October 7, 2025 • 29 mins
The government shutdown is causing major disruptions at airports, while Glendale welcomes the grand opening of “Little Bear,” a new restaurant from Chef Sevan Abdessian—formerly Adam Sandler’s personal chef. Conway added humor with his Tom Leykis impersonation and a Thanksgiving story, and sports fans marked the start of the NHL season as Kings captain Anze Kopitar announced his retirement after 18 seasons.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on De Maya from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
KFI AM six forty. It's Coney jel Mark Thompson is here.
Before we get to our guest, let's tell you that
the Burbank Airport is open and air traffic controllers are
back on the job.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Pull a hiccup yesterday.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
At Burbank Airport, and so it was unmanned. But and
there's there are some unmanned airports. But I think we
have Burbank UH situated and now it might be spreading
to some other airports. Let me play this then we'll
get to our awesome guest here in a second year.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Far from Washington, the government shut down is now rippling
into air traffic control towers in Newark, in Denver, and
in Phoenix long delays due to staffing. Yesterday, according to
the FAA, in Burbank, the air traffic control tower left
completely unmanned overnight for ofroughly six hours.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
We're being closing down the tower.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Because it shut down doesn't for staffing.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
COSPOSE controllers in San Diego took over for Burbank, but
the delays remained. California Governor Gavin Newsom blaming the president online,
while in Washington, partisan fighting continues with Republicans blaming Democrats
for the shutdown.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
The Democrats are the ones that started is.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
As workers across the federal government, including air traffic controllers,
go without pay, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says there's been
a slight uptick of sick calls resulting in flight delays.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
If we have additional sick calls, we will reduce the
flow consistent with a rate that's safe for the American people.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Duffy says he's heard from workers about their concerns.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
They have bills have to pay, so now they're thinking
about that at the same time that they're controlling the airspace.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
The National Air Traffic Controllers Union calls the ongoing crisis
it's latest example of how fragile the system is. In
the midst of a national controller shortage, we.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Do not have time to waste on the unnecessary distractions
created by the shutdown. So our message is clear, in
the shutdown.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Let's go in.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
The shutting union says it's working with the FAA to
mitigate disruptions, but the concern this morning this could get
worse with the busy holiday travel season now just over
a month away. If this all sounds airly familiar. Back
in twenty nineteen, during the last government shutdown, you may recall,
after control was missed one paycheck, then two paychecks, many
(02:36):
started calling out sick because of the stress. That put
pressure on the system, and that is ultimately what many
believe led to President Trump calling off the government shutdown
that was back in twenty nineteen. We'll see whether missed
paychecks will play a role also in the shutdown.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
All right, we'll see, we will see. All right, we
have a brand new restaurant called Little Bear and a
chef savants. Is that right enough? Oh, how do you
pronounce it?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Abdescian?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Abdescian? With us? How are you man?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Nice to see you, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
All right now, anytime somebody opens a restaurant, we always
like to give him a little bit of a plug
and a little bit of push. Here it's called Little Bear.
It's in Glendale. It's it's more towards the Burbank border
between Burbank and Glendale, Is that right?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
It's in Glendale, but closer to Burbank, right, And it's
on what street on San Fernando Road.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Oh, San Fernando, sixty eight hundred San Fernando Road. Okay,
that's easy to remember. Sixty eight hundred San Fernando. And
it's called Little Bear. It's Italian food, it is. And
you have a background in Italian cooking. You were a
chef for quite some time.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Yeah, it's kind of all I know how to do.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Well, that's a lot, I mean, that's right.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah, it's a good thing.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
You were the owners of Recess in Glendell for almost
a decade. We had a restaurant in Glendell in Highland Park.
We sold our company in twenty seventeen because my wife
was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
But we made it through.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Oh good, all right.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
That's kind of like the itch, you know.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
It's like it's like an Armenian with you know, can't
go without the Mercedes, this army. This Armenian can't go
without owning restaurants. So a friend of mine approached me
last year and said, listen, I've got this donut shop
in a center that's kind of run down, and I
want to you know, I want you to see if
you have the vision to help me make it. Kind
of like you know, sort of modernize it and clean
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it up and painted, and so one of the tenants
retired after thirty five years of being a donut shop,
and so we took over the donut shop and turned
into like a little.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Italian sort of that's great place. We make fresh pasta
every day.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
So and tomorrow is your opening day.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Tomorrow's our opening day. Oh that's exciting.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Yeah, we had a soft opening about a month and
a half ago. We're just kind of, you know, getting
into a nineteen fifty one building that was redone. And
and where did you learn to cook?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Where did you learn not to become a chef?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Actually, yes, I did go to school, but my parents
were in the industry. They had lunch trucks and catering
company when they were young. So I've been going to
catering since I was like ten years old, doing roll ups,
and then started working in.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Cafes in high school.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
And then I met Joe Kimspley Shawl, which I worked
for the Patina Group and kind of that gave me
a lot of passion.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
That's a high end that's a high end group.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Yeah, and I went and got my culinary degree in
San Francisco, and.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Uh, Wow, So you were a highly trained guy.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
That's yeah, there was only there's only a few of
us left. I think most of us kind of after COVID.
From what I hear is are gone right, and it
was tough.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Now I understand the name little Bear is what used
to call your daughters who still call I still call.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
My daughter's dad. They're now fourteen and seventeen.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
And but my whole life growing up, you know them,
growing up, I was like high little bear, Yes, little bear.
And so when I saw the restaurant and the size
of it and how it's small, I was like, it's perfect.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
It's gonna be called little Bear.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Little Bear's great name. Thank you and God bless you.
And you know, I know, raising two kids girls is
really tough. And to have your wife go through that
is had to be the most stressful thing that you
have both done together in your entire life.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Uh yeah, uh, you know, in hindsight, things happened for
a reason. You know, we sold the company prior to COVID,
and I know a lot. You know, we were self funded.
