March 6, 2025 • 22 mins
Guest: Alex Stone on the three skiers buried in 100 feet deep avalanche; unable to be recovered. // Tim screwed up giving Angel Martinez a Christmas gift last year and ABC’s Alex Stone love for Country music.// Wedding Season is here: Spring & Summer! / Conway and Crozier share their wedding's First- Dance Song // Chachi “The Rocketman” Valencia ‘s GoFundMe update.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KMF I am six forty and you're listening to
The Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. It
is the Conway Show. Okay, it's sort of raining outside
here in the San Fernando Valley. Uh. From from what
I understand, we're this is gonna be the last of it.
We're gonna get a little bit of rain. We're gonna
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talk to Alex Stone here in a second. We're gonna
get a tiny bit of rain, a tiny, tiny bit,
and uh until about six pm, and then that's a rap.
That's a rap with the rain until Monday. Monday is
going to be fairly decent amount of rain, Tuesday a
lot more, Wednesday more than Tuesday, and Thursday an inch
(00:47):
and a half in most areas. Thursday, Wednesday night and
Thursday is going to be your big rain event. Think
about that. Pass it around to your friends, your family.
Next Wednesday night into Thursday morning, big rain event. So
if you live in the burned scar area, and I
think we'll be saying that for the next three or
(01:08):
four years, unfortunately, you've got to be aware of that.
That ring can come down. It pushed a firefighter into
the ocean. It pushed an LA firefighter into the ocean
in his car. Those guys are prepared. Those guys know
what's going on. And he got tossed towards Catalina. So
you got to be prepared, all right. Alex Stone is
(01:30):
with us. One of the girl world's greatest report is
that you bob ding dong to tomorrow. We're gonna be good.
I'm going up to Bakersfield for Brooks and Done. So
it's not gonna be running raining tomorrow. No snow over
the grapevine. No, you're gold, tom you are gold to mo.
I mean, look, don't take my word for it, but
you should be Okay, Wait, I didn't know your country
music guy.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Oh that's all I listened to. That's that's all of it.
But yeah, Brooks and Done tomorrow playing up in Bakersfield.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
We went. We got to go before they retire. Have
you heard you've heard the joke of of what a
if you play a country song backwards? It's an old joke.
Your dog comes back and your wife guy gets his
wife his dog in his truck back. I'm a big
My mom was big country music fan, loved country music.
(02:15):
Willie Nelson, you know, going way back to some of
the earlier UH bands always playing in the house. Love
that country music, that's good.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
George Strait is going to be playing now at SOFI
and a couple of months, and the tickets are insanely expensive.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
When I look, do you want to sit on the.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Floor, it's like fourteen hundred bucks a tenn no way, yeah,
and even above that and somebody higher up on the
floor and it's like four thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, Well you got that cheap to go to a
concert these.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Day, buddy, you got that ABC reporting money?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
No, No, I doubt that's why.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
That's why I have to go to a park in
Bakersfield where it's you know, one hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
You're like, I'm in, I'm good, I get I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Hey, I'll tell you well, let's talk about the news first,
and I'll tell you the story here. But you have
you got you've got three skiers been bare in an avalanche. Hum, yeah,
in Alaska.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
So the Alaska State Troopers they've been trying to get
a plane or a helicopter up to get surveillance over
this huge slide that happened two days ago because they
need to know the risk to try to go in there.
The avalanche risk has been off the charts in Alaska
the last couple of days, and the weather yesterday and
so far today as we've been talking to the Alaska
State Troopers that they say, no, that the weather's been
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too bad to get an aircraft up to low clouds, snow,
all of it coming down.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
But they've got to get.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
A look so that the troopers and avalanche experts and
guides that they can figure out a plan of how
they're going to get in there. It is three men,
all in their late thirties doing an adventure trip. You know,
you would think you probably saved up forever for this thing.
Just an extreme adventure trip of hella skiing where the
helicopter brings you up to the top, you go down,
(03:52):
You're with guides, you're paying this company. The guys are
from Florida, Montana and Minnesota. They went on this commercial
adventure trip. This took them out and then there was
an avalanche and so now they're buried. This guy, Jonathan Cunley,
he planned to take the same trip last Friday. He
said conditions were so bad they never got out.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
They kept the laying, kept the laying so our days there,
we never were given the green light to fly.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
In remote Alaska, about forty miles south of Anchorage. And
then he was going to wait around and he would
have been on this trip, but he had to go
back to work. So finally he was like, I gotta go.
