January 16, 2025 • 39 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Tom Rhoades, the stand up comedian. He is at the
punchline tonight tomorrow Saturday. You have to make sure to
get down there and check them out. And Tom was
a regular here for years and then there was like
a little five year gap. Was it something I said?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It was? I had you on my podcast, I honored you,
and yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
It was the worst, the worst podcast you ever did, know,
I'm joking. Yeah, you still have the I.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
You know, things got in the way, the pandemic happened.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And you were in Canada a little bit.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Spend a little time in Canada. Sure?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Sure, And how's the pod going? It's good.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I put it out periodically. I stopped. It's hard to
put out a podcast every week, right.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I know you were down to me like I'm running
out of you like the doorman.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I respect for you. I always love coming in here.
And you know you guys always loaded me down with books.
Oh yeah, I have a massive library, so I get excited.
But I come in here. You haven't been in five years,
so you've got quite the selection.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Did you already, like have above your head like twelve
books you picked out already?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
No, I didn't. Haven't looked yet. Oh you know you
saved the dessert for last.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
That's all right, delay gratification.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
You're the main course.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
There we go my I You can go by my
office too. I've got about thousands books in there, and
some really really you have all of them?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Seriously.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah, there's a I love book, massive book on the
fiftieth anniversary of Rush. There's a big, huge book on
I think John Lennon. There's a huge there's a lot
of rock and roll books in there as well.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Cool. Yeah, I was dating that woman from Toronto for
a while. Yeah, and she was she was half my age,
and she was Muslim, and her parents didn't approve of
the relationship, not because of the religious difference, but because
of the age. I can't convert Islam, but I couldn't
convert to being thirty five. But the tricky thing was,
(02:37):
you know, they were from Toronto. Her father was a
big fan of the band Rush. Oh yes, you know,
I'll convert Islam. But I'm not going to pretend did
I like Rush. That's that's too far.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
All right, come on back with today's Tom souya mean
mean probably we got Tom Rhodes in studio, not Tom. Sorry,
I'm Rick Tito. Come on back, all right, Thank you
for that. Welcome back to the show, Rick Tita with
you coast to coast and around the world on America
and Forces Radio Network. I'm really happy to have our
good friend.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Thank you for serving.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yes, Tom Rhoades back with us once again. We missed
him and we were just talking during the break that
we're both voracious readers, but Tom even more than me.
How many books do you have?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Tom I talk about books a lot of my podcasts,
so people have asked me. So I finally counted them
a few months ago. I have two and ninety three books,
and so when I bring new books into my apartment,
I'll make a notation.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
But I read a few years ago that one thousand
books is considered a library, so very good.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I remember during our podcast we got into a lot
of historical talk and we were like one upping each
other and like, well did you know? Like, well did
you know? Yeah, Like, well did you know? That was
pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I think we were talking about historical obsessions. Yeah, a
conversation I like.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
To have with people. Yeah, And I think a lot
of times we get so focused on what we learned
when we were eight years old and we just accepted
and so we espouse these things. Like Joe Liss was
telling me, he goes, he heard that Maine had the
most coastline of any state and California has way more coastline,
but he heard it, so he just thought it was gospel,
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and I'm like, that's true. There are a certain things
like oh, if you swallow gummets stays in your system
for ten years, noundstays in your system for about six hours.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah. Yeah, I read a book a few months ago.
It was about the history of pockets. Fascinating book and
it was written by a woman, and it's.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Written by a kangaroo.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
No, I mean the woman spent years researching this. It's
really incredible, and that it's really kind of a feminist
issue that there's been inequality with women's pockets. Even today,
women's their pockets will be tiny or just like a
fake pocket. And back when women were trying to get
the vote one hundred years ago, they were also demanding
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that they have pockets because a man can have tools
and items. I mean, look at the military, how like
their cool outfits and got all these great little pockets
for different things.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
So it's so funny you point that out because a
friend of mine, she had a skirt and she was like,
oh my gosh, there were pockets.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Got pocket. I love addressing. Yeah, women's sun dresses with
pockets really No.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
They they're ecstatic because they're used to carrying everything in
a purse. They have to bring a bag and as
you know, once they on zip it and throw it in,
it takes twenty minutes to find and they usually don't
we're quit doing gender roles. But they al should take
money and just throw it in and say, you know,
And so they're like, you have crumpled up one hundred
dollars bills and things like that everywhere.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah, women's purses always have crumpled up hundred dollars bills in.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
The Apparently I hang out with this organized female drug dealers.
But yeah, history of pockets. At first, I thought, wow,
we've run out of topics, but that actually is kind
of interesting in that bent, that genderized bent right there.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, uh yeah, I mean, wow, jeez, there's so much
to talk about. How much time do we have?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
We have an hour? Oh great, yeah, well we have
actually the clock's gone. We have forty five minutes now, okay,
all right. So for people who don't remember or are
too young, Tom Rhodes was the guy on Comedy Central.
You had the long hair. Yeah, you were the like
the hot young guy. You ended up going to Holland.
You were like the David Letterman of Holland for what
it did.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
At first, I was on Comedy Central for I was
kind of the face of Comedy Central for a few years,
and then that led up to me having a sitcom
on NBC. It was called Mister Rhodes. I put in a
school teacher, long hair in a stuffy prep school, and
it was kind of your typical Hollywood story. They wouldn't
give me jokes. It wasn't about me. It only lasted
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one year, but I had a truckload of money.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Did you get notes like from oh my God.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
You know the thing I'll never forget that haunts me
is they would do these You do it every day.
The script changes, and you know, someone who's not familiar
with being an actor, you know, you're trying to learn
these lines every day. But so they would do a
run through at the end of the day, so the
jokes that worked would stay in the script. And so
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you do the run through at the end of the
day and it's just the writers and the executive producers
that you're putting on the play for. The writers would
cackle howell like hyenas at their own jokes that they
had written. That fake laugh of a Hollywood writer laughing
at his own joke, so it will stay in the
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script is something that will haunt me forever.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I never even thought of that because I always think
of Larry Sanders with you know Phil in the writer's
room and sitting around with newspapers and they're just taking
all day to write. You know, I need thirty monologue
jokes and then I'll pick six or whatever. But I
never thought about that. Yeah, to get your I know,
like an SNL on I have the Tuesday table read.
(08:01):
They'll try and push it, but laughing fakely at your
own joke.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I mean, it was a good experience. You know. I
lived with a beautiful actress on top of the Hollywood
Hills and all the walls were glass. I had this
unbelievable view of all the lights of Los Angeles, and
all we did was walk around naked, drinking wine from goblets.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
But when the.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Show the Ninth, Henry the Ninth.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
When the show ended, I wasn't as cute without a
show as I was with a show. So then me
and the girl broke up. And then I moved back
to New York City. I had lived there when I
was twenty like a dog broke, and I always swore
if I ever had any money, i'd live in New York.
