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August 14, 2025 27 mins
“Newsom’s Redistricting Bombshell: Which Counties Does He Think He Can Flip Without a Fight?” At Tommy Godlove joins the show to preview the 818 Brody Stevens Benefit for Mental Health Awareness at The Comedy Store this weekend. Conway & Bellio relive one of the most unbelievable weeks ever for Stef Foosh and KFI — a string of lucky breaks and jaw-dropping twists no one saw coming. And brace yourself for Summerween — half of America is already stocking up on Halloween decorations months early.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps. All right,
that we had Governor Newsom in town and he said
he's going to carve out more Democratic seats in California
if Donald Trump does that in Texas. Okay, well, whatever's

(00:21):
going on in Texas is going on in Texas. But
does he seriously think that you're going to get counties
to flip over to Democrats who voted for Donald Trump
by seventy eighty percent without a fight.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
You don't.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
You don't think those guys are going to fight like
hel against that. I don't know what he's talking about.
What counties he's going to flip, because the Blue counties
are the entire coast, all the coast counties with the
exception of Del Norte, which I believe means the north,
and all of these blue counties along the coast, they

(01:00):
all voted for Kamala Harris, all of them except for
the most northern is county. And then Inland they all
went for Trump except for three four five counties. All
of them voted heavily for Donald Trump. I mean, even
Riverside went for Donald Trump, so did San Bernardino current

(01:24):
county went for Donald Trump. Ino another one, Tailaire or
Tillarry King's county, Fresno went for Donald Trump. Madera, Mariposa,
and Merced all these counties that I just mentioned. San

(01:47):
Joaquin is another one. And then up in northern California
way up north north east corner where you get Modoc,
m O Doc that went for Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
I sev.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
You think the people in Modoc are just going to
lay over and have their leadership. It's all Republican locally mayor,
county supervisors, city council, all of the you know, judges,
everybody is a conservative up in those counties.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
And and.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Governor knew some things. He's just gonna walk into those
counties and flip them blue. He's gonna have a major
fight on his hand. I mean, hope, hope it doesn't
turn to violence, but these people aren't going to tolerate that.
So I don't know what counties he's gonna flip without
a fight, because there are going to be fights, whether
it's just yelling or whether people will come out, you know,

(02:47):
with rioting or anger or weapons. But they're not going
to sit back and tolerate that. So I don't know
what counties he's talking about. I don't know how he's
gonna re right the districts in California to favor five
to ten more Democratic seats.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
I don't know how he's going to do that.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
The coast all voted for Kamala Harris, all the way
from San Diego, Orange County, La County, Ventura, right up
the coast, Santa Barbara, San Luis, Obispo, Monterey, and then
up north's Santa Clara, San Francisco. All of them are
on the coast, Sonoma, California, Mendocino, all the wealthy counties, Humboldt,

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all the money on the coast, all voted for Democrats.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
You gotta wonder if the mass exodus that we've been
talking about from California is going to play a part
in this.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
I don't know, but I mean, people just say that
mass exodus is a false alarm, that there are more
people moving into the California moving out.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
I don't know, but I've heard that a lot of
people are moving back already.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
I think people move out for two years, yeah, and
then they're like, yeah, I gotta get back. I can't
take this anymore. But there's no way that some of
these especially in northern California, He's going to have a
serious fight on his hand. And I'm not talking just
people writing letters. You know, these people are all armed
to the teeth. Up in Lasson County, it went seventy

(04:20):
six percent for Trump, and he thinks he's going to
walk in and turn that blue. That's how civil wars start.
And you will get that from Modoc, from Lassen, from
is it Plumbus County up there, Sierra Sierra County is

(04:40):
not going to tolerate that. And so I don't know
what he's talking about. Maybe he's talking about a few
that are closer to fifty to fifty by that will
start a civil war in the state and thousands of
people will be killed if that happens, it will it
will start a civil war. These people in the real

(05:02):
red districts in this state are as red as the
southern part of this country that Donald Trump and Laston
County got seventy six percent of the vote. Seventy six
percent of the vote. That's something you see in Alabama,
or in Tennessee or South Carolina or Florida, and that's

