Charlotte County Speaks-09-04-25-hr2

Thursday 09/04/25 Hour 2. With Mike Imbasciani and comedian Tom Cotter.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:44):
Government is the problem. This is Charlotte County Speaks.

Speaker 7 (00:49):
Your chance to let your voice be heard on local, state,
and national issues. And now broadcasting live from a dumpy
little warehouse behind a tacoll, The host of Charlotte County speaks,
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Speaker 1 (01:06):
Johnny News Radio fifteen eighty one, Andrew point nine FM,
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Charlotte County Speaks. Our number two. Ten oh eight is
the time Mike Bessie AI along for the Thursday ride
and like to welcome to the studio. First time here
at Basani this week it's Tom Catter.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
How you doing. Honored to be here, Thank you for
lifting the restraining order. Good to be in the studio.
Appreciate a little uncomfortable sooner next to a guy with
the Yankee hat on. But I'll get over it. I
know what you mean.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
I know what you mean. You get used to it.
You just turn to blur it.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Out and you talk slower.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
That's all.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
That's fine, it's okay. I actually played minor league baseball,
very did you?

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Really?

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah? Little league as were called. My mom was the coach,
and she traded me baby to be born later. Very hurtful.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
This is this is your first week of Asani. We're
hearing a lot of great things about you from from
Eric and I've caught a t on of your clips online. Hilarious.
You are a shotgun of comedy, just one after the other.
It's very funny to watch. Very kind of you to say,
how did you tell us about Tom Cotter? How'd you
get into comedy? Where are you from?

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Originally from my mother's uterus. It's warm and moist, and
I was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. Really yeah.
And so when you're in Rhode Island and you want
to be a comic, you have two choices. An hour
north drive to Boston or three hours to New York.
And so I did both, but I did Boston first.
So that's where I really cut my teeth in comedy.
I was up there for about seven years, met my

(02:36):
now wife girlfriend at the time. We moved to New
York in nineteen ninety six, and more than that and
ever since.

Speaker 5 (02:42):
What was the biggest differences between the two spots.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
There really isn't a lot of I mean, comedy wise,
there is. But my ex was from Rhode Island, so
they actually sound more like New York than New York.

Speaker 5 (02:56):
I mean the comedy difference between Boston and New York
I should have.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Clarified not well, yeah, really major cities on the East
Coast kind of similar in that way. I would say,
you know, different people. We had a great stable that
came out most recently Rogan. I started with Rogan and
Billy burr All in Boston and Dane Cook and before
me was well, there are a lot of you know,

(03:21):
Luis c k started around my time. Love me hate him,
that's fact.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
He is funny, regardless of what he does in his
personal life.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah, we had a pretty good stable. And I was
bragging about that one day and then someone listed the
comics that came out of Long Island, not New York,
but Long Island and humbled me. It's unbelievable that people
that came out. I don't know what's in that water,
but they have, you know, Stephen right, No, they have.
I'm sorry. Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Rosie O'Donnell uh

(03:49):
kept Robert Klein, He goes on at the two biggest
syndications in the deal were Ray Romano and Seinfeld. Both
of them are from right there. Wendy Leeman is from
out there.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
I mean, it's just.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Really it's and I'm living leaving everybody off the list there.
But I don't know what Long Island has to besides
their iced tea, which is phenomenal. I don't know what
they're drinking. Hostage a man. That is a comedy mecha
right there.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
That's awesome. So why comedy? What got you into it?

Speaker 2 (04:14):
I was going to go to law school. That was
pre law. I was a cop ter in the summer
on Nantucket, and I clerked for a judge and did
all that stuff, and I was polysygn major and I
took the LSA t S did not ace them by
a long shot. And I said to my dad, I
want to get this comedy thing out of my system,
and that was thirty five years ago. So cool. You
ever got out of our system? That's fun.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah, it's working, no doubt. How do you like the
traveling though? Does that? Does that ever burn you out?

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Dan Folgeberg famously said the audience was heaving, but the
travel was hell? The travel was hell. I will never
whine about travel since the pandemic. That we couldn't travel.
We didn't work. Yeah yeah, and I was climbing the walls.
My wife's also a comic, so the two of us
were stuck in home. We couldn't work. We did zoom shows,
which are horrible.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
A lot of people did.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, my god, I did zoom shows. There were so bad.
People got up on watch other houses. So happy to
be back in front of live audiences and getting there's
a pain I live, you know. I fly to Newark,
New Jersey because I live right outside the city and
that airport is a new work area. Yes, yeah it
has been for a while. What's up with my fingers crossed?
But I'm just happy to get on a plane and
cotel jokes, So I'm not I'm whining. Yeah, they have

(05:18):
to figure it out. It's a Philly thing. I think.
I think it's air traffic controllers. They're something that are Yeah,
so yeah, I don't mind the travel good. I've been
doing it for so long.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
How do you like Vasani so far?

