August 1, 2025 • 32 mins
Mark Thompson and Heather Brooker are going to Catcon in Pasadena! // Summer of Ticks and Justin Timberlake’s Lyme Disease Diagnosed // Heather Brooker, talks her side hustle and promotes her comedy show at the Pasadena Ice House. // Heather Brooker shares her Comedy Show Outfit choices and Kamala Harris out of CA governor's race, an intraparty battle begins Katie Porter
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF. I am sixty and you're listening to
The Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
My house is a grim place these days. Man, I'll
tell you what for all of you. We've got a cat,
super sick, looks like she's dying, one of her favorite cats.
It's like the hardest thing ever. I know so many
of you have dogs and cats, and you know they're
part of the family, and it's just heartbreaking. You know,
every minute you spend I'm spending every minute with her.
(00:30):
You know, we're up all night and all that stuff.
And my other half, you know, we're we're just crying
with each other. It's just horrible. And on top of that,
Courtney's got a migraine today, so I couldn't wait to
get out of there.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I'd love to stay, but I've got to do the Conways. Sorry.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, the kitty can do without me for a few hours.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
But it is so heartbreaking.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Oh, it's the worst.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I'm a cat. I'm a total cat person or pet
person really.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Same cat daddy for sure.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
For sure.
Speaker 6 (01:02):
My cat died when like two days before my daughter
was born, and the doctors think that that's what sent
me into labor because I was so upset, you know how,
and you're in your ninth month and your hormones are
going crazy, Like it was hard for me to come
to terms with it and settle down, and of course
really hard time with it.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
So I love cats so much. I'm sorry to hear that.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, that's sweet on you know. In fact, I'm a
super big cat person too. I'm going to cat Con tomorrow,
which is that's good.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
You know about cat I did my niece were the
ones that were telling me about it. I'm so jealousy.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
You guys are going, we are totally going. Mark, what's
your favorite part about cat Con? I?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Well, you know, I like testing out all the different litters.
The cat I really enjoyed you like in.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Real life, You're like, let me just give this.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
A whirl, my babies, if you want to see like
the most automated litter deals and you know, they have
all of this, and I've tried. I gave up after
the third one, you know, because they all look great
on the Instagram ads that they serve you and even
in the demo, the live demo at CatCon, but they
(02:11):
can get they don't perform over time the same way
they do. And it's been a while. I'll tell you,
I haven't had an automated litter thing in probably ten years,
so maybe they've really improved the technology.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Have you tried it?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
The automated literally have.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
The rake thing. It's automated.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It rakes the litter for you and then it dumps
the you know, refuse into this little bucket that's kind
of attached to it.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
They look real. They're expensive, like they're.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I don't remember how expensive.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
I remember, well, maybe the ones I looked at, because
I've said I've had them pop up in my feed
yeah before, but they're like hundreds of dollars. And I
keep trying to convince my husband and he's like, no,
I'm just gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, it's better, it's better, not it's better just to
do it the old fashioned way. And you know we
had we had forecats, and you should have at her box,
not that they are dedicated to their each litter box,
but if you have four catch you step four litter boxes.
If you have three cats, you have three litter boxes,
et cetera. So we had the more litter boxes you have,
you know, you can't fix them up with some fancy
(03:14):
dancy deal. So there was that also, but I find
I just get into his zone and I get to
get it done, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It's not a big deal.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Yeah, And how many cats do you have?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Well, well, so two months ago we had a cat
pass away, and now this cat is going to pass away,
so we're going from four to you know, now we
have three. And she is one of our favorites, the
one who's you know, really struggling right now.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So it's really really hard. What's her name is, Frenchie, Yeah, Frenchy.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
She's just the cutest and steffushe does occasionally comment because
I will make her the focus of an Instagram story
once in a while, and he oftentimes.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
So I love the way.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
You you make the video of them, like, it's so
cute because you show them all they're all hanging out
in their spot and you do the Mark Thompson voice.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Mark, here is Frenchie hanging out like the David Attenborough.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
Yes, here's Frenchie, and here is Charlie over here.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
It's like a SMR for cats.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yes, very good, very good reference.
Speaker 8 (04:20):
But he Mark, Yeah, oh I'm sorry, Fish go ahead, No, no,
I was gonna say, Mark, if you're going to cat Con,
you've got to send me a picture of the selfie
that you take with the Australian Firefighters.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Oh yes, I think you. I forgot about that. You
should send it to me too.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Chie, you guys should jump in the badmobiles and you
should get over there.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
I know I'm gonna call out and I'm just gonna
join you guys.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
There goes.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
That's a big.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Draw to the cat Con every year, and they are
so excited to have them come back. I interviewed Susan Michaels,
the CEO and founder of cat Con, about it, and
she was so excited that they're coming back. Gosh, it's
a fun event.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Are you cat? Do you wear cat ears?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I don't dress up in any costume now, but I
will tell you that it's great to be with all
those cat people because you know, it's a it's a
weird little gold vein of specific specificity, like a life
specific you know, meaning cat people are very specific people.
I mean people who are really into cats. And so
there are people who are way way more into cats
(05:31):
even than I am, but it just they have dedicated
their life to it.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
There's all this merch.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
It's it's a wondrous, very specific, almost comic con type.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yes, set up there.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
It's a very niche fandom.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Thanks, And that's exactly the word I wanted, nich And.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
I mean it's literally everything you could think of, from
cat toys to cat food, to like you said, cat litter,
to cat movies, cat wardrobe and clothing. Like there's fashion
stylists that come out and they show you these cat
dresses they've made and aprons and like, it's wild.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I never would have thought there could be so much
cat stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, it's crazy, but it just speaks to the fact
that they're part of the family. And dogs too, you know,
I mean I get it cats dogs, but that same
bond that you feel with your dog, you know, cat
people feel with their cats. And there is a special
kind of mystery and wonder to these wondrous creatures. Really
do love them. And so everybody going to cat Con.
(06:27):
I'll see you there tomorrow. And I love Conway's if
he's listening, he's going, Thompson, I heard you do like
nine minutes on the cats.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
What's going up?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Totally what I think? But he with those cats being.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Done with those cats.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
He talked to the cat con organizer also just last
week or earlier this week. So yeah, so I know
that he's and he told me, I think he said
it on the air that when he had to take
one of his cats in, he said it was, you know,
for the sort of the final goodbye, you know, to euthanize,
(07:03):
to put to sleep the cat. He said it was.
He's crushed. He said, I still can't drive by that
area of town. It's I mean, you know, Tim, for
all the cynicism, he's got a big heart and uh
and a lot of emotion there. So yeah, anyway, so
we're all we're all bonded to our creatures that way,
and they're they're part of our lives.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I'm going to go home right now.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
And my cat, Yeah, it's been to hug, hug, hug everything.
