May 11, 2024 • 31 mins
Sam Rubin, KTLA 5 Morning News legend, dies at 64 / Sam’s Cool-A-Coo “I think Doug got into the cups!” // Tim’s last text from Sam Rubin “Lunchtime 12-1" /CALLERS On Sam Rubin // Elex Michaelson on the loss of Sam Rubin // Sam Rubin confuses Samuel L Jackson with Laurence Fishburne / Stories about Sam
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It's k IF. I am sixforty and you're listening to The Conway Show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app.It is The Conway Show. Very sad
Friday around here in Los Angeles.Our good buddy Sam Rubin passed away.
He's with KTLA for thirty years.I've known Sam. I used to work
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with Sam Rubin over a kalas Xand he would come on right after Howard
Stern and sometimes he'd be on fortwo hours. Sometimes he'd be on for
one minute, but he had thatslot after Stern before the noon show begins
or I forgot about that, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
And he would bring in some prettygood celebrity friends, you know, people
that he's known through show business forquite some time, and that was cool.
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I've known Sam for I don't know, twenty five years or so,
and always very nice to me,always very gracious. Every single time that
I've been suspended in radio. Hewas one of the first guys to call
me, one of the first guysto call and say, Hey, it's
not a big deal, ride itout, You'll be fine. That's a
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good that's a good friend. Thatyeah, And he was he was always
he always said yes to everything weasked him. You know, usually,
you know, when you asked somebodyand show business, hey can you do
a favorite come on about this,this or this, they'd always say,
oh, let me see. Buthe'd come on right away. He was
always always willing to come on.It's about of fact, we invited him
up to Big Bear. We're goingto do a like, I don't know
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what what they call it a retreatweekend on Kala s X where we're all
going to go up there for theweekend and do a live broadcast. And
he was one of the guys thatwent up to Big Bear and he brought
his brand new I think he hadan Audi. I think he had this
like beautiful brand new Audi. AndI said Sam, I said, before
you go up there. I wentup the day before him. And Sam
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was the kind of guy that wantedto go up, do the show and
then go home to his kids.He never wanted to stay at hotel and
inconvenience anybody or you know, costhim a hotel room. He always whenever
he did a broadcast, you dothe broadcast that you go right home to
the kids. Great dad, greatgreat dad. And so I said Sam,
I said, if you're coming uphere, they had a lot of
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snow and Big Bear, you're gonnaneed chains. And he said, okay,
all right, all right. Sohe comes up to Big Bear and
he didn't put the chains on onthe way up, which is what she
didn't need him. It was sortof, you know, dry that day.
And then as he was there,as snowed all day long. It
was snowing. It was crazy.You can barely see across the street.
And I said, Sam, doyou have chains for your card? And
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he said yeah, And I said, all right, you got to pay
this. Go to the gas station, any gas station and Big Bear and
they'll have two or three guys therewilling to put your chains on for you.
And he said what does that cost? And I said, whatever it
is, it's the best money you'llspend. The cost doesn't matter here.
And he said, well what doesit cost? I said, I don't
know. It's like forty bucks.He says, forty dollars. The chains
were only sixty. I said,wait, you got change for sixty.
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Where'd you get changed for him?Sixty bucks? They're like one hundred and
fifty. So I said, Sam, don't put him on yourself. So
what did he do. He puthim on himself. Sam Rubin put his
own chains on his own car.And as he drove away in this beautiful
brand new Audie, you could hearrap bye bye bye bye diad yeah bye
bye dah bye bye bah bye bye. And this chain was coming off.
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It wrapped around the axle and itwas tearing off the quarter panel of his
car. It ended up costing himsixty two hundred dollars to repair his car,
sixty two one hundred dollars instead ofthe forty, instead of the forty.
But man could man just a loudnoise and everybody staring at him,
and he didn't under He just thoughthe's never had change before in his car,
so he just assumed that said thesound they made. So as he
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was driving away, he was wavingto everybody myself, he was waving everybody,
see guys one day h bah bydah bah buh bob yeah bah dah
bah bye bye by pieces pieces ofthe car flying off, flying off.
It was great man, That wasa great dude. That's Sam Rubin.
I remember he told a great storyabout him. In Florida. He was
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working at a talk station or radiostation in Florida, and he just moved
down there. He's very excited.He was on the air, he was
doing the Entertainment Report, big stationin Florida, and he used to take
all his clothes to the cleaners becausehe was doing TV hits as well.
He was doing local TV, hewas doing local radio. He's a big
deal in Florida. New guy,new big guy. And I remember he
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told his story on the air.He took all of his clothes to a
cleaner's and you know, a weekafter week after week, and he noticed
that the cleaners, instead of drycleaning his shirts, were laundering them and
they were shrinking them. So yougo on TV and his buttons would be
popping on his shirt. So hewent back to the cleaners and said,
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hey, you guys are laundering theseshirts instead of dry cleaning them. And
the guy says, we don't.We don't do laundry here. We just
do dry cleaning. And he says, be yes, he says, every
one of these shirts, you've shrunk. And the guy said to him,
he goes, he goes, Sam, he goes, I watch you come
in here every week, and Ialso watched you come into the seven eleven
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next door and get a big gulpand a Coola Coop. You think it
might have something to do with thebig Gulp and the Coola Coop and that
big guy. Like ice cream sandwich, you know that. You know,
it's like a It's like an oatmealcookie on both sides with vanilla ice cream
in the middle and then dunked inchocolate. Yeah, like an ice cream
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sandwich. Yes, never heard ofa Coola Coop, not that name anyways,
Maybe I got the name wrong.No you don't. That's is that
right? Yeah, that's right.It's a sweet treat man. It's unbelievable.
But Sam loved his Coola coos man. He enjoyed those, and he
was really he was really a niceguy. He always had us on when
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we were working at kalas X.You know, he would he would have
us on to promote whatever we weredoing, and he was always very gracious
to have us on. We werenobody's, we were idiots, nobody knew
who we were. Steckl and Iwere doing you know, radio at night,
nobody listened, and yet he wouldhave us on all the time.
So I really appreciate that. WithSam Rubin, he would have a Christmas
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party every year at his house inBrentwood, and he would invite us.
You know, we were nobody's wewere doing. You know, we're doing
radio starting at midnight in La.Nobody listens to what you know, back
then, nobody listens to the FMtalk station. After Howard Stern, nobody
did. And the ratings proved thatout. And we would come on twelve
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hours after Howard Stern. You imaginehow the audience dissipated in those twelve hours.
And yet he would invite us tohis party. And I remember going
with Steckler to his party and wetook a cab because we're going to be
drinking. And so he took acab to his party and we're there for
a couple hours and I and Icouldn't find Steckler. So I made a
b line to the bar because wheneveryou can't find Steckler, just walked straight
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to the bottles and bang, he'llbe there. Went to the bar.
