August 27, 2025 • 32 mins
Tim announces he’s heading to the Show Room at American Vision Windows September 6th. Travel Turmoil: Southwest Airlines faces backlash over its new policy. Clean-Up at the Top of the World: Drones remove 600 pounds of trash from Mount Everest. Broadcasting Shift: Leslie Sykes retires from ABC 7, sparking reflection on how future generations may not grow up with familiar TV anchors and reporters. Brand Backtrack: Cracker Barrel reverts to its old logo following public backlash.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's kf I AM six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We
got a text or an email some kind of notification saying, Hey,
where you're going to be on September sixth? Where in
seem Valley? I want to come by? I said, okay,
all right, okay, okay, okay, We're gonna be an American
(00:20):
Vision Windows. I will be there at American Vision Windows.
Twenty one twenty five. Get a pen, grab a pen.
I'll wait. I'll give you the address. You can write
this down.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You ready? Bellio? Okay, God all right? Twenty one twenty five.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Madeira Road m a d R A Madeerra Road in
seam Valley for you zip code nuts out there nine
three zero sixty five. And if you know where the
Costco is in Seami Valley, right to cross down the
street from Walmart. That's a really beautiful area of Siami Valley.
(01:01):
You have a Costco and you can see the Walmart
from Costco and vice versa. It's right there at the
Maderra off ramp. Man is that a beautiful off ramp
where you got a Costco and a Walmart. I think
This is a Chili's there too. You used to be
a Baker's daughters, remember that restaurant. I don't think it's
there anymore. Maybe it is, Maybe it is. I don't know.
There's an Aldi out there home deep O. The whole
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run is out there. But that's near the freeway if
you go south by about a half mile maybe a mile,
maybe less, I don't know. Before East Los Angeles Avenue
on the right hand side, it's American Vision Windows showroom
and I will be out there from one to three
pm on September sixth, So come on out, go to
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the showroom. And somebody is going to win an entire
house of windows for free, So you want to get
out there, and we'll be there all day long.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So that's Saturday. Is that the sixth? Is that Saturday
or Sunday? I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I guess I should look that up. It's a Saturday,
it is, okay, I'll be there on Saturday. I'll be
you know, I will not be at del Mar I'll
be going to American Vision Windows, their big showroom out there.
That'd be a cool deal.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Southwest Airlines everybody likes Southwest.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I guess I think most people do, and they enjoy
Southwest Airlines inexpensive. They get you there, not a lot
of perks, but not a lot of expense either. But
now they've got a rule change that's evidently getting a
little backlash, and let's find out what it is, because
a lot of listeners to KFI really enjoy Southwest Airlines.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Southwest always had a policy that if someone had to
pay extra first seat, they would give them a refund,
but starting in January that all changes. Southwest now saying
that refund is not guaranteed.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
And here's the.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Statement quote, Customers who encroach upon the neighboring seat should
proactively purchase the needed number of seats. O.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
This is for big bone gals and big bone guys.
These are for people who have not purchased the weight
loss shot yet. I don't know if you guys heard this.
You know that weight loss shot. Not only do you
lose weight, but you never get cancer. You lift to
you one hundred and fifty. There's a lot of side effects,
a lot of side benefits of this thing. It's going crazy.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
The needed number of seats prior to travel to ensure
the additional seat is available. So now if that flight
is not sold out, then passengers who buy an extra
seat may get a refund, but only if they request
it within ninety days after the flight. The move is
mostly in line with what other major airlines do. So
you have Delta, United American. All of them have policy
saying if a passenger doesn't fit in one seat, they'll
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be removed and will need to buy two on another flight.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Oh wow, embarrassing is that? Would they physically take you
off the plane?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
All of them have policy saying if a passenger doesn't
fit in one seat, they'll be removed and will need
to buy two on another flight.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
That has got to be rock bottom for most people,
being escorted off a plane and digging into your purse,
your wallet for the credit card to buy another seat.
And when you buy that seat that late, it's not
the forty nine dollars you spent on that ticket because
you bought it four months in advance. That's four hundred
dollars maybe five hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
The passenger doesn't fit in one seat, they'll be removed
and will need to buy two on another flight. By
the way, if you're wondering how wide those seats are,
well Southwest hold us they are between seventeen and seventeen
point eight inches wide.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Wait a minute, the seat is seven that's that's got
to be wrong. Those seats are not seventeen inches wide.
There's no way. I mean, I wouldn't fit in it.
There's no way. In the Southwest Airlines the seat is
seventeen inches wide. Seventeen inches is a foot and a half.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Maybe that's right. Maybe that is right? Is that possible?
A seventeen inch seat? Sure? How big is your chair?
I'm glad you said chair. Yeah, I don't know, do
you What do you mean by chair? Your seat?
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
The thing I'm sitting in. Maybe it is seventeen inches,
you know, I'm thinking about it. Maybe it is, yeah, seventeen.
And if you can't fit into a seventeen seventeen inch seat,
you got to get yourself another seat.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Sorry. Kids.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Mount Everest has always been known for the you know,
the challenge to climb to the top and get down
successfully without dying. There's a lot of dead people up
on Mount Everest because it's impossible to bring them down.
There's no planes that can get up that high and land,
or no helicopters. I should say they can land at
that altitude and clean that up. So there's a lot
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of bodies that are mummified, frozen in time. There's a
lot of trash. There's a lot of faces up there
as well. It's very polluted. But now it looks like
they're going to clean that area up with drones.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Majestic Mount Everest. It's the world's highest mountain, but it's
sometimes referred to as the world's high as dumpster. While
adventure seekers come and go, many leave behind trash like
plastic food containers, oxygen tanks, or climbing gear. One company
wants to tackle the problem by sending in their drones.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
We have to see drone technology as a future with climate.
From the environment aspect and also from the humanitied aspect, this.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Is going to be a game changer.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
During this year's climbing season, drones were able to rid
the mountain of six hundred pounds of trash.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Reports say Everest National Park gets about one hundred thousand
visitors per year, with less than a thousand attempting to
reach the summit. Of course, the machines would have a
lot less to do if climber is abided by a
carry in carry out policy.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, but you know, when you get to that altitude,
you're freaked out. You know, your mind is on fire.
The lack of oxygen makes you see things that aren't there,
do things that you would never do, and people aren't
their right state of mind.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
All right, we'll go back.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Cracker Barrel has done a one eighty or, as my
mother would say, a three sixty.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
She never got that right.