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Love the Sani's. I had heard so much about it,
I really had, everyone's telling me how great it was.
I thought I wasn't allowed to do it because I
work for competitors in the area.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Eric was saying the same thing, because I can't believe
this guy hasn't been played the room before.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
I was wrong. Apparently none of them care. Yeah, as
as you book yourself, you know months, you know, right
between the other venues. And I like the other venues too,
but I love It's not hard to get me on
a plane to come to Florida in January and February.
I can't stand the cold anymore. I'm too old for
it now, So I come down here a lot, and
I do a lot in Florida, but mostly gated communities
on the East coast. I do a lot of the

(06:02):
century villages in the polo clubs and Saint Andrews.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Those are popular gigs.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Well, they're all right, but you know, I'm the Tokengoi
and most of them are Jewish, So they let this
gentile comm in intel jokes. A couple of times is
a winter, which is nice. And again I'll be down
here eventually. It's the law. You gotta move.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's awesome. So have you ever lived
anyplace else.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
LA for a little while? You know, we tried that,
the wife and I we did a couple of pilot
seasons out there. Our twins were conceived out there, so
it's a twins near and dear to our heart.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Wow, that's it. That's got to be a ton of
material around there.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yes, it is a good chunk. And then yeah, Providence
and I went to college in Ohio, so four years there.
But other than that of State, No, I went to
Dennis and little tiny school outside of Columbus. Yeah, college
was the best twenty eight semesters of my entire life.
I was a political science major. I had a minor.
Her name was Debbie, and I got in some trouble
for that. But I had a three point oh that

(06:57):
was my blood alcohol level. And junior year I studied abroad.
Her name was Lucy, very hot. And yeah, I loved college.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
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Speaker 8 (07:15):
I like being on your sets.

Speaker 6 (07:16):
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Wow, politicians are magic, gilhan Omar. Okay, we all know her.
She rails against the rich, goes against the rich all
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(07:44):
I want to subscribe. She should do a podcast. If
she did, I'd obviously listen to it. If she she
got to put out a newsletter, some sort of book,
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to be. For crying out loud, she had no net
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(08:09):
over thirty million dollars.

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Speaker 7 (08:15):
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Speaker 5 (08:54):
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Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (09:08):
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Speaker 1 (09:22):
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(09:43):
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Have you had the steak yet?

Speaker 6 (09:56):
No?

Speaker 2 (09:56):
I had the What did a chicken palm? Last night?

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Everybody go the chicken palm on the first night?

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah, spectacular. I brought it back to my hotel room
and I had to sit there and moan in my room,
no one there to watch me. It was very sad,
but great food as advertised.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Well, you got twins, so I imagine you and your
wife got a kind of trade off schedules.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Well, does she still.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Do comedy act?

Speaker 2 (10:19):
My wife? Yeah, she actually went further than I did
on last coming standing And don't think I don't hear
about that at least. What's her name, Kerry Louise? Oh, okay,
Kerry and I have been married for twenty four years
and together before that for six years with one breakup. Yeah,
it's been great.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Is it a comedic breakup?

Speaker 2 (10:38):
Well? I did. I thought it was funny. But she'll
get over it one day. And yeah, the twins are
kind of grown now, so yeah, they're out of the nest.
Actually they just came back. They just graduated college and
now they're back in the nest. Well, they have jobs,
but they just want to save money on rent and home.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah, yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
It's great. We're on the road. There's someone there to
take care of the dogs and the cats and you know,
keep the house and lights on and stuff. So it
works out for us.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
That's cool.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah, very good.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
Uh so what else is going on?

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Nothing? You know sorts teams. I'm a huge Bruins, Red Sox, Celtics,
Patriots fan because I grew up in New England and
I love sports. I played tennis on grass because I
hit the ball better when I'm high. I did some
wrestling in college. I didn't want to, but my roommate
was a three hundred pound game inn and he found
me attractive, so he won every match. I don't want

(11:30):
to talk about it. I did wrestle in high school.
That was my my height. You either ride a horse
or you wrestle, and I didn't have a horse, so
I really taller on screen. Yeah. We did the live
show after a GT. We had to go do this
dog and pony show in Vegas for four months, the
live a g T show and we do a receiving
line at the end. I swear to got every single
person would come up and say, Wow, I thought you

(11:51):
were taller.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah you really did?

Speaker 2 (11:52):
You really do? I make cookies in a hot loow
tree and look at that right there. I looked tall.

