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We got Michael Monks here.

This is the place to be right now on this Monday Croche, welcome back.

Thank you man.

How was your vaka?

You know this that not much of the other now I.

Want to get into not much of the other.

Now I know what this and that are, but you really gave up not much of the other, huh.

I you know.

It's one of those ones where it was a home vacation and once you're home, you're like, oh, all this stuff needs to get done.

Oh yeah.

And I had to make the concerted effort many times to say no, I love.

That commercial where it's like, for the weekend, we're not planning anything that requires us to do a chore.

Do you know what I'm talking about?

It's I think it's a progressive commercial for acting like your parents, like no this weekend.

You know you can't mow the lawn to relax.

That is not part of this.

We will get into so much tonight.

We have a lot to cover on the Big Show tonight for being kind of a no nothing week.

There has been a literal bear under a man's house for months.

California has so far done nothing.

Now he's filed a lawsuit.

Will Yogi get yo ass gone?

And imagine a five hundred dollars dinner at a steakhouse?

How is it that the restaurant is only making twenty five dollars on you?

Could it be?

It's not all gravy.

Plus, it's dead week, the no Man's land between Christmas and New Year's and it actually has some kind of significance in cultures across the world.

Then later Howie Weinberg, who is a mastering engineer behind tens of thousands of songs, will join us to talk about working with Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Elvis Costello, Smashing Pumpkins, and so many more.

You don't want to miss it.

It's a stacked show on this Monday night.

But first joining us in studio, the one and only Michael Monks to update us on the news of the day.

Tragic story here.

And I guess I'm not terribly surprised here that murder is the case.

It's a terrible, terrible double tragedy for this family, the Levees, a family that lost their home in the Palisades fire and raising eighteen year old Bron Levee very well.

This kid was a senior at Loyola High School, tennis star was set to go to the University of Virginia.

Not an easy school to get into.

No, and obviously a very good kid.

Happened to be walking around Manhattan Beach on the night of May fourth.

This family lost their home and relocated to Manhattan Beach, and just months later, an alleged drunk driver coming down the street barrels into Bron Levey and kills him.

Now we've known this story for a while, it's a tragedy one that we've reported on intensively.

But today the La County DA's office confirmed the charges against that driver, Janaia raschamp Belt, and one of those charges includes murder.

Yeah, can we go back to that specifically, because I think, you know, I know that the DA is now a lot tougher on crime than maybe prior administrations.

I know that you maybe did you live did you live here before Hawkman was the DA, So you recall, things are moving very quickly now in the world of the Los Angeles DAH, as far as as far as charging, as far as making these grand statements about what we think about crime.

They think that murder can stick.

He is convinced that they will be able to get a unanimous verdict.

He said as much on the charges that they presented today.

Not only did they present these charges, but bron Levy's mother was also on hand.

And to hear a mother who's lost their child speak on any occasion is very difficult because it makes the situation so vivid.

You know, we in the news business can throw a headline out all day every day about a crash on the five to people dead.

We know as humans that that's a terrible, terrible thing.

And although we just pass by it as a piece of news, there are families somewhere ye really dealing with the consequences.

Yeah, it is rare that in these moments of deep grief that you get open honesty from the families because they're inaccessible.

I mean, you don't want to come out and talk to the media about what you're feeling right now.

You've never been more vulnerable or sad in your life.

And as somebody who has worked in news for a long time, you know how weird it feels to go knock on the door and have to try to say, hey, will you I know you've asked for privacy at this point, but will you share?

But I think there are some people who are family members of victims who, at least in this situation, it sounds like it's a way to honor her son, to see justice serve.

I know a lot of people process the grief that way.

That's exactly what they're doing.

They've started the foundation and their sons and what they've also done in not just today, but what they reiterated today alongside a state lawmaker and a city council member and the La County DA is a call for tougher penalties for people who are convicted of DUI.

Here is part of what Jennifer Levey said today about our son's loss.

The pain we feel is indescribable.

Our family has been shattered, ripped apart, and left to pick up the pieces and keep on living without Braun, who we all loved with every cell in our body.

We are no longer the people we once were.

