December 18, 2024 • 33 mins
In this hour of the show, Mark wraps up the discussion on budget airlines with Frontier’s $299 'Go Wild Pass' and delves into the growing Mega Millions jackpot, now at $825 million. And a prior jackpot winner’s bold claim of buying two winning tickets sparks debate.Mark also examines California’s EPA-approved ban on new gas-powered car sales by 2035 and speculates on the Trump administration's potential response.The hour continues with a look at Trump’s Cabinet picks, including Herschel Walker's appointment as Ambassador to the Bahamas, and vaccine mistrust’s devastating effects, from measles epidemics in the Congo to polio vaccine controversies in the U.S.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
A six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It
is The Conway Show. Tim is away, Mark Thompson sitting
in and it's a really cool to be here. I
promised you before the break i'd tell you about the
Go Wild Pass. So the Go Wild Pass. You're talking
about different changes that are going on in discount airlines,
and basically what it boils down to is that the
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Spirit Airlines, the Southwest Airlines, the frontier airlines of the
world are realizing that travelers want comfort and that's really
where they're ending up. They're ending up with airlines that
give them some degree of comfort. So the kind of
you know, sit down, shut up, and I'll tell you
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when you can stand and get off the flight that's
kind of wearing thin. So frontier airlines anyway, that's why
you're getting them assigned seating. For example, at Southwest it's
have we talked about it last hour, But Frontiers a
frontier airlines is offering and all you can fly pass
for just twenty nine dollars. Now, the way it works
is The go Wild Pass offers unlimited flights for just
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two hundred and ninety nine dollars a year, but you
have to sign up during the pre sale. It ends
this presale December eighteenth. What's today? I think? Does it end?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
What is today? Isn't today the eighteenth? Today's the eighteenth,
That's what I thought.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
So this has to You've got till eleven fifty nine
mountain standard time. Why do they pig mountains standard time?
I guess that's where their office is. I mean they're
Frontier Airlines, Okay, I get it. So on the frontier,
they're on mountain airlines. They're a mountain time, so that
would be I think ten to fifty nine our time. Anyway,
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if you don't get it in by the end of
this December eighteenth day in mountain time at eleven to
fifty nine pm mountain time, the price increases to four
hundred ninety nine dollars. So again to review, you can
get it now for three hundred dollars two ninety nine
for the whole year, and after that the price goes
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up to four ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Now what does that mean.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It means that you can book tickets on select Frontier
flights for a penny. You have to pay any taxes
and fees associated with that airfare, but the actual price
of the ticket is just a penny. There are other
restrictions worth noting when buying into the deal, like the
pass holder cannot reserve siegs. The fare doesn't include a
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carry on or check bag, so they're gonna nickel and
dime you a little bit. But their Go Wild Pass
on Frontier Airlines, they say, will allow travelers to make
reservations the day before a departure for domestic travel and
ten days before the departure of international flights. They fly
to the Caribbean, they fly to Mexico, Latin America, all Frontier.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Flight destinations.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
The pass is valid for travel from May twenty first
of the New Year twenty twenty five and April thirtieth
of twenty twenty six. So again, you buy the pass
and then it kicks in May first and it's valid
until April thirtieth.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
It's the Go Wild Pass.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I mean, it really makes sense if you're traveling internationally too.
They're headquartered in Denver, I'm seeing, which is why they're
on Mountain Standard time. But this is your last day
I've got to run the arithmetic on this, but it
seems like it might be a pretty good deal if
you can get in for three hundred dollars and then
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for each flight you pay just a penny plus applicable taxes.
I don't see where the hitches anyway, that's the go
wild pass. Frontier Airlines tell them you heard it from me,
mentioned my name and I was like, oh, well, Mega
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millions the jackpot winner.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
There's been controversy. It's pretty crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
There is no Mega Million's winner as you know yet
the latest megam there are a couple of one hundred
thousand airs, I think right, but no actual winner of
the of the big deal, of the jackpot, of the
pot of gold. But a couple of one hundred thousand airs.
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And we are near an all time high with the
Mega millions eight hundred and twenty five million dollars. Pretty incredible.
But the other incredible thing is the controversy that's cropped
up that there could be any dispute about a Mega
Million's jackpot winner who claims that he bought winning tickets.
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Might he have a case? I'll give you details on this.
What he's saying, what they're saying and what we're saying.
There's a lot being said, and we'll get to it
all as we continue.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
It is a Conway show, The Mega Millions controversy.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Next, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I hope your holiday plans are going well. The Mega
Millions jackpot eight hundred and twenty five million no winner.
There were a couple of one hundred thousand, two hundred
thousand dollar winners, but what's happening now with Mega Millions
is fascinating. There is a jackpot winner who claims that
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he bought winning tickets but hasn't been paid off.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
It's a court case.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
We have an update tonight on the mystery of the
missing lottery ticket. The gas station in Encino sold two
winning tickets for the same drawing last year. A man
claimed the first ticket, but no one claimed the second one.
That second ticket expired this weekend, and now the man
who purchased the first one claims he actually bought both
tickets and wants all the money. Well. The man has
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filed the lawsuit saying he lost the second ticket. He
says he's played the same numbers for thirty years and
should get the remaining one hundred and ninety seven million dollars.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Wow, that's definitely a court case worth bringing if there's
a pot of gold of one hundred and ninety seven
million at the end of it. The tickets are purchased
on this December afternoon at the same gas station in
the Nsino in twenty twenty three, he says he bought
both of them. His attorneys have filed what they call
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a breach of contract suit. They're saying that there was
sufficient evidence to figure out that he was the rightful
owner of the missing ticket and that his claim was
submitted in time to get the payout. So there are
attorneys weighing in on this, and one of the attorneys
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who weighed in as a criminal defense attorney, said, this
is a head scratcher to me, she said, because part
of the story makes a lot of sense, but another
part doesn't make any sense. The chances of winning a
Mega Million's jackpot just so were clear one in three
hundred million, fractions of fractions. But the fact that the
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winning tickets were sold at the same store, something that
lottery officials say never happened before, might actually support his claim.
