September 20, 2024 • 30 mins
Guest: Tiffany Hobbs on the USC vs Michigan game that is happening this weekend with the Big Ten opener tomorrow. And Caitlin Clark’s impact on the WNBA. // Mo breaks down watching the WNBA playoffs which started this week. // Joyce Dewitt looks back on Three’s Company // Crosstalk with Mark Rahner and Tiffany Hobbs about what’s coming up next.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KMFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Tomorrow at twelve thirty will be the first Big ten
game for the USC Trojans, and it could not be bigger.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Going to the Big House in ann Arbor, Michigan to
face off against the number eighteen Wolverines. The Trojans are
number eleven right now. And I grew up as a
longtime USC Trojans fan, Sorry UCLA. I was always partial
to the Trojans and that goes back to my father
taking me to a USC basketball game in the mid
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nineteen seventies and I was a Trojan fan ever since.
But USC football has been up and down over the
past two years. I was talking to petros of Petrosen
Money earlier today. It even he was kind of bullish
on this team as far as its prospects, the potential
that it might be able to do something thing. But
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I'm not an sc alum. Tiffany Hobbs, who you will hear,
paired up with Mark Ronner as they take over for
me and it's a hosting later with Mo Kelly later
on tonight. Tiffany Hobbs is an sc alum.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I grew up.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Loving the PAC eight, which turned into the PAC ten,
which turned into the PAC twelve, and now the PAC
twelve is.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It's still around, but it's not what it was.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Did it have any significance to you, Tiffany, when USC
and UCLA and other schools bolted for the Big ten?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Absolutely? And first, thank you for playing our fight song.
I was in here with my V for victory, doing
our salute and you know, pumping my fingers, and it
just takes me back. I'm of the Pete Carroll generation.
I'm of the forty for forty generation, that ESP and
documentary that was done. I believe if you're thirty for thirty,
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I had the numbers wrong. You knew what I meant, MO,
But I'm of that ILK. I'm of the Matt Lionard
and Reggie Lyndell White and all of them. And so
playing Michigan for me is something that's always been relegated
to the National Championship, to the Rose Bowl, so that
we're playing them during season is monumental. It's something we
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usually wait for all year, and now it's at the
beginning and all of this momentum is just crashing.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yes, it has a lot of significance.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
What about the symbolism of the Rose Bowl never again
being the Rose Bowl what we have always thought it
to be.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Right, I'm not happy about that because there's so much
nostalgia attached to that January first game, just to that
period of time. So the fact that we're no longer
going to have the Rose Bowl as kind of a
marker or like essentially a really significant time in history
during our football season, it's kind of sad.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
It's a bit bittersweet. I look forward to it every year.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
I don't necessary barely attend, but it's always something I
look to as the pinnacle of USC football and it's
no longer there.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
What was it like being a student at USC during
the Pete Carroll era? You know what it's like when
it was at its best, and you know what it's
like when it wasn't at its best. To know when
you have a Heisman Trophy candidate and or winner walking
around campus, maybe in class with you, Oh yeah, oh yeah,
what was that time like?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
It was normal. It was a normal collegiate experience.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
They weren't the superstars they've become. They were well known
because Athletics is a huge part of USC in every
field for the most part, with football being the biggest.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
But you noticed these people.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I befriended these people just as classmates. I had Reggie
Bush in classes. I had Matt Lioner sitting behind me
in sociology and we were swapping notes.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
So are you just showing off now? Huh?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
And you know, again, it was a very normal experience,
but you did know that these students were special and
that they were being celebrated outside of our little cacophony
on campus. Pete Carroll, on the other hand, was absolutely
a celebrity. Oh really, Oh my god. He walked around
and I swear it was like the Red Sea. It
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just parted. People just moved out of his way as
Pete Carroll walked through campus, and he couldn't have been
a nicer person.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Twenty years or so later, now, Reggie Bush has been
reinstated as far as USC, He's gotten back his Heisband trophy.
But I don't know how people may feel about Pete
Carroll in the years since, given the loss of scholarships,
the loss of a national championship, you know, vacating that championship,
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and loss of wins.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
How is he viewed within campus circles. He's still very
much beloved.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
He's Pete Carroll, and many people, many USC alums, look
back at that period as being the best stretch of
USC football, or at least one of the top two
or three in USC's football history. So Pete Carroll is
again beloved, He's revered. If he wanted to come back,
I am dollars to donut sure they would have him back.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I don't know if he would go back to college.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
For me, he wouldn't, but if he wanted to, he could.
I think he always has a home at USC. So
does Reggie Bush, so do many others who come from
that from that family.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Well, look, this is kind of like a pre cross talk,
So let me just ask you this before I let
you go. You are going to be co hosting with
Mark Ronner, who's usually in the news booth, but you
two are both going to be steering the Lady with
Mo Kelly ship tonight. Yeah, don't wreck it, okay, Please,
don't run it aground, don't think it, don't do anything
that I wouldn't do.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Is we're going to treat it like a cruise.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Mo.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
And that's something that you would be happy to be
on with us. Okay, I know a lot about cruising.
It won't be the naked cruise. I know you guys
were talking about looking at yourselves in the mirror naked
and you enjoying that.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Wait wait, wait, don't confuse stories.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I said, me looking at myself in the mirror is
for when I'm at home.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I would never go on a naked cruise.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I tell people all the.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Time the idea of certain things is not the same
as the reality.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Like if you've ever.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Been to Black's Beach, you know what I'm saying, Like,
have you ever been to like a nude beat you
think like, oh, it'd be great.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
No, it's not. It really isn't. It's not.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
There's a lot of skin, a lot of flopping and
flapping around.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Gravity is not everybody's friend.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
And the same thing, I shouldn't tell too many stories.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
All I'm saying is, yes, get on a cruise ship tonight.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Okay, just don't get on the nude cruise. We won't
and we will try very hard not to sink your ship.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Mode. We won't sink your battleship, so to speak. So
to speak.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Thank you very much. So prediction tomorrow SC Michigan.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Oh, SC.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
We've won the last two times we've played, We've won.