We are profoundly changed by the depth of our grief.

California's current DUI laws are broken and weak and fail to protect families like ours, and it's devastating.

There have been previous bills and laws, but they have been gutted and a mess, and it's inexcusable.

I will not stand for that status quo.

We can stop these tragedies.

We have the solutions.

My plea is to Governor Gavin Newsom and California lawmakers.

This is not a political issue.

This is a human issue.

And I guarantee if any of you had to identify the body of your child or loved one in the manner that my husband and I did a few months ago, you would not be silent.

Wow.

The feeling, the sight, the smell of identifying our son's body will never leave my mind, body, or soul.

So I will not be silent.

That's the part that really gets you, because again, as humans, when you hear that somebody was killed.

You don't know them, but you feel that that's a tragedy.

It's sad, but you can move on with your day.

But when you really think about a teenage boy with his whole life ahead of him, obviously a good student, good athlete, headed off to big things, struck down like this, and not only do you get that call as parents that your child has been killed, but can you come down and identify the body?

It's unthinkable, and then you know it's already unnatural to bury your child, to have something that's so avoidable.

And I say that because this woman shouldn't have been behind the wheel for so many reasons.

I don't know what her blood alcohol content was.

I don't know what the level was.

I saw the photos of her.

She's clearly not a lightweight, and I think if you look at her prior arrest she has she's driving on a suspended license because of a prior DUI or.

That's important to note here because that's what they're calling this woman.

Jenia Belt was driving on a suspended license from a previous DUI charge when this happened back in May, So State Senator Bob Archiletta, the Democh from Pico Rivera was also at this news conference.

He has filed legislation that he said would bring tougher penalties on folks who are convicted of DUI, and it would require that there be a breathalyzer or ignition interlock device test before a vehicle can start if.

You have had a DUI.

I've had a die.

I was unaware that that wasn't the case.

I mean, I haven't done a lot of Darren Kavinoki calling in my day, but I but I am surprised that that's not something that they do in California.

There are laws about it involving multiple duys, but what we heard today is that the judges are not always enforcing that's art.

That's according to La County DA Nathan Hawkman.

Now, by the way, Senator Archiletta earlier this excuse me this time last year lost his granddaughter to an alleged drunk driver.

Wow.

That's tough out there, man, and especially a car culture.

You know, and you go to these cities outside of LA where the traffic is not as bad, or you go to off hours and there are people moving around, but people versus cars, the car is always gonna win.

And especially when you add alcohol, you add high speed, and the amount of roads that we have here.

You know, people don't take people don't take public transit, like in New York and Chicago.

They go out, they go drinking, they get on the train, they go home.

Los Angeles.

That it's not the case.

It sounds like people are just out here drinking and driving.

And my heart goes out to the family, and I think that you're right.

The feeling that as a newsperson or as somebody who pays attention to the news is I know a lot of the listeners do.

It almost seems sometimes like it's not real because you hear so much tragedy all the time.

You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM six forty.

And when you listen to a victim's mom, a teenage boys victim's mom, teenage boy is the victim, his mom speaking about what happened here and about her son, and the explaining to us in graphic detail the experience.

It just makes it so real, and it makes it so horrible, and I'm curious to see what happens here.

But no amount of jail time finds whatever penalties are going to bring bring broadback.

No, she does face life in prison.

Wow, that's a tough story.

Well, mister Monk's stick with us.

For the next block.

We're going to talk about a new rent cap.

No more rent increases for Los Angeles.

Counts or a lot of units.

The rent increases by law will be very small.

But there was a post on X by a LA City counciloman that's getting a lot of attention from real estate developers who think she's talking in word salad.

I'm going to have that tweet for you to see if you can decipher it for.

Not word salad.

I don't even eat regular salad.

Michael Munk, get the addressing ready.

So much more coming up.

It's Conway Show though I'm Andy Reesmeyer in for Tim Conway Junior.

It's k IF.

I am six forty.

We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app joining me continually in studio until I can release him from my grasp.

I hope you never do.

Is Michael Monks got soft hands?

Yeah, I moisturize.

You know.

