September 16, 2025 • 33 mins
State Sen. Caroline Menjivar is in studio to talk about growing up in the area she represents, Burbank and the San Fernando Valley – the same neighborhood as Conway! She talks about her feelings on the Valley seceding from Los Angeles. She also talks about how she feels about Prop. 50. Conway also grills producer Bellio on her “permed” hair – and her past life as a Hollywood tour guide.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
AM sixty.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
It is The Conway Show and we got a special
guest here. We'd like to keep our ear on the
valley floor and find out what's going on in the valley.
Nobody better to talk to than one of the state senators.
Caroline menjavars with us.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
How are you.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
I'm doing great.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I discovered you and I went to the same elementary
school and seeno elementary at the same time. Do you
think Probably not. I think I graduated a little before you.
But we were going over teachers, and you remember one
of mine because I had a very young teacher in
missus Bernstein in elementary school in third grade. She then
she transferred to fourth grade, so I had her for
both years, which I thought was horrible because she was
(00:48):
she knew all my stamps, Yeah, and she knew and
I'm like, oh great, I've scammed her. I'm onto my
next teacher. And then all of a sudden, she's my
teacher again. I'm like, oh no, she knows all of
my drinks. And i'd Bernstein then I'm Campbell and ms Palmer.
But you had you went there from what first grade
to fifth?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
From preschool, oh, pre kindergarten, kindergarten, kindergarten all the way
to fifth grade. Absolutely, yeah, I had a great time.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
That was a great school.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I was hamball queen. Okay, absolutely, tether balls. Really sporty.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah, I was the soccer ball queen.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Did they have the Olympics? BECAUSEY had Olympics when I
was there, they did the sports Olympics. I still have
my ribbons from elementary.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Wo wow, No, I didn't. I was the ribbon guy.
I know, I looked like an athletic guy, but I wasn't.
I didn't ribbon a lot of a lot of athletics.
Then you went onto Portola, which I also went toy
in my grade level I Lisa Kudro was a classmate
of mine.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
They let us know that she was in our yearbook
as oh look who came here when back in the day.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, I was in her grade.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
We were actually friends, we knew, we knew each other,
hung out a couple of parties. But she came on
recently Bellio. What was it like three years ago? Four
years ago? We had Lucy Lisa Kudro on and she
said to me, she goes, she.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Goes, Oh, she goes.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I thought you were such a cute, little blonde, shy kid.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
And I'm like, what look at the shy kid now
out of here.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
You ignored me when I was in the junior high
in high school. But she's one of the nicest people
I've ever met in my life.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
The eighth grade quad, right, remember.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
That, that's right?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, And I was in av in junior high so
that was one of those geeky guys would come with
the projector and show everybody films and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Still an athlete, but I was in the magnet course.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Okay, you went on to play basketball. I mean I
went to Birmingham. You should have gone to Taft and
you didn't.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Right. I went to receipt A High school. I deviated
from all my friends. They all want to have high school.
But the basketball coach at recied A High School left
me a voicemail. I had tried out for both schools. Okay,
but the high school coach left you a voicemail. I
felt more love from there, so I switched over to
recied A High School, my actual home school.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That was a good school. They beat us in football
all the time.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Not when I was there. Yeah, No, when I was there,
we didn't do good at football.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
John Elway played against us he was going to Granada
Hills when I went to Birmingham School, and I think
he passed for seven hundred and five yards in the game.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It was really a lot of fun. I think they
made seventy eight to nothing.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
I did every sport at Petita Middle School. I was
on the flag football team for Portoile Middle School.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
And then did you go to college sports? Did you
get a scholarship.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Or eleventh grade? It's my fun fact that I say
all the time. In eleventh grade, I was California's top
one hundred girl girls in basketball. Have my letter certified.
Went to this Adida's camp.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
That's huge.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
It was huge. I thought I was going to go
play D one ball, but I was a stupid kid
high school. Love distracted and nothing came out of it.
So I ended up playing softball for Pierce College and
Valley College.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
All right, Yeah, I know exactly what Pierces.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
They have that big Halloween event there every year, and
I take my daughter out there.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
They've amaze amaze, right, So.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
We basically grew up like you know, in the same
not in the same era, but in the valley or
you know, with the same in you know, the same schools,
the same you know, riding your bike to school.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Absolutely, I hit ones.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Is that right? Did you ride your bike to school.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
To recee the high school?
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I did the same thing.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
And look, I was in third grade when I would
ride my bike to school every day. You'd never let
third grade or ride bike to school every day. No wrong,
But that was a different time in the valley. Valley
was great.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I think I still grew up in a time where
it was okay to play outdoors. I played out it
was great.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, we never were inside. You know. When I was
growing up.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
In the valley, I had to ride my bike around
to like, you know, Matt McDaniels, Mike Tennessee, you know,
Robbie Fox, Scott Bloom, all these guys, Joey Kaplan, Toddcrash,
Billy Ray. I would have to ride my bike around
to see where the guys were, you know, And all
of a sudden I saw, oh, all the bikes are
in front of Tennessee's house.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
They're all your biking, right, And we called there a biking.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
All right now, then, how did you become How did
you become involved in politics?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
I wanted to be a firefighter, that was my dream.
I wanted to help you.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Take the test and everything.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I took the test, the physical test. I was a
student worker. I was ready to go. I was ready
for a letter to call me up. I was ready,
and they never did. Unfortunately, I've got my associates in
for our technology. I mean I was a Marine Corps
veteran already by that time. Yes, So I was like,
I'm the perfect, I'm bilingual.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Pick me, pick me perfect. They'd be showing.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
They never picked me, and so I had to pick
a different route. I was like, I love helping people
the loud voice. I'm curious, and I started questioning a
lot of things. Why is why once you cross the
four or five freeway does the valley change? That's right,
the West Valley is so different than the East Valley.
Why is that?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
But you know when when I was growing up, also,
the North Valley was different from the South Valley too,
you know, like like north of you know, like maybe
I'm I know nord Off or even even like lately
Victory or Van Owen, you know, the North Valley is
different than the South Valley.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Very true. I mean my border is at but knowing
that's they know where to cut it off because how
different it is.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I always use the reference on the show for a
crappy are in the valley to live? I always say
Sherman Way and Kester And then people complain and go, hey,
why are you talking about Sherman Way and Kester district
because it's not it used to not be a great area.
I know what it's like anymore. But I used to
have to go to Sherman Way and Victory all the
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time because I was always late with my phone bill
to pack Bell and I used to have to stand
in the intersect. No, no, no, Victory, And where was
the other one it was? It wasn't Victory and Van Owned?
It was Victory where the phone company was Van Eyes
in Victory?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
All right? So Van Owned is Van Owing and Victory?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I know exactly what there.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
There was a Jack in the box down and then
cross the street was packed Bell and I used to
have to stand in line with thirty other losers on
a Friday so my phone didn't get shut off over
the weekend to pay my bill.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Building it's still there.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I know it's still and now, right, and that was
the first grocery store used to be Vaughn's and that
was the first Johns that they changed to John's in
that neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Yes, I know that neighbor by the neighborhood looks the same. Unfortunately,
I wanted to change so bad.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Right, That's why I used to get my tires at
that firestone right there on you know you know that area.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
I know my district office is on that street. Oh
it is, Yes, it's walking distance to everything you just described.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
It's city Hall, is that worthy?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
It's city so it's the city buildings, the federal building
and then the state building. So I'm right there.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
We used to drive to that news stand to get
all the girly magazines like okay.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Did you also do all the you know, they had
the car shows on Van Nuy's Boulevard.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Right, and then Tommy's was there. It was I mean,
it was the it was a hangout spot.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
It was the valley's words. I mean they make movies.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
About the valley, that's right. Yeah, Paul Anderson made liquorice pizza.
