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July 22, 2025 34 mins
Tim and Mark Thompson cruise into the final hour chatting about LA’s brand-new Tesla Cafe and how it’s become a hotspot just 24 hours after opening. The conversation zips from dogs in public spaces to a spirited East vs. West Coast debate, before landing on Target’s decision to kill off price matching—RIP to retail fairness. Tim shares a cart crash story at Home Depot (with zero apology received), then shifts to somber news with an update on the Encino double homicide featuring audio from NBC LA’s Eric Leonard. Later, the crew dives into the new Billy Joel documentary—Crozier even has a personal connection—and they close the hour honoring the late Ozzy Osbourne, reflecting on celebrity passings and the strange tradition of visiting their Hollywood Stars.
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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. All right, Uh,
Tesla Diner has officially opened.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I think it was yesterday. I've only seen the pictures.
It looks kind of jetson Z, very futuristic kind of setup.
Looks really cool.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
It looks like a drive in an old sock cop
or whatever they call that thing. Let's say it was
like a drive in theater where you can go in
and put the speaker on your on your car and
then have the food brought to your car.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
It's kind of a cool deal.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
And because Tesla owns it, there's super chargers there so
you can charge your car.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
While you're eating. Forretty sweet.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
I wonder if they charge for the electricity. You think
they do, Yes, you think they do.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
But the great thing about the way that works most
of the charging is you just plug in it. You
know it shows up in your credit card. Oh that's cool,
you've given a card ahead of time.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
But they have this beautiful diner on Santa Monica Boulevard
right between Highland and Librea.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
We should go, Yeah, I'd love to.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Let's go. Uh, let's go with Craig from Craigs. Oh okay, wow,
he's pretty busy. But he's another one who's opening up
a place in Nashville. Remember we're talking about the in
and out last hour. Yes, she's opening up, you know,
another office in Nashville and Tennessee. And Craig is opening
up at Craigs in Nashville.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
That's a good restaurant, Craigs.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
I very ftally love it, unbelievable love the people, love
the service. And Mark Thompson knows everybody in the restaurant.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
I love everybody in that restaurant. I think they do
a great job.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
All right, let's get more information on this Tesla Diner.
It opened yesterday at four to twenty pm.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Did it really?

Speaker 4 (01:33):
Ye?

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Love that?

Speaker 1 (01:34):
And it's up in twenty four hours a day, which
is a good deal. You can go there late at night,
all right, Tesla Diner.

Speaker 5 (01:43):
With a line around the block and a parking lot
full of people.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
I'm out do it.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
You'll do it for in and out, but you won't
do it for this out now, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
I'll wait when it calms down a couple months ago,
hollywoods we'll go over for Thanksgiving.

Speaker 5 (02:00):
Hollywood's new Tesla diner captivated its first customers.

Speaker 6 (02:03):
I think it's interesting that maybe finally we've come full
circle again that drive ins, maybe it can start coming
back again.

Speaker 5 (02:09):
Sean and his dog Bella were excited to sample the menu.

Speaker 6 (02:13):
Bella is gonna get one of the burgers.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
I think can mm was exciting to trying the burger,
I know. And then opening day, you bring your dog.

Speaker 7 (02:23):
Yeah, I'm I sitting there thinking all the people behind
him in the line going.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Really, yeah, I mean, please, got a mighty. It doesn't
anyone leave their dog at home. When I was growing up,
dogs were outdoor animals. If our dog was in the house,
my mom would yell at us, what.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Is that dog doing in the house? God Almighty, I
told you, boy, that's exactly what she'd say. She would
call you a boy all the time.

Speaker 8 (02:52):
Take my dog to in and out all the time.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
And if you don't take her into into the restaurant.

Speaker 8 (02:58):
Now I take her to the drive right, Puppy patties.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
I get that. I don't mind that.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
I just don't like, you know, I got a whole
foods and it's like a kennel. You know, everyone's got
their dog Nobody leaves their dog at home anymore. I
went to a steakhouse in Woodland Hills celebrated my wife's birthday.
I think she turned forty or something. And I went outside,
I don't know, probably to smoke a cigarette or something.
And I came back in and I tripped over a dog.

