Speaker 1: It's Steven back on the show. Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 2: Britt, Hello, thank you you were here not too long
Speaker 2: ago to talk about your upcoming event, not Till Now,
Speaker 2: which I love the name for people who didn't necessarily
Speaker 2: hear the first interview. Tell people what you're doing at
Speaker 2: the Lakewood Cultural It's the Lakewood Cultural Center.
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 3: Yep?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 4: On January twenty eighth, yep, the debut of Not Till
Speaker 4: Now is happening. It's an event where first take the
Speaker 4: stage and there will be eleven people myself included, doing
Speaker 4: something they've never done before. There's gonna be speaking, first
Speaker 4: time speaking, first time stand up, first time sharing a
Speaker 4: story that has been held for years. I'm gonna be
Speaker 4: doing the moonwalk in front of an audience for the
Speaker 4: first time.
Speaker 2: That'll be How did you choose the moonwalk as your
Speaker 2: area of expression? I mean, if we're gonna do if
Speaker 2: we're gonna do something where you know you're gonna like
Speaker 2: respond in interpretive dance, why the moonwalk?
Speaker 4: Well, so, I actually didn't have it planned until we
Speaker 4: were doing rehearsal. I came out dancing because that is
Speaker 4: what I'm going to do. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: I'm like, I took off my boots and just started
Speaker 4: doing the moonwalk, and I don't know.
Speaker 5: It's I can only do it with socks on, so well.
Speaker 1: I can't do it at all.
Speaker 2: And I've been trying since Michael Jackson did it in
Speaker 2: the eighties. I still can't moonwalk. And now this new
Speaker 2: thing where the kids look like they're running on air,
Speaker 2: I can't do that either.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what it is like. I can't
Speaker 1: get my feet to talk or my head to talk
Speaker 1: to my feet on stuff like that.
Speaker 2: So we talked before about how this all came about,
Speaker 2: and I got to tell you, it's like shades of
Speaker 2: you know, back in those old, old, old old movies
Speaker 2: with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, and they.
Speaker 1: Would be like two young kids and they'd be like,
Speaker 1: we've got a problem. What should we do? Wait, you
Speaker 1: put on a show? And then that's like the whole
Speaker 1: movie is then putting on a show.
Speaker 2: The entire theme of White Christmas. My favorite Christmas movie is.
Speaker 1: Let's put on a show.
Speaker 2: I don't think people necessarily jump to putting on a
Speaker 2: show as an answer to their problems anymore.
Speaker 1: Yet here we are.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I am. You know, so I had been hosting.
Speaker 4: I've been hosting an annual event called Moms on the Mic,
Speaker 4: where women get up and some of them speak for
Speaker 4: the first time, and some of them come up for
Speaker 4: an open mic moment as well, and so over these
Speaker 4: last few years, I've been watching these women speak for
Speaker 4: the first time, and there's just something so breathtaking about
Speaker 4: watching someone in their first And ever since the first
Speaker 4: Mom's on the Mic, I've been thinking about getting everyone
Speaker 4: in a room, no matter what gender, no matter what
Speaker 4: role they have, and having them all witness each other
Speaker 4: and just be able to be themselves.
Speaker 6: And so here we are.
Speaker 2: Now you guys have been doing rehearsals. You just said rehearsal.
Speaker 2: So how's everybody coming along?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 1: Is everybody getting you know, like getting their stuff done?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, no.
Speaker 4: We rehearsed in the venue a few days after Christmas
Speaker 4: when everyone was still putting their stuff together. So it
Speaker 4: was it was really funny to be under the spot,
Speaker 4: i you know, with something that wasn't totally polished. But
Speaker 4: that is totally what the events are going to be too.
Speaker 1: But that's even.
