Some sports leagues and states are considering banning or restricting prop betting, citing concerns over integrity, gambling addiction, and the impact on athletes.
Dean Sharp, The House Whisperer, shares his holiday prep paint guide, explaining that the holidays put extra pressure on home interiors and now is the perfect time to refresh rooms with new colors before guests arrive. He reminds listeners that adding color to our world is a uniquely human tradition that dates back over 60,000 years.
In his follow-up segment, Dean emphasizes the value of trade schools, saying A.I. is taking over white-collar jobs, but skilled trades like contractors and builders remain essential.
Finally, a quick reminder: Friday is Halloween, and Sunday marks the end of Daylight Saving Time — set those clocks back! ⏰🎃
Dean Sharp, The House Whisperer, shares his holiday prep paint guide, explaining that the holidays put extra pressure on home interiors and now is the perfect time to refresh rooms with new colors before guests arrive. He reminds listeners that adding color to our world is a uniquely human tradition that dates back over 60,000 years.
In his follow-up segment, Dean emphasizes the value of trade schools, saying A.I. is taking over white-collar jobs, but skilled trades like contractors and builders remain essential.
Finally, a quick reminder: Friday is Halloween, and Sunday marks the end of Daylight Saving Time — set those clocks back! ⏰🎃
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app day before Halloween.
So the kids will be out tomorrow trigger treating. Be
safe around those kids out there, and the Dodgers will
be playing. So kind of a nightmare scenario for the
fellas and for some gals who are Dodger fans, because
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your kids want to go out trigger treating exactly when
the game starts, It'll be at five oh eight, So
at six oh eight, maybe six fifteen, six thirty is
when it starts to get dark, and so right in
the thick of that game, your kids will be banging
on you to get out and go trigger treating, and
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you will have a dilemma. Do I stay home and
watch game six or do I go out with the
kids and record it and hope nobody tells me the score.
Or you can keep it on kfive and we will
keep you updated on the score all night long. Or
you can listen to it on five seventy am. It's
up to you, totally up to you, but lots of
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options out there. But don't miss the kids. Halloween much
more important than listening to the game. So get out there,
enjoy the kids. But listen to the game, or listen
to us here tomorrow night with your earbuds or whatever
you've got going on, and we'll give you scores all
night long. And that'd be fun. That'd be a cool deal,
all right, a lot of prop bets. Some sports leagues
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and states could ban prop bets and prop betting because
of what happened in the NBA over the last couple
of weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
This wild pitch from June could be the new ugly side.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Of the score. It's just a little bit outside.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
In the third inning, Cleveland pitcher Luis Ortiz threw a
pitch in the dirt and was suspended soon after, amid
allegations he might have done it on purpose. Wow, to
help gamblers who bet on that pitch being outside the
strike zone.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Okay, the first inclination for everybody and myself included, is
there's something not right there.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Jason Van Hawks saw that pitch. He investigates suspicious adding
patterns and work for the monitoring company that reportedly alerted
Major League Baseball about a surge in bets around that
play in Cleeveland.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Just wow, is that wild man? That kind of inside
information where people are cheating. Man, you gotta love people.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
They're called prop bets and any strikeout pay wagers made
on an individual players performance. How big a part of
the gaming business is it.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
It's definitely growing.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Ortiza's suspension got the attention of Ohio's Governor, Mike Dwine,
who now wants to ban prop bets in his state.
We saw states one after another rapidly approved sports gambling
a few years ago.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Was this not envisioned one pitch, you know, one shot
of the basket. I don't think that's what most people
thought of at that time. But it's clearly taken off
and it's clearly a problem.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
As part of a blockbuster indictment last week, federal agents
arrested an NBA player who allegedly tipped off gamblers he
was going to leave a game early with an injury.
According to Van Hoff, the explosion of prop betting in
the last decade has turned some lesser known athletes into marks.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
It was primarily based around just the superstars, you know,
the Patrick Mahomes, the Lebron James. Now it is starting
to move down into lower levels of the game. The
players coming in off of the bench, the rookies that
might not have as much playing time.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
We were unable to reach the Cleveland pitcher or teams
for common But it's not just Ohio considering a change.
Other states are proposing legislation to update their sports gambling
laws to outlaw prop betting. And we've learned yea prop
bets are.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
If you don't know what they are, it's, you know,
the flip of a coin at the beginning of a
football game as a prop bet, you know who will
score the first touchdown, you know who will score the
first basket. Those are prop bets, and they could be
very easily manipulated. You can't really manipulate an entire player's,
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you know, performance throughout the entire game. That's very difficult
to do. And those are on the up and up.
But the prop bets are very easy because it's one pitch,
one flip of a coin, one catch, and then it's payday.
And when these sites see three four hundred thousand dollars
coming in on one prop bet and it comes together,
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then they immediately notify the league that it that it
happened in and you can get thrown out of the
league for that and your entire NBA career, can you know,
be thrown in the toilet over one stupid play like that?
Speaking of careers thrown in in the toilet, the NBA
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has issued a memo following the arrest of the NBA
coach Chauncey billups with Portland and the other players that
were mixed up in that you know that horrible Two
stories that were coming out with the NBA. One was
centered around players you know, throwing games, and another one
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was players involved in poker games where there was some
cheating going on during the game. So the NBA took
it very seriously and put out a memo.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Less than a week after the arrests of Portland Trailblazers
head coach John cy bhillips in Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier.
The NBA is reassessing how the league can protect itself
from what it calls the dire risks of sports betting.
In a memo to all thirty teams obtained by ABC News,
the league is calling for new procedures to protect the
integrity of the NBA as it refused policies on injury reporting.
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The league is particularly concerned about prop bets on player
performance that the memo says involve heightened integrity concerns. Rosier
is accused of tipping off sports betters. He would fake
an injury during a twenty twenty three game and later
take a cut of two hundred thousand dollars in wagers
that he would underperform.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
He's a straightforward guy, a non gambler, a guy who
is making one hundred million dollars over four years. Wow,
and we're supposed to believe that he wanted to throw
a game to make a few pennies while he's losing
on his endorsement contract. At the same time, like, we
have the benefit of logic and good character supporting our defense.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
It does make sense when he puts it that way.
Why would a guy who's making one hundred million dollars
throw a game?
Speaker 6 (06:19):
La Clippers fans jeering the Trailblazers during Sunday's game, appearing
to chant FBI after head coach Chauncey Billips was charged
with luring high rollers to poker games rigged by the
mob using X ray tables, an altered card shuffling machine,
and glasses that could read pre marked cards.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
Billets and Rosier have been placed on leave both of them,
Robin de iy wrongdoing.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
The memo that was sent out by the NBA to
the league saying there are dire risks when it comes
to sports betting.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
But this is exploding right there, It sure is.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
And it was actually the sports books that caught some
of the unusual interest in the game.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, because the sports books were taking the hit, you know,
two or three hundred thousand dollars on one guy in
one game, and they that the red flag goes up immediately.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
When Terry Rozier allegedly faked his injury. But the league
here thinks it can do more, and the memo we
obtained suggested maybe AI could help police sports betting, but
any real change would probably need Congress and the sports
books themselves.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
That's a big story, big story, Harvi, we come back.
Dean Sharp, the house whisper will be with us. He's
on the weekends every single weekend on Saturday from six
am to eight am right here on KFI and then
on Sunday from nine am until noon. Very popular shows.
