December 20, 2024 • 35 mins
Dozens feared injured after vehicle plows into crowd at Christmas market in Germany/ New synthetic drug three times stronger than fentanyl linked to LA County death. Party City and Big Lots stores are closing/ Yelp names 3 California ice skating rinks among North America’s best. Guest: Mariel Hemingway to discuss her 3 limited series, her podcast + stratosphere ATC on wellness technology and a foundation she started with Melissa Yamaguchi for mental health called Mariel Hemingway Foundation (MarielHemingwayFoundation.org)
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am sixty and you're listening to the Conway Show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Having a big discussion here as to what the kickoff
the show with. You know, like, there have been some
kind of dark stories, and I don't really kick off
the show with dark stories. So I go back and
forth with Richie, who is here producing the show about
He's mister dark story, yeah he is. Oh, you've got this.
These people are run over in Germany, and then you've
(00:28):
got this. There's an old drug over nose down to dude.
I don't think Tim would start with the dark stuff.
I don't feel it doesn't feel Conway anyway. Bella's here
as well, Angel Krozier. We've got the crew covering you
all afternoon with breaking news. And in the spirit of
breaking news, I guess this is a This happened at a
(00:51):
Christmas market in Germany.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Richie, I'm not gonna this story is just too dark.
I'm not gonna do it. Let let's let do it
in is uh, just move on to the next one.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
All right, Okay, let's have a meeting about the next one.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Party city. What's that little girl was stabbed in croatia.
That's is that better? Well?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Is she still alive? Well, then it's not better. Did
anybody survive any of this violence? New synthetic drug three
times stronger than ventanyl That could be a good story.
Oh wait, link to La County death see death awaits
me on this Friday. It's brutal, but that is here
(01:38):
in Los Angeles and it could be important to a
lot of people. So that said Richie, and with your blessing,
that is the story I'm going to start with.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Let's let him know.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
A new synthetic drug is considered three times more powerful
than fentanyl, and it's being blamed for at least one
death in LA.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
It's considered three times more powerful than fentanyl and being
blamed for at least one death here in La.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I went.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Assument supporter Carlos Kronda has the details.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
It is yet another frightening lab produced drug, protonitazine. It
is so powerful the FDA never approved it.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
This drug is illegal in the United States, has no
medically accepted US.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
But it is still finding its way into the community.
A case last month in Los Angeles federal court charged
one man for distributing the drug. Court documents say This
is the first confirmed protonitazine death resulting case in the nation.
Protonitazine is quickly emerging as a fentanyl replacement, and it
is three times more fatal.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
But the prospect of ninazine's being out in the community
drug supply is certainly worrisome because that increases the risk
of overdose. When you have a very potent chemical, that
small amounts can be the difference between being comfortably high
and not breathing anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Well, that was the thing about fetnah. I couldn't believe
what a small amount of ventanyl was going to do.
It was crazy. I mean, it was reading stories about
how you know, they spilled some and some house drug
den or whatever, and then some toddler literally just inhaled
it and ended up in bad straits. I mean, the
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fentanyl thing that was it was almost as though the
contact high could kill you. This is three times worse.
I mean, that's scary.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Experts say it is being shipped in from overseas. Usually
China dealers then press fake prescription drugs and put them
out on the streets as if they're legitimate. Retired DEA
agent Bill Badner says, stopping these shipments coming in through
customs is almost impossible.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
This drug is so powerful, it takes so little of
it that the packages coming in are so small. It
does not take much to mass produce fake pills now,
so that's a relatively small package. Have it get through customs,
not be searched. Arrives in your community.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Officials say, fortunately, they haven't seen a lot of it yet.
The advice in case of an overdose is to use narcan.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
That with these high potency opioates like ninazines, we are
sometimes seeing instances where people need higher doses of the
lock zone in narcan than usual in order to reverse and.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Opiate over well, at least it's responsive to that. I mean,
there were situations in some drug overdoses, depending on the drug,
where Narcan wasn't able to bring you back around. So
this is the latest. I mean, it's an emerging problem.
The protonaazine Is that what it is or I don't
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think that's the way he said it, but proton nitazine,
and I guess they're sold in bulk supplies to those
on the black market here in the US, but very
hard to keep it out of the system. I just
want to quickly mention I've got Alex Michaelson coming on
(05:03):
from Fox eleven. He of course, the guy does so
much in the way of politics over there, and we'll
talk about what has been going down in Washington all week.
It was really taking the country to the brink, to
the brink of closure, and now it looks as though
that Continuing Resolution passes the House and will likely pass
the Senate and the government will remain open. We'll talk
(05:25):
to him about winners and losers and all of this
and the prospects for the new administration getting teed up
as we enter into the holidays. Also today, maryel Hemingway
is going to join us.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I think.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I say I think because we're moving that around, but
it should be later this hour. And she's a brilliant actress.
She's just been around and done a full range of
things now for a while, and I'm really looking forward
to talking to her. She has a new podcast. She's
also I think, working on a limited series called The
(06:01):
Sisters Hemingway, which is about her and her two sisters.
Margo was the supermodel's sister and it was a drug
abuse situation that triggered a schizophrenia in her sister. I mean,
there's quite the troubling also intriguing story in her family,
(06:21):
the Hemingways, because the Hemingways, Mariel Hemingway is the granddaughter
of Ernest Hemingway. So I asked producer Richie, well, you
know who Ernest Hemingway was, because he's young. I mean,
it's possible that he doesn't, you know, isn't? And Richie
did kind of have a general sense, didn't you, rich
(06:43):
I did you said he was a he wrote a book.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Is that what you say? Yes, he wrote a book
about his time in Cuba.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
No, I thought that was a good general It's a
little bluffy, but it's also true. He was one of
the great in the history of the English language in
this country, great American writers. But he was also troubled.
He was a war correspondent. He wrote a lot about wars,
and he himself was affected by brutal mental illness at
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the end of his life. So it's interesting if we
get her on the air to talk to her about
how that becomes something that is a family concern, because
she's talked about that. When we come back, there is
a major closure that's being followed by another major closure.
(07:34):
These are businesses that are going out of business. I
will tell you about those businesses next, one of them,
both of them.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
I can't believe it.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I know you are likely scrambling. It's our last week
before the sort of weird week that involves, you know,
in Christmas falls midweek. The offices closed, they're kind of
partially open, whatever it might be. So wherever you are,
you can take us with you on the iHeartRadio app
Party City. Say it ain't so it is a party
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at Party City. They're closing down all of their stores.
Forty years they've been in business. They are winding down
operations immediately. Today will be their last day of employment
for those working for Party City. It's a pretty brutal
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reminder of a bankruptcy and a collapse of I don't
know if I want to call them an institution, but
I would call them a regular part of the shopping
experience and when it comes to brick and mortar stuff,
and I mean just Party City was I guess I
was taking it for granted.
Speaker 9 (08:59):
Now I feel bad that I took them for granted.
