Hour 1 | 91 Freeway Anaheim: Suspect dead @cConwayShow

Mark Thompson picks up new EV vehicle // 91 Freeway Anaheim: Suspect dead after hours long standoff shuts down freeway // Memorial Day travel delays. Morgan Spurlock filmmaker of “Super Size Me” dies of cancer complications. Guest: Elex Michaelson – promo for new episode of “the issue is” weeknights 5, 6, 10 pm. Nick Canon insures his junk for $10 million after having 12 kids.

Episode Transcript

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It's KFI Am sixty and you're listeningto The Conway Show on demand on the
iHeartRadio app. We've got the startof the holiday weekend here. Yeah,
Mark Thompson sitting in for Tim.Tim's taking Actually this is related to I
think his anniversary, so he kindof, you know, in addition to
the holiday weekend has other stuff tocelebrate. Krozer's here, The crew is

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here. We will talk about alot of what happened today on the southern
California freeways. The ninety one freewaywas shut down for a long time with
that standoff. The Corona cops starteda pursuit and it didn't end well for
anyone, and everything in between thestart and the end was awful because the
freeway stops down, and then everybodyis sitting there just smoldering while whomever is

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dealing with the cops. And thenin this case, whomever was a guy
who didn't survive the incident, soyou can do the arithmetic. They aren't
saying what happened, but the copsfound the gentleman and he was he'd passed
away. So I think that's theessential story, is it not. Michael

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Krozer, I believe I summarized it. I mean I did kind of a
truncated version of it. Okay thatthey don't get people freaking out, but
yeah, it doesn't look good.Yeah, and it stopped down the freeways,
we said for a couple hours.Oh yeah, on this Friday.
Yeah, on a friday that's alreadyjust besieged by problems because everybody's leaving for

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the weekend as they should be.I heard Shannon earlier talking about how I
think it's at the airports. Theysaid, it's already the second busiest day
travel ever. Yeah, we talkedabout it yesterday. We had that story
about the fact that you know,it's owing to a few things, one
of which is and this may notseem like something that lands with you when

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I tell you what this is,but this is one of the reasons.
They say fares are actually lower thisholiday weekend than they were, for example,
last year, even two years ago. So people may be, you
know, evaluating how expensive it isto travel to wherever they want to go,
and say, nah, it's affordable, let's do it. So the
airports are crowded. We have todrive to pick up our new eleven year

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old car. This weekend and I'mdreading this drive. I mean, we've
we're looking for an affordable second car, so we found it very affordable.
You know, once you get inpast ten years, you're in a pretty
affordable zone. We just take thiscar. Yeah, so it's another EV.
Yeah, it's an Electric Leaf,Nissan Leaf. Was that an absolute

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on your checklist that it had tobe another EV or would you have taken
another Oh that's a good question.I didn't didn't occur to me. I
think I'm kind of you know,electric avenue now, you know, But
would you have considered a hybrid?Yeah? Maybe i'd have. I might
have. It's not ten years old. Yeah, I don't know how this
happened. Is sort of odd,but in forty five seconds or less,

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it's I couldn't make it somewhere becauseCourtney had the car and my friend I
said, we're a one car family. My friend said, I don't understand
why you're a one car family.Why not get a second car? He
said, I can find you,And then he found the Nissan Leaf that
is eleven years old, and hesaid this is a great one because it's

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got this and that he knows thisbrand right, and literally this guy,
a friend of mine, sold meon the idea of getting this car,
and it was turnkey. I calledthe guy al Lee. My new best
friend is a Lee. He ishandling the sale of the vehicle and we

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talked on the phone. It's gotnew tires and all that stuff, and
I'm going to pick it up thisweekend. But the problem is it's down
in Anaheim. And I'd love tobe an Anaheim. Love Anaheim. Wish
I could spend every day in Anaheim, but that's just not where I live.
We live in Los Angeles, justup the way, and so to
get to Anaheim it's about an hour. But this holiday weekend, I think

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it could be a little more complicated. But at the end of it,
the end of that journey to Anaheimthis weekend, even if it takes a
little longer, maybe it'll be ninetyminutes I get out of the car.
There it'll be gleaming in the daytimesun. The silver beautiful eleven year old

