November 6, 2025 • 30 mins
Another beloved California restaurant bites the dust — Blue Plate Oysterette is closing, blaming homelessness, rising delivery culture, and crushing worker’s comp costs.
Home expert Dean Sharp (“The House Whisperer”) joined the show to talk smart and sexy upgrades for the holidays, from lighting and home theater to the best appliances for entertaining. He also discussed the new trend of “dumbing down” smart homes as people grow frustrated with glitchy tech.
Finally, engineer “T-Dog” Tony Sorrentino broke down the latest podcasting gear and trends, showing how the broadcast world is evolving fast.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KMF I Am sixty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Let's go
back to the story on the Santa Monica restaurant. There's
more here than meets the eye. This Blue Oysterret, Blue
Plate Lois Direct restaurant is not closing because they you know,
(00:21):
they don't have good food and they and nobody likes
that the Oysters. They're closing for a whole host of reasons.
That is the microcosm of what's happening in Santa Monica,
but also in California. This is just a small little
restaurant in California, in Santa Monica, but they're closing for
(00:45):
state wide reasons. And I think it's important to listen
to this because I bet a lot of people who
own or work at restaurants are having the same trouble
as Blue Plate Oysterret. And so let's give this story
a listen and see if this also isn't the story
of your restaurant, either that you own or that you
work at.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Blueplate Oysteret is a Santa Monica mainstay. After sixteen years,
owner Jennifer rust says they can't keep the doors open anymore.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Our staff relies on you know, tips and diners, and
we pay a big percentage to third party takeout blueber Eats,
door Dash, so we you know, it just cuts heavily
into our profit.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
A high vacancy rate in retail space and office buildings
just less people.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
We used to be very busy.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
At lunch with Yeah, nobody's around Santa Monica vacant because
Santa Monica did do anything about the homeless problem. People
screaming at you when you go into the restaurant or
you come out and the guys, you know, peel the
one off when you're going to your car. It's just
not an attractive thing to take your family out.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
You know, office people going out and they're just not
coming anymore.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Add to that rising costs of ingredients, tariffs, employer costs.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Also a huge contributor is doing business in California with
Workmen's comp.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Okay, do you hear that. Listen to this.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
This is a big red flag for you politicians out there.
This is something you can fix.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Also, a huge contributor is doing business in California with
Workmen's camp. I feel like the litigious nature of people
in restaurants is killing us.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
All.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
That's exactly right. I hear about it all the time.
Restaurant workers they get hurt, they get injured, all of
a sudden, they're on unemployment for twelve years because they
stepped on a piece of glass or whatever, and they're
off to the races, and you're going to have to
pay more in Workmen's camp with everybody suing you. Everybody,
your customer's suing you. Maybe somebody gets a bad oyster
(02:43):
and they go south like belly O, they sue you.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Everybody's suing.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Santa Monica is also seeing a drop in tourism mirror
throughout the stating country.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I think, until you get mentally ill people screaming at
our guests and stuff off the streets, it's just not
an appealing thing to do it.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Yeah, do you hear that.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Till you get.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Mentally illed people off the streets.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Or guests and stuff off the streets, it's just not
an appealing thing to do it.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Okay, So you got Workmen's com the homeless. Nobody's in
the office buildings anymore. Everyone is fled because Santa Monica
Third Street is just a dangerous hang.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Russ is the lack of support from the city of
Santa Monica and addressing homelessness and safety have also been
a factor.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
I feel for her and I understand her concerns. I'm
also a small business owner in the city. But I
know that these are not issues that are specific to
Santa Monica.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Okay, maybe not specific to Santa Monica, but heavily, heavily
impact Santa Monica. Lots of people who go to Santa
Monica Third Street complain about the homeless and the filth
and how dangerous it is.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
A lot of people that I know these are.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Issues that are across the region, across the state.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Mar Lana de Grete says the city has already taken
steps to turn things around. The realignment plan last week
that includes a new approach to public safety.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
I think unfortunately for Blue Plate Oyster At it maybe
didn't come fast enough. But we're here now and we
hope that these changes help so that we don't see
another post like this. We don't want to see any
more doors closing, and we want to be able to
attract new businesses.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, well, did you listen to why she's leaving? I mean,
did you do you understand the issues.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Now, the news about Blue Plate Oysterites, it hit some
in the community hard. But they do want you to
know that they are open in till January fourth, so
there's plenty of time to come out, maybe try them
out for the first time, or to say goodbye. Reporting
life from Ata Monica Karma Dickerson, NBC four New.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
All right, so you still got time to go out
to the Blue Plate Oyster Red and get your your oysters.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I don't if people are eating oysters nowadays. I know
Bellio stopped for a while, but Krowzer, you still pound
these things, don't you. Is that the term that people use,
pounding them? I went out and pounded oysters last night.
Angel you probably you seemed like an oyster gall you
with the oysters.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
I love oysters. I love them, I love them, I
love them. And I did even.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Have that in your singles ad.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
Yes, it is. I love puppy dogs and oysters.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Right, So when a guy reads your singles ads like, oh,
this chick's going to be expensive.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Well, it's good for them to know up front, right,
I guess, Yeah, so they're not. I mean, there's no
shock to anything after we met.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yeah, Well, look, look, at least you're honest about it, right,
that's right. I mean, is in your middle name market price?
Speaker 7 (05:41):
It is? It is market price.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Thanks for Angel market price Martinez.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Bargain base.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
But I did have an oyster episode and I still
went back.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Really wow, what a glutton for punishment. What happened to you?
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Did you throw up in? Well? It was my grandmother's sink.
And here's the.
Speaker 8 (06:08):
I should have known better because I was skiing out
in Utah, another.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Expensive habit got a mighty Yeah. Hey, I'll be skiing,
and I ski and love oysters. Anybody want to give
me a brain?
Speaker 8 (06:22):
And one of my friends that I was skiing with
is like, let's get a plate of oysters. I'm like okay,
And then I thought about it. I'm like, hmm, I'm
in the middle of a desert pretty much. I don't
know that I should be eating seafood. And he's like, oh,
don't worry about it. They ship them in daily on
some airplane. I'm like, okay, let's go.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Yeah. Later that night, I'm like, oh boy.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
It hits your heart.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Huh, it hit me?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Where were.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Deer Valley?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Oh, dear Valley? Got a mighty another grand.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
Was this skiers brunch. It's delicious, But I.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Bet the oysters were very expensive at Deer Valley.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Probably you should ask the person that paid for it.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Yeah, very expensive at Deer Valley. So you were you were?
Were you staying at Deer Valley?
Speaker 7 (07:12):
No? No, I stayed in Salt Lake.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Okay, But Salt Lake has like like five or six
or seven really great ski areas that are less than
an hour's drive from Salt Lake.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Oh exactly.
