November 27, 2024 • 31 mins
Doug’s Old Apartment in LA/ Popular terms throughout the years/ Secret parachute may have revealed DB Cooper identity after 5 decades // Are you a Sell by expiration date or a sniffer? California law to bring some clarity on expiration dates. // Guest: Jamie Masada on the Laugh Factory’s Annual Thanksgiving Dinner/ What is Blackout Wednesday? // Seizure of counterfeit fake instrument items in Long Beach, California
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Doug McIntyre in for Tim Conway Junior right here on
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
We are on Thanksgiving Eve. You better get out there.
Just knock back a big dinner tonight. You want to
get the stomach conditioned. You could pull a muscle if
you just go into Thanksgiving without practicing a little bit
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stretch that old gut out right. It's Gluttony day. Happy
to have you with us. We're here till seven. We
got all kinds of things to talk about. As I
mentioned with John, I will tell the Turkey story. Social
media has demanded it, so I will deliver later on today.
We also have we're paying off that Disney Prize package
to do later on today, which would be good. And
tons of stuff to talk about throughout the course of
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the morning.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I across the across the street.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
From the KFI building here in Burbank, there's this brand
new apartment building. You guys have seen this apartment building
across the street that's got the whole foods in it,
or it's got Is it a Trader Joe's or a
Whole Foods. I think it's a Whole Foods that's in there.
And I for the first time I saw this big
banner that they've got on the side of that building.
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And the banner says, it's it's got a strange it's
a really kind of strange thing to effort apartment building
to be advertising. It's not like advertising that they've got
a rooftop garden or a pool or a fitness gym.
It says sustainable apartments and aspirational apartments, And okay, I
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get a sustainable apartments people. Maybe it's got I don't know,
organic insulation. I don't know what that means, but I
guess it means environmentally responsible or something like that. But
aspirational apartments, now, I remember when I lived on Lamer
Street between Lame and Lamist here in Burbank, in a
one bedroom apartment with on Street Park. I aspired to
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live in almost any other apartment, so that was definitely
an aspirational apartment. But I don't know what that means.
But that's one of those words. It's funny how we
pick up. I used to call them newsweek isms. You know,
things like gen X and gen Z. The magazines would
make up things like baby boomer. They'd make up these
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terms that would then ricochet throughout the media, you know atmosphere,
and everybody would start using these things. A couple of
years back, it was balkanized. That word was everybody was
using balkanizer. Right now everybody is using the word iconic.
Everything is iconic. I don't know why or how, whether
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there's an iconic council that determines when somebody reaches or
something reaches iconic status, but man, that word shows up everywhere.
But an aspirational apartment. Uh, there's a bunch of these
other words. One of the ones I noticed is people
are on journeys. Now I'm not just talking about those
of you who are getto Lax or trying to get
out the Palmdale for Thanksgiving or wherever you head at Vegas.
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People are on personal journeys, and they invite you to
go along with them on their journey, usually in social media,
their weight loss journey, and you can follow them on
Instagram or again everything is organic or it's artesian. Oh.
Another good one is my truth. It's not necessarily the truth.
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Or even a truth. But it's my truth. Let me
tell you my truth. You know, we're just suckers for
this stuff. And it's really funny how you know, words
and phrases, they'll come and they'll fall out of favor.
In the nineteen twenties, there were all these terms like
jalopi and flivver was an early twentieth century term for
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a model T. I guess not a lot of people
driving flivvers anymore. S boxes, yes, but not flivvers. But
right across the street, if you're looking for an aspirational apartment,
there's one for rent, a whole bunch of them, perhaps
for rent. And my guess is the owners of the
building aspired to being multi billionaires because those places can't
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be cheap. There's a whole Foods on the ground floor,
so somebody's living large over there.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Now, let me.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Ask you something, Steph. Do you know because I know
I would ask Richie, but I know Richie won't know
the answer to this.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Do you know who dB Cooper was? I know the name. Okay,
that's somewhere he's lying he doesn't know. I know the name,
but I couldn't tell you after that. Now, Richie, have
you ever heard the name dB Cooper? Zero?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Okay, I think there's actually like a restaurant, one of
those fake brewery things called dB Cooper's. Here's who dB
Cooper was, and they made a movie about him, and
there's been all kinds of speculation for decades, for more
than fifty years. dB Cooper hijacked an airplane and he
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demanded a ransom that was paid two hundred thousand dollars
in cash, and then the plane took off and he
jumped out of this is a commercial jetliner with all
kinds of passages aboard. He opens the door and he
jumps out with a homemade parachute and was never seen again,
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never seen again. To this day, no one knows what
happened to beat Cooper and maybe even more importantly, what
happened to the two hundred k wild Now Chante and
Rick McCoy the third claimed that their father, Richard McCoy Junior,
was in fact the infamous fugitive who disappeared after he
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jumped out of a boeing with two hundred thousand dollars
in cash after taking the passages a crew hostage. Back
in seventy one. They waited until their other's death in
twenty twenty to come forward, fearing that she could be
implicated as the parachute that allegedly belonged to Cooper was
found in her storage stash outside the house. And by
the way, the fact that mom's got a storage stash,
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they're not calling it a storage shed, They're calling it
a storage stash. I have no idea what else is
in there.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Here's why I am more than slightly skeptical of this story,
because did they go to the FBI, who have been
looking for BD Cooper dB Cooper for fifty years, more
than fifty years, now, did they as law enforcement reporting
a story. No. They apparently turned the parachute over to
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a YouTuber named Dan Grider, and he claims that the
parachute is one of a kind, that rig is literally
one in a billion. He told the local outlet about
the unique parachute that he saw. So I don't know,
maybe that's the mystery. But Cooper is right up there.
dB Cooper is right up there with like looking for
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Jean Bede, Ramsey's killer, or Amelia Earhart or Jimmy Hoffa
that every once in a while, every six or seven years,
somebody comes up, another story floats, some explore some you know,
cyber sleuth has decided that they're going to go on
the trail of one of these things, and this story
percolates to the surface again. But these people claim that
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it was their dad, and they've got the parachute to
prove it. So I don't know if there's any way
to quantify that, but believe me, you'll hear about it.
