The Powerball jackpot has climbed to $950 million â the 6th largest in history â and is expected to grow even bigger by Saturdayâs drawing. Conway also hit on bizarre headlines, including someone stealing 250 vases from cemeteries (âSTOP IT!â) and a wild Pat McAfee poker game story.Â
 âThe House Whispererâ Dean Sharp joined to talk about hiring contractors and why quality windows are so important for home design. Dean continued with a deep dive into âwindow shoppingâ â literally â covering shapes, sizes, and styles homeowners should know. The crew discussed brand trust, with Trader Joeâs taking the #1 spot as Americaâs most trusted brand.Â
 âThe House Whispererâ Dean Sharp joined to talk about hiring contractors and why quality windows are so important for home design. Dean continued with a deep dive into âwindow shoppingâ â literally â covering shapes, sizes, and styles homeowners should know. The crew discussed brand trust, with Trader Joeâs taking the #1 spot as Americaâs most trusted brand.Â
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Sean Sharp
will be coming on with us momentarily. He's always great.
We're gonna talk about windows. Maybe you need to windows
in your home. And don't forget Adam Carolla, who's kind
enough to call us yesterday. He's going to be at
mom said yes, August thirty. First, the seven o'clock show
(00:24):
is sold out. But Sunday's nine o'clock show. I think
there might be some tickets available for the nine o'clock
show in Torrents. That should be a lot of fun.
Go and see Corolla live. It's a good dude, good
solid guy, always delivers, always funnier than hell. I would
consider him top three, maybe top two.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Funniest guys in Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Belly, you probably would agree, right, I would say top
maybe top two.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yes, I would say top two. I would say top
very consistently delivers.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
All right, let's talk about the power Ball. It's Bellios
Plan A and Plan B and she needs the cash.
It's up to nine hundred and fifty million dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
So lucky winners sold in California tonight for the sixth
biggest jackpot in power ball history, only seven tickets in
the state taking home the twenty five thousand dollars prize
for matching four numbers in the powerball number. The jackpot
now sits at nine hundred and fifty million dollars, and
it will likely grow ahead of the next drawing on Saturday.
There hasn't been a winner since the thirty first of May,
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when a winning ticket was sold at a convenience store
in our Leada.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Got you missed one number and instead of getting eight
hundred and fifty million dollars, which was you know, the
jackpot before last night, you get twenty five grand. You
were one number away from the mother load and they
laid twenty five measly thousand dollars on you. God, it's
(01:55):
almost like an insult. You probably you'd rather get nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
No, No, I'll take the twenty five Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I think that a lot of people out there that
would rather just you know, jump off a building. No,
you don't think so, I really don't. All right, there's
a story coming out. It's devastating and it's about a
week older. So but we're catching up one hundred and
seventy one thousand dollars worth of bronze vases or vases
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stolen from headstones at an Indianapolis cemetery. That's the new
thing going on where people go to a cemetery a
graveyard and they steal headstones if they're brass, and then
they take them and melt them down. And some of
these headstones have been around for one hundred years or more.
It's disgusting, I'm telling you.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Tonight, Mitchell police are trying to figure out who's stole
more than two hundred vases from gravesites at a cemetery
on the southeast side.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
So these vases are worth thousands of dollars.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Our Jenna Webster joins us in studio tonight at six
and Jenna, I mean, this isn't just the monetary loss.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
This has got to be emotional for us people.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Oh absolutely. And it was very frustrating for the cemetery
management itself too. And you know, I talk to them today.
They actually say some of these bases are completely irreplacable
just because of how old some of them are. Now
we're also talking about veterans being impacted by this to
their grave sites. It's a blow to family is already
grieving the loss of their loved ones. Cemeteries are known
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as a place of honor and respect. But that's not
the feeling at New Crown Cemetery right now. This is
the destruction that someone is doing to our bronze bases.
A Metro police report shows two hundred and forty six
bronze vases we're stolen from the cemetery.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Courh my god, who's doing this? I mean, how do
you limbo under that?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Who's going into graveyards, cemeteries and stealing headstones?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Got them? Mighty? All right?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Pat McAfee, who is one of the big stars at ESPN.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Is that right? ESPN? Is that great?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
ESPN.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
He's got a great story on how he he made
it through playing poker. He was able to make enough
money to go down to a Kickers camp in Florida,
impressed them and got a scholarship out of it.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
This is a great story.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
This is a really it's a little over two minutes
here and I'll play it without interrupting it.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
It's a really cool story.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Pat McAfee, one of the stars over there at ESPN.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
World Series of Poker was huge. It was on ESPN.
We all watched it. There was a dude named Chris
Moneymaker who was just this basic ass white who I
think like blue collar from Middle America where he became
a millionaire overnight. So pretty much every community that was
like mine from what I've learned from growing up, we
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all started playing poker because we thought that was going
to be a way for us to make money and
get rich. I became a good poker player. I'd be
playing in my friend's houses. Obviously, it's like twenty five
fifty cent blinds, very small annies and everything like that.
We all thought we were going to be the next
World Series of Poker Champions. But it was a good
way for us to make money to spend for lunch extras,
things like that. I got a call like a month
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before signing day that there was a kicking camp happening
down in Miami, Florida by a guy named Mike McCabe,
one on one kicking. I was in physics class when
the call happened. The guy's number I still remember to
this day because I was so pumped to receive the call.
He called me and basically said he's putting on a
kicking contest. In Florida for all guys that got scholarships
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at that point. I was offered a scholarship to Kent
State to be a field goal kicker because he wanted
guys to come compete against his guys that he coached
out in Florida. It was gonna be a college showcase.
It was happening like the next weekend or something like that.
I was pumped to get invited. I felt like it
was a big deal. He sends over the information it
was gonna end up costing like fifteen hundred bucks. My dad,
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truck driver went into working in a warehouse mom secretary, Like,
fifteen hundred bucks in like a four day period is
not just like a feasible thing. Dad, I think told
me to actually go for myself. I already had a
scholarship to Kent State at the time too, So it's like,
so let me get this straight. I need to come
up with fifteen hundred bucks for you to go to
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Miami to kick to potentially get a scholarship when you
already have a scholarship to Kent State. That's not gonna happen.
So I am somebody I think would prove to be
the case throughout the rest of my life, like, let
me see if I can make this happen or not.
There is a big game happening that I heard about
from one of my friend's dads in the basement of
an Italian restaurant that in a town that we grew
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up in, was happening on like a Thursday night or
something like that, and had bigger blinds, bigger annies, bigger pots,
And I thought to myself, maybe I'll be able to
go in there and really do this dumb thought, blindly optimistic,
pretty narcissistic as well, now that I think about it.
When I got a hundred bucks from one of my
friends that has money, I went in there and I
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turned it into fourteen hundred bucks. I left at like
three point thirty four am, and I met my dad
when he was getting up, like he was waking up,
and he was like, where have you been, And I
was like, gave him the money, told him I knee
one hundred bucks, went down to the camp, ended up
winning the camp, got a scholarship to West Virginia. The
next morning in school. Wow, yeah, so then I end
up going to West Virginia. Yes, stupid, dumbest life of
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all time.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
That's a great story though. That's an awesome story, you know.
