December 2, 2024 • 32 mins
Guest: Adam Schomer –Sellin Superman traces Darren Watt’s emotional journey after discovering his father’s lifelong secret—an obsession that left behind a legacy of over 300,000 comic books, including one of the rarest treasures in the comic world: a Superman #1 comic graded 7.0, valued at over $3.5 million. // 605 Freeway ramp closures set for every night this week between Cerrito // Retro X-Mas Trees, the Latest Trends for Christmas Tree Decorating s and Irwindale.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. When the
opening of Superman, you know when they said it's a bird,
it's a plane. No, it's Superman. But who is that
excited about a bird at the beginning?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It's a bird. Oh, we see birds all the time.
It's a man.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Oh hey, yeah, yeah, you're under something. All right, yeah
it's a plane. Oh, now you're under something. But let
me play this before before we talk to our next guest.
This is one of those unusual stories I've heard in
the last twenty five or thirty years. This guy was obsessed.
This father was obsessed with collecting comics to the point
where it killed his marriage, his relationship with his kids.
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He had a climate controlled storage in his basement. Nobody
was allowed to go into his basement but him, and
he collected thousands and thousands of comics, some of them
first issues, some of them worth millions of dollars. But
listen to this very carefully. I'm gonna play us for
it's about a minute and a half or so that
(01:09):
we're gonna talk to the director and the guy Adam,
who's in charge of putting this all together. It's called
selling Superman. But this is a legitimate story of a
guy who was obsessed to the point where it cost
him all his relationships because he all he did is
collect comic after comic after comic. He had thousands of
him again in a climate controlled atmosphere in his basement.
(01:32):
It cost him probably hundreds of thousands of dollars. Listen
to this is very, very interesting.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I was too busy raising my kiss to realize what
was happening.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Certain rooms of the house were off limits.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
I would go over and you'd see like thirty buckses
covered with a sheet and I was like that.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
He's like, it's nothing.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
We don't tell anybody about this.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
That was it for forty years.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I had to escape. I remember seeing a therapist and
I finally let it out. My husband has comic.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
My father was got the first solo issue of Superman
from nineteen thirty nine. It was locked away for decades.
We found out that was the second nicest copy of
that book on the planet. That book could easily go
for three to four million dollars. My father had aspers,
but not knowing it caused a lot of friction. It
seems like ultimate fixation and hoarding. He kept collecting and
needed more space and more space and more space.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You have no idea how oppressive he can be.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
He was constantly neurotic about the security of the collection.
We have each of them humidity controlled, climate control, multiple
layers of security. He would have thought that was cool.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
I'm sure his father loved him, but I don't know
if Darren truly filed it.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Nothing Darren did was ever good enough.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
He made life livable but not worth living. I divorced
said I don't want any part of them.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
If I wasn't around, there would be a big dumpster
outside and she would just tell them.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Wow, if you want to give me three and a
half million dollars for that comic, bye bye.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
There is a little bit of responsibility to make sure
some of this stuff was preserved. This stuff survived world wars, depressions,
cultural differences, old realizations, women's rights. Everything is reflected.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
In these stories.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
I want to work with people that want to be
involved in sharing it.
Speaker 7 (03:09):
We're going to.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Put so many of these books in the right hands,
people are going to lose their sh.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
What a great idea for a movie. And the guy
who put this all together. A guy named Adam Schumer
is with us. Adam, how you, sir.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
I'm doing great. Sim How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Oh man, I'm doing fantastic. Thanks for taking the time
to come on with us. How did you get involved
with this family?
Speaker 7 (03:36):
I saw a bird up in the sky.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
That a great line. It's a bird I wanted.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
And I followed the bird and it dropped me to
their house. It's always fun to hear how you how
people lead in you. I knew Darren in high school,
which makes it all the more weird because I've been
making documentaries fifteen years and we went to high school together.
And then one day he called me up. He's like,
you didn't know about this? And I didn't, And I
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knew his father didn't didn't know he had Asperger's, did
not know he was collecting comic books in the house.
And then he, you know, Darren dropped the bottle of
me like, this is what's going on? And the and
the Superman and that's really when the idea of selling
Superman hit And uh.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Where was this? Was this in the Midwest or is
this out here?
Speaker 8 (04:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Midwest. We grew up in Metro Detroit.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Area, okay, all right, all right, Metro Detroit. Well where
where about in Detroit?
Speaker 7 (04:31):
So the Birmingham Bloomfield area.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Okay, all right, Bloomfield.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
You my uh, my mom is from uh groziel And
and dear Born and you know, so I I have
a lot of you know family still as a matter
of fact, my family goes far enough back where you know,
my my grandfather embalmed people for a living. He owned
a funeral home and he embalmed Houdini. How crazy is that?
(04:57):
And he and typical of my uncle. He stole Houdini's
gold watch when he was embombed. And I saw it
as a kid, and nobody's seen it last thirty years.
It's just gone. But that thing has to be worth
thirty or forty million dollars now and it just disappeared, disappeared.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Let's find that, ye find that murder in the building,
you know type of thing.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, it's you know, selling Whodini's watch is the next one?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Wait, so you grew up in Detroit.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
This guy who was collecting comics, he must have had
thousands of the father.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Huh, three hundred thousand comics and then another seven hundred
thousand baseball cards million collectibles in total. And to be honest,
they weren't really actually in climate control there is. They
were just in boxes in the house. It was Darren who,
once the father passed, had to and the old house
was you know selling, moved it into like three shipping containers,
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then the climate control and security warehouse within a warehouse.
So Darren kind of took it to another level, whereas
his dad, you know, the the crazy level of secrecy
was absurd. I don't know how kids could keep that
secret before sure, to be honest.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, I mean, but but you would go to their
house as a kid, you never noticed anything on huh.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
I never did. I probably was there once because we're
I was a couple of years older. We played soccer together.
But so his one of the guys you'll meet and
that you meet is Brian, his best buddy. He's one
of the guys that knew because Brian was a total
comic book nerdd if you will, in a good way.
And Brian was always dying to know was in there,
and Darren of course was dying too because his father
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never sat and read the books of them. They they
didn't even share them. If you can imagine that.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Why did they end up selling I know there's a
couple of worth, you know, two three four million dollars.
Did they end up selling a lot of the collection.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
It's all in process. Yeah. Part of what we see
is how how they first even come out with it
and start telling people who they partner with. How do
you move these kind of books? Do you auction? Do
you work with dealers? And Darren really wanted to get
them in the right hand. So yeah, they've started to
sell a bunch. They're still selling a huge book does
sell in the film as well. And I won't give
away whether or not the Superman cells in the series.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
What did the father do for a living?
Speaker 9 (07:10):
He?
Speaker 7 (07:10):
I mean he was a lawyer. He graduated top of
his class at U of muh so, you.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Know, so he had some mod.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Yeah, even though he's a you know, upper middle class
and you know, had some businesses and things like that.
