August 1, 2025 • 31 mins
Ramen Chat / School Memories / Thrift Stores / King Taco
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's camp. I am sixty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Americans could
run out of bananas. Americans eat more bananas than any
other fresh fruit per capita. I didn't know that. Were
you guys to worry of that? Do we eat more
bananas than any other fruit? Excited? Sort of makes sense.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I guess I thought it was apples, That's what I
was gonna say.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Really, well, you're both wrong. Who eats apples in the morning? Nobody?
I have and you have?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
That just seems like a snack that everyone has.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Though, when's the last time you had an apple? Stefan,
when's the last time you had an apple?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Oh? Uh?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Probably like in May?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
He just ate three cups of noodles backed back then,
No way really and he did like an apple flavored
a march On cup noodles taster test noodles.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Well, you had the full cup of noodles, cup noodles, Yeah,
cup noodles. Yeah, you had three of those.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Well today I had to yet, Uh.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
The ones from in here? Yeah, aren't those smaller than
the like the regular ones? No?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I think that the regular size. But she means she's
trying to make me look worse. But I only had
two and a half.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I don't need much.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
You had three cups of.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
The Okay, okay, okay, hold on, hold on, what's going
on in there? Fake news? Fake news?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I had, I had, I had a march I had
a march on on my own, and then that.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
It's the same.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
It's like a yeah, I've been on that game for
a while.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
So I had that, and then she smelled it and
she's like, oh, I'm going to have one. So she
had one and then she's like, oh, I like the noodles,
I don't like the broth. I'm like, all right, hand
it over. So she saved broth for me, and then
I had another one, and then I added it to
my broth. So that's like technically two and a half.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Wait a minute, I'm I'm dazed. So she ate all
the noodles out of it, and you took the broth
and drank it?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Well no, I mean well I put it in my
second one.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So if she was eating cereal, would you take the milk?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I just took a chance. I was like, she doesn't
get around, so.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Listen, just around.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Oh that's great. How do you know, you know, when
she's out of work. We actually talked about it.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
Oh, real questionnaire. Before I took the broth.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I said, I like the noodles. I just don't like
the broth. It's got too much sodium in it.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
Well do you get around?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
He said, I'll take it, and I said, he goes,
and then we had the discussion.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
I said, well, I'm just picking the noodles out with
a fork. I'm not even really touching.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
The broth, and he goes, I trust you you don't
get around.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Wow. What a compliment and an insult. I guess yes. Yeah,
but Bellio without telling us how old you are? What's
your history with cup noodles? And I'm gonna go with
like driver's license, I'm gonna go with Cup of noodles,
what's your history?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Hell?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Have you had them?
Speaker 7 (03:20):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Well, over four decades.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Maybe easily, but I like top ram and normally normally
would not.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Eat whatever whatever the brand name is, noodles with that
that really salty liquid. Yeah, you've had it for over
forty years probably okay, with husband's boyfriends, you know, friends
you went to college with, whatever. Yeah, this has got
to be the first time somebody offered to drink your juice.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
It's absolutely the first time.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
It's got to be good for her, and it might
be the last time.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Yeah, it's probably the last.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I I actually, if I offered it to him tomorrow, yeah,
he would take it.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Because you know why, why because you don't get around?
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Because I do not get around.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Man.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I did walk by the studio and I heard a
big bang and I looked in and it was it
was a shoelace flying through the room. Somebody had too
much salt and broke a shoelace. That was Foo foo food.
They popped the lace.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Yeah, he was man, oh man, all.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Right, we got to go back to this because we
always do with stuff. Foosh. How many of those can
you knock off? The couple noodles? Can you go six?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I could probably have at least another at least another
four or five.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Those are good.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Really, I'd have to look into it.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
But I actually have heard recently that they've cut down
dramatically on the salt that they put in it.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Oh is that right? Yeah? Yeah, but it's just and
now it's just a pound essentially.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
It did seem Yeah, my noodles were less salty this time.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Man.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, but that, man, that that is a really good
eat when you eat those really hot noodles initially with
that really salty liquid, and because it's getting.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Colder, I'm like, oh, that just sounds so good, like
a hot thing of you know.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
He didn't comparison yesterday, wasn't it yesterday he compared cup
noodles to the march on and which one had.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
The better broth?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yep? Where is it getting colder? What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Getting cooler?
Speaker 7 (05:22):
It's a it's a cool weather food.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Oh, I see right, But he's going to ninety five,
so you might have to cut back on cup noodles
this weekend.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Oh yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
It's yeah, we're going back to the heat, back to
the heat ice cream.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
But I'm surprised that Bellio is into the cup noodles.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
That doesn't rightly I'm not either, but he just made
those noodles sound so good. Do you know they have
over eleven hundred grams of sodium?
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Well no, no.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
I mean milligrams?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Whoa, no kidding, really, there's salting that But I didn't
realize eleven I mean that's eleven teaspoones or tables Wow,
that's a lot. Yeah, but they are good hot noodles,
especially when it's really really hot, you know, piping hot.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
My favorite was she finished it and she goes, you know,
I heard that the actually that the noodles and this
cup of noodles is not that good for you much.
Why do you think it's so delicious? Why do you
think everyone goes to McDonald's, right?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
And why do you think it's nine cents for a
box of those things? There's nothing in it.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
But though they dropped the they dropped the salt amount
from about fifteen to a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
All right, all right, and would you get him down
here in the commissary. It's in the Yeah. Oh it's
a snack drawer. Oh I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I know either. That's why I got shocked, and I
got so stoked about it.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I just thought, oh, I didn't know that. I'll take
one then, yeah, great, I got chicken or chicken.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Michelle's hearing this, and she's gonna be like, oh boy, all.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Right, So there's a marsh on and then the cup noodle,
both kinds in there. What's better?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I prefer march on?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
All right, I'm gonna go with that. Yeah, alright, I'm
gonna I'm gonna bust this open. I gotta eat these things.
I know it's not good to do it through it. No,
I'm gonna poor believe the boiling water in the breakroom. Yeah,
I'm gonna do the boiling water.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
And uh. And then I'm telling you.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
How to make cup noodles.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Well I thought I was gonna eat them, and then
I'm gonna give you that would have been fantastic. And
then because I don't get around either, you're gonna eat
my liquid? Come about that, all right? Didn't come out right? Juice.
You're gonna drink my juice whether you like it or not.