(03:27):
The guy brought his dog to the table, and I
tripped over the dog, and the dog reacted, you know,
got scared, so it barked. And then another dog there
was at another table was barking at that dog. I
was at like a shelter, you know. It was a
you know, a couple hundred bucks for me and my
wife's eating. I was at a home. I was at
an animal shelter. Nobody leaves her dogs home anymore.

Speaker 6 (03:49):
Bella is gonna get one of the burgers.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
I think he all right, all right, that's the crew
that's going down Bella and is uh and the owner
and Bella's owner.

Speaker 6 (03:58):
Bella is gonna get one of the burgers.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
I think, yeah, great, what a great sales tool for
this restaurant.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
This guy talking about him and his dog.

Speaker 6 (04:07):
Bella's gonna get one of the burgers.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
I think you.

Speaker 5 (04:09):
Elon Musk's restaurant has been in the works for quite
some time. Tesla calls it a retro futuristic American diner
driven experience and the world's largest urban supercharging station all
wrapped into one. If I feel like it's different than
normal restaurants.

Speaker 6 (04:25):
And the robots, yeah, I didn't know anything.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
About it, and he was like, yeah, the robot serves
you popcorn, and I was like, really, that's.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
Not the last we heard about the robots and of
the walls. They're like robots of the past. Time sped
twenty twenty three.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
Robots when they made the twenty twenty two.

Speaker 5 (04:44):
Frankie and Clia are influencers. They rate experiences and activities
on YouTube.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Wait, these kids are influencers. Jeez, these tiny children sounds.

Speaker 5 (04:53):
Like Frankie and Cleia.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Are frank Frankie and Cleia. Frankie and Clia not heard
of that? Anybody to watch? Is it Uncle Frankie, Aunt
Clea or Uncle Chris or what is?

Speaker 5 (05:06):
Then? Frankie and Cleia are influencers, The rate experiences and
activities on YouTube and SAE. The Tesla Diner did not disappoint.
I got the burger and the fries were really good.
They were perfectly salted.

Speaker 7 (05:19):
Wow, how about that? I mean, she's a critic. I
put him in there. And the first eight things that
came up. Clean, Frankie visit Tesla Diner, Clia and Frankie
visit American Girl Doll and Clean and Frankie eat at
Cole's Restaurant one more time?

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Cow old is Frankie and Clia.

Speaker 7 (05:35):
They got to be like ten, maybe eleven and seven
and eight something.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Sounds like the parents didn't roll in the dough and
now they are now, Yeah, now they are.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, use the kids.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
I'm not against that, you know, Yeah, getting your daughter
son out there to make some dough, right.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah, Why should you have to do all the heavy exactly?
It's exactly right.

Speaker 5 (05:56):
Planning and construction for the drive and have been in
the works for years obefore. Musk became President Trump's Doze director,
slashing and burning his way through Washington, leaving with a
sixty two percent unfavorable rating in a poll. Despite this,
it was packed tonight.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
But there are fans and they are hats like always.

Speaker 5 (06:13):
Daniel says. The Tesla Diner was one of his reasons
for visiting from Germany.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
Wow, is that right?

Speaker 1 (06:19):
This guy's coming out of Germany to go to a diner. Wow,
they got money in Germany.

Speaker 5 (06:24):
Daniel says the Tesla diner was one of his reasons
for visiting from Germany.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
I think teslas are very cool, Carse.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
You know what I heard from German tourists that they
find it shocking in America that people make eye contact
with you and say how you doing. They said, everybody
in Germany is very sullen. They look at the ground,
they don't have any eye contact, they don't talk to strangers.
In America, we talked to everybody and they said, that's
very refreshing that a country is still doing that.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
It's interesting.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Also, I think the West Coast is even more engaging
that way and friendly than the East Coast because I
remember waiting for a cab outside of the hotel in
New York and the doorman said, you're from California. I said, yeah,
how could you tell you? Sid You're just so friendly,
so much friendly.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
We are. We are friendly. I don't know where we
get that, but we got it. And Ela Musk the
only think we got we're friendly, and Ela.

Speaker 9 (07:21):
Mus Everybody has a different opinion, especially in.

