10-15-24 FULL SHOW - Vicki Lawrence Joins Me Today!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:26):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Tuesday edition of the show.

Speaker 5 (00:30):
I'm your host for the next three hours.

Speaker 4 (00:32):
Mandy Connell join as always my well not always because
he's busy and he has a bunch of different jobs.

Speaker 5 (00:38):
But he had to be Rodriguez back in the studio
with me. A rod you can call it. And that's
gonna be over soon, all right.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
So we have a noe hope, not that that stop it,
stop it, or that one guy's never going to come back. Okay.
We just had a two year old pole erupt on
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and it just got revived on x dot com somehow
and now it's can timeline. It definitely didn't seek it out, no, no, never, never,
But we love the airhorn and the Airhorn is here
to stay.

Speaker 5 (01:21):
Let me tell you, I am Bey Odd excited about
today's show, and I'll tell you why after I do
the blog.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
You can find the blog by going to mandy'sblog dot com.
That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline that says
ten fifteen twenty four blog Vicky Lawrence joins me today.
Click on that and here are the headlines you will
find within.

Speaker 6 (01:41):
Anyone's listing office half of ericon, all with ships and clipmas,
and say that's going to press plach.

Speaker 5 (01:46):
Today on the blog. I have been a fan of
Vicky Lawrence for my entire life. Derek Stroup is a
local guide making it big. Please choose your voter guide carefully.
Please return your ballots asap. We will be getting Tabor refunds.
Aurora is investigating Denver. Does val have the right to
pull a residency over politics? Motorcyclists are dying at a

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pretty good clip. The Colorado Civil Rights Commission is a
bunch of Denver rights and liberals. There is more to
the Walgreens closures than I thought. Kamala Harris is a
plagiarizer to scrolling, scrolling scrolling.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
Another women's volleyball team forfeits rather than play a man.
Danielle Driinsky is asking the governor to call her. How
do we fix the FBI about that senior moment the
Harris campaign is making hay about Kamala was before EV mandates,
before she was against them. Brett Baher says no concessions
were made. This as a CBS News is being asked

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to release the transcript. Yes, non citizens will vote this year.
The big upside of GLP one weight loss drugs. Women
are drinking more than ever. The great IV shortage is worsening.
We're getting pandas back. Pharmus Almanac says, a mild winter.
How did Alaska really do with ranked choice voting? Useful

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marker information? Biden working hard for Kamala. A cancer dietician
tells you what she doesn't eat.

Speaker 5 (03:11):
How to properly use your microwave.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.
And I gotta tell you a rod. You send me
that video on how to use the microwave.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Head blown me too.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
I have been doing it wrong for fifty well, I
haven't had a microwave my whole life. We didn't get
a microwave until I was like ten, because it was giant.
Does anybody else in the listing audience remember this? And
you can text me at five six six n I oh,
the first microwave ovens were massive. They took up like
half the kitchen counter.

Speaker 6 (03:42):
Wait, dinosaurs and microwaves were on the earth at the
same time, exactly.

Speaker 7 (03:46):
No.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
Microwaves did not become a thing until I.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Was probably seven or eight, Like, I feel like seventy
seven seventy eight was when microwaves really became a thing.
Maybe seventy nine when they started really sort of selling them.
And you see what happens when something is popular and
how fast the price comes down, and now you can
buy a microwave for like twenty bucks.

Speaker 6 (04:08):
I'm sure minds were blown the first like commercial for microwaves.
Your food was cold, you got it all warm, but
now it's ruined, but now you can reheat ITAs.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
No, that's not how they were sold. They were sold
as a replacement for your oven. So for the first
few years, everybody tried to microwave like a whole chicken
in the microwave, only to find out.

Speaker 5 (04:32):
It was disgusting.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
So then microwaves are pretty much relegated to heat up
your food. That's pretty much what they were relegated to.
After that, I know they're so yeah, they do and
there wasn't a whole lot they could do about that.
So but yeah, microwaves were not everywhere. Mandy, are you
going to max Fund on Saturday? I am not, but
I hope you are. It's a wonderful organization. And the
inside was very small and they cost a fortune. These

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are the text passages that are coming.

Speaker 5 (04:59):
What's the point they called?

Speaker 4 (05:01):
Oh god, they were like eight hundred dollars and that
was like nineteen seventies dollars. Okay, hey, right, let me
give you a little window in the world of my childhood.
When I was approximately ten years old, we got our
first remote control for our television and it was on
a long cord that attached to the TV, so it
wasn't really remote, it was remote ish.

Speaker 5 (05:22):
Right and oh yeah, yeah, yep, yeah, yep yeah. Radar
range exactly people.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
My parents' first microwave the a Manner radar range that
weighed about two hundred and fifty pounds exactly right.

Speaker 8 (05:35):
They were massive.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
It was ridiculous, I mean absolutely ridiculous. I think that's
one of the things that made me a late adopter
of technology, because if you wait a couple of years,
everything gets so much better and so much cheaper. You know,
that's the benefit of being a late adopter. I didn't
get my first smartphone until they had been out for
like four years because they were just too expensive. I

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was like, I'm not paying that for anything. It's not happening.
Mandy microwave. Yes, my cousins would come over and watch
my mom microwave of baked potato.

Speaker 5 (06:09):
They thought she was tricking them.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
It was the size of the family room's TV, which
was all so massive.

Speaker 6 (06:15):
And all along ever since then, we've all been using
it wrong.

Speaker 5 (06:20):
Oh and that's the thing. I'm getting to last video
on them.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
Okay, I'm just gonna say this, like, I want everybody
to go read the blog every day. I spend a
lot of time and effort in this, so I really
love for you guys.

Speaker 5 (06:30):
To go read the blog every day. But the reality.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
Is is that right now, during the election, there is
such a massive volume of stuff on the blog every
single day. I can't possibly get to all of it
with any death. And some of it is incredibly interesting,
very incredibly interesting.

Speaker 6 (06:46):
And often well not often, every now and then life changing,
like today.

Speaker 8 (06:51):
Exactly this video.

Speaker 5 (06:52):
Today, doctor Michelle.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
Dickinson explains where to put your food in the microwave.
I mean it was crazy. Now I love this. My
first microwave was from Montgomery. Wards had a second shelf
in a Browning element that from Mount and Grandma our.

Speaker 5 (07:09):
VCR had a court it remote.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
I see, these are my people on the text line
right now play Hallmark class and junior high late seventies,
we had a portion on microwave cooking. Did you have
home economics at all a rod in your schooling?

Speaker 8 (07:22):
I don't think so.

Speaker 5 (07:24):
I'm gonna tell you we.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
Really should bring back home Mack. First of all, I'm
just gonna be real. It's an easy a okay, everybody
needs a couple easy as on their transcripts, right. But
you learned how to cook, you learned how to sew,
you learned how to iron. In my home AC class,
we made a bag. We made biscuits which I forgot
to put the levining in so they were little hockey pucks.

Speaker 5 (07:44):
Did not get a good grade on those. Homec was awesome.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
It taught you all those little life skills about you know,
just like being a decent person. It was fantastic, Mandy.
I was my family's first remote control. A lot of
that coming in, but you could easily find the remote,
says this text by following the cord correct Correct, Mandy.
I still have my mom's pretty good sized microwave she

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bought in nineteen ninety six and it still works just fine.
When we moved into our current house ten years ago,
our microwave was I think original to the house. It
was a nineteen eighty three ken More right. That was
the best microwave I've ever had, And when it finally
gave up the ghosts last year, I was devastated. I

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was like, I'm never gonna be able to replace this microwave.
We bought a microwave and it's perfectly fine. But eh,
you know it's fine, Mandy. We were early adopters. My
family got a Magic Chef microwave in nineteen seventy two
ish for four hundred dollars. That's approximately two thousand dollars
in today's dollars.

Speaker 5 (08:48):
That from Stuart.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
You guys must have been fancy, super fancy. Look at
you anyway, Oh, Chuck, just let me know. I took
a class called Bachelor Living. Awesome class, we do. I mean,
these kids just start learning this stuff. You need to
learn how to clean things, you know, There's nothing worse
than getting to college and getting a roommate that it

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is immediately apparent that they have never cleaned anything in
their entire lives, and you're like, oh, this is going
to be a long, long year. Homeck was awesome, but
they phased it out and I graduated in two thousand
and five. Love getting stoned and baking brownies in Homeck.

Speaker 5 (09:25):
That is not how I did Homeck. Texter, Yeah, pothead.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
Anyway, today is an exciting day for me because I
mean it when I say I have been a fan
of comedian Vicky Lawrence for.

Speaker 5 (09:38):
My entire life.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
In my childhood, every Saturday night, my mom and I
would watch the Carol Burnett Show. And if you think
about this, the Carol Burnette Show I think was on
from like sixty seven to seventy eight, so at my
oldest as a child, I was nine when I was
watching this, Okay, but even as a kid, I could

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still appreciate the absolute magic of that cast and that show.
And Vicky Lawrence said she got a Harvard PhD in
comedy working on that show because she was a baby
when she started on there. I mean, she was super
young and she got to work with Carol Burnett and
Harvey Korman and Tim Conway.

Speaker 5 (10:17):
I mean, my gosh.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
Her most recent outing, which was a very funny show
called The Cool Kids.

Speaker 5 (10:24):
She got to work with Martin Maull, Leslie Jordan.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
I cannot remember the name of the other guy that's
on the show, but it is just fantastic.

Speaker 5 (10:33):
And today I get to talk to her.

Speaker 4 (10:34):
She has got a show coming in March of next year,
March thirtieth. Tickets go on sale on Friday at ten
and yes, I will remind you, and we're gonna give
away some tickets to this show. She is doing Vicky
Lawrence and Mama, a two women show. And I get
to talk to her today at one o'clock. And I
am beyond excited about this, Like I'm almost as excited

(10:56):
as I won was when I got to talk to
John Clease because one of my dream interviews has always
been Carol Burnett and a Rod tried this when she
was in town for something, and she isn't doing any
more interviews about anything, I guess, which is really sad
for me. I'm never gonna get to interview Carol Burnette
or Tom Selleck, and I'm just devastated by both of those,

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but I get to interview Vicky Lawrence, which is almost
as good. So we're gonna do that at one o'clock.
Then we've got an It's Comedian Day on the show.
It just worked out this way because we have a
guy he's not a native Coloraden, but he's lived in
Denver for about ten years. His name is Derek's Troup
and he has gotten some really really good traction as
of late opening for big names, and we're gonna talk

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to him today. He's coming in the studio to chit
chat about some of that stuff. So it's going to
be fun. And Mandy, I'm fifty five and haven't owned
a microwave for thirty years.

Speaker 5 (11:47):
I don't miss it.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
I could probably live without a microwave, but I don't
want to.

Speaker 5 (11:53):
It's kind of like I could probably live without a TV,
but I don't want to. Could you live without a TVA?

Speaker 4 (11:58):
Rod No, because your generation, like my daughter, could fully
live without a TV and be happy.

Speaker 5 (12:04):
She watches everything on her phone or her tablet. She
does not.

Speaker 4 (12:08):
She'll occasionally watch TV, like if she's eating lunch or something,
but the TV is kind of dead to her at
that point.

Speaker 8 (12:15):
Not mey.

Speaker 5 (12:16):
Yeah, the whole class for guys at my high school
is called Bachelor Survival. That's good.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
My husband's mother made sure that he would know how
to take care of himself without the help of a woman.
So he can do all that stuff. He can cook,
he can sew, he can iron way better than I
can iron. He does all the ironing in our house
because he's so good at it and I'm not. And
so I'm grateful to his mom for that every single

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day everything.

Speaker 5 (12:44):
How about wood shop? Did you have wood shop? Ay Rod?
Did she have that?

Speaker 6 (12:48):
I think I did do that once. Yes, in high school. Yeah,
well I had two.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
I had two home met classes. I had two wood
shop classes. And in my second shop class in high school,
the teacher had some anger issues, so if you got
out of line, he would throw a hammer at you.

Speaker 8 (13:04):
In class, I got real practical.

Speaker 6 (13:06):
The one thing I remember making a little wooden smiley
face nice.

Speaker 5 (13:11):
With a wood burner. Is that what you did? You did
you do the wood burning?

Speaker 4 (13:14):
I made a h I made a little toolbox, you know,
like with side side sides it with a little handle,
made a toolbox, and then I made a sign where
I burned my name into a piece of wood.

Speaker 9 (13:25):
I did that.

Speaker 8 (13:25):
I did the name.

Speaker 5 (13:28):
Yeah, so but.

Speaker 4 (13:29):
I I did learn how to use power tools in
that class, and That's been one of the most helpful
things I've ever learned in school. I have a great
The only thing I'm not comfortable with power tools is
figuring out angles, because that's math tools.

Speaker 8 (13:42):
I got no power tools.

Speaker 5 (13:44):
I want to replace all.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
Of my uh what's the stuff at the bottom of
the wall that goes between the wall and.

Speaker 5 (13:51):
The floor, crowded on the molding.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
I want to replace all the molding in my house,
but all those angles freaks me out, and I don't
feel like I can do it.

Speaker 5 (13:59):
A lot of angles and molding.

