July 15, 2025 • 32 mins
O.C. Driver’s and the convertible society in 2025 // Whip Around: How many days are in one million and one billion seconds? // Jet Write-offs & third-world problems // Mark's hat tag
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF. I am six forty and you're listening
to the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps. Sorry,
all right, sorry, Thompson's here, john My showing early start
or late finish by Johnny b Johnny Colebelm. I sorry,
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belly O. You know Bellyo's back. Everybody, Yeah, ding dong,
belly O. Always nice to see you back, little buddy.
Yeah all, let me plug in here.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Mark Thompson is here, and everybody.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Please be seeing it please if you will, m overwhelmed,
that is okay.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I before we begin here, I was driving the Free Boys.
I went down to Newport Beach went to visit a
client today, Number one Collision in Newport Beach got a
mighty is that place unbelievable? They I think they spend
like twenty million dollars putting this building together and got
a high end car. They take care of every man
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from A to Z and they knock it out. So
I went down there to visit the fellows and the
guys and gals that work down there, and I noticed
that in Orange County there are a lot more convertibles
than there are in La County. And I don't know
why maybe people have more money.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
But here here's my take on this.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, you have a theory.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yes, these people who drive around, especially in LA with
a convertible, are radically out of touch with society, radically
out of touch. With the top down you're driving around,
they're throwing a thousand of these Spanish guys out of
this country every eight seconds. And you're driving around like
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nothing's going on in this convertible with your hat on,
like it's Hollywood in nineteen seventy two. That's what's going
on with you. You have no connection to what's going
on in society.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
None.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
The dream dies hard tim The fact is we want
it to be in nineteen seventy two and hours.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
It's the worst are we've ever It's the hottest it's
ever been, according to you and your you know, climate freaks.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And it's also crimesville. And when you have a top down,
you're screaming two things. A you've got money, and B
you have no protection when somebody wants to come in
and get it. You don't have a window you can
roll up or a top on your car. You're done.
And people are driving around as if it's nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
It's not a convertible town anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It's not at all. It's not even close if you
had a convertive.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
If you have a convertible right now and you're down,
the top is down, and you're driving on the freeway,
you are radically out of touch with.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Everything else around you. Everything.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I mean, if you're along the coast. Don't you think you.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I get it? Mark, I didn't say if you're on
the coast.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
No, I'm just saying, like, that's the place it's still
accept if.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
You have when you go check it, when you come
from from the colony to your local Starbucks. That's the
only route you can take a convertible lot.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
To be in the Malibu colony. That's right.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
See, if you live in the colony and you're gonna
go to Starbucks, put the top down and enjoy yourself.
But you're in the valley and you're driving through this
guy was driving. There's another one now the other day.
Guy's driving through Van Eyes on Victory and Van Eyes
Boulevard and he's got a convertible and the tops down.
You don't think that every guy around there wants that
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guy's money and wants to roll that guy. How how
out of touch and how you know, just detached you
are from society where you're in a convertible in twenty
twenty five. It's unbelievable. It's I find it astonishing.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Well, clearly I didn't. It's really aroused some curiosity in
you as to why these people exist. Although I must
say I do know a couple of people who really
enjoy driving around. I'll mention one of them from Dateline NBC.
Josh Menkowitz, My good friend. No, no, he'll he'll meet me
for lunch at arts in the valley.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Then he's out of touch.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
And we walked back to his car's got the top
down and he drives but the top down, back to
Beverly Hills, Rorey.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Completely out of touch with society? Is this guy? What's
is there?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Josh Minkla, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, but he's completely out
of touch with so sign. Yeah, that's wild. I'm saying
I think that there's a California culture. You're right. I
mean that the time when everybody had their top down
and things were different might have been a while ago,
but that I mean, I think those things die hard,
and there's still a California culture that people are trying
to cling to.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Right, it's not there anymore, Okay, it's moved on and so.
And also the guys driving the convertible, they always have
a baseball hat on that becomes their top, you know,
because the sun's on you and you don't want your.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Head to burn or whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
See where that you know, your baseball cap and you're
driving around like you should be in nineteen sixty eight,
you know, working for Warner Brothers or MGM.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
It's I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
But when I see a guy with his top down,
I think of how many signs did this guy miss
that this is not a convertible society anymore. I mean,
you put yourself at risk, you put your family at risk.
What you're doing is you're telling everybody. Well, let me
ask you something, young man. Since so you have a
slightly different view on this convertible theory, how many people
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do you know that have a convertible?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Two? Okay?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
And are both of those people really really well off?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
They both have money. I don't know, really really are
that's two really is in a well off I mean
I would say they're well off.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
They're the million, they're millionaires. Yeah, okay, why would you
project that?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
But is that what you're projecting with the top down?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Really, you don't think you're projecting you have money when
you I'm gonna stand up and advance you.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Really, you don't believe.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
You don't believe that if you have a a convertible
in twenty twenty five, that you're not showing everybody and
telling you but you money.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I think if you're driving, for example, a Bentley convertible,
then you're.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
It's not a Bentley convertible, it's any kind of converbile
you when you got the top up, you got the
top down in twenty twenty five, and you're not telling
everybody you got money.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, I's funny. I'll tell you. I have to say
this before you you know, you throw me out of
your courtroom. I hate I hate a converbile. I don't
even like all the windows down when I'm driving a car.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I don't either.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I think one of the great things about modern society
is that I can create my own environment in that car,
and I tune out all the noise outside the truck exhaust,
et cetera, like I could never see it. And I've
mentioned this to my friends who have the convertibles that said,
I don't know that. When I see it convertbile, I go, huh,
that guy's got a couple of bucks. I don't really,
I really don't think that.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
What does it say about it? Like you see a
guy driving the convertible, does it say about him? Single? Mostly?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Mostly single guys. I had a convertible Kimara for a
while for a couple reasons. A. I got a sweet
deal on it, and be my wife and daughter liked it,
and we and my daughter. My wife would drive it
into the beach with my top down, my daughter and everything.
