08-08-25 FULL SHOW - Gregg Stone aka Uncle Nasty Fills in For Mandy

Gregg Stone aka the great "Uncle Nasty" fills in for Mandy!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Mandy Connall Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy Connell don Ka ninety one f m God.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Wait study Kevin Icy.

Speaker 4 (00:22):
Andy Connell keeping sad thing. Hey, I'm not Mandy. I'm
Greg in for Mandy. It's like the substitute teacher is in.
So we're gonna watch a movie today. Any suggestions? What
do y'all want to watch?

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (00:41):
You know, I got a call earlier this week asking
if I would fill in for Mandy. I don't know
what she's up to, but obviously something pretty important for
her to not be here. So you got me and
how we doing? Everybody? Okay, do you have a good
work week? I wanted to talk to you a little bit.
I touched on this earlier with Ross that I take

(01:01):
care of my mom. I'm like like a part timee care.
She lives in an unassisted adult apartment complex and on
the other side from where she lives is the assistant side,
and she's ninety I'll she'll be ninety three here in
what two weeks? Oh my gosh, ninety three years old?
Can you imagine that?

Speaker 5 (01:22):
Living that all?

Speaker 4 (01:23):
You know, being around before we landed on the moon,
being around before World War Two, being around, just being
around for ninety three years. That's crazy, isn't it. And
she's in remarkably great shape. To tell you the truth,
that she does have some health issues, but at ninety three,
he kind of expect that. But a few years ago,

(01:43):
my younger sister told me that she'd been, you know,
taking care of mom for decades and she was done.
You know, they don't get a lawn too well. And
you know, the older someone gets kind of, you know,
the meaner they can become, because you know, they're dealing
with all these changes as well. They're not remembering like
they used to. They have problems focusing, They're not sure

(02:06):
you know what the next day is gonna bring. They
don't have activities to do other than playing cards or knitting, crocheting.

Speaker 5 (02:14):
Something like that.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
I mean, you know, I don't know what I would
do if I couldn't play golf, you know, I mean,
it'd be like take me out, go ahead. Where's that
assisted suicide box?

Speaker 5 (02:26):
Well?

Speaker 4 (02:26):
What is that thing? The you know you go inside that.
It's like not a tomb. Why can't I think of that?
It's like a spinal tap. You know when spinal tap
had trouble getting out of that. Hey rod, what's that
thing called? Somebody helped me trying me. Look, so a

(02:50):
pod there you go, the suicide pod. That's what it's
freaking called.

Speaker 5 (02:54):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
So, you know, she she has difficulties in this morning.
She called me and she's like, you got to come
down here. My blood pressures, you know, through the roof.
I need some help. So, you know, she lives five
minutes away, that's by design. So I go down to
where she lives. I go upstairs, take her blood pressure.
It's okay, it's not bad. It's pretty good for somebody

(03:19):
who's ninety three years old. I think it was one
eight over seventy seven. That's pretty good for ninety three
years old. And it turns out that the batteries were
bad and her blood pressure machine, so we change out
the batteries. Things were good. I go. You know, you
also have an outlet. It plugs in, so you know,
if you have this outrageous number again, mom, just plug

(03:42):
it in and maybe it will give you the correct number.
And so this led me to believe that I'm not
you know, I know I'm not the only one who
experiences this with their elderly parents, and it's sometimes, you know,
and I hate to admit this, you know. I don't
want to come across is a jerk. It's just like,
oh my god. And then I then I have to

(04:04):
stop and think about and I'm sure she got sick
of having to tell me no all the time when
I was young, when I was you know, before five six,
seven years of age. And this is kind of what
I'm dealing with now that my mom is turned into
a child in some aspects. And you know, I find

(04:25):
myself parenting my parent and man, that was that was
that was not on my on my bingo card for
twenty twenty five. And it could be hard, you know,
And I don't want to I don't want to give

(04:47):
too much away because I'll come across as a jerk.
But you know, you get upset, you know then when
the first response to everything you say is hey, And
I know this is it's coming across mean. But I'm
doing this, I think, so that I can feel better
and then I can continue to be the son that
I want to be, you know.

Speaker 5 (05:07):
And it's just like therapy for me right now. And
you you people are my shrink.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
You're gonna help me work this out here on KOA
as I fill in for Mandy. You know, I'm the
I'm the primary caregiver. I take my mom to all
her appointments. I'm her social calendar as well. And you know,
and I got divorced five years ago, and then four
years ago she moved here, and then the two don't
really you know, gel as I was trying to find,

(05:34):
you know, my life again. I have to, you know,
help my mom out, and I feel I feel an
obligation to help her out. I feel that this is
something that that I should do. I want to do.
I stepped up to do, and I know that my dad,
if he were still alive, he would want me to do.
So it's just it's just sometimes, yeah, you just want

(05:58):
to throw your hand up and walk away and forget
about it. But you know this family. You know you
wouldn't do that with your kids. And I think a
lot of times when parents read a search and age,
people just sort of give up on them and they
put them in homes and they forget about them. And
that's no way to treat the person that brought you

(06:21):
into this world. A study that was published in the
American Journal of Public Health indicated that two thirds of
Americans over the age of sixty five need help with
everyday activities like bathing, dressing, eating. That's two thirds of
Americans over sixty five.

Speaker 5 (06:38):
That's crazy.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
You know, I'm seven years away from that. The picture
that you get from your adult parents when they're this
old about the future is not very good. You want
to just grab that crystal ball and smash it. You
don't want to know what the future is because if
it's anything like this, then you know, you don't want

(06:59):
to be a part of it. And I know not
every person that reaches that age is going through the
same things. But when I look around where my mom lives,
you know, there's people in wheelchairs and walkers with oxygen.
My mom has none of that, and so it makes
it harder because what she's suffering from is mental. It's

(07:21):
mentally affecting her as she ages, and that can be,
you know, twice as bad as dealing with somebody with
the physical problems. And she's got those two. She's a
cancer survivor, so we were always getting treatments every month.
You know, it was a bit more than I anticipated
because she was such a so strong, self sufficient. She

(07:46):
took care of business, She did everything. You know, she
didn't need any help up until four or five years ago.
Like as a matter of fact, when she smashed her car,
I mean that was it. I had to go back
to Kentucky where she was living with close to my
younger sister now with her and take the car away
from her, because you know, she's like, oh no, she

(08:08):
pulled into a parking space and her death perception was
shot and her passenger side bumper, the front bumper just
scraped down the whole driver's side of this woman's car
as she pulled into a parking spot. And she told
me about it, and I was like, that's it. I'm
coming to get the car. The party's over. And so

(08:30):
we moved her out to Denver. You know, my daughter,
she's my oldest child. She spends a decent amount of
time with her, and then my two sons they visit
her as well. So we try to give her all
that support, all that interaction, that social interaction, taking her
out to e taking her to hockey games and other
events so that she feels included and so that she

(08:52):
has something else to do besides stare at that damn
TV and call me about everything that's happening in the
world today. What do you think about this? What do
you think about that? Is Trump gonna do this? Is
Trump gonna do that? And I'm just like, turn the
TV off, Mom. I mean, at ninety three, really, how
does this affect you? And what can you do at

(09:12):
ninety three? So I guess you know. The reason why
I'm talking about this is so that I can, you know,
work it out in my own head, you know what
I'm saying. Unhappy Friday. Lol. As the texts come in,
Mandy nasty. Would be a good idea to move her

(09:34):
to the assisted living side very soon so you can visit,
but you can't be there for her if you burn out.
So that's from D and Centennial.

Speaker 5 (09:45):
Thanks D.

Speaker 4 (09:48):
This effing thing is depressing. Bye bye, Hi Greg, my
dad's eighty five. I understand you're not a jerk. It's
just hard to watch your parents' age.

Speaker 5 (09:57):
Hang in there.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
Well, that's what I'm doing.

Speaker 5 (09:59):
I'm hanging in there. Thanks.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
I appreciate that. I just, uh, you know, you want
the best for your parents. You feel the obligation to
pay them back, and uh, and sometimes you're just like,
when does it end? You know? And I'm not looking
for that that, you know, definitive end. I don't want
that to happen anytime soon. But they're not they're not

(10:22):
getting better, you know what I mean. It's it's when
you when you age and you have age related diseases,
they progress, they don't, they don't get better. So I
got that that I'm dealing with. And I have no
idea how I'll react when she does go. You know,
everything's already been planned, everything's already been done. Uh, there's

(10:43):
not a whole lot that I'll have to do after
she she she passes. But I just I just I think,
you know, the biggest thing about it is that that
reminder that we will, all, if we're lucky, become old,
and what will our old age look like?

Speaker 5 (11:03):
You know?

Speaker 4 (11:03):
And then with all this talk about social security and
Medicare and you know, will will these backup systems be
there for Generation X when we get that old. Here's
another text. My husband and I care for our mothers.
They live in independent senior apartments. We love them, and

(11:25):
we understand the joy and stress it brings. I appreciate
that because that's that's similar to what.

Speaker 5 (11:30):
What I'm doing with my mom?

Speaker 4 (11:32):
She does live in independent side of this senior apartment complex, and.

Speaker 5 (11:40):
It's just everything.

Speaker 4 (11:41):
And you know, you become when you become the caregiver,
you become the go to guy. You become the person
that's supposed to take care of everything, you know. So
it's just constant and as you try to live your life,
you've got to put that on hold too. So you know,
you just went through raising, you know, four kids, You

(12:02):
get a little five year gap which you get divorced
in and then your mom comes back into the picture.
So I guess I'm bitching. Is that what this is?

Speaker 5 (12:11):
They rot?

Speaker 4 (12:12):
Am I complaining? Or am I just venting?

Speaker 3 (12:14):
No?

Speaker 6 (12:14):
I think in the first eighteen minutes of the show,
the text line has affirmed you that it is not venting.
Everyone's going through it. Everyone's gone through it, everyone.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
Will go through How old are your parents?

Speaker 6 (12:26):
They're actually both listening, by the way, and enjoying this conversation.
They are the step up boy. They are both both
six nineteen sixty four babies, So we're looking at what.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
Yeah, so there's a little over sixty so you know,
and someday you might be called upon do you have
a siblings one, So it'll be me.

Speaker 6 (12:47):
I tell you right now, put that right there, nail
in the coffin, before the coffin comes.

Speaker 5 (12:53):
You're in the nail.

Speaker 4 (12:54):
You're the nail. It's such a tough thing to go through.
But when your kids are doing the right thing, you
won't have regrets after she's gone. So you know that's true,
and you don't want to have that because you can't
take that back. There's nothing you can do. Once somebody passes, right,
it's all gone, all regret and it's been you know,
it's been. This summer has been like, uh, you know,

(13:18):
a lot of death at least for you know, for
me in in my you know, uh, in personal space.
You know, when when Ozzie died. I want to get
to this too. I want to talk about how celebrities
affect us, you know, how we feel connected to celebrities,
whether they're musicians or actors or even politicians. How how

(13:40):
people are are drawn to these individuals. They they have
these monumental things happen in their lives with whether you
know it's music with that artist's music playing in the background,
or you go into a show or seeing a movie
that may have changed your life, or this experience that
an actor shared, whatever it may be. You know, we

(14:01):
have this this connection with the celebrities, and you know,
like I told Rosa, I don't even think I I cried.
I did. I shed a tear for Ozzie. I did.
And I've met him a few times, interviewed him quite
a few times. But it's not like I was his
buddy or anything.

Speaker 5 (14:17):
Just he had such a.

Speaker 4 (14:20):
Profound place in my life, the soundtrack to my life,
the things that I was doing. His music was playing
the things that I experienced. There he was and you know,
I mean I just knew him professionally. I never hung
out with the dude, just when we when we did
interviews back in the old kvp I days, and then

(14:42):
and then recently i'd been speaking with him too. He'd
been making music with Billy Morrison from the Billy Idol Band,
which is a good friend of his, and we've been
talking on on my podcast, which is classic documentary by
the way, and you can access that through the iHeartRadio app.
And then and then to have this this connection where

(15:03):
you know, why do I feel so bummed out to
somebody that I don't really know, I mean, you know,
and it's the it's the music, it's the time that
you spent with this person. You spent more time with
this person than than you know, than that they have
with you, obviously, and that creates that bond.

