Feb. 9, 2025

Feb 9-Comedian Mike Lukas C0-Host, Super Bowl, Joe Pesci, Travis Tritt, 1st Drug Banned, Volleyball, Michael B. Jordan

Feb 9-Comedian Mike Lukas C0-Host, Super Bowl, Joe Pesci, Travis Tritt, 1st Drug Banned, Volleyball, Michael B. Jordan

Comedian Mike Lukas co-hosted, check mike out at https://funnymuscle.com/https://funnymuscle.com/   Get his newest book  Spin Kick - The hiss of death and all his books   https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Your-Funny-Muscle-Create-ebook/dp/B0C4Q1T5VT/...

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Comedian Mike Lukas co-hosted, check mike out at https://funnymuscle.com/https://funnymuscle.com/ Get his newest book Spin Kick - The hiss of death and all his books https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Your-Funny-Muscle-Create-ebook/dp/B0C4Q1T5VT/

Super Bowl Sunday. Entertainment from 2024. 1st federal drug law, Volleyball invented, Electiona of 1825, fastest yodeler with a cigerette in his mouth. Todays birthdays - William Henry Harrison, Carmin Miranda, Ernest Tubb, Bobby Lewis, Carol King, Joe Pesci, Judith Light, Holly Johnson, Travis Tritt, Michael B. Jordan. Bill Haley died.
Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
Are you ready for some football - Hank Williams jr
Lovin on me - Jack Harlow
World on fire - Nate Smith
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Chicka Chicka Boom - Carmin Miranda
Walking the floor over you - Ernest Tubb
Tossin & Turnin - Bobby Lewis
It's too late - Carol King
Who's the boss TV theme
Relax - Frankie goes to Hollywood
Here's a quarter - Travis Tritt
Rock around the clock - Bill Haley & the Comets
Exit - Its not love - Dokken

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Hi everyone, I'm Jeff and welcome to History and Factoid's

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about today. Now I have an awesome co host why Today.

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He's a comedian, improvisor, writer coach Mike Lucas.

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Welcome Mike, Thanks appreciate Jeff, glad to be here. Mike.

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Why don't you tell everybody something about you? Well?

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I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. I was a.

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Computer programmer for a couple of years. Out of college.

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I graduated with honors out of University of Dayton, Go Flyers.

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And at that point I decided to go a different route,

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and I began to do shows for Disney MBM Studios

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and Universal Studios in Florida. And as I did that

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during the day, at nighttime, I did stand up comedy.

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And this was back in the nineties and so back

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last century. And I ended up in Chicago eventually, and

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then I joined Second City and performed for them while

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I was also doing stand up comedy. I ended up

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getting some TV spots, and I did a TV show

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on A and E called The Straight Dope for a

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season and had a thrilling time. And then moved to

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La at Vegas and worked for Second City there and

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so and then ended up doing a radio show on

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CBS Radio with my now wife where it was called Gretchen.

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And the Lukes and we made the Weird News Come Alive.

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And so that ended.

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When the FM talk format ended, That's when Adam Carolla

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lost his job and we were at the same station

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as him, and we lost our job as well. And

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then that's when my kids were born. So I took

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ten years off helping to co raise my two babies.

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And now they're teenagers and they're ready for me to

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get out of the house. So I'm back on the

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stage now at the Dallas Comedy Club. I'm teaching classes there,

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I'm performing comedy, and I'm improvising on their house team

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for long form. So that's sort of me in a nutshell. Jeff,

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you probably are regretting that you asked me in the

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first place.

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No, not at all. Very interesting. I think we're all

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looking forward to hearing some more about it. I think

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everybody knows what today is.

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How you read.

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It is Super Bowl Sunday. Now, back in nineteen sixty seven,

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when the NFL and AFL merged and form just the NFL,

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they wanted a name for their championship game. That would

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really stand out get people's attention. The NFL. It wasn't

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near as big back then it is today. The first

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Super Bowl was held in Los Angeles. It was between

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the Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs. Jickets were

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only twelve bucks and he didn't even sell out. Now,

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as they were playing in the game, Kansas City Chiefs

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owner Lamar Hunt, he saw his daughter playing with the

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super Bowl. It was a red ball that was really

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popular with kids in the nineteen sixty But it got

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Hunt thinking. Hit up the other owners and say what

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about super Bowl? Well, it's stuck and now it's the

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biggest sporting event in the United States. Sally, my Denver Broncos.

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They're not in it this year.

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No, and not my Cleveland Browns either.

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We haven't.

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We've been the NFL champions multiple times back in the day,

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but when the Super Bowl came around, they.

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Decided no more. And so the Browns have been on

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a hiatus.

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I don't think they're protesting the super Bowl as much

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as they are avoiding the super Bowl. You know who

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I feel bad for in the Cleveland Browns organization, Not

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the players or do they have jobs?

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Not the fans because at least they have a team.

