September 11, 2025 • 42 mins
Thursday 09/11/25 Hour 2. With Mike Imbasciani and comedian Mark Klein.
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dot com, mysie any down in Nashville, Okay, making sure
you're there and like to welcome to the studio. It's
been a while since we've seen him. It's Mark Klein.
You're a headliner at Asani and the Comedy Zone this week. Mark,
how you doing?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Greeting's Earth Humans A pleasure to walk among you again
as a living man, a privileged pleasure, honor and thrilled
to be sitting in Ken's studio after too long and
after it.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Has been a long time since we've seen you. And
just to let you know, it's well we already heard
it's National Make your Bed Day. It's also National Hot
Cross Buns Day.
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Well I've put the do not Disturbed on on my
hotel room so they may sees that, and then I've
accomplished both both. There you go, your objectives.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
And of course Patriot Day, National Day of Service. So
there you go. And now Mike's going to be have
you been in Nashville. I mean, you're from Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
So my son went to Belmont University in Nashville, so
Mike should know that. Well, he majored in burning through currency.
So yeah, I know the town pretty well. We're going
to try to buy a condo there to go visit him.
But as you know, Mike, with the price of real
estate in Nashville, we just took four hundred thousand dollars
in through it in the Ohio River because it's pretty
much would accomplish the same thing exactly better.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
The better use of the money.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
That's for sure.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
So Mike's going to be going to the Johnny Cash
Museum today. He's just up there for a visit.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Well, very good, but.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Oh yeah, I can't afford to live up here either.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I'm just a musician, so I just make sure, as
they say, you hear that train of coming.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So more, for those who haven't seen you before, tell
us about Mark Klein. You're originally from Kentucky. You wrestled,
You were a grappler, as I recall, weren't you.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
I went to college on a wrestling scholarship, and I
won an award in New York State Collegiate Wrestling. I
was in nineteen seventy for the most requested Opponent trophy
that I still haven't honor. Of course, I live in Louisville, Kentucky.
I'm the only conservative Jewish Republican comedian from Kentucky in
the world. So I'm a brand of one. Let's see.
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My interests include I'm a husband when i'm told to be,
a father when I must be, and a thoroughbit racehorse
owner when I want.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
You're still still doing the horses, still involved in the horses.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
It is so much fun. But every now and then
I got to come to Florida because I just missed
this place so much.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Well, yeah, but you've been doing the corporate gigs for
quite a while. Now, why Florida in September.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Well, my doctor told me to get in better physical shape,
I need to do swim I need to go swimming
more so with the humidity down here, it's really effortless.
You just go outside your hotel and you're swimming, So
that works out perfectly well. And back up in Kentucky,
I had a mosquito in my backyard about the size
of a condor, and after I managed to shoot him down,
he said, say hi to my big brother down in
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Port Charlotte. So I came to check out the wildlife here.
I love this part of the country. I was on
AS seventy five as part of a scientific study which
studies the effective of break lights on the subconscious. They said,
we're going to send you. We're going to have your
drivet between Tampa and Benita Springs and report back on that.
And the main reason I'm here is I just don't
see enough personal injury lawsuit billboards where I'm from.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Well, so you'll get your fill here. That's as well
as the commercials on our station.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
I'm killing a lot of birds with one sting in here.
Plus I got the best food in Southwest Florida.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Besides exact, why not exactly? Who's your feature this week?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
You know? Mark Evans is featuring for me this week.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I just had him on the show a couple of
weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Funny Gray, great guy. His wife Laurie is going to
be m seeing, so I get a husband wife team
in front of me. And one another reason I love
performing in Charlotte County is I'm not the youngest hottest
guy in the room. Necessarily, I work on cruise ships
where people call me sonny boy. Do you still do ships?
I still do ships. I was on Carnival's two newest
ships last week, the Poor Judgment and Bad Choices, and
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that was that was kind of fun. I do cruise ships,
so I really love it. They pay me to go
around the world and tell jokes, which I was going
to probably do. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Do you get good good cruise ships or I get
great cruise ships, good cruises? Or is the cosm l thing?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
No?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
No, I have cruises out of Miami primarily, also do Alaska.
I go to South America in the wintertime and sometimes
over to Europe nice. So in fact, I was on
one a ship out of Tahiti and the passenger low
was mostly French, so they scheduled a French production show.
It was a Maurice Chevalier show tune kind of review.
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It was a smaller ship, so somewhat limited cast, and
I was on the next night. So I said, well,
who saw the production show last night? Everybody applauds, of course,
said I could not believe my ears. A forty five
minutes show on French culture, and no one surrendered to
the Germans. And following that performance, the cruise director called
me over and.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Said, hey, hey, lighting up on them was to edit.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Your material somewhat. So that's what I do as a comedian.
I edited my material for who's in front of me?
And that's a lesson you learned doing comedy for a living.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
As I recall, you were a big connoisseur of Kentucky bourbon.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Yes, and you use the past ten correctly. I quit
drinking about twelve years ago, and you know, when you
stop drinking, all your friends go did you have a problem.
Did you have a problem? Because they want there to
have been a problem.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah, there needs to be a real reason exactly.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
And I said, no, I'd have a problem of money. Well, Mike,
that's one way. I also don't remember nineteen ninety eight
to two thousand and four that was. That was another
small thing to consider. What really put me over the
edge was I went to a wine tasting, which is
not my thing at all, because I was a bourbon drinker.
Neat room temperature, shot in a half that I'm good
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for an hour, Okay, I go to a wine tasting
at missus Clein's Behest. And it wasn't the fact that
they have knowledge. I respect their knowledge. I respect the
lifelong commitment to something for which they have passion. The
pretentiousness just put me over the edge. The guy's tell
me you need you need to seek out the caramel
and smoky notes of oak and citrus going I said, mister,
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you don't go drinking with me and my friends. We
don't even know it's going to taste going down. I
know it's going to taste coming back up, slightly acidic,
with overtones of taco bell and waffle house. That's the
kind of information I need. I began to examine that
and you know something else I've noticed, Mike, I guess
they had these in Nashville too. They have them in Louisville.
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I haven't seen too many in poor Charlotte, but I've
seen them where I live. They have all these like
breakfast restaurants in the new big thing, the fresh Egg,
and they're all so hearty and sunny, the fresh egg,
the morning sunrise. And when you drank like I did,
that's that's not where you wanted to go. You wanted
a restaurant called the ashtray mout or got almighty. My
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head hurts. That's the one that was a favorite right
before I stopped, the one that made me stop drinking
bread was too much. I went to a morning breakfast place.
It was called who Are You Anyway? And as you,
as you may or may not know from your youth,
you end up sometimes next to someone whose name escapes.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You, and that may or may not have I can
either confirm nor deny that.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
You take a good restaurant called who Are You Anyway?
And you get these little things sorted out before you
move on with your day.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Well, folks, you can catch Mike and Mark at Vesani
in the Comedy Zone tonight at showtime seven thirty. You
got an eight o'clock show on Friday, seven o'clock show
on Saturday, Vasani dot Net. Get your tickets now. It's
going to be a great time as well as some
great food too. Have you so you're a steak eater?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Yes? Yes, In fact, I had my Lincoln Continental are
alder to run on red meat. I do enjoy a
steak whenever I can get one. And God, their food
is so good. There are you doing steak?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Because a lot of comedians that particularly lately, I'll ask
them what they had the first night. Everybody goes for
the chicken parm and then they'll eventually I go, you
got to dry the steak, and they'll move on to
the steak by Saturday. But what is it for you?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Chicken Palm's kind of default comfort food for a lot
of road guys because it's just exactly enough. They won't
buy it for themselves, but they know if someone else
will paid for it, let's dive right in. Then they
found out how good it is, then they move on
to the rabbi. As for me, my first night, of course,
I've been on the roads. I need a salad to
make sure. The plumbing will be in effect for the
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rest of the week. So last night was eggplant and salad.
Tonight will probably be either a steak, maybe the chicken
parm and probably toss a coin. The loveliest people work there, though,
and at the minute you walk in, whether you're a
comic customer, you walk in, Hello, how are you hug,
You're welcome and just a delight to sit there.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
We got to take a quick break. We'll be right
back with more on news radio fifteen eighty.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
This voice of us is really something, huh. I can't
get enough of it.
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We'll be right back with Charlotte County Speaks, News Radio
fifteen eighty WCCF.
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Elon Musk was being interviewed recently, and we're talking about
our national debt. He mentioned that, and he said, he said,
I haven't been to DC sense May the government is
basically unfixable. So that I applaud David sachs noble efforts.
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But at the end of the day, if you look
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to him, simply because he's trying to solve a massive problem. Unfortunately, Republicans, Democrats,
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all he said.