He wasn't there. So Sam comesup to me and goes hey. He
says, he says, can youdo me a favorite? And I said,
sure, what's going on? Whatdo you need? I said,
is pat Benatar about to play.He had Pat Benatar playing at his Christmas
party. How big is that?Wow? He goes, yeah, what's
going on? Is Pat Benatar wantto be introduced? So and he introduced
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Pat Benatar. He goes, no, no, we got nine hundred celebrities
here that are bigger than you.Look you're here. Don't push it.
So I said, what do youneed? He goes, came here and
we walked through the house, walkeddown a long hall, opened a door
and it's his daughter's bedroom. Like, oh, it's beautiful, which you
want to show? You wan't justshow the bedroom to me? He goes,
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no, no, look at thebed. Steckler's passed out on his
daughter's bed Macarene drunk off his assout and he said to me, and
I'll never forget this. He goes, I think Doug got into the cups.
I never heard that urd before.I think Doug got into the cups.
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But Sam was the best man.That was the I mean, look,
we can do a show here wherewe you know have you know,
we're very emotional about Sam and Italk about what a great daddy is and
which he was, great husband,great friend. I used to text him
all the time, or we couldtell really great funny stories about the guy.
And trust me, I know Sam, and he would choose the funny
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stories. He always had great stories. His off the air stories were always
much better than the on the airstories. Always he always had fantastic stories.
As a matter of fact, hehad Tom Hanks on and I've often
I actually talked about Sam Rubin lastweek on the show because he had Tom
Hanks on and Tom Hanks he askedTom Hanks, what's the difference between having
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money and not having money? BecauseTom Hanks didn't grow up with dough and
now he's got, you know,billions, and Tom Hanks said one of
the greatest things ever. Tom Hankssaid, the only difference different having money
and not having money is when yourcar breaks down, you don't worry about
fixing it and think about that.That with guys. I don't know about
women, but with guys, that'swhen you know you made it. When
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you don't have to worry about yourcar breaking down. You and that's simple.
But guys are simple, you know. That's that says it all.
Tom Hanks said it all in onesentence. The difference between money and no
money is being able to fix yourcar. That's wrap. That's like the
greatest lesson in life. Everyone shouldteach your kids that, hey, go
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out and make enough money to seeif your car breaks down, you have
to worry about it. Bo overall, right, we'll talk more about
Sam Ruby. We'll also open upthe phones. If you have a funny
Sam Ruben's story. You know Sam, but we're not gonna you know,
we'll play some audio of talking aboutSam and his family. But if you
have a funny story or you knewSam, or you heard him do something
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funny on the air, call usup and we'll put you on the air
with the hell Sam Rubin, whata great guy. I love that dude,
Sam Rubin one eight hundred five totwo oh one five three four one
eight hundred five two oh one fivethree four And I'll come back and I'll
read you the last text he sentme, which is about two months ago.
I'll read that to you. You'relistening to Tim Conway Junior on demand
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from kf I am six forty.Wow. Man, you're like you're like
the You're like the new rich little. You're like a modern day rich little.
You know, you don't know richLittle is right. Yeah, he
was a very good impersonator. Yeah, he was the best, the best.
That's you. You're the new RichLittle. The last text that I
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had with Sam, he'd asked me, he said he was going out to
the racetrack if I had any tips, and and I sent him. I
sent him a text back. Hesaid, I'm going out TOMORROWO sant Anita.
Do you have any tips? AndI said yeah. I said bet
on a horse called lunchtime. Itgoes off twelve to one. And then
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he texts me the next day.He goes budd. He goes, I
don't find lunchtime at this track?Is that another track? I said no.
I said, Sam, it's anold racetrack joke, lunchtime twelve to
one. And he wrote back hegoes, I don't get it. I
said, Sam, lunchtime twelve toone. And I didn't hear back from
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him, but he'd asked me inthe past. He goes, hey,
I you know, he says,next time you go to the track,
will you call me and we cango out together? And I said have
you ever been there before? Andhe said no. I said, oh,
Sam, I don't really like todo that. I don't like to
go with first time guys. Goa couple of times, then call me.
First time guys at the racetrack isa real pain in the hands.
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They ask a million questions. Itdestroys the day, destroys the vibe.
They always lose no good. ButI love that Sam Ruben man. That
was a really cool sweet man,Sam Rubin. And all right, so
we're gonna take phone calls if youcan call between now and seven o'clock.
If you have a Sam Rubin story, I we'd love to hear from you.
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We'll talk to Rob here in.I think thousand Oaks. Rob,
you're on KFI? How you BobHey? Jim ding Dong dig Donga anyway,
getting right to it. I metSam about, oh gosh, forty
three years ago. Wow, whenI was going to USC. I was
in college. He was in collegeat Occidental and we were working together for
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the Burbank City of Parts and Recreationat Verdugo cool lifeguards. So yeah,
and you know the thing about himis he was just that same kind of
personality, the same kind of voice, likability way back then. You know,
the only problem was he wasn't thefastest swimmer. He was like two
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minutes behind all the was there.But he was so personable, I mean,
and so likable. So anyway,kind of getting in one thing,
you know, during this we'd workedduring the summertime. The pool had closed
during the winter. But usually aroundChristmas time, all the lifeguards we get
together for like a party for aroundthe holidays, just kind of connect in
December, and I remember, Iguess Sam couldn't make it to the party,
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but he sent something to the seniorguard and he was studying journalism at
Occidental and what he did was,I don't know the name of the publication.
It's like kind of an inquirer magazine. He did a story about being
on the town in Los Angeles nowgoing out, except it had a little
twist to it. He went outas a woman putting a wig on and
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an ugly address. He looked like, this is doubtfire. He saw the
picture, you know, and thisis years before, and this is doubtfire.
And he did this article. AndI remember when he showed us the
picture of sim Oh, God,the ugliest woman you ever saw in your
life. Okay, I mean,you know, it was a crack up.
And that's when he got his feetwet in journalism basically, and then
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I remember, you know, afteryou know, you get away from doing
White Guard and you're doing regular workfor years, you never saw him again.
And then I just remember, likein the early nineties, all of
a sudden, seeing little bits ofthem on k t LA, you know,
doing little he made it big ofentertainment. That's right, that's right,
And he made it. He madea big But the thing that got
me about him was he had thesame kind of speech pattern, the same
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likability. You know. Yeah,it was great, yeah, so cool
seeing him get where he he did. And the funniest thing is, did
you ever hear about the Samuel Jacksonin Yes, yes, we're going to
play that. We're going to playthe audio from that when I think he's
talking about the Samuel Jackson when hegot him confused with Lawrence uh, Lawrence
Fish, wasn't it him? Allright? One eight hundred and five to
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one five three four. We don'thave to take you know, let's try
to limit the calls on. Youknow, Sam would have love that call,
right, first call out of theshoot eh, guy addresses a woman
at the hell Sam would Sam hada great said to you all right,
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very good. Let's play the audiowhen we come back. It's great audio,
and it's good. It's it's fairlylong, but it's great. Samuel
L. Jackson blast Sam Rubin forconfusing him with Laurence Fishburn. It's a
great, great piece of audio.Great piece of audio doesn't define Sam,
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but it's certainly got a lot ofviews and a lot of action. He
handled it pretty well to yes,he did. Everybody was talking about that,
everybody. It's a great piece ofaudio. We're live on KFI.