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Now I feel bad for the Cleveland Browns first down

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marker guy. It's freezing cold that he's not allowed to

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move until the Browns make a first out. Like he's

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just standing there holding the poll, just freezing love the ball.

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Just punt.

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It's only first down punt.

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It's too cold.

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And now they got the Kansas City Chiefs are in

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the Super Bowl and they have my favorite player on there,

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Taylor Swift. She's us. She's starting to the right of

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the left tight end Travis Kelcey, you know. And I'm

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happy for their love. But the one thing that I

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think would be a deal break up for me is

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all that she was all that lipstick, So I would

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hate to be Travis Kelcey's the laundry guy.

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I think Travis got into that just for the exposure,

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the money and of the fame and all that kind

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of stuff. But now I think he's afraid to leave

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for the simple fact that she'll write a song about him.

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Oh my god, that's as soon as he goes, you know,

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he's going to get something about you know.

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You were big and dumb. Why did you leave me?

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I think Travis's brother is making out the best of it.

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He's just enjoying retirement and he didn't have to deal

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with her and all that, and he's making that. What's

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he got half of that ninety million bucks they got

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for their podcast? All right, let's he's going on in

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entertainment on February ninth, So back one year, twenty twenty four,

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and then one album was American Dream by twenty one Savages.

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Jack Carlow had the number one song with loving on Me.

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All right round your boy hold on.

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I don't know what you heard. It was your daughter

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about your boy, but they lot about your boy.

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Going dumb, and it's some bidyott about your boy. She

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wearing a shereet of print. That's how bad she won't

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be spoty around your boy. Jakes me out, watch me,

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baby me. Nate Smith he had the number one country

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song with World on Fire.

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He said, the.

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World Fire, Yes, home watching I just got burn burn

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burn on that Merlin Zimsert.

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The number one book was Fourth Wing by Rorecca Yaris.

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The top movie was Argyle, a reclusive writer who writes

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about Espiona, secret agents and spies. She realizes that her

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book that she's writing is starting to mirror in real

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life stars Harry Caville, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Sam Rockwell,

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all right, Mike Sin's we're in entertainment. That's definitely your world.

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It's done a lot of big things in the entertainment industry.

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So were you nervous when you went on The Tonight's

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Show with Jay Little? Yeah?

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It was always nerve wracking, even the second time I

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went on.

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It was very new to me. I was pretty young, and.

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It's not that I didn't deserve to be on the show,

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but I got on it in a kind.

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Of a crazy way.

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I auditioned in Chicago.

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When The Tonight Show was filming on location in Chicago.

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So they sent their Jimmy Brogan and some of their

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head writers came.

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Out to the clubs and watched about twelve or fifteen.

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Of us and I just killed. I just had a

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really great set. It was my home club. And so

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they wanted to have me on the show that Friday night.

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And then they said, well, you know what, we ended

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up getting a different Michael for the show, Michael Jordan.

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He's coming on the show on Friday night, so we're

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going to bump you.

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And I was kind of bummed out, But then they said,

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we'll fly you to LA and we'll put you on

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the show that way. So I ended up being delayed

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but getting on the show anyway and doing my set.

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It had a really great set, and.

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Then they asked me back one time to do another

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follow up set, and then the guy who booked the

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show stopped booking the show, and the next person up

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was no longer interested in my services.

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Michael Jordan was sure a nice guy to stay there

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in Chicago so you can go out to California and

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hit it big. He was. He did okay for himself.

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I was.

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Happy that he got his break on the Tonight Show

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like that and was able to pull a career together

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out of.

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That one spot that I gave him. Right he did.

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He did okay for himself. It's funny.

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I lived in Chicago when Michael Jordan was the big

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thing there and we got to watch all of those games,

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you know, from bars in Chicago and with all other

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Bulls fans, and so I'm a Cleveland Cavaliers.

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Fan, you know, by trade, but.

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For that period time period, I was a Chicago Bulls fan.

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And when I got my Tonight Show at the end

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of my first set, I yelled, go Bulls, and a

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lot of Cleveland friends of mine were kind of pissed

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off because they felt I betrayed my loyalty to the

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well to the Cavaliers.

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Well, let's be honest, it was a Cleveland Cavaliers back

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in the nineteen nineties. They weren't they weren't that hot.

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Yeah, but you know, as a good fan, you can't

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you can't bail on your team just because they're not

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doing well.

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But this was sort of an exception.

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We were watching Michael Jordan create these incredible moments when

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he would just you know, dunk from half court.

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It felt like, I think the best ever. Yeah, he would,

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he would.

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I mean, you get a good argument from a lot

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of people about that comment, but I would.

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I would agree, And I think.

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Just because I got to watch him. I don't think

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I ever saw him.

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I got to see him once live on at a

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basketball game in Chicago. But it's it's incredible how fast

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those guys move.

