December 24, 2025 • 30 mins
s a Best of Christmas Eve edition of The Tim Conway Jr. Show, and things get surprisingly sudsy — and strangely sanitary.The crew kicks things off stunned to discover that Michelob is officially America’s #1 beer, sparking a multi-segment deep dive no one saw coming. Tim shares hilarious childhood stories about growing up around beer, debates what really qualifies as “the most popular,” and takes a nostalgic trip through classic TV and vintage beer commercials that defined an era.Then, in true Conway fashion, the show takes a hard left turn into “Clean Sheets.” Tim breaks down what it really means to be clean, how often you should be washing your sheets, and why some people might be living way dirtier than they realize.A perfect mix of holiday laughs, beer myths busted, old-school TV nostalgia, and classic Tim honesty — this Christmas Eve best-of delivers it all. 🎅🍻
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Tamar Thompson's here,
you know, during the break, it's like, you know, you're
a celebrity and you have celebrity friends, and you always
(00:22):
call your celebrity friends.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I like listening to them.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Well, I'll tell you I got the call from Farmer
anchorman John beerd I love John Beer talking about Yeah,
he called and you were here in the studio, and
I thought, we're in a commercial break, why not just
put him on the speaker, And he was delighted to
talk to you. You were very both of you were
like super glib and funny.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
He's like a really old fashion not old fashioned, but
a really hard nose, no nonsense reporter. When he goes
out to get a story, he leaves no stone unturned. Yeah,
I mean what, he was a reporter before he was
an anchor. Yeah, he was very he did he did
really good work.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
And of course he was a anchor on Channel four,
which is close to where we're sitting right now, right
across the way, and then on Channel eleven, Box eleven.
But I've known John Beard since he was an anchor
in Buffalo, New York. Wow, Fritz Coleman, John Beard, and
myself were all in Buffalo at the same time, and
we remain like close friends to this day. I just
(01:19):
had I had lunch with Fritz right before I came
over here.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Are you still a Bills fan? I am, oh, good
for you. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
In fact, Fritz married a Buffalo Bill's cheerleader, Wow, and
John went out with a Buffalo Bill the Jills. They
were called the Buffalo Jills at that time, and so yeah,
they were very Those guys.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Went to games, but I never went to a game.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
That must have been a You know, in Buffalo, you've
got to be on your toes with the weather. Yeah,
I mean you've got a lot the Lake Effect is,
isn't the Lake Effect?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I would you know if you could, you could say
there'll be two inches of snow overnight and there could
be twenty two inches by morning. You know, you had
to really watch it. Yeah, you're right, a little wind
shift could really cost it.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, and those Thank god that those fans who are
I think the most amongst the most loyal fans in football,
they're getting a brand new stadium.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
It's incredible too. I mean to see what they've done,
it's a kind of they've built it down into it's
kind of what they do is Sofi, right, it's in
so far built down So it's same kind of thing
with the new Buffalo Stadium. And the field is heated
so you have any issues with ice and stuff, so
it could be really quite. But it's open air. I mean,
(02:28):
you know, you'd think you might in Buffalo want to
put a dome on it.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, but there's a dome in on Sofi. That's the
most la thing isn't a real oversight. So do you
know why they had to dig Sofi that deep into
the ground? No? Why the flight path they couldn't have
anything over I think fifty feet or seventy five feet
or so. That's great knowledge. Yeah, and that's why. Also
(02:51):
the forum is built is dug out as well.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Oh no kidding.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
When you walk in the Forum, you're at the promenade
level when you can go down like you know, seventy
five feet or so.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I have to say, I've not been to Sofi. You
haven't been there yet? No, man, see it on TV
looks so cool.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It literally have you ever been to the Grand Canyon. Sure, Okay,
when you go to the Grand Canyon, you see you
for the first time, you're speechless. You know, you can't
believe you're looking at something that big that nature has produced. Okay,
this is not nature that has done so Fi, but
it's it's that big where you look at it and
you can't believe that it looks fake. You can't believe
(03:30):
that there are seat there are that many seats that
in that big of an arena that's so beautifully built,
and it was built. You know, they could have gone
cheaper on the material to build this thing, but they
didn't want to, you know, they wanted to go top shelf.
And it's built for one hundred and seventy five years.
It's supposed to last for one hundred and seventy five years,
and most stadiums that are built are built for forty
(03:52):
or fifty years.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
It's just so visually spectacular. And then they hear you
say that in person, it's even more visual.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
And you know what, while I was making a tour,
this is this is a kind of an odd story.
I'm taking a tour of Sofi Stadium about about a
month before it opened up, and I said to a
buddy of mine, a guy named Robbie Fox, I said, hey,
you want to go take a look at Sofi Stadium.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
He go O, I'd love to. And so we're driving
over that.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I said, hey, they're not going to let you in,
you know, just as you you have to be, you know,
the producer on our radio show. He goes, okay, all right,
that's that's fine. And the moment he got there, it
was like, hey, they said, so.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
What do you do?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
He goes, oh, I'm a writer in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I'm like, no, no, no, no, no no no no, no,
no no no. Now you've got to tell everybody you
work here.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Didn't you see the Great Escape?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
We have Well, we all have stories, and we've established
what the stories and our backstories are.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And so I I there's about twelve people on our tour,
and I said to one of the young ladies there,
I said, hey, in about ten minutes out enough so
my buddy could hear tell your friend that your favorite
movie is I Married an Axe.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Murder because my buddy wrote that.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
And so about twenty minutes later she's like togging because yeah,
because I love that movie. I married an axe murderer,
and he goes.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Oh, I work at KFI. I've seen that's great.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I've never heard that story.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
It really is great.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
So I'm taking a tour of Sofi Stadium and there's
a huge double suite. It's almost like it's probably one
hundred feet long by fifty feet wide. There's seats in
there for probably one hundred people. There is a big bar,
there's a kitchen, there's couches, there's private bathrooms. And I
look to see who sponsored that thing, and it's sponsored
by Michelobe. And I went what they got Michelobe to
(05:50):
buy a suite? Nobody drinks Michelobe anymore. This is five
years ago. Sure, nobody drinks Michelobe. Michelobe was a beer
than when I was growing up, my parents' drank. Sure
you remember the old slogan weekends were made for Michelobe.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Sure that was how old it is?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
So cut to five years later after I saw that,
and I said that about Mikeelobe, it's the number one
beer in the United States. What Mikelobe is the number
one beer in the United States right now? It's not
lowen Brow, it's not Lowenbro, It's Michelobekelob, Mikeelobe Ultra or
Michelobe light something. Michelobe is the number one beer. It
(06:27):
just took over a you know, I don't know whatever
