December 22, 2025 • 32 mins
Mark Thompson explores how wellness tech has reshaped holiday gifting, reacting to a The Wall Street Journal article on sleep monitors, health tracking, and even self-cooling mattresses — and why scoring your sleep has become both a lifestyle trend and a subtle flex.As the year winds down, Mark shares a cautionary personal story about his fitness journey, including signing a long-term personal training contract, dealing with injury and life interruptions, and still being financially on the hook. It’s a timely warning before listeners lock themselves into costly New Year’s resolutions.The hour turns serious as Mark covers the latest developments in the Epstein files, playing recent audio of President Trump commenting on the photos and the renewed attention surrounding Bill Clinton.To close, Mark checks in with Andy Riesmeyer about what’s ahead on his show, including a lively conversation on whether the term “podcast” is becoming obsolete — and why KFI listeners should stay tuned.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KMF. I am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
We're expecting rain.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Looks like it's gonna move in, you know, kind of
light rain first, and then heavier rain tomorrow night, and
then it gets heavy and stays heavy through the days
that follow, with Christmas included. It is a it's a
fact that people are looking for different kinds of things
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to give each other through the holiday season, to get
under the Christmas tree, to.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Pass along in the What is it the Santa? What
am I thinking of? Ronner? What am I thinking of?
You know? The Secret Santa? Secret Santa? Thank you, Ray,
You're welcome. Glad I can help.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah, So Secret Santa is just one of the ways
in which their gift exchanges is one short or another.
And they're always tryingns, you know, like they're always tech trends.
There are always various gift trends, and this holidays uson
is no different. So I'm looking at a Wall Street
Journal article and I'll just give you the headlines, and
(01:15):
I think the headline will tell you all you need
to know about the latest trends in gift giving and
I also think that this is going to land with you.
I think there are a lot of people listening to go, yeah,
I'm getting this in my Instagram feed and my Facebook
feed and my TikTok feed and whatever your feed is.
Sleep monitors and poop tests health tracking gifts are the
(01:40):
latest in the hot trend. Gut microbiome test kits that
require a do it yourself poop sample just one of
the ways in which you can get healthier and use
technology and the latest trends you figure out your situation
(02:02):
with wellness. Wellness influencers are everywhere. How is your sleep?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
How?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
What is your sleep score? And these are kind of
like things that are talked about. Are you wearing the
Aura ring? I mean, you know, I was completely talking
into an Ora ring until I looked on Aura and
I saw how expensive it is, and then I thought, wow,
it's a lot of money to be constantly anxious about
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the fact that I'm not getting enough sleep. I know
I'm not getting enough sleep because I'm yawning, and I mean,
You'll look at me and you'll think, wow, that guy
looks incredible and insanely healthy, amazing physical specimen. But the
Aura is going to tell you that I am falling
apart on the inside. So wellness influencers are winning the
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battle on social media and they're a lot of people
going after all these different kinds of ways in which
you can tell how well you're doing. The microbiome tests
which detail the types of bacteria living in your gut,
and then services that use continuous glucose monitoring devices which
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measure blood sugar. This is all stuff that is leading
the way when it comes to gifts. This Christmas, some
are going to get panels of blood tests that examine
everything from hormone levels to thyroid and liver function. I
mean again, the gift is you send them poop and
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they'll send you back how you're doing and those areas
of your life that might need, you know, vitamin support.
It's a membership for regular lab testing. This isn't just
a one off yeah, oh no, You'll be sending your
poop off regularly for an analysis. There's a firm called
function Hells that charges three hundred and sixty five dollars
(04:06):
a year and included in that three sixty five two
rounds of testing. They assess hormone, metabolic and other biomarkers
and again, this is all part of the diagnostics that
are a big part of American life now and modern life.
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So tracking sleep, physical activity, how many footsteps?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I remember coming into iHeart there, and.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
You'd come into meetings when the footstep thing hit and
people would be sitting there or standing there. Some people
would be sitting there. I'd be the ones sitting there
and others are standing there and they're walking in place.
They're like rocking back and forth, and they're saying, I'm
getting my steps in because it looked weird in a
meeting to have somebody, you know, instead of just leaning
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against the wall, they're sort of walking in place, and
they'd say, I'm getting my steps in.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Well.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Again, tracking physical activities and other health metrics is a
big part of what's going on. The mattress sales that
have the they've taken the what is it the sleep?
You know, do you sleep at ten or do you
sleep at an eight or whatever? With mattress essentially you
can dial in what kind of mattress firmness you want.
(05:27):
But these mattresses now are over three thousand dollars and
they track your sleep and they will cool and warm
the bed based on the metrics of your sleep.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Is there a mattress that can administer the poop test?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
You need to combine the two things, Yeah, put in
that's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Because I don't want a brown Christmas.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, well that would really be the it's called eight
Sleep by the way, Ei g h T eight Sleep
that sells this mattress for a little over three thousand bucks.
And what we need is the number two sleeps. Yeah, exactly,
calming when you get it down to a lower number.
Ultra Human is the maker of products including a sleep
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monitor and a smart ring that tracks sleep activity and recovery.
This is apparently a very popular gift this season, and
there have been in past holiday seasons. There are diagnostics
associated with glucose monitoring, and this is all stuff that
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is very much consistent with what's happening as technology and
metrics around technology hits our lifestyle. So the healthier Santa
play is what's really very popular. And the subscription cost
is low typically and the way though, I mean, I'm
literally it could be you know, ten dollars a month
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or five dollars a month, And what they're doing is
they're getting you connected and hooked on what could be
an ongoing way to monitor your health. So I'm gonna
confess to you when we come back what I did
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this year, and it's related to this. It's not a diagnostic,
and there are tons of various diagnostics on physical regimen,
but it's something I did, and I did it like
it's the most cliche thing you could imagine doing right
after the first of the year. And I'm going to
warn you it's more than me just sharing a story.
(07:35):
I'm sharing a warning for you, and I will get
to that next. It's related to a little bit of
this world of again wanting to keep your wellness level
acceptable into the new year. So I share that with
you next, a story and a warning to come.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
You're listening to Tim conwaytoon you're on demand from KF.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I am forty.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I won't be long after you get past Christmas and
you start looking at New Years. Won't be long before
you start making resolutions. And I understand resolutions are somewhat artificial.
