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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:21):
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Rick Tittle, powered by the Eighth Side. All right, thank
you for that. Welcome back to the show. Rick Total
with you coast to coast and around the world on
the American Forces Radio Network. Coming up on Thursday the

(00:41):
twenty fourth at the El Portal Theater down in North Hollywood,
it's the Thaliens present the comedy fundraiser Funny for Money,
and it's got a lot of talent there. Joining us
is one of those people who's been on the show before,
and if you're part of my generation, you certainly remember
her from Laughing It is the great Joe and Warley. Joanne,

(01:04):
You're so riotously fun. Do you kind of like it
sometimes feel like it's too much pressure, Like people just
expect you to walk in and just take over the place.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
No, it's pressure not to be able to do that.
That's the pressure, the pressing. It is the hard part.
Doing it is fun and the reward is well, first
of all, not only the money that the people will
be donating when they buy a ticket, but the reward
is the laughter from the people.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Well, were you a shy kid who came out or
were you always look at me? Look at me?

Speaker 2 (01:44):
I was a middle child. I had two older siblings
and two younger ones with you know, a kind of
a gap in between. So I really had to I
call it tap dance to get my attention, because you know,
the youngest one would be the baby of the family
and the older ones, you know, they had more power

(02:07):
and control and I was kind of in the middle.
So I just I'll tell you the first time I
realized I was able to get laughs and how it
could turn things around. I went to a two room schoolhouse,
the first four grades in one and the upper four
grades in the other. And when I went into the
big room, there was one teacher in each room. The

(02:28):
teacher was a man who happened to be missing part
of one of his arms, one of his lower right arm,
was gone and we never found out why. But he
was kind of mean. And that was back when corporal
punishment was allowable in school. So if the boys were
acting up, he would take them out back and give
them a whooping. Okay, And I remember one of the

(02:49):
eighth grade boys was acting up and the teacher said,
very threateningly, don't you get smart with me, which meant
he's due for a whooping. I remember I raised my
hand right away, a lowly fifth grader, and the teacher
said what, And I said, isn't that why we come
to school? To get smart? And everybody laughed, and the

(03:12):
teacher laughed and the kid didn't get a whooping, And
I think, I really it was right in my face.
I realized how powerful laughter can be, how it could
turn a potentially a dreadful situation into laughter. That's good.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
So tell me about Lowell, Indiana, and just think about
how far you come to get to the bright lights
of Hollywood from there.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Well, number one, Lowell was just a farm community, you know,
the town with a main street with not even a
light on it, but one of each thing's one bank,
one you know, one restaurant, one you know store, that
kind of thing, and it now is called a sleep

(04:02):
community because it's outside Chicago, and now with all the
freeways and everything, it's easier for people to live further
away and commute into the big city for their jobs.
But getting out of Lowell was I worked at a
truck stop on Highway forty one and Route two, and

(04:23):
when I was in high school, so I had my
own money, and I saw in a theater arts magazine
there was an ad for apprentice in Summerstock in New
York NIAC New York Pickwick Players, and I sent away
an application for it. Because I had my own money
saved up, I didn't have to ask my parents for it,
and they wanted a letter from your drama teacher. Well,

(04:46):
of course, we didn't have a drama teacher at Lowell High.
We had an English teacher, and I couldn't ask them
to or him to write me a letter of recommendation.
So I mentioned that in my letter of application, and
I included all my credits, all the shows I'd done
in high school, and one was called Christmas Without Patsy,

(05:11):
and I played Patsy, I know, but anyway, they accepted me,
and I went away to Summerstock and from that I
got the summerstock scholarship to come back the next year
and actually get paid, and also a scholarship to college
in Texas. So I went from New York. I mean
I was engaged as a senior in high school. I

(05:34):
was engaged, and I told him I'll be right back.
I'm just going away for the summer. But I went
right from a summerstock to the college in Texas. And
that guy became a NASA when working with the astronat knots. Yeah,
so it's probably good I didn't marry him.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
I want to ask you this too, just as an aside,
because I think you know, in the seventies, I was
a little kid, eight years old, and I always wondered
why Tiny Tim was a celebrity and a tiptoe through
the tulips on the ukulele. He marries ms Vicki, who
was like a high school junior on the Tonight Show.
Why are Rowan and Martin so fascinated with Tiny Tim?

