July 23, 2024 • 25 mins
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Isn't our good friend Jackie Kashin. She is here at
the world famous Punchline, world.
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Famous Armed Forces Entertainment people, world famous.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
That's right, And you're doing a Tuesday Wednesday Thursday run.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I know, which is very weird and kind of nice
because it means that everyone who's come out to see
the sho last night were people who wanted to see me.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
They're fanning.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
They're usually not going what do you want to do?
I don't know, what do you want to do? Do you
want to go see comedy which is a Friday or
Saturday night often, And I could perform for those people.
I have those chops. It'll all work out. But it
is kind of interesting that everyone who came was like
there was there was Actually that's not entirely true, because
there was one woman who as she left, I don't
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know who dragged her there, but she was like, I
liked you, you were good. I am European. And I
was like, who would say, not say that they were
from wherever they were from, but instead she's from the
European Union, you guys.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
And I was like, and I didn't respond fast enough
and she said I am European and then walked out again.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
And this was as I was selling merch, like it
the meeting.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
You should have said, I'm North American, right, yes? And
how is the merch going?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
There were going pretty good. Credio sales are good. My
father always curious, I'm selling a beanie because it's ninety
degrees almost everywhere but here, and I started selling it
last fall and it says made of bees, because.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Right, made of bees.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
There's a joke anyway, there's always a joke with the
merch and so now there's a march. And so get
this though, my dad salesman, aluminum siding, windows, doors, all
the things, eighty seven years old, still work in the
room a little bit. He was like, you're selling beanies.
And then every time I take him anywhere like a
Walmart or a good Will or Danny grocery store, he's like,
(02:28):
see that beanie's dollar ninety nine? Why would anyone buy
one of your beanies? And I'm like, well, their union
made dad, so they got that going for me. He's
like what. And then and they also say made of
bees on.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Them, made of bees. Yes, And you know what we're
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at the punchline tonight and tomorrow. And this is your
birthday week, This is.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
My birthday week. Yesterday was Lori kil Martin's birthday. We
do a podcast together, Laurie and she's been.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
On many times. We were born in sixty.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Five as well as well, and.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
She dated a guy at my high school. We're both
from the East Bay. Oh right, yes, and love Lauri.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, yeah, So yesterday was her birthday and mine's on Saturday.
I'll be in Portland, Oregon or Eugene, Oregon. Jackie Kasha
dot com. Feel free to email me and tell me
where I'll be. It's Jackie jakiehday. So but yeah, I
think it's yeah. I don't know what to do with
the birthday. I'm gone. So my we never did birthday
(05:01):
when I was a kid. We did it when I
was little, and then my dad was like, yeah, you're twelve,
who cares? And uh so my stepmother was like, no,
we could still do it. It's gonna be fine. And but
I will say this, my husband and his mother are
huge birthday people.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And you, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Two years, two years she's been living with us. I
said to my husband about a month and a half ago,
I don't want to give you an ultimatum, and he
almost burst into tears. He was like, please don't give
me an ultimatum. Please don't even use the word ultimatum.
Please don't give me an ultimatum. Or right, I did,
and I would, And all I was gonna say was
(05:43):
that we we get another year of this because I
I don't I'm not an assisted living person.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
That's a big difference between someone who's trying to help
their mom and a mama's boy.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
And he isn't either of those. Well, he is actually
trying to help his mom. But I will say this,
is that the difference for me if when she moved in,
she's just frail and ill and so I don't want
to wipe her ass?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Can I say that on the radio?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, And it.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Doesn't mean an old lover. I don't want anybody to die,
including her, but I would like her to live somewhere
where someone could help her. She watches five or six
hours of television a day, and I think she thinks
she well, she watches like twelve hours of television a day,
but five or six hours of stand up comedy specials aw.
I think she's trying to connect. I find it a
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little triggering. And I was like, but I also have
gotten to see more. I was like, I don't even
know how she found dry Bar. I was like, which
is a YouTube channel?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So she's like, where's that Daniel Slass's accent from.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
You're like, what, like just crazy like deep dives into
and our room. Our house is nine hundred and sixty
six square feet, right, whoa, So it's we're stacked like
firewood in this thing. And so she's in the main
room watching the giant television she brought. So I'm in
the bedroom and I could hear and I'm like, is
that Colin Quinn doing both sites? Are crazy? Joke? I
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can't I can't listen to it.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And I like, maom a little comedy star reference.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, little man, little Yeah, I'm over the original. Yeah,
we got nice work.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
But you don't want her to go to the o R.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
No, I do want her to go to the O R.