Speaker 5 (12:00):
No photographer just had to go down to.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Get just been stunted for many reasons over the years
my mom smoked and drank through six pregnancies. I can't
even live six kids, six kids, all boys or no,
three boys, three girls with a Brady bunch, And I'm
Bobby in that scenario. And yeah, the youngest of six,
I was always getting smacked around by the two oldest
mom and of course, and yeah, I used to get

(12:25):
beaten up by these green berets that live in our neighborhood.
Some people call them girl scouts. Whatever. I had a
troubled youth, but it was fun.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
How was America's got talent? Is it everything it looks
like on the show.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Or reality is never reality? But it was a great
experience for us. You know, the NDA expired or I
have besmirched the show on a couple occasions. I'm never
going to really throw it under the bus, though it
was good for me. It was great in my career.
We all do late night, you know, all comics do Leno, Letterman, Conan,

(12:58):
you know, all those Kimmel fallon. But you're lucky to
get five million viewers then and they're falling asleep. The
comic Saw was the third act on the show. So
it's nice that they're naked, but most of them are
falling asleep, whereas with AGT, you know, we had twenty
million people watching. You know, thirteen million was our lowest
rating and that was for a rerun. So the numbers
are just astronomical. And I was very lucky to get

(13:19):
on the first year of Howard Stern as a judge,
so I had a great judges panel. I had Sharon Osbourne,
wife of the Prince of Darkness, Howi Mendel, and Howard Stern,
which is pretty good judges panel for comedians. And then
I went back for Champions years later, and then I
had Melby and Heidi, who don't get comedy as well
as now, but they were good. They were fine and
nice to look at. So the show we call America's

(13:40):
Got Problems now my wife and I because you need
some kind of sad story exactly.

Speaker 7 (13:45):
I know.

Speaker 5 (13:46):
That's why I kind of watching American Idol.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, you gotta have some sappy you gotta have a story.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
You can't it's a Kleenex with you the whole time.
And yeah, it's like, come on, just do it on talent,
it's your backstory.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Oh, mom and Dad are great. You know, I got
straight a's in high school. Sorry, you're just not going
to work out right, Yeah, you have.

Speaker 5 (14:03):
To somber music over the Medley Montage's.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
Always somber music. It's always like you want to split
your wrist watching the show. And a couple of years ago,
and I'm not making this up. In the finals was
a girl whose father was diagnosed with cancer on the
first episode and dead by episode four. There was another
girl who lost her hearing and she was a singer.
Another girl who was the sole survivor of a plane
crash and it burns all over her body.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
And as a juggler, Yeah, it's like.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Every single time you're like, come on, yes, someone without
some devastating backstory then moves on in this and then
you wonder what was my sad story? The whole time
you're like, what did they think a mess?

Speaker 1 (14:42):
I just met the height requirement.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
I guess that was it. But anyway, it's a great show.
It's a great vehicle. We hated reality TV because it
killed the sitcom so for years we're like, I'm not
doing reality TV. And then for years everyone agents, managers,
club owners would say, you got to do the show.
I'm going to come because you are perfect a guy yeah.
And when you're a rapid fire and they only give
you ninety seconds, which is all they gave me to perform,

(15:05):
you can cram a lot of jokes in there. So
everyone said do it, do it, do it, And I
wouldn't do it because Pierce Morgan was a judge and
he would eviscerate the comedians every week. I would watch
it and he had a stick surgic man planted and
his buttocks as a child and just yeah, yeah, not
been removed. So I wouldn't do it. And then when
I saw that judge's panel of Stern Sharon Osborn and
how I'm like, I'm not getting any older, any younger,
other I might as well do it now. So I

(15:27):
did it and it was a nice run. And I
lost to a dog act on national television.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
So they always do. The group acts seem to always
be the dog got three legs too, didn't. Yeah, the
dog was four legged, but it was a botch nootering.
That was the sad Backs.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
There were twenty two of them, and they're a great
act and I besmirched them, but people should go see them.
They're the a latte dogs and it's a great story.
But I was the top human finisher my season. I
stand by that nice.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
How is you know, I grew up seeing Howie when
he was a comedian. He doesn't I don't know. He
doesn't come across as funny anymore, even on his podcast
so much anymore. What what's he like? He was nice
to us, you know, he seems like a nice guy.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah, but they were really worried about a nepotism or
you know, had the appearance that there's some kind of
a fix on on the show, so they wouldn't let
us intermingle with the judges at all. Really, even our
our host was Nick Cannon, And when Nick Cannon came
in the room, we had to run and discovery into
our you know, our dressing rooms, our green rooms, and

(16:29):
we had to avert our eyes. We couldn't. Later seasons,
I saw that they were co mingling better with the judges.
But how he was perfectly nice to me. I never
knew him before the show. Since the show, he's been
great to me. He's kind of throwing me some gigs.
He has a cool gig in Atlantic City, and I
hear he's loaded. I hear he owns a bunch of
strip malls. He's just made nice, good for tons of money.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
Well, he was on what was it er? Yes, yeah,
was that where he got he had the voice he
was saying elsewhere one of the others, I.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
Think, But he was also the voice of Bobby I
guess on some animated show that everybody remembers growing up.
So he has this loyal fan base that's been with
him since they were little kids that love this guy.
And he's a great improv guy too. I will say
that his crowd work back in the day was Yeah,
he was known.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
When he had hair. That's why I remember seeing him
doing his comedy.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
It was hilarious. The rubber gloves, rubber gloves.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, it was a Bobby's world.

