December 12, 2025 • 31 mins
This hour blends Hollywood legacy, holiday vibes, and jaw-dropping crime stories. Executive producer Mike Trinklein joins the show to talk about a feature-length documentary honoring the legendary Dick Van Dyke’s 100th birthday. The film celebrates Van Dyke’s iconic film and television career, features intimate interviews with friends and co-stars — including the unforgettable Tim Conway — and follows a heartfelt return to his hometown of Danville, Illinois. The special cinematic event hits select theaters nationwide for one weekend only on Dick Van Dyke’s birthday weekend, December 13 and 14, via Fathom Entertainment.
The conversation then shifts to Southern California happenings, including a Fontana swap meet closing its doors after 30 years and holiday cheer as The Woody Show heads into a three-week Christmas break. Angel shares upcoming events, including a Nauti event at the San Clemente Art Fair, Rancho Santa Fe, and the Fairbanks Market in North San Diego County.
Crime stories take center stage next, with a look at how thieves are exploiting self-checkout systems and how retailers are fighting back, plus bizarre and viral gas station encounters gaining traction on YouTube.
The hour wraps with an unbelievable heist out of Woodland Hills, where thieves tunneled into a shop and stole $30,000 worth of Pokémon and sports trading cards — proving that nothing, not even underground walls, is off-limits anymore.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's camp I Am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app at school.
If you know this song, you're probably ninety the Tick
Van Dyke Show. Sorry, Dick van Dyke man. What a
life Dick Van Dyke has had. He turns one hundred
(00:21):
tomorrow and we have a special guest coming on the
phone here. But first I'm gonna play you a little
bit of the Dick Van Dyke trailer that Mike has
produced here, and then we're going to talk to Mike.
Tomorrow is Dick van Dyke's one hundredth birthday. So here's
the trailer of the of the Dick Van Dyke one
(00:46):
hundredth Celebration. It's in theaters December thirteenth and fourteen. We'll
tell you where you can go see this. But what
a life this man has lived. Here is a sample
of the documentary Dick Van Dyke one hundredth Year Celebrate.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
When we started filming, we just it just felt right.
Everything about it.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
You pretty Kitty Bang Bank, Kitty Jitty Bang Bang really
love you.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
He's a great human being and one of the most
generous career performers that I've ever worked with.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
My first day you and I mentioned that I'm a
completely forgotten.
Speaker 7 (01:23):
I mean, he's in a class by himself, mister creative.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
He's the most.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Gifted physical comedian that ever lived.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
And I'm talking about Chaplain Keaton anybody else.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
He's an icon.
Speaker 8 (01:35):
He is somebody who innovated.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
I consider myself one of his first leading ladies.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Well, I never really.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Thought of myself as a comedian. Really, I'm an entertainer
and a song Annanceman.
Speaker 9 (01:50):
Why I look so awfully tragic?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
What on a happy face?
Speaker 10 (01:55):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Man?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Oh man, This Dick van Tyke is an unbelievable man.
All right, Mike is with us. I'm going to try
to pronounce your last name correctly, Mike, and give me
a couple of shots of this.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Okay, sure, okay.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Trink clean, trim cline, trinkline, try and clean.
Speaker 7 (02:16):
I don't think even I can pronounce it, but my
family tells me it's trinkline.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Trinkline.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Oh that was my first shot. Trinkline here, buddy. I
really appreciate you coming on. I know that ABCNBCCBS they're
all after you today, and you made time for us.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I really appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (02:31):
Oh no, I'm glad to be here.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
So, Dick Van Dyke, how did you meet Dick Van Dyke?
If you known him a.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
While for a while, Yeah, we have been we get
a film for our series for PBS called Painters of Television.
In that process we met him and we had been
talking about a documentary for him for a long time.
This is twenty plus years in the making, and we
had a chance I did. I interviewed him, I interviewed
Mary Telly Moore, I interviewed Carl Reinder. I even insured
(02:58):
Rose Marie and Maury Amsterdam. One of the people we
interviewed who made it into the film actually is your father,
who has some really interesting things to say.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Oh that's great. Oh I can't wait to see it. Then,
Oh that is that is awesome.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So, Dick Vandyke, how long is the is the documentary here?
Speaker 7 (03:15):
It's a feature length film all theaters. Yeah it is.
It's the real deal, and we really kind of get
a lot of the Oh great footage people maybe haven't
seen of him, We've got, you know, as I mentioned,
all his celebrity stars interviewed, and it's really We also
took him back to to Danville, Illinois, where he grew up,
and kind of took him back to the home where
he grew up, the community where he first the high
(03:36):
school where he first performed, and just kind of had
him bring back all those memories. So it's it's a
really a trip down memory lane. And they're perfect for
the one hundredth anniversary their birthday.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Sharon Belly are our producer. Just text me Tim, aren't
you embarrassed that you always ask the first question of
how long the movie is?
Speaker 7 (03:57):
Well, you know, it's a it's a movie. It's a
it's a full length and people are gonna have a
good time in the theater. That's the idea to walk
out of there having fun, because that's what Dick Van
Dyke's career was all about.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And where can people see it? In Los Angeles? I
know it's gonna be a limited time release in theaters.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
Yeah, it's just two today, eight, that's tomorrow and Sunday.
There are matinees and evenings showing, so people have lots
of opportunity and it's all over the the Los Angeles
series all over the country. But I mean, you can
just go to your local theater or go to Fathom
Entertainment dot com and that's where they have the listenings.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
To Fathom Entertainment dot com in right, Yeah, that is classic.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
What else have you done? Is there anything?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I mean, how do you get into this? Have you
done this for a while? Is this one of many
things you've done?
Speaker 8 (04:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
We did a film about Betty White on her hundredth
and unfortunately she didn't quite make it to her hundredth
But and like we did a number of We did
a film on Robin Williams. We did a film on
Mary Telling Moore, Carol Burnett. So we've been and of
course the you know, the the compilation shows you've done
for peb Yes, so we've done. Yeah, and it's kind
of interesting. I was thinking that the one and only
(05:04):
thing that Dick Van Dyck didn't succeed at really is
the one thing your dad that made him famous, and
that was a serving on the Carol Burnett Show.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Oh wow, Okay, wait a minute. Dick Van Dyke never
starred on the Burnett Show.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
No, he did, but he couldn't do it. I mean,
he was there first half a season. It didn't really
work out for him. It wasn't wasn't a good fit.
Of course, quite trust your father.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
One of my favorite movies that Dick Van Dyke did
was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. If I ever see that
on TV, I stop whatever I'm doing and I watched
the rest of it. It was just such a great
time in this country. I was young when that came out,
and it was just a really decent, beautiful film.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
You know what's interesting about that whole point is that
Dick Vandyke sacrificed a lot because he didn't he really
wanted to kind of put forward a wholesome role model
in his own life, and so he didn't do a
lot of R rated films. He really looked for those
films that were family entertainment that was really important him.
I mean, he went to church on said he was
just a guy who really wanted to have a life
(06:03):
that reflected kind of that wholesome family side of things.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah, I'll tell you a quick Dick Van Dyke's story.
