August 20, 2024 • 31 mins
Gary Hoffmann LIVE from DNC in Chicago // Where has Mark Thompson been? // 1 dead and 6 missing after luxury superyacht sinks in storm off Sicily // Superstitious on ships! How to rename a boat.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF. I am six forty and you're listening
to the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
It's Conway Show. Mark Thompson's here, come on.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Thank you everybody, Please please say tom Tuesday. I'm humbled
and overwhelmed by this reaction. Thank you all right.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Gary and Shannon are in Chicago for the DNS, right,
and last night we had Shannon on tonight. We left
Gary on tomorrow Oscar and then I don't know, back
around the hard night exactly what Gary hoffmins with this?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Gary? How you Bob?
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Great guys?
Speaker 5 (00:35):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Guys?
Speaker 6 (00:35):
Buddy?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I felt so terrible for you. I know you're a
very emotional man. You had to drive or fly your
daughter to school and then fly right to Chicago, and
you didn't show any emotion over it, and I give
you a huge standing ovation be able to contain that well.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Thank you. I mean, you didn't see it, but there's
an entire cabin full of people who saw me on
a Southwest Airline flight crying my eyes out. So wherever
they are, I apologize to.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Them, Buddy.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I know that. Look.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I don't want to get you know, I only concentrate
on this, but that's a big deal when your daughter. Look,
when your son goes off to college, you can't wait
for him to get there, But when your daughter goes
off to college, that's a big empty, you know, feeling
in the house. And then you're going to experience that
when you get home. And you showed none of that
on the air. And I can't tell you how much
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how much control self control you have over that, I
would have been a mess.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
It is totally funny, Tim. I think you're absolutely right
because she's the youngest of our two kids, so when
she is out, it is out. I mean, it is
just the wife and the dog and I trying to
make peace in that house. So, yes, you're absolutely right.
And by the way, when my son goes to college,
would you let me know because I have not seen
that yet.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And also, you know the empty nest. You know, there's
there's two elements to it. One you miss the kids
and two you have nothing to say to your wife.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Well, she probably prefers that she listens four hours a day,
so she's thankful that I have someone else I can
get all my words out.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Okay, all right, but I mean, ma'am, let's get back
on the DNC here, But I just wanted to say, buddy,
I I will you know, whatever you do in life,
you will always have my full respect for you to
be able to pull that off and then go to
Chicago to do the show with your crazy partner and
not breakdown.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Well, thank you. I appreciate that. I have a great kid,
two of them. But I have a great kid who
is going to school. The best part, and the reason
it's not super emotional, is that the university is paying
for her whole graduate school program. So wow, that makes
me cry a little less.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Oh that's great because I know you've saved money for that,
and now that money you've been thinking about where to
redirect it.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I know you, I know you maybe both in the
travel funds.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Okay, yeah right, yeah, we're going first now, none of
the Southwest with you know, with Karen Baz That's right.
So what's going on with the DNC. Late everyone's talking
about how late President Biden went on last night. They're
thinking that was on purpose. I don't think it was.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
No, it wasn't on purpose. It was it was just
bad planning, to be honest. I mean, this is designed
to be a four day television show, and whoever didn't
calculate in Hillary Clinton's standing ovation, standing ovation for Andy
Basheer's standing ovation for AOC they were numskulls, because that
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kind of thing has to be figured out. The fact
that Joe Biden actually got pushed past primetime I think
was a big failure on their part to be, you know,
whatever conspiracy theory you might have about the parties trying
to push him out more aggressively now that he has
agreed to step off of the top of the ticket.
I don't think that's what happened. It was just bad planning.
I mean, the benefit to everyone is that Debbie Wasserman
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Schultz got cut and she didn't have to give a
speech last night. And James Taylor got cut, which I
like James Taylor, but I don't want to see him
involved in politics in any way. So his he was
actually at the venue yesterday rehearsing, doing sound check and
things like that, but he never got to perform his
song because everything was going way too late anyway. So
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tonight we know that.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
But I heard it was somebody different. I didn't hear
was James Taylor. I heard the the the entertainment of
the song. Was Chris Rock was going to sing Cowboy
from from Beyonce. No, it was kid Rock. Kid Rock
was going to sing.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Oh, kid Rock.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
No, Kid Rock and Chris Rock, we're not going to
perform together.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
The Rock was going to perform it. But you know
of the show ahead.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I told all of the speakers tonight. They told all
the speakers tonight, you got to stick to your time limits.
I don't know if they're going to do it like
a comedy club where they flash of light.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
In the back.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
You got one minute and then it starts blinking with
time to go, or they just escort you off the stage.
But they can't do that again.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
They got it, well, you had a Yarry. They didn't
factor in the applause. Mean, I think these usually these
speeches are already pre read and vetted right that no,
there are no surprises as to length of the speeches.
But they didn't factor in the fanfare, which is insane
that they didn't.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Well, I think that what happens is some of these
second tier politicians, and I don't mean to denigrate anybody,
but the people whose names you the normal American public
wouldn't necessarily recognize. I think what they do is they
see this as their opportunity to be on a national stage.
So if the instruction is you have three minutes and
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then you write a twenty five hundred word speech, you're
going to try to cram that in three minutes, and
you're going to promise everybody that you're going to be
able to do it. But you're never going to give
up your moment in the spotlight on a national stage
like that. And well, listen, even if it is just
on c SPAN, that's an important time for some of
these up and coming politicians.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Right, that's exactly right. Oh who was on tonight? Obama?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Both Obamas, both the Michelle and Barack are expected. And
to be honest, there was quite a buzz in the
arena itself today as some of the delegates started flowing
in because there's no guaranteed seating in this place. It's
not like everybody gets tickets and then you find your
assigned seat like you're going to a Blackhawks game. They
were as we were walking out. There were volunteers there
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that were being instructed on the nicest way to say, hey,
you may get into the arena, but there's no guarantee
that you're actually going to get a seat.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Oh wow, I didn't know that. That's wild. Yeah, and
now what about the protesters, any disturbance outside today like yesterday?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
So no, and in fact, yesterday was less than what
was expected. The main protest was at Union Park, so
it was about four or five blocks away from the
United Center. They did make their way to it, and
you may have seen that they were able to break
down a couple of metal barricades and things and get in.
I think ten somewhere between ten and fifteen people were
died yesterday, which, in all honesty for the first day
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of a Democratic convention, is a record low. Probably yes today,
there was expectation that they were going to be protesting
in different areas that were closer to downtown, because this
is where I'm downtown now, this is where all of
the delegates, the VIPs are staying in these massive hotels here.
Now they there's not much you can do to congest
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this place anymore that it's already congested. So you know,
a march of several thousand people down the streets isn't
going to block traffic all more than what is already
blocked through street closures and stuff, but I think it
would prompt a little bit more coverage than we saw yesterday.
