9.23: UofL Basketball Head Coach Pat Kelsey + Rich Lechleiter of Catholic Education Foundation, an Explosion in Shively, and Jamie Lissow

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thank you, Jack Fox. And we are brought to you
by the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety, and we got
a special start to the show. Usually we jump right
into the lead stories. I am in hall and what's
the lead story and what are we going with? But
now the lead story is the Catholic Education Foundation, Dwight, not.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Catholic People's Society.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
What it is. Rich Leckwier is here with us. Rich,
how are you?

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Good morning guys.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
If you're in the studio, that means it's time for
the luncheon, which is Thursday.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Thursday noon at the gold House Grand Ballroom. It's almost
sold out and hopefully it's our biggest event ever.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Can't wait.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yes, it's They fill the big room for this. I
havem seed that event for the last seven or eight years,
and I guess I wasn't enough. They had to bring
in the heavy hitter. And we have them on the
phone right now. We're talking to Pat Kelsey, coach at
University of Louisville Fighting Cardinal basketball team.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Pat.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
How are you doing, sir?

Speaker 4 (00:56):
I'm doing awesome. Thanks so much for having me on.
It's an honor to be here.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
I've always said I thought that the Catholic experience. Experience
is very similar in Cincinnati as is in Louisville. You
could it really mirrors each other. You got molar, say
next Cincinnati, it's a lot of this grade schools are
all involved. It's really kind of a similar experience. And
I think that's why Rich and the guys at CEF

(01:23):
asked you to be part of Thursday. Tell me about
that is your Catholic faith and then your experience going
to school sort of sort of mirror what you see
your friends in Louisville.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
Ask yeah, I think it's very similar. I've spent the
last gosh decade and a half down in the Carolinas,
a different part of the country, and now being back
to Louisville.

Speaker 5 (01:45):
It does.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
You said it perfectly. At mirrors in many ways my
upbringing in Cincinnati. Both have very large Catholic populations and
in so many ways neighborhoods are defined by what that
you go to and school that you that you went to.
And it was, uh, you know, Catholic education played a

(02:07):
major part in helping to shape and to form me
into who I am today. I believe in it so much.
Three of my children attend Catholic schools here in the
Louisville area, and you mentioned a couple of the Cincinnati
ones as well. I got to give a shout out
to my grade school, Old Saint Vivian in Finnytown, Ohio
and Elder High School on the.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
I love it, And the kids are at Holy Trinity,
right go Eagles?

Speaker 4 (02:35):
Correct? I have I have wanted Holy Trinity and uh
and then and then I have my two girls. One
is that Assumption ones at Sacred Heart. So their rivals
house divide it.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Coach Pat Kelsey joins the show. Coach Kelsey, I was
at an event a week ago Monday that you were at.
It was at service. It was the twenty fifth anniversary
there and Danny Wimmer was there. He got up and
it was he called you up when he was speaking.
It was you, the Chefitzervici in the yourself and Danny Wimmer.

(03:08):
It seems like you guys are great friends. And then
number two at Louder than Life this year, one of
the concert t shirts was that old fighting cardinal. Did
you have something to do with that? And are you
guys great friends?

Speaker 5 (03:22):
Well?

Speaker 4 (03:22):
I just have so much respect. I didn't have anything
to do with the shirt. I love it every day
of the week and twice on Sunday. But gosh, what
Danny has built here in Louisville with the amazing music
festival both Bourbonham Beyond and Louder than Life. I got
the experience it this year. Last year I was out
of town, and it was absolutely amazing. My daughter's got

(03:46):
to see their one of their favorite performers, Megan Maroney,
but just to see the forty five to fifty thousand
people there in the spectacle that it is and the
organizational machine, logistical machine that that place is. And I
saw Danny on quote unquote game night, and he was
cool as a cucumber. He just had everything operating like

(04:07):
a like a well oiled machine. And he's he's, he's,
he's he's great for this city and what he does
for this city is phenomenal. Not to mention Olk Chef,
who got honored their twenty fifth anniversary at SAVI Great American.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Story, American Story. I was going to come up and
say hi to your coach, but what with that restraining
order that Danny has against me at all?

