November 4, 2024 • 34 mins
See’s Candies are pricey as a pound of an assortment of chocolates costs $30 dollars now. // Bellio’s real motive behind her bribing people with See’s Candies/ Mammoth Got Snow // Tim donates items at a donation center. // Tim senior learns how to use a computer/ Tim Conway’s Book Turned into Film, ‘They Went They Went That Way, That Way’
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Tomorrow's voting.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
All the political ads stop after tomorrow, all of them
they go away.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And so we'll take two or three years off. What
am I saying? We'll take a year off because.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
They'll all be back for November election next year, but
it'll be an off year and they'll be a lot less,
a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Less of it.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
All right, we were talking about Seize Candy. What was
going on was seized Candy. My only connection to Seize
Candy is Belly O, who again buys a box of
Sees candy whenever she goes on a plane. And the
reason she initially did it is she travels with two
small doggies and the flight attendants can be really nasty
to you if you have a dog. Unless they're dog lovers,
(00:55):
they can be really nasty. I've had a flight attendant.
We had a dog who's no longer with us, love
that game Vibe. We were flying home with him from Oregon,
and you know they always tell you keep the dog
in the cage in the carry on, keep me in
the cage. He's a small dog ten pounds, and Ernie kept scratching,
(01:16):
clawing and biting until he got out of the cage.
You know, he would just eat through the nylon and
just eat through the cage and got out. He's made
out of material. So my wife is holding him under
a blanket, trying to hide him. Flight attendant comes by
to give my daughter a coke or seven and whatever.
She was ringing and the dog, our dog lunged and barked,
(01:36):
and then the other older flight attendant, this woman says,
did that dog bite you? And she said, now, it
scared me, but didn't bite me. And the flight attends, well,
I think the dog bit you. And the young you know,
she's only twenty. She goes, I'm telling you the dog
didn't bite me. Look, there's no bite marks on their arm.
That dog did not bite me. And she says, I'm
calling the cops. Anyway, she called LAPD from the cockpit
(02:01):
to have us arrested.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And we get to.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
LAX and there's two cops there from l A p D. Wow,
And we walk up and I wanted to I felt
like a huge a hole, but I wanted I walked
out to him and said, hey, me and my wife
for the reason. You know, you guys are here and
(02:28):
this has pardon me.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
And my wife. Just my wife whispers, Just keep walking.
You're a moron. Why are you assuming they're here for us?
Let them figure that out. You never help them out.
You're the dumbest guy I've ever know.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
You say yes, streets mart, there's literally the dumbest man
I've ever met.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
She whispered like that all the way home. Got in
the car. Here's Thomas guy. Well you're sleeping that night?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, Ernie, smarter than you are. Everybody on earth is
smarter than you. Just walk by because got my I've
never seen anything like that.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Hey, I'm turning myself in for what Why we're not
here for you?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Oh o o great? Why what did you do? Yeah? Hey,
come back here, young man. What'd you do?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Young man? It must be my hair. I'm gonna go
back and talk to those to you hear that? Young man?
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
All right?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Why why is seas in the news? Let's find out
what is up this year?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
La?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
In a minute? Now mere Western now of LA in
a minute? Love this guy? Yes, what is up this year?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
La?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
In a minute?
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Now? I'm here on Western Avenue in Korea Town because
this site was the first location of Seas Candies, the
company started by Mary and Charles C in nineteen twenty one,
where they chose to bring their chocolate delicacies to the
rest of the world. Now it's currently a bakery and
it serves desserts, but nothing is like Seies Candy with
(04:10):
the deep, rich chocolate history. Let's get into it. In
nineteen twenty, Canadian chocolate salesman Charles C had dreams of
opening his own candy company in sunny California, so he
moved to Los Angeles with his widowed mother, Mary C
and with her own original recipes, they opened up their
first store front, Seized Candies on one thirty five Northwestern Avenue.
(04:32):
The chocolate was as delicious then as it is now.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
And you know, somebody asked them because his mistress, CA's
mom was a big mover and shaker at the candy company.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And she was tall.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
She's like six foot four like and that back in
you know, the early nineteen hundred, that was huge.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
It was like seven foot tall.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
And you know, slightly overweight, if not really overweight, even sin.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
They would go door to door delivery s these candies
to increase visibility, Sees continue to expand and soon was
the premier confectionery shop in all of Los Angeles. But
as the Great Depression came.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Well, yo, you have good taste the premiere chocolate company
in the world.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
That's right, or at least LA.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
But as the Great Depression came and took a toll
on everyone, Charles c had the great idea to open
up what was called a sunlit candy studio to allow
people to see how the chocolate was being made.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
It's cool factory.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Along with these delivery vans allowed Seas to get back
on the path to explosive growth.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
You know, I still love Seas. It's really a throwback.
You know, when you walk into Seas the Wave, they're
still dressed up in like white skirts and they have
hats on, and it looks like they just never evolved.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
But I like that. I like that throwback.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
You know, it always smells the same, smells like chocolate
in those places.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It's fairly expensive now, is it.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, it used to be when I was you know,
I'll go to one and in the valley after school.
There was one fairly close to where I went to
Junior High and you can go in there for like
twenty five cents. You can buy a piece of candy
or eighteen cents whatever it was, and now it's not.
It's fairly expensive to get in there. What is a
box of Sea's go for bellio when you travel on
(06:18):
the on the air aeroplanes?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I think like twenty eight twenty eight dollars?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, God almighty? And what does that get you anything?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Does that always work? You always get freebies? No, it's
not every time occurrence, but you that's the plan though.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
No, no, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I don't go in with the intention of getting anything back.
But are you angry when you get nothing back? I'm
not happy? There you go, there you go. Blood on
the air. Blood.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
Guess how much an assorted one pound box of Seas
chocolates is sorted?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
One pound box? Twenty nineteen dollars?
Speaker 7 (07:10):
Anyone else want to guess?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Eighteen?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Wrong?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Thirty bucks? What yeah?
Speaker 7 (07:20):
For a pound for an assorted chocolates a one pound box,
it is thirty yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
God, I bet thirty. Wow.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
That seems like a lot. I mean steaks, beautiful New
York steaks.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
And what is it?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Magov beef go be beef gobbe beef. Kobe beef, Kobe beef.
It's not thirty bucks a pound, is it?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Wagoo? Yeah, this does good.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
But nineteen thirty six, STA expanded all throughout California, including
the San Francisco which was hosting the World Fair in
nineteen thirty nine, which enabled people from all over the
world to see the unique process on how this wonderful
candy was made.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
This actually should be renamed LA in two and three
quarners minutes.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Seas was ahead of the curve again in nineteen forty
nine when he decided to have a float at the
first televised Rose Parie Wow, further establishing their candy dominance.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I bet you didn't know that. Now you know it.
