apple TV’s “Pluribus” also took home a trophy or several. Meanwhile, Jean Smart has now officially set a new record, having won five back-to-back Emmys for her starring role in “Hacks,” another HBO Max series. “Widow’s Bay” on Apple TV also won big.  7:35 — Did you know? The only two teams that scored seven or less in the NFL opening week were Timmy’s team the Chargers, and Bellio’s Broncos. Meanwhile, the Rams have been dealing with several players on the injured list, including Myles Garrett, who’ll be out of commission all season following his knee surgery.   7:50 — Have you ever had hair extensions? Mark says he hasn’t, but Timmy almost got blond ones installed this weekend. Meanwhile, in Las Vegas, non-gaming entertainment like concerts and sports brings in huge cash to Sin City. And in Irvine, there was a horrible crash, in which a McLaren crashed into a tree, killing the two people in the vehicle, including 27-years-old James Wehr, co-founder South OC Cars & Coffee car show. There was also a fire at a Target in Silver Lake.  #Emmys #redcarpet #MichaelMonks #HeatherBrooker #Hollywood #highspeedchase #DTLA #Chargers #Broncos #MylesGarrett #hairextensions #LasVegas #McLarencrash #Irvine #JamesWehr #SouthOCCars&Coffee #Targetfire #SilverLake #Irvine See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 3 (9.14) At the Emmys, Martin Short didn’t win — but the cutaway of him ripping up his speech and tossing it on the ground only proved he’s still the funniest, cutest, most gracious guy in Hollywood. Back in the real LA, the $500 million Sixth Street Viaduct has turned into an e-bike and dirt-bike playground, so cops finally shut down a weekend street takeover: nearly 80 citations, bikes and scooters impounded, traffic unblocked. Cue the “CHiPs” flashback.   Timmy then hits Burger King nuggets, drive-thru line-jumpers, and cheap-eats hacks — use the apps for loyalty and birthday deals, assemble deconstructed sandwiches in the parking lot, and don’t sleep on gas-station chicken, the city’s best dirty bird.   The hour closes on fashion royalty: Bob Mackie, the “Sultan of Sequins,” has died at 87. Tim knew him from “The Carol Burnett Show”; Mackie also dressed Cher, Tina Turner, Diana Ross, and Miley Cyrus. And just to keep you up at night: Kelvin waves, those little El Niño ripples no taller than a foot, might theoretically wipe us all out. Oh, great.  8:05 — At the Emmys, Martin Short lost out, but there was a cutaway to him ripping up his speech and throwing it on the ground. We can all agree he’s the funniest, cutest, bestest, most charming, most gracious guy in Hollywood. The $500 million Sixth Street Bridge has been a magnet for kids on e-bikes, dirt bikes and e-scooters, and the cops have finally had it with the street takeovers and shut it down, with citations, confiscations and arrests. Now, let’s remember Eric Estrada and “CHiPS.”  8:20 — To more on the brouhaha that happened over the weekend on the Sixth Street Viaduct — or as some locals apparently call it, the “Sixth Street Bitch”? — cops swooped in on the street takeover that was blocking and disrupting traffic on the famed bridge, impounding bikes and scooters, and issuing nearly 80 citations.   8:35 —Timmy talks Burger King’s Chicken Nuggets and flagrant line jumping in the drive-thru. Fast-food hacks: Get on the apps, because they include loyalty programs and birthday discounts to keep costs down. Next up, people are ordering deconstructed sandwiches and putting them together in the car park to save a little dough. And don’t sleep on gas-station chicken — that’s the best dirty bird in town!  8:50 — Bob Mackie, the world’s greatest clothing designer known as the “Sultan of Sequins,” has died at age 87. Tim knew him personally — he did all the clothes for “The Carol Burnett Show.” He also famously dressed Cher, Tina Turner, Diana Ross and Miley Cyrus. And have you heard about Kelvin waves? They’re waves no more than 12 inches, a side effect of El Nino that could potentially wipe us all out. Oh, great.  #MartinShort #Emmyswinners #streettakeover #SixthStreetBridge #CHiPS #ebikes #EricEstrada #Broncos #BurgerKingchickennuggets #fastfoodhacks #Cher #TinaTurner #DianaRoss #MileyCyrus #deconstructedsandwiches #gasstationchicken #crispychicken #BobMackie #Kelvinwaves #ElNino See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 4 (9.14) Mark and Tim are having a week: Rams, Chargers, dying cats, broken ankles, SoCal sticker shock — and heat-fueled road rage so bad Bellio got flipped off on the 5 by some ding-dong glued to a phone.   Then it’s Orange County’s e-bike buyback — gift cards from Target, Walmart and Dick’s, Angels tickets for the first 75, no questions asked — because parents are done spending Saturdays in the ER.   Somehow Timmy jumps from a downtown high-speed chase to the Emmys red carpet to childhood memories of ice-cold suppositories, because of course he does. Heather Brooker is in studio after a full carpet day: Michael J. Fox got a lifetime honor, Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” beat Jimmy Kimmel and John Oliver for variety series, and Heather wore the dress her Instagram fans voted on. Atta girl.  9:05 — Between the Rams and Chargers, dying cats, broken ankles and the increasing cost of living in SoCal, Marky Mark and Timmy C have been doing it tough this week. Angelenos are angry this week, and it must be the heat. Plus, Bellio got the acrylic bird from some dumb B who was on her phone while driving on the 5.  9:20 — Cards from Target, Walmart, Dick’s. First 75 in line also got two Angels tickets! Working, broken, stolen-looking — they took ’em. We’re talking the Orange County e-bike buy-back! Parents are tired of spending their Saturdays in the emergency room. First guy in line was Jesse Hayes, 20, who spent three months on life support after an e-bike crash in Huntington Beach.   9:35 — How did we go from high-speed car chases in downtown LA, to the Emmys red carpet, to Tim’s remembrances of ice rockets up his tuchus courtesy of his mom’s love of suppositories? We don’t know but Conway sure found a way to segue from award winners to enemas.  9:50 — Heather Brooker is back in studio with Mark and Tim to break down the Emmys while the big drama and comedy races are still out. So far, the night’s already delivered: Michael J. Fox picked up a lifetime achievement honor, and Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” beat Jimmy Kimmel and John Oliver for variety series — a win that lands extra hard after CBS canceled the show. Heather, never one to phone it in, wore a dress her Instagram fans actually voted on. Atta girl.  #TimConwayJr #MarkThompson #KFIAM640 #Rams #Chargers #LATraffic #Bellio #EBikeBuyback #OrangeCounty #ToddSpitzer #JesseHayes #AngelStadium #Emmys #HeatherBrooker #StephenColbert #LateShow #MichaelJFox #JimmyKimmel #JohnOliver #HighSpeedChase See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 1 (9.11) Twenty-five years on, the names were read aloud again — 184 at the Pentagon, all 2,977 in Lower Manhattan. Tim's got the whole day, plus a nursing home burning in Glendale.  6:05 — Fire tears through a nursing home on West Mountain Street in Glendale, near Brand Park. Firefighters contained the blaze to the building; residents and a staff member were taken to the hospital with minor injuries, and the cause is still unknown. Then to the 25th anniversary of 9/11: ceremonies at ground zero in New York and across the country. President Trump spoke at the Pentagon, where the names and photos of all 184 people killed there were presented.  6:20 — Nineteen al-Qaeda hijackers, four commercial airliners, three targets, one morning. Nearly 3,000 people were killed, and American foreign policy and national security were rewritten in a day.  6:35 —9.11 Memorial. A massive flag unfurled down the Pentagon wall in the rain at sunrise; the same thing first responders did on September 12, 2001. It's an emotional hour. It should be. A  6:50 — The Rams got embarrassed 27-7 by the 49ers in Melbourne. They didn't land until about 28 hours before kickoff while San Francisco had been in the country all week. A crowd of 100,021 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground watched the heaviest Super Bowl favorite in over a decade to fly 15 hours each way and spend under 40 hours on the ground. Kyren Williams' 5-yard run in the second quarter was the only time they scored all day. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 2 (9.11) Twenty-five years on, the names were read aloud again — 184 at the Pentagon, all 2,977 in Lower Manhattan. Tim's got the whole day, plus a nursing home burning in Glendale.  6:05 — Fire tears through a nursing home on West Mountain Street in Glendale, near Brand Park. Firefighters contained the blaze to the building; residents and a staff member were taken to the hospital with minor injuries, and the cause is still unknown. Then to the 25th anniversary of 9/11: ceremonies at ground zero in New York and across the country. President Trump spoke at the Pentagon, where the names and photos of all 184 people killed there were presented.  