July 16, 2026 • 33 mins
The Tim Conway Jr Show Hour 4 (7.15)
Someone (probably a billionaire) just dropped a cool $50 million on “Gus,” a 61% complete T-Rex skeleton unearthed on a ranch in South Dakota. Paleontologist Thomas Heitkamp and his team dug it up, and fun fact: Most dinosaur skeletons are privately owned these days.
Timmy spins the classic “Growing Pains” theme song and shares the wild story from former child star Ashley Johnson (who played little Chrissy Seaver) about surviving an attempted kidnapping while working on the show around age seven.
Longtime KFI board operator and sex therapist Sam Zia stops by the studio with a bag full of Hitachi Magic Wands, butt plugs and vibrators to say farewell before his big move to Spain — he’d just come from a three-day sex toy conference at the Burbank Marriott.
And in a fun AI-powered focus group by SmartFocus.ai, seven out of eight virtual Californians voted against changing daylight-saving time — they want more sleep and hate getting up in the dark. Timmy agrees: He’s team night owl all the way, they’re just more fun!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KMF. I am six forty and you're listening to
The Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. I
enjoyed that program. Dukes have haz it and not really
heavy lifting. Just sit there and watch. He's said, two
idiots get in and out of trouble every single week.
Every week. All right, we have Oh, there's a read
(00:23):
here for do we have the Dodgers here? Hold on,
I thought we did. Okay, all right, let's talk about
this t rex skeleton. This is unbelievable. This looks like
a full t rex skeleton and recently sold for fifty
million dollars. So he just found this thing and turned
(00:45):
around and sold it for fifty million dollars. You imagine
having one of these things, if he had a house
big enough, putting that sucker right in the living room
or the foyer, you know, the entrance to your home. Man, man,
this is authentic, you know, honestly, God t Rex skeleton
and this is up you know, from millions and millions,
(01:05):
maybe hundreds of millions of years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Coronosaurus Rex, the king of the dinosaurs, sixty million years ago. Wow, today,
fetching a king's ransom at auction the fossilized skeleton nicknamed Gus,
setting a new record sold at auction for just over
fifty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Fifty million dollars. Wow, wow, wow. You know, I don't
know what the year is. I'd have to look this
up again, but it's pretty recent. I would I think
the eighteen hundreds. If you were born before the eighteen hundreds,
you never knew the dinosaurs roam the world. You just
(01:43):
didn't know it. There wasn't enough, you know, technology to
go back and carbon date any kind of bones that
were found. So if you were born, I think it's
before eighteen forty or eighteen fifty. If you're born before then,
dinosaurs were never fought in school. You never read about
them because they didn't know that they were around. And
(02:04):
now we're selling them. Yeah, we got a big auction,
fifty million dollars for this Torontosaurus Rex.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Fifty million dollars. Souther Best says, the ancient Apex predator
thirty eight feet long in twelve and a half feet high.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
How about that thirty eight foot long monster coming after you.
This thing could rip apart any modern house, just shred it.
Just walk right through it and not think anything of it.
How about that walking around you know, thank god, these
you know t rexes are exting. Can you imagine that
every night, all of a sudden you hear rumbling like,
(02:39):
oh Christ, it's just then going to come through again.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Oh no, about the size of a yellow school bus.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Gus is one of the biggest and most complete t
recks ever found.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Wow, Southerb's putting out this video to hype the auction.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
By the way, we've we've got to do something about
about the imbalance when it comes to money in this country.
You know, there's some guys where one hundred and fifty
two hundred billion dollars and buying t rex is for
fifty million. And I can look out this window here
and probably see two homeless guys on the street. Uh,
(03:15):
it's gonna come to a head. I'm warning you, both
Republicans and Democrats. Unless you can solve that problem, there's
gonna be a huge, huge class war in this country,
and you're gonna get Democrats and Republicans both on the
same side to fight it, and then you're gonna get
wiped out. And it's coming. Is It's coming for sure
(03:35):
unless you do something about it.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Saying gus is sixty one percent complete by bone count
in nearly.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Wow, that is amazing. Sixty one percent of this dinosaur
is intact.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
That's incredible, saying Gus is sixty one percent complete by
bone count wow in nearly eighty percent complete by total mass,
ranking up there with famous t rex is like the
Chicago Field Museums. Soon it was found by commercial pantologist
Thomas Hikamp and his team, commissioned in twenty twenty one
to find fossils on a South Dakota ranch. They spotted
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one bone a needle in a sixty five hundred acre haystack.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Heike Camp, making the case for private funding for such excavations.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
We're in some pretty remote, dense areas that are hard
to get to, that are expensive to get to, that
are logistically dangerous.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
No one else is looking at those places. NBC News
was unable to reach in for comment. Digging us up
and rebuilding the skeleton took years. Now it's payday. The
colossal price tag is unearthen concerns about its scientific value
and who will have access to it?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah, who bought it? You know, if somebody a billionaire
had to buy it? You know, if you're at one
hundred millionaire, I canna spend fifty million on it on bones,
So it has to be some billionaire. Maybe somebody we
know bought it. Maybe it'll be in the middle of
you know, the entrance to Amazon or you know, Microsoft
or Apple.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
In study found that the majority of discovered t rex
fossils are privately owned, making it harder for museums to
acquire specimens as prices rise.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
If we want to understand how smart t rex was,
what it eight, how it moved, what its world was like,
its environment.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Was like, Yeah, just go there, it's in This is
in the movies. Just go see the movies.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
This fossil really is a Crown Jewels.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Dinosaur fossils a hot commodity for the super rich. Another
t rex stand so for more than thirty million dollars
in twenty twenty, and a Stegosaurus apex sold for almost
forty five million and twenty twenty four. In both cases,
the buyers loan the fossils to museums.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Okay, so instead of looking for gold, you got to
get up to South Dakota and look for these t rexes.
You could be you could be worth a fifty billion dollars.
Just look around, you know, kick the dog, kick the dust,
and you know, move some logs, some old logs into rocks.
I bet you find one.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Paleontologist doctor Steve Bussadi says he hopes whoever bought Gusts
will do the same.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Donated to him museum. Get it out there naked, so
it's not only you that can enjoy this, but millions
of people. That's how you can make a real impact.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
The dinosaurs couldn't escaped the destructive force of an asteroid
in the prehistoric world. Now their legacy trying to survive
between market forces of capitalism and advancing science. Marquise Francis, NBC.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
News, somebody's got extra dough fifty million dollars. That is unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
All right, this is a whip around just for the
home audience, because I don't think there's enough people on
this show that will know it. I don't I wouldn't
have known it, but maybe there are enough people at
home or listening in the car. Right now, I'm going
to play you a nineteen eighties TV theme song and
see if you can get it all right. Nineteen eighty
(06:53):
five too, I don't know ninety three. I think it
was on six or seven years nineteen okay, nineteen eighty
five to nineteen ninety two, So eighty six, eighty seven,
eight eight, seven years, seven years, one hundred and sixty
six episodes, so it was on every week for seven
(07:14):
years on your TV set if you're you know, conscious
in the eighties to early nineties. Let's see if you
can nail this one all right. It is the home
version of the Whippers. That's last.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Don't listen, you come over, We got.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Then they say the name of the of the TV
show there, but you would have to have an appetite
for really watered down, less than hysterical, not not very creative,
not very edgy, and very few laughs per episode. I
think that sums it up. Krozier, do you know it?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, okay, what is it, Nikki? It's Growing Pain, that's right,
Growing Pain?
