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December 3, 2024 36 mins
Talking to Chef Bruno // Talking to Chef Bruno Pt 2. And Eric from Smart&Final / Last minute chicken // Talking to Emily Who is another person that Chef Bruno was able to help out // So Many Ding Dongs  
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF I am sixty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
We are.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
At the White House, Nanna High.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
What's this place is full? Tap places? Impressively, Mark Thompson
is very impressive.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Before we get to Bruno, we'd like to thank the
amazing volunteers from the National Oratory League.

Speaker 4 (00:30):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
The National Oratory.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
League on a honitary charity charity. Oh, charity begins with
an O who were helping unload all the positive Oh,
the people outside we should just call them the people outside.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yes, you're right, that's great.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
The Charity League outside. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
And then before we get to Bruno, we have one
small giveaway. Mark Thompson gave give us your best cold read.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
All right, this is y.

Speaker 5 (01:05):
Thank you to the beautiful Hilton Anaheim for our kffive
pastathon crew accommodation woeh Hilton Anaheim is an ideal staycation
destination located steps away from the Anaheim Convention Center in
Disneyland Resort and undergoing a complete renovation to introduce a
brand new restaurant, a new bar and lounge, lux renovated

(01:27):
guest rooms, a.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
New pool, pool bar, and more.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
In twenty twenty five, bookings can be made at a
Hilton Anaheim Hotel.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Come yeah, I think you guy.

Speaker 6 (01:40):
Oh.

Speaker 7 (01:40):
Also, we want to remind people that because this is
only going on tonight, it's only going on till nine
o'clock tonight.

Speaker 8 (01:45):
These four locations of the Wild Fork.

Speaker 7 (01:47):
Foods locations here in southern California. Here, Costa Mesa, Laguna,
Miguel Mission, ba Ho on Huntington Beach. If you go
there till nine tonight, tell them you know you're with KFI.
They'll get fifteen percent of your total will go to the.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
KFI past the time for.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
House tonight till nine o'clock tonight. That is big dog,
ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
The guy who owns the whole place, Bruno, Nice to
see you as always always.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
Let's just five is my family.

Speaker 9 (02:21):
I mean we have a.

Speaker 10 (02:22):
Family in Europe, but K five six am is Katerina
Family's right.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
All right?

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Now, we never asked you this.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
How did you First of all, you you bought this
place or you designed this place? How'd you come up
to the White House? What was the team all about before?

Speaker 10 (02:38):
But the place there was a restaurant more an American style.
Used to call the White House and gentleman. But the
place to the house transformers a restaurant give to his
wife as a birthday gift, and he keeps from eighty
one till eighty seventh.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
But it was not a restaurant.

Speaker 10 (02:55):
He own Lata Motels in anim which he sold them
almost all of them to Disney for their park et
ceteraself money. Yeah, he did extremely well. He was telling
me to have to be an amazing gentleman. That I mean,
not being a restaurateur.

Speaker 9 (03:10):
It's not easy.

Speaker 10 (03:11):
If you want to be if you want to know
something about restaurant has to be a restaurat.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Blood. He has to be in your blood.

Speaker 10 (03:18):
You have to sleep at a restaurant Latin Eyes because
you're too tired to drive home. I can't tell a story.
Oh a slap away here thousands of night and buy
a small sofa. Table cloth was my blanket. Wow, the
sink upstairs was my shower. Yeah, I tell me who

(03:40):
Sometimes they think I'm exaggerating every guys. I did that
the first year because I had a small bar on
the first floor and people come to the bar. It's
two am. I could not kick them out across at
two am. I have to be back at seven yeah, yeah,
and sleep in. That's not my back.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
So Jim, can I just ask?

Speaker 1 (04:02):
But you're not You're not that committed anymore though, right, Hello.

Speaker 5 (04:09):
You know when when the fire hit, I was really concerned.
It devastated this place, and I was concerned that you'd
be able to somehow put it back together. I mean,
I think I had to be psychologically devastating, and also
you have the whole place is gone.

Speaker 10 (04:22):
Yeah, that's the only time in my life since I'm
in the United States of America. Then I told every
tear is over and I had to go back home
to Italy because I lost av e t I mean,
I'm not millions on the bank, right, It's like I
lost a ete. When they call me, I told the joke.
I don't believe because it was midnight. I was preparing
the invitation for the thirty years anniversary of the restaurant.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Wow, tell me.

