Brandon Alinger, COO of Propstore, previewed a massive three-day live-streamed auction featuring over 1,000 pieces of iconic TV and movie memorabilia. Check out auction items at Propstoreauction.com. The team chatted about which props they’d love to own themselves. Neil reminisced about his favorite job at Kinko’s and its unique management style, plus a nod to Phil Hendrie taking his show off-Broadway.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF. I am six forty and you're listening
to the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Happy Friday to you, hope you're on the way home.
It's Neil Savadra in for Tim Conway Junior tonight. Happy
to be with you. Tim is on vacation, not with Stafouche.
By the way, everythody now, don't what was that me?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Who's that? You?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Take advantage of my empathy and my Kanye Seriously, Crow,
move along. I will come in there and give it
the what for, but I'm happy to be with you
until seven o'clock. Will hand it over to Tiffany Hobbs,
who is in for Mo Kelly. Everybody's on vacation right now,
and I will be back with you with a FOURK
(00:47):
report talking all things food tomorrow two to four thirty
because we are preempted the last half hour for the
Chargers game. Alrighty, So I've said this many times on
the air. If I didn't do radio, I would have
been in props. I love props.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I make.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Replica props at home. I have my own studio and shop.
I love everything about it. I love memorabilia. I love
all these things, and I wanted to tell you about
a really cool auction coming up in September here in
Los Angeles. If you like this stuff like I do,
you're gonna want to hear this and to tell us
about this auction and more. Is Brandon Allinger from He's
(01:29):
a CEO from the prop Store out here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Brandon, Welcome to the program.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Hi, Neil, how are you? Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I'm well and I got to tell you from a
weird distance watching you on video all the time and
a course on television and like when you're doing interviews.
I one want to tell you how much I appreciate
you taking the time to come on. But two, I
really love what you do and appreciate your appreciation for
this memorabilia and this history of television and beyond and
(02:01):
the way you the way you bring those things to
the rest of us that have you know, share that love.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
So thanks for what you do.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Yeah, no, thank you for saying that. And you know,
I didn't realize that you were a prop pan So
it's good year. You'll have good contacts for this conversation.
You've probably recognized many of the things in our auction
catalog Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
As a matter of fact, I requested you know then
that I was going to be filling in today. I
asked our producer Bellio to reach out because I think
there is magic behind these things, and it's more to
it than just well, I'm getting older and I have
more money than I used to. Let's buy crap. There's
just something to it. So I don't have the money
(02:44):
for some of these things, but I do buy like
the catalogs. You guys sell the catalogs, which are a great,
great way to see some of these things up close
and personal. Tell everybody what's going to be in these lots,
where it's going to be, and how people can participate
in the auction that's coming up in September.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Absolutely, So this is one of our biggest auctions of
the year. It's what we call the Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction,
and essentially this pulls together content from a wide variety
of different films and television shows, one hundred titles in total,
and we've got about eleven hundred lots that are going
to be sold over three days on September fourth, fifth,
and sixth. Day one is held live at the Peterson
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Automotive Museum here in Los Angeles. People can come out
at TEND in person. They can see some of the
items on display there, they can place bids if they like,
or they can just be a spectator and watch and
see what they sell. For days two and three, the
action is online and via telephone only, so in general
we have the higher priced items on the first day
we sort of get those little bidding wars out of
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the way, and then we move into days two and
three being more excessively priced items for those who are
just starting out on their collecting journeys. Day two and
three is we'll find pieces or maybe priced than the
low thousands or even some of the hundreds of dollars. So,
you know, even though this auction contains some very very
expensive pieces, not everything.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Is that pricey.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
And you do try to have something to appeal to everyone,
and especially you know, fans of films and television shows,
and you know, I think you're talking there about sort
of the magic that these pieces contained, if you will,
and that's really what it's all about. You know, it's
all about deep love and appreciation for a given show
or or film, and you know it certainly Nostalgia's a
(04:32):
theme I think so many of us remember so fondly
the movies and the shows that we grew up with.
But it is a little bit more than just pure
mist doubt. I mean, it's also a deep appreciation for
the artistry behind something like Michael Keaton's batsuit and you know,
the nice and eighty nine Batman film, and just what
went into creating that thing and making it out of film,
latex and rubber, and getting it to look good on
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Michael Keaton and getting it to look good on the screen.
You know, it's it's and there's a lot to this stuff,
and there always has been. You know, the cops and
costumes have always been something that have been a focal
point of movies that are being put together by very
talented designers and craftsmen and artists who come in and
build these things. And you know, it's a privilege and
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a pleasure for us to have a chance to work
with them. And as you say, put the auction catalogs
together and present them to the world, and.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I highly recommend that. And I know you have some
of the back catalogs as well. Sometimes if you can't
afford these, but you love to look through them and
love it how they were made, in the craftsmanship. I
highly recommend putting out the sixty dollars or whatever it
is to get the auction catalogs because they really are
museum quality into themselves and they're beautiful to look at.
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We come back, I want to talk to you about
one of the things that is up from Darth Vader
and Star Wars, because that is something that moved a
lot of us at a young age and continues to
be one of the most sought after types of pieces.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
From Star Wars.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Also, a quick question before we get some news here,
what goes for uh it? Do you get more money
for the batsuit with the nipples on it or without
the nipples?
Speaker 5 (06:12):
A good question. I think this is the highest priced
batsuit that we have ever offered, and this is the
Night nine film which did not have nipples. Yeah, I
guess we're saying nippoles is more valuably, I think Kilmer
introduced the nipples and what was that ninety five maybe
in Batman Forever. You know, it's not actually the nipples
that are the deciding factor there, It's really it's the
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quality of the film. How many were made for the movie.
It's how many still survive. It's all those things.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I love that though someone said, hey, you know what
this batsuit needs. He needs nipples. Get on that will Yeah,
Oh I got it. I got a great idea. All right,
stick around.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
We'll talk with Brandon Allinger, the COO am I pronouncing
that right by the way, All.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well, you're very clear Allinger about that coh no way
of the Prop Store.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
A big auction coming up at the Peterson September fourth
through the sixth. We'll talk about that more as well
as the props that will be up for auction.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Neil Savadra in for Tim Conway Junior tonight. Happy to
be with you until seven o'clock and we'll hand it
all over to Tiffany Hobbs. So go know where talking
props right now with Brandon Allinger?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Right, did I get you?