Speaker 7 (08:45):
That show?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Oh no, okay, well you must have been young. Yeah,
you had to be either the only two ways to
enjoy that program. You had to be young or dumb.
And then oh, okay, well that you want to call
that a ding dong. But Growing Pains not not cutting edge.
(09:07):
You know, it's family kids, kids do stupid things. Dad's
an idiot, Mom controls the house.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
It's an eighty sitcom. But there's a story coming out
of here that Ashley Johnson shares that she was nearly
kidnapped on the set of Growing Pains. What's going on?
She must have been very young on that show. Wasn't
she the youngest daughter? Yes, so she must have been
two or three when that when that show started. Let's
see how old is Ashley Johnson. She was born in
(09:34):
nineteen eighty three and that show started in eighty five. Okay,
she was two. She was two years old when that
show started. And she is telling a story about how
she was almost kidnapped on the set of Growing Pains.
Speaker 8 (09:48):
Some guy hops out of the line and grabs me
up and starts booking it.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (09:52):
Growing Pains actress Ashley Johnson says she was nearly kidnapped
while on the show. The celeb, who is now forty two,
recall a scary incident that occurred early in her time
on the sitcom, which starred Kirk Cameron and Alan Thick,
among others.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I wonder if that affected her life, you know, when
that kind of trauma. Maybe she was too young and
you know, she doesn't remember it, but people just tell
her about it. But that's horrible if that affected her life,
that somebody allowed a fan to get that close to her.
Speaker 9 (10:18):
When a member of the live studio audience snatched her
away from her mother and ran.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Off with her.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
What's going on with this audience. You're stealing the characters
from Growing Pains.
Speaker 9 (10:29):
Ashley recounts the story on her podcast Weird Kids, which
she co hosts with fellow actor Tallis and Jeffy, saying
a written threat had been made ahead of the frightening moment.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Wow, that could have been a huge disaster for that
show and for the entire network. I don't know what
network that was on. Sounds like an ABC, SHEBC, NBC,
w NBC. All right, back to Ashley Johnson.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
Somebody had written in and said that I am coming
two set and I am going to bring a gun
and I am going to murder some of the cast.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Mmmm. That was an odd letter and I'll bet that
that person. I wonder what radio station that guy worked in.
You have to thank to yourselfie probably was a radio
radio chap.
Speaker 8 (11:22):
So I'm walking with my mom and then I just
remember some guy hops out of the line and grabs
me up and starts booking it. Wow, there was security
that somehow got on him after some time.
Speaker 9 (11:36):
He had a gun. Johnson played the fourth.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Okay, so if that happened at NBC, I believe they
shot that here in La They probably shot that right
here on this lot next to us. That was the NBC.
That was the old NBC lot. That that crime could
have happened across the street where I can look at
the building that that happened in odd strange.
Speaker 9 (11:56):
Johnson played the fourth sever child, Chrissy Sever, from nineteen
ninety and the show's conclusion in nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Okay, so she was late to the show. She didn't
start in eighty five when that show started. She came
in later on. So she started in nineteen ninety. She
was born in what was she born in again, ninety three,
so she was seven when she started that show.
Speaker 9 (12:18):
At the time, the studios weren't outfitted with the level
of security measures they are today.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Of course, wait a minute, did they just replace one
of their daughters on growing pains. She just all of
a sudden appeared at age seven. Did she replace the
other daughter?
Speaker 8 (12:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:32):
She she was a late in life child. Yeah, I know,
but she but the late life child doesn't. Isn't seven
when they're introduced. Unless she was adopted, you know, she
had had to bend a baby.
Speaker 10 (12:44):
I don't remember that.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I'd like to find that out. I'd like to find
out if they just replaced the character like in be
when this child was played by three different actresses. No way,
is that right? So they did just replace her?
Speaker 7 (13:00):
They?
Speaker 10 (13:01):
I guess they. Well, it's all right, it's with a
caveat the severs. Youngest child was originally an infant played
by twins okay, and then Lauren Stanley took over the
role briefly in season five before Ashley Johnson permanently took
over the role.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Okay, So Ashley Johnson took over that role at seven. Yeah,
so she had to win a lookalike contest of swords
to replace that other check season six and seven she
was there. Oh my god, So I bet they couldn't
sign the other actress. You know, she got a little
high on herself.
Speaker 10 (13:29):
And also I think that was the age of the
character where took over she was she became the talking toddler.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
So maybe the other one I couldn't talk, yeah, or
maybe the other one just was, you know, the tired
of you know, sitting around and you know, listening to
story after story after story of you know, Alan Thick.
I love the guy, but you know he's probably phoning
it in on that show. And so I imagine just
being on a set, you're like, oh Christ.
Speaker 9 (13:58):
At the time, the student deos weren't outfitted with the
level of security measures they are today. According to Ashley, I.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Guess not people are grabbing the characters, She.
Speaker 9 (14:08):
Adds of the man they got him. This was the thing.
He was high on something. It wasn't meth, but it
was something like he was so strong.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (14:16):
Johnson has continued to work in Hollywood, mostly as a
voice actor. She's best known for her voice work in
the video game series The Last of Us and won
a BAFTA Games Award for her performance as Ellie, who's
played by Bella Ramsey, a live action series.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
All Right, well it turns out happy ending everything she's
working and everybody's fine. We're live on KFI.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Ah, good, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
News.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You know those used to be tomorrow sex toys on KFI.
Speaking of sex toys, Sam z is with us. How
you Bob? How you doing? Tim? It's addy in here.
You consider your you're a sex pervert or sex Yeah? Absolutely,
no sexpert? Yes sexpert? Sorry, yes, sexpert, But you're you
(15:08):
worked at the station and how long.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I've been at the station off and on for the
better part of twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Wow, and you're going to You're moving to Spain. I'm
moving to Spain. I'm packing up and leaving. I hate
to say I told you so, but when you when
your kids moved, I said to you, you're gonna go. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I think everybody kind of saw the writing on the
wall at that point. Everybody who's known me long enough
knows I can't be without my.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Kids, no way. There are there are three things you
need in your life. Your kids, your dog, and this
dildo convention. Yes, absolutely most one time of the year.
Maybe not in that order, but who knows. All right,
let's talk real quickly about this sex expo that went on.
It was in Burbank.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Yeah, I was right, here at the Burbank Marriott, the
an May Convention, the it's the Adult Novelty Manufacturer's Expo.
It's a big thing. It's a billion dollar industry. And
this is the thirtieth anniversary of the show. Who's the
big player, the big corporation in that game?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
There's a few.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
You definitely have the lube companies and the toy companies
out there. The one that I think everybody is the
most reliable and the most like, the one everybody points
to as far as great sex toys has got to
be the Magic wand that's actually made by Hitachi. The
Hitachi took their name off the brand, but they still
get money for it. They took the name off because
(16:27):
they didn't want to be associated. They didn't want their
name because they're an electronics company, they're a tech company,
and they were now having their biggest product be associated
with sex and sexuality when they were kept insisting it's
a back massager.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Right? Is there a His hers vibrator set? There are
a few His and herves ones. Nobody nothing's private anymore.
