LAPD’s West Valley Division gets honored today — a shout-out to the officers and staff serving the Valley.
Dean Sharp, “The House Whisperer” (custom home designer and host of HOME on KFI AM 640 — Saturdays 6–8am, Sundays 9am–noon) joins Conway for Romancing Your Home on Valentine’s Day weekend: the most unusual homeowner requests, “open door dumps,” and easy ways to level up your home’s romance factor.
More with Dean on pre-fab/manufactured homes — why they can save a shocking amount of materials, how well-built they’ve become, and why ADUs are exploding across SoCal.
And a sad local loss: Sandy Steers, executive director of Friends of Big Bear Valley, has passed away.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI A six and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. I was honored
by the LAPD. They asked me to mc their awards
banquet today where they gave out the the top awards
to the top cops in the valley with Valley Traffic Division.
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There's six divisions in the valley and then Valley Traffic
covers the traffic for the entire valley, so they're almost
it's almost like the seventh division. But they're really terrific people,
great guys and gals, great cops. A lot of them
listened to KFI Bellio. A lot of them, you know,
when they won the award would come up and say
ding dong ah.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Very cool, congratulations to them.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Eric Schwiheart was Supervisor of the Year. That's a cool deal.
Mark or Mirror's Detective of the Year.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
It's a big deal, huge.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Brian Shinn, Collision Investigator of the Georgiette Buriana.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Was Detective.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Detective something of the Year, Detective Officer of the Year,
I think it is what it was. And then we
have this guy named Daniel Rulin. This kid's Russian Balio.
He moved here when he was twelve years old. Twelve
years old, didn't know a word of English.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yes, what does that mean?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
The how are you?
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I thought that meant the blue pens and the fried
chicken and on my Russian down. But he won twenty
twenty five Traffic Enforcement Officer of the Year. He's from Russia.
He came here when he was twelve. He didn't speak
one word of English, not a word he and he
speaks so fluently now and is and he I can't
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tell any accent at all. He's forty two years old.
He looks like he's eighteen. He's been on the forest
for fifteen years. Belliol, that's a big deal. Derek leap
Part Leaphart is the twenty twenty five Motor Dui Officer
of the Year. Probably run it him later on in life. Also,
(02:14):
Tammy Parker won the Administrator Officer of the Year, Carrie
Supertant won Specialized Officer of the Year, and so did
Brian Ortiz. So congratulations the LAPD officers for winning the
big awards. I have done it two years in a row.
I did last year and I did this year, so
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I think they'll probably move on. I screwed up a
lot of the names this year and told some you know,
really off colored blue jokes. I used some colorful language
and bellio. I do that so I don't have to
do these next year.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
You know, But it's not working.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
They asked you that.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, I used the F word and I get under their.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Skin, didn't They ask you not to do that? Yes,
but you still do well.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
But the best way to, you know, to be cause look,
they're real cops, they're real guys.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
You know, they got you gotta entertain them. You can't tell,
you know, not knock jokes with these guys.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
You gotta go for it.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
All right, Let's get into more news here West Hollywood Metro,
the West Hollywood Metro k Line. Let's find out how
soon or when this sucker opens or if they're gonna
even do this thing.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
We are here at West Hollywood Park where elected officials,
transit leaders, and residents all gathered, some of them still
hanging around here as along with workers, all advocating in
support of that Sambacint Fairfax Extension route of the Metro
k line. They say this route would bring multiple stations
into the city of West Hollywood and better connect this
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area to the rest of our region, giving people better
access to public transit options. Metro is studying several possible
routes for the North South K Line North. They're an
extension from Crenshaw Boulevard, including a route along Librea and
another along San Vicente and Fairbacks support.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You know, the city of West Hollywood is very small.
It's only one point eight square miles, very tiny, so
I don't think that they deserve two stops. Maybe one,
maybe one, but two that seems to be a lot.
West Hollywood is hogging the Metro stops.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
Supporters here are advocating for the San Vicente Fairfax option
turns into West Hollywood. They argue it would play significantly
more residents and jobs within walking distance of stations. They're
citing figures that show roughly three times more jobs and
six times more residents near that route compared to the
Librea option. They say it would directly connect writers to
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destinations like lax.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Okay, I'm in favor of now I've just changed my mind.
I'm in favor of the West Hollywood having two stops,
maybe even now three, because the people in West Hollywood
seem to behave I don't know what it is but
you don't hear a lot of crime coming out of
West Hollywood, and I'm not sure why.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Maybe they're well off, maybe they've got great security systems.
Maybe they just are raised properly and they behave. But
I would like to put more stops. I think you
get a Metro stop in your area if people behave,
and they seem to be doing that in West Hollywood.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
The key of Forum Inglewood for concerts in Sofi Stadium.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Of course, that's okay, that's a good deal you can get.
You can go from West Hollywood down to Sofi Stadium
for a concert or a football game or a soccer game.
I'm for more stops now. I think West Hollywood's you
have thirty stops.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
They are now advocating for this route again. The extension
would build on Metro's expanding rail system, linking to existing
lines and bus corridors across LA.
Speaker 8 (05:58):
I just wish I could start. You know that they
could be next week and a month from now. You know,
it's supposedly able to take you to the Hollywood Bowl.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I don't know if this guy knows anything about construction,
But you don't put a subway in in thirty days.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
That is a little too quick for the Fellows. It
would be happening next week and a month from now.
You know it's not going to happen, buddy, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Look, I don't know if you have any kind of
concept of how long it takes to put a rail
line in or a subway line in.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
It's not measured in weeks or months. It's decades.
Speaker 8 (06:30):
Supposedly able to take you to the Hollywood Bowl and
just access to throughout the whole city. It would just
sound so much easier in life to just be able
to not have to be in traffic.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
It will connect people to jobs, it will connect people
to West Hollywood to Inglewood. It is the line that
will receive local funding at an unprecedented rate.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Okay, that's even a better reason to put it in
West Hollywood if they're going to pay part of the bill.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Here at the end, this is a once in a
generation opportunity.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
And depending on which route is selected by the metro board,
West Hollywood could end up with just one station near
the eastern edge or multiple stations.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Multiple stations for West Hollywood. They should be rewarded for
behaving a city where people behave reward them with thirty stops.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
In and near the city with that San Vicente Fairfax option.
But even after a route is selected here, the timeline
is pretty extensive undercurrent.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Here we go, that guy that was talking about a
week or a month, Let's let him get a big
gulp of this timeline.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
The timeline is pretty extensive under current measure and funding.
Construction money isn't slated to be available until twenty forty one,
with service potentially opening in the late twenty forties, which
is why some leaders.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Okay, so this guy wanted the subway open in a
couple of weeks, a couple months. They're looking at the
late twenty forties.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Good luck.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I probably will never be on that subway, and most
people listening right now will have will have moved on
by the twenty forty five era. I mean that's twenty
years away, twenty years. Get out of here, all right
by then? Yeah, no, kid, I will be gone by then.