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Got me?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
I'm gonna well done?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Thank you, gold star and put it on my chest.
He's the CEO of the Prop Store. They have location
in the UK and here in Los Angeles. Of course,
they have a massive auction coming up. This is the
big one. September fourth through the sixth. The first day
will be there at the Peterson Museum and you can
go in person, and then the following ones will be
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online only one of the and you have to sign
up in all of that to bid correct.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Yeah, there's a registration process, but it's really straightforward. It's
all their propstore dot.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Com excellent and I encourage people to check that out.
One of the things that I was talking about before
we went to a break is Darth Vader's lightsaber. You
talked about the older Batman suit and how it was
put together. Now in my shop currently I have c
and see I can work and metal I can fabricate
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with the three D printers. You know, some of this
technology didn't even exist back then, so a lot of
it was taking found objects, things that existed, and through
art and manipulation and insight, making them to look completely different,
worldly whatever it was. And that goes right to the
heart of this. In this particular case, the dueling lightsaber,
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so it was fight ready, fight worthy of Darth Vader
tell us a little bit about that.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Yeah, well, you're absolutely right. I mean, it's sort of
an amazing you know, it's it's the top piece of
the auction, but it's actually made out of an old
camera component. It's the flash handle off the side of
a nineteen forties nineteen fifties press camera. It's called a
microflash that was manufactured by a company called micro Precision
Products out of the UK, the UK, of course, being
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the live action home of Star Wars. It's where they
did all the live action photography on the big sets
with the actors, and Star Wars got tremendous production value
out of this repurposing of real world components. Components, you know,
the famous story that they bought in like a full
aircraft that's seven forty seven or something, stripped it, you know,
(09:38):
down to the tiniest little they call them Greebley's and nerdies,
all these little parts, you know, you know, the inside
of engines and such. It stuck them all over the sets,
stuck them all over the props, and in doing so,
you know, it sort of created a world that I
guess looked very believable, and I think, you know, one
of it looks. I think Star Wars in general is
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such a visual thing. I think for some of the
reasons that the characters live in everyone's mind and the
way they do something like a Darth Vader is just
so so visual and there's so much brilliant design throughout it,
and the lightsabers are a great example of that. And
I mean this piece that's coming up for sale is
one of very few absolutely genuine, you know, verified vetted
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what we call photo matched and screen matched lightsabers that
still exist today. And it's the one that was used
for the dual Sequences with Mark Hamill and both the
Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, and it's
coming to auction for the very first time. It's been
in the same collection for decades, really hasn't been seen
a lot. There's been a big reaction to you know,
from the Star Wars fans and some of the prop
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collecting fans as we've rolled the piece out and you know,
put out some of the best photos of it that
anyone's ever seen over the past few weeks, and there's
just a huge buzz, you know, both from people who
may have a potential interest in bidding on it and
those who are just excited to see it, excited to
know that it still exists. You know, so many of
these things things could have gone in the trash can,
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and so many things like them did go in the
trash can. It's just, you know, making these films, especially
at that time in the nineteen seventies and the nineteen eighties,
the goal was not to save props and costumes and setties,
as the goal was to get the film and they
can get the movie on the screen and really just
complete the job, which was very challenging.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
You know.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Star Wars famously a very difficult film to get done,
and a lot of stuff did get turned away over
the years. And it's kind of only today with hindsight,
looking back so many decades later, that we can say, boy,
these things are really treasure, you know, and they are
a cultural significance and they mean a great deal of people.
And of course that comes to prices and the spending
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and just the costs associated with them.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Yeah, because they were a femera, I mean they would
take anything expensive out I imagine, any gears, any electronics
that they could reuse. Of course, one of the famous instances,
I think Superman in nineteen seventies seven or what have you,
that it was filmed in the same stages there in
the UK, and I think they even used some of
(12:06):
the Darth Vader sets or something as Lex Luthor's set,
and so they often would just reuse things when they
need something similar.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Right, Yeah, what you're thinking of there is the trunk
that Ale Dennis Pulls pulled Luke first movie, the trunk
that the Kryptonite was stored in in Superman.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
So yeah, something.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
This stuff is fascinating to me, and to own it.
There is something about bringing you back to that place,
not to mention as a maker myself, looking at how
it was fabricated and seeing the real world damage that
would take place during a duel when you have not
a lightsaber but an actual probably aluminum or some rod
inside it that was used to fight.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
You also have press pieces of the sets.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
You have clothing and costumes and things like this, anything
else that stands out to you. You want to tell people
about the upcoming September fourth through the sixth auction here
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Oh, I mean, look, it's just a great sale with
so many highlights from all the fan favorite movies. You know,
we tend to focus on the genre films of the sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties,
so you know there's things like in Indiana Jones bull Lit.
There are pieces from Jim Cameron's Aliens. There's a Spider
Man costume Toby MacGuire Spider Man costume from Spider Man two.
We have the Neuralizer, which is the memory wiping device
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from the First Men in Black. We have the jet
pack from Rocketeer. It's a version that actually fired flames.
We have prop hoverboards, you know, Captain America shields, just
so many pieces, you know, pieces from Jaws, pieces from
Pirates of the Caribbean, all the fan favorite titles, really,
I feel like are represented in this auction. It's a
particularly wonderful assembly. Obviously I'm a little biased, but it's
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a particularly wonderful assembly of content in this one, and
just some amazing pieces that haven't been seen on the
auction block before that we're really excited to see, you know,
how they do on auction day.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I was blown away at some of the you know,
the the older pieces as well. Even into the sixties,
I used to joke, you know, turn ons and turnoffs
like they do in Playboy magazine or something. I'd say
turn ons is Jane Fond and Barbarella turnoffs with Jane
Fonda in Hanoi and I was surprised to see that
you have Barbarella's. You got a couple of outfits, a
(14:32):
couple of weapons and things like that of this you know,
cult classic. So there's anybody who loves film, there's going
to be something to see. And I thank you for
taking the time, of course to check out the propstore
dot com.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
The propstore dot com.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Get yourself a you know, a physical catalog of all
these things, or look through the digital catalog and see
you'd be surprised how many things you probably can afford.