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Look, Pat, it's you know this event on on Thursday,
I mean, it'd be a thousand people in the room
from all kinds of decades, and all of the thirty
nine parishes in the high schools will be there. I
think Assumption is singing the national anthem this year. Rich
I'm giving you a look. I think that's it. But

(04:53):
you know, here's the deal. Coaches matter. Teachers matter. It's fun.
It's amazing to think that you Pat Kelsey as a
coach and you're doing your thing, you could probably pick
up the phone and call one of your old coaches
no matter where you are in the world, and that

(05:15):
person would pick up the phone. That dynamic. It never
goes away. Coaches matter, no.

Speaker 4 (05:23):
Question, and I believe coaches are teachers. I take great
pride in being called a teacher even before a coach.
And we talked about, you know, the caliber of education
and the impact that the Catholic education received on me.
I mean, I could just go on and on and
name all the teachers that had an amazing impact on
my life. I'll never forget the day I graduated from college,

(05:45):
I called my first grade teacher. Her name was Eileen Davis,
God rest her soul. She had been at Saint Vivian.
I think for thirty five forty years and I was
one of her last classes and just to tell her
thank you. Never delay. Gratitude is a big thing that
we recite in our program. But I could you know,
just the people, the people in the classroom that change

(06:07):
my life, shape my life. I mean, hack my best
friend in the world. One of my best friends in
the world is Joe Schoumfeld, the head basketball coach at
Elder High School and has been a teacher there for
forty years as well. And you know, it's pretty cool.
And then gosh, you look at at at at this organization.
You know, the leadership that Rich provides, the leadership that

(06:28):
Julie bamb provides, the millions of dollars that are raised
and that go toward providing Catholic school education for you know,
for people that that you know have a hard time
paying the full tuition because you know, there is a
cost involved. It is expensive, but I believe it's worth it.

(06:49):
And through the work of this foundation, many many people
are able to receive the same type of blessings and
education that somebody like me received uh being a Catholic
school student all those years.

Speaker 5 (07:03):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Pat Kelsey is our guest head Basketball Coast at University
of Louisville Fatting Cardinals. He'll be with us on Thursday
our luncheon. My job is to keep it to fifty
six minutes. That's my job. And uh short shorten off
these events and uh and they come back every year.
That's that's the rich l like lader way. Uh So, coach,
you're not gonna You're not gonna. You're not gonna kill

(07:24):
my timeline, right, I mean, I want you to do
your thing and okay, and no push ups and jumping
Jackson and uh and and go off, uh, go off
the rails. But you are you who you are. But
we we're so excited that you're gonna be able to
share your Catholic journey with us here at this luncheon.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
Coach, No, I'm I'm honored, extremely honored to be asked
to do this. This is an important impactful organization and
cause for me. One of my last speeches that I
gave down in South Carolina before I left the College
of Charleston. It was at a fundraate dinner a different
a different cause, but there was a Southern Baptist preacher

(08:05):
and a politician at my table. And the Southern Baptist
preacher looked at both of US basketball coach and a politician.
They said before we went up on stage, he said,
blessed are the brief for they shall be re elected.
I'll try to do my death to be short and soon.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
That's awesome.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
It is, it's great, and I've seen a lot of runs.
Rick Patino was a big Catholic, and I remember them
playing Duke in the final four. We were I was
covering that event for seven ninety and Jackie and I
were there and my wife and I and we there
was Saint John's, my son's named Saint John's in Indianapolis,
big church down there. And I looked back to my

(08:48):
ride about three four pews back and Shryzhevsky was there
by himself, going to church on Easter Sunday, and it just, yeah,
it makes you feel good. He doesn't have a daft,
doesn't have anybody around. He's there at church, you know,
on Easter Sunday. Of course it didn't help on that
day because Rick got him.

Speaker 6 (09:07):
Uh, but we.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Appreciate, we appreciate your time. And by the way, coach,
I live basically on Holy Trinity property, so my backyard
backs up. Father Shane comes over to get away from
the chaos and smokes his cigars on my back deck. So, uh,
you're you're welcome to welcome wander over there anytime.