Was style, So I got a rock star apartment in
New York. And then I also looked at my money
(08:50):
as my NBC artists grant. So I started taking trips
to London and I got them with London and then
that led to that was the key to the international circuit. Sure,
and then I started doing shows around Europe and Asia
and Australia, all over the world. And and then I
I performed in Amsterdam and fell in love with a
(09:11):
Dutch woman and ended up moving there.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
But it's one thing to fall in love with a
Dutch woman and moved to Amsterdam. It's another thing then
to take over Dutch TV like you did.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
How that happened, Well, it was interesting. She was from
a small village in the north of Holland and she
wanted to settle down and have a family, and I
had moved to Amsterdam to party, so she broke up.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
With me Raperbonn Oh wait, now that's in Hamburg, the
Raperbond red light district.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yeah, as you're talking about the you know the they
do have normal women in Holland, and I'm talking about
a sweet little woman from a tiny little village.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah. What's the name of the village.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Vien Hausen, very Drente.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Well that sounds like was that like winehouse?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Vien Housen how and now a tiny little village. Her
parents were school teachers, wonderful people. But anyway, she broke
up with me and I was going to move back
to the United States when these people from this Dutch
television network were looking for an American to host an
American late night talk show. So they had tried it
with Dutch people. It had failed, but they an American
(10:20):
attitude and everything, you know, nice suit, coming out from
behind the curtain, standing on the X, giving your five
to ten minute monologue, sit down banter with my musical sidekick,
you know, do a skit, bring out the first guest.
It was textbook and that was great. It ran for
(10:42):
two years and the brilliance of the show was that
I was a foreigner experiencing Dutch.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Culture and you did it in English.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yeah, and it was all their celebrities could be interviewed
in English, and it was subtitled in Dutch. And everything
was explained to me, you know, the drug laws, the
tall rants of prostitution. You know, I got to cover
the Prime minister debates with a press pass, spend a
day with a Dutch farmer, you know, with wooden shoes, shoveling.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Things, And did you ever say I'd like to go
to Holland Wooden Shoe On that note, let's go to
a break. We will come on back on that dead
joke by your host. But Tom Rhoades, the professional comedian
is here. He's at a punchline. Get on back on
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You're listening to the Comedy All Stars podcast with Rick Tittle,
powered by eight Side Network. He is here Tom Rhodes
Scholars with us and he's up the punchline. He's got
a show tonight, he has two shows tomorrow. He has
two shows on Saturday as well. And did you ever
fill an effenity with the Greek island of Rhodes.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I've been there three times. Well, there you go because
it has my name on it.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
What if it didn't, I would never go there, So
you don't go to tom Lesbos Island.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I have so many beach towels and keychains from the
island of Roads.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah, it's an amazing place.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Oh you said beach tails for a second, like, tell
us more?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Do you want to hear this? The first time I
went to the Island of Rhodes, I was living in
Amsterdam and they still had those travel shops where you know,
you walk by and they show the you know, the
hotel and airfare, like you know, Lisbon, package deal roads,
the package deal things, and so there was like a
package deal for like it was like seven hundred euros
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to fly there and have a hotel for a week.
And there was a jetty on the water in front
of my hotel, and there was this fisherman out there
every night he's fishing, and I thought, I'm gonna go
out there one night. I'm going to go talk to
this guy. I'm going to bring him some beer and
sit with him. So I got there were like two
(14:00):
six packs, and the guy doesn't drink beer. No, it
was actually mythos is the Greek the Budweiser maybe no,
those are those are Dutch beers, but mythos Is brewed
on the island of Oh.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Sorry, you're talking about Rhodes. I was still picturing you
and okay, now you're in roads, okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Uh. And so the guy said he only drank uzo.
So the next night I brought a bottle of uzzo
out and I sat with him, and every time I
would say, like, how long have you been a fisherman.
He would get up. So he goes, I'm not a fisherman.
I come to the sea to relax. God gives me
the fish.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Guy he's really like but at all times he had
five lines in the water and he's studying them like
a master, and constantly. The guy was totally a fisherman.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
So this was like Tuesdays with Mythos exactly. Yeah, you
got a lot of life lessons.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
But I ever liked octopus before this, Now I love octopus.
This guy you would catch octopus, he'd bring it into
restaurants in the in the Rodos city and give it
to them and yeah, it really great.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I'll bet you know this. What the Japanese call octopus taco?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Do they really?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah? T t A k O.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I think let's talk about Japan for a minute.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
In Japan, if you commit suicide by jumping in front
of a train, your family is sent a bill for
disruption of service.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
There's a lot of really ice, cold blooded things about
Japanese culture. I find it really fascinating. But people on
death row in Japan are never told the day they're
going to be executed. M So you wake up you
don't know if it's your last day or and then
(15:55):
in Japan they sell more adult typers than they sell
children to because there's so many older people there.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Wow. Yeah, I just had some people I know who
went to Japan and they the things they were reporting
was that no homeless, everybody's employed.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I call it the Germany of Asia. It's so clean,
it's so orderly. Japanese culture is really fascinating. I haven't
been in a few years. I'm really itching to go.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Back, Like even the most menial of jobs, like just
to tell people go down here to the subway. You
have white gloves. You take great pride in it. And
it's funny because they were told one of the most
rude things you can do in public is to eat
while you're walking.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yes, and I learned that in Tokyo when I was
walking down the street eating Kentucky Fried chicken and flicking
the bones like a hillbilly. It's frowned upon there. But
since we're talking, since it's a sports show, yes, let's
talk about the Henshin Tigers.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Let's talk about them.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
That is, I think the coolest team of the Japanese League.
So that's the they're based in Osaka, and a man
from Japan cuts my hair in Los Angeles and he's
also a fan of the Hens and Tigers. They play
in the oldest stadium wow in the Japanese League. I
think it was built in nineteen thirty five.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
And Babe Ruth played there on an exhibition tour.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
And you know, before the war started.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
My friends went to a Chiba Lata Marines game, which
is Chiba's an area of Tokyo and it's right on
Tokyo Bay. And that's where this guy Roki Sosaki, that's
you know, the hot young pitcher from Japan. He comes
from the Marines.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I just thought, I throw that that's very relevant. Yes, yeah,
and I love the fact that they love baseball so much.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
But we show.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Tigers and a lot of those teams there the but
specifically Koshin Stadium where the Tigers play. The whole stadium
during the game is like one big human organ. They've
got people with white gloves in front of the different
sections and they give hand signals. So based on the
hand signals, everyone knows whether to clap or hum or sing,
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and so the whole game is just this like massive
human organ right, and.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
My friends were saying they weren't allowed to go to
the bleachers because those are like the semi professional like boosters.
Everyone wears the same shirt and they know and to cheer.
But they said, I think it was in the top
of the eighth that to be gentlemanly and to be fair,
that's the visiting team's inning, and that's when they're allowed
to sing and you don't interrupt them. That's their inning.
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But then in the ninth we go back.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I mean, it's fascinating. I've read about this. So like
there they cheer when their team is at bat, but
when the other team is at bat, they remain perfectly silent.
That's chilling.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
It's very well I think because as the culture is
and it's not like I'm a Japanese expert, but the
culture is for the good of the whole and not
the individual. I think this is why they invented karaoke,
a way for them to let loose and just be
a star for five minutes because there's not a lot
of people acting out in public. But I've always thought
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I would love Japan because they love so many things
I love. They love rock and roll, they love baseball,
they love sushi, they love soccer, they love video games,
like all these things. I like, ye and I know
a lot of it on those. One of the things
that MacArthur said was that the baseball leagues Nippon Professional Baseball,
you have to have the American the English name on
the jerseys. And that's still to this day they have
(19:32):
to say the Can you imagine like having all our
baseball teams with Japanese characters on them? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yeah, Oh, I didn't realize that's why it was in English.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
So what is your go to karaoke song?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Well, there are a few creep by Radiohead. I like
because I get into the falsetto Forever in Blue Jeans
by Neil Diamond, just the Way You Look Tonight by
Frank Sinatra. I can show you my phone. They are
about sixty songs that I can do, all right. Yeah,
I'm a little bit of a ham myself. You might
have noticed industry. I'm in noted.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Dear Mama by Tupacs Chords.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
That's my go to really.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yeah, and even though I sell rocks, it feels good
putting money in your mailbox and Highway Star by Deep Purple.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Wow, that is very deep, because normally I think smoke
on the water, that's too easy. Yeah yeah, funk Cord
was running in and out. That's too easy, right, Yeah. Yeah,
it's funny you bring that up because just the other day,
because I followed Tony Iomi from Black Sabbath, he retweeted
(20:44):
a Deep Purple some live song and it actually wasn't
that bad. I always thought they were sort of like
Acord Decord, but they actually seem like they might have
been musicians. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
You know, I'm really into vintage clothing and I like
going to I mean when I travel, I like going
to use bookstores, used record stores, and vintage clothing stores.
