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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Yeah, this is
the five h five News. That's right. I've been doing
it for fifteen years and we continue at five o'clock
every single day. We bring you the stories that other
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stations ignore. And to start us off, as Angel Martinez, Angel,
how you oh yeah, yeah, all right? What do you got?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Do you think that double dipping can spread the crime?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
You do?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Yes, you do? You do? You do?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Uni Well, double dipping can transmit bacteria and viruses yep,
from your mouth to the shared bawl okay, and in
theory all those micro organisms can be spread to other eaters.
In most cases, that may not be as risky as
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it seems. Through a series of experiments at Clemson University,
they discovered that there was more bacteria in double dip
situations compared to the single dip. Okay, we know that,
but it all depends on what you're double dipping into.
They said that the food really matters. So if you're
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double dipping into food with a high acidity like salsa, okay,
you're gonna have less bacteria. A couple of hours later.
But if you're double dipping into something with low acid
like such as.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Can you if you double dip in puss, it doesn't
really matter.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I guess it just cancels it out. Yeah, I mean
two negatives positive, So you're good to go anyway. You
can see if you double dip into things made of
cheese and chocolate, then you're you're.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Asking for it. Okay, all right, so it depends on
a double dipper. But still I don't know who's double
dipping after COVID.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
You should always flip the chip, yeah, always, or put
a little dip on a plate like a human being.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Is that you know?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
This study? I agree. I agree that's like the best
way to do it. But they're also saying that through
this study that the common cold, the flu, even COVID
have not been shown to be transmitted through food. Oh wow,
but yeah, respiratory illnesses are the ones that are much
more commonly spread just by being around people that are
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sneezing and coughing all over the place, rather than eating
and drinking right after them.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
You know, I think I get out there, and I
you know, I go out at least three or four
times a week to stores and stuff I'm addicted to,
you know, wasting money. I hear people with that big,
huge wet cough everyfing day. Oh crazy, They're everywhere and
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you could hear it from nine aisles away, and like,
why are these people out? And they bring their sick
ass kids with them too, and the kids are sneezing
and farting and getting all the nutty. Oh that's great.
So then it's over for the double dip.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, I mean, if you're gonna double dip, do it
in salsa.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
That's right, excellent, All right, Angel Martinez BELLYO. What's going
on in the world.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Well, here's what not to order at a work dinner
when the boss is paying. And this is straight from
an etiquette pro. Number one, messy food. No ribs, no spaghetti,
no battling with crab legs, no out of seasoned foods.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Get anything that requires a bib. Yes, that's right, not
the messy.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Number two. Don't be that person who orders the most
expensive thing on the menu to make headlines here at
the table. Number three appetizers, entree and dessert. No no, no, no,
no no no, keep it simple. At alcohol, wait to
see if your boss orders first, then maybe have one drink.
Bottom line, don't let your order ruin your office reputation.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
You know. I was invited Bill Handle invited me to
a lunch. He said, Hey, I'm having lunch with a
homeless couple. You want to go. I'm like, uh, not really,
why are you doing that? And he said, oh, it's
a it's a long story. It's like an ex husband
or ex wife that you know that knew the show,
or or brother or something, and they listen to your
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show and they want to have lunch. I'm like, ah, Christ,
there's no way out of this. Huh. So I went
to lunch with him, and they ordered like nineteen beers each.
You know, they're homeless, you know, they wanted to get
the most bang for their buck. And they ordered steaks
and lobster and all. And I ordered a side salad.
Because when I'm eating on somebody else's dime, I never
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ever go top shelf. It's just so rude.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I always picked two things on the menu a little lower,
a little higher, and then I wait.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
For them to order. Yeah, that's a good idea. Yeah,
I usually go lower no matter what I go, you know,
just give me a glass of water and some crackers.
I think the homeless people that we have, I think
they end up stealing something from the restaurant. Remember I
can't remember, maybe not say something like that. All right,
the step foosh? What's going on out there, Bob? Well,
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do you know what popular ice cream chain is closing?
Which one? Do you know which popular ice cream chain
is closing? About the store? Swenson's? Now it's the.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Drug store one CBS close right it right?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Is it ready? The one that does the ice cream?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Right?