The California Lottery isn't going to agree to hand over
nearly two hundred million dollars on the basis of what
may have happened. Might have happened, the probability that somebody
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buys the exact same ticket uses the same numbers at
the same store, was it probably him? You need evidence?
Lawyers are saying that is just not around. Apparently now
the guy did submit the paperwork to claim the winnings
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without the ticket three days prior to the deadline, but
apparently the California Lottery is not convinced. This is what
I asked, dude, why did you wait so long to
submit the paperwork? I mean, if you're so sure you're
the guy, why do you wait until three days before
the deadline to get the paperwork in? Well, it's unclear.
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He doesn't really have an answer for that. He says,
you know, I got it in before the deadline. I mean,
if you don't have the ticket, how about video of
you buying the ticket? Why did you submit one ticket
in June then wait until three days before the other
expired before the limit to file this claim. The idea
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that he always uses the same numbers for each drawing
that's intriguing, but you have to have some kind of evidence.
Lawyers are saying it has to be more than you
just saying, oh, by the way, I had the other
ticket also, so you owe me, you know, some serious loot.
Two Californians nearly hit seven hundred and sixty million in
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the Mega Million's jackpot, and if future lottery winners find
themselves in similar situations, like the winner of a twenty
eighteen Superlato jackpot who missed out on sixty three million,
it suggested that you take pictures to document your win
to add some weight to your claim. I make this
guy a long shot to get the money, but it
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will be interesting to see how it all works out.
And good luck to all of you lottery folks who
are hoping for a Christmas miracle. Meanwhile, could gas cars
be banned in California by twenty thirty five?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Well, sort of.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
The EPA granting the requests of California to enforce strict
standards for vehicle emissions, including a rule that's aimed at
aimed at banning sales of new gas cars by twenty
thirty five, So there'll still be gas cars around, but
the sale of new ones will be restricted. Now this
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just in the new administration is going to a probably
dismantle the EPA that or they'll the Supreme Court has
kind of done that with the ruling on the Chevron
deference case. They call it you know where. Essentially, you
it suggested in that decision don't have the authority you
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EPA to impose this, and so this may all go away.
But for the moment the EPA approves this, EPA saying
it's review found that opponents of.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
This entire thing.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Aren't filing paperwork that's consistent with the Federal Clean Air Act.
California does have long standing authority it reads to request
waivers from the EPA to protect its residents from dangerous
air pollution coming from mobile sources like cars and trucks.
Today's actions follow through on EPA's commitment to partner with
states to reduce emissions and act on the threat of
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climate change. So by twenty thirty five, sales of all
new passenger vehicles in California must be zero emission. The Again,
on some level, this is moot because the incoming president,
President elect Donald Trump is said that he's going to
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revoke all California waivers, they call them as part of
an industry friendly approach that includes boosting production of fossil fuels,
repealing key parts of the Climate Law from twenty twenty two.
He rescinded California's authority on emissions in twenty nineteen that
it was reversed three years later by the Biden EPA
that also restored the state's authority in twenty twenty two.
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So the point is there's a back and forth about
this whole issue with gas cars and their sale. Now,
I mean, you know, when the music stops, what's going
to happen. It's hard to say. As I say, I
think the EPA will be completely undermined. So, you know,
basic standards on toxins in the air, toxins and water
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toxins and soil, they're all going to go away. I mean,
essentially that's what happened the last administration. When the last
Trump administration came in, there was an issue about air
quality and the fact that the air quality in certain
areas were exceeding the thresholds that were set down by
environmental scientists or the EPA, and the Trump administration said, well, well,
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we'll just raise the thresholds then you know, no problem,
because the industry was kind of grinding to a halt
because they couldn't meet these thresholds. And I think that's
what's going to happen here. The new administration will come
in and say, hey, guys, no go, we're drill, baby, drill,
and these gas cars will be sold in California.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
So we will see.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I mean, right now, Ford, Honda, Volkswagen, and other major
automakers are meeting current California emission standards. Some major car
companies are questioning this twenty thirty five deadline. But the
other thing is that most of these Democratic leaning states
have adopted California rules, so they're clustered around the West
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coast and the northeast, and they're not selling anywhere near
the EV sales required next year. So it's tough to
say whether or not you could actually reach these targets
by twenty thirty five. But as I say, on some level,
it may all be moot because the new administration may
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roll it all back. But that's the word, and it's
fresh off the EPA presses that the EPA indeed has
granted California the authority to ban the sale of new
gasoline powered cars by twenty thirty five. When we come back.
Herschel Walker is an ambassador. That's right. There's a new
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parade of Trump nominees better than the last parade of nominees.
We'll talk about herschel and all of them.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Next.
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because Kim, because Tim is on vacation for the holidays.
I'm watching with some interest as the.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
New parade of.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Nominees comes through Washington. The latest is herschel Walker. Yeah,
herschel Walker, the former running back. Brilliant running back, incredible
running back, well known, I would say as a running
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back more than as a politician. But he did run
for Senate as a candidate in Georgia. He has been
assigned the duty of handling the sensitive ambassadorial duties in
the Bahamas. Sometimes he can get very hot down there.
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Sometimes you can get very humid down there. Everything can
get very sticky and Herschel Walker is just the guy
to handle these sensitive situations in the Bahamas as the
ambassador from this country.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Well, President ELEC. Donald Trump announcing his pick for a
key diplomatic role, and it's a name familiar to many
sports fans. Former University of Georgia football star and NFL
legend Herschel Walker is Trump's choice to serve as the
US ambassador to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. Walker is
a Georgia native and has been a vocal supporter of Trump.
