February 10, 2026 • 32 mins
HUGE announcement on KFI: Conway, John Kobylt and iHeart LA Division President Paul Corvino unveil the station’s new weekday lineup, kicking off Tuesday, February 17 — with Monks & Merrill (12–3p), Kobylt back to afternoon drive (3–6p), and Tim Conway Jr. back in evenings (6–10p). KFI’s Michael Monks and Chris Merrill join to break down the brand-new Monks & Merrill midday show (12–3), what they’re bringing to the slot, and what listeners can expect starting 2/17. Mark Thompson shares a personal story from the funeral of Chuck Negron, the Three Dog Night founding member and voice behind classics like “Joy to the World,” who has died at 83. A “Joy to the World” tribute — plus how Mark and Chuck knew one another, the memories behind the music, and why that iconic track still hits decades later.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KMF I AM six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
But we're watching fireworks. How look at that one blue
all Let those hi. It's Conway Show on KFI AM
six forty. John Colebelt is with us, also as Paul
Corvino's with us. But first, before we get into the
big announcement, we have a promo to play.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Here we go, Steph fush.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Your attention, please attention k FI AM six forty. That's
a very important announcement. John Coblt And Tim Conway Junior,
two KFI legends, are returning to the times lets they
made famous.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I didn't agree to two time slots, you know. I'm
out here nobody to welcome.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Back to the favorite where it started at.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Yeah, we're supposed to sing the name showing, but the times.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Have changed and the host will remain where they made
the names. Would have thought. We lead you who have thought,
We lead Jack to where we need that to where
we need yet well in your shows, and we're here
to let you know, welcome back, Thank you very much,
(01:34):
We'll come back. Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back, welcome back.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Well black Dingyn, all right, KF I am six four
is Conway Show? John call outs here, Paul Corvino, who
what is your exact title here? President of West Coast
Ilar what is it that you do?
Speaker 6 (01:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
President, keep the lights on you alright? All right, So
there's a big move going on here. I'm going back
to six to ten pm because there are four things
I enjoyed in life, and I couldn't do any of
them between if I had the four to seven slot.
I like going to the track, and that interfere with
my Friday is at the track. I like listening to
(02:15):
Petros and Money Live. Couldn't do that. And also I
like listening to what's the guy's name? Booker and Striker.
I love that show and they're on opposite me. And
I like going to Costco. And by the time I
got home, it's eight o'clock eight thirty and Costco's close.
So I said to Brian, I said, hey, I got
it because I love the racetrack and listening to his
(02:35):
radio shows and Costco.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Can I move?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
And he goes, yeah, absolutely, one hundred percent. And so
I'm going to go six to ten. John, your new
time slot three to six three to six pm. Yes,
where I think you originally started. Well, I was thinking
about it when we started.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
At the very beginning, we were four to seven, well
year nineteen ninety two, okay, And then it was three
to seven, and then it was four to seven, then
it was three to seven, then it was two to seven.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
It wow.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Then it was two to six. Then it was one
to four, and at three to six. These are all
the genius radio programmers we had over the y. They
come in, it's like, let's move him an hour where
you did two to seven?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (03:12):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
They ran out of host at one point. Yeah, I
remember that. Remember, yes, remember I don't remember that John
did two to seven. I followed him and I came
in and he was still at the desk with his
papers and everything. I said, John, at seven o'clock, you've
done five hours. And his response, I got a lot
more to say, and he does. Paul Corvino, what is
(03:34):
the new show that's coming on?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
First Team? You gave me New England and the over.
You're lucky you're not going to overnights. You took a
betting tip from him?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Wow, I gave it to everybody, knowing that you could
bank you get back the brains truck up and bet
it on Seattle. That's what we're gonna do in the future.
I'm gonna make a bet on a team, and then
everyone listening is going to bet on the opposite and
clean up like.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
The pump and dump with sucks. Right, exactly right.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
But there's a new show coming on, right, Yes.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It's gonna be Michael Monks and Chris Merrill. All right.
Speaker 8 (04:07):
Michael's an award winning journalist for US. He's been with
KFI a long time. He's great and everyone knows. Chris
he's great, a guest host for a long time. Also,
they both understand they know our audience, and I'm very
excited to have him.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Michael Monks had a great line, can we say it
on the air? The Maryland Monks line, just do this
with that incident. I usually have to run here when
you say something like that. You can't do it with
me right in the room when you ask, it's not good. No,
it's always no. But Corvino had the greatest compliment. He said,
listening to your show on the way home, I always
(04:44):
think of the FCC is going to call me, and
then they never do. That's a huge compliment.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
That's huge. Gone. So when does it all start? Tuesday?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Next Tuesday, next Tuesday. All right, so I'm going back
to six to ten pm. So I'm moving back two hours,
but I gain an hour, so instead of doing three,
I'll do four hours.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
That's it we need.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yes, Look, I really enjoyed evenings. And you know, well,
while my daughter was in high school, I got to
go to a lot of her games because I was
working four to seven. But now that she's in college,
she works full time and has a boyfriend. I haven't
seen her in six months, so you know, time to
go back. We're can have more fun. I'm going to
bring back. I'd like to bring back a lot of
(05:22):
the things that we did in the evening, and one
of them is Stumped the Monkey with a guy named
Malibu Dan Finder who decided not to read books in
school to smoke weed. And we asked him simple questions
and he has the craziest answers, which is great. Like,
for instance, here's a good example, what is the This
is gonna go on a while. Yeah, what is the
Mile High City?
Speaker 9 (05:41):
Right?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I asked him what was the Mile High city? And
he said, I think that's Seattle. Buddy, and I said, well,
if that was Seattle, then Seattle would be on a
mile cliff before you actually got to the city. And
one another one was where does Ivory come from? John
wants the answer. We asked him where Ivory came from,
(06:02):
and he said, I think it's a plant, Buddy, interesting guy.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Interesting to bring back to Jesse Jackson. We're thinking about that.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yes, yeah, well wait, Paul, wait to hear the yea,
what the hell did Jesse Jackson say?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
You're gonna love Jesse. You're gonna get a lot of
I've got a feeling, I'm gonna get a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Of phone You're gonna get only praise. You'll get a
lot of people going, thank god you brought that back.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
It's interesting is sometimes when there's something really outrageous and
I think I'm gonna get the phone call, I get nothing,
and then on the most knock youious thing possible, I
get a call that how did that upset them?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
When that didn't? When I get told, I always say, wait,
We've done a lot worse than that. I know.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
If you want to protest, I'll give you some material,
but not this one. You know, the the old couple
of program directors go. I think it was two or three,
but anytime a bad email would come in, they'd take
it and tape it to your door and say, great,
great job.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
They're listening.
Speaker 8 (06:56):
Well, if I'm not getting phone calls, you guys aren't
puting the envelope and doing your job right.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I've been suspended three times in radio on my wa
not on yours, not on yours, and I thank you
for that. But if you haven't been suspended, you're not
pushing hard enough. Absolutely, you know. I mean, Rush Limbaugh
has been suspended. You've been suspended, John Howard Stern many
times suspended, and I think if you're asking me to
suspend you, well yes, but not until the Kentucky Derby.
