September 23, 2025 • 34 mins
Discussions continue around what part the FCC played in ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel last week and his subsequent return to air tonight. Conway Jr. points out the inconsistency of some celebrities, who are speaking up in support of Kimmel’s so-called cancelation, as opposed to their silence around the public cancelations of others. Also, the baritone of KFI otherwise known as Mark Thompson is in studio to nerd out with Conway Jr over football and stadiums. They also discuss memories of Michelob Ultra, now the No. 1 beer in the USA!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. It is the
Conway Show. Look who's come in every Tuesday? Mark Tompson
man you everybody?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Well, this this warm welcome. Please be seated, everyone, please
be seated. All right.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Alex Stone is maybe C News talking about Jimmy Kimmel.
I guess people referring to him as a leftist activist.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Or a activist.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
A liberal activist, Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I didn't hear that. Who's referring to him like that? Well,
I think if you refer to.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
You know, yeah, well, okay, let's take, for instance, I
don't know Charlie Cook. They always refer to him as
a conservative activist, right, that's fine, right, that's fine. But
on the other hand, then Jimmy kim would be a
liberal activist.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I don't think Jimmy Kimmel does the same thing Charlie
Kirk does. I'm sorry, I don't think Jimmy does is
doing the same exact thing. But we could talk about
that another time. All right, Well, liberal activists act that's fine,
all right, that's your show.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Oh no, he definitely is. I mean if you you
could make the argument that he is, and I think
Alex Dune will agree.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
He's been ABC Alex that you both.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I'm not agreeing with that anything here. I don't know
what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You are, dude.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So what's going on tonight? Is the big night for
Jimmy Kimmel on.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, they they're loading in right now in Hollywood and
then here he returns. But we know his gas line
up there. You know, there were rumors today was going
to be Gavin Newsom, and it's not Newsome. He's in
New York. He's doing Colbert. But if it was going
to be symbolic in some way, it doesn't seem to be.
It seems like they're going forward with what the plan
was going to be. Anyway, It's gonna be actor Glenn
(01:48):
Powell promoting his new sports comedy TV series Remember Him
from Top Gun, Maverick and some other shows and movies,
and and then Sarah McLaughlin will be the musical guest.
But yeah, I mean all of this obviously going back
to over the last week that you guys were talking
about and Brendan Carr's comments on the The Benny Johnson That
podcast and then the two big owners of the ABC
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affiliate TV station, sin Clara Nextar being the ones to
come out and say they would not air Kimmel, and
the implications being for local TV stations and broadcast licenses
and mergers in the works that are going to need
DOJ approval. But one thing we have seen in the
last week is, you know, some prettyhigh profile Republicans, including
Senator Ted Cruz, who is he said, not a fan
(02:31):
of Jimmy Kimmel, coming out against any kind of censoring
of what a comedian would do, and and the administration
pressuring broadcasters and Cruz went on a podcast likened what
Benny Carr or Brendan Carr said on the Benny Johnson
podcast as being like a mafia leader saying we can
do this the easy way, or we can do this
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a hard way, and crews saying no, it doesn't work
that way.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I think it is unbelievably dangerous for government to put
itself in the position of saying we're going to decide
what speech we like and what we don't, and we're
going to threaten to take you off air if we
don't like what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
And he said, look to the conservative audience said that
could be a problem in the next administration or the
one after that, or the one after that, if that
administration decides that they don't like conservative talk radio and
podcasts and then goes after that speech. If this were
to go forward, and we heard it a little while ago,
Joe Rogan, he went on his podcast and said, absolutely,
(03:29):
no too. I definitely don't think that the government should
be involved ever in dictating what a comedian count or
cannot say in a monologue.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
So anyway, he's going to be back today less than
a week after Disney said and then the way that
they have described it, our parent company that it's suspended
production of Jimmy Kimmelive. They said to avoid further inflaming
a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country.
It called Kimmel's comments ill timed and thus insensitive, but
says after having thoughtful conversation with Jimmy Kimmel to the
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show will be returning. Sinclair and next Star stations they
are going to keep postponing the show. Sinclaire says it's
having discussions with ABC right now about the show's return
next Our said if its viewers. And remember Next Star
is in this deal to try to buy Tegna needs
DOJ approval that its viewers can go to Disney Plus
or they can go to Hulu and see it there,
(04:22):
but it won't be on Next Oar stations at least
tonight and on Instagram. Kimmel went on today saying we
are back full of love. He will be on in
most of the country, about a third of it, not
about a third of it is Sinclair and Nextar, but
everywhere else, including in LA. He'll be back tonight.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
And so I think Ted Cruz and Joe Rogan are
consistent because those are two of the guys that came
out and said it was wrong to throw Donald Trump
off of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. But I don't remember
the other actors complaining when Trump was thrown off.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, I mean it's been you know, we've heard from
several pretty high profile Republicans who have come out, but
you're right, they are those who have been very free
speech advocates in in the past, and they are definitely
sticking with their messages.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, all right, So tonight at eleven thirty, I imagine
the ratings will be through the roof.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, I mean the expectation is that people are going
to be who wouldn't normally that's right up or watch
that they're gonna they're gonna be watching tonight. Yeah, the
quest We don't know if if he's gonna address it
at all, or if there's gonna be any kind of
comment or an apology or or a joke, or if
it's they're just gonna go forward like nothing went on.
We don't know. Yeah, they they're gonna be taping I'm
(05:36):
looking about the next hour or so probably, and I'm
sure it'll start to come out of what did or
didn't go on in there, But we don't know if
he's gonna make any comment.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Well, of course, you know, the ratings that you guys
talk about may be affected by the fact that all
these sinclairen Next Star stations aren't even carrying the show,
So I mean, yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Know, I mean, maybe maybe an increase on the streaming
platforms for for that for people who want to see it.
But and then you the major markets of LA and
New York and Chicago and the Bay Area and Houston,
those are all owned by Disney, and so he's going
to run there and so the big audience area is
that he will be airing in so the population will
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be there.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
What is this, Bellio, just hand me a piece of paper.
I kfi siding with Next Star and Sinclair. We're also
not airing it to you.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
You're not gonna h that's a courageous position.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Yeah, sucks all right.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
But look, even if you hate Jimmy Kimmel, if you know,
you think he's a you know, a nut job, far
left wing, you know, idiot, whatever words you have to
describe your hatred form, at least you got to love
the fact that two hundred people are going to keep
their jobs in la You know, absolutely if that show
went out of business, those those jobs are not going
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to pop up anywhere else.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah, a lot of people are employed by the show,
as any show would be. And you know, there were
all those videos last week of them saying that they
were moving out and moving out of the offices, and no,
I mean it looked like that was probably whatever performer
was going to be on that night, band or singer
group that they were moving out the black cases that
they would typically go with a group, and seemed like
that they were moving their stuff out. But they did
(07:13):
not move out that. Nobody ever said that the show
was over. There were those who thought it probably was,
but Disney from the beginning had made it clear that
they were trying to figure it out, and they were
talking to him and deciding how to move forward. And
then now he comes back.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
So what is Sinclair and is it Next Star? What
do they need out of Jimmy Kimmel for them to
hook up again?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
And they're a good question.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
We don't know, you know, they've only put out statements
and Sinclair saying that they are in discussions with ABC
and the talks are underway to figure out that the
show's return Next Star. Who knows? Is they try to
make this multi billion dollar deal to acquire Tegna, another
big TV company these names as well, Next Star and Tegna.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
What is Techna? How many stations is Techna own a
fairly large company? How many ABC affiliates?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I don't know. I know Sacramento is Tegna.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
So if Tegna, Next Star, and Sinclair all got together,
they could be bigger than ABC, NBC or CBS potentially. Yeah,
they own a lot and started another network.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Yeah, and they've got a lot that are across all
of the networks, not just ABC. So, by the way,
they own quite a few. They're the ihearts of TV. Okay,
that's where you like to think of it.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
How embarrassing is this, the big United Nations meeting with
Trump speaking before you know what, eight hundred different countries there.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
The melopropter doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Not only that, but the escalators aren't working either. Yeah,
I mean, what a kind of what I mean? Don't
you think you would get a guy in there and go, hey, look,
there's gonna be everybody in the world's coming tomorrow. Can
we get an escalator guy in here? I know there's
escalator guys in New York, that's where they all are.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Well, sure was it intentional?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Though?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I keep seeing the pastings by Caroline Levitt and others indicating.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
That, oh, that's supposedly a Trump staffer was at the
top of the next and hit it.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Oh what the the teleprompter or the escalator escalator exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Just leaned on that big button on the big red button.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Wow, he's going to be working as a Trump's staffer,
a short timer. He is gone.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Well he look, you know, he made them walk up
what twenty stairs.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Hey, it gave him some riff material. When you know
the prompter went bad, he could complain about the escalator.
