November 25, 2025 • 32 mins
Mark Thompson welcomes filmmaker Steve Boettcher to discuss his new documentary Dick Van Dyke: A 100th Celebration, offering a rare glimpse into the legend’s milestone moment. Mark then dives into the best—and absolute worst—times for SoCal drivers to hit the road before Thanksgiving, along with a lively rundown of holiday breakups, KFI crew shakeups, and the hilarious revelation that half of this year’s Thanksgiving guests may be showing up totally stoned. Rounding it out is Mark’s own beloved Thanksgiving tradition, bringing humor, heart, and a dash of seasonal madness to the table.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Happy Holiday Season, Mark Thompson sitting in for Tim Conway
Junior tonight. As we close in on Thanksgiving, there is
a celebration that will follow Thanksgiving and precede Christmas. It
is the celebration of Dick Van Dyke's one hundredth birthday,
one hundred years old. Guy's amazing. He was in the
(00:34):
original Mary Poppins, and then he was in the remake
of Mary Poppins and actually had a dance number in
the remake, and the remake was just what a couple
of years ago.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
This guy is close to one hundred and he's doing
a dance number in the remake of Mary Poppins, a
throwback to his original dance numbers. Anyway, they've done a
film about Dick Van Dyke during I would presume all
kinds of profiles of his brilliant career which dates back
(01:05):
to his hit television series and brilliant acting work as well.
And the director of that film is on the line now. Hi,
Steve Betcher, Welcome to KFI.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Hey, Mark, how you doing thank you for allowing me
to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Congratulations on the movie. Tell me what the movie is.
What's covered in the film. Is it like a retrospective
of his work? Is it personal life? What is it?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yeah, it really looks at the magic of Dick Van Dyke.
It's called Dick Van Dyke one hundred Celebration, and we've
interviewed and everyone's in the film that is central to
his life. Mary Tyler Moore, Kyle Reiner, Rose Marie, Maury Amsterdam,
Betty White, Tim Conway, Cheta Rivera, everyone he worked with
(01:52):
is in this film and we're excited to bring it
to the nation through Fathom Entertainment on December tenth and fourteenth.
But the big news is we're also bringing it to
Malibu with the Van Dykes for a special screening on
December seventh, Sunday, December seventh, at two o'clock in the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It's at a time when US senior citizens and the
one hundred year olds who probably populate Dick Van Dyke's life,
it's easier at two o'clock is perfect, and you can
still get to sleep by.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Six all day exactly well, we want to start the
party early so we can maximize your time too. That's
what we're thinking.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
That's i'd like it. Well.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
At twelve thirty, it is going to lookalike contest our Lean,
Dick Van Dyke's wife is going to be the official
judge of this event at twelve thirty in Malibu, and
then there's a special screening of the film to help
raise revenue and money for the arts for kids in schools.
So it's kind of a special moment for us to
got to give back to the area as well, and
(02:51):
we're excited to bring this film to the world.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
We really say, I'll just tell everybody because I know
people don't necessarily have the calendar in their head. December
seventh is a Sunday, so it will be a day
long celebration in Malibu of Dick van Dyke's one hundredth birthday.
And it's on a Sunday, starts twelve thirty. So when
you talk about these stars who worked with him and
(03:13):
people who loved him through the years, from Tim Conway
to Maury Amsterdam to Rose Marie, So you're collecting these
interviews through the years, I mean these are obviously these
people have passed on many of them.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yeah, it's amazing. It's kind of a film that's take
one hundred years to make really because of mister Van
Dyke being one hundred. We've been on it for thirty years.
We started interviewing people back like Maury Amsterdam and Rose Marie,
and we went way back to kind of get we
wanted to be the ones to be like original and
get these interviews on our own. And there are things
that we've worked on and we've collected through the years
(03:47):
to build up to this big event in December.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
On December seventh. Yeah, So, Steve Betcher, what is your
relationship to the Van Dyke family or to Dick van
Dyke that you would be so committed to this through
the decades.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Yeah, we actually met with mister Van Dyke probably, I
want to say Tan or fifteen, maybe he was twenty
years ago. Instead of working on this, we worked really
close with mister Reiner, Carl Reiner on this, the creator
of the Dick Van Dyke Show. As you remember, Sure
and Arlene and Dick have been just really really supportive
of this and we're proud to bring it to Malibu
(04:19):
where they currently live. It's been their hometown for decades.
They live in Malibu, Thus Malibu is the perfect spot
for this. On December seventh.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Wow, Krozer, do you have a Dick Van Dyke lookalike
a ringer we could bring into the contest on Sunday now, now.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I specual prizes.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
One of the things that's been most stunning about Dick
Van Dyke's career is that he has gone comedy. The
Dick Van Dyke Show he did? What was the show
he did where he played he was in a Colombo
episode that I loved, okay where he played the heavy
he played in The Murderer he was in. Yeah, what
was the show that he did with Scott Bayo where
he was the diagnosis was Diagnosis?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
You remember Diagnosis?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Murdering with diagnos yeah, Jackades, Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I think they did, like I think they did almost
like ten years of that show. And also there's a
show that we feature. The comic which is kind of
a different side of mister Van Dyke is in the film.
Michelle Lee is his wife in the film, and it's
kind of another look at a special moment and a
special career moment for him. So this film highlights all
the great moments We've kind of fall in love with
the magic of the music and just his great ability,
(05:32):
which man, we're fortunate to be able to share with everyone.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Again, it's in Malibu. On December seventh, Dick Van Dyke's
legacy played out in Malibu's Dick Van Dyke one hundredth
Birthday celebration. We're talking to Steve Betcher, the filmmaker director
of Dick Vandyke a hundred celebration. He did a movie
that was really, at the time kind of watershed. It
was about being an alcoholic.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I want to say.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
It was called like The Day After, the Morning After,
or something like that, and he spoke very it's.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
In the comic kind of a comedian's life who has
kind of come to an end, and it's kind of
you get up at three o'clock in the morning and
you watch your old shows and that's the comic. And
Kyle Reiner wrote it for mister Van Dyke, and it's
kind of a different take on his career.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Oh wow, Well, I know he was very open about
his own struggles with alcoholism, and he was one of
those of completely functioning alcoholics. So what I'm thinking of
is called The Morning After it was a sure yeah, yeah, yeah,
And the morning after he played this guy who just
couldn't stop and he was completely functional, but it destroyed
(06:42):
his life, and it was a project very very dear
to him. I remember it because he was so outspoken.
He was on all the talk shows speaking about it.
And this guy, Dick Van Dyke is happy, effective, amazingly
talented guy. It's incredible to think that he was an
alcoholic at the time, or like that he had a
real battle with alcohol at the time.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I think it's made him so endearing. Is first of all,
anyone that's lasted this long in the business is amazing.
