January 13, 2026 • 31 mins
Conway & Thompson kick off the show with classic stories and easy banter to get things rolling. Foosh shares the saga of his “new old” car, while Thompson recaps his Vegas trip to the Cosmopolitan — including a brutally honest breakdown of room service that feels like it takes days to arrive.
The crew dives into LA food nostalgia with updates on Fromin’s Deli still being open, a Wynn Hotel winning story, and memories of Jerry’s Deli that hit longtime locals right in the feels. The hour takes a sharp turn with breaking news out of Van Nuys involving a FlyAway bus threat and reports of 40 people being zip-tied.
Stories, laughs, Vegas chaos, deli nostalgia, and serious local news — a packed first hour from the Conway crew. 🎙️
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
KFI AM sixth forty. It is The Conway Show. It's Tuesday.
Mark Thompson is sitting right here at the same table.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
It's so lovely to see please be seen it all.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, buddy, when you were growing up in Washington, d C.
And Croser in Washington, d C. The American government is
that right?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Okay? Right there? Close to it all? What and Bellio
was going?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Elly was in Colorado around this time of year, January.
You were very envious of the weather out here, insanely
envious of California. And now today was one of those days. Yeah,
you walk outside and it's really warm.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
It's beautiful here. You who grew up here, that's right now.
On some level you're grateful, and on some level you
understand it, But on another level you take it for
granted and you have just no understanding of how we
craved the life that you had here.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
But you've been out in California how many year?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
No, thirty or thirty five?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
But don't you still feel like a newcomer?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah? I do.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Whenever I go to Oregon. You know, my wife from there.
I go there every summer and winter, and I still
feel like I'm a newcomer, like an out of town
or which I sort of am.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I gua, yeah, No, you're right. I know what you're
getting at. And it's actually a very insightful point, which
surprises me.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Wow. But I get the fact that you're saying you
got to be on your best behavior because you're a guest.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Now it takes. But I also, yeah, even though you've
been here longer than other people who have been born here,
you just somehow because you weren't raised here, you never really,
it's never in the texture of who you are.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Right Like when I was growing up, there was a
deli that opened up on Incino near White White Oak
called Frohman's Deli. And I think I was eleven or
twelve when that deli opened, and I still consider that
the new deli on Ventura Boulevard, and it's been there
for forty years.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
That's funny.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I don't know if it's still.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
There or not. Frumman's on the West Side I think closed,
Oh it did. Yeah, And you know the Jerry's Deli
that was sort of new to the valley. Remember the
Jerry's Deli in the valley. It closed and.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Because people are tired of paying fourteen dollars for three
strips of bacons.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Delly's are expensive. Arch delis expensive, very expensive. But the
food is great. Yeah, No, I mean deli food is
you know. Yeah, But your point's a good one that
the I just think the face of a place is
what you remembered as a kid.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I'll tell you a quick deli story since we're talking
about the deli's, which is short for delicatesting.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
That's not the story. So my body is driving an
Encino on Ventura and Louise and he sees a horrific
accident in front of him. So he goes and he
opens the door and this woman is bleeding everywhere. She's
not gonna make it by the time the ambulance gets there.
She may she may bleed out. He wraps a tourniquet
(02:59):
around her arm, throws her in his brand new BMW,
races her down to Encino Hospital. They race her into
surgery and saved her life. Wow, saved her life. And
the and I don't want to say the guy's name
because of this part of the story. So the woman
(03:20):
happens to be the mother of somebody owns a huge
deli in Los Angeles, one you've heard of and everybody's
heard of owns the deli called him personally and said,
that was my mother you saved. I'm giving you a
certificate for ten people the meals on me breakfast, lunch,
(03:41):
or dinner. I'm paying for a big celebration to thank
you for that, you know, the for saving my mom's life.
So he takes the certificate, goes with his mom, his dad,
his brother, his cousin, his aunt, his grandmother. They all
go to the deli. Everybody orders breakfast and he hands
the certificate. The waitress takes it and says, oh, you're
(04:03):
the guy that saved you know, uh what? Somebody so
and sews mom, Oh my god, everyone's talking about it.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. She comes in here often.
I haven't seen her since the accident, but I heard
she's doing well. Thank you for doing that. Hands my
buddy a bill for twenty two dollars and he said,
(04:23):
I thought this was on the owner, and she said
that certificate doesn't include orange juice. Wow, how great is
that story?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Wow? You true story. Yeah, and that's the point. You
almost couldn't imagine that story being true, right.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
But that's such a microcosm of Los Angeles. You know, hey,
thank you, you saved my mom's life. What are you
looking for a deal? You know that kind of crap?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Oh and listen, would you just look at it? Look
at this treatment I wrote for this thing? What dude,
is that what you're gonna do with this? You're gonna
turn this into a show bus thing? Isn't that great? Right?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That really good? That is a great one of my
favorite stories. And I don't want to mention the deli
because the guy, you know, it's still open and I
don't want to get there.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
That's very funny, though it is great.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Ruined his car too, you know, I had to have
a seat the leather on his seat and blood leather.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
No, no, it's a BMW. Leather doesn't get blood out easily.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
That's right. Yeah, But I love that story. That's what
I favorite. It's one of my favorite LA stories of
all time. There was a Oh my god, that's a
good I can't wait to tell it. Shorge of somebody else,
that's wild. There was another story that I had and
I gotta be careful with this one too. But somebody
in the valley makes personalized furniture for kids. Okay, And
(05:46):
I've known this guy and the shop since I was
ten years old.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
What does that mean if somebody wants to somebody.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Wants a bench with Sophia's name on it to put
next to her bed, so that's where she ties her
shoes or puts her shoes on, or maybe I'm like
a changing table with their name on it. You know,
it's all custom made furniture. And I had my daughter
Sophia issues about, you know, six months old. I ran
into him and he says, oh, your sister worked for me.
(06:13):
You got to come in and pick out anything. It's
on me and we'll And I said i'd want to
do that. I really don't want to do it. That
stuff's expensive, you make a lot of money on it.
I don't want to be that guy. And he goes,
please come in, please commit. I said no, no, no. So
I'm in the shopping center where that is, and I
just went in to say hi to him and he says, hey,
have you picked anything out? And I said no, I
haven't really picked anything out. And he says pick something out.
(06:36):
I said, okay, And I went for a cheap coat rack,
you know, and her name is going to be on it.
In a cheap coat, right, she can hang her hat
and her jacket on this coat rack. And it takes
about four weeks. And he says, and somebody from the
store calls. He says, it's ready, come pick it up.
And I go to pick up and it's three hundred
(06:56):
and eighty five dollars, right, And the woman gives me
the bill for three undred eighty five hours. And I said, oh,
I said, I thought this was comped with the guy
who owns it. My sister worked here, and what's going on.
And he gets on the phone and he goes, you're
cheaper ninety percent of the people that come in here.