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Charlotte County speaks ten twenty five on the Money on
the Thursday with the band and the Weights.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
Yes, the band and the weight. And you know, with
yesterday being such a hard day, I had plans to
go see my friend Stacey mitch Hart, who was a
blues guitar musician playing at Bourbon Street Blues and Boogie
Bar in Printer's Alley there And every time I'm able
to see him, he usually lets me sit in with
the band and last night was no different. It was
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good to see him and you know, good to see
some friendly familiar faces and his amazing band there. And
as I was sitting there waiting to go up and
play and listening to him, I knew I wanted to
dedicate something to Charlie. So, you know, thinking through the
repertoire of what could be done, I thought of this
song and mentioned Charlie before I sang it, and a
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few people yelled out and supported Charlie. Kirkhiche was nice
to see and sang the song and got a little emotional,
and at the end of the song even the bass
player looked at me and said, thank you for doing that.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
So cool.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Music is a powerful thing and just like comedy is too,
and that's why we need the entertainment sometimes to bring
us back and distract us. And that song and why
I did that is Charlie now puts the weight on
all the rest of us to keep up the fight.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, indeed, indeed. And something else that can really take
your mind off of things and cheer you up and
calm you down. As horses, and I know that you
might mark have been involved in horse racing and owning
horses for a long time.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Well, I pretend to own them.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Is you know, not really not a lot of winners.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
But I pretend to own them, they pretend to run.
That's how that's how we rate that. Yeah. I live
in Louisville, so thoroughbred horse racing is our major league's
board there. It's what we're all about. I don't care
about U of l UK. I follow horses, and as
Joey Lewis used to say, the horses I follow. Follow
the horses and started owning thoroughbred race horses years and
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years ago. And when you start owning them, you tend
to quit betting them quite as much. And that's been
the case with me. But it's I just love going
to the track, always have. Father used to call Churchill
Downs the only place in Louisville where windows clean people.
That was his favorite racing joke. And I think of
every time I go. And there's not a lot of
comedy around the horse racing horse racing as there as
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there was, Like in the forties and fifties. You hear
old time, old old time comics, some of their their
old material. There's a lot of horse racing stuff in it.
Not so much anymore because it's been superseded in the
popular mind. About you know, football, basketball and whatnot. But
there's some inside baseball horse racing jokes. Still my favorite one,
all the time, favorite horse racing joke. Three old men
go to the track every day together. They're old guys,
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are in sixties and seventies, and they're just track buddies
for years and years. They go to the track. There
are the track one day and one clutches his chest
and drops to the floor, gasping for air. And he
quits gasping, and his friend says to the other buddy,
oh my god, he's dead. Friendly Horns says, no, no, he's
still alive. In the double.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
You gotta get it. You have to be you have
to be there.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
And the horses inside baseball inside Stuny horses do you have?
I've got, I got a part ownership and one horse now,
Johnny's Fireball. He's a seven year old gelding. I was
wondering why he wasn't winning, so I did some research
into his pedigree. It turns out he's in the Federal
Equine Witness Protection Program and was reluctant to have his
picture taken publicly. But he's actually he's won almost half
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a million dollars for US twenty partners. And let me
the economics of horse racing. A horse wins half a
million dollars, believe me. Between shoes, vet, shipping, training, they
eat every day, jockeys fees, agent's fees. You're going to
spend four hundred and fifty thousand of it back, so
really can No matter what they win, you don't get
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your money back. That's as part of the deal. What
you do get back is a joy of ownership in
a major league enterprise. When your horse does what they've
been trained to do and they're in the mood to
do it, and they're not always in that mood. You
get to go to the winter circle at Churchill Downs
with your trainer, your new one hundred best friends in life,
maybe your brother, your dad, or your sister or your wife.
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If they're with you and you're a big shot for
a day, it's like being Ralph crammed in for a day.
You're a shot. Yeah, yeah, it just feels great.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
What uh?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
What about jockeys? Do you is it the same jockey
that rides a horse? Who do they rotate? How does
that work?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
The trainer makes that decision when you're in when you're
a horse partnership. You have some managing partners and make
the big decisions how much we're going to spend on
a horse. We pick the trainer. The trainer is sometimes
a partner in the horse, which is always a good
thing because he has a vested interest in the animal's success.
And the trainer is the pretty much the quarterback of
the team. He decides who the jockey is going to be,
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what races you're going to enter. If you own a
majority share in the horse, you get to be in
on those discussions. But your trainer, if you're not going
to listen to him, why'd you pick them or her?
I mean, that's that's why you have a trainer for
so that that that's uh, that's who makes those decisions.
Johnny's Fireball is our horse. He's in New York right now.
He's at Saratoga running over his head. They buried him
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like a beat and a couple of stakes races, so
we're drop in m a classic claiming company again. He's
going to go to Aqueduct next week for a race,
and his favorite jockey is Louis Sayez. He'll do anything
for Louis. He loves Louis. Louis loves Johnny. They're they're
a matched pair. That's cool. Whenever anybody else gets on him, uh,
you just just look up and go, what are you
hitting me for? There's no one behind us. You know,
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he's just but for Louis, he'll do things he'll do
and they're like that. Horses will do things for certain jockeys,
they'll do for no one else in the world.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
So he's seven years How what's a career for a racehorse?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
That's a great question. For the good ones, the ones
that the ones that are there that remain intact, they do.
They don't get gilded or the good ones race till
they're three or four, and they have such breeding value
they go to the farm to begin making miniature versions
of themselves. So a Kentucky Derby winner, for example, might
run again at four, maybe even five years old. Usually
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after three, if they're a triple Crown contender and they've
won some great one races at three, they go to
the breeding shed because there was so much more as
a brief prospect than they are as a racing prospect.
A lower level horse, an allowance runner, or a high
level claimer can make way more money at the track
than he's ever going to make in the reading shed.
So they continue to raise four or five six years old.
By the time a horse gets to be seven, eight
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or nine, their careers are pretty much spiral downwards where
they're not going to be racing anymore. The younger horses
have far superseded them in talent, and horses are Some
of them are very smart. Some won't run hard enough
to hurt themselves. They'll still race, so still get a
jockey on it. They'll still break fine, They'll still run
with a pack. They're not going to run hard enough
to hurt themselves. They get smart. Some figure out, hey,
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I get fed either way. WHOA, this isn't so bad.
Some love the competition, others don't care. They're like people,
each one's individual And the art of training, the science
of it is what you feed them. How fast are
they running? The art of training is understanding on a
horse by horse business. What does this horse love to do?
Where is this horse happiest? Where is that magical jockey
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that will make him do things he might want want
to do that he'll do things for they'll do for
no one else. And sometimes you never find that person.
Sometimes a horse likes a female jockey instead of a
mail jockey. Sometimes they don't like grass, they like the dirt.
Sometimes they like the dirt not the grass. Sometimes they
have to have blinkers on. Sometimes they step on a
Snickers bar wrapper and put them in a bad mood
for three weeks. I mean, they're just they're the damnedest things.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
So your horse is at seven, do you do you
have plans to purchase a or get invest in another one.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
We're in discussing that now. Some of the partnership wants
to retire the horse while he's healthy, find a fourteen
year old girl that needs a trisage pony, and send
him off to horse Heaven that way. Some a few
of us still want to raise him a little bit longer.
I'd like to see a stop on them. By the way,
I think, I think he Owes is nothing. Let's find
a new one. You make those decisions like a stockbroker,
like a stockholder's meeting. Everyone's got a voting share, and
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then you go tell your trainer, here's one hundred thousand dollars,
go pick us out a fifty thousand dollars horse. And
we got fifty in the bank to feed and train
them for a year and see what happens. And that's
about what they cost a year. At a mid level
try is fifty to sixty thousand dollars a year to
keep in training.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Wow. Wow, So I would imagine you in horses. You
drive a big truck.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
No, no, I'm not allowed near the horses. Actually no, really,
the first horse we ever had, I went to go
see him. I wanted to talk to him and say, hey, horse,
he I wanted to feed him a care and our
trainer goes, what are you doing? I said, I'm talking
to the horse. There's a horse doesn't speak angles. Your
horse speaks Spanish. His groom's from Guatemala. The only language
you understand the Spanish. I want to talk to. Your
horse learns the Spanish. So as an owner, you get
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an involvement in the horse's life. But the hands on
people that keep this horse happy and healthy and fit
are is the groom and the assistant trainer and the
people that muck the stall, curry comb the horse, feed them,
keep them happy, take care of them. Those are the
people that your horse is in love with, and those
they have to keep each other happy. So what are
you driving? Oh? Oh, my car? What am I driving?
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Oh gosh, well my car home, of course, is a Lincoln,
the biggest one they make. I've always driven old big
American Iron. The bigger, the better, the older, the better. Course.
Tell me one time you won't be able to feel
the road. So I want to feel the road. I'd walk.
They showed me a car that has driver assisted steering
keep you from hitting things. I might want to hit things.
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So I'm in a big old Lincoln. Now it gets
about twelve miles to the gallon, and I could care less,
but I can.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
I interest you in a gold nineteen sixty nine Cadillac
Coupe Deville that gets about ten miles to the gallon.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
All day?
Speaker 4 (22:32):
All you got, how soon can I get there?
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Just up the street?