I saw him shopping in Malibu at Ralph's and he
was alone, buying his own groceries. This is only two
or three years ago, so he's in his late nineties,
and I introduced myself and he said to me.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
He says, oh, he says.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I know you and your partner is a very funny,
very smart man.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Doug Steckler.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Please tell me, I said, Hi, that is incredible memory
to be in your late nineties and to remember a
guy in radio who hasn't been on radio for fifteen years.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
That's the question of you know, everybody wants to know
when someone turns one hundred, what's the secret? Right? And
I think you know, to keep your mind about you,
keep your physical health about you. And I think for
Dick Van Dyke, it's that social interaction. I mean, he
does go to the grocery store. He doesn't engage with
people all the time, and all the research kind of
backs it up. He's just people just have to get
out there and be a part of the world, and
(07:01):
that just really helps you age gracefully.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Plus he has a younger wise that takes really really
good care of him from what I understand.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
Yeah, she does. She is quite a bit younger, and
she protects him very well and they're a great match.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, So okay, so people can go see this movie tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Is it tonight and tomorrow or tomorrow and Sunday.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
It's tomorrow in Sunday. Yeah, and I think people will
give a chance to see a lot of things they've
never actually seen before. We found clips. I've put a
clip of him from twenty years actually, the nineteen sixties
where he literally on TV is inventing the moonwalk, twenty
years before Michael Jackson does it.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Is that right? That's incredible?
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Yeah, absolutely, you can watch it in the film. You
can see him doing it, like, wait a minute, I've
seen that before. He didn't call it the moonwalk, but
that's exactly what it was. So those are the kind
of clips we tried to find and bring to the film.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
You know, I read recently that in the opening of
the Dick van Dyke Show when he falls over you know,
the autumn and there or the stool or they you
know whatever, it was part of the couch, that that
wasn't planned.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
He really did take a spill there.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
Well, he did. But of course anytime Dick van deck
fell it was a bit of artistry involved because he
had such physical talent. I mean, it's just an amazing
physical talent in terms of his ability to do comedy.
I mean, Kara Reiner said in the film is I
think you just played back, you know, and if there
was Buster Teating and Charlie Chaplin, I mean he never
made a move without it being a bit of artistry.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I hope you have a huge success with this.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
And then you get over how angry you were with
Betty White that she didn't make it to one hundred.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Well that's true, see, but she was fantastic as well.
There some of these people are just some of the
that we all feel like they're part of the family
because they were in our living rooms and that we
really feel close to them.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yes, I'm going to tell you one quick Betty White
story and I'll let you Goaks. I know you're very busy.
Everyone's banging on you to do interviews. But I drove
a limousine for in nineteen ninety I guess it was
an early nineties, late eighties, early nineties, and one of
the people that I picked up on a regular basis
was Betty White. And she lived over on the West Side,
(09:05):
right off of Bundy. And every time I picked her up,
and there was about a half dozen times, I would
pull up to her house and she was sitting on
a bench in the front of the house with her
luggage ready to go. That's the only celebrity or only
person I ever picked up where I never had to
knock on the door, and I never had to wait
for her. She was always on the bench with her luggage,
(09:26):
ready to get the car.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
So you know, she made a career out of being
ready and being prepared. Yeah, being like the person who
was always on the ball. She was never late, she
was always on time, and she was always prepared. That's
part of her success.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
And when she got in the car, I drove a
stretch limousine for two years. She would put her own
luggage in the trunk. She'd want me to touch it.
She goes, I'll put it in the trunk. You don't
have to carry that. And then she would sit up
in front next to me, not in the back, unless
she was with her husband or her kids or friends,
then she would sit back. But when she was alone,
she would sit up front with me.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
You know.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
That's I've heard this about Betty that you know she
would know every the name of everybody on the set.
She she realized the importance of every person and no
one should be overlooked, and that was part of her success.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Absolutely. Yeah, I've gone the opposite. I barely know Krozier's name.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Who's that?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Uh, Mike, thanks for coming on. I really appreciate it.
I hope you have.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
There's a huge successful weekend for you. And uh, when
you do it, two hundreds come on back. We'll knock
that out for.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
You as well. Thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
All right, thanks Mike.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I appreciate it, all right, Mike Tree, dhrink line, drink Clean,
drink Line, drink Cline.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
You got it right that first time.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah, trink Clean, trink Line, drink Line.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, nailed it.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
And then I embarrassed myself, and then and then and
then you know, belly O text me God almighty every time.
Every first question you asked about a movie is how
long is it? I said, well, I have to you know,
I have to you know, I have a dur and
I don't have an unlimited amount of time. I have
to schedule. I got to schedule my time. And do
(11:06):
I have time to see this? And the answer is yes,
it's ninety five minutes. I'll go look at it. But
if there's three hours, I'd never go.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
If ilt this's great with Dick Van dyke Man, you
could fill three hours.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah, but I would never go I'd do a two parter.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
No, I don't see you know, if Tom and Paul
Thomas Anderson, if he has movie that's three hours, I'll
never see it.
Speaker 10 (11:26):
I sall go.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I don't know that kind of tensions, man.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
I tell you.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
With Dick Van Dyke man, he was like one of
the reasons that I was sort of inspired to come
out to Hollywood from the East Coast. Was like John
Ritterard and Three's company and the physical stuff that he did,
all of that came from Dick Van Dyke on the Earth,
especially that early Dick Van Dyke show where he took
those pratfalls and he made it graceful.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yeah, it's one of the great openings too. That music
is Yeah, alright, real live. Thanks for Mike coming on.
Go see Dick Van Dyke Hunter's celebration in theaters tomorrow
and Sunday.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
It's only gonna be two days, so go look at it.
Speaker 9 (11:56):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand KFI A
six and.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
This is the last day of a lot of people
be working and you're going on vacation, so I know
the Woody Show takes three weeks off.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
That's a big deal. But I gotta get on.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
The Woody Showy they have an opening up there on
the Woody Show.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
They maybe, but I'd like to go up there to
get three weeks off at Christmas. Oh they've got three
I think, so wow?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Yeah wow wait wait wait what did you say there's
an opening on the Woody Show.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yes, for somebody lives in Burbank, not somebody lives in
Orange County. But I love Angel's schedule, you know, one
day on four days.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Off like that?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah, I do, I do. I'm very proud of you.
You've been able to manage that.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Hey, not many people can pull that.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
Man.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I know, we all took things, giving week off, and
all of a sudden we come back and there's some
strange guy doing traffic.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I'm like, where's Angel. Oh she took another another week off.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
I didn't know she was at the Think on Tuesday,
and I was like, well, she's off Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
It's like, oh, she's there.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
You were missed.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Oh Angel at the White House. A lot of people
last about you.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
I missed being at the White House. I never missed that,
and I did this year, and I felt bad and
nobody got my cookies that I that I bake and
bring in every year.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Hey, speaking of seeing Angel, if you missed her at
the White House, don't you have a couple events coming up?
Speaker 11 (13:27):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Yeah, I do a couple of them happening this weekend. Tomorrow,
I and Naughty USA will be at the San Clementy
Art Fair. That's from It's write in downtown San Clementy
on del Mar, right in front of the Community Center
and the library. And we're there until from ten in
(13:50):
the morning until four in the afternoon, So come on
down and check out some flip flops. And for our
North San Diego County friends, I'll be in Rancho Santa
Fe on Sunday morning at the Rancho Santa Fe Farmer's Market.
I think they call that Fairbanks Market also, And that
(14:12):
is from where?
Speaker 7 (14:13):
Where?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Time is that?
Speaker 5 (14:14):
From until two?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
What's that busy weekends up? Man?