But that was fifteen years ago. Sure you know this
is not a convertible society. It's just not if you
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live in in Laguna, my Laguna Hills, Laguna Beach, if
you live in Santa Barbara, maybe parts of Orange County,
especially near the coast Huntington Beach. I understand it, La Joya,
I get it. But to drive in the San Fernando
Valley with your top down and a convertible is telling
everybody you might as well just both your fingers out
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the window and go.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
F all you.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I've got money and you don't f all of you,
f all of you, f all of you.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That's what you're saying with the convertible.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Wow, I didn't realize so much was written into it.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
It's astonishing. I really am surprised about this, the level
of of just of unawareness of where people, where society is,
and where and what you're you're projecting on society that
you have money and you don't care about anybody else
but yourself.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
That's it, all right, You're listening to Tim Conway Junior
on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I think, and again I'm going to go crazy and
on convertibles again. But I think back in the seventies,
sixties and seventies, sure, when you had a convertible, you
weren't necessarily rich. You know, you could make a couple
of bucks and buy a convertible and enjoy yourself. But
the difference between wealthy people and poor people, or wealthy
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people and middle class people back when I was growing up,
was very small, you know. I mean when I remember
Adam Carolla telling the story that he saw a guy
in a Rolls Royce drive by, and I think he
said he was on like Ventura and white Oak or something,
and his dad said to him, hey, or somebody said
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to him, if you work really hard, you'll be a millionaire.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
One day.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
You could have one of those, right, And and you know,
if you're a millionaire, when I was growing up, that
was a wealthy guy, right. You know, it's like all
of the the you know, the the Myers down the
street or the hennessyes, whatever, the Clarks, they're millionaires, right,
they have a million dollars.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
That's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
And now if somebody is a billionaire, you're like, hey,
what happened? You know, you can't crank that up. You're
just a billionaire. But this guy's were a two hundred
and thirty eight billion.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
You didn't get close to that. Yeah, you're right, You're right.
It's weird. It's odd.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
We're out of whack because of that. Because we talk
about billionaires, we talk about billions in this franchise and
sports is going to sell for six billion, and this
billionaire is buying another franchise in sports. We're surrounded by
these huge purchases with the B word in front of
the millionaires. And I think you're right, we've lost we've
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lost our way. Plus, as you said, the difference between
the people who have it and the people who don't
have it is has never been bigger.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Right, and it's and it and that's all the more
reason why you should be very conscious if you're driving
around in a car that screams you have money. Yeah,
but because people want that. People are tired of being poor.
I don't know if you notice that, but in this city,
people are tired of generational brokeness and they are lashing
out and they want more. They're either going to get
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it from you, the government, or the banks. They're going
to get it, though they have had it with struggling
to pay their cell phone bill and their cable bill.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
But some guy driving around in a convertible Mustang, is
that really saying I've got money? I mean it's you know,
or a convertible Kmaro, convertible, Jeep or convertible. Now there
is my friend. I have another friend who has a
lot of money, and she drives a convertible. I think
it's a corniche. Now, that is a gorgeous car. But
that's a Is that a Roles? I think it's a
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it's a it's a version of Roles. Now that's screams money.
Convertible or not. The corniche pulls up to the car
and you go out that person rich.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
If you have a sun roof, are you considered middle class?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
No?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
No, If you have a sun roof, you're just an idiot.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
But if that Mustang convertible pulls up, I don't think,
Oh my god, that guy's got a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
I never had anybody tell me I was rich when
I had a convertible Mustang.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Well you weren't.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah, I think you're the outlier, the only guy in
LA who is driving around broke and a convertible.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I think you're onto something with the convertible thing being like,
maybe not as many people drive them. I'd be curious
to know on convertible sales, like are what are the
convertible sales versus those that are traditional sedans or traditional cars.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Look, I'm I'm telling you they can be fun, is all.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I would say, Okay, and I don't like them, and
I would say it can be fun.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I'm telling you that in twenty twenty five now, when
they're throwing all these guys out of this country, when
everybody's broke, it's hotter than hell, everyone's getting fired, everybody's
busted out, nobody can afford anything, nobody can afford any rent,
and you drive down Vanuy's Boulevard with your top down
like nothing's happening to you. It is a holary on
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a level I've never seen before.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
You really do wrap a lot into it, though I
didn't realize that you are.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
I say I'd never buy another convertible just based on
that perception.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Is that right? Yeah? Sure? Absolutely? You mean because of
today or because I mean.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
You're saying Tim has legitimately pulled you over in this thing.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I didn't mean to do that. No, no, no, it's
a legit. I hadn't thought about it.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
But that's absolutely a consideration if I were to think
of a convertible and it's like, well.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
But I think what it is it is telling people
that you're out of touch with how difficult it is
to live in Los Angeles?
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Is it? Does it dramatically go down? If you have
a convertible but the top is up?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Mmm? Now you know what, I still kind of how
much is it still there?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I think it's even worse to have the top up.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Wow, because you're driving You're driving a car that says
I don't care about anybody, But all of a sudden,
you flip out and you're like, oh, but wait a minute,
this idiot on KFI got me nervous.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Or if you or if you have your top up,
it's considered woke. Yeah, maybe, oh my god, but I don't.
I seriously.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I saw a guy today driving on the five Freeway
and I'm listening to the radio, and I'm listening to
you know, how many guys are being thrown out of
this country every twenty seconds. And it's hot outside, it's foggy.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I mean it's smaggy.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Because you know, we've had that that fire up in
middle of California and a lot of that haze has
come down here. It's back to back bumper traffic, and
everybody's just sort of angry and pissed and you know,
cutting each off off, trying to get to work hopefully
not getting arrested or deported or you know, filing for
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bankruptcy hopefully you know your your medical bills don't pile
up and it froze. You know, you got to worry
about mom and dad now breaking down. There's so many
things you have to worry about in society. And then
I look over and I see it in a convertible
and he's not touched by.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Any of this.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
It's just it's it's it's not.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Look, we might get back to a time where riding
a convertible is cool and you're enjoying it and everything's
HOTSI TATSI.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
It's just not. Now, it's not. No, it's just not.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
And if you think it is, you're one hundred percent wrong,
one hundred percent wrong.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
But you know the difference, Bee, I saw this on
online the other day.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
The difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is absolutely huge.
Let me do the math real quick, because I make
sure the math is right before I do this. All right,
divide it by twenty four, divide it by sixty divided
by sixty. Okay, okay? Here is how many seconds is
a million? How many days is a million seconds? What
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would you guess? Maybe we'll do a quick whip around.
How many days is a million seconds?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
All right?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
If you have a million seconds, how many days passes by?
If you count every second as one dollar, like one
million seconds?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
How many days would that be?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Sad?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Boosh, one more time? Sorry?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
If you had a million seconds, how many days is that?
If like like sixty seconds would be a minute, yeah,
and then sixty minutes would be an hour, twenty four
hours in a day? How many seconds would a million be?
How many days you can pass? One thousand days?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Okay? All right, Mark, I'll say, uh, it's three hundred days.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Three hundred.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Krozier, I'll go over a little over a week. I'll
say ten days, ten days, all right, Belly o oh,
that's like I don't know, uh, twelve days, one twelve okay, Angel.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I'll say a whole stinking week, seven days, seven day
is Richie. I'm going to say like four days, four days, okay,
Krozier and Bellio get it.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
It's actually Bellio gets it because it's eleven eleven and.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
A half days.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Oh wow, it's not okay.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
It's eleven and a half days.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Now, if you had a billion seconds, let's do another
one here, a billion seconds?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
How many?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
How many?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
How long a period is that? Eleven days is a million?
But what is a billion second?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Oh? Twenty four.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
You've got to stop playing this game. Twenty four what hours?
