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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The comedy show with Killer Bees is coming up this
Friday night in downtown Mobile at the Crescent Theater. Killer Bees,
thanks for.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Coming back in Hey, thank you man. That is day
after tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Day after tomorrow. You're doing comedy, Rightbill?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah, and it is so cool that Zeke and all
those guys have stuck it out in town and now
brought a comedy scene back. That is really really cool.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Now, Killer Bee is your show Friday ninth, seven o'clock
seven o'clock Friday ninth, Crescent Theater. You can get tickets
at Killerbees dot com or go to the Crescent Theater's website.
I guess you can go down there and ask for
a ticket now if they're open.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
The Crescent Theater, by the way, is at two eight
Dolphin Street, Okay, cause people, I'm sure a wondering I
wonder just where that is so too, eight Dolphin Street,
and man, they do good. They show old movies there,
they have comics coming in, so it's some pretty neat
little venue. And on January the eleventh, then we'll get
(01:00):
back to talking about me. But on January the eleventh
they'll be premiering John Miller's film Puppets of Oz.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
You know, John Miller has done a something for kids,
Puppets of Oz. I saw this looks way better than
I thought it was gonna Look these puppets. This is
nice looking puppet shokes.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, they're not Marry and Nett. Now I don't have
strings hanging off of them, y'all.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Too bad, But they're still It's puppets Wizard of Oz story, yep.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So we're looking forward to that coming out. That'll be fun.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Now. The reason that Killer Bees is promoting John Miller's
puppet movie about the Wizard of Oz coming up January eleventh,
of the Crescent is you're in it now, you play
whom I.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Am the voice of the Scarecrow, Yes, indeed right, And
a dear friend of mine is the voice of the
cowardly Lion, and that would be Uncle Henry.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Are you sure no?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
And that because you're in that thing.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I'm in it too. But look see I'm in it,
but a ten men, No, Dorothy, I know that I
was not Dorothy in this movie. This is a Wizard
of Oz things with puppets. Killer Bees is the star
of it, and they have you're the star of it.
I just pop off. Sonck Cop is in it, right.
I don't know if he's the tin Woodsman or the
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cowardly Line, but he's one of.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Them right right. So it's an all star cast from
the Upper Gulf coast of America. For just what it
is from this side of the bay.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
It is like a three zip code all star cast.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yes it is, Yes it And if you were to
add all the years of experience of entertaining between those
of us involved, it be like a million.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
It'd be a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Right day after the Big Bang, it was the day
after the Garden of Eden wasn't quite open. No, that's
for everybody hung out while they was waiting.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Now, Killer be Now Killer Bees is in this Wizard
of Oz thing with me and Sonck Cop and some
other folks. It's premiering on January eleventh of the Crescent Theater.
I want you to know that when we recorded this,
it was mainly Killer Bees joking around, just coming up
with some great stuff, and the rest of us just watching,
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just having fun.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
You know. There was actually one spot where we had
to quit recording and John Miller had to tell everybody,
all right, let's do it over and this time, don't
laugh yes, yes, yes, yes, so but what fun.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Man.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
That was really neat to do. I enjoyed it. I'm
glad that you were in that with us.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Well. I was honored to be asked to be involved
in that kind of thing. So you're in that. You
of course have been on Moonshiners for years. Now. It's
on the Discovery Channel.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Right correct, that We just got done filming season fifteen.
It's my tenth season. We do not have our air
date yet for this season, but it's Discovery Channel. And
if you're unfamiliar, the gist of it is, the Discovery
chain has film crews that file of teams of hillbillies
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up in the mountains, cooking up batches of illegal hoops
and settling it and hiding from the police on camera.
And it is one of those what could ever go
wrong with that?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
With that? And some things do go wrong. Now you
said that, so that there's a season already done, but
nobody knows. They haven't told you when it's going to
be on TV yet. It's just ready to go at
some point.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
It's in the can now, I say it's in the can.
We have wrapped on filming now, I'm sure they're still
doing their editing and their inserts and all that. So
it may not be ready to view today, but we're
done filming all the all the episodes.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
So ten years of being on Moonshiners. Now, when you
first went on that show, did you have any idea
that you were going to be doing it for a decade.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I had no idea, man. I thought it was just
the one time I get to do it. You know,
two of the main characters, Mark and Digger had seen
my show. Now it's been thirty years ago at Zany's
in Nashville at the time. Ten years ago, I got
a text from him, Dude, this is marking Digger from Moonshiners.
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We saw you at Zany's Comedy club in Nashville twenty
years ago where big fans you're on. Now our neck
of the Woods come Seis And so I had my
wife corporate with me and I go, Honey, I need
to be on that TV show. And of course she's
going into a conniption of you and Moonshine. That's all
I need. It was one of those It was one
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of those deals, man. But she saw the connection to
my demographic names to my demographics, and it's international TV man,
it's around the world.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
The connection to your demographic base. So she's making the
assumption that your fans love moonshine, they enjoy that type
of that type of activity and that type.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Of product your and the and the educational slant, well,
there is there's a lot of science.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
You've taught me science from this.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
There is chemistry, physics, yeah, uh uh, trying to beat
a light detective test, all the law and law.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Do you gotta learn law and stuff like that?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
The law? You got to learn how to be invisible? Yes,
And so the way I.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Secured see I thought I was we've got to go
to break. We're up on the break. So Killer Bees
is here if you you can, even if you have
a question for him, maybe you want to ask him
about moonshine or something. Two five one four seven nine
two three the telephone number. Killer Bees doing comedy this
Friday night in downtew Mobile at the Prescent Theater. More
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from Killer Bees. As the Uncle Henry Show continues, Uncle
Henry's Show, Killer Me is this back on the unc
Lenberg show. Killerbes dot com b E A Z Killer
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Bees dot Com. He's going to be doing some comedy
a comedy show seven o'clock Saturday night, no Friday, Nay
this Friday night at the Creshing Theater in downtown Mobile
now two A Dolphin Street, the Crescent Theater with killer Bees,
do you and.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
And real quick? Just to say that commercial that was on.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
They were talking about Nashville's favorite candy.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Google Cluster.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
At one point in time. This has been a couple
of decades ago. Back, guys, a really big deal in Nashville.
There was a turf war between Google Cluster and Moonpie
because I would work Nashville and Chattanooga back to back.