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All right, let's see what happened. On February of the ninth,

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twelve eighty seven, a massive storm hit the coast of

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southeast England. It was so powerful that chang's the coastline,

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the part of New Romney, it was no longer a part,

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it was a mile inland. In the eighteen twenty five

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United States presidential election, Andrew Jackson, he got forty one

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percent in the park the vote, John Quincy Adams, you

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got thirty one. Jackson got ninety nine electoral votes. Adams

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got eighty four, but that wasn't the majority needed. No,

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So by the constitution, the vote would be for who

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would be president. Yeah, I went to resolved around the

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US House of Representatives. Well, they they elected John Quincy

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Adams as the next president. Can you imagine what would

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happened to that happened today?

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That's well, they'd probably go to the Capitol and storm

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it again.

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We do January sixth, Part two. That's It's funny.

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I wonder if anyone would go aboard.

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On that because now that everyone knows the repercussions of

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showing up at the Capitol and under those circumstances, it's

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like they didn't even arrest anybody at the time. They

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waited until afterwards, so people felt they were safe and

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they got away with it, and instead they didn't. It

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was kind of like how they're getting shopliffers. Now they're

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waiting until your grand larceny levels and then they're coming

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to pick you up at your home.

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So, Mike, do you carry cash on you anymore? These days?

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I think I have like seven dollars in my wallet

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in case somebody who's less fortunate than me asked me

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for money that I don't really have any other reason, which,

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by the way, I hate that guilt trip. Hey, can

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you give me some money? I have no money. Could

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you give me some money? In the old days, I

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would fall for that, And now I just show up

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my credit card bill. I'm just like, I'm like, yeah,

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you have zero dollars. I have negative eight, five hundred

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and seventy two dollars. Can you spare a few change,

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a little change? I need to make my monthly minimum.

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Well, you know they're not going to hit you up twice.

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So that five dollars bill that you have in your wallet,

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if you go and pull it out, you look and

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see that that picture of Abraham Lincoln on it. He

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posts with that today in the White House in eighteen

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sixty four. All right, that's pretty cool.

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Can you imagine that you're posing for a picture that's

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going to be on the five dollar bill. And back then,

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did they have anything bigger than the five dollar bill?

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five dollar bill, Yeah, today it'd be worth one hundred

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dollars and fifty one cents. So ab was on a

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bigger bill than he thought. In eighteen ninety five, at

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Springfield College in Massachusetts, William Morgan he invelved the new

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sport that he had just created. He called it mintonet.

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they changed the name on their own to volleyball. He

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said he created it because basketball was too rigorous.

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It is, it's so much running, Oh my god. And

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now we can jump and slam dunk without moving.

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The War on drugs officially began today. In nineteen oh nine,

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the first federal loginst drugs were passed. The Feds went

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after opium, now the Opium Exclusion Act in nineteen oh nine.

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Now it didn't make opium illegal. You just couldn't import it,

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you couldn't possess it, and you couldn't smoke it. Now

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it was actually a really racist bill. It was actually

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targeted at the Chinese immigrants. Yeah, that's what I figured.

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It's like the marijuana bills that they passed, or it

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was targeting the Hispanics and the opium where the Chinese

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that were coming over.

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It's a comedian way to get in your business. What

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was that I smell on you? Well, do you mind

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if I do a personal search of your of your body?

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Come here and bring in the dogs? Now?

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Yeah, they just they just passed through the law here

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in Texas where you can now have four ounces of

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personal stash without it being a problem. I was just

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thinking about all the pot dogs that were out of business.

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You know, they spent all that time learning how to

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sniff out your red and now they're like, oh, man,

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I gotta I gotta learn a new trade. I to

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be honest, I'm I'm I don't need them to legalize

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it any further right now. I've got a guy who

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does it for me, and he delivered it to my driveway,

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so I don't need I don't need you mess it

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up my system.

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I got a system in place, man, don't mess it

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up with your laws. I did through a Yellowstone National

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Parks at the Wyoming state record for a coldest temperature

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of all time negative sixty six degrees.

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JAYZ, Wait, what was it feels like? Temperature? They did

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that here in Texas? They have they have it said

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it was like got down to twenty three degrees, but

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they said it feels like negative eleven.

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And I was like, where do you get that data from?

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Is there a guy that stands naked outside the studio?

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Feels like Fred, it's twenty three. What does it feel

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like outside?

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Fred?

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It's a minus eleven?

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Can I come in? Nope? Nineteen forty three, President Franklin Roosevelt,

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he's signed an executive order. It said a minimum of

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a forty hour work week for all industries needed to

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help with World War two. Now, everybody thought that was

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pretty much just gonna be factories and production and that

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kind of stuff. Hey pretty much included everyone, retail, store service, industry,

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domestic service, everyone. But to make matters worse, the order

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they wrote it said that if you work for the

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defense industry or any of those factories and that you

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would get overtime at forty hours a week. Well, if

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you were the store clerk or anyone else like that, yeah,

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you were exempt. You didn't start your overtime until you

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worked your mandatory forty eight hours. Nineteen ninety two Jermany's Thomaskole.