Speaker 9 (07:35):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 10 (07:40):
Dean, I you're Bob, I am sitting here enjoying this
ice cold coke zero, and the.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Life is good. My wife loves that.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Every time we go to a restaurant anywhere, it's always
do you have coke zero? Always have coke zero? You
know why they named it coke zero? They did it
a study and they found out that guys, you know,
women will order you know, diet coke, but guys won't
order diet coke.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
So they had to call it coke coke zero. Yeah,
I guess it doesn't you know what? That's not me?
Speaker 10 (08:07):
I actually i'd prefer I have no problem ordering diet coke,
but I like coke zero better. But I always feel
a little pretentious asking it at the restaurant. I'm like, oh,
excuse me, do you have coke zero?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Pardon me?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I know, I always cringe. My wife orders it you
have coke zero? I'm like, oh christ, here we go
like to.
Speaker 10 (08:27):
The point where I would rather just I just want
to ask them, like what do you have? And then
when they list it off, I'm like, yeah, I'll take that.
Speaker 9 (08:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (08:33):
I feel better at doing that than saying, oh, do
you have a coke zero?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I noticed also, and like I might be on the
moon here, but when a restaurant offers coke. I like
that for some reason. I think they I don't know,
there's maybe a quality thing there. I don't know, it's
it's weird. I mean people are either coke or PEPSI
that's true. I'm a big coke guy.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Yeah I am. I am the used as a drop
later exactly? Can I get belly? Okay? Can I get
this one right here?
Speaker 10 (09:09):
That just that, just that one that's going on social
media tonight.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
All right, So the holidays are upon us. Are you
big decorated for Halloween?
Speaker 10 (09:19):
Oh? Yeah, no, no, oh you already got me. I
was about to say Christmas, of course, no Halloween.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
No, no.
Speaker 10 (09:25):
We actually have three pumpkins sitting on the porch. One
of them is starting to rot.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yeah, exactly sucks.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
But I love the decorating for the holidays, whether you know,
we don't do Thanksgiving obviously, but we do heavy Halloween
and then all of it comes down on Saturday and
big heavy Christmas.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I love it. Yeah, yeah, for sure it is.
Speaker 10 (09:47):
And this year we actually, uh you know, committed to
an Aldic Christmas tree this year, and so and Tina's like,
oh my gosh, can we put it up now?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Can we put it up now? I'm like, no, not yet. Awesome.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
But people also around this time of year, they get
their house ready for company. You know, they know they're
gonna have people for Thanksgiving and for Christmas. And what
are some of the things you, you know, you can
do instantly to really sort of help that vibe out?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Is it? Are they candles? Is it? You know? Keeping
the place clean?
Speaker 10 (10:19):
I don't know, well, you know, I mean ultimately I'm
not I'm not going to give you a huge list,
but because you know, there's enough going on the holidays.
But if you really are committed to, like we got
to do something to the place.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Then paint.
Speaker 10 (10:32):
Paint, Oh painting, I mean, if you if you've got
to commit to a project that's gonna you know, paint
is without question, one of the least expensive major changes
you can make to a house.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Right you think about that.
Speaker 10 (10:45):
You can get in there and just you know, for
for a few bucks, you can completely change the mood
and the color of an entire room. Right, And so
paint this time of year. I actually encourage it. In fact,
right now, in fact Sunday, we're talking about holiday prep.
And by that I really mean paint. We're gonna do
a deep dive on paint because this is the time
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of year, one of the probably the second most popular
time of the year that people really consider changing the
color of her room. And it's only because it's not
it's not because anybody's ever jonesing to paint, but they're thinking,
oh no, the relatives, this is the time. They're real
and they're just thinking the judgment. Honestly, this is the judgment.
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The judgment is coming. I better spruce things up because
I don't want to hear about it, right.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Or the post judgment after you do spruce it up,
like oh, how'd you choose that color?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
You know, that kind of crap.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
But see, I feel better about a room if I
hire somebody to paint it then if I do it myself.
And a lot of times you can't really tell, but
I think it's like, you know, when when you have
a sandwich made for you, it tastes better than if
you make it for yourself.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
You know what. I would agree.
Speaker 10 (11:56):
Tina does not agree with that, really, because she loves
to paint, I mean just loves it, and so she
feels more satisfied if if she's done the work in
the room than if we've hired it out.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Me.
Speaker 10 (12:09):
I am happy to hire it out. I'm like, hey,
you know what my role today, I'll be letting you
guys in right and locking the door behind you when
you leave. And I'm very happy about that. And especially
guys that can paint really straight lines.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
That is real art.
Speaker 10 (12:23):
That's true again, not something that I like to do.
That's you know, that's what rulers and masking tape is for.
I mean, that's a straight line, Dean. Yeah, I freehanded
that way.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I got paint from Catalina, and you and I share
a love for that store as well, and it was great.
I put one coat on and it looked terrific. I
didn't even need a second coat.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (12:46):
Catalina paints, by the way, Benjamin Moore, your local Benjamin
Moore retailer. And that's what makes Catalina as awesome as
they are because they carry in what is, in my opinion,
the world's greatest paint mentminal.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
But are you a roller guy or a brush guy.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
I'd like to get it done as quickly as possible,
but that's always not the best way.
Speaker 10 (13:09):
Yeah, you know, when it comes to walls, I'm totally
a roller guy. But you got to cut in. You
got to do both. You got to do both. You
got to cut in with a brush around the edges,
around baseboards and corners and stuff like that, and then
you can get the roller going, you know, in the
main in the main field, right. But the prep time
is what drives me crazy.
Speaker 11 (13:25):
You know.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I think the rule of thumb is four times prep
for one you know, for every four hours prep for
one hour painting.
Speaker 10 (13:32):
Oh yeah, I mean that is essentially. I mean, if
we talk about what goes wrong with a paint job,
it's never you putting paint on the wall. That's never
the problem. The problem is always you didn't prep this enough.
You didn't prep that enough. Prep is ninety percent of
a paint job, honestly, And I don't do the one
to four. I'll just tell you this. Prep is everything
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you want that paint to hold. You gotta prep you
you know you you want it to do right, you
want it to cover properly. You got a prime all
these things before we actually get to putting the frickin
paint on the wall. And it's super important, don't get
me wrong, but those are the reasons why you know,
I'm out. I'm out, just don't have the patience for it.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I noticed that the painter's tape is made a lot
of improvements with that.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Frog tape.
Speaker 10 (14:19):
Oh yeah, Well, frog tape has a very very specific
purpose and and that it that in that it it
cuts in better than any other kind of masking tape.
And now there are different versions of frog tape, by
the way. There's there's yellow, there's green, there's orange, all
of which you know, manifest in different ways depending on
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the kind of surface that you're sticking it on, how
rough relace is, and so on and so forth. But
here's the best thing I can tell you about frog tape.
That the key to frog tape is that it has
got a polymer inside that it's like a gelatin that's
mixed in with the adhesive. And that gelatin that doesn't
do anything when you stick it on the The gelatin
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right on the edge of the frog tape reacts the
second that the wetness of the paint hits it, and
it seals. It gelatinizes and it seals off. It's like
self caulking masking tape. Blue tape doesn't do that. None
of the other masking tapes do that, but the frog
tape does. But also, you know that frog tape comes
in that tupperware bowl. Don't throw that thing away and
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just throw your roll of frog tape in the drawer.