Speaker 6 (09:23):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
We are excited about the basketball season. Two. Let's have
you on again. We'll talk basketball. Okay, coach, that sounds good.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
I have got so much.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
I've got some plays drawn up for your coach.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
He don't want any of those players. The twenty two
to do is thanks than.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
I got a one point three one point three other million?

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Uh, yes you.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Do, yes, yes you do? Why is he playing the four? Okay,
thanks coach. We'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
Thanks coach.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Oh boy, Uh, what a great opportunity for everybody having
Pat Kelsey when he came into town. How long did
it take? Did you know him before he came.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
To No, I didn't even know. We're both the Xavier graduates.
But he we got connected with him, I guess in
the spring. And we did a podcast with coach in April.
It only got three hundred and fifty thousand listeners.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Oh my, yeah, goshes wow.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
I did a podcast with him and got three hundred
and fifty one thousand you know, stupid. So that's but
that's where it came out.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
You know, how much his faith matters, his Catholic faith is.
His upbringing is from a large family in the West
side of Cincinnati, and I think he really sort of embraced,
you know, the opportunity to talk to us, and I
actually learned about what we're doing. And then quite honestly,
you know, there's like he knows lots of people as

(10:53):
I do growing up, who would have been CEF kids
right right, but for but for the lower cost back then.
But today it's a different story. So we're you know,
we're we just announced for this fall record funding or
record demand actually from families that we funded of eight
point six million dollars. Oh my gosh in thirty seven

(11:15):
hundred kids, plus seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars to
the nine Catholic high schools as well.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Oh my gosh. That's that's fantastic. And how about him
calling his first grade teacher the day he graduated from college.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
I remember I called my kindergarten teacher, Yeah, the one
even before first grade?

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah, oh right, oh you did that, Yeah you one
uped on pack else.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, kelt that's good. That's good.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
She taught you your colors, but you still didn't get it.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Well, she would say, little fed white, what color is that?
I go football dirt?

Speaker 1 (11:54):
Rich Lecklier will have you also on Friday. Split the
pot or no, no, not split the pot? Yeah, split
the pot will be announced.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
Talk Julie Bomb will be here in person.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
Now we're cooking with guests.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Julie Baum said, I'm sending Rich today because I cannot
see you three times in a week. I might kill you.
And I went, I love you too, Julie Bomb. She
tends to get a little stressed when it comes to
the lunch and week. Rich leg Latter, thank you for
coming in and hanging out, and now I we'll see you
on Thursday at the luncheon with Pat Kelsey. By the way,
if somebody wants to sneak in, it's not totally sold

(12:26):
out yet. How do they get a ticket?

Speaker 3 (12:28):
Call our office five eight, five, twenty seven forty seven
are going one ce flu dot.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Org, Catholic Education Foundation. Thank you, Rich leck Ladder, Thank
you all right, short break, we will come back right.

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Speaker 2 (13:45):
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(14:08):
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want to say thank you to my friends Jeff and
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(14:31):
table Friday night at the Neuroscience a fundraiser. She seems
a little bit perturbed with me. Amelia Harshfield does because
I ate her steak. No good decos on?

Speaker 4 (14:45):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Why don't you go out there and talk more Catholic stuff.
So I was sitting at a table and her steak came,
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be careful about their cholesterol more than men. So I
eat my friend Amelia Harshville's steak for her, and she
seemed to get up tied about it. So then I
told her to calm down, and that made things even worse.

(15:10):
I can't imagine. So some people just hold a grudge. Man,
you know, you of all people who know no good
deed goes unpunished. Uh, you won't talk more Catholic stuff?
Or is that out of your system?

Speaker 4 (15:22):
Now?

Speaker 1 (15:22):
It's on my system.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
For now.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
You won't bring up Father Tim and Father Frank and
Father Mike and all these fathers, you know, Father Shane,
Father Shane. I like Father Shane.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah he's good.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
He's my buddy.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
Yeah he's good. He he did not like your joke
when he did a good job that day. He honestly
said to me the other day when he saw him
on his at the priest's house, he goes, I had
no idea how many people listen.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
To your show seven.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
It's like my phone was blowing up when I was
on there. I was like, that's right, father Shane.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
We pay people to do that.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
All right.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
So yesterday, second explosion in two years. A person is
dead after an explosion and a plant in Shively. The
Louisville and Shively Fire Department were called to a fire
alarm at twenty five hundred block A Seventh Street Road,
a business called AAK My wife knows about that. I
think one of our businesses sells electrical equipment to them.