So we know that there are permitted protests through the
course of the week. There's sort of this underlying concern
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or expectation that it does get stronger, louder, potentially more
violent by the time we get to Thursday night.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Oh that's good.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I heard that question out now, and it's going to
be Michelle Obama start that rumor on the floor.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I think that's still can happen.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Yeah, well, I don't know if it's gonna happen. I
don't know if they're going to be I don't know
if they have any appetite to go through the turmoil
that they went through over the last four weeks.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah, think you're right, Gary, Thanks for coming on. Really
appreciate it. You get Father of the Year in my book,
and we'll see you back here.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Figure love you guys.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
You're the best man, Gary Hoffman. There he goes Gary
and Shannon at nine am to one pm on KFI
and then listen to the Conway Podcast at one pm.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
I know what that is in reference to, Really you're
listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
It's Conway show. Mark Thompson's here and people want to
know where you've been for last four weeks. I don't
want to do At the top of the shows, we
had Gary and Gary's calling him from Chicago. Of course
he didn't want to hear your story. And I don't
want to take up precious time with you know, away
from news, because we got a lot of news ago.
Now what what happened with you?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I had a couple of bouts of ills. You almost died.
I really thought that I was going to buy it.
I really did.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
You text me and you said, hey, look I'm not
going to I mean not make it. And I said
the show and you said no, no, you idiot the life.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I remember the exchange for being quite like that, but
I do. I was.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I was in kind of a kind of a down
place anyway, because my dad just died. And then I
got really sick. Okay, I came up back. I got
really sick. You get sick on the flight back. No,
although that may be where I picked it up or
like a you know, one of the airports or something.
But it was one hundred and three temperature over a
few days and there we was, and the and the
symptoms beyond that, the uh, the g I symptoms, the
(09:47):
gastro intestinal symptoms, that's worrying, really intense. And I ended
up with that Verdico stuff, and I think I related
it to it. Then I got uh, I recovered from
that at slowly you or the antibiotics from they've said,
you've got a bat carrier in your gut, you got bacteria,
you got bacteria everywhere. So then I get COVID, which
(10:09):
is not a bacterial infection, as you know, it's a you.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Know, viral infection.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I've been I thought I'd been vaxed, but maybe I
haven't gotten the latest against the latest variant. So that
took me out, and I was rallying, but not rallying
in time for the Tuesday thing I could And I
think I texted you and I said I could probably
make it by that Thursday of that week or something,
because if you want me, sure, I can make it.
(10:34):
And I and this, and I said this to Courtney.
Tim is so great because he realizes, either he realizes
or it's really as bad because everybody's sick a KFI.
You must have realized that I was like, I could
technically be back, but I was not.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Really one hundred percent yet I was still weak.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Well, not only were you not one hundred percent, but
there were three or four people walking around this floor
who had active COVID right, and they didn't seem to
care about other people contracting it from them.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Well that you know, I test.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I tested negative before I would even suggest coming in. Sure,
I tested multiple times. But let me ask you.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
When you go to Las Vegas or you play poker,
you know you probably bring a couple thousand dollars with you.
You know you have money on hand, right, you probably
have account or a credit line at some of these casinos.
Yet when you had COVID, you were unwilling to part
with the money for the medication. Is that true?
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Mark?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Well, I did not want to take the packs of it. It
is what you're talking about. He said, why don't you
take the packs of it? It's five hundred dollars And
you said, I that's my gambling money. Had you talked
to me ten days ago before my Vegas trip, I'd
have that five hundred load it up on packed slavin
(11:53):
And I said, let me hear about those side effects again,
because well, I had five hundred. I like to and
so he said, you know, I've there's a rebound from
PACKSLOVID that is quite frequent, you know, but it also
is effective in keeping you out of the hospital. I'm thinking,
I'm not gonna end up in the hospital. I'm going
to tough this thing out.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Did you go to your private hospital again?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I will tell you the concierge I.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I will tell you that the.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
During the COVID run, I was in pretty bad shape
and the doctor said, there's nothing you can do except
just water, water, water, hydrate. And I remembered that you
can get the hydration at the Concierge hospital. And so
I went by the Concierge hospital again and I got,
(12:40):
you know, like the ivy they plug in and uh yeah, got.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
The Do you feel better?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I did after afterward, but I mean after hours, but
it was a really I had a really nasty bout
with it.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
So you look great, buddy, I mean, you beat it.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I I have I have other stuff working now. Now
I have a just to share all of my little
stuff here with you. I have a nasty TMJ you're
familiar with TMJ job. Yeah, So I am talking to
you right now. And when I move my jaw, it hurts.
It hurts, okay, and I cannot open my mouth, open
the jaw to eat. Really, I've been drinking protein shakes
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and I've been eating soup.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
How'd you get jaw? Is it called jaw?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Lock? It's lockjaw? I think I think that's a tetanus thing.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
This is the result of a dental procedure where the
mouth has opened so long to produce this.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
I know. So I always like to serve up.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I like to serve up new physical maladies for you
every time I see you.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
So that's my latest. That's wild.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I mean, I'm in with the doctor now who's treating
this with lasers and with other stuff. So we're hoping
what from I mean, I guess it's from It can
be from no, no, no, it can be from clenching
like you clench the jaw at night. I think I
really don't know what I mean. I do too, I
think a lot of people do. But and I think
most of the time it doesn't, you know, result in
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anything bad. But uh, this was, as I say, they
helped My mouth was open for a surgical procedure.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
And oh and then they.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Had and then they had to redo it, the surgical procedure,
and so let's like it's it's multiple hours in the
chair and you're holding your mouth open, and that has
produced this.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
And that is that eventually going to go away? The pain?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
I mean, at some point I assume I'll be able
to get my jaw back.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
So you can't eat anything, So I can't.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Open my I can't open my mouth. I eat a
sandwich or no, I can't do it. Really, Yes, it's
it's incredibly painful. What's the most I mean, if you
can show me what's the most you can open your mouth?
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Like that when I did that, When I did that,
it'll hurt. Yeah, it's really intense.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Oh my god, I didn't know all this about it.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
And that's kind of wild. It's it's I hope I
get through it. It's it's a really intense.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, you're the only guy I've ever met with lockjaw.
Usually that's not a guy.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, I didn't know that.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Okay, all right, but she wants what line? Okay, I'll
talk to her.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Mark Thompson is here and I know you've been following this,
this story of this super yacht, the one that sank
off the coast.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
I love what you did with this story. Yesterday.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
I was listening to you as I waited two hours
to get into the Doctor Boy, and you broke it
down perfectly. And there have even been I guess you
were telling me some additional details since yet more details.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Well, this guy sold his company, his computer company, to
Hewlett Packard fifteen years ago, and Hewlett Packard accused him
of selling him a company that wasn't worth that you know,
he inflating, inflated the worth of that company, and so
he's he was fighting extradition. He's a big, you know,
billionaire from England and they took him to court. They
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took him to court, and he fought extradition for thirteen
years and they finally, you know, they finally got him
into this country to face trial. And two years before
he faced his main accountant, the CEO of the CFO
of that company, was thrown in jail for five years
for fraud in the same circumstances, right, and who knows
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more about the company than the CFO. Sure, So he
finally comes to the United States. He's been put on trial.
