November 21, 2025 • 30 mins
Tim kicks off the hour with KTLA’s Chip Yost swapping stories with Tim about reporting emotional news, running into old bosses while waiting to meet Conway, and a surprise dating tale… Plus a debate over LA vs. OC.
Tinamarie Squieri from the Smart & Final Charitable Foundation joins to talk community giving, Smart & Final’s work with Caterina’s Club, and Conway’s infamous rotisserie chicken incident.
Then Sebas from The Woody Show and the viral Cart Narcs channel drops in to explain how he polices bad grocery store behavior, and the surprises continue as radio legend Commander Chuck Street stops by to reminisce with Tim about classic Rick Dees Show moments.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's camp. I am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Come on out.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
We'll be here till eight o'clock. We have another almost
two hours of sitting here, which is a lot. But
we're two five zero zero Yorbelindo Boulevard, right off the
ninety one. I came down the fifty seven and I
got off the free and I made nine hundred turns
to get here. I recommend you stay on the fifty
seven and ninety one and just deal with the extra
(00:33):
five minutes or so. But it is the three D
House of left turns around here. Wow, every every time
you go you turn left in yourbl into nine thousand,
people want to turn left with you. Nine thousand, nine thousand.
I'm not bsing you at all.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Right.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
One of the most talented reporters, and the guy has
become a really good friend of mine from KTLA. You
see him in Orange County all the time. Chip Ghost, Yes, excellent, Buddy,
flip your mic on there, Buddy, I love watching you.
You always have upbeat stories. Occasionally have to do a
downer story, which which sucks, but I hear it in
(01:10):
your voice when you do stories where kids are injured
or kids are killed. I can hear the difference in
the canes in your voice that you're sincerely moved by that.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Oh yeah, and a lot of them piss you, excuse me,
make you mad, you tick you off because you cover
them again and again the same thing, like a drunk driver,
alleged drunk driver by something that was a horrible story
at a data point. And it's like, you do so
many of these stories and you're like, yeah, just you
try to, you know, I try to be able to
keep your voice neutral or whatever, but it's yeah, but
it's tough to do so many of them.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
You know, you're a human being. But you know a
lot of people don't know this, but you're a one
man band in Orange County. You do the camera, the lighting,
the writing, the editing, you do everything.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, I was just talking about that. That The way
that came about was I'm getting old. So I've been
at KATLA like eighteen years now. And my first five
I drove into the station every day and I lived
down here in Orange in the Orange County area, right
on the border Orange County, La County, and so I
was driving doing that drive, and the boss comes to
me and one day it's like, hey, we're going to
start an Orange County bureau. He goes, and I want
to give you first crack at it. He goes. The
(02:13):
good news is you can work out of your house.
He goes. The bad news is it's a one man band.
I didn't hear. I didn't hear the I didn't.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Hear the second part.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I heard the first part. It was like, wait, work
out of my house to say three hours of my
day or give three hours of my life back every day.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You have to learn all the equipment.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
No, because I had I had shy. I actually had
my own equipment for a long time. So I was
trying to do my own production company. So and I
actually when I got into the TV business, I didn't
get in as a reporter. I initially started as a soundman,
and then I got some assistant editor job, and then
I went back to school to get a journalism degree.
And actually, funny thing, can I say a little funny
personal story that just happened school here? Well, these two
(02:52):
people right over here that were in line to meet
you just now. My old boss is when I worked
at air Touch Paging before I got into this business.
But there's a fun Can I get get time for
a real funny story about that? Can I can I
tell Can I tell you your dating story? This is funny? Well,
I'll tell mine. It's part of it.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
So I have two hours to keep you.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
So this is this is a funny. So I met
my wife at Air Touch Paging when she was a
sales rep. I was at ZAM What.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Is that company?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
It was? Yeah, you gotta explain, soach kids. There was
a thing called pagers, way back in the day before
cell phones. And there are these little square things your
parents would wear on their belts and occasionally beep and
tell you to call somebody. And they used to be
worth a lot of money and you can make a
decent living selling them. And then cell phones came along
(03:40):
and killed the radio star. But so we were We
were paige sales reps for a paging company. So I'm
dating my wife and you're not. We were just dating
at the time, and you're I don't know what the
rules were, but we were keeping it hush huh, secret secret.
We didn't think anybody knew. And one day I won't
see your last name, Scott, I don't only get you
in trouble. So Scott over, here's my man. Your bridget
was the sales manager, and Scott's going along. He's being
(04:03):
all coy, like, so, how is your vacation? Like he
knew something and then yeah, you enjoy Hawaii And I
was like, I was like, yeah, you went to Hawaii
with Debbie, right, And I'm like, I'm like, how he is, dude,
everybody knows. It's not a secret. We thought we thought
nobody knew we were dating. And so he goes on
to give me this big lecture kind of like because
we're friends too. Where he was my boss, but we
were friends. We hung out, played basketball, I bought him
(04:26):
too much beer and racketball losses. But he gives me
this lecture like like, you know, it's it's okay as
long as it doesn't interfere with your work. I mean,
I would never I would never date anyone I work with.
You know, I don't think it's a good idea, but
you know, as long as it doesn't interfere with your work. Well,
he's now married to her, who was my wife's sales
manager at the time.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
So that's awesome. So man, a lot of dating in
the pager.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Oh there was, Yeah, there was some story business, but
it is Scott right, yes, Scott and Bridget.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, because Scott. I saw him back here in the
produce section when I got there and he said, hey,
he goes, do you want to buy a pager?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
And I'm like, he's right, well, you know there were
a lot of pages that disappeared back then. Yeah that
they're still not accounted for it, right, and so but
you know he's trying to get rid of him pay.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I liked the idea of a pager because you know,
it's not I don't like when somebody just calls you
and they're in your life immediately, you know. I like
that the page call them when you want or whatever,
or you can say.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You didn't get the page right, because there was no
there was no like now you know you say, oh,
on the text message is delivered it damn yeah right.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah no it didn't. But they also with the page,
you could save ten messages.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah, he kept clicking through it all right. So Ktla,
you been there eighteen years? Yeah, and how long you've
been in charge of Orange County Birth That was.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
That that that happened in about twenty twelve. So I've
been knowing the Orange County Bureau since twenty twelve.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You know what, when when I was growing up, there
were very few stories about Orange County because everybody behaved.
There was no lunatics in Orange County. But there's there's
increasingly a lot more news coming out of Orange County.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, there's lunatics everywhere. I mean keeps us in business
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
And also a lot of people. And anybody here from
LA one guy, anybody here from Orange County? Okay, then
I can tell you this LA sucks. I don't live
in the City of Los Angeles. Krozier does not. He's
(06:33):
out in Claremont, Angels in Orange County, Bellios in Irvine,
and I think that's it on our show. None of
us and Stephuge lives in Torrance, I believe. But none
of us live in the City of LA because we've
all seen the writing on the wall.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
We've been dripping through downtown La discussion.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, it's just but not only that, the services. You know,
if you listen to you guys, listen to John Colebelt. Yeah,
John goes nuts every day on the City of l A.
You know, he's on this tiriid right now about the
fires and the water and everything, and he's absolutely right.