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Nistan leif all of it's sexy willbe right there on display. So you
haven't seen it at all aside frompictures or something, right, that's correct.
Yeah, we actually test drove onetoday. A different one obviously,
just to get the feel of itand liked it. It's really it's cool,

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man. I don't see a lotwrong with it. Again, it's
a second car, yeah, butthis is that is how the first car
turns into a Nissan leave, youknow what I mean, just saying stuff
happens. So, but I'm tryingto time the trip, and so holiday
weekends change timing. That's why trafficand traffic reports are so key. And

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I'm not quite sure. I know, we've got to get it before Monday,
because Monday things really get crazy onthe road. Yeah, you should
be okay Sunday, especially if you'renot going really near the beaches or anything.
Yeah. Yeah, but so howclose is it to the Disneyland?
Oh? I think it is closeto Disneyland. Oh yeah, Oh my
god. We know much choice anyway, Look, we all know that should

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be my biggest problem. Of course, that doesn't even make my top four
problems, all of which I'll besharing in the hours ahead. Something look
forward to. If you want tofeel better about your situation. You found
the perfect show for today. Allright. It's great to have everyone along.
As I say, a lot ofnews we'll get to much of it.

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A notable passing, and we'll touchon that as well. Actually a
couple of notable passings, so we'llget to those two. You're listening to
Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFIAM six forty Mark Thompson sitting in for
Tim Conway Juniors back after the weekendMorgan Spurlock passed away. You probably are
familiar with Morgan Spurlock's work, ifnot completely up to date on everything he

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did. He was really probably prolificas a documentary filmmaker. In fact,
you could say, I think comfortablythat Morgan Spurlock changed documentary filmmaking into a
far more robust revenue source for Hollywoodthan it used to be. It could
just make money in the world ofdocumentaries in a way that it was much
harder. I mean, definitely,documentaries have punched through and it's a terrific

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I think I was just kind ofjust having this conversation a few hours ago.
I had nothing to do with MorganSpurlock, but I met a documentarian,
a documentary filmmaker, and I wasjust saying, it just seems like
the most done well, the highestform of cinema in some ways telling that
kind of story. But that mightbe overstating it, but you get my
point. It's really hard to pulloff a good documentary. And Morgan Spurlock

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did it. Supersized Me was hisfilm that was Oscar nominated. He ate
nothing but McDonald's for thirty days,and that was a giant commitment and it
had an immense effect on his body. He I mean, it was straightforward.
Essentially, he eats nothing but McDonald'sfood for a month, and if

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the server at the restaurant offered tosupersize the meal to give him the largest
portion available, he would always accept. Then it follows his girlfriend through the
thirty day journey. It puts togetherinterviews with health experts and visits to the

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physician, and like two and ahalf weeks into this whole thing, his
doctor is saying, dude, yougot to you can't do this anymore.
It's having an effect on your liver, it's having an effect on your heart.
He was twenty five pounds heavier,depressed, puffy faced, He experienced
liver dysfunction, and it told thestory. You know that fast food is

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bad for you, We all kindof know it, but this put an
actual face on it. The filmwent to Sundance, he made the movie.
I think he made the movie forsixty five thousand dollars is what I
saw. It made Supersize Me twentytwo million dollars, and he went from

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zero to hero and Morgan Spurlock becamea household name, got the Academy Award
nom as I said, And hewent on to other stuff that also took
on subjects in really interesting way.I think he did also a sequel to
Supersizes Me, like super Size Metwo or yeah, like about chickens.

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Oh yeah, holy chicken. That'sright, Supersize Me too, Holy Chicken.
And that was a window on thatentire industry and the fact that the
chicken industry uses kills nine million animalsa year in just this country, nine
million chickens. And he goes onto reveal a lot of stuff about the

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food business. But that wasn't hisonly thing at all. It's just that
he kicked the door open with theMcDonald's only diet on Supersize Me. And
then he went on to this SupersizeMe too, Holy Chicken. And he
had a couple of series too,one that was called like thirty Days,
where he kind of did that samething, had just expanded on that exactly
it. Kroz is so right aboutthis is a fascinating and innovative thing.

