The 2026 World Cup Draw delivered fresh group pairings and global excitement, with Kevin Hart and Heidi Klum taking the stage as celebrity announcers. In a nostalgic twist, the moment echoed TV history: back in the 1950s, William Morris Agency didn’t even have a television division in Los Angeles until Phil Weltman launched it—later bringing in comedy legend Tim Conway.
As the weekend approaches, most families are gearing up to buy their Christmas trees, while the entertainment world is buzzing over a seismic business move: Netflix is set to acquire Warner Bros. after its split from Discovery Global, at a massive $82.7 billion enterprise value.
Meanwhile, nostalgia hits the board-game aisle as people rediscover old-school favorites—The Game of Life (complete with little blue and pink people) and Monopoly, reminding everyone that strategy and luck still rule the classics.
In Los Angeles, journalist Elex Michaelson reported from Max & Helen’s Diner, a project created by Phil Rosenthal and iconic chef Nancy Silverton. Rosenthal—best known for creating Everybody Loves Raymond and hosting Netflix’s Emmy-nominated Somebody Feed Phil—is sparking talk of an Everybody Loves Raymond reunion as his popularity keeps climbing.
And finally, dinner trends continue to evolve: with early-bird specials kicking off around 5 PM, families and diners are adjusting habits, while pizza orders shift toward fewer toppings and smaller sizes as people rethink budget, flavor, and simplicity.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's camp. I am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app Ding
and Dog with you, and I hear Krozier all day long.
I thought I was I had a I went to
I got up early. You got up at five o'clock
this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
So yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
So on one o'clock, I was watching TV and I'm like,
I'm gonna catch you a twenty minute nap, and I
and the the clock radio clock, the clock radio goes
off to wake me up, and it's you, and I'm like, oh,
f I'm late for work. And I start panicking, like
ay Jed Crozier's on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I'm late, I'm light, gots the go beatfeet.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yes, And it turns out you were filling in for
Deborah Mark. Yeah, funny, I thought you did it. She
got sick.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah, she apparently got sick.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Oh it's too bad. I hope she has speed recovery
for her. But buddy, I thought you did great of
the news today. I thought you really knocked it out.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Thank you man. Yeah, it's what do we do?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I guess so, I guess.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
So.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I was watching the FIFA poll, you know where the
soccer or football whatever they call it up.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Was that exciting?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
But man, they got a lot of presidents to show
up at this thing, you know, a lot of high
ranking representatives to show up at the and I didn't.
I still don't understand what they were doing. Were they
pulling matches?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Okay? And and so look, my one of my favorite
human beings in the world is Kevin.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Hart but the comedian.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, but does he not have representation to tell him
not to stand next to a six foot three model?
That's all you could think about.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Was he doing there?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
He was? He was like warming up the crowd and
the entertainment. He was like the MC of it, all right,
And so he was there. You know, Kevin Hart is
you know, again, one of my favorite guys of all time.
I think The Man from Toronto's my favorite movies of
all time. I love that movie Man from Toronto. Oh
what a movie that is. And so he's up there,
(02:00):
he's doing as jokes he's doing, and Heidi Klumes standing
next to him. How tall is Kevin Hardy? I think
he's five to two. You know, it'll say he's five
six in online, but I think he's closer to five
to two, and then Heidi Klum five lower.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
There's been various reports on his height from five to
two to five four, but apparently it's five five.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Okay, it's not. It's five to two. So it's five two.
And you can you can get by in movies with
apple boxes and double apples, half apples, quarter apples, all
that crap, but you can't do that when you're on
a stage. It looks odd. Hide Klum is five nine, Okay,
Well I think she's six feet and with heels, she's
six two, and she's gonna wear heels, right, that's what
(02:44):
women do. And so she's a foot taller than he is.
And while I'm watching the draw for these matches, I
didn't hear a single country's name. I just kept looking
at that guy, going wow, man, she's an agent or manager.
Never and goes, hey, keV, you know you don't need
the money, you don't need the publicity. You don't need
(03:05):
to fly there. They're not gonna fly. They might be
flying your first class. I don't think it's a private jet.
I wouldn't do it.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
That man doesn't say no to anything.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Kevin Hart, Yeah, he's he had that that rose that
that Tom Brady Rose. Do you see that? I wish
that thing was longer. Four hours of roast thing.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah, stretch this out a little bit.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
But uh, Kevin Hart's one of the funniest guys in
the world, and and and and he should have done that.
I don't know who represents him? Do they?
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Does?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
They say there who represents him? Could we call the
agency and see if he has proper representation? If not,
I'd like to represent him. I think I could. I
could represent Kevin Hart, make him some more money maybe,
and certainly tell him not what not to do and
what not to do. And this today would be one
of those you're not going I wonder who he's Is
he with C A A, W M E?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Okay? And William Morris Agency is it? I guess William
Moore and Enterprises or what they call that nowadays?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
He has a global entertainment company. But yeah, signed with it,
But they say signed with WME for representation.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Okay, So I think it's William Morris Entertainment, is it? Yeah?
But okay, I got a story for you on William Morris.
I know you know this is a company town. I
can tell company stories. What the hell but William Morris
never had a TV division in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Endeavor is the E apparently.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Oh Endeavor. Oh okay, so it's William Morris Endeavor they combine, okay.
So William Morris was a big agency in New York
and they didn't have a TV department in Los Angeles
in the fifties, and so a guy named they hired
a guy named Phil Weltman who was a big executive
and a big agent at William Morris in New York,
(04:44):
and they flew him out to LA to start William
Morris Agency for TV in Los Angeles. And one of
William Morris's first clients and one of Phil Welman's first
clients was Tim Conway. Was my dad No, One of
the very first clients in the fifties. And all the
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guys that worked under Phil Weltman on his desk or
in his area for TV, they all left after about
five years and they all started CIA. That's how CIA
was started. All the guys that worked under my dad's
manager left William Morris and started CIA. And there's a
bronze bust of Phil Weltman in the in the lobby
(05:27):
of CIA. He because all those guys worked under him.
So here's a quick and again, I hope it's not
too inside show biz, but Phil Weltman invited us. He
was a really classic old time, old school Hollywood manager.
All the stereotypes, you know, to Martini lunch, doing back
(05:48):
room deals in smoke filled rooms and stuff like that.
He was really old school and he could never get
any of the names of the shows right that. He
wanted to ask my dad if he was interested in
he would you would call my dad And I remember
being on speaker phone that was only about I don't know,
fourteen fifteen, maybe sixteen, and he called by Dan. He goes, hey,
(06:08):
do you want to do a TV a new TV
show called Blue Street Blues? And my dad's I've never
heard of that. Is it anything like Hill Street Blues?
He goes, oh, yeah, maybe that's it. You know, your
manager calls you over the wrong title of the of
the show.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Yeah, any interest in being on the Vernon squirreling exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
So I think that's where Ronnie Shell, who used to
call into the Rick d Show, got that character of
always screwing up the names, you know, because that was
Phil Weltman and it was anyway I don't know why
I was talking about the Phil Welman. Oh, I say,
getting back to Kevin Hart, Kevin Hart has to be
(06:52):
told because evidently he'll just do anything. You cannot do
that to this guy. He's a world class comedian, very
funny guy. And you can't put him on stage where
everyone is looking at him because he's a foot shorter
than Heidi Clue, at least a foot. And you get distracted.
You don't see Argentina or Columbia or Brazil or Spain
(07:15):
or France or you know, or I don't know, or
Russia or whatever. All you do is you see a
guy who's five to two standing next to a woman
who's six too, and it's distracting, really distracting. But and
another thing for kids. This is a tip just for kids.
