December 19, 2024 • 33 mins
Mark T.’s Whip-a-round on the annual earnings of Tv Host Veteran,Calif. Man Accused of Communicating with 15-Year-Old Wis. School Shooter, Planning His Own Attack. Guest: Pat McGann – Comedian to discuss his upcoming performance at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza. California rocket launch could produce sonic booms this weekend. House passes bill backed by Paris Hilton to reform youth treatment facilities.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
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 (00:07):
Man that George Stephanopolis, it looked krim there right. ABC
tapped out in that big deal with Donald Trump. It
was a lawsuit, as you're well aware, we talked about
it here on KFI. He was saying that Stephanopolis defamed him.
It was over the Egen Carroll thing, and rather than
(00:27):
litigate it than by most legal analyst standards, ABC would
have prevailed in a litigation, but rather than get into that,
they decided to settle it right. So they it was
sixteen million bucks a million for the legal fees incurred
by Donald Trump and then a fifteen million dollar donation
(00:48):
to Trump Library and kind of a you know, the
Trump Institute that in essence allowed to ABC to write
it off. George Sevenopolis, I was watching this past week.
Did mention it on this week, which I'm not necessarily
surprised about.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Didn't mention the settlement.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I mean it was It's a landmark, i'd say landmark
moment in media, the way they essentially decided that it
would just be easier to pay it off than to
really get into it and get onto some kind of
adversarial footing with Donald Trump. But this is more about
so that's what happened. I was kind of walking. I
(01:27):
was watching with interest, what would it happen with George Stepanopolis,
whether he'd mention it, whether it be a story, whether
he had to make some kind of public apology on
GMA on this week, whatever, because there was an apology
that was also attached to this. But what I did
see is that Stephanopolis just re signed with ABC. Do
(01:48):
you know how much George Stephanopolis is said to earn
annually on ABC? I feel like this is a whip
around eligible if you guys, I'll take guesses from those
who don't know what is the annual salary of George Stephanopolis.
(02:14):
I will start with is angel in uh in the
in the game Angels here?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
You know it?
Speaker 5 (02:20):
You know it?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Baby? All right?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
So tell me what you think George Stefanopolis makes every year.
Oh now, onlind you he does host Good Morning America
alongside Robin Roberts and Michael Strahans. That's one thing he does,
and he does that this week with George Devnopolis.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Okay, now go.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Ahead, Okay, like twenty five million.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
That's wrong, but a good guess. How about you, Bella,
what do you think?
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Well?
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Was Angel warmer?
Speaker 7 (02:49):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Well that's your.
Speaker 8 (02:52):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Wait a minute, what do you think this warm cold thing?
You can't bring that into it. That's not how we work.
Already have one Angel?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Yeah, the price is right, come right? Ten million?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Ten million is wrong, but a good guess. Richie, I
think you know the answer, or maybe you.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Don't, maybe like thirteen.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
No, well, Richie does not know it. And so we
finally get to Kroze Croze. What does George Devanopolis make
every year for hosting Good Morning America and this week's
show at ABC?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I'll go somewhere in the middle.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Fifteen though, fifteen would be I think a great guest,
and I think he'd be lucky to walk away with fifteen.
The answer is twenty million dollars every year. Good, that's right. Yeah,
So who was closest. Angel might have been closest at
twenty five.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Million, or Crosier was as well at fifteen.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Oh, yeah, you're right, you're equally You're equally close. That's exactly.
So there's no apparent successor to George Deebanopolis and I
think for that reason, you know, they don't want to
disrupt anything. In morning television habits, people get attached to
the talent, and Stephanopolis has been there since two thousand
(04:07):
and nine, so he just resigned. It's just odd that
his resigning coincides with the big settlement that ABC has made.
But Good Morning America is one of their jewels. However,
I will say this for those who follow such things.
(04:28):
Good Morning America was pretty dominant for a while, but
they have now fallen behind NBC's Today Show. Yeah, and
morning TV thing is now in Los Angeles and then
the West Coast cities generally, I think local offerings have
bigger viewers than bigger viewer numbers than do the networks.
(04:51):
For example, I think Channel five is the number one
morning show in Los Angeles, and I think if you
look around the West, oftentimes the Western time zone sort
of feels deserted by the East Coast networks, and so
a lot of local morning shows do really well. But anyway,
twenty million a year to George Stephanopolis enjoy it. The
(05:16):
Wisconsin shooter and a Southern California man actually involved in
messaging each other. It's sort of a chilling story.
Speaker 9 (05:26):
So, the California man has been detained accused of coordinating
an attack with the Wisconsin shooter who killed two at
a religious school earlier this week. According to court documents,
the Wisconsin shooter, fifteen year old Natalie Rupnow, had been
messaging with a twenty year old demand from Carlsbad. Official
say the man told Ruppnow he planned to arm himself
with explosives and target a government building. He did not
(05:47):
specify which building. Tuesday night, police and FBI agents went
to his home and seized his guns and ammunition. This
following a judge's approval of a restraining order. A hearing
has been set for next month.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I mean that goes fire was burning in Malibu. That
is chilling, absolutely chilling.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
The notion that somehow this fifteen year old could be
in touch with an older guy online who encourages her
and in some way, I mean, I think the responsibility
for what she did and her suicide may be connected
(06:24):
to this guy.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
We just heard about, this twenty year old. It's a
It's very hard to manage these things through social media, right.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Social media just connects people like that fifteen year old
girl to all of these really dark influences, like the
person who may have animated her desire to do things
like this, And it's one of those situations whereby by
the time we know about it, it's just too late.
(07:00):
Don't have a motive still about why that shooting went down.
It looks to be a combination of factors. They said
that most school shooters have warning signs ahead of time,
but they haven't been able to pick up a whole
lot in this case. Most who commit mass shootings are
what there are, men, boys, rarely female, so data is
(07:25):
really limited on whether female shooters have any commonality with
the men who normally perpetrate these things. But the motivations,
to me can be common, they can be extraordinary. When
a fifteen year old opens fire that way, it's just
(07:46):
so sad. And what you're hearing in Wisconsin is that
Wisconsin laws are too lax when it comes to access
to guns by children. But you know, I'll say this
law in Wisconsin prevents anyone under eighteen from possessing a
firearm legally and requires guns that be in the house
(08:09):
be secured, but they're not always secured around children because
children in Wisconsin are defined as those fourteen years old
or under. Obviously she was fifteen, so to degree to it,
she could have access to a gun in the house
might have been different. The whole situation is just sadness
(08:34):
on sadness, but apparently with a California connection to this
twenty year old man in California.