Are we gonna?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Can we?
Speaker 6 (09:31):
So?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
This Kimmel airs at eight thirty on the East coast, right,
and so can we play it here at eight thirty
or do you have to wait till eleven thirty?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Good question.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I don't know what the rules are.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
You've been here for thirty eight years. How long can
we play it at eight thirty?
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Hey, again, you're asking the person that's never going to
tell you no.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
What I asked.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Coursy you o to day?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Can I use the whole left word?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
And he goes a but yeah, I guess so, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Why yeah, go ahead and knock that out.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
All right, buddy, I appreciate you phoning in and Alex
Stone with ABC News. I'm glad that Sinclair is not
shutting you down, Bob.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, nope, we're sticking around. Thanks, all right, thank you?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
All right, Alex Stone, everybody, and so tonight you'll be
watching you watch it every night?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Anyway? Do you watch Kimmel? Well, you know it's part
of the lefties I have to do. Yeah, you part
of being in.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
The club, which late night show. Do you prefer out
of all of them?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Kim I adore Kimmel. I think Kimmel is funny. I
think he's inventive. Has nothing to do with Trump. I'll
tell you ever seen this he there's a bunch of
bits that I love. One of them is he brings
their four people there, bring them there, they have them
standing outside and Jimmy has to guess which one is Stone, Okay.
And that's the kind of stuff that they do that
I think is very funny as well. So there's a
(10:48):
lot about Kimmel that I really enjoy. And so yeah,
that's the one my favorite.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
All Right, So that's night at eleven thirty PM on
Channel seven, and we're not a Sinclair, We're LA can
watch it, right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Well, it's it's an O one O right, it's an
owned an operated station, ABC owned and operated. That's right.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
So tonight at eleven thirty pm, all right's Conway and
Thompson Can if I am sick for It's Conways show.
Mark Thompson's here. You know during the break it's like,
you know, you're a celebrity and you have celebrity friends,
and you always call your celebrity friends.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I like listening to them. Well, I'll tell you I
got the call from former anchorman John Beer. I love
John Bier talking about Yeah, he called and you were
here in the studio, and I thought we're in a
commercial break, why not just put him on the speaker.
And he was delighted to talk to you. You were
very both of you were like super glib and funny.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
He's like a really old fashion not old fashioned, but
a really hard nose, no nonsense reporter. When he goes
out to get a story, he leaves no stone unturned. Yeah,
what he was a reporter before he was an anchor.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, he was very he did he did really good work.
And of course he was a anchor on Channel four,
which is close to where we're sitting right now, right
across the way, and then on Channel eleven, Box eleven.
But I've known John Beard since he was an anchor
in Buffalo, New York.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Fritz Coleman, John Beard, and myself were all in Buffalo
at the same time, and we remain like close friends
to this day. I just had I had lunch with
Fritz right before I came over here.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Are you still a Bills fan?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I am, oh, good for you. Yeah. In fact, Fritz
married a Buffalo Bill's cheerleader, Wow, and John went out
with a Buffalo Bill the Jills. They were called the
Buffalo Jills at that time, and so yeah, they were
those guys went to games, but I never went to
a game.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
That must have been a you know in Buffalo, you've
got to be on your toes with the weather. Yeah,
I mean you've got a lot the Lake effect is,
isn't the Lake effect?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah? I would you know if you could, you could
say there'll be two inches of snow overnight and there
could be twenty two inches by morning. You had to
really watch it. Yeah, you're right, a little wind shift
could really cost it.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, and those thank god that those fans who were
I think both the most the most loyal fans in football.
They're getting a brand new stadium. It's incredible too. I
mean to see what they've done, it's a kind of
they built it down into It's kind of what they
do with SOFI, right, it's so far built down.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
So it's same kind of thing with the new Buffalo stadium.
And the field is heated, so you have any issues
with ice and stuff, so it could be really quite
but it's open air. I mean, you know, you'd think
you might in Buffalo want to put a dome on it.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah, but there's a dome in on Sofi. That's the
most la thing. Isn't a real oversight. So do you
know why they had to dig Sofi that deep into
the ground?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Why the flight path they couldn't have anything over I
think fifty feet or seventy five feet or so.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
That's great knowledge.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah, and that's why. Also the forum is built is
dug out as well.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Oh no kidding.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
When you walk in the forum, you're at the promenade
level when you can go down like you know, showty
five feet or so.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I have to say, I've not been to Sofi, haven't
been there yet. No, man, see it on TV.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Looks so cool it literally have you ever been to
the Grand Canyon?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Okay, when you go to the Grand Canyon, you see
you for the first time, you're speechless. You know, you
can't believe you're looking at something that big that nature
has produced. Okay, this is not nature that has done
so far, but it's that big where you look at
it and you can't believe that it looks fake. You
can't believe that there are seats, there are that many
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seats that in that big of an arena, that's so
beautifully built, and it was built you know, they could
have gone cheaper on the material to build this thing,
but they didn't want to, you know, they wanted to
go top shelf. And it's built for one hundred and
seventy five years. It's supposed to last for one hundred
and seventy five years, and most stadiums that are built
are built for forty or fifty years.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
It's just so visually spectacular. And then they hear you
say that in person, it's even more visual. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
And you know what, while I was taking a tour,
this is this is a kind of an odd story.
I'm taking a tour of Sofi Stadium about about a
month before it opened up, and I said to a
buddy of mine, a guy named Robbie Fox, I said, hey,
you want to go take a look at Sofi Stadium.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
He goes, oh, I'd love to.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
And so we're driving over that I said, hey, they're
not going to let you in, you know, just as
you you have to be you know, the producer on
our radio show. He goes, okay, all right, that's that's fine.
And the moment he got there, it was like, hey,
they said, so what do you do. He goes, oh,
I'm a writer in Hollywood. I'm like, no, no, no, no,
no no no no no no no no no. Now
(15:32):
you've got to tell everybody you work here.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Didn't you see the Great Escape? We well, we all
have stories and we've established what the stories and our
backstories are.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
And so I I there was about twelve people on
our tour, and I said to one of the young
ladies there, I said, hey, in about ten minutes loud
enough so my buddy could hear tell your friend that
her your favorite movie is I Married an Axe Murder
because my buddy wrote that.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
And so about twenty minutes later, she's like togging, she because, yeah,
because I love that movie I Married an Axe Murderer.
