December 16, 2024 • 32 mins
Humpback Whale is tangled in the great sea/ Luigi Mangione Documentary in the works. // Guest: Jesse Corti on his 55th anniversary of Charles Dickens “A Christmas Carol”. // Mark Thompson is NOT a handyman/ Jamie Foxx recovering after physical altercation at Beverly Hills restaurant. // Retirement age and Social Security is changing in 2025; Mark explains it all.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah, you're gonna go away, they're telling They're telling me
you're going away for a few days to fish. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
you're taking a Christmas hiatus, a little mini vaca slash.
Get my stuff done that I can't don't have time for.
Will you leave behind some of your choice cuts. I'll
do my best, all right, love your choice cuts. Thank you, sir. Hey,
that humpback whale that was tangled up, here's an update.
(00:34):
I'm hoping for good news, but what I was reading
was not too encouraging.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Capturing footage of the whale. Later realizing it was entangled, I.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Was reviewing the footage. I noticed a rope that was
in its mouth and went all the way along the
side of its body, and it was pretty obvious to
me that it was some kind of fishing ropes.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
So the back of the boat Mall is a pop
time of year for whale watching. An unusually high number
of the sixty thousand pound humpbacks spotted in the area
this year. The entanglement team would need to cut the
rope near the whale's eye to set it free, but
that poses danger. The agitated humpback could hit them with
its tail or flipper.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
It's really heart wrenching to see this taking place, and
all that the disentanglement team wants to do is to
successfully release the animal.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
The humpback was last seen on Tuesday, and as the
days go by, there's growing concern about its Well, bet.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, it's a I'm afraid it's pretty grim. And you know,
these whales have to navigate around so much stuff, I mean,
the ship strikes they have to avoid. The noise in
the ocean is a huge problem. I mean it's like
they say, if you were to crank up your earbuds
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all the way and put them in your ears, that's
what these whales are hearing now because there's just so
much noise, i mean, sound like garbage noise within the ocean.
So it makes they're navigating so much more difficult. And
then you have, of course added to that these fishing lines,
these long fishing lines, and it's a it's a sad
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fact that you know, they do their best, these various
marine mammal groups to try to intercede, but there really
is very little to be done. So hey, the the
honky killer Luigi Mangioni who was picked up at that
(02:46):
McDonald's in Pennsylvania for killing the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
There will be a movie about him. The Louis Mangione
documentary is in the works from Alex Gibney. Alex Gibney
is a skilled documentary filmmaker. Maybe you know, one of
(03:07):
the premiere documentarians and filmmakers in this generation. I mean,
it's a remarkable track record that he's got. He'd he
did Going Clear, the a scientology movie. He did Enron
The Smartest Men in the Room. Is that what it
(03:27):
was called? Well, he did that one. I thought he did.
Am I wrong about that? That's definitely the name of
the title. It was good. I'll double check it because
I've been known to be mistaken occasionally. Somebody check it. No,
he's the director. Yeah, I'm right, I'm right. That's good.
(03:49):
I hate to be wrong on a Monday when I
take out the whole week ahead of me and Ron.
The Smartest Guys in the Room was an Alex Gibney film.
He did a bunch of a bunch of stuff on
terror taxi to the Dark Side zero days. He did
the Steve jobs A documentary. So this guy point is
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he's an award winning documentarian and he is picking up
this story of Louis Luigi Mangione. It happened on December fourth,
of course, the fatal shooting of Brian Thompson, the CEO
of the United Healthcare and then five days after the shooting,
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Mangoni was picked up at that McDonald's. And his background
maybe a white way way to put it. I mean,
he was a valedictorian at this high end Maryland High School,
was an Ivy League graduate. I mean, this isn't the
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profile necessarily of someone who would at age twenty six
turn completely sideways like this and go on this jihad
carrying a manifesto. Allegedly, he referenced Michael Moore and the
film Sicko. And by the way, you should see the
film Sickoh. It's great. It really is, even if you
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don't like Michael Moore. It just it was done in
seven and everything in the movie is still true. It's
all about the US healthcare system. So this new documentary
is going to explore how these killers are created, what
the killing says about the society and the values we
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place on who lives and who dies. I'm curious as
to whether or not they're going to actually get into
any of the issues that sort of provoke this if
you want to say that, you know that is to say,
the United Healthcare issues. They were the as you're by
now well aware, they are top of the pyramid in
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terms of rejecting claims. They reject thirty three percent, I
think is then number that I read of the claims
that are filed for reimbursement. So when you look at
an industry and a healthcare system that's clearly got some issues,
like big issues, you see how this horrible death is
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cold blooded killing, has at the same time as having
shocked the nation, it also has provoked a conversation around
just this, which is the broken system that we all
have to operate in, where our healthcare is very much
dependent on whether or not this outfit United Healthcare actually
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kicks back our bill or pays our bill. And then
you get to the guy who actually ran United Healthcare,
the guy who's now no longer with us because he
was dead on a Manhattan street that day. CEO Brian
Thompson but here's what he did prior to his loss
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of life. He instituted AI at United Healthcare that actually
had the ability to go through many of these physician
initiated requests for reimbursement, and the aii I was allowed
to bigfoot them. The AI is allowed to actually reject
the claim even though the physician says, this treatment of
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this patient, this procedure, this surgery, whatever it might be,
it fits into the framework of the insurance of your company.
So again, Thompson instituted this AI that actually began the
process of going through these various claims and looking for
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ways in which they can be rejected. So and by
the way, to be fair to Thompson, I guess that's
the job. You know. The way to feed the bottom
line is to not pay us out a lot more
than you were paying us out before. So you're looking
for ways to reject our claims. But you can see
that those of us who are insured, we're disgusted by this.
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This industry is literally leaving people dead. And so the
wider conversation around Mangioni, to me is the interesting thing.