Speaker 8 (14:00):
Can you remove popcorn ceiling?

Speaker 4 (14:03):
I can, but my popcorn ceiling is thirty feet in
the air. So yeah, not doing that. I don't even
clean my gutters anymore because I don't like being on
a ladder. Ladders freak me out. A lot of people
die on ladders. Did you know that I didn't?

Speaker 6 (14:15):
Every year?

Speaker 8 (14:15):
You need to know that five hundred.

Speaker 5 (14:17):
Thousand people end up in the emergency room every year.

Speaker 6 (14:19):
Because I didn't need to know that I'm on the ladder.
Actually somewhat frequently hanging something or moving something. It's the
core season, so Halloween and Christmas. So so thanks, yeah, no,
thanks for that.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
Well, you're young, but you're thirty, they say, no one
over thirty that isn't in construction should ever be on
a ladder.

Speaker 6 (14:36):
I do need a nigger one. I need a taller
one to reach higher places.

Speaker 5 (14:41):
No you don't. Yeah, you need to hire people to
reach higher places.

Speaker 4 (14:46):
So anyway, so for minutes called Bachelor's Survival, so for women,
is it just life training? Ask this, Texter, Mandy, does
Chuck have a YouTube account where he has or can
post a tutorial on how to iron? No, but that
is a really good idea baseboard, Thank you, Texter, thank you?

Speaker 5 (15:05):
Ah, yes, yep, yeah, thank you very much for that.
And is that hard?

Speaker 4 (15:09):
Has anybody in the listening audience ever replaced all your baseboards?
Is this one of those things where I think I'm
going to be able to do it, but then the
reality of it is I'm going to have to come
in and pay someone an exorbitant amount of money.

Speaker 5 (15:19):
To fix all the crap that I did. Know the
answer to that question, I'm just asking. I'm just asking.

Speaker 9 (15:25):
I take it.

Speaker 5 (15:26):
Sign out.

Speaker 6 (15:27):
To hire somebody. You hire somebody for that.

Speaker 5 (15:29):
It's expensive to do that.

Speaker 6 (15:33):
Yeah, so I was hiring someone to do lights. How
much as that, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (15:38):
It's easy, Mandy, It all works off ninety degrees. But
if you have an older home and everything isn't purely plumb,
then that's where I'm a little bit nervous. Anyway, a
little bit nervous. All right, you guys, I want to
talk about voter guides for just a second, not just mine.
I want to get this out because yesterday I started
perusing other voter guys. I went to newspaper voter guides.

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I went to the Independence Institute's voter guide. I went
to Roskominski's voter guide. I went to my voter guide.
I went to other voter guides. Some of them are
really bad, and really really bad, and I'm I am
concerned at the quality level of the depth of thinking
about some voter guides. So what I'm saying is, and
you do this with mine too. I'm not saying mind's

(16:25):
the Bible and mine's the best and all of that,
and that's not what I'm saying. You may want to
cross reference, is what I'm saying. You may want to
look at several different voter guides to really see what
you think. But my voter guide is linked today on
the blog you can find Ross's voter guide, which we
are the same in terms of what we decided. He
gives you a lot more conversation about why. I just

(16:47):
tell you this is why I decided what I decided.
But Ross's is on his page at Rosskaminski. So be
careful and put a little effort into this, like put
a little thought work into this, because I know that
for me and for Ross, we are both a yes
on ranked choice voting, and that is the thing that
I get.

Speaker 5 (17:06):
The biggest pushback on.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
There is so much misinformation about what happened in Alaska
that it's not even funny. I've gotten emails today saying
ranked choice voting gave us Lisa Murkowski.

Speaker 5 (17:17):
That's not at.

Speaker 4 (17:18):
All what happened, you guys, Alaska has way more independence
than it has Republicans or Democrats. They tend to vote
more conservative. But Mary Pertola is the reason that people
are saying it doesn't work. So I have reached out.
There are two talk show hosts in Alaska that I
could find. I've reached out to both of them to

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see if we can get them on the show to
talk about the reality of ranked choice voting in Alaska,
because there's a lot of misinformation flying around, and quite frankly,
I think that if candidates worked the system correctly, meaning
this is how you have to campaign. Like ay Rod,
I'm running for city commission. I'm going to come to
you and say, Anthony, I would love your vote for

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city commission, and you give me the you know, I'm
not sure, and I'd say, great, you know, what are
your concerns. We have to talk about the issues. And
then I say, who's your first choice? Really, because if
it's not me, I'd love for me to be your
second choice. How can I be your second choice? That's
how you have to campaign. You can't just campaign on

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getting that hardcore right wing vote. You've got a campaign
on being not just number one, but someone's second choice too.
And when Sarah Palin ran in that race, she urged
her followers not to rank anyone second, so they didn't.

Speaker 5 (18:35):
And you know the whole mess, the whole mess police
is for.

Speaker 4 (18:41):
Ranked choice voting. Need I say more? But the Democratic
Party is against it. The Republican Party is against it.
We're gonna talk more about it. I feel like I'm
beaten that to death a little bit. So I'm gonna
try and bring in some of those people from Alaska.
Hopefully they will, they will reach back out to me
and we can get some real hard facts about what
happened in Alaska. So, what didn't happen in Alaska and

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whether or not they think it's going to be repealed.
Right now, the no on the repeal of ranked choice
voting has out has far far out raised in terms
of dollars, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything. So, yeah,
Mandy hires someone to remove the popcorn from your ceilings.
That will change your life. That's another job that I

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think of, and I'm like, yeah, I'd really like to
do that. But doesn't it sound incredibly messy to live
through that. That's one of the reasons. And I'm gonna
tell it myself a little bit. So duct Works, the
cleaning air duck cleaning company that I work with. I
assume somehow that when they came to clean my air ducks,
all the gunk inside was gonna fly around my house.

Speaker 5 (19:41):
The exact opposite happened. They sucked it.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
All out in the giant vacuum, so there was no
dirt or dust in my house. And then I felt
kind of stupid. I was like, I thought that was
gonna be a lot worse than it is. And I
kind of feel the same way about having someone do
my popcorn ceilings. So if anybody knows or has had
has done that, so yeah, I'd love to know how
that process was, you can email me Mandy Connell at

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iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 5 (20:07):
So there you go. I replaced all my baseboards.

Speaker 4 (20:11):
The hardest part is getting the sixteen inch sixteen foot
boards out of home depot. We had a truck and
a trailer in my house, so we're good. Is it
true Ross is voting for Kamala?

Speaker 3 (20:21):
No?

Speaker 5 (20:22):
Where did you hear that?

Speaker 4 (20:24):
I don't know that Ross is gonna vote for Trump.
I doubt he is, but he's not voting for Kamala.

Speaker 5 (20:29):
Mandy. It is not easy. There's a reason it's costly. Mandy.
Just start in the closet to see how you do.
You guys, you guys, Mandy.

Speaker 4 (20:40):
I'm an electrical contractor and I've gone in and fixed
where people have taken a finished nail through wiring and
there you go.

Speaker 5 (20:45):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (20:47):
Maya has bean replaced our entire house of baseboards. He
was a design engineer for twenty years. Easy for him
and definitely worth it. No, but I'm not a I'm
not any of those things.

Speaker 5 (20:57):
Does that what? No, I can't even do math. Let
me take a quick time out.

Speaker 4 (21:01):
When we get back, I'm going to urge you to
do something very important, and I want you to do
it in the next few days. I'll tell you what
after this. There's a couple of things you need to know.
Number one, our house was built in nineteen eighty three
after asbestos, so we don't have to worry about that.
But more importantly, my popcorn ceiling is thirty feet in
the air.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
I am not doing that now.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
I am encouraged on the baseboard thing. Got good information
on the text line on the baseboards. Somebody said, why
don't you just move? That's Chuck's solution. Okay, I am more.

Speaker 5 (21:32):
You know I can do this.

Speaker 4 (21:33):
I have this mistaken sense that I'm able to do
things that I probably can't. But you giving me popcorn tips,
I'm like, yeah, that's great, that's not gonna happen though.
I'm not getting up on a ladder to scrape popcorn off.
This is one of the privileges of my age and
my socioeconomic status. I can base somebody else to get
up on that ladder. I'm not doing it anyway. Here's

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what I want to talk to you about, and I
need you to listen. Ballots have been arriving in mailboxes.
I got mine yesterday, and I want you to do
your due diligence, decide who you're going to vote for,
and fill out your ballot and take it back right away, okay,
because there's something you need to understand right now. From

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this point forward to the election, both campaigns, major campaigns,
actually both political parties will be working on the get
out the vote, and this is extremely expensive. And what
they do is they rely on basically a ballot track
system to tell them who has turned in their ballot
and who hasn't.

Speaker 5 (22:37):
Now, if you have already turned in.

Speaker 4 (22:38):
Your ballot, they're like check done, gone, right done, don't
have to worry about it. And they don't have to
spend any time or money or effort making sure you
return your ballot so you can mail it back right now.
It's going to get there, and plenty of time I'm
going to drop mine at a dropbox.

Speaker 5 (22:56):
I just feel better about that.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
That way, I know my ballot has been turned physically,
and I can wait for ballot tracks to send me Hey,
your ballot has been counted, but we cannot wait. And
the stupidity and nonsense out of the Republican Party in
the last election cycle about early voting, some of it
from Lauren Bobert, I might add hear it was stupidity,

(23:18):
It was dumb.

Speaker 5 (23:20):
It was just an idiotic.

Speaker 4 (23:21):
Thing to think that somehow we were gonna manipulate the
outcome if we didn't turn our ballots back in because
it made it harder for the Democrats to cheat. It
was just so dumb, just a dumb, thoughtless strategy. And
it was a dumb, thoughtless strategy that lost. So let's
not do that again, shall we. Let's go ahead and

(23:41):
turn in our ballots. Somebody just said, got your ballot yesterday?
I thought yesterday was a post office holiday. I actually
just got it out of my mailbox. Probably came in
on Saturday. I just didn't check the mail Not gonna lie.
Have you or Ross posted your voting guide? Yes, we
have both posted our voter guide minus on the blog today,
or you can just use the Google. If you google

(24:05):
Mandy Connell Voter Guide twenty twenty four, Bota bing bata boom,
it will pop right up for you. Okay, So they're
out there. I put it on the blog every single day.
I'll put it out on social media a little bit
later today just to make sure you guys have access
to it. Ross's is on his website at Koa, Colorado
on the Roskamensky page, So you can find those, and

(24:28):
you know, just get your ballots done, don't.

Speaker 5 (24:31):
Wait, turn it in, get it over with.

Speaker 4 (24:33):
At this stage in the game, I would bet you
that if there are any people in this listening audience
who have not made up their mind about most issues,
maybe not all, but most issues, I want you to
go ahead and turn in your ballots. Tracking ballots doesn't
that affect the sanctity of the ballot. All they're doing
is noting that your ballot, in your envelope that is

(24:55):
signed by you, has been received and it has been counted.

Speaker 5 (24:59):
They're not They're not you know, saying, oh great, you
voted for Trump. You a hole.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
That's not it. It is simply that it's been received and counted.

Speaker 5 (25:06):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (25:07):
Completed my ballot yesterday. Thanks for putting your voter guide
together for us. Helped a bunch in ciphering the issues,
very to the point and concise.

Speaker 5 (25:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (25:16):
I don't spill a lot of words. I just tell
you why I'm doing what I'm doing, Mandy. Aside from
the difficulty of measuring and cutting baseboards, if you thought
about the knee paid crawling on the floor, one's knees
hurts and you have knee problems. I tend to be
a sit on my butt scooter, so I don't necessarily
I don't necessarily.

Speaker 5 (25:36):
Have that issue just sitting.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
Did you say illegals are voting and we're supposed to
trust the elections. As a matter of fact, I do
have some information on the blog today from a very
serious organization about the fact that illegals have registered to vote,
and it is almost certain that in this election, non

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citizens will vote. I shouldn't say illegals, because I don't
know if they're all here illegally. What I do know
is that they are not citizens, and in this country,
citizens are not allowed to vote. This from Issues and
Insights in an audit of Texas voter roles. In twenty
nineteen found ninety five thousand non citizens who'd registered, fifty

(26:24):
eight thousand of whom voted in an election. This year,
Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that he'd removed sixty five
hundred non citizens from the state's voter rolls, nearly two
thousand of whom voted. Yet just this weekend, ABC News
ran a piece titled in South Texas, the myth of
non citizen voting takes center stage. They are trying to

(26:47):
make it a myth, and it's sad because it's true.
Recent examples include Virginia's attorney general recently announced the state
removed six three hundred and three non citizens from its
voter roles. In twenty twenty twenty three, Arizona admitted a
massive error in its voter roles resulted in two hundred
and eighteen thousand registered voters who lacked proof of US citizenship.

(27:11):
Doesn't mean that they're not citizens, but they didn't have proof.
A suit filed in Nevada asserts that as many as
eleven thousand non citizens are registered to vote in the state,
and nearly four thousand of them voted in twenty twenty.
An Oregon audit found nearly thirteen hundred non citizens registered
to vote in that state. Ohio's Secretary of State found
nearly six hundred non citizens registered to vote in that state.