Speaker 5 (15:22):
That that that specialness.

Speaker 4 (15:25):
We're going to talk about that coming up here in
the next segment about how we're connected. And I wanted
to have a professional tie to us about it as well,
but I couldn't get a shrink or a therapist or
somebody to come on and talk about it. Here's another
text effort, shoot yourself. Hey, thanks Bud, appreciate your help.

(15:45):
Very supportive. Uh. Somebody says, try to get joy from
the doing. Enjoy the time that you have with her.
So hm, as we talk about elder care here on Kowa,

(16:06):
it's a great stone. And for Mandy, I believe she'll
be back on Monday. And when we come back here
in a few minutes, we're gonna we're going to talk
about how we're connected to these celebrities that you know
that become a big part of our lives. We could
become huge fans, and then they pass away and then
we're left with this void, this emptiness in us and

(16:28):
we'll talk about that coming up here in just a
few moments. Can we break now? Can we do that
now yet?

Speaker 5 (16:34):
All right?

Speaker 4 (16:36):
And so we got that coming up. We're also going
to talk to doctor Kevin Fitzgerald. He's got a new
book out called It Started with a Turtle. He'll be
at comedy work South. Uh, that's just right over here
by the way on Sunday. We'll talk to him. He'll
be in studio for that.

Speaker 5 (16:50):
And you know, he's got a lot of stories about
the Rolling Stones. He was a bodyguard for the Rolling
Stones for quite a few years and he's going to
help us put that in respective when he comes on
this attachment that we have to celebrities as more people, uh,
as more people text in what is that? Uh fifty

(17:11):
six six nights zero? Rights it? Five six six nights
zero is the text line?

Speaker 2 (17:15):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
Somebody says it was Tom Petty for them was so
sad about Ozzy. But I cried for Tom Petty. I
don't cry for actors, just rock stars. Uh So a
lot of people coming to the table as we talk
about these uh to two topics that sort of intertwine,
you know, as we as we have this whole generation

(17:37):
of celebrities, rock stars, whatever you want to call them,
age out. You know, what's going to happen when Mick
Jagger does pass, what's going to happen when Paul McCartney dies.

Speaker 5 (17:49):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (17:49):
You know, all these iconic musicians that have been there,
you know, since the get go, since the start.

Speaker 6 (17:56):
Or those that that speed up the process in a
way for me, a band I get to celebrate in
a month with a new lead singer at all time
Lincoln Park, oh, you know, almost a decade ago.

Speaker 4 (18:10):
And Chris Cornell. Chris Cornell was another one that gut
wrenched me. But you know, these were these were people
that were ending it themselves, you know, not not life
ending it for them. So you know, and you wonder
about that, the trials and tribulations of carrying that weight
of being uh, this rock star that everybody's connected to,

(18:30):
you know. And Ozzy did an amazing job of that.

Speaker 5 (18:33):
And not only was her rock star, but he was
this this uh you know, this anomaly. I mean he
he did things with the Osborns that show on MTV
that made him more than just a rock star. And
we'll talk about that when we come back here on
KO a some folks chiming in via the text line

(18:53):
that's five six six night zero if you want to
chime in. Uh.

Speaker 4 (18:57):
Dale Earnhardt was the only celebrity I tier tier up
for you'll never regret taking care of your mom, and
neither were the Lord.

Speaker 5 (19:04):
Thanks for that. I appreciate that. Man.

Speaker 4 (19:08):
Folks were talking about Jimmy Buffett and Christine mcvee. Jerry Garcia.
Did I mention Jimmy Buffett and Kobe Bryant last segment,
as we talk about celebrities meaning rock star, sports figures,
actors and politicians that you know that we're connected to,

(19:30):
that that we admire, that that we sort of you know,
see eye to eye. We we have and when it
comes to music, we have these events that their music
was the soundtrack to or you know, you'll never forget
that that that's that Sunday of the super Bowl, you know,
twenty years ago because your favorite wide receiver passed away.

Speaker 5 (19:52):
You know.

Speaker 4 (19:52):
It's it's these things that that you're connected to throughout
your life.

Speaker 5 (19:56):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (19:57):
And you're not sure why, you know, that's why I
really wanted a And to come on the show. I
don't know is that that PC should I say therapist whatever.
I think people know what I'm talking about. It's koa.
I don't think I'm offending anybody, you know. And this
text that I got, I think says it all. It says,

(20:19):
Hey Greg, and I'm Greg Stone. By the way, you
can hear me on the Fox. Somebody asked who I was.
You can hear me on the Fox three to seven.
Matter of fact, when I'm done here, that's where I'm
going filling in for Mandy today. This text says, Hey, Greg,
I'm in the exact situation you are. I'm sixty years
old and my mother's ninety one. My advice is to
practice gratitude every single day. Wake up in the morning,

(20:41):
think of all the wonderful things your mom has done
for you and throughout your life, and be happy that
your life isn't this. I don't know if you've heard
about this guy. He's from Nebraska. Sixty five year old
man obviously has not figured out this portion of his life.

(21:05):
This guy's name is Edward Center. He was arrested on
Thursday after cops found him sitting on a floor at
a public bathroom with his junkout, had a bag of
meth on him. Sixty five. He was in a bathroom
at a public park in Grand Island, Nebraska.

Speaker 5 (21:22):
Well, that explains a lot.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
About ninety miles west of Lincoln. Someone apparently found him
there doing whatever he was doing and called nine one one.
When the cops got there, they said that he was
on the floor and there was a bunch of toys
for self gratification laying around him. This is in a
park bathroom in Nebraska. It turned out he'd been banned

(21:44):
from all public parks in the area from doing stuff
like this.

Speaker 5 (21:49):
There.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
I feel grateful that that's not me, sixty five years old,
doing stuff on meth in Nebraska in a public restorant
in a park. See, things can always be worse, all right.
Here's a guy saying, Uh, where's the guy that said
just fell off the horse? This dude, let me find

(22:14):
this text. He talks about how he's urinating blood. I
hope I die somewhat young so I don't have to
lose my mind or body so much. I'm forty seven now.
I got violently thrown off a horse a month ago,
and I've been urinating blood and hurting real bad ever since.
Why don't you go see the doctor, bro I think

(22:34):
that that is a er visit worthy. Here's another dude,
you can be grateful that you're not. This happened in Oklahoma.
Lawrence is this guy's name. He was a patron at
a strip club called Bare Assets. That's a great name
for a booby bar. Don't you think he was there
last weekend? He randomly attacked the janitor. U clear what

(22:59):
started it. Lawrence called the guy a racial slur, then
charged at him with a knife. Maybe it was the
day girls that drove him to this insanity. For what
it's worth, the janitor has a mental disability, and the
janitor saw this coming and beat up. Lawrence hit him
with a broom a couple of times, jumped on him,
kicked his button. Doesn't sound like the janitor was hurt

(23:21):
at all. Lawrence was taken to the hospital for medical attention.
His face is jacked up by the way that eye
is shut. He was arrested for assault and battery with
a dangerous weapon and racial harassment. I'm grateful that I
am not Lawrence getting wasted in the middle of the
day at a booby bar in Oklahoma picking fights with
mentally disabled janitors. And here's a guy talk about not

(23:46):
being grateful. Cops in Patterson, New Jersey, or searching for
a man who stabbed two deli workers last week over
a wrong sandwich order from four years ago. That's holding
a grudge. He showed up Thursday morning complaining about the sandwich.
The two guys that were running the joint are like,
what are you talking about. I don't you think they

(24:07):
were there four years ago? He complained that his sandwich
had egg plant on it. He said he's allergic to
it and it made his stomach hurt. He told him
to leave, and that's when he pulled out a box
cutter started slicing it dicing. One of the workers were
slashed on the arm. The other ended up with wounds
to his stomach at chest. I guess they're both gonna

(24:30):
be okay. The dude has been arrested. Another reason I'm
grateful that that is not me. So, no matter how
hard things may get for you, or for me, or
for any of us for that matter, there's somebody getting
it worse, somebody out there that's got it worse than you.

(24:55):
And I think that that's a part of being grateful
that you got to know that that. Yeah, I'm having
these difficulties. Yes, some of these problems I didn't create
on my own. They just happened to me. And nobody
is trying to make my life more difficult. God hasn't
singled me out and is trying to, uh, you know,
lay down the law, throwing lightning bolts at me. It's

(25:19):
just life. Things like this happen to people. But when you,
you know, complicate things with the drugs and alcohol or
or the lack of gratitude, and then you start drawing
all this negativity towards you, and then bad things start
to happen, and then you feel less grateful. Somebody chimes

(25:41):
in and says Greg Janitor, bouncer, a newfound profession here.
Everybody's trying to cut costs these days. Right, you could
get two for one. A guy that can that wheeld
the broom handle like a sword like no other, bust
out some self defense in the booby bar. You know,

(26:06):
I like that comment being grateful, and I think that
a lot of us aren't a lot of us are entitled.
We think that we are owed something or things should
be a certain way, and then when things go wrong,
we blame the universe or others. But you know, I

(26:26):
think if we as human beings had more gratitude in
our lives, this probably be a better place. You know,
there's crazy times these days, isn't it. I mean, it
seems like it seems like we've been on the brink
of war, you know, since what this country was founded.
I think I read this stat that there's been seven

(26:47):
years total out of all the years the country has
been in existence, it's two hundred and forty nine years.
I believe, right, seven years total that there hasn't been
a conflict. That's crazy, isn't it? And you know what,

(27:08):
I'm grateful in modern times that we haven't had a
violent conflict here in the United States, that we haven't.

Speaker 5 (27:17):
Been invaded, that we haven't had any of that happen
to us like other countries around the globe.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
There's always something to be grateful for.

Speaker 5 (27:24):
Right.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
Here's another text comment and you can text in at
five six six nine zero. It says I started doing
our gratitude list for about six years ago. I try
to do it every day. My life is so good
just knowing that I am grateful to be alive. And
this other person texting Mandy's sub but that's me I'm Greg.

(27:48):
By the way, taking care of elderly parents is a privilege.
We'll come back here on KOA. It's Greg Stone and
for Mandy, we're talking about how we're connected to celebrities,
whether they're athletes, rock stars, actors, actresses, politicians, and gratitude

(28:10):
because you know, it sort of ties into one another.
Folks talking about rock stars that when they passed that
affected them. I got a great text and that text
line is a five six six nine zero h this
person says Greg. For me, it was Eddie Van Halen,
and I tell you I did. I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 5 (28:29):
When ed died.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
It was wild. And it's just all these icons, these
rock and roll icons, these these performers, that they're coming
to the end of their lives. It's just, uh, it's
just gonna be a huge soccer A shocker. Actually, Shay,
you're not a shocker, but just unpleasant. Tells that when
we lose some of these icons, it's just it's gonna

(28:55):
be so difficult. Hey, we're going to talk to doctor
Kevin Fitzgerald here in just a he'll be joining us
after one o'clock this afternoon. He's got a new book
out he'll be at comedy Work South on Sunday and
we'll talk about his new book, and we'll hear some
funny and some great stories. Doctor Kevin was a rolling
Stone bodyguard in the late seventies, so he knows the

(29:17):
thing or two about that connection to rock stars. How
the general public, you know, feels about celebrities as we
go through this list of people the back in the
day Elvis. Remember when Elvis passed away? I mean that
it was like nineteen seventy seven. That was just that
just blew everybody away. I remember my my parents had

(29:37):
tickets to see him in Portland, Maine, and I believe
that was his last show or that was that was
that was going to be the next show, and he
died in between. How about when John Lennon died, was
shot and killed. That was horrific. That was so violent.
You know, nothing to do with old age there, you know,

(29:59):
if you, if you wanted, chime in and tell us
how anybody you know It could be a mentor of sort,
you know, somebody that not necessarily a family member, not
necessarily a good friend. It could be a business associate,
somebody that when they pass how they affected you. Five
six six nine zero uh says you are not connected

(30:22):
in any way logical is pretty sad. Actually, I'm not
sure what you're talking about, but thanks for trying. I
appreciate you, buddy. Keep keep texting in until you hit
it right, okay? Or maybe if you're not connected? Is
what is sad? That if you don't feel a connection

(30:43):
to these people that help influence your life, that play
the soundtrack to your life, that you know, helps set
you know, goals for you know, people that you want
to be like, people that you want to try to emulate.
You know, how does that? How does that happen when
that person who you don't really know, who passes away
and we feel all this grief, it's because they were

(31:05):
always there. They were on the radio, the music was
being played, you know. Or was it that we could
turn them on on TV and see him play the
sport that we loved and when we were younger, we
tried to emulate them, we idolized them, we wanted to
be just like them. Or maybe it's a politician who
you know, who you believe thinks the same way you do.