You know, stick that in information in your skull.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
In nineteen fifty two, Lucille Ball visited the Sea's factory
and actually worked there to prepare her role.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Nineteen fifty Oh, you remember that bellio a lot. That's
my favorite scene.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
The candy on lou seal Ball when those candies were
coming out too fast and she had to eat some
of them, stuff some down her up. Yeah, some of
them had to be stuffed down her brazier.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Remember that that's right.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
In nineteen fifty two, Lucille Ball visited the Sea's factory
and actually.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Worked there to prepare her role.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
But nineteen fifty two Seas Candy.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I can I get some of those that weren't down
Lucille Ball's pants?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Oh God, yes.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
But nineteen fifty two, Seas Candies was so renowned that
Lucille Ball took a job at their factory on Los
Sienega to prepare for her role in the infamous job
switching chocolate candy. In nineteen seventy two, Warren Buffett Sweet
Tooth got the best of them when, along with Charles Munger,
they purchased Sees Candies to add it to the Berkshire
Hathaway portfolio, which it still is to this day.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Wow, this guy's loaded with information. We should have mine
more often.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Berkshire Hathaway led an aggressive expansion, including their first international
store in Kowloon, Hong Kong in nineteen seventy six. Cas
Candies remained one of the top selling chocolate brands in
the world due to adding new flavors but still maintaining
the true original resime.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yah Best milk chocolate, walnuts, and the molasses chips, milassa chips,
milk chocolate, walnuts, your gold Gold.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
And in twenty twelve, Seas rolled out the world's largest
chocolate lollipop, which was over sixteen feet tall, weigh more
than seven pounds, is the equivalent to one hundred and
forty five thousand regular sized lollipopters.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
And then they But the problem with Seaes is they
always give you. It's like, hey, do you want a sample?
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
What are you giving out today? Cherry foot fungus raps?
Oh god, I don't know, I don't know. I don't
think so. All the crap they give you for free.
The samples are stuff that nobody has ever purchased.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Ever, they don't give out the good stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
They don't give me molasses chips, they don't give the walnuts,
with the with the milk, chocolate, none of it.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
It's always like, what is that?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
This is ajax and mint in? Yeah, in a with
a a powdered paint coating, powdered keg coating, Christ.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Out of here.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty for the last eight years.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
And if you've been a longtime listener, you probably can
confirm this. For last eight years, I have been sniffing
around on why Bellio brings candy on the plane for
the flight attendants when she flies, and I've always accused her, jokingly,
somewhat but trying to dig deep. I've always accused her
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of giving chocolate to the flight attendants and having an
ulterior motive for it. And she's always denied it, always
denied it, always denied it.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Until today. Because you until today.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
You you you watched me into thinking like you no.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
No, no, you you travel with small dogs and you
wanted those the Gestapo to lay off you, and you
did it with candy.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
But that's what you did.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
You knew that you traveling with two dogs is like
a circus act, and you got to make the police
on me. I know, but I also don't bribe people,
so you know that's how you get.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I swear I wasn't you.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
You paid them off to you like the mobster. You're
like a mob wife. You know I pay you. You
got to leave the little doggies alone, look the other
way when those dogs, that's what you were doing because
you didn't give sees candy before you traveled.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
With the dogs because I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Needing of a bribe. You didn't need to bribe them
when you're traveling alone.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Just they're so sweet and it's like, you know, give
them a little treat and just recognize the hard work
that they do.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
You did it to get them to lay off your dogs.
I understand it. I think it works. But I'm glad
you finally have confessed.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
That you could confessed anything.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
So you bought those that was seized candy insurance. That
was you know that you you needed that to get
them to back off.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
It was just a nice gesture. I'm glad you.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Did it because you know what, sometimes it's the only
way to get them to back off, you know, is
to give them something.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
What about when I bring the seas candy when I
don't have the dogs with me?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
What about that?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I think that is as rare as four full moons
in a month.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
That's not right? Do you wait? You bring but wait?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Answer me honestly, okay, and don't lie, because I know
your sister's number. When when you traveled before dogs, did
you ever give sees candy the flight attendants? Yes or no?
Speaker 5 (13:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Okay, So the seas candy was introduced once you started
traveling with the dogs.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Just because I thought of it. Then it was.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
It was just a coincidence that I thought of that
idea predictim.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Okay, all right, we'll leave it at that. I'll let
I'll leave it as a quins all right.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Belly o.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Uh, I know that before you got married you uh
lied to John about how much you love skiing. Did
you know that there's a ski that snow fell in Mammoth? Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Really?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Did he know? Does he know that? Yes? He knows. Oh,
he must be thrilled. He loves it, can't wait to
get up there. Angel loves it too. He's a great skier. Right,
he's a really good an instructor. I didn't know that.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Yeah, oh that's right, the adaptive ski instructor for handicap
for disabled people with disabilities.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Yes, is that how you guys met? Sorry to rough,
it's been a rough show. Yeah, all right, it's five
twenty six. You can we'll give you.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
The night off.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
No more in coming, seriously, seriously, yeah, no more, no
more text, no more, just one more question?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Is that how you meant?
Speaker 5 (15:03):
No?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Okay, okay, it's just about time for ski season. The
area received a few inches of snow overnight, and snow
groomers are already hard at work preparing for skiers and snowboarders.
Get this, Mammoth Mountain set to open for the season
one week from this Friday.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Wow, are you kidding me? They're opening up in the
first week of November?
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
A week from friday? Is what day? Six? Seven? Wait?
What is it? Fifth?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Sixth, seventh, eighth, eight? Yeah, fifteen, fifteenth? Wow, mid November?
Is that typical?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Bellyon? Say that again? I wasn't listening that it happens
all lot.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I get it, I get it, although I don't want
to give you the speech because it's too late.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
But is it typical for Mammoth to open up mid November? Yeah?
It is?
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
And when you go skiing with him with your husband, John,
are you do you hang in the lodge or do
you ski? I've done both, You've done What would you
prefer the lodge? I'm with you, I'm with you by
the fire. Yeah, I'm one hundred percent with you. When
my dad and mom were my mom was a big skier,
(16:21):
and my dad just did what my mom wanted to do.