To live one hundred years is really iconic, and I
guess we're kind of celebrating that in a great way
with this film and with this project that it's just,
you know, we fell in love with this guy a
long time ago, and he's still that kind of person
and that's what we love about him.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah, I think you're right, And I guess what I'm
referring to is sort of his honesty about everything in
his life. Just a remarkable retrospective. I can't wait to
see it. Congratulations Steve Betcher again the filmmaker director of
Dick Van Dyke, a one hundred celebration, I mean, one
of the great challenges. And I'm really out of time here,
but just to tell me how you did it? How
do you reduce all of that? We just scratched the
(07:43):
surface in this conversation, that incredible compendium of stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
How do you reduce it to a movie?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
That's why it took us thirty years to make this,
to be honest, it just took us that long to
figure it out. And you're like, you got to get
it right, and we believe we did. And this is
this is all only available in theaters. It's the only
place you can see this is in Fathomoevents dot Com
the thirteenth and fourteenth, and in Malibu. After that, we
go quiet. We're not going to be on streaming, We're
not going to be on television, We're not going to
be in eight these places. It's only available in movie theaters.
(08:14):
And the idea is to get everyone together and celebrate
jointly this birthday. That was really the catalyst for the idea.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Well, give us give him our best, give our best
to Dick Van Dyke, in to everybody there who puts
this celebration on again. It's Dick Van Dyke's birthday celebration
in Malibu December seventh. The director and filmmaker of this
big documentary will be part of this premiere in a
big way, and there'll be an official celebration with a
lookalike contest for Dick Van Dyke and Dick Obvi is there.
(08:42):
It kicks off at two week celebration on Dick Van Dyke.
Congratulations on the film and look forward to hearing good things.
Thanks a lot, all the best team.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
You in Malibu. Will save you a seat in Malibu,
I promise.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I love the idea Malibu December seventh. I'll surprise you.
I'll be there all right. All the best, see you,
Steve Betch. Thanks a lot. Yeah, wow, how do you
choose the guy's done so much? I just don't know
how you even build that documentary which it's like picking
between children, the different projects from Dick Van Dyke. I
have my big Dick Van Dyke story that I'll tell
(09:14):
you quickly. Oh yeah, he's in Malibu shopping at Ralph's.
There I'm walking out of Ralph's and there to my left,
walking in the parking lot. Is the legend himself, Dick
Van Dyke, pushing a grocery card just like I was,
and I said, hey, how are you? I said, I'm
(09:39):
a huge fan, and he said, hey, nice to meet you.
I wonder if that'll be in the movie. Probably not,
but that was the extent of it. And I'll change
the ending for if they ever come around for an interview.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
In the movie.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I'm sorry, I'm honest. It wasn't some huge finish. It's
a Tim Conway Junior show. Mark Thompson sitting in for Tim.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Mark Thompson.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Here.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Holidays have hit us, and yeah, Conway is off for
the holidays, and one thing that is out is parking.
Parking at Lax is really tough. You should check on parking,
not just flights when you go to Lax. I'm seeing
(10:40):
most of the general parking lots at Lax are sold out.
Valet sold out, General sold out.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
This is P one, P three, P four, P five.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
The lots that had available spots as of late this afternoon.
P one Valet, P one Premium A few in Premium
ev the P two, P. Four Valet p. Five General,
P six Valet, P seven, P six General and P
seven Valet. This means something to those of you who
(11:17):
go to LAX a lot, but you should spend, you know,
and sadly probably can't get away for less than one
hundred dollars for five days in the budget lot, and
if you're going for Valet, it's going to be close
to four hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
So again, check on your.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Your dates and the availability because lax is filling up,
and you know, you just might be best off with
a ride share of some kind or some kind of
other card service. The best time to go, I mean,
seven million Southern Californians are going to be hitting the
road or flying or cruising ahead of the Thanksgiving All day,
(12:02):
about five point eight eight million people are going to
travel to their Thanksgiving destination by car, seven hundred and
four thousand, by plane, one hundred and ninety six thousand
using another mode of transportation like a cruise or a
bus or a train. So they add it all up.
(12:22):
Triple A does this and they estimated about six point
seven eight million residents will travel fifty miles or more
from home during the Thanksgiving holiday travel period. That's more
than traveled more than fifty miles last year by about
three percent. It's just interesting to kind of see trends
(12:45):
when it comes to travel for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I don't know what you're planning.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
If you're going to stay at home, Krozier, you seem
like a stay at home kind of guy.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Are you might wrong?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Do you have all the obligations you have to go
to her family's place or one of those things.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
We have become more of the destination lately in the
last couple of years.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
We've got a little bit bigger house. Is that fun
to have everybody over because you've entertained very well? Actually
that house is kind of laid out for entertainment.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
Yeah, we're always working on trying to make it a
place that Yeah, that's kind of what Jen likes. You know,
She's one of those people she wants to at least
have the option to let's just do it right here.
Everybody just show up and yeah, she's kind of gotten
that way, and her parents come over and siblings and
her siblings, Jen siblings and such a.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
And it's casual. Right.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's what like if I got invited
to your thing, that would be a comfortable Thanksgiving because
it's casual.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
We do the pre made drinks, poor and go and
maybe a couple of games to loosen it up a
little more.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yeah, you put all the MAGA people on one side
and all the libs on the other side.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
That's how you do it, one rope.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
The best the worst times to drive, According to TRIPLEA,
you want to get right to the crush, which is Wednesday.
We'll start with Tuesday, November twenty fifth. Noon to nine
is the worst time to travel. They say the best
time to travel is before noon, so that's tomorrow, Okay,
(14:24):
the twenty fifth Wednesday is the real crush day. The
worst time to travel is between eleven am and eight pm.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
I mean, there you have it, travel before eleven or
after eight I guess eleven am and eight pm.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
That's what I thought. Are you kidding? So basically the
whole day is crap. Yeah, that's daylight.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Now. The time to.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Travel, though, they say, in general, is on Thanksgiving. If
you're driving, minimal traffic is expected. I don't know what
minimal traffic means, because in southern California, I always feel like,
you know, minimal traffic could still leave you in you know,
stop and go traffic. But your best shot over the
(15:15):
next few days again if you're driving is on Thanksgiving
and then again Worset travel time on Friday is one
pm to seven pm, So the afternoon hour is that
a lot of people truvel unless shop or travel to shopping.
I feel like on Friday and Saturday, isn't that Black
Friday when everybody gets their shopping done. I don't know
(15:37):
how much online shopping has alleviated that. But and then
they basically say, you know, after that, go before ten am,
before eleven am through the weekend. So and they say
leave early, watch for construction, slow down, move over for
emergency responders.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
And that is your tip from Triple A.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So between parking and you know, there is information online
you can see exactly what areas to avoid and what
parking lots might still be available. But that's a situation
for Thanksgiving. It's a Tim Conway Junior show. Tim is
already away. He found the very best time to leave
was like a week before Thanksgiving. Mark Thompson sitting in.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Mark Thompson sitting in for Tim Conway's junior. I'm just
talking about the holidays and romance during the holidays, and
the end of romance during the holidays, so.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Pretty heartbreaking.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
As it turns out, we go through the staff and
I was just kind of sampling, and I guess there's
a real stories or heartbreak check it out. Holidays are
a time that a lot of people break up. And again,
this is not playing, so you can play this story
for me, Alie and for everybody else.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Listen.