(31:27):
Somebody writes, I miss phil college. He's still with us,
But but you will miss him when he passes. Yes,
Chris Cornell, that was tough. When they take their own
life's that's real tough. Roy Orbison. You know, all these
iconic names that I'm naming here, All these people had

(31:49):
you know, huge status in in the celebrity world. And
I know a lot of people like ow F celebrities
and celebrities. This celebrity is that. But you know when
they're playing the music your life, yeah, you know, it's
they're more than just celebrities. They're almost like family members,
you know. And then and in all those years, I

(32:11):
keep going back to Ozzy because he's the he's the
most recent one, you know, watching the Osbourne's on MTV
that that gave us a window into what it was like,
uh to be part of Ozzie's family. And I think
that that's really what made him uh so big. I mean,
prior to that, of course Black Sabbath and just a
tremendous solo career. But when he allowed cameras to come

(32:34):
into his home, he opened up that door and allow
people to see how he really was, good, bad and
whatever it was. You know, that's that's when his fan
base grew. Toby Keith there's another one. A lot of
people keep referring to Kobe Bryant too. That was a
tough one. It was so sad, so sudden, a helicopter accident.

(32:56):
I just it's Stevie ray Vaughan speaking helicopter accidents. I mean,
you can just go through, just take a moment and
think about these people who you know, who have who've
influenced you, who have helped make your life easier or
more enjoyable. Maybe not an influence, but definitely helped in

(33:17):
that way. When they passed, you know, I sat there
and I listened to all my my azzy CDs, and
I was watching old videos, and you know, I spent
a lot of time watching that back to the beginning,
that Black Sabbath, Ozzie Farewell. I got up and I

(33:39):
watched that whole thing that day. It was like eleven
and a half hours. We'll talk more about this here
in just a few moments. We've got to take a break.
It's Greig Stone in for Mandy, and we'll be back
on eight to fifty k away.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
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Speaker 2 (33:55):
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Speaker 3 (34:06):
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Speaker 4 (34:16):
I love that He's great Stone in for Mandy. She'll
be back on Monday. Uh, I've got doctor Kevin Fitzgerald
with us this afternoon.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
How are you, doctor Kevin. It's been too long, Bud,
it's been on my life. I think Greg Fitzsimmons at
Downtown Club. Yeah, it was the last time we saw you.
It was that a year ago or something. It's been
a while. Yeah, So you got a new book out.
We're going to talk about that here in just a
few minutes.

Speaker 4 (34:38):
I wanted to get you up to speed with what
we're talking about since you, you know, you spent time
being the Rolling Stones security guard for quite some time
in the late seventies. You know this fascination that we
have with uh, with celebrities, not just rock stars, not
just athletes and politicians. Uh, these people that influence us

(34:58):
at an early age and become a part of our lives,
and they stay with us throughout our adulthood, and then
they're just always there. And then when they go, we're devastated.
People will chime it in. They're talking about skinners they're
talking about Stevie Ray. Uh, they're talking about Kurt Cobain
and John Lennon. I mean, the list goes on and

(35:20):
on and on, and then recently Ozzy, Ozzy leaves us
and then nobody thought Ozzy was gonna die. It just
had done. This special special was so good too that
back to the beginning. Show was awesome, Docter Kevin, It
really was. I think it was eleven and a half
hours long and I watched it.

Speaker 5 (35:38):
There's a Black and Blue tour with the Black Sabbath
and Blue Oyster Cult.

Speaker 4 (35:42):
Oh you did what a character?

Speaker 5 (35:44):
I mean, you couldn't. You couldn't make a character that
came out of a you know. I mean, you couldn't
make him up. He was, he was something he was,
you know. And all those guys like seventy six, Yeah,
they become they become our heroes. But nobody can tell you,
you know, the guy that came up with a new
medication or some know, some artificial limb or something, says people.

(36:06):
You know, but you know, then things that really somebody
even knows, you know, and then you know somebody dies
that you know saying. So that's some it's cultural, that's
like we were talking about. You know, they're a touchstone
in your generation where you go back and go remember
that song or you know, you're just forming and you're
just coming up as a as a person, and and
then that's part of your fabric of your your your

(36:29):
your music, your culture. My my nieces called my house
old town because this is you know, but I just
always tell them, you know, your your favorite band sucks.
You know. I was in the sixties, baby, you know,
I word for the rolling stuff, Oh for the who
you know, they didn't even know who is that?

Speaker 4 (36:45):
The Flying Birder Brothers, What Burrito Brothers?

Speaker 5 (36:47):
What is that?

Speaker 4 (36:49):
Yeah? Just you know, I said, listen to you know,
I just whatever. Why do you think that is? Is
it because that these these people touch our lives when
we're young, and and then that we're doing these things
that that affect our lives forever, and they're the soundtrack
to it.

Speaker 5 (37:05):
Music is such a big thing the kids, you know.
John Prian said, when you're happy, you listen to music.
When you're sad, you listen to the words, and you know,
seems great quote some some grilled dun't you then know
every song is talking to you, you know, those are
so important, you know, and so yeah, so music becomes

(37:26):
such a thing for young people and for old people.

Speaker 4 (37:29):
I still doing surgery every day, you know, have the
thing on listen to my music.

Speaker 5 (37:33):
You know my technicians go, oh Jesus, that's the Flying
Girdle Brothers.

Speaker 4 (37:36):
Is that?

Speaker 5 (37:37):
You know.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
That?

Speaker 5 (37:42):
Yeah? I can't, I can't. I can't listen to that.
You know, you're still slicing and dicing. Huh, well, well
you do what you know. You know, I'm only seventy three.
I'm you know, I read it at a seventy four
year old level. I'm still out there, and so I think,
you know, veteran medicine has been a great thing for me.

(38:02):
I mean it has. Uh.

Speaker 4 (38:04):
We're talking to doctor Kevin Fitzgerald. He's got a new
book out. It's called It Started with a Turtle, One
Man's Life on a Blue and Green Planet. And you're
doing Comedy Works South on Sunday.

Speaker 5 (38:15):
On Sunday, Yeah, Comedyworks dot com. Yeah, and tell some jokes,
and I mean you can't. You can't write stuff funnier
than things are happening now. I mean, this is this
is incredible, what a crazy life?

Speaker 4 (38:26):
Now? Because I've I've known you for you know, almost
thirty years longer. And uh you you didn't start off
being a vent Areyan. You didn't start off being a
security guard.

Speaker 5 (38:38):
You know, it's start off, it's sort of sort of.
I was a lot younger when I started, and I
started off crying when it's like many of us when
the doctor hit me on the bottom. I started off whaling.
You know, I was a whaling, whaling baby.

Speaker 4 (38:49):
But what was it? What were your plans in the
late sixties? What were you thinking about doing with your life?
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (38:57):
I mean, you know, you think maybe in the backyard
mind you have a plan. But you know, I met
I met Chuck Morris and Barry and after that went
the window went out the window.

Speaker 4 (39:09):
We're referring to Chuck Morris and Barry Faye, of course,
two great concert promoters here in the demperamental area, and
they are the ones that opened the door to you
doing security.

Speaker 5 (39:18):
For sure. I worked for the door for for Chuck
at the sink and he goes, I can give you
a buck thirty nine an hour, buck thirty nine an
hour and a hamburger every shift. But you're gonna meet
more girls and Frank Sinatra, you know, and and so.

Speaker 4 (39:31):
You're like, hey, keep I'll take the burger and the
and we.

Speaker 5 (39:35):
Went to Teluggis in Ebittsfield and then then do tours,
you know, and that they were promoting and the Parliament,
Funkadelic and you know, the different things I did.

Speaker 4 (39:45):
It was lucky. So some band posted you who was
the first band that you went out with?

Speaker 5 (39:50):
Uh, the first thing I did was wash h Herb
Alpert and the team on a Brass because because then
I went to the Burritos because they were on a
M records, they really didn't need much security. But you know,
they're like, hey, we think we lost a bag coming
through the airport. Can you go back to the airport
and see so But yeah, it was the first tour,

(40:11):
but it wasn't that really wasn't a proper They weren't
getting mauled or anything.

Speaker 4 (40:15):
You know, it was there wasn't a mash bit. So
you went from to Jauana Brass to the Flying Burrito Brothers.

Speaker 5 (40:20):
Yeah, the Burritos. It was a different deal. I remember
asking Chris Hillman, how do I eat? You know, I
mean there wasn't a per diem. We didn't know in
those days the music business was so I remember I
grew up here in Denver and saw the Denver profestle
It was two weeks two months that the Denver profest
was two months before Woodstock, right, and nobody knew what
would happen against seventy five thousand kids in the stadium.

(40:42):
Walking through the stadium with Berry and he's going, yeah,
the stadium wouldn't let him use the toilets because they,
you know, they had to use the stadium, you know,
for for the real games and stuff, so they had
to rent the And I remember walking through the bar
and he's like, keV, how many times does a kid
peeing a ten hour show? And you're trying to think,

(41:02):
you know, how many potofileers he needs? You know, how
the hell do I know? I'm eighteen years older. I
don't know very Yeah, I wasn't good mad to begin with,
and so yeah, but but in the very beginning, it
was it was it was so exciting because it was
kind of seat of the pants, you didn't know, you
don't know, what would have no playbook. Yeah, and and
so Red Rocks had just started the first couple of

(41:24):
things that they had at Red rocks, you know, with
riots with with uh Rutha Franklin and Jethrow Toll, you know,
and and then they they stopped doing rock shows after
for like six years or so.

Speaker 4 (41:35):
And then we started.

Speaker 5 (41:36):
And then you know, you realize, you know, how many
Southern bands can we bring in in a month?

Speaker 4 (41:41):
You know, because they can go like when you do that,
how you start, you do a great invitation of very faint.

Speaker 5 (41:46):
Well he's like, he's like, you know, how many you know,
we can't bring in Skinner? And then the next week,
you know, uh, you know, Georgia, State of Lesbia. We
got to do, you know, we got to mix it
up and you know, have somebody else we had that
same genre. Paul and Mary have to come. Yeah, so
the parents are only going to give the kids so
much money. And yeah, but the you that the Rioting

(42:08):
Brothers no no, no, no no, I had tickets as
a kid, you know, growing up here in Denver and
getting to see that, it was like in working for
them was like running away with the circus. Really, I
mean you didn't know, and being on a tour and
just one time a little boy from Denver. Yeah, and
and and there's nothing better than live music. You know,
Keith always said, I always say Who's who's the best

(42:30):
live band, Who's the best band in the world, and
goes whoever's playing live tonight, because there's something about live
music with that drum hitting in the chest and you know,
and watching the bass player sweat and trying to keep
up with the drummer and trying to keep up with
his singer. You know. So it's there's something good about
live music. Same with live comedy. So when did you
start becoming a badass? When did you become a proficient

(42:51):
martial arts? I never was proficient, and Milt shots were
We were all just little kids in the Irish Boxers.

