July 4, 2025 • 30 mins
Happy 4th of July weekend! Mark Thompson and Cro talk about showing off at auctions, and getting stuck buying something they could never afford.
Donor fatigue is a thing.
Tim accidentally messed up Mark's life with an unexpected health crisis... All just to grab a bite in the OC...
Donor fatigue is a thing.
Tim accidentally messed up Mark's life with an unexpected health crisis... All just to grab a bite in the OC...
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's if I am six forty and you're listening to
The Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Dam
I am six forty. It is the Conway Show. Mark
Thompson's here.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Thank you, Tim, and thank you everyone, and collected masses.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Please be seated.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I'm so jealous on Sunday that you were here. Krozier
was here and I was listening on the way to
getting my ass kicked at sant Anita, and I heard
you guys talking about how you both got worked in auctions.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Yeah, we tell the story.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I thought, can you tell that story again? Sure, I'll
tell it again. Krozier story. I thought it was even better.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah, that was So we'll save Kroziers for a second
because he leapfrogged over you.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Oh his is really good, but sort of in the
same general vein. I was am seeing an event this
past weekend and it just seemed as though it was
an autism event and you know, a beautiful and ty
It was for the ed Asner Center. They do a
lot of treatment and outreach with families and those who
(01:08):
are Yeah, exactly, what's it callism world? It's called ed
Asner Family Center and So this is a fundraiser for
that center, and Matt, who is Ed's son, is heading
things up with his wife Nova. Anyway, so you get
to the auction part of things, and it's a fundraiser,
(01:28):
and there are these four nights in Thailand somewhere.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I didn't really pay attention to it. I saw a villa.
It was a villa.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
How does that auction operate? You have a paddle with
your number. People had paddles. I didn't even have a paddle.
That's how epathetic this is.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I wasn't planning on all. I'm me MC.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I didn't plan on buying anything or bidding on anything necessarily.
Or maybe you're just an oversight. But we started the
bidding at one thousand dollars and somebody in the crowd
bids one thousand dollars and he says, so do I.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Hear two thousand dollars? And you're sing this. I'm seeing it.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I'm not actually on stage though, I'm just I'm just
kind of like there with the opening remarks and remarks
through the night.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
You feel able is that you're all that you're an
MC and they don't have somebody with autism.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Oh I never thought of it that way.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, well, we have autism in my family, so I
feel connected to it.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
But you make a good pint.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Maybe I'll be disqualified next year, but after this they
probably will want me back. Because I noticed that there
was nobody bidding two thousand, only the thousand, and I
just felt bad.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
So I said two thousand. It's a trip to where.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It's not a trip that would be different. It's not
a trip which is four days you get there on
your own. It's four days in this villa in time Thailands.
It's like a like, are the what are the famous
vacation spots in Thailand?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
That's one of them. Okay, So.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Then like nobody's bidding anything more, and he goes, please
bid something more.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
But then somebody.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Said three thousand, and they were pretty quick with it, Tim,
you know, it was like sure. So I panicked, maybe
a little earlier, thought oh good, now people are getting
on board.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
We're picking a momentum.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
And so then he says, how about four thousand, and
nobody it's quiet. I'm thinking this thing is going to
go for three thousand dollars. It's kind of insulting, I
would sort of. So I'm going to push it along.
So I yell and raise my hand four thousand wow,
and uh, they said, oh, that's so great. Mark Thompson,
(03:28):
A wow, you're gonna You're gonna have four thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
That's just terrific. And I'm thinking somebody.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Else is going to come in here for whatever, and
nobody did come in forever, oh for whatever.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
And I ended up buying a trip. When do you
have to use it by I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I don't know any of the details except for the
fact that it's I'm gonna need to go fund me
to pay for it. That's all I know. Yeah, the
American Express swat team met me on the way out. Yeah,
you you know you bumped it. You bumped the card,
that's why. But Krozier had a better story even than that.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
You got you gotta hit with these hit with what
they an accidental purchase.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Absolutely, yes.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
My first wife and I were at a some some
charity thing for some medical thing. I couldn't even tell
you what it was, something that's starting to pop up
in people about over twenty years ago. And Holly Robinson
Pete Rodney Pete's wife was one of the sort of
co hosts and Jason Ritter, John Ruer's kid was there
was part of it as well, and all night and
(04:25):
it was like at the Beverly Hills, you know hotels.
So it was like high fluting, a lot of money
flowing and all this stuff running the risk of radically
insulting you. How were you invited? My ex worked for
a medical company that had something to do with the condition,
So yeah, I had nothing to do.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
With me personally. I was along for the ride. But
you know, so they were.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
They had a silent auction and they had the big
auction afterwards, and money's flowing, you know, everybody's bidding big bids,
you know, thousand, But the biggest one of the night
was the very last one, and it was a set
of earrings and a necklace matching necklace.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
It was like blue sapphire or wow something like that. Yeah,
beautiful stuff.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
And uh and we hadn't bid on anything, you know,
we paddle hadn't moved all night. And they said, all right,
we'll start the bid off with eight thousand dollars. And
wife looks at me and I go, all right, no,
goose a little bit eight thousand.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Not a single bit came in after that, How did
you pay for it? Did you have that kind of
do It was on a credit card?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Oh my god, my wife got it in the divorce,
got the set.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Oh that's horrible. So it's eight thousand plus twenty seven percent.
Uh you know interest, you know every time, every month
you don't pay it off.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
For that, For that gleaming moment, everybody's like, look at you,
nice young man, well done.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I just.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Well you at least buzzed. Is that why you did it?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I honestly couldn't remember, but it was a fairly sober
it was, you know, it was a thought out sort
of thing.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
People are bidding.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Nobody seemed to be shy on any of the items,
so I thought, right, you know, I'll partake in the
fun and the festivities.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
You know, I don't have a story like that, but
I went to one of those big events that was
an auction. And what you do when you get there,
you give them your credit card information and then it's
associated with your paddle and they can make it the
association pretty quickly once you buy it, so it speeds
things along. So I get to this auction and or
this charity event. And they said, hey, you know you
(06:35):
want to give us your credit card, we'll give you
a paddle. And I said, buddy, I'm busted out, don't
I don't get anything going. I got I barely. I
mean I park down the street. I didn't even use
the valet parking here. This is not the guy that's
going to cure AIDS or cancer or whatever is rolling
around this auditorium.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I said, I'm not that guy.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
And he said, well, everybody has, you know, it gives
a credit card and then they you give the paddle
even if you don't use it. You know, just I said, okay,
get in the credit card. So all night long my
paddle was frozen. It was just you know, it was iced.
