September 3, 2025 • 45 mins
Wednesday 09/03/25 Hour 2. With Mike Imbasciani and comedian Mark Evans.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Wednesday, Gary, and now a woman's thoughts about Taylor
Swift's engagement ring.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Tay's engagement ring is gorgeous. But I couldn't handle that
on my finger. Oh what if it got lost? Frank
would be furious, Unlike if I lost this dinky thing
I'm wearing now, It's appropriate Frank got it at Kay's
jewelry because if I dropped it down the sink, he'd
just look up from the TV and say, okay. But
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that's all he could afford back then. I mean, after all,
he was making minimum wage. Now look he's making slightly
more than minimum wage.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
And that was a woman's thoughts about Taylor Swift's engagement.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Ring today Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
It's Wednesday.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
That's your favorite day.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
It's my favorite day of a year, I said.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
I just said that.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Yeah, it's like deja over again. What No, it's nothing
like that. A what is it like?
Speaker 7 (00:55):
You know?
Speaker 5 (00:55):
It's like Pope day.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
My favorite.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Pellicis suretime.
Speaker 8 (01:05):
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to
our problem.
Speaker 9 (01:11):
Government is the problem.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
This is Charlotte County Speaks.
Speaker 8 (01:16):
Your chance to let your voice be heard on local, state,
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dumpy little warehouse behind a taco bell. The host of
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Our number two ten oh nine is the time. And
Mike Abassiani along for the hop day ride.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
And also in the studio with us, put chands together.
He's Southern, not stupid. It's Mark Evans, Mark Oh cool evation.
How you doing great in a while? It has been
a while. And what I think is cool is the
RONA put a big shift in people moving all over
Comedians in particular, leaving their states and moving to Florida.
(02:10):
You've been here for five years now this week five years.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Congression down here about five minutes before the last rights
went up and the Zillo prices went through the roof.
I mean we we got in here just in time.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Good.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
And what's cool is, along with your stand up, you
and your wife have been doing this cool thing I've
been watching on Facebook is a boat drinks and road stories. Yeah,
and and this Florida being the perfect place for it.
You and your wife take a little weekend road trips.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Oh daily, We're down here close to everything.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
And you're out there looking for the best fish tacos.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
That's one of the side things we did with the
boat drinks and road stories. That's the title. Was inspired
by being a huge Jimmy Buffet fan and I like
And it's also on Instagram too. You can go Sandbar
Comedy find me there. We're just trying to let people
know that stand up comedy is not such a glamorous business.
The funniest things happened to us on the road, much
more than on the stage. And then while doing that,
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that's when oh, it's out learned ours. He's the one
that said, Uh, you ought to chase down the best
fish sandwiches. So I took a little more detailed and
wanted to find the best fish taco. So we go
around and uh, I tell you, we've done a lot
of advertising for a lot of restaurants and having gotten
one free fish taco, and we're just trying to spread fun.
(03:32):
So if if there's a bad one, we just don't
post the episode. We just delete it. And I'm not
going to be mean to anybody.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
No, you don't have to tell us, but how many
bad ones?
Speaker 5 (03:41):
One?
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
One? And we probably posted, uh, we've done ten or
fifteen anyway this summer. And sometimes we don't even mean
to right then. Sometimes I'd like to get something other
than a fish taco. But now I feel when I
saw it the ground menu. Yeah, and we're doing them
at places that are in cool locations because see people
from trying to send to some taco trucks, some food trucks,
and that doesn't make people outside of Florida jealous. No, No,
(04:06):
we like these ocean side, water side yea like the one.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
You were just down at, actually a buffet place down
there in where's that Isla Morado Louis backyard? Oh yeah,
well that was the keys Key West, that one. We
didn't actually eat there. That that's a really funny story.
That was a bloody Mary.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
That was a bloody Mary because when he used to
live right next door to there, and if the one
of my favorite songs, trying to reason with hurricane season,
there's a line I knew I could use a bloody Mary.
So I stumbled next out of the bar. That's the bar.
And as many times we've been to Key West Louise
has always been closed for whatever reason. And we're going
down with a couple other couples in two weeks and
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we were looking on their website and they're gonna be
closed all of September for renovations. So Laurie and I said,
heck with it, let's go. So we just did a
quick day trip and spent the night down there so
we could go to Louise and have a bloody Mary.
So we put that one on video. It's if you're
not a Buffet fan, it may not mean much to you,
but it meant a lot to us. We've been trying
to get this like a pilgrimage.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
What's that show? That was also the show the tea?
Wasn't there a there was a TV show that was
filmed there?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Oh no, that was the one before where we did
have the fish tacos. That was that was an island
that was Bloodline, Okay, familiar with that serious.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
I caught like, I caught like two episodes of that.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
First time I tried to watch it. I just didn't
stick to force myself, just like Yellowstone. Somebody said no,
give it a few episodes, and boy was it good,
great and everything shot on location down there and the
ray Burn Inn where they lived is now an events center.
But the Marada Beach in Bay something like that. It's
on the video. That was one of the best fish
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tacos we ever had. Really, Yeah, that was a lot
of fun.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
What what is it? What do you like about fish tacos?
Speaker 5 (05:51):
What? What? What?
Speaker 6 (05:52):
What would be if you were gonna make after all
the fish tacos you've had, if you were going to
make a fish taco.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
What would you put in it? What would you do
to juice it up? Before I'm to Florida, people said,
do you like seafood to go?
Speaker 10 (06:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I love seafood. It was Captain D's and shrimp at
Red Lobster.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Was that came down?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Well, the mahi and group are blackened either one of those.
I've learned that. That's that's my favorite. And some great
places here in Port Charlotte that has some great blackened mahi.
And that's mostly I don't like too much of the
other crazy stuff, but some of the little pineapple and
the little creamy stuff they put in there that might
be unique to their restaurant that makes them stand out.
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That's been fun. Uh, learning about.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
That, Yeah, because that's really what changes I would assume. Yeah,
the delacious fish yeah right, Yeah, were the spices they
put on it, getting it black and you know, I
get spicy, love it.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, And the main thing is the atmosphere too. We
want to I won't lie when I do these videos.
I want people from back home or my old home
and look. Yeah, extremely Yeah, this is where we're living
the dream down here, don't We won't video during a hurricane.
There's no reason to do that everybody, although we might yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
The way, but.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, it's been interesting just to do that. And there's
a place down in Alabada we were talking about off say,
off camera, off Mike, the Alamorada Brewery and Distillery.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
I have, we have.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I didn't wear their T shirt. I have signs from
there hanging at our pool. We've got a lot of
their merchandise. They make their own beer. You can buy
it at the what's that big wine place over off
Veterans or off Cocker ABC. No, it is the wine
they sell the Alamorado beer. There a couple of their
flavors and I keep tagging them and telling them I
(07:45):
did a show there last summer sponsor me. I want
to so keep bugging them, keep bugging them, and I'm
going to keep doing it until they either send me
a check, a case of beer, or a ceasing assist letter.
I just want a reaction, that's all I want. So
if people want to look them up and text them
and all that, you know, join the army. I'm a
Santa bar renegade.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
That's but also doing the road stories, I mean, comedians
on the road. I've you hear so many you know
off stage.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
All true. Yeah, you want to have a great time
if a couple of comics are going to the waffle
house after a show and they invite you go and
stay there all night listening to their stories because they're
going to top each other. They're gonna keep topping each other,
and I guarantee you they're all true.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
How is it on the road these days? I mean,
you know, you're headlining, but as a feature, when you're
starting out, that's that's the rough, that's where the stories
come from.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Really, I haven't put this one out yet, but I'm
gonna give you all a little foreshadow and not I'll
tell you this one. When I was featuring, Oh it
was gosh, This is back up twenty years ago. And
I had a Wednesday night in Miami and then Friday
Saturday at oh it's called Snappers now than Fort Myers,
and Thursday night was off and if you don't have
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a gig, you're on your own. And so I would
usually do I'd kill time and like this club. They
have been having two comics come in every weekend for years.
So if I show up Thursday night around midnight and
look pitiful, sometimes they just give me the room and
just a few hours early. Well, this guy wouldn't budge.
So my next try is I sit in the lobby
(09:22):
and stare at him, go oh wait. That usually works,
but this this guy wouldn't budget. So I just left.
I went and went to an iehop and I found
out you've overstayed. You're welcome when they just won't refill
your tea anymore. So I was like, Okay, it's warm,
I'm gonst sleep in the car till the day shift
comes in. And then I saw at the Big Blue
and Gold, just the mecca for road comics. There's the
(09:45):
Walmart twenty four hour supercenter. So I go in there
and I find this therapeutic chair over in the pharmacy area,
one of those real comfortable vibrating things, and a TV
was hanging there with a VCR in it, and it
was a They're playing a Letterman with Bill Murray. I went, oh,
I'll live and then the show ended and I wanted.
I didn't want to leave, but had VCR. Well, I figured,
(10:05):
I'm of the mindset if you don't consume a product
or leave the property with a product, you have not
stolen said product.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
And they can shrink wrap it.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
That's what I did. Well, just when the movie I
remember Ten Cup with Costner, Oh yeah, I love that golf. Yeah,
I did just come out on VHS. So I got it.
