Hour 2 | Preparing For The Silver Tsunami @ConwayShow @MarkTLive

Tim’s daughter took her driving test today and passed! // Jon Stewart tears up honoring his late dog Dipper on The Daily Show: 'In a world of good boys, he was the best.' // What to Know About Retirement as Baby Boomers Set to Turn 65

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 don't know if you got the the
word that I was going to belate today. Didn't want to tell you.
Well, first she said you're gonnabe late, Sharon did and then
she said no, he said,she's gonna be out of time. Now.
I was going to be late becauseI my daughter wanted to get her

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license, and in traditional can't Conwayfamily, we don't hit it out of
the park on the first or secondtime sometimes. So you're saying the exam
didn't go well the first time.It was the driving part exam, okay,
And so I said to her,I said, make an appointment,
and I'm going to I'm gonna getyou your license, and she goes,

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how are you gonna do that?I said, I'll get you list.
I said, let's go out.We went to the DMV A thousand Oaks.
So two saturdays ago, we driveout there and I and she knows
the course that they take you throughin the neighborhood to get your license.
I said, okay, we're gonnado that. We do it. She
has a couple of problems. Wedo it again. A couple problems,

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we do it again, and Isaid, this is gonna go on.
This is gonna We're gonna do alot of these, you know. Then
we're gonna have a pizza, we'regonna have ice cream. We're gonna go
home. And we go home.And then the next week and I go,
hey, we're going to do thatagain, and she goes, well,
we did it last weekend. Isaid, we're going again. We're
going out there again. Drive fromBurbank Thousand Oaks. It's you know,
thirty five months. And we didit again and again and again and again.

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And she we went out there today, her appointments at one twenty and
and I'm I don't know why I'mstill nervous at a DMV. I've been
dealing with DMVs my whole life.I have no reason to be nervous.
Yet I am nervous still at aDMV. I go back to when I
got my license. Every time Iwalk in there. Sure, I don't

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know what it is. Maybe it'sit's a government agency. Well, they
can take away a big part ofyour freedom, which you're driving over that's
right, car. Yeah, Andso I so I we go out there
and then and the guy I thinkit was Neil Savadra's brother. He looked
like Neil. His name was Michael. Does Neil have a brother named Michael?
Michael Savedra guy looked exactly Neil.The guy couldn't have been nicer,
beautiful man. Michael who deals withthe DMV and thousand Oaks. Everyone's listening,

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call Michael and say thank you,uh for Sophia. She came in
there at one twenty, had hertest. Then the guy who gets in
the car with her, a guynamed Jorge. George, he gets in
the car does the thing, andI'm I'm sweating bullets because this is,
uh, you know, sweet thing. I wanted to get her her license.

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I told her I was going toget her license, and I didn't
want to go back on my word. And so she pulls into the space
after the driving test, she opensthe door and I see a smile.
We got it, and I flipout. I was happier than she was.
I'm like, yes, so wegot it, and she goes my,
I got it, we got it, we got it, we got

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the ones. That's great. Andshe's now a licensed driver in the state
of California. That's really that's abig deal for me, A big deal
for me. No, and it'ssomething that she really wanted to Yes.
Yes, they want that freedom,you know, they want to get out
there and drive around. It opensa lot of doors. I failed the

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driver's test, Sophia, also thefirst time. And I'll tell you exactly
what happened, and you will tellme, because you're a clear headed,
now new driver, that I wasright and they were wrong. And here's
what he was. Wait a minute, wait a minute, you did something
to fail and you were right.I was right. They failed me,
and how they failed me was reallybrutal. It was like getting pulled like

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a picture, getting pulled out ofthe ball game. So you know,
I literally I don't think I've toldthis story ever to anybody, but this
is really you know, as yousay, you want, you know,
when you're sixteen, you really wantto get that license. So go down
there past the written exam, getin the car with this guy who takes
me on a long I mean itwas we were in the car ten or

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fifteen minutes. Because somebody commented onthe way back because of this thing,
I'm gonna get about to get toWow, he had you in the car
much longer than you would have normallybe did you do reach over? So
maybe he just liked men. Neverthought of that. But as I'm driving,
he's doing this thing and like verydramatic fashion, he's like ticking off
stuff like you know what I mean, Like I don't think I know that's

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true. But he only did likethree of them. But when he did,
he really with a flourish, likechecking something. So he said,
I turn left at this next light. Now this is Washington, DC.
It's a very congested Yeah. Sothere's no turn signal or anything, I
meaning, there's no arrow. SoI ease into the intersection because there's so
much traffic coming the other direction,and so I have to wait for that