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He previously served as co chair of the White House
Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition during Trump's first term,
and was endorsed by in his twenty twenty two bid
for the Georgia Senate race that was against Senator Raphael Warnock.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Yeah, that was the time that I mean really didn't
know a lot about herschel Walker, to be honest, aside
from the fact that we knew he was an incredible runner,
you know, incredible athlete, incredible presence in the NFL, and
then I think he played in the USFL also, but we.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Did who was his boss in the USFL, Donald Trump?
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Indeed, I didn't realize until just this moment that you
said it, like I remember now Trump was, Yeah, he
was a big USFL guy New Jersey generals. Oh good,
good knowledge, good knowledge from Krozer. Well, the thing about
herschel Walker, you know, in that Senate race is and
this oftentimes the case in politics, when you run for something,
all of a sudden, a bunch of stuff that we
didn't know about you, we now know about you. So
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in the case of herschel Walker, he was running as
a Republican again running as noted, there were that piece
against Raffael Warnock in Georgia, and he was a big
the abortion guy, and then it came out that he
had paid for a bunch of abortions, and you know,
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it was basically running to the abortion clinic had seemed
fairly frequently. So it was an odd position he found
himself in. Also, as I recall, there was allegations of
his absentee fatherism and so in other words, the cloud
around herschel Walker, around all these issues that he'd run
on sort of the purity of the guy was very much,
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by the end of things called into question. But now
that's all behind. He lost that Senate race. He's been
loyal to Donald Trump and his support. And that's really
the premium in this administration, is that loyalty, right, And
as Crozier said, I'd forgotten he's you know, connected to
Trump all the way back to his his days playing football.
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So he will be setting up shop in the Bahamas.
He also Donald Trump followed up the news about herschel
Walker with the announcement of Nicole McGraw. She is the
US Ambassador to Croatia, described by Donald Trump as a philanthropist, businesswoman,
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and world renowned art collector. Now is she related to
Phil McGraw? I just assume everybody is related to somebody
on television?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I mean, that's what Vince McMahon's wife is. Department of Education.
Can we check that? Can somebody check that for me?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Please? Is she?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
This is Nicole McGraw. Is she the wife of Phil
McGraw or in any way related to Phil? Doctor Phil?
In any case? Apparently, she, according to Donald Trump in
his statement, has brought fine art, fine art to the
people through her work leading canvas art charities and raised
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millions of dollars for neglected and abused children. As a
board member of Place of Hope, Graduate of SMU so
herschel Walker and Nicole McGraw. I just don't know much
about nicrall, you know, I think I feel like I
know herschel Walker mostly thro that Senate campaign.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
But McGraw a fine art dealer, is that it? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (20:31):
She opened her first art gallery in Palm Beach, Florida.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
And she's going to be ambassador to Croatia. So I'm
guessing that a lot of money flowed into the Trump
campaign coffers from her. I mean that's look, that's not
unique to Trump. I mean a lot of these ambassadorships
go Democrats and Republicans to those who are big donors. Now,
I'd say there's a more amplified version of it right
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now in Washington with the Trump administration. You have many
more billionaires in this administration than ever before.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
But the idea of giving somebody ambassadorship because they gave
you a lot of money in the campaign, that's kind
of been around for a long time, ever since politics
has been around.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
Phil McGraw, are you referring to the baseball.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Player, No, the doctor, doctor Phil, the son of doctor Phil. Yes,
she is married to the son of Oh there you go,
thank you. I was wondering about it, and sure enough.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Yeah, meanwhile again, yes, again, makes total sense with the connection.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Yeah. I mean, I'm telling you, if you're on TV.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
And you're a supporter this president, you've got a pretty
pretty good inside track to end up in government. Mitch
McConnell is pushing back on the polio vaccine being on
the table of things that might be eliminated. He's saying
that they should steer clear of efforts to discredit the
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polio vaccine. RFK Junior and his crew who are moving
into Washington now, they're kind of on a charm offensive,
you know, they're kind of trying to endear themselves to
the senators who are going to approve and confirm. Eighty
two years old is what Mitch McConnell is, and he
survived polio. And there was a report that one of
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RFK Junior's advisors filed a petition to revoke the approval
for the polio vaccine.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
It's funny because when you hear that that Mitch McConnell
is a survivor of polio, first thing at puff's in my.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Head is, damn, he's old.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
But everything that's happening right now means that won't necessarily
be the case.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Yeah, yeah, it's true, It's true. I mean, the polio
vac scene was a game changer. I mean, it really was.
So many people were dying and left, you know, horribly
crippled in so many ways, physically diminished in It was
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a scourge on this country and the world. The vaccine
was truly a vaccine. It was a vaccine that prevented
you from getting polio. Could there be anything more magnificent.
I mean, it was a triumph of science and research.
And this is why the RFK Junior thing really has
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rubbed McConnell and a lot of others in Washington the
wrong way. But Kennedy has come out against you know,
all kinds of harmful chemicals. There's no question that our
environment is full of those pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, food additives,
all that stuff. But scientists and public health officials are
scared because they think Kennedy would unwind essentially life saving
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public health initiatives like vaccines. Vaccines have truly extended life
in this world, all right. There are many more vaccines
now than in the past. I'll say that, will that
be the case in four years oh, we will see,
we will see. I think the COVID vaccine really sadly
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kicked the door open for this conversation, you know what
I mean? Sure like, because we were promised that the
COVID nineteen vaccine, initially it would be essentially protecting us
from getting COVID. I mean that was the implication, if
not stated that we were, you know, knocking each other
over to get that vaccine a lot of us. Then
we find out well, no, I mean that's for that version,
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but it's mutated to another version.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
She needed to get a different shot.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Then now that's mutator to another and you need to
get another And you realize, oh, and then you start
getting COVID after you've got in the vaccine, And they say, well,
but because you've had the vaccine, it's going to keep
you from going to the hospital, keep.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
You from it's not designed to prevent you from getting it.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Right, But that wasn't the initial thing that I was told.
