August 18, 2025 • 32 mins
The incredible chain of events that saved Foosh’s life continues to unfold—plus, the bizarre scoop that Putin reportedly travels with his own poop suitcase as he gears up for an Alaska summit with Trump. Brutal L.A. heat wave leaves Mark battling his power company after losing A/C—and heartbreak after losing his cat Frenchie. Meanwhile, MSNBC is rebranding as MS NOW (My Source News Opinion World) after its spin-off from NBCUniversal. Also, South Gate police fatally shoot a suspect in the Huntington Beach California Closets shooting. America’s drinking rate plunges to historic lows. Once seen as glamorous, alcohol is now carrying a stigma—and hangovers aren’t helping.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KMF I am sixty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Have the Conway kids all here, you know, from Krozer
to Angel to Bellio and our Fousch continues recovering. So
Tony sitting in for Fush on the board and.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Mark sitting in for Conway.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah, you're right, there's a couple of sit ins going
on right now. Right. I thought the stuff you guys
did with the interviews with Fusch's family it was weird.
Also the Rick Chambers story that he did with at
k t LA where they go to him and he
goes hills. He's known as fous here.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yes, got a kick out of that. Just us here's
Rick Chambers calling him the fush.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, it was so funny. His name is Foosh and
the way he said it was this firm declaration of that.
Rick Chambers like, I'm the most authoritative source you gotta have.
His name is Foosh. It was really great.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Man isolated a part where he says where Rick Chambers
says and they pulled the Foush from my burning theater.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
It really was wild.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Yeah, he had to loop that one.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Uh. It was pretty great. That was really really good stuff.
We had our you know, we were running our cat
back and forth to the hospital last week and they're
literally like a life saving surgery going on, and we'd
hoped life saving, life extending. It didn't turn out that way.
Poor thing. Yeah, yeah, sixteen year old cat. We loved
her French yet, Yeah, the best. And it's just it
(01:32):
tears you to pieces and rips you up and it's
everything bad. It just you know, it's expensive, it's expensive emotionally,
it's just so. But the reason I also mentioned it
in addition to kind of probably you know, I know
so many KFI listeners can relate to that loss and
relate to that intensity with which you bond with your pet.
(01:52):
You know, you can't imagine anything else doing. So I
mentioned it for that reason too, because I know many
of you can relate. But it was wild to hear
what was going on with fush while because I'm running
back and forth to the hospital and I'm soon and
it was just sort of it was moving, honestly, you know,
and maybe I was raw because I hadn't slept in
days or whatever, but it was it was powerful. Man.
(02:13):
I was so worried. I guess would be the word
I'd use about him. You know, if you see that
video with the car consumed by flame, I mean, how
can you not be wondering how he could not walk
away but even you know, survive it. And then you
had those those that I was a handful of people.
(02:34):
First we thought it was two, but it was more
than just two.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
People, five and total it was four men and a woman.
Ken Yatti's wife is a nurse, and so it was
ken Yati and his wife, so five in total.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, and you need people like that to you know,
to rally, otherwise Foosh doesn't survive. You know, we're telling
such a different story.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Oh and it just within like seconds, things could have
you know, had had they stopped like just a little
bit later, the car would have exploded early. Or if
they didn't get the car upright, you know, he could
have bled to death. They could have lost his arm.
I mean, so many things had to happen. Also, they
had to keep moving him up because the car sparked
and then it exploded and they had moved up and
then there was projectiles off off of the explosion, so
(03:20):
they had to keep moving him up.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
And up and up.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
She's extraordinary, very dramatic, super extraordinary. You know, my sister
and I'd forgotten this, but remember she was in that
car wreck. Yeah, my sister. Something happened and her, I
want to say, you know, we don't really know what happened.
Might have been like a mini stroke, she blacked out.
Whatever it was. She wasn't she was broad daylight or whatever,
so it wasn't she wasn't drinking or any of that stuff.
(03:44):
But she and her son were driving and they she
goes all of a sudden, she control of the car again,
we don't know exactly why, and they hit a tree
and the car burst into flames. And my they were
going to pretty good right of speed and my sister's
son was wedged into the car from by some of
the damage, like when the dashboard collapsed on them, and
(04:06):
so he's wedging the car and finally he wedges himself
out and then he opens her goes around, opens her
car door and drags her out again. This is sort
of it was a little reminiscent of what Fush went through,
although he didn't have to rock the car offer. I mean,
that was unreal what they had to do to get
foush free and then as he pulled her away, the
(04:26):
car burst into flames completely in golf led the news
on WABC and New York on all the you know,
all the news station, Channel seven, Channel four, all of them,
and that we was the lead story. And my little
my nephew was like this hero who was you know, celebrated,
And I felt a little bit like that was the
situation with these people who deservedly were hailed as heroes.
(04:48):
Without them, he doesn't make it out of there, not
at all. And then of course the KFI audience and
everybody who's who's ridden to his support. The go fund me.
I haven't looked today, but I think they topped one
hundred thousand dollars, you know. And I'm just I'm just
so warmed by the audience reception.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
So the most amazing audience we have just is the
most generous, kind loving people, exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Right, you all, yeah, super thanks to everybody. It is
the poop scoop out of the Putin Trump meeting the
Alaska Summit. Vladimir Putin's bodyguards collect his poop and bring
it back to Russia when he travels abroad. This according
(05:39):
to the latest they meet at Alaska, strict security measures
in place, of course, to protect Vladimir Putin. It was
wild to see him the two crews around in the
presidential vehicle, wasn't it. I Mean, never thought i'd see that.
The beast. The beast. I mean they were like, you know,
(06:01):
two guys on a Sunday drive, smiling, waving. So he's
surrounded by bodyguards and a bunch of steps that we
don't even know about are taken to protect him and
Russian intelligence and according to a report by two veteran
investigative journalists, they're out of the French publication Paris match
(06:25):
members of the Russian President's Federal Protection Service. The FPS
are responsible for collecting his human waste when he travels abroad.
It's collected in special bags. Well that makes sense, and
they're kept in a dedicated briefcase. And apparently this is
(06:47):
done so that you can't, if you're a foreign power,
shall I say, capture the offloaded human waste and like
analyze it to see what his health status is, for example.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Does that happen a lot?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Apparently it happens enough that they feel that they've got
to keep his human waste with them. Yeah, but it is,
I would say, among the more bizarre kinds of details
that I've heard from these sounds of meetings.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Yeah, slightly.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, he gets his own private bathroom which includes a
portable toilet. They they travel with this all kind of
ready to go. And he began all of this when
he started his leadership of Russia. And there have been
rumors about his health, as you know, there was a
(07:44):
rumor that he had cancer, that he was dying, all
this stuff. He is seventy two years old, Vladimir put
and I guess he maybe at that age you want
to start hanging on to your boot. I don't know,
but that is what I found that to be an
underreported story. I didn't hear that, yeah, and I think
it very important as a detail. But in any case,
(08:06):
the two seemed to get along famously, and it was
kind of a hit it and quit it scene, wasn't it.