(05:22):
probably even more than you would see in those in
those states. And for him to say, oh, we're just
going to flip those counties blue, it's not going to
be easy and it may be impossible as well. So
we'll see, we'll see how that all shakes down. But
there's going to be a major fight on his on
his I think he knows that too, and I think
the people that announced that that's going to happen also

(05:44):
know it, and maybe they want that for some strange reason.
Who knows, but there if you tried to do that
up in those northern northeastern counties, you will have a
civil war. They will fight to the death before they
make that change.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
I know these people, I.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
Know them, and they they are all armed to the
teeth and they don't want anything to do with Newsome
or that party.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
We'll have the four o'clock hour up there where we
had Steph Fuche on his mom and dad and two
of the five people that save Steph Fusch's life.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
And STEP's stepfather as well. Curtis very nice man.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
So you want to listen at tonight when you get
home to the four pm hour, and this whole show,
this whole segment is being brought to you by Advanced
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we support this huge money maker to try to help

(06:46):
people who are suffering from mental ailments. It's called the
Brody Stevens Comedy Benefit, and Brody Stevens had some psychological
challenges and every year they get together and raise money.
And this is unlike the same as every other Tommy

(07:07):
God Love is with us, Tommy with us.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
I'm right with you man, tolong.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
With you, buddy. This is a big lineup. You got
Bill Burr how'd you get Bill out to do this?
He doesn't do anything.

Speaker 5 (07:19):
I know Bill Burr man, he's probably shirt off his
Broadway stay in New York. So we got him and
he was a huge Brody fan and friend of him.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
So anytime that we reach out.

Speaker 5 (07:32):
To Bill Burry, he's always willing to help out. And yeah,
he's going to be there at our show this August
eighteenth at the Comedy Store.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
Okay, so it's August eighteenth comedy store and all the
money goes to a to benefit. I think it's called
Comedy Gives Back.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Is that correct?

Speaker 5 (07:51):
Yeah, Comedy Gives Back. It's spearheaded by three women. Did
you know who Bob or Budd Friedman was sure?

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, the U was the owner of the Improv.

Speaker 5 (08:04):
And the Improv Yes, well his his daughter created the
Comedy Gives Back because she knows the life of a
stand up comedian. And with two other people women, they
started Comedy Gives Back and they are the UH safety
net for.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
The comedy community.

Speaker 5 (08:21):
What they believe is that UH comedians should only fill
alone on stage, but once they're off stage, it's unacceptable
for them to fill alone.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
And they want to help them out with.

Speaker 5 (08:32):
Any kind of with services, mental health brants, anything with
their bills and stuff like that. So it's an amazing
UH nonprofit that we're associated with, and we want to
help comedians because they're they're definitely need our help and
we want to make sure that nobody uh unfortunately takes

(08:53):
their lives. You know what mental health is very uh
you know, a big thing and UH and stand up
comedians and we want to we want to help them out,
you know, I mean, because they dedicate their whole lives
to making people laugh, and we want to help them out.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
And I'm sure that that stand with comedians. You know,
if not ninety percent of them, maybe ninety five percent
of them have all gone through challenges because you don't have,
you know, twenty minutes of great jokes on stage without
going through a tremendous amount of pain earlier in your life.

Speaker 5 (09:25):
Yeah, I mean a lot of these people, you know,
you know the household.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
Names, the Jay Lenos, the.

Speaker 5 (09:31):
Jim Carrey's and all that, but there's so many comedians
that are dedicated lives that are out there that are
struggling a lot of them just go from gig to
gig and they don't have that support system that the
household names have. And that's when comedy gives back. And
they know exactly how a standing up comedian their life is,
and we want to help them out.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
We don't want them to fill alone.

Speaker 5 (09:55):
And what comedy gives back. And with the comedy story,
the world famous comedy store I called the Mecca, you
know what I mean, if you think of any count
any stand up comedy club, it's the Comedy Store. And
we're just so grateful to have an annual event for
Brodie Stevens to bring uh to celebrate his life and

(10:15):
also raise money for stand up comedians and help them out.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
And there, you know, and in times of need now,
Robbie Hoffin is going to be there, Dan Levy, Dean
del Rey, also Del Jnson and Elean R.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Car Kerrigan as well.

