July 17, 2025 • 31 mins
Tim Conway Jr. gets real about the perks (and perils) of flying solo—concerts, theme parks, where do you draw the line? Then, KFI's own House Whisperer Dean Sharp swings by with essential tips to wildfire-proof your home, debates which partner is tougher to DIY with, and sheds some light (literally) on solar panels. Plus, Tim tackles the chaos of back-to-school shopping—find out where the deals are hiding, and where they're definitely not.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF I am sixty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Hey,
don't forget. We're going on the cruise July twenty first
of next year. We're gonna leave me out of Seattle
and going to Alaska and Canada for a week. There's
one hundred and twenty people going already, and those cabins
are going quickly. So don't get left out, don't get
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left on the shore. Don't miss the boat and be
left on the shore. That is alright somewhere, But it's
Conwaycruise dot Com. Conwaycruise dot Com. So my wife is
out of town, my daughter's going out of town. I'm
gonna be home alone Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. And
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somebody said, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Does you play concert?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Mike to cole play Young Mike, slide in there? You
want to go bellio?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Yeah, yeah, Kim.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
The fight cam totally couples punching each other in the face.
Isn't that more honest? You know, couples that have had
it with each other, Yes, punching each other in the face.
So somebody said, what are you going to do alone,
you know, when you're home alone. I don't. I'll maybe
go the track. And then I thought about it. I
have a whole day on Sunday to doing that thing.
I might go to Disneyland.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
And then going to disney Land.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I'm thinking about going to Disneyland. And then somebody said alone.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That was my first thought.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Why is that odd? Did I go alone?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
I think sometimes you see a family place, it's like
a family place or a couple's place. It's a couple's place,
or a mom and dad place, mom and dad place,
or a brother and sister place, sister place.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, or bringing a niece and nephews.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Maybe like even bringing a niece and.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, or a group of kids, or.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
You could even bring like a group of kids.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Like a class of kids, like a class maybe going camping,
going camping.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
That's right. But I wouldn't feel uncomfortable going to Disneyland alone.
I would feel actually pretty get on roller coasters.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, don't wear that trench coat you wear skiing.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I wear a black trench coat and jeans skiing. And
I've never ever let my sister has never stopped banging her.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Do you blame her.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, I saved the day too. She doesn't tell you
that story where a ski got loose and it was
cruising down the hill like and it could kill somebody,
and I raced and caught up to the ski and
caught it. Yes, let her tell you that flying was Yeah,
people thought it was going to take off like the
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Flying Nun. But I would. I would go to Disney
an alum would? Would? Would?
Speaker 6 (02:42):
If?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Would it be weird if I went to a Taylor
Swift concert alone? That's why I can't. That's why I
don't want to go to Sabrina Carpenter. Oh really, I'll
go with you. I'll go with you a Sabrina Carpenter.
Really is that even weirder? Well, it's better than by myself.
I'll go with you, okay, and we'll just work. But
we're we're like Dodger shirts. We'll you know, masculine Dad's
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or something. Yeah, we'll put that black stuff under our eyes.
You will fight a little.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
I think concerts are more normal to go solo because
you're there to enjoy the music and stuff. But parks
are supposed to be there to witness the fun with
somebody else.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
But but if if you had How old is John's
Let's say John's daughter was twelve, okay, okay, and you
and John and you took your is it your stepdaughter?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yes, your stepdaughter Juliana.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
And my mom's good with that stuff. I'm not my mom.
My mom could bang that out like once removed cousins
from a separate marriage. Ex's bang and she would know
every one of them by tim. Yeah. Oh Dean, Oh Dean,
how you, Bob? I'm good. I don't think you should
be going to Taylor swift aloon.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Why is that, Dean?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I don't know why. I don't know.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
I don't know, Sharon, I'm just not feeling it. Okay,
like I'm feeling like, okay, let me get let me
give you some others. Okay, right? Would would you? Would
you feel comfortable if I went to home Deepot alone? Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, oh sure, all right, that's cool? All right? What
about Okay, here's another one, Belly. I want you to
chime in on too, because you're always the one there's
a good head on her shoulders. What if I went
to Chuck e Cheese alone? No, no, anybody should go
to Chuck e Cheese alone. Yeah, I don't think anyone
should go to Chucky Cheese. Yeah, I mean you need
you need a safety partner there in case.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
You know, you have no business going there alone.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
All right, all right? What about Magic Mountain? No? No, wait,
Magic mount alone? Not cool? I think it'd be great.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
No, that's fifty fifty.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
The thing about the amusement park, you sit down and
you're next to that person, you're kind of like, hey, yeah,
I'm here alone today.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You know, we have to tell them enjoy this coaster,
waiting for my wife and my daughter at on the
you know, the Conan Express. Whatever the thing.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Is is why you shouldn't go alone, because now you
have to lie why you're alone.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, it's better to tell the truth to make up lies,
right belly? Okay? What about not alone? Not very farm
not no, no, okay? How about Lego Land?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
No?
Speaker 7 (05:13):
No, no, definitely not absolutely, not definitely not.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Well, then, then I've done nine bad things.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
You've done this, You've gone solo to all these places?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
No, but have been in Lego Land nine times long.
I enjoyed them. What about the zoo? You don't have
security following you around at Lego Land.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
I imagine there would be hey, what are you doing here, bud,
just checking out all these little kids here.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
For some reason, I find the zoo acceptable.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
Oh really okay, oh yeah, all right, so the zoo
is fine. You know what, take an art pad with you?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you take a sketch pad to
the zoo and take it any era or camera.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Yeah, take that sketch pad anywhere in your gold No, no, no,
that doesn't happen. No, not the Lego Land, yeah, said
the Porno theater. What about the Universal Studios alone? Is
that acceptable?
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Nobody cares. Yeah, you'll blend in. Yeah, yeah, nobody cares.
What about Kids Space Museum? You know, I went to
the Kids Space Museum up in Portland. I dropped my
daughter off. It was it was raining cats and dogs
up in Portland, is years ago, and I dropped my
wife off and daughter off at the door. And then I,
like a good husband and a good dad, went and
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parked and got soaked on the way to the door
because I was like three miles away. And I get
to the kids museum called kid Space, and I pay
for it, you know, a ticket. I didn't want my
daughter to or wife to pay for it because I
didn't know when I was going to be there whenever
and when to find her and not have a taket
the whole run. So I paid for myself again, and
the lady says, are you with anybody? And I and
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I said, my wife and daughter in there, and they're like, no, no, no, no,
no no. You got to have your wife and daughter
come out here and meet you. You're not going in alone.
And I love that. I love that that was the
rule that they don't lent single guys into that kid
space that museum. I think it's a great rule and
I applaud but I don't know I would feel absolutely
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comfortable going to Disneyland alone. As a matter of fact,
I might do that just despite all you idiots and
all you losers, because your losers send us pictures, because
you guys are all losers.