You know. By the way, this is one of the
things about doing this racket for a really long time,
and the older I get, of course, everybody around me
gets younger and younger, younger everybody that I'm working with,
especially on a holiday weekend, because you know, all the
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regulars have gotten they've used their sick days of their
holiday pay and they just they take a powder. They're
not working Thanksgiving Eve, so we're working, and that is
the people get younger. The stuff that sounds like history
to Richie or to Staph was in the newspaper when
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I was a kidd. I mean, it wasn't history. It
was stuff that was just happening. And now I forget man,
nineteen seventy one is a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
It's over fifty years ago. That's pretty iconic. Eh Ah,
very good. I like that he heard the open look
at that. See.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
You know you got to change that attitude, young man.
If you're gonna have a future in this business, you
can't actually listen to the shows. All right, we got
a ton of stuff to talk about. Here's a thing
that we've Are you a sell buy slash expiration date
person or you a sniffer? You're going to take that
quart of milk that's been in the refrigerator for a
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bit and you're not quite sure about it. You'll open
it and you take a quick Yeah, that's close enough.
I can swallow that.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Well, we're going to.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Tell you about a new California law that's trying to
bring some clarity to sell by dates. And Jamie Massado
will be with us, the legendary owner, the iconic owner
of the Laugh Factory, forty five years of Thanksgiving dinners,
and they will do it again down there at the
Great Laugh Factory. So all that coming up.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Jamie Massada from the Laugh Factory with us in just
a bit and thirty thousand fake Gibson guitars seized by
Customs and Immigration. We'll talk about that as well, but
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forty dot com forward slash pasta than are you a
sniffer or are you one of those people who is
a slave to the sell by date on that little
package of frozen yogurt you bought? I have an aversion
from childhood after taking a big slug of out of the.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Court of milk.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Mother was always yelling, don't drink out of the container,
and I think she did this to stop us for
drinking out of the container. She left one in the
back of the fridge for like seven months and it
was just like cottage cheese lumping in there.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
It was horrible. Still traumatized by that experience.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
So as a general rule, I'm one of those people
that pays attention to expiration dates.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Now, with that said, if.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You had heard me earlier speaking with John about the
diet that I go through life with, very few of
the foods that I eat actually expire because most of
them are their factory to table. They're giant multinational corporation
stamping things out with more preservatives in it. If you
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are what you eat, I will live to be a
thousand because I'm full of preservatives, so as a generalle
the stuff doesn't expire. But once in a while, if
I think it might have been fresh at some point,
I'm a little suspicious. I will check the best used
by and expiration date and still give it a sniff,
even if it's within the safety window. But what does
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that date actually mean? What does the best buy or
expiration date mean?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Guess what?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
You're lucky to live in California because we're one of
the only states in the Union that is actually working
to determine that food labels that say sell by or
best before are misleading because they have no universal meaning.
The state is the first to ban food labels such
as sell by or best before. There are more than
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fifty different date labels on packaged foods sold in stores,
but the information is largely unregulated and does not relate
to food safety. Most of it is just a restalking
advice from the manufacturer to the retail store. Twenty percent
of the nation's food waste, according to the Food and
Drug Administration. In California, that's about six million tons of
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unexpired food that's lost in the trash every year. The
law is set to take effect in July of twenty
twenty six and establishes a new standard for food labeling
in California. It will require the use of best if
used by label to signal peak quality and used by
label for product safety. Get that so, best if used
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by will indicate the peak quality of that product and
used by when it becomes a matter of actual safety.
So if you eat this thing, you get end up dead.
The law will provide exemptions for eggs, beer, and other
malt beverages. I'm not sure why that is. You're a
beer drinking you know, damn well, you gotta check your
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beer because it's gonna go flat. That's a good sign
skunk beer, right, But anyway, they're trying to bring some
clarity to that. Now, there's a lot of times when
I'm willing to roll the bones on an expiration day two,
like it's the it's the last the I'm making my
peanut butter and jelly, the foundation of my food pay
and and the jar of Welsh's grape jelly that's been
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in there since Jimmy Carter was president. It's the only
jelly in the house. Well, okay, you got to take
chances in life. Nothing is guaranteed. So but a lot
of people see these dates and they, you know, they
toss it. They toss the stuff and it's not actually
hazardous to your health in any way, shape or formance.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Not doesn't even mean it's bad.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
It's just kind of a suggestion to the retailers, to
the grocery chains to rotate stock. So California is going
to bring a little bit more clarity to that.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I don't know why this is gonna take till twenty
twenty six to roll out. It's not quite as bad
as Jerry Brown's Crazy Train, but you know, it would
seem like this would be a pretty simple thing to do,
but it doesn't go into effect until twenty twenty six.
So and by what's the oldest thing we have had?
We found a bottle of Worcester shear sauce of the
Bad that was eleven years past its expiration date. And
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now we went online because we didn't notice it. We
were still using it, and we went online and apparently
it's a distilled product. It doesn't really have an expiration date,
So I don't know why they put that on there.
But it also makes you wonder how Lee and Perrin
stays in business. If we could have a bottle of
wish Shear sauce in the refrigerator that not only had
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we had had it for its entire life expectancy, but
it was eleven years past. It's life expectancy, it's used
by date. You're not moving a lot of that stuff.
We are going to move it along here because we've
got a ton of stuff coming up. I mentioned that
as we go into Thanksgiving, it's kind of an la
tradition at the Laugh Factory for forty five years. Jamie Masada,
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who owns that great Laugh Factory, is going to join
us to talk about the annual Thanksgiving dinner that they've
been providing for forty five years now. And thirty thousand
fake Gibson guitars have been seized, and I'll remind you
again later on today I will tell the Turkey story
that people have requested from the past.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Sir Richard Pryor was my first comedian on the stage.