We've beaten them a lot, We've beaten the breaks off
of them. Oh, the last two times we've played, and
I've I feel like I'm jinxing us now, but I
do believe very much that we will win.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
We have to win. Yeah, y'all better, we we have
to win, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Tiffany Hobbs, Tiffty Hobbs and Mark Ronn are coming up
at seven o'clock in for me later with Mo Kelly.
I wish you all luck, Thank you, Mo, see you
Conway Show, Mo Kelly here KFI AM six forty live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We're going to keep the
sports thing going because you know Caitlyn Clark, she has
revolutionized women's basketball, especially the w NBA. Well, the w
(07:29):
NBA playoffs start this weekend, and if you like me,
you're gonna want to tune in.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I'm gonna tell you how you can do that. That's next.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
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Speaker 2 (07:42):
Then just a second, we'll give you an update on
the upcoming w NBA Playoffs, which kicks off this weekend,
is going to be huge in the world of DWS
and sports.
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Mokelly Monday through Friday, seven to ten pm here on KFI.
We were talking about the WNBA long before it was fashionable,
long before the person by the name of Caitlin Clark
came on this seen long before she was talked about
in college at Iowa, And you've heard Tim Carmell Junior
talking about Kaitlyn Clark talking about how she's changed the
(09:11):
level of interest, how people started really watching WNBA all
because of her. Can't deny, but the sport is actually
a good product once you take the time to watch it,
learn some of the players, learn some of the team histories,
the rivalries. Who are some of the big names in
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the sport, and there are some big names, you can
enjoy it all the better. And Caitlyn Clark has transformed
what people know and think about w NBA basketball. She
came in as a heralded rookie. Some people thought that
there would be an adjustment period, and there was. She
didn't get off to the greatest start, but she quickly
(09:53):
found her sea legs and found a way to not
only survive, but thrive. She's led her team to the playoffs.
Indi at a fever and it starts on Sunday.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
It's crazy to see since the season began and her,
you know, playing throughout the season, all of these social
media takes of people in criticizing her. For those of
us old enough to know better, it sounds exactly like
when Jordan first came into the league.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
You know, I would make a slightly different change, a
different assessment, not like Jordan, because Jordan came in and
dominated in a points sence, he's.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
A scoring leader.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I think she's closer in comparison to Magic Johnson as
far as how is her game formulation.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
As far as the criticism of her, well, yes, the
what I was talking about is that the criticism I
see of her, like online all this season has been, oh, yeah,
she gets all the points and assist but because she
takes all these shots, and you know, it's like it's
it's more a matter of the quantity that she's taken
to get the numbers that she has. And it's like,
that's what they said about Jordan the beginning.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
She's a rookie.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
There are things that she can improve in our game,
but she is single handedly most responsible for the turnaround
of the Indiana Fever franchise as Jordan.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
You know, in many ways, Ran did so much for
the NBA. You can't argue with success.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Now, is she the MVP, No, that's Asia Wilson by
a lot. Is she the rookie of the Year? Absolutely? Absolutely?
Can she make some noise in the playoffs? We'll see
they're coming in in the in the sixth slot. They're
going up against the Connecticut Sun and their first game
is this Sunday at twelve noon on ABC. To put
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that in perspective, that's like a Sunday NBA game and
time slot.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
How many how many teams do not make the w
NBA playoffs?
Speaker 7 (11:45):
I want to say about half really, because they were saying,
I mean, considering that's that's pretty phenomenal, considering how bad
that team was before she got there.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Well, they got to number one draft picks, one number
one overall draft picks the past two year. They were
that bad and for the first half of this WNBA
season they were still that bad, which highlights I would
say the outsized impact that Caitlyn Clark has had. She
broke the single season assists record as a rookie. Now
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where I said that she needed to improve her game,
she also I think broke the record for most turnovers
in the season, and that has to do with decision making.
That has to do with just maturing as a player,
and that will happen with time. And I was saying,
I more compare her game to Magic Johnson as far
as making other players around her better. It's not just
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her where on a given night she may throw in
a triple double, but she may also be the catalyst
for other teammates doing well.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
She's only going to get better. I mean, just love averages.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Law of averages, and you know what, And from what
I can tell, she seems durable in other words, not
prone to injury.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
Yeah, and she doesn't seem to really or struggle and
just mentally she seems like she's got the toughness to
kind of stick it through and get better.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Oh she does, but she does have to improve her
ball handling, she has to improve her defense, and yes,
players do get better. People forget she's only like twenty
two or twenty three, which means that she's only been
a fully grown adult in her adult body and skills
for maybe five years at most. You're not really fully
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matured into well to your twenties.
Speaker 7 (13:28):
She's definitely given an excitement to people who otherwise had
not given a crap about WNBA before, including myself.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Right, and again, I can't stress it enough. I hate that.
You can't hate it now.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
You can dislike her fan base, sure, because a lot
of them are not actual WNBA fans. They're not knowledgeable
about the game, and they make these proclamations about Caitlin
Clark that just aren't true, like saying that she needed
to be the MVP. No, she's not close. She's had
a wonderful year, but she's not the MVP of the league.
That only speaks to you not knowing who the best
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player in the league is, and it's by a lot
aga Wilson. But could it be next year? Quite possibly.
She's on a wonderful trajectory.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Again.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
This game, the Indiana Fever Game, is going to be
twelve noon Sunday. That's usually reserved for NBA caliber weekend games.
Could you say that a year ago could not not
even close. And there's what happens on the court, and
there's what happens off the court. On the court, she's
not the best player. Off the court, she's the most
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compelling player. Both things are true. Now she has the
biggest spotlight on her and careers and legacies are made
in the playoffs, and she will have more scrutiny now
than ever before because the casual fan, the non fan,
the people who are listening down it's like, let me
check out this Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
They're all going to be tuning in on Sunday and
it's going to remind you of Kobe because his first
year was not oh you are reading my mind.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Because that first year that Kobe was with the Lakers,
they had this series against the Utah Jazz and he's
best known for throwing up maybe four or five consecutive
air balls ricks.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
It's a different level of pressure.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Has nothing to do with ability physical abilities, about being
able to manage your emotions in the moment. This is
going to be huge for not only Kitlyn Clark, but
for the WNBA, and for all the jokes about how
the WNBA had horrible basketball or it couldn't pay for
itself and the NBA was subsidizing it. They have a
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massive TV deal which is coming and a rising tide
lists all boats, all the players will be paid more,
They'll have a larger slice of the pie. Caitlin Clark
has been fantastic for the WNBA. It's just now she's
going to have to put up for everyone to see
on the biggest stage, and I'm going to be watching.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
You're listening Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Did you know it's been forty years and two days
since the series finale of Three's Company September eighth excuse me,
September eighteenth, forty years ago, the final episode of threes Company.