Speaker 7 (07:08):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
And I feel like like an a hole. Bellio came
in at the beginning of the program today at four
o'clock and she said, hey, Richie's here today. I'm like, oh, God,
like Richie and Kiki, there are swell people. And she goes,
I know you hate doing this, but can you please
sign an autograph for Richie? And I said, I feel
(07:37):
like an a hole doing that. I said, what does
he wanted for you? Because I he just wants to
hang it up in his room. I said, you know,
I I don't know how people ever feel comfortable walking
to a co worker and saying, hey, here's my autograph, right,
I said, I don't want to do that. So she
came in at five o'clock and she goes, look, he's
(08:00):
been wanting it for a long time. He's been asking
me for this autograph. Can you please just give it
to him? I said, why doesn't he just come.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
In and ask for it?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
He goes, you think he's gonna come in and ask
for Then I said, so I signed a piece of paper, Richie,
you're the best thing, dong, and I signed my name.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
So I gave it Richie and Richie said, what is this?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
And I look at Bellio and I I can't believe you.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Can you fall for it every time? Oh my god?
And Richie's like, what is this? I said, the autograph?
Speaker 4 (08:33):
You?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Oh, you didn't want it? All right? I'm still gonna
frame it. That all right? And then Richie's like I
would have just asked him for one? What? What?
Speaker 8 (08:42):
What?
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I thought that was odd, but maybe I thought, you know,
he doesn't want to approach me.
Speaker 9 (08:49):
You know.
Speaker 10 (08:51):
It's worth it that swagger you walk in here, here's
my autograph, redream.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Somebody else sign anything for you?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
You hood out baddy here all right.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Leslie Sykes, one of my favorite people over at ABC,
is leaving.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
She is retiring.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
That's bad news and belly I was talking to who
is that talking to about?
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I was talking to Mark Thomas about this yesterday. The
people that we know, you.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Know, Pat Harvey, Colleen Williams, Chuck Henry. Let's see if
Phil Schuman maybe is another one of them, Leslie Snykes,
Psykes is sure one of them, Mark Brown, Fred Rogan,
Fritz Coleman.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You know, we grew up.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I grew up watching all these people. I don't think
that I think that era is over. I don't think
that kids today watching news in thirty or forty years
will be attached to news people like I was, or
like my generation was. That's sad, I know, it's horrible.
Dave Lopez is another one. I'm sar Ellen Lava. Absolutely,
(10:01):
I'm sure I'm missing some some more.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Rick Chambers. Rick Chamber is not retired yet, but he's going, Yeah, just.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Talk about the ones that we've Yeah, because there's something
comforting when they're on.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, But there's thirty years, forty years of watching the
same people, and I don't know if we're going to
get that with this next generation of.
Speaker 11 (10:19):
Reporters, and even when they get relegated, because as they do,
when we see that more and more, these people that
have been around forever that we do all feel comfortable with,
they somehow get relegated to things like a like a
report out in the field somewhere. It's like they still
generate that comfort in watching them, right.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
And I was, I was absolutely genuinely nervous and afraid
when Channel four two years ago asked Conan Nolan to
go cover landslides. Yeah, Conan Nolan is not thirty two
and he's out there at landslides and covering fires.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
And the snowstorm in San Bernardino, right.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah, And the only reason he did is because he's
a nice guy and he's gonna say yes everything. But
that's dangerous for a guy like Conan Nolan to cover,
you know, breaking news that's fire or floods or snowstorms
like that.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I thought that was horrible for them to do that.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
But have you noticed, Bellio, since we brought that up
on kfive that they've not asked him to go out
to any more of these dangerous stories.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
So maybe we helped him out.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
And I heard also he's coming in here, the Conan
Nolan's coming in here to host or co host before. Yeah,
I think he's coming in this week, in two weeks,
two weeks, okay, all right. But Leslie Sykes, who is
one of my favorite people. She's the morning anchor there
on on ABC seven, she is retiring and it makes
(11:43):
me sad because all these people that I knew, they're
all retiring, and I don't have any more news friends.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And I want to know how come she's in age.
She's stunning. Yes, that's right, that's exactly right. I don't know.
I don't know what's going on, but she's leaving, and
I don't like it at all.
Speaker 10 (12:04):
You know her, you love her, and we do too.
Leslie Sikes grew up in Compton, and following graduation from
Spelman College in Atlanta, she moved to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, to
start her on air career.
Speaker 12 (12:15):
Yeah, but Leslie came back to the Southland to cover
the news in her hometown. And now this LA native
has been with ABC seven for more than thirty years,
three decades of history, and this morning, how Leslie Sykes
has some news to share.
Speaker 9 (12:29):
I love her too, thank you. Typically I am seated
here in the studio talking about other people's lives, but
for a brief moment, I'd like to turn the focus
on myself and let you all know that after more
than thirty.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Sounds like Bellio when she says this on myself. This
sounds like Belliot right here, but for.
Speaker 9 (12:54):
A brief moment, I'd like to turn the focus on myself.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
That's man, If you close your eyes, that sounds exactly
not only what Bellio says a lot of the times,
but it almost sounds exactly like her.
Speaker 9 (13:05):
I'd like to turn the focus on myself and let
you all know that, after more than thirty years here
at KABC, I'm going to retire. As you may know,
I started here as a reporter all those years ago.
Somehow I blinked, I found myself here in this anchorchair,
getting to wake up with all of you every morning,
(13:26):
and boy, what a whirlwind it has been. Now from
the outset, I've approached this career, this job, as a
learning experience, every day, seeking to know more and do
better than the day before, and more importantly, to connect
with you, our viewers from near and far, who make
up this rich tapestry that is Southern California, my beloved
(13:49):
home and yours too. Working here at Eyewitness News has
been the privilege of my life. The station has been
my home, and you are viewers have been my extended family.
And as we all know, there is never this vast
and vibrant city of ours. From wildfires, earthquakes, elections and parades,
(14:09):
to traffic jams and even those infamous card chases, we
have shared it altogether. You've graciously welcomed me into your homes,
and I want you to know that I so appreciate it,
and I'll never take it for granted. I've had the
honor of telling your stories, meeting many of you incredible
people across southern California, and working with a team here
(14:30):
at Eyewitness News that truly feels like family, a team
for whom I have immense gratitude and great respect. Now
I'm not leaving today. I will still be here for
the next month or so, sharing your mornings, soaking up
the last memorable moments with my coworkers on the morning
team and throughout the newsroom. And then after that, I
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plan to live my life in what I called soft focus,
that spending more time with my husband, my son, and
extended family and friends. I plan to move at my
own pace and just basically do whatever I want to
do whenever I want to do it, And as I
look ahead, I know I'm going to miss this job.
But more than anything, I'll miss all of you, your kindness,
(15:14):
your trust, and the connection we've shared over these three decades.
Thank you for allowing me to be part of your day.
It has been an honor and I'll cherish it forever.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Ah, that's very nice of herth you know, that's very uh.
