Oct 22-Luke Thayer, Nuts! Christopher Lloyd, Annette Funicello, Jeff Goldblum, Shaggy, Hanson, Dylan Scott,

0:19 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factoids About Today. Today is October the 22nd. Like most people in Colorado, it's finally gotten cold. Yep, we're finally in fall. So might as well celebrate and have a little fun. So I went and got myself a really hilarious co-host today. He's comedian Luke Thayer. I'm sure a lot of you have seen him before. Luke, why don't you introduce yourself? Hey guys, my name is Luke Thayer. I'm a comedian based in New York City. Originally from the Midwest. Just a good old Indiana boy. Is he a basketball fan? Oh, absolutely. You know, I grew up, I'm an 80s, 90s kid. And so basketball, Indiana, my first love. So even though we won the national championship in college football, I still would rather them have won in basketball. I'd rather them have gotten their sixth championship in basketball than to get their first in football.

1:10 So if you start, did you celebrate the Knicks then? Oh, absolutely not. I'm a Pacers fan. Indiana Pacers fan. In fact, that hurt my heart to see the Knicks win because we were this close. All those listening, my fingers are about as close together as they possibly could be. This close to a championship. And if Tyrese Halliburton doesn't get hurt, we have won before the Knicks. Yeah, that's kind of, I can imagine that'd be like me going to like, I guess Kansas City, you know, being from Denver and things. You can't root for the Chiefs, no. No, it probably hurts your heart that ever since Mahomes and Andy Reid have been there that they've just had this dominant streak.

1:53 Yeah, it's been a rough 10 years, and I think, well, they had to put up with Elway and Manning, though, so I guess. It kind of evens out. It hurts my heart that Peyton Manning ended his career at Denver because he seems to treat Denver as if that's the place that he played his whole career. He seems to live there. He seems like he treats it like Colorado is his home. He was on the Colts from 98 to 2012. He was a Colt, and he should be thought of as a Colt. He should be residing in Indianapolis. He should be doing the Manning cast from Indianapolis. Instead, just those little four years that he had there in Denver were enough to cause him to stay and treat that as home.

2:37 Well, it might have been kind of little sour grapes, you know, how they kind of... see him we want andrew luck. Well you know i can understand that my you know this is all speculation i don't have inside dope here just because i'm from indianapolis and i'm in show business but i i'm feeling that they let him choose his destiny there where they're like do you want us to cut you do you want us to hold on to you and maybe you might not be starting you might be behind andrew luck um and i think that everybody involved they're kind of like look we we cannot pass on this guy particularly since you just missed an entire season with neck surgery. But what happens in that is that there is a certain vibe, a certain connection between a player and a city that gets broken that you can't undo. You can't undo it. It's something that he should have been a lifelong cult. He should be there.

3:33 He's got his name on a hospital. He should be the guy doing the Manning cast from there. Instead is turned into a Pat McAfee city. Indianapolis is now the home of the punter instead of the greatest player in franchise history. Yeah, that would be hard too. I mean, it would be the same here as if we had Elway. Let's say he went to Houston or something in his last four years or something. I mean, they are your identity of your team for so long. Absolutely. Well, it's kind of like saying that Phillip Rivers was a cult. It's like, well, he was a cult for a season and a half. He really was a San Diego Charger for all of those years. But if he's just like, yeah, I live in Indianapolis now, and that's my home, and I feel like a Colt, and I'm part of the Colts organization, it's like, well, you were there. It's like Johnny Unitas, I think, ended his career in San Diego for the Chargers. I mean, come on, guys.

4:27 We know who you are. And Peyton Manning, I mean, part of it is he won a Super Bowl, went to two Super Bowls, won one there in Denver. That makes it a little bit more... Roots planted there is kind of like the best memory, but Tom Brady won in Tampa Bay, and I don't know that he considers himself a buccaneer for life. Yeah, I wouldn't think so. Now, do you think Peyton Manning's funny? I think that he, under the particular circumstances that he is put in, commercials, things like Saturday Night Live, where somebody else has scripted him, I think he is a way above average person. funny athlete. So I think in terms of athletes, he's S tier when it comes to comedy.

5:15 He's not necessarily comedian funny because if you put him and Eddie Murphy in the same room, he's going to get wiped out. But when you take an athlete and you say, we're going to bring you into our world like SNL or commercials, we're going to have some great writing for you. He can deliver a line. He knows comic timing. He definitely is a guy that works... under those circumstances for sure. Let's be honest. He takes coaching. He takes coaching. Yeah. When he has a good director and good writers, man, he is all, I think that's probably just his personality is like, coach me up, coach me up. I'm, I'm here. I'm a vessel for you. All right. Today's national day. It's not because we have a comedian on.

