May 24, 2024 • 30 mins
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It's KMF I AM six forty andyou're listening to The Conway Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. Mark Thompsonsitting in for Tim Conway Junior. Settling
into the Memorial Day weekend. Thebarbecue scene is going to be live,
they say. Those who keep trackof such things as cookout items, they
(00:24):
say it's going to be ten percentmore expensive to have a cookout this year
than last. The average cost towelcome the unofficial start of summer jump to
thirty dollars compared to twenty seven dollarsin twenty twenty three. This according to
Everybody's First Stop in the Economics ofBarbecue's Wallet Hub. A consumer affairs report
(00:51):
came to a similar conclusion too.They said that seven essential items for a
routine cookout burgers, hot dogs,buns and condiments came to a total of
thirty dollars and eighteen cents compared totwenty seven, thirty nine and twenty twenty
three. So, I mean pricesare up. Now if you actually look
at why prices are up, it'sthe soaring price of burgers. An order
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of eight burgers a little over eightdollars is fifteen percent higher than last year.
That's according to Consumer Affairs. Burgerand hot dog buns went up one
percent. So you added all,you know, a little bit here,
a little bit there, and beforeyou know it, you got to have
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be a Rockefeller to have a barbecuein this country. A thirty two ounce
bottle of ketchup costs five point fiftythree, a two percent increase from a
year ago. A twenty ounce bottleof mustard is two sixty one, up
three percent, and relish is up. Say it ain't so. A twenty
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six ounce jar relish went up almostfifty percent. And you may know why.
Why would relish be up forty ninepercent? A twenty six ounce jar
of relish this year compared to lastis up forty nine percent of four dollars
(02:21):
and sixty seven cents because of ashortage of if you guess pickles, award
yourself points. So again, whenyou add these altogether, and mostly these
are single digit increases, and likesoda, up to five percent, but
(02:42):
it gets to be a little moreexpensive. The elements of a barbecue are
costing a little bit more, andmeat, if you're a meat eater,
that's the biggest reason. But againthere's a commitment to everything associated with a
barbecue, from beer to beef inthis country. And that's just that's just
(03:08):
the way it goes down. Youknow. I have a unique situation affecting
me this year, and I'm sharingit because I never even it didn't even
occur to me that this is aproblem. I had oral surgery a month
ago. Okay, so they workon I don't know, they're cutting away
(03:30):
a part of my jaw or something. It was. It was. It
was bad, but it wasn't awful. I mean, it wasn't. But
what happened was they do the surgeryand then over that weekend that it's supposed
to be healing. I mean thehealing process I take think takes north of
a month, but you know it'ssupposed to be healing right away. There
are stitches in there and they popout. So now you've got problems and
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you've got to go back in.So I go back in the following Monday,
I think it was actually Tuesday,so it's like four days later or
three days later, and they dohave to do a little bit of it
again. They kind of they don'tdo the cutting, but they have to,
you know, re put the suituresback in and whatever. Now I'm
getting to a point which is totaltime in the chair, let's call it
(04:18):
two and a half hours over thosetwo sessions. And something starts happening to
me right away, and that isI get this intense pain. I mean,
I try to open my mouth toeat, and I am thinking,
(04:38):
well, it'll get better, giveit a chance, because your mouth is
open for so long or something,it'll get better. It'll get better,
get better. Day go by,a week goes by. It doesn't get
it all better, not even onepercent better. So I call a dentist's
office and I say, hey,listen, this isn't getting any better.
I'm sure it's fine, but youknow, I have this normalcy bias,
which is sort of like everything I'msure is going to be fine. You
(05:00):
know. It's my bias to justfeel as though we're all going to get
back to normal, right, It'sgoing to be fine, and it's not.
So now I'm seeing this TMJ specialistand it's getting a little bit better,
but it's only a little bit better. There's a lot of inflammation in
there. And he explains the wholething to me. But when it comes
to barbecues, this year. UnlessI grind up whatever the thing is and
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kind of put it into spoonfuls offood that I then consume. That way,
I'm out of the barbecue game forMemorial Day weekend. So it's I'm
just saying, it's not a questionof money. My mouth literally won't open
to the point that I can cramany of that stuff in. It's crazy.
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This is a developing story. Iwill keep you posted or not,
depending on your interest when we comeback. I don't know if you're aware
of what goes into the process ofbecoming a saint, but there are certain
things that have to be proven.You need witnesses, you need reports,
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you need submissions, you need investigations. To become a saint. In the
Catholic Church, they don't just takeyour word for it. They investigate.
Well, the first millennial saint,an Italian teenager, is poised to become
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a saint. And I'll explain toyou what he did and how he is
going to become a saint, andhis role and passion for his religion,
but also those things related to thisteenager that made him eligible for sainthood.
