August 12, 2025 • 33 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A very special conversation with Stefan “Foosh” Cabezas’s Mother Barbara, who joins the program live from Hawthorne General Hospital recounting her experience as both a Mother and an RN dealing with Stefan’s horrific auto accident (gofundme.com/f/foosh)…PLUS – A look at the end of AOL dialup - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
KFIM six forty. It's later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
We're live everywhere on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app.
And I got to tell you it was a heavy
weekend for me. You know, by now, Stephan Cabezas is
still in the hospital, he's still recuperating. And for this
show and obviously the Tim Conway Junior Show, it weighed
(00:46):
heavy on all of us because not only was there
the uncertainty of where Stephan was in his recovery, but
also what the future would look like. And I'm here
to tell you I love Stephan with all my heart.
I know Mark, does I know Twala? Does I know
(01:06):
Tony who's sitting in for Stephan. Does I know Daniel,
our video technical director, does I know Carnacia does? But
there is one person who loves him more than all
of us combined, because only a mother understands their child
better than anyone else. So I want to bring on
(01:27):
the show right now, Barbara, Stepan's mother. Barbara, how are
you this evening?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
You know, I'm very, very grateful for everything and how
it happened, because the alternative would have been very, you know,
much more to bear. But he you know, we're hanging
in there, and all your wonderful listeners, as wonderful coworkers
and the staff and everyone has been so so kind
and so supportive, and that's really helped him. He's going
(01:55):
through quite a bit right now, but I tell him everything,
all the things you do, and he doesn't have his
phone and burns in the car, but he's you know,
he wants to tell everybody thank you and how much
he appreciates it. And it really makes a big, big difference,
especially for a mother, for me and seeing him and
so much game and you know, three surgeries within the
last since Thursdays. It's a lot, but he's you know,
(02:17):
he's hanging in there. He's really a tough guy.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
We're all finding out about this at different points. Some
found out Thursday night, some Friday morning, some Friday evening
when I was on the radio, for example, you when
did you find out that either your son was missing
and unaccounted for or something was wrong.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Well, I didn't know anything was wrong in the morning.
We always text and talk and so the morning was fine.
So around nine o'clock in the evening, his father, you know,
was always in touch with them. He says, Hey, he's
not responding and when I tell him something, he'll respond, Okay,
I'll be there later tomorrow whatever. And he called, he
texts me and he said, hey, I can't hear. And
(02:59):
then I text him and he normally response to me.
So around ninet thirty, we're finding out that something is wrong.
But I had no idea. He didn't even go to
work until Sharon called me about ten minutes later and said, hey,
he didn't show up for work. Then all, you know,
hell broke loose because I didn't know where he was
or what happened. And I called every of course, you know,
(03:19):
I'm a nurse, so I worked in the ear for
twenty years. I called all the police departments, all the hospitals,
and they didn't have anything. So we had to you know,
work with with a Hawthorn PD. And they came and
took a while, and then they said that he was
here at Harvard General. But I didn't know anything else.
That's the first we found out. And then when we
got here at ten, they said that all they had
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was a John Doe. They didn't even have his name.
They had a John Doe. And you know, of course,
we don't know what's happening, and we had to wait
three hours until we were able to see him in ICU,
and he was intubated. You know, he couldn't talk, he
was you know, his arm was severely injured and the
other other injuries as well. But that's the first that
we I got to see my eyes on him, and
I just thank god when.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
You laid eyes on him. I'm quite sure you laid
eyes on him. As a nurse and also as a mother.
What was the first thing that came to mind?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Well for me as a nurse, Oh, he's intubated. What happened?
How severe are his injuries? You know, he armed, they
had a punctured I think lungs. There's our factured ones,
not lungs, factured ribs. And they couldn't tell too much
and the CT was okay, So that's what I was thinking.
I was like anology looking at him. But but what
(04:32):
I noticed is that, yeah, he was a little groggy,
but his eyes because he went to surgery right when
he got here, because the arm injury was so severe
that he went straight to surgery. Yea, we didn't even
know when he This must have happened about two thirty
or three in the afternoon, so that's what he was
brought here, and then he went straight to surgery.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Okay, so the time we got yeah, so you saw
him after his first surgery. I just went at the
timeline straight.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah, yeah, after he came.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Out of surgery. How soon did he come out of it?
While he was in recovery? Were you able to speak
with him soon? What was your first assessment of him?
Would you got to actually speak with him?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Yeah, well it was a while because he was still
he was an ICU intubated, so you know, he really
couldn't respond, couldn't talk, and I didn't want to get
him more upset, you know, with because that machine breathes
for you. So I just kind of reassured him we
were there. His father got there and at the same time,
and we were both you know, with him, and I
could see with his eyes that he saw us, like
he could recognize us. So that was a good sign
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for me, and I thought, okay, that's good, and then
we left because he was He's pretty groggy at that point,
so I wanted him so the next morning we couldn't
stay in nice use. The next morning we came as
soon as we could.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I know, that's your assessment. I'm sorry, go ahead, that's okay, No,
go ahead, I.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Know that's your assessment on him from a clinical standpoint
is being a nurse?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Now, tell me about you as a mother looking at
your son.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Oh, I was the emotion of it and him, you know,
the worst thing is not knowing where he was all
afternoon and that he had this trauma and thinking that
you know, it was beyond you know, repair, that he
was so injured that it was just a whole lot.
And then the emotional strain of it. I just, you know,
(06:23):
I did cry the whole time, but in front of him,
I try to be strong. But yeah, as a mother,
you're just, you know, falling apart. I mean, what can
you do. It's just the most horrific thing to see
your son there like that.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
How did you go about informing other family members, friends,
because the word was trickling out. I know you spoke
with Sharon Bellio, She's been the point person for all
of his co workers here at KFI.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
How did you go about talking to people?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I texted people and they would call me, and you know,
all of my friends and tell me and I let
them know, and a lot of people that were not
really in contact with, but you know, very freely, they
would contact me and I would let me.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Know when you saw it or did you see it
on kt LA? And did that give you a six?
What did you think when you saw that it became
something bigger than the moment?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Oh yes, I mean I talked to Rick chmber Is
not knowing you know what it would do, and oh
my god, it just it was so heartwarming and so
I just can't even express it. You know, it was
it was, it was and my son I showed it
to him because I recorded on my phone. I was here,
so I recorded it on my phone and I showed
it to him later when I could, you know, was
(07:35):
in visitor that I was open, and he was just
so so overwhelmed. He really is overwhelmed with all this.