Speaker 2: Better though, because I do think that when you and
Speaker 2: this is just my experience doing shows and being in
Speaker 2: plays and stuff like that, when you do those first
Speaker 2: few run throughs, when everything isn't done and you're not
Speaker 2: off book, you haven't memorized your stuff, you haven't finished
Speaker 2: your stuff. It is it makes it seem real in
Speaker 2: a way that inspires you to work hard to get
Speaker 2: to the final product.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, for sure, Yeah, I definitely.
Speaker 4: And there's so much that goes into this stuff that
Speaker 4: people don't even realize, like just the time that it takes.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm going to be wearing a disco helmet
Speaker 4: and I didn't even realize that, you know, the silence
Speaker 4: that will be there when I'm taking it off and
Speaker 4: setting it down on the on the bar.
Speaker 2: Soctly does a disco helmet look like, Britt, I'm not
Speaker 2: familiar with the concept of a disco helmet? Is that
Speaker 2: so you don't hurt yourself doing the hustle?
Speaker 1: What is that?
Speaker 4: It's a motorcycle helmet with the mirrored that I bought
Speaker 4: off of Etsy because I was originally going to come
Speaker 4: out as an astronaut. But that's a whole other thing. Yeah,
Speaker 4: But then I came across this thing, I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 4: this is good. I can breathe in this, you know,
Speaker 4: because the astronaut costume I could not breathe in.
Speaker 1: But no, I'm just going to say this.
Speaker 2: If you were not intrigued by not till now, until now,
Speaker 2: you now know that at some point Britt was considering
Speaker 2: an astronaut costume. So really, as kind of anything goes that,
Speaker 2: we have a pair of tickets to give away, one
Speaker 2: pair of tickets. They are only like thirty tickets left,
Speaker 2: which is amazing for something of this sort of you know,
Speaker 2: chaotic nature and unprecedented nature. I guess I should say
Speaker 2: we have a pair of tickets. If you want to
Speaker 2: enter for the pair of tickets, you have to text
Speaker 2: us the most exciting thing that you ever did for
Speaker 2: the first time that is not sexual. Because I know
Speaker 2: that you twisted people in this listening audience will send me.
Speaker 1: About being in the backseat of the car. I don't
Speaker 1: want to hear about that.
Speaker 2: I just want to hear about the thing that you did,
Speaker 2: like the coolest thing you did for the first time
Speaker 2: that is not about sex. Text us with your name
Speaker 2: at five six six nine. Now I have one one
Speaker 2: of the coolest things I've ever gotten to do. We
Speaker 2: talked about this before. I had no fear of public speaking,
Speaker 2: never have, even as a kid. Put me in front
Speaker 2: of a room, I'm good, I'm fine. But in two
Speaker 2: thousand and eight, I was pregnant with my daughter during
Speaker 2: the presidential campaign and Sarah Palin was coming to town
Speaker 2: and they called me and said, hey, would you MC
Speaker 2: this rally for Sarah Palin? And I was kind of
Speaker 2: agnostic on the Sarah Palin as a human being, but
Speaker 2: I wanted to meet her.
Speaker 1: And I was like, you know, because I'm.
Speaker 2: A big believer in meeting politicians in real life, so
Speaker 2: you can kind of get a vibe for him, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. So I was really excited I
Speaker 2: was going to meet Sarah Palin and I was going
Speaker 2: to be speaking in front of about ten thousand people,
Speaker 2: which was the most people I'd ever been in front
Speaker 2: of at one time.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 2: And I got to tell you, I freaking loved it
Speaker 2: because so many of them were my listeners because Southwestword
Speaker 2: is so conservative, so there was a lot of crossover there.
Speaker 2: And when you sit in a room by yourself and
Speaker 2: talk to one person or no one. Sometimes for three
Speaker 2: hours you forget what that human interaction is is like
Speaker 2: you forget like the energy that you get from the audience.
Speaker 1: I absolutely loved it.
Speaker 2: I've never had the chance to speak as in front
Speaker 2: of as many people again. I hope to do it
Speaker 2: again at some point, but that whole experience was one
Speaker 2: thing that I would absolutely do again, even though I
Speaker 2: did not get to meet Sarah Palin.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm here for two hours.