One of those guys and so we'd go skiing. We
had six kids. We'd go out to Big Bear for
the day or the weekend, whatever. And my dad hated
skiing because he thought he was going to break a
leg and then he couldn't work, and then we'd be
thrown out of the house. He had a whole run
that he did, so he didn't ski, and I didn't ski,
(16:41):
and so my brother is, my sister, my mom would
all go out skiing and I used to spend eight
hours of my dad just walking around. It was the
greatest time of my life. I was eight years old,
nine years old, and I'd walk around with him round
Big Bear or around you know, Aspen or Veil or Mammoth,
wherever we went, you know, every other three or every
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three years or so, we go to a big ski
vacation and I would spend eight hours a day walking
around with that man.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
It was the I remember.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I have the greatest memories of my life, just me
and my dad up in the mountains. We knew nobody else,
and I got to walk around with my dad, and
my dad would make fun of everybody or joke with everybody,
and it was hysterical.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
For eight hours. It was great some of the great
greatest memories of my life.
Speaker 8 (17:29):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
You know what, I think we need to draw more
attention to And I don't know if this is a
solvable problem or not, or maybe it's just me.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
That's possible.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
That's always my fallback that maybe it is just me,
and that I'm totally open to that. But over the
weekend I went to drop off I don't know, maybe
ten things at the Goodwill, not the Goodwill, but a
donation center.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I don't want to give the good Will a bad name.
They're good and there will.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
But when you drop stuff off at a donation center, God,
they give you the oh, I don't know if we
could use this that has a chip taken out of it.
We'll take this and this, but not that, that, that
and that, and it's it's just free stuff. But I
(18:32):
guess what happens at these donation centers is they have
to throw all this stuff away that they can't use.
And when you bring and you donate stuff, they got
to go through it. And they hire the lousiest people
in the world to take the donations. If I were
running one of these companies, I'd put my most excited
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employees out there, you know, just a guy in a
gal out there, and when they when a trunk opens up,
I'd run out there, Hey you got.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Some stuff for us? Huh oh man, Oh that's great.
We'll be able to sell that. That's great. I hope
you enjoyed it while you had it.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I'm sure it's going to go to a nice family
for a couple of bucks, and we're going to do
some good to try to get these kids, you know,
some food and some shelter. I really appreciate you coming by.
Please tell all your buddies if they have anything to donate,
stop by.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Here and I and we'd love to have their stuff.
Oh I like this guy. Yeah, wouldn't you like that?
Wouldn't you go to that guy a lot? Absolutely?
Speaker 6 (19:32):
And when you told me you wouldn't take something, I'd
be like, oh, you're right, yeah, exactly what.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I see it exact.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I went to the Goodwill in Tarzana.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
This is fifteen twenty years ago, maybe longer than that. Yeah,
it must been longer than that.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And I'm dropping some stuff off and this is older
black guy's working there and my Saant and Nita had on.
It was signed by Doug O'Neill, who won the Kentucky
Derby twice, by the way, and he looks at the
hat and he goes.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Hey, how are you go out there? Off him?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I said, yeah, I go out there, you know, once
or twice a week. He said, ah, I used to
love going out there. And I said, why don't you
go out anymore? Because I really can't get a ride
out there. I don't really drive much anymore. And I said,
I'm going out today. What time do you get off?
He said, I get off at one thirty. I said, well,
I'll go home, I'll you know, drop some stuff off
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and i'll come back. I'll pick up at one thirty.
We'll go out for the day. He goes, really, oh yeah.
And I was thinking, this guy has got to bring
me luck. He's filled with juice, he's filled with great karma.
He works for decades at a good will.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
So you were going to use his good karma to
benefit year.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
You're karma at the track, yes, Jennifer.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
And you give me a hard time about buying chocolates.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
No, no, no, I admit it. I was going to
use this man's luck to benefit both of us. Oh, well,
that's nice of you. I was going to get him
a ride, and he I was going to pinch his luck.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Pinch his luck.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Yeah, take a little little bite out of his luck.
And so I go back and pick him up. We
drive out there. We talk about nothing about and only
about horse racing. He told me some great stories about
the sant Nita and about buzzers.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I never heard that story before.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
But you know the when when you when you were
a kid and you go to shake somebody's hand they
had a buzzer in there and it buzzed in your hand.
You're like, this is on right, you know, it didn't electric, kude,
you just startled you.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
But they did call it, like the original shocker or whatever.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, right exactly, they called the shaker. And
he said that jockeys used to wear those and if
they were coming down the stretch, they would put that
buzzer on the horse's neck and that horse would take off.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yeah. And I never heard that story before.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
And he said at the Meadowlands in New York, they
drained the pond and they found twelve thousand of those
buzzers at the bottom of that pond, twelve thousand of them,
you know, because they'd use them and they want to
get called them because they're legal and they're right in
the pond. And I never heard that story before. He
was filled with great stories. So we go out there, lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, lose.
(22:35):
Seven races, nothing not even close. Every horse was last
or decided to do a cartwheel out of the gate.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Spring bang, bang, go on.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
And so I'm driving home quiet right, both quiet, and
my phone rings and I pick it up and I'm
talking to my wife and the guy sneezes or coughs,
and she said, uh, who's in the car with you?
(23:08):
You know, when you look like me, it's always like,
you know what model are you with? You know what
sports illustrated model are you with? Swear to God angel.
So I said, I'm not with a playmate or a
sports illustrate model. I'm with this guy, Cliff, I think
(23:30):
it was his name, from the Goodwill. And she pauses
and she's like, how do you know this guy? And
I said, I just met him today the good Will.
She said, you're going to the to the track with
(23:51):
a guy you just met at the Goodwill. I said, well,
when you frame it like that, I can understand how
now it reeks of desperation and louserosity and all those terms.
But we had a great time, and yes might be
our last time too, because this guy's luck is worse
(24:12):
than mine. Where if you could believe that is the
only guy ever who works at Goodwill who has no
luck left, you're born with a certain amount of luck.
Somehow he exhausted his. I don't know what he did,
but his is gone. And then my wife said, you know, Tim,
that's not how handicapping works.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
When you go to the races.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
You don't just pick up a guy who you think
has some existing luck and then try to leach off it.
You know, it's picking up a form or racing, digest
and looking and studying.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Yeah, that seems like a lot. That seems like a lot.
Nobody got time for that.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Right, And then as she was hanging up, I heard
her very distinctly say.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
It's got to be the dumbest guy talk about me
rough day.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
I heard my mom swear every single day of her
life she would use swear words more than she would
use just common words, and every day, every single day. Conversely,
never heard my dad swear once, never, once except one instance.
(25:33):
My dad used to use a manual typewriter up until
two thousand and five, manual typewriter, manual typewriter to write,
and he was out of ribbon. The ribbon had no
more juice, no more ink, and so he said, hey,
(25:54):
let's go down to the stationary store and get a ribbon.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I said all right, so we'll get.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Down there and we said, hey, do you have these
ribbons for a manual typewriter? And he said, they don't
make those anymore, and well, how do we get some?