Speaker 8 (07:12):
All right.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Dean Sharp is coming up again next.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
You're listening to Tim Conwaytunire on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Dean Sharp is the host of Home with Yours July
Dean Sharp, and that's on every Saturday from six to
eight am and every Sunday from nine am until noon.
And before we introduce them, I'll tell you something real
quickly about weekend programming. Weekend programming, you usually get two
hours max. Maybe three. But when you have two hours
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on a Sunday morning that they lock that off, they
sell other programmer, they stick out of the program in there.
But when you expand another hour, that means that they
need the extra hour to service all of your advertised
and all of your listeners. And it's completely unheard of
to go from two hours to three hours on a weekend,
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and Dean did it. So congratulations. I don't think enough
people won't point that out. Oh thanks, Bud. It's a
true story, though. I mean, I've been in love with
radio my entire life. I was when I was a kid.
I wrote that. You know, I wrote a book called
Radio Love or Love Radio. I can't remember what it
was like basketball, like Kobe wrote Basketball Love or Yeah,
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I wrote Radio Love and then he stole my idea.
But that's true. I mean, to expand on a weekend,
it's a big deal. It's a big thing.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
We're and we just now we're in San Diego too. Wow,
look at your show on Sunday mornings. We're in San Diego.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
That is great? All right? Well, fire season, you know,
people always say it's all year round.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
I don't like that, but it's not really. But you know,
we talk about it way more than we want to.
That's the point, that's right. You gotta talk. We got
to talk about it way more than we want to.
And this Sunday, yeah, I'm doing enough other fire season prep.
It's our midsummer fire season prep. And here's the thing,
because you know, we've turned the corner clearly, right, it's summer.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
We're right here. We are midsummer, right. We just had
the Midsummer Classics. I had the All Star Game this week,
so we're clearly midsummer. And you know, the grasses on
the hills now no green left, all golden brown. And
now from here on out, as the weather keeps getting
warmer and warmer day after day, it's drying out. It's
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drying out. And then we're going to hit September a
little bit in October, the san anders are going to
kick in, and we're gonna find ourselves right again in
another main draft of the fire season. And the point
is there are things to do now now in order
to get ready for what is just a few weeks away.
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You know, I saw something over the weekend, that'll be
able to do the next segment about solar But getting
back to fire, what is the vent company that you
have that is selling like hotcakes to prevent your roof
and your house from catching on fire.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Brand Guard, Brand Guard ventsran D br n D Guard
like Guard, Brand Guard Vents, you can go to brand
guard Vents dot com. Brand Guard Vents literally literally the
finest ember proof vents and probably one of the most
important things that people can do to their homes because
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eighty percent, get this, eighty percent of homes that ignite
during a wildfire event, the flames of the fire nowhere near.
We're talking about embers that get sucked into the attic
space and ignite inside the attic. That means, and this
is true the Palisades fire, the Eton fire, eighty percent
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of the homes that caught on fire did not happen
because the flames had arrived. That's how it worked. Yeah,
it's how it works. That's how important these vents are
because we've got to baffle those embers and keep them
out of the attic. And when those embers do get
into the house, is it the insulation that catches It
could be anything quite often it's the insulation, but it
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could literally be anything because you know what an attic
the way the building code has set up attic ventilation,
it's like your weber kettle. I mean literally, you think
about your weber kettle grill, this grill that burns and
maintains the coals, you know, so perfectly. They've got a
vent on the top or heat to escape and it
draws cooler air in through lower vents down below.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
That's your attic.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
It's a barbecue waiting to go, and that's why we
can't have any open flames getting in there.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Dean Sharp is with us, and he brought his bell
with him. Is that yeah? Was that me? Was that me?
I think it was? You know what, I'm shutting that down. Hey,
let me ask you a question. You know, people have
a lot of money in LA and you've worked with,
you know, probably some very wealthy people without naming names.
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Are there still some spectacular a holes that you've run
into that you wouldn't work with again?
Speaker 7 (12:04):
Oh my gosh, how about most of them?
Speaker 5 (12:12):
All?
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
So let's get really into this. So here's the thing.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
I can't tell you most of the people that I've
worked with because I got a lot of a lot
of the folks we've worked with. I literally we start
with an NDA right. Oh good, Okay, So I can't
tell you, but I can tell you this. Percentage wise,
you know, you get up over a certain level of
dollar value for the project, right, and the you know,
the people that are enjoyable to work for it drops
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down into the ten percent range really really fast, really fast.
Fat You know what, Tim? You know who's my favorite?
I can't tell you this. Okay, we're way past this.
My favorite celebrity that I ever worked for ever? Okay,
Don Rickles, I got I got a Don Rickles story
for you if you want to hear.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Wait, did you work at his Malibu house? No? We
worked on the house in the flats and Beverly Hills,
just above sunset, and I built and designed and built
an entire guest house for him. Wow.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
And sweetest guy, Yeah, the sweetest guy. Every day came out, Hey, Dean,
how you do you need anything? It's looking great? Can
we tweet this? Can tweet that every single day he'd
come out and swim in his pool like a wall wrist. Okay,
the slowest swimmer I've ever seen. But the sweetest guy
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in the world. The last day. Okay, I wish I
wish this was back in the day when I mean,
I wish we had cell phones where I could have
recorded this very last day. He looks at me and
he's like, hey, I guess this is the last day.
I'm like, yeah, man, this is this is it? Mister Rickles.
He's like, will you stop it with that? We just
call me done. I'm like all right. He's like, is
there anything I can do for anything at all? I'm
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like there's nothing. I mean, you've paid us, well, we've
done that. Anything I can do And I looked at him.
I'm like, all right, you can do something for me.
He's like, what, why don't you spend sixty seconds and
just run me down? Just run me down? And he
looked and he looked at me for a half second
like he was angry and offended. Right, Okay, that I
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had said that, and I thought, oh geez. And then
he just launched into it. And I was there for
six months working on his house. He had plenty of material.
He just launched into me. It was the happiest moment
of my life. Two minutes Don Rickles just insulted me
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without taking a breath, and when it was over, you know,
we both smoked a cigarette and it was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
You know, my dad had very few celebrity friends. He
was from Cleveland, so he found more of a connection
with the guys that are doing the lights and the
you know, the electric and you know the sets and
design and stuff like that. But he had his celebrity
friends were Mike Connor's Mannix, Bob Knew, Art Rickles, and
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there was one other guy. Can't remember who it was,
but the oh, Harvey Korman and Ernie Anderson. Those were
his celebrity friends. And man, he used to love it,
went Calburnett. But he used to love just sitting with
Don Rickles at dinner and laughing his ass off for
two straight hours. Yeah. Built a house next to Buddy
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Hackett's house. Oh is that right? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
He was not nice. He was not nice at all, Buddy.
