December 9, 2025 • 31 mins
Tim Conway Jr. kicks off this Best Of hour with a special guest: Lawrence Payton Jr. of The Four Tops, sharing heartfelt and fascinating stories about his legendary father and life growing up around Motown greatness. The conversation continues with more behind-the-scenes moments from The Four Tops’ nonstop touring with The Temptations, including the fan-favorite song that gets every crowd on its feet.
The hour shifts into nostalgia as Tim dives into school memories and the hilarious saga of attending — or avoiding — high school reunions, including his unforgettable 40th. And things wrap up Conway-style with an open letter to King Taco, a passionate plea from the heart (and stomach).
A warm, funny, musical, and delightfully random Best Of hour that hits all the Conway notes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's camp. I am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app dohn
My Show. We have the Four Tops or one of
the Tops here, Lawrence Peyton Junior. They started way back
in nineteen fifty three, right, nineteen fifty three, So what
(00:22):
is that forty seven and twenty two, sixty nine years ago?
Seventy years of the Tops. But I believe that Lawrence
Peyton's dad was a four Top for one of the
four Tops, and he's with us. Lawrence Peyton Junior, how
are you, sir?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yes, sir, I'm fine. How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yay?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I can't believe in one of the four Tops. That's awesome.
It's me.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I'm right here, I'm here. Hey. Was it good, sunshine? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
It was your dad, one of the original Tops.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Absolutely, Lawrence Peyton Senior. Yes. Oh.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
And then so he goes back to the original founding
members in nineteen fifty three.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Absolutely, they got together at a party and they had
sung until his death in nineteen ninety seven after forty
four years, and they never broke up. The group just
stayed together and the only thing that separated them was death.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
That is incredible. Man, So did you grow up in Detroit?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I did. I grew up in Detroit, the home of Motown,
you know, you know, dwelling among all the Motown stars.
They were just like all my dad's ran So I've
seen it all. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
My mother was born and raised in Dearborn. So I
spent you know, two or three weeks every summer in Detroit,
and I loved it. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Oh yeah, you Detroit got Dearborn. That's just right next door.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Deerborn was great.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
We do sure. That's the home of Henry Ford.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yes, yes, everybody who worked for Ford lived in you know, Dearborn,
and then we'd we'd wander off to you know, Belle
Isle and Saunder's Hot Fudge. Now the whole summer thing,
you know.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Oh yes, oh right, bottle of boat you probably remember
the bottom. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, it's water park and all
of it.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
That's right. As a matter of fact, my mom's parents
lived in Deerborn until the I R. S. Guy came
over one night and said, you know, it was twenty
eight thousand, and my grandfather said, let me get a check.
It's in my check book. He went into the closet
pulled out a baseball bat and nearly killed the I R. S. Agent,
(02:21):
And that night he had to move all his entire
family over to Windsor because in Canada they had no
extradition at that time, and he lived the rest of
his life in Windsor, Canada because of his beating the
hell out of an I R. S. Agent.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Well, see, now that's a true Detroiter there, You know
what I mean. You can't just You're just not going
to pull up to my house and take my house
and throw me out, you know, not without a fight.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That's right. That's old school Detroit.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
You know, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
That is wild. So, man, that must have been an
unbunny Tim.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I got a question for you. Sure are you related
to Tim Conway the actor?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yes, that is my dad, I thought so.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I thought so. I knew when I've seen that name.
I was like, it's got to be related.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Not crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Absolutely, I'm a fan. I'm a fan of your file.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
But oh that's great, man. My dad was a big,
huge Four Tops fan. I mean he always he loved
all that music. He was turned onto that music early
because again my mom born and raised in Dearborn and
they met at bowling Green State University. So he'd go
every weekend back to their place in Dearborn and then go,
you know, into Detroit and listen to music all the time.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Oh yeah, you know, Detroit is a great music cub,
you know. I think that's why it had to musically,
because all types of music. We listened to everything. You
guys probably remember, I don't know if you're listening audience, remember,
but Paul Revere and the Raiders and all of those.
Oh yeah, I mean yeah, you know, Detroit was a
hub for that. So you had every genre of music there.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
But you probably you probably had people at your house
every weekend or so. I mean, you know, people that
we'd all know, Smokey Robinson, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Uh yeah, speaking of Smokey, wait, let me tell you
worry about Smokey. He pulls up in the driveway to
visit my father, A friend and a friend of mine
and I. We were out in the back playing basketball.
He came back and said I want to play. We
said okay, and look he went after us. He was
knocking his down for the rebound and he was just
so intense. And I thought, later on, in later years,
(04:18):
I said, no, that's why this guy is so successful
because he was just intense. I remember him telling me,
he said, I don't do Mendeleist. I played a win.
He had always stuck with me.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Well, you know, it's it's it's similarly. It's like that
that story of I can't remember which comedian. I think
it was rich and it wasn't Richard Pryor. I can't
remember who it was, but it was some Comediuan was
at a bar, or at a restaurant and was was
challenged to a basketball game with Prince and Prince's friends
(04:50):
and oh.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
That was Eddie Murphy.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yes, yes, Charlie Murphy and Eddie Murphy. And they went
back and and Prince just schooled everybody.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Listen, Prince could really play. He probably could have been
like tiny Archiball or something. He was very very good
on the basketball court. You know, people just sort of
just you know, by a size and everything. They kind
of discouraged him from playing. But the guy was tremendous
on the basketball court.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
All right, this is great Laurens Peyton juniors with us.
So who else would would stop by when you were
a kid? I mean what other people like we would know.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You just name it. You're just all the Motown acts.
I mean, like just just naming David Ruffling would come back.
My father was very very good with the ranging voices
and stuff like that. So a lot of the groups
would come by basically for singing lessons really to learn
different harmonies and stuff. And they sit around the piano.
So you know, like I just mentioned David Ruffing and Supreme,
(05:46):
some of the girl groups, the Marble Lets, I mean,
everybody shorty long, all the old Motown acts. They would
all be over to our house. It was just like
my fifth birthday. My father came and picked me up
and he said, come on, we're going I'm having a party.
We go to this hotel and there was one other
child there that was Duke Fakir's daughter Ki, and all
(06:07):
the rest were Motown stars.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Wow, it's about fifth birth was Michael Jackson would have
been too young, and Stevie young Stevie Wondermu would have
been too young too or maybe not.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Oh no, I remember Stevie wonder and I do remember
the Jackson's. They were like actually in Detroit about a
year before they actually put out a record and stuff.
