Hour 2 | John Papadakis Joins Us @ConwayShow

Tims life insurance company went out of business //  A lady around Tim’s house was yelling about the Burbank police, and then she called him racist // Angel still has tennis elbow // be careful what prescription medication you bring to the United States // GUEST: John Papadakis - CD release concert at the Catalina Jazz Club in LA on June 19th 8:30pm // A women's sports bar opening in Long Beach soon 

Episode Transcript

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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.I got a letter in the mail today.
You got a letter in your mailboxthat was kind of disturbing, but
I guess predictable and maybe you athome should check your you know, policy,

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but if you have life insurance.Way too many people died during COVID
and a lot of people are dyingafter COVID, and the life insurance policy
that I have went into receivership,out of business, gone, yeah,
taken over by the state. Sothere's a lot of nervousness, you know,

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with my wife, because well that'sreally all I had, you know,
guy goes to the track all thetime. I did have a life
and I do have a life insurancepolicy. But it's not much left after
that. Not a lot of fouroh one k action, No stocks,
I don't know on apartment buildings orshopping malls. You know. It's all
at San Anita. And we gotreal close to a big house, real

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closejustments. We got a photoed outof a pool. We were gonna have
a big pool in our house,but we got photoed out. So but
I would if I were you andyou have a life insurance policy, maybe
got young kids around, I wouldlook into that. Though, because the

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states regulate insurance companies, and allfifty states have systems in place to protect
policy makers or policyholders. I shouldsay if an insurance company goes out of
business, and what that means isyou're not totally out of lock. If
your insurance company goes under, likemine died, how about that? What

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kind of luck do I have?But it's really important to understand how the
process works. And I did someresearch and I want to look up and
see what sort of protections they offer. But better yet, you know what,
what you got to take some stepsto avoid ending up with an insurance
company that goes out of business,and you have to. You don't want

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to rely on the state coming into help you out, because they will
reduce your policy. You know,if you have a million dollar policy,
I think they'll reduce it to twohundred and fifty thousand dollars. But the
insurance industry, they're very highly regularlyregulated. They're like banks, and you
know one are the credit unions,and so insurance companies when they do fail,

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and occasionally they do for a varietyof reasons. You know, for
example, they might either they mightunderprice their products, or they haven't higher
than expected insurance claims because of COVIDor people dying after COVID, and so
the the insolvencies, remember back inthe nineties they had, you know,

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like forty or fifty of them inthe nineties. They had a lot in
the nineties, and that was abig deal. But if you're a policy
holder, even even you know yourif your insurance company fails, you're still
going to get you can get something. If you're already getting benefits. I
think those continue, but they're goingto reduce it by a lot. I

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mean, if you have a twomillion dollar policy, I think it goes
down to two hundred and fifty thousand. I think the ceiling is is two
hundred and fifty or three hundred thousanddollars. So it was disturbing to get
that letter in the mail because I'vepaid, you know, my premiums every
month since I don't know, twentyten or twenty twelve. When I find
when I first got it, andif your insurance company is declared insolvent,

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like well mine is in Connecticut,I picked the wrong one. Expect the
state to step in, and there'san association that's going to transfer the insurance
insurance policy to another insurance company orthe state will take over. But you
might have you might see it reduced. So again, if an insurance company

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doesn't have enough funds to pay guyslike me, policy holders and claims,
I'm most states limit the benefit payoutsand let me see if I think I
had them here somewhere there three hundredthousand dollars in life insurance death benefits,
that's the ceiling. One hundred thousanddollars in cash surrender or withdrawal values for

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life insurance. Two hundred and fiftythousand dollars in present value annuity benefits.
Five hundred thousand dollars in major medicalor hospital benefits. Maybe you had a
three million dollar medical or hospital benefit, Well, that's coming down to five
hundred thousand, one hundred thousand dollarsand other health benefit, other health insurance
benefits, three hundred thousand dollars inlong term care insurance benefits. That goes

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quickly. You could spend ten thousanddollars a month in long term care.
When caring for a loved one andyou may have had three million dollars in
that policy, so that person couldyou know, basically ride out the rest
of their life and be cared for. Well. Now that goes down to