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traffic to stop for me to turnleft. So I wait, I wait,
the traffic keeps coming. The lightturns yellow, right, and the
traffic keeps coming, and now thelight turns red and the traffic now stopp
and I complete the turn right.And he said, that's it. Drive
back to the office. That's alegal move. I said, what,

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Why why are we driving back tothe office. He said, you failed.
I said why? He said,because you just you just turned left
on a red light, oh,I said, But I said, I
there's no way I could turn therewas the traffic was coming in the direction.
He said. I don't want tohear anything more. Just I was
like, Wow, what a totalyou know, short go So you're right.

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I was devastated too, because Iwas just like Sophia, I really
wanted it. So my dad wasthere, I think, and complained to
an administrator. And usually my daddidn't do that, like he doesn't.
He didn't really intercede a lot,which I thought actually was not a good
thing, but all right, butanyway, but he did. He really
felt I think in this case thatI really had been screwed, and he

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went up to like I remember,a couple of levels up administrator who then
set us another date to come back. So essentially I don't know, and
then I passed, no problem.But it's truly I was decimated when I
didn't pass when this guy, especiallybecause this guy, what I thought,
just screwed me. I mean,you're just being in junk. Now.
I've told this story a million timeson the air, so I'm not going

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to bore everybody. But I failedmy first time in you know nineteen seventy
nine. You can do the math. And I it was a Vaney's DMV.
I get in the car, youknow, signal break lights, you
know lights on, you said,you know, they got to examine the
car before they get him. Guygets him. And I didn't know this.

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I grew up in the valley andI should have known this, but
I didn't, or I forgot.But when you hit Chandler, Chandler was
raised up off of the other streetsbecause there's a train track on top of
it. I didn't know that,right. So Chandler is literally five four
or five maybe even six feet sometimesabove the rest of the roads. And
there's a hill there and you getthat thing in your stomach when you go

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over. So I hit it doingthirty five forty and I get air this
car. This is during this isduring the exam. This is during the
driving test. And I look overto him and I see his hair fly
up, his pencil and his andhis clipboard all are mid air. They're

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like, you know, it's likewe're in space, you know, we're
in a spaceship. And I lookover. His ass is off the seat,
his clipboard, the pencil, whichis on a string. It's flying
through the air and we just baboom ba bang ba boom. You know,
we'd land dukes of hazards. Yeah, it's felt like good old boy,
that's right. Yeah. And Ifelt like like we were suspended in
air for a while, like thereshould have been a voiceover. These two

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guys are gonna make it back tothe mb wintles and we land and kaboom
my bang bang, and I lookall my go I just failed, right,
And he says, I can't reallytell you. He was sweating,
he couldn't wait to get back,and he said, and I said,
you can tell me. He goes, yeah, yeah, you didn't do

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well. And I took him backand dropped him off, and he saw
my mom and parking lot and hesaid to her, he says, that
kid needs six more months of heavytraining every day before he comes back here
to get his license. I wentback two days later, my dad,
Yeah, nailed it and nailed it, got a ninety eight car, and
then three days after that totaled bymom's car. So maybe that guy was

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right. You're listening to Tim ConwayJunior on demand from KFI AM six forty
Mark Thompson is here. Come on, Tim and Steve Garvey is going to
be on your show. Yeah that'sright, Mark Thompson. Yeah, thank
you very much. It'll be aThursday morning at ten after eleven Pacific time.
Mike, get another million views.Yeah, we did a million views

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in the last month. That's abig deal. It is, you know,
as you know, it's a littlething. I haven't bought any bots
or done any kind of special shit. I know. It's there's a very
famous personality who is on iHeart right, and he's massive, this guy,

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thank you, he's not you differentmassive personality, but he's got so many
followers that I always wonder if they'refake. Yeah they are? They bottish?
You know they bought they Are theyfake? Yeah, well let's ask
him. Is John out there?Are they real? So I am here

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to tell you you can't cheat withthe views in the YouTube universe, and
so I'm really verd. I didn'tknow that proud of the fact that you
can't like buy some kind of Yeah, I did not know that. Yeah,
they were. In fact, they'reso good about watching everything that they
will actually downgrade you in the theway your show comes up and it's all

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a question of how often your showis served. And I'm learning more about
YouTube and I still don't know awhole ton. But anyway, you can't
try to play the game otherwise you'llbe screwed. You know, two days
ago, I'm sorry over the weekend, I guess I was. Two days
ago, Bob Costas said that ifyou vote for Donald Trump, you're in

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a cult. And I said tomy wife, I said, I think
he's aging out of importance because Iwent to YouTube and that clip was on
YouTube for four days and only hadthirteen thousand views. My wife's response,
Tim, I think you're aging outof how you get your social media.

