April 2, 2025 • 34 mins
Tim and Bellio humorously negotiate the possibility of Bellio embarking on a cross-country walk to Disney World, aiming to outdo Menace's recent trek from Burbank to Disneyland. KFI's own Amy King joins the conversation to spotlight the Pasadena Humane Society's upcoming Wiggle Waggle Walk, sharing details about the event and its mission. Later, Tim welcomes California gubernatorial candidate Stephen Cloobeck, who discusses his campaign, background, and plans to enhance life in Los Angeles, emphasizing his real estate expertise.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's kf I AM six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. King Dong,
We've got our you know we have men is who
is with the Woody Show. On Alt ninety eight point seven,
he walked from Burbank to disney Land. Belly O, we
we're gonna try to talk her into this Bellio. We're
(00:23):
gonna one up Woody and we'd like you to walk
from Burbank to Disney World.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Burbank to Disney World.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Yes, really, it's it's two thousand, six hundred and twelve miles.
It'll take you nine hundred and forty six hours to walk.
But for st gup bellio, Yeah, five months, two weeks.
So if let's say you left, you're gonna have to
get your your things together. So let's say you waited
until Monday to leave.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Monday, Hey lea Monday, Yes, so.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
You left Monday is the seventh, all right, So that's
three weeks.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
So you'll be.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
There, spend my birthday on the road.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yes, yeah, May, June, July, August, September. You'll be there
right right around the end of September early October.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Beautiful time I can't argue that it is a lovely
time to walk to Disney World.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It's gonna be a rough summer walking across the country
in June, July, and August.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
They'll give you that.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
I think Angel should do No, Bellio, come on, you're
always talking about how great you feel your you know,
you got your hair is done today today.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
No Angel with your hair today.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Angel would be a better choice.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
I don't think so. I think Angel would complain.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
So what she can that great radio when you called
in or live streams.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
I think it'd be too much. It would be a
lot of complaining.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I bet Bellio you would do it, and you would
just be happy to do it. You know, you would
get you know, people would see you along the way.
Oh she's walking to Disney World. Is that the girl?
That is that the lady who's one upping menace?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, yeah, that's her. She looks sunburned. Well, she's Irish
and Italian. I think she's just been drinking on the road.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah probably.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
So you're walking to Disney World. But you got to
get your things together.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
You know when you say things, what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You know, like you got to make sure John knows
where to pay the rent and uh or pay the
mortgage and the insurance and takes care of the dogs.
You're gonna go on to get the house in order,
get your house in order?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And what what is the big payoff? Once I reach
Disney World?
Speaker 6 (02:34):
You don't have to walk back, We'll fly you back.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Oh ge thing, No, you can.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
You can spend the week at Disney the week end.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, not a week, but a weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
A weekend. Yeah, and maybe Disney will get in on it.
You know, they'll give you one day free. We'll pay
for one day.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
They'll give you a day, yes, No, not going to
walk five months for one day.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Okay, dude, We'll put you up for a couple.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Of days, five mons.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
We'll put you up every night in a hotel somewhere
unless you're you know, in the desert.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Then you gotta then what's the plan for that?
Speaker 6 (03:05):
You got to just crash?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
And where's the security along the way?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
We don't have a lot of that. You better get together, No, Matt,
will you do security? Is Matt with us?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Yeah, I'm an intimidating force.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, you'll do secure. You'll drive alongside of her, yes,
I'll keep her safe.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
You could work. You can walk six hours a day, right, bellyon?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah I can.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Okay, all right, so you got five months and two
weeks to get there. I think it'd be great to
follow you across country. You know, some days you're not
gonna feel like walking. Maybe you'll stay in you know,
Parker Arizona.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Are you allowed to do that because Menace didn't stop?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yeah, I think you could stop. Well, you know, once
you get to Arizona in July, I think you could.
You know, just walk at night is my my tip
for you.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, I mean degree weather.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yeah, you're gonna want to walk at night through the
desert Texas. You're gonna want to walk through the desert
at night. That's my tip. Don't laugh at it. You'll
be doing it. You'll be like, oh man, that guy
was right.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Great tips.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
That kid was right.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
That kid kid, that's right. You got a.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Kid on KF I was right, man, walk through the
desert at night?
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Was there a song?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Walking through the desert at night and through the desert
on a horse is nohing?
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Yeah, walking through the desert at night.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I don't know, with no name whatever, but Pellio, you're
gonna do great, You'll be great.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Looking forward to it, Tim, and we'll say I start Monday. Yeah,
we'll send you pictures of the dogs every once in
a while. She thinks I'll remember you. We'll get your
new shoes. I don't want you to do it in
those boots.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
You have on today.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
There's just no way I could.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, I know you get blisters and you know, bunions
and issues. You'll be known as the Bunyan Queen.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Bunyan Queen makes her way across the country.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I can see the T shirts.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Now here comes the Bunyan Queen. Hey, Texas, you got
the Bunyan Queen.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I'm getting kind of excited for you.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Want to know what states you're gonna go through?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Please?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Okay, you're gonna leave California. You'll go through Arizona. That'll
be your first big state.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Good luck at night right in the desert.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
Yeah, yeah, in the desert at night.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
And then after Arizona you'll hit New Mexico. You'll go
through Texas because I'm gonna send you more of a
northerly route to keep the heat off you.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Oh thanks.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
You can do a little bit of Oklahoma and Arkansas.
Then you'll start popping down south. You'll know your home
free once you hit Arkansas, because then you'll go through Mississippi,
a little bit of Alabama, Georgia just a little uh,
little little sniff of Georgia, little taste, and then you'll
be into Florida and you'll be there, you know, by October,
(06:02):
you'll be like, I'm the time there and then we'll
fly you back.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
It'll be huge.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
This this is really starting to sound like a great plan.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, five months and we'll get Monday. We'll get a
trade out with Vagabond. They have those hotels. Yeah, I'm
familiar along the way. Yeah, and we'll put you in
a Howard Johnson's wherever you want to sleep. You know,
we'll we'll we'll.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Pay for that. Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
And Matt will be my Matt will be.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
The security guard.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
You get us some like coupons for like waffle House
on the way, so that's right, stop and get something
to eat, yeah, subway, you know, something to keep you
you know, to fuel your body as you walk across
the country.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
But we're only going to afford.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
One room, so you got to get pretty close to Matt.
You guys will be shacking up you and Mattie for
five months. Yeah, and sometimes it'll be uh sorry, Bunyan queen.
We don't have two queens. We just got one king.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
At least that's a king.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Yeah, and the two of you'll be out of your
minds out of your mind.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
We get along really well.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
So yeah, but after about three months in hotels, bunyons, blisters,
your head's on fire. Depression will set in like you've
never experienced in your life.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
This is sounding better and better.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Look, we'll follow.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
It across country. I think it's great. And then we
went up menace.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
As long as there's a payoff for you, that's right,
That's all it mattered.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
It's the show.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Remember during the meeting last night, what what can we
do for the show? And tim remember you said you're
going to think about it. Well, guess what I thought
about it. You're leaving Monday.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
We're going to think of something for Angel next Yeah,
Angel can I don't know, Well.
Speaker 8 (07:46):
I've already thought of a little side household that you
can do while you're walking out to Florida.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I don't need no what is Timmy said?
Speaker 8 (07:54):
You know you're the Bunyan Queen. Get a Only fans
Bunyon queen age going. Yeah, and every night you can
you can show those bunyons.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Yes, why don't I walk in some naughty sandals?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Just a great marketing. How does that sound?