There's no way I'm around. I'd be eighty three. There's
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no way that's gonna happen, all right. Dean Sharp is
with us, And we got a text from Dean Sharp
today and he gave us some news, so we're going
to share that news with you, moving back with Dean
Sharp and it's breaking news.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
By the way too.
Speaker 9 (08:39):
You're listening to Tim Conwayjunior on demand from KFI AM
six forty Conway Show.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
We're moving on Tuesday back to our old time slot
six to ten p m. And Dean Sharp as well
as Dean How you bub, I'm good, I'm good and
we got some breaking news from Dean Sharp. He texts
me and Belly O today and with your permission, can
I read the text?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Man? All right?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
This is from Dean Sharp earlier today and it reads
can't find it anyway. I'll paraphrase that you're coming to evening?
Please please, please please, I can't believe.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I can't find it. Here's the latest for I.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
Just had.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Ah, okay, let's see. Oh no, that was from Why
couldn't I find it?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I don't know? Can you find it?
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Here it is? I got, I got, I got all right.
I hate you two.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Looking forward to hanging with you tonight per usual, and
just letting you know I'm all in with keeping our
hits going in the new schedule. Just let me know
when you want me and I'll I'll be there.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Yay.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
That's great, Dean sharp move into evenings with us. There
you go, and I wrote I wrote great news, thank you, sir,
and Bellio wrote new phone?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Who is?
Speaker 10 (10:14):
I didn't know what it was?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
But you used his d I s instead of this
It was misspelled.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, all right, So romancing your house is the topic
today and I guess this weekend. Do you want me
to tell you what I thought about when when I
read that line?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Should I should?
Speaker 8 (10:32):
I ask?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Maybe? Maybe not.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I thought about the guy that was arrested last week.
He was having sex with his vacuum, with his wet
dry vacuum. I'm not going to go into great detail.
And they arrested him for that.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Dean.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Who's the victim in that crime? Unless there's a victim,
I don't see a crime. I think you should be
able to have sex with your vacuum.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I think it.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Unless it's an AI vacuum, it's a victimless crime. It
is victimless crime. It's was it the wet or the
dry function that he was using?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I'm not going to uh. I didn't read the article
much past the headline. That's a lot of that's a
lot of suction power. I'm just saying it is. It
is a lot of suction power. So that's where he
is in life, you know, yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Not exactly, by the way, what I mean when I
say romancing your home. But you know, hey, I brought
up this topic before a certain uh you know morning
host here at KFI always asks me and you can
guess who he is. He always he always whenever I
bring this topic up around Valentine's Day, He's like.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Have you ever built a sex dungeon? Well? So have you? Yeah?
I may have? Okay, I may have. That's also not
the point. Not the point.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Do people have unusual requests like that? I mean, obviously
a theater, but what's what are some of the most
unusual requests that you can talk about?
Speaker 6 (12:02):
You know, unusual? Here's the thing. Rich people just don't
even know what to do with their money, That's all
I'm telling you. You know, we've done underground in pool bathrooms.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
That's a thing. Wow, we have done rifle.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Ranges, shooting ranges, bowling alleys are pretty common.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Okay, you know what, you brought something up. This is
a great idea I've never thought of. But have you
ever been to Mexico where they have bars in the
pool you can swim right up to the bar. Yeah, okay,
I've I was in Mexico and I saw a guy
swim up to the bar and he literally had probably
twelve beers and sat there all day and never got
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out of the pool.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Okay, what does that tell you? He tells you to
lean in the pool.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Every time, so there should in his seat, you know,
they should be able to be raised up, so he
can you know, urinate and then lower him back into
the pool so it goes down a pipe instead of
into the pool.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Great idea, sure, great idea. Yeah, a lot of call
for that. M M. All right, So what do you
mean by romancing your house?
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Listen when I say romance, and I use that term
a lot, I do use it a lot. I use
it with clients, I use it during the show, talking
about raising the romance level of rooms and spaces in
your house. I am not first and foremost talking about,
you know, the sensuous relationship you have with your significant other, okay,
or yourself or your vacuum cleaning. I am primarily talking
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about here's the word romantic. The first definition of romantic.
If you look this up in the dictionary. Is characterized
by an idealized view of reality, and synonyms for romantic
are beautiful and lovely and charming and idyllic and picturesque.
That's what I'm talking about. I'm talking about just raising
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the good vibes in any room, the stuff about a
room that makes you feel great. Okay, that sets a
mood or yeah I'm doing it at Valentine's Day weekend.
And there is a factor here when it comes to
if you, if you live with a significant other of
you know, how romantic are areas of the room of
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the house, and how can we raise the game? But
you know, we're not talking about sex dungeons. We're just
talking about upp being your game all around the house.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
You know what I think is romantic.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
A separate door for the toilet, a separate little room
and door for the toilet in the bathroom.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
You like, you like the water closet, Yes, that's romantic. Yeah,
well that's a great idea if you've got room for it.
You know, sometimes we add water closets to bathrooms that
have plenty of room because yeah, it's a nice little
it's a nice little thing. We're going to get that
name the water closet, Uh, I don't know where I
got it.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
That is the name for it.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
When it is a set when you take a toilet
and separate it from from everything else, you can call
it the loo. But it's but the the actual space
separated inside the subset of a bathroom that has just
the toilet inside behind a door or is the is
the water closse.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I've only seen those in high end hotels. I've never
seen it at like a friend's house. Well, you know,
well my friends are there. Yeah, racetrack guys don't have
a water closet there you go. Well the guy in
the pool did apparently. But but but no, that I mean,
if you've got a sizable enough bathroom, then then that's
a very very nice feature because you can, you know,
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kind of isolate what's going on in there. You you
can have some privacy even if somebody else is using
the bathroom at the time, and you know, and so on.
It's really no different than you know, the stalls at
any restroom at any you know, anywhere, any public space anywhere,
that individualized stall for the toilet that you get inside,
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you know, a residential bathroom and it's just about whether
or not the bathroom is big enough for it. And
sometimes we go in the opposite direction in order to
raise the overall effect of a bathroom that's too small
for a water closet, we'll take it out because because
I don't want that wall chumping up the visible volume
of the space, right, we'd rather just tuck the toilet
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at the end of the vanity so you get a
little privacyes. You know, if I walk in you're sitting there,
you know, I'm gonna see your knees sticking out and
your torso up above, but I'm not going to see
anything critical. And I'm like, oh, oh sorry, you know,
but but yeah, you're not in a separate room. Our
Cineo Hall used to come on with us and he said,
the greatest thing about your wife and your kids being
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out of town are those open door dumps.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Okay, yeah, I mean you know what.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
The weird thing is though, If you're used to having
a lot of people around, it's a weird feeling. Oh
it is, Yeah, it's a weird I mean my household,
there's always somebody around, and so you know, I'm just
kind of trained. Yeah, like you're in the and to know, Okay,
no one's here. I'm literally the only person on this
entire property right now. All the doors are locked, no
one is here. There's something in me that still says
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shut the door. I'm one hundred percent on your side.
