July 16, 2024 • 28 mins
GUEST: Nancy Mogy Joins Mark to discuss Nancy’s podcast about navigating the foster care system, The Future is Foster. Search for Humpback Whale entanglement off Pales Verdes / Anaheim to pay Angels $2.7 million over stadium / Secret Service director being grilled over how agency failed at Trump Rally. Joe “Jellybean” Bryant, father of Kobe Bryant, dies at 69 // Cross with Mo’Kelly.
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It's k IF. I am sixand you're listening to the Conway Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Mymentee has just walked into the studio.
I know it's scary that I'm amentor to anyone. I in fact,
well, Nancy is here. Nancyis her name, and she has a
new podcast and it's quite relevant.It's called The Future is Foster. You
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come out of the foster system,Nancy. Yes, yes, I do.
Hello everyone. Yes. Now,the thing about your story is there
are two stories. There's your storyand their story of how you and I
met. I certainly wasn't looking tomentor anyone, not in a bad way,
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but I just it wasn't in mything. But I was m seeing
an event, and it was anevent about foster kids and foster families and
ways in which that can be facilitated. And you came up to me right
after the event. Isn't that That'sthe way I remember it. Yeah,
I was watching you from afar.I was sitting there and you know,
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we're going through the whole, allthe elements of the ceremony, and I
love the way you were commanding thecrowd and making people laugh and getting people
excited to donate and be a partof it, and I was just like,
wow, like I want to beable to command a room like that,
especially for a good cause, andmake people laugh. And I saw
you and I told my family.I was like, oh, I'm going
to go talk to him and sayhi, and they're like, no,
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don't do that. And then Imet you on the side of the stage
and I was like, hey,I like what you do? How do
I get to do it? Andsuch this adorable person. You're seventeen at
the time, I was seventeen,didn't even graduate high school yet. Yeah.
So my concern and maybe you'll appreciatethis, Michael Krazer, My a
concern when I met Nancy and I, of course you're instinct, is,
of course, anything I can doto help foster kids. I want to
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help anything, whatever you need.But you said, can you know,
can you be my mentor? AndI'm thinking this is bad because you're this
cute seventeen year old girl and I'man older dude who and I don't want
to be so I always and Idon't think I ever told you this,
but I always made sure that wheneverwe had any kind of face to face
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meeting that. It was always ina public prage, there are always people
around it. I never wanted eventhe appearance of you know, and you
never gave that vibe you totally.It's not my It wasn't my vibe exactly.
But my point is in today's societyand culture, I didn't want that.
So anyway, that was in away many years ago, in a
galaxy far far away. Because nowyou have been through college and you've been
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you know, you've really now movedinto adulthood, and now you're doing a
podcast dedicated to that which you've beenthrough, which is Foster programs. Yeah.
So when I initially met you,I was very do I and excited.
I knew I wanted to go intothe entertainment world. I didn't know
how. I didn't know what Iwant to do. I just loved certain
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things. And when you gave mea chance of just being like, hey,
you have a good story, comeand share it, that lit something
within me that, wow, peopleactually want to listen to your story.
After I came on KFI, Igot called to the principal's office the next
day because they're like, we heardyou. We had no idea that this
was your story, and up untilthen there was people coming up to me
saying they were adopted. And thenfor years I didn't know what I wanted
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to do, how I wanted tomake this impact with my voice for foster
youth. And then we birthed thefuture is foster podcasts and I am yeapen
all day every two weeks about youknow, just all the voices within the
foster system. Yeah, the fostersystem gets dinged before the failures, but
it's also something to be celebrated forthe successes. Yeah, Like it's unfortunate
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that a system that's meant to rehabilitateand help children means that they have to
be hurt in somewhat damage to evenenter. So already you're put into this
box that every child should be treatedthe same, which is going to cause
some faults. But then there's someamazing organizations, foster parents, communities that
do care and do want to help, and we can't save everyone, but
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even if it's just one case aday, you know, we're going to
make an impact. Your story andwe got to take a break in a
second, but your story of theof foster is one that starts with you
in a household, whether it wasdrug abuse and I think your mom was
a sex worker. Yeah, Sospecifically for me growing up, my mom
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was there's a lot of neglect,there's a lot of abuse, and you
know, I was very tormented asa child and knew something was wrong.
And as I got older, Istarted to notice certain things of my childhood
was different. I was scared tocome home, never felt safe, never
felt like I really had a home. I was being taken advantage of by
people as a child and couldn't reallyexplain it to anyone and never really spoke
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up about it. And specifically forme, when I was put into the
system because a social worker found outabout me, it was because there was
a family in my community, inmy neighborhood that knew me and knew that
I was a good kid, andknew that I needed a fresh start and
knew that I just needed a home, and they opened up their home for
me. And so that essentially preventeda lot of trauma that could have led
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just that, just that one home, that one family. So yeah,
my story is different. There's alot worse stories out there, but by
your story with the family, theyknew you through through the school, right.
I was in the neighborhood with yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
And so they were like, youknow what, she needs a home.
She is a good kid. Wecare about her, like, let's help
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save her, you know. Andthen six years going through the system trying
to get adopted, trying to getproNT to rights terminated. You know,
I knew I always wanted to getemancipated, like as a teenager, but
I didn't know how. And thenwhen you know, the truth kind of
coming to the surface of people kindof realizing around me of like, Okay,
something's not normal here. She's failingall her classes, she's never home,
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there's no one ever there to pickher up, Like, there's certain
signs that now I've talked to myteachers about and they've said they've noticed.
