Speaker 1: Wow, we have one highwayman left Yep, will He's still hanging. Yeah,
Speaker 1: old and Wrinkley Willie, but he's he's still still hanging.
Speaker 1: Rest in peace. Chris Christophferson died at age eighty eight.
Speaker 1: And Wow, we were just talking off air. What was
Speaker 1: some of the things that he did that people don't know?
Speaker 1: Like the janitor story was amazing.
Speaker 2: We always kind of joke around, like Chris he was
Speaker 2: an ok singer, He was an okay actor, but a
Speaker 2: great songwriter, right, Yeah, not just that. Chris Christofferson was
Speaker 2: a Golden Gloves boxer.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Played football in college, was a rugby star, was an
Speaker 2: Oxford scholar, getting his Masters in English from Merton College
Speaker 2: at Oxford. Flew helicopters as a captain in the US Army,
Speaker 2: turned down an appointment to teach at West Point to
Speaker 2: pursue songwriting in Nashville, So instead of teaching at the
Speaker 2: US Military Academy, he worked part time as a janitor
Speaker 2: at Columbia Records to try to get into the business.
Speaker 1: Talk about chasing your dreams, man, and burning your boats
Speaker 1: like General Cortez and having that's uh. I admire that,
Speaker 1: especially in any industry where it's really really, really tough
Speaker 1: to make it, especially back then. You know, right now
Speaker 1: you can get on YouTube or whatever and you've got
Speaker 1: a broader chance of someone making wow much respect. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He uh. He passed away at his home in Maui's
Speaker 1: surrounded by families. By his family, according to his representatives,
Speaker 1: fifty plus years on the screen. And uh, I think
Speaker 1: my favorite role, well one of my not my favorite,
Speaker 1: but one of my favorite roles of course, star is born.
Speaker 1: I mean, how do you top that? But Abraham Whistler
Speaker 1: when he played Abraham Whistler in.
Speaker 2: Blade, who played his mother.
Speaker 1: That's a dollar out, thank you, that's a dollar out.
Speaker 1: His family did issue a statement here it is says
Speaker 1: it's with a heavy heart that we shared the news
Speaker 1: our husbands, slash fathers, slash grandfather. Chris Christofferson passed away
Speaker 1: peacefully on Saturday, September twenty eighth at home.
Speaker 2: He had a role in Payback the Mel Gibson movie.
Speaker 2: Did he where Mel Gibson was trying to get seventy
Speaker 2: thousand dollars back.
Speaker 1: That was it.
Speaker 2: And there were like three different bosses and he was
Speaker 2: one of the bosses, one of the crime bosses. It
Speaker 2: was pretty good.
Speaker 1: It goes on to say that we were also blessed
Speaker 1: for our time with him, Thank you for loving him
Speaker 1: all these many years. And when you see a rainbow,
Speaker 1: you know it's him smiling down on us. So they
Speaker 1: also said that there was no cause of death listed.
Speaker 1: So he was eighty eight. He was eighty eight. I
Speaker 1: liked that he went peacefully at home. Well, that's how
Speaker 1: I hope I get to go at home, you know. Oh,
Speaker 1: comedian Tom Mabe is walking already already here, hang on,
Speaker 1: hang on, grab a seat and have some headphones. We
Speaker 1: just got got here starting. Why did you knock? You
Speaker 1: saw the on air? Why don't you at least knock?
Speaker 3: Okay, check one, check too. I'm not hearing. Here's the issue.
Speaker 1: Plug your headphones here alright, trying to figure it out.
Speaker 1: All right, just talk about Chris Chris Stofferson passing away.
Speaker 3: Oh man, was that terrible? And I saw you know
Speaker 3: the barbari striis sound.
Speaker 1: They did a movie Stars Stars Born.
Speaker 3: She's getting up there, she's next.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he be he beat her by nose.
Speaker 2: He beat me to it.
Speaker 1: Todd Mabes joined us. You're gonna we're gonna be talking
Speaker 1: to you. Just sitting right now.
Speaker 3: I'm early.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, no hang out, hang out with us, man
Speaker 1: and uh. Two juveniles were shot outside p r P
Speaker 1: High School in a football game. It looks like John.
Speaker 1: John Bradley, the spokesman for l m p D, says
Speaker 1: officer responded to a trouble run at seven point fifteen.
Speaker 1: JPS security officers requested LMPD for crowd control. Shots were
Speaker 1: fired in the parking lot a little bit after eight o'clock.
Speaker 1: Two juvenile victims, one of us sent to Saint Mary's
Speaker 1: Elizabeth and Is It has non threatening injuries. The other one, however,
Speaker 1: did go to University of Louisville Hospital facing critical injuries.
Speaker 1: Police says that the suspect fled and they're still looking
Speaker 1: for him. No suspect as of now.
Speaker 2: So the days of just getting into a fist fight
Speaker 2: and ending it are over.
Speaker 1: It is it is. I mean, I gotta tell you
Speaker 1: it's getting bad out there.