or whoever was second, but it's huge. And I think
the kids, I think the younger generation is discovering Michelobe.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I know there's Michelobe Lighte and Yclobe.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
And Michelobe Ultra and then they have an Amber and
that's anytime a beer revives itself, that's a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
It's great. It's so weird how they do come and go.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
And and you know, we've all had beers in the past,
like Rolling Rock out of Cleveland, Ohio. I don't know
if it still exists. Schlitz remember Schlitz. Oh sure, they
all they all come and go. But man, that Michelobe,
I don't know who. And obviously it's a it's a
public relations deal that you know, sent that out because
Mikeelobe was dying, and they've turned it around where it's
(07:12):
the number one beer in the United States.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
I don't see many ads for it, though I see
ads for you know, Corona, I'm.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
With you, you know, Chikane and all that.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, I'm with you, but I read an article and
I'm gonna have to confirm this, but I read that
it's the number one beer.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
That's wild.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Look, if I were to give you one hundred guesses
for the number one beer you never.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Said, I would have lost a lot.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah ever, yeah, I mean I could even give you
a six pack of Michelob.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
You go put that aside. I'm guessing which the biggest
beer is.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
So people doubted me. I'm getting a lot of email,
a lot of texts. Michelob is not the number one
beer in the United States. So let's go to the
I guess the arbiter of who is number one and
who's not The Today Show. The Today Show, they decide
who is number one and who is number two? Okay,
(08:11):
and I think it's mikel all right.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Guess what a new King of Beers is in the
is in town and it is still owned by Saint
Louis based Anheuser Busch. Michelob Ultra is a light beer
and it has officially claimed the title of America's number
one beer.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
That's on the Today Show. The I mean they are
the show of record. Yeah, they're bound by certain journalistic
stand that's right.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And if they say it's number one, it's number one.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
It launched in It launched a while ago, like twenty
years ago.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
But the beer, oh they ballparked that, you know, like
twenty years ago, like twenty off launched twenty years ago.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, we did, but they changed the logo.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
You know, it used to read Michelobe and now it
if you look at a can, it reads Heineken, it
reads Ultra. You can't even see where it's. Mikelob's super
tiny and the Ultra is super big. Yeah, but it's
number one beer in.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
The official beer sponsors and major sporting events, including the
FIFA Cup twenty twenty six. Now this comes as fewer
Americans are actually consuming alcohol amid some health concerns.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
But I know, you know, we really are falling behind. Again,
there's a country in that area. We have to pick
up her alcohol consumption.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
So this woman on the Today Show is explaining what
she knows about beer, and then the weather guy comes
in and.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Man explains it for her. I see again, he cleans
it up for it.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
But I know a lot of people who drink Nickelobe
ultra these days.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
But you know, do you know anybody that drinks michelob ultra.
I don't.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I don't, But I mean that doesn't say anything right
drinking vodka, Yeah, straight blue DoD They've evolved beyond michelob ultra.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Ellio, Let's get Mikelobe to sponsor this show. The Mikelobe Theater,
the Mikelobe Studio.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
All right, let me get on that.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Will you get on the fifth floor and go take
care of that?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Right? I didn't get him on the line.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Wait, you're already on with.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Michelob All right, I'll have him sign the contract.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It's done, all right, all right, from the Michelobe studios
in Burbank.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
It's the Conway Show with JP.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
JPJ, T c J.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
We're all done, We're all done.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
So she's explaining that she doesn't know anybody drinks Michelobe
and he comes in over the top. He's like, honey,
move a side. Let me tell you what's going on
with Michelos, the King of Beer.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah, it's I mean, it's all.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
In the same umbrella. But he got Mick Altree, you
got bush Lights, you know two. Yeah, those are a clear
favorite here right now, Mick Alter. You know, it was
like the first low cat like low card beer.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
You know, that's kind of how it's been marketing.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
Yeah, I know, and a lot of poring. A lot
of it seems like athletes like it.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah, it's a lot of golf tournaments.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
So yeah, there you go. He explained it to everybody.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
The low call the little Cali wicklow.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah, but that snuck up on everybody. Yeah, you know,
I mean you would think that you would know the
beer that's sneaking up on everybody to become number one.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
She says, a lot of athletes like it. What they've
done is quite cleverly put a lot of athletes in
their commercials.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
So FI that's it.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah, yeah, so Fi is dominated by Michelob. I think
that's the only thing. The only light beer that they
sell is Michelob.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
But yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
As of September twenty twenty five, that's this month of
this year, number one beer in America is Michelob Ultra,
having recently dethrown the second place beer, and for fifty
two weeks ending September fourteenth, twenty twenty five, according to
the parent company of Vanheuser Busch and Imbev.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
It's the number one beer in America. So it's like
I'm like U T it's like that. That's the first
beer I ever had.
Speaker 9 (11:57):
Yes, it was the seventies and my dad had a
the gold foil around the earth that's the top of
the bottle.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Yeah, And it was always people camping.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
On the commercials, they're always you know, weekends we're made
and they always camped. I always brought their own heavy
ass case of beard while they were camping. But yeah,
it was always you know, when my grandfather, my grandfather
drank drank stros and and when we went to see
(12:27):
him and stayed with him in June, July and August
every year, when he would get home from you Guy,
which is a natural gas company worked for, he would
always sit down and have a beer. Because he was
a blue collar worker. His job was to fill thousand
gallon propane tanks.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
There was a there was a gas line that came
into Sugar and Falls, Ohio, and they would they would
load these huge tanks up with a thousand gallons of
propane and then send them out to mobile home parks
and that would be the source of energy for the
whole park. And so he worked with Bill Butler and
another guy named Clark, another guy. There's five guys that
(13:06):
my grandfather worked with his whole life at this company.
