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John ed Heidi Show. Excited to visit with Andrew Yang. He's one of
the comedians we're going to see at Snowjam Comedy Festival January eighteen, nineteen twenty
and twenty one. And we've got Andrew on the line. Andrew, how
are you, sir? I'm doing all right? How are you doing?
John? I'm fantastic. I'm excited to visit with you and I'm gonna see
Have you been to Sue Falls, South Dakota in the past. No,
this will be my first time coming up. Well, welcome to Sioux Falls.
You're gonna love it. It's a great place. You're used to the
weather because you're from Michigan. Is that righty, Yes, that's correct.
Yeah, So the Kodo I'll field just late home. Absolutely, You're gonna
feel right at home and Sioux Falls and we're going to have a really good
time. Yeah. And again the thing that's nice, Snowjam Comedy Festival is
an organization that is raising money for Dakota Academy of Performing Arts. So I
love the fact that we've got a lot of stand up comics that are coming
to Sue Falls to help raise money for like the next generation of performing artists.
I just think that's a really neat thing. Yeah. Yeah, I'm
super excited. Yeah, I've always wanted to be a part of this.
So yeah, I'm glad, unfortunate will be. I think it's the last
year, right, it is the last year, and again I'm sad about
that, but I also I love that they're going out on a bang.
It's like one of the most popular festivals. People love to come to this
and every year they have way more people submit entries than they ever have room
for so it's not like the thing is fizzling out. It's just that everybody's
kind of got their own stuff going on and you get to be a part
of it. We saved the best for last. We got Andrew Yang this
year. And let's talk a little bit about what you've been doing as far
as stand up comedy. How long have you been doing this and what was
it the guy you interested in this? So I've been going about like seven
issuars now, started around twenty sixteen, and yeah, it's something I've always
wanted to do. I started my first open mic in ann Arbor, Michigan.
I originally just want to be a writer. I just wanted to be
like a television writer for like those late night programs where you see people at
monologue jokes. Yeah, and I submitted a packet I got rejected. I
was pretty frustrated because I worked really hard on it, and I was like,
why didn't I get accepted? So I stalked everyone who accepted who got
accepted, and there I had to stand up comedy background. So I was
like, I guess I'll try this and then yeah, I did that once
and got hooked. That's awesome. I'm excited for you to come and be
a part of this festival. You're going to meet a lot of great people.
Have you done other festivals as well? Andrew, Yes, I have.
Yeah. Last year was the first year I'd ever started applying to festivals,
So yeah, I've been lucky to be traveling a lot. I was
in Cleveland, Chattanooga, Indianapolis, so I've been quite a bit this year.
And the thing that's really cool you get to maybe even experience this more
than what I do, because I've only seen the Sioux Falls festival. But
when all of these people get together from all different parts of the country,
wonderful connections are made and some really neat collaborations happen, And I just think
it's kind of a magical thing that happens at a comedy festival. Yeah,
it does feel a lot like summer camp where you're just like all together in
like this the same place and just become good friends. Like I have real
close friends that I've only hung out with like three days have the whole year,
but like we're going to be friends for life now. Absolutely, And
for folks who have not had a chance to hear Andrew Yang do stand up
comedy. What kind of comedy do you do? Is there somebody that people
compare you to at all? I guess when I first started, I just
did a complete ripoff of John mulaney, so but hopefully I pivoted away from
that. But yeah, I really like his style of just like observational and
anecdotal, so I try to mimic that, or I did too much in
the beginning, so hopefully I've steered away from that now. Very nice.
Well, I am excited to meet you in Sue Fall, South Dakota,
and again, thank you for joining us at the Snowjamcomedy Festival, and thank
you for your time today. Yeah, of course, thanks for having me
and I'll see everyone soon again. Andrew Yang one of the thirty comics who
will be here. There's a bunch of comedians, and there's a bunch of
sponsors and a bunch of volunteers that make this happen and we need you to
come out and sit in those seats and enjoy it. And every year these
performances sell out, and this being the final year, they're absolutely going to
sell out. If you don't have tickets yet, you can get them now.