But it wasn't until that social careerreally came in and was like, hey,
well what's going on here again.The new podcast from Nancy is the
Future is Foster. You can findall the information the future is Foster dot
com. I've got to wrap upwith you in a second, but stay
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where you are. We'll wrap up. But it's great that you came into
KFI. I love your story,and I love it. I love that
things have worked out so well becauseI can take credit even though I did
almost nothing. Kroz, I didalmost nothing. You just gave me the
microphone, but you commanded the audience. You've got their attention, and you
put it towards a worthwhile cause.Thank you. That's Michael Krozer is also
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my publicist. Thank you, butit really is. It's great, Nancy.
So stay where you are. We'llbe back and we'll finish up with
Nancy in a moment. You're listeningto Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
A sixty. I'm talking to Nancy. Her podcast is The Future is Foster,
and that refers to the foster caresystem which she came through. You
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had great luck. I really didnot many get to be adopted at seventeen.
No, it's really cool. Youfound a family in your neighborhood,
and I mean they found you,really, I mean you didn't find them,
but you were really rescued from apretty dark place. Now, just
reading that. In California, somany kids experience frequent placement changes and there
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are fifteen percent of those who experiencefive or more placements. Oh yeah,
so The idea that you found thisfamily or they found you is extraordinary because
it was as you say, itwas a place to call home. They
were a family. Yeah. Andthat's the biggest reason I'm pushing for this
podcast to keep sharing all of thesestories is because the foster system isn't going
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to go anywhere. I was sofortunate to get a second chance at life.
I want to do everything I canto make sure as many foster youth
get the resources they need to succeed. They extended the time that you can
be in foster In other words,I think it's twenty one now, right,
Yeah, so therese does that helpa thing? It would, I
mean, every little amount helps ofextending out of the foster care system.
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But you got to realize, ifyou're a twenty year old walking around,
you have no family, you haveno close friends because you've been moving around,
you have no sense of security.The support you're really getting is you're
still within a group home, whereyou're within a placement, which aren't always
amazing. It's still incredibly hard andthey have to face a really harsh reality
once they go out into the realworld. And that's why a good majority
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will end up either facing homelessness orincarcerated because they don't have any other options
or a support system, and there'sno post foster program to give them any
kind of counseling on an ongoing basis. Yes, well, there are some
amazing organizations in Los Angeles, theSABA Clinic, even the Race of Child
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organizations can connect you with people forresources. There are resources out there,
but it's just so hard for thepeople that are actually in need of them
to be aware of them. Sowith this podcast, with this radio show,
with everything, we're trying to shareas many resources as we can,
and we link them all in episodestoo. Yeah, your story is a
triumphant one. So I'm so gladagain the podcast is The Future is Foster.
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How long have you been doing this? The Future is Foster? It
seems to me pretty new because youtouch base with me, you know,
intermittent label. Yeah, I rememberwhen you were, you know, trying
different things, and this is somethingthat you're really passionate about. Yes,
I've been getting in front of amicrophone and trying to take advantage of every
opportunity, just like you told meto. And but what I really found
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is when I was talking about somethingthat not only was healing for me through
my childhood, but no knowing thatI was helping other people, and just
something that people need to talk about. There needs to be more awareness of
it. It just something clicked,something felt right. And since February,
which was when we filmed, we'vebeen launching episodes every two weeks since May,
and we're really just getting started.But it's just so much goods coming
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from it, and I really hopewe can keep, you know, getting
more people to join our community.So where is the podcast? So The
futurest Foster is on Spotify, It'son Apple Podcasts, YouTube, yeah,
and so anywhere you can find itin all those places. Yeah. I
sure you interacting with sort of likethe foster care system and bringing all this
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sort of in together and tying thetwo in the relationship between the two and
the resources. So with each guest, I believe that one's life story can
be another's roadmap. So when eachguest comes on and shares their life story,
everything they've been through, they're ultimatelysharing things that have saved them,
hurt them, help them, andwe're just here to share it. We're
essentially just giving a microphone to celebrateas many voices as we can in the
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system. So have you reached out, like to example, to Kroozer's question
for example, to the Children's LawCenter California, or to some of these
official organizations or right now? Areyou more grassroots like hearing personal stories and
then extending them out into a kindof future Right now? Definitely more personal?
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Just people I know in the community. People I will instagram, DM
I will slide into the dms orshoot them emails. It's really hard to
get people to share their stories,especially when it's one filled with trauma and
judgment and uncertainty. But we've gotsome amazing stories, but we need more.
So if you want to share yourstory the future sposter dot com much
And despite sort of like your sortof good ending with your experience within the
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foster care system, there's obviously thekind of stigma that can be attached to
it at times, and stories everybody'skind of heard overall your experience within the
system. How is that for you? So my trauma actually came before I
was even in this system. Thatwas my hardest part of my life when
I was you know, removed frommy home and put with a family that
uh, wanted to give me asafe place. You know, I was
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very happy I was in a newplace. It was definitely out of my
comfort zone in a lot of waysbecause you finally have parents and a home
and how many kids in the house. There's one other daughter, you know,
and she's very you know now she'smy sister, but she's essentially had
to share everything with me because sheknew I needed a safe place. But
specifically when I was in the system, you had to go to court dates
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every six months. I was dealingwith a lot of trauma fighting with my
biological mother, so it wasn't necessarilya walk in the park. And I
really got to see how people's voicesaren't listened to, even with a strong
support system. So that just punchedit even further that, No, we
need to advocate more what happened toyour biological mother. So I mean,
I assume she's still around. Maybeone day I will have a relationship with
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her. Probably not, I've youknow, even with years of therapy,
I just don't feel like opening thatwound up with someone that I don't think
can you know, essentially change orsay what I need them to say.