And while they filled those propane tanks every single day,
thousand gallons, every one of them while they were working
smoked cigarettes. Every single guy smoked cigarettes while they were
filling thousand gallon propane tanks.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Sure, I'm in insanely flammable danger.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Like hanging off the corner of their mouth, right, yeah,
And nothing ever happened could have could have easily And
if that were to happen, if it were to blow up,
the whole town would have gone with it. The town
was about twelve hundred people and the whole town would
have been destroyed.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
And they all smoked those cigarettes.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
So he came home every day and he'd have his stros,
and whoever got him the stros got a Dixie cup
full of beer.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
That was me.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
So when I was eight years old, I would sit
next to my grandfather and I out of a small,
little like half dixie cup of beer and drink with
my grandfather at age eight.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
You know, from eight on.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
That's a kind of bonding experience.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Yes, and did that affect my life later on?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
You bet? You bet?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I got radically into my alcohol.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Only drank a beer out of a dixie cup.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I can I can only drink it if I find
a grandfather. Oh yeah, sure, so it's kind of odd
around the neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
It's funny though. The marketing of these beers is what
we remember, right. You remember weekends were made for Michelobe.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
And I think I can come up with that slogan too,
I think. Let me, I think I can play that
for you. Let's see here, let me see may it
was Niclone, alright, let's see. Yeah, weekends, Oh, here it is,
I got the whole commercial, got mighty?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Is the Internet great? All right?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Here it is Nickelobe.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Then Thursday.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Camping.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
They brought a symphony with them.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah, the gold top. You're right, Crouch. Weekends were made
for makeo logs.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Don't forget remember to pick up some beer. Weekends We're made.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Weekends were made from michelob boy man. That brings back
a lot of memories. If you're your fifties or sixties
and your dad or grandfather drank beer, you remember that,
you remember that slogan.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Wasn't Michaelo known as the champagne of beers?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Was it was?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
That?
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Was that their thing?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
I think too. That's to get the gals over, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
It's it's always the champagne of something, like we drank it,
we drank that was Miller Highlights.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Oh was Miller Highlight?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Or champagne of ye Miller high Yeah, remember Miller Highlight
was less filling?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
No, that was taste great. That was that light beer
bud light, No, that was It wasn't Miller. I thought
it was Miller light.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
No it was.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
It wasn't bud Light.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
No, it was light.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
It was just light. I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
It was Miller light beer from Miller, light beer from Milliar. Yeah, taste,
taste great. Let's fill it. Taste great beer.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Let's fill it.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
And this baseball stadiums used to shout that during Monday
night football half the stadium taste great, the other half
less filling. Oh it's time to be alive. And everybody's
on their fing phones all the time.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Nobody has any connection with anybody else. Nobody, nobody, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
In twenty years, kids will say, I remember listening to
a radio show where they once talked about a beer.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
You know, that's the only connection they'll have. They will
not have the great radio show.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
What's that.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
We're coming to the beer.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Michelob Ultra and Bellio worked her ass off during the
break and put up a poll on Twitter on X
and it's what beer do you drink? Michelob Ultra, Modelo,
bud Light and Corona Extra. And so you can go
vote there and make your voice heard. You know, you
(17:39):
got to vote in this country. If you don't vote,
nothing will change.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
That's the thing. I mean, We've given you the chance
to really register how you feel.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And if you don't, you know, if you don't exercise
your right to vote on Twitter polls.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Then what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Yeah, but everybody you remembers. Look, if you're over forty five,
I think you'll remember this. But the we were talking
about the low and Brow song.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yeah, because it's like mickelub had that Weekend's weekends.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
We're made from Michelobe.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
And I remember the Lowen Brow song was you know,
here's two good friends?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Yeah, I found it here it is? Ready? Will you sing?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
It for us.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I'm about to have a moment.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
So you said forty five, I'm forty six, and this
is going to be tapping into some old child. Oh buddy,
you'll remember this all right. Here we go the Low
and Brow song with Mark Thompson.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Here's two good friends tonight.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
It's having a special the beer will pour.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I must say something more somehow, so tonight.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
To let it be low and bro.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
We're telling good friends, they're good friends.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
What a song man does that bring back Mary's That
was nineteen eighty Wow. And the song we played before that,
the Michelobe song. If you miss that, that was nineteen
seven and seven, nineteen seventy seven Michelobe.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
It wasn't Miclobe Ultra. It was just week.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Nickelbe weekends.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
We're made for Miclobe.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
But it does bring back memories, you know, we we
The one thing that all of us had in common,
if you're over forty, is that we all saw the
same TV shows at the same time and the same commercials.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
And the reason the commercials landed is because you couldn't
flip past them. Now, there was no flip past at
that point, so you're seeing the commercials you're we're all
experiencing the same cultural thing through commercials.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
And at the same time, if you want, you know,
if we wanted to watch Happy Days, you had to
be home at eight o'clock on Tuesday and put on ABC.
And if you didn't, you missed it, and there was
no repeat. They weren't going to play it again. You're
out and you were done, and you couldn't follow the
very intricacy of the characters on Happy Days.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Right for the rest of the year, that's right.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
And then after that you know Vernon Shirley and then
you know whatever, you know, six million Dollar Man, Brady Bonge,
Partridge Family. But I remember at Christmas, I think it
was the Tuesday before Christmas, maybe two weeks before Christmas,
they played Rudolph and they played what was the other one,
(20:20):
not the Santa Claus. They played, Oh, Frosty the Snowman
and Rudeolph, and they would and they would play those
Oh Charlie Brown, Christmas, Charlie Brown, Christmas, Charlie Brown, Christmas.
Went on at eight o'clock on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
whatever it was, and you did not miss it, yes,
right in the Grinch and you had to be home
to look at it, and if you missed it and
(20:42):
the kids started talking about the next day in school,
you felt like you had the worst parents in the world,
Like they didn't care about me, they didn't put the
schedule together. I remember when when Frosty came on, we
all had to be showered or bathed in our pajamas
downstairs at eight o'clock with pop corn and all watch
it as a family and we couldn't wait.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
That's great, you know.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
But now now you don't have those moments, you know,
because everything is on DVD and DVR and and and
uh you know, and and streaming. They're just different moments
because look, if you're streaming a show, you're not and
Krozier is also streaming a show, you may not be
in the same place of the show. So you can't
talk about it. That's true, because you want to ruin
it for Krozer vice versa. Yeah, but back then, you know,
(21:25):
with Dallas, remember Dallas. But I bet you were a
big fan. Yeah, Sharon Sharon's belliot was a huge shot. Yeah,
who shot Jr? But but you had to be home
to watch that and everybody was on the same episode.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah, that's true. You're right, I mean, Tim's right.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
There was no Again, this is hard to believe now,
but there was no delayed viewing. We dreamt of a
of an ability to record these things so that we
didn't have to be home to see them.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
At least some of the streamers.
Speaker 9 (21:56):
Can't say all of them, but at least some of
the streamers will offer you basically a party view option
where you invite people to watch it at the same time.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Oh that's great, that's that. That could save it, you know,
for a lot of people. I think that's a terrific idea.
I was unaware of that. All right, one more time.