You have to do everything with everybody else. You need
an audience.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Nowadays, it's not just that you have toys that hooked
to the Internet, so people remotely can control the function
of it.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
So there's a lot of new tech and AI being
incorporated to this stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
It's one advancement and it's a three day event. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah, it's here in Burbank at the Marriott.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
It's an awesome event.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
It's a trade show, so you can't necessarily buy your
way in or sign your way in.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I'm surprised Burbank allowed that, you know, because they don't
allow But Burbank's pretty conservative, not politically, but you know,
family oriented. Like there's no pot shops in Burbank. No,
but there's four hundred gun shops.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Yeah, and arguably one of the biggest sex toy conferences
in the country, in the world.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Right, it shows. It's a three day event. Yeah, and
you went all three days. Absolutely, they feed you, it's great. Well,
they brought the in and out truck over I I
got it. I had to show up for that. Did
they give you a free product? Yes, especially the last
day of the show.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
The companies don't want to carry the product with them, Yeah,
they want to pack it out. So they were given
everything away and I got a good three four hundred
dollars worth of TNG.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Are there any celebrities who are endorsing the product?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Adult celebrities usually the adult film performers usually get the licensing,
but really what they're looking for are the sexpert who
are sexperts who or into the influencers so wise that
can promote their stuff online.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
I see, buddy, I just wanted to have you commit
because I want to say how great it was working
for you. Man, I'm working with you, I should say it's.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Been a pleasure working here, and I've had serious it's
been a dream of mine. I came here back in
the day when the Lakers were on five seventy and
I threw what I got into radio by sneaking into
Laker games when I was thirteen fourteen years old, and
I would hype it was back at the Forum and
Chick's Nest, where the broadcast booth was was way up
in the top area. So me and my buddy would
(18:31):
just sneak in, go in through the Forum Club, and
that's where the media would check in, was inside the
Forum Club. We'd stop at the media checking table and
just walk through.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
No one ever stopped us.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
So for like three years throughout High school. Three four
years of high school, I snuck into almost every single
Laker game.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Oh no, man, I wish I had that trick. I
think it's great you're gonna be with your kids. They
probably missed the hell out of you.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I talk to them every day.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
My boy keeps telling me how many different restaurants he's
trying to take me to, So I can't wait to
get out there and sample some of the food.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
What was their reaction when you finally told them you're
coming to You're moving to Spain. They were very happy.
The kids were thrilled. The boy was how old are I?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
My boy's nineteen or sorry, my boy's nine and my
daughter is sixteen.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Okay, all right, man, that's great you're doing that. Yeah.
I don't mean the world to them. Yeah, and it's
a big loss for us, But don't mean the world.
I found in.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
English speaking radio station out there so open. Maybe I
might sneak an overnight dating relationships sex please let us know,
let us know. Yeah, if that happens, I'm definitely going
to be sending you guys all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Please. Sammy, very nice to see you. You're a solid
dude around here. I'd never heard you yell at anybody.
I never heard you. You know, no derogatory terms towards anybody.
You're just a terrific employee where we and and it's
really tough to see all the good employees leave here. Yeah,
it's breaking my heart because this is the job that
(19:49):
I've always wanted, and this is where I've always wanted
to be. So it's a bit orsweet for me because
I'm so happy I get to join my kids and
be with my family. But that's gonna be great. But
I love this place. But let us know if you
do a show. Yeah, as soon as that happens, I'm
gonna let you safe travels.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Right, you're the benefit, all right, Sammy z Man.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You know, you may have remembered today that we promoted
daylight saving time, not saving time, daylight saving time, and
Congress just approved it or passed it, and they want
to make get rid of it. So daylight saving time
(20:35):
might be permanent. And I don't know what that. I
don't know how that affects us all. Is it going
to be dark in the winter until eight thirty in
the morning, will be light in the summer until ten
o'clock at night.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
So we have to call on an expert, and we
got one by a guy named Eric Deutsch, and he's
with Eric. How you Bob, Hey?
Speaker 7 (21:02):
Tim ding Dong.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Ding dong with you? What do you, Eric? What do
you do for a living?
Speaker 7 (21:09):
I work in public relations, Tim okay, and more recently though,
started this new venture with a partner to create AI
powered focus groups.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Oh that's interesting, okay, And maybe it's sort of like
a ted talk for really smart people.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
Well, I don't know about that for AI AI generated.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
And okay, AI generated people, which I consider smart people.
All right, And so you guys literally took this up
and talked about the ins and outs, the ups and downs,
the positive and negatives about this act of Congress.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Well you know what happened to Tim. I was in
my car last night, just like I am now, and
of course I was listening to you, and I heard
you tease the discussion that you were going to have
tonight daylight savings time, and it made me curious about
how California might feel about that. So as soon as
I got home, I ran a focus group. Oh and
it took me about twenty minutes, and I used a
(22:08):
cross section of personas representing different you know, types of
Californians and came up with some kind of interesting results.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
That is great. So if that does happen, when will
we stop changing the clocks? Will it be in October?
Will it be in two years, five years?
Speaker 7 (22:26):
Well? You know what was really interesting, Tim is you know,
most people would think intuitively that we want more daylight
at the end of the day. Everybody loves daylight saving time.
But actually seven of eight of our virtual Californians actually
indicated that they want to stop changing the clocks, but
they actually want to do it the other way around, wow,
and keep standard time going all year long, mainly because
(22:49):
of concern about kids getting up in the winter time
and having to go to school in the dark.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Okay, to that, I say, f the kids, you know,
why do we have to do everything for them? I mean,
our parents did nothing. How old are you?
Speaker 7 (23:05):
You know, I'm a little bit younger than you. I'm
in my fifties and I grew up in the valley.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Okay, so you're you're in our group where your parents
did nothing for you.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
They let me do a lot of things that would
probably be illegal today.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Right. You got on your own, you got on your bike,
you you play with your friends all day. You had
to run your bike around to find out where all
your friends were. And your parents probably came to maybe
a baseball or football game, but not like the parents
of today, where you get in the van and you
drive to South Carolina because your kids in a volleyball
tournament somewhere.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Nothing like that. I was in the back of a
pickup truck, that's right. You know.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I remember those what were were they called the Supero Brats?
Do you remember those those pickup trucks? I do, Okay,
So I was in one of those Supero Brats, and
they had two seats in the in the back of
the truck, you know, in the back of the pick
up up, and both those seats were looking the opposite
way of the seats inside the cab. And I remember
(24:05):
driving to Vegas and having to look casual the whole
way there when other drivers passed me by, and I
was not casual.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
Three hundred miles in the back of a truck.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Right, I was scared to death that I was gonna
trug was gonna flip and I was going to die,
all right. So all right, so what were some of
the conclusions, what did people like and dislike, and what
does AI have to say about it?