Speaker 10 (08:39):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Special guest is here. This guy's very funny. He really
is performing at the Sure Forum located in Thousand Oaks
Civic Arts Plaza in Thousand Oaks on Saturday, January eleventh.
Give you some time to plan to see the great
Pat McGann. Here's a little bit of Pat in performance
(09:08):
and then we'll talk to him.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Go ahead, Pat, No, we haven't.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
You just don't really see old people anymore. He Now,
who's that?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Are you old? You don't see old people?
Speaker 11 (09:24):
Ay?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Now, Ny, what's up? What's up.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Your mind?
Speaker 8 (09:35):
Sixty eight? Okay, next, here's the milestone.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Uh, Pat McGahan, welcome to KFFI. How are you.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
I'm doing well, Mark, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Of course I should mention that you're you know. Sebastian
Madiscalco is kind of go to dude, he introduces your
one hour comedy special and I think you you generally
opened for him on the road as well, don't you.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Yes, that's true.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
So I've been on the road with Sebastian the last
several years and he did produce a special that has
streaming on Peacock and I believe it's on Amazon. And yeah,
so people in the LA area may see the open
firm at the Forum or recently at Sofi.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
It's been a great run for me.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
With what does that like to perform at Sofi?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Pretty incredible?
Speaker 7 (10:31):
You know that one in particular, we were breaking it
in that we were it was the first comedy show.
Sebastian was the first guy to headline at SOFI. And
that place is really cool. I mean state of the
art obviously and big arena, but played like a you know,
smaller theater in a way.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
You time out there when you play a big arena
like that.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
This is I was talking to someone who was also
working a big arena show and they were saying that
sometimes the physicality of their act changes, like they have to,
you know, stalk the stage a little bit more, or
does your movement change or do you just basically do
the same show that you know is funny and you
(11:16):
don't have to alter it at all for this bigger
venue so.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Far, No, definitely you kind of have to step it
up a little bit.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
And the big difference is you're performing in the round,
so you know, typically you have the audience right out
in front of you, and you know, you just work
in the stage left to right.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
This is a you know, in the round situation, and
it's nice to have.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
These big screens, you know, so people can kind of
go back and forth and watching the screens or watching you.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
In real life.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
So it's different for sure, but you know it's funny.
It sounds silly, but you kind of get used to it.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah, you know your subject matter is so relatable. You know,
the When's Mom Going to Be Home? Was your debut
comedy special again and you know, taped in Chicago, which
I believe is your hometown, and you you talk about
stuff that we can all relate to on some level.
(12:14):
It feels like a very a tried and true way
to connect with an audience.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
Well, I have a kids, and you know they're in
travel sports right now, and that's taken over my life.
I really just kind of talk about what I'm experiencing.
I mean, I have a fourth grad fourth grader had
to try out for hockey, and it's like, ridiculous. You
know what the tryout was? Can you come up with
twenty five hundred dollars? I always a try out.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Some momis like, Dad, I made the team.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
I'm like, I know, I got the fraud alert from Shape.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Oh that's priceless. That's absolutely priceless.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
And then you're you know, into the station wagon at
you know, the crack of dawn taking them to wherever.
I mean, this is your life now. You're like's basically
a road manager.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Oh definitely. You know. Every weekend it's like, you know,
we got to go out of town.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
We got you know, Friday night, we got a game
at eight o'clock. If we win that, we're playing Saturday morning,
eight in the morning. And if we win that one,
we're playing Sunday afternoon. So it's like, so what you're rooting.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Against your kids?
Speaker 7 (13:20):
You hope to get their ass kicked the first game
so you can have your life back.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I know that's where I'd be.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I would, you know, I hope my kid does well
in a losing effort would be where I would be
on a Friday.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
God, just just watching everything is different. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
Yeah, there was a golden age of parenting and this
is not it. I witnessed it though, Like my parents
didn't do anything. They only like talked to me when
they were buzzed. You know, they had no clue where,
no clue where we were. A lot people to track
their kids. They're watching them on Life three sixty, you're
they were tracking us. They'd be like, oh, look, hey,
(13:58):
he's on the railroad tracks again. Huh, okay, must be
headed to the woods.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
You grew up in Chicago, is that right? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (14:07):
Yeah, I still live out in Chicago, born and raised there,
lived in the city on the South Side.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
I live in like a.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Pretty Irish Catholic neighborhood, kind of a bubble.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
But you know, I'm still there, so it's good. I'd
love that never had to move.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah, no, it's great. And that is that where you
met Sebastian.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
It is.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
I met him at Zany's comedy club. He was, you know,
kind of at the point in his career at the time,
he was selling out comedy clubs and I was the
house MC and Zany's is. You know, it's kind of
like a comedy store or an improv like.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
You guys have out the La Area. Is open every
night of the week.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
It's an old school comedy club, and I got I
was really lucky to have this house mc gig.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
So that's where I met Sebastian.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
I'm met a ton of comedians doing that and really
got a lot of stage time, a lot experience.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I'm just so impressed with the career you've put together.
I mean, it's just you've done even all over late
night television.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I mean, from Letterman to Colbert.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I mean, it's just terrific too to see your body
of work and you're so very funny. So this show
in the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza there at the
Sheriff Forum. It'll be January eleventh, which is Saturday night.
And I'm trying to think about the Sheriff Forum, like
that's not a comedy club, and it's also not a
(15:32):
stadium like so far.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
But it's a pretty big house, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Yeah, I think it's close to five hundred seats. No,
I've only seen photos of it.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
I've not been there, but I've heard a lot about it,
and that's kind of where I am targeting right now,
smaller theaters. You know, some of the people that are
coming out to see me, they might not go into
a city or go to a comedy club. I found
that these smaller theaters have been a great place to
(16:05):
perform in a really nice environment for people to come out.
You know, the size too. You know, I love doing
the Sebastian thing, but you know, the smaller, more intimate
crowds are very fun as well, and maybe a little
bit easier to connect with.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
No, I think just trying to connect with the crowded
Madison Square Garden where you've played sold out shows. You know,
I think you played nine shows in Madison Guare Garden.
I mean, you know, you're not going to connect a
lot with the audience. It's got to be a great feeling.