They had a whole lunch planned. You saw that they
had actually had the lunch menu and a lot of
the seating arrangements at full seating chart with pronunciation guides
for each participant. That these pronunciation guides that were attached
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to both the seating chart and also with like pictures
and phone numbers, contact information on all of the participants,
and that was left in the fax machine at the hotel,
and some hotel guest who was also using the fax
machine saw it and then sent it off to media organizations.
That's how we know it happened. So it wasn't the
tightest ship in the world, I mean, apart from the
(08:48):
hanging onder the poop. Yeah, they were. They did drop
their guard though in other ways not the poop though.
When we come back. A big change, a huge change
in a major media company. We'll get to that next.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
It is a week to head north, which is I
think where Conway went. I mean, I think it went
way north. It's going to be hot as haities around
here soon Wednesday through Saturday, I think it is. Isn't
that right, Crows or the I think the peak of
the heat is Friday or Surnesday.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Thursday or Thursday is the peak. Than it will slow
cool down froday.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
So we get a knock at the door this morning,
and uh, the power company is there to tell us
they're finally going to repair this generator or any number
of things that are creating power issues. The power goes
off occasionally, but more than just a little bit occasionally,
(09:57):
like more frequently than it should, and they're kindly going
to fix it. And so they were warning us that
they're going to turn the power off, and of course
that means no air conditioning, means no nothing for the
entire day on Saturday. The temperature is forecast to hit
(10:17):
one hundred and three on Saturday. I don't know what
to do. I mean, so here's my bizarre suggestion, which
I'm sure is a tepid idea. The I told you
so this is the other thing. I'm supposed to be
(10:37):
away this weekend, and Courtney's I'm leaving her behind, which
is just horrible. We've got aunt infestation. We just had
our darling favorite cat dye. She still has two cats
in the house, and you've got the ants who are
going after the cat foods. You've got to mote everything.
It's just horrible. And the temperature in the house is
probably gonna I don't know what it's going to be.
You tell me, mabe, one hundred and ten degrees in
that house. So I don't know what to tell her,
(11:00):
So I said, maybe if you set the thermostat low
the night before that, you know, that was the best
I could do in the moment. Does anybody else have
an idea how you handle that? I don't.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I mean it's you know, yeah, I usually like the
night before, leave windows open, like the cool air get
in so trap it in there in the morning, I see. Okay,
turn some fans on yeah yeah, yeah, and pull the
house down at night.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah okay. So in other words, make the make the
house as cool as you can during the night so
that when it goes during the day, you maybe it's
not so bad.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Yeah idea, right, yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I mean go stay somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Well, that's it, right, and leave leave the cats behind.
I don't think so. Yeah. Yeah, my the cat, the
surviving cat. We have four cats, all right, Cash and
Cash and Charlie. Okay, so we had I got three.
You know, you probably think four cats, Wow, that's a
lot of cats, And you're right if you think that.
But I got three of them at the same time
at the shelter. Okay. So they yeah, all the same vintage,
(12:01):
except Charlie is the oldest, and then the other two
were younger by about three years. Well, the other two
are dead. I mean they just died last So Charlie
has got to be nineteen years old. I mean the
other one was sixteen. So Frenchie, my darling passes away
last week. Charlie's nineteen years old. He's got all kinds
of issues. But he's still kicking man, So you know,
(12:22):
you gotta But I don't think i'd move him. He's
not you know, he's not super anyway. We have a
weird allegiance in relationship with the other creatures in the
house that are not human. Anyway, We're going to be
a part of this heat wave in a way that
I guess may challenge us in terms of our tolerance.
MSNBC shout out to all the Libs. MSNBC, isn't that
(12:47):
the bastion of mainstream institutional liberal chatter?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Is that fair?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
A crozier? Would you call it that?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I mean, is it kind of like I feel like
there's Fox News Channel on one side, right, it's sort
of the to the right, and the yeah, MS is
sort of center left. I don't know, maybe if you know,
I guess, if you're.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Depend on who you're asking, right, I was gonna say,
you had.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Somebody on the right, center left. Are you kidding, Cutter?
It lose the center part. Anyway, ms NBC is going
to change its name. It's now MS Now it stands
for My Source, the MS, which actually originally stood from Microsoft,
didn't it. It used to be Microsoft. It's not right,
Tony Microsoft. Yeah, it was it tech News, right exactly.
(13:33):
It was like this weird thing about that wild Now
it's My Source News Opinion World, And there'll be a
new logo this year. It's part of the rebranding. That's
part of the spin off from Comcast. Remember Comcast and
NBC Universal. They spun off all of these cable television
(13:57):
networks into a separate, publicly traded company. The company is
called Versent VR SANT. Anyway, the reason it's important is
this will be MSNBC, the Financial News Channel, CNBC USA Network,
Oxygen E, Sci Fi, and the Golf Channel. They're all together,
and now they're separate from the Comcast main asset. So
(14:22):
they're trying to build an individual identity and a vision
for the future, they say, while laying a foundation for
continued growth and success of our businesses. That's the CEO
Mark Lazarus. The reality is that world is not doing
great man. Cable news is in trouble. Fewer and fewer
people are getting cable, people are cutting the cord. Viewership
(14:43):
is down. And they also have some effort I'm sure
to spin it off completely. I mean just to sell
it as an asset. So you establish it first as
a separate asset, right, and then you can sell it
so MSNBC saying the network is not going to change.
Editorial direction is not going to change. They are going
(15:04):
to build out their news gathering operation entirely separate from
NBC News. While our name will be changing, who we
are and what we do will not, Our commitment to
our work and our audience will not waiver. The brand
has been this way for three decades and will continue
to be this way anyway. It's a pretty huge change,
(15:25):
and Comcast is going to retain NBC Universal assets like
the NBC Broadcast Network, also NBC News, NBC Sports will
also be retained by Comcast. And they'll also hang on
to Peacock, which is a streaming platform, and they'll hang
on to Bravo. It's interesting to me that they hang
on too Bravo. That's the reason I say that, I
(15:46):
think they may try to sell off a lot of
these other assets, you know. But anyway, the new name
ms NOW will be getting a new logo and a
whole new look, so keep your eyes out for that.
There was a shooting in Huntington Beach. This is pretty
(16:09):
well then. You know. Corbyn Carson is the PIO down there.
