November 26, 2025 • 35 mins
Mark Thompson breaks down why Thanksgiving costs are still rising despite cheaper turkey, celebrate thousands receiving meals and services along Skid Row, and spotlight Hope the Mission’s 10th Annual Drumstick Dash. We also run through which stores are open or closed on the holiday, share smart strategies for negotiating your bills—including Mark Thompson admitting his own bargaining weakness—and explore what it means to live paycheck to paycheck. Plus, hear why the Transportation Secretary says you should always dress better when you fly.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KMF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Mark Thompson sitting in for Tim Conway Junior. I hope
you're managing wherever you're going. I just imagine the migration
to wherever you need to be for tomorrow may have
already started, and I was just seeing you insane numbers
on flights.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
And air travel.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
The other thing that is being spoken of is the
cost of Thanksgiving this this year. They are all kinds
of expenses that you're hearing from all sides. Are not
as expensive as last year, more expensive than last year.
Turkeys are less money, but everything I barked from a
(00:50):
turkey is more money. So it's a little hard to navigate.
But it does appear as though costs are rising in
many ways.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
As Southern California, it's head to the growth restore to
stock up on all the items they'll need to prepare
the typical Thanksgiving feast a likely come. Is no surprise
at all that many of the items on their lists
are a lot more expensive than they were last year.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
As suspense enough, in the bakery department, everything's rising there,
definitely it has gone up compared to last year or
two years ago.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
According I like that for a drop.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Everything's expensive this year written a suspens now, I.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Can I get that as a drop? Mark?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Can you break that out for me? Did I love it?
Speaker 5 (01:34):
A suspense enough?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I think that.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I just think that is a great drop. I want that.
I want to use it on my YouTube show. I
want to use it on this show for the rest
of this show.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
Me when I get my iced coffee at Starbucks.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I'm telling about, oh that there's just nothing but Mark
up at Starbucks in a suspense enough? All right? So
uh you'll you'll break it out for me, Mario.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
All right, here we go anyway back to the expensive
because you know everything is expensive.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Now wear it in a suspense and now the bakery department.
Everything's rising there. Definitely. It has gone up compared to
last year or two years ago.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, whole milk is
up over sixteen percent, frozen peas over seventeen percent, sweet
potatoes over a third more expensive than last year.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Wow, is that right? That is insane. Peas are seventeen
percent percent more expensive than last year, and sweet potatoes
are are thirty percent more expensive.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
I would have know I don't need vegetables, So how
dare you?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
That is my Thanksgiving dinner?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Rett Frozen peas over seventeen percent, sweet potatoes over a
third more expensive than last year, carrots and celery over
sixty percent more than last year. However, the biggest ticket item,
the turkey, is significantly cheaper than it was last year.
We spoke with doctor Lars Perner, a marketing professor at USC.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
What has changed year to year with the price to turkey.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
Well, this time we don't have the same birch flu
shortage that we had previously.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
If you remember last year we were in the middle
of the bird flu outbreak, and with turkey that much
less expensive this year, it actually is bringing the overall
price of the Thanksgiving feast down a bit.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
So this is really the way they play with the numbers.
So when they say it's cheaper this year, they're talking
about turkey's being less expensive than last year because of
this world event, right, this sort of a force masure event,
this act of god event of the bird flu having
(03:44):
forced farmers to call their herds, and you end up
with the price. You know, it's supply and demand situation.
The demand is what it always is. The supply is
reduced and turkeys are more expensive. This year you don't
have the bird flu turkey. He's plentiful, so that price
comes down. But everything else is insanely expensive compared to
(04:08):
last year.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
But when it comes to other Thanksgiving related costs, especially
to those who travel, there seems to be a significant
jump compared to last year.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I'm from Oregon.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
I usually find of kids, but it was just too
expressive to do it this year.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Usually we have like about two family members that come
to you do Thanksgiving with us. This year we just
got it down to about four people.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Experts also say some might be cutting back on Thanksgiving
because of what they fear they might have to spend
this year.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
On Christmas.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
We know that toys are going to like the cost
a great deal more this year because of tariffs, and
I also suspect a lot of people are quite releatant
in spending, not necessarily because the price increases have kicked
in yet, but more because they're failful and don't know
what the net effect would be and what things are
going to look like in the coming year.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Sounds awful, really really rough.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
It's a situation that appears to be escalating. That is
to say, cost appears to be escalating. There are some
things happening, ways to navigate to holidays if you must,
to try to if you really are in need, provide
(05:30):
and to help out those in need. There's a skid
Row Thanksgiving that they do every year. I think they're
doing here again.
Speaker 8 (05:36):
In ninety years.
Speaker 9 (05:37):
The la Mission has been serving the day before Thanksgiving
a meal.
Speaker 10 (05:42):
And also services as well. Let me step out of
the way here.
Speaker 9 (05:45):
Thousands of people are going to be showing up or
to be fed, to get back that sense of community
as well as get services and get some un much
needed clothing as well.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Now, the tradeoff is that you have to listen to
that music if you're on skid Row for the entire
length of the Thanksgiving county.
Speaker 9 (06:01):
Eighty nine years to be exact, as the Mission's been
doing this here, they're going to serve about twenty five
hundred people and then another seventy five hundred people in
the area.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
But here's the situation.
Speaker 9 (06:13):
According to the folks we talked to with the Mission,
the need is growing.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I mean, this is the reality that the few fewer
and fewer. I just think that more and more people
need assistance, and it's a sad fact. And there are
fewer and fewer places together, definitely a need.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
During our last census count home a census count, I
want to say a number was around seventy five thousand plus,
and so dealing with food and security here in La County,
high cost of rent, people just can't afford to eat.
Speaker 11 (06:47):
I'm thankful that I rebonded with God when I just
fell by I lost everything, family and friends and work,
you know. So I'm glad that somehow I'm blessed with
having somewhere to live, because I see what's happening out
and in the streets and it's not fun, you know.
(07:07):
So I'm just glad that I'm in the chapter where
I can't be safe.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And this chef again was telling you is there is
a great need.
Speaker 9 (07:14):
More than ten thousand people are going to be fed
to a twenty five hundred here.
Speaker 10 (07:19):
The resk in the area and the only.
Speaker 9 (07:21):
Mission is teaming up with Pope Mission. They're teaming up
together because the need is growing.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
So that's the situation. The need is growing. By the way,
there's a it's a marathon or a race. Tomorrow, the
tenth year they're doing this, Hope the Mission is putting
on the Drumstick Dash. It's the largest five k and
ten k in La County. It is tomorrow Thanksgiving Day.
(07:47):
Eight thousand participants, more than two hundred and fifty volunteers.
It's in an official certified five k to ten k course.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
It should be a lot of fun. They say.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
There'll be a dance contest, a costume contest, a little
Gobbler's race for kids, and that will actually kick off
the whole thing at seven forty five tomorrow morning. It's
a big fundraiser for Hope the Mission and the funds
raised aim to provide three million hot meals to unsheltered
families across La County. So it'll be beginning I think
(08:22):
people collecting there at six am, but the race kicks
off at eight thirty in the morning at the North
Hollywood Redline Orange Line station that's on Chandler in North Hollywood. Again,
it's the Hope the Mission Drumstick Dash tomorrow morning. You
can google it and find out more information. But it
(08:42):
seems like something that could be a.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Cause worth supporting.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
You know, if you're in the mood a five to
ten k and you raise some money for a good cause.