I love her dearly. She's a very nice lady. But
it is. It is very funny, and I'm working on
a new genre of stand up comedy called positive mother
in law jokes. Uh, they're slow in coming. I will
say that there.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
So I got a couple I heard and I never
knew this and correct me if you are one. But
I heard because they knocked out all of our doors,
our whole lives, that Jehovah's witnesses don't celebrate birthdays.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Right right right, No, my dad is just a jackass.
Sometimes it's not any cheap, he's cheap. He is very
funny because what he called, he says, you have one birthday.
The rest of it's just the anniversary.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I'm like, you don't want to have to remember anything.
But I will say this hilariously because I have five siblings.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
There's six, and you're the baby right now, I'm the youngest. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
And so probably ten years ago, I called him on
his birthday, like I because I've been alerted by other
people in humanity that birthdays matter and I should call
people who wish the happy birthday. And so I called
him and I said happy birthday. Said you know, I
spent the day with your brother Russ all day. I
spent with him at the church and at the church picnic.
(08:41):
He didn't say happy birthday to me at all. And
I was like, hey, dad, quick question, when's Russ's birthday?
And there was a pause and he goes point taken,
point taken.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Now people should know you're a Milwaukee girl, right right, right.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
We're from a little factory town outside of Milwaukee, South Milwaukee.
It's east. We're not a smart people. We'd mean well
and uh, it's a little fact. It's funny about it
because it's a factory town. It's a Caterpillar factory now,
but when I was a kid, it was called basyrus
Ari and then it got bought by Caterpillar. But now
there is a tiny museum on the second floor of
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what used to be the Officers Club for the basires Are. Uh,
they put a museum for basyros Are for the last
hundred years of what word are you say, cyrus a
b u c e r y cyrus Erie as in
Lake Eurie latcha. Right, we're on Lake Michigan. But for
some reason they must have started it near Gotcha and
(09:39):
I think the guy's name was b Cyrus and so.
But the so that there's a tiny like a floor
of the history of cyrus Are, And my dad's like,
I want to go to that. Even though he never
worked there, everybody in the town worked there. He sold
aluminum siding to everybody. So we go to the museum.
It's on the second floor. My dad. At this point,
(10:00):
I think it's eighty four eighty five years old, a
couple of years ago. The elevator's out, and so we
both look. It's two flights. It's like there's a landing.
It's one flight, but it's like a landing another flight
of stairs, and I look at the stairs. I look
back at him and I was like, you want to
do this, and he goes, I don't want to talk
about it. And so we walk up to the landing
(10:25):
and there is a like a crane model, and he's like,
let's stop and take a look at this piece of art.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I love that. I don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I don't want to talk about it. And then when
we finally get up there, you still at all the
docents who are in their fifties. He's like, you gotta
get that elevator fixed.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Wow, that's young for dozents usually because like if I
go on aircraft carry or something, oh nice, it's all
guys that like served maybe not on that ship, but
they're all like eighty and they just want to get
out of the house.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
They want to get out of the house, and they
and they loved to be back on the ship because
they can see the ship. And yeah, it's funny. My
dad was in the Navy and he was a corman though,
so yeah, so he worked with the Marines, sure, and
he literally did not re up because they were going
to put him on his ship. And I was like,
(11:18):
what happened to the idea when you joined the Navy
that you thought? He was like, I went to Great
Lakes Academy. Uh, and then I was I was. He
was stationed for almost the entire four six years, right,
He was stationed almost the entire time in San Diego
at twenty nine Palms. Yeah, and for like a year
and a half he had a shack on the beach.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Oh well that's probably like Pendleton, right, Yeah, it was
peddleany Yeah, twenty nine Palms was like Joshua Tree, that's right.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
It was in the desert. So he was at twenty
nine Palms and then he was in Pendleton, right, And
and he was like it was the greatest time.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I mean during the Korean War.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
No, No, he was right in between both. He has
nothing if not excellent timing.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
My love.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
My dad was kind of in that little window there too.