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Oh yeah, I'd love to see it. My wife just
got a new car for herself, and this she go
out a truck.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Oh she got a trust.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Yes, she wanted to forward pickup. And you know, being
up in Nashville, the truck is the vehicle dajure up there.
These Lincolns and Cadillacs are in the official state cars
of Florida. But you get up to Tennessee.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
The vehicle da jour around here is an Uber and
an Uber scooter up there, and naturally, luckily I fly
back tomorrow. I'll show you. I'll show you the Cadillac
on on Saturday. You could drive it home Sunday.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
It feels better than flying. I'd love I'm seriously, I'd
love to see it. My wife got a truck, and
I said, what he wants because I want to pick
up truck to handle the rental properties with and whatnot.
And so she picked it out and she designed it.
She built it from scratches dealerships, because you know, she
knows more about this stuff than I do. I said, well,
you get the electric at the hybrid because no, I
got a ghastline engine that I'm having altered. It's going
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to run on the tiers of my enemies. That's what
life is like in the Klient home.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Wow. So yeah, I've got a rough wife. Yeah, you
speak kindly to.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Her the tears of my enemies.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
You don't want to be one of those. What's uh?
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Now?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
How long have you been doing comedy?
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Now?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Oh? For gosh sakes, I've been a comedian for a
living for forty years.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
I started my career at working strip joints in upstate
New York and Uticus, Syracuse.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
We're gonna strip joint, I would love to see tis
of that.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
I was a younger man. None of my hair was gray.
I was wearing black leather pants, telling jokes in between
strippers and yeah yeah, and I had the act go
with an X rated bulletproof machine gun of a show
and it was it was great, great fund. I met
the loveliest people doing that. I met some guys who
only knew their first names. Of course, I met a
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woman with a tattoo was Mickey Mouse pushing a low
and more work across theoprapher bikini line. Cutes tactoo you
ever saw in your life? You just learned so much
about again, talk about a business with inside baseball ooh adult.
You know they're called gentlemen's clubs now, but they were
stripped wines when we were kids, and everybody knows what
they are. I worked. I worked that circuit for a bit.
I was offered a twenty four week job for a
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chain of these places based in Atlanta, and I turned
it down. And it was for decent money too. It
was for good money, but I knew twenty four weeks
in a row working those stages, I would never be
come the type of comedian that I wanted to become eventually.
But it was a great experience. I did have a
great experience one night. This is a bigger place up
in Atlanta. I'm not going to name the name of
the club. I don't even know if they're still open
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or not. But the audience on I was about three
hundred Japanese tourists. We're just following in town. Then speak
a word of English. So I'm up there doing my act.
And you know, when you're on a stage like that,
there's spotlights in your eyes, pin spots. They're called very
tight spotlight all they shows you will your face and
your repertoris and you cannot see the audience. And at
Visani's I can see everyone in the crowd. I can
see the waitresses. I can see the guy in back
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with a hand. I know who's out there, which another
reason I love that club. There's an intimacy and a
connection to the audience that you don't get in a
lot of other clubs. You work a strip joint, you're
on a small runway stage for spots in your eyes.
All you can see is the tops of people heads,
So I know that something's not right. I'm not getting
a last I turned the houselice up and that's ree
in Japanese tourist sitting out there, don't speak a word
of English and fully expect me to take my clothes
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off and run the house hides back down. That told
the DJ put on stairway to Heaven, and I made
about six hundred dollars in tips that night. It was
one of the one of the highlights of my comedy career.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Your favorite joke? What's the best joke you ever wrote?
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Oh, gosh, I was talking to you. Yeah, yeah, I
was talking to some comedian friends of mine about there's
a difference between your favorite joke and the best joke
you ever wrote. Your favorite joke again, might be one
as you described that it's not not airworthy and we
keep our licenses. But this joke, I have the best
joke I ever wrote. It's the best joke from a
joke construction standpoint, It's probably the cleverest joke I ever wrote.
(26:32):
And it's my favorite joke that I wrote because it
all it's all revolves around my father and here it is.
That's the best joke I think I ever wrote. My
father was a purple heart deggerded veteran from World War Two.
He fought in tending Wamansai Pans at Pacific Theater. They
teach your grandchildren in school. That World War who ended
in nineteen forty five on the of the USS Missouri
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with the Japanese government of Emperor Heater Heitos rendered to
him American generals MacArthur and Wainwright. That's not exactly true.
World War two ended in nineteen ninety six. When my
father bought a Toyota.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
I know some of those.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Yeah, that's my faith.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
We wouldn't even eat rice.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
That's my favorite. Joe and my dad when I wrote
that joke, he was still alive when I was performing
that joke, and he just roared.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
He loved it.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
He loved that joke. My dad was you fifteen my show,
I talked about my dad a lot in it. My hero,
and he was my hero in life for many many reasons,
his war service not least among them. And there's lamboratory
about Dad in the show. And the last time he
saw me perform. He died seven years ago. The last
time he saw him Your Performers about eight years ago
in a supper club in Louisville, and he came to
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the show. The other people in the family and his
friends and my dad had a huge social circle. He
would go out to twenty people, very very popular, gracious,
charming man, big crowd. That's a Saturday night show. So
I asked him to sit in back. I don't like
performing with people that I know sitting up front. It's
distract your strategy to offer the best show I can
do the audience, and if you got your father sitting
(28:05):
four chairs away, you know it's going to be a
little out out of your mind. So he's in towards
the back of the room. That had a good show
then I was pretty happy with So I walk up
to him after the show. I said, Pop, how'd you
like the show? I knew I had a great show.
How'd you like the show? He looks at me and goes,
I thought more of it would be about me. Really,
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this man was hilarious. He was one of the most charming,
funny men I've ever known in my life. I just
adored in the perfect role model for a comedian, and
he was funny to the end. Of his life. He
was funny to literally to the day he died. He
decided in his early nineties he was suffering from a
lot of uncomfortable medical issues. He was in a lot
(28:48):
of discomfort and asked his doctor, what would happen if
I just quit taking my medication. I'm not going to
commit I'm not going to do anything. Just I stopped taking.
What happens and stopped? She said, well, georgie'll you'll go
to sleep that night. You're not gonna wake up. So
my dad calls us into his his assistant living room,
and he told us, you know, I'm at the end
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of my road, and this is I'm going to control
the end of my road, and I'm just gonna stop
taking my medication. So we're gonna say good night and
probably goodbye now, and you know versus the three of
the kids are sitting around. It's a kind of a
weepy thing, but this was he was controlling the last
thing that he could control. So he doesn't take his
medication that night. He wakes up the next morning, of course,
wide awake, has breakfast, you know, flirts with his nurse,
(29:31):
talking to everybody, let's play some gin. We'll play some cards.
Doesn't take, and we're all kind of aware. Any minute,
any hour, or whatever, it takes. A nap, gets up,
has lunch. Oh, for God's sake, really dead. He goes
to bed that night and I'm gonna start crying. Tell
him the story. He goes to bed that night, He
wakes up Tuesday morning, make up another morning later and
(29:53):
the doctor comes in, goes, mister Klein, how are you.
Dad goes frankly, I'm surprised. I hit the floor. I
hit the floor laughing.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
He was.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
He was that kind of a guy, and no matter
what his personal condition was, he used whatever it was
to put a smile on someone else's face, which is
an art, which is a gift that especially exactly when
you're in some type that's just an art that people
do not have, and he had it. I could say
one more story, I know, if you have to go
(30:25):
to break or not. One more great story about Pop.
He went to this Pop. This is a couple of
years before he died. He went to the hospital with
some serious issues. He did not think he was going
to come out. But you know, my dad make the
best of things. He is an army vet. So the
Veterans Mistration was paying for this treatment that he could
not get in a veteran hospital veterans hospital, so they
pay for it in a regular hospital. But it had
to include physical therapy or they would not pay for it.
(30:48):
So my dad ninety degrees to physical therapy. They send
in like this twenty four year old body builder, physical
therapist type. This guy, you know, it could be playing
in the NFL if he wanted to. He said, mister Klein,
what we're going to do now, We have to do
some physical therapy. Just once. You to move your toes
back and forth a couple times for me. So my
dad waggles his toes back and forth twice, and he
(31:08):
looks at this young man. He's letting me know when
you've had enough. I've been the quarterer pee in myself.
I've been laughing so hard it was just.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Click break. Will be right back on news radio fifteen eighty.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Okay, I think we should take a break and clean
our body parts.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Will be right back with Charlotte County Speaks, News Radio
fifteen eighty WCCF.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
I love to travel all kinds of places. I go
to Las Vegas quite a bit. My favorite place in
Las Vegas is a hotel that I work called the
Plaza Hotel. It's right downtown. My favorite piece of gambling
paraphernalia in the world is in the lobby of the
Plaza Hotel. It is from nineteen seventy four. The Elvis
Presley slopped machine.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
This machine is so old.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
It's a corner operating machine. You still have to put
the quarters in one by one. Is no bill. Feed's
that old. This machine is so old you have to
pull the handle to spin the reels. There is no
spinning button.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
It's that old.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
But here's the great thing about it. When you get
a jackpot Elvis, Elvis Elvis Aaron Presley dead for forty years,
he will still sing a song to you from the
bowels of the machine. And this is irresist of older
people my age. I check in ten o'clock in the
morning Pasa Hotel. There's a woman there. She's my age.