Another time, run in the Denfield had a brain surgery
and he came out of the hospital.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I'm coming over tonight. I said, Roddie, he just came
out of hospital. I don't care, I'll be there.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I needed it.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Joe got him to the mic.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
He had a band aid on his head. The first
thing he said, I don't get no respect, and the
people roll laughing. Then after about ten Joki let his
hand go and he's moving around.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
I said, oh my god, this is America.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
That's the voice of Jamie Masada, who is the founder
the owner of the Laugh Actor which is a legendary
comedy place here in La one of the great places
in the country. And not just as a platform for
performed by the way Mcenty Infra Conway on KFI AM
six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It's also
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a great place because it's embedded in the community, serves
the community. For forty five years now, the Laugh Factory
has been providing Thanksgiving meals and joining us to talk
about that right now, it's a pleasure to welcome Laugh
Factory President David fear or David how are you.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I'm doing great? How are you I'm good?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Thanks for being well, essay. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
We always appreciate Jamie making this great event possible, and
he's such a support you know, I play senior softball
in the LA County parts and Rex and every year
he supports the All Star Games and all that stuff
because you know, otherwise Bruce Laurie doesn't get a T shirt.
But we really appreciated very much. So forty five years ago,
this originally started as a way to help road comics
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kind of have Thanksgiving locally and expanded from there.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Yeah, that's right. So Jamie himself, you know, came as
an immigrant to this country and experienced, you know, loneliness
and isolation, and when he started the Laugh Factory, he
recognized that there were comics that had moved to Los
Angeles and they didn't have a place to go. And
that's how it started. And now it's grown into this
magnificent event every year where we can feed, you know,
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as many as fifteen hundred people who don't have a
place to go for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
And this the forty fifth year. Tomorrow, seatings at one
pm and three pm, one pm to three pm, five
pm and seven pm, and both at the Laugh Factory,
and some of it is sent out into the community
with who's hosting this year because you always get big
time comics.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Well, we have a whole number of big time comics
that are going to be here tomorrow. We're going to
have Tiffany Hattish, We're going to have Tim Allen, We're
going to have many, many other big names here. They
come in and out throughout the day. They feed people's
belly and they feed their soul because after they feed
them food, people sit down and they can enjoy some
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great comedy as our comics will rotate up on the
stage and just make people laugh and bring them joy
at a time where they may not have a place
to go again.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Talking with David Feuer, who's the Laugh Factory president down
on if you don't know, the Laugh Factory, of course,
is on Sunset Boulevard, eight thousand and zero one Sunset
Boulevard been.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
There for as long as well.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I've been here forty years and it predates me, so
it's been there a long time. And in fact, for
a while I was seeing there. I was m seeing
the tryout days, which was a lot of fun see
all these I don't know who was more desperate me
or some of the people who were trying out, but
there was. But it was a great experience and it
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was a thrill to be on that age. So you know,
how did you know when it was originally the comedy
club looking out for fellow comics, how did it morph
into this project now where you're really spreading, you know,
spreading the giving the generosity out into the greater LA community.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Well, you know, at the beginning, as we mentioned, it
just started at as this small event and then the
words spread and you know, Jamie is such a warm
hearted and wonderful person. He's so philanthropic, and when he
hears about somebody that is lonely, that doesn't have a
place to go it's hungry, he just opens the doors
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and he's welcomed them in. And this has just grown
year after year. When we open up tomorrow, we expect
of be a line around the block and we just
we we bring people in and get them seated, get
them fed, and they have you know, some laughter. We
just want to uplift spirits and we always like to
think of a Laugh Factory is sort of a community center,
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a place where people can gather on the high holidays,
on Thanksgiving, on Christmas, and of course they're out the
year for comedy shows.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Well, it's one of the reasons that we love the
Laugh Factory and it's just such great work. Thanks so
much for coming on with us, and thanks for keeping
the torch lit this Thanksgiving as you have for the
last forty five years.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
It's really great work. And our best to Jamie as always.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Okay, thank you so much for sharing our message, and
happy Thanksgiving to you as well and all of your listeners.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
All right, that's David. If you're the president of the
Laugh Factor. I love the fact that a comedy club
has a president. It's not a president of a comedy club.
That's power.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Yeah, people are not happy with the new president, but
I'm the Laugh Factory that is no.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
All right, Well, I can't wait to hear your cabinet anyway,
Thanks so much, David, really appreciate you being on with us. Okay,
what is Blackout Wednesday? The unofficial holiday tradition that you
didn't know about? Well apparently, and the idea of having
a couple of drinks before Thanksgiving chaos begins is so
appealing to America's has become an unofficial holiday known as
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Blackout Wednesday or Drinks Giving, which occurs the Wednesday, meaning
today before Thanksgiving. It's become one of the busiest days
of the year for bars nationwide, rivaling Saint Patrick's Day
and New Year's Eve. And I noticed they didn't include
Sink of Demile, but I would put that in as
one of the big the trifecta of booze holidays. Once that,
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he found that bar liquor orders grew by one hundred
and fifty six percent compared to the previous Wednesday. Its
popularity has grown so much that bars nationwide typically promote
blackout Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Now, I can't imagine.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
That the attorneys representing a holder of a liquor license
would think that advertising blackout Windnesday is a great idea.