But it's you know, modest, right, But I mean, Birmingham's
a good neighborhood, right, we all went to good schools.
So part of what he did was gave free law
advice to one of the comic book stores and they
would trade law advice for for comics, so sometimes you
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just get a box of comics that you know. In
the episode four we talk about we find out how
we got ten of the Giant Size X Men, which
are now worth twenty five thousand each, but at the
time we're forty bucks each, and he probably could have
got two hundred of them.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
But the guy is fascinating ten. Hey, can you stay
with us?
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Okay, all right, Adam, is it show mer? Is that
how I'm pronouncing it right?
Speaker 7 (08:03):
You got it?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Okay, I'm show meers with us. He directed award winning, filmmaker,
award winning. He's done some ward winning films in the past,
but he has this brand new one now called Selling Superman.
And we'll come back. We'll ask him where we can
see it and more details. But this is fascinating. A
guy who a father was just collecting comic after comic
and now the collection is worth millions and millions, maybe
(08:24):
tens of millions of dollars, and the documentary is called
Selling Superman'll come back and talk to Adams more about this.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Adam Schumers with us. He is the director and creator
of Selling Superman. It is a story of a family
who the father was obsessed with collecting comics. He had
over three hundred thousand of them outside of Detroit, Michigan,
and his family never knew that he had so many
comics where it so much money until later on in life.
(08:59):
And now there's a documentary about it calling called Selling Superman,
and the creator of that, Adam Schumer, is with us.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Adam, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Have they been Obviously they they went and they got
him praised.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Is the entire collection appraised? And if so, for how much?
Do you know?
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Yeah, you can't. It's hard to appraise the whole thing.
So some of them you can send a CGC to
get graded. They put in a plastic slab this is
the number, this is the quality, and then you can
really appraise it. The rest it's hard to do that
with three hundred thousand of them. And it's just not
you know, costwise, but probably I would bet it's about
a twenty million dollars collection.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
And what is the most expensive one?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
It was the is the the Superman that's in one
of the best conditions maybe.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
In the world.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Yeah, the soup one Superman one is graded at a
seven point zero, and that's you know, one of the
insanely good quality. To think that book is one of
the top three quality books in the world is amazing.
So you have could go for three million, could go
for four million. Sometimes when you have a story around it,
things you know, become more valuable.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
You know, It's too bad that this guy never lived
long enough to see how crazy like comic Con was.
He would have been like the king of the dysfunctional
down there.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
Well, I don't think he would have gone that's the
big that's that's the level of dysfunction, or just his way,
you know, not the he He wasn't the most social
in that way. He liked to just hide him out
because he might have thought Comic Con would have been
you know, at the beginning of episode two and they're
in the car Brian and Darren, and Brian says, what
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would your dad think of what we're about to do,
which was go to comic Con and tell people about it,
And he said he would be rolling over in his grave.
He would be so upset at me for doing this
because he really didn't like anyone that he wanted to
be shot into a UFO with his books. It's really
what he wanted to do it. He never wanted to
sell them.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Where can people see selling Superman? Where's it available? Amazon?
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Yeah? Yeah, you can purchase it on Amazon, on Apple,
Google Play, the major major digital platforms.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Okay, Amazon. And is it it's a series or is
it a documentary?
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Four part series, four part series. Okay, four part I'm
gonna go check it. Sounds amazing. And what about his
baseball collection? Is that because that's easier to a praise, I.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
Think, yeah, they're getting into that more. Now we just
touch on it briefly in the series. You know, there's
plenty plenty of family portrait that on the ravels. When
you meet the ant in episode three, you're gonna go crazy.
But yeah, so the baseball cards they're doing now the
ant just a little spoiler alert. She collicks dolls. Okay,
so it kind of runs in the family. But she's amazing. Gosh,
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she's amazing.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
You know, I had a I would say a great
relationship with my dad, and I would have thrown it
all away. If he had three hundred thousand comics, I
would have made that trade pretty quick.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Really, Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Oh, yeah, well you and Darren would have a good
You guys would have a good because he would do
the opposite. He would throw He would throw the comics
in a way in an instant.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
No, I'm just kidding. I probably would as well.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I know, but but but it is amazing that a
guy can keep that kind of secret away from his
kids when his kids were probably interested in, you know,
in comics and you know kids do that. You know,
grown adults aren't into it as much as kids are.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Yeah, it's not like he kept They knew something was there.
They knew there was box of comics. They didn't know
what was in there. They weren't allowed to look. They
did know there was a Superman one because the Superman
was Darren's dad's guy and it's Darren's guy too, like
he really loved that that hero, but they weren't allowed
to talk about They didn't know the details. And that
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is so hard for a kid to keep secret. Like Bud,
he's like, my dad's got all these come there's no way.
So I don't know how what kind of discipline and
this guy had to be able to keep his kids
in line, But that is I can't it still blows
my mind that they kept it a family secret for
forty years. It's really amazing.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
And I saw in the in the trailer that they're
looking for not only people obviously to buy this a
lot of this stuff, but to maybe put it in
the hands of people who really love it. And he
you know, sort of lives on through their their love
of of you know, giving it to a real collector.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
Absolutely, because these are icons and these mean a lot
of nostalgia to people. There's a couple of characters, the
Hatchback Kid and his dad who we meet, and they
have the relationship that you and your father had, you know, close,
and they they do comic books together. So there kind
of lives a little vicariously through them and brings them
into the inner circle. So I love the people he
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brings in Eric the artist, Like I said, Linda and Linda,
and I.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Don't it that's right.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
And what about security though, I mean the security must
be it just ammens.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
Yeah, absolutely, warehouse within a warehouse, and then within that
there's shipping containers in each one. It locks upon locks
upon locks, and security. Yeah, it's it's pretty it's pretty cool.
And and within all that, they they still are pretty
open nowadays about now and then they'll let people come
in and see and see the collection. So he hasn't
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he hasn't really, E didn't have the bug his father had.
He's not so paranoid. I mean, if that wouldn't go
on vacations his dad, Oh is that right? Yeah? He
And that's why that didn't get any of it graded either.
He didn't have any of it praise because he thought
he'd go down to the grading company and someone was
just gonna swap it, or someone would see it in
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the parking a lot like you know, it got pretty
it got pretty, uh, it got pretty bad in the
later years.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
And also you know, if he lives in you know,
outside of you know Detroit, you know, Bloomington. Out there
in Bloomfield, that's not a great place to keep comics safe.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
A lot of.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Humidity, a lot of casualness when it comes to insulation,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
Yeah, there could have been alo I mean in one
of the rooms is like a half basement. It could
have been a flood at any time, right, So the
father was just rolling the dice if you ask me. Yeah,
I mean it is a miracle that they stayed in
the condition they did.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
We had an uncle in outside of Detroit, a place
called Grozel. I bet you know where Grozeel is. And
he built a house and he built the basement. When
the Detroit River was fairly low, it came back and
it flooded his basement and there was water in his
basement for thirty years. There's like four and a half
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feet of water in his basement for thirty years. And
you go down in this basement and you would hear
things swimming around.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
Oh my god. Yeah, that's great. I mean people in
California don't really appreciate basements, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, casual casual news in Detroit, a lot of casualties
going on. Yeah, but I really appreciate coming on selling Superman.