Sure, there was still an interactionbetween the two of you, even after
you sort of out of her lifeand you were in the foster system or
with these with the other parents.Yeah, the foster system's main goal is
reunification. And that's actually a reallygood question, because the goal is you
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want to keep the child with theparent. And so for me, my
bio mom didn't think she did anywrong, did anything wrong, even though
there was police statements and everything,and so we were essentially proving that all
of this damage had happened to mein my childhood. But you can't really
prove a lot, so no onewas really listening, and it just I
had to keep speaking up. TheFuture is Foster is the name of the
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podcast. The Future is Foster.It's across all the podcast platforms and Spotify
and church here on iHeart as well, and you can reach Nancy at the
Future is Foster dot com. There'sa contact tab there and you can reach
Nancy. What a great story,and this is only part of it.
And I know you've done so manythings fundraising for Foster Youth, and I'm
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just so proud of you. Andagain I am intimidated when I speak of
you as a mentee because I feelI've done so little, but I'm so
proud of everything you've done. Sohowever you've done it, it's really really
cool. So thanks Nancy. We'llbe back much more. Oh it's not
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done much more. In fact,yes, I've got some big stories.
Actually I'm sitting on a big one. Crouch, sitting on a big one.
All right, we'll continue. You'relistening to Tim Conway Junior on demand
from KFI AM six forty. Kindof cool to hang with the mentee,
you know, as I say,I am really barely did anything. That's
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always great when you barely do somethingand then they go on to great things
and go, yeah, yeah,I just tried to stand back and kind
of let her do her thing.Yeah. I didn't want to be one
of those helicopter mentors, you know. Yeah, I just let her do
her deal. So now she's turnedinto this great thing and I can take
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credit. So great to have herthrough. And I hope that you will
check out the podcast. The Futureis Foster. So there is a huge
urgent search underway, believe it ornot, and it's off the coast.
It's for an entangled humpback. They'vespotted this whale and there is a massive
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it looks like a cord or somekind of net that is stuck on the
whale. The whale is about thirtyto thirty five feet long by all estimates.
But there is truly a life threateningsituation going on because the mammal is
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caught in this thick rope that's wrappedright around the very end of its tail,
right in front of the fluke,and then it's draped over the right
side of the fluke. The whalewas moving very slowly, apparently seeming to
struggle, and then as it wastrailed by boats, it seemed to come
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to life. I mean, I'msure it was frightened on some level.
Ultimately, according to one observer,the whale could pass from this entanglement,
but apparently there is There are alot of lice on the creature, and
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it looks as though this entanglement mayget the better of this humpback. So
they have an entanglement team, theNoah Crue National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
They have a special team. Thisis what they do, but it's very,
very hard to get these huge animalsdetangled. And this is the first
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time someone says that a humpback whale. When I say someone, I'm someone
who is involved in this sort ofcommunity of trying to help whales and a
watch for this kind of thing.This is the first time I've actually seen
a humpback whale and it happened tobe an entanglement, which broke my heart.
They said the whale hasn't been seensince Saturday, so that's the update.
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But there was a frantic search forthis humpback trying to do something.
It was off the coast of Pollisverdes, so not too far away anyway.
That's the latest. Hopefully those effortsto rescue the animal will be successful.
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Anaheim's gonna pay two point seven fivemillion. They're going to pay it to
the Angels over the canceled stadium deal. Two years after the city council called
off the sale of Angels Stadium,they're now going to pay a two point
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seventy five million dollar settlement. They'vebeen going for five million plus legal fees,
but the settlement will be for twopoint seventy five million of the city's
share of stadium revenue. The Angelswill also no longer object to the city
building a fire station near the stadium. That's the latest there. Meanwhile,
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the Secret Service director is getting grilled. As you might imagine. Kimberly Cheetle
has noted that the bizarre reason whyher agency failed to put an agent on
that roof where Thomas Crooks carried outthe assassination attempt on Trump, it was
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a weird thing at this warehouse onehundred and forty seven yards away. There
was a team of local police insidethe building. Inside the building when the
fire the shots were fired. Crooksmanaged to evade the cops and Secret Service
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three times, even though he'd beendeemed suspicious and could have been on the
roof for up to thirty minutes beforehe pulled the trigger. As you know,
witnesses were begging law enforcement to act. Some reports say it went on
for a couple of minutes, butCheadle has come forward with her first interview
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since the assassination at t Empt,blaming the sloped roof as the reason that
agents couldn't see the shooter and thereason that they tried to secure the building
from the inside but couldn't. Thatbuilding, in particular, she said,
has a slope roof at its highestpoint, and so you know there's a
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safety factory that would be considered there, and we wouldn't want to put somebody
up on a slope roof. That'swhy it was left unmanned, and so
the decision was made to secure thebuilding from the inside. The shooter was
actually identified as a potential person ofinterest, but with the rapid succession,
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she says of how things unfolded.By the time that individual was eventually located,
they were on the rooftop and ableto fire from where they were again
bizarre, a sad loss of life. Glad that the former president was essentially
unharmed, just a flush wound.I mean he was playing golf the next
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day, so we know he onsome level was okay, But it's sad
loss of life. Did accompany thatyou're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand
from KFI AM six forty. Youknow that thing where you know Trump's got
a bandage on his ear. It'sturning into kind of a fashion thing,
like people who are into Trump,they're wearing bandages on their ear. This
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is not something I made up.It's true. So it's kind of this
van go kind of deal, youknow, with the right ear with the
bandage. If you're a trumpet.Think about it, you know, show
your pride bandage that right. Ear. Joe Jellybean Bryant, the father of
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Kobe Bryant, passes away sixty nineyears old. He was an NBA player
and it didn't announce the cause ofhis death. The weird thing about Bryant,
the father of Kobe and Kobe,is that they didn't have the great
relationship. In fact, there wasVanessa Bryant speaking out following the death of
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her father in law and she saida polite thing, which was all of
the times we spent together were few. He was always sweet and nice to
be around. But I mean,it was well known that Kobe and the
folks did not have the best relationship. And I think one of the big
things was they wanted to sell itemsfrom his high school basketball career from early
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in his career and they were goingto use that money to buy a house.
