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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. When I
first started here at KFI, it was January. I'm sorry,
it was before that. When I was doing weekends. It
was late May or early June of two thousand and nine.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
So what is that.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Fifteen years ago. I can't do the math.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
But it was two thousand and nine and I had
worked at kalis X for twelve years. I got fired
from there. I worked for KBC for twelve hours. I
got fired from there. And when I left KBC, I
called Robin Berdlucci called KFI and said, hey, is there
anything open over there? I'm down to one station and
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she said, now I'm nothing over here. I said, ah, well,
keep me in mind and shit. And I got a
call like two weeks later saying, hey, I want to
fill in on a weekend from like like noon to
two or something.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, I'd love to.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
So I came in to KFI. I'd be listening to
KFI my entire life. My mom's favorite station was KFI.
My dad's favorite station was KFI. I listened to it.
It was my p one since I had a car
when I was sixteen, I listened to it all the time.
I only listened to KFI even when I was working
over at kalas X. I'd listened to KFI on the
way in, and I listened to KFI on the way home.
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I never told that to my boss, but it's true.
And Wayne Resnick I used to listen to him. I
used to run into him all the time over at
Radison when Steckle and I would drink before we worked,
and he was over there quite often. And I became
friends with Wayne Resnick. So when I started here, I
was a nervous wreck. I went to the bathroom and
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threw up before it was on here the first time,
because this is like working for the Dodgers, or the Yankees,
or the Cowboys or the Montreal Canadians if you're an
HL fan. And I came in here to do the
very first show noon to two, and I was sick
to my stomach, the nervous as hell, sweating. I was
going to pass out. And I come in and Wayne
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Resnick's sitting here. I'm like, hey, Wayne, how you doing.
I didn't know you were on today. He said, no,
I'm not on today. I just want to come in
because then you're going to be nervous because you're not
really professional. And I came in to sort of ease
your your nerves, calm you down. And man, I will
never forget that. Wayne Resnick is what it's Wayne? Hi
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you Bob.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
That's not thank you, thank you. That's not a true story.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
It's a true story except for why I came in.
I didn't come in to greet you because I thought
you were unprofessional and would need calming down.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I came.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I came in to greet you that day for the
same reason that I was hanging out at the Ratison
all those all those weeks and months before, because I
was such a big fan of yours. And I heard
you when you were on KLSX one night, you and Steckler,
and you mentioned that you guys actually convened in the
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lobby of the Ratison before your show to talk about
the show or just hang out before you went on
the air. And we KFI was on ard More and
KLSX was on Wiltshire and it was a two block walk,
and I was such a huge fan that one night
I said, I wonder if they're at the Ratison right now,
and I fan boyed my way over there and interrupted
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you guys, and you were so nice and so welcoming
and everything, and that is and then we did become
friends and all the rest of it is true, except
that I didn't show up because I thought you were nervous.
I just showed up because I was so happy you
were joining us. Oh buddy, you are the best.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I Steckler and I used to drink before every show,
and not just sip, you know. It was like four
or five beers and three or four shots before every show,
and then we'd drank vodka during the show and we
always left bombed always, and it was I think it
was better.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Well, look, there were a lot of things that were,
let's say different back then.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It was very loose.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
We were on, both of us had our shows were
on at times when there was no management around. And
I want to say something because because I thought I
was going to get out of here, I thought it
was going to be able to irish goodbye this whole thing,
because I thought everybody was off until Monday. Oh okay,
all right, And then it turns out Gary and Shannon
were back today, and you're back today. And they were
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telling me, Shannon in particular, who's been so sweet, and
she likes to tell me that I'm the person who
let her see that radio could be fun, because when
she came here, she was a newsperson and thought of
herself as a buttoned up newsperson and was on the
air with me one morning, we were both in on
the morning show. But the fact of the matter is,
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and this is the truth, that it's you and st
Eckler and later Witman and Jason and Silanco who produced
you guys, you're the people who showed me that radio
could be fun. Because back then this and this is
what twenty five years ago or something, you guys were
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having a lot of fun on KLSX, and we were
still doing do a monologue on a topic in order
to get people mad so that they would pick up
the phone and call you so you could take calls
for the rest of the hour. That was the talk
radio formula on KFI and almost all talk radio back then.
