Oct 13-The "Trance-Master, No Bra Day, US Navy Birthday, Sammy Hagar, Paul Simon, Marie Osmond, Anthrax, Ashanti

0:19 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factoids About Today. Today is October the 13th. Now, I have a really cool guy out here today as my co-host. I know he's cool because he goes by the Trance Master. That's right, he's a hypnotist, he's a comedian, an entertainer. I'll let him explain himself to you. John, why don't you say hi and tell everybody who you are. My name is John Serbon. I am a professional hypnotist, entertainer, author, educator in the field. I have done thousands and thousands of private sessions in clinical hypnosis. I have trained thousands and thousands of people in various workshops and programs I offered.

1:01 And I've done thousands and thousands of shows. So far, 34 states in America, Canada, Europe. If you speak English in your country and want me to come, let's make it happen. I invented technique when I was three years old. My dad was a New York City policeman. He used to come home yelling about the things that he saw. You know, police see terrible things during the day or night whenever they're working. And after hearing a lot of loud noises in the house at three years old, I went upstairs and invented what turned out to be my first self-hypnosis technique. Just zoning out, putting myself intentionally someplace happier and less noisy. And by five, my parents said, teach us how to do that. It seems to work for you. So by five years old, I was teaching my parents self-hypnosis. I didn't even know it was called hypnosis then. It was just something I did. So throughout grammar school, high school, and college, there were kids that were coming up to me, not right next to me, but kids off to the sides in the class someplace, that said to me, I feel like you can help me.

2:02 I'm going to run away from home. In the later schools, high school and college, sometimes it was thinking about suicide and different things. And I'd ask them to close their eyes, and I would talk to them. And when they opened their eyes, they didn't want to run away from home or commit suicide anymore. Had I known, I could have gotten paid for some of that stuff. Back then, it would have saved me from working a few dozen dirty jobs that I had to pay for college and high school out of my own pocket. I went to a private high school, which is out of business now. And people say to me all the time, how does a high school go out of business? Well, mine did. Demographic change and that kind of thing. And life went on. But I love absolutely hypnotizing people. I'm the inventor, creator and developer of the SpeedTrans system. To date, I've developed over 150 speed inductions, literally that fast. I've been clocked as fast as two tenths of a second, dropping somebody in a chair from a sitting straight up position, shoulders to knees, ice cold. And I love inventing and being creative in this field. I'm currently writing new books. I have four books that are currently on the market. And I have a bunch of other books I'm working on simultaneously.

3:16 With a mind like mine, I always do many things at once because this creative idea comes in, that creative idea comes in. And with the advent of AI, you can use the AI like a copy editor. So I'm producing a bunch of books that should be out hopefully by the end of next year and more to follow after that. And I love performing. I love doing demonstrations. I love doing what I do. My favorite, though, is doing the entertainment shows. I love walking out on the stage and ripping it up. There's a whole technique of how I've created that within me to make that work better. The shows now are over 35 years of entertainment. I've headlined the casino hotels in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Times Square, Broadway area as well.

4:04 So once you got into it, did you end up taking classes or you totally all self-taught? Somewhere along the line in the late eighties, I was hosting workshops back in the new agey era era, you know, when it was places you could go in and do that stuff. And I was getting anything from a handful of people, five, seven, 10, 12 in a room and other places getting hundreds of people showing up for meditation classes. The technique basically I started off with was calling it meditation or empowerment meditation. And then healing circles and other things I was doing. And after a workshop, this fellow walked up to me and said, you're one heck of a hypnotist. And I went, really? And a hypno what?

4:51 Making a joke. And he said, no, no, no. I'm teaching a class and I want to comp you in because you have a big following and come get certified. And that was the first of literally dozens and dozens of certifications that I've taken over the years. And at this point, I either create it myself or I upgrade it. It's another technique that's old, for example. So it's like the old BASF commercials. We don't make the surfboard. We make it go fast. But my question always was, what are you selling on this commercial? But the bottom line is that most of the stuff I do is stuff I create on my own. And now with the advent of the cell phones and the rest of it, any idea that pops into my head that's fresh and intuitive and groundbreaking is something I can dictate into the phone and peruse later on when I can get to it and develop it and fine tune it more. But in the world of the shows that I do, I would say at least 80% of the show I do is stuff that I've written myself. Certainly, I didn't invent hot and cold or laughing at something funny. But a lot of the stuff that I do is stuff that I wrote.

6:04 And if something really touches my heart from, say, somebody that's deceased, that was a friend of mine who I've done shows, I'll take what they've done and I'll make it my own. So I'm out there working this stuff morning, noon, and night. I kind of feel like anybody in any profession you're in, whether you're a hypnotist or you're a magician or any other kind of entertainer, You need to be a goodwill ambassador for your work and your profession. So a lot of times I'm out there talking hypnosis in restaurants and in public places when people strike up conversations with me. One of the first questions you normally get beside your name is what do you do for a living? And I tell people I'm a professional hypnotist and they laugh and they say, no, no, no. What do you really do for a living? You know?

6:47 Right. And I'm like, what do I do for a living? No, no, tell me the truth. I'm like, I am telling you the truth. And that goes back and forth quite a bit as well, you know? Right. That's amazing how you were able to dial in so early just because you had a mean dad. Yeah, well, he would come home yelling about his day. You know, police see dead kids, dead adults, you know. And I guess the stress levels for him on certain days were a bit much. He wasn't screaming every single day of the week, but there were some days he came home, you know, very upset. So I just kind of zoned out. I taught himself hypnosis and my mother as well. So the entire temperature range, Let's say temperature of the room, but temperature of the household kind of lowered from me teaching them hypnosis at five years old.

7:29 You know, that was a blessing, too, that your parents, I mean, they didn't think our kids weird. They thought, hey, our kid's special. He's got a gift. Let's follow it. You know, my mother said to me when she recanted this story, you know, a couple of years before she passed away, she said to me, we thought it was a little strange when you were doing it. So we saw how well it worked. And then we thought to ourselves, how do we get in on this? How do we get in on what he's doing? So show us some of that stuff. And I'm like, great, let's do it. And I guess it's where the teacher in me developed because it's always been about me demonstrating something and then somebody saying, show us how to do that. And generally I have. If it's something I can figure that's teachable, I'm willing to teach it.

8:12 Cool deal. Well, before we get too silly or anything today, today is October the 13th. So the national day is? Breaking up with you is like taking my bra off. Feeling free and. Loose like this t-shirt I got on. Yeah, I should be crying, dreaming some kind of loss. But it's like taking this pink and lacy, suffocating bra off. Sure, two guys sitting around talking about National No Bra Day. Nope. It's actually a serious day. Today is to promote breast cancer awareness. The no bra aspect, yeah, that comes in from breast reinjection surgery. So they want to basically support women who are currently or have fought breast cancer. So yeah, and especially the ones who have gone through mastectomies. So yeah, going braless is to support their fellow women. I probably should have worded that different. Sorry about that. That's kind of common. That's actually kind of funny.

