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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
KFI AM sixty. Conway showed five thirty today. Of course,
Mark Thompson is ear at every Tuesday, but at five
thirty today, we're going to meet a guy named Paul
and his wife Trudy is with him as well. And
he was another one of these heroes that saved Stephus's life.
And this guy has an unbelievable story.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I just couldn't believe it. I mean I just was
hearing it in the hallway. It's it's extraordinary.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
He thought, he this, He thought Steph Fusch was gonna
die even after they helped him. Yeah, I mean that's
how that's how, you know, touch and go. It was
with Steph Fusche, you know, getting saved or or passing
away on that free He called his wife.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
This is the one thing I will just relate to you.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I'm sure he'll mention this, but he said, uh, he
was on the phone to his wife and this is
going on. He sees this car turned over on its
side and it's already on fire, and he just sees
cars going by and he said to his wife, I
can't believe nobody's stopping. I've got to stop and see
if I can help. And then the rest of the
story you'll hear in about twenty minutes.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
But it was.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
It's an extraordinary moment where you're thinking, you know, I
have to do something.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
You know he did.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I don't know if that's an LA thing where people
drive by the accident. But you remember the footage that
came out over the weekend of the of the nine
or ten year old kid that was walking on the
monorail walking. Yes, okay, everybody stopped what they were doing
to try to save that kid, right, But that's Boston,
I think. I think it was in Boston or Maryland.
(01:36):
I don't know where. It was somewhere in these guys, Yeah,
but I don't know if that's an LA thing. You know,
we're on our phones. We'll figure out. You know, somebody
else will take care of that. Somebody will handle that.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
They're on their phones everywhere. I think that that is
also a circumstance. You see this little kid up on
a monorail that's right up above you, gets everybody's attention.
I don't know, to be fair, I think it, you know,
would have been the same way here.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I think stopping at an accident then takes a real guy.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
It takes a real sense of responsibility of one yea yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And we've had you know, four of the we will
now have talked to four of the five people who
were there that saved Steph Fusch's life, four guys and
one woman.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
And I'll not say I'll let him tell you how
we got in touch with him. In other words, it's
a good story, even how he ended up here. Yeah,
it is a good story, all right.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Carti B has been found factually innocent of the charges.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
What was the problem, Tim, Why was this whole thing happening?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I think they she got Cardi B got wild one
night and was accused of scratching a woman in the face.
I see, And they couldn't come to a settlement, so
they had to take up courtroom time. You know, there's
other bigger cases. I think they could have been handled.
But you know, I don't know. This happened years ago,
a couple of years ago. And so the verdict was
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handed down just moments ago. Cardi B innocent, absolutely.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
INNOCARTIB has been found not libel in a civil trial
brought by a security guard, and manti Alis claimed the
rapper cut her face and spat on her during an
altercation outside of a doctor's office. In twenty eighteen, Cardi
B maintained that she never touched the plaintiff, and just
minutes ago, the jury reached the verdict, finding Cardi B
not libel for any monetary compensation after deliberating for less
(03:29):
than an hour. And here's what the rapper had to
say outside of court just minutes ago.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
I'm not even playing around, even if I'm in my deathbed,
I swear to God, I will say it in my
death bed. I did not touch that woman. I did
not touch that girl. I didn't lay my hands on
that girl.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
She had like the Bill Clinton beats on there. I
did not have sex relations with that woman.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
I did not touch that woman. I did not touch
that girl. I didn't lay my hands on that girl.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
All right, And the jury decided that she didn't.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
So she's now a free woman to go on about
her day. I imagine though she paid a lot in lawyers.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Yeah, but maybe she could sue for legal fees.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Maybe that's possible. That's possible. All right, we have this
is interesting. Let me ask you a question Mark Thompson.
How often do you change the sheets on your bed?