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People who started listening to KFI only in the last
let's say, fifteen years have no idea what it used
to be, and it was generally speaking, not that fun
because you were trying to inflame people, to make the
phones ring. And it was you guys who made me
realize there's another way to be on the radio.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
And I started doing some stuff that.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Was not in the mold, and slowly KFI kind of
evolved to be not the old school stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Well, I appreciate you're very sweet man. I picked this
up from Vince Scully many many years ago. At as
a matter of fact, it was at Harvey Corman's funeral.
He said, it's very easy to make people mad, it's
very easy to make people sad, it's very tough to
make people laugh. And I remember hearing that. I'm like, Okay,
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that's that's true. That's true. And Harvey Korman did it
better than I think almost anybody in the world. And
listening to you and not only filling in, but you know,
being a part of, you know, a Handle show, and
just the take you have on everything is great. And
I understand you're leaving KFI.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Last year, around this time, I semi retired. I retired
from being full time and being on the Handle Show
and I went part time and I still did some
fill in this year and some other things, and then
a year later I decided, Oh, it's time to be
fully retired, to not have a boss anymore, and to
not have to be anywhere at a particular time.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yus, I've made the appointment. You're young, you're forty one.
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Well, there's listen, there's a lot of things that I
could do, you know, I mean a lot of people
who've listened a long time. No that I had a
completely separate career with the FEDS. And there is certain
private investigation work, okay in regard to federal criminal cases
that is done and can be done, and that is
something that I can do.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I'm also looking.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
At maybe not doing anything I worked six here's a
great line speaking of federal and prosecutors.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
And I know your background, but you didn't talk much
about your background while you were on the air. You
never told anybody what you did. Do you tell people now?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
When I here's what happened, because I was with the FEDS,
and then I said, hey, I been working at this
radio station. I started out screening calls at KFI. Okay, wait,
can you hold nineteen ninety Can you hold on?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Because you had a very important job with the FEDS
that I don't think you've talked about on the air.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Am I right or wrong? Have you told me?
Speaker 4 (08:19):
I have talked about it now because I retired from
the FEDS when I went full time on the Handle Show,
and at that point then I was able to talk
about it.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Okay, hold on one second, let me put the Wayne
on hold here. Wayne reslinks with us. He had a
big job with the federal government, and he never talked
about it on the air. He wanted to keep that separate.
We came back, I'll tell you what he did for
the federal government and what he might be continuing to
do for the federal government. But he had a big
job with the federal government that I never heard him,
and he had asked me never to say it on
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the air, and I honored that. I never said anything
about what Wayne Resnick did in his life off of KFI.
All right, Well, Wayne Resink's with us, will continue with them.
We're live on KFI.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
If you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Forty, keep an eye on all the big stories here,
what's going on New Orleans. We'll have an update for
you if there's any more information coming out of that.
Of course, Las Vegas another big story. The Speaker of
the House, Mike Johnson, is going to continue and he
was voted in today and then they're going to confirm
the vote on Monday, which is January sixth, four years ago.