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Dozens of lawmakers are pressing Attorney General Merrick Garland about
what he's doing to stop non citizens from voting. Well,
we do know that last week, Virginia Governor Glenn Younkin
issued a statement with less than thirty days until the election,
the Biden Harris Department of Justice is filing an unprecedented

(27:54):
lawsuit against me and the Commonwealth of Virginia for appropriately
enforcing a two thousand and six law signed by Democrat
Tim Kaine that requires Virginia to remove non citizens from
the voter roles.

Speaker 5 (28:08):
Democrats blocked to bill the.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
Save Act that would have simply required some proof of
citizenship in order to vote.

Speaker 5 (28:15):
Yet the press continues to claim this is a non issue.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
So, you know, I truly believe that non citizens are
going to vote in some areas. There have been reports
that non citizens who have just walked across the southern border.

Speaker 5 (28:30):
Are being urged to register to vote.

Speaker 4 (28:33):
And I'm just going to say it, I have zero
confidence in Jennick Griswold that she will even look into
whether or not there are non citizens who are able
to get a driver's license in Colorado, where they normally
register you to vote, whether or not our roles contain
people who are non citizens.

Speaker 5 (28:50):
I have zero confidence in that. Mandy.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
I thought said early in mail voting is corrupt. Want
to eliminate it. It's the game we've got to play,
you guys, I would not be in favor of doing
away with all mail in voting. I think it is
rife for corruption, even if it hasn't been corrupted yet,
it is rife for corruption. We are the only nation
in the world that does elections this way. This is insane.

(29:19):
Everybody should have to show up, everybody should have to
show ID. I'm for that, but that's not the system
we have. We have to play the game on the
field as it is right now. So don't be a
dumbass because Trump wants to change it. Operate within the
system we have now, not one you wish in the future.
Return your ballots, please, for the love of God, return

(29:44):
your ballots.

Speaker 5 (29:45):
That's your PSA for the day. I'll be right back.
Let's talk about motorcyclist for a second. Anthony.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
Have you noticed on I twenty five more motorcyclist lane splitting?

Speaker 5 (29:56):
Have you seen this?

Speaker 8 (29:57):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (29:58):
Oh my gosh, you guys. I I hate it so much.
I despise it.

Speaker 5 (30:02):
And it is.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
Illegal in Colorado. Lane splitting is not legal in Colorado.
Lane filtering is legal in Colorado. And I don't mind
that because lane filtering is when everybody's stopped full stop
at an intersection and a motorcycle who's like fifteen to
twenty cars behind then takes to the center and zips

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up to the front.

Speaker 5 (30:27):
That's lane filtering while everyone is stopped.

Speaker 4 (30:30):
Now, lane splitting is when these maniacs, and it's always
like a young guy wearing a T shirt and shorts
and flip flops and a helmet and they go flying
by you on an interstate at like one hundred miles
an hour in the center between two cars, and I
am telling you, I nearly have a damn heart attack
every time it happens.

Speaker 5 (30:50):
Well, we are having a big uptick in motorcyclists depths. Now,
I'm not saying it's connected to the lane splitting that's going.

Speaker 4 (30:58):
On, but it's not good. It is not good at all.
I'm trying to find these numbers that they have.

Speaker 5 (31:05):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (31:06):
Despite social media safety campaigns, speed enforcement and highway billboard
signs advising defensive riding, Colorado typically sees well over one
hundred motorcycle deaths per year. To date in twenty twenty four.
There have been one hundred and twenty nine motorcycle fatalities
in twenty twenty four, compared with one hundred and eighteen
at this time last year. Now, speed and impairment are

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the most prevalent determining factors in deadly crashes. Speed was
the primary determinant in about thirty fatalities, thirty one involved
alcohol or other impairments.

Speaker 5 (31:40):
And here's the thing.

Speaker 4 (31:42):
A lot of this is the motorcyclists fault. Of the
one hundred and twenty nine fatalities in twenty twenty four,
ninety six riders were determined to be at fault. Of those,
fifty seven have been single vehicle crashes. So I know
that we have motorcycle enthusiasts in our audience, and you

(32:03):
know I'm not trying. I would never try to tell
you how to live your life. I just am not
that person. I want you to have the freedom to
do what you want to do, but please, for the
love of God, I cannot afford to lose any listeners,
so pay attention. One of the interesting things about this
article was they were talking about the number of crashes
that occur when a car turns left in front of

(32:26):
a motorcycle. And I have had this situation happen where
I looked both ways before I started to move forward,
but the motorcycle was in exactly the right place to
be in a blind spot, or I didn't see them,
and I end up, thankfully, not even a near crash,
but close enough to make me go, oh my god,
one of those I've.

Speaker 5 (32:47):
Been that person that pulls out in front.

Speaker 4 (32:49):
And it's not because I didn't look, or I wasn't
paying attention, or I was on my phone. I looked
both ways, I went to pull out, and there's the
motorcycle all of a sudden. That's happened on more than
one occasion. So it's not the I as a driver
and not trying. But ultimately, you on a motorcycle, you
are far more likely to die in that situation than
I am. So please, please, please pay attention. Please, Mandy,

(33:14):
I've been riding for forty nine years. Love Lane filtering.
Won't do lane splitting. This person asks, what's the point
of lane filtering? I think it's useless. It's really not,
because it allows traffic to work in a more efficient
fashion by not having a random motorcycle three four cars
back in each lane. Motorcycles can go up to the front,
they've got a faster start, they can get out of
the way. But to being Bata boom, I have no

(33:36):
issue with this. It's perfectly fine, perfectly fine, Mandy. My
wife and I have been riding motorcycles since nineteen seventy
and I don't like it, and I will not do so.

Speaker 5 (33:45):
And that's perfectly fine.

Speaker 4 (33:47):
All I'm saying is a lot of people are dying
in motorcycle crashes. Chuck was a motorcycle guy for a very,
very long time, and he still says, I could love
to get a motorcycle, and I'm just not ready.

Speaker 5 (34:00):
There's a couple of things you know, I don't. I don't.

Speaker 4 (34:02):
Have you ever told your wife she can't do something?
Have you ever banned Jocelyn from doing anything, even even
in jest?

Speaker 5 (34:10):
Right, I'm curious.

Speaker 6 (34:11):
There's one thing, what, let me say it on air,
can't wear helves well?

Speaker 5 (34:19):
Because you guys are the same height.

Speaker 6 (34:20):
Yeah, I'm I'm weird. It makes me feel weird. I
admit it. I get it. I know it's stupid and childish,
but at least not ones that even her taller than me.

Speaker 8 (34:30):
It makes me feel really weird.

Speaker 5 (34:32):
Hey, a rod, that's not uncommon. It just isn't.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
But I felt because my first husband was the same
height I was, and I didn't wear heels the entire
time we dated, not once.

Speaker 5 (34:41):
But that was me. He didn't ask me. Chuck is like,
don't ever cut your hair short, like super short. He's like,
do not ever cut your hair short.

Speaker 4 (34:49):
And I'm like, okay, that's a reasonable ask, you know,
Like I mean, if I got cancer or something, he
would obviously be okay with it. But that's the one
thing he's like. And for me, I'm like, yeah, you
can't jump out of a plane again. And I don't
necessarily want you riding a motorcycle on a regular basis,
like occasionally, you know, that's fine, but I don't want
it to be a normal mode of transportation. And he's like, okay,

(35:13):
we'll let that go, So let Chuck get the motorcycle.
It's not like I said, he can't get a motorcycle.
To be clear, we don't do that to each other
other than the hair thing. But I just want him
to be alive. I just want to make sure he
doesn't get un alive until I'm ready to take him out.

Speaker 5 (35:28):
No, I'm just kidding. I haven't really felt ready to
take him out in sometime.

Speaker 7 (35:31):
Now.

Speaker 4 (35:32):
When we get back, we're gonna talk to Vicky Lawrence.
I'm taking a break down.

Speaker 5 (35:35):
I'm so excited. Keep it right here on Gayaway Sports.

Speaker 4 (35:43):
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it's time to downsize. Maybe you're ready to retire and
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But you know you haven't done any updates in a
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or not your house is even in a cell. This
is the perfect situation for the Ed Prather team. Ed
doesn't worry about that kind of stuff. He can walk
you through what it might look like to do some updates.

(36:05):
If you don't have the money, maybe Edfunt's to the
money gets back at the close, or he says, look,
this is what we could do. As is that is
what Mike in Denver was dealing with. He knew his
house was out of date, and he also had some
pretty significant foundational issues. After talking to Ed, he got
the confidence when Ed said, look, I can sell this house.
Ed's team delivered fourteen showings in the first weekend with

(36:27):
multiple offers, and he closed in twenty one days. The
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That's Ed p R A t h e R dot
com and tell them Mandy Connell sent you.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock
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Speaker 2 (36:54):
Well, no, it's Mandy Connell and Donal Knem.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
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Speaker 2 (37:12):
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Speaker 5 (37:17):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, And hopefully, very very soon we will
be hearing from Vicky Lawrence because she hasn't called yet,
and I'm getting a little bit nervous because I'm really
excited about this interview and i am hoping this will work.

Speaker 4 (37:35):
She's coming in March of next year, So we're going
to talk to her about her two women's show. That's
kind of a little cheeky because of course the second
woman is her character Mama. But in the meantime, I
want to respond to a couple more text messages from
the last segment. By the way, if you do want
to vote in person, because I'm urging people to go

(37:56):
ahead and please return their ballots. There are so many
early voting locations, and if you google early voting locations
in Colorado, nine News actually did a really good interactive
map that shows you all of the different places that
you can actually go and cast your ballot early. If
you're not confident about the drop boxes, I have no

(38:18):
issue with the drop boxes. I think they're fine. I
think it's gonna be perfectly fine with the drop boxes.
It's a okay, So you can go ahead and find
out where to vote. So a couple people weighing in
on the motorcycle thing, I had no idea, had no idea.
Somebody sent in that their wife was not allowed to
gain five pounds. I was like, yeah, how old is

(38:39):
she because if she hasn't had menopause yet.

Speaker 5 (38:41):
Good luck, good luck with that one.

Speaker 4 (38:45):
At two Heraldo, while people with any sense leave Trump,
the uneducated rally around him.

Speaker 5 (38:52):
The fact that Heraldo.

Speaker 4 (38:53):
Rivera has come out and I saw this this morning
and endorse Kamala Harris makes me know that my vote
for Trump is the right one because there are people
in the media that I respect, and there are people
like Coroldo. So he can endorse whoever he wants. He
can do whatever he wants. Again, a lot of people
asking did you do a voter guide? I most certainly

(39:17):
did do a voter guide, and it is on the
blog today. Or you can just use the Google and
you can google Mandy Connell voter guide and boom, that
is going to come up. A lot of you asking
did Mike Rosen do a voter guide? Use the Google
Mike Rosen Voter Guide twenty twenty four.

Speaker 5 (39:36):
Bada bing, bada, boom. You should get that one as well.

Speaker 4 (39:38):
I also believe Mike's is up at complete Colorado dot com,
so that is available.

Speaker 5 (39:44):
But right now I see a rod He's on the phone.
He's on the phone. He's on the phone.

Speaker 4 (39:50):
Yay, bray, you're up, because I'm so excited. Okay, you guys,
if you've been listening to the show for any length
of time. You know that I am not a person
who is motivated by jealousy. I want to see everyone succeed.
I want to see everyone reach their full potential. But
if there was ever a career that I am jealous of,
it is the career of Vicky Lawrence, who has been

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a part of my life since I was a child
watching the Carol Burnette Show.

Speaker 5 (40:15):
With my mom.

Speaker 4 (40:16):
She has had a hit song, she has performed on Broadway,
she has worked with some of the greatest comedic minds
of our generation, and now she is joining me on
the show. Vicky Lawrence, thank you so much for making.

Speaker 5 (40:28):
Time for me today.

Speaker 9 (40:29):
Oh I'm happy to talk to you. I'm just trying
to get my rotten dog off the balcony.

Speaker 5 (40:35):
Oh what kind of dog do you have?

Speaker 9 (40:37):
Well, he's a little poodle mix that we rescued. Tobe,
come here right now. We're on the air live, Toby.
I am time for this.

Speaker 4 (40:46):
Toby doesn't care. He doesn't care about light's camera action.
Toby's got his own agenda.

Speaker 9 (40:52):
He does who I am either by.

Speaker 4 (40:55):
There you go, nothing like your nothing like your dog.
To make you realize that you're not as much of
a selebrity as you think you are right there. You know,
in hearing my introduction, I hope you understand that your
career and the comedy you've created and has just been
such a huge part of my life.

Speaker 5 (41:14):
You've even performed in a relatively obscure musical.

Speaker 4 (41:18):
From the nineteen seventies that I still sing songs to
on a regular basis, which is I'm taking my act
and or getting my act together and taking it on
the road.

Speaker 5 (41:27):
So I've just been I've never seen it.

Speaker 4 (41:33):
My mom saw it in the nineteen seventies, came home
with the album, and we were a Broadway musical family.

Speaker 5 (41:40):
That's what we listened to. So I heard the record
over and over and over again. Loved the show.