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Because he's funny? It is funny. And when I was
doing the little clubs in Greenwich Village, Tiny Tim was
starting out then with his ukulele, you know, under his arm,
going from club to club and with the long hair
and the high and there was a section on Laughing

(06:38):
called new Talent, and that's where they introduced Tiny Tim
in that particular segment. And new talent is supposed to
be absurdly funny, you know, not really you know, new
talent that would take over the world, but really silly stuff.

(06:59):
And obviously Tiny Tim's brand and what he did was
be I'm going to use the word silly, but there's
there's much more to it than that.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Over the top is.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Another word, right, And did you realize he took a
shower four times a day?

Speaker 3 (07:20):
No?

Speaker 1 (07:20):
Was it necessary or was he just weird?

Speaker 2 (07:22):
No? Evidently it was necessary for me to tell you
to have that information.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Last question for you, when did you stick your finger
in your cheek and go okay?

Speaker 2 (07:35):
When we, you know, Laughing would have those windows we
would open for the joke wall, pop out and do
a joke and pop back, and when they would everybody
would be running. They'd be running the credit, sir say
and on the show tonight, and we'd opened the door
and then the door would stay open while they, you know,
got the rest of the people. And I was in
one of those doors and my arms were out and

(07:55):
I went, oh God, what can I do with my
hands in my arms? And that's when I put him
on my chief Shirley Temple right and it felt good
and it was something to do with my hands they
were right there. Instead of just looking at the camera
and smiling. It was something to do.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Great stuff from John Whorley. You can get tickets go
to Elporteutheater dot com. As I mentioned on Thursday, October
twenty fourth, seven pm, Red Carpet Funny for money. This
is in North Hollywood. John Whorley along with Jen Kover,
Ben Glebe, Jerry Ring, Monique Marvez, Jason Stewart. Lots of
talent there. Joanne. Always love having you on. Great stuff.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, I heard, and Jillian is going to be joining.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
Us, oh the great Angela on the twenty fourth.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah. Now, now tell me about the American Force Network.
Is this have to do with the services?

Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, the American Forces. This is going to one hundred
and seventy seven countries, all our people in uniform.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Well, some people might be interested to know. I'm looking
at right now some letters from my brother when he
was over in Vietnam and he served over there, and
one letter to us said, I know everybody thinks I'm
going to be getting married, but I'm much too young.
I'm not going to be getting married. Three months later,

(09:15):
the next letter, well, I got married. She's wonderful. He
didn't marry over there. He married a lady from the
States that he'd known before he joined.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
All right, well we got to run great stuff l
Porteltheater dot com, Chickens the Great Joanne Worley, Thanks again, Joanne.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
Thanks the great Wick, Thank you, dear, all.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
Right, thank you, ayebe sharp as a whip at eighty seven.
I'm Rick Tittle. Come on back, and here's the pitch.

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now and he is the horse racing guy. But it's

(11:06):
a little light with the ponies, so let's go ahead
and go in the diamond. And uh let's start off
with your mets backs against the wall. This is coming
up here in less than three hours. Flaherty versus Peterson
do the Mets stay alive, Carmine.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
We can only pray. I mean, you know what, the
way the Dodgers are smashing their pitching, it's pretty it's
pretty bad. I gotta get the Dodger's credit. They will
they they hammer that rock. Boy. Let me tell you what.
They really pounded the Mets three of the so forth,
three out of these four games or two out of
these three games, and they're gonna make a three out

(11:45):
of four tonight. Absolutely the series. What we're talking about,
so I mean, and they're pitching stare. I mean to
allow five runs in four games and the last six
pitching outings. I mean, they're just killing it. The four
shut up, four shout and six and six games. The
Mets got two wells yesterday like it was a big deal.
I mean, it's terrible.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
Is this the type of thing as a Mets fan
where you're like, wow, we thought we were done. The
owner was saying, oh, we're only five games out of
the wild card and you stormed through and the great
Alonzo home run at Milwaukee and all you've been through.
Do you say, Wow, this was a successful season or
do you say this sucks? What a waste?