(09:27):
Everybody remembers where they were on January sixth. Now four
years later, Donald Trump will become the forty seventh officially
of forty seventh president of the United States.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
All right, those are the big stories. Wayne Resnick is
with us.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Wayne, I've known for I don't know, twenty five maybe
almost thirty years. And Wayne, I never heard you on
the air talk about your other occupation outside of KFI,
and I believe you would ask me not to say
it on the air. I think that's the only thing
you've ever asked me not to say on the air.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Yeah, it was never ever mentioned at any time until
I retired from there.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
And when I started, And what is it that you
do or.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Did well, I was a federal pre sentenced investigator and
then a supervisor. And I'll try to make this as
brief as possible, but but it's a little known part
of the.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
General world of federal law enforcement.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Where when someone is convicted of a federal crime, we
basically reinvestigate the whole case. We look at all the
evidence that the government has, we do our own investigations,
and then we have a report that is for the
judge to use to try to decide what to do
with the person, and it covers the crime, it covers
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their criminal history, it covers their personal background, as well
as a bunch of technical federal sentencing guideline stuff, and
we put all of that together and then make a recommendation.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
What, you know, what should you do with this guy?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
That's a big deal though, I mean, you know, a
guy or a gal's future is in your hands.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Ah, I'm sorry I say that, because you know, some
judges would rubber stamp whatever you said should happen, that's
what would happen, and other judges kind of never would
seem to agree with you. And then most judges, you know,
it just depended on the case. So it was a
mixed bag as far as the level of our influence.
But to be clear, we're only working for the judge
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in that regard, so we don't have a bias and
we're not looking for a particular outcome. We're just looking
for the outcome. We think the evidence and the situation merits.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
You know, there was a rumor going around for a
long long time that you were involved with parole.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Is that true? United States Probation and Parole.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yes, okay, And that's the part that you never talked
about on the air. Well, I never talked about any
of it. But that's a huge job. Let me tell
you a quick story about a federal agent. A federal
agent came on the air with us about fifteen years ago,
maybe even twenty years I think it was a kalis
X twenty years ago, and his job was to go
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get criminals from out of state. You know, if somebody
committed a murder on Montana and he's wanted in Tampa Bay,
he would fly to Montana and escort this prisoner to
Tampa Bay and then fly back to Los Angeles. So
he's at Burbank Airport one day and he produces his
badge and his gun and he shows everybody the proper
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paperwork that he was a federal agent. He's going to
Montana to pick up a prisoner to take him to
Tampa Bay and then flying back to Los Angeles. And
he's going to have a gun on him the whole
time because he's a federal transport agent. So twenty minute
background search, they search everything, they confirm everything on computer.
Everything's fine. He goes through TSA. They look in his
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bag and they take out his toothpaste because it's over
seven ounces. They give him back his fully loaded weapon
with two other with with twenty rounds and take his
toothpaste from him.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
How great that that's everything you need to know about
airline security in the modern era. I'm gonna I'm gonna
guess then that he probably he had at least sixty
rounds of AMMO on him, because I'm sure he had
at least two backup magazines.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Right. Crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
He could have killed sixty people on that plane and
they took away his colgate.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
That's crazy.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Well, hey, listen, he could because you know what, he
could have gone squarely on the plane and gone into
the lavatory and made a bomb out of his toothpaste.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Here's another story, real quickly. Jackie Lacy, who our former
district attorney here in Los Angeles. I was doing a
charity event at the museum at the Western Museum right
outside the La Zoo, and I was sitting at a
table and she was sitting next to me and I look,
I look next to me and go, oh, it's Jackie Lacy.
And Jackie Lacey asked you know who I was, what
I did and everything.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
And she said oh.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
She said, are you in a relation to Tim Conway
and said yes, and she put her head down and
she said, Tim, She said, my favorite memories in my
life were watching the caraber Net Show with my parents
and my grandparents. And she went on for twenty minutes
about how it and she remembered where it was, what
they ate for dinner before the sketches, and everything. She
had so many great memories of the caraber Net Show.