All right, But when we come back, we'll talk a
little more about fire and more celebrities.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
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Dean Sharvis with us the House Whisper Home show every
Saturday and Sunday morning here on KFI. Also so in
San Diego on kgo or kg co go Cogo cogo. Okay, yeah,
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all right, one more question about your experience in building
homes in and again you can choose not to answer this.
I totally get that. But when you are working very
closely with a couple who most often is the bigger
a hole, the husband or the wife. Again, you can
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choose not to answer that. Well, yeah, okay, you just
statistically speaking, right the husband? Oh is that right? Okay?
Speaker 7 (16:39):
Yeah, all right, because I'll tell you what. I'll tell
you what you know when it comes down to it,
of probably eighty percent of the projects that you know,
it depends on the size and the situation, but probably
about eighty percent of the projects that we do are
driven by the wife.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
And usually when that is, when that happens that way
and it's really off balance, quite often the husband's in
the background like, no, I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I don't know. I just agree. How many projects can
you handle at a time? Can you. I mean, I
know you don't like to spread yourself too thin, you
can you do? And do? Most contractors have one, two,
three four going? You know most contractors do you know?
Custom contractor custom home contractors are a thing that narrows
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it down because there's a lot of detail. And when
you're doing a state level homes okay, which is has
been the majority of our stuff, that stuff can get
really consumed because those those projects can go on for
two or three years. Oh wow, when you're doing you know,
fifteen eighteen thousand square feet on two or three acres,
there's a lot of stuff to get taken care of.
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But I got to clarify you that I haven't been
building myself in a long time. We're you know, we're
doing design stuff now and have been for long long time.
And as far as our design projects go, it's kind
of the same. You know, regular homes. We can get
a few more of those in on a regular basis.
Estate homes they take a while, they do and they're very,
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very consuming. But you know, we've got about six projects
rolling right now and a two year waiting list. What
is is that? Right? Two year waiting list? That's crazy? Man, Man,
good for you. What is the one thing that you've
noticed in people who are building their own homes where
they really sort of celebrated. Is it the walls, the roof,
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the front door, the fin you know, where where do
people finally see and go, ah, I get it, now,
this is great.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
Usually when exterior windows and dry wall goes on, okay,
get it, Okay, they start to get They're like, ah,
I got it. I got A lot of people can
celebrate when the framing the sticks go up. But people,
I would say at least half of our clients struggle
to see the sense of the room even when the
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framing is up because you're still looking through the walls,
so they haven't really got a sense of the space
of the room. So you got to close it off.
So when drywall goes up, initial drywall, exterior siding, in
the exterior windows, that's when most people are like, oh,
hot dog, this place is awesome.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
And then you know that we go for it. You know,
somebody a friend of mine who's made a lot of money.
You know, he went to bed earlier and woke up
earlier and really you know, concentrated on work and was rewarded.
But he said he listened to the show that you
talked about how it's really important to keep your house
the interior really quiet, and he took that and said
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he is designing something for his house to make it quieter.
That he got it. He really touched him.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
Oh that's cool. Yeah, that's good. So I don't know.
I don't know what his plan was, you know, yeah,
I don't know what I don't know. How can you
quiet a house partner in the guest house? Is that
what the plan possible was?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Are there things you can you to quiet an house
that's already existing or do you have to really?
Speaker 7 (20:03):
Oh yeah, yeah, especially if you're doing a remodel. I
tell people all the time, and they still raise their eyebells.
Are really say anything you touch, any wall you touch
in your home right that you've stripped off dry wall
anywhere put sound insulation in.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I don't care. It's not the exterior.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
We're not doing thermal insulation, Okay, I'm talking about insulation
of the interior walls and solid core doors throughout the house,
because you know, if you're two or three rooms away,
the sound dampening quality of sound having to go through
a room through a sound insulated wall, through another room,
another insulated wall. The house gets quite real fast. You
know what, I what I liked. You know, back in
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the seventies they were popular. We used to have a
house in Tarzana when I was growing up, and it
had one of these things. But I think now with
cell phones, they don't really exist anymore. But do you
remember the old intercom systems?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Oh? Yeah, we've had to deal with a lot of
those over the ears. They're like, should we keep that?
Speaker 7 (20:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I like these.
Speaker 7 (20:59):
It hasn't it hasn't worked in thirty seven years.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
You want to keep it? And then and then everyone
started playing music on those crappy speakers. You know, that
didn't really work out. But I like that old intercom.
You know, we only had, you know, two bedrooms upstairs
and one bedroom downstairs. It wasn't it, you know, extravagant.
But I remember an intercom in the kitchen and you
could press it and talk to my mom while she
was up in her bedroom. It's kind of cool. Yeah,
it's very cool. It's very cool. Well that they could
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come back.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
We kind of take it for granted these days. I mean,
I text Tina when she's like in the kitchen, I.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Mean, I have a three a three shout max. If
I say to you know, hey, Jen, and I'll yell
upstairs Jen, and I'll yell in the backyard Jen, and
then I'm done. I leave the house and she is
not around. And I tried three times, three strikes, You're out.
But now with the cell phone, you could just text
them you know exactly the hell are you? But all right,
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so let's real quickly recap and when it comes to fire,
this is fire season, it's up to you. Is there
a paint that you can put on your house to
help it become more you know, fire retardant.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
Yeah, there is, absolutely, But here's the thing that we're
gonna work about this on Sunday. It totally works, all right,
but it'll also break the bank if your plan is
to just paint your whole house with it.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Oh really?
Speaker 7 (22:16):
So the key is the thing is if you got
stucco on your house, you've got a class A fire
rated wall there, right. You don't have to you don't
have to spend tons of money putting fireproof paint on
top of a stucco house, which is eighty percent of
the homes in southern California. You already have a Class
A fire rated wall there. So what we're gonna be
talking about on Sunday is where do you spend the money.
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So here's where I want you to put that into
messent fireproof paint that costs about one hundred and thirty
dollars a gallon. Okay, I want you to just paint
the eaves, the overhang of the eaves where the roof
is sticking out over your house. That's one of those
super vulnerable areas. You can spend two or three hundred
dollars for paint there. Those gallons will get you all
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around the house, get those eaves painted out, because if
flames do arrive and they're licking up the side of
the house, they're not burning through the stucco. They're going
to catch whatever is going on that. Those are your
roof rafters that are exposed right there. So again we're
going to protect that facier board and those eves and
just spend the money on that paint right there.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Let me tell you real quickly, I saw this over
the over last week in Oregon and I thought about you.