You love my friends. Yes, when we come back. It
is the summer of ticks. Apparently, the tick outbreak is
so bad that experts are scrambling to explain why the
explosion in tick bites and the tick bites are not
(07:48):
just tick bites, they're creating lime disease issues, and lime
disease is again reaching huge proportions and it's affecting the
Hollywood community. And we know when celebrities get illness, that's
when it gets serious because those celebrities, they are more
important than the rest of us. But it is wild
(08:10):
to see how many are afflicted by lyme disease and
have been bitten by ticks. Get to that and more
when we come back.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
On this Friday. Something to know. The explosion of ticks
this season. Apparently it's off the charts and Steffush, will
you fire up the wayback machine and we can listen
to this compelling report.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
It's been called the Summer of the Tick and this
exterminator is proof. He says he's never been busier.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
This has been by far the craziest season that we
have seen for the ticks.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
John Carlo DeAndrea is treating a yard on Long Island
that's swarming with ticks.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
If you're seeing a lot of animal populations in your backyard,
you have a high amount of vegetation, these are some
very very good tell tale.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Signs that you do have ticks present in your yard.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It's mostly in the northeast, though, isn't it. But this
is what's interesting if you look at tick infestations, and
the reason it's important is, of course because of lime disease.
We'll get to that in a second. Lime disease is
horribly debilitating illness. I had it, and it's really super
intense even when you catch it, and if you don't
catch it in time, it turns into a different kind
of illness.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
That's truly just the scourge of of health.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Anyway, to the point now, the tick population has spread west,
so they are way more ticks now in the West,
even in California than there used to be.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Experts say this unusually hot summer plus climate change are
leading to an uptick in ticks. Doctors say the increase
in ticks has led to more and more trips to
hospital emergency rooms for bites, which are at their highest
levels since twenty seventeen. Ticks are particularly now because they
can transmit illnesses like lime disease. Justin Timberlake's revelation that
(10:05):
he has lime disease is a big shock, but maybe
not too surprising for fans who came away disappointed at
his lacks of daisical performances at his recently concluded concert tour.
In a heartfelt statement, the singer says, living with this
can be relentlessly debilitating, both mentally and physically. I would
be on stage and in a massive amount of nerve pain,
(10:25):
or just feeling crazy, fatigue or sickness. Doctor Daniel Cameron
treats lime disease patients in Westchester County, New York. His
advice checked for ticks after an excursion in the woods,
lawn or grassy areas, and what should you do if
you are bitten?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
You should remove the tick.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Tweezers is the best, and the new sefety.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
But I would say this and this I know only
because I live this, and again I had lime disease,
and I'd give you a minute or two on that
in a second. But the vast majority of people who
get lime disease ever feel the tick bite, never identify
the tick it is.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
You can look it up.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I know way too much about this because I had
to live it, and I think it's obviously it's good advice.
If you have that you can actually identify the tick
and you know you see it on your body, then
you have to be careful about how you pull it out,
and then you follow those instructions as and they're probably
I don't know, maybe thirty thousand YouTube videos of how
to do it. But the reality is that you don't
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feel the tick bite most of the time, and so
when you contract lime disease, if you're asymptomatic, it's really
trouble because if you don't get lime disease treated within
I think there's a six week window, maybe it's two months,
it goes into a different stage of the illness, and
(11:49):
that's the stage it would appear that Justin Timberlake is
in and I wasn't aware of that, but this is
a it's really serious. I mean, it can it SAPs
you of your strength, It produces pain, it can cause
organs in your body to shut down.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
It's brutal.
Speaker 10 (12:07):
Justin Timberlake didn't miss a beat on his world tour,
but behind the scenes a different story. On Instagram, the
performer announced he has lime disease. He wrote, living with
this can be relentlessly debilitating, both mentally and physically. Fifty
seven year old Nina Turner knows how this feels.
Speaker 11 (12:23):
I mean there's some days you get up and you
just I just can't function today.
Speaker 10 (12:28):
Ten years ago, the Burbank resident visited New York shortly
after she felt like she had the flu. She recalls
an insect bite on the back of her knee, but
didn't seek medical care until months later when she woke
up and couldn't see.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
See this is the problem. I mean, listen to that
woke up and couldn't see it. Mirrors lime disease does
the flu. So you get an elevated fever maybe one
hundred one oh one. Mine was around I think one
oh one and a half, incredibly short throat, and then
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you can, and oftentimes do, get a number of other things.
There's a spiraling rash that you can get. You can
also run into issues with, for example, inflammation. You'll all
of a sudden get a lot of physical aches and pains.
But all of those things can be consistent with the flu.
(13:21):
And when I had lyme disease, I was at Cedar
Sinai and the doctor I was pretty new to LA
at the time. It was like nineteen ninety three or something,
and he said, I think it's just I think it's
the flu.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I'm mean.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
He sent me home with some antibiotics, so just in case,
it's a you know, bacterial thing.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
And ten days later I was on my back.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
My throat was incredibly sore, like you couldn't even swallow,
and all these other symptoms started to call, and he
had like a rationale for everything. Well, the reason your
throat is sore is because you've been lying in bed
for so long and you get gastric juices. That and thinking, no, dude,
this is serious. I was getting insanely intense headaches and
(14:04):
it was I mean, they tested me for HIV, they
tested me for everything, so this really can be an
illness that takes on sort of a mystery, you know.
And then finally, in my case, I woke up one
day and I couldn't walk because the joints in my
knees had blown up overnight. All of this time I
(14:24):
was working at Fox eleven. I was still like hobbling
to the set. Remember I only had to do the weather.
I can pull it together for two and a half minutes.
But they thought I had rheumatic fever. They didn't know
what it was. So this is quite consistent, these stories
of dealing with lime disease with what my experience was.
Speaker 12 (14:42):
Also, when she woke up and couldn't see.
Speaker 11 (14:45):
They put me in the hospital immediately and they thought
I may have a tumor.
Speaker 10 (14:49):
After a battery of tests, her diagnosis was confirmed.
Speaker 12 (14:52):
You have lime disease.
Speaker 11 (14:54):
And I said, I don't what is that like? What
does that even mean?
Speaker 13 (14:58):
It's a bacteria that's transmitted by exceptter they bite people.
Speaker 10 (15:01):
Your physician, Doctor Gabe Campion with Dignity Health Northridge, says
if you don't detect a bite after one to two days,
symptoms like headache, fatigue, and muscle eggs can worsen.
Speaker 13 (15:11):
You can have nerve problems, you can have paralysis your face.
You can have an irregular heartbeat.
Speaker 12 (15:16):
Tick bites tend to form a bullseye rash.
Speaker 10 (15:18):
If you can remove the tick right away, you can
avoid infection in its early stages. Lime disease can be
treated with antibiotics. Doctor Campion says prevention is the best strategy.
Speaker 13 (15:27):
If you're wearing long sleeves, long pants, that can help
a lot. And if you're using bugspray that can help.
To check your dog for a tick as well, because
the tick can be in the dog, and when you
pay your dog, you can go to you later.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I remember the doctor asking me early on in all
of these various constellation of symptoms that were stacking up.