Sam Rubin has passed away at theage of sixty four. Another thing that
that Sam and I sort of,I guess shared when we were talking about
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the racetrack the numbers. I betat the race actor two four seven,
and also bet two one six,which is my grandparents' prefix, their area
code for their phone number in uhin Cleveland, which is one of the
reasons why I always lose. I'mbetting area codes for trifectus. But I
always bet the two four to seven, and I bet two one six,
and Sam would call me and goes, hey, he goes I always bet
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the two one six as well,I go, is that right? What
do you bet two one six on. He says, you know, if
I'm in I'm in Vegas, I'llbet the two and the sixteen on roulette.
I go, what does that meanto you? That's his birthday,
h February sixteenth, So that's anotherthing that Sam and I shared the love
of two one six Big Dog withSam. I'm missing man sixty four years
old and passed away today of amassive heart attack. And we'll continue here.
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We got some great audio coming up. Sam Rubin. What a great
guy. You're listening to Tim ConwayJunior on demand from KFI AM six forty.
If you've lived in Los Angeles formore than a year or so,
you knew whos Sam Rubin was entertainmentreporter for KTLA Channel five, and he
passed away today have a heart attack. They've been doing wald Wall coverage on
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KTLA. I don't think they've doneany other news other than talk about Sam
Rubin. Today. We'll talk.We'll play the audio when he confused Samuel
Jackson with Laurence Fishburne. But firstone of his colleagues, one of his
I guess co workers. I don'tknow if you ever worked together, but
certainly a peer of his. Isthat Alex Michaelson and he's with us.
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Alex, how you Bob. I'mgood tim But this story is very,
very depressing and upsetting and shocking.To think that he was just working yesterday
and I know, to be gonethe next day is such a sort of
reminder to all of us about thefragility of life and about you know,
living every day to the fullest.And Sam certainly did that. I mean,
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I as somebody who grew up insouthern California in a Gore Hills and
watched that show every morning. Thatshow was one of the main reasons that
I wanted to get into broadcasting.I mean, I sort of came of
age right at the time that theywere starting the KTLA Morning News, you
know, thirty three years ago,with Carlos and Mescal and Barbara Beck and
Saram and Mark Christy and Jennifer Yorkeand that whole team that completely revolutionized the
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way that morning TV was done ona local level around the country. Nobody
was doing what they were doing.They created a whole new playbook, and
since then everybody around the country hassort of copied what they've done. And
Sam has been on that entire timeas one of the originals, and I
think really was so good at makingthe viewer sort of bring the viewer in
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on the joke, and also sortof talking about the industry, not always
in such a reverential way, butin a way to sort of cut through
the bs and tell you what wasreally going on in the industry. And
I think he did that, likesort of what TMZ's doing now before TMZ,
to sort of get you beyond justwhat the publicists were going to say.
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He found a way to you know, tell real stories and keep it,
keep it a hundred and and hebuilt a really dynamic business also with
the red carpet shows that he wouldyou know, syndicate around the world,
and it was a really, really, really good broadcaster. And it's a
huge loss and a reminder, frankly, of the privilege that all of us
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have to be in broadcasting to beable to communicate with everybody every day.
Because you just see how many peoplereally love Sam and feel his deep connection
to him. Yeah, I meanobviously you knew him. I'm sure you've
run into him, you know,a billion times, like everybody here in
Los Angeles. The nice thing,the one thing I liked about Sam Rubin
is that he didn't just do theyou know, have an actor on and
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talk about their project, but healso brought up a lot of the controversial
things that that kept him in,you know, in the news himself.
Yeah, I think he kind ofenjoyed the process of not talking about their
project. They try to the otherthing, see if you could get through
it. I don't know if hewas always the publicist's favorite person on the
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air because he didn't always really followtheir rules, but I think he developed
such a large audience and such asuccessful show that they had no choice but
to deal with him, which sometimesare the most interesting people. And he
made good TV. You know,he had a good sense of what worked
on TV and what didn't. AndI think the brilliance of what KTLA has
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been doing. You know, they'lltell you if you talk to somebody like
Eric Spillman who had just ran intonot that long ago and had this conversation
with him. In the first fewyears of that show, they were doing
a very traditional straight lace show andit was bombing. Nobody watched it,
nobody liked it. And when theystarted to just be themselves and be real
is when it took off. Imean, that's what I think you've done
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so well for so many years onthe air, which is what people love
about your show. And I'm notjust saying that, but you know,
there's a lot of people that comeon want to do this fake personality.
And I think people are so muchsmarter than we give them credit for.
They can see through that, theycan connect to a real person. And
I think that's the brilliance of Samand Frankly, that whole innovative team at
the beginning of the early morning newsthat created something that's really special, and
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people that that don't do that,that that try to, you know,
play newscaster, nobody wants to watchthat. Yeah, no, I get
it. He was he he wasgoing to host the Critics Choice Awards and
they're going to televise it for thevery first first time, and he was
selected to host that show. AndI remember talking to him before that and
he was so honored that, youknow, the very first time he was
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going to be on TV and theyhave an MC, they have a host
for it. It was going tobe him, And I said, I
said Sam, I said, Dom, who's going to write all your jokes
and your material and he paused andhe said, oh, he goes,
I'm just gonna wing it. AndI said, oh, Sam, I
wouldn't do that. I wouldn't dothat if I were you. And he
did wing it and he was prettygood. He talked about how on his
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bar mitzvah, you know, hisdream was to have Steven Spielberg at his
bar mitzvah. And then he said, you know, thirty years later,
he's hosting these awards and it feelslike is bar mitzvah because Steven Spielberg is
sitting in the front row. Ithought that was pretty cool. That's a
nice Yeah, that's a nice story. I mean Sam worked behind the scenes
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on those Critics Choice Awards for years, like crazy, build that up into
a thing and ended up getting allthese big stars there, selling that it
to different stations not only around thecountry but around the world. Right.
And I think that's the reason hewas dec to host that show is because
all the work he put into thatshow, it was great. All right,
what's up? Real quick? Icreated a different buno, I know,
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yeah, real quickly? What's onyour your show? Night? Thea
issue where is so we go tothe Milken Conference. It's big gathering in
Beverly Hills where we hear from BillClinton and Elon Musk, and I talked
to Jennifer c Blnussim and their bassand speaker Kevin McCarthy. All these really
big time people who are all atthis conference. We're in the middle of
it. We talked to them.We also have a conversation with Emmanuel Acho
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and Noah Tishby, who are theauthors of this new best selling book,
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew, thiswhole idea of breaking down what's really happening
with anti Semitism. A Manuel,a black man who played in the NFL,
talking with Noah, an Israeli woman, and their dialogue where they don't
always agree on everything. It's reallyinteresting and thought provoking at a time when
I think we need to be talkingabout that. Excellent, Buddy. I'll
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be watching tonight channel eleven kt TVChannel eleven tonight at ten thirty. Buddy,
Thanks for coming on and I enjoyyour weekend. I know you're U.