I would right, I would like to have four doors
between me and the next closest person. And part of that,
you know, part of that, I think is not just training, uh,
but also goes to something that we talk about a lot,
especially when it comes to toilets especially and bathrooms in general.
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And then a bathroom can be too big, the space
for a toilet can be too big to be emotionally comfortable.
I always use this extreme example. Imagine you've got so
much money, I mean, just like you know, crazy money,
and you decide your water closet, not the bathroom. The
water closet. It's gonna be the size of like a gymnasium,
and it's just a big old empty room and a
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toilet sitting at half court and the basketball court just
that just that now no one's in there, no one
can get in. You're right, could be too big, yep?
And how you how you feeling sitting there? Okay, we
take it great.
Speaker 9 (17:59):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Dean Sharp is with us.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I know you're gonna be talking about romancing your home
and how to do all that over the weekend, but
I got a quick question for you. Prefab homes when
they first came out were almost like apartments or shoe boxes.
But I got to tell you, the prefab homes that
I saw over this past weekend were incredible. I mean,
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I think that they have probably the most advanced in
decoration and design and quality then maybe anything in your
field over the last ten, fifteen, twenty years.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
I would tend to agree. Prefab homes are now or
what we call manufactured homes. They are homes that have
great design. They are built in factories, so they save
an amazing amount of materials, They're well planned out, and
they're well constructed and versus what we call a traditional
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stick build home, meaning that the contractor is on site
putting up literally every stud stick by stick by stick
to make the house. Now, of course, you know you've
got customization with a stick built home right up front,
but prefab homes can also be ordered with all of
the features that you want, and a lot of people
don't even realize this. Tracked homes that are being built
right now, most of them aren't one hundred percent prefab
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right now, but there are tons and tons of prefab
components to a standard. Even a high end tracked home,
like roofing systems now are almost all truss systems. Those
are not rafters being raised up by the framers in
the field, but those are craned in trusts that were
built in factories for that house. So there are a
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lot of components that are prefabed these days. It is
no longer the oh well, that's how they make mobile homes,
right right, It's a completely different ballgame.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
How significant is the savings of time? Is it eighty percent,
fifty percent, thirty percent?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
You mean in the build itself? Yeah, you know, it depends.
It really does depend. I would say overall timing maybe
twenty thirty percent savings that Josh, you know, that's pretty
significant saving money too, But I'll tell you what the now,
that's the overall build. But the thing with a prefab
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is that your actual inconvenience during the construction process is
probably seventy percent wow less, because what's happening is a
crew is gonna come out and they're going to do
all the groundwork and the plumbing and the sewer line
and the electrical and the gas, and then they're gonna
get the slab prepped and then nothing. Nothing's going to
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happen until the day that the house is finished in
the factory and all of a sudden boom, it shows
up and it goes up really fast as opposed to
so let's say let's say the seven month period for
prefab home, and you've got to stick build home in
that same seven months, Well that's seven months of constant
construction on site versus seven months of a few weeks
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up front and a few weeks at the end and
a lot of quiet in between. Have you done a
high end prefab or fabricated home. We have done, like
I was saying, prefab components of high end homes, because
there are times when honestly, I want that trust system
up on the roof because it benefits what I'm trying
to do inside the house. So those kinds of things
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and pre fabricate certain prefabricated walls, especially when we've got
high ceilings, it's great, it's great.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Do you ever, do you ever do any of the
tractor trailer builds that are pretty popular right now. You mean,
like like the trailer part, Yeah, like tiny homes that
are actually set on the trailer frame. Yeah, or ones
where they stack multiple ones and make an actual house
out of it.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Yeah. I have not.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Well, strangely enough, I'm actually working with a right now
on San Clementy Beach, where it's kind of insane. It's
technically an area that the Coastal Commission has basically said,
and the San Clementy Council has said, these all have
to be mobile homes here. They all have to be
sitting on a trailer frame. But every house on that
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beach is a two story house. That's great, Okay, So
what we literally did, I mean I was just jaw
dropped to see the engineer bring the plans back. He's like,
all right, this is the two story house you designed, Dean. Also,
we've embedded down in the first floor of the house
the frame for the trailer, I.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Said, the trailer that will never use. Wow.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
But that's it's like a stupid bureaucratic technicality. But yeah,
there's a trailer frame sitting there.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Right, So somebody has to spend twelve thousand or twenty
thousand dollars on that something will never use, yep, just
in order to build what they want to builds ridiculous. Yeah, yeah,
that really is crazy. But I bet you run into
crap like that all of time.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Oh there's all sorts of tricks and hoops that we
have to jump through in order to get what we want,
just so some bureaucrat at the city can say, oh
you get okay, good job.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
You know what I'd love to do one week maybe no,
next week or sometime in the near future is talk
more about the ADU. I think that a lot of
people are familiar with what that is, and you know,
it's the extra you know home you're building on your property.
And it's also tax free because they consider it, you know,
low income housing. And I think that I think people
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have any kind of property they're dying to put these
ADUs up.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
No, yeah, ADUs are huge. And again we could talk
about it last week. But just to give you an idea,
back in two thousand and eight, before the housing bubble,
you know, popped of all permits being pulled in Los
Angeles County, ADUs or guesthouse permits. We're about three percent
now now nearly a third permits being pulled in La County.
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That's a crewdit ADUs. That's how that's how hot a
commodity it is.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
It instantly adds the value of the home, and your
taxes aren't going to go up, you know, it doesn't.
You know, like if you add on to your house
and you add another thousand square feet, your property taxes
are going to go through the roof.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
That is true, but the assessed value of your home
goes up. And that's what's cool because that square footage
counts on your total square footage, even though it doesn't
count the same way for your property.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Tea, it's a win win, buddy. I'm glad you're coming
with us to evenings. I can't wait. And thank you
for making the trip with us. All Right, you guys
have a great weekend. I appreciate you too, all right,
Dean Sharp. Every Saturday six to eight am and every
Sunday nine am until noon, it's gone by show.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
We're moving on Tuesday. It's the big moving day.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
We're going to six to ten pm, so we're adding
an hour, but we're starting two hours late.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
So hopefully can figure that out.
Speaker 9 (24:48):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Everybody dreads getting the jury duty notification.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
It is.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
You'd rather get a bill from the IRS for eight
hundred dollars or a thousand bucks and just pay that off.
But to get jury duty, it's usually four months out,
five months out, and you got to wait, and you wait,
it sits on your desk and you dread it shows up.
It's here next month and next week, then here it is.
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You have to call every night to see if you're wanted,
and you're just hoping and praying every time you make
that call that they say you're not needed tomorrow. And
then you finally get almost through that week, then they
call you in. You got to sit there all day
and it's a pain in the ass, it really is.