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And he was very much a gonefilmmaker, so he would address the camera
and we were very much going throughhis experience in many of the documentaries he
did. And so this thirty daysthing the Crows is mentioning is pretty much
an immersive thing that he would do, being put into environments that he's not
used to being in. One ofthem was a Virginia jail. He spent

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twenty five days in Virginia jail.I believe he was also in a Muslim
compound. I think it was.Remember the first one that he did was
him trying to survive on minimum wagefor like a month or so. Oh,
that's right, I recall that aswell. Yeah, he had the

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series he did, the Palm WonderfulPresents, which was the film all about
product placement. That's why it's calledPalm Wonderful Presents because he's going around in
the movie and you see him havingthese meetings saying, you know, if
you sponsor our movie and you giveus this much, we can place your
products and you know, I willwear your jacket with a you know,

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a branding of some kind on itduring these scenes. And if you are
willing to step up with this muchmoney, we'll call the movie whatever the
name of the And then the peoplewho stepped up were the Palm people,
the pom you know, the juicepeople. So it called it Palm Wonderful
Presents. And it was you think, oh, this is kind of fun

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him going from meeting to meeting,but no, it was a revelation.
It was a revelation as to allthe product placement and how Hollywood depends on
product placement and how that is amassive revenue stream. And one of those
those shows that he did, theyhad for the for the things that he
would do, the theme was theyhad specific rules for each one that he
had to follow as well, likethe jail one. I was just looking

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at it and says, are thethree rules where he must be treated exactly
the same as other inmates, mustspend seventy two hours in solitary confinement,
and he was limited to two visitsonly from friends or family outside. And
that's just unreal and unreal, andthat could drive you crazy literally. But

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once he had the name as adocumentarian. Then those places that might have
given him the cold shoulder before theywere far more welcoming to him. And
there's a big write up in Varietythat just suggests how he really changed the

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documentary business. It didn't used tobe as far as I remember that there
was a specific I don't know,educational avenue for specifically just documentary filmmakers.
That's become more and more, likeyou say, a prevalent with a lot
of filmmakers where that's just what theydo and there's far more of them,
and with streaming there are just moreoutlets for it too. You know.

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He did four seasons of Inside Manfor CNN, and he traveled across the
country showed all kinds of bits ofAmericana again, everything from medical marijuana,
farming to you know, the eldercare industry, the trash business in America
and the trash epidemic of America.So he did a lot of different stuff

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and he was only fifty three yearsold. He packed a lot of living
into a short time, married threetimes. He was involved in a me
too controversy that he took head on. I mean he really he admitted to
it and said I was you know, I was wrong, and essentially he
was unvarnished, I should say maybeabout the way he you know, talked

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about it, and so Morgan Spurlock. I mean, he was a transformational
figure and what tremendous courage to dosome of the stuff he did as a
documentary filmmaker. Passes away at fiftythree. You're listening to Tim Conway Junior
on demand from AFI A six forty. Well, it's time. I look

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forward to chatting to this guy fromtown to time. Never know when my
path may cross the Alex Michaelson path. But he's the weeknight anchor on Fox
eleven, five, six, andten. You also host The Issue Is,
which is California's only statewide political show. How about it for Alex Michaelson.
Hey, they're Alex. Hey there, and since Tim isn't here,

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in his honor, ding dong withyou. Yeah, well done, ding
dah. Now what do you haveon first of all, on the Issue
Is this week? I'm always interestedin what you're focusing on. Well,
it's a little bit different this week. It's not so much the politics.
We've got a little bit of that, but a really extraordinary story. It's
one of my favorite episodes we've everdone. Katie Kirk is with us,

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who is the executive producer of thisnew documentary, and we interview the stars
of this documentary and their names areBrian Wallack and Sandra Abrabayah. And Bryan
was this political guy, lawyer,thirty seven years old, just had two
kids, baby coming home, andhe was diagnosed with ALS, which of

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course is such a horrible disease thatremoves of your ability to move. Usually
you're given six months to live.That was seven years ago, and Brian
has used his political acumen to bringCongress together in a bipartisan way and actually
do something. Raised a billion dollarsvia Congress through federal funding for ALS research.