Is that kind of laughter? I mean, magnified through that
audience is just great. But wow, five hundred is not
a small house. But it's not, as you say, so
big like MSG that you're not going to be able
(16:45):
to connect with people. So I'm excited to see you
on Saturday, January eleventh, the share Forum A thousand Oaks,
the Civic Arts Plastic Course on a thousand Oaks, and
tickets are available at Pat mcganncomedy dot com. McGann is
mc ga double n pat mcganncomedy dot com.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Of course our ticketmaster dot com. Also.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Wow, Man, it's such a pleasure to meet you. I
think you're really a funny guy and I wish you
continued success.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
I really appreciate it. Mark, thanks for having me. Happy holidays,
Merry Christmas, and hope to see people out there in
January eleventh.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Look forward to it, Man, All the best, Pat McGahn.
Good stuff.
Speaker 10 (17:25):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Mark Thompson for Tim Conway Junior at Crozier. Here the
whole crew, Angel Bella, Ritchie in the weekend could have
a few sonic booms associated whether there's another SpaceX launch
and it has the potential to create sonic booms for
several hundred miles. It'll be Saturday at Vandenberg and it'll
(17:51):
be the Falcon nine launch. It's part of a mission
to launch several small, commercial and government satellites into orbit.
It'll be Saturday morning, very early in the morning. Three
thirty four am is the schedule. There's a backup window
planned in case that doesn't go off Sunday around three
twelve am, So the first stage of that Falcon nine
(18:15):
rocket will attempt to land back at Vandenburg about eight
minutes after it takes off. It uses the high powered
boosters you've seen it. It's really kind of cool to watch.
And as the booster slows down to the speed of
sound and below the speed of sound, it'll create sonic
booms and you'll hear them for hundreds of miles depending
(18:36):
on the weather. So Santa Barbara, San Luis, Obispo and
Tura counties you could hear one or more sonic booms.
And again that would be early Saturday morning, the left
of three thirty in the morning. It's unlikely that we'll
be able to hear anything in the La area, although
the rocket could be seen. I mean you might see
(18:56):
it in the skies if the skies are clear. There
is a live webcast of the launch. You can find it.
It'll be streaming about fifteen minutes before liftoff. And then
the SpaceX launch and other sonic booms they say will
(19:17):
take place the day after the film Sonic the Hedgehog
three appears in theaters. The launch is not a viral
marketing stunt, but they do mention these two things at
the same time. So Sonic the Hedgehog three is linked
(19:38):
to the space X Sonic Booms because it's Sonic. Is
that the tie in there? I don't necessarily see, but
I didn't.
Speaker 8 (19:47):
See the Sonic Boom.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I didn't see Sonic the Hedgehog one and two? Did
you see them?
Speaker 3 (19:59):
There was a two?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Well, if there's Sonic the Hedgehog three, there had to
be one and two is.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
What I figure.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Apparently the third one is supposed to be the best one.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
They finally got it right.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Says that every people the streets, the streets are saying.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
The buzz is out there. Bella is saying she's heard
it on the street. The word is out. Finally, Sonic
the Hedgehog the third version three. Anyway, it'll appear in theaters,
somebody tell me, because I do not have it on
my list. The other thing that I will quickly mention
is that the my Shake app has just been upgraded.
(20:33):
Weeks after two major earthquakes in California, one of them
prompting a rares tsunami warning of course for the coast.
They have updated, have state officials several things in the
my Shake app, it's run by the Governor's office of
course to my Shake app, and it's the Officer Office
of Emergency Service. Also the UC Berkeley Seismology Labs involved,
(20:58):
and the idea is to give you some kind of
advanced warning even if it's only fifteen seconds of a
strong earthquake. According to state officials, more than three point
seven million people have this app already and more than
five hundred thousand combined a notification from the app with
(21:20):
actions during the last two earthquakes. As I said, in
some cases they got fifteen seconds of warning. The first
earthquake happened off the northern California coast on December fifth,
magnitude seven second on December ninth in Nevada, with shaking
feeling being felt across California. So the new upgrades to
(21:42):
the tool are going to allow more to receive an
early warning when a strong earthquake is imminent. So the
updates have new availability and Chromebook laptops devices running Mac
audio messages and six languages updated to include calm but
urgent voice in English, Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Korean, and Vietnamese.
(22:09):
What did that voiceover audition? Because I do a lot
of voiceover auditions, and I wonder they say audio messages
that are calm but urgent, so you're having to read it.
Please read this copy again. Be calm, but be urgent
about things. I just don't know how you do that.
(22:32):
You know, hello, there's been a quake. Nothing to panic about,
but get under something right away. Anyway, it's in six languages,
in Spanish or yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Know, I know that, but nothing to worry you to
worry about it. Yeah, But.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
So there apparently is an easier identification of functionality stuff.
They've upgraded the shake the shake app My Shake. If
you don't have it, grab it. Tim has it, and
most Conway Show listeners do have the my Shake app.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
It does work.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
And to the you know, if you can get fifteen
seconds of warning, that actually is a pretty good chunk
of time. And given the fact that you know you
typically have none, so good luck. And let me know
what that calm but urgent voice sounds like. I feel
like that's the kind of audition I would get and
I would not, you know, sometimes the description of what
(23:38):
they want. When you're auditioning for some kind of voice thing,
it can be confusing. You just don't know what exactly
to do. And now you direct yourself. In the old days,
you would go in and there'd be a director there
who really understood things better and would direct you and
vector you into the way you're supposed to sound, how urgent,
how calm. But now you just have to do it
(23:59):
on your own. Anyway, good luck with the new my
Shake app. When we come back. Paris Hilton is on
Capitol Hill and she's actually getting stuff.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Done that's hot on a week.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
On a week when not a whole lot is getting done,
this might be one of the few things that's getting done.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Yes, Paris, that was her phrase, right, that's hot. Yep. Yeah.
She and Nicole Ritchie they changed America.
Speaker 10 (24:33):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
AM six forties.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
You know, there's been a plan to avert a government
shut down. It was back by Mike Johnson and it
was bipartisan package. Initially, of course, it was scuttled by
first Elon Musk and then Donald Trump joined the scuttling.
Then there was a backup plan to avert a government
shutdown that was back by Johnson, Trump and Musk, but
(25:00):
Republicans and Democrats rejected that. So we're watching Washington closely,
and it's against that backdrop that I mentioned that Paris
Hilton was in Washington, and she wasn't just in Washington.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
She actually got something done.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
A big win for Paris Hilton in her three year
fight to help protect kids in the so called Troubled
teen industry. The Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act that she
champion passed the House yesterday and now heads to the
President's desk.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Chu Chu Chank spoke with her.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Good morning to you, Chi chu.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Hey, Good morning, Robin.
Speaker 12 (25:33):
You know, Paris Hilton scored a rare bipartisan congressional victory.