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Bankruptcy is leading to the closure of thrifty ice cream
counters within its station it stores nationwide, making a significant
change for the beloved brand. While Thrifty ice cream will
still be available elsewhere, the closures signal the end of
an error for the iconic circular scoot write aid.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Jay Leno had a great joke. He said he was
up in Alaska. It was forty five degrees below zero,
Yet you walk into a thrifty and the ice cream
is still soft. Crows. You're batting clean up? What's going on? Well?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
The algae bloom that's been killing animals in the Southland
is wilting. The Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro
says the worst of the deadly algae bloom is over.
Officials say there have been no new patients showing signs
of demoic acid toxicosis over the last week. Birds, sea lions,
marine animals have all gotten sick or killed by the
poison in the past few months. Veterinarians and care centers
near the coast say that many were treated and able
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to recover, but it was the longest, most toxic, and
deadliest bloom they've ever experienced. The MMC says it's expanding
its facilities and they're increasing patient capacity as these types
of events increase in intensity and frequency thanks to climate change.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Okay, all right. I think there's a reason why that
blue was bigger, and I don't think it has I
don't blame climate change. I think it's fertilizer. I think
you know, we all we live in a desert, so
you have to fertilize your lawn more out here than
you would in the Midwest or in the South. You know,
you just have to because we're all it's so dry
out here and there's no real good nutrients in the soil.
(07:19):
You think more fertilizers being used now? Yes, And I
also think it's running off with all our rains last
couple of years into the water, and the fertilizer getting
into the ocean accelerates those blooms.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I drove up the coast a few years ago from
Miami to d C. And I took the Gulf side
of Florida and we stopped in a few places along
the coast there. And they were at the time, I
lean it was twenty nineteen or eighteen, they were having
a huge I think they were calling like a red toe.
I remember that, yeah, And that was killing animals and
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they were saying it was, you know, whatever, climate change
or whatever. But that was that. That lasted for a
full almost year there.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah, it was gross too. Remember they when you go
to the hotels, you sitting on the beach. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
you know, because it's stunk. Uh yeah, that's uh, it's unbelievable.
All right, that's the news whip. That is great again.
Don't I can't stress this enough. You got to be
here tomorrow at five point thirty when you're gonna learn
about the trip that we're all taking next year, the
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big trip. Where's it going to be? Where's it going
to be? I know you might not, but I know
you do know. Oh, yes, I've known for two weeks.
Oh you do you need what is that? What is
that from Bellio?
Speaker 7 (08:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, you do. Somebody somebody you said to somebody who
works here, Hey, I need the live reads for tonight.
And what did she say? You do with her feet
up on the desk? Yeah? Is that right? Yeah? Employee
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of the year. She's great. Yeah, No, she's great. She's
greatc You're great, bell Yeah, you're great.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
It is the Conway Show. Tomorrow five thirty. We will
be revealing where we're going next year for the big trip.
Where are we going and what dates? How long the
whole thing tomorrow. The good people are coming in from
travel store and we'll be doing it at five thirty tomorrow,
So stay tuned for that. All right, scolding your kids,
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you scold other people's kids in public? I don't, but
maybe some of them could use a little scolding once
in a while. Who knows? All right.
Speaker 8 (09:42):
In a new article from the Atlantic, writer Stephanie Murray
argues that it's time to bring back communal discipline. H Yeah,
adults don't just silently suffer through kids' antics.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
They actually say something.
Speaker 8 (09:54):
She recalls a trip to Prague where a woman gently
tapped her daughter's.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Foot off of a subway seat.
Speaker 8 (09:59):
Just like that, the behavior stopped, no scolding, no drama,
just as simple. It takes a village style correction. But
in America that kind of thing feels taboo. Experts say
we've become privatized in our parenting. And the reason they
say people maybe do not say anything is because they're
worried about lawsuits being filmed and that that video going viral.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yeah, and I also think, you know, you don't scold kids.
You tell the parents, and then the parents tell the kids.
You don't directly address the kids. That's that's criminal.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
Or making other parents angry.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
But like, this is a true story. I was at
a Costco and my daughter got into the cart and
she didn't want to sit where the baby sit. She
thought she was too old for that. She wanted to
get into the big part of the cart. And so
she was in the big part of the cart, and
those are big ass carts. And we were shopping and
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rolling around Costco and a woman said to my daughter,
I you know you shouldn't be in that of the cart.
That's where I put my fruits and vegetables. And I said, okay,
a lady, you're not addressing my daughter. You address me
and I will take care of my daughter's situation, but
don't address her directly. And b So where do you
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want her to sit? And she said, I you know,
you sit where those little seats are where babies go.