He goes, I just didn't know, you know, so many
people that don't even know me, they care, you know,
it was just overwhelming overwhelming for me to absolutely.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
He put out a message. Thanks to Tiffany Hobbs, who
saw him and recorded the message talking, we got to
hear Stephan's voice. He seemed like himself, but in his
quiet moments between you and him and I'm I'm going
to go there with you.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
How is he doing emotionally?
Speaker 4 (08:09):
You know, I think right now it hasn't really set in.
I mean, he knows and seen and he's dealt with it,
but it's it's going to be. It's a tough roade,
and I don't he gets, like, you know, very worried.
He was very worried about how you know, he initially
he thought he's going to be working, going back to
work next week. You know, That's how his first thoughts were.
(08:31):
And you know, we slowly explained it to him that
this is more severe. So yeah, he's very I don't know,
cautiously optimistic, but we'll see how it goes. And I
hope he has his handed that he's left handed, and
it's a lot of severe, severe damage.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
If you're just tuning, I'm speaking with Barbara, Stephen's mother,
who's also an our end, who can also give us
all sorts of real insight as to Stephan's condition, his injuries,
and also the road ahead. Barbara, Can I get you
to hold on because I would love to continue this
conversation with you. Sure, it's later With mo Kelly kfi
Am six forty We're talking about Stephan Covesis and getting
(09:11):
an update on his health status. We're live everywhere on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook,
and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI Am six forty with Mo.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Kelly on k six We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app,
and we're live on social media for our video simulcast.
And if you're just tuning in, I'm speaking with Barbara,
who is the mother of Stepan, who you know as
part of Later with Mo Kelly and also the Tim
(09:45):
Conway Junior Show, who was horribly injured in a tragic
accident on Thursday. He's been in a hospital since. And
Barbara has told us that Stephan had his third surgery today.
And Barbara, I want to pick up right there. What
can you tell us that you feel comfortable sharing with
us as far as his latest surgery.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
It's it's in a way, it's a wait and see
because there's so much inflammation and damage that they're just
cleaning the area out because he scraped his arm, you
know around the I mean on the what do you
call that the divider or the pavement and all that
dirt went in there, so cleaning a lot and constantly uh,
you know, checking to see so right now there's really
(10:27):
no extensive like repairs that are being done, but that's
basically and then maybe putting a synthetic skin on there
since he has you know, no skin, so they're going
to do that. And right now he's still not at
a surgery. He went in surgery about three point thirty
today and I'm still waiting to see him after surgery.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Do you think that you'll have a chance to talk
to him or will he be just out for the
most part.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
I'll see. The last time he was in quite a
bit of pain, so you know, he wouldn't have been
able to talk. But I don't know you know this
time how it will be, how extensive. They did do
a little bit more of pain management, so I'm hoping
that that will help this time.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I know that you've been busy, so you may not
have been listening to kffive with Tim Comway. Junior had
the opportunity to talk with two of the individuals who
are responsible for saving your son. Have you had any
contact with any of those people?
Speaker 4 (11:20):
No, I have not, But the honey, how things work.
When I took him into surgery. I walked down to
the car to kind of spend in the car and
drink some water and kind of sit for a bit,
and I had his show on and I heard it
and it was very I'm very grateful. It's very emotional because,
you know, I thank them so much that they were
(11:41):
there and they helped him, because from what he told
me is when they were pulling him out of the car,
they sat him, you know, on the pavement, and I
guess the gentleman's wife was where was a medical person
that you think an ultra technician, And he said, he
goes mom. She was like you, she was so worried
about me. And I really think comes from the bottom
of my heart because they didn't have to stop, you know,
(12:04):
and he didn't think that the car was gonna, you know,
catch fire like that. But when they sat him down,
it was pretty close, you know, adjacent to the car.
And then I don't know if it was him, because
I think there were two gentlemen there. One gentleman said, hey,
let's move because I think this car is going to blow,
and so they moved him and as soon as they
barely start moving away from the car, it just went
(12:26):
up in flames.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
What were your thoughts the first time you saw the
video of your son's car burning.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
I almost painted because at that point when I first
saw it, I don't remember exactly the time because everything is,
you know, going all together. I remember the time, but
I really didn't know that much about what was going
on with him yet when when they sent that video
and it shocked me. It really did, because I was
(12:57):
so frightened to see what happen, you know, with any
head injuries, any you know, because he said the car
rolled over. So yeah, I was very, very, very traumatizing.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Let me back up one bit.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I was mentioning the individuals who were helping save your son.
I know that either Sharon Bellio, she's probably listening right now.
Is it all right if we put you in touch
with them so you can connect with them.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Yes, absolutely, I really would like to thank them.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Has has it emotionally settled for you? Are you at
a place where you feel comfortable that your son is
in a good place or are you still very concerned
at least in the near term, what is confronting him?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I'm concerned. Well, I think he's stable somewhat, you know, stable,
so that gives me a little bit of comfort that,
you know, I don't do. The future is still very
we don't know. I mean, it's a clier damage. We
don't know. But as far as his you know, his emotions,
(14:05):
he's he's he's trying to see everything the best way
he can. That's his personality. He's always been like that.
So he's trying to be like, well, we'll just handle
this today and you know, see what what happens right now,
and and he's taking it, you know, very well, and
I'm trying to be there with him. I am concerned
in the future because of how he will be able
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to use his hand because the muscles and the you know,
many fractures. They haven't repaired the fractors, but muscle and
tended damage. So I don't know what the with the future.
So I'm kind of unsure about that. But I'm trying
to really be positive and you know, think that way.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I know it's probably too early to know at this point,
but if I could get you to put your nerse
hat back on for a moment, looking at his chart,
as they say, if you were to guesstimate how long
he would stand to be in the hospital, at this point,
would you be able to quantify.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
No, because it's I don't know there, like right now
their plan is cleaning. I don't know how many surgeries,
and they can't really tell me that, and I don't
I'm not especially in this kind of it's an unusual
and very critical injury. So even even the surgeons that
I speak to, they're kind of, you know, we're taking
it because it's going to be like phase by face,
(15:25):
you know, face by phase, and right now I'm waiting
for the swelling to go down and the damage to
go down. I know that after the first surgery his
pain was so severe because he felt that the bandage
was verly, like really tight, and then that's why they
said there's so much inflammation. So for me, even as
a nurse, it's severe, very hard to see what, you know,
what will happen next. I mean, this is like a
(15:47):
third one and and it's it's still relatively you know,
still injured.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
You know, I don't know if you had a chance
to see some of the social media reactions, We've posted
the video from Stefan that he records from his hospital bed,
and it gave people KFI listeners. The opportunity to tell
him how much we love them. KFI listeners have raised
more than ninety seven thousand dollars at this moment.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Oh, that was It's just so it's the overwhelming love
and the consideration for him. It just it just astounds me.