She's been speaking out, as you said, for years against
the horrifying abuse she says she suffered at those Troubled
teen programs. Paris says breaking her silence was really hard,
but she realized a simple truth silence doesn't heal. This morning,
(25:54):
pop culture icon and celebrity heiress Paris Hilton taking on
Congress and winning.
Speaker 11 (26:00):
Has been such an incredible day to be here making history.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
The reality start no strange.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
She still sounds exactly like she did from the old days,
right she does. You thought she'd kind of grow up
and she'd kind of have an adultish sound to her,
but she still has that kind of just rolled out
of bed, yeah, kind of.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
She's Paris Hilton. She sounds like parasite making.
Speaker 13 (26:24):
History the reality start. No stranger to the spotlight, this
time using her platform to champion the Stop Institutional Child
Abuse Act. For you, this is personal.
Speaker 11 (26:35):
It's the most painful and traumatic experiences of my life.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
But the fact that.
Speaker 11 (26:40):
I can be here today and turn my pain into
a purpose and be a voice for so many children
who don't have a voice and use my platform for
good is the most healing and incredible experience ever. I
was forced fed medications and sexually abused by the staff.
Speaker 13 (26:59):
The bill did helping track and monitor abuse cases that
youth treatment facilities across the country. The bill passed in
the House three seventy three to thirty three. She described
in her memoir years of shocking abuse as a teenager
at the hands of several youth treatment facilities.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Well, this is the point.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I mean, we think of Paris Hilton, you know, right
out of Beverly Hills, but the reality is she went
to a boarding school in Utah. She was sent to
this Provo Canyon school for eleven months when she was seventeen,
and that's where a lot of this stuff happened. So
she really did experience a pretty grim period of her life.
Speaker 11 (27:35):
I've seen things that no child should ever see or experience.
The staff at these places are abusive in every single way, physically, emotionally, verbally, psychologically, sexually.
I've seen kids be thrown against walls. I myself have
(27:58):
been strangled hits.
Speaker 13 (28:00):
Paris has lobbied lawmakers for years to regulate those so
called troubled Team programs.
Speaker 11 (28:06):
Imagine if it was your child who was suffering abuse, neglect,
or death in the name of treatment.
Speaker 13 (28:12):
This week, a family affair, the mother of two bringing
her young son to the nation's capital. Why was that
important to you?
Speaker 11 (28:19):
I just really wanted him to see his mom making
a difference and being the hero that she needed when
she was a little girl.
Speaker 13 (28:28):
Paris says she'll continue to fight against the shame and
silence to reform the industry, sending a message to other
survivors they are not alone.
Speaker 11 (28:37):
Silence is such a powerful muzzle in the back two
hide abuse. So many people when they get out of
these places, they just don't want to think about it.
They don't want to talk about it. They don't want
anyone to know. But my message to everyone out there listening,
as the shame is not on you. You should not
be ashamed. It's the people who hurt you, and they
should be held accountable and important.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
It's hard not to get behind that.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
And this legislation that passed this week would establish this
interagency work group and it would be under the Health
and Human Services arm of the government, and it would
bring they say, greater transparency around the treatment of youth
in these programs, particularly when the staff used restraints and
seclusion rooms as punishment. So got to give her credit.
(29:22):
Paris Hilton's advocacy has helped change laws, and she's been
active already, Like this wasn't her first rodeo on this.
She was protecting minors in at least eight states, including California.
Similar legislation in California going into effect on January first.
(29:42):
So I give Paris Hilton a lot of credit. I mean,
we I think look at her career and we see
her kind of as this I did anyway, as this
kind of woman of privilege, right, she had everything. She
kind of was like, you know, even in the Simple
Life when she was portrayed in the reality show, they
(30:04):
portrayed her as you know, sleeping in and kind of
just you know, rolling out of bed late to join
with whatever the project was.
Speaker 14 (30:12):
For any listeners that didn't know, a fun fact of
Mark Thompson, he actually narrated a few of the Simple
Life seasons throughout the you know, the whole legend of
the Simple Life.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
That is true.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Producia Richie is right, the Simple Life, which Unnam Murray production.
I would I would go over there, and I love
the show. It was such an honor to be on it.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Such an iconic moment.
Speaker 14 (30:35):
I'm jealous.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Yeah, it was really fun.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
But I you know, to be clear, you know, Paris
and the cole weren't there when I was doing the video.
I was just there and we had the show and
we would just do the lines in the in the voiceover,
in the narration. But I always respected Paris Hilton for
the way she enterprised her brand and she took care
of her brand, and she took care of her moment.
But I never was aware of the degree to which
(31:00):
she was the victim of real abuse. And you know
it had come out before, because there was a documentary
that she released titled This is Paris, and that was
released in twenty twenty, and she discusses a bunch of
these abuse allegations in that documentary apparently, but I didn't
(31:20):
see the docs. So for me, my first exposure to
this entire thing was reading about this Stop Institutional Child
Abuse Act that she has helped champion, and then reading
about her personal experience. I mean really had no idea.
I mean, as I say, you know, she seemed to
be such a product of marketing when we first met her,
(31:41):
through the simple life and just her gilded life. I mean,
she just seemed as though she had everything all the
time going for her. And to think that she was
suffering in this way, it's quite extraordinary. And you know,
to somehow bring your celebrity to Washington and get something
past very impressive. You can bring your celebrity to Washington,
(32:03):
you can get congressional hearings, but to actually forge legislation
and to make a difference. I give her mad respect
for that.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
In the words of Paris Hilton herself, living.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
Chi Loves Paris Hilton. I'm glad we could get a
Paris Hilton. I was gonna store one in either way.
It just happened so that the bill passed. So bravo,
bravo Paris, and bravo. Your day will come when you'll
meet Paris.
Speaker 14 (32:32):
You haven't met her, right, Yeah, she follows me on
Instagram and on Twitter.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
You're still behind Mark.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I'm sorry. I didn't realize that you guys are buds.
All right, very good. The murder Hornets. I have good
news about the Murder Hornets. I'll share that news with you.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Next.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
It's the Conways Show during the holidays. Tim Away Thompson
here KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the Heart
Radio app.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now you
can always hear us live on KFI AM six forty
four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime on
demand on the iHeartRadio app
It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Man that George Stephanopolis, it looked krim there right. ABC
tapped out in that big deal with Donald Trump. It
was a lawsuit, as you're well aware, we talked about
it here on KFI. He was saying that Stephanopolis defamed him.