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Well we have to do it, though, and I think
they pick your name from voter registrations. If you register
to vote, I think you go into the system. I
don't know any proof of that, but that's my suspicion. However,
a jury duty a summon went out to a person
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who probably should not be on the jury of any trial.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
And you'll probably agree with me.
Speaker 11 (26:11):
We've all heard creative excuses to get out of jury duty,
but one person in Connecticut has an excuse that's air tight.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
She's only four years old.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
She's four.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
How did this happen? Did her parents register her to vote?
How did she end up on the rolls to get
selected for jury duty?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Who dropped the ball?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
She's only four years old.
Speaker 12 (26:36):
Actually breathed a sigh of relief when I saw it
wasn't my name on it, And then it took me
a second. I'm like, wait a minute, why is my
daughter's name on this jury summons?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Yeah, well, then send her down there, you know, put
her on the metro or the boss and get her
down there and have her do jury duty.
Speaker 11 (26:54):
More than half a million Connecticut residents are summoned for
jury duty each year, but unlike Zara.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
E Hemi, most are not in preschool.
Speaker 12 (27:02):
I took it with a little bit of humor, and
I sent over my wife a text and I said, Hey,
looks like Zara's getting summoned to jury duty.
Speaker 11 (27:12):
With her reporting date of April fifteenth approaching, her dad
tried to get her up to speed on her civic responsibility.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Oh, that's great. Dad's going for it. It's like, okay,
here's what you need to know.
Speaker 12 (27:23):
She's like, what's that? And like it's where you listen
and you decide if someone's guilty or not guilty. And
she goes, I'm just a baby.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
So how did a fort.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
It's a pretty good excuse though, to get out of
jury duty. I'd like to use that, but I don't
think I can.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
And she goes, I'm just a baby.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Yeah, that's a pretty good, one solid excuse, Pretty solid.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I'm just a baby.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
So how did a four year old get summoned?
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Yes, that's the question we all have. How did that happen?
Speaker 11 (27:52):
The government gets names from a variety of sources, some
of which do not include birth dates.
Speaker 12 (27:57):
There was a free text box I put in you know,
I haven't even completed preschool yet. Please excuse me.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Oh that's classic.
Speaker 11 (28:06):
How Zara maybe a good jour in the future because
she seemed quick to judge the behavior of her older
brother and sister.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
I love that story, you won, sir, I love that
story really.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
All right, Well, she's got my mother what twelve, thirteen,
fourteen years before she has to do a jury duty.
I had it about three weeks ago, four weeks ago,
and I made it all the way to the last day.
I called Sunday night, Monday night, Tuesday night, Wednesday, and
I called on Thursday and they said, hey, we need you.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
To come down on Friday. I'm like, ah f I
get down there.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
They said you're going to be on this jury and
then they stop and they said, is there a Timothy
Dalton Conway here? And anytime somebody uses your legal name,
that's trouble. And they said you're excused, and I said, oh,
And I didn't ask any any questions. My dad always
taught me, once the deal was made, shut the hell up.
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Leave And so I was leaving and one of the
lawyers on the case turned to me and goes ding dong,
and I thought, okay, maybe that's what got me out
of jury duty, because I said on the radio, and
I believe this that if you get to the point
where you're in a trial and you're being accused of something,
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I think you're guilty of it. If you're not guilty
of that, you're guilty of something else. So I always
vote guilty. And maybe they heard that on the radio.
Maybe that helped me. I don't know, but you get
a lot of chances to get out of going on trial.
Offers are made, you know, other you know, evidences acquired,
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and if you get to the point where you're on trial,
about ninety eight percent of the time, either you've done
that or you've done something.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Else that you should be on trial for.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
All right, Chris Merrill is coming up after seven o'clock.
We're coming up at seven o'clock and he is with
us in studio.
Speaker 10 (30:08):
How you, bubb do you love to talk about me
getting in trouble?
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Let me tell you.
Speaker 10 (30:14):
The best thing in the world for getting out of
Jerry duty, okay, is to have a record.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Is that right? You can't do it Jerry duty?
Speaker 9 (30:21):
Huh.
Speaker 10 (30:21):
I get summoned about once every couple of years, and
I always have to write back and say, yes, I'd
love to come in. You should know that your records
say I can't.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Oh is that now? It wasn't a felony, was it?
It was? Okay? Okay? But it was in Michigan. Yeah.
It follows you to California. It follows me my entire life.
Have you had other problems with it?
Speaker 7 (30:46):
So?
Speaker 3 (30:48):
I mean, can we tell people what you did?
Speaker 10 (30:50):
Yeah, so when I rob a bank, I robbed a bank, yeah,
because that's where the money is. No, I grew up
in a remote area, but a resort town and youthful indiscretions.
We were friends of mine. We were breaking into vacation
homes and we stole a truck. But see, everybody breaks
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into vacation homes in Michigan. That's what you do during
the winter. It is exactly what it was, right, but
evidently the law frowned upon that. And then yeah, we
we took a truck too, So yeah, so I am
not proud of it.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
But what did you do time for it? Yeah? So
define that? So I need length at times?
Speaker 10 (31:30):
And yeah I did a little local a couple of
weeks and well yeah, and then I went to one
of those boot camps. Really yeah, now that's well you
want to talk about interesting. It's one of those what
they call special incarceration.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Right, Is that the only lesson you needed? And then
you were done with that?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Oh yeah? Yeah? Oh yeah, how old are you? I was?
Speaker 10 (31:49):
I was twenty when I got arrested, nineteen when we
did things wrong, and I turned twenty one while I
was out on bail. Oh wow, Okay, you were an adult.
I was an adult. Yeah, I mean really as far
as the law goes. Yeah, but maturity wise, I can
tell you now that I just was not there.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
But Michigan is littered with people who have summer homes
right Saint Clair Lake, Erie, Lake, Michigan up you know Marquette,
there are there are probably tens of thousands of homes
that are used just in the summer.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
They're easy to break into. It's usually just plywood. Peel
it off and you're in.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And then ironically, my wife and I
now own cottage.
Speaker 10 (32:31):
That's great, And we own a cottage right there where
I got in trouble, and that's isn't that funny?
Speaker 3 (32:36):
That's awesome?
Speaker 10 (32:38):
Isn't that wild? That is the neighbors never put it together.
I mean it's been to spend twenty seven years. So
is that northern Michigan or western north Yeah? North?
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Oh, northwest Michigan. Yeah, okay, all right, Yeah, that's beautiful
up there.
Speaker 10 (32:49):
Oh I love it? Are you kidding? I absolutely love it.
The sunsets are you can't be beat.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Now.
Speaker 10 (32:53):
My wife is there right now, and she had two
dead batteries. We got two pickup trucks there. They're both
dead well stuck and the other one was dead, so
she was stuck at home and she had to go
get groceries at Walmart because that's the only place you
can shop.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Buddy, I'll be listening. Your new show starts on Tuesday.
Congratulations to noon to three. Yeah, I'm excited. All right,
that is great, all right, buddy, I'll be listening tonight.
Nice to see it, thanks too, all right, Chris Merril tonight.