I saw that Krozer. Did you see that Public Information officer? Yeah,
Corbyn Carson, former KFI alum. So the question is.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Why someone would pull out a gun and shoot a
man behind me here in the parking lot of a workplace.
It's been nearly ten hours since this happened, and we
are still waiting for answers.
Speaker 7 (16:32):
I was outside seven o'clock this morning, and all of
a sudden I heard six shots.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Huntington Beach worker Russell Ekwater her gunfire coming from the
California Closets distribution center across the street.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
No, that was really weird. I did stick around maybe
two minutes afterwards. It's here at screaming or something, but
I saw the cops around, so I just went back
to in the word.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Huntington Beach police confirmed that a man was shot on
the property and taken to the hospital. A trail of
blood sneaked through the parking lot, where a pile of
clothes and shoes were left near Skylab Roads.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Oh my god, that's grim, man, geez, that's really grim.
Speaker 8 (17:11):
This is at a business called California Closets. One person
was shot. That person, a male, was taken to a
local hospital. Detectives believe this is an isolated incident and
there is no further threat to public safety.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Officials wouldn't talk about the shooter or whether the pair
knew one another. No motive was given.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeah, I mean, that's really what we want to know,
because it's just such a bizarre story. So I'm sorry.
Did the guy live or was he Was he shot
and he's still alive? Right? Do we have any word
on that.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I think this story continues because I don't think he
survived because I think Southgate police fatally shot that suspect.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Oh was in that shooting.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I see all right.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
Employees leaving the workplace at California Closets waved off reporters,
saying nothing. A spokesperson for the company said the primary
focus is supporting their team members. She said, we are
extremely saddened by this morning shooting on site at our
Orange County location in Huntington Beach. Our hearts are with
those injured or otherwise impacted, and we wish them a
(18:14):
full recovery and strength for their families and community. Now
we know that the man who was shot survived. We
do not know, however, whether he works here. California Closet
says it is closing this location until further notice.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
So, Sharon, the update is that while he survived, initially.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
He's no, no, no, he's he's alive. But the woman who
shot the woman that shot him, she was shot by
r later this afternoon was shot and killed by Southgate police.
She was the suspect in that shooting earlier this morning
in Huntington Beach, so please stopped her vehicle and officers
(18:56):
when she exited the vehicle she was wielding a gun
and that when they opened fired and she was pronounced
dead at the hospital. So the two shootings are tied.
She shot the man at California Closet.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Wow. Krozier Bellio very strong with the details and with
that update on that report, I thought.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
I think we've established Serreon knows what she's doing.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yeah, I would agree with.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
That you're listening to Tim conwayjun you're on demand from
KFI AM six forty and fewer Americans are drinking.
Speaker 9 (19:25):
Fewer Americans are drinking alcohol, according to a Gallop pole
released on Wednesday. The survey found that fifty four percent
of US adults say they drink alcoholic beverages, but that
is lower than at any other point in the past
three decades. The poll comes amid a growing belief that
even moderate alcohol conception.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Is health risk. I mean, I got that news into
the Mark Thompson Alcohol Consumption Experiment, which is an ongoing
life choice, and I received it with great downcast lack
(20:07):
of enthusiasm that even moderate drinking carries all sorts of
health risks. It gets too late for me. The cake
is baked. I've been drinking for a long time, and
I feel like, you know, Conway and I bond over
our you know. I remember when Conway said I haven't
had a drink in four months. He was doing this
(20:28):
kind of dry out period. He wasn't advertising it. I said,
how can you say someone like that to me? You know,
I just had a drink last night. It's a social thing.
I don't get.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
You know, when you hear somebody's doing dry January or
they stop drinking.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Took a dagger to my heart.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Yeah, because you want to know other people are doing
it as well.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Comms. Yeah, exactly. I need you out there. I need
you out there on the tight rope walk of life.
The way I'm out there, I again, I don't get dropped.
But there is something about that. Maybe it's just the
way I've metabolized it and the way it is and
I react to it. But just a couple of martinis
(21:10):
or whatever it might be, and I just it's like
an old friend overtaking my mind. But I've got way back,
of course, because you can't. I mean, you can't get
all this information about all the dilatorious influences and all
the way it's the ways it's going to show up,
is everything from heart disease to cancer, you know, dementia
or whatever and continue to just throw them back.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Has alcohol affected you as you've aged, Do you notice
your body handles it differently?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
It's oh, yeah, hangover wise, I have yeah, hangover wise.
You know. Conway gives you good advice on one thing,
and I think it comes from his wife. Jen was
the one who said as long as you're eating with
your drinking, you're probably going to be okay. But if
you're sitting there slamming them back and you're you know,
(21:57):
there's no dinner or no you know, you're really going
to it. And I think that's really good advice, you know,
just to kind of keeps not of a kind of
a balance and a measured sort of equilibrium to the
way you're you're going forward. I remember Conway saying that,
and I thought, oh, I think that's good advice, and
I try to follow it.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
What about drinking water as you drink, Like I know
people that for every drink they have, they have some water.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Right, that's to shake the hangover, because you it is
I think it drives you out. But boy, it's I
don't know, it's so much a part of like it's
just the meal is better with a whatever it might be.
I love drinking wine, you know, and I but but
I've cut way way back.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
As I say, Tony says he never gets hangovers.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I don't know, Tony's Your biology is extraordinary. Yeah, I'd
like to see some charts on you, Tommy, I really would.
I like to see your basic physiology flies.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
In the face of do you get hangovers? It's been
a lot of time, but yeah, I'll get him. I
you know, like you say, Mark, it's a lifetime of
research and study. Do you understand the things that you
need to do? Don't always do, but you should do.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Angel has one right now.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Yeah, Angel's always working through a hangover. UN's Angel.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
I sure am, And I'm working for the one right now. Yeah,
I'm just getting ready for the next one. As soon
as this one's gone, I'm going to work on another one.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
You know. I don't want to romanticize it. They're like
the cultural aspects of drinking. I mean, they're really like
James Bond has a martini. I mean, uh, it's you know,
that whole fifties sixties screen star thing where they're all
in bow ties and everybody's got a cocktail in their hand.
Everything just looks so glamorous and and that's the stuff
(23:38):
that culturally made an impact on me. And I think
before I know, if I know, yeah, I want to
be like, I don't know, fill in the old screen
star Carrie Grant, David Niven, whatever their names were. They
all are there with their bow ties and their drink.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Dean Martin.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Dean Martin was a rat pack. Yeah, thank you exactly.