He's under house arrest. His name is Mike Lynch. He's
in house arrest in San Francisco. You can only go
from his apartment to court, back to his apartment and
stay there. And he fights the Fed. And only one
half of one percent win those cases. So ninety nine
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point five percent, ninety nine point five percent of the
people who go up against the Feds, because the Feds
have a lot of power at limitless pockets, you know,
they can really, you know, bring in you know, the
big guns to destroy your life. And he fought him,
and he fought him, and he fought him, and just
this past June, he won completely exonerated, gets to go
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back to you know, Great Britain, gets to go back
on the big ships. Nothing is going to happen to
this guy.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
And this was to have been a celebration of Glip.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Packard lost that lawsuit and then both sides spent millions,
tens of millions of dollars on lawyers. And he goes
back to England and he reads in the newspaper that
three days before you know his accident. His co defendant
in that case is jogging in England and he gets
hit by a car and he gets killed. His co
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defendant gets killed, and so he's like, wow, how did
that hell that happen?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
A guy who had been exagerated.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Two of the guys there were there were one one
guy was thrown in jail for a long time. The
CFO of that company got five years for the main
accountant of that company. Then the other two guys, Mike
Lynch and his partner were completely exonerated. They fly back
to England and the partner is running around England jogging
and he gets hit by a car and gets killed.
And then three days later, this guy is out on
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the boat with fifteen friends Americans, Italians, the English.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
And they were celebrating the exec rate.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
They were celebrated all the big lawyers in that king victory.
They all got private planes to land in Italy, ushered
out to the boat. They were sitting on the boat
having a great time, and then this unexpected tornado, this
whirlpool tornado came by, capsized the ship sank it. It's
one hundred and fifty sorry, it's one hundred and eighty
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foot ship. It's huge, it can sleep, you know, twenty
five people comfortably on that boat, a big ass ship
it and the storm comes up sinks it. Mike Lynch
and his daughter are still not found, presumed dead, and
I think one of the person died. Fifteen people were rescued,
brought back, including Mike, Mike Lynch's wife brought back to shore,
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and now they're still searching for Mike Lynch and his daughter.
So I'm I'm reading the story. And I was interested
in the story before the seedment happened because you know
that big lawsuit in San Francisco for somehow, somehow I
got wind of that, and then you know it's a
big lawsuit, you know, the English coming back, you know,
being terrorized by the federal government and they finally extra
died this guy after thirteen years. It was a big
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story before this storm hit.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Sure, And I also thought of you because I know
you're very much this is for real, very much into
boating and sailboatshit Mounts Cup, you never miss it.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Yeah, And so last night I'm My wife is even
a bigger fan of boats than I am, because her
grandfather was a river pilot on the Columbia River and
her grandfather would take ships from Astoria on the west
coast and drag them sixty five seventy miles all the
way up to Portland. It's very tough to navigate that
Columbia River. You got to really know every angle and
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there's a lot of there's been disasters on that river.
And her grandfather for thirty or forty years was a
river pilot on that river, and so she's really into
boats too. He had a boat and I said to
my wife, I said, hey, that boat, I think it
was called the Boisian. Boisian has a sister ship and
I'm looking at it's called this Skylark or something, and
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I said, that's amazing. They built two of these ships
exactly the same. And my wife's like, they wouldn't do that.
They you know, when you build these ships, they build
them specifically and designed them specifically for some person. And
nobody wants a sister ship that you know, that they
can run into in Italy. They want to be the
kings of that boat.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Sure you what, you're a super yacht to be the
only one.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah, you don't want to run into the exact same boat.
And that's why they throw away the blueprints and they
throw away the plans after the thing is built. And
I said, that's not true, said I'm looking at one
right here. So I did a little more research. It's
the same boat. They renamed it. And if you and
if you know anything about boats, you, if you don't
have a proper service and a and a coronation and
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a dedication and a and a bottle of champagne, you're
breaking on this on the on the bow of that boat. Man,
are you asking for trouble?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
So well, you're let me just get this pair.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
If you just rename the boat without those rituals that
you've described, that's right, then you are.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
You're flirting with a real disaster.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
You're asking for the worst luck possible. And I don't
know whether they christened that boat or not, but if
they didn't, that is going down in history as another
ship that if you change. By the way, if you
own a boat out there, even a canoe. I remember
a buddy of mine, Rick Wilson, in Canada. I think
it was Rick Wilson. They've been tim brestand but they
had a canoe and he named his canoe and then
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he sold it and he wanted, and the person wanted
to rename it, and he said, look, before we do this,
we got a christen this little canoe. You can't just
take this name off and put a new name on it,
because you're gonna run into bad luck on Erio or
this Rondo bay. I mean, that's how serious boat people
are about changing the name of a boat. So they
changed the name of this boat, and I got to
look to find out if they if they properly christened
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it and probably had the service. If they didn't, that again,
that brings on the worst luck possible. Sure, there's a
lot of those adages though, Like if you go on
a big ship and you see a redhead, you're supposed
to get off the ship, let the red head disappear
into traffic or whatever, and then get back on the boat.
That's also bad luck. Also, whistling on deck is bad
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luck as well. If you're on deck and you're whistling,
that's also bad luck. There's a lot of those things,
and you have to know the biggest one, and the
biggest one is changing. They vote without a proper christing,
and they may have done that. Wow, isn't that wild?
If that happen wi, you know, to give the the
ocean a big middle finger and not have a proper service,
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not have a you know, a proper coronation or or
christening of that.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I feel like you're.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Such a you surrendered to the fates already on the ocean.
I mean, it's when you're out there you really do
feel wow. I mean this is truly I'm in the
middle of the vastness of the ocean. Yeah, And so
you're right, you start to think about stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
And I even learned as a kid. I remember going
to Santa Monica the beach when I was a kid.
My mom or dad would drag you know, six kids
out there, and I was standing at the beach. I
was young. I was like e seven or eight years old,
and the lifeguard ran down to me and he says,
young man, he says, let me tell you a lesson.
Let me teach you a lesson, and tell you a
lesson you'll remember the rest of your life. I said, okay.
He said, never turn your back to the ocean. I said,
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what do you mean. He said, he's had he's had
kids that have turned their back to the ocean. They
got hit by a wave, knocked out, dragged out to sea.
Never turn your back on the ocean. Never do it.