I mean that changed his life that you know, he
with a hundred bucks, He's able to raise fourteen or
fifteen hundred bucks to go to that camp and win it.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
That's a cool deal.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
All right.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
When we come back, our very good friend Dean Sharp
is going to be on with us. He's the House Whisper.
He's on every Saturday six am to eight am here
in LA and in San Diego, and then on Sunday
from nine am until noon. I think Sundays he's on
in San Diego the House Whisper, and we're gonna be
talking windows. Windows are very important. You've got to get
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good windows for your house. And I think he has
more knowledge than I do about windows.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM
six forty, Welcome to the.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Program sir, How you present and accounted for?
Speaker 7 (08:09):
He?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Now, Hey, so we're talking windows. I use American Vision windows.
Are you in that same crew?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 7 (08:18):
In fact, in fact, this Sunday show, which is going
to be a window and door show, I will be
spending it that three hours from nine to noon with
Chris Perez from American Visions.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
That guy, we'll be talking it up together.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
And then and then next Saturday, not this Saturday, but
next Saturday, you and me and Gary Hoffman, we're all
going to be hanging out at their twenty fifth anniversary
restart over and see me, Bella. That's great, that's fantastic.
I wish they operated up in the Portland, Oregon area.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I guess they don't. American Vision Windows.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I wish they did because we have a small little
townhouse up there and we needed two new windows.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
And I call a couple of companies.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
We settled on one and I don't want to say
what company it is, but I called the company. Guy
came out, he's very nice. I made us a good offer,
and then I gave him the credit card and he
doubled charged the credit card by accident, so I had
to go to the bank and clear that up, and
then I accidentally hit fraud. That's the only thing you
can hit when your card is double charged. And then
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the credit card was canceled, so I had to go
back to all my monthly bills that I pay that
on and change the credit card. And I thought, okay,
that was a pain in the ass and then the
guy that comes out measures. He was supposed to be
there from nine a m. Until noon, and I was waiting, waiting, waiting.
I couldn't get a hold of him all day.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I could.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
He was no, he wasn't answering his cell phone. The
people that employ him didn't know where he was. And
he finally showed up three hours late, and he said
he was in an area with no cell service. And
I just canceled the whole order, because you know this, dean,
If you can't get the small things right at the beginning,
how are you going to get the big things right
like the installation?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (10:01):
My gosh, absolutely, I mean this is this is the
bane of of the industry that I work in all
the time, right, I mean I hear it, and being
on the radio having the show, I hear it every
every week. And that, by the way, is I wasn't
gonna plug American Vision, but just as a as an example. Sure,
that is why they do so well, okay, because they
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you know, there are a lot of great window companies
out there. And by by window companies, I mean manufacturers, right.
They manufacturers don't install their own windows, then they then
they supply them to contractors, local contractors who make it
their business to come out and measure and do the stuff.
And from day one, right American visions like, hey, what
what if what a novel concept? What if we do
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this whole contracting thing correctly?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Okay? What if?
Speaker 7 (10:49):
What if we come out when we say we're going
to if we make an appointment for nine, how about
we be there at like eight fifty five. How about
we roll down protection on people's car. How about we
clean up at the end of the day. And it's
just that kind of thing that has built this stellar
reputation for them, and that's why they're doing so dang well.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Dean, I wonder if why that is so prevalent in
the construction business, or maybe it isn't. Maybe you're in
it and you know better than I do, But it
seems like the construction business has, you know, a lot,
a bigger lion's share of you know, guys that once
they get the project then they sort of slow down
(11:32):
on it. I hear a story after story after story.
A woman that we know in Burbank had a pool
that was installed. Her family were going to buy a
swimming pool. They made some money and they were going
to buy and it was like sixty or seventy thousand dollars.
It was supposed to be done in two and a
half or three months, maximum three months, and it took
him a year and a half.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
Yeah, well I can tell you from my perspective, and
I think it's pretty accurate. It really has a lot
to do with the downs dream of where contractors come from.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Okay, is that right?
Speaker 7 (12:03):
So so you know, in my opinion, this how it
typically works, right, is uh? And I remember this back
when I was a young framing carpenter, okay, working in
Beverly Hills, just framing up mansions in Beverly Hills, and
I would hear the other journeyman framers around me saying,
you know what, man, we're the ones who build this house, right,
I mean, we know how this all goes together. And
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yet I'm making this hourly wage and the boss is
the one who's cashing the big checks, right and h
and so this guy, you know, he wakes up one
morning and he's like, I don't want to do that anymore,
all right, I want to cash the big checks. So
I'm going to go get my contractor's license. So he
goes and he studies, he passes the tests, he gets
his contractor's license, and he goes into the framing business
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thinking that the framing business is the same as being
a framing carpet okay, right, And and that's the point,
that's where the downstream for most contractors come from. You
got guys who are really good in the field at
what they do, and they haven't really been mentored in business.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
And I just mean in.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
The sense that, hey, once you're actually the person interacting
with the homeowner, with the owners, with the clients, there's
a whole other set of rules, things like, you know,
make an appointment and keep it be on time, you know,
stuff like that, set expectations properly, bid jobs properly. And
that is why, you know, I don't know if you
knew this, tim, but the contracting business has about the
(13:34):
same success rate as the restaurant business, like ninety verse
ninety percent go out of business in the first few years,
because again, there's a difference between being able to cook
great food and actually opening a restaurant. That's a all
different animal and it's tough, it's tough work, and so
that's why a lot of this happened Dean Sharp as
(13:55):
well as the house whisper every Saturday and Sunday morning
here on KFI. I hired a friend of mine as
a contractor and it affected our relationship because he came
and we were going to add a small bedroom onto
our house in Burbank this fifteen years ago, and I
hired him.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
He's a nice guy. Well, he hired a couple of
guys that he hadn't worked with yet, and one of
the guys ended up breaking into my neighbor's house and
robbing them.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
How about that wake up call? How about that call
at seven a m. See, that's another problem. That's another
side to this. You got contractors who like they have
their specialty, but they want to get into the general
contracting business. They're like, be able, but I don't know
how to change out plumbing, and so they sub it
out and sometimes they sub it out to people. Honestly,
they're not going to tell you this that they've never
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worked with before, that's right. And so it's just it's
a it's a total crap shoot as to whether or
not things are going to fall together the way they claim.
You know, it's it's a mess and here's so well,
here I am. We're encouraging everybody out there, Uh, never
do anything to your house. Don't just don't just don't
do it. It is yeah, just And that's the exact
(15:10):
opposite message that I try to convey every weekend.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
But the fact of the matter is there's a way
around it.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
But you know, you got to really vet your builder,
and you want to know these answers. Do you have
your own crew, how long have they been with you?
