September 25, 2025 • 42 mins
LaLa shares a wild story from a local dance party she attended with Giulina, where a total stranger walked up and asked her to hold her baby then disappeared. Neither LaLa nor anyone else had any clue who this woman was, but she trusted LaLa with her child! Shawna still can’t get over it. Also in this episode, Shawna and LaLa sit down with Ken Dabrow, who is a 95-year-old voiceover artist and author of Age My Ass. Ken brings his wit, wisdom, and perspective to the mic, leaving the girls (and listeners!) with some incredible life advice.It’s an episode full of laughs, surprises, and lessons you won’t want to miss!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the heart of the city, where the beat meets
the rhythm of your day.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's Shawna m.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
What's up. You're listening to Shauna and Lalla. Check us
out at Shauna and Lala dot com on all social
media platforms at Shauna Laala. You could follow me on
Instagram at the Real Shawna May.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
And check me out at Bella Underscore Lalla one two five.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It has been quite the past two weeks.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
School started, sickness started.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Sickness started. We had these me and you, Jelina Geo,
we all had this.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Crazy like fever, random, very random.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I don't I feel so weird these this past month,
Like something's weird, something's off.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I have not slopped in probably a month.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Me too, I and your mom too. I I just
don't understand. Like I thought it was the moon. My
sister's telling me there's these solar clips and lunar clips
and this and that going on.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
So that's probably what it is.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
And then I just I mean, I never sleep good
and you don't either. But it's just been something different
this month. This is just something unusual.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, every night, it's almost Yeah, it's every night, and
I'm usually up between two to four, but I fall
right back asleep.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I'm usually up like two to two thirty three and
I just keep waking up. But the last few nights,
well really the last month, I've been getting up at
like one one thirty and I'm just tossing and turning
for hours. Yeah, and my mom said, she goes out
on the couch, then she tries to you know, she'll
(01:53):
fall asleep, but then the cats will wake her up.
And yeah, it's been a nightmare. So I've been up
pretty much since one thirty in the morning.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, it's not fun.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
So we're very, very tired girls.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
You know. Geo's been sick, Jelina was sick, so that
I'm exhausted. I we just have so much going on.
And I mean we've been talking about my Conoli business
and that's been taken off.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I know, it's crazy. It just like went off that.
It just went like crazy instantly, like in one weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
One week it was I wasn't prepared for it. I
made a website, I put it out on the out
in a group and then boom, it was like like
people inquiring about weddings and parties. And I've been doing
weddings and parties and festivals, and I'm just this mama
is shot really But they did an w r r V,
(02:49):
who's a radio local radio station here.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
They did an article on me and it came out
yesterday and it was really cool.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
It was really cool to see me and you know,
an article and talking about my canola and my history.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
So that was really cool.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
So how far out did people book you?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Well, I mean, if we're talking about how far I
have a few bookings for weddings next year, and you
know they're sporadic, you know, ones in October of next year, August.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
So yeah, I have a few weddings out there.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I would love to like book up every month with
at least two weddings. That would be an amazing extra cash.
But you know, one can dream, and that's what I'm
gonna shoot for.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
So yesterday you took Julina to like a Mommy and
Me dance party.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yes, it was so cool.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
It was like there was no school yesterday for many schools.
So it was a DJ dance party for kids from
the young is a baby all the way to twelve
you could or older could come, but you know, more
for the little kids and it was fun. They gave
the kids closed sticks and they were dancing to all
the K Pop songs and Taylor Swift and all that,
(03:58):
and Jelina had had an absolute blast.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
She really did. But like, the craziest thing happened.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
To me, as always, of course, the craziest thing happened
to me, and I mean you got to witness it. Yeah,
but in true Lalla fashion, that's what I always say.
In true Lalla fashion, this lady comes up to me.
I was not talking to anybody. I had recently just
(04:24):
got there, and this lady walks up to me with
a baby in her arms, and she's like, can you
watch my baby? And I'm like, what, can you watched
my baby? And then she rambled something. I don't know
what she said.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
She said, I got to move my car.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Okay, so I heard car. So she had to do
something with her car. And she ran out of the
building and she said, oh, my toddler too, and she
pointed to her little girl, who must have been like
two or three and maybe two and I think I
don't know, she was probably like three or three. Okay,
I didn't really pay attention to that one. That sounds bad,
but so the baby wasn't even walking yet hard, you know,
(04:56):
could crawl a little bit.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
So how old is that?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Five?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
My four months? I don't know, so let's say five
months old? Four months old? Yeah, she hands me her
baby and the baby's looking at me like who the
hell are you? So I look at Seana, I'm like,
what just happens?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
What just happened?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
And I really thought you knew her?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
No, yeah, Sean does think, oh, you know, that's probably
her friend. No, it was a complete stranger.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
And then I thought like, maybe because you were friends
with the DJ. So I'm like, oh, maybe like he
knew her or uh, his family was there also, so
I'm like, oh, maybe it's like his family's friend or something.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
No, they didn't know her.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
They didn't know her because I went, you know, the
DJ came to say hi as I'm holding this baby,
and he looked at the baby like huh. And I'm like,
I don't know who. I don't know whose baby this
is and he's like what. So I tell him the
story and he he's known me for like almost twenty
years now, so he said, only you, Lah, only you.
(05:59):
This always happens to you, whether it be animals, babies.
People they just trust you. You just have something about
you that they just trust you. And I'm like, it's true.
And he's witnessed it in the past, with people handing
me their baby or animals.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Coming up to me. So he was laughing. He's like,
only you only.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
It was the weirdest thing.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
And I don't have kids, but if I did, I
would never walk up to some stranger and be like, hey,
can you watch my kid? Yeah, while I go move
my car, like what, I don't know, especially this day
and age. I could see maybe like fifty years ago,
but this day and age, with all the crime that's happening,
(06:42):
with all.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
The sex trafficking being I didn't even.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Think about that. Yeah, I was gonna say being abducted.
You can't trust anyone really, and she's very trusting.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, I mean listen, I'm all for community parenting.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
I want to be there for moms.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
It's hard to be mom, especially when you're by yourself,
you know me, I'm always out with Juliana by myself,
and there has been times where I was like, I
wish I could go up to that stranger and say,
can you help me out here? When Julian was a
baby and screaming her head off, and I was I
needed someone just to hold her for me so I
could situate myself. I wish that I could trust someone
or or feel comfortable going up to someone saying, hey,
(07:19):
I need help, I need help. And so part of
me is like happy and grateful that this woman didn't
even look at me for longer than two seconds and
knew that woman's I'm a good that's a good person
I could trust with my baby.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Like that makes me happy.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
That makes me feel good, and I'm happy that I
was able to help her in a situation like that.
But then the other part of me is like, girl,
like I hope that you're not doing this just anyone
out there, because you can put your babies at risk,
you know, absolutely, So it's just like a double edged
sword there. And I mean she came back ten minutes later.
The baby was good, didn't cry, just kept staring at
(07:55):
me like I have a picture. I had to take
a picture because the baby was looking at me with
this stank face on. I'm like, hm, who the hell
are you? Like that was the voice that kept doing
the way she was looking at me. He was so cute,
but I loved she was so cute. I I was like, hmm,
I made a joke last night because my friend was
(08:16):
commenting about what happened. He's like, that's that's really weird,
Like why would she leave it with you? You know,
I guess she thought you were trustworthy, I said, I am,
I said, but I mean, I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
There's a little part of me that I.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Hope, like maybe she won't come back and I could
bring home a new baby to my husband, you know,
like baby, I adopted a baby. I was just making
a joke and he's like maybe, and he wrote back, well,
but h he wrote, well maybe she made their own
choice then.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Because that's creepy. But yeah, you know, she.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Came back and the baby was fine, and I'm happy
that I helped.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
But it was very odd at first. I was I
was kind of like in shock.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I didn't know. I didn't even hear what she said,
because all I heard was can you watch my baby?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
And I'm like, and she.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Handed you the baby?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, And my brain's like going through who is this?