All right, Well again, didn't come out again, didn't come
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out right, didn't come out right. But you're gonna you're
gonna eat it.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
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Speaker 1 (07:48):
My reunions coming up. M yeah, oh not so loud.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Sorry everybody that was I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Oh my god, I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I don't know if I don't know, if I want
to go, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Oh you have to you're a movie star.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
No, I love all the people I went to school with.
I just I don't know what to say to anybody.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
The ones you care about you already still see, right.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah, I'd like to see the other people I haven't
seen in a while.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Did you go to your Was it thirtieth or which
was the last one?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, I didn't go to the twentieth because I was
out of town. I lived in Canada at the time,
and I don't think I went to the thirtieth either. No,
I did. I went to the thirty or thirty fifth.
I remember going to one.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Now, all your buddies that you're still friends with, are
they going?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yeah, you have to. They all drink and they wrestle.
You know, they wrestle, they wrestle.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
You have to go. That'd be cool. Yeah, I don't
if I get a picture.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I don't know if I can wrestle though, right Well.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
You and Krozier and Steffush can practice.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
And I remember there's about eight of us that I've
known since either third grade or seventh grade, and we
were wrestling wrestling. I had a wedding and I remember
I Nancy, Nancy Tampkin saying to another wife one of
the other wives said, Hey, how come these guys every
(09:20):
time there's a big wedding they get drunk and they
tackle each other and wrestle, and Nancy goes because they
don't know how to communicate, and she nailed us right exactly. Yeah,
just a little you know, cut off, cut off, lows right,
We're just a little we just shut down, right, Guys
(09:41):
do that as you get older, just shut down right, thing, Dawn.
My dad did that right. I remember I told the
story on the air, but I was at home one day.
I remember I was home. I'm you know, sick or
got kicked out of school or whatever. And my mom,
who was going out to do errands, said to my dad, hey,
(10:03):
can you take Jamie's lunch to him? He forgot his lunch,
which is my young second youngest brother. And my dad
said yeah sure. And remember my dad getting in the
car with my dad and he gets in the car,
he starts up and I said, Dad, you don't know
what school you're going to do? And he says, I
have no idea. And he says, he says, where does
(10:27):
your brother go? And I said, he goes to Portola.
It's in Tarzana. I'll show you how to get there.
He goes, oh, I know, I know where it is.
He goes, he goes, wait, he goes, Jamie's in Portola already.
I said, yeah, Dad, this is second year. He only
has one year left and then he's going to go
to Birmingham. He goes, Wow, that's kind of nice, that's
kind of look at it. Get in. My dad couldn't
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tell you any of our teachers. He could probably tell
you one or two of my friends' names. Oh that's
not true. He would nail Robbie Fox, Matt McDaniel, Mike Tennessee, Crouch,
you know Crouch. I think it'd be a tough time
with the other chaps. No, you can help Joe, Joe,
I have to say about five or six friends my dad. Yeah,
(11:10):
that was a touchdown walk off home or from my dad.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
But man, you put my dad into school into a
car and say hey, can you, you know, take Corey's
lunch to him, He's like, what, I don't know where
that kid goes to school. But he wasn't the only
dad like that. You know. I had a couple of
friends whose dad had dad said no idea where what
(11:35):
they did during the day.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
Yeah, I think that that was prevalent.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
About your dad. Did your dad know you where you
went to school and your teachers?
Speaker 6 (11:41):
We lived right across the street from the school.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
He figured it out pretty quick, No, he did, because
my mother was the one that went to all the
you know, parent teacher conferences and yeah, so no he couldn't.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I remember I had to my my dad wasn't big
on you know, back to school night and stuff like that,
because I was the big on it either, because that's
when I always got the talking to him. Why oh
he sits here and henoys that kid and that kid,
and that he always leaves his sweater here.
Speaker 8 (12:09):
And then.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
No, but I just found my way into predicaments, my prediction.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
Yeah's look where I am.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
But I remember, I remember in fifth grade, either fourth
or fifth grade, we're gonna have somebody come into the
auditorium to teach all the boys. The girls didn't have
to go. All the boys had to go. And it
was going to be the Birds and the Bees conversation
in fourth grade in the auditorium. And I remember my
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mom didn't want to go for obvious reasons, right, And
I dragged my dad to this thing, and man was
he embarrassed sitting there talking to you fourth graders about
their wieners the worst, and then just that he sits there,
he's got his head eyes like, oh man, what am
(13:04):
I doing? So my dad on the way home had
to talk with me. He said, hey, he says, uh,
if you get anybody pregnant, I've made a couple of bucks.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
I'll help you out.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I was a wrap, Wow, that's it. Nod, that would
have been great, though. Yeah, I bed a couple of bucks.
Do whatever you want to, But I did you guys
have that in school? We went to the auditorium and
they had They showed a.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Film script and not in the auditorium, no talking about
them in the classroom.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
We do it the whole school all well, there were
there were five fourth grade classes and they all went
to the auditorium at night. Remember how I remember how
sort of weird but cool it was to go to
school at night.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
It was so weird. Yeah, I always remembered it like
this is so odd.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, like the back to school pta all that stuff,
and it was kind of a cool vibe. You know,
the moon's out and you see the playground that you
can't see anything, you know, at night, all the lights
are on. There's a cool vibe about it.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
You'd see, like when whenever I saw teachers like out
of their element or like in different clothes and stuff.
It was so I remember seeing a teacher in the
teachers lands smoking.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
It was like it was like scandalous.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Smoking.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
I believe it was smoking.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
It's because they weren't real to you because there was
this authoritative figure.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
And so yeah, no I don't it was. That was
wild man.
Speaker 9 (14:32):
You know when I went because I went to l
a u.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
S d.
Speaker 9 (14:36):
And like the beginning of my elementary school career, and
it was back at a time where the teachers had
their students over to their homes and we would do
stuff with them. Yeah. What I remember one time and
I totally remember her name, Missus Fostry. We went over
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to her place. We had we played ten and then
we had like a pollock dinner her. It was a
couple of other teachers also, but I mean we went
to their home and we lived away.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Yeah, lots of tennis, lots of tennis, lots of tennis.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
That's weird, man. I don't think I ever was invited
to any of my teachers homes.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Yeah, another time, Like you imagine that nowadays, Angel, Like
you know, like you know, your seven year old is
invited your teacher's house with a couple of other friends, you'd.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Be like, what, Nope, the hell out of here. Yeah,
that's how far did they live from you?
Speaker 9 (15:35):
They lived pretty close to the school, so not not
too far away. I think one of them lived like
over in the Los Felis area, and we were, you know,
over in Hollywood a little more, but just east of
the school.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Did you have paper drives when you were a kid?