(06:56):
We'll do that next. And then, by the way, I mean Conway
raised Catholic, So I mean,I feel like it's consistent with the yeah,
with the ethic of the show,with his upbringing. Anyway, it's
history. You're listening to Tim ConwayJunior on demand from KFI AM six forty.
I don't know. It's a complexkind of thing to become a saint.
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I mean, there are a lotof saints, but to actually get
saint hood is tricky. There's anItalian teenager poised to become the first millennial
saint. You have to have twomiracles attributed to you, and now with
the second miracle being attributed to CarlosAcoustis this Carlos Acoustis the teenager who is
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often called the patron Saint of theInternet among Roman Catholics because he had mad
computer skills and he used his computerskills to spread the word. He died
when he was only fifteen from leukemia, but now because of this second miracle,
he may ascend into sainthood. Hewas born in London to Italian parents,
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moved with his family to Milan,and his passion for Catholicism just took
off even when he was a superyoung kid. At age seven, he
began attending Mass, and he wasso taken with it that his mom rejoined
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the church. He had kind offallen away, and apparently, according to
many who knew him and worked aroundhim and lived around him, he was
called to serf and help those whowere less fortunate and donated to the unhoused.
And the months before his death heused his self taught digital skills to
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create a website that archived miracles.Then after he died, people from all
over the world told his mom aboutmedical miracles, including cures for infertility and
cancer that happened after they prayed toher son. The mother says that Carlo
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is the light answer to the darkside of the web. So he's out
there on the web and he's spreadingthe word kind of through the computer and
getting the word out there as hehas this website that he developed archiving the
miracles, and I guess in thatprofile the people became aware of they started
praying to him, praying to hismemory. After his life was lost to
leukemia. Anyway, it was intwenty twenty that the road to sainthood was
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started. I'll remind you he passedaway in six from leukemia's They was just
fifteen years old. Then, intwenty twenty, the Diocese of Assisi,
where his family had property, petitionedthe Vatican to recognize him as a saint,
and Pope Francis attributed the healing ofa boy with a malformed pancreas to
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the child praying to Carlo and actuallysays that Carlo's one of Carlo's shirts came
in contact with this child who wasstruggling with this malformed pancreas, and the
child healed. So there has tobe a second miracle. If that gets
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the seal of approval, you stillneed one more, and there was one
more. According to the Vatican,the second miracle involved a Costa Rican university
student who suffered a severe head traumafell off her bicycle in Florence, Italy.
The woman needed major brain surgery.The doctors said, hey, look,
the survival rates on this kind ofsurgery are low. But the woman's
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mother traveled to a c SI topray for her daughter at the tomb of
Carlo, asked for Carlo to intercedefrom the beyond. The young woman began
to show signs of improvement in herbreathing. According to those familiar with the
case, she also had improvement ofmobility and in speech, said the Vatican.
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Ten days after the woman's mother visitedCarlo's tomb, a CT scan showed
the hemorrhage on the woman's brain hadvanished. She was transferred to a rehab
facility. So those are the twomiracles. And the Pope now is saying
that he's going to convene a meetingof the cardinals to consider Carlo's sainthood.
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If they decide that he should bevoted in for sainthood, if everyone can
agree, they will have a formalcanonization ceremony and he will be the first
millennial saint. It is a majormilestone, the youngest extraordinary life. From
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those who knew him, they calledhim God's influencer because he, as a
young person, was able to dothrough so much through the Internet and through
reaching out that way and building thiswebsite. But it's interesting because his parents
were not religious, but the nannywas the religious one. She was a
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Polish nanny and she was religious andstarted bringing him to church service and that's
how he got into it. Andas far as his prowess on the computer's
concerned that all just happened because he'sa kid. He was into video games
Halo and Super Mario and Pokemon,and he taught himself how to create a
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website. It's an amazing story andhis shrine is very well visited and estimated
one hundred and seventeen thousand people visitedCarlow's shrine last year. So he's not
a saint yet, but it seemslike he's on final approach. So that's
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the story of Carlow. There wasan incident in a church that didn't really
go so positively that story. Aswe continued, you're listening to Tim Conway
Junior on demand from KFI AM sixforty. Mark Thompson's sitting in for Tim
Conway Junior, who returns on Monday. You can take us with you this
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weekend through the iHeartRadio app and weare live all weekend. I was just
a talking about that kid really passedaway when he's fifteen, who is now
poised become a saint. Talked aboutthose two miracles. You'll likely get that
sainthood and there'll be a canonization ceremony. There was a different kind of ceremony.