I really did. I wanted to thank all of them,
and he really also wanted to show appreciation of the
caring and he goes, they don't know some of them
don't know me, and they're still, you know, caring about me.
(16:35):
And he was very very I mean he was that
Really it was overwhelming. I can't even I don't even
have words to express that.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
How about this. We love you, We love your son.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
We thank you for coming on tonight because this is
not obviously you're not your priority, but we appreciate you
giving us just a little bit of your time while
you're at the hospital.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
We can hear the noise in the background. Yeah, I'm sorry, No, no, no,
there's nothing apologizing.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I mean, that's where we would want you to be
for your son. But thank you for just giving us
a little bit of your time.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
And yes, and thank you, and thank the whole iHeart
team and the beautiful, wonderful caring, loving, Oh these listeners,
I just love you very very much. You've made my
son a little you know, made him smile with everything
that he's going through. I really love you and thank
you all very very very much from my heart. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Thank you for opening up your family to us, and
we'll be in touch and any information that you feel
comfortable sharing will be more than happy to receive.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Okay, thank you, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Barbara, have a great eving.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Thank you. Bye.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
It's Later with mo Kelly k if I AM six forty.
We're live everywhere at the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 1 (18:02):
Kayf I, mister mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Later with Mo Kelly were live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook,
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Speaker 1 (18:10):
And that conversation is one. This is not scripted.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I was just speaking with Stefan's mom, Barbara, who's a
registered nurse. I'm just asking questions off the top of
my head, what I think you would want to know,
what I would want to know because I'm asking about
my friend. I'm not having a typical interview with a
guest about their book or their TV show.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Of their movie.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I'm a really interested, invested interest party in the conversation,
It's like, how's my friend doing?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
How is your son doing?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
And I know that was not an easy conversation for her, okay,
and I appreciate if you're still listening, Barbara, thank you
for coming on this show. Taala, What did you think
is you were just listening to the conversation.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
It's interesting how close the sentiments she expressed are even
some of the sentiments that my own mother express when
she was listening on Friday's show, and how much the
conversation on Friday touched her and how much we poured
into foos it was this. No, it's nothing short of amazing.
(19:15):
The dedication that you all have to your family and
your KFI family especially, and what you all did. And
I heard that in Barbara and her talking about what
KFI rit large has done for her family, for her son,
how much KFI means to the Foosh And I think
(19:35):
that that is what made it so easy for her
to at least come on and let us all know
from her perspective what went down, how he's doing, what
lies ahead hearing it from his mother, the person like
you said, loves him more than any of us combine,
and I could I could hear I could hear it
(19:57):
in her voice. As the conversation was going on. I
was like, Oh, she's gonna break oh, because this is
painful for her.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Yeah, I didn't know t well.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
You and I always talk off there about you never
know who's listening, and Friday, when I'm talking about Steffan
from a very personal perspective and a professional perspective, I
didn't know his mother was listening the whole time. Yeah,
I'm thinking she's doing the hospital thing, and she was
(20:26):
be mindful of her son, but not listening to the station.
She was listening, And it was it was touching. It
was heartwarming, but it was it was It almost scared
me a little bit because I wasn't ready for that.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
You know.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
It just seemed like, Gosh, I'm talking to his mother
from a distance during a very precarious moment in her
son's life.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, you just never know who's listening.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
Yeah, And I think we would be remiss if we
did not once again reiterate how much the support is
going towards making sure that Foosh is okay in the
long term, making sure that Foosh has time to recuperate,
time to heal because hearing the depth of what happened
(21:17):
with his arm, and I'm just like ooh, like, I'm
almost squeamish back there, like listening. We know that this
is that he has a long road ahead of him,
and I know that the GoFundMe is just shy of
ninety seventy three. I hope and I pray that the
giving does not stop and that in listening to Barbara
(21:40):
Spriet that tonight we can take this GoFundMe to its
goal of one hundred and ten thousand.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah, and the money is secondary, of course, We're We're
not trying to make it the most important thing, but
it's important in the grand scheme of things. Talking to
Barbara hearing from if you're listening earlier Tim Comwey Junior
show to two of the gentlemen who were responsible for
saving his life. There was so much which went into
(22:08):
that saving his life, and now there's so much more
in front of him. The GoFundMe is very important, Let's
just be very honest. It is very important because if
you were listening to either of the conversations, you get
a sense of the severity of his injuries and how
long before he would get back to some degree of normality.
(22:30):
And I forgot he's a lefty, she.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Reminded me in the middle.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
I'm like, oh, no, Foosh and Mow are lefties.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
I know.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
He said that he.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Has that he's able to use his right hand, like say,
when pitching or doing some things, but naturally he's a
left hander.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
And I'm like, oh, I try to tell people all
the time, try to use your off hand for everything
for one day, and you will see how not ambidextrious
you are. You know, from brushing your teeth, combing your hair,
holding a glass of water, to anything that you have
(23:12):
to do with your body.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
It's not something that should be just overlooked.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
But I was more encouraged that she, Barbara was able
to give us a more clinical understanding of what he's
dealing with and also had time to be emotional in
a mother as well, and she was able to change
go back and forth between those hats, And I was
pleased because it gave us a better sense of what's
(23:41):
going on. It gave us a truer sense of his injuries,
what the future looks like, and also the types of
treatment that he's receiving. I think all of us now
have a better understanding of what these surgeries are for,
how they're going to venture reconstruct portions of his arm.
(24:01):
They're going through a cleaning process right now. It's something
I didn't think about, you know, And and how it's
going to be surgery to surgery. It's not understood that
this is the last one or the next to the
last one.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
It's it's as they go.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
No.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
I can imagine the swelling alone being able to do
what you can, but you don't want to go into TV.
Don't want to damage tissue unnecessarily. You don't want to
basically go poking around until the swelling goes down and
you can actually see what it is that you are
working with. Yeah, I'm like hearing of it from that perspective,
I'm like, Wow.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I happen to be a person of faith and I'm
not proselytizing, but I view things through a different lens.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I do believe in providence.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
I do believe that the people who saved this life
were put there for that specific purpose. I do believe
that Stephan's mother being a nurse in this situation is
intentional in this sense, of it is going to help him,
and I think all these things were together for good.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Amen, it's later with mo Kelly. When we come back,
We're gonna lighten it up and change directions. And I'm
only going to be speaking to the older folk like
Mark Runner when we come back, because I know Mark
Runner is old enough to remember AOL dial up.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I'm not. I'm just a babe. I don't remember it.