I don't know that they'll touch on it in the documentary,
but he's getting the documentary from Alex Gibney soon. They've
already begun that process of putting it together.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Forty Christmas of what nine days? How many days is Christmas?
Is soon? I really began that statement before I knew
exactly how many days they're worried at Christmas, And so
now I throw my lifeline out. Really, nobody can tell
me you don't have like some calendar on the All right,
I'll look it is nine.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
All right, yeah, you're right the monitor.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Man, Oh you were holding up to you sorry, Nine
is the answer. And among the things that the Christmas
season brings is the tremendous Christmas Carol, the stage production,
the film adaptations, it's all so brilliant, all of the
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adaptations from the the Charles Dickens novel. And the annual event,
it's the longest running Hollywood production of a Christmas Carol,
is held at the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. This
is an annual show. It sells out every year and
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it is a big show. I mean you hear, First
Presbyterian Church might be smaller thing, it's a big production.
And the director of this production is on the line
with us now. Jesse Carty, welcome to Chao.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
How are you, sir, How are you? I'm doing well.
I can't complain.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I'm loving that the oldest Mega church in Hollywood, the
first mega church in North America, is the staging ground
for this terrific show, A Christmas Carol. How many years
have you been directing it?
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Since nineteen oh five? No, just kidding, that's when they
bought the land. No, I've been doing it for the
last four years. I'm I'm an actor from New York
broad actor.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
This is a let me just mention some of your credits,
because you're a big deale and you're too modest to
you you just say I'm a Broadway actor. But again,
one of the starring voices in Frozen, Beauty and the Beast,
one of the stars on Broadway of let me's a hobb.
This is a stand in salute Jesse Cordy, my friends,
(10:48):
you're a real god. Congratulations on a great body of work.
So tell me about a Christmas Carol in your direction there.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Well, Christmas Carol is a show that obviously it's done
many times throughout the country and the world in different languages.
But one of the things that about our particular show
was adapted it by It was adapted by Juliet according
who my wife. She's also the choreographer. But it was
done so that we could bring it back to what
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Dickens actually said. A lot of people omit, take things out,
and we wanted to do a not a long to
you know, two and a half hour play, but we
adapted it and it's about ninety minutes. It's one act
and we present it with wonderful actors. It staged in
a way that you would see it on Broadway. The
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venue is this gothic, beautiful church. It's one hundred years
old this year and it was built and when you
walk in there, it's like you're back to eighteen forty
three and it's very impressed. If it's very impressive. But
the actors that we have, all the people that work
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on it are wonderful actors. And the special effects, the sound,
everything is top notch. And I hope that you know
we we've been running it and it's been doing great.
We have two more performances in on Friday and Saturday,
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and if you go to a Christmas Carolhollywood dot com.
You can get tickets or just go to fpch dot
org and you can get tickets there and mark if
you come, I'll get you coms.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I'll tell you what I really, I'm going to try
to get by there. You've been running all month, and
that's why you're kind of wrapping up the run this week. Yeah,
but this is this is really exciting. And and your
wife doing the choreography, and she herself has got incredible
credits as well. I mean she has choreographed Annie, Hairspray,
Fiddler on the Roof. I mean she's the real thing.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
So the two of you that doesn't have time for me.
She doesn't have time for me. She's too busy choreograph it.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, I and I'm seeing great notices. Joe Montagna, the actor, said,
I've seen a Christmas Carol numerous times in my life.
This is the best Scrooge I've ever seen. Absolutely, And
I like that you streamlined it because it is a
long show. I mean we lose track of how much
we had a tolerance I think for longer stuff in
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the old days.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Yeah. Yeah, no, it's great because we you know, we
still want to reach eight year olds, you know, and
we still want to reach eighty year olds, so uh,
we want to keep it so that the attention span
is there. But it's it's fold. I mean, it's got
everything in it and you'll see certain things that you
wouldn't see in other productions, and so you know, it's it.
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It really sells itself. When you people see it, they go,
I'm going to come every year. I'm going to come
every year. I can't believe this. Why isn't this man?
You know? So it's I feel very good about it,
and knowing how critical I am about when I see
you play, when I see a show, we you know,
we're we have high standards and it's right up there.
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And the best thing mark is that afterwards there's a
there's a venue in another area. We have a pretty
nice big campus right off the one o one first
first in Church of Hollywood. We have that you can
see the tower there and everything with the bell. We
have a venue where people go right after the show
and they get get coffee, apple cider, they have refreshment
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snacks and they there's dancing of the of that period.
My wife needs it and people will join in and
it's it's just a yeah, yeah, there's a party afterwards.
So that's that's a nice little thing as well.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yeah, that's really great. So again it'll be Friday and
Saturday evening performances seven thirty and tickets are I believe
only twenty five dollars. Not it's not not expensive and well.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
At this stage Mark, they're like thirty five hundred dollars
and I'm just kidding, no, no, there, we probably keep
it the price down so that people can go.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Yeah, so the whole family can. It's that kind of production.
I mean, it's a Christmas carriage, is something that everybody
should be able to see.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Yeah, but I want to say one last thing is
that it's not we're not doing a Saturday evening. We're
only doing the matinee.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Okay, so it's we're doing Friday night. So so what
what what productions will there be this week to finish
it out?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Friday night exactly Friday night and the matinee is at
two thirty on Saturday. And yes, yes, this way it
doesn't get too long because you know, this year, Christmas
pops up on Wednesday and Christmas Eve is on the
twenty fourth, and it just kids, you know, some of
the actors are getting back to their homes, are taking
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their their times out. So we're we're this year. We
took the time off there, but it's gonna be a
great show. The Mattinee is great and the Friday night
is killer as well.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
So Friday night and Saturday afternoon their last chance to
see a Christmas Carol again. It's there at Hollywood's first
Presbyterian Church on Gower in Hollywood. Congratulations Jesse Cordy. It
sounds like you have had another victorious and you know,
triumphant year might be the better word with christ Thank you, yeah, all.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
The thank you, Thank you so much, appreciate it, and
thank you for letting me come on and talk to
you and everything. I'm a big fan of yours, by
the way, Oh, thank.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
You, thank you.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Well, maybe we have mark time San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Well you go back to is that right? Wow?