I pop it in and they had all these palettes
with stock because it's two and three in the morning
and they're all over the place. So I pushed him
around and built a fort around a chair. I went
and got some something to eat, everything but a blanket
(10:37):
and a Teddy Bear. You know, I'm sitting there watching
the movie and you know the big scene where he
takes a twelve on the last hole of the open. Yeah,
he just keeps yeah, Well that's when that scene comes up.
I thought that was an earthquake, because everything's around me's rumbling.
And now it's some seventeen year old, pimply faced stock
boy was doing his job and he's moving the pallets.
And when he pulled the pallette back and there I am,
all snuggled up with all my drinking food and watching
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the movie. He just looked at me, kind of rolled
his eyes and kept on going, let it go. Yeah,
So I left, everything went out the door. The sun
was up. I got there, the day shift was there.
They gave me the room. I beat the knight. That's
how you survive on the road, especially as a feature. Wow,
se COVID killed that. Yeah, Walmart, quick break.
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Who the hell are you, guys? Maybe you're an extraterrestrial
escape from the government. Societal confirmation code x V two
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Will be right back with Charlotte County Speaks News Radio
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Okay, I've been I've been working since I was fourteen,
and I've never would never even considered that. Uh, Mike Bass,
Andy Mark Evans in the house, and uh, the one
thing that I wanted to talk to you about is
an incident.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I bet I know.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
I always love bringing this up because I.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Was wonder driving in. I was wondering if you're going
to say that the spirit the.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Spirit, Oh, I've heard the story.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
The Spirit of Hippo still lives.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I still call him Rhino. I've always call him Rhino.
I knew would make him mad.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
It was now, this was when mister Baseball was still
with us, and Mister Baseball and the Golden Hippo were
had been golfing all Friday and showed up to Vasani
for his hosting duties.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
The star foam cup full. Yeah, that you couldn't so
you couldn't see what was in it?
Speaker 5 (14:05):
And who was it?
Speaker 6 (14:06):
What was it Lori?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Oh, I didn't even know Lori.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Then, No, the headliner you were opening up for, he
was hitting on her.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
I don't remember who I was with that.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
I was just she had a guitar. She did a
couple of songs towards the end.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
I forget what her name was. But anyway, he's hitting
on her. He gets up to bring you up on
stage and proceeds to do fifteen minutes of your set. Well,
the prelude to that was I don't understand too. In radio,
it's it's not really stealing. If you're in a different
market and you hear something, you can bring it to
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your market and it's okay if you hear something good
to say. I was even talking to old people in
the radio a long time ago. And that's actually a
common practice for what I've heard, because you're not stealing
audiences because if you hear something in another state, the
people here aren't going to hear it. It's not like
it's This was before iHeart and you had nationwide radio.
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So there was a joke I did, and I found
out he was doing it every time he hosted, and
again Al earned he came down and called him out
on it. In fact, he refused to go on his
show because of that, and he got al got fined.
I felt terrible. The club find out is the old owner,
so it's okay, And it was just a real mess.
(15:27):
And when I showed up, I was like working there
two weeks later and I was, you know, fit to kill.
I didn't know how to take it. And so he
comes in and he comes walking up to me with
that styrofoam cup, and I just I wasn't going to
say anything. I wanted to see what he would do.
And he just comes up to me going, it's okay,
it's okay. I went, you don't get to say that. No,
(15:49):
it's not okay. So now we're going to talk about it.
And I finally said, look, if you're going to be
a jerk and do my it was one really main joke,
and if you're going to do the joke, do me
a favor. When you see him coming, just don't do
it for a couple of weeks, you know, leave it
for me. And so he's like, okay, it's okay, it's okay.
So he goes up there, and you're right. He had
been bombing. I mean, well, he had a long golf
(16:10):
day and a good shit. He always had his golf
buddy sitting up front. He just kind of talked to
them and they weren't there, and so he's having bad
and I'm over on the side of the stage waiting
to get brought up, and that's when he looked over
my shoulder and goes, sorry, Mark, I gotta do it.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Yeah I know, And then he did the joke and
then he did it wrong. Yeah right, and he screwed
it up. So I'm fit to kill. And the club
had a back then, the old owner, and I really
agree with this. He had a very strong no f
bomb policy, yes, especially out of the opening acts, and
I really respect that and I really try to fight that.
But that night I kind of went out the wind.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
I was there and I went off the stage. It
was everywhere.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
You only get twenty five minutes as a feature there.
And I lit into him and for doing that, And
I said, first of all, if you're going to the joke.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
At least do it right.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Right, here's how the joke's supposed to go. And I
did the joke, and at the end of it, I
didn't get a laugh. I had place was packed like
two hundred and fifty people's had five hundred eyeballs this
big around just staring at me. And I dug myself
a hole that I couldn't get out of that night.
I just got through the set and then I found
out he just passed out or something later. But uh,
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that I'm so glad that I have a little piece
of history that it.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Should be a plaque on the wall.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
That was something, because you know, it's rare. Uh, it's
only been within the last few years that we've had
to deal with any real Heckler's there.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yeah, it's always been a really good.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
That's as close to a Heckler story.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Yeah, it's like it is because you always hear about.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
All these Heckler stories, right, you know, Dale Jones you
a'l telling us all these.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Stories from somebody else on the show. Yeah, exactly, urged
from the audience. You kind of leave your guard down
to the other people on the show. Although there are
some comics the big thiefs. If they do that, they
should really keep a book and be careful they know
who they steal from, right, because yeah, nothing worse for
everybody when they do a joke in front of you.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Because that's the thing. Once, once you get caught stealing jokes,
it spreads like a rumor.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Charlotte, Yeah, I'm serious. Everybody knows.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
There you go. Men, seeing is the big one. But
this I found this kind of interesting. You now, as
a comedian, I mean, you had a job before you
got into Colm for the first five years, you know,
and a lot of people do. And was it stressful
for you to weigh that decision to dump the job
(18:54):
and just that's fine.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Well, I was a corporate travel agent before that, my
retail manager. If anybody remember the nightclub Studa Bakers that
chained from the eighties, and I dj' did the very
first one and that was a fun That's what kind
of got me in this. Another story got me into
doing stand up. But I was a corporate travel agent.
I was really good at it, and I really hated it.
And I was there from ninety three to ninety eight,
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and that's right the same year as I started comedies
in ninety three. And as a corporate agent, you don't
have to show brochures. You can just they just need
a car, hotel, air, and I was really good at it.
So they were just getting into the park where you
had home pro where you could work remotely, and so
I could go on the road and take these two
hundred dollars a week MC jobs and afford to do
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it because I still had my other paycheck because the
guy wanted to keep me in the office, so I
had that going for me, and I just remotely work
and issued the tickets and everything was great. Well, then
he sold the agency and I could stay on as
a contractor. But that means everything was on me. It
wasn't the protection of being an employee. Any mistakes would
come out of my pocket, and my calendar filled up.
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I'm doing this five years and I finally had to
make a choice. I got to go this way or
that way, and I figured, you know, in fifty years,
I'm going to be dead anyway, So why not chase
the dream?
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Was it your gut?
Speaker 7 (20:10):
Was it?
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Did you go with your gut?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
No, the stupid side of me because I like doing
stand up morning accident in an office. So I was like,
it was a gut decision, okay, And it actually worked
out because within two years the Internet shut down just
about every travel ag just see in the country because
it became so user friendly to book your own.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Travel yourself and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
They're gone. And so I would have lost my job anyway.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
And uh so I just I said, followed the gut,
chased the dream, and it was something was based on
an old Mary Tyler Moore episode when lou Grant came
out of his office and says, in fifty years, will
all be dead? And that's resonated with me forever. And
I was like, you know, I don't want to. It's
kind of corny, but it's true. You don't want to
be on your deathbed wishing wishing you'd done something different.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
Yeah. Well, a new poll found seventy percent of Americans
going their gut or rely on it to some extent
when making big life decisions.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Well, the people that are going to be successful the
ones that do follow their gut, not just ask everybody
what they should do exactly.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Well, yeah, I just saw something the other day. If
you ask everyone, you're gonna make the wrong choice.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Yeah, that's got to go. You gotta go with your gut.
They use gut instincts as a catch all. It includes
your intuition, general vibes you're feeling, or any insight you
might get from prayer.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
So there you go, and nobody's going to tell you
to quit your job with benefits to go do stand up.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
That's got to be a gut decision. Yeah, the holest
guy in the corner will worked for me. Have you
ever met a man sitting in the chair in a
Walmart at two o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
It was a vibrating chair and I had a fort
Man my little city of Solace, what with the thing
Superman had?
Speaker 6 (22:06):
Hey, this there's a lot of scams going on, you know,
locally you get a lot of uh the big the
big one was the you got parking tickets or something,
the text messages or something like. Yeah, that's a big one.
