October 18, 2021 • 35 mins
This week, our host Ari is still away working on “Saturday Night Live,” but never fear…Producer Andy is here to pick up the slack until he returns. Please enjoy our interviews with special guest contributors Brian Huskey (“Bob’s Burgers,” “Children’s Hospital”), Rekha Shankar (“CollegeHumor,” “Animaniacs,” “Grand Crew”) and radio personality Jojo Wright (“LA’s 102.7 KIIS-FM,” “The iHeartRadio Countdown”).
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is This is Americans Live. I'm producer Andy, filling
in for our host Ari, who's busy on Saturday Night Live. Yes,
I wasn't joking. Last week he's joined the cast of
Saturday Night Live, which is so so great for him. Anyway,
he's left me in charge. Much like last week, this
week's episode will also be a little different than usual.
I think we've established that the best part of This
(00:25):
is American's Live is me, producer Andy, and my ability
to sift through the archives and find footage from the
lives of our guest contributors during the interview. As well.
This week, we're going to replay three more of my
favorite interviews from this season so far. Brian Husky, Rica Shankar,
and radio personality Joe Joe. Right, all right, let's get
into the first interview. Brian Husky enjoy especially guest contributed
Brisky you today. Oh, I'm very good. Thanks for having me.
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I'm I've only eve been listening to the show. I
you know, I came to it maybe about halfway through
your run. You know, I had some people so recommend
it to me. I always trust her a word of
mouth and um, and these people were you know, really
sort of tapped into a lot of Zeitgeists podcasts and
and so I really felt like that's uh that spoke
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to me for a long time. Yeah, and and for
me to go back and sort of go find all
these archives. It's also a time capsule, you know, like
you're focusing on the first cell phone and you know, yeah,
and then sort of you know when when small inspection
stations closed down, like these big moments in society, that
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the shifts, we actually had that small inspections one. I've
always been there, you know, we have that in the
archives that when the small such as it's such a
cause a family runs small inspection empire, when that goes down,
that I mean, it's heartbreaking, it's really heartbreaking. Any it's
number inspection house, uh, any chain of different small inspections
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across the Houston Metroplex area shut down for really two days.
People who need to get their cars inspected and you
know the status of the smock of their own cars,
we're just sitting there with their pockets and ends. Yeah.
Well we've had this our family for must have been
three years now, you have three three years and nine
months this Tuesday. Yeah, we don't want to Yeah, we
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want to say four years, but it's not four years yet,
but we will be in two months, in one week. Yeah,
but we didn't want to say that it was four
years because we know you're a journalist and we don't
want to be any gotcha journalism. We want we want
to be factual for you, and also we want to
be factual about we're closing down, but not for any
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kind of criminal reasons. We really want to emphasize that,
which are you ever going to devote to people? Well,
you just say any closed down. We'll divulge all the
reasons why, all the reasons that are not reasons why
we close down. Like will say, like, we did not
close down because for criminal reasons. Yeah, well, we did
not close down because theft or future arson like if that,
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if that happens in the future. We did not burn
it for insurance money purposes because it got to be
too much not having this place open very long. We
got miles to feed. We did not try to cash in.
I burned the place down. We do not have a
gambling problem that is currently up ending our existence. Surely
after the interview, all four locations burned in the hell
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fire and the two brothers twin brother smug inspection banished
the blue deating a lot of people with no smug
inspection places to go to. Yes, I would like to
apply for a driver's license. Um, I am not trying
to get a new identity. I'm not flying a law.
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They just had to accompany him to the d n V. Sir,
I can only help one of y'all. So who who
needs the I D and who does not? I'll do
not not need it. Okay, I don't have I do
not have time for this, and I am I am
not a word play person. To I am not a
double entendre. If you're trying to post some of that crap,
you can take it right out of here. Rad Namma
for him was in That was a good one. It was. Yeah.
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I kind of is a young me, very much a
round over version, and I thought it was really interesting. Yeah,
and you did the last act on her, which is honestly,
I mean that there wasn't much to her. She was
kind of just a woman who worked at the d
m V. Yeah. Negative. So I don't want to give you,
but I love your work. We do. We actually we
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have that too. By the way of the third act
of that episode when you were talking when you followed
the the m V woman around. Yeah, you guys, I
have to play it. What I'm serious? What just trying
to make you up here? I know you're sorry. I'm sorry, ma'am.
I'm just trying to I know, but I do not.
Can I get a check one too, please? In right now?
Check one to check one to sibilants, sibilants like in
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that SNL sketch about sound. I know what y'all do.
Go ahead, now, go ahead, you're you're in my living
room now, in my my one evening off. I gave
you my time, so let's do this interview. Yeah, that
was a very tough interview. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know
why I included that stuff and just saying I used
to have his dad back in the day when I
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just did everything that I've included, I would just put
it out there. You know. I just really very much
about transparency. You've really grown and it tells about yourself.
Oh wow, that's a good interview question. I'm from originally
from Charlotte, North Carolina, and uh now I live in
Los Angeles. I went to a college in Charlotte. You
did in Charlotte for ten years? Oh my god, where'd
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you live in Charlotte? Was passing in the night? Yeah,
the Queen City. You lived in New York? He moved here? Yes,
I was in Uh. I moved there in ninety six. Yeah,
and then I moved out here in two thousand and six.
But you in New York for ten years? Ten years
in math? Did you enjoy your time? Dude? I I did,
and then I got exhausted with it. It's an exhausting city.
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It takes a lot of energy, right, And I broke
my toe because I kicked the wall after my car
was broken into for the seventh time, and um, subways
uh started to make me sad, so uh. And there's
no more work there. All the work was out in
l A. I was gonna say, there's no more work
in New York? Right, what kind of work do you do?
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I've got to get there. Really seem to take a while.
That was the kind of look you do. Oh, I'm
an actor and a writer, mainline actor. Have I seen
you and stuff? I don't know what you watch. I
watch all kind of stuff. I'd watch a lot of old,
old movies from the nineteen eighties, yeah. I mean I'm
in most of those. Tell us about what you've been
working on. Now these days you'll stop hearing record? Do
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we have let me step recluding? Okay, So when we're
in this part, do I sort of talk about the reality,
like the harsh reality we've all been through with a
COVID and stuff, or do I steer away from that? Well,
I would say, like, well, the past year and a half,
I haven't really been doing much. I've had my own
podcasts and stuff. But I got a podcast called bald
Talk on. We'll talk about that, yeah, And and then um,
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I've auditioning. I did some commercials. I do voices for
Bob's Burgers. Do that. We'll talk about that. Okay, all right,
so when we go when when you when you ask
the question again, are you taking notes? I don't have
a pen Okay, podcast, Bob's Burgers. Yeah, auditioning, but you know,
trying to generate work. I think that's a you know, Okay,
do you have any podcast it's going on? Oh? Sure,
I've got a podcast called bald Talk. Let's just try
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that one again. I just I'd like a clean one
and we'll just kind of Okay, do you want me
to be him? Do you want me to do you
want do you want to run run the lines with me? Right?
Use this audio and then we'll use your your thing. Okay,
So okay, um tell me about Hey, can you not
do it in his voice? Because yeah, what is that?
What the fund is that even you've been doing impictions
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to me behind my back? That's a that's a new
character on Mark. You know, I don't I don't need to.
I don't need the question. I'll just say okay three
to one. So I have a podcast called Bald Talk.
It's myself and Charlie Sanders. Uh, two bald comedians interview
bald everybody. We've had actors, directors, musicians, wig makers. We
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just interviewed them about being bald, and then it kind
of goes from there into their creative work and their
insecurities and sort of the idea of like vanity and
perception and stuff. Are there any things that you discovered
that you didn't know of other people's perspectives and being bald?
