November 25, 2025 • 32 mins
Mark Thompson serves up a whirlwind of headlines—from a California pho restaurant forced to close after a viral video sparked a health department crackdown, to ICE raids hitting car wash shops across the state. Mark also digs into the surprising rise of raccoons as household pets and the alarming report that a silent tick-borne meat allergy contributed to the death of a JetBlue pilot. Then Andy Riesmeyer joins Mark for a lively cross-segment to talk movies, TV, and his own adventures in media. A mix of curiosity, cautionary tales, and classic Mark Thompson energy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
At Mark Thompson sitting for Tim Conway Junior. I have
a YouTube show that I do. It's all news and
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you know, a little sometimes lighter tone here at KFI.
But if you want to check it out, it's called
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and you get what you pay for, by the way.
So it's on YouTube, also on the iHeartRadio app and
as an audio podcast on Spotify and stuff too. They
are making a closure and you may have seen this
viral video. Did you see the viral video of the
the guy slamming into the ground this big slab of meat.
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It hit my Instagram and apparently it's led to a
restaurant closure. Check this out.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It an eight restaurant. A restaurant in the Bay Area
remains closed this morning after a worker was seen throwing
frozen meat onto the ground. It happened last week in
the city of mill Pizza. Someone on a rooftop saw
the worker trying to break apart frozen ribs.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
By the way, that's one of the cool aspects of it.
Somebody saw this from above, so the person who's doing
this can't tell that they're being videoed. It's being shot
from someone who's like in an apartment or in a
balcony above where this is going on. So it's completely
It's one of those things where you know, again, as
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we say, the worker can't take the pizza.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Someone on a rooftop saw the worker trying to break
apart frozen ribs in back of Full Love, a Vietnamese restaurant.
He slolammed them onto a piece of cardboard. They frequently
touched the cement.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
He slammed them, slam them, Yeah, he did.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
He salamed them.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
He slammed them onto a piece of cardboard. They frequently
touched the cement and mop bucket. Employees told health inspectors
they were trying to thaw the meat outside due to
the lack of indoor space, and that it was not
served to customers. Inspectors, customers, that's.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Kind of I would say, exactly, how does that arithmetic work?
Isn't the meat for the customers?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Indoor space and that it was not served to customers,
inspector custom.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
The staff.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Right, Well, here's the thing too. They found multiple other violations,
including a cockroach infestation. The restaurant closed until violations are corrected.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah, gosh, she just wondered how it gets to that
point to begin with, they were just making ground beef
they got. Well, you know, the reality is, I would imagine.
I mean, I saw the video. He's smashing it against
cardboard that is on the ground. Now, so apparently it
touched a mop bucket and stuff. I didn't see that,
but apparently that's there. The cooking of the meat should,
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if it's cooked properly, kill all those bacteria, right, I mean,
I'm just saying, I know it's gross, it's not as
gross as it could be. I mean, it's touching the
ground on this cardboard. Please don't misunderstand me. I'm not
justifying it or suggesting that it's a new kind of
preparation technique. But I'm just saying that it's likely that
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a meat chunk, properly cooked will kill all of that bacteria.
But it sounds to me like that place has got
bigger problems than just that. You know, I'm struck by
this story. The story about women and lung cancer bizarre
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and surprising.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
An active Chicago mother in her mid forties, Danielle Hooyg,
was stunned. Did you ever think that you were someone
who could get lung cancer?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Never.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Early last year, this scan showing this white mass proved
her wrong.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
They thought, well, no way do I have lung cancer
because I don't smoke.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Her doctor, delivering a second.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Blow, he said to me, it does look like cancer.
And oh, by the way, you're not the first young
female I've seen today that has lung cancer.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Doctors we spoke with from around the country say they're
seeing more young women like Danielle with no history of
tobacco use diagnosed with lung cancer, and a new study
from Northwestern Medicine shows sixty five percent of people diagnosed
with lung cancer today don't qualify for regular screenings that
could have caught the disease sooner. That's because current screening
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guidelines only cover adults fifty to eighty years old who've
smoked the equivalent of a pack of day for twenty years.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
That is so screwed up.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
So you're penalized for a cleaner lifestyle and a less
cancer prone lifestyle, you're penalized by the insurance.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Company disease Sooner.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
That's because current screening guidelines only cover adults fifty to
eighty years old who've smoked.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
And let me be clear about that.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
When they say screening guidelines, I mean I guess those
do come from like the American Medical Association, et cetera.
That's kind of a consensus among the medical community that
that younger people who don't have a risk profile shouldn't
need the screening. But I also think there's an input
from the insurance company. That's why I mentioned it, because
I think the the underpinning everything with our healthcare system
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is money. So it's sort of again, you don't get
scans that you don't need or that aren't prescribed to
the medical community because you know, you have to pay
for them, whereas if they are prescribed, oftentimes these scans
can be covered in some way by insurance anyway. But
I'm just saying that it's a shame that people who
are of the lower risk profile are essentially penalized because
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of a lower risk profile.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
That's because current screening guidelines only cover adults fifty to
eighty years old who've smoked the equivalent of a packa.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Day for twenty years.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Among those diagnosed too late, Northwestern researchers say more younger
non smokers, the majority women.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
They're like, what did I do wrong?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I've not smoked, I've never had alcohol, I eat healthy, exercise,
I have stage four lung cancer.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Chief of Thoracic Surgery doctor and Kit Barot. Do we
know why lung cancer rates are on the rise among
younger women who have never smoked.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Do we know why this is happening? Well, V actually don't.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Right now, Doctor Barrot says the culprit could be environmental
factors like air pollution or things more commonly inhaled by
women like cosmetics, aerosols, gas stoves, or cleaning products. But
none of that is proven. What is now, lung cancer
is the leading cause of cancer deaths nationwide.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
You know, we always hear about carcinogens everywhere. You hear
about being inundated by this stuff. Essentially, we're bathing in
these carcinogens every day, and exposure to all those things
mentioned help up that annie. But wow, these statistics are
really brutal.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Doctor Barrod is now calling to change the screening guidelines
to include all adults forty to eighty five. Hoyg, whose
cancer was caught early by an unrelated scan and treated,
still wonders why her.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
I could have died and my children would have been
without their mom. Really, anyone can get it.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I mean it's scandalous though, that you know an illness
that you really need to catch early to have any
chance that the screening guidelines are what they are. They
don't allow you to screen earlier, So hopefully they do
change those guidelines.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
When we come back.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
It's a remarkable story of the latest fascination that has
grown not only in America but worldwide with a new pet.