Twenty four days? Yeah, because it's eleven days. I don't
know where that math even adds up to eleven, which
is twenty two.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Where do you get the extra two?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Twenty seven? Sorry, oh my god, I'm having a stroke.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
What was the question again? Okay? Stut Mark, I think
I guess hi the last time I'm going to go
high again. I think it's years. I'm going to say
twelve years.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Twelve years, all right, Crozier, I was trying to do
the quick zero math in my head.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Say, By the way, Mark's onto something, I'll give you
a hint, he said, He said.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Years, right, Oh yeah, I was just trying to figure
out is it.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Five years?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Five years? All right?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Belly o five and a half years, five and a
half Angel?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
What was the question? A billion seconds? How many years
is that? Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
That would be.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Four years, four years, Richie. I'm going to assume that
that sounds like a long time, so I'm gonna say
maybe ten years, ten years. Okay? Who is second? Was it? Mark?
Mark wins?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Okay, So eleven a million seconds is eleven days. A
billion seconds is thirty one years.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Yeah, that's the difference to train that too. Huh, that's
your point. A billion and a millionaire's a huge difference, huge.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yeah, eleven days and thirty one years and and yet
people are walking around with billions of dollars. Yeah, and
there's a and there's guys walking around van eyes who
don't have, you know, enough money for a sandwich.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Yeah, it really is. Look it.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
It's expanded too quickly and too fast, and the convertible
projects that you're in the group that really is out
of touch with what's going on in society.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
And it does, whether you like it or not, it does.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
So I mean, what are you saying, Tim, that they
should tax those billionaires.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
No, I don't know what the what the what the
absolute solution is. But having two hundred and thirty eight
billion dollars and a guy with a five hundred million
dollar yacht screaming into send, you know, into a Marina
del Rey, seems to be.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
A little much.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
I had. I don't know what the solution. I had
a dinner to te this real quick. I had a
dinner just Sunday night with my friend. He is gazillionaire.
He said, Mark, we're just talking politics a little bit,
not really heavy at all. He said, I will tell
you one thing, Mark, I pay no taxes, not one dollar.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Really.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Yeah, And he said that's the he said, that's the game.
He said, it's only gotten better.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
What do you do at that point, you pat him
on the back, offered to split the bill.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
He was kind. He was explaining how unfair it is.
He was actually on the side of I should be
paying taxes and I'm not. But it does sound like
a brag. No, he was saying, it's not fair that
I don't pay taxes. I don't.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
But he doesn't play tech doesn't ay taxes voluntarily.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Now through the business as he follows the code dollars
the law. There's nothing illegal. He was trying to explain
the laws work for me. They don't work for you, Mark,
they work for me.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Right, But he could you don't have to pay zero.
He could pay taxes and he chooses not to. No, no, no, no,
I mean, well, I don't know you like, if my
taxes were were ten thousand dollars a year and I
gave him twelve thousand, you think they give me two
thousand back.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
No, why would you give him twelve thousand if your
taxes are ten thousand.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Because if I would say I don't think my tax
are high enough, I'd like to pay you a little more,
and they'd keep the money.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
So this guy's not paying his taxes and he's proud
of that.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Who is this guy it's not paying he is paying
his taxes, they're none. I mean, this is this is
a broader point. You can make fun of it, but
it's not.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
He has people hold on, say, he has people with
him to get him to that point. But he could
pay taxes and he chooses not to.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
He gave me an example with a jet. I'll give
it to you on the way back. Okay, all right,
give you all right. This is what drives me crazy.
It is people would say, oh, you know, the rules
are the rules, and you can't pay any more than
you want in taxes. This city is going to blow
up Los Angeles. I feel it, and I talked about
it three weeks ago. This city is about to blow Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
You were going to explain something to us before we
took a commercial break.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
No, we're just talking. But people have got a lot
of money and that the tax laws and everything were
just in favor. You made the point initially that the
people who have all the money are they're more of
them and they are fewer of the sort of the
gap between those who don't have that money and the
people who have that money has never been bigger. And
I was just saying, yeah, I speaking to my pal
who is telling me about the new law. The new
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this is about federal taxes that will allow him to
buy a plane. You can buy a ten million dollar
jet and then he leases it out like he doesn't
even he uses it once in a while, but otherwise.
It's one of those net jet things where you rent
the plane for the for the It's you're familiar with that, right,
tim Netjet, you know net jet and all those.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Oh yeah, but you can you can rent a play
leave from.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Van Eyes and you can get it right right right.
So so those are planes owned by somebody, but they're leased,
and so it's sort of like subleasing it. So in
other words, that he buys the jet, and ten million
dollars that the jet costs, he writes it off. He said,
it's completely It cost me nothing, he said. So if
to make it easy, if I make ten million dollars profit,
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I buy the ten million dollar jet, I now have
zero and the jet is making me money. So that's
just one example he said, that's just been made legal.
He said that, you know that wasn't legal before.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Right, Like Jeff Bezos when he bought Whole Foods. I
think he bought it for I don't know, four billion
dollars or so. But the Amazon stock that day went
up so much on that news that he made five billions.
So he got Whole Foods for free plus a billion dollars?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Is that true? What I heard that he bought Whole
Foods after like like walking in one day and just going, oh,
this is the kind of I mean, I'd heard a
ridiculous story like that. It just seemed too extraordinary to
be true.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
But you know all those.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
You know people and when when your dad was raising
you and your dad is about the same age as
as my dad.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
What year is your dad born?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Yeah, nineteen thirty.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Okay, my day was born thirty three, about the same
age raising kids. Uh, my dad didn't have to pay
sell bills, he didn't have to pay streaming, he didn't
have to pay as much in gas taxes or a car,
you know, insurance or all these things that we have
to pay all day long that deplete the money that
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we make. And there and then people are constantly banging
on you to separate you for your money. Like I
have a sign on my door that says no soliciting,
especially from and there's a company's name. And I don't
say the company's name on the air because I don't
know if they're they're a big company, and I don't
(23:39):
know if they're a client, And it always f's me
up when I say the name of the company. So
I I the company's name is on my door, but
it's not on this air, right, So it says no soliciting,
especially from blank and there's a company there. Guy knocks
on my door last night at eight thirty at night, right,
not even a nice knock like a bank bank bang
(24:00):
bang bang. And I thought it was somebody trying to
break in. Sure, so I opened the door and he says, hey,
I'm from so and so company. And I said, and
I had the screen door closed. I said, do you
see that sign It says no solictening, especially from the
company that you're with.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
And he says yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
He goes, I think I can convince you that we've
changed and we're a better company.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I said, okay, that's a that's a nice start. I
just closed the door.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
So but but.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
People are constantly trying to separate you from your cash,
you know, whether it's uh, you know, uh somebody offering
you you know, like a brand new this or brand
new that, and and and you know, a lot of
the times, you know, the products are good, but a
lot of times they're not, you know, and when you
buy crap online, you know, you could crapshoot of you know,
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what's good and what's not. That's why, you know, it's
really easy on this station to talk about like honest
companies that do an on his job. And I could
go through the you know, the list of live reads
and I can tell you a personal experience. But once
I have a personal experience with a company and they've
done me a solid and I and I know they're
not going to rip other people off, it's tremendously easy
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to talk about them on the air.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
But if I know a.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Company, it's like, I don't know they're you know, they're
not so great, ye you know, I don't know if
they're their services what people want. I constantly, you know,
run into that problem with sales.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
There, I gotta tell you quick story might get me
into a little bit of trouble.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
I love those.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Okay, all right, somebody, somebody in sales.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Said to me six months from five four or five
months ago, They said, are you working with any casino?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I said you are?