Speaker 8 (07:23):
That's why I lived there when I did, because yeah,
you could just drive up the canyon.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Is one of them.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Yeah, yeah, they're all on yes, Alta and Snowbird, or
in Little Contwig Canyon, Brighton and Solitude, or in big
big Contwig Canyon. And then on the Park City side,
you've got the canyons, You've got Park City and you
have Deer Valley.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
And where's the film festival up there?
Speaker 7 (07:53):
Sun Dance? But they held it in Park City?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Oh they did? Okay, Yeah, yeah that must be I remember,
and I was younger. My mom asked me if I
wanted to go on a bus a bus ride with
a bunch of friends called student skiers, and it would
leave you know Tarzana or I don't know. Bell Ball
Park is where we loved and they would we'd go
for a week and then we'd come back. It was
(08:18):
during spring break, and I hated skiing. I hated everything
about it, hate being cold, It just wasn't my vibe.
But I had an opportunity to leave the house with
friends and go skiing for a week. And while we
were in Salt Lake. We stayed in Salt Lake and
every morning the bus would take us to a new,
you know, destination to go skiing. And I always took
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the bus. I always got up and had breakfast and
got on the bus. I never skied once. I didn't
bring my skis, I didn't rent skis. Never skied once
on that trip, not once. I would hang out with,
you know, whoever I could find. It also hated skiing,
and that's where I met one of my best buddies,
Robbie Fox. He also wasn't thrilled with skiing, and we
(09:03):
just you know, walked around town and that's where I
met him. You know, that's when pop rocks were really popular.
So we're going to break into the bus and take
everybody's pop rocks and eat pop rocks all day. You know,
we're in seventh grade, you know, idiots. So I remember
we were going to break into the bus and I'm
pushing him. I met this guy an hour before this,
(09:23):
and I'm pushing him onto the bus through the crack,
the small opening in the bathroom window, and I'm pushing
him and he gets stuck in the bus that we're
trying to you know, take everybody's pop rocks. And he
farted in my face. I knew this guy for thirty
minutes before he farted in my face, and yet still
became a best one of my best buddies.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
That it was unusual, unusual, all right.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But but all those reasons why these places are closing
down there, it's everywhere workmen's comp homelessness. Nobody wants coming by,
nobody can afford it. The uber eats and door dash
take up too much of the profit, and they just
said f it. You know, they're closing down. So you
got to get out there before January fourth. That's the
(10:08):
last time you can see an oyster there at Blue Oyster,
Blue Plate Oyster Red. And it's pretty reasonable prices, you know,
you got to you got all this, you can get
crab crab claws for fifteen bucks. The first mate serves
two to three people, oysters, jumbo prons, crab oh ninety
(10:30):
five hours. Christ the Captain serves four to six oysters,
jumbo prons and crab scallops and a sink to throw
up in later.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
SI don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
All right, Well, go out there and eat their food,
but it's gonna be open un till January fourth. So
blue plate, oyster red, if that's your your vibe, go
out there before January fourth.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
And because they're shut and down, they've had it.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
And I think there's a lot more restaurants going to
do that because people have had it in California.
Speaker 9 (11:08):
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Speaker 4 (11:28):
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Speaker 1 (11:32):
He's on every Saturday and Sunday right here on KFI
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Speaker 3 (11:44):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (11:45):
I am using a new program that they just built
into the roadcaster board. No kidding, So that's like direct connect.
That's now everybody's just completely lost. What the heck are
they talking about? But yeah, instead of an interface, they've
got this new software.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Yeah. It was it easy to put together, easy to
hook up.
Speaker 10 (12:03):
Yeah, it was so easy because Matt Anderson did it.
Oh that's right, that's how easy it was. I just
handed it to him and he's like here. Six hours later,
he's like here you got You're all set.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Did he come out to the house and hook it
up for you? No?
Speaker 10 (12:15):
No, I had to bring it in. Oh you did,
but I got to see bellio so it was nice.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Oh that's cool. You shouldn't tell me that that you
guys ran into each other.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
You know, there's a lot we don't tell you. I guess.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Hey, we did a story yesterday and I wanted to
talk to you about and I love the idea, you know,
the modern technology that goes into homes.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
You know better than I do you.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Know the switches, the drapes that close and open, the
TV that pops up, you know, your thermostat is uh
you know on the internet, your lights outside. But now
the trend is going away from that, back to dumb homes.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
And I like.
Speaker 10 (12:47):
That, you know, I laugh, I laugh, you know, yeah,
I mean, yeah, yeah. I don't even know exactly how
to respond to this, because here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 10 (13:00):
Okay, first of all, anybody throwing around the phrase I've
had it with technology, what are we talking about.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
We're having this conversation on the radio.
Speaker 10 (13:10):
Okay, all right, So I mean I'm not putting on you.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I'm old school, buddy, I'm old school.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I can take it. I can take it, you know.
Speaker 10 (13:20):
So I saw you know, I'm but I feel you.
I feel you for me, you know. I always I
always point this out to my clients. I'm like, listen,
I'm not going to push on anything on you don't want, right,
And and I totally understand the idea that there's a
lot of tech out there that, in my opinion, is
not smart. Right, it gets labeled, everything gets labeled smart home,
(13:40):
whatever the new catchphrase is. Now everything's coming out AI,
Like there's an AI washer and dryer.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
I'm like, b as a washer andry right.
Speaker 10 (13:48):
It's just the same washer and last year, right, So
but yeah, you know, I mean here's the thing. The
Amish they're a really good example of this, right that
we think we think of the as like, oh they're
very they're very no tech people. No, they have they
use wheels, you know, they've got they've got carts and
(14:08):
carriages and rakes and tools. It's just an arbitrary decision
like Okay, this much tech and no more. That's what
the Amish are. And that's what everybody essentially has to
decide for themselves, this much tech and no more. And
I totally get that. And when it comes to you know,
designing your home whatever, hey, pick your level, whatever the
(14:31):
case may be. But I do feel you in that,
you know, I'm not the guy who's adopting everything out there,
because there's a lot of tech air quotes here that
is really for smart homes or so called smart homes
is just superfluous, Like I mean, who needs a refrigerator
that has my calendar on it? And also that I
(14:52):
can you know, watch you know, good Morning America on
I don't need to watch TV on the fridge, Thank you, Samsung.
But it's it's just, you know, it's unnecessary stuff for me.
For me, right, I like to set my definition of
a smart home at technology that is reliable, easy to
set up, and convenient for me that actually helps. And
(15:16):
if you're wrestling with tech like every day or every week,
then you know, in my opinion, that's not smart. It's
not smart enough yet. And you know, I totally feel
you if you want to let it go.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
You know, I had we were in the market for
a new refrigerator and and I'm fascinated by the technology.
I just don't think it's for me. You know, there
was a thing called the knock knock fridge. Have you
seen this? You knock on the glass and then the
light goes on inside you can see it without opening
up the refrigerator door. I think that's interesting. But why
do I want that?
