April 17, 2025 • 32 mins
300-year-old violin stolen from USC found in homeless encampment. Conway gives the speech again as he roasts the crew.// Dean Sharp, The House Whisperer, what was going on in America in 1694 // Dean Sharp - The Magic of Makeover // Conway is a guest on Petros & Money on KLAC AM LA Sports
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. There was
a violin with a lot of money that was stolen.
This USC student had asked permission to use it during
a performance. USC for some reason, said, yeah, it's only
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a three hundred year old violin. Let's give it to
the student. Student left it on a bench. Homeless guy
took it, and we are now off to the races.
Three hundred year old, rare violin. Let's find out where
this sucker is.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
A rare three hundred and thirty year old violin was
returned to its rifle owner.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
This three hundred and thirty years is older than this country.
Three hundred and thirty years is a hell of a
long time. I mean, three hundred thirty years is what
what year would that be? Seventeen? Sixteen nineties? Is it
the sixteen nineties? The sixteen ninety five got a mighty.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
This is a Giovanni Grancino violin made in sixteen ninety four. Okay,
we got one thousand dollars. USC student borrowed the man.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
We did that quick math, and we got it within
a year. I'm surprised you didn't get that right off
the bed. That's great. Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
This is a Giovanni Grancino violin made in sixteen ninety four.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It's worth six.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Usc student borrowed the instrument
for a performance, but police say a homeless man stole
that violin when that student left it unattended. The violin
made its way through a couple of homeless encampments before
LAPD detectives tracked it down.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Obviously, very very happy, relieved, to say the least. Obviously,
something of this value that's rare. I mean, it's a
museum piece, it's an antique, and you know, once someone
knew it's value, we were never going to see it again.
So they were extremely happy, and we were happy that
we were able to.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Get it back. It's a unique case.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
The violin was recovered in good condition, and the man
accused of taking it is charged with felony grand theft.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
There you go. Oh come on, all right, A quick, quick,
quick whip around? Can we do it? Steph foosh? Can
we put it together? I know I'm sort of calling
an audible here and we're got you. Okay, all right, well,
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Let's start with you. Who is president of the United States
when that violin was was made? Turn name out there?
(02:47):
Abraham Lincoln Lincoln? All right? Angel Martinez, President the United
States when that when that violin was was made?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Hmmm, when was the I think a right, all right, Bellio.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
You know what, Angel, I'm coming back to give you
the speech. I gotta give you the speech. All right, Bellio,
President when that violin was made? Washington, Washington. I think
Crocher is going to get this. Who's president when that
violin was made? Might as well have been me? Okay,
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it turns out Croscher's right, even though he's not moting everybody.
Who does that mean there wasn't one?
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Yeah, well there wasn't a president in sixteen ninety five.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Well, first of all, we will forgot the year two.
But then I was afraid to ask because you just
like got on her about it.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Man, he threw that out everybody. That's great, all right,
I got to give the speech to Bellio and Angel.
This won't take long. This is a short one, okay.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Replete with a sigh.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Oh yeah, we do a show four to seven. Oh
it was before the President's.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
By all means, just give Angel and I the speech.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Well, okay, belly open, I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you
a similar story about what you just said in a
different fashion. Okay, okay, okay. When I was younger and
we lived on Passadero Drive in Tarzana, my brother and
I were throwing rocks in the backyard and my brother
and I both broke a window in the back yard
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of the house. We're throwing rocks around. We both threw
it and it went through a window. My dad pulled
me aside and got really down on me for doing
that and told me I had to pay for it.
And he never yelled to me. He didn't touch me,
he didn't swear at me. He just told me how
incredibly disappointed he was in me. And I remember where
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I was standing when he told me that, And about
a half hour later, I said, I said, hey, you
didn't my brother Pat, who also did the same thing.
You didn't talk to him at all, and he said,
I expect more out of you. Do you understand what
I'm saying? Yeah, okay, all right, so let's get back
(05:31):
to this. We have a three hour show that we do, okay,
three hours every day, and I'm trying to get people
to listen to the Show's the That's the whole object here.
Every day you come in, you try to get as
many people as you can to listen to the Show's
that is the whole ball of wax in radio, it's everything.
(05:53):
If you have a million more listeners in the next guy,
you are the king. You write the rules, you write
your own salary. You are the king. So if I
can't get the two of you to listen, how am
I going to get a guy in Colton, a guy
in Riverside, a guy in sand Bornandina, a guy in
(06:15):
Orange County, a woman in Santa Clarita, another woman in Ventura.
How can I possibly get them to listen? Anyway?
Speaker 7 (06:24):
What about Valley is another great one.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Okay, take what you want from that, and you know
and and and text me your apologies if you if
you like. And it's not going to be. You know,
I'm not going to embarrass you any longer anymore. I'm
just going to ask you in the future if you
can keep that in mind. Yeah, I will. I absolutely
(06:52):
keep that in mind. Thank you. Oh you got and
I love that you're thanking me for that. But that
means you're you're growing belly.
Speaker 8 (07:01):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
You have a lot of growing to do.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Still, you're getting there. You both are getting there, okay,
but I expect more other to you. Okay, all right,
let's find out what happened to his violin.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
You know, once someone knew that's volume, you were never
going to see it again. So they were extremely happy,
and we were happy that we were able to get
it back.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
It's a unique case.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
The violin was recovered in good condition, and the man
accused of taking it is charged with felony grand theft.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Okay, it's a homeless guy. He had this violin where
I don't know, five six, seven hundred thousand dollars depending
on who you ask, and he had it and he
could have sold it, but he didn't know what he had,
so he just kept it in his pile of crap.
And they found it and they got it back.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
That seems kind of like felony, Like, well, it's over
nine and twenty dollars.
Speaker 8 (07:52):
He didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
He just took something right there. It's not like he
like intended to do that. I mean, he just took something.
It could have been a candy.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Are Where did he steal it from? Usc? Like like
someone just left it around, hanging around like off the
near the campus.
Speaker 8 (08:07):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Hell yeah, no, where are you going with that? I mean,
do you want to know the bench? Sure?
Speaker 6 (08:20):
I want more details of this story. That is what
I want, news anchor.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
He's got to have more details on this.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I said, that just doesn't really seem very proportional.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
I mean, it's not like he was going to going
to steal something that was worth more than half a
million dollars, right.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And what are you going to do with this guy?
You know, he's got nothing and he's got no sense
of what expensive musical equipment is all about. You can't
put him to work. You can't put him to work
like at a guitar center store. He'll give away the store.