9:13 Most days I go brawless too, but that's just a joke. But very seriously, I've done a lot of work in fundraiser events for helping raise money for people with cancer from the Cancer Society to helping children and their families survive what they're going through, you know, and battling that horrible disease. My father died of it. My mother died of it. Other members of the family have had it. And, you know, it's a matter of pushing past what's going on. I've helped people also in private sessions with that last remark I just made, push past the chemotherapy, push past the diagnosis, push past the you know, my world is coming to an end so you can live another day.

10:03 And I've seen amazing things happen with these people, you know, complete 180 degree turns from severe upsetment about it and sadness and despair to like, I'm going to get mighty and beat this. And a lot of them do. That's what we're hoping for today. We hope they get that inside them. And now it's not only just to, it's basically to support the women, but it's also to actually remind the women to do the self-exams every month too. That's kind of important. Now this is an interesting bra note. According to experts, worldwide, 80% of all women, they wear the wrong size bra. It's usually too small. So do you have a bunch of jockstrap jokes now, like spinning through your head?

10:46 Yeah. Yeah, well, this is a family-friendly podcast. I'd rather not go down that road. But, you know, there are certainly some jokes in my mind as well. You know, yes, the jockstrap apparently is the male equivalent. It's funny how you brought that up. I never really quite put it two and two together like that. But thanks for the enlightenment. I appreciate that very much. All right, ladies out there. So make sure you do your checks every month. And for all you who have or haven't or love somebody who's going through it, yeah, today's For all you women going through cancer, definitely our hearts go out for you today. So does your comedy act have actually some, a lot of innuendo and kind of double entendre? Yeah, like sometimes I've been pushed into places in Vegas where they want me to do a naughtier show. And in that case, it's innuendo, it's suggestible, but I don't go down the dirty road. There's no point in me doing something Dirty for the Sake of Dirty. Jerry Seinfeld said years ago that, you know, Dirty for the Sake of Dirty is not necessarily funny to paraphrase exactly what he said. I don't recall exactly word for word what he said, but it's along that line. And the idea with the way I perform comes from living in New York City all these years and having been to rock concerts at Madison Square Garden and the Meadowlands. and watching how rock performers perform their show. I've seen other entertainers that do an adequate show, but they're just going step

12:19 by step. If your audience, in my view, is not exhausted at the end of your show, if the volunteers for my hypnosis show are not exhausted from jumping around, I'm not exhausted from working, doing that show, then I think I'm missing something. So I'm not in competition with other hypnotists. I'm only in competition with me. And I work as hard as I can to do every show, every next show I do better than the previous shows I've ever done. Do I always accomplish that? No. Sometimes it's crazy situations. People who don't speak English, for example, and I'm working to a translator and still pulling off a hit. Or outdoors in a rainstorm or it starts snowing or something outdoors. I did a show years ago in New England in a football field and the temperature was in the high 50s when I got started. in the late afternoon. And then the sun went down and it started to snow. And these kids in the high school, boys and girls, were wearing long-sleeved T-shirts, cotton, you know?

13:18 And I kept telling them, it's really warm. It's like equator hot here. It's so hot. You know, it's like you're in the Mojave Desert or something. Until at the end, I said, 10, right away, go open your eyes. And they were like, ah! Went running for hot chocolate and coats, you know? But I had to get the show finished. What was I going to do? I've done shows outdoors a couple of times where, It was so cold that I had to go back to my pockets and my coat and look for my gloves. My hand was half frozen open and half frozen closed. It was hard to hold the microphone because it was so cold. And other times when I'm done a show outdoors in that kind of cold where I'm starting to burn a lot of energy and I can't wear my coat anymore. So I'm working the show and talking up the next bit, whatever I'm doing. I'm setting up the next sketch in the show.

14:02 I just take off my winter jacket and just fling it. somewhere, you know, to get it off me because at that point I'm moving around so much. It's like doing construction work or something outdoors in the winter or shoveling snow, for example, is a good example. You know, if you're shoveling snow in the northern part of the country or any place where it does snow globally, you know, you get dressed up for the cold and you're out there for five or ten minutes and it's way too warm wearing that coat. So you take it off and you're perspiring. As soon as it's over, you've got to run to the house because otherwise you're soaking wet from the work you did out in the cold. So I've been through a lot of crazy stuff, you know, and I did a show for a media mogul one time who recently passed away. He had hired me for a series of private parties over the course of maybe 12 years. I did three shows for him. And I had in one show a small amount of volunteers. I had one man on one side, one man on the other side, and a supermodel in the middle. And I said, on the count of three, you start flirting heavily with the most attractive person in the room. Stay seated. Well, she decided not to stay seated. She jumped up and she wrapped her legs around my calves, wrapped her arms around me in a bear hug and started sticking her tongue in and out of my right ear. And I was laughing so hard there was tears running down my face. And the audience was screaming, laughing too. And it took about 40 seconds, which in front of an audience is a long time. 40 seconds doesn't seem like a long time if you're sitting here listening to us, obviously, or doing something else. But in front of an audience, 40 seconds

15:32 is quite a while. But the audience was laughing so hard, I couldn't get any words out of my mouth. And for a moment, honestly, I just thought to myself, this is not so terrible. So, you know, like this doesn't happen exactly every day of my life. Maybe every other day I get attacked by a supermodel or something. I'm just joking. But, you know, there are certain memories like that that just stay with you. And they're memories that you treasure and you hold near and dear to your heart, you know. To me, it's about loving the audience, loving what you do, loving the people up on the stage. And at the end of my shows, I do a lot of personal empowerment suggestion stuff as a gift to the volunteers and to the people in the audience that can absorb it as a subconscious suggestion. So it's about loving what you do. If you love what you do, people will be safe. If you love what you do, you never work a day in your life. That's not counting emails, phone calls, people who host you, AI these days.

16:30 you know, writing books, all the other stuff. I love what I do, but there's a lot of work involved in it, you know? So when I'm on stage though, it's one of the only professions I know where you can walk out on stage, magicians too, for example, you can walk out on stage as a hero, do what you do, get a lot of applause, walk off a bigger hero and get paid for it. You know, and in the course of my shows, there's always something that somebody kind of goes off and left field and does it. I've never seen before, at least once a show. And it cracks me up. So I get to laugh while I'm working. And I just love that part of it. Well, let's just stay in entertainment. Let's see what's going on on October 13th. We're going to go back to 1982. You remember that? That's when Reagan was president. Gas was $ 1.

17:12 28 a gallon. That would be the equivalent of $ 4. 44 today. The number one album was American Fool by John Cougar. He had the number one song with Jack and Diane. Long after the thrill of living. They say life goes on Long after the thread of living is gone A. Little ditty about Jack and Diane Two American kids doing the best they. Can Dolly Parton. She had the number one country song with I Will Always Love You. But I know I'll think of you each step.