It was in you know, like it's still in an
ice a on it. Yeah, I went, I purposely burned it.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I took it out and burned it out of the
destroy this battle right away.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
And so the next like, I'm like two weeks later,
I see my credit card statement and they charged me
thirty five hundred dollars for an item. And I'm like, oh,
I didn't buy an item. It must have got mixed
up with somebody else's. So I called the auction. I said, hey,
I didn't buy anything. They charged me thirty five hundred
dollars and they said, oh, no, you bid on something.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I said, no, I didn't. I didn't bid on anything.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
And then they said, oh, okay, then we'll try to figure
it out. And so like took another week and they
and they said, okay, what was somebody else's bid? But
we had four of them, and somebody thought they saw
your paddle being raised. So we're going to send you
the item. And I said no, no, no, no, no, yeah, no,
I said, but I said, what's the item? And they
(08:05):
said it's it's a balloon ride in del Mar. Two
nights at a hotel with a balloon ride and wine
and cheese, and I two.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Nights at the waste of money hotels.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, And I said, I swear I'm at del Mar
at the track. I'm not with the balloons and the
wine and the crackers and the you know, couterie.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Board or coutery board or whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
And I said, I said, And then she says, so
you want me to reverse the charges, and it's going
to affect all these kids that otherwise would have benefited
what a great play from your thirty five hundred dollars,
and I said, one hundred percent, give the kids my
number one.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I am. I am not going down. I don't have
that kind of dough and another kind of money cellars.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I get sucked out of those all the time. Sadly,
it's just in the moment you do it. Yours is
truly a mistake though at least right.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
But you've got to watch giving your credit card because
another buddy of mine that happened to him at an
auction where somebody made a mistake and some some people
are too wealthy, they don't look at their credit card statement,
you know.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
And then or in that last moment when she pushed
on you, they would have done yeah, you're right, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Right, yeah, I think i'd do some of that.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
On purpose, and she she got the wrong cat. Well,
these you know, these babies are dying of you know
whatever they were like selling it to you.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
It's a beautiful ride where you see the landscape.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
That's not me, sweetie. I'm sorry, I'm not. I told
you when I got there, I'm not your type.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
You don't like the taste of the grapes Conway.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
But those things are really reserved for wealthy people. You know, man,
everybody there had a high end car. Everybody was bidding,
you know, throwing their paddle up at forty thousand dollars car.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I have it when we come back.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I have a story about that, and that isn't always true.
You're in a room drenched with money, and like, I'm
the only one who bids on something. Oh really, you
people could buy and something what you have in your pockets.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
If I am sixty Mark Thompson, who is in the house,
you got a quick follow up that story before we go.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Just you were saying that, oh, you know, those auctions
are made for people to have all this money. And
I just remember going to a really great cause. It
was in bel Air, this fundraiser for these doctors who
actually use technology to council surgeons in Africa.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
You know, in Africa there's there are very.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Few, many, many fewer doctors than we have. And sometimes
for a wide area, I mean huge area one hundreds
and hundred of miles, there might be three doctors. So
if you can get a surgeon who actually knows anything,
he needs outside help. So anyway, this technology allows guys
in Beverly Hills or whatever in LA to connect with
that surgeon, to actually look through the surgeon's eyes.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
He wears these special glasses.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
So I wanted to go there and support this technology,
to get this sort of life saving technology to support it.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
So I go there and it said fundraiser in bel
Air and it's a huge house, the biggest houses I've
ever seen, look like the Aaron Spelling mansion, and with
this big roundabout in front, and I just thought, oh
my god, this is These people are cripplingly rich.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
You know. I don't I feel so insecure right now.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
So I get out of the car, I go in
and they have art from like the most famous artist.
Every word's hanging on the wall crazy and around the room,
I look and I see other people.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
It's clearly, you know, a lot of people with a
lot of money.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Right so I'm thinking, all right, you know, I've got
to knock these people down some money. But I don't
have a ton of money right now, so I don't know.
You know, they get us all in this room, they
say we're going to have this movie. You're gonna see
this move. It's a short movie about what we do.
And then this lady comes on. She says, okay, I've
seen the movie. We're gonna now ask you to support us,
(11:46):
and I'll start And I'm thinking in my mind, all right.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Five hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I'm gonna give these guys five hundred dollars, which for
me was a really like a big you know, extending
myself in a big way. So she goes, we're going
to start at one hundred thousand dollars. That's how I said, Okay,
I'll go to five hundred, because I think I was
thinking about one hundred.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
So they wanted the minimum bill.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
You know, they're going to start at one hundred thousand,
and we're going to drop it down until you get
to a number where you feel comfortable and then you
can bid. Right, And I'm thinking, oh my god, because
there's so many wealthy people in this room, this is
going to be extraordinary to see.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
And it was.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
There was a lady who I think pledged two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
I mean it was incredible.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I mean that's the kind of wealth that was here,
but it was all for this wonderful cause. So they
go down to one hundred thousand. Then they went down
to fifty thousand. Then I think they went down to
twenty five thousand, and she said, we're going to keep
going all the way down. I'm thinking we're going to
go all the way down to whatever you can afford.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I was expecting whatever you can afford.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Instead she said, we're going all the way down to
a thousand. A thousand. That's twice what I had budgeted
for this. So they go down they're going to and
I'm noticing that most of the room isn't bidding, most
of the room is not using their paddle, and I'm thinking,
(13:10):
these people are all really rich.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I don't understand what's going on.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Like I thought some number like twenty five, ten thousand,
whatever it would be, they would get there. So finally
they gone down to a thousand. I thought, this is
the last number they're going to go with. There's nothing
under this. This is as lowers you're going to go.