Maybe once a month, once a month, okay, I if
I go, yeah, I think it's probably three weeks or
a month. Okay, I go once a week, and I
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can tell if it's eight days. I'm very particular. I'd
like to do it every night, but my wife thinks
that's crazy.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
Every night.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
I'd like like like a hotel. Yeah, because it only
because it.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Only takes four or five minutes and you have eight
hours of bliss of great sleep on brand new crispy is.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Better than clean sheets, right.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
But if you could do that in four minutes, you know,
while you're doing nothing anyway, I think that's the move
every night.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
I don't know. Stripping the bed. I don't know if
it's four minutes. Stripping the bed.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
We have this with the heavy blanket that now people like,
they like to sleep with the heavy blanket.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Are you familiar with Yeah, my wife has a blanket. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
So then you get the big bed with the big
weighted blanket, and you got to take all the other
things off, and then you got to I don't know,
it's more than four minutes, tim.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I can't the weighted blanket is interesting because it cannot
go in the washer, so it's uh, the dry clean
only I think it is. I don't think you can
put that kind of weight in your washer. Well, but
we walk down to we have a cover over it.
It's like, what is that a duvet? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Ye, so there's it's never really exposed to any kind
of dirt or whatever.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
And also there's nobody like it.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
We're not eating in bed and we're not I mean,
I don't know, but maybe the I don't know. It
just you've got me thinking that we're just you know, who.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Is the boardop belly? Oh you'll remember that screwed up
the day with duvet?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Was that Russell? No, I don't think it would russ
So I can't remember who. Oh no it was Elmer,
I think, oh yeah it was Elmer. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
When my first date, you know, she asked to use
the beday she likes to sleep with the bidet and
like what No, I think he said, I like the
cleanliness of a duvet or something like that.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
He was cleaning himself with the duvet. Oh that's what
it was. Yeah, he likes it.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, I like to clean myself after I go to
the bathroom with the duvet. I'm like, what, No, it's
his girlfriend. His girlfriend liked to wipe to clean herself
with the duvet. I'm like, wow, you are really you know,
accepting of odd behavior.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
How often is that happen? He goes, Wow, it goes
every day, you know, you know, like to clean herself
times a day. What a wild house?
Speaker 5 (06:54):
You know?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
A woman goes to the bathroom and then cleans herself
with the duvet. Man oh man, But so Belly only
asks you how often you change the sheets?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
If you don't mind me, ass, I honestly do it
once a week, once a week. Okay. I think that's
the rule of thumb. What do about you croze a
couple of weeks, A couple of weeks. Yea, not as
much as I should, but I'm getting better at it. Sammy,
at least once a week, at least once a week.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
My kind of guy.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
I make a mess on There is angel with us? Yeah,
on the Fridays every Friday.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
All right? I like that.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Let's find out how often you should do it, how
often you should change We use our.
Speaker 9 (07:31):
Bath towels, hang them to dry, and then we don't
give them a second thought until they smell.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Maybe so how oft now, just I think to saying
I we used, we're using fresh towels.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
And all the time, all the time, we have a
nine hundrel. I'm not sitting there and wait until they smell.
We have too many towels.
Speaker 8 (07:50):
So how often should you change them out?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Not as frequently as I would like?
Speaker 8 (07:54):
Two definitely for sure. What about bed sheets?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Okay, what about sheets? We come back, we'll give you
that answer. How often should you change your bed sheets?
My opinion, every day, every day, put on new sheets
and enjoy your life. Take you five minutes to do
it and you'll have eight hours of beautiful sleep. We're
live on or Thompson who is once a year. We're
live on KFI K If I am six forty, it's gone,
(08:20):
Michelle Mark Thompson is here?
Speaker 5 (08:22):
That all right?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
How often do you change the sheets on your bed? Well,
let's find out what the rule of thumb is. I
would like to do it every day. We do it
definitely once a week, and I notice if it's more
than once a week, it just feels man.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Tim is very good about it.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And I also I don't always do this, but I
do like to shower before I go to bed. Is
there's something nice about being cleaned before you go to bed.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I'm going to say something to you, and I'd forgotten
about it until just this moment.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
And it's a you're not a vegan.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
It's that when I come in on Tuesdays, I've noticed
something about you.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
You smell clean.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
No, you do? You smell like like some fragrance. Well
what is that? Are you coming right out of the
shower that's right here? Yeah, it's unreal. It's a consistent
feature of who appreciate that. No, it's absolutely true. And
I made a mental note today to ask you about it,
and I'd forgotten it until you just mentioned the sheets.
And you try to shower before you go to bed. Well,
(09:27):
how many showers then do you take every day?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I like to take a minimum of two. But I
also you know, we come in and we rehearse the show,
we write, We talked to the writers, the producers, you know.