I had a heart problem. Just what they're talking about.
It starts to take over your organs, is what happens.
And I had a heart problem, and he hooked me
up with one of these mono was like it looked
(16:02):
like the old school scar trek thing that they wear,
like the tri quarter.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Anyway, he asked, have you.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Been camping at all or have you been out and
the answer is no, I live in the city and
I haven't been camping.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
And then later.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
A different doctor, a rheumatologist, because, as I say, they
thought I might have rheumatic fever with this lime disease
because my joints were blowing up. It was quite extraordinary.
It's like a plague of some kind. She said, I'm
going to test you for lime disease, even though you
haven't been camping at all and you haven't been out
in the wilderness, et cetera. And the lime tighter came
(16:45):
back as positive. So that's when we started. And then
it was incredibly quickly handled. It was remarkable how quickly
the antibiotic knocked out the lime disease and all the
symptoms just ebbed away. It was really something. But it
it turns out I did attend a wedding back east,
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and it was an outdoor wedding, and they think that
the tick actually jumped off of a leaf onto or
some kind of vegetation perhaps onto my body, and I
never felt it. So it's not just camping and outdoors ing.
It can find you, particularly if you're traveling through August
in the eastern part of the country. But as they say,
(17:27):
now ticks are showing up more in the West. There's
far more of a tick population on the West than
there used to be.
Speaker 12 (17:32):
She got lime disease ten years ago.
Speaker 10 (17:34):
Nina says she's developed diabetes, chronic fatigue, and debilitating joint pain.
She's glad celebrities like Justin Timberlake are talking about this
because awareness can make a difference.
Speaker 11 (17:44):
And ivery time I see anybody that's out in the
woods or whatever, I'm like, please be careful, please pay attention, please,
you know, please look.
Speaker 10 (17:51):
Lime disease is not as prevalent in southern California as
it is in the Northeast and Midwest, but doctor Campion
warns ticks can carry other diseases.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
You know, amaze yeah, good times, good times everybody. I mean,
it's just something to be aware of. And as I say,
I mean, I'm joking of course about celebrities being more
important than we are, but the fact that celebrities have
this and have contracted lime disease. Justin Timberlake, Alexis o'hannian,
(18:22):
Yolanda Hadid, these are all people who have picked up
lime disease. Belahdide as well, Ryan Sutter.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Mark.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
When they say when a tick bites you, does that
mean when it embeds itself into your skin or do
they bite and run?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I mean I think it can. It can bite you
and fall out. I don't think it has to I
don't think it has to burrow in, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
It may.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
I don't know that the dynamic there, it might burrow
in for you know, a short time. But I know
that I didn't see any you know, any remnants of
the tick on me, and so I mean it's just
my experience, but I think it can bite you and
then you know, hit and run and it leaves behind
this bacteria which then cocoons itself and they call it
(19:10):
spiralkeating inside your body. And that's what makes it so
dangerous because once it does that, it's very hard to
get the antibiotic through to actually treat it, so they
have to put you on a rotating, constant stream of antibiotics.
So people like Justin Timberlake and other celebrities who have
this late line where they didn't get it in time,
they have to go through this, you know, sad continuous
(19:34):
treatment just to manage it. So, yeah, no fun. That's
how we talk about it.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Though.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
If there's an explosion this year and they think climate
changes might have something to do with it, two, just
the way things are warmer, there might be more of
a tick population explosion than there have been in years past.
All Right, it's the Conways Show, complete with my story
of lime disease. I always try to work in the
plagues that I've dealt with to try to give you
a real sense of life in America.
Speaker 9 (20:05):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Tim is away today, Mark Thompson sitting in on KFI
AM six forty live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, and
Heather Brooker is in the newsroom instead of Michael Krazer
Today that's right, Heather is. In addition to being a
fine professional who discharges the responsibilities around being a newsperson
(20:32):
with utter expertise.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Oh my goodness, thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I am intrigued by your side hustle. I promised that
we'd get into it, and I wonder if you could
tell me what it is?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
What is your only fans?
Speaker 4 (20:45):
My only fans is?
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Oh my gosh. I can just hear Brian, our program director.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Going no, no, it's not only fans. What is your
what is it?
Speaker 5 (20:53):
So?
Speaker 6 (20:53):
I do in addition to you know, journalism and intercovering
entertainment here at KFI, I also am standing of comic.
I do comedy and I'm having a show tonight at
the ice House.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
I love it and I would love for everybody to
come out and the show.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
And yes, sure it's the late show, so you know
it's gonna be a little more raucous than usual. You
know people will come out and ready to have a
good time.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Now, as a comic, do you like to play the
late show or is that a little dangerous like a
high wire act?
Speaker 6 (21:25):
I think, as an old lady, I would prefer to
do the earlier show.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
You don't have anything earlier, like five o'clock.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Five o'clock show.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Honestly, if it was at seven or seven thirty, I
will I'm basically going to be leaving right here and
going right to the club.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Why that's a classic room, the ice house in fashion.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Right to the clubs. The club.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Well, we're all doing that right, We're all even here
going right to the.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Clubs, right to the clubs.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Honestly though, I like doing the earlier shows, but the
late this will be a fun challenge for me to
stay up late and like joke around with people. I
love crowded interaction. I love it when people are having
a good time. And I think the other comics on
the lineup. I got to give a shout out to
Lynn Sun. She just got married, So it's Lynn Sun,
come Pani. She's going to be there, Sadequa Scarlett, Sabine
(22:12):
fund Aj, Alexander, a lot of great comics are going
to be there tonight on the lineup with me as well.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
So I want everyone to come out, have a few
dreams and lie.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Why fun When do you go on? Like? What time
will you be going? The show starts at what time? Eleven?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Did you say?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Okay? What time you go on. It's just real quick.
It's a great environment.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
It's very nice house close.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Yeah, it's it's so small, so you kind of got
that like in intimate vibe.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Right, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Well the room holds almost like ninety people the room
that we're in, and then the big room holds over
one hundred, but we're in the like medium medium to
smaller sized room and it is very intimate. You're right
there with the with the crowd, and it's a lot
of fun. It's a it's a good time.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
I will. I don't know what time I go on
until I get there.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
Usually I'm somewhere like in the middle or middle towards
the end, which is fine with me. I like to
go in the middle do my thing, and then I
can sit back, relax and enjoy the rest of the show.
You know what, I media, I bake it back into it.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Do you do parts of your act about your daughter,
about being a mother?
Speaker 4 (23:17):
I do a little bit.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
I talk about it a little bit. I talk about
family stuff, lifestyle stuff. Sometimes I talk about work a
little bit, but mostly I just keep it. It's it's
all very personal to me and my story, which I
think is I want to bring people along on the
ride with me and like find common ground, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
And you've asked the audience to call in and the
fifth caller will get the tickets to your show tonight
at the ice House and passive data. You want them
to mention their favorite comic. Who is your favorite comic?