Do I know this person?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Did they know me?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Do all?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Like what?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
That's all my brain was doing.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I wasn't even listening to her reason why, and then
I watched her run now and I'm like, what the
hell just happened? But yeah, that's me true la la fashion.
All the random, weird stuff always happens, and at least
this is a positive one. I got to hold the
baby for ten minutes, which made me really happy.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
So today on the show, we are going to play
an interview that we did last week with Ken Dabreau.
He was such a cool guy, very interesting.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
I loved him. I absolutely freaking loved him.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I was like so jealous that he wasn't my grandpa
because he he just.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
You know me, I'm so emotional.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I'm very emotional person, and like a few times he
had me in tears with just his advice, with just
his love that he kind of it wasn't fake, Like
even though he didn't know us, I felt like loved
by him. I don't know how to explain it, or
like cared, you know, he cared you know.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yeah, he was somebody. You know. We did it over
zoom and you know it was on video, and we
just felt like we knew each other.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I know, it was like I felt a connection to him,
and I'm like, I want him to be my grandpa.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
And how old is he now?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Right?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
He's ninety four, ninety five?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Geez, that's crazy. And he looks amazing. Guys, We're gonna,
you know, I have to post some pictures of him.
He looks great for his age. He's doing so well
for his age. He's full of so much knowledge, so
much advice, and I think that anyone would benefit from
listening to him. He has an audiobook, he has a
(10:38):
book he wrote. You can follow on Instagram, but we'll
jump in the interview now. He's just an amazing person
and I'm glad that we got to meet him on
the show.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Today we have mister Ken Debrow on the show, so
excited to interview him. Me and him have a background
in broadcasting and radio, except he I think has a
much longer career and better career than I ever had.
(11:10):
So how long did you do voiceover work for radio broadcasting?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Odds? Well, I've done voiceover work. You got to remember
how old I am, and I've been doing this since
I'm twenty years old. So if I'm ninety five years old,
there's four and a half years shy of one hundred.
I've been doing it for over sixty five years.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Wow, my god, and you have done over fifteen million ears.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Done, they tell me. I don't know if it's accurate,
but everyone says it. I'm been the most active local
commercial broadcaster automotive broadcaster in particular, in the history of radio.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Wow, that's yazy. So yes, his voice has been heard
in over fifty million OUs.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
That's crazy. That is crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I know. Well, if you live, if you live this long, kid,
a lot of things are crazy.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
That's I mean, that's a huge number, and that's something
to be extremely proud of. I mean, I know you are,
but that's I don't know if there's anyone else out
there like that. You know, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Well, you know what, good girls, you know what. I
think the motivation has been the sense of accomplishment. You
got people spending money on that medium, and when you're
in cities like New York and Philadelphia and Los Angeles,
these guys are spending thirty forty fifty sixty seventy eighty
thousand dollars a month on radio to have Ken Davlo's
(12:42):
voice on radio for their car dealership. Well, girls, that's
a million dollars a year.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
So you know, when you're spending a million dollars a year,
it's not a question of me getting fifteen percent of
a million dollars because money becomes secondary after a while,
but becomes primary is am I getting the job done?
So obviously haven't had accounts. And by the way, girls,
I've had accounts for as many as twenty and thirty years. Wow.
(13:14):
And with car dealers, Ashanna and Laila. With car dealers,
you know, if something don't work, they stop it immediately. Yeah.
So obviously I've always made sure that every word I
ever said in the air was truth, that whatever I
represented them having, they had at the price I said,
(13:38):
and there was no big up sells. Yeah. So obviously
after twenty five or thirty years, there was believability because
when people went there, they found exactly what I said
they were going to find.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
So then that built trust behind your voice.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And maybe that's the word I'm missing. Trust is the word.
They trusted me. I agree. I don't want to use
that word because it sounds too pregoceous, But there was
believability and money, and I guess you're right. They trusted
me and trusted what they heard.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Yeah, yeah, And you also grew up with a stutter
and how has that shaped your career? How did you
stutter on overcoming that and doing fifteen million ads?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
And here we go again. It's the power, you know
what it is, Sean and Layla. It's the power of
the will. How bad do you want to do something?
I mean, how important is it to you? How high
a priority do you give it? Well, I had a
stutter and I like to talk a lot, so I
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wasn't getting much out kid. So when I was about
twelve or thirteen, and I did have a good voice,
but I was stuttering, and I think that's because my
brain was working too damn fast. I went to speech
therapy for about a year and it went away completely.
(15:08):
And that's how I developed this voice and this ability
to speak with this kind of phraseology and this kind
of interpretation and Patton, that's.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Truly amazing and that shows our listeners too, you know,
just you should never have a roadblock in front of you.
If there is a roadblock, find a way around it.
You you can find a way around it. And that's
what we love to well.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
You know, Sean and Laylah, here's the story. The way
around it was this the I used to keep doing
what you're doing and do it better. Yeah, And the
fact is there's one word I want to bring up,
and it's a word that comes into our life every
day and we find ourselves involved with this word every day. Opportunity.
(15:55):
So I had an opportunity. I was going to take
advantage of that opportunity. The only way that could happen
was that if I had the power of will and
made the commitment to take advantage of whatever opportunity. And
you think about this, Sean and Laila, every day, how
many opportunities do you have just from eating lunch or
(16:19):
an opportunity to do whatever you're going to do.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I agree, you're right, and people don't view it that
way sometimes.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Then you see that is there? You go, kid, that
is absolutely correct. They don't use the word or see
it in those terms. And you know why I think
that is, Guys. I think that's because most people when
they hear the word or think the word, or use
the word or interpret the word opportunity, they think of
it only as what is their opportunity, what's going to
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bring them joy, what's going to bring them pleasure? What
do they want to do, what feeling do they want
to have? So the point is when it comes to opportunity,
you can't just think of yourself. And that's been the key.
After I'd done all that for about thirty or forty years,
I realized I was being selfish. I had to think
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the opportunity I could afford other people, the opportunity I
could offer any part of the world that I could,
or any people in the world I could. So I
took an interest in a lot of people. And unfortunately
for me, they're all younger than me. But I got
a lot of good friends that because girls, all my
(17:32):
contemporaries are gone. They left me five, ten, fifteen years
ago kids so well, but you know something, guys, when
I was about fifty to fifty five, and all my
other kids were like, I've known Hasey here for thirty
five years. Well when she came into my life, she
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was a very young girl. So and these people knew
I took a real interest in them. I just said,
and their stories, And they didn't just come to me
for a little advice because I was twenty or thirty
years older than them. They knew I was really interested
in their situations. Because two or three weeks would pass
and I would say, how are you doing with blah
(18:14):
blah blah blah. They said, oh, you remembered. I remembered.
I've been thinking about it. So all of a sudden,
these same people that are now now in their sixties
and seventies, my twenty year old kids now they're still
all with me. So thank god, at ninety five years
of age, my phone still rings five, ten, fifteen times
(18:36):
a day. And it's my good friends and my younger
friends of thirty or forty years that makes life worthwhile.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Yes, absolutely, that's important. Important to have a circle of
peers and support of love, of respect, and that makes
life worth living.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yes, long absolutely absolutely guys.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Yep, So you've made the the steamless transition from traditional
radio and voiceovers to being the grandpa he rap on
social media.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Well, let me tell you, I have to I have
to give a Casey credit for that because with me,
I kept, you know, I kept saying, you know, the
funny part was Shane and La La when I was
hearing rappers doing their rap, which I didn't mind. Everybody
has a right to do whatever they want to do.
It's not a question of what I want to do.
(19:34):
What I want to do is write for me. If
somebody else wants to do it, that's fine. But if
somebody else wants to do something different, that's also fine.
Who am I to tell them what to do? But
my problem was, guys, I couldn't understand the damn word
they were saying. And I'm trying to tell you. It's
like they're speaking a different language to me. So I
(19:57):
finally and Casey heard me. This is a number years ago.