So I thought I had to take my five hundred
and I have to make it a thousand, which is
a little bit more than I wanted, but more to
the point, I'm sure this whole room is going to
(13:34):
explode to the thousand because these people have all been
sitting on their pauses whole time, and they've all got
dough so a thousand. She calls it up, and I
lift up my paddle and I look around and maybe
I don't know five other people in this huge room
filled with people, I'm thinking, Man, these people definitely have money. No,
(13:54):
maybe they did it in a private way, they put
it on some envelope or something like that I wasn't
aware of. But it just to your point, you think, well,
all these rich people, they're really going to support this.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Not always it's.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Right now, but you know, and I think people get
burned out. You know, if you do like three, four,
five of those a year, you just you know, you
don't have that kind of doubt.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
There's something in the charity world called donor fatigue, right,
and it does happen, like if.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
You with it with the title that dead on.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I mean it is with all these creative people in
this city, they came up with donor fatigue.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
I don't think it's a marketing thing. I think it's
just a fact.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
You know what I mean, tired of but tired of
supporting charity fatigue.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah, But at the point is you can only squeeze
so much. That's the Yeah. Anyway, So there you go.
Did you end up giving a thousand?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I did, yeah, in one thousand and and hopefully that
you know, it goes to good good causes.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Yah, you're the best. All right.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
This happened? Is this story? You requested this?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
This guy Greg who wrote into my show and he
listens to you clearly on this show.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Greg Hutton, this is his last name. All right, I
haven't told this story in years, he said, Mark. Here's
a fun fact.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
There's a real uh tell you this is my My
email address on my show is at the Mark Thompson
Show at gmail dot com.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
So this is what we came in through that. Here's
a fun fact.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
There's a real town named ding Dong, Texas where you
can view the eclipse. I hope you and Conway make
it out there. When you're on the Conway Show today,
will you tell the story of the body scan?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Okay, okay, here's here's here's what happened.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
There was a new advertiser that was going to do
a full body scan and I always like to experience,
you know, to go down and meet an advertiser and
talk with them in person, and you know, get a
vibe of what they are because you just you know,
you have to talk about on the air, and I
feel like you're cheating the audience if you don't experience it,
or at least call them and have lunch with them
(15:57):
and talk to them about their business. So they said,
we're doing full body scans and we're going to do
yours for free, and you're going to be a new
advertiser and it's gonna be all great. And I said okay.
I said, hey, Mark, you want to do this? And
Mark said, I don't really want to do the body scan,
but I will go down there. We'll have lunch and we'll.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah, that'll make a chance for you and me to
hang out. Yeah, right, Yeah, it's an Orange County.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
And we couldn't.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I was coming from I think I was coming from
Sam Bernardino and you were in the valley. I'm like, oh, hey,
you know, I'm not gonna be able to get back
to Burbank. I'll meet you down there. And you were
still like, fine, we'll meet down there at lunch. I
think we had lunch before. Yeah, I don't know that
we had.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
My recollection of the entire thing was that the hopes
we had to hang out together kind of evaporated because
of maybe geographics or whatever logistics. But we get down
there and everybody was really great. The doctor's really cool.
We get into this conference room, there's a you know,
a handful of people there, and everybody's in a very
kind of e bulliant, positive mood.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
And then Tim goes in and I do my body
scan and you do your body scan. It doesn't take long.
It might have taken I don't know, less than five minutes,
that's right. And then I come out and then they
say to me and.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
They say and Mark, do you want it? And I
said no, no, no, I'm just here to hang out with Connor.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
And Mark's been saying no, the entire time. I don't
want to do it. I don't want to do it.
And then I came out. I go, Mark, it's not
a big deal. You're in there for two minutes. And
then the other people were putting pressure on him and they.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Were all, good, come on, it's so and you'll be
it's it's such a relief. They bought his can and
you'll say, and then they so we're sitting there and
then they come in with the results for Tim.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Well, okay, so Mark go's in and does it. I
go in and do it. Then they come back with
the results like a half hour later.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
No wait, wait, wait, but you think came back as
I recall, maybe I'm remembering this wrong, but they came
in with your results, and I'd still knock gone in.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Oh, I see, I don't want I don't want to
go in. I don't want to do it. I don't
need to do it. Thank you, but I don't.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
That's right, that's right. So they give me my results
and you're fine. And not only do they say I'm fine,
but the doctor says to me, he says, i'm are
you a runner? And at that point I was drinking
a lot and smoking a lot, and I said, I'm
am I runner?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
And I said what are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
And he says, you have the heart of an athlete,
and your your veins and your your body. It comes
back with all like nines and tens, like you're a
professional athlete. And then so I get really depressed, thinking, Okay,
this equipment sucks because obviously I have worked out since
(18:23):
you know, mister Vineyards class in Junior High and Portola
since in the late seventies. I don't work out, I
don't go to the gym, I don't run, do anything.
Crap too much time, and I'm depressed that everything's come
back that I have the cardiovascular system of an athlete.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
That's not true. Oh I didn't. I didn't know any
of it. It's not true.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I just remember that came in and you whatever depression
you had, or disappointment you had, or disillusionment you had,
you you certainly concealed it because they were all over
the moon to.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Tell you how great you were and how great your
tests were. I didn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
And then they turn to me and they go, you see,
you see how easy it is.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Why don't you just go in there? And then you say,
it really is.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Easy, man. It's like it's maybe two minutes. And I said, okay, fine,
I'll go in. So they lead me into the thing.
You take all this stuff out of your pockets, you
just go into this little tube.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
They lower you in the tube. Boom.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
It just does only take two minutes and then you
come out and now we're just kind of hanging out.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
We're waiting.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I think we're having like a bottle of water whatever
it must be. And then the nurse comes in and
she says, Mark, I'll go yeah. I'm thinking, hell, you're
gonna well, you'll be. I got good news, same as Conway.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
You are clear.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
The doctor would like to see you in the next office,
and I said it's okay, he can come in. Tell
everybody we're all palsiers. She said, no, I really think
you need to He really wants to see you privately.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
And I'm walking in with Mark into the office and
the nurse says, no, no, no, we just needed to
speak to Mark privately.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
So now I'm starting to really wonder what's going on
still though, with this confidence, like, come on, I mean,
if Conway at the clear, Bill, I'm going to get
the clear. And then he says, I want you to
look at something, and then he points out this thing.
I can barely see it, which I guess is the
(20:12):
way the body works. Sure, it's a little circle, it's
a little like tiny circle, and it's in my lungs.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
He said, I think we need to watch this.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Said, I'm not saying it's anything, but we need to
make sure it's not growing. So i'd like you to
have another scan in another forget what he said three months,
six months, whatever, And now I am legit depressed.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
I mean, I'm like, this is horrible.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I didn't even want this thing, and now I might
have something serious.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
And we were going to go get some deep afterwards,
and you were so depressed. I'm like, hey, I got
to get out of here. And I remember driving away
and looking in the rear view mirror. I'm like, oh,
I fed up my buddy's life. He had this scan.