I really love it, and please say Jay Leno.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
We do love Jay Leno. He's a classic.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
You know.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
My favorite comedians right now are a comedian called named
Mike Burbiglia.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Oh, of course.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
And I love Nate.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
BARGETSI yeah, Leanne Morgan just wonderful, very very funny comedians
who I feel like Arey. I've always loved Sarah Silverman.
I think they're very relatable. They tell micro Biglia is
a brilliant storyteller, and Nate and Leanne are so relatable
with their comedy.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I just absolutely love them.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
And they do a lot of self deprecating stuff all
those times, as you mentioned.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
So that's really great, all.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Right, Heather Brooker at the Ice House and passing in tonight,
one lucky caller, we'll get those tickets, but everybody else
head out there and to keep us posted on your career.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
When you're one person special comes out.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
We'll hope from out that. All right, you look at
this stuff, foush. You've got a side hustle. Heather's got
a side hustle. I need a side hustle. I've got
my YouTube show. I guess all right, it is the
Conway Show. I'm just very intrigued.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Who knew we gotta do what we gotta do around here?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
A big show business person.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
There you have birthing right there in the booth, a
huge careers to.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
So I gave those tickets away to Heather's show tonight
and good. I don't know who the winner was, or
I was curious as to their favorite comic.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Well, Richie, you want to tell him?
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Yeah, so her name is Claire, she said, Gary Larson.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Oh, Gary Larson, the cartoonist.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
I guess, Oh, maybe she meant thought we'd make comic strip. No,
I bet that's right. He is an American cartoonist.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Yeah, no, exactly, he's very.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Famoush I mean, I guess that's famous.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Miss stand up. Okay, it's a different kind of comedy.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Different kind of comic, But I'll take.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
It, but you can talk to her more at your
show tonight.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
Yeah, totally, Richie said, we had a ton of calls,
so thank you everybody for calling in and trying to win.
There's still a couple of seats available. We're almost sold out,
so if you do want to come, there's just a
couple of seats left, so go on.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I see, maybe next time we do the Oh, I'm sorry,
you want to be the website.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Ice House Comedy dot com.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Next time we do it, just a note, maybe say
stand up comics?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Okay? Is that of your favorite comic?
Speaker 4 (26:11):
I do not draw comics straight.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Yeah, but I mean if somebody else says Dunesbury next,
then the next I mean that you're gotta get Oh
wait a minute, what was yeah Dilbert, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Heather did mention that she has new materials she's trying
out tonight, so that should be exciting.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
That's always scary.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
It is a little scary.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
I was telling Richie and Steffush that I'm a little
You never know how the new stuff is going to go.
People are either gonna love it or they're not. And
so we'll see. You know, we gotta gotta put yourself
out there sometimes and just go with the fluff.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I just am impressed that you're up there at all.
I think it's really thanks. I think it's really a
courageous thing.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
See tonight, I'm after this shift. I'm literally gonna run home,
change clothes, and go to the go to the club.
So we'll see if I'm still awake by midnight.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
What do you wear on stage? You mentioned changing clothes.
You know, you can't just show up in whatever.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I mean, I think this is.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
A good question.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
I'm thank you for asking this because it is thing
I stress out about because you know, I'm an older gal.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
I'm mom. You know, I'm not young and hip like
some of the other comics they show up.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
You say, you're older, I mean compared to like.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
These twenty year old you know comics that are up there.
They're all wearing like really hip clothes and like they're
Chuck Taylor's and all this stuff. And I'm just a
mom in my like Lane Bryant shirt, you know. And
so i I'm just.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Like, well, you got to go with it, just you know,
you know, steer into the skid right right, That's it.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
So I'm like, it is, it is just me up there,
and I just dress comfortably.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
I learned that early on.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
When I'm not dressed in something comfortable, it makes me
more nervous. So I'd like to dress comfortably to be
able to be more comfortable with the audience. I'll probably
just wear maybe what I'm wearing.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
That that's the way to go.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Thanks, well, good luck, break a leg, Thank you, We're
all excited for you. You know, someone else who's a
mom who also seems to, you know, have to style
herself out for the cameras is Katie Porter. She is
running for governor of California, and Kamala Harris now saying
(28:05):
she's not going to run for a governor. And so
with Kamala Harris out the leading Democrat, I mean, again,
you can go back and forth as to who's really
going to most benefit, but I'd say no one is
in a better position to benefit more than Katie Porter
because she has an overlapping base of a lot of
national contributors that would have gone for Harris, let's say,
(28:29):
and now Harris no longer in the race, Porter is
just going to get all that money. So you know,
again she performs better than all Democrats. But Harris in
public polling, so I make her the front runner. But
they are running what is a crowded governor's race that
(28:51):
once again we'll see again Via Rogosa is going to run.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
And you have, you know, all of these.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Big name Democrats competing for money because sadly, that's our system,
you know, it's all it's all about the money. And
you had Tony Atkins, the former state Senate leader, and
Job Sarah is going to be the former Health and
Human Services secretary. He'll be in it. But again, these
are people who poll way below Katie Porter. So she
(29:25):
made her name with that, you know, the whiteboard and
the dry erase board that she brought before all of
these congressional committees, and she was appealing enough to win
a race in Orange County. She's going to have to
play nice with the Democratic establishment. That's going to be
(29:46):
the key for Katie Porter. So and once again, you know,
there is a donor fatigue they call They talk about
it in politics, they talk about it in charity. Those
of you who are involved in charity work, you know
this that you know it becomes harder and harder at
some point to squeeze dollars out especial especially with i'd
say with an economy that's anxiety producing anyway. So I
(30:13):
think this is going to be a very interesting race
for governor in California. I mean, even more interesting that
we've seen in a long time. And in losing Kamala Harris,
the Republicans lost something. They wanted to run against Kamala Harris.
They saw her as wounded, they saw her as damaged,
(30:34):
and they saw her as sort of representative of the
old administration, the old Democrats who no one likes. And
so when you look at a Democratic candidate like Kamala Harris,
if you're a Republican, you're thinking, well, this is a
race that we can definitely, if not win, score some
points and damage the Democrats in California.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Well while we're running.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
But now with Kamala Harris out, it's I think a
bit harder, but obviously we will see. I'm I was
a bit surprised because I thought it was sort of
a chip shot for Kamala Harris. But I didn't see
her on Colbert last night. I guess there are a
(31:19):
lot of shows I'm watching Fox News Channel and all
the rest, and they were, of course, they were going
after Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
But I didn't see her with Stephen Colbert.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I know she was good, she was bad, however, I
mean I can't imagine she was bad. I mean, you're
playing kind of on your home court. Colbert is in
on your team, and she's promoting a book. So that's that.