Speaker 7 (24:30):
Well, okay, here's a real interesting thing. You know. You know,
a traditional focus group which is really terrific, where you
get a bunch of humans together, it takes like six
weeks to put that in motion. I was able to
do this in about twenty minutes. And we put together
eight different representative California, so a school mom, a night
shift nurse, retiree, a bartender, you know, a college student,
(24:54):
and we asked them what they think of this legislation,
and you know, how do they feel about it? Would
they support it if it happens here in California? And
like I said, seven of eight of those respondents said
that they would prefer to have standard time all year long.
Really in kind of a selfless way. A lot of
them said that they would love to have more daylight
(25:15):
at the end of the day in the wintertime, but
they were really concerned about people getting up early, having
to go to school in the dark and go to
work in the dark. So that was where the support
came down and it was kind of a surprising result.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Right, I do get that. But you know what, I've
known a lot of mourning birds and I've known a
lot of night owls, and I have to say that
the night owls have made me laugh a billion times
more than the morning birds.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Hey, even the bartender that you would prefer to have
standard daylight time?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Okay, So did you do any research on when this
will all happen or not happen, or when will we
when will we stop changing clocks?
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Well, you know, the focus group really didn't test. That
didn't test for the legislation. It was really different at
how do representative Californians feel about it?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Okay? I find that really unusual that, you know. Okay,
maybe for California that's you know, that's one thing, But
I tell you, in New York, Minnesota, Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis,
it's got to be the exact opposite. You know, people
are you know, they want more daylight at the end
of the day.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
I know, I sure do. I tell you, I'm apparently
I'm not a representative California.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
No, you're a night out, you're a night guy. You
listen to the show, you're up at night.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
You know, I don't.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I have friends who are morning birds, and I wish
I could be like them. I wish I could get
up in the morning at five o'clock and you know,
and work out and start my day. I just can't.
I've tried, and it's just not me. But I remember
having to catch a flight to New York. It was
a six am flight out of Lax to New York,
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and so I had to get up at you know,
three point thirty, get on the road by four, get
there by five, get on the plane at six or
six thirty. It was the first flight out. And I
remember being on the flight and I was sitting next
to a guy. And the guy was one of these
morning guys. He's been up for a long time. He's
got the paper, he's got his orange juice, he's talkative,
he's you know, he's freshly shaved, and he's up. He's up.
(27:20):
And he says to the flight attendant, Hey, can I
get a pillow or a blanket? And she says, how
about both? And they both laughed. And I thought, where
the christ is the humor there? I missed the punchline,
the setup, the irony, the exaggeration. I missed all the
elements of a joke, and I couldn't understand what these
two people were laughing at.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
That was a lot of work for very little payoffs.
You know, it's funny. I'm like you, I'm up all night.
You know, I'll email my business partner at three am
and he texted me at six am.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah, I'm the same way.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
I've stopped doing recently, and I stopped like last night,
I was going to text the buddy at around two
two o'clock in the morning, and I stopped, and I
didn't because it wasn't that important and I didn't want
to wake him up. But I could text people all
night long. And I love when I get a like
a two am text, because that's we're off to the races.
We're going to be twenty minutes of texting back and
(28:15):
forth with anybody, you know, whoever it is, you know,
all the stupid buddies of mine. But I do like
being up late at night. I watched you know, the
late news, the eleven o'clock news on two, four, five, seven, nine,
and then I like watching you know, sporting events that
I missed during the evening because we're doing this show.
But that is interesting that that most people want that daylight,
(28:37):
at least in California in the morning. That's odd.
Speaker 7 (28:40):
Yeah it is. And you know what, I love to
do it in the evening, tim is I love to
run focus groups and all of your listeners, okay to
go to can I.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Give a short Yeah? Absolutely, our new venture.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
We're based here in Los Angeles. It's called Smartfocus dot Ai.
That's the website, and we have this very intuitive platform
that enables anyone to run a focus group.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Oh wow, okay, Smartfocus dot Ai. Right, okay, that's great
and and so and anybody can join. It doesn't cost anything, you.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
Know it, Actually it does cost something, but it is
remarkably remarkably affordable. And you know what for your show.
Anytime you guys want to run a focus group, you
let me know.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
And then what is that entailed? Did we give you
the idea and you put everything together?
Speaker 7 (29:31):
You tell me any idea that you want to test,
whether it's a marketing campaign or a guest idea, yes,
segment for the show, and I can put together a
representative panel of your listeners and tell you how those
people are likely to think about.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Wow, okay, do me a favor? Can can we get
the first one for free?
Speaker 7 (29:50):
You got it?
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Okay? Ask them what they think about bringing back? What
the hell did Jesse Jackson say?
Speaker 7 (30:00):
Been listening to your show since the Steckler days? Okay,
and so you know that was that was a very
memorable segment that it.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Was a lot of fun. And I'm really bummed we
stopped doing it because everybody still always asked about it.
They always always ask, buddy, this sounds great. Who do
you represent in the in the PR business? Anybody an
the athletes or actors, actresses?
Speaker 7 (30:23):
You know. I do a lot of work in entertainment,
but not with talent. I always say, if you have talent,
I don't want to work with you. But I have
a bunch of clients in medicine and entertainment. I represent
the Better Business Bureau. Oh good, okay, and yeah, I've
been doing it for a long time.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Then you're very successful because the the BBB, i UH
does a deep dive on everybody they hire. I know
that for sure.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
Well, I did have to become a credited to work for.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
That's that's how they got you. That's great, all right, Eric,
I'm glad you called. Uh. We will have some focus
groups in the in the future. Anytime we want to
run something up, we'll definitely do it. We go to
smart focus dot ai.
Speaker 7 (31:06):
That's right, Tim, all right, you're the best.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Thanks for photo. Man. He dig dong with you. All right,
that's great man. That guy is. That guy's awesome. You know,
he called up and volunteered himself for you know, to
come on and talk about it. So that's awesome.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
All right.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Anyway, smart focus dot ai, Smart Focus dot AI. I
don't know what it costs. You know, he didn't give
the price, so imagine it's up there, right, you know,
let's look it up. I'm gonna look it up right now.
Smart Focus dot A I dont see what this costs.
(31:44):
Smart Focus dot a AI powered focus groups for instant
insights and smarter discussions. And then there's some kind of
fox running across the computer screen. How it works. Describe
your idea, build your focus group, why the insight unfold,
get actionable insights and keep the conversation going. Oh, okay,
(32:10):
ten thousand dollars, I just get a turn. No, it's
not ten grand. I don't know what it costs, but
it's it's not ten grand. Oh, here's pricing. That's okay,
all right, that's not bad. One hundred and twenty five
dollars a month, all right, that's pretty good. Eight Yeah,
that's I'm not wiping people out. And there's three different
era levels core, Growth and pro pro is three seventy
(32:34):
five a month. And let's see what's included here. Let's
go with the core. So you get one AI focus group,
focus group history, seven max AI persona percession and then
it goes on and on live insights and train. Okay,
that's pretty good. You know, if you want to if
you have an idea and you know you don't want
(32:56):
to do it yourself, one time use a single project
instant insight. They call it one time payment in ninety
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You have an idea and you want to do a
deep dive on it, go to this dude. You know,
he sounds like an outstanding guy. Smart focus dot ai.