There's a house in Longview, Washington. It's beautiful. It's an
a frame house and it faces the front of front
doors on the north side, the back doors on the
south side, so it has east west in the big
a frame. And I always whenever I drive by it,
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I look and it's got solar panels, and I thought, oh,
that's great. I drove by it one day and the
solar panels were gone and I drove by and I
couldn't believe it. They take them down, or they do
they fall off whatever. And as I drove around the
house to continue on going home, they were on the
other side, and I stopped and I noticed they were
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on a track. So in the morning they're on the
east side of the house, and then they fold over
a track and they go on to the west side
of the house for the afternoon sun.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
Oh my gosh, I've never seen anything like that that
is tight, that is that is not common at all,
And that's had to be expensive as hell, Oh my gosh.
And you got to plan that up. Probably you get
away with it on an a frame because there's nothing
else going on up there, because it's so oh that's right, right,
But there would be a lot of obstacles in the
way of your solar just coming over because you got
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you got plumbing vents coming through the roof, so you'd
have to plan.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
All of that out. But man, what a great idea.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Yeah, because uh that's the equivalent of, you know, a
solar tracking panel which just basically keeps itself aimed at
the sun all day long.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
But yeah, that's a great idea. It is wild and
I and I wanted to ask the guy when they
do that because I want to see it in action.
But you know, I don't want to be a weird own,
you know, knocking on the door. Hey when'd your solar
panel go over the roof? You know, I didn't want
to be that guy. All Right, Saturday and Sunday Saturday
six to eight am, Sunday nine am to noon in
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La right here on KFI and also co Goo and
San Diego. Thanks for coming on, Bob, Thank you appreciate it.
All right, there goes Dean Sharp. That guy's great, man,
That guy is the best. Mark Thompson's Brother's favorite show
on KFI is that home show.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
But when I was a kid growing up in the
San Fernando Valley, I enjoyed summers more than anything in
the world. Riding your bike around, taking the bus to
go to the beach, going to Orange Julius, going to
builders in porium, seeing what's new in the plant nursery area,
going to get ice cream basket Robbins Swenson's Carville ice
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cream Insino off of White Oak. It was just a
great hang or you know, it's not incredibly hot. We
didn't really care about this smog. We you know, we'd
find a pool or sprinklers to play in. It was
just a really cool time to grow up being a
kid in the San Fernando Valley. But the one thing
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that drove me crazy, and it's still today when I
see it, it depresses the hell out of me. Walking
into a store Walmart, Target, clothing store, whatever, and seeing
back to school sales. It floored me because I knew
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that summer was coming to an end and it was
back to school. I didn't enjoy anything really in school,
except for hanging out with my buddies, and I knew
that waking up early was going to be part of
my life, getting to school, doing homework, going to better early.
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All that crap was about to begin again, which seemed
like an eternity when you started a brand new school year,
third grade, fourth grade, fifth and you're like, oh my god,
I got nine months. I got September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May,
and a little bit of June, and you were done
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and you finally got out. I loved the last day
of June. We usually got out around June tenth, June twelfth.
I remember that last day before you started summer vacation.
It was always a half day, you know. You went
to school at eight in the morning and you got
out around noon, and that was the beginning of your summer.
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You never had. You'd take your backpack home, throw it
in a closet, and you were done. You had your
entire summer in front of you. Two weeks in June,
all of July, all of August, and the first week
of September. But these back to school specials they drove
me crazy crazy, you know, the school books, the peachy folders,
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the clothes, the shoes. I was when I was in
third grade. I started a new school in third grade,
and the first day I went to school, I showed
up with my dad's old briefcase that he used to
work with. And I had my lunch and my notebook
and my books and everything. Everybody had a backpack and
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I had a briefcase. And I remember a kid named
Matt McDaniel on the very first day of Missus Bernstein's
class in the third grade. And he came up and
introduced himself because hey, I'm Mat, Oh I'm Tim. I
you don't go and I live down there. Oh, I
lived on about three blocks from you. And he said
to me, he goes, he goes, Tim, you got to
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lose the briefcase. What's going on with you? And I
took that briefcase home and never brought it back again.
He was exactly right, all right. So back to school specials.
You want to save as much money as you can,
and when buying stuff for your kids, let's figure out
if we can help you.
Speaker 9 (29:03):
Out here, says July seventeen. Believe it or not, back
to school shopping.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
It's all the.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Underway, and this year some folks are getting a head start, apparently,
with prices expect to rise as a school year gets
closer and closer. But right now there are deals to
be had.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
In NBC's Senior.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Business correspondent Christine Romans has found the AFOREM engine deals
let's just get receive. So first of all, big is
the back to school shopping.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
Well it's really early this year, but just pop quiz,
how much do you think the average parents spend per kid?
Speaker 9 (29:34):
Three hundred dollars one hundred bucks a couple hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
That's a one hundred and twenty five.
Speaker 8 (29:39):
Hundred and sixty dollars.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
Yeah, that's a lot of money.
Speaker 9 (29:42):
We got like closed school, that's everything.
Speaker 8 (29:44):
Talked about them, including maybe new cleats. So put it
all in there and you're talking five hundred sixty bucks.
So people are really stretched this year. They got a
lot of money to spend, so they're spending early. This
survey from the National Retail Federation, the Foundation found that
sixty seven percent of people have aready started they started early,
and that's way more than usual. So people are starting
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early shopping for back to school. And what they're trying
to do is they're trying to beat price increases. They're
worried that prices are going to rise ahead. They're like,
you know what, there's all this uncertainty in the world.
I'm feeling a little stretched, I'm going to start shopping now.
Speaker 9 (30:18):
Well, I mean, the survey did talk about people being
worried about tariffs and that kind of thing. But also
I mean there's a lot of love prime days. I mean,
there've been all these big summer sales, so.
Speaker 8 (30:26):
Just get to the tips in their warehouses, on their
shelves ready to go. So you've got some really big
deals out there, and there are competitive prices among major
retailers because they know survey show people are willing to
ditch their favorite brand or ditch their favorite store if
they can find something cheaper. So really you're seeing a
lot of what price increases out there, are deals increasing
out there, and price increase is probably going to come
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a little bit later this summer into the fall. For
the deal already starting to see prices rise on some
categories like backpacks, for example, We've already seeing those moving up.
Pens and pencils those are moving up for some reason.
Tablets and paper pads are down a little bit now,
but over some of these prices already starting to rise.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
So these major retailers, for folks who are on a budget,
what are these retailers doing to try to floor them
in right.