Speaker 10 (04:46):
You leave the restaurant a mid night, it is good,
good night, closed the door.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
You go home.

Speaker 10 (04:50):
At three am. You get a phone call. So I'm
looking for mister Bruno. I said, how did you get
my number? First tick, I asked, So this day of
age is easy to get phone number, and it's true
you can google TG.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
How long did that conversation go on? How you got
the phone?

Speaker 10 (05:07):
Well, it was a little bit. Honestly, I thought it
was a brick. I did not believe in what he
was telling me. No, I know when you say I
know you are a good guy, that's what you say.
I feel so sorry to tell you that by your
wrestle is really on fire. When you say I know
you are a good guy, it's like, okay, maybe he
knows who I am for real, and somebody who knows

(05:28):
you're a good guy, he won't give you a break.
Packed my car and drove on nundred miles an hour.
And when I got by the five Freeway over there,
which is five minutes from here, and see those flames.
My outs had to be it. I get to the
front door, the fire ship was there, and I look
at him. Then anybody get hilt to the kitchen exploded.

(05:51):
Maybe after I left and my boys were there, was devastading.
He said, is it bad? He say, very bad. That's
I think. The best ug I received my life was
for the fire ship of Anaheim.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
Dan Randy.

Speaker 10 (06:07):
He gave me the hug and he did cot with
me because it was the in who I was, et cetera.
And I could not come in till five pm because
the smoke of blah blah blah. And at five pm
when they let me go in, that is when I
realized and I lost everything.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Or I called my.

Speaker 10 (06:25):
Family because with social media, every everything on the news.
I called my family at four a m. They told
was joking. They didn't think I was true because I
was quiet so much. They did not understand my language.
I was speaking Italian to.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
That or English either way way.

Speaker 10 (06:43):
What was the cause of the fire, by the way,
an electrical outlet?

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Men on to the.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Left, Oh the when you bought a dollar tree.

Speaker 10 (06:51):
Exactly happen now it was a rainy season before a
dry up, and I guess there's fire ship. Tenty percent
of firing houses by electrical outlet. You better check your
electric athlet, because that's what I did that my house
here in Italy too. Electric outlet can cause a fire
in the house very fast. And none of you remember

(07:14):
then drapery everywhere, even if the anti file.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
Still But but what Bruno is not telling you because
he's so modest is that on the day this restaurant
burned down, you still fed the kids. That day you
used a different kitchen.

Speaker 10 (07:33):
I had a phone call. If you believe in God
or not doesn't matter to me. I do believe in God.
I got a phone call from the Bishop of Oscany,
Bishop Band. He said, Bruno, I just look at the news.
Did you really lose the restaurant? Say yes, Bishop, do
you need a kitchen for the children? I say, God exists,

(07:55):
Bishop Cathedral.

Speaker 8 (07:59):
And you never lost one day, never missed the day.

Speaker 10 (08:02):
Never missed the day. In fact, it was a big house.
The next day you staid to be here and cry devastated.
I was cooking over there and serve the kids. You know,
some people in the tragedy they do drunk, They drunk.
I wasn't doing any of those stuff.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Don't judge me.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
I wasn't. Maybe we should talk litter on after the show.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
That bishop bangs on me too with the drinking and
smoking everybody.

Speaker 10 (08:28):
But that happened in solving the case. Almost forgot as
I was gone and I used the Christ Cathedral for
year and a.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Half And how long were you closed? The year and
a half year and a half reopen, may fault, this
area burned down, or just everything every time.

Speaker 10 (08:44):
I mean, if you look at I have a book
on the front, you don't have to buy if you
don't want to be If you look an inside.

Speaker 8 (08:49):
That's not a way to sell it.

Speaker 4 (08:51):
I did a purpose to invite people.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
To say I have a book, you have to buy it,
or you're not leaving.

Speaker 10 (08:57):
If you look at the photo, the main thing the
way look you say no way and talk about God.
I mean you only have the religion, but it doesn't matter.
The fireman at one point say, is any tea you
would like to find in the restaurant and burn out.
I said, well the photo my mom is gone, but
don't have twenty copy. I can really do it that

(09:18):
it was on the front of the restaurant. If it
is still there. The new one said, the only is
the wa love is a cross? Give it to me
by Pop Francis a blessed by him. Wow, he was
on the front of the rest on the left, but
there was a million ashes on the floor. The cross
is so small than no way you can find it.