He was so he was in the Navy. And so
the war Korean War started and my dad's generation was
too young for World War Two, so they thought, oh,
now I get the fight. And he was eighteen when
it started. He was a senior in high school and
he says, I'm going to join the Marines. And my
grandmother said, go to college one year. Oh, and then
(12:25):
if you still want to be in the Marines, I'll
let you go, Okay. So after one year in college
he was like, I don't want to go now, right.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
It turns out I could have. It was so funny
with all five of my siblings, I think four of
them wanted to join the service, and my dad, I
guess genuinely he said to each of them, you can
just leave town. You don't have to join the service
to get out of town.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
You just leaveh I love that. One more segment with
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Speaker 1 (14:00):
You're listening to the Comedy All Stars Podcast with Rick Tittle,
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back to the show, and we are with Jackie Caation
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down here on Battery Street, downtown San Francisco tonight and
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(14:22):
and I wanted to ask you too, with you have
five older siblings, so as the baby did, did they
basically was it hands off and you could do whatever
you wanted or were you spoiled?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Well, they would insist that I was spoiled. Some of
the things that I was spoiled with though, were the
fact that there was milk in the fridge. I mean,
here's a scoop. My mother died when I was seven, and.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
So yeah, I noticed you weren't mentioning her well.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
And my stepmother married my dad when I was eight.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
She was a great loss to the Austrian army. My stepmother.
There were French corners on the beds, there was charts,
there were grafts. She was amazing and she kind of
my grandmother always. She saved our lives because my mother,
my parents, my father and my mother biological parents. My
mother got pregnant when she was fifteen, wow, sixteen something
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like that. My dad was seventeen. They got married. It
was a romantic moment. They were together for I guess
I was four, So they were together for fourteen years.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Just kept having kids, just kept having kids.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
It was really the only thing they were good at
they got separated and then my mother died. There's an
incredibly dark joke that I will spare your morning listeners.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
No, no, it's bad radio to tease.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Oh there you go, bad radio. You guys. You've heard
of the Irish kabye. My mother, who Irish, was of
Irish descent. But the real Irish gobbie is when she
kills herself at a drug driving accident on Harley Davidson
when you're seven. But here's the good news. I'm from
Milwaukee and it was a Harley davids.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
She didn't kill her. So she died on a Harley.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
You're saying, well, it's right, it was right.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
She didn't.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
It felt like it felt like suicide, but it was.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
No.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
She was on a Harley with her boyfriend and they
flipped off an overpass and got run over on the
highway below. He lived weirdly enough, Harold that was his name,
her boyfriend. But they had a Harley. He had a Harley.
And we're from Milwaukee, and imagine if it had been
a Kawasaki.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Little that's pretty good though.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
That's a good one. It's funny because Karen Coilgaroff. The
first time I told that joke. She was like, could
you tell that joke every time I'm in the room
because I love that.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Oh, No, it's okay. One's okay. Oh, since you're twenty,
Since you're twenty and you're new at this, Yes, I
want to ask about your Yes, your stepmother who was
from the Habsburg Empires.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
The Hobsburg Empire, which is also called Wisconsin, the Deck's
town up. They had Laddish, we had bisyrus Ari.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
How much so she was a disciplinarian that you needed.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yes, because my father very casual. He was a casual guy.
He was My father's a lot like radiation. When we
were children. We never saw him, but he affected all
of our lives.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
In a bad way, in a bad way, in.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Both a good way in a bad way. Gotcha, and
but she they were while my parents were separated, they
both started seeing other people.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Right.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
My mother saw Harold, my father saw Nancy, and they
were living together. Nancy once told me, because she passed
away about ten years ago. But Nancy once told me
that he didn't tell her he had six children. I
was like, what he said, Yeah, we'd been living together
for almost two years and your mother passed away, and
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he comes into the apartment and he goes, all right, well,
I get the kids back, and I was like what
and she said I know. I said what kids? And
he goes my kid. And he's the kind of guy.
My dad is very much the kind of guy who's
like I told you, I have six kids, you know, Terry, Philip, Scott, Russell,
Darla Jackie, the kids and not little. I was seven,
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which went to my oldest brother was seventeen, and Nancy
was twenty six.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Wow, and my dad.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Was thirty five. I think so yeah, so, and then
of course she married him. After that. I was like,
always a good reason not to take her advice. But
and my father had an affair on Nancy. They were
together for twenty five years. He had an affair for
nine years. And when it came out, you know what
my dad had to say about it, he said, not
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nine years in a row. So that's funny. Still a jerk.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Dad, in his very leis a fairwere way. It sounds
like a lady's man.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Oh he's a mover, he's a shaker. He'll work the room.
This is how for a long time, so he used to.
I don't know if he's still doing it. But he'll
go to the grocery store frozen food, dial walk up
to a woman that any woman. It used to just
be twenties and thirties because that was his cutoff. But
I think he's up to sixty now because he's almost ninety.