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And I said to her, I said, hey, Jackie, if
my picture ever comes across your desk, would you give
me a break? And she had the greatest line. She said, Tim,
if your picture's on my desk, you've passed up on.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
A lot of breaks.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
That's a great line. That's a great line. So hey, yeah,
go ahead.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Well, because if we're gonna reminisce this, I want to share.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
There's only one thing I wanted to bring up in
terms of a hey do you remember, And it's not
so much about radio, but it is about working for
any kind of an organization.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
And do you remember I think it.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Was in the aftermath of some host on the air
saying something very very that caused a lot of controversy,
and they called us all to this meeting slash.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Training session, and they brought in some people and it was.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
About generally like sensitivity and I don't know, racial awareness
and these things. And at one point the presenter and
I forgot how it got to this in terms of
a little back and forth with the people in the audience,
but do you remember this, The presenter who was teaching
us about racial sensitivity and so forth and ethnic sensitivity,
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said flat out that we should be we should be
thoughtful about and not be mean to the nine to
eleven hijackers. I can't remember that you were there. I
can assure you this. Maybe you don't remember it, but
you were there, sitting two people away from me, and
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he said it, and half the room was about to
crawl over.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
The conference table and strangle the guy.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I don't remember that, but it does sound familiar.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Because it was sort of like, you have to be
nice to this group of people. Okay, well, what about terrorists? Yes,
I remember what about the nine to eleven hijackers. Yes,
they're people too.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I remember being in one of those meetings and there
was gonna be three sessions. You could go to the
noon or the three, or the next day at noon.
And I went to the one at noon and our
former boss Robin went and said, Okay, everybody, you're gonna
watch this video. You're gonna have this person's gonna speak
to you about about, you know, sexually harassing people at
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work and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
And then she split.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Well when she split, I split because when your boss
is not there, you don't have to stick around. And
she called me an hour and a half later and
she goes, where the hell are you. I said, I'm
at home and she said, well, she goes, what about
this meeting? And I said, oh, those meetings are BS
and she said she said, you know, up until right now,
I thought they were BS as well. But I think
they're designed specifically for people like you.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
I think a lot of the HR department is define
is put together for people like you.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
That's right, buddy. I I really appreciate you coming on.
I appreciate our friendship. Are you gonna stay in la
are you moving out.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Yeah, I'm I'm actually you know, the big secret is
I'm already out.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Okay, we can tell that story too.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Right, the great Yeah, just I decided I didn't. I
didn't when I went part time and everything. It's like,
you know what, I don't think I want to be
I don't want to be older in California. I don't
think it's a good I don't think la And is
a good place necessarily.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I get that, buddy, Buddy, I really I want to
stay in touch. I don't want to just say that,
but You've been a terrific friend and and you know,
for such a long period of time, and I've learned
a lot about you on how to do stuff on radio,
and your friendship is really meant a lot. And that's
what I want to have you on. I don't want
to do at the end of the show and say, oh,
Wayne Resdink's leaving. But I really appreciate everything that we've
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we've we've done together, been through together, and we'll continue.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Hey here, thank you, it's been a blast. You're the best. Yeah.
And Krozer has been here is long.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
And Krozer, who I worked with for so many times
on the weekends when we had a weekend show and
Angel Martinez and Sharon Bellio, everybody from your show, we
love you.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
We love you too.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Some of the funnest people in the world on your show.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Sir, easy easy, buddy, All right, right, Tim, he's right, easy, easy.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Keep knowing. I mean, never to be, never to eclipse
you and your light and your heat.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
That right there is what we're gonna miss. Yeah, that's recovery. Let's,
you know, direct the credit where it should be here. Wayne,
really appreciate it. I will call you and we'll chat
off the air, But I really appreciate you coming on
bub All right, buddy, Are you the best? Wayne Resnik
leaving care.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I love that guy. He's the best.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Man.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Has he been here longer than your Crozier d In.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Fact, I remember how he initially kind of came in here.
He used to do kind of like parody songs, or
actually not even parody songs. He did his own original
songs that he would send into some of the shows
that clearly aren't here anymore. But yeah, and then he
eventually kind of worked his way in.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Man.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
He did it the kind of old school way. It
was really cool. Yeah, I love that dude, brilliant guy.