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I mean it started as a normalkind of ceremony that you might find
at a diocese of some kind.This one is an Orlando and it turned
into an incident. This is rightout of like the wild pages of the
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Florida Crime Blodder. You don't thinkof Catholic priests involved in physical altercations in
the middle of communion, but that'sexactly what happened. The Diocese of Orlando
has this priest who's just giving HolyCommunion and Holy Communion wafers to those parishioners
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during a mass, and the storiesdiffer. The one story from the lady
who was trying to get communion wasa simple one. It was, Hey,
I was trying to get communion andhe's forcing this wafer into my mouth
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and it was getting a little bittoo intense and I pull away and I
could tell it kind of gets intothat scuffle sort of place where it's a
little unclear as to why a priestwould bite her. But this guy,
Father Fidell, did bite her inthis altercation that again started over communion.
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The priest says she didn't understand theprocess of receiving communion, so he didn't
give her the bread wafer, andwhen she came back to another service and
tried again, the confrontation erupted andthat's when she tried to grab the wafer
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from his hand. This is againhis side of the story, and that's
when he bit her hand, andhe admits to that, and he says,
I was protecting the wafer because it'sconsidered the body, you know,
of the Lord. So he saysthat, he said, look, I'm
not judging you. I'm just askingyou. Did you confess after Master or
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not. If you didn't confess,I cannot give you communion. And then
he said, and this is aquote, I bit her. I'm not
denying that. I'm defending myself andthe sacrament, he said. He said
he didn't know the woman, didn'tcare about the woman particularly. He said,
quote, I don't judge nobody.That's the priest. Well, there
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were witnesses to the entire thing,and apparently I don't believe there are any
arrests made, but it's turned intoa controversy and there is a police report.
The cops were called and it isclear based on video that the woman
initiated the physical contact, and thecops are saying acted inappropriately. The priest
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was trying to protect the Holy Communionfrom what they considered a sacrilegious act that
I believe is probably a statement fromthe church and all's well that ends well
maybe I don't know. It's definitelya difference. And this, my friends,
is why you should go to church, because you never know when the
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real show is going to start.I always felt like, give me a
show in church, and here yougo, bit of what you're not expecting.
That's all I'm saying. I'm gladeverybody's okay. We are one step
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closer, or so they say,to possibly becoming a multiplanetary species. Scientists
have discovered another planet that has thepotential to support human life. This is
from the Royal Astronomical Society. There'sa planet called Galacy twelve B and the
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potential for intergalactic oases on this planetexists. It's estimated the average temperature on
the surface of the planet is aone hundred and seven degrees so that's just
fifty degrees warmer than Earth's average estimatedtemperature, and the lowest estimated temperature out
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of these five thousand different exo planetsplanets outside of our Solar system is oh,
that's ICEE. That's the lowest temperature, meaning when you just look at
temperatures. This is the temperature range, and this is the temperature that could
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sustain life. Everything else, itwould appear, doesn't fall within kind of
a manageable window of temperature. It'sone of a handful of temperate planets they're
saying similar to Earth, that areboth close enough to us and meet other
criteria needed for this kind of study. This according to an astrophysicist at NASA's
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Goddard Space Flight Center, the nearesttransiting temperate Earth size world located to date
is this Gleasy twelve bee. Scientistssee it as a potential candidate for further
examination by the James Webb Space timeand when a planet passes in front of
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its star from our perspective, theycall it transiting, causing the start brightness
to fade and some of the starslight then is absorbed by the planet's atmosphere
that they're studying. So they're,you know, the same way that we
absorb light and energy, and they'resaying that same process or something similar to
it could exist on this planet.It's very interesting, and there is a
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little bit more and then I'm goingto speak to this from my limited background
in the sciences as to the problemswith perhaps some of this data. But
it's exciting. But I'm just sayingthere might be a little spin on this,
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so we'll get to that. It'sMemorial Day weekend. We're sort of
kicking it on a Friday afternoon aftera pretty intense day on the ninety one
being shut down for a while.So after intense breaking newsday, we're watching
all news events. You're listening toTim Conwayjunire on demand from KFI AM six
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forty. Mark Thompson here for TimConway Junior getting into the Memorial Day rhythm
of things. You're a KFI.Tim will be back on Monday. I
just was talking about this planet.They discover this planet, the Royal Astronomical
Society did, and I guess youknow, when you're looking for planets that
might support life, you're looking atthings like temperature. You're looking at how
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much sunlight there is, You're lookingat you know, gaseous matter and the
kinds of things that are comprising theplanet. So there's a ton of stuff
to look at. But we're justlooking at temperatures and of all of these
planets outside of the Solar System thatthey were examining this one planet. They
call it glease A twelve B.It is sort of the perfect temperature where
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there's potential and there are cycles,if you will, on the surface of
the planet to potentially support life.I mean, you know you've heard this
before. Maybe that were the Goldilocksplanet right where it's not too hot,
it's not too cold. That's whyEarth is the Goldilocks planet. The kinds
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of things that have happened here throughthe millions of years that have crafted the
evolution to where we are now.I mean, the things that had to
fall into place. I'm talking aboutthe chemical reactions, the electrical charges that
met chemical reactions. All of thisstuff had to happen in an environment that
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was friendly enough to allow it tohappen. I mean, stated frankly,
there's no other way that the exactsort of chain of evolutionary events could ever
happen in another planet anywhere. Idon't care that there are jillions and jillions
of planets and jillions and jillions ofstars and galaxies. It doesn't matter.