We're not going to go. So the company called Chogatch
Powder Guides. They say that they are ready to help
in any way they can. Condolences go out to the
buried scars. They are in an avalanche. It's about one
hundred feet deep in Girdwood, Alaska, which is the ski
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capital of Alaska, very popular but very remote. A lot
of these companies will bring people in. They had avalanche
airbags on them to pop to the surface. That didn't work.
The beacons that they had on them will show how
deep they are. They're about forty three feet deep.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
So this is a recovery.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
This is not a rescue, but they're going to have
to dig them out and the snow he's coming down.
The avalanche danger off the charts. So and one of
the experts we talked to you said, even if they
do an aerial survey and it looks good, you can
still go in and trigger an avalanche, and they don't
want state troopers and guides caught up in another big one.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
So they're trying to figure out how.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
To get in there.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
They haven't been able to do it yet.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
What do we know about the three guys? Were they
young old fathers.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Thirty eight and thirty nine, two of them thirty nine,
one of them thirty eight. We don't know anything beyond that.
They just put out the names today because they're presumed dead.
It's you know, fatalities at this point, so the Alaska
State Troopers put it out. But beyond that, we don't know.
I tried to talk to this company, chugatsch Powder Guides.
They were not too thrilled to hear from me yesterday.
(05:42):
So they're not giving out a lot of information that
they're not being real cooperative. But they did end up
later through an attorney putting out a statement to kind
of giving the details on it and saying that everything
had looked good. They thought they were good, and then
as they were going down the hill gave way, the
mountain gave way.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, you know what, there's not enough you know, excitement
to be on the ski slopes on the Black diamonds
and all that stuff. You got to go helicopter skiing, huh.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, Colorado, Tahoe, even Big Bear, and that that's not enough, right,
You know, this is about going way out of bounds
into no man's land and really going, you know, just
totally beyond what you would do if you were in bounds.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
But I think that's you know, I think when you
go helicopter skiing, you know, part of the thrill is
you may not make it. I think you know, you
know that.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
The skydiving exactly, you're jumping.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, you're jumping out of a plane.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Where I'm sure they had to sign all kinds of
waivers saying that they know this is inherently dangerous, that
not only the helicopter ride, but the weather in the
area and it could be an avalanche and you could die.
And in this case, this may be the deadliest if
all three, assuming that they're all dead, that will be
the deadliest in two years in the United States, I believe.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
So, yeah, you're not good.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
You know what, You're gonna hear two over the next
couple of days, And I hate this comment. You're gonna
hear they what they love doing, Like really what getting
their lungs compressed with the ice and snow and literally
suffocating to death. That's what they love doing. Get out.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, and we're assuming that they're dead. But I asked
one of the true persons. He said, Alex, you know
they're under forty three feet of snow. They're not you know,
down there. It's kind of like the search for that
Titanic vessel that for so long, where people were like, well,
maybe they're down there and just waiting to be rescued.
He was like, now we haven't found them, but we know.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I never heard of that though before that. You can
blow up balloons and bring you to the.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
S it's an airbag thing that that you activated, and
it's supposed to if you're tumbling in the snow, kind
of like if you're in water, bring you up to
the top. But when it's one that's one hundred feet deep,
this was a massive avalanche they got swept up in.
So when it's something that big, it wasn't gonna work.
It didn't do anything to bring them up.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Okay, I'm glad you were on top of that story.
That's a big story. And now I'm gonna tell you something
here on that lighter. In nineteen eighty three, I'm driving
limousine and I'm asked to pick up a guy at
Lax and on a I think I was on a Tuesday,
and spend Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday with him, driving around
LA and driving him out on Thursday Wednesday or Thursday
(08:12):
night out to Annaelope Valley and he's going to perform
at the Annelope Valley Country in the County Fair out there.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I'm trying to imagine this. Are you wearing a dark suit?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Hearing this dark suit? Maroon Cadillac, all decked out, and
I spent three days with the guy. The guy laid
a five hundred dollars tip on me nineteen eighty three.
That's huge. Yeah, the guy I spent three days with,
drove him around for three days. You probably know the guy,
Johnny Cash.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
How great is that?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
That is pretty amazing? Was he nice to be on
the tip?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Buddy? I can't tell you how nice the guy was.
He put his luggage in the car himself, and then
he sat next to me up front when he was alone.
When his wife, when June Carter Cash. When we picked
up the next day at Lax, we went and he
sat in the back with her, but when he was
just alone without her, every trip we made, either you know,
to a studio, to a meeting, out to the fair,
(09:04):
he sat right next to me. That is incredible and
told me great stories.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I mean, I couldn't believe it, and I got nervous
if I make a bad move and I'm doing cartwheels
and Johnny Cash dies, I did it?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Sure? I love that you were driving a limo back there.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, for two and a half years I drove limousine.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Did he sing to you at all? Do you O
bring a fire?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Give you a little?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I walk the lot?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
He did not, But he told me some great stories.