(09:38):
The fire guys tart to dial count, Well, what's the
area here? So please guys live alone. I've got to
call the pop to give me a new one. I
was making try a joker and after ten to fifteen yeah,
after ten to fifteen minutes, I mean you see how
smalling is?

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Is that? That's it?

Speaker 3 (09:58):
That's the reginal.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, look at you and no, I say wrong with
that cross right now?

Speaker 10 (10:04):
That costs and say, okay, I have to do something
because the set part of me. Besides, I've lost my
business because a friend of mine who lost the house,
he said, well, no, when you lose your house, but
you can go to walk tomorrow, morney, you can survive.
But when you have a house, you still have to
pay the mortgage. They don't have a job.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
That is the story, and honestly it is very very
touch up to me.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Can I ask you one question? You can say no? No, okay, yeah,
you told me say no. This weekend December seventh and eight,
can I trake take that cross to the racetrack.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
Let's talk after the show. I don't know if you.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Have a check book with you?

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Can Oh?

Speaker 3 (10:49):
Please, I need you, I need please please, I need
to cross?

Speaker 1 (10:54):
All right?

Speaker 10 (10:55):
Yeah from the White House.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Come on, We're live here until six seven o'clock.

Speaker 11 (11:02):
Then Bill Kelly, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on
demand from k f I A M six.

Speaker 5 (11:08):
Forty AM six forty. We are in a packed house.
Mark Thompson here with Tim Conway Jr.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Tim.

Speaker 5 (11:17):
Of course, he's hugging, he's shaking hands, he's signing autographs,
he's having photos taken. We have a very special guest
us from Smart and Final, the district manager, Eric.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
And Bruno's with us as well.

Speaker 5 (11:37):
Eric's a regular feature of all of the postathons in
the past, as you know.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Oh yeah, I've done Eric for a long time. I
think since the Boy Scouts. When are you guys sponsored
that big Boy Scout retreat in Orange County.

Speaker 8 (11:56):
That's true, It's true.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
It's a big deal.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
And it was on Mother's Day, was yeah, which is
still great.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
You know.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
It's like you're gonna spend your Mother's Day the way.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
We want you to spend it, not the way you.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Want to spend it.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
I love I was at I was at Smart and
Final last night in Burbank. This this beautiful woman who
I'm gonna mention her.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Name, she was there.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
She listens to the station and she said she was
by telling everybody that you've got to donate to Katerina's
club when they come to the register. She was twisting Harmonica.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
And she is. She's great.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Another friend of my, my daughter, Sid Martin, runs the.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
Place in u In.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
In Burbank and I just have the greatest memories of
Smart and Final growing up. It was just, you know it,
it was a different market. The shells were always filled.
It wasn't just one candy bar, it was fifty.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah, it's pretty great, it really is. You know.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
It was terrific.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
And you're the district man, did you, Eric?

Speaker 5 (13:00):
So you handle a number of different Smart and Final
outlets right.

Speaker 12 (13:04):
True, got twenty six stores ranging from Kovina area, La,
the entire South Bay and Long Beach.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
And how did you guys fell up with Bruno?

Speaker 2 (13:12):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 12 (13:13):
The relationship started a bit ago. I've been with the
company since twenty seventeen and the first event I went
to was at the christoph Cathedral and that was incredible.

Speaker 8 (13:23):
That was a big way I was reeled in at
that time.

Speaker 12 (13:25):
I'm a huge fan and I just love what it
stands for. It's not difficult to get behind and really
push and take care of the needs of the children.

Speaker 4 (13:34):
Like you, Thank you, you guys, I'll be amazing. Can we
open upon that finally?

Speaker 8 (13:39):
Like this, I mean I changed my last name to Fucello.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
For how many smart and Finals are there?

Speaker 8 (13:46):
There are two hundred and fifty five Smarten finals.

Speaker 12 (13:48):
We belonged to Shootower USA, so we partner with El
super is our owner in Fiesta March. So we're getting
bigger and better and moving forward in the in this industry.

Speaker 8 (13:59):
So we're having a great time.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
Let me tell you a secret.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Maybe Smart and Final doesn't want you to know this,
but it's something I've developed over the over the years.
The most Smartan finals closed at nine o'clock at night.
This one, this one in Bourban closed at ten, so
a half hour before they close. Discount on the chickens.