(07:17):
This was not comped. I said, I was just going
to make it for you.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And I was sweating because I knew I heard you know,
I'll give it to you.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
No, no, no, no, no, I'm on your side on
that one.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I don't maybe I misheard it.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I don't know, my god, but it was. But that
that Orange.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Juice story is one of my favorite stories of It's
so great. That certificate doesn't include orange juice.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
You should have told the guy who makes the custom
kids furniture the Arte juice story. You know this reminds
you of it was good?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, buddy, I Mark Thompson is here. We'll
come back and talk. Is uh is Aaron Rodgers that
Aaron Rodgers play his last game last night? Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I know, I just got back from Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Tell me something I don't know wrong.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Hated those Steelers to just keep it within ten points.
They couldn't do it wrong.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I heard that.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Steph Busche got a brand new car. Wow, because he
did a new one right, yeah? Uh his old car
almost killed him. And but you're you're not driving Uber
or Lyft because you don't want to get it dirty?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Is that what I hear? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah, that's smart. Yeah, yeah, I I really want to
do Uber and Lyft again. Get a second car or
just work for them. You know there's services you could
just drive. You don't have to use your own car.
That's true too, you know, Yeah, what do they pay
you like twenty bucks an hour to do that?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Well?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah, but then I got to be on their schedule.
Oh I see, yeah, right, that's why it's harder to
right and you want to be on your own exactly.
I don't want to ask what kind of car you got,
but what yeah, what did you get? But what kind
of cartoon? It's a Prius? Oh you got a Prius.
Oh you went back to you went back to the well,
yeah I did. Oh Wow, that didn't scare the hell
out of you the first time.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I'm impressed by that. Well. I mean, that's why I
like those shock Bite guys. You know, I did a
show with them where they've been, you know, gored by
a great white and they get right back in the water. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
But you got that new Prius too, Yeah, I did.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
What's a new Prius? Like? Well, it's a twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
It's a for slicer. Oh, however a toaster cut.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I got it.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Only only ten thousand miles on it, so it's basically new.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Oh you bought a used one? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Wait, ten thousand miles and it's a twenty nineteen exactly. Yeah,
what happened there? Did somebody go into a coma after
the body? I guess he just never drove it. I
don't know what it was, but it is pristine.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
So I want to keep it that good for you
as long as I can. Mark Thompson's fresh back from
Las Vegas.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I was in Las Vegas and what do you call it? Pelion?
That's I never heard that before.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, did you lose money?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Oh yeah, no, it totally makes sense. I just to funny.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I've never heard it double spread that around. It's actually
barely an on tandra, but I it is good. It's funny.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yeah, use it.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
So you went to Vegas and you have a do that.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Wild card weekend and make an annual trip down there.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Okay, you ordered you went to You don't stay at
the wind I usually stay.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
At the Encore. The Wind Encore, I really like it upscale,
I really like Splurge and I stay there. It's very nice,
very beautiful service, orient, very clean time. The boys were
at the Cosmo, the Cosmo, which there next to the Bolagio.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I like that place. Yeah, it's but it's it's got
a younger hip or field.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Super young man. You gotta be.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
You got to be young and hip, and I'm plus
all day. It's like, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Very it's very salted with the with the lights and
the sound. Yeah. But but I was kind of trying
to get into that and kind of going, oh yeah,
kind of like this is so different because I love it.
Everything at the Encore so stayed older, you know. Yeah,
so but the only time it really liked. So I'm
kind of trying to get into the vibe and I
couldn't really get int the vibe. At the casino, I got,
(11:18):
you know, slapped around pretty badly by every game.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Craps, right, but if you would have won, that would
have been your new home.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Yeah, exactly. So I was going to say, maybe my
opinion is a little influenced by it. So I didn't
mind the Cosmo Ball, and I thought it was kind
of a cool place and they have a lot of
cool restaurants and stuff. But on my way out the
last morning I was there, I ordered room service, and
room service everything at the Cosmo Ball is kind of
this younger story. You got to go, go, oh, I
(11:45):
get it. It's kind of a younger thing, more casual. Okay.
So the way it plays out when it's room service
is she comes in and she's carrying a bag like
she doesn't wagh. She doesn't roll in like a table
and stuff and in the like get to go bag. Yeah, exactly,
it's exactly what it is, and it says I mean
it says to go or something something cute like to
(12:05):
go on the on the side. And instead of uh,
things being laid out on plates, things are in like
those plastic tub and capement like you like at the
airport when you buy a sandwich at the airport. You
know what's in that little clamshell thing sort of thing.
That's what everything's in. Oh my god, sow'd you do? Uh?
So that wasn't so bad. I just didn't. I was
(12:26):
kind of expecting plates and like fork and knives and
stuff like. Okay, but they do have forks and knives,
but they're in those little plastic container sleeves and and
that's where your napkin is. You have that little napkin
that you fold out it just like it looks like
a mini napkin. Those are your napkins.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
So it's good for a half a wipe. Yeah, period.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Yeah. So there's no tablecloth, there are no fabric napkins,
there are no plates there no, It's like, hey, dude,
you're not at the Encore you're there at Cosbalan. Now, okay,
so all right, didn't they know who you were? Though? Yeah, exactly,
that's what kind of what I was asking. So, uh,
by the way, uh price is still the same the Encore,
but they're just like anyway. Here was the moment though,
that it all really came together. I'd ask for a
(13:06):
pot of coffee, and she said to me on the phone,
at room Service, we don't have pots of coffee. We
have boxes of coffee. I said, I don't really know
what that is, okay, a box of coffee then, and
she said it serves four cups of coffee. I said,
that's perfect, okay, great, So she brings up an out
(13:27):
of this bag comes my fruit plate and my costs
on whatever, you know, and this box of coffee. When
she says box of coffee. You've seen it at Starbucks.
It's that you know, that box type of the handle
on it. It's like a pitcher exactly. So I thought, oh,
I know what this is, she said, box of coffee.
I don't really understand, but now, but she puts it
on the bottom of it, sitting on the with the
(13:47):
handle up and the spout out, which I thought, oh,
that's cool. Great. So, you know, just like you'd approach
a pot of coffee, which is has the bottom down
on the table and then the spout up, you open
it and then you pour. I in this case, took
the cap off of the spout ready to pour a
(14:07):
cup of coffee. And when I took the cap off,
a fountain of hot coffee just pours all over me.
I mean, and I was sitting. I mean, it really
was like it was as though I was I don't
know why I had the spout pointed toward me. You know,
I'm wearing shorts. I mean, it wasn't scalding like the
McDonald's lady who was scalded ensued, but it was hot,
(14:30):
and I'm conco I throw a towel over the thing,
just trying to stop this sort of you know, valdiese
oil spell of coffee everywhere. And then I called them
and I say, hey, you know, I'm gonna I'm really yeah,
this doesn't work. I'm not a yeller, so but I
was gonna go, hey, I just want you to be
aware of something. It rings, and it rings and it rings,
and then finally an operator picks up and I said, yeah,
(14:52):
I'm just trying to reach room service. I had this problem,
and I go through the whole story about the coffee
and she goes, yeah, I'm not with room service. I'm
the operator. She says, their lines are down. We've called it. Oh,
there's probably be a couple hours. So and that was.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
But you know, the longest period of time you ever
spend on Earth is the time you hang up from
room service and the food gets there.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
That is true.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I don't even if.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I say the time you call room service and somebody
picks up.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Well, there's that, yeah, but by the time you order
room service until it gets to the room, it seems
like four days.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yeah, no, you're right, and sometimes.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
It's only literally four hours.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I got to tell you something. I took photographs of this.