She heard me bitching about it and griping about it
all those years. So we created this character a number
of years ago. Case and she said, what if you
want to change and do something about a kid? So
that's when we created Grandpapa rat Oh gotta be what
(20:18):
twenty years ago? Case twenty thirty years ago? Thirty years ago?
The point was, we created this character and at that time,
I was a competitive bodybuilder girl. So I was already
in my late fifties early sixties, and fortunately for me,
(20:39):
still had a was still lifting weights and had a
pretty muscular, symmetrical physique. So I had this custom outfit
made that showed all my muscles and all that nonsense,
and I became Grandpapa rat. So Frany Casey said, why
don't we bring him back? So I said, I'm ninety four,
(21:02):
ninety five years of age. What the hell are you
talking about? So we brought and with this one, I'm
telling you something, girls, we brought Grandpapa Rap back. And
it was just Casey with our cell phoned filming me
and my condo, dressed up with a hat like Grandpapa Rap.
(21:23):
I think we got a million. We've got a million.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Gosh, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Absolutely, So that's when we decided, you know, that's when
Casey also said, you know, Ken, even though I wrote
a book and all that sort of things, She said,
you're being a little selfish. You should really shit. I said, well,
I don't want to share Grandpapa Raps. So what we
decide to do is what we're doing right now with
you here. I'm a ninety five year old man. Fortunately
(21:53):
for me, even though the body is ninety five years old, girls,
my brain is still good and my voice sounds like
it did fifty years ago. So I'm very lucky there.
I didn't know that was going to happen, by the way,
because if you're in radio, you know a lot of
people retire from voice work at about fifty five or
(22:14):
sixty when they lose the power in their voice. Well,
I haven't lost an ounce of power, so I'm still,
believe it or not. At ninety five years old, I'm
still doing radio commercials for card dealders.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Good for you, Good for you.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
You do it from home. You don't have to go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
And you know something, when I do, I can do
them right here, but I also do them from a
studio if I have to. But I'm still doing them
for four or five card dealers around the country. And
now I'm doing this video with my philosophy on life
because so many people have asked me about it. I figure, well,
now it's time for me to give back, and that's
(22:55):
exactly what I'm trying to do.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah, well, that's good.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I think this new generation we need that. There's not
you know, there's a lack of that that experience, the knowledge,
the old ways. The mindset has changed so much and
it's sad. So I think we need that from someone
who's lived through a lot and been through a lot
and knows a lot like you.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Well, you know something, girls, that's true. But at the
same time, at the same time, even if I go
back sixty seventy years and talk about the good old days,
and these were the days. There weren't a lot of
things wrong with those days too, things that never have
been perfect for the human race. That's who we are.
(23:41):
Look at our history. Yes, with all the opportunities we have,
with all the knowledge we acquire, we just can't get
our act together. Well, it's not just a question of
this generation. It was my generation also, But one thing
we had to have when I was born at You've
got to remember, I was born at the start of
(24:03):
the Great Depression in nineteen thirty one. So in those
days you had to worry about your next meal. So
if you didn't have a work ethic, you didn't eat.
So I think that's the only difference in this generation.
There's so much going on with our technology and so
much abundance of everything that people have sort of forgotten
(24:28):
about the work ethic. And that doesn't mean there's not
a lot of people that's still don't work. By the
tens of thousands, by the millions, they do. But with us,
it wasn't a want, it was a need. We needed
it and if we didn't have it, we were not
going to live during the thirties and forties. Now the
only thing missing I think is maybe that ethic. The
(24:50):
things are so good, particularly girls in our country. For
the abundance is amazing because people don't know this, guys,
but we're two and a half to three percent of
the population of our planet. That's all. We're three hundred
and forty million people and there are over seven billion,
(25:11):
eight hundred and fifty million people on Earth, so we're
only two and a half to three and a half
three percent, but we are twenty five percent of the
gross international product, so we can really indulge ourselves in stuff,
in things, in materials. Do you follow me?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
And I think we sort of take that for granted,
And I think we shouldn't take anything for granted, just
that simple Yeah, not even our next breath, kid, because
if we don't have your next breath five minutes later,
you're dead. So the idea is, even when you're breathing
all these years and just something you do so naturally
and you have to do it every second, you really
(25:52):
take it for granted. Don't take it for granted.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Yes, one hundred percent, that's very it's important and that
you're right. I agree with that's what the generation lacks
is it's kind of they haven't had it that hard,
the entitlement and the workoutic definitely.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
But.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yeah, these are lessons that they can learn from people
like you and here and just hopefully open their eyes
to how lucky and blessed we are.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Yeah. Now, if you have any Q and A for me,
if anything else you want to know, just ask me
and I'll tell you to the best of my ability.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Well, why don't you tell us about your book. It's
called Age My Ass.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Yeah, Well, we have to really discuss first the interpretation
of the use of those three words age my Ass.
As I got older, all of a sudden, I had
a fear when you hit about thirty five to forty. Girls,
(26:55):
all of a sudden, when you're twenty five, you know,
you're not worried about your moretality. You think you're gonna
live forever for God's sake, there's so many things to do,
so many things to learn. You're gonna get married, you're
gonna have kids, you're gonna get a job, you're gonna
look forward to advance yourself in that job. So you're
not then all of a sudden, you turn forty to fifty,
(27:15):
and you're aware, You're at least aware of your mortality.
Now the business is become aware of your mortality. The
other word you don't want is fear. You can't fear
your mortality or you will try to escape it for
the rest of your life. And in trying to escape
(27:36):
your mortality, you will live under a veil of stress
and anxiety. So the mere fact that I was able
to overcome that between about forty and sixty sixty five seventy,
I went through it, but I got over it, as
you can see right now at ninety five. And the
fact is that's why I wrote the book Age by Ass.
(27:58):
So Age b Ass was simply me saying, well, if
I can, can I really make Can I really make
the second half of my life better? Not just as good, ass,
but better than the first half. And I said to myself,
yes I can. Well, most people don't do that. They
(28:19):
don't even want to admit their age, because I think
age is a negative. Age is not a negative. Take
a look, guys, ninety five ages are positive. Do you agree?
Speaker 4 (28:30):
I agree, I agree, you don't look ninety five.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
That's why I wrote the book Age My Ass, because
now I've realized that if you really play it right.
And by the way, I didn't write the book I
think Casey until I was eighty five, eighty six, eighty
seven years old, yep. And everyone was always telling me
to write a book girls about my life because I've
had such an interesting life, and I said, come on,
(28:57):
I'm not going to brag on myself. But then when
they said, right about your philosophy on life and how
you live the second half of your life, then I
knew I had something to contribute because I was now
living proof that it could be done. This isn't some
forty five or fifty year old professor on aging telling
(29:17):
you how to live the rest of your life. This
is a guy who has done Itah. I mean, I'm
only about twelve thirty hundred days shy of one hundred.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
So the fact is that's why I wrote Age in
my assd about eight ten years ago, just so I
could somehow put down and let people know between forty
and sixty as they go through that transitional generation. I
wanted them to know. And I say it in one
of my videos, you live five generations if you're fortunate,
(29:50):
and I think most people today, not my generation. When
I was young, I think the average male age was
sixty eight and women were seventy two. Now it's up
to about seventy seven for men and eighty two for women.
I said, but there's no reason that people alive today
shouldn't live one hundred good years. Well, the most important
(30:13):
generation being that there's twenty years to a generation, and
one hundred years is five generations. The most important generation
is that middle generation, the one between forty and sixty
leading into the second half of their life. That's why
I wrote the book Age My Ass and the purpose
(30:34):
the age of my ass is Age my Ass. I
have a second, better half of life, kid. And guess
what here we go with the word I was talking
to you about before, have an opportunity. So life is
an opportunity, and after forty to fifty, you have the
opportunity to make the second half of your life better
(30:58):
than the first. I mean, ask you, guys a question,
why would I say that? Why do you think I
would say that?
Speaker 1 (31:05):
I feel I mean for the second half to be
better than the first is that's the whole point of living.