5:56 I'm a little acorn, small and round, lying. On the cold, cold ground. Everyone walks over me. That is why I'm cracked. You see. I'm a nut. I'm a nut. I'm a nut. I'm a nut. I'm a nut. I'm nuts. I'm nuts. Today is National Nuts Day. Now, today, it's all about the food nuts, not the people that you know, like your in-laws and stuff. Now, people that have been eating nuts ever since they've been on the planet, So don't get all technical today. Don't say a peanut is actually a legume. Today, if it looks like a nut and it tastes like a nut, that's a nut. Nuts, they are very healthy for you. So just have fun celebrating Nuts Day, whether that's walnuts, almonds, pistachios, pecans, peanuts, cashews, macadamia, whatever the list keeps going on. You have a favorite nut?

6:45 Okay, I'm going to throw this out there immediately. I am allergic to some– I have a nut-specific allergy. Let's put it that way. So I can have peanuts again, not really nuts, but you know, the peanuts are like the number one allergy probably. I'm fine with those. Cashews are fine. Almonds are fine. But then in pistachios, I have, I'm allergic, definitely allergic to walnuts and pecans. And then I have not experimented with a bunch of others. Hazelnuts, I seem to have a sensitivity to, you know, so like I can have things that, have hazelnut product in them, but I don't eat the hazelnuts by themselves. So when it comes to like national nut day, my first thought is, uh, first of all, obviously the, you know, I think anyone's crazy to eat nuts because I'm, I would be dead if I eat that. So I can kind of do it on both levels of nut, but I, I I've never had whatever you experience with nuts. I haven't had, because I have had pecans and walnuts in things. And I've had an allergic reaction to them. The very first thing that happens is it tastes like I'm chewing on pennies. Really?

7:57 So pennies. I got to make sure that's very enunciated. Pennies. So I get like this copper metallic taste in my mouth. So I don't know what pecans and walnuts normally taste like to other people because the reaction is immediate with me. Well, the good thing is you got a warning there. Yes, I do. So usually I'm able to like, if I feel that I can spit it out, then my lips and my tongue are numb. They might swell up a little bit, but I get them out before I've actually ingested them. But I, when I went to, I was in high school, my senior trip in high school, we just went down to Kings Island in Cincinnati. That was one of the amusement parks that was close to our region. So we would go down there. And my girlfriend at the time, offered me some, she said they were roasted cashews. And I said, I don't, I don't think so. I don't, I don't trust that they don't have other nuts. Are you sure? Are you sure there aren't pecans or walnuts in this? Oh, absolutely. I ate them. And then she told me that they actually were like walnuts or pecans.

9:02 I don't remember which one. And I had a reaction. My throat seized up. I couldn't speak for the rest of the day. Like it was, closed up my vocal cords so my lips and tongue and everything were swollen and I couldn't speak it sounded like and it was almost like she felt bad but she tested me because a lot of people don't believe in nut allergies they don't believe somebody has them well that's why she's an ex-girlfriend that's one of the reasons I can tell you that. So who were your favorite comedians growing up. Oh well growing up so I disclaimer Let's have a trigger warning for anybody. Growing up, my favorite comedian was Bill Cosby. So things have changed. What we know now is not what we knew in the 80s and 90s.

9:52 So my dad was a preacher. We were only allowed to listen to certain things, television shows, movies where we're so i would watch the cosby show and bill cosby himself was the very first comedy special i ever saw so i was probably i don't know it was the late 80s probably when i saw it so you know a little kid and we saw as a family. And Is that the one where his dad is great, he gives us chocolate cake? Is it that one? Yeah, that's exactly, that's the special, right? And so everybody knew that one. And so then as I got older, I was allowed to watch Seinfeld. So Seinfeld, the TV show, had a lot of standup. That was kind of my early influence. And then very first comedy album that I ever bought, I bought a comedy album and a DVD, because I bought both of them, of Jerry Seinfeld, I'm Telling You for the Last Time. It was his HBO special and album. And- That was when I realized that comedians have different ways of telling jokes and are able to have different material because the CD and the DVD were not exactly the same. It wasn't the same performance. So it was probably like show one and show two. So they were edited differently. The jokes were told a little differently. So those were like my first two standup. Chris Farley was a big influence. He was gigantic. The Three Stooges were a gigantic influence early in my life, probably all the way up through my High school years, three stooges were my favorite. My entire bedroom was decked out with three stooges paraphernalia all over the place.

11:23 Did you have a favorite stooge? So this is not a popular opinion, but I'm a big shimp guy. I love shimp. Like I love Curly, Moe, Larry. They're all great. In fact, I go through phases where each one is my favorite. But if I had to take one, there's something... just goofy about Shemp. I mean, they're all goofy, but he didn't do the exact same thing that Curly did. He wasn't a replacement for Curly, which by the way, he was in the Three Stooges before Curly was. He dropped out and then Curly took his place and then they kind of blew up. So he was more of an original Stooge. So when he came back, he was able to bring what he brought to it and not just try to replace Curly. Later on, they had Curly Joe. And Joe, and it was, they were trying to like repeat Curly and it wasn't, but the chimp came in and did his own thing. Right.