Isn't that wild?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
And I remember that. I mean I give goosebumps when
I think of it. I remember that from when I
was like seven, eight nine years old, the lifeguard telling me,
don't ever turn your back to the open.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
There's another one because I was doing a TV show
from the middle of the Indian Ocean. I was hosting
for nat GEO and I saw Carl Gottlieb, who wrote
Jaws for the movie Jaws, and I had seen it.
I see, I said, I'm going out. They said, hey,
you just remember one thing on that ship. One hand.
Keep your hand on something on the boat at all times.
(23:43):
There's an adage. Oh, one hand for the ship and
one hand for yourself. Only only keep one hand free.
The other hand should always be on a handle of
some kind.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yeah, h So those adages a lot of them. Yeah,
maritime adages are a real thing.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
But I got to look to see if they properly
christened that boat, and if not, what.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
A mistake that is.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Wow, that's huge.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on De Mayo from
KFI AM six.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
In the world of maritime stuff and boats.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Now I found some more of them. I found some
more mark here's one. No whistling allowed on deck. That's
bad luck. You had mentioned that. Yeah, when you're on
a boat, no whistling. It's good luck to get tattoos.
If you have tattoos, it's good luck. Oh, take care
of the ship's cat. If you have a cat on board,
that's supposed to be good luck. If you have a
cat on board, don't sail on Fridays. That's a bad day.
(24:37):
Bad day to sail nothing on Friday. I also don't
ever travel with anybody named Jonah?
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Is that really one?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I think I made that. I made that one up.
They get a buddy named Jonah and they want to
hang with them anymore. Care Also, here's one that probably
dates way back. And I don't know if you could
ever in four this anymore. And I don't know if
you could ever get you'd be canceled. I think if
you would. Actually no women on board.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
I don't believe that's one of them. It is, it really.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Is, because they distract the men.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Oh there is that. Well, there's some truth to the
distraction part.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
And then another one never rename a ship, never rename.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
And that's how we got on this because you had
identified that as a real issue.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
That's right. But you know, when you do, if you
do rename a ship, according to you know, folklore, whatever,
there's a lot, there's a whole process you got to
go to. But another one is bananas. Bananas are thought
to bring bad luck, especially on ships. And also here's
an I've heard this a million times in my life.
(25:46):
Red sky in the morning. Some say that the red
sky in the morning is a warning to sailors.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Yeah, what's the line, red sky morning, sailors warning.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Swarding, Yeah, at night sailor's delight, Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
How would have a red sky at night? I guess
at sunset? Maybe maybe.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
But how to change the name of of a ship?
Where's the what's the procedure, buddy, there's a long process. Yeah,
it is, uh it literally I here it is the
dos and don'ts of renaming a ship. First of all,
how to rename a boat? For people out there, you
know you've got a boat you want to, you know,
(26:25):
die on it. You got to remove all the traces
of the current name. Everything, A pillow, a sticker, a sign,
a painting, whatever, whatever, anything, a picture on board, anything
that has the current name of the of the boat
has got to be removed. And then you begin the
purging ceremony. Sure where you've got also you have to
(26:46):
have something from the boat that sinks and take that
throat in the ocean and sink it and and so
that that's a big deal. And then you have to
appease the four wind gods by renaming the boat. It
involves asking for fair winds and calm seas for your
pending voyages. And you have to recite a prayer or
(27:10):
I guess it's a saying, and you have to recite
the entire thing. It's pretty long, so I don't read
the whole thing. And then you have to finish it
off with champagne. You got to christen the boat with champagne.
But if you don't do that, mark you're bringing on
really bad luck. Wow, and that's what happened with this boat.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
You think it's possible, though we certainly know about the
name change in the case of the super yacht that
was sunk and people lost their lives, you think it's
possible that the name change was not done in the
prescribed way.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I'm sure it wasn't. And because for you know, the
mast on that boat had to be one hundred and
fifty feet tall. This is a big, huge sailboat that
has a lot of safety factors and backup and redundant
safe safety factors, so this wouldn't happen. And for that
boat to be one hundred and eighty feet to prefer
to be capsized like that so close to land.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Yeah, it wasn't far out and sea.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
It's unbelievable. You know, this wasn't in the it wasn't
up in the Arctic. It was or down the Arctic.
It wasn't up in the Alaska oceans, you know where
you can get forty fifty sixty foot swells. It was
literally off the coast of Sicily, and the and the
and the winds and the rain and everything was calm.
An hour and a half before they said it was
(28:23):
it was almost deathly coming.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Wow, this is it really is bizarre. It's weird.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
It's really really weird. But anyway, so the super yacht
is sinks and we had that story that we talked
about yesterday, but there is an update as well.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
And it was a sunrise and the Mediterranean, just a
half mile off the coast of Sicily, when a ferocious
storm Monday brought down the one hundred and eighty four
foot super yacht named the Baysian. The six sweet luxury
sailboat dropped anchor with twenty two people on board, ten
crew and twelve passengers.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
According to the Italian Coast Guard, what they.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
Didn't was lurking a freak storm with water spouts tornadoes
on the high seas.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
According to eye witnesses.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Rushing to the rescue was Captain Carston Burner of a
ship anchored nearby, and the stamost over noticed that the
ship behind us, what's gun? They found fifteen survivors on
a life raft, including a one year old girl, Wow,
in good condition, says her doctor. One body has been recovered.
(29:30):
Six people remain unaccounted for, including software magnate Mike Lynch,
once described as Britain's Bill Gates, acquitted earlier this year
of fraud charges in America.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
His daughter Hannah also among the missing.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Wow, how about that? I think his eighteen year old daughter.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
Along with Lynch's American lawyer, Chris Morvillo, a former assistant
district attorney in New York and his wife and banker
Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
This fisherman, these you.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Are big, huge players. Sure they were on that ship
and they're gone.
Speaker 7 (30:02):
Chairman of Morgan Stanley International.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
This fisherman says he arrived shortly after their ship's sake Whimi,
but we only found cushions in debris.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
He women's Now.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Divers, helicopters and speedboats continue to search for the missing,
as well as for answers as to how a state
of the art super yacht could disappear in a flash.
Speaker 7 (30:25):
Police divers have.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
Been trying to access the hull of that sailboat. It's
feared that's where the missing were trapped when this ship
went down. However, accessing that area has proved challenging, lad
with all the luggage and the furniture blocking the way.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
That's what they say. All the tables and the beds
and the luggage are blocking the doors to try to
get into that ship. I'm telling you, it's.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Really it's a series of the most bizarre, eerie things
that happened.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
The craziest ever I got to find out whether they
properly changed the name of that show gang. Don't change
the name of your boat. I don't care if you
have a small one a big one, I don't care.