And it saddens me because, of course, as we get older,
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we have these constant reminders of our mortality. Actress Joyce
de Witt obviously played Janet is seventy five now and
she's the last surviving member of that show. And you
think about other TV shows of the eighties and late seventies,
and most of them are down to no one left
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or only one person left, like Laverne and Shirley.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Lenny Is.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
The actor Michael McKeon, who played Lenny, is the last
surviving member of the show. They have Max the Beverly Hillbillies.
You have Tina Louise who played Ginger on Gilligan's Island.
She's the last surviving member. Leave it to Beaver. Jerry Mathers,
the Beaver himself is the last surviving member, Pam Dauber,
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who played many of Mork and Mindy the last surviving member.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
And so on.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
So we're losing these great actors and actresses from these
phenomenal TV shows, so it's always good to hear from
them while we can still hear from them. And Joyce
to Wit was asked about the fortieth anniversary of the
series finale of Three's Company, and here's what she had
to say to US Weekly Magazine. Quote. The most dear, precious, tender,
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and utterly unexpected experiences that have come from working in
Three's Company are the many, many adults who have told
me that Three's Company was a safe haven they could
count on during their teen years.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
For some, the only say haven.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
And it's weird because I fit into that because I
was watching Three's Company during some of my teenage years.
Three's Company ran for eight seasons from nineteen seventy six
to nineteen eighty four. Of course it never really left syndication,
and if you are not old enough to remember, but
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it was all about Jack Tripper, who was played by
the late John Ritter, and he moved him too an
apartment with Janet Wood and Chrissy snow and it was
a really big deal back then because, as the show goes,
Jack had to fake as if he was gay to
be allowed to stay in the same apartment as two women.
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And the running joke was be it mister Roper or
mister Furley, was that Jack Tripper was supposedly gay and
he was not any type of sexual threat to Janet
or Chrissy. And you would think today it's like, how
does that even work? Why would that even be a
TV show? And Michael Croach, you remember, it was a
big damn deal back then.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
He was.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
He's basically the reason why I'm here in La. That
show and him are the basically the reasons why I
came out here to La to try to do what
he did and make people feel the way that he
made me feel watching him.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
His brand of physical humor was so funny, and I
don't know if they could have written all that stuff
in with his facial expressions, his facial contortions, there's a
lot of physical humor that you just don't see. Well, hell,
you don't even see sitcoms anymore, but you don't see
that type of humor done with such genius anymore.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
I still do affectations and sounds and stuff that he
did like a Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
He was probably the biggest reason why I came out
here to La.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
And you talk about Joyce, to which she was always
one who, for the most part, played Janet straight. She
was not ditsy like Chris See, she was not wild
like Jack. She was always the stabilizing influence as far
as the character goes.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
I preferred her to Christy. Oh I did too, Don't
get me wrong.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
You know Christy was fine as sid Did you know,
I learned relatively recently. If you know the opening, and
that's part of the reason why I played the theme.
If you know the opening to the show, Jack is
riding his bike on the beach I think it's Venice Beach,
and he falls over because some beautiful brunette is walking
by in the other direction. I didn't know until recently
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that was Suzanne Summers in a wig in a wig. Yes, No,
I'm serious, I didn't know. Looked at this, Yes, I
didn't know that. Because it's one of those trivia things.
I wonder who that woman was. He like you try
to look it up on IMDb, and maybe he had
something to do with the fortieth anniversary of the final
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show coming up, and then they said, no, it was
the passing of Suzanne Summers, that's what it was. And
they were talking about how she was the brunette just
in a wig walking the other way that makes Jack
fall off his bike. Wow, And I said, after all
these years, I did not know. And it's like that's
the best part. You get to learn something about these
shows and the characters and the actors and actresses who
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played them, and it's it's weird for me because as
talented as Joyce de Witt obviously was, that was about
the only thing she I know, she did some mother
bit TV work, but she did not move on to
anything else, not that she needed to, but she didn't
in the way that you saw more of Suzanne Summers.
You saw more of obviously John Ritter and the other
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actors like chryl Tea's whoever else who played.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
The blonde on the show, right, because they went through
three or three or I think at least three.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I feel like there was a forced one. Ye it
might have.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Been, but you know it it's just she's always been.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
There was four. I don't remember the names, but yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Look it up for us real quick. Now, this is
gonna bother me. This is the worst part of getting older.
I can't remember all the names.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Say.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
The other thing that I learned about the intro, I
know there's different variations of it, but I don't know.
I don't even know where I saw this, but I
never forgot it. But there's a scene where in the
opening there's a kid that runs and I think Joyce
Dewitz the one that picks him up. That's actually John
Ridder's son, as in like Jace Jason ridd the one
who's a star. Now, yeah, wow, that's what I thought
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you were gonna say.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
And I was like, oh, yeah, I heard about that too.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Look all I can say is and I think Michael
Will there's three three.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Yeah, yeah. It was after Chrissy Snow. It was her cousin.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
It was Cindy Snow, Jenny Lee Harrison, which nobody really
cared about, and then the last one was Priscilla Barnes.
Priscilla Barnes Kerry Alden. I remember the first.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Time I saw it because ABC ruled television back then
and this was an ABC show. The first time I
saw the flower Pot of Water Pour on Susanne Summers
in that black bathing suit.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
You were done.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Look, I was seven years old. All I knew was
she was beautiful. I didn't know what to do with myself.
And I never missed another episode, let me tell.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
You that much. Yeah, oh goodness.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Forty years since the final episode, the series finale of
Three's Company, and I didn't know they actually had a
final episode. A lot of these shows they just kind
of go away, but they actually had a final episode.