But this, I don't know how anybody falls for this,
But lady in Japan did Women in Japan.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
She's in her eighties. She fell for.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
This is one of the worst catfishing, not really catfishing,
but romance scams. She started last July, started talking to
a guy on social media who claimed he was an
astronaut red flag right there, but she kept talking to him,
developed feelings, and then he finally dropped the hammer one
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day and claimed he was in trouble. And the story
he went with, he's in space, he was under it
attack on his ship and needed oxygen.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
So please send fifty visa credit card.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Sixty seven hundred dollars. Oh man, he sent a million yen,
which is sixty seven hundred bucks. Officials in Japan shared
the story be suspicious, yes, Simon, asking you to let
them buy oxygen because they're being attacked in space.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
There was a new Jason Statham movie and the beginning
premise is that the nice little old lady that he's
you know with, that she takes care of him because
he's of course retired from being the ultimate you know killer,
gets scammed and loses all her money and kills herself,
and so he has to go after all the all
the scammer goes up the food chain of all these
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phone scam but it's true. I mean people, have.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
You had DIRS one? Oh DIRS doesn't call right, it's
all mail. Well, this guy calls up and really leaning
on me. I just kept him on the phone as
long as I could, and because I was like thirty
two hundred dollars and says if you don't pay it today,
that you're going to be arrested in an hour. The
sheriff will be on his way. When he kept saying
that the Sheriff's on his way, I finally went, thanks
for the heads up.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Click, but people do this yeah, Oh it's sick.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Then the ones that just bothered me with the people
calling up to say they can pay off my student loan.
And I one time kept him on the phone every
question I could. I just really milked it as long
as I could. And finally, when I after about thirty minutes,
I couldn't think of anything else to keep her on
the phone. I finally went, oh wait a minute, I
didn't go and as she's hanging up, I'm screaming, but
(24:37):
can you sell me an extended warranting to my car?
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Jeez? Yeah, there, it's dangerous out there. For a lot
of these people.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
And you'll just start getting texts. I have a ton
of numbers because I've had the same phone number for
twenty five years, and you know I got it in
two thousand and so I'll get texts, Hey, you want
to meet at the coffee shop tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
It's block.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Or they'll send you an invoice. Usually it's too Oh
the geek Squad or something like Norton.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Yeah, And so you've paid all this money, and I
guess people want to call up and well they find
out your account.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Yeah do that, Well I didn't pay.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Hey, what are you I'm going to need your account.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
What you name? There was Post Office, ones, Best Buy,
a geek Squad, and it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
And you look at their email. They there their their
email address will be the correct one, but then they'll
add one character at the beginning of it.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
We luckily corporate, We've got a whole division in corporate
that hunts out that stuff because you know, their corporate
laptops and stuff like that. They don't want those getting,
you know, all jammed up. So they'll send us info.
Be on the lookout for this, and they'll even test it.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
The tests are to see if we fall for them.
Oh my gosh, so yeah, pretty good training on that.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
There are hot singles in my area who knew Charlotte
County just didn't men age.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
Hey.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
According to longevity experts out there, it's probably worked better
for you than us at this stage. But if you
rolled out of bed today made coffee, you might be
skipping six other important steps to a good morning routine
which will help you live to one hundred.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Kay, I'll wake up and I come here. I'm you
know that's as good as it gets.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
Here's here's the seven steps they say that can help
you live to one hundred and uh. I do most
of them already. Drink a glass of water when you
wake up. They say it's supposed to help you kicks
your metabolism, eliminates toxins. Eat it, nutrient dense breakfast sometimes yes,
(27:04):
sometimes no, yogurt, oatmeal, berries, nuts, I'm a I'm an
oatmeal guy. Stretch I do that activate your nervous system.
This is weird.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
They call it vaguel or vagile.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
I don't know if I have one of those. Tapping
they say that's stretching. Somatic body tapping is Basically, you
tap your body with your fingers for a few minutes.
It's supposed to wake up your nervous system.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
I have heard that.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
I tried that Friday that she said, no, this is practice,
mindfulness practice. Take a few minutes to meditate or do
some deep breathing. Set intentions, set intentions. Yes, I'm gonna
have a good day. Gosh during it.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
If I get up and walk to the bathroom, I'll
do the deep breathing.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Yeah, the.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Check and enjoy your morning coffee. Now that's something. So
I'm probably four out of seven, so I'm doing okay. Yeah,
I'm enjoying my morning.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Don't you coffee drinker?
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Coffee drinker, So that's your tea.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
You did mention tea.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
I like tea. But I remember my mom used to
be so upset that I wouldn't drink coffee because she
loved it so much. And but she goes. I said, well,
you know, it's a vice I don't have. She goes.
But you like sweets, I said, so I should add
a vice.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
You know how much creamer I'm gonna be putting my coffee.
But with the with the fish tacos, like people pair
the red meat with a certain wine or you know
what's your go to.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Normally I would like iced tea, but I have learned
something and I don't I can. I could be easy
to do the math how much money I have saved?
I drink ice water at restaurants. Now, Oh, that's their
biggest profit. When if both of us order a soft
drink or a tea, that's ten bucks and our bill
is ten bucks cheaper every time just by drinking water.
And I'll drink the other stuff later. And that's true.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
I've seen soft drinks up to five bucks down in
some places.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
It's crazy, and it just makes a big difference on
the bill. So that's not just water, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
Or a bloody Mary, well, that's that's yeah, that was
not yeah yeah some of these places. You see what
they put in these bloody marys.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
You a meal?
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Yeah, I've seen a double burger. Yeah, I've seen the
big shrimp and a burger with a big sword going. Yeah,
Hurricane Charlie's used to have a bloody marry bar kind
of like a build your own bloody marry.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
There, I missed that spot. That's it's just a big
it's a it's a parking lot. Now there's supposed to
be something going there.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
Yeah, I don't know what they're putting.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
I don't know. That was before Sunseekers sold, so I
don't know what's going on now.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
Yeah, maybe since it's the owner of the hotel is
the one who the owners still own it. They haven't
sold it. They just plowed it under, but that cost
them over a million.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Ye Hurricane Charlie could have kept going, but they weren't
getting any support from the owner and their building was
falling apart.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
Well, they're also the ones who owned Deans.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Yeah, our Deans is coming back. Somebody wants to open it,
reopen it pretty much the same place. They're just going
through the permits now. And how long can you wait
on a permit for a place that was already open?
Speaker 7 (30:32):
You know?
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Yeah, well that's a whole other episode, whole nother rumor mill.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Trust me, have you seen what they've been saying on Facebook.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
And Harpoon Harr's where is its supposed to reopen somewhere?
They said they no, they're getting it.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
That's they're going through a whole remake on that what
are they calling it now?
Speaker 5 (30:52):
It was owner.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Harris was going to reopen somewhere. In fact, originally over
over the Sunseat was supposed to have his whole complex
over there too, and were going to go there.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Well, actually they they owned the uh uh the old
paintball place used to be the y M bayshore Y
Park out there where they had stage. You had a
couple of blues concerts there. But they they they bought
that and they were going to build a place and
then they didn't. So maybe they will now that they've.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Are their condos going in over there too, I'm pay sure.
I don't know near the yacht Club Charlott Harvey Club
like on the other side.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
Oh on the other side, Oh, it could be.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
I know they do have people that's going to be
moving into the old Harpoon Harry's and the right that
ye captain table.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
Yeah, yeah, but they've torn they tore the ship down
off the front. Yeah that was kind of coolo. Yeah,
but they tore that down. But it's a uh, it's.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Like latitude something.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
It's a I think it's a national chain.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
It's going to take a national chain to pay the
rent there.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
And see what people that were harpn Harry plaques on
the floor, those tiles that were like every ten feet.
People were stealing them, right, of course, it's probably gonna
I tried to buy one. They tried doing that at
Dean's too. They Deans had to post something said, please
do not take.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
This stuff on that wall. Just vultures every day.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Well, they had one video of a guy Harper and
Harry's posted the video the guy.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
Just a guy's stealing it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well it's
gonna be fun to see. I mean, it's always good
to see new stuff go up. Have you been to
the Sunsecret yet?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
When they first kind of opened up, when you could
park for free and we couldn't get served, they didn't
know what they were doing yet. And now I'm hoping
that rooms might be a little since where they pay
two hundred million for something that costs five to seventy
to build. The new people heard they pay two hundred
million for it.
Speaker 6 (32:53):
Oh yeah, I forget what it was. It was originally
five seventy to build it. Well, and that was because problem. Yeah,
the hurricane, the the crane's falling over.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
And then autizing at this waterfront, which is true, but
have you ever seen the pictures that water looks emerald,
I mean sparkling blue, not brackish.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
That we have artists.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Actually they photoshop this. They make people think they're coming
to the beach. It's seventeen miles by water to Boca.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a it's a it's like a what
do you call it. It's like a tinder photo. It's been,
you know, lots of lots of filters initiate conversation. You
have some very very bad habits.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Well, these people in my office building are a drain
on resources.
Speaker 6 (33:40):
It's a kind of dieting boot camp.
Speaker 9 (33:41):
Oh it's been in the next two hours telling you
to drop and get me various numbers.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
It's humiliating.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
It's show business, baby, you got to start somewhere.
Speaker 10 (33:49):
We'll be right back with Charlotte County Speaks News Radio
fifteen eighty WCCF.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
If you've never seen a c DC, let me tell
you song.
Speaker 11 (34:01):
Little guy comes out. He's like maybe four foot two.