Speaker 7 (14:21):
I know?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Hey, how far is that?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
The one in San Clemente. Is that near my old
house that Costa Romantica.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Yes it is. It's right down the road from Costa Romantica,
right down the road.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Excellent, all right, So you're gonna be in Cosla at
New York on del Mar in San Clemente and then
North San Diego on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
That's right, that's right, come on down, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Well, stop buying check out, Thank you Angel Martinez. Everybody
ding dong with her when we come back. There are
people that are admitting to stealing in a certain store,
and they're doing it a lot, and when we come back,
I will tell you who's doing it. I see it
all the time. But there's one particular group of people
(15:07):
that all do the same thing at a store, and
there's they're admitting to stealing a lot. We'll go back.
I'll tell you what they're doing and what they're getting
away with too. Maybe it's you, Maybe it's you.
Speaker 9 (15:17):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
There are a lot of people going to stores tonight,
and most people, I think, go to self checkout. You know,
when you're go to a grocery store or Walmart, Target,
you try to go to the self checkout because there's
four or five six registers and the line moves really quickly,
especially at Costco. Costco sometimes the line is fifteen twenty minutes,
(15:48):
but the self checkout is could be four or five minutes,
and a lot of people are doing that, taking that option,
but there are also a lot of people admitting to
stealing not really scanning everything in their cart.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I was accused the other day.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I went and bought firewood, and I bought two bags
of firewood, and I scanned them both, and then the
guy says to me, he goes, hey, hey, hey. I'm like, hey, hey,
I did it back to him. It's like the opening
of Fat Albert, And I go hey, and he goes,
do you have three bags of wood in there?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Not two?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I said, oh no, I got two. I just got two.
And he pulled one out and there was one left
in there. He goes, oh, sorry, I guess there are
only two. I said, yeah, yeah. It turns out. You know,
I'm in my six six, you know, decade on Earth.
I decided tonight not to start shoplifting. And if I'm shoplifting,
(16:48):
I'm not shoplifting eight dollars worth of wood. I would
be shoplifting, and buddy, you would never know. I said
that to him. I said, if I'm taking stuff out
of this store, you will be the last.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Guy to know. It ain't going to be a pile
of wood.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
It is going to be so well concealed that I'll
be home, ate it past it before you ever know
it's gone. And so he was, and then he started
this small chat. He's like, oh, you got a King's
hat on you, a big Kings fan. I said yeah,
yeah yeah. He goes, oh, they're having a great season.
I said, ah, that's not true either. They've only at
(17:26):
that point they only won one game at home. Said,
they're not having a great season. I don't know what
kind of what team you're watching, but that was an
odd interchange, you know, with that guy.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
And it felt dirty when I left.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Dirty.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Excuse me of stealing, not dairy.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
So self checkout people are stealing a lot of people
moving free product out into their car.
Speaker 8 (17:45):
When shoppers approached self checkout, some see speed, while others
grace for hooting.
Speaker 10 (17:50):
I don't want to tank, but it is sad.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
It's very sad, too emotional over lifting stuff out of
a store.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
Self checkout is per scanning and go, and this morning,
those unmanned kiosks are increasingly being used for something more nefarious.
According to a new lending Tree survey, twenty seven percent
of self checkout users have purposefully taken an item without scanning.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Okay, you could double that, so twenty seven So maybe
fifty four percent, because most people don't admit that, you know,
and who are the eight idiots who are saying yes
to that survey? Hey, do you ever see only thing
out of a grocery store?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, sure all the time, Yeah all the time.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Usually would though, Yeah, I'm sort of the scumbag of
the family, and that's who admits to that.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
That's a twelve point spiking two years.
Speaker 10 (18:40):
I don't want to tunk, but it is sad.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Very said, she's back again. The sad lady is back again.
Speaker 10 (18:47):
I don't want to tunk, but it is sad, very sad.
Speaker 8 (18:50):
With more than a third of both millennial and gen
Z shoppers guilty of stealing, I could get in trouble.
Shoplifting's far from new, but in years past you'd have
to get buy a cashier.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
It looks like you gained some weight since you came in.
Go sweat its, sweetie, I won't colt.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
Now many shoppers barely interact with store employees, helping merchandise
slip through the cracks, which hurts retailers bottom line.
Speaker 12 (19:13):
They're not losing that total shopping cart that might lose
one or two items in that mix, but they're also
pleasing other customers that are coming through that cycle.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, you know, there's a on YouTube. There's a channel
called gas Station Encounters that all they do is videotape
people that steal and then bust their balls. Gas Station Encounters.
It's a small gas station outside of Cleveland, Ohio, and
it's great. The guy that does the voiceovers is terrific,
very very funny.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
As a result, Christopher Hamlet for the Retail Industry Leaders
Association says, self checkout is still in net positive. Our
business is adding self checkout because it saves them money
or because that's what customers want.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I would say it's a fifty to fifty.
Speaker 12 (19:56):
It is consumer driven. Consumers like that like that the
fact that it's an easier in a faster process for them.
And then on the flip side, the reseller is not
having six or seven people running the fun end. They
have one or two.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah, so it does pan out, you know, pencils out
for him. But look, if they're gonna have us work there,
then of course people are gonna steal. Look if you
were a bartender at the money Tree and you're pouring
yourself a double vodka. Don't you think you would pour
yourself a triple or quadruple? Or if you're a bank
teller at Crocker Bank, I don't know if they're still around.
(20:30):
Wouldn't you put a couple extra bucks in that uh
in your pants before you left?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Of course you would.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
What if you were a chef, like at Morton's Steakhouse,
wouldn't you pick out the juiciest best steak before you
cooked it?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
It's just natural. It's just natural, and you know, one
of the.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Perks of the job. But I think I don't think
people are doing it on purpose. I think people know
maybe they're doing it on purpose, But I think a
lot of people forget.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Like did I scan that? Or did I not scan that?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I don't want to scan the whole card again, you know,
especially when you got two people, like a husband and wife.
Husband's putting crap up there. She's yelling, that's not how
I do it, and he's like, fu and be in
the car smoking. That's a It such a lot of
arguments between me and my wife because when we go
to Walmart, I put stuff up there and she goes, no, no, no,
She goes, that's vegetables. I don't put those up first.
I put milk on medaria up first, and then I
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put this. I'm like, ah, Christ, I got to get
out of here. And then I slide out to the
car and listen to what you know, I rock and
roll on the radio.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Do the same thing at Costco.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
You argue with your wife, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
I rearrange everything in the card as we go along.
She put stuff in.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Oh I do that.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
You know what I do is when I put everything
up on Costco, up on the belt if I if
I don't do a self checkout, I make sure that
the the codes the web.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
The codes are up.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Yeah, the same, absolutely, And there's something that you get
a little bit of pride and satisfaction when they go,
thank you for putting all those QR codes up right.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
And a lot of people don't know this, but the
Costco checkout, the cashiers, there's a contest on how many
people they can check out. There is a there's a race,
and those numbers are kept and you see them sometimes
on the wall. Really yeah, and they get I don't
know if they get any more money or if they
just get a you know, an Ata boy or whatever.
But they will say, you know, Judy four hundred and
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twenty five Phil four hundred percent. Yeah, they'll they'll tell
you how many people you checked out today, And so
that's why they're always hurrying. You know, they can bang
bang bang bang bang go bang bang bang go go
go go, get out of here. That's great to there's
a contest at the Costco. Think doong with it?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Angel? Do you want to say something?
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (22:28):
I was just thinking, do they have a quota like
cops have a traffic ticket quota?