The big takeaway is that, uh, it's always a bigger
hang up for you than anybody else in the whole world,
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and especially if you have a hang up about dating.
Women do not give a f They really don't. So
take that away. If you're if you're listening and you're bald,
it's fine, it's totally fine. Well, thank you guys. Are
you welcome? You usly want to leave. I don't know.
It seemed like it was just I just eating. You
do get very close to people's face when you talk
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to them, I think to make sure that they can
hear any way it comes out of my mouth. Have
headphones microphones? Yeah, that's what the mike's from. I mean
we're literally on both on your mic. You started on
the other side of the room. You are now out
over with me because I don't want I don't want
to throw you know, I don't want to mess up.
We guys have. But it's just just some feedback. If
if if you guys were to make a survey available
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to me, I would take it and give some feedback.
But you know, actually have that survey. We have a
line phone number. I have to press the button, well,
you have to press several buttons because you're down the number.
What is it again, It's one, It's the one and
this is Americans Live Survey. This is Americans Life numbers right,
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it's like way too many. Oh hold on, sorry, sorry guys,
my phone's ringing. Thank you for calling. This is American's
Live Customer Service. This is Andy the producer. Can I
are you taking the survey for me? I feel like
I should take the say, would you get away from
my mic so I can take the survey? Please? Please,
just for this moment, step away, like a second? Okay,
thank you? Yeah, Hi, Hi Brian? Yes, oh hey, how
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you doing. Hey you're you're calling the survey line. Yeah,
I just wanted to give some feedback on the interview section. Okay,
how's it going so far? Are you enjoying it? I mean, yeah,
there's some problem. I mean I feel like there's some
elements to it that I'm not totally psyched about. Like
he gets a little close and and I felt like
when you ask opening questions like tell me about yourself? Yeah,
(10:17):
I mean what am I supposed to? Well? You know, free? Sorry,
can your hand just one second? I'm getting another call please,
All right, I've got Brian on the survey. Yeah. I
know he's saying that I can see you talking to him.
I can turn around if it's can you do me?
Could you do me a favorite. Just turn around real quick. Yeah,
(10:39):
what's that? Yeah, he's on the phoniest bitching again about again.
This is what he sounds like right now, he's suing
too close to me again. I'm sorry, I turn back around.
You guys gave me the option, Like I just said,
is there a survey? And so you're letting me do
a survey? But now just now you're sort of uptended.
(10:59):
I'm this is weird. You know, if you have a
survey about your survey, I would I would give some
feedback on that. As a matter of fact, we're going
to end it on this. We actually have one. This
is American's Live survey survey. Who's calling it? I'll do it.
I have a new I have a new phone. I
want to Yeah, yeah, I'm just gonna do a voicing
one eight hundred. This in a shift number one hundred.
(11:26):
This is Americans Live Survey Survey. I'm sorry, did you
mean one eight hundred? This is Americans Live Survey, no
survey survey. I'm sorry, did you mean this is Americans
live survey? I think it might be a confusing the
phone because we say survey twice tobably. I'm gonna I'm
gonna hang out making the call. I'm gonna call it
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survey quick, did it now? Hey, guys, one second, my
phone's ringing. Sure, I'm gonna grab it. Thank you for
calling the This is Americans Live survey line. This is Andy.
How can I help you? How was your How was
how's it going? Alright? We'd love it if you just
let me start talking at some point. Oh, okay, I
(12:06):
have a problem with my producer. Can I tell you
what it is. He's too great, he's too great, it's
too funny. He's asking me to play different parts of
the archives. And you know how many tapes we have
any archives? Thousands? Right? Huh? And then now we've got
to end on this. I'm sorry, I got I'm getting
a call. One a second. Hey, Brian. He's on the phone,
(12:27):
always on the phone. Really good. He's like, like, what
he's doing? You do it? I don't think he sounds
like a yeah. He sounds like a dying librarian or tydeing. Alright,
what are you doing here? I've been here the whole time.
(12:47):
He's listening to here. Got a bit of shit. I'm
really sorry. I'm sorry. I think I I caused the
problem in this problem, just like the thing is that
I do my best to move these it's along. Sometimes
my producer gets a little archive crazy, and then we
started dipping into things and then all of a sudden
(13:08):
we have no time for nothing. I really like the
way that you're tired. I'm gonna call the survey. Here
we go again. Hold on lift phones. Hello, Hey, it's me. Hey,
what's up? Well? Ari is kind of being a dick
right now to you? I know, okay? Well by zero
stars guys contributed by NSKY, Thank you so much for
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this opportunity. Yeah, coming up, our interview with Ka Shankar.
But first a word from our sponsors who make this
high quality show possible. Stay with us. Welcome back to
This Is Americans Live. I'm producer Andy filling in for
our host, Ari, who was away in New York as
(13:48):
an SNL cast member. Which is really something, really really something.
I'm here playing some of my favorite guest contributor interviews
that we've had during this first season of this amazing
top shell show. Up next, Raka Shankar, enjoy my especially
guys contributor. Hello, how are you doing today? I'm great?
(14:09):
Thank you so tell us how long have you been
listening to our show? As long as it's been on,
which is maybe you've released five episodes, but there's been
ten recorded. We've released more than five. You're something you
told me before and a number I'm forgetting, but that's
(14:29):
how many I've listened to. So you've been listening for
three years? Yeah, decades? Even Do you remember any of
the shows that I was on prior to doing this show?
I do remember? Which one ed? A cooking show? Yeah?
Can I finished? What else? What other shows did I have? Oh?
I mean we both remember, right, all the stuff that
(14:52):
you've done. So it goes without saying almost, but I
I'm asking you to say it, right, a cooking show?
You probably did something with Poe Hi. You say politics, pe,
Politics pot Pie. We actually have shows. Yeah, we actually
(15:13):
have that in the archives that your episode of Politics,
one of the highest rated episodes of Politics pot Pie,
which was episode forty eight. Who was that? Um? You
I know that? And Hillary Rodham Clinton, Oh my god,
that was an incredible episode. Remember, Yeah, we use that
too thousand and sixteen when she was running for president.
(15:41):
I remember my especially guys written thank you for Kenning,
thank you for having me. I'm so happy to be here.
Tell you've been speaking of that in different times. Feeling
very rasped, I am not doing too good. The only
(16:03):
thing that would make me feel better is a hot
piping pot. Bye, let's make them. That was the show
for the most part. I don't know if you remember.
I just have a guest on even though its supposed
to be political, It's called political Popeye. I just have
somebody on the show who was politically and poet. Again,
it was the things we were going to talk about,
(16:25):
dicks maybe just talked about Poppy. I'm sure it was
a relief to a lot of the politicians are sick
with talking about politics. Just sit down with a pop pie.
It's nice. Can you imagine to pick a politician and
I do an episode with him? Okay, pick a politician, anyone,
Pete Pewter, judge, Pete Poota judge. It was my What
episode is that I was? That was one of the
later ones, with a more recent right now, I don't
(16:46):
know if we have that one in the archive. Welcome
to Politic Poppy. Very happy to be here. I'm oh my,
I think I need a lozenge. And the only thing
that's going to help if pop Piping pot Pie the thing.
If I'm most compelling about that show, it was like
when I feel sick or like like my throat hurts,
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and I don't really reach for a pot pie super something.
So it's interesting a lot of your guests seem to
have like a throat issue and we're like, oh, I
want like a big, thick pot pie. Yeah you could see, yeah,
would you had more of that kind of consistency, but
they did swallowing like chicken chunks. Well, I hate to
break it to the two of you, but I think
(17:30):
that's all we have in the archives anyway. So okay, Wow,
do you think I learned? There won't be a third example?
