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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And come into town for a show tomorrow night, seven
pm show at the Funny Bone at Omaha's Village Point.
We welcome back to the program, Mark Lundholm here on
news radio eleven ten kfa B.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Mark. Good morning, Well, good morning to you. Scott. It
is good morning relatively speaking.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yes, yeah, are you here in Omaha right now?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I am? I am. I got in last night, lucky
because I got some ancillary gigs I'm doing besides the
show tomorrow night at seven.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Thanks for a plug on that, by the way, I presume,
I presume that's why you're here, is to plug your
show tomorrow night, unless you want to talk about the
weather or whatever.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
But no, no, we could have done that from my house.
I would have preferred, But no, I'm going to visit
the main jail. I'm gonna go to a man's halfway house.
I got some ancillary stuff that's not on public consumption,
just some parallel visits to places I used to live
(00:56):
when I was in the mix.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah. Well, for those who aren't from familiar here, and
it's been several years since we've had you in the studio,
and I wasn't as familiar with you at that time,
and you just sat right down here in the studio
and said, let me tell you about me, this, this,
And I'm like, wow, are we in the middle of
a therapy session right now? But you've turned it into
a comedy show. Tell us Mark about your life.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Well, it's people who, let's say the general sense of
people who have made some decisions that cost them a
lot of time, cost them a lot of heartache, or
relationships or trust, talent, tools, whatever we've spent on. Man,
I wish i'd done that different. You know, I'm a
jail guy. I'm an incarcerated guy x whatever, right, But comedy.
(01:45):
I started doing comedy when I got out as a
I got to admit attention getter. I still like the tension,
the heat, the adrenaline. Hey I'm important, even if it's
false or for forty minutes. But it's turned into a
career and now I can't say yes to all I'm
offered to do in the comedy, Comedian, mental health, clinical,
(02:07):
a lot of different leans, man. I mean, it's you know,
you've been on the air forever and there's nobody who
can't talk to her with fair enough that I love.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
When I'm wondering whether I can talk with someone and
we end up having a great conversation. And I'll give
you one example was Janine Garofolo, who I always really
liked as a comic as an actress, but she's just
You's got some very different political views, and I was like,
is this going to get ugly? We had a great conversation.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah. And that's because you and I can put stuff
aside like I don't I say this in the show
sometimes I don't care where you point your privates, your pronouns,
your politics, or your prayers. I vote yes for you.
I root for you. And if you're a good person man,
nothing you're doing is going to rub me the wrong way.
If you're a good person. A good person is a
(02:58):
white scope. But you know you love your family, you
treat your spouse fairly, your you're faithful in a relationship,
You show up on time. You know. I don't hurt
anybody during my day unless I'm out of my mind
at the time. And I'll give you an example. I
have first thought wrong, that's my that's that's my thing.
First thought, wrong direction, first thought, wrong reaction. I'm built
(03:20):
with that first out wrong. Heroin would be a great
weekend first thought wrong. If if I don't get caught,
it wasn't criminal. Criminal means caught, right, Judge that that's
I used to function like that. I give you an example.
You ever hold the door open, Scott, You ever hold
a door open for somebody else to go into a
building in front of you and they don't say thank you? Absolutely,
what's your first thought? Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Honestly, my first thought is you're welcome, sarcastically.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
And that's that's the Disney version, am I right?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
You know it happened so often that doesn't even bother
me anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Well, see, that's the thing we've we've kind of we've
kind of been rubbed raw to where everybody walks around
kind of scabby, with no manners. There's no recognition of
you even being there. Hey, somebody opened the door for me.
They always do. I don't need to say thank you
because it happened so often. I'm still an og kind
(04:18):
of guy. I like manners, I like chivalry. I like
my kids to say, hey, thanks for buying dinner tonight
on the road dad. You know that not the expectations
that are unfair sometimes because I'm not always mannerly. I'm
not always a good guy. I fly two hundred thousand
miles a year now, and flying is not fun. So
(04:40):
I get a little princessy. I get a little testy.
I'm a little uncle grumpy sometimes sitting there when somebody
brushes against me in the aisle and I'm sitting in
my seat, and my first thought, second, dot, fourth, dot, fifth, daughter, Hey,
where do you live? I want to hurt your family?
