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August 25, 2025 36 mins
HOUR 1 – The Menendez brothers remain imprisoned near the U.S.–Mexico border, with the parole board denying Lyle Menendez’s request for release—matching the earlier decision for his brother Erik—though they can try again in three years. Discussion followed on the need for new rules around car chases, since few people pay attention to them anymore, with a lighthearted nod to rebuilding “The Foosh.” Conway also shared stories from his drive from Portland to Burbank while listening to the Carolla Podcast. The hour closed with Missak Thomlinson’s ongoing journey to find a living kidney donor, highlighted by a Kidney Donation Awareness & Swabbing Event aimed at raising awareness and finding a match. 

4:05pm – Alex Stone, The Menendez Brothers today remain at a prison along the US/Mexico Border with no sign they'll be getting out anytime soon.  Late on Friday night a parole board -- after a lengthy delay caused by some audio of Thursday's hearing that was mistakenly released -- issued its ruling that Lyle Menendez, like his brother Erik, will not get parole.  They can try again in three years. 

4:20pm – Car chases need new rules around them, because no one is paying attention to them. The Foosh, we can rebuild him, we have the technology  

4:35pm – Conway’s drive from Portland to Burbank listening to the Carolla Podcast 

4:50pm –  Missak Thomlinson is currently on a journey to find a living kidney donor, and they’re hosting a Kidney Donation Awareness & Swabbing Event to raise awareness and hopefully find a match. 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k if I Am six forty and you're listening
to the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Kf I Am six forty.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
It is a Conway Show. All right, diggg we're back
at work again. It's short Fuse Monday. The weekend's gone
back to work again. It's short Fuse Monday. It's back
to work again. As an old Steckler song you like
to sing on Mondays, I enjoyed that.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
I enjoyed it.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
All right, let's get right to ABC anchor the ABC
World News tonight, Alex.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Stowey, how you promoted me?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, no kidding, thank you. I appreciate that. I appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
And I miss coming in and working, you know, you know,
gotta know, honestly, God, I do because of the people
I work with.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
And also it's it's really a good job, you know,
I mean.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Right, yeah, you know, when you're driving I drove from
Morgan back to California, and you see guys that are
working for a living, Guys that are working on the road.
Guys are driving ups trucks or FedEx or Amazon. You know,
guys that are working in the ditches. You know, guys
that have real jobs, or you stop it in town,
you know, overnight, and you go to a bar and
it's filled with regulars, and those guys are all working,

(01:15):
you know, at seven o'clock in the morning till four
or five o'clock in the afternoon.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Those are the real guys that are working. This is
not work.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
You're like, well, I'm going to go into an air
conditioned room. That's right, Yeah, with belly into the microphone.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
That's right. It's easy as hell.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Hey, so I'm gonna survive for another three years. The
Menenda's brothers have failed to. I guess, uh, you know,
fly the Cooper, escape the Cooper or whatever they do.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
And yeah, I'm not to be able to come after
you because they're not going anywhere, at least for now.
You remember when Mark Gerrgos he was saying, well, last year,
they'll be up by Thanksgiving. They're going to have Thanksgiving dinner.
And then it became Christmas, and then it became New Years,
and then it just kept getting delayed, and even last
week he was saying this next Thanksgiving that that he
hopes said they're going to be out.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
But but Alex, don't you think the newsome put pressure
on the parole board to keep them in because what
a commercial that would be for Republicans. You know, these
kids shot there, they shot their their mother in the face.
She was crawling away. They reloaded, came in and finished
her off. That's who you want. The guy who just
released those two.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
People, assuming that the system is the way it's supposed
to be, he should have had no interaction with him
because he could have vetoed it when when they got done,
had they had they approved it and given him parole,
given them parole, that then he would all he would
have to do is veto it.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
But he didn't want that pressure on himself.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, I bet you, I guarantee you that he had
one of his underlings, you know, say hey, don't put
the pressure on me, tell these guys to keep them
at least till the next all.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, I don't know, and they at this point, we
don't know when, if ever, they're they're going to get out.
And it's three years that they can go in front
the board again, but with good behavior, it's more like
eighteen months than in reality that they probably will. But
it was late on Friday. There was a big long
delay because of audio that we aired on Friday afternoon

(03:03):
of Eric's parole hearing that the prison system released to
us and we aired it, and then that became a
whole stink inside the meeting or the hearing, with the
Menendez attorneys saying that it that it leaked out and
should not have aired, even though it was a day
before's hearing that had already been decided, saying that that
was going to impact the commissioners on Lyle, I don't

(03:25):
think that they were paying any attention to ABC News
while they were holding this hearing, and they should not
have been paying any attention. But there were all kinds
of crazy rules on this hearing that all day long
we were getting reports out from a pool reporter who
was listening to it. They allowed one pool reporter to
give us notes, but we were not allowed to want
to acknowledge all day long until the hearing was over.