Speaker 3 (12:28):
I can't say it sucks. It's a waste because the
Dodgers were the better team. I mean, they're more suited
to win this thing than the Mets are. But you know,
if you look back at the sixty nine magic, it
seemed like the magic was there. But you know, Alonso's
batting one thirty three in the playoffs right now. I
mean that's not exactly really big. I mean they're not
getting the hitting at all. Their team batting average has

(12:49):
been horrible. You know. Alkanie on the other hand, got
his first hit without a run around base yesterday, so
our two games ago, it's unbelievable. I mean, I don't
think Otani is that guy that they're trying. I think
Judge is as good as Akhani. I think we're poised
to see the twelfth matchup between the Dodgers and the
Yankees and the World Series.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
All right, well, let's take a look at the Guardians,
because I did predict they would win. But what an
absolutely thrilling game with chills and spills, and from the
eighth inning on, it was just an amazing game. Cleveland
does have that kind of magic at the Jake or
Progressive whatever it is now, it's a heel versus Williams.
What do you think.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
Williams is definitely not. The Yankees have a big edge tonight.
If the Yankees win this game, they may not see
Yankee Stadium. They may and they may end this tomorrow. Honestly,
the thingis has me scared. It the way the way
Stanton and Judge are starting to hit the rock a
little bit, the pounding it, you know it. Soto starts

(13:54):
to get warmed up. This this, this could mean, this
could be over city. In the World Series, every game
between the ready Yankees and the Dodgers hit the ball.
I think I think today is crucial for the the Guardians.
If they lose, it's over all.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
Right. Let's go to the grid Iron and we got
a lot of I sound like Trump there. They're great.

Speaker 6 (14:12):
Iron.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
I want to ask you about the Jets and the Steelers. Now,
this is Sunday night football, this is in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh
is four and two, but they're having Russell Wilson to
take all the first team snaps, which is a little
bit weird. And then of course Devanta Adams is now
back with Aaron How do you see this one?

Speaker 3 (14:34):
Walton must win for the Jets. A lost here will
crush their season. But I think they'll win the game.
The Steelers just don't have the offensive weapons. They have
a good defense. I don't think Adams would make a
difference in this particular game. It's golding together for a
couple of days. But I do think the Jets win
the game. I think the Jets are gonna end up
the season eleven and six and we'll make the playoffs.

(14:56):
I mean, I left people know this is super Bowl
or bust, and maybe a bust. I mean, it's it's
kind of ridiculous to think the Jets are going to
be a super Bowl team. Some organizations have clouds over them,
and the Jets seem to be that organization. They just
can't want to get to get it all done. But
I mean, Aaron Rodgers made a few throws the other
night that it was just splendidly hail Mary, which I was.
I couldn't believe McDermid all. The rushed two, but that

(15:19):
one pass that he hit Williams between those two look
like look like a sniper. The way he hit him.
I was unbelievable. So I really think that the Jets
will win the game, and if the Steelers changed the
mojo and they go to Wilson. I think it's crazy,
especially because he's not How good could he be having
been off all this all this time?

Speaker 1 (15:40):
I want to ask you this too, as a New Yorker.
You got that fireman dude with the Jets who was
complaining yesterday that he's being phased out, that they're actually
losing home filled advantage by not showing him on the screen.
I just wonder what the narcissism is. This is the
same guy who about ten years ago completely gave up

(16:01):
his Jets fandom. He officially said I'll never be a
fan anymore, and then he came back. This guy sounds
like a giant pain in the ass. Where do you
guys love the Fireman guy?