Go to Amazon and get it Google. Where else did
you say?
Speaker 7 (16:18):
Apple?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Ap Okay and and fantastic. I hope this thing is
huge for you. Please come back with your future projects
when I'm awfully nice to.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Have you on.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
Thanks been cool to be here, all.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Right, Thanks Adam Schomer with selling Superman Croche.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
I think you'd love that. You're like a comic guy. Absolutely.
I was a comic kid growing up.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
My dad was not the most supportive until he realized
how much value they actually had. So he when he
found out how much some of them were going for,
because it was just starting to hit that peak of
really good volume a Superman comics, specifically that Action Comics
number one, he asked me, what are your favorite comments?
Because every time he said he was going to be out,
he was like, at seven eleven he'd stopped by the
(16:59):
racking grap a couple.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
You know, I can't believe, you know, the Superman that
he was talking about, the the Superman number one, the comic.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah, it was great.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
It was great at a seven point zero and still
you know, three points below perfect is still at three
hundred and three point five million dollars.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
Yeah, you and what they used to grade them at
those levels, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, you know there's a little tiny one millimeter you
know of the edge has been just this, you know,
Nobney could see it, and it's you know, you take
nine points of it.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah, all right, want to come back.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
We have some freeways close, some free six oh five
ramp closures set for every night this week. When we
come back, we'll tell you where those are. They're going
to affect your drive if you're a night out like I.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
Am, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Evidently they found this woman missing from Maui. La PD
has a tractor down. Evidently she got to Los Angeles.
She missed her connecting flight on purpose, they're saying, and
then snuck in or wandered into Mexico. She's an adult,
(18:11):
she is over eighteen years old. She can travel how
she wants without people, you know, bothering her or trying
to find her. But this woman has done irreparable damage
to her family. Her poor father flies out here from
Maui looking for his beautiful daughter. And if you have
(18:33):
a daughter, she's always six years old to you, five
or six years old. Crozier will attest to that. She's
always your baby, always always. And if she's missing, you
drop everything. You drop your work, you drop your sleep,
you don't eat. All you do is look for That's
(18:55):
all you do. And he came to Los Angeles to
look for his daughter, and he couldn't take it. Probably
went three four five sleepless nights. Wasn't eating right, wasn't sleeping.
It was worried beyond you know, any imaginable thing you've
ever worried before about in your life, and he couldn't
(19:18):
take it and evidently jumped off a parking structure near
lax and killed himself. Now, this young lady's missing, this
Hannah Kobyashi, that's going to be on her conscience rest
for life, and it's going to make for a very
uncomfortable family reunion if that ever happens in the future.
(19:43):
And so we just heard from Jim McDonald, he's the
new chief of police. I see Alan Hamilton there as
well with lapd and so Krozier. What did you discover
that they that they found her, but they don't have
any legal means of grabbing or in bring her back.
She's not she wanted for anything. She's not a fugitive.
(20:04):
She's just living her life. And so the press conference,
the chief is urging the missing woman to contact the
family members immediately. We'll see if that happens or not.
But maybe you don't know the story. Maybe you're worried
about Thanksgiving in your family and you didn't pick up
(20:26):
on this story that was dominating the newscast here on
radio and television for the night for the last week
or so, but here's a little bit of a background
here and on what happened.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
And how we oh, sorry, that's something else here.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
It is then the search for a Maui woman who
vanished after failing to board a connecting flight at LAX
last month. We're learning LAPD Chief Jim McDonald told the
Police Commission that investigators determined Hanna Kobayashi intentionally missed that
second flight. He also says detectives are diligently trying to
locate her. In response, Kabayashi's sister and mother issued a
(21:06):
statement in a private Facebook group saying they were unaware
of the findings presented to the Commission. They believe she
did not intentionally miss or flight, but are optimistic the
LAPED is doing everything to find her.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah, the LAPD has tremendous amount of sources and resources
to find people. I don't know if you know this,
but everywhere you go, you're on video. Now that used
to be exclusive to Las Vegas. Go to Las Vegas,
you'd be on video, you know, four hundred times an hour.
Now it's everywhere. You walk into Walmart, Target, you walk
(21:39):
in here, Hell, there's a camera on me right now,
there's one two. There's two cameras on me right now.
There's a camera on Krozer. There's there's two cameras on
Steph Fush and Bellio. There's cameras everywhere. There's cameras in
the hallway up until the bathroom. That's where we've locked
it off where we don't take cameras in the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
But that's gonna happen. We have some other breaking news.
A shooting investigation in Torrance.
Speaker 10 (22:05):
Oh no, whatever took place here again. You can see
that car that appears to be in question with all
of the doors and the trunk open again. As they said,
A major investigation unfolding. Top Bress from Florence PD prisponding
out here reporting Live Fair seven. I'm Chris Christy, ABC seven.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
What is news man?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
A lot of breaking news, lots of news going on,
all right, So we'll keep you up on Hannah Kabaci
Kobaci and see if there's any more news on her. Also,
what's going on in Torrance. And like I promised you
when we come back, there are freeway closures set for
every night this week, and we'll tell you which freeway
(22:45):
and how they're going to affect you.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
If you're like me and you're up all night.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Some big news going on.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
There's some kind of police commotion shooting investigation in Torrance.
Will keep you up a date on that. Hannah Yoga
Shats what's her last name? They found her. She's been missing.
She's from Mauie. She told her parents she was going
to LA, then I'm to New York. She got off
the flight, buzzed around LA for a while, and then
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went to Mexico. Her dad came to look for got distraught,
couldn't find her, allegedly killed himself. Shelling go off a
parking structure lax. What a way to go. And they
have no legal means of bringing her back to the
United States. She's not wanted for anything. There's no wants
or warrants, no arrest record or anything. So she's an American.
(23:43):
She has that right to go wherever she wants. And
I don't know if she knows. But her dad came
looking for and is no longer with us. I don't
know how you get over that in life. I don't
think you do. So we'll have any updates on that
will have those for you. But that's a big news story.
(24:03):
LAPD put a lot of resources into that, a lot,
a lot of time and a lot of money for
a woman who is not evidently a not knee harm,
just not wanting to be where her parents wanted to be.
So that's a big story as well. Now the freeway
that's going to have closures, I'm sure angels all over this.