I went down to the front desk to tell them
about this engine, thinking that they would go, I'm so sorry.
You know, we're going to comp that death room yeah everything,
or comp the meal comp the breakfast. Breakfasts are like
one hundred and eighteen dollars. So I am telling the
front desk person this and it was and I showed
(15:50):
her pictures and stuff, and it was like I was
like talking to this microphone. Nothing, nothing, nothing at all.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
When we come back, I got a camp story at
the Wind that's going to knock your sock all right,
knock your socks off. It happened to a buddy of
mine at the Wind Hotel.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Mark Thompson is here and we got a call from
Froman's Deli saying that they are indeed still open.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Good.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I just haven't been there in you know, ten or
fifteen years, so I don't live out there, so I
don't pass by it. I didn't know that, you know,
because some restaurants, you know, restaurants come and go.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Where is that Fromans?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
It's on white Oak and Ventura. Oh sure, it's just
east of white Oak on the north side of Ventura,
and it's great food. When I was growing up, my
mom really enjoyed Fromans. We did a phony phone call
on the guy who owned Fromans at the time, me
and my Boddy, we're probably out of now, I'm fourteen,
(16:51):
and we called him up and we said, hey, we're
opening up a deli across the street called Broman's and
we want to sell exactly what you sell, but only
at like, you know, twenty five percent off. Can we
come by and and copy your menu and sell exactly
what you sell? And he says, uh, he says, I'll
messenger it to you. Where are you?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Fellas wasn't having a great that's really good?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
And he's the owner of Froman Yeah, and he I understood.
It's just too idiot kids, you know, calling up and
busting his balls.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
And it was a lot of fun. I remember Adam
Sandler one night at the improv called I want to say,
what's the one that's green Blatz? Green Blatz up on
sunset with some kind of complicated order. It was very funny.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Here the Laugh Factory. He did it on stage, Yeah,
near the Laugh Factory. Exactly when Jerry's Deli was open.
We were at the Encino Jerry's Deli and uh, we were,
you know, just drunk and stupid. So we got on
the payphone there and I found out the manager. He said,
(17:59):
who was this place tonight? Oh it's Gary, Oh, Gary
Love Gary. So we call the studio city Jerry's and
he picks up Studio City Jerry's. I said, yeah, it's
Gary at the Ensino store. Oh, Gary, How you doing good?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
How's your wife?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
She's great?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Right, Hey, listen, we're out. We had a huge party
in here, running on a lot of stuff. Can you
can you swing the van by and drop some stuff off? Yeah,
what do you need about ten pounds of pastrami? We
need this, We need soup, we need bread, we need
all this stuff. We need some cakes. We have you know,
it loaded month and we waited for the van to
get there and it shows up with all this food.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
It was fun to watch. Wow and that and that
Jerry is isn't even there anymore?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
No.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Because of that, I always wondered how a place like that,
this this Jerry's, you know, was right there in the valley,
was like, I love Jerry. That's where Seinfeld and Larry
David like came up with a lot of this stuffore
because it's not close, not far from Rafford's pretty close
to Rafford. And you know, it was a it was
what everyone went there institution. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Night on Saturday. You couldn't get a table.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
And so I don't understand what how does the place
like that go under it?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
The best vegetable soup in the world.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
It was everything was terrific.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah, I love that Jerry's dell. I used to spend
We used to go there for New Year's dinner before
we went out to uh New Year's party.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yeah yeah, all right. Let me tell you that a
quick story about the Wind Hotel. My body goes to
the Wind Hotel on opening week of that hotel with
his four kids and his wife and they stay a week.
They get a big, huge sweet with the adjoining room
and they order room service for the kids. The kids
are like, you know, five through eleven or so, so
(19:36):
they order room service. The chicken nuggets come and there's
no sauce, and so he calls back and he goes, hey,
you can bring the sauce up, you know, the chicken
nuggets with kids or don't. They don't eat it without sauce.
It's just a sauce delivery system. Could they could rather
have the sauce than the chicken, you know, the sweet
and sour, the buffalo, the ranch whatever. So he calls
(19:58):
back and never get it's the sauce. So they throw
a little ketchup on it. The kids eat it and
that's fine. So they go down to pay for the
room and the room charges is for the week is
seventy five hundred dollars. You know, it's a week at
the wind beautiful hotel, big sweet with their joining room meals.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
You know that's nothing for a whole week.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Right, I'm pool activities, you know, restaurants, all that stuff.
So the lady says, how is your stay? And he said,
it's most beautiful hotel I've ever been in my life.
You guys are going to do great here in Vegas.
The only problem is, uh, you know, the sauce with
the with the nuggets.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
But you know.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
That's uh, that's easy to solve. And she said, what
what's up? And he said it's not a big deal.
And she goes, no, no, what happened? He goes, I The
kids ordered chicken nuggets and the sauce never came, but
they found ketchup and they ate them and they were
they were fine. And she goes, hold on, goes to
the back room, comes out five minutes later, comped the
whole week, comped, Wow, seventy five one hundred dollars. Bill
(20:57):
ripped up. Wow, how great is that? And you know what,
I've told that story probably to five hundred people. And
that story. If it was the opposite, I would have
also told it, right, And then they look like, but
that's old school Vegas, right, you know. We take care
of the people who come and gamble and stay here,
(21:18):
and if something happens, we'll take care of you. And
that still goes on at the wind.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yeah, I think at the higher end hotels like I
just told you that cousin following the story where poking
where coffee gets spilled all over me, and they didn't
even take a meeting on a comprehend you.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Know, right, Okay, what we've learned this hour that Froman's
is still open. Yes, what are the hours there?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Belly O?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Do you want me to give out the hours and
the address? What's the special today? Do we know the special?
I've got to get to the Froman's desk. Okay, please
go to the Froeman's desk. Fromen's Delhi and Encino is
open for business and they probably have been since what
nineteen eighty I'm guessing that place opened before night clo eight. Okay,
(22:03):
I would I would say that that that Froman's open
in the late seventies, early eighties, nineteen seventies, early eighties.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Well, you know they have free parking, free Wi Fi,
free wine corkage, free charging stations at Mini boots.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Wait, free wine corkage. That's what it says. Wow, you
can bring your box of wine in there and down
there for free. Three ninety five beer and wine with entrees,
beers dining only a special today specials.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Nineteen seventy eight they opened.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
You're seventy eight, okay, seventy eight, I was fifteen.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
The original Froeman's Deli started in the Encino though, in
nineteen sixty two. Whoa Dennis Froeman.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
That's who we call Dennis Frohman. What if he's still around? Oh,
I'm sure he is. I'm sure he is. The original
was Arnie Froman It was right across from it was
right there was a sizzler there on White Oak and
a Perry's Pizza. I remember growing up there, really sweet times.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
You and Paul Thomas Anderson hang.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Out Standard Shoes across the street. That used to be great,
and that Our Lady of Grace is the church that
my family got kicked out of.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Our Lady of Grace. I wondered about you call up.