They said they didn't attend his wedding, and it was reported that there
were efforts made throughout the years totry to reconcile. But in twenty thirteen
there was this big battle about thehigh school basquet ball stuff and his early
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days with the Lakers. And thefolks his parents had that stuff and they
claimed that they needed to sell thatstuff in order to buy a home,
but Kobe said, I never permittedthem to sell that stuff. So in
a subsequent interview in twenty sixteen,Kobe said that he hadn't spoken to his
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parents in three years, so sincethe twenty thirteen battle over the sale of
those items, and he said,quote, our relationship is s used the
S word, he said, Isay to them, I'm going to buy
you a very nice home, andthe response is that's not good enough,
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and then you're selling my s Thecase was settled. It allowed his parents
to auction off six items, andthose six items brought in half a million
dollars. One of the items thatwas sold at auction was the Lakers Kobe's
Lakers two thousand NBA Championship ring.Wow. Yeah, and I think it
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sold for like almost a million dollars. And I believe Vanessa bought the ring
back and returned it to the familyafter Kobe passed away. That's great knowledge,
Sharon Belly, A very impressive knowledge. Thank you. The father just
passing away. But that was reallythe source of a lot of consternation.
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A lot of controversy. You knowKobe died in twenty twenty. Yeah,
we all know where we were whenwe got that news. You can meet
baseball legend Steve Garvey, Steve Sachsand Jager. Also this Saturday, Galloping
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Ford in Mission Hills. They getthe whole thing started at noon food prizes,
amazing eels. It's part of theGalpin ten thousand. They tell me
details at am five seventy lasports dotCom. Well there's something else that's pretty
noteworthy that's going on here now.I don't know if he wants to mention
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anything, but I'm gonna mention it. I'm just going to jump in with
both feet. It is Mo Kelly'swedding anniversary. How about it? Come
on, come on, come on? What is the story? Is Mo
Kelly on a microphone? Known he'sover there, He's got the whole pre
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show ritual. Who knows what he'sdoing right now? Is he working even
tonight on his wedding anniversary? God, that's really here? I am Mark,
I'm here, Well, hello Mo. In ten minutes, it's going
to be a great, great showshutter with Mo Kelly. That's me,
Mokelly, Mo Happy anniversary to you, sir, I'm astounded that you're working
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on your anniversary. Well, youknow, gotta pay the bills. You
sound so defeated. Mom. Justlook, my wife and I we just
had dinner downstairs at Morton, sotime together. That's cool. I'll see
you in a few hours. Oh, that's really great. She's gorgeous.
First of all, you're not bad, but she's really gorgeous. All right.
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Yeah? Is there anything about marriagethat surprised you? Pleasantly? I
mean pleasantly surprised. I think Igot some great advice going in, and
since I got married later in life, it allowed me to accept the advice
easier. And this was someone whotold me, look, you have to
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be willing to relinquish your individual identityand know that you and then your future
wife are building something together, anew identity together. And if you can't
avoid going in with the me mentality, then you're off to a better start.
Oh that's really good advice. Whoevergave you that, oh, which
is a really sharp friend. Yeah. And another friend that told me,
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just understand that you have to makechoices now. When you fight, remember
to fight fair, don't fight towin, fight knowing that you still have
to go back to the relationship.Don't try to do something to undermine the
future of the relationship. Don't sayanything that you know that you really can't
take back, and don't you know, don't rely on I'm sorry. Just
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stop talking. And that's something thatI have employed. I just stopped talking.
Oh that's very very cool. Doyou find your relationship thrives because you
guys give each other space and youcome together? Is it one of those
kind of relationships. I think webenefit from having opposite schedules. Her job
is from like seven am to sixpm, and obviously I'm on the radio
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at night, so she leaves,I'm still in the bed, and when
I get home, she's in thebed. And then somewhere over the course
of the weekend we'll come together.I think that really is great. I
really do. I'm not on topof each other. Yeah, I really
think that's great. Well, happyanniversary to you, Pat, Thanks sir.
Yeah, really you're next. IWell, I'm gonna I wanna use
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It's k IF. I am sixand you're listening to the Conway Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Mymentee has just walked into the studio.
I know it's scary that I'm amentor to anyone. I in fact,
well, Nancy is here. Nancyis her name, and she has a
new podcast and it's quite relevant.It's called The Future is Foster. You
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come out of the foster system,Nancy. Yes, yes, I do.