We'll get to that next. Mark Thompson Here for Tim
Conway Junior.
Speaker 8 (08:18):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Mark Thompson here for Tim Conway Junior.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
As we ramp up to the holidays, Conway is off
taking some holiday time. I was going to get the
car washed today and we had all the rain. Now
things have kind of cleared out the car wash. It
takes an hour now to get your car because there's
so few people working there now. It's crazy. These car
they had to close the car wash for several days
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after the ice raids last month. Absolutely crazy, and I
was reading about it just today that there are so
many car wash places that are really stressed, and the
people working there are not coming to work they're so frightened.
And even those who are getting their car washed. These
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are not even people who should be frightened. That it's
to say they're not immigrants, they are not Latino, They're
not you know, they can't be profiled. They're not going
into the car wash. They're just frightened by the raids.
I mean, no one wants to go into a car
wash where, you know, ice agents come in and you're
just trying to get your car wash, and now it
turns into a crime scene. He's reading a piece in
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the La Times. Are just saying from one of the owners,
who is one of those people who won the green
card lottery effectively and sunk all of his savings into
opening this car wash. He says, my target is to
pay the rent, pay the insurance, and pay the gods.
It's an immigrant from Mexico, and apparently the concern is
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that these guys are exposed to the street, so you
have straight vendors. I guess day laborers, you know, the
home depot guys, farm workers, gardeners. They've all become easy pickens,
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and so you never really feel safe if you're any
of these people.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
They said, the.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Last time the ice agents stormed that car Washington, I'm
talking about the one in my neighborhood, it was like
a kidnapping, you said, felt like we were in Afghanistan
or Iraq, not in the middle of Los Angeles. And
you know, many of these people have been in the
country for decades. We know this story, but it's really
affecting life for these people, and life in and around
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southern California and the economy on a broader level. But anyway,
I just I literally was there to trying to get
the car in. The thought just it's too long's I
don't have an hour to sink into this. And bosses
are saying, I thought, this is interesting that if immigration
agents come back, that the workers should consider locking themselves
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inside the cars they were cleaning. The manager says, don't run,
they'll only chase you. So this idea somehow that I
mean again, getting in and out of the car wash
may just be an all day affair. If it turns
into one of those situations. So you've got drama, you
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have disappointment. You even have a lot of these owners
of car washes saying, hey, it's totally cool if you
want to go after criminals and stuff, but these people
aren't criminals. I pay taxes on their stuff. They pay
taxes on their stuff, and this is absolutely a legitimate situation.
These are hardworking people. So I don't know it, just
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it's definitely changed life, and as we slide into the holidays,
just seems like one of those situations that you know
is at best unresolved. And it used to just be
criminals that they're arrested, and now they've had quotas that
have been increased so substantially that they have to make
additional arrests. The newest pet, this household pet more popular
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in America and maybe worldwide, the growing fascination with raccoons.
New scientific research is suggesting that raccoons are literally becoming
physically cuter and that is maybe fueling their rise as
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unconventional household pets. Trash pandas yes, and in fact, trash
is part of this Trash may be the real kickstarter.
According to the author of one of the studies out
of the University of Arkansas. Trash creates easy food opportunities
that reward animals that are brave enough but not too
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brave to live near people.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
And so because we interact.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Around these creatures over generations, that balance of boldness and
caution softens their natural fight or flight response and it
reshapes their features. I know it seems wild, but this
is what scientists call domestication syndrome, which includes traits like
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shorter snouts, smaller skulls, changes in coat color, more docile temperaments.
So urban raccoons appear to be changing in the way
they look and the way they act. And so, yes,
the trash pend the backyard bandits increasingly comfortable around people
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as they adapt to city life. And you know, they
even get internet fame as a result of you know,
some ring camera thing. So humans are choosing raccoons and
raccoons are choosing us. It's a holiday love story, and
raccoons are on the rise as a pet in more
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and more households, and they all lived happily ever after
Thompson Here for Conway.
Speaker 8 (14:38):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Mark Thompson's sitting in for Tim Conway Junior Andy Reesemeyer.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
After this show, he's going to stop in and say hi.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
There's a bizarre story of a Jet Blue pilot dying
after eating a hamburger. And they thought that this guy
was allergic to red meat and no one was aware
of it. But it turns out the story is even
more bizarre than.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
That, And all right and check this out.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Jet Blue pilot died after eating a hamburger. The autopsy
called it a sudden, unexplained death. His face baffled his family.
He seemed to be in perfect health.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
But now, a.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Full year after the pilot's mysterious death, a team of
doctors has found the explanation, and their conclusion is scary.
They believe that a tick bite made the forty seven
year old pilot allergic to red.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Meat and nobody knew it.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
The speed of pilot Brian Waitzel's decline is astonished.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
A tick bite that made him allergic to red meat,
so the two things were linked, but provoked was the
red meat reaction by the tick bite.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Made the forty seven year old pilot allergic to red
meat and nobody knew it. The speed of pilot Brian
Waitzel's decline is astonishing. He was at a barbecue at
his daughter's high school when he ate the burger at
three pm. By seven to twenty pm, he was vomiting
in his bathroom. By seven thirty seven pm, he was unconscious.
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At ten twenty two pm, he was declared dead at
a local hospital, leaving behind his wife, Piper, and three children.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
It's now believed.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Wakesl was bitten when he was jogging at a state
park near his home in Wall Township, New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
By the way, having been bitten by a tick, I
had lime disease. It was very serious. I'll spare you
with the story. But you don't always know you're bitten
by a tick. I mean, tick bites go down all
the time. Most of the time you don't even you're
not even aware of it. That's why they have you,
you know, check yourself. My dad took me to get
my haircut one time when I was a little kid,
and the woman who's cutting my hair spound a tick
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in my head.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
It was just the grossest thing in the world.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah, and they tell you, you know, after you've been out
for a walk or whatever to check yourself. This is
particularly in areas that have tick infestations. More common area
is yeah, yeah, what a area. But this condition that
they've talked about is a real thing. It's called alphagol
syndrome AGS, or a tick. Saliva sensitizes a person to
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a sugar called alpha gol, and this causes the body's
immune system to have this allergic reaction to mammalian meat
like beef, pork, or lamb, and usually two to six
hours after consumption, you begin this reaction and symptoms can
range from the hives and nausea to apparently this, which
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is death. It's insane how quickly this forty seven year
old pilot succumbed to this.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
According to The New York Times, he returned from the
jog with a dozen small bites around his ankles. He
apparently had been bitten by the lone star tick, which
gave him the red meat allergy.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
It is becoming a growing problem.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Doctor Aaron mc guinty is an expert on the condition.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
The patient has no awareness that they could be allergic
until two hours later when they are experiencing symptoms, so
they feel completely fine when they're eating it.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
The pilot's widow says she is relieved she no longer
has to tell people we don't know why he died.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
It brings a lot of closure.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Well maybe I mean it brings a lot of sadness.