So I kind of met them at the Gordy mansion
before and and all of that. Real nice guys, very talented.
They were magical then. Michael was just a ball of energy.
He was just incredible even then.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
So when did you leave Detroit or are you still
live there?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I still live in Detroit. I'm a Detroitter forever. But
for you, I mean, I'm not knocking la. I love
it out here and all of this, but I'm a Detroiter.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, I love Detroit. I love the fact that, you know,
after a thousand years, they're probably they're they're finally putting
another bridge over to Canada. You know, it's a billion.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Years, absolutely after a thousand years, and they're.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Calling it the Gordy Howbridge. How cool is that?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
That's beautiful? I mean it's said because he bridged listen,
you know it's very appropriate. Yeah, because he bridged the
racist together through music, you know what I mean. And
it's very appropriate, you know, really he did.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah. But now you know, you probably remember this because
you were born and raised in Detroit, but you remember
Whodini died in Detroit.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I remember that. I do remember. I don't remember him
dying there, but I know that it happened.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Right, And my grand my grandfather was in I was
owned a funeral home, and he embombed Houdini and stole
his gold watch. And I saw that watch about forty
years ago. My uncle had it and no one's seen
it since.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Wow. Can you imagine what that's worth history?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Can you imagine what what what a gold watch is worse?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I've just seen a documentary on Hudini and there one
of his artifacts were auctioned off for like half a
million dollars or something like that exactly David Copperfield bought
it or something.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Oh that's wild. All right, we got to say break.
Can you stay with us or do you got to go?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah? No, I'm fine, Oh nill.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Okay, all right, hold on one second. This is great
Lawrence Peyton Junior the Four Tops, and man, this guy
is one of the most upbeat guests we have ever had.
I love this guy, Lawrence Payton Junior. His dad was
the original member.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
The Four Tops, and I believe there's only one original
member still playing with them that's singing with them.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
And which one it is when we come back?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
We will. Okay.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Laurence Payton Juniors. Whether it's the Four Tops man. Everybody
listening to radio right now, either yourself, your parents, or
your grandparents have stories about the Four Tops. How Lawrence,
how big a tour is this for you?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Well, you know we we we're on tour all year round,
so we do about eighty shows a year in about
fifty or six fee of those are actually with the Temptations.
Oh wow, all the time. Yes, yeah, absolutely, yes, it's
called the TMT show. Like I said, about fifty or
sixty shows a year were with them, and the other
shows here on our own or with the Beach Boys
(09:14):
or other acts.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
You know, what's the one song where it makes the
audience crazy?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Wow, I tell you what it's got to be. There's
a couple it's the same old song, and I can't
help myself. They just go nuts over those. But I
mean all of them, shake me, wake me, Maybe I
need your love, and that just ain't no woman like
when my girl. I'm just running them off, burn it debt.
Oh man, It's just you know, there's one outter another.
(09:41):
You know, they just they get excited about them all.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Really, by the way, I heard a rumor that Abdull
that the Duke, one of the original members, is still singing.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yes he is. That's not a rumor, that's the fact.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
So his name is Duke, right, Abdul's name is.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
For about a year and a half ago he failed
down and broke his hip. But he's up dancing and everything.
But every now and then he'll have to sit on
the stool and everything because of that.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
So he's got to be how old I mean if
he's born in thirty five seven years old.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Years old and he's been singing with this group and
performing with the Four Tops for sixty a year, can
you imagine that? Just think about that, Wow, postman or
something or a factory worker. You you would have been
Tiget twice.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
That is unbelievable. Really truly is amazing. I mean, what
a long, beautiful life he's had. He's got to write
a book. Has he written a book or or a
biography or anything?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
A matter of fact, he's got going out. It's called
I'll Be There, My Life with the Four Tops by
Duke Fakir and it was released about two months ago.
And if you get a chance to go up, go
out and pick it. Up. There's a lot of history there,
you know, a lot of because I don't know if
you guys know before they signed with Motown they had
been with two, three or four other record companies. But
before even before the record company, they have performed with
(11:01):
Count Basie and Billy Eckstein and groos like that, you know,
singing jazz or some so this it's a lot of
history in that book. Go out and get it.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I will. And if he's ever wanting to sell some books,
wants to come on radio man, we'd love to talk
to him for five or ten minutes. I can't believe that.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I think I can almost say equifically he would love
to do that, and I will tell him that's great.
You will be hearing.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Okay, Buddy, I really can't believe. I mean, what a
great life you've had. It's so rich in music and
friends and family. I'm just completely envious that you've had,
you know, such a great run and such a great
attitude towards life. I was just talking to Sharon Belly
and you're the son of Seriously, I mean, Buddy, all
(11:47):
the good.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Actor comedia come up like brothers in this entertainment thing here.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I know, but man, all the people that you know,
that all of my heroes that and all my mom
My mom was the biggest Stevie One fan in the world,
you know, born and raised in Detroit and and and
he's become my favorite and for you to just like
casually know him is incredible.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Oh yeah, it was just like like I said, it
was just hanging out with dad's friends. It was really
normal to me. You know. It wasn't until later on
in life. I really really appreciated those experiences because I
was like, you know that blanket that the guy on
Charlie Brown with here, Well, and that's how it was
with my father. I was his blanket of everywhere he
went and I went, so I got to see all
of that and it was quite quite an experience, a
(12:30):
learning experience too.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah that's great.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I'm not just in his group because of nethotism. I
can do this thing.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I can sing you got it? And sar Sharon Belly
are our producer. I've been working with her for twelve
years and I can I can count on one finger
the time she came in here and said, this is
a great guest, and she did it during the break
and she said this guy should teach other people how
to be radio guests.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Oh well, they tell U. I said, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
You're wonderful. You you have such a great energy and person.
You've been such a delight.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Thank you, Sharon. I really appreciate that. You know, Like
I said, we just do it for the fans, and
I'm just glad to be here, to honor to be here.
It's honor to be in the group. If my father
wants to represented, and I just want to do that,
you know what I mean. So it's my pleasure.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Please, if you're ever in town again, I always got
a home here. We'll love to have you on any time,
and any kind of publicity you need, well we'll tackle
it for you.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
All right. Thank you, Tim, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
All right, appreciate it one. Are you all right? That's
a great guest man, Lawrence Peyton Junior. At the four times.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
My reunions coming up. Yeah, not so loud.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Sorry everybody that I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Oh my god, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I don't know, if I don't know, if I want
to go don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Oh, you have to. You're a movie star.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I love all the people I went to school with.