I mean, you've picked the date January first to sort
of begin a new life, a new standard you're going
to hold yourself to, whatever it might be. But I
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think that those artificial designations, they work. I mean they
really do. It's like you, all right, on Monday, I'm
going to start such and such, I'm going to stop
such and such, or I'm going to cut down on
such and such. I mean, you know, you need a
designation of some kind. So the artificial designation works. So
I kind of was on board for January first being
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something that would be a big lifestyle change. So here
is my big lifestyle change last year, I mean this
year that we're in right now, that we're finishing my
big lifestyle change on January first of last year or
this year, if you will. But it was like a
last New Year's Eve. Was simple. It was I'm going
to start working out, and I'm going to start working
out three days a week.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Now. Again, if you look at me, I don't look
maybe like I need.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
To work out, but if you look at me, at
me on the inside, I do, you know, and I
you know, I need to get some aerobic stuff. I
need to get weight, you know, pushing some iron. As
the kids say. When I say kids, I'm talking about
the forty five year olds. And I'm committing to this
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is the thinking. It was maybe around January third, okay,
but I'm really committing to it. So I go on
this app, it's called the thumbnail app. It's kind of
where you go to find let's say, a housekeeper or
a landscaper or you know you. And I'm looking for
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a good trainer because I feel as though without a
trainer showing up to the house, I'm not looking to
spend a lot of money. But I'm ready to commit
to a few days a week, so maybe a trainer
will come on board for a little less. And so
I'm going to guarantee three days a week. So again,
there are trainers on there, and they're very good. They
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get right back to you and all that stuff. They're
very communicative. And there was one service that reached out
to me and so I followed up with them, and
it's clearly like a clearing house for trainers. So I
call them and you know, it's not like you're calling
Rudy who's your trainer? And he says, yeah, you know,
(10:38):
I work in the valley and I'd be happy to
come by your place and say no, no, this is
a place where they know a bunch of different Rudies
who are trainers. They ask you what kind of Rudy
you want? You want a trainer that's going to be
working on muscle fitness, you want a stamina, you want flexibility, whatever.
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So I just really want to somebody to show up
to the house three days a week. I was ready
to commit to it, just to kind of get me
back on track, but I really was ready to commit.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
And this is the important part.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
You hit January third with a sense of commitment about
whatever it might be. Now in your case, it might
be you know, I don't know, I'm going to drink
less or not going to drink any more, I'm going
to start reading more.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I'm going to start I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
But in my case, it was really a commitment to
a lifestyle that was going to be informed by hitting
the gym. And when I say the gym, I had
a little in the garage area that has what is
that thing that you go back and forth on runner?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
What is that thing? It's you got a rowing machine? No, no,
it goes into those universal gym helped me. It's not.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
It's not a treadmill. It's a what staremaster?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Not a stare master? What was it? What was it? Angel?
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Elliptical?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Elliptical? Thank you very good elliptical. Now we can play
for the big money in a moment. But so I
have a little of an elliptical machine, I have some weights,
et cetera. So let me get you to what happened.
I said, yeah, I'm ready to commit to three days
a week I need. So you sign a deal with
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this service that will provide a trainer to you at
a cost that was doable for me. I was looking
for a lower cost. I don't go to spend one
hundred dollars an hour. I don't have that kind of
you know, capital to throw at this thing. So they
were going to give me the lower cost trainer, and
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they were going to handle it all as long as
I signed up for this thing. So I sign up,
and I'm very excited about it. And he's terrific. This guy,
Jason is his name. Jason shows up and of course
he looks like a superhero and he's just completely you
know cut, probably a guy in his forties, and he's terrific,
great to talk to, great to train with. But what
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happens to me is that I sustain an injury. Right,
I've got a bad neck, I've got a cervical spine.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Injury, and so I have to take a break from
the training, and.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
There is a lapse in my training, and then other
stuff happens, you know, like people get sick, you got
to fly back eat, but you know, you know, life happens,
and so your commitment to the three times a week
is now interrupted. Only you've committed to it contractually. And
so they are nailing me for a pretty big number
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every month because they're billing me for three days a
week with the trainer, who I'm not seeing anymore right
now because I've got a herniated disk in my neck
and I'm back with my mom who's not doing well.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Whatever.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
So after like the third month of getting nailed on this,
I call them and I say, hey, look, you know
and they said, no, no, no, no, no problem. We'll put you,
but you have committed to this length of time, so
we can put you on a pause, but you will
need to execute the contract, etc. Which is a long
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way of saying, or a short way of saying, or
complicated way of saying, or secretive way of saying, You're
on the hook for this entire amount for the whole year, dude,
So you can tell me you're hurt, you can tell
me that your mom's sick. You can tell me anything
you want, but we're going to get our money for
the whole year. There's your motivation.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
So my warning to you is.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Go with enthusiasm, go with gusto, but go with the
knowledge that if you commit, make sure that you're okay
with that commitment, because I'm still paying off that commitment.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
And the commitment that.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
You had in terms of the gusto that you attack
your wellness with on January third maybe different than the
commitment and gusto you have on June third or October third.
So I give that to you as a word of
caution as I finish my year and I'm still paying
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off my trainer. He's great. Wish I saw him more
and wish I made time for him more. But I've
reverted to the mean. As they often say.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
The Epstein files.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
They were compelled the DOJ was to release them. There
was a vote in Congress, and because they were only
partially released, there are parts of the files that have
been widely redacted. They're parts of the files that have
yet to come There's talk on Capitol Hill that Attorney
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General Pam Bondi should be held in contempt of Congress,
and Donald Trump weighed on it all today.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
You're surprised by the number of photos of Bill Clinton
and the Epstein files, and you can you commit to
their foil? And were you surprised by the number of
photos of Bill Clinton in the Epstein files?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
By the way, you know, in the in the softball
question world, let's ask you a question about Bill Clinton
in the Epstein files to kind of get the ball roll.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
You surprised by the number of photos of Bill Clinton
in the Epstein files, and you can you commit to
their foil? And were you surprised by the number of
photos of Bill Clinton in the Epstein files? And can
you commit to their full release? By the end of
the year, some of the victims were protesting that too
many of them were retacted.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
I know there are a lot of people that are
angry about all of the pictures of other people, you know,
but I think it's terrible. Look, I don't like the
I like Bill Clinton. I've always gotten along with Bill Clinton.