Speaker 6 (08:11):
And then you can you can sell the used band
aids from your.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Bunyons' you know, I could be the naughty Bunyon queen.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Ye.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Look, there's there's not a small I would say collection
of guys would like to, you know, buy those band
aids and smell disgusting.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
That is so disgusting.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Sniff.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
This is where I'm out from a little sniff.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I love the fact that we had to get to
people smelling your used band aids until you were out.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, because I'm a team player.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Evidently you were. I was, Yeah, not anymore. That's a
wrap on you, all right, Crozier, What are you doing Monday.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Walking to Hawaii?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
We should do that. We got to want to menace
here somehow. And somebody's walking.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
To Disney World.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I don't know who it is, but somebody on the
show is walking to Disney World.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Period.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
We're live on KFI. We come back.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
We've got we've got some great guests coming up. We've
got of course, the Wiggle Waggle with Amy King. She'll
be great. And then we've got talking about Disney not
renewing a piece of property here in southern California. And
then Steve Klubek's coming in. That guy's great, might be
the next governor of the state of California. And then
Patrick O'Neil with the Kings at six oh five, almost
(09:32):
almost too much Show, Almost too much Show, and Bellio
getting going to Big five to get her equipment ready
to walk as across this great country of ours from
Burbank to Disney World.
Speaker 9 (09:46):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
We have Amy King, who is with us? The wake
up call with Amy King? How are you doing?
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Good?
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Good hang with You're usually asleep at this hour.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Yeah, this is exact opposite of my normal schedule.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
But the Wiggle Waggle Walk you took.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Over for Jennifer Jones.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Jennifer Jones Lee.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
Yes, she handed the leash to me, all right.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
And that's this Sunday at the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
Yep, We're going to meet at the Brookside Park. It's
the Wiggle Waggle Walk and Run for Pasadena Humane quite.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I know the guy that runs that Brookside Scott is
his name. Really, Yeah, I shall be there. I saw
it the racetrack with his wife and his kid last weekend.
He might be there. He might be there. But that's
a big event. There's thousands of people to show it
for this.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
There is, there is, and we're all doing it to
raise money for Pasadena Humane, which you know, we've got
a great relationship with them. We've been working with them.
They save thousands of animals a year and they take
them in and they make sure that they're good to go,
and they help them get adopted and find their forever homes.
And that's what they do in a normal year, and
(10:55):
this year is extraordinary because of the eating fires. All right,
they've taken on the numbers that I get fluctuat last
count was like twelve hundred that they took in in
the days and weeks right after the fire. I mean,
like they were finding animals.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Are people still looking for their own animals?
Speaker 7 (11:11):
I think that they've they've reunited a lot of the
animals who got lost and that kind of thing. I
have cats and I wasn't in the fire area, so
I'm good I'm good, but you know they had They
took in cats and their little paws were burned, their
ears were burned, their faces were singed, and dogs and
other animals, and they're still housing some of them because
(11:32):
people who lost their homes don't have a place for
their animals. So they're also operating it as a boarding
shelter as and still doing all of the great work
that they do. And I think we're even coming up
on kitten seasons, So if you're thinking about a kitten now.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
So it don't kills society, right, I think it is.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
They do their best to get all of them adopted.
I'm not sure if it's a no kill, but it's
it's a great organization. And so we're all going to
get together and walk around the Rose Bowl. And so
if you haven't been out, like like you said, thousands
of people come out. We do a walk or a run,
whichever you want to do. I will not be running,
and we'd be walking. I will be walking, yes, and
(12:09):
along with the walk, and it's going to be absolutely gorgeous.
I think it's going to be eighty on Sunday, so
it'll be perfect this on Sunday morning, along with the walk.
They've got vendors and they've got food trucks, and they've
got some training demonstrations, and of course the ever popular
costume contest. It's amazing how many people dress their dogs up,
so they do a big costume contest. And then KFI
(12:30):
has a booth which we're going to have three hundred
exclusive KFI swag bags, so make sure, yeah, make sure
you stop by the KFI one of them. Well, actually
this one that you're looking at, this one's big deal.
These are from Doctor Marty Pets who are supporting the
team for the Wiggle Waggle Walk, and they've donated all
kinds of dog treats and we're doing a raffle for those.
(12:52):
So when you stop by the booth, it's a five
dollars donation and we're going to raffle them off. Got
a bunch of baskets.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
And what's the goal to raise ten.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Thousand for the wake Up Call Wigglers?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Oh that's easy, apps.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Well we're not there yet.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
How close are we?
Speaker 7 (13:06):
We're closer, closer, We're getting closer. I think people are
kind of waiting until the end. And you know what,
I realized and you realized everybody's like going here, can
I have some money? Can I have some money?
Speaker 6 (13:15):
Can I have sybody's broke?
Speaker 7 (13:17):
Yeah, and we're all broke. And so you know, if
you can, if you can donate five bucks or fifty
bucks or five hundred bucks, it doesn't matter. All the
donations add up and it all goes to the pets.
And you know, if you if you are an animal person,
and I know you said you have a dog that's
not that great, which I don't believe, but you know,
I mean, you know you love them. They're like family.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
I love my dog.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
It's just my my We got our dogs. It's a
long story, but we got them at Lows. I went
to Low's one day, not a.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Pet smart, not a pet COVID, it's clothes, okay.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
And there's a woman shopping there and she had two
puppies and she said, you know, anybody that wants puppies,
I have too many puppies. And I said, oh, I said,
my wife and daughter would love these puppies. And she
just amy the puppies and we that's how we got
Ernie and Abby. We've had them for Ernie passed away,
but we've had Abby for thirteen years and she's a
(14:09):
great dog. But she was I don't think she was
weaned off her mom. I think she was too young.
So she thinks my wife is her mom, and so
she's very protective and loves my wife and runs away
from me and my daughter.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Is a good dog.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Is a good dog.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
It's a great dog for my wife.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
Absolutely, yeah, absolutely, And there's gonna be a ton of
great dogs. They even have adoptable dogs out there, So
if you don't have a dog and you just want
to come walk, you can come join us. You might
find a dog. Last year, I walked a dog. It
was this beautiful Doberman and she got adopted that day.
That's during the walk, So that was that was great.
Super easy to participate. If you want to join the
(14:48):
wake Up Call wigglers, go to KFIM six forty dot
com slash wiggle and that's how you can make a
donation too. If you can't join us, we love a donation,
but we'd love to have you come walk. It's going
to be, like I said, it's going to be a
beautiful day and it's for such a good cause.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah, Belly was going to try to get out there.
I know angel is going to try to get out there.
And we asked Krozier earlier. We said, hey, CROs you're
going to get out there.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
I heard him I was driving in.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
What was this response, No, that's right, one of the
last on is guys in the radio.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Yeah, no, we no, I think was his answer.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Crosier, you have cats?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Right? I do?
Speaker 7 (15:23):
Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
What are their names?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Benny and Juno.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Oh that's cool.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I like that.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
One of my cats actually came to me from Jennifer
Jones Lee before she left town. She said, right, yeah,
she said I cannot take this cat with me, and
I was like, oh, well.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
She must have been depressed out of her mind.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
But she has her dogs, so she's fine. And Shelby
needed a lot of attention which she didn't probably get
because she had four dogs competing with her. So now
she has she has just a you have one cat, Well,
now I have two. What's the other name? Alexander the Great?
Who I got from Pasadena Humania? Coincidentally for you ten
years ago.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
You walk the walk, you don't just talk to talk?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Absolutely all right, So get out there this Sunday from
eight am to eleven am where around the stadium.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Will you be located.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
We're out in front in Brookside Park. You're not gonna
be able to miss it because there's a bunch of vendors.
There's the start line, and there's the dog demonstrations and
all kinds. There's a stage setup because we're going to
do awards and that kind of stuff. And again we
have the KFI tent setup and you won't be able
to miss it. It's going to be there. And don't
forget from eight to eleven the Doctor Marty Pet's Raffle
(16:32):
that we're doing the gift baskets with Doctor Marty's Nature's
Blend of course, a premium freeze drive dog food made
with real cuts of meat, super food, veggies and fruit
to support your dog's health and happiness.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Thank you, all right, we will be it's gonna be
great event. Ten thousand dollars as the goal.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
Yes, So if you can donate, I would so appreciate it.