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He set the record for the fastest yolder in the world,

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still stands today. Now. We tried and tried, but we

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could not find a clip of it. Well, we did

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find a clip of the fastest yolder in the world

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with a cigarette in his mouth. Yay, we take it. Well,

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I like that's a good trade.

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You know what reminds me of when I was on

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the Conan O'Brien show for the first time. I was

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on as an actor, and I played a monk who

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got his hand deep fried in oil. And so what

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was was a similar situation that just happened here.

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They had a child sitting.

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On Conan's lap who was playing Santa, and he said,

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I want to know the meaning of life, Santa, and

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Santa as Conan, Santa says, well, I can't give you that.

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I don't know what the answer to the life is.

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He said, but how about if I show you a

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monk getting at hand deep fried and oil. And so

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instead they showed me going ah and going crazy with that.

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So I was I was basically the yoler with the

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cigarette in his mouth.

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Well, hey, you got to start somewhere right right, that's

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a that's a good place to start. It's a good

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job if you can get it. Okay, my computing the

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onion spot here, you know, I just comeet in. You're

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also a coach and a comedy book writer. So if

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anybody out there wants to be funny, you know, not

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necessary stand up, but they want to have that perfect toast,

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or they wanted to just wow a business meeting. What

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is the number one tip you'd give them for telling

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a good joke.

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Well, the one thing I would recommend for anyone who's

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new is to slow down. What happens typically is we

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tend to move fast because we're nervous being in front.

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You've heard Jerry Seinfeld's joke about the fear of public speaking.

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It's so intense that at a funeral, people would rather

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be in the casket than giving the eulogy. And that's

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kind of rephrasing his joke.

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But it's true.

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And so when we're nervous, when we're giving a speech

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or we're giving a presentation, we tend to really speed up.

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And that alone, if you can just slow yourself down.

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Anything you have prepared will land better. Excuse me, because

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you have slowed yourself down and given them a time.

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Enough chance to listen and to absorb what you're saying.

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So that'd be my number one suggestion. That'd be interesting

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for a lot of people because I don't think speed

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really comes across their mind. They're kind of thinking about

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how to use the perfect you know, voice, emphasis and

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all that kind of stuff. So I think, yeah, I

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think that's really good advice right there.

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Yeah, that's part of in the third book that I

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wrote on comedy. I call it flexibly funny muscle. But

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it's a good when you're slowing down. What you can

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also increase as you're listening skills when you're not speeding

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up and nervously moving fast and and you know where

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your mouth is, say vocal diarrhea, then you also have

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time to now listen, and when you're listening, you're able

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to absorb.

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But the other person on stage is saying to you and.

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What's happening around you, and then you can react to

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that more comedically in a more timely way.

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That's why it's not just a community, but he's also

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a coach, and we'll give you a chance later on,

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and we'll tell you where you can get all the

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Mix's books so you can learn how to be super

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super funny at your next event. Let's do some birthdays

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and so. He was born on February the ninth, William

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Henry Harrison. He was born in Charles, Virginia in seventeen

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seventy three. Served as a ninth President of the United States,

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serve for thirty one days March fourth, eighteen forty one

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day April fourth, eighteen forty one, shortest term for any

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US president. Is also the first president to die in office.

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He actually got sick of his inauguration. He really wanted

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to appear tough, and it was really rainy and cold outside.

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He wouldn't wear a coat or a hat or anything.

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Then he went ahead and gave the longest the inauguration

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speech by any president in history. Lasted over two hours.

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Oh good lord, come on, Bill Henry, what are you doing?

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So Yeah, he died at sixty eight years old from pneumonia.

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I bet you nobody who was in that audience listening

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to a two and a half hour speech felt bad

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that he died.

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I bet you they were all like good good.

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He made us suffer too.

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Yeah, paybacker you know what. Him and his wife had

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ten children. Harrison he was the last Yues president to

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have been born a British subject. Now his grandson Benjamin Haerson,

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he was a twenty third president.

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Gangs not for chikkabuchi fail gun ban chik chikabuchi what

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guns sabochi nil put us so much Chicka boom chi.

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Boom chicken chick a boom chick. That was the Brazilian bombshell.

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Carmen Miranda. She was born in Portugal. In nineteen oh nine,

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she moved to Brazil and she was just a baby.

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Now she was really famous for performing wearing really big

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fruit hats. Yeah fruit ats. You can still see her. Yeah,

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she's on the stickers for the keep up Bananas Now.

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She was really huge in Bazil. Then she game in

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the United States in nineteen thirty nine, started on Broadway

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and in some movies. Now she was the highest paided

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entertainer in the world in the early nineteen forties. Producers though,

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and cameraman they just hated her. She drove the absolutely crazy.

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See she wouldn't wear panties, no, and she wasn't shy.

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She didn't care who who got a look or anything

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while she was singing and dancing up there. But they

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couldn't put that on film or on TV.