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Wow, that was a long time ago in a galaxy
far far away. I love that you're I love that
you're here and that you're working hard, and I'm looking
forward to I hope I'll get by for a Friday
night Christmas Carol again. Definitely a Christmas Carolhollywood dot com.
Thanks Jesse, there you go, Thank you, Thank you, God
bless my friend. Yeah, Merry Christmas to you. A Christmas
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Carol in Hollywood. A Christmas Carolhollywood dot com. For tickets,
catch the last two shows.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I just got a call from home. That's when I
wish it was Crozier. Crozier's good with stuff around the house.
Conway's good with stuff around the house. So we had
a big plumbing job that was done this morning, and
when it was done, we paid the money, and now
there's no hot water in the house. And then we
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called them and said, hey, there's a problem because the
hot water's not working. The guy came back out and
I have one of those tankless water heater things, all right,
and then I have a recirculation and pump, you know,
so that the water gets through the whole house. Yeah,
I get the whole house. And so now we have
(18:08):
apparently lukewarm water, but the recirculation thing is not working.
And we did nothing except they turned the water off
and we turned he went in turned the pump off. Okay,
and now we can't get it working again. It's bizarre.
And so I just got a panic call saying there's
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no there's no hot water. I don't know what to do,
you know. So this is the And I feel this
gets to you Crozier and Conway because I feel like
you're real guys, you know, like you could open up
the hood on this thing.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Just replaced my tankless water here earlier this year.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
See there you go. Now the To be fair to
the guy, I came out with the manual and I said, look,
this recirculation pump is not intuitive, Like you have to
really look at these instructions to be able to see
how to operate. And he said it like several times. Wow,
it's really not intuitive. But he couldn't get it working either,
(19:12):
And I kind of feel like a kind of a
plumber can't get it working. What actual work did he do? Today?
So he put in a is it a pressure thing
where the pressure from the street is higher than the
water pressure regulator? Yeah, regulator. So he put that in,
and I think he did one other thing might have
been also regulator related. And so you know, all he
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did when he turned off the water was simply you
know he did it as a kind of a you know,
a precautionary thing. Anyway, I just got the panic cooll
just I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Very confused by why it wouldn't work if all he
did was put on some sort of because it's all
based on like you know, like you're saying, by with pressure,
the heat kicks on when it hits a certain pressure
with the water when you turn it on at the faucet,
the recirculator should carry that through.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I see. So yeah, I don't know, and I don't
understand why he wouldn't want Thank you, Richie, Thank you Richie.
This is a story. We'll be doing a Jimmy Fox story.
Thank you rich But I don't understand why the water
all of a sudden wouldn't be the right temperature. So
(20:25):
it's a bizarre. I mean, it's crazy. And because he's
a plumber, I don't really you know, I can't really
weigh in on it.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Was it hot when he before he left? Did he
check it at least to see that there was hot
water coming before he left?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
No, we we noticed that there was no hot water
after he left. He did turn the system back on, though,
But he's water was coming on. He didn't check. But
then then, to be fair, the guy came back and
he's trying to get it right, and he he couldn't
get it right. And so now my other half is
calling me, going, what do I do? There's no there's
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no hot water.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Is he still there now?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I don't think so. No, he just did have it
and left. Yeah, apparently she's saying I wrote an email
about and I'm trying to get it okay. Anyway, did
you see what happened at mister Chow in Beverly Hills.
Jamie Fox, the actor Jamie Fox, got into some altercation.
(21:24):
It was supposedly his birthday. He got stitches after an
altercation at his birthday dinner. What kind of birthday dinner
is it? Where people are throwing like shot glasses at
each other, which is apparently what happened. The fifty seven
year old Academy Award winner allegedly involved in an altercation
at Mister Chow in Beverly Hills. By the way, here's
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my Mark Thompson documentary recommendation. As you know, I've already
recommended the Alex Gibney films and the Siico movie, but
this one you will like nothing to do with politics
anything like that. The documentary about mister Chow is so good,
and mister Chow has a skill that will blow you
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away and he kind of shows it off at the
beginning of the movie. Anyway, Jamie Fox was there at
mister Chow in Beverly Hills his birthday dinner. Someone from
another table threw a glass that hit him in the mouth.
According to a spokesperson, Jamie Fox had to get stitches
and is recovering. The police were called and the matter
(22:34):
is now in law enforcement's hands. No further information, but
the Beverly Hills Police Department conducted a preliminary investigation completed
a report documenting the fact that there was a battery involved,
like you know, a meaning a assault and battery. No
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arrests were made. Wow, that's a bummer, man, when you
need stitches on your birthday. I watch a little bit
of the Jamie Fox Netflix I think it's Netflix. He
gots a one man show and he kind of explains
what happened to him, you know, with the stroke, But
it wasn't really a stroke. It was bleeding on his brain.
It was really pretty intense and he was quite emotional
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in the in the special, So he segued from that
to a big dinner at mister Chow in Beverly Hills.
And now you know, some altercation breaks out and somebody
throws a glass at him. Man, guys running into some
choppy air. That's for sure.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Social Security retirement age is going to be changing in
twenty twenty five. There will be a higher full retirement age.