Speaker 9 (15:52):
Paper drives you collect all.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
The newspaper and you know stack them up out around
the school and whoever got the most paper got like
pizza for the day or something.
Speaker 9 (16:00):
Oh I think like in like sixth grade.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yeah, yeah, big dong, we had a big, huge Yeah,
we'd love that. I'd love that paper drive you because
we used to go collect them off on early Sunday morning.
We just go around the neighborhood and collect their Sunday Times. Right,
they won't miss that, Yeah, right, they did. They We
never got caught doing it, but we just collected you know,
people's newspapers. Look, we got one hundred of Sunday's Times,
(16:24):
like where'd you get that? We just bought them? Or
you go to the machine and put a quarter in
and take ten them. Yeah yeah, I.
Speaker 9 (16:31):
Used to do that as a kid. I you know,
put a coin in and then take all the papers
and then go sell the papers.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Oh that's great. See you're an entrepreneur, but you also remember,
like the kids today won't remember this, but you remember
always checking the coin slot and the payphone. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
like if there's.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Ten minute row bing dang ding ding ding, Yeah, you
found a quarter.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Like why yeah, it's like a slap machine.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
That's right. That's great.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
You're listening to Conway Junior on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
It's Conway Show. Mark Thompson is here.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Yeah, yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I didn't know that we have I wouldn't say mutual friend.
We've had Jake Joe Hanson on the show years and
years ago, and he's one of my favorite comics. But
I didn't know you were friends with him.
Speaker 10 (17:19):
Oh yeah for many years. I go back to the
Bay Area. That's where we first met in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Come on of the funniest guys ever, I agree completely.
Speaker 10 (17:24):
I think he's literally one of the funniest minds of
his generation.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
He has a run about yard sales that I still
repeat on the show. He said he was having a
yard sale and he put all this stuff out in
the morning, and strangers come by and one guy picks
up a lamp and says he this lamp doesn't have
a shade, and Jake says, yeah, well, it's a seventy
(17:49):
dollars lamp.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
And the reason it's a quarter it's because it doesn't
have a shape, because we want twenty five cents. Forty goes, well,
it doesn't have a shade, and he says, yeah, I
want to make explaining to you that I paid seventy
but I'm willing to give it to you for twenty
five cents because the shade is missing.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
And he says, well, I got to then buy a
shade for it. And Jake said, at that point, my
instincts were to tie him up and burn him to
a steak right there at the garage sale. But I
didn't do that because I know in my history with
garage sales, if you start burning neighbors at a steak,
(18:27):
it cuts down on foot trap. I mean, I don't
do it justice. I mean it's something like it does.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
A whole run.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
He does a whole run on the garage sale and
how you essentially have marked down everything to be purchased
with whatever. And then people are still sitting there like
it's a negotiation. And I think he does the thing
about a leather jacket some guy, like he said, the
leather jacket's five dollars, okay, and the guy goes, I'll
give you a dollar for it, you know, And it
was one of those I'd rather set this fire, set
(18:55):
this on fire right now than sell it to you
for a dollar.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
That's great dollars.
Speaker 10 (19:00):
It's true, though, you know, I've got all this stuff
that I'm looking to get rid of. It's hard just
organizing it.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I'm in the middle of doing that myself, and I
think everybody is because I took stuff to the good
Will the other day, and the good Will when I
was younger, I used to be so happy that you
came by. It's like, oh my god, you know it
will take this for sure? Are you sure you want
to get rid of this? Like I love that now,
you know. I was told by this one in Burbank
(19:27):
that they open it. They start collecting donations at one thirty.
So I showed up at one twenty five and sat
in the car for two minutes. So it's one twenty
seven and I said, I'm hey, can I donate some stuff.
He's like, we don't open a one thirty and I said, well,
rules and rules.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
By the time I walked back to my car, it's
going to be one twenty eight. By the time I
get this stuff out of the car, it might be
one twenty nine. I might just be at the finishing
line here at one thirty. So I bring this stuff
and I said, where can I put it?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
He goes, what is it? I go, wait, wait, what
is it? It's free stuff. It's my free stuff I'm giving
to you. I said, it's a TV set. He says,
does the TV set work? I said, well, it was
in our kitchen this morning and I watched the news
on it, so yes, the little TV set does work.
We just don't have the room fording where we bought
a air fryer, and so he took that. And then
(20:22):
I had two scooters that my daughter used all the time.
And he goes, looks like the you know, one of
the wheels is rusting on I'm like, buddy, look This
is not a negotiation. Either you want it or you don't.
I'm gonna throw this stuff out if you don't want it, right,
But man, they make you feel like like like they're
doing you a favor.
Speaker 10 (20:39):
Well, they make you feel as though. And I've had
the same thing happen where they talk about the vintage
of your TV and it doesn't have a firestick thing
or whatever. It's like, wow, seriously, it's a seventy inch screen.
It's somebody that can make somebody very happy, right, And
and there are other things like that. They make you
feel a little bit like everything has to be in
pristine condition, like that was the thing with your daughter's scooter.
(21:00):
Well there's a little rust on it. Yeah, well, you
know it is huge. That's why I'm here with it.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I called the Salvation Army and we had a bunch
of furniture to give away, and one of them was
a big kitchen table. It was a nice wooden table.
Maybe we spent I don't know, four or five hundred
bucks we bought it. We had it for ten years
and we ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner on that table.
And I had breakfast on that table before they came
(21:24):
that afternoon. I pulled outside and he came to pick
it up. And the guy says, you know, there's a
big chip out of one of those legs. And I said, well,
I've eaten breakfast, luncheon, dinner on that table for ten years.
I never even noticed it, and I had breakfast on
that table this morning, and now it's not good enough
for your crow huh. And he says, well, we can
(21:47):
take everything, but this, this, and this, And I said, buddy, look,
with all due respect, this is an all or nothing.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Oh you so oh you really drove a tough bargain.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I said, we're not gonna I'm not going.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
To dance here, and you're not going to let him
pick and che No.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
No, I said, either you want you take everything, which
cowhich includes like an old uh you know, mini bike
that still worked. You take everything where you take nothing.
And he's like, well, I can't take that table. I said,
all right, time to what?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Wow, you stuck to the conway was all or nothing?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I don't you know what. It irritated the hell out
of me that that that table was good enough for
my family for ten years. I never even noticed that chip,
and yet you know, it's got not good enough for
you know, this crew. But it wasn't the Salvation Army.