Did he steal it if it was just left around? Yeah,
I don't know, I don't know. You know, it was
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on a bench. She left it. Student left it, she
should be also reprimanded as well. And then he took
it and they they found it, though they didn't find
it immediately when they found the homeless guy. Yeah, it
hopped around. Yeah, it was overnight that they found it.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Oh, listen to this.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
So police allege that the suspect, who believe it is homeless,
followed a USC graduate student into the music department.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
The student swiped her card.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
For door access, which people police believe allowed him to
slip in behind the student.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
It's even more her fault. It's not her fault, although
I do that, like if somebody's coming up there, but
if somebody's coming up the elevator. We have a secure elevator.
You have to use the card key. And they get
off with me. I'm like, I don't say anything. I'm like, yeah,
I'm sure you work here. I don't recognize it.
Speaker 8 (09:42):
Jellous.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
They try to tell us what we need to. I know,
people are right depending on you know, on who the
guy or the gal is, you know, if they're how
they're dressed or anything. I ninety nine hundred percent of
the time going yep, it must work here.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Oh, I act like, oh, I forgot something and I
get off the elevator.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Oh you do, and I've turned people down. Well, you've
turned people away. Yeah, I got so scared. I don't
want to get in trouble that it's my fault that
I let someone in. Yeah, because somebody if they steals
any if they steal anything, it's your it's on you.
So they've they've come up to me and be like, uh,
I'm on the fifth I'm on the fifth floor. I'm like,
if you don't have your idea, you can't come up
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with me. Okay, Belly, I'm gonna take something back from
away from you and Angel here. I think that this guy,
I I think that it's exactly the opposite of what
I said to you before about the bricks, about these
the stones through the window. I expect more out of
you guys. I think steph Us is the king, really, Yeah,
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because he's turned people away. I never have the balls
to do it. Krozier, I don't know if Krozer doesn't.
Krozer probably just yells at the person because when when
Stephu started here, I said to him, I said, Stephush,
I said, you're gonna learn a lot from Krozer, but
he gets hot. Well, I just don't want to get
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in trouble. Oh yeah, No, you're gonna learn. There's nobody
who trains anybody better than the newsroom, than Krozer. But
he's gonna go off at some point on you. It's
gonna get, it's gonna come, it's gonna get. He screams
down the you know off. Oh yeah, screams. Look he
told he yelled at Steph Fush and Steph Fush's first week.
You remember this, Stephushie. But my hot it's my station
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and I'm like, whoa that he's rolling that new kid
that's classic.
Speaker 9 (11:48):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from k
f I A M six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
That's great. Right, we're all here. Uh, it's Thursday before
Coachella and there's traffic, lots of traffic. Check in with
the Queen of Traffic, Angel Martinez. What's going on with Cochella?
Any had good news?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Well good if you like traffic.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Oh yeah, I've heard that before.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
But if you love the traffic, I've got some good
news for you. So yeah, heading eastbound into the Low
Desert out to Coachella Valley, it's looking pretty busy on
the sixty out of out of Harupa Valley from about
pie right all the way towards World Logistics Center Parkway,
which is on the sixty right before you drop into
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the Badlands, just before that merged with the ten.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
Okay, and so, and.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
The reason why I asked I saw it on TV
and I thought, okay, there's a lot. So there's in
one word, how is traffic going to court Coachella?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Hmm, it's found to sum it up in one word heavy.
Heavy's good? Yeah, all right, yeah, but here's here's the deal.
I don't want to mislead anybody.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
It's not slow beyond Beaumont out towards Coachella Valley. It's
just slow getting to the ten there in Beaumont.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Excellent, all right, Dean Sharp Basement, thank you very much.
Dean Sharp. Everybody the house whisper you going to Coachella
this weekend? Bub No, no, no, that's not that's a
young man's game.
Speaker 10 (13:20):
I think I'm feeling a bit awkward, Tim, I gotta
tell you, Okay, that last segment, oh oh oh, I
don't know, yeah, I don't know it was you know,
I feel like I was invited to a dinner party,
and then the father of the house disciplined his children
in front of all the deaths.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I know, I didn't like to do that, but one thing,
it was really really But I got a question for you.
Speaker 10 (13:42):
What did happen in the in America in sixteen ninety four.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Oh, that's a good question. That's a good question. I
would say, Well, it wasn't Columbus. That was fourteen nineties.
In the sixteen nineties, sixteen ninety four, I know, that's
when Ireland separated from Great Britain and they had their
whole war there. What happened?
Speaker 10 (14:05):
Uh, it is the it's the year of the Salem
witch trials. Oh okay, all right, that was he's now
strangely appropriate. Yeah, and his brother oraitarian figure executing publicly
innocent women.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Odd, yes, odd, odd, Sorry Angel, Sorry, Tim was honoring it.
That's right, that's right. We continue it three and thirty
years later. Yeah, all right, all right, that's right.
Speaker 8 (14:38):
All right.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Speaking of reprimanding in front of people, did your mom
and dad ever reprimand you in front of your friends,
because my god, my mom did all the time.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
It wasn't an official reprimand unless it was public.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Did your mom did your parents reprimand your friends?
Speaker 8 (14:55):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (14:56):
Usually not no, usually, but you know what mine love.
My mom was a person who would talk to the
mother when she came to pick them up.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Oh, no, don't do that.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
I have to be there next week.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I'll tell you a quick story. In third grade, we
moved from Tarzana to Balboa and Magnolia and the flats
of Encino there. And I went to my first day
of third grade and I met a kid. You know,
I didn't know anybody. This is my first day of school.
We moved over the summer. I had no friends in
the neighborhood. Nothing, I do, nobody. And then the first
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day of school I met a kid named Matt McDaniel
and I walked home with him because he lived a
couple of blocks from me. And he says, oh, is
this your house? I said yeah, and he goes, oh,
this house just sold over the summer. I saw the
for sales line and said, yeah, we just moved here,
you know, from Tarzana. And he says oh. He says,
I said, you want to come in and see the house.
He goes, yeah, i'd love to. So on his first
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day of school third grade. He comes in. It's hot,
you know, it's September in the valley, and he leaves
the front door open. And my mom yells from upstairs.
Who left that f and door open? And I said,
I said, it's it's my friend Matt. And she goes,
did Matt grow up in a barn? And I, oh,
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I said, ma. I said, look, this is my first
day of third grade. I'm just trying to get some friends,
and this is not helping. This is not going in
the right direction.
Speaker 10 (16:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
And you know what, by the way, Matt McDaniel, my
friend who I text all the time. I still see
him all the time. He will tell you where he
was standing when that happened. He still remembers, Oh.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
And you know was also offensive that Matt did grow.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
Up in a bar.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
That's right, all right. Dean Sharpe The House Whisper every
Saturday and Sunday right here on KFI Saturday six to
eight am, Sunday nine am until noon. The Makeover, The
magic of makeovers, big changes, small budgets. When we'll come back, well,
I want to go through some of these with you.