I can't understand a word he's saying until he says,
all right, all right, little angus young is he's only
(34:22):
like two and a half feet tall. For an hour
and a half, just popping his head up and down.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
I'm just dumping down.
Speaker 11 (34:32):
That is truly the only no disrespect on other bands.
That's the only band I know can take any song,
any song. They could take a wedding and tear it up.
They could take a wedding song like the Hokey Pokey
and just annihilate, annihilate.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Out you sake it, shake it, shake it out about
tearing the bout.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Camp's kind of a train wreck.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
You should have gone into the real It's the only
one I had left. What are you Gonna do?
Speaker 6 (35:32):
News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FM w CCF. Okay,
they didn't want to hold. Nobody wants to hold. What
are you Gonna do? Ten forty nine. You're on a
home day Wednesday, Charlotte County speaks, Mark Evans, MIKEE. Bassie,
Andy in a house and uh yes, rumors, rumors, rumors,
new restaurants, things changing in Charlotte County.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Big changes of fort changes.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
In Charlotte County. So how you've been here five years
almost to the day. Yeah, yeah, we've seen a lot
of changes. Yeah, you didn't think whatever happened, But we
also didn't know what it's like to move into a
Hurricane Alley.
Speaker 6 (36:09):
Well, and speaking of that, they've got something that looks
like it might. Of course, they're always they got to
have a win. They've been promising hurricanes for you know,
it's coming, it's coming, but what is it?
Speaker 5 (36:24):
They got some checking checking.
Speaker 6 (36:29):
Uh yeah, tropical wave watching slowly seventy chance, but it's still.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Way that the ones still out by Africa.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
Yeah, it's still away, but they're producing, they're predicting. Get
to milk, the bread, the toilet paper in the water.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
Yeah, maybe you should just stock up on that anyway,
so that when they do come, you're not all clogging
up the home depot.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Yeah. Yeah, I did spend a lot of time collecting
all the tarps and mr emails that they're getting away.
I've got a ton of though I don't know what
I'm gonna do with fourteen tarps.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
See, yeah, but the last Yeah, you're still new.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Well have I ever eaten what I've heard? They're pretty good?
Speaker 5 (37:11):
Oh yeah they are now.
Speaker 6 (37:12):
When I was in uh, when I was with the CBS,
we ate them, but they only had a few choices
back then, in the late late eighties, they only had
a few choices on them.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
But we used to become the cool like hiking food.
Speaker 6 (37:26):
Yeah, but now everybody makes them, but the government ones
are still You've got a lot of different choices now,
which is kind of cool. We used to take a
fifty cal ammo boxes and just like aim them at
the sun and put the m r in there, cook
them there you go later in the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
You took the bullets out first though, right, Oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 6 (37:51):
Blanks anywhere. We got the Marines hand me downs. Historically,
this is it. Yeah, we had VJ Day just the
other day. Yeah, yes, And nineteen thirty nine is when
(38:13):
it all kind of kicked off. Britain and France declared
war on Germany two days after the Nazis invaded Poland
on the state in nineteen thirty nine. The Lone Ranger
nineteen fifty four, seventy one years ago, after two thousand,
nine hundred and fifty six episodes, The Lone Ranger was
heard on radio for the last time, and then it
(38:36):
moved to.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
TV.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
And then after that Johnny Depp's atrocity yeah ouch with
Armie Hammer the cannibal, Yeah ouch. And then he makes
Johnny Depp look normal exactly. They needed that, yeah, professional suicide.
Speaker 6 (38:58):
Really five years ago. We lost Vince Lombardi on this
date in nineteen seventy. Uh, what else we have? Prince
This was in ninety two. So was that when he
was the artist formerly known as Anyway. He became the
highest paid rock star after No, that's yeah, after that's
(39:20):
before he became that's when he signed one hundred million
dollar deal with Warner Brothers Records ten million in album
Wow Yes.
Speaker 5 (39:28):
In ninety three, in the midst of his contractual dispute
with Warner Brothers, he changed his stage name to the Symbol,
the Love Symbol. There it was often referred to as
the artist known as Prince Perhaps.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
Yeah to him, yeah sure, yeah, but he's still cash
at check. Nineteen ninety five, the ashamed Hispanic that is,
Charlie sheen married one Donna Peel on his thirtieth birthday.
They only lasted a couple of months. That was two
(40:00):
wives ago. You know, he's turning sixty.
Speaker 5 (40:03):
He made it.
Speaker 6 (40:04):
He made it well for Charlie Sheen Man after all.
The Keith Richards Yeah really yeah, he's the Keith Richards
of Hollywood Actors. eBay founded on this date in nineteen
ninety five by Pierre Omadar Ohmadyar, and he founded it
because his wife couldn't find a pez dispenser to complete
(40:25):
her collection.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
Well, if he started the website, how could he then
find the pez dispenser. You had to wait for somebody
to put it on there. Well, but that's what he
was searching for. Okay, I don't know if he did,
I still don't think he would get the pet dispenser.
It would take a while.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
There used to be a commercial about and that's why
they did this commercial about pet dispensers once on eBay.
There's somebody who was trying to get trying to get
this one to finish their collection. And I think Dan
Aykroyd played the part. He was a billionaire that bought
the one and he had like they'd made a hundred
of them and he had ninety nine of that one.
He couldn't share it with the rest of the world.
Is something weird like that, And it was all about
(41:03):
a pet. There was an inside joke.
Speaker 5 (41:05):
Yeah, yeah, well see that was now afford to make
the graphical movie, so they just made a super Bowl commercial.
Speaker 6 (41:12):
That's probably what it was. Yeah, and that was really it.
The rest uh oh, Michael Clark Dunk Duncan. We lost
him at age fifty four twenty twelve.
Speaker 5 (41:22):
Of course, the Green Mile he was yeah, oh yeah,
yeah he was.
Speaker 6 (41:26):
He was a good actor. Judy carn You remember Rowana
Martin's laugh. Yeah, we lost her at age seventy six
and twenty fifteen. That was like the precursor to Saturday
Night Live.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
Yeah, you have no clue about that show. Do You
can still find Uh, it's on a Nicked Night or
something like that, but it still don't have You have
to understand what the world was like then. It's like
when Animal House. First of all, I know a lot
of people have seen Animal House on Network TV and
they've never seen it on cable. But you have to
understand what comedies were prior to that, other than Blazing Saddles. Yeah,
(41:58):
was a Disney comedy or something like that. So you
don't understand how groundbreaking it is. So to see it
now you can't appreciate. But you can find clips of
it on YouTube. Nixon was on They used to be,
They used to to me, so to me, Yeah, that
was and they slipped so many Ernie Johnson, well, the
(42:19):
Fickle Finger of Fate. Yes, it's a Flip Off and
they they were sneaking so many things, uh past the
sensors because the sensors were old and decrepit didn't understand.
Speaker 5 (42:32):
Yeah, that was a good show. I used to watch
that a lot that works.
Speaker 6 (42:36):
They were funny and then yeah, that's where we got
Flip Wilson spun off of that with his own show.
Speaker 5 (42:43):
Well, speaking of Animal House, and also dan Ackroyd. Dan
Ackroyd has a great book about the Blues Brothers that
he reads on audible and get that. Oh it's fantastic
and it's free, even better I know, And he said
for the Blues Brothers. Belushi put up the money that
he made from Animal House to fund the Blues Brothers
(43:05):
record that then created the movie. And at that time
that the record came out, it one album of the
Year or something, And so Belushi was one of the
only people that had a top selling song album, number
one in a at box Office with Animal House, and
number one TV show with a cast bron SNL.
Speaker 6 (43:25):
Well, that's your bonus random random That was your bonus
random factor, right, yes, number one of your five random
facts day. Pet tortoises can go in a fridge to
hibernate over winter, but you need to ensure that the
temperature remains within a safe range, and you'll want to
open the door a few times a week for ventilation.
Speaker 5 (43:48):
Still live, okay. Number two.
Speaker 6 (43:51):
Doc Martin's were invented by a German doctor, Klaus Martin's,
after he heard his ankle skiing in nineteen forty five
and needed a more comfortable shoe to wear. Number three.
The six countries with the most English speakers are the US, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Indonesia,
and the Philippines. England is seventh, but they have the
(44:15):
highest percentage of English speakers at ninety eight point three percent.
Number four Elo Electric Light Orchestra has the record for
the most Top forty songs without a number one hit.
They've had twenty songs make the top forty, but none
of them have made it to number one. And finally,
number five of your five random facts, the tango was
(44:38):
created in the Brothels in Buenos Aires, Argentina to two
yes to act out the relationship between a prostitute and
a pimp. That's why she gets smacked. I don't know
the tango very well. Well Mark, thanks for coming in.
Speaker 5 (44:58):
We appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
If I can say Sandbar Comedy on Instagram, follow me,
contact me if you want to come have a fish
taco with me.
Speaker 6 (45:04):
Yeah, there you go, looking for it Micahbassiani dot com.
He'll be back tomorrow. I have great day, kids.
Speaker 5 (45:09):
Stay safe.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Anybody got any more jokes, any funny? Nope?
Speaker 7 (45:19):
Nope?