And Joyce to Wit said that she wanted something different
for her character.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
She wanted her her Well, this is what she had
to say.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Quote I, as in Joyce to Wit, was a bit
offended when it was time to retire the show that
they chose to marry her off as in Janet as
the path forward for that character. I would have sent
her to law school or medical school, or to the
Peace Corps. To her point, yes, that probably made more
sense with what we knew about Janet. That would have
been great too. But it's nineteen eighty four, is that
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you know, that's like pre Murphy Brown. We're still dealing
with the reality of Mary Tyler Moore. If you know your.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
History right on that cusp. A couple of years later,
that's probably very much what they would have done.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
And along those same lines, remember the show One Day
at a Time. The whole idea of a divorcee, you know,
or Alice living by herself and her son. TV was
not as progressive small p as people want to think.
There was a real growth process that TV had to
go through in the late nineteen seventies.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
In the early nineteen eighties, Conway show, mo Kelly here,
we have one more segment.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
We'll probably sit down with Mark Ronner and see what
he is up to as he and Tiffany hops are
getting ready to share the chair and fill in for
me with Later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
That's next.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Just in for tonight. Conway will be back on Monday.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
But just in case you are not familiar with me,
I host lated with Mo Kelly from seven to ten PM.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Well, exception of tonight.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I'm going to be filled in by Mark Ronner and
Tiffany Hobbs, who will be sharing the chair.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Mark Ronner, what's on a show tonight? We are going
to fill you in, Mo.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
It's the same show as usual, except we all just
kind of moved over a chair, didn't we We're gonna
do musical chairs. Yeah, we're gonna do that name that
cult movie classic. In the nine o'clock hour, we're gonna
do the Runner Report. You're gonna have to wait till
then to find out whether or not you should see
the Penguin. We're gonna talk about a couple salacious things
in the news, including that Olivia Newsy scandal with RFK Junior.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
You know what, I think you and I look at
scandals like that a different way. I think we hold
reporters in journal journalist professionals to a higher standard. I
was so dismayed when I saw that story. Oh and
we should hold them us to a higher standard. You
got to keep your nose clean. And I think that
she deserves to be excommunicated. Go find another job, Go
(26:05):
go work in pr some we're going to talk about that.
We're going to talk about Diddy.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Ellen has a new special coming up on Netflix. I
have a thought or two on that. It's going to
be a jam packed show. The only thing missing will
be you, Moe Kelly, the host of the show. I'm
read right here. No, I'll be in the car all
my way home.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
But talk about that real quickly, the musical chair and
the different muscles you got to use, the gears you
have to.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Shift, moving from news to personality.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Yeah, I'll say well, I was actually a host of
a show of my own in Seattle before I did
news here. But before I was a host in Seattle,
I was also a longtime print journalism reporter and columnist
and op ed writer, And so I've done a lot
of different things, and you do kind of have to
switch gears and make sure you do some things and
(26:56):
don't do other things. You know, like when you're reporting
the news, you can just start riffing about your thoughts
on who's a jerk, who you don't like, what's messed up?
You deliver the news. Here's a little bit different, I mean,
because I have to go back and forth. I have
to watch what I say a little bit still. But
oh no, no, we're letting fly tonight, mo.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
You know. I try to tell people everyone has one
radio show in them. If I were to pick someone
off the street and say, hey, do a radio show,
they probably could if they could choose their pet topics
and say I want to talk about this.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I want to talk about that, talk about that.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
But once you do show after show after show, you
realize it gets more and more difficult. You have to
deal with the news which is in front of you,
which you're not really choosing, and you have to keep
your audience in mind, where you may want to talk
about one thing, but you can't ignore what is what
they call the talker and so forth.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Oh, that's absolutely right.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
And whether you're being a talk host or a journalist,
news anchor whatever, or a reporter, you do you kind
of have to become an instant expert on X number
of things a day and then move on to things
the next day. So you're a little bit of a dilettante?
Is that too big a word? Am I gonna get
scolded for using the word dileton Yes? You will, because
(28:14):
I'll tell you our boss Robin She said, don't don't
use the big words.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Don't use the big words, use the smaller words. Why
don't sound like Gilbert Gottfried used.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
The smaller words the jack of all trades, master of none.
How's that is that familiar enough?
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:28):
He gets almost like, you don't need to use such
those big words.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I said, well, well, those are words I actually use
in my normal everyday conversation.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Yeah, I say recapitulate. Well that's a little high falute.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
No, no, no.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
I got scolded for using other word pugnacious a couple
of weeks ago, and I didn't realize that was too
many syllables. I always feel like when I get scolded
for using a word, it's like you ever see Amedeus?
And by the way, I've been spoken to for making
too many movie references. But amedeis Wolfgang Amadanas Mozart. He's
dealing with the king of what is it Germany?
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Austria?
Speaker 5 (29:04):
I think Vienna. I forget there is no king of Vienna.
The end, it's the guy Jeffrey Jones who says that, well,
I don't like this. It has too many notes. There's
too many notes in it. What do you mean, It's
just too many. So that's how I feel when somebody
tells me I used a word that was too big.
It's like I don't know. When I hear a word
that I don't know, I want to learn what the
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word is it. If it puts you on edge, all
use a smaller word.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I remember talking to Robin bless her Heart.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I said well, it's talk rado, so you know, how
could I have too many words?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
How can I have too many syllables? It's kind of
your stock in trade. It is what I do.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
It's tools in the tool chest, you know, but it's
I wish I could pull everyone behind the curtain so
they see that it's it is a discipline and you
have to be a student of your craft now.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
And you're really good at it. I know that.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Largely what we do on the show from day to
day and week to week is we bust on each
other and mock each other and laugh at each other
and look for ways to get one in on each other.
But you're the kind of good at it that people
don't understand. Not everybody can do it. The easier you
make it look, the more you thind it's just like writing,
the more you think anybody could do it, Yeah, just
(30:15):
sit behind the mic and talk. But no, no, no,
not everybody can do it. And you're exceptionally good at it. Well,
I appreciate that, you know. Make sure that you let
me know where to Venmo. You for that compliment. Yeah,
you'll put that in a promo.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
I know.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Coming up next is later with Mo Kelly just without Mo, Kelly, Mark,
and Tiffany k if I AM six forty We're live
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Speaker 1 (30:38):
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It's KMFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Tomorrow at twelve thirty will be the first Big ten
game for the USC Trojans, and it could not be bigger.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Going to the Big House in ann Arbor, Michigan to
face off against the number eighteen Wolverines. The Trojans are
number eleven right now. And I grew up as a
longtime USC Trojans fan, Sorry UCLA. I was always partial
to the Trojans and that goes back to my father
taking me to a USC basketball game in the mid
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nineteen seventies and I was a Trojan fan ever since.