Okay and so and Little Debbie Little Davy snackcakes, Yeah, Chattanooga,
and they would show up. Reps would show up when
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I would come to that town with big bags of
deliciously sugar coated diabetes. Yes, up in a bag. But
I have uh, Google Cluster socks, I have a camouflage
Google Cluster cap. It just all kinds of cool stuff man,
that they hooked me up with. So that that was
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a lot of fun getting those freebies and all that.
It was a neat thing.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Now your showing Mobile, Yes, Cruscent Theater at two o
eight Dolphins.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Two eight Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Street Dolphins, Street and Mobile Friday night, seven o'clock. Now,
have you, during your years of doing comedy, You've done
numerous shows right here in Mobile, Alabama from year to year,
have you been tempted to do mobile only jokes? Have
you written materials specifically for mobile? Ever?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I may have thirty years ago or something like that,
But you get in the habit of writing your acts
so that it is universal. So of course, same act
and West Palm beats that I do in Portland or
Chicago or Phoenix, whatever, But always there's stuff going on
in the town that you're in, and things too. Generally
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it would be things to make fun of, until it's
not as much, it's not as pallable palatable to me
to make fun of the populace and where people live,
you know, being from the Deep South, I get my
accent wise, you know, made fun of all across the
country people, you know, a good natured ribbon. But still,
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you know that gets kind of old to hear it
over and over and over. So so I try not to.
Although although I did notice today when I was on
my way here that once again the national we don't
use turn signals convention is in town that there is that.
(09:53):
And I know this about mobile driving. The word yield.
The word yield means there's room for you too. So
so there are those things we all know.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yes, Now, as a professional comedian, do you have people
coming up to you all the time wanting to tell
you jokes?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Constantly? Still? And they don't know any better?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
You know?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
But that man? Have you heard the one about so
and so? And I say to them, I don't know
what's the punchline, Just tell me how it ends, and
I tell you if I've heard it. But then they
go about telling you the joke anyway, even if they go,
if you heard the one about so and so? Off
I go, Yeah, they'll go, well this guy was going
down the street. And then they embellish it with their
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verse and it lasts about eighteen minutes. Yes, and they
get to the end. I go, and then did he say?
Don't sell that cow? You know what I'm saying? They
always do it, man, and they want to put their
spin on it.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
So, now, in your years of doing the comedy, doing
stand up comedy from a young age all these years,
have you ever had it? Uh? Have you ever had
a job where you were worried you weren't going to
get paid.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yes, and we've been stiffed at gigs. Oh you happened,
Oh yeah, oh yeah. We did New Year's Eve at
one of the punchline clubs out of Atlanta, right back
before they kind of went down. Yeah, you know, there
was a there was a punchline here in Mobile Government
for you. But anyway, Uh, it was like a five
day gig. We started early in the week and went
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all the way through, then did New Year's Eve, went
to get paid and the guys go, man, sorrow, we
can't pay you. We shut our doors, we closed, We're
out of business. They knew the entire week they were
going to do it, and so it was several thousand
dollars to get stiffed. And that happens man, that you
know it, and it's not unheard of. That happens everywhere
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all the time. It seems okay, well, yeah, it's like
any other business man. There's pitfalls, there's people that do
it right, there's people that do it wrong, and people
that will take advantage. But it's part of the game.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Now you are going to be doing speaking of New
Year's Eve, you're doing New Year's Eve's shows in Cookville,
Tennessee this year. Yeah, how are the crowds? And I know,
I know you've done this several many times during your career.
You've done New Year's Eve. You've told me the last
time you were here, differences between Friday and Saturday night crowds.
What about that kind of crowd.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Oh, that'll be a great crowd, man, because they are
in the mood to go celebrate.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Know, it was not a regular Friday, not a regular Saturday,
whatever the day of the week. It's not just you know,
let's go watch a show, it's let's go celebrate. So
we've got, man, we've got all kinds of party favors.
We went through some inventory of our stash, if you will,
last night and today and make sure we have hundreds
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of Tierra's one, hundreds of noisemakers, hundreds of New Year's
Eve hats and stuff. So it's a kind of a
big deal. We'll be doing a dinner show, all this stuff, man,
champagne toast. But it's a special event, you know, and
we try to try to set it up big so
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that people go, you know what we're going to do
this next year?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Okay, so that's the deal.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
And the Cumberland Plateau, which is where Cookville is, is
a gorgeous, gorgeous part of the country. I mean, within
twenty miles any direction, there's waterfalls, there's a just beautiful scenery.
So it's really neat to be in that area.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Okay. So, oh, by the way, we do have a caller.
If you could put on your headphones there and we'll
see slug them into that thing. Yeah, so we do
have a caller. Now, as you've noticed, I don't have
the budget for a call screener, so this could be
who knows, this could be some type of telephone.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
So ut okay, now no color.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Hey good even though Hendler.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Cliff Cliff, you are live on the radio with Killer Be.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Hey Cliff, Yes, good Vening and mister killer Be's I
was wondering about a thousand years ago, do you remember
when you started It was down by a Greyhound bus
station on ninety yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Near Waterberger actually over there, yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Yes, sir, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
And wasn't there like a U haul place right by there?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
I end up in some strange places.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
I just wondered that you remember that you would just
starting out almost.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Right the first time I came to town to perform, I
was the MC the Little Opening Act, and the club
at that time was called the Punchline. Then it evolved
into Mobile Comedy Lounge and so forth and so on.
So I certainly do remember that, Cliff, I totally do.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Brother well, Uncle Henry.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Why to see this, Uncle Henry. He has a lot
of people throwing jokes at him. When you first came on,
Uncle Henry, you you played a note from a guy
saying that the older you get.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
The dumber.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I give yes, Oh yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
You know what. That reminds me of what AOC calling.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Thank you very much, Cliff, Thank you very much for
your phone call. We're gonna hear some news headlines, get
a traffic report, and then more from Killer Bees. He's
doing a comedy show seven o'clock Friday night at two
o eight Dolphins Street the Crescent Theater. The Uncle Henry
(15:52):
Show continues here on news radio seven to ten WNTM.
Killer Bees is back. This is not a rerun Killer Bees.