(24:27):
Closures on off and off ramps, often on ramps, on
ramps and off ramps.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Big deal. It's going on a warning from cal trends.
Speaker 11 (24:35):
Starting tonight, overnight construction work will shut down lanes and
ramps on the six to soh five freeway. It will
affect both sides of the freeway between Cerrutos and Irwindale.
Some closures could begin as early as eight o'clock each
night this week. This is part of a two hundred
and sixty million dollar project to rehabilitate the freeway from
Long Beach to the San Gabriel Valley. These closures are
separate from a fifty five hour shutdown on southbound six
(24:56):
oh five planned for this weekend.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Wait, that's this week?
Speaker 8 (25:00):
Angel?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Are you on top of that? Oh yeah, you know,
you know it.
Speaker 12 (25:04):
Oh yeah, so what up to three lanes? Let me
just clarify this, Okay, up to three lanes will be
closed along the six oh five northbound from Dilomo Boulevard
to the one oh five that starts. They'll start narrowing
down the drive at around eight o'clock tonight and then
but it's up to three lanes. There's more than three
(25:24):
lanes on that freeway, but it is a it is
a drastic closure, and it'll definitely put huge delays along
your drive. Now, other closures include all of the off
ramps in between there, because it's the right lanes that
are going to be off limits.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
And you know, it's also gonna be affected the six
oh five and you know where South Street South Street.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Do you remember that slogan that done? Yeah, that was
like dot com.
Speaker 12 (25:57):
That's right, that's right, all right, So so be careful
with that.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
And then there's a big closure this weekend.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Yeah, there's.
Speaker 12 (26:06):
Northbound lanes from the seven to ten to the five
are going to be off limits as well, and that's
going to happen over the weekend. Now, it's usually that's
usually when they shut down, like all of the lanes
is on the weekend, so yeah, good deal. But eight
o'clock that's when they start putting those lame restrictions up
(26:28):
and it's in effect until I believe five in the morning.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Okay, all right, we'll talk more about it leading up
till Friday when the big closure comes up.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Thank you, Angel Martinez. I went, I was going to.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Go out last night to get a Christmas tree, and
then I got too tired and I fell asleep. But
tonight I'm going to get one. And there is a
trend in these Christmas trees. What's going on when.
Speaker 13 (26:48):
It comes to turning the tree this Christmas? We're going
back to the nineties. What leading into a vintage five
this year? Like Kevin McAllister and home Alone.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah, can you come here and help me?
Speaker 13 (27:00):
Hashtag nostalgia seeing a one hundred percent increase in TikTok posts.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Between twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four. So far, My.
Speaker 11 (27:07):
Christmas pincher sport is looking very nineties nostalgia, and I
want to recreate this vibe, so I went.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
To the thrift store.
Speaker 13 (27:13):
Nostalgic Christmas and nineties Christmas are two of the top
trending aesthetics on TikTok this season, people.
Speaker 12 (27:18):
Are really looking for something that will give them a boost,
and sometimes we're reflecting back on times when life was simpler.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
That's right, the simple times. That's what the tree means.
The tree is just a simple, little tiny tree, smells great,
sits in your home. Most of the decorations on it
means something. You know, you bought one when you went
to Europe, or your mom gave you one, or's a
picture of a dog that no longer is in your life.
And that tree is sort of sums up your whole
(27:48):
life together with whoever you're with, and it's and every
ornament has a story.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
And I think that's it's cool to get a tree.
It helps us feel a lot better.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
What do you do, Krozier, You get a live tree
or do you go artificial?
Speaker 2 (28:02):
We have an artificial this year, but we're man.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
We had a cat that's just barely over a year
old and she has not gotten the hole stop chewing
on things.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Oh no, she'll climb up that tree too.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
She absolutely will climb up trees, making Christmas decorating very difficult.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
We're going to get a tree. I go to a
mom and pop place in Burbank. You may have heard
of it. The Depot family.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
The Depot family. Mister missus, Depot got a little shop.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah, it's at their home.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
And we go to their home, at their depot Depot's home,
that's right. Yeah, we pick one they're or we go
to a buddy of mine. What's his first name? Remember
his first name? But his last name is Low Low Edator.
Now we go there. I try to go to the
mom and pop ones, but they're always like one hundred
dollars more than Low's and I hate that. So I'm
(28:56):
only gonna have for two weeks or three weeks. But yeah, bellyo,
what do you do? Do you get a live tree?
You seem like a live gal.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
We I am a live gal? Are Okay? We go
to uh, what's your.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Friend's name again?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Home? The depots are the Lows, the depots the depots.
Speaker 12 (29:14):
But I also have an artificial like pencil tree and
then an artificial baby tree, so we do both.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah, we have an artificial tree in the front window,
and people think it's real and that's cool. They think,
you know, I've got a couple of bucks. We've got
two trees, but one is an artificial tree and that's uh,
that's it's sitting in the front window. It looks great,
you know, lights are on it, and people think we
got all kinds of dough. You're all decorated pretty much.
The interior of the house is almost one hundred percent right. Wow,
(29:41):
I gotta do the exterior of the house. I think
this weekend I'm cutting the clothes, though, I like to
do it right after Halloween.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Halloween. Wow, do you really? I'm a yeah, I detect
some judging. No, I'm all for that.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I like the information. I don't like the tone. Sorry,
and let the tone and all down. What do you angel?
You get a live tree or you would you dead inside?
Speaker 12 (30:05):
I'm all the way live?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Oh good?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (30:09):
Yeah. In fact, there's this place in San Juan Capistrano
called Pharmacus from from yeah far Marcus Farms, and it's
his family owned place. They grow Christmas trees there, wow,
and you can go pick out your tree. They also
have some that are shipped in from you know, woodsy areas.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yeah, we used to go with my family.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
My dad used to love going up to OHI or venturing,
cutting one down and then dragging you home.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
And God is it heavy?
Speaker 7 (30:34):
Man?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Man, you have no idea how heavy a real tree
is until you cut it down.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
How heavy it's like a couple hundred pounds. You know, Wow,
what do you do? Stepfoush? What do you do? You
get a tree? Or you say screw it?
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Well right now? No, but we used to do real
and then switch to artificial. That was basically how it
progressed for me anyway you mean in the same season. No,
just for yeah, it was always, uh, the real trees,
and then it's like, yeah, it's too too much, so
switched artificial, and it's kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
I like the smell of a real tree. We're gonna
go get one tonight and I can't wait. I love
the smell, I love the feel of setting it up,
I love watering it, and the whole vibe is just
so great.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
You're so festive. Well, I try to be. I try
to be, but you know, I threw my back out.
How'd you do that?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I buying a lot of pasta sauce. I don't like
talking about because it seems like I'm blowing my own horn.