And he goes, oh, I work at Kfi. I've seen
that's great.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I've never heard that story. It really is great.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
So I'm taking a tour of Sofi Stadium and there's
a huge double suite. It's almost like it's probably one
hundred feet long by fifty feet wide. There's seats in
there for probably one hundred people. There is a big bar,
there's a kitchen, there's couches, there's private bathrooms. And I
look to see who sponsored that thing, and it's sponsored
by Michelobe. And I went, what they got Michelobe to
(16:45):
buy a suite? Nobody drinks Michelobe anymore. This is five
years ago. Sure, nobody drinks Michelobe. Michelobe was a beer
than when I was growing up, my parents' drank Sure,
you know, I remember the old slogan weekends were made
for Michelobe. Sure that was how old it is? So
cut to five years later after I saw that, and
I said that about Mikeelobe, it's the number one beer
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in the United States. What Mikelobe is the number one
beer in the United States right now? It's not Lowen Brow,
it's not Lowenbro. It's Michelobe, Mikelob, Mikeelobe Ultra or Michelobe
Light something. Michelobe is the number one beer. It just
took over a you know, I don't know whatever or
whoever was second, but it's huge. And I think the kids,
(17:28):
I think the younger generation is discovering Michelobe.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I know there's Michelobe Lighte and Yclobe.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
And then Michelobe Ultra and then they have an Amber
and that's anytime a beer revives itself, that's a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
It's great. It's so weird how they do come and go. Yeah,
they do.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
And and you know, we've all had beers in the past,
like Rolling Rock out of Cleveland, Ohio. I don't know
if it still exists Schlitz, remember Schlitz. Oh sure, they
all they all come and go. But man, that Michelobe,
I don't know who. And obviously it's a it's a
public relations deal that you know, sent that out because
Nicolo was dying, and they've turned it around where it's
(18:08):
the number one beer in the United States.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I don't see many ads for it, though I see
ads for you know, Corona.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I'm with you, for you know, to Cone and all that. Yeah,
I'm with you. But I read an article and I'm
gonna have to confirm this, but I read that it's
the number one beer.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
That's wild. Yeah it is.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Look, if I were to give you one hundred guesses
for the number one beer, you would never.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Say I would have lost a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Ever, yeah, I mean I could even give you a
six pack of Michelob. You go put that aside. I'm
guessing which the biggest beer is the biggest beer? All right,
we're live on kf I AM six forties Conway and Thompson.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
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I AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Oh my god, the complaining brothers are here.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Oh my god, so.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
People doubted me. I'm getting a lot of email, a
lot of texts. Michelob is not the number one beer
in the United States. So let's go to the I
guess the arbiter of who is number one and who's
not The Today Show. The Today Show, they decide who
is number one and who is number two?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Okay, and I think it's make right.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
Guess what a new King of Beers is in the
is in town and it is still owned by Saint
Louis based Anheuser Busch. Michelob Ultra is a light beer,
and it has officially claimed the title of America's number
one beer.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
That's on the Today Show. The I mean they are
the show of record. Yeah, they're bound by certain journalistic
stend that's right. Yeah, And if they say it's number one.
It's number one.
Speaker 8 (19:45):
It launched in It launched a while ago, like twenty
years ago.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
But the beer is Oh they ballparked that, you know,
like twenty years ago, like twenty off launched twenty years ago. Yeah,
bo did. But they changed the logo. You know, it
used to read Michelobe and now it if you look
at a can, it reads Heineken.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
No, it reads Ultra. You can't even see where it's.
Michelob's super tiny and the Ultra is super big.
Speaker 8 (20:12):
Yeah, but it's number one beer in the official beer
sponsors and major sporting events, including the FIFA Cup twenty
twenty six. Now this comes as fewer Americans are actually
consuming alcohol amid some health concerns.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
But I know, you know, we really are falling behind again.
There's a country in that area. We have to pick
up her alcohol consumption.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
So this woman on the Today Show is explaining what
she knows about beer, and then the weather guy comes
in and man explains it for her.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I see, yeah, he cleans it up for it.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
But I know a lot of people who drink Nickelobe
Ultra these days.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
But you know, do you know anybody that drinks Michelob
Ultra I don't.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
I don't, but I mean that doesn't say anything right
saying drinking vodka. Yeah, straight blue DoD They've evolved beyond
Michelob Ultra Ellio.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Let's get make a little to sponsor this show the
Michelobe Theater, the Mikelobe Studio. All right, let me get
on that.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Will you get on the fifth floor and go take
care of that? Right? I didn't get him on the line.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Wait, you're already on with Michelobs. All right, I'll have
him sign the contract. It's done, all right, all right
from the Mikeelobe Studios in Burbank.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
It's the Conway Show.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
With Mark JP for you JP, TJ T c j T.
We're all done. We're all done. So she's explaining that
she doesn't know anybody drinks Michelobe and he comes in
over the top. He's like, honey, move a side. Let
me tell you what's going on with Michelobs.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
A king of beers.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah, it's I.
Speaker 9 (21:51):
Mean, it's all in the same umbrella. But he got
Mick Altree. You got Bush Lights you know too? Yeah,
those are the favorite here right now, Mick alter You know,
it was like the first low Cat, like Low carb beer.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
You know. That's kind of how it's been marketing.
Speaker 8 (22:03):
Yeah, I know, and a lot of scoring, a lot
of it seems like athletes like it.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yeah, it's a lot.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Of golf tournaments.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
So yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
He explained it to everybody, your low cally, your little cat. Yeah,
but that snuck up on everybody. Yeah you know, I
mean you would think that you would know the beer
that's sneaking up on everybody to become number one.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I love that she says, a lot of athletes like it.
What they've done is quite cleverly put a lot of
athletes in their commercials. That's it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah, so FI is dominated by Michelob. I think that's
the only thing. The only light beer that they sell
is Michelob. But yeah, as of September twenty twenty five,
that's this month of this year, number one beer in
America is Michelob Ultra, having recently dethrowned the second place beer,
and for fifty two weeks ending September fourteenth, twenty twenty five,
(22:56):
according to the pairing company of vanheuser Busch and Imbev,
it the number one beer in America.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
So started like I'm like ut it's like that. That's
the first beer I ever had. Yes, it was the
seventies and my dad had him with the gold foil
around the earth that's.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Right the top of the bottle.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
And it was always people camping on the commercials. They're
always you know, weekends where made and they always camped.
I always brought their own heavy ass case of beard
while they were camping. But yeah, it was always you know,
when my grandfather, my grandfather drank drank stros and and
(23:34):
when we went to see him and stayed with him
in June, July and August every year. When he would
get home from you guy, which is a natural gas
company worked for, he would always sit down and have
a beer because he was a blue collar worker. His
job was to fill thousand gallon pro pane tanks. There
was a there was a gas line that came into
Sugar and Falls, Ohio, and they would they would load
(23:57):
these huge tanks up with a thousand gallons of pain
and then send them out to mobile home parks and
that would be the source of energy for the whole park.
And so he worked with Bill Butler and another guy
named Clark, another guy. There's five guys that My grandfather
worked with his whole life at this company. And while
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they filled those propane tanks every single day, thousand gallons,
every one of them while they were working smoked cigarettes.