Never changed the name. Don't bring on that look, don't
bring on that heavy, that heaviness. All right, Reli, it's
Connor and Thompson Moore now with the KFI Newsroom, yet
(31:15):
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can always hear us live on KFI Am six forty
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It's k IF. I am six forty and you're listening
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It's Conway Show. Mark Thompson's here, come on.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Thank you everybody, Please please say tom Tuesday. I'm humbled
and overwhelmed by this reaction. Thank you all right.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Gary and Shannon are in Chicago for the DNS, right,
and last night we had Shannon on tonight. We left
Gary on tomorrow Oscar and then I don't know, back
around the hard night exactly what Gary hoffmins with this?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Gary? How you Bob?
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Great guys?
Speaker 5 (00:35):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Guys?
Speaker 6 (00:35):
Buddy?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I felt so terrible for you. I know you're a
very emotional man. You had to drive or fly your
daughter to school and then fly right to Chicago, and
you didn't show any emotion over it, and I give
you a huge standing ovation be able to contain that well.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Thank you. I mean, you didn't see it, but there's
an entire cabin full of people who saw me on
a Southwest Airline flight crying my eyes out. So wherever
they are, I apologize to.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Them, Buddy.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I know that. Look.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I don't want to get you know, I only concentrate
on this, but that's a big deal when your daughter. Look,
when your son goes off to college, you can't wait
for him to get there, But when your daughter goes
off to college, that's a big empty, you know, feeling
in the house. And then you're going to experience that
when you get home. And you showed none of that
on the air. And I can't tell you how much
(01:27):
how much control self control you have over that, I
would have been a mess.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
It is totally funny, Tim. I think you're absolutely right
because she's the youngest of our two kids, so when
she is out, it is out. I mean, it is
just the wife and the dog and I trying to
make peace in that house. So, yes, you're absolutely right.
And by the way, when my son goes to college,
would you let me know because I have not seen
that yet.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And also, you know the empty nest. You know, there's
there's two elements to it. One you miss the kids
and two you have nothing to say to your wife.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Well, she probably prefers that she listens four hours a day,
so she's thankful that I have someone else I can
get all my words out.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Okay, all right, but I mean, ma'am, let's get back
on the DNC here, But I just wanted to say, buddy,
I I will you know, whatever you do in life,
you will always have my full respect for you to
be able to pull that off and then go to
Chicago to do the show with your crazy partner and
not breakdown.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Well, thank you. I appreciate that. I have a great kid,
two of them. But I have a great kid who
is going to school. The best part, and the reason
it's not super emotional, is that the university is paying
for her whole graduate school program. So wow, that makes
me cry a little less.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Oh that's great because I know you've saved money for that,
and now that money you've been thinking about where to
redirect it.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I know you, I know you maybe both in the
travel funds.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Okay, yeah right, yeah, we're going first now, none of
the Southwest with you know, with Karen Baz That's right.
So what's going on with the DNC. Late everyone's talking
about how late President Biden went on last night. They're
thinking that was on purpose. I don't think it was.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
No, it wasn't on purpose. It was it was just
bad planning, to be honest. I mean, this is designed
to be a four day television show, and whoever didn't
calculate in Hillary Clinton's standing ovation, standing ovation for Andy
Basheer's standing ovation for AOC they were numskulls, because that
(03:35):
kind of thing has to be figured out. The fact
that Joe Biden actually got pushed past primetime I think
was a big failure on their part to be, you know,
whatever conspiracy theory you might have about the parties trying
to push him out more aggressively now that he has
agreed to step off of the top of the ticket.
I don't think that's what happened. It was just bad planning.
I mean, the benefit to everyone is that Debbie Wasserman
(03:59):
Schultz got cut and she didn't have to give a
speech last night. And James Taylor got cut, which I
like James Taylor, but I don't want to see him
involved in politics in any way. So his he was
actually at the venue yesterday rehearsing, doing sound check and
things like that, but he never got to perform his
song because everything was going way too late anyway. So
(04:21):
tonight we know that.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
But I heard it was somebody different. I didn't hear
was James Taylor. I heard the the the entertainment of
the song. Was Chris Rock was going to sing Cowboy
from from Beyonce. No, it was kid Rock. Kid Rock
was going to sing.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Oh, kid Rock.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
No, Kid Rock and Chris Rock, we're not going to
perform together.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
The Rock was going to perform it. But you know
of the show ahead.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I told all of the speakers tonight. They told all
the speakers tonight, you got to stick to your time limits.
I don't know if they're going to do it like
a comedy club where they flash of light.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
In the back.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
You got one minute and then it starts blinking with
time to go, or they just escort you off the stage.
But they can't do that again.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
They got it, well, you had a Yarry. They didn't
factor in the applause. Mean, I think these usually these
speeches are already pre read and vetted right that no,
there are no surprises as to length of the speeches.
But they didn't factor in the fanfare, which is insane
that they didn't.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Well, I think that what happens is some of these
second tier politicians, and I don't mean to denigrate anybody,
but the people whose names you the normal American public
wouldn't necessarily recognize. I think what they do is they
see this as their opportunity to be on a national stage.
So if the instruction is you have three minutes and
(05:42):
then you write a twenty five hundred word speech, you're
going to try to cram that in three minutes, and
you're going to promise everybody that you're going to be
able to do it. But you're never going to give
up your moment in the spotlight on a national stage
like that. And well, listen, even if it is just
on c SPAN, that's an important time for some of
these up and coming politicians.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Right, that's exactly right. Oh who was on tonight? Obama?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Both Obamas, both the Michelle and Barack are expected. And
to be honest, there was quite a buzz in the
arena itself today as some of the delegates started flowing
in because there's no guaranteed seating in this place. It's
not like everybody gets tickets and then you find your
assigned seat like you're going to a Blackhawks game. They
were as we were walking out. There were volunteers there
(06:26):
that were being instructed on the nicest way to say, hey,
you may get into the arena, but there's no guarantee
that you're actually going to get a seat.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Oh wow, I didn't know that. That's wild. Yeah, and
now what about the protesters, any disturbance outside today like yesterday?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
So no, and in fact, yesterday was less than what
was expected. The main protest was at Union Park, so
it was about four or five blocks away from the
United Center. They did make their way to it, and
you may have seen that they were able to break
down a couple of metal barricades and things and get in.
I think ten somewhere between ten and fifteen people were
died yesterday, which, in all honesty for the first day
(07:03):
of a Democratic convention, is a record low. Probably yes today,
there was expectation that they were going to be protesting
in different areas that were closer to downtown, because this
is where I'm downtown now, this is where all of
the delegates, the VIPs are staying in these massive hotels here.
Now they there's not much you can do to congest
(07:26):
this place anymore that it's already congested. So you know,
a march of several thousand people down the streets isn't
going to block traffic all more than what is already
blocked through street closures and stuff, but I think it
would prompt a little bit more coverage than we saw yesterday.