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That's a great comeback, that isthat's a great comeback. It's very tough.
That's a great comeback, very verygood. You know. She said
there are things like TikTok, Instagram, even Facebook, Tim that you know
that probably have that clip more thanYouTube, right, Although, what a
great comeback. To be fair toyou, yeah, so she's very funny.

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But to you, fair to you, that YouTube is a I think
it's the number two Internet search plays. In other words, people go to
and then they just go to YouTube. Oh I should have come back with
that. Yeah, for the nexttime. That is wild? All right?
Do we have time to play this? I think we do. Have
you seen John Stewart talk about hisdog? Have not? Oh, it's

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gonna be a heartbreak. It's gonnabe tough for you. Okay, it's
gonna be tough for listeners. Crozier. Have you seen it John Stewart talking
about okay steps? Have you seenit? I have not. What about
the Angel Martinez? Is she withus? Have you heard him talk about
his dog? No? Is itgoing to make me cry? Yes?

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Keiky is Keky in there? Haveyou heard John Stewart talk about his dog?
Yes? I have? Oh?Is after it heartwarming? A woman
after my own heart? A womanlike me is a news junkie, right,
you just love the news, can'tget enough? Yes? And then
I don't know what these other guysare doing. That's a Davenbusters or something.
All right, John started talking abouthis dog. It is tough to

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listen to a bit of a story. About twelve years ago, maybe thirteen
years ago, my kids wanted toraise a little money for an animal shelter
down in New York City. It'san incredible animal haven. Is the name
of it. They do incredible work. It's a no kill shelter for cats
and dogs, and so yeah,please, they're amazing. So they were

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little. I mean, it's sixseven years old. So we baked a
couple of cupcakes and rolled on downto Animal Haven and set up a little
table right outside and put the cupcakesout, and as a little extra incentive,
they brought out this one ish yearold brindle pitbull who hit pyt car

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in Brooklyn and lost his right leg. I thought I'd get further. So
it was a perfect idea. Theyput the dog in my lap and we

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left that day feeling really good thatwe'd helped this great organization. And we
also left with this this oneish yearold and pitbull. We called him Tipper,
and in a world of good boys, he was the best. He

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used to come to the Daily Showevery day. He was part of the
Og Daily Show Dog crew, ParkerQualle, Dipper Riot, they were.
They were the ogs in the officeand they were Dipper would wait we'd comentaed
the show and Dipper would wait forme to be done. And he met

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actors and authors and presidents and kings, and he did he did what the
Taliban could not do, which isput a scare into Malala yousaft sign.
Oh dear you Dipper pestorway yesterday hewas ready, he was tired, but

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I wasn't. And the family wewere all together, thank goodness, we
were all with him. But boy, I wish for you one day you
find that dog, that one dog. It's just it's the best. Here's

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your cominess up. Who's good togo to? Good? You? Who's
good? You go to? WAnd that's tough to listen to him?
Wow, Kyle mighty, everybody's Ithink a lot of people have had that

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dog, right, you know,it's real tough to listen to that man.
Unbelievable, unbelievable. You're listening toTim Conway. Jun you're on de
Maya from kf I am six forty. Mark Thompson's here. He has his
own show on YouTube. Go checkit out. Thank you Mark Thompson Show
dot com. But Mark Thompson Show, you subscribe, you never have to

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watch just apparently if you have subscriptions. It's a good thing. It's free,
by the way, all right,and that's why it's doing so well.
It's free. And that's amazing.How much I coverage. How many
people have sent me that video ofJohn Stewart talking about his dog and how
that's being passed around and nobody,nobody, nobody who sent this to me

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said I hate his politics, butlisten to this John Stewart. It's all
politics gets thrown up, thrown outso quickly when a guy talks about his
dog. Yeah, I just Ithink there's a purity to it. It's
funny. Courtney sign up to me. Also during I guess you channed it
several hours ago. Oh you justdidn't check your email. I just didn't
look at it or your texts.Yeah, yeah, I've gone. I

