Tim Conway Jr. on Demand

Hour 1 (10.20) A $3,300 DWP bill for two months, and now Mayor Bass says pay what you can. Plus a pulmonologist on how Jalen Hurts’ calf clot reached his lungs, and who should skip this fall’s COVID shot. 

6:05 Dr. Ray Casciari is a pulmonologist with St. Joseph Hospital in Orange and Interim Vice President of Medical Affairs at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Valencia. He explains which age groups he says should skip this fall’s COVID vaccine. Then: the Eagles put Jalen Hurts on injured reserve with a blood clot in his calf that reports say moved to his lungs. Dr. Casciari explains how a leg clot becomes a pulmonary embolism and why it has Hurts out indefinitely. 

6:20 Pope Leo XIV is back at the Vatican after surgery at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital to remove a localized lung cancer from his right lung. Dr. Casciari explains what that surgery and recovery involve. Also, Selena Gomez says vaping nicotine changed her voice for good, and she’s telling fans it isn’t worth it. 

6:35 Dennis Zine, former LAPD officer, former L.A. City Councilmember and board member of the Los Angeles Police Protective League, joins Michael Stafford of the San Fernando Valley United Chamber of Commerce.  

6:50 Mayor Karen Bass tells LADWP customers hit with huge bills after the summer heat to pay what they can for now. She has also asked the DWP board to halt water and power shutoffs through the end of 2026. Some customers say their two-month bills hit $2,700 to $3,300. 

 

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Hour 2 (10.20) Los Angeles ranks 168th of 182 cities in WalletHub’s new safest-cities list. Plus, Cole’s French Dip is coming back, Porto’s heads to Ontario, and Donnie Wahlberg’s jet skids off a Vegas runway. 

7:05 LeBron James opens his record 24th season in a 76ers jersey, and Philly beats the champion Knicks 106-100 at Madison Square Garden on ring night. Porto’s Bakery announces its first Inland Empire location, near Ontario’s airport, but the opening isn’t expected until 2028. And Cole’s French Dip, the downtown LA landmark dating back to 1908, is set to reopen under new owners with a new menu. The Bukowski restroom plaque stays. 

7:20 Donnie Wahlberg was on a private jet that aborted takeoff at Harry Reid International Airport, skidded off the runway and hit a fence. “The airplane did take some lumps — but we did not,” he says, crediting the pilots. Newport Beach declares a local emergency ahead of the Oct. 26–28 king tides, with the Balboa Peninsula and harbor islands most at risk. 

7:35 The first real storm of the season rolls in Wednesday into Thursday, with showers and a chance of thunderstorms. Plus, the Mega Doppler 7000 started life as the Mega Doppler 2000. And crews are back on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, making permanent repairs from July’s 110-year-old water main break. 

7:50 WalletHub’s 2026 ranking puts Los Angeles 168th of 182 cities for safety. Juneau, Alaska is No. 1, and Irvine is Southern California’s safest city at No. 28. 

 

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Hour 3 (10.20) Twenty-five LA bars bet $60,000 that the Dodgers wouldn’t make the World Series, and nearly doubled their money. Plus thieves hit a FedEx truck loaded with graded Pokémon cards in Santa Ana. 

8:05 Shadow Hills is the semi-rural horse country of the northeast San Fernando Valley, with miles of dirt trails and street crossings built for horses. The city has upgraded several of those crossings with pedestrian hybrid beacons and warning signs to protect riders and their horses. Plus the story of [Angel’s?] horse Sueño, who lived in Shadow Hills. 

8:20 Sueño won at Del Mar in 1977 and paid $50.40, and we play the race call, from “giddyup” to “whoa.” The NFL plays its first regular-season game in France this Sunday, Oct. 25, when the Saints host the Steelers at Stade de France. Owners have approved up to 10 international games starting in 2027, and Asia could follow later. And thieves took two pallets of PSA-graded Pokémon and sports cards from a FedEx truck in Santa Ana. 

8:35 Jack Fox of  explains why fish farming is illegal in Alaska. He walks through how the state’s private nonprofit hatcheries raise salmon from eggs, release them as juveniles, and let them grow up wild in the ocean before they come home. 

8:50 U.S. wine sales fell below 300 million cases for the first time in 20 years, and California wineries are feeling it. And 25 LA bars, many near Dodger Stadium, used a $60,000 Kalshi trade to hedge against the Dodgers missing the World Series. The Brewers knocked LA out in the NLCS, and the bars nearly doubled their money. 

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Hour 4 (10.20) Mayor Karen Bass tells John Kobylt that most of LA’s $1.3 billion homelessness budget isn’t city money, then spars with him over 110-year-old water pipes two weeks before her runoff. 

9:05 Bass says the “smallest amount” of the city’s roughly $1.3 billion homelessness budget comes from the general fund, and federal and state money makes up the majority. She contrasts that with [the $800 million item], which she says is “100% from the general fund.” 