We have a very affluent audience listens to the station
and if collecting is your thing, this is for you, Brandon.
I hope to shake your hand in person one day.
(15:08):
I really sincerely appreciate what you do and the respect
in which you give all these pieces and everything that
you do at the prop Store.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
God speed, sir, and hopefully we'll meet sometime.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Yeah, no, absolutely, thanks very much for having me on.
I hope you enjoy looking at this catalog in particular,
and yeah, we'll see you on auction day.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Yeah, with my ten bucks. You know, well that something
piece of dust that came off the lights, say brom
take it. But very like you.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Said, you can get the catalogs. The catalogs are a
little treasures in themselves.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Oh they're so great.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I look through them all the time and show my son,
and you know, my little eight year old son, and
we look through these things.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
They're a blast. Well, we will talk again soon.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I'm sure the propstore dot com to check out more.
And of course September fourth through the sixth is the
auction at the beautiful Peterson You him if you haven't
been there as well on Wielshure. Thanks again, my friend,
we'll talk again. It's Neil Smedra and for Tim Conway Junior.
Tonight we'll be back with more.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Than you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Hey everybody, Neil Savadra with you this Friday afternoon, rolling
on into evening. Holy smokes, August's clip clip clipping away,
Happy to be with you. Tim Conway Junior is out.
He's on vacation with his family, enjoying himself as one does.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Crow.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I know you love movies. You're an actor. Well, you
will always be an actor to me, whether you're pursuing
or not. I guess that's a compliment. Oh, you understand
those things. You're gifted in that ability. Whether you choose
to do anything with her too kind, Thank you sir.
But as far as films and props, I mean, I
love those things and I could have talked to Brandon
(16:54):
all night, but that's called narrow casting.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Okay, let's just you and me hang out.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
But I'm wondering, is there if like you could own
a prop, if you could hold something, or if there
was a movie that that hit you so deep that
you wouldn't mind having a piece no matter what it is,
a piece of it.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Oh my god, boy, that's a I mean, regardless of
the size of the prop or any kind of no
kind of man that is a wow.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
That's a great question. Yes, I do for a living.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
Yeah, that's a tough one. I have to think about that.
But I mean, my my favorite movie of all time
still to this day is The World according to garb.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Oh great film. Yeah, so maybe part of the his
manhood that was bitten off?
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Good one. Yes, I enjoyed it.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
If they have a prop for that very good maybe
that maybe the plane that that goes into the house, Oh,
the wreckage of the plane that got that whole film
it's pretty disastered.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Was like, that was one of the first films that
I remember that had so many of those oh my
god moment.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Yeah, like now some films are built only on one
of those moments.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yes, you know where this just the whole thing was like,
oh my god, really.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
It's I enjoy how it's literally the story of one
man's life from burst to death. I like the completeness
of that. And like you say, all the things that
can happen in one's life that could be fantastical that
you know who somebody else's may be normal, something like that,
something along those lines. Man, there's so much lucky idea
(18:32):
of the Star Wars thing. My dad took me out
of school when when the first movie premiered in the
seventies and we watched every showing at the theater that day.
We snuck up into the balcony and just stayed there.
So maybe something from that movie from the original.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yeah, I think my dad took us to the Gromans
back then Romans Chinese theater and Darth Vader. There was
someone dressed as Darth Vader outside, not like now where
they're filthy in.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Punching. You know, an accident.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, you know it's funny, is like I got a
photo of Darth Vader with his hood up and jaunty
like still on his head but kind of up over
his forehead walking, uh, walking with Barney the Purple Dinosaur
down Hollywood Bull of Barney. Yeah, they like had a
pee break or something before they go back and hustle
(19:25):
people for Yeah, exactly. Yeah, if I remember right, I
took the photograph and I made it black and white,
did a color, secluded the color just on Barney, and
there's a man in the front with a baseball cap
walking in front of them, and obviously you've got Darth
(19:46):
Vader with a helmet off. And then Barney and I
named it Guy in Hat. It's like, like you, I
didn't notice anything other than the guy in the head.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
There was somebody, I think it was Michelle or somebody
hosted an old you know for National Radio, doing an
old pick of me, uh, and I was on Hollywood Boulevard.
I remember that pick is when we did when Star
Wars did the re release.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Oh yeah, Phil Henry right.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
With Phil Henry, and we we did a remote out
there because Arcie Collins was out there.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Lunch or something.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Yes, that was from the from the from the wedding
from Long Beach that I was wearing that shirt.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
And then there I remember that's from that night when
Star Wars premiered.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I used to call the TV stations and say, I
was listening to KABC or something, and there's somebody fighting
in front of is this true? And we'll look into it,
you know, and then turn out it was us, you know,
try to stir things up.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
But I you know, I like watching I just.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Watched Casablanca again recently, and you know, and you watch
like the Maltese Falcon that has one of the most
you know, recognizable props on the planet Star Wars. I
have the tiniest little piece, about the size of a
dime maybe of the Creek Dragon, the fiberglass Creek Dragon
that is in one of the scenes in Star Wars.
(21:09):
A place called Mini Museum. I think that sells them.
And it's like, I don't know, twenty bucks, forty bucks, whatever.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
What they do is.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
They get these props and they cut them into tiny
little pieces and then they sell them.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
At reasonable off. Yeah. So, and it's like part of
the vertebrae.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
And that was from basically you had back in the day,
you had George Lucas calling up prop houses and saying,
do you have any you know, props laying around or whatever.
They said, yeah, we have this, you know drag. It
was a dinosaur bones or something, and it's just out
there and you got C three PO and R two
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D two just kind of going by it, and it's
in the background on a hill or something.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
And now it's like got a name.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
It didn't have a name or anything back then, and
then they's got a name and you can so I
have little stuff like that that I can afford. I
have things from Walt Disney. I have this stuff's part.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Of in your discussion if you guys brought up the
because I saw it recently that it was up for auction,
I don't know if it's part of this one or not,
but the one of the sleds from Citizen Kane. No, yeah,
I saw that that was up for auction coming up.