That's the age at which you will become eligible to
claim one hundred percent of your retirement benefit based on
your lifetime earnings. The full retirement age for years was
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sixty five, but that changed where the law passed by
Congress back in the eighties to gradually raise that number
to match the fact that we're living longer. Right, So,
the full or normal retirement age has been creeping up
steadily in recent years, by two months for each subsequent
birth year. If you were born in nineteen fifty eight,
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for example, you'd reach the full retirement age at sixty
six years and eight months. But if you were born
in the following year, that retirement age climbs to sixty
six years and ten months had two months more added on.
Recipients who were born May second, nineteen fifty eight through
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February twenty eighth, nineteen fifty nine will all reach full
retirement age in twenty twenty five, but for those born
in nine eighteen sixty and later, the retirement age jumps
to sixty seven. So you can always elect not to
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wait until your full retirement age and start getting benefits
as early as sixty two, but you get a reduced amount. Right,
Those who can wait until seventy to start taking benefits
are given a higher benefit amount.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
If you start collecting at sixty two early and you
get less. Does it bump up at seven when you
hit seventy.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
No, that's nice. If you crack it early, it's cracked. Yeah.
Among the other social Security changes coming in twenty twenty five,
a smaller cost of living adjustment at two point five percent.
It was three point four percent. And there's an increase
in maximum taxable earnings from one hundred sixty eight thousand
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to one hundred seventy six thousand. And that's the story
on social security. More good news.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I love how it's around for eighty ninety years and
then right, when it's time for us to get close
to kicking it in.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
No, it is true. It was one of the great
social programs that is now being targeted for some sort
of reconfiguration.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
It is absolutely saving people's lives right now.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Yeah, and that's exactly right. We talk about how.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
People aren't ready to retire and so many such a
huge percentage having nothing saved the way it's yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I mean, social security supplements can either be that a
supplement or they can really be a lifeline, as Croch sets.
That's exactly right. And you'll recall and there's always been
this effort and there's this general separation of two philosophies
on this, and I think the general philosophy that's moving
into the White House and moving into control of Washington
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now is one that feels as though private industry is
better at everything that government doesn't operate efficiently in private
industry does, and for that reason we should privatize a
lot of things. That's their thinking. I mean, the reality
is I think, and when it comes to social security,
it's even been floated by George Bush. Remember the younger
George Bush floated the idea that there would be a
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control of your social Security account that you would have.
You could invest it anywhere you want it. You could
put it into the stock market. You could make it
grow is the idea in bigger ways.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
The problem with that is if you don't make it
grow and you bust out, as many have, what do
you do with those people? I mean, you've given them
control of their social Security account even though they can't
cash it out. You've allowed them to squander it in
effect with all of you know, maybe they buy penny stocks,
maybe they buy blue chip stocks, whatever it might be.
Maybe they invest it in some other flyer that they're
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you know what I mean. The idea somehow that people
should take control that money. I thought it was fraught
with issues. Now it never did come to pass. And
so as Krozer has just said, that small amount of
social security is critical. And the notion that it would
go away, whether you squandered it somehow by a bad investment,
or that somehow it just again would be phased out,
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is a scary notion. It's such a successful program and
people count on it because they did what they paid
into it, so they want the money back. It's perfectly reasonable,
but they are shading up the numbers when it comes
to when you can be eligible for full redemption. So
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anyway back to the point in Washington, there are a
lot of efforts underway to sort of target various government
programs and various government handouts for either extinction or for privatization.
And the problem with that can be a I'm not
so sure that private industry does handle things so much better.
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I mean, there's this idea, so everything's so much better
when private industry really is it? Have you you know,
have you taken a ride on an airline lately? Have
you dealt with the cable company lately? I mean, don't
tell me about how everything's better in private industry. I
can't even get somebody on the phone most of the
time when I have an issue with many of these
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private businesses, big corporations, and it would be an immense
corporation that would handle Social Security or some of these
other government programs. So all I'm saying is that there's
a quick math that's being done that somehow the private
sector can handle this stuff better, and I just don't
know that that's true. Maybe it's true in some instances.
I'll give you some government there's this idea that the
government can't do anything. Everything the government does doesn't work well,
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really well. Social Security seems to be working okay, And
the VA is probably the best example of something when
it comes to healthcare that works really well. The VA
takes I think a two percent profit, and I don't
need to tell you what private industry does with profits.
These insurers take massive, massive cuts. And that's in the
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middle of them rejecting your bill. You've submitted for insurance
and a big part of the time they'll kick it
back to you, or you're deductible is so high, or
your copay that it's like, why do I have this insurance?
I'm paying so much thousands every year, and still they
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reject my claim. So you see how private industry doesn't
necessarily handle things so much better. And I'm just giving
you an example of VA. Talk to people who are
being treated the VA. They'll tell you how great it is.
There's no reason that we have this incredible network essentially
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of middlemen. That's what United Healthcare is, That's what all
these insurers are, and they've ways to I think it's
a fleece the system. Frankly, they're taking a bump in
between in between the patient and the charge. So if
you could eliminate those middlemen, it would be a lot easier.
(31:16):
But clearly we have a system that needs to be streamlined,
nobody's happy with it, and then ultimately it ends up
with you know this, twenty six year old gunning down
a CEO on the streets of Manhattan. So again, there's
a lot in government that needs to be streamlined, perhaps reimagined.
But privatizing everything isn't necessarily the answer. And remember government
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is not supposed to make a profit all the time.
It's not a business right. We pay into the government,
we get benefits out. The government is there as an
instrument to take care of so many of us in
society who need to be taken care of. So all
I'm saying is that check the math on this, because
there are a lot of assumptions here about private industry
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being so much more efficient. There are a lot of
assumptions that I think don't necessarily hold water. New driving
laws taking effect in twenty twenty five. I'll share a
couple of those with you in the next hour. Also,
a should I say, infamous Hollywood home is back on
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the market. We will tell you that story next. It's
The Conway Show, Mark Thompson sitting in for Tim on
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Now you can always hear us live on KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah, you're gonna go away, they're telling They're telling me
you're going away for a few days to fish. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
you're taking a Christmas hiatus, a little mini vaca slash.