Are you a paper contractor? In other words, are you
just a contractor and name? And everybody who comes to
my house is a subcontractor. You know, all sorts of
things like this. There are things to understand anyway, Okay, well,
and so windows, all right.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Let's talk windows when we come back, because windows are
really important. I think it is the only thing in
your house that you can install in one day that
makes a tremendous difference in the entire house. I don't
know if I'm it's huge, it's huge. I love the
window business and American Vision windows. I've had nothing but great,
beautiful success with them. All Right, we'll come back and
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talk to Dean Sharp about windows.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
It is time to get them. Time to get your.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Windows, and we'll come back and talk about all the
different say, the shapes, the sizes, what they do, what
they're called. You will be more informed about windows by
seven o'clock than you have in your entire life.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Jean Sharper's Brothers every Saturday morning right here on KFI
from six to eight am, and then Sunday nine am
until noon, and then on Sunday, mister sharp, I believe
Chris Perez is going to be with you, right.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, Chris Perez from American Vision Windows. We're gonna be
sitting down.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
Just talking shop for three hours straight, talking about nothing
but exterior doors and windows.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Okay, let me ask you something about a window, because
there's two rules of thought here, and I think you'll
know this better than anybody. I My wife likes the
windows that open up. You know, she can catch the breeze.
You know, they open up. What are they called? They
open like like they're on a hinge. Yeah, they swing,
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it's a case a casement, yeah yeah, yeah, And she
loves those. But I think they're susceptible to to problems
and leaking.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
Is that true? Nope, no, nope, not the good ones. Okay,
not the good ones. Yeah, yeah, they're fine.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
But I do like the design of the windows. I
know that American Vision windows. They got these great windows,
and I like, you know, the cross is when I
like the New England one is terrific. The Victorian, all
those designs inside the glass itself, between the two panes,
I think really make the house look better.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
So you're talking about the the grid, the grids, yeah,
the grid window, yeah, and and grid patterns are one
of the most important architectural decisions you're gonna make.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
It really, I didn't know.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Yeah, I mean so, so you know, windows or windows,
I mean windows, uh, are gonna radically change the function
of your house as far as a heating, cooling, sound,
all of that kind of stuff. Putting a modern window
in the wall as opposed to an old, worn out
aluminum window or single pane window, anything like that. But
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the big decisions to make from the homeowner's perspective is,
you know, is the materials. And we can talk about
that a bit, but the style of window. First, like
you said, you like the casement window or your wife
likes the casement windows, there's sliding windows, there's what's called
double hung and single hum windows. Those are the ones
where the sashes move up and down right vertically. There's
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all sorts of different functional styles of windows. And then
in the glass itself you got the grids. And the
grids are what we call divided light windows, and they
can be on more economical windows, those grids can be
inside that dual glaze glass so that you never have
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to mess with it, just locked in place.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
There.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
On super realistic windows, they can actually be real divided
light windows, in which not talking about one big piece
of glass, but we're literally talking about separate, divided pieces
of glass. But the pattern of that grid is perhaps
the most important architectural decision you're going to make about
your house, because they are going to enhance or draw
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you away from the style of home that you've already got.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Okay, now, on September sixth, I'm going to be out,
You're going to be out, Gary Hoffman will all be
in Seamy Valley at the grand reopening of American Vision Windows.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
And they asked me if I would do a like
a Q and a nice on windows out there and
just general stuff so people can bring their questions about
their homes and their windows, and you know what, I'll
give everybody like a little mini seminar.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
On that'd be great. I, on the other hand, will
not be doing the question answer. I'll be smoking and fighting.
I hope they know that that's what I do.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yeah, I think that's I think we all expect.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yeah, fighting some of the people that show up smoking
cigarettes and you know, just drinking pretty hard.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
You don't believe me, No, no, I believe I do.
I've never seen the showroom there, so I'm excited to
see the different windows and you know, opening him and
closing that's my favorite thing to do at Builders Imporium.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
My dad I was like a like a handicapped child.
My dad would just put me the windows department. Then
he would shop around and I'd be opening and closing windows.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
For two hours. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
It's a great showroom and there's so many things to
look at, so many things to check out, and it's
gonna be great for me doing Q and A because
I'll be like, all right, let's take a look at
this window right here, Okay, So I don't have to
spend as much time like I do on the show
on the weekends describing what it is I'm trying to
talk about just just look right here and so yeah,
and we really live in the golden age of windows
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right now we're able to do and it's all really,
it all starts with the glass. The fact that we
can make glass so large, so strong like never before
in history. Which, by the way, when people ask me,
you know, like that whole divided like that frame window, look,
is that like a thing? Do you have to do that?
I'm like, no, we don't have to do it that way.
We used to have to do that by necessity because
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we couldn't get pieces of glass any larger than those
little square.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Oh that's interesting. I didn't know. That's why.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
That's why divided light windows are divided light windows. Because
back in the day, going back two three hundred years,
oh imagine this, in a glass shop, right, they would
make they would blow out some glass and then they
would start spinning it on these rods and they would
spin out this big disk of glass. Okay, big old
disc of glass maybe six sometimes eight or ten feet
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in diameter. Let it cool off, and then they would
cut those window panes out of the outer edge of
that disc of glass, which you can only get so
big of a piece, and the people, the poor people
could buy what's called the bull's eye, which is that
little thing right in the middle where it attached to
the rod. And that's why, you know what you'd like
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those the windows that like we call them coke bottle windows, right,
Like you see a window that's just nothing, but these
little looks like the bottom of coke bottles making up
the whole window, right. Well, that used to be a thing.
If you weren't if you weren't wealthy enough to buy
an actual smooth piece of glass from the outer disc,
you could buy the bulls eye and build a window.
And I can't see well out of it, but it
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does let the light and it's super cheap.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
But at one point it flip flopped and I considered
those like the very expensive windows.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Oh no, they're really sexy in stylists now, but they
actually it's kind of like lobster. You know, they used
to serve lobster to prisoners of war during the Revolutionary War,
and now it's a thing, yea, but yeah, these these
bulls eye windows, now you pay extra for them, but
it used to be that was just the scrap that's
the center of the window disc and maybe the only
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thing you could afford.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
And then before you take off any word that Bill
and Kathleen will be there.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I haven't heard. I haven't heard.
Speaker 7 (22:54):
Well, whether they're gonna be I'm I would assume, because
come on, it's the twenty five year, but I don't
want to speak.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Yeah, all right, so I'll be listening Sunday with Chris
Perez American Vision Windows. Yep, all right, thanks man, thanks bro.
All right, there he goes Dean Sharp. That guy knows everything,
everything about windows and a construction everything.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
The only guy gets close on this show is me. Krozier.
That's right, that's right, Krozier, leaky. Yeah. Crozier also can
knows there's way around a hammer. That's the saying. I
don't even if that's the saying or it is.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Now you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demya from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Brand Royalty Brand, What is it?