A former PD here called Wayne Resnick once the most
well informed host on the entire station. Yeah, that's right,
and I don't believe he was that far off.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Yeah, and I love the character used to play, you know,
mister k fine, anyone was mister KBC.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
That's a different guy.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
That guy was mad that Wayne Resnick was called the
most well informed guy.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Oh really, yes, in fact, I know that from personally.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Wow, that's great.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Now.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
He was irritated that Wayne Resnick was great.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
That's awesome.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on DEMYA from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Hey, we got a call from Jay Leno during the
break and he wanted to come on, but we were
talking to Wayne Resnick and maybe he'll he'll give us
a callback. But during the commercial break, Sharon Bellio, who
is our executive producer here, has informed me that we're
up for some kind of big award.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Bellio is belling on there, you might, well, what's going on?
I don't are we Are we allowed to talk about this?
I don't know? Are we?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
So?
Speaker 7 (20:35):
On April fifth, the uh, they want to honor you
at the Jonathan Club for the Savoy Note Prince of
Italy is put together to raise money for Katerina's club,
and they would like to honor you.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Oh, that's why they honor great Italian Americans.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
You're not Italian? Sure I am.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
What do you know about me that you're not Italian?
I'm Italian. I'm as as Italian as they get. I
know who is more than you? Oh, Jay Lenno, Yeah,
Leno's with us, Jay Leno?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
How you, Bob?
Speaker 3 (21:06):
I just enjoying your inspiring rags target story there?
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah, which target story?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Well, your life story? How you came up and used
to listen to the station. That's right. I was thinking
of a kid's day, you go. Gee, you know, I
eat the McDonald's every day, and then one day I
went to high school, and then I graduated. Now I
worked there. Now I've been on shakes now for fifteen years,
and they think I started eating here. You know, I
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really heard a person do their own eulogy.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
That's so great. I'm glad you picked up on that. Hey,
j I've got a great idea. By the way, I
don't know if you heard this, but they're honoring me
as a great Italian American on April fifth, and so
we're we're like Italian brothers.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Now, yeah, yeah, that works. You know what's so funny
about that? I couldn't help but think of my father.
You know that guy Luigi whatever his name is, right right,
the most Italian name you could possibly get. Sure, And
when I was a kid in my every time you
had a touch of my fhonck, I have a time
I play Italians and Untouchable every time, the bad guys,
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and my dad would read that serga. He's probably just
half a talent. He's not even all Italian, guy, I
mean that Italian did something wrong. They're not really Italian,
They're just some other.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Thing, you know, right, Jay, I got a great idea
for you, and and I don't I don't want you
to say yes or no right now, but an I
have an opportunity for.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Both of us.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
All right.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
You have a great car collection, is that true?
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Well? Have some cars.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I think you have hundreds of cars, all right, Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I think you could add to it by buying and
displaying the car that I raised my family on, my
two thousand and seven Lincoln Navigator.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
You can add it to your collection. Well, I'll make
you a sweet deal.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
And then people can come by the when they come
buy the shop, they're like, oh, that's Conway's old car.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yeah. I just I just couldn't handle the crowd. That's fine.
I don't have the room, you know, I just think
that would be a huge, huge problem. But yeah, yeah, no,
that sounds fair. I still got that car.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Yeah, I still got the car.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Well, I was not a cheap car. That was like,
when did you buy it? It was last year.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
It was sixty five thousand dollars when I bought it,
and I didn't know how I was going to pay
for it back in two thousand and seven.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Oh okay, but he stated, but Jay, you.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Was state of the art.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
It was the first one that had navigation. Uh, it
had you know, electric everything.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
It was great.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
And then all the other cars passed it, and now
it's uh, you know, it's it's outdated. I have to
buy a new DVD to update the navigation.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Well, I actually wasn't the first to have navigation.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
It was the first something in my in my group
of friends.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I think Columbus might argue with you.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Okay, all right, but Jay, look I had navigation. Nobody
had navigation back then. I had satellite radio built in.