He's here recently, but he's back to talk about his
comedy show. He's doing a comedy show this Friday night,
seven o'clock at the Crescent Theater two o eight Dolphin
Street and Downtown Mobile. You can get tickets to that
show at the Crescent Theater's website. You can go to
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Killerbes website Killerbees dot com, B E A Z get
tickets there. Hiller, do you mind if we take another
phone call?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I do not mind. It be fun man.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Two five one four some nine two two three. If
you want to talk to Killer Bees, Hello caller Roll
tied t Row sixty eight year old Chris from West
Locksley on the air with Killer Bees.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Hey Chris, Hey, buddy, listen, I got a couple of
questions for you, Yes, sir, for the John Boy and
Billy thing. Did you get that range hit to where
you're going to be on their last show?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Or we haven't heard. We haven't heard yet, man, but
we're in talks with him when we desperately want to
do that. That was such a huge part of my
life and career for I guess three decades or so man,
that I really want to try to get back in
there and hug everybody and you know, thank them and
tell them I love them. So they took me and
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James Gregory and Tim Wilson under the wings all those
years and I'm the only one left out of those
three horses. So yeah, I would dearly love to get
back in there.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
And another thing didn't and I may have he confused
with someone else. I am sixty eight, after all, didn't
want On the previous appearance on Uncle Henry Show, didn't
you discuss O Henry short stories one time?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yes, I did, and that he was my favorite author
back in the day because he has such a surprise
ending to the stories and I try to, Yeah, and
I try to write my stand up with surprise endings
to the stories. That's cool that you remember that.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah, dude, I didn't remember that.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
I've got I've got the complete, undabridged version of all
his stories. I mean this man New York City phone
book that I've had since I was a teenager and
my all time favorite. And they made a movie out
of it, Ransom of Red Chief.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Yes, wow, dude, what a cool phone call man? This
is great.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Hey, have you ever seen that? It was a television
movie that they did several years ago, and Jack Elom
played as one of the bad guys that kidnapped the
little boy and everything you ever seen that movie?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I have.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I'm trying to think of what the name of it is.
I think I did see.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
That it's Ransom of Red Cheek.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Then, yes, yes, I was trying to put that thing together.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I think you mensippity shine have you?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
No, I'm doing d Koba no matter of fact. So
and I'll say this about that, man, I don't hardly
even drink. You know. They make us do some weird
stuff on the show.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
So so yes, I understand. Listen, I've been on the
wagons for three years and five months now myself. Good
for you, but it's the longest I've ever gone. O.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Hey, but it's not that hard. Don't you make that
decision that well?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
With little paces, perseverance and prayer for sure?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Exactly, brother, exactly, man, awesome.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Listen, you take care of yourself. Unfortunately I won't be
able to make your appearance this week, but Lord will
and maybe I'll get with you on a future one.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Okay, got you, brother, Take care, Happy holidays, Mary, Christmas, Love.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
You man, love you, love you.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
All right, there you go. Sixty eight year old Chris
of West Loxley telephone number two five one four seventy
nine two seven two three again killer bees doing comedy
this Friday night at Crescent Theater, two ow eight Dolphin
Street in downtown Mobile. Get those tickets at killerbees dot com.
B E A Z. The show is seven o'clock Saturday night.
Now in our in our newsbreak, we just had a
(19:46):
news break, yes, sir, and one of the one of
the headlines that Fox ten had on the show was
about search warrant being served at somewhere Mobile County somebody
with the of monkeys. And they were claiming that the
neighbors said that these people were driving around with monkeys
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in a golf car just and they didn't have any
other details other than they were searching a home with monkeys. Now,
do you have any have you ever encountered See, I've
never encountered monkeys other than in a zoo. Do you
have any monkey store?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:21):
So, Henry, get this. One hundred years ago, senior in
high school. During the summer, I had a job with
some other high school students doing maintenance work in city
owned funeral homes in Jackson, Mississippi. This one no no,
no cemetery. My bad cemeteries cut the grass trim hedges.
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Adjacent to this cemetery was the Jackson Zoo and there
was a little opening in the fence and we could
climb through and go hang out with the zoo people.
My good buddy, Alan McClure was in charge of the
Great Apes at this time. Went to school with him.
He goes, man, you gotta come visit it. I'll let
you pet the baby orangutangs. Okay, rangutan. I call them
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a rangutang And that's how I grew up.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
But anyway, now this is now, this is a true story. Yeah, yeah,
he's a true story. So kill it. No, imagine this
killer bees mowing cemeteries in Jackson, Mississippi and climbing through
a fence to go hang out with the orangutan at
the Jackson Zoo. Right, what happened?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
So we set this appointment up and Alan told me, dude,
wear old clothes, wear stuff that you don't mind if
he gets dirty or torn. And then I'm like, wait
a minute, is this like a cage match? Holy cow?
So we go in there and there's two of them.
There's twins, Damien and Dumpling, a male and a female.
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So they brought Dumpling, the female over to see me,
and I'd already made up my mind because I've seen
them young, they got canine teeth, get foot and a
half long. So so I've already made up my mind. Well,
I'm just gonna reach down and pet this orange garria.
You know, I don't. I don't want to pick it up.
I had no choice on at It walked up to me,
reached up with his hands and grabbed both my arms,
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then reached up with its foot hand yeah, grabbed my
thigh and just climbed up on me. So it was
out of my hands to even control this thing. And
so like their hair is real coarse, like a hog
or something, and it kept trying to push its head
up under my chin, and I'm like, is this thing
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trying to get to me to tear it rip my
throat out? Yeah, you know. And I remember this about
that I was wearing a T shirt that had a
pocket on the front of the shirt, and this orangutan
kept putting his finger in that pocket and wiggling around
and then tasting it to see if I had treats
and stuff. Oh okay in my pocket. So then then
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allen goes, okay, Well I got to put them back up,
and this orange gorilla orangutan did not want it weighed
about fifty pounds, did not. It wasn't a little bit baby.
He told me babies that they were three feet tall
through and had some talk. Did not want to let
go of me, and they kept trying to peel it
off of me, and it wouldn't let go, and it
started screaming wow ah, and just all these just outlanders, howling,
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screaming noises. And the vivid memory in my head is
of this orangutan laying on its back while two of
the zoo keepers had each had one arm and they
were pulling it, and it had its little feet hands
wrapped around my ankles. And it was a tugle war
to get this orangutan away from me. I was skinning
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up and stuff from it. Man. So that was nineteen
seventy one.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Screaming, it was screaming, the pulling off of it.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Yeah, and it was like a horrid, woly dang.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Now you kept your cool, though, you kept your cool
it other than.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Water, other than other than pen. But you know, I
blame that on the monkey that wasn't made the blood
dumpling did that, bless her heart? So one other monkey story, oh,
another monkey story, one hundred years ago. I say that
two thousand and five, my parents were killed in a
car wreck. Yes, okay, And I decided to get off
the comedy stage for a little bit because nothing was
(24:18):
funny anymore. Lo and behold, I got this call from
CBS Radio with New York wanting to know if I
wanted to do a morning drive time gig in Tampa.