(03:45):
That we had seen these pool reports until it ended,
and we couldn't even forward them amongst ourselves to our
colleagues of what was going on inside because they said
that would impact what the parole board was doing.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Again, that's un true.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Commissioners are not paying attention to the news media and
if they are, then then it seems they got a
problem with their job anyway. Bottom line, this means that
they are not getting out right now. We do have
that audio that caused all that stink on Friday from
Eric Menendez his hearing, and the commissioner told Eric this,
I would have.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
To say, looking at your record, that it is not
only replete with violations, but they're very diverse in nature.
In other words, you have violence, you have manipulation, you
have misuse of things, you have criminal acts, you have
substance abuse. I mean, there's a lot of different things

(04:40):
that you've done over the years while you've been incarcerating.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
So they said he is he and Lyle are still
danger to society at this point and then they're not
getting out. And much of this came down the illegal
cell phones the two brothers had in prison. And yeah,
a lot of people outside the prison system are like,
who cares every inmate has an illegal cell phone. They're
smuggled into everybody, But that's seen as a big deal.
That's how gangs communicate to do drug deals and hits

(05:03):
and everything else. And because they are illegal to have
in prison, that if you do something illegal in prison,
that's against the rules. It's seemed that when you get
out that you're going to be more willing to not
follow the rules and maybe do something illegal. And Eric
was asked about that he had a smuggled cell phone
all the way well into twenty twenty five, and he
said he had to have it to know what Nathan

(05:24):
Hawkman was arguing against him, so he could get his
argument ready to know whatever Hawkman was doing. But they said, look,
you're trying to get released and you were breaking the rules.
And he said, well, this is why I.

Speaker 5 (05:37):
Really became addicted to this, the phones, and said, you're
doing life without this is not really harming anyone, is
what I told myself. My denial patterns were strong, minimizing, rationalizing, justifying,
blaming my circumstances, saying that everyone else did it.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
And then Lyle talked about and we don't have Lyle's
audio because they're not going to give it to us
now after everything of giving us Eric's audio a cause
with the big delay on Friday night, we may get
it later, but now yet. But he talked about during
this we know that he said he saw the abuse
that he claims his dad put upon them, the sexual
abuse as a sign that his dad loved him, and
that he tried to keep his dad's love and that

(06:15):
when he started abusing Eric, his dad abused Eric. He
said that he felt like his dad was loving him,
him being lyle less and they try being abused and
the whole lifestyle in there, that in a weird, twisted way,
he almost wanted the abuse because it meant love from
his dad, who he was trying to impress. But Eric

(06:37):
admitted that even though he fantasized about his dad being
dead and they thought that the killing was the only
way to get away from the sexual abuse, that you know,
the argument over and over again has been this was
self defense, and they've made that claim their legal team,
as their family members have said it at all the
news conferences. He admitted it was not self defense and
even though they felt like that was their only way out,
they claimed the commissioner said, yeah, but you were teen

(07:00):
and twenty one years old, you had four point zero
GPAs there could have been some other way out. But
he admitted it was not self defense because his life
was not in danger in that moment.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
This was that moment.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
Was there any part of this that you believe was
self defense.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
No, No, there was no.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
Imminent I mean, I get it if he's pounding coming
through your door.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
So he said no, and that he said there was
no justification for the murders based on everything that they
know now, and so the parole board said, you're not
safe to put it back into society. You was terrible
judgment back in nineteen eighty nine. With this, they went
back to the brutality of the crimes and going back
and killing Kitty and shooting her in the face when
they knew that she was still live a little bit.

(07:41):
But Tim Mark Gerago is saying this is an unjust
parole ruling and it will be overturned, and he's going
to appeal.

Speaker 6 (07:47):
Every living member of their family wants them out. Nobody
is seriously believes are a threat to public safety. Enough
sense I do.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
And he's still hoping that Governor Niwshim is going to
give them clemency or they get a whole new time
under Habeas corpus where they argue that they didn't get
a fair trial back in the nineties and she get new.