Speaker 12 (14:20):
I'm saying, if you want, you want chicken, sound sandwich
is the next day, You're you're set up for.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
The half right, So I'm I'm I'm.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
Circling and uh the the chickens waiting for the announcement, announcement,
half priced chicken boom in the cart. Last one, it
was like musical chairs for this chicken throwing, the chicken
throwing the cart. I'm buzzing around, I lean down to
get something a bottom shelf. A woman is going to
take the chicken out of my car, like baby, baby,

(14:49):
that's my chicken. But the chickens there are beautiful, I mean,
and they're and they're reasonably priced to I think it
was like nine bucks or something.

Speaker 12 (15:00):
Whole Chicken the great value and it's I tell you,
we will buy those for lunch and we'll get some
the King's Hawaiian rolls and the share with the crew
and you're you're fat and happy and rose right in
the store, right in the store. That's a great idea.
That's a really a trigger idea.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
Any any surprises coming up for Smart and Final?

Speaker 3 (15:18):
Are you guys going to buy an arena somewhere?

Speaker 2 (15:20):
That would be great?

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (15:24):
I wish we would, but.

Speaker 12 (15:25):
No, right now, we're just in some transition with the
new ownership, and we're grateful for it, and we're just
gonna be bigger and better as we move on here.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
What's telling me that he gets a lot of supplies
of the food that he serves here from Smart and Finals?

Speaker 3 (15:38):
Isn't that right?

Speaker 10 (15:39):
And when I went about to finally myself that ask me
if I can't do oh is that right.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
I was like, Wow, that's a good job. That's cool.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
Is not where you said? Do you know who I am?

Speaker 5 (15:53):
No?

Speaker 4 (15:53):
That night, I didn't say that.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
I've heard that before though, but this is how many
years now with Katerina's club.

Speaker 12 (16:02):
Boy, So for me, since twenty seventeen. I believe they
started two years prior, if not three. Okay, but I'll
tell you what. It's just an incredible partnership, love coming
alongside just It's.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Expanded not only California, but Arizona.

Speaker 12 (16:17):
Arizona, ne Data. We have northern cal stores that are donating.
We I think we're at about two hundred and sixty
thousand dollars right now. We're shooting for four hundred by Sunday. Wow,
I'll tell you what. Your listeners are amazing. Yeah, we
got some incredible customers.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Now, I know that you know, Eric all the time,
people come to you every day with I got a
charity you know.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
Can you support?

Speaker 1 (16:39):
And you can't support them all, but you'd love to.
How did you determine that this was going to be
the right one?

Speaker 2 (16:45):
Though?

Speaker 1 (16:45):
I know you guys met a while ago, but every
time there's got to be four or five charities a
week they'd call you.

Speaker 8 (16:50):
It's incredible.

Speaker 12 (16:51):
You know, we have a charitable foundation that spearheads just
all of our giving and what we get back behind
and support and anything that deals with children that have needs.

Speaker 9 (17:03):
We're gonna We're gonna.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Just jump in.

Speaker 9 (17:05):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (17:05):
And I'll tell you a lot of our associates have
been those children that they have experienced food and securities
in their in their past been blessed by a gentleman. Uh,
you know, like Chef Bruno here, and they tell you
it takes special people to do that.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
We were going to change the name for a year
to the Conway Show when Thompson's here too, Smart and
Finally here.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
Oh, it's amazing, it really is.

Speaker 9 (17:34):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
It's like shooting fish in a barrel.

Speaker 8 (17:37):
He's gonna steal your chicken if you're not careful.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
How did you come up with that?

Speaker 3 (17:42):
They come up with that name Smart, that's.

Speaker 12 (17:43):
The owners that that was the last names. Uh and
forgive me, I'll probably a bolt of light and he
will come down and slap me right now. Last names
are Smart and Finally.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
No kidding, correct, I mean that's pretty wild. That is really.

Speaker 8 (17:54):
Yeah, incredible company.

Speaker 5 (17:56):
Yeah, so Eric's coming off a big Thanksgiving too. You
know he works through the holidays just like Bruno does
Baked period and he had apparently this enormous nights giving.
His daughter is a chef.

Speaker 12 (18:07):
Yes, I don't know that. She's a pastry chef, Bakedown Rose.
He's an incredible young gallon Venice Beach and quite talented.
I'm very fortunate to have. I just say we chef.
You know, she'll yell at me in the kitchen. I
just do the protein. She doesn't let me do anything else,
So that's really cool.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
I can't believe your support. So you're thinking maybe four
hundred thousand this year.

Speaker 8 (18:28):
We're shooting for that.