When we come back, there are ways to save money
and maybe even some deals. We'll get into that as
we continue. We're still watching the situation in Washington. As
developments warrant, we will of course update that situation with
(09:12):
the National Guardsman and what is known. I Leen is
standing by in the newsroom. She'll do a break right now.
But should anything more break in that area with any
kind of news events, of course we'll have it for
you here at KFI Thompson for Conway where KFI AM
six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 12 (09:28):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Mark Thompson for Tim Conway Junior. What a gorgeous day
in southern California. Man, I think it was eighty degrees today.
I thought I saw that somewhere. I mean somewhere official.
I think I saw it. And tomorrow's supposed to be
very mild also then it gets cooler toward the weekend.
Speaker 13 (09:54):
Was amazing. I did not want to come into this
little dark closet today.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
It is true, and it was one of those things
you just thought, Wow, we've had all that rain also,
which kind of is good in that Sometimes in November,
when you get those dry, warm days, you think.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Man, we need rain. We haven't had it in months.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
But then coming off those storms, you feel like, wow,
we deserve a great, beautiful southern California day like today.
Speaker 14 (10:24):
And the air feels cleaner.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
For some reason, I think it is cleaner, and I think,
I mean, I'm just judging by visibilities, you know, I mean,
all that particulate matter I think has just been churned out.
But it was really beautiful and tomorrow same story.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
You know. I grew up in Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
East Coast cold, you know, freezing rain, sleet, all of that.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Maybe November would.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Be mild if it's in the fifties, let's say, maybe
sixty degrees. As winter settles in and you get toward Christmas,
it's cold and it's a wet cold. And I always dreamt,
I mean, I always dreamt of coming to southern California.
I used to watch football games, and when I'd see
(11:13):
the football games come on later in the east, the
sun is still shining here. It was dark back east,
and I see all the people in their T shirts,
and it just looked like the greatest life and the
California brand, you know, the beach and everything kicked back
(11:37):
in California. It's just a great brand. And I dreamt
always of coming here. And I'll tell you that every Christmas.
And this is because I still get the paper, which
I know nobody gets anymore, but I still get it
because I grew up with the newspaper. I go out
and I get that paper on Christmas morning and I'm
in jeans and a T shirt and it's not even chili,
(11:59):
and I'm thinking, Man, dreams come true.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
It's that simple.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I love Southern California, not just the weather, but the
weather is a big part of it. It is a
wonderful place to live.
Speaker 13 (12:13):
All these people that move away, like there are all
these people that move to Texas and I'm from Texas.
They move there thinking, oh, it's going to be so
much better there, and I just predict they're going to
come back.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Well, I mean, you're so spoiled with the weather.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
It is true, we get I mean, you get drunk
on the weather here and it does make you overlook
a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I know La has issues and Conway and I talk
about it all the time, and California's got issues, and
now I think those issues will be amplified by all
kinds of fiscal crises that are setting in both in
La County and La City and in California. It's generally
but I think it really is a special place, and
(12:51):
there's an attitude in California. There's an inclusion in California.
I really like it. But the weather is so forgiving.
I mean again, this is accepting the horribleness of like
Santa Ana events, and you know, you know the flooding issues,
so please don't obviously, weather extremes can you know, ruin lives.
Speaker 13 (13:13):
But that's everywhere. I mean, you go to Texas, like
I said, there's tornadoes. I mean I've covered severe, horrible,
deadly tornadoes. It just happens.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah, in Texas, you know that they're not on the
national electric grid. So when the cold weather it hits there,
you'll remember that whole thing where Ted Cruz went to
Mexico because it.
Speaker 13 (13:30):
Was just like poor mom didn't have any heat for days.
It was horrible.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yeah, I don't think the Texas legislature is really you know,
so much better than the California legislature. And I don't
think the California I don't think much of the California legislature.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
But I think that you're right.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
The other thing that's happening in Texas is so many
Californians and others have moved there, but a lot from California.
That the price of housing is doing what it's going
way up. It's much more expensive now in Texas than.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
It used to be.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Yeah, so there's this idea. We have a grass's greener
kind of view anyway, And I know a lot of
people are moving to Nashville. Nashville has become sort of
Hollywood East, and the people are moving to Nashville lot
of the time. They've got money, you know, they're in
the entertainment industry. They've done well, producers, talent, and Nashville
(14:17):
is sort of growing up at Nashville's now beginning to
resent the infusion of Californians, even though they've got money,
even though they're rich, you know, Hollywood people.
Speaker 13 (14:28):
They're housing markets skyrocket, adds to them, exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Their housing market is skyrocket.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Apparently, the traffic situation has become far more problematic. So
even there in Nashville, and I was just there a
few months ago, and I love it there. I just
love the music. There's music everywhere. Everybody's an incredibly talented person.
They have live music at the airport, and you it's like,
(14:55):
you know, listening to the recording artist of your choice,
spin the wheel. It's incredible. And these people are busking
at the airport.
Speaker 14 (15:05):
So much talent.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Incredible.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
So but again, when you talk about the cost of everything,
it's it's expensive, you know what I mean. Nashville is
an expensive place to live. And as was once said,
you know, everything's getting more expensive.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Isn't it. Is that what you said, Mario? Isn't that
what was said? Wow? Spensive? Okay, and there you go.
All right, I thought you were standing by.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I thought we were I thought we we worked that
out and the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
He said, No, don't worry, man, I got it. I
got it. I'm gonna be I'm gonna work it out.
Just when I was in the middle of editing something,
I was hitting you over the head with the queue
no podcast this weekend. All right, I'm going to that's
a yellow card, but it's not a red card. All right.
But that's the point.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Even in places like Nashville and in an Inexis, everything
is getting a little more expensive. When we come back.
It's wild that you can actually negotiate in ways that
you may not have thought you could on prices. We'll
(16:16):
talk about that next. Here's the Conway Show. Thompson sitting
in on KFI AM six fort whore live everywhere in
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 12 (16:24):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
You're live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app. Mark Thompson
for Tim Conway Junior.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
We were it in a suspense and everything.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Is expensive now, that's exactly right. But there's one thing
that's free, and that's your participation in the pasta Thon
fifteenth annual Chef Bruno's charity, Katarina's Club Imagine fifteen years
have been doing the Pastathon thanks to Michelle Cube and
Chef Bruno getting all of these people together to help
(16:59):
provide I had more than twenty five thousand meals every
week to kids in need in southern California. Your generosity,
of course, makes it all happen. And we're doing a
lot broadcast to help showcase your generosity. It's Giving Tuesday,
This coming Tuesday, December second, five am to eight pm
at the Anaheim White House, right there at eight eighty
(17:19):
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Hang out for all of the shows. That's right, we'll
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I'll be down there with Conway. If you want to
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you know you can bid on various special experiences. Private
backyard barbecue with Bill Handle and Lindsey Handle and Neil Savedra. Wow,
(18:27):
that sounds oddly that's not some swingers thing, I hope
is it. I mean it's I say, private barbecue with
Bill and Lindsay Handle and Nil Savedra. It just sounds
very of course it's a private backyard barbecue. Of course
you said it's a backyard barbecue. I assume it's private.