Now he's a hypochondriact. Anyway, he's gonna be worried that
he's dying. And now he's driving all the way home
(21:11):
worrying about this scan.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
So six months later, I go down six months for
the same scan, now only no conway, no room full
of people, just me and the nurse checking me in.
I get in the gown or whatever it is, and
I lie in the tube. They do it again and
it looks the same or with such minuscule growth that
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it's not a concern. So I'm thinking great, only he says, no,
I really want to see it again in another six months.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Well that went on two more. No way, I didn't
know that I was not out of the woods until
four scans.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Wow, But that all happened because we were going to
go to Lynchen, Orange County after it.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Yeah, sponsor meeting. Nice job.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
But to drive away looking in my rear view mirror
at this guy and he's got the paperwork with him,
he's looking down at it and he's depressed out of
his mind. And I look in the rear view mirror
and I drive away. I'm like, oh, man, I just
left this guy up. This guy is going to be
a basket case for the next three years.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
It was what what was it? Though? I mean they
have determined I don't know whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
It's it's not growing at a rate that they're that
can that they're concerned with.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I felt horrible.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
It was definitely a because the anxiety creates is not helpful.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
No, no, it's the worst.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
The anxiety attached to it is worse than the actual
you know spot exactly.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
It's the worst. Man. I couldn't believe that was the
scan story. That's so horrible.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I talked you into the scale and screwed your life
up for like two years.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Think.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I know other people who've done and they discovered things
and they've been glad they've done it though.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Oh, I recommend it.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Yeah, it's really a positive thing. It's just that that
particular one took a right turn because I wasn't. I
wasn't there to get one.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
That's right. But that's right, man, No more lunches with me.
This is a sign of the time where I check.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I check email every day, three four times a day.
I checked my text probably ten times an hour maybe
maybe ten times an hour on average, and I check
voicemail about once every other month maybe. And there was
a woman in I'm sorry, there's a person in sale.
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There's a person in sales who I've told them. I said, hey,
I never checked my voicemail. Don't please don't leave me
a voicemail. Just text me and I'll call you back immediately.
And that person said, okay. And I get a voicemail
all the time, all the time, like, hey, it's it's
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hostally the same person.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Sorry, what did you just say, Hey, it's it's it's constantly,
you know, you're saying her name. What you're not doing
your Yeah, I got my right. No, No, it's off today.
No it's not. We know exactly who you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
You know what you're talking about who Leslie? I don't know,
is there Leslie?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
You think you sound like this? I do, but really
you sound like this. Okay, I screwed that up. What
the hell?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
But man, oh man, it's it's like pulling teeth with
this one. And she always leaves a voicemail. Oh that's right.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
You don't check voicemail for every month? Call me right
knowing that I'm not. I don't check it. I don't
check voicemail. Nobody checks voicemail.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
You know, you'd have to be rude to uh constantly, uh,
you know voicemail. People's call her back. I didn't you
know what she said? Hey, there's a meeting in ten minutes.
There's three weeks ago. So I guess I missed out
on that meeting. I mean, I look, I told her,
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I'll call you back immediately on text.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
But I just don't check voicemail other voicemails. Hey where
are you at? We're having the meeting right now.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Yeah, because nobody ever calls me. You know, I think
it's rude to call people now in today's day and age.
I think you have to text somebody and say, hey,
you got a second.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Can I call you? Yeah, you always do that with me.
I always have it like do you have a couple
of minutes? Can I call you? Like that?
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Yeah, all of a sudden, because if not, it's rude.
Like my wife and I are driving in the car
and we're just driving talking, driving talking. All of a sudden, Bang,
Oh my buddy's in the car with us too, right,
the three of us. All of a sudden, it's like
opening the door and getting in the car with the couple.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
You know, that's what you're doing, you know, all of
a sudden.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Saying oh, Billy, hey, how you doing, Rob.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Nice to see you.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Hey, we're just yeah, traveling. And you always always have
to say you're with your wife or you're with your
girlfriend or your daughter, because most guys will go into
the you know, describing their last s that they took.
It's not a thing women do, but it's the thing
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guys do. And you sure, yes, Crozier, don't deny it.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
I mean that half of Oh that's great, that's a
great save.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I was gonna think less of you if you did,
if you didn't talk about yours with your friends like
you're really good friends. Believe well, yeah, I didn't make
it home for the restaurant. I had to stop at
a mpm oh Man, me too. I think it was
the potatoes. As you get older, the conversations get more frequent.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
But yeah, guys do that. You know, guys will say I.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Was at the airport, parking at the airport and I
saw the biggest you know, duty in the parking lot,
and like, take a picture of it and send it
to the friends, Go look at this thing.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
I don't think we didn't do that. I didn't know. Yah,
don't do that.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
But but if you do take a photo, you also
have to be careful in your rolodexs.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Who you you know, send that off to. I'm constantly going.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Yes, yes, probably wouldn't just leave it in there afterwards.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
No, no, it's.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Got to be deleted. And it's got to only go
to a certain level.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Of guys who would find this amusing.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yeah, mostly track guys. And then you know what, the
you run the risk of them sending another one back.
You think that's something, it's a competition. How about this?
I saw this at Hollywood Park in nineteen seventy eight. Wait,
how do you have that on your phone? Well, I
transferred it. I paid to have a transfer to. Oh well,
it's kind of worth it, kind of worth it. That
is spectacular. Fish, that is kind of spectacular. Somebody really
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went for it. But but Billy, I can ask you
as a woman. You're a woman, right, yeah, Okay, girls
women don't do that.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Do they? No? No, gosh no, And I don't wouldn't
admit it if they did. I don't know. I think
they would they. I think they like to be like
guys that way where they admitted.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
But they're just there some people that were at the
station that you can say that's true, that's totally true.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
I mean, are you talking about a picture of it? No? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
But if you just do we just connect with did
we just connect with you?
Speaker 3 (28:38):
No? No, no no. I just take a picture of
my dog doing it and send it to people.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Oh god, no, I think that's a whole new level. God, yeah,
this is KF. What happened to Rush Limbaugh?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
I don't know. I don't know what downhill after he left.
What you're stuck with? I want to change my answer.
I guess some women do.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Anybody you know, I've never heard you do a syllables.