Speaker 4 (41:45):
When I saw that in your bio, I was like,
oh my gosh, that's kind of special that I actually
am familiar with that show. Most people are familiar with
your work on The Carol Burnett Show, where you created
probably one of the most iconic comedic characters in Mama,
and I'd love for you to talk to me a
little bit about what that was like, because you were

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you were the baby on that show. You were very
young when you when you got onto Carol's show, What
was that experience like, I mean, walking in the first day.

Speaker 5 (42:16):
What were you thinking?

Speaker 9 (42:18):
Well, I think it was like an out of body experience.
The first day on the Carol Burnett Show, we had
rehearsal halls on the third floor of CBS, and I
didn't have a lot to do because I was really
hired to play her sister in one sketch Carol and Sis.
So I went down to the floor where all the
stages are and I walked into Studio thirty three where

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we were going to be shooting the Carol Burnett Show,
and at the time, Red Skelton was doing his show
in there. I mean, you're going to have to jog
your memory, Mandy, you're sad of Google. But he was
doing his show and I went into the that I
just followed the piano music and there was Red Skelton.

(43:02):
He loved a doodle on the piano. He asked who
I was. I told him what was going on, and
he asked invited me in, and he just kept doodling
and doodling and wanted to hear my story. And at
the end he wrote Vicky across the sheet music and
signed it and gave it to me and wished me

(43:23):
good luck. And I still have that sheet music he
shot for maybe another season before the Carol Burnett Show
kind of really took over that stage. But CBS back
in the day was such an incredibly fun place to
be and Sonny to Share was next door. The Young
and the Restless was across the hall. The Smothers brothers
were down the hall.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
Well.

Speaker 9 (43:45):
I remember the night All in the Family premiered distinctly
because back in the day they had a switchboard and
they put like a bazillion girls on the switchboard because
they were pretty sure that, you know, what was going
to hit. The same when America met Archie Bunker, and
they were not wrong. They know they weren't wrong, but yeah,

(44:07):
because it was really groundbreaking and television changing for sure. Anyway,
that place was so special. I'm not even sure there's
any studio like that anymore. I know there's not there.
I know there's not.

Speaker 4 (44:20):
You know what you guys did kind of you know,
creating this incredible topical sketch comedy show that touched so
many cultural kind of touchstones. Do you I wish there
was anything like this now, But it's almost like we've
moved on from that kind of comedy. I mean, do

(44:40):
you see any potential for any kind of revival of
the kind of stuff that you guys put together.

Speaker 9 (44:46):
I don't think so. I mean, I guess Saturday Night
Live is the closest thing, but I don't feel like
it's as consistent as we were. And a lot of
times you fall in love with somebody on Saturday Night
Live and then they're gone, yeah, yeah, But I don't
there are a lot there's much speculation. We had a

(45:07):
live orchestra twenty five pieces, and a conductor who arranged,
and we had Bob Mackie, and I would assume that
one of his gowns for Carol would now cost twenty grand,
twenty five grand probably. We had a huge staff of writers,
We had a beautiful sets, and it was a well

(45:28):
oiled machine. It ran like a top. I mean, if
you if my schedule said that I was going to
be done at three PM, I could make a three
thirty appointment and keep it. And that doesn't happen ever
in television now, not ever. I mean, Carol and I
talk about it because we'll go out and do comedy stuff,
and she says it doesn't matter how funny you are.

(45:49):
If the picture in the back was a little crooked
on the wall, they'll do the whole thing over that,
I guess because they think it's going in a time vault.
I said, well, we went in a time Bault, she thought,
I know, it's just very different now. There are still,
you know, there are still a.

Speaker 4 (46:08):
Lot of clips of the kra Burnett Show, you know,
cycling through the internet now. And I can't tell you
how much joy it gives me when one comes across
my social media feed and there's one specifically, and it's
a Mama's Family sketch where Tim Conway, I guess, goes
rogue with a story about Sime's elephants. And I've seen it.

(46:28):
I've seen it a hundred times if I've seen it once,
and I still laugh out loud, And that, to me
is a testament to the to the kind of comedy
that hit everybody equally right. You didn't have to, You
weren't picking on one group, you weren't. You weren't being political,
you weren't sort of being mean. It was just comedy
that just went across the spectrum. What were your experiences

(46:52):
like working on a show where it seems like to
the to the viewer, where sometimes things appeared to go
off the rails. Did they really go off the rails
or was it sort of a planned off the rails
like that Siamese Elephancy.

Speaker 9 (47:06):
Ever, it was never planned. I'll tell you the Night
of the Elephant sketch. It yeah, it was a family sketch.
It was the very last season Harvey had left, so
it was Dick van Dyke. But when Tim was written
into those family sketches, Caroll pulled us all aside and
she said, you know how much I love these characters,

(47:28):
I don't want us breaking the fourth wall, which means
she didn't want people to break it up and letting
the audience in on a joke. So we were to
be very disciplined that particular night. Who is the first
person that loses it?

Speaker 5 (47:44):
It's Caro.

Speaker 9 (47:45):
So what happened was Tim didn't follow the script. He
and I never knew until he was gone that he
was dyslexic, so he had a hard time reading the script.
So he wrote much of his own material, but the
family sketches he would always I mean, he just lived
to break people up, you know. He was just a
little Dickens and we used to have que cards like

(48:07):
Carol was black, Harvey was red, I was green. Tim
was blue. If you looked out in visy where the
cameras were on any given night and you saw one
of Tim's cards that said savor, that meant here comes
the joke that it's going to save the sketch that
nobody has heard before. So you just kind of fasten
your goot. You think, well, here we go. So on

(48:29):
that particular night he launched into an elephant story which
was not in the script at all, and we used
to do two shows. Of course, Carol was the first
one who lost it. I'm just looking at her. She
was like in my lap crying and I'm just get
it together, woman. I'm trying to be disciplined as I can.
So on it. We would do an afternoon show in

(48:51):
front of an audience. We would have a break. We
would do an evening show in front of a new audience.
During the break, you'd go get dinner if you wanted,
you would get your makeup, you would take a damp
if you wanted. They would have a big production meeting,
and then the director would come by your dressing room
and give you any notes, like we've changed your mark

(49:12):
during the dance number, we have changed your joke in
the family sketch, We've done this whatever it was. He
knocked on my dressing room door that night and he said,
I have only one note for you, Vic, the elephant
story will be different and good luck. And I by
this time, I'm married to my husband, Al, who was

(49:33):
the makeup man on the show, and he's sitting in
the corner reading the magazine, and I said, how in
the heck does he get away with it? And I'll
just looked up from his magazine and said get him
and went back to reading. And I thought, get him,
get him. I'm not the one that ever hardly did
that stuff on the show, but I kind of decided
that I would get him. And I think it was

(49:55):
such a surprise to everybody that that's why it got
such a huge lap. I think the crew, the audience,
tim everybody went down because nobody expected little Vicky to
do that.

Speaker 4 (50:07):
Let's let's talk about Mama for a minute. Where did
the character come from? And I know that for Carol
a lot of times her character development sort of was
part of the costumes that Bob Mackie provided, and they
kind of gave her this physicality of the costumes that
she had. Was it similar for you when you were
creating Mama?

Speaker 9 (50:28):
It's Bob was always such a help with any character
we were doing. There were lots of times that we'd
be struggling and you'd get he would dress you on
we'd start on Monday, he'd dress you on Wednesday, and
you'd say, oh, well, I know who I am now.
He was just instrumental in.

Speaker 5 (50:46):
All of that.

Speaker 9 (50:48):
The family sketches Mama was actually written for Carol, and
when she read the final draft she didn't She loved units.
She said, this is the character that speaks to me.
This is a character that I want to play. Of course,
the writers were very upset. Then she said, I think
Vicky would be great as Mama. She said to Bob Mackie,

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don't you think we could Vicky? We could make Vicky Mama.
He said absolutely. The writers now are doubly upset. Then
we go into rehearsal on Monday morning and Carol's decided
she wants to do it Southern because she just thinks
it's like Tennessee Williams on acid. So now we're trying
to do back. I'm trying to find an older version

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of what Carol is doing because I'm playing the mother.
And Harvey's saying to me, boy, did you get the part.
The mother is the nuts and bolts of any family kid,
and you got the part. So he was very encouraging.
I went over to Bob mckie's studio on Wednesday, and
when he dressed me and I looked in the mirror,
I went, oh, my god, I'm no exactly why I am.

Speaker 5 (51:55):
What I am from the Deep South.

Speaker 4 (51:57):
I'm actually from northern Florida, which is the Deep South
that is not Florida is not the Deep South, but
where I am from it is. And I I know
women just like Mama, and I knew women just like
Mama when I was a kid, so it resonated so
strongly with me and the culture that I was a
part of.

Speaker 5 (52:16):
But it was never disrespectful.

Speaker 4 (52:18):
It never felt like you were making fun of people
like Mama.

Speaker 5 (52:22):
You were just having, you know, having a.

Speaker 4 (52:25):
Great time as Mama, And it always came across that way,
and as a kid, I didn't get it, but as
an adult, I really feel that way.

Speaker 9 (52:35):
Well, if you could see my grandmother next to Mama.
We were separated at birth. She was from southern Missouri.
But ah, yes, yeah, you couldn't tell the part. I
think we went to the same hairdresser, the same.

Speaker 8 (52:49):
H wherever we bought our dresses.

Speaker 9 (52:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (52:54):
Tell me.

Speaker 4 (52:55):
Tell me about the show that you're bringing to Denver
in March of next year. It is so March thirtieth
at the Paramount Theater in Denver. It is called Vicky
Lawrence and Mama, a two women's show. How do you
pull this off?

Speaker 9 (53:08):
Well? I knew when i'd put the show together that
everybody was going to want to see Mama because people
think of her like a real person. They'll ask me
all the time, where is she? Like I should run
in the phone booth and turn into her. So I
knew how popular she was. But I kind of wanted
to be me before I'm not anymore and wear some
pretty clothes and I think I'm kind of funny. So

(53:33):
we put my writing partner and I put the show
together where I basically I opened for Mama and I
get to my half of the show is largely autobiographical
because my life has been fairly comical, with all the
stuff that's happened to me. I mean, nobody gets taken
out of high school and put on national television when

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I've never done any of that, and gets to go
to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of a mayor.
I mean that just what happened to me doesn't happen. Ever,
we didn't.

Speaker 4 (54:05):
Even get a chance to, yeah, to dip into your story,
which is absolutely incredible. It really is kind of a Hollywood,
you know, story that everybody dreams of.

Speaker 5 (54:14):
To your point, and that you were plucked.

Speaker 4 (54:17):
You were plucked at a very young age and had
a lot of incredible opportunities. But as I always say, Vicky,
if you don't take advantage of the opportunities, then you know,
as some people don't.

Speaker 5 (54:28):
You certainly did, absolutely did.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
So.

Speaker 4 (54:31):
I am excited about seeing this show and tickets go
on sale on Friday. But I wanted to ask you
if you and I always ask artists this, and some
artists will hedge and say.

Speaker 5 (54:42):
Oh, I can't choose because they're all like my children.

Speaker 4 (54:44):
But is there a favorite sketch you have or is
there a favorite moment that you have from the Kara
Burnette Show? And after you left the show, what has
been your favorite thing you've gotten to do. You just
had a great show with the cool kids with some
of my favorite comedians years ago, and that's that show
so much I thought, I thought, you know what, I

(55:05):
don't know why it didn't last very long. I just
thought it was so topical because we're all kind of
aging together, and it spoke to a lot of that
at the same time.

Speaker 8 (55:14):
I love the show, but so fun.

Speaker 9 (55:16):
It was so fun.

Speaker 4 (55:17):
Do you have a favorite moment from the Carol Burnette
Show and what was your favorite project after?

Speaker 9 (55:23):
Well? I have several favorite moments from the Burnett Show.
I mean I loved when the family played games, like
when we played Sory or when we played Sorry. Was
just fabulous. And there are a lot of outtakes from
that skift because it was just so hilarious. It was
really hard to keep it together. So I love those.

(55:46):
But I think because I was so young, I was
the only I was I think the only cast member
that knew a lot of the musical people because they
would book on the show right to kind of keep
it topical. Like when Bobby Gentry came on, I was
beside myself and nobody else knew who Bobby Gentry was
but O to Billy Joe was my story song when
I was a teenager. And when she came on the show,

(56:09):
Actually she was late to rehearsal the first day and
the stage manager called down to the front gate and
he said, has Bobby Gentry come through yet? And the
guy at the guard gate said, I haven't seen him.
Well go ahead, nobody had any idea who Bobby Gentry
was like, oh my god, you guys. And then the

(56:30):
Jackson five. I got to dance with all of those boys.
I mean that was just so special. Yeah, I liked
a lot of the musical guests.

Speaker 4 (56:40):
Well, Vicky, we're almost at a time, but I just
wanted to ask. My husband has asked me to request,
are you going to be doing a rendition of the
night the Lights went out in Georgia at this show
because he feels like that's really that should be the
pinnacle of the program, because he still loves the song
so much.

Speaker 9 (56:58):
Well, no, it's the pinnacle. But yes, if you have
a juggernaut from the seventies, you lost sing it.

Speaker 10 (57:05):
You know?

