September 26, 2025 ⢠33 mins
Costco is booming, especially with younger shoppers under 40 who are flocking to the warehouse giant for deals, Kirkland-branded gear, and TikTok-worthy hauls. The company reported $86 billion in quarterly revenue, U.S. same-store sales up 6%, and online sales up 15% to $19.6 billion, though its stock slipped when some numbers missed analyst expectations. The Dodgers are moving their game start to 12:10 p.m., the WNBA Sparks are investing in a new practice facility in hopes of attracting Caitlin Clark, and in France, a woman marked her 117th birthday crediting daily yogurt for her longevity. Meanwhile, Los Angeles leaders and business owners met at Grand Central Market to push for an urgent recovery plan to revitalize Downtown after years of decline, and Michael Monks shared his latest restaurant recommendation.Â
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app on an overcast day.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Which is awesome. Which is great.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Before we get to Alex Stung, we had a brand
new employee come down, a guy named Adam. He's a
nice kid. He's twenty nine or thirty whatever. He's introducing
himself to everybody, and Petros is there, and Tim Kates
and Colin, myself and Belly O, you know, Tony everybody.
And he's replacing Tony Sanchez, who's a very well liked
guy here who's been here I think thirty nine years,
(00:32):
and I respect Tony Sanchez. He retired from from iHeart
and never came down here to say goodbye to anybody.
Just took his crap and left. That's exactly the way
I'm going, right, just split. So the guy coming down here,
it's replacing. His name is Adam. And Grozer's on the
air doing news and I go, hey, Krozer, you meet
(00:53):
this guy.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
And he looks at me like, dude, I'm doing news.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I know him if you met him, and Crozer stops
the newscast because, yeah, I met him.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Thanks you know, here's the sad thing.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
People listening on the on the radio might not have
heard that, but the streamers did because like right before that,
when I was in doing a story and I said City, I.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Put a little bit of a show, Tony freaked out
and dumped it.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Okay, all right, Well well dude.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Hey, look, next time we get a new employee, we'll
do the same thing.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
All right, all right, let's.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Let's go to alex Stone and have Friday in southern
California after the Dodgers win the you know, National League
West is becoming a sort of a regular occurrence here, mom,
it is.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I feel bad for Krozer. What did you throw at
him that I saw on video today was.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
At a mojo potato from Shaky's Dan.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
We sent it to Shaky's and Shaky's reposted it.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
They did, Yeah, they did, Bellio, didn't they repost that something?
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Some kind of Shaky's video.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Not the one with the mojo potato?
Speaker 5 (01:59):
All right, went blank. Crozier, M it's so good.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Belly had to get all technical, well not technically the
one that we did the potato with. But later on,
when you were talking about the piece of oh my.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
God, somebody messaged me through sliding my DMS and asked,
was that a fresh fried potato chip? And I said, no, no, no,
it was a mojo potato Mom shows and normally they're great,
but they were just cold.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah, you gotta hit those mojos when they're hot, man,
they're good. Speaking of potatoes, Costco the king of all potatoes.
They sell more potatoes than anybody else to do way.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
I know they do wine.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yeah, but you got the Costco businesses boomingame.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I feel like I'm there every day between getting gas
and actually shopping. And apparently now it is the cool
place to be, which I never thought that that.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
You know, you go in there.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
As a dad, you look at TVs and clothing and
other electronics. I think this is pretty cool. But apparently
now the younger crowd is is really catching on to
it and people are getting Kirkland signature tattoos.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Pall Street Turtle did a story the other day the
Kirkland tattoos people are getting. They're buying the sweatshirts and
the shirts that have the big Kirkland signature logo across
my som. Last night when I was at the Costco
and Pacoima, and I went, why why do you buy those?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Don't? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Now they've got them like blacked out where you get
the black one, the black sweatshirt with the black logo across,
says Kirkland signature.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
But TikTok is apparently making Costco cool and it's showing
in the earnings now. But people are showing first visits
or what people can buy and the deals that they
can get.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
These are some of those TikTok.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Videos can and should get a Costco membership.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
These are things I'd already paying more for less product.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Have a new list, which is a very dangerous game.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Having no list is a very dangerous thing. If you
go to Costco, you end up paying a whole lot
more when you go to that checkout netline than it
was a.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
List going to Costco. Isn't that like going to Disneyland
you don't have a list of rides you go on.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Well, that's true.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
But if you go on to Costco with that a list,
well you're going to pick up a few extra items. Typically,
But these new earnings today, Costco says business is booming.
Almost half of its new members are under the age
of forty.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
They beat expectations.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Revenue up six percent in the quarter, eighty six billion
dollars in revenue. This last quarter, their online sales were
up fifteen percent, almost twenty billion dollars. They were kind
of late coming into the online sales side. They had
a little bit of it going into the pandemic, but
it wasn't great and then they really had to ramp
up quickly when everything was shot down. Keith Herzog is
a analyst at eight squared Research. They've been looking at
(04:24):
the whole Costco thing and what's going on, and she
says it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Cosco's really interesting with their popularity with younger people. This
organic marketing or user generated content has really provided to
be a huge marketing lift or Costco.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So the brand is really hitting a high note now
with younger customers. And some believe it is those worried
about inflation and tariffs over the last year two three
years and on the inflation side, and that they're looking
for places like Costco, but also that yeah, Costco has
top brands as well as everything else that they've always carried,
but the Kirk Clinton's signature brand, they have been able
(05:02):
to keep the price level and not go up through
all of this because of the fact that they keep
it all mostly in the US.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
The in house brand of Kirkland is sourced here in
the United States, so the companies had to and been
able to stave off a lot of the tariff upticks
and swings.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Listen to this, TikToker really remember wedding there and it
cost me lest.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Better than her wedding day costs her lest to go
to Costco and the CFO.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
To talk to the groom.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Imagine what their wedding was like and there wasn't a
dollar fifty hot dog.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
I didn't mean it that way.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
The CFO did highlight in all of this that they
know how to get the customer in there. It is
the buck fifty hot dog and dring deal. It is
the five dollar rotissery chicken. It is the five ninety
nine pumpkin pie, which, by the way, I bought one
of those last night.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Came home and my family was like, why did you
bring home a pumpkin pie?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Que them too, Yeah, it's five bucks size on a
home plate.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah, eat a little bit of fall and I want
to taste it there's a CFO And what they said
is listen to how many hot dogs they sell and
toilet paper and retissary chickens.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Well, our members love the treasure hunt items that they
find in our warehouses and online. Our everyday value items
are also extremely important to them, especially in times of
economic uncertainty. In fiscal year twenty twenty five, we sold
over two hundred and forty five million hot dog combos,
over one hundred and fifty seven million retissary chickens, and
enough back tissue to reach the moon and back over
(06:33):
two hundred times.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
That's a lot of toilet a lot of flushing.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
But the stock actually went down today because some of
the same store sales didn't meet analyst expectations. But the
company is saying overall, when you look at their sales
and online sales, they are booming and it's really going back,
analysts believe to the younger consumers who now see Costco
is being cool and finding deals and everything that they've gone.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yeah, and it's sort of an experience.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
You know, you go to Disneyland and stand in line
for two hours for a ride, you know, like Star
Wars or Matt Horn or you know, Pirates of the Caribbean.
You go to In and Out and you'll be hot.
You'll be behind forty cars for in and Out. You'll
be okay with that. He you go to Costco and
your nineteenth in line, they'll take you twenty minutes to
check out. But if you went to just another grocery
store and you were nineteenth in line, you would leave
(07:16):
your cart there and take off.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Oh. When I go to Bonds and there's like three
people in line, I'm like, this is ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
When you go to Costco and I'm willing to sit
for twenty minutes.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
To get gas, Yeah, I'm with you. I do a
crew buy that Bellio enjoys. I always go to Costco
and I buy stuff that I think the crew will like,
and then I bring.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
This stuff in. You're such a nice Thank you very much.