(07:25):
It raises our profile. Every time we get so much publicity.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
You're going to plan your suspension around when you want
to take a vacation.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
But look, when you get suspended, you're on every newscast
and every website, and then people are like, oh, I
like to listen to this, see what's going on going on? Yeah,
and then they tune in and you've watered everything down
so you don't get suspended again. They're like, oh this sucks.
I thought this guy got suspended. He's doing weather in sports.
I could do that, but it is Uh. It'll be
(07:51):
nice to get back to evenings and I can't wait.
Next Tuesday is the whole big line Tuesday, and nothing
happens with Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
They stay exact where they are. They're staying at their
same time spot in the morning. They're terrific. Bill Handles
leading the day.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
We lead the day with Bill Handle and we go
for Gary and Shannon, right, and then we go to
Marco the News show with Michael and Chris and then
John Afternoons again and followed by you, I mean, this
is gonna be we are the greatest news talk show
in the country. I think you're wrong, will continue to be.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Look I when I was in the Evenings, we were
number one or number two, sometimes number three in the ratings.
When I went to Afternoons, I was getting my ass
kicked by Petros and money by by a booker and striker.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
And I'm like, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (08:39):
You know?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
And then so now I go back to Evenings. I
hope they get back to number one, the number one
talk show now because we had it for twelve years.
We're number one and John's got to compete with them. Well,
John's John's a great leading I like that about John.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Oh yeah, you can.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Live off me for about forty five minutes. That's right,
That's exactly right. Yeah, and milk it pretty good. Anyway,
I'm very excited about it. I think a lot of
advertisers are going to come back absolutely and and they're
gonna pick.
Speaker 8 (09:06):
Up by the two of you guys that no one
works better for advertisers than you John, Bill, Gary, our team,
we get results for our advertisers, and that's that's very
important to us.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
That enables us to be able to give this great
content every day. I think you're right. I think you're right.
I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
So Amy King, then handle Gary and Shannon Michael and Chris,
John Colvelt myself and coast to coast.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
That's it. There you go.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
You got it.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
How do you beat that? You can't? How do you
beat that you can't? Nobody ever has.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I'm not saying this because she's in the room, but
you have the best assistant in the history of show business. Yes,
I do this woman. This woman gets back to everybody.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
When I'm done, time press send on the email there's
a response.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I'm like, wow, did she do that? Yeah, that's true.
That happened to me just yesterday. I mean it came
in before I sent.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
And you have no idea that the text messages that call.
She gets three weekends and nights. I always there, always
gets it done. Yeah, she never lose her ever. Ever,
I would have to quit.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, I couldn't do the job without her because a
lot of people, especially in that generation, are horrible employees, horrible.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
The worst we've had him here. You're right though, it's
been a long train.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Good.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
There was a guy that came in and he had
his pants down halfway down his ass and I said, hey, buddy,
I said, this is corporate America.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
That's not a corporate America look.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
And he goes, yeah. Well, he goes, I'll just go
work for another radio station. I go, they're all corporate America.
You're not going to find a radio station you can
look like that.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
And he quit. I don't know where he is now.
He's our finance.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
That's great, all right, Tuesday is the big move. John Colbell,
thank you, Paul Corvino, thank you. And we're going go
get him. Guys, you're going to go get him. Starting
next Tuesday at six pm, we'll hit him. You got
the ball, you get back to the track. I've got
to get back to the track. I need the track now.
No more, No more picks for me though. Yeah, no,
you're you're out.
Speaker 10 (11:10):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am sixty.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
With the moving.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Boxes that have just opened up. We are moving time slots.
We're going from four to seven we'll be on. We're
they're adding another hour, which is a compliment. We're going
back to six to ten.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Belly. We're moving on up belly.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Are very excited about the big move. Michael Monks is
with us and on the phone. I think Chris Merrill's
on with.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Us as well. Chris you there, yeah, buddy, buddy.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Congratulations. You guys have the brand new show here. You
both absolutely deserve this.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Thank you. That's the nicest thing anybody said to me.
In fact, this is the longest you've ever talked to me.
I'm really excited about that.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Well.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I was embarrassed when you were here the other day
and you said, don't you know who I am? And
I'm like, God, I don't know where we met? When
when did we meet in person?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Studio?
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Yeah, I think I was in for John Ken. You
popped in there, and you know we talked a few times.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Okay, Well look I love that I have.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
You know, I would say twice a week I look
into the newsroom and I'm saying more news with I
don't know, Oh, Krozer, Yeah Crozer. Okay, but that's that's great,
Monk's congratulations. Uh you know what was great about when
you started here. I'm not going to go back to
every you know, your whole life, but when when monks
(12:39):
started here at KFI, When people started your KFI, they
come in and they you know, they usually hit the
ground rolling once they get here. But you you came
to LA and you did a deep dive on city
Hall before you even started, and that really impressed everybody
around here.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (12:53):
I tried to know what I'm talking about, you know,
when I'm talking about it. So I wanted to make
sure that if I'm the guy they're going to put
down there covering the center of Southern California government, then
I should at least know a thing or two the
hillbilly that I am. So I did a lot of research.
I know a lot about LA City Hall history going
back to nineteen twenty five, and it.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Served me, well, you're the only guy covering it. Nobody
else on TV covers it on a regular baseball Well,
the TV guys don't cover it a lot unless there's
a controversial thing there. But really there's news happening there constantly,
whether it be at city Hall or at the Board
of Supervisors. And what I'm excited to do with Chris
is to make sure that we're also expanding to pay
attention to what's going on in Orange County and Ventura
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County and San Berdandino County and Riverside County, and we're
going to talk about all of those issues every single day. Okay,
I will say that I think and I'm you know,
I was born and raised here in the southern California.
It's a valley bumpkin from the flats in the San
Fernanzo Valley. But I think there's more corruption in LA
than there is in Minneapolis or Chicago or New York.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
It's just not covered well.
Speaker 11 (13:56):
Doctor Oz is trying to cover it, and he's getting
put back from local officials. So you're not alone in
that sentiment. There are people in the federal This is
a great time to be in LA media because of
the adversarial relationship between California and local government leaders right
and federal leaders. I mean, I don't know that you've
ever seen anything like this sustained animosity between the two,
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and so we're going to break that down. And Chris
Merril is somebody I've admired since I worked here. You know,
we're on the weekends. I'm on Saturday nights, he's on
Sunday evenings, and now we get to be in the
daylight during the weekdays. And I know how good he is,
and I know that together we're going to really break
these issues down.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
It's going to start next Tuesday noon to three. And
you know, I know, when I ran into Merrill a
couple of weeks ago, i'd asked you about this. But
I love the fact that you've been arrested. That's that's
my kind of guy.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
So I'll bring a different perspective to how city hall work.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I don't think do you have any idea how much
people respect if folks that have been arrested, If you
haven't been suspended or arrested In radio you're not pushing
hard enough in either category.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
I've been fired from some of the best stations in
the country too, so I'm really excited about this one.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
What where have you been fired from?
Speaker 9 (15:16):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Well, San Diego. In fact, our boss Brian, he'll deny it,
but he fight. He's fired me twice, and then.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
He came in today he goes, hey, you want to
see a Merril hat trick. I'm like, what does that mean? No,
but but I'm glad you're here and covering the news
three to to noon. I'm a big K five fan,
so I listen on weekends. I know you don't think
I do, but I'm listening all the time. I constantly
(15:48):
monks it a Saturday night and you on Sunday. What
are they going to do with that? Those slots? Now
that's somebody else's problem.