Speaker 5 (07:22):
Europe and Ron says he's not surprised he want pulled
off a successful opening night despite the controversy.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
All Right, there you go. Target is in the news.
You're not gonna like this, Bellio, I know you're a
big Target fan. Kiki, I think you're a Target gal.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
I am. Yeah, You're not gonna like this at all.

Speaker 10 (07:39):
It's the end of an era for those who still
shop at Target, the retail giant doing away with price matching,
bringing the chain in line with most big box stores.
Target announcing that on July twenty eighth, it will no
longer match prices from Amazon and Walmart.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
All right, so she got about less than a week
to get in there and match that price.

Speaker 10 (07:57):
The only way to get a cheaper price in store
is if Target has the same item for less than
that price will still be matched, the company saying we
found our guest overwhelmingly price match Target and not other retailers,
which reflects the great value in trust in pricing consumercy
across our assortment and deals. While most retailers have ended
price matching over the years, some still do, including Best Buy, Home.

Speaker 6 (08:19):
Depot and Low's.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
I don't do the price matching because I don't want
to I don't like I'm not comfortable standing in line
showing that product on my phone to her and saying, hey,
this is twenty eight dollars, but Lows has it for
twenty seven to fifty.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Can you knock fifty cents off? Sure?

Speaker 2 (08:36):
I don't like to hold the lineup, but if it
was like nine dollars cheaper or eleven dollars cheaper, your mind.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
I don't know where the price point is for me
on that. I don't like to hold the lineup unless
unless you bang your card into me at home depot. Oh,
which just happened a woman. I was leaving home Depot
and a woman banged her cart into my heels and
I'm like, oh Christ though mighty, and it was on
her phone. Never said sorry or anything, you know, I said,

(09:06):
ran into my heels. The cart never said anything, just
sort of like looked and kept talking on the phone.
So when I got you know, I was second in line,
then first in line, and I got to the front.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
I the woman.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
At home Depot said would you like to open up
a credit card? And I looked at the woman behind
me and I said, absolutely, What are these steps? How
do we get this rolling? And my credit's locked up,
so nobody steals it. So it's always a hassle. Oh,
it's always no. You know, you got to fill this out.
You got to do this, you know, what's your social security?

(09:42):
And it took twenty minutes and she was feel me,
just feel me.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
There's some YouTube moments with what you're talking about, as
I recall where people these confrontations that occur in big
box stores or at Target or whatever where somebody starts
with the cart.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Yeah, I've seen a few of them, and they can
get pretty a.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Lot of more Costco with those big carts, you know,
because you're driving an RV in carts, you know, we're
not used to driving driving your cart that's that big
and it's huge.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Does Costco still have the flatbed Yeah? I think I
used to always go for those. Those are great.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
And have you ever seen a Costco that's closed. They
have like twelve hundred carts and they and also I
will say this about Costco, the parking spaces are effing huge.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
Yeah, that's great. You're right, that matters.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
You never get you never tight in a Costco parking lot. Yeah,
because everybody going there has a family and they got
an suv. They got nine kids and they got a
you know, they they're buying eight hundred dollars worth of Yeah, they're.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Buying months of stuff.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
That's right, Yeah, all right, So you can't price match
anymore Target.

Speaker 10 (10:48):
That's Buy Home Depot and Low's.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yeah, those are the three stories that will still do
it guys, Buy will do it Home Depot and Low's
and Lows.

Speaker 10 (10:57):
This comes as Target is struggling with a sales slump
at it's nearly two thousand stores in the US and
ongoing boycott of Target, dramatically impacting foot traffic and sales
and stores, the company missing its first quarter revenue estimate
and cutting its full year outlook, also citing tariffs as
a contributing factor. The CEO saying possible price hikes are

(11:17):
on the table, but that that would be a last resort.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Well, it's like a bad time. It's a Target now.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
But I bet everything in the news now is political.
You know, it cannot it can't just be Tesla is
opening up a diner. It has to be Doge and
you know he did this that and then this thing.
You know, Target, they're not price matching anymore. But all
of a sudden it's tariffs and climate change.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
Prices going up.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
The might be tariffs, but you know, I was at
best Buy the other day and they do something really
cool where you can and you probably know this, but
I've never seen it before.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
I just had never done it before. I know they
do it at Walgreens.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
They do a couple of places, and that is you
can buy your stuff ahead of time on your phone
or you know, online, and then when you pull it
into designated spots, you just let them know. I'm here
in spot fourteen and they run out. The best best part,
they ran out with my stuff and they delivered it
to the car. I didn't have to go in, you know,
ask for whomever, where's the stuff that I ordered? Where

(12:16):
the online orders? Okay, gotta check it. No, they brought
it right out. It was really great.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
There's a guy online, I think it's on YouTube. I
saw a few weeks back where he orders a ninety
five inch TV and he has them bring it out,
and they bring it out and he's driving a Miata
and he's.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
Like, well, what do you what do you say? Boys?

