January 16, 2026 • 32 mins
The hour kicks off with Barbara Holliday, owner of Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank, sharing stories from behind the scenes of one of LA’s most iconic comedy venues. She talks about the challenges and wins of running a live entertainment business and what it takes to keep comedy alive in a changing industry.
Barbara stays on for more, highlighting Flappers as a 100% woman-owned business and discussing her journey as an entrepreneur, the importance of community support, and what makes Flappers a staple for comics and fans alike.
Petros Papadakis then joins the show to break down a developing college gambling scandal, offering his trademark insight and strong opinions on what it means for college sports. The hour wraps with lighter fare as Petros takes on the challenge of guessing the voice behind Kazoo on The Flintstones, leading to classic guy talk and laughs to close things out.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
We have Barbara Holliday here, which sounds like a beautiful
old actress's name Barbara Holliday, and she's with us.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
How are you.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
I'm fantastic, fantastic.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
You own Flappers?
Speaker 4 (00:19):
I do one woman owns.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Okay, that's one. That's probably the most successful comedy club
in the valley. For sure, it's gonna be.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
It's like we have a whole world and you say
the most popular club in the valley valley, Well.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Okay, okay, but look, it could also be pea club
in the valle. People have to know that. But do
you remember, like thirty years ago, maybe thirty five years ago,
there were thousands of comedy gyps. They were everywhere, Yes,
and only the good ones survived, you know, the Comedy Store,
the Improv Flappers, the what is the one on Sunset
(00:57):
La Factory? Right, Yeah, so there's like four that really
survived and you're one of them.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Well, I actually started Flappers with a co founder, Dave Rynitz,
back in twenty ten, and we were just we were
kind of the newbie and it was very hard to
establish a new club. Oh yeah, in that realm, because.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Because these Indians draws always so loyal to their old
club correct, And everybody was like, this is never going
to work.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Club in the Valley never gonna work. Nobody thought it
would work. I actually thought, well, why not the Valley
because there's so many celebrities here and comedians that are
going to be right here. They'll want to drop in.
It'll make sense.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
And it sold out every weekend. I walked by, I
was in the area. I was pretty buzzed, and I
walked by to get a ticket and they said there's
no tickets left. I said, oh okay, I moved on. But
this was just like a Saturday. It was raining outside,
there was no special comedian on the billboard. It was
sold out.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yeah, well we've finally got like our wings, I would say.
You know, COVID was a really tough time. We were
closed for eighteen months. So I call this the COVID
comeback basically. And the last two years I think there's
been a real resurgence. Yeah, natural comedy, you know. But
like Joe Rogan moved moved to Texas and started a
(02:15):
club there.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Oh is that right? I know them.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yeah, and a lot of comedians moved out of LA
during COVID, so I got a little nervous, but we
managed to stay alive. And lately we've had Leno now
for about two solid years, like he's doing a residence.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
He's a great staple there because you know, people who
are coming in town and they're going to Disneyland, they're
going to Universal, they live in Kansas City, they have
the ability to see Jaylon in person. They'll pay anything
for that.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Yeah, but it's we're two hundred seats, so it's it's
kind of the perfect comedy room because especially for headliners.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Right, and never feels stuffy. You know, some of these
comedy places there we feel stagnant and stuffy, but it
feels great in that club.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Yeah, two hundred people is kind of just perfect, especially
when you're practicing to go out on the road and
perform at even a huge theater like Leno's at Yamava
as well. And so but he'll perform with us and basically,
you know, get his feet wet, get his practice, because
two hundred seats is a lot easier and better to
(03:20):
test material out on than you know, fifteen thousand people.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Barbara Hollidays whether she owns Flappers and she started in
television at Warner Brothers. Yeah, well, so what were the
big shows there? Friends?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Yes, I actually worked on like fifteen different shows. It
was hanging with mister Cooper. Friends.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
What was your job overseeing the script or the story ideas?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Or no?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I wasn't in creative at all?
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Really? Weirdly, well, I were you pulling cable or lights?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Actually, my dad was a computer programmer. I used to say,
I'm half the product of a computer geek father, and
half the product of a Walmart Mom's hard enough to
buy a computer, but trash enough to punt it off
for a pack of ho host. So I got I
got this logic brain from my father, who has since passed,
(04:11):
But he gave me this ability to troubleshoot technology somehow.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I never when my dad used a manual typewriter up
until two thousand and five, all right, and he ran
out of ink, and so I picked him up and
we went to the stationery store and said, hey, can
you guys have any more of the rolls of ink?
And they said they've made those in thirty years and
my dad said, where can I find one? He says,
you got to go to yard sales in the valley
(04:39):
and find a typewriter and just take the ink. So
I'm driving with my dad around the valley around one
netgu and he's got a hat on and we're going
through people's crap and I said, Dad, I think it's
time to get a computer. And we got him a computer.
We set him up. And I never heard my dad
swear in his life until he got a computer. And
then he would call me up, you got to get
the f over here. This GD thing, I'm gonna shove it.
(05:01):
I mean, he went nuts, He went absolutely crazy. But
once he got into it and he knew how to
use the computer, he was betting TVG. He had a
couple of windows open. He was the master of that thing.
But I love this comedy club. I love Leno.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Is there?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Who are some other big ones? Who's the guy from
Curby Enthusiasm?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
But Jeff Garland.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Garland's always there.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Oh, Jeff Garland's amazing. He actually brought me on an
episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
It was, yeah, the one where the the daughter marries
a deaf gentleman. That's really funny.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
That's right, that's great.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
And of course you know there's improv on that set,
and Jeff's like, just come on. And I didn't think
I was just an extra. I thought, oh, I'm going
to be doing some improv. So you know how they
they film curb your enthusiasm. They yell out, okay, this
is the premise and then we're all gonna like troubleshoot ideas.
And so I'm over there as an extra and I
yell out, you know, Google or whatever, and Jeff goes,
(05:58):
not you, I thought you were asking for suggestions. And
then later it comes over he goes, that's actually not
a bad idea, and then he used it. But yeah,
I know you probably.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Have to deal with some pretty uh, you know, raw
people in the comedy world because all of them, with
the exception of Jay Leno and a couple of you
know comedians, they're.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
All crazy, yes, and how did you know that?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
But because that's why they're funny, because they're crazy?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
But how did we hook up? How did you? How
are you here?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Well, we also teach comedy.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I have.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
It's called Flappers University or FU. We're learning as a joke,
and I have a stand up level one class right now.
We do all levels, and yes, we we do a
podcast too. It's called Flappers Presents, and I think we
wanted to have you on as Okay, I love it.
And my talent booker, Joshua Snyder, who's been with me
(07:00):
fourteen years, I think he hooked us up. He said,
why don't you have barber on there?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
That's really cool? Can now you're thinking about money from
us franchising.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Yes, this is very new and not really announced to
the general public here.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Well, and then you came to the perfect station to
keep it quiet.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Five people are going to know that's right for.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Show to keep that on the down low.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
This is well, this is the interesting part. About about
four years ago, I bought out my partner and I
became one hundred percent woman owned. And I've been slowly,
you know, thinking how can I grow this. I want
to take care of the employees that have been with
me fifteen years. But it's hard to give money to
you know, we don't make that much money as a unit.