So they made it cool and so now you know,
late in the and they're going, oh, guys, guys, guys, wait, wait, wait, wait,
it's not as cool as we thought it was. It
turns out it's killing you. Wow. A little late, man,
little late. I'm kind of a pop committed. As we
say in poker, all of my chips are already in.
(24:13):
But I think if you do it responsibly, and like
all things, there's a balance to it. I mean, you know,
yellow baby, right, you only live once. Yeah, so we
say in my house that's a big phrase. So in
any case, fewer people are drinking. So if you're one
of them, congratulations. There's a lot to be said for
(24:33):
pushing away from it. So I applaud you.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I guess the gen Zers are wanting to get back
to stick shift driving. Yeah, the automatic transmission is not
the new thing anymore for generations.
Speaker 10 (24:55):
Fitch was this sound of real driving, shifting gears, pressing
the gas while we're.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Releasing the clutch.
Speaker 10 (25:05):
A stick shift the standard for decades became a calling
card in the early two thousands for cool cars, as
seen in the Best and Furious franchise.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I grew up with a clutch. We didn't have automatic
transmission in my house. And I'm telling you, we drove
a station wagon. Okay, my dad and mom had a
station wagon.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
They have on the column, yeah, on the.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Column on the side, and so it wasn't sexy. It
was horrible. I mean, on a hill and all the rest.
You know, when you got a clutch. So I love
this idea of something. It's kind of what we've done
with Vinyl. Like you know, with Vinyl recordings. People like
Vinyl's bag. People want to good back to the old
school albums. Sounds better, Yeah, sounds better, that's right. The
(25:49):
purest want albums again, they do. They want the popping
and the hissing. I lived through it. There was no
other option. But this is the same deal. Like I
get tractapes back then, exactly that was the problem though
a tracts, The same is true. I think of I
get it. We've romanticized the clutch and the manual transmission.
(26:12):
You get more control over the vehicle. But you know, again,
having been raised in a family where we had a
station wagon with three on the side and the clutch
it was no fun. I get it. Now they're rolling
out cars that likely are a bit more fun rainy.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Shift and not double clutching like you should.
Speaker 10 (26:29):
Now, the old school manual transmission has become something of
a relic. Since twenty twenty, less than two percent of
all new car sales in the United States are stick shifts,
but like bell bottoms, flip phones in vinyl records, old
classics often find their weight to young hands.
Speaker 11 (26:45):
You do feel like you're raise car drivers just moving
that shift round. All those stick sales have been declining.
Speaker 10 (26:53):
The car market saw small bumps in both twenty twenty
three and twenty twenty five with interested gen zers. You
say they're tired, feeling distracted while they dropped.
Speaker 9 (27:02):
I think that this is a skill that everybody should have,
not only because it's something I have just in case,
but also make.
Speaker 10 (27:07):
You a better driver in general. Twenty eight year old
Lela Day is taking it a step further. Perfect, she's
taking lessons.
Speaker 12 (27:15):
I give it a little bit of guess there you go.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Oh my god, that is about the wildest thing to watch.
Somebody who's never driven with a clutch before learn how
to do it. Oh man, that contest a father daughter relationship.
Speaker 11 (27:29):
I would think, jeez, her instructor, I'm at Roja founded.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
The feel Outs now.
Speaker 11 (27:36):
Exactly right, her instruct I'm ad Raja founder the Houston
based Manual Driving Academy after about a twenty twelve mas
Dumiata two years ago and had to teach himself how
to drive it.
Speaker 12 (27:49):
I was like, oh, this was this was really cool.
It's such a it's such a simple thing, but it's
like this mechanical connection between you and your car. Clutch
and break perfect and then neutral if we go perfect
handbrick up, clutch off awesome.
Speaker 10 (28:03):
Roger noticed that spike and manual sales back in twenty
twenty three, including research showing that sixty seven percent of
eighteen to thirty four year olds want to learn. Why
don't we start this?
Speaker 12 (28:12):
Why can't this be a business. So we initially started
in Houston, got a lot of interest and then had
folks reaching out from all over Texas other states. And
then since then we've we've expanded an.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Issue and they have believed that there's enough interest in
manual transmission that you could start a manual transmission driving school.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Well, in a lot of these cars, you can make
a manual. They got the option on the gear.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Ship right right, Crows is show right about that, Like
you can you can play it automatic or just our manual.
But if there's the option, I don't think that there's
a clutch per se. I think it's just a chance
you can just shift gears.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Yeah, you can just kind of you can get it
to a little bit more to where you wanted.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
To shift right. But this is actually working with the
clutch and popping the clutch and all that stuff. So
this is a much difference.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
I did the same thing, apparently yours did. This is like, yeah,
he stopped on a hill and said, okay, now you
got across the street on a hill and cars are
coming at you, and you got across in front of them,
and I just kept popping it and my Dad's just laughing.
I'm going We're going you die.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
My mother was a ninja on the clutch. He was great.
My dad was horrible driver, I mean truly awful, and
like had the clutch like barely engaged some of the times,
and we'd start crawling across the intersection even though the
light was red. He was awful. I remember as a kid,
I've so many memories of my dad just you know,
(29:36):
putting us in all of these precarious situations because he
was just he was so he was distracted, He's thinking
about of this stub. He was caught in his head
and so he was barely engaging that clutch and it
was just oh, unreal. But I can't believe the way
it's been romanticized this way. I guess it's a it's
a real thing. I mean, when this guy literally opens
(29:56):
up a driving school dedicated to people who want to
learn how to drive him annual transmission, I guess the
market must be the Edge Academy.
Speaker 10 (30:03):
Now, when forty seven cities employing nearly two hundred instructors.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
What.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Forty seven cities with this thing? Wow, I mean that's
more than just like a small business. That's huge on
Edge Academy.
Speaker 10 (30:18):
Now, when forty seven cities employing nearly two hundred instructors
teaching people all over the country how not to stall out.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
That is its own circle of hell. Being a driving
instructor teaching people how not to stall out, It really is.
I don't envy that job.
Speaker 12 (30:35):
Slow slow, slow, slow, slow.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
That's just a big.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
It might be, but I mean it seems like it
must be more than a novelty with forty seven different
outlets or this you know, this driving school. But I
don't know. As I say, we're just a novelty. I
could kind of understand it, but this guy's put a
lot behind him.
Speaker 12 (30:54):
Slow slow, slow, slow slow, Like, well me, now, get
off of it. It's okay, that's okay.