Every single guy smoked cigarettes while they were filling thousand
gallon propane tanks.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Surem in insanely flammable danger.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Like hanging off the corner of their mouth, right, yeah,
And nothing ever happened could have could have easily And
if that were to happen, if it were to blow up,
the whole town would have gone with it. The town
was about twelve hundred people, and the whole town would
have been destroyed.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
And they all smoked those cigarettes.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
So he came home every day and he'd have a
stros and whoever got him the strows got a dixie
cup full of beer.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
That was me.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
So when I was eight years old, I would sit
next to my grandfather and I'm out of a small
little like half dixie cup of beer and drink with
my grandfather at age eight.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
You know, from eight on, that's a kind of bonding experience.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Yes, And did that affect my life later on? You bet,
you bet. I got radically into alcohol. Only drank a
beer out of a dixie cup. I can I can
only drink it if I find a grandfather. Oh woh yeah, sure,
so it's kind of odd around the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
It's funny though. The marketing of these beers is what
we remember, right, You remember? Weekends were made for michelob And.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I think I can come up with that slogan too.
I think I let me I think I can play
that for you. Let's see here, let me see may
it was Niclone alright, let's see. Yeah, weekends, Oh, here
it is. I got the whole commercial out of Mighty
at the Internet. Great, all right, here it is Lobe.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Then Thursday camping.
Speaker 10 (26:12):
They brought a symphony with them.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yeah, the gold top.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
You're right, crous.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Weekends were made for make loans, don't forget remember to
pick up.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Some weekends were made. Weekends were made from Michelob.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
What man?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
That brings back a lot of memories. If you're your
fifties or sixties and your dad or grandfather drank beer,
you remember that.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
You remember that slogan.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
Wasn't Michelobe known as the Champagne of beers?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Was it was that?
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Their thing?
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I think too. That's to get the gals over. You know,
it's it's always the champagne of something like we drank it,
we drank.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
That was Miller Highlight. Was Miller Highlight?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Oh, champagne of yeah, Miller high Yeah, remember Miller high
Life was less filling?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Uh, no, that was great. That was that light beer
bud Light, No, that was It wasn't Miller. I thought
it was Miller Light. No it was. It wasn't bud Light.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
No, it was light. It was just light.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
It was Miller light beer from Miller light beer from Milliar. Yeah,
taste ta great, let's filling, taste great beer, Let's fill it.
And this baseball stadiums used to shout that during Monday
night football, half the stadium taste great, the other half
less filling. Oh it's time to be alive. Everybody's on
their ethink phones all the time. Nobody has any connection
with anybody else. Nobody, nobody. You know, in twenty years,
(28:07):
kids will say, I remember listening to a radio show
where they once talked about a beer.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
You know, that's the only connection they'll have. They will
not have the.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Great radio show. What's that I rely on? K It's
Conway and Thompson.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Oh, that'll be great.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
People always underestimate when they come in to talk to
John Colevelt about whatever they've done, and he just mows
them over.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah he can. He doesn't waste time buying him a drink.
He gets right into the action. Yeah, right into it. Hey,
we're talking about autumn.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
The beer michelob Ultra and Bellio worked her ass off
during the break and put up a pole on Twitter
on X and it's what beer do you drink? Michelob Ultra, Modello,
bud Light and Corona Extra. And so you can go
vote there and make your voice heard. You know, you
(29:00):
got to vote in this country. If you don't vote,
nothing will change.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
That's the thing. I mean, we've given you the chance
to really register how you feel.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
And if you don't, you know, if you don't exercise
your right to vote on Twitter polls.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Then what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Yeah, but everybody he remembers. Look, if you're over forty five,
I think you'll remember this. But the we're talking about
the low and brow song.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yeah, because it's like mickelub had that Weekend's weekend We're
made from mickelb and I remember the Lowen Browse song.
Was you know, Here's two good Friends. Yeah, I found
it here.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
It is a ready will you sing it for us?
Speaker 1 (29:36):
I'm about to have a moment.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
So you said forty five, I'm forty six, and this
is going to be tapping into some old child. Oh buddy,
you'll remember this all right. Here we go the Low
and Brow song with Mark Thompson.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Here's two good friends. Tonight had a special the beer
will pull must say something more somehow, so ton tune.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Let it be love and bron we're telling good friends,
they're good friends.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
What a song man does that bring back memories? That
was nineteen eighty Wow. And the song we played before that,
the Michelobe song. If you miss that, that was nineteen
seventy seven. Nineteen seventy seven michelobeh it wasn't mikelob Ultra.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
It was just week yeahl weekends.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
We're made from Miclobe. But it does bring back memories,
you know, we we The one thing that all of
us had in common, if you're over forty, is that
we all saw the same TV shows at the same
time and the same commercials.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
And the reason the commercials landed is because you couldn't
flip past them. There was no flip past at that point.
So you're seeing the commercials, You're we're all experiencing the
same cultural thing through commercials.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
And at the same time, if you want know, if
we wanted to watch Happy Days, you had to be
home at eight o'clock on Tuesday and put on ABC.
And if you didn't, you missed it, and there was
no repeat. They weren't going to play it again. You're
out and you were done, and you couldn't follow the
very intricacy of the characters on Happy Days.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
For the rest of the year. That's right.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
And then after that you know Laverne and Shirley and
then you know whatever, you know, six million Dollar Man,
Brady Bonge, Partridge family. But I remember at Christmas, I
think it was the Tuesday before Christmas, maybe two weeks
before Christmas, they played Rudolph and they played what was
(31:39):
the other one, not the Santa Claus. They played, Oh
Frosty the Snowmam and Rudeolph, and they would and they
would play those Oh Charlie Brown, Christmas, Charlie Brown, Christmas,
Charlie Brown, Christmas went on at eight o'clock on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, whatever,
it was and you did not miss it, yes, right,
and the green and you had to be home to
(32:01):
look at it. And if you missed it and the
kids started talking about the next day in school, you
felt like you had the worst parents in the world,
Like they didn't care about me, they didn't put the
schedule together. I remember when when uh Frosty came on,
we all had to be showered or bathed in our
pajamas downstairs at eight o'clock with popcorn and all watch
(32:21):
it as a family and we couldn't wait, you know.
But now now you don't have those moments, you know,
because everything is on DVD and DVR.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
And and and uh you know, and and.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Streaming the different moments because look, if you're streaming a
show you're not at and Krozer is also streaming a show,
you may not be in the same place of the show,
so you can't talk about it. That's true, because you
want to ruin it for Krozer, vice versa. Yeah, but
back then, you know, with Dallas, remember Dallas.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
But I bet you were a big fan.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Yeah, Sharon, Sharon's bellio was a huge shot. Yeah, who
shot Jr? But but you had to be home to
watch that, and everybody was on this set aimed episode.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Yeah, that's true, you're right, I mean, Tim's right. There
was no again, this is hard to believe now, but
there was no delayed viewing. We dreamt of an ability
to record these things so that we didn't have to
be home to see them.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
At least some of the streamers. Can't say all of them,
but at least some of the streamers will offer you
basically a party view option where you invite people to
watch it at the same time.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Oh that's great, that's that. That could save it, you know,
for a lot of people. I think that's a terrific idea.
I was unaware of that. All right, one more time.
I know people love this.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Two good friends.
Speaker 10 (33:33):
It's a night it's done especial the beer with Paul
must say something more somehow.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
So let it be Low and Brown?