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Brand?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Trust? Yeah, it's a very very important thing.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
And one of the best supermarkets in the entire country
is right here in southern California and I think it
started here in southern California. A lot of you know
it know it as Trader Joe's, the number one, the
one number one grocery store when it comes to not
not only loyalty, but making customers feel better, happy, great
(24:01):
customer service. Every time I go to Trader Joe's, and
I'm a new Trader Joe's customer, I hadn't gone for
twenty or thirty years. I just didn't like the parking
My daughter and wife go to it. I went recently,
and I got so turned on by just the quality
of the food there and the spirit of the people
checking folks out at the checkout line. If there's any
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more than two people waiting in line, they open up
another stand. They're always very pleasant. They always ask you,
you know, is there anything we can do for you? You know,
thanks for coming. Really appreciate it. We know you have,
you know, a lot of choices here for supermarkets. Man,
they got it going on at Trader Joe's. I enjoy
that Trader joe Welcome back. So they have hidden gems
in every aisle.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
The employees toe the line between flint friendly and flirty,
and the parking lot chaos does not stop us from
returning time and time again. One brand, just one America's
trust and we're not surprised a bit at this one.
A new poll by Axios Harris names Trader Joe's as
the most trusted brand in the US.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
You know, you know what?
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Right.
Speaker 8 (25:05):
This comes after it was voted the top grocery store
chain in the American Customer Satisfaction Index earlier this year.
The store climbed twelve spots to take the top ranking,
which looks at everything from customer service to ethics. Patagonia, Microsoft,
Toyota Motor Corporation, and Costco.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Costco rounded out the top five.
Speaker 8 (25:26):
If you're curious about the least trusted brand, and the.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Pole goes to Spirit Airlines. Boy, no surprise there with
Spirit Airlines.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
My back has been itching for I don't know thirty years,
and my wife got me one of those backscratchers. They're
bamboo and looks like a little monkey fist on the
back of it, and Manda, those things were great. Those
are unbelievable. So I went to Walmart to buy one
because I don't know what happened to mine. It just disappeared,
and I asked the At first, I look around. I
(26:00):
look for an hour before I ask anybody, because I
know asking somebody is a lot, and I don't like
the answer I get, which is usually I don't know.
So I looked around. I looked around and couldn't find him.
And I said to the young lady who worked at Walbart,
I said, hey, you have those backscratchers here, and she goes, oh,
(26:21):
that's a Christmas item. I said, okay, so that's just
the only time of year you're back, is itching right?
It is Christmas? I said, that's odd. It is odd,
but they're only a dollar. You can get him at
dollar stores and guys who are like me, you know
what that's like. Oh, there's nothing like that. Best piece
(26:44):
of equipment in the world. All right, Chris Merril is
with us. Robin you said he was available for cross talk?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Is that correct? Yes, Chris? How are you sir?
Speaker 9 (26:53):
So it was twenty fourteen. I woke up and icee you.
After a surgery that had gone bad. My producer at
the time walked into the ICU. He wasn't actually supposed
to visit. He just kind of wandered in and wasn't
supposed to and he presented me with a gift, and
I thought, well, that's really nice of you. I just
had a breathing tube taken out of me and he
hands me a backscratcher.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (27:13):
And he has contacted me since and he says, I
feel really bad. That was such a hokey gift. I
thought you were going to be in recovery, not in
the ICU. But I got you that backscratcher. I said, buddy,
that is the best gift ever. It sits in my nightstand.
In the middle of the night, I will I will
reach for that and I will scratch my back. You
ever wake up in the middle of the night you
go of itches.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Oh yeah, yeah, And if you go to itch you
with your arm, you could pull a muscle and then
they're on fire.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Oh it's terrible. The whole night's ruin.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Or you could just try to rub it against the sheets.
But the sheets nowadays are there's too many threads, are
too fine, and that doesn't do anything.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Yeah, not like the good old days of the burlap.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Oh no, yeah, the good old days when you know
the thread count was like you know tennis nets.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Oh wow, that was so good back in the nineteen hundreds.
I wanted to ask you this question from last year.
I heard you about a year ago talking about where
the topic of the theme of the show, or at
least that segment was, name me a place you would
never like to return, and you said prison.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
It wasn't prison. It was I did at time in.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
County, Okay County. But I don't remember you saying why
you were there? Did you ever tell anybody why you
were there?
Speaker 9 (28:23):
This isn't It's embarrassing for me because I was. I
was so wrong and everything I did, so let's call
this youthful indiscretion. That was about nineteen and I grew
up in a resort town, kind of like a big
bear type place that in the winter time nobody was there,
but it was in the summertime everybody would show up
in They all like vacation homes, and so some friends
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of mine and I we were helping ourselves into some
of these vacations and at one point we borrowed someone's
pickup truck for what. Yeah, And I got to tell you,
it's one of those things that I didn't talk about
it first twenty plus years. I'm so embarrassed by it,
but it is. I mean, it's just it is what
it is. And so, you know, I got in trouble.
(29:06):
What a horrible time that is when you have to
you know, you get one phone call and you have
to call your mom, right And I was just bawling,
and she's like, well have fun and I'm like, you
got to come get me out. She goes, no, your yeah,
and uh, you know, in conversation with my parents since
I know that was a really really hard thing for
my mom to do. So I went through the whole
(29:27):
thing and and I I avoided going to the Big House,
but I went to one of those they call them
special Alternative Incarcerations, so that's it's like a boot camp.
So it's like a marine boot camp style place that
I went to. And uh, I still occasionally will have like,
looking back on it, I was probably a PTSD. But
(29:49):
I'll tell you what, that straightened me out. I still
have a like once or twice a year, I'll have like.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
A nightmare about it. How were you?
Speaker 9 (29:56):
So I did like I don't know, like six weeks
in County and then three months in that in that
boot camp, and that I had to do probation and
a bunch of restitutions like that.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Yeah, buddy, And I gotta be honest with you. It
makes you infinitely more interesting to me.
Speaker 9 (30:12):
I'm a little concerned that I had no interest from
you in the past.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
No, no, it was it was at like a seven
right now, it's all yeah.
Speaker 9 (30:19):
Right, yeah, yeah, I have. If you get a few
in me, I'll open up. Probably not on the air.
I'm pretty guarded about it because of that. Again, I'm
very embarrassed, but it is, it is what it is.
And you know what actually helped me decide I would
be willing to talk about it is when I when
I found out that that handle I had some addictions
himself and that he was open about it on the air,
(30:39):
And I thought, I'm gonna have to be vulnerable on
the air on this. I'm gonna have to talk about it.
But I'll tell you what. I started dating a woman
and she's my wife. Now I've been married twenty one
years and I was still on probation at the time.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (30:52):
Yeah, And and that is an awkward conversation to have
with somebody, probably not first date material.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I had a buddy who had to pick up his
fiance's parents from Lax but he just got recently got
a dui, so when he picked them up from the
airport as they were leaving Lax, he had to blow
into that breathalyzer on the steering wheel to start the car.
Speaker 9 (31:16):
How about that trip, Hope, Oh my goodness, and then
explained to the parents why it's there. Yeah, exactly, buddy.
I'll be listening, but look it is it really deep footprints.