That would be you'd be on some pretty thin ice
for liability, is my guess. I'm not a lawyer, but
I was a drinker, And you know, if you're actually
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you might want to examine how you're living your life
if the notion of a blackout is appealing to you.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
If you think, hey, you know what would be a
really good.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Way to prepare for Thanksgiving is drink until you literally
can't remember what happened. Now, I know there's a lot
of people after Thanksgiving wish that they could remember what
didn't happen, But nonetheless, going into it as a plan
of action doesn't seem like the best necessarily choice. Heavy
drinking and driving have become all too common between Thanksgiving
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and New Year's Eve, so much so that Blackout Wednesday
is also the start of DUI season. Local police nationwide
begin ramping up efforts with DUI checkpoints. California, for example,
the CHP will activate its annual Thanksgiving Maximum Enforcement Period,
which will run from six oh one pm tonight Wednesday
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through eleven fifty nine pm on Sunday. So you are
well cautioned and should be aware of that. What else
we got here in this stack of stuff coming? Oh,
we got to tell you that coming up next hour,
we're going to pay this off.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
So pay attention.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
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one day, one park tickets to Disneyland Park or Disneyland
California Adventure, and we will pay that off in the
next hour, So there's a reason to hang in there.
And if not, maybe you could make it blackout Blackout Wednesday.
Just start drinking now you can tolerate the rest of
the show. Ladies and gentlemen. When we get back, thirty
thousand counterfeit Gibson guitars were seized by the border patrols.
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So if you're one of those people was hoping to
get at Gibson and your cheapskate partners said, oh, don't worry, you're.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Gonna get a Gibson, Well maybe you won't.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
You're listening to Tim Conwayjunior on demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Forty coming up.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
We got well, we got two more hours, including my
Turkey story, which I will tell in its gruesome entirety
in the third hour, and we're talking Shemp in the
next hour with Bert Kerns, a brand new biography of Shemp.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Yes, not Curly, not Mo, not Larry Shemp. I can't
wait to have this conversation.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
So, ladies and Joe, by the way, if you're a
Dodger fan, Christmas came a little early. The Dodgers, you know,
had so many pitching problems. Last year, they signed Blake Snell,
former Cy Young Award winner to a five year, one
hundred and eighty two million dollar contract. Now, when you
think about that, that's a lot of money. Mean, most
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of us have to work like six seven years to
make one hundred eighty two million. He's going to get
one hundred eighty two million bucks in just five years.
Hard working man, Blake Snell. And what that probably means
is you've seen the last of Walker Buehler in a
Dodger uniform. Kind of unlikely he's a free agent that
they're going to sign him to after all the injuries
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that he've had, And that's kind of sad if that's
what ends up being what a curtain call for Walker
Bueller if you think about it, because he came in
as the hero in the final inning of that World
Series championship against the Yankees. So anyway, five years, one
hundred eighty two million dollars, Blake SNeW will wear Dodge
Blue for the next five years. Also, by the way,
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I want to mention if if I have and you know,
we look for reasons to be thankful and thanksgiving obviously,
and I would be very thankful if you would consider
purchasing my novel, Frank Shadow, which is available on sale
at Amazon dot com right now that mister Besos he
put it on sale in advance of a Black Friday
for only sixteen dollars and sixty nine cents. I have
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no idea how they came up with that price, but
it's available in hardcover, kindle and audiobook. And if you
want a signed copy, how about that. You can go
to my website Doug McIntyre dot com and you can
order a personally inscribed copy. And I go to the
post office with my own little car on my own
little fingers and drop it in the mailslot and we
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get out a hardcovered copy signed to you personally. Meanwhile,
I saw this store. You know, we think of the
border patrol as as you know, allegedly keeping America's ports
and harbors and airports secure from illegal immigrants. Right allegedly,
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But one of the principal jobs is customs enforcement is
making sure that the stuff coming into the country and
theoretically going out of the country is legal and in
long Beach, US Customs of Border Protection announced the seizure
of more than three thousand counterfeit Gibson guitars, which they
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called the largest seizure on record of fake musical instruments.
CP officials said the counterfeit goods were found in shipments
coming to the United States from Asia through the La
Long Beach Port Complex, and that they were intercepted as
part of an operation that included US Homeland Security investigations
and the LA County Sheriff's Department. According to the Border Enforcement,
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if ses guitars were authentic, they would have had a
value of more than eighteen million dollars and I thought,
he said. The seizure is a reminder of consumers to
be cautious when shopping online, noting that counterfeit merchandise is
a multi billion dollar problem and the product can potentially
be dangerous, particularly if they have shoddy materials or electrical equipment.
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With Black Friday and Cyber Monday around the corner, let
me share a few common sense tips to help protect
you and your family, said Cheryl Davies, director of Field
Operations for the US Customs of Border Protection in LA.
Purchase goods directly from legitimate sources or from the authorized retailer.
When shopping online, read seller reviews and check for a
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working US phone number or address, and pay attention to
the cost. If it sounds good to be true, it
probably is. You know now that I read this, that
better not be knockoff copies of Frank Shadow coming in,
which is why they're gone for sixteen bucks on Amazon.
You know, I used it when I lived in New
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York in the early nineteen eighties, when the sidewalks were
basically every corner someone was selling Rolex watches, and I'm
putting that in their quotes. And you know, if somebody
selling a Rolex watch on a blanket on the sidewalk
for eleven dollars, it's probably not authentic, or if it
is authentic, it's stolen.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Because there ain't no eleven dollar Rolllexes.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
And these discount gibs and guitars clearly our counterfeit as well.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Now.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
And by the way, you don't necessarily need a Gibson
guitar to start. I just get a guitar and learn
how to play it, and then eventually you can get
a Gibson guitar.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Right, That's how it works. Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
We got a busy second hour on the Tim Conway
Junior Show. Office parties are over. We'll get into that story.
And copper thieves. This is this figures right. Copper thieves
have not only been taken the wires out of the
light poles, but apparently they were taking them out of
phone lines.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
But it didn't stop the phone cut, but for sending
the phone bills.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
We'll get into that as well as LAUSD school buildings
being trashed. And then we're going to talk Shemp with
author Bert Kerns his brand new biography of Shemp Howard
of the Three Stooges.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
We'll get into that next.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Hour Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now
you can always hear us live on KFI AM six
forty four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime
on demand on the iHeartRadio app
It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Doug McIntyre in for Tim Conway Junior right here on
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
We are on Thanksgiving Eve. You better get out there.