Speaker 5 (10:32):
Yeah, and uh, you know, I mean it's it's the
Comedy Store, so you never know who's gonna drop in.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
I saw it maybe a week ago.

Speaker 5 (10:39):
Jay Leno made a little appearance in the original room,
so I.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Mean you never know.

Speaker 5 (10:45):
I mean the Comedy Store people just popped in, and
you never know who you're gonna see.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
You know the lineup, I say something, but you never know, you.

Speaker 5 (10:53):
Know, Chappelle, my show up, Jay Leno, my show up.
I do know that there is going to be a
Mark Thompson siding at our show. So if you want
to see Mark Thompson from Thompson Tuesday, come out, all right, and.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
That's gonna be.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
It's gonna be August eighteenth at eight pm, which I
believe is a Tuesday or a Monday.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
It's a Monday, okay, So it's this Monday.

Speaker 5 (11:15):
We'd love to have you tim eight pm the main room.
It's gonna be an amazing night of laughter.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
Come out.

Speaker 5 (11:24):
You know, even if you didn't know Brody, there's gonna
be a lot of We have a huge all start
lineup and up and coming comedians and it's gonna be
a packed house and we'd love to have everybody show up.
If they want to purchase tickets, go to the Comedy
Store all social platforms and get your tickets and we'll
see you there.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Buddy, you're the best. I'm glad you're doing this. I
hope it's a great evening. Who's gonna be m seeing
the whole night.

Speaker 5 (11:49):
We got one of Brodie's friends, his name is Ben Gleibe.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
He's gonna be hosting it. Yeah, excellent, So all right
then it's gonna be a fun night.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
Here's a I just got a text. What time does
Bill Berg go on?

Speaker 3 (12:05):
He's probably at the end of the show.

Speaker 5 (12:07):
He's gonna you know, he's gonna comedy.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
You never know how long he's gonna do. He's he's hilarious. Man.

Speaker 5 (12:12):
You got think about people that think that you can
watch shows on Netflix and stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
But I'm telling you you have to.

Speaker 5 (12:20):
Be there to experience the true effect of live performance comedy,
and there's no other place to see it in the
comedy store.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
Excellent, all right, thank you, sir. I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
Go to the comedy store next this following Monday, the
very next Monday, at eight pm. Bill Burr's gonna be there,
a bunch of other comics and it's all for a
great cause.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
Really appreciate phone.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
Now you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
kf I am sixty.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Elliot joins us here. She wanted to come in and
tell everybody.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
How hard she worked.

Speaker 6 (12:52):
Lest I did not don't know?

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, did work really?

Speaker 6 (12:59):
I mean, if you're gonna bring it up, okay, all.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Right, but you did.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
You've worked very hard on this story. You've been up
for twenty hours of days. Then steph fush, you know,
I fell ill or got you know a critic almost
you know, fatally ill.

Speaker 7 (13:13):
Well, you know, you know we posted the picture of
the car on fire because we wanted to find the heroes, right,
So we posted that when we when Krozier's daughter Sidney
found the car on fire, right, and then Pete will
Will Goren.

Speaker 6 (13:27):
I always get his name wrong with kat t.

Speaker 7 (13:28):
La picked the story up and it just blew up
from there. And so yeah, there was some work that
had to be done for a lot, bringing.

Speaker 6 (13:38):
All the pieces together.

Speaker 7 (13:39):
But I'm just I'm happy that first STEP's going to
be okay, and his parents are all right, and got
to meet these heroes, Jonathan and Kenyatti, who are just amazing, amazing.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
People, unreal. I mean, I'm glad we got to meet
guys like that in Los Angeles. You know that they're
still there right, comforting. But I want to ask you.
A lot of people in asking me, and I don't know,
I don't think i've asked you. But the day he
went missing and the day that I was, I went
down to Hawthorne and seriously, it was going to be
a drive by. I didn't see him, Hustler Casino, it

(14:12):
was going to be figured. Yeah, and I had both
of them on ways.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
But honestly, when I saw the dad him, my god.

Speaker 7 (14:18):
The fact that you did that, and I know Crozier's
pointed this out.

Speaker 6 (14:22):
You know, you worked and this was an.

Speaker 7 (14:24):
Hour away for you. You drove down there on your
own to try to find him. That cannot be emphasized enough.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
The gesture it's not what it's correct.