Speaker 8 (17:01):
It's the most wonderful time of the year for some
and maybe probably the worst time of year for others.
Move over cupping season.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
We're approaching the Turkey drop.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
Dating experts say that the next few weeks we'll see
peak breakups this as holiday can bring added pressures from families, finances,
and feelings, pushing some to call it quits. It's almost
the last checkpoint before hitting a marathon of coupled centric
holidays like Christmas New Year's And that's true, okay.
Speaker 9 (17:29):
Because the number one breakup time of year. And I
think it really does have to do with what you
just said. There's a lot of pressure with holidays, the events, meeting,
the friends meeting, people's family, financial investment. A lot of
people are coming back from college and realizing they might
want to break up with their hometown significant others.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Wow, come on, hold.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
On tight that first semester, it's.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Not working out.
Speaker 9 (17:48):
I got a dip now because you got Thanksgiving, then
you got Christmas, maybe Hanukah, New Year's and then Valentine's Day.
A lot of gifts, a lot of gifts.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
All right, So you said the ones coming home from college,
who is most at vulnerable or at risk of being told.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
To bye bye?
Speaker 9 (18:05):
I think anybody that's really unsure of where you stand
in your relationship. Yeah, which is why clear communication.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (18:11):
Right now, The question I want to know is is
there really ever a right time to break up with somebody?
Speaker 5 (18:16):
You know, you always feel that you're always a.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
Couple of weeks away from like a big moment. So
when's the right time to finally call it quits?
Speaker 9 (18:22):
I would say, right after I get off air?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Yes.
Speaker 9 (18:27):
Well, I'm just saying, if you know you want to
break up with someone, you should do it because the
one thing we can't get back is time.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Wow. Wow.
Speaker 9 (18:34):
And impart of why I wrote my book is I
realized that I did waste a lot of time, right,
and there's the self betrayal. There's like, oh, I should
have done that, I miss those red flags, I ignore
these things, and now I can't get that time back right.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
All right, well how about this, you're there, so any
advice for heartbreakers or advisors or anything for them right now?
Speaker 9 (18:55):
Oh gosh, I mean, if you've just been dumped, it
does get better. I the quicker you can see you're
ending as a new beginning. The quicker you get to
start writing your next chapter and like really step into
your power.
Speaker 10 (19:08):
So that's the good news.
Speaker 9 (19:09):
And for somebody that wants to break up with their
significant other, we are in a communication crisis. Please do
not coast, Like, even if you don't want to be
with this person, learning to have uncomfortable conversations is going
to be the thing that you need when you do
meet that person that you want to spend the rest
of your life with.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
So don't coast, but don't go.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
Don't try to like leave the door open, because clarity
is kindness, clarity is care. So really give that person
closure and put a period at the end of that sentence.
Speaker 8 (19:39):
Block the numbers, block, the social media, block everything.
Speaker 10 (19:41):
Oh I have built a graveyard.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Oh, she sounds tough on your phone.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
You have to come back. I like that.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Rory uphold you're the best.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
You're the best. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
It sounds like she governs with a stern hand when
it comes to romance. I do think she made some
probably all the points she made her good. But I
wouldn't think people coming back from college and so one thing,
I would think you'd look forward to seeing your you know,
the first thing you're going out. But on the other hand,
I guess, you know, when you're at college you kind
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of developed new relationships. Who knows, But for the rest
of us, I guess she makes a pretty strong case
for the fact that there are pressures around the holidays
that are so couples oriented that maybe that makes you
reevaluate the relationship. I don't know. Now we have had
personal experiences here. Hard to believe that anybody would break
(20:38):
up with anyone on this show. Everyone is You All
seem like heartbreakers to me, But I guess there have
been hearts broken, especially Sam.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
What happened Sam?
Speaker 11 (20:48):
Oh, jeez, I had my acts of seven years. I
caught her cheating on me just before Christmas, and it
was with a buddy of mine from like years before. Wow,
and it all like you could see things boiling up
on Thanksgiving. I had a friends, I had a bunch
of friends over for Thanksgiving, and you could.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
See something there.
Speaker 11 (21:12):
But I was also trying to not really pay attention
to it, because after seven years you kind of hope
that you have that sense of trust with someone.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Sure, but then yeah, so let's just go back to
Thanksgiving for a minute. This guy was at Thanksgiving with
you guys. Yeah, absolutely, and you sensed maybe something. You thought,
maybe boy, they're awfully friendly or something like that.
Speaker 11 (21:33):
Yeah, it wasn't just me. A lot of people were
noticing it. And then uh, once once people started finding
out exactly what happened, everybody kind of traced it back
to that moment.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
They see, that's the thing.
Speaker 11 (21:46):
They lied in gas lit and did everything they could
to communicate it very poorly.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
So yeah, I would have broken his nose if I
had the chance.
Speaker 11 (21:54):
I haven't seen them since, but if they had told
me the truth, I would have punched him in the face.
But then I would have gotten him night pack and said,
at least, you know, thanks for respecting me enough to
tell me the truth. I can at least then be
in your guys' atmosphere, you know, going forward.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
But the way they handled it made it so you
showed me.
Speaker 11 (22:11):
How much respect you had, and I don't want to
be around people who are going to have that little respect.
Speaker 12 (22:15):
By the way, Sam is looking kind of red right now,
just as he was telling that story.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Bringing bringing back the anger. So what you're saying, oh, yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
No that I'm still pissed off about.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
It, but no, Well, seven years is a long and
a long time to invest in a relationship and then
to find out that I mean, that's that's really rough.
Speaker 11 (22:33):
Yeah, but you know, you move on and you know,
I found life a lot happier after that. And what
the person that was talking the second you let things
go is the second you get to start actually living
your life and you're no longer a slave to the
person who hurt you.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
I do think when you're when you're hanging onto a
relationship that isn't working anymore than you are costing yourself time.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
I agree with that, oh one hundred percent.
Speaker 11 (22:55):
So it's important to realize, you know, sometimes you have
to go through a lot of those you know, after
spending a lot of time with somebody. Everything you see
you immediately associated to that person. So you know, just
driving down the street, you see landmarks on the road
that remind you of a hare to that restaurant, and
you slowly have to disconnect all of those little emotional
strings that connect you, and it hurts, but over after
(23:18):
time passes, you slowly realize you're stronger, you're better, and
now you have the freedom to actually make something different happen.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Krozer.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
In Sam's story, who is to blame more the woman
with whom Sam was involved or the friend who he'd
known for a long time who poached the girl.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
Just planning to blame to go around of course. But
I'm gonna go with a friend unless that kind unless
that communication was happening. I think you go with the friend.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah, just because of that reason. Yeah, that feels like
the bigger betrayal maybe for bros before Okay, anybody else
can tell their story in ten seconds or less?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
No, all you had you got one one.