You know, stuff like that doesn't happen in Orange County.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
We've got our issues. I mean there was Andrew Doe.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Okay, yeah, right, got our but that came from LA.
You know, that crazyiness comes from LA. But the big
one of the big stories in Orange County is that
they have they finished the street car and it's going
to open soon.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah. Yeah, that's a big deal. A lot of money too, yeah,
that ton of money.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, a ton of mine.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, So we'll see how that we have. There was
a yeah, I'm sure a lot of people that are
happy the construction's done. That was causing a lot of
friction when they were on that because it was you know,
these people had their you know, their store business relied
on people walking by traffic. I had all this construction
going on.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
So but when I leave Los Angeles, like today, I
was driving from Burbank and I can tell instantly when
I get into Orange County, the freeways open up. The
people aren't a hole and and they and they're doing
it right down here. You know, look at this. I mean,
if we're in Los Angeles right now, there'd be three
people here. Two would be drunk and one guy would
(08:08):
have an ankle monitor on.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Sounds like a family reunion of mine.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
And speaking of that, what's up for Thanksgiving? You stay
in town?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Well, we'll see. I'm like I must have like like
super immunity or something. My whole family has been like
knocked out with I don't know what the last week.
So we were supposed to have Thanksgiving up my house
and all the other family members found out that that
are my house except for me was all like down
with something. Something said that, yeah, you know, that's all right,
we'll do it next year.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Gonna it does go around when it gets into a house.
A chip yos, what's your social media stuff?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Just Twitter? Everything, Twitter, Instagram, It's just chip yos to
one word c h I p yost.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Excellent follow chip yos, thank you for coming down, ship
yos kt la everybody. It is the com By Show
where you were Smart and five.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
You know in your ballion you're listening to Tim Conway
Junior on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Day, good dog. All right, we have nine thousand, three
hundred and seventy four dollars and forty four cents. Nine thousand,
three hundred seventy four dollars and forty four cents. That
(09:30):
is great, and we're gonna we're gonna try to get
that over a million dollars tonight. Very very possible. All right,
we have a Tina Marie and how do you pronounce
that last name?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Squarrey squarrey.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
And you are the director, the regional director, the director
A Smart and Final charitable foundation, A charitable foundation. Oh
my god, my heart stopped. I like, I love this
market so much. What is the charitable foundation? Hello? A,
First of all, how long they've been around?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
We've been around since to one thousand and one, okay,
and so for just.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
A little while.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
So they take it seriously.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
We sure do.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah, I know it's smart and final. When when we
were Belly and I went up to Lake Irvine because
maybe you know, ten years or maybe longer that, and
we went up to the boy Scouts had a big
meeting there is on Mother's Day, and we went up
there and the first thing we saw was the smart
and final trunk and the smart and final charity they are.
(10:25):
They're all over everything. They take again, they take charity
work very seriously to have a director of it.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Yes, we do.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Yeah, And it's not just a director. I have a coordinator, Misael,
who works for the foundation. We also have Jennifer Oliver
who does our event planning that helps with us at
the Foundation. We have our director. I have a bunch
of people over there that are just amazing that have
been a part of it.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
How much pull do you have with Smart and Final?
Because I got a problem.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Oh well, let's discuss.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Okay, The Smart and Final in Burbank my favorite of it.
I noticed that when I go there, they'll make an
announcement at nine p thirty to all in all the
shoppers here at Smart and Final, the chickens are half price. Right,
I'll grab a chicken. This happened to me once, but
I grabbed a chicken, put it in my cart. It
(11:17):
was mine. It's in my cart. Went shopping looking at
you know, a pasta or beans or something. Turned around
and a woman's taking my chicken out of my cart.
Oh no, out of my chicken, out of my cart.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
What did you do?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I said, I said, darling, Look, but you know, I
don't want to run you over with this cart. And
I'm probably a mom that's my chicken.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
She goes.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Oh, I wasn't taken out, She goes, I was just
looking at the price, and I said, no, no, no, no,
you were taking my chicken.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Put it back.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
So I don't know if a Smart and Final can
do any precautionary measures here, like maybe tying the chickens
or locking them to the cart. We might be chicken.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
They are, aren't they amazing? Our chickens are wonderful.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I'm also going to tell you that Smart and Final
chicken don't have all the chemicals in it that some
other places do, no enough.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
And they're fresh, and we cook them three to four times.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
A day depending at the store.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
At the store.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah, that a lot of people don't know that they
cook those chickens at the store. Anybody had a Smart
and Final chicken? Oh, if you have it, you're missing out.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Please go down and try one, because they are. You
will be very impressed by it. I mean, and they're
three pounds.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
I mean, take it home and try it. Don't try
it down here?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
All right?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
At the at the county, All right, what did they get?
What are some other big charities you guys are involved with?
Speaker 5 (12:32):
So we work with Olive Crust. We work with City
for the Kids.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Oh wow, answer, we work with Feeding America, especially right
now with everything that's been going on, we've been a
big supporter monetarily and product wise.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
How much of food and how much money a year.
It is donated by a.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Smart and Final the charitable foundation.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
We don't know it goes from Smart and Final to
the charitable foundation that goes out.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Now, our funds are donated through our customer.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Yes, our funds come from ours.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
When you're the checkout counter.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
When you're at the register and you see check out,
would you like to make a donation? Like right now,
all of you can go shopping and when you go
check out, you can actually donate because one hundred percent
of what you'll pay today and then not pay.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
For your product pay us. A donation on the pin pad.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Goes back to Kavanina's Club one.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
So make sure when you go through.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
And check out with your product that you make that donation.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
So that's great. Yes, here's here's what a great partner
Smart and Final is. When we went to them, we said, hey,
we'd like to partner up with you. They said yes immediately,
but they also said, because you're on KFI and it's
a big signal. Why don't we throw in Arizona and Nevada?
It was their idea? How about that? Yeah, expanding the
(13:54):
you know the footprint.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Oh, Michelle Cube's been amazing.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah, yeah, Michelle Cube is is He's hiding back there.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
She's awesome.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
So, but but the charity, you know, I see Smart
and Final everywhere. They have got to be, you know,
so proud of all the people that they've helped through
all the years. Absolutely, I see a lot of you know,
I know that there are some other markets that do it,
but not the size of Smart and Final. How big
is Smart and Final.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
We only have well two hundred and fifty four stores,
is that right, Yeah, in California, Nevada and Arizona. So
we don't have a thousand, right, but we do great
impact with the size that we.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Have in New Mexico. In Mexica, we do, we do.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
We have seventeen stores there.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
How about the guys telling you what to do with
his light on his camera, Well.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
I wasn't counting Mexico.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
I don't get to do I don't get to be
part of Mexico through the Charitable Foundation.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I didn't know that one and final was in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
That's great.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Yes, we do have seventeen store.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Are they in Canada as well? Okay? I love that,
we love that. I love that they're not in Canada
because the Dodgers went in there and kicked ass on
the Toronto Mapley.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
That's a lot of the sour sports up in the
Great White North. All right, this is great. People can
donate up until when for Katerina's.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Club, until December seventh, which is a Sunday. Okay, So
one hundred percent every penny that you donate goes back
to Kathay.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
That is great.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
And then and then after that it's still available, but
it goes to other charities and other organization.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
It comes back through the foundation, but we put the
foundation has been able to give out almost three million
dollars wow funding including the campaigns that we do as well.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
That's great.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
So the moneys go back to.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Our local communities and we give back. In fact, with
Klarina's Club, we've seen that the need and sometimes you know,
right now a lot of people aren't able to donate
or give back, so we've tried to step up and
we've been donating product to help offset some of those costs.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Okay, for get on. If you have, like you know,
fifty or sixty grand, you want to double, I can
take it to the track and we can feed a
lot of kids.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I'm sorry, unless you have a five oh one C three,
I can't help you.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
We can feed a lot of kids. Me and Tina
Marie at the track doubling this money. Thank you for
coming by, really appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Thank you, I.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Thank you, Tina Marie, the Charitable Foundation President, the director
of the Charitable Foundation. All right, we're going to take
a break, we're going to come back. We're going to
be atill eight o'clock tonight. So thank you all for coming.