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Yeah? Exactly, I mean that they're very they were a
thing and.
Speaker 11 (15:53):
God forbid, God forbid you open the refrigerator door, exactly
because you know all that energy that yeah, the energy
you'll expand the calories you'll burn, and the energy that
you'll lose out of that fridge.
Speaker 10 (16:07):
I mean, wow, it's gonna cost you pennies more every month.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
But you know, there was something interesting, I guess for
you know, if you've got nine kids and you're on
the go all the time. There was a refrigerator that
we saw it where there's a video camera on the inside,
so while you're at the market, you can see if
you have milk and eggs at the market. And I
think that's just overdoing it.
Speaker 10 (16:32):
You know, honestly, the idea that that there's a camera
inside the fridge that actually kind of intrigued me because
how many times that Tina and I were at the
store and we're like, did.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
You use all the yogurt to you?
Speaker 10 (16:44):
I know, I know, and I'm like, hey, dial up
the fridge, right, let's dial up the fridge and take
a look that I could actually use.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 10 (16:52):
You know, there are fridges that are connected to like
they'll make a shopping list on your oh yeah, right
on an app. Right, But but you know what you
have to do to the fridges? Aren't that smart? The
fridge isn't like ooh, I just noticed you put a
gallon of milk in me. No, you gotta you get
home from the store where you already went through self
service and scanned it all in, and now you got
(17:13):
to scan it into your fridge at home.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
No, right, but you know what, but look, I know
you love your wife and I love mine, but it's
also a nice little Oh I forgot this at the market.
I'll be right back, and you got ten minutes to yourself.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 10 (17:30):
You know what there are there are some real joys
in life to having missed things.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
That's right. They're just they're just you know.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Bellio always asked me because I got to Home Depot
probably four or five times a week or Low's, and
she goes, why do you go so often? I go, well,
there's this there's this product that they have way in
the back that that I love looking at. And she goes,
what is it? I go, it's it's on the back shelf.
It's way up on top. You could barely see it.
It's called forty five minutes to myself.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
And it's free. That's completely free.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah, it's people the home deep on Burbank must think
that I'm ripping them off all the time because I
go four or five times a week and I and
three or four of those times, I'll leave with nothing,
so they probably think, oh, he's got a lot of
crap under his jacket.
Speaker 10 (18:14):
Oh yeah, they got you. They've got you. You know
they're watching you, but they're watching you.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
And you can you hold on? Sure? Okay? All right,
that's great. Dean Sharp is with us.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
We'll come back and talk about lighting home theaters, major appliances.
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Speaker 9 (18:51):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (18:56):
Sharp as well as he's on every Saturday six to
eight am right here on KFI and also in San
Diego on Coco and then on Sunday from nine am
until noon. Dean, we just did a story earlier this
evening and I thought about you. There are four hundred
thousand openings in the United States of America, this great
country we live in for skilled workers. Workers that you
(19:19):
know that are plumbers, electricians, carpenters, finished carpenters. And I
think that's a skill that it can never be replaced
with AI And I think kids would be smart to
go that direction, maybe instead of getting a degree and
I don't know, in anthropology or something, I would agree.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
I would agree.
Speaker 10 (19:36):
Now, it's not for everybody, but you know what, there
there's a I think there's been a stigma in our
generation and maybe the generation before that, if you went
into manual trade work with your hands, you know that
somehow you know you're not as smart, you know, yes,
and all of that kind of stuff, right, And that
was something, honestly, the weird thing, the irony was my dad.
(19:57):
My dad who taught me to be capable with my hands.
He always looked at me and said he was one
of those greatest generation guys who looked at me and said,
you know what, just just stay in school because you
don't want to end up doing having to spend your
life doing what I'm doing. And the fact of the
matter is, it's been an amazing joy and it's wow,
(20:18):
that's where I said, And so yeah, I'm all about
it for those who just aren't, you know, headed towards
white collar jobs. You know what, after high school, go
into a trade stool, do an apprenticeship, because I'll tell
you say you there are a lot of white collar
employees who are gonna be wondering maybe I should have
(20:40):
went that way because AI has completely replaced me until
until AI crawls into a fully functional humanoid robot form,
which you know, who knows how long that's gonna take,
But it's not gonna happen tomorrow. Those jobs are safe
and secure and growing in demand. You can't out I
(21:00):
always say, you can't outsource your local plumber. When your
toilet clogs, You cannot outsource the plumber to AI right
or to a call center in India. You need somebody
in your neighborhood who's there who can get it done.
And they make bank.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Oh yeah, and I.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Love the saying dirty hands, clean money. I think that's
so it's such a great saying. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Also,
but then in the story there was they did a
piece on a forty year old guy who wanted to
come in and get into construction, and he goes, oh,
there's a forty year old guy who's never ever even
handled a drill in his life, And like, what the
f happened to this guy? You're fortying, you've never held
(21:37):
a drill in your life. Who the hell raised you?
Speaker 4 (21:40):
You know what?
Speaker 10 (21:41):
Unfortunately, though, I think that's way more common than you
really and you.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Would think, yeah, wow, a lot.
Speaker 10 (21:46):
I mean I know a few contractors who basically run
handyman business right just around odd jobs kind of stuff,
and they tell me all the time, they're like, you
know what, the stuff we're getting called out on, Dean,
the stuff that we got called out on twenty years ago,
Like we're getting called out on can.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
You put the door knob in?
Speaker 10 (22:06):
And I'm like, you're kidding me, right, No, They're like
they're they're like they are making bottom for you know,
being able to handle a Phillips screwdriver.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I mean a friend of mine who lived in and
see you know, he called me up and I could
tell he was pissed, Like what's going on? Hecause I
got a plumber coming out. He's going to charge me
two hundred and eighty dollars to take apart our garbage
disposal and get a screw that he had dropped in
and a tight and it froze it up.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
I said, I'll come out and do it. He goes,
you know how to do it.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I can take a part, you know, a garbage disposal,
and it's just.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
It just takes time.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
You got to undo it, and you got to open
it up, unplug it and take the screw out of it.
Took me about forty five minutes. And he was amazed.
He goes, I can't believe we grew up together and
you knew how to do that. And I had to
call a plumber. I said, because my dad sat down
with me and I watched him. My dad was a
finished carpenter and he built everything in his house.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
He built the bar, he built the you know, the foyer,
the you know, the beams that run in the in
the no idea that your dad had those skills.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
My dad did an entire bar and built the entire
thing himself and looked beautiful, you know, and those and
he learned it from his dad, you know.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
And it's a generational thing.
Speaker 12 (23:17):
One of the most recent South parks they that was
a whole story point where in the future the only guys,
the richest guys were the handyman guys who because they
were so in demand and they could charge so much
money they can they were come pulling up in limos
and stuff, but they still had the tool belt around them.