(07:35):
I understand. You guys go out and you work at
these small, little, you know, mom and pop places or
even a chain like you know, those juice places you
can get a juice or a coffee. Maybe it's someplace
where you can go in and get a falafel or
at a Mexican meal or whatever. But it's just a
mom and pop place. It's like it's like old school
KFC where there's no real seats in there. You just
(07:58):
go in and get your you know, your drink and
then you leave. And I went to a place like
that last night, and I knew they closed at nine
o'clock last night, so I got there at eight fifty
and the doors were locked, and I waved to the
girl inside. I go, hey, says nine on the door,
you're closed at eight fifty, and she's like, yeah, we're closed,
We're closed. And I thought to myself, oh, man, when
(08:22):
I was working at Amber's Chicken in the San Fernando
Valley my very first job, I was fifteen years old.
If I closed that door one second early and Ernie,
the owner found out, he would punch me in the
face about ten times. I know, I've seen it. I
saw that in action. But man, with these kids nowadays,
(08:45):
they got to get home, they got to get on TikTok,
they got to get on YouTube, they got to call
their friends, tech, their text their friends, FaceTime their friends.
They got to get out there and they leave the
store early. And I've seen that more than once. Ah Man,
When somebody when a business as they close at nine
pm and there's a little you know, young men or
young women working at the place. Good luck, it's not
(09:07):
at nine o'clock close. It's more like eight forty five,
eight fifty. And I don't know how these kids get
away with it, ma'am. I would have got my ass kicked,
probably chewed out, probably fired and asked never to come
back again. Somebody's walking through the door with money at
(09:27):
eight fifty five and you don't let them in. That
is some business man. That is some business practice. God,
if I own that place, I would have just torn
that that woman apart like a wishbone. Just what straw
with you? All right? We're live on KFI AM at
six forty It's Conway Show.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Friday, and this is gonna be the weekend where everybody
goes out and buys their Christmas tree. So if it's crowded,
warrange you a lot of people going out there and
doing it this weekend, Tomorrow, Tonight, Tomorrow Sunday they'll be
out there hitting Low's home depot. I noticed there are
not a lot of trees out this year. I don't
know if the shipments haven't arrived yet or what's going on.
(10:17):
But every time I go buy a tree lot, it's
either empty or they've got four trees. So may have
to buy it when you can so you can get one.
I've never seen it like that. I don't know what
that's all about. I don't know. I'll talk about Netflix.
They're going to buy Warner Brothers, HBO, Max, They're going
to buy everything, and if this deal goes through, might
(10:41):
be the biggest entertainment company in this town in Los Angeles.
So I don't know if it's a good deal or
bad deal. But let's get into the details first and
then we'll find out if it's good or bad. Who knows?
Who knows?
Speaker 6 (10:53):
And you've seen these entertainment correspondent chloeing the Loss and
Joints says, now, good to see you, Chloe.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
So Netflix beat out both Comcasts, Hours parent Company and
Paramount Skydance for this deal.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Tell us why they wanted Netflix so?
Speaker 7 (11:05):
Well, Well, there has been such a bidding war, and
you know at the end of the day now that
Netflix is going to have potentially if this deal goes through,
big movies and franchises like that.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah, big movie, huge movies and franchisees, the.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
Big Bang Theory, the Sopranos, Game of Thrones, the Wizard
of Oz in the DC universe. When you combine that
with things like Stranger Things and Bridgerton and adolescens, I mean,
this is historic, this is massive, but there are a
lot of hurdles to get through. A big question is
Warner Brothers. When you think of that, what do you
think of movie theaters?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Right?
Speaker 7 (11:40):
Netflix? Well, Netflix and chill y'all on your couch. So
what is this meme? Well, this morning, the head of Netflix,
Ted Sorrando's saying that their plan is to continue to
operate this iconic film studio with theatrical film releases.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
But now, okay, you know, Warner Brothers is a smart company.
They had an empty lot over here on Hollywood Way
and for do Go, it wasn't empty, but it was
just an old couple of old buildings where they shot
old TV shows or movies. And then about a year
and a half or two years ago, they leveled the
whole thing. That's where the pond is where the Friends
(12:16):
danced before in the opening of the show Friends, the
TV show Friends, and they fall into the pond. That's
where it is on for Dugo and Hollywood Way. So
they tore everything down about a year and a half
or two years ago, maybe thinking about the sale of
this company, and put up four or five huge sound
(12:37):
stages with office buildings and office space. I don't know
if there's any retail in there, but it's a huge
complex right in the middle of Magnolia Park area of Burbank.
So I think they knew Warner Brothers knew that they
were going to sell, and they wanted it to look better.
They wanted it to look like a huge company with
(12:59):
a you know, a lot of assets and so thirty
billion dollars. But I remember about six months ago we
did a story here about Netflix saying they needed more
money from all of us because they wanted to put
more money into programming. Well, then where do they get
the thirty billion dollars in cash? They must have been
sitting on that. So little fishing, little fishing, that's what's
(13:24):
going on. But that will be the biggest company in
Los Angeles. So if you've pissed off netflix 's very
few places you can go after that. If Netflix gets
Warner Brothers, that is going to be a major They'll
they'll rival Disney. Remember Disney bought Fox, and now Netflix
is going to buy Warner Brothers's.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Expected to be the biggest media company in the world.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Wow, man oh Man. And then Paramount I sold to
sky Dance, And so now you know, there are three
companies maybe four, that run show business. So don't piss
people off. Don't piss people off.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Don't kind of like what it was when Hollywood is
really starting to get going at the beginning of the
nineteenth century.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Exactly basically two or three companies.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
It's like all the stuff that's that's happening right now,
things like this, it's almost exactly what happened one hundred
years ago.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Right Remember mob Bell ran the phone service, right, and
then they rid of that in the seventies early eighties,
and they broke that up and then all came back
together again. Yeah, you know eight years later. Look, these
big companies have a way of getting everybody's money, and
you know they so you just have to you have
to resign yourself to you're just going to pay all
(14:38):
of your money to these companies. You know why FI.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Did they figure out a way.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Because look this okay, let me answer your question. Crowzy,
you're playing monopoly. Sure, okay, how to think about this
for a second. How does monopoly end when everybody else
goes broke? That's right, has one guy has everything? When
one guy has a monopoly, he has everything. He's got
all the proper and he's got all the cash. Okay,
(15:02):
that's what billionaires are created about one hundred years ago, right, exactly,
that's what billionaires are. They have all the money and
they're eating at fancy restaurants, taking private planes with four
hundred foot yachts, and meanwhile club right, and meanwhile there
are guys sleeping under the one oh one. Yeah, you know.
(15:22):
So it's exactly able. It's exactly like monopoly. It's exactly
like monopoly.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
It's not the game of life.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
No, did you ever go to college on the game
of life? When you started? You know, you start that
game and then you spend you can go to college
or past college. I was about to college. That's the
only time I went to college a life. That's right.
Then you're putting the blue and the and the pink
kids in the car, you know, buzz around with them
(15:51):
until they get in a car wreck. Then you lose
one or two of those suckers. That was a great
game game of life. I enjoyed that.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Man.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I love how they had the little the little, the
little roulette wheel instead of a die.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yeah right, yeah, yeah yeah, a bang yeah, two spaces.
That was a cool game. It was a game of
unbelievable luck, but not Monopoly. Was a game of skill
in our family, the all the you know, I always won.
I always had like this. Yeah, I always always want
to made my No, I didn't. I didn't bank, but
I kept an eye on the banker. Yeah, especially if
(16:22):
my sister was banking. That was a game of skill.