To me, anyway, you learned and you want I want
to get the most out of life. I want to
be happier than I've ever been before. I want, you know,
like you said, I don't want to be chasing. Oh
the end is coming soon, in the end, and then
you don't really live life when you're constantly thinking that.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
It's that Sean or Layla speaking.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
It's me Lauren, La la, Laala listening to you.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Good honey, You're absolutely right, absolutely right. The thing you meant,
the word word you used, the most important word, was learning.
Why do you think the first forty years your life
were of course they were exciting. Of course there was curiosity.
Of course you were experimenting. Of course you had passion
(31:54):
for life, you had youth, but you were learning, you
were learning to make sure. And now the second half
of your life, by the time you're forty to sixty,
that's when you should become mature and finally learn what
you were discovering and searching for and learn about it
(32:14):
and become knowledgeable of it. And therefore the second half
of your life, because of those particular conditions, can be
better than the first half. That's all I see it.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
I agree, I agree, I agree. Well, it's very important.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Now are you going to write a second book at
one hundred?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
You know something that people have suggested it, but you
know something, Think about it. Girls. What's important to me now? Well,
money's important, but it's not as important as it was
when I had fifty sixty years to live and I
was developing my business. Unfortunately for me, I had a
very good business. We were number one of what we
(32:55):
did in the country as far as radio was concerned,
so obviously made a good amount of money. And even
though money was important, I think people become obsessed by money,
and all of a sudden they got several million dollars
and instead of chasing life and the meaning of life,
they're still chasing money because they're obsessed with it. I
(33:19):
realized I had to get rid of that obsession, and
I finally realized that two things were a hell a
lot more important than money. Time and people. The people
in your life that you care for, the care for
you that you've known for a while, and the time
you have left. Well, let's face the kids. I ain't
(33:40):
got much side. In fact, I love to tell the
story my doctor said to me when he was adding me.
He said, boy, again, it's amazing your organic system is like,
you know, my gut. He said, it's like a younger
man and blah blah blah, And I was very pleased
to hear that. He said, you know, you could live
to be a hundred. My answer was, you mean I've
(34:01):
lived ninety five percent of my life? So yeah, well
that's it I had. And guess what, girls, So what
if I were to leave this world right now as
I'm talking to you, and I have a smile on
my face, kids, because I've had a marvelous life. Remember,
we're born to do one thing. We're born to live
(34:21):
our lives then pass away. That's how it works, kid,
And that's how it's worked for centuries and millenniums of time, okay,
thousands of years. So that's the way it's going to work.
And we've seen so many people. Come on, Lailah, Come on, Sean,
how many people that you know? In fact, my producer
(34:44):
for thirty years, I think Adam was. Casey was sixty
six years old for thirty years, since he was thirty
three years old. Thirty four years old, died of cancer.
And look at all the other diseases you can pass
away from between forty fifty and sixty and here I
am at ninety five. No matter what comes along, I
(35:07):
am so appreciative of everything I've had, and I can
look back on my life and fortunately I had the
greatest lady in the world. Gave my heart and soul
to her. We had sixty three years together.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
And hopefully case she'll send a picture of her. She
was a beauty so naturally. I met her when I
was thirty and she was forty. By the way, she
was ten years older than me. Now can you imagine that,
and at that age a man marrying a woman for
being engaged to a woman that was ten years older
(35:44):
than himself. But age didn't mean nothing to me, as
you can see right now. What important. What was important
was the person I was involved with. So naturally physiologically
and visually and sexually I was at so she looked
so damn good. All I wanted to do was make
love to her. Yeah, I mean, it's some of the girls.
(36:07):
It's natural. This is people don't want to talk about it,
but every man and every woman goes through that stage
of their life. Now, there's nothing wrong with that. That's natural.
That is nature at worked. That's the way I see it.
But what I really found that Millie was after being
with the most beautiful lady in the world. And you'll
see her picture, and I'm telling you she was classified
(36:31):
by many people as no one ever had a face
like hers. It was absolutely gorgeous. And then when I
saw the body and it was as good as the face,
I said, I said, where the hell do you go
from here? Kid? So exactly, So we spent sixty three
years together. Guys, and I never had any blood children, okay,
(36:53):
but her son was eight years old, then eight nine
years old when I met her. And now I got
a son and he's not my blood son, but he's
my real son, and my son he's seventy six years old,
I got to see. So the point is, I've got
a real I've had a real rewarding life. So to
(37:16):
get back to what I was talking about five minutes ago,
you are born to live your life, and after you
lived it, pass on. The key kids is live it well.
Follow your own reality, follow your own identity. Know who
you are, have all the influencers around you that you
(37:40):
want to influence you. But no matter how much, no
matter what's going on around you, no matter how well
you think of anything else. If you don't agree with it,
if you can't identify with it, don't have it influence
you to the point where it changes your mind, your identity,
and your reality. Know who you are. Only if you
(38:04):
know who you are and have your real identity can
you really know who you are and live authentically through
that person. And I've been able to do that so
for ninety five years. That's how I've lived my life.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
Guys, hy as was really written and geared toward men.
Why don't you tell the girls? What do you think
a midlife man's number one mistake is?
Speaker 2 (38:31):
The man's number one mistake is the first thousand mistakes
he makes between forty and sat Mee, the hell can
I tell you? You know? The point is I think
that because I'm telling you girls, I was no different
and what you're hearing right now and all that you've
been here and all this time, I'm an average Joe.
I really am. It was just my will power and
(38:52):
my determination to get the most out of my life.
Now when you girls do the same, get the most
out of your life. Make sure you got your values
in place, and build on those values, because just imagine
every day you live is one day less you have
to live. So if you have one day left to live,
(39:12):
make the next day better than the previous. There makes sense.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Yeah, you're making me emotional.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
All right, guys. You know we've done girls, which I
think is important. And this was Casey's idea the audiobook
because you do it in two and three minute segments,
and let's face it, during that period of time forty
to sixty thirty five, forty to sixty sixty five, there's
(39:44):
one hundred to one hundred and fifty different facets that
you can go through, different conditions in life that you
question yourself on, and you may have self doubts about
you follow me, So I cover all those in a
period of two to three minutes. So the fact is
we case It came up with the ideas. She said, well,
you know something, they can buy your book, and they
(40:07):
probably will buy your book if they if they believe
in your philosophy can but wouldn't it be great if
they could have you on their iPhone or however else
they could be delivered and have at least play one
of your audios, which would be one of my videos really,
but only the audio part of it, and it would
(40:27):
be two and a half minutes long, and maybe that
would give them a boost and it would have that
whip them. So we have an audio book.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
That's amazing, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Yeah, and the point is here, here's how we did it.
Remember I told you about money not be important. It's
important only to the point that we pay our bills.
If you have a lifestyle, girls, Leila Sean, if you
have a lifestyle, let me put it to you this way.
Let's say you have a very very good lifestyme and
you got everything you need in your life, and it
costs as much as one hundred, two hundred and fifty
(40:57):
thousand dollars, and let's assume it was one hundred fifty
thousand dollars. You had two cars, and you had a home,
and you had a vacation home, and you really lived
a good life. And you could do that all on
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to two hundred thousand
dollars a year. And that's what assuming million a million dollars
a year. Sean. Now, let me ask you what's more important,
(41:17):
the first two hundred thousand or the second eight hundred thousand.
Now you think about it, yeah, makes sense. Yeah, because
when you think about it, kids, all that eight hundred
thousand dollars is is black numbers on white paper. You
can only spend so much money. Yep. So that's why
time and people became so important to me as I
(41:40):
got older, because I had less time and the people
in that time became more important in my life.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
Yes, that's so true.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
Can you tell our listeners what your website is where
they could purchase your audio book and your actual book.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
That would be two minutes with the dot com.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
If they go to two minutes with demand dot com,
they'll see all about me and here all about me kid.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
Thank you so much for coming on the show.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
My pleasure DearS, and if I can bring you up
the stuff in three or four months and let you
know how I'm doing, just give Casey a call and
uh we'll do this again.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
A down good.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Thank you so much, Thank you, Ken love bye.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
And that's our show for this week. Thank you so
much for tuning in. Be sure to check out our
website Shawnaandlala dot com. Be sure to follow us on
all social media platforms at Shauna and Lala. You could
follow me on Instagram. At the Real Shauna.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
May and check me out at Bella Underscore Laala one,
two five.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
We will see you next week.