Speaker 10 (22:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
They must.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
They must, you know, because you don't see Costco cashiers
chatting with you. They're not big chatty Kathy's yeah, you know.
They they're head down products moving, head down products moving.
Go get out of here and take a half box
with you. They've got to figure out how to throw
away when you get home. It's the heaviest cardboard in
the world. When you get home, you need like an
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axe to take it apart.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
People stealing at self checkout better't know what you're doing.
Speaker 11 (23:01):
People that move with no sense of urgency, or like
who are constantly confused, get out of the self checkout.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I'm with this, lady. If you can't handle checkout, self checkout,
get the f out of the line.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
People that move with no sense of urgency, or like
who are constantly.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Confused, that's right. Move with purpose, like you have purpose
in life.
Speaker 10 (23:22):
Because this is for the pros.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
And increasingly, Hamlin says, technology can help those employees cracked
down on shoplifting.
Speaker 12 (23:31):
It's not if you're gonna get caught, it's when you're
gonna get caught. The technology allows for these individuals to
be able to investigate and determine that those losses have
actually happen a lot.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
Faster, even with cameras increasingly prevalent in public.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Why would people try to steal this way?
Speaker 8 (23:47):
Affordability, unaffordable essentials, and price increases tied to tariffs are
driving forces, according to lending Tree, which found people who
think they'll steal again say they're most likely to take
essentials like food and healthcare products.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
God, with these people admitting to stealing so casually, what
happened to society?
Speaker 8 (24:07):
Lending's re survey also found that thirty six percent of
self checkout shoppers admit they've accidentally left with an unskinned item.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah, I'm with them I accidentally, you know, I get
home when I go, I forgot it. But you go
back them. I think it's a buyback at that point.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
You know it's like when you go to a bar
for three years and the bartender goes next one's on me.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the buy back, say you will you.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Self check out?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Do you want to just crawl into a hole and
die when something goes wrong and the light comes home?
Speaker 4 (24:36):
You got to wait.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
It goes on all the time with me, attendant on
his way, not on.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
His way, and I just I just want to hide
my face.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I know, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I would do the exact same thing. I just want
to leave everything there and go home.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Never mind, I don't need any of that.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Right, attendant on the way.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
It should be they should be, attendant is not on
his way.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
That's how that screen should read.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
And almost two thirds of those people say they kept
that unscanned item. And then there were some people with
this perspective.
Speaker 7 (25:06):
We really need to cancel self checkout culture.
Speaker 11 (25:09):
We need to bring back customer service and it needed
to happy.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
Yesterday, we reached out to multiple retailers about this. Target
tells us that last year when they cut down the
number of items that people can bring to self checkout.
They did see a drop off in thefts, but that
was not the company's.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Yeah, and the people that ignore the fifteen items or
least they have, like forty two hundred items are gonna
check out.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Ah, it's a mess. What a mess.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty Friday.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
It's nice here in La weather. It's gonna beautiful over
the weekend. In seventies. You get out, get the tree,
maybe you haven't done that yet, finish up decorating the
outside of the house, and hit the mall so you
can buy your kids something, or your wife, your husband,
your I don't know, significant other, your bed partner wherever
you're sacking up with, or you know, hosing at the
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end of the night, I gotta give him something for Christmas,
Damn or Honka or Kwanza or New Year's or Festivus
for the rest of us or whatever you celebrate. Bute,
it's gonna be a great weekend, beautiful weather in southern California.
Let's get do a little bit of crime here. I
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know it's sort of a downer but we got to
warn you that if you go home tonight and your
house is not robbed, you're lucky. You're very lucky today.
You might be the victim tomorrow, or next week or
next month. It's still out there, especially in Woodland Hills.
Woodland Hills seems to be the center of a lot
of these incidents. A lot of people going into big
homes and stores and taking everything you got right before
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the holidays.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Sweet men, sweet guys doing this. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
George Carlin used to call them life's most interesting guys.
And they're in Woodland Hills tonight.
Speaker 11 (26:53):
The person broke in to the Mendocino Farms. First you
can see the boarded updoor and window, and then he
made his way through this business all the way to
the very quarter where.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
He broke a hole in the wall. Wow.
Speaker 11 (27:08):
And then got into the business next door, which is
cards in coffee.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Wait a minute, he's going into a grocery store and
then breaking into a place that sells coffee and cards.
How what's the lift? What's the load here? What's the loot?
What's he got? What do they have in there? How
much your cards? Three dollars four dollars and a card
sale is always empty. If you ever go to a
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card store, you're the only cat in there. There's never
anybody in there. I talked to the owner.
Speaker 11 (27:38):
He says that he got away with Kobe Bryant cards.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Oh, that kind of cards. Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
I thought it was like Hallmark cards. No, it's collecting
collectible cards, all right. There's money in that. There's money
in that. I remember going to a card store with
Doug Steckler. It was a week before Easter, and Doug Steckler,
very religious man, god fearing man, walked into the store
and he was looking for cards for about ten or
fifteen minutes and he couldn't find any with His Lord,
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his Savior of Jesus Christ on the card. So he
went up to the young lady, who was probably in
their late teen's early twenties, and he said, excuse me, ma'am,
I only see cards with Easter bunnies or little chicklets
or you know, little eggs on him. Do you have
any cards with did it religious or have Jesus Christ
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on him? And she said what does Jesus Christ have
to do with Eastern And he put his head down
and he walked out, and I remember he was in
the Beverly Center where this happened. I remember him walking
out being wildly depressed, a like in a white heat
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of depression. He couldn't believe that she said that what
does Jesus Christ have to do with Easter? That's exactly
what she said, and he was stunned to hear that.
All right, this guy's looking for collectible cards. All right,
there's money in that game. Money in there with.
Speaker 11 (29:09):
Kobe Bryant cards, Michael Jordan, Lebron James, some vintage baseball cards,
and Pokemon cards too, all valued at about thirty thousand dollars.
And as Michael and Colleen mentioned, this is the second
card break in in just the past couple of days.
I want to show you some video.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
There's one in Burbank, about a mile from where I live,
and I took that one personally because I was up
at that time. If I walked down the street, I
could have broken that up.
Speaker 11 (29:37):
From last week and Burbank they stole nearly one hundred
thousand dollars worth of Pokemon and sports cards. That happened
last Friday at LA Sports Cards.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Yeah, I wonder if those were the off brand Pokemon cards.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
And after that break in.
Speaker 11 (29:52):
We heard from the owner who said it all happened
so fast.
Speaker 13 (29:56):
Started with the Pokemon site. There's two of them that
us through the majority of this area and make a
second approach to come back, smashing more glass, grab some
more vintage Pokemon packs. Makes his way over to the
sports side just for a tad and comes back.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Guys doing play by play on his store being robbed. Guys.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I wonder if that eventually happened. You know, a guy
doing play by playing, color of guys stealing. This guy's
doing play by play the Pokemon side.
Speaker 13 (30:24):
Two of them that runs through oh majority of this
area and make a second approach to come back smash
some more glass, grab some more vintage Pokemon packs. Makes
his way over to the sports side just for a
tad and comes back over in and out, in and
out quick.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
There he goes, yep, in and out quick. Is that
what he said?
Speaker 7 (30:42):
Heather?