Nobody had that back then.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Nobody. Well, that's a life of privilege.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Yes, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
You're a baby, and that's right.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
And I had that car for eighteen years. I'm going
to tell you what's wrong with it though. Every time
I go out to start it, the back of the
car is sitting on the back tires. So there must
be something wrong with the rear suspension.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Yeah? I think what you have what's called a flat tire.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Now, the tires are in great shape, the car, No,
the tires are in great shape. The car sits on
the tires if it's if it's uh, you know, it
sits long enough.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
What's the problem, do you think.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Well, tires get flat spot. Maybe just don't have enough
You might not have enough air.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I'm telling you. The tires are fine. The car comes
down and sits on the tires. Then I started up
and the car comes up off the tires.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Well, that does have an air suspensions, Yes, yes, it
does well, air suspensions.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Okay, all right, So is that something you can work
on for me or not?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
You know, I can't do it right now because I'm
on the phone. I'm talking to the s the phone.
I can't do it now, but yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd
love to. Yeah, that's it sounds like just the kind
of product I like it involved in.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
That is great.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I saw you on with Bill Maher talking and they're
still beating you up over this, this accident that you
had in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
You know, this is what I love about the press.
It's so stupid.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
It's dumb as hell.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
You know, I'm dyslexic, so I don't Campbell. I go
to Vegas and they go, Sarah, it's twenty one, you
have twenty eight. What you know? I don't know how
to gamble. I'm I just liked the idea that the
mob would drive to Greensburg, Pennsylvania, wait at the Hampton
in on a rainy day for me to show up
and throw me down the hill. I mean, hilarious, hilarious.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Let me ask you a question, are do you?
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Are you listening to some of these new comics like
this theo vonn you know who he is.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I want to call it new comed You know, I
like anything I hate more than comics, trash and other comics.
This guy's no good thing, you know, God bless anybody
makes a living. It's a tough business. And if you
can make a living doing it out, you know, being
racist and thing, you know whatever, good for you. It is, okay,
So I don't you know, I do like everybody doing
it there. And you have different senses of humor, you know.
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I mean I watched the on comics and they're doing
jokes on Vemo and I'm Scott what I never use
those things? Okay, fine, so it's just different, but but
it doesn't mean it's not funny.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I love THEO Vaughn and I think that that he's
like the new Norm McDonald of comedy. I think that
you know that he's he's pretty simple. And people always
thought that Norm McDonald wasn't that bright, But I thought
he was the funniest of all.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Nor McDonald came this close to winning everything on Who
Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Oh? Is that right?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
He got all the ways she knew everything. He was
a smart guy. He was well read. Wow, and he
was really conservative. People think he's like, you know, the
Hollywood liberals. He wasn't.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I remember when he went on Larry King and he
said to Larry, I'm deeply, deeply I'm a deeply, deeply
closeted homosexual, and Larry King said, oh, so you're a homosexual,
because no, Larry, Larry, I'm telling you, Larry Larry, what's
wrong with you? I'm deeply, deeply closeted.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
No, he was. He was funny. David tell story he
used to bring his mother to see me.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
All right, hold on, say.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Hold him and say Jay Leno was about to tell
us the greatest story in the history of the world
about Norm McDonald's mom going to see Jay Leno in concert.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
So hang on, we'll get to that story.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
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Speaker 2 (27:39):
We've been live all week.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
We came back early just because we knew the audience
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Speaker 2 (27:47):
Did for you. Jay Leno is whether us. Jay welcome
back to the program.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Thank you, Thank you for talking about Norm McDonald.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Yeah, so Norm McDonald used to his mom used to
go to your show.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Yeah, amaze. He usaid to bring his mom to see
me because I work clean so he can take his
mom and to see the other comic. So it's funny.