Speaker 5 (57:06):
Oh of course, Oh so you do sing it? Okay, great?

Speaker 4 (57:08):
Now I want to let people know after we get
back We're going to give away some tickets to see
the show Sunday, March thirtieth. Tickets go and sale on Friday,
and I will remind everyone that they can buy these
tickets because I just want I think this is going
to be a sellout. I just I am predicting it,
because if you could see our text line from our listeners,
so many people are so excited.

Speaker 5 (57:30):
They want to know.

Speaker 4 (57:31):
Have you written a book that they can buy? Like
they can't get enough of you? Vicky Lawrence.

Speaker 9 (57:37):
Well, I wrote a book a long time ago, but
good heavens, I need to write another one now because
so much has happened since I wrote that one.

Speaker 5 (57:44):
We'll do it, and we'll have you on again.

Speaker 9 (57:47):
Okay, good, I've written a couple of books.

Speaker 5 (57:50):
Yes, Vicky Lawrence.

Speaker 4 (57:52):
It has been an absolute thrill for me to be
able to talk to you. I can't tell you what
a huge part of my life you've been from far
away and how much I appreciate all that you guys
provided in terms of just joy and comedy and laughter
for all of these years. I so appreciate it, and
I'm just so grateful that you are still out there,
and I hope that I get to meet you and

(58:14):
March when you come for the show.

Speaker 5 (58:15):
I would love to see.

Speaker 9 (58:16):
That we help you do too.

Speaker 4 (58:18):
Yeah, thank you for your time today.

Speaker 9 (58:23):
All right, thank you.

Speaker 4 (58:24):
All right, guys, we will be back in just a minute.
A couple of stories that I want to get to you.
I have so much stuff on the blog today. And
I said this at the beginning of the show. I
love for everybody to go read the blog. I spend
a ridiculous amount of time on it every single day,
and I'm not exaggerating.

Speaker 5 (58:40):
It takes me hours to do the blog.

Speaker 4 (58:43):
And during the election season, there is so much stuff on.

Speaker 5 (58:46):
The blog that you need to see.

Speaker 4 (58:48):
So if you don't go to the blog normally, try
to make it a habit mandy'sblog dot com.

Speaker 5 (58:52):
Because there's so much stuff on the blog that I'm
not going to get to you today. I will get
to this.

Speaker 4 (58:56):
The Colorado State government owes taxpayers a total of one
point eight seven billion in refunds mandated under the Taxpayer's
Bill of Right Rights.

Speaker 5 (59:07):
I should say the state collected.

Speaker 4 (59:10):
Roughly one point four billion more in revenue during the
twenty twenty four fiscal year than was allowed under TABER
that according to a state audit. The state already has
roughly two hundred and ninety million dollars in outstanding TABOR
refund liability at the beginning of the fiscal year, bringing
the total refund amount to one point sixty six billion dollars.

(59:32):
And we all know Taber is there to control the
growth of government until the Democrats figured out that they
could just start calling things taxes and fees and start
raising them on us left and right. Now, Colorado has
three refund mechanisms, a property tax exemption reimbursement through the
local government, a temporary reduction in the income tax rate,

(59:54):
and a six tier sales tax refund that distributes money
based on people's adjusted gross income. The excess state revenues
are expected to trigger all three of the refund mechanisms,
so we won't know exactly how much we're getting individually
just yet, but as soon as the refunds start being processed,

(01:00:14):
you can go to the Colorado Revenue Online website and
find out how much you're going to get back. But
I'm bringing this up not because I think it's going
to be a life changing amount of money, but what
it could do, or rather I should say, I believe
that this is the last year that we will get
significant Tabor refunds because not only did the Democratic Legislature

(01:00:38):
redirect our table refunds going forward into their pet causes
and people that they feel deserve your money more than
you do. So this may be the last big Tabor
refund that we get. And I can't wait. I cannot
wait for Colorado voters to realize that their table refunds
have been reassigned to some one else.

Speaker 5 (01:01:01):
But elections have consequences, So there you go. Elections have consequences.

Speaker 4 (01:01:07):
So we're going to get a table refund and we'll
find out how much and when and all that good
stuff a little bit later. So last night at the
Aurora City Council meeting, a couple of things happened. One,
the Aurora City Council passed a resolution to investigate claims
that Colorado government and Denver placed immigrants into the state's

(01:01:31):
third most populous city without Aurora's consent.

Speaker 5 (01:01:34):
The resolution passed six to two.

Speaker 4 (01:01:36):
It was sponsored by City council member Danielle Durinsky, and
it says officials from the state and the City and
County of Denver intentionally placed immigrants within Aurora without notifying
the city of this placement. It goes on to say
that the placing of immigrants into Aurora without the resources
to assist them is detrimental to the city, the immigrants,

(01:01:57):
and the community. It directs the city manager to invest
to gate whether or not the state of Colorado and
the City and County of Denver have placed immigrants in
Aurora with without the help of Aurora based nonprofits.

Speaker 5 (01:02:09):
Now why are they doing this? Because that's what happened.
That's what's happened.

Speaker 4 (01:02:13):
I mean, that's the thing that has occurred here, and
now Aurora is trying to pick up the pieces. Now
what's interesting is a spokesman for Mayor Mike Johnston said
the city partnered with nonprofits to help immigrants find stability
and listen to this quote from Mayor Mike Johnston's office.
Denver took what many saws a crisis and turned it

(01:02:36):
into an opportunity. Had we turned our back, there's little
doubt that many of the forty three thousand people who
arrived in Denver over the last two years would today
be sleeping on the streets rather in their own beds.
We stand proudly with our immigrant community and with our
nonprofit partners whose dedication and life saving work should be applauded,

(01:02:56):
not demonized. But the problem is is all of those
immigrants are not in Denver. A lot of those immigrants
were settled by non governmental organizations are called NGOs and
nonprofits in Aurora, without telling anyone Aurora, this was happening.

Speaker 5 (01:03:14):
And I love that they say they would.

Speaker 4 (01:03:16):
Not be they'd be sleeping on the streets rather in
their own beds. That's that the taxpayers paid for. I mean,
I know that Denver loves to raise its own taxes.
I know that Denver voters just don't care about give
take more of my money, take it and do whatever
you want with it. But the amount of money that
Denver has spent, surely they could find places within the

(01:03:37):
Denver metro.

Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
Well.

Speaker 4 (01:03:39):
By the way, apartment vacancies are way up right now,
not like way up. I shouldn't say way up. That's
an exaggeration. But there are so many rental properties out
there right now available that there's plenty of room in
the Denver metro without putting migrants in other cities, without
letting them know. Now, I want to share something else

(01:04:01):
that happened at last night's meeting, and I reached out
to Danielle Drinsky this morning, but she is getting ready
to go on a little vaca to celebrate her son's
fifth birthday. So we're going to get her on the
show next week to talk about this. But listen to
this statement by Danielle Drinsky tonight.

Speaker 7 (01:04:22):
I have a call out to the Governor, Jared Poulis.
I'm asking you to call me because I have video
footage that will do bigger things than bring Donald Trump
to the city of Aurora. There's only one other person
on the planet that's in possession of this video footage,

(01:04:42):
and I'll tell you that it's haunted me to my core.
So I'm asking you, Governor, to put politics aside. I'm
asking you to call me, to call me.

Speaker 11 (01:04:56):
And see the videos that I am in possession of,
because we need leadership, Jared, and I'm asking you to
stand alongside me.

Speaker 5 (01:05:07):
I hope you will call me. If you do not
call me, the videos will come out. Now.

Speaker 4 (01:05:14):
That is a not very veiled threat, right, not at
all so, and threat not meaning she's threatening the governor,
to be clear, She's just saying, look, this is what
happened the last time when daniel Drinsky was trying to
get anyone to engage on the issue of what was

(01:05:35):
happening at those apartment complexes.

Speaker 5 (01:05:38):
And now she's like, I got more. I've got more
stuff that people need to see. I've got more things that.

Speaker 4 (01:05:46):
Are happening in Aurora, and she does not want to
make them public. But if the governor cannot engage on this,
then they will become public and create another huge problem
for Aurora. And please, for the love of God, pay
attention governor. Not that he listens to this show, because
we all know howl A Veil is about me. But
I mean, can we just can we all work together

(01:06:08):
to make sure that everyone in our community is safe?

Speaker 5 (01:06:11):
Is that too much to ask?

Speaker 4 (01:06:12):
We'll find out from Danielle next week whether or not
the governor has picked up the phone. I don't know
why he wouldn't. I really don't, because wouldn't you don't
you want to know what's in the videos?

Speaker 6 (01:06:22):
I do?

Speaker 5 (01:06:23):
And I was like, dang, I'm I'm I'm intrigued. I'm
very very intrigued. All right, So let's do this.

Speaker 4 (01:06:30):
We are going to take a quick time out. When
we get back, I have a an update on the
Walgreens closure from yesterday that we talked about yesterday. If
you didn't hear the show, I'll explain after this, but
keep it right here on KOA. We don't have a
show on Thursday because the Broncos play at Thursday Night Football.

Speaker 5 (01:06:52):
And we are doing how many hours of coverage for that?

Speaker 6 (01:06:55):
Like six sweekly yep, and then all the way till
probably midnight with Ryan on React.

Speaker 5 (01:07:02):
All right, I love Ryan Edwards on React. By the way,
if you've never listened to the I'm calling it the
post post game. Don't you think that's the post post game?
Because you have the post.

Speaker 4 (01:07:12):
Game and then you have Ryan and it's always fascinating
to me to hear the interesting things that Bronco fans
complain about. Can we just have a moment on that
for a second. We are three and three with a
rookie quarterback. Who thought we would be here right now?
So quit your bitching.

Speaker 8 (01:07:29):
Three wards growth, not wins, thank you, not wins. Three
and three.

Speaker 5 (01:07:34):
We're three and three. That's like, that's like two wins
better than I thought we'd be right now?

Speaker 6 (01:07:39):
Are owing to Tampa New York wins? Okay, the Chargers
getting healthy great defense. Yep, there's a very good chance
that we are four and three heading to Baltimore next week.
Just patience, patience of quarterback patience, y'all.

Speaker 4 (01:07:57):
I mean, come on, I remember I I don't have
any tape of my first show. I don't have any
tape of any of my shows, of any of them.

Speaker 8 (01:08:05):
I got to find it.

Speaker 5 (01:08:07):
What was that?

Speaker 4 (01:08:07):
I No, No, it doesn't exist. It does not exist anymore. No,
it doesn't exist. And I don't want to hear it
because I can only imagine how bad my first shows were.
And I wasn't in direct competition with anybody like he is,
like wo Nix's so calm down, Bronco fans, calm down,
it's going to be okay.

Speaker 5 (01:08:26):
I want to have an update.

Speaker 4 (01:08:27):
Yesterday we were talking about the fact that a Walgreens
at Havana and Aurora excuse me, Havanah and Colefax is closing.
It's right across from the Walmart neighborhood market that also
closed because they closed because theft and you know, just
the store wasn't making money. And I said, Walgreens said,

(01:08:47):
we're closing because of low reimbursement rates, and Hi, I
can't remember what the other thing was, and I was like,
that's a lie. Why didn't you just say it's crime.

Speaker 5 (01:08:57):
But the reality is is that Walgreens is in a
bad way.

Speaker 4 (01:09:00):
Walgreens set on Tuesday, it's going to shut about twelve
hundred stores over the next three years, and the new
CEO is trying to turn around the struggling pharmacy chain
and it's because people aren't spending money there. I awn
low drug reimbursement rates, and I was thinking about this,
like I am now an express scripts person. I don't

(01:09:21):
have a lot of prescriptions and there generally tend to
be like, you know, long term, right.

Speaker 5 (01:09:26):
So I just do express scripts.

Speaker 4 (01:09:28):
We do use a Walgreens when we have to do
like a you know, like a antibiotic or something like that,
some short term thing. But I definitely don't spend as
much money as I used to spend in Walgreens. And
part of that I blame on digital prescriptions. Hear me out.
They just hear me out for a second. In creating

(01:09:51):
a more efficient and more secure system for doctors to
be able to send a prescription electronically, Walgreens took me
out of browsing, and Walgreens didn't do it. This is
like a nationwide thing, and it's you know, security and
making sure that people are not fraudulently getting prescriptions and
blah blah blah blah blah. But I used to take
my prescription on my little piece of paper and I

(01:10:11):
would take you to the pharmacy and they'd say, oh,
that'll be ten to fifteen minutes.

Speaker 5 (01:10:15):
That was ten to fifteen minutes. I'm walking around Walgreens
buying crap.

Speaker 4 (01:10:18):
I didn't know I need it until I saw it,
And I'm wondering if anybody else it kind of does
the same thing now, So yeah, yeah, uh Mandy, that
wasn't Danielle just talking about releasing more videos, was it?
I'm asking because that voice sounded scared. Danielle is having
a vocal issue. As a matter of fact, I texted

(01:10:38):
her this morning and said, you have got to get
a steroid pack from your doctor that will take care
of your voice.

Speaker 5 (01:10:44):
It's just over use. She was at the you know,
she's been doing a lot of stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:10:50):
So we are making it making it very very challenging
for these reach environments. Between the theft, between the changing
shopping that we are all doing.