I was told, get this vaccine because it'll keep you
from getting COVID.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
So with this slippery slope, do you think that there
is a potential that not only will certain vaccines go
away or be banned or whatever. But would if the
line of thinking is that vaccine's bad, would even research
for vaccines go away?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
That's a really great question. I mean, and a lot
of that research is funded by the government. I think
the conversation around vaccines and their efficacy there was gas
thrown on that fire by the COVID COVID nineteen thing.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I guess that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
And so all of a sudden, vaccines that we wouldn't
really question, now we're questioning everything, you know, So that
became sadly a discussion point. And that's you know how
RFK Junior really rose to profile by talking about this
during a time that so many people were pushing back
on the vaccines. Anyway, we'll see he's going to have
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to get approved. I mean, he's going to run a
huge agency.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Under his agency is NIH and CDC, and so I
mean he's going to affect public policy on health in
this country for many years.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
We will see.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
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Speaker 2 (26:28):
It's a week before Christmas. It's all over. You better
have your act together. The whole game gets done in
a week. We're talking about the vaccines that are now
on the table that might not have been in the past.
With the increasing likelihood that RFK Junior will become head
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of Health and Human Services in Washington under him, would
be at the CDC and IH all of the agencies
dedicated to a lot of this vaccine research, and Krozers
asking even you know whether or not there would be
federal moneies that would be dedicated to a lot of
this vaccine research. Much of the vaccine research is done
with federal moneies behind it, So you'd think that that
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may all that all may be reimagined if RFK Junior
is confirmed and he's on a charm offensive right now
on Capitol Hill meeting with senators, many of whom will
have to support him for him to get confirmation. But
I just was talking about vaccines generally and how they
have changed life in the world. And you've seen the
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pushback on vaccines even create issues in this country right
the clusters of I think measles outbreaks, weren't they crozy?
There were measles outbreaks, I believe in the South Bay
of the San Francisco Bay area, also around Disneyland, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
I think there was a yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
So it was that that got me interested in this story.
There is a an outbreak of measles in the Democratic
Republic of Congo and it is horrifying. I mean, it's
just it's unbelievable. I mean, it's wiping kids out. Kids
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are dying at the age of five, at the age
of one. Measles is sweeping through this area of the
Democratic Republic of Congo. There were more than three hundred
eleven thousand cases of measles in Congo last year, six
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thousand of them. It took children's lives. They have a fever,
they break out in a red rash, and before you
know it, they're dead. This year there have been fewer,
about ninety seven thousand, but the virus has become more lethal,
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killing more than twenty one hundred. Globally, there were twenty
percent more measles cases twenty twenty three than in the
year before. Fifty seven countries had large or disruptive outbreaks,
nearly sixty percent more than the prior year. There are
more measles outbreaks in places like Minnesota and New Brunswick
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because parents mistrust vaccines or don't believe that their children
will be seriously affected if they catch the virus. And
of course, in this country, Resident elect Trump's choice for
federal Health Secretary, RFK Junior has fought vaccine mandates and
said that parents should have the right to choose not
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to vaccinate their children. Is even encourage them not to.
But many parents in the Congo, they don't even know
the chance to vaccinate their kids. Doesn't it matter whether
they want to or not. This isn't a question of
pushback on the vaccines. They're not available. So this is
a true epidemic, and it's instructive and reminded us of
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the scourge that measles can be. It's a serious illness.
Forty percent of the children in the US who catch
measles forty percent are hospitalized. But it is particularly brutal
for kids who live in places with no medical care
or little medical care. And measles causes immune amnesia. Are
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you familiar with that? That wipes out immunity to other infections. So,
as these kids have built up some immunity, contracting measles
wipes out that immunity, makes them vulnerable to a lot
of other stuff, respiratory infections, gastrointestinal infections, pneumonia. It's just
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a sad state, but in a way a reminder of
the power of these vaccines. So as we continue this
tug of war over vaccines, it's a reminder of how
effective they can be and how they've changed life in
so many places. Now, the last thing I would say
about the polio vaccine is Trump is on record saying
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don't worry, We're not getting rid of the polio vaccine.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Two quick questions. First on vaccines, Do you want RFK
Junior to revoke any vaccines?
Speaker 8 (31:25):
No, I want him to come back with the reporter
as to what he thinks. We're going to find out
a lot.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
We're doing. Two things.
Speaker 8 (31:31):
We're going to have tremendous cost savings will come out
of this. That's a minimum. And we're also going to
have and I think, very serious discussions about certain things,
whether it's pesticides on You know, Europe doesn't use pesticides,
and yet they have a better mortality rate than we do.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
They don't use pesticides.
Speaker 8 (31:49):
In fact, they use it as an excuse not to
take our farm product. We spend billions and billions of
dollars on pesticides, and something bad's happening again. You take
a look at autism today versus twenty twenty five years ago,
it's like not even believable. So we're gonna have reports. No,
nothing's gonna happen very quickly. I think you're gonna find
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that Bobby is much He's a very rational guy.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
I found him to be very rational.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
No, nothing, You're not going to lose the polio vaccine.
That's not going to happen. I saw what happened with
the poliot I have friends that were very much affected
by that. I have friends from many years ago, and
they have obviously they're still in such good shape because
of it. You know, that was and many people died,
(32:38):
and the moment they took that vaccine it ended. Doctor
Jonas Salk did a great job. So I don't anticipate
that at all.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
That is true, doctor Jonahsack.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
And you know what don doctor Jonahsock did, the guy
who created the polio vaccine, he opened it up for
free to everybody that's back then.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
You can't even imagine that happening today. By the way, Europe.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Use pesticides in agriculture, forestry, public spaces. They use it,
but they use half the pesticides that we do.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yeah, they're.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
So the idea that they don't use any pesticides at
all is just not accurate. All Right, that's a little
bit of what's happening in Washington with vaccines, with nominees,
et cetera. When we come back, it's what's happening in space.