And Belgium has got amazing thrift stores and I found
I was just in Holland and Belgium last month doing shows,
I found a Deep Purple concert short sure from like
(21:21):
two thousand and twelve, I think it is, and on
the back all the cities are France, Germany, Switzerland, and
Austria's coat and the woman in and I got it
for like seven euros. Wow, it's like seven bucks. And
I'm like flipping out in the store. I'm like, oh
my god, this is so cool. And the woman who
worked at the store. She goes, yeah, that's that's how
we feel about the American We prefer if it's got
(21:45):
the American cities in the back, like Montgomery, Birmingham, Like
we think that's cool. And I'm like, okay, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah, well, I love I love Belgium, especially Bruges and
Ghent and the castle.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
That's one of my I've never been to Bruges, but
Ghent is one of my favorite places.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
They got the Castle of the Duke's downtown, it's just
right there. I saw an amazing.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Bumf there for the Christmas markets.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Oh how nice.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And uh there's a great hotel in Ghent called eighteen
ninety eight, the post Wow, and it's the former post office,
this massive post office, and it's right on the main
square in Ghent.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
When I had this is probably twenty years ago. But
I had Sean Claude van Dam on the show and
I said, I know you're the muscles from Brussels, but
if you were weekly, you could have been the bruise
from Bruges. And he said, oh, that's a good one.
And then I always I asked him and I had
another guest from Holland on the other day asked him
about Anderlacht, which was the team. So I'm a big
(22:46):
soccer fan, soccer, massive soccer. Yeah, they're in Brussels and
their mascot is a Santa of African heritage, and then
he's holding a doll of himself. He's holding a little
black Santa dol. So I said to Van Dam, I go,
who's that And then he said that it's my father's team.
He probably wouldn't know. And then I asked the other
(23:07):
guy and he goes, I'm a huge Anderlech fan. I go,
who's the black Santa holding a black Santa? And he goes, yeah,
I don't know. So that's still it's a mystery to
their own fans. But he's on the field.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
But is a black Santa because the you know, they've
had the Center Claus in Holland and Belgium. You know
it's is a white Santa Claus, but his helper is
black and he's his name is Black Pete, and people
can try to get rid of that. They think it's
racist because it's not an actual person of African descent.
(23:40):
It's always a white person with blackface. So I was
just in Holland and.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
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You're listening to the Comedy All Stars podcast with Rick Tittle,
powered by eight Side Network. All right, we're with Tom Roads,
stand up comedian TV star. He is at the punchline
of his you know show yesterday was one tonight too
tomorrow and two on Saturday as well, and I had
to cut him off very rudely. I was just telling
them about how I had to cut off Robert Hayes
the other day right before his punchline. But we had
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to pay some bills there. Tom, we left you with
a little bit of a cliffhanger talking about Black Pete.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Yeah, in Holland and Belgium, Santa Claus has got a
black helper named black Pete, but it's not it's always
played by a white person with black face makeup.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
On Al Jolson.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah, so like it's it's you know, been a huge
issue and people find it really racist and they've been
trying to get rid of it. So I have been
dating this woman from Senegal, which is in Africa. If
you're unfamiliar with.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
You probably fluent in French.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I would believe that's our first language. And she speaks
her tribal language of Waloff.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Wow. No, no, I never heard of Walof. Pretty interesting,
while off Astoria got a good solid.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
You are the pun master. So anyway, so we were
in Holland right before Christmas and in Belgium and here's
all this imagery and I was telling her, yeah, this
is you know, this is considered very racist here and
people are actually trying to get rid of the black
peat character. And she goes, why, what's what's the big deal?
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She goes in, in Senegal, comedians do white face all
the time and make fun of white people, and you're
kidding me, And so she pulls up all these videos
of these comedians in Senegal and they've got white face
makeup on and they're like making fun of hell, like goofy.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
So that's totally acceptable. You just can't go the other way. Yeah,
I always thought that was a long way to wait
for the end of the story. No, no, that's good.
And but I remember because France had taken so many
Senegalese players on the national team, like Patrick Vieira and
Jocelyn and Gleman and you at when they were the
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champs in ninety eight. They go to South Korea Japan
opening game, they play Senegal and they lose to Senegal.
That was the biggest victory in the history of Senegalese.
And I'm a Tottenham fanomlnon. We have a guy named
pape Mate Sar who's from Senegal on the team right now,
and it's a big soccer country.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
It's one of the greatest soccer nations of Africa. And
I'm excited because now I have another team to root
for in the World Cup.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
And the kite cooped a freak too. The African couple
of Nations.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Yeah, yeah, I think they've won it three times. I
believe so yeah. I mean, I'm all in with this
woman and with h It's interesting. We were in Brussels.
There was an African bookstore and in the window there
was a poster of Africa with all the natural resources
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like of gold and diamonds and oil, and then where
Senegal is It just said fish, So like there's really
all of Africa all the resources and in Senegal is fish.
So any who, the I'm obsessed with the World Cup.
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I lose my mind when the World Cup is on. Yeah,
and I'm really excited. I have this connection with Senegal.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
That's great. I worked the one here in ninety four.
I went to the one in Germany in two thousand
and six.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yeah, now it's I know more. I wrote for this
newspaper called European Soccer Weekly, which actually sold at Waterstones
in England for a while. And I'm this savant in
that I know more about soccer than most English people do,
which infuriates them because I shouldn't. But ever since, like
the late eighties, it's been my number one thing. I
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don't talk about it too too much here, probably more
than I should.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Okay, well, let's let's get let's get into soccer for
a minute, because I don't. You may recall or not
my mother is from sorry is Argentina?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
I forgot that so well. Congratulations world champion.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Yes, and I was in San Francisco when the World
Cup final happened. That's an interesting story, if if you,
if you have a minute, I I was going through
some difficult things in my life at the time. I
was dating this woman from Toronto and then like she
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met this guy. I was trying to get back together
with this woman for like a year and a half.
She met this guy on vacation in Croatia and that
really messed with me. So that Argentina Croatia match. Had
Argentina lost that match, I would be a different man today,
I swear to God. Because also she was half my age,
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so the guy was younger. So that match was a
youth against the older guy. Messi was thirty six, and
they put this savage nineteen year old savage game. If
you remember this kid, Grandiola or something was his last name, Gavardiol.
He wore a mask, he looked like a monster, and
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he was on top of Messi like every inch.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
He represented that guy.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
He represented that guy. Messi had the greatest match of
his life. He schooled this young chump. He kicked a
goal and then he had an assist to Julean Alvarez,
which I think was the greatest goal of the whole match.
That assisted he had.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
To Alvres came on as a subject game I think
for to score that goal. I love that guy.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
So anyway, so the final against France, I'm okay, I'm
it's it came on at seven am in San Francisco time,
and I was staying at the Pali Hotel, and I
think I'm gonna I'm gonna wake up, have coffee. I'll
watch the match by myself. I'm in the room. It's
not on the television. I'm like, oh my god, what
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how can this not be on television?