It's like, I think it was like a top twenty market. Oh,
they offered you a john.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
They wanted to put make you a morning radio guy.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Correct, okay, correct, And it was they were they're calling
the last really big deal in radio, huge contract. So
I get down there and uh, Steve Austin, the guy
running the board, was telling me when he was a kid,
he had a friend that had a baboon that lived
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in their house and he would go spend the night
and that that bab boom terrorized him. It slept on
the top bunk, Yeah, of the bunk base. He said,
it didn't be in that little bottom bunt laying in
and he'd see this old this old hey had come
over and look at him. He said it was terrified.
He had reached down and slapp him and stuff. So
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baboos are not nice.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
No, they aren't all right, Killer Bees. What we've just
learned so much, so many shocking things. Killer Bees. He's
doing comedy in Mobile Friday night, seven o'clock at the
Crescent Theater. More on that when we come back from
the break here on the Unkla Henry Show. The Uncle
(25:48):
Henry Show continues here on news Radio seven to ten
WNTIM our final segment this evening with Killer Bees. Killer
Bees is going to be doing comedy this Friday night
downtown Mobile two oy offin street, Crescent Theater. You can
get tickets at the Crescent Theater's website or go to
killerbees dot com. That's killer at b eaz dot com
(26:08):
to get those tickets. Killer Bees. Now, you've been doing
stand up comedy for how long? Thirty five years? Forty years?
How many years?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Jue the last weekend of this coming June, I will
start year forty five? Whoa of doing stand up professionally?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Forty five? Do you ever feel butterflies before a show?
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Oh? Yeah, you still do, always always, Well, it's always
because it's important to me.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I care that I want to do a good show.
I want to be professional. I want to please every
singing person in the audience, and I'm serious about it.
So yes, I do I get adrenaline. It's not the
debilitating stage fright from one hundred years ago when you
first start out, because it is such a tough art form.
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But I do get an adrenaline burst. I you know,
I it's it's high drama to do it.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
So now, have you thinking back through those forty four
plus years, do you remember a worst time of stage
fright where it was that it meant that much that
you you weren't even sure you were going to be
able to make it out there? Well, been that afraid
on stage?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Well, you know, I never didn't go on stage, but
it can be a ter of fine art form.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Man, do you remember your first time on TV doing
stand up on television?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
I believe that that may have been on the Nashville Network.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Were you afraid that stage frame? A bit?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Not enough to stop me from doing it right? You know?
But a part of it is my maturing and my
walk with God that tells me, don't worry about quit
projecting yourself into the future having a bad show, and
that doesn't even exist at this point. Why are you
letting that be in your head? So I have learned to,
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you know, the Bible tells us think on what is righteous,
what is good? And so what I get thoughts like
that before a show, I just squashed the Nope, that
doesn't show God's blessing. And so so it's not nearly
as debilitating, but it is still a lot of adrenaline
and it's still hard to do.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
You ever get extra nervous or did you ever get
extra nervous when you found out a famous person was
coming to see you? Not really?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Oh really, okay, not really because it's a different art
form now, you know. I mean, that's the thing actors
and stuff. Man, that's a different art form than from
what I do. And so it's amazed to me always
about how these celebs will come up and to the man,
you were great, yadayada. I got off stage somewhere to America.
One time in Freaking Jack Klugman was sitting in with
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Quincy was sitting in the green room and I go,
holy moly, I go, man, I need your autograph. He goes, no,
I need yours. I'm like, dang, what a thing to
say it or something? You know.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
It was a nice nice guy.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
He is a very nice guy. I had his wife
with him and stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
So I'm sure you've met lots and lots of celebrities
in green rooms over the years. Any people as nice
as Jack Clugman.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
A lot of them. There's a there's a a rapper
named Yellowwolf that that has millions and millions of followers
and stuff. Who came backstage at my show with Zany's
a year ago and goes, man, he goes, He goes,
My mom and I used to come watch your show.
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She would sneak me in when I was under age.
We would watch your show, and I decided that I
was going to be a comedian. He told me that
they would recite my act back and forth to each
other while she would drive him to school. And he goes,
I ended up being a rapper. He goes, but you
got me wanting to be in Showby's come in and
hug me, got all terry out. I'm like, dang wow.
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So he you know, just it escapes me the way
people will appreciate the art form, you know, because I'm
at work. Well yeah, you know, but that really I've
had so many nice, high profile people like that come
up and go, man, that was great thinking, Holy cow,
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so it's really been a wonderful career man ups and
downs which everybody has, and it is such a feather
in my hat to still be doing. And I think
I told you last time I was here that I
may try to keep going and get fifty years in. Okay, good,
I think that would be why not? I think that
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would be a fun legacy. You know, you know, did
fifty of stand up professionally, And so I think and see,
it's a low impact gig. I'm not climbing ladders, talking
roof and shingles, are working on the brick pile like
my buddies do. So I'm blessed in that. So I
think I would like to try to get reached that
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fifty year mark. I think that would be cool, as
I'll get out wonderful.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
All right, we are, we're out of time now. So
uh it's Friday night, seven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Correct Pressant Theater YEP featuring Dan Whitehurst from Nashville, who
is funny, funny, funny. Yes, so we hope you all
come out. Man, it's gonna be neat and support the
Crescent Theater. Those guys are doing it right.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Get those tickets. Killerbees dot Com killer b E a
Z Killerbees dot com. Crescent Theater has tickets as well.