I like that story. What I wonder where you co
standard shoes? Why would you want to copela? You know,
average shoes. It's standard, average, normal shoes.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Right, Like Chinese food. There was a place on Ventura
Bulvar on Van E It's called okay Chinese food, Like, hey,
how is it? Okay, it's not great, it's not bad,
it's just it's okay.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
They have an incredible menu. Yeah, it's you could do.
My uncle would do twenty minutes on that menu whenever
it was still scrolling through it. Okay, unbelievable. All right,
let's get the Froeman's out.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Go to froman You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on
demand from kf I Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
The Conway Show. Mark Thompson is here. You're a great
monument to what talk radio is now. And really, yeah,
I think so, I really think so. You're in what
way well your topical Thank you? You get outrage at
the right things right. Most of all, I think.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
You weave a sense of mirth and entertainment through your comy.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
I appreciate that. Okay, thank you, man, I appreciate I'll
take that.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I think it's true.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I'll take that. Breaking news. Van Eyes Flyaway there's a
police presence out at the flyaway. That's where you take
your car, then get on a bus and go to
the airport. Of course, the flyaway. Yeah, you drive to
the bus and then take the bus to the airport.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
LAPD investigating a threat that was phoned in here at
the parking garage. This is the lax.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Flyaway bus people huh, well and.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Isaat Woodley and Sataquoy. You could see a large police
presence as they investigate that threat regarding a man with
a gun. Several dozen people incidenttly have been rounded up
for questioning. They are have been taken a little bit
down the block in zip Tize. We catted about forty people.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Wait, they got forty people in zip ties. So when
the LAPD goes in, they just zip tie everybody up.
Everybody's going down for a speed wrapping session.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Maybe that's not everybody in zip Tize.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
You know, some people are just trying to get to
New York. You know, they're trying to take a bus
at the airport and go to New York. Yeah, not
in it for the whole right, And now they're in
it zip Tize. They're in Ziptize.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
That seems excessive.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Maybe they did.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Something zip tize. We catted about forty people being escorted
next door here as police go car to car looking
for anything suspicious. So far they have found nothing. Reporting
live from there, seven, I'm Chris Christy, ABC seven.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Chris Christy flying above the fly away out there in
Van Eyes and reporting back that a little forty people
are in ziptize zip TIESE.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
When did do zip tize come in to replace the
traditional cuffs?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Well, they they don't have enough metal cuffs for everybody.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
I get why she's like a good little upgrade to
the technology, But I'm wondering when did it really start.
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
There were kids, There was only cuffs, right, but there
weren't a lot of mischief makers. Now there's now everybody
is in.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Zipize exactly my point. I'm going to ask Ai, when
did zip tize? When did zip tize come in as
a in widespread use?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Zip ties are the most powerful thing in my garage.
Anytime I zip tize something, it sticks and stays there forever.
It's one of the greatest inventions ever.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Is it two words or one? I have no idea.
It's not one.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Oh it's two, it's Z and then hYP.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Tize zip tize, zip tize. When did to replace normal handcuffs?
Speaker 2 (26:55):
When did that happen? I'm looking now zip tize. When
did zip tize come in to replace norma? The answer
is the modern nylon cable zip tie was invented by
Thomas and Betts for aircraft wiring.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Wow. For decades they were purely industrial, not law enforcement tools.
In the late nineteen eighties and early nineteen nineties, police
and corrections agencies began experimenting with heavy duty plastic restraints
often called flex or plastic cuffs, and the major desion
military and massed attention. US military and federal agency in
(27:31):
the nineteen nineties adopted zip tie style restraints zip ties
for prisoner transport, crowd control, and temporary detentions. Post nine
to eleven is when they really stepped it up.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Have you ever been in handcuffs?
Speaker 3 (27:44):
No? Oh, that's not true. I mean I was in
handcuffs with law enforcement? Oh then never.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Wow, I'm sorry about that. By the way, they were
introduced in the seventies. That's when they were first you
started to be used by police organizations.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Zip ties nineteen seventies are not listed here in the crows.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
You have been at handcuffs? Yes, that's great.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
You mean for law purposes?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yes? Oh no, no, okay, steps you have been in handcuffs?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Nope? What are you eating? Ice cream? How is it?
It's pretty good?
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Looks like what kinda wow? Yeah, that's a big bite too.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
That's a wild but the wrong moment?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yeah, belly, Oh you've probably been in handcuffs. No, no,
no zip ties. Yes, Angel, you've been in handcuffs. Oh yeah,
really with the cops? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Is that right? Well, a guy dressed up.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Tell us the story. What happened? Cop? You're dating accomp
This is a story for off air?
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Off air? Oh, is there any part of it you
can tell on the air.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
You know, Mike was in handcuffs. Okay, My wife's been
in handcuffs twice in her life.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (29:05):
She went during prom They rented a room like a
hotel room so they could all party and drink and
you know, blow low weed. And the cop showed up
in Dana Point and the room was registered under her name,
and they hauled her away and they took her as away.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
And the second one I believed involved being unruly at
certain point. I think maybe it was only once, but
I know she's been in handcuffs at least once. I
knock on wood have avoided that. Never ever close calls
been in handcuffs. One close call, yeah, one close call
(29:45):
could have gone It was a flip of a coin,
could have gone either way, but I they I got
a yeah one. I was driving after about nineteen beers
and I thought I could that could go either win. No,
I've never been in handcuffs, and I don't even think
I was clothes. I can't remember doing anything where I
(30:09):
when I were a cop pulled out his handcuffs and
were going to You.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Know, I know one thing that you and I share
in every law enforcement interaction. I'm very deferential, very yes, sir, notion.
I'm like super you know, I've never been like I
never say come on, man, I don't do any of that.
But that's with you know, with traditional LAPD or whatever.
You know, they're usually very professional.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Also, I was pulled over a couple of years ago
in Woodland Hills and I wasn't drunk, but I had
like a beer or two and the cop said LAPD.
He says, I can take you in for d uy
or you're going to do our awards show this this year.