I mean, my god, I'm trying to remember some of
my other favorite episodes Politicians and pot Pie only recorded
to numbered them. Strangely, there wasn't like a weird Mike
Pence one. Did I dream that? Wait? Wait, I think
(17:52):
there is. I think the Mike pens one though, sounded
a lot like people. Oh it did, Yeah, we can
check it. When would that have been? It was episode
just as MP fans and military police. Oh interesting how
it could mean both? It could be where they were
a press play. Now I have been working for the
(18:13):
military police more quite some time. I'm sorry, my throat hurts.
I need a a cold, papa. Yeah, that's a little
bit about yourself. Okay. Great. Um, I'm a comedy writer.
I knew that. Okay, great, you're on top of it.
You're writing on the show now, are you guys talking
about it? Yeah? I was writing for Animaniacs recently, and
(18:35):
now I'm writing for show called Grand Crew that's on NBC.
It's come out in January. When you're writing for the
show like Animaniacs and those characters have been around for
a long time, Yeah, do they give you a little
bit of attitude when you write something for them and
they just don't want to do it? Yeah? So their
their cartoons, so they don't really give you much attitude
since they're not people. Um, I mean is that supposed
(18:59):
to mean? Yeah, I guess that was fucked up. Just
because you hear someone's voice you don't necessarily see their face,
doesn't mean they're not And I wasn't meaning to insult
you as a radio person, for sure. All those people
are are people, and you know those voice act their
voice actors is the thing. And you know, so I
(19:21):
didn't mean in any offense to you. I think people
who work in radio are really talented and and and
you know, it's justesting this happens to be something entirely
different from what you do. So you write jokes cartoons. Yeah,
you're working on a new show, Yes, a live action
show called Grand Crew, and it's been a blast. It's
you know, about friends hanging out at a wine bar. Uh,
(19:43):
it's very cool. Are you a wine guy? Am I
allowed to flip the interview a little bit. I think
that's some wine. And what I think, you know, back
in the day when we first started doing this show,
which was back in what you was that the Topeak
a year, I used to drink a yeah, and then
I mean, if you want to hear excipt from that episode,
(20:04):
you can see you could just tell, yeah, welcome to
episode of This is America's Live. I mean, I'm sorry,
I mean you can tell the difference. Yeah, you sound.
I mean that was like clearly in Toxic is a
Big Year. No doubt was lasting through heart, No doubt
(20:25):
it was. But you were also on the show another recently. Yeah,
I did a little cameo on hacks total total blasts made.
They made a makeshift casino in downtown l A really
fun Yeah, you get started in comedy comedy. I actually
I started as an assistant video editor for true crime television.
(20:46):
That was a racket, and so I did that for
a while and then was what was writing comedy on
the side, and transitioned out of it by just um
quitting and then freelancing. You mean, by writing comedy on
the side that you were writing jokes in the side,
writing sketches, you know how, and dditing background so right,
and direct sketches and then cut them myself and that
kind of wrote little articles for places like Protectress and
(21:07):
stuff like that, and putting my sketches out online, and
then started applying to more comedy things. Um, it was
a lot of fun. Do you always make a funny
type put up? No? Um? I mean I wanted to be,
but you know, I wasn't like class clown type of person.
I was a pretty academic person. I went to biomedical
research camp when I was fifteen. That's the only overnight
(21:29):
camp I've been to, so pretty academic. And then only
in college did I decided to go into film and
TV production. Does most child memory. I remember going mini
golfing with my cousin and there's a bug on his
back and I don't know why didn't just flick it
off or whatever. I was little and I was like,
there's a bug on your back. And he freaked out
(21:50):
and he's like, get off, get it off. And I
was like, okay, here's the way I think you think
of to do that. And I took my mini golf
club and just swung it and hit him in the head.
So we we have we do we have We have
the hospital, visip, we have the hospital. I can't believe
you guys have that. Yeah, we have that. Actually the hospital. Um,
(22:10):
so can you tell us where you're here? By the way,
there was a bug on me and and I did
everything I could, did everything I could to help him. Yeah,
and then why is he here because he has a
bug on his back? I had one, and she she m,
can I hear explaining this? If I talked to you like,
it's just one on one real quick, I'm just kiding comfortables.
(22:31):
I'm sorry, man, I'm okay. But let me just say
he's a vicious slyer. He's a viciously a troll and
a free and everything that he says, it's gonna be
a lie. If you want the real story, you kind
of me afterwards afterwards, Okay, you gotta help me. What happened?
She claimed that there was a bug on my back.
There would have been no way for me to know
(22:53):
because it was on my back, and then she just
started hitting me over and or where a mini golf club.
I have to call somebody. Okay, wait, wait to see
a phone. I see and let me fine. I love
I love my cousin. She loves me. Okay, I'm calling
the authorities. Now, okay, you're calling the authorities where you
(23:14):
can call it. I saw a bug on his back.
It was huge. I don't know what to do. He said,
get it off. I was like, okay, well, I'm not
gonna touch with my hands. It's disgusting. It's big. So
I took the golf cloth. If they wouldn't die. She
calls me the thing the leads game. Next thing, because
it was in a questioning room looking at the lineup
of different people. It's cousin being one of the people.
All right, step forward and say the line, please, the
(23:36):
line with you. You have a bug on your back,
Come here. Let me hit you with this. All right,
step forward, seeing it's her hold on, I mean, suspect
number one. Please step forward to the line identified. You
have a book on your back. Let me hit you
with this. She's doing an accent the number two. Step forward,
you have a book on your back. Let me just
go club. It was the first one. She was just
(23:56):
doing a different accent. It is my COVID, A bug
on your bab me with this Gulf club? What the
hell I'm know? Why do we have to have a lineup?
I already identified my cousin as being the one who
didn't swiftly with eating as I sentence you to six weeks,
(24:17):
said Bio medical Camp. That's a fucking lime. Yes, it's
been a pleasure. Great to be here. Thanks guys. Coming
up our interview with radio personality Joe Joe. Right, But
first a word from some of our sponsors. Stay with us,
(24:41):
Welcome back to This is Americans Live. I'm producer Andy
filling in for our host Ari, who has joined the
cast of Saturday Night Live and things are going great
for him. He'll be back, but this week he left
it up to me to re air some of our
favorite interviews from our guest contributors. Up next, you know
him from l A's number one hit music station one
or two point seven, Kiss Him and the I Heart
Radio Countdown. A very well produced show. By the way,
(25:04):
Jojo Rights enjoy Jojo Thanks, It's a pleasure to be here.
It's a pleasure to have you. Thank you very much.
Good to see you. How long have you have you
been a fan of the show. Well, this is uh
my first experience with the show. I've never le chant again.
I've been a huge, huge fan for very good years years.
(25:26):
And what was the first episode that you The first
one that I listened to was the thing where you
guys had and the lady was she was kind of
screaming and then you guys you know, had the she
was eating a sandwich. Don't we have that in the archives? Uh? Yeah,
I guess we do. Unfortunately, Ellen was a very experimental
(25:52):
one because nobody knew she was making a sandwich. That's
kind of where I stopped listening is with the sandwich.
But it hooked me. It was a second favorite. That
was episode was my second favorite there in that one.
Episode sixty four was when the UFO blew in and
(26:13):
then um he picked it, went to pick up the cow,
but it was you know it was actually it wasn't
a cow. It's like the school teacher. We have that
though that episode that we find it and what I
did find it? You me, me, me, me me me,
(26:36):
I have thought at a young cow school. Get that cow.