We didn't have any outside investments, so it's kind of
all or nothing, and in a sense, obviously not because
of the cancer or anything like that. But the timing
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worked out for us in the sense that we you know,
if we didn't sell it at that point, we probably
would have not made.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
It through COVID. Sure, sure, because.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
We didn't have any outside funding to for someone just
to write us a check, you know, randomly when you're
doing well or not doing well.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I'm sure you you know a lot of people who
did lose their business to COVIDE.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Oh yeah, a lot.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Yeah, I mean the restaurant business was decimated by COVID.
I mean just decimated, well.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
The restaurant businesses. It's like drinking poison. You know. The
Martians are so small, so they've gotten smaller. KF.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I am sick fort it comin so Mark Thompson is here, Yes, sir,
that food is spectacular.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
It is good. We were chomping a little bit during
the brag.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
He used to be the personal chef to Adam Sandler, right,
and travel the whole world.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
With him, And I didn't know that until he's leaving. Yeah,
you know, that's.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I thought that's a pre interview thing. Maybe, yeah, we.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Should I got a pre interview these guys a little more.
I thought that was fascinating. He worked on three different
movies as Adam Adam Sandler's personal chef.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Yes, he lived with them. Yeah, they lived together.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
And that's the way it is, you know, it's all
you know, you're on the rhythm of whoever you're cooking for.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Right.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
So this food that I'm eating right now, this pasta
with the ham and the peas and the arugula, this
is what Adam Sandler d Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Well, I'm sure Adam Sandler ate whatever he you know,
they they had options, but.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I'm saying this is one of the dishes we probably.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Ate from the hands of Yeah, because that's so delicious.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Oh my god, right, you got to try that. Yeah,
we got to get your clean fork. Oh here, there's
a clean fork. Let me let me have you try
that on the air. Because you're Italian, right, you're Italian,
as my grandmother used to.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Say, Italian.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah, she said, you know, down the street, there's an
Italian family that moved in. I'm like, well, how do
you know they're Italian? Did they say they're from Idaly?
That's good? Huh, oh my god, that's just big things.
Does that remind you of like really good? Like like
when you're growing up in Denver when one of your
uncles or aunts could really cook in Italian. Yeah, Italian.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
That's that restaurant is Little Bear, Little Bear in it's
going to open tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
That guy is great, Sava is his name, and go
to that opening tomorrow. And he's not an advertiser, you know,
it's just we're just helping a guy out here to support.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
It's a new small business. We want to support him.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
And he's gone through hell. I mean, his wife was
seriously and seriously down with, you know, sick with breast cancer.
And if his girls are seventeen and fourteen, they must
have been you know, eight and eleven when that hit. Yeah,
and going to school every day knowing your mom is
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awfully sick is very almost impossible. It concentrated school, you know.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
I mean, he got, as he says, he got lucky
because they sold the business, his old restaurant, just before
COVID hit, and so that was able to at least
prop them up while they fought that fight that you're describing.
And now and now they've come out of that and
he's begun this.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
And so what is it?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
What was like working for Adam Sandler? And he said
he's the nicest guy in the world. He's never met
a nicer man in his life. Never heard him yell
at anybody raises uh, you know, beautiful kids. He loves
his wife and just the most generous guy in the world.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And this guy, you know, didn't have to be as us.
He could have just said as a schmuck, you know.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Yeah, I know he loves he loves Sandler, and you
know they they travel. I guess they've known each other
since back in New York, he says. Just he's just
a guy from New York, like you know.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
So, let this guy needs us to come out and
and really give you know, I want to tell you something.
Who's the talk show host? Uh, Michael Savage? You know
who that is?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah? I know Savage. You know I don't listen what
I know he is?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Okay, all right, well, you know I don't need political commentary.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
It's not political.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Christ Mighty telling stop.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Nice.
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Speaker 2 (11:23):
Oh, you're reaching for the I thought you came over
to hug me. He's reaching for the Teremi sue. Yeah,
it's not almighty all right. So let me tell you
Michael Savage story. Okay, so Michael Savage said, back in
New York where he's from, when a family member, an
uncle or an aunt, grandmother, grandfather, cousin, nephew, whoever, was
opening up a like a little general store, you know
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something to you know, start a store in the neighborhood
to hire the family, raise enough money to feed the kids,
put him through school, pay the mortgage. And somebody who
opened a little general store, the word got out that
O'Malley's or you know, Breast the Hands or Daltons or
whoever you know, the Italians or whatever we're storing, we're
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starting a little store. Please come help them establish themselves.
And hundreds of people would show up, co workers, family members, friends, neighbors,
people from church, people from school, ancestors. They would all
show up at the at the general store, and they
all did one thing. They bought things even though they
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didn't need them, and they paid every everything that they
bought they paid for in cash. So that guy could
get a foothold. That guy could start his business. And
he had a great successful first month or first six
weeks because everyone came in, all friends and family, paid
with cash. He goes nowadays, you open up a store
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on Ventura Boulevard, all your friends, all your family, they
all come, they all pay with credit cards, and then
they go home and they deny the charges.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
That's that's not true. That's a great story. I get it.
I get it.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Okay, I know it's not true, but in certain instances
it probably he's trying to make a I.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Mean, I'll take his basic point. The times are different, but.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
People can still show up.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Times are different.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
To times are different, but people can still show up here,
show a lot of love. And the real thing is
that you're not just there for the first day, but
that you go to this place a little bear right,
and that you go to that restaurant not necessarily just
on the first day when they're cutting the ribbon, but
when it's now a part of the community and you
can tell. And this guy seems like an incredibly sincere guy.
As you say, Tim, he's been through a lot, but
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this isn't a charity thing. He's a really great chef.
He's put together an incredible restaurant with a really buff menu.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
You know what's funny is I always ask my you know,
I always ask my Armenian friends if they know if
whenever I meet somebody Armenium and he's like, you know,
of the community and he's got standing and he's you know,
some success, I always ask him if if they know
my Armenian friends David Mosekian and two and Misak Tukmania,
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And I never feel like that's like racist or you know,
I'm stereotype or whatever. And they almost always know one
or two of the guys.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Right, I'm here for this conversation over and over, right,
But you're right, they almost always do.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
But I don't do that with any other race, or
any other religion or any other creed.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I don't do that if I see a you know,
like a if we have a Japanese guy, come in.