And I just recently just showed Citizen Kane to my
wife for the first time, her first time seeing it.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
I got to watch that again. It's been secondes unbelievable.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
With that thirty nine, I think when nineteen thirty nine,
and just you watch it now and it's it's amazingly good.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
And how old was he when he directed that. He
was in his twenty twenties, early twenties. Yeah, you would
sell no wine before it's time. Do you know how
drunk he was doing those spots.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
I remember he did a commercial force another one for
a game, like a board game called Dark Tower Tower,
and he's like, you can fight the brigands. And I
had that game because of that commercial.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
You will wine no time before. So you're gonna have
to do that again.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
You know.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
I was once a big director. Now I'm just a
big man. Oh man, how the big have fallen? All right?
More to com stick around.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
You know, it was like National Radio Day or something.
I didn't post anything. I just I don't, you know.
I'm proud of what I do and I love what
I do, and I think back about, you know the
beginnings of it all.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
I had hair when I started.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I'm not saying that it's a rough gig, but I
had hair so much better now, yeah, you any, but
it just you know, took me back seeing everybody, and
and I.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Remember when I first met you, and you walked through
the hallways, and I remember UKs, I remember who was
you were talking to, but I was in the room
with him. You walked in and talked to started talking
to him. He said something of ut, well, yeah, I
work at Kinko's. Yeah, you got a problem with that now? Oh,
I just thought it was funny. And here you are
now Kinko's, baby. That's where you start, probably to this day,
one of the best jobs I've ever had.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Really they had. They treated people so well. They they well,
you know what, it's because they sold it. You can't
you can't sell off that kind of intimacy. You're talking.
What is it, George?
Speaker 4 (24:22):
What's that? Uh?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
The guy who owned it, the Kinko original Kinko guy.
The it's Nil sevedra In for too going. I don't
even know if I said that, but anyways, Uh. The
they had profit sharing, so once a month you'd get
a separate check as a thank you for your work.
They had the owners, uh come in I think once
(24:46):
a month to work the register and work the machines
to show you if they could. They weren't just sitting
in some air conditioned office. They did a did programs
where they would pick a few people. I was picked once,
uh to go and hang out with one of the
owners to ask them questions to you know, And that's
what helped my philosophy. That one of the guys was like,
(25:08):
I used to work in groceries. And he goes, then
I bought a store, and this and that and then
I don't know if they were cousins or something, but
he knew Paul Offala and who started Tinkos. And early
on he said, you want to come here and he
told me. He says, Neil, I'm going to tell you
the secret to all this. In America, people have money
(25:31):
and want to give it to you. Just give them
a reason to. I mean, you have a skill an ability.
He goes, they're everywhere. Look at the dumb things people
spend money on. I mean, rich people will buy this,
or they'll buy you. Show them that you have value,
you work hard, and people will take that up. Now,
if you have something obscure that you like and nobody
(25:52):
needs it, then you're not gonna puty. But he said,
it's all here. It's all here. You don't have to
import wealth. You don't have to court success. It's all here.
And it changed my view on everything and made me think,
you know what here. I came from no money and
no education. I have a high school diploma. Any studying
(26:12):
I've done outside of that on philosophy, logic, theology and
stuff has mostly been on my own. I've had teachers,
and I don't want to downplay them. They're a huge part.
But it's not like I went to college or anything, right,
and I feel great. I feel I've had a very
interesting and fun career. I've met people like you that
(26:33):
are in my life forever now, and there's you know,
it's just a fascinating thing. But it's not what you planned, well,
what you expected. No, and you're glad for it. Yeah,
that's what makes you a large part. Appreciate it so much.
I always loved it, though I was loved radio as
a kid. I was mystified that I could take this
little box with a speaker on it in an antenna
(26:56):
and we'd be camping somewhere and I could hear KFI.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
I would be if I would be punished from report
card to report card for a C so I'd have
to be in my room till the next report card.
And I when I could not being able to watch TV,
I had a radio that had the TV stations on it,
so I would listen to Threes Company and More Committee
and all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Just listen to it. Oh, I remember those.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
So I became enamor with radio myself, and that helped
a lot with like working on shows like Phil Hendry.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
That theater of the mind really works. Hey, did you
hear that he's doing a show off Broadway? No?
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Oh wait, I did see that. He did see him
post something like that. Yeah, that cool phenomenal. That's so cool, great,
great step for him.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Yeah. I just think he is.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
If radio wasn't so upside down, if the actual most
talented people were the ones that did the best, he'd
be a pajillionaire.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Absolutely a bachelor.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
The most talented person I've ever met, I mean really
that that his ability, the way his mind works. I mean,
he's a surly m effort and he can you know,
he can be problematic. Don't get me wrong. I'm not
polishing anyone's knob here, but I will tell you know,
I've had dinners with the guy, uh my first wife,
(28:22):
and I would be friendly with with him and with Maria,
and they didn't live far from us, and I've been
to his house for parties and you know, all kinds
he you know, it's not super forward with his emotions
or anything, but holy crap, is that guy gifted and
you know on how he understands comedy in the inner workings.
Speaker 7 (28:47):
But like to your point, he, to me is what
what makes radio specials. He's one of the prime examples
of all time of what the power of radio and
what it can do for people.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Oh yeah, and that and just the way it makes
you think and go through that. So I have.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Nothing but and I I proactively got into radio. I
didn't know that it would be a career, but I
wanted to have some part and even if I retire
you know, quote unquote and get into other things prop making,
yees I, I will always want to have my foot
somewhere in radio to connect with people because I've met
(29:24):
and it's not even the people I've interviewed. It's the
people either that I've worked with or the listeners that
I've met that are fascinating to me.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Yep. And I do all that a thousand times over.
You've been here longer than me. Yeah, how many years
are you now into this? By December, it'll be thirty seven? Wow, man,
now thirty seven years eighty eight, I just surpassed.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
I think I'm at thirty one. I think I came
in ninety four. Sounds right, so.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Wow, going ridiculous? Who's by fast?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
You still are handsome with your hair and spelt bald.
I look back out on some early pictures just when
I started radio, not at KFI, but I started in
eighty nine maybe and I had long hair.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Yeah you did? That was my pink. He used it
all up.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Then that's probably handsomeness. Blew it all that was gone
by ninety four. It was thinning, was exhausted, So I
just left is done. I'd blame it on the headphones,
all right. I didn't get to this, but Apple TV
raising their subscriptions. I think this is something we're going
to see more and more stick around. I will splain
coming back.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Conway Show on demand on the iHeart Radio app. Now
you can always hear us live on KFI Am six
forty four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime
on demand on the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Ye
It's k IF. I am six forty and you're listening
to the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Happy Friday to you, hope you're on the way home.