Speaker 6 (08:04):
What's next for them will probably put it both to
the governor, who has the constitutional authority to reverse this abomination,
or we'll put it in front of a superior court
judge and let them decide whether or not they think
this process was fair. They've been doing this for over
forty years. This was not a fair proceeding. It violated
due process, and it was an outrage.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
But Habeas corpus that was always seen as long shot
in this whole thing, that even Gascone did not support
the argument for a new trial of habeas corpus. But
now they're looking at that as maybe a likely path.
Governor Newsom has not given any indication that he's going
to give them clemency, And to your point, a moment ago,
tim that now, not only would it it would have
been vetoing what they did. Now he would have to

(08:46):
contradict the Parole Board that said that they are a
risk to society still and that it's not safe to
put them out. To give them clemency and let them out.
If he's going to run for president, who knows, But
if he's going to run for president, to be the
governor who let out the Menendez brothers and overruled the
assessment from the parole board that they are a danger
seems like something he's probably not gonna want to do.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, Alex donis of most Maybec News. It wasn't just
the cell phone that he had. There was a laundry
list of infractions while they've been in carcro There was.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Violence, there was tax fraud that. Yeah, there were a
number of things.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, and these you know, these kids. This didn't start
in Beverly Hills. They used to live in a very
nice house out in Calabasas. And they found that these
two kids, you know, Eric and Lyle, were going to
neighbors houses when they were just teenagers, you know, robbing
homes in the very affluent neighborhood.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah, burglary came up quite a bit for Eric, especially
because he was the one who was really behind those
and they talked about the burglaries that he had done
and he said, look, you know, I was a teenager
and I didn't find my way and all of that
at that point, but all of it was part of
the decision in the end where they said, and a

(09:59):
lot of the analysts going into it had said, this
is going to be about what they have done in
prison or having done, and what the likelihood of reoffending.
This board really where there was two different boards, one
for each of them really went back to the original
crimes and went back to the burglaries before and said
those were two heinous to now just say, you know what,

(10:20):
you get to go free. And it brings up the
whole debate of is prison about punishment or is it
about safety to society? And this board seemed to go
more on the side of that punishment is a part
of this, that that a jury said that they should
go to prison, and that that it's not time for
them to get out right now, and so they can
try again in probably really eighteen months but officially three years.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Wiggle room?

Speaker 3 (10:46):
What's that us or was there any wiggle room? No,
it was unanimous at least from what we know. They
just come back and say whether their their findings were.
These were two person boards, so it would have to
be unanimous or would be split down the middle, right.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
And they did indicate though that they do believe at
some point down the road that they will get parole. Yeah,
they said one day. It's something effect of one day
when you are paroled, you will be a good member
of society by then, but you're not there yet.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
So they've indicated that that day will come. And it
is not unusual for in a murder case, the first
time the defendants come before the parole board, they're almost
never given parole. So it would have been highly unlikely
on the first try that they were going to be
given parole. But they could get it in a year
and a half, They could get it many many years
from now, or the governor could always veto it no

(11:34):
matter what. Only California and Oklahoma allow the governor.

Speaker 7 (11:38):
To overrule the parole board, so they.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
Grant he could always whoever the governor is at that time,
could always veto and say no way.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
But yeah, I appreciate you coming on. That's a lot
of great information.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Mat you got it.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Thanks s right, Thanks Alex. Done with ABC News.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Don't do it, Lyle.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Lyle is staying in prison with Eric and I can
sleep easy for three more years because one of their lawyers,
while that whole case was going on in the late
nineties said, you can't get a fair trial with a
holes like Conway Settler on the radio banging on you
every day, And I thought, wow, we weren't hitting them
as hard as is John and Ken. John and Ken

(12:15):
were calling them, you know, they had a segment every
day called fry them menend I and we didn't hit
them that hard, but for some reason we got to blame.
So I'm glad they're staying in prison. I can sleep tonight.
I can sleep tonight, those two idiots in prison for
killing their parents.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
And you know, I understand.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Look, if dad's abusing you, maybe dad, you know, takes
the quick way out.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
Maybe you get rid of dad. But the mom.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
You shoot your mom in the face, and then she's
crawling away. You go up reloaded and you shoot her again.
No society, there's not enough room for cats like that.
All right, We're live on KFI. It's Conway Show, KFI
AM and six forty. It is the Conway Show. And
we don't have a lot of breaking news. There's no riots,
there's no big fires. Spoiler Base was on fire. Awhile ago,

(13:01):
I think that's out. And there was a car chase earlier,
a high speed chase. But remember back in I don't know,
maybe ten years ago, when there's a high speed chase,
everybody watched it, everybody was on it. Now there's a
high speed chase like ah, right, well it doesn't seem
to be going any you know, crazy direction. I'll check
back with it later. They don't have the impact that

(13:23):
they used to. Man, when you missed a chase, you
know ten years ago, you're like, oh Christ, what was
I doing?