And he said, well, you've got to go to yard
sales in the valley and see if you can find
an old typewriter that has some ink in the ribbon.
And I said, oh, okay, all right, So my dad
(26:21):
on Saturday I pick them up. We go out to
Corbin or Resida, and we're driving around. My dad puts
the hat on and we're going through yard sales and
looking at people's crap looking for a typewriter that has ribbon,
and I said, Dad, I said, I think this is
rock bottom. I think you got to get a computer.
(26:44):
He said, No, I'm not going to get a computer.
I do not operate those. I said, I'll teach it.
Just buy a good computer. Don't buy a crappy one.
Buy a high end computer that's easy to operate. So
he puts down, you know, three or four grand gets.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
The computer, the you know, the.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
The mouse, the pad, the printer, the you know, the tower,
the monitor, the whole thing, and I'm teaching him how
to use the computer. And he's and he's picking it up. Okay,
it's not great, A lot of questions. Look, he was
coming from a manual typewriter and now to a computer.
And I get home and he calls me up and
(27:26):
he says, you got to get your ass back here
and show me how to use this effing thing, or
else I'm gonna throw it through the window and then
I'm going to jump out after it.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
You're like, mom, you said awful lot like that.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yeah, And I went back and I sat there with
him for like five four or five hours, and then
the next day another four or five hours, and he
finally got it. He finally picked up enough where he
could like bet on TVG you know he picked that up,
but he said, and you know TVG's where you bet
(28:01):
horse racing online. He said, I'm your your stepmother, and
I are uncomfortable putting our credit card online. Can can
you open up an account for me and I'll just
pay you every month, you know, the money that I lose.
And I said, oh okay. I said, so you're uncomfortable
putting your credit card online, but mine you could give
(28:24):
a rad sass about. He goes, well, yeah, that's exactly
that's exactly right. He sort of laughed about that. So
my dad would would gamble on TVG and some months
he would win where he would you know, he wouldn't
have to give me a check at all two or
three months. And then there'll be months where he lost
three or four hundred dollars. But he never lost more
than five hundred dollars in a month. He sort of,
(28:44):
you know, cut himself off. He wasn't spending you know,
fifty grand a month. The most he ever spent was
four or five hundred bucks in a month. And the
way he would repay me is he would send me
a check from his business manager. And this went on
for three or four years, and his business manager was
close with him, so she would show up at his
Christmas party every year, and she always gave me the
(29:08):
cold shoulder. She's like, oh, she's like hi Tim. I said, hey,
how you doing.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
She goes, I'm good and just walked away.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
And then she finally, you know, she had a couple
of glass of wine. I was sitting next to her
at the Christmas party and she said, can I ask
you a question? I said yeah, and she said, are
they paying you over at kalas X.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
That's when I was working over there.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
I said, yeah, yeah, they'll pay me okay, And she said, well,
is your dad making your car payments for you? I
was like thirty eight at the time. I said, no,
he's not making my car payments. And she said, well,
what's the check for that he gives.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
You every month? I'm like, oh no.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
She thought for the last four years that he that
I'm a dead beat and he's paying for my car
payment every year every month, that I'm my and any
dough and and for four years, every time she came
to the Christmas party, she gave me the cold shoulder,
and she thought that I'm still on the payroll.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
No, She's like, get your act together, that's right.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
And I'm like, no, no, no, it's And I couldn't
tell her what it was because he asked me not
to tell.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Looking buddy, So.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
See, yeah, things are going well. You know, fall short
every month, you know what it's like. I'm try, I tried,
I tried, But man, I with with people in their fifties, sixties, seventies,
eighties who get a computer?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Further? Did your mom go through that belly? Did your mom?
Does she have a computer?
Speaker 6 (30:39):
Mom bought me my first computer. Oh wow, mom was
already pretty savvy.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
On the computer. Is that right? Good for her story?
Oh that's great, man, Your mom's bright. She's pretty good.
She just hurt her doctor just the other day because she.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
Went on the portal on the line and stuff and
filled everything out.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Wow, you know, because she's in her eighties.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
So they were like, wow, you did that all on
your your own and yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Good for you. Yeah, man, that's great. Your dad ever
get in computers?
Speaker 6 (31:07):
No, he would tell me to use my magic phone
to look up stuff.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Somebody sent me a book today, a guy named George.
Is it alacron? George Olacron. Let me take a look closer.
Look at this guy sent me a package today, George
Alacron from San Clemente. He sent me a book. They
went that away in that way as as a movie.
My dad did and I and I didn't even realize
(31:36):
it was a book. But it's a small, little one
hundred and five page, you know, paperback book. And I
pull it out and Bellio says.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
She goes, what's your connection to that book? I said,
my dad wrote it and started the movie. It was
Bellio's first book she ever read in her life.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
Well, it was the first book, like, you know, cover
to cover, Yeah, cover to cover that I had like
done completely on my own.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
But we have such a connection.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Before I even met you.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
You you hadn't met my dad.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
And my dad called your dad and they're both race
track guys.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Yes, he was filming. Uh what was that sitcom?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Oh uh they went that way and that way.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
No, just King of Queens No uh uh uh uh friend.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
You'd be here all night long. They don't come to me, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
It was a scene with Gray Davis, former former governor
Gray Davis, and they were shooting at a Laker game.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
King of Queens. No, no, it is that he played.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
He played like the dad on it or something, okay,
And so I went down and I asked if we
could get an interview with him for that for halftime,
and uh, well, he was waiting to go on. I said,
would you mind if I called my dad saying Hi
to my dad?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
He's like, of course.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
He was so sweet because my dad obviously was a
huge Tim Conway fan.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
And it is before you and I had ever met, Yes,
before you and I even met.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
And he, Uh so, my my nephew answered the phone,
and I said, go get papa.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
He goes, he's in the bathroom. I go tell him
Tim Conway's on the phone.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
And so my dad comes to the phone, like what
And so I have a picture of your dad talking
to my dad. He was traveling with Harvey Korman at
the time, and your dad now tracked the story.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
He invited my day. He was going to be in
Denver and he invited my dad to.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
Be his guest at Eli Elich's.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Oh yeah, my dad usually said I'll hook you up,
and they never followed.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
You never hooked him up, but he always always meant to.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
He just forgot no, I'm sure if we Yeah, how
would you remember that it was like months away.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Yeah, that's true. But he was so sweet and it
was like.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Before we even met, my dad hosed your dad totally, totally.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
And so when I met you, a lot of stuff
made sense.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
A lot of it made sense. All Right, we're alive KFI.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
It seems like it's midnight, doesn't It got am mighty,
it's not even six o'clock.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
All right, We're live on KFI.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now, you
can always hear us live on KFI AM six forty
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Tomorrow's voting.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
All the political ads stop after tomorrow, all of them
they go away.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And so we'll take two or three years off. What
am I saying? We'll take a year off because.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
They'll all be back for November election next year, but
it'll be an off year and they'll be a lot less,
a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Less of it.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
All right, we were talking about Seize Candy. What was
going on was seized Candy. My only connection to Seize
Candy is Belly O, who again buys a box of
Sees candy whenever she goes on a plane. And the
reason she initially did it is she travels with two
small doggies and the flight attendants can be really nasty
to you if you have a dog. Unless they're dog lovers,
(00:55):
they can be really nasty. I've had a flight attendant.