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Oh, giving them the old shared stones.

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Yeah, and back then they definitely couldn't put it on

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film or TV, that's for sure. Carman and she married

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once for a couple of years. When her career started

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to fade, it went down really fast with her heavy

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drinking and smoking and drugs got her nineteen fifty five,

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forty six years old, she had a massive heart attack.

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I'm walking the whole I can't sleep away that is too.

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I'm hoping down frame as excited.

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The Texas troubadour Ernest Tubb He was born in Chris, Texas,

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in nineteen fourteen. He was a true pioneer in country music.

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Released thirty seven albums ninety two singles. Now he released

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the song Blue Christmas twenty years before Elviston. He had

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a lot of success doing duets with a young Loretta Lynn.

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He had three children from his first wife, married his

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second wife in nineteen forty nine. They had five kids.

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Ernesty died from emphysema in nineteen eighty four at seventy

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years old, I couldn't.

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Sleep at all, and I kicked the blankets.

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That was Bobby Lewis. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana,

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in nineteen twenty five. He grew up in an orphanage,

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learned how to play the piano there when he was six.

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Now he had really bad eyesight. Ran away from the

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orphanage at fourteen years old, started playing and singing at carnivals.

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So do you ever do any of your stand up

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act like carnivals or side shows or anything like that.

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No.

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The most I had to do was I had to

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be the Bill Murray character in Ghostbusters. There was a

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show at Universal Studios that I was an understudy for.

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We were in something called the Fire Department.

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We had to learn six different shows that were at

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the Universal Studios theme park.

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And so one of them was the Ghostbusters show.

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So I had to put on the Ghostbuster's uniform and

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be in a show that used trick lighting to make

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it look like they are real ghosts around us, and

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so we had to pretend like we're seeing these ghosts.

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We had to try to memorize where the spots were

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that they'd show up for the people. But that's as

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close as that come to a carnival atmosphere.

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They got Bobby discovering. You got a record deal, a

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lot of it. Yeah, those huge hits and turn in

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one track mine, Oh yes, I love you. Around nineteen

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eighty he quit music. Yes, eyesight it was totally gone.

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He was blind. He said performing was just too hard.

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He had two daughters and his son. Bobby died in

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twenty twenty and ninety five years old from pneumonia.

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It's it's too late.

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We really did try to kid.

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Something inside. Just Carol King. She's eighty three today. She

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was born in Manhattan, New York, in nineteen forty two.

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She is the most successful female songwriter of all time.

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She's written one hundred and sixteen songs that charted. She

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also had a very successful solo career, sold over seventy

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five million records. Her nineteen seventy one album Tapestry spent

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fifteen straight away, So number one. That's the most by

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any woman singer ever. Wow, it was until Taylor Swift

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passed her up a couple of years ago.

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Yeah, yeah, boy kk, she's doing making a run.

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Some Carol's solo hits are It's too late I feel

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the earth move under my feet so far away. Only

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love is real. She's divorced four times. She had two

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children from her first husband and two children from her

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second husband. Have you ever met Joe Pesci?

468
00:24:19.680 --> 00:24:21.240
I did not get a chance to meet Joe PESHI.

469
00:24:21.279 --> 00:24:23.960
I would love to, though, I would I pick him

470
00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:24.759
up and cradle him.

471
00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:27.759
Okay, he's any to today. He was on in Newark,

472
00:24:27.839 --> 00:24:29.359
New Jersey in nineteen forty three.

473
00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:30.880
He punched me.

474
00:24:30.920 --> 00:24:33.880
If I did that? You know that he would gay

475
00:24:34.160 --> 00:24:37.160
you know, right there in a kisser. Do you knew

476
00:24:37.160 --> 00:24:39.480
what his first movie was was back in nineteen sixty one,

477
00:24:42.680 --> 00:24:49.119
sixty one? I can't guess. No, it was Hey, let's twist.

478
00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:52.200
He was a dancer at the Peppermint Lounge. Now, by

479
00:24:52.279 --> 00:24:54.359
the nineteen eighties he had turned that five foot four

480
00:24:54.400 --> 00:24:57.680
in frame into being a total badass with Raging Bull

481
00:24:58.039 --> 00:25:00.799
Casino won an Oscar for good Jellis. Then he got

482
00:25:00.880 --> 00:25:02.960
tired of being a macho Manson. We went into comedy

483
00:25:03.599 --> 00:25:07.200
Home Alone, movies, Elite, the Weapon movies, My cousin Vinny. Now,

484
00:25:07.359 --> 00:25:08.960
since she won, don't you think that he should have

485
00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:11.519
want an Oscar for that too? Yeah? That that was

486
00:25:11.599 --> 00:25:15.039
an interesting was that Marissa told me one that and

487
00:25:16.279 --> 00:25:19.759
he did not. And he was equally effective in that movie.