12:21 And that the really successful franchises or whatever, it's when they just go 180 degrees. It's like, okay, we're not going to replace this. Let's just put somebody else in there. That's totally different. Absolutely. Absolutely. Let's go, let's go a different direction. Cause anytime a television show, a movie, anytime they try to just replace the person, It never, it always feels like, but they're not the person. That's not the guy. Right. I mean, I think the most famous is like Cheers. They replaced these people really good. Like the coach went to Woody and then Diane went to Rebecca. I mean, they just said, okay, we're going to make it different. Yeah. And they had to. I mean, obviously coach passed away. So you couldn't, you know, it wasn't a negotiation thing.

13:04 But then Shelly Long. went decided that she wanted to do something else. So they bring in a replacement and you go, yeah, you can't have that same dynamic. You got to do something completely different, uh, or else it gets tired really quickly too. If you bring it in trying to repeat the success, but there are, there are shows that have tried to do that. And that's, that's when they jumped the shark, right? Yes. That's that one guy from that one blonde guy. When he shows up, you know, your show's over. It was a love boat, happy days. And, uh, Oh, married with kids? You know that blonde guy I'm talking about? Oh, yes, I do. But I can't remember his name because he was... I believe he was in Revenge of the Nerds.

13:48 Yeah, he was the quarterback. Yeah. I can remember that. He was Stan Gable. I can't remember his name. Yeah, there you go. I loved Revenge of the Nerds. Yeah. By the way, Revenge of the Nerds would not be made today. Oh, I know. You have to watch it today, but you couldn't make it today. That's true, but I know... That's a different subject altogether. All right, let's see what's going on in entertainment. Back in October the 22nd. Let's go back to the year 2003. Number one album was Speakerboxx, The Love Below by Outkast. Beyonce and Sean Paul had the number one song with Baby Boy. Baby boy, you. Stay on my mind. I feel my fantasy. Come on, girl, tell me how you feel. I think about you all the time. I see you in my dreams. You don't know the love, baby. Gary Allen had the number one country song with Tough Little Boys. Well, I didn't cry when old Yeller died. At least not in front of my friends. The number one book was The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Abram. The top movie was Scary Movie 3. In this one, Cindy, she has

15:18 to investigate crop circles in a videotape to try and help the president prevent an alien invasion. Stars Anna Faris, Charlie Sheen, and Pamela Anderson. So what got you on stage that very first time? So when I very first was even thinking about comedy, it was actually even before I started thinking about comedy, a friend of mine, actually still one of my best friends today, his name's Steve, his sister was doing stand-up comedy at the local comedy club. It was called Crackers Comedy Club. It does not exist anymore, but it was a big deal at the time. They had a couple locations. They had 14 shows a week. The comedy landscape has changed a lot in the last 20 years, but that's what it was then. And on open mic night, she invited us to go see her, gave us some free tickets.

16:04 We go see her. And we thought, well, this would be fun to do afterwards. They said to anybody in the audience, if anybody wants to try this, you can sign up in the back for a different week. And so, all right, baby, we're going to do this. I'm going to sign up. I signed up with my friend. We were going to be a duo act. And like many duo acts, we broke up. We just happened to break up before we were over on stage together. He got stage fright and never wanted to do it. And so he said, I'll go see you, but I'm not going to do it. And everything else in my life up to that point, if somebody had said, I'm not going to do it, I probably said, oh, I'm not going to do it either. But something drove me to that stage.

16:44 I did my first five, six minutes on stage and I have never stopped since. The longest I've had is the whatever break, six months, eight month break. when we had the COVID shutdown. That's it. That's the longest break I've ever had. Otherwise, it's been day after day, week after week for two decades. So looking back, how'd that first show go? So it went well. A lot of people's first time goes well because there's a lot of energy. You don't know what to expect. People are on your side because they introduce you that way. The host will say, this is this comedian's first time on stage. So everybody's supportive. They're not judging you too harshly. So I was supposed to do three minutes of I ended up doing probably five and a half, somewhere around that, because all the first timers were supposed to get three minutes. They're supposed to give you a red light in the back at two minutes to let you know you have one minute to wrap it up. I just was going. I don't see any light. I've done the entire three minutes that I came up with ahead of time. I start riffing a little bit. I run out of stuff to say and I go, all right, guys, I think that's it.

17:48 I see the red light comes on. I talked to the person in the back. They go, I'm so sorry. I thought you were supposed to do six minutes. So You ended up doing six minutes anyway, so hey, great. I'm like, whew. So I never did the three-minute spot. I did the veteran spot from the very beginning. That was 20 years, huh? That was, well, 22 years ago. That was the, yeah. So do you think, I was going to say, do you think you're going to comedy today as much as the landscape's changed? Ooh, I think that the way that people get into comedy is very different now. I don't think that people go to the, local comedy club, see a show or see an open mic and hear about signing up like that anymore. I think that they find out about it through Instagram, TikTok. You watch that stuff. People start doing comedy online. You know, I was doing a lot of my first few years. I was at Bright Scissors for Great Theater. I was doing improv. I was doing comedy, stand-up comedy. I was doing sketches. I was doing characters.