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All right, very good. Murder we can talk about, or
a crime or something. Oh all right, we got to
take a break. Care we're live. I apologize for that.
That's you know one every once in a while, you know,
you get a brain fart and it gets away on you.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
All right, what's going on with the news.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from k
f I a M six forty
It's if I am six forty and you're listening to
The Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Dam
I am six forty. It is the Conway Show. Mark
Thompson's here.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Thank you, Tim, and thank you everyone, and collected masses.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Please be seated.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I'm so jealous on Sunday that you were here. Krozier
was here and I was listening on the way to
getting my ass kicked at sant Anita, and I heard
you guys talking about how you both got worked in auctions.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Yeah, we tell the story.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I thought, can you tell that story again? Sure, I'll
tell it again. Krozier story. I thought it was even better.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah, that was So we'll save Kroziers for a second
because he leapfrogged over you.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Oh his is really good, but sort of in the
same general vein. I was am seeing an event this
past weekend and it just seemed as though it was
an autism event and you know, a beautiful and ty
It was for the ed Asner Center. They do a
lot of treatment and outreach with families and those who
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are Yeah, exactly, what's it callism world? It's called ed
Asner Family Center and So this is a fundraiser for
that center, and Matt, who is Ed's son, is heading
things up with his wife Nova. Anyway, so you get
to the auction part of things, and it's a fundraiser,
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and there are these four nights in Thailand somewhere.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I didn't really pay attention to it. I saw a villa.
It was a villa.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
How does that auction operate? You have a paddle with
your number. People had paddles. I didn't even have a paddle.
That's how epathetic this is.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I wasn't planning on all. I'm me MC.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I didn't plan on buying anything or bidding on anything necessarily.
Or maybe you're just an oversight. But we started the
bidding at one thousand dollars and somebody in the crowd
bids one thousand dollars and he says, so do I.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Hear two thousand dollars? And you're sing this. I'm seeing it.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I'm not actually on stage though, I'm just I'm just
kind of like there with the opening remarks and remarks
through the night.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
You feel able is that you're all that you're an
MC and they don't have somebody with autism.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Oh I never thought of it that way.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, well, we have autism in my family, so I
feel connected to it.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
But you make a good pint.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Maybe I'll be disqualified next year, but after this they
probably will want me back. Because I noticed that there
was nobody bidding two thousand, only the thousand, and I
just felt bad.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
So I said two thousand. It's a trip to where.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It's not a trip that would be different. It's not
a trip which is four days you get there on
your own. It's four days in this villa in time Thailands.
It's like a like, are the what are the famous
vacation spots in Thailand?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
That's one of them. Okay, So.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Then like nobody's bidding anything more, and he goes, please
bid something more.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
But then somebody.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Said three thousand, and they were pretty quick with it, Tim,
you know, it was like sure. So I panicked, maybe
a little earlier, thought oh good, now people are getting
on board.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
We're picking a momentum.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
And so then he says, how about four thousand, and
nobody it's quiet. I'm thinking this thing is going to
go for three thousand dollars. It's kind of insulting, I
would sort of. So I'm going to push it along.
So I yell and raise my hand four thousand wow,
and uh, they said, oh, that's so great. Mark Thompson,
(03:28):
A wow, you're gonna You're gonna have four thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
That's just terrific. And I'm thinking somebody.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Else is going to come in here for whatever, and
nobody did come in forever, oh for whatever.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
And I ended up buying a trip. When do you
have to use it by I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I don't know any of the details except for the
fact that it's I'm gonna need to go fund me
to pay for it. That's all I know. Yeah, the
American Express swat team met me on the way out. Yeah,
you you know you bumped it. You bumped the card,
that's why. But Krozier had a better story even than that.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
You got you gotta hit with these hit with what
they an accidental purchase.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Absolutely, yes.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
My first wife and I were at a some some
charity thing for some medical thing. I couldn't even tell
you what it was, something that's starting to pop up
in people about over twenty years ago. And Holly Robinson
Pete Rodney Pete's wife was one of the sort of
co hosts and Jason Ritter, John Ruer's kid was there
was part of it as well, and all night and
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it was like at the Beverly Hills, you know hotels.
So it was like high fluting, a lot of money
flowing and all this stuff running the risk of radically
insulting you. How were you invited? My ex worked for
a medical company that had something to do with the condition,
So yeah, I had nothing to do.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
With me personally. I was along for the ride. But
you know, so they were.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
They had a silent auction and they had the big
auction afterwards, and money's flowing, you know, everybody's bidding big bids,
you know, thousand, But the biggest one of the night
was the very last one, and it was a set
of earrings and a necklace matching necklace.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
It was like blue sapphire or wow something like that. Yeah,
beautiful stuff.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
And uh and we hadn't bid on anything, you know,
we paddle hadn't moved all night. And they said, all right,
we'll start the bid off with eight thousand dollars. And
wife looks at me and I go, all right, no,
goose a little bit eight thousand.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Not a single bit came in after that, How did
you pay for it? Did you have that kind of
do It was on a credit card?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Oh my god, my wife got it in the divorce,
got the set.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Oh that's horrible. So it's eight thousand plus twenty seven percent.
Uh you know interest, you know every time, every month
you don't pay it off.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
For that, For that gleaming moment, everybody's like, look at you,
nice young man, well done.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I just.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Well you at least buzzed. Is that why you did it?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I honestly couldn't remember, but it was a fairly sober
it was, you know, it was a thought out sort
of thing.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
People are bidding.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Nobody seemed to be shy on any of the items,
so I thought, right, you know, I'll partake in the
fun and the festivities.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
You know, I don't have a story like that, but
I went to one of those big events that was
an auction. And what you do when you get there,
you give them your credit card information and then it's
associated with your paddle and they can make it the
association pretty quickly once you buy it, so it speeds
things along. So I get to this auction and or
this charity event. And they said, hey, you know you
(06:35):
want to give us your credit card, we'll give you
a paddle. And I said, buddy, I'm busted out, don't
I don't get anything going. I got I barely. I
mean I park down the street. I didn't even use
the valet parking here. This is not the guy that's
going to cure AIDS or cancer or whatever is rolling
around this auditorium.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I said, I'm not that guy.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
And he said, well, everybody has, you know, it gives
a credit card and then they you give the paddle
even if you don't use it. You know, just I said, okay,
get in the credit card. So all night long my
paddle was frozen. It was just you know, it was iced.