At ten o'clock we have a zoom call that goes
on till noon. Then I come in, I put the belly,
and I and Stepfus and Crozier we'll put the audio
and the show together, and then I go home and
(09:52):
I shower at three twenty icee and I leave at
three forty and I'm here by three forty five. And
I like to I don't like to go out of
the house unless I'm clean and shaven.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I don't like to. Like once in a while, I
go to home deeper with a T shirt on. But
I don't like doing that because Mark, I, you know,
contrary to what you might think, and this is a
town of you know, movie stars and athletes and politicians
and writers and stuff like that. But I like to
(10:28):
have a nice shirt on and long pants on. If
somebody says, hey, dig dong with you. I don't like
to look.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Like a slop.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, you're representing your brand. Dad, Hey run, that's right,
that's right. I went through a Canes you know, that
chicken place? Sure, and the lady said, you know, what's
your name when you drive through? I said Tim, and
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she goes, and I forgot about it, and I drive
around my daughter with me, and I get to the
window where I pick up the chicken, and she goes, Tim.
I go ding dog, and my daughter puts her head
down and goes, oh my god. She goes, She goes, Dad,
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she just asked your name like five minutes ago, and
they wanted to get the order right. They don't recognize
you at all. I hit her with the ding dogs.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
That's very funny. That's very funny.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I thought it was all right. How often should you
change your bed sheets? Let's get into this.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
What about bed sheets?
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Probably once every two weeks? Oh my god. Yeah, what
a pig?
Speaker 8 (11:43):
Once every two weeks, once.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Every two weeks, God almighty. What do you do homeless?
Speaker 8 (11:50):
Your pillowcases?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
I try to change them at least once a week.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah, okay, yeah, you put your head on that thing,
for God's sakes every night.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
Important questions because.
Speaker 10 (11:59):
During the day, your your your your bodies accumulating environmental pollutants.
Speaker 9 (12:04):
Sweat, plus your did skin cells are all nutrients for
bacteria and fungus, and they attract dust mites.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Oh my god. You know what sounds horrible.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
When you dry something in the dryer, it's most it's
a lot of it that's caught in that vent is
dead skin. You know, O and uh, and you gotta
get You've gotta be cleaner in life.
Speaker 9 (12:24):
I think boards certified dermatologist doctor Hanley says, these microbes
can break down your skin's natural barrier.
Speaker 10 (12:31):
That might be a portal of entry for for these
types of bacteria.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
At makeup designery and burbank, artists change and clean towels
and brushes after every single use.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Okay, I get that.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, that's that's a yeah, that's not a You know
what bothered me is the old when you get your
hair cut, the combs that come out of that blue solution.
Oh sure, Oh my god, I thought, oh how many hair.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I thought that blue solutions like a way to kill
all the germs.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Yeah, I don't know, but how often they change the
blue solution A good point. I don't know the story too.
In addition, tell the sheets, I hope.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
So oh Santitation is number one in beauty.
Speaker 9 (13:08):
Well, doctor Lee says, you don't have to be that strict.
There are general rules for bathtells. She recommends changing them
after two to three uses.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Okay, two to three uses. I might go four to five.
I might go five five maybe.
Speaker 9 (13:24):
But if your bathroom is so humid, your towels, don't
try get a new one.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Who has a bathroom that's so humid the towels don't dry.
We live in a desert. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Maybe this is a national Maybe it is so, maybe
it is. Maybe it's coming out of DC and the
swamp Land, Maryland.
Speaker 8 (13:41):
But if your bathroom is so humid your taels, don't.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Try and get get a construction guy over there to
work that out, get a new one.
Speaker 10 (13:49):
It could be a good environment for mold or bacteria
to linger.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
I always I.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Have noticed that when I went to Florida to visit
a friend. When you put your towel up on the
shower at night in the morning, it's still wet, you know,
because it's so humid there it doesn't dry, but here
they should dry pretty quickly.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
I always prefer to never wipe myself off with a
wet towel, just because it's like that just doesn't feel sanitary.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah, like three hundred and thirty other million people in America,
this guy just told us that he doesn't like to
dry off with a wet towel. To never wipe myself
off with a wet towel, just because it's like that
just doesn't feel sanitary.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Yeah, you're nailed it, nailed right.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
So you have to change it more.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
If your towels don't dry.