I remember where I was when you were talking about that,
and I've always wanted to ask you, and I'm glad
I did. One of your listeners reached out to me
and said, Tim wants to know why it happened, and
I say, youthful indiscretions.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
That's great, all right, I'll be listening. I'll talk to
you soon, all right. Thanks Man. Conway Show on demand
on the iHeart Radio app. Now you can always hear
us live on KFI Am six forty four to seven
pm Monday through Friday, and anytime on demand on the
iHeart Radio app.
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Sean Sharp
will be coming on with us momentarily. He's always great.
We're gonna talk about windows. Maybe you need to windows
in your home. And don't forget Adam Carolla, who's kind
enough to call us yesterday. He's going to be at
mom said yes, August thirty. First, the seven o'clock show
(00:24):
is sold out. But Sunday's nine o'clock show. I think
there might be some tickets available for the nine o'clock
show in Torrents. That should be a lot of fun.
Go and see Corolla live. It's a good dude, good
solid guy, always delivers, always funnier than hell. I would
consider him top three, maybe top two.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Funniest guys in Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Belly, you probably would agree, right, I would say top
maybe top two.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yes, I would say top two. I would say top
very consistently delivers.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
All right, let's talk about the power Ball. It's Bellios
Plan A and Plan B and she needs the cash.
It's up to nine hundred and fifty million dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
So lucky winners sold in California tonight for the sixth
biggest jackpot in power ball history, only seven tickets in
the state taking home the twenty five thousand dollars prize
for matching four numbers in the powerball number. The jackpot
now sits at nine hundred and fifty million dollars, and
it will likely grow ahead of the next drawing on Saturday.
There hasn't been a winner since the thirty first of May,
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when a winning ticket was sold at a convenience store
in our Leada.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Got you missed one number and instead of getting eight
hundred and fifty million dollars, which was you know, the
jackpot before last night, you get twenty five grand. You
were one number away from the mother load and they
laid twenty five measly thousand dollars on you. God, it's
(01:55):
almost like an insult. You probably you'd rather get nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
No, No, I'll take the twenty five Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I think that a lot of people out there that
would rather just you know, jump off a building. No,
you don't think so, I really don't. All right, there's
a story coming out. It's devastating and it's about a
week older. So but we're catching up one hundred and
seventy one thousand dollars worth of bronze vases or vases
(02:26):
stolen from headstones at an Indianapolis cemetery. That's the new
thing going on where people go to a cemetery a
graveyard and they steal headstones if they're brass, and then
they take them and melt them down. And some of
these headstones have been around for one hundred years or more.
It's disgusting, I'm telling you.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Tonight, Mitchell police are trying to figure out who's stole
more than two hundred vases from gravesites at a cemetery
on the southeast side.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
So these vases are worth thousands of dollars.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Our Jenna Webster joins us in studio tonight at six
and Jenna, I mean, this isn't just the monetary loss.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
This has got to be emotional for us people.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Oh absolutely. And it was very frustrating for the cemetery
management itself too. And you know, I talk to them today.
They actually say some of these bases are completely irreplacable
just because of how old some of them are. Now
we're also talking about veterans being impacted by this to
their grave sites. It's a blow to family is already
grieving the loss of their loved ones. Cemeteries are known
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as a place of honor and respect. But that's not
the feeling at New Crown Cemetery right now. This is
the destruction that someone is doing to our bronze bases.
A Metro police report shows two hundred and forty six
bronze vases we're stolen from the cemetery.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Courh my god, who's doing this? I mean, how do
you limbo under that?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Who's going into graveyards, cemeteries and stealing headstones?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Got them? Mighty? All right?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Pat McAfee, who is one of the big stars at ESPN.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Is that right? ESPN? Is that great?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
ESPN.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
He's got a great story on how he he made
it through playing poker. He was able to make enough
money to go down to a Kickers camp in Florida,
impressed them and got a scholarship out of it.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
This is a great story.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
This is a really it's a little over two minutes
here and I'll play it without interrupting it.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
It's a really cool story.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Pat McAfee, one of the stars over there at ESPN.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
World Series of Poker was huge. It was on ESPN.
We all watched it. There was a dude named Chris
Moneymaker who was just this basic ass white who I
think like blue collar from Middle America where he became
a millionaire overnight. So pretty much every community that was
like mine from what I've learned from growing up, we
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all started playing poker because we thought that was going
to be a way for us to make money and
get rich. I became a good poker player. I'd be
playing in my friend's houses. Obviously, it's like twenty five
fifty cent blinds, very small annies and everything like that.
We all thought we were going to be the next
World Series of Poker Champions. But it was a good
way for us to make money to spend for lunch extras,
things like that. I got a call like a month
(05:09):
before signing day that there was a kicking camp happening
down in Miami, Florida by a guy named Mike McCabe,
one on one kicking. I was in physics class when
the call happened. The guy's number I still remember to
this day because I was so pumped to receive the call.
He called me and basically said he's putting on a
kicking contest. In Florida for all guys that got scholarships
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at that point. I was offered a scholarship to Kent
State to be a field goal kicker because he wanted
guys to come compete against his guys that he coached
out in Florida. It was gonna be a college showcase.
It was happening like the next weekend or something like that.
I was pumped to get invited. I felt like it
was a big deal. He sends over the information it
was gonna end up costing like fifteen hundred bucks. My dad,
(05:50):
truck driver went into working in a warehouse mom secretary, Like,
fifteen hundred bucks in like a four day period is
not just like a feasible thing. Dad, I think told
me to actually go for myself. I already had a
scholarship to Kent State at the time too, So it's like,
so let me get this straight. I need to come
up with fifteen hundred bucks for you to go to
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Miami to kick to potentially get a scholarship when you
already have a scholarship to Kent State. That's not gonna happen.
So I am somebody I think would prove to be
the case throughout the rest of my life, like, let
me see if I can make this happen or not.
There is a big game happening that I heard about
from one of my friend's dads in the basement of
an Italian restaurant that in a town that we grew
(06:34):
up in, was happening on like a Thursday night or
something like that, and had bigger blinds, bigger annies, bigger pots,
And I thought to myself, maybe I'll be able to
go in there and really do this dumb thought, blindly optimistic,
pretty narcissistic as well, now that I think about it.
When I got a hundred bucks from one of my
friends that has money, I went in there and I
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turned it into fourteen hundred bucks. I left at like
three point thirty four am, and I met my dad
when he was getting up, like he was waking up,
and he was like, where have you been, And I
was like, gave him the money, told him I knee
one hundred bucks, went down to the camp, ended up
winning the camp, got a scholarship to West Virginia. The
next morning in school. Wow, yeah, so then I end
up going to West Virginia. Yes, stupid, dumbest life of
(07:17):
all time.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
That's a great story though. That's an awesome story, you know.
I mean that changed his life that you know, he
with a hundred bucks, He's able to raise fourteen or
fifteen hundred bucks to go to that camp and win it.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
That's a cool deal.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
All right.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
When we come back, our very good friend Dean Sharp
is going to be on with us. He's the House Whisper.