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
It was. I don't know if you remember. It was
forty degrees at match time. I remember every detail in Katar,
San Francisco. Oh here, okay, it was cold. I was
just flying back from New York. I barely made it
home to watch the game. So I so when I
lived in San Francisco, I dated. I lived with a
woman from Paris.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
It was a winter World Cup.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Yeah, you're right, it was forty degrees, like the first
hour of the mess. So so I remember Cafe Bastille
is where all these bigs. So it was Argentina versus France.
So I go down to that alley where Cafe.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Bastille is spelden, thank you.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
The place is standing room only, and it's all these
French people and they've all got their faces pa, and
they're singing songs, doing bape and everything. So I'm standing
in the alley. They had o TV in the window.
You couldn't even get into the Cafe Bestille.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
That's where you watched it.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Freezing in an alley by myself. I watched the final
and I'm and all these French people would come out
to smoke I had. I had my Argentina jersey under
a winter coat. So they just come out and they're
all like, they're like, you know, saying they think I'm French.
So I just would say, like the one French word
I knew, I'd go on qua which and it was.
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It was the greatest final of all time.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
And then when when Messi scored, you'd go married.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
No. So I'm rooting for Argentina. So the moment Argentina
won the my cousins and Argentina called me on FaceTime.
They wanted to share this moment with me.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
No one else in my family and not stressed this enough.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
I was cold and alone in an alley in San Francisco,
and my cousins wanted to share this moment with me.
They called me from Argentina and they don't speak English,
I don't speak Spanish. Posts we all just start jumping.
I unzipped my coat and I show them I have
my Argentina jersey on him. We're all jumping up and down,
going Argentina, Argentina, Argentina. At that moment, all of these
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French sad French people come out of the the Cafe Bestile,
and I realized, that's one of my favorite things about
the World Cup is seeing people who have painted their
country's flag on their face cry. Nothing greater than seeing
a tear drop going through.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
That's a great story. I have the VHS highlights of
the eighty six World Cup where they beat Germany. They
got two up to nothing and then Germany tied, and
I was rooting for West Germany at the time as
part of my heritage. And then Borachaga went past Tony
Schumacher and they won the World Cup.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
But you've retained these names.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
In the locker room, they start going Argentina, keepo campon, Argentina,
and keep camp beyond. And they turned around and three
guys they're wearing their jersey. Three guys are bottomless, and
their knobs are going blink blink, blink up and down.
And I'm like, that's the difference between Americans and everybody else.
We wouldn't have three guys bottomless and everyone has their
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arms around them. It'd be like ew yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
But anyway, I had this moment, so I went. So
two months later I went to Argentina and spent a
month there. Wow, and it was great there. You know,
they've had a really difficult time economically and just everything
for the last you know, twenty thirty years, and there's
the whole country was just still in this euphoria that's high.
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They were in such a good mood. I bought all
of these, you know, every championship thing I could get
my hands on, Memorabilian stuff. But my family in the
United States all serious, hardcore Christians, constantly quoting scriptures, and
my family in Argentina, none of them are very religious.
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None of them have crosses in their homes. But soccer
is their religion.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Of course, they're.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
All fanatical, and they're all each have their own favorite team.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Are they like Boca Juniors who play mostly.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
River Plate, Yeah, but a lot of them are in Laplata,
so as Studiantes. Yeah, so half a Studyontes, half river
Plate of one one Boca Junior's one Independiente. But it
was very important for each of them that I would
become a fan of their team. So my my cousin
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Karina took me to see a Studionte's. Another cousin took
me to see the Boca Juniors. That's the Choate the
Chocolate box man. Uh. And after that, I'm a Boca
Junior fan all the way. You can't go to the
Bombonera not become a Boca Juniors fan.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
I heard the story that Matt Damon his wife's Argentine
and he said he was down there and he said
to his father in law. He goes, hey, uh, you
know it was a big Boca Juniors fan. And he goes, hey,
I thought maybe we'd go to the soccer game and
he said it's father got a very stern look and
he said. He goes, okay, but no women and children,
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like he said, it's going to be rough.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's true. You don't see many women there.
So then that sets me up perfectly for this story.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
So I got two minutes.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
My cousin Jugo likes Gymnasia, so he took me to
see Gymnasia. He gave me a jersey to wear, but
it was kind of a it was a really cheap
polyester and it's February so it's you know, middle of summer.
There was really hot, so we go at halftime. It's
really hot. It's summer hot. So I took off this scratchy,
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cheap polyester jersey and there's no chairs. You know, it's
all your starting. You know, the cement steps is the stadium.
So at halftime, I took off the jersey and I
sat down. There was a twenty five year old woman
standing behind me, and she sneezed and this massive spray
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of sneeze went all over my back and my I
mean like it was comical, how it just completely sprayed
my entire back and I looked back at her, and
this woman did not apologize to me. And after the match,
I told my cousin Hugo, I said, I could never
be a fan of your team if your fans are
so low class I sneeze on someone and don't apologize.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
That's once again it's Marya. I'll get this in in
thirty seconds. I was riding in a bus in Rome
when I was eighteen, and a kid was sitting with
his butt on the railing and his butt was in
my face and he had the biggest fart of all
time in my face, well, and I got up. I
was like eighteen, Yeah, I go, what the f man
the hell you doing? And this kid looked around like
he's not He's surely not yelling at me because I
didn't do anything. Yeah, to them farting in somebody's face,
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it's perfectly good, USA, USA, Come on back lift Tom Rhodes.
You're listening to the Comedy All Stars Podcast with Rick Tittle,
powered by eight Side Network. All Right, a couple of
minutes left with the Great Tom Rhodes. Who's at the
punchline tonight? Two shows tomorrow, two shows on Saturday. I
wanted to ask you real quick about mister Rhodes. Yeah,
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which was on NBC in ninety six, ninety seven. I
know Stephen Tobolowski, Tobolovsky, Tobolowski, Tobolowski. If you see him,
you would recognize him. We all know Ron Glass, He's
from his Barney Miller dives. What's going on with Farah Fork?
Speaker 2 (38:14):
She died two years ago?
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Yeah, why did I bring it lung cancer?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Ah? Because she was on Wings?
Speaker 2 (38:22):
She was on Wings?
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Yeah? Now was she was your wife?
Speaker 2 (38:25):
She was my love interest on the show. Yeah, I was.
I stayed friends with Ron Glass. He died about ten
years ago. What beautiful man. He was in Barney Miller, right,
and Stephen Tobolowski. I've stayed really good friends with him.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
He was Ned Ryerson in Very Good Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
I mean he was in Mississippi Burning eighty six. That
was so long ago. The guy's been in so many
classic films and television shows. I know, he's been on
the Goldbergs wow for like the last ten years. One
of the greatest character actors of all time.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Well, one of the greatest people of all time and
comedians as I have ten seconds left.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
But you know what he always says is when bad
things happen, you should celebrate because the good times bring
their own champagne. That's something that I.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Look very karmic. Yeah. Well, it's always darkest before the dawn,
isn't it. That's right, Rick, It's so great. See I know.
Will you not wait five years?
Speaker 2 (39:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (39:32):
No, I'll be back, Okay, yeah, because I've been sitting
here more than twenty years, I guess I'm not going.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Any I love you and Darren and you guys load
me down with books and love and respect.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
See Tom at the punchline. I'm a Tittle, come on back.