Speaker 13 (24:09):
Yeah. It was just before Valentine's Day and me and
this girl, we both basically went feeling it and I
was just relieved that she broke up with me because
I didn't want to pay that Valentine's dinner I reserved.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
It was a win win genius. Yeah, onto the next. Plus,
every story always sounds better with an accent. I love it.
Well done. All right, that's it. Break up with them now,
break up with her now and have the freedom through
the holidays. It's Thompson here for Conway.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Mark Thompson here for Tim Conway Junior. Nicky was just
telling a producer the show that follows this one she
got broken up with on her birthday. That's kind of
a different thing. And that's really I mean, that's pretty
cold hearted. I mean, I don't understand how you could
do that. That seems like, you know, another universe of
(25:17):
cold heartedness. We're talking before the break about the fact
that apparently the holiday season, because they say that many
of the holiday related activities are couples related, that it
kind of increases the pressure, and that cranked up pressure
leads to breakups. And so they're saying, hey, if your borderline,
do yourself and your partner of favor and break up now,
(25:41):
because before you know it, it's the new year. Then
it's Valentine's Day. All right, I don't know. Did you
see this about people being stoned a Thanksgiving ritchie? I
like this story? Can we do it now?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
All right?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
All, you've got it. So apparently at Thanksgiving half of
the guests are likely stoned. Here's ali to tell you.
Speaker 10 (26:07):
Mark, let's disappear for a bit before Thanksgiving. Maybe they're
on a cousin walk. It's a newer term for probably
an old tradition taking a walk on Thanksgiving to smoke
some wheed. Of course, Oh nothing matters if it's not online.
So people are now documenting their experiences for TikTok. Some
say it helps with their appetite for a big meal,
like if you're vegan, niece from Venice suddenly has a
(26:28):
hanker and for honeybag ham that would be a cousin walk.
Others say the walk helps them better deal with their relatives.
So there's the cousin walk. Then there's the stepdad walk
where you start walking and you never come back, in
the glen walk where you cover your microphone and.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Say, let me tell you something, let me tell you.
Speaker 10 (26:46):
Well, the munchies might help you push through another helping
of broccoli. Cast role. There is evidence now that if
you rip enough joints, you will not want to drink
much alcohol. I don't know why we needed to study
for this. My friend Eric McMillan proved this many times
in high school.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
You know, I think it depends on what kind of
gathering you're attending. We've got, like I believe most everybody
on this show probably and people have kind of go
to casual gatherings, don't you. I mean the whole the
sort of the button down, you know what looks like
(27:22):
better homes and gardens type setup is just not typically
the kind of thanksgiving that people do anymore. We're kind
of a casual society. The ball games are on, you're
serving drinks. People are you know, nobody's getting dressed up particularly,
I think?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Am I right about that?
Speaker 10 (27:38):
Is?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Anybody does anybody go to think a more formal thing.
Speaker 9 (27:40):
No.
Speaker 11 (27:41):
I show up and I'm in stretchy pants, right I'm
I'm in clothes that are completely designed to fit as
much food in me as possible.
Speaker 12 (27:50):
I'm on like the other side of that, Like when
I have a friends giving, we try to dress up,
be a little bit presentable for photos. But when it
comes to like Thanksgiving at my mom's best believe I'm.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Also in sweats.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Yeah, it has it has a hit or miss.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yeah. We have two events on Thanksgiving. One is casual.
I mean, I don't think you can show up in
stretch pants and like, you know, a RAMS jersey. I mean,
but I think you can definitely not get super dressed up.
(28:28):
But I think I think at that first one you'd
have to be presentable. But the second one is done
at this high end restaurant and we were invited. We
haven't invited every year for the last ten years, and
it's a very generous thing that this family does by
including us. Yeah, but it's definitely you know, like I've
(28:50):
worn a tie a couple of years and it's sort
of a dress it up. So let me get back
to getting stoned. So what I'm saying is the cash
I think I could probably get away with an edible,
you know, peeking right around lunchtime. The button down one
(29:10):
where you're showing up and everybody's spiffed up and you're
each person to go around the room. You have to
make a little speech as to you know, it's a
little more pressure, you know, it's kind of like a
almost like a well, you get it. I mean, you
feel like a little anxiety almost over, you know, getting
up in front of this room. They're like, I don't know.
I'm going to say, twenty people there and it's at
(29:30):
this restaurant in a private room and it's a high
end place.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
I don't think I can do my edible for that.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I don't think I can be buzzed for that kind
of have to have it together. On the other hand,
and this stoners will appreciate this. That's when you need
your edible. You want your edible to take the edge off.
The anxiety is what jamming you. And the way to
deal with the anxiety can be not saying it should be,
(29:57):
not saying even if you want each you want it
to be, but it can be the thing to kind
of like just take the edge. So I don't know,
I'm just thinking, maybe I'll roll the dice do an
edible before this, uh button down. Thanksgiving, I've got to
go to bring a change of clothes with you.
Speaker 11 (30:18):
Show up in the in the really nice clothes, and
then one at some moment, excuse yourself to go to
the bathroom, change into the stretchy stuff and have an
a full.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
On outfit change. Wow, that would be that would that
would be That's a high end move. That's a high
wire move. It's establishing dominance. I see, I don't know
that I want to establish dominance, but I don't know
I this These are the vagaries of a stoneage of
doing the edible. And the other thing I would say
(30:47):
is the edible makes me tired, so you don't want
to fall asleep at the table. So but it's taking
the wrong one, then yeah, that may be. Actually there's
a new one. There are two of them that are
kind of ones called exhilarate I think which kind of
a it's you know they have when you go into
these as you know, into any.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Kind of pot plays dispensary. Yeah, thank you, it's the
word I want.
Speaker 13 (31:09):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
They're like some al so they're unbelievable and they can
tell you exactly that. It's it's like talking like to
Watson and Crick about the DNA breakdown of every single
strain of edible or whatever. And so they have in
addition to CBD and THC, they have CBN uh CB.
(31:32):
They're like I'm going to say, they're like three others
and a couple of them are involved in popping you up,
like kind of giving you a lift.
Speaker 7 (31:41):
Just planning to blame to go around of course. But
I'm going to go with a friend unless that kind
unless that communication was happening. I think you go with
the friend.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yeah, just because of that reason. Yeah, that feels like
the bigger betrayal maybe for bros before Okay, anybody else
can tell their story in ten seconds or less.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
No, ill you had you got one.
Speaker 13 (32:08):
Yeah. It was just before Valentine's Day and me and
this girl, we both basically went feeling it. And I
was just relieved that she broke up with me because
I didn't want to pay that Valentine's dinner I reserved.