Wait what is that belly?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
What what throw on that statement? Because it's completely false you, Oh,
he doesn't do.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
It stuff that is either stale or you didn't like
and that is just end of the story.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Well, I mean the.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Born on dates not always right, you know, you know,
sell by certain dates not always right. And I don't
bring I do bring stuff in that I don't like
maybe thinking you'll like it, so I think it's a
win win.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
The Orch juice might be a little bit sour, but
that's okay.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
That's right, that's way by Alice Getch you some mount dated.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Or smacked by a cold potato apparently.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
And then I also heard the Kirkland vodka is the
same as the high end you know, they just buy
it from these other high end stores and rebottle it
into their own you know brand.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Is that way with a lot of their brands, I
think their batteries or what dura cel. Yeah that's right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
it absolutely is. But it's amazing to me every time
I'm there, the the taste testing things, you know, the
samples that people will line up waiting for that little
sample of, you know, a bake pizza that you put
in your oven so they get one bite of it,
(08:42):
but they'll sit there and wait the five minutes.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
When the woman says it's not ready yet. Do you
just move on?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Do you go to the one off the fourteen sometimes,
although the one in Santa Clarida, I find that one
to be extremely busy and crazy. I love the Pacoima one,
the Cooima one is like they hidden gem off the
one eighteen underneath the freeway.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Okay, it's much quieter.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
But I noticed that, and maybe we can do this
now because we got a second here. But when you
go to Costco, there's an unwritten rule. You go in
and there's usually TV sets and computers where you start,
and then you go back to the store. Then you
cross over and you go towards the cash register. But
don't swim upstream. You know, there's a way, there's a
pattern there. There's no arrows on the floor, but everybody
(09:21):
knows the pattern of Costco, and people swim up steam.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I want to choke them to death.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
You go in, you go around the electronics, go down
that aisle all the way back to hit you last,
you know, yeah, back, and then go around and you
go buy the alcohol and then come dogs. Yeah exactly,
and then you go to the other side where there's
spices and the food, and then you get.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
The hell out of you. Gotta do it the right way.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
And also when you're getting gas there, get in your
car and get out of there. Yes, don't sit for
too long or don't be looking for your credit card
when you pull.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Up right, and don't Also, if you get a hot dog,
don't eat it in the car. Get in the car
and get the f out of that parking lot and
go eat it somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, it's like a Nascar, right, you get in a
red and then get out as quickly as you can.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I love Costco. We're going tonight, you know, said of
my wife. I go, let's get a Costco and I
can pick up some things.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
I'm excited, go hang with the young people.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Apparently that's right, buddy, Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Have a great weekday weekend.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
All right, there, he goes Alex Stone. Costco's kicking ass man.
They're very good at what they do. They have a
secret sauce too. They keep everybody's zip code on where
you come from from your store, you know the store
you use, and there's enough people coming from a certain
zip code, they'll open a store there closer to where
all those.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
People are coming from. That's how they expand.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Also, in a recall, if let's see you buy you
know Beats or you know Lettuce that's been recalled, they
have a they have a computer base on who bought
that product, so they don't send recalls to everybody. They
just send it to people who bought it, and they
can email it to you or send it to you
in the mail immediately because they know your address and
who bought it, so you give up a little privacy,
(10:49):
but it's a great start. Costcos tig golong with that costco.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Dodgers yesterday won the National League West. They're going to
start on Tuesday. Tuesday, we'll at Dodgers Stadium, So get
in there and enjoy yourself and hopefully the Dodgers go on.
They need thirteen wins, thirteen more wins after the season
ends on Sunday, and I think.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
They're gonna start. Do they start?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I think they're going to start every game at the
same time on Sunday? Is that the usually what they do? Hey, Belly,
is there anybody in sports? I know we got a
Dodger station right there. I think they do that. I
think on Sunday, the last day of the season, every
game starts at the exact same time, so nobody has
the advantage or disadvantage.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Who's that is that?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Cats does?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Every every Major League Baseball game on Sunday start at
the same time. What twelve ten on the East coast, Oh,
wells coast time, we'll get twelve ten. Okay, See, I
knew I was onto something. You know, at twelve ten,
every game starts at twelve ten, so it'll be three
ten on the East coast twelve ten. Here, every game
starts at twelve ten. So nobody has the advantage when
(12:06):
it comes to playoffs. Speaking of sports, you just heard
I think Crozier talk about this. Maybe there was a
news bite. We're playing, but your La Sparks are going
to have a brand new facility, a practice facility, And
I heard from somebody who's in the know, and the
(12:27):
reason why they're putting one hundred and fifty million dollars
into their practice facility one reason, one reason into for
then in two years.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I think it's two years.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
So maybe next season is to try to get Caitlin
Clark to come out here and play for the Sparks,
and they want a beautiful facility. They're going to pay
her more than any players ever made in WNBA, and
you'll be able to see her in a Sparks uniform
starting whenever her contract's up in Indiana because she can
(13:00):
make probably ten times the money out here that she's
making in Indiana. And if you're gonna go play in
the league were everybody hates you anyway, you might as
well come to LA where you know people will continue
to hate you anyway. So I think that's what's gonna happen.
So we're gonna see Caitlin Clark, who is the star
for Iowa and then became a superstar in the WNBA.
(13:22):
You're gonna see her in the Sparks uniform probably in
the next two or three years, so look forward to that.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
That'd be great.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Doesn't she play for Indiana Fever?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah she does. Yeah, she's Indiana Fever. But she's gonna
leave Indiana and come out and play for the Sparks,
or she's gonna go to New.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
York and play for Liberty. I hope she comes here.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
I do too.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I'd like to go see her play. Have you ever
seen her play in person?
Speaker 9 (13:44):
No?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Oh, you should do that her playing. I would too
like to get in there and check that out.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
You can live longer. There's a new study. We have time.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Oh, we're always up for a go to play. These
commercials but anyway live longer.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
A new study reveals yogurt may have held the world's
oldest woman yogurt She was one hundred and seventeen years
oldest woman.
Speaker 10 (14:07):
When Maria Bronios Marrera died last year, she was the
oldest known person in the world. But before she blew
out the candles at one hundred and seventeen, she asked
doctors to study her.
Speaker 9 (14:17):
At the end, she liked to be a little bit
the center of attention.
Speaker 10 (14:21):
Doctor Manel Stair analyzed bronias is health and the food
she swore by what's so special about yogurt?
Speaker 9 (14:28):
There are many reasons why she lived that match and
with good health. One possible component dressed to a diet.
Of course, she ate three per day, not one is
a three per day. At the end it reduced inflammation and.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
By three yogurts a day and you'll be one hundred
and seventeen.
Speaker 9 (14:43):
And Knic Inflammation is one of the main causes of
Asian and disease.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
Right.
Speaker 10 (14:47):
Bronius once said, yogurt gives life, and hers was a
long one. Born in nineteen oh seven in.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Wow born in nineteen oh seven Bellio, nineteen oh seven, Wow,
that's incredible.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Born in nineteen Yeah, it's unreal.
Speaker 10 (15:01):
Born in nineteen oh seven in San Francisco, but in
Spain since she was eight, surviving two World Wars and
two pandemics. She had three children and thirteen great grandchildren.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
She was a nun smoker, spaining man, that doesn't make sense.
Let's go back here next.
Speaker 10 (15:16):
She had three children and thirteen great grandchildren.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Okay, well, you can't have great grandchildren without grandchildren.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
So they've missed a step there.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
They had, they had the kids, but I don't know
how you do the math where you have kids and
great grandchildren and no grandchildren. You need kids, grandchildren and
then great grandchildren.
Speaker 10 (15:38):
Three children and thirteen great grandchildren.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I think that's wrong.
Speaker 9 (15:43):
She was a nun smoker. She never drank her gol
at die yet.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Wait, she was one.
Speaker 9 (15:49):
She was a number smoker.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
She was a non smoker. Okay.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
She never drank of gold.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
She never drank a call like a phone call.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
She never drank of gold, I don't know, never drank
a call alcohol.
Speaker 9 (16:02):
Right, A diet that was enriched in fish and olive
oil and yogurt in this.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Case, after studying Maria so okay, she didn't drink, she
didn't smoke, she drank yogurt and I ate a lot
of fish. I'd rather die at eighty and not do
any of that crap. What's wrong with this woman?
Speaker 9 (16:21):
So it is true that in the last year I
got totally bit addicted to one of deserrs. So is
something that I do?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
What the hell is he saying here?
Speaker 9 (16:30):
I got totally addicted to one of deservers, So it
is something that I do.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
He's addicted to one of these yogas that what.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Was he addicted?
