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Thursday 01/09/25 Hour 2.  With comedian Maryellen Hooper and Mike Imbasciani.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:29):
Thank you for your patience. It's only eleven minutes longer
than your lunch break. Have a nice day next.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
You know what today is? It's Thursday.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Thursday.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Thursday is Thursday. Okay, Thursday, end of the week. It's
not over yet.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
Should we get started?

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Where should we start? Do that show?

Speaker 5 (00:50):
I have a show to do?

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Places? Please? Oh my present crisis.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Government is not the solution to our problem.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Government is the problem. This is Charlotte County Speaks.

Speaker 6 (01:09):
Your chance to let your voice be heard on local, state,
in national issues, and now. Broadcasting live from a dumpy
little warehouse behind a taco bell, the host of Charlotte
County Speaks, Ken love Joy.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FM WCCF Radio.
This is Charlotte County Speaks. Ten oh eight is the time.
I'm Ken Lovejoy along with Mike Abassiani and I'd like
to welcome to the studio your headliner for this week
at Basni in the Comedy Zone. Okay, where's the R
in the l on the other side, on the other side, okay.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
Okay, all right. I whacked myself with the headphones.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Probably it's Mary Ellen Hooper. Hello, how you doing well?

Speaker 4 (02:01):
I'm on camera. Now I would have put makeup. I
was like, oh, yeah, I'm doing radio. I don't have
to care.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
It's only ken so yeah, it's only It's how you've been?

Speaker 4 (02:13):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
How are your holidays? How was a Christmas? How the kids?

Speaker 4 (02:16):
Well? I got everything I asked I wanted for Christmas,
because you know, I bought it for myself.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
Have you seen that Saturday Night Live sketch where the
mom gets nothing?

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yes? Y.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
I even showed that to my husband and he's like,
oh my god, that's so funny.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
And I'm like, you don't get it, hint.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
Yeah, it's really sad. But my husband's sitting on the
couch watching me open my gifts, going, I can't see
what I can't wait to see what I got you.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yeah. And the boys are at the age where they
don't know, what do you want? I don't know. I
don't know. I'm like, well, that's what you're going.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
To get cash.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
So we made your video.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Are they video?

Speaker 4 (02:56):
Are they gamers, the big gamers?

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:59):
But I don't want to heard that. Yeah, no, you know,
so we made it an adventure Christmas. So my oldest
son is he loves animals, and so we went behind
the scenes at SeaWorld to to meet the beluga whale.
You know, we get to pets old melon.

Speaker 5 (03:14):
Cool.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
And my other son doesn't care, but he's a risk taker.
So Sunday when I get home, we're ziplining over the
gators at Gatorland.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Oh cool.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
My last performance.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Is you know, did that they've got one up in
Lakewood Ranch that I did?

Speaker 4 (03:32):
And were there gators under it?

Speaker 2 (03:34):
No? No, but it was you were up high and stuff. No,
it wasn't as dangerous as yours.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
And my husband, who's a reptile guy, he's like, hey, listen,
it's really cold out, so now they're all going to
be on the surface.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
I'm like, oh, you get to see him. There's that
video move slower. There's that video that's going around on
the Insta that this lady is coming in on a
zip line to dock, and she's just her butt is
just like this high above the water, right, and she's
got her legs up and she sees the gator as
she's coming into the docks. She's like whoa, and it

(04:11):
jumps up on the dock like that just its ahead,
gets jumps up like that, and everybody's like, whoa.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
Well, that's how they feed the gators. They dangle stuff
over them. You know. That sounds good, but it's Christmas.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
I try to make my kids smile. And he spurked,
So that's as much as I can hope for it.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
He was.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
He didn't have any problem with it all, daddy. He
was like climbing high and no big deal. Zach was
the same way. They had this even higher one where
you're climbing away up. I'm like, go for it, and
he's like nothing, little monkey just zips right up.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Sea World now has because I guess the animals were
enough of a draw.

Speaker 7 (04:49):
You know.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
They were roller coasters now the roller coaster place. Yeah,
and so my youngest roller coasters so many.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
So we went on the new one and it like
the penguin thing, right, Oh no, that I guess that
is the newest.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
But then oh, the surfing one.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
Do you have an annual path?

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (05:12):
Are you jumping the fence? What are you doing?

Speaker 8 (05:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (05:14):
No, it's like the manta like you're flying, so you're
laying down, you know, like your man array at least
they have. But at one point you're going straight up
and you're straight down. There's nothing under you. It's pretty
I was like, oh, look that's where you follow me.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Are you going real fast? Are you getting the turns?

Speaker 4 (05:33):
And you get to the top but that's slow. Is like, oh,
then you can contemplate your life and you know what
you haven't done yet. But then you go underneath and
there's all the nets, the catch stuff, and we were like,
oh look, mommy, what's that gold little package? Oh, don't look, okay,

(05:54):
don't look at the condom that fell out of somebody's pocket.
I guess, yeah, I know, I know. So that's that
was our Christmas, And for me, I got to go
to I love Disola very much, but my husband bought
me Circumagique.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Not the same kind of a D list.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
It's people who are like, like, if you're compared to comedy,
it's open mic people.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Aerobatics, so at least he like half listens. He got
the Cirk part.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
Yeah, oh look it's not of.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
I can't remember what the second word was.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
How was that?