I do a lot of sitting behind a desk watching a calidprompter roll up, you know, which is not backbreaking work as they say.

I wish sometimes I could stand, especially like in the radio studio, you know, like because like this is weird to me.

I'm standing now, So for all the people who are not watching, which is everyone except for Michael Mount.

Yeah, it's it's weird to it's weird to be able to you know, you got to move around stuff because you got to bring the energy.

But you're bringing the energy about this story.

But rent in Los Angeles the city, right, not necessarily the county here, it's just the city of LA They've got what they call a rent Stabilization Unit RSO, and this applies to about six hundred and fifty thousand apartments.

And that is to say that the property owners that operate these rental units are only able to increase their rent by a certain percentage as dictated by city hall.

Now, it had been a little more generous in the past, but some of the members of city council thought that they needed to get a little more aggressive on this.

Originally they wanted to say there were no increases at all whatsoever, only adjusted to the rate of inflation.

Wish, if you are a property owner, how are you keep in mind?

Probably owners have bills to pay too, right, and your costs may be rising well, especially now, Yeah, absolutely are.

Unless to replace a kitchen, if you have to lay down new carpet, if you have to put in a new window, all of that stuff costs money.

And if the product that you are selling in this case I rentally is not going up in price at all.

And everything is way more expensive than it was.

Can I tell you that when I was most of my time in La up until about a year ago, I was always the guy who was the renter, and I was always like, Oh, these these landlords, these these guys trying to rip us off of doing it.

And now I own a house and I wish, I just wish I was read like, I want to go back to that land, right, I didn't have to think about property taxes and usage tax and homeowners' insurance and refinancing and all these things that come with owning property that are just truly like keep you up at night exactly.

And look, there are problems with property ownership rental property ownership.

There are larger companies that come in, They're not connected to the tenants.

They might not make the units safe, they may not be responsive to concerns.

There are you know, venture capital firms that are private equity taking over some of our residences, and those are worth keeping an eye on.

But there's also people whose entire net worth is connected to the four family house that they have out in the valley, right, and that's their entire retirement plan.

Is that they've worked their whole lives, but they have four rental units somewhere out here.

And now this comes along.

So this rental proposal, which ended up being that landlords could increase the rent between one and four percent, depending on inflation.

And that's still not enough according to a lot of real estate agents, a lot of property developers, a lot of property they've basically been iced out of raising anything at all since COVID.

So you're talking going on six years here, and you think about how things cost back in twenty twenty, twenty nineteen compared to where they are.

Now, No doubt about it.

It's exactly right.

And that's what they were saying, is you're basically putting us out of business.

No, keep in mind, this is a city that the rent is comparatively higher than just about anywhere else.

New York is higher.

I think San Francisco is on part of.

But astronomical compared to Indiana or exactly our home states are much cheaper.

But there's a reason.

There's always been a reason for that.

This is a very desirable place to live.

There is we're here, We're he's rocking and rolling, the weather's great, So the prices are naturally going to be higher because it is a more attractive place to live.

More people want to be here.

I get it.

I left Indiana for the exact same reason.

But there's also a supply and demand effect, just like with any other commodity.

And there are mini reports that suggest La doesn't have enough apartment units.

If you would build more apartments, you would have less they would cheaper.

Yeah, but the city doesn't make it easy to build, of course, not so what the city council does.

In my now two full years of paying attention to them, what I have noticed is they are big fans of treating symptoms but not looking at the disease, which may be their own policies.

Now Mayor Bass has but that's not sexy.

Yeah, and this is an opportunity to say when I want to get reelected.

Look, I did allow there to be a little bit of an increase but I'm sure that, like, how is this How is the spin.

Coming from the Mayor's department.

It's not bad, It's what you would expect.

Yeah, and we're going to get to the spin right now.

Because Mayor Bass did sign this thing.

They had a little news conference last Friday.

Councilman Isabelle Herado, who campaigned as a tenants rights attorney, although she has also said she was unemployed all last year because she was campaigning.

So I don't know what type of legal work she actually conducted, but that's what she says her specialty as is tenants rights.

Maybe she ran a day Possibly she posted on X after this thing was signed by the mayor and I'm asking for I'm trying not to be condescending.