Just knock back a big dinner tonight. You want to
get the stomach conditioned. You could pull a muscle if
you just go into Thanksgiving without practicing a little bit
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stretch that old gut out right. It's Gluttony day. Happy
to have you with us. We're here till seven. We
got all kinds of things to talk about. As I
mentioned with John, I will tell the Turkey story. Social
media has demanded it, so I will deliver later on today.
We also have we're paying off that Disney Prize package
to do later on today, which would be good. And
tons of stuff to talk about throughout the course of
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the morning.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I across the across the street.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
From the KFI building here in Burbank, there's this brand
new apartment building. You guys have seen this apartment building
across the street that's got the whole foods in it,
or it's got Is it a Trader Joe's or a
Whole Foods. I think it's a Whole Foods that's in there.
And I for the first time I saw this big
banner that they've got on the side of that building.
(01:16):
And the banner says, it's it's got a strange it's
a really kind of strange thing to effort apartment building
to be advertising. It's not like advertising that they've got
a rooftop garden or a pool or a fitness gym.
It says sustainable apartments and aspirational apartments, And okay, I
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get a sustainable apartments people. Maybe it's got I don't know,
organic insulation. I don't know what that means, but I
guess it means environmentally responsible or something like that. But
aspirational apartments, now, I remember when I lived on Lamer
Street between Lame and Lamist here in Burbank, in a
one bedroom apartment with on Street Park. I aspired to
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live in almost any other apartment, so that was definitely
an aspirational apartment. But I don't know what that means.
But that's one of those words. It's funny how we
pick up. I used to call them newsweek isms. You know,
things like gen X and gen Z. The magazines would
make up things like baby boomer. They'd make up these
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terms that would then ricochet throughout the media, you know atmosphere,
and everybody would start using these things. A couple of
years back, it was balkanized. That word was everybody was
using balkanizer. Right now everybody is using the word iconic.
Everything is iconic. I don't know why or how, whether
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there's an iconic council that determines when somebody reaches or
something reaches iconic status, but man, that word shows up everywhere.
But an aspirational apartment. Uh, there's a bunch of these
other words. One of the ones I noticed is people
are on journeys. Now I'm not just talking about those
of you who are getto Lax or trying to get
out the Palmdale for Thanksgiving or wherever you head at Vegas.
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People are on personal journeys, and they invite you to
go along with them on their journey, usually in social media,
their weight loss journey, and you can follow them on
Instagram or again everything is organic or it's artesian. Oh.
Another good one is my truth. It's not necessarily the truth.
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Or even a truth. But it's my truth. Let me
tell you my truth. You know, we're just suckers for
this stuff. And it's really funny how you know, words
and phrases, they'll come and they'll fall out of favor.
In the nineteen twenties, there were all these terms like
jalopi and flivver was an early twentieth century term for
(03:54):
a model T. I guess not a lot of people
driving flivvers anymore. S boxes, yes, but not flivvers. But
right across the street, if you're looking for an aspirational apartment,
there's one for rent, a whole bunch of them, perhaps
for rent. And my guess is the owners of the
building aspired to being multi billionaires because those places can't
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be cheap. There's a whole Foods on the ground floor,
so somebody's living large over there.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Now, let me.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Ask you something, Steph. Do you know because I know
I would ask Richie, but I know Richie won't know
the answer to this.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Do you know who dB Cooper was? I know the name. Okay,
that's somewhere he's lying he doesn't know. I know the name,
but I couldn't tell you after that. Now, Richie, have
you ever heard the name dB Cooper? Zero?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Okay, I think there's actually like a restaurant, one of
those fake brewery things called dB Cooper's. Here's who dB
Cooper was, and they made a movie about him, and
there's been all kinds of speculation for decades, for more
than fifty years. dB Cooper hijacked an airplane and he
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demanded a ransom that was paid two hundred thousand dollars
in cash, and then the plane took off and he
jumped out of this is a commercial jetliner with all
kinds of passages aboard. He opens the door and he
jumps out with a homemade parachute and was never seen again,
(05:30):
never seen again. To this day, no one knows what
happened to beat Cooper and maybe even more importantly, what
happened to the two hundred k wild Now Chante and
Rick McCoy the third claimed that their father, Richard McCoy Junior,
was in fact the infamous fugitive who disappeared after he
(05:51):
jumped out of a boeing with two hundred thousand dollars
in cash after taking the passages a crew hostage. Back
in seventy one. They waited until their other's death in
twenty twenty to come forward, fearing that she could be
implicated as the parachute that allegedly belonged to Cooper was
found in her storage stash outside the house. And by
the way, the fact that mom's got a storage stash,
(06:13):
they're not calling it a storage shed, They're calling it
a storage stash. I have no idea what else is
in there.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Here's why I am more than slightly skeptical of this story,
because did they go to the FBI, who have been
looking for BD Cooper dB Cooper for fifty years, more
than fifty years, now, did they as law enforcement reporting
a story. No. They apparently turned the parachute over to
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a YouTuber named Dan Grider, and he claims that the
parachute is one of a kind, that rig is literally
one in a billion. He told the local outlet about
the unique parachute that he saw. So I don't know,
maybe that's the mystery. But Cooper is right up there.
dB Cooper is right up there with like looking for
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Jean Bede, Ramsey's killer, or Amelia Earhart or Jimmy Hoffa
that every once in a while, every six or seven years,
somebody comes up, another story floats, some explore some you know,
cyber sleuth has decided that they're going to go on
the trail of one of these things, and this story
percolates to the surface again. But these people claim that
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it was their dad, and they've got the parachute to
prove it. So I don't know if there's any way
to quantify that, but believe me, you'll hear about it.