I really can't tell most of them on the air,
but you know some old stories old you know, old school.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
It's not around anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
You can tell the stories. Go. I don't know, I
don't know, but but what that's great? You love country music.
I didn't know that about y'all. I'll remember that around Christmas. Perfect,
all right, thanks for coming on man, all right, Alex Stone,
big country music guy out there. But Christmas, yeah, well yeah,
give everybody a gift. Oh okay, the only time, the
(10:00):
only one that didn't get a gift this year was Angel?
Is she with us? Angel Martinez?
Speaker 5 (10:05):
I am, but I thought you said that you tried
to double I did.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I found the card and the cards all ripped up,
and it's a long story. When we come back, I'm
gonna tell the story and how I screwed Angel Martinez
out of gift this year. And guess what it felt good? Oh?
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Oh wow?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Is that good for you?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
That?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Does that make it good for you? Does that make
it fair?
Speaker 5 (10:28):
I feel I feel good?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yeah, I bet you do. All right, come back, I'm
gonna tell you how I screwed Angel Martinez out of
a Christmas gift and I enjoyed it.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Mayo from
KFI AM six forty long.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
All right, real quickly, before we get in the news.
I give cash not much. You know, you can't retire
on it, but as Christmas gifts to the people, work
here so I can make fun of him the rest
of the three hundred and sixty four days a year.
You know, give me a basket with a sausage, some
pancake mix, and you can call him an idiot for
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three hundred and sixty four days. And that works. That works. Sometimes.
I stole that from who's the guy that does sports
on KLAC on weekends? No, not Isaac's. He's got that
really cool radio voice. It sounds like this. I can't
remember this, but when I do remember his name, I'll
give him credit for that line. So I'm driving to
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Oregon for Christmas, and I didn't have Angel Martinez's home address.
She always gives it to me every year, and then
I put it on the envelope and I never write
it down, and I always have to ask for address
every year. So I'm driving to Oregon. I give everybody
else their Christmas gift. And I get to Calusa Casino
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and yeah, right outside, right outside, I think you can
see where this is going, right outside of reading California.
And I get hammered. I lose everything. I lose at slots,
the tables. I think I lost money while I was
eating somehow. I just dropped a twenty and couldn't find it.
(12:14):
I lose, lose, lose, lose. So I go to the
room and I reach in my bag and I find
a granola bar that I bought earlier at a gas station,
and I turn on the TV. It's on ESPN. It's
two am. I'm buzzed and I'm eating a granola bar,
and I have no more money. I've tapped out all
(12:37):
the life man. I tapped out the ATM. I didn't
want to jack a credit card and paid eighty dollars
for every nine dollars you pull out. And I go
to get another granola bar, and I pull out the
envelope that has Angel Martinez's name on it. I forgot
I brought that with me. I popped that sucker open,
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and that hundred went with me downstairs at the casino,
and I said, I'm going to double Angel's Christmas gift.
She's gonna get two hundred or five hundred one thousand.
I'm gonna give her every dime I make with this HYUNDI.
Ten minutes later, another granola bar, Mari ESPN and you
(13:20):
went down with the ship Angel.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Hmm.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
You totally put an image in my hands.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Yeah, you totally put an image in my head of
the movie Pulp Fiction when me and John Travolta's character
they get back to her place and he goes to
the bathroom and she's got his jacket on, and she
reaches in the pocket and she pulls out what she
thinks is I think cocaine or something like heroin. But
the look on her face when she when she feels
it in the pocket, she's like, oh, what's this?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah, that's me and pulls.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
It out, kind of rubs it between her fingers and
she goes, oh, And I just imagine your face doing
the exact same and the ensuing.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Result after her, right complete misery.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah. Well look, Angel, you had a shot at know
and making some big box and you look you blew it.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Well, I you know, I really I really appreciate the effort,
because it's really the thought that counts.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
That's right. But Angel, look, I don't think you appreciate enough.
Where you could have had a thousand dollars gift. I
could have turned that one hundred into a thousand, and
you would have been styling and you get the post.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
What was really cool is when you did send the
Christmas card inside. When I opened it up, I'm like, oh,
I can't believe he remembered. And I opened it up
and it said something really nice blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Right, Well, I sent him the ripped open envelope to
where I had to go in and get the hundred.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
And there was tape on the back of the envelope
and everything, you know, and I'm like, oh, that's weird.