I don't ask him about other Japanese guys. If we
have like a you know, a Hispanic guy, I don't say, hey,
do you know my Hispanic friends. But with these Armenians,
they all end up knowing guys that I know.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
It's a type community. And then there's certain higher profile people.
That's right, the community that you know.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Right and for the most part, and and I and
I will say that I with almost one hundred percent
certain this Armenian communit are fairly are very conservative people,
and they raise kids properly. They are almost all, at
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least that I know, are lean conservative. And I like
that Mark, you know, despite the you know, your your craziness.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
But anyway, go to this little bear. I don't know
what his politics are, and I'm sure that you know
he'll tell everybody's straight down the middle like they all do.
So go to Little Bear in Glendale. It opens tomorrow.
You brought up politics, politics, Please don't mark. It just
separates us. Please mark politics. Stop of the shutdown and
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the magas and all that stuff. Get out of here,
all right, Little Bear in Glendale, CROs Did you try
any of this food? No, you gotta try something what's left? Oh,
that's sandwich. You like sandwiches.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
That's my jam man, really the world. Then let's spectacular sandwich.
Well you know what.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
But but Crozier, last time I gave you food, you
just threw it out or you threw it back at me.
What was that? That that mojo potato I gave?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
What was that? Sorry I missed that.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
It was told I threw a mojo at him and
he took one bite and he threw it away. But
I guess it was too cold. But I love those
mojo potatoes. This Oh they were from where they're from,
straw hat or Shaky's Shaky, Shaky's the best. Yeah, man,
all right, go to Little bearon Glendale. I love that guy. Uh,
he's got a great story. He's got he traveled with
Adam Sandler and that's a cool guy. I love Adam Sandler. Hey, mate,
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pasta man, that's all you need to say. And that
that restaurant is going to be successful. And I know
it because I'm going to talk about it every day
until I get fired. How about that. We're live on
Conway and Tom's.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
KF I am sixty. It is the Conway Show. Mark
Toms is sitting here and eating everything.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Pretty good stuff. Yeah, that Little Bear restaurant dropped a
bunch of stuff, and I'm you've just assumed everything. I'm
road testing a few things. I meant to give Krozer
the sandwich. I put it in the fridge. Oh it's there, then,
CROs it's in the fridge. You should have it on
my way.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yeah, it's in the fridge closest to you. There's two
fridges out there and it's been in the fridge since
Saban got here, so it's fresh. But I like you
to test it and see if I feel like it
looked really good. Yeah, I'm gonna go to that restaurant
a lot. I'm gonna try to get free food out
and you know.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yeah, you got to, you know, leverage your place in
the community. That's right. You don't pay for anything like
a cop.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
That's right now.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
The cops, if they're on duty, they go into a restaurant,
they usually don't have to pay.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Isn't that right?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Turn on your head, lied you, But.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Is there a generation that's growing up not going to
recognize that impression.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Oh yeah, well let's see if Sam does it. Sam,
do you know who that impression is of? Give it
to me again. I won't say his name, but i'll
say call us and I will tell you how to
successfully date women. Who is it?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I'll give you some more. There you go, do your
head light there, it's Friday. You've got to turn those
headlights on and women, you know what to do? You
take those tops off?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
That means nothing to you, Sam, No, it's flash Fridays.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Sammy, Sammy, you're a wooz. If you don't know who
this is.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
That's what I mean. There's a whole generation coming up
that doesn't know that.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
How old are you Sam? I'm forty six?
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Wow, So that's just because he probably just wasn't in
the talk radio world.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Thank you for tuning into the Tom Like Hiss Show.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah, oh yeah, where you come to get the real story?
Let me people really care about.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
It's not some kind of right wing whack or convicted
fallag No, it's the like a show.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Were they really? God? The things are really?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, the issues you really care about? I love that, man.
I will always say that I was out here for Thanksgiving.
My whole family was out of out of state, and
I was sitting home alone on Thanksgiving morning watching football
and I got a call at eight thirty in the
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morning and I pick up the phone. It says block
number and whoever? That was my my mom calling And
I pick it up and he goes yello. I said,
I who's this? He this is your friend Tom Milnkas.
I said, hey, Tommy, how you doing doing good? You know,
doing great? We got the Dinu over here and the boys,
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and I said, what's going on? He goes, well, I
heard you on the radio and you would You said
you aren't gonna be around door. Your friend family was
gonna be around for real Thanksgiving. I said, yeah, that's true.
Why don't you come by my place? I'm in Hollywood.
You don't bring anything, and we are going to have
a blest. And I said great, and I drove over
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to his house for Thanksgiving, spent the thanks even with Toma.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Like, Wow, that sounds great.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I'll always remember that. It was me and about forty guys.
And I said he didn't have a kind of wild uh.
I think I got an all sort of craziness going.
I got there before the women or after the women,
I see, okay, it was me and forty guys, and
I didn't mind. We're all watching football. It's sure no
one of those things where you're going to hook up.
(20:30):
And I had the greatest Thanksgiving meal and I turned
a really crappy Thanksgiving into one of my favorites thanks
to Tom like.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
His isn't that great? Thank you? Well?
Speaker 6 (20:41):
He was a force in talk radio and you know,
very talented guy who turned it loose.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Yes, yes, I had a ton of money.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
He did make it. He made a fortune. He might
have been, you know, one of those.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I've got a man shield in Santa Barber. It's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
What do you got? What have you done?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
An infinity You got an infinity pool. I've got two
of those. Turn those headlights on, you'll.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Oh my god, that's great.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
That's a good time.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
That was a good time.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
All right, Parking is tell me about your show.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Come on, and I just laughed hysterically for like, you know,
ten minutes now and go to break.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
All right, welcome back and talk about some news. People
like news. It's Conway Thompson KF I Am six forty
is the Conway Show. The Dodgers one last night. Maybe
you saw that. Maybe you're thrilled or not.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Was it last night?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
It was last night, yeah, last night. And they had
their practice today at Dodgers Stadium, and if they win
tomorrow night at Dodger Stadium, I hope you got tickets.