Speaker 2 (30:43):
In and out, in and out quick. That's horrible.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Guy's got his whole livelihood in Pokemon Pokemon cards and
some guy comes in and uh, now they're his. They
were yours, now they're his, and he's going to sell
them on eBay or on one of these sites. He's
going to have a nice Christmas and you're going to
be out. That's how that works.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Sorry. I know you had a lot of security.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
You had the gates, you had the cameras, you had
the thick glass out in front.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
And that didn't do it. That didn't do it.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
And burn Rank's a very tough place to rip off businesses.
Those cops get there really really quick. So something happened there.
Somebody dropped the ball. But that guy had one hundred
thousand dollars worth of cards on a Monday, and then
the guy had none of those cards on Tuesday, and
now they're all they all belong to the guy that
stole them. So that's where we live. We're live on
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If you know this song, you're probably ninety the Tick
Van Dyke Show. Sorry, Dick van Dyke man. What a
life Dick Van Dyke has had. He turns one hundred
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tomorrow and we have a special guest coming on the
phone here. But first I'm gonna play you a little
bit of the Dick Van Dyke trailer that Mike has
produced here, and then we're going to talk to Mike.
Tomorrow is Dick van Dyke's one hundredth birthday. So here's
the trailer of the of the Dick Van Dyke one
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hundredth Celebration. It's in theaters December thirteenth and fourteen. We'll
tell you where you can go see this. But what
a life this man has lived. Here is a sample
of the documentary Dick Van Dyke one hundredth Year Celebrate.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
When we started filming, we just it just felt right.
Everything about it.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
You pretty Kitty Bang Bank, Kitty Jitty Bang Bang really
love you.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
He's a great human being and one of the most
generous career performers that I've ever worked with.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
My first day you and I mentioned that I'm a
completely forgotten.
Speaker 7 (01:23):
I mean, he's in a class by himself, mister creative.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
He's the most.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Gifted physical comedian that ever lived.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
And I'm talking about Chaplain Keaton anybody else.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
He's an icon.
Speaker 8 (01:35):
He is somebody who innovated.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
I consider myself one of his first leading ladies.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Well, I never really.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Thought of myself as a comedian. Really, I'm an entertainer
and a song Annanceman.
Speaker 9 (01:50):
Why I look so awfully tragic?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
What on a happy face?
Speaker 10 (01:55):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Man?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Oh man, This Dick van Tyke is an unbelievable man.
All right, Mike is with us. I'm going to try
to pronounce your last name correctly, Mike, and give me
a couple of shots of this.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Okay, sure, okay.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Trink clean, trim cline, trinkline, try and clean.
Speaker 7 (02:16):
I don't think even I can pronounce it, but my
family tells me it's trinkline.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Trinkline.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Oh that was my first shot. Trinkline here, buddy. I
really appreciate you coming on. I know that ABCNBCCBS they're
all after you today, and you made time for us.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I really appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (02:31):
Oh no, I'm glad to be here.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
So, Dick Van Dyke, how did you meet Dick Van Dyke?
If you known him a.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
While for a while, Yeah, we have been we get
a film for our series for PBS called Painters of Television.
In that process we met him and we had been
talking about a documentary for him for a long time.
This is twenty plus years in the making, and we
had a chance I did. I interviewed him, I interviewed
Mary Telly Moore, I interviewed Carl Reinder. I even insured
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Rose Marie and Maury Amsterdam. One of the people we
interviewed who made it into the film actually is your father,
who has some really interesting things to say.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Oh that's great. Oh I can't wait to see it. Then,
Oh that is that is awesome.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So, Dick Vandyke, how long is the is the documentary here?
Speaker 7 (03:15):
It's a feature length film all theaters. Yeah it is.
It's the real deal, and we really kind of get
a lot of the Oh great footage people maybe haven't
seen of him, We've got, you know, as I mentioned,
all his celebrity stars interviewed, and it's really We also
took him back to to Danville, Illinois, where he grew up,
and kind of took him back to the home where
he grew up, the community where he first the high
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school where he first performed, and just kind of had
him bring back all those memories. So it's it's a
really a trip down memory lane. And they're perfect for
the one hundredth anniversary their birthday.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Sharon Belly are our producer. Just text me Tim, aren't
you embarrassed that you always ask the first question of
how long the movie is?
Speaker 7 (03:57):
Well, you know, it's a it's a movie. It's a
it's a full length and people are gonna have a
good time in the theater. That's the idea to walk
out of there having fun, because that's what Dick Van
Dyke's career was all about.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And where can people see it? In Los Angeles? I
know it's gonna be a limited time release in theaters.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
Yeah, it's just two today, eight, that's tomorrow and Sunday.
There are matinees and evenings showing, so people have lots
of opportunity and it's all over the the Los Angeles
series all over the country. But I mean, you can
just go to your local theater or go to Fathom
Entertainment dot com and that's where they have the listenings.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
To Fathom Entertainment dot com in right, Yeah, that is classic.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
What else have you done? Is there anything?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I mean, how do you get into this? Have you
done this for a while? Is this one of many
things you've done?
Speaker 8 (04:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
We did a film about Betty White on her hundredth
and unfortunately she didn't quite make it to her hundredth
But and like we did a number of We did
a film on Robin Williams. We did a film on
Mary Telling Moore, Carol Burnett. So we've been and of
course the you know, the the compilation shows you've done
for peb Yes, so we've done. Yeah, and it's kind
of interesting. I was thinking that the one and only
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thing that Dick Van Dyck didn't succeed at really is
the one thing your dad that made him famous, and
that was a serving on the Carol Burnett Show.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Oh wow, Okay, wait a minute. Dick Van Dyke never
starred on the Burnett Show.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
No, he did, but he couldn't do it. I mean,
he was there first half a season. It didn't really
work out for him. It wasn't wasn't a good fit.
Of course, quite trust your father.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
One of my favorite movies that Dick Van Dyke did
was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. If I ever see that
on TV, I stop whatever I'm doing and I watched
the rest of it. It was just such a great
time in this country. I was young when that came out,
and it was just a really decent, beautiful film.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
You know what's interesting about that whole point is that
Dick Vandyke sacrificed a lot because he didn't he really
wanted to kind of put forward a wholesome role model
in his own life, and so he didn't do a
lot of R rated films. He really looked for those
films that were family entertainment that was really important him.
I mean, he went to church on said he was
just a guy who really wanted to have a life
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that reflected kind of that wholesome family side of things.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah, I'll tell you a quick Dick Van Dyke's story.
I saw him shopping in Malibu at Ralph's and he
was alone, buying his own groceries. This is only two
or three years ago, so he's in his late nineties,
and I introduced myself and he said to me.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
He says, oh, he says.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I know you and your partner is a very funny,
very smart man.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Doug Steckler.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Please tell me, I said, Hi, that is incredible memory
to be in your late nineties and to remember a
guy in radio who hasn't been on radio for fifteen years.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
That's the question of you know, everybody wants to know
when someone turns one hundred, what's the secret? Right? And
I think you know, to keep your mind about you,
keep your physical health about you. And I think for
Dick Van Dyke, it's that social interaction. I mean, he
does go to the grocery store. He doesn't engage with
people all the time, and all the research kind of
backs it up. He's just people just have to get
out there and be a part of the world, and
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that just really helps you age gracefully.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Plus he has a younger wise that takes really really
good care of him from what I understand.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
Yeah, she does. She is quite a bit younger, and
she protects him very well and they're a great match.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, So okay, so people can go see this movie tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Is it tonight and tomorrow or tomorrow and Sunday.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
It's tomorrow in Sunday. Yeah, and I think people will
give a chance to see a lot of things they've
never actually seen before. We found clips. I've put a
clip of him from twenty years actually, the nineteen sixties
where he literally on TV is inventing the moonwalk, twenty
years before Michael Jackson does it.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Is that right? That's incredible?