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But he'll take like a frozen dinner and say is
this enough food for a single man?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Pickup line? And I was like, that's the worst line ever.
He's like, what, I got something else to do?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Sometimes it works, Wow, I used to say, because I
always went for the comedy, even though I'm not a communiant.
I used to say, would you say I'm sweating profusely
or just medium?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
In an effort to open a conversation.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah, just to be a little self deprecating man. Yeah. Yeah.
And then I said you must be from Knoxville because
you're the only ten I see. Now. I didn't say that,
Oh wow, that is a lot I'd say. I thought
I'd throw this in because I'm always bringing the show
back down to motorcycle accidents and things. But you talked
about radiation. I interviewed last year the guy, the actor
(20:12):
that was in Hills Have Eyes and weird science, you know,
kind of with the pointy head and the weird kind
of burnt up face a little bit bless him. Yep,
do you know how he got like that? So his
dad after the war, when unlike the Soviet Union keeping
their thumb down, we picked up West Germany and Japan
and said be our friend, have a great economy, which
(20:34):
was the way to go. And so he's his dad
was in Hiroshima helping out, and as you would say,
his nards got radiated. So he came back and then
had the kid. But his I guess, as you're say
in Wisconsin, his semen was trouble, was radiated.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
He radiated swimmers.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
So Oppenheimer got him right in an indirect way.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Right because we were there to help. But it did
affect the future.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
And my podcast, hashtag Radiated Nerds is on the Goalhanger
Network if you'd like to check it out as well.
So I'm also interested because you're very prolific. How many
albums have you done now?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Well, I have probably I liked. I would say five
and a half, but it's really six because I have
two halves. There's the in the late nineties, I did
a nineteen nineties, you guys, I did a thing where
I recorded an album and then I burned it to
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CD on my computer, and then I would put a
sticker on the CD, and then I bought jewel cases
and I packaged it and I sold it as I
wandered the Earth. And then my first album is actually
that was professionally done. It is called Circus People. And
the last album I did the it is a normal album.
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It's called Staycation because we were all home and by
last name's Casion. So that's five normal albums. So there's
the album Cake is not. My downfall was the one
that I did myself. I put a lot of that
material on my second album, Bread, It's ever going to
be Bread. And then this is what happened after Staycation
came out, probably three years ago. Now Staycation came out,
(22:23):
I did an album exclusive just for serious ExM so.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
As your dad would say, not six in a row,
not six in a row. I love that album.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I'm using that.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
You look very lovely and the bread one when you're
taking it out of the oven whatever.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Oh right, interesting, because I hate that album cover because
that was not I was holding a chicken, which is funny.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Holding a chicken is funny.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
He the label photoshopped a loaf of bread. You know
what that tells you he didn't listen to the album
because that joke is not about bread. It's about the
band Bread.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Oh. I love them. My mom played them incessantly, David Gates.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah, here's so. And then and the album cover I wanted,
which I he took so long to put the album out.
I actually printed another a version of it myself. I
just I just pressed a thousand of with the with
the one I wanted, the cover I wanted, which, by
(23:31):
the way, I just threw away a couple hundred of them.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
And they're who I know, the collectors, like the et
video game and the dump in New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Right. And but here's the weird thing. Because I printed
a thousand of them, I forgot the title track because
I'm not a professional. So I actually have six and
a half albums.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Wow. Yeah, the staycation on everyone's mask with the three
D glasses.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yeah, it's that old three D glass stock footage from
the fifties.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
And then with masks on Jeffrey Tice, you know him,
he's a Colorado comic.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
No Jeffrey probably on the show though, really, so we
just have about thirty seconds. What are people in store
for it the Punchline tomorrow and tomorrow, tonight and tomorrow,
tonight and.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Tomorrow at Punchline, I have thirty minutes that is ready
for my new album no new title and offing. But
I also have thirty minutes I'm working on so brand
new thirty minutes it's not on any of the albums
and thirty minutes. A couple of the clips are on
my reels just because I don't know how to do
marketing and so, but you could hear them finished in person.
(24:39):
Is that something? Anyway? Come to the Punchline Wednesday, Thursday night,
eight pm or go to Jackiecash dot com and figure
out where the heck will be.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Jackie Caation, the pride of both Milwaukee and Van Eys.
Happy birthday, Thank you very much, Happy belated, Thanks for
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Isn't our good friend Jackie Kashin. She is here at
the world famous Punchline, world.