You didn't have You've got Merri No, No, that was
my mother.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Oh wow, I think she still has aol Tony And
for Stefan, did you have AOL dial up at any time?
Speaker 7 (25:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I had Prodigy before that. Oh oh, but the ninety
six BOD modim.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
My first Internet provider was Earthlink, yes, and I used
the Netscape browser, but there.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Was no browsers back then. What I was doing Prodigy stuff?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Oh no, I know when I was a teenager, Yes,
I was doing the BBS, the bulletin board system with
the I think it was like a thirty six hundred modem.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Uh, Mark, what about you your earliest memories of the Internet,
So you can.
Speaker 7 (26:02):
Leave me out of this and go back and make
a phone call on one of your old Candlestick phones.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Do you think I'm gonna take part in this? Yes, yes,
because you're older than all of us. You're older than
all of us, and I look younger than all of you.
That's not what cameras do. Mark, No, cameras don't make
you look younger?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Is that what they do? We will debate this more
on the other side.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
We're live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app.
And when I say we're live on YouTube and we
get to see the show, the video simulcast. Boy, we've
come a long way from AOL dial up. Let me
tell you.
Speaker 8 (26:55):
It's a moment of silence for the sound so familiar
to some of us. Listen, well, right, that's a blast
from the path, at least a blast from my past.
AOL says it is shutting down it's dial up internet
service after more than forty years. CNBC senior retail reporter
Courtney Reagan joins me, Now, wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Forty years. No, can't be forty years. What do you
have to be nineteen eighty five?
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Nah?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
We didn't have the Internet back in eighty five, not
AOL dial up. We had bulletin board, says I was
in in high school at that point.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
That's a blast from the past, at least a blast
from my past. AOL says it is shutting down it's
dial up internet service after more than forty years.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
That's got to be a typo. Gotta be.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
I'm saying, you know, because Al Gore didn't invent the
Internet in eighty five. Don't laugh at my joke, Tony,
and not give me a rim shot. I know you
filling in for Stephan, Okay, but you don't have to
act like Stefan and be stingy with the rib shots.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Yeah, I think the first time I got any type
of dial up Internet it was after college, because in
college the Internet did not exist. And I I'm thinking
like maybe ninety three, ninety four. Do you remember your
first email address that you ever had, Tony.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Would have been with AO, would have been my dad
with AOL, which would have been in ninety two.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Okay, I want to say I had AOL Messenger that
was like the first Internet club.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Oh god, oh those hangouts or something else. Yes, I
remember yeah, that was.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
I wonder if my AOL messenger loggin still works or
my handle still works. My first my first email address
was shaft underscore q at earthlink dot net. Don't ask
me why I remember that, Mark, don't choose sniggle at me.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Of course it was shaft moh, of course I remember
that I went through with to get an email address.
I'll never forget. Do you remember your first one, Mark?
By chance? I really don't.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
And I know I had an email account my first
newspaper job, which of course I abused. Uh, And I
didn't have any of that stuff at home, So you know,
you gotta be careful what you look at it.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Yeah, but I mean, we've come so far as far
as how we use the Internet for everything, for everything,
it be it business, be it a personal And to
think that it used to be dial up modem on
a landline on a landline, and it would tie up
the line. If you were on that line with a
(29:47):
dial up, no one could call you. You couldn't call out.
I had I remember, had to disable call waiting all
that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
It was. It was such a simpler time, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Spiderwebs that song was literally you know it's about you
can't get through uh Mark.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Do you remember the first provider you had?
Speaker 7 (30:08):
No, I really don't, because, like I said, I just
used the stuff at work. I didn't have any of
that stuff at home. I went through a period of
time where I didn't have cable or TV or anything
at home. I just I consigned, I compartmentalized all that
stuff at work. So it was quite some time before
I got any personal accounts. Carnacia, you're a lot younger
(30:28):
than all of us. What is your earliest memory of
the Internet and do you remember what your first ISP
internet service provider was.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I remember us having bail South Bell South. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I did have AT and T Yeah, for for quite
some time, and they were horrible.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
It was just absolutely horrible. AT and T them To
digress for a second. AT and T used to make
you bundle. You could have internet, but you had to
pay for the landline package. And I said, I just
want the Internet. I don't. I don't.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
At that point, I started using mostly my cell phone
and wasn't a smartphone. It's a cell phone back then,
and I didn't need I had a landline, but all
it was doing was serving as a place to collect
messages on my physical answering machine, and I didn't really
need it anymore because I wasn't really talking to people
(31:22):
on my landline anymore. So I called AT and T
one day. I said, look, I just want the Internet.
And this is before they had this internet only plan
and buddle. I think it's all because of me when
I left them. I think they changed their whole corporate
strategy because of me.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
Well, they weren't gonna turn down somebody with shaft in
their username, were they.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
I knew I shouldn't have said that to me. I
knew you were going to bring that up.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
If Shaft underscore Q at earthlink dot net shaft Q,
you know, I think I should just send an email
to see if it bounces back.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Yeah. Did you ever use the Netscape browser at any point? Probably?
Speaker 2 (31:55):
I know, I can't remember, because if you don't know, Carnie,
you may not know. It used to be where we
had a physical phone book of all these Internet addresses.
It was like the like the Internet yellow Pages. This
was pre search engines. There was no Yahoo, there was
no Licos, there was no Alta Vista, There's no Google.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
There was just the Internet phone book. I forget Jeeves.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Jeeves ask Jeeves, Oh my goodness, yes, yes, so crawler,
there was a time crawler. Yeah, so AOL dial up
is going away on September thirtieth, and according to CBS News,
about one hundred and sixty three thousand households had dial
up as of twenty twenty three. I assume that's even
(32:42):
fewer now some two years later.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
Probably old people, and they used to send you the
discs d email over and over again, and people would
make projects out of the disk arts.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
They would make art out of them. Yea, you could.
You could make a cabin out of them if they
send you enough.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
I guess for like updates as far as software and
security or something like that.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Internet security also frisbees. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
I never personally had AOL dial up. My mother did.
She probably still does at this point for all I know.
But I never paid for ale. Think it was like
nineteen ninety nine or something like that, a month I
can't remember, but you know, but people actually bought it.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
It's a sad day in internet history. No it isn't,
Thank God. It's a letter with mo Kelly k if.