Maybe your business can take off or you need some help.
(33:18):
You're you're toying with an idea. You don't know if
it's going to work or not. Let this guy do
the research for you, so you have to do it.
Smartfocus dot ai ding do wrong with that guy? This
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Ding do wong with this app
It's KMF. I am six forty and you're listening to
The Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. I
enjoyed that program. Dukes have haz it and not really
heavy lifting. Just sit there and watch. He's said, two
idiots get in and out of trouble every single week.
Every week. All right, we have Oh, there's a read
(00:23):
here for do we have the Dodgers here? Hold on,
I thought we did. Okay, all right, let's talk about
this t rex skeleton. This is unbelievable. This looks like
a full t rex skeleton and recently sold for fifty
million dollars. So he just found this thing and turned
(00:45):
around and sold it for fifty million dollars. You imagine
having one of these things, if he had a house
big enough, putting that sucker right in the living room
or the foyer, you know, the entrance to your home. Man, man,
this is authentic, you know, honestly, God t Rex skeleton
and this is up you know, from millions and millions,
(01:05):
maybe hundreds of millions of years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Coronosaurus Rex, the king of the dinosaurs, sixty million years ago. Wow, today,
fetching a king's ransom at auction the fossilized skeleton nicknamed Gus,
setting a new record sold at auction for just over
fifty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Fifty million dollars. Wow, wow, wow. You know, I don't
know what the year is. I'd have to look this
up again, but it's pretty recent. I would I think
the eighteen hundreds. If you were born before the eighteen hundreds,
you never knew the dinosaurs roam the world. You just
(01:43):
didn't know it. There wasn't enough, you know, technology to
go back and carbon date any kind of bones that
were found. So if you were born, I think it's
before eighteen forty or eighteen fifty. If you're born before then,
dinosaurs were never fought in school. You never read about
them because they didn't know that they were around. And
(02:04):
now we're selling them. Yeah, we got a big auction,
fifty million dollars for this Torontosaurus Rex.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Fifty million dollars. Souther Best says, the ancient Apex predator
thirty eight feet long in twelve and a half feet high.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
How about that thirty eight foot long monster coming after you.
This thing could rip apart any modern house, just shred it.
Just walk right through it and not think anything of it.
How about that walking around you know, thank god, these
you know t rexes are exting. Can you imagine that
every night, all of a sudden you hear rumbling like,
(02:39):
oh Christ, it's just then going to come through again.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Oh no, about the size of a yellow school bus.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Gus is one of the biggest and most complete t
recks ever found.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Wow, Southerb's putting out this video to hype the auction.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
By the way, we've we've got to do something about
about the imbalance when it comes to money in this country.
You know, there's some guys where one hundred and fifty
two hundred billion dollars and buying t rex is for
fifty million. And I can look out this window here
and probably see two homeless guys on the street. Uh,
(03:15):
it's gonna come to a head. I'm warning you, both
Republicans and Democrats. Unless you can solve that problem, there's
gonna be a huge, huge class war in this country,
and you're gonna get Democrats and Republicans both on the
same side to fight it, and then you're gonna get
wiped out. And it's coming. Is It's coming for sure
(03:35):
unless you do something about it.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Saying gus is sixty one percent complete by bone count
in nearly.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Wow, that is amazing. Sixty one percent of this dinosaur
is intact.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
That's incredible, saying Gus is sixty one percent complete by
bone count wow in nearly eighty percent complete by total mass,
ranking up there with famous t rex is like the
Chicago Field Museums. Soon it was found by commercial pantologist
Thomas Hikamp and his team, commissioned in twenty twenty one
to find fossils on a South Dakota ranch. They spotted
(04:08):
one bone a needle in a sixty five hundred acre haystack.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Heike Camp, making the case for private funding for such excavations.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
We're in some pretty remote, dense areas that are hard
to get to, that are expensive to get to, that
are logistically dangerous.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
No one else is looking at those places. NBC News
was unable to reach in for comment. Digging us up
and rebuilding the skeleton took years. Now it's payday. The
colossal price tag is unearthen concerns about its scientific value
and who will have access to it?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah, who bought it? You know, if somebody a billionaire
had to buy it? You know, if you're at one
hundred millionaire, I canna spend fifty million on it on bones,
So it has to be some billionaire. Maybe somebody we
know bought it. Maybe it'll be in the middle of
you know, the entrance to Amazon or you know, Microsoft
or Apple.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
In study found that the majority of discovered t rex
fossils are privately owned, making it harder for museums to
acquire specimens as prices rise.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
If we want to understand how smart t rex was,
what it eight, how it moved, what its world was like,
its environment.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Was like, Yeah, just go there, it's in This is
in the movies. Just go see the movies.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
This fossil really is a Crown Jewels.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Dinosaur fossils a hot commodity for the super rich. Another
t rex stand so for more than thirty million dollars
in twenty twenty, and a Stegosaurus apex sold for almost
forty five million and twenty twenty four. In both cases,
the buyers loan the fossils to museums.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Okay, so instead of looking for gold, you got to
get up to South Dakota and look for these t rexes.
You could be you could be worth a fifty billion dollars.
Just look around, you know, kick the dog, kick the dust,
and you know, move some logs, some old logs into rocks.
I bet you find one.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Paleontologist doctor Steve Bussadi says he hopes whoever bought Gusts
will do the same.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Donated to him museum. Get it out there naked, so
it's not only you that can enjoy this, but millions
of people. That's how you can make a real impact.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
The dinosaurs couldn't escaped the destructive force of an asteroid
in the prehistoric world. Now their legacy trying to survive
between market forces of capitalism and advancing science. Marquise Francis, NBC.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
News, somebody's got extra dough fifty million dollars. That is unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
All right, this is a whip around just for the
home audience, because I don't think there's enough people on
this show that will know it. I don't I wouldn't
have known it, but maybe there are enough people at
home or listening in the car. Right now, I'm going
to play you a nineteen eighties TV theme song and
see if you can get it all right. Nineteen eighty
(06:53):
five too, I don't know ninety three. I think it
was on six or seven years nineteen okay, nineteen eighty
five to nineteen ninety two, So eighty six, eighty seven,
eight eight, seven years, seven years, one hundred and sixty
six episodes, so it was on every week for seven
(07:14):
years on your TV set if you're you know, conscious
in the eighties to early nineties. Let's see if you
can nail this one all right. It is the home
version of the Whippers. That's last.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Don't listen, you come over, We got.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Then they say the name of the of the TV
show there, but you would have to have an appetite
for really watered down, less than hysterical, not not very creative,
not very edgy, and very few laughs per episode. I
think that sums it up. Krozier, do you know it?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, okay, what is it, Nikki? It's Growing Pain, that's right,
Growing Pain?
Speaker 7 (08:45):
That show?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Oh no, okay, well you must have been young. Yeah,
you had to be either the only two ways to
enjoy that program. You had to be young or dumb.
And then oh, okay, well that you want to call
that a ding dong. But Growing Pains not not cutting edge.