But USC football has been up and down over the
past two years. I was talking to petros of Petrosen
Money earlier today. It even he was kind of bullish
on this team as far as its prospects, the potential
that it might be able to do something thing. But
(01:02):
I'm not an sc alum. Tiffany Hobbs, who you will hear,
paired up with Mark Ronner as they take over for
me and it's a hosting later with Mo Kelly later
on tonight. Tiffany Hobbs is an sc alum.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I grew up.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Loving the PAC eight, which turned into the PAC ten,
which turned into the PAC twelve, and now the PAC
twelve is.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It's still around, but it's not what it was.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Did it have any significance to you, Tiffany, when USC
and UCLA and other schools bolted for the Big ten?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Absolutely? And first, thank you for playing our fight song.
I was in here with my V for victory, doing
our salute and you know, pumping my fingers, and it
just takes me back. I'm of the Pete Carroll generation.
I'm of the forty for forty generation, that ESP and
documentary that was done. I believe if you're thirty for thirty,
(01:54):
I had the numbers wrong. You knew what I meant, MO,
But I'm of that ILK. I'm of the Matt Lionard
and Reggie Lyndell White and all of them. And so
playing Michigan for me is something that's always been relegated
to the National Championship, to the Rose Bowl, so that
we're playing them during season is monumental. It's something we
(02:16):
usually wait for all year, and now it's at the
beginning and all of this momentum is just crashing.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yes, it has a lot of significance.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
What about the symbolism of the Rose Bowl never again
being the Rose Bowl what we have always thought it
to be.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Right, I'm not happy about that because there's so much
nostalgia attached to that January first game, just to that
period of time. So the fact that we're no longer
going to have the Rose Bowl as kind of a
marker or like essentially a really significant time in history
during our football season, it's kind of sad.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
It's a bit bittersweet. I look forward to it every year.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
I don't necessary barely attend, but it's always something I
look to as the pinnacle of USC football and it's
no longer there.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
What was it like being a student at USC during
the Pete Carroll era? You know what it's like when
it was at its best, and you know what it's
like when it wasn't at its best. To know when
you have a Heisman Trophy candidate and or winner walking
around campus, maybe in class with you, Oh yeah, oh yeah,
what was that time like?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
It was normal. It was a normal collegiate experience.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
They weren't the superstars they've become. They were well known
because Athletics is a huge part of USC in every
field for the most part, with football being the biggest.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
But you noticed these people.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I befriended these people just as classmates. I had Reggie
Bush in classes. I had Matt Lioner sitting behind me
in sociology and we were swapping notes.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
So are you just showing off now? Huh?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
And you know, again, it was a very normal experience,
but you did know that these students were special and
that they were being celebrated outside of our little cacophony
on campus. Pete Carroll, on the other hand, was absolutely
a celebrity. Oh really, Oh my god. He walked around
and I swear it was like the Red Sea. It
(04:17):
just parted. People just moved out of his way as
Pete Carroll walked through campus, and he couldn't have been
a nicer person.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Twenty years or so later, now, Reggie Bush has been
reinstated as far as USC, He's gotten back his Heisband trophy.
But I don't know how people may feel about Pete
Carroll in the years since, given the loss of scholarships,
the loss of a national championship, you know, vacating that championship,
(04:47):
and loss of wins.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
How is he viewed within campus circles. He's still very
much beloved.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
He's Pete Carroll, and many people, many USC alums, look
back at that period as being the best stretch of
USC football, or at least one of the top two
or three in USC's football history. So Pete Carroll is
again beloved, He's revered. If he wanted to come back,
I am dollars to donut sure they would have him back.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I don't know if he would go back to college.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
For me, he wouldn't, but if he wanted to, he could.
I think he always has a home at USC. So
does Reggie Bush, so do many others who come from
that from that family.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Well, look, this is kind of like a pre cross talk,
So let me just ask you this before I let
you go. You are going to be co hosting with
Mark Ronner, who's usually in the news booth, but you
two are both going to be steering the Lady with
Mo Kelly ship tonight. Yeah, don't wreck it, okay, Please,
don't run it aground, don't think it, don't do anything
that I wouldn't do.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Is we're going to treat it like a cruise.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Mo.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
And that's something that you would be happy to be
on with us. Okay, I know a lot about cruising.
It won't be the naked cruise. I know you guys
were talking about looking at yourselves in the mirror naked
and you enjoying that.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Wait wait, wait, don't confuse stories.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I said, me looking at myself in the mirror is
for when I'm at home.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I would never go on a naked cruise.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I tell people all the.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Time the idea of certain things is not the same
as the reality.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Like if you've ever.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Been to Black's Beach, you know what I'm saying, Like,
have you ever been to like a nude beat you
think like, oh, it'd be great.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
No, it's not. It really isn't. It's not.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
There's a lot of skin, a lot of flopping and
flapping around.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Gravity is not everybody's friend.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
And the same thing, I shouldn't tell too many stories.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
All I'm saying is, yes, get on a cruise ship tonight.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Okay, just don't get on the nude cruise. We won't
and we will try very hard not to sink your ship.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Mode. We won't sink your battleship, so to speak. So
to speak.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Thank you very much. So prediction tomorrow SC Michigan.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Oh, SC.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
We've won the last two times we've played, We've won.
We've beaten them a lot, We've beaten the breaks off
of them. Oh, the last two times we've played, and
I've I feel like I'm jinxing us now, but I
do believe very much that we will win.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
We have to win. Yeah, y'all better, we we have
to win, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Tiffany Hobbs, Tiffty Hobbs and Mark Ronn are coming up
at seven o'clock in for me later with Mo Kelly.