But I'm buying a tremendous amount of pastas of.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Pasta sauce planning. I'm making a lot of pasta, a
lot of pasta. Yeah, over at the Pasta Thon that's tomorrow.
The Pasta Thon we'll see at the White House. We'll
go back and have more information on that.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
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Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. When the
opening of Superman, you know when they said it's a bird,
it's a plane. No, it's Superman. But who is that
excited about a bird at the beginning?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It's a bird. Oh, we see birds all the time.
It's a man.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Oh hey, yeah, yeah, you're under something. All right, yeah
it's a plane. Oh, now you're under something. But let
me play this before before we talk to our next guest.
This is one of those unusual stories I've heard in
the last twenty five or thirty years. This guy was obsessed.
This father was obsessed with collecting comics to the point
where it killed his marriage, his relationship with his kids.
(00:48):
He had a climate controlled storage in his basement. Nobody
was allowed to go into his basement but him, and
he collected thousands and thousands of comics, some of them
first issues, some of them worth millions of dollars. But
listen to this very carefully. I'm gonna play us for
it's about a minute and a half or so that
(01:09):
we're gonna talk to the director and the guy Adam,
who's in charge of putting this all together. It's called
selling Superman. But this is a legitimate story of a
guy who was obsessed to the point where it cost
him all his relationships because he all he did is
collect comic after comic after comic. He had thousands of
him again in a climate controlled atmosphere in his basement.
(01:32):
It cost him probably hundreds of thousands of dollars. Listen
to this is very, very interesting.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I was too busy raising my kiss to realize what
was happening.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Certain rooms of the house were off limits.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
I would go over and you'd see like thirty buckses
covered with a sheet and I was like that.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
He's like, it's nothing.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
We don't tell anybody about this.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
That was it for forty years.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I had to escape. I remember seeing a therapist and
I finally let it out. My husband has comic.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
My father was got the first solo issue of Superman
from nineteen thirty nine. It was locked away for decades.
We found out that was the second nicest copy of
that book on the planet. That book could easily go
for three to four million dollars. My father had aspers,
but not knowing it caused a lot of friction. It
seems like ultimate fixation and hoarding. He kept collecting and
needed more space and more space and more space.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You have no idea how oppressive he can be.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
He was constantly neurotic about the security of the collection.
We have each of them humidity controlled, climate control, multiple
layers of security. He would have thought that was cool.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
I'm sure his father loved him, but I don't know
if Darren truly filed it.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Nothing Darren did was ever good enough.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
He made life livable but not worth living. I divorced
said I don't want any part of them.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
If I wasn't around, there would be a big dumpster
outside and she would just tell them.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Wow, if you want to give me three and a
half million dollars for that comic, bye bye.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
There is a little bit of responsibility to make sure
some of this stuff was preserved. This stuff survived world wars, depressions,
cultural differences, old realizations, women's rights. Everything is reflected.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
In these stories.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
I want to work with people that want to be
involved in sharing it.
Speaker 7 (03:09):
We're going to.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Put so many of these books in the right hands,
people are going to lose their sh.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
What a great idea for a movie. And the guy
who put this all together. A guy named Adam Schumer
is with us. Adam, how you, sir.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
I'm doing great. Sim How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Oh man, I'm doing fantastic. Thanks for taking the time
to come on with us. How did you get involved
with this family?
Speaker 7 (03:36):
I saw a bird up in the sky.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
That a great line. It's a bird I wanted.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
And I followed the bird and it dropped me to
their house. It's always fun to hear how you how
people lead in you. I knew Darren in high school,
which makes it all the more weird because I've been
making documentaries fifteen years and we went to high school together.
And then one day he called me up. He's like,
you didn't know about this? And I didn't, And I
(04:04):
knew his father didn't didn't know he had Asperger's, did
not know he was collecting comic books in the house.
And then he, you know, Darren dropped the bottle of
me like, this is what's going on? And the and
the Superman and that's really when the idea of selling
Superman hit And uh.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Where was this? Was this in the Midwest or is
this out here?
Speaker 8 (04:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Midwest. We grew up in Metro Detroit.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Area, okay, all right, all right, Metro Detroit. Well where
where about in Detroit?
Speaker 7 (04:31):
So the Birmingham Bloomfield area.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Okay, all right, Bloomfield.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
You my uh, my mom is from uh groziel And
and dear Born and you know, so I I have
a lot of you know family still as a matter
of fact, my family goes far enough back where you know,
my my grandfather embalmed people for a living. He owned
a funeral home and he embalmed Houdini. How crazy is that?
(04:57):
And he and typical of my uncle. He stole Houdini's
gold watch when he was embombed. And I saw it
as a kid, and nobody's seen it last thirty years.
It's just gone. But that thing has to be worth
thirty or forty million dollars now and it just disappeared, disappeared.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Let's find that, ye find that murder in the building,
you know type of thing.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, it's you know, selling Whodini's watch is the next one?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Wait, so you grew up in Detroit.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
This guy who was collecting comics, he must have had
thousands of the father.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Huh, three hundred thousand comics and then another seven hundred
thousand baseball cards million collectibles in total. And to be honest,
they weren't really actually in climate control there is. They
were just in boxes in the house. It was Darren who,
once the father passed, had to and the old house
was you know selling, moved it into like three shipping containers,
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then the climate control and security warehouse within a warehouse.
So Darren kind of took it to another level, whereas
his dad, you know, the the crazy level of secrecy
was absurd. I don't know how kids could keep that
secret before sure, to be honest.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, I mean, but but you would go to their
house as a kid, you never noticed anything on huh.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
I never did. I probably was there once because we're
I was a couple of years older. We played soccer together.
But so his one of the guys you'll meet and
that you meet is Brian, his best buddy. He's one
of the guys that knew because Brian was a total
comic book nerdd if you will, in a good way.
And Brian was always dying to know was in there,
and Darren of course was dying too because his father
(06:32):
never sat and read the books of them. They they
didn't even share them. If you can imagine that.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Why did they end up selling I know there's a
couple of worth, you know, two three four million dollars.
Did they end up selling a lot of the collection.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
It's all in process. Yeah. Part of what we see
is how how they first even come out with it
and start telling people who they partner with. How do
you move these kind of books? Do you auction? Do
you work with dealers? And Darren really wanted to get
them in the right hand. So yeah, they've started to
sell a bunch. They're still selling a huge book does
sell in the film as well. And I won't give
away whether or not the Superman cells in the series.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
What did the father do for a living?
Speaker 9 (07:10):
He?
Speaker 7 (07:10):
I mean he was a lawyer. He graduated top of
his class at U of muh so, you.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Know, so he had some mod.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Yeah, even though he's a you know, upper middle class
and you know, had some businesses and things like that.
But it's you know, modest, right, But I mean, Birmingham's
a good neighborhood, right, we all went to good schools.