It's Snowjamcomedyfest dot com. SnO Jam Snowjamcomedy Fest January eighteen, nineteen twenty
and twenty one in Sue Fall, South Dakota Again. You can get your
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Show. Excited to visit right now with doctor Dan from Sioux Fall's Hypnosis.
Hello, sir, how are you? How are you? Thanks for having
me. I'm glad you're here. I'm excited to chat with you because today
we're going to talk about something that we've kind of touched on a little bit
the last couple of weeks. But this this time of year, there are
a lot of people who make a resolution to quit smoking. That's one of
the big ones, yep. And I can tell you my mother did that
for years. She would make the resolution to quit smoking, and then I
don't know, it's maybe fifteen years ago, she gave up smoking for Lent
and she just never started again. So she actually, after many, many
many years of smoking, she quit. And I was just talking to her
not too long ago, and she was saying, I don't know all.
I mean, I can't believe it took well, you know, and the
secret to committing smoking, mean to quitting smoking. I'm sorry. You know
a lot of people have tried. They've decided they're going to quit, and
they try and then and then they they quit for a while and they start
smoking it. But your and your mom had done that. But then she
got to Lent and she did it again. And the reason she succeeded is
because Lent was was important enough to her that when she made the decision to
quit smoking, she was actually all in on it. That the whole Lentin
thing had enough leverage on her to change the dynamic, and it changed.
She learned that this other thing was important enough that she could now stick to
what she had decided to do. So this is how I talk to people
when they commit quitting smoking starts with a decision, all right, and you
have to be all in on it. You did you ever see Karate Kid,
the first one? Yeah? Yeah, okay, So do you remember
that scene where okay, so Daniel he has to learn karate now, right,
because he's got to go fight in this tournament because it's the only way
those boys aren't going to beat him up everyday for the rest of the school
year. Yeah. So he rides his bike and he arrives at mister Maggie's
house. It's that scene where he has to wash and wax all the cars,
and he's walking up to the house and you see mister Mayagi walking out
with that bucket of water and he walks up there. He looks at Daniel
and he says, are you ready to learn karate? And Daniel says,
I think so or I guess so one of the two. And you see
mister Maggie stop and he puts that bucket down and he squats down over that
bucket and he says, first, make sacred packed. I promise teach karate.
You promise learn, teacher, say student? Do he said learning Karate's
like walking on the road. If you walk on the right side, you're
safe. If you walk on the left side, you're safe. If you
walk in the middle, pretty soon you get the squish, just like grape.
You karate do same, you karate do yes, or you karate do
no, You karate do guess. So I'll try, I'll do my best.
I'll give it a shot. What else do I have to do?
I gotta try something. I might as well do this. I've tried everything.
You do any of that that will be the reason you fail. What
he was telling Aniels if you have to make a change, if it's time
to time to become something you're not. You have to decide you're going to
succeed before you ever begin, because if you begin, we're all desperately afraid
of failure, and in order to protect ourselves, we want to start any
difficult thing safely, safely from the middle of the road. And what he
was telling them is that doesn't work because you're leaving open the door. Your
safety comes when you leave open a door where you can where if it gets
tough or weird or stressful, you can run out and still look at yourself
in the mirror and say like, well, I did my best or I
tried, and then we get to feel better about that. And what he
was telling him is, if you really have to make a change, you've
got to shut the door behind you, and you've got to be all in
on it. And your mom the lent thing was enough to make her all
in on that decision where she had she'd kind of she'd always been in the
middle of the road before, but the lenten thing had enough leverage to get
her to shut the door and stay in it. That's awesome, And that's
the bag when she says, I don't think about it anymore. That's really
hard for people to wrap their head arounds. But hopping smoking is a decision.
It's a choice you have to make now. I always tell people whose
job is to quit smoking, it's yours. My job is to make it
easy, okay. But the only way I get to do my job is
if you actually are a yes. If you walked out of the middle of
the road, decided you're a yes, and went all in on it,
then like called like your mom, like many many other people, it's easy.