If you have tickets, you should probably leave and and
plan on getting down there around four. Let's see what
time that game, sir. I think it's a six o'clock game.
Let's see your Dodger start time tomorrow. I think it's
(22:19):
six o'clock. Let's see here, Yeah, six oh eight. Okay,
so it's a six o'clock start tomorrow at Dodger Stadium.
You want to try to get down to Dodger Stadium
by four, maybe four point thirty, because when you get
down there early, and Mark, you're probably this way. When
you get down there early, you know, your stomach is better,
your vibe is better. You know you really, you know,
(22:42):
you soak in the whole night. But when you get
down there and you're scrambling to find a spot to
run into the stadium and you know you already missed
a home run, you feel like you're you're you don't
you don't get the whole experience.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Particularly for a playoff game.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
I mean, you know, you know, it's not like you're
going to you can go, well, you know, it's a
regular season game.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I'll catch one next week, right, And this is really a.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Historic and plus when that stadium is full when the
Dodgers start at six oh eight, it helps the Dodgers.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Sure you know that. And you won't and you won't
find that during the regular season.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
No, you won't.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
But during the playoffs the place is full right at
the beginning.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
You hope it is, you know, you hope people get
down there. Also, tonight the Los Angeles Kings start their season.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
How do you feel about the King season? You're a
longtime Kings fan.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I'm staying on high alert. I don't like the new
GM has this on a fifty year rebuild. I'm not
into that. No, that's not true. Look, the Kings have
lost the last four seasons in a row. They've lost
in the first round of the playoffs to the Edmonton Oilers.
They've not found a way to get past the Edmonton
(23:51):
Oilers in the first round.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
What do you see as the issues that they have?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
The hiccup there is, it's a combination of it was
bad coaching and bad playing in the last four games
of their season last year, Okay, they're up to nothing.
They crushed Edmonton the first two games in the playoffs,
and then they lost four straight to them.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Did Edmonton adjust or did the Kings kind of falter?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I think the Kings sort of gave it away. And look,
I'm a lifelong Kings fan, but I don't know how
many more years I can continue, you know, sitting in
seats where they lose the first round to the Oilers.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
I've done it four years in a row. So they
had a crisis of confidence.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Yeah, yeah, and then their new general manager, I don't know.
I guess he's fine. But every story he has is
about the nineteen ninety seven Detroit Red Wings, you know,
because he was the general manager when they won their
Stanley Cup back in you know, the nineteen twenty eight
or whenever they won it. And I know it seems
(24:57):
like be a young man's game, and I don't want
to be age, but he's seventy five or seventy six
years old, and every story begins with a Eierman back
in nineteen ninety six. I'm like, oh, Christ we're, you know,
forty thirty years away from that. And then it's I
think Coppaitar is one of the greatest players in the
history of the game, and it's this is not a beat,
(25:19):
this is not a dump on Copaitar. But I remember
in sports when a guy would retire, he would give
his retirement speech on the same day and that you'd
never see him again. Ever, he was just gone. He retired,
and he left the game now, you know, and the
NHL wants to make a big deal out of this.
So he told everybody he's going to retire before the
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season and this is going to be his last season.
So now every stadium that he goes into, you know,
they're going to have a moment where like, this is
a Jay Copaitar's last time with this at the stadium,
and let's give him a towel or a shirt or
a hat or a car door or whatever they give
him in you know, that city. And I think it
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makes this last season about the Stanley Cup and Coptar retiring,
but it should just be about the Cup. I see,
and I don't like the year long retirements. You remember
when it was oprah Winfreed or was it Oprah.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Who oh, yeah, there's so many, there's a lot of them.
Share is another one. Yeah, Barbara strives and Share Share.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Went on a tour called her last tour, right, the
whole tour. Shar's retiring, She's going on last tour. She's
never gonna see her again, She's yeah, she's gone. And
then she does their final night on her final tour
and she's done. And then a year later she's doing
another final tour.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
Well, the same is true of the Stones Elton John.
I mean that's why you know, you just never know.
I mean, it could indeed be the final tour, right,
but it should be the final tour. If you call
it the final, right, there should be right some kind of.
But in any case, this is uh the final for
co this.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Is final final season. Well you hope, I mean he
said it was, but you hope. Look he's been with
the team for I think eighteen years, and that's a
long time in hockey. I think he's thirty seven or
thirty eight years old, and that's not a thirty eight
year old game. It's just not it's nineteen to twenty
four year old guys out there, maybe twenty seven, twenty eight,
(27:19):
but thirty eight. That's a there's a lot of knee pain,
back pain, shouldered and rough sport. It's an extremely rough sport.
You're playing on way for thin razors, you know, with
guys that are weighing two hundred pounds flying at you
with thirty five miles an hour.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
How did Gordy Howe make it so long?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Well, I think it was a different game back then.
You know that bridge, the new bridge Winsor Detroit, is
called the Gordy Bridge, and no idea.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
I've actually been across that bridge, the new one, not
the new one, the.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Old Ambassador Bridge. Yeah, I'd be very careful on that bridge.
Well ground in the tunnel, Yeah, the tunnel sucks. The
tunnels leaking to the Tunnel League.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
It took me above.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
The bridge is falling apart. So they're putting a brand
new bridge there called the Gordy Bridge. And people think
it's because of the record producer what's his name, Gordy
Arry Gordy Verry Gordy, And it's not. It's Gordy how
Because Gordy how was born in Canada. He played hockey
for America and they all coming together with this bridge
(28:21):
that they're building. The bridge is spectacular, the new uh
you know it's it's south of the Ambassador Bridge because
my mom's from that area, and it's it's spectacular. That
new bridge it's going to have you know, it's built
for commerce, it's built for bicycles, for walking across. It's
all lit up beautifully. It's spectacular and I think it's
supposed to open next year, so that'd be cool. All Right,
(28:43):
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already we did those one Well that flies by?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Don't then?