I just I don't know what to say to anybody.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
The ones you care about you already still see, right.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yeah, I'd like to see the other people I haven't
seen in a while.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Did you go to your was it thirtieth or which
was the last one?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah, I didn't go to the twentieth because I was
out of town. I lived in Canada at the time,
and I don't think I went to the thirtieth either. No,
I did. I went to the thirty or thirty fifth.
I remember going to one.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Now all your buddies that you're still friends with, are
they going, Yeah, you have to.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
They all drink and they wrestle. They wrestle, they wrestle.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
You have to go, that'd be cool. Yeah, I don't
if I get a picture.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I don't if I can wrestle, though, right, Well, you.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
And Krozier and Stefush can practice.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
And I remember, Yeah, there's about eight of us that
I've known since either third grade or seventh grade, and
we were wrestling, wrestling, wedding and I remember I Nancy
Nancy Tamkin saying to another wife. One of the other
wives said, hey, how come these guys every time there's
(15:12):
a big wedding they get drunk and they tackle each
other and wrestle, and Nancy goes because they don't know
how to communicate. And she nailed us right exactly, Yeah,
just a little you know, cut off, cut off, lows right,
We're just a little we just shut down, right. Guys
(15:32):
do that as you get older, just shut down, right,
thing doing. And my dad did that right. I remember
I told the story on the air, but I was
at home one day. I remember I was home. I'm,
you know, sick or got kicked out of school or whatever.
And my mom, who was going out to do errands,
(15:53):
said to my dad, hey, can you take Jamie's lunch
to him? He forgot his lunch, which is my young
second young brother, and and my dad said yeah sure.
And I remember my dad getting in the car with
my dad and he gets in the car, he starts
up and I s Dad, you don't know what school
you're going to do. And he says, I have no idea.
(16:17):
And he says, he says, where does your brother go?
And I said, he goes to Portola it's in Tarzana.
I'll show you how to get there. He goes, Oh,
I know, I know where it is. He goes. He goes, wait,
he goes, Jamie's in Portola already. I said, yeah, Dad,
this is second year. He only has one year left
and then he's going to go to Birmingham. He goes, Wow,
that's kind of nice, that's kind of look at him
(16:39):
in My dad couldn't tell you any of our teachers.
He could probably tell you one or two of my friends' names. Oh,
that's not true. He would nail Robbie Fox, Matt McDaniel,
Mike Tennessee, oh Crouch, you'd nail Crouch. I think it'd
be a tough time with the other chaps. No, he
can nailp Joe Joe. I did say five or six friends. Yeah,
(17:02):
that was a touchdown walk off homer for my dad. Right.
But man, you put my dad into school into a
car and say hey, can you, you know, take Corey's
lunch to him, He's like, what, I don't know where
that kid goes to school. But he wasn't the only
dad like that. You know. I had a couple of
(17:23):
friends whose dada dad said no idea where what they
did during the day.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yeah, I think that that was prevalent.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
About your dad. Did your dad know you where you
went to school and your teachers?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
We lived right across the street from the school.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
He figured it out pretty quick, No, he did, because
my mother was the one that went to all the
you know, parent teacher conferences and yeah, so no he couldn't.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I remember I had to my my dad wasn't big
on you know, back to school night and stuff like that,
because I wasn't big on it either, because that's when
I always got the talking to why oh he sits
here and annoys that kid and that kid, and that
they always leaves his sweater here and then No, but
I just found my way into predicaments my prediction.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
Yeah, let's look where I am.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
But I remember, I remember in fifth grade, either fourth
or fifth grade, we're going to have somebody come into
the auditorium to teach all the boys. The girls didn't
have to go. All the boys had to go. And
it was going to be the Birds and the Bees
conversation in fourth grade in the auditorium, And I remember
(18:33):
my mom didn't want to go for obvious reasons, right,
And I dragged my dad to this thing, and man,
was he embarrassed sitting there talking to you fourth graders
about their wieners the worst, and then just that he
sits there, he's got his hat eyes like, oh man,
(18:55):
what am I doing? So my dad on the way
home had to talk with me. He said, hey, he says, uh,
if you get Anyboddy pregnant, I've made a couple of bucks,
I'll help you out. Was a wrap. Wow, that's it.
That would have been great though. Yeah, I been a
(19:16):
couple of bucks. Do whatever you want to care But
did you guys have that in school? We went to
the auditorium and they had They showed a film.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Scrip and not in the auditorium, no talk to you
about them in the classroom.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
I believe we do it the whole school. All well,
there were there were five fourth grade classes and they
all went to the auditorium at night. Remember how I
remember how sort of weird but cool it was to
go to school at night.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
It was so weird. Yeah, I always remembered it like
this is so odd.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, like the back to school pta all that stuff,
and it was kind of a cool vibe. You know,
the moon's out and you see the playground that you
can't see anything. You know, at night all the lights
are on. There's a cool vibe about it.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Or you'd see like when whenever I saw teachers like
out of their element or like in different clothes and stuff.
It was so I remember seeing a teacher in the
teachers land smoking, but it was like it was like scandalous.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Smoking.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I believe he was smoking.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
It's because they weren't real to you, because they were
this authoritative figure and so.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah, no, I don't. It was that was wild man,
you know.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
When I went because I went to l a u.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
S d.
Speaker 8 (20:27):
And like the beginning of my elementary school career, and
it was back at a time where.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
The teachers had their students over to their homes and
we would do stuff with them. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
What I remember one time, and I totally remember her name,
missus Fostry. We went over to her place. We had
we played tennis, and then we had like a pollock dinner.
It wasn't just her, it was a couple of other
teachers also, but I mean we went to their home
and we know.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Way, yeah, lots of tennis, lots of tennis, lots of tennis.
That's weird, man. I don't think I ever was invited
to any of my teachers' homes.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
Yeah, another time they.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Like you imagine that nowadays, angel, Like you know, like
you know, your seven year old is invited your teacher's
house with a couple of other friends. You'd be like, what, Nope,
the hell out of here. Yeah, that's how far did
they live from you?
Speaker 7 (21:26):
They lived pretty close to the school, so not not
too far away.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
I think one of them lived like over in the
Los Felis area, and we were, you know, over in
Hollywood a little more, but just east of the school.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Did you have paper drives when you were a kid?