Speaker 5 (17:23):
He was a producer eighty episodes from nineteen ninety to
nineteen ninety eight. He was of course Gizmo and Gremlins,
Yep and Gremlins too.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
So I mean he's made.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
He can residuals from all that, all this commercial real
estate he's made, you know, the for a Canadian, he's
done well and he's killing it. So I have nothing
but good things to say about How what about Stern?
Stern has gone off the reservation. I don't know what
happened both. Yeah, the the king of all media going.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
Off that reservation. Now, well, I just I just read
where they're hoping that they can work Serious Exam is
hoping that. I'm thinking hay Cut is what's in his
future if he wants to stay on Serious Exam because
they were just paying.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Him five million a year.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
I got off for money. Yeah, and he just doesn't
just doesn't have the ratings for it.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
No, he used to, but yeah, and now he's taking
a lot more time off. I guess he used to
not take as many vacations and it makes serious eventually,
It's like, we're not what's our return on investment here?

Speaker 1 (18:19):
So yeah, the five people have it.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
I was with his you know, he was Don Buckwold
was his agent for a year, and he was They
were thick as thieves, they were golden boys. I used
to see them at the Friars all the time together
and they were really nice. And then Don unfortunately passed
away a couple of years ago. So I think Stern
didn't have that best guy, you know, his best corner
in his corner handling his negotiations. And Stern's in his

(18:43):
seventies now, how much longer does he really want to
do this? You know? I mean yeah, really, he goes
home and sleeps on a mountain of cash every night,
and he's got a goddess of a wife, so maybe
he's just done. Who knows, Maybe this's negotiation thing. I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
It's got a little weird though. Oh yeah, I mean yeah,
I mean it's a he used to be.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
I used to have these hookers on in the show
doing horrible things on the air.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
Well, so anti establishment, and now it's.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
Like, you know, if you didn't take the vaccine, he
hates you. For Trump, he hates you and everything else.

Speaker 5 (19:13):
Was They were showing clips of him interviewing Biden, and
it's like, if you took a clip of that and
showed it to him thirty years.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Ago, I would have eviscerated himself.

Speaker 5 (19:24):
Yeah, it was disgusting.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
You know, you change, you morph over time, I guess,
and he's morphed a little bit.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah yeah, yeah. Who's featuring uh this week?

Speaker 2 (19:35):
I don't know because we had different lineup last night.
We had a show last night, so we had Laurie
and Rob. Rob. I think will be with me, yes,
I think he'll be with me all weekend. But I
think we're getting a new host.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah, you get a new host. I'll be hosting first
show Saturday. I'll have another one. You'll have another one
for the late show.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
But yeah, well that shows sold out. I heard the
first show Saturday. I'll blame you on that. Nice welcome.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
I endeavor, No, but Saturday first show is usually, you know,
because it's six o'clock. Yeah, you know, these good old
farts here, they just.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Good for these people.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
They're all before the meds kick in.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
I'm not throwing stones out a few years. So hey,
we're all there.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
We're all there.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
So Patriots fan a I'm afraid. So yeah, okay, season
should be a train wreck, but we were four and
thirteen the last two seasons, so we're just hoping for
better than that with Rabel and.

Speaker 5 (20:28):
So yeah, what do you think with the Belichick going
to coach college there?

Speaker 2 (20:33):
I you know, it was I watched the game and
it was just it was a gut punch. I mean,
they just got abused. I like TCU because it's my initials,
and so I've always liked the horn Frogs, So I
was kind of torn for the whole game. But I
like Belichick. You know, he handed us six rings, so
I'm not gonna walk. And I realize now it was
mostly Tom Brady.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
That's what people are saying.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
It's a Brady Yeah, yeah, but he didn't hurt the situation.
I think he helped. And you're stalling.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah, you know, the coach can only do so much.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah, And then Brady left us, And the very first
year he left us, he won another ring with the
Bay So a lot of people right then said, Okay,
maybe it wasn't Belichick magic, maybe it was Brady more Brady.
But it was the perfect storm. We got Gronk, who
was unbelievable, We had some really good people around us,
and we got very lucky because our division sucked that

(21:23):
whole time.

Speaker 5 (21:24):
So we were always Belichick got the hot girlfriend. So
who's the real winner.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yes, yeah, that's unbelievable. Oh my god, she is spectacular.
She is the third of his age, I think.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (21:35):
I love the meme that is going around to the
video of her talking to him during the game on
the sideline, and the caption is, can I have twenty
bucks for the concession?

Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah, that's not a good look. When she goes on
the sideline now, keep her off the sideline.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
Keep her off the sideline. But you know, hey, daddy's
a little busy, right.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
He's whipped.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
Okay, well yeah, but I mean, come on, you really,
who's gonna blame that me? Yeah? And they're and there
and they're trying to protect him. Oh, she's just a
gold digger.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
Well, you know why is he there? Right, He's there
for a reason as well.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
I just learned this morning that Lawrence Taylor went to
North Carolina. I had no idea LT. Yeah, yeah, I
guess they've had some decent football players come out of there,
But I had no idea l T was a tar heel, No,
who knew?