(09:07):
You know, it's family kids, kids do stupid things. Dad's
an idiot, Mom controls the house.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
It's an eighty sitcom. But there's a story coming out
of here that Ashley Johnson shares that she was nearly
kidnapped on the set of Growing Pains. What's going on?
She must have been very young on that show. Wasn't
she the youngest daughter? Yes, so she must have been
two or three when that when that show started. Let's
see how old is Ashley Johnson. She was born in
(09:34):
nineteen eighty three and that show started in eighty five. Okay,
she was two. She was two years old when that
show started. And she is telling a story about how
she was almost kidnapped on the set of Growing Pains.
Speaker 8 (09:48):
Some guy hops out of the line and grabs me
up and starts booking it.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (09:52):
Growing Pains actress Ashley Johnson says she was nearly kidnapped
while on the show. The celeb, who is now forty two,
recall a scary incident that occurred early in her time
on the sitcom, which starred Kirk Cameron and Alan Thick,
among others.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I wonder if that affected her life, you know, when
that kind of trauma. Maybe she was too young and
you know, she doesn't remember it, but people just tell
her about it. But that's horrible if that affected her life,
that somebody allowed a fan to get that close to her.
Speaker 9 (10:18):
When a member of the live studio audience snatched her
away from her mother and ran.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Off with her.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
What's going on with this audience. You're stealing the characters
from Growing Pains.
Speaker 9 (10:29):
Ashley recounts the story on her podcast Weird Kids, which
she co hosts with fellow actor Tallis and Jeffy, saying
a written threat had been made ahead of the frightening moment.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Wow, that could have been a huge disaster for that
show and for the entire network. I don't know what
network that was on. Sounds like an ABC, SHEBC, NBC,
w NBC. All right, back to Ashley Johnson.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
Somebody had written in and said that I am coming
two set and I am going to bring a gun
and I am going to murder some of the cast.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Mmmm. That was an odd letter and I'll bet that
that person. I wonder what radio station that guy worked in.
You have to thank to yourselfie probably was a radio
radio chap.
Speaker 8 (11:22):
So I'm walking with my mom and then I just
remember some guy hops out of the line and grabs
me up and starts booking it. Wow, there was security
that somehow got on him after some time.
Speaker 9 (11:36):
He had a gun. Johnson played the fourth.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Okay, so if that happened at NBC, I believe they
shot that here in La They probably shot that right
here on this lot next to us. That was the NBC.
That was the old NBC lot. That that crime could
have happened across the street where I can look at
the building that that happened in odd strange.
Speaker 9 (11:56):
Johnson played the fourth sever child, Chrissy Sever, from nineteen
ninety and the show's conclusion in nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Okay, so she was late to the show. She didn't
start in eighty five when that show started. She came
in later on. So she started in nineteen ninety. She
was born in what was she born in again, ninety three,
so she was seven when she started that show.
Speaker 9 (12:18):
At the time, the studios weren't outfitted with the level
of security measures they are today.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Of course, wait a minute, did they just replace one
of their daughters on growing pains. She just all of
a sudden appeared at age seven. Did she replace the
other daughter?
Speaker 8 (12:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:32):
She she was a late in life child. Yeah, I know,
but she but the late life child doesn't. Isn't seven
when they're introduced. Unless she was adopted, you know, she
had had to bend a baby.
Speaker 10 (12:44):
I don't remember that.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I'd like to find that out. I'd like to find
out if they just replaced the character like in be
when this child was played by three different actresses. No way,
is that right? So they did just replace her?
Speaker 7 (13:00):
They?
Speaker 10 (13:01):
I guess they. Well, it's all right, it's with a
caveat the severs. Youngest child was originally an infant played
by twins okay, and then Lauren Stanley took over the
role briefly in season five before Ashley Johnson permanently took
over the role.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Okay, So Ashley Johnson took over that role at seven. Yeah,
so she had to win a lookalike contest of swords
to replace that other check season six and seven she
was there. Oh my god, So I bet they couldn't
sign the other actress. You know, she got a little
high on herself.
Speaker 10 (13:29):
And also I think that was the age of the
character where took over she was she became the talking toddler.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
So maybe the other one I couldn't talk, yeah, or
maybe the other one just was, you know, the tired
of you know, sitting around and you know, listening to
story after story after story of you know, Alan Thick.
I love the guy, but you know he's probably phoning
it in on that show. And so I imagine just
being on a set, you're like, oh Christ.
Speaker 9 (13:58):
At the time, the student deos weren't outfitted with the
level of security measures they are today. According to Ashley, I.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Guess not people are grabbing the characters, She.
Speaker 9 (14:08):
Adds of the man they got him. This was the thing.
He was high on something. It wasn't meth, but it
was something like he was so strong.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (14:16):
Johnson has continued to work in Hollywood, mostly as a
voice actor. She's best known for her voice work in
the video game series The Last of Us and won
a BAFTA Games Award for her performance as Ellie, who's
played by Bella Ramsey, a live action series.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
All Right, well it turns out happy ending everything she's
working and everybody's fine. We're live on KFI.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Ah, good, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
News.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You know those used to be tomorrow sex toys on KFI.
Speaking of sex toys, Sam z is with us. How
you Bob? How you doing? Tim? It's addy in here.
You consider your you're a sex pervert or sex Yeah? Absolutely,
no sexpert? Yes sexpert? Sorry, yes, sexpert, But you're you
(15:08):
worked at the station and how long.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I've been at the station off and on for the
better part of twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Wow, and you're going to You're moving to Spain. I'm
moving to Spain. I'm packing up and leaving. I hate
to say I told you so, but when you when
your kids moved, I said to you, you're gonna go. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I think everybody kind of saw the writing on the
wall at that point. Everybody who's known me long enough
knows I can't be without my.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Kids, no way. There are there are three things you
need in your life. Your kids, your dog, and this
dildo convention. Yes, absolutely most one time of the year.
Maybe not in that order, but who knows. All right,
let's talk real quickly about this sex expo that went on.
It was in Burbank.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Yeah, I was right, here at the Burbank Marriott, the
an May Convention, the it's the Adult Novelty Manufacturer's Expo.
It's a big thing. It's a billion dollar industry. And
this is the thirtieth anniversary of the show. Who's the
big player, the big corporation in that game?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
There's a few.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
You definitely have the lube companies and the toy companies
out there. The one that I think everybody is the
most reliable and the most like, the one everybody points
to as far as great sex toys has got to
be the Magic wand that's actually made by Hitachi. The
Hitachi took their name off the brand, but they still
get money for it. They took the name off because
(16:27):
they didn't want to be associated. They didn't want their
name because they're an electronics company, they're a tech company,
and they were now having their biggest product be associated
with sex and sexuality when they were kept insisting it's
a back massager.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Right? Is there a His hers vibrator set? There are
a few His and herves ones. Nobody nothing's private anymore.