Speaker 8 (14:27):
Yeah, basically, what about your bed shoots?
Speaker 10 (14:30):
The general recommendation is about every week, maybe even more
often if it's on your the pillow case.
Speaker 8 (14:38):
That's the general rule.
Speaker 9 (14:39):
But she says it all depends if you get night sweat,
sleep with a pet or with someone else.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
You know, you may I'm going to step up our
sheet changing game right as a results.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Yeah, I'm going once a week now, I really am. Okay,
Now who changes them? Will you do that? Or is
that no?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
We have a lovely lady lady who comes in a
special sheet changer. I mean, just like you know when
you pull into the pits and they do all the
tires and stuff. You don't get out of the car
and help them with the tires. They go in there
special tire changing specialists. That's what I have for the sheets.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
You know what bothers me is when I watch NASCAR,
they put twenty gallons of gas in four seconds, and
yet we all sit at that pump for ten minutes.
They can't extend that service to us. We've got to
sit there and wait and wait and wait and look
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around to see who's going to wipe you out.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
That's pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Well, shouldn't that shouldn't that that technology has been around
for thirty years? Sure in Nascar? Yeah, and they can't
help us out at Arco or Shell.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Well, I'm sure they feel like, hey, you know, you're
actually getting into your car pretty quickly. Believe it or not,
I get it. It's not as quick as Nascar, but
it's pretty quick.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I want it quicker.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
You may need to change your sheets more frequently.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Oh, all right, here we go.
Speaker 8 (15:55):
It's a lot of laundry to keep linens fresh.
Speaker 9 (15:58):
Doctor Lee says, go to bed and that means washing
your face or showering every night.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
There you go ding dong with these showers and.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
Look for breathable materials like Nashville.
Speaker 10 (16:11):
Hotton linen, bamboo sheets that tend to have a little
bit of an antimicrobial property to it.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
What kind of sheets?
Speaker 10 (16:18):
Bamboo sheets?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Who is bamboo sheets? I think that's the thing. I
don't mean she had served me on Instagram and stuff. Yeah,
isn't that hard?
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Or No? I mean I guess it's you know, it's
made from now.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
I say that, but they're not, Doctor Li says, when
in doubt, change it out.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
Denistador, ABC seven.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
New it was local Steckler used to say he bought
these really cheap sheets. I think he said the thread
count was nine and it was like sleeping on tennis nets.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
It's it's a funny reference. All right.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
When we come back, we have the hero, another hero
that has saved the day. His name is Paul and
his wife's name is Trudy. I believe, Yeah, but no
intruding the.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Way that he found his way to us being in
touch with him.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
That in itself is a story. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
And of course the story of what happened with Stefush
is also it's riveting.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
And he thought Stephush was gonna die. Yeah, he said
that even after they saved him. Right, that's crazy. Bellio,
I hope you're okay. You know it's it is. It's
an emotional story. It is Forbellium. She really has a
you know, yeah, you're gonna make it. You'll be okay, Okay,
all right, you can outside. You have to stay in
for this.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
We live on KFIM six forty. It's Conway and Thompson.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Hem six forty. It's Conway Mark tombs.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
It is here and we have met another one of
these beautiful people who saved Steph Fusch's life.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
And he's with us with his wife, Trudy. Paul Raffino.
How are you, Paul.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
I'm doing well, Tim, Thanks, yes.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Man, oh man.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I want to know everything about that day, how it happened.
I you know what you were doing. But first your
background are born and raised in.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
La born and raised in La Pele RIVERA.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Okay, all right? And then and and uh, and you
work for a huge company north of Gremmen. They make
a lot of the fighter jets.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Yes they do.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Yeah, that's a big business, it is. And you got
to get those right, we do?
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Yeah, can be wrong.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
What do you make the F eighteens hornets?
Speaker 5 (18:31):
The hornets? Yeah, that's coming to a close at the
end of the year. So oh it is almost forty
years and.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Wow, do you have the next contract for the newer planes?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
We hope. So we've got a few.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
And these are stell fighters.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
No, those are a little bit different.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Okay, did you guys make the was a McDonald Douglas
that made the d C ten, wasn't it.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
That's commercial?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Yeah, and they don't make those anymore.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Oh, I don't know what they do.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
To be honest, I'll tell you a quick story about
the DC ten.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Then I want to I want to spend as much
time talking about Steph as possible. I never get high
because I get paranoid. And my buddy of mine, I
was going to go to New York for a job interview.