He's on every Saturday six am to eight am here
in LA and in San Diego, and then on Sunday
from nine am until noon. I think Sundays he's on
in San Diego the House Whisper, and we're gonna be
talking windows. Windows are very important. You've got to get
(07:52):
good windows for your house. And I think he has
more knowledge than I do about windows.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM
six forty, Welcome to the.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Program sir, How you present and accounted for?
Speaker 7 (08:09):
He?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Now, Hey, so we're talking windows. I use American Vision windows.
Are you in that same crew?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 7 (08:18):
In fact, in fact, this Sunday show, which is going
to be a window and door show, I will be
spending it that three hours from nine to noon with
Chris Perez from American Visions.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
That guy, we'll be talking it up together.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
And then and then next Saturday, not this Saturday, but
next Saturday, you and me and Gary Hoffman, we're all
going to be hanging out at their twenty fifth anniversary
restart over and see me, Bella. That's great, that's fantastic.
I wish they operated up in the Portland, Oregon area.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I guess they don't. American Vision Windows.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I wish they did because we have a small little
townhouse up there and we needed two new windows.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
And I call a couple of companies.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
We settled on one and I don't want to say
what company it is, but I called the company. Guy
came out, he's very nice. I made us a good offer,
and then I gave him the credit card and he
doubled charged the credit card by accident, so I had
to go to the bank and clear that up, and
then I accidentally hit fraud. That's the only thing you
can hit when your card is double charged. And then
(09:24):
the credit card was canceled, so I had to go
back to all my monthly bills that I pay that
on and change the credit card. And I thought, okay,
that was a pain in the ass and then the
guy that comes out measures. He was supposed to be
there from nine a m. Until noon, and I was waiting, waiting, waiting.
I couldn't get a hold of him all day.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I could.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
He was no, he wasn't answering his cell phone. The
people that employ him didn't know where he was. And
he finally showed up three hours late, and he said
he was in an area with no cell service. And
I just canceled the whole order, because you know this, dean,
If you can't get the small things right at the beginning,
how are you going to get the big things right
like the installation?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (10:01):
My gosh, absolutely, I mean this is this is the
bane of of the industry that I work in all
the time, right, I mean I hear it, and being
on the radio having the show, I hear it every
every week. And that, by the way, is I wasn't
gonna plug American Vision, but just as a as an example. Sure,
that is why they do so well, okay, because they
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you know, there are a lot of great window companies
out there. And by by window companies, I mean manufacturers, right.
They manufacturers don't install their own windows, then they then
they supply them to contractors, local contractors who make it
their business to come out and measure and do the stuff.
And from day one, right American visions like, hey, what
what if what a novel concept? What if we do
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this whole contracting thing correctly?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Okay? What if?
Speaker 7 (10:49):
What if we come out when we say we're going
to if we make an appointment for nine, how about
we be there at like eight fifty five. How about
we roll down protection on people's car. How about we
clean up at the end of the day. And it's
just that kind of thing that has built this stellar
reputation for them, and that's why they're doing so dang well.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Dean, I wonder if why that is so prevalent in
the construction business, or maybe it isn't. Maybe you're in
it and you know better than I do, But it
seems like the construction business has, you know, a lot,
a bigger lion's share of you know, guys that once
they get the project then they sort of slow down
(11:32):
on it. I hear a story after story after story.
A woman that we know in Burbank had a pool
that was installed. Her family were going to buy a
swimming pool. They made some money and they were going
to buy and it was like sixty or seventy thousand dollars.
It was supposed to be done in two and a
half or three months, maximum three months, and it took
him a year and a half.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
Yeah, well I can tell you from my perspective, and
I think it's pretty accurate. It really has a lot
to do with the downs dream of where contractors come from.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Okay, is that right?
Speaker 7 (12:03):
So so you know, in my opinion, this how it
typically works, right, is uh? And I remember this back
when I was a young framing carpenter, okay, working in
Beverly Hills, just framing up mansions in Beverly Hills, and
I would hear the other journeyman framers around me saying,
you know what, man, we're the ones who build this house, right,
I mean, we know how this all goes together. And
(12:25):
yet I'm making this hourly wage and the boss is
the one who's cashing the big checks, right and h
and so this guy, you know, he wakes up one
morning and he's like, I don't want to do that anymore,
all right, I want to cash the big checks. So
I'm going to go get my contractor's license. So he
goes and he studies, he passes the tests, he gets
his contractor's license, and he goes into the framing business
(12:47):
thinking that the framing business is the same as being
a framing carpet okay, right, And and that's the point,
that's where the downstream for most contractors come from. You
got guys who are really good in the field at
what they do, and they haven't really been mentored in business.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
And I just mean in.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
The sense that, hey, once you're actually the person interacting
with the homeowner, with the owners, with the clients, there's
a whole other set of rules, things like, you know,
make an appointment and keep it be on time, you know,
stuff like that, set expectations properly, bid jobs properly. And
that is why, you know, I don't know if you
knew this, tim, but the contracting business has about the
(13:34):
same success rate as the restaurant business, like ninety verse
ninety percent go out of business in the first few years,
because again, there's a difference between being able to cook
great food and actually opening a restaurant. That's a all
different animal and it's tough, it's tough work, and so
that's why a lot of this happened Dean Sharp as
(13:55):
well as the house whisper every Saturday and Sunday morning
here on KFI. I hired a friend of mine as
a contractor and it affected our relationship because he came
and we were going to add a small bedroom onto
our house in Burbank this fifteen years ago, and I
hired him.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
He's a nice guy. Well, he hired a couple of
guys that he hadn't worked with yet, and one of
the guys ended up breaking into my neighbor's house and
robbing them.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
How about that wake up call? How about that call
at seven a m. See, that's another problem. That's another
side to this. You got contractors who like they have
their specialty, but they want to get into the general
contracting business. They're like, be able, but I don't know
how to change out plumbing, and so they sub it
out and sometimes they sub it out to people. Honestly,
they're not going to tell you this that they've never
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worked with before, that's right. And so it's just it's
a it's a total crap shoot as to whether or
not things are going to fall together the way they claim.
You know, it's it's a mess and here's so well,
here I am. We're encouraging everybody out there, Uh, never
do anything to your house. Don't just don't just don't
do it. It is yeah, just And that's the exact
(15:10):
opposite message that I try to convey every weekend.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
But the fact of the matter is there's a way
around it.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
But you know, you got to really vet your builder,
and you want to know these answers. Do you have
your own crew, how long have they been with you?