You have to do everything with everybody else. You need
an audience.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Nowadays, it's not just that you have toys that hooked
to the Internet, so people remotely can control the function
of it.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
So there's a lot of new tech and AI being
incorporated to this stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
It's one advancement and it's a three day event. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah, it's here in Burbank at the Marriott.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
It's an awesome event.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
It's a trade show, so you can't necessarily buy your
way in or sign your way in.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I'm surprised Burbank allowed that, you know, because they don't
allow But Burbank's pretty conservative, not politically, but you know,
family oriented. Like there's no pot shops in Burbank. No,
but there's four hundred gun shops.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Yeah, and arguably one of the biggest sex toy conferences
in the country, in the world.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Right, it shows. It's a three day event. Yeah, and
you went all three days. Absolutely, they feed you, it's great. Well,
they brought the in and out truck over I I
got it. I had to show up for that. Did
they give you a free product? Yes, especially the last
day of the show.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
The companies don't want to carry the product with them, Yeah,
they want to pack it out. So they were given
everything away and I got a good three four hundred
dollars worth of TNG.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Are there any celebrities who are endorsing the product?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Adult celebrities usually the adult film performers usually get the licensing,
but really what they're looking for are the sexpert who
are sexperts who or into the influencers so wise that
can promote their stuff online.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
I see, buddy, I just wanted to have you commit
because I want to say how great it was working
for you. Man, I'm working with you, I should say it's.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Been a pleasure working here, and I've had serious it's
been a dream of mine. I came here back in
the day when the Lakers were on five seventy and
I threw what I got into radio by sneaking into
Laker games when I was thirteen fourteen years old, and
I would hype it was back at the Forum and
Chick's Nest, where the broadcast booth was was way up
in the top area. So me and my buddy would
(18:31):
just sneak in, go in through the Forum Club, and
that's where the media would check in, was inside the
Forum Club. We'd stop at the media checking table and
just walk through.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
No one ever stopped us.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
So for like three years throughout High school. Three four
years of high school, I snuck into almost every single
Laker game.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Oh no, man, I wish I had that trick. I
think it's great you're gonna be with your kids. They
probably missed the hell out of you.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I talk to them every day.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
My boy keeps telling me how many different restaurants he's
trying to take me to, So I can't wait to
get out there and sample some of the food.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
What was their reaction when you finally told them you're
coming to You're moving to Spain. They were very happy.
The kids were thrilled. The boy was how old are I?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
My boy's nineteen or sorry, my boy's nine and my
daughter is sixteen.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Okay, all right, man, that's great you're doing that. Yeah.
I don't mean the world to them. Yeah, and it's
a big loss for us, But don't mean the world.
I found in.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
English speaking radio station out there so open. Maybe I
might sneak an overnight dating relationships sex please let us know,
let us know. Yeah, if that happens, I'm definitely going
to be sending you guys all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Please. Sammy, very nice to see you. You're a solid
dude around here. I'd never heard you yell at anybody.
I never heard you. You know, no derogatory terms towards anybody.
You're just a terrific employee where we and and it's
really tough to see all the good employees leave here. Yeah,
it's breaking my heart because this is the job that
(19:49):
I've always wanted, and this is where I've always wanted
to be. So it's a bit orsweet for me because
I'm so happy I get to join my kids and
be with my family. But that's gonna be great. But
I love this place. But let us know if you
do a show. Yeah, as soon as that happens, I'm
gonna let you safe travels.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Right, you're the benefit, all right, Sammy z Man.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You know, you may have remembered today that we promoted
daylight saving time, not saving time, daylight saving time, and
Congress just approved it or passed it, and they want
to make get rid of it. So daylight saving time
(20:35):
might be permanent. And I don't know what that. I
don't know how that affects us all. Is it going
to be dark in the winter until eight thirty in
the morning, will be light in the summer until ten
o'clock at night.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
So we have to call on an expert, and we
got one by a guy named Eric Deutsch, and he's
with Eric. How you Bob, Hey?
Speaker 7 (21:02):
Tim ding Dong.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Ding dong with you? What do you, Eric? What do
you do for a living?
Speaker 7 (21:09):
I work in public relations, Tim okay, and more recently though,
started this new venture with a partner to create AI
powered focus groups.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Oh that's interesting, okay, And maybe it's sort of like
a ted talk for really smart people.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
Well, I don't know about that for AI AI generated.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
And okay, AI generated people, which I consider smart people.
All right, And so you guys literally took this up
and talked about the ins and outs, the ups and downs,
the positive and negatives about this act of Congress.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Well you know what happened to Tim. I was in
my car last night, just like I am now, and
of course I was listening to you, and I heard
you tease the discussion that you were going to have
tonight daylight savings time, and it made me curious about
how California might feel about that. So as soon as
I got home, I ran a focus group. Oh and
it took me about twenty minutes, and I used a
(22:08):
cross section of personas representing different you know, types of
Californians and came up with some kind of interesting results.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
That is great. So if that does happen, when will
we stop changing the clocks? Will it be in October?
Will it be in two years, five years?
Speaker 7 (22:26):
Well? You know what was really interesting, Tim is you know,
most people would think intuitively that we want more daylight
at the end of the day. Everybody loves daylight saving time.
But actually seven of eight of our virtual Californians actually
indicated that they want to stop changing the clocks, but
they actually want to do it the other way around, wow,
and keep standard time going all year long, mainly because
(22:49):
of concern about kids getting up in the winter time
and having to go to school in the dark.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Okay, to that, I say, f the kids, you know,
why do we have to do everything for them? I mean,
our parents did nothing. How old are you?
Speaker 7 (23:05):
You know, I'm a little bit younger than you. I'm
in my fifties and I grew up in the valley.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Okay, so you're you're in our group where your parents
did nothing for you.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
They let me do a lot of things that would
probably be illegal today.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Right. You got on your own, you got on your bike,
you you play with your friends all day. You had
to run your bike around to find out where all
your friends were. And your parents probably came to maybe
a baseball or football game, but not like the parents
of today, where you get in the van and you
drive to South Carolina because your kids in a volleyball
tournament somewhere.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Nothing like that. I was in the back of a
pickup truck, that's right. You know.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I remember those what were were they called the Supero Brats?
Do you remember those those pickup trucks? I do, Okay,
So I was in one of those Supero Brats, and
they had two seats in the in the back of
the truck, you know, in the back of the pick
up up, and both those seats were looking the opposite
way of the seats inside the cab. And I remember
(24:05):
driving to Vegas and having to look casual the whole
way there when other drivers passed me by, and I
was not casual.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
Three hundred miles in the back of a truck.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Right, I was scared to death that I was gonna
trug was gonna flip and I was going to die,
all right. So all right, so what were some of
the conclusions, what did people like and dislike, and what
does AI have to say about it?
Speaker 7 (24:30):
Well, okay, here's a real interesting thing. You know. You know,
a traditional focus group which is really terrific, where you
get a bunch of humans together, it takes like six
weeks to put that in motion. I was able to
do this in about twenty minutes. And we put together
eight different representative California, so a school mom, a night
shift nurse, retiree, a bartender, you know, a college student,
(24:54):
and we asked them what they think of this legislation,
and you know, how do they feel about it? Would
they support it if it happens here in California? And
like I said, seven of eight of those respondents said
that they would prefer to have standard time all year long.