But the weirdest thing was like the iou in.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
There, that's right coupon for you all. Sorry, Angel, I'
hit you next year, baby, you know, maybe.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
All right real quickly, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Speaking of country music, Alex Stone Big Big a country
music guy, and I told the story driving Johnny Cash.
This was, well, when we come back, I'm gonna play
you the song that my wife selected for our first
what is that for? Called the first dance? First dance,
first dance? My wife she said, what's what song do
(15:25):
you want to play for the first dance? I said,
I don't know, how about hey Jude? And she's like,
you want to dance that long? And I and she goes,
well what else? I said, I don't know, Yeah, I
don't know, And she said, let me pick it out. Oh,
that's a good choice.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
An update from yesterday's program. If you listened to the
show yesterday, we had the guy on Chauci the rocket
Man Valencia. He's the human cannon ball who missed the
net in Riverside, did a couple of cartwheels and ended
up in the hospital broken ribs, broken wrist, and a
busted liver. He's six generation entertainer when it comes to
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the carnival or circus, and he's a very pleasant guy.
He doesn't have health insurance because, as you would suspect,
it's very difficult to get State Farm or Triple A
or Amiica to ensure you when your occupation is the
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human cannonball. They see the danger and the risk in
insuring you, and so it's almost impossible to get insurance
as a human cannonball. So he started to go fund me,
and we said to the audience, Hey, if you want
to participate in this, go fund me. Maybe can raise
a couple of bucks for this guy. And then we
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had him on and nobody was donating. Everybody's just sitting
on their wallets. I did my job, put them on
the air. That's that was my contribution. And then everybody
sat on their wallets until I sat on the air.
You people are cheap, you're not helping this human cannonball.
And man, did that have a reaction with the audience.
He was at forty one hundred four dollars when we
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started yesterday. He's now at ten thousand and nine dollars.
This guy knocked it out, or the audience did. Man,
the audience came to play. Kayla, I gotta be careful
with these names. Hold on. It was a couple of
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names I mentioned yesterday that sefush get ready with that
dumb button here, Kayla Bander Vasquaya, Benskaya, Benderskaya gave fifteen
hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Another one named ding Dong gave ten dollars. Here's another one,
t U l w A R w O R T S. Tollwartz,
Jenny Tollwartz, all right, Jenny Towards Jenny Jenny Towarts. Oh,
(18:15):
I get it, sorry, Jenna Towards, all right, sorry. And
then we can that's fine, we can. Uh. Here's another one.
Uh swimming s w I M M I n H
first name Lou swimming m hmm loose loose. Oh okay,
(18:38):
God almighty, everybody has to be a comedy writer here.
This one I don't understand. Cloved close c l O
z O V close off, Oliver close off all Oliver
close off, close off Oliver close off. Another one here,
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m A W E I N I maween moweeney, Pat mcweeny.
Is that a real name? I don't know, Pat Trick Mweeney,
Pat Mweeney. All right, but man, think you guys really
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stepped up. Anonymous gave five hundred or fifty. Elizabeth more
Leno m O r l I n L gave fifty bucks. Man,
look at these people really came to play here. Another
one here, all right, j O r g A N
Jorgan O j O r g a n. Last name Jorgan,
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first name Hugh.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
Huh a A lot of comedians out there, yeah, Hugh Jorgan.
All right, okay, all right, I got this one before
I read it, So that's a I'm glad for that.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Position. P O s I T I E N position,
first name Annie, any position. Mm hmm. I think I'm
getting posed here so to speak. Oh, why do you
people do that to me? You just make me look
like a fool, You make me look dumb. Well, maybe
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you don't. Then another one here, Josephine. Oh no, I'm
not using that one. The last name. I gave a
hundred bucks. It was a it's a big donation, but
also a big no no to say. On the air,
Leo rolland Leo r O L l A n D Leo,
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Roland Hunter Bucks, Roland Leo, Roland Hunter Bucks. A guy
named Nestra Hunter Christina Aguilera gave ten dollars kind of
cheap for Christina. Janine Holman hope, that's right. Something nasty
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fifty bucks. Another anonymous, another anonymous James Duffin. So, man,
this guy he has a gofundmeme and it's the Rocket Man.
He has ten thousand and nine dollars. So this audience
came up with six grand, croch almost six grand.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
That's pretty awesome, man.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, for people, very generous audience, very cool audience. That's
off kudos thing. We've got the House Whisper coming on
at six twenty six twenty. But when we come back,
we have Chief Eric Para Huntington Beach Police Department. We'll
talk to him about what's going on Huntington Beach and
Sandy Spears will come out at five thirty five to
talk about those eagles, Shadow and Jackie. They had two babies. Yeah,
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that's kind of a cool deal. We're live on KFI
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It's KMF I am six forty and you're listening to
The Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. It
is the Conway Show. Okay, it's sort of raining outside
here in the San Fernando Valley. Uh. From from what
I understand, we're this is gonna be the last of it.