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Yeah, absolutely, you can watch it in the film. You
can see him doing it, like, wait a minute, I've
seen that before. He didn't call it the moonwalk, but
that's exactly what it was. So those are the kind
of clips we tried to find and bring to the film.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
You know, I read recently that in the opening of
the Dick van Dyke Show when he falls over you know,
the autumn and there or the stool or they you
know whatever, it was part of the couch, that that
wasn't planned.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
He really did take a spill there.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
Well, he did. But of course anytime Dick van deck
fell it was a bit of artistry involved because he
had such physical talent. I mean, it's just an amazing
physical talent in terms of his ability to do comedy.
I mean, Kara Reiner said in the film is I
think you just played back, you know, and if there
was Buster Teating and Charlie Chaplin, I mean he never
made a move without it being a bit of artistry.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I hope you have a huge success with this.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
And then you get over how angry you were with
Betty White that she didn't make it to one hundred.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Well that's true, see, but she was fantastic as well.
There some of these people are just some of the
that we all feel like they're part of the family
because they were in our living rooms and that we
really feel close to them.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yes, I'm going to tell you one quick Betty White
story and I'll let you Goaks. I know you're very busy.
Everyone's banging on you to do interviews. But I drove
a limousine for in nineteen ninety I guess it was
an early nineties, late eighties, early nineties, and one of
the people that I picked up on a regular basis
was Betty White. And she lived over on the West Side,
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right off of Bundy. And every time I picked her up,
and there was about a half dozen times, I would
pull up to her house and she was sitting on
a bench in the front of the house with her
luggage ready to go. That's the only celebrity or only
person I ever picked up where I never had to
knock on the door, and I never had to wait
for her. She was always on the bench with her luggage,
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ready to get the car.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
So you know, she made a career out of being
ready and being prepared. Yeah, being like the person who
was always on the ball. She was never late, she
was always on time, and she was always prepared. That's
part of her success.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
And when she got in the car, I drove a
stretch limousine for two years. She would put her own
luggage in the trunk. She'd want me to touch it.
She goes, I'll put it in the trunk. You don't
have to carry that. And then she would sit up
in front next to me, not in the back, unless
she was with her husband or her kids or friends,
then she would sit back. But when she was alone,
she would sit up front with me.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
You know.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
That's I've heard this about Betty that you know she
would know every the name of everybody on the set.
She she realized the importance of every person and no
one should be overlooked, and that was part of her success.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Absolutely. Yeah, I've gone the opposite. I barely know Krozier's name.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Who's that?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Uh, Mike, thanks for coming on. I really appreciate it.
I hope you have.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
There's a huge successful weekend for you. And uh, when
you do it, two hundreds come on back. We'll knock
that out for.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
You as well. Thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
All right, thanks Mike.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I appreciate it, all right, Mike Tree, dhrink line, drink Clean,
drink Line, drink Cline.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
You got it right that first time.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah, trink Clean, trink Line, drink Line.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, nailed it.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
And then I embarrassed myself, and then and then and
then you know, belly O text me God almighty every time.
Every first question you asked about a movie is how
long is it? I said, well, I have to you know,
I have to you know, I have a dur and
I don't have an unlimited amount of time. I have
to schedule. I got to schedule my time. And do
(11:06):
I have time to see this? And the answer is yes,
it's ninety five minutes. I'll go look at it. But
if there's three hours, I'd never go.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
If ilt this's great with Dick Van dyke Man, you
could fill three hours.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah, but I would never go I'd do a two parter.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
No, I don't see you know, if Tom and Paul
Thomas Anderson, if he has movie that's three hours, I'll
never see it.
Speaker 10 (11:26):
I sall go.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I don't know that kind of tensions, man.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
I tell you.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
With Dick Van Dyke man, he was like one of
the reasons that I was sort of inspired to come
out to Hollywood from the East Coast. Was like John
Ritterard and Three's company and the physical stuff that he did,
all of that came from Dick Van Dyke on the Earth,
especially that early Dick Van Dyke show where he took
those pratfalls and he made it graceful.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yeah, it's one of the great openings too. That music
is Yeah, alright, real live. Thanks for Mike coming on.
Go see Dick Van Dyke Hunter's celebration in theaters tomorrow
and Sunday.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
It's only gonna be two days, so go look at it.
Speaker 9 (11:56):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand KFI A
six and.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
This is the last day of a lot of people
be working and you're going on vacation, so I know
the Woody Show takes three weeks off.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
That's a big deal. But I gotta get on.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
The Woody Showy they have an opening up there on
the Woody Show.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
They maybe, but I'd like to go up there to
get three weeks off at Christmas. Oh they've got three
I think, so wow?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Yeah wow wait wait wait what did you say there's
an opening on the Woody Show.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yes, for somebody lives in Burbank, not somebody lives in
Orange County. But I love Angel's schedule, you know, one
day on four days.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Off like that?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah, I do, I do. I'm very proud of you.
You've been able to manage that.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Hey, not many people can pull that.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
Man.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I know, we all took things, giving week off, and
all of a sudden we come back and there's some
strange guy doing traffic.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I'm like, where's Angel. Oh she took another another week off.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
I didn't know she was at the Think on Tuesday,
and I was like, well, she's off Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
It's like, oh, she's there.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
You were missed.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Oh Angel at the White House. A lot of people
last about you.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
I missed being at the White House. I never missed that,
and I did this year, and I felt bad and
nobody got my cookies that I that I bake and
bring in every year.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Hey, speaking of seeing Angel, if you missed her at
the White House, don't you have a couple events coming up?
Speaker 11 (13:27):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Yeah, I do a couple of them happening this weekend. Tomorrow,
I and Naughty USA will be at the San Clementy
Art Fair. That's from It's write in downtown San Clementy
on del Mar, right in front of the Community Center
and the library. And we're there until from ten in
(13:50):
the morning until four in the afternoon, So come on
down and check out some flip flops. And for our
North San Diego County friends, I'll be in Rancho Santa
Fe on Sunday morning at the Rancho Santa Fe Farmer's Market.
I think they call that Fairbanks Market also, And that
(14:12):
is from where?
Speaker 7 (14:13):
Where?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Time is that?
Speaker 5 (14:14):
From until two?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
What's that busy weekends up? Man?
Speaker 7 (14:21):
I know?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Hey, how far is that?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
The one in San Clemente. Is that near my old
house that Costa Romantica.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Yes it is. It's right down the road from Costa Romantica,
right down the road.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Excellent, all right, So you're gonna be in Cosla at
New York on del Mar in San Clemente and then
North San Diego on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
That's right, that's right, come on down, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Well, stop buying check out, Thank you Angel Martinez. Everybody
ding dong with her when we come back. There are
people that are admitting to stealing in a certain store,
and they're doing it a lot, and when we come back,
I will tell you who's doing it. I see it
all the time. But there's one particular group of people
(15:07):
that all do the same thing at a store, and
there's they're admitting to stealing a lot. We'll go back.
I'll tell you what they're doing and what they're getting
away with too. Maybe it's you, Maybe it's you.