If you all want an autograph from Krozer or Angel,
they're available, and so come on up and say hey,
don't be shy. We're live on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
With Michael Krozer, Sharon Bellio and Angel Martinez. We have
a special guests here from the Woody Show, Sea Bass.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Everybody.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Hello, Hello.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
If you don't know the name, you certainly will know
his very popular YouTube channel cart Narcs, where he goes
out and shamed people for not returning their cart into
the cart corral.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
Now none of these people are here right now though,
right you got some responsible individuals.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
You know. I I take my cart back ninety five
percent of the time, and after watching you, it's now
one hundred.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
I have friends, people I've known personally my entire life,
who say, I just know you'll show up.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I just I just know you'll be there.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
It's I call it. It's like elf on the shelf
for adults. It's nark on the cart. It's we're here.
Could be anywhere. It could be in your Belinda.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
But I think you know, even though you know, there
are a lot of people in Cleveland or Detroit or
Saint Louis that know you're not going to be there.
I think you've changed behavior around the country.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Oh absolutely, because I do travel. I'm in Hawaii, i
am in New York, I'm in I'm Overseas, I'm in England.
It could literally appear, And people say this every time
when I see him out. I saw some guys in
Fullerton earlier where I was doing some cart narking, and
he's like, I just knew you'd be here today. I just.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I told my wife before I came.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
And here you are.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Do you were in Costco to then? I?
Speaker 7 (18:16):
Well, yeah, a lesser place, but yeah, I was in
Costco in Fullerton. I'm gonna no longer welcome there thanks
to an incident that happened about an hour ago.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Really wait, all right, so do you ever get kicked
out of parking one?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Very rare?
Speaker 7 (18:27):
Let me say this, the employees, including the employees at
the Fullerton Costco, are always generous, always nice, they want
to take pictures, all that stuff. However, when it comes
to the manager level and you have a one man,
let's say, a guy who didn't take his car back,
literally threatening to murder me, which happened an hour ago
or so.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Really, the the I don't blame.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
The manager when he says, hey man, you gotta get
at it.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, I always say, hey.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
No proble, I don't want to be in your hair
and so on, and so it's pretty rare for you
to be threatened.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
No, it's not at all threatened to kill you. I've
seen it before, the one in Texas where the guy
said he's gonna put six's bullets you're right.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
It's it's rare for someone to produce of a gun,
for instance. But people will say I'm gonna beat you up,
I'm gonna run you, hit you with my car again,
that just you're very quick. Well that's the thing too.
I tell people how do you not get hurt? And
I've never been beaten up, never been hit doing carton arcs.
And as long as you're with like outside of three
or four feet of somebody, they can't get you. But
it's the guys you see him in football games, the
guys who bow up and hit your bump chests, that's
(19:20):
where the problems happen.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I love everything, and I even now impersonate you. Like
when I see a comp pull somebody over, I get
the I do that in the car like a lunatic.
Speaker 7 (19:32):
Well, yeah, I've got get I get those messages guys say, yeah,
my wife or my kids think I'm a maniac.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Right, And I got one of those today.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
Some guy I was walking back in Fullerton and he's
standing there with his four year old or whatever, and
he's going across it and she's like, damn, what's going on.
Don't give her com here car. So I appreciate again.
It's it's the vast majority of people are great, honest,
responsible people. It's just that it's that five or ten
percent to ruin it for the rest of us.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Okay, Now, if you've not seen cardon arcs, Sea Bass
goes out to parking line of you know, supermarkets and
big box stores, and if you don't return your card
either back to the store or one of these corrals,
he is going to sticker your car, throw a magnet.
Sorry magnet, it comes right off. It's not damaging, and
you shame them into returning their cart, or at least
(20:17):
put them on video and show people that they are
are useless.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
If you remember, I was a readers or the highlights
for kids that had Goofus and Gallant and then you know,
Gallant was always he'd put his cart back, he'd clean
up his room, and he'd be nice to his mom
and Goopas is out here doing all that other stuff.
And it's so strange because like what just happened in
Fullarton this afternoon, the guy could have driven away, he
could have just flipped me off and been on his way,
but he had because the magnet was on his car.
He had to get out in front of his woman
(20:42):
there and got no offense to dudes like five to.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Five, two fifty.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
He's not doing it, but he but hope. He's telling
me he's going to.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Do stuff to him.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
But now he's going to be famous.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Well that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
It's it's that.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
That's the other side of this is the ethics of
putting people online is what I'm doing. I don't want
to do it just to make people feel bad about themselves.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
You ever, but you ever run into a problem like
I never gave you permission to put it on, Well,
that's that does come.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
It's a public area, right, so there's no no expectation
of privacy in a public era, even though you know, California,
for instance, is a one party consents or two party
excuse me, consent state. So if you and I are
having a private phone call, that's a different situation then
you threatening to kill me in a public so at
a costco excuse me?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Right?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I also love you know the nicknames you have for
these people too, Oh yeah, just lazy bones, lazy yeah.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
And it just kind of I try to keep it
as light and positive as not as possible, very like
grade school insults, because it really highlights because they're they're again,
if you do watch card Arks, watch out for the
kids because the language not for me but from other
peoples a little rough, but it's so highlights the difference
because they're f and s and me and I'm just oh, sorry,
lazy bones. Well you know why don't you, you know,
be more pleasant about it.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Let me ask you, though, I have one exception or
for cards, and let me know if it's also your exception.
A woman, it's it's one hundred and ten degrees in
the San Fernando Valley. A woman puts her kids or
three babies in the car, puts the groceries in the car,
and then doesn't want to leave those babies in the
car while she's got to go across the parking lot
to put her cart back. Do you give her a break?
(22:11):
I do, right, You'll never see a car for you. Well,
I'm such a hero, you are.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
No.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
There are two main exceptions, one small children and then
two the elderly or people with you know, good for
you obvious disabilities. I've helped so many old I've probably
could have could have gotten a ride home and spent
some time with some old ladies for loaded waters into
their cars and all that stuff. So you should want
a cart nark in your parking.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
This is extra pair of eyes and an extra helping
set a hand.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Are you going to expand or there gonna be other cartnarks?