I know people love this.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
He is two good friends.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
It's a night, It's done, It's special. The beer with
Paul must say certain more somehow, So let it been
low and Brown?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
What a time? What happened alone? Wow, they're done though.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I don't think lowan Brown's I know, maybe they're still around,
but I haven't heard them that one.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
No one's sun the jingle for a while.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
That's your Sure you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on
Demyan from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
So here's the story.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
My dad back in the nineteen maybeen late sixties, early seventies.
I think I was seven or eight years old, so
it could have been sixty nine seventies somewhere in there.
And he was asked to do a charity event in Chicago.
We were in Cleveland at the time, and he was
asked to do a charity event in Chicago, and they
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were going to fly into Chicago. He was going to do,
you know, a half hour forty five minutes of jokes.
They people can ask him questions about his career, about
Mchaale's Navy, the whole run. And so they fly him
to Chicago from Hopkins Airport in Cleveland, not a private jet,
you know, passenger, public transport, public airways. They fly him
(23:34):
to Chicago, they pick him up, he does his set,
does the charity and he notices that there's a lot
of guys who worked for the city there, you know,
a lot of the city employees there. And back in
the sixties and early seventies in Chicago, the mob ran
(23:54):
that town Chicago. I don't know if they still do,
but they did then, and my dad met a few
of those guys, but it wasn't filled with those guys.
There was like one or two table of those guys,
and the rest of them were you know, city employees.
Probably about two thousand people there. There's a big deal.
And so they thanked my dad for doing the event.
(24:17):
And he literally went there at I don't know, he
left Cleveland at noon and he was home the next
day by noon. So it's just a one day event.
And he gets back and we pick him up at
the airport.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
You know, how was the event? Ohs grades, A lot
of people are and it was a really cool event.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
And they.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
And they gave me some Tonka toys for you kids,
and I said, oh, that's very nice. You know, we're young, seven,
eight years old, nine years old. So we get back
to my grandparents' house and my dad gives me this box.
But it's a Tonka truck and you could see through
the cellafhane at the truck. And I opened it up
and in the bottom of it was fifty thousand dollars
(24:58):
in cap. Stuck in the bottom of that box was
fifty thousand dollars in cash. And I said to my
dad and said, hey, you know, there's money in this box.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
And he said, well, what do you mean money?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
And I showed him and there was fifty thousand dollars
in cash, and my dad turned white as a ghost.
Pretty white guy anyway, but even wider. And he got
on the phone and he called the guys that did
the event and he said, hey, somebody put fifty thousand
(25:35):
or maybe he's missing fifty thousand dollars and they put
it this tonquer truck case. And I don't want someone
to come after me because they're you know, they switch boxes.
You know, it was a mob box that should have
gone to this guy. And I was like, now I
have it, and the guy said no, no, no, that's
just us saying thank you for doing the event.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
That's all yours.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
And my dad said, okay, I'd like to fly back
to Cleveland or to Chicago on my own dime and
give you this money back. And the guy says, well, no,
that's your appearance fee. He said, no, no, I told you
I'll do the event for free. I'm going to fly back,
I'll meet you at the airport, and I'm going to
give you this fifty thousand dollars. He flew back to Chicago,
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gave him the fifty grand, and then flew back to Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Did he check the bag with the fifty grand.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I don't know, but I think he I don't know
about the details, but I know he gave the money
back and he flew back to Cleveland, and I said,
and even at a young age, I said, wow, what
happened here?
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Why'd you do that?
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Dad?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Yeah, and there's fifty that's a lot of money. Look
in retrospect, I would have never told my dad, you know,
he'd give me the money.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
I should have socked it away.
Speaker 9 (26:44):
And where'd this twenty grand from from?
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah? No, that's right. Your kid's new car is extraordinary
and he's only eleven.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
The biggest mistake of my life is tell my dad
that I did catch and he returned the money, and
I said, what had happened? Like years later he explained
it to me. He said, Look, you were too young
for me to explain it to you. But that's how
you become indebted to the mob. You do them a favor.
They pay you fifty grand. Now you got to do
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them another one. Then they pay you one hundred grand.
Now you gotta do another one they pay and that's
all of a sudden, you're in their life and you're
flying around doing all kinds of events for these guys,
and he goes, I don't want to do that.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Yeah, I don't want to be that guy. Ultimately he
should have gone that route.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Oh if it sounds to me like you got a
pretty good dig going. And look what happened at Sinatra.
You know, look how much money. But Sinatra made.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Grand one hundred fifty grand. It's rights, we're going the
right way.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I don't have the problems, but I do remember this.
I remember very distinctly. My dad's doing a video late
in life called Dwarfun Fishing, and we're out at Lake
casts Steak and the son's going down. They can't get
the shot, and my dad's cold and he's wet. And
I said to my I said, should have kept that
fifty grand. And you never really hear my dad swear,
(28:08):
but I heard him few.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
You know. That is great, that's a great story.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
And I must say, a thousand dollars back in nineteen
sixty nine, what is that worth now?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Three four hundred thousands?
Speaker 4 (28:18):
I can imagine that amount, and I'm not sure even
with the.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Uh in retrospect, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
I get his It speaks to his purity of heart
and understanding things.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
But I don't know, man, I.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
He should have gone that round.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
I might have.
Speaker 9 (28:34):
Yeah, fifty grand from nineteen sixty nine would be roughly
four hundred and thirty thousand dollars to Wow.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
How about that that Tonka truck.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
That's real.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
That's a real talking.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, that's a real try. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
I knew there was something odd about it because it
was a Tonka truck with a cellofhane wrap around it,
and then there was sort of like a big back
end of it that I thought maybe there was another
you know, attachment to the truck inside.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
That, like the extension is right.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah, there was there was nothing there, nothing going on
in there. Oh that's where the fifty grand was in
that one. And thank god that I got it because
they gave you know, he gave enough these Tonka trucks
for me and my brothers, my sister. And if my
brothers got that fifty grand, you would mum was the word.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Man.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
They would have never said anything. My dad would have
been all mobbed up for the rest of his life.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
That's the movie, right, the kid takes the money. You
didn't take it, but your kid took it, and now
you're in debt to the mob.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
That's the movie. He's all mobbed exactly. He's nine years old,
spoken a cigar, right, you know. And and the reason
why he didn't want to do it is because there
was a big, huge mob war going on between Cleveland
and Chicago, and my dad lived in Cleveland, so he
didn't want the Cleveland mob pissed at him that he's
all mobbed up with the Chicago guys. Uh, you know,
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because that's where you really run into trouble. You know,
when you live in a town and you're mobbed up
with another town. That's when they come buy and say, hey,
what's going on with you?