Are you a paper contractor? In other words, are you
just a contractor and name? And everybody who comes to
my house is a subcontractor. You know, all sorts of
things like this. There are things to understand anyway, Okay, well,
and so windows, all right.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Let's talk windows when we come back, because windows are
really important. I think it is the only thing in
your house that you can install in one day that
makes a tremendous difference in the entire house. I don't
know if I'm it's huge, it's huge. I love the
window business and American Vision windows. I've had nothing but great,
beautiful success with them. All Right, we'll come back and
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talk to Dean Sharp about windows.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
It is time to get them. Time to get your.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Windows, and we'll come back and talk about all the
different say, the shapes, the sizes, what they do, what
they're called. You will be more informed about windows by
seven o'clock than you have in your entire life.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Jean Sharper's Brothers every Saturday morning right here on KFI
from six to eight am, and then Sunday nine am
until noon, and then on Sunday, mister sharp, I believe
Chris Perez is going to be with you, right.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, Chris Perez from American Vision Windows. We're gonna be
sitting down.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
Just talking shop for three hours straight, talking about nothing
but exterior doors and windows.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Okay, let me ask you something about a window, because
there's two rules of thought here, and I think you'll
know this better than anybody. I My wife likes the
windows that open up. You know, she can catch the breeze.
You know, they open up. What are they called? They
open like like they're on a hinge. Yeah, they swing,
(17:03):
it's a case a casement, yeah yeah, yeah, And she
loves those. But I think they're susceptible to to problems
and leaking.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
Is that true? Nope, no, nope, not the good ones. Okay,
not the good ones. Yeah, yeah, they're fine.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
But I do like the design of the windows. I
know that American Vision windows. They got these great windows,
and I like, you know, the cross is when I
like the New England one is terrific. The Victorian, all
those designs inside the glass itself, between the two panes,
I think really make the house look better.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
So you're talking about the the grid, the grids, yeah,
the grid window, yeah, and and grid patterns are one
of the most important architectural decisions you're gonna make.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
It really, I didn't know.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Yeah, I mean so, so you know, windows or windows,
I mean windows, uh, are gonna radically change the function
of your house as far as a heating, cooling, sound,
all of that kind of stuff. Putting a modern window
in the wall as opposed to an old, worn out
aluminum window or single pane window, anything like that. But
(18:10):
the big decisions to make from the homeowner's perspective is,
you know, is the materials. And we can talk about
that a bit, but the style of window. First, like
you said, you like the casement window or your wife
likes the casement windows, there's sliding windows, there's what's called
double hung and single hum windows. Those are the ones
where the sashes move up and down right vertically. There's
(18:31):
all sorts of different functional styles of windows. And then
in the glass itself you got the grids. And the
grids are what we call divided light windows, and they
can be on more economical windows, those grids can be
inside that dual glaze glass so that you never have
(18:51):
to mess with it, just locked in place.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
There.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
On super realistic windows, they can actually be real divided
light windows, in which not talking about one big piece
of glass, but we're literally talking about separate, divided pieces
of glass. But the pattern of that grid is perhaps
the most important architectural decision you're going to make about
your house, because they are going to enhance or draw
(19:15):
you away from the style of home that you've already got.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Okay, now, on September sixth, I'm going to be out,
You're going to be out, Gary Hoffman will all be
in Seamy Valley at the grand reopening of American Vision Windows.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
And they asked me if I would do a like
a Q and a nice on windows out there and
just general stuff so people can bring their questions about
their homes and their windows, and you know what, I'll
give everybody like a little mini seminar.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
On that'd be great. I, on the other hand, will
not be doing the question answer. I'll be smoking and fighting.
I hope they know that that's what I do.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yeah, I think that's I think we all expect.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yeah, fighting some of the people that show up smoking
cigarettes and you know, just drinking pretty hard.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
You don't believe me, No, no, I believe I do.
I've never seen the showroom there, so I'm excited to
see the different windows and you know, opening him and
closing that's my favorite thing to do at Builders Imporium.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
My dad I was like a like a handicapped child.
My dad would just put me the windows department. Then
he would shop around and I'd be opening and closing windows.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
For two hours. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
It's a great showroom and there's so many things to
look at, so many things to check out, and it's
gonna be great for me doing Q and A because
I'll be like, all right, let's take a look at
this window right here, Okay, So I don't have to
spend as much time like I do on the show
on the weekends describing what it is I'm trying to
talk about just just look right here and so yeah,
and we really live in the golden age of windows
(20:47):
right now we're able to do and it's all really,
it all starts with the glass. The fact that we
can make glass so large, so strong like never before
in history. Which, by the way, when people ask me,
you know, like that whole divided like that frame window, look,
is that like a thing? Do you have to do that?
I'm like, no, we don't have to do it that way.
We used to have to do that by necessity because
(21:08):
we couldn't get pieces of glass any larger than those
little square.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Oh that's interesting. I didn't know. That's why.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
That's why divided light windows are divided light windows. Because
back in the day, going back two three hundred years,
oh imagine this, in a glass shop, right, they would
make they would blow out some glass and then they
would start spinning it on these rods and they would
spin out this big disk of glass. Okay, big old
disc of glass maybe six sometimes eight or ten feet
(21:35):
in diameter. Let it cool off, and then they would
cut those window panes out of the outer edge of
that disc of glass, which you can only get so
big of a piece, and the people, the poor people
could buy what's called the bull's eye, which is that
little thing right in the middle where it attached to
the rod. And that's why, you know what you'd like
(21:58):
those the windows that like we call them coke bottle windows, right,
Like you see a window that's just nothing, but these
little looks like the bottom of coke bottles making up
the whole window, right. Well, that used to be a thing.
If you weren't if you weren't wealthy enough to buy
an actual smooth piece of glass from the outer disc,
you could buy the bulls eye and build a window.
And I can't see well out of it, but it
(22:19):
does let the light and it's super cheap.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
But at one point it flip flopped and I considered
those like the very expensive windows.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Oh no, they're really sexy in stylists now, but they
actually it's kind of like lobster. You know, they used
to serve lobster to prisoners of war during the Revolutionary War,
and now it's a thing, yea, but yeah, these these
bulls eye windows, now you pay extra for them, but
it used to be that was just the scrap that's
the center of the window disc and maybe the only
(22:48):
thing you could afford.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
And then before you take off any word that Bill
and Kathleen will be there.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I haven't heard. I haven't heard.
Speaker 7 (22:54):
Well, whether they're gonna be I'm I would assume, because
come on, it's the twenty five year, but I don't
want to speak.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Yeah, all right, so I'll be listening Sunday with Chris
Perez American Vision Windows. Yep, all right, thanks man, thanks bro.
All right, there he goes Dean Sharp. That guy knows everything,
everything about windows and a construction everything.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
The only guy gets close on this show is me. Krozier.
That's right, that's right, Krozier, leaky. Yeah. Crozier also can
knows there's way around a hammer. That's the saying. I
don't even if that's the saying or it is.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Now you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demya from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Brand Royalty Brand, What is it?
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Brand?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Trust? Yeah, it's a very very important thing.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
And one of the best supermarkets in the entire country
is right here in southern California and I think it
started here in southern California. A lot of you know
it know it as Trader Joe's, the number one, the
one number one grocery store when it comes to not
not only loyalty, but making customers feel better, happy, great
(24:01):
customer service. Every time I go to Trader Joe's, and
I'm a new Trader Joe's customer, I hadn't gone for
twenty or thirty years. I just didn't like the parking
My daughter and wife go to it. I went recently,
and I got so turned on by just the quality
of the food there and the spirit of the people
checking folks out at the checkout line. If there's any
(24:25):
more than two people waiting in line, they open up
another stand. They're always very pleasant. They always ask you,
you know, is there anything we can do for you? You know,
thanks for coming. Really appreciate it. We know you have,
you know, a lot of choices here for supermarkets. Man,
they got it going on at Trader Joe's. I enjoy
that Trader joe Welcome back. So they have hidden gems
in every aisle.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
The employees toe the line between flint friendly and flirty,
and the parking lot chaos does not stop us from
returning time and time again. One brand, just one America's
trust and we're not surprised a bit at this one.