KFI AM six forty dot com, slash wiggle whatever you
can do, excellent, You'll take it.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Appreciate you doing that, Amy King every morning five to
six a m.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Right here on KFI.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
When we come back, the next Governor of the state
of California is going to be with us. His name
is Steve Klubeck, and he's going to be with us.
Grew up in the valley like I did, so we'll
talk a little bit about the old valley establishments. We're
live on KFI. Thank you, Amy, ding Dong with you
and ding Dong with the Dodgers.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
This state needs a lot of help. This state is
poorly run. The city's poorly run, the county's poorly run,
and we often sit and complain that there's nothing we
can do about it. Now there's something we can do,
because the next governor is sitting right in front of me.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Steve Klubec. Nice to see you, man.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
It's Stephen J. Klubec.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Stephen J.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I'm joking.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Come on, you got a bums.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Your dad was a funny guy.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I appreciate that when I grew up with your death.
When Steve came in the first thing you gave me
was the middle finger because I was listening to your
show yesterday.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
Did you know you could have the emoji of them
little finger?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I actually I never knew that. No. Actually, my kids
made a sticker of me doing it, So a sticker
of me doing that.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Yeah, how old are your kids?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I've got three children, twenty seven and twenty one and
two adopted.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
And all born and raised out here.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
They were went to school out here, Okay, and Valley Heights, No, No,
down in Orange County.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Oh okay. You were smart. You moved out because you were.
You spent a lot of time in the valley like
I did. I grew up in the valley like you did.
I grew up up in Taco Old Run. You know,
Mike Alibu, Grand Prix, Mike's Pizza, Pizza Pizza, Luky's Batting Cage.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Luks about straw Hat Pizza.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah, my dad was the spokesperson versus straw Haad, the
one on Ventur and Van Eyes.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Yeah, that's where we ate all the time. And then
you were smart. You got out of the valley.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I didn't. I stayed well. I I moved down to uh,
came back after college wing Tesse my first year, went
to college back east, came back, worked at Cedar Sun.
I thought it was gonna be surgeon. Oh really Okay,
and ended up flipping into work at Cedar Sign of
four years and flipping into business real estate and then hotels.
What year did you move out of the valley. I
(19:09):
moved out of the valley in eighty eighty four. Okay,
so you're here for a while. You went to high
school here? Yeah, where'd you go? I went to Harvard
School for Boys. Oh, I know.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Exactly what it is, all right. We used to sneak
into at Harvard. They can't do it now because they'll
shoot you. But we used to be able to sneak
into that campus and use the pool at night when
we were drunk. We'd top over the fence and swim
in that pool. It's right on cold water. That's right,
that's right, that's what we did. That was our Saturday
night in the valley. But now you do that, they'll
shoot you, you know, so you can't do that anymore.
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But I grew up in the valley. You grew up
in the valley. You were smart though. You saw everybody
moving to Orange County where you were. It was safer,
there was more, you know, family oriented, it was cleaner.
It was the right move, and especially in the early eighties.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Well, you know, I actually just candidly. I moved to
Las Vegas to build my first hotel at twenty nine,
Is that right?
Speaker 6 (20:01):
What hotel?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Polo Towers on the street. Yeah?
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Sure, So they're not there anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
No, it's still there, is Polo Towers still Jockey Club
you think, oh right, yeah, but the Jockey Club's actually
encapsulated by the Cosmopolitan today.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Okay, it still exists, but it's surrounded. It's now the Cosmopolitan.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
But I used to love I mean, maybe this is
maybe I'm not thinking the right one, but I used
to We used to stay at Caesar's Palace or at
the Sands, and you could see the Polo Towers from there.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
You could.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah, I mean that's an old What year did you
build a polar town? That was nineteen ninety, Wow, it
goes way back.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
I remember that.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
One of the things about the Polo Towers is they
did not have a casino.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
We had slots only, and then I removed it. I
was one of the first people to get a slot
license at twenty one.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
That's amazing that I remember that, Like like little things
about Vegas like that that I knew they didn't at
that time.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
It was all sweets it's still is all sweets, and
today Hilton owns that.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Okay, he'll end up buying my company.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
All right, and you've wore you also work closely with
the guys who currently own the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Well, they were my partners at Diamond Resorts. Okay, they
were my partners at Diamondsaurs. We had a great relationship
and it was a good transaction for all of us.
We built a fabulous hotel company around the world.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
And do you know all those guys personally, you got
a much dot you go to many Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Ins, Mark Walters, Todd Bowley, Oh right, yeah, yeah, Lon Rosen.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Man, those guys really knocked it out with the Dodgers.
Remember when everyone thought they overpaid for.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Him everyone, but I never bet against Mark Walters and
Todd Bowley. Yeah ever, yeah, okay, all.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Right, let's now we ure the state of California. I
know you're running for governor. I see the little pin uh,
the the California pin on your on your jack, which
means you're running for governor.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
This state is a mess.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
The state is not open for business. It's not affordable, livable,
nor workable. Not the way we grew up when we were.
That's right, that's right. I mean, you know when I
was a kid, I was I used to take the RTD.
Remember the RTD, of course, and I used to take
it from Balboa and Ventura down to Your and Oaks,
over to Westwood and to the beach.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
It was the beach bus.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
No, it's called the blue bus.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah, the blue bus, right, it was the be of
the blue bus, the beach bus. It was the RTD,
and we took it all the time. And now you
can't do that. We were twelve when we're on that
public bus. You can't put a twelve year old on
a public bus instead of the beach anymore.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Will Roger State Beach Santa Mark.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
It was great, yeah, exactly. And with the Orange Julius.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
When you're done for the day, you go to Third
Street and the open Market, there is Orange Julius.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
It was terrific.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
And there's are Woolworths there as well. I remember that.
But now you can't do that. You know, it's not safe.
There's a lot of problems with the state of California.
I think one of the bigger ones that nobody got ever,
nobody ever got fired or suspended or yelled at when
we lost thirty billion dollars in unemployment.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Do you remember the unemployments?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Oh you got thirty billion dollars. Look, I didn't. This
was not on my bucket list to run for governor.
Mind neither. I've been involved in the public policy for
a long time. I learned from President Clinton and Harry Reid.
But you know, I created the Tourism Department the United States.
I worked for the Oval Office, did a fabulous job
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creating brand USA. I helped the great state of Nevada.
I renamed the airport in Las Vegas from McCarran, was
my adopted dad. Oh is that right? Yeah, they seven years,
they tried. I got that done in three months. Wow.
And the return on investment with regard to that, the
Travel in urs Are Department of the United States is
like eight to one. It's an export man. So I
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come back back to, uh, my dream moving to Beverly Hills,
because that was always a dream to live over the hill.
You know.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
Sure A three went out two and three.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
It was two and three when we were growing up.
Then became then we became eight one eight. The valley
was two and three two. I mean it was the
old city was whoever you call right now? Who I
don't know who's gonna answer.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
But I made that mistake before I said that. I
remembered my old number as a child and I gave
it out over the air and somebody called and said, hey,
stop giving up my effing phone number.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Well, I we So I interviewed as as I've been
back in the state, because there's no better state than
California to live, and I've run all over the world.
Is the greatest state in the United States. It was
the land of inspiration, innovation, education, and it's none of
those things, you know. So what I did was so
being in the hotel business my whole career, I did
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a poll of the customers in California, because that's what
we do in the hotel business. What is wrong with California?
And I wanted to listen to everybody, and they came
up with California it's not open for business, it's not affordable,
it's not livable, it's not workable. So then I started studying,
doing my due diligence, and I wanted to meet all
of the leaders or those who wanted to become leaders
(24:43):
in the state. And I said, this is the best.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
We got pretty thin. Huh uh, very thin.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
So I started to get more interested in all my
friends said, why are you doing this? You ought to
your mind, I'm a little cuckoo, but good cuckoo, good
good trouble you need to be And and there's so
much opportunity here because California's got so many great exports.