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Famous Armed Forces Entertainment people, world famous.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
That's right, And you're doing a Tuesday Wednesday Thursday run.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I know, which is very weird and kind of nice
because it means that everyone who's come out to see
the sho last night were people who wanted to see me.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
They're fanning.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
They're usually not going what do you want to do?
I don't know, what do you want to do? Do you
want to go see comedy which is a Friday or
Saturday night often, And I could perform for those people.
I have those chops. It'll all work out. But it
is kind of interesting that everyone who came was like
there was there was Actually that's not entirely true, because
there was one woman who as she left, I don't
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know who dragged her there, but she was like, I
liked you, you were good. I am European. And I
was like, who would say, not say that they were
from wherever they were from, but instead she's from the
European Union, you guys.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
And I was like, and I didn't respond fast enough
and she said I am European and then walked out again.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
And this was as I was selling merch, like it
the meeting.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
You should have said, I'm North American, right, yes? And
how is the merch going?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
There were going pretty good. Credio sales are good. My
father always curious, I'm selling a beanie because it's ninety
degrees almost everywhere but here, and I started selling it
last fall and it says made of bees, because.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Right, made of bees.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
There's a joke anyway, there's always a joke with the
merch and so now there's a march. And so get
this though, my dad salesman, aluminum siding, windows, doors, all
the things, eighty seven years old, still work in the
room a little bit. He was like, you're selling beanies.
And then every time I take him anywhere like a
Walmart or a good Will or Danny grocery store, he's like,
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see that beanie's dollar ninety nine? Why would anyone buy
one of your beanies? And I'm like, well, their union
made dad, so they got that going for me. He's
like what. And then and they also say made of
bees on.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Them, made of bees. Yes, And you know what we're
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Jackie Cation. You see her on the twitch dot tv
camera if you're looking, you can see her in person
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at the punchline tonight and tomorrow. And this is your
birthday week, This is.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
My birthday week. Yesterday was Lori kil Martin's birthday. We
do a podcast together, Laurie and she's been.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
On many times. We were born in sixty.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Five as well as well, and.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
She dated a guy at my high school. We're both
from the East Bay. Oh right, yes, and love Lauri.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, yeah, So yesterday was her birthday and mine's on Saturday.
I'll be in Portland, Oregon or Eugene, Oregon. Jackie Kasha
dot com. Feel free to email me and tell me
where I'll be. It's Jackie jakiehday. So but yeah, I
think it's yeah. I don't know what to do with
the birthday. I'm gone. So my we never did birthday
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when I was a kid. We did it when I
was little, and then my dad was like, yeah, you're twelve,
who cares? And uh so my stepmother was like, no,
we could still do it. It's gonna be fine. And but
I will say this, my husband and his mother are
huge birthday people.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And you, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Two years, two years she's been living with us. I
said to my husband about a month and a half ago,
I don't want to give you an ultimatum, and he
almost burst into tears. He was like, please don't give
me an ultimatum. Please don't even use the word ultimatum.
Please don't give me an ultimatum. Or right, I did,
and I would, And all I was gonna say was
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that we we get another year of this because I
I don't I'm not an assisted living person.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
That's a big difference between someone who's trying to help
their mom and a mama's boy.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
And he isn't either of those. Well, he is actually
trying to help his mom. But I will say this,
is that the difference for me if when she moved in,
she's just frail and ill and so I don't want
to wipe her ass?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Can I say that on the radio?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, And it.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Doesn't mean an old lover. I don't want anybody to die,
including her, but I would like her to live somewhere
where someone could help her. She watches five or six
hours of television a day, and I think she thinks
she well, she watches like twelve hours of television a day,
but five or six hours of stand up comedy specials aw.
I think she's trying to connect. I find it a
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little triggering. And I was like, but I also have
gotten to see more. I was like, I don't even
know how she found dry Bar. I was like, which
is a YouTube channel?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So she's like, where's that Daniel Slass's accent from.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
You're like, what, like just crazy like deep dives into
and our room. Our house is nine hundred and sixty
six square feet, right, whoa, So it's we're stacked like
firewood in this thing. And so she's in the main
room watching the giant television she brought. So I'm in
the bedroom and I could hear and I'm like, is
that Colin Quinn doing both sites? Are crazy? Joke? I
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can't I can't listen to it.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And I like, maom a little comedy star reference.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, little man, little Yeah, I'm over the original. Yeah,
we got nice work.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
But you don't want her to go to the o R.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
No, I do want her to go to the O R.