I just want always now there's no code in there. Anyway,
(18:51):
it's a special that really is a special event. And
I think the Fork Report will be broadcasting live as
well from the at same private barbecue. Anyway, it's a
priceless kind of offer. You can bid and the minimum
bid on that is five thousand dollars. There's a Dodger
(19:12):
game with Gary and Shannon. There is an hour you
can co host an hour with John Cobel. That's a
thousand dollars minimum bid. But again, go to the Pastathon
and you can check all of this stuff out. Kfi's
pastathon website is kfiam six forty dot com slash Pastathon
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and you can bid on all of these auction items
and good luck. Whole Foods will be open in many
places with modified hours tomorrow from seven am to one pm.
Sprouts stores will be open from seven am to two pm.
CBS hours vary, but most stores will close at five pm.
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Pharmacies are going to to close at two o'clock in
the afternoon. Walgreens, the chain will close most of its
stores on Thanksgiving, but twenty four hour locations are going
to remain open for essential pharmacy services. Kroger, which owns
Ralph's and Food for Less, those stores will be open
on Thanksgiving Day, closing at five pm. Most pharmacies will
(20:22):
be closed on Thanksgiving Day. Albertson's hours vary, most stores
will close at four pm, and Vaughn's again hours vary,
but most stores there will close at four pm. Closed
completely on Thanksgiving. Trader Joe's, Costco, Target, Walmart, Aldi, Bjay's
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Wholesale Club, Sam's Club closed on Thanksgiving. They'll reopen day
after Thanksgiving. Can you actually negotiate bills at a time
time when things are so very expensive? In a suspense
and now, can you negotiate bills?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
The answer is yes.
Speaker 15 (21:10):
The old saying it doesn't hurt to ask also applies
to your finances. Nerd Wallet's personal finance expert Kim Palmer
showed us how to negotiate to save money.
Speaker 16 (21:20):
So we're talking about phone bills, cable bills, even subscriptions.
It's always worth calling and asking if you can get
a better deal, because the worst thing that can happen
is that they say no and you've just lost five minutes.
But it's possible that they say yes and you walk
away with savings.
Speaker 14 (21:37):
Is there any sort.
Speaker 15 (21:37):
Of trick in what you should say to them when
you're asking for this, Well.
Speaker 16 (21:41):
The biggest trick is to go in with information. You
want to first check if there are better deals out
there for similar services, because that gives you some empowerment
to say, hey, I could get this better deal somewhere else.
Can you match that? Another trick to consider is to say, hey,
I'm considering canceling my service because it's just too expensive,
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And that word cancel triggers some special offers in many
cases if you're struggling with your fine.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
I remember that that was the case. I actually was
trying to cancel and I called and I I said, according,
now I'm gonna come canceling the service.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I've had enough of this. This is I'm no more.
And I canceled whatever.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
It was DirecTV Spectrum one of those you know, And
I called and they put they said, wait one second,
of course, well you know, certainly, you know you can
cancel and there won't be a problem.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Let me take care of it.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
But before you cancel, let me just take you over
to the I think they were called the retention department
or something, and they literally were called retention, I believe,
and they threw more stuff at me to the point
that I thought, all right, I won't cancel after all.
I mean, so it does work that if you mentioned
that word cancel, it does change the arithmetic on the conversation.
Speaker 16 (22:56):
Some special offers In many cases, if.
Speaker 15 (22:58):
You're struggling with your fine answers, should you be open
about that?
Speaker 16 (23:01):
You should absolutely be open about your financial struggles, because
often there are things called hardship programs where the service
can give you a special credit or a special discount
because you're going through a hard financial time.
Speaker 15 (23:16):
Aside from phone and cable bills, Kim suggests negotiating down
a host of bills, including your cell phone, car insurance,
home security, newspaper subscriptions, gym memberships, utilities, bundled services, even
credit card interest rates.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
What are you kidding me? You can negotiate down all
those things? Are you kidding? Insurance, cell phone utilities. This
is amazing to me.
Speaker 14 (23:49):
Car insurance, home security, car insurance.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
My car insurance. They won't move off. I pay a
jillion dollars in car insurance for some moving violation from
you know, wrongly accused. Of course, it was a witch hunt.
Speaker 15 (24:09):
Car insurance, home security, newspaper subscriptions, gym memberships, utilities, bundled services,
even credit card interest rates.
Speaker 16 (24:18):
With credit cards, a lot depends on your history with
the credit card issuer. So if you are a longtime
loyal customer, you've always paid on time, and now suddenly
you're facing some financial hardship, you'll be in a better
position as a loyal and long term customer.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I mean, I can see that. Okay, I understand that
maybe you know you could work out a payment plan
or something, but well, it seems they seem immovable on
some of those other areas that they say you can negotiate,
but wow, maybe take a shot get.
Speaker 14 (24:48):
Them to work with you.
Speaker 15 (24:49):
You can even haggle over prices at major retailers.
Speaker 16 (24:52):
One of the best types to negotiate is when you're
in a store, because often store clerks have the power
to give you a lower price, especially if they're there
is a floor model, there.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Is a what I mean, So you're telling me that
like Rudy there, who is like working on the weekends
at Nordstrom, has the power to negotiate down the amount
you're paying.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
That's extraordinary to me.
Speaker 16 (25:15):
One of the best types to negotiate is when you're
in a store, because often store clerks have the power
to give you a lower price, especially if there is
a floor model, there is a mark or some kind
of minor damage on an item, but you still want it.
You can often ask for and receive a discount.
Speaker 15 (25:33):
And there are bill negotiation services that will do this
for you. They typically take about fifty percent of what
you say, but if you're short on time, it could
still be worth the money.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I am. I'm not a good negotiator at all. I'm not.
It scares me.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I'm a conflict averse, so already when I'm into it
back and forth, I'm uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
I just don't.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
I don't like it, not even at flea markets or
anything or parking lot.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
I tried to with Yeah, it's not as though I've
never done it, but I'm just uncomfortable with it. I
feel like I don't know it's very It's a problem
for me. I just don't like to disappoint people. I think,
you know what I mean. I really bond with people.
I try to interact. I know it's not conscious, it
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just is happening. I'm almost embarrassed at how bad at
it I am.
Speaker 14 (26:26):
So you would not do well at a Turkish bizarre.
Speaker 8 (26:28):
No.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I was in Egypt many years ago, and tell you
this real quick, and I bought a box with all
kinds of inlay. It was very beautiful. And I forget
what I paid for it. Now, let's just say I
paid sixty dollars for it. And I went back to
the bus where we were all there, and everybody had
been turned loose in the bazaar right, And I said
(26:53):
to the lady who was leading the tour, She said,
what did you get? And I said, oh, I got
this really nice box. And I opened it up and
she said, you pay for it? I said sixty dollars.
She said, let's go back. I want to I want
to take you back to you. She said, could you
find the place I want to go back? We're going
to get you some money back. That's you paid too much.
Speaker 14 (27:12):
What was it worth?
Speaker 1 (27:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
I think she said you should probably could get it
for thirty or twenty and I but you know again,
And that was a situation where they brought out the
box that I wanted, and then I said, oh, that's
too expensive. And then they started bringing out well how
about this box, and one was bigger, one was smaller,
and I lost myself in all the different boxes they
brought out. We weren't even negotiating over the box that
(27:35):
I wanted anymore. Now there's so many boxes in play
that I just lost the plot. So they saw me coming.