Oh wow, I've done the award show. Then every year
it seems like pretty good exchange. John, Yeah, No, that's
(30:55):
not true. I never ever, I know they would not
make a deal with you. And here is how paranoid
I am about drinking and driving. If my car is
out in front of our house and I've had a
beer or two and it's on the side where the
street sweeper is going to come the next day, I
have my wife move it because my luck, i'll move it,
somebody'll hit me and I'll go.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
To Oh, sure, bad stuffs gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
So my wife literally gets you know it has what
are slippers on? Go outside and move it from one
side of the street to the other. And nobody's ever
around on our streets quiet. But I don't want to
take that. That's how carefully.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
That's right, and you should be. You're a model to
live on KFI AM six forty Get Addie.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
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Speaker 3 (31:36):
Now you can always
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Hear us live on KFI AM six forty four to
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
KFI AM sixth forty. It is The Conway Show. It's Tuesday.
Mark Thompson is sitting right here at the same table.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
It's so lovely to see please be seen it all.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, buddy, when you were growing up in Washington, d C.
And Croser in Washington, d C. The American government is
that right?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Okay? Right there? Close to it all? What and Bellio
was going?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Elly was in Colorado around this time of year, January.
You were very envious of the weather out here, insanely
envious of California. And now today was one of those days. Yeah,
you walk outside and it's really warm.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
It's beautiful here. You who grew up here, that's right now.
On some level you're grateful, and on some level you
understand it, But on another level you take it for
granted and you have just no understanding of how we
craved the life that you had here.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
But you've been out in California how many year?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
No, thirty or thirty five?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
But don't you still feel like a newcomer?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah? I do.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Whenever I go to Oregon. You know, my wife from there.
I go there every summer and winter, and I still
feel like I'm a newcomer, like an out of town
or which I sort of am.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I gua, yeah, No, you're right. I know what you're
getting at. And it's actually a very insightful point, which
surprises me.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Wow. But I get the fact that you're saying you
got to be on your best behavior because you're a guest.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Now it takes. But I also, yeah, even though you've
been here longer than other people who have been born here,
you just somehow because you weren't raised here, you never really,
it's never in the texture of who you are.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Right Like when I was growing up, there was a
deli that opened up on Incino near White White Oak
called Frohman's Deli. And I think I was eleven or
twelve when that deli opened, and I still consider that
the new deli on Ventura Boulevard, and it's been there
for forty years.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
That's funny.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I don't know if it's still.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
There or not. Frumman's on the West Side I think closed,
Oh it did. Yeah, And you know the Jerry's Deli
that was sort of new to the valley. Remember the
Jerry's Deli in the valley. It closed and.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Because people are tired of paying fourteen dollars for three
strips of bacons.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Delly's are expensive. Arch delis expensive, very expensive. But the
food is great. Yeah, No, I mean deli food is
you know. Yeah, But your point's a good one that
the I just think the face of a place is
what you remembered as a kid.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I'll tell you a quick deli story since we're talking
about the deli's, which is short for delicatesting.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
That's not the story. So my body is driving an
Encino on Ventura and Louise and he sees a horrific
accident in front of him. So he goes and he
opens the door and this woman is bleeding everywhere. She's
not gonna make it by the time the ambulance gets there.
She may she may bleed out. He wraps a tourniquet
(02:59):
around her arm, throws her in his brand new BMW,
races her down to Encino Hospital. They race her into
surgery and saved her life. Wow, saved her life. And
the and I don't want to say the guy's name
because of this part of the story. So the woman
(03:20):
happens to be the mother of somebody owns a huge
deli in Los Angeles, one you've heard of and everybody's
heard of owns the deli called him personally and said,
that was my mother you saved. I'm giving you a
certificate for ten people the meals on me breakfast, lunch,
(03:41):
or dinner. I'm paying for a big celebration to thank
you for that, you know, the for saving my mom's life.
So he takes the certificate, goes with his mom, his dad,
his brother, his cousin, his aunt, his grandmother. They all
go to the deli. Everybody orders breakfast and he hands
the certificate. The waitress takes it and says, oh, you're
(04:03):
the guy that saved you know, uh what? Somebody so
and sews mom, Oh my god, everyone's talking about it.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. She comes in here often.
I haven't seen her since the accident, but I heard
she's doing well. Thank you for doing that. Hands my
buddy a bill for twenty two dollars and he said,
(04:23):
I thought this was on the owner, and she said
that certificate doesn't include orange juice. Wow, how great is
that story?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Wow? You true story. Yeah, and that's the point. You
almost couldn't imagine that story being true, right.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
But that's such a microcosm of Los Angeles. You know, hey,
thank you, you saved my mom's life. What are you
looking for a deal? You know that kind of crap?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Oh and listen, would you just look at it? Look
at this treatment I wrote for this thing? What dude,
is that what you're gonna do with this? You're gonna
turn this into a show bus thing? Isn't that great? Right?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That really good? That is a great one of my
favorite stories. And I don't want to mention the deli
because the guy, you know, it's still open and I
don't want to get there.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
That's very funny, though it is great.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Ruined his car too, you know, I had to have
a seat the leather on his seat and blood leather.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
No, no, it's a BMW. Leather doesn't get blood out easily.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
That's right. Yeah, But I love that story. That's what
I favorite. It's one of my favorite LA stories of
all time. There was a Oh my god, that's a
good I can't wait to tell it. Shorge of somebody else,
that's wild. There was another story that I had and
I gotta be careful with this one too. But somebody
in the valley makes personalized furniture for kids. Okay, And
(05:46):
I've known this guy and the shop since I was
ten years old.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
What does that mean if somebody wants to somebody.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Wants a bench with Sophia's name on it to put
next to her bed, so that's where she ties her
shoes or puts her shoes on, or maybe I'm like
a changing table with their name on it. You know,
it's all custom made furniture. And I had my daughter
Sophia issues about, you know, six months old. I ran
into him and he says, oh, your sister worked for me.
(06:13):
You got to come in and pick out anything. It's
on me and we'll And I said i'd want to
do that. I really don't want to do it. That
stuff's expensive, you make a lot of money on it.
I don't want to be that guy. And he goes,
please come in, please commit. I said no, no, no. So
I'm in the shopping center where that is, and I
just went in to say hi to him and he says, hey,
have you picked anything out? And I said no, I
haven't really picked anything out. And he says pick something out.
(06:36):
I said, okay, And I went for a cheap coat rack,
you know, and her name is going to be on it.
In a cheap coat, right, she can hang her hat
and her jacket on this coat rack. And it takes
about four weeks. And he says, and somebody from the
store calls. He says, it's ready, come pick it up.
And I go to pick up and it's three hundred
(06:56):
and eighty five dollars, right, And the woman gives me
the bill for three undred eighty five hours. And I said, oh,
I said, I thought this was comped with the guy
who owns it. My sister worked here, and what's going on.
And he gets on the phone and he goes, you're
cheaper ninety percent of the people that come in here.
(07:17):
This was not comped. I said, I was just going
to make it for you.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And I was sweating because I knew I heard you know,
I'll give it to you.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
No, no, no, no, no, I'm on your side on
that one.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I don't maybe I misheard it.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I don't know, my god, but it was. But that
that Orange.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Juice story is one of my favorite stories of It's
so great. That certificate doesn't include orange juice.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
You should have told the guy who makes the custom
kids furniture the Arte juice story. You know this reminds
you of it was good?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, buddy, I Mark Thompson is here. We'll
come back and talk. Is uh is Aaron Rodgers that
Aaron Rodgers play his last game last night? Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I know, I just got back from Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Tell me something I don't know wrong.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Hated those Steelers to just keep it within ten points.