Speaker 5 (45:20):
All right, see you folks. You are not fan easily
you're clothes. If you're not the then you are the crew.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Please leave.
Speaker 5 (45:32):
We are close
It's Wednesday, Gary, and now a woman's thoughts about Taylor
Swift's engagement ring.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Tay's engagement ring is gorgeous. But I couldn't handle that
on my finger. Oh what if it got lost? Frank
would be furious, Unlike if I lost this dinky thing
I'm wearing now, It's appropriate Frank got it at Kay's
jewelry because if I dropped it down the sink, he'd
just look up from the TV and say, okay. But
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that's all he could afford back then. I mean, after all,
he was making minimum wage. Now look he's making slightly
more than minimum wage.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
And that was a woman's thoughts about Taylor Swift's engagement.
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Ring today Wednesday.
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That's your favorite day.
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It's my favorite day of a year, I said.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
I just said that.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Yeah, it's like deja over again. What No, it's nothing
like that. A what is it like?
Speaker 7 (00:55):
You know?
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It's like Pope day.
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My favorite.
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Pellicis suretime.
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Government is the problem.
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Our number two ten oh nine is the time. And
Mike Abassiani along for the hop day ride.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
And also in the studio with us, put chands together.
He's Southern, not stupid. It's Mark Evans, Mark Oh cool evation.
How you doing great in a while? It has been
a while. And what I think is cool is the
RONA put a big shift in people moving all over
Comedians in particular, leaving their states and moving to Florida.
(02:10):
You've been here for five years now this week five years.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Congression down here about five minutes before the last rights
went up and the Zillo prices went through the roof.
I mean we we got in here just in time.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Good.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
And what's cool is, along with your stand up, you
and your wife have been doing this cool thing I've
been watching on Facebook is a boat drinks and road stories. Yeah,
and and this Florida being the perfect place for it.
You and your wife take a little weekend road trips.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Oh daily, We're down here close to everything.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
And you're out there looking for the best fish tacos.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
That's one of the side things we did with the
boat drinks and road stories. That's the title. Was inspired
by being a huge Jimmy Buffet fan and I like
And it's also on Instagram too. You can go Sandbar
Comedy find me there. We're just trying to let people
know that stand up comedy is not such a glamorous business.
The funniest things happened to us on the road, much
more than on the stage. And then while doing that,
(03:09):
that's when oh, it's out learned ours. He's the one
that said, Uh, you ought to chase down the best
fish sandwiches. So I took a little more detailed and
wanted to find the best fish taco. So we go
around and uh, I tell you, we've done a lot
of advertising for a lot of restaurants and having gotten
one free fish taco, and we're just trying to spread fun.
(03:32):
So if if there's a bad one, we just don't
post the episode. We just delete it. And I'm not
going to be mean to anybody.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
No, you don't have to tell us, but how many
bad ones?
Speaker 5 (03:41):
One?
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
One? And we probably posted, uh, we've done ten or
fifteen anyway this summer. And sometimes we don't even mean
to right then. Sometimes I'd like to get something other
than a fish taco. But now I feel when I
saw it the ground menu. Yeah, and we're doing them
at places that are in cool locations because see people
from trying to send to some taco trucks, some food trucks,
and that doesn't make people outside of Florida jealous. No, No,
(04:06):
we like these ocean side, water side yea like the one.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
You were just down at, actually a buffet place down
there in where's that Isla Morado Louis backyard? Oh yeah,
well that was the keys Key West, that one. We
didn't actually eat there. That that's a really funny story.
That was a bloody Mary.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
That was a bloody Mary because when he used to
live right next door to there, and if the one
of my favorite songs, trying to reason with hurricane season,
there's a line I knew I could use a bloody Mary.
So I stumbled next out of the bar. That's the bar.
And as many times we've been to Key West Louise
has always been closed for whatever reason. And we're going
down with a couple other couples in two weeks and
(04:46):
we were looking on their website and they're gonna be
closed all of September for renovations. So Laurie and I said,
heck with it, let's go. So we just did a
quick day trip and spent the night down there so
we could go to Louise and have a bloody Mary.
So we put that one on video. It's if you're
not a Buffet fan, it may not mean much to you,
but it meant a lot to us. We've been trying
to get this like a pilgrimage.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
What's that show? That was also the show the tea?
Wasn't there a there was a TV show that was
filmed there?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Oh no, that was the one before where we did
have the fish tacos. That was that was an island
that was Bloodline, Okay, familiar with that serious.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
I caught like, I caught like two episodes of that.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
First time I tried to watch it. I just didn't
stick to force myself, just like Yellowstone. Somebody said no,
give it a few episodes, and boy was it good,
great and everything shot on location down there and the
ray Burn Inn where they lived is now an events center.
But the Marada Beach in Bay something like that. It's
on the video. That was one of the best fish
(05:45):
tacos we ever had. Really, Yeah, that was a lot
of fun.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
What what is it? What do you like about fish tacos?
Speaker 5 (05:51):
What? What? What?
Speaker 6 (05:52):
What would be if you were gonna make after all
the fish tacos you've had, if you were going to
make a fish taco.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
What would you put in it? What would you do
to juice it up? Before I'm to Florida, people said,
do you like seafood to go?
Speaker 10 (06:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I love seafood. It was Captain D's and shrimp at
Red Lobster.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Was that came down?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Well, the mahi and group are blackened either one of those.
I've learned that. That's that's my favorite. And some great
places here in Port Charlotte that has some great blackened mahi.
And that's mostly I don't like too much of the
other crazy stuff, but some of the little pineapple and
the little creamy stuff they put in there that might
be unique to their restaurant that makes them stand out.
(06:32):
That's been fun. Uh, learning about.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
That, Yeah, because that's really what changes I would assume. Yeah,
the delacious fish yeah right, Yeah, were the spices they
put on it, getting it black and you know, I
get spicy, love it.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, And the main thing is the atmosphere too. We
want to I won't lie when I do these videos.
I want people from back home or my old home
and look. Yeah, extremely Yeah, this is where we're living
the dream down here, don't We won't video during a hurricane.
There's no reason to do that everybody, although we might yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
The way, but.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, it's been interesting just to do that. And there's
a place down in Alabada we were talking about off say,
off camera, off Mike, the Alamorada Brewery and Distillery.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
I have, we have.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I didn't wear their T shirt. I have signs from
there hanging at our pool. We've got a lot of
their merchandise. They make their own beer. You can buy
it at the what's that big wine place over off
Veterans or off Cocker ABC. No, it is the wine
they sell the Alamorado beer. There a couple of their
flavors and I keep tagging them and telling them I
(07:45):
did a show there last summer sponsor me. I want
to so keep bugging them, keep bugging them, and I'm
going to keep doing it until they either send me
a check, a case of beer, or a ceasing assist letter.
I just want a reaction, that's all I want. So
if people want to look them up and text them
and all that, you know, join the army. I'm a
Santa bar renegade.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
That's but also doing the road stories, I mean, comedians
on the road. I've you hear so many you know
off stage.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
All true. Yeah, you want to have a great time
if a couple of comics are going to the waffle
house after a show and they invite you go and
stay there all night listening to their stories because they're
going to top each other. They're gonna keep topping each other,
and I guarantee you they're all true.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
How is it on the road these days? I mean,
you know, you're headlining, but as a feature, when you're
starting out, that's that's the rough, that's where the stories
come from.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Really, I haven't put this one out yet, but I'm
gonna give you all a little foreshadow and not I'll
tell you this one. When I was featuring, Oh it
was gosh, This is back up twenty years ago. And
I had a Wednesday night in Miami and then Friday
Saturday at oh it's called Snappers now than Fort Myers,
and Thursday night was off and if you don't have
(09:02):
a gig, you're on your own. And so I would
usually do I'd kill time and like this club. They
have been having two comics come in every weekend for years.
So if I show up Thursday night around midnight and
look pitiful, sometimes they just give me the room and
just a few hours early. Well, this guy wouldn't budge.
So my next try is I sit in the lobby
(09:22):
and stare at him, go oh wait. That usually works,
but this this guy wouldn't budget. So I just left.
I went and went to an iehop and I found
out you've overstayed. You're welcome when they just won't refill
your tea anymore. So I was like, Okay, it's warm,
I'm gonst sleep in the car till the day shift
comes in. And then I saw at the Big Blue
and Gold, just the mecca for road comics. There's the
(09:45):
Walmart twenty four hour supercenter. So I go in there
and I find this therapeutic chair over in the pharmacy area,
one of those real comfortable vibrating things, and a TV
was hanging there with a VCR in it, and it
was a They're playing a Letterman with Bill Murray. I went, oh,
I'll live and then the show ended and I wanted.
I didn't want to leave, but had VCR. Well, I figured,
(10:05):
I'm of the mindset if you don't consume a product
or leave the property with a product, you have not
stolen said product.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
And they can shrink wrap it.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
That's what I did. Well, just when the movie I
remember Ten Cup with Costner, Oh yeah, I love that golf. Yeah,
I did just come out on VHS. So I got it.
I pop it in and they had all these palettes
with stock because it's two and three in the morning
and they're all over the place. So I pushed him
around and built a fort around a chair. I went
and got some something to eat, everything but a blanket
(10:37):
and a Teddy Bear. You know, I'm sitting there watching
the movie and you know the big scene where he
takes a twelve on the last hole of the open. Yeah,
he just keeps yeah, Well that's when that scene comes up.