18:48 I was doing a lot of different things. So I probably would have been doing that from the very start online. I probably was creating sketches on Instagram or TikTok or YouTube if I was starting now. Well, it's comedy. Just like when you can say stand up, you basically have to do it in order to get better at it. Oh, absolutely. It's kind of like any sport or weightlifting or anything like that. It's like the only way to grow is to go do the thing and you kind of got to fail at it and you got to like, be bad at it and grow and kind of like figure out like when you're lifting weights, when you first start, you got like, my body doesn't want to do this. And it takes some time to even just get it through the motions. And that's what standup comedy is. It's like working out that comedy muscle. You've got to kind of learn the motions before you actually get into really lifting the heavy weight.

19:37 What do you do in a joke? Just bombs. So at this point, you know, 22 years into comedy, 20, almost 23 here. A joke, a bomb joke for me is very different than if I was first starting out. A bomb, like I don't bomb the way that a newer comic probably would bomb. Right. Because I have ways of getting out of it. So if I have a joke that just doesn't work, for one, I might just hear it and go, okay, that didn't get the laugh that I need. If it's a new joke, like, yeah, that one didn't. I need to do something else with that. I'll let me play around with it. If it's really awkward with the not laughter, I will joke about that. I can call it out. I can be in the moment. I can be present. But in my younger days, it would have been, uh-oh, and just flop sweat and armpits starting to get the moisture underneath. And I don't know what to do. Panic sets in. That doesn't happen at this point. but it's kind of like an athlete, you know, I'm sure Peyton Manning in year 16, 17, wasn't having the same sweat and worry about the rushers coming in to sack him as he had his rookie year.

20:49 Right. So the audience too, that can you like tell a joke one place and the audience just laughs and then you think, okay, that's a hit. And then you go to the next place in crickets. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. It's, In fact, it can be the reverse too. I can have a joke that, man, I didn't get anything here. And then I go someplace else and they're like, we get it. And part of that is experience. So like not just experience of the comic, but like the experience, shared experiences that we have as a culture. So some places, you know, I talk a lot about growing up in church. Sometimes I will go and I have a large chunk of this church material. If people didn't grow up that way, or if they maybe came from an atheist family, let's just say, and they don't know anything about church culture. This has happened in Vermont of all places. Vermont is one of the least churched places in the country. So that means people don't have, there's not a church culture there. And I'll go and start telling these jokes and they're kind of like, we don't really know what you're talking about. Yeah, we didn't do that. We don't do that. And so the goal then for me is to try to paint a picture that is so vivid that even if you didn't experience it, that you feel like you're experiencing it with me.

22:01 So that does happen that jokes don't work, but hopefully I recognize that and go, all right, how do I make that work for the person that doesn't experience or doesn't have those shared experiences? So you talk about where you travel. Where's the weirdest place you've actually performed? Boy, that is... That's more of an essay than it is a sentence. I've performed in all sorts of weird places. It's more of like, what's the most recent place I performed that you could say is weird? This is one that was just a couple weeks ago. I performed for someone's birthday party. I don't know exactly what he does for a living. He's a lawyer of some kind. But there were literally princes and oil barons. at this birthday party is a long table that just looked like the Last Supper. And they said, yeah, just go ahead and start telling us jokes. And he wanted me to roast them too. So he had a list of like things.

23:02 And it was, when I first walked into the building, it was in Sotheby's. There is a, hey, the auction house, the high-end auction house. They have a restaurant in there. And then he had a private room within the restaurant. And I walked in and there were paintings on the wall and it was a Renoir. And I go, Hmm, Renoir. That's, that's interesting. And I realized, no, that's, that's a real one. That's the original one. And there was multiple of his paintings on the wall. And I'm like, these are, this is just used as decoration in this room. These weren't up for sale. This was just, yeah. And I just, I just burst out laughing to myself of like how ridiculous this situation is. They, they had like a secret door, like, One of the wall panels would open up and all of the servants would come out with trays of food and wine. And I definitely in that moment thought, I definitely didn't charge this guy enough.

24:01 Well, I hope he gave you a big tip. You know what? He didn't. He said at one point, he goes, you're going to, you know, something along the lines of like, hey, you tell more jokes like that, your tip's going to be great. And then he just never tipped me. So, not cool. Not cool at all. Yeah, rich people, man. You know how they are. Now I know. Worst tippers. Worst tippers on the planet, rich people. That's true. All right, let's see what happened on October the 22nd. Back in 1746, the College of New Jersey was formed. Eventually, it changed its name to Princeton University. The first school in the world that ever used the word campus. They started using it in 1774. France in 1797.