Speaker 4 (42:56):
Irish boxers.

Speaker 5 (42:57):
Yeah, and we boxed, you know, and then you know
at twentieth Street and uh my uncle. But you know,
it wasn't about being a badass. It was about not
being a badass. It's about it wasn't about bloody mouse.
Anybody can give you a bloody mouth, how about no
bloody mouse. You know, if I could talk to a guy, Hey,
look man, what are you doing. You're dropping firecrackers on

(43:17):
the crowd. You know, I'm wanting to get a cop.
You're going to go to jail at breakfast on the county.
Your nice girlfriend sitting here, You sit down and be nice. Yeah,
you know I could take you, of course you could.
But I'm gonna go get twenty guys and a cop
and you know we're going to break your arm, you know.
And so you know, Okay, now you talk, but you know,

(43:38):
ninety nine out of one hundred times you talk to somebody.
And it was about what I was proud of in
Colorado and Denver particularly, was our crowds got smart and
trained and it was safe, you know, and people knew
what to expect and knew it was going to be
taken care of. And that you know, you go to
the show and have a nice time, you know, and
you're bringing you know, the tickets. They've always been for

(44:01):
a kid, expensive to buy, you know, My father of
the what did who are you going to? What are
they the fall? Revere in the rap? Where are they
the little things they wear?

Speaker 4 (44:11):
Paul Revere? Yeah, you didn't, you didn't understand.

Speaker 5 (44:14):
That was the first show I remember my uh my
dad took me to see Kiss in uh seventy seven.

Speaker 4 (44:23):
Seventy eight?

Speaker 5 (44:24):
How old were you?

Speaker 4 (44:25):
I was twelve?

Speaker 5 (44:26):
Yeah, eleven so that's a huge thing for the twelve
year old, you know that it was the costume and
the sounds.

Speaker 4 (44:34):
But he was like, you gotta buy my ticket. You
got to show that you know that you really want
to go by investing in a second ticket for me.
And so, like you know, a motocupa yards and boom
were there at the Lubblic Municipal Coliseum with my old
friend Ted Kopp and my dad just just like a cop.
I grew up in that area.

Speaker 5 (44:54):
Yeah, the Red Raiders.

Speaker 4 (44:55):
Yeah that's right, baby.

Speaker 5 (44:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (44:56):
And uh and so he dressed like a cop so
people would leave us alone.

Speaker 5 (45:00):
I didn't know that at the time, but I remember
Ted going, why is your dad looked like a cop man?
Everyone can get beat up. And it was quite the opposite.

Speaker 4 (45:09):
Wow, because then when we were when Dad was like,
go ahead, I'll see you here. We're meeting it here
after the show, you know, And he went up and
took his binoculars and watched all the pyro and everything
and had a great time doing that thing. And then
I remember, you know, one of the people that we
were standing next to in line was like, don't mess
with those kids.

Speaker 5 (45:28):
That one kid's dad's a cop. Well that was a
funny imber. My father walking around on Saturday mornings with
my mother. He's in his boxer shorts and he's dusted,
you know, and he's playing Frank Sinatra and he's snapping
his fingers. Now, Ken, listen to this and I'll see
that really swings.

Speaker 4 (45:45):
And my brother's behind him making them square sign. You
know this.

Speaker 5 (45:49):
You know this guy's is sware.

Speaker 4 (45:50):
But you know when you listen back, it does really swing.

Speaker 5 (45:52):
So each generation has their own music and you can't
you can't deny it, and you can't say, oh, their
music was awful or whatever. Right, meant the same thing
to them growing up that they were coming up. Music's exciting.
That's the best part of it. You failed to remember that.
You know, as you get older, y'all.

Speaker 4 (46:08):
Like today's music all this, that and the other thing.
That's what I say all the time.

Speaker 5 (46:11):
You know, your favorite band sucks, you know to the
young people usually am right.

Speaker 4 (46:15):
You know, it's like, but I have three doctorates, so
you know something.

Speaker 5 (46:21):
So So the book starts off, you're a You're a
young kid, young Irish Catholic kid in Denver, Colorado. Yeah,
it was a different day. You know my family, and
the family was big in the fifties, and Denver was little.
Denver was a little place. It was a you know,
just a flyover place, you know, the like that's a
great opening line.

Speaker 4 (46:41):
My family was big, but the city was little. That's
really true.

Speaker 5 (46:47):
They were they were people with you know, they were
they were they were bigger than life, you know. With
the old Irish people in my family, Thanksgiving, you couldn't
sit at the table until you were like fifty, you know,
until one of the.

Speaker 4 (47:00):
Old ladies died. Yeah, I just did a little card table.
I was working on my PhD.

Speaker 5 (47:06):
I was twenty seven, cutting my little nephew, you know,
my little nieces or my little cousin's meet you know.

Speaker 4 (47:12):
But you wanted to get out of here still.

Speaker 5 (47:14):
You wanted to get up there with the big people
and hear the stories you want to here, you know,
and then start off and as the drinks came a
little bit more, and then the stories got a little
bit better and more, and the people became more and
more heroic, and then you realized, wait, that's a different story,
the same story, but it's different thing than he told
the last time. And then you find out he wasn't
even there. He's telling the story.

Speaker 4 (47:36):
It turns out all Irish people are good storytellers. Oh
you got it. You couldn't do it.

Speaker 5 (47:40):
So so that's my book is just yeah, just stories.
Yeah yeah, I never thought I lived this long. And
during COVID we had two years to do stuff, so
I time to get it all down on it, write
every book. Yeah before yeah, before I stepped on the
stepped on the rainbow and got out of here. We're
talking to doctor Kevin Fitzgerald. But those of you who
don't know, he's like veterinarian and a Denver legend out.

Speaker 4 (48:03):
The way, well not a legend. Yeah, I'm a Denver
veterinarian who's a legend. Okay, a legend. You got some
famous people, uh with quotes, and you got Dana Gould
doing your forward on the book. Kevin Kneeling chimes in,
so does George Lopez. These are all people, you know.

Speaker 5 (48:24):
I've worked a lot opening Uh, I'm going on the
road with Kevin and George.

Speaker 4 (48:28):
What did I mention he's a comic.

Speaker 5 (48:30):
Yeah yeah, so just opening for those guys, and you know,
and then George is always nice. He always he comes
out first and he goes, is, you know, I always
like to open with a minority.

Speaker 4 (48:41):
I have a minority open format that I come out,
you know there you are, Well what are you these days?

Speaker 3 (48:49):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (48:49):
Six' four still still But i'm getting more and. More
oh my back is so bad after forty years of.
Surgery but, YEAH i six four and you, know big, tall,
skinny White Irish catholic guy opening up For George. Lopez
so It george's. Sweet george's is a really Good god.

Speaker 4 (49:11):
They got a bad rap over the last couple of years, Though.

Speaker 5 (49:15):
Yeah but you, know one, time this is a great. Story,
okay Here, george this is A george. Story there was
a priest hanging around, outside you, know and he, goes,
oh you, know like here it, is and what's this guy?
Want you, know and he's, Around CAN i Meet? George
COULD i Meet george after the you, know Like george
is a priest out? There, yeah, yeah, yeah bring him.

(49:35):
In what CAN i do for, You padre Hit Or he's, like,
well you, know we need a wheelchair, ramp you know
at the place you know we Need they can't do
the stairs and the, chairs and so you KNOW i.

Speaker 4 (49:47):
Could just you, know and and the priest is.

Speaker 5 (49:50):
Fundraising, yeah And george's you, know well you, know so you,
Know george tells his, manager you, know get my check,
book you, know and and grows the thing and he,
said now, listen but it can't nobody can know where
it's coming. From, right and and, uh, anonymous AND i

(50:10):
don't ever want to see you, again and don't tell
all your little vulture. Friends you know WHAT i, did you,
know so you, know and then right and then now
get out, here you. Know but it was just So,
george you, KNOW i, mean he's, kind he's, kind, kind
kind and and and just you, know he's got a
big heart and just you, KNOW i could tell that

(50:33):
story because he's my friend and he wouldn't be. Mad
but BUT i, mean just, yeah the, guy you, KNOW i,
mean how many places he gets hit? UP i mean
those people like you were talking, about you, know idolatry or,
whatever you, know heroes and. Stuff, yeah but some of
them really are, heroes you, Know and and some of
them really do, things you, know like scholarships and taking
care of.

Speaker 4 (50:53):
Just because they're not you, know blowing their own horn about.
It and that's you, know people that do that usually
don't people that they.

Speaker 5 (51:01):
Did you hear That jeweyce didn't want anybody to. Know
he wouldn't want anybody to know. Anything you just told.
EVERYBODY i just told. Everybody you know this maan of
kid about after. Me BUT i mean it's just it's
just a good. GUY i, mean that's that's the main
thing of.

Speaker 4 (51:18):
That we'll come. Back we'll have more with Doctor Kevin.
Fitzgerald who's That Comedy Works south On Sunday comedyworks Dot.
Com for more, info It's Greg stone and For mandy
here on eight to Fifty, kowa Ian anderson tells this
amazing story about how he pretty much saved the day
from it just imploding and becoming a full BLOWN i,
mean it was already on the edge of a, riot

(51:39):
but he could have got a lot worse if it
wasn't for the lead singer flutis Ian anderson stepping up
and getting people to chill and, relax telling him where to,
go because you, know this was in the early seventies
and the people were bringing babies to shows and, stuff you,
know and it was the little babies out there in
the audience Of Red rocks suffering from all that tier

(51:59):
again ask because they tear gas people, OUTSIDE i, guess
and it all blew its same with the puffus did,
that you know at the.

Speaker 5 (52:09):
Stadium but, man, yeah you don't want you don't want
to get tear guests with the baby who bring a
baby to the. Show you see that. STUFF i saw
that stuff for. Years you just, go why would you
Do why would you do?

Speaker 4 (52:20):
That Doctor Kevin fitzgerald is with us here on eight
fifty k. Away it started with a turtle is the
name of his new. Book, Uh One Man's life on
A blue And Green. Planet he'll be at comedy Work
south On, sunday AND i assume you'll have copies of your.

Speaker 5 (52:35):
Boy then get it, over then get. It they can
buy it On amazon and so the tatter. Cover but but, uh,
yeah it's it's, UH i don't. KNOW i think it
just kind of arrogant to think that you got a
book in. You BUT i think maybe everybody has a, Story,
greg you, know, yeah everybody has a story that that
is their their life and my, life yours yours is pretty.

(52:55):
Exciting we. Know it's kind of LIKE i was like,
lucky it like Forth, gump you, know just in the
right place at the right, time just you, know we're
just growing Up Irish catholic in the fifties and then
bouncing and working for bands and then veterinary, stories then
stand up and then the conservation stuff you know In
north And South pole and stuff with The Denver.

Speaker 4 (53:16):
Zoo you, know here's. It and we're kind of skipping
all Over kevin's life right. Now but here here's an
influence That kevin had that got him to go to
become a. Veterinarian Keith Richards, Well.

Speaker 5 (53:30):
Keith keith was in charge of the bouncers still is
and and so they'll have their, job you, know jogger
with ticket, prices and you, Know charlie was in charge
of the stage and with the, stage the. Coluct keith
was in charge of logistics types of, stuff and the,
bouncers and he was paying. Me at the end of
the seventy eight, tour he, goes you, know you've been with,
us you, know sixty, nine seventy, two seventy, five seventy.

(53:52):
Eight what are you gonna? Do you, know you can't
be a. Bound this isn't gonna last. Forever we're gonna
be like the.

Speaker 4 (53:57):
Flavor of the. Month you, Know we're not gonna be doing.