I thought that was an earthquake, because everything's around me's rumbling.
And now it's some seventeen year old, pimply faced stock
boy was doing his job and he's moving the pallets.
And when he pulled the pallette back and there I am,
all snuggled up with all my drinking food and watching
(10:59):
the movie. He just looked at me, kind of rolled
his eyes and kept on going, let it go. Yeah,
So I left, everything went out the door. The sun
was up. I got there, the day shift was there.
They gave me the room. I beat the knight. That's
how you survive on the road, especially as a feature. Wow,
se COVID killed that. Yeah, Walmart, quick break.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
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Who the hell are you, guys? Maybe you're an extraterrestrial
escape from the government. Societal confirmation code x V two
R D M.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
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Speaker 5 (13:02):
And get anxiety.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Okay, I've been I've been working since I was fourteen,
and I've never would never even considered that. Uh, Mike Bass,
Andy Mark Evans in the house, and uh, the one
thing that I wanted to talk to you about is
an incident.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I bet I know.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
I always love bringing this up because I.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Was wonder driving in. I was wondering if you're going
to say that the spirit the.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Spirit, Oh, I've heard the story.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
The Spirit of Hippo still lives.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I still call him Rhino. I've always call him Rhino.
I knew would make him mad.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
It was now, this was when mister Baseball was still
with us, and Mister Baseball and the Golden Hippo were
had been golfing all Friday and showed up to Vasani
for his hosting duties.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
The star foam cup full. Yeah, that you couldn't so
you couldn't see what was in it?
Speaker 5 (14:05):
And who was it?
Speaker 6 (14:06):
What was it Lori?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Oh, I didn't even know Lori.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Then, No, the headliner you were opening up for, he
was hitting on her.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
I don't remember who I was with that.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
I was just she had a guitar. She did a
couple of songs towards the end.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
I forget what her name was. But anyway, he's hitting
on her. He gets up to bring you up on
stage and proceeds to do fifteen minutes of your set. Well,
the prelude to that was I don't understand too. In radio,
it's it's not really stealing. If you're in a different
market and you hear something, you can bring it to
(14:44):
your market and it's okay if you hear something good
to say. I was even talking to old people in
the radio a long time ago. And that's actually a
common practice for what I've heard, because you're not stealing
audiences because if you hear something in another state, the
people here aren't going to hear it. It's not like
it's This was before iHeart and you had nationwide radio.
(15:04):
So there was a joke I did, and I found
out he was doing it every time he hosted, and
again Al earned he came down and called him out
on it. In fact, he refused to go on his
show because of that, and he got al got fined.
I felt terrible. The club find out is the old owner,
so it's okay, And it was just a real mess.
(15:27):
And when I showed up, I was like working there
two weeks later and I was, you know, fit to kill.
I didn't know how to take it. And so he
comes in and he comes walking up to me with
that styrofoam cup, and I just I wasn't going to
say anything. I wanted to see what he would do.
And he just comes up to me going, it's okay,
it's okay. I went, you don't get to say that. No,
(15:49):
it's not okay. So now we're going to talk about it.
And I finally said, look, if you're going to be
a jerk and do my it was one really main joke,
and if you're going to do the joke, do me
a favor. When you see him coming, just don't do
it for a couple of weeks, you know, leave it
for me. And so he's like, okay, it's okay, it's okay.
So he goes up there, and you're right. He had
been bombing. I mean, well, he had a long golf
(16:10):
day and a good shit. He always had his golf
buddy sitting up front. He just kind of talked to
them and they weren't there, and so he's having bad
and I'm over on the side of the stage waiting
to get brought up, and that's when he looked over
my shoulder and goes, sorry, Mark, I gotta do it.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Yeah I know, And then he did the joke and
then he did it wrong. Yeah right, and he screwed
it up. So I'm fit to kill. And the club
had a back then, the old owner, and I really
agree with this. He had a very strong no f
bomb policy, yes, especially out of the opening acts, and
I really respect that and I really try to fight that.
But that night I kind of went out the wind.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
I was there and I went off the stage. It
was everywhere.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
You only get twenty five minutes as a feature there.
And I lit into him and for doing that, And
I said, first of all, if you're going to the joke.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
At least do it right.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Right, here's how the joke's supposed to go. And I
did the joke, and at the end of it, I
didn't get a laugh. I had place was packed like
two hundred and fifty people's had five hundred eyeballs this
big around just staring at me. And I dug myself
a hole that I couldn't get out of that night.
I just got through the set and then I found
out he just passed out or something later. But uh,
(17:21):
that I'm so glad that I have a little piece
of history that it.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Should be a plaque on the wall.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
That was something, because you know, it's rare. Uh, it's
only been within the last few years that we've had
to deal with any real Heckler's there.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yeah, it's always been a really good.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
That's as close to a Heckler story.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Yeah, it's like it is because you always hear about.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
All these Heckler stories, right, you know, Dale Jones you
a'l telling us all these.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Stories from somebody else on the show. Yeah, exactly, urged
from the audience. You kind of leave your guard down
to the other people on the show. Although there are
some comics the big thiefs. If they do that, they
should really keep a book and be careful they know
who they steal from, right, because yeah, nothing worse for
everybody when they do a joke in front of you.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Because that's the thing. Once, once you get caught stealing jokes,
it spreads like a rumor.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Charlotte, Yeah, I'm serious. Everybody knows.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
There you go. Men, seeing is the big one. But
this I found this kind of interesting. You now, as
a comedian, I mean, you had a job before you
got into Colm for the first five years, you know,
and a lot of people do. And was it stressful
for you to weigh that decision to dump the job
(18:54):
and just that's fine.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Well, I was a corporate travel agent before that, my
retail manager. If anybody remember the nightclub Studa Bakers that
chained from the eighties, and I dj' did the very
first one and that was a fun That's what kind
of got me in this. Another story got me into
doing stand up. But I was a corporate travel agent.
I was really good at it, and I really hated it.
And I was there from ninety three to ninety eight,
(19:18):
and that's right the same year as I started comedies
in ninety three. And as a corporate agent, you don't
have to show brochures. You can just they just need
a car, hotel, air, and I was really good at it.
So they were just getting into the park where you
had home pro where you could work remotely, and so
I could go on the road and take these two
hundred dollars a week MC jobs and afford to do
(19:38):
it because I still had my other paycheck because the
guy wanted to keep me in the office, so I
had that going for me, and I just remotely work
and issued the tickets and everything was great. Well, then
he sold the agency and I could stay on as
a contractor. But that means everything was on me. It
wasn't the protection of being an employee. Any mistakes would
come out of my pocket, and my calendar filled up.
(20:00):
I'm doing this five years and I finally had to
make a choice. I got to go this way or
that way, and I figured, you know, in fifty years,
I'm going to be dead anyway, So why not chase
the dream?
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Was it your gut?
Speaker 7 (20:10):
Was it?
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Did you go with your gut?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
No, the stupid side of me because I like doing
stand up morning accident in an office. So I was like,
it was a gut decision, okay, And it actually worked
out because within two years the Internet shut down just
about every travel ag just see in the country because
it became so user friendly to book your own.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Travel yourself and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
They're gone. And so I would have lost my job anyway.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
And uh so I just I said, followed the gut,
chased the dream, and it was something was based on
an old Mary Tyler Moore episode when lou Grant came
out of his office and says, in fifty years, will
all be dead? And that's resonated with me forever. And
I was like, you know, I don't want to. It's
kind of corny, but it's true. You don't want to
be on your deathbed wishing wishing you'd done something different.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
Yeah. Well, a new poll found seventy percent of Americans
going their gut or rely on it to some extent
when making big life decisions.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Well, the people that are going to be successful the
ones that do follow their gut, not just ask everybody
what they should do exactly.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Well, yeah, I just saw something the other day. If
you ask everyone, you're gonna make the wrong choice.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Yeah, that's got to go. You gotta go with your gut.
They use gut instincts as a catch all. It includes
your intuition, general vibes you're feeling, or any insight you
might get from prayer.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
So there you go, and nobody's going to tell you
to quit your job with benefits to go do stand up.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
That's got to be a gut decision. Yeah, the holest
guy in the corner will worked for me. Have you
ever met a man sitting in the chair in a
Walmart at two o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
It was a vibrating chair and I had a fort
Man my little city of Solace, what with the thing
Superman had?
Speaker 6 (22:06):
Hey, this there's a lot of scams going on, you know,
locally you get a lot of uh the big the
big one was the you got parking tickets or something,
the text messages or something like. Yeah, that's a big one.