(07:47):
I would say our brand is bigger than our sales,
probably right, Yeah, And so I started talking to some
people and a few people offered to purchase the place,
and I was like, what that is that?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Right? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
But I thought, well, the brand seems pretty popular. It's
very popular, and so I got the idea of franchising
into my head. And then I was able to give
two of my employees ownership in own Nice the franchise company.
And now it's becoming a lot, you know, bigger idea.
And do you want to know that there is actually
(08:19):
there are actually no legitimate comedy club franchises in the
United States. I don't know that that's crazy. The improv
is probably what you're going to say. But the improv
is a franchise model.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Oh, I see over, and so they do.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Use and share and own multiple units. But I'm actually
doing a legitimate franchise in which anyone can buy in
and basically they have to do exactly what we're doing
in Burbank, Right, But how.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Did we get a break? When we come back, we
want to ask you. You know, there's some comedians that
are listening right now, how does somebody get into Flappers
on a regular basis? We can back, we'll talk about that,
all right. Barbara Holiday is with us. She owns Flappers
in Burbank. It's a great hang. You can go there
and see Leno. Is he there this weekend?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Is he dead tonight?
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
So Jay Leno is probably in his car right now
because he usually gets there early, which is going at
eight seven thirty? All right, Jay Leno tonight seven thirty
at Flappers, which is on Magnolia and.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Uh just over the bridge on Man first, Magdolian first.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Okay, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
kf I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Flappers is a it's a great comedy club in Burbank.
It's on First Street and Magnolia, right across from Town Center.
And that's a great building. Some of the other comedy
places in town I'm not gonna mention them, but you
can hear the traffic. And there's one of that's next
to a fire station. You can hear that fire. The
fire engines three or four times a night.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Yeah, those firefighters are hilarious.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
But it's quite at this club at Flappers, it's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
I actually got really lucky when I first built it
in twenty ten. I had a friend who worked for
Princess Cruises at the time. Thanks Patrick, And he said
that Princess Cruises was getting rid of all their curtains
off the ship.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Was that right?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
And they were going to toss him and I literally
took them and put them in a storage unit for like.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Two great idea, keeps it quiet in there, and then.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I they're all over the walls. So that's how we
soundprofted the trailer trash way.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I like the name Flappers. It says sound a little older. Yeah,
you do that on purpose.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
People think, oh, we've been there forever, like I've been
going there for fifty years. I go, no, no, Well,
in twenty ten we started this Flappers comedy club in Burbank,
and everyone said a club in the valley would never work.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
And so a lot of them failed.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Yes, yes, And I wanted to have a name that
sounded like old timey. And I love the idea of
prohibition where people were actually throwing drinks down the garbage.
But what if you had a photo like that in
a bar, wouldn't people like, wouldn't that be funny?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
How many people work for you?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Now? I have about thirty employees.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Okay, that's nice.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
That's I used to have a Claremont location closed it
in twenty eighteen. Honestly, it's much better focusing on Burbank
and now we've My team is amazing and I have
really a really stable and solid group of folks. In fact,
I have one of my friend of the house people,
Jeff Helleger has been with us since we started, helped
(11:28):
paint the place. William Nickerson, my general manager, been there
fifteen sixteen years the whole time.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
And you guys have some big comedians coming. Kevin Hart
was there, Kevin Hart.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Everyone names name somebody who hasn't been there. I'll tell
you the list. Seinfeld, Seinfeld's been there, amazing. Jimmy Brogan,
who was one of the head writers for Yes.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
He's one of the funniest guys in the world when
it comes to interacting with the crowd.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
You may not recognize his name, but that guy deserves huge,
huge kudos. I mean, he is one of the greatest performers.
If you have a chance to come see him live,
it's one of one of a kind of experience.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
How do people get on your radar and how do
you start booking comedians?
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Well, we were also one of the first clubs in
LA really to actually have regular auditions.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Oh really, that's great.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Every Wednesday we have auditions. You still do this every
one's time, six o'clock okay, yes, in front of a
crowd or empty. Well, there's usually some some bystanders will
come by and watch. You know, we used to call
it happy hour auditions, but you know, not that many
people were happy after they watched the auditions.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
So we tell these people show up for that.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
We we get between thirty and fifty people every only week.
Now you have to pre register. You can't just show
up at random. But go to Flapperscomedy dot com and
click on the comedians tab and.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Do you videotape that? Or do you is that a.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Well we have we have, But who hosts that? My
talent booker Joshua Snyde, who's amazing, and he gives the rundown.
We really we've taken I think one of the reasons
that Flappers has done so well is we've really created
a comedy community for new comedians who want to get
(13:13):
into the mix. And how we've done that is through
creating these auditions, having open mics.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
What is somebody sucks or is horrible at auditioning? Will
you tell them that they are not coming back or
they should go another avenue, another round.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
We do do feedback sometimes, yes, and that is up
to my booker, Josh, and he can give you more
info on that because sometimes people don't want the feedback.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
That's right, but never want the feedback.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
But we do offer them an opportunity to maybe take
classes with us because we have a great stand up school.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Guys, are there any really like top A level comedians
that started with you?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Oh gosh, yes really. One of the fun stories is
Drew Lynch.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Oh I know Drew Lynch. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Drew.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Was my box office ticket boy, is that right? He
came to LA when he was nineteen and now yeah yeah.
He uh literally had an audition with threw us at
for America's Got Talent at Flappers. That's great in our
smaller room, the you who room. They picked him. He
went to New York and filmed two shows, got the
(14:18):
golden buzzer, And here we are all these years later,
and Drew's doing really well. Jerrod Carmichael used to be
an open opening micer. There still comes Samuel J. Comro Taylor,
Tomlinson is also I was a college agent and talent
manager for a while, and I managed and repped all
those comedians I just mentioned, and they're all doing great.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
It's cost about twenty five to thirty five bucks, depending
on the comedian. Yes, and to drink minimum.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
To item minimum any combination of food or drinks, so
you could have chocolate chip cookies and milk.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Oh, that's great too. I appreciate you coming in. I
would love to go to the audition. So is it
open for the public.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Well, you you can come audition anytime, but only if
you want feedback.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Okay. No, I'm not a stand up comedian. I don't
want to. I just like watching people get nervous and
going up and then come.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
And enjoy that.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Okay, Wednesday Wednesday six to get out of here early
to go do that. Okay, but that sounds like a
lot of fun. Thank you for coming in. Flappers dot
com Flappers Comedy Comedy Dot. J Leno tonight and tomorrow night.
Oh he's there on a regular basis, once or twice
a week usually and he loves it. Jeff Garland also
(15:31):
is a regular, and many many many others. I mean,
we have celebrity drop in Tuesdays where literally Bill Berg
could drop in did just a couple of weeks ago.
And you never know who's Whitney Cummings, Eliza Slessinger. I
mean Nate Bargotzi also performed when he was very not
(15:51):
famous yet, and he was one of the I think
he's gonna be one of the biggest guys in the
history company.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
He is. He is right now and I wish him
the best.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Thank you. Barbara Holiday with Flapperscomedy dot Com. Go to
Flappers and and it really is a nice night. The
food's good, the atmosphere is great. It's a great club,
and there's some great comedians there. Flapperscomedy dot Com go tonight,
Go see Ja Jayla on What the Hell?