Speaker 3 (33:50):
What a time?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
What happened alone? They're done though, I don't think Loanan
Brown is. I don't know. Maybe they're still around, but
I haven't heard them that. No one's sun the jingle
for a while.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
That's your sure, alright, real live, It's Conway Thompson on
KFI AM six
Speaker 7 (34:02):
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KFI AM six forty
It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
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Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. It is the
Conway Show. Look who's come in every Tuesday? Mark Tompson
man you everybody?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Well, this this warm welcome. Please be seated, everyone, please
be seated. All right.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Alex Stone is maybe C News talking about Jimmy Kimmel.
I guess people referring to him as a leftist activist.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Or a activist.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
A liberal activist, Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I didn't hear that. Who's referring to him like that? Well,
I think if you refer to.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
You know, yeah, well, okay, let's take, for instance, I
don't know Charlie Cook. They always refer to him as
a conservative activist, right, that's fine, right, that's fine. But
on the other hand, then Jimmy kim would be a
liberal activist.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I don't think Jimmy Kimmel does the same thing Charlie
Kirk does. I'm sorry, I don't think Jimmy does is
doing the same exact thing. But we could talk about
that another time. All right, Well, liberal activists act that's fine,
all right, that's your show.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Oh no, he definitely is. I mean if you you
could make the argument that he is, and I think
Alex Dune will agree.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
He's been ABC Alex that you both.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I'm not agreeing with that anything here. I don't know
what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You are, dude.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So what's going on tonight? Is the big night for
Jimmy Kimmel on.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, they they're loading in right now in Hollywood and
then here he returns. But we know his gas line
up there. You know, there were rumors today was going
to be Gavin Newsom, and it's not Newsome. He's in
New York. He's doing Colbert. But if it was going
to be symbolic in some way, it doesn't seem to be.
It seems like they're going forward with what the plan
was going to be. Anyway, It's gonna be actor Glenn
(01:48):
Powell promoting his new sports comedy TV series Remember Him
from Top Gun, Maverick and some other shows and movies,
and and then Sarah McLaughlin will be the musical guest.
But yeah, I mean all of this obviously going back
to over the last week that you guys were talking
about and Brendan Carr's comments on the The Benny Johnson That
podcast and then the two big owners of the ABC
(02:09):
affiliate TV station, sin Clara Nextar being the ones to
come out and say they would not air Kimmel, and
the implications being for local TV stations and broadcast licenses
and mergers in the works that are going to need
DOJ approval. But one thing we have seen in the
last week is, you know, some prettyhigh profile Republicans, including
Senator Ted Cruz, who is he said, not a fan
(02:31):
of Jimmy Kimmel, coming out against any kind of censoring
of what a comedian would do, and and the administration
pressuring broadcasters and Cruz went on a podcast likened what
Benny Carr or Brendan Carr said on the Benny Johnson
podcast as being like a mafia leader saying we can
do this the easy way, or we can do this
(02:52):
a hard way, and crews saying no, it doesn't work
that way.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I think it is unbelievably dangerous for government to put
itself in the position of saying we're going to decide
what speech we like and what we don't, and we're
going to threaten to take you off air if we
don't like what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
And he said, look to the conservative audience said that
could be a problem in the next administration or the
one after that, or the one after that, if that
administration decides that they don't like conservative talk radio and
podcasts and then goes after that speech. If this were
to go forward, and we heard it a little while ago,
Joe Rogan, he went on his podcast and said, absolutely,
(03:29):
no too. I definitely don't think that the government should
be involved ever in dictating what a comedian count or
cannot say in a monologue.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
So anyway, he's going to be back today less than
a week after Disney said and then the way that
they have described it, our parent company that it's suspended
production of Jimmy Kimmelive. They said to avoid further inflaming
a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country.
It called Kimmel's comments ill timed and thus insensitive, but
says after having thoughtful conversation with Jimmy Kimmel to the
(04:01):
show will be returning. Sinclair and next Star stations they
are going to keep postponing the show. Sinclaire says it's
having discussions with ABC right now about the show's return
next Our said if its viewers. And remember Next Star
is in this deal to try to buy Tegna needs
DOJ approval that its viewers can go to Disney Plus
or they can go to Hulu and see it there,
(04:22):
but it won't be on Next Oar stations at least
tonight and on Instagram. Kimmel went on today saying we
are back full of love. He will be on in
most of the country, about a third of it, not
about a third of it is Sinclair and Nextar, but
everywhere else, including in LA. He'll be back tonight.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
And so I think Ted Cruz and Joe Rogan are
consistent because those are two of the guys that came
out and said it was wrong to throw Donald Trump
off of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. But I don't remember
the other actors complaining when Trump was thrown off.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, I mean it's been you know, we've heard from
several pretty high profile Republicans who have come out, but
you're right, they are those who have been very free
speech advocates in in the past, and they are definitely
sticking with their messages.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, all right, So tonight at eleven thirty, I imagine
the ratings will be through the roof.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, I mean the expectation is that people are going
to be who wouldn't normally that's right up or watch
that they're gonna they're gonna be watching tonight. Yeah, the
quest We don't know if if he's gonna address it
at all, or if there's gonna be any kind of
comment or an apology or or a joke, or if
it's they're just gonna go forward like nothing went on.
We don't know. Yeah, they they're gonna be taping I'm
(05:36):
looking about the next hour or so probably, and I'm
sure it'll start to come out of what did or
didn't go on in there, But we don't know if
he's gonna make any comment.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Well, of course, you know, the ratings that you guys
talk about may be affected by the fact that all
these sinclairen Next Star stations aren't even carrying the show,
So I mean, yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Know, I mean, maybe maybe an increase on the streaming
platforms for for that for people who want to see it.
But and then you the major markets of LA and
New York and Chicago and the Bay Area and Houston,
those are all owned by Disney, and so he's going
to run there and so the big audience area is
that he will be airing in so the population will
(06:13):
be there.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
What is this, Bellio, just hand me a piece of paper.
I kfi siding with Next Star and Sinclair. We're also
not airing it to you.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
You're not gonna h that's a courageous position.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Yeah, sucks all right.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
But look, even if you hate Jimmy Kimmel, if you know,
you think he's a you know, a nut job, far
left wing, you know, idiot, whatever words you have to
describe your hatred form, at least you got to love
the fact that two hundred people are going to keep
their jobs in la You know, absolutely if that show
went out of business, those those jobs are not going
(06:50):
to pop up anywhere else.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah, a lot of people are employed by the show,
as any show would be. And you know, there were
all those videos last week of them saying that they
were moving out and moving out of the offices, and no,
I mean it looked like that was probably whatever performer
was going to be on that night, band or singer
group that they were moving out the black cases that
they would typically go with a group, and seemed like
that they were moving their stuff out. But they did
(07:13):
not move out that. Nobody ever said that the show
was over. There were those who thought it probably was,
but Disney from the beginning had made it clear that
they were trying to figure it out, and they were
talking to him and deciding how to move forward. And
then now he comes back.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
So what is Sinclair and is it Next Star? What
do they need out of Jimmy Kimmel for them to
hook up again?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
And they're a good question.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
We don't know, you know, they've only put out statements
and Sinclair saying that they are in discussions with ABC
and the talks are underway to figure out that the
show's return Next Star. Who knows? Is they try to
make this multi billion dollar deal to acquire Tegna, another
big TV company these names as well, Next Star and Tegna.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
What is Techna? How many stations is Techna own a
fairly large company? How many ABC affiliates?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I don't know. I know Sacramento is Tegna.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
So if Tegna, Next Star, and Sinclair all got together,
they could be bigger than ABC, NBC or CBS potentially. Yeah,
they own a lot and started another network.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Yeah, and they've got a lot that are across all
of the networks, not just ABC. So, by the way,
they own quite a few. They're the ihearts of TV. Okay,
that's where you like to think of it.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
How embarrassing is this, the big United Nations meeting with
Trump speaking before you know what, eight hundred different countries there.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
The melopropter doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Not only that, but the escalators aren't working either. Yeah,
I mean, what a kind of what I mean? Don't
you think you would get a guy in there and go, hey, look,
there's gonna be everybody in the world's coming tomorrow. Can
we get an escalator guy in here? I know there's
escalator guys in New York, that's where they all are.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Well, sure was it intentional?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Though?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I keep seeing the pastings by Caroline Levitt and others indicating.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
That, oh, that's supposedly a Trump staffer was at the
top of the next and hit it.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Oh what the the teleprompter or the escalator escalator exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Just leaned on that big button on the big red button.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Wow, he's going to be working as a Trump's staffer,
a short timer. He is gone.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Well he look, you know, he made them walk up
what twenty stairs.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Hey, it gave him some riff material. When you know
the prompter went bad, he could complain about the escalator.