I don't know if you saw Lickora.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
So that's like the only one that no one's ever
mentioned that.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Okay, you got to see Liquors Pizza. It was made
about the nineteen seventies and eighties in the valley.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
You got the Fast Times at Richmond High. Thirteen Candles
was filmed in Portola Middle School.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yeah, I t By the way, Liquorice Pizza was also
filmed at Portole. So if you go look at Liquor's
Pizza in one point, you'll recognize an actor that was
in it. Thank you very much. Okay, but you got
to see this movie. This is the junior high that
you went to. You know, it was all based on
on that junior high. All right, so let's take a
break and then come back and talk about politics.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
The valley things.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah right, yeah, little more serious things.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
All right, this is great. Caroline has been Hello, you
been a senator three years now?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Three years? Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Caroline Menjivar is with us and she's a state center.
We'll come back and talk about the valley and and
the ups and downs of the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
We're live on six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
AM six forty. It is the Conways Show. We have
a high speed chase on Channel five. But the guy
decided to get out of his car and run from
the cops, which is not a smart move because eventually
they'll they'll grab you and they'll put you in jail.
Caroline Menjivar is with us, a senator from the San
Fernando Valley, and this is your first gig in politics.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I'm sky Press.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah, first, nig I was a staffer before.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Okay, and then now, how much of your life is
raising money?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Is that why you're here? You need to check.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
It's never ending. It's never ending. But I try not
to make it majority of my job.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Oh good, Okay, that's great. All right.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
So the San Fernando Valley we we have. I've been
born and raised.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I love it. I'm never leaving.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
A buddy of mine, Paul Anderson, who also grew up
in the San Fernando Valley. He's the guy who directed
Liquors Pizza. He's staying in the valley. There's two of
us in you know, in this world that's staying in
the valley. But the valley does have some problem with crime.
And I'm sure you've you've heard, you know, the break
ins and stuff like that is it is it a
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police issue?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Do we not have enough police on the street?
Speaker 4 (09:50):
So I represent the area right smack in the middle,
and every single police station covers a part of my district,
every single valley, entire valley division. In fact, a couple
of weeks ago, I sat down with the valley chief
and we talked about this very topic, right, And the
good thing is that part one crimes have decreased in
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the San Fernando Valley, those serious crimes. But she was
telling me about these burglaries and what's happening is organized
crime from Chile is coming in, right. And then also
people from South la are renting fancy, expensive vehicles and
driving through these neighborhoods pretending that they live there.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 4 (10:31):
That's how That's how they're getting away with it. I'm
driving in these parts.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I've never heard that before today. That's what will.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Blend in into the Encino communities. So they they didn't
express that they don't have the support necessary to address it.
It's just been it's been spiking recently.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Right.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Let me ask you something about the San Fernando Valley.
I've been an opponent of and I love the San
Fernando Valley, but the San Fernando Valley has nothing. We
have no world class hotel, no world class restaurant, no museums,
no football, basketball, baseball, hockey, no racetrack, no world class
golf course.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
We have nothing in the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
All of our money, all of our tax dollars, goes
over the hill and is spent on museums and theaters
in downtown Los Angeles. They have Disney, they have the
Dorothy Chandler. We need more. I here's my proposal to you,
and maybe you can work this out tonight. I say
we pave over the Supulvata basin and put a race
horse race track in the middle of that basin.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
My god, can you work that out.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
I mean, let's give some valley a little bit of
credit too, right. The Rams put roots in the San
Fernando Valley and Woodland Hills, right yeah, so we have
their practice field right there.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I need a Disneyland or not. It's very far. We
need something big.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
You're speaking to the choir right now, right, I would
love to have something like that. I do have a
world class polo field where people come and play polo
in Silmar.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Okay in Silma, aren't. It's a good start we do.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
I mean, if you're we I have the largest equestrian
district in southern California for a senator.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Okay, And we also have the biggest airports, the biggest
private airport and Van Eyes.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
That's a plus three airports in my district.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Oh is that right? Big Whitman?
Speaker 4 (12:17):
And I mean Van I says, are a little small
museum valley relics right there. But you're absolutely right. I mean,
we make a fifty percent of the city LA basically,
that's right, almost fifty percent the voter base South Fernando
Valley or super engaged. You know, we love the two
point five kids and the white fence. You know, we
love all that. But you're right, and I'm always screaming
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about come to the valley. Don't only turn to us
when you need us for like votes or whatever.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Are you first seceeding from the city of l A.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
You know what, if I was alive, not I was alive,
but if I was a voting age during that time,
I would have voted yes, I would voted yes.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
We deserve our own.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Very rarely do you get senators that honest. You have
to say that. You know, they always say, no, we're
a big city, we belong together. But that's too big.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
We're too big.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I know we are too big, too big. And the
valley is great. The valley's got you know, great cops,
fire department. The valley is terrific. And the schools have
gotten better too over the last ten or fifteen years.
And the valley is still a place where you can
go and enjoy a big backyard. You know, if you
go to you know, like West La or you know,
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anything in Los Angeles, you don't get a big piece
of property.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
You can still do that now in the valley.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
I got my little six thousand acre home of land.
The house is tiny, right, but my backyard.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Now, when do you run a gauys.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
I'm on the ballot next June, next June. Yeah, okay,
but I'm doing a good enough job. So you do
this again for four years.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I hope you do, and I love you know what
you should do in your ads talk about how you
would have vote for seceding, and you want to and
you want to pave over Suppolan Base race track. Yeah,
the you know, the Van Eyes Racetrack. But I think
we deserve something, you know, big in the valley, you know,
something really nice and I don't know, you know, the
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supulit of base And I always say that because it's
such a big piece of property and it's not being utilized,
you know, I think we can put something really cool there.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
We did vote just to bring in a lot of
money to try to invest and I saw some renderings
and I called it the Star Wars Land. It looks
like Star Wars. So we're going to see some changes
to the Supovita basin. We just invested a lot of
millions of dollars, tens of millions of dollars. We're going
to see some changes, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I have noticed changes in North Hollywood and in North
fan eyes off Supultor where they used to have you know,
a lot of you know, I don't know how to
say street walkers or you know, ladies of the night Right.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
They've wiped all that out.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
LAPD has wiped all that stuff out, and it's gotten
cleaner and it's gotten nicer. I think we're on the
right path.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
A lot more to be done, but we are on
the right path.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
That's right. But how do people get a hold of
you online or or so.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
I try not to be a super super boring elected official.
So on my Instagram, I try to be as nerdy
as possible. So at sen which is short for Senator
sen Caroline men jivar em e n j I v
ar just think sweet Caroline. But now I'm not always sweety.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Do you have to argue with a lot of people
up there? How often you in Sacramento.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
January through September. I just finished three days ago, this
past Saturday. So I'm done with the legislative session up
in Sacramento. So I'm gonna be roaming around the district
from Burbank all the way to Kunoga Park.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
How do you feel about Proposition fifty?