Speaker 10 (23:32):
Yeah, you know, that's such a weird thing to think about,
but I think it's actually sort of coming to fruition, right.
I mean, it's just it's so strange to walk around
and actually have skills.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
It's one hundred percent and I and it's it's never
too late. Look, if you're forty and you've never held
a drill in your life, maybe you're not the carpenter
that we're looking for, but it's I think it's a
great skill to have. And and now, what's what's on
the big show this weekend? What's the topics?
Speaker 10 (24:00):
You know what I thought we would take a look
at getting ready for the holidays from a different angle,
and that is, you know, there there are kind of
three things that if you're you know, apart from painting
or anything like that, that you're thinking about if folks
are coming over, and that is Number one, people are
going to be eating. Number Two, you're probably watching a
big game, or maybe you're watching movies together through the holidays,
(24:20):
and and number three just kind of setting the mood
in the house. So on Sunday we're going to talk
about lighting changes, home theater upgrades, and major appliances from
twenty twenty five that all of which are stuff that
you can actually do without rewiring the house or digging
into the walls.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Excellent.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
All right, I'll be listening by, but I appreciate you
coming on. Thanks Mam, Thanks Bud. All right, Dean Sharp
every Saturday six to eight am right here on KFI,
and every Sunday nine am until noon.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
It's gone my show.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
We'll come back and talk about podcasting with Tony knows
everything about podcasting a lot of people trying to get
into it. He'll tell you what equipment to buy, what
equipment to stay away from, and the mistakes that you
can make along the way.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Pod Casters are gonna love this next segment.
Speaker 9 (25:02):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
I ran into a guy today. He works for the
US Postal Service. His name is Mario, and I was
walking tour. I was walking around Burbank and he stops.
He goes, Hey, Conway, I'm like.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
He says, Oh, I can't believe you really walk around Burbank.
I'm like, oh yeah, I've been saying that for fifteen years.
But it happens all the time. Like I'll run into
somebody at Walmart and they're like, Oh, I can't believe
you really go to Walmart. I've been talking about it
for twenty years. So e thing going. But he told
me a great story and then we'll get into some
podcasting talk here. He's a big Dodger fan, and so
(25:39):
are his kids. He lives out Northridge in a great community.
And after the Dodgers one on Saturday night, his three kids,
I think age twenty six, twenty three, and thirteen, they
all said, Hey, let's go to where you grew up
in Van Eyes or Panorama City area and really celebrate
with you know the guys that are doing donuts and
(26:01):
the fireworks and you know, the whole run. And Mario said,
I don't think it's safe. Let's just stay here at
Northridge and the kids like, no, no.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
We want to go. We want to go in and go.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
He goes, all right, So he took him to the
neighborhood that he grew up in, and they're there for
about ten minutes. They're like, Dad, let's get out of here.
Let's come back to north Ridge. And they were gone.
So Mario with the US Post Office Post Service USPS,
big shout out to Mario. All right, talk to Tony here,
Tony with podcasting, buddy. Everyone's doing it. Everyone loves it.
(26:33):
What is the equipment that you recommend for the board?
What's the best piece of starter equipment you recommend?
Speaker 4 (26:40):
The easiest?
Speaker 5 (26:40):
I mean, I would say the two easiest ways is either,
you know, if you don't need anything fancy and just
microphone in, you get something as a company Focus, right,
they make a scarlet solo that's about like one hundred
hundred and ten bucks.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
It's really good.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Interface sounds good if you want just quick and dirty.
But for like, if you want like a board, more
microphones and just more functionality. I'm a big fan of
the road casters road casters, and there are two different ones.
There's the road Caster Pro two and then there's a
road Caster duo.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
What do I have?
Speaker 5 (27:08):
You have the road Caster too, the Pro two because guys,
there's more microphones and the inputs plus the all the
touch pad stuff, so there's like a smaller version for
a little less It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
It's amazing how much, how great the quality is and
how much you can do with such a little, tiny
piece of equipment.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
I had all rack gear for a long time, like
I used to for all my like off site recording
I used to do. I'd have full full microphone creeamps.
I mean that was like three hundred pounds worth of
gear I was setting up. And then I went, no,
I just need this little thing now. Yeah, but now
you can't get rid of that old equipment.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
It's fine. I like it all.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
I still use it for stuff, so it's fine. It's
unique in its own way with its sound. But again,
I for stuff like what we do for recording of
podcasts and stuff, road caster's perfect.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I had a friend of mine who owned he was
a recording artist and he still is, and he bought
a big twenty four inch twenty four channel like a
three inch tape and was recording and on those things
you can't record on the last two tracks because the
tape phrase all the time.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Yeah, the ted curls, yea, the curling of the tape. Yes.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
So he bought that for thirty five thousand dollars in
the eighties. Yeah, and he you know, he got his
money's worth out of it. He tried to sell it recently.
Not only could he not sell it, but nobody even
wanted it for free. Wow, nobody wanted it.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
Usually people like it for the vintage sound, you know. Yeah,
but that's old school. I mean those days are.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
All analog and all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Like. It's just yeah, it's just it moves forward at
a breakneck pace, man, Okay, so real quickly. The scarlet
solo is a good starter one. Yeah, again, it just
clean it again. If you just need something just to
record your voice, that's good. And you can plug that
right into your computer and right to your phone and
it'll work and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
The scarlets will do. Okay, that's a cool one. And
then a little more complicated is the road caster. Yeah,
but against so much more functionality.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Again, that has like all the mic processing and stuff
like that, so it almost replaces all the wreck here
in those roadcasters has all that processing built in.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Wow, what is the roadcaster runs? It's still seven or
eight hundred.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Bucks seven hundred And then the duo, the smaller one
is four hundred for like a two mic version. Yours
has a four mic version.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Yeah, I went top shelf.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Yeah, thing t on just that was at the time,
that was the only one that that didn't exist, you know,
as to what it was.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Yeah, all right, So if you're just starting out, maybe
your kids just starting out, the scarlet solo, it's a
good starter mic and the roadcaster.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
It's so much as you know, especially got these days,
like no one does just audio. It's streaming on YouTube, streaming,
you know, streaming and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
So good audio is important.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah, it's a lot of fun. Yeah, it's a lot
of fun starting they just get a decent mic. Yeah,
all right. Coming up next is the Lovely and Talented
Oh she wrote that, Tiffany Hobbs.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Yeah, she wrote just wrote that on the board.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Please introduce me as the lovely and Talented Tiffany Hobbs. Okay,
Lovely and Talented Tiffany Hobbs with Ronner Ronner seven to
ten pm right here on kf I AM.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Six four Conway.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
The show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now you
can always hear us live on KFI AM six forty
four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime on
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It's KMF I Am sixty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Let's go
back to the story on the Santa Monica restaurant. There's
more here than meets the eye. This Blue Oysterret, Blue
Plate Lois Direct restaurant is not closing because they you know,
(00:21):
they don't have good food and they and nobody likes
that the Oysters. They're closing for a whole host of reasons.