18:13 For those of you who are too young, yes, Dolly did write that, not Whitney. Whitney just made it a lot bigger. You like Dolly? Yeah, and it's a shame that we lost her. She was such a wonderful spirit of a person. You know, such joy every time you saw her on television, whether it was an interview or anything like that on audio. You know, just such joy she came from in the work that she did. I'm so glad she was this whole success that she was. Yeah, some people you just... They're just good. You know, just to their core, they're just good. And they exude it. All right. It's loving the audience. It's loving your audience.

18:54 It's putting that love out there. Like, it's kind of weird. It's like the love comes in, you channel it through yourself, you put it back out there again. Yeah, exactly. The number one book was Space by James Michener. The top movie was E.T. You're an alien, you get stuck on Earth, and a group of nerdy kids have to try and help him get back home. stars Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, and Peter Coyote. I think I was the only person or still am the only person who did not like that movie. I didn't get into it. Well, all I remember is, you know, besides seeing the movie when it came out, I remember Universal in Florida had an E.T. extravaganza or something where you sit in this car thing and you're flying through the air on the bicycle with the kid. You know, so that always puts a smile on my face.

19:41 Yeah, I guess so. And we got Reese's Pieces. That's probably the best part of it. Yeah, well, I'm more of a chocolate purist, but that's... okay. That's true. So, your audience, there's got to be nights, as much as you love it, that the audience kind of hurts you. They don't want to really play. Do you run into that? Yeah, but you have to overwhelm that. You can't sit by and let that happen. You've got to decide One of my core philosophies, which is something I'm writing into books that I'm putting together now, one book's about 70% complete, is about being mightier than the situation in front of you. And most audiences, if I come out the way I've been doing for the last 35 plus years, that I'm bigger than the audience and I'm just sharing a lot of love and a lot of humor and let's have some fun. Who are the fun people in the room who wants to come up here and have the best time ever? in the best seats in the house or up on the stage or about half the shows I'm doing lately are floor shows, you know, in these chairs.

20:44 Not on any stage. I prefer the stage, frankly, but if it's a floor show, whatever you got to do is what you got to do. You know, all of a sudden, when the laughter starts, the whole thing turns around. You know, and I've done some amazingly bizarre places to do shows. I've done shows in manufacturing places, factories, for example. I've done shows in warehouses, you know, strange places where, you know, I did a show one time and by day it was a Sylvan Learning Center. By night it was a Veterans Hall. There was something kind of fluky about that place. Like it's this by day and that by night. It didn't kind of add up. I don't know who was running that place or what that was, but I've been through some stuff with some of the audiences, some of the smaller groups that, you know, it's a floor show. They think they can kind of walk into the show and intervene and And I'm extremely protective of the people who volunteer because they're in hypnosis. So a lot of times they'll start sneaking up, trying to deliver their own suggestions on a floor show.

21:45 Not a lot. That's probably the wrong way to put it. I would say sometimes it's happened. And all of a sudden I put the back of my wrists on my hips, Superman pose, and they kind of bounce off my chest because they're looking at the person they're trying to approach, not me. And I'm like, sit down. The old David Lee wrote, sit down, Waldo, you know, that thing. from Hot Fatigia. So they sit down and we go on and a lot of laughs and then the only problem I have is getting out of the room. I've actually had a few shows where people try to tear my clothing off. If it's an old Beatles or Rolling Stones video or something or a movie from years ago, that looks pretty cool until you're in the middle of it. And then it's like 50 people in 100 hands trying to rip your clothes off like a zombie movie. There's a whole different vibe when you're on the receiving end of that.

22:31 So one time I was in this group of young people i would say probably late teens early 20s and um i didn't know what to do because i had never really encountered it to that degree before and in front of me there was this like you know one of those bathrooms you kind of just walk into there's no door and um you know for the size room i was in had a ladies room in the men's room and i threw my hands over my head i said enough and a hole opened up and i shot through like like that hole like a rabbit I ran it to the men's room. I figured that eliminates the females. At least I had 50% more fighting chance in the bathroom than I did in the other place. But I have a lot of those particular stories with crazy moments.

23:16 Can anybody be hypnotized? I'm sorry? Can anybody be hypnotized? The average person is in and out of hypnosis naturally without my help a minimum of seven times a day. When you zone out driving the car, when you zoned out in class... When you zoned out in your parents' house and they were asking you questions, you weren't paying attention. When you zoned out in business or any other time when you zone out, watching television, watching the computer, YouTube, whatever you're doing, it's all hypnosis states. So because people already, to some greater or lesser extent, already hypnotized, and once a hypnotist realizes that, your job gets a little bit easier because you're just bringing them into sort of in a way of putting this your hypnosis or your hypnotic field, if you want to call it that it's not so much about energy fields, but you can kind of apply it that way from explaining it. And in that place, you know, it's kind of like there, you've got them into a place of hypnosis where the suggestions are working.

24:20 You know, there's a term people kick around hypnotherapy and hypnotherapy is not the correct term for what we're doing. Technically, if you're doing a private session, for example, it's, um, If you had to equate hypnotherapy, the hypnosis would be like a hypodermic needle. And the therapeutic aspect of it would be the medicine is the suggestion. If you're doing, you know, clinical work with somebody. And if it's a show, the suggestions are, you know, milk a cow, dance around, dance to this other song, whatever it might be. You know, swim in the ocean while you're seated in the chair. Whatever pops into my head. I was doing a series of shows out in the Midwest at a comedy club.

25:01 And I was on the final appearance of the man who ran the comedy club's radio program. And he said to me, it was the fourth appearance I was making. And he said to me, what are you doing tonight? I said, I have no idea. What do you mean you have no idea? I said, at this point, me doing a show is organic. It's part of who I am. So I just walk out there and I just go into my own hypnosis. And the show just flows through me. I'm in a flow state. Whatever comes out comes through. And it's based on where my vibe is, what the vibe of the audience is, and what I think they're going to like better than anything else. And as long as I'm working in that frame, it's smooth sailing. Cool deal. All right. Let's see some of the stuff that happened in history on October the 13th. 1307 over in France. Now, King Philip IV, he was in deep, deep debt, man. He had no way he was ever going to get out of it. There was this group of Christians. They were called the Knights Templar. They had a lot, a lot of money. In fact, King Philip, yeah, he owed them a lot of money. So the king, he went and made up a whole bunch of outrageous allegations against the Templar.