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three hundred thousand and at ten thousanddollars a month. That's through thirty months,
so a little over two years.So it sucks. But if you
have an insurance policy and you gotto make sure that your company is stable,
I don't know how you do that. I'm not that bright, but

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I don't know. Maybe you cancall and see how it's rated. They
have companies that are rated on ascale eight plus plus is the highest to
D as in a disaster. Andthen they also have the Fitch ratings,
the f I T H ratings,and that scale goes from triple A to

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D. And they also Moodies ratesthem as well, triple A to C
and Standard and Poors as well.So see what your insurance company is rated,
and it'll take it'll give you somerelief, some peace of mind that
your life insurance is still there.If you were to check out and your

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wife or husband or a significant other, you know, whatever you get rolling
in your house that they're taking careof when you check out. Now.
For me, I got a lifeinsurance policy essentially so my wife doesn't have
to go home with the first catchshe meets at a bar. That's why
I got it, because if youdon't have a life insurance policy, she's

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going home with the first guy shemeets at the bar, first guy she
hooks up with, who's got acouple of bucks back to his s.
But if you have a life insurancepolicy, she could be a little more
picky, you know, maybe thethird guy, fourth guy, maybe after
the fourth night, you know,hook up with some guy. But that's

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why guys have life insurance policies,just so their wife doesn't have to,
you know, tool around the firstcatch she sees. Maybe it's not right.
I don't know. I don't knowmuch, but I think that was
what my dad told me. Ithink that's that's right. That's the sage
advice, your dad game. That'sright. He was good a life insurance
policy so jend doesn't have to gohome with the first guy she made.

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It's like, what what was that? Because he did a thing on dwarfund
life insurance and never made it out. It was pretty solid. A lot
of good jokes and it just didn'tcome together. But it threw me for
a loop that you know that I'vebeen paying for ten twelve eleven years,

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no longer than that, twelve years, every paying my life insurance and now
the company that I was that I'mwith is insolvent. They made some mistakes.
So what a surprise. Yeah,what a surprise that I picked the
one company that went out. Whatare the odds of that? You know
that happened to my mom years agowith another insurance company who's based back east.

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Yeah, this is this is inConnecticut. Yeah, so it was
this one. I bet it's thesame one. And these guys pulled something
like this back in I mean itwas a long time ago, like maybe
thirty years ago. So tough.Anyway, it's tough. It's tough.
Yeah. Oh wait, so waita minute. That was when your father
had passed away. No, no, no, this is long after he

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passed away. My mother did somelike annuities. Oh I see, I
see, yeah, and they reducedit, tom pretty much eliminated it.
Oh really yeah. Yeah, it'sstill wrapped up in the courts too.
I mean it's not just her,it's everybody else who was participating in that
program. Yeah, my wife wasa little more upset about that company going

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out of business than I was.You know, I could care less she
offering to work on the car.You know the other side of that coin
is that if you get cheap insuranceor no insurance, they will have to
jump on the first person that comesalong. And that just makes you look
better at the end. Yeah,right, Look, when I go,

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the party's over. Yeah. Youknow, I'm the guy bringing the pizza
home to the party every night,and when I go, you know,
the party is over. You know, clean up the streamers, the cups,
the empty bottles, and you know, and get somebody else to pay
for that party. But why wouldshe Why would she just text me,

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Okay, I gotta talk to mywife. You're listening to Tim Conway Junior
on demand from KFI AM six forty. You know, everybody's affected by crime.
If you're a small business owner,that's all you think about all the
time. Am I gonna get wipedout? Guy's gonna break in tonight and
wipe me out, steal all mycrap? Maybe? Maybe, but I

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bet you think about it a lot. If you're a small business owner,
or you own a small restaurant.You think about it a lot. That's
all you think about when you gohome. Did I lock up that turned
the alarm on? Are the camerasworking? Then you have the cameras are
working while the cops get there.I'm not gonna have to do. I
know the guy that can come inand board this place up. When they
come in and wipe me out.You think about that on the way home.