6:20 — Nineteen al-Qaeda hijackers, four commercial airliners, three targets, one morning. Nearly 3,000 people were killed, and American foreign policy and national security were rewritten in a day.  6:35 —9.11 Memorial. A massive flag unfurled down the Pentagon wall in the rain at sunrise; the same thing first responders did on September 12, 2001. It's an emotional hour. It should be.   6:50 — The Rams got embarrassed 27-7 by the 49ers in Melbourne. They didn't land until about 28 hours before kickoff while San Francisco had been in the country all week. A crowd of 100,021 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground watched the heaviest Super Bowl favorite in over a decade to fly 15 hours each way and spend under 40 hours on the ground. Kyren Williams' 5-yard run in the second quarter was the only time they scored all day. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 3 (9.11) A slow planetary wave is pushing up the coast and will raise California sea levels about a foot by mid-October — roughly what the last hundred years of rise added, all at once.  8:05 — A coastal Kelvin wave that started at the equator hit South America and turned north at about six miles an hour. By mid-October it should put California water levels 10 to 14 inches above normal, and one UC Santa Cruz researcher notes every 2 to 4 inches of sea level doubles the flood risk for communities built at sea level. This El Niño is forecast to be the strongest since at least 1950. The warm water is already dragging Baja species north — hammerheads off Malibu, mahi-mahi and oversized yellowtail in water that never sees them.  8:20 — Tim Lynn spent 30 years in law enforcement and flew for the Huntington Beach PD Air Unit before he became KTLA's Sky5 pilot-reporter. On 9/11 the FAA grounded everything civilian in the country and left the sky to military, police and medical flights. He remembers what Southern California looked like from up there with nothing else flying, LAPD running pursuits below, and CHP working the coordination.  8:35 — Sammy Long on sports and the betting board.  8:50 — Judge Judy Sheindlin is 83 and done with on-camera work. Judy Justice ends in October after nearly 30 years on TV, and her son Adam Levy — a former Putnam County DA — takes over the small claims bench with his own show. CBS airs a career retrospective on September 22. Also: the CDC declared the cyclospora outbreak over today, nearly 13,000 illnesses across 21 states traced to iceberg lettuce out of central Mexico. And LADWP got the last of South L.A. back on late this morning. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 4 (9.11) At 6:45 a.m. our time, the FAA shut American airspace for the first time in history — more than 4,500 planes in the air, all of them ordered down. Police helicopters were one of the only exceptions.  9:05 — A massive American flag unfurled down the Pentagon wall in the rain at sunrise, the same thing first responders did on September 12, 2001. It's an emotional hour. It should be.  9:20 — Twenty-five years on, everybody still knows exactly where they were standing. The hour opens up for the memories and what the day did to people who watched it from three time zones away.  9:35 — LADOT's Sunset Blvd/Cesar Chavez plan cuts car lanes and street parking through Echo Park and Silver Lake for dedicated bus lanes and protected bike lanes; merchants say they'll lose access and push traffic onto residential streets. Then the Fork Reporter's Mexican picks, and the theory that top-shelf Mexican food requires "Crazy" or "Loco" in the name.  9:50 — Tim Lynn spent 30 years in law enforcement and flew for the Huntington Beach PD Air Unit before he became KTLA's Sky5 pilot-reporter. On 9/11 the FAA grounded everything civilian in the country and left the sky to military, police and medical flights. He remembers what Southern California looked like from up there with nothing else flying, LAPD running pursuits below, and CHP working the coordination. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 1 (9.10) Bugs, embezzlement, remembrance, and the NFL in Australia. We start with the pests taking advantage of this heat and humidity, then the FBI arrest of an Orange County booster club treasurer accused of draining more than $400,000 from a high school football program. We take time to remember two L.A. Kings scouts lost on 9/11, twenty-five years later. And we close in Melbourne, where the Rams and 49ers are about to make NFL history.  6:05 — Pest Control The heat and humidity are doing what they do every September: driving every crawling, flying, biting thing in Southern California indoors. Roaches, ants, rodents, spiders — why the muggy stretch sends pest calls through the roof, and what actually works when they show up in your kitchen.  6:20 — Aliso Viejo Woman Allegedly Stole Over $400K From High School Football Team Federal agents arrested 56-year-old Julie Hanway Molina outside her Aliso Viejo home Thursday morning on a four-count wire fraud indictment. Prosecutors say that while serving as treasurer of the Aliso Niguel High School booster club, she diverted more than $400,000 from the nonprofit to pay her mortgage and credit card bills, using falsified treasurer reports to cover it up. If convicted, she faces up to 20 years on each count.  6:35 — 2 L.A. Kings Scouts Who Died on 9/11 Remembered 25 Years Later Garnet "Ace" Bailey, the Kings' director of pro scouting, and amateur scout Mark Bavis were aboard United Flight 175 out of Boston on September 11, 2001, headed to training camp. Bailey was 53. Bavis was 31. A quarter century later, the team still wears an "AM" sticker on the back of every helmet, and the Kings mascot carries Bailey's name.  6:50 — Melbourne Goes NFL: Rams and 49ers Open Down Under The Rams and 49ers meet at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in the first NFL regular season game ever played in Australia, in front of a crowd near 100,000. The Rams come in as favorites with a rebuilt defense — Myles Garrett, Trent McDuffie, and Aaron Donald out of retirement — while the Niners flew in nearly a week early to beat the jet lag that L.A. is ignoring entirely. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 2 (9.10) The alarm bells are coming from inside the building this hour. We start with the Anthropic researcher who quit and warned that AI could kill us all by 2030 — and the company insider who agreed with him. Then a billion-dollar lawsuit over the Boyle Heights warehouse fire, plus two Delta flights that lost cabin pressure in the same stretch. A Hollywood Hills home invasion victim whose story didn't hold up. And the City Council writing a check for the "no-cost" Olympics.  7:05 — AI Doomsday From the Inside A 27-year-old researcher named Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic this week and posted the reason on X, where it's racked up more than 150 million views. His claim: the people building this technology privately believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade, and both Anthropic and OpenAI are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." Then it got stranger — Anthropic's own head of alignment publicly agreed, putting the odds of AI wiping out humanity at greater than 10% in the next decade.  7:20 — Billion-Dollar Blame Game & Delta's Bad Week Lineage Logistics is suing solar operator Altus Power and contractor Pearce Services for more than $1 billion, claiming they sparked the June 17 Boyle Heights warehouse fire that burned for over a week and left the neighborhood with foul air, rodents, and insects for months. The suit alleges roughly 200 faulty electrical connections were known about by May and the contractors re-energized the array anyway. Both companies deny it. Then: two separate Delta flights lost cabin pressure. On Flight 2311 out of LAX, the oxygen masks dropped and the 737 fell 27,000 feet in about ten minutes before diverting to Las Vegas.  7:35 — Wrong House, Wrong Night A man in Hollywood Hills West told police he was robbed and beaten during an overnight home invasion — five suspects, a gun, a stolen safe, and a getaway car. There was just one problem with his story. Police say he doesn't live there and wasn't house-sitting either. Investigators now believe the victim was a squatter, which means somebody picked the wrong house on the wrong night, twice over. It happened a day after a reported hot prowl at Quentin Tarantino's place.  7:50 — The "No-Cost" Olympics Starts Costing The City Council voted 8-3 to authorize $13.04 million in debt financing for 107 non-patrol LAPD vehicles for the 2028 Games — trucks, vans, mobile substations, hazmat rigs. A separate $30 million request for 300 patrol cars got pushed back for more review. Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez voted no and pointed out the obvious: L.A. was promised a no-cost Olympics, and the vehicle tab alone is headed north of $40 million. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 3 (9.10) The 8 o'clock hour is about what things cost and who's paying. Record box office numbers, and it's not just the movies driving them. Airfare into Vegas jumping at double the national rate. The Rams' trip to Australia that didn't go according to plan. New COVID shots, a shrinking planet, and Torrance classrooms with no air conditioning. Then Apple's first foldable iPhone, at two grand.  8:05 — The Return of Popcorn Domestic ticket sales hit $4.76 billion between May 1 and Labor Day, the biggest summer in box office history — but the blockbusters aren't the whole story. Theaters say the real money is at the concession stand, with AMC reporting food sales up 50% from last year and its MegaBag of popcorn leading the way. Then a different kind of sticker shock: airfares into Las Vegas are up more than 20% since March, nearly double the national increase, and the data suggests more people are just driving.  8:20 — Rams Fall Flat Down Under The NFL's first-ever regular season game in Australia went to San Francisco, 27-7. Brock Purdy threw three touchdown passes at the Melbourne Cricket Ground while the Rams — Super Bowl favorites in a lot of preseason picks — managed one score all night, a 5-yard Kyren Williams run in the second quarter, and got shut out over the final two and a half quarters. The Niners spent nearly a week acclimating. The Rams flew in and out inside 48 hours. Draw your own conclusions.  8:35 — Shots, Shrinkage & Sweltering Classrooms The updated 2026-2027 COVID vaccines are rolling out nationwide at pharmacies and clinics, reformulated to target the XFG variant. Then look up: a new study out of the German Aerospace Center says Mercury is shrinking about 30% faster than we thought — as much as 14 miles off the diameter of a planet only 3,000 miles across. And closer to home, about 75% of Torrance Unified schools have no air conditioning, and with record heat and humidity this week, parents are pulling kids out early. The district says it won't count against attendance.  8:50 — Apple's $2,000 Fold Apple unveiled the iPhone Duo, its first foldable, at $1,999 for the base model and up to $3,199 loaded. It's shaped like a passport, opens to a 7.6-inch screen, and it's the biggest change to the iPhone since the home button disappeared in 2017. Preorders start October 16, shipping October 23. Duolingo, whose mascot is an owl named Duo, posted "We infringed upon" — and Samsung replied with a note of solidarity: they copied us, too. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 4 (9.10) Three stories about consequences and one about a man who picked the wrong place to squat. We open by remembering two L.A. Kings scouts lost on 9/11, twenty-five years later. Then the billion-dollar lawsuit over the Boyle Heights warehouse fire, plus two Delta flights that lost cabin pressure in the same stretch. A Hollywood Hills home invasion victim whose story fell apart. And the City Council writing a check for the "no-cost" Olympics.  9:05 — 2 L.A. Kings Scouts Who Died on 9/11 Remembered 25 Years Later Garnet "Ace" Bailey, the Kings' director of pro scouting, and amateur scout Mark Bavis were aboard United Flight 175 out of Boston on September 11, 2001, headed to training camp. Bailey was 53. Bavis was 31. A quarter century later, the team still wears an "AM" sticker on the back of every helmet, and the Kings mascot carries Bailey's name.  9:20 — Billion-Dollar Blame Game & Delta's Bad Week Lineage Logistics is suing solar operator Altus Power and contractor Pearce Services for more than $1 billion, claiming they sparked the June 17 Boyle Heights warehouse fire that burned for over a week and left the neighborhood with foul air, rodents, and insects for months. The suit alleges roughly 200 faulty electrical connections were known about by May and the contractors re-energized the array anyway. Both companies deny it. Then: two separate Delta flights lost cabin pressure. On Flight 2311 out of LAX, the oxygen masks dropped and the 737 fell 27,000 feet in about ten minutes before diverting to Las Vegas.  9:35 — Wrong House, Wrong Night A man in Hollywood Hills West told police he was robbed and beaten during an overnight home invasion — five suspects, a gun, a stolen safe, and a getaway car. There was just one problem with his story. Police say he doesn't live there and wasn't house-sitting either. Investigators now believe the victim was a squatter, which means somebody picked the wrong house on the wrong night, twice over. It happened a day after a reported hot prowl at Quentin Tarantino's place.  9:50 — The "No-Cost" Olympics Starts Costing The City Council voted 8-3 to authorize $13.04 million in debt financing for 107 non-patrol LAPD vehicles for the 2028 Games — trucks, vans, mobile substations, hazmat rigs. A separate $30 million request for 300 patrol cars got pushed back for more review. Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez voted no and pointed out the obvious: L.A. was promised a no-cost Olympics, and the vehicle tab alone is headed north of $40 million. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 1 (9.09) Eight Dana Point homes red-tagged, one already in the ocean, 75 yards of beach gone. In Sherman Oaks, In-N-Out keeps its lease. Pineapple Hill got 60 days. (155 characters) 6:05 — Football is back, which is the only good news in a day like this one. It's 108 in the Valley, Timmy's wife clocked 114 in the car, and a brush fire broke out along the 405 in the Sepulveda Pass just after 4:15. It closed the Getty Center and put Brentwood and Bel-Air under evacuation warnings. 6:20 — The fire — now called the Getty Fire — burned about 25 acres before crews stopped its forward progress. And Delta 2311 out of LAX never made Salt Lake City: the masks dropped over the Mojave, the 737 went from 36,000 feet to 9,000 in about ten minutes, and 181 people ended up in Las Vegas instead. 6:35 — Pineapple Hill Saloon & Grill has been pouring at 4454 Van Nuys Blvd since 1978. Angela Marsden got a 60-day notice to vacate on August 6 for a redevelopment — and the In-N-Out on the same lot has been told it can stay. She was promised her lease back after construction. Nothing in writing. Sign the petition https://www.change.org/p/save-pineapple-hill-saloon-grill? 6:50 — Down in Dana Point, roughly 75 yards of beach vanished in four days. Eight homes on Beach Road are red-tagged, three more yellow-tagged, one has partially collapsed into the ocean, and about 500 boulders are being trucked in to hold the line on what's left.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 2 (9.09) A retired NASCAR driver wants to drop a $400 million racetrack and 275 garage condos on Lake Elsinore. Membership: $300,000. Rooftop helipads optional. (151 characters) 7:05 — Another 7-foot-high tide tonight between 8 and 10, on top of a week of Tropical Storm Marie swell that damaged garage in Long Beach and chewed up the bluff under beachfront homes in Dana Point. Meanwhile it's triple digits inland. And up in Topanga sits Canyon View Ranch — five acres of pools, waterfalls and tunnels built by Randy Neece and Joe Timko after a day at Disneyland convinced them dogs deserved one too. Timmy wants a dog. We agree. 7:20 — Road-racing legend Boris Said is pitching Elsinore Ring, a 300-acre private motorsport country club about 70 miles from LA. A 3.2-mile, 22-turn track designed by Hermann Tilke's firm, 275 garage condos that swallow eight cars apiece with a living room stacked on top, a glass-bottom pool over the track, and rooftop helipads on the penthouses. Membership runs about $300,000, capped at 450. Dream extreme, lads. 7:35 — In studio: college party promoter Dillon Hennessy and music agent Myles Goldman, in to talk "Rolling Loud: The Movie." Owen Wilson sneaks his 13-year-old into the biggest hip-hop festival on earth and immediately loses him. Matt Rife, Henry Winkler, Travis Scott, Sexyy Red, Ty Dolla $ign and Ski Mask the Slump God all turn up. 7:50 — It's in theaters October 2, and the promo push is a campus concert tour plus a bus collecting influencers across the country and hauling them to the premiere. Grassroots, loud, and rolling.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 3 (9.09) Santa Anita pulled its permit to cut 34 protected oaks for the 2028 Olympic course. Plus: Barry Melrose, who took the Gretzky Kings to the Cup Final, dead at 70. (161 characters) 8:05 — A 25-year-old was arrested Monday night near Kris Jenner's place after her private security stopped him in the neighborhood. Deputies booked him on suspicion of stalking; he's charged with one misdemeanor count of trespassing. And in Torrance, 499 condo owners each got a bill for more than $49,000 to cover $19 million in re-piping, elevators and a full podium rebuild. 8:20 — Barry Melrose has died at 70. The mullet, the suits, twenty-seven years at ESPN — but in this town he's the guy who walked in as a rookie head coach in 1992 and took Gretzky's Kings to the franchise's first Stanley Cup Final. 