Speaker 8 (31:10):
They've got great sales. Walmart says it's going to have
lower amargher prices on the most important sellers, that it
has the fourteen most important sellers. It's got one dollar,
five dollars and ten dollars deals.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Okay, yeah, Walmart, in my mind, is the best. You
get to Walmart and save yourself a ton of money,
all right, Moll Kelly. So he'll grow up next right
here on I AM six forty
It's k IF I am sixty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Hey,
don't forget. We're going on the cruise July twenty first
of next year. We're gonna leave me out of Seattle
and going to Alaska and Canada for a week. There's
one hundred and twenty people going already, and those cabins
are going quickly. So don't get left out, don't get
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Conwaycruise dot Com. Conwaycruise dot Com. So my wife is
out of town, my daughter's going out of town. I'm
gonna be home alone Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. And
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somebody said, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Does you play concert?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Mike to cole play Young Mike, slide in there? You
want to go bellio?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Yeah, yeah, Kim.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
The fight cam totally couples punching each other in the face.
Isn't that more honest? You know, couples that have had
it with each other, Yes, punching each other in the face.
So somebody said, what are you going to do alone,
you know, when you're home alone. I don't. I'll maybe
go the track. And then I thought about it. I
have a whole day on Sunday to doing that thing.
I might go to Disneyland.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
And then going to disney Land.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I'm thinking about going to Disneyland. And then somebody said alone.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That was my first thought.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Why is that odd? Did I go alone?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
I think sometimes you see a family place, it's like
a family place or a couple's place. It's a couple's place,
or a mom and dad place, mom and dad place,
or a brother and sister place, sister place.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, or bringing a niece and nephews.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Maybe like even bringing a niece and.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, or a group of kids, or.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
You could even bring like a group of kids.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Like a class of kids, like a class maybe going camping,
going camping.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
That's right. But I wouldn't feel uncomfortable going to Disneyland alone.
I would feel actually pretty get on roller coasters.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, don't wear that trench coat you wear skiing.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I wear a black trench coat and jeans skiing. And
I've never ever let my sister has never stopped banging her.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Do you blame her.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, I saved the day too. She doesn't tell you
that story where a ski got loose and it was
cruising down the hill like and it could kill somebody,
and I raced and caught up to the ski and
caught it. Yes, let her tell you that flying was Yeah,
people thought it was going to take off like the
(02:36):
Flying Nun. But I would. I would go to Disney
an alum would? Would? Would?
Speaker 6 (02:42):
If?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Would it be weird if I went to a Taylor
Swift concert alone? That's why I can't. That's why I
don't want to go to Sabrina Carpenter. Oh really, I'll
go with you. I'll go with you a Sabrina Carpenter.
Really is that even weirder? Well, it's better than by myself.
I'll go with you, okay, and we'll just work. But
we're we're like Dodger shirts. We'll you know, masculine Dad's
(03:04):
or something. Yeah, we'll put that black stuff under our eyes.
You will fight a little.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
I think concerts are more normal to go solo because
you're there to enjoy the music and stuff. But parks
are supposed to be there to witness the fun with
somebody else.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
But but if if you had How old is John's
Let's say John's daughter was twelve, okay, okay, and you
and John and you took your is it your stepdaughter?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yes, your stepdaughter Juliana.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
And my mom's good with that stuff. I'm not my mom.
My mom could bang that out like once removed cousins
from a separate marriage. Ex's bang and she would know
every one of them by tim. Yeah. Oh Dean, Oh Dean,
how you, Bob? I'm good. I don't think you should
be going to Taylor swift aloon.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Why is that, Dean?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I don't know why. I don't know.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
I don't know, Sharon, I'm just not feeling it. Okay,
like I'm feeling like, okay, let me get let me
give you some others. Okay, right? Would would you? Would
you feel comfortable if I went to home Deepot alone? Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, oh sure, all right, that's cool? All right? What
about Okay, here's another one, Belly. I want you to
chime in on too, because you're always the one there's
a good head on her shoulders. What if I went
to Chuck e Cheese alone? No, no, anybody should go
to Chuck e Cheese alone. Yeah, I don't think anyone
should go to Chucky Cheese. Yeah, I mean you need
you need a safety partner there in case.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
You know, you have no business going there alone.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
All right, all right? What about Magic Mountain? No? No, wait,
Magic mount alone? Not cool? I think it'd be great.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
No, that's fifty fifty.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
The thing about the amusement park, you sit down and
you're next to that person, you're kind of like, hey, yeah,
I'm here alone today.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You know, we have to tell them enjoy this coaster,
waiting for my wife and my daughter at on the
you know, the Conan Express. Whatever the thing.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Is is why you shouldn't go alone, because now you
have to lie why you're alone.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, it's better to tell the truth to make up lies,
right belly? Okay? What about not alone? Not very farm
not no, no, okay? How about Lego Land?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
No?
Speaker 7 (05:13):
No, no, definitely not absolutely, not definitely not.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Well, then, then I've done nine bad things.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
You've done this, You've gone solo to all these places?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
No, but have been in Lego Land nine times long.
I enjoyed them. What about the zoo? You don't have
security following you around at Lego Land.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
I imagine there would be hey, what are you doing here, bud,
just checking out all these little kids here.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
For some reason, I find the zoo acceptable.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
Oh really okay, oh yeah, all right, so the zoo
is fine. You know what, take an art pad with you?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you take a sketch pad to
the zoo and take it any era or camera.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Yeah, take that sketch pad anywhere in your gold No, no, no,
that doesn't happen. No, not the Lego Land, yeah, said
the Porno theater. What about the Universal Studios alone? Is
that acceptable?
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Nobody cares. Yeah, you'll blend in. Yeah, yeah, nobody cares.
What about Kids Space Museum? You know, I went to
the Kids Space Museum up in Portland. I dropped my
daughter off. It was it was raining cats and dogs
up in Portland, is years ago, and I dropped my
wife off and daughter off at the door. And then I,
like a good husband and a good dad, went and
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parked and got soaked on the way to the door
because I was like three miles away. And I get
to the kids museum called kid Space, and I pay
for it, you know, a ticket. I didn't want my
daughter to or wife to pay for it because I
didn't know when I was going to be there whenever
and when to find her and not have a taket
the whole run. So I paid for myself again, and
the lady says, are you with anybody? And I and
(06:41):
I said, my wife and daughter in there, and they're like, no, no, no, no,
no no. You got to have your wife and daughter
come out here and meet you. You're not going in alone.
And I love that. I love that that was the
rule that they don't lent single guys into that kid
space that museum. I think it's a great rule and
I applaud but I don't know I would feel absolutely
(07:02):
comfortable going to Disneyland alone. As a matter of fact,
I might do that just despite all you idiots and
all you losers, because your losers send us pictures, because
you guys are all losers.
Speaker 8 (07:12):
All right.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Dean Sharp is coming up again next.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
You're listening to Tim Conwaytunire on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Dean Sharp is the host of Home with Yours July
Dean Sharp, and that's on every Saturday from six to
eight am and every Sunday from nine am until noon.