It was God what charity was.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
There's so many of them.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
The charity that goes around and drops off the bags
and says, hey, we'll be in the neighborhood. I'm you know,
put stuff in the.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
You know those can bag can bags. Yeah, I don't
know what they have.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
They have another faction that does furniture and house household goods.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
But man, they sent it was like I was. It
was like reading me the Riot Act, Like now you
should you know?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
That sucks? That sucks. That sucks. How dare you that sucks? Right?
You're well, howse sucks? I'm surprised you're not driving.
Speaker 10 (23:02):
I had to write you up for fight to pass
this crap off on us.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
You're listening to Tim Conway unire on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I wrote an open letter today, Dear dear King Taco. Today,
on my way back from Orange County the Anaheim Convention Center.
To be exact, I needed King Taco. Buzzed up the
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five Freeway connected to the seven to ten fairly successfully
and got off the freeway where the seven ten crosses
the sixty Freeway, I believe one of the original locations
of King Taco. I couldn't find parking, so drove around
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the block and finally found a space on the street.
Locked the car, walked back to the restaurant, and I
was floored when I saw the line of people maybe
sixty five deep. So I walked back to the car,
(24:21):
depressed out of my mind. By now it's four point
thirty and time is becoming an issue. Got to get
back to work at least by five point thirty. So
I opened up my ways, typed in King Taco, and
they said there was another location that I was familiar with,
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the one on Broadway. Got in the car, drove to
the one on Broadway, maybe a six minute drive, maybe
ten minute drive. Buzzed into the parking lot, found a
parking space right away, unusual on a Friday afternoon at
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King Taco. I walked to the front door, realized I
left my wallet in the car, went back, grabbed my wallet,
opened the front door, and again shocked by the twenty
five people in line in front of me. Looked at
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this time on my phone and said, no way, there's
no way I have time to stand in this line.
King Taco, you are the in and out of Mexican food,
my favorite place for years, and the Salsa verde is
second to none. However, you need more locations. You need
(25:54):
a San Fernando Valley location, like maybe Burbank, although maybe
it's like living near a casino. I don't know if
I could survive living a half mile away from a
King Taco, great food, great service, more locations, possible drive
(26:18):
through and delivery. Maybe right, with all of my love,
your biggest fan in the valley, Conway, Wait, I'll wait
for your response in the mail room. Tim Conway, Junior,
(26:42):
care of KFI, thirty four hundred West Olive, Sweet five
point fifty, Burbank, California, nine one five five. That's a wrap.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
Wait, I need a siesta after that.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I couldn't believe it. Man, every time I go to
these King Tacos, there's nine hundred people in front of me.
All right.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
They closed the one out by me, no way? Yeah,
it had been there for a long time, is that right?
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Yeah? Man?
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Oh man, during COVID, just like a month or two ago,
I think, really, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
That's strange, man, that's really odd because every time I
go to one. There's one in downtown LA that's two
blocks away from another King Taco, and they're always jammed.
There's always fifty people on line. You ever go to
their stuff? Is that King Taco?
Speaker 4 (27:48):
No.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I was just gonna say, it's funny that you referenced
in and out because I had that experience. I was like, oh, Internet,
it sounds good, and then you see the line, You're like, Nope,
not worth it.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
It's just ridiculous.
Speaker 10 (27:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I always jump in line, but I I didn't have
time today, No time, man, But I can't believe there's
not a single King Taco location in the San Fernando Valley.
I don't know if King Taco has noticed, but there's
two million people live here in the San Fernando Valley. Now,
I'm sure they're expanding, you know, and they're expanding in
a in a reasonable way that makes sense on a
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business level. But man, oh man, I I dream about
that food. It's weird. I'm like obsessed by it.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
Really.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah, I have dreams, and.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
You just do like straight like regular what tacos?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Yeah, like Carnea sat in rice burrito and then Carnirito, yeah,
and then Carnios. Saw at tacos. Here's my order, three
tacos and two burritos with an extra large salsaverity twenty
four dollars and fifty cents. And I and man, when
I get there and there's nobody in line, it's it's
like a walk off Homer.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
God, when does that ever happen?
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Like once?
Speaker 7 (29:00):
Maybe do you have you never experiment? You never know?
Speaker 5 (29:03):
No, no, no, no, Croziers, come on, come on knowing
each other for a long time, missing out.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
I'm a taketo's guy. Uh you know what? I did
notice that they have chimmy chunga's and flouts. So the
last time I went there, I got flouts, which is
like a taketo. They're pretty good too, right.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
But you're not changing up the meat.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
No, no, no, no, I know, I'm not with the
uh you know, bat's tail and tongues and all that stuff.
Or oxtail is oxtail oxtail? No, I mean Neil Sevadra
eats that crap that oxtail. But good, I know. But
but the ox's tail has spent the entire oxes life
about a half inch from the ox's a hole.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Thank you, Carla, our newsletter just text me she says,
wants to know if you know there's a King Taco
in Glendale.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Sure, I know exactly where Broadway. Yeah, that's what I
always go to. It's right, it's right near the in
and out there on Broadway. And I used to have
to go to all the time. Was the one in
Pasadena that was the closest one. Then they opened one
in Glendale. But when they opened in Glendale, I had
to give him a couple of months because they had
a new grill and it wasn't seasoned yet, right right, Yeah,
they had to work that in. But there's a beautiful
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one down near Dodger Stadium that's one of the originals
as well. But man, I've been to.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
The one in Pasadena and the one that just closed
in Ontario. I think it's Ontario was supposed to Upland,
but uh and on Mountain there. And I would go
to the one by me in Ontario, like late on
a Saturday night or something like that.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Best.
Speaker 7 (30:31):
Oh, that's some dangerous times. That is some dangerous time.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
But they had the garden there.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
I I almost got the crap kicked out of me
one time. Man, you know, I went to the one
real quick. I know we got to take break. I
went to one on Pico and I was driving back
from orangecom with my wife, my daughter, and I went
to the one on Pico right near the one tent
the ten Freeway and and on the way home from
King Taco, Jason Sloanka was talking to my fine and go, yeah,
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I just went to the King Takos.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Which one you go? I said, the one on Pico.
He goes, dude's ten o'clock at night. You went there
with your wife and your daughter. I said, yeah, and
he goes, do you know that last night a guy
got murdered right at the payphone right near that King Taco?