Speaker 12 (18:29):
I tell you, we have a very competitive group of
district managers and store managers.

Speaker 8 (18:33):
We all like to measure how we're doing every day.

Speaker 12 (18:35):
We'll do afternoon tallies and see where we're at.

Speaker 8 (18:38):
And we just keep pushing the envelope and.

Speaker 4 (18:45):
Let me do with.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
We're going to get over a million because the money
here and the tomrten final and Wendy's, we are going
to go over a million.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
Dollars for sure.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
Thank you, Thank you, Eric really appreciated Bruno. We're going
to talk to you again before the program's over. He
got Motelly coming up to What a night here at
the Anaheim White House in on On, Anaheim.

Speaker 11 (19:09):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.

Speaker 5 (19:15):
We are raising tons of money, tons of pasta Cruzier
to my rights and Angel to my left, and all
of these magnificent people in one place. What a great
way to usher in the holidays. And here is the
host of your show, Tim Conway Junior.

Speaker 4 (19:32):
Ding Dong.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
All right, I was out giving a ding dong's away
and we have Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
We have Emily Whether.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
She lived in a motel for eight years and Bruno
fed the family for four years and then moved him
into a house.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
And she is with us.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
Emily, how are you.

Speaker 13 (19:54):
I'm very good.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
Ah, you're you sound very excited to be on with us.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
I'm sorry, Oh it's okay. Hey, So tell us the story.
How did you find Cattarita's Club or how'd they find you?

Speaker 13 (20:10):
Well, we're living in the motel. They headed out food
and my mom got really close with I remember his name,
but they are really close, and he mentioned the programs
and my mom, well, actually I think this couple of
years until my mom finally gave in.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
And how many kids in your family.

Speaker 13 (20:30):
That live with us? That's five?

Speaker 3 (20:33):
How many?

Speaker 13 (20:34):
It's seven total?

Speaker 10 (20:36):
Five?

Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, seven total in one motel room? Yeah wow man?

Speaker 1 (20:44):
Oh man, you know in college that sounds like a party.
That is not when you're the in your you know,
when you're trying to sleep, Oh man, when you're when
you're that young and so so the house that you
moved into, you're still in that home?

Speaker 4 (20:59):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (21:00):
And how big much bigger is that two bedroom three bedrooms?

Speaker 13 (21:05):
It's technically four four bedroom? Wow?

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Wow?

Speaker 5 (21:10):
Man, that really is Coolna really stepped up for this family.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah, man, I can't imagine how thrilled your mom was
to be moving out of a motel with all of
her kids into a beautiful home.

Speaker 13 (21:24):
She was very very emotional too.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
Oh I bet I'm beat. And what do you do now, Emily?
Are you working? How old are you? You're twenty?

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (21:34):
What do you do for living? I'm just a cashier
a cashier okay, a restaurant or store.

Speaker 13 (21:42):
It's like a fast food place, a.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
Fast food place.

Speaker 5 (21:46):
And she's actually on the clock's right. That's why we
have a heart out with her.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
Can we give out the fast food place.

Speaker 13 (21:58):
It's farmer.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, boy, I've been to farmer boys. That is cool. Well, Emily,
sorry we missed you this year, but maybe we'll see
you down here next year.

Speaker 13 (22:15):
Hopefully.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
All right, back to the cashier. Thank you, Emily, Thank you, Emily.
How sweet is that girl?

Speaker 3 (22:24):
She's twenty years old.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
When she was eleven, she was living in a motel
with set bless you with seven kids and a mom.

Speaker 7 (22:34):
It's you know, you hear about the instances where it's
happening in the moment. Yeah, they're being Helpedy's being helped
her to hear, seven, eight, nine years later, someone who
is affected by and it still affects them in a
positive way.

Speaker 9 (22:44):
That just makes it even more rewarding.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
That is sensational.

Speaker 9 (22:48):
That is great.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
All right, we're gonna be here at six o'clock. I'm sorry,
seven o'clock tonight, and then Kelly, I'm all with us. Yeah,
ladies and gentlemen, Moe Kelly.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
Real quick, come on, mo.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
Boo boo boot boot boot boot boots.

Speaker 14 (23:07):
Oh stop, man, you gotta make a girl blush.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
Nice to see you, buddy, good to see. This is
how many for you? Is this your tenth eleventh.

Speaker 9 (23:16):
No, I think it's like my twelfth.