Speaker 2: I was with the crowd for two hours, and then
Speaker 2: right before she was supposed to come on, they literally
Speaker 2: like shuffled me out the back door.
Speaker 1: The Secret Service.
Speaker 5: Did oh no, like dang it, of course.
Speaker 1: Dang it. Eh, William Bob sledded. That's kind of cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to ask you this and how much
Speaker 2: of this is you cheerleading and coaching and trying to
Speaker 2: help the people that are gonna get a stage for
Speaker 2: the first time to get over their fears, because isn't
Speaker 2: this kind of a fear based exercise a little bit?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, oh yeah, there's been.
Speaker 4: There's been a lot of text messages, a lot of encouragement.
Speaker 5: It's it is funny, but a lot of the men
Speaker 5: are like, oh, we're good, We got this, and the
Speaker 5: and the women are like, oh, help me, help me,
Speaker 5: help me, which is.
Speaker 4: It's so interesting because this is my first time putting
Speaker 4: on a show with men. And but then of course,
Speaker 4: like they're one of them said today, they're like, I
Speaker 4: am more nervous about because we're doing a second run
Speaker 4: through this Saturday, which just us. And he's like, I'm
Speaker 4: more nervous about that at this point than I am
Speaker 4: the show. And I'm like, I know, betimes, it is
Speaker 4: harder to do this in front of, you know, a
Speaker 4: small group or in front of people that you know, Like,
Speaker 4: that's been a hard thing too. Some of these really
Speaker 4: experienced speakers are sharing a story they have not shared before,
Speaker 4: and they don't even really want people they know very
Speaker 4: well to be in the audience in case they like
Speaker 4: crash and burn like that.
Speaker 5: It's so interesting to me, Well.
Speaker 2: You know, the fear of public speaking is deeply entrenched
Speaker 2: to you know, for many many people. Again I don't
Speaker 2: understand it because I have none of that. I just
Speaker 2: I just don't. But there's also something so incredibly powerful
Speaker 2: and beautiful in going full bore at something that scares
Speaker 2: you just about to death, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And the good news is is that whatever happens next
Speaker 2: Thursday night at the Lake With Cultural Center Wednesday, no
Speaker 2: Wednesday night. Excuse me, no one's gonna die, right Like,
Speaker 2: no one's dying from this. It's simply an opportunity for
Speaker 2: people to experience something they've never done before. Are you
Speaker 2: are there any that you're like this one is going
Speaker 2: to be an absolute like.
Speaker 1: Gonna crush it. Do you have like what you in
Speaker 1: your mind?
Speaker 2: Maybe the stars that are potentially sort of you know,
Speaker 2: perpolating on the surface.
Speaker 5: I don't, And I mean this. I totally mean this.
Speaker 5: I feel like they are all going to crush it.
Speaker 4: I really do Yeah, I'm so excited your ultimism.
Speaker 5: I really do mean that.
Speaker 1: So what are what is everybody doing?
Speaker 2: Like, give me kind of an over not not specifics,
Speaker 2: of course, but you have speakers who are telling a
Speaker 2: story they've never told before. My realtor, Ed Prather is
Speaker 2: going to be on the stage to tell a story.
Speaker 1: I've never heard before. Yeah, and Ed, you may not
Speaker 1: know this, but Ed was born.
Speaker 2: With one eye and you it's has absolutely no impact
Speaker 2: on how he does his job or anything.
Speaker 1: But I don't know the story.
Speaker 2: So I'm kind of fascinating to hear that. What are
Speaker 2: the other things that are going to be happening?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, so, but Ed's going to be doing stand
Speaker 4: up comedy for the first time and telling stories about
Speaker 4: living with one I and they are funny.
Speaker 5: I cannot wait for that.
Speaker 4: And then Naha man Hani she's falling in from California.