Speaker 11 (15:54):
Yeah, right, I think I've heard and I probably shouldn't
even say this on the air, but I think there
will be in the slot that I host on Saturday nights,
we might do a Monks and Meryl remix, so you
might get some of the best hits of our week
and maybe some fresh content as well. And we'll make
sure that people who might miss something during the week,
can catch it on Saturday nights.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
All right, excellent, excellent, and then Sunday just dead air, absolutely.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Just just like you've been for the last five years.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Anyway, Congratulations guys, obviously you know it's gonna be a huge,
huge hit, and I can't wait to hear it on
on Tuesday.
Speaker 11 (16:28):
Well, it's been great, you know, to be surrounded at
KFI by Hall of famers and future Hall of famers
and learn so much from each of you in your
own unique talents. We know that we are on the
shoulders of giants, and I know that we both can't
wait to prove ourselves here, knowing that we both have
a lot to learn but also a lot to give.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Or on the shoulders of degenerate gamblers also known as giants. Yea,
all right, I appreciate it. Merrill, see you Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Thanks, okay, see everybody all right.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Chris Merril and Michael Monks Tuesday next Tuesday noon to
three pm, and then John Colebel three to six, and
then me and Bellio and Crozier and Steph Uche are
going from six to ten. And Angel Martinez of course,
oh wait is Angel gonna do to angel, just gonna stay.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Wait a minute, we're I think we're working on it.
Oh good, Oh you gotta stay pretty soon? Yeah, please, please,
you gotta hang.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Don't leave us, don't you know, don't you know leave
us for you know, greener pastures out there.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
No, we got it. We got to. And also, yes,
there are dare you also?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
And then Mike Mark Thompson will be coming in on
I believe, on Tuesdays still, although he doesn't really like
to work at night, he likes to go out and
let's go out and drink and eat.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Right now, he's already complaining.
Speaker 10 (17:52):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am six forty.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Mark Thompson is to.
Speaker 12 (18:00):
Everybody, please please Yes, did I cannot believe I've come
on such a magnificent day, A day of celebration, a
day of change, a day that signals a new beginning.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Yes, you know, I thought that Bellio sent me that
text that you were going to be that she was
going to be late, and I didn't realize it was you.
Speaker 12 (18:19):
I left a funeral. I know, I leave the funeral early,
but I did tell the family. The widow asked me
or will you be joining us for the reception? I said, guy, like,
you're going to be going got to be on the air,
and you go back. Believe me, I thought about it
because you got you don't need me. You got Michael Mons.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Where is it? I got Paul Garme. I'll go with you.
Where is it? It was the funeral though of Chuck
Negron from Three to Three Dog Nights. Yeah, wow, how
do you know?
Speaker 10 (18:45):
How do you know that?
Speaker 12 (18:46):
I know him through my podcast and I got close
to the family. I also, I'll tell you this, I
was trying to produce a film about three dog Wow.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Is that right?
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (18:56):
And uh, I really worked and there's a lot to
putting a movie together, as you know. And he's one
of the key guys. There were just two Three Dog
Night members and he was one of them when I
was trying to put it together. So to know him
and his wife Amy, he lived life in the diamond line.
He lived with house money recently because he of course
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he was the sex, drugs and rock.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
And roll guy, right and didn't quit when everybody else did.
Speaker 12 (19:26):
Yeah, I mean to be fair to him, I think
he rode up and got on that thing in the
late sixties and seventies with heroin.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
He became a heroin. Wow, and it was just awful.
He tells.
Speaker 12 (19:38):
There's actually there's an interview with Chuck Negron on my channel,
the Mark Thompson Show on YouTube. If you ignore all
the political stuff, just go to you can put it
in the YouTube the Chuck Negron, Mark Thompson and it'll
come up. And he tells a story about selling his
penthouse condo. As I recall, it's like a multi level
(20:01):
comp there's an elevator in it. He sold it for
I think thirty five thousand dollars to a drug dealer.
Speaker 10 (20:06):
Wow.
Speaker 12 (20:07):
That's how completely in the grasp of heroin he was.
He just needed another fix.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Oh my god. So from those depths is my point,
he came all the way back and cleaned up.
Speaker 12 (20:21):
He's been sober, you know, for decades now, and just
this wonderful second chance at life. So that's why I
say he's playing with house money. Eighty one years old.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Man, that's unbelieve.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Where was the funeral at the forest Lawn?
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I see right, and then back to the house.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yeah, back to you exactly.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
But I feel bad that that you know that that
we pulled you away from that.
Speaker 12 (20:43):
Well, I didn't think. I thought you needed me, But today,
as it turns out, you don't need me. It's like, oh,
we always need an exit ride, you know. You know
you're kind of waving that you have monks in here.
Chris Meryll R.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
John Colebell, John Colebell, you know the old run.
Speaker 12 (20:59):
The fun part for me is having known nothing about
this until I heard it literally on the radio driving
over here.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Okay, how can that happen? That is not my fault.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
When management tells me something and then they tell me
right afterwards, please don't tell anybody.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I have agreed to that.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah, And I would feel horrible if I called them
up and called you up immediately after and said, here,
here's what's going on.
Speaker 12 (21:22):
Why don't they though you know, I show up. I
make some sacrifices along the way to fill in when
they need me.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I really do.
Speaker 12 (21:30):
And the fact that no one wanted to pick up
the phone and say, oh, listen, Mark, something's gonna happen. Uh,
we're not announcing it, so keep it to yourself. It's like,
you know, I'm a little insulted, to be honest.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yeah, I think they were afraid that you would tell everybody?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Is that right?
Speaker 12 (21:44):
You know what I'm uh, I'm taking this personally, Yeah,
taking it personally Conway.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yeah? And by the way, does me laughing in your
face help? I mean you could have called me. I
could have called you, but what would I should?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
They change you?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Ki? By the way, can't wait up? We can't tell
you what it is.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I thought that you knew. I thought that somebody later.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I believe that you thought I knew. Yeah I did. Yeah, No,
I believe that. I really do. I knew that, but
I don't know who would have told me. It's not you?
Does it help?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I laugh in your face?
Speaker 12 (22:16):
When I decide not to come in anymore, I will
tell you, okay. I won't just let you hear about
it from somebody else.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
How dare you? How dare you?
Speaker 13 (22:25):
It was every day for the first three years, I
came in and you make a dime, that's right. And
now I've come in and you're cleaning up, and now
I still don't make a dime. Buddy, I don't know
what you wanted me to tell you. Anyway, I'm very
happy for you. I know you wanted to go back
to the evening yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Well when I did, and then that opened up, and
I'm like, I'd like to go back there. But and
I approached management and said, hey, I'm thinking about you know,
what do you think about going back to the evenings?
And I'll tell you what I think. Really cemented it
for me. We did a remote at Costa at Pasadena Cadillac.
(23:04):
It's four to seven pm, and that's the kind of
remote that works between seven and ten pm or six
and ten pm, you know, But to do a remote
during the day like that, there's too much heavy news
during the day to also do that kind of remote.
And I want to do a lot more of those.