Speaker 14 (23:17):
My anniversary is December eleventh, okay, twenty eleven, So oh whatever,
that math works out all right, and.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
You're gonna have a big show again for the big anniversary.

Speaker 14 (23:27):
You know what, I don't know because the anniversary this
time around will be January third, like the first week
in January. And you know, whenever we do an anniversary show,
that means you have to be there.

Speaker 9 (23:36):
I think we're going to be on vacation.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
There.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
I always love the anniversary show. It's always like thirty
forty fifty people. It was a lot of energy, a
lot of great vibe.

Speaker 14 (23:48):
It's fun because Robin, our boss at the time, would say,
you can't bring people in the studio. That's which meant
that we were going to bring people in the studio.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
Now you can't. Yeah, yeah, now you can bring people in.

Speaker 9 (23:58):
But that was part of it, you know.

Speaker 14 (24:00):
It was about having that.

Speaker 9 (24:02):
Air of family.

Speaker 14 (24:03):
We were all together, we were celebrating, and you always
came out. You came out to my very first remote
back in twenty twelve at Gable House Bowl, which is
no longer there.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
Oh, that's right, they took it down.

Speaker 14 (24:14):
It's been demolished is now they're building condos there. But
you know, you've always been a friend, a confident on,
a supporter and a mentor.

Speaker 9 (24:21):
And I appreciate you. I give me a don drum.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
I had to take, you know when they destroyed our
bowling alley in the valley as well, and Pickwick with
what went down, and then the other one, the Encino
Bowl went down as well. But there's something depressing about
seeing your bowling alley as a child, that you went
there being demolished for condos or stores.

Speaker 14 (24:42):
For me, my bowling alley was about where I grew up.
It was right next to my high school. You'd have
field trips going there, you'd have birthday parties there, so
it was always connected to everything with growing up. And
to see it being demolished, you'd lose a piece of
yourself as well.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
And if I'm not mistaken, that was a family run place.

Speaker 14 (25:01):
Yes, it was, yes, family owned right, family owned at
the very end.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
And family owned operations like bowling alleys, I don't know
if they exist anymore.

Speaker 14 (25:09):
I don't know if we're gonna have bowling alleys in
thirty forty years, honestly, because they take up so much space.
And I mean that in a good way. You know,
it's very, very valuable land that they're on.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
But they tried everything. They tried the Midnight Bowl with
the with the they called it rock and Bowl with
the Black Lives.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
And all that that stuff.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
But I do you know, bowling was a big part
of my life growing up.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
We used to go to visit my grandparents in Cleveland.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
If you know anything about Ohio, everybody bowls, everybody and
we went to Pickwick. It was called Pickwick there as well,
and we would go to with our Brunswick ball. We'd
sit there and every Wednesday at eleven am, that was
our bowling with the summer camp I went to.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
And that's what you look forward to all week, all
week long.

Speaker 14 (25:48):
Absolutely, and you have the leagues. It was actually a
part of the community. You'd have the leagues that were
bowling every single night. It was a place for the
most part, you can come, you can hang out, it
was safe, it was family fun for all a And
I don't know if this generation has anything like that
that they will gravitate towards and they're they're on their phones,
they're not they don't.

Speaker 9 (26:07):
Even have malls for them to hang out with him anymore.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yeah, I know it's crazy.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
All right, Mote Kelly at seven o'clock to night.

Speaker 11 (26:14):
Right here on KFI, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior
on demand from KFI AM sixty Tank Jog.

Speaker 5 (26:25):
Let's go, everybody.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
There is a ton of people here at the White House.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
Welcome everybody. This is great.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
I gotta thank a beautiful woman named Annette, Annette who
gave me a birthday gift. I don't know how she
knew this to home depot. Wow, a woman after my own.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
To you.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
Mark Thompson is with us, Mike Krozer, Angel Bellio, Steph
fushback at the station.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
Where's Michelle Cube is with us? Yeah, so Oscar and
Kiki and Richie.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
Everybody is here to celebrate and help Bruno make as
much money as possible for him and for the kids.

Speaker 5 (27:15):
It's just for the kids, Tim hell Yeah whatever.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Also, Emma, her birthday is today, Emma's birthday to day.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
And that's a cool deal. Also, Ed Garrighis was with
Where's Ed is that out here?

Speaker 2 (27:32):
Oh? There he is?

Speaker 1 (27:33):
Edge with Wendy's He's coming on with us at the
top of the hour.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
It's Edge's birthday as well.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Wow, everybody's born on what December third? And then where's Tina?
And Jeff?