You know. By the way, this is one of the
things about doing this racket for a really long time,
and the older I get, of course, everybody around me
gets younger and younger, younger everybody that I'm working with,
especially on a holiday weekend, because you know, all the
(07:49):
regulars have gotten they've used their sick days of their
holiday pay and they just they take a powder. They're
not working Thanksgiving Eve, so we're working, and that is
the people get younger. The stuff that sounds like history
to Richie or to Staph was in the newspaper when
(08:10):
I was a kidd. I mean, it wasn't history. It
was stuff that was just happening. And now I forget man,
nineteen seventy one is a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
It's over fifty years ago. That's pretty iconic. Eh Ah,
very good. I like that he heard the open look
at that. See.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
You know you got to change that attitude, young man.
If you're gonna have a future in this business, you
can't actually listen to the shows. All right, we got
a ton of stuff to talk about. Here's a thing
that we've Are you a sell buy slash expiration date
person or you a sniffer? You're going to take that
quart of milk that's been in the refrigerator for a
(08:48):
bit and you're not quite sure about it. You'll open
it and you take a quick Yeah, that's close enough.
I can swallow that.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Well, we're going to.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Tell you about a new California law that's trying to
bring some clarity to sell by dates. And Jamie Massado
will be with us, the legendary owner, the iconic owner
of the Laugh Factory, forty five years of Thanksgiving dinners,
and they will do it again down there at the
Great Laugh Factory. So all that coming up.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Jamie Massada from the Laugh Factory with us in just
a bit and thirty thousand fake Gibson guitars seized by
Customs and Immigration. We'll talk about that as well, but
we start we want to remind you that the fourteenth
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forty dot com forward slash pasta than are you a
sniffer or are you one of those people who is
a slave to the sell by date on that little
package of frozen yogurt you bought? I have an aversion
from childhood after taking a big slug of out of the.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Court of milk.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Mother was always yelling, don't drink out of the container,
and I think she did this to stop us for
drinking out of the container. She left one in the
back of the fridge for like seven months and it
was just like cottage cheese lumping in there.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
It was horrible. Still traumatized by that experience.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
So as a general rule, I'm one of those people
that pays attention to expiration dates.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Now, with that said, if.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You had heard me earlier speaking with John about the
diet that I go through life with, very few of
the foods that I eat actually expire because most of
them are their factory to table. They're giant multinational corporation
stamping things out with more preservatives in it. If you
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are what you eat, I will live to be a
thousand because I'm full of preservatives, so as a generalle
the stuff doesn't expire. But once in a while, if
I think it might have been fresh at some point,
I'm a little suspicious. I will check the best used
by and expiration date and still give it a sniff,
even if it's within the safety window. But what does
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that date actually mean? What does the best buy or
expiration date mean?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Guess what?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
You're lucky to live in California because we're one of
the only states in the Union that is actually working
to determine that food labels that say sell by or
best before are misleading because they have no universal meaning.
The state is the first to ban food labels such
as sell by or best before. There are more than
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fifty different date labels on packaged foods sold in stores,
but the information is largely unregulated and does not relate
to food safety. Most of it is just a restalking
advice from the manufacturer to the retail store. Twenty percent
of the nation's food waste, according to the Food and
Drug Administration. In California, that's about six million tons of
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unexpired food that's lost in the trash every year. The
law is set to take effect in July of twenty
twenty six and establishes a new standard for food labeling
in California. It will require the use of best if
used by label to signal peak quality and used by
label for product safety. Get that so, best if used
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by will indicate the peak quality of that product and
used by when it becomes a matter of actual safety.
So if you eat this thing, you get end up dead.
The law will provide exemptions for eggs, beer, and other
malt beverages. I'm not sure why that is. You're a
beer drinking you know, damn well, you gotta check your
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beer because it's gonna go flat. That's a good sign
skunk beer, right, But anyway, they're trying to bring some
clarity to that. Now, there's a lot of times when
I'm willing to roll the bones on an expiration day two,
like it's the it's the last the I'm making my
peanut butter and jelly, the foundation of my food pay
and and the jar of Welsh's grape jelly that's been
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in there since Jimmy Carter was president. It's the only
jelly in the house. Well, okay, you got to take
chances in life. Nothing is guaranteed. So but a lot
of people see these dates and they, you know, they
toss it. They toss the stuff and it's not actually
hazardous to your health in any way, shape or formance.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Not doesn't even mean it's bad.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
It's just kind of a suggestion to the retailers, to
the grocery chains to rotate stock. So California is going
to bring a little bit more clarity to that.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I don't know why this is gonna take till twenty
twenty six to roll out. It's not quite as bad
as Jerry Brown's Crazy Train, but you know, it would
seem like this would be a pretty simple thing to do,
but it doesn't go into effect until twenty twenty six.
So and by what's the oldest thing we have had?
We found a bottle of Worcester shear sauce of the
Bad that was eleven years past its expiration date. And
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now we went online because we didn't notice it. We
were still using it, and we went online and apparently
it's a distilled product. It doesn't really have an expiration date,
So I don't know why they put that on there.
But it also makes you wonder how Lee and Perrin
stays in business. If we could have a bottle of
wish Shear sauce in the refrigerator that not only had
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we had had it for its entire life expectancy, but
it was eleven years past. It's life expectancy, it's used
by date. You're not moving a lot of that stuff.
We are going to move it along here because we've
got a ton of stuff coming up. I mentioned that
as we go into Thanksgiving, it's kind of an la
tradition at the Laugh Factory for forty five years. Jamie Masada,
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who owns that great Laugh Factory, is going to join
us to talk about the annual Thanksgiving dinner that they've
been providing for forty five years now. And thirty thousand
fake Gibson guitars have been seized, and I'll remind you
again later on today I will tell the Turkey story
that people have requested from the past.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Sir Richard Pryor was my first comedian on the stage.