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The precise kinds of carbon exchange andchemical reactions, and you know, the
chain of events couldn't happen exactly thesame way. So whatever life we do
find or they can find, itlikely won't be like this. But some
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of the same things they're saying,some of the same things could make this
glease syat twelve B this new planetpotentially habitable, So they need to find
out if it's got an earth likeatmosphere, so that would allow water to
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exist on the surface, and wateris a key ingredient to life. They
know that atmospheres trap heat, anddepending on the type of atmosphere, that
can change the actual surface temperatures alot. So even though it looks like
there's one hundred and seven degrees there, it might not be when they actually
are able to figure out the gaseousmatter around it. It's really an interesting
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kind of science experiment. I guessthey say it's like the size of Venus,
and now Venus doesn't have any atmosphere, so Venus like nine hundred degrees
but and there's no water in anythingon Venus. I mean, this is
really a pretty special place. That'swhy, that's why it's so special to
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try to hang onto it. Butit is fascinating that this gleasy twelve bee
represents, according to astronomers, oneof the best targets to study whether Earth
sized planets that orbit these cool starscan retain their atmospheres and actually have some
degree of habitability across the galaxy.So, I mean, certainly the numbers
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are there, right, The numberof planets, the number of stars the
cosmos is just so immense that itwould seem almost deliberately belligerent to think that
we're the only life, right,but that we're the only kind of this
life. That's a little more ofa defensible notion for the reasons I was
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saying before, you know, alot of offices are saying come back in
the city. Group Bank has askedsix hundred US employees are eligible to work
remotely to return to the office fulltime. They're saying that because the requirements
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on a regulatory level that make ithard for Wall Street banks to allow offsite
work for things like trading stocks andequities regulars regulars, they should say at
ease, they say, some ofthe requirements to allow traders the flexibility of
remote work during the pandemic. Butin the coming weeks, the primary watchdog
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for US brokerage firms and exchange marketsis set to bring back pre pandemic rules
to monitor workplaces. That means CityGroup is asking six hundred US employees who
are eligible to work remotely to comeback to work full time. Most of
them will continue to work on ahybrid schedule, so three days a week
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they'll be in the office and maybetwo days out of the office. But
more and more people are going backto the office. Barclay's, the London
based bank, has mandated that itsglobal investment banking staff has to work in
the office or travel to meet clientsfive days a week. That's going to
start June first. But meantime,on the other side of Wall Street,
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robin Hood is saying workers can nowgo remote. Isn't that right? I
thought they're going to be going remoteat robin Hood. They explained in a
new interview. The CEO how hebrought employees back to the office after initially
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telling them they were working at aremote first company. Oh, so he's
going to keep them, He's Ithought that they were actually going to go
home, but now he's asking thatthey come in. Is that the way
it's going to work? Dana seemssay it. Yeah. The robin Hood
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was interesting because robin Hood is thecompany that was involved in the game stop
run up right where everybody's involved,and there was a great documentary on it.
Danny was telling me that there's athere's a movie on it as well.
Now at dramatic film about that thatrun up. That's what you were
saying, right, Yes, it'son Netflix. It's so good. What's
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it called. It's let me findthat for you. Anyway, the uh
so, the co founder and CEOof robin Hood, I guess, is
bringing them back. I thought theywere gonna sending them home. I thought
that was the end of the yangof it. But no, I guess
everybody in the financial services industry isgetting back into the office. The thing,
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the last thing I'll just say quicklyabout the robin Hood situation was,
uh they did. It was ameme stock game stop, it was a
run up. It was a completelyinternet driven phenomenon. But they really kind
of screwed some of those robin Hoodstockholders. I don't know if that.
I'm sure they cover that, Danain the dramatic story that they tell.