From the heart of the city, where the beat meets
the rhythm of your day.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's Shawna m.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
What's up. You're listening to Shauna and Lalla. Check us
out at Shauna and Lala dot com on all social
media platforms at Shauna Laala. You could follow me on
Instagram at the Real Shawna May.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
And check me out at Bella Underscore Lalla one two five.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It has been quite the past two weeks.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
School started, sickness started.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Sickness started. We had these me and you, Jelina Geo,
we all had this.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Crazy like fever, random, very random.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I don't I feel so weird these this past month,
Like something's weird, something's off.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I have not slopped in probably a month.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Me too, I and your mom too. I I just
don't understand. Like I thought it was the moon. My
sister's telling me there's these solar clips and lunar clips
and this and that going on.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
So that's probably what it is.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
And then I just I mean, I never sleep good
and you don't either. But it's just been something different
this month. This is just something unusual.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, every night, it's almost Yeah, it's every night, and
I'm usually up between two to four, but I fall
right back asleep.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I'm usually up like two to two thirty three and
I just keep waking up. But the last few nights,
well really the last month, I've been getting up at
like one one thirty and I'm just tossing and turning
for hours. Yeah, and my mom said, she goes out
on the couch, then she tries to you know, she'll
(01:53):
fall asleep, but then the cats will wake her up.
And yeah, it's been a nightmare. So I've been up
pretty much since one thirty in the morning.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, it's not fun.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
So we're very, very tired girls.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
You know. Geo's been sick, Jelina was sick, so that
I'm exhausted. I we just have so much going on.
And I mean we've been talking about my Conoli business
and that's been taken off.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I know, it's crazy. It just like went off that.
It just went like crazy instantly, like in one weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
One week it was I wasn't prepared for it. I
made a website, I put it out on the out
in a group and then boom, it was like like
people inquiring about weddings and parties. And I've been doing
weddings and parties and festivals, and I'm just this mama
is shot really But they did an w r r V,
(02:49):
who's a radio local radio station here.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
They did an article on me and it came out
yesterday and it was really cool.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
It was really cool to see me and you know,
an article and talking about my canola and my history.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
So that was really cool.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
So how far out did people book you?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Well, I mean, if we're talking about how far I
have a few bookings for weddings next year, and you
know they're sporadic, you know, ones in October of next year, August.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
So yeah, I have a few weddings out there.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I would love to like book up every month with
at least two weddings. That would be an amazing extra cash.
But you know, one can dream, and that's what I'm
gonna shoot for.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
So yesterday you took Julina to like a Mommy and
Me dance party.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yes, it was so cool.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
It was like there was no school yesterday for many schools.
So it was a DJ dance party for kids from
the young is a baby all the way to twelve
you could or older could come, but you know, more
for the little kids and it was fun. They gave
the kids closed sticks and they were dancing to all
the K Pop songs and Taylor Swift and all that,
(03:58):
and Jelina had had an absolute blast.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
She really did. But like, the craziest thing happened.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
To me, as always, of course, the craziest thing happened
to me, and I mean you got to witness it. Yeah,
but in true Lalla fashion, that's what I always say.
In true Lalla fashion, this lady comes up to me.
I was not talking to anybody. I had recently just
(04:24):
got there, and this lady walks up to me with
a baby in her arms, and she's like, can you
watch my baby? And I'm like, what, can you watched
my baby? And then she rambled something. I don't know
what she said.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
She said, I got to move my car.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Okay, so I heard car. So she had to do
something with her car. And she ran out of the
building and she said, oh, my toddler too, and she
pointed to her little girl, who must have been like
two or three and maybe two and I think I
don't know, she was probably like three or three. Okay,
I didn't really pay attention to that one. That sounds bad,
but so the baby wasn't even walking yet hard, you know,
(04:56):
could crawl a little bit.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
So how old is that?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Five?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
My four months? I don't know, so let's say five
months old? Four months old? Yeah, she hands me her
baby and the baby's looking at me like who the
hell are you? So I look at Seana, I'm like,
what just happens?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
What just happened?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
And I really thought you knew her?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
No, yeah, Sean does think, oh, you know, that's probably
her friend. No, it was a complete stranger.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
And then I thought like, maybe because you were friends
with the DJ. So I'm like, oh, maybe like he
knew her or uh, his family was there also, so
I'm like, oh, maybe it's like his family's friend or something.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
No, they didn't know her.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
They didn't know her because I went, you know, the
DJ came to say hi as I'm holding this baby,
and he looked at the baby like huh. And I'm like,
I don't know who. I don't know whose baby this
is and he's like what. So I tell him the
story and he he's known me for like almost twenty
years now, so he said, only you, Lah, only you.
(05:59):
This always happens to you, whether it be animals, babies.
People they just trust you. You just have something about
you that they just trust you. And I'm like, it's true.
And he's witnessed it in the past, with people handing
me their baby or animals.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Coming up to me. So he was laughing. He's like,
only you only.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
It was the weirdest thing.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
And I don't have kids, but if I did, I
would never walk up to some stranger and be like, hey,
can you watch my kid? Yeah, while I go move
my car, like what, I don't know, especially this day
and age. I could see maybe like fifty years ago,
but this day and age, with all the crime that's happening,
(06:42):
with all.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
The sex trafficking being I didn't even.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Think about that. Yeah, I was gonna say being abducted.
You can't trust anyone really, and she's very trusting.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, I mean listen, I'm all for community parenting.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
I want to be there for moms.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
It's hard to be mom, especially when you're by yourself,
you know me, I'm always out with Juliana by myself,
and there has been times where I was like, I
wish I could go up to that stranger and say,
can you help me out here? When Julian was a
baby and screaming her head off, and I was I
needed someone just to hold her for me so I
could situate myself. I wish that I could trust someone
or or feel comfortable going up to someone saying, hey,
(07:19):
I need help, I need help. And so part of
me is like happy and grateful that this woman didn't
even look at me for longer than two seconds and
knew that woman's I'm a good that's a good person
I could trust with my baby.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Like that makes me happy.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
That makes me feel good, and I'm happy that I
was able to help her in a situation like that.
But then the other part of me is like, girl,
like I hope that you're not doing this just anyone
out there, because you can put your babies at risk,
you know, absolutely, So it's just like a double edged
sword there. And I mean she came back ten minutes later.
The baby was good, didn't cry, just kept staring at
(07:55):
me like I have a picture. I had to take
a picture because the baby was looking at me with
this stank face on. I'm like, hm, who the hell
are you? Like that was the voice that kept doing
the way she was looking at me. He was so cute,
but I loved she was so cute. I I was like, hmm,
I made a joke last night because my friend was
(08:16):
commenting about what happened. He's like, that's that's really weird,
Like why would she leave it with you? You know,
I guess she thought you were trustworthy, I said, I am,
I said, but I mean, I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
There's a little part of me that I.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Hope, like maybe she won't come back and I could
bring home a new baby to my husband, you know,
like baby, I adopted a baby. I was just making
a joke and he's like maybe, and he wrote back, well,
but h he wrote, well maybe she made their own
choice then.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Because that's creepy. But yeah, you know, she.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Came back and the baby was fine, and I'm happy
that I helped.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
But it was very odd at first. I was I
was kind of like in shock.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I didn't know. I didn't even hear what she said,
because all I heard was can you watch my baby?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
And I'm like, and she.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Handed you the baby?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, And my brain's like going through who is this?
Do I know this person?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Did they know me?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Do all?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Like what?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
That's all my brain was doing.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I wasn't even listening to her reason why, and then
I watched her run now and I'm like, what the
hell just happened? But yeah, that's me true la la fashion.