But again, another one that we've known for thirty years
is leaving. That's really sad. I don't like it. I
like to know that when I turn on the TV,
I have met a lot of these people and I've
not met them. I know them from the thirty years
that they've been on TV, and now they're all going away.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
They all seem to be retiring, and I don't like it.
I don't like it at all.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Colleen Williams has left. Pat Harvey Williams left. Yeah, Collin
Williams on every day. No, she's and she's still in
the air. Has left, but she's the one still I
still around. Mark Brown is still around. And it's sad
to see all these people go ye bye bye. Spent
my whole life watching news that's all I do. All
(16:12):
I do is tape news. I watched two, four, five, seven,
nine eleven all day long.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I love it. And now my favorite players are retiring
and I don't like.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Cracker Barrel was under a lot of pressure to keep
the cracker and the barrel. They wanted to change their
logo and they did, and they thought the people who
frequent the restaurant thought that that was going to change
the Cracker Barrel forever. And they put a lot of
pressure on the barrel. And I guess they listened because
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they're going back to their old ways. But first a
story about it, and then we'll tell you what they're
what they're doing Herecker Barrel five locations in California, but
it's much bigger throughout the United States.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
People love the Cracker Barrel.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
This morning, Cracker Barrel has all the more buzz than
it may have wanted. The iconic yellow logo featuring a
character called the old Timer or Uncle Herschel in place
since the seventies, has been replaced with a sleek, minimalistic look.
The company's stock taking a hit since the rebrand, and
some online aren't happy.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
Now we have this minimalist logo down here that just
looks so dagy.
Speaker 13 (17:33):
A brand can absolutely go too far in trying to
become relevant. They can lose all the character, all the
individual elements that make them unique and distinctive and competitively
differentiated in market. A lot of times they're trying to
go to a hip, young branding agency, and so they'll
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go to something that ends up feeling really generic, almost soulless.
And I think that's what we're seeing with Cracker Barrel.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
And it's not just the logo getting a new look.
The traditional interior of the restaurant with lattice walls, antiques
and globe lighting is brightening up with more comfortable chairs
and a sleeker decors. Cracker Barrel needs to feel like
the Cracker Bell for today and for tomorrow. The CEO
of the company, appearing on GMA before the new logo
was announced, talked about the restaurant's interior redesign.
Speaker 10 (18:23):
The soul of Cracker Barrel's not changing.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
The rocking chairs are still there, the fireplace is there
at the PEG game, all the things that make Cracker
Barrel cracker Barrel, but will pressure to bring Uncle Herschel
back force a redo on the logo again.
Speaker 13 (18:36):
Once you have done a rebrand, you really need to
stay the course for two reasons.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
One is because of cost.
Speaker 13 (18:44):
A ton of money goes into these rebrands, millions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
And two is because of credibility.
Speaker 13 (18:50):
If you end up backtracking, you lose credibility in consumer's eyes.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Now, this restaurant is a value, is a meal and
a family institution for so many and it may feel
like the values of the restaurant are changing. But one
thing the CEO points out is the menu is not
changing much. In fact, a really big aspect that's remaining,
she says, is that the average check at Cracker Barrel
is about fifteen dollars per person versus the restaurant industry
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average of twenty seven dollars. And many of those beloved
traditions at Cracker Barrel, especially the peg game, they will remain.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Okay, So that was last week that Cracker Barrel is
changing their logo, and then a lot of people who
frequent Cracker Barrel said, we're not going anymore if you
keep that new logo, And so Cracker Barre and remember
at the end of that story, they said, you have
to if you're going for a rebrand, you got to
stay the course. Well, about four days later the vibes turned,
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the stock price took a nosed dive. People started talking
about on social media. And now they're going to return
to the old Cracker barrel and the old logo.
Speaker 14 (20:03):
Well, here at the Cracker Barrel, a familiar faces here
to stay at Cracker Barrel, the restaurant chain now says
it will keep its old time logo with that iconic
barrel and image of Uncle Herschel.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Hmm.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Three days ago they're saying no, you got to stay
the course. And now they are returning to the old
Cracker and the barrel.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Cracker Barrel's all about more.
Speaker 15 (20:26):
It comes nearly a week after the Country restaurant introduced
a new simplified logo with only the words Cracker Barrel.
The move angered customers.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Now we have this minimalist logo down here that just
looks so dagy.
Speaker 15 (20:41):
Sunk the company's market value by nearly one hundred million dollars,
upset conservative commentators.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Cracker Barrel launches. There woke rebrand and the stock craters.
Speaker 15 (20:54):
And President Trump, who called the rebrand a mistake on Tuesday.
Later that day, Cracker Barrel said, we thank our guests
for sharing your voices. We said we would listen, and
we have. Our new logo is going away and our
old timer will remain.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
How about that kind of pressure they didn't want to
go down the road of bud light.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Would you call that cancel culture?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Yeah, I think it is, but it's canceled the cancel culture.
Now you get double canceled. Yes, Oh man, that's that's crazy.
There are six hundred and fifty seven Cracker Barrel restaurants,
only five in California. Odd the most populous state only
has five of the six hundred and fifty seven Cracker
barrels nationwide.
Speaker 15 (21:35):
Our new logo is going away and our old timer
will remain. It's not the first time President Trump has
exerted his influence over a business. Last month, Coca Cola
said it would roll out coke with cane sugar this
fall after the President said he pushed the beverage giant
to do so.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Cidny's tweety has very keen see.
Speaker 15 (21:55):
And American Eagle stock prices jumped more than twenty three
percent after President Trump praised the company's controversial ad featuring
Sydney Sweeney.
Speaker 12 (22:05):
If Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican, I think her
head is fantastic.
Speaker 15 (22:10):
As for Cracker Barrel, the presidents also congratulated them on
keeping their original logo, saying make your customers happy again now.
The rebrand was Cracker Barrel's attempt to freshen things up
and modernize after years of slow growth, and while.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Sales have been positive.
Speaker 15 (22:26):
So far this year, the company does say that their
gift shop sales could suffer in the wake of five
million dollars because of TERRORFS.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
No, I don't know about the tariffs. I think they're
just serving food. I don't know how much of that
food comes from up. That's what we're saying. The gift
shop part. Oh, the gift shop part. Yeah, I don't know.
It's buying that crap at the shop. Yo, how much
you loading up on signs? How much could you buy
of that? Got almighty? But Cracker Barrel, let's see what
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there are stock prices, Cracker Barrel stock.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Let's see what it did today. I think it was up.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Yeah, it was up four almost five percent, four point
six percent at sixty two dollars and thirty three cents
a share if you bought you could have bought that
stock back in let's see in September of nineteen eighty five.