Speaker 1 (12:38):
Where do we put this? You're gonna put it on top.
I'm gonna put it on bottom and it's you know,
they take it back. It's the pain of the ass.
But it's interesting. And then I like that. And also
have you heard about got it? It's called park plus
plus park Hoppers, no plus size park Hoppers, and it's

(12:58):
these three women who are all triple X or you know,
triple triple large whatever, and they go to amusement parks
and figure out which rides they can go on, which
they can It's funny.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
They have a great sense of humor. Check it out. Yeah,
it really is cool.

Speaker 11 (13:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
Before we get into Billy Joel, let's do an update
on that horrible double murder and Encino where two people
lost their lives. They got shot in the head and
killed evidently by the homeowner's gun. So Eric Leonard, who
used to work here at KFI, did an unbelievable update

(13:42):
moments ago on KNB.

Speaker 9 (13:44):
Seventy two year old Raymond Bouderian now charged with two
counts of murder and burglary, seen here in an arrest
photo released by police. As NBC four investigates reported last week,
Bodian was recently in jail facing a series of criminal charges,
but he was released and the charges dismissed in December
by a judge because of Bouderian's mental health condition, a

(14:05):
legal off ramp that Hawkmann said should be more restrictive.

Speaker 4 (14:08):
It is not fair, it is not right, but that
is the laws we have in place now.

Speaker 9 (14:13):
That second nine to one to one call also raised
more questions about the initial police response to the k
and De Luca home. It was on July tenth, when
around four pm, a neighbor reported seeing someone climb over
the wall into the property. The LAPD responded, and at
four seventeen an officer of board a helicopter reported there
were no signs of a break in. Around four forty

(14:34):
there was this second nine to one to one call,
possibly from Bouderian, though it's not known if he was
still inside. By five pm, officers were still outside. They
couldn't get inside and they left.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Wow, they had two phone calls from inside a helicopter
and they didn't go in, you know, because their house
was really fortified, right, I mean, you know you would.
You couldn't get into that house. I don't know how
this guy got it. Have They had spikes on the
wall the back. I think there was barbed wire. They
had alarms, they had cameras, they had big bushes, big walls.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
It was really tough to get inside this house. But
this kid did it.

Speaker 9 (15:09):
The couple's bodies were found four days later when police
were called back to do a welfare check, and the
LAPD says that initial response is being examined.

Speaker 12 (15:18):
If appropriate reaction wasn't taken, of course we'll take action,
and even if the response to the call met our expectations,
we always want to try to do better.

Speaker 6 (15:26):
She says.

Speaker 9 (15:27):
The number of burglaries and the overall crime rate continues
to decline in the West Valley, where the latest published
statistics show reductions in the number of burglaries in the
last two months. Wait wait what, She says, The number
of burglaries and the overall crime rate continues to decline
in the West Valley.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
I don't believe that this is the thing, You know,
when crime statistics overall don't really match our impression of
the way crime is going, right, you're right to have
sort of that reaction, I think, because these are violent
criminals who you know, murdered these two people and then
in the case that was just last night, tried to

(16:05):
get into a house where there were people and residents
in the house. I mean, there was no question. And
I think our impression of overall crime statistics or the
sense of things and it being a dangerous period in
the history of the valley right now and in the
history of la our impression is informed by those kinds
of events, even if statistics don't necessarily bear it out.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
Well, here's why I think those stats are wrong because
you know, the one the potential, the almost break in
last night where the guy was home with his wife
and his kids. I don't think he reported that to
the cops. I think unless you're broken into and you know,
and you know something has stolen, you've got to make
an insurance claim, then you call the cops, or if

(16:50):
somebody's still in your house. But I think a lot
of people they come in the doors kicked in, they
have some crabs stolen, and they don't call the cops.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
They just fix it on their own.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
Oh really, why I one hundred percent believe that that
eighty percent of robberies are not reported? Wow, I really,
do you know? Because they don't want the cops out there.
You know, maybe they got guns in the house or
drugs in the house. They don't want the cops sniffing around,
you know. I think that's true. I think it's true.