Speaker 7 (22:37):
Well that's there kind of already are.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
But not that they don't do what you do. They
don't do it right right, No, it's just me with
a But not only are you are you fast physically,
but but you know verbally you're You're great at you
would have been a great lawyer. You know you can
you And when they come back with a point, you
double double over them.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
Well that's what they say about lawyers. They never asked
a question you don't know the answer to. Okay, And
so I've done this thousands of times. I've heard every
single ex and so I appreciate that, but I have
I'm way ahead of these people. I caught them with
their pants down, and I've got all the answers.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Where when did you did you start this? In Atlanta?
Did you start this?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Is?
Speaker 7 (23:09):
We started this on The Woody Show twenty eighteen. It
was myself and Greg Gory, who's another co host, there
on the Woody Show. You both are very big sticklers,
both in public and we've done some things in the
office too, with cleaning up some of the areas there
about people just not putting stuff back where it belongs.
And I said, and my thing on the Woody Show,
as I go out and I investigate, I talked to people,
I interact, and cart narks just started as me walk
up to a guy and up in the Kelson's over
(23:31):
in wherever it was in the.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Valley, and I say, he may I want you put your.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Car back, and the excuses and the yelling and the
threats and so we were like, oh, this is more
than just carts, this is ego, this is public shame,
and this is you know, I just I spoke at
a sociology class at some community college in San Bernardino
last month because they're like, this is just fascinating human
interaction essentially.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
You know what I've noticed, and maybe you know you
have a lot more experience than I will ever have,
but I've noticed that when I go to a Gelson's
in Encino, which is populated by very wealthy people, or
if I go to a Vaughan's in North Hollywood, the
people that take their carts back or or you know,
smart and final are the people in the in the
areas that aren't as wealthy.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
You know what.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
That's a that's a crowd pleasing take, mister Conway. I've
busted people. I've busted people in North Hollywood. I busted
people in Laguna, Miguel.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I see carts all over that that Gelson's parking lot.
These women and then you know, don't put their cards back.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
Look smart and final. We all know the best cart returners.
That's that's to be that's to be expected.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
You guys are the best smartan final cart returners.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
That's why I wasn't I wasn't posted up here. I
was at that ready Costco and Fullerton. I love Costco too,
dang all right. People can see it on YouTube at Cartner, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter,
ticket not TikTok. Actually they kick us off TikTok.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
They were a little too uh hot for TV over there,
you know.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
But yeah, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook, Twitter, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I love you, Dedication. You've changed the lives of people,
probably more than anybody else we have on the show.
Much appreciate maybe you and Jay Leno one and two.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
Yeah, and to find folks with Katerina is clob That's right, yes, funny,
really appreciate much preci best everybody, card Narts.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
We are live here in Smart and Final. Come on down.
We'll be here for another one hour and thirteen minutes
two to one, five zero zero your Belinda Boulevard. And
and also there's a celebrity in the audience, Commander Chuck
Street from the from the Rich Dyes Show. Commander Chuck Street. Everybody,
(25:36):
we'll talk to him as well.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Forty, coming up on the final hour here of the
Smart and Final Show. I'm a huge fan of Smart
and Final. When we were kids, my dad used to
take us to the one on Burbank and Hollywood Way,
and it was a really cool deal. I would listen
(26:04):
to Rick D's in the morning, and I would go
to Smart and Final in the afternoon every day. Kind
of an odd childhood. What the hell, ladies and gentlemen.
The guy who did all the traffic for the Rick
d Show, Commander Chuck Street. Nice to see you. Oh yes,
Commander Chuck Street. Nice to see you man.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
You know, I have to tell you candidly that I
really came to see Angel Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yeah, okay, I don't know what's going on there, but
it sounds pretty cool. Of course you did, because you're
in traffic and she's.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
In true exactly and she does such a good job.
I have a really close friend of mine who retired
photographer the La Times, and several times he said, do
you know Angel Martinez?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Wow?
Speaker 6 (26:50):
He said she sounds beautiful, and I said he's beautiful,
and is he single?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
No?
Speaker 5 (26:59):
Shoot, how about his pension?
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Well?
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I'm sorry, Yeah, the first question is how much money.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Does he have? I think he's doing pretty well.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
You dropped this. I don't know what that is. Oh,
that's right, yoursiness money. Wad have you seen Rick d
since the show ended? Oh?
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Yeah, yeah, it's been about six months. But now we
get together in reminisc He spends half of his summers
in Kentucky where he has a farm.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, you know, you know, Chuck Street asked me to
come out and do what was the thing that we
did in Woodland Hills legendary the broadcast or that pioneer bright.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
So as part of the Hollywood Media professionals, and I
had the privilege of interviewing you in front of a
live audience about ninety people.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
So Chuck Street calls me and says, you want to
go out to Woodland Hills on a Saturday morning or
Sunday morning and do this Pioneers broadcast. I think it
was like eight o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
Yeah, and you thought that was a little early.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
And I said, I don't want to do it, and
then Chuck said, can you please do it? I'm like, Chuck, seriously,
I don't want to do it too early. And then
he called a third time and says, hey, we really
want you to do it. A lot of people want
you to come. I said, okay, i'll go.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I'll go.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
But what he didn't know is I was going to
say I was going to go, and then I was
not going to show up. I showed up. I showed up,
and I was one of my favorite events ever.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Well we called that coffee with coffee with events.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
And you should go to those things. Who else have
you had you ever? Has Rick done it?
Speaker 6 (28:26):
No, we can't get rich to do it. He said,
fraid I'm going to embarrass him, which is not true.
But we did Sam Rubin about.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Saying, you guys know Sam Rubin. Oh man, what a
gentleman that guy is. I love that Sam Rubin. He
would call me all the time and the only reason
he ever called me is he needed something for me
to do. He need a favor. Well, he would always
call them, go hey, listen, I need a favor of you, like, oh, Sam,
you haven't heard me in six months.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Well I found with you that you don't really return
calls that off and that's not true. But text message okay,
you're a text message Okay guy.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
I have told Leslie, who's in charge of one of
the ladies in sales at KFI. I said, Leslie, I
checked my text about twenty times an hour. I checked
my phone messages about once every other pandemic. Yeah, so
I said, please text me, please don't call me, please
text me, And every single time she still calls every
(29:21):
single time. Unbelievable woman. What are you doing now? What's
going on with Chuck Street?
Speaker 6 (29:25):
You know I left broadcasting in early twenty twelve after
twenty eight years at Kiss FM.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
That was a big deal.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
You guys remember the helicopter commander Chuck Street.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
That was a big deal.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
And also who's the sports guy, keep your eye.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
On the ball. Charlie right, Charlie Ley.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Yeah, and Liz Rugburns Fulton right right? So could you
do that nowadays?
Speaker 6 (29:49):
Probably not? But Rick said that he believed in handles.