He said, hey, hey, take a couple of hits of
a joint before you get on the plane, and you'll
fall asleep and you'll laugh. You'll enjoy the ride. I said, oh, okay, So,
like an idiot, we're taking overnight flight. Red Eye leaves
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midnight at Lax, gets in at four or five o'clock,
six o'clock in the morning New York. So a couple
of hits get on the plane, and you know these
wide bodies they shake as they leave. As they take off, Well,
the luggage racked. The luggage compartment was shaking, and I
pulled my hand up to see if I could reduce
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the noise, and it went away. So now I am high,
and I'm like, oh, I'm holding this plane together from
here to New York.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
I can't let go.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
And I held that luggage rack until New York and
the flight time, Rekabai goes, sirre you okay? But yeah, yeah,
I'm just stretching here, just holding the flight together, baby,
holding everybody's life in my hands. I'm like, oh, where's
the guy that's been high for his first the flight?
That guy, that guy over there, you're a real hero.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
I was.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I saved the fight. Look you think you saved the guy.
I saved three hundred and eighty five people.
Speaker 10 (20:16):
On this side.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
You know the t w A gonna have gone down,
all right? So it take us through the day that
this all happened. It was it was three weeks ago
tomorrow to the day after tomorrow, I believe. And as
on the one oh five east, were you going east
on the one five.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Now going to one oh five? Yes, yeah, going. I
was actually going to football practice. I coached high school.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Oh that's right. You coached for what school? Pioneer High
School and Whittier Pioneer Okay.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
And you were from Whittier, Lahabra, Whittier Okay, and Pioneers
a good school. Well I was at Lahabra for which
is even a better school.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Well if we don't see that, no, I really love
the kids that I'm working with right now. They're great
young man, and it's are you the head coach? No, No,
just a good friend of mine's running the organization. Okay,
with two of them. One's getting ready to retire, Chuck
high school friend of mine runs the programs. Done an
amazing job, right and defense working the defense. Okay, So
(21:19):
I do help a little bit on both sides of
the ball. But been I've been doing this for thirty
three years.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, I've noticed that defensive coaches in college and the
pros get angrier than the offensive coaches.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Well that's a little bit more frustrated.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah, because you know, especially when you let up a
fifty eight yard bomb because I told the guy a
million times not to do that.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
That's the problem of being the defensive back coach. You know,
you're a receiver coach and the kid drops the pass, Well,
they're not looking at the coach looking at the kids.
You're the defensive back coach. They're not looking at the kid,
They're looking at the coach.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
It's a it's a really cutthroat business being on the
defense because your whole life is preventing somebody from doing
this exactly, all right, So you're driving eastbound and you
see the accident.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
I was on the phone with my wife and I
just saw the car just on its last teeter and
I'm I'm saying, honey, I there's a car on its
end in the middle of the freeway and no one's stopping.
And that was shocking in itself. I mean people had
I know, an individual had seen it that stopped. So
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I pulled over right away, and you know, I jump
over the little barrier right there was up going on
the one ten.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Oh yeah, on the diamond.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Lane correct, So uh got out, jumped the wall. I
saw a gentleman running down up the off ramp there.
Another gentleman got up as we got there, kind of simultaneously,
a gentleman tried to open the door, the passenger door,
because it was he was on the side.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
It was it was on its end, on the driver's side.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
So a gentleman tried to open the top of the
or the passenger side, and the car was already on fire.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Wow. I didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Yeah, it was already flames coming out of the engine.
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
You had to work quickly.
Speaker 9 (23:10):
You know.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
It's funny how it all worked out. Everybody had their
own little part in this. Nothing was said, much was said.
We all did our thing, and and so you know,
as we're kind of sitting there, standing there, and I'm thinking,
I said to the guys, I said, we got to
get this car over on its end or he's not
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going to make this.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
We gotta because his left arm was stuck under the door.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
I had no idea about that. Ok, I had no idea.