Because the guy who owns a Cadillac Pasadena, he wrote
(23:26):
us a full page on his own stationary. He also
owns the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Wow and the Glazer family,
and he said, he said, this is the greatest remote
we've ever done. I want to do a lot more
stuff like this. This is fantastic. Bellio did a great job,
Leno was there. You know, your whole crew, everybody did
(23:48):
an outstanding job. And the word around the fifth floor
and the fourth floor here afterwards was that was one
of the great remotes.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
We've ever done.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
And then there was one note or one person who said, hey,
you know, it doesn't sound like it should be four
to seven, And I thought, Okay, maybe that's uh, maybe
that's right, Maybe that is a six to ten PM.
But I want to do more, you know, out at
restaurants in Orange County like here, like that. Here's an
old audio that we used to do, and you give
you a vibe of what I'd like to do in evenings.
Speaker 14 (24:21):
Here, now's an out to my altma toy nine nine
full one. Oh oh, please move it now, you're blocking someone.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
I enjoyed that and a lot of people in the audience.
Speaker 10 (24:40):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty, Charles Akron.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, Chuck nineteen forty two to twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
And Mark Thompson knows everybody.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
He's had vocalist at the beginning of that song and
sings the whole song.
Speaker 12 (24:57):
But who else was there? Celebrity wise, It's tough to say.
There were a bunch of musicians there. Alice Cooper was there, Alice,
do you get a selfie?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Danny? Tim it's a funeral, I mean it would have
been a little awkward to say.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
I would not have asked that if anybody else but you. Yeah,
I did you get a selfie? I got three or four? Sheelfies?
Speaker 12 (25:19):
Yeah, no, no, no, come on, I am no, but I, uh,
can you imagine getting a funeral? Getting a salvad funeral?
I mean really up there, Hi, I'm a big fan.
Listen real quick. First of all, so I fear loss,
but over here, if you would, you don't think that
happens all the time. I can't believe it happens too much.
I bet it does.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Oh my god, that it happens all. Can I get
a quick one with a widow? Yeah? Just you're just me,
you and the widow? My god, And where's Alice? You
got a second? I'll be with you one second. I
just want to get that. I was Cooper huge.
Speaker 12 (25:55):
Yeah, well look, I mean check Neground was huge. Three
Dog Night was huge, unbelievable and uh and so talented.
That voice insane, but he was. He was on this
is just here's a little trivia thing. He was on
a college basketball He was insane college basketball player. I
mean like they're on a scholarship. And yeah, Negro was
so he played basketball at Madison Square Garden three nights
(26:20):
in a row, and then as three Dog Night they
played Massive Square Garden. He said, I said, I might
be the only guy who played Madison's Gquare Garden six times,
you know, in a different kind of role.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yeah, that's crazy, Yeah, pretty crazy. Yeah, but you're like
one of those well connected guys I know, you know,
you know everybody.
Speaker 12 (26:37):
I don't know about that, but the people I know,
I really I really adore, So I get that. Yeah,
all right, we got to most of them would tell
me if there's.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
A major schedule change in the professional for those just joining.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yeah, for joining people just joining, I am moving next Tuesday.
We are all moving u next Tuesday from where now
for to seven, moving to the six to ten pm slot.
So they're adding an hour and it'll be a lot
more fun at night, a lot lighter, not a lot
of politics, not a lot of you know, deaths and
uh you know, kids getting run over. Just keep it
(27:12):
a little light, a lot more opportunity for uh you know,
petros and money to stop buy because they won't be
on the air. Oh yeah, maybe Adam Carolla would be a.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Great like the old Tonight Show. Just people stopping through.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Right because right now, when you have somebody on it,
you really got to do like five, six, seven minutes,
and then you know, and you move on to something
else because there's a lot of news but there that'll
be covered by John Colevelt and the KFI newsroom. And
from six to ten we can do a lot of remotes,
more Orange County stuff.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
It's gonna be great. I'm excited because.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
And and in the evenings we did really well. And
then when we got into this time, thought we were
getting our ass kicked by Petros and Money.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
It's really the numbers and that's right.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
And also by these guys upstairs, Booker and Striker, is
that right, that's right, that's extraordinary and it was horrible.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
It's a beatdown by these Wow, I wouldn't have covered
a week if I'd known that. You know, I like
to be with a winner.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
So I'm gonna I'm gonna copy Petros's actu Petros and
Money and I'm just going to do that from six
to ten. Yeah, all right, we haven't doubt. So we
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Speaker 3 (29:03):
I got you. I get what you did there. So
you were in Vegas for a Super Bowl. I've got
a good actually got a good Vegas story for you. Really, Yeah,
were you hanging with high rollers?
Speaker 14 (29:13):
I was?
Speaker 12 (29:14):
I was a plus one. Okay, I'm not a high roller.
You know, I don't have the big TV money anymore.
Did you get into any of the high roller parties?
Speaker 3 (29:22):
I did? I was in high roller party. That's why
I was there.
Speaker 12 (29:25):
And it's like a huge football field coincidentally like sized room,
and it's all these like couches set up. It's almost
like everything's a living room but with a big screen TV,
and you have your own little living room, then another
little living room, and another another one, all across the
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entire perimeter of the place, and then the center of
the place. They've got you know, shrimp, cocktail fountains and crap,
and like a carving station. It was like every wedding
and bar mits for reception all rolled into one.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
It was free to get in.
Speaker 12 (30:02):
It was no I mean, I think these people, most
of them have gambled quite substantially there.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Now I was there for free, but I think but
it was.
Speaker 12 (30:12):
It was And then you know, the dessert trays or
everything was just insanely sumptuous and over the top.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
That's great. The night before.
Speaker 12 (30:22):
I was joining my friends at that Joe's Place house,
the Crab House there at Caesars, and I would like
to sit at a table. I don't like to necessarily
eat at the bar less I know the bartender or whatever.
But when there are four of us, you can't really
talk to each other because you're all there at the bar,
so I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I danced like all right sitting there.
Speaker 12 (30:45):
I got there after the people because we have a
hot crafts roll, so I stayed at the crafts roll
for a second.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
So this is very very vagacy A roll in.
Speaker 12 (30:51):
We're at the bar, give the menu, order, I get everything,
a glass of wine, a bunch of crap. And then
about forty five minutes go by and I say to
the bartender who I've met. Her name is Natalie, I said, Natalie,
and she goes yes.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
I said h.
Speaker 12 (31:08):
I said, by the way, do you remember my name?
And it had been forty five minutes. I didn't think
she remembered it, and I didn't care whether she did
or not. But it's just like something to say. And
I wasn't hitting on her anything. It was just one
of those things.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
I had a lot of disclaimers coming on. And then anyway,
I said, do you remember my name? And she goes,
I'm sorry, I don't.
Speaker 12 (31:28):
And I said, thinking now I'm in the clear on this,
I says, too bad, because I was going to give
you one hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
You can tell me my name.
Speaker 12 (31:36):
Ah, And she pauses for a beat and she goes,
is it Mark, Well, I have no choice. I literally
reached into my pocket. I gave her one hundred dollars.
Speaker 14 (31:47):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Yeah, it was a great. It was great. What a
great move by her. I felt almost set up. Yeah,
I felt hustled. Yeah, I really did. You couldn't even
win at the bar.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
It was.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
A true Vegas moment.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
That's classic, all right. The Big Move starts next Tuesday.