They've been nice to him, He's been nice to me.
We've always gotten along respect him. I hate to see
photos come out of him. But this is what the Democrats,
mostly Democrats and a couple of bad Republicans, are asking for,
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so they give you their photos of me too. Everybody
was friendly with this guy, either friendly or not friendly.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
But then you know he was around.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
He was all over Palm Beach and other places. The
head of Harvard was his best friend, Larry Summers, and
Bill Clint was a friend of his, but everybody was
I actually threw him out of mari A Lago and
as a you know, as a person that was in
mari A Lago, I threw him out of mar A Lagos.
This is mari Alaga. It's the hottest place in I
think it's the hardest place in the world. But it's
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the hottest place in Florida, and.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Everybody would come here.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
He'd come here.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
We actually threw him out.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
But no, I don't like the pictures of Bill Clinton
being shown. I don't like the pictures of other people
being shown. I think it's a terrible thing. I think
Bill clnt he's a big boy, he can handle it.
But you probably have pictures being exposed of other people
that innocently met. Jeffrey Epstein years ago, many years ago,
and they're you know, highly respected bankers and lawyers and others,
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and they'll end up because of guys like Massi, who's
a real low life whose pulls it down to about
nine percent.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
By the way, and by the way, I don't disagree
with Trump on this fact that just because you're on
a flight manifest or you know, you're at a dinner
or something with Jeffrey Epstein or in a picture of
Jeffrey Epstein doesn't necessarily mean in any way that the
stink of Jeffrey Epstein should be on you. So I
really actually think Trump is making a pointer. I mean,
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I think he's meandering around stuff that you know, obviously
this is there are a lot of damning aspects to this.
It's a it's an awful thing that the suppression of
this information has been really the defining feature of it,
you know. But that said, I think he's not wrong
about this point.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
So that innocently met Jeffrey Epstein years ago, many years.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Ago, Yeah, exactly, I think.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
And they are you know, highly respected bankers and lawyers
and others, and they'll end up because of guys like.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I have to say this too, Please dont us understand me.
I mean, if you actually do the deep dive, there
are a bunch of these bankers and others who were
hip deep with Jeffrey Epstein in the awful stuff, and
they were green lighting all kinds of financial deals because
likely they were mobbed up with Epstein with the awful stuff.
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So I don't want to give anybody a get out
of jail free card on this.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
Massy Use a real lowlife whose polls are down.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
To about night Massys the GOP congressman who is a.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Massy Us, a real lowlife whose polls are down to
about nine percent, by the way, And the great state
of Kentucky. If you look at Kentucky, Kentucky is such
a great place.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
But I don't know.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
They've got a couple of people in there that are
very strange in terms of leadership. But Massy's a loser
and he likes it, and that he works with the Democrats.
He's just being used by the Democrats because what this
whole thing is with Epstein is a way of trying
to deflect from the tremendous success that the Republican Party has.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Yeah, so those are the remarks of Donald Trump on
the Epstein file, Sands, I mentioned to you because of
the Pam Bondi reluctance to release these files as was
compelled by Congress, it's being talked about that you could
hold her in contempt of Congress. So I mean, Massi
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is saying this, Look, the DOJ needs to quit protecting
the rich, powerful and politically connected. Not again, he's a
GOP congressperson from Kentucky. So I mean, thousands of documents
were released on Friday, and this has been dragging on
for years. There is a rift within the Republican Party
MAGA supporters, and that's the core of the vote around
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Donald Trump clamoring for full disclosure of these documents, right,
and Trump calling this a hoax at time that was
his first move. This is a democratic hoax, but also
maintained on the stump that he wanted full disclosure, and
he did sign into law this bill that requires full disclosure.
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So to you know, again press the point, you know,
after hoax, there's nothing here, there's no there there. You
had so many people who were in Trump's orbit associated
with cash Battel for example, and you'll remember Patel when
he was a podcaster, said it's all right there. The
FBI can release it any time they want. Well, now
he runs the FBI and he's not releasing it. So again,
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after all other channels were explored, we're now at a
place where he's compelled, it would seem, and those around FBI,
DJ Bondi, even Bongino who is leaving as you know,
and he made it also a centerpiece of what he
was calling for. He's the number two guy at the
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FBI right now, they're compelled to release more.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
So we will see.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
But does it surprise you at all that you know
that it's widely redacted?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
It shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I mean, this was you know, I was talking about
this forever ever since. If you see anything, it'll be
wildly redacted. And that's exactly what we're looking at. So anyway,
that's the update. And those are the Trump's remark the
Trump remarks that he made just in the last hour
or so, so I wanted you to hear them. Mark
Thompson sitting up for Tim Conway Junior. I have a show.
(22:44):
It's on iHeartRadio. It's called the Mark Thompson Show. Yeah,
we didn't spend a long time on the title. Ah,
you're right about that. But it was based on the
radio show which is called Mark Thompson Show, so that's
the reason it's called Mark Thompson.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
It's on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
You can find it a lot of politics, a lot
of news, but you can find it subscribe.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
It is free, which is maybe the best thing about it.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
And that's also on iHeartRadio and on Spotify and you
know all the other places you find good podcasts. By
the way, speaking of podcasts, we may be retiring the
word podcast from the English language, believe it or not.
I'll talk about that a little bit in the following segment,
and we'll also talk to Andy who is in tonight.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Andy Reesmeier's in the in the building, so we'll get
him next as well.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Coming up at seven o'clock. Andy Reesemeyer's just rolled into
the studio. I was before I get too deep into
what you're doing tonight, I wanted to mention because I
didn't mention it tease it.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Then.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Apparently the word podcast is I don't want to say,
being retired, but it's being suggested that the word podcast
has pretty well become meaningless since there's so many different
kinds of things that exist, Like on YouTube there are
clips from late night television there. You know, there are
all these different ways in which you know, presentations and
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shows exist. And they're saying podcasts just doesn't do it anymore,
you know, So they're talking about the move. I mean
this is in some of these media magazines like The Verge,
they're talking about having podcasts essentially replaced by the word show.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Yeah, yeah, which I think we've kind of already done
for a while exactly because a lot of the podcasts
are just rips of shows, right, and especially when you've
got okay, if I talk shows, they become podcasts later.