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If you're watching on twitch dot tv and the little
high Deff camera there. I've swung it around to our guest,
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Tom Rhoades, the stand up comedian. He is at the
punchline tonight tomorrow Saturday. You have to make sure to
get down there and check them out. And Tom was
a regular here for years and then there was like
a little five year gap. Was it something I said?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It was? I had you on my podcast, I honored you,
and yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
It was the worst, the worst podcast you ever did, know,
I'm joking. Yeah, you still have the I.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
You know, things got in the way, the pandemic happened.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And you were in Canada a little bit.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Spend a little time in Canada. Sure?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Sure, And how's the pod going? It's good.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I put it out periodically. I stopped. It's hard to
put out a podcast every week, right.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I know you were down to me like I'm running
out of you like the doorman.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I respect for you. I always love coming in here.
And you know you guys always loaded me down with books.
Oh yeah, I have a massive library, so I get excited.
But I come in here. You haven't been in five years,
so you've got quite the selection.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Did you already, like have above your head like twelve
books you picked out already?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
No, I didn't. Haven't looked yet. Oh you know you
saved the dessert for last.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
That's all right, delay gratification.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
You're the main course.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
There we go my I You can go by my
office too. I've got about thousands books in there, and
some really really you have all of them?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Seriously.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah, there's a I love book, massive book on the
fiftieth anniversary of Rush. There's a big, huge book on
I think John Lennon. There's a huge there's a lot
of rock and roll books in there as well.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Cool. Yeah, I was dating that woman from Toronto for
a while. Yeah, and she was she was half my age,
and she was Muslim, and her parents didn't approve of
the relationship, not because of the religious difference, but because
of the age. I can't convert Islam, but I couldn't
convert to being thirty five. But the tricky thing was,
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you know, they were from Toronto. Her father was a
big fan of the band Rush. Oh yes, you know,
I'll convert Islam. But I'm not going to pretend did
I like Rush. That's that's too far.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
All right, come on back with today's Tom souya mean
mean probably we got Tom Rhodes in studio, not Tom. Sorry,
I'm Rick Tito. Come on back, all right, Thank you
for that. Welcome back to the show, Rick Tita with
you coast to coast and around the world on America
and Forces Radio Network. I'm really happy to have our
good friend.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Thank you for serving.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yes, Tom Rhoades back with us once again. We missed
him and we were just talking during the break that
we're both voracious readers, but Tom even more than me.
How many books do you have?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Tom I talk about books a lot of my podcasts,
so people have asked me. So I finally counted them
a few months ago. I have two and ninety three books,
and so when I bring new books into my apartment,
I'll make a notation.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
But I read a few years ago that one thousand
books is considered a library, so very good.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I remember during our podcast we got into a lot
of historical talk and we were like one upping each
other and like, well did you know? Like, well did
you know? Yeah, Like, well did you know? That was
pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I think we were talking about historical obsessions. Yeah, a
conversation I like.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
To have with people. Yeah, And I think a lot
of times we get so focused on what we learned
when we were eight years old and we just accepted
and so we espouse these things. Like Joe Liss was
telling me, he goes, he heard that Maine had the
most coastline of any state and California has way more coastline,
but he heard it, so he just thought it was gospel,
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and I'm like, that's true. There are a certain things
like oh, if you swallow gummets stays in your system
for ten years, noundstays in your system for about six hours.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah. Yeah, I read a book a few months ago.
It was about the history of pockets. Fascinating book and
it was written by a woman, and it's.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Written by a kangaroo.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
No, I mean the woman spent years researching this. It's
really incredible, and that it's really kind of a feminist
issue that there's been inequality with women's pockets. Even today,
women's their pockets will be tiny or just like a
fake pocket. And back when women were trying to get
the vote one hundred years ago, they were also demanding
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that they have pockets because a man can have tools
and items. I mean, look at the military, how like
their cool outfits and got all these great little pockets
for different things.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
So it's so funny you point that out because a
friend of mine, she had a skirt and she was like,
oh my gosh, there were pockets.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Got pocket. I love addressing. Yeah, women's sun dresses with
pockets really No.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
They they're ecstatic because they're used to carrying everything in
a purse. They have to bring a bag and as
you know, once they on zip it and throw it in,
it takes twenty minutes to find and they usually don't
we're quit doing gender roles. But they al should take
money and just throw it in and say, you know,
And so they're like, you have crumpled up one hundred
dollars bills and things like that everywhere.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah, women's purses always have crumpled up hundred dollars bills in.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
The Apparently I hang out with this organized female drug dealers.
But yeah, history of pockets. At first, I thought, wow,
we've run out of topics, but that actually is kind
of interesting in that bent, that genderized bent right there.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, uh yeah, I mean, wow, jeez, there's so much
to talk about. How much time do we have?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
We have an hour? Oh great, yeah, well we have
actually the clock's gone. We have forty five minutes now, okay,
all right. So for people who don't remember or are
too young, Tom Rhodes was the guy on Comedy Central.
You had the long hair. Yeah, you were the like
the hot young guy. You ended up going to Holland.
You were like the David Letterman of Holland for what
it did.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
At first, I was on Comedy Central for I was
kind of the face of Comedy Central for a few years,
and then that led up to me having a sitcom
on NBC. It was called Mister Rhodes. I put in a
school teacher, long hair in a stuffy prep school, and
it was kind of your typical Hollywood story. They wouldn't
give me jokes. It wasn't about me. It only lasted
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one year, but I had a truckload of money.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Did you get notes like from oh my God.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
You know the thing I'll never forget that haunts me
is they would do these You do it every day.
The script changes, and you know, someone who's not familiar
with being an actor, you know, you're trying to learn
these lines every day. But so they would do a
run through at the end of the day, so the
jokes that worked would stay in the script. And so
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you do the run through at the end of the
day and it's just the writers and the executive producers
that you're putting on the play for. The writers would
cackle howell like hyenas at their own jokes that they
had written. That fake laugh of a Hollywood writer laughing
at his own joke, so it will stay in the
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script is something that will haunt me forever.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I never even thought of that because I always think
of Larry Sanders with you know Phil in the writer's
room and sitting around with newspapers and they're just taking
all day to write. You know, I need thirty monologue
jokes and then I'll pick six or whatever. But I
never thought about that. Yeah, to get your I know,
like an SNL on I have the Tuesday table read.
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They'll try and push it, but laughing fakely at your
own joke.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I mean, it was a good experience. You know. I
lived with a beautiful actress on top of the Hollywood
Hills and all the walls were glass. I had this
unbelievable view of all the lights of Los Angeles, and
all we did was walk around naked, drinking wine from goblets.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
But when the.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Show the Ninth, Henry the Ninth.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
When the show ended, I wasn't as cute without a
show as I was with a show. So then me
and the girl broke up. And then I moved back
to New York City. I had lived there when I
was twenty like a dog broke, and I always swore
if I ever had any money, i'd live in New York.
Was style, So I got a rock star apartment in
New York. And then I also looked at my money
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as my NBC artists grant. So I started taking trips
to London and I got them with London and then
that led to that was the key to the international circuit. Sure,
and then I started doing shows around Europe and Asia
and Australia, all over the world. And and then I
I performed in Amsterdam and fell in love with a
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Dutch woman and ended up moving there.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
But it's one thing to fall in love with a
Dutch woman and moved to Amsterdam. It's another thing then
to take over Dutch TV like you did.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
How that happened, Well, it was interesting. She was from
a small village in the north of Holland and she
wanted to settle down and have a family, and I
had moved to Amsterdam to party, so she broke up.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
With me Raperbonn Oh wait, now that's in Hamburg, the
Raperbond red light district.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yeah, as you're talking about the you know the they
do have normal women in Holland, and I'm talking about
a sweet little woman from a tiny little village.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah. What's the name of the village.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Vien Hausen, very Drente.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Well that sounds like was that like winehouse?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Vien Housen how and now a tiny little village. Her
parents were school teachers, wonderful people. But anyway, she broke
up with me and I was going to move back
to the United States when these people from this Dutch
television network were looking for an American to host an
American late night talk show. So they had tried it
with Dutch people. It had failed, but they an American
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attitude and everything, you know, nice suit, coming out from
behind the curtain, standing on the X, giving your five
to ten minute monologue, sit down banter with my musical sidekick,
you know, do a skit, bring out the first guest.