Speaker 12 (32:22):
It was a win win, genius onto the next.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Plus, every story always sounds better with an accent. I
love it. Well done. All right, that's it. Break up
with them now, break up with her now, and have
the freedom through the holidays. It's Thompson here for Conway.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now you
can always hear us live on kf I Am six
forty four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime
on demand on the iHeart Radio app.
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Happy Holiday Season, Mark Thompson sitting in for Tim Conway
Junior tonight. As we close in on Thanksgiving, there is
a celebration that will follow Thanksgiving and precede Christmas. It
is the celebration of Dick Van Dyke's one hundredth birthday,
one hundred years old. Guy's amazing. He was in the
(00:34):
original Mary Poppins, and then he was in the remake
of Mary Poppins and actually had a dance number in
the remake, and the remake was just what a couple
of years ago.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
This guy is close to one hundred and he's doing
a dance number in the remake of Mary Poppins, a
throwback to his original dance numbers. Anyway, they've done a
film about Dick Van Dyke during I would presume all
kinds of profiles of his brilliant career which dates back
(01:05):
to his hit television series and brilliant acting work as well.
And the director of that film is on the line now. Hi,
Steve Betcher, Welcome to KFI.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Hey, Mark, how you doing thank you for allowing me
to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Congratulations on the movie. Tell me what the movie is.
What's covered in the film. Is it like a retrospective
of his work? Is it personal life? What is it?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yeah, it really looks at the magic of Dick Van Dyke.
It's called Dick Van Dyke one hundred Celebration, and we've
interviewed and everyone's in the film that is central to
his life. Mary Tyler Moore, Kyle Reiner, Rose Marie, Maury Amsterdam,
Betty White, Tim Conway, Cheta Rivera, everyone he worked with
(01:52):
is in this film and we're excited to bring it
to the nation through Fathom Entertainment on December tenth and fourteenth.
But the big news is we're also bringing it to
Malibu with the Van Dykes for a special screening on
December seventh, Sunday, December seventh, at two o'clock in the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It's at a time when US senior citizens and the
one hundred year olds who probably populate Dick Van Dyke's life,
it's easier at two o'clock is perfect, and you can
still get to sleep by.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Six all day exactly well, we want to start the
party early so we can maximize your time too. That's
what we're thinking.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
That's i'd like it. Well.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
At twelve thirty, it is going to lookalike contest our Lean,
Dick Van Dyke's wife is going to be the official
judge of this event at twelve thirty in Malibu, and
then there's a special screening of the film to help
raise revenue and money for the arts for kids in schools.
So it's kind of a special moment for us to
got to give back to the area as well, and
(02:51):
we're excited to bring this film to the world.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
We really say, I'll just tell everybody because I know
people don't necessarily have the calendar in their head. December
seventh is a Sunday, so it will be a day
long celebration in Malibu of Dick van Dyke's one hundredth birthday.
And it's on a Sunday, starts twelve thirty. So when
you talk about these stars who worked with him and
(03:13):
people who loved him through the years, from Tim Conway
to Maury Amsterdam to Rose Marie, So you're collecting these
interviews through the years, I mean these are obviously these
people have passed on many of them.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yeah, it's amazing. It's kind of a film that's take
one hundred years to make really because of mister Van
Dyke being one hundred. We've been on it for thirty years.
We started interviewing people back like Maury Amsterdam and Rose Marie,
and we went way back to kind of get we
wanted to be the ones to be like original and
get these interviews on our own. And there are things
that we've worked on and we've collected through the years
(03:47):
to build up to this big event in December.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
On December seventh. Yeah, So, Steve Betcher, what is your
relationship to the Van Dyke family or to Dick van
Dyke that you would be so committed to this through
the decades.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Yeah, we actually met with mister Van Dyke probably, I
want to say Tan or fifteen, maybe he was twenty
years ago. Instead of working on this, we worked really
close with mister Reiner, Carl Reiner on this, the creator
of the Dick Van Dyke Show. As you remember, Sure
and Arlene and Dick have been just really really supportive
of this and we're proud to bring it to Malibu
(04:19):
where they currently live. It's been their hometown for decades.
They live in Malibu, Thus Malibu is the perfect spot
for this. On December seventh.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Wow, Krozer, do you have a Dick Van Dyke lookalike
a ringer we could bring into the contest on Sunday now, now.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I specual prizes.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
One of the things that's been most stunning about Dick
Van Dyke's career is that he has gone comedy. The
Dick Van Dyke Show he did? What was the show
he did where he played he was in a Colombo
episode that I loved, okay where he played the heavy
he played in The Murderer he was in. Yeah, what
was the show that he did with Scott Bayo where
he was the diagnosis was Diagnosis?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
You remember Diagnosis?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Murdering with diagnos yeah, Jackades, Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I think they did, like I think they did almost
like ten years of that show. And also there's a
show that we feature. The comic which is kind of
a different side of mister Van Dyke is in the film.
Michelle Lee is his wife in the film, and it's
kind of another look at a special moment and a
special career moment for him. So this film highlights all
the great moments We've kind of fall in love with
the magic of the music and just his great ability,
(05:32):
which man, we're fortunate to be able to share with everyone.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Again, it's in Malibu. On December seventh, Dick Van Dyke's
legacy played out in Malibu's Dick Van Dyke one hundredth
Birthday celebration. We're talking to Steve Betcher, the filmmaker director
of Dick Vandyke a hundred celebration. He did a movie
that was really, at the time kind of watershed. It
was about being an alcoholic.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I want to say.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
It was called like The Day After, the Morning After,
or something like that, and he spoke very it's.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
In the comic kind of a comedian's life who has
kind of come to an end, and it's kind of
you get up at three o'clock in the morning and
you watch your old shows and that's the comic. And
Kyle Reiner wrote it for mister Van Dyke, and it's
kind of a different take on his career.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Oh wow, Well, I know he was very open about
his own struggles with alcoholism, and he was one of
those of completely functioning alcoholics. So what I'm thinking of
is called The Morning After it was a sure yeah, yeah, yeah,
And the morning after he played this guy who just
couldn't stop and he was completely functional, but it destroyed
(06:42):
his life, and it was a project very very dear
to him. I remember it because he was so outspoken.
He was on all the talk shows speaking about it.
And this guy, Dick Van Dyke is happy, effective, amazingly
talented guy. It's incredible to think that he was an
alcoholic at the time, or like that he had a
real battle with alcohol at the time.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I think it's made him so endearing. Is first of all,
anyone that's lasted this long in the business is amazing.