But I don't think anyone is ever like, hey, go
listen to the podcast unless I don't know what does
Mark Thompson on YouTube? Is that a podcast? Or yeah, right,
well here's the show.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
It's interesting you say this because when people have said,
you know, your podcasts are going, I don't have a podcast.
You've got a show. I do it live every day. Yeah,
then it becomes a podcast, I guess. But I'm on
you know, I'm on live, and I kind of feel
like that's a show.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Right, our ego. I didn't get into this watching Johnny
Carson do a podcast, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
What I mean.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Yeah, he wasn't sitting around like talking about Okay, before
I talk about this next this next guest, let me
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I also feel like this is personal for me because
years ago, when I was doing a show I called
it a show on KTLA. It was on the internet only,
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and it was kind of a loose format where we
were just sitting around yucking it up, and my girlfriend
and I had broken up and she was mad at me,
and then she went on the KTLA social page and accused,
you know, said it was a stupid podcast publicly. So
for me, I just personally, Oh it hurt.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yeah, that is really that's gross.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Isn't it gross?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Really? So are you guys ever been into sense or not? No?
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Yeah, yeah, we we it's it was ugly. It's been
over for a while and I and I think it's
it's best that way. Wow, she doesn't listen.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
I'm not worried.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Yeah, not because she can't. She still has ears.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I get it. She doesn't want to.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Yeah, it's done. She feels it's done. You feel it's done.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Yeah, I mean it's been years, but I think that
You know, when you use podcast as an insult, Yeah,
that's a brand that you remember it was denigrating.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
No, no, no, exactly.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
I well, I can't.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Here's the only thing that would make it worry? Your
little podcast? Yeah? Oh, you know the word little in
the front.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Doesn't it seem indignified for us Hollywood types.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Yeah, I'll say something. I'll sometimes in self deprecation, I'll say,
my little my little show.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
There's something a little embarrassing about Well, little show is
cool because it's like you're saying it about yourself. But
if somebody said, hey, will you come on my podcast,
like I would say, I don't, buddy, I got.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Well that's the you know, that's like the closest thing
to a jury duty summons, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
I also started to hear vodcast, oh, which is its
own video?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah? Own stupid?
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Hell?
Speaker 5 (27:05):
Oh yeah, what's wrong with show? Do we have to
make a thing about it?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Right? So this is what they're saying.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
That show it should supplant podcast, and you should go
with that from now on.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
I'm I'm always gonna talk to you about your show.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
So I was listening to you the other night and
you had shotgun Tom Kelly from k What a voice really.
I have, of course seen him a few times through
the years. I remember one time I saw him, and
I remember it quite clearly, was at Pinks. I think
Pinks was starting a new no it was a media event,
(27:41):
it was appress event, and they were starting some new
I feel like he's got maybe a hot dog named
after him or something, or it might be I don't know.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
But he's completely plausible right.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
He was there, and it's just so so much funny.
Such one of those big, you know, old time radio personalities.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
He is so it's sona one hundred percent through and
through and he's a super nice guy, very gregarious and
obviously like his book is fascinating. By the way, it's called.
All I want to do is play the hits. I'm
not getting paid to promote it, but I do think
it's fun. Because I am a big radio nerd, of
a big TV nerd of a big so caw Media
nerd and if you like that era, if you want
to go back really even to the sixties and seventies
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and then all the way to today, it's such a
fascinating look back at that time, you know, when it
was like the biggest deal on the planet.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Sure to do a radio show, absolutely right. I mean
everyone's listening to radio. And I listened to that conversation
you had with him with interest because I also love
the old jingles. I love man, you know, those the
production elements that the world that they created in that
(28:49):
period sixties and seventies particularly and radio, you're right, was
so pervasive and it was weird too. Just last thing
is that you'd hear it everyone like now there's sort
of you know, they can program for Ralphs, they can
front yeah, yeah, Banana Republic, different music, different stuff. Back
then you had to have the radio on. It was
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that guy, you know. Yeah, you're absolutely right. Also, were
you following me today?
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Because the two places I went were Banana Republican Ralphs,
and I got to the Ralphs parking lot and I
waited for a parking spot. The one in Coldwater in Ventura,
I waited for like ten minutes and I just left
because it's so busy right now the grocery stores.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Yeah, you're crazy. I don't see you waiting for ten
minutes to get into.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
I just I just thought this is an undignified thing.
This is as if somebody said I had a podcast,
and so it's all full sure, and I had to leave.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah, So what's on the big show tonight?
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Katla's Casey Montoya will join us at the top of
the show to talk all about the weather. I know
that you got to get out of here. You were
my first choice to get into the weather conversation, but
I want to give you an opportunity to go see
your family.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Thank you, And I will tell you what I love
about Casey Montoya. She's associated with a lot of animal rescues, yes,
which I really like.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
Yeah, we both have had have had some dealings with
the animal rescue, social compassion and legislation in this city.
And I think it's it's wonderful that she does so
many good things for fixing fidos and you know always
says make sure your pets are safe here for this storm.
Exactly what's your professional opinion about this? You know, because
we make a lot of deals about storms, and I
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know people say, okay, when the TV is freaking out
about storms, we in LA there's always an asterisk there.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Yeah, this first of all, that will likely from what
I'm seeing, come in like tomorrow night. A little later
they see there'll be maybe some light showers before they
call them pre frontal showers. They come in before the front.
But I think the heavy action is tomorrow night. Maybe
Wednesday will be the heaviest train, at least what I'm
seeing now. I will tell you one thing quickly as
we finish up. So I used to work at Channel eleven,
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as you know, and twenty three years is the.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
You know, the weather.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Guy there, and I remember going to the producer and
he was just a wonderful sense of humor and he
this guy, Joe Babin is his name. And I went
to him and uh, I said, so, you know, how
much time do you have for me tonight? And he said, well,
I want do do a hit off the top of
the show because there's rain expected. We'll do like maybe
(31:16):
thirty seconds forty five seconds, and then you know your
normal time in weather. I said, okay. He said, I've
got some weather video for you too. Oh okay, and
then he paused and he said, so get out there
and scare the hell out.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
So you made me think of it, and you did.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
You probably did a great job, you.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Know, but you're right. There's always an asterisk. So I said,
we'll see, but it looks like it will be some
pretty pretty intense rain and it'll be a Wednesday. Probably
the worst rain will be a late Tuesday night Wednesday
into Friday.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
So there you go, all.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
Right, Mark Thompson.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Great to listen to you next, Thanks everybody, Thank you.