Get my stuff done that I can't don't have time for.
Will you leave behind some of your choice cuts. I'll
do my best, all right, love your choice cuts. Thank you, sir. Hey,
that humpback whale that was tangled up, here's an update.
(00:34):
I'm hoping for good news, but what I was reading
was not too encouraging.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Capturing footage of the whale. Later realizing it was entangled, I.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Was reviewing the footage. I noticed a rope that was
in its mouth and went all the way along the
side of its body, and it was pretty obvious to
me that it was some kind of fishing ropes.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
So the back of the boat Mall is a pop
time of year for whale watching. An unusually high number
of the sixty thousand pound humpbacks spotted in the area
this year. The entanglement team would need to cut the
rope near the whale's eye to set it free, but
that poses danger. The agitated humpback could hit them with
its tail or flipper.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
It's really heart wrenching to see this taking place, and
all that the disentanglement team wants to do is to
successfully release the animal.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
The humpback was last seen on Tuesday, and as the
days go by, there's growing concern about its Well, bet.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, it's a I'm afraid it's pretty grim. And you know,
these whales have to navigate around so much stuff, I mean,
the ship strikes they have to avoid. The noise in
the ocean is a huge problem. I mean it's like
they say, if you were to crank up your earbuds
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all the way and put them in your ears, that's
what these whales are hearing now because there's just so
much noise, i mean, sound like garbage noise within the ocean.
So it makes they're navigating so much more difficult. And
then you have, of course added to that these fishing lines,
these long fishing lines, and it's a it's a sad
(02:23):
fact that you know, they do their best, these various
marine mammal groups to try to intercede, but there really
is very little to be done. So hey, the the
honky killer Luigi Mangioni who was picked up at that
(02:46):
McDonald's in Pennsylvania for killing the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
There will be a movie about him. The Louis Mangione
documentary is in the works from Alex Gibney. Alex Gibney
is a skilled documentary filmmaker. Maybe you know, one of
(03:07):
the premiere documentarians and filmmakers in this generation. I mean,
it's a remarkable track record that he's got. He'd he
did Going Clear, the a scientology movie. He did Enron
The Smartest Men in the Room. Is that what it
(03:27):
was called? Well, he did that one. I thought he did.
Am I wrong about that? That's definitely the name of
the title. It was good. I'll double check it because
I've been known to be mistaken occasionally. Somebody check it. No,
he's the director. Yeah, I'm right, I'm right. That's good.
(03:49):
I hate to be wrong on a Monday when I
take out the whole week ahead of me and Ron.
The Smartest Guys in the Room was an Alex Gibney film.
He did a bunch of a bunch of stuff on
terror taxi to the Dark Side zero days. He did
the Steve jobs A documentary. So this guy point is
(04:09):
he's an award winning documentarian and he is picking up
this story of Louis Luigi Mangione. It happened on December fourth,
of course, the fatal shooting of Brian Thompson, the CEO
of the United Healthcare and then five days after the shooting,
(04:30):
Mangoni was picked up at that McDonald's. And his background
maybe a white way way to put it. I mean,
he was a valedictorian at this high end Maryland High School,
was an Ivy League graduate. I mean, this isn't the
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profile necessarily of someone who would at age twenty six
turn completely sideways like this and go on this jihad
carrying a manifesto. Allegedly, he referenced Michael Moore and the
film Sicko. And by the way, you should see the
film Sickoh. It's great. It really is, even if you
(05:12):
don't like Michael Moore. It just it was done in
seven and everything in the movie is still true. It's
all about the US healthcare system. So this new documentary
is going to explore how these killers are created, what
the killing says about the society and the values we
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place on who lives and who dies. I'm curious as
to whether or not they're going to actually get into
any of the issues that sort of provoke this if
you want to say that, you know that is to say,
the United Healthcare issues. They were the as you're by
now well aware, they are top of the pyramid in
(05:55):
terms of rejecting claims. They reject thirty three percent, I
think is then number that I read of the claims
that are filed for reimbursement. So when you look at
an industry and a healthcare system that's clearly got some issues,
like big issues, you see how this horrible death is
(06:16):
cold blooded killing, has at the same time as having
shocked the nation, it also has provoked a conversation around
just this, which is the broken system that we all
have to operate in, where our healthcare is very much
dependent on whether or not this outfit United Healthcare actually
(06:43):
kicks back our bill or pays our bill. And then
you get to the guy who actually ran United Healthcare,
the guy who's now no longer with us because he
was dead on a Manhattan street that day. CEO Brian
Thompson but here's what he did prior to his loss
(07:04):
of life. He instituted AI at United Healthcare that actually
had the ability to go through many of these physician
initiated requests for reimbursement, and the aii I was allowed
to bigfoot them. The AI is allowed to actually reject
the claim even though the physician says, this treatment of
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this patient, this procedure, this surgery, whatever it might be,
it fits into the framework of the insurance of your company.
So again, Thompson instituted this AI that actually began the
process of going through these various claims and looking for
(07:47):
ways in which they can be rejected. So and by
the way, to be fair to Thompson, I guess that's
the job. You know. The way to feed the bottom
line is to not pay us out a lot more
than you were paying us out before. So you're looking
for ways to reject our claims. But you can see
that those of us who are insured, we're disgusted by this.
(08:07):
This industry is literally leaving people dead. And so the
wider conversation around Mangioni, to me is the interesting thing.
I don't know that they'll touch on it in the documentary,
but he's getting the documentary from Alex Gibney soon. They've
already begun that process of putting it together.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Forty Christmas of what nine days? How many days is Christmas?