Speaker 9 (17:16):
Start where the latest published statistics show reductions in the
number of burglaries in the last two months, But the
underlying data is no longer shared publicly by the LAPD,
So it's difficult to know how many homes were burglarized
in recent months.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
Wait, wait, wait, hold on, why aren't they sharing it
publicly anymore?

Speaker 9 (17:34):
But the underlying data is no longer shared publicly by
the LAPD.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
Okay, I wonder where that is.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Well, then obviously it's because it's probably gone up. But
why aren't Why wouldn't they share that data?

Speaker 3 (17:47):
Well, that's why I'm saying, yeah, And if it's not shared,
then we're just taking the word for it.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
Well, I mean, I just feel as though that should
be that's public data.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
I mean, we're you know, it's a that's right.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
We pay into this service, the data collection service, the
law enforcement service.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
It's odd.

Speaker 9 (18:01):
So it's difficult to know how many homes were burglarized
in recent months, in which neighborhoods they're happening or any
other common factors like the time of day or the
methods thieves are using to break in.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Why aren't those numbers public?

Speaker 9 (18:16):
The man charged in that Encino double murder made an
initial appearance in court last week. He was ordered back
next month to enter Please it's not clear if the
previous mental health rulings and dismissals will affect the ability
of the District Attorney's office to prosecute the new case.
I'm investigative reporter Eric Leonard and BC four News.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
Did a great job, Eric Leonard, he's the best. Yeah,
he's one of the top guys in town. All right,
wellcome back and talk about Billy Joel an update on
his health. And Krozier has seen at least the first
part of the Billy Joel documentary and said it's fantastic.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
When did the second part come out? You know what's
up Friday? Oh okay, yeah, all.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
Right, So the first part was first, then the second
part will follow. Yeah, usually, yeah, write that down. Second
part is second. The first part one, well first, yeah,
I got it. Okay, okay, don't talk to me like
I'm an idiot.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
I got it now. First part came out for a
second part of follow.

Speaker 11 (19:17):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Billy Joel Last Houses, the documentary is out on HBO
max is It Cross?

Speaker 3 (19:31):
That is it?

Speaker 7 (19:32):
And you said it's good? Huh yeah, first episode and
the whole the totality. They're each about two and a
half hours long.

Speaker 6 (19:37):
Woo.

Speaker 7 (19:38):
So they're they're they're a watch. You gotta you gotta
reserve some time. But it goes by. For me, it
just flew by.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
Well, you have a connection to that. I mean, his
life really parallels your dad's life.

Speaker 7 (19:50):
I've always talked about how Billy Joel was basically the
the talented doppelganger to my dad. They were about eight
months apart in a They both grew up on the
Upper East Coast, my dad in DC and Joel in
you know, New Jersey, New York, and they were both
in bands that toured in that general.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
Little circle there.

Speaker 7 (20:11):
That was a tight little area, especially in the late
sixties early seventies that bands would toured around, so they
all kind of knew each other in some vein. I
don't know that he ever knew Billy Joel and my dad,
but they played about the same style, kind of that
sloppy way, the hands kind of flop flopping around, but
incredibly talented, very soulful. My dad was very much like that.

(20:33):
But watching this watching this thing, at least the first part.
And I've always told this stuff and Jen always hears
me talk about it. And you know that my dad
bought a ham And B three the day I was born.
He wasn't actually at the hospital and within that, like
you moved on from then, yeah, right, So like in
the first five minutes of the of the doc they
mentioned that he was in one band with his friends

(20:55):
and left that band to join another band because they
offered him to give him a Hammond B three organ.
Oh so it was like multiple sort of parallels. The
things that really struck me watching it were the differences
between the two. And not to say that those differences
attributed directly to the success of Joel and not my
dad or whatever, but Billy had a tremendous support from

(21:17):
his mother and everything he did, especially music and such,
and even who he ended up with his first wife
was a his band member's girlfriend or wife, and that
ended up being his Joel's manager through that got him
all the way up to like early mid eighties when
he had his real peak success. She was basically behind it.