So it was Liz Rugburns Fulton. And if she called
in sick, he said she was recovering at the Sherman
Oaks Rugburn Center.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Wouldn't go so far.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
But then Charlie right, And then he said, we tell
you different time. But he said that. He he said,
we want to give you a handle, Chuck. So he
asked me one day on the air, is it going
to be captain or commander?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
So I said, all right, Command, commander, all right, Commander
Chuck Street. Thank you, buddy, I really appreciate. We gotta
take a break. Giant stud with the DV show. We're
live on KFI AM six for Conway Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. Now you can always hear us
live on KFI AM six forty four to seven pm
(30:33):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Come on out.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
We'll be here till eight o'clock. We have another almost
two hours of sitting here, which is a lot. But
we're two five zero zero Yorbelindo Boulevard, right off the
ninety one. I came down the fifty seven and I
got off the free and I made nine hundred turns
to get here. I recommend you stay on the fifty
seven and ninety one and just deal with the extra
(00:33):
five minutes or so. But it is the three D
House of left turns around here. Wow, every every time
you go you turn left in yourbl into nine thousand,
people want to turn left with you. Nine thousand, nine thousand.
I'm not bsing you at all.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Right.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
One of the most talented reporters, and the guy has
become a really good friend of mine from KTLA. You
see him in Orange County all the time. Chip Ghost, Yes, excellent, Buddy,
flip your mic on there, Buddy, I love watching you.
You always have upbeat stories. Occasionally have to do a
downer story, which which sucks, but I hear it in
(01:10):
your voice when you do stories where kids are injured
or kids are killed. I can hear the difference in
the canes in your voice that you're sincerely moved by that.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Oh yeah, and a lot of them piss you, excuse me,
make you mad, you tick you off because you cover
them again and again the same thing, like a drunk driver,
alleged drunk driver by something that was a horrible story
at a data point. And it's like, you do so
many of these stories and you're like, yeah, just you
try to, you know, I try to be able to
keep your voice neutral or whatever, but it's yeah, but
it's tough to do so many of them.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
You know, you're a human being. But you know a
lot of people don't know this, but you're a one
man band in Orange County. You do the camera, the lighting,
the writing, the editing, you do everything.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, I was just talking about that. That The way
that came about was I'm getting old. So I've been
at KATLA like eighteen years now. And my first five
I drove into the station every day and I lived
down here in Orange in the Orange County area, right
on the border Orange County, La County, and so I
was driving doing that drive, and the boss comes to
me and one day it's like, hey, we're going to
start an Orange County bureau. He goes, and I want
to give you first crack at it. He goes. The
(02:13):
good news is you can work out of your house.
He goes. The bad news is it's a one man band.
I didn't hear. I didn't hear the I didn't.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Hear the second part.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I heard the first part. It was like, wait, work
out of my house to say three hours of my
day or give three hours of my life back every day.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You have to learn all the equipment.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
No, because I had I had shy. I actually had
my own equipment for a long time. So I was
trying to do my own production company. So and I
actually when I got into the TV business, I didn't
get in as a reporter. I initially started as a soundman,
and then I got some assistant editor job, and then
I went back to school to get a journalism degree.
And actually, funny thing, can I say a little funny
personal story that just happened school here? Well, these two
(02:52):
people right over here that were in line to meet
you just now. My old boss is when I worked
at air Touch Paging before I got into this business.
But there's a fun Can I get get time for
a real funny story about that? Can I can I
tell Can I tell you your dating story? This is funny? Well,
I'll tell mine. It's part of it.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
So I have two hours to keep you.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
So this is this is a funny. So I met
my wife at Air Touch Paging when she was a
sales rep. I was at ZAM What.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Is that company?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
It was? Yeah, you gotta explain, soach kids. There was
a thing called pagers, way back in the day before
cell phones. And there are these little square things your
parents would wear on their belts and occasionally beep and
tell you to call somebody. And they used to be
worth a lot of money and you can make a
decent living selling them. And then cell phones came along
(03:40):
and killed the radio star. But so we were We
were paige sales reps for a paging company. So I'm
dating my wife and you're not. We were just dating
at the time, and you're I don't know what the
rules were, but we were keeping it hush huh, secret secret.
We didn't think anybody knew. And one day I won't
see your last name, Scott, I don't only get you
in trouble. So Scott over, here's my man. Your bridget
was the sales manager, and Scott's going along. He's being
(04:03):
all coy, like, so, how is your vacation? Like he
knew something and then yeah, you enjoy Hawaii And I
was like, I was like, yeah, you went to Hawaii
with Debbie, right, And I'm like, I'm like, how he is, dude,
everybody knows. It's not a secret. We thought we thought
nobody knew we were dating. And so he goes on
to give me this big lecture kind of like because
we're friends too. Where he was my boss, but we
were friends. We hung out, played basketball, I bought him
(04:26):
too much beer and racketball losses. But he gives me
this lecture like like, you know, it's it's okay as
long as it doesn't interfere with your work. I mean,
I would never I would never date anyone I work with.
You know, I don't think it's a good idea, but
you know, as long as it doesn't interfere with your work. Well,
he's now married to her, who was my wife's sales
manager at the time.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
So that's awesome. So man, a lot of dating in
the pager.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Oh there was, Yeah, there was some story business, but
it is Scott right, yes, Scott and Bridget.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, because Scott. I saw him back here in the
produce section when I got there and he said, hey,
he goes, do you want to buy a pager?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
And I'm like, he's right, well, you know there were
a lot of pages that disappeared back then. Yeah that
they're still not accounted for it, right, and so but
you know he's trying to get rid of him pay.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I liked the idea of a pager because you know,
it's not I don't like when somebody just calls you
and they're in your life immediately, you know. I like
that the page call them when you want or whatever,
or you can say.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You didn't get the page right, because there was no
there was no like now you know you say, oh,
on the text message is delivered it damn yeah right.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah no it didn't. But they also with the page,
you could save ten messages.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah, he kept clicking through it all right. So Ktla,
you been there eighteen years? Yeah, and how long you've
been in charge of Orange County Birth That was.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
That that that happened in about twenty twelve. So I've
been knowing the Orange County Bureau since twenty twelve.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You know what, when when I was growing up, there
were very few stories about Orange County because everybody behaved.
There was no lunatics in Orange County. But there's there's
increasingly a lot more news coming out of Orange County.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, there's lunatics everywhere. I mean keeps us in business
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
And also a lot of people. And anybody here from
LA one guy, anybody here from Orange County? Okay, then
I can tell you this LA sucks. I don't live
in the City of Los Angeles. Krozier does not. He's
(06:33):
out in Claremont, Angels in Orange County, Bellios in Irvine,
and I think that's it on our show. None of
us and Stephuge lives in Torrance, I believe. But none
of us live in the City of LA because we've
all seen the writing on the wall.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
We've been dripping through downtown La discussion.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, it's just but not only that, the services. You know,
if you listen to you guys, listen to John Colebelt. Yeah,
John goes nuts every day on the City of l A.
You know, he's on this tiriid right now about the
fires and the water and everything, and he's absolutely right.
You know, stuff like that doesn't happen in Orange County.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
We've got our issues. I mean there was Andrew Doe.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Okay, yeah, right, got our but that came from LA.