Speaker 9 (16:40):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
No, no, don't know.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Is he addicted the yogurt? Is that what he said? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (16:44):
I got totally bit addicted to one of deservers, So
it is something in that it.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Is addicted to one of these yogurts. That's right? Right?
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Is that what he's saying?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
He is addicted to one of these yogurts.
Speaker 9 (16:59):
I got to one of deservers, so it is something
to one of deservers. So is something that I do.
Speaker 10 (17:10):
Thanks to Maria Brnyas Morrera, the super centenarian and her
little pot of gold for CBS Mornings, plus I'm leeken
irie in London.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
There you go, you know, I was.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I was watching TV a couple of years ago and
they were interviewing a woman in Orange County turned one
hundred and nine, and she, you know, depressed out of
her mind by the way. All her friends have died,
her kids have died of old age, and they have
to ask her what's the secret to living to one
hundred and nine?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
And she said, I'm cursed.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
And stared at the camera, didn't smile, didn't laugh, just said,
I'm cursed. And she's pissed that she's one hundred and
nine and everybody she knows is dead. So one hundred
and seventeen sounds great, it's not. It's not eighty five
ninety five with a lot of friends.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Family. That's the way to go. Tony's grandmother to one ten?
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
One hundred and ten? Huh oh, man, you're cursed too.
There's a loss.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
She was stepgrandmother, so no, no, you don't have the jeans.
Oh good, okay.
Speaker 11 (18:09):
Her secret was brandy every day. She drank every day.
Good for her, that's great. Man knocked it down one
hundred and ten. Wow, was she still driving?
Speaker 5 (18:18):
She could?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Really? Oh yeah at one hundred and ten.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
No, the best was what one hundred years old. She's like,
I want to learn harmonica, and everyone's like, no, you can't.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
She's like, find, I'm gonna buy my own and she
got like and she got really good at harmonica.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Wow, all right?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Where where did you live? Canada?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Was harmonica story?
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I knew there's gonna be a good harmonica story today
when I came in. Where did she live in Canada?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Canada?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Where we're in Canada?
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Oh? French? You know Ottawa? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
No, Quebec, Quebec Okay, yeah, French. All a French harmonica player.
That's great.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
The one hundred and ten good for you.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
And Michael Monks joins us. You got Monks, Bob, how
are you man?
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Good afternoon?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
When are you still on your crazy diet and getting healthy?
I'm locked in today. I've been a bad boy exercise
this morning. But there were donuts here this morning. You know,
once you have a little taste of something, the floodgates open.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Yeah, I saw the donuts here. Who brought him in?
Speaker 7 (19:17):
You know?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Will Coleschreiber, Okay, I know Will Cole Shrier. Yeah, I
like that, dude. And but yeah, donuts fly off the
shelf here. You know everybody here, whether it's free food,
there's like a riot.
Speaker 11 (19:28):
I talked a bit about this on Gary and Shannon
early because they heard me pitching a fit out there.
I don't know where you stand on this, but multiple
donuts had been cut in half.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
One of them had a quarter cut out of it.
What and it just ticked me off.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Who diet?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Is that what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Donut or get off the potet or so the donut
was touched, touched and cut, massacred.
Speaker 11 (19:52):
So I had a Frankenstein donut that I assembled from
the remnants of these barbarians.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Who have clearly never had breakfast before. Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Well, hopefully you can somehow connect that to the downtown
La resurgence.
Speaker 11 (20:08):
I can, because if you want to talk about Frankenstein,
there's plenty of monsters walking around everybody.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
What's the DLA We got the convention center renovated, what
else are they doing?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Well, I'll tell you this before we do that.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Doesn't the city of La own the so cal Gas
building that's about to fall?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
If there's an earthquake.
Speaker 11 (20:28):
Oh no, that's the Yeah, the county has the county
owners that they just purchased it for about two hundred
million dollars. They may need to spend another two hundred
million dollars to make sure that it doesn't fall down
the time the big one comes.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
They didn't know that before they purchased it. That is
up for debate.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Really.
Speaker 11 (20:43):
Yeah, So what they are holding on to, according to
the La Times, which had requested this document, is there's
a there's an analysis that has already been conducted about
the stability of that building in the instance of an earthquake, right,
But the city the county says they don't have to
release that per the media's request yet because it's still preliminary.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Doesn't that make people who have offices in that building
extremely nervous?
Speaker 11 (21:10):
It does, because that was the question about why they
should spend this much money moving into a skyscraper downtown
and they've got a building now in the Civic Center
area that they've been in for a long time.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Because they are some of the people.
Speaker 11 (21:23):
Who are ready to move said, we're gonna have to
spend a lot of money to retrofit the current building
to make it stable for an earthquake, and now they
might move into a building of questionable stability in such
a case.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
How come the supervisors and the LA City Council constantly
make the wrong move?
Speaker 11 (21:42):
Well, obviously I can't comment on that directly, but I
can tell you that people often criticize them for what
they see as the wrong move. My own personal observation
as a journalist covering the government here in the city
the county, I find that these aren't stupid people. I
know it's flippant to thorough any stupid council members. They're
(22:03):
not OK, but I will say that they often govern
with more heart than head.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Right, But do you think they also govern with the
loud voice of the LA unions in their ears?
Speaker 11 (22:14):
There's no question that the unions are very influential here.
That when we talk about the Convention Center project, that
had a lot of union support, because what happens when
you build something as massive as that, you get to
hire a lot of workers, and because of local regulations,
all of those workers need to be in the union.
So it's great news for them, regardless of the fiscal
impact on the city down the road.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Right, So it does matter whether it's done in a
timely matter or quality or whatever.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
They got to their guys on the job. That's right,
and that's all there is to it.
Speaker 11 (22:43):
And there's another organization that was supportive of the Convention
Center project. They're called the Central City Association. You may
have never heard of them. They're kind of a low
key organization, and it's fine you never heard of them.
They've only been around since nineteen twenty four, okay, and
they've been active in downtown Los Angeles behind the scenes.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
But when you the scene, when you.
Speaker 11 (23:02):
Look at the board of directors, you see that it's
a lot of the most powerful business people in the
city center. So a lot of the big companies have
folks on the board. The president and CEO is Nella McCosker.
If you recognize the name mccoscar, she is, in fact
the daughter of City Councilman Tim mcoscar.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Folks San Pedro, the Harbor area.
Speaker 11 (23:18):
They've come out with a report, this organization called Revive
dt LA because even these civic boosters who are raw
raw go downtown are looking around and saying this is
a mess. Now now they think that the convention Center
will be a boon and will assist in the effort
to reclaim Downtown for the civilized right, but they also
(23:39):
recognize that the challenges are very, very extreme. I know
we're up against a break, but they do have some
suggestions and some immediate requests that they say will save downtown.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Are you stay? I guess all right, Monks is with us.
He's he's got to get out of here soon. He's
got Panda Express because I'm in the union too. Is
that panded night?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
No?
Speaker 11 (24:00):
You know what I went tip for you. I got
a tip for you because I went to have Panda yesterday.
It was Panda Wednesday, new one. I tried something different.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Is that right? Like Panda Express? Wow, you're a gambler. No,
I went to a different restaurant. No way, I went
to a different restaurant.
Speaker 11 (24:13):
And I know advertising is expensive on this, so I
want to be careful with you know, throwing out a plug.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
And I'm gonna tell you after the break, Okay, you
need to try?
Speaker 5 (24:21):
All right? Excellent?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
All right, this is great. I'm very excited.
Speaker 8 (24:23):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kfi
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
All Right's Conway Show in KFIM six forty Michael Monks
is here and he said the Sunset I was, I
was thinking about the home depot on Wilshire, But the
one on Sunsets right off the one on one exactly okay,
And that's one's oping on midnight.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
It's open late.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yeah, it's away less of the target that I have there,
and that that home depot right on Sunset and the
one oh one used to be open twenty four hours
a day.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
And the reason why they closed is because life's most
interesting guys you know who are on the street would
come in there and sleep on the patio furniture all night.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I bet it was comfortable and they shut it down right.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Well, you can't have good things in La because of
you know, you're gonna hear from my famous after guys
in fifteen years who talks about his early days in
Hollywood and how I used to crash at the home
depot on Sunset Boulevard.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Is that right, sleeping on a lawn chair?
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Who is that?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I don't know, you'll hear. It could be something we
don't somebody we don't know.