24:41 André Jacques Guignier. He was the first person to use a parachute. Now, it was shaped like an umbrella. It was 23 feet across, and it had a basket he had hanging below it. So a hot air balloon took him up to 3,000 feet, and they cut the rope. Well, he fluttered back down to Earth and everything. Yeah, he was perfectly fine. But that basket hanging there swung like hell. So when he got to the bottom, he vowed that you're better off not having a basket. You're better just hanging from a parachute. So that's why you don't have a basket anymore. 1836, Sam Houston, he was sworn in as the first president of the Republic of Texas. 1934, bank robber, Pretty Boy Floyd. He was kind of a folk hero. Some of them called him back the Robin Hood of Ohio. See, he would rob banks. He was actually just a ruthless criminal, okay? He wasn't a good guy at all, even though. But when he would rob banks, he would then tear up the mortgage documents so that the farmers would kind of like, you know, not be in trouble with the banks and all that. That was the 1930s. Well, the FBI, they took him out today, 30 years old. He was running across a cornfield when they shot him, and that cornfield was one of the places they were able to keep the farm because he totaled the mortgage, but they couldn't foreclose that farm. 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy, he decided he didn't let American people know what was going on, so he held the TV press conference, and he told about the Soviet missile launchers over being built in Cuba. how he had imposed a naval blockade on the island and all that kind of stuff. Biggest result, bomb shelter sales,

26:13 they skyrocketed the very next day. 1976, the Food and Drug Administration, they banned using red dye number four. That's why there weren't any red M & Ms for over 30 years. The FDA said that red dye number four caused tumors in the bladders of dogs. Canada, they said the FDA was a bunch of crap, so they still allowed it. Well, it turns out Canada was right. Yeah, the FDA, I guess, can be wrong. So red dye number four, it will not make you sick. Now, it did cause cancer in the bladder of dogs, but it's just like chocolate. Don't give your dog that red dye number four. In Italy in 2012, did you like science growing up?

26:53 Oh, yeah. Yeah, in fact, I was in the gifted science class, the gifted and talented. So you like your science then. That's cool. Yeah. Well, in 2012, six Italian scientists, they were convicted of manslaughter. They had failed to predict the 2009 La Aquila earthquake, where 308 people were killed. 100,000 were left homeless from that earthquake. The Italian government, they were all pissed off. Yeah, they were mad those scientists didn't give them a heads up that that earthquake was coming. So a little side note. Italy, they're having a lot of trouble hiring people to be seismologists there. Yeah. That sounds a little bit more instead of science-y. That sounds a little more like witchcraft where they're like, hey, you did not predict the future for this. You were supposed to be rubbing the rocks and seeing the crystals and knowing when the earthquake is here. And they're like, they just have a little square metal box. They're like, I'm sorry, we can't predict that yet. It either shakes or it doesn't. We don't know what to tell you.

27:54 My whole thing is I think it's one of those where they screwed up the response so bad they had to deflect it to somewhere else. Oh, yeah. At least that's my theory. I don't know. So you talked about being a huge Seinfeld fan. One of their funny episodes is the Friars Club and you're a friar, right? I am. I am actually, I believe, the last comedian to ever be inducted into the Friars Club because they got into some financial trouble after I was there. You know, the COVID shut down and they ended up having to sell the building. They kind of shut down. And so I'm kind of like the last of the legacy here. It wasn't your fault, right?

28:34 No, it was definitely not my fault. I didn't bomb, guys. I didn't go bomb and they're like, okay, if this is the future, we got to go. I thought that was kind of ironic. You are a friar and that was one of his most famous episodes, actually. I know. It actually hurts my heart. The Friars Club was so cool because I'm not just a comedian, I'm a comedy historian as well. And just being in that place, it just oozed comedy history. Was it like the show where you had to have a jacket and all that kind of stuff? Well, you know, I never went in the restaurant. It was kind of being like renovated when everything kind of got shut down. So I never went in the restaurant. But the rest of the place, you didn't have to have a jacket for that. Although they did kind of want you to look nicer. So I performed there a few times. But really the other times I just went in there. They had a steam room and they had a sauna. And so I brought like a couple other comedian friends of mine, a couple celebrity friends. I won't name drop like some people did on SNL. But we went in and we had a little bit of steams.

29:37 We'd go and steam and then everything. got shut down. Can't do that anymore. Well, see, if they would have had Renoir on the wall, you know they would have stayed open. They could have sold them and kept the building. Exactly. Oh, man. All right. You ready to do some birthdays? Absolutely. I love birthdays. Let's celebrate some people. Actor Christopher Lloyd. He's 88. He was born in Stamford, Connecticut in 1938. He grew up in money. His grandfather was one of the founders of Texaco Oil Company. Now, Lloyd's first acting job, it was in the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

30:26 Then he went on TV, won an Emmy playing Reverend Jim on Taxi. You ever see those old reruns? You know, when I was a kid, Taxi was, I considered it the most boring show on television next to MASH. I think it was just the wrong generation. They just looked old to me when I was a kid. Well, then actually after Taxi, well, then he hit really big in the Back to the Future movies. That's my thing right there, Back to the Future. That's my Christopher Lloyd memory. Well, you can't imagine anybody else playing that Doc Brown. No. He's been in over 100 movies. He had one child from his first wife. He married his fifth wife back in 2016. that was bobby fuller he was born in baytown texas in 1942 now he had a really short career actually he had a minor head it was called let her dance and then that song i fought the law it got into the top 10 and then they found bobby he was dead in his car outside of his apartment building it was 1966 he was 23 years old now no one today still knows why he died they said it could have been an accident it could have been suicide or it could have been murder They still have no idea. It's still an open case. Kind of sad. Did you watch the review? I don't know,

31:56 but I'm trying to think about the ages. I think you're probably about that. Were you around when the new Mickey Mouse Club came with Brittany and Justin and all them? Yeah. You know, I think part of the problem there was, I think it was on the Disney Channel, and that was a premium paid service at the time I was a kid. So we did a couple free trials of it. I think they had, like, they would do a one month free, like every, or a couple of weeks free to try to get you to your parents to want to pay for it. And my dad was like, we're not paying for that. So I, I knew of the new Mickey mouse club, but I did not get to experience it myself. We just had to watch the old NBC, CBS and ABC stations.