Speaker 10 (30:59):
I'm from Detroit and my dad was an engineer at
Ford Motor Company for more than forty years. But I
haven't driven a manual in more than twenty and it
showed no bad excuse.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
You could put me behind the wheel. I'd have no problem,
and I've done it. You know, it's not It is
like riding a bike. You just get right in there
and you can do it. Yeah. Yeah, But the return
of the stick shift, jen Z wants it wow, a
(31:31):
major farewell to a star that passes away, part of
the Superman franchise and beyond. We'll get to that in
the next hour. It's a Tim Conway Junior show, Mark
Thompson sitting in for Tim KF. I am six forty.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio App.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now, you
can always hear us live on k if I Am
six forty four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and
anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
It's KMF I am sixty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Have the Conway kids all here, you know, from Krozer
to Angel to Bellio and our Fousch continues recovering. So
Tony sitting in for Fush on the board and.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Mark sitting in for Conway.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah, you're right, there's a couple of sit ins going
on right now. Right. I thought the stuff you guys
did with the interviews with Fusch's family it was weird.
Also the Rick Chambers story that he did with at
k t LA where they go to him and he
goes hills. He's known as fous here.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yes, got a kick out of that. Just us here's
Rick Chambers calling him the fush.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, it was so funny. His name is Foosh and
the way he said it was this firm declaration of that.
Rick Chambers like, I'm the most authoritative source you gotta have.
His name is Foosh. It was really great.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Man isolated a part where he says where Rick Chambers
says and they pulled the Foush from my burning theater.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
It really was wild.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Yeah, he had to loop that one.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Uh. It was pretty great. That was really really good stuff.
We had our you know, we were running our cat
back and forth to the hospital last week and they're
literally like a life saving surgery going on, and we'd
hoped life saving, life extending. It didn't turn out that way.
Poor thing. Yeah, yeah, sixteen year old cat. We loved
her French yet, Yeah, the best. And it's just it
(01:32):
tears you to pieces and rips you up and it's
everything bad. It just you know, it's expensive, it's expensive emotionally,
it's just so. But the reason I also mentioned it
in addition to kind of probably you know, I know
so many KFI listeners can relate to that loss and
relate to that intensity with which you bond with your pet.
(01:52):
You know, you can't imagine anything else doing. So I
mentioned it for that reason too, because I know many
of you can relate. But it was wild to hear
what was going on with fush while because I'm running
back and forth to the hospital and I'm soon and
it was just sort of it was moving, honestly, you know,
and maybe I was raw because I hadn't slept in
days or whatever, but it was it was powerful. Man.
(02:13):
I was so worried. I guess would be the word
I'd use about him. You know, if you see that
video with the car consumed by flame, I mean, how
can you not be wondering how he could not walk
away but even you know, survive it. And then you
had those those that I was a handful of people.
(02:34):
First we thought it was two, but it was more
than just two.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
People, five and total it was four men and a woman.
Ken Yatti's wife is a nurse, and so it was
ken Yati and his wife, so five in total.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, and you need people like that to you know,
to rally, otherwise Foosh doesn't survive. You know, we're telling
such a different story.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Oh and it just within like seconds, things could have
you know, had had they stopped like just a little
bit later, the car would have exploded early. Or if
they didn't get the car upright, you know, he could
have bled to death. They could have lost his arm.
I mean, so many things had to happen. Also, they
had to keep moving him up because the car sparked
and then it exploded and they had moved up and
then there was projectiles off off of the explosion, so
(03:20):
they had to keep moving him up.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
And up and up.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
She's extraordinary, very dramatic, super extraordinary. You know, my sister
and I'd forgotten this, but remember she was in that
car wreck. Yeah, my sister. Something happened and her, I
want to say, you know, we don't really know what happened.
Might have been like a mini stroke, she blacked out.
Whatever it was. She wasn't she was broad daylight or whatever,
so it wasn't she wasn't drinking or any of that stuff.
(03:44):
But she and her son were driving and they she
goes all of a sudden, she control of the car again,
we don't know exactly why, and they hit a tree
and the car burst into flames. And my they were
going to pretty good right of speed and my sister's
son was wedged into the car from by some of
the damage, like when the dashboard collapsed on them, and
(04:06):
so he's wedging the car and finally he wedges himself
out and then he opens her goes around, opens her
car door and drags her out again. This is sort
of it was a little reminiscent of what Fush went through,
although he didn't have to rock the car offer. I mean,
that was unreal what they had to do to get
foush free and then as he pulled her away, the
(04:26):
car burst into flames completely in golf led the news
on WABC and New York on all the you know,
all the news station, Channel seven, Channel four, all of them,
and that we was the lead story. And my little
my nephew was like this hero who was you know, celebrated,
And I felt a little bit like that was the
situation with these people who deservedly were hailed as heroes.
(04:48):
Without them, he doesn't make it out of there, not
at all. And then of course the KFI audience and
everybody who's who's ridden to his support. The go fund me.
I haven't looked today, but I think they topped one
hundred thousand dollars, you know. And I'm just I'm just
so warmed by the audience reception.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
So the most amazing audience we have just is the
most generous, kind loving people, exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Right, you all, yeah, super thanks to everybody. It is
the poop scoop out of the Putin Trump meeting the
Alaska Summit. Vladimir Putin's bodyguards collect his poop and bring
it back to Russia when he travels abroad. This according
(05:39):
to the latest they meet at Alaska, strict security measures
in place, of course, to protect Vladimir Putin. It was
wild to see him the two crews around in the
presidential vehicle, wasn't it. I Mean, never thought i'd see that.
The beast. The beast. I mean they were like, you know,
(06:01):
two guys on a Sunday drive, smiling, waving. So he's
surrounded by bodyguards and a bunch of steps that we
don't even know about are taken to protect him and
Russian intelligence and according to a report by two veteran
investigative journalists, they're out of the French publication Paris match
(06:25):
members of the Russian President's Federal Protection Service. The FPS
are responsible for collecting his human waste when he travels abroad.
It's collected in special bags. Well that makes sense, and
they're kept in a dedicated briefcase. And apparently this is
(06:47):
done so that you can't, if you're a foreign power,
shall I say, capture the offloaded human waste and like
analyze it to see what his health status is, for example.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Does that happen a lot?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Apparently it happens enough that they feel that they've got
to keep his human waste with them. Yeah, but it is,
I would say, among the more bizarre kinds of details
that I've heard from these sounds of meetings.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Yeah, slightly.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, he gets his own private bathroom which includes a
portable toilet. They they travel with this all kind of
ready to go. And he began all of this when
he started his leadership of Russia. And there have been
rumors about his health, as you know, there was a
(07:44):
rumor that he had cancer, that he was dying, all
this stuff. He is seventy two years old, Vladimir put
and I guess he maybe at that age you want
to start hanging on to your boot. I don't know,
but that is what I found that to be an
underreported story. I didn't hear that, yeah, and I think
it very important as a detail. But in any case,
(08:06):
the two seemed to get along famously, and it was
kind of a hit it and quit it scene, wasn't it.