It was in you know, like it's still in an
ice a on it. Yeah, I went, I purposely burned it.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I took it out and burned it out of the
destroy this battle right away.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
And so the next like, I'm like two weeks later,
I see my credit card statement and they charged me
thirty five hundred dollars for an item. And I'm like, oh,
I didn't buy an item. It must have got mixed
up with somebody else's. So I called the auction. I said, hey,
I didn't buy anything. They charged me thirty five hundred
dollars and they said, oh, no, you bid on something.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I said, no, I didn't. I didn't bid on anything.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
And then they said, oh, okay, then we'll try to figure
it out. And so like took another week and they
and they said, okay, what was somebody else's bid? But
we had four of them, and somebody thought they saw
your paddle being raised. So we're going to send you
the item. And I said no, no, no, no, no, yeah, no,
I said, but I said, what's the item? And they
(08:05):
said it's it's a balloon ride in del Mar. Two
nights at a hotel with a balloon ride and wine
and cheese, and I two.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Nights at the waste of money hotels.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, And I said, I swear I'm at del Mar
at the track. I'm not with the balloons and the
wine and the crackers and the you know, couterie.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Board or coutery board or whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
And I said, I said, And then she says, so
you want me to reverse the charges, and it's going
to affect all these kids that otherwise would have benefited
what a great play from your thirty five hundred dollars,
and I said, one hundred percent, give the kids my
number one.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I am. I am not going down. I don't have
that kind of dough and another kind of money cellars.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I get sucked out of those all the time. Sadly,
it's just in the moment you do it. Yours is
truly a mistake though at least right.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
But you've got to watch giving your credit card because
another buddy of mine that happened to him at an
auction where somebody made a mistake and some some people
are too wealthy, they don't look at their credit card statement,
you know.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
And then or in that last moment when she pushed
on you, they would have done yeah, you're right, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Right, yeah, I think i'd do some of that.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
On purpose, and she she got the wrong cat. Well,
these you know, these babies are dying of you know
whatever they were like selling it to you.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
It's a beautiful ride where you see the landscape.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
That's not me, sweetie. I'm sorry, I'm not. I told
you when I got there, I'm not your type.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
You don't like the taste of the grapes Conway.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
But those things are really reserved for wealthy people. You know, man,
everybody there had a high end car. Everybody was bidding,
you know, throwing their paddle up at forty thousand dollars car.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I have it when we come back.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I have a story about that, and that isn't always true.
You're in a room drenched with money, and like, I'm
the only one who bids on something. Oh really, you
people could buy and something what you have in your pockets.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
If I am sixty Mark Thompson, who is in the house,
you got a quick follow up that story before we go.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Just you were saying that, oh, you know, those auctions
are made for people to have all this money. And
I just remember going to a really great cause. It
was in bel Air, this fundraiser for these doctors who
actually use technology to council surgeons in Africa.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
You know, in Africa there's there are very.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Few, many, many fewer doctors than we have. And sometimes
for a wide area, I mean huge area one hundreds
and hundred of miles, there might be three doctors. So
if you can get a surgeon who actually knows anything,
he needs outside help. So anyway, this technology allows guys
in Beverly Hills or whatever in LA to connect with
that surgeon, to actually look through the surgeon's eyes.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
He wears these special glasses.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
So I wanted to go there and support this technology,
to get this sort of life saving technology to support it.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
So I go there and it said fundraiser in bel
Air and it's a huge house, the biggest houses I've
ever seen, look like the Aaron Spelling mansion, and with
this big roundabout in front, and I just thought, oh
my god, this is These people are cripplingly rich.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
You know. I don't I feel so insecure right now.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
So I get out of the car, I go in
and they have art from like the most famous artist.
Every word's hanging on the wall crazy and around the room,
I look and I see other people.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
It's clearly, you know, a lot of people with a
lot of money.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Right so I'm thinking, all right, you know, I've got
to knock these people down some money. But I don't
have a ton of money right now, so I don't know.
You know, they get us all in this room, they
say we're going to have this movie. You're gonna see
this move. It's a short movie about what we do.
And then this lady comes on. She says, okay, I've
seen the movie. We're gonna now ask you to support us,
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and I'll start And I'm thinking in my mind, all right.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Five hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I'm gonna give these guys five hundred dollars, which for
me was a really like a big you know, extending
myself in a big way. So she goes, we're going
to start at one hundred thousand dollars. That's how I said, Okay,
I'll go to five hundred, because I think I was
thinking about one hundred.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
So they wanted the minimum bill.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
You know, they're going to start at one hundred thousand,
and we're going to drop it down until you get
to a number where you feel comfortable and then you
can bid. Right, And I'm thinking, oh my god, because
there's so many wealthy people in this room, this is
going to be extraordinary to see.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
And it was.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
There was a lady who I think pledged two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
I mean it was incredible.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I mean that's the kind of wealth that was here,
but it was all for this wonderful cause. So they
go down to one hundred thousand. Then they went down
to fifty thousand. Then I think they went down to
twenty five thousand, and she said, we're going to keep
going all the way down. I'm thinking we're going to
go all the way down to whatever you can afford.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I was expecting whatever you can afford.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Instead she said, we're going all the way down to
a thousand. A thousand. That's twice what I had budgeted
for this. So they go down they're going to and
I'm noticing that most of the room isn't bidding, most
of the room is not using their paddle, and I'm thinking,
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these people are all really rich.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I don't understand what's going on.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Like I thought some number like twenty five, ten thousand,
whatever it would be, they would get there. So finally
they gone down to a thousand. I thought, this is
the last number they're going to go with. There's nothing
under this. This is as lowers you're going to go.
So I thought I had to take my five hundred
and I have to make it a thousand, which is
a little bit more than I wanted, but more to
the point, I'm sure this whole room is going to
(13:34):
explode to the thousand because these people have all been
sitting on their pauses whole time, and they've all got
dough so a thousand. She calls it up, and I
lift up my paddle and I look around and maybe
I don't know five other people in this huge room
filled with people, I'm thinking, Man, these people definitely have money. No,
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maybe they did it in a private way, they put
it on some envelope or something like that I wasn't
aware of. But it just to your point, you think, well,
all these rich people, they're really going to support this.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Not always it's.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Right now, but you know, and I think people get
burned out. You know, if you do like three, four,
five of those a year, you just you know, you
don't have that kind of doubt.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
There's something in the charity world called donor fatigue, right,
and it does happen, like if.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
You with it with the title that dead on.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I mean it is with all these creative people in
this city, they came up with donor fatigue.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
I don't think it's a marketing thing. I think it's
just a fact.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
You know what I mean, tired of but tired of
supporting charity fatigue.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah, But at the point is you can only squeeze
so much. That's the Yeah. Anyway, So there you go.