We don't talk about them. Sure, and none of our leadership, okay,
has shown us results. They don't respect us, they're not
(25:15):
responsible to us, they haven't shown us results. We're all
customers of California. That's how I see it. So I've
got thirty nine million customers, was forty a couple of
years ago. Wouldn't it be great to grow again? That's right?
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Okay, we got to take a break. Can you stay
with us?
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Of course? All right.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Steve Klubeck is gonna be the next governor of the
state of California. We came back, we'll talk about what
his plans are. We've got homelessness, we've got the budget,
we've got the fires. There's a lot of things going
on in California. How Steve's gonna go up to Sacramento
and solve all these problems? We'll come back and tell.
Speaker 9 (25:46):
You you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Steve Klubek is with us.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
He's gonna be the next governor in the state of California,
if we have anything to do with about it. Always
said that California has the most creative people in the
world in Hollywood, the smartest people up in Silicon Valley,
the most beautiful coastline in the world, the most fruitful
and the best you know farmland in the in the
Central Valley.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Yet we're broke. You forgot one thing. Well, I guess
you said it travel and tourism. Yeah, right, So these
are all exports. No one has talked about our great
exports and crowded about them. And if we and if
we really embraced these exports, it's like an eight to
one pump for our our GDP. We haven't even even
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talked about all the great things California can can really
prosper in. Oh yeah, I guess right. We don't have
anyone that's ever signed the front of a check running
the state.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Right, that's true.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
And then all the all the mistakes that they've made,
you know, with you know with Governor Newsome with the
don't go to restaurants, you know, keep the kids out
of the school, all that stuff, and then showing up
at you know, at a restaurant without the mask on.
Those little things irritate the hell out of people. Well, look,
no one, I didn't remember I told you about doing
due diligence on the state. I've surety of the state.
(27:12):
I've studied the balance sheet, income statement, and there's so
many beautiful things that can be done in California. We
forgot about the customer of California. We are all customers
of California, and leadership of the state hasn't realized that
we are customers. We need either equal or greater value
to this tax dollars that we pay for and are
not that difficult. It's not that difficult. I know you're
(27:35):
close with Harry Reid. I felt bad for him in
the last years of his life where he he was
working out and he got his eye screwed up.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Yeah, it was horrible. Well, he was he was exercising,
was stretching.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Right, and he blew his eye out.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
I felt really terrible for that guy.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
One of the smartest politicians easily silent assassin. Well loved
like but really knew, really knew how to take care
of people. He came, but he was a fighter and
he made me a fighter too.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
You know, I love the fact that you spent some
time in Vegas because I think that's where people develop
their connection with people, because you are in the people business.
In Las Vegas, everybody that comes in on a plane,
you've got to make them happy from the time they
land until the time they leave.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Well, I learned that. But you know, I started as
a busboy, waiter, dishwasher up in Mendocino County and Will
It's my dad had a land tracked up there. But
these politicians are all scripted. I'm not scripted. Great, I'm
going to do my homework and I'm going to tell
you the truth. I'm going to deliver it to you
equal a greater value, but I'm going to listen to you.
So it's I'm into service. You tell me what you'd
(28:43):
like to eat for dinner. I'll go cook it for you.
That's great, and I will serve it to you and
I'll sit at the table with you and eat the
same meal with you. And then i'll clean your plate
and make sure that we you had a great meal,
so you come back again.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Now, some of the bigger issues that we're worried about
in this state. Obviously you know the money the budget,
but taxes are overwhelming that we just you know, had
a tax increase yesterday. But the homeless problem is something
everybody talks about.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
What is this? Why are we continually raising taxes?
Speaker 5 (29:17):
That's right?
Speaker 6 (29:18):
No, I talked about why are we giving money to children?
Speaker 3 (29:21):
That's right? No, But when is enough enough? Right? Why
do we give money to children if they do not
know how to account for the money, execute on the money,
and enforce are lost.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Because there's enough morons in this state that will can
continue to vote for tax increases and they and they
see the money is not working for them, and they
still vote for them.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
It's baffling. Look, I'm a blue dog Democrat. I don't
know if most people even know what that means anymore.
I'm income statement, balance sheet. We got to worry about
the money, delivering results to your customer with warmth and compassion.
We don't take a chainsaw, that's right, but we we
got to operate efficiently. We have to have results.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Do you think that private industry can help with the
homeless problem better than government.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
I'm a big proponent of public private partnerships. I've tried
to talk to various leaders. I've been very successful at
every one of my endeavors politically with public private partnerships.
The La Dream Center is a great Yes, I've taken
care of forty two homeless families for the last five years.
There good for you, And I've tried to show city
and county leaders this great establishment. Why don't we use
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those same beautiful standard operating procedures up and down the state?
Speaker 6 (30:35):
That's right, yes, exactly.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Why don't we do the same thing with Inner City Games,
which is now after school all starts for after school programs.
Why can't we do that with that program? Right, there
are beautiful programs like the Brand Shapiro Foundation for Drug
and Alcohol Awareness. Why can't we do that with that program?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
You know, when you and I were growing up in
the valley, we're about the same age. I never once
heard anybody talk about moving out of the state of California.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Never.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Growing up, there was always people that wanted to come
visit us. So always people wanted to move here. When
if you said you're from California and you travel around
the United States, people had a million questions for you. Now,
every single parent of my daughters, all of it, my
daughters and friends, all of their parents all talk about
moving out of the state of California, every one of them.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
You know what happens. I'll say this time because I've
talked to a lot of my friends that have left
right to Florida, Tennessee, Texas, Nevada. There's a reason there's
no taxes there. Try to live there, different parts of
the area.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
It is beautiful here every day. That's right.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
There's a reason California is the greatest state. We got
to make it back at five star state. But I
will say a lot of people do come back when
they do move out. They're gone two years and they well,
there's a price we pay. But you got to get
equal or greater value. That's right, and we've got to
hold people accountable. When are we going to wake up here?
That's right.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
I'd love to have you back on a regular basis
if you if you don't mind coming in to sit
and chat with you, and we'll talk about old Valley
because I know we grew up in the in the
valley in the same era. I went to Birmingham and
you went to Harvard. Where'd you go to Junior High?
I went to Harvard too, Okay, man, I went to
and then Birmingham. I would have gone to Portola and Birmingham,
(32:19):
but okay, all right, yeah, because you I barely got
through Harvard school seventh through. I'm surprised we never ran
into each other because we grew up. I played West Valley.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
I played in SEO. Well, I you know what my
position was, no left out.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
I'll tell you a quick story. I was playing Little
league at West Valley. I pitched a perfect game, no runs,
no hits. Nowhere is nothing six innings. Back then, I
was ten years old.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
Came home.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
My dad came home a couple hours later. I said, Dad,
I think I got something here. I pitched a no hitter,
perfect game. He goes, oh, tee, that's so great. I said,
I think I can become a pitcher. He sat me
down and he goes, let me tell you something.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
You're not that.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
Great, but you waved me. He did.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
He saved you.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
But you know what, let me tell you something.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
We're kindred spirits because parents, as parents today, we have
to be involved, that's right, and you know sometimes things
called tough love, right, and we have to hold our
children accountable too, with respects and responsibility, and as we
need to do with our leaders. I can't wait to
come back. We talk so much more. We got to
come back.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
But let's make it, you know, a weekly or monthly whatever,
but let's have you, you know, because people want to
know how you're going to fix the state of California.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
And I think you're onto subject. Well, I've got it
to leave you.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
The one thing my first act with regard to the
entertainment industry, right, the politicians, the folks that have never
signed the front of a check, they're goofing around three
hundred and thirty million dollars tax credit, maybe seven hundred
million my first day in office. Two billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Oh that's great, all right, that alone should put you
over the top. Two billion dollars. All right, Thank you
very much for coming in. Steve flew Back the next
governor of the state of California. We'll be talking with
him a lot over the next couple of months. The
election is not for quite some time, though, is that correct?