They had a whole lunch planned. You saw that they
had actually had the lunch menu and a lot of
the seating arrangements at full seating chart with pronunciation guides
for each participant. That these pronunciation guides that were attached
(08:28):
to both the seating chart and also with like pictures
and phone numbers, contact information on all of the participants,
and that was left in the fax machine at the hotel,
and some hotel guest who was also using the fax
machine saw it and then sent it off to media organizations.
That's how we know it happened. So it wasn't the
tightest ship in the world, I mean, apart from the
(08:48):
hanging onder the poop. Yeah, they were. They did drop
their guard though in other ways not the poop though.
When we come back. A big change, a huge change
in a major media company. We'll get to that next.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
It is a week to head north, which is I
think where Conway went. I mean, I think it went
way north. It's going to be hot as haities around
here soon Wednesday through Saturday, I think it is. Isn't
that right, Crows or the I think the peak of
the heat is Friday or Surnesday.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Thursday or Thursday is the peak. Than it will slow
cool down froday.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
So we get a knock at the door this morning,
and uh, the power company is there to tell us
they're finally going to repair this generator or any number
of things that are creating power issues. The power goes
off occasionally, but more than just a little bit occasionally,
(09:57):
like more frequently than it should, and they're kindly going
to fix it. And so they were warning us that
they're going to turn the power off, and of course
that means no air conditioning, means no nothing for the
entire day on Saturday. The temperature is forecast to hit
(10:17):
one hundred and three on Saturday. I don't know what
to do. I mean, so here's my bizarre suggestion, which
I'm sure is a tepid idea. The I told you
so this is the other thing. I'm supposed to be
(10:37):
away this weekend, and Courtney's I'm leaving her behind, which
is just horrible. We've got aunt infestation. We just had
our darling favorite cat dye. She still has two cats
in the house, and you've got the ants who are
going after the cat foods. You've got to mote everything.
It's just horrible. And the temperature in the house is
probably gonna I don't know what it's going to be.
You tell me, mabe, one hundred and ten degrees in
that house. So I don't know what to tell her,
(11:00):
So I said, maybe if you set the thermostat low
the night before that, you know, that was the best
I could do in the moment. Does anybody else have
an idea how you handle that? I don't.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I mean it's you know, yeah, I usually like the
night before, leave windows open, like the cool air get
in so trap it in there in the morning, I see. Okay,
turn some fans on yeah yeah, yeah, and pull the
house down at night.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah okay. So in other words, make the make the
house as cool as you can during the night so
that when it goes during the day, you maybe it's
not so bad.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Yeah idea, right, yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I mean go stay somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Well, that's it, right, and leave leave the cats behind.
I don't think so. Yeah. Yeah, my the cat, the
surviving cat. We have four cats, all right, Cash and
Cash and Charlie. Okay, so we had I got three.
You know, you probably think four cats, Wow, that's a
lot of cats, And you're right if you think that.
But I got three of them at the same time
at the shelter. Okay. So they yeah, all the same vintage,
(12:01):
except Charlie is the oldest, and then the other two
were younger by about three years. Well, the other two
are dead. I mean they just died last So Charlie
has got to be nineteen years old. I mean the
other one was sixteen. So Frenchie, my darling passes away
last week. Charlie's nineteen years old. He's got all kinds
of issues. But he's still kicking man, So you know,
(12:22):
you gotta But I don't think i'd move him. He's
not you know, he's not super anyway. We have a
weird allegiance in relationship with the other creatures in the
house that are not human. Anyway, We're going to be
a part of this heat wave in a way that
I guess may challenge us in terms of our tolerance.
MSNBC shout out to all the Libs. MSNBC, isn't that
(12:47):
the bastion of mainstream institutional liberal chatter?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Is that fair?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
A crozier? Would you call it that?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I mean, is it kind of like I feel like
there's Fox News Channel on one side, right, it's sort
of the to the right, and the yeah, MS is
sort of center left. I don't know, maybe if you know,
I guess, if you're.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Depend on who you're asking, right, I was gonna say,
you had.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Somebody on the right, center left. Are you kidding, Cutter?
It lose the center part. Anyway, ms NBC is going
to change its name. It's now MS Now it stands
for My Source, the MS, which actually originally stood from Microsoft,
didn't it. It used to be Microsoft. It's not right,
Tony Microsoft. Yeah, it was it tech News, right exactly.
(13:33):
It was like this weird thing about that wild Now
it's My Source News Opinion World, And there'll be a
new logo this year. It's part of the rebranding. That's
part of the spin off from Comcast. Remember Comcast and
NBC Universal. They spun off all of these cable television
(13:57):
networks into a separate, publicly traded company. The company is
called Versent VR SANT. Anyway, the reason it's important is
this will be MSNBC, the Financial News Channel, CNBC USA Network,
Oxygen E, Sci Fi, and the Golf Channel. They're all together,
and now they're separate from the Comcast main asset. So
(14:22):
they're trying to build an individual identity and a vision
for the future, they say, while laying a foundation for
continued growth and success of our businesses. That's the CEO
Mark Lazarus. The reality is that world is not doing
great man. Cable news is in trouble. Fewer and fewer
people are getting cable, people are cutting the cord. Viewership
(14:43):
is down. And they also have some effort I'm sure
to spin it off completely. I mean just to sell
it as an asset. So you establish it first as
a separate asset, right, and then you can sell it
so MSNBC saying the network is not going to change.
Editorial direction is not going to change. They are going
(15:04):
to build out their news gathering operation entirely separate from
NBC News. While our name will be changing, who we
are and what we do will not, Our commitment to
our work and our audience will not waiver. The brand
has been this way for three decades and will continue
to be this way anyway. It's a pretty huge change,
(15:25):
and Comcast is going to retain NBC Universal assets like
the NBC Broadcast Network, also NBC News, NBC Sports will
also be retained by Comcast. And they'll also hang on
to Peacock, which is a streaming platform, and they'll hang
on to Bravo. It's interesting to me that they hang
on too Bravo. That's the reason I say that, I
(15:46):
think they may try to sell off a lot of
these other assets, you know. But anyway, the new name
ms NOW will be getting a new logo and a
whole new look, so keep your eyes out for that.
There was a shooting in Huntington Beach. This is pretty
(16:09):
well then. You know. Corbyn Carson is the PIO down there.
I saw that Krozer. Did you see that Public Information officer? Yeah,
Corbyn Carson, former KFI alum. So the question is.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Why someone would pull out a gun and shoot a
man behind me here in the parking lot of a workplace.