Did you end up giving a thousand?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I did, yeah, in one thousand and and hopefully that
you know, it goes to good good causes.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Yah, you're the best. All right.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
This happened? Is this story? You requested this?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
This guy Greg who wrote into my show and he
listens to you clearly on this show.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Greg Hutton, this is his last name. All right, I
haven't told this story in years, he said, Mark. Here's
a fun fact.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
There's a real uh tell you this is my My
email address on my show is at the Mark Thompson
Show at gmail dot com.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
So this is what we came in through that. Here's
a fun fact.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
There's a real town named ding Dong, Texas where you
can view the eclipse. I hope you and Conway make
it out there. When you're on the Conway Show today,
will you tell the story of the body scan?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Okay, okay, here's here's here's what happened.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
There was a new advertiser that was going to do
a full body scan and I always like to experience,
you know, to go down and meet an advertiser and
talk with them in person, and you know, get a
vibe of what they are because you just you know,
you have to talk about on the air, and I
feel like you're cheating the audience if you don't experience it,
or at least call them and have lunch with them
(15:57):
and talk to them about their business. So they said,
we're doing full body scans and we're going to do
yours for free, and you're going to be a new
advertiser and it's gonna be all great. And I said okay.
I said, hey, Mark, you want to do this? And
Mark said, I don't really want to do the body scan,
but I will go down there. We'll have lunch and we'll.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah, that'll make a chance for you and me to
hang out. Yeah, right, Yeah, it's an Orange County.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
And we couldn't.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I was coming from I think I was coming from
Sam Bernardino and you were in the valley. I'm like, oh, hey,
you know, I'm not gonna be able to get back
to Burbank. I'll meet you down there. And you were
still like, fine, we'll meet down there at lunch. I
think we had lunch before. Yeah, I don't know that
we had.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
My recollection of the entire thing was that the hopes
we had to hang out together kind of evaporated because
of maybe geographics or whatever logistics. But we get down
there and everybody was really great. The doctor's really cool.
We get into this conference room, there's a you know,
a handful of people there, and everybody's in a very
kind of e bulliant, positive mood.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
And then Tim goes in and I do my body
scan and you do your body scan. It doesn't take long.
It might have taken I don't know, less than five minutes,
that's right. And then I come out and then they
say to me and.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
They say and Mark, do you want it? And I
said no, no, no, I'm just here to hang out with Connor.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
And Mark's been saying no, the entire time. I don't
want to do it. I don't want to do it.
And then I came out. I go, Mark, it's not
a big deal. You're in there for two minutes. And
then the other people were putting pressure on him and they.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Were all, good, come on, it's so and you'll be
it's it's such a relief. They bought his can and
you'll say, and then they so we're sitting there and
then they come in with the results for Tim.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Well, okay, so Mark go's in and does it. I
go in and do it. Then they come back with
the results like a half hour later.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
No wait, wait, wait, but you think came back as
I recall, maybe I'm remembering this wrong, but they came
in with your results, and I'd still knock gone in.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Oh, I see, I don't want I don't want to
go in. I don't want to do it. I don't
need to do it. Thank you, but I don't.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
That's right, that's right. So they give me my results
and you're fine. And not only do they say I'm fine,
but the doctor says to me, he says, i'm are
you a runner? And at that point I was drinking
a lot and smoking a lot, and I said, I'm
am I runner?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
And I said what are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
And he says, you have the heart of an athlete,
and your your veins and your your body. It comes
back with all like nines and tens, like you're a
professional athlete. And then so I get really depressed, thinking, Okay,
this equipment sucks because obviously I have worked out since
(18:23):
you know, mister Vineyards class in Junior High and Portola
since in the late seventies. I don't work out, I
don't go to the gym, I don't run, do anything.
Crap too much time, and I'm depressed that everything's come
back that I have the cardiovascular system of an athlete.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
That's not true. Oh I didn't. I didn't know any
of it. It's not true.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I just remember that came in and you whatever depression
you had, or disappointment you had, or disillusionment you had,
you you certainly concealed it because they were all over
the moon to.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Tell you how great you were and how great your
tests were. I didn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
And then they turn to me and they go, you see,
you see how easy it is.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Why don't you just go in there? And then you say,
it really is.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Easy, man. It's like it's maybe two minutes. And I said, okay, fine,
I'll go in. So they lead me into the thing.
You take all this stuff out of your pockets, you
just go into this little tube.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
They lower you in the tube. Boom.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
It just does only take two minutes and then you
come out and now we're just kind of hanging out.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
We're waiting.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I think we're having like a bottle of water whatever
it must be. And then the nurse comes in and
she says, Mark, I'll go yeah. I'm thinking, hell, you're
gonna well, you'll be. I got good news, same as Conway.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
You are clear.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
The doctor would like to see you in the next office,
and I said it's okay, he can come in. Tell
everybody we're all palsiers. She said, no, I really think
you need to He really wants to see you privately.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
And I'm walking in with Mark into the office and
the nurse says, no, no, no, we just needed to
speak to Mark privately.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
So now I'm starting to really wonder what's going on
still though, with this confidence, like, come on, I mean,
if Conway at the clear, Bill, I'm going to get
the clear. And then he says, I want you to
look at something, and then he points out this thing.
I can barely see it, which I guess is the
(20:12):
way the body works. Sure, it's a little circle, it's
a little like tiny circle, and it's in my lungs.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
He said, I think we need to watch this.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Said, I'm not saying it's anything, but we need to
make sure it's not growing. So i'd like you to
have another scan in another forget what he said three months,
six months, whatever, And now I am legit depressed.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
I mean, I'm like, this is horrible.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I didn't even want this thing, and now I might
have something serious.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
And we were going to go get some deep afterwards,
and you were so depressed. I'm like, hey, I got
to get out of here. And I remember driving away
and looking in the rear view mirror. I'm like, oh,
I fed up my buddy's life. He had this scan.
Now he's a hypochondriact. Anyway, he's gonna be worried that
he's dying. And now he's driving all the way home
(21:11):
worrying about this scan.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
So six months later, I go down six months for
the same scan, now only no conway, no room full
of people, just me and the nurse checking me in.