For bathroom, bedroom, and living room. This is what we
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need in the spring, Big changes, small budgets.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
We have Dean Sharp with us the house Whisper every
weekend morning, Saturday and Sunday right here on KFI. All right,
so Dean Sharp, the magic of makeovers, big changes on
small budgets. Let's start with the bathrooms. What is a
something you can do in a bathroom to really enhance
it inexpensively?
Speaker 10 (17:31):
Well it all, you know, inexpensive is a sliding scale.
Let's talk about a big inexpensive item. Change out the toilet.
Upgrade the toilet. Okay, that's cool. Okay, I could run
you about two hundred and fifty bucks, and your experience
of the bathroom changes radically. And not a lot of
people realize who've got older toilets that there are new,
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brand new toilets out there that are distinctly different than
the one that you've been sitting on for all these years.
I mean, from a design perspective and from a maintenance perspective,
a skirted toilet.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
You know what a skirted toilet?
Speaker 1 (18:06):
No idea.
Speaker 10 (18:06):
A skirted toilet is very simply underneath the bowl. It
has a smooth surface all the way around all the
way to the floor, so it doesn't have the little
fun caps, and it doesn't have that doesn't look like
a cartoon character's legs sitting behind you, that place where
anybody who's ever had to clean the bathroom is like,
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how the hell do you clean this thing? It's got
eight hundred surfaces to it. Skirted toilets now they are standard,
oh good, modern toilets now, and so you can get
one and cleaning and the look and.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
It's just it's just great upgrade the toilet.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
You know. I heard this from two different doctors. So
it carries a little weight. They said, the worst thing
you can do when going number two is be on
your cell phone. You have to concentrate on your body
is doing something that it needs all the concentration, uh
into what you're doing, and not be on your phone.
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Uh how about that?
Speaker 8 (19:08):
Okay?
Speaker 10 (19:09):
You know, hey, I'm you know, I appreciate somebody concentrating
on what they're doing when they're in there.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
That's right.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Another thing I heard my uh in my the bathroom
that my wife likes to use more than you know,
the other bathroom there's a tub in there. She wanted
to take the tub out and put in a stand
in just a shower, and and the real est one
of the real estate guys talked us out of it. Said,
because if you sell a house and there's young kids
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or babies moving into the house, they need a bathtub.
Speaker 10 (19:39):
Well yeah, I would agree, but you know they need
one tub, and that's that's what we tell our clients
who are potentially moving.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Uh, that's the only cub in our house.
Speaker 10 (19:48):
Yeah, okay, so then yeah, it would probably be Uh,
I'd probably be given the same advice. If you plan
on moving and if you're like, no, this is it,
We're here to stay, then hey, do what you want
to do with it, right, But if you're going to
sell the place in the future, it is a good
idea to leave a tubs somewhere in the house because
a young family may buy it and you know, two
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year olds are not taking showers.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
That's right. Also, all right, so let's go to the bedroom.
I think, and I gotta get your opinion on this.
I think if you really blow out and revamp and
you know, get shelves and do everything to a closet,
I think that really enhances the bedroom more than more
than a lot of other projects.
Speaker 10 (20:30):
Finishing out a closet is a great idea just because
it gives you that sense of like, you know, every
day you get up and you're like, oh, look at this,
it's all organized.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
It looks great, it feels great picking my clothes.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
It's a great start to the day.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (20:44):
But I will tell you this, there's probably only one
closet company out there right now in southern California that
I would recommend, and the others I just feel like
they are just way overcharging for that. So what I
would encourage people to do is do modular closet stuff.
You can find modular stuff at home depot, you can
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find modular stuff at the container store. And I love
these top hanging modular closet systems. One track goes all
the way at the top of the wall tim and
they get screwed into the top plate. Everything hangs off
that It can literally hold thousands of pounds. That's great.
And the stanchions they slide left and right. You can
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change it up and it can grow and evolve with you.
So if there's some point three years from now where
you're like you know what, I need room for suits
or for long dresses here. Then you cut back the shelves,
you clip them back, and suddenly you've reorganized it. But
they can look really, really great. And I agree, a
well organized closet just starts today.
Speaker 8 (21:45):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Is that a DIY project to do it yourself? Or
you want to get somebody I just mentioned is absolutely
a DIY project, right? And what do you mind mentioning
the company that you recommend.
Speaker 10 (21:58):
The company if you want somebody at California Closets, California.
Now you know this does not fall under the category
inexpensive makeovers because these are you know, these are fancy
closet systems. But with California Closets you get what you
pay for. That's a company you use. Yeah, all right,
that's great. That's not for the show, just telling you.
And if you're looking for that DIY project, the top
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of the line is the Alpha E l FA the
Alpha system at the Container store beautiful.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Did you ever hear Adam Carolla? Adam Corolla used to
be in construction and carpentry and he was in for
some time. He was doing closet makeovers and closet enhancements
and he gets to the house, knocks on the door.
The housekeeper answers, you know here to do the closet,
and she shows him, you know where the closet is
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the master bedroom. And they spend eight hours putting the
closet in. Looks beautiful. And comes out and says, you know, hey,
where's the check for the closet and goes, oh, when
when the owner gets gets back, he'll be here in
ten minutes. He'll give you a check. The owner comes
back and says, hey, you know, madam kral Butt, you
do closet in I here's the bill. It was like,
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you know, thirty five hundred bucks whatever. And he said,
we didn't order any closets. And he said, is this
eight to fifty Charles Street. He goes, no, this is
seven to fifty Charles Street.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
No, yah, is that a true story?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
True story? Put the entire closet into the wrong house.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
Oh my gosh, is that great? Well, you know, and
now he does something else.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
That's right, all right, So let's talk about the living room.
Ugly fireplaces, I unused fireplaces. Are people still using fireplaces?
Most people don't use their fireplace. And I'm a huge
I love my fireplace. I use it all the time. Yeah,
something when we're on the edge of summer, I will
turn on the air conditioner just so I can sit
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next to the fireplace. I love it, but get it.
I get it if you don't use it. In Quite
often fireplaces these days are in the wrong position in
a room, you know, for maximizing, like a twenty first
century room. But I'll say this, if you're going to
keep your fireplace, even if you don't use it, recognize
it as the visual show piece that it is. Paint
the firebox out black, whether you're going to use it
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or not. Paint it out black. You're tired of staring
at that sooty ugly brick. All you got it's ten
dollars worth of paint at the hardware store. You just
buy Matt Black high Heat barbecue paint. Okay, okay, that's
paint out the great tack of the firebox. If you
have a fire in it, it looks like a jewel
in front of a jeweler's cloth. And if you never
put a fire in it, that black background allows you
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to put in something sexy. You can stack wood in there,
you can put a bouquet in there.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
You can do a million.