That is the microcosm of what's happening in Santa Monica,
but also in California. This is just a small little
restaurant in California, in Santa Monica, but they're closing for
(00:45):
state wide reasons. And I think it's important to listen
to this because I bet a lot of people who
own or work at restaurants are having the same trouble
as Blue Plate Oysterret. And so let's give this story
a listen and see if this also isn't the story
of your restaurant, either that you own or that you
work at.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Blueplate Oysteret is a Santa Monica mainstay. After sixteen years,
owner Jennifer rust says they can't keep the doors open anymore.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Our staff relies on you know, tips and diners, and
we pay a big percentage to third party takeout blueber Eats,
door Dash, so we you know, it just cuts heavily
into our profit.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
A high vacancy rate in retail space and office buildings
just less people.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
We used to be very busy.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
At lunch with Yeah, nobody's around Santa Monica vacant because
Santa Monica did do anything about the homeless problem. People
screaming at you when you go into the restaurant or
you come out and the guys, you know, peel the
one off when you're going to your car. It's just
not an attractive thing to take your family out.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
You know, office people going out and they're just not
coming anymore.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Add to that rising costs of ingredients, tariffs, employer costs.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Also a huge contributor is doing business in California with
Workmen's comp.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Okay, do you hear that. Listen to this.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
This is a big red flag for you politicians out there.
This is something you can fix.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Also, a huge contributor is doing business in California with
Workmen's camp. I feel like the litigious nature of people
in restaurants is killing us.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
All.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
That's exactly right. I hear about it all the time.
Restaurant workers they get hurt, they get injured, all of
a sudden, they're on unemployment for twelve years because they
stepped on a piece of glass or whatever, and they're
off to the races, and you're going to have to
pay more in Workmen's camp with everybody suing you. Everybody,
your customer's suing you. Maybe somebody gets a bad oyster
(02:43):
and they go south like belly O, they sue you.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Everybody's suing.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Santa Monica is also seeing a drop in tourism mirror
throughout the stating country.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I think, until you get mentally ill people screaming at
our guests and stuff off the streets, it's just not
an appealing thing to do it.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Yeah, do you hear that.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Till you get.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Mentally illed people off the streets.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Or guests and stuff off the streets, it's just not
an appealing thing to do it.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Okay, So you got Workmen's com the homeless. Nobody's in
the office buildings anymore. Everyone is fled because Santa Monica
Third Street is just a dangerous hang.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Russ is the lack of support from the city of
Santa Monica and addressing homelessness and safety have also been
a factor.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
I feel for her and I understand her concerns. I'm
also a small business owner in the city. But I
know that these are not issues that are specific to
Santa Monica.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Okay, maybe not specific to Santa Monica, but heavily, heavily
impact Santa Monica. Lots of people who go to Santa
Monica Third Street complain about the homeless and the filth
and how dangerous it is.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
A lot of people that I know these are.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Issues that are across the region, across the state.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Mar Lana de Grete says the city has already taken
steps to turn things around. The realignment plan last week
that includes a new approach to public safety.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
I think unfortunately for Blue Plate Oyster At it maybe
didn't come fast enough. But we're here now and we
hope that these changes help so that we don't see
another post like this. We don't want to see any
more doors closing, and we want to be able to
attract new businesses.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, well, did you listen to why she's leaving? I mean,
did you do you understand the issues.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Now, the news about Blue Plate Oysterites, it hit some
in the community hard. But they do want you to
know that they are open in till January fourth, so
there's plenty of time to come out, maybe try them
out for the first time, or to say goodbye. Reporting
life from Ata Monica Karma Dickerson, NBC four New.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
All right, so you still got time to go out
to the Blue Plate Oyster Red and get your your oysters.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I don't if people are eating oysters nowadays. I know
Bellio stopped for a while, but Krowzer, you still pound
these things, don't you. Is that the term that people use,
pounding them? I went out and pounded oysters last night.
Angel you probably you seemed like an oyster gall you
with the oysters.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
I love oysters. I love them, I love them, I
love them. And I did even.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Have that in your singles ad.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
Yes, it is. I love puppy dogs and oysters.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Right, So when a guy reads your singles ads like, oh,
this chick's going to be expensive.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Well, it's good for them to know up front, right,
I guess, Yeah, so they're not. I mean, there's no
shock to anything after we met.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yeah, Well, look, look, at least you're honest about it, right,
that's right. I mean, is in your middle name market price?
Speaker 7 (05:41):
It is? It is market price.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Thanks for Angel market price Martinez.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Bargain base.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
But I did have an oyster episode and I still
went back.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Really wow, what a glutton for punishment. What happened to you?
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Did you throw up in? Well? It was my grandmother's sink.
And here's the.
Speaker 8 (06:08):
I should have known better because I was skiing out
in Utah, another.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Expensive habit got a mighty Yeah. Hey, I'll be skiing,
and I ski and love oysters. Anybody want to give
me a brain?
Speaker 8 (06:22):
And one of my friends that I was skiing with
is like, let's get a plate of oysters. I'm like okay,
And then I thought about it. I'm like, hmm, I'm
in the middle of a desert pretty much. I don't
know that I should be eating seafood. And he's like, oh,
don't worry about it. They ship them in daily on
some airplane. I'm like, okay, let's go.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Yeah. Later that night, I'm like, oh boy.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
It hits your heart.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Huh, it hit me?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Where were.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Deer Valley?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Oh, dear Valley? Got a mighty another grand.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
Was this skiers brunch. It's delicious, But I.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Bet the oysters were very expensive at Deer Valley.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Probably you should ask the person that paid for it.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Yeah, very expensive at Deer Valley. So you were you were?
Were you staying at Deer Valley?
Speaker 7 (07:12):
No? No, I stayed in Salt Lake.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Okay, But Salt Lake has like like five or six
or seven really great ski areas that are less than
an hour's drive from Salt Lake.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Oh exactly.
Speaker 8 (07:23):
That's why I lived there when I did, because yeah,
you could just drive up the canyon.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Is one of them.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Yeah, yeah, they're all on yes, Alta and Snowbird, or
in Little Contwig Canyon, Brighton and Solitude, or in big
big Contwig Canyon. And then on the Park City side,
you've got the canyons, You've got Park City and you
have Deer Valley.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
And where's the film festival up there?
Speaker 7 (07:53):
Sun Dance? But they held it in Park City?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Oh they did? Okay, Yeah, yeah that must be I remember,
and I was younger. My mom asked me if I
wanted to go on a bus a bus ride with
a bunch of friends called student skiers, and it would
leave you know Tarzana or I don't know. Bell Ball
Park is where we loved and they would we'd go
for a week and then we'd come back. It was
(08:18):
during spring break, and I hated skiing. I hated everything
about it, hate being cold, It just wasn't my vibe.