Speaker 1 (22:25):
Uh so what your Patriots are playing? The Raiders? Yes,
so you guys, So you guys should do Okay, I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
We'll see about that. Carol is the and not. They
have that gent that running back. Yes, a beast out
of Boise State. I think he's he's crazy. Uh so,
who knows. And I used to grow up. When I
grew up, I kind of like the Raiders because the
Patriots sucks so bad. We were seizing tickets holders to
the Patriots worst stadium in the world, aluminum benches. You
would freeze your butt off horse trough urinals, and I

(22:53):
had nervous kidneys as a kid. I couldn't pick horrible
memories of that childhood. But at the same time, the
Raiders were kind of good, So I was a sneaky
closet Raiders fan back. Yeah, that's yeah, wid Lado and
all those guys. I loved that team.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
They were yeah good, that was one that was. They
were fun to watch.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
They were fun. They were bad boys. Yeah, the Cowboys
all obeye their curfew. Their coach was born again Christian,
and the Raiders would go to opposing cities and just
go out as a unit, as Sarah Baris, Yeah, just
pick fights and the next day with a hangover lay
a whipping on whoever they played. And I just loved that.
I thought that was such great old football.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
You know, what do you think of comedy these days?

Speaker 2 (23:34):
I I hope it. I feel like the pendulum is
swinging a little bit with the against cancel culture, which
was you know that was horrible for us. I had
friends that were canceled that I didn't think deserved it.
They kept moving the goalposts, they kept saying what you
could say and what you couldn't say. And for comedians
it was tough. We just didn't know where the line

(23:56):
was that we could cross over. Yeah, and you know,
any you can't even mention in the word trans now
on stage, people freak out. This environment is a little
more giving, forgiving than other parts of the country that
I go to. Uh, you know, I work in New
York all the time because I live there. So uh,
that's a it's kind of like we're about to have

(24:16):
a communist mayor. So, I mean that tells you where
he's out of his mind and so and by all indications,
he's going to win.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
So yeah, well they're trying to get they're trying to
get uh I was reading yesterday they want to offer
Eric Adams a job in the Trump administration to get
him to drop out of the race. Because yeah, because
right now Eric Adams has got the worst Isn't that sad?
The worst polling? Yeah, really to where it's down to

(24:48):
the radical Muslim communists.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Or indicted guy and his whole staff is indicted, His
police chief is indicted, his chief of staff. Wasn't that
they were all.

Speaker 5 (24:59):
You didn't play along with Biden? Yeah, that was the
whole thing. And and I just saw this funny video
on Instagram podcast. I think it involved the comedian who
said it's pretty bad in New York when you see
all the Italians walking around going.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
Hey, Eric Adams, that's what we need. That's true. You
never thought you'd see that exactly. Yeah, Island's treating you know,
cheering on mayor Adams. Yeah, so's It's an awkward time
in the city. But comedy, I think there are guys
that have fought back against the cancel culture that can.

(25:34):
Seinfeld has. He's been heckled a lot by the pro
Palestinian people at a lot of his gage. Yeah, he
handles it unbelievably well. But Billy Burr Chappelle has gone
really hard against them. And again they can because they
sleep on a mountain of cash every night. Guys like me, oh,
I still have a kid in college. I got to
play the game. So you know, when I do stuff
on stage now, I do very careful when I walk

(25:55):
into my political stuff and say, look, I'm coming at
this right down the middle. I'm not sure trying to
piss off anybody on the other side, because people are
rabbit on both sides and they will they will freak out.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
You know.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
So, uh, it's weird. It's just a it's a strange
time for comedy in the country.

Speaker 5 (26:10):
Well, the big difference that I see is look at
all the memes that came out about jd Vance and
Vances is able to laugh at it.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
Most of the Trump jokes he read, he reached, he retweets.

Speaker 5 (26:20):
Him, and you know, all the Trump jokes, A good
Trump joke, any Republican is going to laugh at. But
nobody on the left can take or give a joke about.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
They just don't.

Speaker 5 (26:29):
We can't talk about Joe Biden, you can't talk about
Kambel Harris like that.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
And now that's the problem. Like Saturday Night Live, I'm
kind of looking forward to seeing who they've got for
a cast man.

Speaker 5 (26:38):
They've got five new people, yeah, bit hired.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
But the guy who doesn't four yea. The guy who
does Trump is safe. Yeah, yeah right.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
He actually does do better than Alec Baldwin did.

Speaker 5 (26:51):
I Yes, Trump, he's well because I think Dana Carvey said,
you have to at least respect the person you're imitating,
because if you don't like them a little bit, you
can't do a good job imitating.