8:35 — Malibu declared a local emergency after a sinkhole roughly 30 by 60 feet and 25 to 30 feet deep opened in a driveway on Sea Level Drive. Down in Dana Point, eight homes on Beach Road are red-tagged and one has already been demolished. Meanwhile Santa Anita has hit pause on its permit to remove 34 protected oaks for the Olympic cross-country course, and LADOT wants to cut Sunset down to one lane each way from Silver Lake to downtown. 8:50 — The humidity is the whole story. Downtown's heat index topped out around 116 today, which is why 98 degrees felt like standing in a dryer.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 4 (9.09) A Torrance HOA billed 499 condos $49,000 each for $19 million in repairs. State law caps what a board can do alone. Plus: Rolling Loud: The Movie guys in studio. (160 characters) 9:05 — Pineapple Hill Saloon & Grill has been the Valley's living room since 1978, and now the strip mall around it is getting torn down. Angela Marsden — yes, that Angela Marsden — got a 60-day notice and a verbal promise she'd be welcomed back. Verbal. The In-N-Out on the same lot is staying put. Sign the petition https://www.change.org/p/save-pineapple-hill-saloon-grill 9:20 — Dillon Hennessy and Myles Goldman stop by to talk "Rolling Loud: The Movie," out October 2. Owen Wilson smuggles his 13-year-old into the loudest hip-hop festival on earth against his wife's explicit orders, loses him inside of an hour, and spends the rest of the film tearing through mosh pits with Matt Rife. Henry Winkler, Christine Ko, Travis Scott, Sexyy Red, Ty Dolla $ign and Ski Mask the Slump God all show up. 9:35 — The promo plan is a campus concert tour and a bus collecting influencers across the country for the premiere. The guys explain why you sell a hip-hop movie the way you'd sell a festival: on the ground, in person, and loud. 9:50 — A Torrance condo owner opened a bill for more than $49,000. So did the other 498 owners in his complex — $19 million total, $13 million of it to rebuild the podium, the rest for re-piping and elevators. They've sued and they're trying to recall the board. Under Davis-Stirling, anything past 5% of the annual budget needs a vote of the members, unless the board declares an emergency. Guess which box got checked.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 1 (9.08)  Powerful surf from Marie forced evacuations along the Long Beach Peninsula and threatened beachfront homes in Dana Point as Southern California braced for another round of high tides. Tim also looks ahead to a heat spike after the holiday weekend and shares a Las Vegas gambling mishap.  6:05 PM Powerful waves generated by Marie battered Southern California's coastline, damaging beachfront homes in Dana Point and creating dangerous conditions from Orange County to Malibu. Officials warned residents and beachgoers to prepare for more high surf and coastal flooding.   6:20 PM Tim breaks down the evening high tides expected in Dana Point, Seal Beach, Long Beach, and Malibu. In Long Beach, residents of roughly 20 homes along the Peninsula were ordered to evacuate as waves overtopped defenses and damaged portions of the boardwalk.   6:35 PM After an unusually wet Labor Day weekend, forecasts pointed to a rapid warmup with hot and humid conditions returning midweek. Tim talks about whether the holiday weather offers any clues for the months ahead and what Southern Californians can expect moving into the fall season.  6:50 PM Tim spent the weekend in Las Vegas and accidentally locked his gambling money inside a safe, creating a stressful detour for the trip. Plus, a reminder for drivers making the Vegas run: the left lane is for passing. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 2 (9.08) After decades of talk, Los Angeles finally gets a rail connection to LAX as the LAX/Metro Transit Center opens. Tim also tracks a Harbor Gateway crime sweep, an Arleta explosion, and live coverage of Southern California's peak high tides.  7:05 PM Tim recounts a rain-soaked stop in Antelope Valley on the drive back from Las Vegas before turning to a major transit milestone. The LAX/Metro Transit Center opens, linking Metro rail service to the airport via shuttle connections and setting the stage for future direct airport access.   7:20 PM A memorial service was held for Jackie the eagle, with attendees invited to share stories and memories at an open microphone. Tim highlights some of the tributes and the community response.  7:35 PM An explosion was reported after sparks at a construction site in Arleta ignited nearby materials. Tim also covers the Rams' upcoming trip to Australia for a regular-season matchup against the 49ers, a landmark event for the NFL's international schedule.  7:50 PM The LAPD conducted a major enforcement operation in Harbor Gateway, targeting criminal activity and announcing significant penalties for offenders. Later, Tim follows Southern California's high tides in real time as waves and coastal flooding threats reach their evening peak. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 3 (9.08) Screenwriter and director Billy Ray joins Tim for a full hour on friendship, filmmaking, West Point, and the future of Hollywood. Ray also shares insights from Animals, his upcoming Ben Affleck thriller, and weighs in on media consolidation.  8:05 PM Writer and director Billy Ray joins Tim to talk about growing up together, the differences between male and female friendships, and the discipline required to succeed as a screenwriter. Ray also previews Animals, the upcoming Ben Affleck crime thriller that he co-wrote.   8:20 PM Billy Ray sticks around to talk sports, reflect on Rob Reiner's impact on filmmaking, and discuss a recent project connected to West Point. The conversation turns to mentorship, storytelling, and the people who shaped his career.  8:35 PM Ray goes deeper into his experience working at West Point, explaining why the academy left such a strong impression on him. He highlights the culture, discipline, and work ethic he witnessed while developing a new series connected to the campus.  8:50 PM Tim asks Billy Ray about the proposed Warner Bros./Paramount merger and the broader trend of media consolidation. Ray argues against conglomeration in the entertainment industry and discusses how corporate negotiations can affect a studio's reputation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 4 (9.08) Screenwriter and director Billy Ray joins Tim for a wide-ranging conversation about friendship, filmmaking, sports, and his upcoming movie Animals starring Ben Affleck. Plus, Tim recounts a Las Vegas gambling mishap and checks out LA's newest transit link to LAX.  9:05 PM Tim spent the weekend in Las Vegas and accidentally locked away his gambling money in a hotel safe, creating an unexpected challenge. He also delivers a public-service announcement for drivers headed to and from Vegas: the left lane is for passing.  9:20 PM A rainy stop in the Antelope Valley gives Tim another chance to try his luck before heading home. He also looks at the LAX/Metro Transit Center, which connects Metro rail service to the airport area and expands public transit access for travelers.   9:35 PM Writer and director Billy Ray joins Tim in studio to discuss growing up together, the differences between male and female friendships, and the discipline required to build a successful writing career. Ray also previews Animals, the upcoming Ben Affleck thriller that he co-wrote.   9:50 PM Billy Ray sticks around to talk sports, reflect on Rob Reiner's impact on filmmaking, and discuss another recent project filmed at West Point. The conversation turns to storytelling, leadership, and the lessons that shape great films. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 1 (9.04) Sepulveda Pass on the 405 — after a rare storm dropped about 1.5 inches of rain across Los Angeles and even Antelope Valley. The much-hyped hurricane mostly fizzled into rain instead of chaos, but Long Beach and Huntington Beach are still dealing with a huge swell, and the next threat is already here: extreme heat, high humidity, and possible 100-degree temps on the coast.   Then it’s HOA sticker shock out of Torrance, where condo owners got hit with a $50,000 special assessment each, plus a look at the viral Gen Z “darty” wellness-party trend of barely dressed college kids doing yoga and runs on frat-house lawns. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 2 (9.04) Nathan Fielder’s new documentary on imprisoned Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, then aviation buff. Amazon Prime cargo jet that crashed near Miami International Airport on a flight from San Juan, killing five people on the ground.   KFI’s queen of entertainment Heather Brooker joins him to unpack the Creative Arts Emmys — why the awards now sprawl across multiple nights instead of one big TV celebration, plus the big winners “Widow’s Bay” and “Spider Noir.” September in LA already feels like awards season as they talk “below the line” honors, overseas series being lifted from South Korea and India, a tearjerker posthumous Emmy for Rob Reiner’s guest role on “The Bear,” and 90-year-old Julie Andrews picking up her fourth Emmy for her “Bridgerton” voice-over. Andy closes with Listener Talkbacks, naming and shaming the best of the bunch — and a whole lot of people who, like the crew, really hate their HOA. And Ed Moore. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 3 (9.04) Shouting like a brat at newsman Rick Chambers mid-broadcast at Laurel Canyon and Ventura Blvd. Then he and the crew dive into the latest concert trend — no encores! — before launching Andy’s favorite caller game, Solo 2 Solo, where he plays stripped-down guitar-only tracks and listeners guess the song and artist.   A caller from Japan comes close twice, the next listener nails Pantera’s “Walk,” and the show pays respects to the late Dimebag Darrell. More Solo 2 Solo follows as KFI listeners prove they’re as bad at listening as the Riesmeyer crew, with a salute to the late George Harrison rounding out a loud, chaotic, music-nerd hour. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 4 (9.04)  SoCal braces for a miserable heatwave that feels like 110 with 100% humidity — Foggy Bottom with palm trees.  Gen Z is officially over “spicy water,” and vodka seltzer brands are reading the room and pulling the plug.   Then the crew rips into HOA hell: sky-high special assessments that have condo-dwelling Angelenos furious, including one Torrance building staring down a $50K hit — each. Listeners are invited to name-and-shame the people making their lives miserable, before Heather dives into stretched-out Emmys week.   “I Love Lucy” still winning hardware, Rob Reiner getting a posthumous Emmy for “The Bear” and a standing ovation that left no dry eyes, and a last-call hope that Hollywood’s working dreamers can keep the industry we love from circling the drain. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 1 (9.04) Wheel of Fortune fired the announcer it's had since 2011. Six people in a small hatchback on Angeles Crest, four of them dead, and Marie's swell reaching the beaches tonight.  6:05 — Sony Pictures Television terminated Wheel of Fortune announcer Jim Thornton, days after suspending him, following what the studio called a thorough investigation. It stems from a complaint another passenger made about what she saw on his laptop during a May 14 American Airlines flight from Charlotte to LAX. Officers met the plane. Thornton was questioned briefly, was not arrested, and has not been charged. His attorney says he did nothing wrong and that he was in a support forum connected to suicide-prevention work he took up after losing a family member. Cro brings up Pete Townshend, arrested in 2003 in Britain's Operation Ore, who said he'd accessed a site as research tied to his own childhood — police cautioned him and put him on the sex offenders register for five years anyway. And the obvious question: is Conway the guy to take over the announcing job?  6:20 — The swell from Marie reaches Southern California late tonight. Six to ten feet on south-facing beaches, strong rip currents through the holiday weekend, and the worst of it at the south-facing spots.  6:35 — Zoox started running its driverless robotaxis to and from Harry Reid International in Las Vegas this week, the first fully driverless service at a US airport, with pickups at both terminals closer to baggage claim than the Uber and Lyft zones. Drivers waiting in the lot had mixed feelings — one full-timer said it'll take a lot of business; another said there's nothing they can do about it. Which leads to the real question: what can you make out there? Six days, twelve hours a day, seventy-five hours a week, a hundred and fifty bucks in gas, and about fifteen hundred at the end of it. Plus, the customizable-speed idea. Zoox of Hazard.  6:50 — Six people were in a black 2016 Hyundai Veloster heading east on the Angeles Crest Highway between Big Pines and Wrightwood around 1:34 this morning. The car drifted right, left the road, rolled down the embankment, and hit a power pole. Five of the six were thrown from the car. Four were pronounced dead at the scene. All six were from Wrightwood. CHP says nobody was belted in and that alcohol is likely a factor. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 2 (9.04) The LA County DA promised in June he'd have a picnic in MacArthur Park on Labor Day. He's going through with it this weekend. Halloween Horror Nights opened last night with a Sinners house.  7:05 — Neil Saavedra, the Fork Reporter, joins Tim. Amazon returns and the volume moving through them, why truck drivers and delivery people are buried right now, and the eternal question of why motorcycles have to be that loud. The riders' answer: so you can hear them. And the thank-you wave, which nobody dislikes.  7:20 — More with Saavedra. His wife's master's from USC, and the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which opens September 22 in Exposition Park. Star Wars takes up about seven percent of it. The rest is narrative art and storytelling — a Norman Rockwell holding well over a hundred works, Maxfield Parrish, N.C. Wyeth, Jessie Willcox Smith, and children's book illustration from Beatrix Potter and Leo Politi, out of a founding collection north of 40,000 pieces. Plus the time Conway and Steckler got thrown out of LACMA for breathing on the art.  7:35 — Halloween Horror Nights opened at Universal Studios Hollywood, and this year's run is the longest they've ever done: 42 nights through November 1. Eight haunted houses, six scare zones, the Terror Tram hosted by Art the Clown, and the Purge stunt show. The headliner is Sinners, built out of the second half of Ryan Coogler's film — Club Juke, the vampires, the whole thing. It hit a sixty-minute wait within half an hour of the gates opening. Hellraiser makes its Hollywood debut, and Stranger Things, Killer Klowns and Ozzy Osbourne all have houses. The element of surprise is the whole game.  7:50 — Back in June, during the federal and LAPD operation at MacArthur Park, District Attorney Nathan Hochman made a specific public pledge: Labor Day 2026, middle of the day, he'd be there with his family having a picnic. His office has confirmed he's hosting one this weekend. So — is it actually safe to take a family there? Plus, Saavedra fills in for Handel on Monday. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 3 (9.04) Courts across California are warning people about a jury duty scam that now comes with a fake arrest warrant attached. Plus, two men pulled alive from a Nepal tunnel nine days after the floods.  8:05 — USC hosts Fresno State tonight. Then the jury duty scam that's cleaning people out: a caller says you missed jury service and there's a warrant out, then texts or emails an official-looking arrest warrant with a dollar figure on it. They may claim to be a US Marshal or a local officer; they may have your name and address, and caller's ID can be spoofed to show a real courthouse number. The FTC put out an alert on it in June. Riverside Superior Court issued its own warning last month. The rule to remember courts never demand payment over the phone, and no government agency asks for a payment app, crypto, gift cards, or a wire. A real summon comes in the mail. Plus, do you track anyone on your phone — and is the phone listening?  8:20 — Labor Day weekend travel and the state of the Inland Empire on a getaway Friday. The Rams and 49ers play the NFL's first-ever regular season game in Australia next Thursday at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, with the Rams as the designated home team. And Bellio hands off the six-inch platform heels to Nikki, on the grounds that she's married now.  8:35 — What's the Conway gang doing this weekend? Plus, a new analysis of federal data puts the average California emergency room visit at three hours and twenty-seven minutes — tenth longest in the country. For someone in a mental health crisis it's five hours and fourteen minutes. About two percent of patients in California leave before anyone sees them, and Loma Linda University Medical Center has the longest typical visit in the state at over seven and a half hours. And Miley drops the Cyrus.  8:50 — Rescuers in Nepal pulled two men alive out of a hydropower tunnel Friday, nine days after floods killed more than 1,200 people. Search teams heard voices that morning and dug them out of the Trishuli 3A site in Rasuwa district — a mechanical foreman and a mechanical supervisor, one in critical condition. One of them told rescuers there are more people living down there. Roughly 115 are believed to be trapped in that tunnel alone, and about 900 workers are missing across a dozen hydropower projects. Plus, the Chino man fined for growing food in his front yard — in a city whose motto is "Where Everything Grows." Conway is built for Cornhole. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 4 (9.04) Fifteen hundred a week for seventy-five hours behind the wheel, minus a hundred and fifty in gas. That's the top of the Uber ladder — and driverless cars just took the airport runs.  9:05 — Marie's swell reaches Southern California late tonight. Big surf on south-facing beaches and strong rip currents throughout the holiday weekend.  