To live one hundred years is really iconic, and I
guess we're kind of celebrating that in a great way
with this film and with this project that it's just,
you know, we fell in love with this guy a
long time ago, and he's still that kind of person
and that's what we love about him.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah, I think you're right, And I guess what I'm
referring to is sort of his honesty about everything in
his life. Just a remarkable retrospective. I can't wait to
see it. Congratulations Steve Betcher again the filmmaker director of
Dick Van Dyke, a one hundred celebration, I mean, one
of the great challenges. And I'm really out of time here,
but just to tell me how you did it? How
do you reduce all of that? We just scratched the
(07:43):
surface in this conversation, that incredible compendium of stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
How do you reduce it to a movie?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
That's why it took us thirty years to make this,
to be honest, it just took us that long to
figure it out. And you're like, you got to get
it right, and we believe we did. And this is
this is all only available in theaters. It's the only
place you can see this is in Fathomoevents dot Com
the thirteenth and fourteenth, and in Malibu. After that, we
go quiet. We're not going to be on streaming, We're
not going to be on television, We're not going to
be in eight these places. It's only available in movie theaters.
(08:14):
And the idea is to get everyone together and celebrate
jointly this birthday. That was really the catalyst for the idea.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Well, give us give him our best, give our best
to Dick Van Dyke, in to everybody there who puts
this celebration on again. It's Dick Van Dyke's birthday celebration
in Malibu December seventh. The director and filmmaker of this
big documentary will be part of this premiere in a
big way, and there'll be an official celebration with a
lookalike contest for Dick Van Dyke and Dick Obvi is there.
(08:42):
It kicks off at two week celebration on Dick Van Dyke.
Congratulations on the film and look forward to hearing good things.
Thanks a lot, all the best team.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
You in Malibu. Will save you a seat in Malibu,
I promise.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I love the idea Malibu December seventh. I'll surprise you.
I'll be there all right. All the best, see you,
Steve Betch. Thanks a lot. Yeah, wow, how do you
choose the guy's done so much? I just don't know
how you even build that documentary which it's like picking
between children, the different projects from Dick Van Dyke. I
have my big Dick Van Dyke story that I'll tell
(09:14):
you quickly. Oh yeah, he's in Malibu shopping at Ralph's.
There I'm walking out of Ralph's and there to my left,
walking in the parking lot. Is the legend himself, Dick
Van Dyke, pushing a grocery card just like I was,
and I said, hey, how are you? I said, I'm
(09:39):
a huge fan, and he said, hey, nice to meet you.
I wonder if that'll be in the movie. Probably not,
but that was the extent of it. And I'll change
the ending for if they ever come around for an interview.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
In the movie.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I'm sorry, I'm honest. It wasn't some huge finish. It's
a Tim Conway Junior show. Mark Thompson sitting in for Tim.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Mark Thompson.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Here.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Holidays have hit us, and yeah, Conway is off for
the holidays, and one thing that is out is parking.
Parking at Lax is really tough. You should check on parking,
not just flights when you go to Lax. I'm seeing
(10:40):
most of the general parking lots at Lax are sold out.
Valet sold out, General sold out.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
This is P one, P three, P four, P five.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
The lots that had available spots as of late this afternoon.
P one Valet, P one Premium A few in Premium
ev the P two, P. Four Valet p. Five General,
P six Valet, P seven, P six General and P
seven Valet. This means something to those of you who
(11:17):
go to LAX a lot, but you should spend, you know,
and sadly probably can't get away for less than one
hundred dollars for five days in the budget lot, and
if you're going for Valet, it's going to be close
to four hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
So again, check on your.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Your dates and the availability because lax is filling up,
and you know, you just might be best off with
a ride share of some kind or some kind of
other card service. The best time to go, I mean,
seven million Southern Californians are going to be hitting the
road or flying or cruising ahead of the Thanksgiving All day,
(12:02):
about five point eight eight million people are going to
travel to their Thanksgiving destination by car, seven hundred and
four thousand, by plane, one hundred and ninety six thousand
using another mode of transportation like a cruise or a
bus or a train. So they add it all up.
(12:22):
Triple A does this and they estimated about six point
seven eight million residents will travel fifty miles or more
from home during the Thanksgiving holiday travel period. That's more
than traveled more than fifty miles last year by about
three percent. It's just interesting to kind of see trends
(12:45):
when it comes to travel for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I don't know what you're planning.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
If you're going to stay at home, Krozier, you seem
like a stay at home kind of guy.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Are you might wrong?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Do you have all the obligations you have to go
to her family's place or one of those things.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
We have become more of the destination lately in the
last couple of years.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
We've got a little bit bigger house. Is that fun
to have everybody over because you've entertained very well? Actually
that house is kind of laid out for entertainment.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
Yeah, we're always working on trying to make it a
place that Yeah, that's kind of what Jen likes. You know,
She's one of those people she wants to at least
have the option to let's just do it right here.
Everybody just show up and yeah, she's kind of gotten
that way, and her parents come over and siblings and
her siblings, Jen siblings and such a.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
And it's casual. Right.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's what like if I got invited
to your thing, that would be a comfortable Thanksgiving because
it's casual.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
We do the pre made drinks, poor and go and
maybe a couple of games to loosen it up a
little more.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yeah, you put all the MAGA people on one side
and all the libs on the other side.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
That's how you do it, one rope.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
The best the worst times to drive, According to TRIPLEA,
you want to get right to the crush, which is Wednesday.
We'll start with Tuesday, November twenty fifth. Noon to nine
is the worst time to travel. They say the best
time to travel is before noon, so that's tomorrow, Okay,
(14:24):
the twenty fifth Wednesday is the real crush day. The
worst time to travel is between eleven am and eight pm.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
I mean, there you have it, travel before eleven or
after eight I guess eleven am and eight pm.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
That's what I thought. Are you kidding? So basically the
whole day is crap. Yeah, that's daylight.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Now. The time to.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Travel, though, they say, in general, is on Thanksgiving. If
you're driving, minimal traffic is expected. I don't know what
minimal traffic means, because in southern California, I always feel like,
you know, minimal traffic could still leave you in you know,
stop and go traffic. But your best shot over the
(15:15):
next few days again if you're driving is on Thanksgiving
and then again Worset travel time on Friday is one
pm to seven pm, So the afternoon hour is that
a lot of people truvel unless shop or travel to shopping.
I feel like on Friday and Saturday, isn't that Black
Friday when everybody gets their shopping done. I don't know
(15:37):
how much online shopping has alleviated that. But and then
they basically say, you know, after that, go before ten am,
before eleven am through the weekend. So and they say
leave early, watch for construction, slow down, move over for
emergency responders.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
And that is your tip from Triple A.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So between parking and you know, there is information online
you can see exactly what areas to avoid and what
parking lots might still be available. But that's a situation
for Thanksgiving. It's a Tim Conway Junior show. Tim is
already away. He found the very best time to leave
was like a week before Thanksgiving. Mark Thompson sitting in.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Mark Thompson sitting in for Tim Conway's junior. I'm just
talking about the holidays and romance during the holidays, and
the end of romance during the holidays, so.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Pretty heartbreaking.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
As it turns out, we go through the staff and
I was just kind of sampling, and I guess there's
a real stories or heartbreak check it out. Holidays are
a time that a lot of people break up. And again,
this is not playing, so you can play this story
for me, Alie and for everybody else.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Listen.