I wish you all luck, Thank you, Mo, see you
Conway Show, Mo Kelly here KFI AM six forty live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We're going to keep the
sports thing going because you know Caitlyn Clark, she has
revolutionized women's basketball, especially the w NBA. Well, the w
(07:29):
NBA playoffs start this weekend, and if you like me,
you're gonna want to tune in.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I'm gonna tell you how you can do that. That's next.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Then just a second, we'll give you an update on
the upcoming w NBA Playoffs, which kicks off this weekend,
is going to be huge in the world of DWS
and sports.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
But I have to remind you of this.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
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is your only hint you don't get any more. Let's
talk about the WNBA and on my show later with
(08:49):
Mokelly Monday through Friday, seven to ten pm here on KFI.
We were talking about the WNBA long before it was fashionable,
long before the person by the name of Caitlin Clark
came on this seen long before she was talked about
in college at Iowa, And you've heard Tim Carmell Junior
talking about Kaitlyn Clark talking about how she's changed the
(09:11):
level of interest, how people started really watching WNBA all
because of her. Can't deny, but the sport is actually
a good product once you take the time to watch it,
learn some of the players, learn some of the team histories,
the rivalries. Who are some of the big names in
(09:32):
the sport, and there are some big names, you can
enjoy it all the better. And Caitlyn Clark has transformed
what people know and think about w NBA basketball. She
came in as a heralded rookie. Some people thought that
there would be an adjustment period, and there was. She
didn't get off to the greatest start, but she quickly
(09:53):
found her sea legs and found a way to not
only survive, but thrive. She's led her team to the playoffs.
Indi at a fever and it starts on Sunday.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
It's crazy to see since the season began and her,
you know, playing throughout the season, all of these social
media takes of people in criticizing her. For those of
us old enough to know better, it sounds exactly like
when Jordan first came into the league.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
You know, I would make a slightly different change, a
different assessment, not like Jordan, because Jordan came in and
dominated in a points sence, he's.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
A scoring leader.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I think she's closer in comparison to Magic Johnson as
far as how is her game formulation.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
As far as the criticism of her, well, yes, the
what I was talking about is that the criticism I
see of her, like online all this season has been, oh, yeah,
she gets all the points and assist but because she
takes all these shots, and you know, it's like it's
it's more a matter of the quantity that she's taken
to get the numbers that she has. And it's like,
that's what they said about Jordan the beginning.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
She's a rookie.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
There are things that she can improve in our game,
but she is single handedly most responsible for the turnaround
of the Indiana Fever franchise as Jordan.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
You know, in many ways, Ran did so much for
the NBA. You can't argue with success.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Now, is she the MVP, No, that's Asia Wilson by
a lot. Is she the rookie of the Year? Absolutely? Absolutely?
Can she make some noise in the playoffs? We'll see
they're coming in in the in the sixth slot. They're
going up against the Connecticut Sun and their first game
is this Sunday at twelve noon on ABC. To put
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that in perspective, that's like a Sunday NBA game and
time slot.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
How many how many teams do not make the w
NBA playoffs?
Speaker 7 (11:45):
I want to say about half really, because they were saying,
I mean, considering that's that's pretty phenomenal, considering how bad
that team was before she got there.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Well, they got to number one draft picks, one number
one overall draft picks the past two year. They were
that bad and for the first half of this WNBA
season they were still that bad, which highlights I would
say the outsized impact that Caitlyn Clark has had. She
broke the single season assists record as a rookie. Now
(12:17):
where I said that she needed to improve her game,
she also I think broke the record for most turnovers
in the season, and that has to do with decision making.
That has to do with just maturing as a player,
and that will happen with time. And I was saying,
I more compare her game to Magic Johnson as far
as making other players around her better. It's not just
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her where on a given night she may throw in
a triple double, but she may also be the catalyst
for other teammates doing well.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
She's only going to get better. I mean, just love averages.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Law of averages, and you know what, And from what
I can tell, she seems durable in other words, not
prone to injury.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
Yeah, and she doesn't seem to really or struggle and
just mentally she seems like she's got the toughness to
kind of stick it through and get better.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Oh she does, but she does have to improve her
ball handling, she has to improve her defense, and yes,
players do get better. People forget she's only like twenty
two or twenty three, which means that she's only been
a fully grown adult in her adult body and skills
for maybe five years at most. You're not really fully
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matured into well to your twenties.
Speaker 7 (13:28):
She's definitely given an excitement to people who otherwise had
not given a crap about WNBA before, including myself.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Right, and again, I can't stress it enough. I hate that.
You can't hate it now.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
You can dislike her fan base, sure, because a lot
of them are not actual WNBA fans. They're not knowledgeable
about the game, and they make these proclamations about Caitlin
Clark that just aren't true, like saying that she needed
to be the MVP. No, she's not close. She's had
a wonderful year, but she's not the MVP of the league.
That only speaks to you not knowing who the best
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player in the league is, and it's by a lot
aga Wilson. But could it be next year? Quite possibly.
She's on a wonderful trajectory.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Again.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
This game, the Indiana Fever Game, is going to be
twelve noon Sunday. That's usually reserved for NBA caliber weekend games.
Could you say that a year ago could not not
even close. And there's what happens on the court, and
there's what happens off the court. On the court, she's
not the best player. Off the court, she's the most
(14:35):
compelling player. Both things are true. Now she has the
biggest spotlight on her and careers and legacies are made
in the playoffs, and she will have more scrutiny now
than ever before because the casual fan, the non fan,
the people who are listening down it's like, let me
check out this Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
They're all going to be tuning in on Sunday and
it's going to remind you of Kobe because his first
year was not oh you are reading my mind.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Because that first year that Kobe was with the Lakers,
they had this series against the Utah Jazz and he's
best known for throwing up maybe four or five consecutive
air balls ricks.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
It's a different level of pressure.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Has nothing to do with ability physical abilities, about being
able to manage your emotions in the moment. This is
going to be huge for not only Kitlyn Clark, but
for the WNBA, and for all the jokes about how
the WNBA had horrible basketball or it couldn't pay for
itself and the NBA was subsidizing it. They have a
(15:36):
massive TV deal which is coming and a rising tide
lists all boats, all the players will be paid more,
They'll have a larger slice of the pie. Caitlin Clark
has been fantastic for the WNBA. It's just now she's
going to have to put up for everyone to see
on the biggest stage, and I'm going to be watching.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
You're listening Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Did you know it's been forty years and two days
since the series finale of Three's Company September eighth excuse me,
September eighteenth, forty years ago, the final episode of threes Company.