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went to pick up my daughter daybecause we're gonna it was gonna take her
out to try to get her license, and I didn't have my my cell
phone with me, and and Idebated whether to go home and get it
before I drove out a thousand oaksor not. I didn't care either way.
Oh that's cool. And people sendme all the time. They send
me videos on TikTok, or theysend me videos on Instagram, and we

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have our show page. But Idon't have a personal Instagram. I don't
have a personal TikTok. I doon I have a Facebook. I don't
know who the password is though,And so when I go to open up
the video and it's TikTok or Instagram, it says you want to join,
And I said, noah, Idon't really want to join, but can
I see the video anyway? Andthey say no, So I don't get
to see those videos. It wouldbe very easy to join and watch all

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those videos. So I always sendthem back saying, oh, I'm sorry,
I'm not on TikTok or Instagram,right they and they are like,
you know, what did you getthis text in nineteen seventy eight? What
year did you get this text?But somebody, this is a true story.
Somebody about two years ago. Theysaid, hey, I send you

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a friend request on Facebook and youdidn't respond. And I said, oh
okay, I said, did yousend it after August of twenty fourteen?
I guess yeah. It sounded likean hour ago. So I haven't got
it. Sorry, I just Ihave not been up on my page.

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Yeah I should be. We've gota show page the belly or runge,
which is great, right, Actually, you guys crush it in social but
I don't know what the advantages ofme being on Facebook at home or Instagram
or TikTok. I don't know whatthe advantages are. So I met a
pretty high profile person who in governmenta few years ago, and I said,
are you on it? He madesome comment made it seem like he

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must be on social media somehow.I said, you have a Twitter accind
said, I'm not. You shouldI lurk. You can't actually see me,
but I monitor it all, butI don't actually post anything. That's
a great I lurk. That wasreally clever. I lerned. All right,
have you heard about the silver tsunami? I am not, no,

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not until you just mentioned a fewminutes ago. All right, the silver
tsunami. We have a ton ofbaby boomers who are going to retire,
and that's going to mix it upwith a lot of people. Oh is
it. It's gonna there be alot of benefits coming out of Washington.
Oh yeah, it's going to bea lot of RV purchases. It's silver
tsunami. Is good in the badof it? Yes, right, the
good and the bad. Let's findout more here. So called silver tsunami

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with a record number of people turningsixty five this year. So sixty five
though, but that is that reallyeven the retirement age. No, the
retirement age is moving up and upas more people keep working. This is
not your grandfather's gold watch sixty fiveretirement party. And you're not productive.
You don't work anymore. A lotof people have to work, a lot
of people want to work. We'reliving more healthy, right, we are

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living longer. So look, youmaybe, but I mean Carl Weathers just
died. That was like a wakeup calling me. He was seventy six,
Carl Weathers in great shape. Yeah, exactly, yes, So look,
you didn't. You shouldn't count onsocial Security to be the thing when
you turn sixty five to support you, because you want to wait as long
as possible to get that maybe seventy. If you wait till you're seventy to

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collect social Security, you'll get thebiggest check you can start collecting at sixty
two. But look, if youwait till seventy. So that is my
number one piece of advice. Okay, my number one piece of advice is
crack it when you can. It'ssixty two, buddy, I'm with you.
I'm with you. First of all, let's not take any advice from
somebody who's making twelve million dollars ayear. Maybe they've got some nests eggs

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that we don't. Yeah, youknow that's possible. But look, if
you wait till seventy, So thatis my number one piece of advice.
Yeah, I know it was seven. Yeah, you can wait till you're
one hundred and seventy. You canwait in your town car, out in
front of thirty Rock or wherever itis. I can't tell you how many
guys, you know, I knowwhere the Social Security building is in Burbank.
I can't tell you how many guyson their sixty fifth birthday are there

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at six am waiting for that firstcheck on number one piece of advice.
And then, of course, socialSecurity alone is not likely to support you
in the manner to which you areaccustomed. Right, right, If you
live in Connecticut on a farm withnineteen acres and eight thousand square feet,
so security may not be able toget you by our landscape bill alone won't

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be covered by social Security. Doesshe go back and listen to this,
like, how how out of touchhe is with the with the average viewer
of that show? I think tobe fair, you and I are particularly
cynical. It probably does land formost people. You think so. Probably
okay, But although I have tosay the waiting thing. It's hard to

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wait till you're seventy, but it'sfree money when you're six. I mean,
come on, get sixty two worthe best thing to do is is
to take the lottery payment in.No, give me all the money now,
I'll take them, give me allof it, every bit you can.
When Crozier, you got a bigstance on the lottery. Are you
a big money now guy? Orover time? What do you mean if