Speaker 4 (06:39):
Well, it was interesting, you know, there's there's no it's
just good. He did okay and didn't then he realized
halfway through and he was just mouthing, I'm like, oh
look it's it's a it's a person with a whole hoop.
They're even on the ground.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Out of it could be on a step store. Wow.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
Yeah, So that was fun. Yes, that's what we did.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Have you seen any of the Cirk shows in like
Vegas there?

Speaker 4 (07:09):
Oh yeah, we actually got engaged at one of them.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
So well right after one, which was your favorite out there?

Speaker 4 (07:16):
I love Oh that's that the one with all the water.
That's the water.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Yeah, that looks really cool.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
Yes, and then the mysteer is good because I like
the clowns and the mistee big fat guys. But yeah,
during the whole thing, my husband was just standing there
because he was going to ask me to marry him
and he didn't know when, so he was I was like,
are you okay? Yeah, fine, I'm like, it doesn't were
enjoying this. No, I love it. So then we went

(07:45):
over to the Bellagio. You know they have the atrium
and all the to Huli glass and so he asked
me there, but he did. He's not like like me,
it doesn't mind crowds. So there's like this main gazebo
right in the center with all the flowers. He's like,
oh no, that's too public. He took me around back
next to the trash can like so because he didn't

(08:06):
want to the attention.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Every time wrote.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
Every every time we go to Vegas, we visit our
trash can.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
There you go. At least they won't change that.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah, I haven't even repainted.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
We just put our initials on it.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
There you go. Who's who's featuring with you?

Speaker 4 (08:29):
John Charles? Oh good John, okay, very very good. Yeah,
it's so funny. He's he did such a good job,
you know. After it's a nice dichotomy, which the opener,
who's a little more deadpan.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yes, is great.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
And then.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
We'll go.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
Folks, get your tickets.

Speaker 8 (08:49):
Now.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
You better hurry up because the weekend's looking really good.
Like well, thank you vasani dot net for all the
information right there, buy your tickets right there online. Pick
your seat. If your favorite seat's taken, you get another
one you can.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
And don't be afraid of the front. I don't.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
I don't know she No, she's not.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
I may speak to you, but I'm not hurting. No,
there's no insult. No unless your arms are crossed and
you got to put on your face.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
Then did you ever work with Don Rickles?

Speaker 4 (09:21):
I haven't worked with him, but I've met him.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
You got to meet him?

Speaker 4 (09:24):
Yeah, the Comedy Award cool? Yeah, which is right, because
I love all the old dudies. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Well, and you lived out there for you know, I did?

Speaker 4 (09:31):
I did, And it's really scary what's going on right now?

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Indeed, right now? Where did you live in Pasadena? Pasadena?

Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (09:38):
And where is that in relation to like the Hollywood
Hills that's south right?

Speaker 4 (09:43):
Uh, that's a direction.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
Okay, two?

Speaker 4 (09:52):
Okay, yeah, well Allta Dina is right next door. So
there are some houses. So but you know, we sold
our house and now it's horrible and we have a
very historic house. It had a name was right by
the Rose Bowl, which is really fun. But so I
hope everybody's okay. You know, we still have friends it's.

Speaker 8 (10:09):
East of Burbank and Glendale and Burbank is that's where
a lot of the fires are happening, aren't aren't they?

Speaker 4 (10:17):
No, not Burbank.

Speaker 8 (10:19):
Okay, Oh that's Oh I see Hollywood, Yeah, Hollywood sign.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (10:25):
Okay, So that's that's about. That's west of you went
from Pasadenak.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
It's funny because you don't think of people like living
their their whole lives, you know, but they're showing so
many people. I lived in my house for sixty years.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
And yeah, they showed some lady Billy.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
Crystal just lost his house and he'd been in there
like forty six years or something, raised his kids there
and everything.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
So some lady had to go rescue her parents who
they're ninety and they had lived in that house for
seventy five years. And the Hollywood Hill, right, I.

Speaker 8 (10:53):
Mean they were there back and well, right, you watch
Tarantino's Once upon a Time in Hollywood, you think of
the homes and the farms and what was just built up.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
Then, and just and the car scenes where they're going
up those hills. So those you've got a lot of
twisty turney roads. Everything's dry, and they don't they don't
thin out any of the underbrush at all, so you've
got nothing but fuel for a spark, and boom, it's gone.
And now what I'm predicting is kind of like what

(11:24):
happened when I was there in the eighties. They had
a bunch of fires, and after everything was burned out,
they got a bunch of rain in spring, and you're
gonna have a bunch of MUDs p and you're gonna
have mud slides again.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
I know. It's it's horrible. And every time we see
something like this, we're like, I guess we made the
right decision, because you know when you move that, you're like.