Speaker 4 (16:17):
And follow us on Instagram at Flappers Comedy.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Please, yes, yes, yes, please follow Barbara.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
We are joined by Petrose Papadakas from The pet Fellas
and Money Show. How You Bob?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Hello, Tim Conway. I'm doing all right. Kicking ass, Yeah,
kicking ass every time. Buddy. Are you like me?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Where you like weekdays better than weekends because you want
structure and you want something to do. I hate weekends.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Well, I don't nothing to do.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
I want my stores open. I want to see people working.
I love Monday through Friday.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I do like my sandwich places being open.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
That's right. What sandwich place you go to?
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Well, I go to there's a multiple sandwich places. No, No,
that's not the one. Uh, there's a few in the
area that I enjoy.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Okay, and you don't want to name them for what reason?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Rieira's Place okay, in Redondo Beach, I like it's the
oldest restaurant in the South Bay was Milli Rieira's seafood Grotto.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
What do you get there?
Speaker 5 (17:27):
This is kind of a like a deli version of
that old restaurant with some of those dishes. Okay, they
have sandwiches, Nick Rieira, I like the tuna sandwich.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Do you like Jewish delis like canters?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I do, yes, I do. We don't have a lot
of them here in the South Bay.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Why because they they didn't open them or you don't
get you guys don't know Jewish people are in.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
I don't know if it's no Jews, no Deli's, I
don't know what it is, but we just don't we
have more taco places.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Oh, I see, all right, we got to fix that something.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
But I wish there was a Jewish deli. I like,
there's a New York style Jewish deli run by Indian people.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Called the Baba Deli, which I appreciated. Torrance on.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
The Valley had Jerry's Arts, Brent's morts.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Yeah, I remember Jerry's Deli. I remember when that was
the one in Marina del Rey. I remember the one
right by the Beverly Center. I remember all those places.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
They were a great buddy. Hey, let me ask you
a football.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
They would bring you that bread, that the pretzel bread
or the pretzels.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
It was good.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Let me ask you a football question, because I'm still
shocked every time I watch these football games when a
guy gets hit full force. He's ring right, he's running
as fasts he can. The other guy's coming out of
as fast as he can, and they hit. Doesn't that
first of all, that would paralyze me? But doesn't that have.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
A kind of a slight chest?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
You know after a man, I heard you have one
of the most crushable stirn of them. I heard you.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Mentioned that yesterday when when you were making fun of
the Space video that got two point seven million hits?
I remember you wouldn't you're.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
We played that again today? Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
That's a great piece of.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
I mean, I mean, I don't know how long I'm
gonna be on, but you do sound kind of creepy.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
If we can get a replay out look, and I
could just go over.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
How outside I was outside, I didn't want to wait
the neighbor, and I have my my feminine outdoor late
night voice on. It was pretty creepy. Did you see
how many hits a gay look at that?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I don't care. There's all kinds of stupid stuff that
gets a lot of here.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Two point seven million? Okay, how many videos would you guys,
you and Matt have to put together to get two
point seven million hits?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Maybe three or four?
Speaker 5 (19:41):
No, like three or four hund depends on what I'm
talking about, fool.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Three or four hundreds?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
All right? Well, what I.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Read when I complain about Lincoln Riley, I get like
five hundred g's.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Yeah? That really it sounds like maybe four or five
of those.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
What what is the Lincoln Riley? Fiasca? Why I was
gonna answer the football question? Okay, all right, let's be
back to the football question. When two guys are running
to each other and they hit each other like that
and they both fall down, it would paralyze me. But
doesn't that have an effect on them or do they
wake up the next day feeling that like it was
a car crash.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
You know?
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Sometimes very like you remember when bo Jackson got hurt
that play where he got tackled that ended his football career.
I don't know if you remember that or not, but
it didn't He hurt his hip coliseum, Yeah, and it
didn't look like much at all, and they're playing the Bengals.
I think it didn't look like anything had happened to him,
and that was the last run of his career. The
(20:38):
thing about getting hit on the football field is sometimes
hits that look really really bad aren't that bad. And
things that are pretty bad don't look as bad. And
sometimes it's just as bad as it looks. But I
will say this, the one thing to always keep in
mind when you're watching football and watching guys get hurt
(20:59):
and one d what it feels like is nothing out there.
Nobody's fist, nobody's head, nobody's momentum, nobody's acceleration. Nobody's nobody
slap head slap like taking Jones.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
None of that hits harder than the ground.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
The ground out there, because the ground, if you think
about it, it doesn't move, you know, the ground, I mean,
unless there's an earthquake. The ground is just there. You know,
a man will move as hard as he hits you.
You know he's gonna glance off as hard as you
hit him. You know he's gonna glance off. You're both
gonna fall down. Like you mentioned, this is a physics
lesson in Footpote. But the ground does not move. So
(21:45):
when your shoulder hits the ground with the momentum or
your head, god forbid, that's when.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
And is it worse when it's frozen gonna be on Sunday?
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Yeah, it is worse, to be honest. I mean I
could say, but you know, I mean when the ground
is the ground, if you're going into it with real momentum.
But every time I've ever been knocked out on a
football field, it wasn't by a guy, it was the ground.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
But you know, Eric Dickerson, you know a bunch of
football players. Do they wake up in pain every day?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Yeah? A lot of people do. Everybody's different though.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
You know, people take care of their bodies at different levels,
and guys took care of their bodies at different levels
when they were playing, and everybody's built a little bit differently.
But you're hard pressed to see a guy that played
when my dad played. I mean, I remember seeing Dan Diodore.
Remember all those years he called Monday Night football.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Oh yeah, I loved it.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
And he was.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Calling Michigan radio and I was doing a Michigan game
and it must have taken him like twenty minutes to
walk thirty yards.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
It's really hard to watch.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
You know, he sat down and he's fine, but you know,
just getting up and moving around. A lot of these
guys are bent over at the back. But in modern
football you see a lot of people standing up straight
because they do more yoga and more pliometric training and
a little bit more modern.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
So it's not as archaic as it was back when
you were rooting for Merlin.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Olsen petros Is with us. How'd you know I was
rooting for Myrtle and Olson. I was a big just
a big Merlin Olsen.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
I posed with the Merlin Olsen uniform and saw his
statue when I was in Logan, Utah this last fallout
for a Utah State game, his alma mater.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Hey, when did the great Kazoo helmets come in?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Oh? Like those big ass Yeah? Those are those are new?
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I guess I don't know.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
I mean most of the guys that wear them are
like receivers, and those guys don't get hit on every
play like the guys in the box do.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Anyway, he'd be hard. I guess you see some O
linemen wearing them.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Do they voluntarily wear them? Or the coach says you
or the doctor? No, no, I thank you.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
I'm not sure to be honest, some of those guys
are wearing them. I've seen football teams in practice where
everybody's got them.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yeah, everybody has the they like that.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Yeah, the big head. Uh.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
There used to be a guy who played for the
Buffalo Bills back when they were winning, I mean not
winning championship games and losing the Super Bowl every single
year with Jim Kelly and Thurman Thomas and Bruce Smith
all those teams.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
When they lost the Giants, Yeah, the New York Giants. Yeah,
New York Giants.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Yeah, that was the field goal they missed. They they
but they did not discern. I mean they lost the
Cowboys a couple of times, a.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Hold of the time.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
But there was a guy, wait, there was a guy
that played for those Bills, Mark Kelso, and he was
a white safety. If you look him up, he was
the original big head helmet.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Heead Oh, he was the original Kazoo.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
They had like a they built like a big ass
helmet for him, and I had never seen it since
Mark Kelso, and now it's very prevalent.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Throughout the league.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Quick quiz for you. Who's the voice of the Great Kazoo?