We're gonna get a little bit of rain. We're gonna
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talk to Alex Stone here in a second. We're gonna
get a tiny bit of rain, a tiny, tiny bit,
and uh until about six pm, and then that's a rap.
That's a rap with the rain until Monday. Monday is
going to be fairly decent amount of rain, Tuesday a
lot more, Wednesday more than Tuesday, and Thursday an inch
(00:47):
and a half in most areas. Thursday, Wednesday night and
Thursday is going to be your big rain event. Think
about that. Pass it around to your friends, your family.
Next Wednesday night into Thursday morning, big rain event. So
if you live in the burned scar area, and I
think we'll be saying that for the next three or
(01:08):
four years, unfortunately, you've got to be aware of that.
That ring can come down. It pushed a firefighter into
the ocean. It pushed an LA firefighter into the ocean
in his car. Those guys are prepared. Those guys know
what's going on. And he got tossed towards Catalina. So
you got to be prepared, all right. Alex Stone is
(01:30):
with us. One of the girl world's greatest report is
that you bob ding dong to tomorrow. We're gonna be good.
I'm going up to Bakersfield for Brooks and Done. So
it's not gonna be running raining tomorrow. No snow over
the grapevine. No, you're gold, tom you are gold to mo.
I mean, look, don't take my word for it, but
you should be Okay, Wait, I didn't know your country
music guy.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Oh that's all I listened to. That's that's all of it.
But yeah, Brooks and Done tomorrow playing up in Bakersfield.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
We went. We got to go before they retire. Have
you heard you've heard the joke of of what a
if you play a country song backwards? It's an old joke.
Your dog comes back and your wife guy gets his
wife his dog in his truck back. I'm a big
My mom was big country music fan, loved country music.
(02:15):
Willie Nelson, you know, going way back to some of
the earlier UH bands always playing in the house. Love
that country music, that's good.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
George Strait is going to be playing now at SOFI
and a couple of months, and the tickets are insanely expensive.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
When I look, do you want to sit on the.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Floor, it's like fourteen hundred bucks a tenn no way, yeah,
and even above that and somebody higher up on the
floor and it's like four thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, Well you got that cheap to go to a
concert these.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Day, buddy, you got that ABC reporting money?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
No, No, I doubt that's why.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
That's why I have to go to a park in
Bakersfield where it's you know, one hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
You're like, I'm in, I'm good, I get I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Hey, I'll tell you well, let's talk about the news first,
and I'll tell you the story here. But you have
you got you've got three skiers been bare in an avalanche. Hum, yeah,
in Alaska.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
So the Alaska State Troopers they've been trying to get
a plane or a helicopter up to get surveillance over
this huge slide that happened two days ago because they
need to know the risk to try to go in there.
The avalanche risk has been off the charts in Alaska
the last couple of days, and the weather yesterday and
so far today as we've been talking to the Alaska
State Troopers that they say, no, that the weather's been
(03:26):
too bad to get an aircraft up to low clouds, snow,
all of it coming down.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
But they've got to get.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
A look so that the troopers and avalanche experts and
guides that they can figure out a plan of how
they're going to get in there. It is three men,
all in their late thirties doing an adventure trip. You know,
you would think you probably saved up forever for this thing.
Just an extreme adventure trip of hella skiing where the
helicopter brings you up to the top, you go down,
(03:52):
You're with guides, you're paying this company. The guys are
from Florida, Montana and Minnesota. They went on this commercial
adventure trip. This took them out and then there was
an avalanche and so now they're buried. This guy, Jonathan Cunley,
he planned to take the same trip last Friday. He
said conditions were so bad they never got out.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
They kept the laying, kept the laying so our days there,
we never were given the green light to fly.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
In remote Alaska, about forty miles south of Anchorage. And
then he was going to wait around and he would
have been on this trip, but he had to go
back to work. So finally he was like, I gotta go.
We're not going to go. So the company called Chogatch
Powder Guides. They say that they are ready to help
in any way they can. Condolences go out to the
buried scars. They are in an avalanche. It's about one
hundred feet deep in Girdwood, Alaska, which is the ski
(04:38):
capital of Alaska, very popular but very remote. A lot
of these companies will bring people in. They had avalanche
airbags on them to pop to the surface. That didn't work.