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KFI AM six forty. It's Coney jel Mark Thompson is here.
Before we get to our guest, let's tell you that
the Burbank Airport is open and air traffic controllers are
back on the job.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Pull a hiccup yesterday.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
At Burbank Airport, and so it was unmanned. But and
there's there are some unmanned airports. But I think we
have Burbank UH situated and now it might be spreading
to some other airports. Let me play this then we'll
get to our awesome guest here in a second year.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Far from Washington, the government shut down is now rippling
into air traffic control towers in Newark, in Denver, and
in Phoenix long delays due to staffing. Yesterday, according to
the FAA, in Burbank, the air traffic control tower left
completely unmanned overnight for ofroughly six hours.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
We're being closing down the tower.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Because it shut down doesn't for staffing.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
COSPOSE controllers in San Diego took over for Burbank, but
the delays remained. California Governor Gavin Newsom blaming the president online,
while in Washington, partisan fighting continues with Republicans blaming Democrats
for the shutdown.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
The Democrats are the ones that started is.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
As workers across the federal government, including air traffic controllers,
go without pay, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says there's been
a slight uptick of sick calls resulting in flight delays.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
If we have additional sick calls, we will reduce the
flow consistent with a rate that's safe for the American people.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Duffy says he's heard from workers about their concerns.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
They have bills have to pay, so now they're thinking
about that at the same time that they're controlling the airspace.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
The National Air Traffic Controllers Union calls the ongoing crisis
it's latest example of how fragile the system is. In
the midst of a national controller shortage, we.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Do not have time to waste on the unnecessary distractions
created by the shutdown. So our message is clear, in
the shutdown.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Let's go in.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
The shutting union says it's working with the FAA to
mitigate disruptions, but the concern this morning this could get
worse with the busy holiday travel season now just over
a month away. If this all sounds airly familiar. Back
in twenty nineteen, during the last government shutdown, you may recall,
after control was missed one paycheck, then two paychecks, many
(02:36):
started calling out sick because of the stress. That put
pressure on the system, and that is ultimately what many
believe led to President Trump calling off the government shutdown
that was back in twenty nineteen. We'll see whether missed
paychecks will play a role also in the shutdown.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
All right, we'll see, we will see. All right, we
have a brand new restaurant called Little Bear and a
chef savants. Is that right enough? Oh, how do you
pronounce it?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Abdescian?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Abdescian? With us? How are you man?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Nice to see you, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
All right now, anytime somebody opens a restaurant, we always
like to give him a little bit of a plug
and a little bit of push. Here it's called Little Bear.
It's in Glendale. It's it's more towards the Burbank border
between Burbank and Glendale, Is that right?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
It's in Glendale, but closer to Burbank, right, And it's
on what street on San Fernando Road.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Oh, San Fernando, sixty eight hundred San Fernando Road. Okay,
that's easy to remember. Sixty eight hundred San Fernando. And
it's called Little Bear. It's Italian food, it is. And
you have a background in Italian cooking. You were a
chef for quite some time.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Yeah, it's kind of all I know how to do.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Well, that's a lot, I mean, that's right.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah, it's a good thing.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
You were the owners of Recess in Glendell for almost
a decade. We had a restaurant in Glendell in Highland Park.
We sold our company in twenty seventeen because my wife
was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
But we made it through.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Oh good, all right.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
That's kind of like the itch, you know.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
It's like it's like an Armenian with you know, can't
go without the Mercedes, this army. This Armenian can't go
without owning restaurants. So a friend of mine approached me
last year and said, listen, I've got this donut shop
in a center that's kind of run down, and I
want to you know, I want you to see if
you have the vision to help me make it. Kind
of like you know, sort of modernize it and clean
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it up and painted, and so one of the tenants
retired after thirty five years of being a donut shop,
and so we took over the donut shop and turned
into like a little.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Italian sort of that's great place. We make fresh pasta
every day.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
So and tomorrow is your opening day.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Tomorrow's our opening day. Oh that's exciting.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Yeah, we had a soft opening about a month and
a half ago. We're just kind of, you know, getting
into a nineteen fifty one building that was redone. And
and where did you learn to cook?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Where did you learn not to become a chef?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Actually, yes, I did go to school, but my parents
were in the industry. They had lunch trucks and catering
company when they were young. So I've been going to
catering since I was like ten years old, doing roll ups,
and then started working in.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Cafes in high school.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
And then I met Joe Kimspley Shawl, which I worked
for the Patina Group and kind of that gave me
a lot of passion.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
That's a high end that's a high end group.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Yeah, and I went and got my culinary degree in
San Francisco, and.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Uh, Wow, So you were a highly trained guy.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
That's yeah, there was only there's only a few of
us left. I think most of us kind of after COVID.
From what I hear is are gone right, and it
was tough.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Now I understand the name little Bear is what used
to call your daughters who still call I still call.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
My daughter's dad. They're now fourteen and seventeen.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
And but my whole life growing up, you know them,
growing up, I was like high little bear, Yes, little bear.
And so when I saw the restaurant and the size
of it and how it's small, I was like, it's perfect.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
It's gonna be called little Bear.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Little Bear's great name. Thank you and God bless you.
And you know, I know, raising two kids girls is
really tough. And to have your wife go through that
is had to be the most stressful thing that you
have both done together in your entire life.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Uh yeah, uh, you know, in hindsight, things happened for
a reason. You know, we sold the company prior to COVID,
and I know a lot. You know, we were self funded.
We didn't have any outside investments, so it's kind of
all or nothing, and in a sense, obviously not because
of the cancer or anything like that. But the timing
(06:38):
worked out for us in the sense that we you know,
if we didn't sell it at that point, we probably
would have not made.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
It through COVID. Sure, sure, because.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
We didn't have any outside funding to for someone just
to write us a check, you know, randomly when you're
doing well or not doing well.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I'm sure you you know a lot of people who
did lose their business to COVIDE.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Oh yeah, a lot.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Yeah, I mean the restaurant business was decimated by COVID.