But the big news was this week the announcement that
she's not running. And that again, as I say to
me and I think to most people who are looking
(31:48):
in on the race for governor in California, it suggests
that Katie Porty, Katie Porter will be the big beneficiary
from all of that. It is The Conway Show when
we come back, and aing controversy over Jens Well, you
know things are good. If people are getting ticked off
about genes, the outrage is crazy. We'll touch on it
(32:14):
next Tim Conway Junior Show, Mark Thompson. Here we are
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
It's k IF. I am sixty and you're listening to
The Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
My house is a grim place these days. Man, I'll
tell you what for all of you. We've got a cat,
super sick, looks like she's dying, one of her favorite cats.
It's like the hardest thing ever. I know so many
of you have dogs and cats, and you know they're
part of the family, and it's just heartbreaking. You know,
every minute you spend I'm spending every minute with her.
(00:30):
You know, we're up all night and all that stuff.
And my other half, you know, we're we're just crying
with each other. It's just horrible. And on top of that,
Courtney's got a migraine today, so I couldn't wait to
get out of there.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I'd love to stay, but I've got to do the Conways. Sorry.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, the kitty can do without me for a few hours.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
But it is so heartbreaking.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Oh, it's the worst.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I'm a cat. I'm a total cat person or pet
person really.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Same cat daddy for sure.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
For sure.
Speaker 6 (01:02):
My cat died when like two days before my daughter
was born, and the doctors think that that's what sent
me into labor because I was so upset, you know how,
and you're in your ninth month and your hormones are
going crazy, Like it was hard for me to come
to terms with it and settle down, and of course
really hard time with it.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
So I love cats so much. I'm sorry to hear that.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, that's sweet on you know. In fact, I'm a
super big cat person too. I'm going to cat Con tomorrow,
which is that's good.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
You know about cat I did my niece were the
ones that were telling me about it. I'm so jealousy.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
You guys are going, we are totally going. Mark, what's
your favorite part about cat Con? I?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Well, you know, I like testing out all the different litters.
The cat I really enjoyed you like in.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Real life, You're like, let me just give this.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
A whirl, my babies, if you want to see like
the most automated litter deals and you know, they have
all of this, and I've tried. I gave up after
the third one, you know, because they all look great
on the Instagram ads that they serve you and even
in the demo, the live demo at CatCon, but they
(02:11):
can get they don't perform over time the same way
they do. And it's been a while. I'll tell you,
I haven't had an automated litter thing in probably ten years,
so maybe they've really improved the technology.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Have you tried it?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
The automated literally have.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
The rake thing. It's automated.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It rakes the litter for you and then it dumps
the you know, refuse into this little bucket that's kind
of attached to it.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
They look real. They're expensive, like they're.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I don't remember how expensive.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
I remember, well, maybe the ones I looked at, because
I've said I've had them pop up in my feed
yeah before, but they're like hundreds of dollars. And I
keep trying to convince my husband and he's like, no,
I'm just gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, it's better, it's better, not it's better just to
do it the old fashioned way. And you know we
had we had forecats, and you should have at her box,
not that they are dedicated to their each litter box,
but if you have four catch you step four litter boxes.
If you have three cats, you have three litter boxes,
et cetera. So we had the more litter boxes you have,
you know, you can't fix them up with some fancy
(03:14):
dancy deal. So there was that also, but I find
I just get into his zone and I get to
get it done, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It's not a big deal.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Yeah, And how many cats do you have?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Well, well, so two months ago we had a cat
pass away, and now this cat is going to pass away,
so we're going from four to you know, now we
have three. And she is one of our favorites, the
one who's you know, really struggling right now.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So it's really really hard. What's her name is, Frenchie, Yeah, Frenchy.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
She's just the cutest and steffushe does occasionally comment because
I will make her the focus of an Instagram story
once in a while, and he oftentimes.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
So I love the way.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
You you make the video of them, like, it's so
cute because you show them all they're all hanging out
in their spot and you do the Mark Thompson voice.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Mark, here is Frenchie hanging out like the David Attenborough.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
Yes, here's Frenchie, and here is Charlie over here.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
It's like a SMR for cats.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yes, very good, very good reference.
Speaker 8 (04:20):
But he Mark, Yeah, oh I'm sorry, Fish go ahead, No, no,
I was gonna say, Mark, if you're going to cat Con,
you've got to send me a picture of the selfie
that you take with the Australian Firefighters.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Oh yes, I think you. I forgot about that. You
should send it to me too.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Chie, you guys should jump in the badmobiles and you
should get over there.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
I know I'm gonna call out and I'm just gonna
join you guys.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
There goes.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
That's a big.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Draw to the cat Con every year, and they are
so excited to have them come back. I interviewed Susan Michaels,
the CEO and founder of cat Con, about it, and
she was so excited that they're coming back. Gosh, it's
a fun event.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Are you cat? Do you wear cat ears?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I don't dress up in any costume now, but I
will tell you that it's great to be with all
those cat people because you know, it's a it's a
weird little gold vein of specific specificity, like a life
specific you know, meaning cat people are very specific people.
I mean people who are really into cats. And so
there are people who are way way more into cats
(05:31):
even than I am, but it just they have dedicated
their life to it.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
There's all this merch.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
It's it's a wondrous, very specific, almost comic con type.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yes, set up there.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
It's a very niche fandom.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Thanks, And that's exactly the word I wanted, nich And.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
I mean it's literally everything you could think of, from
cat toys to cat food, to like you said, cat litter,
to cat movies, cat wardrobe and clothing. Like there's fashion
stylists that come out and they show you these cat
dresses they've made and aprons and like, it's wild.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I never would have thought there could be so much
cat stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, it's crazy, but it just speaks to the fact
that they're part of the family. And dogs too, you know,
I mean I get it cats dogs, but that same
bond that you feel with your dog, you know, cat
people feel with their cats. And there is a special
kind of mystery and wonder to these wondrous creatures. Really
do love them. And so everybody going to cat Con.
(06:27):
I'll see you there tomorrow. And I love Conway's if
he's listening, he's going, Thompson, I heard you do like
nine minutes on the cats.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
What's going up?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Totally what I think? But he with those cats being.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Done with those cats.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
He talked to the cat con organizer also just last
week or earlier this week. So yeah, so I know
that he's and he told me, I think he said
it on the air that when he had to take
one of his cats in, he said it was, you know,
for the sort of the final goodbye, you know, to euthanize,
(07:03):
to put to sleep the cat. He said it was.
He's crushed. He said, I still can't drive by that
area of town. It's I mean, you know, Tim, for
all the cynicism, he's got a big heart and uh
and a lot of emotion there. So yeah, anyway, so
we're all we're all bonded to our creatures that way,
and they're they're part of our lives.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I'm going to go home right now.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
And my cat, Yeah, it's been to hug, hug, hug everything.