26:04 Then he went and got with Pope Clement V. Yeah, that was all it took. Yep, they were able to get the Knights Templar. Basically, most of them got arrested and all that kind of stuff. And he was going to seize all their assets and take all their money. Yeah, even their grandmaster, Jacques de Monet and all those guys. Yeah, they were all thrown in prison. But there were a few knights that got away. And they were able to take all their wealth. No one ever knows what happened to it. You know, if they do, they're not talking about it. Now, King Philip, he got nothing. It was really terrible back in the day when they did that. It was awful. I remember the newspapers were outraged. Go ahead. I'm sorry. Oh, no, that's good. Now, King got nothing. So October 13th in 1307, that was on a Friday. Yeah, that's why Friday the 13th began a bad day of bad luck.

26:49 That's how it started from the Knights Templar and King Philip. That's funny. I never put that together. That's great. See, you do cruise ships. Yeah, a little bit. It's tough because the agencies switch up a lot, you know, but yeah, I've worked, I've worked cruises, dinner cruises. I've done Vegas, Atlantic city, Broadway, and lots of other places around the country, you know, everything from junior high schools to high schools, to colleges, to corporate events, lots of corporate events. And, you know, Religious groups. In New York City, a lot of the Jewish groups hire me because they love live entertainment. So I've done a lot of shows. At each show, if it's something where it's a different cultural background or vibe, I have to tailor it to meet the needs of who I'm playing to. So sometimes it's different music. Sometimes there's no music allowed at all in the very strict religious groups that are Jewish. They don't want any secular music of any kind, nothing with words in it in English.

27:51 So I have different shows I've developed over these years. Based on that. But yeah, I work. You know, a friend of mine who's retired from this says, with your money and my time, all things are possible. So I'll always make it work. I've never been on a cruise, but I think if I was on a cruise, this would be going through my head a lot. am i wrong did that go through your head when you're on a cruise not so.

28:35 Much but i remember that have used that song you know on the kind of three of the village people you know An older hypnotist gave me that over the phone a couple of years ago. Here's something I used to do 30 years ago. Don't tell anybody. It's top secret. I'm like, the whole world has been doing this. I was like, that's very nice of you to share that. I'll keep that in mind next time I need to use it. Thank you. You know? Well, happy birthday, U.S. Navy. It was in 1775, the Continental Congress created the United States Navy. Now, of course, Congress, they were all proud of themselves. They were slapping each other on the back, and they were feeling really good. And then the reality set in. They were like, hey, we don't have any ships.

29:17 So the first U.S. Navy ship was the Alfred. It was just a merchant ship. They put on 24 cannons on it. Then they sent the Alfred out to go after the British. They attacked the British off of Bermuda. Yeah, the British, they captured the Alfred. The first U.S. Navy ship that was actually built was called the USS United States, not until 1797. So. All of you who have served or are serving in the U.S. Navy, we sure appreciate you. Okay, some presidents who were in the United States Navy were Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and H.W. Bush. Some entertainers, some pretty big ones. Humphrey Bogart, Henry Fonda, Paul Newman, Kirk Douglas, Johnny Carson, Bill Cosby, and MC Hammer. They'll surprise you.

30:06 MC Hammer, yeah. The other ones I believe I heard about. I had two uncles that were in the Navy in World War II. One of them was stationed in the Atlantic, and he told me they were chasing submarines, and you were not allowed to go below deck unless you had permission. So they slept and ate on that deck for like a couple of years before he finally was moved off that ship. And the other uncle was in the Pacific and they were delivering tanks or something. And a Japanese submarine hit their ship. And the only two people who survived was my uncle and the guy he saved who lasted a couple of months and then he died. Everybody else in that ship Just passed away. There was sharks in the water and from exposure. So without my uncle surviving, I wouldn't have those cousins. So hats off to the Navy and all that they've done for America.

31:02 You ever do any USO shows? I've reached out and so far I have not had any success reaching out. But if anybody is of the USO and they're listening to this, knock on my door. I'd be happy to. Talk to you. That's for sure. With 1792, the only president not to live on the White House. George Washington? He actually laid the cornerstone today. George should have known what he was doing. He was a Freemason. 1902, coal miners across the United States. They'd been on strike since May the 12th. Well, with winter coming, President Teddy Roosevelt, he'd had enough. So he said he was sending in U.S. soldiers to go work at the coal mines. He wasn't going to let his country freeze. Well, that did it. Coal miners, they went back to work. Soldiers never had to pick up a shovel or a pick or anything like that. Been in New York? Are you rooting for the Yankees for the World Series?

31:50 Yeah, I mean, anything that's New York, you have to go out of route for them if you live here. You haven't got much of a choice. It's like a localized almost religion on some level, yeah. So, you know, I grew up watching a lot of the Mets and the Yankees because wherever my father or mother was able to get some tickets, we'd go and see that, you know, see them play. And, you know, again, a lot of hard work. You know, if you get down by field level at any game, You can actually see how hard these people work. I got to do a show for the Brooklyn Cyclones years ago on Coney Island on the field. And I did two in-between inning segments and a 45-minute postgame game closer. And I give a lot of credit to those ballplayers because the field I was on doing my show in those two short segments and then the game closer had the sun beating on that field all day in that heat. It had to be 120 degrees Fahrenheit down there. I don't know how those guys play ball in that level of heat. It's mind blowing.

32:49 It's basically the minor leaguers. I mean, they don't have, I mean, at least the major leaguers, I'm sure those dugouts are pretty lush, but in those minor leaguers, they're just stuck in a box. Yeah. And I got to hypnotize these people like inside the stadium and then bring them out on the field. And, um, I, there was no chairs obviously to do a hypnosis show. So I had them sit between home and third and, You know, I pre-hypnotized them. We went to sleep, and they kind of toppled over like dominoes towards the outfield. And 8,000-plus people simultaneously made a noise I'll never forget. I'll always remember this noise. It was this giant gasping sound. It was this giant, oh! You know, if I was a famous movie director, I could never get 8,000-plus people to make that noise simultaneously. But they did it because it was a natural reaction. And I was so overwhelmed with happiness, I looked over to the left, and there was the Jumbotron with me on it. And I'm like, Okay, 8,000 plus.

33:42 How big is the Budokan in Japan? How big are these soccer fields in Brazil? Let's really see what a stadium show can do. Right. I'm at this step. Let's go two steps higher and see what I can pull off here. So, again, a lot of respect for the amount of work and effort that they do in terms of training and working with injuries and all the rest of the stuff they go through. You ever work with athletes to try and make them like, I don't know, they want to– I guess you could probably help him with stress or something like that, maybe, under pressure. I had a guy come to see me who was a pitcher in a major league team one time years ago, and his game slumped. He had two houses, three cars, a lot of payments going out to those places, and they dumped him back in the minor leagues, and his money dropped off drastically because he wasn't playing in the major leagues anymore. And his mom of all people reached out and said, I heard you do a great thing with hypnosis. Work with my son. So I worked with her son. I did one session. And back in those days, it was audio cassettes. So we're talking a while back before, you know, CDs, which were a pain in the neck to burn. And then now it's all MP3s, which are really easy to work with. And within a week or two, he was back in the major leagues again. And then one of his teammates found out what his secret was, and they were having an argument. And through his tape down an incinerator, So his mother called, they were all upset.