Speaker 2 (13:29):
How did it end? You know you have it on video?
What's going on? Did you watch it live?

Speaker 3 (13:34):
Now?

Speaker 1 (13:35):
It's they're so common and they almost all end the
same way where the guy wipes out and the cops
arrest him and then you've wasted an hour of your life.
So there should be it needs to you know, when
the NBA was getting tired, you know, people were tuning
out of the NBA, they brought in the three point

(13:56):
line and that brought some people back when when hockey
was slowing down they weren't scoring enough goals. They got
rid of the three line rule or the two line
rule where you couldn't go past the blue line the
red line with the puck, and now you can get breakaways.
And they also said that the goalie can't go behind
the net, can only handle the puck behind the net

(14:17):
in that sort of you know triangle or rectangle that
they have behind the net. They made a few adjustments
in baseball, the American League had the designated hitter, and
the National League still had these pitchers hitting, and every
time the pitcher would come up, he would look like,
you know, a kid who's never batted before against the

(14:38):
major leaguer. It'd be three pitches and he was out
most of the time. If you ever got a hit,
it would be a miracle. If he got a home run,
everybody would talk about it. And then so the National
League brought in the designated hitter. And because these games
were going on so long, if it was tied at
the end of nine innings, now in the tenth inning,
the team starts whoever's up at bat first, the visiting

(15:00):
team starts with a man on second, and then when
the home team comes home comes up to bat, they
start with a man on second. To try to speed
up the games, they also introduce the pitch clock in
Major League Baseball, and that's all to make fans, you know,
more interested in watching the games. Well, there needs to
be something like that with chases. We've got to tweak

(15:22):
these chases. And I don't know what it is, but
these chases to have have to have an upgrade, and
I don't know what it is, but there's got to
be something more to it, because we've seen, you know,
the white nineteen ninety two Camery slide through LA and
then just pull over and get arrested, and eventually you're like, nah,

(15:44):
it's not enough for me. The one where the guy
was driving the panel truck that ended up in Lake
Lakewood or near Long Beach, where he just plowed through everybody.
And I don't know if he killed anybody. I think
he injured and a woman severely and put her in
the hospital. But that was a chase that people talked
about for a long time. Also, the mad Max one

(16:04):
where the lady was driving an RV and she had
two dogs in the RV and she hit a tree
and it wiped out half of the RV ended up
on Tampa and Ventura Boulevard, and when she crashed, the
dog flew out.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
The dog was bleeding. Man. That was a chase.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
You remember the good ones, Remember the really good ones.
The best one I think to stilled today today is well,
the OJ one's good because you knew who it was.
Everybody watched it. But the guy that stole a tank
in San Diego, he stole a Bradley tank. I think
it was a Bradley tank in San Diego, and he
was driving around the freeways. He was driving over mobile

(16:40):
you know, through a mobile parks, mobile home parks. He
drove through RVs like there were butter, like there was
soft you know, room temperature butter. And that was great
to watch. They eventually caught that guy. He corner hung
himself in the median of a freeway. I think it
was the eight oh five freewar, the eight freeway. It
was the five. It was the five by La Hooye. Okay,

(17:01):
you were well, you went down there that Sammy's here,
and I remember that.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
I do too.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
He got corner hung and they open up the turret,
they open up the you know, the the opening where
the guys get into the tank and they just shot
him to death.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
You know. That's that's back when they it was no nonsense.
You know. Now there's nine hundred cameras and everything can't
do them well.

Speaker 8 (17:18):
The Internet it makes it so that just like how
you were talking about sports, I don't watch live sports
as much anymore because I can just go on YouTube
and catch the highlights within ten minutes. I do the
same thing instead of sitting around waiting for an hour
watching the guy go through whatever he goes through through
and during the chase, we got us ten minutes sum
up of it by people who like do play by
play of it.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
Right.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
I record every Dodger game and then I look at
the box score and I see, okay, the Dodgers scored
in the third, fourth, and eighth inning. I'll just watch
those innings. And I just watch those innings and it
makes it much more interesting at home. Like yesterday's San
Diego game, I looked at the box score, I saw
they scored five runs in the seventh, and I just
fast forward to the seventh and I fast forward to

(17:59):
see who hit the home run in the ninth. It
was Sho Tani. And that's the whey I watch a game.
But something has got to happen with these chases to
make them more interesting, because you're losing me, and once
you lose me, man, you lose a lot of people.