You know, that crazyiness comes from LA. But the big
one of the big stories in Orange County is that
they have they finished the street car and it's going
to open soon.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah. Yeah, that's a big deal. A lot of money too, yeah,
that ton of money.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, a ton of mine.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, So we'll see how that we have. There was
a yeah, I'm sure a lot of people that are
happy the construction's done. That was causing a lot of
friction when they were on that because it was you know,
these people had their you know, their store business relied
on people walking by traffic. I had all this construction
going on.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
So but when I leave Los Angeles, like today, I
was driving from Burbank and I can tell instantly when
I get into Orange County, the freeways open up. The
people aren't a hole and and they and they're doing
it right down here. You know, look at this. I mean,
if we're in Los Angeles right now, there'd be three
people here. Two would be drunk and one guy would
(08:08):
have an ankle monitor on.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Sounds like a family reunion of mine.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
And speaking of that, what's up for Thanksgiving? You stay
in town?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Well, we'll see. I'm like I must have like like
super immunity or something. My whole family has been like
knocked out with I don't know what the last week.
So we were supposed to have Thanksgiving up my house
and all the other family members found out that that
are my house except for me was all like down
with something. Something said that, yeah, you know, that's all right,
we'll do it next year.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Gonna it does go around when it gets into a house.
A chip yos, what's your social media stuff?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Just Twitter? Everything, Twitter, Instagram, It's just chip yos to
one word c h I p yost.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Excellent follow chip yos, thank you for coming down, ship
yos kt la everybody. It is the com By Show
where you were Smart and five.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
You know in your ballion you're listening to Tim Conway
Junior on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Day, good dog. All right, we have nine thousand, three
hundred and seventy four dollars and forty four cents. Nine thousand,
three hundred seventy four dollars and forty four cents. That
(09:30):
is great, and we're gonna we're gonna try to get
that over a million dollars tonight. Very very possible. All right,
we have a Tina Marie and how do you pronounce
that last name?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Squarrey squarrey.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
And you are the director, the regional director, the director
A Smart and Final charitable foundation, A charitable foundation. Oh
my god, my heart stopped. I like, I love this
market so much. What is the charitable foundation? Hello? A,
First of all, how long they've been around?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
We've been around since to one thousand and one, okay,
and so for just.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
A little while.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
So they take it seriously.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
We sure do.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah, I know it's smart and final. When when we
were Belly and I went up to Lake Irvine because
maybe you know, ten years or maybe longer that, and
we went up to the boy Scouts had a big
meeting there is on Mother's Day, and we went up
there and the first thing we saw was the smart
and final trunk and the smart and final charity they are.
(10:25):
They're all over everything. They take again, they take charity
work very seriously to have a director of it.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Yes, we do.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Yeah, And it's not just a director. I have a coordinator, Misael,
who works for the foundation. We also have Jennifer Oliver
who does our event planning that helps with us at
the Foundation. We have our director. I have a bunch
of people over there that are just amazing that have
been a part of it.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
How much pull do you have with Smart and Final?
Because I got a problem.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Oh well, let's discuss.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Okay, The Smart and Final in Burbank my favorite of it.
I noticed that when I go there, they'll make an
announcement at nine p thirty to all in all the
shoppers here at Smart and Final, the chickens are half price. Right,
I'll grab a chicken. This happened to me once, but
I grabbed a chicken, put it in my cart. It
(11:17):
was mine. It's in my cart. Went shopping looking at
you know, a pasta or beans or something. Turned around
and a woman's taking my chicken out of my cart.
Oh no, out of my chicken, out of my cart.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
What did you do?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I said, I said, darling, Look, but you know, I
don't want to run you over with this cart. And
I'm probably a mom that's my chicken.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
She goes.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Oh, I wasn't taken out, She goes, I was just
looking at the price, and I said, no, no, no, no,
you were taking my chicken.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Put it back.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
So I don't know if a Smart and Final can
do any precautionary measures here, like maybe tying the chickens
or locking them to the cart. We might be chicken.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
They are, aren't they amazing? Our chickens are wonderful.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I'm also going to tell you that Smart and Final
chicken don't have all the chemicals in it that some
other places do, no enough.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
And they're fresh, and we cook them three to four times.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
A day depending at the store.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
At the store.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah, that a lot of people don't know that they
cook those chickens at the store. Anybody had a Smart
and Final chicken? Oh, if you have it, you're missing out.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Please go down and try one, because they are. You
will be very impressed by it. I mean, and they're
three pounds.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
I mean, take it home and try it. Don't try
it down here?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
All right?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
At the at the county, All right, what did they get?
What are some other big charities you guys are involved with?
Speaker 5 (12:32):
So we work with Olive Crust. We work with City
for the Kids.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Oh wow, answer, we work with Feeding America, especially right
now with everything that's been going on, we've been a
big supporter monetarily and product wise.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
How much of food and how much money a year.
It is donated by a.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Smart and Final the charitable foundation.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
We don't know it goes from Smart and Final to
the charitable foundation that goes out.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Now, our funds are donated through our customer.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Yes, our funds come from ours.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
When you're the checkout counter.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
When you're at the register and you see check out,
would you like to make a donation? Like right now,
all of you can go shopping and when you go
check out, you can actually donate because one hundred percent
of what you'll pay today and then not pay.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
For your product pay us. A donation on the pin pad.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Goes back to Kavanina's Club one.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
So make sure when you go through.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
And check out with your product that you make that donation.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
So that's great. Yes, here's here's what a great partner
Smart and Final is. When we went to them, we said, hey,
we'd like to partner up with you. They said yes immediately,
but they also said, because you're on KFI and it's
a big signal. Why don't we throw in Arizona and Nevada?
It was their idea? How about that? Yeah, expanding the
(13:54):
you know the footprint.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Oh, Michelle Cube's been amazing.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah, yeah, Michelle Cube is is He's hiding back there.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
She's awesome.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
So, but but the charity, you know, I see Smart
and Final everywhere. They have got to be, you know,
so proud of all the people that they've helped through
all the years. Absolutely, I see a lot of you know,
I know that there are some other markets that do it,
but not the size of Smart and Final. How big
is Smart and Final.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
We only have well two hundred and fifty four stores,
is that right, Yeah, in California, Nevada and Arizona. So
we don't have a thousand, right, but we do great
impact with the size that we.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Have in New Mexico. In Mexica, we do, we do.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
We have seventeen stores there.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
How about the guys telling you what to do with
his light on his camera, Well.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
I wasn't counting Mexico.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
I don't get to do I don't get to be
part of Mexico through the Charitable Foundation.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I didn't know that one and final was in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
That's great.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Yes, we do have seventeen store.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Are they in Canada as well? Okay? I love that,
we love that. I love that they're not in Canada
because the Dodgers went in there and kicked ass on
the Toronto Mapley.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
That's a lot of the sour sports up in the
Great White North. All right, this is great. People can
donate up until when for Katerina's.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Club, until December seventh, which is a Sunday. Okay, So
one hundred percent every penny that you donate goes back
to Kathay.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
That is great.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
And then and then after that it's still available, but
it goes to other charities and other organization.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
It comes back through the foundation, but we put the
foundation has been able to give out almost three million
dollars wow funding including the campaigns that we do as well.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
That's great.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
So the moneys go back to.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Our local communities and we give back. In fact, with
Klarina's Club, we've seen that the need and sometimes you know,
right now a lot of people aren't able to donate
or give back, so we've tried to step up and
we've been donating product to help offset some of those costs.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Okay, for get on. If you have, like you know,
fifty or sixty grand, you want to double, I can
take it to the track and we can feed a
lot of kids.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I'm sorry, unless you have a five oh one C three,
I can't help you.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
We can feed a lot of kids. Me and Tina
Marie at the track doubling this money. Thank you for
coming by, really appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Thank you, I.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Thank you, Tina Marie, the Charitable Foundation President, the director
of the Charitable Foundation. All right, we're going to take
a break, we're going to come back. We're going to
be atill eight o'clock tonight. So thank you all for coming.