I love her dearly. She's a very nice lady. But
it is. It is very funny, and I'm working on
a new genre of stand up comedy called positive mother
in law jokes. Uh, they're slow in coming. I will
say that there.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
So I got a couple I heard and I never
knew this and correct me if you are one. But
I heard because they knocked out all of our doors,
our whole lives, that Jehovah's witnesses don't celebrate birthdays.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Right right right, No, my dad is just a jackass.
Sometimes it's not any cheap, he's cheap. He is very
funny because what he called, he says, you have one birthday.
The rest of it's just the anniversary.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I'm like, you don't want to have to remember anything.
But I will say this hilariously because I have five siblings.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
There's six, and you're the baby right now, I'm the youngest. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
And so probably ten years ago, I called him on
his birthday, like I because I've been alerted by other
people in humanity that birthdays matter and I should call
people who wish the happy birthday. And so I called
him and I said happy birthday. Said you know, I
spent the day with your brother Russ all day. I
spent with him at the church and at the church picnic.
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He didn't say happy birthday to me at all. And
I was like, hey, dad, quick question, when's Russ's birthday?
And there was a pause and he goes point taken,
point taken.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Now people should know you're a Milwaukee girl, right right, right.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
We're from a little factory town outside of Milwaukee, South Milwaukee.
It's east. We're not a smart people. We'd mean well
and uh, it's a little fact. It's funny about it
because it's a factory town. It's a Caterpillar factory now,
but when I was a kid, it was called basyrus
Ari and then it got bought by Caterpillar. But now
there is a tiny museum on the second floor of
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what used to be the Officers Club for the basires Are. Uh,
they put a museum for basyros Are for the last
hundred years of what word are you say, cyrus a
b u c e r y cyrus Erie as in
Lake Eurie latcha. Right, we're on Lake Michigan. But for
some reason they must have started it near Gotcha and
(09:39):
I think the guy's name was b Cyrus and so.
But the so that there's a tiny like a floor
of the history of cyrus Are, And my dad's like,
I want to go to that. Even though he never
worked there, everybody in the town worked there. He sold
aluminum siding to everybody. So we go to the museum.
It's on the second floor. My dad. At this point,
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I think it's eighty four eighty five years old, a
couple of years ago. The elevator's out, and so we
both look. It's two flights. It's like there's a landing.
It's one flight, but it's like a landing another flight
of stairs, and I look at the stairs. I look
back at him and I was like, you want to
do this, and he goes, I don't want to talk
about it. And so we walk up to the landing
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and there is a like a crane model, and he's like,
let's stop and take a look at this piece of art.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I love that. I don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I don't want to talk about it. And then when
we finally get up there, you still at all the
docents who are in their fifties. He's like, you gotta
get that elevator fixed.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Wow, that's young for dozents usually because like if I
go on aircraft carry or something, oh nice, it's all
guys that like served maybe not on that ship, but
they're all like eighty and they just want to get
out of the house.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
They want to get out of the house, and they
and they loved to be back on the ship because
they can see the ship. And yeah, it's funny. My
dad was in the Navy and he was a corman though,
so yeah, so he worked with the Marines, sure, and
he literally did not re up because they were going
to put him on his ship. And I was like,
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what happened to the idea when you joined the Navy
that you thought? He was like, I went to Great
Lakes Academy. Uh, and then I was I was. He
was stationed for almost the entire four six years, right,
He was stationed almost the entire time in San Diego
at twenty nine Palms. Yeah, and for like a year
and a half he had a shack on the beach.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Oh well that's probably like Pendleton, right, Yeah, it was
peddleany Yeah, twenty nine Palms was like Joshua Tree, that's right.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
It was in the desert. So he was at twenty
nine Palms and then he was in Pendleton, right, And
and he was like it was the greatest time.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I mean during the Korean War.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
No, No, he was right in between both. He has
nothing if not excellent timing.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
My love.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
My dad was kind of in that little window there too.
He was so he was in the Navy. And so
the war Korean War started and my dad's generation was
too young for World War Two, so they thought, oh,
now I get the fight. And he was eighteen when
it started. He was a senior in high school and
he says, I'm going to join the Marines. And my
grandmother said, go to college one year. Oh, and then
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if you still want to be in the Marines, I'll
let you go, Okay. So after one year in college
he was like, I don't want to go now, right.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
It turns out I could have. It was so funny
with all five of my siblings, I think four of
them wanted to join the service, and my dad, I
guess genuinely he said to each of them, you can
just leave town. You don't have to join the service
to get out of town.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
You just leaveh I love that. One more segment with
Jackie kashin You want to ask her question seven eight
play i'mrichtitle, Come on back.