Speaker 7 (14:32):
And under those cheap CVS shirts that you wear, you
are like.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Incredible.

Speaker 7 (14:43):
You have the most incredible heart, and you're just the
most thoughtful, kind person and people need to.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
Know that that's the real. Okay, let's get into this.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
So how did you find his dad's number, his mom's
phone number and the three addresses you gave me that.

Speaker 6 (14:56):
Your public records?

Speaker 2 (14:58):
Was that legal?

Speaker 6 (14:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (14:59):
It is.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, we have an equipment here to do that. Yeah,
can I use it? I'd like to look up some
some people.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
So I got a text today from a friend I've
known since seventh grade.

Speaker 6 (15:13):
Who's this friend?

Speaker 1 (15:15):
I'm not going to tell you, all right, but it
says here, there's a picture of me you On the text,
it's a picture of me, you, Krozier and Steph Fuche.
And under the text it says, Tim, is that the
girl who's been on your show for years? And I
wrote back, yes, Comma Sharon Belli Oh And he wrote

(15:36):
back s O o oh oh cute exclamation point exclamation
point heard her for years but never knew she was cute?

Speaker 2 (15:48):
Oh well wow, how about that?

Speaker 6 (15:50):
How about that.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
So you're saying she's got an ugly boys.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Hey, you no, that's not the purpose of it. But
what we said, what was oh? He said? I? He said,
is that a new picture? And I said, yeah, that's
fairly new picture.

Speaker 6 (16:08):
He said, is that a new picture?

Speaker 2 (16:09):
A fairly new picture.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Well let's look at steph Oo. So it has to
be rude, U. It's uh, it's me you Stephoo seven
or eight months ago and krozier. But belly, I will
say this, you do look better because the guy on
your left it looks like his arm is paralyzed.

Speaker 6 (16:27):
That would be you.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
That's me. Yeah, I don't know why.

Speaker 7 (16:30):
It looks like a mannequin in that shape like that.
So you think that because you didn't look your best.

Speaker 6 (16:35):
I look better.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
I don't know, but it looks like it looks like
you know, I get I get that arm when I
work out too much, when I have a heavy lift.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
I'm sorry, what if I work out.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
To lift at Costco, No, at the gym, But if
I who Jim down the street, Me and Jim go
to TVG.

Speaker 6 (16:53):
Exactly there you go, Yeah, that's the heavy lift.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
When's the last time you think I worked out in
the gym how many?

Speaker 2 (17:01):
How many months or years? I'm going to say never, never? Never? Okay,
that's wrong.

Speaker 6 (17:07):
You've worked out in a gym?

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yes, really, yes, And I can't remember.

Speaker 6 (17:14):
You told the story about how you signed up for
a gym.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
I sign up for a gym with my wife. It
was twenty four hour Fitness on Magnolia in Huntington Beach.
I signed up for me and her, and six months
later I went back to cancel the membership without ever
going once, and I canceled it.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
And I and the guy said, this has got to
be a record. I said, what do you mean.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
He goes, I've never had a guy sign up six
months later cancel without ever. He goes, we don't have
you ever showing up here. We didn't, we didn't scan
your card once. I said, yeah, I know I'm canceling.
And he said I think, and he goes, I think
that's a record, and I said no, no, my wife
has the record. She never even showed up to cancel
or to sign up foot in the building. She never

(18:01):
signed up, never worked out, never canceled.

Speaker 6 (18:04):
So then, when was it last time you worked out
in a gym?

Speaker 1 (18:07):
I think it was Bally's in Tarzana, Ally's in Encino.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
I think it was nineteen eighty, seventy nine or eighty.

Speaker 6 (18:16):
And what was your workout when you went? Did you
do the circuit?

Speaker 3 (18:19):
What you do?

Speaker 6 (18:20):
Took an aerobics class?

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Well, okay, this would happen. I was in a machine.
It was Nautilus back then, and you know, all these
machines were new. So I get in and I'm pushing,
pulling one lever and pushing another, and I'm trying to
lay down flat so I can push the way bench press.
I couldn't figure out what it was. And then a
construction guy comes back. He goes, hey, get out of

(18:43):
the scaffolding. Now that's that's a Brian Reagan show.