Speaker 3 (25:52):
You?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Are you doing commercials for any casino?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Radio usually have extended way, you do another one if
you're already with.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
One, right, And I said, well, since nineteen ninety eight,
I've been doing commercials for Marongo Casino. Sure, it's been
twenty seven years. If you've listened to the station at all,
you know that you're a spokesperson. And he says, oh, really,
twenty seven years. That must be a nice relationship. Yet
(26:19):
with them, I said it is. And I can't believe
twenty seven years.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
The guy.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Either doesn't remember or didn't listen or didn't know that
I'm working with Maroango Casino. Yeah, and works in this building. Yeah,
that's incredible in sales in this building, right, it's incredible.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Tim just rescued me from further humiliation because I was
just given.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
A a hat my friend and said, Tim walls or
the wall.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
The wall is the show, and he produces the show
The Wall. He's a dear friend of him for years.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
That success a successful show.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Super successful and really a good show too. It's an NBC.
You go see the taping I did. In fact, I've
got kind of a good story about that. First, I'll
finish the hat story. So I got this hat while
I was at his office. He gave me the hat,
and so I was wearing it in It's a brand
new hat, gleaming white hat with the emblazoned logo of
(27:22):
the show The Wall, and Tim asked, is that a
new hat? And I thought, oh, Tim's asking is it
a new hat? Because it's a gleaming white hat, never
seen it before with that lovely logo, and I'm so
proud of it that I'm wearing it. He says. I said, yeah,
it is. Actually it's my friends. And then I kind
of did a little thing. My friend's show that's I'MBC
blah blah blah. I kind of do a little you know,
(27:43):
let me tell you how important I am that I
meet with my friend who's got a show. And Tim says,
oh cool, because the hook is still on the top
where you hook it up in his store. Yeah, like
you hook it up like on a store exactly. And
I said, oh, and so I take the hat off
and I take the and they go. And I've seen
I don't know, uh one, two, three, four, five, six,
(28:06):
I've seen about twelve to fifteen people here at iHeart.
No one has mentioned that the hook is okay on this.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Let me give them an out.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Okay, when you know before when when I bought a
hat when I was younger, I would take the stickers off,
the hook off, the tags off, all that stuff. Now
when kids buy a hat, they keep all that on.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
No, it's true.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
So I thought you were just trying to be hip.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
I was trying to be just more kid like, yeah
with your with I hope that people thought I was
being hip, But I think people just didn't want to
tell me that, you know, your flies down.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Taping ok in your head.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
But we did go to a taping of the Wall,
and it's a really great show.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
And they do like five a day as one of
those deals.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
I think they might do two a day. I don't
know the schedule, but I know it's it's not like
slam Bam, like Wheel of Fortune is slam Bam. They'll
do five in a day or if this is a
little more dramatic prime time. Oh, it's a big it's
a big thing, and it's a really dramatic show and
really interesting. And this kid he might have been I
(29:12):
don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
For people who don't know what it is, can you
explain it to them?
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yeah, So essentially it's a show with questions, like a
normal quiz show, if you want to call it that.
But the ballpart is they drop these huge balls at
the top of a wall. It's like plinko. Yeah, yeah,
so it is Plinko, but with these massively huge lit
(29:36):
balls that come down and if the balls are green
at a certain part in the game and they drop
down to the bottom, the amount that they drop into
that goes to the contestant. If they're red, and they
drop them all down and they end up in these places,
you know, with these amounts, it's debited from the person's account. So,
(29:56):
and then questions allow you to drop certain ball, Your
answer to questions allow you to drop certain balls, get
more balls, more green balls, et cetera. There's and you
kind of get into the game that way. So the
wall is the plank o. The balls you drop that's
the thing.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Do you think the pitch to the network was tighter?
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I hope. I didn't feel that you really needed the whole,
but you're right, this is a meandering, poorly explained pitch. Anyway,
you got the idea of planko ball. That's why I
kind of okay. Anyway, So it's a really dramatic show,
and it's a really intense show. Anyway, and the day
that we visited there is a kid playing. He might
(30:38):
be twelve or thirteen, playing with his dad. So the
way the show works that kind of left this part
out is a couple or a family will play with
just two people, and one will be backstage and one
will be out there actually having to answer the questions,
and the one backstage has to sort of predict how
(31:00):
whether or not the person on stage is going to
be able to answer a question that becomes sort of
important later. This kid was crushing it. It was unbelievable,
And these questions are really hard. This kid's only twelve
years old. Wow, he was phenomenal. And they do that
thing where they'll give you something it sounds like a
sports question, like as a category, but then when you
get into it, it's some question about French history or something.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
And you're betting the total amount of money at the
end on whether that person got the question. Yeah, exactly,
and the dad did the dad? I believe that the
kid answered the properly. So did they win money?
Speaker 3 (31:31):
As they're going, this kid is doing so well, and
the producers of the show are going, oh my god,
this kid is going to win the million dollars.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
And it was I mean, it was clear that he
was getting closer and closer and closer. And we're excited,
right because we're thinking, oh my god, this kid's going
to win indledge, but the producers are sweating. Yeah. The
fact that it was the contrast between our reaction because
we're just visiting it's not our money and the producers
who's money it is, was hilarious. And they did. They won.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
They won the million dollars. That kid and his dad
won a million dollars.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
That was incredible.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
What a ride home?
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Yeah, it was so much fun.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Oh that's great. And later that's a great story.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
On the way out, he said, I never want you
people to come here again. He said, you are bad luck.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Fun you know what, But that million dollars is going
to buy a billion dollars worth of great publicity.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Oh yeah, it's a great show. The Wall. It's called Yeah, see.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
That's a good show.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
It really is.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
All right, we have well we'll get we'll.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Get some more news when we come back. There's a
brand new game in Vegas. I know you and I
are Vegas guys, gamblers. There's a brand new game in Vegas.