Speaker 5 (01:11:07):
I I I do.

Speaker 4 (01:11:09):
A vast majority of my shopping online now, and I
mean for like just inane stuff. I'm like, oh, I
need more of this cleanser.

Speaker 5 (01:11:18):
I'm going to Amazon. I need more of this. I'm
going to Amazon.

Speaker 4 (01:11:22):
I still go to the grocery store, and I still
I'm not ready to do Instacart yet.

Speaker 5 (01:11:25):
Do you guys instacart? Do you have your groceries delivered?

Speaker 8 (01:11:28):
No, we've done it before. We do grocery pickuppically.

Speaker 5 (01:11:31):
Yeah, but you know what it is.

Speaker 4 (01:11:32):
If I'm buying produce, I don't want somebody else picking
my produce or my meat. Like if I'm getting a steak,
I want to lay eyes on that thing.

Speaker 6 (01:11:41):
It's been it's been fine. We haven't had many.

Speaker 4 (01:11:43):
Yeah, I my produce is what gets me. I've done
it a couple of times and I was very unhappy
with the produce. Okay, let's take a quick time out.
Then we are going to do a two minute drill
and so much stuff. When we've got comedian Derek's troup.
You got to go check out the blog because I'm
not getting through most of this. Keep it right here
on Kawa.

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Speaker 4 (01:12:41):
There is a little bit of movement on the push
to get men out of women's sports. Another university's volleyball
team has refused to play against San Jose State because
San Jose State University's Blair Fleming is a man. He
is a red shirt senior, and the female they were
supposed to play against him are simply saying no. On Monday,

(01:13:04):
players on Nevada's women's volleyball team announced they had voted
to forfeit their game against San Jose State on October
twenty six. In a statement OutKick, they said, we the
University of Nevada, a reno women's volleyball team, forfeit against
San Jose State University. We demand that our right to
safety and fair competition on the court be upheld. We

(01:13:26):
refuse to participate in any match that advances in justice
against female athletics.

Speaker 5 (01:13:32):
They added that they.

Speaker 4 (01:13:33):
Stand in solidarity with the other teams that are refused
to play against San Jose State, Southern Utah University, Boise
State University, the University of Wyoming, and Utah State. Eventually,
the NCAA is going to have to address this, but
until they do, this is the only thing that female
athletes can do to take a stand and make sure

(01:13:56):
that they're not going to have to play against males
in their respective sports.

Speaker 6 (01:13:59):
Okay, next story too.

Speaker 4 (01:14:03):
I think this is super interesting because we don't really
think about it until we need it. But we're about
to have a massive iv shortage now. The IVY shortage,
you may not know, has been going on for some
time because a lot of IV's an interview as intravenous
saline solutions were made in Puerto Rico. But Hurricane Maria

(01:14:25):
four years ago slammed into Puerto Rico and knocked out
two Baxter International factories that produce the bags. Now they
still haven't gotten them fully up and running. But guess
where the other company is.

Speaker 5 (01:14:37):
If you guessed.

Speaker 4 (01:14:38):
North Carolina, you are right Mary in North Carolina, which
just got creamed by Helene. Now, the North Carolina plant
mostly produces large IV bags. The Puerto Rican plant specializes
in mini bags. But access to the plant is completely
destroyed and the plant is closed for cleaning, which sounds

(01:14:59):
like no big deal, except that you have to realize
it's a medical facility and everything has to be sterilized.

Speaker 5 (01:15:04):
So what does this mean for you?

Speaker 4 (01:15:06):
It means that it could be very hard to get
an IV if you need one.

Speaker 11 (01:15:10):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:15:10):
I don't know how to fix this, but I just
thought it was interesting. And if you're one of those
people for people who likes to go get those IV treatments,
maybe you're gonna have to wait a little bit longer
next time.

Speaker 5 (01:15:19):
All right, next story.

Speaker 4 (01:15:22):
It too pretty excited about this next story because of
my affinity for the panda. Let's face it, y'all, Panda
bears are like drunk toddlers wearing suits, and they are
adorable and they do adorable things, and it's amazing that
they haven't just become extinct because they're so incompetent, and
they are coming back to the United States China, in

(01:15:43):
a bit of a diplomatic.

Speaker 5 (01:15:45):
Kerfuffle, recalled all of its.

Speaker 4 (01:15:47):
Pandas, but now has announced they will be sending some
back to the zoo in Washington, DC, because that's the
only place you can see giant pandas for free in
the nation. Now there are other panda bears in the country,
the same Diego Zoo and Memphis Zoo had Oh wait
a minute, Oh no, I'm sorry, that's the only place
those were. They had already sent their pandas back, so

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we'll be able to see pandas at least in Washington,
d C. There is no word on this deal, but
under previous ten year agreements, the Chinese government received a
million bucks per year per bear.

Speaker 5 (01:16:22):
Any cubs born in overseas.

Speaker 4 (01:16:23):
Zoos are typically returned to China before they reach age four.
So I don't know if this is a fawing between
the United States and China, if they just wanted the
million bucks per panda per year, but whatever, I'm happy
we get pandas back, all right.

Speaker 5 (01:16:36):
Next story.

Speaker 2 (01:16:38):
It too.

Speaker 4 (01:16:39):
So the Farmer's Almanac is predicting a cold and snowy winter,
or excuse me, a warm and wet winter for most
of the country. But do we even need to pay
attention to it? How accurate is the Farmer's Almanac? Well,
according to the Farmer's Almanac, they say they are eighty percent.

Speaker 5 (01:16:56):
Correct, using a secret formula.

Speaker 4 (01:16:59):
To predict the way that was devised by the founder
of the almanac in seventeen ninety two. However, those numbers
are not necessarily accurate. A study at the University of
Illinois disagreed, saying that the almanac was only about fifty
two percent accurate, which is essentially a random chance.

Speaker 5 (01:17:18):
Now what does this mean for our weather? I have
no idea, but.

Speaker 4 (01:17:22):
It means that you probably shouldn't put a lot of
stock and make long term plans based on the Farmer's Almanac.

Speaker 2 (01:17:27):
Now, last story, drill it too.

Speaker 4 (01:17:30):
I'm not getting into this deep because it's kind of
all over the place.

Speaker 5 (01:17:34):
I just find it funny.

Speaker 4 (01:17:35):
Kamala Harris has now been caught plagiarizing. She wrote a
book in two thousand and nine with a co author
called Smart on Crime, A Career Prosecutor's Plan to make
Us Safer, and it was trying to establish her credibility
on criminal justice issues. But according to a plagiarism hunter,
who has taken down politicians all over the world. Harris's

(01:17:57):
book contains more than a dozen vicious played segments, and
now she's going to be forced maybe to answer some
of these questions. Now, the sad part about this is
I don't think this matters. Back when Joe Biden was
caught as a plagiarist in nineteen eighty eight, people still
cared about character and telling the truth really mattered. But

(01:18:18):
in this election cycle, I don't think anyone cares about
this anymore. Because we have students who think it's okay
to go to chat GPT and have AI write their papers,
So why would they have any problem with people lifting
passages from various other authors without giving attribution. Now, the
reason I'm doing this story is because she got some
of this information for Wikipedia. I tell my fifteen year

(01:18:42):
old daughter not to use Wikipedia because he's notoriously wrong,
and that's where she gets her stuff. The best response
to all this came from none other than jd Vance.

Speaker 5 (01:18:53):
Jd Vance, my friends, who I gotta find this really quickly,
who just said in response that he wrote his own
book and didn't lift it from Wikipedia. So there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:19:05):
That is your two minute drill and I still have
a ton of stuff on the blog today that we're
not going to get to, so you've got to read
the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.

Speaker 5 (01:19:13):
You've got to do it. When we get back. I
want to talk about GLP one medications. These are the
weight loss drugs.

Speaker 4 (01:19:21):
That so many people are turning to to lose weight
that I've been very skeptical of because everyone I know
that's done this to lose weight has gained it all back,
and that, my friends, is extremely demoralizing. That being said,
there are now some other medical developments with these drugs
that are incredibly significant, and I'm going to tell you

(01:19:43):
what they are right after this.

Speaker 5 (01:19:45):
You know, I've been very critical.

Speaker 4 (01:19:46):
Of GLP one simply because seeing people that I care
about losing weight on these drugs and then regaining it
when they went off the drugs has made me very cautious.

Speaker 5 (01:19:57):
That being said, there's some.

Speaker 4 (01:19:59):
Really good news about some of these drugs and the
potential that they have Now. I linked to a substack
by a guy named doctor Patty Barrett, and the headline
is have we turned the tide on obesity? And one
of the reasons I want you to go to the
blog at mandy'sblog dot com and find this story and
click through is to see a graph for over fifty years.

(01:20:20):
He says, the rates of obesity have been steadily rising worldwide.

Speaker 5 (01:20:25):
And if you look at this graph.

Speaker 4 (01:20:27):
Before nineteen seventy six, it was relatively flat and relatively stable.
Do you know what happened in the late seventies, high
fructoscorn sirrate became a part of our life, and the
food pyramid was introduced that told us all to eat
pasta and bread and everything else as the primary portions
in our diet. Right, and from that point on it

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goes up at like a forty five degree angle.

Speaker 5 (01:20:50):
It's terrible, absolutely terrible.

Speaker 4 (01:20:52):
Now what's happened is that for the first time in
a very long time, the US obesity rate fell in
twenty twenty three. It's still insanely high, but it went
from like forty two percent to forty percent, which is
the first time it's gone down is since like the
late nineteen sixties. He talks about the role of these

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weight loss drugs, but I want to talk about some
of the other side effects or other benefits. I guess
I should say of these weight loss drugs, because I
think this is very interesting. Number One, GOP medications appear
to act centrally on the brain to regulate appetite and hunger.

Speaker 5 (01:21:30):
But what they're also finding.

Speaker 4 (01:21:32):
Is that they are reducing cravings to other things other.

Speaker 5 (01:21:36):
Than food, including alcohol.

Speaker 4 (01:21:40):
So people are starting these drugs and they're losing their
desire to drink, which, by the way, is incredibly good
for weight loss, because booze and weight loss do not
go together, and it's not just about the calories. Booze
will take you out of a fat burning stage and
you will be out for days after you drink, So that's.

Speaker 5 (01:21:56):
Kind of interesting.

Speaker 4 (01:21:57):
Number Two, this is about inflammation, and the more we
know about inflammation now, the more we are recognizing the
connection between inflammation and cancer, inflammation and Alzheimer's and inflammation
and these other diseases. So a recent analysis of one
of the original trials on a zipic for weight loss

(01:22:17):
revealed that the levels of a marker called HSCRP, those
those are inflammation markers, and they drop thirty eight percent
regardless of the amount of weight loss. Solar reductions in
HSCRP have been linked to reductions in cardiovascular events and

(01:22:38):
golp one therapies have also been linked to reductions in
cardiovascular events.

Speaker 5 (01:22:44):
Number three dementia.

Speaker 4 (01:22:46):
Dementia is now being connected to your metabolic health and inflammation,
but we still don't know how all these things are connected.
Recent data on the use of golp one therapies in
those with Alzheimer's dementia has shown improvements in several cognitive
and dementia markers. Their early studies don't get excited yet,

(01:23:07):
but it could provide more information and more tools for
tackling the challenge of dementia. And then they go on
to talk about obstructive sleep apnea that significantly increases the
risk of future heart attack and stroke. I believe that
is one of the reasons my dad had a massive stroke.
And recent trials of golp ones in those with obstructive

(01:23:27):
sleep apnea have demonstrated extremely encouraging results with significant reductions
in apnea episodes and severity.

Speaker 5 (01:23:35):
Number five.

Speaker 4 (01:23:38):
Cancer, Obesity is the second leading cause of preventable cancers
after smoking.

Speaker 5 (01:23:45):
Let me say that again.

Speaker 4 (01:23:47):
Obesity is the second leading cause of preventable cancers after smoking.
Patients on golp one therapies compared to met form and
are insulin in Those with diabetes have lower rates of
certain cancer including a sophageal cancer a forty percent reduction,
colorectal cancer forty six percent reduction, kidney cancer twenty four

(01:24:09):
percent reduction, liver cancer fifty three percent reduction, pancreatic cancer
fifty nine percent reduction, ovarian cancer forty.

Speaker 5 (01:24:19):
Eight percent reduction.

Speaker 4 (01:24:21):
So this and he says, look, this study is a
retrospective analysis. There's a whole lot of caveats, but these
are things that they will be researching going forward.

Speaker 5 (01:24:30):
So though, I really believe that if you are going
to use one of these golp ones like Wagovi or
Manjaro or whatever compounded version of these that you can get,
you have to do a couple things with it. Number One,
you have to you have to wait train because.

Speaker 4 (01:24:45):
They are showing some bone density loss and weight training
will also keep you from melting away and looking like
you're just a melting human being like some people who
take these drugs look. But secondarily, sign up for a
plan like the Soda weight Loss Plan, because not only
to soda help you lose weight, it also teaches you

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how to eat, so if you do come off the drugs.
You already know what you can and can't do. You
already understand how to feed your body. So I think
that these drugs I'm coming around, you guys. I'm not
gonna rush out and get a prescription, but I'm coming
around because they're showing other benefits that are significant, especially
for people that are very overweight, who have high blood pressure,

(01:25:29):
who maybe are at a higher risk for stroke, in
those other things.