Speaker 6 (18:47):
I believe it to be a true story.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
I think it's a true Brian Reagan story.

Speaker 6 (18:50):
That is funny.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
It's a great a good life. Brian Reagan's the funniest
man in the world.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
He is.

Speaker 6 (18:55):
He's so great.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah. But anyway, great job on Stephfu. She was an
entire week.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
That's why I want to have me here than it
was a It was a very emotional week for you.
It was because you because all these kids who work here.
You know, Kiki, Matt, Richie, Steff Fuje. Who else is
in the mix? Is that it?

Speaker 3 (19:17):
Now?

Speaker 2 (19:17):
We're missing somebody roll the Eric Sklarkie Ritchie right mentioned
all the all the kids, you treat them like they're
your kids.

Speaker 7 (19:27):
I love these They're the best people. And I just
want to give a shout out to Keana Romando Garyan,
Shannon's producer. It was her that started the GoFundMe. Oh
really yes, So Kiki started the GoFundMe, So she gets
full credit for that. And I want to give Matt
because when I was, you know, making calls and doing
all that stuff, Matt, who had the day off, called
me up and said, can I you know, pull audio?

(19:48):
What can I do to help you with your job?
And so he was working from home just trying to
support me. So I want to give them shout outs
for that.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
But you also keep them from being fired too.

Speaker 6 (19:59):
Oh many times.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Keith, Oh, she could be gone any day, a mess.

Speaker 6 (20:03):
I could hear her screw Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
But there's there's also some people here who have been
threatened to be fired because they screwed up, and you
always come between them and management.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
You do I have you have I've seen it.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
I have.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
I've seen it ten to fifteen times.

Speaker 6 (20:19):
You want to give him a chance, right, yeah, but.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
At some point you're like, got almighty.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
Thank you.

Speaker 7 (20:25):
I do want to thank KTLA again, Pete will Goren
and Rick Chambers and Jose the cameraman, and also Tim
from ABC seven and Dave we Se, Michelle Cube and
Oscar Rameriz and Brian Long.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Thank you for all to all those people, they did
a terrific job. It's gonna be on KTLA to night
ten pm. Yes, so tape it, record it, not tape
it record it. There's no tape anymore. You don't tape
anything now and.

Speaker 7 (20:50):
Then on ABC I believe it'll run in there eleven
o'clock news.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Oh okay, all right, okay, okay, all right.

Speaker 7 (20:57):
And also to Sydney who found the video, Crozier Angel,
for all their help.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
And for the woman that took the video. We've never
found out who that was. Now.

Speaker 6 (21:04):
I've tried to find her, but I've not had luck.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
She's elusive.

Speaker 6 (21:07):
Yes, thank you, that's right.

Speaker 7 (21:09):
But most of the one, thank you, thank you because
without Tim Connoy Junior.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
Well that's true, right, none of this crap happens that's true. Yeah,
I mean, look, I can't do this show without you guys.

Speaker 6 (21:20):
Yeah you could.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
No, you're supposedly. I can't do without you.

Speaker 6 (21:23):
I forget the lock whatever, we can't do it.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
All right, all right, forget it anyway. I got to
get out of here soon. I'm going to karaoke tonight again.

Speaker 6 (21:34):
What song you're going to sing tonight?

Speaker 1 (21:35):
I don't know, but I'm going to the Sagebrush Canteen
at eight o'clock.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
My wife likes that.

Speaker 6 (21:42):
I might go.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Really, yeah, you can drive thirty miles out of your
way and then drive one hundred, one hundred and twenty
miles home.

Speaker 6 (21:48):
Yes, yes, absolutely.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
And Angel Martinez. We'd like to thank Angel. Not only
did she bring up sandals for the guys that saved
their life, but I'm she came in on the day
he was missing and was working the phones trying to
help him, trying to find him, and also put on
a face where she did the traffic even though she
was worried sick about the guy and didn't let on

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that he wasn't here. So Angel, thank.

Speaker 6 (22:14):
You, Oh, thank you. Well, it's the least I can do.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
I mean, we love she right, that's that's what we
do for this guy, you know, take dog with him.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
All right, what's your website? I know you want to
give it out every time we talk.