So we know that there are permitted protests through the
course of the week. There's sort of this underlying concern
(07:50):
or expectation that it does get stronger, louder, potentially more
violent by the time we get to Thursday night.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Oh that's good.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I heard that question out now, and it's going to
be Michelle Obama start that rumor on the floor.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I think that's still can happen.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Yeah, well, I don't know if it's gonna happen. I
don't know if they're going to be I don't know
if they have any appetite to go through the turmoil
that they went through over the last four weeks.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah, think you're right, Gary, Thanks for coming on. Really
appreciate it. You get Father of the Year in my book,
and we'll see you back here.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Figure love you guys.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
You're the best man, Gary Hoffman. There he goes Gary
and Shannon at nine am to one pm on KFI
and then listen to the Conway Podcast at one pm.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
I know what that is in reference to, Really you're
listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
It's Conway show. Mark Thompson's here and people want to
know where you've been for last four weeks. I don't
want to do At the top of the shows, we
had Gary and Gary's calling him from Chicago. Of course
he didn't want to hear your story. And I don't
want to take up precious time with you know, away
from news, because we got a lot of news ago.
Now what what happened with you?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I had a couple of bouts of ills. You almost died.
I really thought that I was going to buy it.
I really did.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
You text me and you said, hey, look I'm not
going to I mean not make it. And I said
the show and you said no, no, you idiot the life.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I remember the exchange for being quite like that, but
I do. I was.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I was in kind of a kind of a down
place anyway, because my dad just died. And then I
got really sick. Okay, I came up back. I got
really sick. You get sick on the flight back. No,
although that may be where I picked it up or
like a you know, one of the airports or something.
But it was one hundred and three temperature over a
few days and there we was, and the and the
symptoms beyond that, the uh, the g I symptoms, the
(09:47):
gastro intestinal symptoms, that's worrying, really intense. And I ended
up with that Verdico stuff, and I think I related
it to it. Then I got uh, I recovered from
that at slowly you or the antibiotics from they've said,
you've got a bat carrier in your gut, you got bacteria,
you got bacteria everywhere. So then I get COVID, which
(10:09):
is not a bacterial infection, as you know, it's a you.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Know, viral infection.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I've been I thought I'd been vaxed, but maybe I
haven't gotten the latest against the latest variant. So that
took me out, and I was rallying, but not rallying
in time for the Tuesday thing I could And I
think I texted you and I said I could probably
make it by that Thursday of that week or something,
because if you want me, sure, I can make it.
(10:34):
And I and this, and I said this to Courtney.
Tim is so great because he realizes, either he realizes
or it's really as bad because everybody's sick a KFI.
You must have realized that I was like, I could
technically be back, but I was not.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Really one hundred percent yet I was still weak.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Well, not only were you not one hundred percent, but
there were three or four people walking around this floor
who had active COVID right, and they didn't seem to
care about other people contracting it from them.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Well that you know, I test.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I tested negative before I would even suggest coming in. Sure,
I tested multiple times. But let me ask you.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
When you go to Las Vegas or you play poker,
you know you probably bring a couple thousand dollars with you.
You know you have money on hand, right, you probably
have account or a credit line at some of these casinos.
Yet when you had COVID, you were unwilling to part
with the money for the medication. Is that true?
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Mark?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Well, I did not want to take the packs of it. It
is what you're talking about. He said, why don't you
take the packs of it? It's five hundred dollars And
you said, I that's my gambling money. Had you talked
to me ten days ago before my Vegas trip, I'd
have that five hundred load it up on packed slavin
(11:53):
And I said, let me hear about those side effects again,
because well, I had five hundred. I like to and
so he said, you know, I've there's a rebound from
PACKSLOVID that is quite frequent, you know, but it also
is effective in keeping you out of the hospital. I'm thinking,
I'm not gonna end up in the hospital. I'm going
to tough this thing out.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Did you go to your private hospital again?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I will tell you the concierge I.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I will tell you that the.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
During the COVID run, I was in pretty bad shape
and the doctor said, there's nothing you can do except
just water, water, water, hydrate. And I remembered that you
can get the hydration at the Concierge hospital. And so
I went by the Concierge hospital again and I got,
(12:40):
you know, like the ivy they plug in and uh yeah, got.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
The Do you feel better?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I did after afterward, but I mean after hours, but
it was a really I had a really nasty bout
with it.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
So you look great, buddy, I mean, you beat it.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I I have I have other stuff working now. Now
I have a just to share all of my little
stuff here with you. I have a nasty TMJ you're
familiar with TMJ job. Yeah, So I am talking to
you right now. And when I move my jaw, it hurts.
It hurts, okay, and I cannot open my mouth, open
the jaw to eat. Really, I've been drinking protein shakes
(13:18):
and I've been eating soup.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
How'd you get jaw? Is it called jaw?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Lock? It's lockjaw? I think I think that's a tetanus thing.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
This is the result of a dental procedure where the
mouth has opened so long to produce this.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
I know. So I always like to serve up.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I like to serve up new physical maladies for you
every time I see you.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
So that's my latest. That's wild.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I mean, I'm in with the doctor now who's treating
this with lasers and with other stuff. So we're hoping
what from I mean, I guess it's from It can
be from no, no, no, it can be from clenching
like you clench the jaw at night. I think I
really don't know what I mean. I do too, I
think a lot of people do. But and I think
most of the time it doesn't, you know, result in
(13:59):
anything bad. But uh, this was, as I say, they
helped My mouth was open for a surgical procedure.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
And oh and then they.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Had and then they had to redo it, the surgical procedure,
and so let's like it's it's multiple hours in the
chair and you're holding your mouth open, and that has
produced this.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
And that is that eventually going to go away? The pain?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
I mean, at some point I assume I'll be able
to get my jaw back.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
So you can't eat anything, So I can't.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Open my I can't open my mouth. I eat a
sandwich or no, I can't do it. Really, Yes, it's
it's incredibly painful. What's the most I mean, if you
can show me what's the most you can open your mouth?
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Like that when I did that, When I did that,
it'll hurt. Yeah, it's really intense.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Oh my god, I didn't know all this about it.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
And that's kind of wild. It's it's I hope I
get through it. It's it's a really intense.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, you're the only guy I've ever met with lockjaw.
Usually that's not a guy.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, I didn't know that.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Okay, all right, but she wants what line? Okay, I'll
talk to her.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Mark Thompson is here and I know you've been following this,
this story of this super yacht, the one that sank
off the coast.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
I love what you did with this story. Yesterday.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
I was listening to you as I waited two hours
to get into the Doctor Boy, and you broke it
down perfectly. And there have even been I guess you
were telling me some additional details since yet more details.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Well, this guy sold his company, his computer company, to
Hewlett Packard fifteen years ago, and Hewlett Packard accused him
of selling him a company that wasn't worth that you know,
he inflating, inflated the worth of that company, and so
he's he was fighting extradition. He's a big, you know,
billionaire from England and they took him to court. They
(15:49):
took him to court, and he fought extradition for thirteen
years and they finally, you know, they finally got him
into this country to face trial. And two years before
he faced his main accountant, the CEO of the CFO
of that company, was thrown in jail for five years
for fraud in the same circumstances, right, and who knows
(16:11):
more about the company than the CFO. Sure, So he
finally comes to the United States. He's been put on trial.