The beacons that they had on them will show how
deep they are. They're about forty three feet deep.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
So this is a recovery.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
This is not a rescue, but they're going to have
to dig them out and the snow he's coming down.
The avalanche danger off the charts. So and one of
the experts we talked to you said, even if they
do an aerial survey and it looks good, you can
still go in and trigger an avalanche, and they don't
want state troopers and guides caught up in another big one.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
So they're trying to figure out how.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
To get in there.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
They haven't been able to do it yet.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
What do we know about the three guys? Were they
young old fathers.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Thirty eight and thirty nine, two of them thirty nine,
one of them thirty eight. We don't know anything beyond that.
They just put out the names today because they're presumed dead.
It's you know, fatalities at this point, so the Alaska
State Troopers put it out. But beyond that, we don't know.
I tried to talk to this company, chugatsch Powder Guides.
They were not too thrilled to hear from me yesterday.
(05:42):
So they're not giving out a lot of information that
they're not being real cooperative. But they did end up
later through an attorney putting out a statement to kind
of giving the details on it and saying that everything
had looked good. They thought they were good, and then
as they were going down the hill gave way, the
mountain gave way.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, you know what, there's not enough you know, excitement
to be on the ski slopes on the Black diamonds
and all that stuff. You got to go helicopter skiing, huh.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, Colorado, Tahoe, even Big Bear, and that that's not enough, right,
You know, this is about going way out of bounds
into no man's land and really going, you know, just
totally beyond what you would do if you were in bounds.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
But I think that's you know, I think when you
go helicopter skiing, you know, part of the thrill is
you may not make it. I think you know, you
know that.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
The skydiving exactly, you're jumping.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, you're jumping out of a plane.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Where I'm sure they had to sign all kinds of
waivers saying that they know this is inherently dangerous, that
not only the helicopter ride, but the weather in the
area and it could be an avalanche and you could die.
And in this case, this may be the deadliest if
all three, assuming that they're all dead, that will be
the deadliest in two years in the United States, I believe.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
So, yeah, you're not good.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
You know what, You're gonna hear two over the next
couple of days, And I hate this comment. You're gonna
hear they what they love doing, Like really what getting
their lungs compressed with the ice and snow and literally
suffocating to death. That's what they love doing. Get out.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, and we're assuming that they're dead. But I asked
one of the true persons. He said, Alex, you know
they're under forty three feet of snow. They're not you know,
down there. It's kind of like the search for that
Titanic vessel that for so long, where people were like, well,
maybe they're down there and just waiting to be rescued.
He was like, now we haven't found them, but we know.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I never heard of that though before that. You can
blow up balloons and bring you to the.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
S it's an airbag thing that that you activated, and
it's supposed to if you're tumbling in the snow, kind
of like if you're in water, bring you up to
the top. But when it's one that's one hundred feet deep,
this was a massive avalanche they got swept up in.
So when it's something that big, it wasn't gonna work.
It didn't do anything to bring them up.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Okay, I'm glad you were on top of that story.
That's a big story. And now I'm gonna tell you something
here on that lighter. In nineteen eighty three, I'm driving
limousine and I'm asked to pick up a guy at
Lax and on a I think I was on a Tuesday,
and spend Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday with him, driving around
LA and driving him out on Thursday Wednesday or Thursday
(08:12):
night out to Annaelope Valley and he's going to perform
at the Annelope Valley Country in the County Fair out there.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I'm trying to imagine this. Are you wearing a dark suit?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Hearing this dark suit? Maroon Cadillac, all decked out, and
I spent three days with the guy. The guy laid
a five hundred dollars tip on me nineteen eighty three.
That's huge. Yeah, the guy I spent three days with,
drove him around for three days. You probably know the guy,
Johnny Cash.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
How great is that?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
That is pretty amazing? Was he nice to be on
the tip?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Buddy? I can't tell you how nice the guy was.
He put his luggage in the car himself, and then
he sat next to me up front when he was alone.
When his wife, when June Carter Cash. When we picked
up the next day at Lax, we went and he
sat in the back with her, but when he was
just alone without her, every trip we made, either you know,
to a studio, to a meeting, out to the fair,
(09:04):
he sat right next to me. That is incredible and
told me great stories.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I mean, I couldn't believe it, and I got nervous
if I make a bad move and I'm doing cartwheels
and Johnny Cash dies, I did it?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Sure? I love that you were driving a limo back there.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, for two and a half years I drove limousine.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Did he sing to you at all? Do you O
bring a fire?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Give you a little?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I walk the lot?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
He did not, But he told me some great stories.
I really can't tell most of them on the air,
but you know some old stories old you know, old school.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
It's not around anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
You can tell the stories. Go. I don't know, I
don't know, but but what that's great? You love country music.