Speaker 7 (27:01):
It.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
And it'll come across in the Indians harp, yes, and
he comes out. And that's what happened with Colbert right,
too much Venom. You have a staff of twenty writers.
And again I've been on interviewed about this a bunch
of times. I I like Colbert. I liked him when
he was on the Daily Show. He was aliss when
he got his own show, and it was just political agenda.
You have a staff of twenty writers. Most of them

(27:23):
are Harvard Lampoon guys. They're smart guys, they can write
great jokes. Plus you get submissions from everywhere. Everybody emails
jokes to that everybody. So you have this plethora of
joke writing going on and you only pick out fifteen
minutes of you know, Orange Man Bad. That's it, And
that's how they lost me. And Myers is the same
way Seth Myers. Again, I respect him, he was a

(27:43):
head writer of Saturday and Live. But when every single joke,
and there's a lot going on in the world, when
every single joke, when you make the bully sympathetic, now
everyone's feeling bad for Trump because of this, then you've
lost your mind.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
That's of course, and Seth is different because his stand
up he doesn't really go political. He's talking about his wife,
his family, and it's actually funny stuff. But you watch
the show and it's like a different guy.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
Yeah he's not as egregious as Colbert, but he's pretty bad.
Colbert won't even have every guest. Look at every single
one of his guests as someone from the left, and
Carson was never that way, Leno was never that way.
None of these guys were because they knew they had
to play to their audience.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
We played a clip from sixty Minutes that Mike Wallace
was talking with Carson about that.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
I love that clip. I've seen that.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah, it's dangerous. That's not what he's there for to
be taking on.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
Any political cash. To his predecessors, he said, Milton Berle
didn't do that. Yeah, he knew his audience. And you know,
these other guys before me that trail lays the trail didn't.
I'm not going to do that. And now these guys
have gone off the reservation with.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
They've killed like on TV.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
They're getting They're slamming everyone over the head with their
politics and only their politics. The country is divided. I
can't believe their producers didn't go, wait a minute, we're
going to lose fifty percent of our potential audience by
doing this, And they.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Went and did and any they didn't think they were gonna.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Lik They were hemorrhaging money. They forty million a year.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
Forty million a year, I mean, which begs the question,
how much is ABC losing with Kimmel.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah, a ton kim. I have a friend who writes
for Kimmel and just sent me a thing. I did
an interview on news Max the other day, and they're
gonna do a montage on their show of Newsmax and
Fox News people who have verbally defecated on Kimmel recently.
And I'm the one being interviewed at the time in
the show, David Harris. So he said, just a warning,
you're gonna be thrown under the bus, all right. I

(29:31):
don't know if I'm saying anything but I'm on the screen.
But that's kind of where we are now. It's just
a weird time in this country. And hopefully the pendulum
is swimming back for late night shows, for stand up comedy,
for everything, because we need to think it is.

Speaker 5 (29:43):
Because you're seeing the success of people like THEO Vaughn,
and it's shifting from late night that nobody has cable anymore.
Nobody's watching that, and they're shifting.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
To YouTube or to Gutfeld or to Gutfeldts number one, right, huge.

Speaker 5 (29:54):
Yeah, and you see the theo Vaughans. You see those
podcasts that are doing so well because they're having honest,
real conversations.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
With people agreed. That's what has changed the game.

Speaker 5 (30:04):
Because when Theovonn did his interview with Trump and with JD. Vance,
it made him human and it made him look approachable.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah, I believe it.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
Right.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
They even the election, Oprah Winfrey endorses Biden or or
Kamala and Rogan endorses Trump. And who knew Rogan's endorsement
was going to be way more important than Oprah Winfrey's.
You know where she used to be the Queen of Old.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
Killed herself with I know she did ye Hawaii is Yeah,
killed the tsunami.

Speaker 5 (30:34):
Threat recently when she wouldn't open her private road.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, and I love that. The whole global warming thing,
someone did a meme that was pretty funny of uh,
you know, they say global warming, the oceans are going
to rise up and swallow it, and then they showed
all these Obama has an ocean front place, Oprah? Does
they all do? They all have these huge ocean front properties.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
Of the Statue of Liberty. Yeah, same place. Uh, you
can still go see Plymouth Rock. Yeah, sure, I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 (31:01):
Although I did hear I didn't Obama just sell as
Martha Vin your place. But that was because of the
dead chef, you know, it away from.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
That looking looking kind of bad there, But I look
at the fires in California. Somebody just said that the
CO two that's releasing is more than anything you're going
to be able to curb with this net zero thing
you're trying.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Yeah, I think America finally is I can't you know,
the press covered for the left for so long that
you know, we kind of all just were sheepishly following this.
But now the cats out of the bag. Now they
know they see people flying around in corporate jets to
go yell at people for burning fossil, for driving. Hypocrisy

(31:42):
has just gotten to a point where we're like, all right, enough,
and I think, thank god, I think the country has
come to its census a.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
Little bit, well a little bit, a little bit.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Oh yeah, we're certainly still crazy but yes.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Well you're speaking of Newsmax. I just read Newsmax is
suing Fox. Really, Yeah, because Fox is I guess spent
a ton of money trying to stamp down any other
conservative conservative competition out there in the news I work together.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
Yeah, that'd be an interesting losses. That should be, It
should be.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
It seems to be the Republican problem everywhere. We got
to take another break.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
The Shulman. You come off of that cocky I know,
and I've grown to accept that.