Another time, run in the Denfield had a brain surgery
and he came out of the hospital.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I'm coming over tonight. I said, Roddie, he just came
out of hospital. I don't care, I'll be there.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I needed it.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Joe got him to the mic.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
He had a band aid on his head. The first
thing he said, I don't get no respect, and the
people roll laughing. Then after about ten Joki let his
hand go and he's moving around.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
I said, oh my god, this is America.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
That's the voice of Jamie Masada, who is the founder
the owner of the Laugh Actor which is a legendary
comedy place here in La one of the great places
in the country. And not just as a platform for
performed by the way Mcenty Infra Conway on KFI AM
six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It's also
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a great place because it's embedded in the community, serves
the community. For forty five years now, the Laugh Factory
has been providing Thanksgiving meals and joining us to talk
about that right now, it's a pleasure to welcome Laugh
Factory President David fear or David how are you.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I'm doing great? How are you I'm good?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Thanks for being well, essay. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
We always appreciate Jamie making this great event possible, and
he's such a support you know, I play senior softball
in the LA County parts and Rex and every year
he supports the All Star Games and all that stuff
because you know, otherwise Bruce Laurie doesn't get a T shirt.
But we really appreciated very much. So forty five years ago,
this originally started as a way to help road comics
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kind of have Thanksgiving locally and expanded from there.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Yeah, that's right. So Jamie himself, you know, came as
an immigrant to this country and experienced, you know, loneliness
and isolation, and when he started the Laugh Factory, he
recognized that there were comics that had moved to Los
Angeles and they didn't have a place to go. And
that's how it started. And now it's grown into this
magnificent event every year where we can feed, you know,
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as many as fifteen hundred people who don't have a
place to go for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
And this the forty fifth year. Tomorrow, seatings at one
pm and three pm, one pm to three pm, five
pm and seven pm, and both at the Laugh Factory,
and some of it is sent out into the community
with who's hosting this year because you always get big
time comics.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Well, we have a whole number of big time comics
that are going to be here tomorrow. We're going to
have Tiffany Hattish, We're going to have Tim Allen, We're
going to have many, many other big names here. They
come in and out throughout the day. They feed people's
belly and they feed their soul because after they feed
them food, people sit down and they can enjoy some
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great comedy as our comics will rotate up on the
stage and just make people laugh and bring them joy
at a time where they may not have a place
to go again.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Talking with David Feuer, who's the Laugh Factory president down
on if you don't know, the Laugh Factory, of course,
is on Sunset Boulevard, eight thousand and zero one Sunset
Boulevard been.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
There for as long as well.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I've been here forty years and it predates me, so
it's been there a long time. And in fact, for
a while I was seeing there. I was m seeing
the tryout days, which was a lot of fun see
all these I don't know who was more desperate me
or some of the people who were trying out, but
there was. But it was a great experience and it
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was a thrill to be on that age. So you know,
how did you know when it was originally the comedy
club looking out for fellow comics, how did it morph
into this project now where you're really spreading, you know,
spreading the giving the generosity out into the greater LA community.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Well, you know, at the beginning, as we mentioned, it
just started at as this small event and then the
words spread and you know, Jamie is such a warm
hearted and wonderful person. He's so philanthropic, and when he
hears about somebody that is lonely, that doesn't have a
place to go it's hungry, he just opens the doors
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and he's welcomed them in. And this has just grown
year after year. When we open up tomorrow, we expect
of be a line around the block and we just
we we bring people in and get them seated, get
them fed, and they have you know, some laughter. We
just want to uplift spirits and we always like to
think of a Laugh Factory is sort of a community center,
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a place where people can gather on the high holidays,
on Thanksgiving, on Christmas, and of course they're out the
year for comedy shows.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Well, it's one of the reasons that we love the
Laugh Factory and it's just such great work. Thanks so
much for coming on with us, and thanks for keeping
the torch lit this Thanksgiving as you have for the
last forty five years.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
It's really great work. And our best to Jamie as always.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Okay, thank you so much for sharing our message, and
happy Thanksgiving to you as well and all of your listeners.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
All right, that's David. If you're the president of the
Laugh Factor. I love the fact that a comedy club
has a president. It's not a president of a comedy club.
That's power.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Yeah, people are not happy with the new president, but
I'm the Laugh Factory that is no.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
All right, Well, I can't wait to hear your cabinet anyway,
Thanks so much, David, really appreciate you being on with us. Okay,
what is Blackout Wednesday? The unofficial holiday tradition that you
didn't know about? Well apparently, and the idea of having
a couple of drinks before Thanksgiving chaos begins is so
appealing to America's has become an unofficial holiday known as
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Blackout Wednesday or Drinks Giving, which occurs the Wednesday, meaning
today before Thanksgiving. It's become one of the busiest days
of the year for bars nationwide, rivaling Saint Patrick's Day
and New Year's Eve. And I noticed they didn't include
Sink of Demile, but I would put that in as
one of the big the trifecta of booze holidays. Once that,
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he found that bar liquor orders grew by one hundred
and fifty six percent compared to the previous Wednesday. Its
popularity has grown so much that bars nationwide typically promote
blackout Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Now, I can't imagine.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
That the attorneys representing a holder of a liquor license
would think that advertising blackout Windnesday is a great idea.