It's been nearly ten hours since this happened, and we
are still waiting for answers.
Speaker 7 (16:32):
I was outside seven o'clock this morning, and all of
a sudden I heard six shots.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Huntington Beach worker Russell Ekwater her gunfire coming from the
California Closets distribution center across the street.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
No, that was really weird. I did stick around maybe
two minutes afterwards. It's here at screaming or something, but
I saw the cops around, so I just went back
to in the word.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Huntington Beach police confirmed that a man was shot on
the property and taken to the hospital. A trail of
blood sneaked through the parking lot, where a pile of
clothes and shoes were left near Skylab Roads.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Oh my god, that's grim, man, geez, that's really grim.
Speaker 8 (17:11):
This is at a business called California Closets. One person
was shot. That person, a male, was taken to a
local hospital. Detectives believe this is an isolated incident and
there is no further threat to public safety.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Officials wouldn't talk about the shooter or whether the pair
knew one another. No motive was given.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeah, I mean, that's really what we want to know,
because it's just such a bizarre story. So I'm sorry.
Did the guy live or was he Was he shot
and he's still alive? Right? Do we have any word
on that.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I think this story continues because I don't think he
survived because I think Southgate police fatally shot that suspect.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Oh was in that shooting.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I see all right.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
Employees leaving the workplace at California Closets waved off reporters,
saying nothing. A spokesperson for the company said the primary
focus is supporting their team members. She said, we are
extremely saddened by this morning shooting on site at our
Orange County location in Huntington Beach. Our hearts are with
those injured or otherwise impacted, and we wish them a
(18:14):
full recovery and strength for their families and community. Now
we know that the man who was shot survived. We
do not know, however, whether he works here. California Closet
says it is closing this location until further notice.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
So, Sharon, the update is that while he survived, initially.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
He's no, no, no, he's he's alive. But the woman who
shot the woman that shot him, she was shot by
r later this afternoon was shot and killed by Southgate police.
She was the suspect in that shooting earlier this morning
in Huntington Beach, so please stopped her vehicle and officers
(18:56):
when she exited the vehicle she was wielding a gun
and that when they opened fired and she was pronounced
dead at the hospital. So the two shootings are tied.
She shot the man at California Closet.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Wow. Krozier Bellio very strong with the details and with
that update on that report, I thought.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
I think we've established Serreon knows what she's doing.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yeah, I would agree with.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
That you're listening to Tim conwayjun you're on demand from
KFI AM six forty and fewer Americans are drinking.
Speaker 9 (19:25):
Fewer Americans are drinking alcohol, according to a Gallop pole
released on Wednesday. The survey found that fifty four percent
of US adults say they drink alcoholic beverages, but that
is lower than at any other point in the past
three decades. The poll comes amid a growing belief that
even moderate alcohol conception.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Is health risk. I mean, I got that news into
the Mark Thompson Alcohol Consumption Experiment, which is an ongoing
life choice, and I received it with great downcast lack
(20:07):
of enthusiasm that even moderate drinking carries all sorts of
health risks. It gets too late for me. The cake
is baked. I've been drinking for a long time, and
I feel like, you know, Conway and I bond over
our you know. I remember when Conway said I haven't
had a drink in four months. He was doing this
(20:28):
kind of dry out period. He wasn't advertising it. I said,
how can you say someone like that to me? You know,
I just had a drink last night. It's a social thing.
I don't get.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
You know, when you hear somebody's doing dry January or
they stop drinking.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Took a dagger to my heart.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Yeah, because you want to know other people are doing
it as well.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Comms. Yeah, exactly. I need you out there. I need
you out there on the tight rope walk of life.
The way I'm out there, I again, I don't get dropped.
But there is something about that. Maybe it's just the
way I've metabolized it and the way it is and
I react to it. But just a couple of martinis
(21:10):
or whatever it might be, and I just it's like
an old friend overtaking my mind. But I've got way back,
of course, because you can't. I mean, you can't get
all this information about all the dilatorious influences and all
the way it's the ways it's going to show up,
is everything from heart disease to cancer, you know, dementia
or whatever and continue to just throw them back.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Has alcohol affected you as you've aged, Do you notice
your body handles it differently?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
It's oh, yeah, hangover wise, I have yeah, hangover wise.
You know. Conway gives you good advice on one thing,
and I think it comes from his wife. Jen was
the one who said as long as you're eating with
your drinking, you're probably going to be okay. But if
you're sitting there slamming them back and you're you know,
(21:57):
there's no dinner or no you know, you're really going
to it. And I think that's really good advice, you know,
just to kind of keeps not of a kind of
a balance and a measured sort of equilibrium to the
way you're you're going forward. I remember Conway saying that,
and I thought, oh, I think that's good advice, and
I try to follow it.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
What about drinking water as you drink, Like I know
people that for every drink they have, they have some water.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Right, that's to shake the hangover, because you it is
I think it drives you out. But boy, it's I
don't know, it's so much a part of like it's
just the meal is better with a whatever it might be.
I love drinking wine, you know, and I but but
I've cut way way back.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
As I say, Tony says he never gets hangovers.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I don't know, Tony's Your biology is extraordinary. Yeah, I'd
like to see some charts on you, Tommy, I really would.
I like to see your basic physiology flies.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
In the face of do you get hangovers? It's been
a lot of time, but yeah, I'll get him. I
you know, like you say, Mark, it's a lifetime of
research and study. Do you understand the things that you
need to do? Don't always do, but you should do.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Angel has one right now.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Yeah, Angel's always working through a hangover. UN's Angel.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
I sure am, And I'm working for the one right now. Yeah,
I'm just getting ready for the next one. As soon
as this one's gone, I'm going to work on another one.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
You know. I don't want to romanticize it. They're like
the cultural aspects of drinking. I mean, they're really like
James Bond has a martini. I mean, uh, it's you know,
that whole fifties sixties screen star thing where they're all
in bow ties and everybody's got a cocktail in their hand.
Everything just looks so glamorous and and that's the stuff
(23:38):
that culturally made an impact on me. And I think
before I know, if I know, yeah, I want to
be like, I don't know, fill in the old screen
star Carrie Grant, David Niven, whatever their names were. They
all are there with their bow ties and their drink.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Dean Martin.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Dean Martin was a rat pack. Yeah, thank you exactly.
So they made it cool and so now you know,
late in the and they're going, oh, guys, guys, guys, wait, wait, wait, wait,
it's not as cool as we thought it was. It
turns out it's killing you. Wow. A little late, man,
little late. I'm kind of a pop committed. As we
say in poker, all of my chips are already in.