Speaker 6 (32:23):
We'll be right back with Charlotte County speaks on news
radio fifteen eighty WCCF.

Speaker 9 (32:30):
I saw something pretty crazy today. I saw somebody using
a payphone. What a loser, Right, those things.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
Are so outdated. That's like guys with ponytails. Holy, that's
a bold look. Yeah, that is a bold look.

Speaker 9 (32:47):
There's only two kinds of guys with ponytails, rapists and
folks singers. So if you don't see a banjo run,
that guy's gonna get.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
Every body.

Speaker 8 (33:08):
No, you've been stiffing no my toes, and I'm getting
heard to tired of them.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
Do you keep a stepping out of line?

Speaker 2 (33:14):
Ever?

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Messing with the mind if.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
They had any saves.

Speaker 8 (33:17):
June Us Ever said, you were little teeny.

Speaker 7 (33:21):
Curtin said, I.

Speaker 8 (33:22):
Was the honly man at this hole.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Bir Now you better do something.

Speaker 7 (33:26):
And then your old fime you got the ply daddy
that'll walk a line.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FM w
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Speaker 5 (33:39):
With Hoss jennymore Well, Jenny, Yeah, sure, and he actually
rode Buddy Holly's motorcycle in a hotel room once. Jennings
played bass for the beloved singer Buddy Holly and the
two became very close. So Jennings, he's the one that
turned down, gave the flight.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
Right the big Bobby. Yeah, heard it to Richie Richie Valuy.

Speaker 9 (33:58):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (33:58):
So before Holly's death, he purchased an aerial cyclone motorcycle,
which Jennings remembered vividly, and Holly's father kept the bike
until nineteen seventy but eventually sold it for jennings birthday.
In nineteen seventy nine. Two of Buddy Holly's crickets tracked
down the motorcycle and decided to surprise him with it.
And when Jennings saw the bike, he did what any
outlaw would do.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Quote.

Speaker 5 (34:18):
I walked into my hotel room after the show and
saw it sitting there. What else could I do? I
swung my leg over it, stomped on the kickstart, and
it burst into roaring life first kick. It was midnight
and it sounded twice as loud, bouncing off the walls
at that hotel. I knew Buddy wouldn't mind. That's great, Yeah,
that is cool man.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
He had some stories.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
Oh yeah, he.

Speaker 5 (34:40):
Walked off the set of a talk show. He walked
out of the CMA Awards.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
He walked off of We Are the World. Oh yeah,
oh real, right, yeah, because they wanted him to. There
was some Swahili line in there, and he goes, I
don't think some ball from Texas they sing Swahili, took
off his headphones and went out the side door.

Speaker 5 (35:00):
The best you could have just done the Bob Dylan
just stand there like mouth nothing. It don't even look
like you're singing anything.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
That was cool. Got your little country classics, Yeah, classics.
I haven't done that, done that in a while. Change
it up a little bit. Yeah, Tom Cotter's here, he's
your headliner. This week if a SANI and the Comedy Zone,
make sure you get your tickets asani dot Net show
times tonight, seven thirty eight o'clock tomorrow, two shows on
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(35:31):
Funny guy, come up to the show.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
You will laugh. We'll follow you home and tickle you
if we have to. I promise you will laugh.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
Elma got in trouble for that.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
You know who did?

Speaker 9 (35:39):
Hell?

Speaker 5 (35:41):
He hates the Jews on X's canceled.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
Yes, yes, yes, Elmo's canceled.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
So do you like Denzel Washington movies? Excuse me, I'm sorry,
we've I just learned that we've been Denzel. I still
say it wrong because I've been saying it so long.
It's Denzil, Denzil Denzel. Yes, he correct really, yes, he
was on He was on the I Believe Kimmel or
someplace else and talking about his new movie. He's doing
another Spike Lee Giant, and that's coming out. I haven't

(36:15):
seen the trailer yet, but I'm sure it's the one
coming out on Apple TV.

Speaker 7 (36:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
Plus, yeah, I did hear about that.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
It looks good, it does.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
I haven't seen any trailers for it. But anyway, was talking.
It's not Denzel, it's Denzil, Denzil, Denzil.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
That's not happening too. Yes, it's in my brain. I
love his stuff though, yest Day, Training Day, so many
movies over the years.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
So go create to your one hundred dollars bills, Denzel.
Oh oh it's ten fifty three. You know what that means.
We got to learn stuff. And now it's time for
random random random facts. Okay, I don't pre read these
because some of them get a little dicey. Oh wow,

(37:03):
I just surprised myself.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
You want to get thrown off the air? Yes?