Speaker 8 (17:01):
It's the most wonderful time of the year for some
and maybe probably the worst time of year for others.
Move over cupping season.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
We're approaching the Turkey drop.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
Dating experts say that the next few weeks we'll see
peak breakups this as holiday can bring added pressures from families, finances,
and feelings, pushing some to call it quits. It's almost
the last checkpoint before hitting a marathon of coupled centric
holidays like Christmas New Year's And that's true, okay.
Speaker 9 (17:29):
Because the number one breakup time of year. And I
think it really does have to do with what you
just said. There's a lot of pressure with holidays, the events, meeting,
the friends meeting, people's family, financial investment. A lot of
people are coming back from college and realizing they might
want to break up with their hometown significant others.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Wow, come on, hold.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
On tight that first semester, it's.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Not working out.
Speaker 9 (17:48):
I got a dip now because you got Thanksgiving, then
you got Christmas, maybe Hanukah, New Year's and then Valentine's Day.
A lot of gifts, a lot of gifts.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
All right, So you said the ones coming home from college,
who is most at vulnerable or at risk of being told.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
To bye bye?
Speaker 9 (18:05):
I think anybody that's really unsure of where you stand
in your relationship. Yeah, which is why clear communication.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (18:11):
Right now, The question I want to know is is
there really ever a right time to break up with somebody?
Speaker 5 (18:16):
You know, you always feel that you're always a.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
Couple of weeks away from like a big moment. So
when's the right time to finally call it quits?
Speaker 9 (18:22):
I would say, right after I get off air?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Yes.
Speaker 9 (18:27):
Well, I'm just saying, if you know you want to
break up with someone, you should do it because the
one thing we can't get back is time.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Wow. Wow.
Speaker 9 (18:34):
And impart of why I wrote my book is I
realized that I did waste a lot of time, right,
and there's the self betrayal. There's like, oh, I should
have done that, I miss those red flags, I ignore
these things, and now I can't get that time back right.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
All right, well how about this, you're there, so any
advice for heartbreakers or advisors or anything for them right now?
Speaker 9 (18:55):
Oh gosh, I mean, if you've just been dumped, it
does get better. I the quicker you can see you're
ending as a new beginning. The quicker you get to
start writing your next chapter and like really step into
your power.
Speaker 10 (19:08):
So that's the good news.
Speaker 9 (19:09):
And for somebody that wants to break up with their
significant other, we are in a communication crisis. Please do
not coast, Like, even if you don't want to be
with this person, learning to have uncomfortable conversations is going
to be the thing that you need when you do
meet that person that you want to spend the rest
of your life with.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
So don't coast, but don't go.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
Don't try to like leave the door open, because clarity
is kindness, clarity is care. So really give that person
closure and put a period at the end of that sentence.
Speaker 8 (19:39):
Block the numbers, block, the social media, block everything.
Speaker 10 (19:41):
Oh I have built a graveyard.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Oh, she sounds tough on your phone.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
You have to come back. I like that.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Rory uphold you're the best.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
You're the best. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
It sounds like she governs with a stern hand when
it comes to romance. I do think she made some
probably all the points she made her good. But I
wouldn't think people coming back from college and so one thing,
I would think you'd look forward to seeing your you know,
the first thing you're going out. But on the other hand,
I guess, you know, when you're at college you kind
(20:16):
of developed new relationships. Who knows, But for the rest
of us, I guess she makes a pretty strong case
for the fact that there are pressures around the holidays
that are so couples oriented that maybe that makes you
reevaluate the relationship. I don't know. Now we have had
personal experiences here. Hard to believe that anybody would break
(20:38):
up with anyone on this show. Everyone is You All
seem like heartbreakers to me, But I guess there have
been hearts broken, especially Sam.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
What happened Sam?
Speaker 11 (20:48):
Oh, jeez, I had my acts of seven years. I
caught her cheating on me just before Christmas, and it
was with a buddy of mine from like years before. Wow,
and it all like you could see things boiling up
on Thanksgiving. I had a friends, I had a bunch
of friends over for Thanksgiving, and you could.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
See something there.
Speaker 11 (21:12):
But I was also trying to not really pay attention
to it, because after seven years you kind of hope
that you have that sense of trust with someone.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Sure, but then yeah, so let's just go back to
Thanksgiving for a minute. This guy was at Thanksgiving with
you guys. Yeah, absolutely, and you sensed maybe something. You thought,
maybe boy, they're awfully friendly or something like that.
Speaker 11 (21:33):
Yeah, it wasn't just me. A lot of people were
noticing it. And then uh, once once people started finding
out exactly what happened, everybody kind of traced it back
to that moment.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
They see, that's the thing.
Speaker 11 (21:46):
They lied in gas lit and did everything they could
to communicate it very poorly.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
So yeah, I would have broken his nose if I
had the chance.
Speaker 11 (21:54):
I haven't seen them since, but if they had told
me the truth, I would have punched him in the face.
But then I would have gotten him night pack and said,
at least, you know, thanks for respecting me enough to
tell me the truth. I can at least then be
in your guys' atmosphere, you know, going forward.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
But the way they handled it made it so you
showed me.
Speaker 11 (22:11):
How much respect you had, and I don't want to
be around people who are going to have that little respect.
Speaker 12 (22:15):
By the way, Sam is looking kind of red right now,
just as he was telling that story.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Bringing bringing back the anger. So what you're saying, oh, yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
No that I'm still pissed off about.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
It, but no, Well, seven years is a long and
a long time to invest in a relationship and then
to find out that I mean, that's that's really rough.
Speaker 11 (22:33):
Yeah, but you know, you move on and you know,
I found life a lot happier after that. And what
the person that was talking the second you let things
go is the second you get to start actually living
your life and you're no longer a slave to the
person who hurt you.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
I do think when you're when you're hanging onto a
relationship that isn't working anymore than you are costing yourself time.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
I agree with that, oh one hundred percent.
Speaker 11 (22:55):
So it's important to realize, you know, sometimes you have
to go through a lot of those you know, after
spending a lot of time with somebody. Everything you see
you immediately associated to that person. So you know, just
driving down the street, you see landmarks on the road
that remind you of a hare to that restaurant, and
you slowly have to disconnect all of those little emotional
strings that connect you, and it hurts, but over after
(23:18):
time passes, you slowly realize you're stronger, you're better, and
now you have the freedom to actually make something different happen.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Krozer.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
In Sam's story, who is to blame more the woman
with whom Sam was involved or the friend who he'd
known for a long time who poached the girl.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
Just planning to blame to go around of course. But
I'm gonna go with a friend unless that kind unless
that communication was happening. I think you go with the friend.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah, just because of that reason. Yeah, that feels like
the bigger betrayal maybe for bros before Okay, anybody else
can tell their story in ten seconds or less?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
No, all you had you got one one.