It's pretty heavy. I don't know if we can. You
trying to take my COWT know, no, not of course not,
but you're just trying to had this guy a little
tick down. More tic tics are on my my cows
(27:00):
of God. I saw one NBC news reports, are you
are full sighting over the hillside of Kentucky a cow
is being looted off the ground. So he ran outside
and he said, I think I said, TikTok up in
the sky and he said, I'm coking my shotgun. I said,
there ain't no way there is a unfelop in that
skuy and uh he ran outside. Damn near from your
damn near name dad ding. No, that was that was
(27:21):
a great episode. That was pretty pretty wild. I couldn't
believe that they have the UFOs right now. We had
to cut that episode as that lady kept going on
and on because you can finish your sentence, the name
and name name, but it's that on North Sam Hill,
Sam Hill up on the end. Still. I was decided
to play it one more time to see if I
could find the point where you finished. But she never dies.
So tell us a little bit about yourself, what you've
done well. I live in l A. I'm originally from Texas,
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but I live in l A for the last twenties
something years to a radio show on FM in Los Angeles.
Was at a big dream come shooting you. It was
when I got the offer come to kiss. It was
I was in San Francisco. Nice. Then they said you
want to come to l A. I'm like, yeah, absolutely,
so I came to l A. And that's surely after
that's where I heard your first podcast twenty years twenty
(28:07):
years ago. The first Wow, it's I know you're a
long time you're a you're a long hauler. That's a
that's go. The first episode of that, I guess, all right,
this is ari uh and uh, this is uh my throat,
let's talking. My Throat'll be fine. Oh good, because there's
(28:27):
no way that we can maintain that for the entire
length of the show. What my voice eyes is so Horse,
that's better. Oh good, because nobody wants to hear that. Alright,
so let's start the first show. That was a great episode,
It was amazing. But that's when I first moved to
l A. Yeah, right about that time. Well, what was
it about l A that made you feel like it's
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just gonna be your new home? I think there were
more opportunities in l A. Uh in Hollywood is here.
So you want to do anything in the world of entertainment,
this is this is where it's at. Because you feel
like in Houston, Europe, big fishing, a little tiny, you know,
Houston bond um. In Houston, I felt like I was,
you know, I was still surrounded by my childhood friends.
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Maybe I needed to branch out and meet new people.
They just didn't believe in you. They didn't believe me.
It hurt. I think we have that in the archives.
You fucking suck alone. I wanna be big, yeah big?
Like what that dude? God, I hate you. Get out
(29:30):
of your Jojo, You'll never leave this Houston pie. And
then we cut to the high school reunion. Oh hey, Jojo, good,
good to see you again. Uh, I haven't han't seen
you in a while. I mean, what do we do?
You want to meet my five kids? Um? No, I would.
I'm sure they're fine, but I don't want to meet
you want to meet my seven kids? I don't. He's
got seven? I got a from four different wives. Are
(29:54):
all four wives here tonight? Um? They're all in prison,
every single one of them? What do you do? What
are you doing now? Of them? Are you know? Parents
gave birth to the stuff? The stutter never went away?
What do you what are you doing now? Man? I
do a radio show in Los Angeles? Wait, you're Jojo? No, no,
wait a minute, you're Jojo wait on the radio from
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kissing him? I know, I know, it's a yeah, it's
pretty crazy to think it is me? It's me? What
did we do with our lives? Dude? Literally nothing? Are
you in the same Jojo? That hosty? I heard radio countdown?
That that is that is me? Yes? I love that
you listen a lot? Yeah, I love it. I love
the way I love I love the way you you pull.
You pull a lot out of all the guests and
(30:38):
the guy who who says the numbers and the song titles,
and I guess what you were like in high school? Sure?
Are you like a heavy metal dude. I would have
take you for like a skater artist type. Know. I
was pretty pretty shy as a kid, very shy. And
then uh, it hit me that I wanted to try
something in the entertainment world, maybe just so I can
(30:58):
break down on my shell. And radio became the thing.
My dad got me a job at a small, little
bity small radio station and a M radio station. What
was it called k b U k K buck. That
was the first place that I had a job. Wait
a minute, I think I remember you know. Let's play
the art, guys I have. My name is Darry. What's
your name? This is my son, my son Jojo. Are
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you doing today's first day? I want you to show
him around the studio. I could be on the radio today. Yes,
you get to be on the radio. I promised you.
I promised you got you would get to be on
the radio, and then I would take you out for
ice cream after your air shift a r K k K.
Let me just talk to Jojo. Okay, by, guys, I
did'd see you later. Just stay close by, Jojo. Let
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me tell you something. Yeah, no, funk with me. This
is my realm. If each had to take my spot.
I'll fucking kick your ass all right now, you guys
got reacquainted. Isn't always such a nice guy? It's carefully
he's great, right what what? Why? Crying? Son? Bug? Bit me?
Ari will will make you feel better because he's a
(32:04):
real nice guy. I'm gonna step away from it a second.
Funk with me, don't with my radio. I just want
to be on the radio. Are you telling me? All right? Guys?
Mac hey, hey, why you Your face is even redder
than before, and you're crying even more profusely than you
were when I'm back. I'm sorry. Yeah, I want to
(32:25):
thank you for comforting him and his time and need
right now. Thank you, just preemptively. Okay, you know what
I think, y'all are gonna be best friends for life.
And I can't wait until thirty years from an hours
so when he's a guest on your show, all right,
(32:45):
by forever. I didn't realize it. I was. I was
that mean to you. I'm so sorry that was It
was uncalled for the whole you know I was. I
was very aggressive in my early days in radio. You
have a podcast, yes, you tell us about it. I
have podcast called paranormal Ish. Which is you know about ghost, UFOs,
anything under that umbrella of paranormal. If you've had a
(33:08):
paranormal experience, I'd love to hear it you personally have
any experience with paranormal. I have had doors slam on
me with no other explanation other than something being paranormal.
Did they have been spring hinged? I forgot to check
for the spring. I guess it's possible, but I don't
think it was. Do you have guests on your show
How to Do It? Can? Well? Tell me the format?
(33:29):
On the podcast, I'll have guests who have had paranormal encounters,
and then they'll tell me their story, and sometimes I'll
do research on a particular location where they had this
incident happened. Sometimes we just take their story. Sometimes I
have the UFO investigators jump on and talk about, you know, working,
you know, researching people's claims of experiencing a UFO or
an abduction or a lot of a lot of crazy things.
(33:50):
Sometimes you believe them, sometimes you don't. You want to
hear a paranormal story. Yeah, this girl, she lived in Northridge.
This was she was when she told me the story.
She's probably mid twenties. But this happened when they were younger.
Three sisters seven, eight, nine ish years old, and they
live with mom and dad and grandmother in Northridge. Grandmother
passed away um, but the family were so torn up
(34:10):
about it they didn't tell the daughters that grandmother had passed.
They kept this on for about a year. They didn't
know grandmother had passed for an entire year. They would
use excuses like she's with Uncle so, and so, she's
with Aunt so and so, she's in the hospital, back
and forth, you know, because that would be things she
would typically do. So they didn't know once again that
she had passed away until a year later, well about
(34:30):
a week after the funeral, Mom calls upstairs and says, hey,
come down for dinner, and uh one of the daughters.
Keeping in mind they don't know for another year that
she's gone, one of the daughters says, I can't come down, Mom,
I'm braiding grandmother's hair. She had a ladies, a lady
her grandmother in the room. She was braiding her hair.
She thought it was her, and she of course just disappeared.