Speaker 10 (24:43):
Things to an empty fireplace box, but don't ignore it
because it's in the room. It's kind of the elephant
in the room. Find a way to judge it up.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
So in the firebox, you're talking about not only the walls,
but the floor in the firebox as well. Everything gets black.
Speaker 10 (24:58):
Yeah, everything beyond the face, you know, not the facing
in the room, but everything that actually is the firebox.
The floor of the walls painted out black.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
We lift in Tarzan and we had glass doors over
the fireplace. And when I build a fire, I put
in thirty logs. I get it roaring, where there's fire
coming up to the top of the chimney. I get
it moving. And I said to my wife, I said, man,
I can't believe that those glass doors are not shattering
and exploding. And the moment I said exploding, they both exploded. Really,
(25:28):
My wife was sitting next to me when that happened.
She goes, I can't believe the timing on that. I
know your tempered glass, but I guess you're not supposed
to build a forest fire in there.
Speaker 10 (25:36):
Yeah, you can overwhelm it. You can because they're not
thick tempered glass. So you can definitely overwhelm it. And
you know, here's a tip for anybody. If you thought,
you know, I'd like to use my fireplace more, but
it's just such a hassle, go ahead and commit to
the gas log set. Okay, oh really, that's a good idea,
And the reason is very simple. You know, you talk
about building a fire, that's a whole thing. You got
(25:58):
to have the wood, you got to build it. But
most importantly, you're not going to start the fire in
the fireplace unless you absolutely know you're there for the
duration of the evening, right, because nobody's just gonna start
a fire walk away half an hour later. So that's
probably eighty percent of the reason why people don't commit
to the fire. Yeah, you're right, because I don't know
how much time. We've got a gas log set. It's
(26:20):
on for when you need it, it's off you walk away,
you'll use it way more.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I was replacing a shower door myself about a year
and a half ago, and I discovered very quickly that
if you take the corner of a shower door and
it hits the ground just right, the tempered glass all
falls apart and it goes into seven million pieces.
Speaker 10 (26:42):
Yeah, that's the nature of tempered glass. It is only
strong on its face, not on its edge.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Yeah, on its edge. I discovered that.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
I was doing a house.
Speaker 10 (26:54):
In the in the early nineties in Malibu Cove Colony,
beach house, literally a house where the earth came up
under the outside deck. And we had guys there installing
half inch thick pure tempered glass, nothing else, just glass
railing panels right right, and I was coming. I had
another appointment, so I didn't get there when they started,
(27:17):
and the guys had ignored plumbing a couple of pieces,
and all of a sudden, there are two pieces of
glass that are completely out of plumb, just you know, ugly.
And I'm like, guys, you got to take that out.
We have to replace it.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
And uh.
Speaker 10 (27:30):
And then I walked away. Something I heard for like
a half an hour while I was having this other meeting,
this banging and banging and banging. And I walked down,
I'm like, guys, what the hell is going on? And
here they are whacking on this tempered glass with a sledgehammer.
They were like, it won't break, and I'm like, I'm like, hand.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
Me that wrench.
Speaker 10 (27:48):
And I just took a pipe wrench and I walked
over on the top edge of the glass and I
went and the whole thing loaded.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
That's classic, Buddy. I appreciate you coming on well. Talking
next Thursday. All right, Bud, Oh, you're the best Dean
sharp man. That guy's great house whisper Saturday six eight am,
Sunday nine am until noon.
Speaker 9 (28:09):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I bought a bottle of water today at a convenience store.
It was a bottle of I didn't even know what
it was. It was just it was two dollars and
fifty cents. So I bought it right needed water, it
was available, it was cold. I enjoyed it. Two dollars.
It was two forty nine and I bought a bottle
(28:38):
of water, and I thought, seems expensive for this water.
So I did a little math. It's seventeen ounces of
water sixteen point nine. I rounded up to seven seventeen,
so it's seventeen ounces of water. And you do it
all the time. I imagine if you buy water, you know
you're at a grocery store, at a convenience store, AMPM
(29:00):
seven to eleven and two dollars and forty nine cents
doesn't seem astronomical, and so you pick it up and
you buy it. Okay, So that's two dollars and fifty
cents for seventeen ounces of water? How many ounces in
a gallon? Does anybody know that? Offhan? How many ounces
(29:22):
in a gallon of water? Well, I'll tell you it's
one hundred and twenty eight, one hundred and twenty eight
ounces in one gallon. But my publisher came to me,
all right, hold on, stan, one hundred and twenty eight ounces.
Let me see if that's right ounces in a gallon.
(29:44):
I think it's one hundred and twenty eight, yeah, one
twenty eight. Okay, So there's one hundred and twenty eight
ounces in a gallon, and there's seventeen ounces that I
bought for two dollars and fifty cents. See where I'm
going with this? So I would need for set for
(30:06):
one hundred and twenty eight ounces, how many bottles of
water would I need? Well, let's take the calculator out, okay,
So one twenty eight divided by seventeen is seven point five,
So seven point five. And then I paid two dollars
and fifty cents two fifty for the bottle, and so
(30:30):
it's it's eighteen dollars and eighty two cents a gallon.
That's five times more than gasoline. Bottled water is five
times more expensive than gasoline. With gasoline, you've got to
(30:52):
send a tanker for the most part. I mean, we
do have some oil here locally, but the majority or
a lot of the oil that we use comes from
the Middle East. So you build a tanker, you get
the crew, you pay the gas, you pay the insurance,
and you send that tanker over to Iraq or Saudi
(31:13):
Arabia or whatever wherever you buy it from the Middle East,
and they fill it with oil. Then you got to
turn that ship around, bring it back, maybe through the
Panama Canal fit fits, or you got to go around
the Horn, and you bring it back to San Pedro.
And then that oil has to be offloaded and has
to be refined into gasoline, which is expensive with fees, labor, equipment,
(31:42):
it's expensive to do. And then you've got to take
the gas once it's refined, put it in tankers and
send it out to gas stations around southern California. Arco
Mobil Chevron seventy six whatever, and then they got to
pump that gas into the ground, and then you put
that gas in your car. So there's a lot of
steps to putting gasoline in your car. For water, they
(32:09):
just fill up bottles of water and ship it to you.
So bottled water is eighteen dollars and eighty two cents
a gallon. Nineteen dollars a gallon for bottled water. Gas
four twenty or four forty, depending on where you are,
maybe it's four sixty. Now it's five times more expensive
(32:33):
to buy bottled water than it is to get gasoline.
That is crazy. We are live Mo Kelly next on
KFI AM six forty
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. There was
a violin with a lot of money that was stolen.