Speaker 3 (34:02):
June second, June second, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Okay, so we got some time, we got some You
gotta come back, belly O. Will you gotta make this
a regular thing. Bellio is walking to Disney World. I
don't know if you know this, but she's leaving Burbank and
walking in Disney World for its done.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
Our producer, Sharon Bellio, she is not. She's starting Monday.
All right, We're lying, okay. I AM six forty.
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We've got our you know we have men is who
is with the Woody Show. On Alt ninety eight point seven,
he walked from Burbank to disney Land. Belly O, we
we're gonna try to talk her into this Bellio. We're
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gonna one up Woody and we'd like you to walk
from Burbank to Disney World.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Burbank to Disney World.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Yes, really, it's it's two thousand, six hundred and twelve miles.
It'll take you nine hundred and forty six hours to walk.
But for st gup bellio, Yeah, five months, two weeks.
So if let's say you left, you're gonna have to
get your your things together. So let's say you waited
until Monday to leave.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Monday, Hey lea Monday, Yes, so.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
You left Monday is the seventh, all right, So that's
three weeks.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
So you'll be.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
There, spend my birthday on the road.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yes, yeah, May, June, July, August, September. You'll be there
right right around the end of September early October.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Beautiful time I can't argue that it is a lovely
time to walk to Disney World.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It's gonna be a rough summer walking across the country
in June, July, and August.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
They'll give you that.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
I think Angel should do No, Bellio, come on, you're
always talking about how great you feel your you know,
you got your hair is done today today.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
No Angel with your hair today.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Angel would be a better choice.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
I don't think so. I think Angel would complain.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
So what she can that great radio when you called
in or live streams.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
I think it'd be too much. It would be a
lot of complaining.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I bet Bellio you would do it, and you would
just be happy to do it. You know, you would
get you know, people would see you along the way.
Oh she's walking to Disney World. Is that the girl?
That is that the lady who's one upping menace?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, yeah, that's her. She looks sunburned. Well, she's Irish
and Italian. I think she's just been drinking on the road.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah probably.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
So you're walking to Disney World. But you got to
get your things together.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
You know when you say things, what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You know, like you got to make sure John knows
where to pay the rent and uh or pay the
mortgage and the insurance and takes care of the dogs.
You're gonna go on to get the house in order,
get your house in order?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And what what is the big payoff? Once I reach
Disney World?
Speaker 6 (02:34):
You don't have to walk back, We'll fly you back.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Oh ge thing, No, you can.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
You can spend the week at Disney the week end.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, not a week, but a weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
A weekend. Yeah, and maybe Disney will get in on it.
You know, they'll give you one day free. We'll pay
for one day.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
They'll give you a day, yes, No, not going to
walk five months for one day.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Okay, dude, We'll put you up for a couple.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Of days, five mons.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
We'll put you up every night in a hotel somewhere
unless you're you know, in the desert.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Then you gotta then what's the plan for that?
Speaker 6 (03:05):
You got to just crash?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
And where's the security along the way?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
We don't have a lot of that. You better get together, No, Matt,
will you do security? Is Matt with us?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Yeah, I'm an intimidating force.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, you'll do secure. You'll drive alongside of her, yes,
I'll keep her safe.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
You could work. You can walk six hours a day, right, bellyon?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah I can.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Okay, all right, so you got five months and two
weeks to get there. I think it'd be great to
follow you across country. You know, some days you're not
gonna feel like walking. Maybe you'll stay in you know,
Parker Arizona.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Are you allowed to do that because Menace didn't stop?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yeah, I think you could stop. Well, you know, once
you get to Arizona in July, I think you could.
You know, just walk at night is my my tip
for you.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, I mean degree weather.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yeah, you're gonna want to walk at night through the
desert Texas. You're gonna want to walk through the desert
at night. That's my tip. Don't laugh at it. You'll
be doing it. You'll be like, oh man, that guy
was right.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Great tips.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
That kid was right.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
That kid kid, that's right. You got a.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Kid on KF I was right, man, walk through the
desert at night?
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Was there a song?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Walking through the desert at night and through the desert
on a horse is nohing?
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Yeah, walking through the desert at night.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I don't know, with no name whatever, but Pellio, you're
gonna do great, You'll be great.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Looking forward to it, Tim, and we'll say I start Monday. Yeah,
we'll send you pictures of the dogs every once in
a while. She thinks I'll remember you. We'll get your
new shoes. I don't want you to do it in
those boots.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
You have on today.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
There's just no way I could.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, I know you get blisters and you know, bunions
and issues. You'll be known as the Bunyan Queen.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Bunyan Queen makes her way across the country.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I can see the T shirts.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Now here comes the Bunyan Queen. Hey, Texas, you got
the Bunyan Queen.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I'm getting kind of excited for you.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Want to know what states you're gonna go through?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Please?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Okay, you're gonna leave California. You'll go through Arizona. That'll
be your first big state.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Good luck at night right in the desert.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
Yeah, yeah, in the desert at night.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
And then after Arizona you'll hit New Mexico. You'll go
through Texas because I'm gonna send you more of a
northerly route to keep the heat off you.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Oh thanks.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
You can do a little bit of Oklahoma and Arkansas.
Then you'll start popping down south. You'll know your home
free once you hit Arkansas, because then you'll go through Mississippi,
a little bit of Alabama, Georgia just a little uh,
little little sniff of Georgia, little taste, and then you'll
be into Florida and you'll be there, you know, by October,
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you'll be like, I'm the time there and then we'll
fly you back.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
It'll be huge.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
This this is really starting to sound like a great plan.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, five months and we'll get Monday. We'll get a
trade out with Vagabond. They have those hotels. Yeah, I'm
familiar along the way. Yeah, and we'll put you in
a Howard Johnson's wherever you want to sleep. You know,
we'll we'll we'll.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Pay for that. Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
And Matt will be my Matt will be.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
The security guard.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
You get us some like coupons for like waffle House
on the way, so that's right, stop and get something
to eat, yeah, subway, you know, something to keep you
you know, to fuel your body as you walk across
the country.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
But we're only going to afford.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
One room, so you got to get pretty close to Matt.
You guys will be shacking up you and Mattie for
five months. Yeah, and sometimes it'll be uh sorry, Bunyan queen.
We don't have two queens. We just got one king.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
At least that's a king.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Yeah, and the two of you'll be out of your
minds out of your mind.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
We get along really well.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
So yeah, but after about three months in hotels, bunyons, blisters,
your head's on fire. Depression will set in like you've
never experienced in your life.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
This is sounding better and better.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Look, we'll follow.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
It across country. I think it's great. And then we
went up menace.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
As long as there's a payoff for you, that's right,
That's all it mattered.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
It's the show.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Remember during the meeting last night, what what can we
do for the show? And tim remember you said you're
going to think about it. Well, guess what I thought
about it. You're leaving Monday.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
We're going to think of something for Angel next Yeah,
Angel can I don't know, Well.
Speaker 8 (07:46):
I've already thought of a little side household that you
can do while you're walking out to Florida.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I don't need no what is Timmy said?
Speaker 8 (07:54):
You know you're the Bunyan Queen. Get a Only fans
Bunyon queen age going. Yeah, and every night you can
you can show those bunyons.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Yes, why don't I walk in some naughty sandals?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Just a great marketing. How does that sound?
Speaker 6 (08:11):
And then you can you can sell the used band
aids from your.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Bunyons' you know, I could be the naughty Bunyon queen.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Ye.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Look, there's there's not a small I would say collection
of guys would like to, you know, buy those band
aids and smell disgusting.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
That is so disgusting.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Sniff.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
This is where I'm out from a little sniff.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I love the fact that we had to get to
people smelling your used band aids until you were out.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, because I'm a team player.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Evidently you were. I was, Yeah, not anymore. That's a
wrap on you, all right, Crozier, What are you doing Monday.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Walking to Hawaii?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
We should do that. We got to want to menace
here somehow. And somebody's walking.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
To Disney World.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I don't know who it is, but somebody on the
show is walking to Disney World.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Period.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
We're live on KFI. We come back.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
We've got we've got some great guests coming up. We've
got of course, the Wiggle Waggle with Amy King. She'll
be great. And then we've got talking about Disney not
renewing a piece of property here in southern California. And
then Steve Klubek's coming in. That guy's great, might be
the next governor of the state of California. And then
Patrick O'Neil with the Kings at six oh five, almost
(09:32):
almost too much Show, Almost too much Show, and Bellio
getting going to Big five to get her equipment ready
to walk as across this great country of ours from
Burbank to Disney World.