We had a dog who's no longer with us, love
that game Vibe. We were flying home with him from Oregon,
and you know they always tell you keep the dog
in the cage in the carry on, keep me in
the cage. He's a small dog ten pounds, and Ernie kept scratching,
(01:16):
clawing and biting until he got out of the cage.
You know, he would just eat through the nylon and
just eat through the cage and got out. He's made
out of material. So my wife is holding him under
a blanket, trying to hide him. Flight attendant comes by
to give my daughter a coke or seven and whatever.
She was ringing and the dog, our dog lunged and barked,
(01:36):
and then the other older flight attendant, this woman says,
did that dog bite you? And she said, now, it
scared me, but didn't bite me. And the flight attends, well,
I think the dog bit you. And the young you know,
she's only twenty. She goes, I'm telling you the dog
didn't bite me. Look, there's no bite marks on their arm.
That dog did not bite me. And she says, I'm
calling the cops. Anyway, she called LAPD from the cockpit
(02:01):
to have us arrested.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And we get to.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
LAX and there's two cops there from l A p D. Wow,
And we walk up and I wanted to I felt
like a huge a hole, but I wanted I walked
out to him and said, hey, me and my wife
for the reason. You know, you guys are here and
(02:28):
this has pardon me.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
And my wife. Just my wife whispers, Just keep walking.
You're a moron. Why are you assuming they're here for us?
Let them figure that out. You never help them out.
You're the dumbest guy I've ever know.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
You say yes, streets mart, there's literally the dumbest man
I've ever met.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
She whispered like that all the way home. Got in
the car. Here's Thomas guy. Well you're sleeping that night?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, Ernie, smarter than you are. Everybody on earth is
smarter than you. Just walk by because got my I've
never seen anything like that.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Hey, I'm turning myself in for what Why we're not
here for you?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Oh o o great? Why what did you do? Yeah? Hey,
come back here, young man. What'd you do?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Young man? It must be my hair. I'm gonna go
back and talk to those to you hear that? Young man?
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
All right?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Why why is seas in the news? Let's find out
what is up this year?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
La?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
In a minute? Now mere Western now of LA in
a minute? Love this guy? Yes, what is up this year?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
La?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
In a minute?
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Now? I'm here on Western Avenue in Korea Town because
this site was the first location of Seas Candies, the
company started by Mary and Charles C in nineteen twenty one,
where they chose to bring their chocolate delicacies to the
rest of the world. Now it's currently a bakery and
it serves desserts, but nothing is like Seies Candy with
(04:10):
the deep, rich chocolate history. Let's get into it. In
nineteen twenty, Canadian chocolate salesman Charles C had dreams of
opening his own candy company in sunny California, so he
moved to Los Angeles with his widowed mother, Mary C
and with her own original recipes, they opened up their
first store front, Seized Candies on one thirty five Northwestern Avenue.
(04:32):
The chocolate was as delicious then as it is now.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
And you know, somebody asked them because his mistress, CA's
mom was a big mover and shaker at the candy company.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And she was tall.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
She's like six foot four like and that back in
you know, the early nineteen hundred, that was huge.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
It was like seven foot tall.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
And you know, slightly overweight, if not really overweight, even sin.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
They would go door to door delivery s these candies
to increase visibility, Sees continue to expand and soon was
the premier confectionery shop in all of Los Angeles. But
as the Great Depression came.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Well, yo, you have good taste the premiere chocolate company
in the world.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
That's right, or at least LA.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
But as the Great Depression came and took a toll
on everyone, Charles c had the great idea to open
up what was called a sunlit candy studio to allow
people to see how the chocolate was being made.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
It's cool factory.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Along with these delivery vans allowed Seas to get back
on the path to explosive growth.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
You know, I still love Seas. It's really a throwback.
You know, when you walk into Seas the Wave, they're
still dressed up in like white skirts and they have
hats on, and it looks like they just never evolved.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
But I like that. I like that throwback.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
You know, it always smells the same, smells like chocolate
in those places.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It's fairly expensive now, is it.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, it used to be when I was you know,
I'll go to one and in the valley after school.
There was one fairly close to where I went to
Junior High and you can go in there for like
twenty five cents. You can buy a piece of candy
or eighteen cents whatever it was, and now it's not.
It's fairly expensive to get in there. What is a
box of Sea's go for bellio when you travel on
(06:18):
the on the air aeroplanes?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I think like twenty eight twenty eight dollars?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, God almighty? And what does that get you anything?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Does that always work? You always get freebies? No, it's
not every time occurrence, but you that's the plan though.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
No, no, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I don't go in with the intention of getting anything back.
But are you angry when you get nothing back? I'm
not happy? There you go, there you go. Blood on
the air. Blood.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
Guess how much an assorted one pound box of Seas
chocolates is sorted?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
One pound box? Twenty nineteen dollars?
Speaker 7 (07:10):
Anyone else want to guess?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Eighteen?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Wrong?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Thirty bucks? What yeah?
Speaker 7 (07:20):
For a pound for an assorted chocolates a one pound box,
it is thirty yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
God, I bet thirty. Wow.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
That seems like a lot. I mean steaks, beautiful New
York steaks.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
And what is it?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Magov beef go be beef gobbe beef. Kobe beef, Kobe beef.
It's not thirty bucks a pound, is it?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Wagoo? Yeah, this does good.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
But nineteen thirty six, STA expanded all throughout California, including
the San Francisco which was hosting the World Fair in
nineteen thirty nine, which enabled people from all over the
world to see the unique process on how this wonderful
candy was made.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
This actually should be renamed LA in two and three
quarners minutes.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Seas was ahead of the curve again in nineteen forty
nine when he decided to have a float at the
first televised Rose Parie Wow, further establishing their candy dominance.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I bet you didn't know that. Now you know it.