I didn't know that about y'all. I'll remember that around Christmas. Perfect,
all right, thanks for coming on man, all right, Alex Stone,
big country music guy out there. But Christmas, yeah, well yeah,
give everybody a gift. Oh okay, the only time, the
(10:00):
only one that didn't get a gift this year was Angel?
Is she with us? Angel Martinez?
Speaker 5 (10:05):
I am, but I thought you said that you tried
to double I did.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I found the card and the cards all ripped up,
and it's a long story. When we come back, I'm
gonna tell the story and how I screwed Angel Martinez
out of gift this year. And guess what it felt good? Oh?
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Oh wow?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Is that good for you?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
That?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Does that make it good for you? Does that make
it fair?
Speaker 5 (10:28):
I feel I feel good?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yeah, I bet you do. All right, come back, I'm
gonna tell you how I screwed Angel Martinez out of
a Christmas gift and I enjoyed it.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Mayo from
KFI AM six forty long.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
All right, real quickly, before we get in the news.
I give cash not much. You know, you can't retire
on it, but as Christmas gifts to the people, work
here so I can make fun of him the rest
of the three hundred and sixty four days a year.
You know, give me a basket with a sausage, some
pancake mix, and you can call him an idiot for
(11:08):
three hundred and sixty four days. And that works. That works. Sometimes.
I stole that from who's the guy that does sports
on KLAC on weekends? No, not Isaac's. He's got that
really cool radio voice. It sounds like this. I can't
remember this, but when I do remember his name, I'll
give him credit for that line. So I'm driving to
(11:28):
Oregon for Christmas, and I didn't have Angel Martinez's home address.
She always gives it to me every year, and then
I put it on the envelope and I never write
it down, and I always have to ask for address
every year. So I'm driving to Oregon. I give everybody
else their Christmas gift. And I get to Calusa Casino
(11:51):
and yeah, right outside, right outside, I think you can
see where this is going, right outside of reading California.
And I get hammered. I lose everything. I lose at slots,
the tables. I think I lost money while I was
eating somehow. I just dropped a twenty and couldn't find it.
(12:14):
I lose, lose, lose, lose. So I go to the
room and I reach in my bag and I find
a granola bar that I bought earlier at a gas station,
and I turn on the TV. It's on ESPN. It's
two am. I'm buzzed and I'm eating a granola bar,
and I have no more money. I've tapped out all
(12:37):
the life man. I tapped out the ATM. I didn't
want to jack a credit card and paid eighty dollars
for every nine dollars you pull out. And I go
to get another granola bar, and I pull out the
envelope that has Angel Martinez's name on it. I forgot
I brought that with me. I popped that sucker open,
(13:00):
and that hundred went with me downstairs at the casino,
and I said, I'm going to double Angel's Christmas gift.
She's gonna get two hundred or five hundred one thousand.
I'm gonna give her every dime I make with this HYUNDI.
Ten minutes later, another granola bar, Mari ESPN and you
(13:20):
went down with the ship Angel.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Hmm.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
You totally put an image in my hands.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Yeah, you totally put an image in my head of
the movie Pulp Fiction when me and John Travolta's character
they get back to her place and he goes to
the bathroom and she's got his jacket on, and she
reaches in the pocket and she pulls out what she
thinks is I think cocaine or something like heroin. But
the look on her face when she when she feels
it in the pocket, she's like, oh, what's this?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah, that's me and pulls.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
It out, kind of rubs it between her fingers and
she goes, oh, And I just imagine your face doing
the exact same and the ensuing.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Result after her, right complete misery.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah. Well look, Angel, you had a shot at know
and making some big box and you look you blew it.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Well, I you know, I really I really appreciate the effort,
because it's really the thought that counts.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
That's right. But Angel, look, I don't think you appreciate enough.
Where you could have had a thousand dollars gift. I
could have turned that one hundred into a thousand, and
you would have been styling and you get the post.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
What was really cool is when you did send the
Christmas card inside. When I opened it up, I'm like, oh,
I can't believe he remembered. And I opened it up
and it said something really nice blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Right, Well, I sent him the ripped open envelope to
where I had to go in and get the hundred.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
And there was tape on the back of the envelope
and everything, you know, and I'm like, oh, that's weird.
But the weirdest thing was like the iou in.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
There, that's right coupon for you all. Sorry, Angel, I'
hit you next year, baby, you know, maybe.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
All right real quickly, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Speaking of country music, Alex Stone Big Big a country
music guy, and I told the story driving Johnny Cash.
