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God, thank you for listening to the John ed Heidi Show. Excited to
visit with a very funny comedian, Sophia Javid and she is going to be
in Soue Falls for the Snowjam Comedy Festival. First of all, Sophia,
how are you doing? I'm doing very well. How are you? I
had COVID last week, but I'm better, But you're you're all better now?
Yeah? Well better is good and we're excited to have you come and
join us in Sue Falls for Snowjam Comedy Festival. Have you ever been to
Sue Falls before? I've not been to Sue falls before. It will be
my first time. And where are you from? Where, Like, which
part of the world do you live in. I'm not far. I'm in
Chicago. Okay, So you're used to weather no matter what we have that
time of year, Yeah, I am. Here's the thing that's weird.
This year has been kind of bizarre where we haven't had the same kind of
weather we usually have. But we had one year where snowjam was like fifty
two degrees and people are here like, so, what's the scoop with this?
I thought it was supposed to be snowing, So who knows what we'll
have when snowjam gets here. But we're excited to have you come and join
us. Now, let's talk about your style of comedy. How long have
you been doing this, and like, what type of comedy do you do?
I've been at it six years, going about to start my seventh year.
What type of comedy? Oh, I don't know what the options are
to answer that question. Is there somebody that you get compared to where people
go, oh, hey, you're just like so and so, not not
that I've heard yet, So then people will someday be saying that somebody else
is just like so feah, oh you like this lady, that's the goal,
I guess. Yeah, yeah, I've been doing it six years.
It's been a lot of fun. I started in Washington, d C.
I am from Chicago, but I was living in DC for a while and
started comedy there, which is a weird thing to be from Chicago and start
comedy somewhere else because it's a big comedy town here. But I've moved back.
I moved back last year and it's been a lot of fun. How
long were you in d C? Oh boy, on and off for about
a dozen years, and then you got out on good behavior? I got
it. I got myself out. Yeah, I got myself out. I
I was ready for a change, and so yeah, I came back home
to be closer to family and stuff like that. And of course Chicago's great
time for comedy as well. Absolutely, So do you do like political comedy
or what kind of stuff do you? Are you and known for? You
know? That's the funny thing is people you would think that about comedians in
DC, but a lot of people who start comedy in DC, A lot
of comedians in DC we didn't really touch politics environ materials mostly like outsiders are
traveling headliners who come through and do the political jokes as they're NDC. And
I think the reason for that is a lot of us it was just too
close and people. When you get started on comedy, you still have your
day jobs, right, Yeah, So a lot of the comedians in DC,
their day jobs are in the government or in that political space. So
I think it was when you get when you get into your nightlife, when
you get on stage, it's like you don't want to talk about that stuff,
but certainly and certainly it informs did informs sort of like how you're right.
I remember when I started a lot of my jokes or about just kind
of bureaucratic office job joke, cubiclecrat joke and what I called. I'll bet
people there could certainly relate to that for sure. Oh yeah, they loved
it. They loved it there. And then when you start traveling and doing
comedy and other cities, you're like, oh, I got to write something
else. Well, we're excited to see you when you get to Sioux Falls
Snow Jam Comedy Festival, January eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth and twenty first,
there's a ton of different shows that are going to be happening during those four
days. If you would like to get tickets, Snowjamcomedyfest dot com is the
website. And again, I'm excited to see you when you're here. And
again I appreciate you taking the time to chat. Thanks for chatting. I'm
excited to be there. I'm looking forward to it. And again it's going
to be here before you know. It's Snowjam Comedy Festival. I'll throw a
link to make it really easy to find as well on the Facebook page for
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Heidi Show. Excited to visit. Right now with Tom Henderson, we're going
to talk about the Resgen Men's Summit. It's coming up on February third.
Holy cow, it sounds like it's a long ways away, Tom, but
that's going to be here before you know it. Well, listen, what
do they say to say that the days are long and the years are shore
right? And sometimes it just feels like that, But all of a sudden
you look back, How did we arrive here so quickly? Yeah? But
yes, we're gearing up again for what we think is going to be our
biggest men's summit of the year. Rush you need ever, I mean,
let's just let's be real, ever, because you know, we had over
eleven hundred men last year and twelve simulcast sites, and this year we'll we'll
easily top the eleven hundred and we're I think we're up to about twenty simulcast
sites. So we're very excited about seeing how it's grown. It is so
cool and for folks that have never been to this, I've been to I
think all of them, if not all, just about all of them,
and this is something you definitely want to see it. It's an amazing event
and it is so much fun. And when you walk out of there,
you're going to feel like you got ten million dollars worth of stuff because you've
got so many great speakers each and every year. And I always think,
Man, I'd hate to be in your shoes, Tom, how do you
top this next year? And I'm looking at the list right now and you
did it again? Man, Yeah, you know it's it's a question I
get really almost almost within minutes after the event ends, people are like,
how are you going to top this next go a sact same question, John,
But you know what, each year stands alone and we just fully believe
that God wants to bring for that year. And this year's theme, John,
is all about being a man of courage and it's going to go from
eight am to one third eight And as you mentioned, we've got five dynamic
speakers and then a comedian this year. And you know, we've got David
Paul at College Football Analyst, was on a college sports analyst from ESPN College
Game Day for twelve years. Ryan Leek, who's an executive coach and author,
unbelievable communicator. I'm just telling you he's unbelievable. He's easily worth coming
out the day day for Jeff Strucker, who has actually portrayed the movie Blackhawk
Down, was a black Hawk helicopter pilot, an army ranger. He's going
to be sharing Chris Brown, who is an unbelievable communicator and storyteller pastor from
San Diego. Sean Reynolds, a very gifted comedian, is going to provide
some moments of levity of sustained laughter for guys like call a mental recess if
you will, as we just get to laugh together and then I'll be sharing
a message as well. It's always a really fun time. I have met
so many wonderful people there as well. There's some people that I consider good
friends now that I met them sitting at res gen Men Summit and we start
chatting, and they go to a different church and I go too, so
and you know, they work somewhere different than I work, and they live
in a different part of town than I live in. But we're all together
in this room and we get the chance to meet people and you you learn
stuff. And then even during the breaks it's positive because you're meeting new people.