I mean just decimated, well.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
The restaurant businesses. It's like drinking poison. You know. The
Martians are so small, so they've gotten smaller. KF.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I am sick fort it comin so Mark Thompson is here, Yes, sir,
that food is spectacular.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
It is good. We were chomping a little bit during
the brag.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
He used to be the personal chef to Adam Sandler, right,
and travel the whole world.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
With him, And I didn't know that until he's leaving. Yeah,
you know, that's.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I thought that's a pre interview thing. Maybe, yeah, we.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Should I got a pre interview these guys a little more.
I thought that was fascinating. He worked on three different
movies as Adam Adam Sandler's personal chef.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Yes, he lived with them. Yeah, they lived together.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
And that's the way it is, you know, it's all
you know, you're on the rhythm of whoever you're cooking for.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Right.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
So this food that I'm eating right now, this pasta
with the ham and the peas and the arugula, this
is what Adam Sandler d Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Well, I'm sure Adam Sandler ate whatever he you know,
they they had options, but.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I'm saying this is one of the dishes we probably.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Ate from the hands of Yeah, because that's so delicious.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Oh my god, right, you got to try that. Yeah,
we got to get your clean fork. Oh here, there's
a clean fork. Let me let me have you try
that on the air. Because you're Italian, right, you're Italian,
as my grandmother used to.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Say, Italian.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah, she said, you know, down the street, there's an
Italian family that moved in. I'm like, well, how do
you know they're Italian? Did they say they're from Idaly?
That's good? Huh, oh my god, that's just big things.
Does that remind you of like really good? Like like
when you're growing up in Denver when one of your
uncles or aunts could really cook in Italian. Yeah, Italian.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
That's that restaurant is Little Bear, Little Bear in it's
going to open tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
That guy is great, Sava is his name, and go
to that opening tomorrow. And he's not an advertiser, you know,
it's just we're just helping a guy out here to support.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
It's a new small business. We want to support him.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
And he's gone through hell. I mean, his wife was
seriously and seriously down with, you know, sick with breast cancer.
And if his girls are seventeen and fourteen, they must
have been you know, eight and eleven when that hit. Yeah,
and going to school every day knowing your mom is
(09:32):
awfully sick is very almost impossible. It concentrated school, you know.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
I mean, he got, as he says, he got lucky
because they sold the business, his old restaurant, just before
COVID hit, and so that was able to at least
prop them up while they fought that fight that you're describing.
And now and now they've come out of that and
he's begun this.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
And so what is it?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
What was like working for Adam Sandler? And he said
he's the nicest guy in the world. He's never met
a nicer man in his life. Never heard him yell
at anybody raises uh, you know, beautiful kids. He loves
his wife and just the most generous guy in the world.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And this guy, you know, didn't have to be as us.
He could have just said as a schmuck, you know.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Yeah, I know he loves he loves Sandler, and you
know they they travel. I guess they've known each other
since back in New York, he says. Just he's just
a guy from New York, like you know.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
So, let this guy needs us to come out and
and really give you know, I want to tell you something.
Who's the talk show host? Uh, Michael Savage? You know
who that is?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah? I know Savage. You know I don't listen what
I know he is?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Okay, all right, well, you know I don't need political commentary.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
It's not political.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Christ Mighty telling stop.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Nice.
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Speaker 2 (11:23):
Oh, you're reaching for the I thought you came over
to hug me. He's reaching for the Teremi sue. Yeah,
it's not almighty all right. So let me tell you
Michael Savage story. Okay, so Michael Savage said, back in
New York where he's from, when a family member, an
uncle or an aunt, grandmother, grandfather, cousin, nephew, whoever, was
opening up a like a little general store, you know
(11:47):
something to you know, start a store in the neighborhood
to hire the family, raise enough money to feed the kids,
put him through school, pay the mortgage. And somebody who
opened a little general store, the word got out that
O'Malley's or you know, Breast the Hands or Daltons or
whoever you know, the Italians or whatever we're storing, we're
(12:07):
starting a little store. Please come help them establish themselves.
And hundreds of people would show up, co workers, family members, friends, neighbors,
people from church, people from school, ancestors. They would all
show up at the at the general store, and they
all did one thing. They bought things even though they
(12:30):
didn't need them, and they paid every everything that they
bought they paid for in cash. So that guy could
get a foothold. That guy could start his business. And
he had a great successful first month or first six
weeks because everyone came in, all friends and family, paid
with cash. He goes nowadays, you open up a store
(12:50):
on Ventura Boulevard, all your friends, all your family, they
all come, they all pay with credit cards, and then
they go home and they deny the charges.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
That's that's not true. That's a great story. I get it.
I get it.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Okay, I know it's not true, but in certain instances
it probably he's trying to make a I.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Mean, I'll take his basic point. The times are different, but.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
People can still show up.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Times are different.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
To times are different, but people can still show up here,
show a lot of love. And the real thing is
that you're not just there for the first day, but
that you go to this place a little bear right,
and that you go to that restaurant not necessarily just
on the first day when they're cutting the ribbon, but
when it's now a part of the community and you
can tell. And this guy seems like an incredibly sincere guy.
As you say, Tim, he's been through a lot, but
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this isn't a charity thing. He's a really great chef.
He's put together an incredible restaurant with a really buff menu.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
You know what's funny is I always ask my you know,
I always ask my Armenian friends if they know if
whenever I meet somebody Armenium and he's like, you know,
of the community and he's got standing and he's you know,
some success, I always ask him if if they know
my Armenian friends David Mosekian and two and Misak Tukmania,
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And I never feel like that's like racist or you know,
I'm stereotype or whatever. And they almost always know one
or two of the guys.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Right, I'm here for this conversation over and over, right,
But you're right, they almost always do.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
But I don't do that with any other race, or
any other religion or any other creed.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I don't do that if I see a you know,
like a if we have a Japanese guy, come in.