Speaker 3 (27:46):
Thank you very much for bringing the ding dongs? How
many boxes? Jeff?

Speaker 1 (27:49):
He's got a microphone for that, the portable mic There
we go, this guy, Jeff, you bring ding dongs to
every event since twenty thirteen, since beginning of time? Where
do you find twenty boxes of day?

Speaker 4 (28:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (28:03):
What's a good ding dong? Source?

Speaker 8 (28:05):
Winko is my source?

Speaker 1 (28:06):
Okay, do you remember at one point they were going away,
Hostess was going to go out of business.

Speaker 15 (28:11):
They did go out of business for a little while
when they had the original aluminum foil wrapped count.

Speaker 8 (28:15):
Those are the bed Those were the origines.

Speaker 15 (28:17):
They went away and then someone came back and now
they've got the little plastic y stuff.

Speaker 8 (28:21):
But they're still good.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
Yeah, that is that is great. Thank you so much.
You're always very kind to you.

Speaker 8 (28:26):
My pleasure.

Speaker 15 (28:26):
Well, it started when you came to the Norco Christmas Parade.

Speaker 8 (28:29):
Oh yeah, and I brought you a couple of boxes.

Speaker 15 (28:31):
You started throwing them and I said, hey, let's just
keep doing that.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
You know the Norca you guys where Norco is, right? Yeah, Okay,
do you know what you and it stands for North Corona. Yeah,
good for you. It's it's I was invited to the
Christmas parade, and we're going to be the lead car, right,
the very first car, which I like because now I
can get the hell out of there.

Speaker 3 (28:54):
So I'm in the car and we go down the
parade route.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
You know, there's nine people on each side, you know,
waving to people. There's more horses than people. There's a
place where we can tie the horse up and go
into a bar like it's eighteen twelve, that's right. And
we get down to the end of the parade route.
It's a two mile or mile and a half two
mile parade route. We get to the end and I
look around the float behind me stalled at the beginning

(29:21):
of the parade. It was just me for the whole
parade route, which is why nobody was really that enthusiastic
or interested. I didn't know that until the end. Diged
wrong with you. But anyway, Jeff, thank you, and Tina, Tina,
thank you.

Speaker 6 (29:35):
By the way, Jeff was the first person here at
five two a.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Wow, wow, wow.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
You have got to be on something to be here
since five o'clove. What's the biggest regret getting here early
this show? No, you still have no regrets.

Speaker 8 (29:55):
Huh regrets?

Speaker 1 (29:55):
All right?

Speaker 8 (29:56):
What do you do for a living software developer?

Speaker 1 (29:59):
Oh that's some money, a little bit.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
That's where all the ding dong money.

Speaker 8 (30:02):
Comes, right, All right?

Speaker 3 (30:05):
Don Bellio is directing the program.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Here.

Speaker 9 (30:08):
By the way, we have.

Speaker 7 (30:10):
Auction item, your auction items. The Kings game. Your Kings
Game is now up to a two thousand dollars.

Speaker 9 (30:17):
Love it again? Two tickets to the.

Speaker 7 (30:20):
La Kings game against the Boston Bruins March twenty third.

Speaker 9 (30:23):
That's at six o'clock with Tim and some some guy
named Keith.

Speaker 10 (30:26):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (30:26):
And that's up at two grand. And then let's say.

Speaker 7 (30:29):
Oh, Dean Sharps, he's up to seventeen hundred dollars. You
can have your home whispered by Dean. It's a three
hour in home design consolet with Dean and his wife Tina.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
Show.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Wow, how many people here think that that Dean Sharp
is the best radio personality on KF five. Look at that?
Look at the hand, Wow, look at that the guy
in the back with a hammer go to Okay, we
do this every year and and I got to cover old.
I gotta do quick math here one second. Okay, all right,

(31:05):
I got the number. We have to guess how many
pounds of pasta and sauce that I donated?

Speaker 3 (31:12):
Its look, it's self serving.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
We're gonna do a whip around here if Steffus is ready,
how many total pounds?

Speaker 3 (31:20):
And we're just gonna do with the with the crew here.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
How many total pounds of pasta and sauce did I
personally donate this year?

Speaker 3 (31:28):
I don't like doing it.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
It's self serving, but management asked me to do it. Okay,
let's go with Krozer. How many total pounds of sauce
and pasta did I donate this?

Speaker 2 (31:40):
I'll go bowld.

