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June 26, 2025 • 12 mins
Honey Bee dah Clown
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
When I was watching it when I was a little kid.
It was in full color. It was the nineties. I mean,
what are we talking about the Andy Griffith show. No,
we're talking about Bows of the Clown.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Is that the sort of TV they had out there
in Iowa? They just recycled old sixties shows for you
to watch. Yeah, I'm sure it was recycled, but it
was the nineties. He was in color. I think he
was still doing stuff in the Chicago area. I think
it was on WGN Bozo the Clown. The only reason
I mentioned this is because I saw a picture of.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
A clown and I was like, oh, okay, we don't
have clowns like that anymore. You know, like back in
the day, like you could be just like like a legitimate,
old fashioned clown. Nowadays, do you ever see anybody dressing
up like a normal clown?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Sometime?

Speaker 1 (00:40):
I'm sure, where where's where's a clown? Where's like an
old circus clown? You can hire clowns for birthday parties? Yeah,
but are they those kinds of clowns or are they like, hey,
it's a guy who does magic tricks with cards?

Speaker 2 (00:54):
You can you can find both.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
I feel like there's a little uh different, Am I right?

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Am?

Speaker 2 (01:02):
I right? I would think that, uh, you go ahead,
it's not it's not the Jew, it's not it's not
worth to squeeze. I think that the whole thing with
clowns is is it started with a happy, innocent place.
But of course the debotched culture that we live in,
these botched culture has to twist things around in a

(01:24):
sick kind of way. Cue the stuff that was going
on last hour, the weird stuff with the well with
what I'm not even going to reference. I'm not going
to give it time. I'm not going to give it air,
not going to give you you have to, you have to.
It's weird, man, You're living in a weird society.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Donald Trump was called Daddy by the NATO General Secretary
or Secretary General or whatever they call it.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Guy. That that I mean, like, that's that's not nothing.
That's a weird thing to say. And we're living in
a weird society. But what he didn't even actually call
him that.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
He just said that Daddy's got to you know, like
sometimes lay down the law in like a non weird way.
But everybody's taking it weird. Why are people going there like,
why are people taking it weird? It didn't make any sense.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Well, but hey, there's a lot of through lines here
to the conversation about clowns, because you're saying the clowns,
are you feel weird about them? Right?

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Well, it's just I just don't see them like that anymore.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Like ill, it's probably because there's been all these like
killer clown movies and stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, Pennywise, right, and you can't dress up like penny
Wise and expect kids to like you.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
A couple of years ago, because Winnie the Boo became
public domain, some knuckleheads made a horror movie with that character,
all the characters. Yeah, it's it's it's sad. Really, it's
not sad. It's capital I think it's sad. It's capitalism.
You don't have to you don't have to watch it, right,
Capitalism without a moral compass is a dangerous game.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
When has there ever been a moral compass? Like, let's
talk about that. And if you can't tell, we are
absolutely like wasting time. Because I was supposed to be
talking to deb Fisher, a center from the state of Nebraska.
She is in a vote that got scheduled for like
right now, but they're gonna try to get her on
at four point thirty.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
So we're working on it. So we'll see if Sanjaia
moves on to the next round, and once he does,
then we'll get her on the show. Sanjaya. Yeah, that
was like a American Idol reference, So like two thousand
and two is that? Man? Yeah? Probably it's got to
be close. How about that for a pull. I never
even watched that show.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
I was expecting you to be more of a William
hung type.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
You know, I am. I'm familiar with that reference. He
was a cultural phenomenon, that's for sure. Yeah, but probably
not the way he wanted to be. Probably not, although
he did he'd get the joker, you know what I
mean saying. I eventually got the joke. Okay, but he
made some money on it, so he made a ton
of money on right, So who's laughing? Now?

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Well that's what I'm saying. I like, what's the big
what's the big deal? What's the big whoop? As long
as you're making money off of it and you're okay
with the joke, then yeah, capitalism, baby, capitalism with a
capital C. Anyway, Yeah, back to the clown thing real quick,
there are people that we call clowns that aren't even clowns.
It's just become an insult, right, Like, hey, quit acting
like a clown, you clown? Right, it's just And I

(04:04):
watched Airbud. You remember Airbud? Back to Airbud. The bad
guy in Airbud is a clown. Okay, see there you go,
a traditional clown and he's a bad guy. He's mean
to the dog and that's when the dog runs away. Honestly,
a pretty gut wrenching movie to watch for your dog owner.
I mean, I get like the older I get the
more I I revisit that movie because I think it's

(04:25):
kind of an underrated classic, even if the premise is insane,
but the idea of like I get emotional a couple
of times during that film, and the guy who plays
the clown, he does a great job because I hate
that guy, Like, I'm every bit ready to see this
guy get destroyed. I want to punch this guy through
my screen. And this movie came out thirty years ago.

(04:45):
Go watch Airbud if you have him, by the way, underrated.
Speaking of movies, I watched the Eurovision movie for the
first time. It came out during the Pandemic that Will
Ferrell at Richel mccoams movie where they are trying to
make it to the Eurovision Song Contest. Are you familiar
with the Eurovision Song Contest.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
I'm familiar with it vaguely, I suppose. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
It's like all the countries have their own song contest
and they all, like all the European countries, they get
together and they compete for what the people vote in
the judges say is like the best song.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Right.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
It's kind of like a strange American idol type thing,
but it actually it's kind of fun, I think.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
So, you know what I don't know, like for me,
like my.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Viewpoint on things is if there was ever a moment
or a time in the history of I don't know
America or say the world that you know, we could
sit back, relax and watch something so pointless and funny.
By the way, has there been like a truly good
Welfaral movie on premise.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Not that I'm aware of. He was in this movie.
What was the name of that movie where he played
a little bit more of a serious character, stranger than
fiction I think was the name of the movie. And
it was an interesting movie. It was many years since
I watched it, Well pretty much.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
My point is we gotta get into more mindlessness every
once in a while. Everything we watch doesn't have to
be like the super hard hitting stuff like if you
if you like being scared by clowns, go watch Pennywise, right,
go watch go watch uh that crazy winning the Pooh
horror movie that they made.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Don't that's what that's my suggestion.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Go watch what's the one where the people have to
like they get their mouths sewn onto the now that't like? No,
maybe don't go watch horror movies like What's mindless? It's mindless,
but it's negative. The Saw movies. No, it's not negative.
People like to get scared, people like to feel weird.
I know it's not for me. It's not for me.
I like to laugh at stupid Wilfer all movies that