Just if we didn't get him out, that car was
going to go up in flames fairly quickly. It was
already in flames. So we it took us about three
pushes to get it over on its end. And as
we're doing that, I was telling Sharon, I said, you know,
the last thought I'm thinking is, wow, this thing goes
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right now. You're all good, Lord, This last thing that
I do on Earth is gonna hopefully get me the
key to Habit.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
So all resolved, That's right.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
So when you push it over, did you have to
drag him out of that car?
Speaker 5 (24:14):
You know, it's kind of a blind thing. I think
the guys open it up frohim. They a couple of
the guys helped him out, and I looked at him
and I saw his arm right away and it was
as graphic as you can ever imagine. My god, all
I saw, as I think I shared earlier, was is
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all his muscle and skin was hanging from the backside
and it was nothing but skeleton.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Oh, oh my god.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
First thoughts were, you know, I said a quick prayer.
I said, there's no way he's going to survive this,
and bleed out. I thought, so the guys that were helping,
quick thinking turn aquit. I'm sure they told you the
same thing. There's a lady that I work with, and
I shared this story with her that I was going
to come. She said, not to mention her name, but
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she's the one that wrapped her arm. Oh really, we
all would get in some of our rags, clean rags
from our vehicles and just using them for the tourniquits
that the guys did. They did a great job on
doing that.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
And luckily there was a nurse there that said, don't
pour water on that arm.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
You know what I was by that time, I was
kind of directing traffic. It was. It was messy.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Yeah, it's an interesting thing.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
You were mentioning to me in the hallway that there
were after you made that sort of initial observation that
no one had stopped, and you were you know, you
got there and the door was pulled open and said
you got the car back over that there did. Then
a group started to form, and that's when you felt like,
I can be a better use now just correcting correct traffic.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
And I did mention, yeah, there's too many hands on.
We only need a couple to do it. And they
were doing what they they did well. I think there
was a gentleman that said, uh, you know, I just
took some classes for first aid. Another gentleman came with
a little first aid kit and I told him that's
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not going to help us right now. You know, this
is not good.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
But I like when people do that.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
They showed up with their box of band aids and
you go, his head's off like, I don't know what
you're gonna do.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
With the band aids. But the intent was there.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Yeah, I get that.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Man.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Oh man, I'm glad that you stopped. You know, hundreds
of people past that same accident didn't stop.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Now that's what was mind blowing. Yeah. I was telling
my wife, I says, I got to get out. There's
no one stopping here. You know, you know if you
see a group of people pushing it.
Speaker 11 (26:43):
Over and on hand already all right, and I think
you know, I think that comes from and again, Paul
Raffinos with us, I think that may come from you
working with kids and helping.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Kids your whole life too.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
That's a passion. Yeah, you know, I love my own
two children. I love my family very much. But it's
you know, you meet a lot of people, especially young
men that are are single family homes. Football is a
life lesson sport. It's truly a life lesson sport.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
And the coaches really do play oftentimes father figure to
those shit kits that you're talking about, right.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Yeah, Yeah, it's a it's a different it's a different
game dealing with some of these young men. You know,
the stories I could tell you off off the air
would flora. But you're trying to be a mentor a
father figure some sort, someone that can trust.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Sure, Paul, can you stay with us, of course? Okay,
we come back. I want to talking about how you
found out that you were one of the heroes that
we're looking for. All right, it's Connorway show, Mark Thompson's here, Paul.
Is whether it's truly Rafino as well to Paul, saved
Stephusch's life, was involved heavily in saving Stephusch's life. If
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these guys didn't stop, Stephu would have burned alive in
that car. And I know it's it, you know, I
hate to say that, but it's true, and I think
it paints a better picture that we're not just bsking you.
This could have been the worst the worst case scenario.
We're live on KFI AM six forty KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
It is the Conway Show.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Mark Thompson is here, Paul and Trudy Raffinoa with us.
Paul is one of the heroes that saved Steph Fusch's
life a couple three weeks ago tomorrow on the one
oh five Freeway east bound to the one ten northbound,
the car caught on fire. Luckily, five people stopped. Four
guys and a woman stopped by and pulled him out
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of that car while it was on fire and saved
his life. And Paul was one of them. And very
fortunate that you were driving by. And how did now,
how did you did you know that we were looking
for you? Did you know you saved somebody's life that day?