(21:39):
She was the one that said, you need to release
just the way you are as a single. So he
had this this supportive environment around him when he ended
up with her. When he first got with her, she
already had a son, a from a previous marriage or relationship.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
My dad did the exact same thing.

Speaker 7 (21:55):
He ended up with my mom, who had a son
from a previous and then had me and by dad
did not have a lot of that supportive structure around him, right.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
But you say that you know the more talented version
of your dad, buddy, I think you're selling your dad
short because he was a breadth away from being a
member of Fleetwood Math.

Speaker 6 (22:14):
He was.

Speaker 7 (22:15):
He definitely had certain aspects to him that I think
that would have made him a lot more successful, at
least musically, barring other circumstances, which is kind of what
you know. This documentary really kind of showed me. It's
like he had. Joel was very fortunate one because of
his talent, is intelligent. Both of them dropped out right
before graduating high school. Wow, did your dad sing about

(22:37):
his life? That's one of the things my dad was
not sort of like expressive like that. You know the
difference between them two. You really find out how much
of Billy Joel's music was biographical in nature.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Right, But I think Billy Joel wrote about his life
because he never really took like chances like your dad did.
Like your dad went after chicks and probably got him,
Billy Joel went after him and I was a goofball
and never got him.

Speaker 7 (23:05):
I don't know. You know, Joe and Billy Joel. He
when he was with his his first band and his
best friend who was in that band, who's the woman
that he ended up who stole that he ended up marrying.
When he told his best friend, I've been with your
I've been with your woman. That broke up their friendship,
broke up their band, and she left. And that's when

(23:26):
he went kind of crazy and checked himself into a
psych ward and started doing all this stuff. He went
really introspective and he got so much more into writing.
So those circumstances that kind of pushed him into that
area of writing so much stuff, and especially like I say, biographical,
All those songs Big Shot and a lot of those
other ones just the way you are, They were basically
all about his for his wife Elizabeth.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Oh that's wild.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
I mean he eventually, you know, went out with some
really beautiful women, but not then, not before he made
millions and millions of dollars.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
Well, and that's the thing.

Speaker 7 (23:55):
The guy who signed him already he can't remember his
last name, but Ritz or something like that, who was
out here that signed into his first record contract. He
put in what a lot of people are calling a
vampire part of the contract where even after he was
done being his manager, this guy got twenty five cents
off of every album that Billy Joel sold for at
least ten years.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (24:15):
So when Joel got horrible, this guy was still making money.
But even Billy says, you know, hey, it was the
only deal that was available to me at time.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
At the time, and you know, when he broke up
with Christy Brinkley. Christy Brinkley's brother was his accountant, and
he was so attached to Billy, to Christy Brinkley's brother,
they stayed with him, stayed with the accountant, which is
I think Christy Brinkley's brother, and that's where they had,
you know, the downfall, and they lost all the.

Speaker 7 (24:42):
Money he had so many relationships that he ended up
in business wise that he got screwed over.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
With I can't watch the way to watch and they'm
going to watch it tonight. But he lost all his
money to Christie Brinkley's brother who drifted him or I.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
Think that's the story, is that the story you heard.

Speaker 7 (24:58):
The first part of the documentary ends little after glass Houses,
and it was it was right after it because when
Glasshouses hit and got a little bit more early eighties,
and then he had his big motorcycle accident and that's
when his first wife left him because he was also
heavily drinking at the time. And that's basically where the
documentary ends. So it's right before he puts out Innocent
Man and meets Christy and that whole chapter.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
Of his it'll be part two. Yeah, that'll be the
second part.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah, all right, now, an update on Billy Joel's health.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
He was on with Bill Maher. That fixed. It's it's
still being worked on. You look good, You sound good?
You said, you looking sound like you? I feel fine.
Oh my balance sucks. It's like being on a boat.
That's that's a good question. It's it's used to be
called water on the brain.