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That's all you think about. Andthen a lot of people are dealing
with the homeless and the mentally unstable, the craziest. I guess can't say
that much anymore. But last night, at one o'clock in the morning,
I hear a woman screaming, likein the alley or right on the street,

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and she's screaming about the Burbank cops. She's like, Burbank cops,
you know they're they're they're raping me. And then they don't talk about it.
They won't let me talk about it. And I walked out there and
I whistled really loud. I go, hey, you gotta shut the flop
and she looks at me and shegoes, you racist, piece it whatever.

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I a racist, You're white.I'm white. But I think what
she saw what Arizona recently, Igot a tan. I think she may
have mistaken me for, you know, somebody else, because I look like
I have a Mediterranean tan. Maybeshe thought I was Italian or Eastern European.

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Oh yeah, yeah, I cansee that. Yeah, I got,
I got. I swear to God, Bellio, Angel Angel, I'm
gonna come down there and tear yourmother's insurance papers up. Miss with her
elbow, Yes, that tennis elbow, you know. Angel. Angel texts
me earlier today and she says,hey, Channel seven's but around my house

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or my business or whatever. Andthen she said something weird. She goes,
do you think they're looking for womenwith tennis elbow? Like? What?
Well, it would make sense.I mean, why would Channel seven
be down in Orange County looking forwomen who have tennis elbow? Why not?
Tim? Okay, that's a goodargument. That is a good argument.

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I tell you, your man,When you and Bellio get some sleep,
you're a sharp as they come.They were hovering over her house because
they heard she has tennis. Yeah, but you do have tennis elbow?
I do? Yeah? Is thatpainful every day? Yeah? It's getting
better though, I had. Ihad a treatment about a week and a
half ago, and I'm doing physicaltherapy and stuff and it's getting a lot

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better pretty quickly. That's the treatment, that platelet rich plasma PRP. Oh.
Yeah, go out of the countryto get that, I did.
Where'd you go, Querto Rica?Well I went to to Tanzania. No
way. Wow, that's convenient.Yeah, it was a quick trip.

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But you know, Tanzania is reallyknown for their medical advancements and sandals.
Uh, that's crazy. I hada relative real quickly who went to Tijuana
to get some dental work done,and so instead of twenty five thousand dollars
in this country, it was fourthousand in Tijuana. And she said,

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it's beautiful. It worked that,you know, they it looks great.
But they gave her some painkillers,and you know, because she was in
a lot of pain, sure,and coming over the border, the border
patrol said, what is that?So I just had work done. Its
prescription, my pain coach, andthey didn't give a red set. So

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like that's a schedule, see drug, we need to talk to you.
Oh and she was in trouble fora while, so you gotta be careful
with that kind of stuff. Yeah, you got to be very careful even
if you have a prescription coming outof Tijuana. I didn't know that.
I thought you could get a prescriptionin another country and come back with your
prescription. What are you supposed todo if you're in Canada and you get

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hurt, or in Mexico or inTanzania and you get hurt and you get
a prescription, you're supposed to throwit away before you get back to the
United States. Maybe you need aprescription from your country, maybe that's possible,
or the country that you're entering.Gotta be careful, gotta be careful.
No, but I had the PRPdone in someone Capistrano. Doctor sono

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oh wow and that hell tone.Oh my gosh, yes, I'm I
mean it's Without it, it wouldhave taken about a year to heal on
its own, and like doing nothingwith my right hand, which is my
dominant hand, and or my arm, and so I'm like, okay,
I'll just try the P and thatshortens the healing curb. It should be

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healed up in about two months.Wow, it's that quick. Huh?
How long does it last? Itheals it so it's not so you don't
have to keep it getting shots.No, no, that's nice. Well
you got some pain, Bellio thatwe don't know about. Well, yeah,
I do where my knees and myshoulder? Oh, just asking,

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all right? And what is pr P. It's a platelet rich plasma.
So they take they extract your blood, they spin it to get all
the platelets out, and then theyinject it back into the spot that needs
the extra healing. It's like dopingthat the cyclists do. Oh I see,
Okay, my mom tried to dothat, but they said she had

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platelet broke plasma. Any cash,but that's that. But that's gonna that's
gonna make you better. And Ithink that's you know what Bellio could use
for her bad knees thanks to lookslike she's played in the NHL. These

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big water melons. I don't evenknow why I say anything to eat?
Yeah, why I opened myself up. I was asking for a friend.
Hey. By the way, butthose bad knees that the Kings call you,
Kings are usually looking for guy withtwo bad knees. Why to be
a goalie, not so much agoalie just then every day average player.