Speaker 9 (18:10):
What about the one on Friday night where the guy
stopped for gas.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Oh, I didn't see that one. I was with Steph
Fuche the whole week.

Speaker 9 (18:17):
I don't know, man, how's he doing.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
He's okay, He's doing all right. He's had six surgeries. Wow,
And so he's I don't know, I don't know. You
know that that left arm, it's gonna be a funky
I hope when he when he triggered treats, he's a
right arm eater.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Sorry the references, but when he.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Goes to a buffet, it is man, I think that's
a doctor said, yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah, you learned that in med school. And that's a
funky arm. You got there, bub gallows, humor everybody.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
You know what all that money was raised, Maybe he
could buy one of those bionic arms, you know, and
uh and and get a sound effect you remember, like
who's it Steve Austin, Jamie Summers, Yeah, Steve Austin.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Or the bomb bomp up bomb bomb bum.

Speaker 9 (19:20):
When he's running the board and you're talking and it's like.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
He was he was just getting by with both arms
with that board.

Speaker 9 (19:28):
Conway, be nice, be nice.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
I mean some night of this, you know a lot
of your your phone and then all of a sudden,
don't touch that.

Speaker 7 (19:41):
He don't touch that.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
The biotic man. We could build him strong, slower at
the buttons. I wish him well.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
I spent all week with him, seven days, about twelve
hours a day, and I got exhausted.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
Did you get through how many wide books?

Speaker 6 (20:02):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (20:03):
I bet we just watched TV and played video games.
I smoked him. You know he only used you can
use tax You can only use as a bright arm
that he'd never uses can use. Yeah, I beat him
one hundred and nothing. Oh there it is Yeah, Stephos
technical boordop for the Conways Show.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
We can rebuild him stronger, faster, not so much better.

Speaker 7 (20:33):
Stephoos the one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars bad.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
All right, Real Lives Conway Show on Camfi.

Speaker 7 (20:42):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
KFI AM sixty. It is the Conway Show. Hey has
Bellio and there I think Palio is whe it's right, Yeah, I.

Speaker 9 (20:58):
Literally just saw you two seconds.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
Hey, anyway to get Corolla to come on this week?

Speaker 9 (21:02):
He is coming on?

Speaker 2 (21:02):
When's he coming on?

Speaker 9 (21:05):
Let me see what I have here? Corolla?

Speaker 1 (21:08):
You're right down or you're checking your email? That's great,
you guys have time. Sure we'll just say yeah.

Speaker 9 (21:15):
I think we're having him on Wednesday holiday.

Speaker 6 (21:19):
Right.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
I wanted to come on because I drove from portlanell
and near Portland forty miles outside of Portland down to
Burbank on Saturday and Sunday, and I listened to his
podcast all the way down, and that that drive usually
seems like two days of absolute hell. It's one hundred

(21:42):
and thirteen out. Everywhere you stop, it's dirty, you know,
because the winds are blowing the dust. All the crops
are done mostly for the season, and everything's been you know,
I rolled into the ground and there's dust and dirt everywhere,
and it's just it's really tough drive. It's great in

(22:02):
the winter, you know, everything's green, it rains, you know,
you can stop and enjoy yourself and get out and
you know, see the mountains and everything. But in the summer,
you just want to keep going. You want to keep driving,
you know, you don't want to stop. And again, every
time you do stop, there's a dust storm that will
wipe out. And I listen to his podcast the whole
way down, and that drive seemed like twenty minutes, you know.