(34:51):
Mom came up running and she told Mom, you made
you made Grandma leave. They never spoke about it until
years later. Crazy story. Right, I didn't like that story
at all. Well, where can we hear that show? By
the way, you can hear that show on the radio
app Spotify, Apple podcast most podcast platform, jo Right, thank
you again for being a guest on the show. For
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our host are special guest contributors Brian Husky, Kashankar, and
Jojoe Right. I'm producer Andy and this was This is
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This is This is Americans Live. I'm producer Andy, filling
in for our host Ari, who's busy on Saturday Night Live. Yes,
I wasn't joking. Last week he's joined the cast of
Saturday Night Live, which is so so great for him. Anyway,
he's left me in charge. Much like last week, this
week's episode will also be a little different than usual.
I think we've established that the best part of This
(00:25):
is American's Live is me, producer Andy, and my ability
to sift through the archives and find footage from the
lives of our guest contributors during the interview. As well.
This week, we're going to replay three more of my
favorite interviews from this season so far. Brian Husky, Rica Shankar,
and radio personality Joe Joe. Right, all right, let's get
into the first interview. Brian Husky enjoy especially guest contributed
Brisky you today. Oh, I'm very good. Thanks for having me.
(00:49):
I'm I've only eve been listening to the show. I
you know, I came to it maybe about halfway through
your run. You know, I had some people so recommend
it to me. I always trust her a word of
mouth and um, and these people were you know, really
sort of tapped into a lot of Zeitgeists podcasts and
and so I really felt like that's uh that spoke
(01:09):
to me for a long time. Yeah, and and for
me to go back and sort of go find all
these archives. It's also a time capsule, you know, like
you're focusing on the first cell phone and you know, yeah,
and then sort of you know when when small inspection
stations closed down, like these big moments in society, that
(01:31):
the shifts, we actually had that small inspections one. I've
always been there, you know, we have that in the
archives that when the small such as it's such a
cause a family runs small inspection empire, when that goes down,
that I mean, it's heartbreaking, it's really heartbreaking. Any it's
number inspection house, uh, any chain of different small inspections
(01:55):
across the Houston Metroplex area shut down for really two days.
People who need to get their cars inspected and you
know the status of the smock of their own cars,
we're just sitting there with their pockets and ends. Yeah.
Well we've had this our family for must have been
three years now, you have three three years and nine
months this Tuesday. Yeah, we don't want to Yeah, we
(02:17):
want to say four years, but it's not four years yet,
but we will be in two months, in one week. Yeah,
but we didn't want to say that it was four
years because we know you're a journalist and we don't
want to be any gotcha journalism. We want we want
to be factual for you, and also we want to
be factual about we're closing down, but not for any
(02:38):
kind of criminal reasons. We really want to emphasize that,
which are you ever going to devote to people? Well,
you just say any closed down. We'll divulge all the
reasons why, all the reasons that are not reasons why
we close down. Like will say, like, we did not
close down because for criminal reasons. Yeah, well, we did
not close down because theft or future arson like if that,
(03:01):
if that happens in the future. We did not burn
it for insurance money purposes because it got to be
too much not having this place open very long. We
got miles to feed. We did not try to cash in.
I burned the place down. We do not have a
gambling problem that is currently up ending our existence. Surely
after the interview, all four locations burned in the hell
(03:24):
fire and the two brothers twin brother smug inspection banished
the blue deating a lot of people with no smug
inspection places to go to. Yes, I would like to
apply for a driver's license. Um, I am not trying
to get a new identity. I'm not flying a law.
(03:44):
They just had to accompany him to the d n V. Sir,
I can only help one of y'all. So who who
needs the I D and who does not? I'll do
not not need it. Okay, I don't have I do
not have time for this, and I am I am
not a word play person. To I am not a
double entendre. If you're trying to post some of that crap,
you can take it right out of here. Rad Namma
for him was in That was a good one. It was. Yeah.
(04:07):
I kind of is a young me, very much a
round over version, and I thought it was really interesting. Yeah,
and you did the last act on her, which is honestly,
I mean that there wasn't much to her. She was
kind of just a woman who worked at the d
m V. Yeah. Negative. So I don't want to give you,
but I love your work. We do. We actually we
(04:29):
have that too. By the way of the third act
of that episode when you were talking when you followed
the the m V woman around. Yeah, you guys, I
have to play it. What I'm serious? What just trying
to make you up here? I know you're sorry. I'm sorry, ma'am.
I'm just trying to I know, but I do not.
Can I get a check one too, please? In right now?
Check one to check one to sibilants, sibilants like in
(04:51):
that SNL sketch about sound. I know what y'all do.
Go ahead, now, go ahead, you're you're in my living
room now, in my my one evening off. I gave
you my time, so let's do this interview. Yeah, that
was a very tough interview. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know
why I included that stuff and just saying I used
to have his dad back in the day when I
(05:12):
just did everything that I've included, I would just put
it out there. You know. I just really very much
about transparency. You've really grown and it tells about yourself.
Oh wow, that's a good interview question. I'm from originally
from Charlotte, North Carolina, and uh now I live in
Los Angeles. I went to a college in Charlotte. You
did in Charlotte for ten years? Oh my god, where'd
(05:32):
you live in Charlotte? Was passing in the night? Yeah,
the Queen City. You lived in New York? He moved here? Yes,
I was in Uh. I moved there in ninety six. Yeah,
and then I moved out here in two thousand and six.
But you in New York for ten years? Ten years
in math? Did you enjoy your time? Dude? I I did,
and then I got exhausted with it. It's an exhausting city.
(05:53):
It takes a lot of energy, right, And I broke
my toe because I kicked the wall after my car
was broken into for the seventh time, and um, subways
uh started to make me sad, so uh. And there's
no more work there. All the work was out in
l A. I was gonna say, there's no more work
in New York? Right, what kind of work do you do?
(06:14):
I've got to get there. Really seem to take a while.
That was the kind of look you do. Oh, I'm
an actor and a writer, mainline actor. Have I seen
you and stuff? I don't know what you watch. I
watch all kind of stuff. I'd watch a lot of old,
old movies from the nineteen eighties, yeah. I mean I'm
in most of those. Tell us about what you've been
working on. Now these days you'll stop hearing record? Do
(06:36):
we have let me step recluding? Okay, So when we're
in this part, do I sort of talk about the reality,
like the harsh reality we've all been through with a
COVID and stuff, or do I steer away from that? Well,
I would say, like, well, the past year and a half,
I haven't really been doing much. I've had my own
podcasts and stuff. But I got a podcast called bald
Talk on. We'll talk about that, yeah, And and then um,
(06:59):
I've auditioning. I did some commercials. I do voices for
Bob's Burgers. Do that. We'll talk about that. Okay, all right,
so when we go when when you when you ask
the question again, are you taking notes? I don't have
a pen Okay, podcast, Bob's Burgers. Yeah, auditioning, but you know,
trying to generate work. I think that's a you know, Okay,
do you have any podcast it's going on? Oh? Sure,
I've got a podcast called bald Talk. Let's just try
(07:22):
that one again. I just I'd like a clean one
and we'll just kind of Okay, do you want me
to be him? Do you want me to do you
want do you want to run run the lines with me? Right?
Use this audio and then we'll use your your thing. Okay,
So okay, um tell me about Hey, can you not
do it in his voice? Because yeah, what is that?
What the fund is that even you've been doing impictions
(07:43):
to me behind my back? That's a that's a new
character on Mark. You know, I don't I don't need to.
I don't need the question. I'll just say okay three
to one. So I have a podcast called Bald Talk.
It's myself and Charlie Sanders. Uh, two bald comedians interview
bald everybody. We've had actors, directors, musicians, wig makers. We
(08:05):
just interviewed them about being bald, and then it kind
of goes from there into their creative work and their
insecurities and sort of the idea of like vanity and
perception and stuff. Are there any things that you discovered
that you didn't know of other people's perspectives and being bald?
The big takeaway is that, uh, it's always a bigger
hang up for you than anybody else in the whole world,
(08:27):
and especially if you have a hang up about dating.