This was, well, when we come back, I'm gonna play
you the song that my wife selected for our first
what is that for? Called the first dance? First dance,
first dance? My wife she said, what's what song do
(15:25):
you want to play for the first dance? I said,
I don't know, how about hey Jude? And she's like,
you want to dance that long? And I and she goes,
well what else? I said, I don't know, Yeah, I
don't know, And she said, let me pick it out. Oh,
that's a good choice.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
An update from yesterday's program. If you listened to the
show yesterday, we had the guy on Chauci the rocket
Man Valencia. He's the human cannon ball who missed the
net in Riverside, did a couple of cartwheels and ended
up in the hospital broken ribs, broken wrist, and a
busted liver. He's six generation entertainer when it comes to
(16:13):
the carnival or circus, and he's a very pleasant guy.
He doesn't have health insurance because, as you would suspect,
it's very difficult to get State Farm or Triple A
or Amiica to ensure you when your occupation is the
(16:34):
human cannonball. They see the danger and the risk in
insuring you, and so it's almost impossible to get insurance
as a human cannonball. So he started to go fund me,
and we said to the audience, Hey, if you want
to participate in this, go fund me. Maybe can raise
a couple of bucks for this guy. And then we
(16:54):
had him on and nobody was donating. Everybody's just sitting
on their wallets. I did my job, put them on
the air. That's that was my contribution. And then everybody
sat on their wallets until I sat on the air.
You people are cheap, you're not helping this human cannonball.
And man, did that have a reaction with the audience.
He was at forty one hundred four dollars when we
(17:20):
started yesterday. He's now at ten thousand and nine dollars.
This guy knocked it out, or the audience did. Man,
the audience came to play. Kayla, I gotta be careful
with these names. Hold on. It was a couple of
(17:40):
names I mentioned yesterday that sefush get ready with that
dumb button here, Kayla Bander Vasquaya, Benskaya, Benderskaya gave fifteen
hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Another one named ding Dong gave ten dollars. Here's another one,
t U l w A R w O R T S. Tollwartz,
Jenny Tollwartz, all right, Jenny Towards Jenny Jenny Towarts. Oh,
(18:15):
I get it, sorry, Jenna Towards, all right, sorry. And
then we can that's fine, we can. Uh. Here's another one.
Uh swimming s w I M M I n H
first name Lou swimming m hmm loose loose. Oh okay,
(18:38):
God almighty, everybody has to be a comedy writer here.
This one I don't understand. Cloved close c l O
z O V close off, Oliver close off all Oliver
close off, close off Oliver close off. Another one here,
(19:02):
m A W E I N I maween moweeney, Pat mcweeny.
Is that a real name? I don't know, Pat Trick Mweeney,
Pat Mweeney. All right, but man, think you guys really
(19:24):
stepped up. Anonymous gave five hundred or fifty. Elizabeth more
Leno m O r l I n L gave fifty bucks. Man,
look at these people really came to play here. Another
one here, all right, j O r g A N
Jorgan O j O r g a n. Last name Jorgan,
(19:46):
first name Hugh.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
Huh a A lot of comedians out there, yeah, Hugh Jorgan.
All right, okay, all right, I got this one before
I read it, So that's a I'm glad for that.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Position. P O s I T I E N position,
first name Annie, any position. Mm hmm. I think I'm
getting posed here so to speak. Oh, why do you
people do that to me? You just make me look
like a fool, You make me look dumb. Well, maybe
(20:30):
you don't. Then another one here, Josephine. Oh no, I'm
not using that one. The last name. I gave a
hundred bucks. It was a it's a big donation, but
also a big no no to say. On the air,
Leo rolland Leo r O L l A n D Leo,
(20:52):
Roland Hunter Bucks, Roland Leo, Roland Hunter Bucks. A guy
named Nestra Hunter Christina Aguilera gave ten dollars kind of
cheap for Christina. Janine Holman hope, that's right. Something nasty
(21:12):
fifty bucks. Another anonymous, another anonymous James Duffin. So, man,
this guy he has a gofundmeme and it's the Rocket Man.
He has ten thousand and nine dollars. So this audience
came up with six grand, croch almost six grand.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
That's pretty awesome, man.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, for people, very generous audience, very cool audience. That's
off kudos thing. We've got the House Whisper coming on
at six twenty six twenty. But when we come back,
we have Chief Eric Para Huntington Beach Police Department. We'll
talk to him about what's going on Huntington Beach and
Sandy Spears will come out at five thirty five to
talk about those eagles, Shadow and Jackie. They had two babies. Yeah,
(21:54):
that's kind of a cool deal. We're live on KFI
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