Speaker 11 (25:20):
I'm sure I'm not. It'll be like Michael J. Fox,
Do you want to skip the news and get right
into this restaurant. Is that what you want to do?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
What's the news?
Speaker 11 (25:26):
You know that did Central City Association is and we
need more police, we need more graffiti removed.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
You think we all know that.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Okay, Yeah, let's get into food, let's get into foot Okay,
you know you went to a new restaurant.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
I did.
Speaker 11 (25:35):
Okay, so we talked about Panda. It's Panda Wednesday, right,
So for Panda Wednesday, the spouse and I stop at
the Panda but long tradition right there on that sunset okay.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Sunset and then now I got sunset home right off
the one on one.
Speaker 11 (25:48):
Ok right off the one on one. Okay, Sunset Boulevard,
exit off the one on one. And I know where
that Panda Express is now. I couldn't picture it before
because I was thinking, will shure, it's across the street.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Yeah, there's a whole little strip of little wrestlers.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
A Starbucks is a compao.
Speaker 11 (26:01):
But there's a new place and it's called Reo Soul
Brazilian Barbecue. Not I want to get in trouble because
I know it costs some money to advertise on this program.
This is not even an endorsement I want to share
the experience because I would love to hear from others
who go to this place, and I want you to
go check it out, because they have the potential to
be a Panda Express, really, but they're doing it wrong,
all right. Okay, So you walk into Rio Soul, Brazilian
(26:22):
Barberu's like, let's try this.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
This is new.
Speaker 11 (26:24):
Let's get these guys a few bucks. It sounds healthy,
it's good. I don't be tempted by the orange chicken.
You walk in and you look at this menu at
Rio Soul. It's kind of scarce in there, not a
whole lot going on. There's a big chalkboard with some
scribble on it. You get two options, or maybe you
get five options, or maybe there's seven options. So right
off the bat, I'm looking at this man. You're like,
I don't understand a word. It's in English, right, but
(26:47):
it's like, you can order a chicken plate or a
red meat plate right with sides, and this is how
much it costs. But then right below it says you
can order chicken or red meat, and then it's this price.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Confusing, very confusing. Okay, So it looked I think I.
Speaker 11 (27:03):
Figured out that I could order a plate with chicken
and get a couple of sides, or I could order
like a steak, a red meat with a couple of sides.
Or I could go down farther on the menu and
order it by the pound. Okay, there wasn't that kind
of night for us. So we just ordered a plate.
And this is Brazilian food. Brazilian food, which is a
lot of meat and barbecue. Like, yeah, it sounds ethnic,
(27:23):
but it's really not. It's things that Americans will Wait,
I got chicken wrapped in bacon.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Oh, that's right.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
So that was my main thing.
Speaker 11 (27:29):
But Brazilian restaurants often have cooked pineapple. You go to
even a nice Brazilian steakhouse like H and H downtown,
they're slicing hot pineapple for you and it's delicious. Like,
why don't you give me some of that pineapple because
it's one of the one of the main entree options.
He says that that that pineapple spin uh spinning all
day and it's a little dry, and I don't want
(27:52):
to sell it to you. Okay, So I said, well, look,
just because I get two, I guess I figured out.
Now I got two entrees that come on this plate.
Give me to just double up the chicken wrapped in
the bacon and throw me a piece of that pineapple
in there, you know, complimentary. And he did it, and
he did it for Wow. So here's the deal. You
get a couple of meats apparently, and then a few sides.
(28:12):
I thought it was two sides. It ended up being
four sides. I don't even know how this happened. Potato salad,
a little bit of rice, some garlic. Bread was involved
in that pineapple wish, by the way, was delicious.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Yeah, pineapple is good cooked, as was everything.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (28:28):
Spouse and I spent thirty dollars for two large plates
of food each. He was almost too much food for dinner.
Thirty dollars for two people. Two people. Wow, that's like
McDonald Rio Soul Brazilian barbecues, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood. I want
you to taste this, because what I want you to
go in and do is tell these guys are doing
it all wrong.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Rio s o U l s o l E s
o U l okay Rio sol And that's sunset near
the one on one.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Exactly because they got a good product.
Speaker 11 (28:57):
But what they need to do is adapt to the
Panda model. Let me go in, let me pick my
two meats, and pick my two vegetables, and get the
hell out of here.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Right and and Panda's great because it's it's the simplest
place in the world to order. Because if you can't
figure it out by looking at the meat, it's on
the board, and they show you the container, they show
you the plates.
Speaker 11 (29:17):
This is what I These folks were not doing that.
You could see some of the items, not all of
the items. But by the time it got into the
plate and we drove all the way back down town
from Hollywood, it was still piping hot.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Okay, delicious.
Speaker 11 (29:31):
So I want to go back there, And I don't
want to be condescending or smug about it. What do
I know about running restaurant.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
I just want to say your product.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Is good, but you are you know, you're probably, as
the crow flies, maybe five miles from your home at
that point exactly.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, so you get out there.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Yeah, okay, my review get around.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
I went to that consa Bianca in what is it not,
Eagle Rock, and I was so I felt so humiliated
and so small and such an a hole that I've
never been there in my life. It's been there for
seventy years, and it looks like an Italian restaurant if
you were to walk into in New York City, in
(30:14):
little Italy. The smell was beautiful. The pictures on the
wall weren't these new actors and actresses from variety, you know,
from reality shows. They were the old game shows. You
know you were talking about this, Yeah, exactly like the
newlywed game shows. You know, see actors that have been
dead for thirty years on the wall, which is great.
And I walked in ordered two pizzas. It took about
(30:36):
fifteen minutes, and it was some of the best pizza
I've ever had my life. Now, I hope my wife's
not listening, and because I know her, one of her.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Large friends will call her and tell her large friend.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
She's got a fat friend who lives in the West
Side who calls her and tells her everything.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I say, do you want to take a phone call?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
No, But I went to Kasa Bianca and she my wife.
I went alone. My wife said, can you pick me
up a piece of lasagna? And I said sure. So
I get to Kasa Bianca, I look at the menu,
it's twenty four dollars for one slice of lasagna.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
How big is a slice? I didn't care.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I think I think it's traditionally sized. And a tray
of lasagna is probably twenty four slices. Maybe no, but
four by four, maybe sixteen slices. So you know, a
tray of lasagna is not three hundred dollars.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I couldn't believe the produce bread with it, I know.
So I went home and I told my wife they
were out of it, Oh my gosh, that they don't
they make it fresh, and it was too late in
the day and they didn't have anymore. You'll lie, right,
And so I if her friend who lives on Westwood,
if you tell her that I have an argument with
my friend with my wife tonight, I'm gonna blast off
(31:53):
on Monday.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Did you share some of the pizza with her?
Speaker 5 (31:55):
I did.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I brought home a pizza for my daughter and her
to share, and then a pizza for me, sausage with
fresh basil at the end.
Speaker 11 (32:03):
A beautiful Now that's an older restaurant, yes, seventy years.
Can you tell that they have a system?
Speaker 5 (32:09):
This is what I mean.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Do they have a system?
Speaker 11 (32:11):
In place to get your order, get it to the kitchen,
and get that product out. And it was packed on
a Tuesday night, which is not a big guy, you
know night to go out with the family, and there
were constantly people coming in and taking there to go
orders and they're already all you know, they spent eight
seconds and they were gone.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Plus, this is what I also love about it. It's
cash only, cash only, so you know, it's great. You
know when they can say no to Visa, no to
master Card, American Express, they're not taking that.
Speaker 11 (32:38):
When there's possibly some criminality going on in the right. Yeah,
but they but they can survive off that. You know,
most restaurants, if you go to Olive Garden, they don't
take credit cards. Olive Garden will be there, half their
business will go away. It's all credit cards.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
I do love Olive Garden though, too, and we order
when we order from Olive Garden, we order so many
breadsticks that we constantly get a call back from Olive
Garden saying, you know, you just ordered, you have ten
breadsticks coming.
Speaker 11 (33:05):
They're just checking to make sure that you know what
you're getting yourself into.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Yeah, but we got to do every Friday.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
You gotta hit this up with the review. I'm going
to hit up in a restaurant. It's Rio Soul.
Speaker 11 (33:15):
Rio Soul Brazilian barbecue, and I didn't actually see any
barbecue on the menu come to think about Okay.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
All right, I'd like to try it out, all right, Monks.