(16:16):
This plant makes plant based oils and fats, and they,
I believe used hydrogen to do that in a hydrogen tank.
Apparently exploded, killing one. Our thoughts and prayers. Again, this
is the second one in a row, and I'm wondering
if and I have no idea whether these plants were

(16:40):
grand followed in before or whatever. But it's interesting to
see these these plants in the center of neighborhoods because
the last plant, remember that was of course that one
was was ridiculous. That was ridiculous that that that explosion
rocked the entire town.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Well, maybe we're lucky this one was not involved.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Clear clearly.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
So oh, by the way, this is for Julie bomb. Yes,
a message just came to me from Berta. Berta happens
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the entire state, not just the Catholic People's Society of Louisville, yes,
or Jefferson County or whatever Julie's in charge of. Yeah,

(17:21):
So Burda says, by the way, is Cuban. Did I
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Back after this on news Radio eight forty wh Yes,
all right.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
News Radio waight forty wha as Tony Venedi, Dwight Whitten,
John Alden, the serial killer driving the ship. He's back
from his concert duties.

Speaker 4 (19:16):
Right.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
It was great, great time, louder than life. Is Jamie
on the line. He is on the line. Hey Jamie,
how you doing?

Speaker 5 (19:23):
What's up? Guys?

Speaker 2 (19:24):
Good morning man, It's good to talk to you. Liss
how right? I always screwed people's last names up, and
I don't want to do it on purpose, so I'll
say it right now. Is that James Liss how is
that how I pronounce it?

Speaker 5 (19:35):
Did I appreciate you asking quick story? So on gutfalt
they say lissow on the radio show I was on
for five years. They say Listo. I say Lisso, But dude,
maybe I haven't saying her on.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
No almost I'm gonna change the Lisso then listos.

Speaker 4 (19:49):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 5 (19:51):
But it's a lot of a lot of lists hous
no big deal.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
The way I want to talk to you about a
lot of things. Number One, the tour is coming to
uh a lit of Kentucky where we're at. But this
comedy tour, it's the Better Off Dad Comedy Tour is
hitting North America. Hits Louisville, Kentucky on October tenth at
the Bombheart Theater. But Jamie wore a woke show, So

(20:14):
we prefer that you call it the Better Off Dude
Comedy Tour. And here's why. My partner, my partner, Tony Nady,
has a daughter that goes to the University of Cincinnati,
and they've replaced daughter daddy Daughter Day yea with.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
Father Tuesday No Father's Father's Day where all the dads
come to the shorting we hang out and play ping
pong or whatever the hell we do. Well, I got
the T shirt and says happy Dude's Day, and I
was like, what the hell is this? And she was
just like, well, some people in the SERAA just don't
have fathers, so we don't want say dads anymore, so
your dudes. So I'm like, I'm rolling up in that

(20:50):
house going hi, everybody, I'm Maggie's dude, which sounds really creepyle.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
We'll go with it.

Speaker 5 (20:56):
That's why I don't want to bring the vibe of
the showdown. But I actually grew up without a dude.
Don't we care about me?

Speaker 2 (21:05):
Oh my god? You know no, you did.

Speaker 5 (21:10):
You ever hear?

Speaker 1 (21:12):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (21:12):
Let me say this very carefully, but if you have
you heard that you're supposed to you know, you're supposed
to say like there's all different words for like, okay,
I heard the like birthing per You heard that.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
One person when when he told when he told me
that news yesterday, I said, I said, you does she
show up and go hey everybody, this is my dude
and my birthing person, And uh yeah.

Speaker 5 (21:38):
Instead of instead of birthing person, I've always said person
that rejects me. That's where and did you hear what
they want to call guys? You heard the other one
they want to they want to call them penis owners.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
No, wait, wait, that is that? That's that it's not
correct because everyone knows my wife owns my y.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
We're married, we don't own it, that's right.