This USC student had asked permission to use it during
a performance. USC for some reason, said, yeah, it's only
(00:22):
a three hundred year old violin. Let's give it to
the student. Student left it on a bench. Homeless guy
took it, and we are now off to the races.
Three hundred year old, rare violin. Let's find out where
this sucker is.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
A rare three hundred and thirty year old violin was
returned to its rifle owner.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
This three hundred and thirty years is older than this country.
Three hundred and thirty years is a hell of a
long time. I mean, three hundred thirty years is what
what year would that be? Seventeen? Sixteen nineties? Is it
the sixteen nineties? The sixteen ninety five got a mighty.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
This is a Giovanni Grancino violin made in sixteen ninety four. Okay,
we got one thousand dollars. USC student borrowed the man.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
We did that quick math, and we got it within
a year. I'm surprised you didn't get that right off
the bed. That's great. Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
This is a Giovanni Grancino violin made in sixteen ninety four.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It's worth six.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Usc student borrowed the instrument
for a performance, but police say a homeless man stole
that violin when that student left it unattended. The violin
made its way through a couple of homeless encampments before
LAPD detectives tracked it down.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Obviously, very very happy, relieved, to say the least. Obviously,
something of this value that's rare. I mean, it's a
museum piece, it's an antique, and you know, once someone
knew it's value, we were never going to see it again.
So they were extremely happy, and we were happy that
we were able to.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Get it back. It's a unique case.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
The violin was recovered in good condition, and the man
accused of taking it is charged with felony grand theft.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
There you go. Oh come on, all right, A quick, quick,
quick whip around? Can we do it? Steph foosh? Can
we put it together? I know I'm sort of calling
an audible here and we're got you. Okay, all right, well,
while you're looking at while we're doing that, this feature
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Let's start with you. Who is president of the United States
when that violin was was made? Turn name out there?
(02:47):
Abraham Lincoln Lincoln? All right? Angel Martinez, President the United
States when that when that violin was was made?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Hmmm, when was the I think a right, all right, Bellio.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
You know what, Angel, I'm coming back to give you
the speech. I gotta give you the speech. All right, Bellio,
President when that violin was made? Washington, Washington. I think
Crocher is going to get this. Who's president when that
violin was made? Might as well have been me? Okay,
(03:25):
it turns out Croscher's right, even though he's not moting everybody.
Who does that mean there wasn't one?
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Yeah, well there wasn't a president in sixteen ninety five.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Well, first of all, we will forgot the year two.
But then I was afraid to ask because you just
like got on her about it.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Man, he threw that out everybody. That's great, all right,
I got to give the speech to Bellio and Angel.
This won't take long. This is a short one, okay.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Replete with a sigh.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Oh yeah, we do a show four to seven. Oh
it was before the President's.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
By all means, just give Angel and I the speech.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Well, okay, belly open, I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you
a similar story about what you just said in a
different fashion. Okay, okay, okay. When I was younger and
we lived on Passadero Drive in Tarzana, my brother and
I were throwing rocks in the backyard and my brother
and I both broke a window in the back yard
(04:46):
of the house. We're throwing rocks around. We both threw
it and it went through a window. My dad pulled
me aside and got really down on me for doing
that and told me I had to pay for it.
And he never yelled to me. He didn't touch me,
he didn't swear at me. He just told me how
incredibly disappointed he was in me. And I remember where
(05:08):
I was standing when he told me that, And about
a half hour later, I said, I said, hey, you
didn't my brother Pat, who also did the same thing.
You didn't talk to him at all, and he said,
I expect more out of you. Do you understand what
I'm saying? Yeah, okay, all right, so let's get back
(05:31):
to this. We have a three hour show that we do, okay,
three hours every day, and I'm trying to get people
to listen to the Show's the That's the whole object here.
Every day you come in, you try to get as
many people as you can to listen to the Show's
that is the whole ball of wax in radio, it's everything.
(05:53):
If you have a million more listeners in the next guy,
you are the king. You write the rules, you write
your own salary. You are the king. So if I
can't get the two of you to listen, how am
I going to get a guy in Colton, a guy
in Riverside, a guy in sand Bornandina, a guy in
(06:15):
Orange County, a woman in Santa Clarita, another woman in Ventura.
How can I possibly get them to listen? Anyway?
Speaker 7 (06:24):
What about Valley is another great one.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Okay, take what you want from that, and you know
and and and text me your apologies if you if
you like. And it's not going to be. You know,
I'm not going to embarrass you any longer anymore. I'm
just going to ask you in the future if you
can keep that in mind. Yeah, I will. I absolutely
(06:52):
keep that in mind. Thank you. Oh you got and
I love that you're thanking me for that. But that
means you're you're growing belly.
Speaker 8 (07:01):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
You have a lot of growing to do.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Still, you're getting there. You both are getting there, okay,
but I expect more other to you. Okay, all right,
let's find out what happened to his violin.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
You know, once someone knew that's volume, you were never
going to see it again. So they were extremely happy,
and we were happy that we were able to get
it back.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
It's a unique case.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
The violin was recovered in good condition, and the man
accused of taking it is charged with felony grand theft.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Okay, it's a homeless guy. He had this violin where
I don't know, five six, seven hundred thousand dollars depending
on who you ask, and he had it and he
could have sold it, but he didn't know what he had,
so he just kept it in his pile of crap.
And they found it and they got it back.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
That seems kind of like felony, Like, well, it's over
nine and twenty dollars.
Speaker 8 (07:52):
He didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
He just took something right there. It's not like he
like intended to do that. I mean, he just took something.
It could have been a candy.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Are Where did he steal it from? Usc? Like like
someone just left it around, hanging around like off the
near the campus.
Speaker 8 (08:07):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Hell yeah, no, where are you going with that? I mean,
do you want to know the bench? Sure?
Speaker 6 (08:20):
I want more details of this story. That is what
I want, news anchor.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
He's got to have more details on this.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I said, that just doesn't really seem very proportional.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
I mean, it's not like he was going to going
to steal something that was worth more than half a
million dollars, right.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And what are you going to do with this guy?
You know, he's got nothing and he's got no sense
of what expensive musical equipment is all about. You can't
put him to work. You can't put him to work
like at a guitar center store. He'll give away the store.
Did he steal it if it was just left around? Yeah,
I don't know, I don't know. You know, it was
(08:58):
on a bench. She left it. Student left it, she
should be also reprimanded as well. And then he took
it and they they found it, though they didn't find
it immediately when they found the homeless guy. Yeah, it
hopped around. Yeah, it was overnight that they found it.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Oh, listen to this.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
So police allege that the suspect, who believe it is homeless,
followed a USC graduate student into the music department.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
The student swiped her card.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
For door access, which people police believe allowed him to
slip in behind the student.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
It's even more her fault. It's not her fault, although
I do that, like if somebody's coming up there, but
if somebody's coming up the elevator. We have a secure elevator.