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Change the laws make it easier forpeople to get access to drugs,
experimental drugs that are helping to keeppeople alive, including him. And he's
the subject of this new Amazon Primedocumentary which starts streaming on Tuesday, called
for Love and Life No Ordinary Campaign. And they both come on, Brian

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and Saunder. We meet them andmeet Katie and learn from them sort of
the best of humanity and so muchof politics is so distressing and so upsetting
it's crazy. I joked with themthat it is actually more hopeful to talk
about a terminal disease than to talkabout Washington. Well, I'll tell you

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what's encouraging about about this disease.I mean, based on what you just
mentioned. I mean, I alwaysfelt one of the exasperating things about als
is that, you know, wego through all this thing, the ice
bucket challenge, all of this sortof thing and a broad visibility, but
I didn't know if there was anyreal treatment or breakthroughs, or even if
we were on the trail to that. But sounds as though in your story

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there may very well be some kindof manageable treatment. There's some movement.
I mean, there's still no cure, and you know, there are some
drugs that are showing promise in sortof slowing down the progression of it.
There's still a lot more work thatneeds to be done, but there has
in some progress on that front,obviously not fast enough for people that are

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there. Part of the challenge hasbeen there's these experimental drugs that are showing
promise, but they FDA wouldn't allowpeople to take them, and they're all
saying, well, we're going todie we're one hundred percent fatal, so
let us try and if it doesn'twork, then what's the difference. And
so they actually convinced lawmakers of that, and President Biden signed that into law
to make it easier for people totake some of these experimental drugs that are

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showing promise. So they're really incredible. It sounds a little depressed as the
topic, but it is so hopefuland optimistic and it's really a love story
and I hope people will tune infor that and watch the documentary too.
It's really great. The issue isthat's it's on a couple of different times,

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isn't it. Yeah, it's onFriday nights at ten thirty. It
repeats again at one thirty in themorning, and then it airs most Sunday
mornings at nine am after Fox NewsSunday. Sometimes we're preempted there because of
sports. But I think it's onSunday this Sunday. Yeah. I see
it as I pass out on thecouch, and then I see it again
as I grogglly walk into the livingroom there on Sunday morning. So I

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realized that that's why I see itall the time. But good for you,
it's a great show and I willlook forward to seeing this episode.
What's happening with these budget cuts ineducation that the governor is, you know,
essentially committing to. He's getting alot of backlash, I know from
teachers, but you know, we'refacing a huge budget deficit and one of

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the ways that that's being handled isto make some cuts. And education is
in there. Well. Education isthe biggest expenditure in the state, right
and so if you've got a budgetshortfall of it's debatable what it is,
and there's so many different figures thathave been put out, whether it be
seventy billion or twenty billion or thirtybillion, whatever it is, it's a

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multi billion dollar budget shortfall, andit would it makes sense that if you've
got to cut that, your biggestexpenditure would also be cut in some way.
You know what exactly that looks likehasn't honestly been finalized yet. The
budget negotiations are still underway, andthis is the time when every interest group

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is going to make their case.We know the teachers Union is one of
the most powerful interest groups in allof Sacramento. But we've gone through this
several year cycle where we've had surpluses, so every interest group has been able
to put their handout and the politicianshave been able to kind of give them
what they want. This is thefirst time for Governor Newsom and for the
relatively new leaders in Sacramento like SpeakerRobert Reeves and others who have never been

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there when there's been a deficit wherethey're going to have to make these tough
cuts and deal with the wrath ofsome of the unions who are not going
to be happy about it. Andthat's such a great point here, Megan,
because there were fat years when wehad that surplus, and there are
programs that really were developed and flourishduring that surplus. But now with the

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deficit, they're going to have tocut a lot of that back. So
we're really dealing with It's the it'sa sad circumstance that it's we've gone from
the fat years to the very leanyears. Yeah, it's a boom and
bus cycle of California because then ithappens over and over again. I mean,
at least this time around, theydo have a record reserve they'd set
aside, you know, twenty billiondollars from the good years. To try

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to save for a year like this. But you know, the way our
system is basically in California is thereally really really really rich people are tacked
a lot on capital gains and basedoff of how they're doing in the stock
market funds California, and if they'rehaving a good year where we get a
whole lot of money, and ifthey're having a not so good year,

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they can go back, you know, a wild swing. I mean,
to go from potentially a one hundredbillion dollar surplus to a seventy billion dollar
deficit in a year is crazy.I thought I thought that market is up,
though, Alex Michaels, I don'tunderstand that. I thought they're making
money. I guess our people,I don't know. It's hard, it's
hard to contemplate exactly how that's allhappening. Yeah, but you're right,