Conway kids, we'll see you tomorrow. You are KFI AM
six forty We are live everywhere on iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
We're expecting rain.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Looks like it's gonna move in, you know, kind of
light rain first, and then heavier rain tomorrow night, and
then it gets heavy and stays heavy through the days
that follow, with Christmas included. It is a it's a
fact that people are looking for different kinds of things
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to give each other through the holiday season, to get
under the Christmas tree, to.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Pass along in the What is it the Santa? What
am I thinking of? Ronner? What am I thinking of?
You know? The Secret Santa? Secret Santa? Thank you, Ray,
You're welcome. Glad I can help.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah, So Secret Santa is just one of the ways
in which their gift exchanges is one short or another.
And they're always tryingns, you know, like they're always tech trends.
There are always various gift trends, and this holidays uson
is no different. So I'm looking at a Wall Street
Journal article and I'll just give you the headlines, and
(01:15):
I think the headline will tell you all you need
to know about the latest trends in gift giving and
I also think that this is going to land with you.
I think there are a lot of people listening to go, yeah,
I'm getting this in my Instagram feed and my Facebook
feed and my TikTok feed and whatever your feed is.
Sleep monitors and poop tests health tracking gifts are the
(01:40):
latest in the hot trend. Gut microbiome test kits that
require a do it yourself poop sample just one of
the ways in which you can get healthier and use
technology and the latest trends you figure out your situation
(02:02):
with wellness. Wellness influencers are everywhere. How is your sleep?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
How?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
What is your sleep score? And these are kind of
like things that are talked about. Are you wearing the
Aura ring? I mean, you know, I was completely talking
into an Ora ring until I looked on Aura and
I saw how expensive it is, and then I thought, wow,
it's a lot of money to be constantly anxious about
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the fact that I'm not getting enough sleep. I know
I'm not getting enough sleep because I'm yawning, and I mean,
You'll look at me and you'll think, wow, that guy
looks incredible and insanely healthy, amazing physical specimen. But the
Aura is going to tell you that I am falling
apart on the inside. So wellness influencers are winning the
(02:58):
battle on social media and they're a lot of people
going after all these different kinds of ways in which
you can tell how well you're doing. The microbiome tests
which detail the types of bacteria living in your gut,
and then services that use continuous glucose monitoring devices which
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measure blood sugar. This is all stuff that is leading
the way when it comes to gifts. This Christmas, some
are going to get panels of blood tests that examine
everything from hormone levels to thyroid and liver function. I
mean again, the gift is you send them poop and
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they'll send you back how you're doing and those areas
of your life that might need, you know, vitamin support.
It's a membership for regular lab testing. This isn't just
a one off yeah, oh no, You'll be sending your
poop off regularly for an analysis. There's a firm called
function Hells that charges three hundred and sixty five dollars
(04:06):
a year and included in that three sixty five two
rounds of testing. They assess hormone, metabolic and other biomarkers
and again, this is all part of the diagnostics that
are a big part of American life now and modern life.
(04:28):
So tracking sleep, physical activity, how many footsteps?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I remember coming into iHeart there, and.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
You'd come into meetings when the footstep thing hit and
people would be sitting there or standing there. Some people
would be sitting there. I'd be the ones sitting there
and others are standing there and they're walking in place.
They're like rocking back and forth, and they're saying, I'm
getting my steps in because it looked weird in a
meeting to have somebody, you know, instead of just leaning
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against the wall, they're sort of walking in place, and
they'd say, I'm getting my steps in.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Well.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Again, tracking physical activities and other health metrics is a
big part of what's going on. The mattress sales that
have the they've taken the what is it the sleep?
You know, do you sleep at ten or do you
sleep at an eight or whatever? With mattress essentially you
can dial in what kind of mattress firmness you want.
(05:27):
But these mattresses now are over three thousand dollars and
they track your sleep and they will cool and warm
the bed based on the metrics of your sleep.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Is there a mattress that can administer the poop test?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
You need to combine the two things, Yeah, put in
that's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Because I don't want a brown Christmas.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, well that would really be the it's called eight
Sleep by the way, Ei g h T eight Sleep
that sells this mattress for a little over three thousand bucks.
And what we need is the number two sleeps. Yeah, exactly,
calming when you get it down to a lower number.
Ultra Human is the maker of products including a sleep
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monitor and a smart ring that tracks sleep activity and recovery.
This is apparently a very popular gift this season, and
there have been in past holiday seasons. There are diagnostics
associated with glucose monitoring, and this is all stuff that
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is very much consistent with what's happening as technology and
metrics around technology hits our lifestyle. So the healthier Santa
play is what's really very popular. And the subscription cost
is low typically and the way though, I mean, I'm
literally it could be you know, ten dollars a month
(06:52):
or five dollars a month, And what they're doing is
they're getting you connected and hooked on what could be
an ongoing way to monitor your health. So I'm gonna
confess to you when we come back what I did
(07:12):
this year, and it's related to this. It's not a diagnostic,
and there are tons of various diagnostics on physical regimen,
but it's something I did, and I did it like
it's the most cliche thing you could imagine doing right
after the first of the year. And I'm going to
warn you it's more than me just sharing a story.
(07:35):
I'm sharing a warning for you, and I will get
to that next. It's related to a little bit of
this world of again wanting to keep your wellness level
acceptable into the new year. So I share that with
you next, a story and a warning to come.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
You're listening to Tim conwaytoon you're on demand from KF.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I am forty.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I won't be long after you get past Christmas and
you start looking at New Years. Won't be long before
you start making resolutions. And I understand resolutions are somewhat artificial.