Stuck in space as we continue.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
A six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It
is The Conway Show. Tim is away, Mark Thompson sitting
in and it's a really cool to be here. I
promised you before the break i'd tell you about the
Go Wild Pass. So the Go Wild Pass. You're talking
about different changes that are going on in discount airlines,
and basically what it boils down to is that the
(00:31):
Spirit Airlines, the Southwest Airlines, the frontier airlines of the
world are realizing that travelers want comfort and that's really
where they're ending up. They're ending up with airlines that
give them some degree of comfort. So the kind of
you know, sit down, shut up, and I'll tell you
(00:52):
when you can stand and get off the flight that's
kind of wearing thin. So frontier airlines anyway, that's why
you're getting them assigned seating. For example, at Southwest it's
have we talked about it last hour, But Frontiers a
frontier airlines is offering and all you can fly pass
for just twenty nine dollars. Now, the way it works
is The go Wild Pass offers unlimited flights for just
(01:18):
two hundred and ninety nine dollars a year, but you
have to sign up during the pre sale. It ends
this presale December eighteenth. What's today? I think? Does it end?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
What is today? Isn't today the eighteenth? Today's the eighteenth,
That's what I thought.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
So this has to You've got till eleven fifty nine
mountain standard time. Why do they pig mountains standard time?
I guess that's where their office is. I mean they're
Frontier Airlines, Okay, I get it. So on the frontier,
they're on mountain airlines. They're a mountain time, so that
would be I think ten to fifty nine our time. Anyway,
(02:05):
if you don't get it in by the end of
this December eighteenth day in mountain time at eleven to
fifty nine pm mountain time, the price increases to four
hundred ninety nine dollars. So again to review, you can
get it now for three hundred dollars two ninety nine
for the whole year, and after that the price goes
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up to four ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Now what does that mean.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It means that you can book tickets on select Frontier
flights for a penny. You have to pay any taxes
and fees associated with that airfare, but the actual price
of the ticket is just a penny. There are other
restrictions worth noting when buying into the deal, like the
pass holder cannot reserve siegs. The fare doesn't include a
(02:55):
carry on or check bag, so they're gonna nickel and
dime you a little bit. But their Go Wild Pass
on Frontier Airlines, they say, will allow travelers to make
reservations the day before a departure for domestic travel and
ten days before the departure of international flights. They fly
to the Caribbean, they fly to Mexico, Latin America, all Frontier.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Flight destinations.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
The pass is valid for travel from May twenty first
of the New Year twenty twenty five and April thirtieth
of twenty twenty six. So again, you buy the pass
and then it kicks in May first and it's valid
until April thirtieth.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
It's the Go Wild Pass.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I mean, it really makes sense if you're traveling internationally too.
They're headquartered in Denver, I'm seeing, which is why they're
on Mountain Standard time. But this is your last day
I've got to run the arithmetic on this, but it
seems like it might be a pretty good deal if
you can get in for three hundred dollars and then
(04:00):
for each flight you pay just a penny plus applicable taxes.
I don't see where the hitches anyway, that's the go
wild pass. Frontier Airlines tell them you heard it from me,
mentioned my name and I was like, oh, well, Mega
(04:28):
millions the jackpot winner.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
There's been controversy. It's pretty crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
There is no Mega Million's winner as you know yet
the latest megam there are a couple of one hundred
thousand airs, I think right, but no actual winner of
the of the big deal, of the jackpot, of the
pot of gold. But a couple of one hundred thousand airs.
(04:57):
And we are near an all time high with the
Mega millions eight hundred and twenty five million dollars. Pretty incredible.
But the other incredible thing is the controversy that's cropped
up that there could be any dispute about a Mega
Million's jackpot winner who claims that he bought winning tickets.
(05:20):
Might he have a case? I'll give you details on this.
What he's saying, what they're saying and what we're saying.
There's a lot being said, and we'll get to it
all as we continue.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
It is a Conway show, The Mega Millions controversy.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Next, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I hope your holiday plans are going well. The Mega
Millions jackpot eight hundred and twenty five million no winner.
There were a couple of one hundred thousand, two hundred
thousand dollar winners, but what's happening now with Mega Millions
is fascinating. There is a jackpot winner who claims that
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he bought winning tickets but hasn't been paid off.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
It's a court case.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
We have an update tonight on the mystery of the
missing lottery ticket. The gas station in Encino sold two
winning tickets for the same drawing last year. A man
claimed the first ticket, but no one claimed the second one.
That second ticket expired this weekend, and now the man
who purchased the first one claims he actually bought both
tickets and wants all the money. Well. The man has
(06:39):
filed the lawsuit saying he lost the second ticket. He
says he's played the same numbers for thirty years and
should get the remaining one hundred and ninety seven million dollars.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Wow, that's definitely a court case worth bringing if there's
a pot of gold of one hundred and ninety seven
million at the end of it. The tickets are purchased
on this December afternoon at the same gas station in
the Nsino in twenty twenty three, he says he bought
both of them. His attorneys have filed what they call
(07:11):
a breach of contract suit. They're saying that there was
sufficient evidence to figure out that he was the rightful
owner of the missing ticket and that his claim was
submitted in time to get the payout. So there are
attorneys weighing in on this, and one of the attorneys
(07:33):
who weighed in as a criminal defense attorney, said, this
is a head scratcher to me, she said, because part
of the story makes a lot of sense, but another
part doesn't make any sense. The chances of winning a
Mega Million's jackpot just so were clear one in three
hundred million, fractions of fractions. But the fact that the
(07:56):
winning tickets were sold at the same store, something that
lottery officials say never happened before, might actually support his claim.
The California Lottery isn't going to agree to hand over
nearly two hundred million dollars on the basis of what
may have happened. Might have happened, the probability that somebody
(08:18):
buys the exact same ticket uses the same numbers at
the same store, was it probably him? You need evidence?