It was over the Egen Carroll thing, and rather than
(00:27):
litigate it than by most legal analyst standards, ABC would
have prevailed in a litigation, but rather than get into that,
they decided to settle it right. So they it was
sixteen million bucks a million for the legal fees incurred
by Donald Trump and then a fifteen million dollar donation
(00:48):
to Trump Library and kind of a you know, the
Trump Institute that in essence allowed to ABC to write
it off. George Sevenopolis, I was watching this past week.
Did mention it on this week, which I'm not necessarily
surprised about.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Didn't mention the settlement.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I mean it was It's a landmark, i'd say landmark
moment in media, the way they essentially decided that it
would just be easier to pay it off than to
really get into it and get onto some kind of
adversarial footing with Donald Trump. But this is more about
so that's what happened. I was kind of walking. I
(01:27):
was watching with interest, what would it happen with George Stepanopolis,
whether he'd mention it, whether it be a story, whether
he had to make some kind of public apology on
GMA on this week, whatever, because there was an apology
that was also attached to this. But what I did
see is that Stephanopolis just re signed with ABC. Do
(01:48):
you know how much George Stephanopolis is said to earn
annually on ABC? I feel like this is a whip
around eligible if you guys, I'll take guesses from those
who don't know what is the annual salary of George Stephanopolis.
(02:14):
I will start with is angel in uh in the
in the game Angels here?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
You know it?
Speaker 5 (02:20):
You know it?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Baby? All right?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
So tell me what you think George Stefanopolis makes every year.
Oh now, onlind you he does host Good Morning America
alongside Robin Roberts and Michael Strahans. That's one thing he does,
and he does that this week with George Devnopolis.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Okay, now go.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Ahead, Okay, like twenty five million.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
That's wrong, but a good guess. How about you, Bella,
what do you think?
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Well?
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Was Angel warmer?
Speaker 7 (02:49):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Well that's your.
Speaker 8 (02:52):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Wait a minute, what do you think this warm cold thing?
You can't bring that into it. That's not how we work.
Already have one Angel?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Yeah, the price is right, come right? Ten million?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Ten million is wrong, but a good guess. Richie, I
think you know the answer, or maybe you.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Don't, maybe like thirteen.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
No, well, Richie does not know it. And so we
finally get to Kroze Croze. What does George Devanopolis make
every year for hosting Good Morning America and this week's
show at ABC?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I'll go somewhere in the middle.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Fifteen though, fifteen would be I think a great guest,
and I think he'd be lucky to walk away with fifteen.
The answer is twenty million dollars every year. Good, that's right. Yeah,
So who was closest. Angel might have been closest at
twenty five.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Million, or Crosier was as well at fifteen.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Oh, yeah, you're right, you're equally You're equally close. That's exactly.
So there's no apparent successor to George Deebanopolis and I
think for that reason, you know, they don't want to
disrupt anything. In morning television habits, people get attached to
the talent, and Stephanopolis has been there since two thousand
(04:07):
and nine, so he just resigned. It's just odd that
his resigning coincides with the big settlement that ABC has made.
But Good Morning America is one of their jewels. However,
I will say this for those who follow such things.
(04:28):
Good Morning America was pretty dominant for a while, but
they have now fallen behind NBC's Today Show. Yeah, and
morning TV thing is now in Los Angeles and then
the West Coast cities generally, I think local offerings have
bigger viewers than bigger viewer numbers than do the networks.
(04:51):
For example, I think Channel five is the number one
morning show in Los Angeles, and I think if you
look around the West, oftentimes the Western time zone sort
of feels deserted by the East Coast networks, and so
a lot of local morning shows do really well. But anyway,
twenty million a year to George Stephanopolis enjoy it. The
(05:16):
Wisconsin shooter and a Southern California man actually involved in
messaging each other. It's sort of a chilling story.
Speaker 9 (05:26):
So, the California man has been detained accused of coordinating
an attack with the Wisconsin shooter who killed two at
a religious school earlier this week. According to court documents,
the Wisconsin shooter, fifteen year old Natalie Rupnow, had been
messaging with a twenty year old demand from Carlsbad. Official
say the man told Ruppnow he planned to arm himself
with explosives and target a government building. He did not
(05:47):
specify which building. Tuesday night, police and FBI agents went
to his home and seized his guns and ammunition. This
following a judge's approval of a restraining order. A hearing
has been set for next month.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I mean that goes fire was burning in Malibu. That
is chilling, absolutely chilling.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
The notion that somehow this fifteen year old could be
in touch with an older guy online who encourages her
and in some way, I mean, I think the responsibility
for what she did and her suicide may be connected
(06:24):
to this guy.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
We just heard about, this twenty year old. It's a
It's very hard to manage these things through social media, right.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Social media just connects people like that fifteen year old
girl to all of these really dark influences, like the
person who may have animated her desire to do things
like this, And it's one of those situations whereby by
the time we know about it, it's just too late.
(07:00):
Don't have a motive still about why that shooting went down.
It looks to be a combination of factors. They said
that most school shooters have warning signs ahead of time,
but they haven't been able to pick up a whole
lot in this case. Most who commit mass shootings are
what there are, men, boys, rarely female, so data is
(07:25):
really limited on whether female shooters have any commonality with
the men who normally perpetrate these things. But the motivations,
to me can be common, they can be extraordinary. When
a fifteen year old opens fire that way, it's just
(07:46):
so sad. And what you're hearing in Wisconsin is that
Wisconsin laws are too lax when it comes to access
to guns by children. But you know, I'll say this
law in Wisconsin prevents anyone under eighteen from possessing a
firearm legally and requires guns that be in the house
(08:09):
be secured, but they're not always secured around children because
children in Wisconsin are defined as those fourteen years old
or under. Obviously she was fifteen, so to degree to it,
she could have access to a gun in the house
might have been different. The whole situation is just sadness
(08:34):
on sadness, but apparently with a California connection to this
twenty year old man in California.
Speaker 10 (08:39):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Special guest is here. This guy's very funny. He really
is performing at the Sure Forum located in Thousand Oaks
Civic Arts Plaza in Thousand Oaks on Saturday, January eleventh.
Give you some time to plan to see the great
Pat McGann. Here's a little bit of Pat in performance
(09:08):
and then we'll talk to him.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Go ahead, Pat, No, we haven't.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
You just don't really see old people anymore. He Now,
who's that?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Are you old? You don't see old people?
Speaker 11 (09:24):
Ay?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Now, Ny, what's up? What's up.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Your mind?