Speaker 9 (09:46):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
We have Amy King, who is with us? The wake
up call with Amy King? How are you doing?
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Good?
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Good hang with You're usually asleep at this hour.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Yeah, this is exact opposite of my normal schedule.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
But the Wiggle Waggle Walk you took.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Over for Jennifer Jones.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Jennifer Jones Lee.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
Yes, she handed the leash to me, all right.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
And that's this Sunday at the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
Yep, We're going to meet at the Brookside Park. It's
the Wiggle Waggle Walk and Run for Pasadena Humane quite.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I know the guy that runs that Brookside Scott is
his name. Really, Yeah, I shall be there. I saw
it the racetrack with his wife and his kid last weekend.
He might be there. He might be there. But that's
a big event. There's thousands of people to show it
for this.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
There is, there is, and we're all doing it to
raise money for Pasadena Humane, which you know, we've got
a great relationship with them. We've been working with them.
They save thousands of animals a year and they take
them in and they make sure that they're good to go,
and they help them get adopted and find their forever homes.
And that's what they do in a normal year, and
(10:55):
this year is extraordinary because of the eating fires. All right,
they've taken on the numbers that I get fluctuat last
count was like twelve hundred that they took in in
the days and weeks right after the fire. I mean,
like they were finding animals.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Are people still looking for their own animals?
Speaker 7 (11:11):
I think that they've they've reunited a lot of the
animals who got lost and that kind of thing. I
have cats and I wasn't in the fire area, so
I'm good I'm good, but you know they had They
took in cats and their little paws were burned, their
ears were burned, their faces were singed, and dogs and
other animals, and they're still housing some of them because
(11:32):
people who lost their homes don't have a place for
their animals. So they're also operating it as a boarding
shelter as and still doing all of the great work
that they do. And I think we're even coming up
on kitten seasons, So if you're thinking about a kitten now.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
So it don't kills society, right, I think it is.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
They do their best to get all of them adopted.
I'm not sure if it's a no kill, but it's
it's a great organization. And so we're all going to
get together and walk around the Rose Bowl. And so
if you haven't been out, like like you said, thousands
of people come out. We do a walk or a run,
whichever you want to do. I will not be running,
and we'd be walking. I will be walking, yes, and
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along with the walk, and it's going to be absolutely gorgeous.
I think it's going to be eighty on Sunday, so
it'll be perfect this on Sunday morning, along with the walk.
They've got vendors and they've got food trucks, and they've
got some training demonstrations, and of course the ever popular
costume contest. It's amazing how many people dress their dogs up,
so they do a big costume contest. And then KFI
(12:30):
has a booth which we're going to have three hundred
exclusive KFI swag bags, so make sure, yeah, make sure
you stop by the KFI one of them. Well, actually
this one that you're looking at, this one's big deal.
These are from Doctor Marty Pets who are supporting the
team for the Wiggle Waggle Walk, and they've donated all
kinds of dog treats and we're doing a raffle for those.
(12:52):
So when you stop by the booth, it's a five
dollars donation and we're going to raffle them off. Got
a bunch of baskets.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
And what's the goal to raise ten.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Thousand for the wake Up Call Wigglers?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Oh that's easy, apps.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Well we're not there yet.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
How close are we?
Speaker 7 (13:06):
We're closer, closer, We're getting closer. I think people are
kind of waiting until the end. And you know what,
I realized and you realized everybody's like going here, can
I have some money? Can I have some money?
Speaker 6 (13:15):
Can I have sybody's broke?
Speaker 7 (13:17):
Yeah, and we're all broke. And so you know, if
you can, if you can donate five bucks or fifty
bucks or five hundred bucks, it doesn't matter. All the
donations add up and it all goes to the pets.
And you know, if you if you are an animal person,
and I know you said you have a dog that's
not that great, which I don't believe, but you know,
I mean, you know you love them. They're like family.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
I love my dog.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
It's just my my We got our dogs. It's a
long story, but we got them at Lows. I went
to Low's one day, not a.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Pet smart, not a pet COVID, it's clothes, okay.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
And there's a woman shopping there and she had two
puppies and she said, you know, anybody that wants puppies,
I have too many puppies. And I said, oh, I said,
my wife and daughter would love these puppies. And she
just amy the puppies and we that's how we got
Ernie and Abby. We've had them for Ernie passed away,
but we've had Abby for thirteen years and she's a
(14:09):
great dog. But she was I don't think she was
weaned off her mom. I think she was too young.
So she thinks my wife is her mom, and so
she's very protective and loves my wife and runs away
from me and my daughter.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Is a good dog.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Is a good dog.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
It's a great dog for my wife.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
Absolutely, yeah, absolutely, And there's gonna be a ton of
great dogs. They even have adoptable dogs out there, So
if you don't have a dog and you just want
to come walk, you can come join us. You might
find a dog. Last year, I walked a dog. It
was this beautiful Doberman and she got adopted that day.
That's during the walk, So that was that was great.
Super easy to participate. If you want to join the
(14:48):
wake Up Call wigglers, go to KFIM six forty dot
com slash wiggle and that's how you can make a
donation too. If you can't join us, we love a donation,
but we'd love to have you come walk. It's going
to be, like I said, it's going to be a
beautiful day and it's for such a good cause.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah, Belly was going to try to get out there.
I know angel is going to try to get out there.
And we asked Krozier earlier. We said, hey, CROs you're
going to get out there.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
I heard him I was driving in.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
What was this response, No, that's right, one of the
last on is guys in the radio.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Yeah, no, we no, I think was his answer.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Crosier, you have cats?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Right? I do?
Speaker 7 (15:23):
Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
What are their names?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Benny and Juno.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Oh that's cool.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I like that.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
One of my cats actually came to me from Jennifer
Jones Lee before she left town. She said, right, yeah,
she said I cannot take this cat with me, and
I was like, oh, well.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
She must have been depressed out of her mind.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
But she has her dogs, so she's fine. And Shelby
needed a lot of attention which she didn't probably get
because she had four dogs competing with her. So now
she has she has just a you have one cat, Well,
now I have two. What's the other name? Alexander the Great?
Who I got from Pasadena Humania? Coincidentally for you ten
years ago.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
You walk the walk, you don't just talk to talk?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Absolutely all right, So get out there this Sunday from
eight am to eleven am where around the stadium.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Will you be located.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
We're out in front in Brookside Park. You're not gonna
be able to miss it because there's a bunch of vendors.
There's the start line, and there's the dog demonstrations and
all kinds. There's a stage setup because we're going to
do awards and that kind of stuff. And again we
have the KFI tent setup and you won't be able
to miss it. It's going to be there. And don't
forget from eight to eleven the Doctor Marty Pet's Raffle
(16:32):
that we're doing the gift baskets with Doctor Marty's Nature's
Blend of course, a premium freeze drive dog food made
with real cuts of meat, super food, veggies and fruit
to support your dog's health and happiness.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Thank you, all right, we will be it's gonna be
great event. Ten thousand dollars as the goal.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
Yes, So if you can donate, I would so appreciate it.
KFI AM six forty dot com, slash wiggle whatever you
can do, excellent, You'll take it.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Appreciate you doing that, Amy King every morning five to
six a m.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Right here on KFI.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
When we come back, the next Governor of the state
of California is going to be with us. His name
is Steve Klubeck, and he's going to be with us.