Hello everyone. Yes. Now,the thing about your story is there
are two stories. There's your storyand their story of how you and I
met. I certainly wasn't looking tomentor anyone, not in a bad way,
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but I just it wasn't in mything. But I was m seeing
an event, and it was anevent about foster kids and foster families and
ways in which that can be facilitated. And you came up to me right
after the event. Isn't that That'sthe way I remember it. Yeah,
I was watching you from afar.I was sitting there and you know,
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we're going through the whole, allthe elements of the ceremony, and I
love the way you were commanding thecrowd and making people laugh and getting people
excited to donate and be a partof it, and I was just like,
wow, like I want to beable to command a room like that,
especially for a good cause, andmake people laugh. And I saw
you and I told my family.I was like, oh, I'm going
to go talk to him and sayhi, and they're like, no,
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don't do that. And then Imet you on the side of the stage
and I was like, hey,I like what you do? How do
I get to do it? Andsuch this adorable person. You're seventeen at
the time, I was seventeen,didn't even graduate high school yet. Yeah.
So my concern and maybe you'll appreciatethis, Michael Krazer, My a
concern when I met Nancy and I, of course you're instinct, is,
of course, anything I can doto help foster kids. I want to
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help anything, whatever you need.But you said, can you know,
can you be my mentor? AndI'm thinking this is bad because you're this
cute seventeen year old girl and I'man older dude who and I don't want
to be so I always and Idon't think I ever told you this,
but I always made sure that wheneverwe had any kind of face to face
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meeting that. It was always ina public prage, there are always people
around it. I never wanted eventhe appearance of you know, and you
never gave that vibe you totally.It's not my It wasn't my vibe exactly.
But my point is in today's societyand culture, I didn't want that.
So anyway, that was in away many years ago, in a
galaxy far far away. Because nowyou have been through college and you've been
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you know, you've really now movedinto adulthood, and now you're doing a
podcast dedicated to that which you've beenthrough, which is Foster programs. Yeah.
So when I initially met you,I was very do I and excited.
I knew I wanted to go intothe entertainment world. I didn't know
how. I didn't know what Iwant to do. I just loved certain
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things. And when you gave mea chance of just being like, hey,
you have a good story, comeand share it, that lit something
within me that, wow, peopleactually want to listen to your story.
After I came on KFI, Igot called to the principal's office the next
day because they're like, we heardyou. We had no idea that this
was your story, and up untilthen there was people coming up to me
saying they were adopted. And thenfor years I didn't know what I wanted
(03:27):
to do, how I wanted tomake this impact with my voice for foster
youth. And then we birthed thefuture is foster podcasts and I am yeapen
all day every two weeks about youknow, just all the voices within the
foster system. Yeah, the fostersystem gets dinged before the failures, but
it's also something to be celebrated forthe successes. Yeah, Like it's unfortunate
(03:52):
that a system that's meant to rehabilitateand help children means that they have to
be hurt in somewhat damage to evenenter. So already you're put into this
box that every child should be treatedthe same, which is going to cause
some faults. But then there's someamazing organizations, foster parents, communities that
do care and do want to help, and we can't save everyone, but
(04:14):
even if it's just one case aday, you know, we're going to
make an impact. Your story andwe got to take a break in a
second, but your story of theof foster is one that starts with you
in a household, whether it wasdrug abuse and I think your mom was
a sex worker. Yeah, Sospecifically for me growing up, my mom
(04:35):
was there's a lot of neglect,there's a lot of abuse, and you
know, I was very tormented asa child and knew something was wrong.
And as I got older, Istarted to notice certain things of my childhood
was different. I was scared tocome home, never felt safe, never
felt like I really had a home. I was being taken advantage of by
people as a child and couldn't reallyexplain it to anyone and never really spoke
(04:57):
up about it. And specifically forme, when I was put into the
system because a social worker found outabout me, it was because there was
a family in my community, inmy neighborhood that knew me and knew that
I was a good kid, andknew that I needed a fresh start and
knew that I just needed a home, and they opened up their home for
me. And so that essentially preventeda lot of trauma that could have led
(05:18):
just that, just that one home, that one family. So yeah,
my story is different. There's alot worse stories out there, but by
your story with the family, theyknew you through through the school, right.
I was in the neighborhood with yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
And so they were like, youknow what, she needs a home.
She is a good kid. Wecare about her, like, let's help
(05:40):
save her, you know. Andthen six years going through the system trying
to get adopted, trying to getproNT to rights terminated. You know,
I knew I always wanted to getemancipated, like as a teenager, but
I didn't know how. And thenwhen you know, the truth kind of
coming to the surface of people kindof realizing around me of like, Okay,
something's not normal here. She's failingall her classes, she's never home,
(06:00):
there's no one ever there to pickher up, Like, there's certain
signs that now I've talked to myteachers about and they've said they've noticed.
But it wasn't until that social careerreally came in and was like, hey,
well what's going on here again.The new podcast from Nancy is the
Future is Foster. You can findall the information the future is Foster dot
com. I've got to wrap upwith you in a second, but stay
(06:25):
where you are. We'll wrap up. But it's great that you came into
KFI. I love your story,and I love it. I love that
things have worked out so well becauseI can take credit even though I did
almost nothing. Kroz, I didalmost nothing. You just gave me the
microphone, but you commanded the audience. You've got their attention, and you
put it towards a worthwhile cause.Thank you. That's Michael Krozer is also
(06:47):
my publicist. Thank you, butit really is. It's great, Nancy.