Are we gonna?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Can we?
Speaker 6 (09:31):
So?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
This Kimmel airs at eight thirty on the East coast, right,
and so can we play it here at eight thirty
or do you have to wait till eleven thirty?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Good question.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I don't know what the rules are.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
You've been here for thirty eight years. How long can
we play it at eight thirty?
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Hey, again, you're asking the person that's never going to
tell you no.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
What I asked.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Coursy you o to day?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Can I use the whole left word?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
And he goes a but yeah, I guess so, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Why yeah, go ahead and knock that out.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
All right, buddy, I appreciate you phoning in and Alex
Stone with ABC News. I'm glad that Sinclair is not
shutting you down, Bob.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, nope, we're sticking around. Thanks, all right, thank you?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
All right, Alex Stone, everybody, and so tonight you'll be
watching you watch it every night?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Anyway? Do you watch Kimmel? Well, you know it's part
of the lefties I have to do. Yeah, you part
of being in.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
The club, which late night show. Do you prefer out
of all of them?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Kim I adore Kimmel. I think Kimmel is funny. I
think he's inventive. Has nothing to do with Trump. I'll
tell you ever seen this he there's a bunch of
bits that I love. One of them is he brings
their four people there, bring them there, they have them
standing outside and Jimmy has to guess which one is Stone, Okay.
And that's the kind of stuff that they do that
I think is very funny as well. So there's a
(10:48):
lot about Kimmel that I really enjoy. And so yeah,
that's the one my favorite.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
All Right, So that's night at eleven thirty PM on
Channel seven, and we're not a Sinclair, We're LA can
watch it, right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Well, it's it's an O one O right, it's an
owned an operated station, ABC owned and operated. That's right.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
So tonight at eleven thirty pm, all right's Conway and
Thompson Can if I am sick for It's Conways show.
Mark Thompson's here. You know during the break it's like,
you know, you're a celebrity and you have celebrity friends,
and you always call your celebrity friends.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I like listening to them. Well, I'll tell you I
got the call from former anchorman John Beer. I love
John Bier talking about Yeah, he called and you were
here in the studio, and I thought we're in a
commercial break, why not just put him on the speaker.
And he was delighted to talk to you. You were
very both of you were like super glib and funny.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
He's like a really old fashion not old fashioned, but
a really hard nose, no nonsense reporter. When he goes
out to get a story, he leaves no stone unturned. Yeah,
what he was a reporter before he was an anchor.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, he was very he did he did really good work.
And of course he was a anchor on Channel four,
which is close to where we're sitting right now, right
across the way, and then on Channel eleven, Box eleven.
But I've known John Beard since he was an anchor
in Buffalo, New York.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Fritz Coleman, John Beard, and myself were all in Buffalo
at the same time, and we remain like close friends
to this day. I just had I had lunch with
Fritz right before I came over here.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Are you still a Bills fan?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I am, oh, good for you. Yeah. In fact, Fritz
married a Buffalo Bill's cheerleader, Wow, and John went out
with a Buffalo Bill the Jills. They were called the
Buffalo Jills at that time, and so yeah, they were
those guys went to games, but I never went to
a game.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
That must have been a you know in Buffalo, you've
got to be on your toes with the weather. Yeah,
I mean you've got a lot the Lake effect is,
isn't the Lake effect?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah? I would you know if you could, you could
say there'll be two inches of snow overnight and there
could be twenty two inches by morning. You had to
really watch it. Yeah, you're right, a little wind shift
could really cost it.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, and those thank god that those fans who were
I think both the most the most loyal fans in football.
They're getting a brand new stadium. It's incredible too. I
mean to see what they've done, it's a kind of
they built it down into It's kind of what they
do with SOFI, right, it's so far built down.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
So it's same kind of thing with the new Buffalo stadium.
And the field is heated, so you have any issues
with ice and stuff, so it could be really quite
but it's open air. I mean, you know, you'd think
you might in Buffalo want to put a dome on it.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah, but there's a dome in on Sofi. That's the
most la thing. Isn't a real oversight. So do you
know why they had to dig Sofi that deep into
the ground?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Why the flight path they couldn't have anything over I
think fifty feet or seventy five feet or so.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
That's great knowledge.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah, and that's why. Also the forum is built is
dug out as well.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Oh no kidding.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
When you walk in the forum, you're at the promenade
level when you can go down like you know, showty
five feet or so.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I have to say, I've not been to Sofi, haven't
been there yet. No, man, see it on TV.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Looks so cool it literally have you ever been to
the Grand Canyon?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Okay, when you go to the Grand Canyon, you see
you for the first time, you're speechless. You know, you
can't believe you're looking at something that big that nature
has produced. Okay, this is not nature that has done
so far, but it's that big where you look at
it and you can't believe that it looks fake. You
can't believe that there are seats, there are that many
(14:27):
seats that in that big of an arena, that's so
beautifully built, and it was built you know, they could
have gone cheaper on the material to build this thing,
but they didn't want to, you know, they wanted to
go top shelf. And it's built for one hundred and
seventy five years. It's supposed to last for one hundred
and seventy five years, and most stadiums that are built
are built for forty or fifty years.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
It's just so visually spectacular. And then they hear you
say that in person, it's even more visual. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
And you know what, while I was taking a tour,
this is this is a kind of an odd story.
I'm taking a tour of Sofi Stadium about about a
month before it opened up, and I said to a
buddy of mine, a guy named Robbie Fox, I said, hey,
you want to go take a look at Sofi Stadium.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
He goes, oh, I'd love to.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
And so we're driving over that I said, hey, they're
not going to let you in, you know, just as
you you have to be you know, the producer on
our radio show. He goes, okay, all right, that's that's fine.
And the moment he got there, it was like, hey,
they said, so what do you do. He goes, oh,
I'm a writer in Hollywood. I'm like, no, no, no, no,
no no no no no no no no no. Now
(15:32):
you've got to tell everybody you work here.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Didn't you see the Great Escape? We well, we all
have stories and we've established what the stories and our
backstories are.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
And so I I there was about twelve people on
our tour, and I said to one of the young
ladies there, I said, hey, in about ten minutes loud
enough so my buddy could hear tell your friend that
her your favorite movie is I Married an Axe Murder
because my buddy wrote that.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
And so about twenty minutes later, she's like togging, she because, yeah,
because I love that movie I Married an Axe Murderer.