You have to use the card key. And they get
off with me. I'm like, I don't say anything. I'm like, yeah,
I'm sure you work here. I don't recognize it.
Speaker 8 (09:42):
Jellous.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
They try to tell us what we need to. I know,
people are right depending on you know, on who the
guy or the gal is, you know, if they're how
they're dressed or anything. I ninety nine hundred percent of
the time going yep, it must work here.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Oh, I act like, oh, I forgot something and I
get off the elevator.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Oh you do, and I've turned people down. Well, you've
turned people away. Yeah, I got so scared. I don't
want to get in trouble that it's my fault that
I let someone in. Yeah, because somebody if they steals
any if they steal anything, it's your it's on you.
So they've they've come up to me and be like, uh,
I'm on the fifth I'm on the fifth floor. I'm like,
if you don't have your idea, you can't come up
(10:21):
with me. Okay, Belly, I'm gonna take something back from
away from you and Angel here. I think that this guy,
I I think that it's exactly the opposite of what
I said to you before about the bricks, about these
the stones through the window. I expect more out of
you guys. I think steph Us is the king, really, Yeah,
(10:43):
because he's turned people away. I never have the balls
to do it. Krozier, I don't know if Krozer doesn't.
Krozer probably just yells at the person because when when
Stephu started here, I said to him, I said, Stephush,
I said, you're gonna learn a lot from Krozer, but
he gets hot. Well, I just don't want to get
(11:08):
in trouble. Oh yeah, No, you're gonna learn. There's nobody
who trains anybody better than the newsroom, than Krozer. But
he's gonna go off at some point on you. It's
gonna get, it's gonna come, it's gonna get. He screams
down the you know off. Oh yeah, screams. Look he
told he yelled at Steph Fush and Steph Fush's first week.
You remember this, Stephushie. But my hot it's my station
(11:39):
and I'm like, whoa that he's rolling that new kid
that's classic.
Speaker 9 (11:48):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from k
f I A M six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
That's great. Right, we're all here. Uh, it's Thursday before
Coachella and there's traffic, lots of traffic. Check in with
the Queen of Traffic, Angel Martinez. What's going on with Cochella?
Any had good news?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Well good if you like traffic.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Oh yeah, I've heard that before.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
But if you love the traffic, I've got some good
news for you. So yeah, heading eastbound into the Low
Desert out to Coachella Valley, it's looking pretty busy on
the sixty out of out of Harupa Valley from about
pie right all the way towards World Logistics Center Parkway,
which is on the sixty right before you drop into
(12:38):
the Badlands, just before that merged with the ten.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
Okay, and so, and.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
The reason why I asked I saw it on TV
and I thought, okay, there's a lot. So there's in
one word, how is traffic going to court Coachella?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Hmm, it's found to sum it up in one word heavy.
Heavy's good? Yeah, all right, yeah, but here's here's the deal.
I don't want to mislead anybody.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
It's not slow beyond Beaumont out towards Coachella Valley. It's
just slow getting to the ten there in Beaumont.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Excellent, all right, Dean Sharp Basement, thank you very much.
Dean Sharp. Everybody the house whisper you going to Coachella
this weekend? Bub No, no, no, that's not that's a
young man's game.
Speaker 10 (13:20):
I think I'm feeling a bit awkward, Tim, I gotta
tell you, Okay, that last segment, oh oh oh, I
don't know, yeah, I don't know it was you know,
I feel like I was invited to a dinner party,
and then the father of the house disciplined his children
in front of all the deaths.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I know, I didn't like to do that, but one thing,
it was really really But I got a question for you.
Speaker 10 (13:42):
What did happen in the in America in sixteen ninety four.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Oh, that's a good question. That's a good question. I
would say, Well, it wasn't Columbus. That was fourteen nineties.
In the sixteen nineties, sixteen ninety four, I know, that's
when Ireland separated from Great Britain and they had their
whole war there. What happened?
Speaker 10 (14:05):
Uh, it is the it's the year of the Salem
witch trials. Oh okay, all right, that was he's now
strangely appropriate. Yeah, and his brother oraitarian figure executing publicly
innocent women.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Odd, yes, odd, odd, Sorry Angel, Sorry, Tim was honoring it.
That's right, that's right. We continue it three and thirty
years later. Yeah, all right, all right, that's right.
Speaker 8 (14:38):
All right.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Speaking of reprimanding in front of people, did your mom
and dad ever reprimand you in front of your friends,
because my god, my mom did all the time.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
It wasn't an official reprimand unless it was public.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Did your mom did your parents reprimand your friends?
Speaker 8 (14:55):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (14:56):
Usually not no, usually, but you know what mine love.
My mom was a person who would talk to the
mother when she came to pick them up.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Oh, no, don't do that.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
I have to be there next week.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I'll tell you a quick story. In third grade, we
moved from Tarzana to Balboa and Magnolia and the flats
of Encino there. And I went to my first day
of third grade and I met a kid. You know,
I didn't know anybody. This is my first day of school.
We moved over the summer. I had no friends in
the neighborhood. Nothing, I do, nobody. And then the first
(15:32):
day of school I met a kid named Matt McDaniel
and I walked home with him because he lived a
couple of blocks from me. And he says, oh, is
this your house? I said yeah, and he goes, oh,
this house just sold over the summer. I saw the
for sales line and said, yeah, we just moved here,
you know, from Tarzana. And he says oh. He says,
I said, you want to come in and see the house.
He goes, yeah, i'd love to. So on his first
(15:53):
day of school third grade. He comes in. It's hot,
you know, it's September in the valley, and he leaves
the front door open. And my mom yells from upstairs.
Who left that f and door open? And I said,
I said, it's it's my friend Matt. And she goes,
did Matt grow up in a barn? And I, oh,
(16:14):
I said, ma. I said, look, this is my first
day of third grade. I'm just trying to get some friends,
and this is not helping. This is not going in
the right direction.
Speaker 10 (16:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
And you know what, by the way, Matt McDaniel, my
friend who I text all the time. I still see
him all the time. He will tell you where he
was standing when that happened. He still remembers, Oh.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
And you know was also offensive that Matt did grow.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
Up in a bar.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
That's right, all right. Dean Sharpe The House Whisper every
Saturday and Sunday right here on KFI Saturday six to
eight am, Sunday nine am until noon. The Makeover, The
magic of makeovers, big changes, small budgets. When we'll come back, well,
I want to go through some of these with you.