Speaker 5 (28:54):
No, again, and I have a hard time with that,
so please forgive me. Okay again, I'm I'm struggle with
the fact I don't look at it that way.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I think, how about if we do it this way,
you cost him a lot of money by not pulling
him out and putting that fire out. How about that run?
Speaker 3 (29:12):
But right is the reality is just to be to
be fair and just to help you get to this
place that if you don't stop, the car becomes consumed
by the blaze pretty quickly, and so you don't stop
and then help the others who are there, and they're
just a couple of people to get the car back
onto where you could swing the door open. I mean,
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I hate to say it, but it happens to be true.
That's defouche very probably would not have survived.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Yeah, more ways than one. I again one, like I said,
the car was already on fire when it was on
its side, and I was running up to the car
and you can see flames coming out of the hood.
Had no idea it was electric or gassed, and.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Fortunately was light where you can push it over. Yes,
you know, with some make some kind of suv. But
but all right, so you arrive on the scene, you
pushed the car over and and you know, but even
after you pulled him out, you didn't think he was
going to survive.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
No.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
I just looking at his arm, I said, I said
to myself, there's no way that he's going to survive. Wow,
I don't know how. I again, from what I saw,
it was all skeleton, with everything just it was an
ugly mess.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
And then I said, does that haunt you? Can you
see that I do.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
I haven't slept very well, haven't slept very well. I
just want to see how he's doing. I wanted to
talk to him. And that was the whole premise of
how I tried.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Okay, okay, well, before we get into that. He we've
raised a lot of money. Maybe he can help you sleep,
a better mattress, maybe some pillows, a heavy blanket, whatever
you need, you know, take it out of his cash.
But how did you know that we're looking for you?
Speaker 5 (30:56):
The next day I went to work and I was
still kind of in shock. Shared the story with Trudy,
and then the next day I shared a story with
one of the guys at work, one of my leads,
and I said, Rich, you're not going to believe what
happened yesterday, told him the story. Very next day, he
comes up to me. He says, Paul, you're not going
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to believe what I heard last night. He says, what
did you hear? He goes, I listened to the Tim
Conway Junior Show. And I go, really, he goes, yeah,
he goes, I loved his dad. I love you too.
That's great man, And he says, and they were talking
about this accident. Well, evidently he's a producer on the show.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
And I says, oh, wow, that's great. Now I can
try and find out how he's doing.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Right.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
I told my wife, I said, I need to know
how he's doing, if he survived, if his arms, you know,
I didn't think he wasn't even have an arm.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Well, you know what a side story to that is
he was in the hospital and his license, his registration,
everything who that could identify who he was burned up
in the car. So we didn't hear from him all day.
We went looking for him that night and he was
listed under John Doe in the hospital until ten o'clock
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that night, and his parents had no idea where he was.
We had no idea where he was, and we finally
found him. Barbara, his mom found him at a local
hospital and she and he was he was put under,
really called in debated, and they didn't think he was
going to make it.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
Yeah, I don't again, and I don't even know, you know,
talking to him, he was kind of in a state
of shock. Obviously, I'm hoping he was because that might
have been just him too well. But you know, and
I've said this to Sharon, he is the most courageous
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of anyone that was there was him.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Oh was that right? Just to go through what he
went through? Yeah, very sweet man.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
I mean, I'm sure he saw his arm, but I'm
not sure if he was you know, the situation.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Yeah, but I can't thank you enough.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Man.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
That was really cool.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
And anytime, any what we can do anything for you,
you know, if you're about to win the city championship
and you know, we can get to the referees whatever,
you know what I mean, how things.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
Work, I will enjoy that.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Who do you play this week? Who you guys playing?
Speaker 5 (33:23):
This week? We play Magnolia High School? Any good? We're home,
hopefully we're better this week?
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Who'd you play?
Speaker 5 (33:31):
Last week? We played Luera High School? We won twenty
one nothing.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Oh good, okay, excellent, all right, excellent, But I really
appreciate you coming in and Truty very nice to meet you.
You guys will always be a you know, we always
will always owe you a favor, no matter what it is.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
Just give him my best and give him my number.
I would love to speak to him.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Oh good, okay, all right, we will do that. All right.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
He'll probably hitch you up for a couple of bucks.
All right, all right, thank you very much. Paul and
Trudy Rafino, thank you very much, really wonderful plays both you.
We're live on KFI AM six forty Conway Show on
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