My nice Yeah, even if I knew that, I still
would have buzzed. And we're live on KFI AM six
forty
It's camp. I am sixty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Americans could
run out of bananas. Americans eat more bananas than any
other fresh fruit per capita. I didn't know that. Were
you guys to worry of that? Do we eat more
bananas than any other fruit? Excited? Sort of makes sense.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I guess I thought it was apples, That's what I
was gonna say.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Really, well, you're both wrong. Who eats apples in the morning? Nobody?
I have and you have?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
That just seems like a snack that everyone has.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Though, when's the last time you had an apple? Stefan,
when's the last time you had an apple?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Oh? Uh?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Probably like in May?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
He just ate three cups of noodles backed back then,
No way really and he did like an apple flavored
a march On cup noodles taster test noodles.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Well, you had the full cup of noodles, cup noodles, Yeah,
cup noodles. Yeah, you had three of those.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Well today I had to yet, Uh.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
The ones from in here? Yeah, aren't those smaller than
the like the regular ones? No?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I think that the regular size. But she means she's
trying to make me look worse. But I only had
two and a half.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I don't need much.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
You had three cups of.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
The Okay, okay, okay, hold on, hold on, what's going
on in there? Fake news? Fake news?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I had, I had, I had a march I had
a march on on my own, and then that.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
It's the same.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
It's like a yeah, I've been on that game for
a while.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
So I had that, and then she smelled it and
she's like, oh, I'm going to have one. So she
had one and then she's like, oh, I like the noodles,
I don't like the broth. I'm like, all right, hand
it over. So she saved broth for me, and then
I had another one, and then I added it to
my broth. So that's like technically two and a half.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Wait a minute, I'm I'm dazed. So she ate all
the noodles out of it, and you took the broth
and drank it?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Well no, I mean well I put it in my
second one.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So if she was eating cereal, would you take the milk?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I just took a chance. I was like, she doesn't
get around, so.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Listen, just around.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Oh that's great. How do you know, you know, when
she's out of work. We actually talked about it.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
Oh, real questionnaire. Before I took the broth.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I said, I like the noodles. I just don't like
the broth. It's got too much sodium in it.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
Well do you get around?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
He said, I'll take it, and I said, he goes,
and then we had the discussion.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
I said, well, I'm just picking the noodles out with
a fork. I'm not even really touching.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
The broth, and he goes, I trust you you don't
get around.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Wow. What a compliment and an insult. I guess yes. Yeah,
but Bellio without telling us how old you are? What's
your history with cup noodles? And I'm gonna go with
like driver's license, I'm gonna go with Cup of noodles,
what's your history?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Hell?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Have you had them?
Speaker 7 (03:20):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Well, over four decades.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Maybe easily, but I like top ram and normally normally
would not.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Eat whatever whatever the brand name is, noodles with that
that really salty liquid. Yeah, you've had it for over
forty years probably okay, with husband's boyfriends, you know, friends
you went to college with, whatever. Yeah, this has got
to be the first time somebody offered to drink your juice.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
It's absolutely the first time.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
It's got to be good for her, and it might
be the last time.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Yeah, it's probably the last.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I I actually, if I offered it to him tomorrow, yeah,
he would take it.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Because you know why, why because you don't get around?
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Because I do not get around.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Man.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I did walk by the studio and I heard a
big bang and I looked in and it was it
was a shoelace flying through the room. Somebody had too
much salt and broke a shoelace. That was Foo foo food.
They popped the lace.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Yeah, he was man, oh man, all.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Right, we got to go back to this because we
always do with stuff. Foosh. How many of those can
you knock off? The couple noodles? Can you go six?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I could probably have at least another at least another
four or five.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Those are good.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Really, I'd have to look into it.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
But I actually have heard recently that they've cut down
dramatically on the salt that they put in it.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Oh is that right? Yeah? Yeah, but it's just and
now it's just a pound essentially.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
It did seem Yeah, my noodles were less salty this time.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Man.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, but that, man, that that is a really good
eat when you eat those really hot noodles initially with
that really salty liquid, and because it's getting.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Colder, I'm like, oh, that just sounds so good, like
a hot thing of you know.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
He didn't comparison yesterday, wasn't it yesterday he compared cup
noodles to the march on and which one had.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
The better broth?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yep? Where is it getting colder? What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Getting cooler?
Speaker 7 (05:22):
It's a it's a cool weather food.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Oh, I see right, But he's going to ninety five,
so you might have to cut back on cup noodles
this weekend.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Oh yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
It's yeah, we're going back to the heat, back to
the heat ice cream.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
But I'm surprised that Bellio is into the cup noodles.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
That doesn't rightly I'm not either, but he just made
those noodles sound so good. Do you know they have
over eleven hundred grams of sodium?
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Well no, no.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
I mean milligrams?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Whoa, no kidding, really, there's salting that But I didn't
realize eleven I mean that's eleven teaspoones or tables Wow,
that's a lot. Yeah, but they are good hot noodles,
especially when it's really really hot, you know, piping hot.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
My favorite was she finished it and she goes, you know,
I heard that the actually that the noodles and this
cup of noodles is not that good for you much.
Why do you think it's so delicious? Why do you
think everyone goes to McDonald's, right?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
And why do you think it's nine cents for a
box of those things? There's nothing in it.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
But though they dropped the they dropped the salt amount
from about fifteen to a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
All right, all right, and would you get him down
here in the commissary. It's in the Yeah. Oh it's
a snack drawer. Oh I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I know either. That's why I got shocked, and I
got so stoked about it.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I just thought, oh, I didn't know that. I'll take
one then, yeah, great, I got chicken or chicken.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Michelle's hearing this, and she's gonna be like, oh boy, all.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Right, So there's a marsh on and then the cup noodle,
both kinds in there. What's better?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I prefer march on?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
All right, I'm gonna go with that. Yeah, alright, I'm
gonna I'm gonna bust this open. I gotta eat these things.
I know it's not good to do it through it. No,
I'm gonna poor believe the boiling water in the breakroom. Yeah,
I'm gonna do the boiling water.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
And uh. And then I'm telling you.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
How to make cup noodles.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Well I thought I was gonna eat them, and then
I'm gonna give you that would have been fantastic. And
then because I don't get around either, you're gonna eat
my liquid? Come about that, all right? Didn't come out right? Juice.
You're gonna drink my juice whether you like it or not.
All right, Well again, didn't come out again, didn't come
(07:37):
out right, didn't come out right. But you're gonna you're
gonna eat it.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from k
f I A M six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
My reunions coming up. M yeah, oh not so loud.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Sorry everybody that was I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Oh my god, I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I don't know if I don't know, if I want
to go, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Oh you have to you're a movie star.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
No, I love all the people I went to school with.