Speaker 1 (30:01):
You know.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
So he knew it. My dad knew what was going on.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
It sounds like it was the right move.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Actually, yeah, it turns out it probably was.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Should have kept the doe?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Should have kept the doe and take money. Took money
from the Cleveland mob too.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I see, you know, well, I think that doesn't end well.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
A Sinatra how it ends. We're live on KF I
am six forty
It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Tamar Thompson's here,
you know, during the break, it's like, you know, you're
a celebrity and you have celebrity friends, and you always
(00:22):
call your celebrity friends.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I like listening to them.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Well, I'll tell you I got the call from Farmer
anchorman John beerd I love John Beer talking about Yeah,
he called and you were here in the studio, and
I thought, we're in a commercial break, why not just
put him on the speaker, And he was delighted to
talk to you. You were very both of you were
like super glib and funny.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
He's like a really old fashion not old fashioned, but
a really hard nose, no nonsense reporter. When he goes
out to get a story, he leaves no stone unturned. Yeah,
I mean what, he was a reporter before he was
an anchor. Yeah, he was very he did he did
really good work.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
And of course he was a anchor on Channel four,
which is close to where we're sitting right now, right
across the way, and then on Channel eleven, Box eleven.
But I've known John Beard since he was an anchor
in Buffalo, New York. Wow, Fritz Coleman, John Beard, and
myself were all in Buffalo at the same time, and
we remain like close friends to this day. I just
(01:19):
had I had lunch with Fritz right before I came
over here.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Are you still a Bills fan? I am, oh, good
for you. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
In fact, Fritz married a Buffalo Bill's cheerleader, Wow, and
John went out with a Buffalo Bill the Jills. They
were called the Buffalo Jills at that time, and so yeah,
they were very Those guys.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Went to games, but I never went to a game.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
That must have been a You know, in Buffalo, you've
got to be on your toes with the weather. Yeah,
I mean you've got a lot the Lake Effect is,
isn't the Lake Effect?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I would you know if you could, you could say
there'll be two inches of snow overnight and there could
be twenty two inches by morning. You know, you had
to really watch it. Yeah, you're right, a little wind
shift could really cost it.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, and those Thank god that those fans who are
I think the most amongst the most loyal fans in football,
they're getting a brand new stadium.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
It's incredible too. I mean to see what they've done,
it's a kind of they've built it down into it's
kind of what they do is Sofi, right, it's in
so far built down So it's same kind of thing
with the new Buffalo Stadium. And the field is heated
so you have any issues with ice and stuff, so
it could be really quite. But it's open air. I mean,
(02:28):
you know, you'd think you might in Buffalo want to
put a dome on it.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, but there's a dome in on Sofi. That's the
most la thing isn't a real oversight. So do you
know why they had to dig Sofi that deep into
the ground? No? Why the flight path they couldn't have
anything over I think fifty feet or seventy five feet
or so. That's great knowledge. Yeah, and that's why. Also
(02:51):
the forum is built is dug out as well.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Oh no kidding.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
When you walk in the Forum, you're at the promenade
level when you can go down like you know, seventy
five feet or so.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I have to say, I've not been to Sofi. You
haven't been there yet? No, man, see it on TV
looks so cool.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It literally have you ever been to the Grand Canyon. Sure, Okay,
when you go to the Grand Canyon, you see you
for the first time, you're speechless. You know, you can't
believe you're looking at something that big that nature has produced. Okay,
this is not nature that has done so Fi, but
it's it's that big where you look at it and
you can't believe that it looks fake. You can't believe
(03:30):
that there are seat there are that many seats that
in that big of an arena that's so beautifully built,
and it was built. You know, they could have gone
cheaper on the material to build this thing, but they
didn't want to, you know, they wanted to go top shelf.
And it's built for one hundred and seventy five years.
It's supposed to last for one hundred and seventy five years,
and most stadiums that are built are built for forty
(03:52):
or fifty years.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
It's just so visually spectacular. And then they hear you
say that in person, it's even more visual.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
And you know what, while I was making a tour,
this is this is a kind of an odd story.
I'm taking a tour of Sofi Stadium about about a
month before it opened up, and I said to a
buddy of mine, a guy named Robbie Fox, I said, hey,
you want to go take a look at Sofi Stadium.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
He go O, I'd love to. And so we're driving
over that.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I said, hey, they're not going to let you in,
you know, just as you you have to be, you know,
the producer on our radio show. He goes, okay, all right,
that's that's fine. And the moment he got there, it
was like, hey, they said, so.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
What do you do?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
He goes, oh, I'm a writer in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I'm like, no, no, no, no, no no no no, no,
no no no. Now you've got to tell everybody you
work here.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Didn't you see the Great Escape?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
We have Well, we all have stories, and we've established
what the stories and our backstories are.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And so I I there's about twelve people on our tour,
and I said to one of the young ladies there,
I said, hey, in about ten minutes out enough so
my buddy could hear tell your friend that your favorite
movie is I Married an Axe.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Murder because my buddy wrote that.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
And so about twenty minutes later she's like togging because yeah,
because I love that movie. I married an axe murderer,
and he goes.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Oh, I work at KFI. I've seen that's great.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I've never heard that story.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
It really is great.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
So I'm taking a tour of Sofi Stadium and there's
a huge double suite. It's almost like it's probably one
hundred feet long by fifty feet wide. There's seats in
there for probably one hundred people. There is a big bar,
there's a kitchen, there's couches, there's private bathrooms. And I
look to see who sponsored that thing, and it's sponsored
by Michelobe. And I went what they got Michelobe to
(05:50):
buy a suite? Nobody drinks Michelobe anymore. This is five
years ago. Sure, nobody drinks Michelobe. Michelobe was a beer
than when I was growing up, my parents' drank. Sure
you remember the old slogan weekends were made for Michelobe.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Sure that was how old it is?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
So cut to five years later after I saw that,
and I said that about Mikeelobe, it's the number one
beer in the United States. What Mikelobe is the number
one beer in the United States right now? It's not
lowen Brow, it's not Lowenbro, It's Michelobekelob, Mikeelobe Ultra or
Michelobe light something. Michelobe is the number one beer. It
(06:27):
just took over a you know, I don't know whatever
or whoever was second, but it's huge. And I think
the kids, I think the younger generation is discovering Michelobe.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I know there's Michelobe Lighte and Yclobe.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
And Michelobe Ultra and then they have an Amber and
that's anytime a beer revives itself, that's a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
It's great. It's so weird how they do come and go.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
And and you know, we've all had beers in the past,
like Rolling Rock out of Cleveland, Ohio. I don't know
if it still exists. Schlitz remember Schlitz. Oh sure, they
all they all come and go. But man, that Michelobe,
I don't know who. And obviously it's a it's a
public relations deal that you know, sent that out because
Mikeelobe was dying, and they've turned it around where it's
(07:12):
the number one beer in the United States.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
I don't see many ads for it, though I see
ads for you know, Corona, I'm.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
With you, you know, Chikane and all that.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, I'm with you, but I read an article and
I'm gonna have to confirm this, but I read that
it's the number one beer.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
That's wild.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Look, if I were to give you one hundred guesses
for the number one beer you never.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Said, I would have lost a lot.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah ever, yeah, I mean I could even give you
a six pack of Michelob.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