Amy King stays where she is, so does Bill Handle
and Gary and Shannon. The new show is Chris Merrill
and Michael Monks Noon to three, three to six is
John Colebelt, and then we'll all be on from six
to ten pm. Back in the evenings. We can have
(32:24):
a little lot more fun around here, and I think
we will, all right. We're live on KFI AM six
forty Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now
you can always hear us live on KFI AM six
forty four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime
on demand on the iHeart Radio app.
It's KMF I AM six forty and you're listening to
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
But we're watching fireworks. How look at that one blue
all Let those hi. It's Conway Show on KFI AM
six forty. John Colebelt is with us, also as Paul
Corvino's with us. But first, before we get into the
big announcement, we have a promo to play.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Here we go, Steph fush.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Your attention, please attention k FI AM six forty. That's
a very important announcement. John Coblt And Tim Conway Junior,
two KFI legends, are returning to the times lets they
made famous.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I didn't agree to two time slots, you know. I'm
out here nobody to welcome.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Back to the favorite where it started at.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Yeah, we're supposed to sing the name showing, but the times.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Have changed and the host will remain where they made
the names. Would have thought. We lead you who have thought,
We lead Jack to where we need that to where
we need yet well in your shows, and we're here
to let you know, welcome back, Thank you very much,
(01:34):
We'll come back. Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back, welcome back.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Well black Dingyn, all right, KF I am six four
is Conway Show? John call outs here, Paul Corvino, who
what is your exact title here? President of West Coast
Ilar what is it that you do?
Speaker 6 (01:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
President, keep the lights on you alright? All right, So
there's a big move going on here. I'm going back
to six to ten pm because there are four things
I enjoyed in life, and I couldn't do any of
them between if I had the four to seven slot.
I like going to the track, and that interfere with
my Friday is at the track. I like listening to
(02:15):
Petros and Money Live. Couldn't do that. And also I
like listening to what's the guy's name? Booker and Striker.
I love that show and they're on opposite me. And
I like going to Costco. And by the time I
got home, it's eight o'clock eight thirty and Costco's close.
So I said to Brian, I said, hey, I got
it because I love the racetrack and listening to his
(02:35):
radio shows and Costco.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Can I move?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
And he goes, yeah, absolutely, one hundred percent. And so
I'm going to go six to ten. John, your new
time slot three to six three to six pm. Yes,
where I think you originally started. Well, I was thinking
about it when we started.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
At the very beginning, we were four to seven, well
year nineteen ninety two, okay, And then it was three
to seven, and then it was four to seven, then
it was three to seven, then it was two to seven.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
It wow.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Then it was two to six. Then it was one
to four, and at three to six. These are all
the genius radio programmers we had over the y. They
come in, it's like, let's move him an hour where
you did two to seven?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (03:12):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
They ran out of host at one point. Yeah, I
remember that. Remember, yes, remember I don't remember that John
did two to seven. I followed him and I came
in and he was still at the desk with his
papers and everything. I said, John, at seven o'clock, you've
done five hours. And his response, I got a lot
more to say, and he does. Paul Corvino, what is
(03:34):
the new show that's coming on?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
First Team? You gave me New England and the over.
You're lucky you're not going to overnights. You took a
betting tip from him?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Wow, I gave it to everybody, knowing that you could
bank you get back the brains truck up and bet
it on Seattle. That's what we're gonna do in the future.
I'm gonna make a bet on a team, and then
everyone listening is going to bet on the opposite and
clean up like.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
The pump and dump with sucks. Right, exactly right.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
But there's a new show coming on, right, Yes.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It's gonna be Michael Monks and Chris Merrill. All right.
Speaker 8 (04:07):
Michael's an award winning journalist for US. He's been with
KFI a long time. He's great and everyone knows. Chris
he's great, a guest host for a long time. Also,
they both understand they know our audience, and I'm very
excited to have him.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Michael Monks had a great line, can we say it
on the air? The Maryland Monks line, just do this
with that incident. I usually have to run here when
you say something like that. You can't do it with
me right in the room when you ask, it's not good. No,
it's always no. But Corvino had the greatest compliment. He said,
listening to your show on the way home, I always
(04:44):
think of the FCC is going to call me, and
then they never do. That's a huge compliment.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
That's huge. Gone. So when does it all start? Tuesday?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Next Tuesday, next Tuesday. All right, so I'm going back
to six to ten pm. So I'm moving back two hours,
but I gain an hour, so instead of doing three,
I'll do four hours.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
That's it we need.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yes, Look, I really enjoyed evenings. And you know, well,
while my daughter was in high school, I got to
go to a lot of her games because I was
working four to seven. But now that she's in college,
she works full time and has a boyfriend. I haven't
seen her in six months, so you know, time to
go back. We're can have more fun. I'm going to
bring back. I'd like to bring back a lot of
(05:22):
the things that we did in the evening, and one
of them is Stumped the Monkey with a guy named
Malibu Dan Finder who decided not to read books in
school to smoke weed. And we asked him simple questions
and he has the craziest answers, which is great. Like,
for instance, here's a good example, what is the This
is gonna go on a while. Yeah, what is the
Mile High City?
Speaker 9 (05:41):
Right?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I asked him what was the Mile High city? And
he said, I think that's Seattle. Buddy, and I said, well,
if that was Seattle, then Seattle would be on a
mile cliff before you actually got to the city. And
one another one was where does Ivory come from? John
wants the answer. We asked him where Ivory came from,
(06:02):
and he said, I think it's a plant, Buddy, interesting guy.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Interesting to bring back to Jesse Jackson. We're thinking about that.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yes, yeah, well wait, Paul, wait to hear the yea,
what the hell did Jesse Jackson say?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
You're gonna love Jesse. You're gonna get a lot of
I've got a feeling, I'm gonna get a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Of phone You're gonna get only praise. You'll get a
lot of people going, thank god you brought that back.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
It's interesting is sometimes when there's something really outrageous and
I think I'm gonna get the phone call, I get nothing,
and then on the most knock youious thing possible, I
get a call that how did that upset them?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
When that didn't? When I get told, I always say, wait,
We've done a lot worse than that. I know.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
If you want to protest, I'll give you some material,
but not this one. You know, the the old couple
of program directors go. I think it was two or three,
but anytime a bad email would come in, they'd take
it and tape it to your door and say, great,
great job.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
They're listening.
Speaker 8 (06:56):
Well, if I'm not getting phone calls, you guys aren't
puting the envelope and doing your job right.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I've been suspended three times in radio on my wa
not on yours, not on yours, and I thank you
for that. But if you haven't been suspended, you're not
pushing hard enough. Absolutely, you know. I mean, Rush Limbaugh
has been suspended. You've been suspended, John Howard Stern many
times suspended, and I think if you're asking me to
suspend you, well yes, but not until the Kentucky Derby.
(07:25):
It raises our profile. Every time we get so much publicity.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
You're going to plan your suspension around when you want
to take a vacation.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
But look, when you get suspended, you're on every newscast
and every website, and then people are like, oh, I
like to listen to this, see what's going on going on? Yeah,
and then they tune in and you've watered everything down
so you don't get suspended again. They're like, oh this sucks.
I thought this guy got suspended. He's doing weather in sports.
I could do that, but it is Uh. It'll be
(07:51):
nice to get back to evenings and I can't wait.