Speaker 5 (24:57):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Is it Casey casem No?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
When I come back, we'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Damn. That's a good guess though.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
That is a great Guests, you're listening to Tim Conway
Junior on demand from kf I AM sixty Petros as
well us from Petros and Money BMS on fire seventy am.
I'm gonna play you the audio and if you didn't
look it up, if you didn't cheat, you can guess
who is the voice of the Great Kazoo.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
You're ready, Yes, here we go New Golf Clubs. That's
Barney a fishing pole, that's Fred Pullman Pool. Have your
fun fellows. This is great kazoo. Right here, he starts
right here. Have your fun fellows, have your fun fellows,
but take heed. Greed brings trouble, which is now approaching
(25:43):
an officer of the law. I believe you know who
that is, Paul Land no clothes, Harvey Korman. Ah, how
crazy is that? I didn't know that until like four
years ago?
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Somebody really, Yeah, you weren't, I didn't. I wish I
could get a Hannah Barket bear a gig.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Yeah that pays it for a long period of time, buddy, I.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Really wish anyway, Thank you? Can I ask you didn't
like my football U dissertation?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Did you?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
I did?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I asked me a question and then I had a
really good answer, and you just blew.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
It off because I thought we already. I thought you
had already answered it. I thought you were that good,
you already answered it.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
It takes a while.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
What do you know about Kyle Tucker That he's a
baseball player, the newest Dodger? Is he worth sixty million
dollars a year?
Speaker 3 (26:29):
I don't know, but the Dodgers obviously have it.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
And how do they have all that money? I guess
they defer a lot of it too, like they say, hey,
we'll pay you later. Because they have that big Gougenheim group,
which makes a lot of money. They have a very
very boisterous TV deal. Every time somebody buys an Otani jersey,
it's like.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Three hundred docks. I love the fact that they don't
care about the money issue. Just win and I and
the Dodgers are my favorite team in the world.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
I mean, the Mets spend almost as much money as
the Dodgers and they didn't make the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Yeah, I think it's to be hard for Toronto to
get back there.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Well, you know, I mean considering how close they were
literally like a centimeter away on a couple occasions from
winning the World Series and they didn't win it.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
We had a guy on the other day and.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
He described what it was like in Toronto when that
Game seven turn horrible. Like he said, it was like
a horror movie. He said, it was so like, you know,
you're talking about a place that's filled with fifty thousand
people at least screaming, and well, no, like it's and
I've had this happen. You know, when you're on the
(27:38):
road and you score a touchdown, or you're doing a
game and it's you know, in a remote place, but
it's fifty sixty thousand people. There's just nobody from the
opposing side. And I'm sure there was a few Dodger people,
but we're talking about Canada. And the guy said that
it was so quiet when the Dodgers won. I mean,
you could hear the individual Dodgers screaming in ecstasy and enjoying.
(28:03):
You could hear their their their celebration, their whales of
of of jubilants, and you could hear like the just shock.
The guy compared it to like the last play of
like a state championship football game where a quarterbacks on
(28:24):
a team is running for a touchdown and then he's
literally like maimed to lose the game. You know, he's
laying there getting stretchered off, and the other team is
like celebrating.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
I watch Everybody in.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Horror almost every night. I watched it last night. I
watched it the night before I start. Where you know,
Toronto hits a three run home run, they think they're
gonna win. Then they're up four to three, then they're
up four to two, then four to three, then the
row host ties in four to four and they win it.
I watch it and I'm a maze.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
You've got a little bit of an issue. When the
Rams won the Super Bowl, watch that like eighty times.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Not only do I watch it, but I watch Eric
is it Werick Weddle weddll I When he came out
he put a nasty hit on one of those forty
nine ers that almost knocked him out. But when he
started that game, he said, hey guys, let's fly around.
Let's fly around out there. I still use that every
day when I see Steph oosh, I go Steph fooh,
come on, just fly around out there. And that came
(29:20):
from Eric Wattle, Eric Weddle, Eric Weddle. That came from
him from Alta Loma. He's great. I wish you'd come
on the show. Would he come on with us?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I no, No, I know him A long time.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I asked Kate's, I go, hey, Kate's, could you think
Eric will come on the show with us?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
It's like, what do you want to talk to a
football player? Like?
Speaker 1 (29:38):
What?
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Like?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
I just want to tell him how great that game
was and how much I enjoyed it.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
It's gonna be like that.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Chris Farley when he was interviewing Paul McCarty, Like, remember
that time when you saying yesterday.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah, that's gonna be how awesome that was? Right, That's right.
They're gonna be coming from a fan, real fan. I'll
tell yourself, they'll love sports.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
But I don't want you to. I don't want you
to come off and get all mad. Okay, all right.
I called one of Eric Weddle's games when he was
in college, which is a long time ago, and he
was in Utah, and it was before Utah was even
in the Pac twelve.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
They were in the Mountain West. And in this game,
Eric Weddle, from Alta Loma, which is near Rancho Koop,
played safety, which is his natural position, corner, nickel, quarterback
for his offense, running back, slot receiver.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
He punted and he was the holder on kick he did. Yeah,
he never came out, which is like, you know you
stopped doing that in the pop warners, like your freshman
year in football. He was an absolute football god, an animal.
I mean he was an absolute animal. And he had
a Hall of Fame career in the NFL, so God
(30:51):
bless them.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
I can't remember who he laid out during that San
Francisco game, but he hit a guy so hard that
he must.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
Sit McCaffrey out there. It was mcf you, Deebo sam
Pebo Sandery, Yeah, it was Deebo Damuel Deebo. Samuel's gotten
almost knocked out by by what bye?
Speaker 2 (31:08):
What what.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
That is? What football is?
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Like?
Speaker 5 (31:12):
Yeah, it was great, heavy heavy hitting out there. I
just can't I can't imagine like you sitting in like
a night shirt like wee willie winky buddy, like sitting
in your house watching like, oh, look at that boom.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
I get that, like, oh look at this, look at that.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
I want to play that because you said.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Wow, but you know what the key to creepy.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Four people look at their four people in there fifty Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Buddy, I appreciate you coming on. I heard you're coming
on every Friday with us. That makes me happy.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Are you done with me for the final hour?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yeah, because we have another guest coming up. Oh, I'll
tell you who's coming up. It's uh Ronnie mar Marmo.
I don't know if that's a man or a woman,
but it's.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
It seems like a really impactful guest.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
But he's doing a show. It's called I'm not a comedian.
I'm Lenny Bruce at the Lamarada Theater this weekend, and
that's gotta be a great show.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
It's like going to see an Abraham Lincoln impersonator, but
it's Lenny Bruce.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
That's right, that's gonna be a great show. I'd be
into that. You could, you should, I'll go with you.
We'll go this weekend. I'd go to that in a heartbeat.