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Yes, the movie is called dumbMoney, Dumb Money, Dumb Money on
Netflix. Yeah. Anyway, that'sthe story of Robinhood, and it's worth
a look, because there's another memestock. I mean, even the Trump
stocks being called a meme stock.You know, it's driven by things other
than the actual value of the company, right, So because of that,
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it falls into that category. Buthey, that's the way the system is
set up. People are allowed totrade on whatever they want. They're allowed
to buy companies and stocks for anyreason they want. And that's kind of
what was happening with Gainstop, andit's happening again that entire processually process is
being reinvigorated. But anyway, that'sthe drill down on what's essentially going to
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It's KMF I AM six forty andyou're listening to The Conway Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. Mark Thompsonsitting in for Tim Conway Junior. Settling
into the Memorial Day weekend. Thebarbecue scene is going to be live,
they say. Those who keep trackof such things as cookout items, they
(00:24):
say it's going to be ten percentmore expensive to have a cookout this year
than last. The average cost towelcome the unofficial start of summer jump to
thirty dollars compared to twenty seven dollarsin twenty twenty three. This according to
Everybody's First Stop in the Economics ofBarbecue's Wallet Hub. A consumer affairs report
(00:51):
came to a similar conclusion too.They said that seven essential items for a
routine cookout burgers, hot dogs,buns and condiments came to a total of
thirty dollars and eighteen cents compared totwenty seven, thirty nine and twenty twenty
three. So, I mean pricesare up. Now if you actually look
at why prices are up, it'sthe soaring price of burgers. An order
(01:15):
of eight burgers a little over eightdollars is fifteen percent higher than last year.
That's according to Consumer Affairs. Burgerand hot dog buns went up one
percent. So you added all,you know, a little bit here,
a little bit there, and beforeyou know it, you got to have
(01:36):
be a Rockefeller to have a barbecuein this country. A thirty two ounce
bottle of ketchup costs five point fiftythree, a two percent increase from a
year ago. A twenty ounce bottleof mustard is two sixty one, up
three percent, and relish is up. Say it ain't so. A twenty
(01:57):
six ounce jar relish went up almostfifty percent. And you may know why.
Why would relish be up forty ninepercent? A twenty six ounce jar
of relish this year compared to lastis up forty nine percent of four dollars
(02:21):
and sixty seven cents because of ashortage of if you guess pickles, award
yourself points. So again, whenyou add these altogether, and mostly these
are single digit increases, and likesoda, up to five percent, but
(02:42):
it gets to be a little moreexpensive. The elements of a barbecue are
costing a little bit more, andmeat, if you're a meat eater,
that's the biggest reason. But againthere's a commitment to everything associated with a
barbecue, from beer to beef inthis country. And that's just that's just
(03:08):
the way it goes down. Youknow. I have a unique situation affecting
me this year, and I'm sharingit because I never even it didn't even
occur to me that this is aproblem. I had oral surgery a month
ago. Okay, so they workon I don't know, they're cutting away
(03:30):
a part of my jaw or something. It was. It was. It
was bad, but it wasn't awful. I mean, it wasn't. But
what happened was they do the surgeryand then over that weekend that it's supposed
to be healing. I mean thehealing process I take think takes north of
a month, but you know it'ssupposed to be healing right away. There
are stitches in there and they popout. So now you've got problems and
(03:55):
you've got to go back in.So I go back in the following Monday,
I think it was actually Tuesday,so it's like four days later or
three days later, and they dohave to do a little bit of it
again. They kind of they don'tdo the cutting, but they have to,
you know, re put the suituresback in and whatever. Now I'm
getting to a point which is totaltime in the chair, let's call it
(04:18):
two and a half hours over thosetwo sessions. And something starts happening to
me right away, and that isI get this intense pain. I mean,
I try to open my mouth toeat, and I am thinking,
(04:38):
well, it'll get better, giveit a chance, because your mouth is
open for so long or something,it'll get better. It'll get better,
get better. Day go by,a week goes by. It doesn't get
it all better, not even onepercent better. So I call a dentist's
office and I say, hey,listen, this isn't getting any better.
I'm sure it's fine, but youknow, I have this normalcy bias,
which is sort of like everything I'msure is going to be fine. You
(05:00):
know. It's my bias to justfeel as though we're all going to get
back to normal, right, It'sgoing to be fine, and it's not.
So now I'm seeing this TMJ specialistand it's getting a little bit better,
but it's only a little bit better. There's a lot of inflammation in
there. And he explains the wholething to me. But when it comes
to barbecues, this year. UnlessI grind up whatever the thing is and
(05:26):
kind of put it into spoonfuls offood that I then consume. That way,
I'm out of the barbecue game forMemorial Day weekend. So it's I'm
just saying, it's not a questionof money. My mouth literally won't open
to the point that I can cramany of that stuff in. It's crazy.
(05:50):
This is a developing story. Iwill keep you posted or not,
depending on your interest when we comeback. I don't know if you're aware
of what goes into the process ofbecoming a saint, but there are certain
things that have to be proven.You need witnesses, you need reports,
(06:12):
you need submissions, you need investigations. To become a saint. In the
Catholic Church, they don't just takeyour word for it. They investigate.
Well, the first millennial saint,an Italian teenager, is poised to become
(06:34):
a saint. And I'll explain toyou what he did and how he is
going to become a saint, andhis role and passion for his religion,
but also those things related to thisteenager that made him eligible for sainthood.