They couldn't do it wrong.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I heard that.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Steph Busche got a brand new car. Wow, because he
did a new one right, yeah? Uh his old car
almost killed him. And but you're you're not driving Uber
or Lyft because you don't want to get it dirty?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Is that what I hear? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah, that's smart. Yeah, yeah, I I really want to
do Uber and Lyft again. Get a second car or
just work for them. You know there's services you could
just drive. You don't have to use your own car.
That's true too, you know, Yeah, what do they pay
you like twenty bucks an hour to do that?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Well?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah, but then I got to be on their schedule.
Oh I see, yeah, right, that's why it's harder to
right and you want to be on your own exactly.
I don't want to ask what kind of car you got,
but what yeah, what did you get? But what kind
of cartoon? It's a Prius? Oh you got a Prius.
Oh you went back to you went back to the well,
yeah I did. Oh Wow, that didn't scare the hell
out of you the first time.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I'm impressed by that. Well. I mean, that's why I
like those shock Bite guys. You know, I did a
show with them where they've been, you know, gored by
a great white and they get right back in the water. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
But you got that new Prius too, Yeah, I did.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
What's a new Prius? Like? Well, it's a twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
It's a for slicer. Oh, however a toaster cut.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I got it.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Only only ten thousand miles on it, so it's basically new.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Oh you bought a used one? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Wait, ten thousand miles and it's a twenty nineteen exactly. Yeah,
what happened there? Did somebody go into a coma after
the body? I guess he just never drove it. I
don't know what it was, but it is pristine.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
So I want to keep it that good for you
as long as I can. Mark Thompson's fresh back from
Las Vegas.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I was in Las Vegas and what do you call it? Pelion?
That's I never heard that before.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, did you lose money?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Oh yeah, no, it totally makes sense. I just to funny.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I've never heard it double spread that around. It's actually
barely an on tandra, but I it is good. It's funny.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yeah, use it.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
So you went to Vegas and you have a do that.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Wild card weekend and make an annual trip down there.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Okay, you ordered you went to You don't stay at
the wind I usually stay.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
At the Encore. The Wind Encore, I really like it upscale,
I really like Splurge and I stay there. It's very nice,
very beautiful service, orient, very clean time. The boys were
at the Cosmo, the Cosmo, which there next to the Bolagio.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I like that place. Yeah, it's but it's it's got
a younger hip or field.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Super young man. You gotta be.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
You got to be young and hip, and I'm plus
all day. It's like, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Very it's very salted with the with the lights and
the sound. Yeah. But but I was kind of trying
to get into that and kind of going, oh yeah,
kind of like this is so different because I love it.
Everything at the Encore so stayed older, you know. Yeah,
so but the only time it really liked. So I'm
kind of trying to get into the vibe and I
couldn't really get int the vibe. At the casino, I got,
(11:18):
you know, slapped around pretty badly by every game.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Craps, right, but if you would have won, that would
have been your new home.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Yeah, exactly. So I was going to say, maybe my
opinion is a little influenced by it. So I didn't
mind the Cosmo Ball, and I thought it was kind
of a cool place and they have a lot of
cool restaurants and stuff. But on my way out the
last morning I was there, I ordered room service, and
room service everything at the Cosmo Ball is kind of
this younger story. You got to go, go, oh, I
(11:45):
get it. It's kind of a younger thing, more casual. Okay.
So the way it plays out when it's room service
is she comes in and she's carrying a bag like
she doesn't wagh. She doesn't roll in like a table
and stuff and in the like get to go bag. Yeah, exactly,
it's exactly what it is, and it says I mean
it says to go or something something cute like to
(12:05):
go on the on the side. And instead of uh,
things being laid out on plates, things are in like
those plastic tub and capement like you like at the
airport when you buy a sandwich at the airport. You
know what's in that little clamshell thing sort of thing.
That's what everything's in. Oh my god, sow'd you do? Uh?
So that wasn't so bad. I just didn't. I was
(12:26):
kind of expecting plates and like fork and knives and
stuff like. Okay, but they do have forks and knives,
but they're in those little plastic container sleeves and and
that's where your napkin is. You have that little napkin
that you fold out it just like it looks like
a mini napkin. Those are your napkins.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
So it's good for a half a wipe. Yeah, period.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Yeah. So there's no tablecloth, there are no fabric napkins,
there are no plates there no, It's like, hey, dude,
you're not at the Encore you're there at Cosbalan. Now, okay,
so all right, didn't they know who you were? Though? Yeah, exactly,
that's what kind of what I was asking. So, uh,
by the way, uh price is still the same the Encore,
but they're just like anyway. Here was the moment though,
that it all really came together. I'd ask for a
(13:06):
pot of coffee, and she said to me on the phone,
at room Service, we don't have pots of coffee. We
have boxes of coffee. I said, I don't really know
what that is, okay, a box of coffee then, and
she said it serves four cups of coffee. I said,
that's perfect, okay, great, So she brings up an out
(13:27):
of this bag comes my fruit plate and my costs
on whatever, you know, and this box of coffee. When
she says box of coffee. You've seen it at Starbucks.
It's that you know, that box type of the handle
on it. It's like a pitcher exactly. So I thought, oh,
I know what this is, she said, box of coffee.
I don't really understand, but now, but she puts it
on the bottom of it, sitting on the with the
(13:47):
handle up and the spout out, which I thought, oh,
that's cool. Great. So, you know, just like you'd approach
a pot of coffee, which is has the bottom down
on the table and then the spout up, you open
it and then you pour. I in this case, took
the cap off of the spout ready to pour a
(14:07):
cup of coffee. And when I took the cap off,
a fountain of hot coffee just pours all over me.
I mean, and I was sitting. I mean, it really
was like it was as though I was I don't
know why I had the spout pointed toward me. You know,
I'm wearing shorts. I mean, it wasn't scalding like the
McDonald's lady who was scalded ensued, but it was hot,
(14:30):
and I'm conco I throw a towel over the thing,
just trying to stop this sort of you know, valdiese
oil spell of coffee everywhere. And then I called them
and I say, hey, you know, I'm gonna I'm really yeah,
this doesn't work. I'm not a yeller, so but I
was gonna go, hey, I just want you to be
aware of something. It rings, and it rings and it rings,
and then finally an operator picks up and I said, yeah,
(14:52):
I'm just trying to reach room service. I had this problem,
and I go through the whole story about the coffee
and she goes, yeah, I'm not with room service. I'm
the operator. She says, their lines are down. We've called it. Oh,
there's probably be a couple hours. So and that was.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
But you know, the longest period of time you ever
spend on Earth is the time you hang up from
room service and the food gets there.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
That is true.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I don't even if.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I say the time you call room service and somebody
picks up.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Well, there's that, yeah, but by the time you order
room service until it gets to the room, it seems
like four days.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yeah, no, you're right, and sometimes.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
It's only literally four hours.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I got to tell you something. I took photographs of this.