That would be you'd be on some pretty thin ice
for liability, is my guess. I'm not a lawyer, but
I was a drinker, And you know, if you're actually
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you might want to examine how you're living your life
if the notion of a blackout is appealing to you.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
If you think, hey, you know what would be a
really good.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Way to prepare for Thanksgiving is drink until you literally
can't remember what happened. Now, I know there's a lot
of people after Thanksgiving wish that they could remember what
didn't happen, But nonetheless, going into it as a plan
of action doesn't seem like the best necessarily choice. Heavy
drinking and driving have become all too common between Thanksgiving
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and New Year's Eve, so much so that Blackout Wednesday
is also the start of DUI season. Local police nationwide
begin ramping up efforts with DUI checkpoints. California, for example,
the CHP will activate its annual Thanksgiving Maximum Enforcement Period,
which will run from six oh one pm tonight Wednesday
(24:10):
through eleven fifty nine pm on Sunday. So you are
well cautioned and should be aware of that. What else
we got here in this stack of stuff coming? Oh,
we got to tell you that coming up next hour,
we're going to pay this off.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
So pay attention.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
The holidays are here at the Disneyland Resort, and KFI
wants to give you a chance to enjoy the wonder
joy and magic of the season. Experienced World of Color,
Season of Light and Nighttime Spectacular at Disney California Adventure Park,
or over at Disneyland Park, rediscover holiday classics like a
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KFI for your chance to win a four pack of
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one day, one park tickets to Disneyland Park or Disneyland
California Adventure, and we will pay that off in the
next hour, So there's a reason to hang in there.
And if not, maybe you could make it blackout Blackout Wednesday.
Just start drinking now you can tolerate the rest of
the show. Ladies and gentlemen. When we get back, thirty
thousand counterfeit Gibson guitars were seized by the border patrols.
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So if you're one of those people was hoping to
get at Gibson and your cheapskate partners said, oh, don't worry, you're.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Gonna get a Gibson, Well maybe you won't.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
You're listening to Tim Conwayjunior on demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Forty coming up.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
We got well, we got two more hours, including my
Turkey story, which I will tell in its gruesome entirety
in the third hour, and we're talking Shemp in the
next hour with Bert Kerns, a brand new biography of Shemp.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Yes, not Curly, not Mo, not Larry Shemp. I can't
wait to have this conversation.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
So, ladies and Joe, by the way, if you're a
Dodger fan, Christmas came a little early. The Dodgers, you know,
had so many pitching problems. Last year, they signed Blake Snell,
former Cy Young Award winner to a five year, one
hundred and eighty two million dollar contract. Now, when you
think about that, that's a lot of money. Mean, most
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of us have to work like six seven years to
make one hundred eighty two million. He's going to get
one hundred eighty two million bucks in just five years.
Hard working man, Blake Snell. And what that probably means
is you've seen the last of Walker Buehler in a
Dodger uniform. Kind of unlikely he's a free agent that
they're going to sign him to after all the injuries
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that he've had, And that's kind of sad if that's
what ends up being what a curtain call for Walker
Bueller if you think about it, because he came in
as the hero in the final inning of that World
Series championship against the Yankees. So anyway, five years, one
hundred eighty two million dollars, Blake SNeW will wear Dodge
Blue for the next five years. Also, by the way,
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I want to mention if if I have and you know,
we look for reasons to be thankful and thanksgiving obviously,
and I would be very thankful if you would consider
purchasing my novel, Frank Shadow, which is available on sale
at Amazon dot com right now that mister Besos he
put it on sale in advance of a Black Friday
for only sixteen dollars and sixty nine cents. I have
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no idea how they came up with that price, but
it's available in hardcover, kindle and audiobook. And if you
want a signed copy, how about that. You can go
to my website Doug McIntyre dot com and you can
order a personally inscribed copy. And I go to the
post office with my own little car on my own
little fingers and drop it in the mailslot and we
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get out a hardcovered copy signed to you personally. Meanwhile,
I saw this store. You know, we think of the
border patrol as as you know, allegedly keeping America's ports
and harbors and airports secure from illegal immigrants. Right allegedly,
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But one of the principal jobs is customs enforcement is
making sure that the stuff coming into the country and
theoretically going out of the country is legal and in
long Beach, US Customs of Border Protection announced the seizure
of more than three thousand counterfeit Gibson guitars, which they
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called the largest seizure on record of fake musical instruments.
CP officials said the counterfeit goods were found in shipments
coming to the United States from Asia through the La
Long Beach Port Complex, and that they were intercepted as
part of an operation that included US Homeland Security investigations
and the LA County Sheriff's Department. According to the Border Enforcement,
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if ses guitars were authentic, they would have had a
value of more than eighteen million dollars and I thought,
he said. The seizure is a reminder of consumers to
be cautious when shopping online, noting that counterfeit merchandise is
a multi billion dollar problem and the product can potentially
be dangerous, particularly if they have shoddy materials or electrical equipment.
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With Black Friday and Cyber Monday around the corner, let
me share a few common sense tips to help protect
you and your family, said Cheryl Davies, director of Field
Operations for the US Customs of Border Protection in LA.
Purchase goods directly from legitimate sources or from the authorized retailer.
When shopping online, read seller reviews and check for a
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working US phone number or address, and pay attention to
the cost. If it sounds good to be true, it
probably is. You know now that I read this, that
better not be knockoff copies of Frank Shadow coming in,
which is why they're gone for sixteen bucks on Amazon.
You know, I used it when I lived in New
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York in the early nineteen eighties, when the sidewalks were
basically every corner someone was selling Rolex watches, and I'm
putting that in their quotes. And you know, if somebody
selling a Rolex watch on a blanket on the sidewalk
for eleven dollars, it's probably not authentic, or if it
is authentic, it's stolen.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Because there ain't no eleven dollar Rolllexes.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
And these discount gibs and guitars clearly our counterfeit as well.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Now.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
And by the way, you don't necessarily need a Gibson
guitar to start. I just get a guitar and learn
how to play it, and then eventually you can get
a Gibson guitar.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Right, That's how it works. Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
We got a busy second hour on the Tim Conway
Junior Show. Office parties are over. We'll get into that story.
And copper thieves. This is this figures right. Copper thieves
have not only been taken the wires out of the
light poles, but apparently they were taking them out of
phone lines.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
But it didn't stop the phone cut, but for sending
the phone bills.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
We'll get into that as well as LAUSD school buildings
being trashed. And then we're going to talk Shemp with
author Bert Kerns his brand new biography of Shemp Howard
of the Three Stooges.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
We'll get into that next.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
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