And he goes, oh, I work at Kfi. I've seen
that's great.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I've never heard that story. It really is great.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
So I'm taking a tour of Sofi Stadium and there's
a huge double suite. It's almost like it's probably one
hundred feet long by fifty feet wide. There's seats in
there for probably one hundred people. There is a big bar,
there's a kitchen, there's couches, there's private bathrooms. And I
look to see who sponsored that thing, and it's sponsored
by Michelobe. And I went, what they got Michelobe to
(16:45):
buy a suite? Nobody drinks Michelobe anymore. This is five
years ago. Sure, nobody drinks Michelobe. Michelobe was a beer
than when I was growing up, my parents' drank Sure,
you know, I remember the old slogan weekends were made
for Michelobe. Sure that was how old it is? So
cut to five years later after I saw that, and
I said that about Mikeelobe, it's the number one beer
(17:08):
in the United States. What Mikelobe is the number one
beer in the United States right now? It's not Lowen Brow,
it's not Lowenbro. It's Michelobe, Mikelob, Mikeelobe Ultra or Michelobe
Light something. Michelobe is the number one beer. It just
took over a you know, I don't know whatever or
whoever was second, but it's huge. And I think the kids,
(17:28):
I think the younger generation is discovering Michelobe.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I know there's Michelobe Lighte and Yclobe.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
And then Michelobe Ultra and then they have an Amber
and that's anytime a beer revives itself, that's a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
It's great. It's so weird how they do come and go. Yeah,
they do.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
And and you know, we've all had beers in the past,
like Rolling Rock out of Cleveland, Ohio. I don't know
if it still exists Schlitz, remember Schlitz. Oh sure, they
all they all come and go. But man, that Michelobe,
I don't know who. And obviously it's a it's a
public relations deal that you know, sent that out because
Nicolo was dying, and they've turned it around where it's
(18:08):
the number one beer in the United States.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I don't see many ads for it, though I see
ads for you know, Corona.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I'm with you, for you know, to Cone and all that. Yeah,
I'm with you. But I read an article and I'm
gonna have to confirm this, but I read that it's
the number one beer.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
That's wild. Yeah it is.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Look, if I were to give you one hundred guesses
for the number one beer, you would never.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Say I would have lost a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Ever, yeah, I mean I could even give you a
six pack of Michelob. You go put that aside. I'm
guessing which the biggest beer is the biggest beer? All right,
we're live on kf I AM six forties Conway and Thompson.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Oh my god, the complaining brothers are here.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Oh my god, so.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
People doubted me. I'm getting a lot of email, a
lot of texts. Michelob is not the number one beer
in the United States. So let's go to the I
guess the arbiter of who is number one and who's
not The Today Show. The Today Show, they decide who
is number one and who is number two?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Okay, and I think it's make right.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
Guess what a new King of Beers is in the
is in town and it is still owned by Saint
Louis based Anheuser Busch. Michelob Ultra is a light beer,
and it has officially claimed the title of America's number
one beer.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
That's on the Today Show. The I mean they are
the show of record. Yeah, they're bound by certain journalistic
stend that's right. Yeah, And if they say it's number one.
It's number one.
Speaker 8 (19:45):
It launched in It launched a while ago, like twenty
years ago.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
But the beer is Oh they ballparked that, you know,
like twenty years ago, like twenty off launched twenty years ago. Yeah,
bo did. But they changed the logo. You know, it
used to read Michelobe and now it if you look
at a can, it reads Heineken.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
No, it reads Ultra. You can't even see where it's.
Michelob's super tiny and the Ultra is super big.
Speaker 8 (20:12):
Yeah, but it's number one beer in the official beer
sponsors and major sporting events, including the FIFA Cup twenty
twenty six. Now this comes as fewer Americans are actually
consuming alcohol amid some health concerns.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
But I know, you know, we really are falling behind again.
There's a country in that area. We have to pick
up her alcohol consumption.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
So this woman on the Today Show is explaining what
she knows about beer, and then the weather guy comes
in and man explains it for her.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I see, yeah, he cleans it up for it.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
But I know a lot of people who drink Nickelobe
Ultra these days.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
But you know, do you know anybody that drinks Michelob
Ultra I don't.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
I don't, but I mean that doesn't say anything right
saying drinking vodka. Yeah, straight blue DoD They've evolved beyond
Michelob Ultra Ellio.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Let's get make a little to sponsor this show the
Michelobe Theater, the Mikelobe Studio. All right, let me get
on that.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Will you get on the fifth floor and go take
care of that? Right? I didn't get him on the line.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Wait, you're already on with Michelobs. All right, I'll have
him sign the contract. It's done, all right, all right
from the Mikeelobe Studios in Burbank.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
It's the Conway Show.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
With Mark JP for you JP, TJ T c j T.
We're all done. We're all done. So she's explaining that
she doesn't know anybody drinks Michelobe and he comes in
over the top. He's like, honey, move a side. Let
me tell you what's going on with Michelobs.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
A king of beers.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah, it's I.
Speaker 9 (21:51):
Mean, it's all in the same umbrella. But he got
Mick Altree. You got Bush Lights you know too? Yeah,
those are the favorite here right now, Mick alter You know,
it was like the first low Cat, like Low carb beer.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
You know. That's kind of how it's been marketing.
Speaker 8 (22:03):
Yeah, I know, and a lot of scoring, a lot
of it seems like athletes like it.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yeah, it's a lot.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Of golf tournaments.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
So yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
He explained it to everybody, your low cally, your little cat. Yeah,
but that snuck up on everybody. Yeah you know, I
mean you would think that you would know the beer
that's sneaking up on everybody to become number one.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I love that she says, a lot of athletes like it.
What they've done is quite cleverly put a lot of
athletes in their commercials. That's it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah, so FI is dominated by Michelob. I think that's
the only thing. The only light beer that they sell
is Michelob. But yeah, as of September twenty twenty five,
that's this month of this year, number one beer in
America is Michelob Ultra, having recently dethrowned the second place beer,
and for fifty two weeks ending September fourteenth, twenty twenty five,
(22:56):
according to the pairing company of vanheuser Busch and Imbev,
it the number one beer in America.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
So started like I'm like ut it's like that. That's
the first beer I ever had. Yes, it was the
seventies and my dad had him with the gold foil
around the earth that's.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Right the top of the bottle.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
And it was always people camping on the commercials. They're
always you know, weekends where made and they always camped.
I always brought their own heavy ass case of beard
while they were camping. But yeah, it was always you know,
when my grandfather, my grandfather drank drank stros and and
(23:34):
when we went to see him and stayed with him
in June, July and August every year. When he would
get home from you guy, which is a natural gas
company worked for, he would always sit down and have
a beer because he was a blue collar worker. His
job was to fill thousand gallon pro pane tanks. There
was a there was a gas line that came into
Sugar and Falls, Ohio, and they would they would load
(23:57):
these huge tanks up with a thousand gallons of pain
and then send them out to mobile home parks and
that would be the source of energy for the whole park.
And so he worked with Bill Butler and another guy
named Clark, another guy. There's five guys that My grandfather
worked with his whole life at this company. And while
(24:17):
they filled those propane tanks every single day, thousand gallons,
every one of them while they were working smoked cigarettes.