I went down to the front desk to tell them
about this engine, thinking that they would go, I'm so sorry.
You know, we're going to comp that death room yeah everything,
or comp the meal comp the breakfast. Breakfasts are like
one hundred and eighteen dollars. So I am telling the
front desk person this and it was and I showed
(15:50):
her pictures and stuff, and it was like I was
like talking to this microphone. Nothing, nothing, nothing at all.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
When we come back, I got a camp story at
the Wind that's going to knock your sock all right,
knock your socks off. It happened to a buddy of
mine at the Wind Hotel.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Mark Thompson is here and we got a call from
Froman's Deli saying that they are indeed still open.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Good.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I just haven't been there in you know, ten or
fifteen years, so I don't live out there, so I
don't pass by it. I didn't know that, you know,
because some restaurants, you know, restaurants come and go.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Where is that Fromans?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
It's on white Oak and Ventura. Oh sure, it's just
east of white Oak on the north side of Ventura,
and it's great food. When I was growing up, my
mom really enjoyed Fromans. We did a phony phone call
on the guy who owned Fromans at the time, me
and my Boddy, we're probably out of now, I'm fourteen,
(16:51):
and we called him up and we said, hey, we're
opening up a deli across the street called Broman's and
we want to sell exactly what you sell, but only
at like, you know, twenty five percent off. Can we
come by and and copy your menu and sell exactly
what you sell? And he says, uh, he says, I'll
messenger it to you. Where are you?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Fellas wasn't having a great that's really good?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
And he's the owner of Froman Yeah, and he I understood.
It's just too idiot kids, you know, calling up and
busting his balls.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
And it was a lot of fun. I remember Adam
Sandler one night at the improv called I want to say,
what's the one that's green Blatz? Green Blatz up on
sunset with some kind of complicated order. It was very funny.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Here the Laugh Factory. He did it on stage, Yeah,
near the Laugh Factory. Exactly when Jerry's Deli was open.
We were at the Encino Jerry's Deli and uh, we were,
you know, just drunk and stupid. So we got on
the payphone there and I found out the manager. He said,
(17:59):
who was this place tonight? Oh it's Gary, Oh, Gary
Love Gary. So we call the studio city Jerry's and
he picks up Studio City Jerry's. I said, yeah, it's
Gary at the Ensino store. Oh, Gary, How you doing good?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
How's your wife?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
She's great?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Right, Hey, listen, we're out. We had a huge party
in here, running on a lot of stuff. Can you
can you swing the van by and drop some stuff off? Yeah,
what do you need about ten pounds of pastrami? We
need this, We need soup, we need bread, we need
all this stuff. We need some cakes. We have you know,
it loaded month and we waited for the van to
get there and it shows up with all this food.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
It was fun to watch. Wow and that and that
Jerry is isn't even there anymore?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
No.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Because of that, I always wondered how a place like that,
this this Jerry's, you know, was right there in the valley,
was like, I love Jerry. That's where Seinfeld and Larry
David like came up with a lot of this stuffore
because it's not close, not far from Rafford's pretty close
to Rafford. And you know, it was a it was
what everyone went there institution. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Night on Saturday. You couldn't get a table.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
And so I don't understand what how does the place
like that go under it?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
The best vegetable soup in the world.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
It was everything was terrific.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah, I love that Jerry's dell. I used to spend
We used to go there for New Year's dinner before
we went out to uh New Year's party.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yeah yeah, all right. Let me tell you that a
quick story about the Wind Hotel. My body goes to
the Wind Hotel on opening week of that hotel with
his four kids and his wife and they stay a week.
They get a big, huge sweet with the adjoining room
and they order room service for the kids. The kids
are like, you know, five through eleven or so, so
(19:36):
they order room service. The chicken nuggets come and there's
no sauce, and so he calls back and he goes, hey,
you can bring the sauce up, you know, the chicken
nuggets with kids or don't. They don't eat it without sauce.
It's just a sauce delivery system. Could they could rather
have the sauce than the chicken, you know, the sweet
and sour, the buffalo, the ranch whatever. So he calls
(19:58):
back and never get it's the sauce. So they throw
a little ketchup on it. The kids eat it and
that's fine. So they go down to pay for the
room and the room charges is for the week is
seventy five hundred dollars. You know, it's a week at
the wind beautiful hotel, big sweet with their joining room meals.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
You know that's nothing for a whole week.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Right, I'm pool activities, you know, restaurants, all that stuff.
So the lady says, how is your stay? And he said,
it's most beautiful hotel I've ever been in my life.
You guys are going to do great here in Vegas.
The only problem is, uh, you know, the sauce with
the with the nuggets.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
But you know.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
That's uh, that's easy to solve. And she said, what
what's up? And he said it's not a big deal.
And she goes, no, no, what happened? He goes, I The
kids ordered chicken nuggets and the sauce never came, but
they found ketchup and they ate them and they were
they were fine. And she goes, hold on, goes to
the back room, comes out five minutes later, comped the
whole week, comped, Wow, seventy five one hundred dollars. Bill
(20:57):
ripped up. Wow, how great is that? And you know what,
I've told that story probably to five hundred people. And
that story. If it was the opposite, I would have
also told it, right, And then they look like, but
that's old school Vegas, right, you know. We take care
of the people who come and gamble and stay here,
(21:18):
and if something happens, we'll take care of you. And
that still goes on at the wind.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yeah, I think at the higher end hotels like I
just told you that cousin following the story where poking
where coffee gets spilled all over me, and they didn't
even take a meeting on a comprehend you.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Know, right, Okay, what we've learned this hour that Froman's
is still open. Yes, what are the hours there?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Belly O?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Do you want me to give out the hours and
the address? What's the special today? Do we know the special?
I've got to get to the Froman's desk. Okay, please
go to the Froeman's desk. Fromen's Delhi and Encino is
open for business and they probably have been since what
nineteen eighty I'm guessing that place opened before night clo eight. Okay,
(22:03):
I would I would say that that that Froman's open
in the late seventies, early eighties, nineteen seventies, early eighties.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Well, you know they have free parking, free Wi Fi,
free wine corkage, free charging stations at Mini boots.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Wait, free wine corkage. That's what it says. Wow, you
can bring your box of wine in there and down
there for free. Three ninety five beer and wine with entrees,
beers dining only a special today specials.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Nineteen seventy eight they opened.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
You're seventy eight, okay, seventy eight, I was fifteen.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
The original Froeman's Deli started in the Encino though, in
nineteen sixty two. Whoa Dennis Froeman.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
That's who we call Dennis Frohman. What if he's still around? Oh,
I'm sure he is. I'm sure he is. The original
was Arnie Froman It was right across from it was
right there was a sizzler there on White Oak and
a Perry's Pizza. I remember growing up there, really sweet times.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
You and Paul Thomas Anderson hang.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Out Standard Shoes across the street. That used to be great,
and that Our Lady of Grace is the church that
my family got kicked out of.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Our Lady of Grace. I wondered about you call up.