I know that you knew Sam,and when you heard today that Sam
passed away, I'm sure that wasa really hard felt and I'm really shook
up by that. And love toSam's family and to our friends at KTLA,
to their family. There are somegreat people there. Thank you,
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sir. All right there he goesElex Michaelson And I heard today. When
I heard that Sam Rubin today passedaway, I do immediately look it up.
I couldn't believe it. I couldn'tbelieve it. You know, when
somebody you've known for so that manyyears passes away, it just you know,
the first thing is denial, there'sno way that happened, and it's
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true, it did happen, andKatla spent a long time not talking about
it, and rightfully so they wantto make sure, you know, his
kids, his young kids, hisfour kids, and his wife and his
ex wife and his family members knewabout it before they went on air and
talked about him. So I thinkthat certainly was the right thing to do.
Sam Rubin passed away today at sixtyfour years of age. And we'll
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come back and play the audio.It's really great audio, and it's the
Samuel Jackson and Laurence Fishburn confusion,and it's really it's funny, it really
is good. Sam uh, youknow, made a mistake and he owned
it and it was turned out tobe some of the best audio ever on
Katla. All right, relyve onkatl on Kayafi more now more. Now
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you're listening to Tim Conway Junior onDemyan from KFI AM six forty Friday,
May tenth, and it's the daySam Rubin passed away. If you grew
up in La, you know Sam. If you spend any time around here,
you know Sam Rubin on Channel five, host of the critic show Critic
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Choice Awards, did the red carpetfor all the big events and was was
terrific at what he did, greatat what he did. Once in a
while, you have a brain fartand this is one of the best.
When he confused Samuel Jackson Samuel L. Jackson with Laurence Fishburne, we'll just
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play it here we go. Ilike this. I tell you what you
working for Marvel the super Bowl commercial. Did you get a lot of reaction
to that super Bowl commercial? Whatsuper Bowl commercial? Oh? You know
what, I haven't my mistake.You know you're you're as crazy as the
people on tour. I'm not.That's my fault. I know that that
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was my fault, my mistake.You know what we don't all look alike.
You're all black and famous. Youare guilty. I am I I
am guilty. I am guilty.Thought you were Bob Dylan? Right,
you an entertainment report. I knowyou're the entertainment report for this blog.
And you don't know the difference betweenmy mistake, my mistake. I apologize,
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really, my big mistake. Let'stalk about us be a very short
land for your job. I'm sayno, it probably would not be hard
to get another person to sit righthere. Let's talk about Roboco. Hell
no, really, really, myI apologize, but I'm the other guy.
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But I'm the other guy, myother one. What's in your wallet?
That's me exactly right, the morethan one black guy doing a commercial,
No question about that's what's in yourwallet? Black guy? Okay,
he's the car. Black guy isMorgan Freeman is the other credit card.
Only his voice though, so youprobably won't confuse him with here is You're
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exactly you're out here one hundred percentright? Uh too? Cop headweight black
guys, it's like putting cast downin the seats in a baseball stadium.
But he's also the black guy thatturns off the house. The water and
the lights when his kid tells himthe house is cool. I'm not that
guy either. Do we want todo a list of all the people that
you're not? And I've actually neverdone a McDonald's or a Kentucky Fact That
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surprising, fair enough. Man,That is great man. That is great
audio. That is awesome, andit's and it'll live on the internet forever
and ever. It's got a massiveamount of views too. I think it
was over almost a million views onKTLA. Just a classic piece of Sam
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Ruben audio. All right, let'stalk to you a John here, John,
if he's still on hold? John, you're on KFI? How you
bub? Hey? What's up?Guy? Sorry? Hey? Good?
You you knew Sam? No?I actually saw him one time at Langers
and uh. I don't know ifhe was working or he was just having
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lunch, but he was a reallynice guy. He wasn't calmdescending or smug
at all. He said hi tome, He asked me what my name
was, he said, what areyou having? You know, the usual
of the pastrami sandwich. Just areally nice guy, very down to earth.
Yeah, really a cool guy.All right, buddy, I appreciate
that. At Langers all right,so far we got guy called him up,
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said he was a lifeguard and thelangers. So get an idea of
Sam's life. Man, that guyenjoyed life. He enjoyed life, Sam
Rubin. We have some more audiohere. I'm you know, obviously,
you know, they they rushed toput everything together because you know, it
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happened today. But Sam Rubin wassixty four years old, which is you
know, and everyone says, oh, that's you know, that's relatively young.
But I don't like that. Idon't like that that comment that you
know, it was relatively young,because you never knew, you know,
how fast the guy lived, howhard he lived, And to say,
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you know, it was it wasrelatively young, you know, I think
that's sort of an insult. Youknow when when people say that, what
people are saying when they say,oh, he's relatively young, is they're
saying that he didn't take care ofhimself. If it wasn't, you know,
some kind of accident. If itwas a car accident, that's one
thing, or a plane accident,that's one thing. But when somebody dies
of a heart attack and somebody goes, oh, he was very young,
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what they're saying is Oh, hedidn't take care of himself. And I
don't like to say that about people. You know, everyone died. Everyone
he sort of you know, hastheir own vibe and their own thing that
they do. And yeah, hewas sixty four years old, but who
knows. Maybe you know, maybehe lived you know, thirty years longer
than he was supposed to. Maybehe had some complications that we were unaware
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of. And so I don't liketo say that, you know, oh,
he's so young. I find thatit's so insulting. I hate that
I turned TV off and I hearthat kind of crap. Oh you're so
young. He was so young.But anyway, beloved Sam Rubin. We
he it was so he was kindenough to have us on on the show.
And the very last time I wenton with him was belly O.
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Was that like ten years ago,eight years ago something like that? Yeah,
like probably nine years ago, eightor nine years ago. Okay,
all right, we'll have the audiowhen we come back, we'll play it.
But it was when we had wehad Jack Chavs, and we just
took a phone call and Jack Shavscame on with us. And we always
whenever kids come on with us,We always say, hey, tell us
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how great your mom or your dadis. And he said, oh,
my mom's great because she feeds meand puts a roof over my head.
We had never heard that before,never heard that before. And Jack Shavis
had been going through some physical problemshimself. He missed his birthday and it
was just it was a great pieceof audio. Sam picked up on it
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and had us on to talk aboutthat. So we'll come back. We'll
play that for you. Maybe youremember that whole deal. This audience got
together and raised money for that kidto send him to Disney World. He
wanted, always wanted to go toDisney World. And we thought maybe we'd
raised three or four thousand dollars intwo days. We raised sixty five thousand
dollars for that kid in two days. It was unreal. All right,
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Now you can always hear us liveon KFI AM six forty four to
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It's k IF. I am sixforty and you're listening to The Conway Show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app.It is The Conway Show. Very sad
Friday around here in Los Angeles.Our good buddy Sam Rubin passed away.