32:39 Well, before Brittany and Justin and Christina and all them kind of people, Annette Funicello. She was born in Utica, New York in 1942. Now she started out as an original Mouseketeer. Yeah, she was in that first Mickey Mouse Club. She was 13 when she started. She had some popular songs during that time. Tall Paul, Pineapple Express, O Dio Mio. Nah, she was the most popular of all those Mouseketeers. So looking back, who do you think you would have been a bigger fan of, Britney or Christina?

33:27 Well, look, Britney was so big in culture when I was a teenager that it's really hard to not think of her as the number one. Yeah, that's true. But there was actually no comparison with Annette, no. But after the Mickey Mouse Club ended, she had a big career. She did a whole bunch of beach party movies with Frankie Avalon. That was a pretty good deal, just hanging out on the beach. Yeah, you know, I like some of those old beach movies. Now, my parents are quite a bit older. My mom just turned 86 about a week or so ago. And Annette was her Mouseketeer years. Oh, okay. Because my mom was born in 1940. So she knew that one. So she would tell me about those in the beach movies. So I know probably more than my years just because I have culture going all the way back to my dad's 89.

34:22 So we're talking all the way back to the 30s. I've got different culture. Annette, she dated Neil Staka for a couple of years. Do you know the song Puppy Love? You heard that one? I'm sure I have. Well, he wrote that about her. But then they didn't. Nothing ever happened after that. It stayed puppy love. It never transitioned to real love. She did have a daughter and two sons from her first husband. She married her second husband in 1986. 1987, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She was able to fight that until 2013 when she died at 70 years old from it. Wow. Actor Jeff Goldblum, he's 74. He was born in West Homestead, Pennsylvania. Made his acting debut in the movie Death Wish. He played freak number one. He wasn't in the movie very long.

35:05 He first got known in the movie The Big Chill, then The Fly, the Jurassic Park movies, Independence Day movies. His second wife was Geena Davis for four years. He married his third wife in 2014, and they have two sons. Do you have any Jeff Goldblum movies that you like? Oh, well, first of all, I like them all, starting with Death Wish. I like that. I'm a big classic movie fan. And so going forward, I think that my favorite Jeff Goldblum movie is, well, at least the character he is, is in the Jurassic Park movies. I think that's, he plays Malcolm and it's, that is like the quintessential Jeff Goldblum where he gets to be smart and also quirky and he doesn't turn into a monster at the end.

35:51 Yeah, I think I'd like that. I know that critically he gets slammed about being horrible. But the Independence Day, the original one. Oh, yeah. I think Jeff Goldblum and his dad in the movie. Oh, yes. From Taxi. Yeah. I think those two had just great dynamics throughout that entire movie. Yeah, they were great. But that's the thing. I think that sometimes you need good popcorn movies like that. Independence Day was a popcorn movie. You go out. Let's go have some fun. Let's see some aliens blow up some stuff. We see some witty banter between a couple of great actors. Sometimes that's all you need in a movie. I agree. You ever been to Jamaica? I've never been to Jamaica.

36:32 I've been to a lot of different Caribbean, uh, countries. I've worked cruises as a comedian, so I've gone to a lot of them, but not Jamaica. Well, if you don't know that Shaggy, he's so cool, he just has one name. He was born in Kingston, Jamaica. He's 58 today. Now, he moved to New York City when he was 18. When he was 20, he joined the United States Marines. He actually fought in the first Gulf War. Since then, he's released 17 albums. Some of the hits are Bombastic, Wasn't Me, Angel, Oh Carolina. He had two sons from a girlfriend, then he got married in 2014, and they have three daughters. Have you ever done any like USO or military tours or anything?

37:28 That is one of the things I've wanted to do for such a long time. I've wanted to do USO tours. I want to perform for the military. Again, like being a comedy historian, that's the Bob Hope history, the lineage there. I want to be part of that. And every time I try to hook something up, there's always, it feels like there's somebody that's like, well, you know, I think we'll go ahead and we'll let you know about it. And I think they're just trying to keep it for themselves. These must be some great gigs that nobody wants to share with me. That's true. I've got a girl who's a woman who's part of the USO. I'm doing a show with her in the beginning of December. She has something going on with the USO and the holidays. So I'll try and name drop for you.