488
00:25:19.839 --> 00:25:22.279
But comedy does It's really hard for comedians to win

489
00:25:23.119 --> 00:25:24.799
the Comedy actors to win the Oscar.

490
00:25:25.960 --> 00:25:28.519
He was nominated for an Oscar again though for The Irishman.

491
00:25:28.880 --> 00:25:29.960
That wasn't a comedy though.

492
00:25:30.519 --> 00:25:33.640
Oh that wasn't that funny that there were those jokes

493
00:25:33.720 --> 00:25:34.559
sucked in that movie?

494
00:25:35.839 --> 00:25:37.759
Joe he married once for four years and they had

495
00:25:37.799 --> 00:25:43.160
a daughter. Man, what's your difference?

496
00:25:43.640 --> 00:25:48.480
Take a chance and face the open a room mans?

497
00:25:53.440 --> 00:25:56.279
Time lost the three More two?

498
00:26:03.759 --> 00:26:06.960
Do you remember that show from the eighties? Yeah, Who's

499
00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:11.119
the Boss? That was classic? That was Tony Denson, right, yeah,

500
00:26:11.240 --> 00:26:12.480
but Judith Light was the boss.

501
00:26:13.839 --> 00:26:17.480
Judith was the boss, yeah, and Derek Cowen was a

502
00:26:17.599 --> 00:26:20.400
good twist to make the woman in charge.

503
00:26:21.799 --> 00:26:24.160
Judith Lied. She was born in trind New Jersey, in

504
00:26:24.200 --> 00:26:27.640
nineteen forty nine. She's seventy six today. Now. She hit

505
00:26:27.799 --> 00:26:30.079
big on daytime soap opera One Life to Live. I

506
00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:32.920
mean she was huge. She pretty much won every soap

507
00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:35.480
opera award you could possibly think about. They kicked out

508
00:26:35.559 --> 00:26:37.200
me to go to primetime, so that's when she started

509
00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:40.079
on Who's the Boss, then Law and Order Ugly Betty

510
00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:43.000
just won to Tony's for Broadway Juday. She's been married

511
00:26:43.000 --> 00:27:06.359
since nineteen eighty five. Really, the lead singer for Frankie

512
00:27:06.400 --> 00:27:08.880
Goes to Hollywood was born William but he just goes

513
00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:12.160
by Holly Holly Johnson. Now he was born in Liverpool,

514
00:27:12.200 --> 00:27:15.200
England in nineteen sixty sixty five years old today started

515
00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:17.200
out playing bass guitar for the band Big in Japan.

516
00:27:17.319 --> 00:27:20.000
Then he help formed Frankie Goes to Hollywood nineteen eighty. Now,

517
00:27:20.039 --> 00:27:21.559
the guys couldn't think of a name, and they were

518
00:27:21.599 --> 00:27:23.279
hanging out one day and they saw a magazine and

519
00:27:23.279 --> 00:27:25.160
they had a picture of Frank Sinatra in it. The

520
00:27:25.200 --> 00:27:27.960
headline read Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Well, they had their

521
00:27:28.039 --> 00:27:30.799
band name. Now that song Relaxed. It was initially banned

522
00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:33.559
over in Britain. Now it's Britain's number selling, number seven

523
00:27:33.640 --> 00:27:36.160
selling song of all time. Now they've done a couple

524
00:27:36.240 --> 00:27:38.039
reunion shows over the year, but they pretty much ended

525
00:27:38.039 --> 00:27:40.599
in nineteen eighty seven. Now that album that the song

526
00:27:40.680 --> 00:27:43.359
relax was on, it's called Welcome to the Pleasure Zome Holly.

527
00:27:43.519 --> 00:27:46.839
It's out tour in the UK celebrating fortieth anniversary of

528
00:27:46.880 --> 00:27:47.279
that album.

529
00:27:47.640 --> 00:27:50.000
Oh wow, forty years ago. That's crazy.

530
00:27:51.119 --> 00:27:52.759
Sure it makes you feel kind of old, doesn't it.

531
00:27:54.359 --> 00:27:58.039
It doesn't, And I'm like, wow, that was popular when

532
00:27:58.079 --> 00:27:58.839
I was in college.

533
00:28:00.279 --> 00:28:03.200
He was diagnosed with HIV in nineteen ninety three. Now

534
00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:05.519
he thought he was pretty much dead. Yeah, so he

535
00:28:05.559 --> 00:28:08.440
wrote his autobiography. He said goodbye to everybody and just

536
00:28:08.519 --> 00:28:10.960
kind of kept by himself. Then after a couple of

537
00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:12.599
years and he hadn't died, he thought, you know what,

538
00:28:12.720 --> 00:28:14.240
I should probably go do some music again.

539
00:28:17.720 --> 00:28:29.920
Same deverlieve me, Longe. Now you're solid, long song and

540
00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:36.160
you say me happy if you could just come back home. Well,

541
00:28:36.240 --> 00:28:40.039
here's a quarter called somewong.