9:20 Bass answers for the January 7, 2025 fires: the Palisades fire, the city’s response and where rebuilding stands. 

9:35 With the Nov. 3 runoff against Councilmember Nithya Raman close, Kobylt presses Bass on the issues voters will weigh in her bid for a second term. 

9:50 Bass says the city now has its first comprehensive plan to fix the infrastructure under its streets, after years of “hit and miss” repairs. Kobylt mentions the water main that broke in front of his house last week. Bass points to the city’s 110-year-old pipes as proof the work wasn’t getting done. They run out of time mid-argument. “I like doing combat with you,” Bass says, and she agrees to come back for part two. 

Originally aired on The John Kobylt Show. 

 

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Hour 1 (10.19)  6:05 — Mark Thompson is back in the house with his broken cankle to gossip with his best buddy Tim Conway Jr. on this balmy Monday night! What’s that you’re saying about CNN, Timmy? Timmy’s betting prowess paid off for our KFI queen of traffic Angel Martinez, who bet big on Boston. What could be worse than Mondays? It’s called the Sunday scaries. Let’s talk about it. 

6:20 — Sunday scaries is when you feel anxious and depressed because you’re mentally and emotionally getting back into the work week following the weekend off. Some scientists believe it may be a sign of something unresolved at work. Is the answer to the Sunday scaries bare-minimum Mondays? 

6:35 — Karen Bass will be on John Kobylt’s show tomorrow, and Mark gives her props for her bravery. San Francisco comedian Jake Johannsen is a friend of Mark’s, and Timmy is a big fan of his storytelling style of comedy. The lads discuss Johannsen’s best bits. The Norte Fire in San Juan Capistrano and San Clemente has destroyed about six or seven homes and is 75% contained, with about 300 firefighters on the job. Atta boys. 

6:50 —The Santa Monica Pier is back in the news because the iconic sign is being dismantled so it can be restored. It’s being shipped to Las Vegas for the restoration and will take as much as 18 months. And that’s for a sign that originally took two and a half weeks to built. A half-size sign for tourists is being put up in its place. The pier was originally built to take rare sewerage, aka your poop, some 200 feet off the coast to dump it. For a second time. The ocean is basically the world’s trash toilet. Long Beach dredging and preparing for the rains. 

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Hour 2 (10.19) 7:05 — Timmy’s special in-studio guest tonight is former NBC Channel 4 weatherman, the iconic Fritz Coleman, who presented the weather for 40 years. He comes from the world of standup comedy — much to the chagrin of meteorologists — and was scouted for TV while performing at the Comedy Store. Luckily, back then there was no weather in the state of California, where it used to be 71 degrees and sunny all year round, so the job was a literal no-brainer. Fritz is here to talk about his hit comedy show “Unassisted Living,” which you can catch at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood. Get your tickets at elportaltheatre.com/fritzcoleman 

7:20 — When Fritz worked in Buffalo as a weatherman, it was during the OJ Simpson era, and the Juice was bigger than Moses in the frozen Northeast. The only person who came close to OJ levels of popularity in Buffalo was Rick James, another native son. Now the talk of Tinseltown is that OJ may have had an accomplice in the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Fritz tells stories of working with his 1990s partner, KNBC anchorman John Beard, who Mark also had a personal relationship with — naturally. 

7:35 — When it comes to Karen Bass, is John Kobylt a jihadist? Mark sure thinks so! Meanwhile, LA residents are getting serious sticker shock, with their LADWP bills through the roof to the tune of hundreds of dollars, and in some cases thousands of dollars! It’s becoming a big subject in the LA mayoral race, and Timmy thinks it’s due to politicians raising the utility prices to put that extra money in the general fund as a form of taxation. Sneaky.  

7:50 — There’s been a lot of layoffs in Hollywood, including the latest round of 1,000 people at Netflix — and that’s after the streaming giant wanted to buy Warner Bros and Paramount. Netflix is now bringing in Peter Rice, who used to work for Disney. Over the past decade, Hollywood has lost 50,000 jobs, including thousands of layoffs following the Paramount-Skydance-Warner Bros-Discovery merger. The media landscape is certainly changing. 

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Hour 3 (10.19) 8:05 — Have the Brewers ever won the World Series? Let’s find out live on air! And which baseball teams have the lowest payroll and the highest payroll? Timmy will tell you! Is California turning into Florida when it comes to sharks? We’ve got another warning from Manhattan Beach, with a shark swimming super close to shore and near to surfers. There’s also new evidence regarding a potential accomplice with mob ties, Joseph Ippolito, in the OJ Simpson murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. Do you remember where you were during the OJ Simpson white Bronco chase? 

8:20 — There’re coyotes everywhere in Los Angeles County. One has just been euthanized after an encounter with a 16-month-old baby in Atwater Village in which the child was injured. That coyote was nicknamed Wylie. Should wildlife officials have intervened sooner? What should you do if you encounter a coyote? 