35:05 Do you have a backup copy? Oh my goodness. I said, no, but I have notes. I'll record you a new one, which I did. So I kept a copy for me. I sent one to her. I sent one to him. And last I heard from him, he was a pitching coach. So he stayed in baseball after he stopped pitching. And his entire life was turned around by the work we did together. And I love on the clinical end, when a person's entire life changes. Like if I get somebody cigarettes, for example, And they're in their twenties or thirties and, you know, 25, 30 years later, they can go dance at their child or grandchild's way. You know, that's something miraculous. You can't even put a price on what I did in terms of working with them or what they did for themselves through me working with them. It's probably a better way to put it.

35:49 Well, exactly. Well, it was 1903 today. The Boston Americans beat the Pittsburgh pirates to win that very first world series. Boston won five games to three. It was actually a best of nine. You're wondering, Boston, they changed their name from the Americans to the Red Sox in 1907. 1976, a cargo jet crashed on takeoff in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Killed all three on the cargo jet. Killed 97 people on the ground. Sadly, it crashed into a school. Yeah, most of those that were killed were kids. Wow. You ever head down to South America at all? Not yet, but I've worked with people online that way. I just haven't gotten on a plane. Well, you'll remember this story. It was in 2010 in Chile. 33 miners were brought to the surface one at a time.

36:32 They'd been trapped in that mine below ground for 69 days. Remember that story? I remember that. Okay. We were so happy to be alive coming out of that mine, you know? Right. Okay. Now, you're going to remember this, and I'm going to remember this, and most everybody probably over 45 or so will remember that. But you know how comedy has changed, and you've had to adapt and all that. I remember back in like the 80s, there were just jokes about everybody. It didn't matter whether you were black, white, Polish, Italian, Puerto Rican. If it was somebody, they just made a joke about it and nobody really got offended by it. Do you remember those days? I went to a grammar school that was like that.

37:13 We moved around a lot and they kept putting me in Catholic school. So I was in five grammar schools. I was always the new kid, which is tough because you got part of the clique. You got to fight your way through it, whatever it was. But, you know, there were a lot of ethnic jokes in that last school, you know, and insults and the rest of it. But nobody took it so big. You know, I'm wondering how we got so thin-skinned. Right. Well, if you remember those days, then this story, it's actually a little funny. Okay, it was in 2018. The oldest human remains that have ever been found in the country of Poland, they were dug up. They date back 115,000 years. Scientists say the remains are of a Neanderthal child who was eaten by a big bird. I find that humorous.

37:57 I hate when that happens. Exactly. Now, you were talking about stopping with smoking and helping the ballplayers and that kind of stuff. You don't have to name a name or anything, but do you have anybody who saw your biggest transformation after you worked with them? I've had all kinds of amazing things happen in private sessions. And a lot of times, they don't tell me for a while. Recently, a couple of months ago, a lady brought her husband over here. And I had worked with her 17 years ago. but public speaking. She got promoted to a vice president level in a job someplace, I think it was. And they told her she had to run meetings in front of groups of people, peers in her company, that she was actually outranking in terms of her title and position. And she was terrified to give speeches.

38:48 And she gets a hold of me on a phone call and said, I want to bring my husband to see you. And I've been meaning to thank you. I've been meaning to make this phone call 17 years for me to make a phone call. I wonder how she pays her phone bill, you know? 17 years old. I might have sent you that check 17 years ago, you know? But very nice lady and wrote me a nice Google review about how her life was turned around by the work we did. And some miraculous things happened, too. I've seen, like, people have a particular illness, and the doctors call me up yelling, this illness went into remission. Like, how did that happen? Well, I talked to their immune system subconsciously. Maybe that was enough to make a change. Maybe it's the work you did and the suggestions I get, who knows i'm just happy the transmission of my words was possibly something to do with this person feeling better well.

39:37 What do you tell people who uh are afraid of being hypnotized for the fact they feel like they're going to lose up control you know That scares me. There's no loss of control. After this many decades of hypnotizing people, nobody's robbed a bank and broken all the money. One can hope, but that's illegal. We don't do that. But there's no loss of control. There's scientific proof about that, too. There's been research studies about asking people to do something illicit. I'm not part of those studies, you should understand. But I've read the research, and there's a built-in safety mechanism in everybody's mind. So if I told somebody to leap off the roof because they could grow wings and fly, they're not going to do it. So there's no loss of control. And people are really afraid of that. You know, that got started back in the turn of the previous last century, not the most recent one, where the top books were Dracula and Zingali and Trilby about this evil show business guy hypnotizing this opera singer. It's based on P.T.

40:42 Barnum and Jenny Lynn. the Swedish Nightingale, which I did a performance piece for in Battery Park years ago called The Pervasive Echo, where I actually hypnotized an opera singer. And she said, when I get big and I really make it, I want you to follow me. You'll be my professional hypnotist. I sing so much better when I'm in hypnosis than I normally do because it's easier. And I said, yeah, you're in a purely subconscious flow state. Of course, it's going to work better for you. So the fear stuff is silly. I mean, my first exposure to hypnosis was in terms of it actually being something you could see, was Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudge shooting laser beams out of their eyes at each other, you know? Right. And that sort of thing. That's what the public seems to think this is. And it's just not that at all.

41:26 I mean, if I could make red laser beams come out of my eyes, I'd be doing that on the Super Bowl or something, you know? Like, here's a laser beam guy, you know, and sit there the rest of the year just, you know, enjoying myself or something. But. The bottom line is that people have a lot of misconceptions. And part of, again, going back to what I said earlier, is being a goodwill ambassador. You know, let people know what this stuff is. I've done a lot of demonstrations with speed hypnosis techniques I've created in restaurants, in public places, hotels, airports sometimes. I've hypnotized people next to me on planes who are white knuckle flyers. If you're a hypnotist, please, please, I'm terrified. Do something. I put them right out. Before I put them out, I say, is it okay to keep you in hypnosis until we land?

42:08 Yep. Put them out, we land, open your eyes, and they missed the entire flight. They're there, they're at the location, and they're thanking me profusely, you know? Yeah, that would be cool. All right we're gonna see who was born on. October the 13th before we do because these are kind of big names you don't have to name. Drop or anything but if you've done any big celebrities.

42:52 I've hypnotized some, some, some libraries. Yeah. Again, I can't name drop these private sessions. Right. And some of them I've actually trained to do clinical hypnosis. One of them I trained the clinical hypnosis, speed hypnosis and stage work. Oh, okay. Actress Melinda Dillon. She was born in Arkansas. I guess it was hope same with Bill Clinton in 1939. Best known, I guess for playing Ralphie's mom in the movie, a Christmas story. She was nominated for Oscars twice. I forgot about her in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Absence of Malice. She was also in Slapshot and Harry and the Henderson. I love Slapshot. That was funny. I was a little kid, but it was funny. She married once for 15 years and had one son from it. Melinda, she died in 2023 at 83 years old. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.