I am six forty. We live everywhere in near Heart
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Speaker 5 (33:31):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
We're live everywhere on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app.
And I got to tell you it was a heavy
weekend for me. You know, by now, Stephan Cabezas is
still in the hospital, he's still recuperating. And for this
show and obviously the Tim Conway Junior Show, it weighed
(00:46):
heavy on all of us because not only was there
the uncertainty of where Stephan was in his recovery, but
also what the future would look like. And I'm here
to tell you I love Stephan with all my heart.
I know Mark, does I know Twala? Does I know
(01:06):
Tony who's sitting in for Stephan. Does I know Daniel,
our video technical director, does I know Carnacia does? But
there is one person who loves him more than all
of us combined, because only a mother understands their child
better than anyone else. So I want to bring on
(01:27):
the show right now, Barbara, Stepan's mother. Barbara, how are
you this evening?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
You know, I'm very, very grateful for everything and how
it happened, because the alternative would have been very, you know,
much more to bear. But he you know, we're hanging
in there, and all your wonderful listeners, as wonderful coworkers
and the staff and everyone has been so so kind
and so supportive, and that's really helped him. He's going
(01:55):
through quite a bit right now, but I tell him everything,
all the things you do, and he doesn't have his
phone and burns in the car, but he's you know,
he wants to tell everybody thank you and how much
he appreciates it. And it really makes a big, big difference,
especially for a mother, for me and seeing him and
so much game and you know, three surgeries within the
last since Thursdays. It's a lot, but he's you know,
(02:17):
he's hanging in there. He's really a tough guy.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
We're all finding out about this at different points. Some
found out Thursday night, some Friday morning, some Friday evening
when I was on the radio, for example, you when
did you find out that either your son was missing
and unaccounted for or something was wrong.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Well, I didn't know anything was wrong in the morning.
We always text and talk and so the morning was fine.
So around nine o'clock in the evening, his father, you know,
was always in touch with them. He says, Hey, he's
not responding and when I tell him something, he'll respond, Okay,
I'll be there later tomorrow whatever. And he called, he
texts me and he said, hey, I can't hear. And
(02:59):
then I text him and he normally response to me.
So around ninet thirty, we're finding out that something is wrong.
But I had no idea. He didn't even go to
work until Sharon called me about ten minutes later and said, hey,
he didn't show up for work. Then all, you know,
hell broke loose because I didn't know where he was
or what happened. And I called every of course, you know,
(03:19):
I'm a nurse, so I worked in the ear for
twenty years. I called all the police departments, all the hospitals,
and they didn't have anything. So we had to you know,
work with with a Hawthorn PD. And they came and
took a while, and then they said that he was
here at Harvard General. But I didn't know anything else.
That's the first we found out. And then when we
got here at ten, they said that all they had
(03:40):
was a John Doe. They didn't even have his name.
They had a John Doe. And you know, of course,
we don't know what's happening, and we had to wait
three hours until we were able to see him in ICU,
and he was intubated. You know, he couldn't talk, he
was you know, his arm was severely injured and the
other other injuries as well. But that's the first that
we I got to see my eyes on him, and
I just thank god when.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
You laid eyes on him. I'm quite sure you laid
eyes on him. As a nurse and also as a mother.
What was the first thing that came to mind?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Well for me as a nurse, Oh, he's intubated. What happened?
How severe are his injuries? You know, he armed, they
had a punctured I think lungs. There's our factured ones,
not lungs, factured ribs. And they couldn't tell too much
and the CT was okay, So that's what I was thinking.
I was like anology looking at him. But but what
(04:32):
I noticed is that, yeah, he was a little groggy,
but his eyes because he went to surgery right when
he got here, because the arm injury was so severe
that he went straight to surgery. Yea, we didn't even
know when he This must have happened about two thirty
or three in the afternoon, so that's what he was
brought here, and then he went straight to surgery.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Okay, so the time we got yeah, so you saw
him after his first surgery. I just went at the
timeline straight.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah, yeah, after he came.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Out of surgery. How soon did he come out of it?
While he was in recovery? Were you able to speak
with him soon? What was your first assessment of him?
Would you got to actually speak with him?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Yeah, well it was a while because he was still
he was an ICU intubated, so you know, he really
couldn't respond, couldn't talk, and I didn't want to get
him more upset, you know, with because that machine breathes
for you. So I just kind of reassured him we
were there. His father got there and at the same time,
and we were both you know, with him, and I
could see with his eyes that he saw us, like
he could recognize us. So that was a good sign
(05:36):
for me, and I thought, okay, that's good, and then
we left because he was He's pretty groggy at that point,
so I wanted him so the next morning we couldn't
stay in nice use. The next morning we came as
soon as we could.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I know, that's your assessment. I'm sorry, go ahead, that's okay, No,
go ahead, I.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Know that's your assessment on him from a clinical standpoint
is being a nurse?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Now, tell me about you as a mother looking at
your son.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Oh, I was the emotion of it and him, you know,
the worst thing is not knowing where he was all
afternoon and that he had this trauma and thinking that
you know, it was beyond you know, repair, that he
was so injured that it was just a whole lot.
And then the emotional strain of it. I just, you know,
(06:23):
I did cry the whole time, but in front of him,
I try to be strong. But yeah, as a mother,
you're just, you know, falling apart. I mean, what can
you do. It's just the most horrific thing to see
your son there like that.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
How did you go about informing other family members, friends,
because the word was trickling out. I know you spoke
with Sharon Bellio, She's been the point person for all
of his co workers here at KFI.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
How did you go about talking to people?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I texted people and they would call me, and you know,
all of my friends and tell me and I let
them know, and a lot of people that were not
really in contact with, but you know, very freely, they
would contact me and I would let me.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Know when you saw it or did you see it
on kt LA? And did that give you a six?
What did you think when you saw that it became
something bigger than the moment?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Oh yes, I mean I talked to Rick chmber Is
not knowing you know what it would do, and oh
my god, it just it was so heartwarming and so
I just can't even express it. You know, it was
it was, it was and my son I showed it
to him because I recorded on my phone. I was here,
so I recorded it on my phone and I showed
it to him later when I could, you know, was
(07:35):
in visitor that I was open, and he was just
so so overwhelmed. He really is overwhelmed with all this.