9:20 — Zoox started running driverless robotaxis to and from Harry Reid International in Las Vegas this week, the first fully autonomous service at a US airport, with pickups at both terminals positioned closer to baggage claim than the Uber and Lyft zones. Drivers waiting in the lot had mixed reactions — one full-timer figure it'll take a lot of business; another says there's nothing they can do about it. So, what can you make out there? Six days a week, twelve hours a day, seventy-five hours, about a hundred and fifty in gas, and roughly fifteen hundred at the end of it. Plus, the case for letting riders set their own speed.   9:35 — Neil Saavedra, the Fork Reporter, joins Tim. Amazon returns and the volume moving through them, why truck drivers and delivery people are buried right now, and the eternal question of why motorcycles must be that loud. The riders' answer: so, you can hear them. And the thank-you wave, which nobody dislikes.  9:50 - More with Saavedra. His wife's master's degree from USC, and the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which opens September 22 in Exposition Park. Star Wars takes up about seven percent of it. The rest is narrative art and storytelling — a Norman Rockwell holding well over a hundred works, Maxfield Parrish, N.C. Wyeth, Jessie Willcox Smith, and children's book illustration from Beatrix Potter and Leo Politi, out of a founding collection north of 40,000 pieces. Plus, the time Conway and Steckler got thrown out of LACMA for breathing on the art.  🎙️ Thanks for listening. Catch us live weeknights on KFI AM 640 or LIVE stream on iheart App See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 1 (9.03) Stephen Baldwin has roughly 70 movie credits and freely admits a good chunk of them are terrible, so he built a podcast out of it. Plus, a deadly crash outside Fairfax Trader Joe's.  6:05 — Stephen Baldwin joins Tim. He broke through in The Usual Suspects, Bio-Dome, and Threesome, and he's turned three decades of Hollywood war stories into One Bad Movie with Stephen Baldwin on iHeartPodcasts — the lighter side of the film business, told through movies that are so bad they're good. Guests have included Heather Locklear, Tori Spelling, Denise Richards, Corey Feldman, and Eric Roberts, and he got his brother Alec in for a two-parter.  6:20 — More with Stephen: Alec's record run hosting Saturday Night Live, Schweddy Balls, what's gone wrong with late-night talk shows, and whether SNL has gotten too political. Plus, the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund, named for his mother — she was diagnosed in 1990, started the fund in 1996, and it has since seeded more than 100 research projects at Stony Brook. And Stephen turns out to be a serious Tim Conway fan.  6:35 — A Tesla driven by an elderly woman hit a parking attendant stand and struck pedestrians in the shared Trader Joe's lot at Third and Fairfax, across from the Original Farmers Market. It happened around 1:20 p.m. Thursday. A woman was pronounced dead at the scene.  6:50 — Marie is a hurricane now, well off Baja, and it is not coming here — but the swell is. Six to eight feet out of the south, high surf advisories likely at south-facing beaches Sunday into Monday night, evening high tides near seven feet, and rip currents through the holiday weekend. Long Beach, Malibu, Avalon, and Point Mugu are on the watch list.  When did Cabo San Lucas become just "Cabo"? Tim's position: get with it. Which leads to the mandatory follow-up — have you been to Cabo Wabo? Sammy Hagar and the Van Halen guys opened it downtown in 1990, back when Cabo was still a fishing town. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 2 (9.03) Tiger Woods can't legally drive for five years, and the judge told him he's going to jail if he tries. Tony Romo got six months. Plus, Inglewood is bulldozing 20 storefronts for a SoFi shuttle.  7:05 — Brentwood neighbors say a woman has been defecating on sidewalks near Goshen and Barrington for years, and that she recently threatened a mother out walking with her daughter. Residents say every agency they call gives them the same answer: hands are tied. Councilmember Traci Park's office has asked the county Department of Mental Health to step in, and the mayor's office requested an outreach team.  7:20 — The Inglewood Transit Connector is a $287.5 million shuttle bus network linking the Metro K Line to SoFi Stadium and the Intuit Dome, targeted to open in April 2028 before the Olympics. To build the main hub, the city is taking a shopping center at Market and Florence through eminent domain — more than 20 businesses, some already handed 90-day notices, with $125 million budgeted for acquisition and relocation. Owners say it isn't enough. Plus, Crozier on the two hours it took to get out of a Chargers preseason game, and whether the Foosh can spot a puker or a pooper before they get in the car.  7:35 — Tony Romo pleaded no contest to OWI in Milwaukee and lost his license for six months, plus a $784 fine, an ignition interlock, and an alcohol assessment. He traced it publicly to back surgeries, pain medication, and what he called an over-reliance on alcohol. Meanwhile Tiger Woods pleaded no contest to reckless driving after a March rollover on Jupiter Island and surrendered his license for five years, with the judge telling him he'd go back to jail if he drives at all. Same plea, wildly different numbers.  7:50 — The swell from Marie is here. Roughly 5 feet at Hermosa and up around 7 feet at Seal Beach and Malibu, with south-facing beaches taking the worst of it and evening high tides near 7 feet through the holiday. Strong rip currents all weekend. Check your own beach before you go in. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 3 (9.03) Star Wars takes up 7% of George Lucas's new billion-dollar museum. Mark Sanchez agrees to plead guilty in the Indianapolis stabbing case, and Dolly Parton was laid to rest in a private family service.  8:05 — Mark Sanchez and Marion County prosecutors filed a joint motion to cancel his September 8 jury trial and set a guilty plea and sentencing hearing instead. The charges stem from an October 2025 fight outside a downtown Indianapolis hotel over a parking spot, where Sanchez was stabbed in the chest and a 69-year-old truck driver was seriously injured. Sanchez faced a felony battery count plus misdemeanors including public intoxication. Fox let him go; Drew Brees took the booth. Also, Rob and Michele Reiner's son Jake married Maria Gilfillan in a small private ceremony in August, eight months after his parents were killed in their Brentwood home.  8:20 — The $111 billion Paramount Skydance–Warner Bros. Discovery merger is frozen. Twelve state attorneys general led by California's Rob Bonta sued in July, the Writers Guild filed its own suit the next day, and a federal judge set trial for March 2, 2027. Paramount agreed to hold the deal until as late as June 1, 2027, and starts paying WBD shareholders $7 million a day at the end of September. Plus the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, the billion-dollar Exposition Park building George Lucas and Mellody Hobson put next to the Coliseum. Thirty-plus galleries across 100,000 square feet, Norman Rockwell and Jack Kirby and Frida Kahlo, and Star Wars occupying about seven percent of it. Opens to the public September 22 — $25 for adults, free for kids under 12 and students.  8:35 — Dolly Parton died August 25 at 80 after a brief battle with cancer and was laid to rest three days later in a private service at Woodlawn Memorial Park in Nashville, buried beside Carl Dean, her husband of nearly 60 years. Jane Fonda, who recruited her for 9 to 5 and gave her her first movie role, got visibly emotional talking about her days after the funeral — including the lunch break where Parton drummed out "9 to 5" on her fingernails for Fonda and Lily Tomlin.  8:50 — The Season 35 cast dropped on GMA: Julia Stiles, Jenna Dewan, Tatyana Ali, Tyler Cameron, Giada De Laurentiis, Harry Shum Jr., Olympic figure skater Amber Glenn, and Jimmy Kimmel's Guillermo Rodriguez. Two-night premiere September 15 and 16. Sixteen celebrities. How many can you name? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 4 (9.03) Inglewood is bulldozing a shopping center with more than 20 businesses to build a shuttle to SoFi. Plus, Stephen Baldwin on the podcast he built out of his own bad movies.  