If you can certainly don't want to quit, you can't make me right,
and even inside your head, because people will say out loud, do
I really want to quit? But in their head they're like, well,
really, I kind of. I hope this works. I hope it works
this time. And you can't even be in the middle of the road inside
your own head. You've got to actually commit, You've got to be you've
got to be outside the safety zone and have made a decision for yourself and
be all in on it. I should have asked this before we got this
far down the road. But does this same thing apply when it comes to
like, I know it's a newer technology, the vaping anything, Yeah,
is that the same like the same thing. If I'm trying to quit vaping,
it's the same as trying to quit smoking. Yep, yep, it's
all the same thing. I was gonna say, I kind of chewing that
is as well. It's you know, any substance like that in that genre,
and really anything that you're drinking, eating, whatever that you would like
to stop change, the same logic applies. Okay, it is a decision.
The problem is is that most people, most smokers, most vapors,
most I don't know, maybe I'm drinking too much pop or whatever people will
say, are running around the world trying to find the pill, the plan,
the person, the patch. It's going to do the heavy lifting for
them, a magic pill, that's all we need. Well that they want
something that will that that will take on the heavy lifting, so they don't
ever have to kind of decide there. Yes, they don't ever actually have
to commit because remember, then then we're not in a safe place anymore.
We could actually fail now, and so the risk is higher and they're looking
for something that will take away that risk. And so my job is to
help you actually make that decision and realize that you can do it safely and
be okay. I mean, one of the things you can do is you
can go to my website, Soofalls hypnosis dot com and I've got there's a
link there to my YouTube page. You can go see I have break it
up into playlist. You can see people come and quit smoking all the time.
They're happy to tell you how it went for them, and you'll hear
a lot well, I realized it was just a choice. Yeah, And
as soon as people do that and they go all in on it, everything
becomes easy. If somebody listening would like to make that choice. What is
the best way for them to connect with you? You certainly can go to
my website, Sufalse Hypnosis dot com or you can reach me directly at six
oh five seven zero two sixty six y nine one, happy to talk to
anyone. Very nice, Thank you sir, Thank you again, Suefaalse Hypnosis
dot com. And I'll throw a link to that at Facebook dot com slash
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this day in Sioux Fall's history, brought to you by the Sioux Falls Fund
Page West Sioux Studios and Sunny ninety three point three. It was on this
day, January sixteenth, nineteen fifty seven, her Royal Highness Elena, Princess
of Romania, spends the evening in sue Fall, South Dakota, daughter of
King fernand the First and granddaughter of Queen Victoria saw Alexander the Second and Queen
Maria the Second of Portugal. Winter nephew, King Michael the First abdicated the
throne in December of nineteen forty eight and the Communist Party took over in Romania.
Princess Elena and her family were exiled from the country. After brief stints
in Vienna, Switzerland, and Argentina, she would end up in Newton,
Massachusetts, in nineteen fifty. She would spend the next eleven years working with
the Romanian Orthodox Church, speaking around the country educating Americans about the dangers of
communism. While one of those speaking engagements brought her to our Fair City,
Princess Elena warned sux Fall citizens and America of the slow spread of Communism.
She warned of a take not through brute force, but with a few key
positions in American government being held by the wrong people. She wanted to warrant
that the takeover America was the goal of the Communist Party and not likely to
be abandoned. The princess became well versed in communists and socialist politics as she
fought against it as it spread in Romania for ten years, first battling for
six years against the encroaching Nazis and then for four against the Soviet government after
the war. After her exile, Elenya also spent two years in Argentina during
the liberal presidency of Juan Perone. Princess Elenya would retire from speaking and would
become part of the Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration in Pennsylvania, eventually becoming Mother
Superior. She would remain at the monastery until her death in nineteen ninety one.
This day in Sioux Fall's history has been brought to you by the Siux
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