A new poll by Axios Harris names Trader Joe's as
the most trusted brand in the US.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
You know, you know what?
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Right.
Speaker 8 (25:05):
This comes after it was voted the top grocery store
chain in the American Customer Satisfaction Index earlier this year.
The store climbed twelve spots to take the top ranking,
which looks at everything from customer service to ethics. Patagonia, Microsoft,
Toyota Motor Corporation, and Costco.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Costco rounded out the top five.
Speaker 8 (25:26):
If you're curious about the least trusted brand, and the.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Pole goes to Spirit Airlines. Boy, no surprise there with
Spirit Airlines.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
My back has been itching for I don't know thirty years,
and my wife got me one of those backscratchers. They're
bamboo and looks like a little monkey fist on the
back of it, and Manda, those things were great. Those
are unbelievable. So I went to Walmart to buy one
because I don't know what happened to mine. It just disappeared,
and I asked the At first, I look around. I
(26:00):
look for an hour before I ask anybody, because I
know asking somebody is a lot, and I don't like
the answer I get, which is usually I don't know.
So I looked around. I looked around and couldn't find him.
And I said to the young lady who worked at Walbart,
I said, hey, you have those backscratchers here, and she goes, oh,
(26:21):
that's a Christmas item. I said, okay, so that's just
the only time of year you're back, is itching right?
It is Christmas? I said, that's odd. It is odd,
but they're only a dollar. You can get him at
dollar stores and guys who are like me, you know
what that's like. Oh, there's nothing like that. Best piece
(26:44):
of equipment in the world. All right, Chris Merril is
with us. Robin you said he was available for cross talk?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Is that correct? Yes, Chris? How are you sir?
Speaker 9 (26:53):
So it was twenty fourteen. I woke up and icee you.
After a surgery that had gone bad. My producer at
the time walked into the ICU. He wasn't actually supposed
to visit. He just kind of wandered in and wasn't
supposed to and he presented me with a gift, and
I thought, well, that's really nice of you. I just
had a breathing tube taken out of me and he
hands me a backscratcher.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (27:13):
And he has contacted me since and he says, I
feel really bad. That was such a hokey gift. I
thought you were going to be in recovery, not in
the ICU. But I got you that backscratcher. I said, buddy,
that is the best gift ever. It sits in my nightstand.
In the middle of the night, I will I will
reach for that and I will scratch my back. You
ever wake up in the middle of the night you
go of itches.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Oh yeah, yeah, And if you go to itch you
with your arm, you could pull a muscle and then
they're on fire.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Oh it's terrible. The whole night's ruin.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Or you could just try to rub it against the sheets.
But the sheets nowadays are there's too many threads, are
too fine, and that doesn't do anything.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Yeah, not like the good old days of the burlap.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Oh no, yeah, the good old days when you know
the thread count was like you know tennis nets.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Oh wow, that was so good back in the nineteen hundreds.
I wanted to ask you this question from last year.
I heard you about a year ago talking about where
the topic of the theme of the show, or at
least that segment was, name me a place you would
never like to return, and you said prison.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
It wasn't prison. It was I did at time in.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
County, Okay County. But I don't remember you saying why
you were there? Did you ever tell anybody why you
were there?
Speaker 9 (28:23):
This isn't It's embarrassing for me because I was. I
was so wrong and everything I did, so let's call
this youthful indiscretion. That was about nineteen and I grew
up in a resort town, kind of like a big
bear type place that in the winter time nobody was there,
but it was in the summertime everybody would show up
in They all like vacation homes, and so some friends
(28:44):
of mine and I we were helping ourselves into some
of these vacations and at one point we borrowed someone's
pickup truck for what. Yeah, And I got to tell you,
it's one of those things that I didn't talk about
it first twenty plus years. I'm so embarrassed by it,
but it is. I mean, it's just it is what
it is. And so, you know, I got in trouble.
(29:06):
What a horrible time that is when you have to
you know, you get one phone call and you have
to call your mom, right And I was just bawling,
and she's like, well have fun and I'm like, you
got to come get me out. She goes, no, your yeah,
and uh, you know, in conversation with my parents since
I know that was a really really hard thing for
my mom to do. So I went through the whole
(29:27):
thing and and I I avoided going to the Big House,
but I went to one of those they call them
special Alternative Incarcerations, so that's it's like a boot camp.
So it's like a marine boot camp style place that
I went to. And uh, I still occasionally will have like,
looking back on it, I was probably a PTSD. But
(29:49):
I'll tell you what, that straightened me out. I still
have a like once or twice a year, I'll have like.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
A nightmare about it. How were you?
Speaker 9 (29:56):
So I did like I don't know, like six weeks
in County and then three months in that in that
boot camp, and that I had to do probation and
a bunch of restitutions like that.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Yeah, buddy, And I gotta be honest with you. It
makes you infinitely more interesting to me.
Speaker 9 (30:12):
I'm a little concerned that I had no interest from
you in the past.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
No, no, it was it was at like a seven
right now, it's all yeah.
Speaker 9 (30:19):
Right, yeah, yeah, I have. If you get a few
in me, I'll open up. Probably not on the air.
I'm pretty guarded about it because of that. Again, I'm
very embarrassed, but it is, it is what it is.
And you know what actually helped me decide I would
be willing to talk about it is when I when
I found out that that handle I had some addictions
himself and that he was open about it on the air,
(30:39):
And I thought, I'm gonna have to be vulnerable on
the air on this. I'm gonna have to talk about it.
But I'll tell you what. I started dating a woman
and she's my wife. Now I've been married twenty one
years and I was still on probation at the time.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (30:52):
Yeah, And and that is an awkward conversation to have
with somebody, probably not first date material.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I had a buddy who had to pick up his
fiance's parents from Lax but he just got recently got
a dui, so when he picked them up from the
airport as they were leaving Lax, he had to blow
into that breathalyzer on the steering wheel to start the car.
Speaker 9 (31:16):
How about that trip, Hope, Oh my goodness, and then
explained to the parents why it's there. Yeah, exactly, buddy.
I'll be listening, but look it is it really deep footprints.
I remember where I was when you were talking about that,
and I've always wanted to ask you, and I'm glad
I did. One of your listeners reached out to me
and said, Tim wants to know why it happened, and
I say, youthful indiscretions.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
That's great, all right, I'll be listening. I'll talk to
you soon, all right. Thanks Man. Conway Show on demand
on the iHeart Radio app. Now you can always hear
us live on KFI Am six forty four to seven
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