Speaker 8 (11:45):
Well, in California, who were already on the fence whether
or not they would want to leave, now they just
lost everything.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah, and that's what's sad. What's really sad is that
the insurance cancelations on all those people just few months back.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
Yeah, it's kind of like us here with the hurricane.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
Exactly, yeah, exactly the same.

Speaker 9 (12:05):
I know.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
I feel like if you live certain places that keep
getting hit that you should live there and figure it out.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, you're either going to deal with it or just
move something.

Speaker 4 (12:13):
You don't get insurance because the rest of us are
you're killing us? Don't live on stilts.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
In the water. Yeah, right, and then be shocked when it.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Floods or when he gets blown off the still yeah yeah.
Oh well, hey, but I.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
Won't be talking about any of this thoughts.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
Thought, Yes, we got to take a break. We'll be
right back, No doubts about it.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
You have become a great show man. Ken Love Joyce
Kevin right back with more.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
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Speaker 3 (12:50):
Smoke them if you got them.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (12:52):
The Biden administration is working to ban cigarettes, and I
get this straight. They're pushing to legalize marijuana all across
the country, but they're going to ban cigarettes. Okay, okay,

(13:12):
you remember the beginning of Beverly Hills Cop. That to
me was like the only the original Beverly Hills Cop.
That was the only like plot hole to me, remember
actual Foley working that uh truck filled with cigarettes in it.

Speaker 5 (13:26):
I mean it was in nineteen eighties. For crying out loud,
everybody smoked. But anyway, not neither here nor there.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
What what do you think is going to happen? You're
just going to.

Speaker 5 (13:34):
Create more contraband that bad guys are gonna smuggle. Do
you people in Washington, DC think anything through at all?

Speaker 10 (13:47):
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Speaker 9 (13:54):
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all your Life. You were only waiting for this moment
to arise. Blackbirds singing in the dead of night.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Getting there All.

Speaker 8 (14:28):
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Speaker 9 (14:32):
You were only waiting for this moment to be free.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Black bird fly to some of those harmonies like bird
fly into the line of the dark, black light.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
Very nice.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
I can't how is that?

Speaker 2 (14:55):
News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine f m
w c C F ten twenty five. Here Charlotte County
Speaks Mary Ellen Hooper and the Bays. The album.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
The album One.

Speaker 4 (15:06):
Of my favorite things is where You're somewhere and there's
a song that crosses all boundaries and.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
There's like everybody knows, everybody knows.

Speaker 4 (15:14):
Everyone sings, and you're just one happy family, and my
little hippie heart.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Is so.

Speaker 4 (15:21):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
Sorry, go ahead, I was just gonna say, and that's
the one brings out the best in people that in crisis,
then everybody nobody asks, you know who you voted for.
Nobody asked what Linton you are. They're just like, let's
that's help. You know. That's my grandmother. During the war.
After the war, when all the everybody came back, it
was like everybody was together because then it was the

(15:45):
United States because we have an enemy, like we always
need an enemy. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
Why that was the crisis.

Speaker 4 (15:53):
Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm waxing this.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
It's the Beatles.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
In that circ show Love. Did you see that before?

Speaker 4 (16:02):
I'm gm posts love fantastic A good one.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
It was fantastic.

Speaker 4 (16:06):
Yeah, I mean it's a little huzzy one. But oh no,
not that the Beatles. I'm thinking of the other one.
What's the naked one?

Speaker 3 (16:13):
Oh, I haven't seen the naked one.

Speaker 4 (16:14):
Yeah, that's I'm not see that.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
You know, I don't know what the hell they're talking about.

Speaker 4 (16:20):
Backflips. You don't want them to be naked.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
That's you can tell got into the.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
Culture talking about culture and.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
Understand it's just a circus of no animals.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
And people who you can't really see their faces.

Speaker 4 (16:39):
Yeah, and great musical go ahead's.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, they always have great music.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:42):
So what happens?

Speaker 8 (16:43):
Okay, So on this day In twenty fourteen, getting back
to the Beatles. Here, Rolling Stone magazine published their readers
pulled the ten greatest double albums of all time. Now, Ken,
do you have a guess of what the top five
were in order or order in general?

Speaker 2 (16:58):
Well, obviously the White Album is one of the led
Zeppelin Physical Graffiti.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
That came in as number five.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
Okay, so I got so, we got we know two,
we got three more double albums.

Speaker 4 (17:09):
Yes, wow, I'm thinking it was the Osmond's.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Family.

Speaker 8 (17:17):
That's a triple album. Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti was number five.
Bruce Springsteen The River was number four. Rolling Stones.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Album Sticky Fingers was on the double album Exilent Mainstream.

Speaker 8 (17:32):
Main Street Pink Floyd's The Wall, but the winning number
one on the Pole with their ninth studio album and
only double album released and Nothing November nineteen sixty. Those
were quadrup albums. It was the Beatles White Album, Yay.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
And that's and and again. You know when you think
of the.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
River, Yeah, you know, do you do?