Give me a call, dig don't okay? All right, buddy,
thanks for coming on empty my pleasure. You're the best.
All right. There he goes. Petros Papadagas and the Petros
Money Show coming up. The star, the absolute star of
the Lamaranda Theater this weekend. I'm not a comedian. I'm
(32:29):
Lenny Bruce. Ronnie Marmo's coming on with us. That's gonna
be great. We're live on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
We have Barbara Holliday here, which sounds like a beautiful
old actress's name Barbara Holliday, and she's with us.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
How are you.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
I'm fantastic, fantastic.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
You own Flappers?
Speaker 4 (00:19):
I do one woman owns.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Okay, that's one. That's probably the most successful comedy club
in the valley. For sure, it's gonna be.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
It's like we have a whole world and you say
the most popular club in the valley valley, Well.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Okay, okay, but look, it could also be pea club
in the valle. People have to know that. But do
you remember, like thirty years ago, maybe thirty five years ago,
there were thousands of comedy gyps. They were everywhere, Yes,
and only the good ones survived, you know, the Comedy Store,
the Improv Flappers, the what is the one on Sunset
(00:57):
La Factory? Right, Yeah, so there's like four that really
survived and you're one of them.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Well, I actually started Flappers with a co founder, Dave Rynitz,
back in twenty ten, and we were just we were
kind of the newbie and it was very hard to
establish a new club. Oh yeah, in that realm, because.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Because these Indians draws always so loyal to their old
club correct, And everybody was like, this is never going
to work.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Club in the Valley never gonna work. Nobody thought it
would work. I actually thought, well, why not the Valley
because there's so many celebrities here and comedians that are
going to be right here. They'll want to drop in.
It'll make sense.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
And it sold out every weekend. I walked by, I
was in the area. I was pretty buzzed, and I
walked by to get a ticket and they said there's
no tickets left. I said, oh okay, I moved on. But
this was just like a Saturday. It was raining outside,
there was no special comedian on the billboard. It was
sold out.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yeah, well we've finally got like our wings, I would say.
You know, COVID was a really tough time. We were
closed for eighteen months. So I call this the COVID
comeback basically. And the last two years I think there's
been a real resurgence. Yeah, natural comedy, you know. But
like Joe Rogan moved moved to Texas and started a
(02:15):
club there.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Oh is that right? I know them.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yeah, and a lot of comedians moved out of LA
during COVID, so I got a little nervous, but we
managed to stay alive. And lately we've had Leno now
for about two solid years, like he's doing a residence.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
He's a great staple there because you know, people who
are coming in town and they're going to Disneyland, they're
going to Universal, they live in Kansas City, they have
the ability to see Jaylon in person. They'll pay anything
for that.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Yeah, but it's we're two hundred seats, so it's it's
kind of the perfect comedy room because especially for headliners.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Right, and never feels stuffy. You know, some of these
comedy places there we feel stagnant and stuffy, but it
feels great in that club.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Yeah, two hundred people is kind of just perfect, especially
when you're practicing to go out on the road and
perform at even a huge theater like Leno's at Yamava
as well. And so but he'll perform with us and basically,
you know, get his feet wet, get his practice, because
two hundred seats is a lot easier and better to
(03:20):
test material out on than you know, fifteen thousand people.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Barbara Hollidays whether she owns Flappers and she started in
television at Warner Brothers. Yeah, well, so what were the
big shows there? Friends?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Yes, I actually worked on like fifteen different shows. It
was hanging with mister Cooper. Friends.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
What was your job overseeing the script or the story ideas?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Or no?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I wasn't in creative at all?
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Really? Weirdly, well, I were you pulling cable or lights?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Actually, my dad was a computer programmer. I used to say,
I'm half the product of a computer geek father, and
half the product of a Walmart Mom's hard enough to
buy a computer, but trash enough to punt it off
for a pack of ho host. So I got I
got this logic brain from my father, who has since passed,
(04:11):
But he gave me this ability to troubleshoot technology somehow.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I never when my dad used a manual typewriter up
until two thousand and five, all right, and he ran
out of ink, and so I picked him up and
we went to the stationery store and said, hey, can
you guys have any more of the rolls of ink?
And they said they've made those in thirty years and
my dad said, where can I find one? He says,
you got to go to yard sales in the valley
(04:39):
and find a typewriter and just take the ink. So
I'm driving with my dad around the valley around one
netgu and he's got a hat on and we're going
through people's crap and I said, Dad, I think it's
time to get a computer. And we got him a computer.
We set him up. And I never heard my dad
swear in his life until he got a computer. And
then he would call me up, you got to get
the f over here. This GD thing, I'm gonna shove it.
(05:01):
I mean, he went nuts, He went absolutely crazy. But
once he got into it and he knew how to
use the computer, he was betting TVG. He had a
couple of windows open. He was the master of that thing.
But I love this comedy club. I love Leno.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Is there?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Who are some other big ones? Who's the guy from
Curby Enthusiasm?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
But Jeff Garland.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Garland's always there.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Oh, Jeff Garland's amazing. He actually brought me on an
episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
It was, yeah, the one where the the daughter marries
a deaf gentleman. That's really funny.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
That's right, that's great.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
And of course you know there's improv on that set,
and Jeff's like, just come on. And I didn't think
I was just an extra. I thought, oh, I'm going
to be doing some improv. So you know how they
they film curb your enthusiasm. They yell out, okay, this
is the premise and then we're all gonna like troubleshoot ideas.
And so I'm over there as an extra and I
yell out, you know, Google or whatever, and Jeff goes,
(05:58):
not you, I thought you were asking for suggestions. And
then later it comes over he goes, that's actually not
a bad idea, and then he used it. But yeah,
I know you probably.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Have to deal with some pretty uh, you know, raw
people in the comedy world because all of them, with
the exception of Jay Leno and a couple of you
know comedians, they're.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
All crazy, yes, and how did you know that?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
But because that's why they're funny, because they're crazy?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
But how did we hook up? How did you? How
are you here?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Well, we also teach comedy.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I have.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
It's called Flappers University or FU. We're learning as a joke,
and I have a stand up level one class right now.
We do all levels, and yes, we we do a
podcast too. It's called Flappers Presents, and I think we
wanted to have you on as Okay, I love it.
And my talent booker, Joshua Snyder, who's been with me
(07:00):
fourteen years, I think he hooked us up. He said,
why don't you have barber on there?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
That's really cool? Can now you're thinking about money from
us franchising.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Yes, this is very new and not really announced to
the general public here.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Well, and then you came to the perfect station to
keep it quiet.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Five people are going to know that's right for.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Show to keep that on the down low.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
This is well, this is the interesting part. About about
four years ago, I bought out my partner and I
became one hundred percent woman owned. And I've been slowly,
you know, thinking how can I grow this. I want
to take care of the employees that have been with
me fifteen years. But it's hard to give money to
you know, we don't make that much money as a unit.
(07:47):
I would say our brand is bigger than our sales,
probably right, Yeah, And so I started talking to some
people and a few people offered to purchase the place,
and I was like, what that is that?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Right? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
But I thought, well, the brand seems pretty popular. It's
very popular, and so I got the idea of franchising
into my head. And then I was able to give
two of my employees ownership in own Nice the franchise company.
And now it's becoming a lot, you know, bigger idea.