And before we introduce them, I'll tell you something real
quickly about weekend programming. Weekend programming, you usually get two
hours max. Maybe three. But when you have two hours
(07:46):
on a Sunday morning that they lock that off, they
sell other programmer, they stick out of the program in there.
But when you expand another hour, that means that they
need the extra hour to service all of your advertised
and all of your listeners. And it's completely unheard of
to go from two hours to three hours on a weekend,
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and Dean did it. So congratulations. I don't think enough
people won't point that out. Oh thanks, Bud. It's a
true story, though. I mean, I've been in love with
radio my entire life. I was when I was a kid.
I wrote that. You know, I wrote a book called
Radio Love or Love Radio. I can't remember what it
was like basketball, like Kobe wrote Basketball Love or Yeah,
(08:28):
I wrote Radio Love and then he stole my idea.
But that's true. I mean, to expand on a weekend,
it's a big deal. It's a big thing.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
We're and we just now we're in San Diego too. Wow,
look at your show on Sunday mornings. We're in San Diego.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
That is great? All right? Well, fire season, you know,
people always say it's all year round.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
I don't like that, but it's not really. But you know,
we talk about it way more than we want to.
That's the point, that's right. You gotta talk. We got
to talk about it way more than we want to.
And this Sunday, yeah, I'm doing enough other fire season prep.
It's our midsummer fire season prep. And here's the thing,
because you know, we've turned the corner clearly, right, it's summer.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
We're right here. We are midsummer, right. We just had
the Midsummer Classics. I had the All Star Game this week,
so we're clearly midsummer. And you know, the grasses on
the hills now no green left, all golden brown. And
now from here on out, as the weather keeps getting
warmer and warmer day after day, it's drying out. It's
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drying out. And then we're going to hit September a
little bit in October, the san anders are going to
kick in, and we're gonna find ourselves right again in
another main draft of the fire season. And the point
is there are things to do now now in order
to get ready for what is just a few weeks away.
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You know, I saw something over the weekend, that'll be
able to do the next segment about solar But getting
back to fire, what is the vent company that you
have that is selling like hotcakes to prevent your roof
and your house from catching on fire.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Brand Guard, Brand Guard ventsran D br n D Guard
like Guard, Brand Guard Vents, you can go to brand
guard Vents dot com. Brand Guard Vents literally literally the
finest ember proof vents and probably one of the most
important things that people can do to their homes because
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eighty percent, get this, eighty percent of homes that ignite
during a wildfire event, the flames of the fire nowhere near.
We're talking about embers that get sucked into the attic
space and ignite inside the attic. That means, and this
is true the Palisades fire, the Eton fire, eighty percent
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of the homes that caught on fire did not happen
because the flames had arrived. That's how it worked. Yeah,
it's how it works. That's how important these vents are
because we've got to baffle those embers and keep them
out of the attic. And when those embers do get
into the house, is it the insulation that catches It
could be anything quite often it's the insulation, but it
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could literally be anything because you know what an attic
the way the building code has set up attic ventilation,
it's like your weber kettle. I mean literally, you think
about your weber kettle grill, this grill that burns and
maintains the coals, you know, so perfectly. They've got a
vent on the top or heat to escape and it
draws cooler air in through lower vents down below.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
That's your attic.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
It's a barbecue waiting to go, and that's why we
can't have any open flames getting in there.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Dean Sharp is with us, and he brought his bell
with him. Is that yeah? Was that me? Was that me?
I think it was? You know what, I'm shutting that down. Hey,
let me ask you a question. You know, people have
a lot of money in LA and you've worked with,
you know, probably some very wealthy people without naming names.
(11:58):
Are there still some spectacular a holes that you've run
into that you wouldn't work with again?
Speaker 7 (12:04):
Oh my gosh, how about most of them?
Speaker 5 (12:12):
All?
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
So let's get really into this. So here's the thing.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
I can't tell you most of the people that I've
worked with because I got a lot of a lot
of the folks we've worked with. I literally we start
with an NDA right. Oh good, Okay, So I can't
tell you, but I can tell you this. Percentage wise,
you know, you get up over a certain level of
dollar value for the project, right, and the you know,
the people that are enjoyable to work for it drops
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down into the ten percent range really really fast, really fast.
Fat You know what, Tim? You know who's my favorite?
I can't tell you this. Okay, we're way past this.
My favorite celebrity that I ever worked for ever? Okay,
Don Rickles, I got I got a Don Rickles story
for you if you want to hear.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Wait, did you work at his Malibu house? No? We
worked on the house in the flats and Beverly Hills,
just above sunset, and I built and designed and built
an entire guest house for him. Wow.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
And sweetest guy, Yeah, the sweetest guy. Every day came out, Hey, Dean,
how you do you need anything? It's looking great? Can
we tweet this? Can tweet that every single day he'd
come out and swim in his pool like a wall wrist. Okay,
the slowest swimmer I've ever seen. But the sweetest guy
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in the world. The last day. Okay, I wish I
wish this was back in the day when I mean,
I wish we had cell phones where I could have
recorded this very last day. He looks at me and
he's like, hey, I guess this is the last day.
I'm like, yeah, man, this is this is it? Mister Rickles.
He's like, will you stop it with that? We just
call me done. I'm like all right. He's like, is
there anything I can do for anything at all? I'm
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like there's nothing. I mean, you've paid us, well, we've
done that. Anything I can do And I looked at him.
I'm like, all right, you can do something for me.
He's like, what, why don't you spend sixty seconds and
just run me down? Just run me down? And he
looked and he looked at me for a half second
like he was angry and offended. Right, Okay, that I
(14:13):
had said that, and I thought, oh geez. And then
he just launched into it. And I was there for
six months working on his house. He had plenty of material.
He just launched into me. It was the happiest moment
of my life. Two minutes Don Rickles just insulted me
(14:33):
without taking a breath, and when it was over, you know,
we both smoked a cigarette and it was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
You know, my dad had very few celebrity friends. He
was from Cleveland, so he found more of a connection
with the guys that are doing the lights and the
you know, the electric and you know the sets and
design and stuff like that. But he had his celebrity
friends were Mike Connor's Mannix, Bob Knew, Art Rickles, and
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there was one other guy. Can't remember who it was,
but the oh, Harvey Korman and Ernie Anderson. Those were
his celebrity friends. And man, he used to love it,
went Calburnett. But he used to love just sitting with
Don Rickles at dinner and laughing his ass off for
two straight hours. Yeah. Built a house next to Buddy
(15:24):
Hackett's house. Oh is that right? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
He was not nice. He was not nice at all, Buddy.
All right, But when we come back, we'll talk a
little more about fire and more celebrities.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
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Saturday and Sunday morning here on KFI. Also so in
San Diego on kgo or kg co go Cogo cogo. Okay, yeah,
(16:06):
all right, one more question about your experience in building
homes in and again you can choose not to answer this.