I also Ronner's with us tonight, danging trong with him. Yes,
we're live on KFI AM six forty Conway show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now you can always hear
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us live on KFI AM six forty four to seven
pm Monday through Friday, and anytime on demand on the
iHeartRadio app.
It's KFI A six and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. I was honored
by the LAPD. They asked me to mc their awards
banquet today where they gave out the the top awards
to the top cops in the valley with Valley Traffic Division.
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There's six divisions in the valley and then Valley Traffic
covers the traffic for the entire valley, so they're almost
it's almost like the seventh division. But they're really terrific people,
great guys and gals, great cops. A lot of them
listened to KFI Bellio. A lot of them, you know,
when they won the award would come up and say
ding dong ah.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Very cool, congratulations to them.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Eric Schwiheart was Supervisor of the Year. That's a cool deal.
Mark or Mirror's Detective of the Year.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
It's a big deal, huge.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Brian Shinn, Collision Investigator of the Georgiette Buriana.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Was Detective.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Detective something of the Year, Detective Officer of the Year,
I think it is what it was. And then we
have this guy named Daniel Rulin. This kid's Russian Balio.
He moved here when he was twelve years old. Twelve
years old, didn't know a word of English.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yes, what does that mean?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
The how are you?
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I thought that meant the blue pens and the fried
chicken and on my Russian down. But he won twenty
twenty five Traffic Enforcement Officer of the Year. He's from Russia.
He came here when he was twelve. He didn't speak
one word of English, not a word he and he
speaks so fluently now and is and he I can't
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tell any accent at all. He's forty two years old.
He looks like he's eighteen. He's been on the forest
for fifteen years. Belliol, that's a big deal. Derek leap
Part Leaphart is the twenty twenty five Motor Dui Officer
of the Year. Probably run it him later on in life. Also,
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Tammy Parker won the Administrator Officer of the Year, Carrie
Supertant won Specialized Officer of the Year, and so did
Brian Ortiz. So congratulations the LAPD officers for winning the
big awards. I have done it two years in a row.
I did last year and I did this year, so
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I think they'll probably move on. I screwed up a
lot of the names this year and told some you know,
really off colored blue jokes. I used some colorful language
and bellio. I do that so I don't have to
do these next year.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
You know, But it's not working.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
They asked you that.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, I used the F word and I get under their.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Skin, didn't They ask you not to do that? Yes,
but you still do well.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
But the best way to, you know, to be cause look,
they're real cops, they're real guys.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
You know, they got you gotta entertain them. You can't tell,
you know, not knock jokes with these guys.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
You gotta go for it.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
All right, Let's get into more news here West Hollywood Metro,
the West Hollywood Metro k Line. Let's find out how
soon or when this sucker opens or if they're gonna
even do this thing.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
We are here at West Hollywood Park where elected officials,
transit leaders, and residents all gathered, some of them still
hanging around here as along with workers, all advocating in
support of that Sambacint Fairfax Extension route of the Metro
k line. They say this route would bring multiple stations
into the city of West Hollywood and better connect this
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area to the rest of our region, giving people better
access to public transit options. Metro is studying several possible
routes for the North South K Line North. They're an
extension from Crenshaw Boulevard, including a route along Librea and
another along San Vicente and Fairbacks support.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You know, the city of West Hollywood is very small.
It's only one point eight square miles, very tiny, so
I don't think that they deserve two stops. Maybe one,
maybe one, but two that seems to be a lot.
West Hollywood is hogging the Metro stops.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
Supporters here are advocating for the San Vicente Fairfax option
turns into West Hollywood. They argue it would play significantly
more residents and jobs within walking distance of stations. They're
citing figures that show roughly three times more jobs and
six times more residents near that route compared to the
Librea option. They say it would directly connect writers to
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destinations like lax.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Okay, I'm in favor of now I've just changed my mind.
I'm in favor of the West Hollywood having two stops,
maybe even now three, because the people in West Hollywood
seem to behave I don't know what it is but
you don't hear a lot of crime coming out of
West Hollywood, and I'm not sure why.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Maybe they're well off, maybe they've got great security systems.
Maybe they just are raised properly and they behave. But
I would like to put more stops. I think you
get a Metro stop in your area if people behave,
and they seem to be doing that in West Hollywood.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
The key of Forum Inglewood for concerts in Sofi Stadium.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Of course, that's okay, that's a good deal you can get.
You can go from West Hollywood down to Sofi Stadium
for a concert or a football game or a soccer game.
I'm for more stops now. I think West Hollywood's you
have thirty stops.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
They are now advocating for this route again. The extension
would build on Metro's expanding rail system, linking to existing
lines and bus corridors across LA.
Speaker 8 (05:58):
I just wish I could start. You know that they
could be next week and a month from now. You know,
it's supposedly able to take you to the Hollywood Bowl.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I don't know if this guy knows anything about construction,
But you don't put a subway in in thirty days.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
That is a little too quick for the Fellows. It
would be happening next week and a month from now.
You know it's not going to happen, buddy, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Look, I don't know if you have any kind of
concept of how long it takes to put a rail
line in or a subway line in.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
It's not measured in weeks or months. It's decades.
Speaker 8 (06:30):
Supposedly able to take you to the Hollywood Bowl and
just access to throughout the whole city. It would just
sound so much easier in life to just be able
to not have to be in traffic.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
It will connect people to jobs, it will connect people
to West Hollywood to Inglewood. It is the line that
will receive local funding at an unprecedented rate.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Okay, that's even a better reason to put it in
West Hollywood if they're going to pay part of the bill.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Here at the end, this is a once in a
generation opportunity.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
And depending on which route is selected by the metro board,
West Hollywood could end up with just one station near
the eastern edge or multiple stations.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Multiple stations for West Hollywood. They should be rewarded for
behaving a city where people behave reward them with thirty stops.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
In and near the city with that San Vicente Fairfax option.
But even after a route is selected here, the timeline
is pretty extensive undercurrent.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Here we go, that guy that was talking about a
week or a month, Let's let him get a big
gulp of this timeline.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
The timeline is pretty extensive under current measure and funding.
Construction money isn't slated to be available until twenty forty one,
with service potentially opening in the late twenty forties, which
is why some leaders.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Okay, so this guy wanted the subway open in a
couple of weeks, a couple months. They're looking at the
late twenty forties.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Good luck.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I probably will never be on that subway, and most
people listening right now will have will have moved on
by the twenty forty five era. I mean that's twenty
years away, twenty years. Get out of here, all right
by then? Yeah, no, kid, I will be gone by then.
There's no way I'm around. I'd be eighty three. There's
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no way that's gonna happen, all right. Dean Sharp is
with us, And we got a text from Dean Sharp
today and he gave us some news, so we're going
to share that news with you, moving back with Dean
Sharp and it's breaking news.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
By the way too.