Party is over for retailer. Party City Wow, that is
really brutal, man. They're going out of business. People are
getting out of work, and we get well, we can't resist.
You know, Party's over for Party City, the party city,
The party's finally come to a close.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Party is over for retailer Party City. The company told
corporate employees on a call today the business would be
winding down operations immediately after nearly forty years, and today
would be their last day of work. It's unclear right
now if retail stores are also closing immediately. The chain
is the largest party supply store in the US and
recently exited bankruptcy in twenty twenty three. This news comes
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one day after Big Lots announced it would be closing
all of its US stores.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
No, I was just going to suggest to us that
we go to Big Lots instead of Party City. But
Big Lots is closing. I'm running out of options.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Did you get your house sized balloons?
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yeah, exactly, this is the time you have that stuff.
You know, you're the one who turned me out. Went
over Krozier's place. He had these lit balls that were
these huge kind of light like beach ball kind of things.
Speaker 10 (10:11):
Yeah, there were crescent moons and they were just big
orbs and I loved them and the pool they had
lights in them. Yeah, they float in the pool.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
They had lights in them, and it was just a
really great accent to the party that he had and
I wanted those, and my other have said, well, you know,
they're just well, you know, you're not gonna use in
the pool until you have people over, and you're probably
not gonna have people over for many months or whatever,
and they're just going to sit in the closet somewhere
taking up space.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
She made it, But when you need him, they're they.
Speaker 10 (10:40):
Exactly what I thought about it, And then the one
time I used them, like totally worth it.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yeah, really great. It's what I really remember from your
party being super great. Anyway, that's the kind of stuff
that you could find at party City. And the company
had closed more than eighty stores already from twenty twenty
two to August of this year. They had had a
bankruptcy and they were canceling nearly a billion dollars in debt. So,
(11:08):
I mean, it's a company in trouble. They're based in
New Jersey, and I guess it's all over now. The opportunity,
I mean, I don't mean to suggest that one should
always look at, you know, the failure of these businesses
as an opportunity.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
But it's a fact.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I mean the business has gone under and there might
be some opportunities for bargains as they you know, sell
out the way big bat, but what was it bed
bath and beyond just you know, they opened their doors.
You could go in there and you could really get
some value. So the sad thing about this or troubling
thing or you know, uh, irritating thing is if you
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care about retail businesses continuing the brick and mortar world,
you have to note this as yet another brick and
mortar business that had forty years behind it that's going away.
These are retailer bankruptcies that are continuing to pile up
this year. Discretionary spending is probably something that's been cut
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back among consumers, the rising cost of letting, which we
hear about, and let's face it, there is just a
virtual digital universe that is hurting brick and mortar establishment.
I mean, Big Lots is the other one they're going
to close. They're remaining nine hundred and sixty three locations.
They were trying to sell the business, but that sale
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fell through, so they were going to sell all of
their assets to a private equity firm. But Big Lots
is saying it doesn't think that transaction is going to
go through. So Big Lots is going away. They are
starting there going out of business sales at all remaining
locations in the coming days.
Speaker 10 (12:52):
God, I didn't even know there were any left ones
around me. Went out closed year or two ago at least.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yeah, they've been closing one hundreds of stores since the
beginning of the year. Yeah, mean, they had fourteen hundred
stores across the United States before they started.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Closing them in pretty large numbers.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
So they're a company that had already said earlier this
week that they had earlier this a year, I should
say that they had doubts about whether or not they'd
really be able to remain operational, so they talked about
the potential of defaulting on a loan. So they had
there was a lot going on, But they've been around
fifty seven years. So Big Lots and Party City both
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going away. YELP has named the three California ice skating
rinks that are here in southern California, and.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
I think these are all in southern oh No. One
is in northern California.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Okay, two are in northern California. All right, so one
of them is here in southern California. But during the holidays,
those who are like ice skating, you may like to
see that. The Irvine Ye Spectrum Center has been named
by yelp one of the top three ice skating rinks
in North America. The Global Review website named Irvine Spectrum
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Center the eighth best ice skating rink in North America.
The Winter Lodge and Snoopy's Home Ice were the other
ones that made the lists. Winter Lodge fifteenth, Snoopy's Home
Ice seventeenth. So Snoopy's Home Ice is where Charles Schultz lived, right,
that's in Santa Rosa, north of San Francisco. Winter Lodge,
(14:38):
which is the other one on the list, is in
Palo Alto, just south of San Francisco, a little north
of Silicon Valley.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
But the Spectrum Center, Irvine Spectrum Center, they make the
top ten. There were only twenty five ice skating rinks
on the list of the best ice skating rinks in
North America, and one of them is right here in
Orange County. Festive holiday activities they're at the rink, so
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enjoy your ice skating.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
What is the situation with miss Hemingway rich at the
time that we originally all.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Right, all right, Jimmy, and later I'm all right, all right,
all right. Conray would never put up with this, all right, unacceptable.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI.
Am sixty. Really excited to talk to our next guest.
She's an actress, she's an activist. Her work has been remarkable.
I mean she's been acting for so long. Academy Award nominee,
as I recall, and for the Woody Allen film Manhattan. Yeah,
(15:54):
she played the love interest, like the teen love interest,
and I think she was at personal best.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Was another like kind of a controversial role she had.
This is back in the eighties. But she's been really
prolific in terms of her acting, in terms of her
creativity through the decades. And now she has a new
project she'll talk about. Maryel Hemingway, Welcome to KFI.
Speaker 11 (16:14):
Thank you for having me. It's such a it's such
a pleasure to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yeah, I really you know, you were in a film
that a friend of mine directed and wrote Mike Binder
and God.
Speaker 11 (16:28):
When anybody says what was your favorite film, I always
say the Sex Monster, and I always say that it
wasn't a porno.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
No, it's true, it was not a porno at all.
Sex Monster.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
It was really great, and I was so impressed with
you in that movie, and I thought Mike did a
good job too. But I just remember maybe I met
you in a sort of glancing way during one of
those screenings.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
But I just am such a fan. So it's really
great to talk to you.
Speaker 11 (16:51):
Uh, it's great to talk to you. Well, thank you
so much, and I'm a fan of your voice.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Okay, great, Well that's a start. That's a start. So
I want to talk about your family for a second.
That I want to because, as I noticed, you're doing
so much work with essentially raising awareness around mental illness
and around these situations that I think afflict more and
more families. Your family went through it all in a
(17:16):
very high profile way. Your grandfather, Ernest Hemingway one of
the great writers in the history of the written word,
and he himself struggled with mental illness and then and
your family you can, you know, speak to this obviously
that more specific way than can. I but your family
has wrestled with this as well, and I think it's
interesting that you're taking this on.
Speaker 11 (17:38):
Well, thank you. I mean, yes, you know, it's a
part of my family. So people always say, oh, that's
so scary and awful and how could you do that?