9:05 — Stephen Baldwin broke through in The Usual Suspects, Bio-Dome, and Threesome, and the youngest Baldwin brother has turned three decades of Hollywood war stories into One Bad Movie from iHeartPodcasts — behind-the-scenes tales about films that are so bad they're good, with guests including Heather Locklear, Tori Spelling, Denise Richards, Corey Feldman, Eric Roberts, and his brother Alec.  9:20 — More with Stephen. Alec has hosted Saturday Night Live 17 times, more than anyone in the show's history, and yes, Schweddy Balls comes up. Plus what's gone wrong with late-night talk shows, whether SNL has gotten too political, and the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund, named for his mother — she was diagnosed in 1990, started the fund in 1996, and it has seeded more than 100 research projects at Stony Brook. One Bad Movie with Stephen Baldwin is on YouTube and the iHeartRadio app.  9:35 — Brentwood neighbors say a woman has been defecating on sidewalks near Goshen and Barrington for years, and that she recently threatened a mother walking with her daughter. Residents say every agency they've called tells them the same thing: nothing can be done. Councilmember Traci Park's office has asked the county Department of Mental Health to step in, and the mayor's office requested a mental-health outreach team.  9:50 — The Inglewood Transit Connector is a $287.5 million shuttle bus network linking the Metro K Line to SoFi Stadium and the Intuit Dome, targeted to open in April 2028 before the Olympics. To build the main hub, the city is taking a shopping center at Market and Florence through eminent domain — more than 20 businesses, some already handed 90-day notices, with $125 million budgeted for acquisition and relocation. Owners say it isn't enough. Plus Crozier on the two hours it took him to get out of a Chargers preseason game, and whether the Foosh can spot a puker or a pooper before they get in the car. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 1 (9.02) Timmy kicks off Wednesday with news of a 150-acre wildfire burning in San Juan Capistrano, taking shots at Orange County transplants who never want to move back to LA, and noting that, unlike LA County, at least OC has fire trucks that work. Andy Riesmeyer reports on the latest on "Hooters: The Movie," because of course that’s happening.   With the 2028 Summer Olympics just two years away, Timmy doesn’t think LA is ready: The Olympic Committee wants an exclusive roadway network that could turn Sunset Boulevard into a permit-only zone for weeks, giving athletes, coaches, and officials the streets while locals risk $300 fines. Timmy even flashes back to driving a limo during the 1984 Olympics. The hour closes on a serious Orange County story — Laguna Beach is set to lose its only emergency room after officials cite a $350 million seismic retrofit, and Timmy warns that closing that ER will cost lives unless the community fights to keep it open.    #Hootersthemovie #TimConwayJr #SanJuanCapistranofire #OrangeCounty #LACounty #AndyRiesmeyer #Hooters #SummerOlympics #LA28 #OlympicCommittee #KTLA #KFI #SunsetBoulevard #1984Olympics #exclusiveroadwaynetworks #LagunaBeachhospital #retrofit See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 2 (9.02) Author Laurel Woods joins Timmy in studio to talk about her true-crime memoir "Strip Club Heiress," out tomorrow, with a book signing at Book Soup in West Hollywood. Woods recounts her Westlake Village upbringing: A CHP dad forced into early retirement after a 1970s motorcycle accident, a stint flipping cars on Sunset Boulevard, then buying The Jet Strip in 1977 — putting Laurel on the motorcycle, she says, but never on the pole.   Life changed when he was convicted in 2000 of murdering his strip-club business partner, spent 17 years in prison, and even landed on "America’s Most Wanted," leaving Laurel to spend birthdays, Father’s Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas in prison visitor centers.   The hour also hits a wild local animal story — aggressive otters attacking people in Lake Tahoe — plus a huge week in LA sports: The Los Angeles Clippers facing a $30 million fine and owner Steve Ballmer’s one-year suspension over an alleged Kawhi Leonard salary-cap violation, while billionaire Stan Kroenke has purchased the LA Angels. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 3 (9.02) Matt “Money” Smith of "Petros & Money" calls in to unpack the LA Clippers controversy, including the big question: Did the Clippers try to cheat their way to a title?   The hour also covers Apple’s changing of the guard after 15 years of Tim Cook, with 25-year Apple veteran and former hardware engineering chief John Ternus taking over as CEO of the $4.7 trillion company. Timmy and Bellio preview NBC’s new fall series "The Newlyweds" — a far cry from Jackie Gleason’s politically incorrect "The Honeymooners" — plus the rest of the 18 new fall TV shows they’re covering in a special episode.   Also in the mix: "Wheel of Fortune" announcer Jim Thornton has been suspended after an incident on a New York-to-LA flight. Bellio, the most connected producer in the Valley, says she knew Thornton personally and he's a great guy. The hour wraps with talk of the WNBA and a man who survived a lightning strike. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 4 (9.02) Timmy pushes back on LA28’s planned exclusive Olympic roadway network: 369 miles of Los Angeles streets, including key corridors, could become permit-only for athletes, coaches, and officials — leaving locals, even the millionaires and billionaires who live along those routes, facing possible hefty fines if they get caught using the roads to get home.  The hour also hits the fight to save urgent care and emergency services in wealthy Laguna Beach. Then true-crime author Laurel Woods joins in studio to talk about her memoir Strip Club Heiress: growing up in Westlake Village with a retired CHP officer dad who entered the strip-club business, the 1989 murder of his business partner, his 2000 conviction and years in the California prison system, the employee-turned-star-witness who wore a wire, and why Laurel still believes her father is guilty even though he has always maintained his innocence. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 1 (9.01) Arte Moreno is out, and Angels fans are celebrating a franchise-changing sale reportedly worth a record $4 billion. Tim also reacts to a deadly Times Square stabbing and new scrutiny surrounding Magic Mountain's X2 coaster.  6:05 — A major crash on the eastbound 10 Freeway near 20th Street snarls traffic across the Westside. Angel Martinez joins Tim with the latest conditions and shares the story of her own recent car accident.  6:20 — Tim continues coverage of the freeway mess before turning to the fatal Times Square stabbing that killed 32-year-old Bank of America executive Erin Piacenti. He reflects on her accomplishments and discusses the financial burdens families can face after a sudden loss.  6:35 — After years of fan frustration, Arte Moreno has agreed to sell the Angels. Tim breaks down the reported $4 billion deal and why fans believe new ownership could mark a turning point for the franchise.  6:50 — Six Flags Magic Mountain's X2 roller coaster remains under scrutiny after multiple reports of serious injuries, including traumatic brain injury claims. Tim looks at the lawsuit history surrounding the attraction and the questions being raised about its future. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 2 (9.01)   Glendale's infamous "butt-sniffer" is back behind bars, while a newly approved cancer drug is generating buzz for nearly doubling survival times and carrying a massive price tag. Tim also checks out a record-setting hiker and Dyson's AI-powered toothbrush.  7:05 — Calese Crowder, the repeat offender known as the "butt-sniffer," has been arrested again in Glendale after reports of similar behavior at local stores. Police say he was taken into custody on suspicion of violating parole and is being held without bail.   7:20 — The Boyle Heights warehouse controversy continues as complaints spread beyond Los Angeles. Residents in Simi Valley are now raising concerns about odors linked to shipments of spoiled food from the Lineage facility.  7:35 — Dale "Greybeard" Sanders, 91, reclaimed the record as the oldest person to complete the Appalachian Trail. Tim also looks at Dyson's new $499 CameraJet toothbrush, which uses a built-in camera and AI-powered feedback to analyze your brushing habits before getting sidetracked by Glen Campbell's take on "Dueling Banjos."   7:50 — Tim explores Rasonque, a newly approved pancreatic cancer treatment that nearly doubled survival time in clinical trials but comes with a list price approaching $484,000 per year. He also looks at emerging cancer therapies that use mRNA technology to target disease in new ways. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 3 (9.01) Lionel Richie checked himself into the ICU following a concert in St. Louis, while a stranded climber on Mount Yonah survived a harrowing rescue after getting trapped hundreds of feet above the ground. Tim also looks at Stan Kroenke's massive empire and a beloved music store's huge estate sale.  8:05 — Tim reacts to the rescue of a free climber who became stranded on a tiny ledge roughly 260 feet up the west face of Georgia's Mount Yonah. The climber called 911 himself after getting stuck without ropes or safety gear, prompting Tim to urge hikers to carry a phone or emergency locator device. Tim also highlights Ernie Ramirez, a Los Angeles firefighter seeking a kidney donor.  8:20 — Stan Kroenke's reported purchase of the Angels has fans dreaming about a new era for the franchise. Tim examines Kroenke's enormous business empire and discusses the effort to help veteran firefighter Ernie Ramirez secure a lifesaving kidney transplant.  