Speaker 5 (01:25:32):
So it's very interesting.

Speaker 4 (01:25:34):
You can read it for yourself, but a great thing
to check into if you're looking for more information. We're
gonna take a time out. Comedian Derek Stroop joining us
when he gets back. He is on the ascent, you guys,
and we're gonna talk to him next our next guest.

Speaker 5 (01:25:48):
He's definitely on the way up, Derek Stroop.

Speaker 4 (01:25:51):
He's not a native Coloradin, but he's been here like
ten years and lately he's having quite the tear. He'll
be opening for John chris To on the nineteenth at
Paramount Theater. He's also going to be at Comedy Works
Downtown on November first and second. Derek, welcome the show.

Speaker 10 (01:26:07):
Hey, Hey, hey, thank you so much for having me on.
Excited to be here.

Speaker 4 (01:26:11):
Well, I'm excited because I love I love having fellow
Southerners on the show. I don't sound like one because
I spent four years in college in voice addiction training
getting rid of my accent, but I am also from
the Deep South. I love on your little fact sheet
that it says you're from Harvest, Alabama, located in the
northern part of the state, which to me indicates there's

(01:26:32):
nothing even close enough to it that anyone would have
ever heard of.

Speaker 5 (01:26:36):
Is that accurate?

Speaker 10 (01:26:37):
Yeah, I mean Harvest. I mean that name is a
little bit on a two on point. I mean that's
like being from white people, U tall, It's very accurate.
It's out in the country now. I mean it's about
an hour and thirty minutes south of Nashville. It's right
at the Tennessee state line, so there's not a lot

(01:26:58):
around us. But we're not too far from Huntsville, Alabama either,
But it is Alabama, so I mean it's pretty country now.

Speaker 4 (01:27:05):
I'm I am a native of northern Florida, which is
the said, the redneck part of Florida, and we call
the border between Alabama and Florida Florabama. Is there a
similar name for Tennessee and Alabama.

Speaker 2 (01:27:18):
No.

Speaker 10 (01:27:18):
No, And there's also not an iconic bar on the
state line either called you know Florabama. That's a that's
a pretty special spot, uh to us Alabamians and especially
you know those in Florida too, right there in the
in the Redneck riviera on the paint Handle. Let me
tell you, I had one of my favorite parts of
the country. I go to Pensacola on vacation. And if

(01:27:40):
you don't know about Pensacola, that says a little bit
about me.

Speaker 5 (01:27:43):
Derek.

Speaker 4 (01:27:44):
Don't tell anyone, Okay, stop, stop, because we see what
happened to Colorado when the word got out right, So
we don't want people Pensacola is horrible people. You get
each right, A shark, possibly a bear. You don't know
what's gonna happen in Pennsyl Pensacola, that's right, Derek. When
did you decide, coming from a real small town, it
must have been. It must have been kind of a
big decision to say, you know what, I'm not going

(01:28:05):
to be a farmer, or I'm not going to be
a pharmacist or sell state farm insurance.

Speaker 5 (01:28:09):
I'm going to go be a comedian. How did that happen?

Speaker 8 (01:28:12):
You know it?

Speaker 10 (01:28:13):
There was a few different things that lined up for
it to happen. But you know, I moved to Denver
when I was thirty years old, and I took the
first plane I'd ever been on out here. You know,
I get it, I get it, honest, I'm really from
the country. But what kind of led to it is
I started off in Jacksonville, Alabama. I was running a

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couple bars down there after college, and we had a
bunch of country music singers that were up and coming
that came through Riley Green, Sam Hunt, some other guys,
and I was like, if I hear wagon wheel one
more time, I'm jump in front of a car. And
so I just started doing comedy about once every three months.
And one thing led to another, and I kind of

(01:28:54):
wanted to chase my dream. I didn't want to get
swallowed up in New York City or LA, so I
chose Denver.

Speaker 5 (01:28:59):
Well, it's a good choice. We're a great comedy town.
I don't need to tell you that, that's for sure.

Speaker 4 (01:29:04):
One of the things that I always like to ask
people is how did that conversation go with your parents
when you were like Mom, Dad, I'm gonna go be
a comedian. How did that work out?

Speaker 8 (01:29:13):
Well, you know, they don't.

Speaker 10 (01:29:15):
I tell people in the Deep South, they don't understand.

Speaker 8 (01:29:18):
If I would have.

Speaker 10 (01:29:18):
Grown up telling them I wanted to be a comedian,
it would have hurt me more than it would have
helped me. That's just not a profession that you dream of. So,
you know, when I told my mom, she cried.

Speaker 8 (01:29:30):
When I told my dad, he sighed.

Speaker 10 (01:29:32):
And those are two pretty on on point responses from
from Stacey and Bill. They didn't they didn't understand, but
you know, they believed in me. They knew, they knew
that I that I had the skills to maybe make
that happen.

Speaker 8 (01:29:45):
They just didn't have the vision I had.

Speaker 10 (01:29:47):
And they didn't know that Denver was was the route
I needed to take and and I got luckier.

Speaker 8 (01:29:53):
You know that I ever knew.

Speaker 10 (01:29:55):
Denver's really just blessed me more than I ever could imagined.
It's such a great city for comedy, a great city
to live in. So yeah, they weren't pumped about it,
but their tune has changed for sure.

Speaker 4 (01:30:06):
Well, I guess when you appear on The Tonight Show
with Jimmy Fallon, it changes the dynamic just a little bit.
And you've had quite the twenty twenty three You've done
a lot of stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:30:15):
You're opening for a lot of people.

Speaker 4 (01:30:17):
You were named the new face at the twenty twenty
three Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, which I
think that's probably the biggest comedy festival in the world.

Speaker 5 (01:30:26):
Is it still? I know it used to be.

Speaker 10 (01:30:27):
Yeah, you know, they went bankrupt last year or this year,
and I think they're going to make a comeback, but
it is.

Speaker 8 (01:30:34):
It is the.

Speaker 10 (01:30:36):
It's one of the ultimate credits that you can have
a lot of people, you know, outside of the entertainment
industry may not.

Speaker 8 (01:30:43):
Know the rich history of Just for Laughs.

Speaker 10 (01:30:45):
But every comic that you've loved that has been great
at stand up or been on a sitcom or done
anything in their career more than likely went through JFL.
It is a really special thing to be a part of,
in an honor to be part of it. And then
it led to a lot of you know, I was
in Canada. I did seven different Canadian cities this summer,

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so it's led to a lot of a lot of
great things and it's definitely something I'm proud of.

Speaker 5 (01:31:11):
You are far too young.

Speaker 4 (01:31:13):
To remember what I am about to tell you, but
my audience of Gen xers will completely remember this. They
used to put out VCR tapes of some of the
Just for Last festival, and that is the first time
I saw Stephen Wright, and that's the first time I
saw Bobcat Goldwaite, and that was the first time I
saw Sam Kinnison. And so those VCR tapes, because I
used to work in the video store, those were a

(01:31:34):
hot commodity on the weekends. And I've come to realize
I think people just got really drunk on the weekends
and watch them. But they were they were they were
the first things gone on Friday night and they were
not ever brought back rewound and and so we had
to make sure that happened. But what can people expect
from your comedy when they come to see you.

Speaker 10 (01:31:52):
You know, it's a it's a fun experience because it's
it's a mix of a few things. You know, I
get pretty work, I'm ranty and angry on stage, and
I've got a lot of observational thoughts too, So you know,
I'd like to think it's somewhere between Ron White and
Bill Burr, And there's a little Sam Kennison involved, because I.

Speaker 8 (01:32:12):
Really do get unhinged every now and then. But you know, more.

Speaker 10 (01:32:16):
Importantly, I'm true to myself and there's nobody that I'm
trying to be like out there. There's no point of
view that I'm trying to steal from anybody. And I
don't have soapboxes on stage about anything that really matters.

Speaker 8 (01:32:27):
There's not a lot of victims in my act.

Speaker 10 (01:32:30):
It's just me losing my mind about a lot of
things that don't really matter, you know. And it's a
fun riding and a lot of people seem to enjoy it.
I gaining a lot of steam out here on the road.
I keep selling more and more tickets and so that's
been fun to see.

Speaker 5 (01:32:45):
So what are some of the things that grind your gears?
What gets you going?

Speaker 10 (01:32:49):
I mean, it's never anything that's serious, you know, And
I think that that's kind of the where I get
away with being angry like I do on stage because
it's never anything that matters.

Speaker 8 (01:33:00):
Like what would set me off?

Speaker 10 (01:33:02):
I'll tell you what, Like my shirt getting caught on
a door knob when I'm walking by makes me want
to remove the door from the.

Speaker 8 (01:33:10):
I mean, I just talking about it.

Speaker 10 (01:33:12):
Things that don't make sense, like that when people eat
trail mix and they pick out one thing at a time,
when they should just reach their whole hand in there
and get what they get, because that's what you If
you wanted M and ms, you should have hate a
bag of M and m's.

Speaker 8 (01:33:26):
You know, it's it's small, silly things like that.

Speaker 4 (01:33:30):
Last night at dinner, I ordered a salad with my
burger because I'm trying to be a reasonable person but
still have a burger and can.

Speaker 5 (01:33:37):
I looked at my.

Speaker 4 (01:33:38):
Husband after my salad arrived and I said, you know what,
I could probably do a ten minute comedy show on
how much I hate spring mix in salad.

Speaker 5 (01:33:46):
You know, when you get the salad and it just
looks like grass clippings. Oh, and you're pretty sure they
just went outside, good and just grabbed up some stuff
out of the yard and put it in a bowl,
and I'm supposed to eat it while little pieces are
shooting up my nostril because it's not uniform, and it's
very frustrated for me. So I get that.

Speaker 10 (01:34:01):
No, I mean that's like, that's so relatable. I hate
the spring mix when I get a salad the same
way it is, it ruins it because and a lot
of times it won't tell you exactly the type of lettuce.

Speaker 8 (01:34:15):
It'll say how salad, it'll say.

Speaker 10 (01:34:17):
Some of the toppings that will give you, and then
it shows up and I'm like, this is not what
I wanted at all.

Speaker 8 (01:34:22):
That's very relatable.

Speaker 4 (01:34:24):
Well, and you know sometimes there's a sandspur in there.
You don't know where that thing's been.

Speaker 5 (01:34:27):
You have no idea.

Speaker 4 (01:34:28):
It's honestly the worst food in restaurants right now, and
we need to stop it.

Speaker 5 (01:34:32):
Okay, we just need to stop it.

Speaker 4 (01:34:34):
When you are trying to decide what you put in
your act, and obviously you seem to gravitate towards the
stuff that is a little bit absurd, like my dislike
of spring mix. But are there any topical issues now
that you just think to yourself, like I want to
dip into that, but maybe I don't want to do politics.

Speaker 5 (01:34:53):
I mean, is there some stuff that you just feel
like I kind of want to make fun but I don't.

Speaker 8 (01:34:57):
Yeah, I use Facebook for that to be.

Speaker 10 (01:35:01):
I mean, I made I mean, yeah, but I just
I try to keep it not controversial. I mean, I
wish George Carlin was here to clean up the mess.
Oh yeah, I mean he would have some I mean
I have some George Carlin esque thoughts. Like you know,
I think that if you believed that the government was
making hurricanes, you should have a bumper sticker in your
car telling us that you believed that, just so we

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know who you are, like Hank twice, if you thought
they were shooting hurricanes at us, just so we know
who you are. And you know, that's the type of
stuff I can't talk about. It's not even political. It's
mainly about people being dumb. Yeah, but yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:35:40):
That's a target rich environment. Dumb people is a very
target rich environment right now because of the insanity that
is happening. You know, I've always advocated, and I've talked
about this on the show. I think that we should
all get one paintball every day in our cars, Like
you could you imagine having a paintball gun.

Speaker 5 (01:35:58):
Mounted right on the front. So when somebody is an idiot.

Speaker 4 (01:36:01):
You just think, you just you tag them, Yeah, and
then you've basically provided a service for the rest of
the world.

Speaker 5 (01:36:07):
They know to look out for that idiot on the road.

Speaker 8 (01:36:08):
No, that's pretty genius.

Speaker 10 (01:36:10):
And then if they cut you off, you go, of
course you cut me off, you idiot. You got four
paintball marks of your dagam car. You're barely making it home.
I'm probably the fifth person you've cut.

Speaker 4 (01:36:19):
Off, and you're just changing lanes to get away from them, like,
and you speed past him in the copoles. You over
and you're like, did you see how many paintballs that
guy had on his car?

Speaker 8 (01:36:27):
I don't want to be near that exactly.

Speaker 10 (01:36:29):
No, that's I mean, I don't hate that at all.
There's there's several people, you know, if you eat a
KitKat like a cold cut, you should be tagged by
the governor. We should just we'll watch you for a
week or two and just see.

Speaker 8 (01:36:41):
How you behave. But yeah, I agree.