That's Friday night, seven o'clock Crescent Theater, Downtown Mobill killer Bees,
Kill it Bees. Thanks for coming by again. Great to
have you here.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Thank you man, I love you. It's good to see y'all.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Love you too. Come back again.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
M
The comedy show with Killer Bees is coming up this
Friday night in downtown Mobile at the Crescent Theater. Killer Bees,
thanks for.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Coming back in Hey, thank you man. That is day
after tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Day after tomorrow. You're doing comedy, Rightbill?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah, and it is so cool that Zeke and all
those guys have stuck it out in town and now
brought a comedy scene back. That is really really cool.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Now, Killer Bee is your show Friday ninth, seven o'clock
seven o'clock Friday ninth, Crescent Theater. You can get tickets
at Killerbees dot com or go to the Crescent Theater's website.
I guess you can go down there and ask for
a ticket now if they're open.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
The Crescent Theater, by the way, is at two eight
Dolphin Street, Okay, cause people, I'm sure a wondering I
wonder just where that is so too, eight Dolphin Street,
and man, they do good. They show old movies there,
they have comics coming in, so it's some pretty neat
little venue. And on January the eleventh, then we'll get
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back to talking about me. But on January the eleventh
they'll be premiering John Miller's film Puppets of Oz.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
You know, John Miller has done a something for kids,
Puppets of Oz. I saw this looks way better than
I thought it was gonna Look these puppets. This is
nice looking puppet shokes.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, they're not Marry and Nett. Now I don't have
strings hanging off of them, y'all.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Too bad, But they're still It's puppets Wizard of Oz story, yep.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So we're looking forward to that coming out. That'll be fun.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Now. The reason that Killer Bees is promoting John Miller's
puppet movie about the Wizard of Oz coming up January eleventh,
of the Crescent is you're in it now, you play
whom I.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Am the voice of the Scarecrow, Yes, indeed right, And
a dear friend of mine is the voice of the
cowardly Lion, and that would be Uncle Henry.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Are you sure no?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
And that because you're in that thing.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I'm in it too. But look see I'm in it,
but a ten men, No, Dorothy, I know that I
was not Dorothy in this movie. This is a Wizard
of Oz things with puppets. Killer Bees is the star
of it, and they have you're the star of it.
I just pop off. Sonck Cop is in it, right.
I don't know if he's the tin Woodsman or the
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cowardly Line, but he's one of.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Them right right. So it's an all star cast from
the Upper Gulf coast of America. For just what it
is from this side of the bay.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
It is like a three zip code all star cast.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yes it is, Yes it And if you were to
add all the years of experience of entertaining between those
of us involved, it be like a million.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
It'd be a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Right day after the Big Bang, it was the day
after the Garden of Eden wasn't quite open. No, that's
for everybody hung out while they was waiting.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Now, Killer be Now Killer Bees is in this Wizard
of Oz thing with me and Sonck Cop and some
other folks. It's premiering on January eleventh of the Crescent Theater.
I want you to know that when we recorded this,
it was mainly Killer Bees joking around, just coming up
with some great stuff, and the rest of us just watching,
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just having fun.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
You know. There was actually one spot where we had
to quit recording and John Miller had to tell everybody,
all right, let's do it over and this time, don't
laugh yes, yes, yes, yes, so but what fun.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Man.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
That was really neat to do. I enjoyed it. I'm
glad that you were in that with us.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Well. I was honored to be asked to be involved
in that kind of thing. So you're in that. You
of course have been on Moonshiners for years. Now. It's
on the Discovery Channel.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Right correct, that We just got done filming season fifteen.
It's my tenth season. We do not have our air
date yet for this season, but it's Discovery Channel. And
if you're unfamiliar, the gist of it is, the Discovery
chain has film crews that file of teams of hillbillies
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up in the mountains, cooking up batches of illegal hoops
and settling it and hiding from the police on camera.
And it is one of those what could ever go
wrong with that?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
With that? And some things do go wrong. Now you
said that, so that there's a season already done, but
nobody knows. They haven't told you when it's going to
be on TV yet. It's just ready to go at
some point.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
It's in the can now, I say it's in the can.
We have wrapped on filming now, I'm sure they're still
doing their editing and their inserts and all that. So
it may not be ready to view today, but we're
done filming all the all the episodes.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
So ten years of being on Moonshiners. Now, when you
first went on that show, did you have any idea
that you were going to be doing it for a decade.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I had no idea, man. I thought it was just
the one time I get to do it. You know,
two of the main characters, Mark and Digger had seen
my show. Now it's been thirty years ago at Zany's
in Nashville at the time. Ten years ago, I got
a text from him, Dude, this is marking Digger from Moonshiners.
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We saw you at Zany's Comedy club in Nashville twenty
years ago where big fans you're on. Now our neck
of the Woods come Seis And so I had my
wife corporate with me and I go, Honey, I need
to be on that TV show. And of course she's
going into a conniption of you and Moonshine. That's all
I need. It was one of those It was one
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of those deals, man. But she saw the connection to
my demographic names to my demographics, and it's international TV man,
it's around the world.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
The connection to your demographic base. So she's making the
assumption that your fans love moonshine, they enjoy that type
of that type of activity and that type.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Of product your and the and the educational slant, well,
there is there's a lot of science.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
You've taught me science from this.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
There is chemistry, physics, yeah, uh uh, trying to beat
a light detective test, all the law and law.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Do you gotta learn law and stuff like that?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
The law? You got to learn how to be invisible? Yes,
And so the way I.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Secured see I thought I was we've got to go
to break. We're up on the break. So Killer Bees
is here if you you can, even if you have
a question for him, maybe you want to ask him
about moonshine or something. Two five one four seven nine
two three the telephone number. Killer Bees doing comedy this
Friday night in downtew Mobile at the Prescent Theater. More
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from Killer Bees. As the Uncle Henry Show continues, Uncle
Henry's Show, Killer Me is this back on the unc
Lenberg show. Killerbes dot com b E A Z Killer
(07:05):
Bees dot Com. He's going to be doing some comedy
a comedy show seven o'clock Saturday night, no Friday, Nay
this Friday night at the Creshing Theater in downtown Mobile
now two A Dolphin Street, the Crescent Theater with killer Bees,
do you and.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
And real quick? Just to say that commercial that was on.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
They were talking about Nashville's favorite candy.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Google Cluster.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
At one point in time. This has been a couple
of decades ago. Back, guys, a really big deal in Nashville.
There was a turf war between Google Cluster and Moonpie
because I would work Nashville and Chattanooga back to back.