Speaker 2 (17:56):
Do you really go back to that? I mean, I
really don't think it even Physical Graffiti, There's still there's
a few songs on I mean, I've got I've got
it on my phone. But there's still only a few
songs really that I got.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
But the White Album, I mean, you could listen to that.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
It's rotating through my playlist when I'm working out or
riding a bike or something. The majority of the time,
most of the Beatles might well, I've got the White Album.
I've only got three on there. Okay, I've got the
White Album, Rubber Soul and Revolver. Those are my Those
are my three favorites.

Speaker 4 (18:24):
Yeah, there's my they're my Desert Island group.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah. Yeah, this is all like an half. That'll be fine.

Speaker 4 (18:31):
Yeah, yeah, because they get all the all the decades covered.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yeah, funny definitely. Two six fifteen eighty, toll Free eight
eight eight four four one fifteen eighty. We were kind
of talking to the during the break. Have you ever
had call nine to one one?

Speaker 3 (18:45):
I did once when I hit the bear.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Oh that's right, that's right, I hit a bear. Yer,
Well it's sixty five. Yeah, Well you dump it in
a city park.

Speaker 8 (18:58):
I mean I wanted to take it, wouldn't let me, no, no,
well know, because the van flipped on its side, and
nine one one didn't didn't do the right thing, and
I told him send a flatbed trailer because there's no
way with the normal trailer truck you're gonna get this
thing over. And she didn't listen, and they sent the
normal te tow truck. The guy did a hell of

(19:21):
a job though. He flipped that thing back up on
its wheels and got it all together. But that was
what happened to the bear.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Oh yeah, I'll show you a picture if it knocked
the van over, and kind of imagine the bear probably
didn't do too well.

Speaker 4 (19:37):
It was a mama bear. She would have been are
my kids okay?

Speaker 3 (19:42):
Now? Three hundred and fifty pound Florida black bear. Oh
my god. I haven't hit a deer. I hit a bear.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
I've hit a deer when I was up in Ohio
going to work one day. But I saw it coming
and I hit the brakes. But it was winter and
they had the road of being rattled because of the
ice and stuff, you know, so I kind of slid
in it. It just kind of hit it, rolled up
on the hood, came off, looked at me, yeah, going well, when.

Speaker 8 (20:10):
We hit the bear, it was in one of those vans,
not like my Nissan. My Nissan has the full hood.
You know, this was one of the Ford transit vans
that has the tiny little scooped hood.

Speaker 11 (20:20):
Oh so you were looking, you were you saw his eyes.
I thought it was his last look. Well, it hit
dead center, so I couldn't tell what it was. I
just saw black. But he's the When the cops came,
they said, be lucky it wasn't a deer because of
the shape of that hood. If I had hit a
deer up and into the windshield and then you said,

(20:41):
then you hope you kill it otherwise it's going to
be thrashing all over the place.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
So that was fun, good times.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah, huh. My dad said, in.

Speaker 8 (20:48):
New York one time a deer was off the side
of the road, so he slowed way down, was driving
past it.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
Right as he drove past it, the deer ran into
the side of his car.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
Wow, well.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 (21:03):
He was suicidal.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
Yes, his heart.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Well, you know I had to.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
Call because, uh, what was during the pandemic and this
is very serious, but my son had a seizure and
he never had one before, so I had to call.
It turns out he has epilepsy, which we didn't even know.
So as a mom, you're so scared. Because I didn't
want him, you know, to go to bed. I was
like hovering over him. I didn't want him to sleep.
But the doctor said, well, it's technology times, and so

(21:33):
they gave him a monitor to put on his on
his wrists and it's connected to my phone. But they
didn't really think it through because they put a motion
detector on a teenage boy's wrist.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
Oh boy, and the boy didn't think it by taking it.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
Off sleep in my house. We had to put it
on his so went off my husband Europe.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
Two o'clock in the morning. What does happen?

Speaker 2 (22:04):
Oh man.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
He used to take advantage of it. I would go
off and I go running in and he was shaking
his arm, going can you give me another drink of water?

Speaker 3 (22:12):
Like you isn't it lunchtime?

Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah? Well, and like I said, I had to call
once when my neighbor got yeah shade tree arborist gets
centered punched by a branch. But now Canadian authorities have
released a list of the nine one one calls that
kind of missed the mark last year. Kind of weird,

(22:35):
some very weird ones.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Nine one one dispatchers received a call from an individual
reporting that their tambourine was taken from a party that
they were at. Wow, okay, you were you were expecting
something more gruesome, That's what I said. These are really
kind of mundane here. This is the Canadian though. Yeah,
so they're going to take that into consideration.

Speaker 4 (22:57):
Well, well that's a felony.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
A person called nine one one asking for help on
a math equation because they didn't want to fail their
test in the morning.

Speaker 4 (23:08):
You knew how much I spent on college tuition.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
That dispatcher's got a call from someone having trouble with
their washing machine.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Caller complained that their cat was being mean to them.
They were apparently hoping an officer would come and help
with the situation.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
That was mean.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
A person called a report that somebody had thrown their
ice cream on the ground.