How skillful you can hide them five when you did
when you had to pay a fine to to go
in the middle and everybody gets it on free parking?
Yeah man, yeah that was another that was way to
five dollars luxury tax. That's right. Cool way to get
back to the even is that the free parking. It
was a great game. But I do have a secret.
(16:43):
I don't want to say what it is because then
I my family will be onto it and then they
could beat me. But I have a secret to winning
that game that I don't want to reveal. But I
went I like ninety nine percent of the time ninety
nine percent. I'll tell you what it is we get back.
I'm going to tell you the secret to winning Monopoly,
and you can win ninety nine percent of the time.
If you play Monopoly with your family and you do
(17:03):
what I tell you, you'll win ninety nine percent of
the time.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Before we get to Alex Michaelson. Here's how you win
at Monopoly every time. When the properties are all gone
and you start to trade properties, only trade after you roll,
so there's going to be four more people roll after first.
Before you roll, then find out where all the people
are going to be on the board where there're one
roll away from either yellow, red, green, or whatever properties
(17:37):
one roll away. Do everything you can to buy those properties,
either the red, yellow, or green or blue boardwalk in
park plays and then load up with hotels and have
them come around and hit a hotel when they're almost broke,
and then don't let them up at all. Don't let
the if they owe you seven hundred dollars and they
have six hundred and ninety five, they're out there out
(18:00):
take everything and they're gone. I can. I can win
with that strategy about ninety nine percent of the time
in monopoly. I'm not kidding you. It works about ninety
nine percent of the time. I can't remember last time
I lost that monopoly. And it frustrates the hell out
of my brothers and my sister. It makes them crazy
that I win every time. It's strategy, just strategy, that's
(18:21):
all it is. It's like life, all right. Speaking of strategy,
Alex Michaelson left Fox to go to CNN, and that's
a big move. Let's find out how that's going, Alex.
Welcome to KFI. How you Bob, John giged along with you, buddy,
How CNN.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
It's going. Well, it's been busy. It's been a lot
of fun.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I bet you're kicking ass over there.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Thank you very much, as are you.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Who's well please? You know we're just, you know, doing
the same old shtick. We just get a different audience every.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Once in a while.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
It's like my my my wife accused is me of
not changing my material, just changing friends.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
So material has been successful and kept you on the
air for many, many years.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
People knock on, would buddy, I I will say that
it's really been busy here. And this pipe bomb suspect
is a big deal. What's your take on that?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Uh? I honestly don't know about that one.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Oh no, the guy that in Washington, d C with
the pipe bomb who was at the d n C
and the r n C.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
They arrested this right, yes, yeah, no, I mean it's
it's interesting after all this time and why now after
all this time? Right? Interesting question? I know, And to
understand his backstory is really interesting. We we don't know
much yet in terms of a motive on him, and
(19:55):
I want to know more about him.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Hey, what's any any big guests coming to you know what?
I nine o'clock every night on CNN.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
We're nine to eleven PM. Yes, tonight we are talking
to Phil Rosenthal. Somebody feed Phil. Everybody loves Raymond's frame.
He's got the hottest new restaurant in LA It's called
Max and Helen's, which is named after his parents. It's
a forty seat diner in Larchmont that is like the
(20:26):
most viral place hours long. Wait, it just opened like
two weeks ago, and it is crazy how this place
is being talked about. Nancy Silverton, one of the best
chefs in all of the world really worked with Phil
on this, and so we have a profile with them
and hanging with Phil and the way that food can
bring us together and bridge our partisan divides and everything
(20:49):
else sharing a meal with somebody. So I'm really proud
of that. Actually about to be on pre and N
in about fifteen minutes with it. I'm right outside there
right now, and we have that tonight. We've got Sammy
Hagar's joining tonight. Wow Locker from Van Halen. I've been
joining us live from Hawaii. He's about to do a
big concert in Vegas. And then he's one of the
(21:11):
most charitable people I've ever met. He grew up really
poor in southern California in Orange County, was reliant on
food pantries as a kid because his mom didn't have
enough money. And so now every single city he goes
to for years and years, he visits a food pantry
on every tour stop. He is just at this moment
(21:31):
when a lot of people are struggling with food issues.
He's increasing his donations, increasing his investment to try to
help people. So we're talking to him about some of
that stuff, which is really interesting talking to you Andrea
Boat Shelley is joining us tonight. He just was at
the White House with President Trump. So we're doing, yesked,
(21:52):
we're doing the politics stuff and getting into that, but
we're also doing some other cool cultural stuff that hopefully
can bring people together as well.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Buddy, that's great that you made that big move. I
hope that works out. How is the takeover of Warner
Brothers going to affect you over there at CNN.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Well, we're trying to figure it out. So basically they're
splitting the company into two, So CNN and CNT and
you know some of the other you know, media assets
would be their own company, so we would not be
a part of Netflix. This is already sort of in
the works of splitting the company into two. There were
(22:31):
some rumors that if Paramount was the one to buy it,
that they wanted to buy all of the company together,
which means CNN would combine with CBS News. But now
it appears that CNN is going to be its own company,
the way that MSNBC just became its own company. So
what exactly that means, I don't know. It's all very new,
(22:53):
but that's probably going to roll out sometime. You know,
the middle to end of next year.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Do you take it personally that Netflix doesn't want you.
I was a little offended, but I would be doing.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
That's okay, that's okay. I mean, they're they're they're they're
clearly got deep pockets and they know what they're doing.
It's a it's a bummer to not be a part
of that, but you know, that's a way above my pay.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
You know, I was watching Alex Michaelson's with Us from
Cianna and nine to eleven every night here on. I
was watching the thirtieth anniversary If Everyone Loves Raymond, one
of my favorite shows in the world, and I got
handed to Phil Rosenthal, to my tutored eye, because I've
seen a lot of these reunion shows. I've been to
a couple myself. He seemed to be the only one
(23:41):
that cared he was there.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I gotta say, I got a chance to sit down
with m and have a meal with him, which is
obviously his thing. You know, somebody beats down to people.
He is one of the coolest people I have ever met.
You see why very unaffected Joe beloved. His energy is incredible.
He's just a great person to be around and uh,
and that that vibe is really a thing at this restaurant.
(24:08):
I think it's a big reason why it's so successful.
It's also cool that it's a family business, so his
his daughter, uh and his son in law are helping
to run the business and they're involved. And it's just
it's a really great vibes there. And so how long
I think you'd like the place. It's only been open
for about two weeks. Yeah, brand new.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
See okay. And what's the food? Is you like coffee
diner style food?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yeah, diner food, like with a twist done by you know,
like the best diner food you've ever had. And they're
they have really really viral oak shakes and then also
they're hot chocolate with marshmallows is something they're known for.
It's really it's really cool.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
How's the pricing.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yeah, well it's not the cheapest, but it's but it's
they said, it's compart it's comparable with other restaurants. It's
not it's not Denny's, but it's.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
The name of it. It's not Denny's.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
It's not a little better pancakes than the Rudy tooty,
fresh and fruity.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
You know. I take that back. Patricia Heaton also pretended
like at least they you know, it felt like she
wanted to be there, but everyone else has just burned
out on the reunion. I don't even know why they
did it.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Did you see him? I saw some clips of it.
I haven't seen the whole thing, but I think that's
I think that's kind of their vibe. Though, that's kind
of like ray and Brad Garrett's vibe. Right, it's not
really That's.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Okay, all right, then then continue on with the stick
and don't do.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
It right, Yeah, hopefully they got paid. Well.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, Raymond's great though, he's one of the funniest guys
in the world and one of the nicest dudes in
the world as well. And Brad Garrett is amazing.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Oh sorry, I mean he cuts you off. This is
an amazing because I watched many of the clips of
that show preparing for this piece. How it's still so funny.