So what is that forty years ago? Yeah, almost exactly
forty years ago. Forty years ago, that stock was ninety
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nine cents a share. Ninety nine cents a share, and
the high I mean that that stock was way up there.
In twenty eighteen, it was one hundred and sixty one
dollars a share. It's gone down one hundred dollars since then.
Sixty two dollars and thirty three cents a share for
Cracker Barrel A yeah thing. Don get your stock and
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Speaker 2 (24:11):
What's the address on that? We forget?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
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Speaker 7 (24:18):
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Estimated jackpot a cool eight hundred and fifteen million dollars.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
At each now eight hundred and fifty eight five zero,
not eight fifteen.
Speaker 8 (25:34):
Estimated jackpot a cool eight hundred and fifteen million dollars.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Missed it close eight hundred and fifty million dollars. That
might go a long way to helping your adult children
move out of your home and take on the financial
responsibilities for themselves. Because parents are supporting adult children financially
much much more than fifteen twenty years ago.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Most parents, things are a little bit different. You're no
longer just saving for getting your kid at least through their.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Teen years and into college.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
No, nowadays, you have to be saving for the bigger picture,
the much bigger picture.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
It turns out, according to.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Pew Research Center, about sixty percent of parents with kids
age eighteen to thirty four are still financially supporting their
offspring to varying degrees. In fact, the Wall Street Journal
relates the situation of one couple who are setting aside
about one thousand dollars a month for their seven year
old daughter.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Oh wow, man, she's gonna be loaded one thousand a
month for a seven year old daughter. Oh, she's gonna
half million dollars by the time she's you know, thirty.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
And this isn't just about college, This isn't just about
health care or other such things like that. This is
about having enough cash on hand to support their daughter
well into after she becomes a fully independent adult. And that,
of course, is a sign of the times. As the
cost of housing and healthcare and other considerations keeps rising,
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many parents, if not most parents, are finding their kids
have been forced to lean on them financially well after
they become proper tax paying adults. And that's clearly a consideration.
Here's a pro tip. You want to get ahead of
this kind of thing early.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
That's right, that's exactly right. Listen to lads around here,
it's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Teach your kids all about budgeting, teach them the difference
between wanting and needing, and also teaching them to be
wise and prudent investors. These are all skills that will
help them.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Yeah, that's a little easier said than done. All right,
Labor Day, this weekend is already Labor day. Can you
believe that the summer is over this weekend. Technically, you know,
for the most part, for almost everybody, this summer went
by in a flash.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
It's over.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I mean, we have Thursday and Friday, we have two
more days of summer, or two more weekdays, and they
got the weekend and it's over. Everybody's going back to work.
But this is supposed to be a record breaking labor Day.
Will there will be more people on the road or
on planes, trains, automobiles than any time in the past.
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And so if you want to get a Croziers doing
a story earlier on this, if you want to get
out and avoid traffic on Friday, leave before noon. If
you want to be sitting in traffic for the rest
of your life, leave after noon.
Speaker 16 (28:29):
Nothing says the end of summer quite like a crush
of people trying to get in that one final vacation
before the full weather sets in. And this year travelers
will have plenty of company at the airports. It's expected
to be a record breaking labor day in the skies.
Take for example, United Airlines. They're expecting to fly more
passengers this year than they have ever flown. For the
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Labor Day period, three point one million passengers will board
their planes. American Airlines expecting three point nine million passengers,
also up from last year. Now, if you're jet setting
to Europe, according to Hopper, you were seeing some of
the best deals right now ticket prices or cheaper. Eighteen
percent cheaper compared to the same time period last year.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Oh that's good.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Okay, eighteen percent cheaper if you you know, if you're
going off to Europe.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
I don't know anybody's doing that, but this is going
to be.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
You know, when Labor Day comes up, we always expect
the weather to get a little bit cooler.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Not this year.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
In the San Fernando Valley in Burbank, California, it is
going to be. It was ninety three today, eighty five tomorrow,
which is nice and cool, and then starting on Saturday,
another heat wave. Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Okay, Saturday
through Wednesday. All in the nineties. Everything is in the nineties.
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Huntington Beach, and we got a lot of listeners down there.
Eighty four on Friday, then eighty two, eighty two, eighty three, eighties,
low eighties for the next for the for seabol future,
low eighties. If you're going to up to big Bear
this weekend, and you got some time to get away,
and that's your hang you're gonna love.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Tomorrow. Fifty six is the low.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Sixty seven degrees is the high in Big Bear tomorrow
and Lake Arrowhead sixty seven degrees.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
That's sweater weather up in the mountains.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
And then Friday seventy two, seventy five, seventy seven, seventy seven,
so mid seventies up in the mountains for the next
week or so. What else we got here Inland Empire
and we have a huge audience in the Inland Empire.
Eighty seven Tomorrow will be nice and comfortable for the
Inland Empire. But then on Friday, a little bit of
heat kicks in. Ninety four, then ninety nine, and then
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here's where it's going to make you crazy. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,
and Wednesday and Thursday of next week. One O four,
one O three, one O two, one oh five, one
oh one. So you're not getting a break. You're not
getting that that post labor day break at all. It
is going to be hotter than hell. If you're going
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to New York, New York City, a lot of people
like to travel to New York. There's a lot of
people are by coastal high seventies to mid seventies all
week long in New York City, so enjoy yourself, Adam.
Carol would like to thank Adam for coming on. He's
going to be in Torrance. At Mom said yes, at
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nine o'clock. There's two shows seven o'clock, nine o'clock on
August thirty first, and that is this weekend.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
On Saturday. Is Sundays.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
He told me it was Saturday, August thirty first, is Sunday,
all right, Yeah, Crozer was right, Sunday Sunday, seven o'clock
and nine o'clock. At Mom said yes. In Torrance, the
seven o'clock show is sold out. The nine o'clock show
is available, so go check that out. On September sixth,
I will be at American Vision Windows out in Siam
(31:52):
Valley and you can go to American Vision Windows dot
com for more details on that. On September sixth, there's
a big open house or reopen house going from eleven
am until three pm at American Vision Windows and see
Me Valley. So if you live in Semi Valley, come
on buy. We rarely do things out and see Me Valley.
I think You're gonna enjoy it. They'll be prizes, they'll
(32:12):
be food, they'll be fun. You'll get to see some
of the great windows that we all have in our homes.
Nil Savedra, myself, Shannon Farron, Sharon Bellio, Michelle Q. We
all have American Vision windows and if you come out,
I will show you the exact same windows that I
have in my house, you can have in your house
as well. That's September sixth, from eleven am till three pm,
and I'll be out there from one till three pm.