So stay where you are. We'llbe back and we'll finish up with
Nancy in a moment. You're listeningto Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
A sixty. I'm talking to Nancy. Her podcast is The Future is Foster,
and that refers to the foster caresystem which she came through. You
(07:13):
had great luck. I really didnot many get to be adopted at seventeen.
No, it's really cool. Youfound a family in your neighborhood,
and I mean they found you,really, I mean you didn't find them,
but you were really rescued from apretty dark place. Now, just
reading that. In California, somany kids experience frequent placement changes and there
(07:40):
are fifteen percent of those who experiencefive or more placements. Oh yeah,
so The idea that you found thisfamily or they found you is extraordinary because
it was as you say, itwas a place to call home. They
were a family. Yeah. Andthat's the biggest reason I'm pushing for this
podcast to keep sharing all of thesestories is because the foster system isn't going
(08:01):
to go anywhere. I was sofortunate to get a second chance at life.
I want to do everything I canto make sure as many foster youth
get the resources they need to succeed. They extended the time that you can
be in foster In other words,I think it's twenty one now, right,
Yeah, so therese does that helpa thing? It would, I
mean, every little amount helps ofextending out of the foster care system.
(08:24):
But you got to realize, ifyou're a twenty year old walking around,
you have no family, you haveno close friends because you've been moving around,
you have no sense of security.The support you're really getting is you're
still within a group home, whereyou're within a placement, which aren't always
amazing. It's still incredibly hard andthey have to face a really harsh reality
once they go out into the realworld. And that's why a good majority
(08:46):
will end up either facing homelessness orincarcerated because they don't have any other options
or a support system, and there'sno post foster program to give them any
kind of counseling on an ongoing basis. Yes, well, there are some
amazing organizations in Los Angeles, theSABA Clinic, even the Race of Child
(09:07):
organizations can connect you with people forresources. There are resources out there,
but it's just so hard for thepeople that are actually in need of them
to be aware of them. Sowith this podcast, with this radio show,
with everything, we're trying to shareas many resources as we can,
and we link them all in episodestoo. Yeah, your story is a
triumphant one. So I'm so gladagain the podcast is The Future is Foster.
(09:33):
How long have you been doing this? The Future is Foster? It
seems to me pretty new because youtouch base with me, you know,
intermittent label. Yeah, I rememberwhen you were, you know, trying
different things, and this is somethingthat you're really passionate about. Yes,
I've been getting in front of amicrophone and trying to take advantage of every
opportunity, just like you told meto. And but what I really found
(09:54):
is when I was talking about somethingthat not only was healing for me through
my childhood, but no knowing thatI was helping other people, and just
something that people need to talk about. There needs to be more awareness of
it. It just something clicked,something felt right. And since February,
which was when we filmed, we'vebeen launching episodes every two weeks since May,
and we're really just getting started.But it's just so much goods coming
(10:18):
from it, and I really hopewe can keep, you know, getting
more people to join our community.So where is the podcast? So The
futurest Foster is on Spotify, It'son Apple Podcasts, YouTube, yeah,
and so anywhere you can find itin all those places. Yeah. I
sure you interacting with sort of likethe foster care system and bringing all this
(10:41):
sort of in together and tying thetwo in the relationship between the two and
the resources. So with each guest, I believe that one's life story can
be another's roadmap. So when eachguest comes on and shares their life story,
everything they've been through, they're ultimatelysharing things that have saved them,
hurt them, help them, andwe're just here to share it. We're
essentially just giving a microphone to celebrateas many voices as we can in the
(11:03):
system. So have you reached out, like to example, to Kroozer's question
for example, to the Children's LawCenter California, or to some of these
official organizations or right now? Areyou more grassroots like hearing personal stories and
then extending them out into a kindof future Right now? Definitely more personal?
(11:24):
Just people I know in the community. People I will instagram, DM
I will slide into the dms orshoot them emails. It's really hard to
get people to share their stories,especially when it's one filled with trauma and
judgment and uncertainty. But we've gotsome amazing stories, but we need more.
So if you want to share yourstory the future sposter dot com much
And despite sort of like your sortof good ending with your experience within the
(11:46):
foster care system, there's obviously thekind of stigma that can be attached to
it at times, and stories everybody'skind of heard overall your experience within the
system. How is that for you? So my trauma actually came before I
was even in this system. Thatwas my hardest part of my life when
I was you know, removed frommy home and put with a family that
uh, wanted to give me asafe place. You know, I was
(12:09):
very happy I was in a newplace. It was definitely out of my
comfort zone in a lot of waysbecause you finally have parents and a home
and how many kids in the house. There's one other daughter, you know,
and she's very you know now she'smy sister, but she's essentially had
to share everything with me because sheknew I needed a safe place. But
specifically when I was in the system, you had to go to court dates
(12:31):
every six months. I was dealingwith a lot of trauma fighting with my
biological mother, so it wasn't necessarilya walk in the park. And I
really got to see how people's voicesaren't listened to, even with a strong
support system. So that just punchedit even further that, No, we
need to advocate more what happened toyour biological mother. So I mean,
I assume she's still around. Maybeone day I will have a relationship with
(12:52):
her. Probably not, I've youknow, even with years of therapy,
I just don't feel like opening thatwound up with someone that I don't think
can you know, essentially change orsay what I need them to say.