You put it back in the tupperware container, and you
seal the lid because that gelatin goes bad if you
expose it to air too.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Oh is that right? Okay, So that's important to keep
that sealed after you use it. Yep.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yeah, Oh that's a great tip. That's a great tip.
But I you know that frog tape is worth every.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Dime you spend on it. Every dime. It is.
Speaker 10 (15:47):
It's virtually I mean, I hate to say this because
somebody's gonna email me and say that they ruined their
wall with frog tape, but it is virtually, you know,
idiot proof.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Right, really is all right, we'll come back.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I want to talk about certain kinds of paints because
I'm fascinated by painting. I used to love to paint.
Now I'm not really that into it, but I do.
There is a sense of accomplishment once you take all
the tape down, all the plastic down, and you walk
in that room doing it yourself. There does seem to
be a certain sense of pride, and when people compliment it,
you feel like it's high of you know, like a
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like a physical high over it. Yeah, some people do,
some people not you. Okay, I get that, all right.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Dean Sharp is with us. We're live on KFI.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
He's not every Saturday from six to eight am and
then on Sunday nine am until noon. The Dodgers are
off tonight. They're playing tomorrow in Toronto. They must win
on Friday and they must win on Saturday. They have
to win back to back games in Toronto to be
the twenty twenty five World Series champions. So we've got
to put our heads together and figure out some way
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to give them the mojo where they need it. I
saw them getting on the plane last night and they
look depressed out of their minds.
Speaker 9 (16:58):
You're listening to Tim Conway too. You're on Demyl from
KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Dean Sharp is with us every weekend here six to
eight am on Saturday, nine am until noon on Sunday.
I was listening to you on the way home from Marongo.
I think maybe we talked about this last week. But
I love when guys and gals simply call up with
very detailed questions about you know, putting cabinets in on
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existing flooring, and you know, just the like the the intricacies,
you know, stuff that I can't do myself. But I
think that you know that that that is going to
be the last of the the jobs that AI can
attack people that are really good carpenters.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Uh oh, yeah, that was funny.
Speaker 10 (17:45):
I was just having a conversation about this this afternoon
where it was a gal who was talking about wanting
her kids to like, you know, go to trade school.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Yeah, it's the.
Speaker 10 (17:56):
Best thing because AI is taking out all the white
collar jobs. But guess what will be left over? Plumbers, carpenters.
You know, eventually, I'm guessing, you know, we're just gonna
have to get the robot. The robots will have to
get to the point where they can walk into your
home and say where's the problem, sir. But that's way
further down the road right now than just AI. And
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so yeah, you're absolutely right. There's never been a better time,
I think, to be in the trades because you're in
high demand.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
And you know, you can do jobs now with modern equipment.
Then you know this better than I do obviously, I'm
actually talking to the audience. I love watching videos of
a guy who has hydraulic lifts. He's put he has
laser measures, and he's putting up cabinets by himself with
these hydraulic lifts and measuring with laser measures. And that
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was a two or three man job before. Every day
now it's a single guy can do it. Yeah, you're
absolutely right. Yeah, we've got bladder control and these are
air bladders that are pump controlled that we can put
under cabinets to level them, to set them, to shim them.
So yeah, one person with just your two hands and
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some of these amazing tools to help out can get
a lot done these days, an awful lot. We had
to redo my daughter's bathroom because it was leaking and
the guy who put originally put the shower pan in
it was slanted towards the door, so every time she showered,
the floor was filled with water.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
So perfect.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah, so the guys, you know, I had a couple
of guys come out, and the guys that were on
it said, you've got to redo the whole shower.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
There's no way that we're gonna be able to fix this.
You can't, you know, lift this, and it's just not
it's not going to look good. So we tore it
out and retiled it. And the guy that came in
to do the tiling. I looked at it and I thought, man,
this guy could have done you know, could have been
an artist. When it comes to tile, I think doing
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tile and having it look beautiful is one of the
most skilled jobs in the world.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 10 (19:59):
It depending on the complexity of the job. There is
a point where everybody, even the diy homeowner, falls off. Yes,
even a pro like me who isn't a tile expert,
you know, and I can set some pretty good tiles,
set all the tile in my own home, okay, but
there's a point, there's a point where it's like, nope, no, no,
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that's no. Let's call in the guys who really know
what they're doing, right.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
And I noticed that, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
They people always say the bigger the tile, the easier
the job. But that's not necessarily true either, because you know,
with those big tiles, you know, if you don't get
them leveled, there's gonna be a problem there too.
Speaker 10 (20:37):
You know what the most difficult tile is. The most
difficult tile are the extremely large ones and the really
tiny mosaics. These are the hardest tiles to set your standard.
Like four inch, six inches, eight inch tiles, no problem.
But yeah, you're absolutely right. The bigger the tile gets,
it's very very complex. You gotta be set just right.
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You got no margin for error the way it lies
up against the edge of the next tile. And when
it comes to little mosaics, man, if you put on
just just a tiny bit too much thin set mortar,
it's coming all the way up through in between the tiles.
You're spending the next hour cleaning it out from in
between the tiles because you push them down too hard.
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It's just, yeah, really small and really big, incredibly difficult.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
We had a guy come in and he did the tile.
He hot mop the you know, the shower the weekend
before to make sure there were no leaks and everything.
And he'd come in, he turned the music on and
he'd be in that bathroom himself for four or five hours,
you know, singing along to the music. And he was
the happy, one of the happiest guys I've ever met
in my life. I'm telling you, I think you're right.
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I think directing kids nowadays towards trade schools and showing
them a trade like that and a skill set like
that that they nobody could take away from you is
worth it's.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Weight in gold.
Speaker 10 (21:55):
Yeah and yeah, I you know, don't give me on
my high horse about this, you know, because you know,
and I'm all about higher education.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I love it. I love the science.
Speaker 10 (22:04):
I mean, this is not taking anything away from education,
but it's not for everybody. And there are people out
there who are born their their genius, their creativity. You know,
you think about fine artists, right, you know you don't
need a master degree to do this. You know you
need the training and the creativity. There are people out
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there who were just born to work with their hands,
and there is such an amazing satisfaction to well skilled
manual labor. I mean, back in my carpentry days, I
used to tell people, I said, you know what, I
appreciate that you had a stressful day because you couldn't
figure out what your middle manager wanted out of you. Okay,
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But me, here's when I have a stressful day, Okay,
because every day I go to work and I am
judged by the laws of nature. Okay, I just put
that wall up. It's plumb or it's not it's straight,
or it's not. Okay, those things are holding or they don't.