It was textbook and that was great. It ran for
(10:42):
two years and the brilliance of the show was that
I was a foreigner experiencing Dutch.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Culture and you did it in English.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yeah, and it was all their celebrities could be interviewed
in English, and it was subtitled in Dutch. And everything
was explained to me, you know, the drug laws, the
tall rants of prostitution. You know, I got to cover
the Prime minister debates with a press pass, spend a
day with a Dutch farmer, you know, with wooden shoes, shoveling.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Things, And did you ever say I'd like to go
to Holland Wooden Shoe On that note, let's go to
a break. We will come on back on that dead
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You're listening to the Comedy All Stars podcast with Rick Tittle,
powered by eight Side Network. He is here Tom Rhodes
Scholars with us and he's up the punchline. He's got
a show tonight, he has two shows tomorrow. He has
two shows on Saturday as well. And did you ever
fill an effenity with the Greek island of Rhodes.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I've been there three times. Well, there you go because
it has my name on it.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
What if it didn't, I would never go there, So
you don't go to tom Lesbos Island.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I have so many beach towels and keychains from the
island of Roads.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah, it's an amazing place.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Oh you said beach tails for a second, like, tell
us more?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Do you want to hear this? The first time I
went to the Island of Rhodes, I was living in
Amsterdam and they still had those travel shops where you know,
you walk by and they show the you know, the
hotel and airfare, like you know, Lisbon, package deal roads,
the package deal things, and so there was like a
package deal for like it was like seven hundred euros
(13:38):
to fly there and have a hotel for a week.
And there was a jetty on the water in front
of my hotel, and there was this fisherman out there
every night he's fishing, and I thought, I'm gonna go
out there one night. I'm going to go talk to
this guy. I'm going to bring him some beer and
sit with him. So I got there were like two
(14:00):
six packs, and the guy doesn't drink beer. No, it
was actually mythos is the Greek the Budweiser maybe no,
those are those are Dutch beers, but mythos Is brewed
on the island of Oh.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Sorry, you're talking about Rhodes. I was still picturing you
and okay, now you're in roads, okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Uh. And so the guy said he only drank uzo.
So the next night I brought a bottle of uzzo
out and I sat with him, and every time I
would say, like, how long have you been a fisherman.
He would get up. So he goes, I'm not a fisherman.
I come to the sea to relax. God gives me
the fish.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Guy he's really like but at all times he had
five lines in the water and he's studying them like
a master, and constantly. The guy was totally a fisherman.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
So this was like Tuesdays with Mythos exactly. Yeah, you
got a lot of life lessons.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
But I ever liked octopus before this, Now I love octopus.
This guy you would catch octopus, he'd bring it into
restaurants in the in the Rodos city and give it
to them and yeah, it really great.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I'll bet you know this. What the Japanese call octopus taco?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Do they really?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah? T t A k O.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I think let's talk about Japan for a minute.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
In Japan, if you commit suicide by jumping in front
of a train, your family is sent a bill for
disruption of service.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
There's a lot of really ice, cold blooded things about
Japanese culture. I find it really fascinating. But people on
death row in Japan are never told the day they're
going to be executed. M So you wake up you
don't know if it's your last day or and then
(15:55):
in Japan they sell more adult typers than they sell
children to because there's so many older people there.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Wow. Yeah, I just had some people I know who
went to Japan and they the things they were reporting
was that no homeless, everybody's employed.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I call it the Germany of Asia. It's so clean,
it's so orderly. Japanese culture is really fascinating. I haven't
been in a few years. I'm really itching to go.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Back, Like even the most menial of jobs, like just
to tell people go down here to the subway. You
have white gloves. You take great pride in it. And
it's funny because they were told one of the most
rude things you can do in public is to eat
while you're walking.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yes, and I learned that in Tokyo when I was
walking down the street eating Kentucky Fried chicken and flicking
the bones like a hillbilly. It's frowned upon there. But
since we're talking, since it's a sports show, yes, let's
talk about the Henshin Tigers.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Let's talk about them.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
That is, I think the coolest team of the Japanese League.
So that's the they're based in Osaka, and a man
from Japan cuts my hair in Los Angeles and he's
also a fan of the Hens and Tigers. They play
in the oldest stadium wow in the Japanese League. I
think it was built in nineteen thirty five.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
And Babe Ruth played there on an exhibition tour.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
And you know, before the war started.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
My friends went to a Chiba Lata Marines game, which
is Chiba's an area of Tokyo and it's right on
Tokyo Bay. And that's where this guy Roki Sosaki, that's
you know, the hot young pitcher from Japan. He comes
from the Marines.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I just thought, I throw that that's very relevant. Yes, yeah,
and I love the fact that they love baseball so much.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
But we show.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Tigers and a lot of those teams there the but
specifically Koshin Stadium where the Tigers play. The whole stadium
during the game is like one big human organ. They've
got people with white gloves in front of the different
sections and they give hand signals. So based on the
hand signals, everyone knows whether to clap or hum or sing,
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and so the whole game is just this like massive
human organ right, and.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
My friends were saying they weren't allowed to go to
the bleachers because those are like the semi professional like boosters.
Everyone wears the same shirt and they know and to cheer.
But they said, I think it was in the top
of the eighth that to be gentlemanly and to be fair,
that's the visiting team's inning, and that's when they're allowed
to sing and you don't interrupt them. That's their inning.
(18:36):
But then in the ninth we go back.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I mean, it's fascinating. I've read about this. So like
there they cheer when their team is at bat, but
when the other team is at bat, they remain perfectly silent.
That's chilling.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
It's very well I think because as the culture is
and it's not like I'm a Japanese expert, but the
culture is for the good of the whole and not
the individual. I think this is why they invented karaoke,
a way for them to let loose and just be
a star for five minutes because there's not a lot
of people acting out in public. But I've always thought
(19:10):
I would love Japan because they love so many things
I love. They love rock and roll, they love baseball,
they love sushi, they love soccer, they love video games,
like all these things. I like, ye and I know
a lot of it on those. One of the things
that MacArthur said was that the baseball leagues Nippon Professional Baseball,
you have to have the American the English name on
the jerseys. And that's still to this day they have
(19:32):
to say the Can you imagine like having all our
baseball teams with Japanese characters on them? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yeah, Oh, I didn't realize that's why it was in English.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
So what is your go to karaoke song?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Well, there are a few creep by Radiohead. I like
because I get into the falsetto Forever in Blue Jeans
by Neil Diamond, just the Way You Look Tonight by
Frank Sinatra. I can show you my phone. They are
about sixty songs that I can do, all right. Yeah,
I'm a little bit of a ham myself. You might
have noticed industry. I'm in noted.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Dear Mama by Tupacs Chords.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
That's my go to really.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yeah, and even though I sell rocks, it feels good
putting money in your mailbox and Highway Star by Deep Purple.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Wow, that is very deep, because normally I think smoke
on the water, that's too easy. Yeah yeah, funk Cord
was running in and out. That's too easy, right, Yeah. Yeah,
it's funny you bring that up because just the other day,
because I followed Tony Iomi from Black Sabbath, he retweeted
(20:44):
a Deep Purple some live song and it actually wasn't
that bad. I always thought they were sort of like
Acord Decord, but they actually seem like they might have
been musicians. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
You know, I'm really into vintage clothing and I like
going to I mean when I travel, I like going
to use bookstores, used record stores, and vintage clothing stores.