The dude, you know, he bought the farm from a
tick bite that produced his death within hours. It sounds like,
and this is really beautiful. Did you know about this
that these tick on me? Look, I know lime disease
because I had it. And of course lime disease can
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lead to all kinds of horrors, and there have been
documentaries on it, and you can see them, and you
you know, and I'm sure many of you know people
who have lundy. Maybe you had Landis yourself. That's been
my exposure to tick bites and some of the physical
tragedy that can be wrought by tickpipe. But this, you know,
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he was declared dead seven hours after eating the hamburger,
and the hamburger reaction was brought on by this bite
that sensitized his body to it. Seven hours jogging at
a state park in New Jersey. Seven hours later, he's dead.
A Jet Blue pilot forty seven years old. Wow, that
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is just wild. I got my tick bite at a wedding,
yet another reason not to go to a wedding.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Where was it?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
It was in rural Maryland. Yeah, and I'll tell you
there you go. When I came back to LA, I
started manifesting all of these symptoms of like the flu,
like fever, persistent fever, really sore throat but I mean
super sore throat, had trouble swallowing my own saliva, and
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aches and pains, body aches, and I did have a
rash all over my body. And when you go back
at once you know it's lime disease. You go back
and go, my god, these are all the classic signs
of lime disease. It's like wheel of fortune with all
of the letters turned. And the doctors were all going,
I just can't figure it out, because, to be fair,
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it's less common out here. So I went back to
rural Maryland, contracted the tick bite and the lime disease there,
and the doctor asked at one point, actually changed doctors
because the one doctor seemed to be so flumme. It
was insistent that it was the flu, and I just
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knew it wasn't. I mean, I just knew it was
something different. And so that's when I doctors, and the
second doctor said have you been camping? And I think
he was thinking lime disease. He said, have you been
camping or hiking? And the answer with me is always no,
i'n't been camping or hiking. But the real question is
have you been in any kind of rural environment or
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wooded environment. That's what you should really ask yourself. And
the answer to that was yes at this wedding, and
they just got it in time with me. I had
it for thirty eight days. It gets very, very dangerous
after that. And yet if you can catch it early
lime disease anyway, you can knock it right out with
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a simple antibiotic. But for all who are struggling with lime,
and who who've contracted lime, you know what I'm talking about.
But I was unaware that there's an even more dangerous
illness apparently provoked by a tick bite, a different kind
of tick crazy. And now this Jet Blue pilot is
gone because of it. When we come back, we'll talk
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to Andy, who I guess is coming in tonight. You know,
I love it, always love to hang with Andy for
a few minutes. We'll do that next. Mark Thompson from
Tim Conway Jr.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Mark Thompson's sitting in for Tim Conway Junr. Just wrapping
things up. Andy Reis Myers in tonight and you know
him from Channel five. They've got You're doing everything there
over Channel five.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
I do a little bit of everything. I'm trying to
follow in your footsteps, you know, Thank you. I don't dance.
I don't dance, but I definitely can, like I can
fake the weather.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:43):
But the funny thing is that you'll never you'll you'll
always know what the weather situation in Los Angeles is
like if I am doing weather, because they don't let
me do it.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
If it's bad, right, it couldn't be suited too bad
if you're doing it.
Speaker 9 (22:54):
So it's like this guy, Okay, we're probably gonna have
a pretty good week if you see me up there.
So I'm so happy to finally get to meet you.
I've spoken to you, I interviewed you after Sam passed.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
That was so intense, Man, Rubens passing was so intense.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
We loved him so much.
Speaker 9 (23:07):
And I know you knew him forever, and and and
One of the things that I love to reflect on
is that Fox used to be across the street literally
from KTLA. That's right at Sunset Brons and now I
think it's a high school right where.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
The Fox used to be. They told you what it is. Yeah,
it used to be Metromedia, then it was Fox. And
you're right right next to the Tribune lot next to
h and now Tribune it sold that.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
Yeah, it's next our now next we and we have
the same We shared a lot with Netflix and they
don't want anything to do with us.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
They don't.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
They just don't care about it.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
It's a it's a working lot. There's a lot going
on there.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I did a show called Guinness Prime Time came on
and they set Guinness records on the show. So the
guy would come on and he like balanced drinking glasses
on his chin, like like two and a half stories
where the yeah, of course, okay. So it was that
kind of thing, really exotic. It was really a cool,
fun show to host. But I did it on the
k oh Okay. So I'd go from Fox eleven and
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I just crossed the street over to k TLA right
and we'd shoot, you know, all day and end of
the night. But the fun part of it was that
the dressing room they gave me to kind of hang
out in or whatever was Judge Judies, Yes, because they
shoot Judge that's right, Yes.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
That's right all of the daytime.
Speaker 9 (24:23):
I wouldn't say filler, but the syndicated strip shows, you
know where which the judge shows they had Let's Make
a Deal used to be there. Oh wow, they had
a lot of really creat and you know, you'd be
going into work in the morning and then you'd see
all the crazy people who were in the audience for
Let's Make a Deal. Sure, you know, shivering in their
in their little spandex tight situation with the two two
and stuff like that because they were you know, they
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had to dress up like crazy.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Get on the show. So that's right funny.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
And then you'd have you know, a reporter coming in
after a triple homicide or whatever and driving past all
these people and just like, well, that's another day in la.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
I mean, that is the yin and yang of all
of these lots. You know.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
I remember when I would go over to the Sony lot,
like I've two days on Air Force one, that movie
with Harrison you were in that yeah, I've got a story.
I'll tell you that another time. Just awful what happened
with the airport? If you watch air Force one, uh huh,
I watch it every year. There's a scene in the
it's the Thanksgiving feel good movie. If you watch air
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Force one, there is a scene in multiple scenes, I think,
but at least one in the gaggle that is the
press room at the White House right now. The president
of course has been you know, taken on Air Force one,
and the vice president is there, Glenn Close, I think.