Okay, I have to cover these people, but I didn't understand what this meant.

I want you to decide, right, Yeah, here's.

I will take.

Where'd you go to college?

I went to Santa Monica College for two years and then I went to UCLA for about six months.

So and no, I didn't.

I didn't.

I'm on television.

It's all a lot, which I was told you need a master for see.

I have a master's degree.

And your father had an eye.

Here's what councilman Herado posted on Twitter.

Evictions are a modern vestige of imperialism and conquest.

Mass displacement functions like conquest itself, erasing people, culture and community dispossession turns residents into tourists in their own hometowns, never able to return today.

Updating rent control and gapping the rent increase was a huge win for Angelino's because housing stability is anti displacement policy.

What I felt like I was back at Santa Monica College Bingo.

That's exactly what I said earlier.

We were on with Gary and Shannon talking about this issue, and I thought, that is college coursework one hundred percent.

That's like, I need to reach a certain number of words, So I'm going to put in as many as possible, and I'm going to, by the way, use the Bingo board of buzzwords that I see on Twitter or x or whatever all day blue sky, and I'm assuming is where they are now.

But but it really does feel like if you're trying to make a point to all people and you talk like that, you're going to lose eighty percent of everybody in the first five seconds.

You can look up that post on X and she got a lot of engagement, a lot from uh, like if she ran ratio to like people literally ratio.

There was not a lot of support for the way that she characterized this.

I mean you heard a lot from tenants.

I mean there are win It's very expensive here, Yeah, there's no doubt about it, and wages may not be keeping up with it.

If you're spending more than thirty or thirty three percent of your income on rent, I think that they call that house poor or something along those lines.

I mean it's like you are spending too much of your money on housing.

It can only be a thirty percent of your take home pay.

Yeah, and many, many people in Los Angeles are experiencing payments that are far more than that.

So, yeah, there are issues, But.

It seems that the biggest issue is how difficult it is to build housing here.

And I think build housing.

It's difficult not just because of the policies.

I understand, it's also difficult because people who own single family homes in places like the Valley, my neighborhood, they don't want large apartment buildings going up on their streets because they probably correctly assume that that will drive down the value of their homes.

So it is a very complicated issue.

And I think that there are places in this city where you could see maybe transit corridors or places where there are busier streets where you could possibly put some buildings up for sure, well very quickly before we have to go to the news.

There is a reference to that in the thread on Councilman Herado's post.

Somebody who is a housing activist in support a building more talked about Senate Bill seventy nine, which authorizes large cities like La to permit more quickly big apartment buildings next to heavy transit, light rail, heavy rail, and those bus lines like the Orange line of the J line.

These they got a lot of pushback to the City of La went on the record against this thing.

Councilman Herado voted against, you know, the resolution that would have supported this.

And so this user on x aster is SB seventy nine, which would build more housing.

Is it imperialism and conquest too.

They're so caught up in the performance of the policy that they don't even have the ability to get anything done.

Heroto's response was, it's a faint within a faint within a faint, but nuance is lost on the internet.

Oh my god, they just love sniffing their own Fuck.

I'm so sick of it.

I think you could say that a politically, just get stuff done.

We give you all this money, you have all this power.

You're increasing your ability to do things all the time.

Can you just make it better for us?

That would be okay.

I'd be okay given all of my money to the government if they made things better.

I wouldn't be okay with.

Giving all of it, but I'd be okay with giving as much as I do if I felt like there was some kind of, some kind of thing that.

We got out of it.

This is the same city that told hotel operators and restaurant operators concessioners at the airport you have to pay your workers more, while at the same time admitting that they don't have the funds to keep sixteen hundred people on their own staff.

Ah Killing and Michael Monk, thank you so much for joining us.

Pleasure, have a good show.

What's what's the rest of the night look like for you?

I'm leaving, Ah be safe out there.

You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM six forty.

Is it the Conway Show.

I'm Andy Reesmeyer in for Tim Conway Junior.

Will be with you all the way till seven pm.

Until then, we've got lots to talk about still, including the ongoing saga with a homeowner who has a bear under the floorboards of his house.