Speaker 5 (25:44):
Now it's called hydrocephalus, normal pressure hydrocephalus.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
But you're good. You look good. I feel good. Yeah.
I think they keep referring to what I.

Speaker 5 (25:52):
Have as a brain disorder, so it sounds a lot
worse than what I'm feeling.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
Bill Maher is a lot like me. He's like, you
look good, You're fine. Can we talk about something?

Speaker 2 (26:02):
Mars unbelievable, marginal interest and everything. You look good. But
you look good, dude, I can't walk, there's no problem. Yeah, yeah,
but you look good. You look you know, it's Hollywood.

Speaker 7 (26:11):
He talks about there and there, he talks about it's
like being on a boat. That was another aspect. It
was a huge parallel between him and my dad. Billy
Joel grew up around boats and sort of my dad
growing up on the Chesapeake Bay and later on in life,
you know, eighties, mid late eighties, nineties, my dad got
into voting to where he bought a boat. Billy Joel
was a huge got into voting himself. Did they ever meet,
Not that I know of, And that's the you know,

(26:31):
that's the other tragedy thing. And watching this thing. There
were more than a few times where I just started
like bawling because just the parallels and the differences between
the two. And my dad was not a guy who
talked about himself. I don't know that much about my
dad growing up or his life and even the things
that he was thinking as he was going through life.
And Billy Joeld put it all into music, you know,

(26:52):
and it really made me want to like contact my
aunts and all that stuff and find out more about my.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
Dad's really moving for you incredibly. So yeah, wait, did
you watch it with your wife? Do you watch it
with jam Yeah? When you start bawling, does she go
in the room the room and get a drink?

Speaker 7 (27:05):
She starts rolling her eyes.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yes, No, like I'm gonna get a hot dog.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
And a drink. I'll come back when you're ready.

Speaker 7 (27:14):
Well, that's one of the things, you know, and watching
this that that that brings it up and makes me
kind of pretty unashamed about it too. Is because Billy
Joel he put everything who he is and what he wants,
he expresses it out there. He just does it in
his way. My dad never did that, and and you know,
those differences. I'm incredibly proud of the fact that I'm
a I'm a pretty. I can be emotional guy and
watching things and affected by it, and and you know.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
It's easy to go. That's not mena send me in
my eye. But you know what, no, to me, that's
not what living is.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
That's right, that's great. I wish I was like that. Uh,
Mark's like that. Yeah, Mark will cry with you.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
I have.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
I feel like I'm always on the verge of crying. Actually,
it's a weird thing, is that right? I really do.
I'm not right this week. This week's been pretty good
so far. But uh, I do. I very move moved
by things. I'm very moved by people's stories. I'm very
moved by situations.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
I don't know. I find myself easily moved to tears.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
Yeah, we should do a segment next week where we
have callers call up and see if they can make
you cry.

Speaker 13 (28:14):
I love that. I love that you'd be surprised, you
really would. I think I could lay a few stories
on you. I think so get you wait A very
empathic that way. It's sort of a so.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
I am, I am too, I'm with you. I'm I
guess I'm not.

Speaker 8 (28:31):
Oh my gosh, hashtag team sensitive.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
Oh this is it. There's always one cynical one. That's right,
Oh police.

Speaker 7 (28:41):
What everybody else say? Let me say something in contradiction,
telling I, I was.

Speaker 8 (28:47):
Just trying to like your name your new band.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
That's great, That is great.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
I love the fact that we just start hammering each
other now at first start, it's like.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
Oh, croach is great, and.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
It's like everyone had respect for you being so emotional.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
Yeah, right, he seems sensitive.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
Hashtag's okay.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
It's so much better for radio. It's a great family.
I love Mike Conway family.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
And then they'll text each other. Sorry, was that too rough?

Speaker 3 (29:20):
I love you, Hashtag just kidding. Right.