And when the universe judges me and says fail, believe me,
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you don't feel good about it. But yeah, it's not
somebody's mood that controls whether the jobs turn out well,
and that can be. It is just so satisfying to
do a great job on a piece and walk away knowing,
you know what, this thing's going to last for years
and years and years.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And I not only I think is it a skill
that no one can take from you, but I think
there is so much personal satisfaction from the tremendous compliments
that you get too, Like wow, Like I walked in
there and I saw how beautifully this thing was tiled,
and I couldn't believe it. Man, I talked to the
guy for like fifteen minutes. What was his background? Where
(23:46):
is he from? It turns out his dad was a
tile expert and also his grandfather, and it's just a great,
rich history of passing that skill down from one generation
to another. And again, it's also the Internet that's helped
me out, because you know, when you go to the internet,
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you see a guy who's great at tiling, or a
guy who's great at painting, or a great guy who's
great at farming. You know, you think of farmers just
a guy and a tractor, you know, uh, you know,
fertilizing the corn and then tearing it down. These are
all precise computers now with very heavy equipment and mathematical
you know, judgment on where to plant and how you
(24:27):
know what data plant, how much water, how much fertilize
all that stuff. And you really respect the skill of
guys who work with their hands after watching these videos.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
Yeah, absolutely, and and and the again the satisfaction that
comes from that, and just in general, you want to
be respected these days. Be somebody who is capable, capable
of doing some things.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
This is something. It's one thing that I just love.
You know.
Speaker 10 (24:49):
My dad, who passed away a long time ago, the
one thing that he communicated to me in my life
that has stuck with me forevery and this was his way.
He was not a mature guy, but he was a man.
I mean, he really was a really great man. He
basically communicated to me, listen, I want you to do
two things with your life. And whatever it is that
you do, I want you to be kind and I
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want you to be capable. And for me that has
just been like the north star for me, and to
be capable to walk into a place and say, yeah,
you know, I can fix that for you, no problem, man.
It just it just feels good to be able to,
you know, work with.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
The real world around you, right and actually get by
and that comfort when you say no, no, that job's
not impossible.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
I can handle that.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
It really does give people a sense of, you know,
of relief that somebody can take care of that. And
and I love this saying, and I've heard it, you know,
for years and years, dirty hands, clean money. I think
it's never been truer than now.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I think you're right. I think you're right. It's great, buddy.
I always appreciate you coming on great advice for people.
And we'll talk to you next week. Hey, can I
yeah through it?
Speaker 3 (26:01):
One thing?
Speaker 10 (26:01):
Yeah, Sunday Sunday. We're preempted in LA by the Chargers game. Okay,
but we're doing the show because of San Diego. So
you can either listen on co go or you can
catch us later on the podcast. The show will be there,
it'll be there. It's just going to be a chargers
where you know I normally am on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Yeah, it's it's great to listen to.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I listened all the way back from uh Morongo and
it just it's just a it's a it's like having
guys who are capable of doing this kind of crap
in your car with you for two hours and and
and it's you have a sense that you're you're going
to the project yourself, and the way you visualize it
and you and and your wife take care.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Of it is really terrific. I love it. Thanks Bro,
Thanks man, talk to you next week. Sounds good? All right?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
There he goes Dean Sharp. Everybody this Saturday six to
eight a m. Sunday preempted on KFI, but the show
is going to be broadcast in San Diego and that
available on podcasts after it is completed.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
At noon.
Speaker 9 (26:59):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI.
AM six forty Tomorrow's Halloween.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Man.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
When I was a kid, I really enjoyed Halloween. It
was one of my favorite holidays and I still think
it is. I decorate the house, I really I know
that it signals that seasons are changing and we don't
have seasons out here. You have to walk and I've
said this before on the air, you have to walk
(27:27):
into Target and you have to go back to the
seasonal department to know that the seasons are changing. That's
the only hint that we get this week. It was
ninety one degrees at our house in Burbank. Ninety one
degrees in late October. So that's not fall, that's not winter,
(27:48):
that's summer heat. So you have to go into Target,
usually towards the back, left, back left, that's where seasonal is.
And that's when you know we're changing seasons. When you
see the lawn furniture coming out, we're getting close to spring.
When you see all the Christmas coming the crap coming out,
we're close to winter.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
That's the only way that we know. That's it.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
All right, let's we've got another story here. It's somewhat interesting.
I guess supersonic jet could really cut commercial air travel.
And one of the reasons why people don't like to
go overseas to Europe or Africa is the twenty four
hours on a plane. People hate that, you know, sitting
(28:37):
in a seat. The longest flight I was ever on
was from Dublin to Lax. It was fifteen and a
half hours, and so what I did. I took two
sleeping pills when we left Ireland, my wife and I
and I chased it with a shot of vodka. I
(29:00):
don't recommend anyone ever doing that, but I wanted to
pass out. I wanted to sleep for fifteen hours, and
that's the way I did it. So I slept for
There was a fifteen and a half hour flight. I
slept for twelve and a half or thirteen hours.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
I was out. So I wake up.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
It's getting dark outside, and I said to the flight attendant,
how much longer? Are we about an hour, hour and
a half out of Lax And she said, no, we're
about thirteen hours away. And I said no, I've been
asleep for eleven hours. She said, you've been asleep for
about an hour. And I woke up with a tremendous headache.
(29:46):
And I never get headaches. I've had maybe two in
my life. A tremendous headache. And I had twelve and
a half thirteen hours left on that flight. And people
hate it. They hate the long flights. Your legs get
all cramped up. There's no real comfortable place to sleep.
There's no comfortable position unless you have real money and
(30:07):
you're sitting up front in one of those you know, fully,
you know, almost like a bed up in front with
a private cabin. If you have that kind of money,
you don't mind traveling at all, and why should you
or why would you? But when you travel with the
animals in the back and coach, everybody is super close
(30:28):
to each other. There's no leg room, there's no food,
there's no good, you know, entertainment on these flights, and
you have to sit there for twelve hours, and twelve
hours seems like five days. When you're just sitting there,
there's nothing to do. And so if you can speed
it up with supersonic jets, it would benefit everybody.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
And that's close. We're close to this, very close.
Speaker 11 (30:52):
It's called the X fifty nine and it could be
this century's concord, NASA's experimental jet, taking off yesterday on
its first test flight over the California Desert. Built to
fly nine hundred and twenty five miles per hour, nearly
twice as fast as today's commercial airliners, the X fifty
nine is designed to be the first aircraft to break
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the sound barrier.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Quietly, meticulously engineered.
Speaker 12 (31:17):
It produces a gentle pump, a mere whisper compared to
the disruptive booms.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Of the past.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Okay, that's a game changer. The reason why we don't
have supersonic jets flying over America is because of breaking
the sound system and the sonic boom that comes along
with that. It scared the hell out of everybody, so
we stop doing it. But now if you can do
it quietly, this is going to be this is going
to take off.
Speaker 11 (31:41):
The explosive like sonic boom is why commercial supersonic flight
has been banned over the US.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
That's exactly what I just said. I'm a step ahead
of this lady that can.
Speaker 10 (31:50):
Startle people, that can rattle windows and cause problems.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Even military flights are restricted to certain areas because the
shockwaves can cause so much disservance on the ground.
Speaker 11 (32:00):
But the X fifty nine's unique shape turns that boom
into more of a thump, no louder than slamming a
car door. You may recall the supersonic Concord flew for
decades until it was retired in two thousand and three
due to high operating costs and fading demand. It was
only allowed to hit supersonic speeds over the ocean. The
X fifty nine without that deafening sonic boom could be
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a game changer.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Okay, at nine hundred and fifty miles an hour, you
could get to New York in two and a half
maybe three.
Speaker 11 (32:29):
Hours, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy saying it has the potential
to change the way the public flies.
Speaker 12 (32:35):
An explane is a symbol of our collective ambition to
redefine the future, and in this case, it's the future
of supersonic travel.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Yes, excellent, all right, Michael Monks is coming up with
Tiffany Hobbs.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
That is going to be a great show.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I like both those people, and I'll be listening to
Tiffany Hobbs and Michael Monks. They're coming up immediately right
here with Ronner the whole, all three of them. It's
like my three sons or is it my three stooges?