Women do not give a f They really don't. So
take that away. If you're if you're listening and you're bald,
it's fine, it's totally fine. Well, thank you guys. Are
you welcome? You usly want to leave. I don't know.
It seemed like it was just I just eating. You
do get very close to people's face when you talk
(08:48):
to them, I think to make sure that they can
hear any way it comes out of my mouth. Have
headphones microphones? Yeah, that's what the mike's from. I mean
we're literally on both on your mic. You started on
the other side of the room. You are now out
over with me because I don't want I don't want
to throw you know, I don't want to mess up.
We guys have. But it's just just some feedback. If
if if you guys were to make a survey available
(09:10):
to me, I would take it and give some feedback.
But you know, actually have that survey. We have a
line phone number. I have to press the button, well,
you have to press several buttons because you're down the number.
What is it again, It's one, It's the one and
this is Americans Live Survey. This is Americans Life numbers right,
(09:33):
it's like way too many. Oh hold on, sorry, sorry guys,
my phone's ringing. Thank you for calling. This is American's
Live Customer Service. This is Andy the producer. Can I
are you taking the survey for me? I feel like
I should take the say, would you get away from
my mic so I can take the survey? Please? Please,
just for this moment, step away, like a second? Okay,
thank you? Yeah, Hi, Hi Brian? Yes, oh hey, how
(09:56):
you doing. Hey you're you're calling the survey line. Yeah,
I just wanted to give some feedback on the interview section. Okay,
how's it going so far? Are you enjoying it? I mean, yeah,
there's some problem. I mean I feel like there's some
elements to it that I'm not totally psyched about. Like
he gets a little close and and I felt like
when you ask opening questions like tell me about yourself? Yeah,
(10:17):
I mean what am I supposed to? Well? You know, free? Sorry,
can your hand just one second? I'm getting another call please,
All right, I've got Brian on the survey. Yeah. I
know he's saying that I can see you talking to him.
I can turn around if it's can you do me?
Could you do me a favorite. Just turn around real quick. Yeah,
(10:39):
what's that? Yeah, he's on the phoniest bitching again about again.
This is what he sounds like right now, he's suing
too close to me again. I'm sorry, I turn back around.
You guys gave me the option, Like I just said,
is there a survey? And so you're letting me do
a survey? But now just now you're sort of uptended.
(10:59):
I'm this is weird. You know, if you have a
survey about your survey, I would I would give some
feedback on that. As a matter of fact, we're going
to end it on this. We actually have one. This
is American's Live survey survey. Who's calling it? I'll do it.
I have a new I have a new phone. I
want to Yeah, yeah, I'm just gonna do a voicing
one eight hundred. This in a shift number one hundred.
(11:26):
This is Americans Live Survey Survey. I'm sorry, did you
mean one eight hundred? This is Americans Live Survey, no
survey survey. I'm sorry, did you mean this is Americans
live survey? I think it might be a confusing the
phone because we say survey twice tobably. I'm gonna I'm
gonna hang out making the call. I'm gonna call it
(11:46):
survey quick, did it now? Hey, guys, one second, my
phone's ringing. Sure, I'm gonna grab it. Thank you for
calling the This is Americans Live survey line. This is Andy.
How can I help you? How was your How was
how's it going? Alright? We'd love it if you just
let me start talking at some point. Oh, okay, I
(12:06):
have a problem with my producer. Can I tell you
what it is. He's too great, he's too great, it's
too funny. He's asking me to play different parts of
the archives. And you know how many tapes we have
any archives? Thousands? Right? Huh? And then now we've got
to end on this. I'm sorry, I got I'm getting
a call. One a second. Hey, Brian. He's on the phone,
(12:27):
always on the phone. Really good. He's like, like, what
he's doing? You do it? I don't think he sounds
like a yeah. He sounds like a dying librarian or tydeing. Alright,
what are you doing here? I've been here the whole time.
(12:47):
He's listening to here. Got a bit of shit. I'm
really sorry. I'm sorry. I think I I caused the
problem in this problem, just like the thing is that
I do my best to move these it's along. Sometimes
my producer gets a little archive crazy, and then we
started dipping into things and then all of a sudden
(13:08):
we have no time for nothing. I really like the
way that you're tired. I'm gonna call the survey. Here
we go again. Hold on lift phones. Hello, Hey, it's me. Hey,
what's up? Well? Ari is kind of being a dick
right now to you? I know, okay? Well by zero
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(13:28):
this opportunity. Yeah, coming up, our interview with Ka Shankar.
But first a word from our sponsors who make this
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This Is Americans Live. I'm producer Andy filling in for
our host, Ari, who was away in New York as
(13:48):
an SNL cast member. Which is really something, really really something.
I'm here playing some of my favorite guest contributor interviews
that we've had during this first season of this amazing
top shell show. Up next, Raka Shankar, enjoy my especially
guys contributor. Hello, how are you doing today? I'm great?
(14:09):
Thank you so tell us how long have you been
listening to our show? As long as it's been on,
which is maybe you've released five episodes, but there's been
ten recorded. We've released more than five. You're something you
told me before and a number I'm forgetting, but that's
(14:29):
how many I've listened to. So you've been listening for
three years? Yeah, decades? Even Do you remember any of
the shows that I was on prior to doing this show?
I do remember? Which one ed? A cooking show? Yeah?
Can I finished? What else? What other shows did I have? Oh?
I mean we both remember, right, all the stuff that
(14:52):
you've done. So it goes without saying almost, but I
I'm asking you to say it, right, a cooking show?
You probably did something with Poe Hi. You say politics, pe,
Politics pot Pie. We actually have shows. Yeah, we actually
(15:13):
have that in the archives that your episode of Politics,
one of the highest rated episodes of Politics pot Pie,
which was episode forty eight. Who was that? Um? You
I know that? And Hillary Rodham Clinton, Oh my god,
that was an incredible episode. Remember, Yeah, we use that
too thousand and sixteen when she was running for president.
(15:41):
I remember my especially guys written thank you for Kenning,
thank you for having me. I'm so happy to be here.
Tell you've been speaking of that in different times. Feeling
very rasped, I am not doing too good. The only
(16:03):
thing that would make me feel better is a hot
piping pot. Bye, let's make them. That was the show
for the most part. I don't know if you remember.
I just have a guest on even though its supposed
to be political, It's called political Popeye. I just have
somebody on the show who was politically and poet. Again,
it was the things we were going to talk about,
(16:25):
dicks maybe just talked about Poppy. I'm sure it was
a relief to a lot of the politicians are sick
with talking about politics. Just sit down with a pop pie.
It's nice. Can you imagine to pick a politician and
I do an episode with him? Okay, pick a politician, anyone,
Pete Pewter, judge, Pete Poota judge. It was my What
episode is that I was? That was one of the
later ones, with a more recent right now, I don't
(16:46):
know if we have that one in the archive. Welcome
to Politic Poppy. Very happy to be here. I'm oh my,
I think I need a lozenge. And the only thing
that's going to help if pop Piping pot Pie the thing.
If I'm most compelling about that show, it was like
when I feel sick or like like my throat hurts,
(17:09):
and I don't really reach for a pot pie super something.
So it's interesting a lot of your guests seem to
have like a throat issue and we're like, oh, I
want like a big, thick pot pie. Yeah you could see, yeah,
would you had more of that kind of consistency, but
they did swallowing like chicken chunks. Well, I hate to
break it to the two of you, but I think
(17:30):
that's all we have in the archives anyway. So okay, Wow,
do you think I learned? There won't be a third example?