I go, okay, do you ever put your fruits and
vegetables there? She goes yeah all the time. I go okay,
well that's where the baby's asses are in that seat
and she's like, ah, I never thought about that, walked away,
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done none.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
I got into it with a mom one time at
one of those Jimbree or one of those communal old
kids play together type places, because a kid was I
think SID was like, I don't know, two or three
or however the age is generally when you go there
was standing in front of this other kid, and this
other kid just like reached out and hit her on
the head.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Oh really, And I was standing there and I was.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Like, uh okay, and then he rears back again and
he does it again, like hard, wow, And then he
goes to rears back again, and I went he hey, hey,
and that just brought the room into silence, and her
mom comes running over.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
He's like, don't yell at my kid.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
I said, you're a kid was hitting my kid, and
if you pay attention, I wouldn't have to do that.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Good for you. You don't address my.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Kid, I said, pay attention to your kid, and I'll
start yelling at you instead.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
That's great. Yeah, yeah, it was a very uncomfortable moment. Yeah,
we get very territorial with our own kids. You know
when somebody attacks your kid, Oh my god. Yeah, that's
that's a rough ride, all right, scolding kids? Should you
scold kid?
Speaker 8 (12:45):
Or making other parents angry? But still some moms say
they'd love the backup when they feel like they can't.
I think doing it without anger and obviously without any
sort of physical stuff, right if it's just a conversation
about we don't do that.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
You know, when I was growing up, I was yelled
at by my friend's moms all the time. I remember
Missus Fox yelled at me. Miss McDaniel yelled at me.
Missus Myers always yelled at me. Who else is there?
Missus gidtleson yelled at me. God almighty, does your mom
encourage them?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Just yelled at me. My mom never found out that
they were doing it. Now, when I had sleepovers and
I did something stupid, they would say, hey, well wait
were you what's wrong with you?
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Well, that's like back when I grew up, all the
neighbors were real close with my parents, and so they
kept an eye on each other's kids, you know, so
if they were getting into danger or whatever, you know, right.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
But when they scold them. We're doing a story on scolding.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Yes, yeah, they'd get after you, like you shouldn't be
up there, you know, you want me to.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Call I see all right, I thought you were like
listening to another station or something.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I was.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I just turned it off and I just tuned into
you Sacramento station again. Yeah you liked those guys up there?
Huh Larry and the Reverend, Is that what it is? Yeah?
Those guys are good. I like, welcome back. Thanks.
Speaker 8 (14:07):
That's not we don't that's not how we do things.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
That's I think that.
Speaker 8 (14:11):
I don't know why I feel so anxious with you,
like fake scolding me right now, Like I'm Andrew stop sorry? Yeah,
Well that's the thing like whenever someone.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I've had I've also had parents yell at me and
swear at me too. My teacher, mister Cleman, God blessed that.
I don't know if he's still alive, but he was
a teacher. He was a journalism teacher at Birmingham High School.
And I'm gonna have to write this down because I
got to bleep a ah. Okay, I'm not sure how
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much I can tell you what he said to me,
But he said to me, take the blue textbooks. Remember
when you had to pass the textbooks out, you know,
and we and he said, take the blue textbooks out
and passed them out to everybody, and I thought he
said green. He said blue. So I passed the green
textbooks out to everybody, and then he's going through it
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and they're the wrong textbooks. So he turned to me
and he thought I did it on purpose, and I didn't,
but he thought I did. And he called me an
m F son of a gang, and then the noise
that a gun makes, and then the female dog m
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FN son of a GBB in front of the whole class.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I wish I could see all the faces of the
whole class when he said that I was.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
In tenth grade he was, and he put together an insult.
It was so radical, it was unbelievable. He was teaching journalism.
You know, you mother fin son of a gb biag. Wow. Man,
he's got hit me over the head with a hammer,
you know, for passing out the wrong books. They gong
with his guys.
Speaker 8 (16:06):
An adult is quietly mad at you. Oh, is way
worse than when they're like, actually, you know, over the
top yelling at you.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Andrew, we don't do stories like that. Yeah, but you
know what, I think keeping an eye on the quiet
guy is coming back. I think the quiet guys are
the ones that are going to be the problem in life.
Although George Carlin had a great line he said he
doesn't believe that that old adage or that rule of
thumb of keep your eye on the quiet guy. And
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he said, okay, hees. Let me set this up for you. You
go into an old smoky bar and there's two people
in the bar, and they're both sitting at the bar.