38:15 I know. This is the moment. This is the moment, baby. Let's make this happen. All right. Jesse Tyler Ferguson. He's 51. He was born in Missoula, Montana. Grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I think we all know him for playing Mitchell on the TV show Modern Family. You know what? That was created by birthday boy Christopher Lloyd. Really? Mm-hmm. Now, Jesse, he was named... He was nominated for five straight primetime Emmys. You know, do you think... Agree, it's always nice just to be nominated? Look, I don't believe in awards when it comes to art. So if you want to be nominated, you want to win or... Whatever, great. But I think a lot of that is just Hollywood fluffing each other, you know? Well, it's pretty ridiculous, really. They say, oh, no, they don't do that much. It's a popularity contest for that year.

39:02 It's kind of like Homecoming King and Queen, pretty much. Exactly. And I wasn't part of the cool kid group. And so today, anytime there's like an award or any sort of honor like that, I just think, but is it really? Are you really the best? I mean, come on now. Yeah, that's good. The other day we actually had a debate on my show. Who do you think was funnier back in the day, Damon Wayans or Martin Lawrence? Ooh, ooh, that's a good comparison because a lot of people wouldn't necessarily think of those two names, but they were gigantic in 1992 through 98. I would say Martin Lawrence had the much better movies. I would say in terms of overall characters... I think Damon Wayans, at least cultural impact in the early 90s, would have gotten him a little bit. But I think overall, Martin Lawrence was probably the bigger star.

40:01 Both pretty damn funny, though. Well, this thing, you know, you can't go wrong with either one. It's like saying, which one's the best pizza? Look, it's all pizza. It's all good. Jesse, he also voiced Shangri-La in one of the Ice Age movies. I'm sure you've seen all those. I've seen maybe a couple. My daughter is eight, so she's been going back. But some of those are like, I think the first Ice Age might be 20 years old now, something like that. It wouldn't surprise me. It's amazing how fast time goes, the older you get. I know. I believe it's Ray Romano's the star of those. Yeah, him and Leguizamo. I don't remember who else was in there. There we go. Do the comparison there. Who's funnier, Ray Romano or John Leguizamo?

40:46 I would actually go Romano for the simple fact that I can relate to him a little more than I can Leguizamo. Yeah. And he also didn't make Too Wong Fu. That's true. Yeah, I think that's, yeah. Okay, Jesse, he actually does quite a bit of theater. Him and his husband, they got married in 2013, and they have two sons. Well, it was in the 80s and 90s, kids. You remember all those sitcoms back there? Remember actor Michael Fishman? He's 45 today. I had to look him up because I was like, who's Michael Fishman? And as soon as I looked him up, anybody else that looks him up too, you automatically know that face. You're like, oh, from Roseanne.

41:28 He was born in Los Angeles. Started playing DJ Connor on Roseanne when he was seven years old. Show ended when he was 16. Then, of course, he came back and played DJ again on the Connors. That was, I think, back in 2018 or something they came back on. Him and his wife, they divorced after about 20 years, and they had one son and one daughter. This kind of makes you feel old, and you realize the youngest Hanson, Zach, he's actually 41 today.

42:12 Boy, that does make me feel old. Both Michael Fishman and Zach Hansen, that's like my generation here. So if they're getting old, what's that say about me? Well, there's that one meme on the internet. It's like, it's kind of weird to be the same age as old people. Yeah. Yeah. I think that I happen to have a look that people are a little surprised by my age because I don't smoke, don't drink, you know, that kind of stuff. And so I don't look maybe as old as I am because like, do you remember when people used to look really old? Like, grandmas used to look old. They looked like grandmas. And they looked old their entire lives, you know? Yeah. Not anymore. No. And, well, being part of Generation X, we have the distinction.

42:53 We have the first grandmas who actually have tattoos. Oh, yeah. They get tattoos. They're injecting everything. These gals do not look like– you used to look at a picture of your grandma and be like, whoa, is she 157 years old in this picture? And then your mom would look at it and go, that's her high school yearbook photo. Like, they used to look old, man. Yeah, and I think it was those bouffant hairstyles and really no makeup and usually, like, I don't know. We'll say it was the lighting. Grandma was probably pretty. Yeah. The lighting and everything was in that chroma comb. Like, just very monotone, brownish color. Zach, you started playing the drums for Hanson when he was seven years old. Now, he got co-writing for that song I played, Mbop, and that got nominated for a Grammy.

43:40 So 12-year-old Zach Hansen, he is the youngest songwriter ever nominated for a Grammy. Now, Hansen, after their teenage faded, I guess you'd call it, they really had trouble with. They just started their own record company. Yeah, they have their own record company and studio and all that kind of stuff. So actually, Hansen's an indie band now. They actually have shows scheduled until December if you want to go see them. Zach, he married in 2006, and they have five kids. Wow. Go to one of their shows and be one of the old people in the audience. Just do it in the wave until your hips can't take it anymore and you've got to sit down. I remember everybody talking, because I'm older than you are.