But this, I don't know how anybody falls for this,
But lady in Japan did Women in Japan.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
She's in her eighties. She fell for.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
This is one of the worst catfishing, not really catfishing,
but romance scams. She started last July, started talking to
a guy on social media who claimed he was an
astronaut red flag right there, but she kept talking to him,
developed feelings, and then he finally dropped the hammer one
(22:50):
day and claimed he was in trouble. And the story
he went with, he's in space, he was under it
attack on his ship and needed oxygen.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
So please send fifty visa credit card.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Sixty seven hundred dollars. Oh man, he sent a million yen,
which is sixty seven hundred bucks. Officials in Japan shared
the story be suspicious, yes, Simon, asking you to let
them buy oxygen because they're being attacked in space.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
There was a new Jason Statham movie and the beginning
premise is that the nice little old lady that he's
you know with, that she takes care of him because
he's of course retired from being the ultimate you know killer,
gets scammed and loses all her money and kills herself,
and so he has to go after all the all
the scammer goes up the food chain of all these
(23:42):
phone scam but it's true. I mean people, have.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
You had DIRS one? Oh DIRS doesn't call right, it's
all mail. Well, this guy calls up and really leaning
on me. I just kept him on the phone as
long as I could, and because I was like thirty
two hundred dollars and says if you don't pay it today,
that you're going to be arrested in an hour. The
sheriff will be on his way. When he kept saying
that the Sheriff's on his way, I finally went, thanks
for the heads up.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Click, but people do this yeah, Oh it's sick.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Then the ones that just bothered me with the people
calling up to say they can pay off my student loan.
And I one time kept him on the phone every
question I could. I just really milked it as long
as I could. And finally, when I after about thirty minutes,
I couldn't think of anything else to keep her on
the phone. I finally went, oh wait a minute, I
didn't go and as she's hanging up, I'm screaming, but
(24:37):
can you sell me an extended warranting to my car?
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Jeez? Yeah, there, it's dangerous out there. For a lot
of these people.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
And you'll just start getting texts. I have a ton
of numbers because I've had the same phone number for
twenty five years, and you know I got it in
two thousand and so I'll get texts, Hey, you want
to meet at the coffee shop tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
It's block.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Or they'll send you an invoice. Usually it's too Oh
the geek Squad or something like Norton.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Yeah, And so you've paid all this money, and I
guess people want to call up and well they find
out your account.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Yeah do that, Well I didn't pay.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Hey, what are you I'm going to need your account.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
What you name? There was Post Office, ones, Best Buy,
a geek Squad, and it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
And you look at their email. They there their their
email address will be the correct one, but then they'll
add one character at the beginning of it.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
We luckily corporate, We've got a whole division in corporate
that hunts out that stuff because you know, their corporate
laptops and stuff like that. They don't want those getting,
you know, all jammed up. So they'll send us info.
Be on the lookout for this, and they'll even test it.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
The tests are to see if we fall for them.
Oh my gosh, so yeah, pretty good training on that.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
There are hot singles in my area who knew Charlotte
County just didn't men age.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
Hey.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
According to longevity experts out there, it's probably worked better
for you than us at this stage. But if you
rolled out of bed today made coffee, you might be
skipping six other important steps to a good morning routine
which will help you live to one hundred.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Kay, I'll wake up and I come here. I'm you
know that's as good as it gets.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
Here's here's the seven steps they say that can help
you live to one hundred and uh. I do most
of them already. Drink a glass of water when you
wake up. They say it's supposed to help you kicks
your metabolism, eliminates toxins. Eat it, nutrient dense breakfast sometimes yes,
(27:04):
sometimes no, yogurt, oatmeal, berries, nuts, I'm a I'm an
oatmeal guy. Stretch I do that activate your nervous system.
This is weird.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
They call it vaguel or vagile.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
I don't know if I have one of those. Tapping
they say that's stretching. Somatic body tapping is Basically, you
tap your body with your fingers for a few minutes.
It's supposed to wake up your nervous system.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
I have heard that.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
I tried that Friday that she said, no, this is practice,
mindfulness practice. Take a few minutes to meditate or do
some deep breathing. Set intentions, set intentions. Yes, I'm gonna
have a good day. Gosh during it.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
If I get up and walk to the bathroom, I'll
do the deep breathing.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Yeah, the.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Check and enjoy your morning coffee. Now that's something. So
I'm probably four out of seven, so I'm doing okay. Yeah,
I'm enjoying my morning.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Don't you coffee drinker?
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Coffee drinker, So that's your tea.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
You did mention tea.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
I like tea. But I remember my mom used to
be so upset that I wouldn't drink coffee because she
loved it so much. And but she goes. I said, well,
you know, it's a vice I don't have. She goes.
But you like sweets, I said, so I should add
a vice.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
You know how much creamer I'm gonna be putting my coffee.
But with the with the fish tacos, like people pair
the red meat with a certain wine or you know
what's your go to.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Normally I would like iced tea, but I have learned
something and I don't I can. I could be easy
to do the math how much money I have saved?
I drink ice water at restaurants. Now, Oh, that's their
biggest profit. When if both of us order a soft
drink or a tea, that's ten bucks and our bill
is ten bucks cheaper every time just by drinking water.
And I'll drink the other stuff later. And that's true.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
I've seen soft drinks up to five bucks down in
some places.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
It's crazy, and it just makes a big difference on
the bill. So that's not just water, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
Or a bloody Mary, well, that's that's yeah, that was
not yeah yeah some of these places. You see what
they put in these bloody marys.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
You a meal?
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Yeah, I've seen a double burger. Yeah, I've seen the
big shrimp and a burger with a big sword going. Yeah,
Hurricane Charlie's used to have a bloody marry bar kind
of like a build your own bloody marry.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
There, I missed that spot. That's it's just a big
it's a it's a parking lot. Now there's supposed to
be something going there.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
Yeah, I don't know what they're putting.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
I don't know. That was before Sunseekers sold, so I
don't know what's going on now.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
Yeah, maybe since it's the owner of the hotel is
the one who the owners still own it. They haven't
sold it. They just plowed it under, but that cost
them over a million.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Ye Hurricane Charlie could have kept going, but they weren't
getting any support from the owner and their building was
falling apart.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
Well, they're also the ones who owned Deans.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Yeah, our Deans is coming back. Somebody wants to open it,
reopen it pretty much the same place. They're just going
through the permits now. And how long can you wait
on a permit for a place that was already open?
Speaker 7 (30:32):
You know?
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Yeah, well that's a whole other episode, whole nother rumor mill.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Trust me, have you seen what they've been saying on Facebook.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
And Harpoon Harr's where is its supposed to reopen somewhere?
They said they no, they're getting it.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
That's they're going through a whole remake on that what
are they calling it now?
Speaker 5 (30:52):
It was owner.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Harris was going to reopen somewhere. In fact, originally over
over the Sunseat was supposed to have his whole complex
over there too, and were going to go there.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Well, actually they they owned the uh uh the old
paintball place used to be the y M bayshore Y
Park out there where they had stage. You had a
couple of blues concerts there. But they they they bought
that and they were going to build a place and
then they didn't. So maybe they will now that they've.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Are their condos going in over there too, I'm pay sure.
I don't know near the yacht Club Charlott Harvey Club
like on the other side.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
Oh on the other side, Oh, it could be.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
I know they do have people that's going to be
moving into the old Harpoon Harry's and the right that
ye captain table.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
Yeah, yeah, but they've torn they tore the ship down
off the front. Yeah that was kind of coolo. Yeah,
but they tore that down. But it's a uh, it's.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Like latitude something.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
It's a I think it's a national chain.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
It's going to take a national chain to pay the
rent there.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
And see what people that were harpn Harry plaques on
the floor, those tiles that were like every ten feet.
People were stealing them, right, of course, it's probably gonna
I tried to buy one. They tried doing that at
Dean's too. They Deans had to post something said, please
do not take.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
This stuff on that wall. Just vultures every day.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Well, they had one video of a guy Harper and
Harry's posted the video the guy.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
Just a guy's stealing it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well it's
gonna be fun to see. I mean, it's always good
to see new stuff go up. Have you been to
the Sunsecret yet?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
When they first kind of opened up, when you could
park for free and we couldn't get served, they didn't
know what they were doing yet. And now I'm hoping
that rooms might be a little since where they pay
two hundred million for something that costs five to seventy
to build. The new people heard they pay two hundred
million for it.
Speaker 6 (32:53):
Oh yeah, I forget what it was. It was originally
five seventy to build it. Well, and that was because problem. Yeah,
the hurricane, the the crane's falling over.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
And then autizing at this waterfront, which is true, but
have you ever seen the pictures that water looks emerald,
I mean sparkling blue, not brackish.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
That we have artists.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Actually they photoshop this. They make people think they're coming
to the beach. It's seventeen miles by water to Boca.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a it's a it's like a what
do you call it. It's like a tinder photo. It's been,
you know, lots of lots of filters initiate conversation. You
have some very very bad habits.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Well, these people in my office building are a drain
on resources.
Speaker 6 (33:40):
It's a kind of dieting boot camp.
Speaker 9 (33:41):
Oh it's been in the next two hours telling you
to drop and get me various numbers.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
It's humiliating.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
It's show business, baby, you got to start somewhere.
Speaker 10 (33:49):
We'll be right back with Charlotte County Speaks News Radio
fifteen eighty WCCF.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
If you've never seen a c DC, let me tell
you song.
Speaker 11 (34:01):
Little guy comes out. He's like maybe four foot two.
I can't understand a word he's saying until he says,
all right, all right, little angus young is he's only
(34:22):
like two and a half feet tall. For an hour
and a half, just popping his head up and down.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
I'm just dumping down.