He's with KTLA for thirty years.I've known Sam. I used to work
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with Sam Rubin over a kalas Xand he would come on right after Howard
Stern and sometimes he'd be on fortwo hours. Sometimes he'd be on for
one minute, but he had thatslot after Stern before the noon show begins
or I forgot about that, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
And he would bring in some prettygood celebrity friends, you know, people
that he's known through show business forquite some time, and that was cool.
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I've known Sam for I don't know, twenty five years or so,
and always very nice to me,always very gracious. Every single time that
I've been suspended in radio. Hewas one of the first guys to call
me, one of the first guysto call and say, Hey, it's
not a big deal, ride itout, You'll be fine. That's a
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good that's a good friend. Thatyeah, And he was he was always
he always said yes to everything weasked him. You know, usually,
you know, when you asked somebodyand show business, hey can you do
a favorite come on about this,this or this, they'd always say,
oh, let me see. Buthe'd come on right away. He was
always always willing to come on.It's about of fact, we invited him
up to Big Bear. We're goingto do a like, I don't know
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what what they call it a retreatweekend on Kala s X where we're all
going to go up there for theweekend and do a live broadcast. And
he was one of the guys thatwent up to Big Bear and he brought
his brand new I think he hadan Audi. I think he had this
like beautiful brand new Audi. AndI said Sam, I said, before
you go up there. I wentup the day before him. And Sam
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was the kind of guy that wantedto go up, do the show and
then go home to his kids.He never wanted to stay at hotel and
inconvenience anybody or you know, costhim a hotel room. He always whenever
he did a broadcast, you dothe broadcast that you go right home to
the kids. Great dad, greatgreat dad. And so I said Sam,
I said, if you're coming uphere, they had a lot of
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snow and Big Bear, you're gonnaneed chains. And he said, okay,
all right, all right. Sohe comes up to Big Bear and
he didn't put the chains on onthe way up, which is what she
didn't need him. It was sortof, you know, dry that day.
And then as he was there,as snowed all day long. It
was snowing. It was crazy.You can barely see across the street.
And I said, Sam, doyou have chains for your card? And
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he said yeah, And I said, all right, you got to pay
this. Go to the gas station, any gas station and Big Bear and
they'll have two or three guys therewilling to put your chains on for you.
And he said what does that cost? And I said, whatever it
is, it's the best money you'llspend. The cost doesn't matter here.
And he said, well what doesit cost? I said, I don't
know. It's like forty bucks.He says, forty dollars. The chains
were only sixty. I said,wait, you got change for sixty.
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Where'd you get changed for him?Sixty bucks? They're like one hundred and
fifty. So I said, Sam, don't put him on yourself. So
what did he do. He puthim on himself. Sam Rubin put his
own chains on his own car.And as he drove away in this beautiful
brand new Audie, you could hearrap bye bye bye bye diad yeah bye
bye dah bye bye bah bye bye. And this chain was coming off.
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It wrapped around the axle and itwas tearing off the quarter panel of his
car. It ended up costing himsixty two hundred dollars to repair his car,
sixty two one hundred dollars instead ofthe forty, instead of the forty.
But man could man just a loudnoise and everybody staring at him,
and he didn't under He just thoughthe's never had change before in his car,
so he just assumed that said thesound they made. So as he
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was driving away, he was wavingto everybody myself, he was waving everybody,
see guys one day h bah bydah bah buh bob yeah bah dah
bah bye bye by pieces pieces ofthe car flying off, flying off.
It was great man, That wasa great dude. That's Sam Rubin.
I remember he told a great storyabout him. In Florida. He was
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working at a talk station or radiostation in Florida, and he just moved
down there. He's very excited.He was on the air, he was
doing the Entertainment Report, big stationin Florida, and he used to take
all his clothes to the cleaners becausehe was doing TV hits as well.
He was doing local TV, hewas doing local radio. He's a big
deal in Florida. New guy,new big guy. And I remember he
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told his story on the air.He took all of his clothes to a
cleaner's and you know, a weekafter week after week, and he noticed
that the cleaners, instead of drycleaning his shirts, were laundering them and
they were shrinking them. So yougo on TV and his buttons would be
popping on his shirt. So hewent back to the cleaners and said,
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hey, you guys are laundering theseshirts instead of dry cleaning them. And
the guy says, we don't.We don't do laundry here. We just
do dry cleaning. And he says, be yes, he says, every
one of these shirts, you've shrunk. And the guy said to him,
he goes, he goes, Sam, he goes, I watch you come
in here every week, and Ialso watched you come into the seven eleven
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next door and get a big gulpand a Coola Coop. You think it
might have something to do with thebig Gulp and the Coola Coop and that
big guy. Like ice cream sandwich, you know that. You know,
it's like a It's like an oatmealcookie on both sides with vanilla ice cream
in the middle and then dunked inchocolate. Yeah, like an ice cream
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sandwich. Yes, never heard ofa Coola Coop, not that name anyways,
Maybe I got the name wrong.No you don't. That's is that
right? Yeah, that's right.It's a sweet treat man. It's unbelievable.
But Sam loved his Coola coos man. He enjoyed those, and he
was really he was really a niceguy. He always had us on when
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we were working at kalas X.You know, he would he would have
us on to promote whatever we weredoing, and he was always very gracious
to have us on. We werenobody's, we were idiots, nobody knew
who we were. Steckl and Iwere doing you know, radio at night,
nobody listened, and yet he wouldhave us on all the time.
So I really appreciate that. WithSam Rubin, he would have a Christmas
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party every year at his house inBrentwood, and he would invite us.
You know, we were nobody's wewere doing. You know, we're doing
radio starting at midnight in La.Nobody listens to what you know, back
then, nobody listens to the FMtalk station. After Howard Stern, nobody
did. And the ratings proved thatout. And we would come on twelve
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hours after Howard Stern. You imaginehow the audience dissipated in those twelve hours.
And yet he would invite us tohis party. And I remember going
with Steckler to his party and wetook a cab because we're going to be
drinking. And so he took acab to his party and we're there for
a couple hours and I and Icouldn't find Steckler. So I made a
b line to the bar because wheneveryou can't find Steckler, just walked straight
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to the bottles and bang, he'llbe there. Went to the bar.
He wasn't there. So Sam comesup to me and goes hey. He
says, he says, can youdo me a favorite? And I said,
sure, what's going on? Whatdo you need? I said,
is pat Benatar about to play.He had Pat Benatar playing at his Christmas
party. How big is that?Wow? He goes, yeah, what's
going on? Is Pat Benatar wantto be introduced? So and he introduced
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Pat Benatar. He goes, no, no, we got nine hundred celebrities
here that are bigger than you.Look you're here. Don't push it.