But it's always been a part of my family. I mean,
mental illness has been kind of prevalent, mental illness, addiction,
substance abuse over the years. So I wasn't comfortable always,
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but now it's become it really become my passion to
share what I know about mental illness and also the
solutions that you can find through living a healthy lifestyle.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
There was more of a stigma around it, I feel
like when you were growing up, you know, like, am
I right? I mean now it's been a little more mainstream.
Speaker 11 (18:22):
Yeah, I mean, you know, now people are talking about it.
But you know, I was just in Europe. I was
in Madrid, and it's still far in Europe. It's still
far more stigmatized than it is here in America. Funnily enough,
there's still kind of an embarrassment a shame about it,
(18:45):
you know. I think there's a shame about it in
this country as well. And I think the more you
talk about it, you give voice to whatever your history is,
your story, then you get to find the solutions, and
then you realize that there's no stigma in ball. I mean,
we don't get upset with somebody who has a virus,
a cold, cancer, heart disease, you know, we don't. We're
(19:08):
not upset with them. But all of a sudden, when
it comes to our mental well being, well, all of
a sudden, we get very very nervous about that. And
it's it's no different, but the and the solutions are
actually very similar to physical physical things that you do
for physical ailments, you do the same things for your
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mental health.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Yeah, that's interesting. You're right.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
It's as though people have this view of mental illnesses
though people have chosen to, you know, kind of lose it,
which is, oh my god.
Speaker 11 (19:40):
Your parents must have been horrible. You know. It's just,
you know, it's a crazy stigma that is attached to it.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Well, that's what kind of intrigues me about the Hemingways.
We're talking to Marial Hemingway because the Hemingways, you know,
have had to suffer through a lot of these episodes
that involve mental illness in such a high profile way,
you know, and I just think that under that pressure,
just sort of try to evolve your own situation. I mean,
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was there anxiety in the family about it or how
was how was it handled internal life?
Speaker 11 (20:12):
Well, early on, so my oldest sister, you rare remember
Margot who was the supermodels take in the late seventies
or early seventies and seventies, and she was a big supermodel.
But then my oldest sister, who is eleven years older
(20:32):
than me, she's still alive, she suffered from mental illness
very early on in my life. But my parents didn't
understand that that's what was happening. They thought, oh my god,
we're parenting horrible. We don't know what we're doing. We've
lost control over granted, we lived in Mill Valley, California,
and my sister who was seventeen that I was only
(20:57):
she was six, I was four whatever. Yeah, and she
was going into hate Asbury and taking a lot of
drugs and it triggered a predisposition for schizophrenia. So my
parents had no idea that she had episodes of psychosis.
And they thought, you know, she's it's the seventies, she's
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taking drugs. What are we doing wrong? We're terrible parents.
She's turning into it, you know, like they didn't know
what was going on. And then my other sister got
involved in alcohol and drugs because she became an overnight sensation.
She became this incredible supermodel on the cover of Time
magazine and all these things and paid a lot of money.
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And she was young and didn't know how to handle it,
and she went down a very dark path and she
actually took her life just before she turned forty. So
it's been this and that's always been something I've watched
as the youngest sibling of these three girls my entire life.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Yeah, I mean, you enjoyed your own meteoric rise, or
at least success as a young person. I mean that
Woody Allen film Manhattan, you know, one of his great movies. You,
I mean, you were a kid, and so I mean
in a way, some of the challenges that your sister
had with that kind of a rocket ship to stardom,
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you were on that same rocket ship in a sense,
weren't you.
Speaker 11 (22:24):
In a way. But I think because I watched my
sisters kind of really be challenged by so much of
our family and same and all that stuff, and I'm
not sure that I really intellectualized it, but there was
some sort of inherent sense that I wasn't going to
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go down the same path in the same way.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Now.
Speaker 11 (22:50):
I did a lot of crazy things thinking I was
super healthy, following different I had, following gurus around the world.
I mean, I was doing another kind of of addiction
to like Who's gonna save Me? That was kind of
by thing, Who's gonna save me? I'm gonna find a doctor,
I'm gonna find a dealer, I'm gonna find a guru.
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And that was my route. But I didn't ever do drugs.
I never drank because I was terrified because I watched
what it did. I mean it even you know it
was horrible for my parents.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Sure, sure, And you know that's gonna go one way
or the other. It's gonna go either you're gonna get
drawn into it or you're gonna do what you did,
which is sort of just stay away from it. I
want to I gotta take a break. But when to
come back, I want to talk about what you're working
on now. I mean, you've got a lot of projects
in the in the work, so, uh, Mariel Hemingway as
our guest. And as I say, she's got some great
projects in the work. Amazing actress and performer and artist.
(23:45):
And I'm excited that she's here with us and we'll
talk about everything she's doing as we continue.
Speaker 8 (23:51):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KF.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
I am six.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Forty talking to Mariel Hemingway, a brilliant actress.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
And uh, it's funny.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I was just looking through Wikipedia to see what they
say about you, Mary El Hemingway, and it's just your
your list of work is just so impressive.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
My god.
Speaker 11 (24:09):
You know, you're very kind. Thank you.
Speaker 7 (24:12):
I have read it.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Yeah, I sometimes you don't want to look through it,
but I know, right, yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
But one of the things that you it says you
practice transcendental meditation. And the reason I mentioned that is
my birthday is next week and for my birthday, I'm
giving myself a transcendental meditation course.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
I'm gonna go sign up.
Speaker 11 (24:31):
Oh you're gonna love it. I mean I've done. I
do a combination of all kinds of different meditations because
I've been meditating for about forty years now.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (24:43):
But it's extraordinary. It's there's always one that resonates with
you really deeply, and and and TM is extraordinary. It's
a really it's a cool method because it gets you
into a very deep state of of mental peace. And
that's really all anybody wants is just to get to
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a place where you're not you know, overthinking, and you're
just it's not that you're not thinking, but you get
into a state of kind of a real like centeredness
and being present.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
I mean, I just I just think to sort of
you know, turned down the crazy chaotic yeah nature of
your thinking all the time and bouncing from thought to
thought would be a really great thing. And I've heard
nothing but good things. So tell me, maryel Hemingway. Okay,
so all the acting, all the work in show business
so high profile, and now you have some new projects
underway quickly.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
I want to get into that, So tell me what
you're working on.