It's great all these years later. And one of the
things that Phil talked about with me is this idea
that he did not do jokes about current events on purpose.
One he didn't want to offend half the country, and
(26:20):
two he wanted to create a show that would be timeless.
So he made the jokes about relationships and situations, not
about you know, the Bush administration or wherever it was
at the right time, but the prime. Because of that,
the show still works okay.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
But the problem with doing a clip show with everyone
Loves Raymond is it was a half hour build up
to a very funny line or a very funny scene,
and you don't get the build up. You just get
that punchline. And that's the reason not to do these
reunion shows.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
You're you're really frustrated by this for you, yeah, because
it's my It was one of my favorite shows in
the world, and I felt like killing everybody on that show.
The Friends reunion was also pretty awful.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I didn't see that it was.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
They even brought James Cordon onto the set, and that
kind of ruined it for a lot of people too.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
I didn't look at that, buddy. I I wish you
the most success over there. If we don't get to
speak to you again before the holidays, I have a
merry Christmas, Happy Honk, a happy New Year, and please
say hi to your mom and dad, two of my
favorite people in the valley.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I will they love you also tonight. I forgot to
say Chris Matthews is going to be joining us all
wow too.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah, that's great. Every time I see him on on
social media, it's I get a shiver up my leg
or a tingle of.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
My There you.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Buddy, I appreciate you coming on every every weeknight nine
to eleven pm on CNN. OK, nice to talk to you, man,
take with you all right? There he goes Alex Michaelson.
That guy is great.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Mayo from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I read an article today that generation Z. I think
that's the youngest now. I think they're in college or
you know, just out of high school, in college, just
getting their career started, you know, maybe starting a family
that they're they're early birds. They don't go to dinner
at seven o'clock or seven thirty. They go to dinner
at five. They've changed their whole vibe. And I don't
(28:36):
know how that started. Where you go to dinner someone,
we're going four thirty five o'clock. Yeah, let's go to dinner.
What time? Five?
Speaker 2 (28:43):
What?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Five? It's like I just add.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Lunch, right, that's exactly what I mean.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
I always thought, how weird is it that all so
many places that open for dinner open at four thirty five?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yeah right, Like, who's I think? I thought it was
for seniors. You know, I'm the senior special. But these
kids are doing it now. You know the kids are
going out. I think they're trying to get better deals.
I think you get there earlier, you might get a
saved money. Yeah right, yeah, save some money. Also, we're
ordering pizzas differently than before. Pizza night is changing. It's
(29:19):
a big deal in the United States. We're all doing
it as a big country here.
Speaker 8 (29:23):
It's the ultimate comfort food.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
I'm having a relationship with my pizza.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
From football games and birthday parties to those relaxing nightsines.
I love what He's.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Pizza just for me one of my relatives and I'm
i gonna say who it is? I said, she said, oh,
when I want something quick, and I just I always
I love pizza. I'm like, wow, what a what an
original take in life? When I want something quick and
to eat, I grab a slice of pizza. How original?
(29:59):
What A got him? Mighty? That hit me out of
left field? Wait what was it again? When you want
something quaky. Grab a sliced pizza. Oh, I'll write that down.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
But are our pie preferences changing?
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Everyone still wants to order pizza, they're just changing the
ordered style.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
Lauren Paddleford works for Slice, an online ordering platform for
fifteen thousand independent pizzerias. In what ways are pizza orders
looking different nowadays?
Speaker 5 (30:25):
You definitely see a shift in size. You see people
ordering smaller pizzas. They're reducing in some cases the topping
count in most of.
Speaker 8 (30:33):
Those cases, He says the shift coming from price conscious consumers,
as the national average for a large cheese pizza has
grown to nearly seventeen dollars seventeen bucks.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
That's a steal. Where's that all large pizza are? All
pizzas nowadays are twenty five dollars?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
You know?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
You go to Joe's. Pizza's my favorite. There's a ton
of well, I think five of them. There's one, there's
a great one in Sherman, alex Is. No one in
the Studio city as well, and it's twenty four dollars
plus tip. It's twenty seven dollars for a pizza. And
pizzas are pretty inexpensive to make, but I will pay
for Joe's because it's great. It's really terrific.
Speaker 8 (31:10):
Up twenty two percent in the past five years, and
that's before you add in any toppings.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
I definitely notice each topping is usually an extra fifty
cents to a dollar.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
So where are you going where a topping is fifty cents,
a topping is three dollars nowadays fifty cents.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
Fifty cents to a dollar, so it might just go
with the pepperoni is simply cheaper.
Speaker 8 (31:34):
Some pizzerias have felt the pinch. Pizza High has been
battling sinking sales for over a year.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
I didn't know that. I thought pizza was hotter than hell.
It's the greatest food in the world.
Speaker 8 (31:43):
Pizza High has been battling sinking sales for over a year.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Oh oh no, not pizza Pizza hut Ah, Okay, I
get it.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
And last month Papa John.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Although I will say there's nothing like that individual personal
pan pizza from Pizza Hut. Oh they're great, pepperoni on
it like cheese. Keep it in the oven for another
thirty seconds. Oh, it's the greatest meal in the world.
I'm gonna get one tonight.
Speaker 8 (32:09):
And last month, Papa John said, conscious customers have been
downsizing to medium pizzas with fewer toppings and sides.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
What did the cheese pizza become?
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Twenty three dollars?
Speaker 8 (32:20):
Pushing up those prices in part the rising cost of
some ingredients things like.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
Us in Italian tomatoes that we use that's gone and
stayed up of twenty.
Speaker 8 (32:29):
Five percent, prompting Joe's Pizza in New York City to
tack on an extra fifty cents a slice in recent years.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
What is the one where you is it Papa Murphy's
where you got to take it home and cook it yourself?
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Oh god? How do think another one is there?
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Well they put it together for you, You take it home
and you put it in your oven, and it always
is horrible, you know, because yeah, well because your pizza
oven doesn't go to eight hundred. Your oven doesn't go
to eight hundred degrees.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Oh right, yeah, yeah, it doesn't get that heat that
you really.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
You need it. That's why they sell the pizza ovens.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Yeah, even the pictures on their website they look like
frozen pizzas.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
They well, I think they're pretty close. But if you
have a pizza oven, that's a good move. That's a
good move. But if you don't have a pizza oven,
then take it to Dominoes and have them cook it
over there for oh yeah, right, or a Pizza Hut.
I wonder if you can do that? Can you bet
you could? Can you take up Papa Murphy's into Pizza
Hut and go, hey, put this troop for me, will you?
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Hey, fellas, can you throw this in there?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
I'll give you a couple of bucks. Right, watch order ours. Okay,
I'm gonna go next door to Dominoes. Hey, you got
to throw this through the oven. I think that's got
to be tremendously insulting for the people that work at
Pizza Hut or Dominoes, where you bring a pizza in
and go, hey, I got this to Papa Murphy's. Can
you stick that through your up?
Speaker 3 (33:47):
I had a place where I lived at Maryland.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
You know, it's that it was one of those rural
counties that I lived in that had a pizza place
that that that gave you all the ingredients to take home,
but it was like fresh made dough and that was fancas.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Yeah. But there's a reason why those old pizza ovens
are expensive and valuable. It's because they do get to
eight hundred degrees that heat.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Man.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah, that's what you need in a pizza. That is
the key to pizza. Nothing. Do you have a pizza
oven at.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Home one of those oonies?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Oh you do.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
The propane you probably used it ten times a month
when you got it. Have you used it recently?