And do you want to know that there is actually
(08:19):
there are actually no legitimate comedy club franchises in the
United States. I don't know that that's crazy. The improv
is probably what you're going to say. But the improv
is a franchise model.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Oh, I see over, and so they do.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Use and share and own multiple units. But I'm actually
doing a legitimate franchise in which anyone can buy in
and basically they have to do exactly what we're doing
in Burbank, Right, But how.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Did we get a break? When we come back, we
want to ask you. You know, there's some comedians that
are listening right now, how does somebody get into Flappers
on a regular basis? We can back, we'll talk about that,
all right. Barbara Holiday is with us. She owns Flappers
in Burbank. It's a great hang. You can go there
and see Leno. Is he there this weekend?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Is he dead tonight?
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
So Jay Leno is probably in his car right now
because he usually gets there early, which is going at
eight seven thirty? All right, Jay Leno tonight seven thirty
at Flappers, which is on Magnolia and.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Uh just over the bridge on Man first, Magdolian first.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Okay, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
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Speaker 2 (09:33):
Flappers is a it's a great comedy club in Burbank.
It's on First Street and Magnolia, right across from Town Center.
And that's a great building. Some of the other comedy
places in town I'm not gonna mention them, but you
can hear the traffic. And there's one of that's next
to a fire station. You can hear that fire. The
fire engines three or four times a night.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Yeah, those firefighters are hilarious.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
But it's quite at this club at Flappers, it's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
I actually got really lucky when I first built it
in twenty ten. I had a friend who worked for
Princess Cruises at the time. Thanks Patrick, And he said
that Princess Cruises was getting rid of all their curtains
off the ship.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Was that right?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
And they were going to toss him and I literally
took them and put them in a storage unit for like.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Two great idea, keeps it quiet in there, and then.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I they're all over the walls. So that's how we
soundprofted the trailer trash way.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I like the name Flappers. It says sound a little older. Yeah,
you do that on purpose.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
People think, oh, we've been there forever, like I've been
going there for fifty years. I go, no, no, Well,
in twenty ten we started this Flappers comedy club in Burbank,
and everyone said a club in the valley would never work.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
And so a lot of them failed.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Yes, yes, And I wanted to have a name that
sounded like old timey. And I love the idea of
prohibition where people were actually throwing drinks down the garbage.
But what if you had a photo like that in
a bar, wouldn't people like, wouldn't that be funny?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
How many people work for you?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Now? I have about thirty employees.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Okay, that's nice.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
That's I used to have a Claremont location closed it
in twenty eighteen. Honestly, it's much better focusing on Burbank
and now we've My team is amazing and I have
really a really stable and solid group of folks. In fact,
I have one of my friend of the house people,
Jeff Helleger has been with us since we started, helped
(11:28):
paint the place. William Nickerson, my general manager, been there
fifteen sixteen years the whole time.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
And you guys have some big comedians coming. Kevin Hart
was there, Kevin Hart.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Everyone names name somebody who hasn't been there. I'll tell
you the list. Seinfeld, Seinfeld's been there, amazing. Jimmy Brogan,
who was one of the head writers for Yes.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
He's one of the funniest guys in the world when
it comes to interacting with the crowd.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
You may not recognize his name, but that guy deserves huge,
huge kudos. I mean, he is one of the greatest performers.
If you have a chance to come see him live,
it's one of one of a kind of experience.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
How do people get on your radar and how do
you start booking comedians?
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Well, we were also one of the first clubs in
LA really to actually have regular auditions.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Oh really, that's great.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Every Wednesday we have auditions. You still do this every
one's time, six o'clock okay, yes, in front of a
crowd or empty. Well, there's usually some some bystanders will
come by and watch. You know, we used to call
it happy hour auditions, but you know, not that many
people were happy after they watched the auditions.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
So we tell these people show up for that.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
We we get between thirty and fifty people every only week.
Now you have to pre register. You can't just show
up at random. But go to Flapperscomedy dot com and
click on the comedians tab and.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Do you videotape that? Or do you is that a.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Well we have we have, But who hosts that? My
talent booker Joshua Snyde, who's amazing, and he gives the rundown.
We really we've taken I think one of the reasons
that Flappers has done so well is we've really created
a comedy community for new comedians who want to get
(13:13):
into the mix. And how we've done that is through
creating these auditions, having open mics.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
What is somebody sucks or is horrible at auditioning? Will
you tell them that they are not coming back or
they should go another avenue, another round.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
We do do feedback sometimes, yes, and that is up
to my booker, Josh, and he can give you more
info on that because sometimes people don't want the feedback.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
That's right, but never want the feedback.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
But we do offer them an opportunity to maybe take
classes with us because we have a great stand up school.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Guys, are there any really like top A level comedians
that started with you?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Oh gosh, yes really. One of the fun stories is
Drew Lynch.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Oh I know Drew Lynch. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Drew.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Was my box office ticket boy, is that right? He
came to LA when he was nineteen and now yeah yeah.
He uh literally had an audition with threw us at
for America's Got Talent at Flappers. That's great in our
smaller room, the you who room. They picked him. He
went to New York and filmed two shows, got the
(14:18):
golden buzzer, And here we are all these years later,
and Drew's doing really well. Jerrod Carmichael used to be
an open opening micer. There still comes Samuel J. Comro Taylor,
Tomlinson is also I was a college agent and talent
manager for a while, and I managed and repped all
those comedians I just mentioned, and they're all doing great.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
It's cost about twenty five to thirty five bucks, depending
on the comedian. Yes, and to drink minimum.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
To item minimum any combination of food or drinks, so
you could have chocolate chip cookies and milk.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Oh, that's great too. I appreciate you coming in. I
would love to go to the audition. So is it
open for the public.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Well, you you can come audition anytime, but only if
you want feedback.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Okay. No, I'm not a stand up comedian. I don't
want to. I just like watching people get nervous and
going up and then come.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
And enjoy that.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Okay, Wednesday Wednesday six to get out of here early
to go do that. Okay, but that sounds like a
lot of fun. Thank you for coming in. Flappers dot
com Flappers Comedy Comedy Dot. J Leno tonight and tomorrow night.
Oh he's there on a regular basis, once or twice
a week usually and he loves it. Jeff Garland also
(15:31):
is a regular, and many many many others. I mean,
we have celebrity drop in Tuesdays where literally Bill Berg
could drop in did just a couple of weeks ago.
And you never know who's Whitney Cummings, Eliza Slessinger. I
mean Nate Bargotzi also performed when he was very not
(15:51):
famous yet, and he was one of the I think
he's gonna be one of the biggest guys in the
history company.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
He is. He is right now and I wish him
the best.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Thank you. Barbara Holiday with Flapperscomedy dot Com. Go to
Flappers and and it really is a nice night. The
food's good, the atmosphere is great. It's a great club,
and there's some great comedians there. Flapperscomedy dot Com go tonight,
Go see Ja Jayla on What the Hell?
Speaker 4 (16:17):
And follow us on Instagram at Flappers Comedy.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Please, yes, yes, yes, please follow Barbara.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
We are joined by Petrose Papadakas from The pet Fellas
and Money Show. How You Bob?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Hello, Tim Conway. I'm doing all right. Kicking ass, Yeah,
kicking ass every time. Buddy. Are you like me?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Where you like weekdays better than weekends because you want
structure and you want something to do. I hate weekends.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Well, I don't nothing to do.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
I want my stores open. I want to see people working.