It's Neil Savadra in for Tim Conway Junior tonight. Happy
to be with you. Tim is on vacation, not with Stafouche.
By the way, everythody now, don't what was that me?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Who's that? You?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Take advantage of my empathy and my Kanye Seriously, Crow,
move along. I will come in there and give it
the what for, but I'm happy to be with you
until seven o'clock. Will hand it over to Tiffany Hobbs,
who is in for Mo Kelly. Everybody's on vacation right now,
and I will be back with you with a FOURK
(00:47):
report talking all things food tomorrow two to four thirty
because we are preempted the last half hour for the
Chargers game. Alrighty, So I've said this many times on
the air. If I didn't do radio, I would have
been in props. I love props.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I make.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Replica props at home. I have my own studio and shop.
I love everything about it. I love memorabilia. I love
all these things, and I wanted to tell you about
a really cool auction coming up in September here in
Los Angeles. If you like this stuff like I do,
you're gonna want to hear this and to tell us
about this auction and more. Is Brandon Allinger from He's
(01:29):
a CEO from the prop Store out here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Brandon, Welcome to the program.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Hi, Neil, how are you? Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I'm well and I got to tell you from a
weird distance watching you on video all the time and
a course on television and like when you're doing interviews.
I one want to tell you how much I appreciate
you taking the time to come on. But two, I
really love what you do and appreciate your appreciation for
this memorabilia and this history of television and beyond and
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the way you the way you bring those things to
the rest of us that have you know, share that love.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
So thanks for what you do.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Yeah, no, thank you for saying that. And you know,
I didn't realize that you were a prop pan So
it's good year. You'll have good contacts for this conversation.
You've probably recognized many of the things in our auction
catalog Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
As a matter of fact, I requested you know then
that I was going to be filling in today. I
asked our producer Bellio to reach out because I think
there is magic behind these things, and it's more to
it than just well, I'm getting older and I have
more money than I used to. Let's buy crap. There's
just something to it. So I don't have the money
(02:44):
for some of these things, but I do buy like
the catalogs. You guys sell the catalogs, which are a great,
great way to see some of these things up close
and personal. Tell everybody what's going to be in these lots,
where it's going to be, and how people can participate
in the auction that's coming up in September.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Absolutely, So this is one of our biggest auctions of
the year. It's what we call the Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction,
and essentially this pulls together content from a wide variety
of different films and television shows, one hundred titles in total,
and we've got about eleven hundred lots that are going
to be sold over three days on September fourth, fifth,
and sixth. Day one is held live at the Peterson
(03:27):
Automotive Museum here in Los Angeles. People can come out
at TEND in person. They can see some of the
items on display there, they can place bids if they like,
or they can just be a spectator and watch and
see what they sell. For days two and three, the
action is online and via telephone only, so in general
we have the higher priced items on the first day
we sort of get those little bidding wars out of
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the way, and then we move into days two and
three being more excessively priced items for those who are
just starting out on their collecting journeys. Day two and
three is we'll find pieces or maybe priced than the
low thousands or even some of the hundreds of dollars. So,
you know, even though this auction contains some very very
expensive pieces, not everything.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Is that pricey.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
And you do try to have something to appeal to everyone,
and especially you know, fans of films and television shows,
and you know, I think you're talking there about sort
of the magic that these pieces contained, if you will,
and that's really what it's all about. You know, it's
all about deep love and appreciation for a given show
or or film, and you know it certainly Nostalgia's a
(04:32):
theme I think so many of us remember so fondly
the movies and the shows that we grew up with.
But it is a little bit more than just pure
mist doubt. I mean, it's also a deep appreciation for
the artistry behind something like Michael Keaton's batsuit and you know,
the nice and eighty nine Batman film, and just what
went into creating that thing and making it out of film,
latex and rubber, and getting it to look good on
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Michael Keaton and getting it to look good on the screen.
You know, it's it's and there's a lot to this stuff,
and there always has been. You know, the cops and
costumes have always been something that have been a focal
point of movies that are being put together by very
talented designers and craftsmen and artists who come in and
build these things. And you know, it's a privilege and
(05:16):
a pleasure for us to have a chance to work
with them. And as you say, put the auction catalogs
together and present them to the world, and.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I highly recommend that. And I know you have some
of the back catalogs as well. Sometimes if you can't
afford these, but you love to look through them and
love it how they were made, in the craftsmanship. I
highly recommend putting out the sixty dollars or whatever it
is to get the auction catalogs because they really are
museum quality into themselves and they're beautiful to look at.
(05:44):
We come back, I want to talk to you about
one of the things that is up from Darth Vader
and Star Wars, because that is something that moved a
lot of us at a young age and continues to
be one of the most sought after types of pieces.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
From Star Wars.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Also, a quick question before we get some news here,
what goes for uh it? Do you get more money
for the batsuit with the nipples on it or without
the nipples?
Speaker 5 (06:12):
A good question. I think this is the highest priced
batsuit that we have ever offered, and this is the
Night nine film which did not have nipples. Yeah, I
guess we're saying nippoles is more valuably, I think Kilmer
introduced the nipples and what was that ninety five maybe
in Batman Forever. You know, it's not actually the nipples
that are the deciding factor there, It's really it's the
(06:34):
quality of the film. How many were made for the movie.
It's how many still survive. It's all those things.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I love that though someone said, hey, you know what
this batsuit needs. He needs nipples. Get on that will Yeah,
Oh I got it. I got a great idea. All right,
stick around.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
We'll talk with Brandon Allinger, the COO am I pronouncing
that right by the way, All.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well, you're very clear Allinger about that coh no way
of the Prop Store.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
A big auction coming up at the Peterson September fourth
through the sixth. We'll talk about that more as well
as the props that will be up for auction.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Neil Savadra in for Tim Conway Junior tonight. Happy to
be with you until seven o'clock and we'll hand it
all over to Tiffany Hobbs. So go know where talking
props right now with Brandon Allinger?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Right, did I get you?
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Got me?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
I'm gonna well done?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Thank you, gold star and put it on my chest.