You know what I mean. I don't need to go there.
But I'm not responsible for the thought. I'm responsible for
(05:03):
what I do or say next with that thought. And
that's the growing up part. I mean, how old are
you now, Scott.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I Helm I'm forty eight.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
See see I'm sixty five. But I'm immature. I don't
feel sixty five. I'm emotionally immature. I'm probably twenty eight,
twenty nine. When it comes to sad or anger issues
or stuff. I'm still a little militant when it comes
to get in my way. But the show, the show
is about all the challenges of current society, of current choices.
(05:38):
We make, you know, cancelations because first thought wrong leaked
out my face. I do a workshop. I live in
San Jose, California, I'm about eight minutes from Silicon Valley,
so at least twice a month I do a workshop
for the bubble tech companies. Right, I do a workshop.
(06:01):
Humor begins and ends with HR and a lot of
times they don't get the jokes. You know. It's about
sense of humor being a valuable tool and not ended
up with your stuff in the box on Monday and
you're taking your key card. Thanks for being here. Yeah,
because sense of humors like a scalpoy. I mean, you've
got a sense of humor. I remember talking to you
for We clicked right away when I was in studio
(06:24):
and it was boom boom boom. This is simple.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Now, and that's how it should be when you got
especially you know someone, We're good people. I just I'm
a curious person and your background. As we're talking with
Mark Lundholm for a few more minutes on eleven to
ten kfab Mark is at the Funnybone tomorrow night at
seven pm. Show at the Bone at Village Point, Omaha.
Dot Funnybone dot com for ticket information. This is an
(06:48):
eighteen and up show tomorrow evening at the Funny Bone.
And your life where you just say here, I was homeless.
I was incarcerated, I was an addict, and now I'm
on stage with a skinny tie on and a microphone
in my face telling jokes. I mean, that's quite a transformation.
What was the first funny thing, if anything, you experienced
(07:10):
while in jail, Mark.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Let's see, I remember getting pinned up against the wall
by a couple of guys for using the wrong drinking
fountain and hilarious. Well, it started out real adversario and hey,
we got to throw down because that's what you do
in jail. But I was really no tough guy. I
could talk tough. I could talk sideways. I could always
(07:33):
talk because I got a I could sell guns to nuns, Scott.
I could always had that gift. However, however, it could
always get me in trouble too. So this guy says,
you're on the sunk wrong side of the room. Say,
I said, I'll move. He goes too late. Now you
got to pay, So I said, okay, just so you know,
and I'm looking at this guy. He's got Letterman teeth,
(07:53):
David Letterman teeth, right, big old wide space there. And
I said to him, I said, well, okay, but you
better kill me because if I get up even for
a second, I will hunt you down. I don't care
if it takes twenty years. Your family, your family's friends,
all the pets you've ever had, everything you've ever loved.
I'm gonna hut him down and I'm gonna kill them all.
(08:14):
You gap tooth mo folk up up and he goes man.
Ain't nobody crazy enough to make that up on a
spot walk on bro. He let me go, and I
was just riffing. I was just stuff off the top
of my head. I probably couldn't or wouldn't remember to
do any of that stuff because I was a you know,
(08:34):
coke head and a street guy. But I wanted I
wanted him to back up, and so they just let
me kind of wriggle away at a one hundred and
twenty pounds shake and bake, look and cook it get
you know. But I've made a lot of mistakes chemically,
and you know, younger insecure people do that. But now
I get to work with them. I get to work
with them. Every tonight, I'll be at the Arch. The
(08:54):
Arch in Omaha, it's a men's halfway house. I'll do
an hour and a half a group for them. It's funny,
but I'll do an hour and a half of shame
reduction and relapse prevention and trauma survivor and I get
to Comedy is a great bridge. I mean, how many
times has it saved the conversation with you just lightening
up being a little funny.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I'm never funny. I'm told that repeatedly by listeners of
this program. It would be nice if once in a
while it happened. That's what I get.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, seriously, Okay, here's your joke. I've never done this
one in public before. Never. Okay, Scott, how's your career? Well,
it's good, but I'm changing careers. Scott Vorhees is going
to quit radio and I'm going to open up a
K nine rehab. It's for drug sniff and police dogs
(09:41):
who got hooked. I want to help people.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, there's probably a reason why that hasn't been done
publicly before. I thought we lost power again. No, Mark,
I love your journe Erny. I love how you bring
it from the street to the stage. The show is
called No Big Deal as Tomorrow Night at the Funnybone
(10:08):
Village Point Funnybone, Omaha dot Funnybone dot com. For the
seven o'clock show tomorrow night. And also I presume you'll
be there with copies of your book, Shortcuts, Better Ways
to Better Days.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yes, dude, you nailed every single press point there was there. Yeah,
I wrote a book last year. I'll be at the
Funnybone tomorrow night. The show is good. It's called no
big deal because most stuff is no big deal, Scott.
Very few things are a big deal. This show certainly
ain't one of them. But you'll you'll never see another
one like it, and I'm proud to do it. Well.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I wanted to nail all the press points here, Mark
because I like you. I like your style, I like
the cut of your jib. But mostly I'm really afraid
of Colleen Quinn, the manager at the Funnybone, and I
don't want to get on her bad side.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Dude, she's the queen of everything here right.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yes, she's in charge.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
She drove Hey, she's driving me around today in this weather, today,
in this weather. Miss driving around.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
And I missed the part where she was going to
bring you here into the studio and decided not to.
What is a little bit of snow? It can't come in,
can't come hang out with us?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
You know? What I wanted to go to sit in
with you. I mean, I know we get next time,
but it's pretty wicked out there for California boy, Yes,
it's like wow really, but I appreciate the time, and
thanks for the plug for the tickets tomorrow night at
the Bone. I'm very grateful and I'm happy for your success. Gott.
She told me a little about you and the fact
(11:30):
that it's onward and upward.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Don't mistake don't mistake longevity in this time slot for success,
my friend, Mark, great talking with you again. Enjoy your
time in Omaha. Right that's Mark Lenholm right here on
eleven ten KFA.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
B Scott Boyes News Radio eleven ten KFAB
And come into town for a show tomorrow night, seven
pm show at the Funny Bone at Omaha's Village Point.
We welcome back to the program, Mark Lundholm here on
news radio eleven ten kfa B.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Mark. Good morning, Well, good morning to you. Scott. It
is good morning relatively speaking.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yes, yeah, are you here in Omaha right now?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I am? I am. I got in last night, lucky
because I got some ancillary gigs I'm doing besides the
show tomorrow night at seven.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Thanks for a plug on that, by the way, I presume,
I presume that's why you're here, is to plug your
show tomorrow night, unless you want to talk about the
weather or whatever.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
But no, no, we could have done that from my house.
I would have preferred, But no, I'm going to visit
the main jail. I'm gonna go to a man's halfway house.
I got some ancillary stuff that's not on public consumption,
just some parallel visits to places I used to live
(00:56):
when I was in the mix.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah. Well, for those who aren't from familiar here, and
it's been several years since we've had you in the studio,
and I wasn't as familiar with you at that time,
and you just sat right down here in the studio
and said, let me tell you about me, this, this,
And I'm like, wow, are we in the middle of
a therapy session right now? But you've turned it into
a comedy show. Tell us Mark about your life.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Well, it's people who, let's say the general sense of
people who have made some decisions that cost them a
lot of time, cost them a lot of heartache, or
relationships or trust, talent, tools, whatever we've spent on. Man,
I wish i'd done that different. You know, I'm a
jail guy. I'm an incarcerated guy x whatever, right, But comedy.
(01:45):
I started doing comedy when I got out as a
I got to admit attention getter. I still like the tension,
the heat, the adrenaline. Hey I'm important, even if it's
false or for forty minutes. But it's turned into a
career and now I can't say yes to all I'm
offered to do in the comedy, Comedian, mental health, clinical,
(02:07):
a lot of different leans, man. I mean, it's you know,
you've been on the air forever and there's nobody who
can't talk to her with fair enough that I love.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
When I'm wondering whether I can talk with someone and
we end up having a great conversation. And I'll give
you one example was Janine Garofolo, who I always really
liked as a comic as an actress, but she's just
You's got some very different political views, and I was like,
is this going to get ugly? We had a great conversation.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah. And that's because you and I can put stuff
aside like I don't I say this in the show
sometimes I don't care where you point your privates, your pronouns,
your politics, or your prayers. I vote yes for you.
I root for you. And if you're a good person man,
nothing you're doing is going to rub me the wrong way.
If you're a good person. A good person is a
(02:58):
white scope. But you know you love your family, you
treat your spouse fairly, your you're faithful in a relationship,
You show up on time. You know. I don't hurt
anybody during my day unless I'm out of my mind
at the time. And I'll give you an example. I
have first thought wrong, that's my that's that's my thing.
First thought, wrong direction, first thought, wrong reaction. I'm built
(03:20):
with that first out wrong. Heroin would be a great
weekend first thought wrong. If if I don't get caught,
it wasn't criminal. Criminal means caught, right, Judge that that's
I used to function like that. I give you an example.
You ever hold the door open, Scott, You ever hold
a door open for somebody else to go into a
building in front of you and they don't say thank you? Absolutely,
what's your first thought? Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Honestly, my first thought is you're welcome, sarcastically.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
And that's that's the Disney version, am I right?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
You know it happened so often that doesn't even bother
me anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Well, see, that's the thing we've we've kind of we've
kind of been rubbed raw to where everybody walks around
kind of scabby, with no manners. There's no recognition of
you even being there. Hey, somebody opened the door for me.
They always do. I don't need to say thank you
because it happened so often. I'm still an og kind
(04:18):
of guy. I like manners, I like chivalry. I like
my kids to say, hey, thanks for buying dinner tonight
on the road dad. You know that not the expectations
that are unfair sometimes because I'm not always mannerly. I'm
not always a good guy. I fly two hundred thousand
miles a year now, and flying is not fun. So
(04:40):
I get a little princessy. I get a little testy.
I'm a little uncle grumpy sometimes sitting there when somebody
brushes against me in the aisle and I'm sitting in
my seat, and my first thought, second, dot, fourth, dot, fifth, daughter, Hey,
where do you live? I want to hurt your family?
You know what I mean. I don't need to go there.
But I'm not responsible for the thought. I'm responsible for
(05:03):
what I do or say next with that thought. And
that's the growing up part. I mean, how old are
you now, Scott.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I Helm I'm forty eight.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
See see I'm sixty five. But I'm immature. I don't
feel sixty five. I'm emotionally immature. I'm probably twenty eight,
twenty nine. When it comes to sad or anger issues
or stuff. I'm still a little militant when it comes
to get in my way. But the show, the show
is about all the challenges of current society, of current choices.
(05:38):
We make, you know, cancelations because first thought wrong leaked
out my face. I do a workshop. I live in
San Jose, California, I'm about eight minutes from Silicon Valley,
so at least twice a month I do a workshop
for the bubble tech companies. Right, I do a workshop.
(06:01):
Humor begins and ends with HR and a lot of
times they don't get the jokes. You know. It's about
sense of humor being a valuable tool and not ended
up with your stuff in the box on Monday and
you're taking your key card. Thanks for being here. Yeah,
because sense of humors like a scalpoy. I mean, you've
got a sense of humor. I remember talking to you
for We clicked right away when I was in studio
(06:24):
and it was boom boom boom. This is simple.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Now, and that's how it should be when you got
especially you know someone, We're good people. I just I'm
a curious person and your background. As we're talking with
Mark Lundholm for a few more minutes on eleven to
ten kfab Mark is at the Funnybone tomorrow night at
seven pm. Show at the Bone at Village Point, Omaha.
Dot Funnybone dot com for ticket information. This is an
(06:48):
eighteen and up show tomorrow evening at the Funny Bone.
And your life where you just say here, I was homeless.
I was incarcerated, I was an addict, and now I'm
on stage with a skinny tie on and a microphone
in my face telling jokes. I mean, that's quite a transformation.
What was the first funny thing, if anything, you experienced
(07:10):
while in jail, Mark.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Let's see, I remember getting pinned up against the wall
by a couple of guys for using the wrong drinking
fountain and hilarious. Well, it started out real adversario and hey,
we got to throw down because that's what you do
in jail. But I was really no tough guy. I
could talk tough. I could talk sideways. I could always
(07:33):
talk because I got a I could sell guns to nuns, Scott.
I could always had that gift. However, however, it could
always get me in trouble too. So this guy says,
you're on the sunk wrong side of the room. Say,
I said, I'll move. He goes too late. Now you
got to pay, So I said, okay, just so you know,
and I'm looking at this guy. He's got Letterman teeth,
(07:53):
David Letterman teeth, right, big old wide space there. And
I said to him, I said, well, okay, but you
better kill me because if I get up even for
a second, I will hunt you down. I don't care
if it takes twenty years. Your family, your family's friends,
all the pets you've ever had, everything you've ever loved.
I'm gonna hut him down and I'm gonna kill them all.
(08:14):
You gap tooth mo folk up up and he goes man.
Ain't nobody crazy enough to make that up on a
spot walk on bro. He let me go, and I
was just riffing. I was just stuff off the top
of my head. I probably couldn't or wouldn't remember to
do any of that stuff because I was a you know,
(08:34):
coke head and a street guy. But I wanted I
wanted him to back up, and so they just let
me kind of wriggle away at a one hundred and
twenty pounds shake and bake, look and cook it get
you know. But I've made a lot of mistakes chemically,
and you know, younger insecure people do that. But now
I get to work with them. I get to work
with them. Every tonight, I'll be at the Arch. The
(08:54):
Arch in Omaha, it's a men's halfway house. I'll do
an hour and a half a group for them. It's funny,
but I'll do an hour and a half of shame
reduction and relapse prevention and trauma survivor and I get
to Comedy is a great bridge. I mean, how many
times has it saved the conversation with you just lightening
up being a little funny.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I'm never funny. I'm told that repeatedly by listeners of
this program. It would be nice if once in a
while it happened. That's what I get.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, seriously, Okay, here's your joke. I've never done this
one in public before. Never. Okay, Scott, how's your career? Well,
it's good, but I'm changing careers. Scott Vorhees is going
to quit radio and I'm going to open up a
K nine rehab. It's for drug sniff and police dogs
(09:41):
who got hooked. I want to help people.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, there's probably a reason why that hasn't been done
publicly before. I thought we lost power again. No, Mark,
I love your journe Erny. I love how you bring
it from the street to the stage. The show is
called No Big Deal as Tomorrow Night at the Funnybone
(10:08):
Village Point Funnybone, Omaha dot Funnybone dot com. For the
seven o'clock show tomorrow night. And also I presume you'll
be there with copies of your book, Shortcuts, Better Ways
to Better Days.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yes, dude, you nailed every single press point there was there. Yeah,
I wrote a book last year. I'll be at the
Funnybone tomorrow night. The show is good. It's called no
big deal because most stuff is no big deal, Scott.
Very few things are a big deal. This show certainly
ain't one of them. But you'll you'll never see another
one like it, and I'm proud to do it. Well.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I wanted to nail all the press points here, Mark
because I like you. I like your style, I like
the cut of your jib. But mostly I'm really afraid
of Colleen Quinn, the manager at the Funnybone, and I
don't want to get on her bad side.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Dude, she's the queen of everything here right.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yes, she's in charge.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
She drove Hey, she's driving me around today in this weather, today,
in this weather. Miss driving around.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
And I missed the part where she was going to
bring you here into the studio and decided not to.
What is a little bit of snow? It can't come in,
can't come hang out with us?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
You know? What I wanted to go to sit in
with you. I mean, I know we get next time,
but it's pretty wicked out there for California boy, Yes,
it's like wow really, but I appreciate the time, and
thanks for the plug for the tickets tomorrow night at
the Bone. I'm very grateful and I'm happy for your success. Gott.
She told me a little about you and the fact
(11:30):
that it's onward and upward.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Don't mistake don't mistake longevity in this time slot for success,
my friend, Mark, great talking with you again. Enjoy your
time in Omaha. Right that's Mark Lenholm right here on
eleven ten KFA.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
B Scott Boyes News Radio eleven ten KFAB
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