Really in kind of a selfless way. A lot of
them said that they would love to have more daylight
(25:15):
at the end of the day in the wintertime, but
they were really concerned about people getting up early, having
to go to school in the dark and go to
work in the dark. So that was where the support
came down and it was kind of a surprising result.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Right, I do get that. But you know what, I've
known a lot of mourning birds and I've known a
lot of night owls, and I have to say that
the night owls have made me laugh a billion times
more than the morning birds.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Hey, even the bartender that you would prefer to have
standard daylight time?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Okay, So did you do any research on when this
will all happen or not happen, or when will we
when will we stop changing clocks?
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Well, you know, the focus group really didn't test. That
didn't test for the legislation. It was really different at
how do representative Californians feel about it?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Okay? I find that really unusual that, you know. Okay,
maybe for California that's you know, that's one thing, But
I tell you, in New York, Minnesota, Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis,
it's got to be the exact opposite. You know, people
are you know, they want more daylight at the end
of the day.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
I know, I sure do. I tell you, I'm apparently
I'm not a representative California.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
No, you're a night out, you're a night guy. You
listen to the show, you're up at night.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
You know, I don't.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I have friends who are morning birds, and I wish
I could be like them. I wish I could get
up in the morning at five o'clock and you know,
and work out and start my day. I just can't.
I've tried, and it's just not me. But I remember
having to catch a flight to New York. It was
a six am flight out of Lax to New York,
(26:58):
and so I had to get up at you know,
three point thirty, get on the road by four, get
there by five, get on the plane at six or
six thirty. It was the first flight out. And I
remember being on the flight and I was sitting next
to a guy. And the guy was one of these
morning guys. He's been up for a long time. He's
got the paper, he's got his orange juice, he's talkative,
he's you know, he's freshly shaved, and he's up. He's up.
(27:20):
And he says to the flight attendant, Hey, can I
get a pillow or a blanket? And she says, how
about both? And they both laughed. And I thought, where
the christ is the humor there? I missed the punchline,
the setup, the irony, the exaggeration. I missed all the
elements of a joke, and I couldn't understand what these
two people were laughing at.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
That was a lot of work for very little payoffs.
You know, it's funny. I'm like you, I'm up all night.
You know, I'll email my business partner at three am
and he texted me at six am.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah, I'm the same way.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
I've stopped doing recently, and I stopped like last night,
I was going to text the buddy at around two
two o'clock in the morning, and I stopped, and I
didn't because it wasn't that important and I didn't want
to wake him up. But I could text people all
night long. And I love when I get a like
a two am text, because that's we're off to the races.
We're going to be twenty minutes of texting back and
(28:15):
forth with anybody, you know, whoever it is, you know,
all the stupid buddies of mine. But I do like
being up late at night. I watched you know, the
late news, the eleven o'clock news on two, four, five, seven, nine,
and then I like watching you know, sporting events that
I missed during the evening because we're doing this show.
But that is interesting that that most people want that daylight,
(28:37):
at least in California in the morning. That's odd.
Speaker 7 (28:40):
Yeah it is. And you know what, I love to
do it in the evening, tim is I love to
run focus groups and all of your listeners, okay to
go to can I.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Give a short Yeah? Absolutely, our new venture.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
We're based here in Los Angeles. It's called Smartfocus dot Ai.
That's the website, and we have this very intuitive platform
that enables anyone to run a focus group.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Oh wow, okay, Smartfocus dot Ai. Right, okay, that's great
and and so and anybody can join. It doesn't cost anything, you.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
Know it, Actually it does cost something, but it is
remarkably remarkably affordable. And you know what for your show.
Anytime you guys want to run a focus group, you
let me know.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
And then what is that entailed? Did we give you
the idea and you put everything together?
Speaker 7 (29:31):
You tell me any idea that you want to test,
whether it's a marketing campaign or a guest idea, yes,
segment for the show, and I can put together a
representative panel of your listeners and tell you how those
people are likely to think about.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Wow, okay, do me a favor? Can can we get
the first one for free?
Speaker 7 (29:50):
You got it?
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Okay? Ask them what they think about bringing back? What
the hell did Jesse Jackson say?
Speaker 7 (30:00):
Been listening to your show since the Steckler days? Okay,
and so you know that was that was a very
memorable segment that it.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Was a lot of fun. And I'm really bummed we
stopped doing it because everybody still always asked about it.
They always always ask, buddy, this sounds great. Who do
you represent in the in the PR business? Anybody an
the athletes or actors, actresses?
Speaker 7 (30:23):
You know. I do a lot of work in entertainment,
but not with talent. I always say, if you have talent,
I don't want to work with you. But I have
a bunch of clients in medicine and entertainment. I represent
the Better Business Bureau. Oh good, okay, and yeah, I've
been doing it for a long time.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Then you're very successful because the the BBB, i UH
does a deep dive on everybody they hire. I know
that for sure.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
Well, I did have to become a credited to work for.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
That's that's how they got you. That's great, all right, Eric,
I'm glad you called. Uh. We will have some focus
groups in the in the future. Anytime we want to
run something up, we'll definitely do it. We go to
smart focus dot ai.
Speaker 7 (31:06):
That's right, Tim, all right, you're the best.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Thanks for photo. Man. He dig dong with you. All right,
that's great man. That guy is. That guy's awesome. You know,
he called up and volunteered himself for you know, to
come on and talk about it. So that's awesome.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
All right.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Anyway, smart focus dot ai, Smart Focus dot AI. I
don't know what it costs. You know, he didn't give
the price, so imagine it's up there, right, you know,
let's look it up. I'm gonna look it up right now.
Smart Focus dot A I dont see what this costs.
(31:44):
Smart Focus dot a AI powered focus groups for instant
insights and smarter discussions. And then there's some kind of
fox running across the computer screen. How it works. Describe
your idea, build your focus group, why the insight unfold,
get actionable insights and keep the conversation going. Oh, okay,
(32:10):
ten thousand dollars, I just get a turn. No, it's
not ten grand. I don't know what it costs, but
it's it's not ten grand. Oh, here's pricing. That's okay,
all right, that's not bad. One hundred and twenty five
dollars a month, all right, that's pretty good. Eight Yeah,
that's I'm not wiping people out. And there's three different
era levels core, Growth and pro pro is three seventy
(32:34):
five a month. And let's see what's included here. Let's
go with the core. So you get one AI focus group,
focus group history, seven max AI persona percession and then
it goes on and on live insights and train. Okay,
that's pretty good. You know, if you want to if
you have an idea and you know you don't want
(32:56):
to do it yourself, one time use a single project
instant insight. They call it one time payment in ninety
nine dollars, which is a great you know, great price.
You have an idea and you want to do a
deep dive on it, go to this dude. You know,
he sounds like an outstanding guy. Smart focus dot ai.
Maybe your business can take off or you need some help.
(33:18):
You're you're toying with an idea. You don't know if
it's going to work or not. Let this guy do
the research for you, so you have to do it.
Smartfocus dot ai ding do wrong with that guy? This
is KFI. This has been the Conway Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app Dere's Live. Join us on KFI
AM six forty weeknight, six to ten pm Monday through Friday.
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