Speaker 7 (21:44):
Paper drives you collect all.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
The newspaper and you know, stack them up out around
the school and whoever got the most paper got like
pizza for the day or something.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
Oh I think like in like sixth grade.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah, yeah, big dog, we had a big, huge Yeah.
I'd love that. I'd love that paper drive because we
used to go collect them off on early Sunday morning.
We just go around the neighborhood and collect their Sunday times.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Right, they won't miss that, yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Right they We never got caught doing it, but we
just collected you know people's newspapers. Look, we got one
hundred of Sunday's Times, Like where'd you get that? We
just bought them? Or you go on the machine and
put a quarter in and take ten them.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Yeah yeah, I used to do that as a kid.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
I you know, put a coin in and then take
all the papers and then go sell the papers.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Oh that's great. See you're an entrepreneur, but you also remember,
like the kids today won't remember this, but you remember
always checking the coin slot and the payphone.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah, Like if.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
There's ten minut a row bying dang ding ding d Yeah,
you found a quarter.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Like what Yeah, it's like a y slap machine.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
That's right, that's great.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I wrote an open or today, dear dear King Taco
today on my way back from Orange County the Anaheim
Convention Center. To be exact, I needed King Taco. Buzzed
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up the five Freeway connected to the seven ten fairly
successfully and got off the freeway where the seven ten
crosses the sixty Freeway. I believe one of the original
locations of King Taco. I couldn't find parking, so drove
(23:44):
around the block and finally found a space on the street.
Locked the car, walked back to the restaurant, and I
was floored when I saw the line of people sixty
five deep. So I walked back to the car, depressed
(24:07):
out of my mind. By now it's four point thirty
and time is becoming an issue. Got to get back
to work at least by five point thirty. So I
opened up my ways, typed in King Taco, and they
said there was another location that I was familiar with,
(24:29):
the one on Broadway.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Got in the.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Car, drove to the one on Broadway, maybe a six
minute drive, maybe ten minute drive. Buzzed into the parking lot,
found a parking space right away, unusual on a Friday
afternoon at King Taco. I walked to the front door,
(24:55):
realized I left my wallet in the car and went back,
grab my wallet, open the front door, and again shocked
by the twenty five people in line in front of me.
Looked at this time on my phone and said, no way,
(25:16):
there's no way I have time to stand in this line.
King Taco, you are the in and out of Mexican food.
My favorite place for years and the Salsa Verde is
second to none. However, you need more locations. You need
(25:40):
a San Fernando Valley location, like maybe Burbank, although maybe
it's like living near a casino. I don't know if
I could survive living a half mile away from a
King Taco, great food, great service, more locations, possible drive
(26:04):
through and delivery. Maybe right, with all of my love,
your biggest fan in the valley, Conway, I'm wait. I'll
wait for your response in the mailroom. Tim Conway Jr.
(26:28):
Care of KA five thirty four hundred West Olive, Sweet
five point fifty, Burbank, California, nine one five o five.
(26:55):
That's a wrap.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
Wait, I need a sei uesta After that.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I couldn't believe it. Man, every time I go to
these King Tacos, there's nine hundred people in front of me.
All right.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
They closed the one out by me?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
No way?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Yeah, it had been there for a long time, is
that right? Yeah? Man?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Oh Man. During COVID, just like a month or two ago,
I think, really, yeah, that's strange, man, that's really odd
because every time I go to one, there's one in
downtown LA that's two blocks away from another King Taco,
and they're always jammed. There's always fifty people on line.
You ever go to their step? Is that King Taco?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
No.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
I was just gonna say, it's funny that you referenced
in and out because I had that experience. I was like, oh,
Internet sounds good, and then you see the line, You're like, Nope,
not worth it. It's just ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
I always jump in line, but I didn't have time today.
No time, man, But I can't believe there's not a
single King Taco location in the San Fernando Valley. I
don't know if King Taco has noticed, but there's two
million people live here in the sanfa in a valley. Now,
I'm sure they're expanding, you know, and they're expanding in
a in a reasonable way that makes sense on a
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business level. Bud Man, oh man, I I dream about
that food. It's weird. I'm like obsessed by it.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Really.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, I have dreams, and you just.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Do like straight like regular what tacos?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yeah, like Carnea sad in rice burrito and then Carnirio, yeah,
and then carnios sat at tacos. Here's my order, three
tacos and two burritos. With an extra large salsaverity twenty
four dollars and fifty cents and and I and man,
when I get there and there's nobody in line, it's
it's like a walk off Homer.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
God, when does that ever happen?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Like once?
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Maybe do you ever?
Speaker 4 (28:47):
You never experiment? You never know?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
No, no, no, no, no, Crozier, come on, come on
knowing each other for a long time, missing out. Man,
I'm a taketos guy.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
I did notice that they have chimmy chunga's and flouts.
So the last time I went there, I got floutus,
which is like a taketo. They're pretty good too, right,
But you're not changing up the meat. No, no, no, no,
I know. I'm not with the you know, bat's tail
and tongues and all that stuff or oxdale is it oxtail? Oxtail?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
I mean, Neil Savadri eats that crap that oxtail.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
But still is good.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I know.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
But but the ox's tail has spent the entire oxes
life about a half inch from the oxs a hole.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Thank you, Carla, our newsletter just texted me. She says,
wants to know if you know there's a King Taco
in Glendale.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Sure, I know exactly where Broadway. Yeah, that's one I
always go to. Yeah, it's right. It's right near the
in and out there on Broadway. The one I used
to have to go to all the time was the
one in Pasadena. That was the closest one. Then they
opened one in Glendale. But when they opened in Glendale,
I had to give him a couple of months because
they had a new grill and it wasn't seasoned yet,
right right, Yeah, they had to work that in. But
(29:58):
there's a beautiful one down near Dodger Stadium. It's one
of the originals as well.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
But man, I've been to the one in Pasadena and
the one that just closed in Ontario. I think it's
Ontario was supposed to Upland, but on Mountain there. And
I would go to the one by me in Ontario,
like late on a Saturday night or something like the best.
Oh that's some dangerous times. That is a dangerous time.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
But they had the guard there.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
I almost got the crap kicked out of me one time. Man,
you know, I.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Went to the one real quick. I know, we got
to take break. I went to one on Pico and
I was driving back from Orangecam with my wife, my daughter,
and I went to the one on Pico, right near
the one ten the ten Freeway, and on the way
home from King Taco, Jason Slanka was talking on the
fue Go. Yeah, I just went to the King Takoes.