Speaker 5 (53:59):
This they never dream so you, know you, know he said,
this this could stop tomorrow. Career and you can't be
a bouncer when you're. Fifty and why don't you do? Something,
oh you go to. School i'll help. You SO i
flew back to dem and my brother picked me up
at the airport and and, uh AND i, Said keith
told ME i should get a grip on my. Life
and he keel, yourself you, should you should do. Something,

(54:19):
yeah you got to you gotta do. Something so did
he help pay for your?

Speaker 4 (54:23):
School?

Speaker 5 (54:24):
Well they, did you, know for every TWO i would,
do they would pay for the year of. School and
then he wrote my. Recommendation so it's probably on a wall,
somewhere you know the.

Speaker 4 (54:35):
Kid excuse, me, uh Mister, fitzgerald is this The Keith.

Speaker 5 (54:39):
Richards but, no they didn't know who it. Was, probably you,
know it just seems like a nice. Man he wrote
me a nice. Thing, YES i used to have a
copy of. It BUT i, mean you, KNOW i.

Speaker 4 (54:50):
Mean there's a there's a guy who you, know we
were talking about. HEROES i, mean he's got to be
somewhat he's your. Boss but at the, Time i'm sure
you were, like you know before you knew him as
well as you.

Speaker 5 (55:00):
Did, no he's the hero for, sure Because keith did
something and and And Joan rivers did. It with what they.
Do people come, up the fans will come up and
they would really listen and they ask him a question
and Go keith would, go where are you?

Speaker 4 (55:14):
From what's your?

Speaker 5 (55:14):
Story AND i, go you know, WHAT i saw a
luminum sighting and see the, rapids you, know and they got,
yeah you, know siding and the guy talk and, yeah you,
KNOW i came. On this is my, daughter you, know
this is little Little, sharena you, know whatever her name,
is you, know this is this is you, Know Anton,
junior whoever the hell and and so so and then

(55:35):
they'd walk away and So keith always, say you see
that all people want to talk about it. Themselves and
the guy walk away going he's a great. Guy he
hadn't said, anything you, know he just listened for you.
Know and And Joan rivers would do that, too you,
know we. Should people would come up and she, goes
this is your? Doing do this you know and ask you,
know SO.

Speaker 4 (55:53):
I think totally take the attention away from, themselves put
it back on the on the fance more more about,
themselves legitimate.

Speaker 5 (56:00):
Kindness you, KNOW i think kindness is a great currency
and it says the. Day, YEAH i, mean we can't
do a lot of, things but we can always be.

Speaker 4 (56:09):
Kind so when you were doing all, this who whose
death hit you? Hardest when you were involved in the.

Speaker 5 (56:16):
Scene Graham parsons dying was a giant thing because that
he would have been Huge and the hardest thing for
me is a loss of, talent you, know you, KNOW
i think it's been interesting to see what what uh
the twenty Seven, club you, know, yeah With Jimmy hendrix
and J Jimmy hendricks dye was a big thing to,
me and and Uh Ben John lennon of, course you, know,

(56:39):
yeah interesting to see what it been interesting to see
what these people are like when they're in their sixties
and when they when they just shut off and probably
not you, know we got, proof.

Speaker 4 (56:49):
You, know you got, uh you, Know mick And, Keith
you've Got paul, McCartney you've got Really Joel Elton john
all these guys are.

Speaker 5 (56:56):
Still are still doing it and and and you, know
whether it's this vital or you, know is meaningful and
relevant as it was but but they're still doing. It
and you, know the last time THAT i Saw, KEITH i,
said how long can you do? It you, KNOW i don't.
Know these blues guys did it into their. Seventies you,
know it's still pretty, good you, know as long as

(57:16):
people as long as we aren't like a caricature of
ourselves like A Las vegas, actor you, know, right you
know he, goes but, no he. GOES i think you,
know he, said the blues people did it your way
into their, seventies buddy. Guy you know those guys are still.
Great so, YEAH i, think well.

Speaker 4 (57:34):
So much FOR i HOPE i died BEFORE i get
old adult TREE i.

Speaker 5 (57:38):
DID i did three farewell tours with The who THREE
i have, three they're on one right. NOW i have
three jackets that are you. Know and so, yeah they they. Didn't,
yeah that was my favorite, band you. Know and they
never had a number one. Single back, man they came
across a live like no other BAND i ever saw it.

(57:59):
Didn't i'm across on the record like it did. LIVE i, mean,
oh and they they never had a number one, single
and and but they were they were huge, LIVE i
mean just, yeah and famous show was like that in nineteen,
seventy you, know and down At, MAMMOTH i mean The
Mammoth gardens now you, know uh.

Speaker 4 (58:18):
While the who played The Mammoth Events, center which is
The fillmore now for yeah wow that you know that
Was ozzy's first date on his Original No More tours
tour was at the the Old Mammoth Event.

Speaker 5 (58:32):
Center oh, SURE i mean there's so many, things you,
Know Led zeppelins first, man first show was here With Vanilla, fudge,
right you, know and and Uh hendricks Played regis you,
Know Sodi queen And REGs and so many of those.
Things and and were you at The Fort collins c
S u show The Stone jim And Elton john was

(58:55):
all high on coke and, no, no, no that Was.
Range that Wasn't that wasn't the Movie jim. Show that
Was Hughes. Stadium, yes, yeah yeah, Yeah and and he
was on. Stage, yes he had said a lot of
mean things And keith is like fat rech doesn't come. Up,
yeah but, yeah, no there was some bad blood. There
but he was playing At cariboo and what a wonderful.

(59:17):
Place and you know the things that happened At. Cariboo you,
know we're so lucky With gracy over, there you.

Speaker 4 (59:22):
Know but a great recording studio up In netherland if
you don't, Know, yeah AND i mean everybody played, there you,
know and did stuff up.

Speaker 5 (59:31):
There you, Know Stephen stills and you Know chicago and
The Beach boys and you.

Speaker 4 (59:36):
Know even you, know up until through the. EIGHTIES i
Think Ronnie James deal recorded there as. Well so, yeah
and when did? It you, Know we're going to take
a break real quick here on eight fifty k away
it's GREAT stoni and For. Mandy i've got Doctor Kevin
fitzgerald with. Us we're gonna take a. Break we'll come,
back we'll hear some more rock and roll stories and
we'll talk more about the. Book it started with a,

(59:57):
Turtle Doctor Kevin fitzgerald on eight fifty K Doctor kevin
will be A comedy works On. Sunday That's Comedy Works
South comedyworks dot com for more. Information it will have
copies of the. Book you know. It you've done so.
Much you, know so many people when.

Speaker 5 (01:00:12):
They look back at their lives they have regret because
they didn't do what they wanted. To nod should have,
regret if you, know if you make It. No every,
day you, know is a chance for a new. Adventure you,
know every day we get a chance to do it.
Right you. Know, yeah it's not you can't live your
life's looking in the rearview. Mirror you got to look.
Ahead that's why the rearview mirror is a little you,

(01:00:35):
know in the right in your windshield is, big so
you don't spend a whole lot of time looking. Backwards
your regrets are like. Reruns you know why we look
at the. Reruns let's look at the new. Stuff and
so we're moving forward with Doctor kevin here on eight
fifty k.

Speaker 4 (01:00:51):
Away what what you? Know you've done all these? Things
what what are you going to do with yourself? Now
maybe hair? Gliding?

Speaker 5 (01:01:01):
Yeah, NO i, MEAN i mean who, knows you, know
if you if you keep your, health you, know AND
i JUST i never thought it would be this, old you, know.

Speaker 4 (01:01:10):
You never how many years have you been a? Vet forty?

Speaker 5 (01:01:14):
Three? Wow, yeah it's been a great, life you, know,
people just to show you a. Grig there's been a
change In america how people think about. Animals in nineteen
nineteen fifty, seven they did THE, avma The American vendor
And Medical association did a telephone survey and said do
you think your pet is part of the. Family and

(01:01:34):
at that, time you, know forty three percent Of american
said they thought the pet's part of the.

Speaker 4 (01:01:39):
Family is the same.

Speaker 5 (01:01:41):
Thing fifty years later in two thousand and, seven and
ninety seven percent Of american said the pet tra. This
it's been a change in how people think about their. Animals,
yeah you, know especially your you, know your your cats and.
Dogs folks are spending tons of. Money, well we're we're
able to a lot. More we're able to do so much.
More you, KNOW i was the third person at our,
practice and now you, know we have over fifty doctors

(01:02:01):
and specialists and wonderful people that have specialty training and you,
know cancer or, ophthalmology in, radiology we have cat scans
and and cts and, so you, know in the old
days would say we think your dog has a brain,
tumor and now we say your dog has a one
centimeter a lesion in the fourth, quadron you. Know so so, yeah,

(01:02:23):
SO i, mean we're able to offer so much more to.
People and the problem is, COST i, mean who pays for?
It and in human, medicine that's always been a. Problem
and then you, know a third party payments with insurance and.
Stuff so it's.

Speaker 4 (01:02:36):
It's you, know, yeah my, Dog i've got insurance from my.

Speaker 5 (01:02:39):
Dog they're gonna have to figure out the cost of you,
know because it's getting it's getting, hard you, know it's getting,
hard and you know it certainly is a it's you,
know a privilege to have an.

Speaker 4 (01:02:50):
Animal you should be able to take care of.

Speaker 5 (01:02:51):
Them and you, know and and but if we take something,
on we should be able to you, know take care
of it that we're responsible for.

Speaker 4 (01:02:59):
It you talk about the trials and tribulations of being a,
Veterinarian i'm sure that you've gotten close to a lot
of animals and things didn't turn out the way you wanted.

Speaker 5 (01:03:07):
Them not, always but a lot of. Times you, know
you don't win all of, them but you get to win.
Some otherwise you couldn't do, it you, Know and and
so we you, know sometimes you we we win some
and getting to meet the people and be part of
the fabric of the. Town i'm, lucky you, Know i've
been at the same practice for you, know for all these,
years and to retire in the same.

Speaker 4 (01:03:25):
Job you had THE tv show forever that was.

Speaker 5 (01:03:28):
WEIRD i couldn't watch the show Because i'd, go that's
not my, neck that's my dad's. Neck you, know you
think you look like, that you, know that's.

Speaker 4 (01:03:35):
Not WHAT i look.

Speaker 5 (01:03:36):
Like or you hear your voice and you, Go, jesus
that's my. Voice you, know that's. Awful but so THE
tv show was was it came out Of at the,
Time er was huge With George, clooney and they, thought
what about an animally are and an Animal? Planet it
was more morphing out Of, discovery you, know and we
knew all animals all the. Time so we came up
with an idea for a show that we, without like

(01:03:57):
pets of the rich and, famous you, know and and,
uh you know that might be. GOOD i was open
on the road With Betty white AND i wanted her
to interview famous people about their.

Speaker 4 (01:04:06):
Pets and we got pretty.

Speaker 5 (01:04:07):
Far but the woman that was for An Animal, planet
that Was discovery was charging new show is, shoes you,
know not about, comedy what about animal er? Thing and
then we. Did we did it for eleven seasons and you,
know now there's been a bunch of other ones, too.

Speaker 4 (01:04:21):
And that that door opened up a lot of funding
for you. Too you were able to do a lot
of conservation across the.

Speaker 5 (01:04:28):
World, WELL i was lucky and have. BEEN i was
really against zoos UNTIL i realized that more children visit
The Denver zoo every. Year you, know then the adults
visit The, Broncos, Avalanche, nuggets And rockies, combined and we
put two point three million kids in there every, year
and little minds get turned, on you, Know and and
so that was a. Right it's prefecting those animals for the,

(01:04:51):
future and that's turning the kids. On and and so
the zoo does all these conservation. Things now it's called
The Denver Zoo conservational but they do all these.

Speaker 4 (01:05:01):
Projects you.