Speaker 3 (16:13):
I think he's a giant pain in the You're right
on the same case. Okay, let'st I mean, really, come on,
let's be hon guy's he's a fool. I mean the
whole thing's fool. But you know, the whole the whole
thing about the Jet Aura though, I mean, you know,
when you look, I never thought they should have fired Ryan.
I mean, he did so much with so little. The

(16:33):
Jets had not had the offensive weapons in the past,
and then I got now I gotta worry about some cloud.
It's unbelievable. I'm looking for the Jets to make a
run here and go eleven and six. They don't. They
lose this game. I think Wood he's going to go nuts.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
The AFC has been around for fifty years, they've never
won it. I mean when they went to the Super
Bowl it was the AFL. That's a long time.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
And you know what, It's funny. There's a guy the
most overrated quarterback in the history of the Hall of Fame,
one hundred and seventy five touchdown passes, two hundred and
twenty interceptions. But that's that's the way I look at it.
The Jets were great in Super Bowl three. They pulled
up the amazing upset, and the Jets have been cursed

(17:22):
ever since. So you know, what can you say about
that if you look back over their history. But if
you look at the NFL this year, have you ever
seen worst football being played by certain I mean several
of these teams suck.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
Well, I can tell you something. Yeah, we're gonna get
the early game in London one and five Jags one
in five, Patriots close your eyes. But there's one thing
that makes me sick. And I know I'm in my
fifties now. I didn't play in the NFL. I played
Division two college football. I was a dB. Now not
only does no one wrap up, they try to either
dive at your ankles or now they bump you. They
run into you and they just try to bump into

(17:58):
you and hope you fall down. And whenever I see that,
my I yell at a cloud. I tell kids to
get off my lawn, and I want a boycott football.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
I can't argue with you. I mean, put between that
and the roughing the pastor penalties, I don't know what's worse.
I got to tell you, I give Rogers a lot
of credit that wasn't rough in the pastor and I'm like,
you're no kidding. My job was to sack the quarterback.
You add the ball, I took you down. Penalty rough
in the past. I mean, come on, they should we
just put flags on the guys to play that way.

(18:29):
But you know, the game is not played the way
it should be in my opinion a lot of ways. Fundamentally.
I mean, they're great athletes. I mean, you can't take
that away from him. But my god, I mean, how
did you see? How did Spencer Rattler get in the NFL?
He sucked in college, He's in the NFL playing pro football.
I mean, it's just unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
Do you know he was the before he transferred to
South Carolina, he was the preseason Heisman favorite.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
You know what again, you look at some of the
towns in the NFL and you wonder, really, like I
I mean, I looked around. I mean I look at
the players that got drafted first in the first round
that are starting.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
Me.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
If you think the Broncos look really, if you think
Bolt Knicks is a star right now, they're out of
their mind. I mean they play it looked like it
looked like the Denver Broncos are playing against a high
school senior team, varsity team. I mean that that game
last night was was a disgrace to the NFL. Was horrible.
And and then you and it's and it's not it's

(19:33):
every week We're getting games like the Cowboys last week.
And I got to tell you, Jerry Jones, without question,
he needs to be They got to do the Jerry
Jones or did it to Steinberner. They got to suspend
them for five years and let them, let them build
up the organization. If you remember Steinbrender got got uh
suspended and Jean Michael built up the farm system and
you had you had that fifteen year run of the

(19:53):
Yankee dominance. I mean since one, this is the owner
of the team handle a press conference, not the head coach,
not the players. I mean, I mean football is dollars.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
Fuck, it's bad. We gotta run just as you're getting hot. Carmine,
thanks for your time proagering. Have a great weekend, all right,
and Jillian on the other side, get on back, and
here's the pitch.

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