Speaker 4 (34:21):
The backyard ain't exactly set it for it, but it's
I still got it, man, ye yeah, yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
We just empty place for it. You know, I hit
one another thing and another thing to wash.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
I gotta I have to build a whole backyard grill
before I get that's you're working.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
You're always working in that backyard, man.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
I was just thinking about that earlier. Man, too old.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
I love the story you told where you know, you
worked for like ten hours working your ass off outside
it's summer, it's one hundred degrees, and then you sit
on the couch to watch five minutes of TV, and
then Gen comes in. You're like, you know, I've been
working a whole day.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Is impeccable? Like, oh nice sitting on the couch.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Hey, I was outside for ten hours.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Alright.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
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and Dog with you, and I hear Krozier all day long.
I thought I was I had a I went to
I got up early. You got up at five o'clock
this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
So yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
So on one o'clock, I was watching TV and I'm like,
I'm gonna catch you a twenty minute nap, and I
and the the clock radio clock, the clock radio goes
off to wake me up, and it's you, and I'm like, oh,
f I'm late for work. And I start panicking, like
ay Jed Crozier's on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I'm late, I'm light, gots the go beatfeet.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yes, And it turns out you were filling in for
Deborah Mark. Yeah, funny, I thought you did it. She
got sick.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah, she apparently got sick.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Oh it's too bad. I hope she has speed recovery
for her. But buddy, I thought you did great of
the news today. I thought you really knocked it out.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Thank you man. Yeah, it's what do we do?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I guess so, I guess.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
So.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I was watching the FIFA poll, you know where the
soccer or football whatever they call it up.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Was that exciting?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
But man, they got a lot of presidents to show
up at this thing, you know, a lot of high
ranking representatives to show up at the and I didn't.
I still don't understand what they were doing. Were they
pulling matches?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Okay? And and so look, my one of my favorite
human beings in the world is Kevin.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Hart but the comedian.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, but does he not have representation to tell him
not to stand next to a six foot three model?
That's all you could think about.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Was he doing there?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
He was? He was like warming up the crowd and
the entertainment. He was like the MC of it, all right,
And so he was there. You know, Kevin Hart is
you know, again, one of my favorite guys of all time.
I think The Man from Toronto's my favorite movies of
all time. I love that movie Man from Toronto. Oh
what a movie that is. And so he's up there,
(02:00):
he's doing as jokes he's doing, and Heidi Klumes standing
next to him. How tall is Kevin Hardy? I think
he's five to two. You know, it'll say he's five
six in online, but I think he's closer to five
to two, and then Heidi Klum five lower.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
There's been various reports on his height from five to
two to five four, but apparently it's five five.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Okay, it's not. It's five to two. So it's five two.
And you can you can get by in movies with
apple boxes and double apples, half apples, quarter apples, all
that crap, but you can't do that when you're on
a stage. It looks odd. Hide Klum is five nine, Okay,
Well I think she's six feet and with heels, she's
six two, and she's gonna wear heels, right, that's what
(02:44):
women do. And so she's a foot taller than he is.
And while I'm watching the draw for these matches, I
didn't hear a single country's name. I just kept looking
at that guy, going wow, man, she's an agent or manager.
Never and goes, hey, keV, you know you don't need
the money, you don't need the publicity. You don't need
(03:05):
to fly there. They're not gonna fly. They might be
flying your first class. I don't think it's a private jet.
I wouldn't do it.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
That man doesn't say no to anything.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Kevin Hart, Yeah, he's he had that that rose that
that Tom Brady Rose. Do you see that? I wish
that thing was longer. Four hours of roast thing.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah, stretch this out a little bit.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
But uh, Kevin Hart's one of the funniest guys in
the world, and and and and he should have done that.
I don't know who represents him? Do they?
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Does?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
They say there who represents him? Could we call the
agency and see if he has proper representation? If not,
I'd like to represent him. I think I could. I
could represent Kevin Hart, make him some more money maybe,
and certainly tell him not what not to do and
what not to do. And this today would be one
of those you're not going I wonder who he's Is
he with C A A, W M E?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Okay? And William Morris Agency is it? I guess William
Moore and Enterprises or what they call that nowadays?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
He has a global entertainment company. But yeah, signed with it,
But they say signed with WME for representation.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Okay, So I think it's William Morris Entertainment, is it? Yeah?
But okay, I got a story for you on William Morris.
I know you know this is a company town. I
can tell company stories. What the hell but William Morris
never had a TV division in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Endeavor is the E apparently.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Oh Endeavor. Oh okay, so it's William Morris Endeavor they combine, okay.
So William Morris was a big agency in New York
and they didn't have a TV department in Los Angeles
in the fifties, and so a guy named they hired
a guy named Phil Weltman who was a big executive
and a big agent at William Morris in New York,
(04:44):
and they flew him out to LA to start William
Morris Agency for TV in Los Angeles. And one of
William Morris's first clients and one of Phil Welman's first
clients was Tim Conway. Was my dad No, One of
the very first clients in the fifties. And all the
(05:04):
guys that worked under Phil Weltman on his desk or
in his area for TV, they all left after about
five years and they all started CIA. That's how CIA
was started. All the guys that worked under my dad's
manager left William Morris and started CIA. And there's a
bronze bust of Phil Weltman in the in the lobby
(05:27):
of CIA. He because all those guys worked under him.
So here's a quick and again, I hope it's not
too inside show biz, but Phil Weltman invited us. He
was a really classic old time, old school Hollywood manager.
All the stereotypes, you know, to Martini lunch, doing back
(05:48):
room deals in smoke filled rooms and stuff like that.
He was really old school and he could never get
any of the names of the shows right that. He
wanted to ask my dad if he was interested in
he would you would call my dad And I remember
being on speaker phone that was only about I don't know,
fourteen fifteen, maybe sixteen, and he called by Dan. He goes, hey,
(06:08):
do you want to do a TV a new TV
show called Blue Street Blues? And my dad's I've never
heard of that. Is it anything like Hill Street Blues?
He goes, oh, yeah, maybe that's it. You know, your
manager calls you over the wrong title of the of
the show.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Yeah, any interest in being on the Vernon squirreling exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
So I think that's where Ronnie Shell, who used to
call into the Rick d Show, got that character of
always screwing up the names, you know, because that was
Phil Weltman and it was anyway I don't know why
I was talking about the Phil Welman. Oh, I say,
getting back to Kevin Hart, Kevin Hart has to be
(06:52):
told because evidently he'll just do anything. You cannot do
that to this guy. He's a world class comedian, very
funny guy. And you can't put him on stage where
everyone is looking at him because he's a foot shorter
than Heidi Clue, at least a foot. And you get distracted.
You don't see Argentina or Columbia or Brazil or Spain
(07:15):
or France or you know, or I don't know, or
Russia or whatever. All you do is you see a
guy who's five to two standing next to a woman
who's six too, and it's distracting, really distracting. But and
another thing for kids. This is a tip just for kids.
(07:35):
I understand. You guys go out and you work at
these small, little, you know, mom and pop places or
even a chain like you know, those juice places you
can get a juice or a coffee. Maybe it's someplace
where you can go in and get a falafel or
at a Mexican meal or whatever. But it's just a
mom and pop place. It's like it's like old school
KFC where there's no real seats in there. You just
(07:58):
go in and get your you know, your drink and
then you leave. And I went to a place like
that last night, and I knew they closed at nine
o'clock last night, so I got there at eight fifty
and the doors were locked, and I waved to the
girl inside. I go, hey, says nine on the door,
you're closed at eight fifty, and she's like, yeah, we're closed,
We're closed. And I thought to myself, oh, man, when
(08:22):
I was working at Amber's Chicken in the San Fernando
Valley my very first job, I was fifteen years old.