Is soon? I really began that statement before I knew
exactly how many days they're worried at Christmas, And so
now I throw my lifeline out. Really, nobody can tell
me you don't have like some calendar on the All right,
I'll look it is nine.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
All right, yeah, you're right the monitor.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Man, Oh you were holding up to you sorry, Nine
is the answer. And among the things that the Christmas
season brings is the tremendous Christmas Carol, the stage production,
the film adaptations, it's all so brilliant, all of the
(09:17):
adaptations from the the Charles Dickens novel. And the annual event,
it's the longest running Hollywood production of a Christmas Carol,
is held at the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. This
is an annual show. It sells out every year and
(09:39):
it is a big show. I mean you hear, First
Presbyterian Church might be smaller thing, it's a big production.
And the director of this production is on the line
with us now. Jesse Carty, welcome to Chao.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
How are you, sir, How are you? I'm doing well.
I can't complain.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I'm loving that the oldest Mega church in Hollywood, the
first mega church in North America, is the staging ground
for this terrific show, A Christmas Carol. How many years
have you been directing it?
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Since nineteen oh five? No, just kidding, that's when they
bought the land. No, I've been doing it for the
last four years. I'm I'm an actor from New York
broad actor.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
This is a let me just mention some of your credits,
because you're a big deale and you're too modest to
you you just say I'm a Broadway actor. But again,
one of the starring voices in Frozen, Beauty and the Beast,
one of the stars on Broadway of let me's a hobb.
This is a stand in salute Jesse Cordy, my friends,
(10:48):
you're a real god. Congratulations on a great body of work.
So tell me about a Christmas Carol in your direction there.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Well, Christmas Carol is a show that obviously it's done
many times throughout the country and the world in different languages.
But one of the things that about our particular show
was adapted it by It was adapted by Juliet according
who my wife. She's also the choreographer. But it was
done so that we could bring it back to what
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Dickens actually said. A lot of people omit, take things out,
and we wanted to do a not a long to
you know, two and a half hour play, but we
adapted it and it's about ninety minutes. It's one act
and we present it with wonderful actors. It staged in
a way that you would see it on Broadway. The
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venue is this gothic, beautiful church. It's one hundred years
old this year and it was built and when you
walk in there, it's like you're back to eighteen forty
three and it's very impressed. If it's very impressive. But
the actors that we have, all the people that work
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on it are wonderful actors. And the special effects, the sound,
everything is top notch. And I hope that you know
we we've been running it and it's been doing great.
We have two more performances in on Friday and Saturday,
(12:24):
and if you go to a Christmas Carolhollywood dot com.
You can get tickets or just go to fpch dot
org and you can get tickets there and mark if
you come, I'll get you coms.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I'll tell you what I really, I'm going to try
to get by there. You've been running all month, and
that's why you're kind of wrapping up the run this week. Yeah,
but this is this is really exciting. And and your
wife doing the choreography, and she herself has got incredible
credits as well. I mean she has choreographed Annie, Hairspray,
Fiddler on the Roof. I mean she's the real thing.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
So the two of you that doesn't have time for me.
She doesn't have time for me. She's too busy choreograph it.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, I and I'm seeing great notices. Joe Montagna, the actor, said,
I've seen a Christmas Carol numerous times in my life.
This is the best Scrooge I've ever seen. Absolutely, And
I like that you streamlined it because it is a
long show. I mean we lose track of how much
we had a tolerance I think for longer stuff in
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the old days.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Yeah. Yeah, no, it's great because we you know, we
still want to reach eight year olds, you know, and
we still want to reach eighty year olds, so uh,
we want to keep it so that the attention span
is there. But it's it's fold. I mean, it's got
everything in it and you'll see certain things that you
wouldn't see in other productions, and so you know, it's it.
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It really sells itself. When you people see it, they go,
I'm going to come every year. I'm going to come
every year. I can't believe this. Why isn't this man?
You know? So it's I feel very good about it,
and knowing how critical I am about when I see
you play, when I see a show, we you know,
we're we have high standards and it's right up there.
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And the best thing mark is that afterwards there's a
there's a venue in another area. We have a pretty
nice big campus right off the one o one first
first in Church of Hollywood. We have that you can
see the tower there and everything with the bell. We
have a venue where people go right after the show
and they get get coffee, apple cider, they have refreshment
(14:37):
snacks and they there's dancing of the of that period.
My wife needs it and people will join in and
it's it's just a yeah, yeah, there's a party afterwards.
So that's that's a nice little thing as well.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yeah, that's really great. So again it'll be Friday and
Saturday evening performances seven thirty and tickets are I believe
only twenty five dollars. Not it's not not expensive and well.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
At this stage Mark, they're like thirty five hundred dollars
and I'm just kidding, no, no, there, we probably keep
it the price down so that people can go.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Yeah, so the whole family can. It's that kind of production.
I mean, it's a Christmas carriage, is something that everybody
should be able to see.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Yeah, but I want to say one last thing is
that it's not we're not doing a Saturday evening. We're
only doing the matinee.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Okay, so it's we're doing Friday night. So so what
what what productions will there be this week to finish
it out?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Friday night exactly Friday night and the matinee is at
two thirty on Saturday. And yes, yes, this way it
doesn't get too long because you know, this year, Christmas
pops up on Wednesday and Christmas Eve is on the
twenty fourth, and it just kids, you know, some of
the actors are getting back to their homes, are taking
(16:04):
their their times out. So we're we're this year. We
took the time off there, but it's gonna be a
great show. The Mattinee is great and the Friday night
is killer as well.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
So Friday night and Saturday afternoon their last chance to
see a Christmas Carol again. It's there at Hollywood's first
Presbyterian Church on Gower in Hollywood. Congratulations Jesse Cordy. It
sounds like you have had another victorious and you know,
triumphant year might be the better word with christ Thank you, yeah, all.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
The thank you, Thank you so much, appreciate it, and
thank you for letting me come on and talk to
you and everything. I'm a big fan of yours, by
the way, Oh, thank.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
You, thank you.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Well, maybe we have mark time San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Well you go back to is that right? Wow?