Wuch you'd rather be known as my three sons? Are
my three stooges. Let's just save time and go straight
to stooges. All right, Well, stay tuned. That's gonna be
(33:11):
a great show. Hobbes Monks, Ronner Dingdong. With those three,
we're live on KFIM six forty Conway Show on demand
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It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app day before Halloween.
So the kids will be out tomorrow trigger treating. Be
safe around those kids out there, and the Dodgers will
be playing. So kind of a nightmare scenario for the
fellas and for some gals who are Dodger fans, because
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your kids want to go out trigger treating exactly when
the game starts, It'll be at five oh eight, So
at six oh eight, maybe six fifteen, six thirty is
when it starts to get dark, and so right in
the thick of that game, your kids will be banging
on you to get out and go trigger treating, and
(00:42):
you will have a dilemma. Do I stay home and
watch game six or do I go out with the
kids and record it and hope nobody tells me the score.
Or you can keep it on kfive and we will
keep you updated on the score all night long. Or
you can listen to it on five seventy am. It's
up to you, totally up to you, but lots of
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options out there. But don't miss the kids. Halloween much
more important than listening to the game. So get out there,
enjoy the kids. But listen to the game, or listen
to us here tomorrow night with your earbuds or whatever
you've got going on, and we'll give you scores all
night long. And that'd be fun. That'd be a cool deal,
all right, a lot of prop bets. Some sports leagues
(01:26):
and states could ban prop bets and prop betting because
of what happened in the NBA over the last couple
of weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
This wild pitch from June could be the new ugly side.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Of the score. It's just a little bit outside.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
In the third inning, Cleveland pitcher Luis Ortiz threw a
pitch in the dirt and was suspended soon after, amid
allegations he might have done it on purpose. Wow, to
help gamblers who bet on that pitch being outside the
strike zone.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Okay, the first inclination for everybody and myself included, is
there's something not right there.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Jason Van Hawks saw that pitch. He investigates suspicious adding
patterns and work for the monitoring company that reportedly alerted
Major League Baseball about a surge in bets around that
play in Cleeveland.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Just wow, is that wild man? That kind of inside
information where people are cheating. Man, you gotta love people.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
They're called prop bets and any strikeout pay wagers made
on an individual players performance. How big a part of
the gaming business is it.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
It's definitely growing.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Ortiza's suspension got the attention of Ohio's Governor, Mike Dwine,
who now wants to ban prop bets in his state.
We saw states one after another rapidly approved sports gambling
a few years ago.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Was this not envisioned one pitch, you know, one shot
of the basket. I don't think that's what most people
thought of at that time. But it's clearly taken off
and it's clearly a problem.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
As part of a blockbuster indictment last week, federal agents
arrested an NBA player who allegedly tipped off gamblers he
was going to leave a game early with an injury.
According to Van Hoff, the explosion of prop betting in
the last decade has turned some lesser known athletes into marks.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
It was primarily based around just the superstars, you know,
the Patrick Mahomes, the Lebron James. Now it is starting
to move down into lower levels of the game. The
players coming in off of the bench, the rookies that
might not have as much playing time.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
We were unable to reach the Cleveland pitcher or teams
for common But it's not just Ohio considering a change.
Other states are proposing legislation to update their sports gambling
laws to outlaw prop betting. And we've learned yea prop
bets are.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
If you don't know what they are, it's, you know,
the flip of a coin at the beginning of a
football game as a prop bet, you know who will
score the first touchdown, you know who will score the
first basket. Those are prop bets, and they could be
very easily manipulated. You can't really manipulate an entire player's,
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you know, performance throughout the entire game. That's very difficult
to do. And those are on the up and up.
But the prop bets are very easy because it's one pitch,
one flip of a coin, one catch, and then it's payday.
And when these sites see three four hundred thousand dollars
coming in on one prop bet and it comes together,
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then they immediately notify the league that it that it
happened in and you can get thrown out of the
league for that and your entire NBA career, can you know,
be thrown in the toilet over one stupid play like that?
Speaking of careers thrown in in the toilet, the NBA
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has issued a memo following the arrest of the NBA
coach Chauncey billups with Portland and the other players that
were mixed up in that you know that horrible Two
stories that were coming out with the NBA. One was
centered around players you know, throwing games, and another one
(05:02):
was players involved in poker games where there was some
cheating going on during the game. So the NBA took
it very seriously and put out a memo.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Less than a week after the arrests of Portland Trailblazers
head coach John cy bhillips in Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier.
The NBA is reassessing how the league can protect itself
from what it calls the dire risks of sports betting.
In a memo to all thirty teams obtained by ABC News,
the league is calling for new procedures to protect the
integrity of the NBA as it refused policies on injury reporting.
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The league is particularly concerned about prop bets on player
performance that the memo says involve heightened integrity concerns. Rosier
is accused of tipping off sports betters. He would fake
an injury during a twenty twenty three game and later
take a cut of two hundred thousand dollars in wagers
that he would underperform.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
He's a straightforward guy, a non gambler, a guy who
is making one hundred million dollars over four years. Wow,
and we're supposed to believe that he wanted to throw
a game to make a few pennies while he's losing
on his endorsement contract. At the same time, like, we
have the benefit of logic and good character supporting our defense.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
It does make sense when he puts it that way.
Why would a guy who's making one hundred million dollars
throw a game?
Speaker 6 (06:19):
La Clippers fans jeering the Trailblazers during Sunday's game, appearing
to chant FBI after head coach Chauncey Billips was charged
with luring high rollers to poker games rigged by the
mob using X ray tables, an altered card shuffling machine,
and glasses that could read pre marked cards.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
Billets and Rosier have been placed on leave both of them,
Robin de iy wrongdoing.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
The memo that was sent out by the NBA to
the league saying there are dire risks when it comes
to sports betting.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
But this is exploding right there, It sure is.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
And it was actually the sports books that caught some
of the unusual interest in the game.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, because the sports books were taking the hit, you know,
two or three hundred thousand dollars on one guy in
one game, and they that the red flag goes up immediately.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
When Terry Rozier allegedly faked his injury. But the league
here thinks it can do more, and the memo we
obtained suggested maybe AI could help police sports betting, but
any real change would probably need Congress and the sports
books themselves.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
That's a big story, big story, Harvi, we come back.
Dean Sharp, the house whisper will be with us. He's
on the weekends every single weekend on Saturday from six
am to eight am right here on KFI and then
on Sunday from nine am until noon. Very popular shows.
Speaker 9 (07:35):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 10 (07:40):
Dean, I you're Bob, I am sitting here enjoying this
ice cold coke zero, and the.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Life is good. My wife loves that.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Every time we go to a restaurant anywhere, it's always
do you have coke zero? Always have coke zero? You
know why they named it coke zero? They did it
a study and they found out that guys, you know,
women will order you know, diet coke, but guys won't
order diet coke.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
So they had to call it coke coke zero. Yeah,
I guess it doesn't you know what? That's not me?
Speaker 10 (08:07):
I actually i'd prefer I have no problem ordering diet coke,
but I like coke zero better. But I always feel
a little pretentious asking it at the restaurant. I'm like, oh,
excuse me, do you have coke zero?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Pardon me?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I know, I always cringe. My wife orders it you
have coke zero? I'm like, oh christ, here we go
like to.