43:41 Paul Simon, he's 85. Is he in one of those people you've seen in all those shows back there? It's funny. He's 85. You know, it's amazing how time goes by, you. Know, It's like going to a high school reunion and seeing people that in your mind are still high school age from when you remember them back in those days. And suddenly they've put on weight and they've lost hair or something has happened to them. And it's like, oh my goodness, what happened to you? A lot of people who know me say, you don't seem to age much.

44:26 I'm like, yeah, it's just my mindset. But it's amazing to me because I recently ran into a friend who I hadn't seen since my teenage years. he reached out to me online. We got together and I remember he was this tall, willowy guy with long hair and he's put on some weight and his hair is pretty much gone. And like, if I was to walk past him in the street and not having remet him, I wouldn't know who he is. So it's amazing when you play something from a long time ago. Like I think of like Paul Simon on Saturday Night Live when I was a kid myself, you know, and I'm sure it doesn't look like that anymore. Right. Now, He was born in Newark, New Jersey. Now he started performing with Art Garfunkel in 1956. They were both still in high school. So Simon and Garfunkel, some of their hits are The Sound of Silence, Mrs. Robinson, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Cecilia. They broke up in 1970, but they did reunion shows for a long time. I think they called it completely off in like 2010. Now somehow those guys, they've sold over a hundred million records. Solo, Paul, he sold over 35 million. He had a son from his first wife. Then he married actress Carrie Fisher for one year. Then he married Edie Bickel in 1992, and they have three kids. I don't know how he pulled that one off. Mon Wilson, he died just in January this last year. He was 79. He was born in Valdosta, Georgia.

45:49 He was the son in Sanford and Son. Red Fox played his dad. Now, Don, he was on Broadway when he was four. He danced at the Apollo when he was 12. And when he was 21, he was wounded fighting over in Vietnam. And he came home and got the role of Lamont on Sanford and Son. The last 20 years or so, yeah, he wrote books for Christian publishers, and he was really popular on Christian TV. He married back in 1974, and they had six kids. Were you a Red Fox fan? I. Yeah, I used to like that show. I've seen reruns of that show a lot on cable and on streaming, and it's a funny show. And I had friends that used to steal their... father or mother's naughty versions of Red Fox stand-up, you know, with the five-letter words in there. And, you know, apparently the parents used to play that stuff.

46:46 The kids went to bed and left themselves to sleep. So, yeah. Listen back to him now. I mean, granted, he couldn't get away with it. I mean, not just the F-bombs, but his whole, you know, everything about him. He was so politically incorrect, but... if you grew up in that time, he was just funny as hell. Yeah. I, I, you know, one of the things is that like, I've seen shows that I've done sometimes at universities, but they want to go through what I'm doing. And I'm like, well, here's a script from like 10 or 15 years ago. That's still in the computer. I can print you one, but it's not the show I'm doing now. You know, I'm not intentionally offending anybody, but on the other hand, being offended is a very subjective thing. You know, like, There's certain hand gestures, like the okay hand gesture, you know, with the fingers up in the air. Every pizza box in America has an Italian guy on it, or at least half of them do, with a mustache, and he's got the okay sign. And the okay sign in some places now is considered offensive because it means something else that somebody cooked up a meaning to. I never heard that. Yeah, so I always ask, is there anything that just came down the road I'm not aware of that's politically offensive?

48:00 If I'm working in a college someplace or a high school, And if somebody says, well, don't do this, then I won't. Right. You know? I do this thing. There's only one way. There's only one way around. I didn't mean to cut you off there, but it was for the Red Rocker, Sammy Hagar. He's 79. He was born in Salinas, California. Now he started in the band Montrose. He went solo in 1976. Your love is driving me crazy. Three lockbox. I can't drive 55. Heavy metal.

48:47 Those are some big Sammy Hagar hits. Or Sammy. Oh, yeah. Anyway, because I'm getting to 1985 to 1996 with Van Halen. Were you a Hagar or Van Halen fan? I'm just a general Van Halen fan. I've seen them in numerous incarnations. I even drove to Saratoga, which is like five hours from where I live, to see the Sammy and Dave show, or the Dave and Sammy show, depending upon which one of those people is talking about being on that stage. I've seen Van Halen probably seven or eight times in various incarnations. I even saw one incarnation with Gary Cherone. So if it's Van Halen, I have it in my phone. I have it in my heart.

49:31 We've recently, just like yesterday, the day before, it was the anniversary of Eddie Van Halen's passing. Mm-hmm. And I even met Valerie Bertinelli in the elevator in Madison Square Garden one time. And I think in 2012, I was going to leave the building and it was a mad rush to run out. And, you know, Sammy wasn't with them. It was Dave at that point, again, reunited. And I walked on the elevator with this couple I was with. My friend at the time was able to get the tickets. I didn't get them. I tried to get them, but it was that phone call, make a phone call, get a ticket. And somehow he got through. And I got onto the elevator being in show business myself and I went, whoa, it's Valerie Bertinelli. How you doing?

50:11 I said, there's some wolf on stage who's doing great. I'm saying you should be so proud of him and whatever you did to hold this band together and stuff, been a fan of yours and stuff. And she's a very wonderful, pretty lady. She just blushed really like pink, red, purple. And she's like, thank you very much. And my friend's wife was on the elevator and she wanted to get her two cents in, but she was a bit starstruck. So she kind of, in a very robotic way, parroted some of the stuff I said, kind of like for the older people in the audience, because in New York we play these clips all the time, these shows, kind of did like a Ralph Crandon. It was like, sung good, do great, enjoy, nice. And I'm like, we've got to get back to the home now. They locked the door soon.

50:53 We don't get her in there. We're going to be in trouble. And like everybody in the elevator laughed. And she was just a very sweet lady, Valerie. So yeah, I'm a huge, huge, huge Van Halen fan. My favorite band. Used to be the Stones. Stones were number two at this point, but very, very, very much of Van Halen, Finn, and only carnations. Sam, he's a big, big, big-time businessman. He owns four different types of alcohol brands, and he owns 13 restaurants. His first wife, they got divorced after 26 years. They had two sons. Married his second wife in 1995, and they have two daughters. Now, you obviously, like me, remember MTV when they actually were on the air and actually had videos and that kind of thing. Sammy on that video, I Can't Drive 55, he still owns that red Ferrari that he drove in the video.