But one day he takes his mom to Vegas. He
takes three thousand dollars out of the bank. They're checking
in at the hotel. He says his mom, I'm gonna
go over here to the table. I'll be right back.
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He goes to the table, loses all his money. He
can't even pay for the hotel. Now he loses all
the money that he has. He had three thousand dollars
to treat his mom for the weekend, thinking that, you know,
and he gets back, he goes, my money. It's so stupid. Yeah,
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so stupid.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
And he had that's all the money he had.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Yeah, I mean, great comic, a genuine original. You know,
there's some people that are funny because they tell jokes.
He just says things funny a lot of times. It's
not necessarily a joke, it's just the way he says it.
And he used his unusual words. And a wiener dog.
This guy's a wiener dog. And you're laughing at the
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name wiener dog because he gets you repeating. You know,
he's just really brilliant. He was fascinating to listen to it,
kind of like almost like a Mark Twain. You know,
you just enjoy hearing him speak.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
When when he was on I think he was on
with Conan O'Brien, and you know, he had a set
that he was going to do, you know, four to
five minutes, and then Conan said, oh, Norm McDonald's going
to stay with us, and Norm m MacDonald flipped out.
He says during the commercial where he goes, I don't
have anything else. I don't know, you know, when we
come back for another five minutes, I've got nothing, And
Conan said, well, just make something up, and he turned
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a thirty second joke into a five minute joke about
some kind of moth or something and was brilliant.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Oh. I think that's the one about the moth goes. Yeah,
I remember that. Yeah, I remember that story. It was
about a moss goes to the dentist and the whole
thing that that that the final dentist goes, why did
you pick me? Because your light was on? And it's
a great joke. It's a great joke.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Yeah, And I I really miss him. He used to
come on with us all the time.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Just one of the nicest guys in the world, never
affected by show business. He was good friends, uh hed.
You know, he had a lot of guys that were friends.
Not necessarily comics, but you know friends that they were
just normal everyday guys.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Yeah, interesting people. You know, he just he he didn't
have a very good meeter for sexist or or whatever.
You know, Timmy, it was all just funny. So he
would all often get in trouble.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Yeah, it was. It was great.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
So I turned my TV on the other day, and
you know, if you have I don't know what I have.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I think it's a spectrum.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
But before spectrum comes on, I have just some kind
of well you would not talk about.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
An arrow disease. You're talking about cable that's right, Yeah, yeah,
and I.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Have and I and I turned the TV on and
forever they were running in reruns, and you know, you
watched a little of that. Then you go on to
cable whatever. And now Letterman has his own station where
it's all his old reruns, which is great because that's
when Letterman was funny.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Right, right, and some tentament was always funny, always yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
But but nowadays, you know, with the this guy needs
no introduction, there's no humor in those things.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
He's a very serious man.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Nowadays, this straight interview. That is true.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
But Jay, you never gave up comedy. He did.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Well, you know, Day was never comfortable being a stand
up comedian. Day was a brilliant host and and truly
a funny comedian, but he didn't like the road. I mean,
one of the funniest things was Letterman on the Road
opening for Tony Orlando. I mean, that's just the funniest
combination you could imagine. He was just so uncomfortable because
he was always wildly ironic in his humor and if
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you need to get that or you don't, I mean,
he always made me laugh. I mean since the first
time I I went up to and I said, you know,
I love the way you you're your great wordsmith. I
like how you weave words together. And he goes, how
could you get up there and just start talking about
not being nervous? So we kind of feed off each other,
you know. He took from me a certain amount of energy,
and I took from him. Boy, that's a really clever
(32:16):
way of speaking and talking, you know, So we really
when I would do his show, it's still my favorite
time of my career, just going on and just let
him and deliberately try to sidetrack me, and then I
would I would come back, and it was always it
was always just my favorite time in my career because
it wasn't like, it wasn't any competition. It was just
(32:38):
another comic and he was the guy with the show,
and it was wonderful. I really enjoyed it. I really
looked back fondly on those days.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
What about What was your relationship with Johnny Carson?