I mean, my god, I'm trying to remember some of
my other favorite episodes Politicians and pot Pie only recorded
to numbered them. Strangely, there wasn't like a weird Mike
Pence one. Did I dream that? Wait? Wait, I think
(17:52):
there is. I think the Mike pens one though, sounded
a lot like people. Oh it did, Yeah, we can
check it. When would that have been? It was episode
just as MP fans and military police. Oh interesting how
it could mean both? It could be where they were
a press play. Now I have been working for the
(18:13):
military police more quite some time. I'm sorry, my throat hurts.
I need a a cold, papa. Yeah, that's a little
bit about yourself. Okay. Great. Um, I'm a comedy writer.
I knew that. Okay, great, you're on top of it.
You're writing on the show now, are you guys talking
about it? Yeah? I was writing for Animaniacs recently, and
(18:35):
now I'm writing for show called Grand Crew that's on NBC.
It's come out in January. When you're writing for the
show like Animaniacs and those characters have been around for
a long time, Yeah, do they give you a little
bit of attitude when you write something for them and
they just don't want to do it? Yeah? So their
their cartoons, so they don't really give you much attitude
since they're not people. Um, I mean is that supposed
(18:59):
to mean? Yeah, I guess that was fucked up. Just
because you hear someone's voice you don't necessarily see their face,
doesn't mean they're not And I wasn't meaning to insult
you as a radio person, for sure. All those people
are are people, and you know those voice act their
voice actors is the thing. And you know, so I
(19:21):
didn't mean in any offense to you. I think people
who work in radio are really talented and and and
you know, it's justesting this happens to be something entirely
different from what you do. So you write jokes cartoons. Yeah,
you're working on a new show, Yes, a live action
show called Grand Crew, and it's been a blast. It's
you know, about friends hanging out at a wine bar. Uh,
(19:43):
it's very cool. Are you a wine guy? Am I
allowed to flip the interview a little bit. I think
that's some wine. And what I think, you know, back
in the day when we first started doing this show,
which was back in what you was that the Topeak
a year, I used to drink a yeah, and then
I mean, if you want to hear excipt from that episode,
(20:04):
you can see you could just tell, yeah, welcome to
episode of This is America's Live. I mean, I'm sorry,
I mean you can tell the difference. Yeah, you sound.
I mean that was like clearly in Toxic is a
Big Year. No doubt was lasting through heart, No doubt
(20:25):
it was. But you were also on the show another recently. Yeah,
I did a little cameo on hacks total total blasts made.
They made a makeshift casino in downtown l A really
fun Yeah, you get started in comedy comedy. I actually
I started as an assistant video editor for true crime television.
(20:46):
That was a racket, and so I did that for
a while and then was what was writing comedy on
the side, and transitioned out of it by just um
quitting and then freelancing. You mean, by writing comedy on
the side that you were writing jokes in the side,
writing sketches, you know how, and dditing background so right,
and direct sketches and then cut them myself and that
kind of wrote little articles for places like Protectress and
(21:07):
stuff like that, and putting my sketches out online, and
then started applying to more comedy things. Um, it was
a lot of fun. Do you always make a funny
type put up? No? Um? I mean I wanted to be,
but you know, I wasn't like class clown type of person.
I was a pretty academic person. I went to biomedical
research camp when I was fifteen. That's the only overnight
(21:29):
camp I've been to, so pretty academic. And then only
in college did I decided to go into film and
TV production. Does most child memory. I remember going mini
golfing with my cousin and there's a bug on his
back and I don't know why didn't just flick it
off or whatever. I was little and I was like,
there's a bug on your back. And he freaked out
(21:50):
and he's like, get off, get it off. And I
was like, okay, here's the way I think you think
of to do that. And I took my mini golf
club and just swung it and hit him in the head.
So we we have we do we have We have
the hospital, visip, we have the hospital. I can't believe
you guys have that. Yeah, we have that. Actually the hospital. Um,
(22:10):
so can you tell us where you're here? By the way,
there was a bug on me and and I did
everything I could, did everything I could to help him. Yeah,
and then why is he here because he has a
bug on his back? I had one, and she she m,
can I hear explaining this? If I talked to you like,
it's just one on one real quick, I'm just kiding comfortables.
(22:31):
I'm sorry, man, I'm okay. But let me just say
he's a vicious slyer. He's a viciously a troll and
a free and everything that he says, it's gonna be
a lie. If you want the real story, you kind
of me afterwards afterwards, Okay, you gotta help me. What happened?
She claimed that there was a bug on my back.
There would have been no way for me to know
(22:53):
because it was on my back, and then she just
started hitting me over and or where a mini golf club.
I have to call somebody. Okay, wait, wait to see
a phone. I see and let me fine. I love
I love my cousin. She loves me. Okay, I'm calling
the authorities. Now, okay, you're calling the authorities where you
(23:14):
can call it. I saw a bug on his back.
It was huge. I don't know what to do. He said,
get it off. I was like, okay, well, I'm not
gonna touch with my hands. It's disgusting. It's big. So
I took the golf cloth. If they wouldn't die. She
calls me the thing the leads game. Next thing, because
it was in a questioning room looking at the lineup
of different people. It's cousin being one of the people.
All right, step forward and say the line, please, the
(23:36):
line with you. You have a bug on your back,
Come here. Let me hit you with this. All right,
step forward, seeing it's her hold on, I mean, suspect
number one. Please step forward to the line identified. You
have a book on your back. Let me hit you
with this. She's doing an accent the number two. Step forward,
you have a book on your back. Let me just
go club. It was the first one. She was just
(23:56):
doing a different accent. It is my COVID, A bug
on your bab me with this Gulf club? What the
hell I'm know? Why do we have to have a lineup?
I already identified my cousin as being the one who
didn't swiftly with eating as I sentence you to six weeks,
(24:17):
said Bio medical Camp. That's a fucking lime. Yes, it's
been a pleasure. Great to be here. Thanks guys. Coming
up our interview with radio personality Joe Joe. Right, But
first a word from some of our sponsors. Stay with us,
(24:41):
Welcome back to This is Americans Live. I'm producer Andy
filling in for our host Ari, who has joined the
cast of Saturday Night Live and things are going great
for him. He'll be back, but this week he left
it up to me to re air some of our
favorite interviews from our guest contributors. Up next, you know
him from l A's number one hit music station one
or two point seven, Kiss Him and the I Heart
Radio Countdown. A very well produced show. By the way,
(25:04):
Jojo Rights enjoy Jojo Thanks, It's a pleasure to be here.
It's a pleasure to have you. Thank you very much.
Good to see you. How long have you have you
been a fan of the show. Well, this is uh
my first experience with the show. I've never le chant again.
I've been a huge, huge fan for very good years years.
(25:26):
And what was the first episode that you The first
one that I listened to was the thing where you
guys had and the lady was she was kind of
screaming and then you guys you know, had the she
was eating a sandwich. Don't we have that in the archives? Uh? Yeah,
I guess we do. Unfortunately, Ellen was a very experimental
(25:52):
one because nobody knew she was making a sandwich. That's
kind of where I stopped listening is with the sandwich.
But it hooked me. It was a second favorite. That
was episode was my second favorite there in that one.
Episode sixty four was when the UFO blew in and
(26:13):
then um he picked it, went to pick up the cow,
but it was you know it was actually it wasn't
a cow. It's like the school teacher. We have that
though that episode that we find it and what I
did find it? You me, me, me, me me me,
(26:36):
I have thought at a young cow school. Get that cow.