I just I don't know what to say to anybody.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
The ones you care about you already still see, right.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah, I'd like to see the other people I haven't
seen in a while.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Did you go to your Was it thirtieth or which
was the last one?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, I didn't go to the twentieth because I was
out of town. I lived in Canada at the time,
and I don't think I went to the thirtieth either. No,
I did. I went to the thirty or thirty fifth.
I remember going to one.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Now, all your buddies that you're still friends with, are
they going?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yeah, you have to. They all drink and they wrestle.
You know, they wrestle, they wrestle.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
You have to go. That'd be cool. Yeah, I don't
if I get a picture.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I don't know if I can wrestle though, right Well.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
You and Krozier and Steffush can practice.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
And I remember there's about eight of us that I've
known since either third grade or seventh grade, and we
were wrestling wrestling. I had a wedding and I remember
I Nancy, Nancy Tampkin saying to another wife one of
the other wives said, Hey, how come these guys every
(09:20):
time there's a big wedding they get drunk and they
tackle each other and wrestle, and Nancy goes because they
don't know how to communicate, and she nailed us right exactly. Yeah,
just a little you know, cut off, cut off, lows right,
We're just a little we just shut down, right, Guys
(09:41):
do that as you get older, just shut down right, thing, Dawn.
My dad did that right. I remember I told the
story on the air, but I was at home one day.
I remember I was home. I'm you know, sick or
got kicked out of school or whatever. And my mom,
who was going out to do errands, said to my dad, hey,
(10:03):
can you take Jamie's lunch to him? He forgot his lunch,
which is my young second youngest brother. And my dad
said yeah sure. And remember my dad getting in the
car with my dad and he gets in the car,
he starts up and I said, Dad, you don't know
what school you're going to do? And he says, I
have no idea. And he says, he says, where does
(10:27):
your brother go? And I said, he goes to Portola.
It's in Tarzana. I'll show you how to get there.
He goes, oh, I know, I know where it is.
He goes, he goes, wait, he goes, Jamie's in Portola already.
I said, yeah, Dad, this is second year. He only
has one year left and then he's going to go
to Birmingham. He goes, Wow, that's kind of nice, that's
kind of look at it. Get in. My dad couldn't
(10:49):
tell you any of our teachers. He could probably tell
you one or two of my friends' names. Oh that's
not true. He would nail Robbie Fox, Matt McDaniel, Mike Tennessee, Crouch,
you know Crouch. I think it'd be a tough time
with the other chaps. No, you can help Joe, Joe,
I have to say about five or six friends my dad. Yeah,
(11:10):
that was a touchdown walk off home or from my dad.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
But man, you put my dad into school into a
car and say hey, can you, you know, take Corey's
lunch to him, He's like, what, I don't know where
that kid goes to school. But he wasn't the only
dad like that. You know. I had a couple of
friends whose dad had dad said no idea where what
(11:35):
they did during the day.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
Yeah, I think that that was prevalent.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
About your dad. Did your dad know you where you
went to school and your teachers?
Speaker 6 (11:41):
We lived right across the street from the school.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
He figured it out pretty quick, No, he did, because
my mother was the one that went to all the
you know, parent teacher conferences and yeah, so no he couldn't.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I remember I had to my my dad wasn't big
on you know, back to school night and stuff like that,
because I was the big on it either, because that's
when I always got the talking to him. Why oh
he sits here and henoys that kid and that kid,
and that he always leaves his sweater here.
Speaker 8 (12:09):
And then.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
No, but I just found my way into predicaments, my prediction.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
Yeah's look where I am.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
But I remember, I remember in fifth grade, either fourth
or fifth grade, we're gonna have somebody come into the
auditorium to teach all the boys. The girls didn't have
to go. All the boys had to go. And it
was going to be the Birds and the Bees conversation
in fourth grade in the auditorium. And I remember my
(12:42):
mom didn't want to go for obvious reasons, right, And
I dragged my dad to this thing, and man was
he embarrassed sitting there talking to you fourth graders about
their wieners the worst, and then just that he sits there,
he's got his head eyes like, oh man, what am
(13:04):
I doing? So my dad on the way home had
to talk with me. He said, hey, he says, uh,
if you get anybody pregnant, I've made a couple of bucks.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
I'll help you out.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I was a wrap, Wow, that's it. Nod, that would
have been great, though. Yeah, I bed a couple of bucks.
Do whatever you want to, But I did you guys
have that in school? We went to the auditorium and
they had They showed a.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Film script and not in the auditorium, no talking about
them in the classroom.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
We do it the whole school all well, there were
there were five fourth grade classes and they all went
to the auditorium at night. Remember how I remember how
sort of weird but cool it was to go to
school at night.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
It was so weird. Yeah, I always remembered it like
this is so odd.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, like the back to school pta all that stuff,
and it was kind of a cool vibe. You know,
the moon's out and you see the playground that you
can't see anything, you know, at night, all the lights
are on. There's a cool vibe about it.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
You'd see, like when whenever I saw teachers like out
of their element or like in different clothes and stuff.
It was so I remember seeing a teacher in the
teachers lands smoking.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
It was like it was like scandalous.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Smoking.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
I believe it was smoking.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
It's because they weren't real to you because there was
this authoritative figure.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
And so yeah, no I don't it was. That was
wild man.
Speaker 9 (14:32):
You know when I went because I went to l
a u.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
S d.
Speaker 9 (14:36):
And like the beginning of my elementary school career, and
it was back at a time where the teachers had
their students over to their homes and we would do
stuff with them. Yeah. What I remember one time and
I totally remember her name, Missus Fostry. We went over
(14:57):
to her place. We had we played ten and then
we had like a pollock dinner her. It was a
couple of other teachers also, but I mean we went
to their home and we lived away.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Yeah, lots of tennis, lots of tennis, lots of tennis.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
That's weird, man. I don't think I ever was invited
to any of my teachers homes.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Yeah, another time, Like you imagine that nowadays, Angel, Like
you know, like you know, your seven year old is
invited your teacher's house with a couple of other friends, you'd.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Be like, what, Nope, the hell out of here. Yeah,
that's how far did they live from you?
Speaker 9 (15:35):
They lived pretty close to the school, so not not
too far away. I think one of them lived like
over in the Los Felis area, and we were, you know,
over in Hollywood a little more, but just east of
the school.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Did you have paper drives when you were a kid?