For bathroom, bedroom, and living room. This is what we
(16:59):
need in the spring, Big changes, small budgets.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
We have Dean Sharp with us the house Whisper every
weekend morning, Saturday and Sunday right here on KFI. All right,
so Dean Sharp, the magic of makeovers, big changes on
small budgets. Let's start with the bathrooms. What is a
something you can do in a bathroom to really enhance
it inexpensively?
Speaker 10 (17:31):
Well it all, you know, inexpensive is a sliding scale.
Let's talk about a big inexpensive item. Change out the toilet.
Upgrade the toilet. Okay, that's cool. Okay, I could run
you about two hundred and fifty bucks, and your experience
of the bathroom changes radically. And not a lot of
people realize who've got older toilets that there are new,
(17:53):
brand new toilets out there that are distinctly different than
the one that you've been sitting on for all these years.
I mean, from a design perspective and from a maintenance perspective,
a skirted toilet.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
You know what a skirted toilet?
Speaker 1 (18:06):
No idea.
Speaker 10 (18:06):
A skirted toilet is very simply underneath the bowl. It
has a smooth surface all the way around all the
way to the floor, so it doesn't have the little
fun caps, and it doesn't have that doesn't look like
a cartoon character's legs sitting behind you, that place where
anybody who's ever had to clean the bathroom is like,
(18:28):
how the hell do you clean this thing? It's got
eight hundred surfaces to it. Skirted toilets now they are standard,
oh good, modern toilets now, and so you can get
one and cleaning and the look and.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
It's just it's just great upgrade the toilet.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
You know. I heard this from two different doctors. So
it carries a little weight. They said, the worst thing
you can do when going number two is be on
your cell phone. You have to concentrate on your body
is doing something that it needs all the concentration, uh
into what you're doing, and not be on your phone.
(19:07):
Uh how about that?
Speaker 8 (19:08):
Okay?
Speaker 10 (19:09):
You know, hey, I'm you know, I appreciate somebody concentrating
on what they're doing when they're in there.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
That's right.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Another thing I heard my uh in my the bathroom
that my wife likes to use more than you know,
the other bathroom there's a tub in there. She wanted
to take the tub out and put in a stand
in just a shower, and and the real est one
of the real estate guys talked us out of it. Said,
because if you sell a house and there's young kids
(19:36):
or babies moving into the house, they need a bathtub.
Speaker 10 (19:39):
Well yeah, I would agree, but you know they need
one tub, and that's that's what we tell our clients
who are potentially moving.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Uh, that's the only cub in our house.
Speaker 10 (19:48):
Yeah, okay, so then yeah, it would probably be Uh,
I'd probably be given the same advice. If you plan
on moving and if you're like, no, this is it,
We're here to stay, then hey, do what you want
to do with it, right, But if you're going to
sell the place in the future, it is a good
idea to leave a tubs somewhere in the house because
a young family may buy it and you know, two
(20:09):
year olds are not taking showers.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
That's right. Also, all right, so let's go to the bedroom.
I think, and I gotta get your opinion on this.
I think if you really blow out and revamp and
you know, get shelves and do everything to a closet,
I think that really enhances the bedroom more than more
than a lot of other projects.
Speaker 10 (20:30):
Finishing out a closet is a great idea just because
it gives you that sense of like, you know, every
day you get up and you're like, oh, look at this,
it's all organized.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
It looks great, it feels great picking my clothes.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
It's a great start to the day.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (20:44):
But I will tell you this, there's probably only one
closet company out there right now in southern California that
I would recommend, and the others I just feel like
they are just way overcharging for that. So what I
would encourage people to do is do modular closet stuff.
You can find modular stuff at home depot, you can
(21:05):
find modular stuff at the container store. And I love
these top hanging modular closet systems. One track goes all
the way at the top of the wall tim and
they get screwed into the top plate. Everything hangs off
that It can literally hold thousands of pounds. That's great.
And the stanchions they slide left and right. You can
(21:27):
change it up and it can grow and evolve with you.
So if there's some point three years from now where
you're like you know what, I need room for suits
or for long dresses here. Then you cut back the shelves,
you clip them back, and suddenly you've reorganized it. But
they can look really, really great. And I agree, a
well organized closet just starts today.
Speaker 8 (21:45):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Is that a DIY project to do it yourself? Or
you want to get somebody I just mentioned is absolutely
a DIY project, right? And what do you mind mentioning
the company that you recommend.
Speaker 10 (21:58):
The company if you want somebody at California Closets, California.
Now you know this does not fall under the category
inexpensive makeovers because these are you know, these are fancy
closet systems. But with California Closets you get what you
pay for. That's a company you use. Yeah, all right,
that's great. That's not for the show, just telling you.
And if you're looking for that DIY project, the top
(22:19):
of the line is the Alpha E l FA the
Alpha system at the Container store beautiful.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Did you ever hear Adam Carolla? Adam Corolla used to
be in construction and carpentry and he was in for
some time. He was doing closet makeovers and closet enhancements
and he gets to the house, knocks on the door.
The housekeeper answers, you know here to do the closet,
and she shows him, you know where the closet is
(22:47):
the master bedroom. And they spend eight hours putting the
closet in. Looks beautiful. And comes out and says, you know, hey,
where's the check for the closet and goes, oh, when
when the owner gets gets back, he'll be here in
ten minutes. He'll give you a check. The owner comes
back and says, hey, you know, madam kral Butt, you
do closet in I here's the bill. It was like,
(23:09):
you know, thirty five hundred bucks whatever. And he said,
we didn't order any closets. And he said, is this
eight to fifty Charles Street. He goes, no, this is
seven to fifty Charles Street.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
No, yah, is that a true story?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
True story? Put the entire closet into the wrong house.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
Oh my gosh, is that great? Well, you know, and
now he does something else.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
That's right, all right, So let's talk about the living room.
Ugly fireplaces, I unused fireplaces. Are people still using fireplaces?
Most people don't use their fireplace. And I'm a huge
I love my fireplace. I use it all the time. Yeah,
something when we're on the edge of summer, I will
turn on the air conditioner just so I can sit
(23:52):
next to the fireplace. I love it, but get it.
I get it if you don't use it. In Quite
often fireplaces these days are in the wrong position in
a room, you know, for maximizing, like a twenty first
century room. But I'll say this, if you're going to
keep your fireplace, even if you don't use it, recognize
it as the visual show piece that it is. Paint
the firebox out black, whether you're going to use it
(24:14):
or not. Paint it out black. You're tired of staring
at that sooty ugly brick. All you got it's ten
dollars worth of paint at the hardware store. You just
buy Matt Black high Heat barbecue paint. Okay, okay, that's
paint out the great tack of the firebox. If you
have a fire in it, it looks like a jewel
in front of a jeweler's cloth. And if you never
put a fire in it, that black background allows you
(24:36):
to put in something sexy. You can stack wood in there,
you can put a bouquet in there.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
You can do a million.