Speaker 5 (22:06):
And in Biden's America, I don't know if my son
will ever people actually own his own pens, I think.
And no one would have watched the movie three you know,
three penis Owners and the baby.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
Oh my god, you're you're like, we say, you're a
regular on Gutfield? Does it? Is this the craziest time
in history because things just seem so lopsided and the
common sense is completely out the window. Do you think

(22:39):
that in fifty years people are going to say, did
they really do all that? Because it seems like it's
just nuts right now?

Speaker 5 (22:47):
Dude, it's nuts right now. But you know, even though
it's been a tough couple of weeks, I do feel
like the free speech thing, and especially for comedians, I
feel like it's never been better for medians. Maybe that's
like a weird blague, but I feel like it used
to be the Big three shows, right It was like ABCNBCCBS,
you wanted to get on Lano or something. And now

(23:10):
we got Greg Gutfeld on a cable station, on a
cable news station that's getting the ratings that's getting and
I feel like there's just a little more places for
guys to slot in, man. And it is crazy, but
I when Kimmel went off the air, you know, like
I know people that write for that show, and like
I got worried about my friends, and like when he
came back on, I was actually excited.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
Man.

Speaker 5 (23:31):
I was like, good, good, he's back on, you know.
And it's also fair because we're over on Gutfeld. It's
kind of like nice having a little competition, you guys,
know what I'm saying, Like we're not the generals with
the Globe shutters dunk on.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
Well, So we talked about your tour. By the way,
Jamie Lissaus joining the show Better Off Dad, the comedy
tour hitting Louisville, Kentucky on the tenth of October. I
want to talk about your mood, daddy daughter trip or
dude daughter trip if you're woke, Yeah, daddy daughter trip. Man.
John Cleese is in this, Rob Schneider, Michael Blue blaz

(24:10):
You co wrote this and produced this. How much time
did you put into this man? Because it seems like
that would be a monster of a project, especially with
your career.

Speaker 5 (24:21):
It was. It was a wild project, but it was
actually written during COVID, oh when he couldn't really tour.
And whenever you see a co writing credit with me
and Rob Schneider, you can just go ahead and assume
I wrote the whole thing. He he just lends his
powerful name, not we wrote that together. When I remember,
I was in I was doing like you remember, you remember,

(24:44):
like where you first were when COVID stuff started happen,
Like I remember very distinctly. I was at like Foxwoods,
and I was doing some shows of my own, and
then like Sandler and Schneider and Spade were coming up
for the weekend, so I was doing my shows. I
was like, I'm gonna hang with those guys for the weekend.
And that was the first time I remember. I went
up to one of the security guards and I go,
what's going on? They said something about maybe canceling the show,

(25:05):
and I remember that when I said, oh, thanks for
telling me, the guy shook. He did like the elbow
bump and I was like, what's going on? And he
was like, Oh, We're supposed to do this now. And
I was like, what is what is happening? And that
was the beginning of the end. And that's that's why
we wrote that. That's why we wrote that movie. By
w M I.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
Now you mentioned that you were hanging out with those guys.
You also you were friends with Norm McDonald man. He's
one of my Uh. I got to tell you he's
a role model to me. Loved his work, he seems
I've met him a couple of times and he was
just a regular guy, uh the best. He just stayed
ground and didn't he There was no or at least

(25:46):
that's what you knew him way better than I did
obvious yelling man him a couple of times. But it
seemed to me my intern actions with him, there was
no celebrity about him, or was there.

Speaker 5 (25:56):
No, there was not at all. There was There was
no ego with Norm. He will was the most down
to earth, just like giving, generous, hilarious, like the fun
we had him on. One of the last projects he
did was our Netflix TV show Me and Schneider. It
was real. Rob Norman was in that and I have
never we had a lot of funny people on that
show Standler, you know, but met Spade. But I have

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never laughed harder than the day that Norm McDonald was on,
like just ad libbing, just completely inappropriate line that had
nothing to do with anything, and just like it was
the first time I ever ruined a take from behind
the camera, like where I left so hard. Yeah, he
was a good dude man.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
Jamie Les joins the show Better Off Dan Comedy to
her coming to Louisville, Kentucky October tenth plus lookout for
his movie Daddy Daughter Trip. I want to talk about
another movie that you're getting ready to do. And while
I was doing my research on you and said The
Animal Too. I pulled that up to do a little research,
and it was a Ving Raims movie, But that's not

(26:56):
the one. It was a different one. And is the
Animal two with Rob and what's the what's what's the
story behind it? He gets some kind of an animal
transplant to save his life and he takes on animal tendencies?
What what what's the deal with that movie?