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She's working the Elvis machine like a second job.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Quarter quarter pole pull, quarter quarter pole pull.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Get my kik, go to my room and take a nap.
Come down at loon for lunch. Same lady at the
same machine. I have lunch, Go for a walk down
Fremont Street. Come back at three, same lady at the
same machine.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
Back to my room and.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Taking a nap, have a dinner show at six, shower
down at six o'clock for three shows at night, get
done two o'clock in the morning. Back in the lobby,
same lady at the same machine. I said, ma'am, God
bless you. You stick that many quarters up in my
rear rand. I'll say, e londer fd.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Not so long ago.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
Aw, it would kill the end.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
They're outside of the poor ran on the way up
the road. We started over again, live the dreams you
on top.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
The mother is the get a lot.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Of love stop. That's how it's happened there, the love
Mother the Drop.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FM w
c CF ten fifty one here at Charlie County speaks
Mark Klein, Mike Obassie Andy on the phone with some
Stevie Ravon.
Speaker 6 (33:58):
Yes from STEVEE. Ravon. And as a final note about
Charlie as we wrap up the show here, you know
also with it being nine to eleven and tomorrow is
nine to twelve, and as it today is the day
after the tragedy that happened yesterday. Tomorrow will be the
day after like it was after nine to eleven, where
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people have a choice, people can come together and remember.
And you know, something Dan Perkins said was he wondered
who was going to pick up you know, that microphone
that Charlie dropped. And what I think a lot of
people don't realize is and a lot of people have
been posting this as well. A million Charlie Kirks were
(34:40):
born in that moment. And you can't silence somebody like that.
You can't silence a movement, and that's what will be remembered.
And people can come together just as they did on
nine to twelve in two thousand and one, and move
together and come together as Americans.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
And you're back this weekend.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
Yes, I am flying back tomorrow and I have a
show double on Saturday. Folks can come see the band Saturday.
During the day, there's an event at the Peace River
Botanical Gardens, the Folk and Flutter Festival happening over there.
And the festival itself is from nine am to two pm.
(35:20):
Our set is from noon to two and we'll be
doing the Folk Legend show there.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
You'll go do it online for that Peacerivergardens dot org
for your tickets for that.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
Yeah, it should be a beautiful time over there in Pontagorda.
And then Saturday nights join us at Misselli's for the
Mike and Bassieny and the Blues Rockers Show on Pine
Island Road in matt Lache from six to nine thirty.
Mikembassiani dot com for the full show schedule. And I
will be going from Nashville back home to Port Charlotte
and then flying out to Dallas to be on Normal
(35:51):
World on Blaze TV next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
With the Dave Landau and who's who else is going
to be there? Just you and Dave and what's his name?
Speaker 6 (36:02):
And Garrett, Yeah, Garrett and Angela and Dave and I'm
not sure if anybody else is coming in yet, but
it should be a great.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Time also, and of course Mark Klein this week along
with Mark Evans, going to be a great show. Log
onto a saunny dot net to get your tickets. Uh
seven thirty tonight, eight o'clock tomorrow and seven o'clock on
Saturday to Sauny dot net get your tickets.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
I think it's six o'clock and eight or something on Saturday.
I think we have a six o'clock show on No.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
One show seven o'clock.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
You're sure about that.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
I'm looking at the website as she they gave me
had a six o'clock. It's usually six and nine thirty.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
There or not.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
I will be in the park there. Yes, my show
is going on to six oh two. I'm going to
be saying hello to these fine people.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
So what you know.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
All your time college, forty years in comedy, you've probably
developed your own personal philosophy. And what would that be
is if you could impart that to us a couple things.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
Number One, I don't love things that can't love me back.
I do not believe in one way emotional relationships. If
there's people in your life that you're the one who
sends all the energy out and they don't send any back,
that you don't need that in your life. I feel
the same about sports teams. I like to watch sports.
There's teams that I like to see when three seconds
after the game's over, I stop caring because they don't
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love you back. Indeed, I don't love things only back. Secondly,
know with whom you deal, know with whom you deal
in life. If we have a minute, I've got a
story that kind of illustrates that quickly. We were discussing
end of life issues and how we approach all those things.
When my mother died, I took thirty days off of
a period of morning. My faith tradition demands a certain
(37:44):
amount of time to collect oneself, and then you observe
something called saying coottish for a dead parent or spouse
or brother or sister. It's an eleven month process, and
you go to services in the morning and afternoon say cottish. Well,
I'll go back in the roads of Comedian to say
cottish for my mother. And in some cities you can
find a synegogue can tend ten Jews to make a
minion in Miami, yes, Greenville, Mississippi no. So depending on
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where you are, you're gonna have a certain amount of
luck finding that. So it's working a community in Florida,
Jacksonville in fact, and there was a very very ultra
Orthodox synagogue about less than a mile from the club
I was working, where I was in the hotel was
staying at, so I could go to their services at
six seven o'clock in the morning. They caught us from
my mother. So I go there and they're way more
observant than I am, and they're nudging me about it.
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I'm getting a little nudge from these people as far
as they're concerned. I'm episcopalian. I mean, I got no bit,
but I'm I just They're what I need when I
need them. And I may not be the Jew they want,
but I'm the one they got. And so that's we're
halfway through the week. The Rabbi there gives a little
to of our tourra. It's a Torah lesson. He says,
we're going to discuss the son Hedron today the ancient
Court of Israel. Before I'd give my information, I want
(38:49):
to know what you all think about the son Hedron.
We'll start with our guests from Kentucky. Mister Kleine, Okay, Pal,
I stand up. I said, you're not going to believe this.
Rabbi San Hedron finished Third Seattle Slew in the nineteen
seventy seven Kentucky Derby, which is absolutely a true story.
That was the name of the horse that finished Third
Seattle Slew. And he looks at me like I just
glanded from mars I said, that's what I know about
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the san Hedrium.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Foul I said, know with whom you deal indeed, And
now it's time for five random random facts. All right,
time to learn something here number one of your five
random facts on this Thursday morning. The idea of free
refills dates back to American coffeehouses in the nineteenth century,
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but Taco Bell is credited with being the first fast
food chain to make it mainstream in nineteen eighty eight.
Didn't hurt their bottom line because Pepsi bought Taco Bell
ten years earlier, so they got a discount. Apparently. Number
two Marilyn Monroe was born the same year as Hugh Hefner.
(39:56):
She was born June first, nineteen twenty six, and he
was born too months earlier, on April ninth. Number three
Game of Thrones and Friends had roughly the same budget
ten million dollars per episode. Friends cost that much even
two decades earlier because the cast salaries were so high. Insane, Yeah,
(40:20):
j you know, yeah. Number four Al Greens Take Me
to the River was a big hit, but it made
its biggest chunk of royalties from being the song that's
sung by the big mouth Billy bass, electronic fish and finally,
number five of your five random facts. Some of the
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only people who can legally bring switchblades into the US
are people who are missing an arm. And there is
your five random facts. Both are random and guide. Yes
once again, michaebassie any dot com for all upcoming shows
this week end, Vasani dot net for uh, Mark Klein
(41:04):
and Mark Evans this weekend. Make sure you get to
I'll be there seven o'clock for the show on Saturday.
Look forward to seeing you and uh pumpkin spice? Do
your wife like the pumpkin spice? She ended the pumpkins spice?
We do not do pumpkinspie for you.
Speaker 6 (41:18):
I'm glad.
Speaker 4 (41:19):
I'm so glad to hear that not our thing.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Hulk Hogan left a five million dollar estate plus two
houses combined worth eleven million. Only one beneficiary his son
fair enough, because he made the put his final will
together before he married again, so his wife, sky Daily
(41:41):
is listed as a surviving spouse. I'm sure the Sun's
going to be nice enough to cut her a check
for ten grand and send her on her way.
Speaker 4 (41:48):
Evil and Evil said, I don't leave enough money that
they they have to do something they won't be able
to not do anything money.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
There, Mark, thank you very much, Mike, thank you. Safe travels.
We'll talk to you today, folks.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
Anybody got any more jokes, any funny? Nope, nope, all right,
see you folks. If you are not fad easily, you're close.
Speaker 6 (42:13):
If you're not the then you are the crew.
Speaker 4 (42:15):
Please leave, we are close. Make your way to the door.
Speaker 6 (42:21):
Please.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
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dot com, mysie any down in Nashville, Okay, making sure
you're there and like to welcome to the studio. It's
been a while since we've seen him. It's Mark Klein.