Every single guy smoked cigarettes while they were filling thousand
gallon propane tanks.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Surem in insanely flammable danger.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Like hanging off the corner of their mouth, right, yeah,
And nothing ever happened could have could have easily And
if that were to happen, if it were to blow up,
the whole town would have gone with it. The town
was about twelve hundred people, and the whole town would
have been destroyed.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
And they all smoked those cigarettes.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
So he came home every day and he'd have a
stros and whoever got him the strows got a dixie
cup full of beer.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
That was me.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
So when I was eight years old, I would sit
next to my grandfather and I'm out of a small
little like half dixie cup of beer and drink with
my grandfather at age eight.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
You know, from eight on, that's a kind of bonding experience.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Yes, And did that affect my life later on? You bet,
you bet. I got radically into alcohol. Only drank a
beer out of a dixie cup. I can I can
only drink it if I find a grandfather. Oh woh yeah, sure,
so it's kind of odd around the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
It's funny though. The marketing of these beers is what
we remember, right, You remember? Weekends were made for michelob And.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I think I can come up with that slogan too.
I think I let me I think I can play
that for you. Let's see here, let me see may
it was Niclone alright, let's see. Yeah, weekends, Oh, here
it is. I got the whole commercial out of Mighty
at the Internet. Great, all right, here it is Lobe.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Then Thursday camping.
Speaker 10 (26:12):
They brought a symphony with them.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yeah, the gold top.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
You're right, crous.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Weekends were made for make loans, don't forget remember to
pick up.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Some weekends were made. Weekends were made from Michelob.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
What man?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
That brings back a lot of memories. If you're your
fifties or sixties and your dad or grandfather drank beer,
you remember that.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
You remember that slogan.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
Wasn't Michelobe known as the Champagne of beers?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Was it was that?
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Their thing?
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I think too. That's to get the gals over. You know,
it's it's always the champagne of something like we drank it,
we drank.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
That was Miller Highlight. Was Miller Highlight?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Oh, champagne of yeah, Miller high Yeah, remember Miller high
Life was less filling?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Uh, no, that was great. That was that light beer
bud Light, No, that was It wasn't Miller. I thought
it was Miller Light. No it was. It wasn't bud Light.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
No, it was light. It was just light.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
It was Miller light beer from Miller light beer from Milliar. Yeah,
taste ta great, let's filling, taste great beer, Let's fill it.
And this baseball stadiums used to shout that during Monday
night football, half the stadium taste great, the other half
less filling. Oh it's time to be alive. Everybody's on
their ethink phones all the time. Nobody has any connection
with anybody else. Nobody, nobody. You know, in twenty years,
(28:07):
kids will say, I remember listening to a radio show
where they once talked about a beer.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
You know, that's the only connection they'll have. They will
not have the.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Great radio show. What's that I rely on? K It's
Conway and Thompson.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Oh, that'll be great.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
People always underestimate when they come in to talk to
John Colevelt about whatever they've done, and he just mows
them over.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah he can. He doesn't waste time buying him a drink.
He gets right into the action. Yeah, right into it. Hey,
we're talking about autumn.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
The beer michelob Ultra and Bellio worked her ass off
during the break and put up a pole on Twitter
on X and it's what beer do you drink? Michelob Ultra, Modello,
bud Light and Corona Extra. And so you can go
vote there and make your voice heard. You know, you
(29:00):
got to vote in this country. If you don't vote,
nothing will change.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
That's the thing. I mean, we've given you the chance
to really register how you feel.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
And if you don't, you know, if you don't exercise
your right to vote on Twitter polls.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Then what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Yeah, but everybody he remembers. Look, if you're over forty five,
I think you'll remember this. But the we're talking about
the low and brow song.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yeah, because it's like mickelub had that Weekend's weekend We're
made from mickelb and I remember the Lowen Browse song.
Was you know, Here's two good Friends. Yeah, I found
it here.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
It is a ready will you sing it for us?
Speaker 1 (29:36):
I'm about to have a moment.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
So you said forty five, I'm forty six, and this
is going to be tapping into some old child. Oh buddy,
you'll remember this all right. Here we go the Low
and Brow song with Mark Thompson.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Here's two good friends. Tonight had a special the beer
will pull must say something more somehow, so ton tune.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Let it be love and bron we're telling good friends,
they're good friends.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
What a song man does that bring back memories? That
was nineteen eighty Wow. And the song we played before that,
the Michelobe song. If you miss that, that was nineteen
seventy seven. Nineteen seventy seven michelobeh it wasn't mikelob Ultra.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
It was just week yeahl weekends.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
We're made from Miclobe. But it does bring back memories,
you know, we we The one thing that all of
us had in common, if you're over forty, is that
we all saw the same TV shows at the same
time and the same commercials.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
And the reason the commercials landed is because you couldn't
flip past them. There was no flip past at that point.
So you're seeing the commercials, You're we're all experiencing the
same cultural thing through commercials.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
And at the same time, if you want know, if
we wanted to watch Happy Days, you had to be
home at eight o'clock on Tuesday and put on ABC.
And if you didn't, you missed it, and there was
no repeat. They weren't going to play it again. You're
out and you were done, and you couldn't follow the
very intricacy of the characters on Happy Days.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
For the rest of the year. That's right.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
And then after that you know Laverne and Shirley and
then you know whatever, you know, six million Dollar Man,
Brady Bonge, Partridge family. But I remember at Christmas, I
think it was the Tuesday before Christmas, maybe two weeks
before Christmas, they played Rudolph and they played what was
(31:39):
the other one, not the Santa Claus. They played, Oh
Frosty the Snowmam and Rudeolph, and they would and they
would play those Oh Charlie Brown, Christmas, Charlie Brown, Christmas,
Charlie Brown, Christmas went on at eight o'clock on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, whatever,
it was and you did not miss it, yes, right,
and the green and you had to be home to
(32:01):
look at it. And if you missed it and the
kids started talking about the next day in school, you
felt like you had the worst parents in the world,
Like they didn't care about me, they didn't put the
schedule together. I remember when when uh Frosty came on,
we all had to be showered or bathed in our
pajamas downstairs at eight o'clock with popcorn and all watch
(32:21):
it as a family and we couldn't wait, you know.
But now now you don't have those moments, you know,
because everything is on DVD and DVR.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
And and and uh you know, and and.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Streaming the different moments because look, if you're streaming a
show you're not at and Krozer is also streaming a show,
you may not be in the same place of the show,
so you can't talk about it. That's true, because you
want to ruin it for Krozer, vice versa. Yeah, but
back then, you know, with Dallas, remember Dallas.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
But I bet you were a big fan.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Yeah, Sharon, Sharon's bellio was a huge shot. Yeah, who
shot Jr? But but you had to be home to
watch that, and everybody was on this set aimed episode.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Yeah, that's true, you're right, I mean, Tim's right. There
was no again, this is hard to believe now, but
there was no delayed viewing. We dreamt of an ability
to record these things so that we didn't have to
be home to see them.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
At least some of the streamers. Can't say all of them,
but at least some of the streamers will offer you
basically a party view option where you invite people to
watch it at the same time.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Oh that's great, that's that. That could save it, you know,
for a lot of people. I think that's a terrific idea.
I was unaware of that. All right, one more time.
I know people love this.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Two good friends.
Speaker 10 (33:33):
It's a night it's done especial the beer with Paul
must say something more somehow.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
So let it be Low and Brown?
Speaker 3 (33:50):
What a time?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
What happened alone? They're done though, I don't think Loanan
Brown is. I don't know. Maybe they're still around, but
I haven't heard them that. No one's sun the jingle
for a while.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
That's your sure, alright, real live, It's Conway Thompson on
KFI AM six
Speaker 7 (34:02):
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KFI AM six forty
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