Speaker 5 (27:11):
Okay, so when the original Animal, Rob Schneider is a
terrible policeman. He's on the police force and he's like
the worst guy. He gets in an accident and he
has no memory, but he's sort of like healed by
some crazy doctor. But all he knows is that he's
been healed and what happened was the guy used animal
parts to repair Rob Schneider and he becomes a really

(27:31):
good police officer because he has all these animal instincts. Yeah,
and so the sequel that nobody has for that we're
doing is it's like he's now an old, older dog
and yeah, and it's just him and Vin Raims. I'm
just kidding, Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (27:48):
And it's but.

Speaker 5 (27:50):
It's like he's now an old dog. And like the
very first scene, like there's a you know, there's like
a crime scene and the only evidence is this one
footprint in the sand and Rob peas all over. It's
an old dog, and so it gets fired and then
you know, he gets now there's like the animal two
point zero. He gets improved again. And it's a super
fun movie. And we really did add a big element
of making it like a thriller, like an action movie,

(28:11):
and so yeah, we were pretty site it could stand alone.
You know, I want to ask, especially if you've never
seen the Vin Raims one.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
I want to ask you, so, when I was researching,
I probably got this wrong, but somehow I is does
your children, you and your children and your wife have
a place in Alaska, but your kids stay in Alaska?
And when you go on tour? Do you have two places?
How does that work?

Speaker 5 (28:40):
I'll be honest with you. I wish you were getting
this wrong, but you're getting it exactly right. This is
all the truth straight. So, yeah, we live in the
kids live in Fairbanks, Alaska and Boise, Idaho. And so
we're split up and down, got step kids and regular kids,
five total. And I fly from Fairbanks, Alaska to New
York City to do gust all three times a month.

(29:00):
I'm like, I'm like a golden moose in the Last Airlines.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yeah. Your wife's a doctor, is that right?

Speaker 5 (29:10):
Yeah? My my wife's a doctor. She's here with me
right now. I do. It's kind of fun that I
do the radio shows, she does the she sees patients
in this other room beside us, and then everyone's while,
just for fun, we switch you. Hey, what are gonna
take my shirt off? I got a sprained ankle. I got.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
If she's there right now, I almost sending you a
picture I've got a spot on me that looks suspicious.
If you could just.

Speaker 5 (29:34):
Get that all the time and happy to show her.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
Does it not stop calls? Because my doctor happens to
be my brother in law, and I'm fifty seven years old,
so that means every year I have to get something
called a digital rectal exam. My doctor gave me the
best line in my life. The very first time that
he did this, I said, Scott, this is the most
humiliating thing ever he goes. He peeped around the corner

(29:58):
of me and he said, Hey, it's no picnic for
me either. Do you guys get Do you guys get
medical calls NonStop from friends and family.

Speaker 5 (30:07):
NonStop? If we just look at that photo you sent
and that's your nipple, yeah, there should be another one
on the other side, and uh oh, non stopped it.
When I first when I first met Erica, I was
telling her about, like in comedy, how people are always like,
tell me a joke, be funny. Oh, I get the
same thing, and you know I get the same thing

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with doctor stuff. And I swear to God, the first
night she ever came with me on the road, I
got off stage. And when I got the stage one
in the green room, the opening act had his shoe
and sock off and was asking her to examine a
thing on his foot. I swear to that. I was like,
I don't mind that.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
It's crazy, Jamie.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
List out, look, man, we look forward to getting you here.
The Better Off Dad Comedy Tour hits North America and
hitting Louisville, Kentucky on October the tenth of the Kentucky
Bomber Theater. Listen, man, good luck with the movie Daddy
Daughter Trip and can't wait to see here in Louisville,
and keep kicking ass on Gutfield. Man.