So part of what he did was gave free law
advice to one of the comic book stores and they
would trade law advice for for comics, so sometimes you
(07:38):
just get a box of comics that you know. In
the episode four we talk about we find out how
we got ten of the Giant Size X Men, which
are now worth twenty five thousand each, but at the
time we're forty bucks each, and he probably could have
got two hundred of them.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
But the guy is fascinating ten. Hey, can you stay
with us?
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Okay, all right, Adam, is it show mer? Is that
how I'm pronouncing it right?
Speaker 7 (08:03):
You got it?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Okay, I'm show meers with us. He directed award winning, filmmaker,
award winning. He's done some ward winning films in the past,
but he has this brand new one now called Selling Superman.
And we'll come back. We'll ask him where we can
see it and more details. But this is fascinating. A
guy who a father was just collecting comic after comic
and now the collection is worth millions and millions, maybe
(08:24):
tens of millions of dollars, and the documentary is called
Selling Superman'll come back and talk to Adams more about this.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Adam Schumers with us. He is the director and creator
of Selling Superman. It is a story of a family
who the father was obsessed with collecting comics. He had
over three hundred thousand of them outside of Detroit, Michigan,
and his family never knew that he had so many
comics where it so much money until later on in life.
(08:59):
And now there's a documentary about it calling called Selling Superman,
and the creator of that, Adam Schumer, is with us.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Adam, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Have they been Obviously they they went and they got
him praised.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Is the entire collection appraised? And if so, for how much?
Do you know?
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Yeah, you can't. It's hard to appraise the whole thing.
So some of them you can send a CGC to
get graded. They put in a plastic slab this is
the number, this is the quality, and then you can
really appraise it. The rest it's hard to do that
with three hundred thousand of them. And it's just not
you know, costwise, but probably I would bet it's about
a twenty million dollars collection.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
And what is the most expensive one?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
It was the is the the Superman that's in one
of the best conditions maybe.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
In the world.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Yeah, the soup one Superman one is graded at a
seven point zero, and that's you know, one of the
insanely good quality. To think that book is one of
the top three quality books in the world is amazing.
So you have could go for three million, could go
for four million. Sometimes when you have a story around it,
things you know, become more valuable.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
You know, It's too bad that this guy never lived
long enough to see how crazy like comic Con was.
He would have been like the king of the dysfunctional
down there.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
Well, I don't think he would have gone that's the
big that's that's the level of dysfunction, or just his way,
you know, not the he He wasn't the most social
in that way. He liked to just hide him out
because he might have thought Comic Con would have been
you know, at the beginning of episode two and they're
in the car Brian and Darren, and Brian says, what
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would your dad think of what we're about to do,
which was go to comic Con and tell people about it,
And he said he would be rolling over in his grave.
He would be so upset at me for doing this
because he really didn't like anyone that he wanted to
be shot into a UFO with his books. It's really
what he wanted to do it. He never wanted to
sell them.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Where can people see selling Superman? Where's it available? Amazon?
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Yeah? Yeah, you can purchase it on Amazon, on Apple,
Google Play, the major major digital platforms.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Okay, Amazon. And is it it's a series or is
it a documentary?
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Four part series, four part series. Okay, four part I'm
gonna go check it. Sounds amazing. And what about his
baseball collection? Is that because that's easier to a praise, I.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
Think, yeah, they're getting into that more. Now we just
touch on it briefly in the series. You know, there's
plenty plenty of family portrait that on the ravels. When
you meet the ant in episode three, you're gonna go crazy.
But yeah, so the baseball cards they're doing now the
ant just a little spoiler alert. She collicks dolls. Okay,
so it kind of runs in the family. But she's amazing. Gosh,
(11:47):
she's amazing.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
You know, I had a I would say a great
relationship with my dad, and I would have thrown it
all away. If he had three hundred thousand comics, I
would have made that trade pretty quick.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Really, Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Oh, yeah, well you and Darren would have a good
You guys would have a good because he would do
the opposite. He would throw He would throw the comics
in a way in an instant.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
No, I'm just kidding. I probably would as well.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I know, but but but it is amazing that a
guy can keep that kind of secret away from his
kids when his kids were probably interested in, you know,
in comics and you know kids do that. You know,
grown adults aren't into it as much as kids are.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Yeah, it's not like he kept They knew something was there.
They knew there was box of comics. They didn't know
what was in there. They weren't allowed to look. They
did know there was a Superman one because the Superman
was Darren's dad's guy and it's Darren's guy too, like
he really loved that that hero, but they weren't allowed
to talk about They didn't know the details. And that
(12:51):
is so hard for a kid to keep secret. Like Bud,
he's like, my dad's got all these come there's no way.
So I don't know how what kind of discipline and
this guy had to be able to keep his kids
in line, But that is I can't it still blows
my mind that they kept it a family secret for
forty years. It's really amazing.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
And I saw in the in the trailer that they're
looking for not only people obviously to buy this a
lot of this stuff, but to maybe put it in
the hands of people who really love it. And he
you know, sort of lives on through their their love
of of you know, giving it to a real collector.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
Absolutely, because these are icons and these mean a lot
of nostalgia to people. There's a couple of characters, the
Hatchback Kid and his dad who we meet, and they
have the relationship that you and your father had, you know, close,
and they they do comic books together. So there kind
of lives a little vicariously through them and brings them
into the inner circle. So I love the people he
(13:50):
brings in Eric the artist, Like I said, Linda and Linda,
and I.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Don't it that's right.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
And what about security though, I mean the security must
be it just ammens.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
Yeah, absolutely, warehouse within a warehouse, and then within that
there's shipping containers in each one. It locks upon locks
upon locks, and security. Yeah, it's it's pretty it's pretty cool.
And and within all that, they they still are pretty
open nowadays about now and then they'll let people come
in and see and see the collection. So he hasn't
(14:27):
he hasn't really, E didn't have the bug his father had.
He's not so paranoid. I mean, if that wouldn't go
on vacations his dad, Oh is that right? Yeah? He
And that's why that didn't get any of it graded either.
He didn't have any of it praise because he thought
he'd go down to the grading company and someone was
just gonna swap it, or someone would see it in
(14:47):
the parking a lot like you know, it got pretty
it got pretty, uh, it got pretty bad in the
later years.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
And also you know, if he lives in you know,
outside of you know Detroit, you know, Bloomington. Out there
in Bloomfield, that's not a great place to keep comics safe.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
A lot of.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Humidity, a lot of casualness when it comes to insulation,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
Yeah, there could have been alo I mean in one
of the rooms is like a half basement. It could
have been a flood at any time, right, So the
father was just rolling the dice if you ask me. Yeah,
I mean it is a miracle that they stayed in
the condition they did.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
We had an uncle in outside of Detroit, a place
called Grozel. I bet you know where Grozeel is. And
he built a house and he built the basement. When
the Detroit River was fairly low, it came back and
it flooded his basement and there was water in his
basement for thirty years. There's like four and a half
(15:50):
feet of water in his basement for thirty years. And
you go down in this basement and you would hear
things swimming around.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
Oh my god. Yeah, that's great. I mean people in
California don't really appreciate basements, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, casual casual news in Detroit, a lot of casualties
going on. Yeah, but I really appreciate coming on selling Superman.