I love Monday through Friday.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I do like my sandwich places being open.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
That's right. What sandwich place you go to?
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Well, I go to there's a multiple sandwich places. No, No,
that's not the one. Uh, there's a few in the
area that I enjoy.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Okay, and you don't want to name them for what reason?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Rieira's Place okay, in Redondo Beach, I like it's the
oldest restaurant in the South Bay was Milli Rieira's seafood Grotto.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
What do you get there?
Speaker 5 (17:27):
This is kind of a like a deli version of
that old restaurant with some of those dishes. Okay, they
have sandwiches, Nick Rieira, I like the tuna sandwich.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Do you like Jewish delis like canters?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I do, yes, I do. We don't have a lot
of them here in the South Bay.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Why because they they didn't open them or you don't
get you guys don't know Jewish people are in.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
I don't know if it's no Jews, no Deli's, I
don't know what it is, but we just don't we
have more taco places.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Oh, I see, all right, we got to fix that something.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
But I wish there was a Jewish deli. I like,
there's a New York style Jewish deli run by Indian people.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Called the Baba Deli, which I appreciated. Torrance on.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
The Valley had Jerry's Arts, Brent's morts.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Yeah, I remember Jerry's Deli. I remember when that was
the one in Marina del Rey. I remember the one
right by the Beverly Center. I remember all those places.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
They were a great buddy. Hey, let me ask you
a football.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
They would bring you that bread, that the pretzel bread
or the pretzels.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
It was good.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Let me ask you a football question, because I'm still
shocked every time I watch these football games when a
guy gets hit full force. He's ring right, he's running
as fasts he can. The other guy's coming out of
as fast as he can, and they hit. Doesn't that
first of all, that would paralyze me? But doesn't that have.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
A kind of a slight chest?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
You know after a man, I heard you have one
of the most crushable stirn of them. I heard you.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Mentioned that yesterday when when you were making fun of
the Space video that got two point seven million hits?
I remember you wouldn't you're.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
We played that again today? Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
That's a great piece of.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
I mean, I mean, I don't know how long I'm
gonna be on, but you do sound kind of creepy.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
If we can get a replay out look, and I
could just go over.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
How outside I was outside, I didn't want to wait
the neighbor, and I have my my feminine outdoor late
night voice on. It was pretty creepy. Did you see
how many hits a gay look at that?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I don't care. There's all kinds of stupid stuff that
gets a lot of here.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Two point seven million? Okay, how many videos would you guys,
you and Matt have to put together to get two
point seven million hits?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Maybe three or four?
Speaker 5 (19:41):
No, like three or four hund depends on what I'm
talking about, fool.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Three or four hundreds?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
All right? Well, what I.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Read when I complain about Lincoln Riley, I get like
five hundred g's.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Yeah? That really it sounds like maybe four or five
of those.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
What what is the Lincoln Riley? Fiasca? Why I was
gonna answer the football question? Okay, all right, let's be
back to the football question. When two guys are running
to each other and they hit each other like that
and they both fall down, it would paralyze me. But
doesn't that have an effect on them or do they
wake up the next day feeling that like it was
a car crash.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
You know?
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Sometimes very like you remember when bo Jackson got hurt
that play where he got tackled that ended his football career.
I don't know if you remember that or not, but
it didn't He hurt his hip coliseum, Yeah, and it
didn't look like much at all, and they're playing the Bengals.
I think it didn't look like anything had happened to him,
and that was the last run of his career. The
(20:38):
thing about getting hit on the football field is sometimes
hits that look really really bad aren't that bad. And
things that are pretty bad don't look as bad. And
sometimes it's just as bad as it looks. But I
will say this, the one thing to always keep in
mind when you're watching football and watching guys get hurt
(20:59):
and one d what it feels like is nothing out there.
Nobody's fist, nobody's head, nobody's momentum, nobody's acceleration. Nobody's nobody
slap head slap like taking Jones.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
None of that hits harder than the ground.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
The ground out there, because the ground, if you think
about it, it doesn't move, you know, the ground, I mean,
unless there's an earthquake. The ground is just there. You know,
a man will move as hard as he hits you.
You know he's gonna glance off as hard as you
hit him. You know he's gonna glance off. You're both
gonna fall down. Like you mentioned, this is a physics
lesson in Footpote. But the ground does not move. So
(21:45):
when your shoulder hits the ground with the momentum or
your head, god forbid, that's when.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
And is it worse when it's frozen gonna be on Sunday?
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Yeah, it is worse, to be honest. I mean I
could say, but you know, I mean when the ground
is the ground, if you're going into it with real momentum.
But every time I've ever been knocked out on a
football field, it wasn't by a guy, it was the ground.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
But you know, Eric Dickerson, you know a bunch of
football players. Do they wake up in pain every day?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Yeah? A lot of people do. Everybody's different though.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
You know, people take care of their bodies at different levels,
and guys took care of their bodies at different levels
when they were playing, and everybody's built a little bit differently.
But you're hard pressed to see a guy that played
when my dad played. I mean, I remember seeing Dan Diodore.
Remember all those years he called Monday Night football.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Oh yeah, I loved it.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
And he was.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Calling Michigan radio and I was doing a Michigan game
and it must have taken him like twenty minutes to
walk thirty yards.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
It's really hard to watch.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
You know, he sat down and he's fine, but you know,
just getting up and moving around. A lot of these
guys are bent over at the back. But in modern
football you see a lot of people standing up straight
because they do more yoga and more pliometric training and
a little bit more modern.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
So it's not as archaic as it was back when
you were rooting for Merlin.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Olsen petros Is with us. How'd you know I was
rooting for Myrtle and Olson. I was a big just
a big Merlin Olsen.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
I posed with the Merlin Olsen uniform and saw his
statue when I was in Logan, Utah this last fallout
for a Utah State game, his alma mater.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Hey, when did the great Kazoo helmets come in?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Oh? Like those big ass Yeah? Those are those are new?
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I guess I don't know.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
I mean most of the guys that wear them are
like receivers, and those guys don't get hit on every
play like the guys in the box do.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Anyway, he'd be hard. I guess you see some O
linemen wearing them.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Do they voluntarily wear them? Or the coach says you
or the doctor? No, no, I thank you.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
I'm not sure to be honest, some of those guys
are wearing them. I've seen football teams in practice where
everybody's got them.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yeah, everybody has the they like that.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Yeah, the big head. Uh.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
There used to be a guy who played for the
Buffalo Bills back when they were winning, I mean not
winning championship games and losing the Super Bowl every single
year with Jim Kelly and Thurman Thomas and Bruce Smith
all those teams.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
When they lost the Giants, Yeah, the New York Giants. Yeah,
New York Giants.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Yeah, that was the field goal they missed. They they
but they did not discern. I mean they lost the
Cowboys a couple of times, a.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Hold of the time.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
But there was a guy, wait, there was a guy
that played for those Bills, Mark Kelso, and he was
a white safety. If you look him up, he was
the original big head helmet.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Heead Oh, he was the original Kazoo.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
They had like a they built like a big ass
helmet for him, and I had never seen it since
Mark Kelso, and now it's very prevalent.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Throughout the league.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Quick quiz for you. Who's the voice of the Great Kazoo?