8:35 — If Timmy gifted Marky a $50 gift card to Jamba Juice or Starbucks for his birthday and he went to buy a beverage, but the card turned out to be empty, would Marky call Timmy? The answer is no. And what would the crew do? El Torito was the first place in the Valley to have deep-fried ice cream on the menu, and that’s a formative memory for young Timmy, whose dad used to take the family there. 

8:50 — Kayem Meats is recalling 1.5 million pounds of meat including hot dogs, deli meat, bacon, corn beef and sausage. No sicknesses have been reported yet. Mark doesn’t really care because he’s vegan, and Timmy kinda wishes he was vegan. How is sausage made — is it all lips and genitals? Let’s find out? 

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Hour 4 (10.19) 9:05 — Tomorrow Mayor Karen Bass sits down with John Kobylt, and Mark’s tipping his cap — it takes chutzpah to walk into that studio. Then the comedy corner: San Francisco’s Jake Johannsen, an old buddy of Mark’s whose long-form storytelling tickles Timmy’s funny bone. They pull out the bits that still land. Down in San Juan Capistrano, the Norte Fire has burned through seven structures, is sitting at 75% contained, and still has roughly 300 firefighters on it. Atta boys. 

9:20 — Fritz Coleman is in the house. The funnyman-turned-weatherman-turned-funnyman’s solo show “Unassisted Living” just wrapped its second year of packing the intimate Monroe Forum at the historic El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood. Fritz’s residency is the longest-running solo show in the theater’s history. He performs it himself with a special guest each month. Sundays at 3 p.m. on March 1, April 26, May 31, June 28, July 26, August 30, September 27, October 25, and November 29 at 5269 Lankershim Blvd. Tickets are $40, or $50 for cocktail seating (two-ticket minimum). elportaltheatre.com/fritzcoleman. Timmy’s already looking for the good seats. 

9:35 — Back when Fritz Coleman was doing weather in Buffalo, OJ Simpson was the biggest thing in the frozen Northeast — bigger than Moses. The only local who came close was another Buffalo guy, Rick James. Now the chatter in Tinseltown is that OJ might not have been alone the night Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were killed. Fritz has stories from those ’90s days working with KNBC anchorman John Beard, who Mark also knew personally. Of course he did. 

9:50 — Hollywood’s still shedding jobs. Netflix just cut roughly 1,000 people — about 6% of its workforce, the biggest round in four years — hitting product, tech, legal and HR. This came right after the streamer lost its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery to Paramount Skydance. The very next day they pushed out longtime content chief Bela Bajaria and brought in Peter Rice, the former Disney television chairman and Fox. LA County has lost more than 50,000 entertainment jobs since 2022, and a county report estimated the Paramount-Warner merger alone could cost another 4,500 film and TV jobs in the area over three years.  

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Hour 1 (10.16) Bill Handel had to leave his San Juan Capistrano home as the wind-driven Norte Fire pushed into South County backyards. He joins Tim live, plus how OCFA crews and neighbors held the line. 

6:05 Bill Handel calls in after being evacuated from his San Juan Capistrano home. The Norte Fire started near Portico Del Norte in San Clemente and spread into San Juan Capistrano on Santa Ana winds. 

6:20 OCFA hit the fire hard from the air and on the ground. A San Juan Capistrano homeowner was about to open a beer when he spotted a hotspot flaring up behind his house. 

6:35 OCFA gives an update at its press conference. The fire started around 11:30 a.m. as a vegetation fire. Evacuation orders went out for parts of San Juan Capistrano and San Clemente, homes were lost, a firefighter was taken to the hospital, and power was knocked out across the area. 

6:50 Crews keep the fire inside its current footprint and say they have plenty of water. Neighbors jumped in to help, including one man whose grandfather lost everything in the Palisades Fire. 

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Hour 2 (10.16) A Mission Viejo lung doctor on the mask that actually filters wildfire smoke and when to head to the ER. Plus: the winless Kings are favored over Boston? 

7:05 Dr. Robert Goldberg is a pulmonologist at Providence Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, next to the Norte Fire. He covers which mask actually filters smoke, who is most at risk, the warning signs of respiratory distress, and when to go to the hospital. He also gives the best settings for home and car air filters and your AC. 

7:20 Santa Ana winds left Southern Californians without power again. Tim makes the case for a real emergency kit: a water pump, a generator and a chainsaw. Then he admits he changed his chainsaw blade while it was still plugged in. 

7:35 The Kings are off to their worst start since 1997–98, and they’re somehow favored over the Bruins on Saturday. How is Boston the underdog? Plus, some SoCal Edison customers head into a second day without power. 

7:50 Battery backup or gas? We compare Jackery power stations for keeping the fridge running with Pulsar inverter generators. Inverters throttle the engine to match the load, run quieter than open-frame contractor generators, and put out clean power for electronics. They’re the better choice when a blackout lasts for days. 

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