Speaker 9 (15:52):
Paper drives you collect all.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
The newspaper and you know stack them up out around
the school and whoever got the most paper got like
pizza for the day or something.
Speaker 9 (16:00):
Oh I think like in like sixth grade.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yeah, yeah, big dong, we had a big, huge Yeah,
we'd love that. I'd love that paper drive you because
we used to go collect them off on early Sunday morning.
We just go around the neighborhood and collect their Sunday Times. Right,
they won't miss that, Yeah, right, they did. They We
never got caught doing it, but we just collected you know,
people's newspapers. Look, we got one hundred of Sunday's Times,
(16:24):
like where'd you get that? We just bought them? Or
you go to the machine and put a quarter in
and take ten them. Yeah yeah, I.
Speaker 9 (16:31):
Used to do that as a kid. I you know,
put a coin in and then take all the papers
and then go sell the papers.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Oh that's great. See you're an entrepreneur, but you also remember,
like the kids today won't remember this, but you remember
always checking the coin slot and the payphone. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
like if there's.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Ten minute row bing dang ding ding ding, Yeah, you
found a quarter.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Like why yeah, it's like a slap machine.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
That's right. That's great.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
You're listening to Conway Junior on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
It's Conway Show. Mark Thompson is here.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Yeah, yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I didn't know that we have I wouldn't say mutual friend.
We've had Jake Joe Hanson on the show years and
years ago, and he's one of my favorite comics. But
I didn't know you were friends with him.
Speaker 10 (17:19):
Oh yeah for many years. I go back to the
Bay Area. That's where we first met in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Come on of the funniest guys ever, I agree completely.
Speaker 10 (17:24):
I think he's literally one of the funniest minds of
his generation.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
He has a run about yard sales that I still
repeat on the show. He said he was having a
yard sale and he put all this stuff out in
the morning, and strangers come by and one guy picks
up a lamp and says he this lamp doesn't have
a shade, and Jake says, yeah, well, it's a seventy
(17:49):
dollars lamp.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
And the reason it's a quarter it's because it doesn't
have a shape, because we want twenty five cents. Forty goes, well,
it doesn't have a shade, and he says, yeah, I
want to make explaining to you that I paid seventy
but I'm willing to give it to you for twenty
five cents because the shade is missing.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
And he says, well, I got to then buy a
shade for it. And Jake said, at that point, my
instincts were to tie him up and burn him to
a steak right there at the garage sale. But I
didn't do that because I know in my history with
garage sales, if you start burning neighbors at a steak,
(18:27):
it cuts down on foot trap. I mean, I don't
do it justice. I mean it's something like it does.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
A whole run.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
He does a whole run on the garage sale and
how you essentially have marked down everything to be purchased
with whatever. And then people are still sitting there like
it's a negotiation. And I think he does the thing
about a leather jacket some guy, like he said, the
leather jacket's five dollars, okay, and the guy goes, I'll
give you a dollar for it, you know, And it
was one of those I'd rather set this fire, set
(18:55):
this on fire right now than sell it to you
for a dollar.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
That's great dollars.
Speaker 10 (19:00):
It's true, though, you know, I've got all this stuff
that I'm looking to get rid of. It's hard just
organizing it.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I'm in the middle of doing that myself, and I
think everybody is because I took stuff to the good
Will the other day, and the good Will when I
was younger, I used to be so happy that you
came by. It's like, oh my god, you know it
will take this for sure? Are you sure you want
to get rid of this? Like I love that now,
you know. I was told by this one in Burbank
(19:27):
that they open it. They start collecting donations at one thirty.
So I showed up at one twenty five and sat
in the car for two minutes. So it's one twenty
seven and I said, I'm hey, can I donate some stuff.
He's like, we don't open a one thirty and I said, well,
rules and rules.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
By the time I walked back to my car, it's
going to be one twenty eight. By the time I
get this stuff out of the car, it might be
one twenty nine. I might just be at the finishing
line here at one thirty. So I bring this stuff
and I said, where can I put it?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
He goes, what is it? I go, wait, wait, what
is it? It's free stuff. It's my free stuff I'm giving
to you. I said, it's a TV set. He says,
does the TV set work? I said, well, it was
in our kitchen this morning and I watched the news
on it, so yes, the little TV set does work.
We just don't have the room fording where we bought
a air fryer, and so he took that. And then
(20:22):
I had two scooters that my daughter used all the time.
And he goes, looks like the you know, one of
the wheels is rusting on I'm like, buddy, look This
is not a negotiation. Either you want it or you don't.
I'm gonna throw this stuff out if you don't want it, right,
But man, they make you feel like like like they're
doing you a favor.
Speaker 10 (20:39):
Well, they make you feel as though. And I've had
the same thing happen where they talk about the vintage
of your TV and it doesn't have a firestick thing
or whatever. It's like, wow, seriously, it's a seventy inch screen.
It's somebody that can make somebody very happy, right, And
and there are other things like that. They make you
feel a little bit like everything has to be in
pristine condition, like that was the thing with your daughter's scooter.
(21:00):
Well there's a little rust on it. Yeah, well, you
know it is huge. That's why I'm here with it.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I called the Salvation Army and we had a bunch
of furniture to give away, and one of them was
a big kitchen table. It was a nice wooden table.
Maybe we spent I don't know, four or five hundred
bucks we bought it. We had it for ten years
and we ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner on that table.
And I had breakfast on that table before they came
(21:24):
that afternoon. I pulled outside and he came to pick
it up. And the guy says, you know, there's a
big chip out of one of those legs. And I said, well,
I've eaten breakfast, luncheon, dinner on that table for ten years.
I never even noticed it, and I had breakfast on
that table this morning, and now it's not good enough
for your crow huh. And he says, well, we can
(21:47):
take everything, but this, this, and this, And I said, buddy, look,
with all due respect, this is an all or nothing.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Oh you so oh you really drove a tough bargain.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I said, we're not gonna I'm not going.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
To dance here, and you're not going to let him
pick and che No.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
No, I said, either you want you take everything, which
cowhich includes like an old uh you know, mini bike
that still worked. You take everything where you take nothing.
And he's like, well, I can't take that table. I said,
all right, time to what?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Wow, you stuck to the conway was all or nothing?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I don't you know what. It irritated the hell out
of me that that that table was good enough for
my family for ten years. I never even noticed that chip,
and yet you know, it's got not good enough for
you know, this crew. But it wasn't the Salvation Army.