Speaker 13 (24:09):
Yeah. It was just before Valentine's Day and me and
this girl, we both basically went feeling it and I
was just relieved that she broke up with me because
I didn't want to pay that Valentine's dinner I reserved.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
It was a win win genius. Yeah, onto the next. Plus,
every story always sounds better with an accent. I love it.
Well done. All right, that's it. Break up with them now,
break up with her now and have the freedom through
the holidays. It's Thompson here for Conway.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Mark Thompson here for Tim Conway Junior. Nicky was just
telling a producer the show that follows this one she
got broken up with on her birthday. That's kind of
a different thing. And that's really I mean, that's pretty
cold hearted. I mean, I don't understand how you could
do that. That seems like, you know, another universe of
(25:17):
cold heartedness. We're talking before the break about the fact
that apparently the holiday season, because they say that many
of the holiday related activities are couples related, that it
kind of increases the pressure, and that cranked up pressure
leads to breakups. And so they're saying, hey, if your borderline,
do yourself and your partner of favor and break up now,
(25:41):
because before you know it, it's the new year. Then
it's Valentine's Day. All right, I don't know. Did you
see this about people being stoned a Thanksgiving ritchie? I
like this story? Can we do it now?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
All right?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
All, you've got it. So apparently at Thanksgiving half of
the guests are likely stoned. Here's ali to tell you.
Speaker 10 (26:07):
Mark, let's disappear for a bit before Thanksgiving. Maybe they're
on a cousin walk. It's a newer term for probably
an old tradition taking a walk on Thanksgiving to smoke
some wheed. Of course, Oh nothing matters if it's not online.
So people are now documenting their experiences for TikTok. Some
say it helps with their appetite for a big meal,
like if you're vegan, niece from Venice suddenly has a
(26:28):
hanker and for honeybag ham that would be a cousin walk.
Others say the walk helps them better deal with their relatives.
So there's the cousin walk. Then there's the stepdad walk
where you start walking and you never come back, in
the glen walk where you cover your microphone and.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Say, let me tell you something, let me tell you.
Speaker 10 (26:46):
Well, the munchies might help you push through another helping
of broccoli. Cast role. There is evidence now that if
you rip enough joints, you will not want to drink
much alcohol. I don't know why we needed to study
for this. My friend Eric McMillan proved this many times
in high school.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
You know, I think it depends on what kind of
gathering you're attending. We've got, like I believe most everybody
on this show probably and people have kind of go
to casual gatherings, don't you. I mean the whole the
sort of the button down, you know what looks like
(27:22):
better homes and gardens type setup is just not typically
the kind of thanksgiving that people do anymore. We're kind
of a casual society. The ball games are on, you're
serving drinks. People are you know, nobody's getting dressed up particularly,
I think?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Am I right about that?
Speaker 10 (27:38):
Is?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Anybody does anybody go to think a more formal thing.
Speaker 9 (27:40):
No.
Speaker 11 (27:41):
I show up and I'm in stretchy pants, right I'm
I'm in clothes that are completely designed to fit as
much food in me as possible.
Speaker 12 (27:50):
I'm on like the other side of that, Like when
I have a friends giving, we try to dress up,
be a little bit presentable for photos. But when it
comes to like Thanksgiving at my mom's best believe I'm.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Also in sweats.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Yeah, it has it has a hit or miss.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yeah. We have two events on Thanksgiving. One is casual.
I mean, I don't think you can show up in
stretch pants and like, you know, a RAMS jersey. I mean,
but I think you can definitely not get super dressed up.
(28:28):
But I think I think at that first one you'd
have to be presentable. But the second one is done
at this high end restaurant and we were invited. We
haven't invited every year for the last ten years, and
it's a very generous thing that this family does by
including us. Yeah, but it's definitely you know, like I've
(28:50):
worn a tie a couple of years and it's sort
of a dress it up. So let me get back
to getting stoned. So what I'm saying is the cash
I think I could probably get away with an edible,
you know, peeking right around lunchtime. The button down one
(29:10):
where you're showing up and everybody's spiffed up and you're
each person to go around the room. You have to
make a little speech as to you know, it's a
little more pressure, you know, it's kind of like a
almost like a well, you get it. I mean, you
feel like a little anxiety almost over, you know, getting
up in front of this room. They're like, I don't know.
I'm going to say, twenty people there and it's at
(29:30):
this restaurant in a private room and it's a high
end place.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
I don't think I can do my edible for that.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I don't think I can be buzzed for that kind
of have to have it together. On the other hand,
and this stoners will appreciate this. That's when you need
your edible. You want your edible to take the edge off.
The anxiety is what jamming you. And the way to
deal with the anxiety can be not saying it should be,
(29:57):
not saying even if you want each you want it
to be, but it can be the thing to kind
of like just take the edge. So I don't know,
I'm just thinking, maybe I'll roll the dice do an
edible before this, uh button down. Thanksgiving, I've got to
go to bring a change of clothes with you.
Speaker 11 (30:18):
Show up in the in the really nice clothes, and
then one at some moment, excuse yourself to go to
the bathroom, change into the stretchy stuff and have an
a full.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
On outfit change. Wow, that would be that would that
would be That's a high end move. That's a high
wire move. It's establishing dominance. I see, I don't know
that I want to establish dominance, but I don't know
I this These are the vagaries of a stoneage of
doing the edible. And the other thing I would say
(30:47):
is the edible makes me tired, so you don't want
to fall asleep at the table. So but it's taking
the wrong one, then yeah, that may be. Actually there's
a new one. There are two of them that are
kind of ones called exhilarate I think which kind of
a it's you know they have when you go into
these as you know, into any.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Kind of pot plays dispensary. Yeah, thank you, it's the
word I want.
Speaker 13 (31:09):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
They're like some al so they're unbelievable and they can
tell you exactly that. It's it's like talking like to
Watson and Crick about the DNA breakdown of every single
strain of edible or whatever. And so they have in
addition to CBD and THC, they have CBN uh CB.
(31:32):
They're like I'm going to say, they're like three others
and a couple of them are involved in popping you up,
like kind of giving you a lift.
Speaker 7 (31:41):
Just planning to blame to go around of course. But
I'm going to go with a friend unless that kind
unless that communication was happening. I think you go with
the friend.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yeah, just because of that reason. Yeah, that feels like
the bigger betrayal maybe for bros before Okay, anybody else
can tell their story in ten seconds or less.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
No, ill you had you got one.
Speaker 13 (32:08):
Yeah. It was just before Valentine's Day and me and
this girl, we both basically went feeling it. And I
was just relieved that she broke up with me because
I didn't want to pay that Valentine's dinner I reserved.
Speaker 12 (32:22):
It was a win win, genius onto the next.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Plus, every story always sounds better with an accent. I
love it. Well done. All right, that's it. Break up
with them now, break up with her now, and have
the freedom through the holidays. It's Thompson here for Conway.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
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