Which one do you go to? I said, the one
on Pico.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
He goes.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Dude's ten o'clock and night you went there with your
wife and your daughter. I said, yeah, he goes. You
know that last night a guy got murdered right at
the payphone right near that King Taco. My nice. Yeah,
even if I knew that, I still would have buzzed
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It's camp. I am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app dohn
My Show. We have the Four Tops or one of
the Tops here, Lawrence Peyton Junior. They started way back
in nineteen fifty three, right, nineteen fifty three, So what
(00:22):
is that forty seven and twenty two, sixty nine years ago?
Seventy years of the Tops. But I believe that Lawrence
Peyton's dad was a four Top for one of the
four Tops, and he's with us. Lawrence Peyton Junior, how
are you, sir?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yes, sir, I'm fine. How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yay?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I can't believe in one of the four Tops. That's awesome.
It's me.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I'm right here, I'm here. Hey. Was it good, sunshine? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
It was your dad, one of the original Tops.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Absolutely, Lawrence Peyton Senior. Yes. Oh.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
And then so he goes back to the original founding
members in nineteen fifty three.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Absolutely, they got together at a party and they had
sung until his death in nineteen ninety seven after forty
four years, and they never broke up. The group just
stayed together and the only thing that separated them was death.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
That is incredible. Man, So did you grow up in Detroit?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I did. I grew up in Detroit, the home of Motown,
you know, you know, dwelling among all the Motown stars.
They were just like all my dad's ran So I've
seen it all. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
My mother was born and raised in Dearborn. So I
spent you know, two or three weeks every summer in Detroit,
and I loved it. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Oh yeah, you Detroit got Dearborn. That's just right next door.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Deerborn was great.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
We do sure. That's the home of Henry Ford.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yes, yes, everybody who worked for Ford lived in you know, Dearborn,
and then we'd we'd wander off to you know, Belle
Isle and Saunder's Hot Fudge. Now the whole summer thing,
you know.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Oh yes, oh right, bottle of boat you probably remember
the bottom. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, it's water park and all
of it.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
That's right. As a matter of fact, my mom's parents
lived in Deerborn until the I R. S. Guy came
over one night and said, you know, it was twenty
eight thousand, and my grandfather said, let me get a check.
It's in my check book. He went into the closet
pulled out a baseball bat and nearly killed the I R. S. Agent,
(02:21):
And that night he had to move all his entire
family over to Windsor because in Canada they had no
extradition at that time, and he lived the rest of
his life in Windsor, Canada because of his beating the
hell out of an I R. S. Agent.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Well, see, now that's a true Detroiter there, You know
what I mean. You can't just You're just not going
to pull up to my house and take my house
and throw me out, you know, not without a fight.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That's right. That's old school Detroit.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
You know, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
That is wild. So, man, that must have been an
unbunny Tim.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I got a question for you. Sure are you related
to Tim Conway the actor?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yes, that is my dad, I thought so.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I thought so. I knew when I've seen that name.
I was like, it's got to be related.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Not crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Absolutely, I'm a fan. I'm a fan of your file.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
But oh that's great, man. My dad was a big,
huge Four Tops fan. I mean he always he loved
all that music. He was turned onto that music early
because again my mom born and raised in Dearborn and
they met at bowling Green State University. So he'd go
every weekend back to their place in Dearborn and then go,
you know, into Detroit and listen to music all the time.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Oh yeah, you know, Detroit is a great music cub,
you know. I think that's why it had to musically,
because all types of music. We listened to everything. You
guys probably remember, I don't know if you're listening audience, remember,
but Paul Revere and the Raiders and all of those.
Oh yeah, I mean yeah, you know, Detroit was a
hub for that. So you had every genre of music there.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
But you probably you probably had people at your house
every weekend or so. I mean, you know, people that
we'd all know, Smokey Robinson, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Uh yeah, speaking of Smokey, wait, let me tell you
worry about Smokey. He pulls up in the driveway to
visit my father, A friend and a friend of mine
and I. We were out in the back playing basketball.
He came back and said I want to play. We
said okay, and look he went after us. He was
knocking his down for the rebound and he was just
so intense. And I thought, later on, in later years,
(04:18):
I said, no, that's why this guy is so successful
because he was just intense. I remember him telling me,
he said, I don't do Mendeleist. I played a win.
He had always stuck with me.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Well, you know, it's it's it's similarly. It's like that
that story of I can't remember which comedian. I think
it was rich and it wasn't Richard Pryor. I can't
remember who it was, but it was some Comediuan was
at a bar, or at a restaurant and was was
challenged to a basketball game with Prince and Prince's friends
(04:50):
and oh.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
That was Eddie Murphy.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yes, yes, Charlie Murphy and Eddie Murphy. And they went
back and and Prince just schooled everybody.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Listen, Prince could really play. He probably could have been
like tiny Archiball or something. He was very very good
on the basketball court. You know, people just sort of
just you know, by a size and everything. They kind
of discouraged him from playing. But the guy was tremendous
on the basketball court.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
All right, this is great Laurens Peyton juniors with us.
So who else would would stop by when you were
a kid? I mean what other people like we would know.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You just name it. You're just all the Motown acts.
I mean, like just just naming David Ruffling would come back.
My father was very very good with the ranging voices
and stuff like that. So a lot of the groups
would come by basically for singing lessons really to learn
different harmonies and stuff. And they sit around the piano.
So you know, like I just mentioned David Ruffing and Supreme,
(05:46):
some of the girl groups, the Marble Lets, I mean,
everybody shorty long, all the old Motown acts. They would
all be over to our house. It was just like
my fifth birthday. My father came and picked me up
and he said, come on, we're going I'm having a party.
We go to this hotel and there was one other
child there that was Duke Fakir's daughter Ki, and all
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the rest were Motown stars.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Wow, it's about fifth birth was Michael Jackson would have
been too young, and Stevie young Stevie Wondermu would have
been too young too or maybe not.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Oh no, I remember Stevie wonder and I do remember
the Jackson's. They were like actually in Detroit about a
year before they actually put out a record and stuff.
So I kind of met them at the Gordy mansion
before and and all of that. Real nice guys, very talented.
They were magical then. Michael was just a ball of energy.