(06:56):
We'll do that next. And then, by the way, I mean Conway
raised Catholic, So I mean,I feel like it's consistent with the yeah,
with the ethic of the show,with his upbringing. Anyway, it's
history. You're listening to Tim ConwayJunior on demand from KFI AM six forty.
I don't know. It's a complexkind of thing to become a saint.
(07:17):
I mean, there are a lotof saints, but to actually get
saint hood is tricky. There's anItalian teenager poised to become the first millennial
saint. You have to have twomiracles attributed to you, and now with
the second miracle being attributed to CarlosAcoustis this Carlos Acoustis the teenager who is
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often called the patron Saint of theInternet among Roman Catholics because he had mad
computer skills and he used his computerskills to spread the word. He died
when he was only fifteen from leukemia, but now because of this second miracle,
he may ascend into sainthood. Hewas born in London to Italian parents,
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moved with his family to Milan,and his passion for Catholicism just took
off even when he was a superyoung kid. At age seven, he
began attending Mass, and he wasso taken with it that his mom rejoined
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the church. He had kind offallen away, and apparently, according to
many who knew him and worked aroundhim and lived around him, he was
called to serf and help those whowere less fortunate and donated to the unhoused.
And the months before his death heused his self taught digital skills to
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create a website that archived miracles.Then after he died, people from all
over the world told his mom aboutmedical miracles, including cures for infertility and
cancer that happened after they prayed toher son. The mother says that Carlo
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is the light answer to the darkside of the web. So he's out
there on the web and he's spreadingthe word kind of through the computer and
getting the word out there as hehas this website that he developed archiving the
miracles, and I guess in thatprofile the people became aware of they started
praying to him, praying to hismemory. After his life was lost to
leukemia. Anyway, it was intwenty twenty that the road to sainthood was
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started. I'll remind you he passedaway in six from leukemia's They was just
fifteen years old. Then, intwenty twenty, the Diocese of Assisi,
where his family had property, petitionedthe Vatican to recognize him as a saint,
and Pope Francis attributed the healing ofa boy with a malformed pancreas to
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the child praying to Carlo and actuallysays that Carlo's one of Carlo's shirts came
in contact with this child who wasstruggling with this malformed pancreas, and the
child healed. So there has tobe a second miracle. If that gets
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the seal of approval, you stillneed one more, and there was one
more. According to the Vatican,the second miracle involved a Costa Rican university
student who suffered a severe head traumafell off her bicycle in Florence, Italy.
The woman needed major brain surgery.The doctors said, hey, look,
the survival rates on this kind ofsurgery are low. But the woman's
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mother traveled to a c SI topray for her daughter at the tomb of
Carlo, asked for Carlo to intercedefrom the beyond. The young woman began
to show signs of improvement in herbreathing. According to those familiar with the
case, she also had improvement ofmobility and in speech, said the Vatican.
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Ten days after the woman's mother visitedCarlo's tomb, a CT scan showed
the hemorrhage on the woman's brain hadvanished. She was transferred to a rehab
facility. So those are the twomiracles. And the Pope now is saying
that he's going to convene a meetingof the cardinals to consider Carlo's sainthood.
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If they decide that he should bevoted in for sainthood, if everyone can
agree, they will have a formalcanonization ceremony and he will be the first
millennial saint. It is a majormilestone, the youngest extraordinary life. From
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those who knew him, they calledhim God's influencer because he, as a
young person, was able to dothrough so much through the Internet and through
reaching out that way and building thiswebsite. But it's interesting because his parents
were not religious, but the nannywas the religious one. She was a
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Polish nanny and she was religious andstarted bringing him to church service and that's
how he got into it. Andas far as his prowess on the computer's
concerned that all just happened because he'sa kid. He was into video games
Halo and Super Mario and Pokemon,and he taught himself how to create a
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website. It's an amazing story andhis shrine is very well visited and estimated
one hundred and seventeen thousand people visitedCarlow's shrine last year. So he's not
a saint yet, but it seemslike he's on final approach. So that's
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the story of Carlow. There wasan incident in a church that didn't really
go so positively that story. Aswe continued, you're listening to Tim Conway
Junior on demand from KFI AM sixforty. Mark Thompson's sitting in for Tim
Conway Junior, who returns on Monday. You can take us with you this
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weekend through the iHeartRadio app and weare live all weekend. I was just
a talking about that kid really passedaway when he's fifteen, who is now
poised become a saint. Talked aboutthose two miracles. You'll likely get that
sainthood and there'll be a canonization ceremony. There was a different kind of ceremony.