Speaker 5 (01:05:02):
Know it's the thing In mongolia where they had one
hundred and eighty seven thousand acres and we're you, know
working on endangered species and Training mongolian WILDLIFE veterinai as
A mongolian wildlife. Biologists SO i, mean there's ten million
other forms of life on the planet besides, us and
they were all waiting for us that you, know we
were given this wonderful biodiversity and and our intellect and
all the other animals are waiting for us to use

(01:05:23):
our intellect and save the. Place you, know we look At,
colorado look at the wonderful wildlife. HERE i mean you
can't go very, far you, know even within the city.
Limits we got foxes and kyrites and rabbits and you,
know hawks and, bats but all trying to live. Harmonious,
yeah we shared the left and you, know. Rattlesnakes and
people ask, me what of these rattlesnakes? Want, well you,

(01:05:44):
know they lived to your first you, know what do
you mean what do they?

Speaker 4 (01:05:47):
Want you? Know and so, yeah we're going to take
a quick. Break we're going to come back and talk
about Doctor kevin's, uh you, know conservation efforts across the.
Globe he's done some really cool. Things, uh he'll be
A Comedy works On. Sunday comedyworks dot. Com Doctor kevin
FITS haeralld WITH us eight fifty k.

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Monday i've got Doctor Kevin fitzgerald WITH us he is a.
Veterinarian if you don't know who Doctor Kevin fitzgerald, IS
i don't know where you've. Been, okay, Seriously denver icon great.
Comedian he was a security guard for a ton of
bands throughout the late, sixties seventies and early, eighties like

(01:06:47):
The Rolling, Stones Black, Sabbath Blue Oyster, cult The Jefferson,
Airbell Joe man. Exactly we talked a lot About The
reaper today and he's written this fabulous book Called It's
star with A. Turtle it's his, Biography one man's life
on a blue and green. Planet and we've talked quite
a bit about your years as a as a as

(01:07:10):
a security. Guard is you, know working For Barry faye
And Chuck morrison for all the bands THAT i just,
mentioned and you've been A vetford what did you?

Speaker 5 (01:07:18):
Say forty? Three? Wow forty three. Years you've been helping
Out denver, animals which is. Great and then and.

Speaker 4 (01:07:26):
Then your practice and being on Animal planet led to
doing a bunch of.

Speaker 5 (01:07:32):
Conservative. Things i've Been i've been looking with, conservation you.
KNOW i think for, me when when a species becomes,
extinct the world becomes a less interesting, place you, Know
and so you, know, hey for your grandchildren only be
able to see a pullar bear in a, book you,
Know and there's things we could, do and there's so
many things we could. Do we could do like a species.
Royalty Like, greg if you wrote a, SONG i got

(01:07:54):
to pay a royalty IF i want to use it
and record, it, Right or if you write a, POEM
i want to put it in my, BOOK i got.

Speaker 4 (01:07:59):
It give you money for your. Home, so but.

Speaker 5 (01:08:02):
For different species like, cheetah they use their their pattern
and not only just their, skin but the pattern you,
know in the fabric industry for. Everything or look at
animals in pr campaigns or as mascots or as you,
know they use them for for everything and every type
of public. Relations do and so do some sort of
like skin. Royalty that's. Right if we Gave coca cola

(01:08:26):
uses a polar, bears if they gave zero point one
percent of profits back to preservation and, habitat if we,
did you, know back to the. Animal you, know if
you want to use the chlorod, buffaloes what about doing
something for you, know, bison the rehab of bison prairie
or wherever to you, know preservation protect the.

Speaker 4 (01:08:46):
Species so you know.

Speaker 5 (01:08:47):
The idea of a species, royalty and well as things
we could, do there's so many cool things we could be,
doing you, know and and and then it would look
make you look at like in the kindly light of
as you, know as an animal.

Speaker 4 (01:08:59):
Lover so you, know there's there's so many other.

Speaker 5 (01:09:01):
Animals and what's that is that the charismatic, animals the
wolves and the whales and elephants and.

Speaker 4 (01:09:07):
Lions you, know they get get all the all the,
print you know in the.

Speaker 5 (01:09:12):
Heat but there's so many species that are in trouble right.

Speaker 4 (01:09:16):
Now who's the most endangered species right?

Speaker 5 (01:09:19):
Now what species is the most? Endangered the list is too.
LONG i COULDN'T i wouldn't even hazard to, guess you,
know it would be the number would be in the,
thousands tens of. Thousands the species animals that are on
the verge of, yeah, yeah rhinos for, sure you know
black rhinos where there's just a few the uh you,
Know gobi bear bear in The Gobi. DESERT i mean

(01:09:41):
there's so many that you, know it's people help, well
people can do. THINGS i think that with the biggest
thing is people go you, know it's it's too. Big
i'm just one. Person there's actually a lot of people can.
Do you can get involved locally or you, know nationally
or you, know or globally and different. Groups AND i
think pick one group and stick with. It you, Know

(01:10:02):
Denver zoo has projects with uh the, pika you know
at The High Altitude pika or the re reintroduction of
the little, uh the wonderful little boreal toads that sing
while you're at camp and you, know and so they you,
know they bred six thousand of them in in you,
know a lab at the at the zoo and then
reintroduce the babies out.

Speaker 4 (01:10:22):
There now you can hear them singing.

Speaker 5 (01:10:24):
Again you, know did six thousands two?

Speaker 4 (01:10:25):
Times what about people that are afraid that their money
is not going to go u to, conservation to go.

Speaker 5 (01:10:31):
To some group where you know that you know where
it goes and talk to them find, out you, KNOW
i mean groups that were are pretty Good Polar, Bears
International World Wildlife, fund, uh you, know The Denver.

Speaker 4 (01:10:43):
Zoo.

Speaker 5 (01:10:43):
Uh you, KNOW i think that there's there's so many
places that just find, out you, know and there's there's
there's a lot you can do just, locally you, know
planting a, garden that's bee. Friendly that's friendly for the.
Bees you, know bees need. Help, yeah a lot of.
That your monarch butterflies with their, Milkweed so planting milkweed

(01:11:04):
in your.

Speaker 4 (01:11:04):
Backyard and what have you done when it comes to?
CONSERVATION i Know i've seen video of you and The.
Antarctic well what else have you?

Speaker 5 (01:11:13):
Done, Well i've been very lucky In Denver zoo had
a place In, mongolia you, know and now that's gone
back to The Mongolian SO i went twelve times and
got to participate and helped train.

Speaker 4 (01:11:25):
Twelve times To, mongolia you.

Speaker 5 (01:11:26):
Know and to you Know churchill with the polar bears
with The North American Venors association or tagging polar. Bears
and SO i mean to be a little boy From
denver by it's standing next to a polar.

Speaker 4 (01:11:38):
BEAR i, mean you, know your heart's in your.

Speaker 5 (01:11:40):
Mouth but there's a lot there's a lot of people
can do locally, too you. KNOW i think there's so
many things that people Can that's a great way to, start,
TOO i, think, so you, KNOW i. Think SO i
get some comments.

Speaker 4 (01:11:51):
Here people are texting in THE koa text line five
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enjoy his. Sets keep it. Coming there'll be a Comedy
Work south On, Sunday Comedy works Dot com From.

Speaker 5 (01:12:10):
Cody it's like getting you, know it's like getting shot
out of the.

Speaker 4 (01:12:13):
Cannon you, know we didn't discuss how that. HAPPENED i,
mean you go to the vet. School Keith richards sends
you to vet school sort, of, uh and and and
then you've become a. Veterinarian but how did you get on?
Stage we'll find out Next here we're going to take
a quick break for. News you're listening To Greg. Stone
i'm in For mandy here on eight FIFTY koa enjoying

(01:12:34):
the stories of Doctor Kevin. Fitzgerald and you can get
the stories in a. Book it started with a, Turtle
One Man's life on A blue And Green Planet and
can you get that On amazon On amazon and you
can get it At Comedy works On. Sunday, yeah that's
The Comedy Works South comedyworks Dot.

Speaker 5 (01:12:51):
Com more infos And buns And. Noble so how.

Speaker 4 (01:12:54):
Did you become of a? Comedian how did you go
from being a security guard to a? Vet and area
we got, that but how did you go from being
a vet to a?

Speaker 5 (01:13:04):
Comedian WHEN i was, bouncing there were comedians that would
open for different, bands like we, talked you, Know Robin
Robin williams open for For neil Young bright that whole
tour when it was just going to be an acoustic
set With neil just playing piano. GUITAR i didn't want
to have to break down a band in front of
So Robin williams would come out and it was before more.
Commendy you, said he was like that all the. Time

(01:13:27):
he was just odd all the. Time just you just
you knew.

Speaker 4 (01:13:31):
Something was gonna happen with you know that.

Speaker 5 (01:13:33):
GUY i, mean he was just just a flash and
and and so some of there were other The Parliament
funkadelic Had James Leslie jackson and he had great. JOKES
i just loved his. Jokes he come out and, go
boomerangs are coming. Back it's a perfect. Joke you, know
they had come. Back and then people just look at

(01:13:55):
each other and not know what he's talking. About AND
i was, dying you, Know and you see people like,
that and so you just got to. Think and SO
i was, lucky like The Comedy works was, here and it, was,
uh the comedy downstairs was The. Flick WHEN i was a.
Kid it was a movie. Theater so it took your.
Girl it was, uh you, know it was kind of
like art movies and. Stuff and, so, yeah that place

(01:14:16):
was a movie.

Speaker 4 (01:14:16):
Theater.

Speaker 5 (01:14:17):
Yeah, yeah it was called The. Flick and there was
A SaaS gorilla place right next. Door it served ice
cream and. Stuff you take your, yeah, yeah that's what
it was. Called. Yeah, YEAH i was one of the. Settlers,
yeah one of the one of the, first one of
the pioneers came.

Speaker 4 (01:14:32):
Through that's what they called. It that's what they called.

Speaker 5 (01:14:36):
It and so right next to, It i'll try to
remember the name of that, place but The flick was the,
place and then, uh and then became The Comedy. Works
and so the stand up comedy has a long history
in The United, states but not so much in white,
audiences because black audience had The chiplin, circuit you, know
and you see these black acts and and you Know

(01:14:58):
skillet And leroy and uh in those kind of, guys you,
Know Red fox and and so then it jumped and
then it became a, thing and you know and, uh
you Know Lenny bruce and and different people that brought it.
Up and first you, know pretty topical and and uh
and in controversially political And mortsaul and you, know great

(01:15:20):
comics and and then what do you think that was
like late, fifties early, sixties, sixties, sixties.

Speaker 4 (01:15:25):
And then by the.

Speaker 5 (01:15:28):
Boom there was boomed a couple of, times different, booms
and and in the uh in the late seventies it happened.
Again and you, know the comedy works and And george
McKelvey and and you know the people with mckelvey's Uh
on On hampden and the Comedy works downtown and and
and so it. Was it was something That i'd go

(01:15:50):
and watch and you, go, MAN i could be this.

Speaker 4 (01:15:51):
Bad you.

Speaker 5 (01:15:52):
KNOW i saw a friend of, mine the friend of
mine was doing, it AND i, SAID i can be
as bad as this. Guy and he was getting. Paid
he was getting. Paid so Were jesus guy's getting paid
to do. That so you, KNOW i went out and
at FIRST i was like a talking. HEAD i wouldn't,
move and you, know you're, afraid and you're afraid of the.
Audience and the first couple of, times you, know you
get torn, up and then you're embarrassed and you heal

(01:16:16):
up a little, bit and a few weeks later you
go out to the amateur night and try it again
and get torn. Up and then but THEN i realized
that you needed a. Gimmick SO i got this hospital
bit AND i have the you, know THE. Mc you,
go folks who don't know he's a dying. Comic the doctor,
said if if you, laugh you might get. Stronger there's
a one in a million chance it could. Work if you,
laugh he may get. Stronger so you have a fake

(01:16:37):
oxygen tent and oxygen tank and roll you out and
a FAKE iv going in infitting gown with your bottom hanging,
out and so you tell a joke and you, go you, KNOW.