Speaker 9 (08:39):
You're listening to Tim Conwayjunior on demand from KFI AM
six forty Conway Show.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
We're moving on Tuesday back to our old time slot
six to ten p m. And Dean Sharp as well
as Dean How you bub, I'm good, I'm good and
we got some breaking news from Dean Sharp. He texts
me and Belly O today and with your permission, can
I read the text?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Man? All right?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
This is from Dean Sharp earlier today and it reads
can't find it anyway. I'll paraphrase that you're coming to evening?
Please please, please please, I can't believe.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I can't find it. Here's the latest for I.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
Just had.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Ah, okay, let's see. Oh no, that was from Why
couldn't I find it?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I don't know? Can you find it?
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Here it is? I got, I got, I got all right.
I hate you two.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Looking forward to hanging with you tonight per usual, and
just letting you know I'm all in with keeping our
hits going in the new schedule. Just let me know
when you want me and I'll I'll be there.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Yay.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
That's great, Dean sharp move into evenings with us. There
you go, and I wrote I wrote great news, thank you, sir,
and Bellio wrote new phone?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Who is?
Speaker 10 (10:14):
I didn't know what it was?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
But you used his d I s instead of this
It was misspelled.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, all right, So romancing your house is the topic
today and I guess this weekend. Do you want me
to tell you what I thought about when when I
read that line?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Should I should?
Speaker 8 (10:32):
I ask?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Maybe? Maybe not.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I thought about the guy that was arrested last week.
He was having sex with his vacuum, with his wet
dry vacuum. I'm not going to go into great detail.
And they arrested him for that.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Dean.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Who's the victim in that crime? Unless there's a victim,
I don't see a crime. I think you should be
able to have sex with your vacuum.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I think it.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Unless it's an AI vacuum, it's a victimless crime. It
is victimless crime. It's was it the wet or the
dry function that he was using?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I'm not going to uh. I didn't read the article
much past the headline. That's a lot of that's a
lot of suction power. I'm just saying it is. It
is a lot of suction power. So that's where he
is in life, you know, yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Not exactly, by the way, what I mean when I
say romancing your home. But you know, hey, I brought
up this topic before a certain uh you know morning
host here at KFI always asks me and you can
guess who he is. He always he always whenever I
bring this topic up around Valentine's Day, He's like.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Have you ever built a sex dungeon? Well? So have you? Yeah?
I may have? Okay, I may have. That's also not
the point. Not the point.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Do people have unusual requests like that? I mean, obviously
a theater, but what's what are some of the most
unusual requests that you can talk about?
Speaker 6 (12:02):
You know, unusual? Here's the thing. Rich people just don't
even know what to do with their money, That's all
I'm telling you. You know, we've done underground in pool bathrooms.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
That's a thing. Wow, we have done rifle.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Ranges, shooting ranges, bowling alleys are pretty common.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Okay, you know what, you brought something up. This is
a great idea I've never thought of. But have you
ever been to Mexico where they have bars in the
pool you can swim right up to the bar. Yeah, okay,
I've I was in Mexico and I saw a guy
swim up to the bar and he literally had probably
twelve beers and sat there all day and never got
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out of the pool.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Okay, what does that tell you? He tells you to
lean in the pool.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Every time, so there should in his seat, you know,
they should be able to be raised up, so he
can you know, urinate and then lower him back into
the pool so it goes down a pipe instead of
into the pool.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Great idea, sure, great idea. Yeah, a lot of call
for that. M M. All right, So what do you
mean by romancing your house?
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Listen when I say romance, and I use that term
a lot, I do use it a lot. I use
it with clients, I use it during the show, talking
about raising the romance level of rooms and spaces in
your house. I am not first and foremost talking about,
you know, the sensuous relationship you have with your significant other, okay,
or yourself or your vacuum cleaning. I am primarily talking
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about here's the word romantic. The first definition of romantic.
If you look this up in the dictionary. Is characterized
by an idealized view of reality, and synonyms for romantic
are beautiful and lovely and charming and idyllic and picturesque.
That's what I'm talking about. I'm talking about just raising
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the good vibes in any room, the stuff about a
room that makes you feel great. Okay, that sets a
mood or yeah I'm doing it at Valentine's Day weekend.
And there is a factor here when it comes to
if you, if you live with a significant other of
you know, how romantic are areas of the room of
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the house, and how can we raise the game? But
you know, we're not talking about sex dungeons. We're just
talking about upp being your game all around the house.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
You know what I think is romantic.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
A separate door for the toilet, a separate little room
and door for the toilet in the bathroom.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
You like, you like the water closet, Yes, that's romantic. Yeah,
well that's a great idea if you've got room for it.
You know, sometimes we add water closets to bathrooms that
have plenty of room because yeah, it's a nice little
it's a nice little thing. We're going to get that
name the water closet, Uh, I don't know where I
got it.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
That is the name for it.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
When it is a set when you take a toilet
and separate it from from everything else, you can call
it the loo. But it's but the the actual space
separated inside the subset of a bathroom that has just
the toilet inside behind a door or is the is
the water closse.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I've only seen those in high end hotels. I've never
seen it at like a friend's house. Well, you know,
well my friends are there. Yeah, racetrack guys don't have
a water closet there you go. Well the guy in
the pool did apparently. But but but no, that I mean,
if you've got a sizable enough bathroom, then then that's
a very very nice feature because you can, you know,
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kind of isolate what's going on in there. You you
can have some privacy even if somebody else is using
the bathroom at the time, and you know, and so on.
It's really no different than you know, the stalls at
any restroom at any you know, anywhere, any public space anywhere,
that individualized stall for the toilet that you get inside,
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you know, a residential bathroom and it's just about whether
or not the bathroom is big enough for it. And
sometimes we go in the opposite direction in order to
raise the overall effect of a bathroom that's too small
for a water closet, we'll take it out because because
I don't want that wall chumping up the visible volume
of the space, right, we'd rather just tuck the toilet
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at the end of the vanity so you get a
little privacyes. You know, if I walk in you're sitting there,
you know, I'm gonna see your knees sticking out and
your torso up above, but I'm not going to see
anything critical. And I'm like, oh, oh sorry, you know,
but but yeah, you're not in a separate room. Our
Cineo Hall used to come on with us and he said,
the greatest thing about your wife and your kids being
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out of town are those open door dumps.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Okay, yeah, I mean you know what.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
The weird thing is though, If you're used to having
a lot of people around, it's a weird feeling. Oh
it is, Yeah, it's a weird I mean my household,
there's always somebody around, and so you know, I'm just
kind of trained. Yeah, like you're in the and to know, Okay,
no one's here. I'm literally the only person on this
entire property right now. All the doors are locked, no
one is here. There's something in me that still says
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shut the door. I'm one hundred percent on your side.
I would right, I would like to have four doors
between me and the next closest person. And part of that,
you know, part of that, I think is not just training, uh,
but also goes to something that we talk about a lot,
especially when it comes to toilets especially and bathrooms in general.
(17:23):
And then a bathroom can be too big, the space
for a toilet can be too big to be emotionally comfortable.