Speaker 10 (08:27):
The point where I would rather just I just want
to ask them, like what do you have? And then
when they list it off, I'm like, yeah, I'll take that.
Speaker 9 (08:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (08:33):
I feel better at doing that than saying, oh, do
you have a coke zero?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I noticed also, and like I might be on the
moon here, but when a restaurant offers coke. I like
that for some reason. I think they I don't know,
there's maybe a quality thing there. I don't know, it's
it's weird. I mean people are either coke or PEPSI
that's true. I'm a big coke guy.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Yeah I am. I am the used as a drop
later exactly? Can I get belly? Okay? Can I get
this one right here?
Speaker 10 (09:09):
That just that, just that one that's going on social
media tonight.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
All right, So the holidays are upon us. Are you
big decorated for Halloween?
Speaker 10 (09:19):
Oh? Yeah, no, no, oh you already got me. I
was about to say Christmas, of course, no Halloween.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
No, no.
Speaker 10 (09:25):
We actually have three pumpkins sitting on the porch. One
of them is starting to rot.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yeah, exactly sucks.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
But I love the decorating for the holidays, whether you know,
we don't do Thanksgiving obviously, but we do heavy Halloween
and then all of it comes down on Saturday and
big heavy Christmas.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I love it. Yeah, yeah, for sure it is.
Speaker 10 (09:47):
And this year we actually, uh you know, committed to
an Aldic Christmas tree this year, and so and Tina's like,
oh my gosh, can we put it up now?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Can we put it up now? I'm like, no, not yet. Awesome.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
But people also around this time of year, they get
their house ready for company. You know, they know they're
gonna have people for Thanksgiving and for Christmas. And what
are some of the things you, you know, you can
do instantly to really sort of help that vibe out?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Is it? Are they candles? Is it? You know? Keeping
the place clean?
Speaker 10 (10:19):
I don't know, well, you know, I mean ultimately I'm
not I'm not going to give you a huge list,
but because you know, there's enough going on the holidays.
But if you really are committed to, like we got
to do something to the place.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Then paint.
Speaker 10 (10:32):
Paint, Oh painting, I mean, if you if you've got
to commit to a project that's gonna you know, paint
is without question, one of the least expensive major changes
you can make to a house.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Right you think about that.
Speaker 10 (10:45):
You can get in there and just you know, for
for a few bucks, you can completely change the mood
and the color of an entire room. Right, And so
paint this time of year. I actually encourage it. In fact,
right now, in fact Sunday, we're talking about holiday prep.
And by that I really mean paint. We're gonna do
a deep dive on paint because this is the time
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of year, one of the probably the second most popular
time of the year that people really consider changing the
color of her room. And it's only because it's not
it's not because anybody's ever jonesing to paint, but they're thinking,
oh no, the relatives, this is the time. They're real
and they're just thinking the judgment. Honestly, this is the judgment.
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The judgment is coming. I better spruce things up because
I don't want to hear about it, right.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Or the post judgment after you do spruce it up,
like oh, how'd you choose that color?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
You know, that kind of crap.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
But see, I feel better about a room if I
hire somebody to paint it then if I do it myself.
And a lot of times you can't really tell, but
I think it's like, you know, when when you have
a sandwich made for you, it tastes better than if
you make it for yourself.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
You know what. I would agree.
Speaker 10 (11:56):
Tina does not agree with that, really, because she loves
to paint, I mean just loves it, and so she
feels more satisfied if if she's done the work in
the room than if we've hired it out.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Me.
Speaker 10 (12:09):
I am happy to hire it out. I'm like, hey,
you know what my role today, I'll be letting you
guys in right and locking the door behind you when
you leave. And I'm very happy about that. And especially
guys that can paint really straight lines.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
That is real art.
Speaker 10 (12:23):
That's true again, not something that I like to do.
That's you know, that's what rulers and masking tape is for.
I mean, that's a straight line, Dean. Yeah, I freehanded
that way.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I got paint from Catalina, and you and I share
a love for that store as well, and it was great.
I put one coat on and it looked terrific. I
didn't even need a second coat.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (12:46):
Catalina paints, by the way, Benjamin Moore, your local Benjamin
Moore retailer. And that's what makes Catalina as awesome as
they are because they carry in what is, in my opinion,
the world's greatest paint mentminal.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
But are you a roller guy or a brush guy.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
I'd like to get it done as quickly as possible,
but that's always not the best way.
Speaker 10 (13:09):
Yeah, you know, when it comes to walls, I'm totally
a roller guy. But you got to cut in. You
got to do both. You got to do both. You
got to cut in with a brush around the edges,
around baseboards and corners and stuff like that, and then
you can get the roller going, you know, in the
main in the main field, right. But the prep time
is what drives me crazy.
Speaker 11 (13:25):
You know.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I think the rule of thumb is four times prep
for one you know, for every four hours prep for
one hour painting.
Speaker 10 (13:32):
Oh yeah, I mean that is essentially. I mean, if
we talk about what goes wrong with a paint job,
it's never you putting paint on the wall. That's never
the problem. The problem is always you didn't prep this enough.
You didn't prep that enough. Prep is ninety percent of
a paint job, honestly, And I don't do the one
to four. I'll just tell you this. Prep is everything
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you want that paint to hold. You gotta prep you
you know you you want it to do right, you
want it to cover properly. You got a prime all
these things before we actually get to putting the frickin
paint on the wall. And it's super important, don't get
me wrong, but those are the reasons why you know,
I'm out. I'm out, just don't have the patience for it.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I noticed that the painter's tape is made a lot
of improvements with that.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Frog tape.
Speaker 10 (14:19):
Oh yeah, Well, frog tape has a very very specific
purpose and and that it that in that it it
cuts in better than any other kind of masking tape.
And now there are different versions of frog tape, by
the way. There's there's yellow, there's green, there's orange, all
of which you know, manifest in different ways depending on
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the kind of surface that you're sticking it on, how
rough relace is, and so on and so forth. But
here's the best thing I can tell you about frog tape.
That the key to frog tape is that it has
got a polymer inside that it's like a gelatin that's
mixed in with the adhesive. And that gelatin that doesn't
do anything when you stick it on the The gelatin
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right on the edge of the frog tape reacts the
second that the wetness of the paint hits it, and
it seals. It gelatinizes and it seals off. It's like
self caulking masking tape. Blue tape doesn't do that. None
of the other masking tapes do that, but the frog
tape does. But also, you know that frog tape comes
in that tupperware bowl. Don't throw that thing away and
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just throw your roll of frog tape in the drawer.
You put it back in the tupperware container, and you
seal the lid because that gelatin goes bad if you
expose it to air too.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Oh is that right? Okay, So that's important to keep
that sealed after you use it. Yep.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yeah, Oh that's a great tip. That's a great tip.
But I you know that frog tape is worth every.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Dime you spend on it. Every dime. It is.
Speaker 10 (15:47):
It's virtually I mean, I hate to say this because
somebody's gonna email me and say that they ruined their
wall with frog tape, but it is virtually, you know,
idiot proof.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Right, really is all right, we'll come back.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I want to talk about certain kinds of paints because
I'm fascinated by painting. I used to love to paint.