Speaker 1 (37:07):
Number one of your five random fact today, McDonald's has
one fewer. Hamburger. A businesswoman named Zoe Hamburger just stepped
down from her post as the chief restaurant officer for
Mickey D's in the UK. She previously worked for McDonald's
in the US. Her actual name was Hamburger.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
Wow, it seems like a conflict or interest.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
Or nepotism.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
Number two. There's only five cities in the world that
span across two continents. The biggest one is Istanbul, Turkey.
It's about sixty five percent in Europe thirty five percent
in Asia. Number three. Disabled people in the Netherlands get
money from the government up to twelve times a year
to spend on prostitutes. Got a love that. Oh yeah,

(38:01):
I can't we get Why isn't that part of Obamacare? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (38:05):
Number four.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
Limping on purpose was a popular trend in the eighteen
hundreds in the UK. The Princess of Wales had rheumatic fever.
They gave her a limp, and because she was a
huge fashion icon and trendsetter, other women started limping. Two
hmmm as resputant. Yes, number five of your five random facts.

(38:29):
After President James Garfield was shot in an assassination attempt,
he couldn't hold down food, so for the last month
or so of his life, his doctor fed him through
his rectal cavity. Oof didn't really work, No, boy, they
screwed him up on that one. I mean, he was
in pain. They couldn't get the bullet. They tried digging

(38:50):
for it because he was a large guy.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
Yeah, And he suffered for a month after getting shot
before he passed away.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
I've talked out of my butt.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
I've never eaten do it every day?

Speaker 2 (39:04):
Horrible way to go.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
Oh, yeah, well they say that that's the Marilyn Monroe
really had a wine enema.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
Yeah, it was a trend in colleges a few years
ago to do beer bongs, but do them rectally and
because I guess the alcohol absorbs quicker through that tissue
than it does through your esophagus and stomach or something.
That's what they were saying.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
But you know, another reason to go to trade school.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
A plumber, A plumber.

Speaker 1 (39:35):
Wow, so we told you about this. Oh, you weren't
here for the first hour.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
So just let you know.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
You taking your phone into the bathroom ups your hemorrhoid
risk by forty six percent.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
That's it really is.

Speaker 5 (39:48):
It does, and you can't get drunk on what wine
it does.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
Wow, I didn't know that because I'm I'm doomed. Then, hey,
we talked about this a while ago.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
Steve Burns Blues Clues, Yes, he's got his new podcast
coming out. Well, it's called a Live and the episode
first episode drops on the seventeenth of this month. And
even though people still associate Steve, I would imagine your
kids when they were young. My daughter to the same
was the Blues Clues. He's still he's associated with children's programming,

(40:21):
but he's all grown up right now. And well, one
of his guests is going to be a porn star.
Porn star's maitland Ward. I guess she was an actress
on Boy Meets World before she became a full time
mattress actress. And other guests are going to be Wayne
Coin from The Flaming Lips, Congressman Roe Conna, and Jamie
Lee Curtis. And he's going to tackle heavy subjects like

(40:45):
sex and death. And if it's not already evident, Steve
would like you to know he's not mister Rogers, he says.
He says, that's a weight I do not wish to
carry around. And that's a bar I cannot possibly no
one could possibly live up to that. Dude should be
on our money. I'm just a neurotic, bald guy who's
sitting next to you, a fellow traveler on the struggle bus. Okay,

(41:08):
high collar, you're on the air, Okay, all right, goodbye.

Speaker 5 (41:12):
He's late for the struggle bus.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
Nobody wants to hold. No, wait fifteen seconds, he.

Speaker 5 (41:18):
Was on hold.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
Now he was waiting add society. I'll tell you what.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
Dancing with the Stars I can't believe they still do
the thirty four He's in thirty four coming up. Wow,
I should have I don't have time to get him
ready here, but I should have had him ready. Feldman,
Oh really, Corey Feldman is going to be the lady
who speaks in an accent that is not her own.

(41:46):
Hilario Baldwin. Alex's wife is going to be there. Oh yeah,
Dylan Efron and Andy Richter, Andy Richter, Andy Rick sidekick.

Speaker 7 (41:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
Wow, Season thirty four coming up on September sixteen.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
Okay, some of those stars I put in quotes, I
mean some of them.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
Oh, Zach Efron's brother, that's who Dylan Afron is.

Speaker 5 (42:07):
Okay, Wow, they're going to the dealst I could see
Zach doing it.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
I must get a phone call one of these days.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
And apparently there's another biopic of Michael Jackson coming out.
I did hear about that. And apparently Paris Jackson has
come out. She's had no involvement. Uh her right daughter?
His daughter?

Speaker 2 (42:33):
Yes, it's daughter.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
The narrative is being controlled and there's a lot of inaccuracy.
I prefer, honestly, over sales and monetary games. She says
there's a bunch of out life right live Lion Lion Tito.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
Tom got Her.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
Thank you very much for coming. You appreciated.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
I look forward to sharing the stage with you on Saturday.

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But Sonny dot net for your tickets, make sure you
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up this weekend Saturday, coming up after a fake news
radio update, Michael P. Hayman's gonna come on in here
and build you a zoo. If I don't see you Saturday,
have a great weekend. We'll talk to you Monday. Anybody

(43:24):
got any more jokes, any funny?

Speaker 2 (43:26):
Nope, nope, all right, see you folks.

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