Okay and so and Little Debbie Little Davy snackcakes, Yeah, Chattanooga,
and they would show up. Reps would show up when
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I would come to that town with big bags of
deliciously sugar coated diabetes. Yes, up in a bag. But
I have uh, Google Cluster socks, I have a camouflage
Google Cluster cap. It just all kinds of cool stuff man,
that they hooked me up with. So that that was
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a lot of fun getting those freebies and all that.
It was a neat thing.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Now your showing Mobile, Yes, Cruscent Theater at two o
eight Dolphins.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Two eight Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Street Dolphins, Street and Mobile Friday night, seven o'clock. Now,
have you, during your years of doing comedy, You've done
numerous shows right here in Mobile, Alabama from year to year,
have you been tempted to do mobile only jokes? Have
you written materials specifically for mobile? Ever?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I may have thirty years ago or something like that,
But you get in the habit of writing your acts
so that it is universal. So of course, same act
and West Palm beats that I do in Portland or
Chicago or Phoenix, whatever, But always there's stuff going on
in the town that you're in, and things too. Generally
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it would be things to make fun of, until it's
not as much, it's not as pallable palatable to me
to make fun of the populace and where people live,
you know, being from the Deep South, I get my
accent wise, you know, made fun of all across the
country people, you know, a good natured ribbon. But still,
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you know that gets kind of old to hear it
over and over and over. So so I try not to.
Although although I did notice today when I was on
my way here that once again the national we don't
use turn signals convention is in town that there is that.
(09:53):
And I know this about mobile driving. The word yield.
The word yield means there's room for you too. So
so there are those things we all know.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yes, Now, as a professional comedian, do you have people
coming up to you all the time wanting to tell
you jokes?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Constantly? Still? And they don't know any better?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
You know?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
But that man? Have you heard the one about so
and so? And I say to them, I don't know
what's the punchline, Just tell me how it ends, and
I tell you if I've heard it. But then they
go about telling you the joke anyway, even if they go,
if you heard the one about so and so? Off
I go, Yeah, they'll go, well this guy was going
down the street. And then they embellish it with their
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verse and it lasts about eighteen minutes. Yes, and they
get to the end. I go, and then did he say?
Don't sell that cow? You know what I'm saying? They
always do it, man, and they want to put their
spin on it.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
So, now, in your years of doing the comedy, doing
stand up comedy from a young age all these years,
have you ever had it? Uh? Have you ever had
a job where you were worried you weren't going to
get paid.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yes, and we've been stiffed at gigs. Oh you happened,
Oh yeah, oh yeah. We did New Year's Eve at
one of the punchline clubs out of Atlanta, right back
before they kind of went down. Yeah, you know, there
was a there was a punchline here in Mobile Government
for you. But anyway, Uh, it was like a five
day gig. We started early in the week and went
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all the way through, then did New Year's Eve, went
to get paid and the guys go, man, sorrow, we
can't pay you. We shut our doors, we closed, We're
out of business. They knew the entire week they were
going to do it, and so it was several thousand
dollars to get stiffed. And that happens man, that you
know it, and it's not unheard of. That happens everywhere
(11:53):
all the time. It seems okay, well, yeah, it's like
any other business man. There's pitfalls, there's people that do
it right, there's people that do it wrong, and people
that will take advantage. But it's part of the game.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Now you are going to be doing speaking of New
Year's Eve, you're doing New Year's Eve's shows in Cookville,
Tennessee this year. Yeah, how are the crowds? And I know,
I know you've done this several many times during your career.
You've done New Year's Eve. You've told me the last
time you were here, differences between Friday and Saturday night crowds.
What about that kind of crowd.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Oh, that'll be a great crowd, man, because they are
in the mood to go celebrate.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Know, it was not a regular Friday, not a regular Saturday,
whatever the day of the week. It's not just you know,
let's go watch a show, it's let's go celebrate. So
we've got, man, we've got all kinds of party favors.
We went through some inventory of our stash, if you will,
last night and today and make sure we have hundreds
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of Tierra's one, hundreds of noisemakers, hundreds of New Year's
Eve hats and stuff. So it's a kind of a
big deal. We'll be doing a dinner show, all this stuff, man,
champagne toast. But it's a special event, you know, and
we try to try to set it up big so
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that people go, you know what we're going to do
this next year?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Okay, so that's the deal.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
And the Cumberland Plateau, which is where Cookville is, is
a gorgeous, gorgeous part of the country. I mean, within
twenty miles any direction, there's waterfalls, there's a just beautiful scenery.
So it's really neat to be in that area.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Okay. So, oh, by the way, we do have a caller.
If you could put on your headphones there and we'll
see slug them into that thing. Yeah, so we do
have a caller. Now, as you've noticed, I don't have
the budget for a call screener, so this could be
who knows, this could be some type of telephone.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
So ut okay, now no color.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Hey good even though Hendler.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Cliff Cliff, you are live on the radio with Killer Be.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Hey Cliff, Yes, good Vening and mister killer Be's I
was wondering about a thousand years ago, do you remember
when you started It was down by a Greyhound bus
station on ninety yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Near Waterberger actually over there, yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Yes, sir, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
And wasn't there like a U haul place right by there?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
I end up in some strange places.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
I just wondered that you remember that you would just
starting out almost.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Right the first time I came to town to perform, I
was the MC the Little Opening Act, and the club
at that time was called the Punchline. Then it evolved
into Mobile Comedy Lounge and so forth and so on.
So I certainly do remember that, Cliff, I totally do.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Brother well, Uncle Henry.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Why to see this, Uncle Henry. He has a lot
of people throwing jokes at him. When you first came on,
Uncle Henry, you you played a note from a guy
saying that the older you get.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
The dumber.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I give yes, Oh yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
You know what. That reminds me of what AOC calling.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Thank you very much, Cliff, Thank you very much for
your phone call. We're gonna hear some news headlines, get
a traffic report, and then more from Killer Bees. He's
doing a comedy show seven o'clock Friday night at two
o eight Dolphins Street the Crescent Theater. The Uncle Henry
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Show continues here on news radio seven to ten WNTM.
Killer Bees is back. This is not a rerun Killer Bees.