Lawyers are saying that is just not around. Apparently now
the guy did submit the paperwork to claim the winnings
(08:38):
without the ticket three days prior to the deadline, but
apparently the California Lottery is not convinced. This is what
I asked, dude, why did you wait so long to
submit the paperwork? I mean, if you're so sure you're
the guy, why do you wait until three days before
the deadline to get the paperwork in? Well, it's unclear.
(09:00):
He doesn't really have an answer for that. He says,
you know, I got it in before the deadline. I mean,
if you don't have the ticket, how about video of
you buying the ticket? Why did you submit one ticket
in June then wait until three days before the other
expired before the limit to file this claim. The idea
(09:26):
that he always uses the same numbers for each drawing
that's intriguing, but you have to have some kind of evidence.
Lawyers are saying it has to be more than you
just saying, oh, by the way, I had the other
ticket also, so you owe me, you know, some serious loot.
Two Californians nearly hit seven hundred and sixty million in
(09:48):
the Mega Million's jackpot, and if future lottery winners find
themselves in similar situations, like the winner of a twenty
eighteen Superlato jackpot who missed out on sixty three million,
it suggested that you take pictures to document your win
to add some weight to your claim. I make this
guy a long shot to get the money, but it
(10:11):
will be interesting to see how it all works out.
And good luck to all of you lottery folks who
are hoping for a Christmas miracle. Meanwhile, could gas cars
be banned in California by twenty thirty five?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Well, sort of.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
The EPA granting the requests of California to enforce strict
standards for vehicle emissions, including a rule that's aimed at
aimed at banning sales of new gas cars by twenty
thirty five, So there'll still be gas cars around, but
the sale of new ones will be restricted. Now this
(10:58):
just in the new administration is going to a probably
dismantle the EPA that or they'll the Supreme Court has
kind of done that with the ruling on the Chevron
deference case. They call it you know where. Essentially, you
it suggested in that decision don't have the authority you
(11:18):
EPA to impose this, and so this may all go away.
But for the moment the EPA approves this, EPA saying
it's review found that opponents of.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
This entire thing.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Aren't filing paperwork that's consistent with the Federal Clean Air Act.
California does have long standing authority it reads to request
waivers from the EPA to protect its residents from dangerous
air pollution coming from mobile sources like cars and trucks.
Today's actions follow through on EPA's commitment to partner with
states to reduce emissions and act on the threat of
(11:58):
climate change. So by twenty thirty five, sales of all
new passenger vehicles in California must be zero emission. The Again,
on some level, this is moot because the incoming president,
President elect Donald Trump is said that he's going to
(12:19):
revoke all California waivers, they call them as part of
an industry friendly approach that includes boosting production of fossil fuels,
repealing key parts of the Climate Law from twenty twenty two.
He rescinded California's authority on emissions in twenty nineteen that
it was reversed three years later by the Biden EPA
that also restored the state's authority in twenty twenty two.
(12:42):
So the point is there's a back and forth about
this whole issue with gas cars and their sale. Now,
I mean, you know, when the music stops, what's going
to happen. It's hard to say. As I say, I
think the EPA will be completely undermined. So, you know,
basic standards on toxins in the air, toxins and water
(13:02):
toxins and soil, they're all going to go away. I mean,
essentially that's what happened the last administration. When the last
Trump administration came in, there was an issue about air
quality and the fact that the air quality in certain
areas were exceeding the thresholds that were set down by
environmental scientists or the EPA, and the Trump administration said, well, well,
(13:26):
we'll just raise the thresholds then you know, no problem,
because the industry was kind of grinding to a halt
because they couldn't meet these thresholds. And I think that's
what's going to happen here. The new administration will come
in and say, hey, guys, no go, we're drill, baby, drill,
and these gas cars will be sold in California.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
So we will see.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I mean, right now, Ford, Honda, Volkswagen, and other major
automakers are meeting current California emission standards. Some major car
companies are questioning this twenty thirty five deadline. But the
other thing is that most of these Democratic leaning states
have adopted California rules, so they're clustered around the West
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coast and the northeast, and they're not selling anywhere near
the EV sales required next year. So it's tough to
say whether or not you could actually reach these targets
by twenty thirty five. But as I say, on some level,
it may all be moot because the new administration may
(14:32):
roll it all back. But that's the word, and it's
fresh off the EPA presses that the EPA indeed has
granted California the authority to ban the sale of new
gasoline powered cars by twenty thirty five. When we come back.
Herschel Walker is an ambassador. That's right. There's a new
(14:57):
parade of Trump nominees better than the last parade of nominees.
We'll talk about herschel and all of them.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Next.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Christmas Hanukah Kwansa.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Whatever your deal is, whatever your jam is, we are
with you here at KFI AM six forty live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. In fact, we're so with you
because Kim, because Tim is on vacation for the holidays.
I'm watching with some interest as the.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
New parade of.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Nominees comes through Washington. The latest is herschel Walker. Yeah,
herschel Walker, the former running back. Brilliant running back, incredible
running back, well known, I would say as a running
(15:58):
back more than as a politician. But he did run
for Senate as a candidate in Georgia. He has been
assigned the duty of handling the sensitive ambassadorial duties in
the Bahamas. Sometimes he can get very hot down there.
(16:18):
Sometimes you can get very humid down there. Everything can
get very sticky and Herschel Walker is just the guy
to handle these sensitive situations in the Bahamas as the
ambassador from this country.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Well, President ELEC. Donald Trump announcing his pick for a
key diplomatic role, and it's a name familiar to many
sports fans. Former University of Georgia football star and NFL
legend Herschel Walker is Trump's choice to serve as the
US ambassador to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. Walker is
a Georgia native and has been a vocal supporter of Trump.
(16:51):
He previously served as co chair of the White House
Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition during Trump's first term,
and was endorsed by in his twenty twenty two bid
for the Georgia Senate race that was against Senator Raphael Warnock.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Yeah, that was the time that I mean really didn't
know a lot about herschel Walker, to be honest, aside
from the fact that we knew he was an incredible runner,
you know, incredible athlete, incredible presence in the NFL, and
then I think he played in the USFL also, but we.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Did who was his boss in the USFL, Donald Trump?