51:42 I realize the way your. Eyes deceive me With tender looks that I mistook for love So take away the flowers. You have any idea who that was? No, it came in kind of gobbled on my head. I didn't hear it. Oh, it didn't? Oh, that was 14-year-old Marie Osmond. Yeah, that was her song, Paper Roses. It was the first song Marie ever released. It was her first number one song, too. It went to number one. Marie, she was born in Ogden, Utah in 1959. She's 67 today. Now, she was the seventh of the eight Osmond kids, the only girl. Now, she had a lot of success in country music in the 1980s, but her biggest success has always been when she teamed up with her brother Donnie. You remember Donnie and Marie? They had their own TV variety show, made some movies. From 2008. What's that?

52:37 She was a little bit country. He was a little bit rock and roll. Exactly. From 2008 to 2019, they had one of the biggest residencies out there in Las Vegas. I remember like 2011 or 2012. I had my choice, Blue Man or Donnie Murray. And I thought, I'll go Donnie Murray. We couldn't get in. It was sold out. You ever run into Murray when you were in Vegas doing all your shows? No, but you mentioned MTV a couple of seconds ago and I'm a former MTV host. I had my own show on MTV called Hypnotize My Roommate. We did some pilot episodes, and the last time I saw them, I did seven or eight hours hypnotizing couples. And they were going to revamp the show, and I kept saying to them, let's do some funny stuff, not just hypnotize people and pretend it's a lie detector or something. No, no, we have our own ideas. But not a lot of people you're going to run into, a former MTV host.

53:30 No, you've got that. That's pretty cool. I didn't even know that. Stumbled on that by accident. Too bad you didn't get a red Ferrari for. It, though. I should have lived so long. I think Marie, one of her biggest, as a solo artist, one of her favorite things all the time, she got third place on Dancing in the Stars in 2007. So she had that. She lost to Helio Castaneves, the race car driver. Now, Marie's personal life. She had one son from her first husband. She married her second husband for 21 years, and they had seven kids. They divorced. She went back and married that first guy all over again in 2011. Do you kind of get the point that maybe that first guy didn't like how Marie was under pregnancy?

54:13 So he said, Hey, get that out of your system and I'll take you back. I don't know. It's like an old disco song, second time around or something. Wasn't it, you know, back in the day kind of reminds me of that, you know? Joey Belladonna. He sings lead for the thrash metal band Anthrax. Joey was born in Oswego, New York. He's 66 today.

54:55 He joined Anthrax in 1985. They've sold over 20 million albums, which is huge for thrash metal. And Thrax, he's best known for playing live. Yeah, they're really famous for their live shows. But Joey, he just loves music, man. He just loves it. He loves music. He's in two cover bands. One of the cover bands that Thrash Metal guy is in, yeah, it's for Journey. Now, get this. This isn't about Joey. But the experts, they've done the IQs. And wouldn't you imagine the highest IQs are like classical music and that kind of stuff? They have the same IQ as people who are in heavy metal and thrash metal. Is that surprising?

55:36 Well, I do know about something to do with music and IQs. They said in the band, the highest IQ in any band is normally the drummer. I've been playing drums since I'm three years old also. So the hypnosis started at three and there's a eight millimeter film my father had, which has been converted to video. And I have it privately on my YouTube page. with me playing drums under the Christmas tree. No sound. I really wish I had known what that beat was. I was playing back then, but no sound. But there I am under the Christmas tree playing drums. So somewhere towards late grammar school years, my parents thought, how about a guitar instead of him beating on things constantly? And when I got into high school, it was like they put you in this band, this music class. And first he gave me a trumpet, and my mother said, I don't want you playing the trumpet. You'll have a bump on your lip.

56:25 So I went back to the music teacher and said, what do you want to do? I said, how about drums? Because there was no guitar. He said, fine, here's the drumsticks. I haven't looked back. So I played drums, too. And you said you still do once in a while? I still play drums once in a while, but I'm constantly tapping on stuff. And in my show, if I have them playing Rockstar, which is one of the bits that I do, I have drumsticks on stage with me, and I'm rapping on the drumsticks constantly. on what we call a prop table. There's not too many props in there normally. It's normally like a sippy cup of water. And I'm wailing away and, you know, between the music and me playing the drums, they really get into it. Occasionally, I've been lucky enough in a stage show, at a school, for example, you know, the night before, they've had something there and they leave a full drum kit up on the stage. I'm like, I kind of threw you playing drums and I always keep drumsticks in my bag. And I sit down at the drum kit and I'll have a female assistant on stage and we'll keep an eye on them. And the kind of three play drums. One, two, and I start wailing. I'm playing like some kind of drum solo, similar to Hot for Teacher or something. And they're going nuts playing cymbals and wailing away. And the audience is screaming, woo! And it's a giant rock concert right in the show, right in the middle. Just thrown in there. And kids love it. I love it.

57:39 Do you remember actress Kelly Preston? Yeah. She was born in Honolulu in 1962. Now, she first got known for the movie Secret Admire, then Space Camp, Twins. What a Girl Wants. She did marry a guy for two years. Then she got engaged to Charlie Sheen. But when Charlie got her shot in the arm, she called that man a joff. And she married John Travolta in 1991. They had two sons and one daughter. She died in 2020, a 57-year-old from breast cancer. You hear the story about her and Charlie? No. Well, they were engaged. And apparently Charlie decided to just take his pants off in the bathroom. And he had left...

58:20 loaded handgun in his pocket. She went, she went and picked his jeans up and the gun fell out, hit the floor, shot the toilet and hit her in the arm. And she said, I'm not going up for this for the rest of my life. I'm out of here. Yeah. I've met people who have been involved with celebrities. They tell me terrible things that go on with the drugs and other things and the drunkenness and whatever it is, you know, people say to me, you're coming to do a show. And one of the things, If they've had bad experiences with hiring other entertainers, I don't drink smoke or do drugs. You have nothing to worry about with me. I'm a cheap kid. I drink water. Mainly all day, all night is water. Can people be hypnotized if they're drunk?

59:04 Yeah, they can be, but they're sloppy responders It's never happened to me, but the old timers that I train with who are now deceased would say to me, if they have a full bladder and their body relaxes, so too may their bladder while the show is going on. While that hasn't happened to me, mercifully, I have had people, especially high school shows, You get a young lady raising her hand, fully hypnotized. May I go to the ladies' room? I'm like, go ahead, come back, and I'll put you back out again. So they go and they use the bathroom. They come back up on stage. Out they go, and back in the show they are. That's very interesting. That's pretty cool.