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Wow, that was a long time ago in a galaxy
far far away. I love that you're I love that
you're here and that you're working hard, and I'm looking
forward to I hope I'll get by for a Friday
night Christmas Carol again. Definitely a Christmas Carolhollywood dot com.
Thanks Jesse, there you go, Thank you, Thank you, God
bless my friend. Yeah, Merry Christmas to you. A Christmas
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Carol in Hollywood. A Christmas Carolhollywood dot com. For tickets,
catch the last two shows.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I just got a call from home. That's when I
wish it was Crozier. Crozier's good with stuff around the house.
Conway's good with stuff around the house. So we had
a big plumbing job that was done this morning, and
when it was done, we paid the money, and now
there's no hot water in the house. And then we
(17:46):
called them and said, hey, there's a problem because the
hot water's not working. The guy came back out and
I have one of those tankless water heater things, all right,
and then I have a recirculation and pump, you know,
so that the water gets through the whole house. Yeah,
I get the whole house. And so now we have
(18:08):
apparently lukewarm water, but the recirculation thing is not working.
And we did nothing except they turned the water off
and we turned he went in turned the pump off. Okay,
and now we can't get it working again. It's bizarre.
And so I just got a panic call saying there's
(18:32):
no there's no hot water. I don't know what to do,
you know. So this is the And I feel this
gets to you Crozier and Conway because I feel like
you're real guys, you know, like you could open up
the hood on this thing.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Just replaced my tankless water here earlier this year.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
See there you go. Now the To be fair to
the guy, I came out with the manual and I said, look,
this recirculation pump is not intuitive, Like you have to
really look at these instructions to be able to see
how to operate. And he said it like several times. Wow,
it's really not intuitive. But he couldn't get it working either,
(19:12):
And I kind of feel like a kind of a
plumber can't get it working. What actual work did he do? Today?
So he put in a is it a pressure thing
where the pressure from the street is higher than the
water pressure regulator? Yeah, regulator. So he put that in,
and I think he did one other thing might have
been also regulator related. And so you know, all he
(19:34):
did when he turned off the water was simply you
know he did it as a kind of a you know,
a precautionary thing. Anyway, I just got the panic cooll
just I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Very confused by why it wouldn't work if all he
did was put on some sort of because it's all
based on like you know, like you're saying, by with pressure,
the heat kicks on when it hits a certain pressure
with the water when you turn it on at the faucet,
the recirculator should carry that through.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I see. So yeah, I don't know, and I don't
understand why he wouldn't want Thank you, Richie, Thank you Richie.
This is a story. We'll be doing a Jimmy Fox story.
Thank you rich But I don't understand why the water
all of a sudden wouldn't be the right temperature. So
(20:25):
it's a bizarre. I mean, it's crazy. And because he's
a plumber, I don't really you know, I can't really
weigh in on it.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Was it hot when he before he left? Did he
check it at least to see that there was hot
water coming before he left?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
No, we we noticed that there was no hot water
after he left. He did turn the system back on, though,
But he's water was coming on. He didn't check. But
then then, to be fair, the guy came back and
he's trying to get it right, and he he couldn't
get it right. And so now my other half is
calling me, going, what do I do? There's no there's
(21:00):
no hot water.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Is he still there now?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I don't think so. No, he just did have it
and left. Yeah, apparently she's saying I wrote an email
about and I'm trying to get it okay. Anyway, did
you see what happened at mister Chow in Beverly Hills.
Jamie Fox, the actor Jamie Fox, got into some altercation.
(21:24):
It was supposedly his birthday. He got stitches after an
altercation at his birthday dinner. What kind of birthday dinner
is it? Where people are throwing like shot glasses at
each other, which is apparently what happened. The fifty seven
year old Academy Award winner allegedly involved in an altercation
at Mister Chow in Beverly Hills. By the way, here's
(21:48):
my Mark Thompson documentary recommendation. As you know, I've already
recommended the Alex Gibney films and the Siico movie, but
this one you will like nothing to do with politics
anything like that. The documentary about mister Chow is so good,
and mister Chow has a skill that will blow you
(22:10):
away and he kind of shows it off at the
beginning of the movie. Anyway, Jamie Fox was there at
mister Chow in Beverly Hills his birthday dinner. Someone from
another table threw a glass that hit him in the mouth.
According to a spokesperson, Jamie Fox had to get stitches
and is recovering. The police were called and the matter
(22:34):
is now in law enforcement's hands. No further information, but
the Beverly Hills Police Department conducted a preliminary investigation completed
a report documenting the fact that there was a battery involved,
like you know, a meaning a assault and battery. No
(22:56):
arrests were made. Wow, that's a bummer, man, when you
need stitches on your birthday. I watch a little bit
of the Jamie Fox Netflix I think it's Netflix. He
gots a one man show and he kind of explains
what happened to him, you know, with the stroke, But
it wasn't really a stroke. It was bleeding on his brain.
It was really pretty intense and he was quite emotional
(23:18):
in the in the special, So he segued from that
to a big dinner at mister Chow in Beverly Hills.
And now you know, some altercation breaks out and somebody
throws a glass at him. Man, guys running into some
choppy air. That's for sure.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Social Security retirement age is going to be changing in
twenty twenty five. There will be a higher full retirement age.