But I had an opportunity to leave the house with
friends and go skiing for a week. And while we
were in Salt Lake. We stayed in Salt Lake and
every morning the bus would take us to a new,
you know, destination to go skiing. And I always took
(08:40):
the bus. I always got up and had breakfast and
got on the bus. I never skied once. I didn't
bring my skis, I didn't rent skis. Never skied once
on that trip, not once. I would hang out with,
you know, whoever I could find. It also hated skiing,
and that's where I met one of my best buddies,
Robbie Fox. He also wasn't thrilled with skiing, and we
(09:03):
just you know, walked around town and that's where I
met him. You know, that's when pop rocks were really popular.
So we're going to break into the bus and take
everybody's pop rocks and eat pop rocks all day. You know,
we're in seventh grade, you know, idiots. So I remember
we were going to break into the bus and I'm
pushing him. I met this guy an hour before this,
(09:23):
and I'm pushing him onto the bus through the crack,
the small opening in the bathroom window, and I'm pushing
him and he gets stuck in the bus that we're
trying to you know, take everybody's pop rocks. And he
farted in my face. I knew this guy for thirty
minutes before he farted in my face, and yet still
became a best one of my best buddies.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
That it was unusual, unusual, all right.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But but all those reasons why these places are closing
down there, it's everywhere workmen's comp homelessness. Nobody wants coming by,
nobody can afford it. The uber eats and door dash
take up too much of the profit, and they just
said f it. You know, they're closing down. So you
got to get out there before January fourth. That's the
(10:08):
last time you can see an oyster there at Blue Oyster,
Blue Plate Oyster Red. And it's pretty reasonable prices, you know,
you got to you got all this, you can get
crab crab claws for fifteen bucks. The first mate serves
two to three people, oysters, jumbo prons, crab oh ninety
(10:30):
five hours. Christ the Captain serves four to six oysters,
jumbo prons and crab scallops and a sink to throw
up in later.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
SI don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
All right, Well, go out there and eat their food,
but it's gonna be open un till January fourth. So
blue plate, oyster red, if that's your your vibe, go
out there before January fourth.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
And because they're shut and down, they've had it.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
And I think there's a lot more restaurants going to
do that because people have had it in California.
Speaker 9 (11:08):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Hey, look at the moon before we get to Dean.
Look east and you can see that full ass moon.
Maybe you're on the two, ten, one, thirty four, the ten,
the sixty, the ninety one underware you're but if you
are a go look, you know, check out the moon.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
How'd you like that? Right now? Back to driving? All right?
Dean Sharp is with us.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
He's on every Saturday and Sunday right here on KFI
six to eight am on Saturday, nine am to noon
on Sunday. But do you sound really good today? Are
using new equipment or new phone or new microphone or something?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (11:45):
I am using a new program that they just built
into the roadcaster board. No kidding, So that's like direct connect.
That's now everybody's just completely lost. What the heck are
they talking about? But yeah, instead of an interface, they've
got this new software.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Yeah. It was it easy to put together, easy to
hook up.
Speaker 10 (12:03):
Yeah, it was so easy because Matt Anderson did it.
Oh that's right, that's how easy it was. I just
handed it to him and he's like here. Six hours later,
he's like here you got You're all set.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Did he come out to the house and hook it
up for you? No?
Speaker 10 (12:15):
No, I had to bring it in. Oh you did,
but I got to see bellio so it was nice.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Oh that's cool. You shouldn't tell me that that you
guys ran into each other.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
You know, there's a lot we don't tell you. I guess.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Hey, we did a story yesterday and I wanted to
talk to you about and I love the idea, you know,
the modern technology that goes into homes.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
You know better than I do you.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Know the switches, the drapes that close and open, the
TV that pops up, you know, your thermostat is uh
you know on the internet, your lights outside. But now
the trend is going away from that, back to dumb homes.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
And I like.
Speaker 10 (12:47):
That, you know, I laugh, I laugh, you know, yeah,
I mean, yeah, yeah. I don't even know exactly how
to respond to this, because here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 10 (13:00):
Okay, first of all, anybody throwing around the phrase I've
had it with technology, what are we talking about.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
We're having this conversation on the radio.
Speaker 10 (13:10):
Okay, all right, So I mean I'm not putting on you.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I'm old school, buddy, I'm old school.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I can take it. I can take it, you know.
Speaker 10 (13:20):
So I saw you know, I'm but I feel you.
I feel you for me, you know. I always I
always point this out to my clients. I'm like, listen,
I'm not going to push on anything on you don't want, right,
And and I totally understand the idea that there's a
lot of tech out there that, in my opinion, is
not smart. Right, it gets labeled, everything gets labeled smart home,
(13:40):
whatever the new catchphrase is. Now everything's coming out AI,
Like there's an AI washer and dryer.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
I'm like, b as a washer andry right.
Speaker 10 (13:48):
It's just the same washer and last year, right, So
but yeah, you know, I mean here's the thing. The
Amish they're a really good example of this, right that
we think we think of the as like, oh they're
very they're very no tech people. No, they have they
use wheels, you know, they've got they've got carts and
(14:08):
carriages and rakes and tools. It's just an arbitrary decision
like Okay, this much tech and no more. That's what
the Amish are. And that's what everybody essentially has to
decide for themselves, this much tech and no more. And
I totally get that. And when it comes to you know,
designing your home whatever, hey, pick your level, whatever the
(14:31):
case may be. But I do feel you in that,
you know, I'm not the guy who's adopting everything out there,
because there's a lot of tech air quotes here that
is really for smart homes or so called smart homes
is just superfluous, Like I mean, who needs a refrigerator
that has my calendar on it? And also that I
(14:52):
can you know, watch you know, good Morning America on
I don't need to watch TV on the fridge, Thank you, Samsung.
But it's it's just, you know, it's unnecessary stuff for me.
For me, right, I like to set my definition of
a smart home at technology that is reliable, easy to
set up, and convenient for me that actually helps. And
(15:16):
if you're wrestling with tech like every day or every week,
then you know, in my opinion, that's not smart. It's
not smart enough yet. And you know, I totally feel
you if you want to let it go.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
You know, I had we were in the market for
a new refrigerator and and I'm fascinated by the technology.
I just don't think it's for me. You know, there
was a thing called the knock knock fridge. Have you
seen this? You knock on the glass and then the
light goes on inside you can see it without opening
up the refrigerator door. I think that's interesting. But why
do I want that?
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Yeah? Exactly, I mean that they're very they were a
thing and.