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I mean it started as a normalkind of ceremony that you might find
at a diocese of some kind.This one is an Orlando and it turned
into an incident. This is rightout of like the wild pages of the
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Florida Crime Blodder. You don't thinkof Catholic priests involved in physical altercations in
the middle of communion, but that'sexactly what happened. The Diocese of Orlando
has this priest who's just giving HolyCommunion and Holy Communion wafers to those parishioners
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during a mass, and the storiesdiffer. The one story from the lady
who was trying to get communion wasa simple one. It was, Hey,
I was trying to get communion andhe's forcing this wafer into my mouth
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and it was getting a little bittoo intense and I pull away and I
could tell it kind of gets intothat scuffle sort of place where it's a
little unclear as to why a priestwould bite her. But this guy,
Father Fidell, did bite her inthis altercation that again started over communion.
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The priest says she didn't understand theprocess of receiving communion, so he didn't
give her the bread wafer, andwhen she came back to another service and
tried again, the confrontation erupted andthat's when she tried to grab the wafer
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from his hand. This is againhis side of the story, and that's
when he bit her hand, andhe admits to that, and he says,
I was protecting the wafer because it'sconsidered the body, you know,
of the Lord. So he saysthat, he said, look, I'm
not judging you. I'm just askingyou. Did you confess after Master or
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not. If you didn't confess,I cannot give you communion. And then
he said, and this is aquote, I bit her. I'm not
denying that. I'm defending myself andthe sacrament, he said. He said
he didn't know the woman, didn'tcare about the woman particularly. He said,
quote, I don't judge nobody.That's the priest. Well, there
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were witnesses to the entire thing,and apparently I don't believe there are any
arrests made, but it's turned intoa controversy and there is a police report.
The cops were called and it isclear based on video that the woman
initiated the physical contact, and thecops are saying acted inappropriately. The priest
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was trying to protect the Holy Communionfrom what they considered a sacrilegious act that
I believe is probably a statement fromthe church and all's well that ends well
maybe I don't know. It's definitelya difference. And this, my friends,
is why you should go to church, because you never know when the
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real show is going to start.I always felt like, give me a
show in church, and here yougo, bit of what you're not expecting.
That's all I'm saying. I'm gladeverybody's okay. We are one step
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closer, or so they say,to possibly becoming a multiplanetary species. Scientists
have discovered another planet that has thepotential to support human life. This is
from the Royal Astronomical Society. There'sa planet called Galacy twelve B and the
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potential for intergalactic oases on this planetexists. It's estimated the average temperature on
the surface of the planet is aone hundred and seven degrees so that's just
fifty degrees warmer than Earth's average estimatedtemperature, and the lowest estimated temperature out
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of these five thousand different exo planetsplanets outside of our Solar system is oh,
that's ICEE. That's the lowest temperature, meaning when you just look at
temperatures. This is the temperature range, and this is the temperature that could
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sustain life. Everything else, itwould appear, doesn't fall within kind of
a manageable window of temperature. It'sone of a handful of temperate planets they're
saying similar to Earth, that areboth close enough to us and meet other
criteria needed for this kind of study. This according to an astrophysicist at NASA's
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Goddard Space Flight Center, the nearesttransiting temperate Earth size world located to date
is this Gleasy twelve bee. Scientistssee it as a potential candidate for further
examination by the James Webb Space timeand when a planet passes in front of
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its star from our perspective, theycall it transiting, causing the start brightness
to fade and some of the starslight then is absorbed by the planet's atmosphere
that they're studying. So they're,you know, the same way that we
absorb light and energy, and they'resaying that same process or something similar to
it could exist on this planet.It's very interesting, and there is a
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little bit more and then I'm goingto speak to this from my limited background
in the sciences as to the problemswith perhaps some of this data. But
it's exciting. But I'm just sayingthere might be a little spin on this,
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so we'll get to that. It'sMemorial Day weekend. We're sort of
kicking it on a Friday afternoon aftera pretty intense day on the ninety one
being shut down for a while.So after intense breaking newsday, we're watching
all news events. You're listening toTim Conwayjunire on demand from KFI AM six
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forty. Mark Thompson here for TimConway Junior getting into the Memorial Day rhythm
of things. You're a KFI.Tim will be back on Monday. I
just was talking about this planet.They discover this planet, the Royal Astronomical
Society did, and I guess youknow, when you're looking for planets that
might support life, you're looking atthings like temperature. You're looking at how
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much sunlight there is, You're lookingat you know, gaseous matter and the
kinds of things that are comprising theplanet. So there's a ton of stuff
to look at. But we're justlooking at temperatures and of all of these
planets outside of the Solar System thatthey were examining this one planet. They
call it glease A twelve B.It is sort of the perfect temperature where
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there's potential and there are cycles,if you will, on the surface of
the planet to potentially support life.I mean, you know you've heard this
before. Maybe that were the Goldilocksplanet right where it's not too hot,
it's not too cold. That's whyEarth is the Goldilocks planet. The kinds
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of things that have happened here throughthe millions of years that have crafted the
evolution to where we are now.I mean, the things that had to
fall into place. I'm talking aboutthe chemical reactions, the electrical charges that
met chemical reactions. All of thisstuff had to happen in an environment that
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was friendly enough to allow it tohappen. I mean, stated frankly,
there's no other way that the exactsort of chain of evolutionary events could ever
happen in another planet anywhere. Idon't care that there are jillions and jillions
of planets and jillions and jillions ofstars and galaxies. It doesn't matter.