Speaker 9 (15:17):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
There are a lot of people going to stores tonight,
and most people, I think, go to self checkout. You know,
when you're go to a grocery store or Walmart, Target,
you try to go to the self checkout because there's
four or five six registers and the line moves really quickly,
especially at Costco. Costco sometimes the line is fifteen twenty minutes,
(15:48):
but the self checkout is could be four or five minutes,
and a lot of people are doing that, taking that option,
but there are also a lot of people admitting to
stealing not really scanning everything in their cart.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I was accused the other day.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I went and bought firewood, and I bought two bags
of firewood, and I scanned them both, and then the
guy says to me, he goes, hey, hey, hey. I'm like, hey, hey,
I did it back to him. It's like the opening
of Fat Albert, And I go hey, and he goes,
do you have three bags of wood in there?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Not two?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I said, oh no, I got two. I just got two.
And he pulled one out and there was one left
in there. He goes, oh, sorry, I guess there are
only two. I said, yeah, yeah. It turns out. You know,
I'm in my six six, you know, decade on Earth.
I decided tonight not to start shoplifting. And if I'm shoplifting,
(16:48):
I'm not shoplifting eight dollars worth of wood. I would
be shoplifting, and buddy, you would never know. I said
that to him. I said, if I'm taking stuff out
of this store, you will be the last.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Guy to know. It ain't going to be a pile
of wood.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
It is going to be so well concealed that I'll
be home, ate it past it before you ever know
it's gone. And so he was, and then he started
this small chat. He's like, oh, you got a King's
hat on you, a big Kings fan. I said yeah,
yeah yeah. He goes, oh, they're having a great season.
I said, ah, that's not true either. They've only at
(17:26):
that point they only won one game at home. Said,
they're not having a great season. I don't know what
kind of what team you're watching, but that was an
odd interchange, you know, with that guy.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
And it felt dirty when I left.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Dirty.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Excuse me of stealing, not dairy.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
So self checkout people are stealing a lot of people
moving free product out into their car.
Speaker 8 (17:45):
When shoppers approached self checkout, some see speed, while others
grace for hooting.
Speaker 10 (17:50):
I don't want to tank, but it is sad.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
It's very sad, too emotional over lifting stuff out of
a store.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
Self checkout is per scanning and go, and this morning,
those unmanned kiosks are increasingly being used for something more nefarious.
According to a new lending Tree survey, twenty seven percent
of self checkout users have purposefully taken an item without scanning.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Okay, you could double that, so twenty seven So maybe
fifty four percent, because most people don't admit that, you know,
and who are the eight idiots who are saying yes
to that survey? Hey, do you ever see only thing
out of a grocery store?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, sure all the time, Yeah all the time.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Usually would though, Yeah, I'm sort of the scumbag of
the family, and that's who admits to that.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
That's a twelve point spiking two years.
Speaker 10 (18:40):
I don't want to tunk, but it is sad.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Very said, she's back again. The sad lady is back again.
Speaker 10 (18:47):
I don't want to tunk, but it is sad, very sad.
Speaker 8 (18:50):
With more than a third of both millennial and gen
Z shoppers guilty of stealing, I could get in trouble.
Shoplifting's far from new, but in years past you'd have
to get buy a cashier.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
It looks like you gained some weight since you came in.
Go sweat its, sweetie, I won't colt.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
Now many shoppers barely interact with store employees, helping merchandise
slip through the cracks, which hurts retailers bottom line.
Speaker 12 (19:13):
They're not losing that total shopping cart that might lose
one or two items in that mix, but they're also
pleasing other customers that are coming through that cycle.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, you know, there's a on YouTube. There's a channel
called gas Station Encounters that all they do is videotape
people that steal and then bust their balls. Gas Station Encounters.
It's a small gas station outside of Cleveland, Ohio, and
it's great. The guy that does the voiceovers is terrific,
very very funny.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
As a result, Christopher Hamlet for the Retail Industry Leaders
Association says, self checkout is still in net positive. Our
business is adding self checkout because it saves them money
or because that's what customers want.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I would say it's a fifty to fifty.
Speaker 12 (19:56):
It is consumer driven. Consumers like that like that the
fact that it's an easier in a faster process for them.
And then on the flip side, the reseller is not
having six or seven people running the fun end. They
have one or two.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah, so it does pan out, you know, pencils out
for him. But look, if they're gonna have us work there,
then of course people are gonna steal. Look if you
were a bartender at the money Tree and you're pouring
yourself a double vodka. Don't you think you would pour
yourself a triple or quadruple? Or if you're a bank
teller at Crocker Bank, I don't know if they're still around.
(20:30):
Wouldn't you put a couple extra bucks in that uh
in your pants before you left?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Of course you would.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
What if you were a chef, like at Morton's Steakhouse,
wouldn't you pick out the juiciest best steak before you
cooked it?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
It's just natural. It's just natural, and you know, one
of the.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Perks of the job. But I think I don't think
people are doing it on purpose. I think people know
maybe they're doing it on purpose, But I think a
lot of people forget.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Like did I scan that? Or did I not scan that?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I don't want to scan the whole card again, you know,
especially when you got two people, like a husband and wife.
Husband's putting crap up there. She's yelling, that's not how
I do it, and he's like, fu and be in
the car smoking. That's a It such a lot of
arguments between me and my wife because when we go
to Walmart, I put stuff up there and she goes, no, no, no,
She goes, that's vegetables. I don't put those up first.
I put milk on medaria up first, and then I
(21:16):
put this. I'm like, ah, Christ, I got to get
out of here. And then I slide out to the
car and listen to what you know, I rock and
roll on the radio.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Do the same thing at Costco.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
You argue with your wife, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
I rearrange everything in the card as we go along.
She put stuff in.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Oh I do that.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
You know what I do is when I put everything
up on Costco, up on the belt if I if
I don't do a self checkout, I make sure that
the the codes the web.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
The codes are up.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Yeah, the same, absolutely, And there's something that you get
a little bit of pride and satisfaction when they go,
thank you for putting all those QR codes up right.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
And a lot of people don't know this, but the
Costco checkout, the cashiers, there's a contest on how many
people they can check out. There is a there's a race,
and those numbers are kept and you see them sometimes
on the wall. Really yeah, and they get I don't
know if they get any more money or if they
just get a you know, an Ata boy or whatever.
But they will say, you know, Judy four hundred and
(22:09):
twenty five Phil four hundred percent. Yeah, they'll they'll tell
you how many people you checked out today, And so
that's why they're always hurrying. You know, they can bang
bang bang bang bang go bang bang bang go go
go go, get out of here. That's great to there's
a contest at the Costco. Think doong with it?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Angel? Do you want to say something?
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (22:28):
I was just thinking, do they have a quota like
cops have a traffic ticket quota?
Speaker 10 (22:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
They must.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
They must, you know, because you don't see Costco cashiers
chatting with you. They're not big chatty Kathy's yeah, you know.
They they're head down products moving, head down products moving.
Go get out of here and take a half box
with you. They've got to figure out how to throw
away when you get home. It's the heaviest cardboard in
the world. When you get home, you need like an
(22:56):
axe to take it apart.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
People stealing at self checkout better't know what you're doing.
Speaker 11 (23:01):
People that move with no sense of urgency, or like
who are constantly confused, get out of the self checkout.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I'm with this, lady. If you can't handle checkout, self checkout,
get the f out of the line.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
People that move with no sense of urgency, or like
who are constantly.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Confused, that's right. Move with purpose, like you have purpose
in life.