Speaker 8 (09:35):
Sixty eight? Okay, next, here's the milestone.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Uh, Pat McGahan, welcome to KFFI. How are you.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
I'm doing well, Mark, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Of course I should mention that you're you know. Sebastian
Madiscalco is kind of go to dude, he introduces your
one hour comedy special and I think you you generally
opened for him on the road as well, don't you.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Yes, that's true.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
So I've been on the road with Sebastian the last
several years and he did produce a special that has
streaming on Peacock and I believe it's on Amazon. And yeah,
so people in the LA area may see the open
firm at the Forum or recently at Sofi.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
It's been a great run for me.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
With what does that like to perform at Sofi?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Pretty incredible?
Speaker 7 (10:31):
You know that one in particular, we were breaking it
in that we were it was the first comedy show.
Sebastian was the first guy to headline at SOFI. And
that place is really cool. I mean state of the
art obviously and big arena, but played like a you know,
smaller theater in a way.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
You time out there when you play a big arena
like that.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
This is I was talking to someone who was also
working a big arena show and they were saying that
sometimes the physicality of their act changes, like they have to,
you know, stalk the stage a little bit more, or
does your movement change or do you just basically do
the same show that you know is funny and you
(11:16):
don't have to alter it at all for this bigger
venue so.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Far, No, definitely you kind of have to step it
up a little bit.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
And the big difference is you're performing in the round,
so you know, typically you have the audience right out
in front of you, and you know, you just work
in the stage left to right.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
This is a you know, in the round situation, and
it's nice to have.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
These big screens, you know, so people can kind of
go back and forth and watching the screens or watching you.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
In real life.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
So it's different for sure, but you know it's funny.
It sounds silly, but you kind of get used to it.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah, you know your subject matter is so relatable. You know,
the When's Mom Going to Be Home? Was your debut
comedy special again and you know, taped in Chicago, which
I believe is your hometown, and you you talk about
stuff that we can all relate to on some level.
(12:14):
It feels like a very a tried and true way
to connect with an audience.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
Well, I have a kids, and you know they're in
travel sports right now, and that's taken over my life.
I really just kind of talk about what I'm experiencing.
I mean, I have a fourth grad fourth grader had
to try out for hockey, and it's like, ridiculous. You
know what the tryout was? Can you come up with
twenty five hundred dollars? I always a try out.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Some momis like, Dad, I made the team.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
I'm like, I know, I got the fraud alert from Shape.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Oh that's priceless. That's absolutely priceless.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
And then you're you know, into the station wagon at
you know, the crack of dawn taking them to wherever.
I mean, this is your life now. You're like's basically
a road manager.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Oh definitely. You know. Every weekend it's like, you know,
we got to go out of town.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
We got you know, Friday night, we got a game
at eight o'clock. If we win that, we're playing Saturday morning,
eight in the morning. And if we win that one,
we're playing Sunday afternoon. So it's like, so what you're rooting.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Against your kids?
Speaker 7 (13:20):
You hope to get their ass kicked the first game
so you can have your life back.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I know that's where I'd be.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I would, you know, I hope my kid does well
in a losing effort would be where I would be
on a Friday.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
God, just just watching everything is different. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
Yeah, there was a golden age of parenting and this
is not it. I witnessed it though, Like my parents
didn't do anything. They only like talked to me when
they were buzzed. You know, they had no clue where,
no clue where we were. A lot people to track
their kids. They're watching them on Life three sixty, you're
they were tracking us. They'd be like, oh, look, hey,
(13:58):
he's on the railroad tracks again. Huh, okay, must be
headed to the woods.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
You grew up in Chicago, is that right? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (14:07):
Yeah, I still live out in Chicago, born and raised there,
lived in the city on the South Side.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
I live in like a.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Pretty Irish Catholic neighborhood, kind of a bubble.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
But you know, I'm still there, so it's good. I'd
love that never had to move.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah, no, it's great. And that is that where you
met Sebastian.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
It is.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
I met him at Zany's comedy club. He was, you know,
kind of at the point in his career at the time,
he was selling out comedy clubs and I was the
house MC and Zany's is. You know, it's kind of
like a comedy store or an improv like.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
You guys have out the La Area. Is open every
night of the week.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
It's an old school comedy club, and I got I
was really lucky to have this house mc gig.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
So that's where I met Sebastian.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
I'm met a ton of comedians doing that and really
got a lot of stage time, a lot experience.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I'm just so impressed with the career you've put together.
I mean, it's just you've done even all over late
night television.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I mean, from Letterman to Colbert.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I mean, it's just terrific too to see your body
of work and you're so very funny. So this show
in the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza there at the
Sheriff Forum. It'll be January eleventh, which is Saturday night.
And I'm trying to think about the Sheriff Forum, like
that's not a comedy club, and it's also not a
(15:32):
stadium like so far.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
But it's a pretty big house, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Yeah, I think it's close to five hundred seats. No,
I've only seen photos of it.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
I've not been there, but I've heard a lot about it,
and that's kind of where I am targeting right now,
smaller theaters. You know, some of the people that are
coming out to see me, they might not go into
a city or go to a comedy club. I found
that these smaller theaters have been a great place to
(16:05):
perform in a really nice environment for people to come out.
You know, the size too. You know, I love doing
the Sebastian thing, but you know, the smaller, more intimate
crowds are very fun as well, and maybe a little
bit easier to connect with.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
No, I think just trying to connect with the crowded
Madison Square Garden where you've played sold out shows. You know,
I think you played nine shows in Madison Guare Garden.
I mean, you know, you're not going to connect a
lot with the audience. It's got to be a great feeling.
Is that kind of laughter? I mean, magnified through that
audience is just great. But wow, five hundred is not
a small house. But it's not, as you say, so
big like MSG that you're not going to be able
(16:45):
to connect with people. So I'm excited to see you
on Saturday, January eleventh, the share Forum A thousand Oaks,
the Civic Arts Plastic Course on a thousand Oaks, and
tickets are available at Pat mcganncomedy dot com. McGann is
mc ga double n pat mcganncomedy dot com.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Of course our ticketmaster dot com. Also.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Wow, Man, it's such a pleasure to meet you. I
think you're really a funny guy and I wish you
continued success.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
I really appreciate it. Mark, thanks for having me. Happy holidays,
Merry Christmas, and hope to see people out there in
January eleventh.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Look forward to it, Man, All the best, Pat McGahn.
Good stuff.
Speaker 10 (17:25):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Mark Thompson for Tim Conway Junior at Crozier. Here the
whole crew, Angel Bella, Ritchie in the weekend could have
a few sonic booms associated whether there's another SpaceX launch
and it has the potential to create sonic booms for
several hundred miles. It'll be Saturday at Vandenberg and it'll
(17:51):
be the Falcon nine launch. It's part of a mission
to launch several small, commercial and government satellites into orbit.