You go put that aside. I'm guessing which the biggest
beer is.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
So people doubted me. I'm getting a lot of email,
a lot of texts. Michelob is not the number one
beer in the United States. So let's go to the
I guess the arbiter of who is number one and
who's not The Today Show. The Today Show, they decide
who is number one and who is number two? Okay,
(08:11):
and I think it's mikel all right.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Guess what a new King of Beers is in the
is in town and it is still owned by Saint
Louis based Anheuser Busch. Michelob Ultra is a light beer
and it has officially claimed the title of America's number
one beer.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
That's on the Today Show. The I mean they are
the show of record. Yeah, they're bound by certain journalistic
stand that's right.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And if they say it's number one, it's number one.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
It launched in It launched a while ago, like twenty
years ago.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
But the beer, oh they ballparked that, you know, like
twenty years ago, like twenty off launched twenty years ago.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, we did, but they changed the logo.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
You know, it used to read Michelobe and now it
if you look at a can, it reads Heineken, it
reads Ultra. You can't even see where it's. Mikelob's super
tiny and the Ultra is super big. Yeah, but it's
number one beer in.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
The official beer sponsors and major sporting events, including the
FIFA Cup twenty twenty six. Now this comes as fewer
Americans are actually consuming alcohol amid some health concerns.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
But I know, you know, we really are falling behind. Again,
there's a country in that area. We have to pick
up her alcohol consumption.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
So this woman on the Today Show is explaining what
she knows about beer, and then the weather guy comes
in and.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Man explains it for her. I see again, he cleans
it up for it.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
But I know a lot of people who drink Nickelobe
ultra these days.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
But you know, do you know anybody that drinks michelob ultra.
I don't.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I don't, But I mean that doesn't say anything right
drinking vodka, Yeah, straight blue DoD They've evolved beyond michelob ultra.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Ellio, Let's get Mikelobe to sponsor this show. The Mikelobe Theater,
the Mikelobe Studio.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
All right, let me get on that.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Will you get on the fifth floor and go take
care of that?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Right? I didn't get him on the line.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Wait, you're already on with.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Michelob All right, I'll have him sign the contract.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It's done, all right, all right, from the Michelobe studios
in Burbank.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
It's the Conway Show with JP.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
JPJ, T c J.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
We're all done, We're all done.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
So she's explaining that she doesn't know anybody drinks Michelobe
and he comes in over the top. He's like, honey,
move a side. Let me tell you what's going on
with Michelos, the King of Beer.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah, it's I mean, it's all.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
In the same umbrella. But he got Mick Altree, you
got bush Lights, you know two. Yeah, those are a clear
favorite here right now, Mick Alter. You know, it was
like the first low cat like low card beer.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
You know, that's kind of how it's been marketing.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
Yeah, I know, and a lot of poring. A lot
of it seems like athletes like it.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah, it's a lot of golf tournaments.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
So yeah, there you go. He explained it to everybody.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
The low call the little Cali wicklow.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah, but that snuck up on everybody. Yeah, you know,
I mean you would think that you would know the
beer that's sneaking up on everybody to become number one.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
She says, a lot of athletes like it. What they've
done is quite cleverly put a lot of athletes in
their commercials.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
So FI that's it.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah, yeah, so Fi is dominated by Michelob. I think
that's the only thing. The only light beer that they
sell is Michelob.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
But yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
As of September twenty twenty five, that's this month of
this year, number one beer in America is Michelob Ultra,
having recently dethrown the second place beer, and for fifty
two weeks ending September fourteenth, twenty twenty five, according to
the parent company of Vanheuser Busch and Imbev.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
It's the number one beer in America. So it's like
I'm like U T it's like that. That's the first
beer I ever had.
Speaker 9 (11:57):
Yes, it was the seventies and my dad had a
the gold foil around the earth that's the top of
the bottle.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Yeah, And it was always people camping.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
On the commercials, they're always you know, weekends we're made
and they always camped. I always brought their own heavy
ass case of beard while they were camping. But yeah,
it was always you know, when my grandfather, my grandfather
drank drank stros and and when we went to see
(12:27):
him and stayed with him in June, July and August
every year, when he would get home from you Guy,
which is a natural gas company worked for, he would
always sit down and have a beer. Because he was
a blue collar worker. His job was to fill thousand
gallon propane tanks.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
There was a there was a gas line that came
into Sugar and Falls, Ohio, and they would they would
load these huge tanks up with a thousand gallons of
propane and then send them out to mobile home parks
and that would be the source of energy for the
whole park. And so he worked with Bill Butler and
another guy named Clark, another guy. There's five guys that
(13:06):
my grandfather worked with his whole life at this company.
And while they filled those propane tanks every single day,
thousand gallons, every one of them while they were working
smoked cigarettes. Every single guy smoked cigarettes while they were
filling thousand gallon propane tanks.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Sure, I'm in insanely flammable danger.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Like hanging off the corner of their mouth, right, yeah,
And nothing ever happened could have could have easily And
if that were to happen, if it were to blow up,
the whole town would have gone with it. The town
was about twelve hundred people and the whole town would
have been destroyed.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
And they all smoked those cigarettes.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
So he came home every day and he'd have his stros,
and whoever got him the stros got a Dixie cup
full of beer.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
That was me.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
So when I was eight years old, I would sit
next to my grandfather and I out of a small,
little like half dixie cup of beer and drink with
my grandfather at age eight.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
You know, from eight on.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
That's a kind of bonding experience.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Yes, and did that affect my life later on?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
You bet? You bet?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I got radically into my alcohol.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Only drank a beer out of a dixie cup.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I can I can only drink it if I find
a grandfather. Oh yeah, sure, so it's kind of odd
around the neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
It's funny though. The marketing of these beers is what
we remember, right. You remember weekends were made for Michelobe.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
And I think I can come up with that slogan too,
I think. Let me, I think I can play that
for you. Let's see here, let me see may it
was Niclone, alright, let's see. Yeah, weekends, Oh, here it is,
I got the whole commercial, got mighty?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Is the Internet great? All right?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Here it is Nickelobe.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Then Thursday.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Camping.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
They brought a symphony with them.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah, the gold top. You're right, Crouch. Weekends were made
for makeo logs.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Don't forget remember to pick up some beer. Weekends We're made.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Weekends were made from michelob boy man. That brings back
a lot of memories. If you're your fifties or sixties
and your dad or grandfather drank beer, you remember that,
you remember that slogan.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Wasn't Michaelo known as the champagne of beers?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Was it was?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
That?