Speaker 4 (01:16:49):
I want to.

Speaker 5 (01:16:50):
Die people come home mermaids where seashells beach shells are too,
small and and then you, know they, Laugh and then
but now they're in on, it they. Realized and then
you sit up a, little and then you're telling another
joke a little bit, funnier and then they set.

Speaker 4 (01:17:05):
Up you set up.

Speaker 5 (01:17:06):
More then you get a mirror and start combing your,
hair and then pretty soon you're telling funny in front
of the jokes and you jump out and now they're
way into it and they're just, roaring you, know at
the each, joke and then you run up and down the.
Stage you can have an ielfing down on your bottom hanging.
Out and then when you got mad and said you
can't never do, that there was no more HOT i
don't HAVE i don't have a cabaret, lessons you, KNOW i, said,

(01:17:27):
Yeah but SO.

Speaker 4 (01:17:28):
I tried more than your bottom. Started.

Speaker 5 (01:17:30):
YEAH i tried different stuff like, that you know that
that were it never, worked you, Know and tried a
diving comic where you filled up this tank and they
could see through. It a lot of. Work you're at
the bottom of the tank and had a bucket you
put over your head and there's air in the bucket
for about two minutes and you're telling. Jokes you know
what has four balls and eats, ants you, know and you,

(01:17:50):
know so that didn't, work and so you, know and
then pretty soon you're trying different.

Speaker 4 (01:17:58):
Stuff you, did try and find your own. Voice Doctor
Kevin fitzgerald will be a comedy. Works if you want
to hear his, voice that Is Sunday.

Speaker 5 (01:18:07):
Sounds Like Tommy. Chong that's all, right don't we're fans Of.
Tommy you can find out more at Comedy works dot.
Com we got a break real. Quick we'll come back
on The Greg stone. Program i'm in For mandy here
on eight fifty k. AWAY i got one more thing
to ask. You Doctor Kevin fitzgerald is with us here
eight fifty k. Away he'll be At Comedy Works south On.
Sunday That's comedyworks dot com for tickets and. Details and

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before we let you, go thank you so much for being,
Here thanks for having.

Speaker 4 (01:18:33):
Me i've known you a long.

Speaker 5 (01:18:34):
Time you've always been a great animal, lover so thanks
for all you have.

Speaker 4 (01:18:37):
Done and you, know there's always new stories or new
twists to the stories that you've told me. Before ALWAYS
i always find out something new about this remarkable. Man
AND i WANTED i wanted to leave you with this
before you, exited and let me know how you feel about, this.
OKAY A danish zoo is facing backlash for asking people

(01:18:57):
to donate their pets so they can be eaten by
lions and other apex. Predators they don't accept cats or,
dogs just, rabbits, chickens guinea pigs and small, horses small,
Horses how do you feel about? That folks are, saying, hey,
well you know nothing goes to waste this, way you,
know but you can't donate you're already dead guinea, pig you,

(01:19:22):
know they still have to have some life left in.

Speaker 5 (01:19:25):
Them, No, no if you read about, this this they've
done this, before and this has done has been done
in other Couple scandinavian countries where they've done, This but
the animals are already, deceased so they're Not it's not
like you're, putting you, know a flicka in with the.
Lions well the, well the article says that they used
denize them before they feed. Them, yeah so what if

(01:19:47):
they're not ready to? Go, WELL i think what if
you just, like Oh i'm, MOVING i don't want my
guinea pig. Anymore, YEAH i JUST i broke up with my.
Girlfriend i'm gonna kill her guinea. Pig but, NO i
think there's got to be a. HEART i, MEAN i
know Several scandinavian veterinarians and you know they're not, gonna you,

(01:20:09):
know be killing stuff that, that you, KNOW i think
the animals that they.

Speaker 4 (01:20:13):
Are there would would be these types of.

Speaker 5 (01:20:16):
Things, uh you, know couldn't come to the forefront again and.
Again you.

Speaker 4 (01:20:21):
Know it's like when they wanted to take that.

Speaker 5 (01:20:24):
Memory they thought we had too many geese here In,
denver and they wanted to feed the geese to the on,
house you, know and and and and people went. Crazy
and and SO i think if we think of what
what people, eat you, know, right and and unless we
are all, vegetarians but if you run your tongue over your,

(01:20:46):
TEETH i mean we have meat. Teeth you, know we're
involved eating big tear eating. Meat so SO i, think
do you.

Speaker 4 (01:20:56):
Think this is a good idea instead of cremating them
or burying, them you, know if they're if they're, sick
if they're on the way. Out uh do you my?

Speaker 5 (01:21:05):
Phone my, Phone my phone went crazy this week because
of this with people asking, me you, know like and
co guys youfically, going, hey you know my wife dogs are, jerk,
RIGHT i want him to.

Speaker 4 (01:21:19):
You can we throw him in the tiger? Cage you
know WHAT i?

Speaker 5 (01:21:21):
Mean SO i think the animals have to eat and
and you know, it and and so IT'S i don't,
KNOW i think the animals in the world have bigger
problems than, this, right and and with with pollution and
destruction of habitat and invasive, species and and and just you,

(01:21:42):
know uh, species that invasive.

Speaker 4 (01:21:45):
Species they shouldn't be.

Speaker 5 (01:21:46):
There you, know if we look AT i went down
to The everglades and and help my Friend doug made
r and the pythons down there that you, know we
went there and they're not supposed to be, There, no
and and they're they're eating. Everything made her put a
radio transmitter is in one hundred rabbits and seventy seven
of them showed up in the pythons in one.

Speaker 4 (01:22:07):
Year so.

Speaker 5 (01:22:10):
Invasive, yeah so, YEAH i, mean, yeah people should stand
about the reintroduction of animals to their natural. Habitat like
wolves here In. COLORADO i understand the first uh litter
of pups have been. Located, YEAH i mean it's. Controversial
and you, know is there enough? Space you, know is

(01:22:32):
there enough space they take a you, know the wolves
the pack has a regular circle that they'll they'll, follow you.
Know one of the last places In Colorado armstrong's booking
in nineteen, thirteen The wolves Of colorado or The mammals Of.

Speaker 4 (01:22:48):
Colorado they were in every county In.

Speaker 5 (01:22:50):
Colorado but by nineteen twenty five that disappeared because you,
know there there were well there were bounties on. Them
it was a county of state in a federal and
they did it by you, know with with caucases of
cattle that were poison and so they you, know people think.

Speaker 4 (01:23:07):
That decimated the wolf population the lower forty. Eight, yeah
and so you think that nature is, infinite but it's.

Speaker 5 (01:23:13):
Fragile it's not you, know like longline fishing that we
saw In antarctica or you, know, so is it a bad.

Speaker 4 (01:23:20):
Thing that we reintroduced the wolves To colorado as populated
as it, is or is?

Speaker 5 (01:23:24):
THERE i think it should. BE i think it has.
TO i, mean you have to realize the different sides of.
It you know, that you, know the people on the
western slope or the farmers and ranchers go, wow the
people In denver have such a big voting block and
we you, know but they're not really affected by. It
so they all, go, oh, yeah this sounds good and
check out the things when they.

Speaker 4 (01:23:42):
Vote this way is how it. Seemed so it.

Speaker 5 (01:23:45):
Seemed but, uh and then if you look At yellowstone
and what the reintroduction of the wolves did there in
terms of plants coming, back you, know keeping the angulus the,
deer and you, know they would take too much and
eating too much of the, plants and and so SO i,
think you.

Speaker 4 (01:24:04):
Know and culling the, herd you, know get rid of.

Speaker 5 (01:24:07):
There's there's a there's a there's a there's certainly a,
place you, know but is there enough space that they're not,
gonna you, know get into trouble with coming into contact with.

Speaker 4 (01:24:17):
People the problem is it doesn't take long before they're
they're cruising down a green.

Speaker 5 (01:24:21):
Belt, no there's just too many of, us you, know
it's just too. Many if you think that the populace
in The United states since nineteen, hundred between nineteen hundred
and two, thousand, right it, doubled and then it doubled,
again and then it doubled, again doubled three. Times and
if you don't believe, that drive ON i twenty. FIVE i,
mean you, KNOW i, Mean denvers changed so much SINCE
i was a. KID i, mean it's just you, know

(01:24:42):
this was a little.

Speaker 4 (01:24:43):
Just in the last. Decade, yeah, yeah you, know so
the secrets.

Speaker 5 (01:24:46):
Out you, know people want to be here with the
blue sky in the nice, weather you, know but BUT
i think we can do as smart you, KNOW i,
think you, know reintroduction can be done intelligently and done
that's you, know, good good for. Everybody SO i, think you,
know we're in infancy and a lot of. Things and
reintroduction of animals is another.

Speaker 4 (01:25:05):
Thing sometimes population is getting really. Strong and when were
the most reintroduced To? Colorado what? Sixties, yeah early ear
early early.

Speaker 5 (01:25:18):
Seventies and then they thought they were, Gone they thought
it didn't take and then all of a, sudden.

Speaker 4 (01:25:23):
Everywhere they were down In highland's. Ranch, yeah there was
a single. Mail, yeah so so all down there wandering.

Speaker 5 (01:25:32):
Around. Yeah but you, KNOW i mean the animals that
they have a place at the table, too you. KNOW i,
Mean i'm Not i'm not a hand you.

Speaker 4 (01:25:39):
Know i'm the guy that says when people complain about
prairie dogs being in their backyard of their, Neighborhood i'm,
like well they, were they were there before you got.

Speaker 5 (01:25:48):
There there were you, know people ask me all the
time with. Rattlesnakes you, know we've done the rattlesnake put
in radio transmitters and in rattlesnakes the last twenty five
years and figured out how far they, ran how long they,
live how many, babies what they're, eating who eats? Them
and and we see dogs all the time that come across,
them dogs getting nailed on the face because they go.

Speaker 4 (01:26:09):
Down what are you what do? You people step on,
them you.

Speaker 5 (01:26:11):
Know and and cats are kind Of nazis and they
tease them and they get nailed on the. Foot, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah you know the point you meant the snakes bite
you quit doing. That but but the, uh the people ask,
me they, say, well these, snakes you, know what do they?

Speaker 4 (01:26:26):
Want what do they?

Speaker 5 (01:26:27):
WANT i, mean they, live they live, here you, know
what do you mean what do they? Want they? Want you?
Want you want some nice jeburger in a nice place to,
sleep you.

Speaker 4 (01:26:37):
Know but, yeah so some. Security, yeah the same thing
is what do you? Do?

Speaker 5 (01:26:43):
Yeah, SO i mean we're so lucky In colorado with
a different power diversities, year you, know AND i, think you,
know we were meant to be, outside you, know we
weren't meant to live in these concrete you know cocoons
that we live and and you, know just, man they live.

Speaker 4 (01:26:58):
Here In colorado and not get out side is the.
Sin so people should get, uside take advantage of all
there is to offer in this beautiful. State and, uh you,
know if somebody wants to get involved in conservatism here
and want to be part of some sort of.

Speaker 5 (01:27:15):
Or they want to, call, yeah they will. Lift they've
got they've got. Programs there's things for young. People there's
things at the. Zoo you, know there's things with with.
Now there's so many, things And colorado should be proud.
Of you, know the uh the wildlife underpasses.

Speaker 4 (01:27:30):
That are being.

Speaker 5 (01:27:31):
BUILT i mean that big overs yeah, yeah, yeah it's
like the largest one in the. Nation.

Speaker 4 (01:27:36):
Yeah, yeah so that the traffic.