He's under house arrest. His name is Mike Lynch. He's
in house arrest in San Francisco. You can only go
from his apartment to court, back to his apartment and
stay there. And he fights the Fed. And only one
half of one percent win those cases. So ninety nine
(16:32):
point five percent, ninety nine point five percent of the
people who go up against the Feds, because the Feds
have a lot of power at limitless pockets, you know,
they can really, you know, bring in you know, the
big guns to destroy your life. And he fought him,
and he fought him, and he fought him, and just
this past June, he won completely exonerated, gets to go
(16:52):
back to you know, Great Britain, gets to go back
on the big ships. Nothing is going to happen to
this guy.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
And this was to have been a celebration of Glip.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Packard lost that lawsuit and then both sides spent millions,
tens of millions of dollars on lawyers. And he goes
back to England and he reads in the newspaper that
three days before you know his accident. His co defendant
in that case is jogging in England and he gets
hit by a car and he gets killed. His co
(17:23):
defendant gets killed, and so he's like, wow, how did
that hell that happen?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
A guy who had been exagerated.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Two of the guys there were there were one one
guy was thrown in jail for a long time. The
CFO of that company got five years for the main
accountant of that company. Then the other two guys, Mike
Lynch and his partner were completely exonerated. They fly back
to England and the partner is running around England jogging
and he gets hit by a car and gets killed.
And then three days later, this guy is out on
(17:50):
the boat with fifteen friends Americans, Italians, the English.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
And they were celebrating the exec rate.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
They were celebrated all the big lawyers in that king victory.
They all got private planes to land in Italy, ushered
out to the boat. They were sitting on the boat
having a great time, and then this unexpected tornado, this
whirlpool tornado came by, capsized the ship sank it. It's
one hundred and fifty sorry, it's one hundred and eighty
(18:16):
foot ship. It's huge, it can sleep, you know, twenty
five people comfortably on that boat, a big ass ship
it and the storm comes up sinks it. Mike Lynch
and his daughter are still not found, presumed dead, and
I think one of the person died. Fifteen people were rescued,
brought back, including Mike, Mike Lynch's wife brought back to shore,
(18:38):
and now they're still searching for Mike Lynch and his daughter.
So I'm I'm reading the story. And I was interested
in the story before the seedment happened because you know
that big lawsuit in San Francisco for somehow, somehow I
got wind of that, and then you know it's a
big lawsuit, you know, the English coming back, you know,
being terrorized by the federal government and they finally extra
died this guy after thirteen years. It was a big
(18:59):
story before this storm hit.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Sure, And I also thought of you because I know
you're very much this is for real, very much into
boating and sailboatshit Mounts Cup, you never miss it.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Yeah, And so last night I'm My wife is even
a bigger fan of boats than I am, because her
grandfather was a river pilot on the Columbia River and
her grandfather would take ships from Astoria on the west
coast and drag them sixty five seventy miles all the
way up to Portland. It's very tough to navigate that
Columbia River. You got to really know every angle and
(19:30):
there's a lot of there's been disasters on that river.
And her grandfather for thirty or forty years was a
river pilot on that river, and so she's really into
boats too. He had a boat and I said to
my wife, I said, hey, that boat, I think it
was called the Boisian. Boisian has a sister ship and
I'm looking at it's called this Skylark or something, and
(19:52):
I said, that's amazing. They built two of these ships
exactly the same. And my wife's like, they wouldn't do that.
They you know, when you build these ships, they build
them specifically and designed them specifically for some person. And
nobody wants a sister ship that you know, that they
can run into in Italy. They want to be the
kings of that boat.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Sure you what, you're a super yacht to be the
only one.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah, you don't want to run into the exact same boat.
And that's why they throw away the blueprints and they
throw away the plans after the thing is built. And
I said, that's not true, said I'm looking at one
right here. So I did a little more research. It's
the same boat. They renamed it. And if you and
if you know anything about boats, you, if you don't
have a proper service and a and a coronation and
(20:34):
a dedication and a and a bottle of champagne, you're
breaking on this on the on the bow of that boat. Man,
are you asking for trouble?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
So well, you're let me just get this pair.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
If you just rename the boat without those rituals that
you've described, that's right, then you are.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
You're flirting with a real disaster.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
You're asking for the worst luck possible. And I don't
know whether they christened that boat or not, but if
they didn't, that is going down in history as another
ship that if you change. By the way, if you
own a boat out there, even a canoe. I remember
a buddy of mine, Rick Wilson, in Canada. I think
it was Rick Wilson. They've been tim brestand but they
had a canoe and he named his canoe and then
(21:13):
he sold it and he wanted, and the person wanted
to rename it, and he said, look, before we do this,
we got a christen this little canoe. You can't just
take this name off and put a new name on it,
because you're gonna run into bad luck on Erio or
this Rondo bay. I mean, that's how serious boat people
are about changing the name of a boat. So they
changed the name of this boat, and I got to
look to find out if they if they properly christened
(21:33):
it and probably had the service. If they didn't, that again,
that brings on the worst luck possible. Sure, there's a
lot of those adages though, Like if you go on
a big ship and you see a redhead, you're supposed
to get off the ship, let the red head disappear
into traffic or whatever, and then get back on the boat.
That's also bad luck. Also, whistling on deck is bad
(21:54):
luck as well. If you're on deck and you're whistling,
that's also bad luck. There's a lot of those things,
and you have to know the biggest one, and the
biggest one is changing. They vote without a proper christing,
and they may have done that. Wow, isn't that wild?
If that happen wi, you know, to give the the
ocean a big middle finger and not have a proper service,
(22:15):
not have a you know, a proper coronation or or
christening of that.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I feel like you're.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Such a you surrendered to the fates already on the ocean.
I mean, it's when you're out there you really do
feel wow. I mean this is truly I'm in the
middle of the vastness of the ocean. Yeah, And so
you're right, you start to think about stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
And I even learned as a kid. I remember going
to Santa Monica the beach when I was a kid.
My mom or dad would drag you know, six kids
out there, and I was standing at the beach. I
was young. I was like e seven or eight years old,
and the lifeguard ran down to me and he says,
young man, he says, let me tell you a lesson.
Let me teach you a lesson, and tell you a
lesson you'll remember the rest of your life. I said, okay.
He said, never turn your back to the ocean. I said,
(23:00):
what do you mean. He said, he's had he's had
kids that have turned their back to the ocean. They
got hit by a wave, knocked out, dragged out to sea.
Never turn your back on the ocean. Never do it.