I don't ask him about other Japanese guys. If we
have like a you know, a Hispanic guy, I don't say, hey,
do you know my Hispanic friends. But with these Armenians,
they all end up knowing guys that I know.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
It's a type community. And then there's certain higher profile people.
That's right, the community that you know.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Right and for the most part, and and I and
I will say that I with almost one hundred percent
certain this Armenian communit are fairly are very conservative people,
and they raise kids properly. They are almost all, at
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least that I know, are lean conservative. And I like
that Mark, you know, despite the you know, your your craziness.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
But anyway, go to this little bear. I don't know
what his politics are, and I'm sure that you know
he'll tell everybody's straight down the middle like they all do.
So go to Little Bear in Glendale. It opens tomorrow.
You brought up politics, politics, Please don't mark. It just
separates us. Please mark politics. Stop of the shutdown and
(15:40):
the magas and all that stuff. Get out of here,
all right, Little Bear in Glendale, CROs Did you try
any of this food? No, you gotta try something what's left? Oh,
that's sandwich. You like sandwiches.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
That's my jam man, really the world. Then let's spectacular sandwich.
Well you know what.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
But but Crozier, last time I gave you food, you
just threw it out or you threw it back at me.
What was that? That that mojo potato I gave?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
What was that? Sorry I missed that.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
It was told I threw a mojo at him and
he took one bite and he threw it away. But
I guess it was too cold. But I love those
mojo potatoes. This Oh they were from where they're from,
straw hat or Shaky's Shaky, Shaky's the best. Yeah, man,
all right, go to Little bearon Glendale. I love that guy. Uh,
he's got a great story. He's got he traveled with
Adam Sandler and that's a cool guy. I love Adam Sandler. Hey, mate,
(16:35):
pasta man, that's all you need to say. And that
that restaurant is going to be successful. And I know
it because I'm going to talk about it every day
until I get fired. How about that. We're live on
Conway and Tom's.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
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Toms is sitting here and eating everything.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Pretty good stuff. Yeah, that Little Bear restaurant dropped a
bunch of stuff, and I'm you've just assumed everything. I'm
road testing a few things. I meant to give Krozer
the sandwich. I put it in the fridge. Oh it's there, then,
CROs it's in the fridge. You should have it on
my way.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yeah, it's in the fridge closest to you. There's two
fridges out there and it's been in the fridge since
Saban got here, so it's fresh. But I like you
to test it and see if I feel like it
looked really good. Yeah, I'm gonna go to that restaurant
a lot. I'm gonna try to get free food out
and you know.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yeah, you got to, you know, leverage your place in
the community. That's right. You don't pay for anything like
a cop.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
That's right now.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
The cops, if they're on duty, they go into a restaurant,
they usually don't have to pay.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Isn't that right?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Turn on your head, lied you, But.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Is there a generation that's growing up not going to
recognize that impression.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Oh yeah, well let's see if Sam does it. Sam,
do you know who that impression is of? Give it
to me again. I won't say his name, but i'll
say call us and I will tell you how to
successfully date women. Who is it?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I'll give you some more. There you go, do your
head light there, it's Friday. You've got to turn those
headlights on and women, you know what to do? You
take those tops off?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
That means nothing to you, Sam, No, it's flash Fridays.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Sammy, Sammy, you're a wooz. If you don't know who
this is.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
That's what I mean. There's a whole generation coming up
that doesn't know that.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
How old are you Sam? I'm forty six?
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Wow, So that's just because he probably just wasn't in
the talk radio world.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Thank you for tuning into the Tom Like Hiss Show.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah, oh yeah, where you come to get the real story?
Let me people really care about.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
It's not some kind of right wing whack or convicted
fallag No, it's the like a show.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Were they really? God? The things are really?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, the issues you really care about? I love that, man.
I will always say that I was out here for Thanksgiving.
My whole family was out of out of state, and
I was sitting home alone on Thanksgiving morning watching football
and I got a call at eight thirty in the
(19:24):
morning and I pick up the phone. It says block
number and whoever? That was my my mom calling And
I pick it up and he goes yello. I said,
I who's this? He this is your friend Tom Milnkas.
I said, hey, Tommy, how you doing doing good? You know,
doing great? We got the Dinu over here and the boys,
(19:45):
and I said, what's going on? He goes, well, I
heard you on the radio and you would You said
you aren't gonna be around door. Your friend family was
gonna be around for real Thanksgiving. I said, yeah, that's true.
Why don't you come by my place? I'm in Hollywood.
You don't bring anything, and we are going to have
a blest. And I said great, and I drove over
(20:06):
to his house for Thanksgiving, spent the thanks even with Toma.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Like, Wow, that sounds great.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I'll always remember that. It was me and about forty guys.
And I said he didn't have a kind of wild uh.
I think I got an all sort of craziness going.
I got there before the women or after the women,
I see, okay, it was me and forty guys, and
I didn't mind. We're all watching football. It's sure no
one of those things where you're going to hook up.
(20:30):
And I had the greatest Thanksgiving meal and I turned
a really crappy Thanksgiving into one of my favorites thanks
to Tom like.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
His isn't that great? Thank you? Well?
Speaker 6 (20:41):
He was a force in talk radio and you know,
very talented guy who turned it loose.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Yes, yes, I had a ton of money.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
He did make it. He made a fortune. He might
have been, you know, one of those.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I've got a man shield in Santa Barber. It's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
What do you got? What have you done?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
An infinity You got an infinity pool. I've got two
of those. Turn those headlights on, you'll.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Oh my god, that's great.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
That's a good time.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
That was a good time.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
All right, Parking is tell me about your show.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Come on, and I just laughed hysterically for like, you know,
ten minutes now and go to break.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
All right, welcome back and talk about some news. People
like news. It's Conway Thompson KF I Am six forty
is the Conway Show. The Dodgers one last night. Maybe
you saw that. Maybe you're thrilled or not.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Was it last night?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
It was last night, yeah, last night. And they had
their practice today at Dodgers Stadium, and if they win
tomorrow night at Dodger Stadium, I hope you got tickets.