Speaker 14 (27:43):
You need someone's day.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I I'm telling you, I need this person to, you know,
help me with the you know, I may have to
farm it out to somebody suspense now, and that's everything
is expensive. So all right, I've confessed. Thank you my
greatest weakness. Uh Mark Thompson for Tim Conway Junior. We
continue KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 12 (28:08):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
If you are traveling, we are being urged if we're
traveling by air to dress it up.
Speaker 10 (28:22):
Is there a fashion revolution underway at airports this Thanksgiving,
These travelers are taking extra care to look stylish.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
You wanted to go looking nice?
Speaker 14 (28:31):
Yes, it makes me feel good.
Speaker 10 (28:33):
US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is asking people to dress
better when they fly on. Let's try not to wear
slippers in and in pajamas as we come to the airport.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
His request is being the slippers there are fashion.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
The slippers and uh, pajamas thing is kind of a
thing now. I feel like that's a very American way
to go. Headphones, hoodie, pajamas, slippers, Yeah, glasses, all of
that's you, ritchie, that's your Yeah. You know back in
(29:05):
the sixties, uh huh, they used to coat and tie
it no way, Yeah, I mean look at the pictures.
People were in coat and tie. Of course they were
also smoking and drinking. I mean it was just a
different time. Yeah, a kind of a different time.
Speaker 8 (29:20):
And pajamas as we come to the airport.
Speaker 10 (29:23):
His request is being met with, shall we say, mixed reviews.
Speaker 17 (29:26):
If I wonder if if Sean Duffy would say that
if he had to sit through it to nine hour
flight and a brin a girdle, I fly.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
For there's something about joy behar with that New York thing.
I love New Yorkers. I wonder if Sean Sean Duffy
would say that if he had to sit there for
ninef hours, I just love New Yorkers with that in
your face, you know what I mean? The attitude is magic.
Speaker 17 (29:52):
If Sean Duffy would say that if he had to
sit through it to nine hour flight and a brin
a girdle. I fly four times a week. Sometime I
am tired of seeing people's cheeks.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Come fly with me.
Speaker 10 (30:05):
Duffy's request to look spiffy while traveling hearkens back to
a time when women looked elegant and pearls and dresses
while flying men and children were decked out in suits.
It was also a time when airplanes were more spacious,
with five more inches of legroom, and passengers were treated
to goreme meals.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Yeah, yeah, that is really also part of the equation.
I mean, I was supposed to dress up for being
locked into what is as close to a hostage situation
as I can possibly imagine. Everything from the waiting area
to the way that you were you're treated by TSA
I mean, and then finally you make it into your
seat and it's a hunger's game kind of run for
(30:44):
the overhead rack space, and I mean everything's just.
Speaker 14 (30:47):
Awful and just a bag of crackers.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
If you lucky, thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
There's absolutely no service, and they treat you like their
prison guards, some of them, I mean, and by the way,
many are so tolerant.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Please don't get me wrong.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
In fact, I think being a flight attendant now, where
everybody you know is live streaming and they're looking for
some kind of performance moment and they're defiant and they're jerky,
I think being a please do mist understand me. Being
one of those flight attendants now is rough. But that said,
I mean there can be a lot of attitude coming
(31:22):
from flight attendants as well. I'm just saying, you know,
dressing up for this like it's some kind of banquet
that you're attending seems to me like a big ask.
Speaker 10 (31:35):
It was also a time when airplanes were more spacious,
with five more inches of leg room, and passengers were
treated to gourmet meals.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
So how are passengers.
Speaker 10 (31:43):
Responding today to the government's call to dress up? At
Newark Airport, we found this traveler in a suit.
Speaker 15 (31:50):
It's a more pleasant public experience if one is dressing up,
especially around holiday time.
Speaker 10 (31:55):
At LAX, this woman says she concurs with the transportation
secretary present class. It's time this mom and daughter are split.
Mom's dressed in high end knitwear. Daughter is in pajamas.
Your daughter is in what pajamas?
Speaker 14 (32:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 15 (32:11):
Well, I don't agree with honestly, I think it's more
important to be comfortable on a plane so you can
like sleep.
Speaker 10 (32:15):
Other passengers also say they will stick to wearing comfy
clothes while flying.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Blways.
Speaker 8 (32:20):
Suits every day for work, so there's no way I
would I would wear one on a plane.
Speaker 15 (32:24):
I wouldn't dress up for a car ride. I wouldn't
dress up to get on the bus, So why would
I do any different for a clean fight.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
I mean, I hate to say it, but she's kind
of right. I mean, it's a long, brutal experience. You
definitely want to be comfortable. You could dress it up
a little richie, you can kind of. I mean, nah, no,
you really you're committed to that. I'm bumming it up
Ellen all the time.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
Also, while we're on the top of flying and everything,
just wear socks if you're gonna wear slippers, because no
socks and exposure feet not it.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
That is so gross one hundred percent with you on that.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I mean, it really is.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
I mean I understand wanting to be comfortable, but there's
no reason to sort of assert yourself that way. Huh
with the bare feet, putting the bare feet up on
the you know, the rest, Yeah, on the wall.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
It's just like, yeah, really man, I don't.
Speaker 13 (33:21):
Even want to see socks, to be honest, because they're
probably steamy after walking through the airport.
Speaker 14 (33:26):
I just think it's gross.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Yeah, I mean I understand.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Also, there's some expansion of your you know, with the
flight and everything. I can see taking your shoes off.
I don't do it, but I could see doing it.
Speaker 14 (33:36):
I don't know anymore.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
I don't really know. I don't have I don't you know,
I don't I don't know. I don't do it. I
don't know.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
I know.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
I would tell you, I say, I take them off.
I tell you no, I think it. Somebody can tell
me whether or not it's like healthy to take them off,
you should take them off, or is there a you
know what I mean, there's that expansion you're supposed to
get up on a flight, like you're not supposed to
sit there the whole time, because I guess there can
be some kind of blood clots that develop, like and
yet I don't do that either.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
I don't get up.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
Bellioll told me before I went to Spain this past summer,
She's like, you need to get some compression socks. And
it's like for what she's like for you, so you
can circulate your blood as you're a flying x y
amount of time on the air.
Speaker 14 (34:15):
And I think you're young enough for You're okay.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Yeah, you're probably fine because of your your youth, but
you know, but your borderline like another couple of years,
You've better get those compression socks.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Yeah, that's right. I lean.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
I think you're okay too, but you know, never heard
to bring the compression socks. But anyway, apparently they're not
going to be joined by any kind of dressing up
that Richie's going to do. I'm kind of with Jorge
Behar on this one. I think you want to kind
of be comfortable. But I always shower. I always, like,
(34:46):
I've never you know, I think that there's just a
certain basic decency for the people who are around me
that I'm trying to always represent. But I'm not into
legislating it. It just seems like the right kind of
social compact to make, you know, but I'm not. And
I also completely understand what your your your deal, Richie,
(35:07):
I get it.
Speaker 13 (35:08):
So you know, it used to be comfort and luxury
and now we've got these cramp seats.
Speaker 14 (35:14):
It's far from luxurious, right. Why am I dressing up right?