Speaker 5 (24:57):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Is it Casey casem No?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
When I come back, we'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Damn. That's a good guess though.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
That is a great Guests, you're listening to Tim Conway
Junior on demand from kf I AM sixty Petros as
well us from Petros and Money BMS on fire seventy am.
I'm gonna play you the audio and if you didn't
look it up, if you didn't cheat, you can guess
who is the voice of the Great Kazoo.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
You're ready, Yes, here we go New Golf Clubs. That's
Barney a fishing pole, that's Fred Pullman Pool. Have your
fun fellows. This is great kazoo. Right here, he starts
right here. Have your fun fellows, have your fun fellows,
but take heed. Greed brings trouble, which is now approaching
(25:43):
an officer of the law. I believe you know who
that is, Paul Land no clothes, Harvey Korman. Ah, how
crazy is that? I didn't know that until like four
years ago?
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Somebody really, Yeah, you weren't, I didn't. I wish I
could get a Hannah Barket bear a gig.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Yeah that pays it for a long period of time, buddy, I.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Really wish anyway, Thank you? Can I ask you didn't
like my football U dissertation?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Did you?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
I did?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I asked me a question and then I had a
really good answer, and you just blew.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
It off because I thought we already. I thought you
had already answered it. I thought you were that good,
you already answered it.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
It takes a while.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
What do you know about Kyle Tucker That he's a
baseball player, the newest Dodger? Is he worth sixty million
dollars a year?
Speaker 3 (26:29):
I don't know, but the Dodgers obviously have it.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
And how do they have all that money? I guess
they defer a lot of it too, like they say, hey,
we'll pay you later. Because they have that big Gougenheim group,
which makes a lot of money. They have a very
very boisterous TV deal. Every time somebody buys an Otani jersey,
it's like.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Three hundred docks. I love the fact that they don't
care about the money issue. Just win and I and
the Dodgers are my favorite team in the world.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
I mean, the Mets spend almost as much money as
the Dodgers and they didn't make the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Yeah, I think it's to be hard for Toronto to
get back there.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Well, you know, I mean considering how close they were
literally like a centimeter away on a couple occasions from
winning the World Series and they didn't win it.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
We had a guy on the other day and.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
He described what it was like in Toronto when that
Game seven turn horrible. Like he said, it was like
a horror movie. He said, it was so like, you know,
you're talking about a place that's filled with fifty thousand
people at least screaming, and well, no, like it's and
I've had this happen. You know, when you're on the
(27:38):
road and you score a touchdown, or you're doing a
game and it's you know, in a remote place, but
it's fifty sixty thousand people. There's just nobody from the
opposing side. And I'm sure there was a few Dodger people,
but we're talking about Canada. And the guy said that
it was so quiet when the Dodgers won. I mean,
you could hear the individual Dodgers screaming in ecstasy and enjoying.
(28:03):
You could hear their their their celebration, their whales of
of of jubilants, and you could hear like the just shock.
The guy compared it to like the last play of
like a state championship football game where a quarterbacks on
(28:24):
a team is running for a touchdown and then he's
literally like maimed to lose the game. You know, he's
laying there getting stretchered off, and the other team is
like celebrating.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
I watch Everybody in.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Horror almost every night. I watched it last night. I
watched it the night before I start. Where you know,
Toronto hits a three run home run, they think they're
gonna win. Then they're up four to three, then they're
up four to two, then four to three, then the
row host ties in four to four and they win it.
I watch it and I'm a maze.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
You've got a little bit of an issue. When the
Rams won the Super Bowl, watch that like eighty times.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Not only do I watch it, but I watch Eric
is it Werick Weddle weddll I When he came out
he put a nasty hit on one of those forty
nine ers that almost knocked him out. But when he
started that game, he said, hey guys, let's fly around.
Let's fly around out there. I still use that every
day when I see Steph oosh, I go Steph fooh,
come on, just fly around out there. And that came
(29:20):
from Eric Wattle, Eric Weddle, Eric Weddle. That came from
him from Alta Loma. He's great. I wish you'd come
on the show. Would he come on with us?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I no, No, I know him A long time.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I asked Kate's, I go, hey, Kate's, could you think
Eric will come on the show with us?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
It's like, what do you want to talk to a
football player? Like?
Speaker 1 (29:38):
What?
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Like?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
I just want to tell him how great that game
was and how much I enjoyed it.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
It's gonna be like that.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Chris Farley when he was interviewing Paul McCarty, Like, remember
that time when you saying yesterday.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah, that's gonna be how awesome that was? Right, That's right.
They're gonna be coming from a fan, real fan. I'll
tell yourself, they'll love sports.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
But I don't want you to. I don't want you
to come off and get all mad. Okay, all right.
I called one of Eric Weddle's games when he was
in college, which is a long time ago, and he
was in Utah, and it was before Utah was even
in the Pac twelve.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
They were in the Mountain West. And in this game,
Eric Weddle, from Alta Loma, which is near Rancho Koop,
played safety, which is his natural position, corner, nickel, quarterback
for his offense, running back, slot receiver.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
He punted and he was the holder on kick he did. Yeah,
he never came out, which is like, you know you
stopped doing that in the pop warners, like your freshman
year in football. He was an absolute football god, an animal.
I mean he was an absolute animal. And he had
a Hall of Fame career in the NFL, so God
(30:51):
bless them.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
I can't remember who he laid out during that San
Francisco game, but he hit a guy so hard that
he must.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
Sit McCaffrey out there. It was mcf you, Deebo sam
Pebo Sandery, Yeah, it was Deebo Damuel Deebo. Samuel's gotten
almost knocked out by by what bye?
Speaker 2 (31:08):
What what.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
That is? What football is?
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Like?
Speaker 5 (31:12):
Yeah, it was great, heavy heavy hitting out there. I
just can't I can't imagine like you sitting in like
a night shirt like wee willie winky buddy, like sitting
in your house watching like, oh, look at that boom.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
I get that, like, oh look at this, look at that.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
I want to play that because you said.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Wow, but you know what the key to creepy.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Four people look at their four people in there fifty Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Buddy, I appreciate you coming on. I heard you're coming
on every Friday with us. That makes me happy.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Are you done with me for the final hour?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yeah, because we have another guest coming up. Oh, I'll
tell you who's coming up. It's uh Ronnie mar Marmo.
I don't know if that's a man or a woman,
but it's.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
It seems like a really impactful guest.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
But he's doing a show. It's called I'm not a comedian.
I'm Lenny Bruce at the Lamarada Theater this weekend, and
that's gotta be a great show.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
It's like going to see an Abraham Lincoln impersonator, but
it's Lenny Bruce.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
That's right, that's gonna be a great show. I'd be
into that. You could, you should, I'll go with you.
We'll go this weekend. I'd go to that in a heartbeat.
Give me a call, dig don't okay? All right, buddy,
thanks for coming on empty my pleasure. You're the best.
All right. There he goes. Petros Papadagas and the Petros
Money Show coming up. The star, the absolute star of
the Lamaranda Theater this weekend. I'm not a comedian. I'm
(32:29):
Lenny Bruce. Ronnie Marmo's coming on with us. That's gonna
be great. We're live on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
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