If you have tickets, you should probably leave and and
plan on getting down there around four. Let's see what
time that game, sir. I think it's a six o'clock game.
Let's see your Dodger start time tomorrow. I think it's
(22:19):
six o'clock. Let's see here, Yeah, six oh eight. Okay,
so it's a six o'clock start tomorrow at Dodger Stadium.
You want to try to get down to Dodger Stadium
by four, maybe four point thirty, because when you get
down there early, and Mark, you're probably this way. When
you get down there early, you know, your stomach is better,
your vibe is better. You know you really, you know,
(22:42):
you soak in the whole night. But when you get
down there and you're scrambling to find a spot to
run into the stadium and you know you already missed
a home run, you feel like you're you're you don't
you don't get the whole experience.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Particularly for a playoff game.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
I mean, you know, you know, it's not like you're
going to you can go, well, you know, it's a
regular season game.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I'll catch one next week, right, And this is really a.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Historic and plus when that stadium is full when the
Dodgers start at six oh eight, it helps the Dodgers.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Sure you know that. And you won't and you won't
find that during the regular season.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
No, you won't.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
But during the playoffs the place is full right at
the beginning.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
You hope it is, you know, you hope people get
down there. Also, tonight the Los Angeles Kings start their season.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
How do you feel about the King season? You're a
longtime Kings fan.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I'm staying on high alert. I don't like the new
GM has this on a fifty year rebuild. I'm not
into that. No, that's not true. Look, the Kings have
lost the last four seasons in a row. They've lost
in the first round of the playoffs to the Edmonton Oilers.
They've not found a way to get past the Edmonton
(23:51):
Oilers in the first round.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
What do you see as the issues that they have?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
The hiccup there is, it's a combination of it was
bad coaching and bad playing in the last four games
of their season last year, Okay, they're up to nothing.
They crushed Edmonton the first two games in the playoffs,
and then they lost four straight to them.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Did Edmonton adjust or did the Kings kind of falter?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I think the Kings sort of gave it away. And look,
I'm a lifelong Kings fan, but I don't know how
many more years I can continue, you know, sitting in
seats where they lose the first round to the Oilers.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
I've done it four years in a row. So they
had a crisis of confidence.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Yeah, yeah, and then their new general manager, I don't know.
I guess he's fine. But every story he has is
about the nineteen ninety seven Detroit Red Wings, you know,
because he was the general manager when they won their
Stanley Cup back in you know, the nineteen twenty eight
or whenever they won it. And I know it seems
(24:57):
like be a young man's game, and I don't want
to be age, but he's seventy five or seventy six
years old, and every story begins with a Eierman back
in nineteen ninety six. I'm like, oh, Christ we're, you know,
forty thirty years away from that. And then it's I
think Coppaitar is one of the greatest players in the
history of the game, and it's this is not a beat,
(25:19):
this is not a dump on Copaitar. But I remember
in sports when a guy would retire, he would give
his retirement speech on the same day and that you'd
never see him again. Ever, he was just gone. He retired,
and he left the game now, you know, and the
NHL wants to make a big deal out of this.
So he told everybody he's going to retire before the
(25:41):
season and this is going to be his last season.
So now every stadium that he goes into, you know,
they're going to have a moment where like, this is
a Jay Copaitar's last time with this at the stadium,
and let's give him a towel or a shirt or
a hat or a car door or whatever they give
him in you know, that city. And I think it
(26:02):
makes this last season about the Stanley Cup and Coptar retiring,
but it should just be about the Cup. I see,
and I don't like the year long retirements. You remember
when it was oprah Winfreed or was it Oprah.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Who oh, yeah, there's so many, there's a lot of them.
Share is another one. Yeah, Barbara strives and Share Share.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Went on a tour called her last tour, right, the
whole tour. Shar's retiring, She's going on last tour. She's
never gonna see her again, She's yeah, she's gone. And
then she does their final night on her final tour
and she's done. And then a year later she's doing
another final tour.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
Well, the same is true of the Stones Elton John.
I mean that's why you know, you just never know.
I mean, it could indeed be the final tour, right,
but it should be the final tour. If you call
it the final, right, there should be right some kind of.
But in any case, this is uh the final for
co this.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Is final final season. Well you hope, I mean he
said it was, but you hope. Look he's been with
the team for I think eighteen years, and that's a
long time in hockey. I think he's thirty seven or
thirty eight years old, and that's not a thirty eight
year old game. It's just not it's nineteen to twenty
four year old guys out there, maybe twenty seven, twenty eight,
(27:19):
but thirty eight. That's a there's a lot of knee pain,
back pain, shouldered and rough sport. It's an extremely rough sport.
You're playing on way for thin razors, you know, with
guys that are weighing two hundred pounds flying at you
with thirty five miles an hour.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
How did Gordy Howe make it so long?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Well, I think it was a different game back then.
You know that bridge, the new bridge Winsor Detroit, is
called the Gordy Bridge, and no idea.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
I've actually been across that bridge, the new one, not
the new one, the.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Old Ambassador Bridge. Yeah, I'd be very careful on that bridge.
Well ground in the tunnel, Yeah, the tunnel sucks. The
tunnels leaking to the Tunnel League.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
It took me above.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
The bridge is falling apart. So they're putting a brand
new bridge there called the Gordy Bridge. And people think
it's because of the record producer what's his name, Gordy
Arry Gordy Verry Gordy, And it's not. It's Gordy how
Because Gordy how was born in Canada. He played hockey
for America and they all coming together with this bridge
(28:21):
that they're building. The bridge is spectacular, the new uh
you know it's it's south of the Ambassador Bridge because
my mom's from that area, and it's it's spectacular. That
new bridge it's going to have you know, it's built
for commerce, it's built for bicycles, for walking across. It's
all lit up beautifully. It's spectacular and I think it's
supposed to open next year, so that'd be cool. All Right,
(28:43):
we're live. That's is that the well, there's two hours
already we did those one Well that flies by?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Don't then?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
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