He's the CEO of the Prop Store. They have location
in the UK and here in Los Angeles. Of course,
they have a massive auction coming up. This is the
big one. September fourth through the sixth. The first day
will be there at the Peterson Museum and you can
go in person, and then the following ones will be
(07:54):
online only one of the and you have to sign
up in all of that to bid correct.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Yeah, there's a registration process, but it's really straightforward. It's
all their propstore dot.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Com excellent and I encourage people to check that out.
One of the things that I was talking about before
we went to a break is Darth Vader's lightsaber. You
talked about the older Batman suit and how it was
put together. Now in my shop currently I have c
and see I can work and metal I can fabricate
(08:28):
with the three D printers. You know, some of this
technology didn't even exist back then, so a lot of
it was taking found objects, things that existed, and through
art and manipulation and insight, making them to look completely different,
worldly whatever it was. And that goes right to the
heart of this. In this particular case, the dueling lightsaber,
(08:51):
so it was fight ready, fight worthy of Darth Vader
tell us a little bit about that.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Yeah, well, you're absolutely right. I mean, it's sort of
an amazing you know, it's it's the top piece of
the auction, but it's actually made out of an old
camera component. It's the flash handle off the side of
a nineteen forties nineteen fifties press camera. It's called a
microflash that was manufactured by a company called micro Precision
Products out of the UK, the UK, of course, being
(09:17):
the live action home of Star Wars. It's where they
did all the live action photography on the big sets
with the actors, and Star Wars got tremendous production value
out of this repurposing of real world components. Components, you know,
the famous story that they bought in like a full
aircraft that's seven forty seven or something, stripped it, you know,
(09:38):
down to the tiniest little they call them Greebley's and nerdies,
all these little parts, you know, you know, the inside
of engines and such. It stuck them all over the sets,
stuck them all over the props, and in doing so,
you know, it sort of created a world that I
guess looked very believable, and I think, you know, one
of it looks. I think Star Wars in general is
(09:59):
such a visual thing. I think for some of the
reasons that the characters live in everyone's mind and the
way they do something like a Darth Vader is just
so so visual and there's so much brilliant design throughout it,
and the lightsabers are a great example of that. And
I mean this piece that's coming up for sale is
one of very few absolutely genuine, you know, verified vetted
(10:19):
what we call photo matched and screen matched lightsabers that
still exist today. And it's the one that was used
for the dual Sequences with Mark Hamill and both the
Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, and it's
coming to auction for the very first time. It's been
in the same collection for decades, really hasn't been seen
a lot. There's been a big reaction to you know,
from the Star Wars fans and some of the prop
(10:41):
collecting fans as we've rolled the piece out and you know,
put out some of the best photos of it that
anyone's ever seen over the past few weeks, and there's
just a huge buzz, you know, both from people who
may have a potential interest in bidding on it and
those who are just excited to see it, excited to
know that it still exists. You know, so many of
these things things could have gone in the trash can,
(11:03):
and so many things like them did go in the
trash can. It's just, you know, making these films, especially
at that time in the nineteen seventies and the nineteen eighties,
the goal was not to save props and costumes and setties,
as the goal was to get the film and they
can get the movie on the screen and really just
complete the job, which was very challenging.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
You know.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Star Wars famously a very difficult film to get done,
and a lot of stuff did get turned away over
the years. And it's kind of only today with hindsight,
looking back so many decades later, that we can say, boy,
these things are really treasure, you know, and they are
a cultural significance and they mean a great deal of people.
And of course that comes to prices and the spending
(11:43):
and just the costs associated with them.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Yeah, because they were a femera, I mean they would
take anything expensive out I imagine, any gears, any electronics
that they could reuse. Of course, one of the famous instances,
I think Superman in nineteen seventies seven or what have you,
that it was filmed in the same stages there in
the UK, and I think they even used some of
(12:06):
the Darth Vader sets or something as Lex Luthor's set,
and so they often would just reuse things when they
need something similar.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Right, Yeah, what you're thinking of there is the trunk
that Ale Dennis Pulls pulled Luke first movie, the trunk
that the Kryptonite was stored in in Superman.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
So yeah, something.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
This stuff is fascinating to me, and to own it.
There is something about bringing you back to that place,
not to mention as a maker myself, looking at how
it was fabricated and seeing the real world damage that
would take place during a duel when you have not
a lightsaber but an actual probably aluminum or some rod
inside it that was used to fight.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
You also have press pieces of the sets.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
You have clothing and costumes and things like this, anything
else that stands out to you. You want to tell people
about the upcoming September fourth through the sixth auction here
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Oh, I mean, look, it's just a great sale with
so many highlights from all the fan favorite movies. You know,
we tend to focus on the genre films of the sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties,
so you know there's things like in Indiana Jones bull Lit.
There are pieces from Jim Cameron's Aliens. There's a Spider
Man costume Toby MacGuire Spider Man costume from Spider Man two.
We have the Neuralizer, which is the memory wiping device
(13:35):
from the First Men in Black. We have the jet
pack from Rocketeer. It's a version that actually fired flames.
We have prop hoverboards, you know, Captain America shields, just
so many pieces, you know, pieces from Jaws, pieces from
Pirates of the Caribbean, all the fan favorite titles, really,
I feel like are represented in this auction. It's a
particularly wonderful assembly. Obviously I'm a little biased, but it's
(13:57):
a particularly wonderful assembly of content in this one, and
just some amazing pieces that haven't been seen on the
auction block before that we're really excited to see, you know,
how they do on auction day.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I was blown away at some of the you know,
the the older pieces as well. Even into the sixties,
I used to joke, you know, turn ons and turnoffs
like they do in Playboy magazine or something. I'd say
turn ons is Jane Fond and Barbarella turnoffs with Jane
Fonda in Hanoi and I was surprised to see that
you have Barbarella's. You got a couple of outfits, a
(14:32):
couple of weapons and things like that of this you know,
cult classic. So there's anybody who loves film, there's going
to be something to see. And I thank you for
taking the time, of course to check out the propstore
dot com.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
The propstore dot com.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Get yourself a you know, a physical catalog of all
these things, or look through the digital catalog and see
you'd be surprised how many things you probably can afford.
We have a very affluent audience listens to the station
and if collecting is your thing, this is for you, Brandon.
I hope to shake your hand in person one day.