44:22 So a lot of our kids had kids who were like your age. And they would say, man, they went to the Hanson concert. And they said, man, my calves hurt so much. We're just doing some kind of little bouncing. Yeah. Actor Jonathan Lepikin. Lipnicki? Does that sound right? Lipnicki? Lipnicki. He was born in Westlake Village, California. He's 36. Now, his first movie, he was five. He was Renee Zellweger's son in the movie Jerry Maguire. He was that cute little boy with the glasses and all that. He was also the voice of Baby Tiger in Dr. Dolittle. He voiced George Little in the Stuart Little movies. He's Murph and like Mike. He's still working, but he lives out in Oklahoma. And get this, he has a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. You have any martial arts training?

45:06 Not at all. I tried to learn karate in the eighties because that's what every kid did, but my dad wouldn't put me in a karate class. So he just let me check out a book from the library. So I had a karate book that was probably written in like 68, just black and white pictures with diagrams where like they had their arm up and then an arrow pointing down. And I was like, okay, I think I learned karate. It's just this little overweight Husky kid in the 1988, trying to learn karate from a book in his front yard. So everybody that went by were probably like, don't rob that house. It's protected. He knows karate. Karate. Karate.

46:06 He is country singer Dylan Scott. He's also 36. He's born in Bastrop, Louisiana. Now, some of his number one hits are that one, My Girl, New Truck, Can't Have Mine, Find a Girl of Your Own. That's kind of a cool title. It works. Dylan, he's married, and they have two sons and one daughter. Okay, now, I'm sure people are hankering now. They want to know, how can they see you? Okay, well, look, everybody, I know that you're all dying to know about my standup comedy. So go follow me at Comedian Luke on whatever social platform you're on, particularly Instagram at Comedian Luke. But you can also check out my YouTube shorts. I put a lot of shorts up every day. And so you can see me there. Go to my website, ComedianLuke.com. You can see my schedule. Sometimes I am near you. I was just in Colorado, so I miss Jeff out there. But I'm probably coming to a town near you. Or if I'm not, you can request me. You can email me, ComedianLuke at gmail and try to get me to come to your town.

47:08 So what do they hear if they join your podcast? And also you can follow the Kid is in School podcast. The first three seasons I did with my wife, Abby Crutchfield. This year, she wants to take a little hiatus. So it's me by myself. It's a bunch of talking about Anything and everything while the kid is in school so we're uninterrupted. Well, awesome. And we'll have links to all that. All you have to do is go down to show notes on the bottom of the page that you're listening to today. And there'll be links over there. So you don't even have to do any work. All you have to do is just click a button and you'll find him. And then just once you find him, then you just follow. Excellent. Oh, I can't wait to hear you guys when you follow. Go ahead and send me a message or DM me, whatever. And say, hey, heard you on the show.

47:55 Sounds awesome. Anything else you want to press out today? You know, that's it, guys. It's all about jokes. That's me, Comedian Luke. So hopefully I'll see you either on the internet or in a real-life comedy club show like it's the old days back in the early 2000s. And I'm going to put the link up to his Dry Bar Comedy special, too. Because if you want, it's a really good, it's some funny. And if you see that, you're going to definitely want to follow him. Excellent. Thank you so much for having me. I beg sure you guys follow because I have another special that's supposed to be coming out on Amazon sometime. It's called Killer Bees Presents. Look there. I don't know. It's been shot. It's been edited, I think. Who knows when it's going to come out, but I'll let you know on social media. Cool.

48:38 All right. Well, I was in with our country underground artist of the day. Now, do you know what the movie Jangle or the music Jangle is? It's a musical type. I've never heard that one before. Okay, what it means is, in order to be jangle music, somebody in the band has to play a 12-string guitar. Oh, so it's a country thing. Oh, well, actually, the most famous jangle bands are the Bangles and R.E.M. Oh, then I was way off. Yeah, those guys aren't country at all. Well, I figured that I have a country, it's called Country Underground Radio, and it plays basically unsigned country artists. And I figured, you know what? If on regular country music, they're playing rappers. I can play jangle music. Why not?

49:24 You set yourself apart. Exactly. Just be jangle the entire time. Exactly. So Kaylee out there in Salt Lake City, she wants to hear a jangle wave song, Farmer's Daughter. So you guys all have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow. She had the kind of southern sassy smile She used to drive me wild She loved. To take me down. Where we could cool down and quiver. We could make love and sweat.

50:09 Those nights I can't forget. And she loved the Dixie Chicks and she hated politics. But it all fell apart and now she ain't around. She was a farmer's daughter. Man, I sure didn't want her. Now she's on the altar. Some rich men's trophy watch. So I went down to the water with a friend who was much hotter. Yeah, I understand. The last time that I saw her, she. Was crying, said that she was trying to find herself.

50:49 Guess she did, cause she went off and got married, so I guess it's not me that she wants. But at least I can finally say, she loved the. Dixie Chicks and she hated politics, but it all fell apart and now she ain't around. She was a farmer's daughter To a man I shouldn't want her Now she's on the altar Some rich man's trophy wife So I went down to the water With a friend who was much hotter Yeah, I ought to thank God For the one who got away