So I said, what do youneed? He goes, came here and
we walked through the house, walkeddown a long hall, opened a door
and it's his daughter's bedroom. Like, oh, it's beautiful, which you
want to show? You wan't justshow the bedroom to me? He goes,
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no, no, look at thebed. Steckler's passed out on his
daughter's bed Macarene drunk off his assout and he said to me, and
I'll never forget this. He goes, I think Doug got into the cups.
I never heard that urd before.I think Doug got into the cups.
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But Sam was the best man.That was the I mean, look,
we can do a show here wherewe you know have you know,
we're very emotional about Sam and Italk about what a great daddy is and
which he was, great husband,great friend. I used to text him
all the time, or we couldtell really great funny stories about the guy.
And trust me, I know Sam, and he would choose the funny
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stories. He always had great stories. His off the air stories were always
much better than the on the airstories. Always he always had fantastic stories.
As a matter of fact, hehad Tom Hanks on and I've often
I actually talked about Sam Rubin lastweek on the show because he had Tom
Hanks on and Tom Hanks he askedTom Hanks, what's the difference between having
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money and not having money? BecauseTom Hanks didn't grow up with dough and
now he's got, you know,billions, and Tom Hanks said one of
the greatest things ever. Tom Hankssaid, the only difference different having money
and not having money is when yourcar breaks down, you don't worry about
fixing it and think about that.That with guys. I don't know about
women, but with guys, that'swhen you know you made it. When
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you don't have to worry about yourcar breaking down. You and that's simple.
But guys are simple, you know. That's that says it all.
Tom Hanks said it all in onesentence. The difference between money and no
money is being able to fix yourcar. That's wrap. That's like the
greatest lesson in life. Everyone shouldteach your kids that, hey, go
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out and make enough money to seeif your car breaks down, you have
to worry about it. Bo overall, right, we'll talk more about
Sam Ruby. We'll also open upthe phones. If you have a funny
Sam Ruben's story. You know Sam, but we're not gonna you know,
we'll play some audio of talking aboutSam and his family. But if you
have a funny story or you knewSam, or you heard him do something
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funny on the air, call usup and we'll put you on the air
with the hell Sam Rubin, whata great guy. I love that dude,
Sam Rubin one eight hundred five totwo oh one five three four one
eight hundred five two oh one fivethree four And I'll come back and I'll
read you the last text he sentme, which is about two months ago.
I'll read that to you. You'relistening to Tim Conway Junior on demand
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from kf I am six forty.Wow. Man, you're like you're like
the You're like the new rich little. You're like a modern day rich little.
You know, you don't know richLittle is right. Yeah, he
was a very good impersonator. Yeah, he was the best, the best.
That's you. You're the new RichLittle. The last text that I
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had with Sam, he'd asked me, he said he was going out to
the racetrack if I had any tips, and and I sent him. I
sent him a text back. Hesaid, I'm going out TOMORROWO sant Anita.
Do you have any tips? AndI said yeah. I said bet
on a horse called lunchtime. Itgoes off twelve to one. And then
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he texts me the next day.He goes budd. He goes, I
don't find lunchtime at this track?Is that another track? I said no.
I said, Sam, it's anold racetrack joke, lunchtime twelve to
one. And he wrote back hegoes, I don't get it. I
said, Sam, lunchtime twelve toone. And I didn't hear back from
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him, but he'd asked me inthe past. He goes, hey,
I you know, he says,next time you go to the track,
will you call me and we cango out together? And I said have
you ever been there before? Andhe said no. I said, oh,
Sam, I don't really like todo that. I don't like to
go with first time guys. Goa couple of times, then call me.
First time guys at the racetrack isa real pain in the hands.
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They ask a million questions. Itdestroys the day, destroys the vibe.
They always lose no good. ButI love that Sam Ruben man. That
was a really cool sweet man,Sam Rubin. And all right, so
we're gonna take phone calls if youcan call between now and seven o'clock.
If you have a Sam Rubin story, I we'd love to hear from you.
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We'll talk to Rob here in.I think thousand Oaks. Rob,
you're on KFI? How you BobHey? Jim ding Dong dig Donga anyway,
getting right to it. I metSam about, oh gosh, forty
three years ago. Wow, whenI was going to USC. I was
in college. He was in collegeat Occidental and we were working together for
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the Burbank City of Parts and Recreationat Verdugo cool lifeguards. So yeah,
and you know the thing about himis he was just that same kind of
personality, the same kind of voice, likability way back then. You know,
the only problem was he wasn't thefastest swimmer. He was like two
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minutes behind all the was there.But he was so personable, I mean,
and so likable. So anyway,kind of getting in one thing,
you know, during this we'd workedduring the summertime. The pool had closed
during the winter. But usually aroundChristmas time, all the lifeguards we get
together for like a party for aroundthe holidays, just kind of connect in
December, and I remember, Iguess Sam couldn't make it to the party,
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but he sent something to the seniorguard and he was studying journalism at
Occidental and what he did was,I don't know the name of the publication.
It's like kind of an inquirer magazine. He did a story about being
on the town in Los Angeles nowgoing out, except it had a little
twist to it. He went outas a woman putting a wig on and
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an ugly address. He looked like, this is doubtfire. He saw the
picture, you know, and thisis years before, and this is doubtfire.
And he did this article. AndI remember when he showed us the
picture of sim Oh, God,the ugliest woman you ever saw in your
life. Okay, I mean,you know, it was a crack up.
And that's when he got his feetwet in journalism basically, and then
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I remember, you know, afteryou know, you get away from doing
White Guard and you're doing regular workfor years, you never saw him again.
And then I just remember, likein the early nineties, all of
a sudden, seeing little bits ofthem on k t LA, you know,
doing little he made it big ofentertainment. That's right, that's right,
And he made it. He madea big But the thing that got
me about him was he had thesame kind of speech pattern, the same
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likability. You know. Yeah,it was great, yeah, so cool
seeing him get where he he did. And the funniest thing is, did
you ever hear about the Samuel Jacksonin Yes, yes, we're going to
play that. We're going to playthe audio from that when I think he's
talking about the Samuel Jackson when hegot him confused with Lawrence uh, Lawrence
Fish, wasn't it him? Allright? One eight hundred and five to
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one five three four. We don'thave to take you know, let's try
to limit the calls on. Youknow, Sam would have love that call,
right, first call out of theshoot eh, guy addresses a woman
at the hell Sam would Sam hada great said to you all right,
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very good. Let's play the audiowhen we come back. It's great audio,
and it's good. It's it's fairlylong, but it's great. Samuel
L. Jackson blast Sam Rubin forconfusing him with Laurence Fishburn. It's a
great, great piece of audio.Great piece of audio doesn't define Sam,
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but it's certainly got a lot ofviews and a lot of action. He
handled it pretty well to yes,he did. Everybody was talking about that,
everybody. It's a great piece ofaudio. We're live on KFI.