And it saddens me because, of course, as we get older,
(16:27):
we have these constant reminders of our mortality. Actress Joyce
de Witt obviously played Janet is seventy five now and
she's the last surviving member of that show. And you
think about other TV shows of the eighties and late seventies,
and most of them are down to no one left
(16:48):
or only one person left, like Laverne and Shirley.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Lenny Is.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
The actor Michael McKeon, who played Lenny, is the last
surviving member of the show. They have Max the Beverly Hillbillies.
You have Tina Louise who played Ginger on Gilligan's Island.
She's the last surviving member. Leave it to Beaver. Jerry Mathers,
the Beaver himself is the last surviving member, Pam Dauber,
(17:15):
who played many of Mork and Mindy the last surviving member.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
And so on.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
So we're losing these great actors and actresses from these
phenomenal TV shows, so it's always good to hear from
them while we can still hear from them. And Joyce
to Wit was asked about the fortieth anniversary of the
series finale of Three's Company, and here's what she had
to say to US Weekly Magazine. Quote. The most dear, precious, tender,
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and utterly unexpected experiences that have come from working in
Three's Company are the many, many adults who have told
me that Three's Company was a safe haven they could
count on during their teen years.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
For some, the only say haven.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
And it's weird because I fit into that because I
was watching Three's Company during some of my teenage years.
Three's Company ran for eight seasons from nineteen seventy six
to nineteen eighty four. Of course it never really left syndication,
and if you are not old enough to remember, but
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it was all about Jack Tripper, who was played by
the late John Ritter, and he moved him too an
apartment with Janet Wood and Chrissy snow and it was
a really big deal back then because, as the show goes,
Jack had to fake as if he was gay to
be allowed to stay in the same apartment as two women.
(18:45):
And the running joke was be it mister Roper or
mister Furley, was that Jack Tripper was supposedly gay and
he was not any type of sexual threat to Janet
or Chrissy. And you would think today it's like, how
does that even work? Why would that even be a
TV show? And Michael Croach, you remember, it was a
big damn deal back then.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
He was.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
He's basically the reason why I'm here in La. That
show and him are the basically the reasons why I
came out here to La to try to do what
he did and make people feel the way that he
made me feel watching him.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
His brand of physical humor was so funny, and I
don't know if they could have written all that stuff
in with his facial expressions, his facial contortions, there's a
lot of physical humor that you just don't see. Well, hell,
you don't even see sitcoms anymore, but you don't see
that type of humor done with such genius anymore.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
I still do affectations and sounds and stuff that he
did like a Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
He was probably the biggest reason why I came out
here to La.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
And you talk about Joyce, to which she was always
one who, for the most part, played Janet straight. She
was not ditsy like Chris See, she was not wild
like Jack. She was always the stabilizing influence as far
as the character goes.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
I preferred her to Christy. Oh I did too, Don't
get me wrong.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
You know Christy was fine as sid Did you know,
I learned relatively recently. If you know the opening, and
that's part of the reason why I played the theme.
If you know the opening to the show, Jack is
riding his bike on the beach I think it's Venice Beach,
and he falls over because some beautiful brunette is walking
by in the other direction. I didn't know until recently
(20:30):
that was Suzanne Summers in a wig in a wig. Yes, No,
I'm serious, I didn't know. Looked at this, Yes, I
didn't know that. Because it's one of those trivia things.
I wonder who that woman was. He like you try
to look it up on IMDb, and maybe he had
something to do with the fortieth anniversary of the final
(20:50):
show coming up, and then they said, no, it was
the passing of Suzanne Summers, that's what it was. And
they were talking about how she was the brunette just
in a wig walking the other way that makes Jack
fall off his bike. Wow, And I said, after all
these years, I did not know. And it's like that's
the best part. You get to learn something about these
shows and the characters and the actors and actresses who
(21:11):
played them, and it's it's weird for me because as
talented as Joyce de Witt obviously was, that was about
the only thing she I know, she did some mother
bit TV work, but she did not move on to
anything else, not that she needed to, but she didn't
in the way that you saw more of Suzanne Summers.
You saw more of obviously John Ritter and the other
(21:36):
actors like chryl Tea's whoever else who played.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
The blonde on the show, right, because they went through
three or three or I think at least three.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I feel like there was a forced one. Ye it
might have.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Been, but you know it it's just she's always been.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
There was four. I don't remember the names, but yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Look it up for us real quick. Now, this is
gonna bother me. This is the worst part of getting older.
I can't remember all the names.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Say.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
The other thing that I learned about the intro, I
know there's different variations of it, but I don't know.
I don't even know where I saw this, but I
never forgot it. But there's a scene where in the
opening there's a kid that runs and I think Joyce
Dewitz the one that picks him up. That's actually John
Ridder's son, as in like Jace Jason ridd the one
who's a star. Now, yeah, wow, that's what I thought
(22:21):
you were gonna say.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
And I was like, oh, yeah, I heard about that too.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Look all I can say is and I think Michael
Will there's three three.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Yeah, yeah. It was after Chrissy Snow. It was her cousin.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
It was Cindy Snow, Jenny Lee Harrison, which nobody really
cared about, and then the last one was Priscilla Barnes.
Priscilla Barnes Kerry Alden. I remember the first.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Time I saw it because ABC ruled television back then
and this was an ABC show. The first time I
saw the flower Pot of Water Pour on Susanne Summers
in that black bathing suit.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
You were done.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Look, I was seven years old. All I knew was
she was beautiful. I didn't know what to do with myself.
And I never missed another episode, let me tell.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
You that much. Yeah, oh goodness.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Forty years since the final episode, the series finale of
Three's Company, and I didn't know they actually had a
final episode. A lot of these shows they just kind
of go away, but they actually had a final episode.