Next Tuesday is the whole big line Tuesday, and nothing
happens with Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
They stay exact where they are. They're staying at their
same time spot in the morning. They're terrific. Bill Handles
leading the day.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
We lead the day with Bill Handle and we go
for Gary and Shannon, right, and then we go to
Marco the News show with Michael and Chris and then
John Afternoons again and followed by you, I mean, this
is gonna be we are the greatest news talk show
in the country. I think you're wrong, will continue to be.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Look I when I was in the Evenings, we were
number one or number two, sometimes number three in the ratings.
When I went to Afternoons, I was getting my ass
kicked by Petros and money by by a booker and striker.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
And I'm like, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (08:39):
You know?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
And then so now I go back to Evenings. I
hope they get back to number one, the number one
talk show now because we had it for twelve years.
We're number one and John's got to compete with them. Well,
John's John's a great leading I like that about John.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Oh yeah, you can.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Live off me for about forty five minutes. That's right,
That's exactly right. Yeah, and milk it pretty good. Anyway,
I'm very excited about it. I think a lot of
advertisers are going to come back absolutely and and they're
gonna pick.
Speaker 8 (09:06):
Up by the two of you guys that no one
works better for advertisers than you John, Bill, Gary, our team,
we get results for our advertisers, and that's that's very
important to us.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
That enables us to be able to give this great
content every day. I think you're right. I think you're right.
I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
So Amy King, then handle Gary and Shannon Michael and Chris,
John Colvelt myself and coast to coast.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
That's it. There you go.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
You got it.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
How do you beat that? You can't? How do you
beat that you can't? Nobody ever has.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I'm not saying this because she's in the room, but
you have the best assistant in the history of show business. Yes,
I do this woman. This woman gets back to everybody.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
When I'm done, time press send on the email there's
a response.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I'm like, wow, did she do that? Yeah, that's true.
That happened to me just yesterday. I mean it came
in before I sent.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
And you have no idea that the text messages that call.
She gets three weekends and nights. I always there, always
gets it done. Yeah, she never lose her ever. Ever,
I would have to quit.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, I couldn't do the job without her because a
lot of people, especially in that generation, are horrible employees, horrible.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
The worst we've had him here. You're right though, it's
been a long train.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Good.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
There was a guy that came in and he had
his pants down halfway down his ass and I said, hey, buddy,
I said, this is corporate America.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
That's not a corporate America look.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
And he goes, yeah. Well, he goes, I'll just go
work for another radio station. I go, they're all corporate America.
You're not going to find a radio station you can
look like that.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
And he quit. I don't know where he is now.
He's our finance.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
That's great, all right, Tuesday is the big move. John Colbell,
thank you, Paul Corvino, thank you. And we're going go
get him. Guys, you're going to go get him. Starting
next Tuesday at six pm, we'll hit him. You got
the ball, you get back to the track. I've got
to get back to the track. I need the track now.
No more, No more picks for me though. Yeah, no,
you're you're out.
Speaker 10 (11:10):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am sixty.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
With the moving.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Boxes that have just opened up. We are moving time slots.
We're going from four to seven we'll be on. We're
they're adding another hour, which is a compliment. We're going
back to six to ten.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Belly. We're moving on up belly.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Are very excited about the big move. Michael Monks is
with us and on the phone. I think Chris Merrill's
on with.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Us as well. Chris you there, yeah, buddy, buddy.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Congratulations. You guys have the brand new show here. You
both absolutely deserve this.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Thank you. That's the nicest thing anybody said to me.
In fact, this is the longest you've ever talked to me.
I'm really excited about that.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Well.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I was embarrassed when you were here the other day
and you said, don't you know who I am? And
I'm like, God, I don't know where we met? When
when did we meet in person?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Studio?
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Yeah, I think I was in for John Ken. You
popped in there, and you know we talked a few times.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Okay, Well look I love that I have.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
You know, I would say twice a week I look
into the newsroom and I'm saying more news with I
don't know, Oh, Krozer, Yeah Crozer. Okay, but that's that's great,
Monk's congratulations. Uh you know what was great about when
you started here. I'm not going to go back to
every you know, your whole life, but when when monks
(12:39):
started here at KFI, When people started your KFI, they
come in and they you know, they usually hit the
ground rolling once they get here. But you you came
to LA and you did a deep dive on city
Hall before you even started, and that really impressed everybody
around here.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (12:53):
I tried to know what I'm talking about, you know,
when I'm talking about it. So I wanted to make
sure that if I'm the guy they're going to put
down there covering the center of Southern California government, then
I should at least know a thing or two the
hillbilly that I am. So I did a lot of research.
I know a lot about LA City Hall history going
back to nineteen twenty five, and it.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Served me, well, you're the only guy covering it. Nobody
else on TV covers it on a regular baseball Well,
the TV guys don't cover it a lot unless there's
a controversial thing there. But really there's news happening there constantly,
whether it be at city Hall or at the Board
of Supervisors. And what I'm excited to do with Chris
is to make sure that we're also expanding to pay
attention to what's going on in Orange County and Ventura
(13:33):
County and San Berdandino County and Riverside County, and we're
going to talk about all of those issues every single day. Okay,
I will say that I think and I'm you know,
I was born and raised here in the southern California.
It's a valley bumpkin from the flats in the San
Fernanzo Valley. But I think there's more corruption in LA
than there is in Minneapolis or Chicago or New York.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
It's just not covered well.
Speaker 11 (13:56):
Doctor Oz is trying to cover it, and he's getting
put back from local officials. So you're not alone in
that sentiment. There are people in the federal This is
a great time to be in LA media because of
the adversarial relationship between California and local government leaders right
and federal leaders. I mean, I don't know that you've
ever seen anything like this sustained animosity between the two,
(14:19):
and so we're going to break that down. And Chris
Merril is somebody I've admired since I worked here. You know,
we're on the weekends. I'm on Saturday nights, he's on
Sunday evenings, and now we get to be in the
daylight during the weekdays. And I know how good he is,
and I know that together we're going to really break
these issues down.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
It's going to start next Tuesday noon to three. And
you know, I know, when I ran into Merrill a
couple of weeks ago, i'd asked you about this. But
I love the fact that you've been arrested. That's that's
my kind of guy.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
So I'll bring a different perspective to how city hall work.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I don't think do you have any idea how much
people respect if folks that have been arrested, If you
haven't been suspended or arrested In radio you're not pushing
hard enough in either category.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
I've been fired from some of the best stations in
the country too, so I'm really excited about this one.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
What where have you been fired from?
Speaker 9 (15:16):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Well, San Diego. In fact, our boss Brian, he'll deny it,
but he fight. He's fired me twice, and then.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
He came in today he goes, hey, you want to
see a Merril hat trick. I'm like, what does that mean? No,
but but I'm glad you're here and covering the news
three to to noon. I'm a big K five fan,
so I listen on weekends. I know you don't think
I do, but I'm listening all the time. I constantly
(15:48):
monks it a Saturday night and you on Sunday. What
are they going to do with that? Those slots? Now
that's somebody else's problem.
Speaker 11 (15:54):
Yeah, right, I think I've heard and I probably shouldn't
even say this on the air, but I think there
will be in the slot that I host on Saturday nights,
we might do a Monks and Meryl remix, so you
might get some of the best hits of our week
and maybe some fresh content as well. And we'll make
sure that people who might miss something during the week,
can catch it on Saturday nights.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
All right, excellent, excellent, and then Sunday just dead air, absolutely.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Just just like you've been for the last five years.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Anyway, Congratulations guys, obviously you know it's gonna be a huge,
huge hit, and I can't wait to hear it on
on Tuesday.