Speaker 10 (23:22):
Because this is for the pros.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
And increasingly, Hamlin says, technology can help those employees cracked
down on shoplifting.
Speaker 12 (23:31):
It's not if you're gonna get caught, it's when you're
gonna get caught. The technology allows for these individuals to
be able to investigate and determine that those losses have
actually happen a lot.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
Faster, even with cameras increasingly prevalent in public.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Why would people try to steal this way?
Speaker 8 (23:47):
Affordability, unaffordable essentials, and price increases tied to tariffs are
driving forces, according to lending Tree, which found people who
think they'll steal again say they're most likely to take
essentials like food and healthcare products.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
God, with these people admitting to stealing so casually, what
happened to society?
Speaker 8 (24:07):
Lending's re survey also found that thirty six percent of
self checkout shoppers admit they've accidentally left with an unskinned item.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah, I'm with them I accidentally, you know, I get
home when I go, I forgot it. But you go
back them. I think it's a buyback at that point.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
You know it's like when you go to a bar
for three years and the bartender goes next one's on me.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the buy back, say you will you.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Self check out?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Do you want to just crawl into a hole and
die when something goes wrong and the light comes home?
Speaker 4 (24:36):
You got to wait.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
It goes on all the time with me, attendant on
his way, not on.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
His way, and I just I just want to hide
my face.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I know, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I would do the exact same thing. I just want
to leave everything there and go home.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Never mind, I don't need any of that.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Right, attendant on the way.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
It should be they should be, attendant is not on
his way.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
That's how that screen should read.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
And almost two thirds of those people say they kept
that unscanned item. And then there were some people with
this perspective.
Speaker 7 (25:06):
We really need to cancel self checkout culture.
Speaker 11 (25:09):
We need to bring back customer service and it needed
to happy.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
Yesterday, we reached out to multiple retailers about this. Target
tells us that last year when they cut down the
number of items that people can bring to self checkout.
They did see a drop off in thefts, but that
was not the company's.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Yeah, and the people that ignore the fifteen items or
least they have, like forty two hundred items are gonna
check out.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Ah, it's a mess. What a mess.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty Friday.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
It's nice here in La weather. It's gonna beautiful over
the weekend. In seventies. You get out, get the tree,
maybe you haven't done that yet, finish up decorating the
outside of the house, and hit the mall so you
can buy your kids something, or your wife, your husband,
your I don't know, significant other, your bed partner wherever
you're sacking up with, or you know, hosing at the
(26:01):
end of the night, I gotta give him something for Christmas,
Damn or Honka or Kwanza or New Year's or Festivus
for the rest of us or whatever you celebrate. Bute,
it's gonna be a great weekend, beautiful weather in southern California.
Let's get do a little bit of crime here. I
(26:22):
know it's sort of a downer but we got to
warn you that if you go home tonight and your
house is not robbed, you're lucky. You're very lucky today.
You might be the victim tomorrow, or next week or
next month. It's still out there, especially in Woodland Hills.
Woodland Hills seems to be the center of a lot
of these incidents. A lot of people going into big
homes and stores and taking everything you got right before
(26:44):
the holidays.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Sweet men, sweet guys doing this. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
George Carlin used to call them life's most interesting guys.
And they're in Woodland Hills tonight.
Speaker 11 (26:53):
The person broke in to the Mendocino Farms. First you
can see the boarded updoor and window, and then he
made his way through this business all the way to
the very quarter where.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
He broke a hole in the wall. Wow.
Speaker 11 (27:08):
And then got into the business next door, which is
cards in coffee.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Wait a minute, he's going into a grocery store and
then breaking into a place that sells coffee and cards.
How what's the lift? What's the load here? What's the loot?
What's he got? What do they have in there? How
much your cards? Three dollars four dollars and a card
sale is always empty. If you ever go to a
(27:33):
card store, you're the only cat in there. There's never
anybody in there. I talked to the owner.
Speaker 11 (27:38):
He says that he got away with Kobe Bryant cards.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Oh, that kind of cards. Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
I thought it was like Hallmark cards. No, it's collecting
collectible cards, all right. There's money in that. There's money
in that. I remember going to a card store with
Doug Steckler. It was a week before Easter, and Doug Steckler,
very religious man, god fearing man, walked into the store
and he was looking for cards for about ten or
fifteen minutes and he couldn't find any with His Lord,
(28:06):
his Savior of Jesus Christ on the card. So he
went up to the young lady, who was probably in
their late teen's early twenties, and he said, excuse me, ma'am,
I only see cards with Easter bunnies or little chicklets
or you know, little eggs on him. Do you have
any cards with did it religious or have Jesus Christ
(28:27):
on him? And she said what does Jesus Christ have
to do with Eastern And he put his head down
and he walked out, and I remember he was in
the Beverly Center where this happened. I remember him walking
out being wildly depressed, a like in a white heat
(28:49):
of depression. He couldn't believe that she said that what
does Jesus Christ have to do with Easter? That's exactly
what she said, and he was stunned to hear that.
All right, this guy's looking for collectible cards. All right,
there's money in that game. Money in there with.
Speaker 11 (29:09):
Kobe Bryant cards, Michael Jordan, Lebron James, some vintage baseball cards,
and Pokemon cards too, all valued at about thirty thousand dollars.
And as Michael and Colleen mentioned, this is the second
card break in in just the past couple of days.
I want to show you some video.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
There's one in Burbank, about a mile from where I live,
and I took that one personally because I was up
at that time. If I walked down the street, I
could have broken that up.
Speaker 11 (29:37):
From last week and Burbank they stole nearly one hundred
thousand dollars worth of Pokemon and sports cards. That happened
last Friday at LA Sports Cards.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Yeah, I wonder if those were the off brand Pokemon cards.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
And after that break in.
Speaker 11 (29:52):
We heard from the owner who said it all happened
so fast.
Speaker 13 (29:56):
Started with the Pokemon site. There's two of them that
us through the majority of this area and make a
second approach to come back, smashing more glass, grab some
more vintage Pokemon packs. Makes his way over to the
sports side just for a tad and comes back.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Guys doing play by play on his store being robbed. Guys.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I wonder if that eventually happened. You know, a guy
doing play by playing, color of guys stealing. This guy's
doing play by play the Pokemon side.
Speaker 13 (30:24):
Two of them that runs through oh majority of this
area and make a second approach to come back smash
some more glass, grab some more vintage Pokemon packs. Makes
his way over to the sports side just for a
tad and comes back over in and out, in and
out quick.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
There he goes, yep, in and out quick. Is that
what he said?
Speaker 7 (30:42):
Heather?
Speaker 2 (30:43):
In and out, in and out quick. That's horrible.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Guy's got his whole livelihood in Pokemon Pokemon cards and
some guy comes in and uh, now they're his. They
were yours, now they're his, and he's going to sell
them on eBay or on one of these sites. He's
going to have a nice Christmas and you're going to
be out. That's how that works.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Sorry. I know you had a lot of security.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
You had the gates, you had the cameras, you had
the thick glass out in front.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
And that didn't do it. That didn't do it.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
And burn Rank's a very tough place to rip off businesses.
Those cops get there really really quick. So something happened there.
Somebody dropped the ball. But that guy had one hundred
thousand dollars worth of cards on a Monday, and then
the guy had none of those cards on Tuesday, and
now they're all they all belong to the guy that
stole them. So that's where we live. We're live on
(31:40):
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