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Was that their thing?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
I think too. That's to get the gals over, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
It's it's always the champagne of something, like we drank it,
we drank that was Miller Highlights.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Oh was Miller Highlight?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Or champagne of ye Miller high Yeah, remember Miller Highlight
was less filling?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
No, that was taste great. That was that light beer
bud light, No, that was It wasn't Miller. I thought
it was Miller light.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
No it was.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
It wasn't bud Light.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
No, it was light.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
It was just light. I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
It was Miller light beer from Miller, light beer from Milliar. Yeah, taste,
taste great. Let's fill it. Taste great beer.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Let's fill it.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
And this baseball stadiums used to shout that during Monday
night football half the stadium taste great, the other half
less filling. Oh it's time to be alive. And everybody's
on their fing phones all the time.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Nobody has any connection with anybody else. Nobody, nobody, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
In twenty years, kids will say, I remember listening to
a radio show where they once talked about a beer.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
You know, that's the only connection they'll have. They will
not have the great radio show.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
What's that.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
We're coming to the beer.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Michelob Ultra and Bellio worked her ass off during the
break and put up a poll on Twitter on X
and it's what beer do you drink? Michelob Ultra, Modelo,
bud Light and Corona Extra. And so you can go
vote there and make your voice heard. You know, you
(17:39):
got to vote in this country. If you don't vote,
nothing will change.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
That's the thing. I mean, We've given you the chance
to really register how you feel.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And if you don't, you know, if you don't exercise
your right to vote on Twitter polls.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Then what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Yeah, but everybody you remembers. Look, if you're over forty five,
I think you'll remember this. But the we were talking
about the low and Brow song.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yeah, because it's like mickelub had that Weekend's weekends.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
We're made from Michelobe.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
And I remember the Lowen Brow song was you know,
here's two good friends?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Yeah, I found it here it is? Ready? Will you sing?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
It for us.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I'm about to have a moment.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
So you said forty five, I'm forty six, and this
is going to be tapping into some old child. Oh buddy,
you'll remember this all right. Here we go the Low
and Brow song with Mark Thompson.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Here's two good friends tonight.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
It's having a special the beer will pour.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I must say something more somehow, so tonight.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
To let it be low and bro.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
We're telling good friends, they're good friends.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
What a song man does that bring back Mary's That
was nineteen eighty Wow. And the song we played before that,
the Michelobe song. If you miss that, that was nineteen
seven and seven, nineteen seventy seven Michelobe.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
It wasn't Miclobe Ultra. It was just week.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Nickelbe weekends.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
We're made for Miclobe.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
But it does bring back memories, you know, we we
The one thing that all of us had in common,
if you're over forty, is that we all saw the
same TV shows at the same time and the same commercials.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
And the reason the commercials landed is because you couldn't
flip past them. Now, there was no flip past at
that point, so you're seeing the commercials you're we're all
experiencing the same cultural thing through commercials.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
And at the same time, if you want, you know,
if we wanted to watch Happy Days, you had to
be home at eight o'clock on Tuesday and put on ABC.
And if you didn't, you missed it, and there was
no repeat. They weren't going to play it again. You're
out and you were done, and you couldn't follow the
very intricacy of the characters on Happy Days.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Right for the rest of the year, that's right.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
And then after that you know Vernon Shirley and then
you know whatever, you know, six million Dollar Man, Brady Bonge,
Partridge Family. But I remember at Christmas, I think it
was the Tuesday before Christmas, maybe two weeks before Christmas,
they played Rudolph and they played what was the other one,
(20:20):
not the Santa Claus. They played, Oh, Frosty the Snowman
and Rudeolph, and they would and they would play those
Oh Charlie Brown, Christmas, Charlie Brown, Christmas, Charlie Brown, Christmas.
Went on at eight o'clock on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
whatever it was, and you did not miss it, yes,
right in the Grinch and you had to be home
to look at it, and if you missed it and
(20:42):
the kids started talking about the next day in school,
you felt like you had the worst parents in the world,
Like they didn't care about me, they didn't put the
schedule together. I remember when when Frosty came on, we
all had to be showered or bathed in our pajamas
downstairs at eight o'clock with pop corn and all watch
it as a family and we couldn't wait.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
That's great, you know.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
But now now you don't have those moments, you know,
because everything is on DVD and DVR and and and
uh you know, and and streaming. They're just different moments
because look, if you're streaming a show, you're not and
Krozier is also streaming a show, you may not be
in the same place of the show. So you can't
talk about it. That's true, because you want to ruin
it for Krozer vice versa. Yeah, but back then, you know,
(21:25):
with Dallas, remember Dallas. But I bet you were a
big fan. Yeah, Sharon Sharon's belliot was a huge shot. Yeah,
who shot Jr? But but you had to be home
to watch that and everybody was on the same episode.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah, that's true. You're right, I mean, Tim's right.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
There was no Again, this is hard to believe now,
but there was no delayed viewing. We dreamt of a
of an ability to record these things so that we
didn't have to be home to see them.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
At least some of the streamers.
Speaker 9 (21:56):
Can't say all of them, but at least some of
the streamers will offer you basically a party view option
where you invite people to watch it at the same time.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Oh that's great, that's that. That could save it, you know,
for a lot of people. I think that's a terrific idea.
I was unaware of that. All right, one more time.
I know people love this.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
He is two good friends.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
It's a night, It's done, It's special. The beer with
Paul must say certain more somehow, So let it been
low and Brown?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
What a time? What happened alone? Wow, they're done though.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I don't think lowan Brown's I know, maybe they're still around,
but I haven't heard them that one.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
No one's sun the jingle for a while.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
That's your Sure you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on
Demyan from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
So here's the story.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
My dad back in the nineteen maybeen late sixties, early seventies.
I think I was seven or eight years old, so
it could have been sixty nine seventies somewhere in there.