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Okay, listen, y'all. Prop fifty November fourth. We gotta get
it done. We need more time, We need more time
to talk about this, okay. If you want your health
care not to be cut, if you want more funding
for things that are Title I schools, oh yes on fifteen.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Okay, that's for.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
You, and I disagree, all right, Please come back though,
and real quickly. You come from You got a big family,
you got brothers, sisters.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
I have a sister, one full sister, seven half brothers.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Is she also in politics? She is not, she's not.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
We are complete opposite.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Are you the first in your family to go into politics?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
The first Demmercrat?
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
So who's the Republican in the family, the entire family?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Really? Is that right?
Speaker 4 (16:17):
That is right?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
All big Trump.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Fans my kind of people. Bring your dumb mom and
dad Nestak. Goodness, I'd like to meet those people. All right,
one got away, but we'll get you back. We'll get
all right, Caroline. Very nice to see you, okay, and
please come back again. Take care, all right, Caroline Manjivar.
And she's running next year for Senate again and it's
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got a great sense of humor and doesn't take anything seriously.
Vote for her, even though she's wrong in a couple
of issues, but vote for anyway.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
Right.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Relive on KFI.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
KFI AM sixty. It's Conway Show. That was great, Caroline
mantraw I was talking to her off the air, and
she was not kidding. Her whole family is Republican, her
entire family, all her stepbrothers, her mom, her dad, her cousins,
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her nephews, her aunts, uncles, everybody is on board. And
she is the sole Democrat in the family, which gave
her a great opportunity to learn how to debate people
at home, because she debated everybody every Thanksgiving, every Christmas,
every graduation, every retirement party. She is surrounded by Republicans,
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probably Trump fans, and she has got to dread that
every time she goes home. Salvadorian immigrants raised her in
the San Fernando Valley and we usually say no to
politicians because it just divides everybody. But I thought she
was great. You know, take her life seriously. She fights
for the valley, and we need more people to fight
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for the valley. She's opposed to paving the Supulva Basin
and turning it into a horse track, which I thought
would probably be her angle, and I gotta I'm just uh,
I'm warming her up to that idea, you know, I'm
just uh. We're in our initial stages of turning the
Supulvata Basin into a racetrack casino.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
That would be great. That the valley has no casinos,
not one.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
What would you name the casino in the in the valley? Yeah, conways. Uh,
ding Dong, the ding Dong casino. I don't know, that's
a good uh A good question. But look the you know,
the city of la has one hundred card casinos. You
go out to Inland Empire, Uh, you know, they've got
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u yamav out there, they've got Suboba, and then even
further than Marongo, there's a million casinos in in California.
There's two million people that live in in the San
Fernando Valley, maybe even three million by now, and there's
not one There's not a single place where you can
go and hazard part of the of your wages on
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the outcome of certain events which might actually have saved
my life.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
She said there was a polo polo arena that involves horses, right, yeah,
you're you're right.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I just need them to be, you know, going faster
and having almost there windows, you know, drop the stick
and pick up a whip and maybe we can talk.
That's exactly right. Yeah, get them to go faster and
stop kicking that ball around.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
That's such a great slogan, drop the stick and pick
up a whip.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Yeah right, yeah, perfect for twenty twenty five. A great website. Hey,
anybody want to join my website. Drop the polo stick
and pick up the whip Christ. It's crashing with so
many people who want to get involved and get on board.
But I've always said the San Fernando Valley has gotten
the short end of the stick, and she agrees. You know,
the San Fernana Valley has no thing, nothing, absolutely nothing.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Was that angel.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
Oh she sounded really receptive to doing something to the
Pulvita Basin.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Yeah, no, she's on board because you know, we don't
get enough rain where you need the entire basin as
a catch for all the rain. You know, you can
use just the south end of that dam and those
golf courses, the Woodley golf course in Cino Balboa, all
those golf courses, they very rarely get flooded out. Maybe
once every twenty five years you'll see a flood and
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they'll close down Burbank Boulevard. But the San Fernando Valley
would be a perfect place. We used to have Busch
Gardens that was an amusement park at the Budweiser factory out there.
Speaker 9 (20:51):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
And then the closest one is Universal Studios, which is
technically not in the valley. It's at Universal City. It's
their own city. It's not the San Fernando Valley. And
then there's Six Flags out in Valencia, but the San
Fernando Valley needs a Knotsbury Farm or Disneyland or a
six Flags or a studio. I mean we have in Burbank,
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you have the Warner Brothers tour. But how many people
have been on that? Bellio used to be a tour
guide at Bellio. What years were your tour guide at
Warner Brothers, like.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Two thousand, two thousand, maybe nineteen ninety nine, I think, okay?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
And how popular was that tour? Were there lines of
thousands of people trying to get in, not thousands, hundreds,
hundreds hundreds? Yes, And what was the tour at Warner Brothers.
I'm embarrassed to say I've never taken it.
Speaker 8 (21:46):
It's a v Oh you absolutely should. It's a VIP tour,
so it's very intimate and you go on the sets
and into like you know, Foley and museum and everything,
so it's a walking tour.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
So you were there during the height of Friends then, yes,
and so you showed people the Friends set.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I did.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Oh, that must have been the highlight of the tour
it was it had to have been. What else was
there at the time.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
Well, we had Arnold Schwarzeneger was No, Ellen wasn't there.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was doing the movie Eraser at the time.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Okay, so there was a lot of.
Speaker 9 (22:21):
Big Michael Jordan was doing Space jam On.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Let me ask you a question, and please don't get pissed.
Speaker 9 (22:29):
I already am.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Okay, what when you were a tour guide? There were
you sporting the fro.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
A you laughing at it? No, I was not.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
You were or you call it a perm.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
I call it a perm. Okay, And I just got
one just recently.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah, knocked out? Nice On What did that cost you
get the perm?
Speaker 9 (22:56):
No way? Does it still smell good when you.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Want three and twenty dollars?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
You know my wife does that occasionally, not often, maybe
once a year. She goes in and gets her hair done.
It's always in the you know, to three hundred dollars range.
I would never ever spend that money on just a haircut.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Well, you're getting a cut, you're getting color, highlights and
the PERM.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
And what you're also getting is enthusiasm because the people
that all tell you how great you look there and
you go home and John's living with a different woman,
in this case a.
Speaker 9 (23:31):
Perm and a very upset right.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Did you straighten it out yourself over the weekend?
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (23:38):
Yeah, yeah, I told you I used to, like you
use the perm. It was gone.
Speaker 8 (23:43):
It's kind of like that. I was given a bunch
of solutions how to take care of it. I can
send you the recipe if you want.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
That's okay. So it's gone, but you can still see.
Speaker 9 (23:51):
It gone gone.
Speaker 8 (23:53):
And also I used one of those big rollers blue
dry it kind of straight, and I used one of
those hot rollers to kind of take I'm of the kink.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Out Wilma Flintstone style exactly. So you can still see
it on our Instagram though, you can. That's right, you know, Pelly.