And so we're all there and we have speaking lines
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the people who are isoed in that, so we we
shoot the the way it worked.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
This story is already too long.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
No my ripped. I am just on the edge of
my make.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
A long story longer.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
And the one thing about air Force one is it
was shot by in the director's Wolfgang Peterson. He's a
very famous German director who did dash Boot, et cetera.
So it's kind of like prestigious to be there, right,
So uh, there are three of us was speaking lines,
and again if you watch the movie, you're gonna be
able to see what I'm talking about. And we all
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kind of just I think I had the line, which
was is James Marshall still president? That's the that's the
money line scene. And at lunch I meet the producer's
mom and she's this very nice lady, and I had
no sense when I'm about to tell you, I would
never do this today. But back then I kind of
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felt like, I don't know, well care.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Were you already on TV doing weather?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Oh yeah, I was, we already you already, So I
auditioned for this, god yeah. So what happened was they
bring in and I'll get back to the mom in
a second. They bring into the room. It was just
the three of us. They line up the shot. Then
they bring into the room like one hundred people roughly,
maybe even more than one hundred extras. They're all the
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rest of the press corps, and they have people who
are playing like photographers. They have cameras and all these
things are going off. And so when we actually rehearsed
the scene, you this lady who is the producer's mom,
You couldn't you couldn't hear her because she couldn't really
shout and over everybody's shit.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
So at lunch, I said, you know, say take this line,
and I'll take your line.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
I thought we'd both be in the movie.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I didn't think, dude, you're you're like so she because
I can shout, I said, oh, everybody you, I think
it's a little harder anyway.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Blah blah blah. We talk.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
It was not a big I said, so we take
that line, I'll take this line. It doesn't matter, and
they kind of. It didn't matter to them them either,
I could tell.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Which is a surprise.
Speaker 9 (27:44):
It didn't matter to the director, especially a German director
who you would assume would be Yeah, the guy who
did dos Boot is not just.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Letting the day players, but which the script.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I mean, I was reporter number two, and it's not
like he was wedded to as soon as those lines
got in, So then something happened, and I think she
gave the line to this.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Young girl who was younger girl.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
A twenty three year old, twenty four year old in
the front row or second row. We're all kind of
toward the front, and that girl got the line. Huhuse,
I'm thinking when I saw the movie, I thought, wait
a minute, that's not.
Speaker 9 (28:22):
That's not the lady. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't remember
you being that young. Twenty something woman. No, who says
who says? Are still president?
Speaker 2 (28:30):
And but what you will see, and this is how
I say, if you watch Air Force one, you'll be
able to notice what I'm talking about. You'll see a
cutaway of me. You'll see it close up of me.
I'm supposed to have an you, you have a moment
that is anticipated, suposed of a line.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
But I gave it.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
He gave it away.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Some thing like what I just described happened Mark Thompson.
Speaker 9 (28:49):
That could have been your break. Yeah, that was your
pathway to oscars. And I mean, hey, listen, did the
check clear?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I know that right, it was two days. But what
got me onto this is the lot thing. Yeah, because
while that I was there for Air Force one, you
know what else was And they're everywhere.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
They were walking everywhere at Starship.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Troopers, oh yeah, and so they're all dressed up like man,
it's like it was the coolest boy the.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Old days because they just there's nothing shooting anymore.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (29:16):
At Netflix, there's a lot of people having meetings, very important, Katla.
Obviously we're still doing our news thing, but those shows,
I mean, Netflix basically runs the whole lot, so all
the talk shows, all the daytime shows are gone.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (29:29):
And it's a weird feeling because when I interned there
fifteen ish years ago, it was a working studio, sure,
and it was exciting, and I remember being like a
kid from Indiana thinking, oh, right for Hollywood, right, And
you know, now it's just like, man, now everybody has
those meetings.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
They have the meetings at Netflix and then they go
shooting at Lata or they shoot in Budapest.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Right or Vancouver.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
It sucks.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
And it's one of the things that the town is
dealing with right now because it has an effect of
ripple effect across the entire community.
Speaker 9 (29:58):
I hear you, and uh, you know, at least we
have this little AM radio station to hang out, you know,
at the very least we've got this cool vintage analog
thing that we're doing.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
So it's a it's it's a throwback, it's a it's
legacy media.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Are you here tomorrow as well?
Speaker 5 (30:15):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
This is just a one off.
Speaker 9 (30:17):
So I do Mondays and Fridays at least for I've
been doing it for the past month and I'll probably
do it for at least the end of the year.
Mondays and Fridays, and then I do I do a
show on Sunday from two to four here.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (30:27):
And it's fun. It's amazing, you know. And I know
that as a radio guy who's also done TV. It's
a really different muscle, yeah than the TV thing. It's fun.
I love it, but it's it was. The learning curve
is a lot steeper.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
I think.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
And you live or die by your own that's exactly right.
You did an interview. I know we're late, just to mention.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
This, I will see my time. If you're going to
compliment on a year.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Yeah, I wasn't because it was really good. Who was
it with. Did you talk to John Tesh? Maybe I did?
It was great, Thank you, It was great.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
I had him on, We had him on the show here.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
And it was absolutely terrific.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 9 (31:01):
He was wonderful, so gracious to give us so much time.
I know Mark Ronner, who's there, was hugely excited that
Tesh called it John Tesh for God, said that's right.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
But the other thing is I was impressed with how
really honest he was.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Really, I mean not that he revealed anything like it
was so disparaging or awful.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
But I'm just saying it.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Just the conversation felt like, you know, he wasn't, you know,
playing like he was very unvarnished about totally.
Speaker 9 (31:27):
Yeah, And I think honestly his you know, he's an
old school guy. Yeah, but I think that there's something
about him. He's always the showman, I think is what
it is.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
And he mentioned that you play music too. Yeah. Oh yeah,
oh that's great.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Yeah, it was fun. We could connect on that.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
A little bit.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Yeah, that's that was cool that he referenced. All right,
he's come out of town. Otherwise I would have even
more complimentary.
Speaker 5 (31:45):
You can stay if you want. I'm sure you don't
want to.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
I mean, don't know, Mark, I want to. I've got
a thing. I gotta go.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
You got a thing, all right? Good luck, kids, will
see you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Mark Thompson Here Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
Now you can always hear us live on KFI Am
six forty four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
At Mark Thompson sitting for Tim Conway Junior. I have
a YouTube show that I do. It's all news and
politics and stuff. It's kind of fun to splash around here,
you know, a little sometimes lighter tone here at KFI.