(22:24):
I mean, it's so great to have, you know, podcasts
like you know here at iHeart or even just the
iHeart app, and you can listen to all these shows
and all these you know, because back when I used
to start driving in two thousand, I don't know, it's
like nineteen ninety eight. It's the first time I drove
up to Oregon with my then girlfriend who would later

(22:45):
become my wife, and we would listen to, you know,
either CDs or we'd listen to local radio. And you know,
as you drive through California, Oregon, you listen to local radio,
and a lot of the Sunday morning or Sunday afternoon
local radio is AM stations talking about the Bible, and

(23:07):
you sort of.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
Just got into it, you know, you listen to it.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
It made you feel better and I and then that
station would fade out and you have to find another station,
and let maybe you'll find a sports station that's offering
the football games.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
You can listen to those.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
But now with this, you know, with the iHeart app
and all of the YouTube stuff, man, you can listen
to anything from anywhere in the world. You know, you're
no longer subjected to just the local stations in Fresno, Sacramento,
Ashlynn Medford, you know, as you drive up there, and
it really does make it great. I listened to two

(23:42):
hours of Corolla talking to carrat top right. If anyone said,
you're going to listen to two hours of Corolla talking
to carrat Top and I thought it was great. I
thought it was awesome, especially not the comedy part. You know,
when Carrot I really got to like carrat Top and
then he said, oh's favorite comedians Gallagher and.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
I went, oh, we went down a couple of notches again.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
But when when Carrott Top, Carrott Top talked about his dad, man,
that's it was a great podcast. His dad was responsible
for working on the Space Shuttle. He worked for NASA,
his dad and I and you know, he's the one
that created I had to invent the brace to put
the Space Shuttle on top of his seven forty seven,

(24:27):
which is a very difficult thing to do. And so
I emailed it to Michelle Cube because Michelle Cube's dad.
Little did she know until I think, you know, years afterwards,
but Michelle Cube bell Yoh what's Michelle's cubes title?

Speaker 6 (24:40):
Here?

Speaker 2 (24:40):
I don't want to screw that up.

Speaker 9 (24:42):
Executive producer Operations managed, okay, and she was for a
long time was the executiveroducer of the Bill Handleship.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yes, okay, so her dad, she had a dad, She
lived down in Fullerton or somewhere in Orange County, and
she never she always asked her dad, what do you do?

Speaker 2 (24:58):
And he couldn't tell her.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
And then she found out later on in life that
he worked on the Space Shuttle and he was I
think responsible for the bay doors opening up and the
big arm coming out, helping with the help of the
Canadians and working on the Space Shuttle. And man, when
I heard that, I couldn't wait to just shew her
ear off. I love guys like that, you know, work

(25:22):
for NASA and work for the Space Shuttle, because those guys,
you know, those guys don't go to the store and
buy parts and get the Space Shuttle going. Everything is
custom made. Everything is built from scratch, every bolt, everything,
Nothing is purchased at home depot. You don't go to
home deep or Lows and say, hey, I need a

(25:44):
you know, a window that can stand seventeen thousand degrees?

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Got anything? Got anything like that? They don't.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
So everything has to be manufactured. Everything has to be designed.
And every time that Space Shuttle took off, it had
the potential of exploding into a bomb.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
It's a controlled bomb that's going to space.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
And I was a big, huge fan of that and
carat Tom's dad worked on the Space shoutet. You got
to listen to that, the Corolla talking to carat top.
That was a cool deal.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
All right.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
You know the milestones of growing up, there's four of them.
I met two of them and didn't I didn't get
the other two till later on in life. But here
are the milestones from becoming a child going to adulthood.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
If you don't know them. Here they are one of.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
The milestones that have historically been associated with adulthood.

Speaker 10 (26:36):
In the nineteen seventies, almost half of young adults between
the ages of twenty five and thirty four.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
Okay, you get that, twenty five to thirty four. Here
are the four stages when you're transitioning from being a
child to an adult.

Speaker 10 (26:48):
Four had achieved the following four milestones. They've moved out
of their parents home, they were working, they were married,
and they.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Had a child. Okay, those are the four benchmarks. There.
Here they are again, moved out of.

Speaker 10 (27:01):
Their parents' home, they were working, they were married, and
they had a child.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
Okay, I got two of those. I didn't get the
other two till much later in life. But I moved out.
I got I started working early. I was fifteen when
I got my first job at at Amber's Chicken on
by the Way on Halloween.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
Was my very first day of work.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
You know, at fifteen, you'd love to go out of
your friend's trigger trading, you know, just out in the neighborhood,
buzzing around. There's a party. And I was frying chicken
like an idiot till about ten o'clock at night, and
then went to look my friends.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
I couldn't find him. A was a early bummer.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
But I moved out of my dad's house at seventeen
June before my eighteenth birthday. So June July Augustptember, five
months before my eighteenth birthday, I left home.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
I moved out, and.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
A lot of my friends did as well. Kroscher, how
old were you when you moved out of the house
before well college, But aside from that, when I came
out here, I was nineteen.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
Nineteen, right, that's a yeah, that's a cool age.