Speaker 10 (24:43):
Things to an empty fireplace box, but don't ignore it
because it's in the room. It's kind of the elephant
in the room. Find a way to judge it up.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
So in the firebox, you're talking about not only the walls,
but the floor in the firebox as well. Everything gets black.
Speaker 10 (24:58):
Yeah, everything beyond the face, you know, not the facing
in the room, but everything that actually is the firebox.
The floor of the walls painted out black.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
We lift in Tarzan and we had glass doors over
the fireplace. And when I build a fire, I put
in thirty logs. I get it roaring, where there's fire
coming up to the top of the chimney. I get
it moving. And I said to my wife, I said, man,
I can't believe that those glass doors are not shattering
and exploding. And the moment I said exploding, they both exploded. Really,
(25:28):
My wife was sitting next to me when that happened.
She goes, I can't believe the timing on that. I
know your tempered glass, but I guess you're not supposed
to build a forest fire in there.
Speaker 10 (25:36):
Yeah, you can overwhelm it. You can because they're not
thick tempered glass. So you can definitely overwhelm it. And
you know, here's a tip for anybody. If you thought,
you know, I'd like to use my fireplace more, but
it's just such a hassle, go ahead and commit to
the gas log set. Okay, oh really, that's a good idea,
And the reason is very simple. You know, you talk
about building a fire, that's a whole thing. You got
(25:58):
to have the wood, you got to build it. But
most importantly, you're not going to start the fire in
the fireplace unless you absolutely know you're there for the
duration of the evening, right, because nobody's just gonna start
a fire walk away half an hour later. So that's
probably eighty percent of the reason why people don't commit
to the fire. Yeah, you're right, because I don't know
how much time. We've got a gas log set. It's
(26:20):
on for when you need it, it's off you walk away,
you'll use it way more.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I was replacing a shower door myself about a year
and a half ago, and I discovered very quickly that
if you take the corner of a shower door and
it hits the ground just right, the tempered glass all
falls apart and it goes into seven million pieces.
Speaker 10 (26:42):
Yeah, that's the nature of tempered glass. It is only
strong on its face, not on its edge.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Yeah, on its edge. I discovered that.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
I was doing a house.
Speaker 10 (26:54):
In the in the early nineties in Malibu Cove Colony,
beach house, literally a house where the earth came up
under the outside deck. And we had guys there installing
half inch thick pure tempered glass, nothing else, just glass
railing panels right right, and I was coming. I had
another appointment, so I didn't get there when they started,
(27:17):
and the guys had ignored plumbing a couple of pieces,
and all of a sudden, there are two pieces of
glass that are completely out of plumb, just you know, ugly.
And I'm like, guys, you got to take that out.
We have to replace it.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
And uh.
Speaker 10 (27:30):
And then I walked away. Something I heard for like
a half an hour while I was having this other meeting,
this banging and banging and banging. And I walked down,
I'm like, guys, what the hell is going on? And
here they are whacking on this tempered glass with a sledgehammer.
They were like, it won't break, and I'm like, I'm like, hand.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
Me that wrench.
Speaker 10 (27:48):
And I just took a pipe wrench and I walked
over on the top edge of the glass and I
went and the whole thing loaded.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
That's classic, Buddy. I appreciate you coming on well. Talking
next Thursday. All right, Bud, Oh, you're the best Dean
sharp man. That guy's great house whisper Saturday six eight am,
Sunday nine am until noon.
Speaker 9 (28:09):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I bought a bottle of water today at a convenience store.
It was a bottle of I didn't even know what
it was. It was just it was two dollars and
fifty cents. So I bought it right needed water, it
was available, it was cold. I enjoyed it. Two dollars.
It was two forty nine and I bought a bottle
(28:38):
of water, and I thought, seems expensive for this water.
So I did a little math. It's seventeen ounces of
water sixteen point nine. I rounded up to seven seventeen,
so it's seventeen ounces of water. And you do it
all the time. I imagine if you buy water, you know
you're at a grocery store, at a convenience store, AMPM
(29:00):
seven to eleven and two dollars and forty nine cents
doesn't seem astronomical, and so you pick it up and
you buy it. Okay, So that's two dollars and fifty
cents for seventeen ounces of water? How many ounces in
a gallon? Does anybody know that? Offhan? How many ounces
(29:22):
in a gallon of water? Well, I'll tell you it's
one hundred and twenty eight, one hundred and twenty eight
ounces in one gallon. But my publisher came to me,
all right, hold on, stan, one hundred and twenty eight ounces.
Let me see if that's right ounces in a gallon.
(29:44):
I think it's one hundred and twenty eight, yeah, one
twenty eight. Okay, So there's one hundred and twenty eight
ounces in a gallon, and there's seventeen ounces that I
bought for two dollars and fifty cents. See where I'm
going with this? So I would need for set for
(30:06):
one hundred and twenty eight ounces, how many bottles of
water would I need? Well, let's take the calculator out, okay,
So one twenty eight divided by seventeen is seven point five,
So seven point five. And then I paid two dollars
and fifty cents two fifty for the bottle, and so
(30:30):
it's it's eighteen dollars and eighty two cents a gallon.
That's five times more than gasoline. Bottled water is five
times more expensive than gasoline. With gasoline, you've got to
(30:52):
send a tanker for the most part. I mean, we
do have some oil here locally, but the majority or
a lot of the oil that we use comes from
the Middle East. So you build a tanker, you get
the crew, you pay the gas, you pay the insurance,
and you send that tanker over to Iraq or Saudi
(31:13):
Arabia or whatever wherever you buy it from the Middle East,
and they fill it with oil. Then you got to
turn that ship around, bring it back, maybe through the
Panama Canal fit fits, or you got to go around
the Horn, and you bring it back to San Pedro.
And then that oil has to be offloaded and has
to be refined into gasoline, which is expensive with fees, labor, equipment,
(31:42):
it's expensive to do. And then you've got to take
the gas once it's refined, put it in tankers and
send it out to gas stations around southern California. Arco
Mobil Chevron seventy six whatever, and then they got to
pump that gas into the ground, and then you put
that gas in your car. So there's a lot of
steps to putting gasoline in your car. For water, they
(32:09):
just fill up bottles of water and ship it to you.
So bottled water is eighteen dollars and eighty two cents
a gallon. Nineteen dollars a gallon for bottled water. Gas
four twenty or four forty, depending on where you are,
maybe it's four sixty. Now it's five times more expensive
(32:33):
to buy bottled water than it is to get gasoline.
That is crazy. We are live Mo Kelly next on
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