One of them is in an Oxford sweater, reading poetry
to himself quietly. The other guy has an axe with
him and he's slamming it on the bar. Saying, if
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I don't get a drink, I'm gonna cut somebody's head off.
Who do you keep an eye on? Which is a
great point, but keeping an eye on the quiet guy.
I think the quiet people can explode more than the
people that are, you know, always loud. I think there's
something to them. I think it's always the quiet guy.
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You know, whenever they say, like, you know a guy
like the New Orleans bomber, the bomber in Palm Springs,
they always describe these guys as quiet. Always a quiet,
friendly guy, who's a quiet guy, never bothering me, but
he's always quiet. Yeah, he's thinking all day about killing people,
so he's quiet. But I think there's something about that.
I don't know. Scolding your kids, I don't. I don't
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like it. I mean, I think nowadays you have to
because kids are out of control, but I still don't
like to address the kids directly. I address the parents
and let them deal with it. But maybe that's just me.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
It is The Conway show Man. Everybody's excited about this trip.
I was just talking to Leslie in sales. She is
all over this trip. This is gonna be a big
announcement tomorrow five thirty. You must be here tomorrow at
five thirty, and we will tell you where we're going.
And you're going. You're going. You're not turning us down.
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You're going. You're gonna spend money and you're going, and
we're all gonna go together, and we're gonna have fun.
Damn it. We're gonna have a great time. It's gonna
be great, and it might be the only trip I
ever dot might be. You know, I'm toying with a
one off. So it's gonna be a great trip. It's
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gonna be fantastic. I'm excited about it. And I never
get excited about anything, you know, I always like, oh please,
i'd want to do this. I don't want to do that.
But I'm excited about this, very excited. So tomorrow five
thirty an opportunity to all get together and go on
a trip. And I think we're gonna have like a
big party with the people who are going on the trip,
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just to like sort of get to know each other. Hey,
how you doing. Anybody have any weird habits? You know
that the whole deal because you don't really get to
meet the people you're traveling with until you get there.
You don't want those habits to be a surprise. Yeah,
I want to. I want to pick out the you know,
problem people I'm gonna hang with with the issues, and
who we're going to, you know, chat about. Are the
ones that are going to drink. I'll be I'll be
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one of those guys and smoke. That's what we'll do.
Hopefully we don't get sent home early. That's possibility as well.
All Right, the Palisades Village is going to open up.
This is fantastic news. You know, in a world where
everybody gives you bad news all the day, all day long,
this is great news. The Palisades the Village is going
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to open next year. This is unbelievable how quickly they're
putting this together.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Yes, news of this announcement is very exciting for both
the residents and the businesses here affected by the Palisades fire.
You can see behind me the village still under construction.
A lot a lot of things that need to be
done before this is set to reopen, which is the
reopening date is not until the middle of next year.
You guys, mentioned Recruiso, who owns the village, made the announcement,
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so even in.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
The middle of next year, I think is fantastic, you know,
June July of twenty twenty six, that'd be great.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
And joining him during this announcement was Elise Walker. She
is the owner of the high end luxury fashioned boutique swored.
You guys can see right here on the corner of
Sunset that it shows from the windows Elise Walker Pacific
Pali Stades returning twenty twenty six. So we still have
about a year from now, but the reopening of the
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village seen as a vital step in the recovery of
the community and the restoration.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Yeah. Look, I hope all those stores open and they're
all successful. However, I think that the idea is to
open up a store that sells hammers, screwdrivers, and drywall
and maybe some two by fours. I don't know about
the high end purses right away. You know, guys and
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gals are just putting their life back together. I don't
know if they're going to spend fifty thousand dollars on
a clutch. Isn't that what you call it? Bellio? A clutch?
Is that what it's called. I think it is a clutch.
A clutch? Is that a small hand bag? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
your clut? Should people still call it that?
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Your clutch?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Sure of this unique area, the Palisades is a major
shopping center of the Palisades village.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
That is Yes, I love that Palisades village. Man, I
do miss that place. That was my favorite, Gelsons. Those
people that ran that Gelston's were ah, man, they were great.