I mean, you've picked the date January first to sort
of begin a new life, a new standard you're going
to hold yourself to, whatever it might be. But I
(08:24):
think that those artificial designations, they work. I mean they
really do. It's like you, all right, on Monday, I'm
going to start such and such, I'm going to stop
such and such, or I'm going to cut down on
such and such. I mean, you know, you need a
designation of some kind. So the artificial designation works. So
I kind of was on board for January first being
(08:47):
something that would be a big lifestyle change. So here
is my big lifestyle change last year, I mean this
year that we're in right now, that we're finishing my
big lifestyle change on January first of last year or
this year, if you will. But it was like a
last New Year's Eve. Was simple. It was I'm going
to start working out, and I'm going to start working
out three days a week.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Now. Again, if you look at me, I don't look
maybe like I need.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
To work out, but if you look at me, at
me on the inside, I do, you know, and I
you know, I need to get some aerobic stuff. I
need to get weight, you know, pushing some iron. As
the kids say. When I say kids, I'm talking about
the forty five year olds. And I'm committing to this
(09:35):
is the thinking. It was maybe around January third, okay,
but I'm really committing to it. So I go on
this app, it's called the thumbnail app. It's kind of
where you go to find let's say, a housekeeper or
a landscaper or you know you. And I'm looking for
(09:57):
a good trainer because I feel as though without a
trainer showing up to the house, I'm not looking to
spend a lot of money. But I'm ready to commit
to a few days a week, so maybe a trainer
will come on board for a little less. And so
I'm going to guarantee three days a week. So again,
there are trainers on there, and they're very good. They
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get right back to you and all that stuff. They're
very communicative. And there was one service that reached out
to me and so I followed up with them, and
it's clearly like a clearing house for trainers. So I
call them and you know, it's not like you're calling
Rudy who's your trainer? And he says, yeah, you know,
(10:38):
I work in the valley and I'd be happy to
come by your place and say no, no, this is
a place where they know a bunch of different Rudies
who are trainers. They ask you what kind of Rudy
you want? You want a trainer that's going to be
working on muscle fitness, you want a stamina, you want flexibility, whatever.
(10:58):
So I just really want to somebody to show up
to the house three days a week. I was ready
to commit to it, just to kind of get me
back on track, but I really was ready to commit.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
And this is the important part.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
You hit January third with a sense of commitment about
whatever it might be. Now in your case, it might
be you know, I don't know, I'm going to drink
less or not going to drink any more, I'm going
to start reading more.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I'm going to start I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
But in my case, it was really a commitment to
a lifestyle that was going to be informed by hitting
the gym. And when I say the gym, I had
a little in the garage area that has what is
that thing that you go back and forth on runner?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
What is that thing? It's you got a rowing machine? No, no,
it goes into those universal gym helped me. It's not.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
It's not a treadmill. It's a what staremaster?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Not a stare master? What was it? What was it? Angel?
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Elliptical?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Elliptical? Thank you very good elliptical. Now we can play
for the big money in a moment. But so I
have a little of an elliptical machine, I have some weights,
et cetera. So let me get you to what happened.
I said, yeah, I'm ready to commit to three days
a week I need. So you sign a deal with
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this service that will provide a trainer to you at
a cost that was doable for me. I was looking
for a lower cost. I don't go to spend one
hundred dollars an hour. I don't have that kind of
you know, capital to throw at this thing. So they
were going to give me the lower cost trainer, and
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they were going to handle it all as long as
I signed up for this thing. So I sign up,
and I'm very excited about it. And he's terrific. This guy,
Jason is his name. Jason shows up and of course
he looks like a superhero and he's just completely you
know cut, probably a guy in his forties, and he's terrific,
great to talk to, great to train with. But what
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happens to me is that I sustain an injury. Right,
I've got a bad neck, I've got a cervical spine.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Injury, and so I have to take a break from
the training, and.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
There is a lapse in my training, and then other
stuff happens, you know, like people get sick, you got
to fly back eat, but you know, you know, life happens,
and so your commitment to the three times a week
is now interrupted. Only you've committed to it contractually. And
so they are nailing me for a pretty big number
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every month because they're billing me for three days a
week with the trainer, who I'm not seeing anymore right
now because I've got a herniated disk in my neck
and I'm back with my mom who's not doing well.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Whatever.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
So after like the third month of getting nailed on this,
I call them and I say, hey, look, you know
and they said, no, no, no, no, no problem. We'll put you,
but you have committed to this length of time, so
we can put you on a pause, but you will
need to execute the contract, etc. Which is a long
(14:15):
way of saying, or a short way of saying, or
complicated way of saying, or secretive way of saying, You're
on the hook for this entire amount for the whole year, dude,
So you can tell me you're hurt, you can tell
me that your mom's sick. You can tell me anything
you want, but we're going to get our money for
the whole year. There's your motivation.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
So my warning to you is.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Go with enthusiasm, go with gusto, but go with the
knowledge that if you commit, make sure that you're okay
with that commitment, because I'm still paying off that commitment.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
And the commitment that.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
You had in terms of the gusto that you attack
your wellness with on January third maybe different than the
commitment and gusto you have on June third or October third.
So I give that to you as a word of
caution as I finish my year and I'm still paying
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off my trainer. He's great. Wish I saw him more
and wish I made time for him more. But I've
reverted to the mean. As they often say.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
The Epstein files.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
They were compelled the DOJ was to release them. There
was a vote in Congress, and because they were only
partially released, there are parts of the files that have
been widely redacted. They're parts of the files that have
yet to come There's talk on Capitol Hill that Attorney
(16:09):
General Pam Bondi should be held in contempt of Congress,
and Donald Trump weighed on it all today.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
You're surprised by the number of photos of Bill Clinton
and the Epstein files, and you can you commit to
their foil? And were you surprised by the number of
photos of Bill Clinton in the Epstein files?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
By the way, you know, in the in the softball
question world, let's ask you a question about Bill Clinton
in the Epstein files to kind of get the ball roll.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
You surprised by the number of photos of Bill Clinton
in the Epstein files, and you can you commit to
their foil? And were you surprised by the number of
photos of Bill Clinton in the Epstein files? And can
you commit to their full release? By the end of
the year, some of the victims were protesting that too
many of them were retacted.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
I know there are a lot of people that are
angry about all of the pictures of other people, you know,
but I think it's terrible. Look, I don't like the
I like Bill Clinton. I've always gotten along with Bill Clinton.
They've been nice to him, He's been nice to me.
We've always gotten along respect him. I hate to see
photos come out of him. But this is what the Democrats,
mostly Democrats and a couple of bad Republicans, are asking for,
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so they give you their photos of me too. Everybody
was friendly with this guy, either friendly or not friendly.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
But then you know he was around.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
He was all over Palm Beach and other places. The
head of Harvard was his best friend, Larry Summers, and
Bill Clint was a friend of his, but everybody was
I actually threw him out of mari A Lago and
as a you know, as a person that was in
mari A Lago, I threw him out of mar A Lagos.