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we win five hundred million dollars inlottery we cash out? No, no,
we're not casting that out. Ahsee he's onto it now. That's
indefensible that position you think you thinkCrows is wrong? Yes, of course,
really yes, over twenty years toget that money delivered deal, I
just think it's a it's a mistake. Get as much money as you can
up front. No, but youget much less of it. You're losing
a lot of it. I getit. But you're you're getting a lot

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of it at once, and youcan put that money in action. How's
your sales saving going? Well,it's a total empathetical that will never happen.
You don't know that. Oh yes, I do. Well, then
how's it wrong if it'll never happen? Mark? Yeah, oh, okay,
right, I apologieing dog. That'sthe name of that argument. Very
well done, ding dog. Idon't know who won, right. So

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you need to be saving and savingearly. You think it's important to set
retirement goals kind of as you go. But I feel like there's a ton
of people who are like, uhoh, too late. I haven't hit
any goals at all. I'm justbarely making it. So time is your
superpower. The earlier you start saving, the easier it's going to be for
you to reach your tiracles. Right, Okay, I have When my daughter

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turned six years old, a familymember of mine said, hey, how
much do you have in her collegefund? I said, college fund?
She's six? I go, yeah, but it's six. You should have
certain amounts. Seven, you shouldhave a certain amount. Eight, nine,
you should have a certain amount.I said what I said, Yeah,
by the time they turn eighteen,you should have close to one hundred
thousand dollars saved for her college.I'm like, who do you think you're

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talking to? I go to thetrack every weekend. There's no college fund.
And then I got nervous and Istarted putting money away in a college
fund. But if I didn't havethat conversation, I still had zero.
Oh that's interesting, you know.So maybe some of these tips are good.
Yeah, maybe you need a familymember to say, hey, you
get a straighten out, You getit straighten out? All right, we'll
come back and play the rest ofthis. And what happens when there's a

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silver tsunami and we get millions andmillions, tens of millions of people turning
sixty five all at the same time. How's that going to affect the rest
of us? You're listening to TimConway Junior on demand from KFI AM six
forty. Baseball season around the corner. That's the beginning, you know,

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out here, it's just another day. But back back east with you and
Krozer that grew up in Washington,DC area. When baseball starts, that's
the beginning of the thaw and thesummer in the spring and the good time
that's right, springtime spring well reallywell, the spring brings spring based pollock
what we're talking about now. Butyou know that, yeah, it's the

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only sport that starts in the sameyear as it ends, you know,
like, oh wow, I neverthought of it. Any other sports,
you know, take the New Year'sand so I never noticed that. That's
right, very good, that's right. Are we have the silver tsunami?
The old folks or older people areretiring and it's going to cause some problems

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in this country because we're out ofmoney. So all the boomers are now
at retirement age, so they're gettingretirement checks. Yeah. Yeah, there's
gonna be nothing left for the kids. Sorry, gang, you're born too
late. That's the bottom line.So this is from Fidelity. They say,
at age thirty, you should haveone time your salary in a retirement
account. Okay, does anyone havethat? A one time your salary?

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So if your salary is fifty fivethousand dollars a year, should have fifty
five thousand in the bank and bythe time you're thirty. By the time
you're thirty, well I did nothave that, all right, I did.
Well, you're thirty, so Imay still be very pressed to come
up with that. Well, you'rethirty, So think about what your salary
is at age thirty. And that'show much you should have your reire retirement
account. Okay, in a retirementaccount, all right, something you can't
touch. No, I don't know. I don't know a lot of people

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would have that. I know some, but not a lot. No.
By fifty it should be six.This is where I start to freak Wait,
wait, wait what by fifty itshould be six. By fifty years
old, you should have six timesyour salary in a retirement account. Wow.
Okay, all right, let's sayyou're earning I don't know, one
hundred and ten thousand dollars a year, which is pretty good salary. So

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by age fifty, you should havesix hundred and sixty thousand dollars, not
in real estate investments, in aretirement account. That's a lot of money.
Who the hell do these people thinkthey're talking to? That's that's a
ton of money. Yeah, it'salmost too much. This is where I
start to freak out because I knowa lot of people can't and don't do