Speaker 6 (22:28):
About Oh thanks, Timmy, I thought you'd never ask.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
I know, Naughty USA.

Speaker 6 (22:36):
Naughty USA, Nauti USA dot com.

Speaker 7 (22:41):
Okay, throwing ding dong at check out for a little
extra something something, Okay, excellent.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
We'll do that.

Speaker 4 (22:47):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Maya from
KFI AM six forty.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
If you're tuning in last week at this time, we
were all wondering where the hell is Steph Fusch. He
didn't show up to work, he didn't text, we tried to.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Call him, nothing.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
He was in the hospital after a radical crash. And
there's two of the five people that saved his life,
and his parents and his stepfather came in today at
the four o'clock hours, So please go and download that hour.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
We'd appreciate it. Halloween is here. I see it in
the stores.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
I see Halloween decorations everywhere, and it makes my wife
a little crazy.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
I decorate early for Halloween. I start decorating for Halloween
September first. My wife hates it because we're two months out,
but I start decorating September first, and I started doing
that during COVID because I take my you know, take
the kid's mind off it. The kids, you know, live
around the street, and just to do something a little

(23:50):
more festive, take people's mind off how crazy it was.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
And I continued the tradition.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
So September first, which is two and a half weeks away,
I'll be put on folloween decorations. So this doesn't bother
me at all, not at all.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
I love it.

Speaker 8 (24:05):
Sholbers are seeing scary sites with spooky decorations popping up
during the hottest month of the year, and it's being
referred to as summer Ween. The National Retail Federation says
nearly fifty percent of people start purchasing Halloween items well
before October.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
That's right.

Speaker 8 (24:21):
So here to discuss what's causing retailers to go all
in on the trend is retail analysts and financial expert
Heatha Herstog. Heatha, thanks so much for joining us.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
We appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (24:30):
So we're still almost a month out from Labor Day,
and yet the shelves are filling up with candy cobwebs,
and witches.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
What's happening here?

Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yeah, what's going on? Heathaw was it Heatha Hawsworth? Is
that her name?

Speaker 6 (24:42):
A couple of things are happening. So, as we know,
people have this nostalgia.

Speaker 9 (24:46):
Aspect around halloweens, So having something like summer Ween gets
people thinking about nostalgia, gets people thinking about this exciting
experience that's happening in October.

Speaker 6 (24:57):
And that's what we call the experience.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
To me, as we want to.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
Be better as hollowmerr like hollow and then the last
syllable of summer hollowmerr like summer ween sounds awful, awful.
It sounds like a bisexual swingers party.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
Hey, you want to got a summer Ween? Nah? Nah,
I'm not in that group.

Speaker 9 (25:28):
As we've seen, so many tent pole events have been
built around this experience economy, and in this case it's
summer Ween.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
Summer Ween. They got to change the name of that, right.

Speaker 9 (25:39):
But we're also from an operation standpoint, a retail operation standpoint. Retailers,
as we've seen supply chain shocks happening, retailers have to
get ready months sometimes you know, nine months before the
actual event happens so that they can ensure that the
product is in stock during October. So it feels like

(26:00):
we are seeing these things earlier and earlier. We certainly are,
but it's really a retailer's tactic to make sure that
something is.

Speaker 6 (26:07):
In the.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
Loser. We're losinger in the.

Speaker 8 (26:14):
Before and so just how much our store is able
to benefit from bringing out these items.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
You want to know a secret that people do.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
They buy Christmas decorations from from a very particular store,
a maybe you should name the store hobby Lobby. They
buy crap for Christmas from hobby Lobby a month before Christmas,
decorations for the house, interior, exterior. And because hobby Lobby

(26:44):
takes everything back, they return it all after Christmas, so
they have to store it and they can get new
stuff next year. Eighty five percent of the Christmas decorations
that are purchased at Hobby Lobby are then returned after Christmas.
Isn't that really the exact opposite of the Christmas spirit?

(27:05):
Ladies and gentlemen who are listening right now. Isn't that
somewhat disgusting? I think it is all right.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Download the first hour of the show.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
Steph Fusha's whole family is here and I'm off to
the Sagebrush Cantena for a little karaoke at eight o'clock,
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