Speaker 4: She's going to be talking about overcoming this like freak
Speaker 4: illness that she had and then how in her healing
Speaker 4: she had the idea to finally.
Speaker 5: Write a book.
Speaker 4: And then Kitlyn Smith's going to be talking about her
Speaker 4: recent diagnosed with eighty HD and how she is rediscovering.
Speaker 5: Who she is now. And we're going to have Josh Schuman.
Speaker 4: He is a visual effects artist, but he is creating
Speaker 4: his first documentary ever, his first thing from start to
Speaker 4: finish that he's wanted to do since he was a kid,
Speaker 4: about his experience with the Foo Fighters.
Speaker 1: That's a cool experience.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so's he's got he's a super fan and he's
Speaker 4: got all these stories that people have always said.
Speaker 5: Like, you got to make a documentary, So he's finally
Speaker 5: doing that. And now, are any.
Speaker 2: Older folks do you have any folks that are maybe
Speaker 2: over sixty.
Speaker 4: Or getting close there. Yeah, yeah, we got, we got Liz.
Speaker 4: She's going to be talking about midlife and a whole
Speaker 4: story about her relationship with her breasts, a whole.
Speaker 1: Yes, get to know her. There you go.
Speaker 2: The reason I asked that is that I've been watching
Speaker 2: this woman who keeps popping up on my algorithms, and
Speaker 2: she is a hospice nurse, okay, and she talks a
Speaker 2: lot about end of life experiences and how people die
Speaker 2: and what she's learned in twenty years as a hospice nurse.
Speaker 2: And the number one thing over and over and over
Speaker 2: again in these videos is you know what people on
Speaker 2: their deathbed only talk about the things they didn't do. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And so you don't want to go through life having
Speaker 2: a life of regret, right, You don't want to go back.
Speaker 2: And there are things I will tell you. I mean,
Speaker 2: there's things I wish I had done differently. And I
Speaker 2: think that's different than saying, oh, I regret that. It's like, ah,
Speaker 2: go probably could have handled that a little bit better
Speaker 2: than I handled it. But I never want to look
Speaker 2: back and go, man, I never should have left that.
Speaker 1: On the table. And I think that's part of what
Speaker 1: this is what not till now is all.
Speaker 4: About yes, yes, And it's also one of those oh gosh,
Speaker 4: I'm like having like a moment like blanking out because
Speaker 4: I'm just so excited about it.
Speaker 5: But it's it's also oh man, you know.
Speaker 1: It's okay.
Speaker 2: It's just this is the kind of stuff that I
Speaker 2: always encourage people. When I turned forty, I made forty
Speaker 2: my year of Yes, Yes, where whatever I got invited
Speaker 2: to do, I did it, and some of it I
Speaker 2: absolutely hated. I'm not gonna lie, I really hated it.
Speaker 2: But now I can say, oh, I've repelled down a
Speaker 2: giant skyscraper. I've done these things, so I know the
Speaker 2: things I don't ever want to do again. But without
Speaker 2: saying yes, without saying not till now, I said no,
Speaker 2: But now I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Yes, let's do this.
Speaker 2: I have a link to my tickets to the event
Speaker 2: next Wednesday night at the Lakewood Cultural Center. You can
Speaker 2: find that on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna rip through these very quickly.
Speaker 2: It's so hard to decide who wins, so just get ready,
Speaker 2: because we have to decide who wins.
Speaker 1: I'm going to read these very quickly adam flying overseas
Speaker 1: to meet a girl I met online.
Speaker 2: At age sixty four, I ziplined in Jamaica, even though
Speaker 2: I'm terrified of heights. That from Barbara, Hey Mandy, I'm Audrey,
Speaker 2: and I went ziplining for the first time at fifty five,
Speaker 2: so afraid of heights, but loved it and proud of
Speaker 2: myself for conquering my fears.
Speaker 1: Hey Mandy.