Speaker 9 (31:41):
I'll say one hundred pounds.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Each, one hundred pounds each, so total of two hundred,
two hundred pounds.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
All right, that's for Krozier Thompson.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
I'm gonna say one hundred and seventy pounds.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
What's seventy? Alright? Belly o oh, I gotta get the
the court.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
It's Mike on there, all right.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
Belly oh, three hundred pounds.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
Three hundred pound angel, so you hurt your back? Oh
my god, I gotta take all of.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
This into consideration. You hurt your back and you keep
talking about all.

Speaker 12 (32:17):
This possible sauce.

Speaker 6 (32:19):
I'm going five hundred twenty five pounds.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Kudos, Steph, I don't know what hurt in your back.

Speaker 13 (32:26):
That's how long that was?

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Impression?

Speaker 4 (32:28):
Is she true?

Speaker 1 (32:29):
She's done?

Speaker 4 (32:31):
She done?

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Everybody, step foods, step foods. How many pounds of Posta
sauce I donate this year?

Speaker 9 (32:36):
I'll say eighty each?

Speaker 1 (32:39):
Al right, so one sickle? Okay? The actual answer, Oh,
we didn't get Richie yet, Ritchie, we gotta get you in.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
How many pounds of post A?

Speaker 2 (32:51):
Right?

Speaker 1 (32:51):
Good?

Speaker 2 (32:53):
Specific?

Speaker 1 (32:53):
Okay, okay, all right, the actual answer specific this year.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
I know you got gonna be shocked by this.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
Zero.

Speaker 9 (33:05):
I'm very disappointed right now.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
Oh no, no, no, no, three and two.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Victory. Very impression.

Speaker 7 (33:21):
Yes, and wonder why every buddy again that it's about
forty five minutes left for the all of the auction
items at postathon dot com. If you go there, you
can you can increase Tim's.

Speaker 3 (33:33):
King Package and get so much stuff.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
Here? Is that it?

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Do they call it?

Speaker 9 (33:40):
You can put it bust and get time.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
Do they call it Tim's King Package?

Speaker 7 (33:46):
No, just King's game with Conway Boring whatever Tim's package
with the Kings?

Speaker 3 (33:53):
Oh my god, how about Tim's duct package?

Speaker 1 (33:56):
Is that in there?

Speaker 9 (33:58):
No, that's autocorrect.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
All right, we are going to take a quick break. Here,
we come back.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
We're gonna have Deanna Dina. Dina, Oh, Dina, she's great,
she's donated four hundred pound.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
Let's do it right now. Where's Dina? Four hundred pounds? Congratulations?

Speaker 8 (34:16):
Wow?

Speaker 6 (34:19):
It was actually our charity organization from our church, Saint
John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church in Anaheim. Oh, my god,
and our ladies auxiliary collect We do pastathon every November, okay,
and we collected almost four hundred pounds of pasta and sauce,
and our youth held apastathon drive for a slice of pizza.

(34:40):
People got a slice of pizza if they brought pasta in.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
That's a that's a terrific what's the church again?

Speaker 6 (34:46):
May write this down, Saint John the Baptist.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
Saint John? All right, Baptists where.

Speaker 8 (34:50):
Greek Orthodox Church into Anaheim?

Speaker 2 (34:53):
All right?

Speaker 3 (34:54):
The Greek or Orthodox Church in Anaheim. That is so nice,
So we do it. What did your shirt say? Mary, Mary? Mary?
That's awesome.

Speaker 8 (35:00):
We come we do this every year.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
That is so nice of you to do that, you know.
And and this is going to.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
Feed a ton of kids. Yes, and uh, and I
can't please thank everybody in the Greek Orthodox Church for we.

Speaker 6 (35:12):
Will and we invite all of you to our Greek
festival in May.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
Join us now, Richie is thinking about changing religions.

Speaker 3 (35:22):
Can you talk to him during the break? Absolutely, join us.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
All right, Richie, it's gonna find religion. About time even
enough sinning fine religion. All right, thank you for coming out.
I really really do appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
And and and.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
We'll see you next year, yes you will. Thank you
all right, Thank you very much, Diana, thank you.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
She is great.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
Look she's actually talking to Richie about religion. Wow. All right,
well guys going, guys going to the Greek religion.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
Oh god, there he goes.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
All right, we're going.

Speaker 3 (35:56):
To come back with another hour.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
Let's hear it from Bruno live on k FI AM
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