I like that story. What I wonder where you co
standard shoes? Why would you want to copela? You know,
average shoes. It's standard, average, normal shoes.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Right, Like Chinese food. There was a place on Ventura
Bulvar on Van E It's called okay Chinese food, Like, hey,
how is it? Okay, it's not great, it's not bad,
it's just it's okay.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
They have an incredible menu. Yeah, it's you could do.
My uncle would do twenty minutes on that menu whenever
it was still scrolling through it. Okay, unbelievable. All right,
let's get the Froeman's out.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Go to froman You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on
demand from kf I Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
The Conway Show. Mark Thompson is here. You're a great
monument to what talk radio is now. And really, yeah,
I think so, I really think so. You're in what
way well your topical Thank you? You get outrage at
the right things right. Most of all, I think.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
You weave a sense of mirth and entertainment through your comy.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
I appreciate that. Okay, thank you, man, I appreciate I'll
take that.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I think it's true.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I'll take that. Breaking news. Van Eyes Flyaway there's a
police presence out at the flyaway. That's where you take
your car, then get on a bus and go to
the airport. Of course, the flyaway. Yeah, you drive to
the bus and then take the bus to the airport.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
LAPD investigating a threat that was phoned in here at
the parking garage. This is the lax.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Flyaway bus people huh, well and.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Isaat Woodley and Sataquoy. You could see a large police
presence as they investigate that threat regarding a man with
a gun. Several dozen people incidenttly have been rounded up
for questioning. They are have been taken a little bit
down the block in zip Tize. We catted about forty people.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Wait, they got forty people in zip ties. So when
the LAPD goes in, they just zip tie everybody up.
Everybody's going down for a speed wrapping session.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Maybe that's not everybody in zip Tize.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
You know, some people are just trying to get to
New York. You know, they're trying to take a bus
at the airport and go to New York. Yeah, not
in it for the whole right, And now they're in
it zip Tize. They're in Ziptize.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
That seems excessive.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Maybe they did.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Something zip tize. We catted about forty people being escorted
next door here as police go car to car looking
for anything suspicious. So far they have found nothing. Reporting
live from there, seven, I'm Chris Christy, ABC seven.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Chris Christy flying above the fly away out there in
Van Eyes and reporting back that a little forty people
are in ziptize zip TIESE.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
When did do zip tize come in to replace the
traditional cuffs?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Well, they they don't have enough metal cuffs for everybody.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
I get why she's like a good little upgrade to
the technology, But I'm wondering when did it really start.
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
There were kids, There was only cuffs, right, but there
weren't a lot of mischief makers. Now there's now everybody
is in.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Zipize exactly my point. I'm going to ask Ai, when
did zip tize? When did zip tize come in as
a in widespread use?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Zip ties are the most powerful thing in my garage.
Anytime I zip tize something, it sticks and stays there forever.
It's one of the greatest inventions ever.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Is it two words or one? I have no idea.
It's not one.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Oh it's two, it's Z and then hYP.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Tize zip tize, zip tize. When did to replace normal handcuffs?
Speaker 2 (26:55):
When did that happen? I'm looking now zip tize. When
did zip tize come in to replace norma? The answer
is the modern nylon cable zip tie was invented by
Thomas and Betts for aircraft wiring.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Wow. For decades they were purely industrial, not law enforcement tools.
In the late nineteen eighties and early nineteen nineties, police
and corrections agencies began experimenting with heavy duty plastic restraints
often called flex or plastic cuffs, and the major desion
military and massed attention. US military and federal agency in
(27:31):
the nineteen nineties adopted zip tie style restraints zip ties
for prisoner transport, crowd control, and temporary detentions. Post nine
to eleven is when they really stepped it up.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Have you ever been in handcuffs?
Speaker 3 (27:44):
No? Oh, that's not true. I mean I was in
handcuffs with law enforcement? Oh then never.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Wow, I'm sorry about that. By the way, they were
introduced in the seventies. That's when they were first you
started to be used by police organizations.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Zip ties nineteen seventies are not listed here in the crows.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
You have been at handcuffs? Yes, that's great.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
You mean for law purposes?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yes? Oh no, no, okay, steps you have been in handcuffs?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Nope? What are you eating? Ice cream? How is it?
It's pretty good?
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Looks like what kinda wow? Yeah, that's a big bite too.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
That's a wild but the wrong moment?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yeah, belly, Oh you've probably been in handcuffs. No, no,
no zip ties. Yes, Angel, you've been in handcuffs. Oh yeah,
really with the cops? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Is that right? Well, a guy dressed up.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Tell us the story. What happened? Cop? You're dating accomp
This is a story for off air?
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Off air? Oh, is there any part of it you
can tell on the air.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
You know, Mike was in handcuffs. Okay, My wife's been
in handcuffs twice in her life.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (29:05):
She went during prom They rented a room like a
hotel room so they could all party and drink and
you know, blow low weed. And the cop showed up
in Dana Point and the room was registered under her name,
and they hauled her away and they took her as away.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
And the second one I believed involved being unruly at
certain point. I think maybe it was only once, but
I know she's been in handcuffs at least once. I
knock on wood have avoided that. Never ever close calls
been in handcuffs. One close call, yeah, one close call
(29:45):
could have gone It was a flip of a coin,
could have gone either way, but I they I got
a yeah one. I was driving after about nineteen beers
and I thought I could that could go either win. No,
I've never been in handcuffs, and I don't even think
I was clothes. I can't remember doing anything where I
(30:09):
when I were a cop pulled out his handcuffs and
were going to You.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Know, I know one thing that you and I share
in every law enforcement interaction. I'm very deferential, very yes, sir, notion.
I'm like super you know, I've never been like I
never say come on, man, I don't do any of that.
But that's with you know, with traditional LAPD or whatever.
You know, they're usually very professional.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Also, I was pulled over a couple of years ago
in Woodland Hills and I wasn't drunk, but I had
like a beer or two and the cop said LAPD.
He says, I can take you in for d uy
or you're going to do our awards show this this year.
Oh wow, I've done the award show. Then every year
it seems like pretty good exchange. John, Yeah, No, that's
(30:55):
not true. I never ever, I know they would not
make a deal with you. And here is how paranoid
I am about drinking and driving. If my car is
out in front of our house and I've had a
beer or two and it's on the side where the
street sweeper is going to come the next day, I
have my wife move it because my luck, i'll move it,
somebody'll hit me and I'll go.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
To Oh, sure, bad stuffs gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
So my wife literally gets you know it has what
are slippers on? Go outside and move it from one
side of the street to the other. And nobody's ever
around on our streets quiet. But I don't want to
take that. That's how carefully.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
That's right, and you should be. You're a model to
live on KFI AM six forty Get Addie.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
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Speaker 3 (31:36):
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