Speaker 11 (16:28):
Well, it's been great, you know, to be surrounded at
KFI by Hall of famers and future Hall of famers
and learn so much from each of you in your
own unique talents. We know that we are on the
shoulders of giants, and I know that we both can't
wait to prove ourselves here, knowing that we both have
a lot to learn but also a lot to give.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Or on the shoulders of degenerate gamblers also known as giants. Yea,
all right, I appreciate it. Merrill, see you Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Thanks, okay, see everybody all right.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Chris Merril and Michael Monks Tuesday next Tuesday noon to
three pm, and then John Colebel three to six, and
then me and Bellio and Crozier and Steph Uche are
going from six to ten. And Angel Martinez of course,
oh wait is Angel gonna do to angel, just gonna stay.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Wait a minute, we're I think we're working on it.
Oh good, Oh you gotta stay pretty soon? Yeah, please, please,
you gotta hang.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Don't leave us, don't you know, don't you know leave
us for you know, greener pastures out there.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
No, we got it. We got to. And also, yes,
there are dare you also?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
And then Mike Mark Thompson will be coming in on
I believe, on Tuesdays still, although he doesn't really like
to work at night, he likes to go out and
let's go out and drink and eat.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Right now, he's already complaining.
Speaker 10 (17:52):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am six forty.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Mark Thompson is to.
Speaker 12 (18:00):
Everybody, please please Yes, did I cannot believe I've come
on such a magnificent day, A day of celebration, a
day of change, a day that signals a new beginning.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Yes, you know, I thought that Bellio sent me that
text that you were going to be that she was
going to be late, and I didn't realize it was you.
Speaker 12 (18:19):
I left a funeral. I know, I leave the funeral early,
but I did tell the family. The widow asked me
or will you be joining us for the reception? I said, guy, like,
you're going to be going got to be on the air,
and you go back. Believe me, I thought about it
because you got you don't need me. You got Michael Mons.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Where is it? I got Paul Garme. I'll go with you.
Where is it? It was the funeral though of Chuck
Negron from Three to Three Dog Nights. Yeah, wow, how
do you know?
Speaker 10 (18:45):
How do you know that?
Speaker 12 (18:46):
I know him through my podcast and I got close
to the family. I also, I'll tell you this, I
was trying to produce a film about three dog Wow.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Is that right?
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (18:56):
And uh, I really worked and there's a lot to
putting a movie together, as you know. And he's one
of the key guys. There were just two Three Dog
Night members and he was one of them when I
was trying to put it together. So to know him
and his wife Amy, he lived life in the diamond line.
He lived with house money recently because he of course
(19:21):
he was the sex, drugs and rock.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
And roll guy, right and didn't quit when everybody else did.
Speaker 12 (19:26):
Yeah, I mean to be fair to him, I think
he rode up and got on that thing in the
late sixties and seventies with heroin.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
He became a heroin. Wow, and it was just awful.
He tells.
Speaker 12 (19:38):
There's actually there's an interview with Chuck Negron on my channel,
the Mark Thompson Show on YouTube. If you ignore all
the political stuff, just go to you can put it
in the YouTube the Chuck Negron, Mark Thompson and it'll
come up. And he tells a story about selling his
penthouse condo. As I recall, it's like a multi level
(20:01):
comp there's an elevator in it. He sold it for
I think thirty five thousand dollars to a drug dealer.
Speaker 10 (20:06):
Wow.
Speaker 12 (20:07):
That's how completely in the grasp of heroin he was.
He just needed another fix.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Oh my god. So from those depths is my point,
he came all the way back and cleaned up.
Speaker 12 (20:21):
He's been sober, you know, for decades now, and just
this wonderful second chance at life. So that's why I
say he's playing with house money. Eighty one years old.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Man, that's unbelieve.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Where was the funeral at the forest Lawn?
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I see right, and then back to the house.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yeah, back to you exactly.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
But I feel bad that that you know that that
we pulled you away from that.
Speaker 12 (20:43):
Well, I didn't think. I thought you needed me, But today,
as it turns out, you don't need me. It's like, oh,
we always need an exit ride, you know. You know
you're kind of waving that you have monks in here.
Chris Meryll R.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
John Colebell, John Colebell, you know the old run.
Speaker 12 (20:59):
The fun part for me is having known nothing about
this until I heard it literally on the radio driving
over here.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Okay, how can that happen? That is not my fault.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
When management tells me something and then they tell me
right afterwards, please don't tell anybody.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I have agreed to that.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah, And I would feel horrible if I called them
up and called you up immediately after and said, here,
here's what's going on.
Speaker 12 (21:22):
Why don't they though you know, I show up. I
make some sacrifices along the way to fill in when
they need me.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I really do.
Speaker 12 (21:30):
And the fact that no one wanted to pick up
the phone and say, oh, listen, Mark, something's gonna happen. Uh,
we're not announcing it, so keep it to yourself. It's like,
you know, I'm a little insulted, to be honest.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yeah, I think they were afraid that you would tell everybody?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Is that right?
Speaker 12 (21:44):
You know what I'm uh, I'm taking this personally, Yeah,
taking it personally Conway.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yeah? And by the way, does me laughing in your
face help? I mean you could have called me. I
could have called you, but what would I should?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
They change you?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Ki? By the way, can't wait up? We can't tell
you what it is.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I thought that you knew. I thought that somebody later.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I believe that you thought I knew. Yeah I did. Yeah, No,
I believe that. I really do. I knew that, but
I don't know who would have told me. It's not you?
Does it help?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I laugh in your face?
Speaker 12 (22:16):
When I decide not to come in anymore, I will
tell you, okay. I won't just let you hear about
it from somebody else.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
How dare you? How dare you?
Speaker 13 (22:25):
It was every day for the first three years, I
came in and you make a dime, that's right. And
now I've come in and you're cleaning up, and now
I still don't make a dime. Buddy, I don't know
what you wanted me to tell you. Anyway, I'm very
happy for you. I know you wanted to go back
to the evening yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Well when I did, and then that opened up, and
I'm like, I'd like to go back there. But and
I approached management and said, hey, I'm thinking about you know,
what do you think about going back to the evenings?
And I'll tell you what I think. Really cemented it
for me. We did a remote at Costa at Pasadena Cadillac.
(23:04):
It's four to seven pm, and that's the kind of
remote that works between seven and ten pm or six
and ten pm, you know, But to do a remote
during the day like that, there's too much heavy news
during the day to also do that kind of remote.
And I want to do a lot more of those.
Because the guy who owns a Cadillac Pasadena, he wrote
(23:26):
us a full page on his own stationary. He also
owns the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Wow and the Glazer family,
and he said, he said, this is the greatest remote
we've ever done. I want to do a lot more
stuff like this. This is fantastic. Bellio did a great job,
Leno was there. You know, your whole crew, everybody did
(23:48):
an outstanding job. And the word around the fifth floor
and the fourth floor here afterwards was that was one
of the great remotes.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
We've ever done.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
And then there was one note or one person who said, hey,
you know, it doesn't sound like it should be four
to seven, And I thought, Okay, maybe that's uh, maybe
that's right, Maybe that is a six to ten PM.