But if you want to check it out, it's called
The Mark Thompson Show on YouTube. You can subscribe and
it's free. That's the best part of it. That's free
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and you get what you pay for, by the way.
So it's on YouTube, also on the iHeartRadio app and
as an audio podcast on Spotify and stuff too. They
are making a closure and you may have seen this
viral video. Did you see the viral video of the
the guy slamming into the ground this big slab of meat.
(00:55):
It hit my Instagram and apparently it's led to a
restaurant closure. Check this out.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It an eight restaurant. A restaurant in the Bay Area
remains closed this morning after a worker was seen throwing
frozen meat onto the ground. It happened last week in
the city of mill Pizza. Someone on a rooftop saw
the worker trying to break apart frozen ribs.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
By the way, that's one of the cool aspects of it.
Somebody saw this from above, so the person who's doing
this can't tell that they're being videoed. It's being shot
from someone who's like in an apartment or in a
balcony above where this is going on. So it's completely
It's one of those things where you know, again, as
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we say, the worker can't take the pizza.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Someone on a rooftop saw the worker trying to break
apart frozen ribs in back of Full Love, a Vietnamese restaurant.
He slolammed them onto a piece of cardboard. They frequently
touched the cement.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
He slammed them, slam them, Yeah, he did.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
He salamed them.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
He slammed them onto a piece of cardboard. They frequently
touched the cement and mop bucket. Employees told health inspectors
they were trying to thaw the meat outside due to
the lack of indoor space, and that it was not
served to customers. Inspectors, customers, that's.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Kind of I would say, exactly, how does that arithmetic work?
Isn't the meat for the customers?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Indoor space and that it was not served to customers,
inspector custom.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
The staff.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Right, Well, here's the thing too. They found multiple other violations,
including a cockroach infestation. The restaurant closed until violations are corrected.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah, gosh, she just wondered how it gets to that
point to begin with, they were just making ground beef
they got. Well, you know, the reality is, I would imagine.
I mean, I saw the video. He's smashing it against
cardboard that is on the ground. Now, so apparently it
touched a mop bucket and stuff. I didn't see that,
but apparently that's there. The cooking of the meat should,
(03:07):
if it's cooked properly, kill all those bacteria, right, I mean,
I'm just saying, I know it's gross, it's not as
gross as it could be. I mean, it's touching the
ground on this cardboard. Please don't misunderstand me. I'm not
justifying it or suggesting that it's a new kind of
preparation technique. But I'm just saying that it's likely that
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a meat chunk, properly cooked will kill all of that bacteria.
But it sounds to me like that place has got
bigger problems than just that. You know, I'm struck by
this story. The story about women and lung cancer bizarre
(03:55):
and surprising.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
An active Chicago mother in her mid forties, Danielle Hooyg,
was stunned. Did you ever think that you were someone
who could get lung cancer?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Never.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Early last year, this scan showing this white mass proved
her wrong.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
They thought, well, no way do I have lung cancer
because I don't smoke.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Her doctor, delivering a second.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Blow, he said to me, it does look like cancer.
And oh, by the way, you're not the first young
female I've seen today that has lung cancer.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Doctors we spoke with from around the country say they're
seeing more young women like Danielle with no history of
tobacco use diagnosed with lung cancer, and a new study
from Northwestern Medicine shows sixty five percent of people diagnosed
with lung cancer today don't qualify for regular screenings that
could have caught the disease sooner. That's because current screening
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guidelines only cover adults fifty to eighty years old who've
smoked the equivalent of a pack of day for twenty years.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
That is so screwed up.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
So you're penalized for a cleaner lifestyle and a less
cancer prone lifestyle, you're penalized by the insurance.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Company disease Sooner.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
That's because current screening guidelines only cover adults fifty to
eighty years old who've smoked.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
And let me be clear about that.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
When they say screening guidelines, I mean I guess those
do come from like the American Medical Association, et cetera.
That's kind of a consensus among the medical community that
that younger people who don't have a risk profile shouldn't
need the screening. But I also think there's an input
from the insurance company. That's why I mentioned it, because
I think the the underpinning everything with our healthcare system
(05:45):
is money. So it's sort of again, you don't get
scans that you don't need or that aren't prescribed to
the medical community because you know, you have to pay
for them, whereas if they are prescribed, oftentimes these scans
can be covered in some way by insurance anyway. But
I'm just saying that it's a shame that people who
are of the lower risk profile are essentially penalized because
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of a lower risk profile.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
That's because current screening guidelines only cover adults fifty to
eighty years old who've smoked the equivalent of a packa.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Day for twenty years.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Among those diagnosed too late, Northwestern researchers say more younger
non smokers, the majority women.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
They're like, what did I do wrong?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I've not smoked, I've never had alcohol, I eat healthy, exercise,
I have stage four lung cancer.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Chief of Thoracic Surgery doctor and Kit Barot. Do we
know why lung cancer rates are on the rise among
younger women who have never smoked.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Do we know why this is happening? Well, V actually don't.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Right now, Doctor Barrot says the culprit could be environmental
factors like air pollution or things more commonly inhaled by
women like cosmetics, aerosols, gas stoves, or cleaning products. But
none of that is proven. What is now, lung cancer
is the leading cause of cancer deaths nationwide.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
You know, we always hear about carcinogens everywhere. You hear
about being inundated by this stuff. Essentially, we're bathing in
these carcinogens every day, and exposure to all those things
mentioned help up that annie. But wow, these statistics are
really brutal.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Doctor Barrod is now calling to change the screening guidelines
to include all adults forty to eighty five. Hoyg, whose
cancer was caught early by an unrelated scan and treated,
still wonders why her.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
I could have died and my children would have been
without their mom. Really, anyone can get it.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I mean it's scandalous though, that you know an illness
that you really need to catch early to have any
chance that the screening guidelines are what they are. They
don't allow you to screen earlier, So hopefully they do
change those guidelines.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
When we come back.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
It's a remarkable story of the latest fascination that has
grown not only in America but worldwide with a new pet.
We'll get to that next. Mark Thompson Here for Tim
Conway Junior.