I totally get that. But when you are working very
closely with a couple who most often is the bigger
a hole, the husband or the wife. Again, you can
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choose not to answer that. Well, yeah, okay, you just
statistically speaking, right the husband? Oh is that right? Okay?
Speaker 7 (16:39):
Yeah, all right, because I'll tell you what. I'll tell
you what you know when it comes down to it,
of probably eighty percent of the projects that you know,
it depends on the size and the situation, but probably
about eighty percent of the projects that we do are
driven by the wife.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
And usually when that is, when that happens that way
and it's really off balance, quite often the husband's in
the background like, no, I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I don't know. I just agree. How many projects can
you handle at a time? Can you. I mean, I
know you don't like to spread yourself too thin, you
can you do? And do? Most contractors have one, two,
three four going? You know most contractors do you know?
Custom contractor custom home contractors are a thing that narrows
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it down because there's a lot of detail. And when
you're doing a state level homes okay, which is has
been the majority of our stuff, that stuff can get
really consumed because those those projects can go on for
two or three years. Oh wow, when you're doing you know,
fifteen eighteen thousand square feet on two or three acres,
there's a lot of stuff to get taken care of.
(17:49):
But I got to clarify you that I haven't been
building myself in a long time. We're you know, we're
doing design stuff now and have been for long long time.
And as far as our design projects go, it's kind
of the same. You know, regular homes. We can get
a few more of those in on a regular basis.
Estate homes they take a while, they do and they're very,
(18:12):
very consuming. But you know, we've got about six projects
rolling right now and a two year waiting list. What
is is that? Right? Two year waiting list? That's crazy? Man, Man,
good for you. What is the one thing that you've
noticed in people who are building their own homes where
they really sort of celebrated. Is it the walls, the roof,
(18:37):
the front door, the fin you know, where where do
people finally see and go, ah, I get it, now,
this is great.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
Usually when exterior windows and dry wall goes on, okay,
get it, Okay, they start to get They're like, ah,
I got it. I got A lot of people can
celebrate when the framing the sticks go up. But people,
I would say at least half of our clients struggle
to see the sense of the room even when the
(19:04):
framing is up because you're still looking through the walls,
so they haven't really got a sense of the space
of the room. So you got to close it off.
So when drywall goes up, initial drywall, exterior siding, in
the exterior windows, that's when most people are like, oh,
hot dog, this place is awesome.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
And then you know that we go for it. You know,
somebody a friend of mine who's made a lot of money.
You know, he went to bed earlier and woke up
earlier and really you know, concentrated on work and was rewarded.
But he said he listened to the show that you
talked about how it's really important to keep your house
the interior really quiet, and he took that and said
(19:42):
he is designing something for his house to make it quieter.
That he got it. He really touched him.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
Oh that's cool. Yeah, that's good. So I don't know.
I don't know what his plan was, you know, yeah,
I don't know what I don't know. How can you
quiet a house partner in the guest house? Is that
what the plan possible was?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Are there things you can you to quiet an house
that's already existing or do you have to really?
Speaker 7 (20:03):
Oh yeah, yeah, especially if you're doing a remodel. I
tell people all the time, and they still raise their eyebells.
Are really say anything you touch, any wall you touch
in your home right that you've stripped off dry wall
anywhere put sound insulation in.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I don't care. It's not the exterior.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
We're not doing thermal insulation, Okay, I'm talking about insulation
of the interior walls and solid core doors throughout the house,
because you know, if you're two or three rooms away,
the sound dampening quality of sound having to go through
a room through a sound insulated wall, through another room,
another insulated wall. The house gets quite real fast. You
know what, I what I liked. You know, back in
(20:40):
the seventies they were popular. We used to have a
house in Tarzana when I was growing up, and it
had one of these things. But I think now with
cell phones, they don't really exist anymore. But do you
remember the old intercom systems?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Oh? Yeah, we've had to deal with a lot of
those over the ears. They're like, should we keep that?
Speaker 7 (20:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I like these.
Speaker 7 (20:59):
It hasn't it hasn't worked in thirty seven years.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
You want to keep it? And then and then everyone
started playing music on those crappy speakers. You know, that
didn't really work out. But I like that old intercom.
You know, we only had, you know, two bedrooms upstairs
and one bedroom downstairs. It wasn't it, you know, extravagant.
But I remember an intercom in the kitchen and you
could press it and talk to my mom while she
was up in her bedroom. It's kind of cool. Yeah,
it's very cool. It's very cool. Well that they could
(21:25):
come back.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
We kind of take it for granted these days. I mean,
I text Tina when she's like in the kitchen, I.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Mean, I have a three a three shout max. If
I say to you know, hey, Jen, and I'll yell
upstairs Jen, and I'll yell in the backyard Jen, and
then I'm done. I leave the house and she is
not around. And I tried three times, three strikes, You're out.
But now with the cell phone, you could just text
them you know exactly the hell are you? But all right,
(21:54):
so let's real quickly recap and when it comes to fire,
this is fire season, it's up to you. Is there
a paint that you can put on your house to
help it become more you know, fire retardant.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
Yeah, there is, absolutely, But here's the thing that we're
gonna work about this on Sunday. It totally works, all right,
but it'll also break the bank if your plan is
to just paint your whole house with it.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Oh really?
Speaker 7 (22:16):
So the key is the thing is if you got
stucco on your house, you've got a class A fire
rated wall there, right. You don't have to you don't
have to spend tons of money putting fireproof paint on
top of a stucco house, which is eighty percent of
the homes in southern California. You already have a Class
A fire rated wall there. So what we're gonna be
talking about on Sunday is where do you spend the money.
(22:38):
So here's where I want you to put that into
messent fireproof paint that costs about one hundred and thirty
dollars a gallon. Okay, I want you to just paint
the eaves, the overhang of the eaves where the roof
is sticking out over your house. That's one of those
super vulnerable areas. You can spend two or three hundred
dollars for paint there. Those gallons will get you all
(23:01):
around the house, get those eaves painted out, because if
flames do arrive and they're licking up the side of
the house, they're not burning through the stucco. They're going
to catch whatever is going on that. Those are your
roof rafters that are exposed right there. So again we're
going to protect that facier board and those eves and
just spend the money on that paint right there.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Let me tell you real quickly, I saw this over
the over last week in Oregon and I thought about you.