Sam Rubin has passed away at theage of sixty four. Another thing that
that Sam and I sort of,I guess shared when we were talking about
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the racetrack the numbers. I betat the race actor two four seven,
and also bet two one six,which is my grandparents' prefix, their area
code for their phone number in uhin Cleveland, which is one of the
reasons why I always lose. I'mbetting area codes for trifectus. But I
always bet the two four to seven, and I bet two one six,
and Sam would call me and goes, hey, he goes I always bet
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the two one six as well,I go, is that right? What
do you bet two one six on. He says, you know, if
I'm in I'm in Vegas, I'llbet the two and the sixteen on roulette.
I go, what does that meanto you? That's his birthday,
h February sixteenth, So that's anotherthing that Sam and I shared the love
of two one six Big Dog withSam. I'm missing man sixty four years
old and passed away today of amassive heart attack. And we'll continue here.
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We got some great audio coming up. Sam Rubin. What a great
guy. You're listening to Tim ConwayJunior on demand from KFI AM six forty.
If you've lived in Los Angeles formore than a year or so,
you knew whos Sam Rubin was entertainmentreporter for KTLA Channel five, and he
passed away today have a heart attack. They've been doing wald Wall coverage on
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KTLA. I don't think they've doneany other news other than talk about Sam
Rubin. Today. We'll talk.We'll play the audio when he confused Samuel
Jackson with Laurence Fishburne. But firstone of his colleagues, one of his
I guess co workers. I don'tknow if you ever worked together, but
certainly a peer of his. Isthat Alex Michaelson and he's with us.
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Alex, how you Bob. I'mgood tim But this story is very,
very depressing and upsetting and shocking.To think that he was just working yesterday
and I know, to be gonethe next day is such a sort of
reminder to all of us about thefragility of life and about you know,
living every day to the fullest.And Sam certainly did that. I mean,
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I as somebody who grew up insouthern California in a Gore Hills and
watched that show every morning. Thatshow was one of the main reasons that
I wanted to get into broadcasting.I mean, I sort of came of
age right at the time that theywere starting the KTLA Morning News, you
know, thirty three years ago,with Carlos and Mescal and Barbara Beck and
Saram and Mark Christy and Jennifer Yorkeand that whole team that completely revolutionized the
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way that morning TV was done ona local level around the country. Nobody
was doing what they were doing.They created a whole new playbook, and
since then everybody around the country hassort of copied what they've done. And
Sam has been on that entire timeas one of the originals, and I
think really was so good at makingthe viewer sort of bring the viewer in
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on the joke, and also sortof talking about the industry, not always
in such a reverential way, butin a way to sort of cut through
the bs and tell you what wasreally going on in the industry. And
I think he did that, likesort of what TMZ's doing now before TMZ,
to sort of get you beyond justwhat the publicists were going to say.
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He found a way to you know, tell real stories and keep it,
keep it a hundred and and hebuilt a really dynamic business also with
the red carpet shows that he wouldyou know, syndicate around the world,
and it was a really, really, really good broadcaster. And it's a
huge loss and a reminder, frankly, of the privilege that all of us
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have to be in broadcasting to beable to communicate with everybody every day.
Because you just see how many peoplereally love Sam and feel his deep connection
to him. Yeah, I meanobviously you knew him. I'm sure you've
run into him, you know,a billion times, like everybody here in
Los Angeles. The nice thing,the one thing I liked about Sam Rubin
is that he didn't just do theyou know, have an actor on and
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talk about their project, but healso brought up a lot of the controversial
things that that kept him in,you know, in the news himself.
Yeah, I think he kind ofenjoyed the process of not talking about their
project. They try to the otherthing, see if you could get through
it. I don't know if hewas always the publicist's favorite person on the
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air because he didn't always really followtheir rules, but I think he developed
such a large audience and such asuccessful show that they had no choice but
to deal with him, which sometimesare the most interesting people. And he
made good TV. You know,he had a good sense of what worked
on TV and what didn't. AndI think the brilliance of what KTLA has
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been doing. You know, they'lltell you if you talk to somebody like
Eric Spillman who had just ran intonot that long ago and had this conversation
with him. In the first fewyears of that show, they were doing
a very traditional straight lace show andit was bombing. Nobody watched it,
nobody liked it. And when theystarted to just be themselves and be real
is when it took off. Imean, that's what I think you've done
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so well for so many years onthe air, which is what people love
about your show. And I'm notjust saying that, but you know,
there's a lot of people that comeon want to do this fake personality.
And I think people are so muchsmarter than we give them credit for.
They can see through that, theycan connect to a real person. And
I think that's the brilliance of Samand Frankly, that whole innovative team at
the beginning of the early morning newsthat created something that's really special, and
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people that that don't do that,that that try to, you know,
play newscaster, nobody wants to watchthat. Yeah, no, I get
it. He was he he wasgoing to host the Critics Choice Awards and
they're going to televise it for thevery first first time, and he was
selected to host that show. AndI remember talking to him before that and
he was so honored that, youknow, the very first time he was
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going to be on TV and theyhave an MC, they have a host
for it. It was going tobe him, And I said, I
said Sam, I said, Dom, who's going to write all your jokes
and your material and he paused andhe said, oh, he goes,
I'm just gonna wing it. AndI said, oh, Sam, I
wouldn't do that. I wouldn't dothat if I were you. And he
did wing it and he was prettygood. He talked about how on his
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bar mitzvah, you know, hisdream was to have Steven Spielberg at his
bar mitzvah. And then he said, you know, thirty years later,
he's hosting these awards and it feelslike is bar mitzvah because Steven Spielberg is
sitting in the front row. Ithought that was pretty cool. That's a
nice Yeah, that's a nice story. I mean Sam worked behind the scenes
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on those Critics Choice Awards for years, like crazy, build that up into
a thing and ended up getting allthese big stars there, selling that it
to different stations not only around thecountry but around the world. Right.
And I think that's the reason hewas dec to host that show is because
all the work he put into thatshow, it was great. All right,
what's up? Real quick? Icreated a different buno, I know,
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yeah, real quickly? What's onyour your show? Night? Thea
issue where is so we go tothe Milken Conference. It's big gathering in
Beverly Hills where we hear from BillClinton and Elon Musk, and I talked
to Jennifer c Blnussim and their bassand speaker Kevin McCarthy. All these really
big time people who are all atthis conference. We're in the middle of
it. We talked to them.We also have a conversation with Emmanuel Acho
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and Noah Tishby, who are theauthors of this new best selling book,
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew, thiswhole idea of breaking down what's really happening
with anti Semitism. A Manuel,a black man who played in the NFL,
talking with Noah, an Israeli woman, and their dialogue where they don't
always agree on everything. It's reallyinteresting and thought provoking at a time when
I think we need to be talkingabout that. Excellent, Buddy. I'll
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be watching tonight channel eleven kt TVChannel eleven tonight at ten thirty. Buddy,
Thanks for coming on and I enjoyyour weekend. I know you're U.