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Indeed, I didn't realize until just this moment that you
said it, like I remember now Trump was, Yeah, he
was a big USFL guy New Jersey generals. Oh good,
good knowledge, good knowledge from Krozer. Well, the thing about
herschel Walker, you know, in that Senate race is and
this oftentimes the case in politics, when you run for something,
all of a sudden, a bunch of stuff that we
didn't know about you, we now know about you. So
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in the case of herschel Walker, he was running as
a Republican again running as noted, there were that piece
against Raffael Warnock in Georgia, and he was a big
the abortion guy, and then it came out that he
had paid for a bunch of abortions, and you know,
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it was basically running to the abortion clinic had seemed
fairly frequently. So it was an odd position he found
himself in. Also, as I recall, there was allegations of
his absentee fatherism and so in other words, the cloud
around herschel Walker, around all these issues that he'd run
on sort of the purity of the guy was very much,
(18:35):
by the end of things called into question. But now
that's all behind. He lost that Senate race. He's been
loyal to Donald Trump and his support. And that's really
the premium in this administration, is that loyalty, right, And
as Crozier said, I'd forgotten he's you know, connected to
Trump all the way back to his his days playing football.
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So he will be setting up shop in the Bahamas.
He also Donald Trump followed up the news about herschel
Walker with the announcement of Nicole McGraw. She is the
US Ambassador to Croatia, described by Donald Trump as a philanthropist, businesswoman,
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and world renowned art collector. Now is she related to
Phil McGraw? I just assume everybody is related to somebody
on television?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I mean, that's what Vince McMahon's wife is. Department of Education.
Can we check that? Can somebody check that for me?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Please? Is she?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
This is Nicole McGraw. Is she the wife of Phil
McGraw or in any way related to Phil? Doctor Phil?
In any case? Apparently, she, according to Donald Trump in
his statement, has brought fine art, fine art to the
people through her work leading canvas art charities and raised
(20:08):
millions of dollars for neglected and abused children. As a
board member of Place of Hope, Graduate of SMU so
herschel Walker and Nicole McGraw. I just don't know much
about nicrall, you know, I think I feel like I
know herschel Walker mostly thro that Senate campaign.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
But McGraw a fine art dealer, is that it? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (20:31):
She opened her first art gallery in Palm Beach, Florida.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
And she's going to be ambassador to Croatia. So I'm
guessing that a lot of money flowed into the Trump
campaign coffers from her. I mean that's look, that's not
unique to Trump. I mean a lot of these ambassadorships
go Democrats and Republicans to those who are big donors. Now,
I'd say there's a more amplified version of it right
(20:59):
now in Washington with the Trump administration. You have many
more billionaires in this administration than ever before.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
But the idea of giving somebody ambassadorship because they gave
you a lot of money in the campaign, that's kind
of been around for a long time, ever since politics
has been around.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
Phil McGraw, are you referring to the baseball.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Player, No, the doctor, doctor Phil, the son of doctor Phil. Yes,
she is married to the son of Oh there you go,
thank you. I was wondering about it, and sure enough.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Yeah, meanwhile again, yes, again, makes total sense with the connection.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Yeah. I mean, I'm telling you, if you're on TV.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
And you're a supporter this president, you've got a pretty
pretty good inside track to end up in government. Mitch
McConnell is pushing back on the polio vaccine being on
the table of things that might be eliminated. He's saying
that they should steer clear of efforts to discredit the
(22:02):
polio vaccine. RFK Junior and his crew who are moving
into Washington now, they're kind of on a charm offensive,
you know, they're kind of trying to endear themselves to
the senators who are going to approve and confirm. Eighty
two years old is what Mitch McConnell is, and he
survived polio. And there was a report that one of
(22:30):
RFK Junior's advisors filed a petition to revoke the approval
for the polio vaccine.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
It's funny because when you hear that that Mitch McConnell
is a survivor of polio, first thing at puff's in my.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Head is, damn, he's old.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
But everything that's happening right now means that won't necessarily
be the case.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Yeah, yeah, it's true, It's true. I mean, the polio
vac scene was a game changer. I mean, it really was.
So many people were dying and left, you know, horribly
crippled in so many ways, physically diminished in It was
(23:13):
a scourge on this country and the world. The vaccine
was truly a vaccine. It was a vaccine that prevented
you from getting polio. Could there be anything more magnificent.
I mean, it was a triumph of science and research.
And this is why the RFK Junior thing really has
(23:39):
rubbed McConnell and a lot of others in Washington the
wrong way. But Kennedy has come out against you know,
all kinds of harmful chemicals. There's no question that our
environment is full of those pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, food additives,
all that stuff. But scientists and public health officials are
scared because they think Kennedy would unwind essentially life saving
(24:02):
public health initiatives like vaccines. Vaccines have truly extended life
in this world, all right. There are many more vaccines
now than in the past. I'll say that, will that
be the case in four years oh, we will see,
we will see. I think the COVID vaccine really sadly
(24:29):
kicked the door open for this conversation, you know what
I mean? Sure like, because we were promised that the
COVID nineteen vaccine, initially it would be essentially protecting us
from getting COVID. I mean that was the implication, if
not stated that we were, you know, knocking each other
over to get that vaccine a lot of us. Then
we find out well, no, I mean that's for that version,
(24:49):
but it's mutated to another version.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
She needed to get a different shot.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Then now that's mutator to another and you need to
get another And you realize, oh, and then you start
getting COVID after you've got in the vaccine, And they say, well,
but because you've had the vaccine, it's going to keep
you from going to the hospital, keep.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
You from it's not designed to prevent you from getting it.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Right, But that wasn't the initial thing that I was told.