I always use this extreme example. Imagine you've got so
much money, I mean, just like you know, crazy money,
and you decide your water closet, not the bathroom. The
water closet. It's gonna be the size of like a gymnasium,
and it's just a big old empty room and a
(17:45):
toilet sitting at half court and the basketball court just
that just that now no one's in there, no one
can get in. You're right, could be too big, yep?
And how you how you feeling sitting there? Okay, we
take it great.
Speaker 9 (17:59):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Dean Sharp is with us.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I know you're gonna be talking about romancing your home
and how to do all that over the weekend, but
I got a quick question for you. Prefab homes when
they first came out were almost like apartments or shoe boxes.
But I got to tell you, the prefab homes that
I saw over this past weekend were incredible. I mean,
(18:28):
I think that they have probably the most advanced in
decoration and design and quality then maybe anything in your
field over the last ten, fifteen, twenty years.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
I would tend to agree. Prefab homes are now or
what we call manufactured homes. They are homes that have
great design. They are built in factories, so they save
an amazing amount of materials, They're well planned out, and
they're well constructed and versus what we call a traditional
(19:01):
stick build home, meaning that the contractor is on site
putting up literally every stud stick by stick by stick
to make the house. Now, of course, you know you've
got customization with a stick built home right up front,
but prefab homes can also be ordered with all of
the features that you want, and a lot of people
don't even realize this. Tracked homes that are being built
right now, most of them aren't one hundred percent prefab
(19:23):
right now, but there are tons and tons of prefab
components to a standard. Even a high end tracked home,
like roofing systems now are almost all truss systems. Those
are not rafters being raised up by the framers in
the field, but those are craned in trusts that were
built in factories for that house. So there are a
(19:44):
lot of components that are prefabed these days. It is
no longer the oh well, that's how they make mobile homes,
right right, It's a completely different ballgame.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
How significant is the savings of time? Is it eighty percent,
fifty percent, thirty percent?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
You mean in the build itself? Yeah, you know, it depends.
It really does depend. I would say overall timing maybe
twenty thirty percent savings that Josh, you know, that's pretty
significant saving money too, But I'll tell you what the now,
that's the overall build. But the thing with a prefab
(20:22):
is that your actual inconvenience during the construction process is
probably seventy percent wow less, because what's happening is a
crew is gonna come out and they're going to do
all the groundwork and the plumbing and the sewer line
and the electrical and the gas, and then they're gonna
get the slab prepped and then nothing. Nothing's going to
(20:44):
happen until the day that the house is finished in
the factory and all of a sudden boom, it shows
up and it goes up really fast as opposed to
so let's say let's say the seven month period for
prefab home, and you've got to stick build home in
that same seven months, Well that's seven months of constant
construction on site versus seven months of a few weeks
(21:08):
up front and a few weeks at the end and
a lot of quiet in between. Have you done a
high end prefab or fabricated home. We have done, like
I was saying, prefab components of high end homes, because
there are times when honestly, I want that trust system
up on the roof because it benefits what I'm trying
to do inside the house. So those kinds of things
(21:29):
and pre fabricate certain prefabricated walls, especially when we've got
high ceilings, it's great, it's great.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Do you ever, do you ever do any of the
tractor trailer builds that are pretty popular right now. You mean,
like like the trailer part, Yeah, like tiny homes that
are actually set on the trailer frame. Yeah, or ones
where they stack multiple ones and make an actual house
out of it.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Yeah. I have not.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Well, strangely enough, I'm actually working with a right now
on San Clementy Beach, where it's kind of insane. It's
technically an area that the Coastal Commission has basically said,
and the San Clementy Council has said, these all have
to be mobile homes here. They all have to be
sitting on a trailer frame. But every house on that
(22:18):
beach is a two story house. That's great, Okay, So
what we literally did, I mean I was just jaw
dropped to see the engineer bring the plans back. He's like,
all right, this is the two story house you designed, Dean. Also,
we've embedded down in the first floor of the house
the frame for the trailer, I.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Said, the trailer that will never use. Wow.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
But that's it's like a stupid bureaucratic technicality. But yeah,
there's a trailer frame sitting there.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Right, So somebody has to spend twelve thousand or twenty
thousand dollars on that something will never use, yep, just
in order to build what they want to builds ridiculous. Yeah, yeah,
that really is crazy. But I bet you run into
crap like that all of time.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Oh there's all sorts of tricks and hoops that we
have to jump through in order to get what we want,
just so some bureaucrat at the city can say, oh
you get okay, good job.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
You know what I'd love to do one week maybe no,
next week or sometime in the near future is talk
more about the ADU. I think that a lot of
people are familiar with what that is, and you know,
it's the extra you know home you're building on your property.
And it's also tax free because they consider it, you know,
low income housing. And I think that I think people
(23:30):
have any kind of property they're dying to put these
ADUs up.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
No, yeah, ADUs are huge. And again we could talk
about it last week. But just to give you an idea,
back in two thousand and eight, before the housing bubble,
you know, popped of all permits being pulled in Los
Angeles County, ADUs or guesthouse permits. We're about three percent
now now nearly a third permits being pulled in La County.
(23:56):
That's a crewdit ADUs. That's how that's how hot a
commodity it is.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
It instantly adds the value of the home, and your
taxes aren't going to go up, you know, it doesn't.
You know, like if you add on to your house
and you add another thousand square feet, your property taxes
are going to go through the roof.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
That is true, but the assessed value of your home
goes up. And that's what's cool because that square footage
counts on your total square footage, even though it doesn't
count the same way for your property.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Tea, it's a win win, buddy. I'm glad you're coming
with us to evenings. I can't wait. And thank you
for making the trip with us. All Right, you guys
have a great weekend. I appreciate you too, all right,
Dean Sharp. Every Saturday six to eight am and every
Sunday nine am until noon, it's gone by show.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
We're moving on Tuesday. It's the big moving day.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
We're going to six to ten pm, so we're adding
an hour, but we're starting two hours late.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
So hopefully can figure that out.
Speaker 9 (24:48):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Everybody dreads getting the jury duty notification.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
It is.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
You'd rather get a bill from the IRS for eight
hundred dollars or a thousand bucks and just pay that off.
But to get jury duty, it's usually four months out,
five months out, and you got to wait, and you wait,
it sits on your desk and you dread it shows up.
It's here next month and next week, then here it is.
(25:21):
You have to call every night to see if you're wanted,
and you're just hoping and praying every time you make
that call that they say you're not needed tomorrow. And
then you finally get almost through that week, then they
call you in. You got to sit there all day
and it's a pain in the ass, it really is.
(25:41):
Well we have to do it, though, and I think
they pick your name from voter registrations. If you register
to vote, I think you go into the system. I
don't know any proof of that, but that's my suspicion. However,
a jury duty a summon went out to a person
(26:02):
who probably should not be on the jury of any trial.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
And you'll probably agree with me.