59:44 I did a show years ago for Georgetown University. I had 38 chairs, no assistant, and 48 people run up on stage for their freshman orientation. And I was like, I'm 10 chairs too shy. I can't have all these people up here. I need people on the floor. I said, we're not leaving. So I call it my Woodstock show. Cause I had like these people laying on the dirty floor, like Woodstock, they laid on the dirt, you know, you know, on that console. And as people had to go to the bathroom, I threw them out of the show and I just picked up the people on the floor and put them in the chairs. And by the end I had 38 and I was happy. And the show was a hit. Well, cool deal. Actress, Tricia Campbell's 58. She was born in Oklahoma city. She grew up in New York, New New York, New Jersey. Our first movie was Little Shop of Horrors, then School Days, another 48 Hours, the House Party movies. On TV, she starred on Martin and My Life with Kids. She was married for over 20 years when they divorced, and they had two sons. Who do you think was funnier back in the day on stand-up, Martin Lawrence or Damon Wayans?

1:00:47 That's a hard nut to crack. I like both of them. What do you think? I'm thinking Damon, um, Just for, I don't know, Martin was pretty damn funny too. I don't know, they were both pretty good. It's pretty hard. I think maybe Damon, just because I kind of like his work after his TV show and movies a little better than Martin. I think Damon Wayans also helped Eddie Murphy in the writing of Delirious and Raw. I believe he had a credit like as one of the writers in that. And that's really, you know, not politically correct, but it is classic comedy. Those two standups that Eddie Murphy did years ago. Back in the day, I was there for the second thing that he recorded, which was raw. They had Panavision cameras in the audience in the Meadowlands in New Jersey.

1:01:38 And then he was leaving there to go to Manhattan. So most of it, they claim, was shot in Manhattan. But I was there when they were filming in Panavision. And because it says it right on the camera on the top, like pushing that branding, you know? Right. And hilarious. Unforgettably hilarious. Eddie Murphy. Cool. Well, with Van Halen and the Stones. Being your favorite. Bands, you probably don't know Rhett. Atkins, I'm assuming.

1:02:26 The country singer. I heard the name. I don't know anything about it. He was born in Valdosta, Georgia. He's 57. Now, he hit really big in the 90s. He had some of the big hits like, That Ain't My Truck, She Said Yes, Don't Get Me Started, I Break for Brunettes. Now, he still sings and all that kind of stuff, but he is the number one country songwriter out there in Nashville. In this century, he has written 34 number one songs for other artists. All big names. Now, he had a son and a daughter from his first wife. His son is country singer Thomas Rhett, who's just as big as his dad was. He married his second wife in 2017, and they have a son. Actor Sacha Baron Cohen, he's 55.

1:03:07 He was born in London, England. He first got known for playing Borat, and then he voiced Julian in the Madagascar movies. Also in Talladega Nights and The Dictator. He married actress Izola Fisher in 2010, and they divorced in 2024, and they have two daughters together and one son. I wonder how that works out because Izola converted to Judaism for the wedding. I think she stays with it. It's amazing because when people see the character that some actor or somebody plays as a comedian or whatever role they're in, you kind of think that's who they are as a person. But I know what I'm working on stage in front of an audience, I'm not in that performer mode 24 hours a day. Maybe 23 hours a day.

1:03:54 I don't know. Certain days. But, you know, because they're wacky on stage doesn't necessarily mean they're wacky, you know, when they're having dinner with their spouse. But sometimes it kind of makes me wonder, like, if you go back in history to the Three Stooges, like, I think Curly has, like, five wives, possibly, over the course of his life. And it kind of makes you wonder, like, how anybody, some woman can marry a guy like him and I cannot be like zany, like he was on camera at various points throughout the day. And like what it took to put up with that, you know? Right. Baby, I don't know why you're treating me so bad. You said you love me, no one above me.

1:04:36 And I was all you had. And all my heart is eating for you. I can't stop crying. I don't know how I allow you. To treat me this way. And still I stay. She's so big, she just goes by Ashante. She's 46. She was born in Glen Cove, New York. Foolish, rock with you, rain on me, always on time. That was with Ja Rule. That's one of her biggest hits. Now, she dated Nelly for 11 years. They broke up in 2014, got back together in 2023. Now they're married and have a son. Okay, now what's the best way? We'll put links and stuff for you. How can people come see you or follow you and all that good stuff?

1:05:19 Or get me hired. Yeah, exactly. You can go to my master website, which is hypnosisstageshow.com. That's hypnosisstageshow.com. One word. And it links into my clinical site as well, which is hypnotistpro.com. And there's just so much stuff on there. From my store with the MP3s to ways to reach me if you need to get a hold of me or would like to have me work and do some stuff for you. From my view, I have basically reinvented how stage hypnosis shows take place because I'm working on that rock star vibe in my head that you go out there bigger and mightier than the audience and rip it up. And that's where I'm coming from. So if you're interested in anything you've heard me say or anything I've done on this podcast or anywhere else, just reach out to me on hypnosis, stage show.com.

1:06:13 Okay. That's for the entertainment. What if they want to like, Do you do like one-on-one coaching if they want to get you to make them quit smoking? Yeah, that's it. It's pro.com. That's my clinical site. And they're connected. There's a link from one to the other and vice versa. And there's ways to reach me. So just go on there and listen. Don't look for me on the internet, whatever you do. You'll never find me on that. I'm everywhere. Facebook, X, LinkedIn. And apparently you have to post things to your Google profile. I've been doing that. I got all kinds of YouTube videos, although some of the stuff I'm putting up lately, I've left it on private because it's for people I'm sending things to. But, you know, agents, different things like that. But yeah, I'm all over the place. There's like 800 or something videos, I think, on YouTube to look at. People are like, why aren't you posting anything new? How about you look at the first 800 first and I'll see what I can come up with after that, you know?

1:07:09 Exactly. It's like, I'll just look at the first 100, then I'll post something new. Oh, right, man. It's been really fun. I'm the one who looks at your YouTube. I'm like, thanks. You're the one who watched me. I appreciate that. Thank you. Man, you've been really fun to talk to. I'm glad. And we learned a lot, too. You've been an awesome co-host with me. This was a trip. I really appreciate it. I had a great time with you as well. This was easy. I can't believe the time flew by this quick. I know. Our quote of the day comes from the chocolate man, Milton Hershey. He died today in 1945. He was 88 years old. Milton said, be honest, train yourself for useful work, and love God. Well, thank you all for listening. Now, our Country Underground Radio Artist of the Day comes from Tim up in North Dakota. So, sorry, John, you're going to have to hear a country song as we fade out.

1:07:57 It's Brad Howard's song, I'll Let the Bottle Kill Me. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow. As I drink this shot of whiskey I feel it burning, going down. Girl, I'd rather feel that burn Than let your memory come around. Cause it takes me back to yesterday When we were so deep in love.

1:08:40 So I'll let the bottle kill me Before your memory does. I'll let the fire kill me. Even though I need to stop. I'll drain the cave. Thinking that we're through girl don't feel sorry for me it's the only thing i've got to help me. With It's 1 a.m.

1:09:24 And I'm still here shooting doubles and one more. Knowing that tomorrow I'll end up crawling across the floor. I know I need. To sober up And get this poison from my Blood But I'll let the bottle kill me Before your memory does