(15:08):
I really sincerely appreciate what you do and the respect
in which you give all these pieces and everything that
you do at the prop Store.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
God speed, sir, and hopefully we'll meet sometime.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Yeah, no, absolutely, thanks very much for having me on.
I hope you enjoy looking at this catalog in particular,
and yeah, we'll see you on auction day.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Yeah, with my ten bucks. You know, well that something
piece of dust that came off the lights, say brom
take it. But very like you.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Said, you can get the catalogs. The catalogs are a
little treasures in themselves.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Oh they're so great.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I look through them all the time and show my son,
and you know, my little eight year old son, and
we look through these things.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
They're a blast. Well, we will talk again soon.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I'm sure the propstore dot com to check out more.
And of course September fourth through the sixth is the
auction at the beautiful Peterson You him if you haven't
been there as well on Wielshure. Thanks again, my friend,
we'll talk again. It's Neil Smedra and for Tim Conway Junior.
Tonight we'll be back with more.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Than you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Hey everybody, Neil Savadra with you this Friday afternoon, rolling
on into evening. Holy smokes, August's clip clip clipping away,
Happy to be with you. Tim Conway Junior is out.
He's on vacation with his family, enjoying himself as one does.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Crow.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I know you love movies. You're an actor. Well, you
will always be an actor to me, whether you're pursuing
or not. I guess that's a compliment. Oh, you understand
those things. You're gifted in that ability. Whether you choose
to do anything with her too kind, Thank you sir.
But as far as films and props, I mean, I
love those things and I could have talked to Brandon
(16:54):
all night, but that's called narrow casting.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Okay, let's just you and me hang out.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
But I'm wondering, is there if like you could own
a prop, if you could hold something, or if there
was a movie that that hit you so deep that
you wouldn't mind having a piece no matter what it is,
a piece of it.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Oh my god, boy, that's a I mean, regardless of
the size of the prop or any kind of no
kind of man that is a wow.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
That's a great question. Yes, I do for a living.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
Yeah, that's a tough one. I have to think about that.
But I mean, my my favorite movie of all time
still to this day is The World according to garb.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Oh great film. Yeah, so maybe part of the his
manhood that was bitten off?
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Good one. Yes, I enjoyed it.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
If they have a prop for that very good maybe
that maybe the plane that that goes into the house, Oh,
the wreckage of the plane that got that whole film
it's pretty disastered.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Was like, that was one of the first films that
I remember that had so many of those oh my
god moment.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Yeah, like now some films are built only on one
of those moments.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yes, you know where this just the whole thing was like,
oh my god, really.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
It's I enjoy how it's literally the story of one
man's life from burst to death. I like the completeness
of that. And like you say, all the things that
can happen in one's life that could be fantastical that
you know who somebody else's may be normal, something like that,
something along those lines. Man, there's so much lucky idea
(18:32):
of the Star Wars thing. My dad took me out
of school when when the first movie premiered in the
seventies and we watched every showing at the theater that day.
We snuck up into the balcony and just stayed there.
So maybe something from that movie from the original.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yeah, I think my dad took us to the Gromans
back then Romans Chinese theater and Darth Vader. There was
someone dressed as Darth Vader outside, not like now where
they're filthy in.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Punching. You know, an accident.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, you know it's funny, is like I got a
photo of Darth Vader with his hood up and jaunty
like still on his head but kind of up over
his forehead walking, uh, walking with Barney the Purple Dinosaur
down Hollywood Bull of Barney. Yeah, they like had a
pee break or something before they go back and hustle
(19:25):
people for Yeah, exactly. Yeah, if I remember right, I
took the photograph and I made it black and white,
did a color, secluded the color just on Barney, and
there's a man in the front with a baseball cap
walking in front of them, and obviously you've got Darth
(19:46):
Vader with a helmet off. And then Barney and I
named it Guy in Hat. It's like, like you, I
didn't notice anything other than the guy in the head.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
There was somebody, I think it was Michelle or somebody
hosted an old you know for National Radio, doing an
old pick of me, uh, and I was on Hollywood Boulevard.
I remember that pick is when we did when Star
Wars did the re release.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Oh yeah, Phil Henry right.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
With Phil Henry, and we we did a remote out
there because Arcie Collins was out there.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Lunch or something.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Yes, that was from the from the from the wedding
from Long Beach that I was wearing that shirt.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
And then there I remember that's from that night when
Star Wars premiered.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I used to call the TV stations and say, I
was listening to KABC or something, and there's somebody fighting
in front of is this true? And we'll look into it,
you know, and then turn out it was us, you know,
try to stir things up.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
But I you know, I like watching I just.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Watched Casablanca again recently, and you know, and you watch
like the Maltese Falcon that has one of the most
you know, recognizable props on the planet Star Wars. I
have the tiniest little piece, about the size of a
dime maybe of the Creek Dragon, the fiberglass Creek Dragon
that is in one of the scenes in Star Wars.
(21:09):
A place called Mini Museum. I think that sells them.
And it's like, I don't know, twenty bucks, forty bucks, whatever.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
What they do is.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
They get these props and they cut them into tiny
little pieces and then they sell them.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
At reasonable off. Yeah. So, and it's like part of
the vertebrae.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
And that was from basically you had back in the day,
you had George Lucas calling up prop houses and saying,
do you have any you know, props laying around or whatever.
They said, yeah, we have this, you know drag. It
was a dinosaur bones or something, and it's just out
there and you got C three PO and R two
(21:48):
D two just kind of going by it, and it's
in the background on a hill or something.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
And now it's like got a name.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
It didn't have a name or anything back then, and
then they's got a name and you can so I
have little stuff like that that I can afford. I
have things from Walt Disney. I have this stuff's part.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Of in your discussion if you guys brought up the
because I saw it recently that it was up for auction,
I don't know if it's part of this one or not,
but the one of the sleds from Citizen Kane. No, yeah,
I saw that that was up for auction coming up.