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But you really got bad knees.Hum, Bellium, Yeah, that's horrible.
Well being on your feet your wholelife. Everybody's. Most people are
on their feet, those dang humanson their feet all in time or skiing.
Didn't you get hurt skiing me?Or Bellio? Angel you take this
one? Did you get hi?Never? Yeah? I mean I've broken

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ribs and stuff skiing, but neverlike my arms or legs or anything.
Okay, all right, Fello youOh that's right, Bellio. You don't
ski anymore. You got married.I got to stop pretending that I like
to ski. Bellio's uh uh boyfriendthen fiance. Big skiers, So Fellio,

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you know, got the outfit,got the skis, got the polls.
I love skiing. Oh yeah,I've been ski my home. I'm
from Colorado. I was born onskis. Yeah. My mom's got my
old skis, my old wooden skis, you know, on the wall when
when I was a kid man.It's great. I'm I'm all about what's
a good Daffy's what's good? Headskis? Head they make ski still?

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Yeah, head Skia, Hey,but head skis don't they make head skis?
Had a brand, Yeah, it'sa big brand. Isn't it.
Yeah, But but then she getsmarried and skis go back. Yeah,
John got uh brooked? What rooked? Rooked? I saw her. I

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was driving behind her after she gotmarried, and I saw her chuck the
skis out of the window when she'sdriving down the freeway. She got married
in ski boots. Yeah, tryingto a b s. Yeah, cookkunk
cook clunk cook clunk, good clunk, good clunk. Yeah. I do,
Now I don't. I did.You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on

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demand from KF I A M sixforty on a hill? What a guy?
It calls to me? What asong to be? Where little cable
cause cime halfway to the stars.Good morning, may it's childey, I

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can't fight am at six forty youmay recognize that voice. Our next guy,
our next guest is the singer ladiesand gentlemen, Tony Bennett. How
are you, sir? The oldGreek fanstrmer I call him Tony Bennett.
Taki oh Man. That is JohnPapadeka is the father of Petros Papadakas and

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Buddy I was. You were fortunate. You were very nice to invite me
to your show about a year ago, maybe six months ago. I have
lost track of time, and you'rehaving another one. And I had a
blasted that show. He was soldout. He was probably about one hundred
and fifty two hundred people there.Everybody enjoyed it, and I'm glad you're
doing another one. Man, I'mthrilled too. I'm you know. It

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brings me. It challenges every fiberI have, but it brings me to
life. Yes, yes it does. By the way, you've been around
for a long time. You've hada restaurant. Did you know Jerry West?
You're an athlete. Did you evermeet him? I knew Jerry West
and I admired him. They weremy first love. He and Elgin Baylor
and that whole crew, that oldLaker. They could never get over the

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hump with the Celtics, you know. Yeah, and it broke my heart.
But boy, what thrills watching himtry to try to do it.
Ah, it was the best man. Hey, So, John Papaagas,
your new album's coming out as well, Is that right? Yes, it's
out. It's called when it's availableon all the streaming services. And each
this is my fourth album, andeach album has the title track of each

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album is an original song and thisis no different. The one original song
on this album is when lou ForestJerry wrote the music and I wrote the
lyrics, and it's very reflective song. You know some if I am man
of age about what you learn inrelationships? Do most people compare you to

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Tony Bennett or to Frank Sinatra.They compare me to Tony Bennett Bennett in
tonin and in Delivery. Yeah,I've always understood what he was expressing.
The way he uses his voice isso familiar to me, and you know,
it's endearing to me because I understandthe emotional input in it. Sure,

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when you hear music, when youhear sounds, it does something to
you and it it can be abuilding block for you because you want to
share it. And when you shareit, you know you're you're filling the
need that it's expressing. Hey,was it? Is it true again?