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we're we're living on a handful ofrich people's good fortune. I suppose.
The Issue Is is hosted by AlexMichaelson. It's California's only statewide political show.
And catch Alex and Christine Devine andthe whole crew over at Fox LA
the Channel eleven news weeknights, five, six and ten o'clock give my best

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to do. They have the plaque, the commemorative Mark Thompson plack up on
that studio door yet or is thatstill something they're working on. There's a
statue and you know it's actually atthis point, Mark, it's a robot.
So it does dancing just like you. I love it, especially on
a Friday night. You've got thedancing weather man who's just inspiring you to

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move. And you know there usedto be a scopball in the studio,
which I think that's been now replacedby just your faith. All right,
now, I know you're making itup. For a moment, I thought
it was real. All right,Alex, we love you. Thanks for
checking in, my friend. Allright, ding dong with that, Alex
Michaelson. You're listening to Tim ConwayJunior on demand from KFI AM six forty.

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Tim Conway Junior off until Monday forthe weekend. Mark Thompson sitting in
here with the KFI crew. NickCannon, you know has all those kids.
You know how many kids Nick Cannonhas thirty two? Well, if
you're not going to take this seriously, Crouch, there's no sense continuing.

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I would have guessed eight, andI would have been low. Yeah,
so you're not taking it seriously.I took it too seriously. I thought,
how can the man be fothering morethan eight? Well, the answer
is he's fathered with six women twelvechildren. Most of you probably aware of

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this. I just haven't been gettingthe Nick Cannon newsletter, and I'm been
a little out of exactly how manykids he has. But he's taken out
ten million dollars worth of insurance onhis I don't like to say the word
just it's the you know, onhis Can somebody else say the word?

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Now? You know his male parts, but not the he's junk. Yeah,
he as a result of his twelvekids, he's viewing the family jewels
might be the way to put itas insurable. And now, how did

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this work? He took out theinsurance in a partnership right with this doctor
Squatch brand. It's kind of feelslike a product placement sort of thing in
a pretty big way, and thatthat's what we have here, Dana.
Don't you think? Yes, it'sproduct placement, and where they've placed the

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product is very sensitive. So hesays this is a quote. Haters say
it's time for me to stop havingkids and put this super sperm to rest.
But I'm doubling down on these valuableb ALS's and my future kids.
That's a quote. Doctor Squatch hasa I guess a line of new products

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for that area of the body.And Dana was telling me that her family,
they are members of her family thatreally like the stuff, not this
particular product. I'm just the soapI'm talking to, Yeah, the soaps.
Soaps. Yeah. So again,he's cashed in in many ways with

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different products related to the family thatthis ever growing family that he has.
He hosts America's Got Talent, ofcourse, and he has twins with his
ex wife Mariah Carey. He alsohas three kids with model Britney Bell,

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and he has three more with anothermodel. Right, isn't this It's just
very hard. You almost need likea corkboard, you know, those things
that they have when they're investigating ahomicide, and they have the yarn that
goes down to the different women andthen from Nick Cannon you can draw to

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the from the women down to theoffspring. Here's a trivia little footnote for
you. One of Nick Cannon's girlfriendswho he had a one of these kids
is from this woman. I datedher mother, which is I don't know

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if that's a good brag. Ithink she was a lovely lady, but
it's kind of wild. I alwaysfeel like that's just the six degrees of
separation, six degrees of Mark Thompson. Yeah, she was lovely and I
met her the daughter, long beforeshe'd met Nick kenn and she seemed like
she was lovely as well. Ihope everybody lives happily ever after. And

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now you know that his family jewelsare insured for ten million dollars. Wow,
Well, thank you for that.Dana brought that in like it was
breaking news, and in a wayit was breaking news. Well done.
There's some warnings issued for La Countythis weekend. If you're headed out to

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the beach, I'll fill you inon some of those. Also, if
you have a barbecue planned, it'sgoing to be more expensive than it was
last year. Where you'll see thatjump. We'll tell you that story as
well. Also, following the situationat UCLA with an arrest there related to
the demonstrations, Conway Show on demandon the iHeartRadio app. Now you can

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