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Don't cram me in like this, treat me, you know,
like crap. You know, heard me in and out like coming.
You dress up right and then tell me to dress
up for it. It just it ain't cool. So we continue.
The Power Hour is next. It's the Conway Show. Mark
Thompson's sitting in for Tim on KFI AM six forty
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Conway Show on demand on the iHeart Radio app. Now
you can always hear us live on KFI AM six
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on demand on the iHeart Radio app.
It's KMF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Mark Thompson sitting in for Tim Conway Junior. I hope
you're managing wherever you're going. I just imagine the migration
to wherever you need to be for tomorrow may have
already started, and I was just seeing you insane numbers
on flights.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
And air travel.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
The other thing that is being spoken of is the
cost of Thanksgiving this this year. They are all kinds
of expenses that you're hearing from all sides. Are not
as expensive as last year, more expensive than last year.
Turkeys are less money, but everything I barked from a
(00:50):
turkey is more money. So it's a little hard to navigate.
But it does appear as though costs are rising in
many ways.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
As Southern California, it's head to the growth restore to
stock up on all the items they'll need to prepare
the typical Thanksgiving feast a likely come. Is no surprise
at all that many of the items on their lists
are a lot more expensive than they were last year.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
As suspense enough, in the bakery department, everything's rising there,
definitely it has gone up compared to last year or
two years ago.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
According I like that for a drop.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Everything's expensive this year written a suspens now, I.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Can I get that as a drop? Mark?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Can you break that out for me? Did I love it?
Speaker 5 (01:34):
A suspense enough?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I think that.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I just think that is a great drop. I want that.
I want to use it on my YouTube show. I
want to use it on this show for the rest
of this show.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
Me when I get my iced coffee at Starbucks.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I'm telling about, oh that there's just nothing but Mark
up at Starbucks in a suspense enough? All right? So
uh you'll you'll break it out for me, Mario.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
All right, here we go anyway back to the expensive
because you know everything is expensive.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Now wear it in a suspense and now the bakery department.
Everything's rising there. Definitely. It has gone up compared to
last year or two years ago.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, whole milk is
up over sixteen percent, frozen peas over seventeen percent, sweet
potatoes over a third more expensive than last year.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Wow, is that right? That is insane. Peas are seventeen
percent percent more expensive than last year, and sweet potatoes
are are thirty percent more expensive.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
I would have know I don't need vegetables, So how
dare you?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
That is my Thanksgiving dinner?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Rett Frozen peas over seventeen percent, sweet potatoes over a
third more expensive than last year, carrots and celery over
sixty percent more than last year. However, the biggest ticket item,
the turkey, is significantly cheaper than it was last year.
We spoke with doctor Lars Perner, a marketing professor at USC.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
What has changed year to year with the price to turkey.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
Well, this time we don't have the same birch flu
shortage that we had previously.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
If you remember last year we were in the middle
of the bird flu outbreak, and with turkey that much
less expensive this year, it actually is bringing the overall
price of the Thanksgiving feast down a bit.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
So this is really the way they play with the numbers.
So when they say it's cheaper this year, they're talking
about turkey's being less expensive than last year because of
this world event, right, this sort of a force masure event,
this act of god event of the bird flu having
(03:44):
forced farmers to call their herds, and you end up
with the price. You know, it's supply and demand situation.
The demand is what it always is. The supply is
reduced and turkeys are more expensive. This year you don't
have the bird flu turkey. He's plentiful, so that price
comes down. But everything else is insanely expensive compared to
(04:08):
last year.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
But when it comes to other Thanksgiving related costs, especially
to those who travel, there seems to be a significant
jump compared to last year.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I'm from Oregon.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
I usually find of kids, but it was just too
expressive to do it this year.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Usually we have like about two family members that come
to you do Thanksgiving with us. This year we just
got it down to about four people.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Experts also say some might be cutting back on Thanksgiving
because of what they fear they might have to spend
this year.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
On Christmas.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
We know that toys are going to like the cost
a great deal more this year because of tariffs, and
I also suspect a lot of people are quite releatant
in spending, not necessarily because the price increases have kicked
in yet, but more because they're failful and don't know
what the net effect would be and what things are
going to look like in the coming year.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Sounds awful, really really rough.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
It's a situation that appears to be escalating. That is
to say, cost appears to be escalating. There are some
things happening, ways to navigate to holidays if you must,
to try to if you really are in need, provide
(05:30):
and to help out those in need. There's a skid
Row Thanksgiving that they do every year. I think they're
doing here again.
Speaker 8 (05:36):
In ninety years.
Speaker 9 (05:37):
The la Mission has been serving the day before Thanksgiving
a meal.
Speaker 10 (05:42):
And also services as well. Let me step out of
the way here.
Speaker 9 (05:45):
Thousands of people are going to be showing up or
to be fed, to get back that sense of community
as well as get services and get some un much
needed clothing as well.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Now, the tradeoff is that you have to listen to
that music if you're on skid Row for the entire
length of the Thanksgiving county.
Speaker 9 (06:01):
Eighty nine years to be exact, as the Mission's been
doing this here, they're going to serve about twenty five
hundred people and then another seventy five hundred people in
the area.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
But here's the situation.
Speaker 9 (06:13):
According to the folks we talked to with the Mission,
the need is growing.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I mean, this is the reality that the few fewer
and fewer. I just think that more and more people
need assistance, and it's a sad fact. And there are
fewer and fewer places together, definitely a need.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
During our last census count home a census count, I
want to say a number was around seventy five thousand plus,
and so dealing with food and security here in La County,
high cost of rent, people just can't afford to eat.
Speaker 11 (06:47):
I'm thankful that I rebonded with God when I just
fell by I lost everything, family and friends and work,
you know. So I'm glad that somehow I'm blessed with
having somewhere to live, because I see what's happening out
and in the streets and it's not fun, you know.
(07:07):
So I'm just glad that I'm in the chapter where
I can't be safe.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And this chef again was telling you is there is
a great need.
Speaker 9 (07:14):
More than ten thousand people are going to be fed
to a twenty five hundred here.
Speaker 10 (07:19):
The resk in the area and the only.
Speaker 9 (07:21):
Mission is teaming up with Pope Mission. They're teaming up
together because the need is growing.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
So that's the situation. The need is growing. By the way,
there's a it's a marathon or a race. Tomorrow, the
tenth year they're doing this, Hope the Mission is putting
on the Drumstick Dash. It's the largest five k and
ten k in La County. It is tomorrow Thanksgiving Day.
(07:47):
Eight thousand participants, more than two hundred and fifty volunteers.
It's in an official certified five k to ten k course.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
It should be a lot of fun. They say.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
There'll be a dance contest, a costume contest, a little
Gobbler's race for kids, and that will actually kick off
the whole thing at seven forty five tomorrow morning. It's
a big fundraiser for Hope the Mission and the funds
raised aim to provide three million hot meals to unsheltered
families across La County. So it'll be beginning I think
(08:22):
people collecting there at six am, but the race kicks
off at eight thirty in the morning at the North
Hollywood Redline Orange Line station that's on Chandler in North Hollywood. Again,
it's the Hope the Mission Drumstick Dash tomorrow morning. You
can google it and find out more information. But it
(08:42):
seems like something that could be a.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Cause worth supporting.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
You know, if you're in the mood a five to
ten k and you raise some money for a good cause.