Speaker 7 (28:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
And then you got a job early at that, I
bet you've always been working, yeah, I mean I worked
for my dad during the summer's doing construction all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
So and then how old were you when you had
a kid and you got married? Thirty one?

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Okay, so you did everything by thirty one. Yeah, that's
a that's a huge you know, Landmark Angel. How old
were you when you moved out of the house?

Speaker 9 (28:23):
Oh, twenty one?

Speaker 2 (28:26):
Twenty one? That's a cool deal. You probably always working too.
You seem like a worker Bee.

Speaker 10 (28:32):
Yeah, yeah, I was and going to school, so I
was doing all that big excellently.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
What about you, Belli? How old were you when you
moved out of the house?

Speaker 9 (28:40):
Twenty six?

Speaker 7 (28:45):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (28:45):
Whoa?

Speaker 9 (28:46):
They loved having me.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
I guess they go they had to, they actually did. Yeah,
I bet they did something.

Speaker 9 (28:53):
I worked, I like, you know, went to school. You know,
I had nowhere to go. I enjoyed the house.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
I guess right. Did you have your adult friends over?

Speaker 10 (29:03):
And no?

Speaker 1 (29:04):
You never did, like a sleepover with executives that you
were working with.

Speaker 9 (29:08):
No, No, I wouldn't be living there.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
Sammy, how old do you have? Sammy's in for Stefoos?
How old are you when you moved out? I was nineteen,
and then I moved back for a second. Then I
moved out for good when I was twenty four. All right,
twenty four that's that's cool. These kids nowadays, some of
them are staying way too long, you know, twenty nine,
thirty thirty two, saving money.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
That's about there.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
Man, I know it's expensive, but god, I'd rather live
in a you know, an old trailer somewhere.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
But being at home at thirty two, that's good.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
I think that's a rougher put than living in a
you know, in a one you know, in a studio
apartment in you know, on Kester somewhere.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
Sorry, Gang, I got an email.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Why, I said, Why do I always use Kester and
Sherman Way as the hellhole of the valley?

Speaker 2 (29:53):
I don't know. Maybe because it is, that's one of
the reasons.

Speaker 9 (29:56):
Yeah, did you mention how old you were when you
moved out?

Speaker 6 (29:59):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (30:00):
How old?

Speaker 9 (30:00):
Did you say?

Speaker 6 (30:00):
You?

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Guys, listen to the podcast?

Speaker 9 (30:02):
Oh how do I find that?

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Go to iHeart Radio and then it'll be up there
by seven fifteen. Conway Show Conway. You'll like it, You're like,
I think you'll like it. You know, one of the
voices will be really familiar. Yeah, you I was seventeen, Wow,
I was seventeen. As Pellio's new move, she lasts like
a like a clown like ah, like Santa Claus. All Right,

(30:28):
we gotta take it break when we come back. We
are We saved one life with Steph Uje, and I
don't like to say I saved his life, but everyone
else thinks I did, so I'm gonna go with it.
But we got another guy who is blown up here
at at iHeart and we're gonna try to help him out.
An old buddy of mine, and he's a really cool guy.
You you probably know him from Petro some money and

(30:49):
then he was here for a while as well. Me
Sock took money and one of my favorite dudes. But
he's he's got something he's working on, and well we'll
talk about back.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
It's gonna be great.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
I hope Life on CA fly my entire show, so
it's be a promo, all right, it's got of my
show in CA. F am six forty. I'm always trying
to save the world. You know, Normally we wouldn't have
all my buddies whose bodies are breaking down on every week.
But I have a feeling a lot of guys and

(31:19):
a lot of gals are going through what me Sock
is going through here, and I wanted to give it
him a platform, Misock took money.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
And how are you, Bubbed? I'm doing okay? How are you?

Speaker 10 (31:27):
Tom?

Speaker 2 (31:27):
All right? You I'm doing fine.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
Thanks, bub You're a father of one or two now one,
but you want to Yeah, we'd love to have more.
And you got married like I did a little later
in life.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yeah, I was thirty. I think thirty, right, Okay, that's
not bad.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
And how and then you found out that your kidneys
are not operating the way they should.

Speaker 11 (31:48):
Yeah, about three years ago, went in for regular physical
and the doctor's like, you need to see a nephrologist.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
You need to see a specialist. Something's a little off right.