I got to give you props here and I always
do off the air and sometimes on the air. But man,
you are the best social media person I think in
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this company.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
Oh thank you, I really do.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Thank you, And I'm glad we have you experience. That's
one of your six jobs here.
Speaker 9 (24:30):
Ten.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
But what happened over the last week with Facebook? Do
you want to tell that story?
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
And how many more people we got?
Speaker 9 (24:38):
We got like six thousand new followers.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
In a week.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
In a week.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yeah, it's because of the stuff that you put up there.
Speaker 9 (24:44):
Well, really it was your dad and Jay Leno.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Well okay, but you're the one putting stuff up on
social Yeah.
Speaker 9 (24:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (24:51):
But if it wasn't for your dad and his legacy
and then jay Leno and his legacy, I don't think,
you know, if I had put my perm up there,
I don't think we would have gotten But it doesn't
matter how.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
They got there.
Speaker 8 (25:02):
They got there, No, And I want to thank everyone
because that means a lot to this show.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
It does, so thank you. It keeps management off our back,
it does, you know.
Speaker 9 (25:10):
And how it keeps us with jobs? Really?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Right, how many do we have on Facebook company.
Speaker 9 (25:14):
F three hundred and twelve thousand.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
That's a lot and we have.
Speaker 9 (25:18):
Room for more.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
We do. We've opened up.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
Conways show on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Right, And and that's that.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
When you know, when we go negotiate our deal again
here or when we you know, sign a new deal,
or they want to keep us around, they look at
They absolutely look at those.
Speaker 8 (25:38):
They do, and advertisers look at which also keeps us.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
On the air and the three hundred thousand we have
on Facebook. I think is more than all the other
shows combined. That is true, And I know they don't
like that, so I won't say that they don't like
when we brag. Is it more than all the other
shows and Facebook and kfi's combined. Yes, Okay, yes, that's
got to irritate some people, don't you think.
Speaker 9 (26:02):
We know it does, so we should make it even more.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I just got a text from Shannon the middle Finger.
Speaker 8 (26:12):
That's that's not nice. That's so rude.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Rude, it is rude. All right, we gotta take a break.
We'll come back.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
We have a lot more show for you going. I've
got interesting topics coming up.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
What a tease. We're live. Thanks for writing that out
for me, Belly.
Speaker 9 (26:28):
You're welcod. Question wasn't right?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
It wasn't What was it? What was the inflection? I said?
We got interesting things coming up.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
We've got interesting things coming right up?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Okay, all right, we live on. I'm KFI am it
is the Conway Show. Robert Redford, a true legend, has
passed away. If somebody had asked me if Robert Redford
was still alive, I would have said no. But I'm
glad he was, but he recently I did pass away
(27:00):
today or late last night. I think it was late
last night. And the very first movie that I ever
remember seeing with my dad in a movie theater was
nineteen sixty nine or nineteen seventy. I can't remember what
year it was, so I would have been, you know,
seven or eight years old. Seven and I was playing
(27:22):
outside at my grandparents' house with all my brothers, my sister,
all the local kids who.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Lived on the block.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
There's like twenty kids, and we were all playing street
hockey or something in the backyard and my dad comes
out and said, Hey, Timm, you want to go to
the movies. I'm like, uh, not really, you know, I'm
playing in the yard with a bunch of kids. He goes,
come on, let's go see this movie. So we got
a Sugar and Falls little theater. There's probably one hundred
and fifty seats in the house. It was two or
(27:50):
three o'clock in the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
We walk in.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
We're the only two people in the theater. I think
there was one other guy in the back, or maybe
two other people in the back, who had the whole
theater to ourselves. And Butch Cassidy comes on, and if
you've seen the movie, the opening scene is in black
and white, or like orange and white. It's like old
you know, old school. And I said to my dad,
I said, hey, is this whole movie in black and white?
(28:16):
And I was having a great time playing in the
yard with the kids. And I sat there with my
dad and I watched Butch casting Sundance Kid this little
theater and it was it still is the greatest movie
I've ever seen in my life, the greatest movie. And
I still watch it all the time. I own the movie,
and whenever it's on TV, I stop and sit there
(28:38):
and watch the rest of it. And it was a huge,
huge deal in my life. Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy
and This Sundance Kid. Let's get a little background on
the great career of this absolute, huge A list celebrity.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
And he did pass away this morning.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Oh he did this this morning. Okay, yeah, this morning.
Robert Redford dead at the age of eighty nine.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Robert Redford from the start. Okay, pop, I'm sorry for you.
I'm sorry. He was captivating. You're very nearly perfect. It's
a rotten thing to say.
Speaker 10 (29:19):
For more than half a century, Robert Redford mesmerized us
with some of Hollywood's most unforgettable characters. Born in nineteen
thirty six, Charles Robert Redford, a rebellious teen after his
mother's death, lost a baseball scholarship and was kicked out
of college, so he tried acting. Give me a handsome
(29:42):
and sexy He quickly landed roles on television and stage,
soon earning top billing and Barefoot in the Park, first
the theatrical version, later on film.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
How long would he.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Be staying with us, mister Breddan, six.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
Days and nights.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
We were walking down a corridor and I noticed that
all the secretaries, Oh my god, there he goes, And
I just thought to myself, this man is going to
become a huge star.
Speaker 10 (30:08):
Jane Fonda was right. Throughout the seventies and eighties, Redford
set the bar for leading men, but early in his
career he worried about being type cast as just a
pretty face.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Early on, when there was overreaction to something I had done,
I got really nervous about what my life would be
if I played into that.
Speaker 10 (30:25):
So he was admittedly picky, what's the matter with you?
Then along came a Western with Paul Newman, Butch Cassidy
and The sun Dance Kid.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
If you've not seen Butch CASTI a Sundance Kid, you
got to see it. It is truly one of the
most remarkable movies, probably the best movie in the history
of the world.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
There you go, I can't swim.
Speaker 9 (30:47):
I remember when I saw the film, I thought this
is a dud well because there was a song in
the middle of it.
Speaker 10 (30:56):
That blockbuster catapulted Redford a superstardom. This one made him
an icon. After teaming up with Newman a second time
for what would be another fan favorite, Redford wanted to
try something new. You're the Goddamn Camera, stepping behind the
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camera in nineteen eighty and winning his first Oscar for
Ordinary People, the first of many films he directed. Redford's
legacy reaches far beyond Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Bush's policies have been a disaster.
Speaker 10 (31:31):
He was an outspoken environmentalist and a pioneer. As founder
of the Sundance Film Festival, Redford provided a stage for
independent filmmakers. A legendary career from a man who didn't
believe in looking back.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Don't look at your career as anything that's gained momentum
over time, just keep going forward and focus on the future,
and you.
Speaker 10 (31:53):
Spent a lifetime giving us all something to remember. Joe Fryer,
NBC News, God.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I forget what a great singer he was. Tim Robert Redford.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
So I was reading up on his first acting role
after he got out of acting whatever college was in
fifty nine.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
He just he was in an episode of Perry Mason.
Oh is that right?
Speaker 7 (32:27):
But they mentioned Barefoot in the Park was his first
sort of breakout role that was on stage. That was
in nineteen sixty three. But in nineteen sixty one he
and his family moved to Utah and he bought two acres.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Of land for five hundred dollars. Wow, and built a
cabin himself. That's wild. Yeah, what a great life.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Robert Redford passed away today at the age of eighty nine.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
It's Convoy Show. We're live on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
AM sixty.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
It is The Conway Show and we got a special
guest here. We'd like to keep our ear on the
valley floor and find out what's going on in the valley.