I was told, get this vaccine because it'll keep you
from getting COVID.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
So with this slippery slope, do you think that there
is a potential that not only will certain vaccines go
away or be banned or whatever. But would if the
line of thinking is that vaccine's bad, would even research
for vaccines go away?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
That's a really great question. I mean, and a lot
of that research is funded by the government. I think
the conversation around vaccines and their efficacy there was gas
thrown on that fire by the COVID COVID nineteen thing.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I guess that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
And so all of a sudden, vaccines that we wouldn't
really question, now we're questioning everything, you know, So that
became sadly a discussion point. And that's you know how
RFK Junior really rose to profile by talking about this
during a time that so many people were pushing back
on the vaccines. Anyway, we'll see he's going to have
(26:09):
to get approved. I mean, he's going to run a
huge agency.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Under his agency is NIH and CDC, and so I
mean he's going to affect public policy on health in
this country for many years.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
We will see.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
It's a week before Christmas. It's all over. You better
have your act together. The whole game gets done in
a week. We're talking about the vaccines that are now
on the table that might not have been in the past.
With the increasing likelihood that RFK Junior will become head
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of Health and Human Services in Washington under him, would
be at the CDC and IH all of the agencies
dedicated to a lot of this vaccine research, and Krozers
asking even you know whether or not there would be
federal moneies that would be dedicated to a lot of
this vaccine research. Much of the vaccine research is done
with federal moneies behind it, So you'd think that that
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may all that all may be reimagined if RFK Junior
is confirmed and he's on a charm offensive right now
on Capitol Hill meeting with senators, many of whom will
have to support him for him to get confirmation. But
I just was talking about vaccines generally and how they
have changed life in the world. And you've seen the
(27:36):
pushback on vaccines even create issues in this country right
the clusters of I think measles outbreaks, weren't they crozy?
There were measles outbreaks, I believe in the South Bay
of the San Francisco Bay area, also around Disneyland, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
I think there was a yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
So it was that that got me interested in this story.
There is a an outbreak of measles in the Democratic
Republic of Congo and it is horrifying. I mean, it's
just it's unbelievable. I mean, it's wiping kids out. Kids
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are dying at the age of five, at the age
of one. Measles is sweeping through this area of the
Democratic Republic of Congo. There were more than three hundred
eleven thousand cases of measles in Congo last year, six
(28:33):
thousand of them. It took children's lives. They have a fever,
they break out in a red rash, and before you
know it, they're dead. This year there have been fewer,
about ninety seven thousand, but the virus has become more lethal,
(28:54):
killing more than twenty one hundred. Globally, there were twenty
percent more measles cases twenty twenty three than in the
year before. Fifty seven countries had large or disruptive outbreaks,
nearly sixty percent more than the prior year. There are
more measles outbreaks in places like Minnesota and New Brunswick
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because parents mistrust vaccines or don't believe that their children
will be seriously affected if they catch the virus. And
of course, in this country, Resident elect Trump's choice for
federal Health Secretary, RFK Junior has fought vaccine mandates and
said that parents should have the right to choose not
(29:37):
to vaccinate their children. Is even encourage them not to.
But many parents in the Congo, they don't even know
the chance to vaccinate their kids. Doesn't it matter whether
they want to or not. This isn't a question of
pushback on the vaccines. They're not available. So this is
a true epidemic, and it's instructive and reminded us of
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the scourge that measles can be. It's a serious illness.
Forty percent of the children in the US who catch
measles forty percent are hospitalized. But it is particularly brutal
for kids who live in places with no medical care
or little medical care. And measles causes immune amnesia. Are
(30:29):
you familiar with that? That wipes out immunity to other infections. So,
as these kids have built up some immunity, contracting measles
wipes out that immunity, makes them vulnerable to a lot
of other stuff, respiratory infections, gastrointestinal infections, pneumonia. It's just
(30:49):
a sad state, but in a way a reminder of
the power of these vaccines. So as we continue this
tug of war over vaccines, it's a reminder of how
effective they can be and how they've changed life in
so many places. Now, the last thing I would say
about the polio vaccine is Trump is on record saying
(31:15):
don't worry, We're not getting rid of the polio vaccine.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Two quick questions. First on vaccines, Do you want RFK
Junior to revoke any vaccines?
Speaker 8 (31:25):
No, I want him to come back with the reporter
as to what he thinks. We're going to find out
a lot.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
We're doing. Two things.
Speaker 8 (31:31):
We're going to have tremendous cost savings will come out
of this. That's a minimum. And we're also going to
have and I think, very serious discussions about certain things,
whether it's pesticides on You know, Europe doesn't use pesticides,
and yet they have a better mortality rate than we do.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
They don't use pesticides.
Speaker 8 (31:49):
In fact, they use it as an excuse not to
take our farm product. We spend billions and billions of
dollars on pesticides, and something bad's happening again. You take
a look at autism today versus twenty twenty five years ago,
it's like not even believable. So we're gonna have reports. No,
nothing's gonna happen very quickly. I think you're gonna find
(32:12):
that Bobby is much He's a very rational guy.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
I found him to be very rational.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
No, nothing, You're not going to lose the polio vaccine.
That's not going to happen. I saw what happened with
the poliot I have friends that were very much affected
by that. I have friends from many years ago, and
they have obviously they're still in such good shape because
of it. You know, that was and many people died,
(32:38):
and the moment they took that vaccine it ended. Doctor
Jonas Salk did a great job. So I don't anticipate
that at all.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
That is true, doctor Jonahsack.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
And you know what don doctor Jonahsock did, the guy
who created the polio vaccine, he opened it up for
free to everybody that's back then.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
You can't even imagine that happening today. By the way, Europe.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Use pesticides in agriculture, forestry, public spaces. They use it,
but they use half the pesticides that we do.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yeah, they're.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
So the idea that they don't use any pesticides at
all is just not accurate. All Right, that's a little
bit of what's happening in Washington with vaccines, with nominees,
et cetera. When we come back, it's what's happening in space.
Stuck in space as we continue.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
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