Speaker 3 (23:31):
We shan't have any little bugs. Doesn't Joe Biden have
people for that?

Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yes, someone called nine one one for they would have
had to borrow a phone. Someone called nine one one
asked for help to unlock their cell phone.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
Oh no, you can make an emergency call. Yeah you can,
no matter what.

Speaker 4 (23:51):
Okay, buttons, Yeah, because I've done that accidentally. Yeah, I
put it in my phone holder. Yeah, the cops showed
up to you right now.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
Oh no, yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:06):
And I wasn't even at my house at the time.
I'd left my son alone home for the first time ever,
and he's like, oh mom, the police are here.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
Was going off.

Speaker 4 (24:17):
Yeah, it was awkward call.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
Her complained that a fox was roaming around the neighborhood
scaring a local cat.

Speaker 4 (24:23):
Okay, how did they ask? Did they interview the cat
say how he felt?

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Well, yeah he did. The cat the cats had called
the cops, call the cops this fox. Frustrated person called
the complain that their parents were forcing them to clean
their room. You probably might still get one of those.
Someone called because they were worried. Somebody called because they
were worried that they didn't recognize someone on their social

(24:52):
media friend list.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
That's very sketchy, ye Canada. Well you know, I think
we should all move there because of those exactly hotly
cow read our list.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Yeah yeah, I can't. This isn't a podcast. We need FCC.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
Regulations to be met here.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
Oh galy, Well we do have some good news though, I.

Speaker 4 (25:18):
Would so need that.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
Do you have dogs? Do you have pets?

Speaker 4 (25:22):
I have a dog and a cat.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
What kind dog.

Speaker 4 (25:25):
She's a Yorky boo. But she was abandoned adopted. I
didn't pay money.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
Those are the best.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
Yes, well, you know, with everything going on in California,
La Times did a story on a woman named Annie
Harveletz who has been taking in pets displaced by the
Palisades Fire near Malibu. She runs two vet clinics in
the area. One was empty, so she posted on Facebook
offering to take in any pets that had to be evacuated.

(25:53):
She says tons of people have reached out to help
in the past few days, and even more have reached
out offering a bringing a you know, helping to get
pets in there too. So Animal Wellness Foundation dot org
if you want to make a donation out there seeing
check that.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
He would people use their powers for good.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 4 (26:12):
It's like you think, well, I'm a vet, what can
I do? Oh wait, I can't.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
I got room.

Speaker 8 (26:16):
I can do well somebody In one of the videos,
one of the celebrities was saying, well, make sure you
leave water out for any pets that run around, saying,
I think the fire is going to evaporate that pretty
fast if it passes through. Yes, yeah, yeah, get so,
get the pets to the shelter.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
Yes, because there is no water, right, that's the problem.
Two formerly long haired people in the UK broke world
records while donating their locks to a good cause. Thirty
eight year old roof Trip recently snagged the world record
for the largest single hair donation by a woman five

(26:56):
feet seven inches.

Speaker 4 (26:57):
Wow, single hair.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
Just one no, no, no, her, just one, just one hair.
And a thirty seven year old Jack Dreverer broke the
record for men two feet eleven inches with his hair.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
Nice, it's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
The hair went to a charity called Little Princess Trust
that makes wigs for kids going through chemo.

Speaker 4 (27:17):
That's the best, awesome good.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
Uh well we heard about this story. What back a
few months ago. Today's show just did a big feature
on a fifty year old guy, Va Vamar Hunter had
been going to a bakery in Chicago called Gimme Some Sugar.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
Yes, I heard, I remember this story.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
Loved loved the owner, Lenore, just loved her. Then Vamar,
who was adopted as a baby, took a DNA test
and it randomly turned out that Leonore was his birth
mother and she had him when she was seventeen and
she had no idea and that she had him no,
that it was their son.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
You should clarify, I was trying to.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
They found out in twenty twenty two and immediately became
very close. Ooh, Leonora had a stroke a few months later,
so he started helping her out by keeping her business afloat,
and now he works with it there full time. He
quit his old job back in April, so now they're
running the place together, mother and son.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
It's so funny is my husband was adopted, and you know,
our family was formed by adoption in both my children,
and so we did twenty three meters because they were curious,
you know, about their background. Turns out my husband and
my younger son are related.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
That crazy. And then they're from across the country, like
completely across the country, and they're like third cousins or
whatever like that. But it's really funny because he calls
them cousin daddy, which.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
You know, that's hilarious.

Speaker 4 (28:44):
Depending where we're traveling.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
Yeah, yeah, really in the South in Alabama, it's like, oh,
there's another one.

Speaker 3 (28:54):
That's funny.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
That's cool though, that's so cool.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
Yeah, very sweet.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Have you done that. Have you guys done that. I
haven't done that yet. My daughter, I think, is gonna
do it, so I guess i'll find out.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
Yeah right, they gotta go through you all kinds of stuff.
Quick break.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
We'll be right back. I know a lot of your
already on my side. And for you, nay Is, I
have two strong words for you. Come on, come on.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
Oh, okay, okay, sure, all right.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
We'll be right back with Charlotte County Speaks News Radio
fifteen eighty WCCF.

Speaker 7 (29:35):
I joined the health club, and that's intimidating. Always have
some big giant guys showing around. Hey, they're going to
join in here follow him. I felt like a little
monkey where we go with Thunder. They gave me a
clipboard for my first day. Can you feel like more
of a loser with a clipboard.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
I'm new, I'm.

Speaker 7 (29:57):
Supposed to check things as I say them. And I
think the guy was making up muscle names just to
play games with me.

Speaker 3 (30:04):
You know this machine right here, it's for your flactoid.
That's the toy that I'm working on. And then he leaves.

Speaker 7 (30:16):
I don't remember anything he said. All I know is
I don't think I ever felt so alone in my
life in a health club with a clipboard. Nobody's talking
to me.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
I had black socks.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
On one threw a party in account.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
Tuesdays.

Speaker 4 (30:41):
Just play another comedian while I'm on.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah, I didn't have anything from you. What I know.

Speaker 4 (30:47):
That's just ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
You know.

Speaker 4 (30:48):
It just hit me hard because that's my son's favorite comedian, Brian.
What's your favorite comedian? Somebody asked him that, you know,
leading them and they're like.

Speaker 8 (30:57):
Regan, didn't Dave Chappelle have that where his like his
son loves Kevin Hard.

Speaker 4 (31:03):
Yeah, yeah, so funny because Mommy's not funny. She talks
about us. She's a bully. That's how I disciplined my kids.
You either clear up those room. Words going in the act.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
And the King.

Speaker 8 (31:20):
Yes, little Elvis here, I got two. It's a day
of two facts per everybody here. It's been good on
this day. In two thousand and three, a Grand piano
once owned by Elvis was sold for six hundred and
eighty five thousand dollars. Wow Music producer Robert Johnson and
partner Larry Moss sold the piano to the chairman of
the Blue Moon Group, who was planning to take the

(31:41):
piano on a casino sponsored promotional tour. He was then
planning for the piano to be shown at the proposed
Rock Museum at Walt Disney World.

Speaker 4 (31:49):
I heard that one of the keys wasn't working, and
they opened it up and there was a drumstick.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
Really, I'm kidd I mean I could see that happening.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
Oh my god, So believe me down in the jungle room.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
Yeah, yeah, right.

Speaker 8 (32:05):
And then also on this day in two thousand and five,
Elvis Presley went to number one on the UK Singles
Chart with Jailhouse Rock. The single sold just twenty one
and sixty two copies to reach number one, the lowest
sales ever for a UK chart toppers since data began
in nineteen sixty nine. The single was released to celebrate
the seventieth anniversary of his birth. A previous previous Elvis

(32:26):
chart topper was re released each week.

Speaker 4 (32:28):
Well, you know, it's funny. As you mentioned the Jungle Room,
My brother and I were driving across country to move
to LA and we stopped in Graceland and we took
the tour and we went down the jungle room and
he had this coffee table made out of a slice
of a tree, you know, and it was the same
when we had and I'm like, oh my god, we
are white trash. It even has cut glass put in

(32:53):
the little git. Yeah yeah, laminae.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
Yeah, tables are expensive now.

Speaker 4 (32:58):
Yeah, that's why I didn't have new shoes. Yeah, my
dad wanted that in a van, customized savann out and
we went on road rallies.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
Nice.

Speaker 4 (33:10):
I know I've come so far.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
That's not how I would have pictured your childhood.

Speaker 4 (33:18):
Yeah. My dad's cover with tattoos, you know, from head
to toe and had a motorcycle.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
You're kidding me.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
I'm not kidding you, because that's not you at all
at all.

Speaker 9 (33:30):
No.

Speaker 4 (33:36):
Actually, he was an undercover cops. He just like that.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
So he was for a short time.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
My uncle, my uncle was too. He was an undercover
narc for nine years. It used to be at holidays,
we had to park, like at my grandma's house, which
was a block and a half away, and walked through
a couple of yards to go to go see him.
He had like a big old beard, long hair.

Speaker 4 (33:58):
Yeah, my dad and I was performing somewhere and he
was in the front row and every comic who came out.
I was picking on him and talking about him going
where's your bike? Pork, on and on and on, and
I and I went back to stage to go, you guys,
did you just ease up a little? That's my dad?
And they all laughed and like no, I'm totally serious,

(34:20):
and they're like, yeah.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
I know, I know.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
I never that's noting. I never would have guessed. I
never would have guessed. Hey, what do you think about
the the Diddy and the j Lo and the and
the and the Ben asfles and all that stuff. That's
kind of weird.

Speaker 4 (34:34):
Huh happening? I know what's happening?

Speaker 2 (34:37):
Well, you know, uh, did you know?

Speaker 3 (34:41):
Did he did?

Speaker 2 (34:42):
He did? He diddled a whole bunch? Yeah, okay or
bunch and Jalo used to be part of the diddling parties.

Speaker 4 (34:49):
I didn't know.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
And so now that things have come to light, you know,
then you see j Loo and I'm kind of wondering
if that's why they that's why they got back together,
her looking maybe for something. I don't know. Anyway, they've
split up again.

Speaker 4 (35:06):
Ben Okay, I just heard that he ran to get
Jennifer Gardner during the fires.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
Well yeah, well no, he ran to Jennifer.

Speaker 4 (35:14):
Garner's to get her from the house.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
No, to her house to live there because his house yeah.

Speaker 4 (35:21):
Is oh oh I thought he was evacuating them.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
No, I heard that he from what I heard this morning.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
We are just a wealth of non information.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
We don't know what the hell is going on.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
I'm just sitting here, like, did he bought a lot
of baby looks? But anyway that could put out some fires? No,
that's flammable now.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
Affleck gave her a five million dollar engagement ring Ben
when they before they broke up, you know, because they
didn't get remarried, right, they just got engaged, got engaged. Okay, Well,
j Lo and Ben they finalized their divorce Monday, and
as expected, she's keeping the five point six meal dollar

(36:01):
eight point five carrot green diamond, green diamond engagement ring. No,
it's a green diamond. Okay, emeralds are different. Okay, ask
Steve Duke, he'll tell you.

Speaker 4 (36:16):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
J Lo supposedly keeps all her rings.

Speaker 8 (36:20):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, well yeah, remember every serial killer
some sort of.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
That was the Tom Brady joke. You have all the
super Bowl rings and Jennifer Lopez has all of her
divorce rings.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Who's got more Yeah, who's the real goat?

Speaker 3 (36:37):
Yeah, yeah, because she's got one from a Rod too.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Yeah, and uh, what does she got She's got six
worth an estimated seventeen million. She's got one hundred and
thirty thousand dollars ring from her first husband, Oh Johnny Noah,
then upgraded to a two hundred one thousand dollars rock
for Chris Judd. Her first ring from Ben Affle was
two point six million, but they never made it to

(37:02):
the altar.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
You think Ben would have would have remembered?

Speaker 4 (37:05):
Yeah, remember that ring I gave you? Could you get
that out?

Speaker 2 (37:07):
How about that one? You're getting me a new one?
Mark Anthony? Remember the skinny little Mark Anthony guy? She
married six point five million dollars.

Speaker 8 (37:17):
Whatever happened to him? She really assault into him, I believe.
So a rod two million cheap date? Really when you
think about it.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
I mean, come on, come on, you won a world series.
Come on.

Speaker 4 (37:31):
He was so confident, He's like, I think she needs
to buy me.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
Well in the case of that relationship, yes, but.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
Again they never got married, but she kept the ring.
And now all that bling is joined in the drawer
by Ben's five point six million dollars.

Speaker 4 (37:50):
You know what. Everybody needs a hobby.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
She's got a pretty lucrative Yeah, needs to retirement plan. Now,
I don't ever need to dance again.

Speaker 4 (38:02):
I've just been embroidering.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
You do that too? How's that going?

Speaker 9 (38:08):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (38:09):
You know?

Speaker 3 (38:10):
It's do you have the yet?

Speaker 4 (38:13):
Maybe?

Speaker 3 (38:13):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Are you free? Are you free? Free?

Speaker 3 (38:17):
Free?

Speaker 2 (38:17):
Doing it now? You don't even need a drawn. I
just know where to go.

Speaker 4 (38:20):
That's exactly cool.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
That's good because that's that's not easy.

Speaker 4 (38:24):
I was lonely and my kids are off of school
in college, and so my friend called me because we're
empty nesters now almost I mean he's still in high school.
But uh, she goes, but he.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
Never talks to us.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
We feed him through the door.

Speaker 4 (38:38):
He's like, there's a crafting group down at the community center.
So that's what I do.

Speaker 7 (38:45):
I go.

Speaker 4 (38:45):
But you know what, it makes you feel good about
yourself because we're the youngest ones there by, like forty years.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
You go under cover. You don't tell him you're stand
up community.

Speaker 4 (38:53):
No nobody does. And my friend's like, why don't you
tell him? I'm like no, no, now.

Speaker 8 (39:00):
And then you're throw in a good one liner and
a soil who's like ninety eight comes up and.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
Goes, you know you're pretty funny.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
Maybe a senior center.

Speaker 4 (39:12):
It's so funny. Yeah, it's great because you know you
just be incognito. Yeah, but I have to say, because
you just reminded me of something. I was preparing for
my drybar, you know, and they came up and I
was looking for stage anywhere because it was coming up
so fast, and so there was my friend called. They go, well,
there's this little B C room, you know, And I

(39:32):
told the guy and you can go down there. So
it down and he's like, I was so condescending because
he had no idea, right, So he goes, hey, So
before I introduce you, I usually say credit.

Speaker 9 (39:45):
You know.

Speaker 4 (39:46):
That's like if you've done something, you know, he's explaining.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
What a credit is to read and then do you
level him?