There's a house in Longview, Washington. It's beautiful. It's an
a frame house and it faces the front of front
doors on the north side, the back doors on the
south side, so it has east west in the big
a frame. And I always whenever I drive by it,
(23:43):
I look and it's got solar panels, and I thought, oh,
that's great. I drove by it one day and the
solar panels were gone and I drove by and I
couldn't believe it. They take them down, or they do
they fall off whatever. And as I drove around the
house to continue on going home, they were on the
other side, and I stopped and I noticed they were
(24:03):
on a track. So in the morning they're on the
east side of the house, and then they fold over
a track and they go on to the west side
of the house for the afternoon sun.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
Oh my gosh, I've never seen anything like that that
is tight, that is that is not common at all,
And that's had to be expensive as hell, Oh my gosh.
And you got to plan that up. Probably you get
away with it on an a frame because there's nothing
else going on up there, because it's so oh that's right, right,
But there would be a lot of obstacles in the
way of your solar just coming over because you got
(24:35):
you got plumbing vents coming through the roof, so you'd
have to plan.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
All of that out. But man, what a great idea.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Yeah, because uh that's the equivalent of, you know, a
solar tracking panel which just basically keeps itself aimed at
the sun all day long.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
But yeah, that's a great idea. It is wild and
I and I wanted to ask the guy when they
do that because I want to see it in action.
But you know, I don't want to be a weird own,
you know, knocking on the door. Hey when'd your solar
panel go over the roof? You know, I didn't want
to be that guy. All Right, Saturday and Sunday Saturday
six to eight am, Sunday nine am to noon in
(25:09):
La right here on KFI and also co Goo and
San Diego. Thanks for coming on, Bob, Thank you appreciate it.
All right, there goes Dean Sharp. That guy's great, man,
That guy is the best. Mark Thompson's Brother's favorite show
on KFI is that home show.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
But when I was a kid growing up in the
San Fernando Valley, I enjoyed summers more than anything in
the world. Riding your bike around, taking the bus to
go to the beach, going to Orange Julius, going to
builders in porium, seeing what's new in the plant nursery area,
going to get ice cream basket Robbins Swenson's Carville ice
(25:54):
cream Insino off of White Oak. It was just a
great hang or you know, it's not incredibly hot. We
didn't really care about this smog. We you know, we'd
find a pool or sprinklers to play in. It was
just a really cool time to grow up being a
kid in the San Fernando Valley. But the one thing
(26:17):
that drove me crazy, and it's still today when I
see it, it depresses the hell out of me. Walking
into a store Walmart, Target, clothing store, whatever, and seeing
back to school sales. It floored me because I knew
(26:39):
that summer was coming to an end and it was
back to school. I didn't enjoy anything really in school,
except for hanging out with my buddies, and I knew
that waking up early was going to be part of
my life, getting to school, doing homework, going to better early.
(27:00):
All that crap was about to begin again, which seemed
like an eternity when you started a brand new school year,
third grade, fourth grade, fifth and you're like, oh my god,
I got nine months. I got September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May,
and a little bit of June, and you were done
(27:22):
and you finally got out. I loved the last day
of June. We usually got out around June tenth, June twelfth.
I remember that last day before you started summer vacation.
It was always a half day, you know. You went
to school at eight in the morning and you got
out around noon, and that was the beginning of your summer.
(27:44):
You never had. You'd take your backpack home, throw it
in a closet, and you were done. You had your
entire summer in front of you. Two weeks in June,
all of July, all of August, and the first week
of September. But these back to school specials they drove
me crazy crazy, you know, the school books, the peachy folders,
(28:06):
the clothes, the shoes. I was when I was in
third grade. I started a new school in third grade,
and the first day I went to school, I showed
up with my dad's old briefcase that he used to
work with. And I had my lunch and my notebook
and my books and everything. Everybody had a backpack and
(28:28):
I had a briefcase. And I remember a kid named
Matt McDaniel on the very first day of Missus Bernstein's
class in the third grade. And he came up and
introduced himself because hey, I'm Mat, Oh I'm Tim. I
you don't go and I live down there. Oh, I
lived on about three blocks from you. And he said
to me, he goes, he goes, Tim, you got to
(28:48):
lose the briefcase. What's going on with you? And I
took that briefcase home and never brought it back again.
He was exactly right, all right. So back to school specials.
You want to save as much money as you can,
and when buying stuff for your kids, let's figure out
if we can help you.
Speaker 9 (29:03):
Out here, says July seventeen. Believe it or not, back
to school shopping.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
It's all the.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Underway, and this year some folks are getting a head start, apparently,
with prices expect to rise as a school year gets
closer and closer. But right now there are deals to
be had.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
In NBC's Senior.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Business correspondent Christine Romans has found the AFOREM engine deals
let's just get receive. So first of all, big is
the back to school shopping.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
Well it's really early this year, but just pop quiz,
how much do you think the average parents spend per kid?
Speaker 9 (29:34):
Three hundred dollars one hundred bucks a couple hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
That's a one hundred and twenty five.
Speaker 8 (29:39):
Hundred and sixty dollars.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
Yeah, that's a lot of money.
Speaker 9 (29:42):
We got like closed school, that's everything.
Speaker 8 (29:44):
Talked about them, including maybe new cleats. So put it
all in there and you're talking five hundred sixty bucks.
So people are really stretched this year. They got a
lot of money to spend, so they're spending early. This
survey from the National Retail Federation, the Foundation found that
sixty seven percent of people have aready started they started early,
and that's way more than usual. So people are starting
(30:05):
early shopping for back to school. And what they're trying
to do is they're trying to beat price increases. They're
worried that prices are going to rise ahead. They're like,
you know what, there's all this uncertainty in the world.
I'm feeling a little stretched, I'm going to start shopping now.
Speaker 9 (30:18):
Well, I mean, the survey did talk about people being
worried about tariffs and that kind of thing. But also
I mean there's a lot of love prime days. I mean,
there've been all these big summer sales, so.
Speaker 8 (30:26):
Just get to the tips in their warehouses, on their
shelves ready to go. So you've got some really big
deals out there, and there are competitive prices among major
retailers because they know survey show people are willing to
ditch their favorite brand or ditch their favorite store if
they can find something cheaper. So really you're seeing a
lot of what price increases out there, are deals increasing
out there, and price increase is probably going to come
(30:49):
a little bit later this summer into the fall. For
the deal already starting to see prices rise on some
categories like backpacks, for example, We've already seeing those moving up.
Pens and pencils those are moving up for some reason.
Tablets and paper pads are down a little bit now,
but over some of these prices already starting to rise.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
So these major retailers, for folks who are on a budget,
what are these retailers doing to try to floor them
in right.
Speaker 8 (31:10):
They've got great sales. Walmart says it's going to have
lower amargher prices on the most important sellers, that it
has the fourteen most important sellers. It's got one dollar,
five dollars and ten dollars deals.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Okay, yeah, Walmart, in my mind, is the best. You
get to Walmart and save yourself a ton of money,
all right, Moll Kelly. So he'll grow up next right
here on I AM six forty
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