He was just incredible even then.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
So when did you leave Detroit or are you still
live there?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I still live in Detroit. I'm a Detroitter forever. But
for you, I mean, I'm not knocking la. I love
it out here and all of this, but I'm a Detroiter.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, I love Detroit. I love the fact that, you know,
after a thousand years, they're probably they're they're finally putting
another bridge over to Canada. You know, it's a billion.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Years, absolutely after a thousand years, and they're.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Calling it the Gordy Howbridge. How cool is that?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
That's beautiful? I mean it's said because he bridged listen,
you know it's very appropriate. Yeah, because he bridged the
racist together through music, you know what I mean. And
it's very appropriate, you know, really he did.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah. But now you know, you probably remember this because
you were born and raised in Detroit, but you remember
Whodini died in Detroit.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I remember that. I do remember. I don't remember him
dying there, but I know that it happened.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Right, And my grand my grandfather was in I was
owned a funeral home, and he embombed Houdini and stole
his gold watch. And I saw that watch about forty
years ago. My uncle had it and no one's seen
it since.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Wow. Can you imagine what that's worth history?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Can you imagine what what what a gold watch is worse?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I've just seen a documentary on Hudini and there one
of his artifacts were auctioned off for like half a
million dollars or something like that exactly David Copperfield bought
it or something.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Oh that's wild. All right, we got to say break.
Can you stay with us or do you got to go?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah? No, I'm fine, Oh nill.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Okay, all right, hold on one second. This is great
Lawrence Peyton Junior the Four Tops, and man, this guy
is one of the most upbeat guests we have ever had.
I love this guy, Lawrence Payton Junior. His dad was
the original member.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
The Four Tops, and I believe there's only one original
member still playing with them that's singing with them.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
And which one it is when we come back?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
We will. Okay.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Laurence Payton Juniors. Whether it's the Four Tops man. Everybody
listening to radio right now, either yourself, your parents, or
your grandparents have stories about the Four Tops. How Lawrence,
how big a tour is this for you?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Well, you know we we we're on tour all year round,
so we do about eighty shows a year in about
fifty or six fee of those are actually with the Temptations.
Oh wow, all the time. Yes, yeah, absolutely, yes, it's
called the TMT show. Like I said, about fifty or
sixty shows a year were with them, and the other
shows here on our own or with the Beach Boys
(09:14):
or other acts.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
You know, what's the one song where it makes the
audience crazy?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Wow, I tell you what it's got to be. There's
a couple it's the same old song, and I can't
help myself. They just go nuts over those. But I
mean all of them, shake me, wake me, Maybe I
need your love, and that just ain't no woman like
when my girl. I'm just running them off, burn it debt.
Oh man, It's just you know, there's one outter another.
(09:41):
You know, they just they get excited about them all.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Really, by the way, I heard a rumor that Abdull
that the Duke, one of the original members, is still singing.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yes he is. That's not a rumor, that's the fact.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
So his name is Duke, right, Abdul's name is.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
For about a year and a half ago he failed
down and broke his hip. But he's up dancing and everything.
But every now and then he'll have to sit on
the stool and everything because of that.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
So he's got to be how old I mean if
he's born in thirty five seven years old.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Years old and he's been singing with this group and
performing with the Four Tops for sixty a year, can
you imagine that? Just think about that, Wow, postman or
something or a factory worker. You you would have been
Tiget twice.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
That is unbelievable. Really truly is amazing. I mean, what
a long, beautiful life he's had. He's got to write
a book. Has he written a book or or a
biography or anything?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
A matter of fact, he's got going out. It's called
I'll Be There, My Life with the Four Tops by
Duke Fakir and it was released about two months ago.
And if you get a chance to go up, go
out and pick it. Up. There's a lot of history there,
you know, a lot of because I don't know if
you guys know before they signed with Motown they had
been with two, three or four other record companies. But
before even before the record company, they have performed with
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Count Basie and Billy Eckstein and groos like that, you know,
singing jazz or some so this it's a lot of
history in that book. Go out and get it.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I will. And if he's ever wanting to sell some books,
wants to come on radio man, we'd love to talk
to him for five or ten minutes. I can't believe that.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I think I can almost say equifically he would love
to do that, and I will tell him that's great.
You will be hearing.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Okay, Buddy, I really can't believe. I mean, what a
great life you've had. It's so rich in music and
friends and family. I'm just completely envious that you've had,
you know, such a great run and such a great
attitude towards life. I was just talking to Sharon Belly
and you're the son of Seriously, I mean, Buddy, all
(11:47):
the good.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Actor comedia come up like brothers in this entertainment thing here.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I know, but man, all the people that you know,
that all of my heroes that and all my mom
My mom was the biggest Stevie One fan in the world,
you know, born and raised in Detroit and and and
he's become my favorite and for you to just like
casually know him is incredible.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Oh yeah, it was just like like I said, it
was just hanging out with dad's friends. It was really
normal to me. You know. It wasn't until later on
in life. I really really appreciated those experiences because I
was like, you know that blanket that the guy on
Charlie Brown with here, Well, and that's how it was
with my father. I was his blanket of everywhere he
went and I went, so I got to see all
of that and it was quite quite an experience, a
(12:30):
learning experience too.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah that's great.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I'm not just in his group because of nethotism. I
can do this thing.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I can sing you got it? And sar Sharon Belly
are our producer. I've been working with her for twelve
years and I can I can count on one finger
the time she came in here and said, this is
a great guest, and she did it during the break
and she said this guy should teach other people how
to be radio guests.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Oh well, they tell U. I said, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
You're wonderful. You you have such a great energy and person.
You've been such a delight.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Thank you, Sharon. I really appreciate that. You know, Like
I said, we just do it for the fans, and
I'm just glad to be here, to honor to be here.
It's honor to be in the group. If my father
wants to represented, and I just want to do that,
you know what I mean. So it's my pleasure.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Please, if you're ever in town again, I always got
a home here. We'll love to have you on any time,
and any kind of publicity you need, well we'll tackle
it for you.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
All right. Thank you, Tim, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
All right, appreciate it one. Are you all right? That's
a great guest man, Lawrence Peyton Junior. At the four times.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
My reunions coming up. Yeah, not so loud.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Sorry everybody that I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Oh my god, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I don't know, if I don't know, if I want
to go don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Oh, you have to. You're a movie star.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I love all the people I went to school with.
I just I don't know what to say to anybody.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
The ones you care about you already still see, right.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yeah, I'd like to see the other people I haven't
seen in a while.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Did you go to your was it thirtieth or which
was the last one?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah, I didn't go to the twentieth because I was
out of town. I lived in Canada at the time,
and I don't think I went to the thirtieth either. No,
I did. I went to the thirty or thirty fifth.