But I want to do more, you know, out at
restaurants in Orange County like here, like that. Here's an
old audio that we used to do, and you give
you a vibe of what I'd like to do in evenings.
Speaker 14 (24:21):
Here, now's an out to my altma toy nine nine
full one. Oh oh, please move it now, you're blocking someone.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
I enjoyed that and a lot of people in the audience.
Speaker 10 (24:40):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty, Charles Akron.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, Chuck nineteen forty two to twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
And Mark Thompson knows everybody.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
He's had vocalist at the beginning of that song and
sings the whole song.
Speaker 12 (24:57):
But who else was there? Celebrity wise, It's tough to say.
There were a bunch of musicians there. Alice Cooper was there, Alice,
do you get a selfie?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Danny? Tim it's a funeral, I mean it would have
been a little awkward to say.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
I would not have asked that if anybody else but you. Yeah,
I did you get a selfie? I got three or four? Sheelfies?
Speaker 12 (25:19):
Yeah, no, no, no, come on, I am no, but I, uh,
can you imagine getting a funeral? Getting a salvad funeral?
I mean really up there, Hi, I'm a big fan.
Listen real quick. First of all, so I fear loss,
but over here, if you would, you don't think that
happens all the time. I can't believe it happens too much.
I bet it does.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Oh my god, that it happens all. Can I get
a quick one with a widow? Yeah? Just you're just me,
you and the widow? My god, And where's Alice? You
got a second? I'll be with you one second. I
just want to get that. I was Cooper huge.
Speaker 12 (25:55):
Yeah, well look, I mean check Neground was huge. Three
Dog Night was huge, unbelievable and uh and so talented.
That voice insane, but he was. He was on this
is just here's a little trivia thing. He was on
a college basketball He was insane college basketball player. I
mean like they're on a scholarship. And yeah, Negro was
so he played basketball at Madison Square Garden three nights
(26:20):
in a row, and then as three Dog Night they
played Massive Square Garden. He said, I said, I might
be the only guy who played Madison's Gquare Garden six times,
you know, in a different kind of role.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yeah, that's crazy, Yeah, pretty crazy. Yeah, but you're like
one of those well connected guys I know, you know,
you know everybody.
Speaker 12 (26:37):
I don't know about that, but the people I know,
I really I really adore, So I get that. Yeah,
all right, we got to most of them would tell
me if there's.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
A major schedule change in the professional for those just joining.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yeah, for joining people just joining, I am moving next Tuesday.
We are all moving u next Tuesday from where now
for to seven, moving to the six to ten pm slot.
So they're adding an hour and it'll be a lot
more fun at night, a lot lighter, not a lot
of politics, not a lot of you know, deaths and
uh you know, kids getting run over. Just keep it
(27:12):
a little light, a lot more opportunity for uh you know,
petros and money to stop buy because they won't be
on the air. Oh yeah, maybe Adam Carolla would be a.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Great like the old Tonight Show. Just people stopping through.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Right because right now, when you have somebody on it,
you really got to do like five, six, seven minutes,
and then you know, and you move on to something
else because there's a lot of news but there that'll
be covered by John Colevelt and the KFI newsroom. And
from six to ten we can do a lot of remotes,
more Orange County stuff.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
It's gonna be great. I'm excited because.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
And and in the evenings we did really well. And
then when we got into this time, thought we were
getting our ass kicked by Petros and Money.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
It's really the numbers and that's right.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
And also by these guys upstairs, Booker and Striker, is
that right, that's right, that's extraordinary and it was horrible.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
It's a beatdown by these Wow, I wouldn't have covered
a week if I'd known that. You know, I like
to be with a winner.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
So I'm gonna I'm gonna copy Petros's actu Petros and
Money and I'm just going to do that from six
to ten. Yeah, all right, we haven't doubt. So we
have one thousand dollars there. Mark, please, Yeah, I know
you're coming off funeral money. I know you're coming off
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Speaker 3 (29:03):
I got you. I get what you did there. So
you were in Vegas for a Super Bowl. I've got
a good actually got a good Vegas story for you. Really, Yeah,
were you hanging with high rollers?
Speaker 14 (29:13):
I was?
Speaker 12 (29:14):
I was a plus one. Okay, I'm not a high roller.
You know, I don't have the big TV money anymore.
Did you get into any of the high roller parties?
Speaker 3 (29:22):
I did? I was in high roller party. That's why
I was there.
Speaker 12 (29:25):
And it's like a huge football field coincidentally like sized room,
and it's all these like couches set up. It's almost
like everything's a living room but with a big screen TV,
and you have your own little living room, then another
little living room, and another another one, all across the
(29:46):
entire perimeter of the place, and then the center of
the place. They've got you know, shrimp, cocktail fountains and crap,
and like a carving station. It was like every wedding
and bar mits for reception all rolled into one.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
It was free to get in.
Speaker 12 (30:02):
It was no I mean, I think these people, most
of them have gambled quite substantially there.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Now I was there for free, but I think but
it was.
Speaker 12 (30:12):
It was And then you know, the dessert trays or
everything was just insanely sumptuous and over the top.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
That's great. The night before.
Speaker 12 (30:22):
I was joining my friends at that Joe's Place house,
the Crab House there at Caesars, and I would like
to sit at a table. I don't like to necessarily
eat at the bar less I know the bartender or whatever.
But when there are four of us, you can't really
talk to each other because you're all there at the bar,
so I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I danced like all right sitting there.
Speaker 12 (30:45):
I got there after the people because we have a
hot crafts roll, so I stayed at the crafts roll
for a second.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
So this is very very vagacy A roll in.
Speaker 12 (30:51):
We're at the bar, give the menu, order, I get everything,
a glass of wine, a bunch of crap. And then
about forty five minutes go by and I say to
the bartender who I've met. Her name is Natalie, I said, Natalie,
and she goes yes.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
I said h.
Speaker 12 (31:08):
I said, by the way, do you remember my name?
And it had been forty five minutes. I didn't think
she remembered it, and I didn't care whether she did
or not. But it's just like something to say. And
I wasn't hitting on her anything. It was just one
of those things.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
I had a lot of disclaimers coming on. And then anyway,
I said, do you remember my name? And she goes,
I'm sorry, I don't.
Speaker 12 (31:28):
And I said, thinking now I'm in the clear on this,
I says, too bad, because I was going to give
you one hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
You can tell me my name.
Speaker 12 (31:36):
Ah, And she pauses for a beat and she goes,
is it Mark, Well, I have no choice. I literally
reached into my pocket. I gave her one hundred dollars.
Speaker 14 (31:47):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Yeah, it was a great. It was great. What a
great move by her. I felt almost set up. Yeah,
I felt hustled. Yeah, I really did. You couldn't even
win at the bar.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
It was.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
A true Vegas moment.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
That's classic, all right. The Big Move starts next Tuesday.
Amy King stays where she is, so does Bill Handle
and Gary and Shannon. The new show is Chris Merrill
and Michael Monks Noon to three, three to six is
John Colebelt, and then we'll all be on from six
to ten pm. Back in the evenings. We can have
(32:24):
a little lot more fun around here, and I think
we will, all right. We're live on KFI AM six
forty Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now
you can always hear us live on KFI AM six
forty four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime
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