Every Friday Brand News segment, we got a restaurant review
after we talk about how crazy downtown?
Speaker 11 (33:28):
Yeah you got, Monks. Thanks Saturday seven to nine pm,
and I will be talking about this downtown report. So
tune in and Rio Soul and Rio Soul. All right,
you're the best pub alright. Re live on KFI AM
six forty.
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app on an overcast day.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Which is awesome. Which is great.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Before we get to Alex Stung, we had a brand
new employee come down, a guy named Adam. He's a
nice kid. He's twenty nine or thirty whatever. He's introducing
himself to everybody, and Petros is there, and Tim Kates
and Colin, myself and Belly O, you know, Tony everybody.
And he's replacing Tony Sanchez, who's a very well liked
guy here who's been here I think thirty nine years,
(00:32):
and I respect Tony Sanchez. He retired from from iHeart
and never came down here to say goodbye to anybody.
Just took his crap and left. That's exactly the way
I'm going, right, just split. So the guy coming down here,
it's replacing. His name is Adam. And Grozer's on the
air doing news and I go, hey, Krozer, you meet
(00:53):
this guy.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
And he looks at me like, dude, I'm doing news.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I know him if you met him, and Crozer stops
the newscast because, yeah, I met him.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Thanks you know, here's the sad thing.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
People listening on the on the radio might not have
heard that, but the streamers did because like right before that,
when I was in doing a story and I said City, I.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Put a little bit of a show, Tony freaked out
and dumped it.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Okay, all right, Well well dude.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Hey, look, next time we get a new employee, we'll
do the same thing.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
All right, all right, let's.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Let's go to alex Stone and have Friday in southern
California after the Dodgers win the you know, National League
West is becoming a sort of a regular occurrence here, mom,
it is.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I feel bad for Krozer. What did you throw at
him that I saw on video today was.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
At a mojo potato from Shaky's Dan.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
We sent it to Shaky's and Shaky's reposted it.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
They did, Yeah, they did, Bellio, didn't they repost that something?
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Some kind of Shaky's video.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Not the one with the mojo potato?
Speaker 5 (01:59):
All right, went blank. Crozier, M it's so good.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Belly had to get all technical, well not technically the
one that we did the potato with. But later on,
when you were talking about the piece of oh my.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
God, somebody messaged me through sliding my DMS and asked,
was that a fresh fried potato chip? And I said, no, no, no,
it was a mojo potato Mom shows and normally they're great,
but they were just cold.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah, you gotta hit those mojos when they're hot, man,
they're good. Speaking of potatoes, Costco the king of all potatoes.
They sell more potatoes than anybody else to do way.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
I know they do wine.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yeah, but you got the Costco businesses boomingame.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I feel like I'm there every day between getting gas
and actually shopping. And apparently now it is the cool
place to be, which I never thought that that.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
You know, you go in there.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
As a dad, you look at TVs and clothing and
other electronics. I think this is pretty cool. But apparently
now the younger crowd is is really catching on to
it and people are getting Kirkland signature tattoos.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Pall Street Turtle did a story the other day the
Kirkland tattoos people are getting. They're buying the sweatshirts and
the shirts that have the big Kirkland signature logo across
my som. Last night when I was at the Costco
and Pacoima, and I went, why why do you buy those?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Don't? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Now they've got them like blacked out where you get
the black one, the black sweatshirt with the black logo across,
says Kirkland signature.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
But TikTok is apparently making Costco cool and it's showing
in the earnings now. But people are showing first visits
or what people can buy and the deals that they
can get.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
These are some of those TikTok.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Videos can and should get a Costco membership.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
These are things I'd already paying more for less product.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Have a new list, which is a very dangerous game.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Having no list is a very dangerous thing. If you
go to Costco, you end up paying a whole lot
more when you go to that checkout netline than it
was a.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
List going to Costco. Isn't that like going to Disneyland
you don't have a list of rides you go on.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Well, that's true.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
But if you go on to Costco with that a list,
well you're going to pick up a few extra items. Typically,
But these new earnings today, Costco says business is booming.
Almost half of its new members are under the age
of forty.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
They beat expectations.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Revenue up six percent in the quarter, eighty six billion
dollars in revenue. This last quarter, their online sales were
up fifteen percent, almost twenty billion dollars. They were kind
of late coming into the online sales side. They had
a little bit of it going into the pandemic, but
it wasn't great and then they really had to ramp
up quickly when everything was shot down. Keith Herzog is
a analyst at eight squared Research. They've been looking at
(04:24):
the whole Costco thing and what's going on, and she
says it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Cosco's really interesting with their popularity with younger people. This
organic marketing or user generated content has really provided to
be a huge marketing lift or Costco.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So the brand is really hitting a high note now
with younger customers. And some believe it is those worried
about inflation and tariffs over the last year two three
years and on the inflation side, and that they're looking
for places like Costco, but also that yeah, Costco has
top brands as well as everything else that they've always carried,
but the Kirk Clinton's signature brand, they have been able
(05:02):
to keep the price level and not go up through
all of this because of the fact that they keep
it all mostly in the US.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
The in house brand of Kirkland is sourced here in
the United States, so the companies had to and been
able to stave off a lot of the tariff upticks
and swings.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Listen to this, TikToker really remember wedding there and it
cost me lest.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Better than her wedding day costs her lest to go
to Costco and the CFO.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
To talk to the groom.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Imagine what their wedding was like and there wasn't a
dollar fifty hot dog.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
I didn't mean it that way.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
The CFO did highlight in all of this that they
know how to get the customer in there. It is
the buck fifty hot dog and dring deal. It is
the five dollar rotissery chicken. It is the five ninety
nine pumpkin pie, which, by the way, I bought one
of those last night.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Came home and my family was like, why did you
bring home a pumpkin pie?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Que them too, Yeah, it's five bucks size on a
home plate.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah, eat a little bit of fall and I want
to taste it there's a CFO And what they said
is listen to how many hot dogs they sell and
toilet paper and retissary chickens.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Well, our members love the treasure hunt items that they
find in our warehouses and online. Our everyday value items
are also extremely important to them, especially in times of
economic uncertainty. In fiscal year twenty twenty five, we sold
over two hundred and forty five million hot dog combos,
over one hundred and fifty seven million retissary chickens, and
enough back tissue to reach the moon and back over
(06:33):
two hundred times.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
That's a lot of toilet a lot of flushing.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
But the stock actually went down today because some of
the same store sales didn't meet analyst expectations. But the
company is saying overall, when you look at their sales
and online sales, they are booming and it's really going back,
analysts believe to the younger consumers who now see Costco
is being cool and finding deals and everything that they've gone.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yeah, and it's sort of an experience.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
You know, you go to Disneyland and stand in line
for two hours for a ride, you know, like Star
Wars or Matt Horn or you know, Pirates of the Caribbean.
You go to In and Out and you'll be hot.
You'll be behind forty cars for in and Out. You'll
be okay with that. He you go to Costco and
your nineteenth in line, they'll take you twenty minutes to
check out. But if you went to just another grocery
store and you were nineteenth in line, you would leave
(07:16):
your cart there and take off.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Oh. When I go to Bonds and there's like three
people in line, I'm like, this is ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
When you go to Costco and I'm willing to sit
for twenty minutes.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
To get gas, Yeah, I'm with you. I do a
crew buy that Bellio enjoys. I always go to Costco
and I buy stuff that I think the crew will like,
and then I bring.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
This stuff in. You're such a nice Thank you very much.