I remember going to one.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Now all your buddies that you're still friends with, are
they going, Yeah, you have to.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
They all drink and they wrestle. They wrestle, they wrestle.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
You have to go, that'd be cool. Yeah, I don't
if I get a picture.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I don't if I can wrestle, though, right, Well, you.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
And Krozier and Stefush can practice.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
And I remember, Yeah, there's about eight of us that
I've known since either third grade or seventh grade, and
we were wrestling, wrestling, wedding and I remember I Nancy
Nancy Tamkin saying to another wife. One of the other
wives said, hey, how come these guys every time there's
(15:12):
a big wedding they get drunk and they tackle each
other and wrestle, and Nancy goes because they don't know
how to communicate. And she nailed us right exactly, Yeah,
just a little you know, cut off, cut off, lows right,
We're just a little we just shut down, right. Guys
(15:32):
do that as you get older, just shut down, right,
thing doing. And my dad did that right. I remember
I told the story on the air, but I was
at home one day. I remember I was home. I'm,
you know, sick or got kicked out of school or whatever.
And my mom, who was going out to do errands,
(15:53):
said to my dad, hey, can you take Jamie's lunch
to him? He forgot his lunch, which is my young
second young brother, and and my dad said yeah sure.
And I remember my dad getting in the car with
my dad and he gets in the car, he starts
up and I s Dad, you don't know what school
you're going to do. And he says, I have no idea.
(16:17):
And he says, he says, where does your brother go?
And I said, he goes to Portola it's in Tarzana.
I'll show you how to get there. He goes, Oh,
I know, I know where it is. He goes. He goes, wait,
he goes, Jamie's in Portola already. I said, yeah, Dad,
this is second year. He only has one year left
and then he's going to go to Birmingham. He goes, Wow,
that's kind of nice, that's kind of look at him
(16:39):
in My dad couldn't tell you any of our teachers.
He could probably tell you one or two of my friends' names. Oh,
that's not true. He would nail Robbie Fox, Matt McDaniel,
Mike Tennessee, oh Crouch, you'd nail Crouch. I think it'd
be a tough time with the other chaps. No, he
can nailp Joe Joe. I did say five or six friends. Yeah,
(17:02):
that was a touchdown walk off homer for my dad. Right.
But man, you put my dad into school into a
car and say hey, can you, you know, take Corey's
lunch to him, He's like, what, I don't know where
that kid goes to school. But he wasn't the only
dad like that. You know. I had a couple of
(17:23):
friends whose dada dad said no idea where what they
did during the day.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yeah, I think that that was prevalent.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
About your dad. Did your dad know you where you
went to school and your teachers?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
We lived right across the street from the school.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
He figured it out pretty quick, No, he did, because
my mother was the one that went to all the
you know, parent teacher conferences and yeah, so no he couldn't.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I remember I had to my my dad wasn't big
on you know, back to school night and stuff like that,
because I wasn't big on it either, because that's when
I always got the talking to why oh he sits
here and annoys that kid and that kid, and that
they always leaves his sweater here and then No, but
I just found my way into predicaments my prediction.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
Yeah, let's look where I am.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
But I remember, I remember in fifth grade, either fourth
or fifth grade, we're going to have somebody come into
the auditorium to teach all the boys. The girls didn't
have to go. All the boys had to go. And
it was going to be the Birds and the Bees
conversation in fourth grade in the auditorium, And I remember
(18:33):
my mom didn't want to go for obvious reasons, right,
And I dragged my dad to this thing, and man,
was he embarrassed sitting there talking to you fourth graders
about their wieners the worst, and then just that he
sits there, he's got his hat eyes like, oh man,
(18:55):
what am I doing? So my dad on the way
home had to talk with me. He said, hey, he says, uh,
if you get Anyboddy pregnant, I've made a couple of bucks,
I'll help you out. Was a wrap. Wow, that's it.
That would have been great though. Yeah, I been a
(19:16):
couple of bucks. Do whatever you want to care But
did you guys have that in school? We went to
the auditorium and they had They showed a film.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Scrip and not in the auditorium, no talk to you
about them in the classroom.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
I believe we do it the whole school. All well,
there were there were five fourth grade classes and they
all went to the auditorium at night. Remember how I
remember how sort of weird but cool it was to
go to school at night.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
It was so weird. Yeah, I always remembered it like
this is so odd.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, like the back to school pta all that stuff,
and it was kind of a cool vibe. You know,
the moon's out and you see the playground that you
can't see anything. You know, at night all the lights
are on. There's a cool vibe about it.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Or you'd see like when whenever I saw teachers like
out of their element or like in different clothes and stuff.
It was so I remember seeing a teacher in the
teachers land smoking, but it was like it was like scandalous.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Smoking.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I believe he was smoking.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
It's because they weren't real to you, because they were
this authoritative figure and so.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah, no, I don't. It was that was wild man,
you know.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
When I went because I went to l a u.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
S d.
Speaker 8 (20:27):
And like the beginning of my elementary school career, and
it was back at a time where.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
The teachers had their students over to their homes and
we would do stuff with them. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
What I remember one time, and I totally remember her name,
missus Fostry. We went over to her place. We had
we played tennis, and then we had like a pollock dinner.
It wasn't just her, it was a couple of other
teachers also, but I mean we went to their home
and we know.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Way, yeah, lots of tennis, lots of tennis, lots of tennis.
That's weird, man. I don't think I ever was invited
to any of my teachers' homes.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
Yeah, another time they.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Like you imagine that nowadays, angel, Like you know, like
you know, your seven year old is invited your teacher's
house with a couple of other friends. You'd be like, what, Nope,
the hell out of here. Yeah, that's how far did
they live from you?
Speaker 7 (21:26):
They lived pretty close to the school, so not not
too far away.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
I think one of them lived like over in the
Los Felis area, and we were, you know, over in
Hollywood a little more, but just east of the school.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Did you have paper drives when you were a kid?
Speaker 7 (21:44):
Paper drives you collect all.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
The newspaper and you know, stack them up out around
the school and whoever got the most paper got like
pizza for the day or something.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
Oh I think like in like sixth grade.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah, yeah, big dog, we had a big, huge Yeah.
I'd love that. I'd love that paper drive because we
used to go collect them off on early Sunday morning.