542
00:28:39.759 --> 00:28:44.279
To Travis Trent. He wrote that song. Here's a quarter

543
00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:46.799
called somebody who Cares the night his wife served him

544
00:28:46.839 --> 00:28:49.279
with the borse papers. Yeah, she was tired of Travis

545
00:28:49.359 --> 00:28:52.400
not making any money. Wanted him to get a real job. Well,

546
00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:54.799
one month after their divorce was final, they released that

547
00:28:54.960 --> 00:28:57.480
record that that song was on sold three million. She

548
00:28:57.640 --> 00:29:00.599
got not one dime from it. Travis's sixty two. He's

549
00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:03.480
born in Marriyotuta, Georgia. In nineteen sixty three, tied himself

550
00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:05.839
out of play the guitar when he was eight. Now

551
00:29:06.119 --> 00:29:07.480
here's a quarter it calls some of new Care is

552
00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:09.000
probably the most famous song. Yeah, it didn't go to

553
00:29:09.119 --> 00:29:11.200
number one. It's coinly got up to number two. Some

554
00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:13.519
of the number one songs are held me hold on

555
00:29:14.119 --> 00:29:17.880
anymore foolish pride, best of intention. Travis. He's going out

556
00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:19.559
on tour April fifth, and he'll go all the way

557
00:29:19.599 --> 00:29:20.920
till the end of October. So if you want to

558
00:29:20.920 --> 00:29:23.200
see Travi, you'll have plenty of time to do it now.

559
00:29:23.319 --> 00:29:26.079
Him and his first wife, they dated all through high school, graduated,

560
00:29:26.200 --> 00:29:28.799
got married, lasted two years. His second wife, she's the

561
00:29:28.839 --> 00:29:30.599
one that surved with the divorce papers and then got

562
00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:33.160
no money for it. He's been married to his third

563
00:29:33.240 --> 00:29:36.400
wife since nineteen ninety three and they have a daughter

564
00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:40.920
and two sons. Not the basketball player actor Michael B. Jordan.

565
00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:43.319
He's thirty eight. He's born in Santa Ana, California, in

566
00:29:43.400 --> 00:29:45.839
nineteen eighty seven. Started out as a child model. Did

567
00:29:45.839 --> 00:29:47.799
a lot of ads for toys, rs and stuff like

568
00:29:47.880 --> 00:29:50.240
that on TV. First got known on the Wire, then

569
00:29:50.279 --> 00:29:53.720
Friday Night Lights, Parenthood biggest success has been movies. Played

570
00:29:53.720 --> 00:29:56.119
the Black Panther in a couple of movies, he was Human,

571
00:29:56.200 --> 00:29:59.119
Torch and Fantastic Four. Starred in all three Creeden movies.

572
00:29:59.359 --> 00:30:02.519
Hadn't married yet. All right, Mike, I believe you have

573
00:30:02.519 --> 00:30:06.200
a new book coming out, don't you. Yeah? I do.

574
00:30:06.519 --> 00:30:07.839
I have six books total.

575
00:30:08.039 --> 00:30:12.519
Three are about comedy. They're called The Funny Muscle Books.

576
00:30:13.079 --> 00:30:15.559
I have one collection of pristed short stories for adults

577
00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:18.400
called Fog Belly Beans. And I've got one that's a

578
00:30:18.440 --> 00:30:21.319
cranky comedian's guide to prioritizing your daily joy called My

579
00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:23.799
Daily Joy Strategy. But the one coming out on Friday,

580
00:30:24.200 --> 00:30:28.119
it actually just came out on Friday, It just a

581
00:30:28.200 --> 00:30:32.720
couple of days ago. It's a martial arts vigilanti crime

582
00:30:32.839 --> 00:30:35.559
thriller and it's called spin Kick The Hits of Death,

583
00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:38.160
and I'm really excited about it. It took me four

584
00:30:38.240 --> 00:30:42.839
years to write, and it's based on a somewhat true story.

585
00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:45.359
Loosely based on a somewhat true story.

586
00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:50.759
But it's a great read and it's something that I'm

587
00:30:50.880 --> 00:30:51.359
very proud of.

588
00:30:51.519 --> 00:30:53.960
And you can see more information about that at Mike

589
00:30:54.079 --> 00:30:57.279
dash Lucas dot com and also at Funnymuscle dot com.

590
00:30:58.359 --> 00:31:01.359
That sounds absolutely great something to check out, and if

591
00:31:01.359 --> 00:31:02.759
you didn't catch all that, we're going to have it

592
00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:05.039
all on your Today Show notes also, so don't worry

593
00:31:05.039 --> 00:31:06.279
about you'll be able to figure out where you can

594
00:31:06.279 --> 00:31:08.680
get pick up Mike's books. Mike, you have a podcast too,

595
00:31:08.759 --> 00:31:09.079
don't ye.

596
00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:12.839
Yeah, I'm a co host of a podcast for comedians.

