October 1, 2024 • 31 mins
VP debate in 2 hours, we should approach the political divide with unity and empathy. // Haters gonna hate hate hate hate hate / John Amos, veteran actor of 'Roots' and 'Good Times' fame, dies at 84 // Country Club Prices // Diddy update on lawsuit
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF. I am sixty and you're listening to
The Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Conway Show. It's Tuesday, Mark Thompson.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Thank you everybody. I'm overwhelmed and honor.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm rolling on for two hours.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I know it's Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Then we have got the debate CBS's new CBS News
Vice Presidential Debate at six pm.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
And they proclaimed it proudly that they're not going to
fact check. I liked it.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
There.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Let's list there's a bragging point. That's cool.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah, let's keep it moving here. We don't have time
to check facts. That's right, that's right. Let everyone at
home check their own.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Check your own facts.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, well as opposed to just check one.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Guy, you know, yeah, exactly like the last one. It
was three on one, that's right. Yeah, that's right. Yeah,
it was three on one the last one.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I know you're doing you're doing this for your podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I'm not doing it. Yeah you are because you have to.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
You have to super serve your hatred for Trump on
your podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
That's it, that's what. That's true. Though. Here's the thing.
When I it's actually not on my podcast, but when
I'm on with you. People will write to me and
they'll say, well, you looked Tim Conwick, Junr walk all
over you. You would univer say anything, Becca, you did
them good with you.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
But those are people from your podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I don't think so maybe they maybe they're okay. But anyway,
uh I.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So people say that and and but you know what
you read that?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
No? No, you know what. No, I never read it
on the air. I'm just mentioning it for the first
time to you now. But I will tell you what
I say to them, and I really mean it. Hey,
I'm not there to you know, check Conway and stuff.
I'm really not. I'm not you know.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
So And look, and the reason I don't go on
your podcast is I don't go on to check you either.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Exactly do your thing right. You don't want to. You
don't want the stink of my podcast. I get it anyway,
So I apologize for even even a bit of mockery
on the front.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
No, no, no, but buddy, listen, I I honestly god,
I am.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I have I.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Have had it with with with politics only because it
doesn't bring people together.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
It separates ugree.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
And and there are there are people in my family
that don't talk to one another because of politics. Yeah,
there are there are friends of mine who you know,
have shut down because you know they're they're political.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Like this is a this is a weird reaction.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I have a friend who's never into politics in his life.
I never never mentioned it. Probably doesn't know. I couldn't
couldn't name you three senators in the last two hundred
years in the United States. Could probably not name you
five of the past presidents. I'd probably be very tough
to do that. And I saw him, I don't know,
(02:37):
maybe six months or so ago, and and he said, uh,
and he said, how's it going on the station? I said, oh,
you know, it's going good where you know, just getting
mind it's really political out there. And he said, he goes,
I hope Donald Trump and his whole family get cancer
and they die in a plane crash. That'ous. I said,
what's going on with you, buddy? If you ever met him,
(03:00):
I see owe you money or something, you know. But
that kind of hatred for somebody that that they've they've
never met. I think that's kind of reserved for somebody
who's killed somebody in your family.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
No, I don't, I don't, I don't I don't get that.
That's just rue, that's wrong, But you're right, that's kind
of a sign of where we've come, Like I evolved
that dangerously. I have a guy who really is somebody
I played cards with occasionally and doesn't really have a
lot of money. Uh in fact, you like because of cards? Yeah,
I think because there's some bad gambling habits and stuff.
And he's in this room. He's a big trumper because
(03:34):
he says, I'm angry about the inheritance tax. I'm thinking, dude,
you don't need to sweat the inheritance tax. Okay, you're not.
Your family is not wealthy, You're not wealthy. Is that
the hill you're going to die on the inheritance tax?
So so, everybody's got their thing, whether it's you know, legitimate.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Sure, yeah, and it and look, it's it's fun to,
you know, argue once in a while, but god almighty,
it consumes everything.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I wouldn't cut anybody off. There are people in my
family and my crew, there are more than one that
are that disagree with me on politics. I would never
cut them off. I mean, it's just not a and
I would have, you know, civil conversations with them.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I'm with you, man, I'm with you, but but I
don't know, you know, what is what's going to be
the outcome of you know, like, let's say, all right,
let's do both scenarios. Trump loses. Okay, let's say Trump
loses and Kambla Harris becomes president. Do all the shows
(04:36):
that rely on hating Trump for their audience, do they
still bang on him when he's a private citizen in
Florida or what do they do?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Well, there's a major movement that he's part of. So
I suspect that the Maga movement continues. And so you know,
you did talk about the anti no no I That's
what I'm talking about. But so you're you'll have an
you'll have something to still be anti about in the life.
You still have the Maga movement. Trump is not going
to shut up all of a sudden just because he lost.
He's gonna contest it, et cetera. So I think there'll
be a lot in the way of media that you
(05:05):
can still continue if that's your thing. The jihad can continue,
you know, even if Trump loses, I.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Think, right, Okay, all right, Then the other scenario, what
if Trump wins, right, and then you know, do these
shows go into overdrive?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I mean you know that. I guess they continue with
I mean you.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Had that in already twenty sixteen when he won and
you had the highest ratings ever for the MSNBCS.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
So you think they secretly hope he wants to be president.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I want think the probably in some C suite somewhere,
and second that the CEO of Mediaville, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Or yeah, some guy, the guy's in accounting probably like
to see him in there.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I mean, there is a benefit, no question about it too.
Trump's good copy, you know, He's good for that world.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, and all right, so the big story today is
the you know, it is obviously Israeli getting hit again.
I can't believe that. And I got a theory on this,
and you you know, you probably know more about Israel
in the Middle East than I do.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I don't spend a lot of time with.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
It, but I I am fearful that Iran knows what
they're doing. That Iran has is throwing these these really
sort of antiquated, uh low technology drones at Israel to
use up all the uh the anti missile ammunition that
(06:24):
Israel has se and then going to throw in the
major ones because they haven't thrown in you know, these Iranians.
You say what you will, but man, they've got some
technology there and they they they're able to pinpoint Israel
from Iran with these really sort of ancient drones and rockets.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
But I thought they did fire missiles to that.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
One of I think one or two of them was
one of their you know, their high power the things,
the real thing. But I I have a fear, man,
I got a nightmare scenario.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
And and and I think.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
About this late at night, that that all of their
you know, crappy drones that you and I, guys like
you and I could build, I take really take advantage of,
you know, the United States off the coast and the
Iron Dome or whatever the thing is called over Israel.
And then once they're all out of ammunition, the big
(07:15):
rockets come in. Well, and I think that's going to
be an unbelievably unbelievable disease.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
And that's a fascinating theory. I mean, it's certainly true.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
That because why would they throw crap at them like
this they know they're going to be intercepted.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
There is something to this. I mean, there are a
couple of things going on right. One is that you've
essentially got Israel in a three front war or at
least a confrontation anyway, I don't know if you call
it a war or hezbe lah Goz of course, and Yemen,
and then you got you add Iran, So yeah, you
have four. So the situation is very, very volatile and
(07:47):
could easily spill over into something bigger. But the one
thing I would say is that the Iranians don't really
want it to get bigger either, And the biggest reason
for that is the United States. I don't think that
they want war with the United States and they that's
what the United States wants it either. No, of course,
not Iran is not a raq no, of course, But
(08:07):
I think that you know these things, there's a lot
of unintended consequences, right. But one of the reasons we
parked that carrier off the coast is to say, hey, guys,
this has to stop because we will get involved. So
I'm hoping that will be enough. But I have the
same fear as you do. I really do.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I think it's creeping towards uh war. I really do,
because you know, you get and especially you know the worldwide.
You know, it seems like everybody's broke for some reason.
And and if and if you think you're broke here
in the United States, there's a lot of people really.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Broke in that part of the world.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And the only people that that seem to have a
you know, a thriving economy that is moving the world
forward in that in that area is Israel. You know,
Gaza's had, you know, a tremendous amount of problem. You
can't really sort of get a hey in Gaza and
do any technology when you're looking for food for your family.
(09:05):
And then what I know about Lebanon, I mean Lebanon
used to be, you know, the Jewel of the Mediterranean.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
That's exactly right. I mean a bear route was spectactic
the parish of the Middle East. Is that right? Yeah?
And it's wild though Hesballout runs Lebanon, so that that that.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Is right, and Iran runs Hesbela exactly, and so man,
it's it's really Look, it's complicated, and there's a reason
why every president has said we're going to solve it.
Nobody can do it. Yeah, nobody even comes close. But anyway,
so that's the big story there. We're watching Helen the
the the fallout for that storm is incredible, and there
(09:42):
are areas where we still haven't gotten to in North Carolina,
in Georgia that are really in the outback, and you know,
people in the Mountain, the Mountain Gang there, it's really
tough to get to. Lots of flooding and and you
see these heartbreaking photos. Don't know if you saw photo
of the two grandparents with their grandchild on top of
(10:04):
a roof of a house. That was the last picture
they took before that house was washed away. The two
grandparents and the grandchild just washed away, gone, and they'll
never find them. You know, they're still looking for people.
Remember we had that flood up in Santa Barbara should
have the muddlin Monticito, Yeah, yeah, and that there are
still I think twenty five or thirty people missing from
(10:25):
that flood. And that is a very controlled area that
we all knew where it was.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
It happened in an instant there, right.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Right, yeah, and you know the big boulders come down
and just wipe their down. So I bet they will
never find most of the people that are missing in
North Carolina's profound.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
It is horrible, total, all right.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
At six o'clock.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
We have the debate coming up, the CBS News Vice
presidential debate at six pm.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
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Speaker 1 (10:55):
I remember when I was I've only been on unemployment
once in my life. I think I was twenty three
or twenty four, and somebody said, are you embarrassed to
stand in that line? And I said, no, I'll stand
in any line. When you get to the front of it,
they give you a check, I'm in. There's no shame
at all. Yeah, no, I'm with you. Plus we pay
(11:16):
for it, don't we? Sure of course? Yeah, yeah, unemployment's
the greatest. Have you been unemployment?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I should have been? What? But I too lazy? It's
not that I mean, there may be a component of that.
Most everything in my life has some component of me
being too lazy. But I think that what happened with
you it was from it's through my kind of like
I'm paid through my company. And in order to prove
that you're unemployed, you can't you know, have your own company,
(11:44):
you know, you know, Yeah, well see type thing.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Anyway, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm I'm I'm lazy to the
point where somebody sent me a really good insult.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I like the really good ones.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
The ones are really clever, and I meant to write
and back saying that's one of the best ones I've heard,
and I just got too lazy and threw it away.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
But I mean, I.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Wish I'd saved it. It was a really detailed insult. It
was like a full page.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
There's nothing better than angry emails.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
And but especially when somebody's creative about it, you know
it really and knows a lot of the show. You know,
just you know, when you did this and this and
this sucks, and this sucks and this, and then it
was really details.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Well I get this, and I'll get this, even on
what we do. So I've been listening for years and
you and Conway or how I spent tuesdays, you do this,
and you do that, and you do this. But when
you said this, I was like, Okay, really dude, So
you've been with me all these years, you love all
this stuff. But there's a one comment that is like
where I'm disqualified.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Immediately, right, And and that's again a lot of it
comes back down to politics.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah, or or just being wound too tight. Yeah maybe,
but you know.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
But look, I understand that people burn out of listening
to you, because if you listen to somebody for you know,
like let's say somebody listens on the average or a
half hour or an hour a day on their ride home,
eventually I'm going to say something that irritates you, and
people go, oh, F that guy. I knew he was
like that, you know, after twenty years he said something like,
(13:13):
you know, whatever it was he hated my favorite restaurant.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah, something like that. F that guy. I hear what
you're saying. But I tend to be I just I
guess I go for my own attitude, and I don't
disqualify someone based on one comment. I just don't or
even one position. Oh I do, I do. Yeah, I
liked him. You're much tougher this.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Oh yeah, yeah. John Amos died.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
That guy was great. He was great, He was terrific.
He was in the good times. Roots.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yes, there's a lot of great things.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
He was in a movie, a Disney movie called the
World's Greatest Athlete.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
My favorite movies of all time.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Anybody who's seen anybody, Nobody, nobody, Kurt Russell, No, it
was I can't remember who was in it. It was world's
greatest athlete. John Amos was a coach and and I
think it was I don't remember who the world's greatest
athlete was.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
What kind of athletics were they involved in the world.
I'll tell you the story.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
It's it's two football coaches who I go to Africa
and they discover an unbelievable athlete and they bring him
back to the United States and he wins game after
game after game.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Jan Michael Vince, Jan Michael Vincent, Tim Conway.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Well, that's right, Yeah, they found Jan Michael Vincent in
Africa in Africa.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
It's a documentary and it was it's a it's a
great movie. And Jan Michael Vinson Benson was was terrific.
And John Amos John Amos almost said Amos because I
hear in some radio stations, I'm calling John Amos.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
What is it? It's most famous John names.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I think John Amos, but a lot of some people
call hi John Amos. All right, here we go, John Amos.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Learning beloved actor John Amos has died. Is publicists.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I don't know what it might be.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
It might be and he beloved actor John Amos has died.
His publicist says Amos died August twenty first.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah, he gave us an Amos right.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
It's weird to publish a while ago.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I mean August, I mean I August or yeah, August twenty.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Why over a month ago. I wonder why they've been
so slow to release through news.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I think they've been debating on how to say his name.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
That could be his publicist, says Amos died August twenty
first of natural causes here in Los Angeles. His story
career began as he's Gordi the Weatherman on the Mary
Tyler Moore Show.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I didn't know that, Oh, yeah, I didn't. It was
Gordy the weather wow man.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Another great role, Yeah, Gordy the Weatherman on the Mary
Tyler Moore Show. But he played the hard working father
James Evans and Good Times he was nominating.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I think he was the best in Good Times man.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
He was great. Well you know what the story is
on that, don't you.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
The show? Yeah, well know that he left. Oh I
didn't know that. Oh, so check this out. After three
seasons he goes in. Well, I think he'd gone in
a little before the three seasons, and he wasn't happy
with the way his character was being portrayed.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Are you mixing him with McLain Stevenson A mash.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I don't believe McLean had that same issue McLain was
getting offers. I think from the outside you know more
about McLain than I do. But on this one, i'd
heard he went in and said, Hey, I'm not happy
with the way this character is being portrayed as head
of the family, and I'm not happy with Jimmy Walker
being portrayed kind of in that jokey way that really
(16:31):
dynam Might thing.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yeah, and I.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Guess that guy the well, the back and forth got
a bit contentious, and then in season three they killed
him off.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Oh wow, I didn't know that. Yeah, but I mean,
so they went with Dinah Might instead of and.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
You know, I'm sure they tried to make a deal,
but he was a watch I didn't know that.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
Hard working father James Evans and good times. He was
nominating it for an Emmy for playing an older Kuntakin
in Room Boots, and he was an owner of a
McDonald's like Hamburger chain. In Coming to America. Later in life,
Amos would play the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
staff on TV's The West Wing, John Amos expressed died
(17:13):
at the age of eighty foot.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Ah, what a life, not a great life that man had.
WI come back, Steve Gregor will be.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty with us.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Mark Thompson's with us and Steve Gregory's with us. And
I asked Steve to help me out. Today we did
an event for LAPD and I still don't even know
what we did.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
And I don't know what what was.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
It a seminar, It was a wellness day, wellness day,
and it was a department mandated wellness day, Okay, And
it was there's probably about seventy cops there.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
And when it comes to wellness, everyone thinks of you
and me.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
And and that was It was a cool event. It
was out at the Porter Valley Country Club.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I'd never been there before. It was really nice up there. Yeah,
you can't believe how many country clubs are in the valley. Yeah,
and we don't belong to.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Any of them.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
No, we don't make that kind of money.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
That's right. Oh, Mark, you probably have a I do not,
but I appreciate that. You think I would.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
You've never been involved with the country club.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Okay, so I have been. I was a member of
rivi Era what yeah, yeah, anute not to Riviera. It's
a pretty good story, only in that I wanted to.
It took. It was like running for Congress. Getting getting in.
You had to get like five letters to recommend you.
It's it's expensive too, and you know how much was it?
It was a lot. It was a lot. I just
(18:38):
want to say it was a lot.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
But it was come on, man, you're not paying it now?
Speaker 5 (18:41):
There was.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
It was also well you can google it probably.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
By the way, when when we say, you know, have
you ever been in a country club? And you said no,
and then you come up with the premiere one in
the world.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
You didn't say have you ever been in? You said
you're in a country. You said no, one's that. You said,
none of us, none of us are in any Oh
you said, and you're not an I don't know, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
How much does it cost to play Riviera Country Club?
You can't play unless three hundred thousand dollars initiation.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
No, that's not what I Please, don't give people that
out right here.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I know, but that's tax exemptly of three hundred. But
he did it when John Amos was on good time.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Yeah, it was a long time ago, and but it.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Was when you will do sixteen hundred per individual.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
It was just to get sixteen hundred a year. I
think it was more than that. More than it's gotta
be more than that. You get. Here's what happened.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
You get a food bonus.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Yeah, you know, you have a food minimum, which means
you have to you know, you have to spend a
certain amount and if you don't spend it, they just
bill you it out. Yeah, So basically you pay all
this money up front and then you then there's a
monthly charge. Now, back then, I was living, you know,
in Brentwood, and it was right down the road and
I was, uh, you eat there every day. I loved eating.
I loved eating and reading the paper there and all
(19:51):
that stuff. And then I got hurt at a cigar
I got. Yeah, it was that kind of like Larry
David was there, and Tom Brady.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Right, yeah, Glenn Campbell, Humphrey Bogart.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yeah, I didn't see but Chevy Chase nothing. Moore didn't
see any of those. Billy Barty it was Billy Barty
would have been fun. Yeah, but great grab with Billy Barty. Yeah,
Billy p passed away. But yeah, you dumped that. That's unbelievable.
That was just dumped.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
God bless him.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I just made that comment about the golf course and
they dumped that here.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Well, I remember when we were just talking about foul Play.
Billy Barty was in foul Play. Yeah, that's right. He
was a Bible salesman. Well, he was a Bible.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Salesman in life and they and then they, so it
wasn't a stretch.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
I'm impressed that Gregory really knows that foul Play movie.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Well, that's one of my favorite movies. She was a
Chevy Chase when he back when he was normal. Rachel
Roberts was in then.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I don't remember the movie at all. It was in
San Francisco. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Remember that song that ready to Take a Chance, very analog. Yeah,
and Charlie Charlie Fox wrote that song.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Yeah, and then Dudley Moore played the symphony conductor. Oh yeah,
So anyway, Steve, what's here to talk about immigration? We
ran out of time.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Nice to see.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Above you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
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Speaker 3 (21:25):
It's Conway Show.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Mark Thompson's here and we welcome Steve Gregory to talk
about Sean Ditty Combs, Bad Vibes for the Diddy Camp.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
What's going on with Sean Ditty comb Well? Today, an
attorney in Texas announced he is representing one hundred and
twenty different lawsuits against Ditty for alleged sexual assault and
sexually related crimes. And more than three thousand people had
approached this attorney. What even before the indictment of Combs
(21:57):
alleging that they were in some sort of you know,
molestation assault. Some of them claimed they were drugged at parties.
How did you get away with that for so long? Well,
And that's the big question in the way that the attorney,
Tony Busby described it is that at the time, you know,
he had did he have juice? He was powerful, He had,
(22:20):
you know, the key to the kingdom to a lot
of different music labels, he had his own label. He
had a lot of things going on. And as the
same thing in Weinstein and these other cases, no one
ever came forward, according to this attorney, because a they
were afraid of retaliation or be they were afraid they
were never going to get into the business.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Wow, So a lot of people lived in that fear.
Part of it late that he had such a pumping career,
as you say, all that Jews, and he's still had
all this time for But apparently we're thousands of you know,
these alleged sexual assaults.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Well, interestingly, the attorney said that after you know, more
than three thousand approached the law firm, they settled on
one hundred and twenty of these cases. Sixty of them
are women and sixty or men.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Oh is that right? Yes?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
And ying yang. The alleged assaults took place from nineteen
ninety one up to this year, and in that time span,
one of the victims at the time of the alleged
abuse was nine years old. I didn't know that. I
thought Diddy was. Are you sure about this? Yes, I'm
sure that, That's what the attorney said. And another victim
(23:26):
was fourteen years old, and one was fifteen years old.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Wait, I'm not talking about the kids. I'm talking about
he was bisexual. All I'm telling you is that sixty
of the what were the men's Was it a sexual assault?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah? These are all related to sexual assault claims.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Wait, so he had sixty males well suing him for
sexual assault.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Heart of these cases are going to involve others in
Ditty's camp. So they also talked about the fact that,
in fact, the attorney said, we are going to name names.
Really and he said, we are preparing all of this now,
and he said, and you will all be shocked names.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
We know.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
That's what he said. We will be naming names, and
that time's coming. And he says, we've got he's got
an investigator now that he used to be with the
Houston Police Department and he brought him on board full
time and they are now investigating all one hundred and
twenty of these claims and it's not going to be
a class action suit. A lot of people thought that
because there were so many, he is going to file
every one of those individually.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
So this this will wipe him out financially potentially.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Sure. Now, Diddy's camp did come out and say they
vehemently deny all of these claims, saying that this is
just part and parcel to this media circus that's been
created around this indictment. Wow, And he still remains in jail,
but still suicide watch.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
It's amazing through the Me too movement and how aware
people are nowadays with what you can and can't do,
especially in the workplace, that he was able to get
away with that for so long.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Yeah, you know, in the years I've been covering stuff
like that, I'm all. I'm also you know, a little skeptical,
I guess, and a lot of these claims because it
does take one person usually to file. Then everyone jumps
on the bandwagon because you don't know whether or not
these are true victims.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
And I'm not.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I'm not trying to discount anyone who's been victimized by
anything like this, but sometimes we do. We do learn
later that a lot of these people were just sort
of lawsuits of opportunity because they know they're going to settle.
None hardly any of these will ever.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Go to court, Oh, I say, And I say, yeah, man,
that's uh, that's uh, that's crazy. So why Houston, though,
Why Why were all these filed in Houston?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
This particular attorney apparently is well known for going after
high profile people. One of those, Eric scar was telling
me earlier that this is the same attorney that went
after some pro athlete for very similar charges and did
the same thing, got a bunch of people together that
were allegedly victimized.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
How did that work out? I don't know, But yeah,
I wonder what this guy's track record is.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
But he he looks like I was watching the press conference,
and you know, he's got a pretty high end looking office.
It looks like he does pretty well.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah. Well, I mean one hundred and twenty cases. You're
saying they're going to file them all separately, you know,
even if you have it on base percentage there of
you know.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Well, you like one hundred if you look at the
Weinstein cases right now, and the payouts he's had to
do Cosby Sure, the money that he's had to pay out,
Kevin Spacey, the money he's had to pay out, and
a lot of the lot he's never ended up in court,
a lot of these civil cases, and a lot of
money goes to the lawyers too, at least a third. Yeah,
(26:29):
but how much is he worth? How much is did
he worth? Oh jeez, that's a very good question. I
would think in the tens of millions.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Oh my god, I think he's a I think he
might be half. Remember this came up with in relation
to something else as to whether or not he was.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
A billionaire billionaire. Yeah, yeah, so he's worth a billion dollars.
He's got these one hundred and twenty lawsuits, and this
is just going to go up because the twenty nine
hundred or twenty eight to eighty that weren't that were
rejected by that law firm will be picked up by
somebody else, probably a lot of them.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yeah, and and and here's the thing crazy thing about it,
and attorneys will tell you is that a lot of
times those attorneys are gonna do all the leg work,
they'll do all the investigation, and then they'll get a
lot of that stuff going on, and then these other
people can sort of coattail.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
You imagine the pressure that guy's under. He went from
world famous, huge mansion where twenty five thirty million dollars
private jet, now sitting in a cell on suicide watch, Yeah,
on suicide Once.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
CelebrityNetWorth dot com says he's worth net worth six hundred.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Million, Okay, six million. I had it here, I didny
Comm's networth. That's me to be around a billion dollars.
What's the source? Michael Krozer dot com Weird Weird contradicting himself.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Anything that you look up now online, you have to
be careful because the first thing that pops up is
an AI version of information. Right, just fyl right, right, right, yeah, gain,
the first thing comes up with AI, and so often
it's wrong.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
That's a billion unfortune. Yeah, I'd read a biok a
date on that. I'd read a billion of March twenty four,
March of this year.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Okay, this is September seventeenth, twenty twenty four to six
hundred million.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I think he's trying to get rid of a lot
of his money.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Yeah, so he doesn't pay.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
It off, did he's yeah, right on Fortune magazine. Well
whatever it is money, And that was that was one
of the things that I remember Kardashian had told O. J.
Simpson when when things started to first go south with O. J.
Simpson and the murder trial happened, he had OJ transfer
all of his assets to Florida and put him in
(28:35):
a trust under his kid's name to protect his money.
I remember that happening pretty quickly when they when they
saw the writing on the wall and they didn't know
how it was going to go down. I remember Kardashian,
that's when everything moved to Florida because they had that.
I believe it was the Homestead Act where they couldn't
take his home. Yeah, well that's why he lived there too.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah, because you know, they couldn't touch his pension, right.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
NFL pension, SAG after pension, those were all protect it.
But the other I think that's the only real way
to get people to move to Florida, protect your pension
or the Homestead Act, you know, yeah, I think you wanted.
Well here's the thing, but oj was never allowed to
go back there after his parole to Florida. No, he
died in Vegas. He lived and died in Vasit. He wasn't.
(29:19):
They refused him entry after. You didn't know that. You know,
I was sitting in the parole room up in Carson
City when that happened. And if they can refuse you, they.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Didn't sign up.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
They didn't sign off on the parole because he had
to be placed in some place, or he had to
be sent to a place that would accept him, because
the state parole system has to take care of his
weekly check in all the other stuff, and the state's
prison system doesn't sign off on it. In this case,
it was the state Attorney General of Florida, but like, no,
we're not signing off on this. So he was stuck
(29:52):
in purgatory.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
At the while. They didn't accept him in Florida.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
They said, we don't want a murderer in our state.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Wow, that's wild.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
So they so he ended up having to stay in
floor in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
That's crazy, buddy. I appreciate you coming in. Thanks for
doing that thing with me this morning. It was it
was fun, l apd. It was a pleasure. You're a
great warm up guy.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
That's just like, what do they want me to talk about?
I'm not the I'm not the funny guy there to
make son I did to appeal to their like I'd
appeal a more serious tone, right, you bum them out?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
And then.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
I talked about the media.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
He comes ups, talks about dead kids, and I like, oh,
that's Steve Gregory.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Thank you guys yet me in the background.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah, but you're a huge hit. All right, buddy, thanks
for coming in. Thanks all right, ten ten ten, he's gone.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
All right.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
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Speaker 3 (00:11):
Thank you everybody. I'm overwhelmed and honor.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm rolling on for two hours.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I know it's Yeah.
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
And they proclaimed it proudly that they're not going to
fact check. I liked it.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
There.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Let's list there's a bragging point. That's cool.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah, let's keep it moving here. We don't have time
to check facts. That's right, that's right. Let everyone at
home check their own.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Check your own facts.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, well as opposed to just check one.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Guy, you know, yeah, exactly like the last one. It
was three on one, that's right. Yeah, that's right. Yeah,
it was three on one the last one.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I know you're doing you're doing this for your podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I'm not doing it. Yeah you are because you have to.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
You have to super serve your hatred for Trump on
your podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
That's it, that's what. That's true. Though. Here's the thing.
When I it's actually not on my podcast, but when
I'm on with you. People will write to me and
they'll say, well, you looked Tim Conwick, Junr walk all
over you. You would univer say anything, Becca, you did
them good with you.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
But those are people from your podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I don't think so maybe they maybe they're okay. But anyway,
uh I.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So people say that and and but you know what
you read that?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
No? No, you know what. No, I never read it
on the air. I'm just mentioning it for the first
time to you now. But I will tell you what
I say to them, and I really mean it. Hey,
I'm not there to you know, check Conway and stuff.
I'm really not. I'm not you know.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
So And look, and the reason I don't go on
your podcast is I don't go on to check you either.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Exactly do your thing right. You don't want to. You
don't want the stink of my podcast. I get it anyway,
So I apologize for even even a bit of mockery
on the front.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
No, no, no, but buddy, listen, I I honestly god,
I am.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I have I.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Have had it with with with politics only because it
doesn't bring people together.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
It separates ugree.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
And and there are there are people in my family
that don't talk to one another because of politics. Yeah,
there are there are friends of mine who you know,
have shut down because you know they're they're political.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Like this is a this is a weird reaction.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I have a friend who's never into politics in his life.
I never never mentioned it. Probably doesn't know. I couldn't
couldn't name you three senators in the last two hundred
years in the United States. Could probably not name you
five of the past presidents. I'd probably be very tough
to do that. And I saw him, I don't know,
(02:37):
maybe six months or so ago, and and he said, uh,
and he said, how's it going on the station? I said, oh,
you know, it's going good where you know, just getting
mind it's really political out there. And he said, he goes,
I hope Donald Trump and his whole family get cancer
and they die in a plane crash. That'ous. I said,
what's going on with you, buddy? If you ever met him,
(03:00):
I see owe you money or something, you know. But
that kind of hatred for somebody that that they've they've
never met. I think that's kind of reserved for somebody
who's killed somebody in your family.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
No, I don't, I don't, I don't I don't get that.
That's just rue, that's wrong, But you're right, that's kind
of a sign of where we've come, Like I evolved
that dangerously. I have a guy who really is somebody
I played cards with occasionally and doesn't really have a
lot of money. Uh in fact, you like because of cards? Yeah,
I think because there's some bad gambling habits and stuff.
And he's in this room. He's a big trumper because
(03:34):
he says, I'm angry about the inheritance tax. I'm thinking, dude,
you don't need to sweat the inheritance tax. Okay, you're not.
Your family is not wealthy, You're not wealthy. Is that
the hill you're going to die on the inheritance tax?
So so, everybody's got their thing, whether it's you know, legitimate.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Sure, yeah, and it and look, it's it's fun to,
you know, argue once in a while, but god almighty,
it consumes everything.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I wouldn't cut anybody off. There are people in my
family and my crew, there are more than one that
are that disagree with me on politics. I would never
cut them off. I mean, it's just not a and
I would have, you know, civil conversations with them.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I'm with you, man, I'm with you, but but I
don't know, you know, what is what's going to be
the outcome of you know, like, let's say, all right,
let's do both scenarios. Trump loses. Okay, let's say Trump
loses and Kambla Harris becomes president. Do all the shows
(04:36):
that rely on hating Trump for their audience, do they
still bang on him when he's a private citizen in
Florida or what do they do?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Well, there's a major movement that he's part of. So
I suspect that the Maga movement continues. And so you know,
you did talk about the anti no no I That's
what I'm talking about. But so you're you'll have an
you'll have something to still be anti about in the life.
You still have the Maga movement. Trump is not going
to shut up all of a sudden just because he lost.
He's gonna contest it, et cetera. So I think there'll
be a lot in the way of media that you
(05:05):
can still continue if that's your thing. The jihad can continue,
you know, even if Trump loses, I.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Think, right, Okay, all right, Then the other scenario, what
if Trump wins, right, and then you know, do these
shows go into overdrive?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I mean you know that. I guess they continue with
I mean you.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Had that in already twenty sixteen when he won and
you had the highest ratings ever for the MSNBCS.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
So you think they secretly hope he wants to be president.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I want think the probably in some C suite somewhere,
and second that the CEO of Mediaville, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Or yeah, some guy, the guy's in accounting probably like
to see him in there.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I mean, there is a benefit, no question about it too.
Trump's good copy, you know, He's good for that world.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, and all right, so the big story today is
the you know, it is obviously Israeli getting hit again.
I can't believe that. And I got a theory on this,
and you you know, you probably know more about Israel
in the Middle East than I do.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I don't spend a lot of time with.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
It, but I I am fearful that Iran knows what
they're doing. That Iran has is throwing these these really
sort of antiquated, uh low technology drones at Israel to
use up all the uh the anti missile ammunition that
(06:24):
Israel has se and then going to throw in the
major ones because they haven't thrown in you know, these Iranians.
You say what you will, but man, they've got some
technology there and they they they're able to pinpoint Israel
from Iran with these really sort of ancient drones and rockets.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
But I thought they did fire missiles to that.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
One of I think one or two of them was
one of their you know, their high power the things,
the real thing. But I I have a fear, man,
I got a nightmare scenario.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
And and and I think.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
About this late at night, that that all of their
you know, crappy drones that you and I, guys like
you and I could build, I take really take advantage of,
you know, the United States off the coast and the
Iron Dome or whatever the thing is called over Israel.
And then once they're all out of ammunition, the big
(07:15):
rockets come in. Well, and I think that's going to
be an unbelievably unbelievable disease.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
And that's a fascinating theory. I mean, it's certainly true.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
That because why would they throw crap at them like
this they know they're going to be intercepted.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
There is something to this. I mean, there are a
couple of things going on right. One is that you've
essentially got Israel in a three front war or at
least a confrontation anyway, I don't know if you call
it a war or hezbe lah Goz of course, and Yemen,
and then you got you add Iran, So yeah, you
have four. So the situation is very, very volatile and
(07:47):
could easily spill over into something bigger. But the one
thing I would say is that the Iranians don't really
want it to get bigger either, And the biggest reason
for that is the United States. I don't think that
they want war with the United States and they that's
what the United States wants it either. No, of course,
not Iran is not a raq no, of course, But
(08:07):
I think that you know these things, there's a lot
of unintended consequences, right. But one of the reasons we
parked that carrier off the coast is to say, hey, guys,
this has to stop because we will get involved. So
I'm hoping that will be enough. But I have the
same fear as you do. I really do.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I think it's creeping towards uh war. I really do,
because you know, you get and especially you know the worldwide.
You know, it seems like everybody's broke for some reason.
And and if and if you think you're broke here
in the United States, there's a lot of people really.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Broke in that part of the world.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And the only people that that seem to have a
you know, a thriving economy that is moving the world
forward in that in that area is Israel. You know,
Gaza's had, you know, a tremendous amount of problem. You
can't really sort of get a hey in Gaza and
do any technology when you're looking for food for your family.
(09:05):
And then what I know about Lebanon, I mean Lebanon
used to be, you know, the Jewel of the Mediterranean.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
That's exactly right. I mean a bear route was spectactic
the parish of the Middle East. Is that right? Yeah?
And it's wild though Hesballout runs Lebanon, so that that that.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Is right, and Iran runs Hesbela exactly, and so man,
it's it's really Look, it's complicated, and there's a reason
why every president has said we're going to solve it.
Nobody can do it. Yeah, nobody even comes close. But anyway,
so that's the big story there. We're watching Helen the
the the fallout for that storm is incredible, and there
(09:42):
are areas where we still haven't gotten to in North Carolina,
in Georgia that are really in the outback, and you know,
people in the Mountain, the Mountain Gang there, it's really
tough to get to. Lots of flooding and and you
see these heartbreaking photos. Don't know if you saw photo
of the two grandparents with their grandchild on top of
(10:04):
a roof of a house. That was the last picture
they took before that house was washed away. The two
grandparents and the grandchild just washed away, gone, and they'll
never find them. You know, they're still looking for people.
Remember we had that flood up in Santa Barbara should
have the muddlin Monticito, Yeah, yeah, and that there are
still I think twenty five or thirty people missing from
(10:25):
that flood. And that is a very controlled area that
we all knew where it was.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
It happened in an instant there, right.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Right, yeah, and you know the big boulders come down
and just wipe their down. So I bet they will
never find most of the people that are missing in
North Carolina's profound.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
It is horrible, total, all right.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
At six o'clock.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
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Speaker 5 (10:48):
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I remember when I was I've only been on unemployment
once in my life. I think I was twenty three
or twenty four, and somebody said, are you embarrassed to
stand in that line? And I said, no, I'll stand
in any line. When you get to the front of it,
they give you a check, I'm in. There's no shame
at all. Yeah, no, I'm with you. Plus we pay
(11:16):
for it, don't we? Sure of course? Yeah, yeah, unemployment's
the greatest. Have you been unemployment?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I should have been? What? But I too lazy? It's
not that I mean, there may be a component of that.
Most everything in my life has some component of me
being too lazy. But I think that what happened with
you it was from it's through my kind of like
I'm paid through my company. And in order to prove
that you're unemployed, you can't you know, have your own company,
(11:44):
you know, you know, Yeah, well see type thing.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Anyway, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm I'm I'm lazy to the
point where somebody sent me a really good insult.
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I like the really good ones.
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The ones are really clever, and I meant to write
and back saying that's one of the best ones I've heard,
and I just got too lazy and threw it away.
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Wish I'd saved it. It was a really detailed insult. It
was like a full page.
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There's nothing better than angry emails.
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And but especially when somebody's creative about it, you know
it really and knows a lot of the show. You know,
just you know, when you did this and this and
this sucks, and this sucks and this, and then it
was really details.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Well I get this, and I'll get this, even on
what we do. So I've been listening for years and
you and Conway or how I spent tuesdays, you do this,
and you do that, and you do this. But when
you said this, I was like, Okay, really dude, So
you've been with me all these years, you love all
this stuff. But there's a one comment that is like
where I'm disqualified.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Immediately, right, And and that's again a lot of it
comes back down to politics.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah, or or just being wound too tight. Yeah maybe,
but you know.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
But look, I understand that people burn out of listening
to you, because if you listen to somebody for you know,
like let's say somebody listens on the average or a
half hour or an hour a day on their ride home,
eventually I'm going to say something that irritates you, and
people go, oh, F that guy. I knew he was
like that, you know, after twenty years he said something like,
(13:13):
you know, whatever it was he hated my favorite restaurant.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah, something like that. F that guy. I hear what
you're saying. But I tend to be I just I
guess I go for my own attitude, and I don't
disqualify someone based on one comment. I just don't or
even one position. Oh I do, I do. Yeah, I
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Oh yeah, yeah. John Amos died.
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That guy was great. He was great, He was terrific.
He was in the good times. Roots.
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Yes, there's a lot of great things.
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He was in a movie, a Disney movie called the
World's Greatest Athlete.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
My favorite movies of all time.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Anybody who's seen anybody, Nobody, nobody, Kurt Russell, No, it
was I can't remember who was in it. It was world's
greatest athlete. John Amos was a coach and and I
think it was I don't remember who the world's greatest
athlete was.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
What kind of athletics were they involved in the world.
I'll tell you the story.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
It's it's two football coaches who I go to Africa
and they discover an unbelievable athlete and they bring him
back to the United States and he wins game after
game after game.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Jan Michael Vince, Jan Michael Vincent, Tim Conway.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Well, that's right, Yeah, they found Jan Michael Vincent in
Africa in Africa.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
It's a documentary and it was it's a it's a
great movie. And Jan Michael Vinson Benson was was terrific.
And John Amos John Amos almost said Amos because I
hear in some radio stations, I'm calling John Amos.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
What is it? It's most famous John names.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I think John Amos, but a lot of some people
call hi John Amos. All right, here we go, John Amos.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Learning beloved actor John Amos has died. Is publicists.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I don't know what it might be.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
It might be and he beloved actor John Amos has died.
His publicist says Amos died August twenty first.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah, he gave us an Amos right.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
It's weird to publish a while ago.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I mean August, I mean I August or yeah, August twenty.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Why over a month ago. I wonder why they've been
so slow to release through news.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I think they've been debating on how to say his name.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
That could be his publicist, says Amos died August twenty
first of natural causes here in Los Angeles. His story
career began as he's Gordi the Weatherman on the Mary
Tyler Moore Show.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I didn't know that, Oh, yeah, I didn't. It was
Gordy the weather wow man.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Another great role, Yeah, Gordy the Weatherman on the Mary
Tyler Moore Show. But he played the hard working father
James Evans and Good Times he was nominating.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I think he was the best in Good Times man.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
He was great. Well you know what the story is
on that, don't you.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
The show? Yeah, well know that he left. Oh I
didn't know that. Oh, so check this out. After three
seasons he goes in. Well, I think he'd gone in
a little before the three seasons, and he wasn't happy
with the way his character was being portrayed.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Are you mixing him with McLain Stevenson A mash.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I don't believe McLean had that same issue McLain was
getting offers. I think from the outside you know more
about McLain than I do. But on this one, i'd
heard he went in and said, Hey, I'm not happy
with the way this character is being portrayed as head
of the family, and I'm not happy with Jimmy Walker
being portrayed kind of in that jokey way that really
(16:31):
dynam Might thing.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yeah, and I.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Guess that guy the well, the back and forth got
a bit contentious, and then in season three they killed
him off.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Oh wow, I didn't know that. Yeah, but I mean,
so they went with Dinah Might instead of and.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
You know, I'm sure they tried to make a deal,
but he was a watch I didn't know that.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
Hard working father James Evans and good times. He was
nominating it for an Emmy for playing an older Kuntakin
in Room Boots, and he was an owner of a
McDonald's like Hamburger chain. In Coming to America. Later in life,
Amos would play the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
staff on TV's The West Wing, John Amos expressed died
(17:13):
at the age of eighty foot.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Ah, what a life, not a great life that man had.
WI come back, Steve Gregor will be.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty with us.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Mark Thompson's with us and Steve Gregory's with us. And
I asked Steve to help me out. Today we did
an event for LAPD and I still don't even know
what we did.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
And I don't know what what was.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
It a seminar, It was a wellness day, wellness day,
and it was a department mandated wellness day, Okay, And
it was there's probably about seventy cops there.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
And when it comes to wellness, everyone thinks of you
and me.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
And and that was It was a cool event. It
was out at the Porter Valley Country Club.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I'd never been there before. It was really nice up there. Yeah,
you can't believe how many country clubs are in the valley. Yeah,
and we don't belong to.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Any of them.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
No, we don't make that kind of money.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
That's right. Oh, Mark, you probably have a I do not,
but I appreciate that. You think I would.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
You've never been involved with the country club.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Okay, so I have been. I was a member of
rivi Era what yeah, yeah, anute not to Riviera. It's
a pretty good story, only in that I wanted to.
It took. It was like running for Congress. Getting getting in.
You had to get like five letters to recommend you.
It's it's expensive too, and you know how much was it?
It was a lot. It was a lot. I just
(18:38):
want to say it was a lot.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
But it was come on, man, you're not paying it now?
Speaker 5 (18:41):
There was.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
It was also well you can google it probably.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
By the way, when when we say, you know, have
you ever been in a country club? And you said no,
and then you come up with the premiere one in
the world.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
You didn't say have you ever been in? You said
you're in a country. You said no, one's that. You said,
none of us, none of us are in any Oh
you said, and you're not an I don't know, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
How much does it cost to play Riviera Country Club?
You can't play unless three hundred thousand dollars initiation.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
No, that's not what I Please, don't give people that
out right here.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I know, but that's tax exemptly of three hundred. But
he did it when John Amos was on good time.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Yeah, it was a long time ago, and but it.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Was when you will do sixteen hundred per individual.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
It was just to get sixteen hundred a year. I
think it was more than that. More than it's gotta
be more than that. You get. Here's what happened.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
You get a food bonus.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Yeah, you know, you have a food minimum, which means
you have to you know, you have to spend a
certain amount and if you don't spend it, they just
bill you it out. Yeah, So basically you pay all
this money up front and then you then there's a
monthly charge. Now, back then, I was living, you know,
in Brentwood, and it was right down the road and
I was, uh, you eat there every day. I loved eating.
I loved eating and reading the paper there and all
(19:51):
that stuff. And then I got hurt at a cigar
I got. Yeah, it was that kind of like Larry
David was there, and Tom Brady.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Right, yeah, Glenn Campbell, Humphrey Bogart.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yeah, I didn't see but Chevy Chase nothing. Moore didn't
see any of those. Billy Barty it was Billy Barty
would have been fun. Yeah, but great grab with Billy Barty. Yeah,
Billy p passed away. But yeah, you dumped that. That's unbelievable.
That was just dumped.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
God bless him.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I just made that comment about the golf course and
they dumped that here.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Well, I remember when we were just talking about foul Play.
Billy Barty was in foul Play. Yeah, that's right. He
was a Bible salesman. Well, he was a Bible.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Salesman in life and they and then they, so it
wasn't a stretch.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
I'm impressed that Gregory really knows that foul Play movie.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Well, that's one of my favorite movies. She was a
Chevy Chase when he back when he was normal. Rachel
Roberts was in then.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I don't remember the movie at all. It was in
San Francisco. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Remember that song that ready to Take a Chance, very analog. Yeah,
and Charlie Charlie Fox wrote that song.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Yeah, and then Dudley Moore played the symphony conductor. Oh yeah,
So anyway, Steve, what's here to talk about immigration? We
ran out of time.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Nice to see.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Above you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
It's Conway Show.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Mark Thompson's here and we welcome Steve Gregory to talk
about Sean Ditty Combs, Bad Vibes for the Diddy Camp.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
What's going on with Sean Ditty comb Well? Today, an
attorney in Texas announced he is representing one hundred and
twenty different lawsuits against Ditty for alleged sexual assault and
sexually related crimes. And more than three thousand people had
approached this attorney. What even before the indictment of Combs
(21:57):
alleging that they were in some sort of you know,
molestation assault. Some of them claimed they were drugged at parties.
How did you get away with that for so long? Well,
And that's the big question in the way that the attorney,
Tony Busby described it is that at the time, you know,
he had did he have juice? He was powerful, He had,
(22:20):
you know, the key to the kingdom to a lot
of different music labels, he had his own label. He
had a lot of things going on. And as the
same thing in Weinstein and these other cases, no one
ever came forward, according to this attorney, because a they
were afraid of retaliation or be they were afraid they
were never going to get into the business.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Wow, So a lot of people lived in that fear.
Part of it late that he had such a pumping career,
as you say, all that Jews, and he's still had
all this time for But apparently we're thousands of you know,
these alleged sexual assaults.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Well, interestingly, the attorney said that after you know, more
than three thousand approached the law firm, they settled on
one hundred and twenty of these cases. Sixty of them
are women and sixty or men.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Oh is that right? Yes?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
And ying yang. The alleged assaults took place from nineteen
ninety one up to this year, and in that time span,
one of the victims at the time of the alleged
abuse was nine years old. I didn't know that. I
thought Diddy was. Are you sure about this? Yes, I'm
sure that, That's what the attorney said. And another victim
(23:26):
was fourteen years old, and one was fifteen years old.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Wait, I'm not talking about the kids. I'm talking about
he was bisexual. All I'm telling you is that sixty
of the what were the men's Was it a sexual assault?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah? These are all related to sexual assault claims.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Wait, so he had sixty males well suing him for
sexual assault.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Heart of these cases are going to involve others in
Ditty's camp. So they also talked about the fact that,
in fact, the attorney said, we are going to name names.
Really and he said, we are preparing all of this now,
and he said, and you will all be shocked names.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
We know.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
That's what he said. We will be naming names, and
that time's coming. And he says, we've got he's got
an investigator now that he used to be with the
Houston Police Department and he brought him on board full
time and they are now investigating all one hundred and
twenty of these claims and it's not going to be
a class action suit. A lot of people thought that
because there were so many, he is going to file
every one of those individually.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
So this this will wipe him out financially potentially.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Sure. Now, Diddy's camp did come out and say they
vehemently deny all of these claims, saying that this is
just part and parcel to this media circus that's been
created around this indictment. Wow, And he still remains in jail,
but still suicide watch.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
It's amazing through the Me too movement and how aware
people are nowadays with what you can and can't do,
especially in the workplace, that he was able to get
away with that for so long.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Yeah, you know, in the years I've been covering stuff
like that, I'm all. I'm also you know, a little skeptical,
I guess, and a lot of these claims because it
does take one person usually to file. Then everyone jumps
on the bandwagon because you don't know whether or not
these are true victims.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
And I'm not.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I'm not trying to discount anyone who's been victimized by
anything like this, but sometimes we do. We do learn
later that a lot of these people were just sort
of lawsuits of opportunity because they know they're going to settle.
None hardly any of these will ever.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Go to court, Oh, I say, And I say, yeah, man,
that's uh, that's uh, that's crazy. So why Houston, though,
Why Why were all these filed in Houston?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
This particular attorney apparently is well known for going after
high profile people. One of those, Eric scar was telling
me earlier that this is the same attorney that went
after some pro athlete for very similar charges and did
the same thing, got a bunch of people together that
were allegedly victimized.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
How did that work out? I don't know, But yeah,
I wonder what this guy's track record is.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
But he he looks like I was watching the press conference,
and you know, he's got a pretty high end looking office.
It looks like he does pretty well.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah. Well, I mean one hundred and twenty cases. You're
saying they're going to file them all separately, you know,
even if you have it on base percentage there of
you know.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Well, you like one hundred if you look at the
Weinstein cases right now, and the payouts he's had to
do Cosby Sure, the money that he's had to pay out,
Kevin Spacey, the money he's had to pay out, and
a lot of the lot he's never ended up in court,
a lot of these civil cases, and a lot of
money goes to the lawyers too, at least a third. Yeah,
(26:29):
but how much is he worth? How much is did
he worth? Oh jeez, that's a very good question. I
would think in the tens of millions.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Oh my god, I think he's a I think he
might be half. Remember this came up with in relation
to something else as to whether or not he was.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
A billionaire billionaire. Yeah, yeah, so he's worth a billion dollars.
He's got these one hundred and twenty lawsuits, and this
is just going to go up because the twenty nine
hundred or twenty eight to eighty that weren't that were
rejected by that law firm will be picked up by
somebody else, probably a lot of them.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yeah, and and and here's the thing crazy thing about it,
and attorneys will tell you is that a lot of
times those attorneys are gonna do all the leg work,
they'll do all the investigation, and then they'll get a
lot of that stuff going on, and then these other
people can sort of coattail.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
You imagine the pressure that guy's under. He went from
world famous, huge mansion where twenty five thirty million dollars
private jet, now sitting in a cell on suicide watch, Yeah,
on suicide Once.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
CelebrityNetWorth dot com says he's worth net worth six hundred.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Million, Okay, six million. I had it here, I didny
Comm's networth. That's me to be around a billion dollars.
What's the source? Michael Krozer dot com Weird Weird contradicting himself.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Anything that you look up now online, you have to
be careful because the first thing that pops up is
an AI version of information. Right, just fyl right, right, right, yeah, gain,
the first thing comes up with AI, and so often
it's wrong.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
That's a billion unfortune. Yeah, I'd read a biok a
date on that. I'd read a billion of March twenty four,
March of this year.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Okay, this is September seventeenth, twenty twenty four to six
hundred million.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I think he's trying to get rid of a lot
of his money.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Yeah, so he doesn't pay.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
It off, did he's yeah, right on Fortune magazine. Well
whatever it is money, And that was that was one
of the things that I remember Kardashian had told O. J.
Simpson when when things started to first go south with O. J.
Simpson and the murder trial happened, he had OJ transfer
all of his assets to Florida and put him in
(28:35):
a trust under his kid's name to protect his money.
I remember that happening pretty quickly when they when they
saw the writing on the wall and they didn't know
how it was going to go down. I remember Kardashian,
that's when everything moved to Florida because they had that.
I believe it was the Homestead Act where they couldn't
take his home. Yeah, well that's why he lived there too.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah, because you know, they couldn't touch his pension, right.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
NFL pension, SAG after pension, those were all protect it.
But the other I think that's the only real way
to get people to move to Florida, protect your pension
or the Homestead Act, you know, yeah, I think you wanted.
Well here's the thing, but oj was never allowed to
go back there after his parole to Florida. No, he
died in Vegas. He lived and died in Vasit. He wasn't.
(29:19):
They refused him entry after. You didn't know that. You know,
I was sitting in the parole room up in Carson
City when that happened. And if they can refuse you, they.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Didn't sign up.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
They didn't sign off on the parole because he had
to be placed in some place, or he had to
be sent to a place that would accept him, because
the state parole system has to take care of his
weekly check in all the other stuff, and the state's
prison system doesn't sign off on it. In this case,
it was the state Attorney General of Florida, but like, no,
we're not signing off on this. So he was stuck
(29:52):
in purgatory.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
At the while. They didn't accept him in Florida.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
They said, we don't want a murderer in our state.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Wow, that's wild.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
So they so he ended up having to stay in
floor in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
That's crazy, buddy. I appreciate you coming in. Thanks for
doing that thing with me this morning. It was it
was fun, l apd. It was a pleasure. You're a
great warm up guy.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
That's just like, what do they want me to talk about?
I'm not the I'm not the funny guy there to
make son I did to appeal to their like I'd
appeal a more serious tone, right, you bum them out?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
And then.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
I talked about the media.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
He comes ups, talks about dead kids, and I like, oh,
that's Steve Gregory.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Thank you guys yet me in the background.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah, but you're a huge hit. All right, buddy, thanks
for coming in. Thanks all right, ten ten ten, he's gone.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
All right.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
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