All the random, weird stuff always happens, and at least
this is a positive one. I got to hold the
baby for ten minutes, which made me really happy.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
So today on the show, we are going to play
an interview that we did last week with Ken Dabreau.
He was such a cool guy, very interesting.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
I loved him. I absolutely freaking loved him.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I was like so jealous that he wasn't my grandpa
because he he just.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
You know me, I'm so emotional.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I'm very emotional person, and like a few times he
had me in tears with just his advice, with just
his love that he kind of it wasn't fake, Like
even though he didn't know us, I felt like loved
by him. I don't know how to explain it, or
like cared, you know, he cared you know.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yeah, he was somebody. You know. We did it over
zoom and you know it was on video, and we
just felt like we knew each other.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I know, it was like I felt a connection to him,
and I'm like, I want him to be my grandpa.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
And how old is he now?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Right?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
He's ninety four, ninety five?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Geez, that's crazy. And he looks amazing. Guys, We're gonna,
you know, I have to post some pictures of him.
He looks great for his age. He's doing so well
for his age. He's full of so much knowledge, so
much advice, and I think that anyone would benefit from
listening to him. He has an audiobook, he has a
(10:38):
book he wrote. You can follow on Instagram, but we'll
jump in the interview now. He's just an amazing person
and I'm glad that we got to meet him on
the show.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Today we have mister Ken Debrow on the show, so
excited to interview him. Me and him have a background
in broadcasting and radio, except he I think has a
much longer career and better career than I ever had.
(11:10):
So how long did you do voiceover work for radio broadcasting?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Odds? Well, I've done voiceover work. You got to remember
how old I am, and I've been doing this since
I'm twenty years old. So if I'm ninety five years old,
there's four and a half years shy of one hundred.
I've been doing it for over sixty five years.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Wow, my god, and you have done over fifteen million ears.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Done, they tell me. I don't know if it's accurate,
but everyone says it. I'm been the most active local
commercial broadcaster automotive broadcaster in particular, in the history of radio.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Wow, that's yazy. So yes, his voice has been heard
in over fifty million OUs.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
That's crazy. That is crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I know. Well, if you live, if you live this long, kid,
a lot of things are crazy.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
That's I mean, that's a huge number, and that's something
to be extremely proud of. I mean, I know you are,
but that's I don't know if there's anyone else out
there like that. You know, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Well, you know what, good girls, you know what. I
think the motivation has been the sense of accomplishment. You
got people spending money on that medium, and when you're
in cities like New York and Philadelphia and Los Angeles,
these guys are spending thirty forty fifty sixty seventy eighty
thousand dollars a month on radio to have Ken Davlo's
(12:42):
voice on radio for their car dealership. Well, girls, that's
a million dollars a year.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
So you know, when you're spending a million dollars a year,
it's not a question of me getting fifteen percent of
a million dollars because money becomes secondary after a while,
but becomes primary is am I getting the job done?
So obviously haven't had accounts. And by the way, girls,
I've had accounts for as many as twenty and thirty years. Wow.
(13:14):
And with car dealers, Ashanna and Laila. With car dealers,
you know, if something don't work, they stop it immediately. Yeah.
So obviously I've always made sure that every word I
ever said in the air was truth, that whatever I
represented them having, they had at the price I said,
(13:38):
and there was no big up sells. Yeah. So obviously
after twenty five or thirty years, there was believability because
when people went there, they found exactly what I said
they were going to find.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
So then that built trust behind your voice.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And maybe that's the word I'm missing. Trust is the word.
They trusted me. I agree. I don't want to use
that word because it sounds too pregoceous, But there was
believability and money, and I guess you're right. They trusted
me and trusted what they heard.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Yeah, yeah, And you also grew up with a stutter
and how has that shaped your career? How did you
stutter on overcoming that and doing fifteen million ads?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
And here we go again. It's the power, you know
what it is, Sean and Layla. It's the power of
the will. How bad do you want to do something?
I mean, how important is it to you? How high
a priority do you give it? Well, I had a
stutter and I like to talk a lot, so I
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wasn't getting much out kid. So when I was about
twelve or thirteen, and I did have a good voice,
but I was stuttering, and I think that's because my
brain was working too damn fast. I went to speech
therapy for about a year and it went away completely.
(15:08):
And that's how I developed this voice and this ability
to speak with this kind of phraseology and this kind
of interpretation and Patton, that's.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Truly amazing and that shows our listeners too, you know,
just you should never have a roadblock in front of you.
If there is a roadblock, find a way around it.
You you can find a way around it. And that's
what we love to well.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
You know, Sean and Laylah, here's the story. The way
around it was this the I used to keep doing
what you're doing and do it better. Yeah, And the
fact is there's one word I want to bring up,
and it's a word that comes into our life every
day and we find ourselves involved with this word every day. Opportunity.
(15:55):
So I had an opportunity. I was going to take
advantage of that opportunity. The only way that could happen
was that if I had the power of will and
made the commitment to take advantage of whatever opportunity. And
you think about this, Sean and Laila, every day, how
many opportunities do you have just from eating lunch or
(16:19):
an opportunity to do whatever you're going to do.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I agree, you're right, and people don't view it that
way sometimes.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Then you see that is there? You go, kid, that
is absolutely correct. They don't use the word or see
it in those terms. And you know why I think
that is, Guys. I think that's because most people when
they hear the word or think the word, or use
the word or interpret the word opportunity, they think of
it only as what is their opportunity, what's going to
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bring them joy, what's going to bring them pleasure? What
do they want to do, what feeling do they want
to have? So the point is when it comes to opportunity,
you can't just think of yourself. And that's been the key.
After I'd done all that for about thirty or forty years,
I realized I was being selfish. I had to think
(17:09):
the opportunity I could afford other people, the opportunity I
could offer any part of the world that I could,
or any people in the world I could. So I
took an interest in a lot of people. And unfortunately
for me, they're all younger than me. But I got
a lot of good friends that because girls, all my
(17:32):
contemporaries are gone. They left me five, ten, fifteen years
ago kids so well, but you know something, guys, when
I was about fifty to fifty five, and all my
other kids were like, I've known Hasey here for thirty
five years. Well when she came into my life, she
(17:54):
was a very young girl. So and these people knew
I took a real interest in them. I just said,
and their stories, And they didn't just come to me
for a little advice because I was twenty or thirty
years older than them. They knew I was really interested
in their situations. Because two or three weeks would pass
and I would say, how are you doing with blah
(18:14):
blah blah blah. They said, oh, you remembered. I remembered.
I've been thinking about it. So all of a sudden,
these same people that are now now in their sixties
and seventies, my twenty year old kids now they're still
all with me. So thank god, at ninety five years
of age, my phone still rings five, ten, fifteen times
(18:36):
a day. And it's my good friends and my younger
friends of thirty or forty years that makes life worthwhile.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Yes, absolutely, that's important. Important to have a circle of
peers and support of love, of respect, and that makes
life worth living.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yes, long absolutely absolutely guys.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Yep, So you've made the the steamless transition from traditional
radio and voiceovers to being the grandpa he rap on
social media.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Well, let me tell you, I have to I have
to give a Casey credit for that because with me,
I kept, you know, I kept saying, you know, the
funny part was Shane and La La when I was
hearing rappers doing their rap, which I didn't mind. Everybody
has a right to do whatever they want to do.
It's not a question of what I want to do.
(19:34):
What I want to do is write for me. If
somebody else wants to do it, that's fine. But if
somebody else wants to do something different, that's also fine.
Who am I to tell them what to do? But
my problem was, guys, I couldn't understand the damn word
they were saying. And I'm trying to tell you. It's
like they're speaking a different language to me. So I
(19:57):
finally and Casey heard me. This is a number years ago.
She heard me bitching about it and griping about it
all those years. So we created this character a number
of years ago. Case and she said, what if you
want to change and do something about a kid? So
that's when we created Grandpapa rat Oh gotta be what
(20:18):
twenty years ago? Case twenty thirty years ago? Thirty years ago?