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Speaker 1 (14:00):
You're listening to the Comedy All Stars Podcast with Rick Tittle,
powered by eight Side Network. Thank you for that. Welcome
back to the show, and we are with Jackie Caation
stand up comedians headlining the Punchline world famous Punchline right
down here on Battery Street, downtown San Francisco tonight and
tomorrow eight pm eight pm. Make sure to check it out,
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and I wanted to ask you too, with you have
five older siblings, so as the baby did, did they
basically was it hands off and you could do whatever
you wanted or were you spoiled?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Well, they would insist that I was spoiled. Some of
the things that I was spoiled with though, were the
fact that there was milk in the fridge. I mean,
here's a scoop. My mother died when I was seven, and.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
So yeah, I noticed you weren't mentioning her well.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
And my stepmother married my dad when I was eight.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
She was a great loss to the Austrian army. My stepmother.
There were French corners on the beds, there was charts,
there were grafts. She was amazing and she kind of
my grandmother always. She saved our lives because my mother,
my parents, my father and my mother biological parents. My
mother got pregnant when she was fifteen, wow, sixteen something
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like that. My dad was seventeen. They got married. It
was a romantic moment. They were together for I guess
I was four, So they were together for fourteen years.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Just kept having kids, just kept having kids.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
It was really the only thing they were good at
they got separated and then my mother died. There's an
incredibly dark joke that I will spare your morning listeners.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
No, no, it's bad radio to tease.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Oh there you go, bad radio. You guys. You've heard
of the Irish kabye. My mother, who Irish, was of
Irish descent. But the real Irish gobbie is when she
kills herself at a drug driving accident on Harley Davidson
when you're seven. But here's the good news. I'm from
Milwaukee and it was a Harley davids.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
She didn't kill her. So she died on a Harley.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
You're saying, well, it's right, it was right.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
She didn't.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
It felt like it felt like suicide, but it was.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
No.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
She was on a Harley with her boyfriend and they
flipped off an overpass and got run over on the
highway below. He lived weirdly enough, Harold that was his name,
her boyfriend. But they had a Harley. He had a Harley.
And we're from Milwaukee, and imagine if it had been
a Kawasaki.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Little that's pretty good though.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
That's a good one. It's funny because Karen Coilgaroff. The
first time I told that joke. She was like, could
you tell that joke every time I'm in the room
because I love that.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Oh, No, it's okay. One's okay. Oh, since you're twenty,
Since you're twenty and you're new at this, Yes, I
want to ask about your Yes, your stepmother who was
from the Habsburg Empires.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
The Hobsburg Empire, which is also called Wisconsin, the Deck's
town up. They had Laddish, we had bisyrus Ari.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
How much so she was a disciplinarian that you needed.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yes, because my father very casual. He was a casual guy.
He was My father's a lot like radiation. When we
were children. We never saw him, but he affected all
of our lives.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
In a bad way, in a bad way, in.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Both a good way in a bad way. Gotcha, and
but she they were while my parents were separated, they
both started seeing other people.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Right.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
My mother saw Harold, my father saw Nancy, and they
were living together. Nancy once told me, because she passed
away about ten years ago. But Nancy once told me
that he didn't tell her he had six children. I
was like, what he said, Yeah, we'd been living together
for almost two years and your mother passed away, and
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he comes into the apartment and he goes, all right, well,
I get the kids back, and I was like what
and she said I know. I said what kids? And
he goes my kid. And he's the kind of guy.
My dad is very much the kind of guy who's
like I told you, I have six kids, you know, Terry, Philip, Scott, Russell,
Darla Jackie, the kids and not little. I was seven,
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which went to my oldest brother was seventeen, and Nancy
was twenty six.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Wow, and my dad.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Was thirty five. I think so yeah, so, and then
of course she married him. After that. I was like,
always a good reason not to take her advice. But
and my father had an affair on Nancy. They were
together for twenty five years. He had an affair for
nine years. And when it came out, you know what
my dad had to say about it, he said, not
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nine years in a row. So that's funny. Still a jerk.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Dad, in his very leis a fairwere way. It sounds
like a lady's man.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Oh he's a mover, he's a shaker. He'll work the room.
This is how for a long time, so he used to.