He's been asking for help for what feels like six months.

It's been about I think eight weeks, but a bear crawled under his house and now well after the state was like, well, we don't it's not really our We're kind of on vacation right now.

In file a lawsuit under.

Pound black bear that made its den under an Alta Dida home, still refusing to leave after more than a month now.

The homeowner love Rick Chambers so much, and the way that he reads this is as if someone has been trying to reason with the black bear under.

An Alta Dida home, still refusing to leave after more than a month now.

The homeowner there says that this massive bear has done damage to his pipes, forcing him to shut off the gas, and that man says that living with a bear under his house has now kind of pushed him to the breaking point.

Cross you know what kind of times?

Those are not good times?

Very descriptive.

Thank you?

Can you imagine?

Wow?

Wellino, because Rick Chambers is the voice of Marongo.

Right, good time, that's right.

And he plans to sue the Department of Fish and Wildlife after being told that the state will no longer help.

Kjla's Gillian Smuckler is live in Alta, Dina with this story you'll see only on five.

Hi there, do you like this only on five story that we're playing here on camfi either?

Hi?

Court, Yeah, it's just terrifying.

This poor homeowner says he's just at his breaking point.

It's been over a month since that five hundred and fifty pound black bear moved into his home, and as you just mentioned, it's caused a lot of damage.

He can hear it from inside of his home.

So now he's deciding to sue the agency because they stopped helping him get that bear out.

Ken Johnson says the bear moved under his Altadena home just before Thanksgiving and never really left.

I kept track of everything I tried.

It would be you know bear fourteen homeowner zero caliber.

Also, what do they say it's like after three days?

House guests are like fish, they start to smell, it's time for them to go.

So this guy, this bear has been bothering right dead fish.

Do live fish stink too?

I don't think so.

They have to have such wrong with them.

Well, they do smell.

They have some kind of smell.

It's like it's that ocean smell that they soish.

You get out there and the smell and fly fish suffer.

I don't know.

I know that you got to get it just right otherwise, Yeah, I will have a smell yeah the fish.

Yeah, thank you.

Yeah, Well that's we got to put that on a ine Garten's website.

Got to get it just right.

Angel.

Do you have any experience with the with the fish the fish?

Yeah, Like when fish go bad?

How long it takes?

For two questions?

Now, how long does it take for fish to stink?

The first question I guess, which is do live fish smell bad?

Oh?

Boy?

I think it depends on the fish going bad if they're just left out in the sun just to like rot away, or if you're refrigerating it and just leaving it there and forgetting about it.

So I think it would take a lot shorter of a time for the fish to just go fishy and turn nasty if it was just left out to its own devices.

But if you've got it in the refrigerator or chilled or something, it'll probably take an extra couple of days.

I had experience with it.

Yeah, or specifically live fish, do you think they smell well?

Sure, I mean they're fish fishy, but they don't smell like rotten fish.

They definitely have that you know, sea scent to them.

You know we have to ask is the guy who owns the San Peterro fish market, Glngaro?

I bet you he would know.

I'll reach out to him and see if he can give us an insight on the I fish smell bad before they get caught.

I'm going to continue on with this story and apologize to everybody for that very odd sidetrack.

California Department of Fish and Wildlife stepped in at first, setting a trap near the crawl space, but instead of catching the large bear under Johnson's home, the trap caught a smaller bear, the wrong one.

Do you hate it?

You hate it when that happens, you catch the wrong bear.

That bear was hauled away and the bigger bear stayed put.

Well, I was kind of sad.

For the other bear at first, but then I'm like, well, if this bear comes out, now, where's.

He going to go?

Biologist later tried again, using air horns to flush the bear out.

Sad he did a look courtesy Hank.

Courtesy Hank.

You know when like somebody like is obviously looking at their phone and they're they're trying to cross the intersection, but you don't want to be rude, and you just want to give a little just a little bit of an air horn.

Hunk Johnson says it looked like it was finally working.

Oh that was croache.

That was croach, I think, right?

And which which what part of your body are using to make that sound?

The one that shouldn't be on the micro Okay?

Great?