You know, stick that in information in your skull.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
In nineteen fifty two, Lucille Ball visited the Sea's factory
and actually worked there to prepare her role.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Nineteen fifty Oh, you remember that bellio a lot. That's
my favorite scene.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
The candy on lou seal Ball when those candies were
coming out too fast and she had to eat some
of them, stuff some down her up. Yeah, some of
them had to be stuffed down her brazier.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Remember that that's right.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
In nineteen fifty two, Lucille Ball visited the Sea's factory
and actually.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Worked there to prepare her role.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
But nineteen fifty two Seas Candy.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I can I get some of those that weren't down
Lucille Ball's pants?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Oh God, yes.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
But nineteen fifty two, Seas Candies was so renowned that
Lucille Ball took a job at their factory on Los
Sienega to prepare for her role in the infamous job
switching chocolate candy. In nineteen seventy two, Warren Buffett Sweet
Tooth got the best of them when, along with Charles Munger,
they purchased Sees Candies to add it to the Berkshire
Hathaway portfolio, which it still is to this day.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Wow, this guy's loaded with information. We should have mine
more often.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Berkshire Hathaway led an aggressive expansion, including their first international
store in Kowloon, Hong Kong in nineteen seventy six. Cas
Candies remained one of the top selling chocolate brands in
the world due to adding new flavors but still maintaining
the true original resime.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yah Best milk chocolate, walnuts, and the molasses chips, milassa chips,
milk chocolate, walnuts, your gold Gold.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
And in twenty twelve, Seas rolled out the world's largest
chocolate lollipop, which was over sixteen feet tall, weigh more
than seven pounds, is the equivalent to one hundred and
forty five thousand regular sized lollipopters.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
And then they But the problem with Seaes is they
always give you. It's like, hey, do you want a sample?
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
What are you giving out today? Cherry foot fungus raps?
Oh god, I don't know, I don't know. I don't
think so. All the crap they give you for free.
The samples are stuff that nobody has ever purchased.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Ever, they don't give out the good stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
They don't give me molasses chips, they don't give the walnuts,
with the with the milk, chocolate, none of it.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
It's always like, what is that?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
This is ajax and mint in? Yeah, in a with
a a powdered paint coating, powdered keg coating, Christ.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Out of here.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty for the last eight years.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
And if you've been a longtime listener, you probably can
confirm this. For last eight years, I have been sniffing
around on why Bellio brings candy on the plane for
the flight attendants when she flies, and I've always accused her, jokingly,
somewhat but trying to dig deep. I've always accused her
(11:20):
of giving chocolate to the flight attendants and having an
ulterior motive for it. And she's always denied it, always
denied it, always denied it.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Until today. Because you until today.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
You you you watched me into thinking like you no.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
No, no, you you travel with small dogs and you
wanted those the Gestapo to lay off you, and you
did it with candy.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
But that's what you did.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
You knew that you traveling with two dogs is like
a circus act, and you got to make the police
on me. I know, but I also don't bribe people,
so you know that's how you get.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I swear I wasn't you.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
You paid them off to you like the mobster. You're
like a mob wife. You know I pay you. You
got to leave the little doggies alone, look the other
way when those dogs, that's what you were doing because
you didn't give sees candy before you traveled.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
With the dogs because I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Needing of a bribe. You didn't need to bribe them
when you're traveling alone.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Just they're so sweet and it's like, you know, give
them a little treat and just recognize the hard work
that they do.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
You did it to get them to lay off your dogs.
I understand it. I think it works. But I'm glad
you finally have confessed.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
That you could confessed anything.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
So you bought those that was seized candy insurance. That
was you know that you you needed that to get
them to back off.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
It was just a nice gesture. I'm glad you.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Did it because you know what, sometimes it's the only
way to get them to back off, you know, is
to give them something.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
What about when I bring the seas candy when I
don't have the dogs with me?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
What about that?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I think that is as rare as four full moons
in a month.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
That's not right? Do you wait? You bring but wait?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Answer me honestly, okay, and don't lie, because I know
your sister's number. When when you traveled before dogs, did
you ever give sees candy the flight attendants? Yes or no?
Speaker 5 (13:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Okay, So the seas candy was introduced once you started
traveling with the dogs.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Just because I thought of it. Then it was.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
It was just a coincidence that I thought of that
idea predictim.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Okay, all right, we'll leave it at that. I'll let
I'll leave it as a quins all right.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Belly o.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Uh, I know that before you got married you uh
lied to John about how much you love skiing. Did
you know that there's a ski that snow fell in Mammoth? Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Really?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Did he know? Does he know that? Yes? He knows. Oh,
he must be thrilled. He loves it, can't wait to
get up there. Angel loves it too. He's a great skier. Right,
he's a really good an instructor. I didn't know that.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Yeah, oh that's right, the adaptive ski instructor for handicap
for disabled people with disabilities.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Yes, is that how you guys met? Sorry to rough,
it's been a rough show. Yeah, all right, it's five
twenty six. You can we'll give you.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
The night off.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
No more in coming, seriously, seriously, yeah, no more, no
more text, no more, just one more question?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Is that how you meant?
Speaker 5 (15:03):
No?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Okay, okay, it's just about time for ski season. The
area received a few inches of snow overnight, and snow
groomers are already hard at work preparing for skiers and snowboarders.
Get this, Mammoth Mountain set to open for the season
one week from this Friday.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Wow, are you kidding me? They're opening up in the
first week of November?
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
A week from friday? Is what day? Six? Seven? Wait?
What is it? Fifth?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Sixth, seventh, eighth, eight? Yeah, fifteen, fifteenth? Wow, mid November?
Is that typical?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Bellyon? Say that again? I wasn't listening that it happens
all lot.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I get it, I get it, although I don't want
to give you the speech because it's too late.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
But is it typical for Mammoth to open up mid November? Yeah?
It is?
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
And when you go skiing with him with your husband, John,
are you do you hang in the lodge or do
you ski? I've done both, You've done What would you
prefer the lodge? I'm with you, I'm with you by
the fire. Yeah, I'm one hundred percent with you. When
my dad and mom were my mom was a big skier,
(16:21):
and my dad just did what my mom wanted to do.