It'll be Saturday morning, very early in the morning. Three
thirty four am is the schedule. There's a backup window
planned in case that doesn't go off Sunday around three
twelve am, So the first stage of that Falcon nine
(18:15):
rocket will attempt to land back at Vandenburg about eight
minutes after it takes off. It uses the high powered
boosters you've seen it. It's really kind of cool to watch.
And as the booster slows down to the speed of
sound and below the speed of sound, it'll create sonic
booms and you'll hear them for hundreds of miles depending
(18:36):
on the weather. So Santa Barbara, San Luis, Obispo and
Tura counties you could hear one or more sonic booms.
And again that would be early Saturday morning, the left
of three thirty in the morning. It's unlikely that we'll
be able to hear anything in the La area, although
the rocket could be seen. I mean you might see
(18:56):
it in the skies if the skies are clear. There
is a live webcast of the launch. You can find it.
It'll be streaming about fifteen minutes before liftoff. And then
the SpaceX launch and other sonic booms they say will
(19:17):
take place the day after the film Sonic the Hedgehog
three appears in theaters. The launch is not a viral
marketing stunt, but they do mention these two things at
the same time. So Sonic the Hedgehog three is linked
(19:38):
to the space X Sonic Booms because it's Sonic. Is
that the tie in there? I don't necessarily see, but
I didn't.
Speaker 8 (19:47):
See the Sonic Boom.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I didn't see Sonic the Hedgehog one and two? Did
you see them?
Speaker 3 (19:59):
There was a two?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Well, if there's Sonic the Hedgehog three, there had to
be one and two is.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
What I figure.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Apparently the third one is supposed to be the best one.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
They finally got it right.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Says that every people the streets, the streets are saying.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
The buzz is out there. Bella is saying she's heard
it on the street. The word is out. Finally, Sonic
the Hedgehog the third version three. Anyway, it'll appear in theaters,
somebody tell me, because I do not have it on
my list. The other thing that I will quickly mention
is that the my Shake app has just been upgraded.
(20:33):
Weeks after two major earthquakes in California, one of them
prompting a rares tsunami warning of course for the coast.
They have updated, have state officials several things in the
my Shake app, it's run by the Governor's office of
course to my Shake app, and it's the Officer Office
of Emergency Service. Also the UC Berkeley Seismology Labs involved,
(20:58):
and the idea is to give you some kind of
advanced warning even if it's only fifteen seconds of a
strong earthquake. According to state officials, more than three point
seven million people have this app already and more than
five hundred thousand combined a notification from the app with
(21:20):
actions during the last two earthquakes. As I said, in
some cases they got fifteen seconds of warning. The first
earthquake happened off the northern California coast on December fifth,
magnitude seven second on December ninth in Nevada, with shaking
feeling being felt across California. So the new upgrades to
(21:42):
the tool are going to allow more to receive an
early warning when a strong earthquake is imminent. So the
updates have new availability and Chromebook laptops devices running Mac
audio messages and six languages updated to include calm but
urgent voice in English, Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Korean, and Vietnamese.
(22:09):
What did that voiceover audition? Because I do a lot
of voiceover auditions, and I wonder they say audio messages
that are calm but urgent, so you're having to read it.
Please read this copy again. Be calm, but be urgent
about things. I just don't know how you do that.
(22:32):
You know, hello, there's been a quake. Nothing to panic about,
but get under something right away. Anyway, it's in six languages,
in Spanish or yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Know, I know that, but nothing to worry you to
worry about it. Yeah, But.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
So there apparently is an easier identification of functionality stuff.
They've upgraded the shake the shake app My Shake. If
you don't have it, grab it. Tim has it, and
most Conway Show listeners do have the my Shake app.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
It does work.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
And to the you know, if you can get fifteen
seconds of warning, that actually is a pretty good chunk
of time. And given the fact that you know you
typically have none, so good luck. And let me know
what that calm but urgent voice sounds like. I feel
like that's the kind of audition I would get and
I would not, you know, sometimes the description of what
(23:38):
they want. When you're auditioning for some kind of voice thing,
it can be confusing. You just don't know what exactly
to do. And now you direct yourself. In the old days,
you would go in and there'd be a director there
who really understood things better and would direct you and
vector you into the way you're supposed to sound, how urgent,
how calm. But now you just have to do it
(23:59):
on your own. Anyway, good luck with the new my
Shake app. When we come back. Paris Hilton is on
Capitol Hill and she's actually getting stuff.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Done that's hot on a week.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
On a week when not a whole lot is getting done,
this might be one of the few things that's getting done.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Yes, Paris, that was her phrase, right, that's hot. Yep. Yeah.
She and Nicole Ritchie they changed America.
Speaker 10 (24:33):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
AM six forties.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
You know, there's been a plan to avert a government
shut down. It was back by Mike Johnson and it
was bipartisan package. Initially, of course, it was scuttled by
first Elon Musk and then Donald Trump joined the scuttling.
Then there was a backup plan to avert a government
shutdown that was back by Johnson, Trump and Musk, but
(25:00):
Republicans and Democrats rejected that. So we're watching Washington closely,
and it's against that backdrop that I mentioned that Paris
Hilton was in Washington, and she wasn't just in Washington.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
She actually got something done.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
A big win for Paris Hilton in her three year
fight to help protect kids in the so called Troubled
teen industry. The Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act that she
champion passed the House yesterday and now heads to the
President's desk.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Chu Chu Chank spoke with her.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Good morning to you, Chi chu.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Hey, Good morning, Robin.
Speaker 12 (25:33):
You know, Paris Hilton scored a rare bipartisan congressional victory.
She's been speaking out, as you said, for years against
the horrifying abuse she says she suffered at those Troubled
teen programs. Paris says breaking her silence was really hard,
but she realized a simple truth silence doesn't heal. This morning,
(25:54):
pop culture icon and celebrity heiress Paris Hilton taking on
Congress and winning.
Speaker 11 (26:00):
Has been such an incredible day to be here making history.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
The reality start no strange.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
She still sounds exactly like she did from the old days,
right she does. You thought she'd kind of grow up
and she'd kind of have an adultish sound to her,
but she still has that kind of just rolled out
of bed, yeah, kind of.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
She's Paris Hilton. She sounds like parasite making.
Speaker 13 (26:24):
History the reality start. No stranger to the spotlight, this
time using her platform to champion the Stop Institutional Child
Abuse Act. For you, this is personal.