So it's just such a fun day. Thank you for putting your heart
into this. Yeah, well, that's one of the joys of it,
to be honest with you, Jonath is connecting dudes with other dudes because so
many times we just get so focused on our schedules and our calendars, right,
and we just we move at a fast paced you know, right,
almost got a speed of light. And when we can kind of slow down
even just for that for that portion, you know, five and a half
hours and connect with other guys, it's a shared experience. And this year
we're gonna even make a more purposed attempt of trying to get guys to,
hey, we want you to connect with each other and not just say hey,
we're gonna get together after this, but actually make a plan and give
them like a resource to say, look, you're gonna so that you can
gather together and debrief and talk about all the great content, because we want
we want the content to live on. Otherwise, if we've just come to
the event and hang out, it's good. But man, let's go and
now let's put some stuff into action, because that's how change really happens in
our life and our families and in the community. I agree, I love
it if somebody listening is going, hey, you got my attention. I'm
kind of interested in this res GEN Men's Summit thing. It is Saturday,
February third, eight am till one pm. How do I get a ticket
to join you and be a part of it that day? Yeah, super
simple. Resgen dot org RSGN dot org. You just click on the Men's
Summit and then you can pick whether you want to join us in person or
be a live stream. It's only thirty five five dollars to come. I
mean, we're just given the thing away because we don't want finances to ever
keep anybody from coming. But that being said, thirty five dollars is something
that's too tall for you right now, just with everything going on in the
world, and that man, please email me through the website and we'll make
sure that money is not the reason you don't get to join us. I
love that Restoration Generation is what RESGEN stands for, and this is an amazing
organization based here in Sioux Falls. How long have you been around? Tom's
been It's a bit now, isn't it. Yeah. We started it back
in April of twenty ten, and first the first several years was all focused
on teenagers and back twenty years of my life was spent investing in teenagers all
over the country. But then we just saw what God was doing through specifically
to the Men's Summit, which has then launched into so many other things that
we do year round, specifically for men, for marriages, for parenting,
now in the corporate space. So it's been really fun to just see how
it's more. For the last thirteen years, the mission is state thing,
but the different vehicles and the methods have changed as as time has gone by.
But we're really excited about where we're at right now. It's wonderful and
I'm excited to see you on February third. Thank you so much for all
that you're doing, sir, all right, my friend appreciate you absolutely.
Tom Henderson and he is with Restoration Generation the RESGEN Men's Summit twenty twenty four,
February third, eight am to one thirty pm. All of the details
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Sunny ninety three point three. It was on this day, December twenty eighth,
nineteen fifty four. In just a few hours, a piece of Siue
Fall's history was all but lost. A downtown fire destroyed the top floors and
the entire interior of one thirty two South Phillips Avenue, the building that once
housed the Olympia Royal and the Time Theaters, caught on fire on the evening
hours after close, causing an estimated one hundred and ninety thousand dollars in damages,
and that was in nineteen fifty four. Seven young women who rented apartments
upstairs were able to escape without harm, although they were only able to make
it out of the blaze with the clothes on their backs. All of their
possessions went up in the flames. Nolt's Millinery, a Lady's Hat store,
which operated out of a street level storefront, lost all of their inventory to
the fire as well. Mister and Missus Nolt had only just locked the store
and drove one of their employees home. They had just arrived to their own
home when neighbors alerted them to the fire at their store. Missus Nolt declared
that she would build again, but no other businesses under the name of Nolts
Millinery show up and city records beyond that fire as far as we've been able
to find. Today this building is the newly constructed Lewis drog Downtown. It
has been occupied by two different women's clothing stores and as a storage space for
Lewis Drug in the interim. The building was damaged in the terrible tragedy December
second, twenty sixteen, when the Copper Lounge, just one building south collapsed.
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