Sure, there was still an interactionbetween the two of you, even after
you sort of out of her lifeand you were in the foster system or
with these with the other parents.Yeah, the foster system's main goal is
reunification. And that's actually a reallygood question, because the goal is you
(13:15):
want to keep the child with theparent. And so for me, my
bio mom didn't think she did anywrong, did anything wrong, even though
there was police statements and everything,and so we were essentially proving that all
of this damage had happened to mein my childhood. But you can't really
prove a lot, so no onewas really listening, and it just I
had to keep speaking up. TheFuture is Foster is the name of the
(13:41):
podcast. The Future is Foster.It's across all the podcast platforms and Spotify
and church here on iHeart as well, and you can reach Nancy at the
Future is Foster dot com. There'sa contact tab there and you can reach
Nancy. What a great story,and this is only part of it.
And I know you've done so manythings fundraising for Foster Youth, and I'm
(14:03):
just so proud of you. Andagain I am intimidated when I speak of
you as a mentee because I feelI've done so little, but I'm so
proud of everything you've done. Sohowever you've done it, it's really really
cool. So thanks Nancy. We'llbe back much more. Oh it's not
(14:24):
done much more. In fact,yes, I've got some big stories.
Actually I'm sitting on a big one. Crouch, sitting on a big one.
All right, we'll continue. You'relistening to Tim Conway Junior on demand
from KFI AM six forty. Kindof cool to hang with the mentee,
you know, as I say,I am really barely did anything. That's
(14:50):
always great when you barely do somethingand then they go on to great things
and go, yeah, yeah,I just tried to stand back and kind
of let her do her thing.Yeah. I didn't want to be one
of those helicopter mentors, you know. Yeah, I just let her do
her deal. So now she's turnedinto this great thing and I can take
(15:13):
credit. So great to have herthrough. And I hope that you will
check out the podcast. The Futureis Foster. So there is a huge
urgent search underway, believe it ornot, and it's off the coast.
It's for an entangled humpback. They'vespotted this whale and there is a massive
(15:41):
it looks like a cord or somekind of net that is stuck on the
whale. The whale is about thirtyto thirty five feet long by all estimates.
But there is truly a life threateningsituation going on because the mammal is
(16:03):
caught in this thick rope that's wrappedright around the very end of its tail,
right in front of the fluke,and then it's draped over the right
side of the fluke. The whalewas moving very slowly, apparently seeming to
struggle, and then as it wastrailed by boats, it seemed to come
(16:26):
to life. I mean, I'msure it was frightened on some level.
Ultimately, according to one observer,the whale could pass from this entanglement,
but apparently there is There are alot of lice on the creature, and
(16:48):
it looks as though this entanglement mayget the better of this humpback. So
they have an entanglement team, theNoah Crue National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
They have a special team. Thisis what they do, but it's very,
very hard to get these huge animalsdetangled. And this is the first
(17:18):
time someone says that a humpback whale. When I say someone, I'm someone
who is involved in this sort ofcommunity of trying to help whales and a
watch for this kind of thing.This is the first time I've actually seen
a humpback whale and it happened tobe an entanglement, which broke my heart.
They said the whale hasn't been seensince Saturday, so that's the update.
(17:42):
But there was a frantic search forthis humpback trying to do something.
It was off the coast of Pollisverdes, so not too far away anyway.
That's the latest. Hopefully those effortsto rescue the animal will be successful.
(18:03):
Anaheim's gonna pay two point seven fivemillion. They're going to pay it to
the Angels over the canceled stadium deal. Two years after the city council called
off the sale of Angels Stadium,they're now going to pay a two point
(18:25):
seventy five million dollar settlement. They'vebeen going for five million plus legal fees,
but the settlement will be for twopoint seventy five million of the city's
share of stadium revenue. The Angelswill also no longer object to the city
building a fire station near the stadium. That's the latest there. Meanwhile,
(18:52):
the Secret Service director is getting grilled. As you might imagine. Kimberly Cheetle
has noted that the bizarre reason whyher agency failed to put an agent on
that roof where Thomas Crooks carried outthe assassination attempt on Trump, it was
(19:15):
a weird thing at this warehouse onehundred and forty seven yards away. There
was a team of local police insidethe building. Inside the building when the
fire the shots were fired. Crooksmanaged to evade the cops and Secret Service
(19:37):
three times, even though he'd beendeemed suspicious and could have been on the
roof for up to thirty minutes beforehe pulled the trigger. As you know,
witnesses were begging law enforcement to act. Some reports say it went on
for a couple of minutes, butCheadle has come forward with her first interview
(19:57):
since the assassination at t Empt,blaming the sloped roof as the reason that
agents couldn't see the shooter and thereason that they tried to secure the building
from the inside but couldn't. Thatbuilding, in particular, she said,
has a slope roof at its highestpoint, and so you know there's a
(20:19):
safety factory that would be considered there, and we wouldn't want to put somebody
up on a slope roof. That'swhy it was left unmanned, and so
the decision was made to secure thebuilding from the inside. The shooter was
actually identified as a potential person ofinterest, but with the rapid succession,
(20:41):
she says of how things unfolded.By the time that individual was eventually located,
they were on the rooftop and ableto fire from where they were again
bizarre, a sad loss of life. Glad that the former president was essentially
unharmed, just a flush wound.I mean he was playing golf the next
(21:03):
day, so we know he onsome level was okay, But it's sad
loss of life. Did accompany thatyou're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand
from KFI AM six forty. Youknow that thing where you know Trump's got
a bandage on his ear. It'sturning into kind of a fashion thing,
like people who are into Trump,they're wearing bandages on their ear. This
(21:26):
is not something I made up.It's true. So it's kind of this
van go kind of deal, youknow, with the right ear with the
bandage. If you're a trumpet.Think about it, you know, show
your pride bandage that right. Ear. Joe Jellybean Bryant, the father of
(21:51):
Kobe Bryant, passes away sixty nineyears old. He was an NBA player
and it didn't announce the cause ofhis death. The weird thing about Bryant,
the father of Kobe and Kobe,is that they didn't have the great
relationship. In fact, there wasVanessa Bryant speaking out following the death of
(22:15):
her father in law and she saida polite thing, which was all of
the times we spent together were few. He was always sweet and nice to
be around. But I mean,it was well known that Kobe and the
folks did not have the best relationship. And I think one of the big
things was they wanted to sell itemsfrom his high school basketball career from early
(22:41):
in his career and they were goingto use that money to buy a house.