Speaker 8 (08:18):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Mark Thompson here for Tim Conway Junior.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
As we ramp up to the holidays, Conway is off
taking some holiday time. I was going to get the
car washed today and we had all the rain. Now
things have kind of cleared out the car wash. It
takes an hour now to get your car because there's
so few people working there now. It's crazy. These car
they had to close the car wash for several days
(08:50):
after the ice raids last month. Absolutely crazy, and I
was reading about it just today that there are so
many car wash places that are really stressed, and the
people working there are not coming to work they're so frightened.
And even those who are getting their car washed. These
(09:12):
are not even people who should be frightened. That it's
to say they're not immigrants, they are not Latino, They're
not you know, they can't be profiled. They're not going
into the car wash. They're just frightened by the raids.
I mean, no one wants to go into a car
wash where, you know, ice agents come in and you're
just trying to get your car wash, and now it
turns into a crime scene. He's reading a piece in
(09:36):
the La Times. Are just saying from one of the owners,
who is one of those people who won the green
card lottery effectively and sunk all of his savings into
opening this car wash. He says, my target is to
pay the rent, pay the insurance, and pay the gods.
It's an immigrant from Mexico, and apparently the concern is
(10:04):
that these guys are exposed to the street, so you
have straight vendors. I guess day laborers, you know, the
home depot guys, farm workers, gardeners. They've all become easy pickens,
(10:24):
and so you never really feel safe if you're any
of these people.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
They said, the.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Last time the ice agents stormed that car Washington, I'm
talking about the one in my neighborhood, it was like
a kidnapping, you said, felt like we were in Afghanistan
or Iraq, not in the middle of Los Angeles. And
you know, many of these people have been in the
country for decades. We know this story, but it's really
affecting life for these people, and life in and around
(10:54):
southern California and the economy on a broader level. But anyway,
I just I literally was there to trying to get
the car in. The thought just it's too long's I
don't have an hour to sink into this. And bosses
are saying, I thought, this is interesting that if immigration
agents come back, that the workers should consider locking themselves
(11:16):
inside the cars they were cleaning. The manager says, don't run,
they'll only chase you. So this idea somehow that I
mean again, getting in and out of the car wash
may just be an all day affair. If it turns
into one of those situations. So you've got drama, you
(11:38):
have disappointment. You even have a lot of these owners
of car washes saying, hey, it's totally cool if you
want to go after criminals and stuff, but these people
aren't criminals. I pay taxes on their stuff. They pay
taxes on their stuff, and this is absolutely a legitimate situation.
These are hardworking people. So I don't know it, just
(12:03):
it's definitely changed life, and as we slide into the holidays,
just seems like one of those situations that you know
is at best unresolved. And it used to just be
criminals that they're arrested, and now they've had quotas that
have been increased so substantially that they have to make
additional arrests. The newest pet, this household pet more popular
(12:31):
in America and maybe worldwide, the growing fascination with raccoons.
New scientific research is suggesting that raccoons are literally becoming
physically cuter and that is maybe fueling their rise as
(12:54):
unconventional household pets. Trash pandas yes, and in fact, trash
is part of this Trash may be the real kickstarter.
According to the author of one of the studies out
of the University of Arkansas. Trash creates easy food opportunities
that reward animals that are brave enough but not too
(13:16):
brave to live near people.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
And so because we interact.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Around these creatures over generations, that balance of boldness and
caution softens their natural fight or flight response and it
reshapes their features. I know it seems wild, but this
is what scientists call domestication syndrome, which includes traits like
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shorter snouts, smaller skulls, changes in coat color, more docile temperaments.
So urban raccoons appear to be changing in the way
they look and the way they act. And so, yes,
the trash pend the backyard bandits increasingly comfortable around people
(14:05):
as they adapt to city life. And you know, they
even get internet fame as a result of you know,
some ring camera thing. So humans are choosing raccoons and
raccoons are choosing us. It's a holiday love story, and
raccoons are on the rise as a pet in more
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and more households, and they all lived happily ever after
Thompson Here for Conway.
Speaker 8 (14:38):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Mark Thompson's sitting in for Tim Conway Junior Andy Reesemeyer.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
After this show, he's going to stop in and say hi.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
There's a bizarre story of a Jet Blue pilot dying
after eating a hamburger. And they thought that this guy
was allergic to red meat and no one was aware
of it. But it turns out the story is even
more bizarre than.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
That, And all right and check this out.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Jet Blue pilot died after eating a hamburger. The autopsy
called it a sudden, unexplained death. His face baffled his family.
He seemed to be in perfect health.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
But now, a.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Full year after the pilot's mysterious death, a team of
doctors has found the explanation, and their conclusion is scary.
They believe that a tick bite made the forty seven
year old pilot allergic to red.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Meat and nobody knew it.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
The speed of pilot Brian Waitzel's decline is astonished.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
A tick bite that made him allergic to red meat,
so the two things were linked, but provoked was the
red meat reaction by the tick bite.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Made the forty seven year old pilot allergic to red
meat and nobody knew it. The speed of pilot Brian
Waitzel's decline is astonishing. He was at a barbecue at
his daughter's high school when he ate the burger at
three pm. By seven to twenty pm, he was vomiting
in his bathroom. By seven thirty seven pm, he was unconscious.
(16:24):
At ten twenty two pm, he was declared dead at
a local hospital, leaving behind his wife, Piper, and three children.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
It's now believed.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Wakesl was bitten when he was jogging at a state
park near his home in Wall Township, New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
By the way, having been bitten by a tick, I
had lime disease. It was very serious. I'll spare you
with the story. But you don't always know you're bitten
by a tick. I mean, tick bites go down all
the time. Most of the time you don't even you're
not even aware of it. That's why they have you,
you know, check yourself. My dad took me to get
my haircut one time when I was a little kid,
and the woman who's cutting my hair spound a tick
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in my head.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
It was just the grossest thing in the world.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah, and they tell you, you know, after you've been out
for a walk or whatever to check yourself. This is
particularly in areas that have tick infestations. More common area
is yeah, yeah, what a area. But this condition that
they've talked about is a real thing. It's called alphagol
syndrome AGS, or a tick. Saliva sensitizes a person to
(17:27):
a sugar called alpha gol, and this causes the body's
immune system to have this allergic reaction to mammalian meat
like beef, pork, or lamb, and usually two to six
hours after consumption, you begin this reaction and symptoms can
range from the hives and nausea to apparently this, which
(17:48):
is death. It's insane how quickly this forty seven year
old pilot succumbed to this.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
According to The New York Times, he returned from the
jog with a dozen small bites around his ankles. He
apparently had been bitten by the lone star tick, which
gave him the red meat allergy.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
It is becoming a growing problem.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Doctor Aaron mc guinty is an expert on the condition.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
The patient has no awareness that they could be allergic
until two hours later when they are experiencing symptoms, so
they feel completely fine when they're eating it.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
The pilot's widow says she is relieved she no longer
has to tell people we don't know why he died.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
It brings a lot of closure.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Well maybe I mean it brings a lot of sadness.