You love my friends. Yes, when we come back. It
is the summer of ticks. Apparently, the tick outbreak is
so bad that experts are scrambling to explain why the
explosion in tick bites and the tick bites are not
(07:48):
just tick bites, they're creating lime disease issues, and lime
disease is again reaching huge proportions and it's affecting the
Hollywood community. And we know when celebrities get illness, that's
when it gets serious because those celebrities, they are more
important than the rest of us. But it is wild
(08:10):
to see how many are afflicted by lyme disease and
have been bitten by ticks. Get to that and more
when we come back.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
On this Friday. Something to know. The explosion of ticks
this season. Apparently it's off the charts and Steffush, will
you fire up the wayback machine and we can listen
to this compelling report.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
It's been called the Summer of the Tick and this
exterminator is proof. He says he's never been busier.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
This has been by far the craziest season that we
have seen for the ticks.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
John Carlo DeAndrea is treating a yard on Long Island
that's swarming with ticks.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
If you're seeing a lot of animal populations in your backyard,
you have a high amount of vegetation, these are some
very very good tell tale.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Signs that you do have ticks present in your yard.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It's mostly in the northeast, though, isn't it. But this
is what's interesting if you look at tick infestations, and
the reason it's important is, of course because of lime disease.
We'll get to that in a second. Lime disease is
horribly debilitating illness. I had it, and it's really super
intense even when you catch it, and if you don't
catch it in time, it turns into a different kind
of illness.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
That's truly just the scourge of of health.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Anyway, to the point now, the tick population has spread west,
so they are way more ticks now in the West,
even in California than there used to be.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Experts say this unusually hot summer plus climate change are
leading to an uptick in ticks. Doctors say the increase
in ticks has led to more and more trips to
hospital emergency rooms for bites, which are at their highest
levels since twenty seventeen. Ticks are particularly now because they
can transmit illnesses like lime disease. Justin Timberlake's revelation that
(10:05):
he has lime disease is a big shock, but maybe
not too surprising for fans who came away disappointed at
his lacks of daisical performances at his recently concluded concert tour.
In a heartfelt statement, the singer says, living with this
can be relentlessly debilitating, both mentally and physically. I would
be on stage and in a massive amount of nerve pain,
(10:25):
or just feeling crazy, fatigue or sickness. Doctor Daniel Cameron
treats lime disease patients in Westchester County, New York. His
advice checked for ticks after an excursion in the woods,
lawn or grassy areas, and what should you do if
you are bitten?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
You should remove the tick.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Tweezers is the best, and the new sefety.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
But I would say this and this I know only
because I live this, and again I had lime disease,
and I'd give you a minute or two on that
in a second. But the vast majority of people who
get lime disease ever feel the tick bite, never identify
the tick it is.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
You can look it up.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I know way too much about this because I had
to live it, and I think it's obviously it's good advice.
If you have that you can actually identify the tick
and you know you see it on your body, then
you have to be careful about how you pull it out,
and then you follow those instructions as and they're probably
I don't know, maybe thirty thousand YouTube videos of how
to do it. But the reality is that you don't
(11:28):
feel the tick bite most of the time, and so
when you contract lime disease, if you're asymptomatic, it's really
trouble because if you don't get lime disease treated within
I think there's a six week window, maybe it's two months,
it goes into a different stage of the illness, and
(11:49):
that's the stage it would appear that Justin Timberlake is
in and I wasn't aware of that, but this is
a it's really serious. I mean, it can it SAPs
you of your strength, It produces pain, it can cause
organs in your body to shut down.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
It's brutal.
Speaker 10 (12:07):
Justin Timberlake didn't miss a beat on his world tour,
but behind the scenes a different story. On Instagram, the
performer announced he has lime disease. He wrote, living with
this can be relentlessly debilitating, both mentally and physically. Fifty
seven year old Nina Turner knows how this feels.
Speaker 11 (12:23):
I mean there's some days you get up and you
just I just can't function today.
Speaker 10 (12:28):
Ten years ago, the Burbank resident visited New York shortly
after she felt like she had the flu. She recalls
an insect bite on the back of her knee, but
didn't seek medical care until months later when she woke
up and couldn't see.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
See this is the problem. I mean, listen to that
woke up and couldn't see it. Mirrors lime disease does
the flu. So you get an elevated fever maybe one
hundred one oh one. Mine was around I think one
oh one and a half, incredibly short throat, and then
(13:01):
you can, and oftentimes do, get a number of other things.
There's a spiraling rash that you can get. You can
also run into issues with, for example, inflammation. You'll all
of a sudden get a lot of physical aches and pains.
But all of those things can be consistent with the flu.
(13:21):
And when I had lyme disease, I was at Cedar
Sinai and the doctor I was pretty new to LA
at the time. It was like nineteen ninety three or something,
and he said, I think it's just I think it's
the flu.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I'm mean.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
He sent me home with some antibiotics, so just in case,
it's a you know, bacterial thing.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
And ten days later I was on my back.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
My throat was incredibly sore, like you couldn't even swallow,
and all these other symptoms started to call, and he
had like a rationale for everything. Well, the reason your
throat is sore is because you've been lying in bed
for so long and you get gastric juices. That and thinking, no, dude,
this is serious. I was getting insanely intense headaches and
(14:04):
it was I mean, they tested me for HIV, they
tested me for everything, so this really can be an
illness that takes on sort of a mystery, you know.
And then finally, in my case, I woke up one
day and I couldn't walk because the joints in my
knees had blown up overnight. All of this time I
(14:24):
was working at Fox eleven. I was still like hobbling
to the set. Remember I only had to do the weather.
I can pull it together for two and a half minutes.
But they thought I had rheumatic fever. They didn't know
what it was. So this is quite consistent, these stories
of dealing with lime disease with what my experience was.
Speaker 12 (14:42):
Also, when she woke up and couldn't see.
Speaker 11 (14:45):
They put me in the hospital immediately and they thought
I may have a tumor.
Speaker 10 (14:49):
After a battery of tests, her diagnosis was confirmed.
Speaker 12 (14:52):
You have lime disease.
Speaker 11 (14:54):
And I said, I don't what is that like? What
does that even mean?
Speaker 13 (14:58):
It's a bacteria that's transmitted by exceptter they bite people.
Speaker 10 (15:01):
Your physician, Doctor Gabe Campion with Dignity Health Northridge, says
if you don't detect a bite after one to two days,
symptoms like headache, fatigue, and muscle eggs can worsen.
Speaker 13 (15:11):
You can have nerve problems, you can have paralysis your face.
You can have an irregular heartbeat.
Speaker 12 (15:16):
Tick bites tend to form a bullseye rash.
Speaker 10 (15:18):
If you can remove the tick right away, you can
avoid infection in its early stages. Lime disease can be
treated with antibiotics. Doctor Campion says prevention is the best strategy.
Speaker 13 (15:27):
If you're wearing long sleeves, long pants, that can help
a lot. And if you're using bugspray that can help.
To check your dog for a tick as well, because
the tick can be in the dog, and when you
pay your dog, you can go to you later.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I remember the doctor asking me early on in all
of these various constellation of symptoms that were stacking up.
I had a heart problem. Just what they're talking about.
It starts to take over your organs, is what happens.