Yeah, so he says they suddenly got a call ordering them to stand down.

Very defeated.

Oh yeah, I mean, also, who is at the Department of Fish and Wildlife, Who's like.

Tell them to stand down?

We can't have any more help.

Stand down, gentlemen, you're too close.

I mean I just dropped because like, well, now what it's all up to me and what I'm supposed to watch my phone?

When he comes out in the middle of the night, or like sleep in the kitchen and listen for him every night.

I even ask, like, okay, so as long as you guys are gone, can I still debate to get him.

No, can't do that.

Since then, Johnson says he can hear the bear moving around, presumably doing a lot of damage under his home.

What's tough now is that everybody knows that this is happening, so he is very limited in what he can do.

Like, I know, he can't do anything on the sly now.

No, there can't be any kind of any kind of untoward behavior towards that bear down there.

Yeah, because he's gonna because they people will know.

They hear being shredded underneath, and even one of the cameras picked it up, just bulldozing through it.

It's a mess under there.

This video of a broken pipe prompted him to shut off his gas on Christmas Eve, and he hasn't had any hot water since.

I'm just exhausted from the whole thing.

You know, I get my mind off it for a little bit, and then suddenly I get flooded back with Oh that's right.

I can't take a hot shower.

I got to monitor the situation all the time.

Every time my phone buzzes, It's like, is that him?

Do I have to go and keep him away?

This sounds like a really bad relationship.

This guy is just.

It's not working out between the two of them.

Sorry to hear it.

I hope Ken get some help here, because oil boy, that is a nightmare.

You and I get to go home and do our normal thing, get to go to bed, take a hot shower, and Ken is just sitting there laying on the living room or kitchen floor waiting for his phone to buzz see if his bear friend is out.

That's life in the modern era.

Friends, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM six forty.

If you'd like to say hello, you are more than welcome to You can find me on the internet at andy KTLA, or you could also leave us a talkback using the iHeartRadio app function.

Look for the little microphone.

I believe it's white, might be a little red icon.

They may have changed it for Christmas.

It's Kwansas, so maybe they've also changed it for that.

I'm not sure.

I have been on the app for a minute, but if you want to leave a message, there up to thirty seconds.

We'll play it on the show here.

If you've got anything that you'd like to say to me to Angel dfooje d crows.

Crows.

What if it was like a creditor.

What if it was like somebody reaching out to be like, hey, it wouldn't be the first time you're behind on your on your car payment.

You've been here a long time.

I've gone through some ups and some downs financially, so we've gotten calls like that.

Yeah, there you go.

I had a thing where I didn't realize that I wasn't on auto pay for my DWP bill, like this was years ago.

Yeah, And I got ell straighten out, now do you Oh, it's all yeah, I got I got power and water.

I got all the power and all the water I could ever want.

But I was I wasn't paying attention.

And it takes I've found out in La the city, a really long time for them to shut your power off if you don't pay it, like many years.

And I kept I thought I was you know, I would get like the bill and the mail.

But I thought it it was just like the receipt of my of my payment because I assumed that it was on and it was them sending collection notices over and over again, and it started changing colors the envelope, and that's when I started to realize.

I was like, oh, that's cool.

They're doing them in green.

Now, Oh how fest is?

Oh, look they're doing them in yellow.

You're thinking about the holidays exactly.

Just go in the trash.

Oh this one's for Halloween.

Oh, this one's for Kwansa.

And they were there, ghosts all gone.

So uh.

I had I had a bill for like I don't know at the time.

I think it was three thousand dollars, which now seems like so cheap for LEDWP bill, you know what I mean, like a turn a lamp off.

Dude, it's crazy.

I mean I hadn't paid for like two years, so that was pretty low relatively speaking.

I mean a house now, a house now in the valley.

You're paying fifteen hundred bucks for two months of of DWP, and like three hundred dollars of that is trash.

I don't get it.

And I asked my I called them and I said, is this right?

And they said, well, we can't tell you if it's higher or lower than other other users, Like why yeah, Like, well, who was that what does that matter to you?

Wouldn't you want me to know?