Wait what is that belly?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
What what throw on that statement? Because it's completely false you, Oh,
he doesn't do.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
It stuff that is either stale or you didn't like
and that is just end of the story.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Well, I mean the.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Born on dates not always right, you know, you know,
sell by certain dates not always right. And I don't
bring I do bring stuff in that I don't like
maybe thinking you'll like it, so I think it's a
win win.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
The Orch juice might be a little bit sour, but
that's okay.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
That's right, that's way by Alice Getch you some mount dated.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Or smacked by a cold potato apparently.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
And then I also heard the Kirkland vodka is the
same as the high end you know, they just buy
it from these other high end stores and rebottle it
into their own you know brand.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Is that way with a lot of their brands, I
think their batteries or what dura cel. Yeah that's right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
it absolutely is. But it's amazing to me every time
I'm there, the the taste testing things, you know, the
samples that people will line up waiting for that little
sample of, you know, a bake pizza that you put
in your oven so they get one bite of it,
(08:42):
but they'll sit there and wait the five minutes.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
When the woman says it's not ready yet. Do you
just move on?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Do you go to the one off the fourteen sometimes,
although the one in Santa Clarida, I find that one
to be extremely busy and crazy. I love the Pacoima one,
the Cooima one is like they hidden gem off the
one eighteen underneath the freeway.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Okay, it's much quieter.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
But I noticed that, and maybe we can do this
now because we got a second here. But when you
go to Costco, there's an unwritten rule. You go in
and there's usually TV sets and computers where you start,
and then you go back to the store. Then you
cross over and you go towards the cash register. But
don't swim upstream. You know, there's a way, there's a
pattern there. There's no arrows on the floor, but everybody
(09:21):
knows the pattern of Costco, and people swim up steam.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I want to choke them to death.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
You go in, you go around the electronics, go down
that aisle all the way back to hit you last,
you know, yeah, back, and then go around and you
go buy the alcohol and then come dogs. Yeah exactly,
and then you go to the other side where there's
spices and the food, and then you get.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
The hell out of you. Gotta do it the right way.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
And also when you're getting gas there, get in your
car and get out of there. Yes, don't sit for
too long or don't be looking for your credit card
when you pull.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Up right, and don't Also, if you get a hot dog,
don't eat it in the car. Get in the car
and get the f out of that parking lot and
go eat it somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, it's like a Nascar, right, you get in a
red and then get out as quickly as you can.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I love Costco. We're going tonight, you know, said of
my wife. I go, let's get a Costco and I
can pick up some things.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
I'm excited, go hang with the young people.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Apparently that's right, buddy, Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Have a great weekday weekend.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
All right, there, he goes Alex Stone. Costco's kicking ass man.
They're very good at what they do. They have a
secret sauce too. They keep everybody's zip code on where
you come from from your store, you know the store
you use, and there's enough people coming from a certain
zip code, they'll open a store there closer to where
all those.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
People are coming from. That's how they expand.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Also, in a recall, if let's see you buy you
know Beats or you know Lettuce that's been recalled, they
have a they have a computer base on who bought
that product, so they don't send recalls to everybody. They
just send it to people who bought it, and they
can email it to you or send it to you
in the mail immediately because they know your address and
who bought it, so you give up a little privacy,
(10:49):
but it's a great start. Costcos tig golong with that costco.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Dodgers yesterday won the National League West. They're going to
start on Tuesday. Tuesday, we'll at Dodgers Stadium, So get
in there and enjoy yourself and hopefully the Dodgers go on.
They need thirteen wins, thirteen more wins after the season
ends on Sunday, and I think.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
They're gonna start. Do they start?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I think they're going to start every game at the
same time on Sunday? Is that the usually what they do? Hey, Belly,
is there anybody in sports? I know we got a
Dodger station right there. I think they do that. I
think on Sunday, the last day of the season, every
game starts at the exact same time, so nobody has
the advantage or disadvantage.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Who's that is that?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Cats does?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Every every Major League Baseball game on Sunday start at
the same time. What twelve ten on the East coast, Oh,
wells coast time, we'll get twelve ten. Okay, See, I
knew I was onto something. You know, at twelve ten,
every game starts at twelve ten, so it'll be three
ten on the East coast twelve ten. Here, every game
starts at twelve ten. So nobody has the advantage when
(12:06):
it comes to playoffs. Speaking of sports, you just heard
I think Crozier talk about this. Maybe there was a
news bite. We're playing, but your La Sparks are going
to have a brand new facility, a practice facility, And
I heard from somebody who's in the know, and the
(12:27):
reason why they're putting one hundred and fifty million dollars
into their practice facility one reason, one reason into for
then in two years.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I think it's two years.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
So maybe next season is to try to get Caitlin
Clark to come out here and play for the Sparks,
and they want a beautiful facility. They're going to pay
her more than any players ever made in WNBA, and
you'll be able to see her in a Sparks uniform
starting whenever her contract's up in Indiana because she can
(13:00):
make probably ten times the money out here that she's
making in Indiana. And if you're gonna go play in
the league were everybody hates you anyway, you might as
well come to LA where you know people will continue
to hate you anyway. So I think that's what's gonna happen.
So we're gonna see Caitlin Clark, who is the star
for Iowa and then became a superstar in the WNBA.
(13:22):
You're gonna see her in the Sparks uniform probably in
the next two or three years, so look forward to that.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
That'd be great.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Doesn't she play for Indiana Fever?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah she does. Yeah, she's Indiana Fever. But she's gonna
leave Indiana and come out and play for the Sparks,
or she's gonna go to New.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
York and play for Liberty. I hope she comes here.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
I do too.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I'd like to go see her play. Have you ever
seen her play in person?
Speaker 9 (13:44):
No?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Oh, you should do that her playing. I would too
like to get in there and check that out.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
You can live longer. There's a new study. We have time.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Oh, we're always up for a go to play. These
commercials but anyway live longer.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
A new study reveals yogurt may have held the world's
oldest woman yogurt She was one hundred and seventeen years
oldest woman.
Speaker 10 (14:07):
When Maria Bronios Marrera died last year, she was the
oldest known person in the world. But before she blew
out the candles at one hundred and seventeen, she asked
doctors to study her.
Speaker 9 (14:17):
At the end, she liked to be a little bit
the center of attention.
Speaker 10 (14:21):
Doctor Manel Stair analyzed bronias is health and the food
she swore by what's so special about yogurt?
Speaker 9 (14:28):
There are many reasons why she lived that match and
with good health. One possible component dressed to a diet.
Of course, she ate three per day, not one is
a three per day. At the end it reduced inflammation and.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
By three yogurts a day and you'll be one hundred
and seventeen.
Speaker 9 (14:43):
And Knic Inflammation is one of the main causes of
Asian and disease.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
Right.
Speaker 10 (14:47):
Bronius once said, yogurt gives life, and hers was a
long one. Born in nineteen oh seven in.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Wow born in nineteen oh seven Bellio, nineteen oh seven, Wow,
that's incredible.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Born in nineteen Yeah, it's unreal.
Speaker 10 (15:01):
Born in nineteen oh seven in San Francisco, but in
Spain since she was eight, surviving two World Wars and
two pandemics. She had three children and thirteen great grandchildren.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
She was a nun smoker, spaining man, that doesn't make sense.
Let's go back here next.
Speaker 10 (15:16):
She had three children and thirteen great grandchildren.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Okay, well, you can't have great grandchildren without grandchildren.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
So they've missed a step there.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
They had, they had the kids, but I don't know
how you do the math where you have kids and
great grandchildren and no grandchildren. You need kids, grandchildren and
then great grandchildren.
Speaker 10 (15:38):
Three children and thirteen great grandchildren.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I think that's wrong.
Speaker 9 (15:43):
She was a nun smoker. She never drank her gol
at die yet.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Wait, she was one.
Speaker 9 (15:49):
She was a number smoker.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
She was a non smoker. Okay.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
She never drank of gold.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
She never drank a call like a phone call.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
She never drank of gold, I don't know, never drank
a call alcohol.
Speaker 9 (16:02):
Right, A diet that was enriched in fish and olive
oil and yogurt in this.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Case, after studying Maria so okay, she didn't drink, she
didn't smoke, she drank yogurt and I ate a lot
of fish. I'd rather die at eighty and not do
any of that crap. What's wrong with this woman?
Speaker 9 (16:21):
So it is true that in the last year I
got totally bit addicted to one of deserrs. So is
something that I do?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
What the hell is he saying here?
Speaker 9 (16:30):
I got totally addicted to one of deservers, So it
is something that I do.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
He's addicted to one of these yogas that what.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Was he addicted?
Speaker 9 (16:40):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
No, no, don't know.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Is he addicted the yogurt? Is that what he said? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (16:44):
I got totally bit addicted to one of deservers, So
it is something in that it.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Is addicted to one of these yogurts. That's right? Right?
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Is that what he's saying?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
He is addicted to one of these yogurts.
Speaker 9 (16:59):
I got to one of deservers, so it is something
to one of deservers. So is something that I do.