Go to Amazon and get it Google. Where else did
you say?
Speaker 7 (16:18):
Apple?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Ap Okay and and fantastic. I hope this thing is
huge for you. Please come back with your future projects
when I'm awfully nice to.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Have you on.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
Thanks been cool to be here, all.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Right, Thanks Adam Schomer with selling Superman Croche.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
I think you'd love that. You're like a comic guy. Absolutely.
I was a comic kid growing up.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
My dad was not the most supportive until he realized
how much value they actually had. So he when he
found out how much some of them were going for,
because it was just starting to hit that peak of
really good volume a Superman comics, specifically that Action Comics
number one, he asked me, what are your favorite comments?
Because every time he said he was going to be out,
he was like, at seven eleven he'd stopped by the
(16:59):
racking grap a couple.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
You know, I can't believe, you know, the Superman that
he was talking about, the the Superman number one, the comic.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah, it was great.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
It was great at a seven point zero and still
you know, three points below perfect is still at three
hundred and three point five million dollars.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
Yeah, you and what they used to grade them at
those levels, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, you know there's a little tiny one millimeter you
know of the edge has been just this, you know,
Nobney could see it, and it's you know, you take
nine points of it.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah, all right, want to come back.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
We have some freeways close, some free six oh five
ramp closures set for every night this week. When we
come back, we'll tell you where those are. They're going
to affect your drive if you're a night out like I.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
Am, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Evidently they found this woman missing from Maui. La PD
has a tractor down. Evidently she got to Los Angeles.
She missed her connecting flight on purpose, they're saying, and
then snuck in or wandered into Mexico. She's an adult,
(18:11):
she is over eighteen years old. She can travel how
she wants without people, you know, bothering her or trying
to find her. But this woman has done irreparable damage
to her family. Her poor father flies out here from
Maui looking for his beautiful daughter. And if you have
(18:33):
a daughter, she's always six years old to you, five
or six years old. Crozier will attest to that. She's
always your baby, always always. And if she's missing, you
drop everything. You drop your work, you drop your sleep,
you don't eat. All you do is look for That's
(18:55):
all you do. And he came to Los Angeles to
look for his daughter, and he couldn't take it. Probably
went three four five sleepless nights. Wasn't eating right, wasn't sleeping.
It was worried beyond you know, any imaginable thing you've
ever worried before about in your life, and he couldn't
(19:18):
take it and evidently jumped off a parking structure near
lax and killed himself. Now, this young lady's missing, this
Hannah Kobyashi, that's going to be on her conscience rest
for life, and it's going to make for a very
uncomfortable family reunion if that ever happens in the future.
(19:43):
And so we just heard from Jim McDonald, he's the
new chief of police. I see Alan Hamilton there as
well with lapd and so Krozier. What did you discover
that they that they found her, but they don't have
any legal means of grabbing or in bring her back.
She's not she wanted for anything. She's not a fugitive.
(20:04):
She's just living her life. And so the press conference,
the chief is urging the missing woman to contact the
family members immediately. We'll see if that happens or not.
But maybe you don't know the story. Maybe you're worried
about Thanksgiving in your family and you didn't pick up
(20:26):
on this story that was dominating the newscast here on
radio and television for the night for the last week
or so, but here's a little bit of a background
here and on what happened.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
And how we oh, sorry, that's something else here.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
It is then the search for a Maui woman who
vanished after failing to board a connecting flight at LAX
last month. We're learning LAPD Chief Jim McDonald told the
Police Commission that investigators determined Hanna Kobayashi intentionally missed that
second flight. He also says detectives are diligently trying to
locate her. In response, Kabayashi's sister and mother issued a
(21:06):
statement in a private Facebook group saying they were unaware
of the findings presented to the Commission. They believe she
did not intentionally miss or flight, but are optimistic the
LAPED is doing everything to find her.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah, the LAPD has tremendous amount of sources and resources
to find people. I don't know if you know this,
but everywhere you go, you're on video. Now that used
to be exclusive to Las Vegas. Go to Las Vegas,
you'd be on video, you know, four hundred times an hour.
Now it's everywhere. You walk into Walmart, Target, you walk
(21:39):
in here, Hell, there's a camera on me right now,
there's one two. There's two cameras on me right now.
There's a camera on Krozer. There's there's two cameras on
Steph Fush and Bellio. There's cameras everywhere. There's cameras in
the hallway up until the bathroom. That's where we've locked
it off where we don't take cameras in the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
But that's gonna happen. We have some other breaking news.
A shooting investigation in Torrance.
Speaker 10 (22:05):
Oh no, whatever took place here again. You can see
that car that appears to be in question with all
of the doors and the trunk open again. As they said,
A major investigation unfolding. Top Bress from Florence PD prisponding
out here reporting Live Fair seven. I'm Chris Christy, ABC seven.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
What is news man?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
A lot of breaking news, lots of news going on,
all right, So we'll keep you up on Hannah Kabaci
Kobaci and see if there's any more news on her. Also,
what's going on in Torrance. And like I promised you
when we come back, there are freeway closures set for
every night this week, and we'll tell you which freeway
(22:45):
and how they're going to affect you.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
If you're like me and you're up all night.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Some big news going on.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
There's some kind of police commotion shooting investigation in Torrance.
Will keep you up a date on that. Hannah Yoga
Shats what's her last name? They found her. She's been missing.
She's from Mauie. She told her parents she was going
to LA, then I'm to New York. She got off
the flight, buzzed around LA for a while, and then
(23:20):
went to Mexico. Her dad came to look for got distraught,
couldn't find her, allegedly killed himself. Shelling go off a
parking structure lax. What a way to go. And they
have no legal means of bringing her back to the
United States. She's not wanted for anything. There's no wants
or warrants, no arrest record or anything. So she's an American.
(23:43):
She has that right to go wherever she wants. And
I don't know if she knows. But her dad came
looking for and is no longer with us. I don't
know how you get over that in life. I don't
think you do. So we'll have any updates on that
will have those for you. But that's a big news story.
(24:03):
LAPD put a lot of resources into that, a lot,
a lot of time and a lot of money for
a woman who is not evidently a not knee harm,
just not wanting to be where her parents wanted to be.
So that's a big story as well. Now the freeway
that's going to have closures, I'm sure angels all over this.
(24:27):
Closures on off and off ramps, often on ramps, on
ramps and off ramps.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Big deal. It's going on a warning from cal trends.