Speaker 11 (29:26):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
Ozzy Osbourne has passed away, very very sad. There are
a lot of people gathered around Ozzy's star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame, and I think that's sort of
an odd thing to do. You know, when somebody dies,
you go to their star on the Walk of Fame.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
I think some people process the loss that way, or
maybe it's a community that meets there around the star.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
You know, you kind of share your feelings. I don't know,
that's not a Weirdo's parade, I don't think so okay,
all right, then I'll go.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
Ozzy Osbourne passed away, and just literally a week ago,
his daughter Kelly got very angry and said, my dad's
not dying. You know, these people are blowing this out
of proportion, and I understand what she was doing. When
when you're the daughter and your dad's dying, it is
an unimaginable loss. You know, daughters have a great connection

(30:23):
with their dads, like sons have a great connection with
their moms. You know, whatever you see somebody who hits
a World Series winning home run or a Super Bowl
catch in football, or wins the Stanley Cup, well that's
not true. In football and baseball, they always thank their mom.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
It was my mom, my mom. In hockey, it's their dad.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
But Ozzy Osbourne passed away and people are remembering him
on Hollywood Boulevard and what a great, great artist he was.
Unbelievable Ozzy Osbourne. So many people are out here.

Speaker 12 (30:58):
We're live in Hollywood at Oz the Osbourne's star on
the Walk of Fame, and look at this. There are flowers,
there are candles, and someone just put down this big wreath.
But really a lot of media attention from around the
world right now.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
A three D house of weirdos too have shown up
at the Star.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
So there's some extreme people. I'm sure they're out there.

Speaker 12 (31:20):
As you see, they have heavy hearts, but they're also
celebrating Ozzy's life. Fans full of love for Ozzy Osbourne.

Speaker 4 (31:28):
Before the ball was the Kardashians, there.

Speaker 12 (31:30):
Was the Osbourne's and everybody knew them from that show exactly.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
It opened the door.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
That was a great show. Yeah, the Osbourne you know,
reality show was awesome. I never missed that.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
My friend produced that. I think John, Yeah, she did that.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
That was really and I thought one of the things
that they did if you watch that show and so
you kind of know it's done in humor, is when
Ozzie would walk in, you'd always hear that bump bump,
you know.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
What I mean.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
It was really kind of it. Let you know, hey,
we're all in on the fun.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
And you try to figure out what he said.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
Into the street rock and roll.

Speaker 12 (32:09):
Greg new Ozzie and sharing of all the celebrities he's met.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
He seemed like a very sweet man on that show.
At Ozzy Osbourne, absolutely right.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
Ozzy was one of his favorites.

Speaker 4 (32:19):
I was formerly the Goodwill ambassador for Beverly Hills and
I used to greet people from all around the world
and celebrities as well, and I used to help them
shop On'mrodale Drive.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
Okay, here we go, three D House of Nuts.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
Goodwill ambassador for Beverly Hills.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
I was a good Will ambassador for Beverly Hills.

Speaker 4 (32:36):
I used to greet people from all around the world
and celebrities as well, and I used to help them
shop on Rodale Drive.

Speaker 3 (32:43):
This was taken about twenty five years ago.

Speaker 12 (32:45):
Okay, so that photo looks like it was just taken yesterday,
but as you mentioned decades ago.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
Yeah, oh yeah, because it was taken yesterday. Sorry I
got the wrong photo yesterday.

Speaker 12 (32:54):
But as you mentioned decades ago. Yeah, you can feel
the energy of Ozzy Osbourne right there totally.

Speaker 4 (32:59):
I mean he was just always vivacious and just full
of energy and down to earth person, very down to earth.

Speaker 12 (33:08):
Ozzy and Black Sabbath inspired millions of musicians like Jay
who plays bass.

Speaker 4 (33:13):
Well.

Speaker 12 (33:13):
I got to see them the first time back home
in Texas when they were prevy to when their album
Masters of Reality. Oh what a great album thirteen studio albums,
the first eight when platinum five Grammy Awards, while heavy
metal band Black Sabbath entered the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame in two thousand and six.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
What a great career, Ozzy Osbourne. All right, Mark, you
have a great podcast. We got about thirty seconds.

Speaker 6 (33:38):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
It's The Mark Thompson Show. A lot of politics, news stuff.
It's on YouTube. It's also on the iHeartRadio app as
an audio podcast. It's on Spotify and iTunes to center.
But yeah, YouTube every day live from eleven to Mark
Thompson Show.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
The Mark Thompson Show. All right, man, bub this is
still my favorite place on art. You're the best. All right.
We're live on PFI.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Please a show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now
you can always hear us live on KFI Am six
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