Speaker 11 (25:38):
So I am god, there's so many things. I have
a podcast called Outcomes this Son. I wrote a book
called Outcomes the Sun, which is about my family and
the addiction and then mental health. So the podcast is
about mental health. I do it with my best friend
Melissa Yelmagucci. So I got that I got three television
(25:58):
limited series televis Vision projects based on my grandfather's life
in the twenties in Paris. Then when he is living
in Cuba in the thirties, that's another series. And then
the third series limited series is myself and my two
sisters sixties, seventies and eighties. And the kind of the
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undertone of all of it is mental is mental health,
mental illness, and not that we're going to talk about
it because it's fictional. It'll be a you know, a
scripted piece. But I'm super excited about those. And then
my husband and I have created a wellness facility on
(26:41):
pch and the Palisades, and he's created a chamber called
the Stratosphere ATC, which ATC stands for Altitude Training Conditioning,
and it's a chamber that takes you up and down
in altitude and go the up and down. It's not
just hypoxic. It's the up and down and the pressure
(27:02):
changes that create a whole host of of incredible physical, mental,
emotional benefits. It's amazing for your health. It's amazing for
athletes for performance, it's amazing for anybody off the street
to just improve their cardiovascular health, their their mental well being.
It's an extraordinary machine.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Is it like like an you do and I'll double
back to a couple of things in the second. But
that last thing, this stratospheric atc you is it like
a like one of those things we'd see in astronaut
training or I mean, is it a chamber.
Speaker 11 (27:39):
It's not dissimilar. I mean the astronauts and the and
the and the military have been using hype. It's called hypobaric,
not hyperbaric. People have heard of hyperbaric. Hyperbaric is going under.
It's like, you know, going under under altitude, like you're
going under and there's oxygen being pressed pressure, you know,
(28:01):
pressed into the chamber, or you have an oxygen mask.
Hypo Eric is ambient air. You go in there, you're
either in a zero gravity chair or you're exercising on
a on a you know, on a treadmill, on an
exercise bike and exercising while going up and down in
altitude is just an it turns on a metabolic switch.
(28:27):
I'm not the scientist or the doctor that you can
explain it, as well as as our our chief science
officer is doctor Bruce Johnson, who's from the Mayo Clinic.
He's the head of Extreme human Performance at the Mayo Clinic,
so he's our chief medical scientist.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Whatever closer, I'll do it if you will come over
and I will I will go, I will.
Speaker 11 (28:51):
Go in there with you.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
All right, yeah, show me first. Now let me now
we double double back for a sheck. And so you know,
outcomes the Sun. That was a pretty unvarnished piece that
you did. I mean when you wrote about your own life.
And so this outcomes the sun, this this iteration, this
(29:13):
is a podcast.
Speaker 11 (29:15):
It is it's a podcast now. And you know, I
say that we talk about mental health. But in my opinion,
and it's one of the first things that I said.
In my opinion, it's everything you do. So good mental
health is a practice of taking care of your body,
(29:35):
getting enough sunshine, breathing good air, drinking water, grounding, you know,
literally going barefoot in your backyard and grounding to the
earth because there's there's you know, incredibly an incredible amount
of energy that comes from the earth and it actually
(29:57):
helps you to get rid of inflam So there's all
these things that you can do on the physical plane
that help your mental well being because let's face it,
when it comes to mental health. We don't cut our
heads off and say, you know, our head is a
different part of your being. It's part of your body.
(30:18):
So what you do in your body, the food that
you're eating, the thoughts that you're thinking, whether you're drinking
enough water and again getting sunshine, all these different things,
it's so important to your mental health. Sure talk about
So basically, you would come on and I would say,
what do you do to make yourself feel good in
(30:39):
a day? How do you wake up in the morning,
what is your day like? And I talk to all
kinds of people. I'll talk to celebrities who may have
gone through something or had been addicts or whatever. Or
I talk to doctors, or I talk to people that
have you know, invented weighted blankets that are organic and
(30:59):
god know whatever. It's just all the different ways that
you can find your inner peace. I mean, let's face it,
we live in a very stressful world. We're all comparing
ourselves to each other because of it, because of social media,
and so we want to go to a place like
you do trying to go to do and understand PM.
(31:23):
We want to go to a place where there's less
noise in our brain.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
No, that's great.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
And I think what's great also is it sounds like
it's something of a clearinghouse, your podcast for a lot
of these various modalities of therapy or ways to live
or you know, rhythms of life. Yeah, and so you
can kind of hear how other people are experiencing them.
That's really cool. I want to ask you one last
thing sort of about growing up in that world of stardom,
(31:50):
because you know, I in southern California know so many
people who did grow up here, and some of them
were famous as young people. Some of them were successful
very young, and they take that ride where they're you know,
not as successful, then they have a late ending rally
or the successful again. I'm just just give me a
snapshot of what your experience was. And this is a really,
(32:10):
sadly a pretty complicated question, I guess on one level,
but on another level, I'm just curious whether or not
it sounds like you never got totally sucked into the
glam of Hollywood and that world, even though you were
Mariel Hemingway and you're in all of these projects and
some of them were insanely high profile, but it sounds
as though it just didn't ever really infect you that way.
Speaker 11 (32:33):
Well, I, you know, I don't know what what the
what the reason is completely for that, except that I
didn't grow up in a you know, I didn't grow
up Mary L. Jones in the middle in the Midwest,
and in a place that didn't know about people who
(32:53):
got famous. My grandfather was famous, my sisters were you know,
my sister was famous. So I kind of was around fame,
and I saw that there was something about it that
wasn't I saw that it didn't bring happiness. It's kind
of like when people say, oh, yeah, you know, when
(33:14):
you're rich, it doesn't make you happy or whatever it is.
Fame doesn't, isn't isn't the end all? And I realized
that it was just I loved I love acting. I
loved acting. I loved my career. But I didn't take
myself seriously inside of it. I don't take myself seriously.
(33:35):
I love living life. I love living a healthy and
vibrant life and a creative life. But I don't take
myself seriously in that, Like, I don't think I'm the
best in the world of anything.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Yeah, but I would say, you know it just Maril,
I would just say It's so easy to get seduced though,
when everybody is giving you everything you want. You can
get into anything, You can get anything you want. I mean,
you know, but when ye at the top of the
game and you yet it seems weren't seduced by.
Speaker 11 (34:03):
That, well, thank you. I mean I kind of saw
it as funny. I mean I thought, I mean, when
I'm on a set, I always know that everybody's kind
of excuse me, kissing your ass because they just want
to go home to their families. Now it's not that
they dislike you, but it's not like, oh, everybody really
(34:25):
cares about you. They want you to do a good
job so that they can go home and have their
normal life with their families, and you know what I mean,
and they get home at a normal time.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
That's a great way to look at it.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
That's such a mature way to look at it though,
and so funny that you would have that view even
as a younger person.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
All right, we've got to wrap up.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
But Mariel Hemingway excited about your outcomes the Sun, which
is the podcast, and also Stratosphere ATC which is this
cutting edge wellness technology right in the Palisades and so
if anybody is interested in more and then I'll look
forward to your your limited series and what is the
timetable on that?
Speaker 4 (35:04):
When does it come out?
Speaker 11 (35:07):
You know?