(24:13):
But I think if you do it responsibly, and like
all things, there's a balance to it. I mean, you know,
yellow baby, right, you only live once. Yeah, so we
say in my house that's a big phrase. So in
any case, fewer people are drinking. So if you're one
of them, congratulations. There's a lot to be said for
(24:33):
pushing away from it. So I applaud you.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I guess the gen Zers are wanting to get back
to stick shift driving. Yeah, the automatic transmission is not
the new thing anymore for generations.
Speaker 10 (24:55):
Fitch was this sound of real driving, shifting gears, pressing
the gas while we're.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Releasing the clutch.
Speaker 10 (25:05):
A stick shift the standard for decades became a calling
card in the early two thousands for cool cars, as
seen in the Best and Furious franchise.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I grew up with a clutch. We didn't have automatic
transmission in my house. And I'm telling you, we drove
a station wagon. Okay, my dad and mom had a
station wagon.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
They have on the column, yeah, on the.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Column on the side, and so it wasn't sexy. It
was horrible. I mean, on a hill and all the rest.
You know, when you got a clutch. So I love
this idea of something. It's kind of what we've done
with Vinyl. Like you know, with Vinyl recordings. People like
Vinyl's bag. People want to good back to the old
school albums. Sounds better, Yeah, sounds better, that's right. The
(25:49):
purest want albums again, they do. They want the popping
and the hissing. I lived through it. There was no
other option. But this is the same deal. Like I
get tractapes back then, exactly that was the problem though
a tracts, The same is true. I think of I
get it. We've romanticized the clutch and the manual transmission.
(26:12):
You get more control over the vehicle. But you know, again,
having been raised in a family where we had a
station wagon with three on the side and the clutch
it was no fun. I get it. Now they're rolling
out cars that likely are a bit more fun rainy.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Shift and not double clutching like you should.
Speaker 10 (26:29):
Now, the old school manual transmission has become something of
a relic. Since twenty twenty, less than two percent of
all new car sales in the United States are stick shifts,
but like bell bottoms, flip phones in vinyl records, old
classics often find their weight to young hands.
Speaker 11 (26:45):
You do feel like you're raise car drivers just moving
that shift round. All those stick sales have been declining.
Speaker 10 (26:53):
The car market saw small bumps in both twenty twenty
three and twenty twenty five with interested gen zers. You
say they're tired, feeling distracted while they dropped.
Speaker 9 (27:02):
I think that this is a skill that everybody should have,
not only because it's something I have just in case,
but also make.
Speaker 10 (27:07):
You a better driver in general. Twenty eight year old
Lela Day is taking it a step further. Perfect, she's
taking lessons.
Speaker 12 (27:15):
I give it a little bit of guess there you go.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Oh my god, that is about the wildest thing to watch.
Somebody who's never driven with a clutch before learn how
to do it. Oh man, that contest a father daughter relationship.
Speaker 11 (27:29):
I would think, jeez, her instructor, I'm at Roja founded.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
The feel Outs now.
Speaker 11 (27:36):
Exactly right, her instruct I'm ad Raja founder the Houston
based Manual Driving Academy after about a twenty twelve mas
Dumiata two years ago and had to teach himself how
to drive it.
Speaker 12 (27:49):
I was like, oh, this was this was really cool.
It's such a it's such a simple thing, but it's
like this mechanical connection between you and your car. Clutch
and break perfect and then neutral if we go perfect
handbrick up, clutch off awesome.
Speaker 10 (28:03):
Roger noticed that spike and manual sales back in twenty
twenty three, including research showing that sixty seven percent of
eighteen to thirty four year olds want to learn. Why
don't we start this?
Speaker 12 (28:12):
Why can't this be a business. So we initially started
in Houston, got a lot of interest and then had
folks reaching out from all over Texas other states. And
then since then we've we've expanded an.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Issue and they have believed that there's enough interest in
manual transmission that you could start a manual transmission driving school.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Well, in a lot of these cars, you can make
a manual. They got the option on the gear.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Ship right right, Crows is show right about that, Like
you can you can play it automatic or just our manual.
But if there's the option, I don't think that there's
a clutch per se. I think it's just a chance
you can just shift gears.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Yeah, you can just kind of you can get it
to a little bit more to where you wanted.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
To shift right. But this is actually working with the
clutch and popping the clutch and all that stuff. So
this is a much difference.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
I did the same thing, apparently yours did. This is like, yeah,
he stopped on a hill and said, okay, now you
got across the street on a hill and cars are
coming at you, and you got across in front of them,
and I just kept popping it and my Dad's just laughing.
I'm going We're going you die.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
My mother was a ninja on the clutch. He was great.
My dad was horrible driver, I mean truly awful, and
like had the clutch like barely engaged some of the times,
and we'd start crawling across the intersection even though the
light was red. He was awful. I remember as a kid,
I've so many memories of my dad just you know,
(29:36):
putting us in all of these precarious situations because he
was just he was so he was distracted, He's thinking
about of this stub. He was caught in his head
and so he was barely engaging that clutch and it
was just oh, unreal. But I can't believe the way
it's been romanticized this way. I guess it's a it's
a real thing. I mean, when this guy literally opens
(29:56):
up a driving school dedicated to people who want to
learn how to drive him annual transmission, I guess the
market must be the Edge Academy.
Speaker 10 (30:03):
Now, when forty seven cities employing nearly two hundred instructors.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
What.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Forty seven cities with this thing? Wow, I mean that's
more than just like a small business. That's huge on
Edge Academy.
Speaker 10 (30:18):
Now, when forty seven cities employing nearly two hundred instructors
teaching people all over the country how not to stall out.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
That is its own circle of hell. Being a driving
instructor teaching people how not to stall out, It really is.
I don't envy that job.
Speaker 12 (30:35):
Slow slow, slow, slow, slow.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
That's just a big.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
It might be, but I mean it seems like it
must be more than a novelty with forty seven different
outlets or this you know, this driving school. But I
don't know. As I say, we're just a novelty. I
could kind of understand it, but this guy's put a
lot behind him.
Speaker 12 (30:54):
Slow slow, slow, slow slow, Like, well me, now, get
off of it. It's okay, that's okay.
Speaker 10 (30:59):
I'm from Detroit and my dad was an engineer at
Ford Motor Company for more than forty years. But I
haven't driven a manual in more than twenty and it
showed no bad excuse.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
You could put me behind the wheel. I'd have no problem,
and I've done it. You know, it's not It is
like riding a bike. You just get right in there
and you can do it. Yeah. Yeah, But the return
of the stick shift, jen Z wants it wow, a
(31:31):
major farewell to a star that passes away, part of
the Superman franchise and beyond. We'll get to that in
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Thompson sitting in for Tim KF. I am six forty.
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