One of those guys and so we'd go skiing. We
had six kids. We'd go out to Big Bear for
the day or the weekend, whatever. And my dad hated
skiing because he thought he was going to break a
leg and then he couldn't work, and then we'd be
thrown out of the house. He had a whole run
that he did, so he didn't ski, and I didn't ski,
(16:41):
and so my brother is, my sister, my mom would
all go out skiing and I used to spend eight
hours of my dad just walking around. It was the
greatest time of my life. I was eight years old,
nine years old, and I'd walk around with him round
Big Bear or around you know, Aspen or Veil or Mammoth,
wherever we went, you know, every other three or every
(17:02):
three years or so, we go to a big ski
vacation and I would spend eight hours a day walking
around with that man.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
It was the I remember.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I have the greatest memories of my life, just me
and my dad up in the mountains. We knew nobody else,
and I got to walk around with my dad, and
my dad would make fun of everybody or joke with everybody,
and it was hysterical.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
For eight hours. It was great some of the great
greatest memories of my life.
Speaker 8 (17:29):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
You know what, I think we need to draw more
attention to And I don't know if this is a
solvable problem or not, or maybe it's just me.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
That's possible.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
That's always my fallback that maybe it is just me,
and that I'm totally open to that. But over the
weekend I went to drop off I don't know, maybe
ten things at the Goodwill, not the Goodwill, but a
donation center.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I don't want to give the good Will a bad name.
They're good and there will.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
But when you drop stuff off at a donation center, God,
they give you the oh, I don't know if we
could use this that has a chip taken out of it.
We'll take this and this, but not that, that, that
and that, and it's it's just free stuff. But I
(18:32):
guess what happens at these donation centers is they have
to throw all this stuff away that they can't use.
And when you bring and you donate stuff, they got
to go through it. And they hire the lousiest people
in the world to take the donations. If I were
running one of these companies, I'd put my most excited
(18:54):
employees out there, you know, just a guy in a
gal out there, and when they when a trunk opens up,
I'd run out there, Hey you got.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Some stuff for us? Huh oh man, Oh that's great.
We'll be able to sell that. That's great. I hope
you enjoyed it while you had it.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I'm sure it's going to go to a nice family
for a couple of bucks, and we're going to do
some good to try to get these kids, you know,
some food and some shelter. I really appreciate you coming by.
Please tell all your buddies if they have anything to donate,
stop by.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Here and I and we'd love to have their stuff.
Oh I like this guy. Yeah, wouldn't you like that?
Wouldn't you go to that guy a lot? Absolutely?
Speaker 6 (19:32):
And when you told me you wouldn't take something, I'd
be like, oh, you're right, yeah, exactly what.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I see it exact.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I went to the Goodwill in Tarzana.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
This is fifteen twenty years ago, maybe longer than that. Yeah,
it must been longer than that.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And I'm dropping some stuff off and this is older
black guy's working there and my Saant and Nita had on.
It was signed by Doug O'Neill, who won the Kentucky
Derby twice, by the way, and he looks at the
hat and he goes.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Hey, how are you go out there? Off him?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I said, yeah, I go out there, you know, once
or twice a week. He said, ah, I used to
love going out there. And I said, why don't you
go out anymore? Because I really can't get a ride
out there. I don't really drive much anymore. And I said,
I'm going out today. What time do you get off?
He said, I get off at one thirty. I said, well,
I'll go home, I'll you know, drop some stuff off
(20:32):
and i'll come back. I'll pick up at one thirty.
We'll go out for the day. He goes, really, oh yeah.
And I was thinking, this guy has got to bring
me luck. He's filled with juice, he's filled with great karma.
He works for decades at a good will.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
So you were going to use his good karma to
benefit year.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
You're karma at the track, yes, Jennifer.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
And you give me a hard time about buying chocolates.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
No, no, no, I admit it. I was going to
use this man's luck to benefit both of us. Oh, well,
that's nice of you. I was going to get him
a ride, and he I was going to pinch his luck.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Pinch his luck.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Yeah, take a little little bite out of his luck.
And so I go back and pick him up. We
drive out there. We talk about nothing about and only
about horse racing. He told me some great stories about
the sant Nita and about buzzers.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I never heard that story before.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
But you know the when when you when you were
a kid and you go to shake somebody's hand they
had a buzzer in there and it buzzed in your hand.
You're like, this is on right, you know, it didn't electric, kude,
you just startled you.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
But they did call it, like the original shocker or whatever.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, right exactly, they called the shaker. And
he said that jockeys used to wear those and if
they were coming down the stretch, they would put that
buzzer on the horse's neck and that horse would take off.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yeah. And I never heard that story before.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
And he said at the Meadowlands in New York, they
drained the pond and they found twelve thousand of those
buzzers at the bottom of that pond, twelve thousand of them,
you know, because they'd use them and they want to
get called them because they're legal and they're right in
the pond. And I never heard that story before. He
was filled with great stories. So we go out there, lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, lose.
(22:35):
Seven races, nothing not even close. Every horse was last
or decided to do a cartwheel out of the gate.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Spring bang, bang, go on.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
And so I'm driving home quiet right, both quiet, and
my phone rings and I pick it up and I'm
talking to my wife and the guy sneezes or coughs,
and she said, uh, who's in the car with you?
(23:08):
You know, when you look like me, it's always like,
you know what model are you with? You know what
sports illustrated model are you with? Swear to God angel.
So I said, I'm not with a playmate or a
sports illustrate model. I'm with this guy, Cliff, I think
(23:30):
it was his name, from the Goodwill. And she pauses
and she's like, how do you know this guy? And
I said, I just met him today the good Will.
She said, you're going to the to the track with
(23:51):
a guy you just met at the Goodwill. I said, well,
when you frame it like that, I can understand how
now it reeks of desperation and louserosity and all those terms.
But we had a great time, and yes might be
our last time too, because this guy's luck is worse
(24:12):
than mine. Where if you could believe that is the
only guy ever who works at Goodwill who has no
luck left, you're born with a certain amount of luck.
Somehow he exhausted his. I don't know what he did,
but his is gone. And then my wife said, you know, Tim,
that's not how handicapping works.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
When you go to the races.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
You don't just pick up a guy who you think
has some existing luck and then try to leach off it.
You know, it's picking up a form or racing, digest
and looking and studying.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Yeah, that seems like a lot. That seems like a lot.
Nobody got time for that.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Right, And then as she was hanging up, I heard
her very distinctly say.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
It's got to be the dumbest guy talk about me
rough day.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
I heard my mom swear every single day of her
life she would use swear words more than she would
use just common words, and every day, every single day. Conversely,
never heard my dad swear once, never, once except one instance.
(25:33):
My dad used to use a manual typewriter up until
two thousand and five, manual typewriter, manual typewriter to write,
and he was out of ribbon. The ribbon had no
more juice, no more ink, and so he said, hey,
(25:54):
let's go down to the stationary store and get a ribbon.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I said all right, so we'll get.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Down there and we said, hey, do you have these
ribbons for a manual typewriter? And he said, they don't
make those anymore, and well, how do we get some?