They were fantastic, and.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
It was almost untouched by the fire. However, it is
surrounded by devastation, which is why it's been closed ever
since the nearly three acre one hundred.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
You know what I used to do. I used to
when I was invited to things, and I have like
three or four friends that live in the Palisades, I
would always stop at Gelson's and get a box of
cookies and bring it to whatever I'm going a tennis party,
a pool partys party. When she had a July fourth
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party that that was invited to, what she didn't know
is that I bought my Fourth of July outfit at
Ross Dress for Less the day before, and I think
it sort of showed, you know, I want to have her.
It was a Fourth of July party, so I wanted
to have a red, white, and blue, and I think
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I bought like two. I think I went to low end.
I think people were really yeah, even for me. Even
for me, I think people looked at like, Wow, where
did you pick that up? That's a wild.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Man and twenty five thousand square foot shopping center has
forty two businesses and services. Everything has been closed since January.
Ricruso leading the reconstruction effort.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Yes, Rick Caruso, that guy's great. God deserves an atta boy,
and he.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Says that when the village opens, like I mentioned, Elice
Walker's business will be here. She had her flagship store
in the Palisades for twenty five years before at burn
in the Fire she announced she will reopen in the village,
and of course, Recruise Sell extremely happy of this.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
We've just announced that lease Walker is going to be
rebuilding her flagship store here in Palisades Village, and we're
so excited about that because she not only believes in
great Congress more employee, she believes in this community. And
a great retailer brings jobs, it brings hope, it brings
a bright future, and we are on our way Palisading.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
So once again this is this is coming back, is
coming back. I'm looking at the Elise Walker. I think
this is her. Yeah, she sells shoes, handbags, diamonds, sunglasses.
Well these are expensive sunglasses for five hundred and thirty
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five bucks. Interesting, Wow, that's much cheaper. But look at
this the little clutch. It's a lowy lo w Louis Louis.
I'd say the small bag is twenty four hundred bucks.
Allowed to meet question now, and then we have an
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oversized shirt. You know some women like to have oversized shirts.
Two hundred and seventy bucks, so maybe it worked on
who knows a draw string pocket bag for eleven dollars. Okay,
I think we'll have to ease into this, ease into it.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
So once again, this is a huge announcement, very exciting
news for a lot of people living in the Palisades
in the nearby area, and the communities once again said
to reopen the village the middle of next year.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yeah. I would open up a paint store, two by
four store, I don't know, maybe a shingle roof store
and a screwdriver's store and get the insulation store. You know,
extinguisher store. Yeah, the crap that they really need out there.
I don't know about the twenty four hundred dollars clutch.
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I don't know if that's going to be moving on
the first week. But maybe there's a lot of money
out there, and I hope they do support her. You know,
back in the old days, when a family member opened
up a store, all the extended relatives and families would
show up. Like if a family opened a general store
back in the nineteen forties or fifties, everybody would show
up on the very first day, on opening day, and
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they'd all spend cash so this guy could get up
on his feet and open a successful business. Everyone showed
up the first day, cash cash, cash, cash cash. Now
when a relative opens up the store, everyone pays with
credit cards. Then they go home and they deny the charges.
That's where we are in life nowadays. Different different society,
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different crew.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
Different you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I'm trying to figure out how I can email everybody tonight.
They emailed me about the trip, and Kiki and Maddie
are in there knocking it out. These two are like
computer whizzes, you know. And these kids, you know, they
they've krozier. These kids today, they've had computers their whole life,
so they know how to easily do stuff that we
struggle with. Yeah, before they could speak, they were on
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the phones. Yes, yeah, and it's great. I mean, you know,
and they do things that I find impossible, like while
still talking and carrying on a conversation. And Keky's like, yeah,
I'll just download all these you know. She's like on
the on the keyboard, Ya'll just download this. Man, They're
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they're good. I told you this story. I was with
my daughter, went to Handles to get ice cream. There's
a new ice cream store in Burbank, and we're standing
in line and I'm talking with her and she's like twitching,
her fingers are twitching. And I said, you know, okay,
you cold, you shaking, and she goes, no, I'm texting
my friend. But she wasn't looking at her phone. She
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can text while talking to me. She can respond to
a text without looking at the phone. Is that crazy? Yeah,
that's insanity and quickly too, like a bang a bang,
you know, it's unbelievable. While we're like, hang on a second. Right, wait, no, no,
hang on, where's the AT sign? How do I get
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where's the That's that's the point. Yeah, No, if I
hit that, the question mark doesn't come up the question
never mind, never mind. That's what it sounds like when
I'm at my dad's house. That's right. I never heard
my dad swear in his life until he got a computer,
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and then he exploded. He went nuts. But I'll tell
you a quick story here. My my dad, who is
a terrific writer, and up until two thousand and seven
or two thousand an eight, he was writing. He would
write scripts on a manual typewriter, not even electric typewriter,
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a manual typewriter. You know, bank bank, bank bank, ding
bank bank bank bank bank bank ban making a bell.