They've never introduced before, but because so many kids are
playing it, they introduce as a gambling game. And now
it's available in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
I want to hear what it is.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
We'll come back and i'll tell you. All right, it's
uh what you know, it's not black chack.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
They have that.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
We're live on KFI AM six forty
It's k IF. I am six forty and you're listening
to the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps. Sorry,
all right, sorry, Thompson's here, john My showing early start
or late finish by Johnny b Johnny Colebelm. I sorry,
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belly O. You know Bellyo's back. Everybody, Yeah, ding dong,
belly O. Always nice to see you back, little buddy.
Yeah all, let me plug in here.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Mark Thompson is here, and everybody.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Please be seeing it please if you will, m overwhelmed,
that is okay.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I before we begin here, I was driving the Free Boys.
I went down to Newport Beach went to visit a
client today, Number one Collision in Newport Beach got a
mighty is that place unbelievable? They I think they spend
like twenty million dollars putting this building together and got
a high end car. They take care of every man
(01:01):
from A to Z and they knock it out. So
I went down there to visit the fellows and the
guys and gals that work down there, and I noticed
that in Orange County there are a lot more convertibles
than there are in La County. And I don't know
why maybe people have more money.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
But here here's my take on this.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, you have a theory.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yes, these people who drive around, especially in LA with
a convertible, are radically out of touch with society, radically
out of touch. With the top down you're driving around,
they're throwing a thousand of these Spanish guys out of
this country every eight seconds. And you're driving around like
(01:42):
nothing's going on in this convertible with your hat on,
like it's Hollywood in nineteen seventy two. That's what's going
on with you. You have no connection to what's going
on in society.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
None.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
The dream dies hard tim The fact is we want
it to be in nineteen seventy two and hours.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
It's the worst are we've ever It's the hottest it's
ever been, according to you and your you know, climate freaks.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And it's also crimesville. And when you have a top down,
you're screaming two things. A you've got money, and B
you have no protection when somebody wants to come in
and get it. You don't have a window you can
roll up or a top on your car. You're done.
And people are driving around as if it's nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
It's not a convertible town anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It's not at all. It's not even close if you
had a convertive.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
If you have a convertible right now and you're down,
the top is down, and you're driving on the freeway,
you are radically out of touch with.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Everything else around you. Everything.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I mean, if you're along the coast. Don't you think you.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I get it? Mark, I didn't say if you're on
the coast.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
No, I'm just saying, like, that's the place it's still
accept if.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
You have when you go check it, when you come
from from the colony to your local Starbucks. That's the
only route you can take a convertible lot.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
To be in the Malibu colony. That's right.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
See, if you live in the colony and you're gonna
go to Starbucks, put the top down and enjoy yourself.
But you're in the valley and you're driving through this
guy was driving. There's another one now the other day.
Guy's driving through Van Eyes on Victory and Van Eyes
Boulevard and he's got a convertible and the tops down.
You don't think that every guy around there wants that
(03:22):
guy's money and wants to roll that guy. How how
out of touch and how you know, just detached you
are from society where you're in a convertible in twenty
twenty five. It's unbelievable. It's I find it astonishing.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Well, clearly I didn't. It's really aroused some curiosity in
you as to why these people exist. Although I must
say I do know a couple of people who really
enjoy driving around. I'll mention one of them from Dateline NBC.
Josh Menkowitz, My good friend. No, no, he'll he'll meet me
for lunch at arts in the valley.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Then he's out of touch.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
And we walked back to his car's got the top
down and he drives but the top down, back to
Beverly Hills, Rorey.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Completely out of touch with society? Is this guy? What's
is there?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Josh Minkla, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, but he's completely out
of touch with so sign. Yeah, that's wild. I'm saying
I think that there's a California culture. You're right. I
mean that the time when everybody had their top down
and things were different might have been a while ago,
but that I mean, I think those things die hard,
and there's still a California culture that people are trying
to cling to.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Right, it's not there anymore, Okay, it's moved on and so.
And also the guys driving the convertible, they always have
a baseball hat on that becomes their top, you know,
because the sun's on you and you don't want your.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Head to burn or whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
See where that you know, your baseball cap and you're
driving around like you should be in nineteen sixty eight,
you know, working for Warner Brothers or MGM.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
It's I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
But when I see a guy with his top down,
I think of how many signs did this guy miss
that this is not a convertible society anymore. I mean,
you put yourself at risk, you put your family at risk.
What you're doing is you're telling everybody. Well, let me
ask you something, young man. Since so you have a
slightly different view on this convertible theory, how many people
(05:24):
do you know that have a convertible?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Two? Okay?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
And are both of those people really really well off?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
They both have money. I don't know, really really are
that's two really is in a well off I mean
I would say they're well off.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
They're the million, they're millionaires. Yeah, okay, why would you
project that?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
But is that what you're projecting with the top down?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Really, you don't think you're projecting you have money when
you I'm gonna stand up and advance you.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Really, you don't believe.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
You don't believe that if you have a a convertible
in twenty twenty five, that you're not showing everybody and
telling you but you money.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I think if you're driving, for example, a Bentley convertible,
then you're.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
It's not a Bentley convertible, it's any kind of converbile
you when you got the top up, you got the
top down in twenty twenty five, and you're not telling
everybody you got money.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, I's funny. I'll tell you. I have to say
this before you you know, you throw me out of
your courtroom. I hate I hate a converbile. I don't
even like all the windows down when I'm driving a car.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I don't either.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I think one of the great things about modern society
is that I can create my own environment in that car,
and I tune out all the noise outside the truck exhaust,
et cetera, like I could never see it. And I've
mentioned this to my friends who have the convertibles that said,
I don't know that. When I see it convertbile, I go, huh,
that guy's got a couple of bucks. I don't really,
I really don't think that.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
What does it say about it? Like you see a
guy driving the convertible, does it say about him? Single? Mostly?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Mostly single guys. I had a convertible Kimara for a
while for a couple reasons. A. I got a sweet
deal on it, and be my wife and daughter liked it,
and we and my daughter. My wife would drive it
into the beach with my top down, my daughter and everything.
But that was fifteen years ago. Sure you know this
is not a convertible society. It's just not if you
(07:10):
live in in Laguna, my Laguna Hills, Laguna Beach, if
you live in Santa Barbara, maybe parts of Orange County,
especially near the coast Huntington Beach. I understand it, La Joya,
I get it. But to drive in the San Fernando
Valley with your top down and a convertible is telling
everybody you might as well just both your fingers out
(07:33):
the window and go.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
F all you.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I've got money and you don't f all of you,
f all of you, f all of you.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That's what you're saying with the convertible.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Wow, I didn't realize so much was written into it.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
It's astonishing. I really am surprised about this, the level
of of just of unawareness of where people, where society is,
and where and what you're you're projecting on society that
you have money and you don't care about anybody else
but yourself.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
That's it, all right, You're listening to Tim Conway Junior
on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I think, and again I'm going to go crazy and
on convertibles again. But I think back in the seventies,
sixties and seventies, sure, when you had a convertible, you
weren't necessarily rich. You know, you could make a couple
of bucks and buy a convertible and enjoy yourself. But
the difference between wealthy people and poor people, or wealthy
(08:35):
people and middle class people back when I was growing up,
was very small, you know. I mean when I remember
Adam Carolla telling the story that he saw a guy
in a Rolls Royce drive by, and I think he
said he was on like Ventura and white Oak or something,
and his dad said to him, hey, or somebody said
(08:57):
to him, if you work really hard, you'll be a millionaire.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
One day.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
You could have one of those, right, And and you know,
if you're a millionaire, when I was growing up, that
was a wealthy guy, right. You know, it's like all
of the the you know, the the Myers down the
street or the hennessyes, whatever, the Clarks, they're millionaires, right,
they have a million dollars.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
That's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
And now if somebody is a billionaire, you're like, hey,
what happened? You know, you can't crank that up. You're
just a billionaire. But this guy's were a two hundred
and thirty eight billion.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
You didn't get close to that. Yeah, you're right, You're right.