Speaker 5 (01:27:38):
Underneath and then SO i mean there's there's there's there's
things to be proud, of you know that they can
say and, say, look you know we're doing, this we're doing.
That SO i think you, know people throw their hands
up and, say, well you, know there's NOTHING i can,
do but actually there's a, lot quite a lot you can.
Do and are you pleased with with The department Of
wildlife here in the state Of? Colorado do? They, yeah

(01:27:58):
they're very. Honest they work, hard hardworking, people and they
got a lot of. Problems they don't have much, money
and and you know they've had funding cuts and stuff
and and so you, know BUT i think you've got
to remember these are these are, uh these are animal,
lovers you, know and they want they want the same
thing we. Do we want the state to, have you,
know healthy populations of you, know a different Different there's,

(01:28:21):
yet LIKE i, said ten million other forms of life
besides us on the, planet you, know and and.

Speaker 4 (01:28:25):
More than just the big ones that we see right.

Speaker 5 (01:28:28):
Right and and so you, KNOW i, think, yeah it's it's,
uh we we we weren't given this wonderful bow. Diversity
we borrowed it from our, children you, know our, grandchildren you,
know and we got to protect it so that goes.

Speaker 4 (01:28:42):
On, Right so there's something left for them so that
they can protect it and pass it on as.

Speaker 5 (01:28:46):
Well. Right and that's and and that's that's. Learned you
know that the young people see you do the things
and and do. It you, know when my, Dog Missus
thompson was, ALIVE i used to.

Speaker 4 (01:28:57):
Walk the dog was Named Missus.

Speaker 5 (01:28:59):
Thompson and after a teacher that taught me how to,
read you, KNOW i THOUGHT i WAS i THOUGHT i
was incapable of learning how to.

Speaker 4 (01:29:05):
Read you, know you could have nominated her for for the.
Educator we're doing this big thing with iHeart radio school.
Teachers she was the best way.

Speaker 5 (01:29:15):
Anyway SO i take Missus thompson up and Down university
WHERE i, live and they would find little piece of
paper and so SO i started picking it. Up AND
i was on this sky on the lawn and picked
up these paper and this guy comes, out this grumpy
guy THAT i know it lives two blocks, down and he,
goes what are you doing on my? LAWN i, Said
i'm picking up? Garbage what are you? DOING i, SAID
i walk Because i'm. Older it's good for me to,
walk good for my dog to. Walking so AND i

(01:29:37):
picked up the garbage up and Down university.

Speaker 4 (01:29:39):
Goes hang, On i'll get my dog AND i come away.

Speaker 5 (01:29:41):
Here, wow, yeah. Exact. Yeah SO i mean there's there's
things he can, do you. KNOW i mean, this there's
things we can. Do walk dogs an old grumpy, guy you.

Speaker 4 (01:29:50):
Know and what's a good place for people to to
go to to the The department Of, wildlife To Denver,
zoo all these.

Speaker 5 (01:29:59):
Zones do you have a bunch in your? Book it's
a great place in my. Book you know about?

Speaker 4 (01:30:04):
That once, again and started with a turtle and so
Uh amazon chattered at the show On Sunday Comedy Works.

Speaker 5 (01:30:13):
South what page are we looking? For i'll find? It
just all, right talk talks amongst, Yourself phil so Doctor
kevin's gonna talk.

Speaker 4 (01:30:23):
About is are you doing like a a retrospect of
your life and doing stand up that? Way do you
talk about your life and tell jokes or is it
is it your your stand up? Show, NO i tell.
JOKES i mean uh AND i think. That uh, yeah all,
right here we. Go we got some some. Information if

(01:30:45):
you want to volunteer, somewhere if you want to donate
money somewhere here to help with the state Of colorado
and conservation of the, WILDLIFE i mean The Nature. Conservancy
you know they're In.

Speaker 5 (01:30:57):
Boulder that conservation In international, well The World Wildlife, Fund
Wild Left Conservation, society The International union for The conservation In,
nature Right Field Trip earth a great thing out At
North carolina where they talk about a resource for, teachers
hikes in your area where you might be able to
see wildlife for Help Earth, expedition same Thing Earth Endangered

(01:31:23):
creatures In. Creatures these are all you know, Online The
Autumn society right like one of the oldest right. There,
Yeah Polar Bears. International uh That Jane Goodall institute For Young.
Scientists you, know for, kids that's just. It they becoming
a docent at the at the zoo or taking children
on nature hikes or you, know there's so many things

(01:31:43):
people could, do so we're not. Helpless there's a lot
we could. Do and here in the, state which animal
is threatened the? Most which which animal are we in
danger of losing here In? Colorado, man that's another great.
QUESTION i THINK i can think of a, dozen you
know that that are in. Trouble, SO i mean it
JUST i, think you, know it's time for people to get.

(01:32:05):
Involved people can, talk or you, know it's time to
put up and shut up and do.

Speaker 4 (01:32:10):
Stuff you, know.

Speaker 5 (01:32:11):
It's still a minute to, midnight, though it's not too
late to get these things to turn, around, Right, SO i,
MEAN i think there's all this, pessimism BUT i think
we need to be. Optimistic And i'm optimistic about the
next generation do a better job than we. Did you, Know,
yeah you're always been. Optimistic, yeah you try to. BE i,
mean what can you. Do we got to win this, one,
right it's the only planet we. Got they talk about,

(01:32:32):
going you, know and doing colonies on another. Thing But
i've seen enough of those, movies but those content never
works out. Great, Right hollywood's been laying out the future
for us for the last thirty forty.

Speaker 4 (01:32:44):
Years you, know it's always a pleasure to talk to.
YOU i learned something new every time you come on the,
Show Doctor. Kevin he'll be At Comedy Works. South you
can find out more and get tickets Through comedyworks dot.
Com that's This sunday And Comedy Works. South and he'll
have cops of his book it started with The, Turtle
One Man's life on A blue And Green planet that
he will autograph for you like he did for.

Speaker 5 (01:33:06):
Me it's alms a pleasure.

Speaker 4 (01:33:08):
Man, yeah, man think you one of the coolest. DUDES i,
know you got some of the greatest. Stories. Uh you,
know we can have you on and cover things like
taking care of our our elderly parents to saving the
planet to uh dying rock. STARS i mean that's what
we covered today with Doctor Kevin.

Speaker 5 (01:33:27):
Fitzgerald well you'll have, better Guess i'd be. Optimistic it's
going to get. Better thanks for coming, by my, friend all,
right that's uh This sunday and comedy works, out Doctor Kevin.

Speaker 4 (01:33:41):
Fitzgerald, everybody come, on put your hands. Together hey you Doctor. Kevin,
UH i just have a few more minutes left here
uh filling in For?

Speaker 5 (01:33:50):
Andy? Uh you KNOW i, UH i shouldn't have let
you go or SO i have six? Minutes all, Right
well let's let's do until jokes for six.

Speaker 4 (01:34:00):
Minutes? Right and so where are you going for most
of your? Material?

Speaker 5 (01:34:06):
Oh you can't write for stuffing happens with, you, right you?
Know and then the things that happen at. Work this one,
SAID i don't want my dog to be. VACCINATED i
don't want to become. Autistic AND i, said, well he's
A french. Bulldog how would you? Know you, know he's
already behind the eight? Ball you, know you know that

(01:34:26):
The Google google is erected for for veterinarians or. Doctors
and people come in they know more than you, do
you know WITH Ai oh, yeah and they say a
dog's mouth is actually a million times cleaner than a human. Beings,
actually the, lady you, know we don't lick our bottoms all.
DAY i mean it just what you what are you're talking?
About you? KNOW i, mean come, ON i, mean it's
just you're not very. Observant you just know that's not. Right, so,

(01:34:50):
yeah you can't write for stuff that happens to your
family or your, job you. KNOW i, mean you, know
with your, MOTHER i mean it's right that you know older.
PEOPLE i, mean it's just you, know she was you,
know my mother passed away a few years. Ago she
was with me up up until the time she. Died
and the stuff she would, say you, know she was
just you, know she she she knew. Everything and she

(01:35:13):
interrupt every. Joke somebody tries to tell you, joke they
should let you. Finish you didn't let them tell you the,
joke even if you've, heard if you've heard the joke,
before let them tell you, right because they're trying to
reach out. Exactly and, so you, know and she'd go
and tell me a. Joke funny, man you, know and you're,
LIKE i told my mother a. Joke you're funny your? Mom,
yeah you just, Go, okay two guys go into a,
bar and are they?

Speaker 4 (01:35:34):
Brothers you know? Question yeah you don't even. Know, wait,
wait don't start doing.

Speaker 5 (01:35:38):
Stuff, yeah, Okay Glenn, state two brothers wanted a, Bar
why don't you do? That you, know we'll. Wait you,
know two brothers went into a bar and do they
like each?

Speaker 4 (01:35:46):
Other you?

Speaker 5 (01:35:47):
Know now you don't know who's in the. BAR i
forgot WHAT i was gonna tell. You but, yeah, yeah you. Read,
god you read the best stuff about what you are
and what you. KNOW i, Mean i'm, older you, know
and you tell, jokes but you know about you, know
prostate exams or what that or he just, said you
know what sold? Sold the kindergarten had a smoking. Section you,

(01:36:09):
know every pretty everybody, smoked you. Know so.

Speaker 4 (01:36:15):
That's mel no this one before you, Know Thanks, Mel.
Michael would you like to come uptairs and make club
to me and?

Speaker 5 (01:36:24):
Go i'd like, to BUT i can't do, both you, KNOW.

Speaker 4 (01:36:29):
I can't do that. Big these are these are, jokes,
yeah you know.

Speaker 5 (01:36:33):
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Speaker 4 (01:36:44):
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Amazon it's been doing. Well we're doing a third, printing
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Speaker 4 (01:36:48):
Wow really congratulations, Man now is this your just not
your first?

Speaker 5 (01:36:52):
Point? Yeah, yeah that's your first. BOOK i didn't have
a book can mean UNTIL, COVID i mean DURING. Covid you,
know DURING, COVID i made IT. Covid DURING, COVID i
made a sex. TAPE i call It Home. Alone. There
these are some of THE covid, jokes. Folks you, know

(01:37:13):
if you don't laugh at, these the virus. Wins DURING,
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Speaker 4 (01:37:22):
Shirt you. Know, yeah these are the.

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Jokes, uh That's sunday And Comedy Works. South That's comedyworks
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Speaker 4 (01:37:35):
Again, greig thank you for having. Me, hey thanks, BUDDY
i appreciate. You, mel thanks for stopping. By great to
see you as, well and thanks to everybody that. Commented
you got a ton of, Fans Doctor.

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MOMENTS i, know everybody's getting ready about the The bronco game.
Tomorrow it's it going To San francisco for the first
preseason game of the. Preseason i'm gonna look at some
players and hopefully we'll end up like the all the

(01:38:25):
experts are, saying we're gonna win THE Afc west and
we're gonna go far in the. Playoffs is what is
What i'm. Reading that's an. Addiction, yeah so we'll. See,
well we'll get a look anyway at at some of
the rookies and some of the new acquired players that
we have on the. Roster and that's all going down
On saturday In San.

Speaker 5 (01:38:46):
Francisco Broncos little that was the only thing we had in. Town,
man The. Broncos that was it for the longest. Time oh,
man we didn't have pro, basketball we didn't have pro.
Baseball we had we still don't have pro. Baseball oh
we gotta be, Nice, no we gotta be, no, no.

Speaker 4 (01:38:59):
No you don't let a team come to town and
score forty five runs on you in three. Games toronto
abused The rockies the last three. Days it was a.
Joke it's a, joke. Joke it's gonna get.

Speaker 5 (01:39:12):
Better, no it's not not until they sell that.

Speaker 4 (01:39:16):
Team it ain't getting better until The rockies gets sold.

Speaker 5 (01:39:19):
And get some ownership that will spend the. MONEY i
heard it here, first. Folks that's.

Speaker 4 (01:39:23):
It thanks for being, here Doctor, kimfo thank, you It's
Greig stone and For. Mandy thanks for being nice, everybody
and until next, time be, well be, grateful and take
care of your loved.

Speaker 5 (01:39:35):
Ones