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All right, Hi, Chris Merril is in for mo I
Believe right, Okay Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now,
you can always hear us live on KFI AM six
forty four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime
on demand on the iHeart Radio app.
It's kf I AM six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We
got a text or an email some kind of notification saying, Hey,
where you're going to be on September sixth? Where in
seem Valley? I want to come by? I said, okay,
all right, okay, okay, okay, We're gonna be an American
(00:20):
Vision Windows. I will be there at American Vision Windows.
Twenty one twenty five. Get a pen, grab a pen.
I'll wait. I'll give you the address. You can write
this down.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You ready? Bellio? Okay, God all right? Twenty one twenty five.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Madeira Road m a d R A Madeerra Road in
seam Valley for you zip code nuts out there nine
three zero sixty five. And if you know where the
Costco is in Seami Valley, right to cross down the
street from Walmart. That's a really beautiful area of Siami Valley.
(01:01):
You have a Costco and you can see the Walmart
from Costco and vice versa. It's right there at the
Maderra off ramp. Man is that a beautiful off ramp
where you got a Costco and a Walmart. I think
This is a Chili's there too. You used to be
a Baker's daughters, remember that restaurant. I don't think it's
there anymore. Maybe it is, Maybe it is. I don't know.
There's an Aldi out there home deep O. The whole
(01:22):
run is out there. But that's near the freeway if
you go south by about a half mile maybe a mile,
maybe less, I don't know. Before East Los Angeles Avenue
on the right hand side, it's American Vision Windows showroom
and I will be out there from one to three
pm on September sixth, So come on out, go to
(01:43):
the showroom. And somebody is going to win an entire
house of windows for free, So you want to get
out there, and we'll be there all day long.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So that's Saturday. Is that the sixth? Is that Saturday
or Sunday? I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I guess I should look that up. It's a Saturday,
it is, okay, I'll be there on Saturday. I'll be
you know, I will not be at del Mar I'll
be going to American Vision Windows, their big showroom out there.
That'd be a cool deal.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Southwest Airlines everybody likes Southwest.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I guess I think most people do, and they enjoy
Southwest Airlines inexpensive. They get you there, not a lot
of perks, but not a lot of expense either. But
now they've got a rule change that's evidently getting a
little backlash, and let's find out what it is, because
a lot of listeners to KFI really enjoy Southwest Airlines.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Southwest always had a policy that if someone had to
pay extra first seat, they would give them a refund,
but starting in January that all changes. Southwest now saying
that refund is not guaranteed.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
And here's the.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Statement quote, Customers who encroach upon the neighboring seat should
proactively purchase the needed number of seats. O.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
This is for big bone gals and big bone guys.
These are for people who have not purchased the weight
loss shot yet. I don't know if you guys heard this.
You know that weight loss shot. Not only do you
lose weight, but you never get cancer. You lift to
you one hundred and fifty. There's a lot of side effects,
a lot of side benefits of this thing. It's going crazy.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
The needed number of seats prior to travel to ensure
the additional seat is available. So now if that flight
is not sold out, then passengers who buy an extra
seat may get a refund, but only if they request
it within ninety days after the flight. The move is
mostly in line with what other major airlines do. So
you have Delta, United American. All of them have policy
saying if a passenger doesn't fit in one seat, they'll
(03:41):
be removed and will need to buy two on another flight.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Oh wow, embarrassing is that? Would they physically take you
off the plane?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
All of them have policy saying if a passenger doesn't
fit in one seat, they'll be removed and will need
to buy two on another flight.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
That has got to be rock bottom for most people,
being escorted off a plane and digging into your purse,
your wallet for the credit card to buy another seat.
And when you buy that seat that late, it's not
the forty nine dollars you spent on that ticket because
you bought it four months in advance. That's four hundred
dollars maybe five hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
The passenger doesn't fit in one seat, they'll be removed
and will need to buy two on another flight. By
the way, if you're wondering how wide those seats are,
well Southwest hold us they are between seventeen and seventeen
point eight inches wide.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Wait a minute, the seat is seven that's that's got
to be wrong. Those seats are not seventeen inches wide.
There's no way. I mean, I wouldn't fit in it.
There's no way. In the Southwest Airlines the seat is
seventeen inches wide. Seventeen inches is a foot and a half.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Maybe that's right. Maybe that is right? Is that possible?
A seventeen inch seat? Sure? How big is your chair?
I'm glad you said chair. Yeah, I don't know, do
you What do you mean by chair? Your seat?
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
The thing I'm sitting in. Maybe it is seventeen inches,
you know, I'm thinking about it. Maybe it is, yeah, seventeen.
And if you can't fit into a seventeen seventeen inch seat,
you got to get yourself another seat.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Sorry. Kids.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Mount Everest has always been known for the you know,
the challenge to climb to the top and get down
successfully without dying. There's a lot of dead people up
on Mount Everest because it's impossible to bring them down.
There's no planes that can get up that high and land,
or no helicopters. I should say they can land at
that altitude and clean that up. So there's a lot
(05:36):
of bodies that are mummified, frozen in time. There's a
lot of trash. There's a lot of faces up there
as well. It's very polluted. But now it looks like
they're going to clean that area up with drones.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Majestic Mount Everest. It's the world's highest mountain, but it's
sometimes referred to as the world's high as dumpster. While
adventure seekers come and go, many leave behind trash like
plastic food containers, oxygen tanks, or climbing gear. One company
wants to tackle the problem by sending in their drones.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
We have to see drone technology as a future with climate.
From the environment aspect and also from the humanitied aspect, this.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Is going to be a game changer.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
During this year's climbing season, drones were able to rid
the mountain of six hundred pounds of trash.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Reports say Everest National Park gets about one hundred thousand
visitors per year, with less than a thousand attempting to
reach the summit. Of course, the machines would have a
lot less to do if climber is abided by a
carry in carry out policy.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, but you know, when you get to that altitude,
you're freaked out. You know, your mind is on fire.
The lack of oxygen makes you see things that aren't there,
do things that you would never do, and people aren't
their right state of mind.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
All right, we'll go back.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Cracker Barrel has done a one eighty or, as my
mother would say, a three sixty.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
She never got that right.
Speaker 7 (07:08):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
And I feel like like an a hole. Bellio came
in at the beginning of the program today at four
o'clock and she said, hey, Richie's here today. I'm like, oh, God,
like Richie and Kiki, there are swell people. And she goes,
I know you hate doing this, but can you please
sign an autograph for Richie? And I said, I feel
(07:37):
like an a hole doing that. I said, what does
he wanted for you? Because I he just wants to
hang it up in his room. I said, you know,
I I don't know how people ever feel comfortable walking
to a co worker and saying, hey, here's my autograph, right,
I said, I don't want to do that. So she
came in at five o'clock and she goes, look, he's
(08:00):
been wanting it for a long time. He's been asking
me for this autograph. Can you please just give it
to him? I said, why doesn't he just come.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
In and ask for it?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
He goes, you think he's gonna come in and ask
for Then I said, so I signed a piece of paper, Richie,
you're the best thing, dong, and I signed my name.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
So I gave it Richie and Richie said, what is this?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
And I look at Bellio and I I can't believe you.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Can you fall for it every time? Oh my god?