597
00:31:12.960 --> 00:31:15.960
It's called Funny Muscle Podcast. It's available wherever you get

598
00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:21.519
your pods. It's basically, we break down how pro comedians

599
00:31:21.559 --> 00:31:24.359
get their laughs and we interview comedians and talk to

600
00:31:24.440 --> 00:31:27.559
them about their process to create jokes out of nothing

601
00:31:28.079 --> 00:31:31.319
and make grump stage strangers laugh, which is our job title.

602
00:31:32.599 --> 00:31:34.720
I think stand up comedy. It has to be at

603
00:31:34.799 --> 00:31:37.319
least the hardest job in the entertainment business. But it's

604
00:31:37.400 --> 00:31:38.480
just a really tough job.

605
00:31:40.200 --> 00:31:42.319
It's one of those jobs where everybody in the room

606
00:31:42.599 --> 00:31:45.680
has made somebody else laugh, so they all think they

607
00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:47.720
can do what you do. And then to do it

608
00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:49.759
at a level where you're doing it for people who

609
00:31:49.759 --> 00:31:52.960
don't know you, that's where it takes some extra skill

610
00:31:54.160 --> 00:31:57.599
because everyone in the room is probably funny right to somebody.

611
00:32:01.240 --> 00:32:03.400
I was gonna say I'm still shocked at the people

612
00:32:03.480 --> 00:32:05.920
that come out and say this is my first time

613
00:32:05.960 --> 00:32:09.319
I've ever been to a comedy club. I'm always like, Wow,

614
00:32:09.799 --> 00:32:12.880
it's twenty twenty five and you're experiencing something that I've

615
00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:15.759
been doing ten thousand times for the first time ever.

616
00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:19.400
And I'm so envious of their virginity.

617
00:32:19.640 --> 00:32:23.640
In terms of comedy. It's such a cool thing to

618
00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:25.759
go out and see live comedy. If you haven't done

619
00:32:25.799 --> 00:32:30.400
it to your listeners, go out and see a live

620
00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:32.079
comedy show. You won't be disappointed.

621
00:32:33.200 --> 00:32:35.680
I believe you said earlier that year back out performing live.

622
00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:38.599
I'm doing some stand up again, aren't you. Yeah.

623
00:32:38.680 --> 00:32:41.440
I now perform at the Dallas Comedy Club after a

624
00:32:41.640 --> 00:32:44.480
ten year hiatus. Starting in last August, I started getting

625
00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:46.960
back on stage and blow the rust off. So now

626
00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:50.759
I'm appearing weekly on Wednesday nights at the Dallas Comedy

627
00:32:50.799 --> 00:32:53.559
Club at the Open Mic, and I also perform on

628
00:32:53.680 --> 00:32:56.519
their stages periodically to help.

629
00:32:56.440 --> 00:32:59.599
Open the shows and to fill in as a headliner.

630
00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:02.599
And I also teach there. I'm a I'm an instructor.

631
00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:07.599
I'm a comedy coach and instructor, and I teached Level

632
00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:09.960
one and Level two comedy there. We have always have

633
00:33:10.079 --> 00:33:13.480
showcases which we to we tape, we videotaped them. So

634
00:33:13.559 --> 00:33:15.680
now I've been able to release some of those online.

635
00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:20.640
So now you can see Mike Lucas live on Facebook

636
00:33:20.680 --> 00:33:21.519
and Instagram and.

637
00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:26.599
X and all the social media platforms. We were going

638
00:33:26.599 --> 00:33:28.240
pretty fast, so if you missed how you can actually

639
00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:30.240
see Mike. Yeah, they're told you earlier. We are going

640
00:33:30.319 --> 00:33:31.960
to be on our show notes. But yeah, if you

641
00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:34.680
want a good laugh, you can tell you can have

642
00:33:34.839 --> 00:33:37.160
the book, or you can go see him live. Yeah, Jack,

643
00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:39.039
make sure you check out Mike Lucas man. He's a

644
00:33:39.079 --> 00:33:42.599
great and comedian. And Mike, thank you. It was awesome

645
00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:46.359
having you hearing with us. Man beautiful, let's end. The

646
00:33:46.440 --> 00:33:51.920
singer Bill Hayley and two three o'clock, four o'clock Rock, six,

647
00:33:52.039 --> 00:33:56.279
seven o'clock, Here the clock Rock, ten, eleven o'clock clock Rock.

648
00:33:56.319 --> 00:34:02.200
We're going to rock around the plot tonight. Join We'll

649
00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:12.440
have some byl Bill. He died today in nineteen eighty

650
00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:15.599
one at fifty five years old. Bill once said she's

651
00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:18.119
so small she could mamba in a telephone booth. That

652
00:34:18.320 --> 00:34:20.239
was Bill talking about the first time you ever met

653
00:34:20.280 --> 00:34:23.480
Carmen Miranda. She was only five feet tall. You guys

654
00:34:23.519 --> 00:34:25.320
all have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow