Charlotte County Speaks-07-10-25-hr2

Thursday 07/10/25 Hour 2.  With comedian Goumba Johnny Sialiano.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Where's the kittain?

Speaker 2 (00:00):
What kittens though?

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Why the kitten kat lovers? Today is your data celebrate?

Speaker 3 (00:04):
Today is National Kitten Day.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Light tent to set aside to observe all the plucky, adorableness, kittens,
heavy kittens. So you I like kittenss I just want kittens.
Happy National Kitten Day It freaks ready for the big show.
It's showtime in this present crisis.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Government is not the solution to our problem.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Government is the problem. This is Charlotte County Speaks.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Your chance to let your voice be heard on local, state,
m national issues, and now Broadcasting live from a dumpy
little warehouse.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Behind a taco bell.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
The host of Charlotte County Speaks, Ken Love Joy.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Thank you. Johnny News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point
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homepage w CCF radio dot com. Scroll down to the
podcast section. We're all there. We got in the house.
It's Goomba Johnny. He's your headliner this week at the
Sony and the Comedy's Own. Johnny.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
How you doing, man, I'm doing great. Thank you for
having me.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
And Garrick's along here too.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, the owners here.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
If he only decided he's going to bail out on
us here, No he is. He's always got something else
to do.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
You know something's wrong when the owner doesn't trust the
talent to get to the radio station in the morning.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
But your first time on the radio. I always come
to make sure you know everything is well.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
This is this is early Johnny's first time on the
radio on this station.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah. Well it shows how much he trusted you know
what I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
I trust him. You would you would see I was
sitting outside waiting for me. It was right here twenty
minutes earlier.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Well, folks, you can see Gumba Johnny this weekend of
Asani in the Comedy z Own. Log onto Asani dot net.
You got to showtime what seven thirty tonight, eight o'clock tomorrow?
Two shows on Saturday at six and nine thirty, And
looks like they're filling up too, so hurry up. And
get your tickets.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
You're going to be there.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
I'll be there Saturday for a show.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
I love when you come there. You know, I've worked
with you before. You're always great, you know, very very friendly,
and you always do a great job and people love you.
So it's always good to have somebody who is well
liked and well well like. Well, i'm talking about outside
the radio station. I know how people feel about it.

Speaker 5 (02:39):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
For those who don't know you, you've done radio.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
For a long time, seventeen years, yeah, yeah, yeah, and
in New York.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
In the in the big one yeah, in the Numero
Uno market.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
It was into the top of the mountain.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, you know. And it was weird too because I
was talking about it last night and with another radio
personality that was there. And my first three years, you know,
I worked at ZE one hundred for nothing, what, just
as a sidekick or yeah, this is kind of like
a sidekick. And I got an introduction to it and
all that, and I never thought I would ever get paid,

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you know what I mean. And I got paid my
firstee too, Yes, I got.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
I still kind of wonder fifteenth is coming up open
for the best.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
So I got paid and then you know, I negotiated
my first contract, which was really just this is it,
and I'm like, uh, you know, the woman said to me,
I never forget where it was in the financial office.
She goes, would you like to do the four oh
one K? And I said to her, I'm not going
to be here that long to do a four oh
one K. And that was seventeen years later.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
You're at the same station for seventeen.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
I was at the same station for seventeen years. Yeah,
it was like, all right, I'm I think I'm going
to turn the lights.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Out in this well in radio in that market. That's
that's an accomplishment.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah. The average I guess the average radio career is
like four years or less that a station at a station. Yeah,
and there's always you turnover and I'll tell you what
was what makes it interesting. It's not your talent. It's
the fact that you have to survive four different bosses
who and three who didn't hire you. And that's like
any job, you know what I mean. A new boss

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comes in and he wants his own people, so on
and so forth, and the way you beat that is
to have good ratings. Yeah, you know, you know what
I'm talking about just to.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Be the one who we can't get anybody else to
do it.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Know how to know how the boss coffee exactly.

Speaker 6 (04:39):
You know.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
But you've done a lot of acting too.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
I did some acting. You know, it's something I enjoyed doing. Uh,
you know, in the stand up comedy and so on
and so forth. You know, one of the you know,
when you're in New York, you know you have the
access to a lot of things, and you know, it's
such a large market. You know, they do lot of filming, there,
a lot of casting out of there, and you know

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it is the New York, for whatever reason, is the
epicenter of comedy, you know what I mean, for some
strange reason, if you're going to do anything in comedy,
you have to come through New York.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
And it's a it's a battle zone for up and
coming comics too.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, and it's you know what you find out. You know,
it's it's a great place to be for a comic
because you find out whether you got it or you
want it very very quickly. It's very competitive. You know,
people come from all around the country. You know, the
Philly boys, the you know, the Boston guys. You know,
like Bill Burr and Nick Depolo and Jay Moore. They

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come down and you know, uh, Patrice and all those
legendary guys. You know, everybody comes, you know from Philadelphia,
Domarera and people of you know, of that Elk, and
you know, they work their way into New York and
then that's it, you know, they become stars.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
What came first? Was it radio or comedy?

Speaker 2 (05:59):
It was I was managing a club wow, and some
of the comedians didn't show up, and I had to
go on stage and I bombed. And let me tell
you something about bombing on stage. You sweat from places
that you never know. You had sweat glands.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Right here on the hedge. No.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
I just remember standing there and saying, now, keep in mind,
I was an athlete. I played football, a hundred degree
heat and everything. And I was standing on stage and
I was saying, I can feel water running behind my knee.
I didn't. I had no idea that I had sweat
glands there, and my ears were wet, and everybody was

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looking at me and I was bombing badly and I'm
just trying to help, and the owners are standing in
the back laughing, hysterical, you know, because they made me
get up to I said, why do I get a
get up there? Because you're the manager and we owned
the place, right So I'm up there bombing, And I
just looked at the audience and I said, you know what,
I know there are people out there. You have personal
problems and you might be soon sidle. I said, don't

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do it. Just do five minutes to stand up and
you'll live to tell the story. And everybody knew what
I was feeling, and everybody burst out laughing It's gonna
be okay, It's gonna be okay. And even though I bought, yeah,
what you got, I got the bug. I got the bug,
and then you know, I was managing it. And then

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one night a comedian came off stage. He was an
opening act, and he goes, how did I do? And
I said I'd rather not say, and he goes, no, no,
I want to hear it. I said, well, you you
didn't do that? Well, you kind of you killed the crowd.
I mean that's not a good start. And he just
looked at me and goes, maybe you could do better.

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And then I just said to myself, you know what
I can I can't do better than that. I said
to myself, and then I started hosting my shows at
my comedy club for nothing, and that would give me
more money to get bigger headliners. Because at the time
I started, in the eighties, comedy boom, Yeah, you know
what I mean, opening acts were getting one hundred a set.

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You know, that's for a host. You know, the headliners
for two shows were getting anywhere from six to eight hundred,
and for three shows, the headliners were getting you know,
anywhere from a thousand to fifteen hundred. That was in
nineteen eighty five, eighty six. Yeah, yeah, I mean, you know,

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I mean I used to call up guys to headline.
You know, hey, I got this gig. Feel it's Wednesday night,
It's five hundred. Now I'm not going out of my
house for five hundred. Yeah, today, you call up anybody,
they'll go, I'll be there. I'll walk in, you know
what I mean. So comedy change. But you know I
got in comedy. There was no Comedy Central, so there

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was a frenzy. You wanted comedy, people wanted their comedy food,
and there was a frenzy and clubs popped up all
over the country and that was really the start of
the Snowball, and then you went into Comedy Central and
all these specials and so on and so forth, and
developmental deals, and that was really just the you know,
the birth of the comedy revolution in the United States.

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And I'm just happy I was there for it.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
How would you compare comedy today to comedy back then?

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Well, interesting, because of social media has changed everything, and
political correctness has changed everything.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Well, I thought, didn't we that ended? Though we don't.
We don't do political correctness anymore.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
No, that part, that part I understand.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
But you know, but there was a time, there was
a big time where you had to want to watch.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
There was no governor on anybody's mouth. And some of
the stuff that I saw, you know, experimental stuff in
the eighties where guys would get up you know, I
remember this one guy. I don't want to mention this
aim he's still alive, you know. He would come out

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in a a in a like a Nazi uniform. Oh
that would still well, you know what I mean, it
never goes over.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Well, no, he was.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
I mean, I'm talking about bizarre stuff, you know, like that,
you know what I mean, crazy stuff, I mean, really
experimental comedy, so on and so forth, there were there
was just there was no there was no no no
safety net. You know, people were flying without a net,
you know, and I'm talking to that was an extreme exaggeration.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
But you don't see stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
No, And and when I got into comedy in there
there were there were too many clubs and not enough comedians.
Now there's too many comedians and not enough clubs.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
Do you do you get a sense and I kind
of do to a certain degree that there's, uh, you
got a lot of the younger comedians who just think
they're good and don't want to pay their dues.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
I yes, it's always like that. But you know, I mean,
you can't blame them because they're funny at a family
barbecue and they can you know, they could imitate their
aunt and uncle and everybody's on the floor. And then
they get on a stage with a whole bunch of
strangers who don't know their aunt and uncle, you know
what I mean. And then they get up there and

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they bomb and they and they like the audience sucks.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
How long did it take you to develop an hour? Oh? Uh?

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Well, you know what I mean, because I performed all
during my radio career, and I would do two man shows.
I would open up for Dice Clay, I would open
up for j Moore, I would open up for Domrera,
Kevin Spacey, Kevin Pollack. I meant to say Kevin Pollack,
Kevin Kevin. I take that back, I stand up. It

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wasn't standing touched you. It was more like Ben Dover,
I'm not I'm on to rewind, Evin Bollick, you know,
people like that, you know. And I would do two
man shows. And then when I left the radio, I
wanted to headline, and it took me a while to
get up to speed, not to get the time really

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to be a legitimate national headliner, to have that act,
you know, all the way through. So it definitely took
some work. You know. It was a big difference when
you're on a radio, your personality.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yeah, it's totally different, totally would.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
I would do a show at Carolines and you know,
the show would be packed with you know, three hundred
and fifty people, and you know, I ask people, did
you enjoy the show? And then right to my face
they would say, now, we just came to see what
you look like, you know what I mean. And I'm like,
and I'm okay.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
To get that.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
And I don't know if you get what I got.
When I was on a radio, I.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Usually got I usually get. We thought you had more hair.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
I know what I used to get. I thought you
would be fatter.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Oh I get that too.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
I thought you would be fatter. I said, well, I'm sorry.
I go to the gym and it got and the
one woman came up to me, she goes, yeah, I
pictured you, and I got fed up with it. I
pictured you with a mustache, with a wife beater on
with a gravy stain on it. And I said yeah.
I said, no, I'm sorry, And I said, but I

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pictured your breast to be so much large. How dare you?

Speaker 1 (13:27):
I said, how dare you? How could you talk to
me like that?

Speaker 2 (13:31):
I said, you know, I got fed up with it
to a point. You know, and you know yourself as
a radio personality, people have an image of you, and
if you don't fit that image, they get a little
pissed off.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yep, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
You know what I mean, Like it's so crazy.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Do you still live in New York?

Speaker 2 (13:48):
We moved out during the pandemic. I lived twenty miles
north of New York and Westchester. Oh okay, yeah, we
my wife and I lived in New York. I lived
seventeen years and then like the first like fourteen years
of my marriage, we lived on the Upper West Side.
I loved it. It was great until the house. No,
we live in an apartment. I live in a believe

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it or not, I live in a fifty five plus building,
which is very rare outside of the city. And I
don't want to brag. It's a I'm like the bread
pit of the building. I mean it is. The doorman
is eighty years old. His nickname is Joe Biden. You

(14:31):
got to wake him up to open a door. It's unbelievable.
I mean, I'm in charge of movie night. The average
age it's one hundred apartments. The average age is seventy five.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
And every Thursday is movie Nights.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
I thought they all came down here.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
No, no, no, every Thursday we played the same movie.
It's Cocoon, cocon Nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody can, nobody can
stay awake for the whole So it's it's good. It's
but it's nice. The people are nice, and it's a
great facility, and uh, you know, they're they're very They're

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always very interested in what I do. Yeah, you're a comedian,
you know, and it's so it's funny and you know,
explaining to everybody, but it's.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
A lot of funny. Do something funny, Yeah, I know
a lot.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
You know, tell me a joke.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
So, Eric, what else is going on? Of a sunny
You got a lot of stuff coming up too? Music?

Speaker 4 (15:31):
Yeah, John Denver next week, Yeah, not real John Denver
with a tribute and then uh, and then Mike Armstrong's
coming back and we all love Mike.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Any specials.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
Nothing.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
You've been on vacation, You got no idea.

Speaker 4 (15:43):
Hector's been working on a couple of things.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
How was your vacation?

Speaker 4 (15:46):
It was good.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
It was good.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
It was relaxing. We just did Tennessee and just kind
of went around.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
So you didn't go to I thought you were going
to North Calico.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
Then we just decided to go to Chattanooga instead, So
we just hung out in Chattanooga and uh, and it
was it was fun. Man.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
So it was a instaurant owner you got. You wind
up having to do a lot of DIY projects. Yes, yes,
flooring isn't one of them, and it's not something Key does.

Speaker 4 (16:09):
The floor I have very bad knees.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yeah, I really know.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:13):
If I if I'm on my knees for more than
two and a half minutes, all my legs like fall asleep.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah it's weird. Yeah, you don't like doing.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
Di wise you should I do, But I'm.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
You're in an apartment, so you don't have to. You're lucky.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
I'm concerned about his knees. Why his knees are bad.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
Well, we'll talk about that.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
That's what they all say.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
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I have two strong words for you. Gamm on damn oh, okay, okay, sure.

Speaker 6 (18:18):
All right, We'll be right back with Charlotte County Speaks
News Radio, fifteen to eighty.

Speaker 7 (18:24):
WCCF fifty tariffs on copper, what do we got? How
much on aluminum, steel, all of these things that we
need to build stuff? Here in the United States, median
price home is four hundred and fifty five thousand dollars.
An average price home has over five hundred pounds of

(18:47):
copper in it. Guess what price the home is going up.
Speak to any builder. Don't don't no, don't even take
my word for it. Speak to a contractor, Speak to
a builder, ask them how much these tariffs are costing them. Listen,
They're not going to build homes and sell them at

(19:11):
a loss. Sorry, it's just not going to happen. You
think that they're going to eat these costs, they're not.
One of the reasons why holmes are so expensive is
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Speaker 1 (19:26):
Com News Radio, fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FM WCCF,

(19:51):
Charlotte County speaks at ten thirty two. Gumba Johnny in
the house is going to be your headliner of Asani
in the comedy's own Phil Collins right here. He was
one of I believe he was like the he He
did a set with Sting and a couple other jazz
musicians during Live Aid. Do you remember Live Aid?

Speaker 2 (20:10):
I remember because you were.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
In radio back then. So yeah, no, And you guys,
are any live portions of that?

Speaker 2 (20:16):
No? No, But I will tell you this. I was
fortunate enough to meet Sting.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Oh really, that would be cool and it was a
big you probably got to meet a lot of well.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Well interview Yeah, yeah, I mean I I had Pete
Diddy in the studio six times.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
Wow. I did take you a while to mop up
after that. No, off the no.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
But it was a little insulting because I interviewed him
six times and never got invited to one. Freak off.
And I'm like, it's no matter, Johnny's not cute enough
for you. You know. I was deeply insulted when I
found out all the great things that were going on
as parties.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
So what is that? What's that whole deal man.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
You know what, I don't get it. You know, there's
a whole side of Hollywood that I think the public
is in the dark about and not anymore.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
Starting to find I didn't find out.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
I mean, it's you know, I think it's like anything else.
You got too much money, that fame, adulation, and you
don't know, you know, to do it yourself, so you
start doing weird stuff. You don't have to do the
things that normal people have to do, like, you know,
get up, be responsible, go to work, show up. You
know what I mean. Take all this man, Yeah, you
got all this money which gives you all this time,

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and you end up doing you know, stupid stuff. That's
what it looks like to me. I mean, but I
interviewed him, like I said, I interviewed him six times,
and you know, in the studio he was appeared to
be normal. But anyway, I met Sting and I got
to tell you the story. So I met Sting, and
I'm a huge fan, and I'm very rarely a fan
of anything. So I love Sting and I go off

(21:54):
to him. I said, dude, you know that song Feels
the Gold? I said, I love it. It's my favorite song.
I said, what's it about? Is it about like like
a failed romance or suicidal thoughts or whatever it is.
I said, I just want to know what it's about.
So he goes to me. He goes, well, Johnny, he goes,

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what's what do you what's the song about? I said, well,
it's you know, it's about fields of wheat and barley
and whatnot. And he goes, yeah, it's about the view
for my castle. So I said, that's it. So he goes,
that's it. Man, I'm pissed off.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
Isn't that funny? Really pissed off people? Isn't that funny? Though?
You'll you'll hear a song and the way that it
speaks to you. Yeah, it might be one hundred and
eighty degrees out from where the writer, actual writer of
the song. Yeah, was that in his head?

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Yeah, it's crazy, you know. And we had everybody come through, Madonna,
will Smith, you know, we introduced in Sync and the
Backstreet Boys and all that stuff, Britney Spears and Ricky Martin,
who I have to compliment is one of the nicest
people I've ever met my life. Yeah, Ricky Morton is
just fantastic person.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
Cool, you know, Yeah, that's good. Yeah, that's one thing.
You know, I've done country radio and rock radio, and
the rock stars always seemed to be rather aloof and
stand awfish. The country stars seem to be a little
more approachable and a little more talkative. Have you found that?

Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yes? And you know, some of the people, like Madonna
is extremely media savvy. Sure, you know what I mean.
So when you go through her it's like, you know,
it's like she's doing it. She's going through the motions
and stuff like that. And then when you do something
like that, you say something stupid and try and trip
her up, you know what I mean. She got pissed
at me a couple of times. You know, I said

(23:49):
let's do a group hug and she goes, shut up, gumba,
you know what I mean? You know, because she was
big on the group hug stuff.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
You know, who's your worst? Who is your worst? Interview?

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Christina Aguilera really yeah, not a nice person? Maybe she
is now, but I mean sometimes and I will say this,
I used to do the morning so people come in
at six thirty seven o'clock, so I would always give
people one one strike. I don't know what's going on

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in their life. I don't know if they're early risers
and so on and so forth. But there are other
radio personalities that were on other stations that weren't particularly
fond of her. I won't mention their names, but you
know what I mean. I mean, I don't you know,
you know, you don't come in to promote your music

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and act like you're doing me a favor because there's
a mutual benefit for the both of them.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Exactly know.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
We had Jennifer Lopez's sister Linda worked with me for
five years at the radio station. She was a radio
personality with me at another time period. So Jennifer came
in all the time. You know, was she nice? She's nice?
Her mother was the nicest. She used to get mad
at me because I used to put her mother on
the air and interview her. And her mother is like,

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very verbal, and she would tell me anything that's going
on with Jennifer, and Jennifer would say, stop interviewing my mother.
Why do you do that, I said, because I can
find out what you're doing. She goes, please, because my
mother doesn't stop. And the mother is a wonderful person,
and as was the sister Linda, who was a very

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dear friend of mine.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
So I guess your favorite interview would have to be
staying then.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
Well, you know, how did it go?

Speaker 3 (25:40):
Was he?

Speaker 2 (25:41):
Thing was great? Why did bon Jovi? And that was
a big m you know that nice things about her? Yeah, No,
it was a real treat for me, John bon Jovi.
Like I said, Ricky Martin, I had Trump. I had
the President on for two years every Wednesday at seven
thirty in the morning prior to President Yeah, two thousand

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and four, two thousand and five. I was the first
radio personality to put him on the air in the
country regularly. I would call him on his cell phone
at home every Wednesday at seven thirty and he would
stay on for about about ten minutes.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Wow, how was that?

Speaker 2 (26:18):
It was really interesting. He's not like what other people
think he is at all at all. I mean, he's
very you know, he has a great sense of humor.
He likes to break balls a little bit. He invited me.
I'll tell you a funny story I never told us publicly.
He invited me before I was married. I have to
stay that because my wife was here before. He invited

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me too.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
And give it up for the comedian's wives. Ladies and gentlemen.
You know, they're the the unsung heroes of the comedy world.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
Without them, there's no act. So so Trump, you know,
you know, he was promoting The Apprentice weekly and then
we would talk about national headlines and whatnot. And you know,
I kept him on the air because he has an
opinion on everything. You may not agree with him, but
he's very definitive, you know what I mean. So he's

(27:07):
great radio. He's great, great radio, and he's captivating. What
do you think about this? And I would ask him,
what do you think about that? What do you think
about that? You know, and he would just go, you know,
and the people just ate it up. He goes, I
want you to come to my Christmas party. So it
was at thirty Rock and Nice. Yeah, he goes, yeah,

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he goes, all right, I said, I'll come to your
Christmas party. And he would invite me up to the
office and so on and so forth, and I broadcast
live from Trump Tower on a couple occasions. So I
go to the Christmas party. So he comes up to me,
he goes, where are you sitting? So I said, I
don't know. I don't have a seat. He goes, I
want you to go over there and sit with Malania

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and her family. Her father and mother and her sister
came in for the Christmas party. I said, okay, he goes,
you got a girlfriend. I said, well, he goes, I'll
fix you up with Malania's sister. So I looked over
and she doesn't exactly look like Millennia. I'm being very

(28:10):
polite right now, so I said, you know what I'm
going to pass. Uh, you know I'm going to pass
mister Trump. Nigga started laughing. I said, what's so funny?
He goes, she doesn't speak English.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
That's the way.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
He was, you know what I mean. And then you know,
he would write me a handwritten note and he would
mail it to me to the radio station or my house. Johnny,
I want to thank you for helping me make Apprentice,
the hit that it is Donald Trump, and I would
call him up. I would say, I said, you know,

(28:48):
mister Trump. I would call him mister Trump. Regardless. I said,
mister Trump. I said, when do you get the time
to write me a handwritten note? He goes, no, no, no,
I like to thank the people that helped me. And
I recognized and I would go to his office and
I will tell you this that it doesn't come across.

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He could have been the most female friendly boss I've
ever seen in my life. All the women and all
the people that worked for him in within Trump Tower
adored him.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, I mean individual.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
And it's weird because now everybody's been talking about him
in a certain light. But all these years, you've never
heard anybody come forward from the Trump organization saying I
was mistreated. He's a racist. He fired me for no reason,

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not one person.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
Yeah. Well, I've always said everybody loved him until he
came down the escalator.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Yeah, and it was really it was really weird. And
then I had this two year experience with him and
you know, we both had, you know, obviously mutual benefits
and that's awesome. You know, he's a great st you know.
Then he became president and you know, my whole family goes,
you know, the president call him up and I'm like.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
No, no, you don't do that. It's not it's not
the way it works.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
Not what am I going to ask him for? You
know what I mean? And you know, I'm I'm happy
for him whatever.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
Maybe I'm I am down here in South Florida. I'd
love to play around at mar A Lago.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yeah, no, I don't. I'm not a guy. I hate golf. Really,
my brother's a professional.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Really, Yes, that's cool.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
My brother's a professional.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
And but you don't.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
He gets mad at me. He bought me clubs, he
bought me clothes, he brought me the balls, everything. He
has his own country club. And I said. He goes,
why won't you play? And I said, because it's a
lot like marriage. So he goes, what do you mean
by that? I said, it's just too hard. So he goes, well,
I don't see the similarities. I said, you don't, I do.

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I said, you don't see the similarities. I say, my game,
I said, I said, they're both expensive, you lose your balls,
and you very rarely get a hole in one. I said,
it's exactly like that. Into my act.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
We got to take another break. We'll be right back
on news radio fifteen eighty. Hello, everybody, this is montecor
He's my lion. I have a lion. Now we'll be
right back.

Speaker 6 (31:23):
With Charlotte County Speaks, news Radio fifteen eighty WCCF.

Speaker 5 (31:29):
At our wedding, ar caterer was incredible. He was such
an amazing chef, and then he was like, you know,
I really like you guys. You guys are got you
know what I'm gonna do. I want to talk to
you guys and get your story. And then at the reception,
I'm going to have two specialty cocktails that I will
name for each of you. So we talk for a bit,
and sure enough, at the reception, two handcrafted specialty cocktails

(31:53):
name for each of us. One of them was called
the Malibu because my wife was born in rain in Malibu, California,
and the other one was called the Sterling because I
grew up in Sterling, Virginia. Now, the Malibu was a
complex flavor palette of light and dark, salty and sweet,

(32:19):
bitter and tangy, as mysterious and unknowable as the sea itself.
And the Sterling was lemonade with vodka in And I
don't know if you've been to Sterling.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
He nailed it.

Speaker 5 (32:36):
Oh my god, Hey, how can we get drunk quickly
in this roy Rogers parking lot before school starts? I
stole some vodka from my dad's garage. Is that Country
time lemonade? That'll kill the taste?

Speaker 1 (32:48):
Let's do this, les Dirt. Can we stay.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
Mister, you want.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FM, WCCF
Radio dot Com ten fifty one here at Charlotte County Speaks.
We're sitting in with Gumbad Johnny. He's gonna be your
headliner this week. Yeah, the Sani in the comedy zone again.
Make sure you head to the Aasani dot net and
get your tickets for a seven thirty show tonight, eight
o'clock tomorrow, two shows on Saturday at six and nine thirty,

(33:38):
and you will be there. I'll be there my Saturday opener.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yes, I love when you come.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
Been doing that for nineteen years now, I know I
love it.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
It is fun, man. I gotta tell you I get.
I gets. I've never I started hosting up at the
Funny Farm in Youngstown. Oh wow, nothing like this. So
I can't I perform there? Did you?

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (33:58):
I row bitch up there.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Yes, I love Ohio. Okay, No, I no, I've been all.
I performed in Youngstown. I performed in Columbus, Sandusky, Cleveland.
Was it chuck Amonga Falls? What do they call it?

Speaker 1 (34:16):
Cihoga Cyga?

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Do you know what they call it? When you go there?
Caucasian Falls and I'm like, oh my.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
God, yeah, that was that's that was the rich area.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
Yes, And so I tell you people, I've been touring
with Anthony Rodilla for the past five years, as you know,
and you know we've done over thirty eight states in
the past five years. And people asked me what you know,
what did you learn? What do you think? I said,
if you want to know what America looks like, go
to Ohio.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
That is true.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
Ohio is America.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
You know what I mean it It has the good,
the bad, the ugly, the beautiful of everything.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
After my seven year sentence, I I go back occasionally
because my daughter still lives up in Sharon, PA, which
is just over the border from Youngstown, so I'll get
up there occasionally. Same potholes.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
I can't believe how many Italians are there.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
That was the one thing because I'm from the West coast,
so that was for me. That was the weirdest because
the first city I ever went to where you had
your Polish side, your Italian side, your Black side, your
Chinese side, where you'd see a house and it was
actually a bar, you know.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
And I asked people about that, people who settled there
who were Italian, and you know, they still spoke the
language and whatnot. And I said, how did you end
up in Ohio? And a lot of them had the
same story. They said, our family came over from Ellis
Island and they could have went to Brooklyn or the
Bronx like most of the other Italians were doing at
the time, but they wanted to be American and they

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saw Ohio as the middle of America, and the Italians
migrated there and.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
All the jobs. I mean, you have steel industry which
finally looks like is going to start ramping up again,
which is nice to hear in the auto industry had
Lordstown and everything else, GM and everything right there.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Yeah. No, it's a great state, as is Florida, La.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
Indeed, too many people are finding out about it though. Why.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
You know what I think, you know, what saves Florida
is that, you know, a lot of people want to
come down here, and then you know, for a good
amount of people, it's not their cup of tea, you
know what I meanfully? Yeah, thank, I mean that's it.
I mean, I mean, look, Florida isn't for everybody.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
No, you do have to get used to it. I mean,
the weather is what kills a lot of people's dreams.
Once they move down here, they say, Man, I never
thought it was going to be this hot.

Speaker 6 (36:40):
You know.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Yeah, I love it.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
I do.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
I love the state. I love everything about it.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
I've lived here longer than I've lived anyplace else. I mean,
I joined the Navy when I was eighteen out of Spokane,
so you know, and I get back there once in
a while. But I've lived here longer than I've lived
anyplace else.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
It's unbelievable. It's it's I love it. I love it here,
and I hope to retire you.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
Well, we have to do what's known as a benchmark
in the business. And now it's time for five random
random before we get to learn stuff. I don't preread
these because sometimes if I did, I wouldn't do them.
Number one of your five random facts Wayne Gretzky the
only player to score two hundred points in an NHL season,

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and he did it four times.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
You a hockey fan, Big Rangers.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
Number two. The most formal type of dress for men
is white tie, not black tie. A white tie tuxedo
requires a coat with tails, a white bow tie, and
a wing caller have you ever had to sport one
of those?