Speaker 11 (15:53):
God forbid, God forbid you open the refrigerator door, exactly
because you know all that energy that yeah, the energy
you'll expand the calories you'll burn, and the energy that
you'll lose out of that fridge.
Speaker 10 (16:07):
I mean, wow, it's gonna cost you pennies more every month.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
But you know, there was something interesting, I guess for
you know, if you've got nine kids and you're on
the go all the time. There was a refrigerator that
we saw it where there's a video camera on the inside,
so while you're at the market, you can see if
you have milk and eggs at the market. And I
think that's just overdoing it.
Speaker 10 (16:32):
You know, honestly, the idea that that there's a camera
inside the fridge that actually kind of intrigued me because
how many times that Tina and I were at the
store and we're like, did.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
You use all the yogurt to you?
Speaker 10 (16:44):
I know, I know, and I'm like, hey, dial up
the fridge, right, let's dial up the fridge and take
a look that I could actually use.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 10 (16:52):
You know, there are fridges that are connected to like
they'll make a shopping list on your oh yeah, right
on an app. Right, But but you know what you
have to do to the fridges? Aren't that smart? The
fridge isn't like ooh, I just noticed you put a
gallon of milk in me. No, you gotta you get
home from the store where you already went through self
service and scanned it all in, and now you got
(17:13):
to scan it into your fridge at home.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
No, right, but you know what, but look, I know
you love your wife and I love mine, but it's
also a nice little Oh I forgot this at the market.
I'll be right back, and you got ten minutes to yourself.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 10 (17:30):
You know what there are there are some real joys
in life to having missed things.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
That's right. They're just they're just you know.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Bellio always asked me because I got to Home Depot
probably four or five times a week or Low's, and
she goes, why do you go so often? I go, well,
there's this there's this product that they have way in
the back that that I love looking at. And she goes,
what is it? I go, it's it's on the back shelf.
It's way up on top. You could barely see it.
It's called forty five minutes to myself.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
And it's free. That's completely free.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah, it's people the home deep on Burbank must think
that I'm ripping them off all the time because I
go four or five times a week and I and
three or four of those times, I'll leave with nothing,
so they probably think, oh, he's got a lot of
crap under his jacket.
Speaker 10 (18:14):
Oh yeah, they got you. They've got you. You know
they're watching you, but they're watching you.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
And you can you hold on? Sure? Okay? All right,
that's great. Dean Sharp is with us.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
We'll come back and talk about lighting home theaters, major appliances.
We are live with the number one weekend show I
think on kfive people love that show, The Dean. Yeah
they I know that Mark Thompson's brother, that's his favorite show.
And I bet Krozer listens a lot of absolutely and
I love man listening, like when I'm driving around Sunday
(18:45):
morning at nine am till noon. Saturday mornings a little
early for me, but Sunday morning, man, that's a great show.
Speaker 9 (18:51):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty Dean.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Sharp as well as he's on every Saturday six to
eight am right here on KFI and also in San
Diego on Coco and then on Sunday from nine am
until noon. Dean, we just did a story earlier this
evening and I thought about you. There are four hundred
thousand openings in the United States of America, this great
country we live in for skilled workers. Workers that you
(19:19):
know that are plumbers, electricians, carpenters, finished carpenters. And I
think that's a skill that it can never be replaced
with AI And I think kids would be smart to
go that direction, maybe instead of getting a degree and
I don't know, in anthropology or something, I would agree.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
I would agree.
Speaker 10 (19:36):
Now, it's not for everybody, but you know what, there
there's a I think there's been a stigma in our
generation and maybe the generation before that, if you went
into manual trade work with your hands, you know that
somehow you know you're not as smart, you know, yes,
and all of that kind of stuff, right, And that
was something, honestly, the weird thing, the irony was my dad.
(19:57):
My dad who taught me to be capable with my hands.
He always looked at me and said he was one
of those greatest generation guys who looked at me and said,
you know what, just just stay in school because you
don't want to end up doing having to spend your
life doing what I'm doing. And the fact of the
matter is, it's been an amazing joy and it's wow,
(20:18):
that's where I said, And so yeah, I'm all about
it for those who just aren't, you know, headed towards
white collar jobs. You know what, after high school, go
into a trade stool, do an apprenticeship, because I'll tell
you say you there are a lot of white collar
employees who are gonna be wondering maybe I should have
(20:40):
went that way because AI has completely replaced me until
until AI crawls into a fully functional humanoid robot form,
which you know, who knows how long that's gonna take,
But it's not gonna happen tomorrow. Those jobs are safe
and secure and growing in demand. You can't out I
(21:00):
always say, you can't outsource your local plumber. When your
toilet clogs, You cannot outsource the plumber to AI right
or to a call center in India. You need somebody
in your neighborhood who's there who can get it done.
And they make bank.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Oh yeah, and I.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Love the saying dirty hands, clean money. I think that's
so it's such a great saying. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Also,
but then in the story there was they did a
piece on a forty year old guy who wanted to
come in and get into construction, and he goes, oh,
there's a forty year old guy who's never ever even
handled a drill in his life, And like, what the
f happened to this guy? You're fortying, you've never held
(21:37):
a drill in your life. Who the hell raised you?
Speaker 4 (21:40):
You know what?
Speaker 10 (21:41):
Unfortunately, though, I think that's way more common than you
really and you.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Would think, yeah, wow, a lot.
Speaker 10 (21:46):
I mean I know a few contractors who basically run
handyman business right just around odd jobs kind of stuff,
and they tell me all the time, they're like, you
know what, the stuff we're getting called out on, Dean,
the stuff that we got called out on twenty years ago,
Like we're getting called out on can.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
You put the door knob in?
Speaker 10 (22:06):
And I'm like, you're kidding me, right, No, They're like
they're they're like they are making bottom for you know,
being able to handle a Phillips screwdriver.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I mean a friend of mine who lived in and
see you know, he called me up and I could
tell he was pissed, Like what's going on? Hecause I
got a plumber coming out. He's going to charge me
two hundred and eighty dollars to take apart our garbage
disposal and get a screw that he had dropped in
and a tight and it froze it up.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
I said, I'll come out and do it. He goes,
you know how to do it.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I can take a part, you know, a garbage disposal,
and it's just.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
It just takes time.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
You got to undo it, and you got to open
it up, unplug it and take the screw out of it.
Took me about forty five minutes. And he was amazed.
He goes, I can't believe we grew up together and
you knew how to do that. And I had to
call a plumber. I said, because my dad sat down
with me and I watched him. My dad was a
finished carpenter and he built everything in his house.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
He built the bar, he built the you know, the foyer,
the you know, the beams that run in the in
the no idea that your dad had those skills.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
My dad did an entire bar and built the entire
thing himself and looked beautiful, you know, and those and
he learned it from his dad, you know.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
And it's a generational thing.