And Richie's like, what is this? I said, the autograph?
Speaker 4 (08:33):
You?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Oh, you didn't want it? All right? I'm still gonna
frame it. That all right? And then Richie's like I
would have just asked him for one? What? What?
Speaker 8 (08:42):
What?
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I thought that was odd, but maybe I thought, you know,
he doesn't want to approach me.
Speaker 9 (08:49):
You know.
Speaker 10 (08:51):
It's worth it that swagger you walk in here, here's
my autograph, redream.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Somebody else sign anything for you?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
You hood out baddy here all right.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Leslie Sykes, one of my favorite people over at ABC,
is leaving.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
She is retiring.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
That's bad news and belly I was talking to who
is that talking to about?
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I was talking to Mark Thomas about this yesterday. The
people that we know, you.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Know, Pat Harvey, Colleen Williams, Chuck Henry. Let's see if
Phil Schuman maybe is another one of them, Leslie Snykes,
Psykes is sure one of them, Mark Brown, Fred Rogan,
Fritz Coleman.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You know, we grew up.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I grew up watching all these people. I don't think
that I think that era is over. I don't think
that kids today watching news in thirty or forty years
will be attached to news people like I was, or
like my generation was. That's sad, I know, it's horrible.
Dave Lopez is another one. I'm sar Ellen Lava. Absolutely,
(10:01):
I'm sure I'm missing some some more.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Rick Chambers. Rick Chamber is not retired yet, but he's going, Yeah, just.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Talk about the ones that we've Yeah, because there's something
comforting when they're on.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, But there's thirty years, forty years of watching the
same people, and I don't know if we're going to
get that with this next generation of.
Speaker 11 (10:19):
Reporters, and even when they get relegated, because as they do,
when we see that more and more, these people that
have been around forever that we do all feel comfortable with,
they somehow get relegated to things like a like a
report out in the field somewhere. It's like they still
generate that comfort in watching them, right.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
And I was, I was absolutely genuinely nervous and afraid
when Channel four two years ago asked Conan Nolan to
go cover landslides. Yeah, Conan Nolan is not thirty two
and he's out there at landslides and covering fires.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
And the snowstorm in San Bernardino, right.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah, And the only reason he did is because he's
a nice guy and he's gonna say yes everything. But
that's dangerous for a guy like Conan Nolan to cover,
you know, breaking news that's fire or floods or snowstorms
like that.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I thought that was horrible for them to do that.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
But have you noticed, Bellio, since we brought that up
on kfive that they've not asked him to go out
to any more of these dangerous stories.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
So maybe we helped him out.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
And I heard also he's coming in here, the Conan
Nolan's coming in here to host or co host before. Yeah,
I think he's coming in this week, in two weeks,
two weeks, okay, all right. But Leslie Sykes, who is
one of my favorite people. She's the morning anchor there
on on ABC seven, she is retiring and it makes
(11:43):
me sad because all these people that I knew, they're
all retiring, and I don't have any more news friends.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And I want to know how come she's in age.
She's stunning. Yes, that's right, that's exactly right. I don't know.
I don't know what's going on, but she's leaving, and
I don't like it at all.
Speaker 10 (12:04):
You know her, you love her, and we do too.
Leslie Sikes grew up in Compton, and following graduation from
Spelman College in Atlanta, she moved to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, to
start her on air career.
Speaker 12 (12:15):
Yeah, but Leslie came back to the Southland to cover
the news in her hometown. And now this LA native
has been with ABC seven for more than thirty years,
three decades of history, and this morning, how Leslie Sykes
has some news to share.
Speaker 9 (12:29):
I love her too, thank you. Typically I am seated
here in the studio talking about other people's lives, but
for a brief moment, I'd like to turn the focus
on myself and let you all know that after more
than thirty.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Sounds like Bellio when she says this on myself. This
sounds like Belliot right here, but for.
Speaker 9 (12:54):
A brief moment, I'd like to turn the focus on myself.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
That's man, If you close your eyes, that sounds exactly
not only what Bellio says a lot of the times,
but it almost sounds exactly like her.
Speaker 9 (13:05):
I'd like to turn the focus on myself and let
you all know that, after more than thirty years here
at KABC, I'm going to retire. As you may know,
I started here as a reporter all those years ago.
Somehow I blinked, I found myself here in this anchorchair,
getting to wake up with all of you every morning,
(13:26):
and boy, what a whirlwind it has been. Now from
the outset, I've approached this career, this job, as a
learning experience, every day, seeking to know more and do
better than the day before, and more importantly, to connect
with you, our viewers from near and far, who make
up this rich tapestry that is Southern California, my beloved
(13:49):
home and yours too. Working here at Eyewitness News has
been the privilege of my life. The station has been
my home, and you are viewers have been my extended family.
And as we all know, there is never this vast
and vibrant city of ours. From wildfires, earthquakes, elections and parades,
(14:09):
to traffic jams and even those infamous card chases, we
have shared it altogether. You've graciously welcomed me into your homes,
and I want you to know that I so appreciate it,
and I'll never take it for granted. I've had the
honor of telling your stories, meeting many of you incredible
people across southern California, and working with a team here
(14:30):
at Eyewitness News that truly feels like family, a team
for whom I have immense gratitude and great respect. Now
I'm not leaving today. I will still be here for
the next month or so, sharing your mornings, soaking up
the last memorable moments with my coworkers on the morning
team and throughout the newsroom. And then after that, I
(14:52):
plan to live my life in what I called soft focus,
that spending more time with my husband, my son, and
extended family and friends. I plan to move at my
own pace and just basically do whatever I want to
do whenever I want to do it, And as I
look ahead, I know I'm going to miss this job.
But more than anything, I'll miss all of you, your kindness,
(15:14):
your trust, and the connection we've shared over these three decades.
Thank you for allowing me to be part of your day.
It has been an honor and I'll cherish it forever.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Ah, that's very nice of herth you know, that's very uh.
But again, another one that we've known for thirty years
is leaving. That's really sad. I don't like it. I
like to know that when I turn on the TV,
I have met a lot of these people and I've
not met them. I know them from the thirty years
that they've been on TV, and now they're all going away.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
They all seem to be retiring, and I don't like it.