He goes, I just didn't know, you know, so many
people that don't even know me, they care, you know,
it was just overwhelming overwhelming for me to absolutely.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
He put out a message. Thanks to Tiffany Hobbs, who
saw him and recorded the message talking, we got to
hear Stephan's voice. He seemed like himself, but in his
quiet moments between you and him and I'm I'm going
to go there with you.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
How is he doing emotionally?
Speaker 4 (08:09):
You know, I think right now it hasn't really set in.
I mean, he knows and seen and he's dealt with it,
but it's it's going to be. It's a tough roade,
and I don't he gets, like, you know, very worried.
He was very worried about how you know, he initially
he thought he's going to be working, going back to
work next week. You know, That's how his first thoughts were.
(08:31):
And you know, we slowly explained it to him that
this is more severe. So yeah, he's very I don't know,
cautiously optimistic, but we'll see how it goes. And I
hope he has his handed that he's left handed, and
it's a lot of severe, severe damage.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
If you're just tuning, I'm speaking with Barbara, Stephen's mother,
who's also an our end, who can also give us
all sorts of real insight as to Stephan's condition, his injuries,
and also the road ahead. Barbara, Can I get you
to hold on because I would love to continue this
conversation with you. Sure, it's later With mo Kelly kfi
Am six forty We're talking about Stephan Covesis and getting
(09:11):
an update on his health status. We're live everywhere on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook,
and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI Am six forty with Mo.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Kelly on k six We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app,
and we're live on social media for our video simulcast.
And if you're just tuning in, I'm speaking with Barbara,
who is the mother of Stepan, who you know as
part of Later with Mo Kelly and also the Tim
(09:45):
Conway Junior Show, who was horribly injured in a tragic
accident on Thursday. He's been in a hospital since. And
Barbara has told us that Stephan had his third surgery today.
And Barbara, I want to pick up right there. What
can you tell us that you feel comfortable sharing with
us as far as his latest surgery.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
It's it's in a way, it's a wait and see
because there's so much inflammation and damage that they're just
cleaning the area out because he scraped his arm, you
know around the I mean on the what do you
call that the divider or the pavement and all that
dirt went in there, so cleaning a lot and constantly uh,
you know, checking to see so right now there's really
(10:27):
no extensive like repairs that are being done, but that's
basically and then maybe putting a synthetic skin on there
since he has you know, no skin, so they're going
to do that. And right now he's still not at
a surgery. He went in surgery about three point thirty
today and I'm still waiting to see him after surgery.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Do you think that you'll have a chance to talk
to him or will he be just out for the
most part.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
I'll see. The last time he was in quite a
bit of pain, so you know, he wouldn't have been
able to talk. But I don't know you know this
time how it will be, how extensive. They did do
a little bit more of pain management, so I'm hoping
that that will help this time.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I know that you've been busy, so you may not
have been listening to kffive with Tim Comway. Junior had
the opportunity to talk with two of the individuals who
are responsible for saving your son. Have you had any
contact with any of those people?
Speaker 4 (11:20):
No, I have not, But the honey, how things work.
When I took him into surgery. I walked down to
the car to kind of spend in the car and
drink some water and kind of sit for a bit,
and I had his show on and I heard it
and it was very I'm very grateful. It's very emotional because,
you know, I thank them so much that they were
(11:41):
there and they helped him, because from what he told
me is when they were pulling him out of the car,
they sat him, you know, on the pavement, and I
guess the gentleman's wife was where was a medical person
that you think an ultra technician, And he said, he
goes mom. She was like you, she was so worried
about me. And I really think comes from the bottom
of my heart because they didn't have to stop, you know,
(12:04):
and he didn't think that the car was gonna, you know,
catch fire like that. But when they sat him down,
it was pretty close, you know, adjacent to the car.
And then I don't know if it was him, because
I think there were two gentlemen there. One gentleman said, hey,
let's move because I think this car is going to blow,
and so they moved him and as soon as they
barely start moving away from the car, it just went
(12:26):
up in flames.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
What were your thoughts the first time you saw the
video of your son's car burning.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
I almost painted because at that point when I first
saw it, I don't remember exactly the time because everything is,
you know, going all together. I remember the time, but
I really didn't know that much about what was going
on with him yet when when they sent that video
and it shocked me. It really did, because I was
(12:57):
so frightened to see what happen, you know, with any
head injuries, any you know, because he said the car
rolled over. So yeah, I was very, very, very traumatizing.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Let me back up one bit.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I was mentioning the individuals who were helping save your son.
I know that either Sharon Bellio, she's probably listening right now.
Is it all right if we put you in touch
with them so you can connect with them.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Yes, absolutely, I really would like to thank them.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Has has it emotionally settled for you? Are you at
a place where you feel comfortable that your son is
in a good place or are you still very concerned
at least in the near term, what is confronting him?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I'm concerned. Well, I think he's stable somewhat, you know, stable,
so that gives me a little bit of comfort that,
you know, I don't do. The future is still very
we don't know. I mean, it's a clier damage. We
don't know. But as far as his you know, his emotions,
(14:05):
he's he's he's trying to see everything the best way
he can. That's his personality. He's always been like that.
So he's trying to be like, well, we'll just handle
this today and you know, see what what happens right now,
and and he's taking it, you know, very well, and
I'm trying to be there with him. I am concerned
in the future because of how he will be able
(14:27):
to use his hand because the muscles and the you know,
many fractures. They haven't repaired the fractors, but muscle and
tended damage. So I don't know what the with the future.
So I'm kind of unsure about that. But I'm trying
to really be positive and you know, think that way.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I know it's probably too early to know at this point,
but if I could get you to put your nerse
hat back on for a moment, looking at his chart,
as they say, if you were to guesstimate how long
he would stand to be in the hospital, at this point,
would you be able to quantify.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
No, because it's I don't know there, like right now
their plan is cleaning. I don't know how many surgeries,
and they can't really tell me that, and I don't
I'm not especially in this kind of it's an unusual
and very critical injury. So even even the surgeons that
I speak to, they're kind of, you know, we're taking
it because it's going to be like phase by face,
(15:25):
you know, face by phase, and right now I'm waiting
for the swelling to go down and the damage to
go down. I know that after the first surgery his
pain was so severe because he felt that the bandage
was verly, like really tight, and then that's why they
said there's so much inflammation. So for me, even as
a nurse, it's severe, very hard to see what, you know,
what will happen next. I mean, this is like a
(15:47):
third one and and it's it's still relatively you know,
still injured.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
You know, I don't know if you had a chance
to see some of the social media reactions, We've posted
the video from Stefan that he records from his hospital bed,
and it gave people KFI listeners. The opportunity to tell
him how much we love them. KFI listeners have raised
more than ninety seven thousand dollars at this moment.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Oh, that was It's just so it's the overwhelming love
and the consideration for him. It just it just astounds me.
I really did. I wanted to thank all of them,
and he really also wanted to show appreciation of the
caring and he goes, they don't know some of them
don't know me, and they're still, you know, caring about me.
(16:35):
And he was very very I mean he was that
Really it was overwhelming. I can't even I don't even
have words to express that.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
How about this. We love you, We love your son.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
We thank you for coming on tonight because this is
not obviously you're not your priority, but we appreciate you
giving us just a little bit of your time while
you're at the hospital.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
We can hear the noise in the background. Yeah, I'm sorry, No, no, no,
there's nothing apologizing.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I mean, that's where we would want you to be
for your son. But thank you for just giving us
a little bit of your time.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
And yes, and thank you, and thank the whole iHeart
team and the beautiful, wonderful caring, loving, Oh these listeners,
I just love you very very much. You've made my
son a little you know, made him smile with everything
that he's going through. I really love you and thank
you all very very very much from my heart. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Thank you for opening up your family to us, and
we'll be in touch and any information that you feel
comfortable sharing will be more than happy to receive.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Okay, thank you, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Barbara, have a great eving.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Thank you. Bye.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
It's Later with mo Kelly k if I AM six forty.
We're live everywhere at the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 1 (18:02):
Kayf I, mister mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Later with Mo Kelly were live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook,
and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
And that conversation is one. This is not scripted.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I was just speaking with Stefan's mom, Barbara, who's a
registered nurse. I'm just asking questions off the top of
my head, what I think you would want to know,
what I would want to know because I'm asking about
my friend. I'm not having a typical interview with a
guest about their book or their TV show.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Of their movie.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I'm a really interested, invested interest party in the conversation,
It's like, how's my friend doing?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
How is your son doing?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
And I know that was not an easy conversation for her, okay,
and I appreciate if you're still listening, Barbara, thank you
for coming on this show. Taala, What did you think
is you were just listening to the conversation.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
It's interesting how close the sentiments she expressed are even
some of the sentiments that my own mother express when
she was listening on Friday's show, and how much the
conversation on Friday touched her and how much we poured
into foos it was this. No, it's nothing short of amazing.
(19:15):
The dedication that you all have to your family and
your KFI family especially, and what you all did. And
I heard that in Barbara and her talking about what
KFI rit large has done for her family, for her son,
how much KFI means to the Foosh And I think
(19:35):
that that is what made it so easy for her
to at least come on and let us all know
from her perspective what went down, how he's doing, what
lies ahead hearing it from his mother, the person like
you said, loves him more than any of us combine,
and I could I could hear I could hear it
(19:57):
in her voice. As the conversation was going on. I
was like, Oh, she's gonna break oh, because this is
painful for her.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Yeah, I didn't know t well.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
You and I always talk off there about you never
know who's listening, and Friday, when I'm talking about Steffan
from a very personal perspective and a professional perspective, I
didn't know his mother was listening the whole time. Yeah,
I'm thinking she's doing the hospital thing, and she was
(20:26):
be mindful of her son, but not listening to the station.
She was listening, And it was it was touching. It
was heartwarming, but it was it was It almost scared
me a little bit because I wasn't ready for that.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
You know.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
It just seemed like, Gosh, I'm talking to his mother
from a distance during a very precarious moment in her
son's life.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, you just never know who's listening.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
Yeah, And I think we would be remiss if we
did not once again reiterate how much the support is
going towards making sure that Foosh is okay in the
long term, making sure that Foosh has time to recuperate,
time to heal because hearing the depth of what happened
(21:17):
with his arm, and I'm just like ooh, like, I'm
almost squeamish back there, like listening. We know that this
is that he has a long road ahead of him,
and I know that the GoFundMe is just shy of
ninety seventy three. I hope and I pray that the
giving does not stop and that in listening to Barbara
(21:40):
Spriet that tonight we can take this GoFundMe to its
goal of one hundred and ten thousand.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah, and the money is secondary, of course, We're We're
not trying to make it the most important thing, but
it's important in the grand scheme of things. Talking to
Barbara hearing from if you're listening earlier Tim Comwey Junior
show to two of the gentlemen who were responsible for
saving his life. There was so much which went into
(22:08):
that saving his life, and now there's so much more
in front of him. The GoFundMe is very important, Let's
just be very honest. It is very important because if
you were listening to either of the conversations, you get
a sense of the severity of his injuries and how
long before he would get back to some degree of normality.
(22:30):
And I forgot he's a lefty, she.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Reminded me in the middle.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
I'm like, oh, no, Foosh and Mow are lefties.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
I know.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
He said that he.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Has that he's able to use his right hand, like say,
when pitching or doing some things, but naturally he's a
left hander.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
And I'm like, oh, I try to tell people all
the time, try to use your off hand for everything
for one day, and you will see how not ambidextrious
you are. You know, from brushing your teeth, combing your hair,
holding a glass of water, to anything that you have
(23:12):
to do with your body.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
It's not something that should be just overlooked.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
But I was more encouraged that she, Barbara was able
to give us a more clinical understanding of what he's
dealing with and also had time to be emotional in
a mother as well, and she was able to change
go back and forth between those hats, And I was
pleased because it gave us a better sense of what's
(23:41):
going on. It gave us a truer sense of his injuries,
what the future looks like, and also the types of
treatment that he's receiving. I think all of us now
have a better understanding of what these surgeries are for,
how they're going to venture reconstruct portions of his arm.
(24:01):
They're going through a cleaning process right now. It's something
I didn't think about, you know, And and how it's
going to be surgery to surgery. It's not understood that
this is the last one or the next to the
last one.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
It's it's as they go.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
No.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
I can imagine the swelling alone being able to do
what you can, but you don't want to go into TV.
Don't want to damage tissue unnecessarily. You don't want to
basically go poking around until the swelling goes down and
you can actually see what it is that you are
working with. Yeah, I'm like hearing of it from that perspective,
I'm like, Wow.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I happen to be a person of faith and I'm
not proselytizing, but I view things through a different lens.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I do believe in providence.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
I do believe that the people who saved this life
were put there for that specific purpose. I do believe
that Stephan's mother being a nurse in this situation is
intentional in this sense, of it is going to help him,
and I think all these things were together for good.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Amen, it's later with mo Kelly. When we come back,
We're gonna lighten it up and change directions. And I'm
only going to be speaking to the older folk like
Mark Runner when we come back, because I know Mark
Runner is old enough to remember AOL dial up.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I'm not. I'm just a babe. I don't remember it.
You didn't have You've got Merri No, No, that was
my mother.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Oh wow, I think she still has aol Tony And
for Stefan, did you have AOL dial up at any time?
Speaker 7 (25:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I had Prodigy before that. Oh oh, but the ninety
six BOD modim.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
My first Internet provider was Earthlink, yes, and I used
the Netscape browser, but there.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Was no browsers back then. What I was doing Prodigy stuff?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Oh no, I know when I was a teenager, Yes,
I was doing the BBS, the bulletin board system with
the I think it was like a thirty six hundred modem.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Uh, Mark, what about you your earliest memories of the Internet,
So you can.
Speaker 7 (26:02):
Leave me out of this and go back and make
a phone call on one of your old Candlestick phones.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Do you think I'm gonna take part in this? Yes, yes,
because you're older than all of us. You're older than
all of us, and I look younger than all of you.
That's not what cameras do. Mark, No, cameras don't make
you look younger?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Is that what they do? We will debate this more
on the other side.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
We're live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app.
And when I say we're live on YouTube and we
get to see the show, the video simulcast. Boy, we've
come a long way from AOL dial up. Let me
tell you.
Speaker 8 (26:55):
It's a moment of silence for the sound so familiar
to some of us. Listen, well, right, that's a blast
from the path, at least a blast from my past.
AOL says it is shutting down it's dial up internet
service after more than forty years. CNBC senior retail reporter
Courtney Reagan joins me, Now, wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Forty years. No, can't be forty years. What do you
have to be nineteen eighty five?
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Nah?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
We didn't have the Internet back in eighty five, not
AOL dial up. We had bulletin board, says I was
in in high school at that point.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
That's a blast from the past, at least a blast
from my past. AOL says it is shutting down it's
dial up internet service after more than forty years.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
That's got to be a typo. Gotta be.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
I'm saying, you know, because Al Gore didn't invent the
Internet in eighty five. Don't laugh at my joke, Tony,
and not give me a rim shot. I know you
filling in for Stephan, Okay, but you don't have to
act like Stefan and be stingy with the rib shots.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Yeah, I think the first time I got any type
of dial up Internet it was after college, because in
college the Internet did not exist. And I I'm thinking
like maybe ninety three, ninety four. Do you remember your
first email address that you ever had, Tony.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Would have been with AO, would have been my dad
with AOL, which would have been in ninety two.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Okay, I want to say I had AOL Messenger that
was like the first Internet club.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Oh god, oh those hangouts or something else. Yes, I
remember yeah, that was.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
I wonder if my AOL messenger loggin still works or
my handle still works. My first my first email address
was shaft underscore q at earthlink dot net. Don't ask
me why I remember that, Mark, don't choose sniggle at me.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Of course it was shaft moh, of course I remember
that I went through with to get an email address.
I'll never forget. Do you remember your first one, Mark?
By chance? I really don't.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
And I know I had an email account my first
newspaper job, which of course I abused. Uh, And I
didn't have any of that stuff at home, So you know,
you gotta be careful what you look at it.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Yeah, but I mean, we've come so far as far
as how we use the Internet for everything, for everything,
it be it business, be it a personal And to
think that it used to be dial up modem on
a landline on a landline, and it would tie up
the line. If you were on that line with a
(29:47):
dial up, no one could call you. You couldn't call out.
I had I remember, had to disable call waiting all
that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
It was. It was such a simpler time, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Spiderwebs that song was literally you know it's about you
can't get through uh Mark.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Do you remember the first provider you had?
Speaker 7 (30:08):
No, I really don't, because, like I said, I just
used the stuff at work. I didn't have any of
that stuff at home. I went through a period of
time where I didn't have cable or TV or anything
at home. I just I consigned, I compartmentalized all that
stuff at work. So it was quite some time before
I got any personal accounts. Carnacia, you're a lot younger
(30:28):
than all of us. What is your earliest memory of
the Internet and do you remember what your first ISP
internet service provider was.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I remember us having bail South Bell South. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I did have AT and T Yeah, for for quite
some time, and they were horrible.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
It was just absolutely horrible. AT and T them To
digress for a second. AT and T used to make
you bundle. You could have internet, but you had to
pay for the landline package. And I said, I just
want the Internet. I don't. I don't.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
At that point, I started using mostly my cell phone
and wasn't a smartphone. It's a cell phone back then,
and I didn't need I had a landline, but all
it was doing was serving as a place to collect
messages on my physical answering machine, and I didn't really
need it anymore because I wasn't really talking to people
(31:22):
on my landline anymore. So I called AT and T
one day. I said, look, I just want the Internet.
And this is before they had this internet only plan
and buddle. I think it's all because of me when
I left them. I think they changed their whole corporate
strategy because of me.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
Well, they weren't gonna turn down somebody with shaft in
their username, were they.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
I knew I shouldn't have said that to me. I
knew you were going to bring that up.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
If Shaft underscore Q at earthlink dot net shaft Q,
you know, I think I should just send an email
to see if it bounces back.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Yeah. Did you ever use the Netscape browser at any point? Probably?
Speaker 2 (31:55):
I know, I can't remember, because if you don't know, Carnie,
you may not know. It used to be where we
had a physical phone book of all these Internet addresses.
It was like the like the Internet yellow Pages. This
was pre search engines. There was no Yahoo, there was
no Licos, there was no Alta Vista, There's no Google.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
There was just the Internet phone book. I forget Jeeves.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Jeeves ask Jeeves, Oh my goodness, yes, yes, so crawler,
there was a time crawler. Yeah, so AOL dial up
is going away on September thirtieth, and according to CBS News,
about one hundred and sixty three thousand households had dial
up as of twenty twenty three. I assume that's even
(32:42):
fewer now some two years later.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
Probably old people, and they used to send you the
discs d email over and over again, and people would
make projects out of the disk arts.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
They would make art out of them. Yea, you could.
You could make a cabin out of them if they
send you enough.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
I guess for like updates as far as software and
security or something like that.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Internet security also frisbees. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
I never personally had AOL dial up. My mother did.
She probably still does at this point for all I know.
But I never paid for ale. Think it was like
nineteen ninety nine or something like that, a month I
can't remember, but you know, but people actually bought it.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
It's a sad day in internet history. No it isn't,
Thank God. It's a letter with mo Kelly k if.
I am six forty. We live everywhere in near Heart
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Speaker 5 (33:31):
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