Grew up in the valley like I did, so we'll
talk a little bit about the old valley establishments. We're
live on KFI. Thank you, Amy, ding Dong with you
and ding Dong with the Dodgers.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
This state needs a lot of help. This state is
poorly run. The city's poorly run, the county's poorly run,
and we often sit and complain that there's nothing we
can do about it. Now there's something we can do,
because the next governor is sitting right in front of me.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Steve Klubec. Nice to see you, man.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
It's Stephen J. Klubec.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Stephen J.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I'm joking.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Come on, you got a bums.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Your dad was a funny guy.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I appreciate that when I grew up with your death.
When Steve came in the first thing you gave me
was the middle finger because I was listening to your
show yesterday.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
Did you know you could have the emoji of them
little finger?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I actually I never knew that. No. Actually, my kids
made a sticker of me doing it, So a sticker
of me doing that.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Yeah, how old are your kids?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I've got three children, twenty seven and twenty one and
two adopted.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
And all born and raised out here.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
They were went to school out here, Okay, and Valley Heights, No, No,
down in Orange County.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Oh okay. You were smart. You moved out because you were.
You spent a lot of time in the valley like
I did. I grew up in the valley like you did.
I grew up up in Taco Old Run. You know,
Mike Alibu, Grand Prix, Mike's Pizza, Pizza Pizza, Luky's Batting Cage.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Luks about straw Hat Pizza.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah, my dad was the spokesperson versus straw Haad, the
one on Ventur and Van Eyes.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Yeah, that's where we ate all the time. And then
you were smart. You got out of the valley.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I didn't. I stayed well. I I moved down to uh,
came back after college wing Tesse my first year, went
to college back east, came back, worked at Cedar Sun.
I thought it was gonna be surgeon. Oh really Okay,
and ended up flipping into work at Cedar Sign of
four years and flipping into business real estate and then hotels.
What year did you move out of the valley. I
(19:09):
moved out of the valley in eighty eighty four. Okay,
so you're here for a while. You went to high
school here? Yeah, where'd you go? I went to Harvard
School for Boys. Oh, I know.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Exactly what it is, all right. We used to sneak
into at Harvard. They can't do it now because they'll
shoot you. But we used to be able to sneak
into that campus and use the pool at night when
we were drunk. We'd top over the fence and swim
in that pool. It's right on cold water. That's right,
that's right, that's what we did. That was our Saturday
night in the valley. But now you do that, they'll
shoot you, you know, so you can't do that anymore.
(19:38):
But I grew up in the valley. You grew up
in the valley. You were smart though. You saw everybody
moving to Orange County where you were. It was safer,
there was more, you know, family oriented, it was cleaner.
It was the right move, and especially in the early eighties.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Well, you know, I actually just candidly. I moved to
Las Vegas to build my first hotel at twenty nine,
Is that right?
Speaker 6 (20:01):
What hotel?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Polo Towers on the street. Yeah?
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Sure, So they're not there anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
No, it's still there, is Polo Towers still Jockey Club
you think, oh right, yeah, but the Jockey Club's actually
encapsulated by the Cosmopolitan today.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Okay, it still exists, but it's surrounded. It's now the Cosmopolitan.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
But I used to love I mean, maybe this is
maybe I'm not thinking the right one, but I used
to We used to stay at Caesar's Palace or at
the Sands, and you could see the Polo Towers from there.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
You could.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah, I mean that's an old What year did you
build a polar town? That was nineteen ninety, Wow, it
goes way back.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
I remember that.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
One of the things about the Polo Towers is they
did not have a casino.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
We had slots only, and then I removed it. I
was one of the first people to get a slot
license at twenty one.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
That's amazing that I remember that, Like like little things
about Vegas like that that I knew they didn't at
that time.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
It was all sweets it's still is all sweets, and
today Hilton owns that.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Okay, he'll end up buying my company.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
All right, and you've wore you also work closely with
the guys who currently own the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Well, they were my partners at Diamond Resorts. Okay, they
were my partners at Diamondsaurs. We had a great relationship
and it was a good transaction for all of us.
We built a fabulous hotel company around the world.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
And do you know all those guys personally, you got
a much dot you go to many Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Ins, Mark Walters, Todd Bowley, Oh right, yeah, yeah, Lon Rosen.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Man, those guys really knocked it out with the Dodgers.
Remember when everyone thought they overpaid for.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Him everyone, but I never bet against Mark Walters and
Todd Bowley. Yeah ever, yeah, okay, all.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Right, let's now we ure the state of California. I
know you're running for governor. I see the little pin uh,
the the California pin on your on your jack, which
means you're running for governor.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
This state is a mess.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
The state is not open for business. It's not affordable, livable,
nor workable. Not the way we grew up when we were.
That's right, that's right. I mean, you know when I
was a kid, I was I used to take the RTD.
Remember the RTD, of course, and I used to take
it from Balboa and Ventura down to Your and Oaks,
over to Westwood and to the beach.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
It was the beach bus.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
No, it's called the blue bus.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah, the blue bus, right, it was the be of
the blue bus, the beach bus. It was the RTD,
and we took it all the time. And now you
can't do that. We were twelve when we're on that
public bus. You can't put a twelve year old on
a public bus instead of the beach anymore.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Will Roger State Beach Santa Mark.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
It was great, yeah, exactly. And with the Orange Julius.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
When you're done for the day, you go to Third
Street and the open Market, there is Orange Julius.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
It was terrific.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
And there's are Woolworths there as well. I remember that.
But now you can't do that. You know, it's not safe.
There's a lot of problems with the state of California.
I think one of the bigger ones that nobody got ever,
nobody ever got fired or suspended or yelled at when
we lost thirty billion dollars in unemployment.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Do you remember the unemployments?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Oh you got thirty billion dollars. Look, I didn't. This
was not on my bucket list to run for governor.
Mind neither. I've been involved in the public policy for
a long time. I learned from President Clinton and Harry Reid.
But you know, I created the Tourism Department the United States.
I worked for the Oval Office, did a fabulous job
(23:03):
creating brand USA. I helped the great state of Nevada.
I renamed the airport in Las Vegas from McCarran, was
my adopted dad. Oh is that right? Yeah, they seven years,
they tried. I got that done in three months. Wow.
And the return on investment with regard to that, the
Travel in urs Are Department of the United States is
like eight to one. It's an export man. So I
(23:26):
come back back to, uh, my dream moving to Beverly Hills,
because that was always a dream to live over the hill.
You know.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
Sure A three went out two and three.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
It was two and three when we were growing up.
Then became then we became eight one eight. The valley
was two and three two. I mean it was the
old city was whoever you call right now? Who I
don't know who's gonna answer.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
But I made that mistake before I said that. I
remembered my old number as a child and I gave
it out over the air and somebody called and said, hey,
stop giving up my effing phone number.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Well, I we So I interviewed as as I've been
back in the state, because there's no better state than
California to live, and I've run all over the world.
Is the greatest state in the United States. It was
the land of inspiration, innovation, education, and it's none of
those things, you know. So what I did was so
being in the hotel business my whole career, I did
(24:21):
a poll of the customers in California, because that's what
we do in the hotel business. What is wrong with California?
And I wanted to listen to everybody, and they came
up with California it's not open for business, it's not affordable,
it's not livable, it's not workable. So then I started studying,
doing my due diligence, and I wanted to meet all
of the leaders or those who wanted to become leaders
(24:43):
in the state. And I said, this is the best.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
We got pretty thin. Huh uh, very thin.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
So I started to get more interested in all my
friends said, why are you doing this? You ought to
your mind, I'm a little cuckoo, but good cuckoo, good
good trouble you need to be And and there's so
much opportunity here because California's got so many great exports.
We don't talk about them. Sure, and none of our leadership, okay,
has shown us results. They don't respect us, they're not
(25:15):
responsible to us, they haven't shown us results. We're all
customers of California. That's how I see it. So I've
got thirty nine million customers, was forty a couple of
years ago. Wouldn't it be great to grow again? That's right?
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Okay, we got to take a break. Can you stay
with us?