He's here recently, but he's back to talk about his
comedy show. He's doing a comedy show this Friday night,
seven o'clock at the Crescent Theater two o eight Dolphin
Street and Downtown Mobile. You can get tickets to that
show at the Crescent Theater's website. You can go to
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Killerbes website Killerbees dot com, B E A Z get
tickets there. Hiller, do you mind if we take another
phone call?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I do not mind. It be fun man.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Two five one four some nine two two three. If
you want to talk to Killer Bees, Hello caller Roll
tied t Row sixty eight year old Chris from West
Locksley on the air with Killer Bees.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Hey Chris, Hey, buddy, listen, I got a couple of
questions for you, Yes, sir, for the John Boy and
Billy thing. Did you get that range hit to where
you're going to be on their last show?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Or we haven't heard. We haven't heard yet, man, but
we're in talks with him when we desperately want to
do that. That was such a huge part of my
life and career for I guess three decades or so man,
that I really want to try to get back in
there and hug everybody and you know, thank them and
tell them I love them. So they took me and
(17:07):
James Gregory and Tim Wilson under the wings all those
years and I'm the only one left out of those
three horses. So yeah, I would dearly love to get
back in there.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
And another thing didn't and I may have he confused
with someone else. I am sixty eight, after all, didn't
want On the previous appearance on Uncle Henry Show, didn't
you discuss O Henry short stories one time?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yes, I did, and that he was my favorite author
back in the day because he has such a surprise
ending to the stories and I try to, Yeah, and
I try to write my stand up with surprise endings
to the stories. That's cool that you remember that.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah, dude, I didn't remember that.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
I've got I've got the complete, undabridged version of all
his stories. I mean this man New York City phone
book that I've had since I was a teenager and
my all time favorite. And they made a movie out
of it, Ransom of Red Chief.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Yes, wow, dude, what a cool phone call man? This
is great.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Hey, have you ever seen that? It was a television
movie that they did several years ago, and Jack Elom
played as one of the bad guys that kidnapped the
little boy and everything you ever seen that movie?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I have.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I'm trying to think of what the name of it is.
I think I did see.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
That it's Ransom of Red Cheek.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Then, yes, yes, I was trying to put that thing together.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I think you mensippity shine have you?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
No, I'm doing d Koba no matter of fact. So
and I'll say this about that, man, I don't hardly
even drink. You know. They make us do some weird
stuff on the show.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
So so yes, I understand. Listen, I've been on the
wagons for three years and five months now myself. Good
for you, but it's the longest I've ever gone. O.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Hey, but it's not that hard. Don't you make that
decision that well?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
With little paces, perseverance and prayer for sure?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Exactly, brother, exactly, man, awesome.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Listen, you take care of yourself. Unfortunately I won't be
able to make your appearance this week, but Lord will
and maybe I'll get with you on a future one.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Okay, got you, brother, Take care, Happy holidays, Mary, Christmas, Love.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
You man, love you, love you.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
All right, there you go. Sixty eight year old Chris
of West Loxley telephone number two five one four seventy
nine two seven two three again killer bees doing comedy
this Friday night at Crescent Theater, two ow eight Dolphin
Street in downtown Mobile. Get those tickets at killerbees dot com.
B E A Z. The show is seven o'clock Saturday night.
Now in our in our newsbreak, we just had a
(19:46):
news break, yes, sir, and one of the one of
the headlines that Fox ten had on the show was
about search warrant being served at somewhere Mobile County somebody
with the of monkeys. And they were claiming that the
neighbors said that these people were driving around with monkeys
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in a golf car just and they didn't have any
other details other than they were searching a home with monkeys. Now,
do you have any have you ever encountered See, I've
never encountered monkeys other than in a zoo. Do you
have any monkey store?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:21):
So, Henry, get this. One hundred years ago, senior in
high school. During the summer, I had a job with
some other high school students doing maintenance work in city
owned funeral homes in Jackson, Mississippi. This one no no,
no cemetery. My bad cemeteries cut the grass trim hedges.
(20:43):
Adjacent to this cemetery was the Jackson Zoo and there
was a little opening in the fence and we could
climb through and go hang out with the zoo people.
My good buddy, Alan McClure was in charge of the
Great Apes at this time. Went to school with him.
He goes, man, you gotta come visit it. I'll let
you pet the baby orangutangs. Okay, rangutan. I call them
(21:07):
a rangutang And that's how I grew up.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
But anyway, now this is now, this is a true story. Yeah, yeah,
he's a true story. So kill it. No, imagine this
killer bees mowing cemeteries in Jackson, Mississippi and climbing through
a fence to go hang out with the orangutan at
the Jackson Zoo. Right, what happened?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
So we set this appointment up and Alan told me, dude,
wear old clothes, wear stuff that you don't mind if
he gets dirty or torn. And then I'm like, wait
a minute, is this like a cage match? Holy cow?
So we go in there and there's two of them.
There's twins, Damien and Dumpling, a male and a female.
(21:45):
So they brought Dumpling, the female over to see me,
and I'd already made up my mind because I've seen
them young, they got canine teeth, get foot and a
half long. So so I've already made up my mind. Well,
I'm just gonna reach down and pet this orange garria.
You know, I don't. I don't want to pick it up.
I had no choice on at It walked up to me,
reached up with his hands and grabbed both my arms,
(22:08):
then reached up with its foot hand yeah, grabbed my
thigh and just climbed up on me. So it was
out of my hands to even control this thing. And
so like their hair is real coarse, like a hog
or something, and it kept trying to push its head
up under my chin, and I'm like, is this thing
(22:29):
trying to get to me to tear it rip my
throat out? Yeah, you know. And I remember this about
that I was wearing a T shirt that had a
pocket on the front of the shirt, and this orangutan
kept putting his finger in that pocket and wiggling around
and then tasting it to see if I had treats
and stuff. Oh okay in my pocket. So then then
(22:50):
allen goes, okay, Well I got to put them back up,
and this orange gorilla orangutan did not want it weighed
about fifty pounds, did not. It wasn't a little bit baby.
He told me babies that they were three feet tall
through and had some talk. Did not want to let
go of me, and they kept trying to peel it
off of me, and it wouldn't let go, and it
started screaming wow ah, and just all these just outlanders, howling,
(23:15):
screaming noises. And the vivid memory in my head is
of this orangutan laying on its back while two of
the zoo keepers had each had one arm and they
were pulling it, and it had its little feet hands
wrapped around my ankles. And it was a tugle war
to get this orangutan away from me. I was skinning
(23:38):
up and stuff from it. Man. So that was nineteen
seventy one.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Screaming, it was screaming, the pulling off of it.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Yeah, and it was like a horrid, woly dang.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Now you kept your cool, though, you kept your cool
it other than.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Water, other than other than pen. But you know, I
blame that on the monkey that wasn't made the blood
dumpling did that, bless her heart? So one other monkey story, oh,
another monkey story, one hundred years ago. I say that
two thousand and five, my parents were killed in a
car wreck. Yes, okay, And I decided to get off
the comedy stage for a little bit because nothing was
(24:18):
funny anymore. Lo and behold, I got this call from
CBS Radio with New York wanting to know if I
wanted to do a morning drive time gig in Tampa.