I don't like it at all.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Colleen Williams has left. Pat Harvey Williams left. Yeah, Collin
Williams on every day. No, she's and she's still in
the air. Has left, but she's the one still I
still around. Mark Brown is still around. And it's sad
to see all these people go ye bye bye. Spent
my whole life watching news that's all I do. All
(16:12):
I do is tape news. I watched two, four, five, seven,
nine eleven all day long.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I love it. And now my favorite players are retiring
and I don't like.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Cracker Barrel was under a lot of pressure to keep
the cracker and the barrel. They wanted to change their
logo and they did, and they thought the people who
frequent the restaurant thought that that was going to change
the Cracker Barrel forever. And they put a lot of
pressure on the barrel. And I guess they listened because
(16:51):
they're going back to their old ways. But first a
story about it, and then we'll tell you what they're
what they're doing Herecker Barrel five locations in California, but
it's much bigger throughout the United States.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
People love the Cracker Barrel.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
This morning, Cracker Barrel has all the more buzz than
it may have wanted. The iconic yellow logo featuring a
character called the old Timer or Uncle Herschel in place
since the seventies, has been replaced with a sleek, minimalistic look.
The company's stock taking a hit since the rebrand, and
some online aren't happy.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
Now we have this minimalist logo down here that just
looks so dagy.
Speaker 13 (17:33):
A brand can absolutely go too far in trying to
become relevant. They can lose all the character, all the
individual elements that make them unique and distinctive and competitively
differentiated in market. A lot of times they're trying to
go to a hip, young branding agency, and so they'll
(17:53):
go to something that ends up feeling really generic, almost soulless.
And I think that's what we're seeing with Cracker Barrel.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
And it's not just the logo getting a new look.
The traditional interior of the restaurant with lattice walls, antiques
and globe lighting is brightening up with more comfortable chairs
and a sleeker decors. Cracker Barrel needs to feel like
the Cracker Bell for today and for tomorrow. The CEO
of the company, appearing on GMA before the new logo
was announced, talked about the restaurant's interior redesign.
Speaker 10 (18:23):
The soul of Cracker Barrel's not changing.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
The rocking chairs are still there, the fireplace is there
at the PEG game, all the things that make Cracker
Barrel cracker Barrel, but will pressure to bring Uncle Herschel
back force a redo on the logo again.
Speaker 13 (18:36):
Once you have done a rebrand, you really need to
stay the course for two reasons.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
One is because of cost.
Speaker 13 (18:44):
A ton of money goes into these rebrands, millions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
And two is because of credibility.
Speaker 13 (18:50):
If you end up backtracking, you lose credibility in consumer's eyes.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Now, this restaurant is a value, is a meal and
a family institution for so many and it may feel
like the values of the restaurant are changing. But one
thing the CEO points out is the menu is not
changing much. In fact, a really big aspect that's remaining,
she says, is that the average check at Cracker Barrel
is about fifteen dollars per person versus the restaurant industry
(19:17):
average of twenty seven dollars. And many of those beloved
traditions at Cracker Barrel, especially the peg game, they will remain.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Okay, So that was last week that Cracker Barrel is
changing their logo, and then a lot of people who
frequent Cracker Barrel said, we're not going anymore if you
keep that new logo, And so Cracker Barre and remember
at the end of that story, they said, you have
to if you're going for a rebrand, you got to
stay the course. Well, about four days later the vibes turned,
(19:52):
the stock price took a nosed dive. People started talking
about on social media. And now they're going to return
to the old Cracker barrel and the old logo.
Speaker 14 (20:03):
Well, here at the Cracker Barrel, a familiar faces here
to stay at Cracker Barrel, the restaurant chain now says
it will keep its old time logo with that iconic
barrel and image of Uncle Herschel.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Hmm.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Three days ago they're saying no, you got to stay
the course. And now they are returning to the old
Cracker and the barrel.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Cracker Barrel's all about more.
Speaker 15 (20:26):
It comes nearly a week after the Country restaurant introduced
a new simplified logo with only the words Cracker Barrel.
The move angered customers.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Now we have this minimalist logo down here that just
looks so dagy.
Speaker 15 (20:41):
Sunk the company's market value by nearly one hundred million dollars,
upset conservative commentators.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Cracker Barrel launches. There woke rebrand and the stock craters.
Speaker 15 (20:54):
And President Trump, who called the rebrand a mistake on Tuesday.
Later that day, Cracker Barrel said, we thank our guests
for sharing your voices. We said we would listen, and
we have. Our new logo is going away and our
old timer will remain.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
How about that kind of pressure they didn't want to
go down the road of bud light.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Would you call that cancel culture?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Yeah, I think it is, but it's canceled the cancel culture.
Now you get double canceled. Yes, Oh man, that's that's crazy.
There are six hundred and fifty seven Cracker Barrel restaurants,
only five in California. Odd the most populous state only
has five of the six hundred and fifty seven Cracker
barrels nationwide.
Speaker 15 (21:35):
Our new logo is going away and our old timer
will remain. It's not the first time President Trump has
exerted his influence over a business. Last month, Coca Cola
said it would roll out coke with cane sugar this
fall after the President said he pushed the beverage giant
to do so.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Cidny's tweety has very keen see.
Speaker 15 (21:55):
And American Eagle stock prices jumped more than twenty three
percent after President Trump praised the company's controversial ad featuring
Sydney Sweeney.
Speaker 12 (22:05):
If Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican, I think her
head is fantastic.
Speaker 15 (22:10):
As for Cracker Barrel, the presidents also congratulated them on
keeping their original logo, saying make your customers happy again now.
The rebrand was Cracker Barrel's attempt to freshen things up
and modernize after years of slow growth, and while.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Sales have been positive.
Speaker 15 (22:26):
So far this year, the company does say that their
gift shop sales could suffer in the wake of five
million dollars because of TERRORFS.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
No, I don't know about the tariffs. I think they're
just serving food. I don't know how much of that
food comes from up. That's what we're saying. The gift
shop part. Oh, the gift shop part. Yeah, I don't know.
It's buying that crap at the shop. Yo, how much
you loading up on signs? How much could you buy
of that? Got almighty? But Cracker Barrel, let's see what
(22:58):
there are stock prices, Cracker Barrel stock.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Let's see what it did today. I think it was up.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Yeah, it was up four almost five percent, four point
six percent at sixty two dollars and thirty three cents
a share if you bought you could have bought that
stock back in let's see in September of nineteen eighty five.
So what is that forty years ago? Yeah, almost exactly
forty years ago. Forty years ago, that stock was ninety
(23:26):
nine cents a share. Ninety nine cents a share, and
the high I mean that that stock was way up there.