The dude, you know, he bought the farm from a
tick bite that produced his death within hours. It sounds like,
and this is really beautiful. Did you know about this
that these tick on me? Look, I know lime disease
because I had it. And of course lime disease can
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lead to all kinds of horrors, and there have been
documentaries on it, and you can see them, and you
you know, and I'm sure many of you know people
who have lundy. Maybe you had Landis yourself. That's been
my exposure to tick bites and some of the physical
tragedy that can be wrought by tickpipe. But this, you know,
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he was declared dead seven hours after eating the hamburger,
and the hamburger reaction was brought on by this bite
that sensitized his body to it. Seven hours jogging at
a state park in New Jersey. Seven hours later, he's dead.
A Jet Blue pilot forty seven years old. Wow, that
(19:39):
is just wild. I got my tick bite at a wedding,
yet another reason not to go to a wedding.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Where was it?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
It was in rural Maryland. Yeah, and I'll tell you
there you go. When I came back to LA, I
started manifesting all of these symptoms of like the flu,
like fever, persistent fever, really sore throat but I mean
super sore throat, had trouble swallowing my own saliva, and
(20:13):
aches and pains, body aches, and I did have a
rash all over my body. And when you go back
at once you know it's lime disease. You go back
and go, my god, these are all the classic signs
of lime disease. It's like wheel of fortune with all
of the letters turned. And the doctors were all going,
I just can't figure it out, because, to be fair,
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it's less common out here. So I went back to
rural Maryland, contracted the tick bite and the lime disease there,
and the doctor asked at one point, actually changed doctors
because the one doctor seemed to be so flumme. It
was insistent that it was the flu, and I just
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knew it wasn't. I mean, I just knew it was
something different. And so that's when I doctors, and the
second doctor said have you been camping? And I think
he was thinking lime disease. He said, have you been
camping or hiking? And the answer with me is always no,
i'n't been camping or hiking. But the real question is
have you been in any kind of rural environment or
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wooded environment. That's what you should really ask yourself. And
the answer to that was yes at this wedding, and
they just got it in time with me. I had
it for thirty eight days. It gets very, very dangerous
after that. And yet if you can catch it early
lime disease anyway, you can knock it right out with
(21:38):
a simple antibiotic. But for all who are struggling with lime,
and who who've contracted lime, you know what I'm talking about.
But I was unaware that there's an even more dangerous
illness apparently provoked by a tick bite, a different kind
of tick crazy. And now this Jet Blue pilot is
gone because of it. When we come back, we'll talk
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to Andy, who I guess is coming in tonight. You know,
I love it, always love to hang with Andy for
a few minutes. We'll do that next. Mark Thompson from
Tim Conway Jr.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Mark Thompson's sitting in for Tim Conway Junr. Just wrapping
things up. Andy Reis Myers in tonight and you know
him from Channel five. They've got You're doing everything there
over Channel five.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
I do a little bit of everything. I'm trying to
follow in your footsteps, you know, Thank you. I don't dance.
I don't dance, but I definitely can, like I can
fake the weather.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:43):
But the funny thing is that you'll never you'll you'll
always know what the weather situation in Los Angeles is
like if I am doing weather, because they don't let
me do it.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
If it's bad, right, it couldn't be suited too bad
if you're doing it.
Speaker 9 (22:54):
So it's like this guy, Okay, we're probably gonna have
a pretty good week if you see me up there.
So I'm so happy to finally get to meet you.
I've spoken to you, I interviewed you after Sam passed.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
That was so intense, Man, Rubens passing was so intense.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
We loved him so much.
Speaker 9 (23:07):
And I know you knew him forever, and and and
One of the things that I love to reflect on
is that Fox used to be across the street literally
from KTLA. That's right at Sunset Brons and now I
think it's a high school right where.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
The Fox used to be. They told you what it is. Yeah,
it used to be Metromedia, then it was Fox. And
you're right right next to the Tribune lot next to
h and now Tribune it sold that.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
Yeah, it's next our now next we and we have
the same We shared a lot with Netflix and they
don't want anything to do with us.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
They don't.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
They just don't care about it.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
It's a it's a working lot. There's a lot going
on there.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I did a show called Guinness Prime Time came on
and they set Guinness records on the show. So the
guy would come on and he like balanced drinking glasses
on his chin, like like two and a half stories
where the yeah, of course, okay. So it was that
kind of thing, really exotic. It was really a cool,
fun show to host. But I did it on the
k oh Okay. So I'd go from Fox eleven and
(24:03):
I just crossed the street over to k TLA right
and we'd shoot, you know, all day and end of
the night. But the fun part of it was that
the dressing room they gave me to kind of hang
out in or whatever was Judge Judies, Yes, because they
shoot Judge that's right, Yes.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
That's right all of the daytime.
Speaker 9 (24:23):
I wouldn't say filler, but the syndicated strip shows, you
know where which the judge shows they had Let's Make
a Deal used to be there. Oh wow, they had
a lot of really creat and you know, you'd be
going into work in the morning and then you'd see
all the crazy people who were in the audience for
Let's Make a Deal. Sure, you know, shivering in their
in their little spandex tight situation with the two two
and stuff like that because they were you know, they
(24:43):
had to dress up like crazy.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Get on the show. So that's right funny.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
And then you'd have you know, a reporter coming in
after a triple homicide or whatever and driving past all
these people and just like, well, that's another day in la.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
I mean, that is the yin and yang of all
of these lots. You know.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
I remember when I would go over to the Sony lot,
like I've two days on Air Force one, that movie
with Harrison you were in that yeah, I've got a story.
I'll tell you that another time. Just awful what happened
with the airport? If you watch air Force one, uh huh,
I watch it every year. There's a scene in the
it's the Thanksgiving feel good movie. If you watch air
(25:19):
Force one, there is a scene in multiple scenes, I think,
but at least one in the gaggle that is the
press room at the White House right now. The president
of course has been you know, taken on Air Force one,
and the vice president is there, Glenn Close, I think.