And he said, well, you've got to go to yard
sales in the valley and see if you can find
an old typewriter that has some ink in the ribbon.
And I said, oh, okay, all right, So my dad
(26:21):
on Saturday I pick them up. We go out to
Corbin or Resida, and we're driving around. My dad puts
the hat on and we're going through yard sales and
looking at people's crap looking for a typewriter that has ribbon,
and I said, Dad, I said, I think this is
rock bottom. I think you got to get a computer.
(26:44):
He said, No, I'm not going to get a computer.
I do not operate those. I said, I'll teach it.
Just buy a good computer. Don't buy a crappy one.
Buy a high end computer that's easy to operate. So
he puts down, you know, three or four grand gets.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
The computer, the you know, the.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
The mouse, the pad, the printer, the you know, the tower,
the monitor, the whole thing, and I'm teaching him how
to use the computer. And he's and he's picking it up. Okay,
it's not great, A lot of questions. Look, he was
coming from a manual typewriter and now to a computer.
And I get home and he calls me up and
(27:26):
he says, you got to get your ass back here
and show me how to use this effing thing, or
else I'm gonna throw it through the window and then
I'm going to jump out after it.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
You're like, mom, you said awful lot like that.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yeah, And I went back and I sat there with
him for like five four or five hours, and then
the next day another four or five hours, and he
finally got it. He finally picked up enough where he
could like bet on TVG you know he picked that up,
but he said, and you know TVG's where you bet
(28:01):
horse racing online. He said, I'm your your stepmother, and
I are uncomfortable putting our credit card online. Can can
you open up an account for me and I'll just
pay you every month, you know, the money that I lose.
And I said, oh okay. I said, so you're uncomfortable
putting your credit card online, but mine you could give
(28:24):
a rad sass about. He goes, well, yeah, that's exactly
that's exactly right. He sort of laughed about that. So
my dad would would gamble on TVG and some months
he would win where he would you know, he wouldn't
have to give me a check at all two or
three months. And then there'll be months where he lost
three or four hundred dollars. But he never lost more
than five hundred dollars in a month. He sort of,
(28:44):
you know, cut himself off. He wasn't spending you know,
fifty grand a month. The most he ever spent was
four or five hundred bucks in a month. And the
way he would repay me is he would send me
a check from his business manager. And this went on
for three or four years, and his business manager was
close with him, so she would show up at his
Christmas party every year, and she always gave me the
(29:08):
cold shoulder. She's like, oh, she's like hi Tim. I said, hey,
how you doing.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
She goes, I'm good and just walked away.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
And then she finally, you know, she had a couple
of glass of wine. I was sitting next to her
at the Christmas party and she said, can I ask
you a question? I said yeah, and she said, are
they paying you over at kalas X.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
That's when I was working over there.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
I said, yeah, yeah, they'll pay me okay, And she said, well,
is your dad making your car payments for you? I
was like thirty eight at the time. I said, no,
he's not making my car payments. And she said, well,
what's the check for that he gives.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
You every month? I'm like, oh no.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
She thought for the last four years that he that
I'm a dead beat and he's paying for my car
payment every year every month, that I'm my and any
dough and and for four years, every time she came
to the Christmas party, she gave me the cold shoulder,
and she thought that I'm still on the payroll.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
No, She's like, get your act together, that's right.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
And I'm like, no, no, no, it's And I couldn't
tell her what it was because he asked me not
to tell.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Looking buddy, So.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
See, yeah, things are going well. You know, fall short
every month, you know what it's like. I'm try, I tried,
I tried, But man, I with with people in their fifties, sixties, seventies,
eighties who get a computer?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Further? Did your mom go through that belly? Did your mom?
Does she have a computer?
Speaker 6 (30:39):
Mom bought me my first computer. Oh wow, mom was
already pretty savvy.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
On the computer. Is that right? Good for her story?
Oh that's great, man, Your mom's bright. She's pretty good.
She just hurt her doctor just the other day because she.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
Went on the portal on the line and stuff and
filled everything out.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Wow, you know, because she's in her eighties.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
So they were like, wow, you did that all on
your your own and yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Good for you. Yeah, man, that's great. Your dad ever
get in computers?
Speaker 6 (31:07):
No, he would tell me to use my magic phone
to look up stuff.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Somebody sent me a book today, a guy named George.
Is it alacron? George Olacron. Let me take a look closer.
Look at this guy sent me a package today, George
Alacron from San Clemente. He sent me a book. They
went that away in that way as as a movie.
My dad did and I and I didn't even realize
(31:36):
it was a book. But it's a small, little one
hundred and five page, you know, paperback book. And I
pull it out and Bellio says.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
She goes, what's your connection to that book? I said,
my dad wrote it and started the movie. It was
Bellio's first book she ever read in her life.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
Well, it was the first book, like, you know, cover
to cover, Yeah, cover to cover that I had like
done completely on my own.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
But we have such a connection.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Before I even met you.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
You you hadn't met my dad.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
And my dad called your dad and they're both race
track guys.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Yes, he was filming. Uh what was that sitcom?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Oh uh they went that way and that way.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
No, just King of Queens No uh uh uh uh friend.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
You'd be here all night long. They don't come to me, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
It was a scene with Gray Davis, former former governor
Gray Davis, and they were shooting at a Laker game.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
King of Queens. No, no, it is that he played.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
He played like the dad on it or something, okay,
And so I went down and I asked if we
could get an interview with him for that for halftime,
and uh, well, he was waiting to go on. I said,
would you mind if I called my dad saying Hi
to my dad?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
He's like, of course.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
He was so sweet because my dad obviously was a
huge Tim Conway fan.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
And it is before you and I had ever met, Yes,
before you and I even met.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
And he, Uh so, my my nephew answered the phone,
and I said, go get papa.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
He goes, he's in the bathroom. I go tell him
Tim Conway's on the phone.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
And so my dad comes to the phone, like what
And so I have a picture of your dad talking
to my dad. He was traveling with Harvey Korman at
the time, and your dad now tracked the story.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
He invited my day. He was going to be in
Denver and he invited my dad to.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
Be his guest at Eli Elich's.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Oh yeah, my dad usually said I'll hook you up,
and they never followed.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
You never hooked him up, but he always always meant to.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
He just forgot no, I'm sure if we Yeah, how
would you remember that it was like months away.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Yeah, that's true. But he was so sweet and it
was like.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Before we even met, my dad hosed your dad totally, totally.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
And so when I met you, a lot of stuff
made sense.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
A lot of it made sense. All Right, we're alive KFI.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
It seems like it's midnight, doesn't It got am mighty,
it's not even six o'clock.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
All right, We're live on KFI.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
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