When we come back, there are ways to save money
and maybe even some deals. We'll get into that as
we continue. We're still watching the situation in Washington. As
developments warrant, we will of course update that situation with
(09:12):
the National Guardsman and what is known. I Leen is
standing by in the newsroom. She'll do a break right now.
But should anything more break in that area with any
kind of news events, of course we'll have it for
you here at KFI Thompson for Conway where KFI AM
six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 12 (09:28):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Mark Thompson for Tim Conway Junior. What a gorgeous day
in southern California. Man, I think it was eighty degrees today.
I thought I saw that somewhere. I mean somewhere official.
I think I saw it. And tomorrow's supposed to be
very mild also then it gets cooler toward the weekend.
Speaker 13 (09:54):
Was amazing. I did not want to come into this
little dark closet today.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
It is true, and it was one of those things
you just thought, Wow, we've had all that rain also,
which kind of is good in that Sometimes in November,
when you get those dry, warm days, you think.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Man, we need rain. We haven't had it in months.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
But then coming off those storms, you feel like, wow,
we deserve a great, beautiful southern California day like today.
Speaker 14 (10:24):
And the air feels cleaner.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
For some reason, I think it is cleaner, and I think,
I mean, I'm just judging by visibilities, you know, I mean,
all that particulate matter I think has just been churned out.
But it was really beautiful and tomorrow same story.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
You know. I grew up in Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
East Coast cold, you know, freezing rain, sleet, all of that.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Maybe November would.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Be mild if it's in the fifties, let's say, maybe
sixty degrees. As winter settles in and you get toward Christmas,
it's cold and it's a wet cold. And I always dreamt,
I mean, I always dreamt of coming to southern California.
I used to watch football games, and when I'd see
(11:13):
the football games come on later in the east, the
sun is still shining here. It was dark back east,
and I see all the people in their T shirts,
and it just looked like the greatest life and the
California brand, you know, the beach and everything kicked back
(11:37):
in California. It's just a great brand. And I dreamt
always of coming here. And I'll tell you that every Christmas.
And this is because I still get the paper, which
I know nobody gets anymore, but I still get it
because I grew up with the newspaper. I go out
and I get that paper on Christmas morning and I'm
in jeans and a T shirt and it's not even chili,
(11:59):
and I'm thinking, Man, dreams come true.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
It's that simple.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I love Southern California, not just the weather, but the
weather is a big part of it. It is a
wonderful place to live.
Speaker 13 (12:13):
All these people that move away, like there are all
these people that move to Texas and I'm from Texas.
They move there thinking, oh, it's going to be so
much better there, and I just predict they're going to
come back.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Well, I mean, you're so spoiled with the weather.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
It is true, we get I mean, you get drunk
on the weather here and it does make you overlook
a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I know La has issues and Conway and I talk
about it all the time, and California's got issues, and
now I think those issues will be amplified by all
kinds of fiscal crises that are setting in both in
La County and La City and in California. It's generally
but I think it really is a special place, and
(12:51):
there's an attitude in California. There's an inclusion in California.
I really like it. But the weather is so forgiving.
I mean again, this is accepting the horribleness of like
Santa Ana events, and you know, you know the flooding issues,
so please don't obviously, weather extremes can you know, ruin lives.
Speaker 13 (13:13):
But that's everywhere. I mean, you go to Texas, like
I said, there's tornadoes. I mean I've covered severe, horrible,
deadly tornadoes. It just happens.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah, in Texas, you know that they're not on the
national electric grid. So when the cold weather it hits there,
you'll remember that whole thing where Ted Cruz went to
Mexico because it.
Speaker 13 (13:30):
Was just like poor mom didn't have any heat for days.
It was horrible.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yeah, I don't think the Texas legislature is really you know,
so much better than the California legislature. And I don't
think the California I don't think much of the California legislature.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
But I think that you're right.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
The other thing that's happening in Texas is so many
Californians and others have moved there, but a lot from California.
That the price of housing is doing what it's going
way up. It's much more expensive now in Texas than.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
It used to be.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Yeah, so there's this idea. We have a grass's greener
kind of view anyway, And I know a lot of
people are moving to Nashville. Nashville has become sort of
Hollywood East, and the people are moving to Nashville lot
of the time. They've got money, you know, they're in
the entertainment industry. They've done well, producers, talent, and Nashville
(14:17):
is sort of growing up at Nashville's now beginning to
resent the infusion of Californians, even though they've got money,
even though they're rich, you know, Hollywood people.
Speaker 13 (14:28):
They're housing markets skyrocket, adds to them, exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Their housing market is skyrocket.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Apparently, the traffic situation has become far more problematic. So
even there in Nashville, and I was just there a
few months ago, and I love it there. I just
love the music. There's music everywhere. Everybody's an incredibly talented person.
They have live music at the airport, and you it's like,
(14:55):
you know, listening to the recording artist of your choice,
spin the wheel. It's incredible. And these people are busking
at the airport.
Speaker 14 (15:05):
So much talent.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Incredible.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
So but again, when you talk about the cost of everything,
it's it's expensive, you know what I mean. Nashville is
an expensive place to live. And as was once said,
you know, everything's getting more expensive.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Isn't it. Is that what you said, Mario? Isn't that
what was said? Wow? Spensive? Okay, and there you go.
All right, I thought you were standing by.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I thought we were I thought we we worked that
out and the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
He said, No, don't worry, man, I got it. I
got it. I'm gonna be I'm gonna work it out.
Just when I was in the middle of editing something,
I was hitting you over the head with the queue
no podcast this weekend. All right, I'm going to that's
a yellow card, but it's not a red card. All right.
But that's the point.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Even in places like Nashville and in an Inexis, everything
is getting a little more expensive. When we come back.
It's wild that you can actually negotiate in ways that
you may not have thought you could on prices. We'll
(16:16):
talk about that next. Here's the Conway Show. Thompson sitting
in on KFI AM six fort whore live everywhere in
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Speaker 1 (16:35):
We were it in a suspense and everything.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Is expensive now, that's exactly right. But there's one thing
that's free, and that's your participation in the pasta Thon
fifteenth annual Chef Bruno's charity, Katarina's Club Imagine fifteen years
have been doing the Pastathon thanks to Michelle Cube and
Chef Bruno getting all of these people together to help
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of course, makes it all happen. And we're doing a
lot broadcast to help showcase your generosity. It's Giving Tuesday,
This coming Tuesday, December second, five am to eight pm
at the Anaheim White House, right there at eight eighty
(17:19):
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in need. So more on the auction items there are
you know you can bid on various special experiences. Private
backyard barbecue with Bill Handle and Lindsey Handle and Neil Savedra. Wow,
(18:27):
that sounds oddly that's not some swingers thing, I hope
is it. I mean it's I say, private barbecue with
Bill and Lindsay Handle and Nil Savedra. It just sounds
very of course it's a private backyard barbecue. Of course
you said it's a backyard barbecue. I assume it's private.