And he was asked to do a charity event in Chicago.
We were in Cleveland at the time, and he was
asked to do a charity event in Chicago, and they
(23:11):
were going to fly into Chicago. He was going to do,
you know, a half hour forty five minutes of jokes.
They people can ask him questions about his career, about
Mchaale's Navy, the whole run. And so they fly him
to Chicago from Hopkins Airport in Cleveland, not a private jet,
you know, passenger, public transport, public airways. They fly him
(23:34):
to Chicago, they pick him up, he does his set,
does the charity and he notices that there's a lot
of guys who worked for the city there, you know,
a lot of the city employees there. And back in
the sixties and early seventies in Chicago, the mob ran
(23:54):
that town Chicago. I don't know if they still do,
but they did then, and my dad met a few
of those guys, but it wasn't filled with those guys.
There was like one or two table of those guys,
and the rest of them were you know, city employees.
Probably about two thousand people there. There's a big deal.
And so they thanked my dad for doing the event.
(24:17):
And he literally went there at I don't know, he
left Cleveland at noon and he was home the next
day by noon. So it's just a one day event.
And he gets back and we pick him up at
the airport.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
You know, how was the event? Ohs grades, A lot
of people are and it was a really cool event.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
And they.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
And they gave me some Tonka toys for you kids,
and I said, oh, that's very nice. You know, we're young, seven,
eight years old, nine years old. So we get back
to my grandparents' house and my dad gives me this box.
But it's a Tonka truck and you could see through
the cellafhane at the truck. And I opened it up
and in the bottom of it was fifty thousand dollars
(24:58):
in cap. Stuck in the bottom of that box was
fifty thousand dollars in cash. And I said to my
dad and said, hey, you know, there's money in this box.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
And he said, well, what do you mean money?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
And I showed him and there was fifty thousand dollars
in cash, and my dad turned white as a ghost.
Pretty white guy anyway, but even wider. And he got
on the phone and he called the guys that did
the event and he said, hey, somebody put fifty thousand
(25:35):
or maybe he's missing fifty thousand dollars and they put
it this tonquer truck case. And I don't want someone
to come after me because they're you know, they switch boxes.
You know, it was a mob box that should have
gone to this guy. And I was like, now I
have it, and the guy said no, no, no, that's
just us saying thank you for doing the event.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
That's all yours.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
And my dad said, okay, I'd like to fly back
to Cleveland or to Chicago on my own dime and
give you this money back. And the guy says, well, no,
that's your appearance fee. He said, no, no, I told you
I'll do the event for free. I'm going to fly back,
I'll meet you at the airport, and I'm going to
give you this fifty thousand dollars. He flew back to Chicago,
(26:17):
gave him the fifty grand, and then flew back to Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Did he check the bag with the fifty grand.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I don't know, but I think he I don't know
about the details, but I know he gave the money
back and he flew back to Cleveland, and I said,
and even at a young age, I said, wow, what
happened here?
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Why'd you do that?
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Dad?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Yeah, and there's fifty that's a lot of money. Look
in retrospect, I would have never told my dad, you know,
he'd give me the money.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
I should have socked it away.
Speaker 9 (26:44):
And where'd this twenty grand from from?
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah? No, that's right. Your kid's new car is extraordinary
and he's only eleven.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
The biggest mistake of my life is tell my dad
that I did catch and he returned the money, and
I said, what had happened? Like years later he explained
it to me. He said, Look, you were too young
for me to explain it to you. But that's how
you become indebted to the mob. You do them a favor.
They pay you fifty grand. Now you got to do
(27:13):
them another one. Then they pay you one hundred grand.
Now you gotta do another one they pay and that's
all of a sudden, you're in their life and you're
flying around doing all kinds of events for these guys,
and he goes, I don't want to do that.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Yeah, I don't want to be that guy. Ultimately he
should have gone that route.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Oh if it sounds to me like you got a
pretty good dig going. And look what happened at Sinatra.
You know, look how much money. But Sinatra made.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Grand one hundred fifty grand. It's rights, we're going the
right way.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I don't have the problems, but I do remember this.
I remember very distinctly. My dad's doing a video late
in life called Dwarfun Fishing, and we're out at Lake
casts Steak and the son's going down. They can't get
the shot, and my dad's cold and he's wet. And
I said to my I said, should have kept that
fifty grand. And you never really hear my dad swear,
(28:08):
but I heard him few.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
You know. That is great, that's a great story.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
And I must say, a thousand dollars back in nineteen
sixty nine, what is that worth now?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Three four hundred thousands?
Speaker 4 (28:18):
I can imagine that amount, and I'm not sure even
with the.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Uh in retrospect, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
I get his It speaks to his purity of heart
and understanding things.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
But I don't know, man, I.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
He should have gone that round.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
I might have.
Speaker 9 (28:34):
Yeah, fifty grand from nineteen sixty nine would be roughly
four hundred and thirty thousand dollars to Wow.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
How about that that Tonka truck.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
That's real.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
That's a real talking.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, that's a real try. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
I knew there was something odd about it because it
was a Tonka truck with a cellofhane wrap around it,
and then there was sort of like a big back
end of it that I thought maybe there was another
you know, attachment to the truck inside.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
That, like the extension is right.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah, there was there was nothing there, nothing going on
in there. Oh that's where the fifty grand was in
that one. And thank god that I got it because
they gave you know, he gave enough these Tonka trucks
for me and my brothers, my sister. And if my
brothers got that fifty grand, you would mum was the word.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Man.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
They would have never said anything. My dad would have
been all mobbed up for the rest of his life.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
That's the movie, right, the kid takes the money. You
didn't take it, but your kid took it, and now
you're in debt to the mob.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
That's the movie. He's all mobbed exactly. He's nine years old,
spoken a cigar, right, you know. And and the reason
why he didn't want to do it is because there
was a big, huge mob war going on between Cleveland
and Chicago, and my dad lived in Cleveland, so he
didn't want the Cleveland mob pissed at him that he's
all mobbed up with the Chicago guys. Uh, you know,
(29:53):
because that's where you really run into trouble. You know,
when you live in a town and you're mobbed up
with another town. That's when they come buy and say, hey,
what's going on with you?
Speaker 1 (30:01):
You know.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
So he knew it. My dad knew what was going on.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
It sounds like it was the right move.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Actually, yeah, it turns out it probably was.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Should have kept the doe?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Should have kept the doe and take money. Took money
from the Cleveland mob too.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I see, you know, well, I think that doesn't end well.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
A Sinatra how it ends. We're live on KF I
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