(06:44):
that's that's what I like. But there are people out
there that just like the mindlessness is something that will
never happen, like the Saw movies. Have you watched a
Saw movie before?

Speaker 2 (06:53):
Nah?

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, I see, Like I avoid that stuff too because
I don't like the goriness of all that stuff. But
a lot of people like those things. They've made like
fIF teen of those. I think that's weird. It's not weird.
It makes money and people are entertained by it. You
know what I think is weird? Cricket? How is that
still such a popular sport? Does anybody enjoy playing and
watching it? But for what do we know? No, it's

(07:14):
just you don't know because you've never played or watched it.
I watched it all the time. I'm trying to understand it.
Some of it makes no sense. Test cricket is like
it's pointless. You could just like consistently just keep barely
hitting the ball and not running anywhere, and you can
just stay up there. You can just keep batting. It
never ends, like theoretically in test cricket, you could just
be up there and be batting for like an hour
and a half. If I'm sitting in the dugout, it's

(07:35):
just like, ugh, what is it gonna be my turn?

Speaker 2 (07:38):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
But people love that stuff that makes sense to me,
just like Saw doesn't make sense to you. Well, people
like watching Jigsaw and like trap these people and have
all these like weird things going on and you get
their arms cut off or whatever. Like some people enjoy that.
I don't know what about Twister. I don't root for
a tornado to come and pick up our town. But
you'd be lying to yourself if you didn't find it

(08:00):
somewhat entertaining in the movie.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yeah, I saw the Was it Twister too or just
one of the updated version Twisters? They put it? Oh
they made it plural? Okay, Yeah, so that was a
good movie. I enjoyed it.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
It was good.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
I like it. It was fun. And when you live
around these parts, you know, it gets you. It probably
gets the adrenaline running a little bit more than another place.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Especially last year when we saw some real tornadoes that
looked like that, like on the ground.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Right.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
So look, I'm just I'm just throwing it out there.
Sometimes a mindlessness is good for the soul. You know
what else is good for the soul A good haircut
and a scout massage and the scent of a freshly
mode lawn, which, by the way, did you buy a lawnmower? I?

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, I have that all taken care of.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
You like the smell of freshly mode grass, I do. Yeah,
It's it's an enjoyable mowing. The lawn is just an
generally enjoyable experience. Yeah, it's it's a good exercise. It's
good to get out there and the heat, work up
a little sweat, have that have that progress of just
seeing those even lines mode through the lawn and then
you smell it and then you have that freshly cut

(09:07):
grass smell.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, it's the smell of victory. That's the good stuff.
Four nineteen. We are roughly oh, fifteen minutes or so
away from speaking with Senator Depth Fisher here on news
Radio eleventh in Kfab.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
Well, don't you know, Amory Songer is going to take
a quick break, But folks, he'll be back. In fact,
I think he's back. Now let's listen.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
In real quick.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
I was talking about clowns, because you know, what else
do you do when you have to buy yourself thirty
minutes of radio time that you weren't anticipating. And Julie
is on the phone line. She's calling in and apparently Julie,
I am told that you are a clown?

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Is that right?

Speaker 4 (09:44):
Yes? I am. And Penny Wise, I want to say,
is not a clown. He is an imposture. Clowns bring
joy and laughter and happiness, and she's a fake clown.
So yeah, I'm a clown.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Okay, so how do you? How does one become a
clown in this day and age?

Speaker 4 (10:02):
There, I have a mentor, a friend of mine who
also is a professional clown, and we have an organization.
A clown's organization is called an alley because clowns never
had their own dressing rooms. They had to put the
makeup on and get dressed in the alley behind the circumstance.
So there I belong to two clown alleys here in Omaha.

(10:25):
One is called Omaha Wild Clowndom like Omaha Wild Kingdom.
And you know, we've got a website. If you need
a clown for a fund raiser or a birthday party
or a picnic, just give us a call. My clown
name is Honeybee.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
So all right, So, so Julie, I just full curiosity here.
So what does a clown do? I mean, yeah, you
dress up and you look like you know, I'm sure
we wouldn't recognize you as you normally would be. You'd
look like a clown. But what does a clown do?

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Do? You make like balloon animals?

Speaker 4 (11:06):
Like my specialty is balloon animals. A lot of us
pink faces, but clowns. You know what clowns are more
than anything is there are funny and so we'll tell jokes,
we'll play games, we'll do put on bubble shows, we'll
do magic tricks, and we'll just do almost anything just

(11:28):
to get a laugh out of you.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
See, I'm glad that you called because you know, I
just I personally haven't seen clowns too much these days.
I just feel like, you know, back in my childhood,
there is there are clowns in my small town, like
coming to school and reading books to us and doing
different stuff and baking us laugh. And so I'm happy
to know that that's still a thing that's happening out there. Julian,
I appreciate you for calling in and you have information today.

Speaker 4 (11:54):
Okay, we'll have a good one.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah you too. How about that?

Speaker 1 (11:57):
Love it, honeybee, Julie really appreciate That makes me smile.
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