And that's when you heard the bell, you knew it
was time to, you know, push the paper back. So
he ran out of ink, and he said to me, goes, hey,
let's go down the hard stationary store and see if
we can get some of the ink. Okay, here we
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go go down the stationary store. Hey, do you guys
have ink for an IBM typewriter that was built back
in I think like nineteen oh four and They're like, nah,
we don't sell that anymore. And my dad said, well,
how do I get some more ink? And the guy
at the stationary store said, well, you can drive around
the valley and go to garage sales and eventually you'll
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find a typewriter you can ask to buy the ink from.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
You could just walk outside the store here, stand on
the curb and just scream, I.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Needs an ink. It's about its effective. You know, they
came in ribbons back then. It was a ribbon that
had INCNNET. So I said, Dad, look, you know you,
I think it's time to get a computer's And he
was very reluctant to do it, very resistant, and he
finally said okay, And so he got a computer, and
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I showed him some of the ins and outs. I
wasn't you know, I'm not the greatest guy with computers,
but compared to a guy who was working on manual typewriter,
I was gold. God. I can just imagine you trying
to explain. I was just thinking the same thing. So
I showed him a couple of things. By the time
I got home, I lived in an apartment. There was
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probably about two and a half miles from my dad's
by the time I get home. I got home, there
was a message on my machine. He goes, you got
to get the f over here and show me how
to use the GD thing. And I called him up.
I said, I showed you how. He goes, you got
to get the car. So I get in the car,
I go and I showed him. You know, he was
he didn't know where to put the cursor, he didn't
know what the blinking light was, and where to put
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the curse or anything. So I showed him a little
more on how to do it and he was okay.
For about three or four days, I was out of
town and he called me up. He goes, I can't
figure this efing thing out, and he was swearing. I
never heard my dad swear in his life. So I said, Dad,
just take it down to the computer store. They know
you that's it's the end of the block near Haskell Inventor.
Take it down there. I'll call them and say you're
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coming and they'll show you how to do it. He goes, okay,
So I said, just take your computer with you and
they'll show you. So my dad takes his computer, his monitor,
his keyboard, his mouse, and his printer, all connected, the
whole all still wired together, walking in with his octopus,
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you know this, and they had they took a picture
of him because they couldn't believe what was coming through
the door. Everything, the printer, the whole thing, this guy
sweating his ass off, you know. And he finally got
it after about six months. And he loved it. He
loved going online. He loved going on TVGG. Oh man,
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he would love TVG been able to bet on those
horse races. So it was a PC not an apple, right, yes, PC? Yeah,
and ah man, oh man. But he loved I loved
that that TVG and gambling on horses online. And and
he said to me, he says, look, he goes, can
I can you put Can I use your credit card?
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And then I'll just pay you every month? You know what?
I what I lose? I said, yeah, all right? I said,
why don't you want to put your credit card on?
He goes, Oh, I guess me and I and and
your stepmother were worried about putting our credit cards online.
But you're not worried about putting my credit cards online?
Is that what's going on? He goes, Yeah, it does
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seem kind of harsh. Let's just do that anyway, though,
And so I and he would give me a check
every every month for you know, sometimes fifty bucks, sometimes
three hundred bucks, but never more than two hundred and
fifty three hundred bucks. And for three years, every time
I was at Christmas dinner with his account. Because this
count was a very nice woman and she always came
to Christmas dinner, she was always very cold to me.
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And then I lost the check on one month and
I called her up and said, hey, can you give
me another check for three hundred and twenty five dollars?
And she said, yeah, is this a car payment that
your dad's making for you? I'm like, oh my god.
For the last three years, every time I saw this woman,
she thinks I'm this deadbeat who I'm fifty five years
old and my dad's still paying for my car. He
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didn't tell her it was for gambling. And for three
years she looked at me like, you know, you're not
making enough money in radio. I guess dad's still paying
for your car. It was the worst, the worst are
your shirts didn't help either? That's right, that's true. True story, Bellio.
True story. Bellio is not going to be here tomorrow,
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