And Joyce to Wit said that she wanted something different
for her character.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
She wanted her her Well, this is what she had
to say.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Quote I, as in Joyce to Wit, was a bit
offended when it was time to retire the show that
they chose to marry her off as in Janet as
the path forward for that character. I would have sent
her to law school or medical school, or to the
Peace Corps. To her point, yes, that probably made more
sense with what we knew about Janet. That would have
been great too. But it's nineteen eighty four, is that
(24:02):
you know, that's like pre Murphy Brown. We're still dealing
with the reality of Mary Tyler Moore. If you know your.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
History right on that cusp. A couple of years later,
that's probably very much what they would have done.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
And along those same lines, remember the show One Day
at a Time. The whole idea of a divorcee, you know,
or Alice living by herself and her son. TV was
not as progressive small p as people want to think.
There was a real growth process that TV had to
go through in the late nineteen seventies.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
In the early nineteen eighties, Conway show, mo Kelly here,
we have one more segment.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
We'll probably sit down with Mark Ronner and see what
he is up to as he and Tiffany hops are
getting ready to share the chair and fill in for
me with Later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
That's next.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Just in for tonight. Conway will be back on Monday.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
But just in case you are not familiar with me,
I host lated with Mo Kelly from seven to ten PM.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Well, exception of tonight.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I'm going to be filled in by Mark Ronner and
Tiffany Hobbs, who will be sharing the chair.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Mark Ronner, what's on a show tonight? We are going
to fill you in, Mo.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
It's the same show as usual, except we all just
kind of moved over a chair, didn't we We're gonna
do musical chairs. Yeah, we're gonna do that name that
cult movie classic. In the nine o'clock hour, we're gonna
do the Runner Report. You're gonna have to wait till
then to find out whether or not you should see
the Penguin. We're gonna talk about a couple salacious things
in the news, including that Olivia Newsy scandal with RFK Junior.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
You know what, I think you and I look at
scandals like that a different way. I think we hold
reporters in journal journalist professionals to a higher standard. I
was so dismayed when I saw that story. Oh and
we should hold them us to a higher standard. You
got to keep your nose clean. And I think that
she deserves to be excommunicated. Go find another job, Go
(26:05):
go work in pr some we're going to talk about that.
We're going to talk about Diddy.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Ellen has a new special coming up on Netflix. I
have a thought or two on that. It's going to
be a jam packed show. The only thing missing will
be you, Moe Kelly, the host of the show. I'm
read right here. No, I'll be in the car all
my way home.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
But talk about that real quickly, the musical chair and
the different muscles you got to use, the gears you
have to.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Shift, moving from news to personality.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Yeah, I'll say well, I was actually a host of
a show of my own in Seattle before I did
news here. But before I was a host in Seattle,
I was also a longtime print journalism reporter and columnist
and op ed writer, And so I've done a lot
of different things, and you do kind of have to
switch gears and make sure you do some things and
(26:56):
don't do other things. You know, like when you're reporting
the news, you can just start riffing about your thoughts
on who's a jerk, who you don't like, what's messed up?
You deliver the news. Here's a little bit different, I mean,
because I have to go back and forth. I have
to watch what I say a little bit still. But
oh no, no, we're letting fly tonight, mo.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
You know. I try to tell people everyone has one
radio show in them. If I were to pick someone
off the street and say, hey, do a radio show,
they probably could if they could choose their pet topics
and say I want to talk about this.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I want to talk about that, talk about that.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
But once you do show after show after show, you
realize it gets more and more difficult. You have to
deal with the news which is in front of you,
which you're not really choosing, and you have to keep
your audience in mind, where you may want to talk
about one thing, but you can't ignore what is what
they call the talker and so forth.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Oh, that's absolutely right.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
And whether you're being a talk host or a journalist,
news anchor whatever, or a reporter, you do you kind
of have to become an instant expert on X number
of things a day and then move on to things
the next day. So you're a little bit of a dilettante?
Is that too big a word? Am I gonna get
scolded for using the word dileton Yes? You will, because
(28:14):
I'll tell you our boss Robin She said, don't don't
use the big words.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Don't use the big words, use the smaller words. Why
don't sound like Gilbert Gottfried used.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
The smaller words the jack of all trades, master of none.
How's that is that familiar enough?
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:28):
He gets almost like, you don't need to use such
those big words.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I said, well, well, those are words I actually use
in my normal everyday conversation.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Yeah, I say recapitulate. Well that's a little high falute.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
No, no, no.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
I got scolded for using other word pugnacious a couple
of weeks ago, and I didn't realize that was too
many syllables. I always feel like when I get scolded
for using a word, it's like you ever see Amedeus?
And by the way, I've been spoken to for making
too many movie references. But amedeis Wolfgang Amadanas Mozart. He's
dealing with the king of what is it Germany?
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Austria?
Speaker 5 (29:04):
I think Vienna. I forget there is no king of Vienna.
The end, it's the guy Jeffrey Jones who says that, well,
I don't like this. It has too many notes. There's
too many notes in it. What do you mean, It's
just too many. So that's how I feel when somebody
tells me I used a word that was too big.
It's like I don't know. When I hear a word
that I don't know, I want to learn what the
(29:24):
word is it. If it puts you on edge, all
use a smaller word.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I remember talking to Robin bless her Heart.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I said well, it's talk rado, so you know, how
could I have too many words?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
How can I have too many syllables? It's kind of
your stock in trade. It is what I do.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
It's tools in the tool chest, you know, but it's
I wish I could pull everyone behind the curtain so
they see that it's it is a discipline and you
have to be a student of your craft now.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
And you're really good at it. I know that.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Largely what we do on the show from day to
day and week to week is we bust on each
other and mock each other and laugh at each other
and look for ways to get one in on each other.
But you're the kind of good at it that people
don't understand. Not everybody can do it. The easier you
make it look, the more you thind it's just like writing,
the more you think anybody could do it, Yeah, just
(30:15):
sit behind the mic and talk. But no, no, no,
not everybody can do it. And you're exceptionally good at it. Well,
I appreciate that, you know. Make sure that you let
me know where to Venmo. You for that compliment. Yeah,
you'll put that in a promo.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
I know.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Coming up next is later with Mo Kelly just without Mo, Kelly, Mark,
and Tiffany k if I AM six forty We're live
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Speaker 1 (30:38):
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now, you
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