You're a headliner at Asani and the Comedy Zone this week. Mark,
how you doing?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Greeting's Earth Humans A pleasure to walk among you again
as a living man, a privileged pleasure, honor and thrilled
to be sitting in Ken's studio after too long and
after it.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Has been a long time since we've seen you. And
just to let you know, it's well we already heard
it's National Make your Bed Day. It's also National Hot
Cross Buns Day.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Well I've put the do not Disturbed on on my
hotel room so they may sees that, and then I've
accomplished both both. There you go, your objectives.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
And of course Patriot Day, National Day of Service. So
there you go. And now Mike's going to be have
you been in Nashville. I mean, you're from Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
So my son went to Belmont University in Nashville, so
Mike should know that. Well, he majored in burning through currency.
So yeah, I know the town pretty well. We're going
to try to buy a condo there to go visit him.
But as you know, Mike, with the price of real
estate in Nashville, we just took four hundred thousand dollars
in through it in the Ohio River because it's pretty
much would accomplish the same thing exactly better.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
The better use of the money.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
That's for sure.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
So Mike's going to be going to the Johnny Cash
Museum today. He's just up there for a visit.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Well, very good, but.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Oh yeah, I can't afford to live up here either.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I'm just a musician, so I just make sure, as
they say, you hear that train of coming.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So more, for those who haven't seen you before, tell
us about Mark Klein. You're originally from Kentucky. You wrestled,
You were a grappler, as I recall, weren't you.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
I went to college on a wrestling scholarship, and I
won an award in New York State Collegiate Wrestling. I
was in nineteen seventy for the most requested Opponent trophy
that I still haven't honor. Of course, I live in Louisville, Kentucky.
I'm the only conservative Jewish Republican comedian from Kentucky in
the world. So I'm a brand of one. Let's see.
(04:03):
My interests include I'm a husband when i'm told to be,
a father when I must be, and a thoroughbit racehorse
owner when I want.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
You're still still doing the horses, still involved in the horses.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
It is so much fun. But every now and then
I got to come to Florida because I just missed
this place so much.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Well, yeah, but you've been doing the corporate gigs for
quite a while. Now, why Florida in September.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Well, my doctor told me to get in better physical shape,
I need to do swim I need to go swimming
more so with the humidity down here, it's really effortless.
You just go outside your hotel and you're swimming, So
that works out perfectly well. And back up in Kentucky,
I had a mosquito in my backyard about the size
of a condor, and after I managed to shoot him down,
he said, say hi to my big brother down in
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Port Charlotte. So I came to check out the wildlife here.
I love this part of the country. I was on
AS seventy five as part of a scientific study which
studies the effective of break lights on the subconscious. They said,
we're going to send you. We're going to have your
drivet between Tampa and Benita Springs and report back on that.
And the main reason I'm here is I just don't
see enough personal injury lawsuit billboards where I'm from.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Well, so you'll get your fill here. That's as well
as the commercials on our station.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
I'm killing a lot of birds with one sting in here.
Plus I got the best food in Southwest Florida.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Besides exact, why not exactly? Who's your feature this week?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
You know? Mark Evans is featuring for me this week.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I just had him on the show a couple of
weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Funny Gray, great guy. His wife Laurie is going to
be m seeing, so I get a husband wife team
in front of me. And one another reason I love
performing in Charlotte County is I'm not the youngest hottest
guy in the room. Necessarily, I work on cruise ships
where people call me sonny boy. Do you still do ships?
I still do ships. I was on Carnival's two newest
ships last week, the Poor Judgment and Bad Choices, and
(05:47):
that was that was kind of fun. I do cruise ships,
so I really love it. They pay me to go
around the world and tell jokes, which I was going
to probably do. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Do you get good good cruise ships or I get
great cruise ships, good cruises? Or is the cosm l thing?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
No?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
No, I have cruises out of Miami primarily, also do Alaska.
I go to South America in the wintertime and sometimes
over to Europe nice. So in fact, I was on
one a ship out of Tahiti and the passenger low
was mostly French, so they scheduled a French production show.
It was a Maurice Chevalier show tune kind of review.
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It was a smaller ship, so somewhat limited cast, and
I was on the next night. So I said, well,
who saw the production show last night? Everybody applauds, of course,
said I could not believe my ears. A forty five
minutes show on French culture, and no one surrendered to
the Germans. And following that performance, the cruise director called
me over and.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Said, hey, hey, lighting up on them was to edit.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Your material somewhat. So that's what I do as a comedian.
I edited my material for who's in front of me?
And that's a lesson you learned doing comedy for a living.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
As I recall, you were a big connoisseur of Kentucky bourbon.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Yes, and you use the past ten correctly. I quit
drinking about twelve years ago, and you know, when you
stop drinking, all your friends go did you have a problem.
Did you have a problem? Because they want there to
have been a problem.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah, there needs to be a real reason exactly.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
And I said, no, I'd have a problem of money. Well, Mike,
that's one way. I also don't remember nineteen ninety eight
to two thousand and four that was. That was another
small thing to consider. What really put me over the
edge was I went to a wine tasting, which is
not my thing at all, because I was a bourbon drinker.
Neat room temperature, shot in a half that I'm good
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for an hour, Okay, I go to a wine tasting
at missus Clein's Behest. And it wasn't the fact that
they have knowledge. I respect their knowledge. I respect the
lifelong commitment to something for which they have passion. The
pretentiousness just put me over the edge. The guy's tell
me you need you need to seek out the caramel
and smoky notes of oak and citrus going I said, mister,
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you don't go drinking with me and my friends. We
don't even know it's going to taste going down. I
know it's going to taste coming back up, slightly acidic,
with overtones of taco bell and waffle house. That's the
kind of information I need. I began to examine that
and you know something else I've noticed, Mike, I guess
they had these in Nashville too. They have them in Louisville.
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I haven't seen too many in poor Charlotte, but I've
seen them where I live. They have all these like
breakfast restaurants in the new big thing, the fresh Egg,
and they're all so hearty and sunny, the fresh egg,
the morning sunrise. And when you drank like I did,
that's that's not where you wanted to go. You wanted
a restaurant called the ashtray mout or got almighty. My
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head hurts. That's the one that was a favorite right
before I stopped, the one that made me stop drinking
bread was too much. I went to a morning breakfast place.
It was called who Are You Anyway? And as you,
as you may or may not know from your youth,
you end up sometimes next to someone whose name escapes.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You, and that may or may not have I can
either confirm nor deny that.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
You take a good restaurant called who Are You Anyway?
And you get these little things sorted out before you
move on with your day.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Well, folks, you can catch Mike and Mark at Vesani
in the Comedy Zone tonight at showtime seven thirty. You
got an eight o'clock show on Friday, seven o'clock show
on Saturday, Vasani dot Net. Get your tickets now. It's
going to be a great time as well as some
great food too. Have you so you're a steak eater?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Yes? Yes, In fact, I had my Lincoln Continental are
alder to run on red meat. I do enjoy a
steak whenever I can get one. And God, their food
is so good. There are you doing steak?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Because a lot of comedians that particularly lately, I'll ask
them what they had the first night. Everybody goes for
the chicken parm and then they'll eventually I go, you
got to dry the steak, and they'll move on to
the steak by Saturday. But what is it for you?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Chicken Palm's kind of default comfort food for a lot
of road guys because it's just exactly enough. They won't
buy it for themselves, but they know if someone else
will paid for it, let's dive right in. Then they
found out how good it is, then they move on
to the rabbi. As for me, my first night, of course,
I've been on the roads. I need a salad to
make sure. The plumbing will be in effect for the
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rest of the week. So last night was eggplant and salad.
Tonight will probably be either a steak, maybe the chicken
parm and probably toss a coin. The loveliest people work there, though,
and at the minute you walk in, whether you're a
comic customer, you walk in, Hello, how are you hug,
You're welcome and just a delight to sit there.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
We got to take a quick break. We'll be right
back with more on news radio fifteen eighty.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
This voice of us is really something, huh. I can't
get enough of it.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
We'll be right back with Charlotte County Speaks, News Radio
fifteen eighty WCCF.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
Elon Musk was being interviewed recently, and we're talking about
our national debt. He mentioned that, and he said, he said,
I haven't been to DC sense May the government is
basically unfixable. So that I applaud David sachs noble efforts.
(11:11):
But at the end of the day, if you look
at our national debt, if AI and robots don't solve
our national debt, we're toast. It's not wrong, and I
feel really bad for Musk. I did what he was
put through, how he was treated, what the media did
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to him, simply because he's trying to solve a massive problem. Unfortunately, Republicans, Democrats,
the public, they don't believe there is one watchdog. On
Wall Street dot com.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
The Nazaren's feeling about half fast in. I just need
some please where I can leave my head. And mister,
can you tell me where a man might find a man?
He just cread and shook my hand. No, it was
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all he said.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Big load up, Betty, Big a load for bread, Big
a load off, Matty.