This is mari Alaga. It's the hottest place in I
think it's the hardest place in the world. But it's
(17:45):
the hottest place in Florida, and.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Everybody would come here.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
He'd come here.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
We actually threw him out.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
But no, I don't like the pictures of Bill Clinton
being shown. I don't like the pictures of other people
being shown. I think it's a terrible thing. I think
Bill clnt he's a big boy, he can handle it.
But you probably have pictures being exposed of other people
that innocently met. Jeffrey Epstein years ago, many years ago,
and they're you know, highly respected bankers and lawyers and others,
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and they'll end up because of guys like Massi, who's
a real low life whose pulls it down to about
nine percent.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
By the way, and by the way, I don't disagree
with Trump on this fact that just because you're on
a flight manifest or you know, you're at a dinner
or something with Jeffrey Epstein or in a picture of
Jeffrey Epstein doesn't necessarily mean in any way that the
stink of Jeffrey Epstein should be on you. So I
really actually think Trump is making a pointer. I mean,
(18:44):
I think he's meandering around stuff that you know, obviously
this is there are a lot of damning aspects to this.
It's a it's an awful thing that the suppression of
this information has been really the defining feature of it,
you know. But that said, I think he's not wrong
about this point.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
So that innocently met Jeffrey Epstein years ago, many years.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Ago, Yeah, exactly, I think.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
And they are you know, highly respected bankers and lawyers
and others, and they'll end up because of guys like.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I have to say this too, Please dont us understand me.
I mean, if you actually do the deep dive, there
are a bunch of these bankers and others who were
hip deep with Jeffrey Epstein in the awful stuff, and
they were green lighting all kinds of financial deals because
likely they were mobbed up with Epstein with the awful stuff.
(19:36):
So I don't want to give anybody a get out
of jail free card on this.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
Massy Use a real lowlife whose polls are down.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
To about night Massys the GOP congressman who is a.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Massy Us, a real lowlife whose polls are down to
about nine percent, by the way, And the great state
of Kentucky. If you look at Kentucky, Kentucky is such
a great place.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
But I don't know.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
They've got a couple of people in there that are
very strange in terms of leadership. But Massy's a loser
and he likes it, and that he works with the Democrats.
He's just being used by the Democrats because what this
whole thing is with Epstein is a way of trying
to deflect from the tremendous success that the Republican Party has.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Yeah, so those are the remarks of Donald Trump on
the Epstein file, Sands, I mentioned to you because of
the Pam Bondi reluctance to release these files as was
compelled by Congress, it's being talked about that you could
hold her in contempt of Congress. So I mean, Massi
(20:40):
is saying this, Look, the DOJ needs to quit protecting
the rich, powerful and politically connected. Not again, he's a
GOP congressperson from Kentucky. So I mean, thousands of documents
were released on Friday, and this has been dragging on
for years. There is a rift within the Republican Party
MAGA supporters, and that's the core of the vote around
(21:05):
Donald Trump clamoring for full disclosure of these documents, right,
and Trump calling this a hoax at time that was
his first move. This is a democratic hoax, but also
maintained on the stump that he wanted full disclosure, and
he did sign into law this bill that requires full disclosure.
(21:28):
So to you know, again press the point, you know,
after hoax, there's nothing here, there's no there there. You
had so many people who were in Trump's orbit associated
with cash Battel for example, and you'll remember Patel when
he was a podcaster, said it's all right there. The
FBI can release it any time they want. Well, now
he runs the FBI and he's not releasing it. So again,
(21:53):
after all other channels were explored, we're now at a
place where he's compelled, it would seem, and those around FBI,
DJ Bondi, even Bongino who is leaving as you know,
and he made it also a centerpiece of what he
was calling for. He's the number two guy at the
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FBI right now, they're compelled to release more.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
So we will see.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
But does it surprise you at all that you know
that it's widely redacted?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
It shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I mean, this was you know, I was talking about
this forever ever since. If you see anything, it'll be
wildly redacted. And that's exactly what we're looking at. So anyway,
that's the update. And those are the Trump's remark the
Trump remarks that he made just in the last hour
or so, so I wanted you to hear them. Mark
Thompson sitting up for Tim Conway Junior. I have a show.
(22:44):
It's on iHeartRadio. It's called the Mark Thompson Show. Yeah,
we didn't spend a long time on the title. Ah,
you're right about that. But it was based on the
radio show which is called Mark Thompson Show, so that's
the reason it's called Mark Thompson.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
It's on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
You can find it a lot of politics, a lot
of news, but you can find it subscribe.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
It is free, which is maybe the best thing about it.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
And that's also on iHeartRadio and on Spotify and you
know all the other places you find good podcasts. By
the way, speaking of podcasts, we may be retiring the
word podcast from the English language, believe it or not.
I'll talk about that a little bit in the following segment,
and we'll also talk to Andy who is in tonight.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Andy Reesmeier's in the in the building, so we'll get
him next as well.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Coming up at seven o'clock. Andy Reesemeyer's just rolled into
the studio. I was before I get too deep into
what you're doing tonight, I wanted to mention because I
didn't mention it tease it.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Then.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Apparently the word podcast is I don't want to say,
being retired, but it's being suggested that the word podcast
has pretty well become meaningless since there's so many different
kinds of things that exist, Like on YouTube there are
clips from late night television there. You know, there are
all these different ways in which you know, presentations and
(24:12):
shows exist. And they're saying podcasts just doesn't do it anymore,
you know, So they're talking about the move. I mean
this is in some of these media magazines like The Verge,
they're talking about having podcasts essentially replaced by the word show.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Yeah, yeah, which I think we've kind of already done
for a while exactly because a lot of the podcasts
are just rips of shows, right, and especially when you've
got okay, if I talk shows, they become podcasts later.
But I don't think anyone is ever like, hey, go
listen to the podcast unless I don't know what does
Mark Thompson on YouTube? Is that a podcast? Or yeah, right,
well here's the show.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
It's interesting you say this because when people have said,
you know, your podcasts are going, I don't have a podcast.