That's the age at which you will become eligible to
claim one hundred percent of your retirement benefit based on
your lifetime earnings. The full retirement age for years was
(24:06):
sixty five, but that changed where the law passed by
Congress back in the eighties to gradually raise that number
to match the fact that we're living longer. Right, So,
the full or normal retirement age has been creeping up
steadily in recent years, by two months for each subsequent
birth year. If you were born in nineteen fifty eight,
(24:29):
for example, you'd reach the full retirement age at sixty
six years and eight months. But if you were born
in the following year, that retirement age climbs to sixty
six years and ten months had two months more added on.
Recipients who were born May second, nineteen fifty eight through
(24:51):
February twenty eighth, nineteen fifty nine will all reach full
retirement age in twenty twenty five, but for those born
in nine eighteen sixty and later, the retirement age jumps
to sixty seven. So you can always elect not to
(25:11):
wait until your full retirement age and start getting benefits
as early as sixty two, but you get a reduced amount. Right,
Those who can wait until seventy to start taking benefits
are given a higher benefit amount.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
If you start collecting at sixty two early and you
get less. Does it bump up at seven when you
hit seventy.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
No, that's nice. If you crack it early, it's cracked. Yeah.
Among the other social Security changes coming in twenty twenty five,
a smaller cost of living adjustment at two point five percent.
It was three point four percent. And there's an increase
in maximum taxable earnings from one hundred sixty eight thousand
(25:53):
to one hundred seventy six thousand. And that's the story
on social security. More good news.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I love how it's around for eighty ninety years and
then right, when it's time for us to get close
to kicking it in.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
No, it is true. It was one of the great
social programs that is now being targeted for some sort
of reconfiguration.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
It is absolutely saving people's lives right now.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Yeah, and that's exactly right. We talk about how.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
People aren't ready to retire and so many such a
huge percentage having nothing saved the way it's yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I mean, social security supplements can either be that a
supplement or they can really be a lifeline, as Croch sets.
That's exactly right. And you'll recall and there's always been
this effort and there's this general separation of two philosophies
on this, and I think the general philosophy that's moving
into the White House and moving into control of Washington
(27:00):
now is one that feels as though private industry is
better at everything that government doesn't operate efficiently in private
industry does, and for that reason we should privatize a
lot of things. That's their thinking. I mean, the reality
is I think, and when it comes to social security,
it's even been floated by George Bush. Remember the younger
George Bush floated the idea that there would be a
(27:23):
control of your social Security account that you would have.
You could invest it anywhere you want it. You could
put it into the stock market. You could make it
grow is the idea in bigger ways.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
The problem with that is if you don't make it
grow and you bust out, as many have, what do
you do with those people? I mean, you've given them
control of their social Security account even though they can't
cash it out. You've allowed them to squander it in
effect with all of you know, maybe they buy penny stocks,
maybe they buy blue chip stocks, whatever it might be.
Maybe they invest it in some other flyer that they're
(27:56):
you know what I mean. The idea somehow that people
should take control that money. I thought it was fraught
with issues. Now it never did come to pass. And
so as Krozer has just said, that small amount of
social security is critical. And the notion that it would
go away, whether you squandered it somehow by a bad investment,
or that somehow it just again would be phased out,
(28:19):
is a scary notion. It's such a successful program and
people count on it because they did what they paid
into it, so they want the money back. It's perfectly reasonable,
but they are shading up the numbers when it comes
to when you can be eligible for full redemption. So
(28:40):
anyway back to the point in Washington, there are a
lot of efforts underway to sort of target various government
programs and various government handouts for either extinction or for privatization.
And the problem with that can be a I'm not
so sure that private industry does handle things so much better.
(29:03):
I mean, there's this idea, so everything's so much better
when private industry really is it? Have you you know,
have you taken a ride on an airline lately? Have
you dealt with the cable company lately? I mean, don't
tell me about how everything's better in private industry. I
can't even get somebody on the phone most of the
time when I have an issue with many of these
(29:25):
private businesses, big corporations, and it would be an immense
corporation that would handle Social Security or some of these
other government programs. So all I'm saying is that there's
a quick math that's being done that somehow the private
sector can handle this stuff better, and I just don't
know that that's true. Maybe it's true in some instances.
I'll give you some government there's this idea that the
government can't do anything. Everything the government does doesn't work well,
(29:48):
really well. Social Security seems to be working okay, And
the VA is probably the best example of something when
it comes to healthcare that works really well. The VA
takes I think a two percent profit, and I don't
need to tell you what private industry does with profits.
These insurers take massive, massive cuts. And that's in the
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middle of them rejecting your bill. You've submitted for insurance
and a big part of the time they'll kick it
back to you, or you're deductible is so high, or
your copay that it's like, why do I have this insurance?
I'm paying so much thousands every year, and still they
(30:32):
reject my claim. So you see how private industry doesn't
necessarily handle things so much better. And I'm just giving
you an example of VA. Talk to people who are
being treated the VA. They'll tell you how great it is.
There's no reason that we have this incredible network essentially
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of middlemen. That's what United Healthcare is, That's what all
these insurers are, and they've ways to I think it's
a fleece the system. Frankly, they're taking a bump in
between in between the patient and the charge. So if
you could eliminate those middlemen, it would be a lot easier.
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But clearly we have a system that needs to be streamlined,
nobody's happy with it, and then ultimately it ends up
with you know this, twenty six year old gunning down
a CEO on the streets of Manhattan. So again, there's
a lot in government that needs to be streamlined, perhaps reimagined.
But privatizing everything isn't necessarily the answer. And remember government
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is not supposed to make a profit all the time.
It's not a business right. We pay into the government,
we get benefits out. The government is there as an
instrument to take care of so many of us in
society who need to be taken care of. So all
I'm saying is that check the math on this, because
there are a lot of assumptions here about private industry
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being so much more efficient. There are a lot of
assumptions that I think don't necessarily hold water. New driving
laws taking effect in twenty twenty five. I'll share a
couple of those with you in the next hour. Also,
a should I say, infamous Hollywood home is back on
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