Speaker 3: I'm scared, Yeah, of course, I swear to God. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm extreme. I've never been more concerned in my life.
Speaker 1: No, me too, Tom, I'm you know, we'll get to
Speaker 1: joking around, but that's uh. Maybe we'll go joke around
Speaker 1: on this when travelers have been stranded at the Greyhound
Speaker 1: bus stations. Get it, get it. All you want to
Speaker 1: do is take a cheap transportation, but you know it
Speaker 1: leads me down. It's not just airlines, even the bus line,
Speaker 1: thank you Carl. Even the bus lines are breaking down.
Speaker 1: When I heard this story, I thought, wait a minute.
Speaker 1: I thought we didn't have a Greyhound bus station, and
Speaker 1: we don't. They closed and they moved it to a
Speaker 1: strip mantra. This comes from a Renee Cato. Uh, CatCo, sorry, CatCo,
Speaker 1: you're in here something about the time we'll tell that
Speaker 1: story maybe.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Dozens of people are stranded at the bus station on Broadway.
Speaker 1: Evidently they shut down the all of the Greyhound bus
Speaker 1: I guess the whole organization was bought by another company
Speaker 1: and they started selling off properties, meaning bus stations, for profit.
Speaker 1: They sold the downtown Louisville one. The woman was right
Speaker 1: there at seventh of Muhammad. I believe that's where it was.
Speaker 3: I just bought the homeless shelter, did you. I'm going
Speaker 3: to turn it into a dispensary.
Speaker 2: Brilliant, brilliant.
Speaker 1: But evidently some people have been stranded for hours. Some
Speaker 1: people have been stranding for days. All they wanted to
Speaker 1: do is take a bus. One man was taking a
Speaker 1: bus from Illinois to Florida. He's been here for two days.
Speaker 2: He could walk to Florida faster.
Speaker 1: You think. Yeah, Plus, who was to ride a Greyhound bus?
Speaker 1: I mean anyway, Greyhound has moved its Louisville stop to
Speaker 1: a strip mall West Broadway near twelfth Street. So I
Speaker 1: guess that what they did is they bought all these
Speaker 1: just Greyhound bus in general, and started taking big corner
Speaker 1: properties like the one that we had our bus station
Speaker 1: out selling it and it's running out of strip mall.
Speaker 3: The converting remember the photo mats.
Speaker 1: Of course, yeah, and you had to wait. You had
Speaker 1: to wait for two or three weeks to get your
Speaker 1: film back, and then when you did, there's a damn
Speaker 1: thumb print or something over yes yes, or the skin marker.
Speaker 1: What are the box office receipts? Real quick? Da mm hmm.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do that then see what happened. See
Speaker 1: how many these movies we actually know? I rarely know
Speaker 1: any of them. See what you know? Tom uh coming in,
Speaker 1: Let's do six because they got six on here. They
Speaker 1: were talking about Francis Ford Coppola head, Francis Francis, Uh, Megalopolis.
Speaker 1: Evidently there's been a lot of discussion. I don't know
Speaker 1: anything about Megalopolis.
Speaker 2: Do you not a thing?
Speaker 1: Four million? It came in.
Speaker 2: It's not like a Transformer thing.
Speaker 1: I know. It's a Francis Ford Coppola thing. And they
Speaker 1: said it was a it was a big deal, but
Speaker 1: it came in six Uh.
Speaker 3: I thought Meganapolis was that big, the big elephant look
Speaker 3: a thing on Sesame Street.
Speaker 1: No, that's a snuff.
Speaker 2: Okay. Here is Megalopolis a conflict between Caesar, a genius
Speaker 2: artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic feature,
Speaker 2: and his opposition, Mayor Franklin Cicero, who remains committed to
Speaker 2: a regress of status quo, perpetuating greed, special interest in
Speaker 2: partisan warfare. But that sounds fun, hilarious. Cost one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty million to make in four million.
Speaker 1: Brought in four million dollars.
Speaker 2: So fifty weeks from now they're go and break even.
Speaker 1: Coming in at five. Uh. I'm sure I'm mispronounced this,
Speaker 1: but here we go. De Vera Part one who d
Speaker 1: e v ar a devau deva deva devora Part one.
Speaker 2: A twenty twenty four Indian Telugu language action drama directed
Speaker 2: by kaddi Ya Silva and jointly produced by You Have
Speaker 2: Shitty Arts and antr Arts.
Speaker 1: Oh that's he's my right, he's good, he's really.
Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety six, in a high level security meeting
Speaker 2: discussing the security threats to the nineteen ninety six Cricket
Speaker 2: World Cup in India, the police capture ye these henchmen
Speaker 2: to interrogate him about yet these whereabouts. I think it
Speaker 2: wouldn't do better if it were in three D action movie.
Speaker 1: You know. So let's get to regular guy movies. Here
Speaker 1: we go, coming at number four. Well, this is animated,
Speaker 1: so it's not a regular guy movie. Transformers one an
Speaker 1: animated movie. Felt at third place, nine point three million
Speaker 1: dollars is pretty strong. Beetle juice. Beetle juice. Damn it, Dave?