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this. By age sixty seven,it should be ten times. Now again
it depends. Okay, by agesixty seven, you should have ten times
in your example at one point onemillion. Yeah, by age sixty seven,
I ain't there No, and thatthat's not again, that's not in
real estate. It's not in cars. It's not in a you know,
baseball collection or a boat that youown or whatever. It's in a retirement

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account. That's wild by age sixtyseven, it should be ten times.
Now. Again, it depends onGreat Live, it depends out what.
Okay, I I probably shouldn't admitthis on the air, but I'm going
to. I don't have a retirementaccount. I just don't. But you
have money stashed away. I don'thave a four to oh one k.
Okay, well you have. Ihave a couple of bucks in a an

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account that I can get to ifI need money at the track. But
I don't have this from mid youthat old joke. You don't have that.
You say you don't have a millionone Oh, I've got that.
That's my gambling money. But II don't. I don't have a four
toh one k retirement account. I'mI'm planning on a social security and well,

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first of all, I'm planning onyou know, the way I eat
this. This thing is going toexplode. Now that's not true, But
I'm planning on social security and whateverkind of small pension I'll get from SAG.
But my SAG pension is going tobe like eight hundred dollars a month.
Well, you've got that Social SecurityOkay, that's that's two thousand dollars
a month. All right, Ican spend that in a weekend. Yeah,

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but your house is paid for,No, it's not. It will
be by then. I guarantee youit will. Wait you say, in
five years, my house will bepaid for? Guarantee you won? Okay,
Well you might have to. I'llwin that bet. Any day you've
made we'll get We'll have to,uh, mister Conway, will we'll sketch
this out maybe in our next session. But i'd suggest that you have the

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makings of being able to do itwithout any prop Okay, all right,
I hope you're right. Yeah,I really did you do it? How
much? Mony? I know it'sa line that'd be nice, but it's
every realist that if we're going tolive a long time, health care costing
retirement, right, Yeah, Iguess that what kills you, what stings
you at the end, is longterm care. When you know when your
body falls apart. And we've allbeen that, we've all seen our parents

(28:36):
go through that. My dad needshas a great long term care, but
it only kicks in and certain situations. But my mom is in pretty good
shape, and she because she's ingood shape, the help she needs because
they're now looking at assisted living situation, it's not sufficient. She has to
go through some assessment. It's allabout the assessment. They assess what kind

(29:00):
of So if you need a lotof help, you actually have better coverage
than really yeah, But if youdon't need a lot of help, then
you're sort of they are having topay full freight. Does your mom still
drive? Yes, she's ninety three. My mom dropped off the check.
She drove to the assistant living placeand dropped a lot to check yesterday.
When is she gonna be ninety five? Well, im is such a special

(29:22):
lady. She uh in may soshe so in two months she's ninety four
and she still drives. You arecursed. You're gonna live forever, buddy,
I got good geens. No,they don't drink and I do,
okay, And so I think that'sa huge differential. You know, there
was a whenever a local newscast doesa story on a guy that made it

(29:45):
to one hundred and ten. Theyalways have to go out and interview him,
and he's got, you know,a million candles on the cake.
And the one question the reporter alwayshas to ask the birthday boy, what's
the secret? How'd you get thereright? How'd you to one hundred and
ten? And I saw one acouple of years ago that was so classic
and so honest. Young lady,probably twenty two to twenty three reporter goes

(30:07):
out and asks this woman who hasjust turned one hundred and nine, what's
the secret. And she looked rightin the camera and she said, I'm
cursed. And you, the youngreporters, didn't understand what that meant.
She said, I'm sorry, whatdo you mean? She said? Some
of my kids have died of oldage, all my friends are dead,

(30:30):
all my relatives are dead, andI'm still sitting here in this chair and
my body's on fire every day,every hour of every day. And then
lady say, okay, let's packit up, wow, r out of
here. Thank you, Thank you, ma'am. That made it to me
on the six o'clock news, thatmade it to television, that was on
the news. That's great. I'mcursed. Everybody's dead that I know.

(30:52):
Everybody's dead. My grandmother lived forto ninety six and my grandfather lived to
one hundred. Why and my grandI used to call them, you know,
every week or so. And hername is Dorothy, and they called
her Dot. And so she pickup the phone first and she goes,
mark, don't live this long.Don't live this long. It's not good

(31:15):
to live this long. I really, and then heat pick up the phoney,
go dot quiet. Don't talk likethat. He was all positive all
the time. He's like you yeah, yeah, yeah, don't talk like
that anyway, keep it positive.Don't talk like that's so great. She's
like, don't ever live this long. She was not having it alight.

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