The point was, we created this character and at that time,
I was a competitive bodybuilder girl. So I was already
in my late fifties early sixties, and fortunately for me,
(20:39):
still had a was still lifting weights and had a
pretty muscular, symmetrical physique. So I had this custom outfit
made that showed all my muscles and all that nonsense,
and I became Grandpapa rat. So Frany Casey said, why
don't we bring him back? So I said, I'm ninety four,
(21:02):
ninety five years of age. What the hell are you
talking about? So we brought and with this one, I'm
telling you something, girls, we brought Grandpapa Rap back. And
it was just Casey with our cell phoned filming me
and my condo, dressed up with a hat like Grandpapa Rap.
(21:23):
I think we got a million. We've got a million.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Gosh, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Absolutely, So that's when we decided, you know, that's when
Casey also said, you know, Ken, even though I wrote
a book and all that sort of things, She said,
you're being a little selfish. You should really shit. I said, well,
I don't want to share Grandpapa Raps. So what we
decide to do is what we're doing right now with
you here. I'm a ninety five year old man. Fortunately
(21:53):
for me, even though the body is ninety five years old, girls,
my brain is still good and my voice sounds like
it did fifty years ago. So I'm very lucky there.
I didn't know that was going to happen, by the way,
because if you're in radio, you know a lot of
people retire from voice work at about fifty five or
(22:14):
sixty when they lose the power in their voice. Well,
I haven't lost an ounce of power, so I'm still,
believe it or not. At ninety five years old, I'm
still doing radio commercials for card dealders.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Good for you, Good for you.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
You do it from home. You don't have to go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
And you know something, when I do, I can do
them right here, but I also do them from a
studio if I have to. But I'm still doing them
for four or five card dealers around the country. And
now I'm doing this video with my philosophy on life
because so many people have asked me about it. I figure, well,
now it's time for me to give back, and that's
(22:55):
exactly what I'm trying to do.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah, well, that's good.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I think this new generation we need that. There's not
you know, there's a lack of that that experience, the knowledge,
the old ways. The mindset has changed so much and
it's sad. So I think we need that from someone
who's lived through a lot and been through a lot
and knows a lot like you.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Well, you know something, girls, that's true. But at the
same time, at the same time, even if I go
back sixty seventy years and talk about the good old days,
and these were the days. There weren't a lot of
things wrong with those days too, things that never have
been perfect for the human race. That's who we are.
(23:41):
Look at our history. Yes, with all the opportunities we have,
with all the knowledge we acquire, we just can't get
our act together. Well, it's not just a question of
this generation. It was my generation also, But one thing
we had to have when I was born at You've
got to remember, I was born at the start of
(24:03):
the Great Depression in nineteen thirty one. So in those
days you had to worry about your next meal. So
if you didn't have a work ethic, you didn't eat.
So I think that's the only difference in this generation.
There's so much going on with our technology and so
much abundance of everything that people have sort of forgotten
(24:28):
about the work ethic. And that doesn't mean there's not
a lot of people that's still don't work. By the
tens of thousands, by the millions, they do. But with us,
it wasn't a want, it was a need. We needed
it and if we didn't have it, we were not
going to live during the thirties and forties. Now the
only thing missing I think is maybe that ethic. The
(24:50):
things are so good, particularly girls in our country. For
the abundance is amazing because people don't know this, guys,
but we're two and a half to three percent of
the population of our planet. That's all. We're three hundred
and forty million people and there are over seven billion,
(25:11):
eight hundred and fifty million people on Earth, so we're
only two and a half to three and a half
three percent, but we are twenty five percent of the
gross international product, so we can really indulge ourselves in stuff,
in things, in materials. Do you follow me?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
And I think we sort of take that for granted,
And I think we shouldn't take anything for granted, just
that simple Yeah, not even our next breath, kid, because
if we don't have your next breath five minutes later,
you're dead. So the idea is, even when you're breathing
all these years and just something you do so naturally
and you have to do it every second, you really
(25:52):
take it for granted. Don't take it for granted.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Yes, one hundred percent, that's very it's important and that
you're right. I agree with that's what the generation lacks
is it's kind of they haven't had it that hard,
the entitlement and the workoutic definitely.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
But.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yeah, these are lessons that they can learn from people
like you and here and just hopefully open their eyes
to how lucky and blessed we are.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Yeah. Now, if you have any Q and A for me,
if anything else you want to know, just ask me
and I'll tell you to the best of my ability.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Well, why don't you tell us about your book. It's
called Age My Ass.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Yeah, Well, we have to really discuss first the interpretation
of the use of those three words age my Ass.
As I got older, all of a sudden, I had
a fear when you hit about thirty five to forty. Girls,
(26:55):
all of a sudden, when you're twenty five, you know,
you're not worried about your moretality. You think you're gonna
live forever for God's sake, there's so many things to do,
so many things to learn. You're gonna get married, you're
gonna have kids, you're gonna get a job, you're gonna
look forward to advance yourself in that job. So you're
not then all of a sudden, you turn forty to fifty,
(27:15):
and you're aware, You're at least aware of your mortality.
Now the business is become aware of your mortality. The
other word you don't want is fear. You can't fear
your mortality or you will try to escape it for
the rest of your life. And in trying to escape
(27:36):
your mortality, you will live under a veil of stress
and anxiety. So the mere fact that I was able
to overcome that between about forty and sixty sixty five seventy,
I went through it, but I got over it, as
you can see right now at ninety five. And the
fact is that's why I wrote the book Age by Ass.
(27:58):
So Age b Ass was simply me saying, well, if
I can, can I really make Can I really make
the second half of my life better? Not just as good, ass,
but better than the first half. And I said to myself,
yes I can. Well, most people don't do that. They
(28:19):
don't even want to admit their age, because I think
age is a negative. Age is not a negative. Take
a look, guys, ninety five ages are positive. Do you agree?
Speaker 4 (28:30):
I agree, I agree, you don't look ninety five.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
That's why I wrote the book Age My Ass, because
now I've realized that if you really play it right.
And by the way, I didn't write the book I
think Casey until I was eighty five, eighty six, eighty
seven years old, yep. And everyone was always telling me
to write a book girls about my life because I've
had such an interesting life, and I said, come on,
(28:57):
I'm not going to brag on myself. But then when
they said, right about your philosophy on life and how
you live the second half of your life, then I
knew I had something to contribute because I was now
living proof that it could be done. This isn't some
forty five or fifty year old professor on aging telling
(29:17):
you how to live the rest of your life. This
is a guy who has done Itah. I mean, I'm
only about twelve thirty hundred days shy of one hundred.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
So the fact is that's why I wrote Age in
my assd about eight ten years ago, just so I
could somehow put down and let people know between forty
and sixty as they go through that transitional generation. I
wanted them to know. And I say it in one
of my videos, you live five generations if you're fortunate,
(29:50):
and I think most people today, not my generation. When
I was young, I think the average male age was
sixty eight and women were seventy two. Now it's up
to about seventy seven for men and eighty two for women.
I said, but there's no reason that people alive today
shouldn't live one hundred good years. Well, the most important
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generation being that there's twenty years to a generation, and
one hundred years is five generations. The most important generation
is that middle generation, the one between forty and sixty
leading into the second half of their life. That's why
I wrote the book Age My Ass and the purpose
(30:34):
the age of my ass is Age my Ass. I
have a second, better half of life, kid. And guess
what here we go with the word I was talking
to you about before, have an opportunity. So life is
an opportunity, and after forty to fifty, you have the
opportunity to make the second half of your life better
(30:58):
than the first. I mean, ask you, guys a question,
why would I say that? Why do you think I
would say that?
Speaker 1 (31:05):
I feel I mean for the second half to be
better than the first is that's the whole point of living.
To me, anyway, you learned and you want I want
to get the most out of life. I want to
be happier than I've ever been before. I want, you know,
like you said, I don't want to be chasing. Oh
the end is coming soon, in the end, and then
you don't really live life when you're constantly thinking that.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
It's that Sean or Layla speaking.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
It's me Lauren, La la, Laala listening to you.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Good honey, You're absolutely right, absolutely right. The thing you meant,
the word word you used, the most important word, was learning.