It's weird. It's odd.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
We're out of whack because of that. Because we talk
about billionaires, we talk about billions in this franchise and
sports is going to sell for six billion, and this
billionaire is buying another franchise in sports. We're surrounded by
these huge purchases with the B word in front of
the millionaires. And I think you're right, we've lost we've
(09:51):
lost our way. Plus, as you said, the difference between
the people who have it and the people who don't
have it is has never been bigger.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Right, and it's and it and that's all the more
reason why you should be very conscious if you're driving
around in a car that screams you have money. Yeah,
but because people want that. People are tired of being poor.
I don't know if you notice that, but in this city,
people are tired of generational brokeness and they are lashing
out and they want more. They're either going to get
(10:22):
it from you, the government, or the banks. They're going
to get it, though they have had it with struggling
to pay their cell phone bill and their cable bill.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
But some guy driving around in a convertible Mustang, is
that really saying I've got money? I mean it's you know,
or a convertible Kmaro, convertible, Jeep or convertible. Now there
is my friend. I have another friend who has a
lot of money, and she drives a convertible. I think
it's a corniche. Now, that is a gorgeous car. But
that's a Is that a Roles? I think it's a
(10:53):
it's a it's a version of Roles. Now that's screams money.
Convertible or not. The corniche pulls up to the car
and you go out that person rich.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
If you have a sun roof, are you considered middle class?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
No?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
No, If you have a sun roof, you're just an idiot.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
But if that Mustang convertible pulls up, I don't think,
Oh my god, that guy's got a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
I never had anybody tell me I was rich when
I had a convertible Mustang.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Well you weren't.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah, I think you're the outlier, the only guy in
LA who is driving around broke and a convertible.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I think you're onto something with the convertible thing being like,
maybe not as many people drive them. I'd be curious
to know on convertible sales, like are what are the
convertible sales versus those that are traditional sedans or traditional cars.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Look, I'm I'm telling you they can be fun, is all.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I would say, Okay, and I don't like them, and
I would say it can be fun.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I'm telling you that in twenty twenty five now, when
they're throwing all these guys out of this country, when
everybody's broke, it's hotter than hell, everyone's getting fired, everybody's
busted out, nobody can afford anything, nobody can afford any rent,
and you drive down Vanuy's Boulevard with your top down
like nothing's happening to you. It is a holary on
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a level I've never seen before.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
You really do wrap a lot into it, though I
didn't realize that you are.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
I say I'd never buy another convertible just based on
that perception.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Is that right? Yeah? Sure? Absolutely? You mean because of
today or because I mean.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
You're saying Tim has legitimately pulled you over in this thing.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I didn't mean to do that. No, no, no, it's
a legit. I hadn't thought about it.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
But that's absolutely a consideration if I were to think
of a convertible and it's like, well.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
But I think what it is it is telling people
that you're out of touch with how difficult it is
to live in Los Angeles?
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Is it? Does it dramatically go down? If you have
a convertible but the top is up?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Mmm? Now you know what, I still kind of how
much is it still there?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I think it's even worse to have the top up.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Wow, because you're driving You're driving a car that says
I don't care about anybody, But all of a sudden,
you flip out and you're like, oh, but wait a minute,
this idiot on KFI got me nervous.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Or if you or if you have your top up,
it's considered woke. Yeah, maybe, oh my god, but I don't.
I seriously.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I saw a guy today driving on the five Freeway
and I'm listening to the radio, and I'm listening to
you know, how many guys are being thrown out of
this country every twenty seconds. And it's hot outside, it's foggy.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I mean it's smaggy.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Because you know, we've had that that fire up in
middle of California and a lot of that haze has
come down here. It's back to back bumper traffic, and
everybody's just sort of angry and pissed and you know,
cutting each off off, trying to get to work hopefully
not getting arrested or deported or you know, filing for
(13:49):
bankruptcy hopefully you know your your medical bills don't pile
up and it froze. You know, you got to worry
about mom and dad now breaking down. There's so many
things you have to worry about in society. And then
I look over and I see it in a convertible
and he's not touched by.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Any of this.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
It's just it's it's it's not.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Look, we might get back to a time where riding
a convertible is cool and you're enjoying it and everything's
HOTSI TATSI.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
It's just not. Now, it's not. No, it's just not.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
And if you think it is, you're one hundred percent wrong,
one hundred percent wrong.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
But you know the difference, Bee, I saw this on
online the other day.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
The difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is absolutely huge.
Let me do the math real quick, because I make
sure the math is right before I do this. All right,
divide it by twenty four, divide it by sixty divided
by sixty. Okay, okay? Here is how many seconds is
a million? How many days is a million seconds? What
(14:48):
would you guess? Maybe we'll do a quick whip around.
How many days is a million seconds?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
All right?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
If you have a million seconds, how many days passes by?
If you count every second as one dollar, like one
million seconds?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
How many days would that be?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Sad?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Boosh, one more time? Sorry?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
If you had a million seconds, how many days is that?
If like like sixty seconds would be a minute, yeah,
and then sixty minutes would be an hour, twenty four
hours in a day? How many seconds would a million be?
How many days you can pass? One thousand days?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Okay? All right, Mark, I'll say, uh, it's three hundred days.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Three hundred.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Krozier, I'll go over a little over a week. I'll
say ten days, ten days, all right, Belly o oh,
that's like I don't know, uh, twelve days, one twelve okay, Angel.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I'll say a whole stinking week, seven days, seven day
is Richie. I'm going to say like four days, four days, okay,
Krozier and Bellio get it.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
It's actually Bellio gets it because it's eleven eleven and.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
A half days.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Oh wow, it's not okay.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
It's eleven and a half days.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Now, if you had a billion seconds, let's do another
one here, a billion seconds?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
How many?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
How many?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
How long a period is that? Eleven days is a million?
But what is a billion second?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Oh? Twenty four.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
You've got to stop playing this game. Twenty four what hours?