I just want always now there's no code in there. Anyway,
(18:51):
it's a special that really is a special event. And
I think the Fork Report will be broadcasting live as
well from the at same private barbecue. Anyway, it's a
priceless kind of offer. You can bid and the minimum
bid on that is five thousand dollars. There's a Dodger
(19:12):
game with Gary and Shannon. There is an hour you
can co host an hour with John Cobel. That's a
thousand dollars minimum bid. But again, go to the Pastathon
and you can check all of this stuff out. Kfi's
pastathon website is kfiam six forty dot com slash Pastathon
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and you can bid on all of these auction items
and good luck. Whole Foods will be open in many
places with modified hours tomorrow from seven am to one pm.
Sprouts stores will be open from seven am to two pm.
CBS hours vary, but most stores will close at five pm.
(19:59):
Pharmacies are going to to close at two o'clock in
the afternoon. Walgreens, the chain will close most of its
stores on Thanksgiving, but twenty four hour locations are going
to remain open for essential pharmacy services. Kroger, which owns
Ralph's and Food for Less, those stores will be open
on Thanksgiving Day, closing at five pm. Most pharmacies will
(20:22):
be closed on Thanksgiving Day. Albertson's hours vary, most stores
will close at four pm, and Vaughn's again hours vary,
but most stores there will close at four pm. Closed
completely on Thanksgiving. Trader Joe's, Costco, Target, Walmart, Aldi, Bjay's
(20:46):
Wholesale Club, Sam's Club closed on Thanksgiving. They'll reopen day
after Thanksgiving. Can you actually negotiate bills at a time
time when things are so very expensive? In a suspense
and now, can you negotiate bills?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
The answer is yes.
Speaker 15 (21:10):
The old saying it doesn't hurt to ask also applies
to your finances. Nerd Wallet's personal finance expert Kim Palmer
showed us how to negotiate to save money.
Speaker 16 (21:20):
So we're talking about phone bills, cable bills, even subscriptions.
It's always worth calling and asking if you can get
a better deal, because the worst thing that can happen
is that they say no and you've just lost five minutes.
But it's possible that they say yes and you walk
away with savings.
Speaker 14 (21:37):
Is there any sort.
Speaker 15 (21:37):
Of trick in what you should say to them when
you're asking for this, Well.
Speaker 16 (21:41):
The biggest trick is to go in with information. You
want to first check if there are better deals out
there for similar services, because that gives you some empowerment
to say, hey, I could get this better deal somewhere else.
Can you match that? Another trick to consider is to say, hey,
I'm considering canceling my service because it's just too expensive,
(22:02):
And that word cancel triggers some special offers in many
cases if you're struggling with your fine.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
I remember that that was the case. I actually was
trying to cancel and I called and I I said, according,
now I'm gonna come canceling the service.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I've had enough of this. This is I'm no more.
And I canceled whatever.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
It was DirecTV Spectrum one of those you know, And
I called and they put they said, wait one second,
of course, well you know, certainly, you know you can
cancel and there won't be a problem.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Let me take care of it.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
But before you cancel, let me just take you over
to the I think they were called the retention department
or something, and they literally were called retention, I believe,
and they threw more stuff at me to the point
that I thought, all right, I won't cancel after all.
I mean, so it does work that if you mentioned
that word cancel, it does change the arithmetic on the conversation.
Speaker 16 (22:56):
Some special offers In many cases, if.
Speaker 15 (22:58):
You're struggling with your fine answers, should you be open
about that?
Speaker 16 (23:01):
You should absolutely be open about your financial struggles, because
often there are things called hardship programs where the service
can give you a special credit or a special discount
because you're going through a hard financial time.
Speaker 15 (23:16):
Aside from phone and cable bills, Kim suggests negotiating down
a host of bills, including your cell phone, car insurance,
home security, newspaper subscriptions, gym memberships, utilities, bundled services, even
credit card interest rates.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
What are you kidding me? You can negotiate down all
those things? Are you kidding? Insurance, cell phone utilities. This
is amazing to me.
Speaker 14 (23:49):
Car insurance, home security, car insurance.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
My car insurance. They won't move off. I pay a
jillion dollars in car insurance for some moving violation from
you know, wrongly accused. Of course, it was a witch hunt.
Speaker 15 (24:09):
Car insurance, home security, newspaper subscriptions, gym memberships, utilities, bundled services,
even credit card interest rates.
Speaker 16 (24:18):
With credit cards, a lot depends on your history with
the credit card issuer. So if you are a longtime
loyal customer, you've always paid on time, and now suddenly
you're facing some financial hardship, you'll be in a better
position as a loyal and long term customer.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I mean, I can see that. Okay, I understand that
maybe you know you could work out a payment plan
or something, but well, it seems they seem immovable on
some of those other areas that they say you can negotiate,
but wow, maybe take a shot get.
Speaker 14 (24:48):
Them to work with you.
Speaker 15 (24:49):
You can even haggle over prices at major retailers.
Speaker 16 (24:52):
One of the best types to negotiate is when you're
in a store, because often store clerks have the power
to give you a lower price, especially if they're there
is a floor model, there.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Is a what I mean, So you're telling me that
like Rudy there, who is like working on the weekends
at Nordstrom, has the power to negotiate down the amount
you're paying.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
That's extraordinary to me.
Speaker 16 (25:15):
One of the best types to negotiate is when you're
in a store, because often store clerks have the power
to give you a lower price, especially if there is
a floor model, there is a mark or some kind
of minor damage on an item, but you still want it.
You can often ask for and receive a discount.
Speaker 15 (25:33):
And there are bill negotiation services that will do this
for you. They typically take about fifty percent of what
you say, but if you're short on time, it could
still be worth the money.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I am. I'm not a good negotiator at all. I'm not.
It scares me.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I'm a conflict averse, so already when I'm into it
back and forth, I'm uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
I just don't.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
I don't like it, not even at flea markets or
anything or parking lot.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
I tried to with Yeah, it's not as though I've
never done it, but I'm just uncomfortable with it. I
feel like I don't know it's very It's a problem
for me. I just don't like to disappoint people. I think,
you know what I mean. I really bond with people.
I try to interact. I know it's not conscious, it
(26:21):
just is happening. I'm almost embarrassed at how bad at
it I am.
Speaker 14 (26:26):
So you would not do well at a Turkish bizarre.
Speaker 8 (26:28):
No.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I was in Egypt many years ago, and tell you
this real quick, and I bought a box with all
kinds of inlay. It was very beautiful. And I forget
what I paid for it. Now, let's just say I
paid sixty dollars for it. And I went back to
the bus where we were all there, and everybody had
been turned loose in the bazaar right, And I said
(26:53):
to the lady who was leading the tour, She said,
what did you get? And I said, oh, I got
this really nice box. And I opened it up and
she said, you pay for it? I said sixty dollars.
She said, let's go back. I want to I want
to take you back to you. She said, could you
find the place I want to go back? We're going
to get you some money back. That's you paid too much.
Speaker 14 (27:12):
What was it worth?
Speaker 1 (27:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
I think she said you should probably could get it
for thirty or twenty and I but you know again,
And that was a situation where they brought out the
box that I wanted, and then I said, oh, that's
too expensive. And then they started bringing out well how
about this box, and one was bigger, one was smaller,
and I lost myself in all the different boxes they
brought out. We weren't even negotiating over the box that
(27:35):
I wanted anymore. Now there's so many boxes in play
that I just lost the plot. So they saw me coming.