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The precise kinds of carbon exchange andchemical reactions, and you know, the
chain of events couldn't happen exactly thesame way. So whatever life we do
find or they can find, itlikely won't be like this. But some
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of the same things they're saying,some of the same things could make this
glease syat twelve B this new planetpotentially habitable, So they need to find
out if it's got an earth likeatmosphere, so that would allow water to
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exist on the surface, and wateris a key ingredient to life. They
know that atmospheres trap heat, anddepending on the type of atmosphere, that
can change the actual surface temperatures alot. So even though it looks like
there's one hundred and seven degrees there, it might not be when they actually
are able to figure out the gaseousmatter around it. It's really an interesting
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kind of science experiment. I guessthey say it's like the size of Venus,
and now Venus doesn't have any atmosphere, so Venus like nine hundred degrees
but and there's no water in anythingon Venus. I mean, this is
really a pretty special place. That'swhy, that's why it's so special to
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try to hang onto it. Butit is fascinating that this gleasy twelve bee
represents, according to astronomers, oneof the best targets to study whether Earth
sized planets that orbit these cool starscan retain their atmospheres and actually have some
degree of habitability across the galaxy.So, I mean, certainly the numbers
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are there, right, The numberof planets, the number of stars the
cosmos is just so immense that itwould seem almost deliberately belligerent to think that
we're the only life, right,but that we're the only kind of this
life. That's a little more ofa defensible notion for the reasons I was
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saying before, you know, alot of offices are saying come back in
the city. Group Bank has askedsix hundred US employees are eligible to work
remotely to return to the office fulltime. They're saying that because the requirements
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on a regulatory level that make ithard for Wall Street banks to allow offsite
work for things like trading stocks andequities regulars regulars, they should say at
ease, they say, some ofthe requirements to allow traders the flexibility of
remote work during the pandemic. Butin the coming weeks, the primary watchdog
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for US brokerage firms and exchange marketsis set to bring back pre pandemic rules
to monitor workplaces. That means CityGroup is asking six hundred US employees who
are eligible to work remotely to comeback to work full time. Most of
them will continue to work on ahybrid schedule, so three days a week
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they'll be in the office and maybetwo days out of the office. But
more and more people are going backto the office. Barclay's, the London
based bank, has mandated that itsglobal investment banking staff has to work in
the office or travel to meet clientsfive days a week. That's going to
start June first. But meantime,on the other side of Wall Street,
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robin Hood is saying workers can nowgo remote. Isn't that right? I
thought they're going to be going remoteat robin Hood. They explained in a
new interview. The CEO how hebrought employees back to the office after initially
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telling them they were working at aremote first company. Oh, so he's
going to keep them, He's Ithought that they were actually going to go
home, but now he's asking thatthey come in. Is that the way
it's going to work? Dana seemssay it. Yeah. The robin Hood
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was interesting because robin Hood is thecompany that was involved in the game stop
run up right where everybody's involved,and there was a great documentary on it.
Danny was telling me that there's athere's a movie on it as well.
Now at dramatic film about that thatrun up. That's what you were
saying, right, Yes, it'son Netflix. It's so good. What's
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it called. It's let me findthat for you. Anyway, the uh
so, the co founder and CEOof robin Hood, I guess, is
bringing them back. I thought theywere gonna sending them home. I thought
that was the end of the yangof it. But no, I guess
everybody in the financial services industry isgetting back into the office. The thing,
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the last thing I'll just say quicklyabout the robin Hood situation was,
uh they did. It was ameme stock game stop, it was a
run up. It was a completelyinternet driven phenomenon. But they really kind
of screwed some of those robin Hoodstockholders. I don't know if that.
I'm sure they cover that, Danain the dramatic story that they tell.
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Yes, the movie is called dumbMoney, Dumb Money, Dumb Money on
Netflix. Yeah. Anyway, that'sthe story of Robinhood, and it's worth
a look, because there's another memestock. I mean, even the Trump
stocks being called a meme stock.You know, it's driven by things other
than the actual value of the company, right, So because of that,
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it falls into that category. Buthey, that's the way the system is
set up. People are allowed totrade on whatever they want. They're allowed
to buy companies and stocks for anyreason they want. And that's kind of
what was happening with Gainstop, andit's happening again that entire processually process is
being reinvigorated. But anyway, that'sthe drill down on what's essentially going to
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