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Of course? All right.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Steve Klubeck is gonna be the next governor of the
state of California. We came back, we'll talk about what
his plans are. We've got homelessness, we've got the budget,
we've got the fires. There's a lot of things going
on in California. How Steve's gonna go up to Sacramento
and solve all these problems? We'll come back and tell.
Speaker 9 (25:46):
You you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Steve Klubek is with us.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
He's gonna be the next governor in the state of California,
if we have anything to do with about it. Always
said that California has the most creative people in the
world in Hollywood, the smartest people up in Silicon Valley,
the most beautiful coastline in the world, the most fruitful
and the best you know farmland in the in the
Central Valley.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Yet we're broke. You forgot one thing. Well, I guess
you said it travel and tourism. Yeah, right, So these
are all exports. No one has talked about our great
exports and crowded about them. And if we and if
we really embraced these exports, it's like an eight to
one pump for our our GDP. We haven't even even
(26:39):
talked about all the great things California can can really
prosper in. Oh yeah, I guess right. We don't have
anyone that's ever signed the front of a check running
the state.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Right, that's true.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
And then all the all the mistakes that they've made,
you know, with you know with Governor Newsome with the
don't go to restaurants, you know, keep the kids out
of the school, all that stuff, and then showing up
at you know, at a restaurant without the mask on.
Those little things irritate the hell out of people. Well, look,
no one, I didn't remember I told you about doing
due diligence on the state. I've surety of the state.
(27:12):
I've studied the balance sheet, income statement, and there's so
many beautiful things that can be done in California. We
forgot about the customer of California. We are all customers
of California, and leadership of the state hasn't realized that
we are customers. We need either equal or greater value
to this tax dollars that we pay for and are
not that difficult. It's not that difficult. I know you're
(27:35):
close with Harry Reid. I felt bad for him in
the last years of his life where he he was
working out and he got his eye screwed up.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Yeah, it was horrible. Well, he was he was exercising,
was stretching.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Right, and he blew his eye out.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
I felt really terrible for that guy.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
One of the smartest politicians easily silent assassin. Well loved
like but really knew, really knew how to take care
of people. He came, but he was a fighter and
he made me a fighter too.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
You know, I love the fact that you spent some
time in Vegas because I think that's where people develop
their connection with people, because you are in the people business.
In Las Vegas, everybody that comes in on a plane,
you've got to make them happy from the time they
land until the time they leave.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Well, I learned that. But you know, I started as
a busboy, waiter, dishwasher up in Mendocino County and Will
It's my dad had a land tracked up there. But
these politicians are all scripted. I'm not scripted. Great, I'm
going to do my homework and I'm going to tell
you the truth. I'm going to deliver it to you
equal a greater value, but I'm going to listen to you.
So it's I'm into service. You tell me what you'd
(28:43):
like to eat for dinner. I'll go cook it for you.
That's great, and I will serve it to you and
I'll sit at the table with you and eat the
same meal with you. And then i'll clean your plate
and make sure that we you had a great meal,
so you come back again.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Now, some of the bigger issues that we're worried about
in this state. Obviously you know the money the budget,
but taxes are overwhelming that we just you know, had
a tax increase yesterday. But the homeless problem is something
everybody talks about.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
What is this? Why are we continually raising taxes?
Speaker 5 (29:17):
That's right?
Speaker 6 (29:18):
No, I talked about why are we giving money to children?
Speaker 3 (29:21):
That's right? No, But when is enough enough? Right? Why
do we give money to children if they do not
know how to account for the money, execute on the money,
and enforce are lost.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Because there's enough morons in this state that will can
continue to vote for tax increases and they and they
see the money is not working for them, and they
still vote for them.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
It's baffling. Look, I'm a blue dog Democrat. I don't
know if most people even know what that means anymore.
I'm income statement, balance sheet. We got to worry about
the money, delivering results to your customer with warmth and compassion.
We don't take a chainsaw, that's right, but we we
got to operate efficiently. We have to have results.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Do you think that private industry can help with the
homeless problem better than government.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
I'm a big proponent of public private partnerships. I've tried
to talk to various leaders. I've been very successful at
every one of my endeavors politically with public private partnerships.
The La Dream Center is a great Yes, I've taken
care of forty two homeless families for the last five years.
There good for you, And I've tried to show city
and county leaders this great establishment. Why don't we use
(30:31):
those same beautiful standard operating procedures up and down the state?
Speaker 6 (30:35):
That's right, yes, exactly.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Why don't we do the same thing with Inner City Games,
which is now after school all starts for after school programs.
Why can't we do that with that program? Right, there
are beautiful programs like the Brand Shapiro Foundation for Drug
and Alcohol Awareness. Why can't we do that with that program?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
You know, when you and I were growing up in
the valley, we're about the same age. I never once
heard anybody talk about moving out of the state of California.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Never.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Growing up, there was always people that wanted to come
visit us. So always people wanted to move here. When
if you said you're from California and you travel around
the United States, people had a million questions for you. Now,
every single parent of my daughters, all of it, my
daughters and friends, all of their parents all talk about
moving out of the state of California, every one of them.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
You know what happens. I'll say this time because I've
talked to a lot of my friends that have left
right to Florida, Tennessee, Texas, Nevada. There's a reason there's
no taxes there. Try to live there, different parts of
the area.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
It is beautiful here every day. That's right.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
There's a reason California is the greatest state. We got
to make it back at five star state. But I
will say a lot of people do come back when
they do move out. They're gone two years and they well,
there's a price we pay. But you got to get
equal or greater value. That's right, and we've got to
hold people accountable. When are we going to wake up here?
That's right.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
I'd love to have you back on a regular basis
if you if you don't mind coming in to sit
and chat with you, and we'll talk about old Valley
because I know we grew up in the in the
valley in the same era. I went to Birmingham and
you went to Harvard. Where'd you go to Junior High?
I went to Harvard too, Okay, man, I went to
and then Birmingham. I would have gone to Portola and Birmingham,
(32:19):
but okay, all right, yeah, because you I barely got
through Harvard school seventh through. I'm surprised we never ran
into each other because we grew up. I played West Valley.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
I played in SEO. Well, I you know what my
position was, no left out.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
I'll tell you a quick story. I was playing Little
league at West Valley. I pitched a perfect game, no runs,
no hits. Nowhere is nothing six innings. Back then, I
was ten years old.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
Came home.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
My dad came home a couple hours later. I said, Dad,
I think I got something here. I pitched a no hitter,
perfect game. He goes, oh, tee, that's so great. I said,
I think I can become a pitcher. He sat me
down and he goes, let me tell you something.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
You're not that.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
Great, but you waved me. He did.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
He saved you.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
But you know what, let me tell you something.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
We're kindred spirits because parents, as parents today, we have
to be involved, that's right, and you know sometimes things
called tough love, right, and we have to hold our
children accountable too, with respects and responsibility, and as we
need to do with our leaders. I can't wait to
come back. We talk so much more. We got to
come back.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
But let's make it, you know, a weekly or monthly whatever,
but let's have you, you know, because people want to
know how you're going to fix the state of California.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
And I think you're onto subject. Well, I've got it
to leave you.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
The one thing my first act with regard to the
entertainment industry, right, the politicians, the folks that have never
signed the front of a check, they're goofing around three
hundred and thirty million dollars tax credit, maybe seven hundred
million my first day in office. Two billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Oh that's great, all right, that alone should put you
over the top. Two billion dollars. All right, Thank you
very much for coming in. Steve flew Back the next
governor of the state of California. We'll be talking with
him a lot over the next couple of months. The
election is not for quite some time, though, is that correct?
Speaker 3 (34:02):
June second, June second, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Okay, so we got some time, we got some You
gotta come back, belly O. Will you gotta make this
a regular thing. Bellio is walking to Disney World. I
don't know if you know this, but she's leaving Burbank and
walking in Disney World for its done.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
Our producer, Sharon Bellio, she is not. She's starting Monday.
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