Speaker 12 (23:17):
One of the most recent South parks they that was
a whole story point where in the future the only guys,
the richest guys were the handyman guys who because they
were so in demand and they could charge so much
money they can they were come pulling up in limos
and stuff, but they still had the tool belt around them.
Speaker 10 (23:32):
Yeah, you know, that's such a weird thing to think about,
but I think it's actually sort of coming to fruition, right.
I mean, it's just it's so strange to walk around
and actually have skills.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
It's one hundred percent and I and it's it's never
too late. Look, if you're forty and you've never held
a drill in your life, maybe you're not the carpenter
that we're looking for, but it's I think it's a
great skill to have. And and now, what's what's on
the big show this weekend? What's the topics?
Speaker 10 (24:00):
You know what I thought we would take a look
at getting ready for the holidays from a different angle,
and that is, you know, there there are kind of
three things that if you're you know, apart from painting
or anything like that, that you're thinking about if folks
are coming over, and that is Number one, people are
going to be eating. Number Two, you're probably watching a
big game, or maybe you're watching movies together through the holidays,
(24:20):
and and number three just kind of setting the mood
in the house. So on Sunday we're going to talk
about lighting changes, home theater upgrades, and major appliances from
twenty twenty five that all of which are stuff that
you can actually do without rewiring the house or digging
into the walls.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Excellent.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
All right, I'll be listening by, but I appreciate you
coming on. Thanks Mam, Thanks Bud. All right, Dean Sharp
every Saturday six to eight am right here on KFI,
and every Sunday nine am until noon.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
It's gone my show.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
We'll come back and talk about podcasting with Tony knows
everything about podcasting a lot of people trying to get
into it. He'll tell you what equipment to buy, what
equipment to stay away from, and the mistakes that you
can make along the way.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Pod Casters are gonna love this next segment.
Speaker 9 (25:02):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
I ran into a guy today. He works for the
US Postal Service. His name is Mario, and I was
walking tour. I was walking around Burbank and he stops.
He goes, Hey, Conway, I'm like.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
He says, Oh, I can't believe you really walk around Burbank.
I'm like, oh yeah, I've been saying that for fifteen years.
But it happens all the time. Like I'll run into
somebody at Walmart and they're like, Oh, I can't believe
you really go to Walmart. I've been talking about it
for twenty years. So e thing going. But he told
me a great story and then we'll get into some
podcasting talk here. He's a big Dodger fan, and so
(25:39):
are his kids. He lives out Northridge in a great community.
And after the Dodgers one on Saturday night, his three kids,
I think age twenty six, twenty three, and thirteen, they
all said, Hey, let's go to where you grew up
in Van Eyes or Panorama City area and really celebrate
with you know the guys that are doing donuts and
(26:01):
the fireworks and you know, the whole run. And Mario said,
I don't think it's safe. Let's just stay here at
Northridge and the kids like, no, no.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
We want to go. We want to go in and go.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
He goes, all right, So he took him to the
neighborhood that he grew up in, and they're there for
about ten minutes. They're like, Dad, let's get out of here.
Let's come back to north Ridge. And they were gone.
So Mario with the US Post Office Post Service USPS,
big shout out to Mario. All right, talk to Tony here,
Tony with podcasting, buddy. Everyone's doing it. Everyone loves it.
(26:33):
What is the equipment that you recommend for the board?
What's the best piece of starter equipment you recommend?
Speaker 4 (26:40):
The easiest?
Speaker 5 (26:40):
I mean, I would say the two easiest ways is either,
you know, if you don't need anything fancy and just
microphone in, you get something as a company Focus, right,
they make a scarlet solo that's about like one hundred
hundred and ten bucks.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
It's really good.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Interface sounds good if you want just quick and dirty.
But for like, if you want like a board, more
microphones and just more functionality. I'm a big fan of
the road casters road casters, and there are two different ones.
There's the road Caster Pro two and then there's a
road Caster duo.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
What do I have?
Speaker 5 (27:08):
You have the road Caster too, the Pro two because guys,
there's more microphones and the inputs plus the all the
touch pad stuff, so there's like a smaller version for
a little less It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
It's amazing how much, how great the quality is and
how much you can do with such a little, tiny
piece of equipment.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
I had all rack gear for a long time, like
I used to for all my like off site recording
I used to do. I'd have full full microphone creeamps.
I mean that was like three hundred pounds worth of
gear I was setting up. And then I went, no,
I just need this little thing now. Yeah, but now
you can't get rid of that old equipment.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
It's fine. I like it all.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
I still use it for stuff, so it's fine. It's
unique in its own way with its sound. But again,
I for stuff like what we do for recording of
podcasts and stuff, road caster's perfect.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I had a friend of mine who owned he was
a recording artist and he still is, and he bought
a big twenty four inch twenty four channel like a
three inch tape and was recording and on those things
you can't record on the last two tracks because the
tape phrase all the time.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Yeah, the ted curls, yea, the curling of the tape. Yes.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
So he bought that for thirty five thousand dollars in
the eighties. Yeah, and he you know, he got his
money's worth out of it. He tried to sell it recently.
Not only could he not sell it, but nobody even
wanted it for free. Wow, nobody wanted it.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
Usually people like it for the vintage sound, you know. Yeah,
but that's old school. I mean those days are.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
All analog and all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Like. It's just yeah, it's just it moves forward at
a breakneck pace, man, Okay, so real quickly. The scarlet
solo is a good starter one. Yeah, again, it just
clean it again. If you just need something just to
record your voice, that's good. And you can plug that
right into your computer and right to your phone and
it'll work and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
The scarlets will do. Okay, that's a cool one. And
then a little more complicated is the road caster. Yeah,
but against so much more functionality.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Again, that has like all the mic processing and stuff
like that, so it almost replaces all the wreck here
in those roadcasters has all that processing built in.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Wow, what is the roadcaster runs? It's still seven or
eight hundred.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Bucks seven hundred And then the duo, the smaller one
is four hundred for like a two mic version. Yours
has a four mic version.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Yeah, I went top shelf.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Yeah, thing t on just that was at the time,
that was the only one that that didn't exist, you know,
as to what it was.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Yeah, all right, So if you're just starting out, maybe
your kids just starting out, the scarlet solo, it's a
good starter mic and the roadcaster.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
It's so much as you know, especially got these days,
like no one does just audio. It's streaming on YouTube, streaming,
you know, streaming and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
So good audio is important.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah, it's a lot of fun. Yeah, it's a lot
of fun starting they just get a decent mic. Yeah,
all right. Coming up next is the Lovely and Talented
Oh she wrote that, Tiffany Hobbs.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Yeah, she wrote just wrote that on the board.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Please introduce me as the lovely and Talented Tiffany Hobbs. Okay,
Lovely and Talented Tiffany Hobbs with Ronner Ronner seven to
ten pm right here on kf I AM.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Six four Conway.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
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