I don't know if he's still doing it. But he'll
go to the grocery store frozen food, dial walk up
to a woman that any woman. It used to just
be twenties and thirties because that was his cutoff. But
I think he's up to sixty now because he's almost ninety.
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But he'll take like a frozen dinner and say is
this enough food for a single man?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Pickup line? And I was like, that's the worst line ever.
He's like, what, I got something else to do?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Sometimes it works, Wow, I used to say, because I
always went for the comedy, even though I'm not a communiant.
I used to say, would you say I'm sweating profusely
or just medium?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
In an effort to open a conversation.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah, just to be a little self deprecating man. Yeah. Yeah.
And then I said you must be from Knoxville because
you're the only ten I see. Now. I didn't say that,
Oh wow, that is a lot I'd say. I thought
I'd throw this in because I'm always bringing the show
back down to motorcycle accidents and things. But you talked
about radiation. I interviewed last year the guy, the actor
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that was in Hills Have Eyes and weird science, you know,
kind of with the pointy head and the weird kind
of burnt up face a little bit bless him. Yep,
do you know how he got like that? So his
dad after the war, when unlike the Soviet Union keeping
their thumb down, we picked up West Germany and Japan
and said be our friend, have a great economy, which
(20:34):
was the way to go. And so he's his dad
was in Hiroshima helping out, and as you would say,
his nards got radiated. So he came back and then
had the kid. But his I guess, as you're say
in Wisconsin, his semen was trouble, was radiated.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
He radiated swimmers.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
So Oppenheimer got him right in an indirect way.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Right because we were there to help. But it did
affect the future.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
And my podcast, hashtag Radiated Nerds is on the Goalhanger
Network if you'd like to check it out as well.
So I'm also interested because you're very prolific. How many
albums have you done now?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Well, I have probably I liked. I would say five
and a half, but it's really six because I have
two halves. There's the in the late nineties, I did
a nineteen nineties, you guys, I did a thing where
I recorded an album and then I burned it to
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CD on my computer, and then I would put a
sticker on the CD, and then I bought jewel cases
and I packaged it and I sold it as I
wandered the Earth. And then my first album is actually
that was professionally done. It is called Circus People. And
the last album I did the it is a normal album.
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It's called Staycation because we were all home and by
last name's Casion. So that's five normal albums. So there's
the album Cake is not. My downfall was the one
that I did myself. I put a lot of that
material on my second album, Bread, It's ever going to
be Bread. And then this is what happened after Staycation
came out, probably three years ago. Now Staycation came out,
(22:23):
I did an album exclusive just for serious ExM so.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
As your dad would say, not six in a row,
not six in a row. I love that album.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I'm using that.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
You look very lovely and the bread one when you're
taking it out of the oven whatever.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Oh right, interesting, because I hate that album cover because
that was not I was holding a chicken, which is funny.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Holding a chicken is funny.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
He the label photoshopped a loaf of bread. You know
what that tells you he didn't listen to the album
because that joke is not about bread. It's about the
band Bread.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Oh. I love them. My mom played them incessantly, David Gates.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah, here's so. And then and the album cover I wanted,
which I he took so long to put the album out.
I actually printed another a version of it myself. I
just I just pressed a thousand of with the with
the one I wanted, the cover I wanted, which, by
(23:31):
the way, I just threw away a couple hundred of them.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
And they're who I know, the collectors, like the et
video game and the dump in New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Right. And but here's the weird thing. Because I printed
a thousand of them, I forgot the title track because
I'm not a professional. So I actually have six and
a half albums.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Wow. Yeah, the staycation on everyone's mask with the three
D glasses.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yeah, it's that old three D glass stock footage from
the fifties.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
And then with masks on Jeffrey Tice, you know him,
he's a Colorado comic.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
No Jeffrey probably on the show though, really, so we
just have about thirty seconds. What are people in store
for it the Punchline tomorrow and tomorrow, tonight and tomorrow,
tonight and.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Tomorrow at Punchline, I have thirty minutes that is ready
for my new album no new title and offing. But
I also have thirty minutes I'm working on so brand
new thirty minutes it's not on any of the albums
and thirty minutes. A couple of the clips are on
my reels just because I don't know how to do
marketing and so, but you could hear them finished in person.
(24:39):
Is that something? Anyway? Come to the Punchline Wednesday, Thursday night,
eight pm or go to Jackiecash dot com and figure
out where the heck will be.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Jackie Caation, the pride of both Milwaukee and Van Eys.
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