They said they didn't attend his wedding, and it was reported that there
were efforts made throughout the years totry to reconcile. But in twenty thirteen
there was this big battle about thehigh school basquet ball stuff and his early
(23:02):
days with the Lakers. And thefolks his parents had that stuff and they
claimed that they needed to sell thatstuff in order to buy a home,
but Kobe said, I never permittedthem to sell that stuff. So in
a subsequent interview in twenty sixteen,Kobe said that he hadn't spoken to his
(23:23):
parents in three years, so sincethe twenty thirteen battle over the sale of
those items, and he said,quote, our relationship is s used the
S word, he said, Isay to them, I'm going to buy
you a very nice home, andthe response is that's not good enough,
(23:45):
and then you're selling my s Thecase was settled. It allowed his parents
to auction off six items, andthose six items brought in half a million
dollars. One of the items thatwas sold at auction was the Lakers Kobe's
Lakers two thousand NBA Championship ring.Wow. Yeah, and I think it
(24:07):
sold for like almost a million dollars. And I believe Vanessa bought the ring
back and returned it to the familyafter Kobe passed away. That's great knowledge,
Sharon Belly, A very impressive knowledge. Thank you. The father just
passing away. But that was reallythe source of a lot of consternation.
(24:33):
A lot of controversy. You knowKobe died in twenty twenty. Yeah,
we all know where we were whenwe got that news. You can meet
baseball legend Steve Garvey, Steve Sachsand Jager. Also this Saturday, Galloping
(24:53):
Ford in Mission Hills. They getthe whole thing started at noon food prizes,
amazing eels. It's part of theGalpin ten thousand. They tell me
details at am five seventy lasports dotCom. Well there's something else that's pretty
noteworthy that's going on here now.I don't know if he wants to mention
(25:15):
anything, but I'm gonna mention it. I'm just going to jump in with
both feet. It is Mo Kelly'swedding anniversary. How about it? Come
on, come on, come on? What is the story? Is Mo
Kelly on a microphone? Known he'sover there, He's got the whole pre
(25:37):
show ritual. Who knows what he'sdoing right now? Is he working even
tonight on his wedding anniversary? God, that's really here? I am Mark,
I'm here, Well, hello Mo. In ten minutes, it's going
to be a great, great showshutter with Mo Kelly. That's me,
Mokelly, Mo Happy anniversary to you, sir, I'm astounded that you're working
(25:59):
on your anniversary. Well, youknow, gotta pay the bills. You
sound so defeated. Mom. Justlook, my wife and I we just
had dinner downstairs at Morton, sotime together. That's cool. I'll see
you in a few hours. Oh, that's really great. She's gorgeous.
First of all, you're not bad, but she's really gorgeous. All right.
(26:23):
Yeah? Is there anything about marriagethat surprised you? Pleasantly? I
mean pleasantly surprised. I think Igot some great advice going in, and
since I got married later in life, it allowed me to accept the advice
easier. And this was someone whotold me, look, you have to
(26:47):
be willing to relinquish your individual identityand know that you and then your future
wife are building something together, anew identity together. And if you can't
avoid going in with the me mentality, then you're off to a better start.
Oh that's really good advice. Whoevergave you that, oh, which
is a really sharp friend. Yeah. And another friend that told me,
(27:11):
just understand that you have to makechoices now. When you fight, remember
to fight fair, don't fight towin, fight knowing that you still have
to go back to the relationship.Don't try to do something to undermine the
future of the relationship. Don't sayanything that you know that you really can't
take back, and don't you know, don't rely on I'm sorry. Just
(27:36):
stop talking. And that's something thatI have employed. I just stopped talking.
Oh that's very very cool. Doyou find your relationship thrives because you
guys give each other space and youcome together? Is it one of those
kind of relationships. I think webenefit from having opposite schedules. Her job
is from like seven am to sixpm, and obviously I'm on the radio
(28:00):
at night, so she leaves,I'm still in the bed, and when
I get home, she's in thebed. And then somewhere over the course
of the weekend we'll come together.I think that really is great. I
really do. I'm not on topof each other. Yeah, I really
think that's great. Well, happyanniversary to you, Pat, Thanks sir.
Yeah, really you're next. IWell, I'm gonna I wanna use
(28:25):
those tips if I do it.Those tips are Key Conway Show on demand
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