Nobody better to talk to than one of the state senators.
Caroline menjavars with us.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
How are you.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
I'm doing great.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I discovered you and I went to the same elementary
school and seeno elementary at the same time. Do you
think Probably not. I think I graduated a little before you.
But we were going over teachers, and you remember one
of mine because I had a very young teacher in
missus Bernstein in elementary school in third grade. She then
she transferred to fourth grade, so I had her for
both years, which I thought was horrible because she was
(00:48):
she knew all my stamps, Yeah, and she knew and
I'm like, oh great, I've scammed her. I'm onto my
next teacher. And then all of a sudden, she's my
teacher again. I'm like, oh no, she knows all of
my drinks. And i'd Bernstein then I'm Campbell and ms Palmer.
But you had you went there from what first grade
to fifth?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
From preschool, oh, pre kindergarten, kindergarten, kindergarten all the way
to fifth grade. Absolutely, yeah, I had a great time.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
That was a great school.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I was hamball queen. Okay, absolutely, tether balls. Really sporty.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah, I was the soccer ball queen.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Did they have the Olympics? BECAUSEY had Olympics when I
was there, they did the sports Olympics. I still have
my ribbons from elementary.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Wo wow, No, I didn't. I was the ribbon guy.
I know, I looked like an athletic guy, but I wasn't.
I didn't ribbon a lot of a lot of athletics.
Then you went onto Portola, which I also went toy
in my grade level I Lisa Kudro was a classmate
of mine.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
They let us know that she was in our yearbook
as oh look who came here when back in the day.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, I was in her grade.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
We were actually friends, we knew, we knew each other,
hung out a couple of parties. But she came on
recently Bellio. What was it like three years ago? Four
years ago? We had Lucy Lisa Kudro on and she
said to me, she goes, she.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Goes, Oh, she goes.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I thought you were such a cute, little blonde, shy kid.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
And I'm like, what look at the shy kid now
out of here.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
You ignored me when I was in the junior high
in high school. But she's one of the nicest people
I've ever met in my life.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
The eighth grade quad, right, remember.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
That, that's right?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, And I was in av in junior high so
that was one of those geeky guys would come with
the projector and show everybody films and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Still an athlete, but I was in the magnet course.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Okay, you went on to play basketball. I mean I
went to Birmingham. You should have gone to Taft and
you didn't.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Right. I went to receipt A High school. I deviated
from all my friends. They all want to have high school.
But the basketball coach at recied A High School left
me a voicemail. I had tried out for both schools. Okay,
but the high school coach left you a voicemail. I
felt more love from there, so I switched over to
recied A High School, my actual home school.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That was a good school. They beat us in football
all the time.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Not when I was there. Yeah, No, when I was there,
we didn't do good at football.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
John Elway played against us he was going to Granada
Hills when I went to Birmingham School, and I think
he passed for seven hundred and five yards in the game.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It was really a lot of fun. I think they
made seventy eight to nothing.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
I did every sport at Petita Middle School. I was
on the flag football team for Portoile Middle School.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
And then did you go to college sports? Did you
get a scholarship.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Or eleventh grade? It's my fun fact that I say
all the time. In eleventh grade, I was California's top
one hundred girl girls in basketball. Have my letter certified.
Went to this Adida's camp.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
That's huge.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
It was huge. I thought I was going to go
play D one ball, but I was a stupid kid
high school. Love distracted and nothing came out of it.
So I ended up playing softball for Pierce College and
Valley College.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
All right, Yeah, I know exactly what Pierces.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
They have that big Halloween event there every year, and
I take my daughter out there.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
They've amaze amaze, right, So.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
We basically grew up like you know, in the same
not in the same era, but in the valley or
you know, with the same in you know, the same schools,
the same you know, riding your bike to school.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Absolutely, I hit ones.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Is that right? Did you ride your bike to school.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
To recee the high school?
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I did the same thing.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
And look, I was in third grade when I would
ride my bike to school every day. You'd never let
third grade or ride bike to school every day. No wrong,
But that was a different time in the valley. Valley
was great.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I think I still grew up in a time where
it was okay to play outdoors. I played out it
was great.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, we never were inside. You know. When I was
growing up.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
In the valley, I had to ride my bike around
to like, you know, Matt McDaniels, Mike Tennessee, you know,
Robbie Fox, Scott Bloom, all these guys, Joey Kaplan, Toddcrash,
Billy Ray. I would have to ride my bike around
to see where the guys were, you know, And all
of a sudden I saw, oh, all the bikes are
in front of Tennessee's house.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
They're all your biking, right, And we called there a biking.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
All right now, then, how did you become How did
you become involved in politics?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
I wanted to be a firefighter, that was my dream.
I wanted to help you.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Take the test and everything.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I took the test, the physical test. I was a
student worker. I was ready to go. I was ready
for a letter to call me up. I was ready,
and they never did. Unfortunately, I've got my associates in
for our technology. I mean I was a Marine Corps
veteran already by that time. Yes, So I was like,
I'm the perfect, I'm bilingual.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Pick me, pick me perfect. They'd be showing.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
They never picked me, and so I had to pick
a different route. I was like, I love helping people
the loud voice. I'm curious, and I started questioning a
lot of things. Why is why once you cross the
four or five freeway does the valley change? That's right,
the West Valley is so different than the East Valley.
Why is that?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
But you know when when I was growing up, also,
the North Valley was different from the South Valley too,
you know, like like north of you know, like maybe
I'm I know nord Off or even even like lately
Victory or Van Owen, you know, the North Valley is
different than the South Valley.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Very true. I mean my border is at but knowing
that's they know where to cut it off because how
different it is.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I always use the reference on the show for a
crappy are in the valley to live? I always say
Sherman Way and Kester And then people complain and go, hey,
why are you talking about Sherman Way and Kester district
because it's not it used to not be a great area.
I know what it's like anymore. But I used to
have to go to Sherman Way and Victory all the
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time because I was always late with my phone bill
to pack Bell and I used to have to stand
in the intersect. No, no, no, Victory, And where was
the other one it was? It wasn't Victory and Van Owned?
It was Victory where the phone company was Van Eyes
in Victory?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
All right? So Van Owned is Van Owing and Victory?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I know exactly what there.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
There was a Jack in the box down and then
cross the street was packed Bell and I used to
have to stand in line with thirty other losers on
a Friday so my phone didn't get shut off over
the weekend to pay my bill.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Building it's still there.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I know it's still and now, right, and that was
the first grocery store used to be Vaughn's and that
was the first Johns that they changed to John's in
that neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Yes, I know that neighbor by the neighborhood looks the same. Unfortunately,
I wanted to change so bad.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Right, That's why I used to get my tires at
that firestone right there on you know you know that area.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
I know my district office is on that street. Oh
it is, Yes, it's walking distance to everything you just described.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
It's city Hall, is that worthy?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
It's city so it's the city buildings, the federal building
and then the state building. So I'm right there.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
We used to drive to that news stand to get
all the girly magazines like okay.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Did you also do all the you know, they had
the car shows on Van Nuy's Boulevard.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Right, and then Tommy's was there. It was I mean,
it was the it was a hangout spot.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
It was the valley's words. I mean they make movies.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
About the valley, that's right. Yeah, Paul Anderson made liquorice pizza.