It was God what charity was.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
There's so many of them.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
The charity that goes around and drops off the bags
and says, hey, we'll be in the neighborhood. I'm you know,
put stuff in the.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
You know those can bag can bags. Yeah, I don't
know what they have.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
They have another faction that does furniture and house household goods.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
But man, they sent it was like I was. It
was like reading me the Riot Act, Like now you
should you know?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
That sucks? That sucks. That sucks. How dare you that sucks? Right?
You're well, howse sucks? I'm surprised you're not driving.
Speaker 10 (23:02):
I had to write you up for fight to pass
this crap off on us.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
You're listening to Tim Conway unire on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I wrote an open letter today, Dear dear King Taco. Today,
on my way back from Orange County the Anaheim Convention Center.
To be exact, I needed King Taco. Buzzed up the
(23:37):
five Freeway connected to the seven to ten fairly successfully
and got off the freeway where the seven ten crosses
the sixty Freeway, I believe one of the original locations
of King Taco. I couldn't find parking, so drove around
(23:59):
the block and finally found a space on the street.
Locked the car, walked back to the restaurant, and I
was floored when I saw the line of people maybe
sixty five deep. So I walked back to the car,
(24:21):
depressed out of my mind. By now it's four point
thirty and time is becoming an issue. Got to get
back to work at least by five point thirty. So
I opened up my ways, typed in King Taco, and
they said there was another location that I was familiar with,
(24:43):
the one on Broadway. Got in the car, drove to
the one on Broadway, maybe a six minute drive, maybe
ten minute drive. Buzzed into the parking lot, found a
parking space right away, unusual on a Friday afternoon at
(25:03):
King Taco. I walked to the front door, realized I
left my wallet in the car, went back, grabbed my wallet,
opened the front door, and again shocked by the twenty
five people in line in front of me. Looked at
(25:27):
this time on my phone and said, no way, there's
no way I have time to stand in this line.
King Taco, you are the in and out of Mexican food,
my favorite place for years, and the Salsa verde is
second to none. However, you need more locations. You need
(25:54):
a San Fernando Valley location, like maybe Burbank, although maybe
it's like living near a casino. I don't know if
I could survive living a half mile away from a
King Taco, great food, great service, more locations, possible drive
(26:18):
through and delivery. Maybe right, with all of my love,
your biggest fan in the valley, Conway, Wait, I'll wait
for your response in the mail room. Tim Conway, Junior,
(26:42):
care of KFI, thirty four hundred West Olive, Sweet five
point fifty, Burbank, California, nine one five five. That's a wrap.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
Wait, I need a siesta after that.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I couldn't believe it. Man, every time I go to
these King Tacos, there's nine hundred people in front of me.
All right.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
They closed the one out by me, no way? Yeah,
it had been there for a long time, is that right?
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Yeah? Man?
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Oh man, during COVID, just like a month or two ago,
I think, really, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
That's strange, man, that's really odd because every time I
go to one. There's one in downtown LA that's two
blocks away from another King Taco, and they're always jammed.
There's always fifty people on line. You ever go to
their stuff? Is that King Taco?
Speaker 4 (27:48):
No.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I was just gonna say, it's funny that you referenced
in and out because I had that experience. I was like, oh, Internet,
it sounds good, and then you see the line, You're like, Nope,
not worth it.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
It's just ridiculous.
Speaker 10 (27:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I always jump in line, but I I didn't have
time today, No time, man, But I can't believe there's
not a single King Taco location in the San Fernando Valley.
I don't know if King Taco has noticed, but there's
two million people live here in the San Fernando Valley. Now,
I'm sure they're expanding, you know, and they're expanding in
a in a reasonable way that makes sense on a
(28:21):
business level. But man, oh man, I I dream about
that food. It's weird. I'm like obsessed by it.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
Really.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah, I have dreams, and.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
You just do like straight like regular what tacos?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Yeah, like Carnea sat in rice burrito and then Carnirito, yeah,
and then Carnios. Saw at tacos. Here's my order, three
tacos and two burritos with an extra large salsaverity twenty
four dollars and fifty cents. And I and man, when
I get there and there's nobody in line, it's it's
like a walk off Homer.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
God, when does that ever happen?
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Like once?
Speaker 7 (29:00):
Maybe do you have you never experiment? You never know?
Speaker 5 (29:03):
No, no, no, no, Croziers, come on, come on knowing
each other for a long time, missing out.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
I'm a taketo's guy. Uh you know what? I did
notice that they have chimmy chunga's and flouts. So the
last time I went there, I got flouts, which is
like a taketo. They're pretty good too, right.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
But you're not changing up the meat.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
No, no, no, no, I know, I'm not with the
uh you know, bat's tail and tongues and all that stuff.
Or oxtail is oxtail oxtail? No, I mean Neil Sevadra
eats that crap that oxtail. But good, I know. But
but the ox's tail has spent the entire oxes life
about a half inch from the ox's a hole.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Thank you, Carla, our newsletter just text me she says,
wants to know if you know there's a King Taco
in Glendale.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Sure, I know exactly where Broadway. Yeah, that's what I
always go to. It's right, it's right near the in
and out there on Broadway. And I used to have
to go to all the time. Was the one in
Pasadena that was the closest one. Then they opened one
in Glendale. But when they opened in Glendale, I had
to give him a couple of months because they had
a new grill and it wasn't seasoned yet, right right, Yeah,
they had to work that in. But there's a beautiful
(30:13):
one down near Dodger Stadium that's one of the originals
as well. But man, I've been to.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
The one in Pasadena and the one that just closed
in Ontario. I think it's Ontario was supposed to Upland,
but uh and on Mountain there. And I would go
to the one by me in Ontario, like late on
a Saturday night or something like that.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Best.
Speaker 7 (30:31):
Oh, that's some dangerous times. That is some dangerous time.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
But they had the garden there.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
I I almost got the crap kicked out of me
one time. Man, you know, I went to the one
real quick. I know we got to take break. I
went to one on Pico and I was driving back
from orangecom with my wife, my daughter, and I went
to the one on Pico right near the one tent
the ten Freeway and and on the way home from
King Taco, Jason Sloanka was talking to my fine and go, yeah,
(30:58):
I just went to the King Takos.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Which one you go? I said, the one on Pico.
He goes, dude's ten o'clock at night. You went there
with your wife and your daughter. I said, yeah, and
he goes, do you know that last night a guy
got murdered right at the payphone right near that King Taco?
My nice Yeah, even if I knew that, I still
would have buzzed. And we're live on KFI AM six
forty
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