Speaker 2: One time, in the back of a car, I decided
Speaker 2: to take a speech class as a freshman with all seniors.
Speaker 2: You want to talk about deathly fear. Brian says I
Speaker 2: valet parked an ambulance and they told me not to
Speaker 2: turn on the lights or sirens, but I did anyway,
Speaker 2: did my solo flight, proud and scared. Brandon Miller says,
Speaker 2: I went and participated in a random modeling edition off
Speaker 2: of Facebook. They actually picked me, but I couldn't afford
Speaker 2: the trip to California for the show.
Speaker 1: Went to my first.
Speaker 2: Broncos game at the Old Mile High Stadium and did
Speaker 2: the stonework on course field, and went to the first
Speaker 2: opening day Here's One. Hopped a freight train from Denver
Speaker 2: to Cheyenne back in seventy two you know, they don't
Speaker 2: really let you do that anymore. No freight train bumps anymore.
Speaker 2: All right, let's see here and the.
Speaker 3: Last one, there's a clear leader for me, which one
Speaker 3: I'm not going to say.
Speaker 6: I want to lead you guys, to lead the witness here.
Speaker 3: Oh, once we get through them.
Speaker 6: Well, you know, I served lunch to Bob Hope.
Speaker 1: I like that one.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that was thing besides bull riding, wrote a
Speaker 2: tower elevator up the seventeen hundred foot Cumulus FM tower
Speaker 2: and DFW, that's scary.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. I mean, I like.
Speaker 2: The ambulance one and I and I like the two
Speaker 2: women who went ziplining, because that's kind of.
Speaker 1: The big deal.
Speaker 2: But Adam also flew overseas to met a girley that online.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's kind of a Brandon participating in a
Speaker 3: random modeling Facebook. And then he also didn't get to go. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so which means he needs to go in the show
Speaker 3: to replace you.
Speaker 1: What, Brandon, you're the winner? How about that?
Speaker 2: We'll be in touch, Brandon, pick up the phone when
Speaker 2: someone calls it a rod. Now it's time for the
Speaker 2: most exciting segment on the radio. It's gone tell her
Speaker 2: what you have to yell in the world as loud
Speaker 2: as you.
Speaker 1: Can in the world. Not that, but absolutely no knowledge
Speaker 1: up front of the day. That's how it works. Okay,
Speaker 1: BRIT's playing with us. And what dad joke of the day?
Speaker 1: Please a rod?
Speaker 3: My sister said I was being immature. I guess she
Speaker 3: isn't getting her nose back?
Speaker 1: Wow? Wow?
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: What is our word of the day.
Speaker 5: It's a noun an abeyance.
Speaker 6: Okay, guess what it means, Brett, what do you think.
Speaker 5: A bayon obayon a b e y a n C.
Speaker 2: I feel like that's like a right of way thing,
Speaker 2: but I don't think that's right.
Speaker 3: Is a thing?
Speaker 6: No, finding a law or a rule? Uh No?
Speaker 3: A formal word that is almost always used in the
Speaker 3: phrase in abeyance to describe something in a temporary state
Speaker 3: of inactivity.
Speaker 2: Oh, I know legally in there that's a that's a
Speaker 2: contract term. Today's trivia question very simply, in what country
Speaker 2: did the sport of bob sled originate?
Speaker 1: I was just Norway? You no, not Jamaica. Were you
Speaker 1: gonna say Jamaica?
Speaker 6: Turkey?
Speaker 5: This is why I didn't want to do this, because I'm.
Speaker 6: Shocked jeopardy yet I said Turkey, No, Switzerland.
Speaker 2: I should have get that well. Sleds have been used
Speaker 2: for transport for centuries. The sport of bob's led was
Speaker 2: invented in Switzerland in the late nineteenth century when the
Speaker 2: Swiss attached a steering.
Speaker 1: Mechanism to a toboggan.