I think that that would be a really effective thing if they would shame you, If they would say, wholl buddy, you're using your You're using your power and your water way more than everybody else is.

I think I would cut back on my usage.

The only thing that works is public shaming.

By the way, this is called dead week.

This week, this time between Christmas and New Year.

Let's listen to a KTLA's Andy Reesmeyer explained it this morning at ten thirty five.

Welcome to dead week.

Oh it's actually halfway over.

It is the time between Christmas and New Years.

In a world where everything gets a label, accept relationships, dead week is a new trendy term.

At least a course.

I would say that wasn't one of my best jokes, and you can hear the reaction.

I think that's kirk week is a new label, accept relationships.

Dead week is a new train.

That's the worst.

I'd rather get no laugh than I will say that.

Something that ruins a good punchline in the studio is that I put them in the teleprompter when I write them right, I write the scripts they have to be in the prompter, and so all the other talent can see that they're coming, so they get to they get to blow through the because they're following a long looking.

Jerks im.

At least according to the Atlantic.

You may have also heard it called twig smiths.

You may have heard faral week, or like me, you haven't heard any of these things.

All that stuff you wanted to get done before the holidays, Who cares all the stuff you still need to do that's next year?

Use problem.

It is the understanding culturally at least, that you can just not do anything for a bit if you don't work in news.

I was gonna say this is for the normal people.

Twix smith is a British term betwixt between Christmas and New Year's They also call it Boxing Week, which starts on Boxing Day, that is the day after Christmas.

Turns out, I learned this today.

It's not about fighting boxing, but when you box up the things that you got.

Did you know this?

You knew this?

Foujsh did you know this?

What was it?

Boxing Day is not about boxing like fighting?

I was I thought that they just you know, had it out in America most of the time after holidays is for fighting, and the time before holidays is one of these.

The day after they hit the morning, hop out the door in the front door.

In the morning, we'll start jogging down the street looking for people to fight.

Yeah, because you know, it's like it's boxing day.

That's not stop.

The right.

And they're so civilized there that it would make sense that they'd only have one day out of the year.

It's like the Purge.

It's there.

I'm exchange fish to caff I'll give you that what for.

That's right, So now I know it's not that I didn't like as a gift and then regift them.

That's one interpretation I see.

I was hoping that that is that Brits are so passive aggressive that they made a national holiday of it.

But you're telling me that.

That's not totally So some people believe it goes back to a time when you would box up your things that you don't want and provide them for the help.

Frank Buckley, incredible landing with that very carefully constructed sentence saved you big states.

Oh big, I see, so you're regifting to like your butlers And yes, I mean, while I've heard we can get allan on the phone.

Obviously in your house, you buy the butler and the maid their own gifts because you myself.

Right, they all get rolled.

Yeah, that's right.

Nordic countries have robin jewel, which translates into a room to celebrate the Uld Tide.

Most people are actually working, but let's be real, nothing is really getting done.

This week always.

Feels like a free for all.

You eat cheese for breakfast, get drunk at eleven am, fall asleep to a TNT show.

You know, it's always a TNT show.

It is, by the way, it's a Resolian Aisles.

It's a rerun of CSI Miami.

It's a law and order.

Nothing puts you to sleep like a little sip of JMO and some Olivia Benson.

And you can do that in the time from Thanksgiving or excuse me, from Christmas to New Year's without much consternation from society.

I think that's a beautiful part about this time of year.

Nobody cares what you're doing.

It doesn't matter.

People who are in the office are hardly doing anything at all.

I'm here and I'm very happy to be here.

Coming up, we're talking about the New York City's metro card era is over.

They're getting rid of it, replacing it with a tap card.

Wow, you know, for New York City being such a transit place.

Los Angeles has had a tap card since two thousand and seven.

Get with it.

Plus that as it might rain on the Rose Parade, officials have come out with a list of things.

That you can do to be prepared for the rain.

Did we not just deal with the rain?

Is there new?

Are there new tips for dealing with the rain?

Plus does champagne cause more headaches than other drinks?

Apparently not if you do it right.

That's all coming up in the next hour of The Conway Show.

I'll be with you, I mean Andy Reesmeyer.

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