You've got a show. I do it live every day. Yeah,
then it becomes a podcast, I guess. But I'm on
you know, I'm on live, and I kind of feel
like that's a show.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Right, our ego. I didn't get into this watching Johnny
Carson do a podcast, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
What I mean.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Yeah, he wasn't sitting around like talking about Okay, before
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I also feel like this is personal for me because
years ago, when I was doing a show I called
it a show on KTLA. It was on the internet only,
(25:34):
and it was kind of a loose format where we
were just sitting around yucking it up, and my girlfriend
and I had broken up and she was mad at me,
and then she went on the KTLA social page and accused,
you know, said it was a stupid podcast publicly. So
for me, I just personally, Oh it hurt.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yeah, that is really that's gross.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Isn't it gross?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Really? So are you guys ever been into sense or not? No?
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Yeah, yeah, we we it's it was ugly. It's been
over for a while and I and I think it's
it's best that way. Wow, she doesn't listen.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
I'm not worried.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Yeah, not because she can't. She still has ears.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I get it. She doesn't want to.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Yeah, it's done. She feels it's done. You feel it's done.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Yeah, I mean it's been years, but I think that
You know, when you use podcast as an insult, Yeah,
that's a brand that you remember it was denigrating.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
No, no, no, exactly.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
I well, I can't.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Here's the only thing that would make it worry? Your
little podcast? Yeah? Oh, you know the word little in
the front.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Doesn't it seem indignified for us Hollywood types.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Yeah, I'll say something. I'll sometimes in self deprecation, I'll say,
my little my little show.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
There's something a little embarrassing about Well, little show is
cool because it's like you're saying it about yourself. But
if somebody said, hey, will you come on my podcast,
like I would say, I don't, buddy, I got.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Well that's the you know, that's like the closest thing
to a jury duty summons, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
I also started to hear vodcast, oh, which is its
own video?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah? Own stupid?
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Hell?
Speaker 5 (27:05):
Oh yeah, what's wrong with show? Do we have to
make a thing about it?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Right? So this is what they're saying.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
That show it should supplant podcast, and you should go
with that from now on.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
I'm I'm always gonna talk to you about your show.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
So I was listening to you the other night and
you had shotgun Tom Kelly from k What a voice really.
I have, of course seen him a few times through
the years. I remember one time I saw him, and
I remember it quite clearly, was at Pinks. I think
Pinks was starting a new no it was a media event,
(27:41):
it was appress event, and they were starting some new
I feel like he's got maybe a hot dog named
after him or something, or it might be I don't know.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
But he's completely plausible right.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
He was there, and it's just so so much funny.
Such one of those big, you know, old time radio personalities.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
He is so it's sona one hundred percent through and
through and he's a super nice guy, very gregarious and
obviously like his book is fascinating. By the way, it's called.
All I want to do is play the hits. I'm
not getting paid to promote it, but I do think
it's fun. Because I am a big radio nerd, of
a big TV nerd of a big so caw Media
nerd and if you like that era, if you want
to go back really even to the sixties and seventies
(28:21):
and then all the way to today, it's such a
fascinating look back at that time, you know, when it
was like the biggest deal on the planet.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Sure to do a radio show, absolutely right. I mean
everyone's listening to radio. And I listened to that conversation
you had with him with interest because I also love
the old jingles. I love man, you know, those the
production elements that the world that they created in that
(28:49):
period sixties and seventies particularly and radio, you're right, was
so pervasive and it was weird too. Just last thing
is that you'd hear it everyone like now there's sort
of you know, they can program for Ralphs, they can
front yeah, yeah, Banana Republic, different music, different stuff. Back
then you had to have the radio on. It was
(29:10):
that guy, you know. Yeah, you're absolutely right. Also, were
you following me today?
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Because the two places I went were Banana Republican Ralphs,
and I got to the Ralphs parking lot and I
waited for a parking spot. The one in Coldwater in Ventura,
I waited for like ten minutes and I just left
because it's so busy right now the grocery stores.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Yeah, you're crazy. I don't see you waiting for ten
minutes to get into.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
I just I just thought this is an undignified thing.
This is as if somebody said I had a podcast,
and so it's all full sure, and I had to leave.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah, So what's on the big show tonight?
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Katla's Casey Montoya will join us at the top of
the show to talk all about the weather. I know
that you got to get out of here. You were
my first choice to get into the weather conversation, but
I want to give you an opportunity to go see
your family.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Thank you, And I will tell you what I love
about Casey Montoya. She's associated with a lot of animal rescues, yes,
which I really like.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
Yeah, we both have had have had some dealings with
the animal rescue, social compassion and legislation in this city.
And I think it's it's wonderful that she does so
many good things for fixing fidos and you know always
says make sure your pets are safe here for this storm.
Exactly what's your professional opinion about this? You know, because
we make a lot of deals about storms, and I
(30:23):
know people say, okay, when the TV is freaking out
about storms, we in LA there's always an asterisk there.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Yeah, this first of all, that will likely from what
I'm seeing, come in like tomorrow night. A little later
they see there'll be maybe some light showers before they
call them pre frontal showers. They come in before the front.
But I think the heavy action is tomorrow night. Maybe
Wednesday will be the heaviest train, at least what I'm
seeing now. I will tell you one thing quickly as
we finish up. So I used to work at Channel eleven,
(30:51):
as you know, and twenty three years is the.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
You know, the weather.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Guy there, and I remember going to the producer and
he was just a wonderful sense of humor and he
this guy, Joe Babin is his name. And I went
to him and uh, I said, so, you know, how
much time do you have for me tonight? And he said, well,
I want do do a hit off the top of
the show because there's rain expected. We'll do like maybe
(31:16):
thirty seconds forty five seconds, and then you know your
normal time in weather. I said, okay. He said, I've
got some weather video for you too. Oh okay, and
then he paused and he said, so get out there
and scare the hell out.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
So you made me think of it, and you did.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
You probably did a great job, you.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Know, but you're right. There's always an asterisk. So I said,
we'll see, but it looks like it will be some
pretty pretty intense rain and it'll be a Wednesday. Probably
the worst rain will be a late Tuesday night Wednesday
into Friday.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
So there you go, all.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
Right, Mark Thompson.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Great to listen to you next, Thanks everybody, Thank you.
Conway kids, we'll see you tomorrow. You are KFI AM
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