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, Well we'll have you, We will
have you back when there's when it's when it's ready
for primetime until then comes the sun.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Love talking to you. Mariel Hemingway. Thanks so much for
being with us. Great stuff. Yeah, she's so well adjusted
for somebody who was, you know, grown up in the
belly of the beast that way. But next hour we'll
talk politics with Alex Michaelson. It's KFI AM six forty
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am sixty and you're listening to the Conway Show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Having a big discussion here as to what the kickoff
the show with. You know, like, there have been some
kind of dark stories, and I don't really kick off
the show with dark stories. So I go back and
forth with Richie, who is here producing the show about
He's mister dark story, yeah he is. Oh, you've got this.
These people are run over in Germany, and then you've
(00:28):
got this. There's an old drug over nose down to dude.
I don't think Tim would start with the dark stuff.
I don't feel it doesn't feel Conway anyway. Bella's here
as well, Angel Krozier. We've got the crew covering you
all afternoon with breaking news. And in the spirit of
breaking news, I guess this is a This happened at a
(00:51):
Christmas market in Germany.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Richie, I'm not gonna this story is just too dark.
I'm not gonna do it. Let let's let do it
in is uh, just move on to the next one.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
All right, Okay, let's have a meeting about the next one.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Party city. What's that little girl was stabbed in croatia.
That's is that better? Well?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Is she still alive? Well, then it's not better. Did
anybody survive any of this violence? New synthetic drug three
times stronger than ventanyl That could be a good story.
Oh wait, link to La County death see death awaits
me on this Friday. It's brutal, but that is here
(01:38):
in Los Angeles and it could be important to a
lot of people. So that said Richie, and with your blessing,
that is the story I'm going to start with.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Let's let him know.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
A new synthetic drug is considered three times more powerful
than fentanyl, and it's being blamed for at least one
death in LA.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
It's considered three times more powerful than fentanyl and being
blamed for at least one death here in La.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I went.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Assument supporter Carlos Kronda has the details.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
It is yet another frightening lab produced drug, protonitazine. It
is so powerful the FDA never approved it.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
This drug is illegal in the United States, has no
medically accepted US.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
But it is still finding its way into the community.
A case last month in Los Angeles federal court charged
one man for distributing the drug. Court documents say This
is the first confirmed protonitazine death resulting case in the nation.
Protonitazine is quickly emerging as a fentanyl replacement, and it
is three times more fatal.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
But the prospect of ninazine's being out in the community
drug supply is certainly worrisome because that increases the risk
of overdose. When you have a very potent chemical, that
small amounts can be the difference between being comfortably high
and not breathing anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Well, that was the thing about fetnah. I couldn't believe
what a small amount of ventanyl was going to do.
It was crazy. I mean, it was reading stories about
how you know, they spilled some and some house drug
den or whatever, and then some toddler literally just inhaled
it and ended up in bad straits. I mean, the
(03:19):
fentanyl thing that was it was almost as though the
contact high could kill you. This is three times worse.
I mean, that's scary.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Experts say it is being shipped in from overseas. Usually
China dealers then press fake prescription drugs and put them
out on the streets as if they're legitimate. Retired DEA
agent Bill Badner says, stopping these shipments coming in through
customs is almost impossible.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
This drug is so powerful, it takes so little of
it that the packages coming in are so small. It
does not take much to mass produce fake pills now,
so that's a relatively small package. Have it get through customs,
not be searched. Arrives in your community.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Officials say, fortunately, they haven't seen a lot of it yet.
The advice in case of an overdose is to use narcan.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
That with these high potency opioates like ninazines, we are
sometimes seeing instances where people need higher doses of the
lock zone in narcan than usual in order to reverse and.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Opiate over well, at least it's responsive to that. I mean,
there were situations in some drug overdoses, depending on the drug,
where Narcan wasn't able to bring you back around. So
this is the latest. I mean, it's an emerging problem.
The protonaazine Is that what it is or I don't
(04:42):
think that's the way he said it, but proton nitazine,
and I guess they're sold in bulk supplies to those
on the black market here in the US, but very
hard to keep it out of the system. I just
want to quickly mention I've got Alex Michaelson coming on
(05:03):
from Fox eleven. He of course, the guy does so
much in the way of politics over there, and we'll
talk about what has been going down in Washington all week.
It was really taking the country to the brink, to
the brink of closure, and now it looks as though
that Continuing Resolution passes the House and will likely pass
the Senate and the government will remain open. We'll talk
(05:25):
to him about winners and losers and all of this
and the prospects for the new administration getting teed up
as we enter into the holidays. Also today, maryel Hemingway
is going to join us.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I think.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I say I think because we're moving that around, but
it should be later this hour. And she's a brilliant actress.
She's just been around and done a full range of
things now for a while, and I'm really looking forward
to talking to her. She has a new podcast. She's
also I think, working on a limited series called The
(06:01):
Sisters Hemingway, which is about her and her two sisters.
Margo was the supermodel's sister and it was a drug
abuse situation that triggered a schizophrenia in her sister. I mean,
there's quite the troubling also intriguing story in her family,
(06:21):
the Hemingways, because the Hemingways, Mariel Hemingway is the granddaughter
of Ernest Hemingway. So I asked producer Richie, well, you
know who Ernest Hemingway was, because he's young. I mean,
it's possible that he doesn't, you know, isn't? And Richie
did kind of have a general sense, didn't you, rich
(06:43):
I did you said he was a he wrote a book.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Is that what you say? Yes, he wrote a book
about his time in Cuba.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
No, I thought that was a good general It's a
little bluffy, but it's also true. He was one of
the great in the history of the English language in
this country, great American writers. But he was also troubled.
He was a war correspondent. He wrote a lot about wars,
and he himself was affected by brutal mental illness at
(07:13):
the end of his life. So it's interesting if we
get her on the air to talk to her about
how that becomes something that is a family concern, because
she's talked about that. When we come back, there is
a major closure that's being followed by another major closure.
(07:34):
These are businesses that are going out of business. I
will tell you about those businesses next, one of them,
both of them.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
I can't believe it.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I know you are likely scrambling. It's our last week
before the sort of weird week that involves, you know,
in Christmas falls midweek. The offices closed, they're kind of
partially open, whatever it might be. So wherever you are,
you can take us with you on the iHeartRadio app
Party City. Say it ain't so it is a party
(08:14):
at Party City. They're closing down all of their stores.
Forty years they've been in business. They are winding down
operations immediately. Today will be their last day of employment
for those working for Party City. It's a pretty brutal
(08:38):
reminder of a bankruptcy and a collapse of I don't
know if I want to call them an institution, but
I would call them a regular part of the shopping
experience and when it comes to brick and mortar stuff,
and I mean just Party City was I guess I
was taking it for granted.
Speaker 9 (08:59):
Now I feel bad that I took them for granted.
Party is over for retailer. Party City Wow, that is
really brutal, man. They're going out of business. People are
getting out of work, and we get well, we can't resist.