And I had a heart problem, and he hooked me
up with one of these mono was like it looked
(16:02):
like the old school scar trek thing that they wear,
like the tri quarter.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Anyway, he asked, have you.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Been camping at all or have you been out and
the answer is no, I live in the city and
I haven't been camping.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
And then later.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
A different doctor, a rheumatologist, because, as I say, they
thought I might have rheumatic fever with this lime disease
because my joints were blowing up. It was quite extraordinary.
It's like a plague of some kind. She said, I'm
going to test you for lime disease, even though you
haven't been camping at all and you haven't been out
in the wilderness, et cetera. And the lime tighter came
(16:45):
back as positive. So that's when we started. And then
it was incredibly quickly handled. It was remarkable how quickly
the antibiotic knocked out the lime disease and all the
symptoms just ebbed away. It was really something. But it
it turns out I did attend a wedding back east,
(17:05):
and it was an outdoor wedding, and they think that
the tick actually jumped off of a leaf onto or
some kind of vegetation perhaps onto my body, and I
never felt it. So it's not just camping and outdoors ing.
It can find you, particularly if you're traveling through August
in the eastern part of the country. But as they say,
(17:27):
now ticks are showing up more in the West. There's
far more of a tick population on the West than
there used to be.
Speaker 12 (17:32):
She got lime disease ten years ago.
Speaker 10 (17:34):
Nina says she's developed diabetes, chronic fatigue, and debilitating joint pain.
She's glad celebrities like Justin Timberlake are talking about this
because awareness can make a difference.
Speaker 11 (17:44):
And ivery time I see anybody that's out in the
woods or whatever, I'm like, please be careful, please pay attention, please,
you know, please look.
Speaker 10 (17:51):
Lime disease is not as prevalent in southern California as
it is in the Northeast and Midwest, but doctor Campion
warns ticks can carry other diseases.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
You know, amaze yeah, good times, good times everybody. I mean,
it's just something to be aware of. And as I say,
I mean, I'm joking of course about celebrities being more
important than we are, but the fact that celebrities have
this and have contracted lime disease. Justin Timberlake, Alexis o'hannian,
(18:22):
Yolanda Hadid, these are all people who have picked up
lime disease. Belahdide as well, Ryan Sutter.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Mark.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
When they say when a tick bites you, does that
mean when it embeds itself into your skin or do
they bite and run?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I mean I think it can. It can bite you
and fall out. I don't think it has to I
don't think it has to burrow in, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
It may.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
I don't know that the dynamic there, it might burrow
in for you know, a short time. But I know
that I didn't see any you know, any remnants of
the tick on me, and so I mean it's just
my experience, but I think it can bite you and
then you know, hit and run and it leaves behind
this bacteria which then cocoons itself and they call it
(19:10):
spiralkeating inside your body. And that's what makes it so
dangerous because once it does that, it's very hard to
get the antibiotic through to actually treat it, so they
have to put you on a rotating, constant stream of antibiotics.
So people like Justin Timberlake and other celebrities who have
this late line where they didn't get it in time,
they have to go through this, you know, sad continuous
(19:34):
treatment just to manage it. So, yeah, no fun. That's
how we talk about it.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Though.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
If there's an explosion this year and they think climate
changes might have something to do with it, two, just
the way things are warmer, there might be more of
a tick population explosion than there have been in years past.
All Right, it's the Conways Show, complete with my story
of lime disease. I always try to work in the
plagues that I've dealt with to try to give you
a real sense of life in America.
Speaker 9 (20:05):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Tim is away today, Mark Thompson sitting in on KFI
AM six forty live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, and
Heather Brooker is in the newsroom instead of Michael Krazer
Today that's right, Heather is. In addition to being a
fine professional who discharges the responsibilities around being a newsperson
(20:32):
with utter expertise.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Oh my goodness, thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I am intrigued by your side hustle. I promised that
we'd get into it, and I wonder if you could
tell me what it is?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
What is your only fans?
Speaker 4 (20:45):
My only fans is?
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Oh my gosh. I can just hear Brian, our program director.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Going no, no, it's not only fans. What is your
what is it?
Speaker 5 (20:53):
So?
Speaker 6 (20:53):
I do in addition to you know, journalism and intercovering
entertainment here at KFI, I also am standing of comic.
I do comedy and I'm having a show tonight at
the ice House.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
I love it and I would love for everybody to
come out and the show.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
And yes, sure it's the late show, so you know
it's gonna be a little more raucous than usual. You
know people will come out and ready to have a
good time.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Now, as a comic, do you like to play the
late show or is that a little dangerous like a
high wire act?
Speaker 6 (21:25):
I think, as an old lady, I would prefer to
do the earlier show.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
You don't have anything earlier, like five o'clock.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Five o'clock show.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Honestly, if it was at seven or seven thirty, I
will I'm basically going to be leaving right here and
going right to the club.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Why that's a classic room, the ice house in fashion.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Right to the clubs. The club.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Well, we're all doing that right, We're all even here
going right to the.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Clubs, right to the clubs.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Honestly though, I like doing the earlier shows, but the
late this will be a fun challenge for me to
stay up late and like joke around with people. I
love crowded interaction. I love it when people are having
a good time. And I think the other comics on
the lineup. I got to give a shout out to
Lynn Sun. She just got married, So it's Lynn Sun,
come Pani. She's going to be there, Sadequa Scarlett, Sabine
(22:12):
fund Aj, Alexander, a lot of great comics are going
to be there tonight on the lineup with me as well.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
So I want everyone to come out, have a few
dreams and lie.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Why fun When do you go on? Like? What time
will you be going? The show starts at what time? Eleven?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Did you say?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Okay? What time you go on. It's just real quick.
It's a great environment.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
It's very nice house close.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Yeah, it's it's so small, so you kind of got
that like in intimate vibe.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Right, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Well the room holds almost like ninety people the room
that we're in, and then the big room holds over
one hundred, but we're in the like medium medium to
smaller sized room and it is very intimate. You're right
there with the with the crowd, and it's a lot
of fun. It's a it's a good time.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
I will. I don't know what time I go on
until I get there.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
Usually I'm somewhere like in the middle or middle towards
the end, which is fine with me. I like to
go in the middle do my thing, and then I
can sit back, relax and enjoy the rest of the show.
You know what, I media, I bake it back into it.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Do you do parts of your act about your daughter,
about being a mother?
Speaker 4 (23:17):
I do a little bit.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
I talk about it a little bit. I talk about
family stuff, lifestyle stuff. Sometimes I talk about work a
little bit, but mostly I just keep it. It's it's
all very personal to me and my story, which I
think is I want to bring people along on the
ride with me and like find common ground, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
And you've asked the audience to call in and the
fifth caller will get the tickets to your show tonight
at the ice House and passive data. You want them
to mention their favorite comic. Who is your favorite comic?