And Belgium has got amazing thrift stores and I found
I was just in Holland and Belgium last month doing shows,
I found a Deep Purple concert short sure from like
(21:21):
two thousand and twelve, I think it is, and on
the back all the cities are France, Germany, Switzerland, and
Austria's coat and the woman in and I got it
for like seven euros. Wow, it's like seven bucks. And
I'm like flipping out in the store. I'm like, oh
my god, this is so cool. And the woman who
worked at the store. She goes, yeah, that's that's how
we feel about the American We prefer if it's got
(21:45):
the American cities in the back, like Montgomery, Birmingham, Like
we think that's cool. And I'm like, okay, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah, well, I love I love Belgium, especially Bruges and
Ghent and the castle.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
That's one of my I've never been to Bruges, but
Ghent is one of my favorite places.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
They got the Castle of the Duke's downtown, it's just
right there. I saw an amazing.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Bumf there for the Christmas markets.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Oh how nice.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And uh there's a great hotel in Ghent called eighteen
ninety eight, the post Wow, and it's the former post office,
this massive post office, and it's right on the main
square in Ghent.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
When I had this is probably twenty years ago. But
I had Sean Claude van Dam on the show and
I said, I know you're the muscles from Brussels, but
if you were weekly, you could have been the bruise
from Bruges. And he said, oh, that's a good one.
And then I always I asked him and I had
another guest from Holland on the other day asked him
about Anderlacht, which was the team. So I'm a big
(22:46):
soccer fan, soccer, massive soccer. Yeah, they're in Brussels and
their mascot is a Santa of African heritage, and then
he's holding a doll of himself. He's holding a little
black Santa dol. So I said to Van Dam, I go,
who's that And then he said that it's my father's team.
He probably wouldn't know. And then I asked the other
(23:07):
guy and he goes, I'm a huge Anderlech fan. I go,
who's the black Santa holding a black Santa? And he goes, yeah,
I don't know. So that's still it's a mystery to
their own fans. But he's on the field.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
But is a black Santa because the you know, they've
had the Center Claus in Holland and Belgium. You know
it's is a white Santa Claus, but his helper is
black and he's his name is Black Pete, and people
can try to get rid of that. They think it's
racist because it's not an actual person of African descent.
(23:40):
It's always a white person with blackface. So I was
just in Holland and.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
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You're listening to the Comedy All Stars podcast with Rick Tittle,
powered by eight Side Network. All right, we're with Tom Roads,
stand up comedian TV star. He is at the punchline
of his you know show yesterday was one tonight too
tomorrow and two on Saturday as well, and I had
to cut him off very rudely. I was just telling
them about how I had to cut off Robert Hayes
the other day right before his punchline. But we had
(25:16):
to pay some bills there. Tom, we left you with
a little bit of a cliffhanger talking about Black Pete.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Yeah, in Holland and Belgium, Santa Claus has got a
black helper named black Pete, but it's not it's always
played by a white person with black face makeup.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
On Al Jolson.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah, so like it's it's you know, been a huge
issue and people find it really racist and they've been
trying to get rid of it. So I have been
dating this woman from Senegal, which is in Africa. If
you're unfamiliar with.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
You probably fluent in French.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I would believe that's our first language. And she speaks
her tribal language of Waloff.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Wow. No, no, I never heard of Walof. Pretty interesting,
while off Astoria got a good solid.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
You are the pun master. So anyway, so we were
in Holland right before Christmas and in Belgium and here's
all this imagery and I was telling her, yeah, this
is you know, this is considered very racist here and
people are actually trying to get rid of the black
peat character. And she goes, why, what's what's the big deal?
(26:23):
She goes in, in Senegal, comedians do white face all
the time and make fun of white people, and you're
kidding me, And so she pulls up all these videos
of these comedians in Senegal and they've got white face
makeup on and they're like making fun of hell, like goofy.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
So that's totally acceptable. You just can't go the other way. Yeah,
I always thought that was a long way to wait
for the end of the story. No, no, that's good.
And but I remember because France had taken so many
Senegalese players on the national team, like Patrick Vieira and
Jocelyn and Gleman and you at when they were the
(27:00):
champs in ninety eight. They go to South Korea Japan
opening game, they play Senegal and they lose to Senegal.
That was the biggest victory in the history of Senegalese.
And I'm a Tottenham fanomlnon. We have a guy named
pape Mate Sar who's from Senegal on the team right now,
and it's a big soccer country.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
It's one of the greatest soccer nations of Africa. And
I'm excited because now I have another team to root
for in the World Cup.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
And the kite cooped a freak too. The African couple
of Nations.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Yeah, yeah, I think they've won it three times. I
believe so yeah. I mean, I'm all in with this
woman and with h It's interesting. We were in Brussels.
There was an African bookstore and in the window there
was a poster of Africa with all the natural resources
(27:52):
like of gold and diamonds and oil, and then where
Senegal is It just said fish, So like there's really
all of Africa all the resources and in Senegal is fish.
So any who, the I'm obsessed with the World Cup.
(28:13):
I lose my mind when the World Cup is on. Yeah,
and I'm really excited. I have this connection with Senegal.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
That's great. I worked the one here in ninety four.
I went to the one in Germany in two thousand
and six.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yeah, now it's I know more. I wrote for this
newspaper called European Soccer Weekly, which actually sold at Waterstones
in England for a while. And I'm this savant in
that I know more about soccer than most English people do,
which infuriates them because I shouldn't. But ever since, like
the late eighties, it's been my number one thing. I
(28:48):
don't talk about it too too much here, probably more
than I should.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Okay, well, let's let's get let's get into soccer for
a minute, because I don't. You may recall or not
my mother is from sorry is Argentina?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
I forgot that so well. Congratulations world champion.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Yes, and I was in San Francisco when the World
Cup final happened. That's an interesting story, if if you,
if you have a minute, I I was going through
some difficult things in my life at the time. I
was dating this woman from Toronto and then like she
(29:26):
met this guy. I was trying to get back together
with this woman for like a year and a half.
She met this guy on vacation in Croatia and that
really messed with me. So that Argentina Croatia match. Had
Argentina lost that match, I would be a different man today,
I swear to God. Because also she was half my age,
(29:49):
so the guy was younger. So that match was a
youth against the older guy. Messi was thirty six, and
they put this savage nineteen year old savage game. If
you remember this kid, Grandiola or something was his last name, Gavardiol.
He wore a mask, he looked like a monster, and
(30:11):
he was on top of Messi like every inch.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
He represented that guy.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
He represented that guy. Messi had the greatest match of
his life. He schooled this young chump. He kicked a
goal and then he had an assist to Julean Alvarez,
which I think was the greatest goal of the whole match.
That assisted he had.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
To Alvres came on as a subject game I think
for to score that goal. I love that guy.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
So anyway, so the final against France, I'm okay, I'm
it's it came on at seven am in San Francisco time,
and I was staying at the Pali Hotel, and I
think I'm gonna I'm gonna wake up, have coffee. I'll
watch the match by myself. I'm in the room. It's
not on the television. I'm like, oh my god, what
(30:57):
how can this not be on television?