We just go around the neighborhood and collect their Sunday times.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Right, they won't miss that, yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Right they We never got caught doing it, but we
just collected you know people's newspapers. Look, we got one
hundred of Sunday's Times, Like where'd you get that? We
just bought them? Or you go on the machine and
put a quarter in and take ten them.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Yeah yeah, I used to do that as a kid.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
I you know, put a coin in and then take
all the papers and then go sell the papers.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Oh that's great. See you're an entrepreneur, but you also remember,
like the kids today won't remember this, but you remember
always checking the coin slot and the payphone.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah, Like if.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
There's ten minut a row bying dang ding ding d Yeah,
you found a quarter.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Like what Yeah, it's like a y slap machine.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
That's right, that's great.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I wrote an open or today, dear dear King Taco
today on my way back from Orange County the Anaheim
Convention Center. To be exact, I needed King Taco. Buzzed
(23:23):
up the five Freeway connected to the seven ten fairly
successfully and got off the freeway where the seven ten
crosses the sixty Freeway. I believe one of the original
locations of King Taco. I couldn't find parking, so drove
(23:44):
around the block and finally found a space on the street.
Locked the car, walked back to the restaurant, and I
was floored when I saw the line of people sixty
five deep. So I walked back to the car, depressed
(24:07):
out of my mind. By now it's four point thirty
and time is becoming an issue. Got to get back
to work at least by five point thirty. So I
opened up my ways, typed in King Taco, and they
said there was another location that I was familiar with,
(24:29):
the one on Broadway.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Got in the.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Car, drove to the one on Broadway, maybe a six
minute drive, maybe ten minute drive. Buzzed into the parking lot,
found a parking space right away, unusual on a Friday
afternoon at King Taco. I walked to the front door,
(24:55):
realized I left my wallet in the car and went back,
grab my wallet, open the front door, and again shocked
by the twenty five people in line in front of me.
Looked at this time on my phone and said, no way,
(25:16):
there's no way I have time to stand in this line.
King Taco, you are the in and out of Mexican food.
My favorite place for years and the Salsa Verde is
second to none. However, you need more locations. You need
(25:40):
a San Fernando Valley location, like maybe Burbank, although maybe
it's like living near a casino. I don't know if
I could survive living a half mile away from a
King Taco, great food, great service, more locations, possible drive
(26:04):
through and delivery. Maybe right, with all of my love,
your biggest fan in the valley, Conway, I'm wait. I'll
wait for your response in the mailroom. Tim Conway Jr.
(26:28):
Care of KA five thirty four hundred West Olive, Sweet
five point fifty, Burbank, California, nine one five o five.
(26:55):
That's a wrap.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
Wait, I need a sei uesta After that.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I couldn't believe it. Man, every time I go to
these King Tacos, there's nine hundred people in front of me.
All right.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
They closed the one out by me?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
No way?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Yeah, it had been there for a long time, is
that right? Yeah? Man?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Oh Man. During COVID, just like a month or two ago,
I think, really, yeah, that's strange, man, that's really odd
because every time I go to one, there's one in
downtown LA that's two blocks away from another King Taco,
and they're always jammed. There's always fifty people on line.
You ever go to their step? Is that King Taco?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
No.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
I was just gonna say, it's funny that you referenced
in and out because I had that experience. I was like, oh,
Internet sounds good, and then you see the line, You're like, Nope,
not worth it. It's just ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
I always jump in line, but I didn't have time today.
No time, man, But I can't believe there's not a
single King Taco location in the San Fernando Valley. I
don't know if King Taco has noticed, but there's two
million people live here in the sanfa in a valley. Now,
I'm sure they're expanding, you know, and they're expanding in
a in a reasonable way that makes sense on a
(28:07):
business level. Bud Man, oh man, I I dream about
that food. It's weird. I'm like obsessed by it.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Really.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, I have dreams, and you just.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Do like straight like regular what tacos?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yeah, like Carnea sad in rice burrito and then Carnirio, yeah,
and then carnios sat at tacos. Here's my order, three
tacos and two burritos. With an extra large salsaverity twenty
four dollars and fifty cents and and I and man,
when I get there and there's nobody in line, it's
it's like a walk off Homer.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
God, when does that ever happen?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Like once?
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Maybe do you ever?
Speaker 4 (28:47):
You never experiment? You never know?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
No, no, no, no, no, Crozier, come on, come on
knowing each other for a long time, missing out. Man,
I'm a taketos guy.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
I did notice that they have chimmy chunga's and flouts.
So the last time I went there, I got floutus,
which is like a taketo. They're pretty good too, right,
But you're not changing up the meat. No, no, no, no,
I know. I'm not with the you know, bat's tail
and tongues and all that stuff or oxdale is it oxtail? Oxtail?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
I mean, Neil Savadri eats that crap that oxtail.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
But still is good.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I know.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
But but the ox's tail has spent the entire oxes
life about a half inch from the oxs a hole.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Thank you, Carla, our newsletter just texted me. She says,
wants to know if you know there's a King Taco
in Glendale.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Sure, I know exactly where Broadway. Yeah, that's one I
always go to. Yeah, it's right. It's right near the
in and out there on Broadway. The one I used
to have to go to all the time was the
one in Pasadena. That was the closest one. Then they
opened one in Glendale. But when they opened in Glendale,
I had to give him a couple of months because
they had a new grill and it wasn't seasoned yet,
right right, Yeah, they had to work that in. But
(29:58):
there's a beautiful one down near Dodger Stadium. It's one
of the originals as well.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
But man, I've been to the one in Pasadena and
the one that just closed in Ontario. I think it's
Ontario was supposed to Upland, but on Mountain there. And
I would go to the one by me in Ontario,
like late on a Saturday night or something like the best.
Oh that's some dangerous times. That is a dangerous time.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
But they had the guard there.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
I almost got the crap kicked out of me one time. Man,
you know, I.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Went to the one real quick. I know, we got
to take break. I went to one on Pico and
I was driving back from Orangecam with my wife, my daughter,
and I went to the one on Pico, right near
the one ten the ten Freeway, and on the way
home from King Taco, Jason Slanka was talking on the
fue Go. Yeah, I just went to the King Takoes.
Which one do you go to? I said, the one
on Pico.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
He goes.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Dude's ten o'clock and night you went there with your
wife and your daughter. I said, yeah, he goes. You
know that last night a guy got murdered right at
the payphone right near that King Taco. My nice. Yeah,
even if I knew that, I still would have buzzed
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