I really love it, and please say Jay Leno.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
We do love Jay Leno. He's a classic.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
You know.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
My favorite comedians right now are a comedian called named
Mike Burbiglia.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Oh, of course.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
And I love Nate.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
BARGETSI yeah, Leanne Morgan just wonderful, very very funny comedians
who I feel like Arey. I've always loved Sarah Silverman.
I think they're very relatable. They tell micro Biglia is
a brilliant storyteller, and Nate and Leanne are so relatable
with their comedy.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I just absolutely love them.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
And they do a lot of self deprecating stuff all
those times, as you mentioned.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
So that's really great, all.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Right, Heather Brooker at the Ice House and passing in tonight,
one lucky caller, we'll get those tickets, but everybody else
head out there and to keep us posted on your career.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
When you're one person special comes out.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
We'll hope from out that. All right, you look at
this stuff, foush. You've got a side hustle. Heather's got
a side hustle. I need a side hustle. I've got
my YouTube show. I guess all right, it is the
Conway Show. I'm just very intrigued.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Who knew we gotta do what we gotta do around here?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
A big show business person.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
There you have birthing right there in the booth, a
huge careers to.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
So I gave those tickets away to Heather's show tonight
and good. I don't know who the winner was, or
I was curious as to their favorite comic.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Well, Richie, you want to tell him?
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Yeah, so her name is Claire, she said, Gary Larson.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Oh, Gary Larson, the cartoonist.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
I guess, Oh, maybe she meant thought we'd make comic strip. No,
I bet that's right. He is an American cartoonist.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Yeah, no, exactly, he's very.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Famoush I mean, I guess that's famous.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Miss stand up. Okay, it's a different kind of comedy.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Different kind of comic, But I'll take.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
It, but you can talk to her more at your
show tonight.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
Yeah, totally, Richie said, we had a ton of calls,
so thank you everybody for calling in and trying to win.
There's still a couple of seats available. We're almost sold out,
so if you do want to come, there's just a
couple of seats left, so go on.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I see, maybe next time we do the Oh, I'm sorry,
you want to be the website.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Ice House Comedy dot com.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Next time we do it, just a note, maybe say
stand up comics?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Okay? Is that of your favorite comic?
Speaker 4 (26:11):
I do not draw comics straight.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Yeah, but I mean if somebody else says Dunesbury next,
then the next I mean that you're gotta get Oh
wait a minute, what was yeah Dilbert, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Heather did mention that she has new materials she's trying
out tonight, so that should be exciting.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
That's always scary.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
It is a little scary.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
I was telling Richie and Steffush that I'm a little
You never know how the new stuff is going to go.
People are either gonna love it or they're not. And
so we'll see. You know, we gotta gotta put yourself
out there sometimes and just go with the fluff.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I just am impressed that you're up there at all.
I think it's really thanks. I think it's really a
courageous thing.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
See tonight, I'm after this shift. I'm literally gonna run home,
change clothes, and go to the go to the club.
So we'll see if I'm still awake by midnight.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
What do you wear on stage? You mentioned changing clothes.
You know, you can't just show up in whatever.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I mean, I think this is.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
A good question.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
I'm thank you for asking this because it is thing
I stress out about because you know, I'm an older gal.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
I'm mom. You know, I'm not young and hip like
some of the other comics they show up.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
You say, you're older, I mean compared to like.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
These twenty year old you know comics that are up there.
They're all wearing like really hip clothes and like they're
Chuck Taylor's and all this stuff. And I'm just a
mom in my like Lane Bryant shirt, you know. And
so i I'm just.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Like, well, you got to go with it, just you know,
you know, steer into the skid right right, That's it.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
So I'm like, it is, it is just me up there,
and I just dress comfortably.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
I learned that early on.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
When I'm not dressed in something comfortable, it makes me
more nervous. So I'd like to dress comfortably to be
able to be more comfortable with the audience. I'll probably
just wear maybe what I'm wearing.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
That that's the way to go.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Thanks, well, good luck, break a leg, Thank you, We're
all excited for you. You know, someone else who's a
mom who also seems to, you know, have to style
herself out for the cameras is Katie Porter. She is
running for governor of California, and Kamala Harris now saying
(28:05):
she's not going to run for a governor. And so
with Kamala Harris out the leading Democrat, I mean, again,
you can go back and forth as to who's really
going to most benefit, but I'd say no one is
in a better position to benefit more than Katie Porter
because she has an overlapping base of a lot of
national contributors that would have gone for Harris, let's say,
(28:29):
and now Harris no longer in the race, Porter is
just going to get all that money. So you know,
again she performs better than all Democrats. But Harris in
public polling, so I make her the front runner. But
they are running what is a crowded governor's race that
(28:51):
once again we'll see again Via Rogosa is going to run.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
And you have, you know, all of these.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Big name Democrats competing for money because sadly, that's our system,
you know, it's all it's all about the money. And
you had Tony Atkins, the former state Senate leader, and
Job Sarah is going to be the former Health and
Human Services secretary. He'll be in it. But again, these
are people who poll way below Katie Porter. So she
(29:25):
made her name with that, you know, the whiteboard and
the dry erase board that she brought before all of
these congressional committees, and she was appealing enough to win
a race in Orange County. She's going to have to
play nice with the Democratic establishment. That's going to be
(29:46):
the key for Katie Porter. So and once again, you know,
there is a donor fatigue they call They talk about
it in politics, they talk about it in charity. Those
of you who are involved in charity work, you know
this that you know it becomes harder and harder at
some point to squeeze dollars out especial especially with i'd
say with an economy that's anxiety producing anyway. So I
(30:13):
think this is going to be a very interesting race
for governor in California. I mean, even more interesting that
we've seen in a long time. And in losing Kamala Harris,
the Republicans lost something. They wanted to run against Kamala Harris.
They saw her as wounded, they saw her as damaged,
(30:34):
and they saw her as sort of representative of the
old administration, the old Democrats who no one likes. And
so when you look at a Democratic candidate like Kamala Harris,
if you're a Republican, you're thinking, well, this is a
race that we can definitely, if not win, score some
points and damage the Democrats in California.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Well while we're running.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
But now with Kamala Harris out, it's I think a
bit harder, but obviously we will see. I'm I was
a bit surprised because I thought it was sort of
a chip shot for Kamala Harris. But I didn't see
her on Colbert last night. I guess there are a
(31:19):
lot of shows I'm watching Fox News Channel and all
the rest, and they were, of course, they were going
after Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
But I didn't see her with Stephen Colbert.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I know she was good, she was bad, however, I
mean I can't imagine she was bad. I mean, you're
playing kind of on your home court. Colbert is in
on your team, and she's promoting a book. So that's that.
But the big news was this week the announcement that
she's not running. And that again, as I say to
me and I think to most people who are looking
(31:48):
in on the race for governor in California, it suggests
that Katie Porty, Katie Porter will be the big beneficiary
from all of that. It is The Conway Show when
we come back, and aing controversy over Jens Well, you
know things are good. If people are getting ticked off
about genes, the outrage is crazy. We'll touch on it
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