In twenty eighteen, it was one hundred and sixty one
dollars a share. It's gone down one hundred dollars since then.
Sixty two dollars and thirty three cents a share for
Cracker Barrel A yeah thing. Don get your stock and
(23:46):
get your pancakes, enjoy yourself, and don't forget. Adam Krola
is going to be outperforming this weekend on Sunday, the
thirty first at Mom said, yes in Torrance, so go
get your tickets that the seven o'clock show is sold out.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Of the nine o'clock show, there's.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Tickets available, So go to Torrents and see Adam Carol
a very funny show. It's going to be at Mom said, yes, and.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
What's the address on that? We forget?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Oh, here it is forty five twenty five cal Mayer
in Torrents.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
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Missed it close eight hundred and fifty million dollars. That
might go a long way to helping your adult children
move out of your home and take on the financial
responsibilities for themselves. Because parents are supporting adult children financially
much much more than fifteen twenty years ago.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Most parents, things are a little bit different. You're no
longer just saving for getting your kid at least through their.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Teen years and into college.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
No, nowadays, you have to be saving for the bigger picture,
the much bigger picture.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
It turns out, according to.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Pew Research Center, about sixty percent of parents with kids
age eighteen to thirty four are still financially supporting their
offspring to varying degrees. In fact, the Wall Street Journal
relates the situation of one couple who are setting aside
about one thousand dollars a month for their seven year
old daughter.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Oh wow, man, she's gonna be loaded one thousand a
month for a seven year old daughter. Oh, she's gonna
half million dollars by the time she's you know, thirty.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
And this isn't just about college, This isn't just about
health care or other such things like that. This is
about having enough cash on hand to support their daughter
well into after she becomes a fully independent adult. And that,
of course, is a sign of the times. As the
cost of housing and healthcare and other considerations keeps rising,
(27:06):
many parents, if not most parents, are finding their kids
have been forced to lean on them financially well after
they become proper tax paying adults. And that's clearly a consideration.
Here's a pro tip. You want to get ahead of
this kind of thing early.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
That's right, that's exactly right. Listen to lads around here,
it's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Teach your kids all about budgeting, teach them the difference
between wanting and needing, and also teaching them to be
wise and prudent investors. These are all skills that will
help them.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Yeah, that's a little easier said than done. All right,
Labor Day, this weekend is already Labor day. Can you
believe that the summer is over this weekend. Technically, you know,
for the most part, for almost everybody, this summer went
by in a flash.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
It's over.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I mean, we have Thursday and Friday, we have two
more days of summer, or two more weekdays, and they
got the weekend and it's over. Everybody's going back to work.
But this is supposed to be a record breaking labor Day.
Will there will be more people on the road or
on planes, trains, automobiles than any time in the past.
(28:16):
And so if you want to get a Croziers doing
a story earlier on this, if you want to get
out and avoid traffic on Friday, leave before noon. If
you want to be sitting in traffic for the rest
of your life, leave after noon.
Speaker 16 (28:29):
Nothing says the end of summer quite like a crush
of people trying to get in that one final vacation
before the full weather sets in. And this year travelers
will have plenty of company at the airports. It's expected
to be a record breaking labor day in the skies.
Take for example, United Airlines. They're expecting to fly more
passengers this year than they have ever flown. For the
(28:50):
Labor Day period, three point one million passengers will board
their planes. American Airlines expecting three point nine million passengers,
also up from last year. Now, if you're jet setting
to Europe, according to Hopper, you were seeing some of
the best deals right now ticket prices or cheaper. Eighteen
percent cheaper compared to the same time period last year.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Oh that's good.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Okay, eighteen percent cheaper if you you know, if you're
going off to Europe.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
I don't know anybody's doing that, but this is going
to be.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
You know, when Labor Day comes up, we always expect
the weather to get a little bit cooler.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Not this year.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
In the San Fernando Valley in Burbank, California, it is
going to be. It was ninety three today, eighty five tomorrow,
which is nice and cool, and then starting on Saturday,
another heat wave. Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Okay, Saturday
through Wednesday. All in the nineties. Everything is in the nineties.
(29:43):
Huntington Beach, and we got a lot of listeners down there.
Eighty four on Friday, then eighty two, eighty two, eighty three, eighties,
low eighties for the next for the for seabol future,
low eighties. If you're going to up to big Bear
this weekend, and you got some time to get away,
and that's your hang you're gonna love.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Tomorrow. Fifty six is the low.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Sixty seven degrees is the high in Big Bear tomorrow
and Lake Arrowhead sixty seven degrees.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
That's sweater weather up in the mountains.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
And then Friday seventy two, seventy five, seventy seven, seventy seven,
so mid seventies up in the mountains for the next
week or so. What else we got here Inland Empire
and we have a huge audience in the Inland Empire.
Eighty seven Tomorrow will be nice and comfortable for the
Inland Empire. But then on Friday, a little bit of
heat kicks in. Ninety four, then ninety nine, and then
(30:37):
here's where it's going to make you crazy. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,
and Wednesday and Thursday of next week. One O four,
one O three, one O two, one oh five, one
oh one. So you're not getting a break. You're not
getting that that post labor day break at all. It
is going to be hotter than hell. If you're going
(30:58):
to New York, New York City, a lot of people
like to travel to New York. There's a lot of
people are by coastal high seventies to mid seventies all
week long in New York City, so enjoy yourself, Adam.
Carol would like to thank Adam for coming on. He's
going to be in Torrance. At Mom said yes, at
(31:20):
nine o'clock. There's two shows seven o'clock, nine o'clock on
August thirty first, and that is this weekend.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
On Saturday. Is Sundays.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
He told me it was Saturday, August thirty first, is Sunday,
all right, Yeah, Crozer was right, Sunday Sunday, seven o'clock
and nine o'clock. At Mom said yes. In Torrance, the
seven o'clock show is sold out. The nine o'clock show
is available, so go check that out. On September sixth,
I will be at American Vision Windows out in Siam
(31:52):
Valley and you can go to American Vision Windows dot
com for more details on that. On September sixth, there's
a big open house or reopen house going from eleven
am until three pm at American Vision Windows and see
Me Valley. So if you live in Semi Valley, come
on buy. We rarely do things out and see Me Valley.
I think You're gonna enjoy it. They'll be prizes, they'll
(32:12):
be food, they'll be fun. You'll get to see some
of the great windows that we all have in our homes.
Nil Savedra, myself, Shannon Farron, Sharon Bellio, Michelle Q. We
all have American Vision windows and if you come out,
I will show you the exact same windows that I
have in my house, you can have in your house
as well. That's September sixth, from eleven am till three pm,
and I'll be out there from one till three pm.
(32:36):
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