Speaker 11 (26:35):
It's the most painful and traumatic experiences of my life.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
But the fact that.
Speaker 11 (26:40):
I can be here today and turn my pain into
a purpose and be a voice for so many children
who don't have a voice and use my platform for
good is the most healing and incredible experience ever. I
was forced fed medications and sexually abused by the staff.
Speaker 13 (26:59):
The bill did helping track and monitor abuse cases that
youth treatment facilities across the country. The bill passed in
the House three seventy three to thirty three. She described
in her memoir years of shocking abuse as a teenager
at the hands of several youth treatment facilities.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Well, this is the point.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I mean, we think of Paris Hilton, you know, right
out of Beverly Hills, but the reality is she went
to a boarding school in Utah. She was sent to
this Provo Canyon school for eleven months when she was seventeen,
and that's where a lot of this stuff happened. So
she really did experience a pretty grim period of her life.
Speaker 11 (27:35):
I've seen things that no child should ever see or experience.
The staff at these places are abusive in every single way, physically, emotionally, verbally, psychologically, sexually.
I've seen kids be thrown against walls. I myself have
(27:58):
been strangled hits.
Speaker 13 (28:00):
Paris has lobbied lawmakers for years to regulate those so
called troubled Team programs.
Speaker 11 (28:06):
Imagine if it was your child who was suffering abuse, neglect,
or death in the name of treatment.
Speaker 13 (28:12):
This week, a family affair, the mother of two bringing
her young son to the nation's capital. Why was that
important to you?
Speaker 11 (28:19):
I just really wanted him to see his mom making
a difference and being the hero that she needed when
she was a little girl.
Speaker 13 (28:28):
Paris says she'll continue to fight against the shame and
silence to reform the industry, sending a message to other
survivors they are not alone.
Speaker 11 (28:37):
Silence is such a powerful muzzle in the back two
hide abuse. So many people when they get out of
these places, they just don't want to think about it.
They don't want to talk about it. They don't want
anyone to know. But my message to everyone out there listening,
as the shame is not on you. You should not
be ashamed. It's the people who hurt you, and they
should be held accountable and important.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
It's hard not to get behind that.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
And this legislation that passed this week would establish this
interagency work group and it would be under the Health
and Human Services arm of the government, and it would
bring they say, greater transparency around the treatment of youth
in these programs, particularly when the staff used restraints and
seclusion rooms as punishment. So got to give her credit.
(29:22):
Paris Hilton's advocacy has helped change laws, and she's been
active already, Like this wasn't her first rodeo on this.
She was protecting minors in at least eight states, including California.
Similar legislation in California going into effect on January first.
(29:42):
So I give Paris Hilton a lot of credit. I mean,
we I think look at her career and we see
her kind of as this I did anyway, as this
kind of woman of privilege, right, she had everything. She
kind of was like, you know, even in the Simple
Life when she was portrayed in the reality show, they
(30:04):
portrayed her as you know, sleeping in and kind of
just you know, rolling out of bed late to join
with whatever the project was.
Speaker 14 (30:12):
For any listeners that didn't know, a fun fact of
Mark Thompson, he actually narrated a few of the Simple
Life seasons throughout the you know, the whole legend of
the Simple Life.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
That is true.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Producia Richie is right, the Simple Life, which Unnam Murray production.
I would I would go over there, and I love
the show. It was such an honor to be on it.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Such an iconic moment.
Speaker 14 (30:35):
I'm jealous.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Yeah, it was really fun.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
But I you know, to be clear, you know, Paris
and the cole weren't there when I was doing the video.
I was just there and we had the show and
we would just do the lines in the in the voiceover,
in the narration. But I always respected Paris Hilton for
the way she enterprised her brand and she took care
of her brand, and she took care of her moment.
But I never was aware of the degree to which
(31:00):
she was the victim of real abuse. And you know
it had come out before, because there was a documentary
that she released titled This is Paris, and that was
released in twenty twenty, and she discusses a bunch of
these abuse allegations in that documentary apparently, but I didn't
(31:20):
see the docs. So for me, my first exposure to
this entire thing was reading about this Stop Institutional Child
Abuse Act that she has helped champion, and then reading
about her personal experience. I mean really had no idea.
I mean, as I say, you know, she seemed to
be such a product of marketing when we first met her,
(31:41):
through the simple life and just her gilded life. I mean,
she just seemed as though she had everything all the
time going for her. And to think that she was
suffering in this way, it's quite extraordinary. And you know,
to somehow bring your celebrity to Washington and get something
past very impressive. You can bring your celebrity to Washington,
(32:03):
you can get congressional hearings, but to actually forge legislation
and to make a difference. I give her mad respect
for that.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
In the words of Paris Hilton herself, living.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
Chi Loves Paris Hilton. I'm glad we could get a
Paris Hilton. I was gonna store one in either way.
It just happened so that the bill passed. So bravo,
bravo Paris, and bravo. Your day will come when you'll
meet Paris.
Speaker 14 (32:32):
You haven't met her, right, Yeah, she follows me on
Instagram and on Twitter.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
You're still behind Mark.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I'm sorry. I didn't realize that you guys are buds.
All right, very good. The murder Hornets. I have good
news about the Murder Hornets. I'll share that news with you.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Next.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
It's the Conways Show during the holidays. Tim Away Thompson
here KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the Heart
Radio app.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now you
can always hear us live on KFI AM six forty
four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime on
demand on the iHeartRadio app
Tim Conway Jr. on Demand News
Popular Podcasts
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Football’s funniest family duo — Jason Kelce of the Philadelphia Eagles and Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs — team up to provide next-level access to life in the league as it unfolds. The two brothers and Super Bowl champions drop weekly insights about the weekly slate of games and share their INSIDE perspectives on trending NFL news and sports headlines. They also endlessly rag on each other as brothers do, chat the latest in pop culture and welcome some very popular and well-known friends to chat with them. Check out new episodes every Wednesday. Follow New Heights on the Wondery App, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to new episodes early and ad-free, and get exclusive content on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And join our new membership for a unique fan experience by going to the New Heights YouTube channel now!
The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!
Fudd Around And Find Out
UConn basketball star Azzi Fudd brings her championship swag to iHeart Women’s Sports with Fudd Around and Find Out, a weekly podcast that takes fans along for the ride as Azzi spends her final year of college trying to reclaim the National Championship and prepare to be a first round WNBA draft pick. Ever wonder what it’s like to be a world-class athlete in the public spotlight while still managing schoolwork, friendships and family time? It’s time to Fudd Around and Find Out!