Speaker 11 (24:35):
Starting tonight, overnight construction work will shut down lanes and
ramps on the six to soh five freeway. It will
affect both sides of the freeway between Cerrutos and Irwindale.
Some closures could begin as early as eight o'clock each
night this week. This is part of a two hundred
and sixty million dollar project to rehabilitate the freeway from
Long Beach to the San Gabriel Valley. These closures are
separate from a fifty five hour shutdown on southbound six
(24:56):
oh five planned for this weekend.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Wait, that's this week?
Speaker 8 (25:00):
Angel?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Are you on top of that? Oh yeah, you know,
you know it.
Speaker 12 (25:04):
Oh yeah, so what up to three lanes? Let me
just clarify this, Okay, up to three lanes will be
closed along the six oh five northbound from Dilomo Boulevard
to the one oh five that starts. They'll start narrowing
down the drive at around eight o'clock tonight and then
but it's up to three lanes. There's more than three
(25:24):
lanes on that freeway, but it is a it is
a drastic closure, and it'll definitely put huge delays along
your drive. Now, other closures include all of the off
ramps in between there, because it's the right lanes that
are going to be off limits.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
And you know, it's also gonna be affected the six
oh five and you know where South Street South Street.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Do you remember that slogan that done? Yeah, that was
like dot com.
Speaker 12 (25:57):
That's right, that's right, all right, So so be careful
with that.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
And then there's a big closure this weekend.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Yeah, there's.
Speaker 12 (26:06):
Northbound lanes from the seven to ten to the five
are going to be off limits as well, and that's
going to happen over the weekend. Now, it's usually that's
usually when they shut down, like all of the lanes
is on the weekend, so yeah, good deal. But eight
o'clock that's when they start putting those lame restrictions up
(26:28):
and it's in effect until I believe five in the morning.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Okay, all right, we'll talk more about it leading up
till Friday when the big closure comes up.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Thank you, Angel Martinez. I went, I was going to.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Go out last night to get a Christmas tree, and
then I got too tired and I fell asleep. But
tonight I'm going to get one. And there is a
trend in these Christmas trees. What's going on when.
Speaker 13 (26:48):
It comes to turning the tree this Christmas? We're going
back to the nineties. What leading into a vintage five
this year? Like Kevin McAllister and home Alone.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah, can you come here and help me?
Speaker 13 (27:00):
Hashtag nostalgia seeing a one hundred percent increase in TikTok posts.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Between twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four. So far, My.
Speaker 11 (27:07):
Christmas pincher sport is looking very nineties nostalgia, and I
want to recreate this vibe, so I went.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
To the thrift store.
Speaker 13 (27:13):
Nostalgic Christmas and nineties Christmas are two of the top
trending aesthetics on TikTok this season, people.
Speaker 12 (27:18):
Are really looking for something that will give them a boost,
and sometimes we're reflecting back on times when life was simpler.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
That's right, the simple times. That's what the tree means.
The tree is just a simple, little tiny tree, smells great,
sits in your home. Most of the decorations on it
means something. You know, you bought one when you went
to Europe, or your mom gave you one, or's a
picture of a dog that no longer is in your life.
And that tree is sort of sums up your whole
(27:48):
life together with whoever you're with, and it's and every
ornament has a story.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
And I think that's it's cool to get a tree.
It helps us feel a lot better.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
What do you do, Krozier, You get a live tree
or do you go artificial?
Speaker 2 (28:02):
We have an artificial this year, but we're man.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
We had a cat that's just barely over a year
old and she has not gotten the hole stop chewing
on things.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Oh no, she'll climb up that tree too.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
She absolutely will climb up trees, making Christmas decorating very difficult.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
We're going to get a tree. I go to a
mom and pop place in Burbank. You may have heard
of it. The Depot family.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
The Depot family. Mister missus, Depot got a little shop.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah, it's at their home.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
And we go to their home, at their depot Depot's home,
that's right. Yeah, we pick one they're or we go
to a buddy of mine. What's his first name? Remember
his first name? But his last name is Low Low Edator.
Now we go there. I try to go to the
mom and pop ones, but they're always like one hundred
dollars more than Low's and I hate that. So I'm
(28:56):
only gonna have for two weeks or three weeks. But yeah, bellyo,
what do you do? Do you get a live tree?
You seem like a live gal.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
We I am a live gal? Are Okay? We go
to uh, what's your.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Friend's name again?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Home? The depots are the Lows, the depots the depots.
Speaker 12 (29:14):
But I also have an artificial like pencil tree and
then an artificial baby tree, so we do both.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah, we have an artificial tree in the front window,
and people think it's real and that's cool. They think,
you know, I've got a couple of bucks. We've got
two trees, but one is an artificial tree and that's uh,
that's it's sitting in the front window. It looks great,
you know, lights are on it, and people think we
got all kinds of dough. You're all decorated pretty much.
The interior of the house is almost one hundred percent right. Wow,
(29:41):
I gotta do the exterior of the house. I think
this weekend I'm cutting the clothes, though, I like to
do it right after Halloween.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Halloween. Wow, do you really? I'm a yeah, I detect
some judging. No, I'm all for that.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I like the information. I don't like the tone. Sorry,
and let the tone and all down. What do you angel?
You get a live tree or you would you dead inside?
Speaker 12 (30:05):
I'm all the way live?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Oh good?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (30:09):
Yeah. In fact, there's this place in San Juan Capistrano
called Pharmacus from from yeah far Marcus Farms, and it's
his family owned place. They grow Christmas trees there, wow,
and you can go pick out your tree. They also
have some that are shipped in from you know, woodsy areas.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yeah, we used to go with my family.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
My dad used to love going up to OHI or venturing,
cutting one down and then dragging you home.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
And God is it heavy?
Speaker 7 (30:34):
Man?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Man, you have no idea how heavy a real tree
is until you cut it down.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
How heavy it's like a couple hundred pounds. You know, Wow,
what do you do? Stepfoush? What do you do? You
get a tree? Or you say screw it?
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Well right now? No, but we used to do real
and then switch to artificial. That was basically how it
progressed for me anyway you mean in the same season. No,
just for yeah, it was always, uh, the real trees,
and then it's like, yeah, it's too too much, so
switched artificial, and it's kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
I like the smell of a real tree. We're gonna
go get one tonight and I can't wait. I love
the smell, I love the feel of setting it up,
I love watering it, and the whole vibe is just
so great.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
You're so festive. Well, I try to be. I try
to be, but you know, I threw my back out.
How'd you do that?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I buying a lot of pasta sauce. I don't like
talking about because it seems like I'm blowing my own horn.
But I'm buying a tremendous amount of pastas of.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Pasta sauce planning. I'm making a lot of pasta, a
lot of pasta. Yeah, over at the Pasta Thon that's tomorrow.
The Pasta Thon we'll see at the White House. We'll
go back and have more information on that.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
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