Isn't that wild?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
And I remember that. I mean I give goosebumps when
I think of it. I remember that from when I
was like seven, eight nine years old, the lifeguard telling me,
don't ever turn your back to the open.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
There's another one because I was doing a TV show
from the middle of the Indian Ocean. I was hosting
for nat GEO and I saw Carl Gottlieb, who wrote
Jaws for the movie Jaws, and I had seen it.
I see, I said, I'm going out. They said, hey,
you just remember one thing on that ship. One hand.
Keep your hand on something on the boat at all times.
(23:43):
There's an adage. Oh, one hand for the ship and
one hand for yourself. Only only keep one hand free.
The other hand should always be on a handle of
some kind.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yeah, h So those adages a lot of them. Yeah,
maritime adages are a real thing.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
But I got to look to see if they properly
christened that boat, and if not, what.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
A mistake that is.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Wow, that's huge.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on De Mayo from
KFI AM six.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
In the world of maritime stuff and boats.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Now I found some more of them. I found some
more mark here's one. No whistling allowed on deck. That's
bad luck. You had mentioned that. Yeah, when you're on
a boat, no whistling. It's good luck to get tattoos.
If you have tattoos, it's good luck. Oh, take care
of the ship's cat. If you have a cat on board,
that's supposed to be good luck. If you have a
cat on board, don't sail on Fridays. That's a bad day.
(24:37):
Bad day to sail nothing on Friday. I also don't
ever travel with anybody named Jonah?
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Is that really one?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I think I made that. I made that one up.
They get a buddy named Jonah and they want to
hang with them anymore. Care Also, here's one that probably
dates way back. And I don't know if you could
ever in four this anymore. And I don't know if
you could ever get you'd be canceled. I think if
you would. Actually no women on board.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
I don't believe that's one of them. It is, it really.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Is, because they distract the men.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Oh there is that. Well, there's some truth to the
distraction part.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
And then another one never rename a ship, never rename.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
And that's how we got on this because you had
identified that as a real issue.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
That's right. But you know, when you do, if you
do rename a ship, according to you know, folklore, whatever,
there's a lot, there's a whole process you got to
go to. But another one is bananas. Bananas are thought
to bring bad luck, especially on ships. And also here's
an I've heard this a million times in my life.
(25:46):
Red sky in the morning. Some say that the red
sky in the morning is a warning to sailors.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Yeah, what's the line, red sky morning, sailors warning.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Swarding, Yeah, at night sailor's delight, Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
How would have a red sky at night? I guess
at sunset? Maybe maybe.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
But how to change the name of of a ship?
Where's the what's the procedure, buddy, there's a long process. Yeah,
it is, uh it literally I here it is the
dos and don'ts of renaming a ship. First of all,
how to rename a boat? For people out there, you
know you've got a boat you want to, you know,
(26:25):
die on it. You got to remove all the traces
of the current name. Everything, A pillow, a sticker, a sign,
a painting, whatever, whatever, anything, a picture on board, anything
that has the current name of the of the boat
has got to be removed. And then you begin the
purging ceremony. Sure where you've got also you have to
(26:46):
have something from the boat that sinks and take that
throat in the ocean and sink it and and so
that that's a big deal. And then you have to
appease the four wind gods by renaming the boat. It
involves asking for fair winds and calm seas for your
pending voyages. And you have to recite a prayer or
(27:10):
I guess it's a saying, and you have to recite
the entire thing. It's pretty long, so I don't read
the whole thing. And then you have to finish it
off with champagne. You got to christen the boat with champagne.
But if you don't do that, mark you're bringing on
really bad luck. Wow, and that's what happened with this boat.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
You think it's possible, though we certainly know about the
name change in the case of the super yacht that
was sunk and people lost their lives, you think it's
possible that the name change was not done in the
prescribed way.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I'm sure it wasn't. And because for you know, the
mast on that boat had to be one hundred and
fifty feet tall. This is a big, huge sailboat that
has a lot of safety factors and backup and redundant
safe safety factors, so this wouldn't happen. And for that
boat to be one hundred and eighty feet to prefer
to be capsized like that so close to land.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Yeah, it wasn't far out and sea.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
It's unbelievable. You know, this wasn't in the it wasn't
up in the Arctic. It was or down the Arctic.
It wasn't up in the Alaska oceans, you know where
you can get forty fifty sixty foot swells. It was
literally off the coast of Sicily, and the and the
and the winds and the rain and everything was calm.
An hour and a half before they said it was
(28:23):
it was almost deathly coming.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Wow, this is it really is bizarre. It's weird.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
It's really really weird. But anyway, so the super yacht
is sinks and we had that story that we talked
about yesterday, but there is an update as well.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
And it was a sunrise and the Mediterranean, just a
half mile off the coast of Sicily, when a ferocious
storm Monday brought down the one hundred and eighty four
foot super yacht named the Baysian. The six sweet luxury
sailboat dropped anchor with twenty two people on board, ten
crew and twelve passengers.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
According to the Italian Coast Guard, what they.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
Didn't was lurking a freak storm with water spouts tornadoes
on the high seas.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
According to eye witnesses.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Rushing to the rescue was Captain Carston Burner of a
ship anchored nearby, and the stamost over noticed that the
ship behind us, what's gun? They found fifteen survivors on
a life raft, including a one year old girl, Wow,
in good condition, says her doctor. One body has been recovered.
(29:30):
Six people remain unaccounted for, including software magnate Mike Lynch,
once described as Britain's Bill Gates, acquitted earlier this year
of fraud charges in America.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
His daughter Hannah also among the missing.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Wow, how about that? I think his eighteen year old daughter.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
Along with Lynch's American lawyer, Chris Morvillo, a former assistant
district attorney in New York and his wife and banker
Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
This fisherman, these you.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Are big, huge players. Sure they were on that ship
and they're gone.
Speaker 7 (30:02):
Chairman of Morgan Stanley International.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
This fisherman says he arrived shortly after their ship's sake Whimi,
but we only found cushions in debris.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
He women's Now.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Divers, helicopters and speedboats continue to search for the missing,
as well as for answers as to how a state
of the art super yacht could disappear in a flash.
Speaker 7 (30:25):
Police divers have.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
Been trying to access the hull of that sailboat. It's
feared that's where the missing were trapped when this ship
went down. However, accessing that area has proved challenging, lad
with all the luggage and the furniture blocking the way.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
That's what they say. All the tables and the beds
and the luggage are blocking the doors to try to
get into that ship. I'm telling you, it's.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Really it's a series of the most bizarre, eerie things
that happened.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
The craziest ever I got to find out whether they
properly changed the name of that show gang. Don't change
the name of your boat. I don't care if you
have a small one a big one, I don't care.
Never changed the name. Don't bring on that look, don't
bring on that heavy, that heaviness. All right, Reli, it's
Connor and Thompson Moore now with the KFI Newsroom, yet
(31:15):
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