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Did you hang with Johnny?
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Well, no, you don't hang with you know, I grew
up in New England, where you know, like to me,
the strange thing of being in California. Oh Jay, these
are my parents, Bob and Agnes. Well, how are you missing?
Miss Manatub? I can't call you Bob and Agnes. I'm sorry,
you're my friend's parents. So I go, thank you, mister Causton.
He goes, it's done, okay, Johnny. I mean, I just
I'm with you. I'm with you, you know, it's it's
(33:12):
just a different way of being brought up. You just
people are elders, and so with Johnny, I couldn't. Never,
I couldn't say to Johnny, hey, Johnny, nice tie pal.
You know you can't you can't do that. But with
let them and I could, and that was it was
a fun part.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
I'm the same way.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
I have friends from you know, third grade, you know,
Matt McDaniel, Robbie Fox, Mike Tennessee. And when I when
I run into their parents, I still call them mister
Fox or missus McDaniel and missus Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
And I can't stop that.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Yeah. Well, my own, my own history teacher came to
see me. Uh can I I guess your drink? Mister
Robsha coll me Fred, com me Fred. I'm not giving.
I'm giving a guy named Fred or whiskey. Okay, you're
gonna have a soft drink. Mister. You know you're my
history teacher. I'm sorry, I can't you. Yeah. No, it's
just very very funny. It's very fun.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
It's being up properly, is what that is. By calling somebody,
where are you performing? I know you're in Burbank? Are
you at Flappers? Have you already done that?
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Right now? Actually eight o'clock. I just go, okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
I always know why you're calling, because you always want
to promote your your gig.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
So tonight while you're touching stories, your rags, the target
story that touched me that so many young people, that's great.
The fact that to show your love of the institution.
You were drunk every day.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
That's right, That's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
It's fabulous.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Jay tonight at eight o'clock at Flappers. I went to
see you at Flappers about six months ago. You're very
kind to leave me two tickets. And I'm telling you,
I'm telling you that audience was not from Burbank.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
They were not from California. They're from out of town.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
And they were all taking photos and they couldn't believe
they're sitting in a room where Jay Lennon was performing.
They man, they they laughed for an hour and a half.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Well, thanks many, I was. You know, it's a great
You know, when I was a kid, I used to
love the Danny Thomas Show because Danny Thomas was the
performer and he would be at home with his family
and then at night he'd go out to the club
to work and come home again. I thought, we wouldn't
it be great if you could be a comedian. We're
not going out of town. You could just go to
the club try out joke. So when Flapper's open, when
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the Comedy Magic Club opening to Rosa Beach, I would
say to my I mean, I'm going to see my agent,
Sid Helper and I'm going to go out to the club,
you know, Sid Helper with Danny Thomas's agent on the show.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
It always used to make me laugh. I thought, oh god,
I'm living the life I wanted to live and ize
a little kid.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Yeah, that's awesome, buddy, break a leg tonight. They still say.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Thanks, thanks, good luck then and keep you know, write
a book about that inspiring story about I will.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
All right, thanks, that's great. Jay Leno is the only
guy that seized right through all that crap. That's awesome.
Not the only guy.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
My wife cecar that as well, but jay Leno talks
about it on the air, which I appreciate. Jay Leno
on his way to Flap tonight. It's in Burbank off
of Magnolia. Maybe he can get tickets. He goes on
at eight o'clock. I love the fact that Jay Leno
is on his way to Flappers. The show doesn't start
till he gets there, and he only lives like fifteen
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minutes from there, and he leaves at five point thirty.
That's old school. That's like my dad. My dad is
exact was the exact same way, and so you can
go see j tonight at Flappers and Burbank. Try to
get some Try to get a ticket or two. It's
gonna be a great show. Diggedong with that Jay Leno.
All right, lots of show there. It's only two hours,
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