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John Papadag's with us. He's goingto be doing a live show on June
nineteenth at the Catalina Club. Youcan get your ticket to that. It's
going to be eight thirty pm.Petro said, you're working on a show.
I left my heart in San Pedrowell, I do a lot of
stuff in San Pedro. Yeah.People lass thing all the time, and

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you know, some of it charitable, which suits me fine, because you
have to understand. For forty years, you know, I roamed around the
restaurant dancing and singing and would doit at the drop of a hat.
It was all very spontaneous. Iremember Beverly Sills used to come in and
the first time she came in,she was impressed with our you know,

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little stick what we were doing.She complimented me. I looked at her.
I put my hand out, Isaid, Beverly. She stood up
and sang an Aria. Wow.Every time she came in she would sing
an aria you know when she wastraveling out here to perform we're going back
thirty forty years. Yeah, andyou know that's the kind of place it

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was. It was a place tothat it was open to sharing Rod style.
You're ended up one night on topof a table telling a joke.
John. I know that restaurant wasvery successful. It was around a long
time. You finally, uh,you know, hung up. You know,
your pots and pants. But Iimagine people ask you all the time
if you're going to reopen. Theydo the building the building available now to

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really? Oh yeah, did hedesire to do that? Well? Ahwas?
It's pulling at me, but youknow I have my limitations and uh,
it's all everything I can do tothrow the music out there right now,
right, But do you still havethe recipes for everything? Of course
in my secret file. You gotto get the grand kids. You gotta

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get Petros's kids to start. Theyhad original recipes. We were the most
highly honored Greek restaurant in American dininghisty. I heard that that was true.
Petros had a very innovative, innovativecuisine for our time, and we
did things with lamb, veal,seafood, chicken, and beef that somebody
had ever done for, you know, in interpreting great food. And a

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lot of celebrities would drive from Hollywoodto Beverly Hills down to the store.
But it was for the combination,it was for something that's a lost art.
It was for hospitality. Those whocame became friends, and they were
all very good. You know,Elliott goul still comes to my concerts.

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Oh okay, yeah, I sawlast concert y had I saw them there?
Yeah? The very best, thevery best musicians play with us.
Let me tell you who we haveplaying with us next Wednesday night. Lou
Forrest Aeriet, great composer and tremendouspiano player. He's the musical director and
he's gathered a top band. KyPalmer on trumpet, Bruce Babad on alto

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sacks, Keith Bishop on tenor,Ryan Dave Ryan the Lion on trombone,
Chris Colangelo on base. Is hetalented, he's on base. He's tremendous.
He and the drummer, Jimmy Brandleyplay all over the world. They're
top guys, and I record withhim. They're my rhythm section, my
main rhythm section, and all myfour albums. Oh that's great, But

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I really appreciate you coming on.We're going to keep promoting it until June
nineteenth, eight thirty pm June nineteenthat the Catalina Club, which is at
sixty seven to twenty five Sunset Boulevard. It's the new Catalina Club, or
newer, I should say. ButI really appreciate, really, I appreciate
coming on and maybe we'll see youdown there on the nineteenth. We would

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love to see you. Please theKing at Catalina jazz Club dot com Catalina
Jazz Club dot com to get yourticket now, thank you, sir,
all right, thank you. John, Papa Dagas Petros Papadagas's dad. He's
going to be there on June nineteenth, Big celebration. June ninetheenth, eight

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thirty pm. Go to Catalina JazzClub dot com. Catalina Jazz Club dot
com. You're listening to Tim ConwayJunior on demand from KFI AM six forty.
All right, let's talk about women'ssports bar. Here's a women's sports
bar out there, women only.Sounds like something I'd invest in. Let's