If I closed that door one second early and Ernie,
the owner found out, he would punch me in the
face about ten times. I know, I've seen it. I
saw that in action. But man, with these kids nowadays,
(08:45):
they got to get home, they got to get on TikTok,
they got to get on YouTube, they got to call
their friends, tech, their text their friends, FaceTime their friends.
They got to get out there and they leave the
store early. And I've seen that more than once. Ah Man,
When somebody when a business as they close at nine
pm and there's a little you know, young men or
young women working at the place. Good luck, it's not
(09:07):
at nine o'clock close. It's more like eight forty five,
eight fifty. And I don't know how these kids get
away with it, ma'am. I would have got my ass kicked,
probably chewed out, probably fired and asked never to come
back again. Somebody's walking through the door with money at
(09:27):
eight fifty five and you don't let them in. That
is some business man. That is some business practice. God,
if I own that place, I would have just torn
that that woman apart like a wishbone. Just what straw
with you? All right? We're live on KFI AM at
six forty It's Conway Show.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Friday, and this is gonna be the weekend where everybody
goes out and buys their Christmas tree. So if it's crowded,
warrange you a lot of people going out there and
doing it this weekend, Tomorrow, Tonight, Tomorrow Sunday they'll be
out there hitting Low's home depot. I noticed there are
not a lot of trees out this year. I don't
know if the shipments haven't arrived yet or what's going on.
(10:17):
But every time I go buy a tree lot, it's
either empty or they've got four trees. So may have
to buy it when you can so you can get one.
I've never seen it like that. I don't know what
that's all about. I don't know. I'll talk about Netflix.
They're going to buy Warner Brothers, HBO, Max, They're going
to buy everything, and if this deal goes through, might
(10:41):
be the biggest entertainment company in this town in Los Angeles.
So I don't know if it's a good deal or
bad deal. But let's get into the details first and
then we'll find out if it's good or bad. Who knows?
Who knows?
Speaker 6 (10:53):
And you've seen these entertainment correspondent chloeing the Loss and
Joints says, now, good to see you, Chloe.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
So Netflix beat out both Comcasts, Hours parent Company and
Paramount Skydance for this deal.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Tell us why they wanted Netflix so?
Speaker 7 (11:05):
Well, Well, there has been such a bidding war, and
you know at the end of the day now that
Netflix is going to have potentially if this deal goes through,
big movies and franchises like that.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah, big movie, huge movies and franchisees, the.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
Big Bang Theory, the Sopranos, Game of Thrones, the Wizard
of Oz in the DC universe. When you combine that
with things like Stranger Things and Bridgerton and adolescens, I mean,
this is historic, this is massive, but there are a
lot of hurdles to get through. A big question is
Warner Brothers. When you think of that, what do you
think of movie theaters?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Right?
Speaker 7 (11:40):
Netflix? Well, Netflix and chill y'all on your couch. So
what is this meme? Well, this morning, the head of Netflix,
Ted Sorrando's saying that their plan is to continue to
operate this iconic film studio with theatrical film releases.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
But now, okay, you know, Warner Brothers is a smart company.
They had an empty lot over here on Hollywood Way
and for do Go, it wasn't empty, but it was
just an old couple of old buildings where they shot
old TV shows or movies. And then about a year
and a half or two years ago, they leveled the
whole thing. That's where the pond is where the Friends
(12:16):
danced before in the opening of the show Friends, the
TV show Friends, and they fall into the pond. That's
where it is on for Dugo and Hollywood Way. So
they tore everything down about a year and a half
or two years ago, maybe thinking about the sale of
this company, and put up four or five huge sound
(12:37):
stages with office buildings and office space. I don't know
if there's any retail in there, but it's a huge
complex right in the middle of Magnolia Park area of Burbank.
So I think they knew Warner Brothers knew that they
were going to sell, and they wanted it to look better.
They wanted it to look like a huge company with
(12:59):
a you know, a lot of assets and so thirty
billion dollars. But I remember about six months ago we
did a story here about Netflix saying they needed more
money from all of us because they wanted to put
more money into programming. Well, then where do they get
the thirty billion dollars in cash? They must have been
sitting on that. So little fishing, little fishing, that's what's
(13:24):
going on. But that will be the biggest company in
Los Angeles. So if you've pissed off netflix 's very
few places you can go after that. If Netflix gets
Warner Brothers, that is going to be a major They'll
they'll rival Disney. Remember Disney bought Fox, and now Netflix
is going to buy Warner Brothers's.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Expected to be the biggest media company in the world.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Wow, man oh Man. And then Paramount I sold to
sky Dance, And so now you know, there are three
companies maybe four, that run show business. So don't piss
people off. Don't piss people off.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Don't kind of like what it was when Hollywood is
really starting to get going at the beginning of the
nineteenth century.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Exactly basically two or three companies.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
It's like all the stuff that's that's happening right now,
things like this, it's almost exactly what happened one hundred
years ago.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Right Remember mob Bell ran the phone service, right, and
then they rid of that in the seventies early eighties,
and they broke that up and then all came back
together again. Yeah, you know eight years later. Look, these
big companies have a way of getting everybody's money, and
you know they so you just have to you have
to resign yourself to you're just going to pay all
(14:38):
of your money to these companies. You know why FI.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Did they figure out a way.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Because look this okay, let me answer your question. Crowzy,
you're playing monopoly. Sure, okay, how to think about this
for a second. How does monopoly end when everybody else
goes broke? That's right, has one guy has everything? When
one guy has a monopoly, he has everything. He's got
all the proper and he's got all the cash. Okay,
(15:02):
that's what billionaires are created about one hundred years ago, right, exactly,
that's what billionaires are. They have all the money and
they're eating at fancy restaurants, taking private planes with four
hundred foot yachts, and meanwhile club right, and meanwhile there
are guys sleeping under the one oh one. Yeah, you know.
(15:22):
So it's exactly able. It's exactly like monopoly. It's exactly
like monopoly.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
It's not the game of life.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
No, did you ever go to college on the game
of life? When you started? You know, you start that
game and then you spend you can go to college
or past college. I was about to college. That's the
only time I went to college a life. That's right.
Then you're putting the blue and the and the pink
kids in the car, you know, buzz around with them
(15:51):
until they get in a car wreck. Then you lose
one or two of those suckers. That was a great
game game of life. I enjoyed that.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Man.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I love how they had the little the little, the
little roulette wheel instead of a die.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yeah right, yeah, yeah yeah, a bang yeah, two spaces.
That was a cool game. It was a game of
unbelievable luck, but not Monopoly. Was a game of skill
in our family, the all the you know, I always won.
I always had like this. Yeah, I always always want
to made my No, I didn't. I didn't bank, but
I kept an eye on the banker. Yeah, especially if
(16:22):
my sister was banking. That was a game of skill.
How skillful you can hide them five when you did
when you had to pay a fine to to go
in the middle and everybody gets it on free parking?
Yeah man, yeah that was another that was way to
five dollars luxury tax. That's right. Cool way to get
back to the even is that the free parking. It
was a great game. But I do have a secret.
(16:43):
I don't want to say what it is because then
I my family will be onto it and then they
could beat me. But I have a secret to winning
that game that I don't want to reveal. But I
went I like ninety nine percent of the time ninety
nine percent. I'll tell you what it is we get back.
I'm going to tell you the secret to winning Monopoly,
and you can win ninety nine percent of the time.