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
It was. I don't know if you remember. It was
forty degrees at match time. I remember every detail in Katar,
San Francisco. Oh here, okay, it was cold. I was
just flying back from New York. I barely made it
home to watch the game. So I so when I
lived in San Francisco, I dated. I lived with a
woman from Paris.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
It was a winter World Cup.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Yeah, you're right, it was forty degrees, like the first
hour of the mess. So so I remember Cafe Bastille
is where all these bigs. So it was Argentina versus France.
So I go down to that alley where Cafe.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Bastille is spelden, thank you.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
The place is standing room only, and it's all these
French people and they've all got their faces pa, and
they're singing songs, doing bape and everything. So I'm standing
in the alley. They had o TV in the window.
You couldn't even get into the Cafe Bestille.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
That's where you watched it.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Freezing in an alley by myself. I watched the final
and I'm and all these French people would come out
to smoke I had. I had my Argentina jersey under
a winter coat. So they just come out and they're
all like, they're like, you know, saying they think I'm French.
So I just would say, like the one French word
I knew, I'd go on qua which and it was.
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It was the greatest final of all time.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
And then when when Messi scored, you'd go married.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
No. So I'm rooting for Argentina. So the moment Argentina
won the my cousins and Argentina called me on FaceTime.
They wanted to share this moment with me.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
No one else in my family and not stressed this enough.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
I was cold and alone in an alley in San Francisco,
and my cousins wanted to share this moment with me.
They called me from Argentina and they don't speak English,
I don't speak Spanish. Posts we all just start jumping.
I unzipped my coat and I show them I have
my Argentina jersey on him. We're all jumping up and down,
going Argentina, Argentina, Argentina. At that moment, all of these
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French sad French people come out of the the Cafe Bestile,
and I realized, that's one of my favorite things about
the World Cup is seeing people who have painted their
country's flag on their face cry. Nothing greater than seeing
a tear drop going through.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
That's a great story. I have the VHS highlights of
the eighty six World Cup where they beat Germany. They
got two up to nothing and then Germany tied, and
I was rooting for West Germany at the time as
part of my heritage. And then Borachaga went past Tony
Schumacher and they won the World Cup.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
But you've retained these names.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
In the locker room, they start going Argentina, keepo campon, Argentina,
and keep camp beyond. And they turned around and three
guys they're wearing their jersey. Three guys are bottomless, and
their knobs are going blink blink, blink up and down.
And I'm like, that's the difference between Americans and everybody else.
We wouldn't have three guys bottomless and everyone has their
(33:53):
arms around them. It'd be like ew yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
But anyway, I had this moment, so I went. So
two months later I went to Argentina and spent a
month there. Wow, and it was great there. You know,
they've had a really difficult time economically and just everything
for the last you know, twenty thirty years, and there's
the whole country was just still in this euphoria that's high.
(34:18):
They were in such a good mood. I bought all
of these, you know, every championship thing I could get
my hands on, Memorabilian stuff. But my family in the
United States all serious, hardcore Christians, constantly quoting scriptures, and
my family in Argentina, none of them are very religious.
(34:39):
None of them have crosses in their homes. But soccer
is their religion.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Of course, they're.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
All fanatical, and they're all each have their own favorite team.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Are they like Boca Juniors who play mostly.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
River Plate, Yeah, but a lot of them are in Laplata,
so as Studiantes. Yeah, so half a Studyontes, half river
Plate of one one Boca Junior's one Independiente. But it
was very important for each of them that I would
become a fan of their team. So my my cousin
(35:16):
Karina took me to see a Studionte's. Another cousin took
me to see the Boca Juniors. That's the Choate the
Chocolate box man. Uh. And after that, I'm a Boca
Junior fan all the way. You can't go to the
Bombonera not become a Boca Juniors fan.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
I heard the story that Matt Damon his wife's Argentine
and he said he was down there and he said
to his father in law. He goes, hey, uh, you
know it was a big Boca Juniors fan. And he goes, hey,
I thought maybe we'd go to the soccer game and
he said it's father got a very stern look and
he said. He goes, okay, but no women and children,
(35:56):
like he said, it's going to be rough.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's true. You don't see many women there.
So then that sets me up perfectly for this story.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
So I got two minutes.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
My cousin Jugo likes Gymnasia, so he took me to
see Gymnasia. He gave me a jersey to wear, but
it was kind of a it was a really cheap
polyester and it's February so it's you know, middle of summer.
There was really hot, so we go at halftime. It's
really hot. It's summer hot. So I took off this scratchy,
(36:31):
cheap polyester jersey and there's no chairs. You know, it's
all your starting. You know, the cement steps is the stadium.
So at halftime, I took off the jersey and I
sat down. There was a twenty five year old woman
standing behind me, and she sneezed and this massive spray
(36:52):
of sneeze went all over my back and my I
mean like it was comical, how it just completely sprayed
my entire back and I looked back at her, and
this woman did not apologize to me. And after the match,
I told my cousin Hugo, I said, I could never
be a fan of your team if your fans are
so low class I sneeze on someone and don't apologize.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
That's once again it's Marya. I'll get this in in
thirty seconds. I was riding in a bus in Rome
when I was eighteen, and a kid was sitting with
his butt on the railing and his butt was in
my face and he had the biggest fart of all
time in my face, well, and I got up. I
was like eighteen, Yeah, I go, what the f man
the hell you doing? And this kid looked around like
he's not He's surely not yelling at me because I
didn't do anything. Yeah, to them farting in somebody's face,
(37:35):
it's perfectly good, USA, USA, Come on back lift Tom Rhodes.
You're listening to the Comedy All Stars Podcast with Rick Tittle,
powered by eight Side Network. All Right, a couple of
minutes left with the Great Tom Rhodes. Who's at the
punchline tonight? Two shows tomorrow, two shows on Saturday. I
wanted to ask you real quick about mister Rhodes. Yeah,
(37:57):
which was on NBC in ninety six, ninety seven. I
know Stephen Tobolowski, Tobolovsky, Tobolowski, Tobolowski. If you see him,
you would recognize him. We all know Ron Glass, He's
from his Barney Miller dives. What's going on with Farah Fork?
Speaker 2 (38:14):
She died two years ago?
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Yeah, why did I bring it lung cancer?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Ah? Because she was on Wings?
Speaker 2 (38:22):
She was on Wings?
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Yeah? Now was she was your wife?
Speaker 2 (38:25):
She was my love interest on the show. Yeah, I was.
I stayed friends with Ron Glass. He died about ten
years ago. What beautiful man. He was in Barney Miller, right,
and Stephen Tobolowski. I've stayed really good friends with him.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
He was Ned Ryerson in Very Good Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
I mean he was in Mississippi Burning eighty six. That
was so long ago. The guy's been in so many
classic films and television shows. I know, he's been on
the Goldbergs wow for like the last ten years. One
of the greatest character actors of all time.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Well, one of the greatest people of all time and
comedians as I have ten seconds left.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
But you know what he always says is when bad
things happen, you should celebrate because the good times bring
their own champagne. That's something that I.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Look very karmic. Yeah. Well, it's always darkest before the dawn,
isn't it. That's right, Rick, It's so great. See I know.
Will you not wait five years?
Speaker 2 (39:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (39:32):
No, I'll be back, Okay, yeah, because I've been sitting
here more than twenty years, I guess I'm not going.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Any I love you and Darren and you guys load
me down with books and love and respect.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
See Tom at the punchline. I'm a Tittle, come on back.
Thanks for listening in to the Comedy All Stars Podcast
with Rick Tittle on the eight Side Network
Host
Rick Tittle
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