Speaker 2 (37:41):
No, I don't get invited anywhere.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
Nice. Yeah, I mean neither. Number three. The busiest Domino's
pizza location in the world is the one right outside
the marine based camp leu June, North Carolina.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
Didn't know that, but I'll give you a Domino's fun fact.

Speaker 4 (37:56):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
The most pizzas Dominoes eversold on one day was the
OJ chase day.

Speaker 1 (38:05):
I was, actually I was. I was selling cars in Youngstown.
We were just talking about that off air.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
They sold more pizzas during that car chase than any
even the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
Wow, yeah, that's cool. Number four. The white dashed lines
on the highway are each ten feet long. Most people
estimate them to be around two feet, but they're ten feet,
so you're going by that makes sense. And finally, number
five of your five random facts, only four percent of
the calls routed to fire departments in the US are

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for actual fires, most of them for medical emergencies.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
And what about cats?

Speaker 1 (38:43):
Oh, we don't care about cat And there's your five round.
But it is National Kittens Day, is it? Yeah? I
like the kittens. I wouldn't own a cat though.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
I never own a dog. No, I'm a dog.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
I don't you have a dog? Do you have dogs
in a fifty five plus building?

Speaker 2 (38:59):
No? And well support dogs.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
It's oh there you go.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
Yeah, we don't have one yet.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
You're about that. Where was it someplace over in Europe?

Speaker 2 (39:07):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (39:08):
Some guy was hiking on a glacier falls into a crevice.
He had a little chihuahua with him. The huaha went
just stood right there by the crevice and waited for
the rescuers to show up so he could tell the
gays down there. Wow, little little chihuahua saved, saved, saved
a hikers. So that was good news.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
Yeah. I don't know if I was hiking, I don't
know if I would you know I.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
Would ye, not by myself.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
Yeah, that's kind of weird.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
If you're gonna be on if you're gonna be on
a glacier, you know, take a rope and.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
A cell phone maybe yeah, really.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
Bottom of a crevis. You kind of wonder how the
cell signals is going to be.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
Those people that climb these like mountains.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
You know, what I've been getting bombarded with on mysel
particularly on Facebook, is the uh, the these pictures, these videos,
short videos of people going up Everest.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Yes, and seeing the dead bodies.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
Well picking them up, finally digging them out of the
ice and taking them down. And I was amazed at
how many dead dead hike mountain climbers you've got frozen
in place on on Everest. I find it insane.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
I find it insane that people decide to, you know,
go we.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
Can do it. Should I climb Everest?

Speaker 2 (40:27):
That's not a badge of honor? No, you know what
I mean? No, not at all.

Speaker 1 (40:31):
Altitude sickness, you know, too much can take you out
up there.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
No, I mean I'm more proud of, like maybe binge
watching something on Netflix exactly.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
That's my finish the weekend, you know, at this sixth seasons,
at this age.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
At this age, I watched Breaking Bad from start to finish.
What did you do this weekend?

Speaker 1 (40:54):
I went to pare them ount Plus because I thought
that's where Yellowstone was, because yeah, eighteen eighty three, and yeah,
so I want to go through that. So I start
with eighteen eighty three, went through that, loved it, nineteen
twenty three, loved it more. Go to watch now, I
gotta sign up for Peacock if I want to watch
Yellowstone Yeah, I'm not going to do that.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
I haven't I haven't seen anything like that. My wife
and I are stuck on this History Channel show alone.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
Oh I love that too. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
And the fact it's on tonight History Channel ten o'clock.
We are addicted to it.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Gumba Johnny, thank you very much, missus. Gumba Johnny, thank
you very much.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
I want everybody to come out to Vesani's join me.
The tickets available. The I'm not the only act there.
The other acts are fantastic. Ken will be there on
Saturday night.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
Have a great weekend, folks. We'll talk to you Monday.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
Anybody got any more jokes and any funny Nope, nope,
all right, see you folks.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
We're in news radio fifteen eighty am w CZF Punda
Gorda and FM one hundred point nine two six five
EA Punda Gorda.