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find out if it's any good.It is happening, it's going to be
crazy. Jax Diener and Emmy Eddieare holding the opening sign to their dream
watch me a sports bar dedicated towomen's sports, the first of it's kind
in the statesmen's sports. We lovethe Dodgers. We are NFL fans,
so we will have that on too, but most of the TVs will have

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women's sports. The married couple arehuge sports fans and some opportunity. Yeah,
this is something that I would haveinvested in. How to put a
you know, a boatload of moneyin you know, gotten a drunk too
high? Oh yeah, I writeyour check. And then my wife's like,
we're doing what with the growing marketof women's centric sports like the Angel

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City Football Club and the La Sparksare huge fan base growing around w NBA
rookie Kaitlin Clark. It's giant rightnow. I mean, this has been
going on for many, many years, bubbling under the surface, and now
we're finally getting our day. Themore well it's bubbling where bubbling under the
surface. Okay, Well look,I'm not a business owner, never open

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a business my life. But youyou want the bubbling to be on top,
you know you want you do wantthe bubbling to be buried. You
want the bubble on top, bubblingunder the surface, and now you want
it on top of the surface.You want it radical bubbles on top of
the surface. And now we're finallygetting our day. The more we see

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the need for it, the morewe realize that there's there's no place for
us to go, just very industrial. That's why there in this place transforming
this former Mexican restaurant off pch andWall Beach. Oh I don't know,
I'd keep it Mexican food. Idon't know, I don't know, or
keep selling Mexican food and maybe withthe women and sports forming this former Mexican

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restaurant off pch and Wall Beach intoa screen filled room that will highlight women
athletes at their best, and theyhope build a community that brings all fens
together. All right, it's along beach. There's a big crew in
Long Beach that likes this, andI hope it's successful, right the how
or hope it fails. Hope it'ssuccessful. We're filling stadiums, we're filling
arenas, and they hope the seatsin this bar will be filled up as

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well. So far, about ahalf a dozen women's sports bars across the
country. Now is it just forwomen? Can guys go? I don't
know, can guys? I heardthat, you know the best way to
meet women is go to a women'smarch. Is the best way to meet
women go to a women's sports bar? Maybe that's possible. I thought's all
you want to do is medium?Yeah? Maybe you you know, well,

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maybe you can do more than medium. Oh maybe you can watch sports
with them have opened up, includingthe Sports Bra over in Portland. Organ.
Yeah, that's a great name fora bar, sports bra, the
sports bras sports bra, Yeah,because it's the sports it's a sports bar,
but they reverse the A and ther oh and now it's a sports
bra sports bra over in Portland,Organ and they've seen success, bringing in

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a million dollars in its first eightmonths. Wow, I gotta get in
on this sports bra or sports Idon't know what i'd name it. You
know, ding dogs, Jack Jackson, Emmy hope for that same kind of
success here in Long Beach when theyopen up to show the Olympics in July,

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a dream come true, they hopewill spark a boom. I guess
you can show the Olympics. It'son public TV and your bar. I
guess she can do that. Ithink that it's exactly what California needs.
I think we are going to bethe first. I think there will be
many more. I think she's right. I like this lady taking a shot
at something that you know may notwork, but she's doing something different,

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so you got to give her around of applause. I think that it's
exactly what California needs. Ah right, I don't know if we need it.
Maybe we want it. Maybe there'san audience for it. I hope
there is. We'll keep talking aboutit, we'll keep celebrating it. For
I think we are going to bethe first. I think there will be
many more. They are certainly hopingfor more competition. It will be more

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women's spaces for women's sports, andthey know what the fan base growing.
It looks like we'll need it.Yeah, what do you say at the
end. It looks like we'll needit. Huh. It looks like we'll
need it. Well, it lookslike we'll need it. All right,

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let's side about that. Oh,we gotta were gonna take a break.
Okay, we'll take a break,and then we'll come back and give you
more news. We have a thirtiethanniversary here that I couldn't believe. Somebody
sent me something this morning, thethirtieth anniversary of Nicole Brown Simpson. I
cannot believe that that happened thirty yearsago today. I thought I was shocked

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that that was thirty years ago,But it's right. Nineteen ninety four.
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