If you all want an autograph from Krozer or Angel,
they're available, and so come on up and say hey,
don't be shy. We're live on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
With Michael Krozer, Sharon Bellio and Angel Martinez. We have
a special guests here from the Woody Show, Sea Bass.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Everybody.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Hello, Hello.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
If you don't know the name, you certainly will know
his very popular YouTube channel cart Narcs, where he goes
out and shamed people for not returning their cart into
the cart corral.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
Now none of these people are here right now though,
right you got some responsible individuals.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
You know. I I take my cart back ninety five
percent of the time, and after watching you, it's now
one hundred.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
I have friends, people I've known personally my entire life,
who say, I just know you'll show up.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I just I just know you'll be there.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
It's I call it. It's like elf on the shelf
for adults. It's nark on the cart. It's we're here.
Could be anywhere. It could be in your Belinda.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
But I think you know, even though you know, there
are a lot of people in Cleveland or Detroit or
Saint Louis that know you're not going to be there.
I think you've changed behavior around the country.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Oh absolutely, because I do travel. I'm in Hawaii, i
am in New York, I'm in I'm Overseas, I'm in England.
It could literally appear, And people say this every time
when I see him out. I saw some guys in
Fullerton earlier where I was doing some cart narking, and
he's like, I just knew you'd be here today. I just.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I told my wife before I came.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
And here you are.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Do you were in Costco to then? I?
Speaker 7 (18:16):
Well, yeah, a lesser place, but yeah, I was in
Costco in Fullerton. I'm gonna no longer welcome there thanks
to an incident that happened about an hour ago.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Really wait, all right, so do you ever get kicked
out of parking one?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Very rare?
Speaker 7 (18:27):
Let me say this, the employees, including the employees at
the Fullerton Costco, are always generous, always nice, they want
to take pictures, all that stuff. However, when it comes
to the manager level and you have a one man,
let's say, a guy who didn't take his car back,
literally threatening to murder me, which happened an hour ago
or so.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Really, the the I don't blame.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
The manager when he says, hey man, you gotta get
at it.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, I always say, hey.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
No proble, I don't want to be in your hair
and so on, and so it's pretty rare for you
to be threatened.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
No, it's not at all threatened to kill you. I've
seen it before, the one in Texas where the guy
said he's gonna put six's bullets you're right.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
It's it's rare for someone to produce of a gun,
for instance. But people will say I'm gonna beat you up,
I'm gonna run you, hit you with my car again,
that just you're very quick. Well that's the thing too.
I tell people how do you not get hurt? And
I've never been beaten up, never been hit doing carton arcs.
And as long as you're with like outside of three
or four feet of somebody, they can't get you. But
it's the guys you see him in football games, the
guys who bow up and hit your bump chests, that's
(19:20):
where the problems happen.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I love everything, and I even now impersonate you. Like
when I see a comp pull somebody over, I get
the I do that in the car like a lunatic.
Speaker 7 (19:32):
Well, yeah, I've got get I get those messages guys say, yeah,
my wife or my kids think I'm a maniac.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Right, And I got one of those today.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
Some guy I was walking back in Fullerton and he's
standing there with his four year old or whatever, and
he's going across it and she's like, damn, what's going on.
Don't give her com here car. So I appreciate again.
It's it's the vast majority of people are great, honest,
responsible people. It's just that it's that five or ten
percent to ruin it for the rest of us.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Okay, Now, if you've not seen cardon arcs, Sea Bass
goes out to parking line of you know, supermarkets and
big box stores, and if you don't return your card
either back to the store or one of these corrals,
he is going to sticker your car, throw a magnet.
Sorry magnet, it comes right off. It's not damaging, and
you shame them into returning their cart, or at least
(20:17):
put them on video and show people that they are
are useless.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
If you remember, I was a readers or the highlights
for kids that had Goofus and Gallant and then you know,
Gallant was always he'd put his cart back, he'd clean
up his room, and he'd be nice to his mom
and Goopas is out here doing all that other stuff.
And it's so strange because like what just happened in
Fullarton this afternoon, the guy could have driven away, he
could have just flipped me off and been on his way,
but he had because the magnet was on his car.
He had to get out in front of his woman
(20:42):
there and got no offense to dudes like five to.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Five, two fifty.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
He's not doing it, but he but hope. He's telling
me he's going to.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Do stuff to him.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
But now he's going to be famous.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Well that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
It's it's that.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
That's the other side of this is the ethics of
putting people online is what I'm doing. I don't want
to do it just to make people feel bad about themselves.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
You ever, but you ever run into a problem like
I never gave you permission to put it on, Well,
that's that does come.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
It's a public area, right, so there's no no expectation
of privacy in a public era, even though you know, California,
for instance, is a one party consents or two party
excuse me, consent state. So if you and I are
having a private phone call, that's a different situation then
you threatening to kill me in a public so at
a costco excuse me?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Right?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I also love you know the nicknames you have for
these people too, Oh yeah, just lazy bones, lazy yeah.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
And it just kind of I try to keep it
as light and positive as not as possible, very like
grade school insults, because it really highlights because they're they're again,
if you do watch card Arks, watch out for the
kids because the language not for me but from other
peoples a little rough, but it's so highlights the difference
because they're f and s and me and I'm just oh, sorry,
lazy bones. Well you know why don't you, you know,
be more pleasant about it.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Let me ask you, though, I have one exception or
for cards, and let me know if it's also your exception.
A woman, it's it's one hundred and ten degrees in
the San Fernando Valley. A woman puts her kids or
three babies in the car, puts the groceries in the car,
and then doesn't want to leave those babies in the
car while she's got to go across the parking lot
to put her cart back. Do you give her a break?
(22:11):
I do, right, You'll never see a car for you. Well,
I'm such a hero, you are.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
No.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
There are two main exceptions, one small children and then
two the elderly or people with you know, good for
you obvious disabilities. I've helped so many old I've probably
could have could have gotten a ride home and spent
some time with some old ladies for loaded waters into
their cars and all that stuff. So you should want
a cart nark in your parking.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
This is extra pair of eyes and an extra helping
set a hand.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Are you going to expand or there gonna be other cartnarks?