8:35 — Lionel Richie was hospitalized in St. Louis after checking himself into the ICU out of an abundance of caution and undergoing cardiac testing. Tim shares stories from his days as a limousine driver, including driving Richie around Los Angeles in the 1980s.  8:50 — Tim imagines life as a backup dancer for Lionel Richie before spotlighting the major estate sale connected to Northridge music institution Jammin' Jersey Music. He also reacts to reports that Dolly Parton's Hollywood Walk of Fame star was vandalized and is now being repaired. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 4 (9.01)  The Angels are headed for new ownership in a reported $4 billion sale, ending Arte Moreno's tenure and sending fans into celebration. Tim also reacts to the latest arrest of Glendale's infamous "butt-sniffer" and a 91-year-old who just made hiking history.  9:05 — Tim continues coverage of the massive eastbound 10 Freeway crash before reflecting on the death of 32-year-old Bank of America executive Erin Piacenti, who was killed in a random Times Square stabbing. He discusses her accomplishments and the financial challenges families can face after a sudden tragedy.  9:20 — Arte Moreno has agreed to sell the Angels in a deal reportedly worth $4 billion. Tim breaks down why fans are celebrating the end of Moreno's ownership and what new ownership could mean for the franchise.  9:35 — Glendale police arrested Calese Crowder, the repeat offender widely known as the "butt-sniffer," after new reports of suspicious behavior in local stores. He was booked on suspicion of a parole violation and is being held without bail.  9:50 — Dale "Greybeard" Sanders, 91, reclaimed the record as the oldest person to complete the Appalachian Trail. Tim also looks at Dyson's new $499 CameraJet toothbrush, which uses a built-in camera and AI technology to provide live brushing feedback before getting sidetracked by Glen Campbell playing "Dueling Banjos." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 1 (8.31) The customer service collapse nobody can explain. Businesses are fighting for every dollar, yet consumers are getting phone trees, useless AI chatbots, and burned-out frontline staff. You'd think companies would be rolling out the red carpet. Instead, they're doing the opposite. Mark digs into why the system actually works this way.  Then: Aaron Donald is coming back. The future Hall of Famer ends a two-and-a-half-year retirement and returns to the Rams on a one-year deal worth up to $30 million.  Plus the latest on the Times Square stabbing, a look at how the neighborhood got its name back in 1904, and the question that's going to blow up the phone lines — Mark's stuck in a boot for eight weeks and can't drive. So: is your spouse actually a good driver? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 2 (8.31) Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese are about to be teammates at the Women's World Cup while the WNBA takes a high-stakes break. Two of the biggest rivals in sports, same locker room. Good luck to everybody involved.  Mark went to weather school, and it raises the real question — do weather guys actually hang out? Chuck Street on traffic, Dallas Raines on weather, and an entire industry built on making you excited about clouds. Tropical rain is headed our way for Labor Day, and Mark reminds everyone he was never, not once, wrong about the forecast.  Conway's daughter is turning 21 and the family is going to Vegas. Pray for him.  Plus: Olivia Rodrigo's new Daisy Chain Fields festival packed 45,000 people into Irvine's Great Park and got rave reviews for what happened on stage. Getting out was a different story — fans say they were stuck in parking lots, walking miles looking for rides, and directing traffic themselves. Rodrigo says she picked the name because a daisy chain is about small pieces linking into something unbreakable. The parking situation did not link.  And finally — the worst potholes in Los Angeles. The guys have found them, and they're in Westwood. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 3 (8.31) Lionel Richie checked himself into a St. Louis hospital over the weekend after finishing his Saturday show sitting down — he asked for a chair partway through "All Night Long." Reports say he's in the ICU getting tested, with dehydration a possible culprit. Sound familiar? That's the exact same thing that put Mark on the ground. Word is Richie's doing fine.  Which brings up the other concert problem: the person next to you who sings every single word. You paid to hear the artist. Not them.  Then the guys get into iHeart festivals, the George Strait show Mark went to, and the surprisingly rich world of Dollar Tree dinners — plus everything else worth grabbing at a dollar store.  At 8:35, the hard-hitting journalism: is Conway a nepo baby? Did he use his father's name to pick up women? And who was his first crush? He's going to answer. Probably.  Finally, FOX 11 goes inside Santa Ana's homelessness crackdown — the city says it's outreach, critics say it's enforcement. Help or handcuffs? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 4 (8.31) Mark Thompson is back on the air after fainting from dehydration and breaking his ankle — and he's got a bone to pick with the entire American service economy.  Here's the paradox: businesses are scrapping every dollar they can get, and customer service has never been worse. You'd think they'd roll out the red carpet. Instead, you get phone trees that go nowhere, AI chatbots that can't help, and frontline staff running on fumes. Mark gets into why the system is actually built to work this way.  Then the personal fallout — eight weeks in a boot on his right foot means Mark can't drive. Which raises the question that's going to light up the lines: is your spouse a good driver? Be honest. He's a Race X driver, apparently. It's a maneuver.  Plus, Mark went to weather school, and it opens up the big one — do weather guys hang out with each other? Chuck Street on traffic, Dallas Raines on weather, animated cartoon weathermen, and an entire industry devoted to making you excited about clouds. Tropical rain's headed in for Labor Day. And for the record, Mark was never wrong. Not once.  Finally: Olivia Rodrigo's Daisy Chain Fields festival packed 45,000 people into Irvine's Great Park and got rave reviews for the show. Getting out was a different story — fans say they were stranded in parking lots, walking miles looking for a ride, and eventually directing traffic themselves. Rodrigo picked the name because a daisy chain is about individual pieces linking into something strong and unbreakable. The exit route did not link. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 1 (8.28) Dollar Tree Fire on Florence & Pacific- Huge Fire! Great items at Dollar Tree. It’s near Conway’s Ticket Clinic where 5 tier comedians teach traffic school. No need to panic we’ve got alternative Dollar trees  6:20 — Shadow & KD-1 Sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G. He is 75, she is 14. Shadow and KD-1 are breaking up. No more beak jobs or banging beaks. Jackie was attacked at Dana Point in Big Bear. Eagle curious!  6:35 — Massive audience in Orange County and 45K people heading to Great Park, festival employee for Daisy Chain Concert concern over the heat and not enough shade, medical tents and water resources. 93 degrees on Saturday. The all-women Daisy Chain Fields Music Festival lineup is headlined by Olivia Rodrigo and features Chappell Roan, Doechii, Mitski, and special guests like Stevie Nicks on August 29, 2026, at Great Park in Irvine.  6:50 — Jack Reiner first interview after his brother Nick murdered their parents Rob & Michelle Reiner with ABC7’s Marc Cota Robles. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 2 (8.28) Neil Saavedra spent a good chunk of this hour convinced Conway was talking about Bill Handel. Conway was talking about a bald eagle. It got worse from there.  7:05 — The Fork Reporter walks in mid-conversation, hears "Shadow," and assumes Handel. Then a Spanish lesson: esposa is wife, esposas is handcuffs, and Saavedra insists that's a coincidence. Plus a look ahead at Daisy Chain Fields — 45,000 people at Great Park Saturday with highs near 93.  7:20 — The drive-thru, fully diagnosed. Why the menu board breaks otherwise functional adults, what the eleven cars behind you are experiencing, and the specific person who begins reading the menu at the window. Related: nobody reads the instructions on anything anymore, drones included.  7:35 — Crazy Taxi, GTA, Forza, and the era when KFI had video games in the building. Then Handel's birthday party, where Saavedra turned up as Bane from The Dark Knight Rises. Somehow this becomes religion, stereotypes, and The Da Vinci Code.  7:50 — Conway on the pleasures of retail, specifically the frozen aisle. Saavedra's position: the freezer game has leveled up considerably and people haven't noticed. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.