I know that you knew Sam,and when you heard today that Sam
passed away, I'm sure that wasa really hard felt and I'm really shook
up by that. And love toSam's family and to our friends at KTLA,
to their family. There are somegreat people there. Thank you,
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sir. All right there he goesElex Michaelson And I heard today. When
I heard that Sam Rubin today passedaway, I do immediately look it up.
I couldn't believe it. I couldn'tbelieve it. You know, when
somebody you've known for so that manyyears passes away, it just you know,
the first thing is denial, there'sno way that happened, and it's
(24:10):
true, it did happen, andKatla spent a long time not talking about
it, and rightfully so they wantto make sure, you know, his
kids, his young kids, hisfour kids, and his wife and his
ex wife and his family members knewabout it before they went on air and
talked about him. So I thinkthat certainly was the right thing to do.
Sam Rubin passed away today at sixtyfour years of age. And we'll
(24:32):
come back and play the audio.It's really great audio, and it's the
Samuel Jackson and Laurence Fishburn confusion,and it's really it's funny, it really
is good. Sam uh, youknow, made a mistake and he owned
it and it was turned out tobe some of the best audio ever on
Katla. All right, relyve onkatl on Kayafi more now more. Now
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you're listening to Tim Conway Junior onDemyan from KFI AM six forty Friday,
May tenth, and it's the daySam Rubin passed away. If you grew
up in La, you know Sam. If you spend any time around here,
you know Sam Rubin on Channel five, host of the critic show Critic
(25:19):
Choice Awards, did the red carpetfor all the big events and was was
terrific at what he did, greatat what he did. Once in a
while, you have a brain fartand this is one of the best.
When he confused Samuel Jackson Samuel L. Jackson with Laurence Fishburne, we'll just
(25:41):
play it here we go. Ilike this. I tell you what you
working for Marvel the super Bowl commercial. Did you get a lot of reaction
to that super Bowl commercial? Whatsuper Bowl commercial? Oh? You know
what, I haven't my mistake.You know you're you're as crazy as the
people on tour. I'm not.That's my fault. I know that that
(26:03):
was my fault, my mistake.You know what we don't all look alike.
You're all black and famous. Youare guilty. I am I I
am guilty. I am guilty.Thought you were Bob Dylan? Right,
you an entertainment report. I knowyou're the entertainment report for this blog.
And you don't know the difference betweenmy mistake, my mistake. I apologize,
(26:26):
really, my big mistake. Let'stalk about us be a very short
land for your job. I'm sayno, it probably would not be hard
to get another person to sit righthere. Let's talk about Roboco. Hell
no, really, really, myI apologize, but I'm the other guy.
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But I'm the other guy, myother one. What's in your wallet?
That's me exactly right, the morethan one black guy doing a commercial,
No question about that's what's in yourwallet? Black guy? Okay,
he's the car. Black guy isMorgan Freeman is the other credit card.
Only his voice though, so youprobably won't confuse him with here is You're
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exactly you're out here one hundred percentright? Uh too? Cop headweight black
guys, it's like putting cast downin the seats in a baseball stadium.
But he's also the black guy thatturns off the house. The water and
the lights when his kid tells himthe house is cool. I'm not that
guy either. Do we want todo a list of all the people that
you're not? And I've actually neverdone a McDonald's or a Kentucky Fact That
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surprising, fair enough. Man,That is great man. That is great
audio. That is awesome, andit's and it'll live on the internet forever
and ever. It's got a massiveamount of views too. I think it
was over almost a million views onKTLA. Just a classic piece of Sam
(27:56):
Ruben audio. All right, let'stalk to you a John here, John,
if he's still on hold? John, you're on KFI? How you
bub? Hey? What's up?Guy? Sorry? Hey? Good?
You you knew Sam? No?I actually saw him one time at Langers
and uh. I don't know ifhe was working or he was just having
(28:17):
lunch, but he was a reallynice guy. He wasn't calmdescending or smug
at all. He said hi tome, He asked me what my name
was, he said, what areyou having? You know, the usual
of the pastrami sandwich. Just areally nice guy, very down to earth.
Yeah, really a cool guy.All right, buddy, I appreciate
that. At Langers all right,so far we got guy called him up,
(28:40):
said he was a lifeguard and thelangers. So get an idea of
Sam's life. Man, that guyenjoyed life. He enjoyed life, Sam
Rubin. We have some more audiohere. I'm you know, obviously,
you know, they they rushed toput everything together because you know, it
(29:00):
happened today. But Sam Rubin wassixty four years old, which is you
know, and everyone says, oh, that's you know, that's relatively young.
But I don't like that. Idon't like that that comment that you
know, it was relatively young,because you never knew, you know,
how fast the guy lived, howhard he lived, And to say,
(29:25):
you know, it was it wasrelatively young, you know, I think
that's sort of an insult. Youknow when when people say that, what
people are saying when they say,oh, he's relatively young, is they're
saying that he didn't take care ofhimself. If it wasn't, you know,
some kind of accident. If itwas a car accident, that's one
thing, or a plane accident,that's one thing. But when somebody dies
of a heart attack and somebody goes, oh, he was very young,
(29:48):
what they're saying is Oh, hedidn't take care of himself. And I
don't like to say that about people. You know, everyone died. Everyone
he sort of you know, hastheir own vibe and their own thing that
they do. And yeah, hewas sixty four years old, but who
knows. Maybe you know, maybehe lived you know, thirty years longer
than he was supposed to. Maybehe had some complications that we were unaware
(30:10):
of. And so I don't liketo say that, you know, oh,
he's so young. I find thatit's so insulting. I hate that
I turned TV off and I hearthat kind of crap. Oh you're so
young. He was so young.But anyway, beloved Sam Rubin. We
he it was so he was kindenough to have us on on the show.
And the very last time I wenton with him was belly O.
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Was that like ten years ago,eight years ago something like that? Yeah,
like probably nine years ago, eightor nine years ago. Okay,
all right, we'll have the audiowhen we come back, we'll play it.
But it was when we had wehad Jack Chavs, and we just
took a phone call and Jack Shavscame on with us. And we always
whenever kids come on with us,We always say, hey, tell us
(30:53):
how great your mom or your dadis. And he said, oh,
my mom's great because she feeds meand puts a roof over my head.
We had never heard that before,never heard that before. And Jack Shavis
had been going through some physical problemshimself. He missed his birthday and it
was just it was a great pieceof audio. Sam picked up on it
(31:15):
and had us on to talk aboutthat. So we'll come back. We'll
play that for you. Maybe youremember that whole deal. This audience got
together and raised money for that kidto send him to Disney World. He
wanted, always wanted to go toDisney World. And we thought maybe we'd
raised three or four thousand dollars intwo days. We raised sixty five thousand
dollars for that kid in two days. It was unreal. All right,
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