Speaker 8 (12:38):
You put the load right alone. Right on.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FM WCCF,
Charlotte County speaks ten twenty five on the Money on
the Thursday with the band and the Weights.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
Yes, the band and the weight. And you know, with
yesterday being such a hard day, I had plans to
go see my friend Stacey mitch Hart, who was a
blues guitar musician playing at Bourbon Street Blues and Boogie
Bar in Printer's Alley there And every time I'm able
to see him, he usually lets me sit in with
the band and last night was no different. It was
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good to see him and you know, good to see
some friendly familiar faces and his amazing band there. And
as I was sitting there waiting to go up and
play and listening to him, I knew I wanted to
dedicate something to Charlie. So, you know, thinking through the
repertoire of what could be done, I thought of this
song and mentioned Charlie before I sang it, and a
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few people yelled out and supported Charlie. Kirkhiche was nice
to see and sang the song and got a little emotional,
and at the end of the song even the bass
player looked at me and said, thank you for doing that.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
So cool.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Music is a powerful thing and just like comedy is too,
and that's why we need the entertainment sometimes to bring
us back and distract us. And that song and why
I did that is Charlie now puts the weight on
all the rest of us to keep up the fight.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, indeed, indeed. And something else that can really take
your mind off of things and cheer you up and
calm you down. As horses, and I know that you
might mark have been involved in horse racing and owning
horses for a long time.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Well, I pretend to own them.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Is you know, not really not a lot of winners.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
But I pretend to own them, they pretend to run.
That's how that's how we rate that. Yeah. I live
in Louisville, so thoroughbred horse racing is our major league's
board there. It's what we're all about. I don't care
about U of l UK. I follow horses, and as
Joey Lewis used to say, the horses I follow. Follow
the horses and started owning thoroughbred race horses years and
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years ago. And when you start owning them, you tend
to quit betting them quite as much. And that's been
the case with me. But it's I just love going
to the track, always have. Father used to call Churchill
Downs the only place in Louisville where windows clean people.
That was his favorite racing joke. And I think of
every time I go. And there's not a lot of
comedy around the horse racing horse racing as there as
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there was, Like in the forties and fifties. You hear
old time, old old time comics, some of their their
old material. There's a lot of horse racing stuff in it.
Not so much anymore because it's been superseded in the
popular mind. About you know, football, basketball and whatnot. But
there's some inside baseball horse racing jokes. Still my favorite one,
all the time, favorite horse racing joke. Three old men
go to the track every day together. They're old guys,
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are in sixties and seventies, and they're just track buddies
for years and years. They go to the track. There
are the track one day and one clutches his chest
and drops to the floor, gasping for air. And he
quits gasping, and his friend says to the other buddy,
oh my god, he's dead. Friendly Horns says, no, no, he's
still alive. In the double.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
You gotta get it. You have to be you have
to be there.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
And the horses inside baseball inside Stuny horses do you have?
I've got, I got a part ownership and one horse now,
Johnny's Fireball. He's a seven year old gelding. I was
wondering why he wasn't winning, so I did some research
into his pedigree. It turns out he's in the Federal
Equine Witness Protection Program and was reluctant to have his
picture taken publicly. But he's actually he's won almost half
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a million dollars for US twenty partners. And let me
the economics of horse racing. A horse wins half a
million dollars, believe me. Between shoes, vet, shipping, training, they
eat every day, jockeys fees, agent's fees. You're going to
spend four hundred and fifty thousand of it back, so
really can No matter what they win, you don't get
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your money back. That's as part of the deal. What
you do get back is a joy of ownership in
a major league enterprise. When your horse does what they've
been trained to do and they're in the mood to
do it, and they're not always in that mood. You
get to go to the winter circle at Churchill Downs
with your trainer, your new one hundred best friends in life,
maybe your brother, your dad, or your sister or your wife.
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If they're with you and you're a big shot for
a day, it's like being Ralph crammed in for a day.
You're a shot. Yeah, yeah, it just feels great.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
What uh?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
What about jockeys? Do you is it the same jockey
that rides a horse? Who do they rotate? How does
that work?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
The trainer makes that decision when you're in when you're
a horse partnership. You have some managing partners and make
the big decisions how much we're going to spend on
a horse. We pick the trainer. The trainer is sometimes
a partner in the horse, which is always a good
thing because he has a vested interest in the animal's success.
And the trainer is the pretty much the quarterback of
the team. He decides who the jockey is going to be,
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what races you're going to enter. If you own a
majority share in the horse, you get to be in
on those discussions. But your trainer, if you're not going
to listen to him, why'd you pick them or her?
I mean, that's that's why you have a trainer for
so that that that's uh, that's who makes those decisions.
Johnny's Fireball is our horse. He's in New York right now.
He's at Saratoga running over his head. They buried him
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like a beat and a couple of stakes races, so
we're drop in m a classic claiming company again. He's
going to go to Aqueduct next week for a race,
and his favorite jockey is Louis Sayez. He'll do anything
for Louis. He loves Louis. Louis loves Johnny. They're they're
a matched pair. That's cool. Whenever anybody else gets on him, uh,
you just just look up and go, what are you
hitting me for? There's no one behind us. You know,
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he's just but for Louis, he'll do things he'll do
and they're like that. Horses will do things for certain jockeys,
they'll do for no one else in the world.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
So he's seven years How what's a career for a racehorse?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
That's a great question. For the good ones, the ones
that the ones that are there that remain intact, they do.
They don't get gilded or the good ones race till
they're three or four, and they have such breeding value
they go to the farm to begin making miniature versions
of themselves. So a Kentucky Derby winner, for example, might
run again at four, maybe even five years old. Usually
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after three, if they're a triple Crown contender and they've
won some great one races at three, they go to
the breeding shed because there was so much more as
a brief prospect than they are as a racing prospect.
A lower level horse, an allowance runner, or a high
level claimer can make way more money at the track
than he's ever going to make in the reading shed.
So they continue to raise four or five six years old.
By the time a horse gets to be seven, eight
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or nine, their careers are pretty much spiral downwards where
they're not going to be racing anymore. The younger horses
have far superseded them in talent, and horses are Some
of them are very smart. Some won't run hard enough
to hurt themselves. They'll still race, so still get a
jockey on it. They'll still break fine, They'll still run
with a pack. They're not going to run hard enough
to hurt themselves. They get smart. Some figure out, hey,
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I get fed either way. WHOA, this isn't so bad.
Some love the competition, others don't care. They're like people,
each one's individual And the art of training, the science
of it is what you feed them. How fast are
they running? The art of training is understanding on a
horse by horse business. What does this horse love to do?
Where is this horse happiest? Where is that magical jockey
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that will make him do things he might want want
to do that he'll do things for they'll do for
no one else. And sometimes you never find that person.
Sometimes a horse likes a female jockey instead of a
mail jockey. Sometimes they don't like grass, they like the dirt.
Sometimes they like the dirt not the grass. Sometimes they
have to have blinkers on. Sometimes they step on a
Snickers bar wrapper and put them in a bad mood
for three weeks. I mean, they're just they're the damnedest things.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
So your horse is at seven, do you do you
have plans to purchase a or get invest in another one.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
We're in discussing that now. Some of the partnership wants
to retire the horse while he's healthy, find a fourteen
year old girl that needs a trisage pony, and send
him off to horse Heaven that way. Some a few
of us still want to raise him a little bit longer.
I'd like to see a stop on them. By the way,
I think, I think he Owes is nothing. Let's find
a new one. You make those decisions like a stockbroker,
like a stockholder's meeting. Everyone's got a voting share, and
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then you go tell your trainer, here's one hundred thousand dollars,
go pick us out a fifty thousand dollars horse. And
we got fifty in the bank to feed and train
them for a year and see what happens. And that's
about what they cost a year. At a mid level
try is fifty to sixty thousand dollars a year to
keep in training.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Wow. Wow, So I would imagine you in horses. You
drive a big truck.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
No, no, I'm not allowed near the horses. Actually no, really,
the first horse we ever had, I went to go
see him. I wanted to talk to him and say, hey, horse,
he I wanted to feed him a care and our
trainer goes, what are you doing? I said, I'm talking
to the horse. There's a horse doesn't speak angles. Your
horse speaks Spanish. His groom's from Guatemala. The only language
you understand the Spanish. I want to talk to. Your
horse learns the Spanish. So as an owner, you get
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an involvement in the horse's life. But the hands on
people that keep this horse happy and healthy and fit
are is the groom and the assistant trainer and the
people that muck the stall, curry comb the horse, feed them,
keep them happy, take care of them. Those are the
people that your horse is in love with, and those
they have to keep each other happy. So what are
you driving? Oh? Oh, my car? What am I driving?
(21:56):
Oh gosh, well my car home, of course, is a Lincoln,
the biggest one they make. I've always driven old big
American Iron. The bigger, the better, the older, the better. Course.
Tell me one time you won't be able to feel
the road. So I want to feel the road. I'd walk.
They showed me a car that has driver assisted steering
keep you from hitting things. I might want to hit things.
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So I'm in a big old Lincoln. Now it gets
about twelve miles to the gallon, and I could care less,
but I can.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
I interest you in a gold nineteen sixty nine Cadillac
Coupe Deville that gets about ten miles to the gallon.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
All day?