I don't know if you saw Lickora.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
So that's like the only one that no one's ever
mentioned that.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Okay, you got to see Liquors Pizza. It was made
about the nineteen seventies and eighties in the valley.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
You got the Fast Times at Richmond High. Thirteen Candles
was filmed in Portola Middle School.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yeah, I t By the way, Liquorice Pizza was also
filmed at Portole. So if you go look at Liquor's
Pizza in one point, you'll recognize an actor that was
in it. Thank you very much. Okay, but you got
to see this movie. This is the junior high that
you went to. You know, it was all based on
on that junior high. All right, so let's take a
break and then come back and talk about politics.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
The valley things.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah right, yeah, little more serious things.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
All right, this is great. Caroline has been Hello, you
been a senator three years now?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Three years? Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Caroline Menjivar is with us and she's a state center.
We'll come back and talk about the valley and and
the ups and downs of the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
We're live on six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
AM six forty. It is the Conways Show. We have
a high speed chase on Channel five. But the guy
decided to get out of his car and run from
the cops, which is not a smart move because eventually
they'll they'll grab you and they'll put you in jail.
Caroline Menjivar is with us, a senator from the San
Fernando Valley, and this is your first gig in politics.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I'm sky Press.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah, first, nig I was a staffer before.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Okay, and then now, how much of your life is
raising money?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Is that why you're here? You need to check.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
It's never ending. It's never ending. But I try not
to make it majority of my job.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Oh good, Okay, that's great. All right.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
So the San Fernando Valley we we have. I've been
born and raised.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I love it. I'm never leaving.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
A buddy of mine, Paul Anderson, who also grew up
in the San Fernando Valley. He's the guy who directed
Liquors Pizza. He's staying in the valley. There's two of
us in you know, in this world that's staying in
the valley. But the valley does have some problem with crime.
And I'm sure you've you've heard, you know, the break
ins and stuff like that is it is it a
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police issue?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Do we not have enough police on the street?
Speaker 4 (09:50):
So I represent the area right smack in the middle,
and every single police station covers a part of my district,
every single valley, entire valley division. In fact, a couple
of weeks ago, I sat down with the valley chief
and we talked about this very topic, right, And the
good thing is that part one crimes have decreased in
(10:11):
the San Fernando Valley, those serious crimes. But she was
telling me about these burglaries and what's happening is organized
crime from Chile is coming in, right. And then also
people from South la are renting fancy, expensive vehicles and
driving through these neighborhoods pretending that they live there.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 4 (10:31):
That's how That's how they're getting away with it. I'm
driving in these parts.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I've never heard that before today. That's what will.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Blend in into the Encino communities. So they they didn't
express that they don't have the support necessary to address it.
It's just been it's been spiking recently.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Right.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Let me ask you something about the San Fernando Valley.
I've been an opponent of and I love the San
Fernando Valley, but the San Fernando Valley has nothing. We
have no world class hotel, no world class restaurant, no museums,
no football, basketball, baseball, hockey, no racetrack, no world class
golf course.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
We have nothing in the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
All of our money, all of our tax dollars, goes
over the hill and is spent on museums and theaters
in downtown Los Angeles. They have Disney, they have the
Dorothy Chandler. We need more. I here's my proposal to you,
and maybe you can work this out tonight. I say
we pave over the Supulvata basin and put a race
horse race track in the middle of that basin.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
My god, can you work that out.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
I mean, let's give some valley a little bit of
credit too, right. The Rams put roots in the San
Fernando Valley and Woodland Hills, right yeah, so we have
their practice field right there.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I need a Disneyland or not. It's very far. We
need something big.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
You're speaking to the choir right now, right, I would
love to have something like that. I do have a
world class polo field where people come and play polo
in Silmar.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Okay in Silma, aren't. It's a good start we do.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
I mean, if you're we I have the largest equestrian
district in southern California for a senator.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Okay, And we also have the biggest airports, the biggest
private airport and Van Eyes.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
That's a plus three airports in my district.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Oh is that right? Big Whitman?
Speaker 4 (12:17):
And I mean Van I says, are a little small
museum valley relics right there. But you're absolutely right. I mean,
we make a fifty percent of the city LA basically,
that's right, almost fifty percent the voter base South Fernando
Valley or super engaged. You know, we love the two
point five kids and the white fence. You know, we
love all that. But you're right, and I'm always screaming
(12:40):
about come to the valley. Don't only turn to us
when you need us for like votes or whatever.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Are you first seceeding from the city of l A.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
You know what, if I was alive, not I was alive,
but if I was a voting age during that time,
I would have voted yes, I would voted yes.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
We deserve our own.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Very rarely do you get senators that honest. You have
to say that. You know, they always say, no, we're
a big city, we belong together. But that's too big.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
We're too big.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I know we are too big, too big. And the
valley is great. The valley's got you know, great cops,
fire department. The valley is terrific. And the schools have
gotten better too over the last ten or fifteen years.
And the valley is still a place where you can
go and enjoy a big backyard. You know, if you
go to you know, like West La or you know,
(13:27):
anything in Los Angeles, you don't get a big piece
of property.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
You can still do that now in the valley.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
I got my little six thousand acre home of land.
The house is tiny, right, but my backyard.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Now, when do you run a gauys.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
I'm on the ballot next June, next June. Yeah, okay,
but I'm doing a good enough job. So you do
this again for four years.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I hope you do, and I love you know what
you should do in your ads talk about how you
would have vote for seceding, and you want to and
you want to pave over Suppolan Base race track. Yeah,
the you know, the Van Eyes Racetrack. But I think
we deserve something, you know, big in the valley, you know,
something really nice and I don't know, you know, the
(14:06):
supulit of base And I always say that because it's
such a big piece of property and it's not being utilized,
you know, I think we can put something really cool there.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
We did vote just to bring in a lot of
money to try to invest and I saw some renderings
and I called it the Star Wars Land. It looks
like Star Wars. So we're going to see some changes
to the Supovita basin. We just invested a lot of
millions of dollars, tens of millions of dollars. We're going
to see some changes, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I have noticed changes in North Hollywood and in North
fan eyes off Supultor where they used to have you know,
a lot of you know, I don't know how to
say street walkers or you know, ladies of the night Right.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
They've wiped all that out.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
LAPD has wiped all that stuff out, and it's gotten
cleaner and it's gotten nicer. I think we're on the
right path.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
A lot more to be done, but we are on
the right path.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
That's right. But how do people get a hold of
you online or or so.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
I try not to be a super super boring elected official.
So on my Instagram, I try to be as nerdy
as possible. So at sen which is short for Senator
sen Caroline men jivar em e n j I v
ar just think sweet Caroline. But now I'm not always sweety.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Do you have to argue with a lot of people
up there? How often you in Sacramento.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
January through September. I just finished three days ago, this
past Saturday. So I'm done with the legislative session up
in Sacramento. So I'm gonna be roaming around the district
from Burbank all the way to Kunoga Park.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
How do you feel about Proposition fifty?