Speaker 11 (34:32):
That is truly the only no disrespect on other bands.
That's the only band I know can take any song,
any song. They could take a wedding and tear it up.
They could take a wedding song like the Hokey Pokey
and just annihilate, annihilate.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Out you sake it, shake it, shake it out about
tearing the bout.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Camp's kind of a train wreck.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
You should have gone into the real It's the only
one I had left. What are you Gonna do?
Speaker 6 (35:32):
News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FM w CCF. Okay,
they didn't want to hold. Nobody wants to hold. What
are you Gonna do? Ten forty nine. You're on a
home day Wednesday, Charlotte County speaks, Mark Evans, MIKEE. Bassie,
Andy in a house and uh yes, rumors, rumors, rumors,
new restaurants, things changing in Charlotte County.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Big changes of fort changes.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
In Charlotte County. So how you've been here five years
almost to the day. Yeah, yeah, we've seen a lot
of changes. Yeah, you didn't think whatever happened, But we
also didn't know what it's like to move into a
Hurricane Alley.
Speaker 6 (36:09):
Well, and speaking of that, they've got something that looks
like it might. Of course, they're always they got to
have a win. They've been promising hurricanes for you know,
it's coming, it's coming, but what is it?
Speaker 5 (36:24):
They got some checking checking.
Speaker 6 (36:29):
Uh yeah, tropical wave watching slowly seventy chance, but it's still.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Way that the ones still out by Africa.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
Yeah, it's still away, but they're producing, they're predicting. Get
to milk, the bread, the toilet paper in the water.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
Yeah, maybe you should just stock up on that anyway,
so that when they do come, you're not all clogging
up the home depot.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Yeah. Yeah, I did spend a lot of time collecting
all the tarps and mr emails that they're getting away.
I've got a ton of though I don't know what
I'm gonna do with fourteen tarps.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
See, yeah, but the last Yeah, you're still new.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Well have I ever eaten what I've heard? They're pretty good?
Speaker 5 (37:11):
Oh yeah they are now.
Speaker 6 (37:12):
When I was in uh, when I was with the CBS,
we ate them, but they only had a few choices
back then, in the late late eighties, they only had
a few choices on them.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
But we used to become the cool like hiking food.
Speaker 6 (37:26):
Yeah, but now everybody makes them, but the government ones
are still You've got a lot of different choices now,
which is kind of cool. We used to take a
fifty cal ammo boxes and just like aim them at
the sun and put the m r in there, cook
them there you go later in the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
You took the bullets out first though, right, Oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 6 (37:51):
Blanks anywhere. We got the Marines hand me downs. Historically,
this is it. Yeah, we had VJ Day just the
other day. Yeah, yes, And nineteen thirty nine is when
(38:13):
it all kind of kicked off. Britain and France declared
war on Germany two days after the Nazis invaded Poland
on the state in nineteen thirty nine. The Lone Ranger
nineteen fifty four, seventy one years ago, after two thousand,
nine hundred and fifty six episodes, The Lone Ranger was
heard on radio for the last time, and then it
(38:36):
moved to.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
TV.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
And then after that Johnny Depp's atrocity yeah ouch with
Armie Hammer the cannibal, Yeah ouch. And then he makes
Johnny Depp look normal exactly. They needed that, yeah, professional suicide.
Speaker 6 (38:58):
Really five years ago. We lost Vince Lombardi on this
date in nineteen seventy. Uh, what else we have? Prince
This was in ninety two. So was that when he
was the artist formerly known as Anyway. He became the
highest paid rock star after No, that's yeah, after that's
(39:20):
before he became that's when he signed one hundred million
dollar deal with Warner Brothers Records ten million in album
Wow Yes.
Speaker 5 (39:28):
In ninety three, in the midst of his contractual dispute
with Warner Brothers, he changed his stage name to the Symbol,
the Love Symbol. There it was often referred to as
the artist known as Prince Perhaps.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
Yeah to him, yeah sure, yeah, but he's still cash
at check. Nineteen ninety five, the ashamed Hispanic that is,
Charlie sheen married one Donna Peel on his thirtieth birthday.
They only lasted a couple of months. That was two
(40:00):
wives ago. You know, he's turning sixty.
Speaker 5 (40:03):
He made it.
Speaker 6 (40:04):
He made it well for Charlie Sheen Man after all.
The Keith Richards Yeah really yeah, he's the Keith Richards
of Hollywood Actors. eBay founded on this date in nineteen
ninety five by Pierre Omadar Ohmadyar, and he founded it
because his wife couldn't find a pez dispenser to complete
(40:25):
her collection.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
Well, if he started the website, how could he then
find the pez dispenser. You had to wait for somebody
to put it on there. Well, but that's what he
was searching for. Okay, I don't know if he did,
I still don't think he would get the pet dispenser.
It would take a while.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
There used to be a commercial about and that's why
they did this commercial about pet dispensers once on eBay.
There's somebody who was trying to get trying to get
this one to finish their collection. And I think Dan
Aykroyd played the part. He was a billionaire that bought
the one and he had like they'd made a hundred
of them and he had ninety nine of that one.
He couldn't share it with the rest of the world.
Is something weird like that, And it was all about
(41:03):
a pet. There was an inside joke.
Speaker 5 (41:05):
Yeah, yeah, well see that was now afford to make
the graphical movie, so they just made a super Bowl commercial.
Speaker 6 (41:12):
That's probably what it was. Yeah, and that was really it.
The rest uh oh, Michael Clark Dunk Duncan. We lost
him at age fifty four twenty twelve.
Speaker 5 (41:22):
Of course, the Green Mile he was yeah, oh yeah,
yeah he was.
Speaker 6 (41:26):
He was a good actor. Judy carn You remember Rowana
Martin's laugh. Yeah, we lost her at age seventy six
and twenty fifteen. That was like the precursor to Saturday
Night Live.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
Yeah, you have no clue about that show. Do You
can still find Uh, it's on a Nicked Night or
something like that, but it still don't have You have
to understand what the world was like then. It's like
when Animal House. First of all, I know a lot
of people have seen Animal House on Network TV and
they've never seen it on cable. But you have to
understand what comedies were prior to that, other than Blazing Saddles. Yeah,
(41:58):
was a Disney comedy or something like that. So you
don't understand how groundbreaking it is. So to see it
now you can't appreciate. But you can find clips of
it on YouTube. Nixon was on They used to be,
They used to to me, so to me, Yeah, that
was and they slipped so many Ernie Johnson, well, the
(42:19):
Fickle Finger of Fate. Yes, it's a Flip Off and
they they were sneaking so many things, uh past the
sensors because the sensors were old and decrepit didn't understand.
Speaker 5 (42:32):
Yeah, that was a good show. I used to watch
that a lot that works.
Speaker 6 (42:36):
They were funny and then yeah, that's where we got
Flip Wilson spun off of that with his own show.
Speaker 5 (42:43):
Well, speaking of Animal House, and also dan Ackroyd. Dan
Ackroyd has a great book about the Blues Brothers that
he reads on audible and get that. Oh it's fantastic
and it's free, even better I know, And he said
for the Blues Brothers. Belushi put up the money that
he made from Animal House to fund the Blues Brothers
(43:05):
record that then created the movie. And at that time
that the record came out, it one album of the
Year or something, And so Belushi was one of the
only people that had a top selling song album, number
one in a at box Office with Animal House, and
number one TV show with a cast bron SNL.
Speaker 6 (43:25):
Well, that's your bonus random random That was your bonus
random factor, right, yes, number one of your five random
facts day. Pet tortoises can go in a fridge to
hibernate over winter, but you need to ensure that the
temperature remains within a safe range, and you'll want to
open the door a few times a week for ventilation.
Speaker 5 (43:48):
Still live, okay. Number two.
Speaker 6 (43:51):
Doc Martin's were invented by a German doctor, Klaus Martin's,
after he heard his ankle skiing in nineteen forty five
and needed a more comfortable shoe to wear. Number three.
The six countries with the most English speakers are the US, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Indonesia,
and the Philippines. England is seventh, but they have the
(44:15):
highest percentage of English speakers at ninety eight point three percent.
Number four Elo Electric Light Orchestra has the record for
the most Top forty songs without a number one hit.
They've had twenty songs make the top forty, but none
of them have made it to number one. And finally,
number five of your five random facts, the tango was
(44:38):
created in the Brothels in Buenos Aires, Argentina to two
yes to act out the relationship between a prostitute and
a pimp. That's why she gets smacked. I don't know
the tango very well. Well Mark, thanks for coming in.
Speaker 5 (44:58):
We appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
If I can say Sandbar Comedy on Instagram, follow me,
contact me if you want to come have a fish
taco with me.
Speaker 6 (45:04):
Yeah, there you go, looking for it Micahbassiani dot com.
He'll be back tomorrow. I have great day, kids.
Speaker 5 (45:09):
Stay safe.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Anybody got any more jokes, any funny? Nope?
Speaker 7 (45:19):
Nope?
Speaker 5 (45:20):
All right, see you folks. You are not fan easily
you're clothes. If you're not the then you are the crew.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Please leave.
Speaker 5 (45:32):
We are close
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