Speaker 11 (01:36:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:36:44):
Well I just went to your Facebook page and I
see you're engaged.

Speaker 5 (01:36:49):
Do you talk about your fiance in your act?

Speaker 10 (01:36:52):
Oh yeah, yeah I do. I mean I talk about
our engagement. I talk she's from Kansas, I talk about that.
I mean mixed marriage. Yeah, that's right. Well, you know,
you think you grow up in the middle of nowhere,
living in the South, and then you moved to Kansas
and you're like, well, they lied to me. I mean
these people can't even see their neighbors out here.

Speaker 8 (01:37:12):
It's nice.

Speaker 10 (01:37:13):
I'll tell people everybody should get a partner from Kansas.
They're very easy to impress. I mean I show alyssa
four story building, She's like, how'd they get up there?

Speaker 8 (01:37:22):
You know, I'm like elevators, Alyssa, I'm gonna show you
the world. Baby.

Speaker 5 (01:37:25):
You know, how did you meet her?

Speaker 10 (01:37:27):
I met her at work about eight years ago, back
when I had a day job.

Speaker 5 (01:37:32):
Yeah, and what did you get to give up your.

Speaker 10 (01:37:34):
Day job about probably four years ago? I haven't had
a day job in about four and a half years.

Speaker 4 (01:37:41):
Is that is that kind of like a I mean
if I were a comedian, that would be kind of
like one of those milestones, right, Like, what are comedian milestones?

Speaker 1 (01:37:50):
Like?

Speaker 5 (01:37:50):
Here?

Speaker 4 (01:37:50):
Here I got to give up my day job. Here
I have a comedy special. Here I got to be
on the Tonight Show? Do you have those kind of
is that a thing that exists? Because I'm very goal oriented?

Speaker 8 (01:37:59):
Yeah, so what I would know those are milestones?

Speaker 10 (01:38:02):
And then you know, yeah, yeah, out kick your dreams,
you know when you first get start, like the Tonight Show, JFL.

Speaker 8 (01:38:10):
All those things were things I dreamed.

Speaker 10 (01:38:12):
Of you know, if I could just do five minutes
on Jimmy Fallon, that'd be good enough for me, you know.

Speaker 8 (01:38:17):
And then you get to those those moments and you.

Speaker 10 (01:38:20):
Grow that dream even more, and you know, it's crazy.
I would have been insane to dream of where I'm
at now, you know, I'm just I feel very lucky
to be to be where I'm at. But yeah, there's
definitely milestones along along the way that you're trying to
hit that that that mean a lot to you and

(01:38:41):
keep you pushing and and I've already hit several of them.

Speaker 4 (01:38:44):
Well, your debut comedy album, Eating Dinner Twice, was released
on Larry the Cable Guys record label.

Speaker 5 (01:38:51):
How did you get connected with Larry?

Speaker 10 (01:38:53):
You know, Larry found me online somewhere and he reached
out to his guys, reached out to my guys, and
we got something set up to where we went out
on the road a few times together. He felt like
that we had a similar brand of comedy, and then
we ended up becoming friends and he really enjoyed my work,
which felt really cool. I've always loved Larry and his stuff,

(01:39:15):
and one thing led to another and he put me
on his label. And it only made sense. And he's
pretty picky about who he puts on that label. He
doesn't have a bunch of names on the Good or
Done label, and so to be one of the first
ones to be a part of it was really cool
and we knocked it out of the park.

Speaker 8 (01:39:29):
We're really proud of that album.

Speaker 4 (01:39:31):
Well, you can hear that album on iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music,
Amazon Music.

Speaker 5 (01:39:35):
And YouTube.

Speaker 4 (01:39:36):
But more importantly, you can see Derek performing here. He's
opening up for John Christ. How did you get connected
with John Chris Because I got to tell you, I
bet his comedy and your comedy work really well together.

Speaker 8 (01:39:47):
Yeah, it's fun. Me and John.

Speaker 10 (01:39:50):
We've worked together now for four years and we're not
just you know, we're not just co workers.

Speaker 8 (01:39:56):
We've become really close friends. And I was at.

Speaker 10 (01:39:59):
Comedy Works and I worked with him on a Thursday
night show. Wendy put me on with him and we
did one show together and I got done and he
was like, I really enjoyed that your I like your style,
I liked your material. He asked me, he said, you've
ever been to a Salt Lake City? And I said, no,
I've never been to Salt Lake City and he goes, well,

(01:40:19):
you're about to go here in about a month and
a half, so.

Speaker 8 (01:40:22):
Let's get your tickets and stuff. And that's really how
it started. And one thing's led to another.

Speaker 10 (01:40:26):
I've probably done forty six states with John since then.

Speaker 4 (01:40:31):
So the last thing on your press sheet is that
you are a waffle house enthusiast. So how do you
one of your hash browns?

Speaker 10 (01:40:39):
I like him smothered, covered and capped. But let me
tell you something. You being in North Florida, Gal, y'all
got some of the best waffle houses in North Florida.
They truly are. I mean, one time a guy on
the radio said, where's the best waffle house you've ever
been to? And this is very specific, but it's in
Fort Walton Beach and it was the best one I've
ever had. But Florida has killer waftses unlike Colorado. So

(01:41:02):
I don't even tell people out here that I love
waffle house because the people the waffle houses out here
are like rehab sinners with half browns there.

Speaker 8 (01:41:10):
They're not the same.

Speaker 10 (01:41:11):
You know, where we're from there, we use them for everything.
We go there after baptisms and when we're black out.

Speaker 8 (01:41:17):
I mean, we use it for the whole thing.

Speaker 4 (01:41:19):
Well, it was my nana's favorite restaurant. Okay, so my
nana and I have eaten our share plus more of
waffle House. I am scattered, smothered, covered chunk. Captain Pepper.
I bring it all, everybody, Just bring the just put
it all in the pool.

Speaker 8 (01:41:33):
Come on.

Speaker 12 (01:41:33):
This comment was brought to you by Tom's Yeah. Yeah,
I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid to go big and
go bold at waffle House.

Speaker 5 (01:41:40):
And you are right. However, here's a little pro tip.

Speaker 4 (01:41:43):
There is a town south of Denver called Parker, Colorado
that has a fantastic waffle house. Oh good, and I'm
not exaggerating fantastic. Worth the drive from wherever you are.
I don't even know where you are right now, where
you're gonna be in Colorado, but it's worth the drive.
It's the best one I've ever had outside of flour
or Atlanta, Atlanta.

Speaker 10 (01:42:02):
There are oh yeah, you trip and fall on one
in Atlanta there on every corner.

Speaker 8 (01:42:06):
No, I will go there.

Speaker 10 (01:42:08):
I promise you, I'll go there in the next seventy
two hours. I'm not even joking.

Speaker 4 (01:42:12):
There you go tell him I sent you, Derek. Now
we are in and again. Derek is going to be
performing at the Paramount on the nineteenth with John Christ
and then he's going to be at the Comedy Works South,
the one downtown, No Comedy Works Downtown. That's right, Comedy
Works Downtown on November. I don't have an infirm of second,
first and second, so you can get your tickets there.

(01:42:32):
Derek's such a pleasure talking to you today, and I
hope you have continued success and when you're super famous
and you get your own sitcom and I call you
and be like, hey, Derek, remember when I had you
on my show when you were just up and coming.

Speaker 5 (01:42:44):
You won't hang up on me like all the other comedians.

Speaker 10 (01:42:46):
No, No, of course I will. All you'll have to
do is bring up waffle House. I'll meet you there
for a cup of Joanestow. I will buy Hey, that's
a great restaurant to buy somebody else's meal at too.

Speaker 4 (01:42:58):
By the way, seven dollars for seven bucks. Here you go,
right exactly all right now, Derek. At the end of
every show, we do this dumb thing called of the Day,
and it works like this, I say, and now it's
time for the most exciting segment.

Speaker 5 (01:43:11):
On the radio of its kind. And then a Rod
shouts this in no word of the day, and now
we do this. Arod gives us a dad joke. You
can laugh or not. It's entirely dependent on how bad
the joke is.

Speaker 8 (01:43:27):
Yeah, I got bad news. Uh, oh my grief counselor died.
Oh no, you were so good.

Speaker 6 (01:43:32):
I didn't even cared.

Speaker 8 (01:43:35):
And that's that's not bad. That's not like laugh out
loud funny. That's a chuckle.

Speaker 5 (01:43:40):
That's a chuckle worthy Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:43:41):
And now he gives us a word of the day,
which we try to guess the definition of usually badly.

Speaker 6 (01:43:46):
It is a verb, and it is this buttologize buttologize.

Speaker 8 (01:43:50):
What but theologize b A T t.

Speaker 5 (01:43:54):
Oh b A t tt o.

Speaker 6 (01:43:56):
Low gize l O g I z E buttologizelogize a verb.

Speaker 5 (01:44:02):
I'm going to say.

Speaker 4 (01:44:02):
It's when you make everything an argument. Okay, I like
everything in argument, But dang it, Derek.

Speaker 10 (01:44:09):
Oh Man, buttologize buttologize. I mean you you definitely feel
there's some apologize in there.

Speaker 8 (01:44:18):
Buttologize.

Speaker 6 (01:44:19):
You would want to apologize if you batologize, if you.

Speaker 10 (01:44:23):
Apologize, Uh, is that why you say sorry?

Speaker 8 (01:44:27):
Why you belittle someone. I love that, but no.

Speaker 6 (01:44:32):
It is to repeat excessively like a word or a
phrase or a mannerism, over and over and over right
right right, yes, yes, patologize.

Speaker 5 (01:44:41):
Okay, what are knock?

Speaker 4 (01:44:42):
Now we have a trivia question, Derek, what are not
to lucent clouds? Knock to lucent clouds? N O C
T I L them? I think you see them at
night to Yeah, okay.

Speaker 8 (01:44:56):
Time night time clouds. And we made which just flying through.

Speaker 5 (01:45:01):
We made a good effort, but we are totally wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:45:03):
Clouds made of ice crystals, not water droplets like regular
clouds that have formed around tiny dust particles and cold temperatures.
These beautiful clouds can be witnessed at high latitude regions
north and south.

Speaker 5 (01:45:15):
Of the equator.

Speaker 2 (01:45:16):
So there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:45:17):
That's the thing you're gonna forget right. That is now, Derek.
Here's what we do here. We do Jeopardy category. You
have to shout out your name if you want to
answer the question, just go Derek, and then a rod
will say answer it and you answer it in the
form of a question, just like Jeopardy.

Speaker 5 (01:45:30):
Are you ready?

Speaker 8 (01:45:31):
I'm ready and Derek first timer.

Speaker 6 (01:45:33):
So Mandy, you also are at a disadvantage and have
to wait for the word go. So yes, when he
gives the question, you can interrupt me at any time
and say your name.

Speaker 5 (01:45:43):
You can answer anytime if you know the answer.

Speaker 8 (01:45:44):
You okay, no more of the clue. All right, here
we go.

Speaker 5 (01:45:46):
I can't.

Speaker 8 (01:45:46):
The category is three letter words.

Speaker 5 (01:45:48):
Oh gosh.

Speaker 6 (01:45:49):
First up, an actor takes one during his curtain call.

Speaker 5 (01:45:52):
Go Mandy, what is about that is correct?

Speaker 6 (01:45:57):
Throw away your oven and join Woody Harrelds in the
movement for this type of food?

Speaker 5 (01:46:02):
Go Mandy, what's raw? I'm really good at this? Derek,
I should have told you that.

Speaker 6 (01:46:08):
I'm a ali stung like a bee with this short,
straight punch.

Speaker 8 (01:46:13):
Go Derek, Derek, jab here we go.

Speaker 5 (01:46:17):
We're gonna give that to you.

Speaker 4 (01:46:18):
But even though you didn't answer the form of a question,
who would never give you that?

Speaker 8 (01:46:21):
You're right?

Speaker 6 (01:46:22):
Yes, remember you, Derek. If you know a midway through,
you can interrupt Mandy Camp A politician taking the low
road is said to sling this.

Speaker 5 (01:46:32):
Go Mandy, what is mud?

Speaker 2 (01:46:34):
That is correct?

Speaker 6 (01:46:36):
And finally, uh Manly first name of British plotter f A.

Speaker 5 (01:46:43):
W K E.

Speaker 6 (01:46:44):
S and sesame Street game show host Smiley.

Speaker 5 (01:46:47):
Go Mandy, what is guy?

Speaker 8 (01:46:50):
I just got pounded, Derek.

Speaker 5 (01:46:52):
It's okay.

Speaker 4 (01:46:54):
Yeah, I've been playing this game on the show for
almost twenty years now, so it's really hard to beat
me on the first time.

Speaker 12 (01:47:00):
But you got one, right, so that's better than I
got a jab in. Yeah, Derek Srupp.

Speaker 5 (01:47:06):
Check him out Derekstrup Comedy dot com.

Speaker 4 (01:47:08):
I put a link on the blog to his website. Derek,
I really appreciate your time today, man.

Speaker 8 (01:47:12):
Yeah, thank you so much for having me. It was
a lot of fun. All right.

Speaker 4 (01:47:15):
We're going to make room for KOA Sports coming up next.
Keep it right here on KOA