Speaker 5 (31:06):
Hey, I really appreciate it you guys. And I'm drinking
a little coffee out of my number one dude mug
right now.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Hey Jamie, we'll see you down the road. Good to
hear from you again. Man, all right, see you, funny guy. Oh,
Sam's furniture, That's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
I'm so glad we got got it covered. Of where
he lives and his kids live. How many houses?

Speaker 2 (31:31):
He ask we? Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
What uh so where do you live? And is it
a good house?

Speaker 2 (31:40):
Well? No, it's because he's got a house in Alaska.
His kids stay there and no stop, and he's got
it's like a two family type. Well, have you cared
about what kids do? Oh? Let's hear about your first
communion again? Can we get the Catholic people's society in
here and start.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
How Jesus is involved in their families.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
Let's not talk about, let's talk about.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Let's not touch on how Jesus touched these people's souls.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Hey, remember the time that means you and Father Brian
and Father Mike went fishing. Remember that? What your wife do?
We went fishing because these are new shoes. Fish.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
I think you're funnier. These are new shoes.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Do you like them?

Speaker 6 (32:18):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Remember the time that Father Brian worked the cake wheel?
That was something over the top.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
Laugh too is my favorite.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
It was funny.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
Dwight, come on, Johnny's taking his head.

Speaker 5 (32:29):
He knows.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
That's a Curtis. It makes me laugh though.

Speaker 6 (32:36):
So no, his laugh makes me laughs? Yes, yeah, Dwight's
over the top. Your face makes me laugh. I'll tell
you what doesn't make me laugh. It's tariffs.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
Uh, Sims. First, I'm going over there this week.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
You gotta go get the couch. Baby, most comfortable couch
in the world.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
I'm not telling Jackie she's out of town. That's when
you gotta just gonna go get the couch.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
So I don't know if you can yeays know this
or not, but my computers butt Nick is not the
most reliable computer. Yesterday I found a computer on Amazon
seventy three percent off. Seventy three percent off. I'm buying
it today. Wait, but I'm keeping I'm keeping Sputnick. I'm
going to start doing you buying a new computer. Yeah,
but I'm gonna be a two computer guy. I'm bringing

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both in because I need this.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Is like when you would break up with somebody when
you were in your twenties and thirties, you always kept
the other one online just in case the new one
didn't figure out who you were.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
Does just email my notes to spot Nick and Spotney
doesn't run fast, but I just put my notes, so
I'll do it.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
I'm remembering you tell me a story about you bought
something that was eighty percent off and it didn't work.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
That's my watch, and you're going back to that. Well, yeah,
there's a little bit of user error in the watch thing,
just a little bit seventy three percent off on a computer.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
Dwight at ten years old, standing next to the stove,
keep putting his hand back on the stove.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Out out. You know what the old saying is. You
know the old thing is, if it's too good to
be true, it's probably a great deal.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
That's what my grandmama told me.

Speaker 4 (34:09):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
This is a great deal, though. How about saving them
up from five to fifteen percent. That's what's coming with
the tariffs on furniture. But SIMS furniture to the rescue
is always everybody deserves nice home furnishings. How about this.
Let's do the entire bedroom set, queen, bed, dresser, mirror, chest,
night stand, the worst baby all for nine hundred and

(34:32):
ninety nine dollars. A brand new bedroom set for a
hundred thousand dollars. How's that mattress. Let's get a brand
new mattress. They have beautiful, high quality mattresses the Sims,
and they're all twenty percent off right now. Sofa in
love seat seven hundred and ninety nine dollars. You get
both or a sectional. Let's get a sectional just nine

(34:53):
hundred and ninety nine dollars. Folks. This is just a
couple of examples of all the bargains they have at
Sims Furniture, Dixie Highway, and Preston Highway. One am. You're
gonna love.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Him, all right, folks. So we were rolling through our
Number one having a pretty good time.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
Number one.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought I was the comedian he
was interviewing.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
Sorry, I know I didn't. Hey say something about father Keith.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
It's father Shane. His stupid laugh makes me know what,
you know, what makes me laugh? And he called him
the dude. Okay, back after this news Radar eight four
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