It's pretty heavy. I don't know if we can. You
trying to take my COWT know, no, not of course not,
but you're just trying to had this guy a little
tick down. More tic tics are on my my cows
(27:00):
of God. I saw one NBC news reports, are you
are full sighting over the hillside of Kentucky a cow
is being looted off the ground. So he ran outside
and he said, I think I said, TikTok up in
the sky and he said, I'm coking my shotgun. I said,
there ain't no way there is a unfelop in that
skuy and uh he ran outside. Damn near from your
damn near name dad ding. No, that was that was
(27:21):
a great episode. That was pretty pretty wild. I couldn't
believe that they have the UFOs right now. We had
to cut that episode as that lady kept going on
and on because you can finish your sentence, the name
and name name, but it's that on North Sam Hill,
Sam Hill up on the end. Still. I was decided
to play it one more time to see if I
could find the point where you finished. But she never dies.
So tell us a little bit about yourself, what you've
done well. I live in l A. I'm originally from Texas,
(27:43):
but I live in l A for the last twenties
something years to a radio show on FM in Los Angeles.
Was at a big dream come shooting you. It was
when I got the offer come to kiss. It was
I was in San Francisco. Nice. Then they said you
want to come to l A. I'm like, yeah, absolutely,
so I came to l A. And that's surely after
that's where I heard your first podcast twenty years twenty
(28:07):
years ago. The first Wow, it's I know you're a
long time you're a you're a long hauler. That's a
that's go. The first episode of that, I guess, all right,
this is ari uh and uh, this is uh my throat,
let's talking. My Throat'll be fine. Oh good, because there's
(28:27):
no way that we can maintain that for the entire
length of the show. What my voice eyes is so Horse,
that's better. Oh good, because nobody wants to hear that. Alright,
so let's start the first show. That was a great episode,
It was amazing. But that's when I first moved to
l A. Yeah, right about that time. Well, what was
it about l A that made you feel like it's
(28:48):
just gonna be your new home? I think there were
more opportunities in l A. Uh in Hollywood is here.
So you want to do anything in the world of entertainment,
this is this is where it's at. Because you feel
like in Houston, Europe, big fishing, a little tiny, you know,
Houston bond um. In Houston, I felt like I was,
you know, I was still surrounded by my childhood friends.
(29:10):
Maybe I needed to branch out and meet new people.
They just didn't believe in you. They didn't believe me.
It hurt. I think we have that in the archives.
You fucking suck alone. I wanna be big, yeah big?
Like what that dude? God, I hate you. Get out
(29:30):
of your Jojo, You'll never leave this Houston pie. And
then we cut to the high school reunion. Oh hey, Jojo, good,
good to see you again. Uh, I haven't han't seen
you in a while. I mean, what do we do?
You want to meet my five kids? Um? No, I would.
I'm sure they're fine, but I don't want to meet
you want to meet my seven kids? I don't. He's
got seven? I got a from four different wives. Are
(29:54):
all four wives here tonight? Um? They're all in prison,
every single one of them? What do you do? What
are you doing now? Of them? Are you know? Parents
gave birth to the stuff? The stutter never went away?
What do you what are you doing now? Man? I
do a radio show in Los Angeles? Wait, you're Jojo? No, no,
wait a minute, you're Jojo wait on the radio from
(30:17):
kissing him? I know, I know, it's a yeah, it's
pretty crazy to think it is me? It's me? What
did we do with our lives? Dude? Literally nothing? Are
you in the same Jojo? That hosty? I heard radio countdown?
That that is that is me? Yes? I love that
you listen a lot? Yeah, I love it. I love
the way I love I love the way you you pull.
You pull a lot out of all the guests and
(30:38):
the guy who who says the numbers and the song titles,
and I guess what you were like in high school? Sure?
Are you like a heavy metal dude. I would have
take you for like a skater artist type. Know. I
was pretty pretty shy as a kid, very shy. And
then uh, it hit me that I wanted to try
something in the entertainment world, maybe just so I can
(30:58):
break down on my shell. And radio became the thing.
My dad got me a job at a small, little
bity small radio station and a M radio station. What
was it called k b U k K buck. That
was the first place that I had a job. Wait
a minute, I think I remember you know. Let's play
the art, guys I have. My name is Darry. What's
your name? This is my son, my son Jojo. Are
(31:21):
you doing today's first day? I want you to show
him around the studio. I could be on the radio today. Yes,
you get to be on the radio. I promised you.
I promised you got you would get to be on
the radio, and then I would take you out for
ice cream after your air shift a r K k K.
Let me just talk to Jojo. Okay, by, guys, I
did'd see you later. Just stay close by, Jojo. Let
(31:43):
me tell you something. Yeah, no, funk with me. This
is my realm. If each had to take my spot.
I'll fucking kick your ass all right now, you guys
got reacquainted. Isn't always such a nice guy? It's carefully
he's great, right what what? Why? Crying? Son? Bug? Bit me?
Ari will will make you feel better because he's a
(32:04):
real nice guy. I'm gonna step away from it a second.
Funk with me, don't with my radio. I just want
to be on the radio. Are you telling me? All right? Guys?
Mac hey, hey, why you Your face is even redder
than before, and you're crying even more profusely than you
were when I'm back. I'm sorry. Yeah, I want to
(32:25):
thank you for comforting him and his time and need
right now. Thank you, just preemptively. Okay, you know what
I think, y'all are gonna be best friends for life.
And I can't wait until thirty years from an hours
so when he's a guest on your show, all right,
(32:45):
by forever. I didn't realize it. I was. I was
that mean to you. I'm so sorry that was It
was uncalled for the whole you know I was. I
was very aggressive in my early days in radio. You
have a podcast, yes, you tell us about it. I
have podcast called paranormal Ish. Which is you know about ghost, UFOs,
anything under that umbrella of paranormal. If you've had a
(33:08):
paranormal experience, I'd love to hear it you personally have
any experience with paranormal. I have had doors slam on
me with no other explanation other than something being paranormal.
Did they have been spring hinged? I forgot to check
for the spring. I guess it's possible, but I don't
think it was. Do you have guests on your show
How to Do It? Can? Well? Tell me the format?
(33:29):
On the podcast, I'll have guests who have had paranormal encounters,
and then they'll tell me their story, and sometimes I'll
do research on a particular location where they had this
incident happened. Sometimes we just take their story. Sometimes I
have the UFO investigators jump on and talk about, you know, working,
you know, researching people's claims of experiencing a UFO or
an abduction or a lot of a lot of crazy things.
(33:50):
Sometimes you believe them, sometimes you don't. You want to
hear a paranormal story. Yeah, this girl, she lived in Northridge.
This was she was when she told me the story.
She's probably mid twenties. But this happened when they were younger.
Three sisters seven, eight, nine ish years old, and they
live with mom and dad and grandmother in Northridge. Grandmother
passed away um, but the family were so torn up
(34:10):
about it they didn't tell the daughters that grandmother had passed.
They kept this on for about a year. They didn't
know grandmother had passed for an entire year. They would
use excuses like she's with Uncle so, and so, she's
with Aunt so and so, she's in the hospital, back
and forth, you know, because that would be things she
would typically do. So they didn't know once again that
she had passed away until a year later, well about
(34:30):
a week after the funeral, Mom calls upstairs and says, hey,
come down for dinner, and uh one of the daughters.
Keeping in mind they don't know for another year that
she's gone, one of the daughters says, I can't come down, Mom,
I'm braiding grandmother's hair. She had a ladies, a lady
her grandmother in the room. She was braiding her hair.
She thought it was her, and she of course just disappeared.
(34:51):
Mom came up running and she told Mom, you made
you made Grandma leave. They never spoke about it until
years later. Crazy story. Right, I didn't like that story
at all. Well, where can we hear that show? By
the way, you can hear that show on the radio
app Spotify, Apple podcast most podcast platform, jo Right, thank
you again for being a guest on the show. For
(35:13):
our host are special guest contributors Brian Husky, Kashankar, and
Jojoe Right. I'm producer Andy and this was This is
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