Twenty four days? Yeah, because it's eleven days. I don't
know where that math even adds up to eleven, which
is twenty two.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Where do you get the extra two?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Twenty seven? Sorry, oh my god, I'm having a stroke.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
What was the question again? Okay? Stut Mark, I think
I guess hi the last time I'm going to go
high again. I think it's years. I'm going to say
twelve years.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Twelve years, all right, Crozier, I was trying to do
the quick zero math in my head.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Say, By the way, Mark's onto something, I'll give you
a hint, he said, He said.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Years, right, Oh yeah, I was just trying to figure
out is it.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Five years?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Five years? All right?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Belly o five and a half years, five and a
half Angel?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
What was the question? A billion seconds? How many years
is that? Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
That would be.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Four years, four years, Richie. I'm going to assume that
that sounds like a long time, so I'm gonna say
maybe ten years, ten years. Okay? Who is second? Was it? Mark?
Mark wins?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Okay, So eleven a million seconds is eleven days. A
billion seconds is thirty one years.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Yeah, that's the difference to train that too. Huh, that's
your point. A billion and a millionaire's a huge difference, huge.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yeah, eleven days and thirty one years and and yet
people are walking around with billions of dollars. Yeah, and
there's a and there's guys walking around van eyes who
don't have, you know, enough money for a sandwich.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Yeah, it really is. Look it.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
It's expanded too quickly and too fast, and the convertible
projects that you're in the group that really is out
of touch with what's going on in society.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
And it does, whether you like it or not, it does.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
So I mean, what are you saying, Tim, that they
should tax those billionaires.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
No, I don't know what the what the what the
absolute solution is. But having two hundred and thirty eight
billion dollars and a guy with a five hundred million
dollar yacht screaming into send, you know, into a Marina
del Rey, seems to be.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
A little much.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
I had. I don't know what the solution. I had
a dinner to te this real quick. I had a
dinner just Sunday night with my friend. He is gazillionaire.
He said, Mark, we're just talking politics a little bit,
not really heavy at all. He said, I will tell
you one thing, Mark, I pay no taxes, not one dollar.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Really.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Yeah, And he said that's the he said, that's the game.
He said, it's only gotten better.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
What do you do at that point, you pat him
on the back, offered to split the bill.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
He was kind. He was explaining how unfair it is.
He was actually on the side of I should be
paying taxes and I'm not. But it does sound like
a brag. No, he was saying, it's not fair that
I don't pay taxes. I don't.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
But he doesn't play tech doesn't ay taxes voluntarily.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Now through the business as he follows the code dollars
the law. There's nothing illegal. He was trying to explain
the laws work for me. They don't work for you, Mark,
they work for me.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Right, But he could you don't have to pay zero.
He could pay taxes and he chooses not to. No, no, no, no,
I mean, well, I don't know you like, if my
taxes were were ten thousand dollars a year and I
gave him twelve thousand, you think they give me two
thousand back.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
No, why would you give him twelve thousand if your
taxes are ten thousand.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Because if I would say I don't think my tax
are high enough, I'd like to pay you a little more,
and they'd keep the money.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
So this guy's not paying his taxes and he's proud
of that.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Who is this guy it's not paying he is paying
his taxes, they're none. I mean, this is this is
a broader point. You can make fun of it, but
it's not.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
He has people hold on, say, he has people with
him to get him to that point. But he could
pay taxes and he chooses not to.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
He gave me an example with a jet. I'll give
it to you on the way back. Okay, all right,
give you all right. This is what drives me crazy.
It is people would say, oh, you know, the rules
are the rules, and you can't pay any more than
you want in taxes. This city is going to blow
up Los Angeles. I feel it, and I talked about
it three weeks ago. This city is about to blow Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
You were going to explain something to us before we
took a commercial break.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
No, we're just talking. But people have got a lot
of money and that the tax laws and everything were
just in favor. You made the point initially that the
people who have all the money are they're more of
them and they are fewer of the sort of the
gap between those who don't have that money and the
people who have that money has never been bigger. And
I was just saying, yeah, I speaking to my pal
who is telling me about the new law. The new
(21:24):
this is about federal taxes that will allow him to
buy a plane. You can buy a ten million dollar
jet and then he leases it out like he doesn't
even he uses it once in a while, but otherwise.
It's one of those net jet things where you rent
the plane for the for the It's you're familiar with that, right,
tim Netjet, you know net jet and all those.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Oh yeah, but you can you can rent a play
leave from.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Van Eyes and you can get it right right right.
So so those are planes owned by somebody, but they're leased,
and so it's sort of like subleasing it. So in
other words, that he buys the jet, and ten million
dollars that the jet costs, he writes it off. He said,
it's completely It cost me nothing, he said. So if
to make it easy, if I make ten million dollars profit,
(22:06):
I buy the ten million dollar jet, I now have
zero and the jet is making me money. So that's
just one example he said, that's just been made legal.
He said that, you know that wasn't legal before.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Right, Like Jeff Bezos when he bought Whole Foods. I
think he bought it for I don't know, four billion
dollars or so. But the Amazon stock that day went
up so much on that news that he made five billions.
So he got Whole Foods for free plus a billion dollars?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Is that true? What I heard that he bought Whole
Foods after like like walking in one day and just going, oh,
this is the kind of I mean, I'd heard a
ridiculous story like that. It just seemed too extraordinary to
be true.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
But you know all those.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
You know people and when when your dad was raising
you and your dad is about the same age as
as my dad.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
What year is your dad born?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Yeah, nineteen thirty.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Okay, my day was born thirty three, about the same
age raising kids. Uh, my dad didn't have to pay
sell bills, he didn't have to pay streaming, he didn't
have to pay as much in gas taxes or a car,
you know, insurance or all these things that we have
to pay all day long that deplete the money that
(23:18):
we make. And there and then people are constantly banging
on you to separate you for your money. Like I
have a sign on my door that says no soliciting,
especially from and there's a company's name. And I don't
say the company's name on the air because I don't
know if they're they're a big company, and I don't
(23:39):
know if they're a client, And it always f's me
up when I say the name of the company. So
I I the company's name is on my door, but
it's not on this air, right, So it says no soliciting,
especially from blank and there's a company there. Guy knocks
on my door last night at eight thirty at night, right,
not even a nice knock like a bank bank bang
(24:00):
bang bang. And I thought it was somebody trying to
break in. Sure, so I opened the door and he says, hey,
I'm from so and so company. And I said, and
I had the screen door closed. I said, do you
see that sign It says no solictening, especially from the
company that you're with.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
And he says yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
He goes, I think I can convince you that we've
changed and we're a better company.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I said, okay, that's a that's a nice start. I
just closed the door.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
So but but.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
People are constantly trying to separate you from your cash,
you know, whether it's uh, you know, uh somebody offering
you you know, like a brand new this or brand
new that, and and and you know, a lot of
the times, you know, the products are good, but a
lot of times they're not, you know, and when you
buy crap online, you know, you could crapshoot of you know,
(24:52):
what's good and what's not. That's why, you know, it's
really easy on this station to talk about like honest
companies that do an on his job. And I could
go through the you know, the list of live reads
and I can tell you a personal experience. But once
I have a personal experience with a company and they've
done me a solid and I and I know they're
not going to rip other people off, it's tremendously easy
(25:13):
to talk about them on the air.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
But if I know a.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Company, it's like, I don't know they're you know, they're
not so great, ye you know, I don't know if
they're their services what people want. I constantly, you know,
run into that problem with sales.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
There, I gotta tell you quick story might get me
into a little bit of trouble.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
I love those.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Okay, all right, somebody, somebody in sales.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Said to me six months from five four or five
months ago, They said, are you working with any casino?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I said you are?