And I just recently just showed Citizen Kane to my
wife for the first time, her first time seeing it.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
I got to watch that again. It's been secondes unbelievable.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
With that thirty nine, I think when nineteen thirty nine,
and just you watch it now and it's it's amazingly good.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
And how old was he when he directed that. He
was in his twenty twenties, early twenties. Yeah, you would
sell no wine before it's time. Do you know how
drunk he was doing those spots.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
I remember he did a commercial force another one for
a game, like a board game called Dark Tower Tower,
and he's like, you can fight the brigands. And I
had that game because of that commercial.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
You will wine no time before. So you're gonna have
to do that again.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
You know.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
I was once a big director. Now I'm just a
big man. Oh man, how the big have fallen? All right?
More to com stick around.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
You know, it was like National Radio Day or something.
I didn't post anything. I just I don't, you know.
I'm proud of what I do and I love what
I do, and I think back about, you know the
beginnings of it all.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
I had hair when I started.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I'm not saying that it's a rough gig, but I
had hair so much better now, yeah, you any, but
it just you know, took me back seeing everybody, and
and I.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Remember when I first met you, and you walked through
the hallways, and I remember UKs, I remember who was
you were talking to, but I was in the room
with him. You walked in and talked to started talking
to him. He said something of ut, well, yeah, I
work at Kinko's. Yeah, you got a problem with that now? Oh,
I just thought it was funny. And here you are
now Kinko's, baby. That's where you start, probably to this day,
one of the best jobs I've ever had.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Really they had. They treated people so well. They they well,
you know what, it's because they sold it. You can't
you can't sell off that kind of intimacy. You're talking.
What is it, George?
Speaker 4 (24:22):
What's that? Uh?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
The guy who owned it, the Kinko original Kinko guy.
The it's Nil sevedra In for too going. I don't
even know if I said that, but anyways, Uh. The
they had profit sharing, so once a month you'd get
a separate check as a thank you for your work.
They had the owners, uh come in I think once
(24:46):
a month to work the register and work the machines
to show you if they could. They weren't just sitting
in some air conditioned office. They did a did programs
where they would pick a few people. I was picked once,
uh to go and hang out with one of the
owners to ask them questions to you know, And that's
what helped my philosophy. That one of the guys was like,
(25:08):
I used to work in groceries. And he goes, then
I bought a store, and this and that and then
I don't know if they were cousins or something, but
he knew Paul Offala and who started Tinkos. And early
on he said, you want to come here and he
told me. He says, Neil, I'm going to tell you
the secret to all this. In America, people have money
(25:31):
and want to give it to you. Just give them
a reason to. I mean, you have a skill an ability.
He goes, they're everywhere. Look at the dumb things people
spend money on. I mean, rich people will buy this,
or they'll buy you. Show them that you have value,
you work hard, and people will take that up. Now,
if you have something obscure that you like and nobody
(25:52):
needs it, then you're not gonna puty. But he said,
it's all here. It's all here. You don't have to
import wealth. You don't have to court success. It's all here.
And it changed my view on everything and made me think,
you know what here. I came from no money and
no education. I have a high school diploma. Any studying
(26:12):
I've done outside of that on philosophy, logic, theology and
stuff has mostly been on my own. I've had teachers,
and I don't want to downplay them. They're a huge part.
But it's not like I went to college or anything, right,
and I feel great. I feel I've had a very
interesting and fun career. I've met people like you that
(26:33):
are in my life forever now, and there's you know,
it's just a fascinating thing. But it's not what you planned, well,
what you expected. No, and you're glad for it. Yeah,
that's what makes you a large part. Appreciate it so much.
I always loved it, though I was loved radio as
a kid. I was mystified that I could take this
little box with a speaker on it in an antenna
(26:56):
and we'd be camping somewhere and I could hear KFI.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
I would be if I would be punished from report
card to report card for a C so I'd have
to be in my room till the next report card.
And I when I could not being able to watch TV,
I had a radio that had the TV stations on it,
so I would listen to Threes Company and More Committee
and all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Just listen to it. Oh, I remember those.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
So I became enamor with radio myself, and that helped
a lot with like working on shows like Phil Hendry.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
That theater of the mind really works. Hey, did you
hear that he's doing a show off Broadway? No?
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Oh wait, I did see that. He did see him
post something like that. Yeah, that cool phenomenal. That's so cool, great,
great step for him.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Yeah. I just think he is.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
If radio wasn't so upside down, if the actual most
talented people were the ones that did the best, he'd
be a pajillionaire.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Absolutely a bachelor.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
The most talented person I've ever met, I mean really
that that his ability, the way his mind works. I mean,
he's a surly m effort and he can you know,
he can be problematic. Don't get me wrong. I'm not
polishing anyone's knob here, but I will tell you know,
I've had dinners with the guy, uh my first wife,
(28:22):
and I would be friendly with with him and with Maria,
and they didn't live far from us, and I've been
to his house for parties and you know, all kinds
he you know, it's not super forward with his emotions
or anything, but holy crap, is that guy gifted and
you know on how he understands comedy in the inner workings.
Speaker 7 (28:47):
But like to your point, he, to me is what
what makes radio specials. He's one of the prime examples
of all time of what the power of radio and
what it can do for people.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Oh yeah, and that and just the way it makes
you think and go through that. So I have.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Nothing but and I I proactively got into radio. I
didn't know that it would be a career, but I
wanted to have some part and even if I retire
you know, quote unquote and get into other things prop making,
yees I, I will always want to have my foot
somewhere in radio to connect with people because I've met
(29:24):
and it's not even the people I've interviewed. It's the
people either that I've worked with or the listeners that
I've met that are fascinating to me.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Yep. And I do all that a thousand times over.
You've been here longer than me. Yeah, how many years
are you now into this? By December, it'll be thirty seven? Wow, man,
now thirty seven years eighty eight, I just surpassed.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
I think I'm at thirty one. I think I came
in ninety four. Sounds right, so.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Wow, going ridiculous? Who's by fast?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
You still are handsome with your hair and spelt bald.
I look back out on some early pictures just when
I started radio, not at KFI, but I started in
eighty nine maybe and I had long hair.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Yeah you did? That was my pink. He used it
all up.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Then that's probably handsomeness. Blew it all that was gone
by ninety four. It was thinning, was exhausted, So I
just left is done. I'd blame it on the headphones,
all right. I didn't get to this, but Apple TV
raising their subscriptions. I think this is something we're going
to see more and more stick around. I will splain
coming back.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Conway Show on demand on the iHeart Radio app. Now
you can always hear us live on KFI Am six
forty four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime
on demand on the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Ye
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