It's like, I think it was like a top twenty market. Oh,
they offered you a john.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
They wanted to put make you a morning radio guy.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Correct, okay, correct, And it was they were they're calling
the last really big deal in radio, huge contract. So
I get down there and uh, Steve Austin, the guy
running the board, was telling me when he was a kid,
he had a friend that had a baboon that lived
(24:56):
in their house and he would go spend the night
and that that bab boom terrorized him. It slept on
the top bunk, Yeah, of the bunk base. He said,
it didn't be in that little bottom bunt laying in
and he'd see this old this old hey had come
over and look at him. He said it was terrified.
He had reached down and slapp him and stuff. So
(25:18):
baboos are not nice.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
No, they aren't all right, Killer Bees. What we've just
learned so much, so many shocking things. Killer Bees. He's
doing comedy in Mobile Friday night, seven o'clock at the
Crescent Theater. More on that when we come back from
the break here on the Unkla Henry Show. The Uncle
(25:48):
Henry Show continues here on news Radio seven to ten
WNTIM our final segment this evening with Killer Bees. Killer
Bees is going to be doing comedy this Friday night
downtown Mobile two oy offin street, Crescent Theater. You can
get tickets at the Crescent Theater's website or go to
killerbees dot com. That's killer at b eaz dot com
(26:08):
to get those tickets. Killer Bees. Now, you've been doing
stand up comedy for how long? Thirty five years? Forty years?
How many years?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Jue the last weekend of this coming June, I will
start year forty five? Whoa of doing stand up professionally?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Forty five? Do you ever feel butterflies before a show?
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Oh? Yeah, you still do, always always, Well, it's always
because it's important to me.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I care that I want to do a good show.
I want to be professional. I want to please every
singing person in the audience, and I'm serious about it.
So yes, I do I get adrenaline. It's not the
debilitating stage fright from one hundred years ago when you
first start out, because it is such a tough art form.
(26:57):
But I do get an adrenaline burst. I you know,
I it's it's high drama to do it.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
So now, have you thinking back through those forty four
plus years, do you remember a worst time of stage
fright where it was that it meant that much that
you you weren't even sure you were going to be
able to make it out there? Well, been that afraid
on stage?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Well, you know, I never didn't go on stage, but
it can be a ter of fine art form.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Man, do you remember your first time on TV doing
stand up on television?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
I believe that that may have been on the Nashville Network.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Were you afraid that stage frame? A bit?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Not enough to stop me from doing it right? You know?
But a part of it is my maturing and my
walk with God that tells me, don't worry about quit
projecting yourself into the future having a bad show, and
that doesn't even exist at this point. Why are you
letting that be in your head? So I have learned to,
(28:11):
you know, the Bible tells us think on what is righteous,
what is good? And so what I get thoughts like
that before a show, I just squashed the Nope, that
doesn't show God's blessing. And so so it's not nearly
as debilitating, but it is still a lot of adrenaline
and it's still hard to do.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
You ever get extra nervous or did you ever get
extra nervous when you found out a famous person was
coming to see you? Not really?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Oh really, okay, not really because it's a different art
form now, you know. I mean, that's the thing actors
and stuff. Man, that's a different art form than from
what I do. And so it's amazed to me always
about how these celebs will come up and to the man,
you were great, yadayada. I got off stage somewhere to America.
One time in Freaking Jack Klugman was sitting in with
(29:05):
Quincy was sitting in the green room and I go,
holy moly, I go, man, I need your autograph. He goes, no,
I need yours. I'm like, dang, what a thing to
say it or something? You know.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
It was a nice nice guy.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
He is a very nice guy. I had his wife
with him and stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
So I'm sure you've met lots and lots of celebrities
in green rooms over the years. Any people as nice
as Jack Clugman.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
A lot of them. There's a there's a a rapper
named Yellowwolf that that has millions and millions of followers
and stuff. Who came backstage at my show with Zany's
a year ago and goes, man, he goes, He goes,
My mom and I used to come watch your show.
(29:48):
She would sneak me in when I was under age.
We would watch your show, and I decided that I
was going to be a comedian. He told me that
they would recite my act back and forth to each
other while she would drive him to school. And he goes,
I ended up being a rapper. He goes, but you
got me wanting to be in Showby's come in and
hug me, got all terry out. I'm like, dang wow.
(30:12):
So he you know, just it escapes me the way
people will appreciate the art form, you know, because I'm
at work. Well yeah, you know, but that really I've
had so many nice, high profile people like that come
up and go, man, that was great thinking, Holy cow,
(30:34):
so it's really been a wonderful career man ups and
downs which everybody has, and it is such a feather
in my hat to still be doing. And I think
I told you last time I was here that I
may try to keep going and get fifty years in. Okay, good,
I think that would be why not? I think that
(30:55):
would be a fun legacy. You know, you know, did
fifty of stand up professionally, And so I think and see,
it's a low impact gig. I'm not climbing ladders, talking
roof and shingles, are working on the brick pile like
my buddies do. So I'm blessed in that. So I
think I would like to try to get reached that
(31:17):
fifty year mark. I think that would be cool, as
I'll get out wonderful.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
All right, we are, we're out of time now. So
uh it's Friday night, seven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Correct Pressant Theater YEP featuring Dan Whitehurst from Nashville, who
is funny, funny, funny. Yes, so we hope you all
come out. Man, it's gonna be neat and support the
Crescent Theater. Those guys are doing it right.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Get those tickets. Killerbees dot Com killer b E a
Z Killerbees dot com. Crescent Theater has tickets as well.
That's Friday night, seven o'clock Crescent Theater, Downtown Mobill killer Bees,
Kill it Bees. Thanks for coming by again. Great to
have you here.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Thank you man, I love you. It's good to see y'all.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Love you too. Come back again.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
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