Now I'm not really that into it, but I do.
There is a sense of accomplishment once you take all
the tape down, all the plastic down, and you walk
in that room doing it yourself. There does seem to
be a certain sense of pride, and when people compliment it,
you feel like it's high of you know, like a
(16:21):
like a physical high over it. Yeah, some people do,
some people not you. Okay, I get that, all right.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Dean Sharp is with us. We're live on KFI.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
He's not every Saturday from six to eight am and
then on Sunday nine am until noon. The Dodgers are
off tonight. They're playing tomorrow in Toronto. They must win
on Friday and they must win on Saturday. They have
to win back to back games in Toronto to be
the twenty twenty five World Series champions. So we've got
to put our heads together and figure out some way
(16:51):
to give them the mojo where they need it. I
saw them getting on the plane last night and they
look depressed out of their minds.
Speaker 9 (16:58):
You're listening to Tim Conway too. You're on Demyl from
KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Dean Sharp is with us every weekend here six to
eight am on Saturday, nine am until noon on Sunday.
I was listening to you on the way home from Marongo.
I think maybe we talked about this last week. But
I love when guys and gals simply call up with
very detailed questions about you know, putting cabinets in on
(17:26):
existing flooring, and you know, just the like the the intricacies,
you know, stuff that I can't do myself. But I
think that you know that that that is going to
be the last of the the jobs that AI can
attack people that are really good carpenters.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Uh oh, yeah, that was funny.
Speaker 10 (17:45):
I was just having a conversation about this this afternoon
where it was a gal who was talking about wanting
her kids to like, you know, go to trade school.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Yeah, it's the.
Speaker 10 (17:56):
Best thing because AI is taking out all the white
collar jobs. But guess what will be left over? Plumbers, carpenters.
You know, eventually, I'm guessing, you know, we're just gonna
have to get the robot. The robots will have to
get to the point where they can walk into your
home and say where's the problem, sir. But that's way
further down the road right now than just AI. And
(18:18):
so yeah, you're absolutely right. There's never been a better time,
I think, to be in the trades because you're in
high demand.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
And you know, you can do jobs now with modern equipment.
Then you know this better than I do obviously, I'm
actually talking to the audience. I love watching videos of
a guy who has hydraulic lifts. He's put he has
laser measures, and he's putting up cabinets by himself with
these hydraulic lifts and measuring with laser measures. And that
(18:46):
was a two or three man job before. Every day
now it's a single guy can do it. Yeah, you're
absolutely right. Yeah, we've got bladder control and these are
air bladders that are pump controlled that we can put
under cabinets to level them, to set them, to shim them.
So yeah, one person with just your two hands and
(19:07):
some of these amazing tools to help out can get
a lot done these days, an awful lot. We had
to redo my daughter's bathroom because it was leaking and
the guy who put originally put the shower pan in
it was slanted towards the door, so every time she showered,
the floor was filled with water.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
So perfect.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah, so the guys, you know, I had a couple
of guys come out, and the guys that were on
it said, you've got to redo the whole shower.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
There's no way that we're gonna be able to fix this.
You can't, you know, lift this, and it's just not
it's not going to look good. So we tore it
out and retiled it. And the guy that came in
to do the tiling. I looked at it and I thought, man,
this guy could have done you know, could have been
an artist. When it comes to tile, I think doing
(19:52):
tile and having it look beautiful is one of the
most skilled jobs in the world.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 10 (19:59):
It depending on the complexity of the job. There is
a point where everybody, even the diy homeowner, falls off. Yes,
even a pro like me who isn't a tile expert,
you know, and I can set some pretty good tiles,
set all the tile in my own home, okay, but
there's a point, there's a point where it's like, nope, no, no,
(20:21):
that's no. Let's call in the guys who really know
what they're doing, right.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
And I noticed that, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
They people always say the bigger the tile, the easier
the job. But that's not necessarily true either, because you know,
with those big tiles, you know, if you don't get
them leveled, there's gonna be a problem there too.
Speaker 10 (20:37):
You know what the most difficult tile is. The most
difficult tile are the extremely large ones and the really
tiny mosaics. These are the hardest tiles to set your standard.
Like four inch, six inches, eight inch tiles, no problem.
But yeah, you're absolutely right. The bigger the tile gets,
it's very very complex. You gotta be set just right.
(20:58):
You got no margin for error the way it lies
up against the edge of the next tile. And when
it comes to little mosaics, man, if you put on
just just a tiny bit too much thin set mortar,
it's coming all the way up through in between the tiles.
You're spending the next hour cleaning it out from in
between the tiles because you push them down too hard.
(21:19):
It's just, yeah, really small and really big, incredibly difficult.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
We had a guy come in and he did the tile.
He hot mop the you know, the shower the weekend
before to make sure there were no leaks and everything.
And he'd come in, he turned the music on and
he'd be in that bathroom himself for four or five hours,
you know, singing along to the music. And he was
the happy, one of the happiest guys I've ever met
in my life. I'm telling you, I think you're right.
(21:43):
I think directing kids nowadays towards trade schools and showing
them a trade like that and a skill set like
that that they nobody could take away from you is
worth it's.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Weight in gold.
Speaker 10 (21:55):
Yeah and yeah, I you know, don't give me on
my high horse about this, you know, because you know,
and I'm all about higher education.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I love it. I love the science.
Speaker 10 (22:04):
I mean, this is not taking anything away from education,
but it's not for everybody. And there are people out
there who are born their their genius, their creativity. You know,
you think about fine artists, right, you know you don't
need a master degree to do this. You know you
need the training and the creativity. There are people out
(22:24):
there who were just born to work with their hands,
and there is such an amazing satisfaction to well skilled
manual labor. I mean, back in my carpentry days, I
used to tell people, I said, you know what, I
appreciate that you had a stressful day because you couldn't
figure out what your middle manager wanted out of you. Okay,
(22:45):
But me, here's when I have a stressful day, Okay,
because every day I go to work and I am
judged by the laws of nature. Okay, I just put
that wall up. It's plumb or it's not it's straight,
or it's not. Okay, those things are holding or they don't.
And when the universe judges me and says fail, believe me,
(23:07):
you don't feel good about it. But yeah, it's not
somebody's mood that controls whether the jobs turn out well,
and that can be. It is just so satisfying to
do a great job on a piece and walk away knowing,
you know what, this thing's going to last for years
and years and years.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And I not only I think is it a skill
that no one can take from you, but I think
there is so much personal satisfaction from the tremendous compliments
that you get too, Like wow, Like I walked in
there and I saw how beautifully this thing was tiled,
and I couldn't believe it. Man, I talked to the
guy for like fifteen minutes. What was his background? Where
(23:46):
is he from? It turns out his dad was a
tile expert and also his grandfather, and it's just a great,
rich history of passing that skill down from one generation
to another. And again, it's also the Internet that's helped
me out, because you know, when you go to the internet,
(24:07):
you see a guy who's great at tiling, or a
guy who's great at painting, or a great guy who's
great at farming. You know, you think of farmers just
a guy and a tractor, you know, uh, you know,
fertilizing the corn and then tearing it down. These are
all precise computers now with very heavy equipment and mathematical
you know, judgment on where to plant and how you
(24:27):
know what data plant, how much water, how much fertilize
all that stuff. And you really respect the skill of
guys who work with their hands after watching these videos.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
Yeah, absolutely, and and and the again the satisfaction that
comes from that, and just in general, you want to
be respected these days. Be somebody who is capable, capable
of doing some things.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
This is something. It's one thing that I just love.