Speaker 11 (31:57):
Usually it's like dehydration, but this does seemed to be
just dehydration. So for a couple of years we monitored
my kidney function and it fluctuated, and then most recently
in the last two years, they just went straight down,
you know, like straight down from forty to fifty percent
to zero.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
At this point, we have a friend in common, David Mosequien,
who runs the Commerce casino, And I talked to you,
and your doctor recommended you go on dialysis, and you said,
now you really didn't want to do it. I called mosque,
and I go, buddy, you're closer to him. You got
to talk to him in Armenia and tell him he's
got to do this.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (32:36):
I should have listened to you guys earlier, because towards
the end there it was tough.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
It was very tough.

Speaker 11 (32:43):
I look great now because of the technology in and
around dialysis. Before dialysis started that last month, I was
like yellow, skin was yellow, I was weak.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
You're thin too.

Speaker 11 (32:53):
Yeah, and thankfully I'm able to live and work and
have somewhat of a normal life. But going four times
to dialog is no fun. Wait, four times a week ago, yep,
three and a half hours each session.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
Oh no, but.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
Yeah, but I want to do this because I think
a lot of people Niel Sevager went through this, A
lot of people are going through this. Yes, you know,
with their kidney problems. So you know, it's not like,
you know, you have some rare disease. It's one of
the trillion hundred right now.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
They're doing this.

Speaker 11 (33:17):
Absolutely, one hundred thousand Americans are affected by this and
or are on dialysis.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
And what's the test to see if they're a match
with you?

Speaker 11 (33:26):
The initial questionnaire is just a regular health questionnaire, but
then they do First off, they try to match by
blood because then it's just easier. But with advestments in
medical you don't have to be I'm an old blood person.
My kidney's old blood, so I can technically accept a
non old blood, but it's just tougher. But now the

(33:49):
injections hire yes, and unlikely that'll work. But now they
have different things called like the swap program where if
you're a you give your a kidney to an a
recipient and then because you did that for me, I
get the next available oh in the country.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
So there's a lot of advancements.

Speaker 11 (34:05):
So if someone is not old blood and they say, hey,
I'm want to be crazy enough to help this random
stranger on the radio, they could still help me very much.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
And or somebody else, right.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
And somebody contacted you when you're on a couple months ago, Yes,
she was a match.

Speaker 11 (34:18):
She was not a match, but a gracious listener of
your show. Her name is Crystal, And actually one other
gentleman who he had different health complications who couldn't qualify.
Crystal went through the process for a few months, went
through every test, blood, examined, this, that, and they found
out that she actually had some kidney problems herself. Whereas
she didn't qualify to do it, she was ready and

(34:40):
willing to give me a kiddy to a random stranger.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
That's the listeners here. Great people, but you may have
saved your life. She didn't know she had kidney problems.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
She literally did not know.

Speaker 11 (34:49):
She goes my regular checkup had not found this because
it's a more invasive blood draw. It's a specific planel
and her doctor had not caught it.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
All Right, where you're going to be on Wednesday? What's
going on?

Speaker 11 (35:01):
So Wednesday we're putting on an event of kidney donation
awareness and education. Unfortunately, not enough info out there about
so many people affected by this. So in Glendale at
a banquet hall, we're going to do an event Wednesday evening,
the twenty seventh. We're working with an organization that puts
together recipients and potential donors. If they want to swab,

(35:22):
they could do a swab test to start the process.
But it's all over our social media's your show and
my personal So if they go to your page, they'll
see my page and everything is there. If you search,
you'll find us. And Wednesday night, just come if you
want to learn a little bit more about what it means.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
To be a donor. Excellent.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
What time on Wednesday, seven o'clock? Excellent, buddy, I wish
you well. Please come back and keep us updated. Yeah,
I'm gonna come back with a kidney and we're gonna celebrate.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
Maybe we'll eat it together. Yeah, we could do that too.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
Let's eat your old one when it comes out. You
don't want to eat that one, trust me. Thanks to
I hear the best, buddy. Go to our web se
go to our social media, all the informations there. If
you'd like to go at seven o'clock in Glendale at
Banquet Hall.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
Yeah, plaudio Banquet Hall, Wednesday the twenty seventh. Excellent, buddy,
Thanks so much, Thank you, and please come on again.
Anything you need, sure will anytime. You're the best.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
We'll talk hockey, that's right, the Kings. All right, but
let's take a break. We're live on KFI more now Crush.

Speaker 7 (36:20):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
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