Why do you think the first forty years your life
were of course they were exciting. Of course there was curiosity.
Of course you were experimenting. Of course you had passion
(31:54):
for life, you had youth, but you were learning, you
were learning to make sure. And now the second half
of your life, by the time you're forty to sixty,
that's when you should become mature and finally learn what
you were discovering and searching for and learn about it
(32:14):
and become knowledgeable of it. And therefore the second half
of your life, because of those particular conditions, can be
better than the first half. That's all I see it.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
I agree, I agree, I agree. Well, it's very important.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Now are you going to write a second book at
one hundred?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
You know something that people have suggested it, but you
know something, Think about it. Girls. What's important to me now? Well,
money's important, but it's not as important as it was
when I had fifty sixty years to live and I
was developing my business. Unfortunately for me, I had a
very good business. We were number one of what we
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did in the country as far as radio was concerned,
so obviously made a good amount of money. And even
though money was important, I think people become obsessed by money,
and all of a sudden they got several million dollars
and instead of chasing life and the meaning of life,
they're still chasing money because they're obsessed with it. I
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realized I had to get rid of that obsession, and
I finally realized that two things were a hell a
lot more important than money. Time and people. The people
in your life that you care for, the care for
you that you've known for a while, and the time
you have left. Well, let's face the kids. I ain't
(33:40):
got much side. In fact, I love to tell the
story my doctor said to me when he was adding me.
He said, boy, again, it's amazing your organic system is like,
you know, my gut. He said, it's like a younger
man and blah blah blah, And I was very pleased
to hear that. He said, you know, you could live
to be a hundred. My answer was, you mean I've
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lived ninety five percent of my life? So yeah, well
that's it I had. And guess what, girls, So what
if I were to leave this world right now as
I'm talking to you, and I have a smile on
my face, kids, because I've had a marvelous life. Remember,
we're born to do one thing. We're born to live
(34:21):
our lives then pass away. That's how it works, kid,
And that's how it's worked for centuries and millenniums of time, okay,
thousands of years. So that's the way it's going to work.
And we've seen so many people. Come on, Lailah, Come on, Sean,
how many people that you know? In fact, my producer
(34:44):
for thirty years, I think Adam was. Casey was sixty
six years old for thirty years, since he was thirty
three years old. Thirty four years old, died of cancer.
And look at all the other diseases you can pass
away from between forty fifty and sixty and here I
am at ninety five. No matter what comes along, I
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am so appreciative of everything I've had, and I can
look back on my life and fortunately I had the
greatest lady in the world. Gave my heart and soul
to her. We had sixty three years together.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
And hopefully case she'll send a picture of her. She
was a beauty so naturally. I met her when I
was thirty and she was forty. By the way, she
was ten years older than me. Now can you imagine that,
and at that age a man marrying a woman for
being engaged to a woman that was ten years older
(35:44):
than himself. But age didn't mean nothing to me, as
you can see right now. What important. What was important
was the person I was involved with. So naturally physiologically
and visually and sexually I was at so she looked
so damn good. All I wanted to do was make
love to her. Yeah, I mean, it's some of the girls.
(36:07):
It's natural. This is people don't want to talk about it,
but every man and every woman goes through that stage
of their life. Now, there's nothing wrong with that. That's natural.
That is nature at worked. That's the way I see it.
But what I really found that Millie was after being
with the most beautiful lady in the world. And you'll
see her picture, and I'm telling you she was classified
(36:31):
by many people as no one ever had a face
like hers. It was absolutely gorgeous. And then when I
saw the body and it was as good as the face,
I said, I said, where the hell do you go
from here? Kid? So exactly, So we spent sixty three
years together. Guys, and I never had any blood children, okay,
(36:53):
but her son was eight years old, then eight nine
years old when I met her. And now I got
a son and he's not my blood son, but he's
my real son, and my son he's seventy six years old,
I got to see. So the point is, I've got
a real I've had a real rewarding life. So to
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get back to what I was talking about five minutes ago,
you are born to live your life, and after you
lived it, pass on. The key kids is live it well.
Follow your own reality, follow your own identity. Know who
you are, have all the influencers around you that you
(37:40):
want to influence you. But no matter how much, no
matter what's going on around you, no matter how well
you think of anything else. If you don't agree with it,
if you can't identify with it, don't have it influence
you to the point where it changes your mind, your identity,
and your reality. Know who you are. Only if you
(38:04):
know who you are and have your real identity can
you really know who you are and live authentically through
that person. And I've been able to do that so
for ninety five years. That's how I've lived my life.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
Guys, hy as was really written and geared toward men.
Why don't you tell the girls? What do you think
a midlife man's number one mistake is?
Speaker 2 (38:31):
The man's number one mistake is the first thousand mistakes
he makes between forty and sat Mee, the hell can
I tell you? You know? The point is I think
that because I'm telling you girls, I was no different
and what you're hearing right now and all that you've
been here and all this time, I'm an average Joe.
I really am. It was just my will power and
(38:52):
my determination to get the most out of my life.
Now when you girls do the same, get the most
out of your life. Make sure you got your values
in place, and build on those values, because just imagine
every day you live is one day less you have
to live. So if you have one day left to live,
(39:12):
make the next day better than the previous. There makes sense.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Yeah, you're making me emotional.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
All right, guys. You know we've done girls, which I
think is important. And this was Casey's idea the audiobook
because you do it in two and three minute segments,
and let's face it, during that period of time forty
to sixty thirty five, forty to sixty sixty five, there's
(39:44):
one hundred to one hundred and fifty different facets that
you can go through, different conditions in life that you
question yourself on, and you may have self doubts about
you follow me, So I cover all those in a
period of two to three minutes. So the fact is
we case It came up with the ideas. She said, well,
you know something, they can buy your book, and they
(40:07):
probably will buy your book if they if they believe
in your philosophy can but wouldn't it be great if
they could have you on their iPhone or however else
they could be delivered and have at least play one
of your audios, which would be one of my videos really,
but only the audio part of it, and it would
(40:27):
be two and a half minutes long, and maybe that
would give them a boost and it would have that
whip them. So we have an audio book.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
That's amazing, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Yeah, and the point is here, here's how we did it.
Remember I told you about money not be important. It's
important only to the point that we pay our bills.
If you have a lifestyle, girls, Leila Sean, if you
have a lifestyle, let me put it to you this way.
Let's say you have a very very good lifestyme and
you got everything you need in your life, and it
costs as much as one hundred, two hundred and fifty
(40:57):
thousand dollars, and let's assume it was one hundred fifty
thousand dollars. You had two cars, and you had a home,
and you had a vacation home, and you really lived
a good life. And you could do that all on
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to two hundred thousand
dollars a year. And that's what assuming million a million dollars
a year. Sean. Now, let me ask you what's more important,
(41:17):
the first two hundred thousand or the second eight hundred thousand.
Now you think about it, yeah, makes sense. Yeah, because
when you think about it, kids, all that eight hundred
thousand dollars is is black numbers on white paper. You
can only spend so much money. Yep. So that's why
time and people became so important to me as I
(41:40):
got older, because I had less time and the people
in that time became more important in my life.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
Yes, that's so true.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
Can you tell our listeners what your website is where
they could purchase your audio book and your actual book.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
That would be two minutes with the dot com.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
If they go to two minutes with demand dot com,
they'll see all about me and here all about me kid.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
Thank you so much for coming on the show.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
My pleasure DearS, and if I can bring you up
the stuff in three or four months and let you
know how I'm doing, just give Casey a call and
uh we'll do this again.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
A down good.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Thank you so much, Thank you, Ken love bye.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
And that's our show for this week. Thank you so
much for tuning in. Be sure to check out our
website Shawnaandlala dot com. Be sure to follow us on
all social media platforms at Shauna and Lala. You could
follow me on Instagram. At the Real Shauna.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
May and check me out at Bella Underscore Laala one,
two five.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
We will see you next week.
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