Speaker 3 (39:51):
And just well I started.

Speaker 4 (39:53):
Out, I've been you know, the Tonight show and he laughed.
He goes, no, it has to be believable, in which
I opened up my YouTube chan. It was very humbling,
very funny.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
That is funny.

Speaker 4 (40:13):
And then it's because it's whole demeanor chain, Oh, we
could we get you back? I can pay you fifty
bucks like you're so sweet. Thank you. Call my manager.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
All right, let's learn stuff, and now it's time for
random random facts. All right, I don't pread these. I
have no idea what we're getting into here.

Speaker 4 (40:42):
Obviously.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
Number one, light bulbs in the New York City Subway
and other train systems have left hand screws. The backwards
design is to prevent people from stealing the bulbs for
use at home.

Speaker 4 (40:57):
So they are right, t They're just tighten them.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
Yeah, but then they can't use them at home.

Speaker 4 (41:03):
Yeah, threads diff like the screws to take the caps
off to.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
Well, probably that too. Number two Eleanor Roosevelt refused to
let a secret service member travel with her when she
was first Lady. She just carried a pistol.

Speaker 4 (41:20):
Well, then there you go.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
Number three the guy who invented cotton candy. Oh, creating
your own patients. He was a dentist from Tennessee. Yeah,
patient for life?

Speaker 3 (41:34):
How did we get the most sugar?

Speaker 2 (41:36):
Number four. The best selling video game in history was
Maria Minecraft really roughly three hundred million copies sold. The
only other game to sell more than one hundred million
is what Yes, Grand Theft Auto five? Oh yeah, two

(41:58):
hundred five million, and finally number five of your five
random facts. Until the nineteen forties, baby boys were dressed
in pink and baby girls were dressed in blue. Pink
was for boys because it was considered a stronger color.
Blue was for girls because it was considered more delicate
and dainty.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
It's salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
There's your five random facts.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
Number six.

Speaker 8 (42:27):
The Los Angeles Fire Department is now using handbags to
collect water to throw on the fires. At the video
of them literally filling up a purseon throwing it on
a fire.

Speaker 4 (42:35):
But where are they filling it up from?

Speaker 3 (42:37):
Where the fire cool?

Speaker 4 (42:39):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (42:39):
No, fire truck. Oh yeah, so there you go.

Speaker 4 (42:42):
I'm so glad I'm here.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (42:44):
At least with the hurricane you get a little warning.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
Exactly, and you don't get fires unless you have a
tesla in the garage and you get salt water intrusion
and then it'll blow up on you.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
But other other than that.

Speaker 8 (42:57):
And then you're not covered because you had flood insurance
and not fire. And I'm sorry, this just does not apply.

Speaker 4 (43:05):
Oh my gosh, I heard that too many times.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
Hey, where's the wood to knock on? Thank you?

Speaker 3 (43:15):
Come see my bandfall Ye.

Speaker 8 (43:18):
Come see my band, folks, Michael Bassie and the Blues
Rockers this weekend tonight in Fort Myers. Says it's the
ninth Today over at the Naughty parad Oasis from six
to nine Saturday, bright and early from seven thirty to
ten am over at the UTC Cars and Coffee event
in sarah Sota. And then Monday, January thirteenth at the
Stage with our tribute to Jimmy Buffett, Glenn Campbell and

(43:41):
John Denver, doors open at five o'clock. And Tuesday, January fourteenth,
back at the Stage doing our Guitar Heroes tribute, doors
open at five o'clock. Mike Bassianny dot com for the
full show schedule and watch this show on the Freedom
Chronicles YouTube page and Rumble Jennal check it out.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
And Mary Ellen Hooper folks along with John Charles this
weekend Veasani in the Comedy Zone Vasani dot net for
your tickets seven thirty showtime tonight, eight o'clock on Friday.
Two shows on Saturday at six and nine thirty Vasani
dot net. I'll be there for the first show. UH
check this out. Vietnam. Vietnam used to be the enemy.

Speaker 4 (44:18):
Yeah, dingy da people we go to VC.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
Now, these guys are doing something we should be doing here. Yeah,
they're paying people up to two hundred dollars to report
bad drivers. I could make bank.

Speaker 11 (44:33):
Just going up and down forty one.

Speaker 4 (44:40):
You get it.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
That's pretty well, actually there, it's there. It would be
for them it would be five million, five million dong.
And that's something I don't think i'd really want. Really well,
you know, just convert that, convert that to dollars and
then give it to me. I don't want any dogs time.

Speaker 4 (45:00):
You're seven years old, dong. Happy New year, Mary Ellen, Well,
I would thank you for having me. But I just
want to say one of my best friends, Amrita, it's
her birthday today.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
Oh, happy birthday.

Speaker 4 (45:17):
And I just want to say it's my manager's birthday today, So.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Have yeah, you gotta like, I gotta wish happy birthday
to the manager. Yeah, have a great weekend, folks.

Speaker 3 (45:29):
Anybody got any more jokes, any funny? Nope, nope, all right,
see you folks.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
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