Speaker 11 (26:11):
We've all heard creative excuses to get out of jury duty,
but one person in Connecticut has an excuse that's air tight.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
She's only four years old.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
She's four.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
How did this happen? Did her parents register her to vote?
How did she end up on the rolls to get
selected for jury duty?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Who dropped the ball?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
She's only four years old.
Speaker 12 (26:36):
Actually breathed a sigh of relief when I saw it
wasn't my name on it, And then it took me
a second. I'm like, wait a minute, why is my
daughter's name on this jury summons?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Yeah, well, then send her down there, you know, put
her on the metro or the boss and get her
down there and have her do jury duty.
Speaker 11 (26:54):
More than half a million Connecticut residents are summoned for
jury duty each year, but unlike Zara.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
E Hemi, most are not in preschool.
Speaker 12 (27:02):
I took it with a little bit of humor, and
I sent over my wife a text and I said, Hey,
looks like Zara's getting summoned to jury duty.
Speaker 11 (27:12):
With her reporting date of April fifteenth approaching, her dad
tried to get her up to speed on her civic responsibility.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Oh, that's great. Dad's going for it. It's like, okay,
here's what you need to know.
Speaker 12 (27:23):
She's like, what's that? And like it's where you listen
and you decide if someone's guilty or not guilty. And
she goes, I'm just a baby.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
So how did a fort.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
It's a pretty good excuse though, to get out of
jury duty. I'd like to use that, but I don't
think I can.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
And she goes, I'm just a baby.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Yeah, that's a pretty good, one solid excuse, Pretty solid.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I'm just a baby.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
So how did a four year old get summoned?
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Yes, that's the question we all have. How did that happen?
Speaker 11 (27:52):
The government gets names from a variety of sources, some
of which do not include birth dates.
Speaker 12 (27:57):
There was a free text box I put in you know,
I haven't even completed preschool yet. Please excuse me.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Oh that's classic.
Speaker 11 (28:06):
How Zara maybe a good jour in the future because
she seemed quick to judge the behavior of her older
brother and sister.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
I love that story, you won, sir, I love that
story really.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
All right, Well, she's got my mother what twelve, thirteen,
fourteen years before she has to do a jury duty.
I had it about three weeks ago, four weeks ago,
and I made it all the way to the last day.
I called Sunday night, Monday night, Tuesday night, Wednesday, and
I called on Thursday and they said, hey, we need you.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
To come down on Friday. I'm like, ah f I
get down there.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
They said you're going to be on this jury and
then they stop and they said, is there a Timothy
Dalton Conway here? And anytime somebody uses your legal name,
that's trouble. And they said you're excused, and I said, oh,
And I didn't ask any any questions. My dad always
taught me, once the deal was made, shut the hell up.
(29:06):
Leave And so I was leaving and one of the
lawyers on the case turned to me and goes ding dong,
and I thought, okay, maybe that's what got me out
of jury duty, because I said on the radio, and
I believe this that if you get to the point
where you're in a trial and you're being accused of something,
(29:29):
I think you're guilty of it. If you're not guilty
of that, you're guilty of something else. So I always
vote guilty. And maybe they heard that on the radio.
Maybe that helped me. I don't know, but you get
a lot of chances to get out of going on trial.
Offers are made, you know, other you know, evidences acquired,
(29:50):
and if you get to the point where you're on trial,
about ninety eight percent of the time, either you've done
that or you've done something.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Else that you should be on trial for.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
All right, Chris Merrill is coming up after seven o'clock.
We're coming up at seven o'clock and he is with
us in studio.
Speaker 10 (30:08):
How you, bubb do you love to talk about me
getting in trouble?
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Let me tell you.
Speaker 10 (30:14):
The best thing in the world for getting out of
Jerry duty, okay, is to have a record.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Is that right? You can't do it Jerry duty?
Speaker 9 (30:21):
Huh.
Speaker 10 (30:21):
I get summoned about once every couple of years, and
I always have to write back and say, yes, I'd
love to come in. You should know that your records
say I can't.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Oh is that now? It wasn't a felony, was it?
It was? Okay? Okay? But it was in Michigan. Yeah.
It follows you to California. It follows me my entire life.
Have you had other problems with it?
Speaker 7 (30:46):
So?
Speaker 3 (30:48):
I mean, can we tell people what you did?
Speaker 10 (30:50):
Yeah, so when I rob a bank, I robbed a bank, yeah,
because that's where the money is. No, I grew up
in a remote area, but a resort town and youthful indiscretions.
We were friends of mine. We were breaking into vacation
homes and we stole a truck. But see, everybody breaks
(31:11):
into vacation homes in Michigan. That's what you do during
the winter. It is exactly what it was, right, but
evidently the law frowned upon that. And then yeah, we
we took a truck too, So yeah, so I am
not proud of it.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
But what did you do time for it? Yeah? So
define that? So I need length at times?
Speaker 10 (31:30):
And yeah I did a little local a couple of
weeks and well yeah, and then I went to one
of those boot camps. Really yeah, now that's well you
want to talk about interesting. It's one of those what
they call special incarceration.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Right, Is that the only lesson you needed? And then
you were done with that?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Oh yeah? Yeah? Oh yeah, how old are you? I was?
Speaker 10 (31:49):
I was twenty when I got arrested, nineteen when we
did things wrong, and I turned twenty one while I
was out on bail. Oh wow, Okay, you were an adult.
I was an adult. Yeah, I mean really as far
as the law goes. Yeah, but maturity wise, I can
tell you now that I just was not there.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
But Michigan is littered with people who have summer homes
right Saint Clair Lake, Erie, Lake, Michigan up you know Marquette,
there are there are probably tens of thousands of homes
that are used just in the summer.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
They're easy to break into. It's usually just plywood. Peel
it off and you're in.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And then ironically, my wife and I
now own cottage.
Speaker 10 (32:31):
That's great, And we own a cottage right there where
I got in trouble, and that's isn't that funny?
Speaker 3 (32:36):
That's awesome?
Speaker 10 (32:38):
Isn't that wild? That is the neighbors never put it together.
I mean it's been to spend twenty seven years. So
is that northern Michigan or western north Yeah? North?
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Oh, northwest Michigan. Yeah, okay, all right, Yeah, that's beautiful
up there.
Speaker 10 (32:49):
Oh I love it? Are you kidding? I absolutely love it.
The sunsets are you can't be beat.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Now.
Speaker 10 (32:53):
My wife is there right now, and she had two
dead batteries. We got two pickup trucks there. They're both
dead well stuck and the other one was dead, so
she was stuck at home and she had to go
get groceries at Walmart because that's the only place you
can shop.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Buddy, I'll be listening. Your new show starts on Tuesday.
Congratulations to noon to three. Yeah, I'm excited. All right,
that is great, all right, buddy, I'll be listening tonight.
Nice to see it, thanks too, all right, Chris Merril tonight.
I also Ronner's with us tonight, danging trong with him. Yes,
we're live on KFI AM six forty Conway show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now you can always hear
(33:24):
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