Speaker 7 (22:37):
Well that's there kind of already are.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
But not that they don't do what you do. They
don't do it right right, No, it's just me with
a But not only are you are you fast physically,
but but you know verbally you're You're great at you
would have been a great lawyer. You know you can
you And when they come back with a point, you
double double over them.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
Well that's what they say about lawyers. They never asked
a question you don't know the answer to. Okay, And
so I've done this thousands of times. I've heard every
single ex and so I appreciate that, but I have
I'm way ahead of these people. I caught them with
their pants down, and I've got all the answers.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Where when did you did you start this? In Atlanta?
Did you start this?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Is?
Speaker 7 (23:09):
We started this on The Woody Show twenty eighteen. It
was myself and Greg Gory, who's another co host, there
on the Woody Show. You both are very big sticklers,
both in public and we've done some things in the
office too, with cleaning up some of the areas there
about people just not putting stuff back where it belongs.
And I said, and my thing on the Woody Show,
as I go out and I investigate, I talked to people,
I interact, and cart narks just started as me walk
up to a guy and up in the Kelson's over
(23:31):
in wherever it was in the.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Valley, and I say, he may I want you put your.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Car back, and the excuses and the yelling and the
threats and so we were like, oh, this is more
than just carts, this is ego, this is public shame,
and this is you know, I just I spoke at
a sociology class at some community college in San Bernardino
last month because they're like, this is just fascinating human
interaction essentially.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
You know what I've noticed, and maybe you know you
have a lot more experience than I will ever have,
but I've noticed that when I go to a Gelson's
in Encino, which is populated by very wealthy people, or
if I go to a Vaughan's in North Hollywood, the
people that take their carts back or or you know,
smart and final are the people in the in the
areas that aren't as wealthy.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
You know what.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
That's a that's a crowd pleasing take, mister Conway. I've
busted people. I've busted people in North Hollywood. I busted
people in Laguna, Miguel.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I see carts all over that that Gelson's parking lot.
These women and then you know, don't put their cards back.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
Look smart and final. We all know the best cart returners.
That's that's to be that's to be expected.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
You guys are the best smartan final cart returners.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
That's why I wasn't I wasn't posted up here. I
was at that ready Costco and Fullerton. I love Costco too,
dang all right. People can see it on YouTube at Cartner, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter,
ticket not TikTok. Actually they kick us off TikTok.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
They were a little too uh hot for TV over there,
you know.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
But yeah, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook, Twitter, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I love you, Dedication. You've changed the lives of people,
probably more than anybody else we have on the show.
Much appreciate maybe you and Jay Leno one and two.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
Yeah, and to find folks with Katerina is clob That's right, yes, funny,
really appreciate much preci best everybody, card Narts.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
We are live here in Smart and Final. Come on down.
We'll be here for another one hour and thirteen minutes
two to one, five zero zero your Belinda Boulevard. And
and also there's a celebrity in the audience, Commander Chuck
Street from the from the Rich Dyes Show. Commander Chuck Street. Everybody,
(25:36):
we'll talk to him as well.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Forty, coming up on the final hour here of the
Smart and Final Show. I'm a huge fan of Smart
and Final. When we were kids, my dad used to
take us to the one on Burbank and Hollywood Way,
and it was a really cool deal. I would listen
(26:04):
to Rick D's in the morning, and I would go
to Smart and Final in the afternoon every day. Kind
of an odd childhood. What the hell, ladies and gentlemen.
The guy who did all the traffic for the Rick
d Show, Commander Chuck Street. Nice to see you. Oh yes,
Commander Chuck Street. Nice to see you man.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
You know, I have to tell you candidly that I
really came to see Angel Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yeah, okay, I don't know what's going on there, but
it sounds pretty cool. Of course you did, because you're
in traffic and she's.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
In true exactly and she does such a good job.
I have a really close friend of mine who retired
photographer the La Times, and several times he said, do
you know Angel Martinez?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Wow?
Speaker 6 (26:50):
He said she sounds beautiful, and I said he's beautiful,
and is he single?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
No?
Speaker 5 (26:59):
Shoot, how about his pension?
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Well?
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I'm sorry, Yeah, the first question is how much money.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Does he have? I think he's doing pretty well.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
You dropped this. I don't know what that is. Oh,
that's right, yoursiness money. Wad have you seen Rick d
since the show ended? Oh?
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Yeah, yeah, it's been about six months. But now we
get together in reminisc He spends half of his summers
in Kentucky where he has a farm.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, you know, you know, Chuck Street asked me to
come out and do what was the thing that we
did in Woodland Hills legendary the broadcast or that pioneer bright.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
So as part of the Hollywood Media professionals, and I
had the privilege of interviewing you in front of a
live audience about ninety people.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
So Chuck Street calls me and says, you want to
go out to Woodland Hills on a Saturday morning or
Sunday morning and do this Pioneers broadcast. I think it
was like eight o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
Yeah, and you thought that was a little early.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
And I said, I don't want to do it, and
then Chuck said, can you please do it? I'm like, Chuck, seriously,
I don't want to do it too early. And then
he called a third time and says, hey, we really
want you to do it. A lot of people want
you to come. I said, okay, i'll go.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I'll go.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
But what he didn't know is I was going to
say I was going to go, and then I was
not going to show up. I showed up. I showed up,
and I was one of my favorite events ever.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Well we called that coffee with coffee with events.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
And you should go to those things. Who else have
you had you ever? Has Rick done it?
Speaker 6 (28:26):
No, we can't get rich to do it. He said,
fraid I'm going to embarrass him, which is not true.
But we did Sam Rubin about.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Saying, you guys know Sam Rubin. Oh man, what a
gentleman that guy is. I love that Sam Rubin. He
would call me all the time and the only reason
he ever called me is he needed something for me
to do. He need a favor. Well, he would always
call them, go hey, listen, I need a favor of you, like, oh, Sam,
you haven't heard me in six months.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Well I found with you that you don't really return
calls that off and that's not true. But text message okay,
you're a text message Okay guy.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
I have told Leslie, who's in charge of one of
the ladies in sales at KFI. I said, Leslie, I
checked my text about twenty times an hour. I checked
my phone messages about once every other pandemic. Yeah, so
I said, please text me, please don't call me, please
text me, And every single time she still calls every
(29:21):
single time. Unbelievable woman. What are you doing now? What's
going on with Chuck Street?
Speaker 6 (29:25):
You know I left broadcasting in early twenty twelve after
twenty eight years at Kiss FM.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
That was a big deal.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
You guys remember the helicopter commander Chuck Street.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
That was a big deal.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
And also who's the sports guy, keep your eye.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
On the ball. Charlie right, Charlie Ley.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Yeah, and Liz Rugburns Fulton right right? So could you
do that nowadays?
Speaker 6 (29:49):
Probably not? But Rick said that he believed in handles.
So it was Liz Rugburns Fulton. And if she called
in sick, he said she was recovering at the Sherman
Oaks Rugburn Center.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Wouldn't go so far.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
But then Charlie right, And then he said, we tell
you different time. But he said that. He he said,
we want to give you a handle, Chuck. So he
asked me one day on the air, is it going
to be captain or commander?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
So I said, all right, Command, commander, all right, Commander
Chuck Street. Thank you, buddy, I really appreciate. We gotta
take a break. Giant stud with the DV show. We're
live on KFI AM six for Conway Show on demand
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