Speaker 3 (25:52):
You?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Are you doing commercials for any casino?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Radio usually have extended way, you do another one if
you're already with.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
One, right, And I said, well, since nineteen ninety eight,
I've been doing commercials for Marongo Casino. Sure, it's been
twenty seven years. If you've listened to the station at all,
you know that you're a spokesperson. And he says, oh, really,
twenty seven years. That must be a nice relationship. Yet
(26:19):
with them, I said it is. And I can't believe
twenty seven years.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
The guy.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Either doesn't remember or didn't listen or didn't know that
I'm working with Maroango Casino. Yeah, and works in this building. Yeah,
that's incredible in sales in this building, right, it's incredible.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Tim just rescued me from further humiliation because I was
just given.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
A a hat my friend and said, Tim walls or
the wall.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
The wall is the show, and he produces the show
The Wall. He's a dear friend of him for years.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
That success a successful show.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Super successful and really a good show too. It's an NBC.
You go see the taping I did. In fact, I've
got kind of a good story about that. First, I'll
finish the hat story. So I got this hat while
I was at his office. He gave me the hat,
and so I was wearing it in It's a brand
new hat, gleaming white hat with the emblazoned logo of
(27:22):
the show The Wall, and Tim asked, is that a
new hat? And I thought, oh, Tim's asking is it
a new hat? Because it's a gleaming white hat, never
seen it before with that lovely logo, and I'm so
proud of it that I'm wearing it. He says. I said, yeah,
it is. Actually it's my friends. And then I kind
of did a little thing. My friend's show that's I'MBC
blah blah blah. I kind of do a little you know,
(27:43):
let me tell you how important I am that I
meet with my friend who's got a show. And Tim says,
oh cool, because the hook is still on the top
where you hook it up in his store. Yeah, like
you hook it up like on a store exactly. And
I said, oh, and so I take the hat off
and I take the and they go. And I've seen
I don't know, uh one, two, three, four, five, six,
(28:06):
I've seen about twelve to fifteen people here at iHeart.
No one has mentioned that the hook is okay on this.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Let me give them an out.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Okay, when you know before when when I bought a
hat when I was younger, I would take the stickers off,
the hook off, the tags off, all that stuff. Now
when kids buy a hat, they keep all that on.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
No, it's true.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
So I thought you were just trying to be hip.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
I was trying to be just more kid like, yeah
with your with I hope that people thought I was
being hip, But I think people just didn't want to
tell me that, you know, your flies down.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Taping ok in your head.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
But we did go to a taping of the Wall,
and it's a really great show.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
And they do like five a day as one of
those deals.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
I think they might do two a day. I don't
know the schedule, but I know it's it's not like
slam Bam, like Wheel of Fortune is slam Bam. They'll
do five in a day or if this is a
little more dramatic prime time. Oh, it's a big it's
a big thing, and it's a really dramatic show and
really interesting. And this kid he might have been I
(29:12):
don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
For people who don't know what it is, can you
explain it to them?
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yeah, So essentially it's a show with questions, like a
normal quiz show, if you want to call it that.
But the ballpart is they drop these huge balls at
the top of a wall. It's like plinko. Yeah, yeah,
so it is Plinko, but with these massively huge lit
(29:36):
balls that come down and if the balls are green
at a certain part in the game and they drop
down to the bottom, the amount that they drop into
that goes to the contestant. If they're red, and they
drop them all down and they end up in these places,
you know, with these amounts, it's debited from the person's account. So,
(29:56):
and then questions allow you to drop certain ball, Your
answer to questions allow you to drop certain balls, get
more balls, more green balls, et cetera. There's and you
kind of get into the game that way. So the
wall is the plank o. The balls you drop that's
the thing.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Do you think the pitch to the network was tighter?
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I hope. I didn't feel that you really needed the whole,
but you're right, this is a meandering, poorly explained pitch. Anyway,
you got the idea of planko ball. That's why I
kind of okay. Anyway, So it's a really dramatic show,
and it's a really intense show. Anyway, and the day
that we visited there is a kid playing. He might
(30:38):
be twelve or thirteen, playing with his dad. So the
way the show works that kind of left this part
out is a couple or a family will play with
just two people, and one will be backstage and one
will be out there actually having to answer the questions,
and the one backstage has to sort of predict how
(31:00):
whether or not the person on stage is going to
be able to answer a question that becomes sort of
important later. This kid was crushing it. It was unbelievable,
And these questions are really hard. This kid's only twelve
years old. Wow, he was phenomenal. And they do that
thing where they'll give you something it sounds like a
sports question, like as a category, but then when you
get into it, it's some question about French history or something.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
And you're betting the total amount of money at the
end on whether that person got the question. Yeah, exactly,
and the dad did the dad? I believe that the
kid answered the properly. So did they win money?
Speaker 3 (31:31):
As they're going, this kid is doing so well, and
the producers of the show are going, oh my god,
this kid is going to win the million dollars.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
And it was I mean, it was clear that he
was getting closer and closer and closer. And we're excited,
right because we're thinking, oh my god, this kid's going
to win indledge, but the producers are sweating. Yeah. The
fact that it was the contrast between our reaction because
we're just visiting it's not our money and the producers
who's money it is, was hilarious. And they did. They won.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
They won the million dollars. That kid and his dad
won a million dollars.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
That was incredible.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
What a ride home?
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Yeah, it was so much fun.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Oh that's great. And later that's a great story.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
On the way out, he said, I never want you
people to come here again. He said, you are bad luck.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Fun you know what, But that million dollars is going
to buy a billion dollars worth of great publicity.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Oh yeah, it's a great show. The Wall. It's called Yeah, see.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
That's a good show.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
It really is.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
All right, we have well we'll get we'll.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Get some more news when we come back. There's a
brand new game in Vegas. I know you and I
are Vegas guys, gamblers. There's a brand new game in Vegas.
They've never introduced before, but because so many kids are
playing it, they introduce as a gambling game. And now
it's available in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
I want to hear what it is.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
We'll come back and i'll tell you. All right, it's
uh what you know, it's not black chack.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
They have that.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
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