You know.
Speaker 10 (24:49):
My dad, who passed away a long time ago, the
one thing that he communicated to me in my life
that has stuck with me forevery and this was his way.
He was not a mature guy, but he was a man.
I mean, he really was a really great man. He
basically communicated to me, listen, I want you to do
two things with your life. And whatever it is that
you do, I want you to be kind and I
(25:11):
want you to be capable. And for me that has
just been like the north star for me, and to
be capable to walk into a place and say, yeah,
you know, I can fix that for you, no problem, man.
It just it just feels good to be able to,
you know, work with.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
The real world around you, right and actually get by
and that comfort when you say no, no, that job's
not impossible.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
I can handle that.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
It really does give people a sense of, you know,
of relief that somebody can take care of that. And
and I love this saying, and I've heard it, you know,
for years and years, dirty hands, clean money. I think
it's never been truer than now.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I think you're right. I think you're right. It's great, buddy.
I always appreciate you coming on great advice for people.
And we'll talk to you next week. Hey, can I
yeah through it?
Speaker 3 (26:01):
One thing?
Speaker 10 (26:01):
Yeah, Sunday Sunday. We're preempted in LA by the Chargers game. Okay,
but we're doing the show because of San Diego. So
you can either listen on co go or you can
catch us later on the podcast. The show will be there,
it'll be there. It's just going to be a chargers
where you know I normally am on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Yeah, it's it's great to listen to.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I listened all the way back from uh Morongo and
it just it's just a it's a it's like having
guys who are capable of doing this kind of crap
in your car with you for two hours and and
and it's you have a sense that you're you're going
to the project yourself, and the way you visualize it
and you and and your wife take care.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Of it is really terrific. I love it. Thanks Bro,
Thanks man, talk to you next week. Sounds good? All right?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
There he goes Dean Sharp. Everybody this Saturday six to
eight a m. Sunday preempted on KFI, but the show
is going to be broadcast in San Diego and that
available on podcasts after it is completed.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
At noon.
Speaker 9 (26:59):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI.
AM six forty Tomorrow's Halloween.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Man.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
When I was a kid, I really enjoyed Halloween. It
was one of my favorite holidays and I still think
it is. I decorate the house, I really I know
that it signals that seasons are changing and we don't
have seasons out here. You have to walk and I've
said this before on the air, you have to walk
(27:27):
into Target and you have to go back to the
seasonal department to know that the seasons are changing. That's
the only hint that we get this week. It was
ninety one degrees at our house in Burbank. Ninety one
degrees in late October. So that's not fall, that's not winter,
(27:48):
that's summer heat. So you have to go into Target,
usually towards the back, left, back left, that's where seasonal is.
And that's when you know we're changing seasons. When you
see the lawn furniture coming out, we're getting close to spring.
When you see all the Christmas coming the crap coming out,
we're close to winter.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
That's the only way that we know. That's it.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
All right, let's we've got another story here. It's somewhat interesting.
I guess supersonic jet could really cut commercial air travel.
And one of the reasons why people don't like to
go overseas to Europe or Africa is the twenty four
hours on a plane. People hate that, you know, sitting
(28:37):
in a seat. The longest flight I was ever on
was from Dublin to Lax. It was fifteen and a
half hours, and so what I did. I took two
sleeping pills when we left Ireland, my wife and I
and I chased it with a shot of vodka. I
(29:00):
don't recommend anyone ever doing that, but I wanted to
pass out. I wanted to sleep for fifteen hours, and
that's the way I did it. So I slept for
There was a fifteen and a half hour flight. I
slept for twelve and a half or thirteen hours.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
I was out. So I wake up.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
It's getting dark outside, and I said to the flight attendant,
how much longer? Are we about an hour, hour and
a half out of Lax And she said, no, we're
about thirteen hours away. And I said no, I've been
asleep for eleven hours. She said, you've been asleep for
about an hour. And I woke up with a tremendous headache.
(29:46):
And I never get headaches. I've had maybe two in
my life. A tremendous headache. And I had twelve and
a half thirteen hours left on that flight. And people
hate it. They hate the long flights. Your legs get
all cramped up. There's no real comfortable place to sleep.
There's no comfortable position unless you have real money and
(30:07):
you're sitting up front in one of those you know, fully,
you know, almost like a bed up in front with
a private cabin. If you have that kind of money,
you don't mind traveling at all, and why should you
or why would you? But when you travel with the
animals in the back and coach, everybody is super close
(30:28):
to each other. There's no leg room, there's no food,
there's no good, you know, entertainment on these flights, and
you have to sit there for twelve hours, and twelve
hours seems like five days. When you're just sitting there,
there's nothing to do. And so if you can speed
it up with supersonic jets, it would benefit everybody.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
And that's close. We're close to this, very close.
Speaker 11 (30:52):
It's called the X fifty nine and it could be
this century's concord, NASA's experimental jet, taking off yesterday on
its first test flight over the California Desert. Built to
fly nine hundred and twenty five miles per hour, nearly
twice as fast as today's commercial airliners, the X fifty
nine is designed to be the first aircraft to break
(31:12):
the sound barrier.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Quietly, meticulously engineered.
Speaker 12 (31:17):
It produces a gentle pump, a mere whisper compared to
the disruptive booms.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Of the past.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Okay, that's a game changer. The reason why we don't
have supersonic jets flying over America is because of breaking
the sound system and the sonic boom that comes along
with that. It scared the hell out of everybody, so
we stop doing it. But now if you can do
it quietly, this is going to be this is going
to take off.
Speaker 11 (31:41):
The explosive like sonic boom is why commercial supersonic flight
has been banned over the US.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
That's exactly what I just said. I'm a step ahead
of this lady that can.
Speaker 10 (31:50):
Startle people, that can rattle windows and cause problems.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Even military flights are restricted to certain areas because the
shockwaves can cause so much disservance on the ground.
Speaker 11 (32:00):
But the X fifty nine's unique shape turns that boom
into more of a thump, no louder than slamming a
car door. You may recall the supersonic Concord flew for
decades until it was retired in two thousand and three
due to high operating costs and fading demand. It was
only allowed to hit supersonic speeds over the ocean. The
X fifty nine without that deafening sonic boom could be
(32:21):
a game changer.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Okay, at nine hundred and fifty miles an hour, you
could get to New York in two and a half
maybe three.
Speaker 11 (32:29):
Hours, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy saying it has the potential
to change the way the public flies.
Speaker 12 (32:35):
An explane is a symbol of our collective ambition to
redefine the future, and in this case, it's the future
of supersonic travel.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Yes, excellent, all right, Michael Monks is coming up with
Tiffany Hobbs.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
That is going to be a great show.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I like both those people, and I'll be listening to
Tiffany Hobbs and Michael Monks. They're coming up immediately right
here with Ronner the whole, all three of them. It's
like my three sons or is it my three stooges?
Wuch you'd rather be known as my three sons? Are
my three stooges. Let's just save time and go straight
to stooges. All right, Well, stay tuned. That's gonna be
(33:11):
a great show. Hobbes Monks, Ronner Dingdong. With those three,
we're live on KFIM six forty Conway Show on demand
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