If you play Monopoly with your family and you do
(17:03):
what I tell you, you'll win ninety nine percent of
the time.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Before we get to Alex Michaelson. Here's how you win
at Monopoly every time. When the properties are all gone
and you start to trade properties, only trade after you roll,
so there's going to be four more people roll after first.
Before you roll, then find out where all the people
are going to be on the board where there're one
roll away from either yellow, red, green, or whatever properties
(17:37):
one roll away. Do everything you can to buy those properties,
either the red, yellow, or green or blue boardwalk in
park plays and then load up with hotels and have
them come around and hit a hotel when they're almost broke,
and then don't let them up at all. Don't let
the if they owe you seven hundred dollars and they
have six hundred and ninety five, they're out there out
(18:00):
take everything and they're gone. I can. I can win
with that strategy about ninety nine percent of the time
in monopoly. I'm not kidding you. It works about ninety
nine percent of the time. I can't remember last time
I lost that monopoly. And it frustrates the hell out
of my brothers and my sister. It makes them crazy
that I win every time. It's strategy, just strategy, that's
(18:21):
all it is. It's like life, all right. Speaking of strategy,
Alex Michaelson left Fox to go to CNN, and that's
a big move. Let's find out how that's going, Alex.
Welcome to KFI. How you Bob, John giged along with you, buddy,
How CNN.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
It's going. Well, it's been busy. It's been a lot
of fun.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I bet you're kicking ass over there.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Thank you very much, as are you.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Who's well please? You know we're just, you know, doing
the same old shtick. We just get a different audience every.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Once in a while.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
It's like my my my wife accused is me of
not changing my material, just changing friends.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
So material has been successful and kept you on the
air for many, many years.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
People knock on, would buddy, I I will say that
it's really been busy here. And this pipe bomb suspect
is a big deal. What's your take on that?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Uh? I honestly don't know about that one.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Oh no, the guy that in Washington, d C with
the pipe bomb who was at the d n C
and the r n C.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
They arrested this right, yes, yeah, no, I mean it's
it's interesting after all this time and why now after
all this time? Right? Interesting question? I know, And to
understand his backstory is really interesting. We we don't know
much yet in terms of a motive on him, and
(19:55):
I want to know more about him.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Hey, what's any any big guests coming to you know what?
I nine o'clock every night on CNN.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
We're nine to eleven PM. Yes, tonight we are talking
to Phil Rosenthal. Somebody feed Phil. Everybody loves Raymond's frame.
He's got the hottest new restaurant in LA It's called
Max and Helen's, which is named after his parents. It's
a forty seat diner in Larchmont that is like the
(20:26):
most viral place hours long. Wait, it just opened like
two weeks ago, and it is crazy how this place
is being talked about. Nancy Silverton, one of the best
chefs in all of the world really worked with Phil
on this, and so we have a profile with them
and hanging with Phil and the way that food can
bring us together and bridge our partisan divides and everything
(20:49):
else sharing a meal with somebody. So I'm really proud
of that. Actually about to be on pre and N
in about fifteen minutes with it. I'm right outside there
right now, and we have that tonight. We've got Sammy
Hagar's joining tonight. Wow Locker from Van Halen. I've been
joining us live from Hawaii. He's about to do a
big concert in Vegas. And then he's one of the
(21:11):
most charitable people I've ever met. He grew up really
poor in southern California in Orange County, was reliant on
food pantries as a kid because his mom didn't have
enough money. And so now every single city he goes
to for years and years, he visits a food pantry
on every tour stop. He is just at this moment
(21:31):
when a lot of people are struggling with food issues.
He's increasing his donations, increasing his investment to try to
help people. So we're talking to him about some of
that stuff, which is really interesting talking to you Andrea
Boat Shelley is joining us tonight. He just was at
the White House with President Trump. So we're doing, yesked,
(21:52):
we're doing the politics stuff and getting into that, but
we're also doing some other cool cultural stuff that hopefully
can bring people together as well.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Buddy, that's great that you made that big move. I
hope that works out. How is the takeover of Warner
Brothers going to affect you over there at CNN.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Well, we're trying to figure it out. So basically they're
splitting the company into two, So CNN and CNT and
you know some of the other you know, media assets
would be their own company, so we would not be
a part of Netflix. This is already sort of in
the works of splitting the company into two. There were
(22:31):
some rumors that if Paramount was the one to buy it,
that they wanted to buy all of the company together,
which means CNN would combine with CBS News. But now
it appears that CNN is going to be its own company,
the way that MSNBC just became its own company. So
what exactly that means, I don't know. It's all very new,
(22:53):
but that's probably going to roll out sometime. You know,
the middle to end of next year.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Do you take it personally that Netflix doesn't want you.
I was a little offended, but I would be doing.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
That's okay, that's okay. I mean, they're they're they're they're
clearly got deep pockets and they know what they're doing.
It's a it's a bummer to not be a part
of that, but you know, that's a way above my pay.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
You know, I was watching Alex Michaelson's with Us from
Cianna and nine to eleven every night here on. I
was watching the thirtieth anniversary If Everyone Loves Raymond, one
of my favorite shows in the world, and I got
handed to Phil Rosenthal, to my tutored eye, because I've
seen a lot of these reunion shows. I've been to
a couple myself. He seemed to be the only one
(23:41):
that cared he was there.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I gotta say, I got a chance to sit down
with m and have a meal with him, which is
obviously his thing. You know, somebody beats down to people.
He is one of the coolest people I have ever met.
You see why very unaffected Joe beloved. His energy is incredible.
He's just a great person to be around and uh,
and that that vibe is really a thing at this restaurant.
(24:08):
I think it's a big reason why it's so successful.
It's also cool that it's a family business, so his
his daughter, uh and his son in law are helping
to run the business and they're involved. And it's just
it's a really great vibes there. And so how long
I think you'd like the place. It's only been open
for about two weeks. Yeah, brand new.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
See okay. And what's the food? Is you like coffee
diner style food?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yeah, diner food, like with a twist done by you know,
like the best diner food you've ever had. And they're
they have really really viral oak shakes and then also
they're hot chocolate with marshmallows is something they're known for.
It's really it's really cool.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
How's the pricing.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yeah, well it's not the cheapest, but it's but it's
they said, it's compart it's comparable with other restaurants. It's
not it's not Denny's, but it's.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
The name of it. It's not Denny's.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
It's not a little better pancakes than the Rudy tooty,
fresh and fruity.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
You know. I take that back. Patricia Heaton also pretended
like at least they you know, it felt like she
wanted to be there, but everyone else has just burned
out on the reunion. I don't even know why they
did it.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Did you see him? I saw some clips of it.
I haven't seen the whole thing, but I think that's
I think that's kind of their vibe. Though, that's kind
of like ray and Brad Garrett's vibe. Right, it's not
really That's.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Okay, all right, then then continue on with the stick
and don't do.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
It right, Yeah, hopefully they got paid. Well.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, Raymond's great though, he's one of the funniest guys
in the world and one of the nicest dudes in
the world as well. And Brad Garrett is amazing.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Oh sorry, I mean he cuts you off. This is
an amazing because I watched many of the clips of
that show preparing for this piece. How it's still so funny.
It's great all these years later. And one of the
things that Phil talked about with me is this idea
that he did not do jokes about current events on purpose.
One he didn't want to offend half the country, and
(26:20):
two he wanted to create a show that would be timeless.
So he made the jokes about relationships and situations, not
about you know, the Bush administration or wherever it was
at the right time, but the prime. Because of that,
the show still works okay.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
But the problem with doing a clip show with everyone
Loves Raymond is it was a half hour build up
to a very funny line or a very funny scene,
and you don't get the build up. You just get
that punchline. And that's the reason not to do these
reunion shows.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
You're you're really frustrated by this for you, yeah, because
it's my It was one of my favorite shows in
the world, and I felt like killing everybody on that show.