I get in the gown or whatever it is, and
I lie in the tube. They do it again and
it looks the same or with such minuscule growth that
(21:33):
it's not a concern. So I'm thinking great, only he says, no,
I really want to see it again in another six months.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Well that went on two more. No way, I didn't
know that I was not out of the woods until
four scans.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Wow, But that all happened because we were going to
go to Lynchen, Orange County after it.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Yeah, sponsor meeting. Nice job.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
But to drive away looking in my rear view mirror
at this guy and he's got the paperwork with him,
he's looking down at it and he's depressed out of
his mind. And I look in the rear view mirror
and I drive away. I'm like, oh, man, I just
left this guy up. This guy is going to be
a basket case for the next three years.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
It was what what was it? Though? I mean they
have determined I don't know whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
It's it's not growing at a rate that they're that
can that they're concerned with.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I felt horrible.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
It was definitely a because the anxiety creates is not helpful.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
No, no, it's the worst.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
The anxiety attached to it is worse than the actual
you know spot exactly.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
It's the worst. Man. I couldn't believe that was the
scan story. That's so horrible.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I talked you into the scale and screwed your life
up for like two years.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Think.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I know other people who've done and they discovered things
and they've been glad they've done it though.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Oh, I recommend it.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Yeah, it's really a positive thing. It's just that that
particular one took a right turn because I wasn't. I
wasn't there to get one.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
That's right. But that's right, man, No more lunches with me.
This is a sign of the time where I check.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I check email every day, three four times a day.
I checked my text probably ten times an hour maybe
maybe ten times an hour on average, and I check
voicemail about once every other month maybe. And there was
a woman in I'm sorry, there's a person in sale.
(23:34):
There's a person in sales who I've told them. I said, hey,
I never checked my voicemail. Don't please don't leave me
a voicemail. Just text me and I'll call you back immediately.
And that person said, okay. And I get a voicemail
all the time, all the time, like, hey, it's it's
(23:57):
hostally the same person.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Sorry, what did you just say, Hey, it's it's it's constantly,
you know, you're saying her name. What you're not doing
your Yeah, I got my right. No, No, it's off today.
No it's not. We know exactly who you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
You know what you're talking about who Leslie? I don't know,
is there Leslie?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
You think you sound like this? I do, but really
you sound like this. Okay, I screwed that up. What
the hell?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
But man, oh man, it's it's like pulling teeth with
this one. And she always leaves a voicemail. Oh that's right.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
You don't check voicemail for every month? Call me right
knowing that I'm not. I don't check it. I don't
check voicemail. Nobody checks voicemail.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
You know, you'd have to be rude to uh constantly, uh,
you know voicemail. People's call her back. I didn't you
know what she said? Hey, there's a meeting in ten minutes.
There's three weeks ago. So I guess I missed out
on that meeting. I mean, I look, I told her,
(25:09):
I'll call you back immediately on text.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
But I just don't check voicemail other voicemails. Hey where
are you at? We're having the meeting right now.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Yeah, because nobody ever calls me. You know, I think
it's rude to call people now in today's day and age.
I think you have to text somebody and say, hey,
you got a second.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Can I call you? Yeah, you always do that with me.
I always have it like do you have a couple
of minutes? Can I call you? Like that?
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Yeah, all of a sudden, because if not, it's rude.
Like my wife and I are driving in the car
and we're just driving talking, driving talking. All of a sudden, Bang,
Oh my buddy's in the car with us too, right,
the three of us. All of a sudden, it's like
opening the door and getting in the car with the couple.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
You know, that's what you're doing, you know, all of
a sudden.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Saying oh, Billy, hey, how you doing, Rob.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Nice to see you.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Hey, we're just yeah, traveling. And you always always have
to say you're with your wife or you're with your
girlfriend or your daughter, because most guys will go into
the you know, describing their last s that they took.
It's not a thing women do, but it's the thing
(26:18):
guys do. And you sure, yes, Crozier, don't deny it.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
I mean that half of Oh that's great, that's a
great save.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I was gonna think less of you if you did,
if you didn't talk about yours with your friends like
you're really good friends. Believe well, yeah, I didn't make
it home for the restaurant. I had to stop at
a mpm oh Man, me too. I think it was
the potatoes. As you get older, the conversations get more frequent.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
But yeah, guys do that. You know, guys will say I.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Was at the airport, parking at the airport and I
saw the biggest you know, duty in the parking lot,
and like, take a picture of it and send it
to the friends, Go look at this thing.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
I don't think we didn't do that. I didn't know. Yah,
don't do that.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
But but if you do take a photo, you also
have to be careful in your rolodexs.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Who you you know, send that off to. I'm constantly going.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Yes, yes, probably wouldn't just leave it in there afterwards.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
No, no, it's.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Got to be deleted. And it's got to only go
to a certain level.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Of guys who would find this amusing.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yeah, mostly track guys. And then you know what, the
you run the risk of them sending another one back.
You think that's something, it's a competition. How about this?
I saw this at Hollywood Park in nineteen seventy eight. Wait,
how do you have that on your phone? Well, I
transferred it. I paid to have a transfer to. Oh well,
it's kind of worth it, kind of worth it. That
is spectacular. Fish, that is kind of spectacular. Somebody really
(28:02):
went for it. But but Billy, I can ask you
as a woman. You're a woman, right, yeah, Okay, girls
women don't do that.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Do they? No? No, gosh no, And I don't wouldn't
admit it if they did. I don't know. I think
they would they. I think they like to be like
guys that way where they admitted.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
But they're just there some people that were at the
station that you can say that's true, that's totally true.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
I mean, are you talking about a picture of it? No? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
But if you just do we just connect with did
we just connect with you?
Speaker 3 (28:38):
No? No, no no. I just take a picture of
my dog doing it and send it to people.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Oh god, no, I think that's a whole new level. God, yeah,
this is KF. What happened to Rush Limbaugh?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
I don't know. I don't know what downhill after he left.
What you're stuck with? I want to change my answer.
I guess some women do.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Anybody you know, I've never heard you do a syllables.
(29:35):
All right, very good. Murder we can talk about, or
a crime or something. Oh all right, we got to
take a break. Care we're live. I apologize for that.
That's you know one every once in a while, you know,
you get a brain fart and it gets away on you.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
All right, what's going on with the news.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
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