And so we're all there and we have speaking lines
(25:41):
the people who are isoed in that, so we we
shoot the the way it worked.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
This story is already too long.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
No my ripped. I am just on the edge of
my make.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
A long story longer.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
And the one thing about air Force one is it
was shot by in the director's Wolfgang Peterson. He's a
very famous German director who did dash Boot, et cetera.
So it's kind of like prestigious to be there, right,
So uh, there are three of us was speaking lines,
and again if you watch the movie, you're gonna be
able to see what I'm talking about. And we all
(26:13):
kind of just I think I had the line, which
was is James Marshall still president? That's the that's the
money line scene. And at lunch I meet the producer's
mom and she's this very nice lady, and I had
no sense when I'm about to tell you, I would
never do this today. But back then I kind of
(26:36):
felt like, I don't know, well care.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Were you already on TV doing weather?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Oh yeah, I was, we already you already, So I
auditioned for this, god yeah. So what happened was they
bring in and I'll get back to the mom in
a second. They bring into the room. It was just
the three of us. They line up the shot. Then
they bring into the room like one hundred people roughly,
maybe even more than one hundred extras. They're all the
(27:01):
rest of the press corps, and they have people who
are playing like photographers. They have cameras and all these
things are going off. And so when we actually rehearsed
the scene, you this lady who is the producer's mom,
You couldn't you couldn't hear her because she couldn't really
shout and over everybody's shit.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
So at lunch, I said, you know, say take this line,
and I'll take your line.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
I thought we'd both be in the movie.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I didn't think, dude, you're you're like so she because
I can shout, I said, oh, everybody you, I think
it's a little harder anyway.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Blah blah blah. We talk.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
It was not a big I said, so we take
that line, I'll take this line. It doesn't matter, and
they kind of. It didn't matter to them them either,
I could tell.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Which is a surprise.
Speaker 9 (27:44):
It didn't matter to the director, especially a German director
who you would assume would be Yeah, the guy who
did dos Boot is not just.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Letting the day players, but which the script.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I mean, I was reporter number two, and it's not
like he was wedded to as soon as those lines
got in, So then something happened, and I think she
gave the line to this.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Young girl who was younger girl.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
A twenty three year old, twenty four year old in
the front row or second row. We're all kind of
toward the front, and that girl got the line. Huhuse,
I'm thinking when I saw the movie, I thought, wait
a minute, that's not.
Speaker 9 (28:22):
That's not the lady. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't remember
you being that young. Twenty something woman. No, who says
who says? Are still president?
Speaker 2 (28:30):
And but what you will see, and this is how
I say, if you watch Air Force one, you'll be
able to notice what I'm talking about. You'll see a
cutaway of me. You'll see it close up of me.
I'm supposed to have an you, you have a moment
that is anticipated, suposed of a line.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
But I gave it.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
He gave it away.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Some thing like what I just described happened Mark Thompson.
Speaker 9 (28:49):
That could have been your break. Yeah, that was your
pathway to oscars. And I mean, hey, listen, did the
check clear?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I know that right, it was two days. But what
got me onto this is the lot thing. Yeah, because
while that I was there for Air Force one, you
know what else was And they're everywhere.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
They were walking everywhere at Starship.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Troopers, oh yeah, and so they're all dressed up like man,
it's like it was the coolest boy the.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Old days because they just there's nothing shooting anymore.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (29:16):
At Netflix, there's a lot of people having meetings, very important, Katla.
Obviously we're still doing our news thing, but those shows,
I mean, Netflix basically runs the whole lot, so all
the talk shows, all the daytime shows are gone.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (29:29):
And it's a weird feeling because when I interned there
fifteen ish years ago, it was a working studio, sure,
and it was exciting, and I remember being like a
kid from Indiana thinking, oh, right for Hollywood, right, And
you know, now it's just like, man, now everybody has
those meetings.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
They have the meetings at Netflix and then they go
shooting at Lata or they shoot in Budapest.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Right or Vancouver.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
It sucks.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
And it's one of the things that the town is
dealing with right now because it has an effect of
ripple effect across the entire community.
Speaker 9 (29:58):
I hear you, and uh, you know, at least we
have this little AM radio station to hang out, you know,
at the very least we've got this cool vintage analog
thing that we're doing.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
So it's a it's it's a throwback, it's a it's
legacy media.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Are you here tomorrow as well?
Speaker 5 (30:15):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
This is just a one off.
Speaker 9 (30:17):
So I do Mondays and Fridays at least for I've
been doing it for the past month and I'll probably
do it for at least the end of the year.
Mondays and Fridays, and then I do I do a
show on Sunday from two to four here.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (30:27):
And it's fun. It's amazing, you know. And I know
that as a radio guy who's also done TV. It's
a really different muscle, yeah than the TV thing. It's fun.
I love it, but it's it was. The learning curve
is a lot steeper.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
I think.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
And you live or die by your own that's exactly right.
You did an interview. I know we're late, just to mention.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
This, I will see my time. If you're going to
compliment on a year.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Yeah, I wasn't because it was really good. Who was
it with. Did you talk to John Tesh? Maybe I did?
It was great, Thank you, It was great.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
I had him on, We had him on the show here.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
And it was absolutely terrific.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 9 (31:01):
He was wonderful, so gracious to give us so much time.
I know Mark Ronner, who's there, was hugely excited that
Tesh called it John Tesh for God, said that's right.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
But the other thing is I was impressed with how
really honest he was.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Really, I mean not that he revealed anything like it
was so disparaging or awful.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
But I'm just saying it.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Just the conversation felt like, you know, he wasn't, you know,
playing like he was very unvarnished about totally.
Speaker 9 (31:27):
Yeah, And I think honestly his you know, he's an
old school guy. Yeah, but I think that there's something
about him. He's always the showman, I think is what
it is.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
And he mentioned that you play music too. Yeah. Oh yeah,
oh that's great.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Yeah, it was fun. We could connect on that.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
A little bit.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Yeah, that's that was cool that he referenced. All right,
he's come out of town. Otherwise I would have even
more complimentary.
Speaker 5 (31:45):
You can stay if you want. I'm sure you don't
want to.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
I mean, don't know, Mark, I want to. I've got
a thing. I gotta go.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
You got a thing, all right? Good luck, kids, will
see you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
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