The Friends reunion was also pretty awful.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I didn't see that it was.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
They even brought James Cordon onto the set, and that
kind of ruined it for a lot of people too.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
I didn't look at that, buddy. I I wish you
the most success over there. If we don't get to
speak to you again before the holidays, I have a
merry Christmas, Happy Honk, a happy New Year, and please
say hi to your mom and dad, two of my
favorite people in the valley.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I will they love you also tonight. I forgot to
say Chris Matthews is going to be joining us all
wow too.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah, that's great. Every time I see him on on
social media, it's I get a shiver up my leg
or a tingle of.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
My There you.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Buddy, I appreciate you coming on every every weeknight nine
to eleven pm on CNN. OK, nice to talk to you, man,
take with you all right? There he goes Alex Michaelson.
That guy is great.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Mayo from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I read an article today that generation Z. I think
that's the youngest now. I think they're in college or
you know, just out of high school, in college, just
getting their career started, you know, maybe starting a family
that they're they're early birds. They don't go to dinner
at seven o'clock or seven thirty. They go to dinner
at five. They've changed their whole vibe. And I don't
(28:36):
know how that started. Where you go to dinner someone,
we're going four thirty five o'clock. Yeah, let's go to dinner.
What time? Five?
Speaker 2 (28:43):
What?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Five? It's like I just add.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Lunch, right, that's exactly what I mean.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
I always thought, how weird is it that all so
many places that open for dinner open at four thirty five?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yeah right, Like, who's I think? I thought it was
for seniors. You know, I'm the senior special. But these
kids are doing it now. You know the kids are
going out. I think they're trying to get better deals.
I think you get there earlier, you might get a
saved money. Yeah right, yeah, save some money. Also, we're
ordering pizzas differently than before. Pizza night is changing. It's
(29:19):
a big deal in the United States. We're all doing
it as a big country here.
Speaker 8 (29:23):
It's the ultimate comfort food.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
I'm having a relationship with my pizza.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
From football games and birthday parties to those relaxing nightsines.
I love what He's.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Pizza just for me one of my relatives and I'm
i gonna say who it is? I said, she said, oh,
when I want something quick, and I just I always
I love pizza. I'm like, wow, what a what an
original take in life? When I want something quick and
to eat, I grab a slice of pizza. How original?
(29:59):
What A got him? Mighty? That hit me out of
left field? Wait what was it again? When you want
something quaky. Grab a sliced pizza. Oh, I'll write that down.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
But are our pie preferences changing?
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Everyone still wants to order pizza, they're just changing the
ordered style.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
Lauren Paddleford works for Slice, an online ordering platform for
fifteen thousand independent pizzerias. In what ways are pizza orders
looking different nowadays?
Speaker 5 (30:25):
You definitely see a shift in size. You see people
ordering smaller pizzas. They're reducing in some cases the topping
count in most of.
Speaker 8 (30:33):
Those cases, He says the shift coming from price conscious consumers,
as the national average for a large cheese pizza has
grown to nearly seventeen dollars seventeen bucks.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
That's a steal. Where's that all large pizza are? All
pizzas nowadays are twenty five dollars?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
You know?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
You go to Joe's. Pizza's my favorite. There's a ton
of well, I think five of them. There's one, there's
a great one in Sherman, alex Is. No one in
the Studio city as well, and it's twenty four dollars
plus tip. It's twenty seven dollars for a pizza. And
pizzas are pretty inexpensive to make, but I will pay
for Joe's because it's great. It's really terrific.
Speaker 8 (31:10):
Up twenty two percent in the past five years, and
that's before you add in any toppings.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
I definitely notice each topping is usually an extra fifty
cents to a dollar.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
So where are you going where a topping is fifty cents,
a topping is three dollars nowadays fifty cents.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
Fifty cents to a dollar, so it might just go
with the pepperoni is simply cheaper.
Speaker 8 (31:34):
Some pizzerias have felt the pinch. Pizza High has been
battling sinking sales for over a year.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
I didn't know that. I thought pizza was hotter than hell.
It's the greatest food in the world.
Speaker 8 (31:43):
Pizza High has been battling sinking sales for over a year.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Oh oh no, not pizza Pizza hut Ah, Okay, I
get it.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
And last month Papa John.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Although I will say there's nothing like that individual personal
pan pizza from Pizza Hut. Oh they're great, pepperoni on
it like cheese. Keep it in the oven for another
thirty seconds. Oh, it's the greatest meal in the world.
I'm gonna get one tonight.
Speaker 8 (32:09):
And last month, Papa John said, conscious customers have been
downsizing to medium pizzas with fewer toppings and sides.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
What did the cheese pizza become?
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Twenty three dollars?
Speaker 8 (32:20):
Pushing up those prices in part the rising cost of
some ingredients things like.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
Us in Italian tomatoes that we use that's gone and
stayed up of twenty.
Speaker 8 (32:29):
Five percent, prompting Joe's Pizza in New York City to
tack on an extra fifty cents a slice in recent years.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
What is the one where you is it Papa Murphy's
where you got to take it home and cook it yourself?
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Oh god? How do think another one is there?
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Well they put it together for you, You take it home
and you put it in your oven, and it always
is horrible, you know, because yeah, well because your pizza
oven doesn't go to eight hundred. Your oven doesn't go
to eight hundred degrees.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Oh right, yeah, yeah, it doesn't get that heat that
you really.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
You need it. That's why they sell the pizza ovens.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Yeah, even the pictures on their website they look like
frozen pizzas.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
They well, I think they're pretty close. But if you
have a pizza oven, that's a good move. That's a
good move. But if you don't have a pizza oven,
then take it to Dominoes and have them cook it
over there for oh yeah, right, or a Pizza Hut.
I wonder if you can do that? Can you bet
you could? Can you take up Papa Murphy's into Pizza
Hut and go, hey, put this troop for me, will you?
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Hey, fellas, can you throw this in there?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
I'll give you a couple of bucks. Right, watch order ours. Okay,
I'm gonna go next door to Dominoes. Hey, you got
to throw this through the oven. I think that's got
to be tremendously insulting for the people that work at
Pizza Hut or Dominoes, where you bring a pizza in
and go, hey, I got this to Papa Murphy's. Can
you stick that through your up?
Speaker 3 (33:47):
I had a place where I lived at Maryland.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
You know, it's that it was one of those rural
counties that I lived in that had a pizza place
that that that gave you all the ingredients to take home,
but it was like fresh made dough and that was fancas.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Yeah. But there's a reason why those old pizza ovens
are expensive and valuable. It's because they do get to
eight hundred degrees that heat.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Man.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah, that's what you need in a pizza. That is
the key to pizza. Nothing. Do you have a pizza
oven at.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Home one of those oonies?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Oh you do.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
The propane you probably used it ten times a month
when you got it. Have you used it recently?
Speaker 4 (34:21):
The backyard ain't exactly set it for it, but it's
I still got it, man, ye yeah, yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
We just empty place for it. You know, I hit
one another thing and another thing to wash.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
I gotta I have to build a whole backyard grill
before I get that's you're working.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
You're always working in that backyard, man.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
I was just thinking about that earlier. Man, too old.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
I love the story you told where you know, you
worked for like ten hours working your ass off outside
it's summer, it's one hundred degrees, and then you sit
on the couch to watch five minutes of TV, and
then Gen comes in. You're like, you know, I've been
working a whole day.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Is impeccable? Like, oh nice sitting on the couch.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Hey, I was outside for ten hours.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Alright.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
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