Speaker 10 (17:10):
Thanks to Maria Brnyas Morrera, the super centenarian and her
little pot of gold for CBS Mornings, plus I'm leeken
irie in London.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
There you go, you know, I was.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I was watching TV a couple of years ago and
they were interviewing a woman in Orange County turned one
hundred and nine, and she, you know, depressed out of
her mind by the way. All her friends have died,
her kids have died of old age, and they have
to ask her what's the secret to living to one
hundred and nine?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
And she said, I'm cursed.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
And stared at the camera, didn't smile, didn't laugh, just said,
I'm cursed. And she's pissed that she's one hundred and
nine and everybody she knows is dead. So one hundred
and seventeen sounds great, it's not. It's not eighty five
ninety five with a lot of friends.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Family. That's the way to go. Tony's grandmother to one ten?
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
One hundred and ten? Huh oh, man, you're cursed too.
There's a loss.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
She was stepgrandmother, so no, no, you don't have the jeans.
Oh good, okay.
Speaker 11 (18:09):
Her secret was brandy every day. She drank every day.
Good for her, that's great. Man knocked it down one
hundred and ten. Wow, was she still driving?
Speaker 5 (18:18):
She could?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Really? Oh yeah at one hundred and ten.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
No, the best was what one hundred years old. She's like,
I want to learn harmonica, and everyone's like, no, you can't.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
She's like, find, I'm gonna buy my own and she
got like and she got really good at harmonica.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Wow, all right?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Where where did you live? Canada?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Was harmonica story?
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I knew there's gonna be a good harmonica story today
when I came in. Where did she live in Canada?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Canada?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Where we're in Canada?
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Oh? French? You know Ottawa? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
No, Quebec, Quebec Okay, yeah, French. All a French harmonica player.
That's great.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
The one hundred and ten good for you.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
And Michael Monks joins us. You got Monks, Bob, how
are you man?
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Good afternoon?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
When are you still on your crazy diet and getting healthy?
I'm locked in today. I've been a bad boy exercise
this morning. But there were donuts here this morning. You know,
once you have a little taste of something, the floodgates open.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Yeah, I saw the donuts here. Who brought him in?
Speaker 7 (19:17):
You know?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Will Coleschreiber, Okay, I know Will Cole Shrier. Yeah, I
like that, dude. And but yeah, donuts fly off the
shelf here. You know everybody here, whether it's free food,
there's like a riot.
Speaker 11 (19:28):
I talked a bit about this on Gary and Shannon
early because they heard me pitching a fit out there.
I don't know where you stand on this, but multiple
donuts had been cut in half.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
One of them had a quarter cut out of it.
What and it just ticked me off.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Who diet?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Is that what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Donut or get off the potet or so the donut
was touched, touched and cut, massacred.
Speaker 11 (19:52):
So I had a Frankenstein donut that I assembled from
the remnants of these barbarians.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Who have clearly never had breakfast before. Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Well, hopefully you can somehow connect that to the downtown
La resurgence.
Speaker 11 (20:08):
I can, because if you want to talk about Frankenstein,
there's plenty of monsters walking around everybody.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
What's the DLA We got the convention center renovated, what
else are they doing?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Well, I'll tell you this before we do that.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Doesn't the city of La own the so cal Gas
building that's about to fall?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
If there's an earthquake.
Speaker 11 (20:28):
Oh no, that's the Yeah, the county has the county
owners that they just purchased it for about two hundred
million dollars. They may need to spend another two hundred
million dollars to make sure that it doesn't fall down
the time the big one comes.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
They didn't know that before they purchased it. That is
up for debate.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Really.
Speaker 11 (20:43):
Yeah, So what they are holding on to, according to
the La Times, which had requested this document, is there's
a there's an analysis that has already been conducted about
the stability of that building in the instance of an earthquake, right,
But the city the county says they don't have to
release that per the media's request yet because it's still preliminary.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Doesn't that make people who have offices in that building
extremely nervous?
Speaker 11 (21:10):
It does, because that was the question about why they
should spend this much money moving into a skyscraper downtown
and they've got a building now in the Civic Center
area that they've been in for a long time.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Because they are some of the people.
Speaker 11 (21:23):
Who are ready to move said, we're gonna have to
spend a lot of money to retrofit the current building
to make it stable for an earthquake, and now they
might move into a building of questionable stability in such
a case.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
How come the supervisors and the LA City Council constantly
make the wrong move?
Speaker 11 (21:42):
Well, obviously I can't comment on that directly, but I
can tell you that people often criticize them for what
they see as the wrong move. My own personal observation
as a journalist covering the government here in the city
the county, I find that these aren't stupid people. I
know it's flippant to thorough any stupid council members. They're
(22:03):
not OK, but I will say that they often govern
with more heart than head.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Right, But do you think they also govern with the
loud voice of the LA unions in their ears?
Speaker 11 (22:14):
There's no question that the unions are very influential here.
That when we talk about the Convention Center project, that
had a lot of union support, because what happens when
you build something as massive as that, you get to
hire a lot of workers, and because of local regulations,
all of those workers need to be in the union.
So it's great news for them, regardless of the fiscal
impact on the city down the road.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Right, So it does matter whether it's done in a
timely matter or quality or whatever.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
They got to their guys on the job. That's right,
and that's all there is to it.
Speaker 11 (22:43):
And there's another organization that was supportive of the Convention
Center project. They're called the Central City Association. You may
have never heard of them. They're kind of a low
key organization, and it's fine you never heard of them.
They've only been around since nineteen twenty four, okay, and
they've been active in downtown Los Angeles behind the scenes.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
But when you the scene, when you.
Speaker 11 (23:02):
Look at the board of directors, you see that it's
a lot of the most powerful business people in the
city center. So a lot of the big companies have
folks on the board. The president and CEO is Nella McCosker.
If you recognize the name mccoscar, she is, in fact
the daughter of City Councilman Tim mcoscar.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Folks San Pedro, the Harbor area.
Speaker 11 (23:18):
They've come out with a report, this organization called Revive
dt LA because even these civic boosters who are raw
raw go downtown are looking around and saying this is
a mess. Now now they think that the convention Center
will be a boon and will assist in the effort
to reclaim Downtown for the civilized right, but they also
(23:39):
recognize that the challenges are very, very extreme. I know
we're up against a break, but they do have some
suggestions and some immediate requests that they say will save downtown.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Are you stay? I guess all right, Monks is with us.
He's he's got to get out of here soon. He's
got Panda Express because I'm in the union too. Is
that panded night?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
No?
Speaker 11 (24:00):
You know what I went tip for you. I got
a tip for you because I went to have Panda yesterday.
It was Panda Wednesday, new one. I tried something different.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Is that right? Like Panda Express? Wow, you're a gambler. No,
I went to a different restaurant. No way, I went
to a different restaurant.
Speaker 11 (24:13):
And I know advertising is expensive on this, so I
want to be careful with you know, throwing out a plug.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
And I'm gonna tell you after the break, Okay, you
need to try?
Speaker 5 (24:21):
All right? Excellent?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
All right, this is great. I'm very excited.
Speaker 8 (24:23):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kfi
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
All Right's Conway Show in KFIM six forty Michael Monks
is here and he said the Sunset I was, I
was thinking about the home depot on Wilshire, But the
one on Sunsets right off the one on one exactly okay,
And that's one's oping on midnight.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
It's open late.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yeah, it's away less of the target that I have there,
and that that home depot right on Sunset and the
one oh one used to be open twenty four hours
a day.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
And the reason why they closed is because life's most
interesting guys you know who are on the street would
come in there and sleep on the patio furniture all night.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I bet it was comfortable and they shut it down right.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Well, you can't have good things in La because of
you know, you're gonna hear from my famous after guys
in fifteen years who talks about his early days in
Hollywood and how I used to crash at the home
depot on Sunset Boulevard.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Is that right, sleeping on a lawn chair?
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Who is that?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I don't know, you'll hear. It could be something we
don't somebody we don't know.
Speaker 11 (25:20):
I'm sure I'm not. It'll be like Michael J. Fox,
Do you want to skip the news and get right
into this restaurant. Is that what you want to do?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
What's the news?
Speaker 11 (25:26):
You know that did Central City Association is and we
need more police, we need more graffiti removed.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
You think we all know that.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Okay, Yeah, let's get into food, let's get into foot Okay,
you know you went to a new restaurant.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
I did.