Speaker 4 (22:32):
All you got, how soon can I get there?
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Just up the street?
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Oh yeah, I'd love to see it. My wife just
got a new car for herself, and this she go
out a truck.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Oh she got a trust.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Yes, she wanted to forward pickup. And you know, being
up in Nashville, the truck is the vehicle dajure up there.
These Lincolns and Cadillacs are in the official state cars
of Florida. But you get up to Tennessee.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
The vehicle da jour around here is an Uber and
an Uber scooter up there, and naturally, luckily I fly
back tomorrow. I'll show you. I'll show you the Cadillac
on on Saturday. You could drive it home Sunday.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
It feels better than flying. I'd love I'm seriously, I'd
love to see it. My wife got a truck, and
I said, what he wants because I want to pick
up truck to handle the rental properties with and whatnot.
And so she picked it out and she designed it.
She built it from scratches dealerships, because you know, she
knows more about this stuff than I do. I said, well,
you get the electric at the hybrid because no, I
got a ghastline engine that I'm having altered. It's going
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to run on the tiers of my enemies. That's what
life is like in the Klient home.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Wow. So yeah, I've got a rough wife. Yeah, you
speak kindly to.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Her the tears of my enemies.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
You don't want to be one of those. What's uh?
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Now?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
How long have you been doing comedy?
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Now?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Oh? For gosh sakes, I've been a comedian for a
living for forty years.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
I started my career at working strip joints in upstate
New York and Uticus, Syracuse.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
We're gonna strip joint, I would love to see tis
of that.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
I was a younger man. None of my hair was gray.
I was wearing black leather pants, telling jokes in between
strippers and yeah yeah, and I had the act go
with an X rated bulletproof machine gun of a show
and it was it was great, great fund. I met
the loveliest people doing that. I met some guys who
only knew their first names. Of course, I met a
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woman with a tattoo was Mickey Mouse pushing a low
and more work across theoprapher bikini line. Cutes tactoo you
ever saw in your life? You just learned so much
about again, talk about a business with inside baseball ooh adult.
You know they're called gentlemen's clubs now, but they were
stripped wines when we were kids, and everybody knows what
they are. I worked. I worked that circuit for a bit.
I was offered a twenty four week job for a
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chain of these places based in Atlanta, and I turned
it down. And it was for decent money too. It
was for good money, but I knew twenty four weeks
in a row working those stages, I would never be
come the type of comedian that I wanted to become eventually.
But it was a great experience. I did have a
great experience one night. This is a bigger place up
in Atlanta. I'm not going to name the name of
the club. I don't even know if they're still open
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or not. But the audience on I was about three
hundred Japanese tourists. We're just following in town. Then speak
a word of English. So I'm up there doing my act.
And you know, when you're on a stage like that,
there's spotlights in your eyes, pin spots. They're called very
tight spotlight all they shows you will your face and
your repertoris and you cannot see the audience. And at
Visani's I can see everyone in the crowd. I can
see the waitresses. I can see the guy in back
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with a hand. I know who's out there, which another
reason I love that club. There's an intimacy and a
connection to the audience that you don't get in a
lot of other clubs. You work a strip joint, you're
on a small runway stage for spots in your eyes.
All you can see is the tops of people heads,
So I know that something's not right. I'm not getting
a last I turned the houselice up and that's ree
in Japanese tourist sitting out there, don't speak a word
of English and fully expect me to take my clothes
(25:53):
off and run the house hides back down. That told
the DJ put on stairway to Heaven, and I made
about six hundred dollars in tips that night. It was
one of the one of the highlights of my comedy career.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Your favorite joke? What's the best joke you ever wrote?
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Oh, gosh, I was talking to you. Yeah, yeah, I
was talking to some comedian friends of mine about there's
a difference between your favorite joke and the best joke
you ever wrote. Your favorite joke again, might be one
as you described that it's not not airworthy and we
keep our licenses. But this joke, I have the best
joke I ever wrote. It's the best joke from a
joke construction standpoint, It's probably the cleverest joke I ever wrote.
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And it's my favorite joke that I wrote because it
all it's all revolves around my father and here it is.
That's the best joke I think I ever wrote. My
father was a purple heart deggerded veteran from World War Two.
He fought in tending Wamansai Pans at Pacific Theater. They
teach your grandchildren in school. That World War who ended
in nineteen forty five on the of the USS Missouri
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with the Japanese government of Emperor Heater Heitos rendered to
him American generals MacArthur and Wainwright. That's not exactly true.
World War two ended in nineteen ninety six. When my
father bought a Toyota.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
I know some of those.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Yeah, that's my faith.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
We wouldn't even eat rice.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
That's my favorite. Joe and my dad when I wrote
that joke, he was still alive when I was performing
that joke, and he just roared.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
He loved it.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
He loved that joke. My dad was you fifteen my show,
I talked about my dad a lot in it. My hero,
and he was my hero in life for many many reasons,
his war service not least among them. And there's lamboratory
about Dad in the show. And the last time he
saw me perform. He died seven years ago. The last
time he saw him Your Performers about eight years ago
in a supper club in Louisville, and he came to
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the show. The other people in the family and his
friends and my dad had a huge social circle. He
would go out to twenty people, very very popular, gracious,
charming man, big crowd. That's a Saturday night show. So
I asked him to sit in back. I don't like
performing with people that I know sitting up front. It's
distract your strategy to offer the best show I can
do the audience, and if you got your father sitting
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four chairs away, you know it's going to be a
little out out of your mind. So he's in towards
the back of the room. That had a good show
then I was pretty happy with So I walk up
to him after the show. I said, Pop, how'd you
like the show? I knew I had a great show.
How'd you like the show? He looks at me and goes,
I thought more of it would be about me. Really,
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this man was hilarious. He was one of the most charming,
funny men I've ever known in my life. I just
adored in the perfect role model for a comedian, and
he was funny to the end. Of his life. He
was funny to literally to the day he died. He
decided in his early nineties he was suffering from a
lot of uncomfortable medical issues. He was in a lot
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of discomfort and asked his doctor, what would happen if
I just quit taking my medication. I'm not going to
commit I'm not going to do anything. Just I stopped taking.
What happens and stopped? She said, well, georgie'll you'll go
to sleep that night. You're not gonna wake up. So
my dad calls us into his his assistant living room,
and he told us, you know, I'm at the end
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of my road, and this is I'm going to control
the end of my road, and I'm just gonna stop
taking my medication. So we're gonna say good night and
probably goodbye now, and you know versus the three of
the kids are sitting around. It's a kind of a
weepy thing, but this was he was controlling the last
thing that he could control. So he doesn't take his
medication that night. He wakes up the next morning, of course,
wide awake, has breakfast, you know, flirts with his nurse,
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talking to everybody, let's play some gin. We'll play some cards.
Doesn't take, and we're all kind of aware. Any minute,
any hour, or whatever, it takes. A nap, gets up,
has lunch. Oh, for God's sake, really dead. He goes
to bed that night and I'm gonna start crying. Tell
him the story. He goes to bed that night, He
wakes up Tuesday morning, make up another morning later and
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the doctor comes in, goes, mister Klein, how are you.
Dad goes frankly, I'm surprised. I hit the floor. I
hit the floor laughing.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
He was.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
He was that kind of a guy, and no matter
what his personal condition was, he used whatever it was
to put a smile on someone else's face, which is
an art, which is a gift that especially exactly when
you're in some type that's just an art that people
do not have, and he had it. I could say
one more story, I know, if you have to go
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to break or not. One more great story about Pop.
He went to this Pop. This is a couple of
years before he died. He went to the hospital with
some serious issues. He did not think he was going
to come out. But you know, my dad make the
best of things. He is an army vet. So the
Veterans Mistration was paying for this treatment that he could
not get in a veteran hospital veterans hospital, so they
pay for it in a regular hospital. But it had
to include physical therapy or they would not pay for it.
(30:48):
So my dad ninety degrees to physical therapy. They send
in like this twenty four year old body builder, physical
therapist type. This guy, you know, it could be playing
in the NFL if he wanted to. He said, mister Klein,
what we're going to do now, We have to do
some physical therapy. Just once. You to move your toes
back and forth a couple times for me. So my
dad waggles his toes back and forth twice, and he
(31:08):
looks at this young man. He's letting me know when
you've had enough. I've been the quarterer pee in myself.
I've been laughing so hard it was just.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Click break. Will be right back on news radio fifteen eighty.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Okay, I think we should take a break and clean
our body parts.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Will be right back with Charlotte County Speaks, News Radio
fifteen eighty WCCF.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
I love to travel all kinds of places. I go
to Las Vegas quite a bit. My favorite place in
Las Vegas is a hotel that I work called the
Plaza Hotel. It's right downtown. My favorite piece of gambling
paraphernalia in the world is in the lobby of the
Plaza Hotel. It is from nineteen seventy four. The Elvis
Presley slopped machine.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
This machine is so old.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
It's a corner operating machine. You still have to put
the quarters in one by one. Is no bill. Feed's
that old. This machine is so old you have to
pull the handle to spin the reels. There is no
spinning button.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
It's that old.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
But here's the great thing about it. When you get
a jackpot Elvis, Elvis Elvis Aaron Presley dead for forty years,
he will still sing a song to you from the
bowels of the machine. And this is irresist of older
people my age. I check in ten o'clock in the
morning Pasa Hotel. There's a woman there. She's my age.