Speaker 14 (27:43):
You need someone's day.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I I'm telling you, I need this person to, you know,
help me with the you know, I may have to
farm it out to somebody suspense now, and that's everything
is expensive. So all right, I've confessed. Thank you my
greatest weakness. Uh Mark Thompson for Tim Conway Junior. We
continue KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 12 (28:08):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
If you are traveling, we are being urged if we're
traveling by air to dress it up.
Speaker 10 (28:22):
Is there a fashion revolution underway at airports this Thanksgiving,
These travelers are taking extra care to look stylish.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
You wanted to go looking nice?
Speaker 14 (28:31):
Yes, it makes me feel good.
Speaker 10 (28:33):
US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is asking people to dress
better when they fly on. Let's try not to wear
slippers in and in pajamas as we come to the airport.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
His request is being the slippers there are fashion.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
The slippers and uh, pajamas thing is kind of a
thing now. I feel like that's a very American way
to go. Headphones, hoodie, pajamas, slippers, Yeah, glasses, all of
that's you, ritchie, that's your Yeah. You know back in
(29:05):
the sixties, uh huh, they used to coat and tie
it no way, Yeah, I mean look at the pictures.
People were in coat and tie. Of course they were
also smoking and drinking. I mean it was just a
different time. Yeah, a kind of a different time.
Speaker 8 (29:20):
And pajamas as we come to the airport.
Speaker 10 (29:23):
His request is being met with, shall we say, mixed reviews.
Speaker 17 (29:26):
If I wonder if if Sean Duffy would say that
if he had to sit through it to nine hour
flight and a brin a girdle, I fly.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
For there's something about joy behar with that New York thing.
I love New Yorkers. I wonder if Sean Sean Duffy
would say that if he had to sit there for
ninef hours, I just love New Yorkers with that in
your face, you know what I mean? The attitude is magic.
Speaker 17 (29:52):
If Sean Duffy would say that if he had to
sit through it to nine hour flight and a brin
a girdle. I fly four times a week. Sometime I
am tired of seeing people's cheeks.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Come fly with me.
Speaker 10 (30:05):
Duffy's request to look spiffy while traveling hearkens back to
a time when women looked elegant and pearls and dresses
while flying men and children were decked out in suits.
It was also a time when airplanes were more spacious,
with five more inches of legroom, and passengers were treated
to goreme meals.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Yeah, yeah, that is really also part of the equation.
I mean, I was supposed to dress up for being
locked into what is as close to a hostage situation
as I can possibly imagine. Everything from the waiting area
to the way that you were you're treated by TSA
I mean, and then finally you make it into your
seat and it's a hunger's game kind of run for
(30:44):
the overhead rack space, and I mean everything's just.
Speaker 14 (30:47):
Awful and just a bag of crackers.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
If you lucky, thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
There's absolutely no service, and they treat you like their
prison guards, some of them, I mean, and by the way,
many are so tolerant.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Please don't get me wrong.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
In fact, I think being a flight attendant now, where
everybody you know is live streaming and they're looking for
some kind of performance moment and they're defiant and they're jerky,
I think being a please do mist understand me. Being
one of those flight attendants now is rough. But that said,
I mean there can be a lot of attitude coming
(31:22):
from flight attendants as well. I'm just saying, you know,
dressing up for this like it's some kind of banquet
that you're attending seems to me like a big ask.
Speaker 10 (31:35):
It was also a time when airplanes were more spacious,
with five more inches of leg room, and passengers were
treated to gourmet meals.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
So how are passengers.
Speaker 10 (31:43):
Responding today to the government's call to dress up? At
Newark Airport, we found this traveler in a suit.
Speaker 15 (31:50):
It's a more pleasant public experience if one is dressing up,
especially around holiday time.
Speaker 10 (31:55):
At LAX, this woman says she concurs with the transportation
secretary present class. It's time this mom and daughter are split.
Mom's dressed in high end knitwear. Daughter is in pajamas.
Your daughter is in what pajamas?
Speaker 14 (32:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 15 (32:11):
Well, I don't agree with honestly, I think it's more
important to be comfortable on a plane so you can
like sleep.
Speaker 10 (32:15):
Other passengers also say they will stick to wearing comfy
clothes while flying.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Blways.
Speaker 8 (32:20):
Suits every day for work, so there's no way I
would I would wear one on a plane.
Speaker 15 (32:24):
I wouldn't dress up for a car ride. I wouldn't
dress up to get on the bus, So why would
I do any different for a clean fight.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
I mean, I hate to say it, but she's kind
of right. I mean, it's a long, brutal experience. You
definitely want to be comfortable. You could dress it up
a little richie, you can kind of. I mean, nah, no,
you really you're committed to that. I'm bumming it up
Ellen all the time.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
Also, while we're on the top of flying and everything,
just wear socks if you're gonna wear slippers, because no
socks and exposure feet not it.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
That is so gross one hundred percent with you on that.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I mean, it really is.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
I mean I understand wanting to be comfortable, but there's
no reason to sort of assert yourself that way. Huh
with the bare feet, putting the bare feet up on
the you know, the rest, Yeah, on the wall.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
It's just like, yeah, really man, I don't.
Speaker 13 (33:21):
Even want to see socks, to be honest, because they're
probably steamy after walking through the airport.
Speaker 14 (33:26):
I just think it's gross.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Yeah, I mean I understand.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Also, there's some expansion of your you know, with the
flight and everything. I can see taking your shoes off.
I don't do it, but I could see doing it.
Speaker 14 (33:36):
I don't know anymore.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
I don't really know. I don't have I don't you know,
I don't I don't know. I don't do it. I
don't know.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
I know.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
I would tell you, I say, I take them off.
I tell you no, I think it. Somebody can tell
me whether or not it's like healthy to take them off,
you should take them off, or is there a you
know what I mean, there's that expansion you're supposed to
get up on a flight, like you're not supposed to
sit there the whole time, because I guess there can
be some kind of blood clots that develop, like and
yet I don't do that either.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
I don't get up.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
Bellioll told me before I went to Spain this past summer,
She's like, you need to get some compression socks. And
it's like for what she's like for you, so you
can circulate your blood as you're a flying x y
amount of time on the air.
Speaker 14 (34:15):
And I think you're young enough for You're okay.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Yeah, you're probably fine because of your your youth, but
you know, but your borderline like another couple of years,
You've better get those compression socks.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Yeah, that's right. I lean.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
I think you're okay too, but you know, never heard
to bring the compression socks. But anyway, apparently they're not
going to be joined by any kind of dressing up
that Richie's going to do. I'm kind of with Jorge
Behar on this one. I think you want to kind
of be comfortable. But I always shower. I always, like,
(34:46):
I've never you know, I think that there's just a
certain basic decency for the people who are around me
that I'm trying to always represent. But I'm not into
legislating it. It just seems like the right kind of
social compact to make, you know, but I'm not. And
I also completely understand what your your your deal, Richie,
(35:07):
I get it.
Speaker 13 (35:08):
So you know, it used to be comfort and luxury
and now we've got these cramp seats.
Speaker 14 (35:14):
It's far from luxurious, right. Why am I dressing up right?
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Don't cram me in like this, treat me, you know,
like crap. You know, heard me in and out like coming.
You dress up right and then tell me to dress
up for it. It just it ain't cool. So we continue.
The Power Hour is next. It's the Conway Show. Mark
Thompson's sitting in for Tim on KFI AM six forty
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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