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Okay, listen, y'all. Prop fifty November fourth. We gotta get
it done. We need more time, We need more time
to talk about this, okay. If you want your health
care not to be cut, if you want more funding
for things that are Title I schools, oh yes on fifteen.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Okay, that's for.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
You, and I disagree, all right, Please come back though,
and real quickly. You come from You got a big family,
you got brothers, sisters.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
I have a sister, one full sister, seven half brothers.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Is she also in politics? She is not, she's not.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
We are complete opposite.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Are you the first in your family to go into politics?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
The first Demmercrat?
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
So who's the Republican in the family, the entire family?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Really? Is that right?
Speaker 4 (16:17):
That is right?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
All big Trump.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Fans my kind of people. Bring your dumb mom and
dad Nestak. Goodness, I'd like to meet those people. All right,
one got away, but we'll get you back. We'll get
all right, Caroline. Very nice to see you, okay, and
please come back again. Take care, all right, Caroline Manjivar.
And she's running next year for Senate again and it's
(16:40):
got a great sense of humor and doesn't take anything seriously.
Vote for her, even though she's wrong in a couple
of issues, but vote for anyway.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
Right.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Relive on KFI.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
KFI AM sixty. It's Conway Show. That was great, Caroline
mantraw I was talking to her off the air, and
she was not kidding. Her whole family is Republican, her
entire family, all her stepbrothers, her mom, her dad, her cousins,
(17:16):
her nephews, her aunts, uncles, everybody is on board. And
she is the sole Democrat in the family, which gave
her a great opportunity to learn how to debate people
at home, because she debated everybody every Thanksgiving, every Christmas,
every graduation, every retirement party. She is surrounded by Republicans,
(17:43):
probably Trump fans, and she has got to dread that
every time she goes home. Salvadorian immigrants raised her in
the San Fernando Valley and we usually say no to
politicians because it just divides everybody. But I thought she
was great. You know, take her life seriously. She fights
for the valley, and we need more people to fight
(18:03):
for the valley. She's opposed to paving the Supulva Basin
and turning it into a horse track, which I thought
would probably be her angle, and I gotta I'm just uh,
I'm warming her up to that idea, you know, I'm
just uh. We're in our initial stages of turning the
Supulvata Basin into a racetrack casino.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
That would be great. That the valley has no casinos,
not one.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
What would you name the casino in the in the valley? Yeah, conways. Uh,
ding Dong, the ding Dong casino. I don't know, that's
a good uh A good question. But look the you know,
the city of la has one hundred card casinos. You
go out to Inland Empire, Uh, you know, they've got
(18:49):
u yamav out there, they've got Suboba, and then even
further than Marongo, there's a million casinos in in California.
There's two million people that live in in the San
Fernando Valley, maybe even three million by now, and there's
not one There's not a single place where you can
go and hazard part of the of your wages on
(19:10):
the outcome of certain events which might actually have saved
my life.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
She said there was a polo polo arena that involves horses, right, yeah,
you're you're right.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I just need them to be, you know, going faster
and having almost there windows, you know, drop the stick
and pick up a whip and maybe we can talk.
That's exactly right. Yeah, get them to go faster and
stop kicking that ball around.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
That's such a great slogan, drop the stick and pick
up a whip.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Yeah right, yeah, perfect for twenty twenty five. A great website. Hey,
anybody want to join my website. Drop the polo stick
and pick up the whip Christ. It's crashing with so
many people who want to get involved and get on board.
But I've always said the San Fernando Valley has gotten
the short end of the stick, and she agrees. You know,
the San Fernana Valley has no thing, nothing, absolutely nothing.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Was that angel.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
Oh she sounded really receptive to doing something to the
Pulvita Basin.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Yeah, no, she's on board because you know, we don't
get enough rain where you need the entire basin as
a catch for all the rain. You know, you can
use just the south end of that dam and those
golf courses, the Woodley golf course in Cino Balboa, all
those golf courses, they very rarely get flooded out. Maybe
once every twenty five years you'll see a flood and
(20:40):
they'll close down Burbank Boulevard. But the San Fernando Valley
would be a perfect place. We used to have Busch
Gardens that was an amusement park at the Budweiser factory out there.
Speaker 9 (20:51):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
And then the closest one is Universal Studios, which is
technically not in the valley. It's at Universal City. It's
their own city. It's not the San Fernando Valley. And
then there's Six Flags out in Valencia, but the San
Fernando Valley needs a Knotsbury Farm or Disneyland or a
six Flags or a studio. I mean we have in Burbank,
(21:14):
you have the Warner Brothers tour. But how many people
have been on that? Bellio used to be a tour
guide at Bellio. What years were your tour guide at
Warner Brothers, like.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Two thousand, two thousand, maybe nineteen ninety nine, I think, okay?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
And how popular was that tour? Were there lines of
thousands of people trying to get in, not thousands, hundreds,
hundreds hundreds? Yes, And what was the tour at Warner Brothers.
I'm embarrassed to say I've never taken it.
Speaker 8 (21:46):
It's a v Oh you absolutely should. It's a VIP tour,
so it's very intimate and you go on the sets
and into like you know, Foley and museum and everything,
so it's a walking tour.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
So you were there during the height of Friends then, yes,
and so you showed people the Friends set.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I did.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Oh, that must have been the highlight of the tour
it was it had to have been. What else was
there at the time.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
Well, we had Arnold Schwarzeneger was No, Ellen wasn't there.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was doing the movie Eraser at the time.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Okay, so there was a lot of.
Speaker 9 (22:21):
Big Michael Jordan was doing Space jam On.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Let me ask you a question, and please don't get pissed.
Speaker 9 (22:29):
I already am.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Okay, what when you were a tour guide? There were
you sporting the fro.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
A you laughing at it? No, I was not.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
You were or you call it a perm.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
I call it a perm. Okay, And I just got
one just recently.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah, knocked out? Nice On What did that cost you
get the perm?
Speaker 9 (22:56):
No way? Does it still smell good when you.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Want three and twenty dollars?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
You know my wife does that occasionally, not often, maybe
once a year. She goes in and gets her hair done.
It's always in the you know, to three hundred dollars range.
I would never ever spend that money on just a haircut.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Well, you're getting a cut, you're getting color, highlights and
the PERM.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
And what you're also getting is enthusiasm because the people
that all tell you how great you look there and
you go home and John's living with a different woman,
in this case a.
Speaker 9 (23:31):
Perm and a very upset right.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Did you straighten it out yourself over the weekend?
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (23:38):
Yeah, yeah, I told you I used to, like you
use the perm. It was gone.
Speaker 8 (23:43):
It's kind of like that. I was given a bunch
of solutions how to take care of it. I can
send you the recipe if you want.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
That's okay. So it's gone, but you can still see.
Speaker 9 (23:51):
It gone gone.
Speaker 8 (23:53):
And also I used one of those big rollers blue
dry it kind of straight, and I used one of
those hot rollers to kind of take I'm of the kink.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Out Wilma Flintstone style exactly. So you can still see
it on our Instagram though, you can. That's right, you know, Pelly.
I got to give you props here and I always
do off the air and sometimes on the air. But man,
you are the best social media person I think in
(24:21):
this company.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
Oh thank you, I really do.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Thank you, And I'm glad we have you experience. That's
one of your six jobs here.