You know, Party's over for Party City, the party city,
The party's finally come to a close.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Party is over for retailer Party City. The company told
corporate employees on a call today the business would be
winding down operations immediately after nearly forty years, and today
would be their last day of work. It's unclear right
now if retail stores are also closing immediately. The chain
is the largest party supply store in the US and
recently exited bankruptcy in twenty twenty three. This news comes
(09:43):
one day after Big Lots announced it would be closing
all of its US stores.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
No, I was just going to suggest to us that
we go to Big Lots instead of Party City. But
Big Lots is closing. I'm running out of options.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Did you get your house sized balloons?
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yeah, exactly, this is the time you have that stuff.
You know, you're the one who turned me out. Went
over Krozier's place. He had these lit balls that were
these huge kind of light like beach ball kind of things.
Speaker 10 (10:11):
Yeah, there were crescent moons and they were just big
orbs and I loved them and the pool they had
lights in them. Yeah, they float in the pool.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
They had lights in them, and it was just a
really great accent to the party that he had and
I wanted those, and my other have said, well, you know,
they're just well, you know, you're not gonna use in
the pool until you have people over, and you're probably
not gonna have people over for many months or whatever,
and they're just going to sit in the closet somewhere
taking up space.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
She made it, But when you need him, they're they.
Speaker 10 (10:40):
Exactly what I thought about it, And then the one
time I used them, like totally worth it.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yeah, really great. It's what I really remember from your
party being super great. Anyway, that's the kind of stuff
that you could find at party City. And the company
had closed more than eighty stores already from twenty twenty
two to August of this year. They had had a
bankruptcy and they were canceling nearly a billion dollars in debt. So,
(11:08):
I mean, it's a company in trouble. They're based in
New Jersey, and I guess it's all over now. The opportunity,
I mean, I don't mean to suggest that one should
always look at, you know, the failure of these businesses
as an opportunity.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
But it's a fact.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I mean the business has gone under and there might
be some opportunities for bargains as they you know, sell
out the way big bat, but what was it bed
bath and beyond just you know, they opened their doors.
You could go in there and you could really get
some value. So the sad thing about this or troubling
thing or you know, uh, irritating thing is if you
(11:44):
care about retail businesses continuing the brick and mortar world,
you have to note this as yet another brick and
mortar business that had forty years behind it that's going away.
These are retailer bankruptcies that are continuing to pile up
this year. Discretionary spending is probably something that's been cut
(12:07):
back among consumers, the rising cost of letting, which we
hear about, and let's face it, there is just a
virtual digital universe that is hurting brick and mortar establishment.
I mean, Big Lots is the other one they're going
to close. They're remaining nine hundred and sixty three locations.
They were trying to sell the business, but that sale
(12:32):
fell through, so they were going to sell all of
their assets to a private equity firm. But Big Lots
is saying it doesn't think that transaction is going to
go through. So Big Lots is going away. They are
starting there going out of business sales at all remaining
locations in the coming days.
Speaker 10 (12:52):
God, I didn't even know there were any left ones
around me. Went out closed year or two ago at least.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yeah, they've been closing one hundreds of stores since the
beginning of the year. Yeah, mean, they had fourteen hundred
stores across the United States before they started.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Closing them in pretty large numbers.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
So they're a company that had already said earlier this
week that they had earlier this a year, I should
say that they had doubts about whether or not they'd
really be able to remain operational, so they talked about
the potential of defaulting on a loan. So they had
there was a lot going on, But they've been around
fifty seven years. So Big Lots and Party City both
(13:33):
going away. YELP has named the three California ice skating
rinks that are here in southern California, and.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
I think these are all in southern oh No. One
is in northern California.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Okay, two are in northern California. All right, so one
of them is here in southern California. But during the holidays,
those who are like ice skating, you may like to
see that. The Irvine Ye Spectrum Center has been named
by yelp one of the top three ice skating rinks
in North America. The Global Review website named Irvine Spectrum
(14:13):
Center the eighth best ice skating rink in North America.
The Winter Lodge and Snoopy's Home Ice were the other
ones that made the lists. Winter Lodge fifteenth, Snoopy's Home
Ice seventeenth. So Snoopy's Home Ice is where Charles Schultz lived, right,
that's in Santa Rosa, north of San Francisco. Winter Lodge,
(14:38):
which is the other one on the list, is in
Palo Alto, just south of San Francisco, a little north
of Silicon Valley.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
But the Spectrum Center, Irvine Spectrum Center, they make the
top ten. There were only twenty five ice skating rinks
on the list of the best ice skating rinks in
North America, and one of them is right here in
Orange County. Festive holiday activities they're at the rink, so
(15:08):
enjoy your ice skating.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
What is the situation with miss Hemingway rich at the
time that we originally all.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Right, all right, Jimmy, and later I'm all right, all right,
all right. Conray would never put up with this, all right, unacceptable.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI.
Am sixty. Really excited to talk to our next guest.
She's an actress, she's an activist. Her work has been remarkable.
I mean she's been acting for so long. Academy Award nominee,
as I recall, and for the Woody Allen film Manhattan. Yeah,
(15:54):
she played the love interest, like the teen love interest,
and I think she was at personal best.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Was another like kind of a controversial role she had.
This is back in the eighties. But she's been really
prolific in terms of her acting, in terms of her
creativity through the decades. And now she has a new
project she'll talk about. Maryel Hemingway, Welcome to KFI.
Speaker 11 (16:14):
Thank you for having me. It's such a it's such
a pleasure to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yeah, I really you know, you were in a film
that a friend of mine directed and wrote Mike Binder
and God.
Speaker 11 (16:28):
When anybody says what was your favorite film, I always
say the Sex Monster, and I always say that it
wasn't a porno.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
No, it's true, it was not a porno at all.
Sex Monster.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
It was really great, and I was so impressed with
you in that movie, and I thought Mike did a
good job too. But I just remember maybe I met
you in a sort of glancing way during one of
those screenings.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
But I just am such a fan. So it's really
great to talk to you.
Speaker 11 (16:51):
Uh, it's great to talk to you. Well, thank you
so much, and I'm a fan of your voice.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Okay, great, Well that's a start. That's a start. So
I want to talk about your family for a second.
That I want to because, as I noticed, you're doing
so much work with essentially raising awareness around mental illness
and around these situations that I think afflict more and
more families. Your family went through it all in a
(17:16):
very high profile way. Your grandfather, Ernest Hemingway one of
the great writers in the history of the written word,
and he himself struggled with mental illness and then and
your family you can, you know, speak to this obviously
that more specific way than can. I but your family
has wrestled with this as well, and I think it's
interesting that you're taking this on.
Speaker 11 (17:38):
Well, thank you. I mean, yes, you know, it's a
part of my family. So people always say, oh, that's
so scary and awful and how could you do that?
But it's always been a part of my family. I mean,
mental illness has been kind of prevalent, mental illness, addiction,
substance abuse over the years. So I wasn't comfortable always,
(18:01):
but now it's become it really become my passion to
share what I know about mental illness and also the
solutions that you can find through living a healthy lifestyle.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
There was more of a stigma around it, I feel
like when you were growing up, you know, like, am
I right? I mean now it's been a little more mainstream.
Speaker 11 (18:22):
Yeah, I mean, you know, now people are talking about it.
But you know, I was just in Europe. I was
in Madrid, and it's still far in Europe. It's still
far more stigmatized than it is here in America. Funnily enough,
there's still kind of an embarrassment a shame about it,
(18:45):
you know. I think there's a shame about it in
this country as well. And I think the more you
talk about it, you give voice to whatever your history is,
your story, then you get to find the solutions, and
then you realize that there's no stigma in ball. I mean,
we don't get upset with somebody who has a virus,
a cold, cancer, heart disease, you know, we don't. We're
(19:08):
not upset with them. But all of a sudden, when
it comes to our mental well being, well, all of
a sudden, we get very very nervous about that. And
it's it's no different, but the and the solutions are
actually very similar to physical physical things that you do
for physical ailments, you do the same things for your
(19:29):
mental health.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Yeah, that's interesting. You're right.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
It's as though people have this view of mental illnesses
though people have chosen to, you know, kind of lose it,
which is, oh my god.
Speaker 11 (19:40):
Your parents must have been horrible. You know. It's just,
you know, it's a crazy stigma that is attached to it.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Well, that's what kind of intrigues me about the Hemingways.
We're talking to Marial Hemingway because the Hemingways, you know,
have had to suffer through a lot of these episodes
that involve mental illness in such a high profile way,
you know, and I just think that under that pressure,
just sort of try to evolve your own situation. I mean,
(20:07):
was there anxiety in the family about it or how
was how was it handled internal life?
Speaker 11 (20:12):
Well, early on, so my oldest sister, you rare remember
Margot who was the supermodels take in the late seventies
or early seventies and seventies, and she was a big supermodel.
But then my oldest sister, who is eleven years older
(20:32):
than me, she's still alive, she suffered from mental illness
very early on in my life. But my parents didn't
understand that that's what was happening. They thought, oh my god,
we're parenting horrible. We don't know what we're doing. We've
lost control over granted, we lived in Mill Valley, California,
and my sister who was seventeen that I was only
(20:57):
she was six, I was four whatever. Yeah, and she
was going into hate Asbury and taking a lot of
drugs and it triggered a predisposition for schizophrenia. So my
parents had no idea that she had episodes of psychosis.
And they thought, you know, she's it's the seventies, she's
(21:17):
taking drugs. What are we doing wrong? We're terrible parents.
She's turning into it, you know, like they didn't know
what was going on. And then my other sister got
involved in alcohol and drugs because she became an overnight sensation.
She became this incredible supermodel on the cover of Time
magazine and all these things and paid a lot of money.
(21:39):
And she was young and didn't know how to handle it,
and she went down a very dark path and she
actually took her life just before she turned forty. So
it's been this and that's always been something I've watched
as the youngest sibling of these three girls my entire life.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Yeah, I mean, you enjoyed your own meteoric rise, or
at least success as a young person. I mean that
Woody Allen film Manhattan, you know, one of his great movies. You,
I mean, you were a kid, and so I mean
in a way, some of the challenges that your sister
had with that kind of a rocket ship to stardom,
(22:20):
you were on that same rocket ship in a sense,
weren't you.
Speaker 11 (22:24):
In a way. But I think because I watched my
sisters kind of really be challenged by so much of
our family and same and all that stuff, and I'm
not sure that I really intellectualized it, but there was
some sort of inherent sense that I wasn't going to
(22:47):
go down the same path in the same way.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Now.
Speaker 11 (22:50):
I did a lot of crazy things thinking I was
super healthy, following different I had, following gurus around the world.
I mean, I was doing another kind of of addiction
to like Who's gonna save Me? That was kind of
by thing, Who's gonna save me? I'm gonna find a doctor,
I'm gonna find a dealer, I'm gonna find a guru.
(23:11):
And that was my route. But I didn't ever do drugs.
I never drank because I was terrified because I watched
what it did. I mean it even you know it
was horrible for my parents.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Sure, sure, And you know that's gonna go one way
or the other. It's gonna go either you're gonna get
drawn into it or you're gonna do what you did,
which is sort of just stay away from it. I
want to I gotta take a break. But when to
come back, I want to talk about what you're working
on now. I mean, you've got a lot of projects
in the in the work, so, uh, Mariel Hemingway as
our guest. And as I say, she's got some great
projects in the work. Amazing actress and performer and artist.
(23:45):
And I'm excited that she's here with us and we'll
talk about everything she's doing as we continue.
Speaker 8 (23:51):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KF.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
I am six.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Forty talking to Mariel Hemingway, a brilliant actress.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
And uh, it's funny.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I was just looking through Wikipedia to see what they
say about you, Mary El Hemingway, and it's just your
your list of work is just so impressive.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
My god.
Speaker 11 (24:09):
You know, you're very kind. Thank you.
Speaker 7 (24:12):
I have read it.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Yeah, I sometimes you don't want to look through it,
but I know, right, yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
But one of the things that you it says you
practice transcendental meditation. And the reason I mentioned that is
my birthday is next week and for my birthday, I'm
giving myself a transcendental meditation course.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
I'm gonna go sign up.
Speaker 11 (24:31):
Oh you're gonna love it. I mean I've done. I
do a combination of all kinds of different meditations because
I've been meditating for about forty years now.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (24:43):
But it's extraordinary. It's there's always one that resonates with
you really deeply, and and and TM is extraordinary. It's
a really it's a cool method because it gets you
into a very deep state of of mental peace. And
that's really all anybody wants is just to get to
(25:03):
a place where you're not you know, overthinking, and you're
just it's not that you're not thinking, but you get
into a state of kind of a real like centeredness
and being present.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
I mean, I just I just think to sort of
you know, turned down the crazy chaotic yeah nature of
your thinking all the time and bouncing from thought to
thought would be a really great thing. And I've heard
nothing but good things. So tell me, maryel Hemingway. Okay,
so all the acting, all the work in show business
so high profile, and now you have some new projects
underway quickly.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
I want to get into that, So tell me what
you're working on.
Speaker 11 (25:38):
So I am god, there's so many things. I have
a podcast called Outcomes this Son. I wrote a book
called Outcomes the Sun, which is about my family and
the addiction and then mental health. So the podcast is
about mental health. I do it with my best friend
Melissa Yelmagucci. So I got that I got three television
(25:58):
limited series televis Vision projects based on my grandfather's life
in the twenties in Paris. Then when he is living
in Cuba in the thirties, that's another series. And then
the third series limited series is myself and my two
sisters sixties, seventies and eighties. And the kind of the
(26:20):
undertone of all of it is mental is mental health,
mental illness, and not that we're going to talk about
it because it's fictional. It'll be a you know, a
scripted piece. But I'm super excited about those. And then
my husband and I have created a wellness facility on
(26:41):
pch and the Palisades, and he's created a chamber called
the Stratosphere ATC, which ATC stands for Altitude Training Conditioning,
and it's a chamber that takes you up and down
in altitude and go the up and down. It's not
just hypoxic. It's the up and down and the pressure
(27:02):
changes that create a whole host of of incredible physical, mental,
emotional benefits. It's amazing for your health. It's amazing for
athletes for performance, it's amazing for anybody off the street
to just improve their cardiovascular health, their their mental well being.
It's an extraordinary machine.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Is it like like an you do and I'll double
back to a couple of things in the second. But
that last thing, this stratospheric atc you is it like
a like one of those things we'd see in astronaut
training or I mean, is it a chamber.
Speaker 11 (27:39):
It's not dissimilar. I mean the astronauts and the and
the and the military have been using hype. It's called hypobaric,
not hyperbaric. People have heard of hyperbaric. Hyperbaric is going under.
It's like, you know, going under under altitude, like you're
going under and there's oxygen being pressed pressure, you know,
(28:01):
pressed into the chamber, or you have an oxygen mask.
Hypo Eric is ambient air. You go in there, you're
either in a zero gravity chair or you're exercising on
a on a you know, on a treadmill, on an
exercise bike and exercising while going up and down in
altitude is just an it turns on a metabolic switch.
(28:27):
I'm not the scientist or the doctor that you can
explain it, as well as as our our chief science
officer is doctor Bruce Johnson, who's from the Mayo Clinic.
He's the head of Extreme human Performance at the Mayo Clinic,
so he's our chief medical scientist.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Whatever closer, I'll do it if you will come over
and I will I will go, I will.
Speaker 11 (28:51):
Go in there with you.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
All right, yeah, show me first. Now let me now
we double double back for a sheck. And so you know,
outcomes the Sun. That was a pretty unvarnished piece that
you did. I mean when you wrote about your own life.
And so this outcomes the sun, this this iteration, this
(29:13):
is a podcast.
Speaker 11 (29:15):
It is it's a podcast now. And you know, I
say that we talk about mental health. But in my opinion,
and it's one of the first things that I said.
In my opinion, it's everything you do. So good mental
health is a practice of taking care of your body,
(29:35):
getting enough sunshine, breathing good air, drinking water, grounding, you know,
literally going barefoot in your backyard and grounding to the
earth because there's there's you know, incredibly an incredible amount
of energy that comes from the earth and it actually
(29:57):
helps you to get rid of inflam So there's all
these things that you can do on the physical plane
that help your mental well being because let's face it,
when it comes to mental health. We don't cut our
heads off and say, you know, our head is a
different part of your being. It's part of your body.
(30:18):
So what you do in your body, the food that
you're eating, the thoughts that you're thinking, whether you're drinking
enough water and again getting sunshine, all these different things,
it's so important to your mental health. Sure talk about
So basically, you would come on and I would say,
what do you do to make yourself feel good in
(30:39):
a day? How do you wake up in the morning,
what is your day like? And I talk to all
kinds of people. I'll talk to celebrities who may have
gone through something or had been addicts or whatever. Or
I talk to doctors, or I talk to people that
have you know, invented weighted blankets that are organic and
(30:59):
god know whatever. It's just all the different ways that
you can find your inner peace. I mean, let's face it,
we live in a very stressful world. We're all comparing
ourselves to each other because of it, because of social media,
and so we want to go to a place like
you do trying to go to do and understand PM.
(31:23):
We want to go to a place where there's less
noise in our brain.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
No, that's great.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
And I think what's great also is it sounds like
it's something of a clearinghouse, your podcast for a lot
of these various modalities of therapy or ways to live
or you know, rhythms of life. Yeah, and so you
can kind of hear how other people are experiencing them.
That's really cool. I want to ask you one last
thing sort of about growing up in that world of stardom,
(31:50):
because you know, I in southern California know so many
people who did grow up here, and some of them
were famous as young people. Some of them were successful
very young, and they take that ride where they're you know,
not as successful, then they have a late ending rally
or the successful again. I'm just just give me a
snapshot of what your experience was. And this is a really,
(32:10):
sadly a pretty complicated question, I guess on one level,
but on another level, I'm just curious whether or not
it sounds like you never got totally sucked into the
glam of Hollywood and that world, even though you were
Mariel Hemingway and you're in all of these projects and
some of them were insanely high profile, but it sounds
as though it just didn't ever really infect you that way.
Speaker 11 (32:33):
Well, I, you know, I don't know what what the
what the reason is completely for that, except that I
didn't grow up in a you know, I didn't grow
up Mary L. Jones in the middle in the Midwest,
and in a place that didn't know about people who
(32:53):
got famous. My grandfather was famous, my sisters were you know,
my sister was famous. So I kind of was around fame,
and I saw that there was something about it that
wasn't I saw that it didn't bring happiness. It's kind
of like when people say, oh, yeah, you know, when
(33:14):
you're rich, it doesn't make you happy or whatever it is.
Fame doesn't, isn't isn't the end all? And I realized
that it was just I loved I love acting. I
loved acting. I loved my career. But I didn't take
myself seriously inside of it. I don't take myself seriously.
(33:35):
I love living life. I love living a healthy and
vibrant life and a creative life. But I don't take
myself seriously in that, Like, I don't think I'm the
best in the world of anything.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Yeah, but I would say, you know it just Maril,
I would just say It's so easy to get seduced though,
when everybody is giving you everything you want. You can
get into anything, You can get anything you want. I mean,
you know, but when ye at the top of the
game and you yet it seems weren't seduced by.
Speaker 11 (34:03):
That, well, thank you. I mean I kind of saw
it as funny. I mean I thought, I mean, when
I'm on a set, I always know that everybody's kind
of excuse me, kissing your ass because they just want
to go home to their families. Now it's not that
they dislike you, but it's not like, oh, everybody really
(34:25):
cares about you. They want you to do a good
job so that they can go home and have their
normal life with their families, and you know what I mean,
and they get home at a normal time.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
That's a great way to look at it.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
That's such a mature way to look at it though,
and so funny that you would have that view even
as a younger person.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
All right, we've got to wrap up.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
But Mariel Hemingway excited about your outcomes the Sun, which
is the podcast, and also Stratosphere ATC which is this
cutting edge wellness technology right in the Palisades and so
if anybody is interested in more and then I'll look
forward to your your limited series and what is the
timetable on that?
Speaker 4 (35:04):
When does it come out?
Speaker 11 (35:07):
You know?
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, Well we'll have you, We will
have you back when there's when it's when it's ready
for primetime until then comes the sun.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Love talking to you. Mariel Hemingway. Thanks so much for
being with us. Great stuff. Yeah, she's so well adjusted
for somebody who was, you know, grown up in the
belly of the beast that way. But next hour we'll
talk politics with Alex Michaelson. It's KFI AM six forty
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
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