Speaker 2: The world's first bob sled club was founded in Samurtz Was,
Speaker 2: Switzerland in eighteen ninety seven.
Speaker 6: Right there you go.
Speaker 1: What is our geopardy category? Now, Brick.
Speaker 2: You have to say your name to answer the jeopardy category,
Speaker 2: say Brick, and then you have to answer in the
Speaker 2: form of a question. Okay, answer correctly, you get one.
Speaker 2: If you answer incorrectly, you get minus one. Okay, I
Speaker 2: will wait until the end of the question. Out of
Speaker 2: courtesy to our guest, you do not have to wait
Speaker 2: until the end of the question if you think you
Speaker 2: know the answer.
Speaker 6: And have no fear.
Speaker 3: Mandy is three and two so far I'm killing so
Speaker 3: she's around five hundred.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Fittingly, the category is first Things First, okay, Okay. It
Speaker 3: took six tries, but in two thousand and two Steve
Speaker 3: Fawcett became the first man to fly solo around the
Speaker 3: world in one of these. So I'm talking about flying thing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you a hints. It's not a plane,
Speaker 3: I know. Just can you fly around the world in
Speaker 3: really cool?
Speaker 1: It's a world?
Speaker 6: Yeah, here comes the next hint. Around the world in
Speaker 6: eighty days star.
Speaker 1: What is a balloon?
Speaker 6: What is hot air balloon?
Speaker 1: But I don't know what it is.
Speaker 6: We'll give you a half point. No, we're not okay.
Speaker 3: In nineteen thirty five, drivers in Oklahoma City became the
Speaker 3: first to feed these a nickel in the slot.
Speaker 1: Mandy, what's the slot machine?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, ummmm, think Britt. Drivers to feed
Speaker 3: these a nickel in the slot? These are hard.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I have no idea what.
Speaker 3: Our parking meter? That's okay, it's still it's zero zero.
Speaker 3: We're tiede We're tied. Produced by the Bureau of Engraving
Speaker 3: and Printing, the first ones of these in rolls were
Speaker 3: issued in nineteen o eight. Mandy coins wrong, what frit
Speaker 3: might win with nothing? That's okay, I was unless you
Speaker 3: know it. Andy's got minus one? What are stamps? Oh? Geez, okay,
Speaker 3: so there are two more, Britt, you're ahead zero to
Speaker 3: minus one.
Speaker 5: Okay, so not answering.
Speaker 6: Really, hell, it really does sometimes still in operation.
Speaker 3: The world's first pay one price theme park opened in
Speaker 3: the US in this state in nineteen sixty.
Speaker 1: One pay one price theme park.
Speaker 6: What state did open in nineteen sixty one?
Speaker 5: He one, California? Did you say your name the brit California?
Speaker 3: Wrong? Oh?
Speaker 6: Thank god? That is Texas, all right? So that is
Speaker 6: minus one to minus one point wins? Okay. In nineteen sixty.
Speaker 3: Seven, Carl Stokes defeated Seth Taft to become the first
Speaker 3: black mayor of a major US city, This city.
Speaker 1: I have no idea. I'm not going to guess you
Speaker 1: two well, And.
Speaker 6: What is Cleveland to a tiebreaker?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 3: Yum?
Speaker 6: Candy is the category? Get this one? Okay?
Speaker 3: Some of this company's fine chocolates are embossed with its
Speaker 3: naked lady on a horse leado. What is a dive?
Speaker 6: You didn't wait till the.
Speaker 3: End of the question, though, Oh so we're gonna go
Speaker 3: the next time.
Speaker 1: The end of the question.
Speaker 3: You started to say it before I finished. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: let's go to Still Young Candy. In nineteen ninety seven,
Speaker 3: this candy introduced a female character Who's Green?
Speaker 6: She called her autobiography, I melt for no one.
Speaker 1: Mandy, what are eminems? I'll see you next Wednesday night
Speaker 1: at Not So Now. Thanks for coming back.