Speaker 9 (24:30):
Ten.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
But what happened over the last week with Facebook? Do
you want to tell that story?
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
And how many more people we got?
Speaker 9 (24:38):
We got like six thousand new followers.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
In a week.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
In a week.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yeah, it's because of the stuff that you put up there.
Speaker 9 (24:44):
Well, really it was your dad and Jay Leno.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Well okay, but you're the one putting stuff up on
social Yeah.
Speaker 9 (24:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (24:51):
But if it wasn't for your dad and his legacy
and then jay Leno and his legacy, I don't think,
you know, if I had put my perm up there,
I don't think we would have gotten But it doesn't
matter how.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
They got there.
Speaker 8 (25:02):
They got there, No, And I want to thank everyone
because that means a lot to this show.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
It does, so thank you. It keeps management off our back,
it does, you know.
Speaker 9 (25:10):
And how it keeps us with jobs? Really?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Right, how many do we have on Facebook company.
Speaker 9 (25:14):
F three hundred and twelve thousand.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
That's a lot and we have.
Speaker 9 (25:18):
Room for more.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
We do. We've opened up.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
Conways show on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Right, And and that's that.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
When you know, when we go negotiate our deal again
here or when we you know, sign a new deal,
or they want to keep us around, they look at
They absolutely look at those.
Speaker 8 (25:38):
They do, and advertisers look at which also keeps us.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
On the air and the three hundred thousand we have
on Facebook. I think is more than all the other
shows combined. That is true, And I know they don't
like that, so I won't say that they don't like
when we brag. Is it more than all the other
shows and Facebook and kfi's combined. Yes, Okay, yes, that's
got to irritate some people, don't you think.
Speaker 9 (26:02):
We know it does, so we should make it even more.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I just got a text from Shannon the middle Finger.
Speaker 8 (26:12):
That's that's not nice. That's so rude.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Rude, it is rude. All right, we gotta take a break.
We'll come back.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
We have a lot more show for you going. I've
got interesting topics coming up.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
What a tease. We're live. Thanks for writing that out
for me, Belly.
Speaker 9 (26:28):
You're welcod. Question wasn't right?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
It wasn't What was it? What was the inflection? I said?
We got interesting things coming up.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
We've got interesting things coming right up?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Okay, all right, we live on. I'm KFI am it
is the Conway Show. Robert Redford, a true legend, has
passed away. If somebody had asked me if Robert Redford
was still alive, I would have said no. But I'm
glad he was, but he recently I did pass away
(27:00):
today or late last night. I think it was late
last night. And the very first movie that I ever
remember seeing with my dad in a movie theater was
nineteen sixty nine or nineteen seventy. I can't remember what
year it was, so I would have been, you know,
seven or eight years old. Seven and I was playing
(27:22):
outside at my grandparents' house with all my brothers, my sister,
all the local kids who.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Lived on the block.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
There's like twenty kids, and we were all playing street
hockey or something in the backyard and my dad comes
out and said, Hey, Timm, you want to go to
the movies. I'm like, uh, not really, you know, I'm
playing in the yard with a bunch of kids. He goes,
come on, let's go see this movie. So we got
a Sugar and Falls little theater. There's probably one hundred
and fifty seats in the house. It was two or
(27:50):
three o'clock in the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
We walk in.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
We're the only two people in the theater. I think
there was one other guy in the back, or maybe
two other people in the back, who had the whole
theater to ourselves. And Butch Cassidy comes on, and if
you've seen the movie, the opening scene is in black
and white, or like orange and white. It's like old
you know, old school. And I said to my dad,
I said, hey, is this whole movie in black and white?
(28:16):
And I was having a great time playing in the
yard with the kids. And I sat there with my
dad and I watched Butch casting Sundance Kid this little
theater and it was it still is the greatest movie
I've ever seen in my life, the greatest movie. And
I still watch it all the time. I own the movie,
and whenever it's on TV, I stop and sit there
(28:38):
and watch the rest of it. And it was a huge,
huge deal in my life. Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy
and This Sundance Kid. Let's get a little background on
the great career of this absolute, huge A list celebrity.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
And he did pass away this morning.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Oh he did this this morning. Okay, yeah, this morning.
Robert Redford dead at the age of eighty nine.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Robert Redford from the start. Okay, pop, I'm sorry for you.
I'm sorry. He was captivating. You're very nearly perfect. It's
a rotten thing to say.
Speaker 10 (29:19):
For more than half a century, Robert Redford mesmerized us
with some of Hollywood's most unforgettable characters. Born in nineteen
thirty six, Charles Robert Redford, a rebellious teen after his
mother's death, lost a baseball scholarship and was kicked out
of college, so he tried acting. Give me a handsome
(29:42):
and sexy He quickly landed roles on television and stage,
soon earning top billing and Barefoot in the Park, first
the theatrical version, later on film.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
How long would he.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Be staying with us, mister Breddan, six.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
Days and nights.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
We were walking down a corridor and I noticed that
all the secretaries, Oh my god, there he goes, And
I just thought to myself, this man is going to
become a huge star.
Speaker 10 (30:08):
Jane Fonda was right. Throughout the seventies and eighties, Redford
set the bar for leading men, but early in his
career he worried about being type cast as just a
pretty face.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Early on, when there was overreaction to something I had done,
I got really nervous about what my life would be
if I played into that.
Speaker 10 (30:25):
So he was admittedly picky, what's the matter with you?
Then along came a Western with Paul Newman, Butch Cassidy
and The sun Dance Kid.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
If you've not seen Butch CASTI a Sundance Kid, you
got to see it. It is truly one of the
most remarkable movies, probably the best movie in the history
of the world.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
There you go, I can't swim.
Speaker 9 (30:47):
I remember when I saw the film, I thought this
is a dud well because there was a song in
the middle of it.
Speaker 10 (30:56):
That blockbuster catapulted Redford a superstardom. This one made him
an icon. After teaming up with Newman a second time
for what would be another fan favorite, Redford wanted to
try something new. You're the Goddamn Camera, stepping behind the
(31:17):
camera in nineteen eighty and winning his first Oscar for
Ordinary People, the first of many films he directed. Redford's
legacy reaches far beyond Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Bush's policies have been a disaster.
Speaker 10 (31:31):
He was an outspoken environmentalist and a pioneer. As founder
of the Sundance Film Festival, Redford provided a stage for
independent filmmakers. A legendary career from a man who didn't
believe in looking back.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Don't look at your career as anything that's gained momentum
over time, just keep going forward and focus on the future,
and you.
Speaker 10 (31:53):
Spent a lifetime giving us all something to remember. Joe Fryer,
NBC News, God.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I forget what a great singer he was. Tim Robert Redford.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
So I was reading up on his first acting role
after he got out of acting whatever college was in
fifty nine.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
He just he was in an episode of Perry Mason.
Oh is that right?
Speaker 7 (32:27):
But they mentioned Barefoot in the Park was his first
sort of breakout role that was on stage. That was
in nineteen sixty three. But in nineteen sixty one he
and his family moved to Utah and he bought two acres.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Of land for five hundred dollars. Wow, and built a
cabin himself. That's wild. Yeah, what a great life.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Robert Redford passed away today at the age of eighty nine.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
It's Convoy Show. We're live on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty
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