Speaker 11 (25:35):
Okay, so we talked about Panda. It's Panda Wednesday, right,
So for Panda Wednesday, the spouse and I stop at
the Panda but long tradition right there on that sunset okay.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Sunset and then now I got sunset home right off
the one on one.
Speaker 11 (25:48):
Ok right off the one on one. Okay, Sunset Boulevard,
exit off the one on one. And I know where
that Panda Express is now. I couldn't picture it before
because I was thinking, will shure, it's across the street.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Yeah, there's a whole little strip of little wrestlers.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
A Starbucks is a compao.
Speaker 11 (26:01):
But there's a new place and it's called Reo Soul
Brazilian Barbecue. Not I want to get in trouble because
I know it costs some money to advertise on this program.
This is not even an endorsement I want to share
the experience because I would love to hear from others
who go to this place, and I want you to
go check it out, because they have the potential to
be a Panda Express, really, but they're doing it wrong,
all right. Okay, So you walk into Rio Soul, Brazilian
(26:22):
Barberu's like, let's try this.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
This is new.
Speaker 11 (26:24):
Let's get these guys a few bucks. It sounds healthy,
it's good. I don't be tempted by the orange chicken.
You walk in and you look at this menu at
Rio Soul. It's kind of scarce in there, not a
whole lot going on. There's a big chalkboard with some
scribble on it. You get two options, or maybe you
get five options, or maybe there's seven options. So right
off the bat, I'm looking at this man. You're like,
I don't understand a word. It's in English, right, but
(26:47):
it's like, you can order a chicken plate or a
red meat plate right with sides, and this is how
much it costs. But then right below it says you
can order chicken or red meat, and then it's this price.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Confusing, very confusing. Okay, So it looked I think I.
Speaker 11 (27:03):
Figured out that I could order a plate with chicken
and get a couple of sides, or I could order
like a steak, a red meat with a couple of sides.
Or I could go down farther on the menu and
order it by the pound. Okay, there wasn't that kind
of night for us. So we just ordered a plate.
And this is Brazilian food. Brazilian food, which is a
lot of meat and barbecue. Like, yeah, it sounds ethnic,
(27:23):
but it's really not. It's things that Americans will Wait,
I got chicken wrapped in bacon.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Oh, that's right.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
So that was my main thing.
Speaker 11 (27:29):
But Brazilian restaurants often have cooked pineapple. You go to
even a nice Brazilian steakhouse like H and H downtown,
they're slicing hot pineapple for you and it's delicious. Like,
why don't you give me some of that pineapple because
it's one of the one of the main entree options.
He says that that that pineapple spin uh spinning all
day and it's a little dry, and I don't want
(27:52):
to sell it to you. Okay, So I said, well, look,
just because I get two, I guess I figured out.
Now I got two entrees that come on this plate.
Give me to just double up the chicken wrapped in
the bacon and throw me a piece of that pineapple
in there, you know, complimentary. And he did it, and
he did it for Wow. So here's the deal. You
get a couple of meats apparently, and then a few sides.
(28:12):
I thought it was two sides. It ended up being
four sides. I don't even know how this happened. Potato salad,
a little bit of rice, some garlic. Bread was involved
in that pineapple wish, by the way, was delicious.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Yeah, pineapple is good cooked, as was everything.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (28:28):
Spouse and I spent thirty dollars for two large plates
of food each. He was almost too much food for dinner.
Thirty dollars for two people. Two people. Wow, that's like
McDonald Rio Soul Brazilian barbecues, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood. I want
you to taste this, because what I want you to
go in and do is tell these guys are doing
it all wrong.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Rio s o U l s o l E s
o U l okay Rio sol And that's sunset near
the one on one.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Exactly because they got a good product.
Speaker 11 (28:57):
But what they need to do is adapt to the
Panda model. Let me go in, let me pick my
two meats, and pick my two vegetables, and get the
hell out of here.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Right and and Panda's great because it's it's the simplest
place in the world to order. Because if you can't
figure it out by looking at the meat, it's on
the board, and they show you the container, they show
you the plates.
Speaker 11 (29:17):
This is what I These folks were not doing that.
You could see some of the items, not all of
the items. But by the time it got into the
plate and we drove all the way back down town
from Hollywood, it was still piping hot.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Okay, delicious.
Speaker 11 (29:31):
So I want to go back there, And I don't
want to be condescending or smug about it. What do
I know about running restaurant.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
I just want to say your product.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Is good, but you are you know, you're probably, as
the crow flies, maybe five miles from your home at
that point exactly.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, so you get out there.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Yeah, okay, my review get around.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
I went to that consa Bianca in what is it not,
Eagle Rock, and I was so I felt so humiliated
and so small and such an a hole that I've
never been there in my life. It's been there for
seventy years, and it looks like an Italian restaurant if
you were to walk into in New York City, in
(30:14):
little Italy. The smell was beautiful. The pictures on the
wall weren't these new actors and actresses from variety, you know,
from reality shows. They were the old game shows. You
know you were talking about this, Yeah, exactly like the
newlywed game shows. You know, see actors that have been
dead for thirty years on the wall, which is great.
And I walked in ordered two pizzas. It took about
(30:36):
fifteen minutes, and it was some of the best pizza
I've ever had my life. Now, I hope my wife's
not listening, and because I know her, one of her.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Large friends will call her and tell her large friend.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
She's got a fat friend who lives in the West
Side who calls her and tells her everything.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I say, do you want to take a phone call?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
No, But I went to Kasa Bianca and she my wife.
I went alone. My wife said, can you pick me
up a piece of lasagna? And I said sure. So
I get to Kasa Bianca, I look at the menu,
it's twenty four dollars for one slice of lasagna.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
How big is a slice? I didn't care.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I think I think it's traditionally sized. And a tray
of lasagna is probably twenty four slices. Maybe no, but
four by four, maybe sixteen slices. So you know, a
tray of lasagna is not three hundred dollars.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I couldn't believe the produce bread with it, I know.
So I went home and I told my wife they
were out of it, Oh my gosh, that they don't
they make it fresh, and it was too late in
the day and they didn't have anymore. You'll lie, right,
And so I if her friend who lives on Westwood,
if you tell her that I have an argument with
my friend with my wife tonight, I'm gonna blast off
(31:53):
on Monday.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Did you share some of the pizza with her?
Speaker 5 (31:55):
I did.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I brought home a pizza for my daughter and her
to share, and then a pizza for me, sausage with
fresh basil at the end.
Speaker 11 (32:03):
A beautiful Now that's an older restaurant, yes, seventy years.
Can you tell that they have a system?
Speaker 5 (32:09):
This is what I mean.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Do they have a system?
Speaker 11 (32:11):
In place to get your order, get it to the kitchen,
and get that product out. And it was packed on
a Tuesday night, which is not a big guy, you
know night to go out with the family, and there
were constantly people coming in and taking there to go
orders and they're already all you know, they spent eight
seconds and they were gone.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Plus, this is what I also love about it. It's
cash only, cash only, so you know, it's great. You
know when they can say no to Visa, no to
master Card, American Express, they're not taking that.
Speaker 11 (32:38):
When there's possibly some criminality going on in the right. Yeah,
but they but they can survive off that. You know,
most restaurants, if you go to Olive Garden, they don't
take credit cards. Olive Garden will be there, half their
business will go away. It's all credit cards.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
I do love Olive Garden though, too, and we order
when we order from Olive Garden, we order so many
breadsticks that we constantly get a call back from Olive
Garden saying, you know, you just ordered, you have ten
breadsticks coming.
Speaker 11 (33:05):
They're just checking to make sure that you know what
you're getting yourself into.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Yeah, but we got to do every Friday.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
You gotta hit this up with the review. I'm going
to hit up in a restaurant. It's Rio Soul.
Speaker 11 (33:15):
Rio Soul Brazilian barbecue, and I didn't actually see any
barbecue on the menu come to think about Okay.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
All right, I'd like to try it out, all right, Monks.
Every Friday Brand News segment, we got a restaurant review
after we talk about how crazy downtown?
Speaker 11 (33:28):
Yeah you got, Monks. Thanks Saturday seven to nine pm,
and I will be talking about this downtown report. So
tune in and Rio Soul and Rio Soul. All right,
you're the best pub alright. Re live on KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
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