(32:30):
She's working the Elvis machine like a second job.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Quarter quarter pole pull, quarter quarter pole pull.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Get my kik, go to my room and take a nap.
Come down at loon for lunch. Same lady at the
same machine. I have lunch, Go for a walk down
Fremont Street. Come back at three, same lady at the
same machine.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
Back to my room and.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Taking a nap, have a dinner show at six, shower
down at six o'clock for three shows at night, get
done two o'clock in the morning. Back in the lobby,
same lady at the same machine. I said, ma'am, God
bless you. You stick that many quarters up in my
rear rand. I'll say, e londer fd.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Not so long ago.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
Aw, it would kill the end.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
They're outside of the poor ran on the way up
the road. We started over again, live the dreams you
on top.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
The mother is the get a lot.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Of love stop. That's how it's happened there, the love
Mother the Drop.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FM w
c CF ten fifty one here at Charlie County speaks
Mark Klein, Mike Obassie Andy on the phone with some
Stevie Ravon.
Speaker 6 (33:58):
Yes from STEVEE. Ravon. And as a final note about
Charlie as we wrap up the show here, you know
also with it being nine to eleven and tomorrow is
nine to twelve, and as it today is the day
after the tragedy that happened yesterday. Tomorrow will be the
day after like it was after nine to eleven, where
(34:20):
people have a choice, people can come together and remember.
And you know, something Dan Perkins said was he wondered
who was going to pick up you know, that microphone
that Charlie dropped. And what I think a lot of
people don't realize is and a lot of people have
been posting this as well. A million Charlie Kirks were
(34:40):
born in that moment. And you can't silence somebody like that.
You can't silence a movement, and that's what will be remembered.
And people can come together just as they did on
nine to twelve in two thousand and one, and move
together and come together as Americans.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
And you're back this weekend.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
Yes, I am flying back tomorrow and I have a
show double on Saturday. Folks can come see the band Saturday.
During the day, there's an event at the Peace River
Botanical Gardens, the Folk and Flutter Festival happening over there.
And the festival itself is from nine am to two pm.
(35:20):
Our set is from noon to two and we'll be
doing the Folk Legend show there.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
You'll go do it online for that Peacerivergardens dot org
for your tickets for that.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
Yeah, it should be a beautiful time over there in Pontagorda.
And then Saturday nights join us at Misselli's for the
Mike and Bassieny and the Blues Rockers Show on Pine
Island Road in matt Lache from six to nine thirty.
Mikembassiani dot com for the full show schedule. And I
will be going from Nashville back home to Port Charlotte
and then flying out to Dallas to be on Normal
(35:51):
World on Blaze TV next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
With the Dave Landau and who's who else is going
to be there? Just you and Dave and what's his name?
Speaker 6 (36:02):
And Garrett, Yeah, Garrett and Angela and Dave and I'm
not sure if anybody else is coming in yet, but
it should be a great.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Time also, and of course Mark Klein this week along
with Mark Evans, going to be a great show. Log
onto a saunny dot net to get your tickets. Uh
seven thirty tonight, eight o'clock tomorrow and seven o'clock on
Saturday to Sauny dot net get your tickets.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
I think it's six o'clock and eight or something on Saturday.
I think we have a six o'clock show on No.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
One show seven o'clock.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
You're sure about that.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
I'm looking at the website as she they gave me
had a six o'clock. It's usually six and nine thirty.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
There or not.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
I will be in the park there. Yes, my show
is going on to six oh two. I'm going to
be saying hello to these fine people.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
So what you know.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
All your time college, forty years in comedy, you've probably
developed your own personal philosophy. And what would that be
is if you could impart that to us a couple things.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
Number One, I don't love things that can't love me back.
I do not believe in one way emotional relationships. If
there's people in your life that you're the one who
sends all the energy out and they don't send any back,
that you don't need that in your life. I feel
the same about sports teams. I like to watch sports.
There's teams that I like to see when three seconds
after the game's over, I stop caring because they don't
(37:23):
love you back. Indeed, I don't love things only back. Secondly,
know with whom you deal, know with whom you deal
in life. If we have a minute, I've got a
story that kind of illustrates that quickly. We were discussing
end of life issues and how we approach all those things.
When my mother died, I took thirty days off of
a period of morning. My faith tradition demands a certain
(37:44):
amount of time to collect oneself, and then you observe
something called saying coottish for a dead parent or spouse
or brother or sister. It's an eleven month process, and
you go to services in the morning and afternoon say cottish. Well,
I'll go back in the roads of Comedian to say
cottish for my mother. And in some cities you can
find a synegogue can tend ten Jews to make a
minion in Miami, yes, Greenville, Mississippi no. So depending on
(38:05):
where you are, you're gonna have a certain amount of
luck finding that. So it's working a community in Florida,
Jacksonville in fact, and there was a very very ultra
Orthodox synagogue about less than a mile from the club
I was working, where I was in the hotel was
staying at, so I could go to their services at
six seven o'clock in the morning. They caught us from
my mother. So I go there and they're way more
observant than I am, and they're nudging me about it.
(38:27):
I'm getting a little nudge from these people as far
as they're concerned. I'm episcopalian. I mean, I got no bit,
but I'm I just They're what I need when I
need them. And I may not be the Jew they want,
but I'm the one they got. And so that's we're
halfway through the week. The Rabbi there gives a little
to of our tourra. It's a Torah lesson. He says,
we're going to discuss the son Hedron today the ancient
Court of Israel. Before I'd give my information, I want
(38:49):
to know what you all think about the son Hedron.
We'll start with our guests from Kentucky. Mister Kleine, Okay, Pal,
I stand up. I said, you're not going to believe this.
Rabbi San Hedron finished Third Seattle Slew in the nineteen
seventy seven Kentucky Derby, which is absolutely a true story.
That was the name of the horse that finished Third
Seattle Slew. And he looks at me like I just
glanded from mars I said, that's what I know about
(39:12):
the san Hedrium.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Foul I said, know with whom you deal indeed, And
now it's time for five random random facts. All right,
time to learn something here number one of your five
random facts on this Thursday morning. The idea of free
refills dates back to American coffeehouses in the nineteenth century,
(39:36):
but Taco Bell is credited with being the first fast
food chain to make it mainstream in nineteen eighty eight.
Didn't hurt their bottom line because Pepsi bought Taco Bell
ten years earlier, so they got a discount. Apparently. Number
two Marilyn Monroe was born the same year as Hugh Hefner.
(39:56):
She was born June first, nineteen twenty six, and he
was born too months earlier, on April ninth. Number three
Game of Thrones and Friends had roughly the same budget
ten million dollars per episode. Friends cost that much even
two decades earlier because the cast salaries were so high. Insane, Yeah,
(40:20):
j you know, yeah. Number four Al Greens Take Me
to the River was a big hit, but it made
its biggest chunk of royalties from being the song that's
sung by the big mouth Billy bass, electronic fish and finally,
number five of your five random facts. Some of the
(40:41):
only people who can legally bring switchblades into the US
are people who are missing an arm. And there is
your five random facts. Both are random and guide. Yes
once again, michaebassie any dot com for all upcoming shows
this week end, Vasani dot net for uh, Mark Klein
(41:04):
and Mark Evans this weekend. Make sure you get to
I'll be there seven o'clock for the show on Saturday.
Look forward to seeing you and uh pumpkin spice? Do
your wife like the pumpkin spice? She ended the pumpkins spice?
We do not do pumpkinspie for you.
Speaker 6 (41:18):
I'm glad.
Speaker 4 (41:19):
I'm so glad to hear that not our thing.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Hulk Hogan left a five million dollar estate plus two
houses combined worth eleven million. Only one beneficiary his son
fair enough, because he made the put his final will
together before he married again, so his wife, sky Daily
(41:41):
is listed as a surviving spouse. I'm sure the Sun's
going to be nice enough to cut her a check
for ten grand and send her on her way.
Speaker 4 (41:48):
Evil and Evil said, I don't leave enough money that
they they have to do something they won't be able
to not do anything money.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
There, Mark, thank you very much, Mike, thank you. Safe travels.
We'll talk to you today, folks.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
Anybody got any more jokes, any funny? Nope, nope, all right,
see you folks. If you are not fad easily, you're close.
Speaker 6 (42:13):
If you're not the then you are the crew.
Speaker 4 (42:15):
Please leave, we are close. Make your way to the door.
Speaker 6 (42:21):
Please.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
We're in news radio fifteen eighty am WCCF Punda Gorda
and FM one hundred point nine W two sixty five
EA Punda Gorda.
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