Speaker 3: Is that any good? Have you guys seen it?
Speaker 1: I wait until it comes on TBS for us.
Speaker 2: Nope, haven't seen it.
Speaker 3: I'm old school MANSA network, USA Network or TBS.
Speaker 1: Those are only two channels we have.
Speaker 2: It's takes four and a half hours with commercials.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't matter. Hey, that's what VCRs are for, Dave,
Speaker 1: that's true. Beetle Juice. Beetle Juice took in second place,
Speaker 1: sixteen million. That's pretty strong. Yeah, and The Wild Robot
Speaker 1: won the North American box office this weekend. An animated movie.
Speaker 1: These cartoon movies thirty five million dollars in the debut weekend.
Speaker 2: Not cartoons and superheroes. That's all we have.
Speaker 3: You notice on Netflix the top ten movies, seven of
Speaker 3: them are always animated.
Speaker 1: I don't understand that.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't like it. I'm like, I
Speaker 3: get kind of ticked off, like I just want to
Speaker 3: see something.
Speaker 1: I want to see. You know, people you want to
Speaker 1: see full frontal nudity and explosions, you know, And I.
Speaker 3: Tell you what they do not knock their full frontal
Speaker 3: nudi animators.
Speaker 2: Watch Watch the Piano Dight Ye?
Speaker 1: Is that a really good one?
Speaker 2: You get to see Harvey Kaitel full frontal.
Speaker 1: So there, Why would you.
Speaker 3: Adrian Brody right? Who Adrian Brody was?
Speaker 2: Helen Hunt was in it. I'm not sure who else
Speaker 2: it was born?
Speaker 1: Is it about a piano?
Speaker 2: Piano's in it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Good? What's that movie about my left foot?
Speaker 2: That's oh that twit's his face, Daniel day Lewis.
Speaker 1: Is it just about a left foot?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and a famous.
Speaker 2: A famous left foot, my left foot and Oliver neural.
Speaker 2: No one expects much from Christy Brown. That's Daniel day Lewis.
Speaker 2: A boy was Sarah bra Palsy, born into a working
Speaker 2: class Irish family. Though Christie is a spastic quadriplegic, band
Speaker 2: name and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at
Speaker 2: the age of five, he demonstrates control of his left
Speaker 2: foot by using.
Speaker 1: Chalk so he's drawing with it or.
Speaker 2: To scrawl a word on the floor. With the help
Speaker 2: of his mother, Brenda Fricker and no shortage of grit
Speaker 2: and determination, Christie overcomes his infirmity to become a painter,
Speaker 2: poet and author.
Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, hang on, spastic quadriplegiastic quadriplegic plural, that's just him.
Speaker 1: Just no, I'm just saying a band name.
Speaker 2: Well, it could be Christie in the spastic quadriplegics, you
Speaker 2: know something like that.
Speaker 1: Okay, hang on, let me log it in right now?
Speaker 1: Is logged in?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: All right? Then? What final thing louder in life went
Speaker 1: off without a hits kind of Friday, of course got
Speaker 1: rained out. Luckily that was one of them.
Speaker 3: I saw the Monarchs there. Boy, they were.
Speaker 1: Uh, the only two days because the Susan's scheduled only
Speaker 1: two days we could go is Friday and Sunday, and
Speaker 1: Friday got rained down.
Speaker 3: She saw her like hero guy right.
Speaker 1: Well no, yeah, so yesterday, Uh, the main reason we
Speaker 1: wanted to go yesterday was to see the Eagles of
Speaker 1: death Metal, one of my favorite bands, one of her
Speaker 1: favorite bands, and they absolutely crushed it. And then as
Speaker 1: he was walking off the stage, I yelled, you know hey,
Speaker 1: because we were right on the side of stage, Hey, Boots,
Speaker 1: great show, and he gives a hug. And then later
Speaker 1: we ran into him at like a little private function
Speaker 1: thing they have there, and he came up to her.
Speaker 1: They start talking a big fan of hers really way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know they're you know they're doing Do you
Speaker 3: think so, dude? She cheating on you with that? Dude?
Speaker 1: Well, they went they went into craft services, and they
Speaker 1: were gone for about twenty five.
Speaker 3: Minutes, and there's some really good food in the crafts,
Speaker 3: so that into that day they got some really good
Speaker 3: crafts craft services.
Speaker 1: Craft services was closed. Do you think they made him
Speaker 1: like a special meal.
Speaker 3: Was it like an r V?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you want to keep the special special food like
Speaker 1: the rock star food?
Speaker 3: Is that the rock star and the Uh?
Speaker 1: There must have been some great drinks because I think
Speaker 1: starts shaking and so the bartender really.
Speaker 3: Knew what he was doing and blenders good. If you
Speaker 3: put too much in him sometime they will kind of vibrate.
Speaker 1: A whole lot.
Speaker 2: Okay, So nothing to worry about.
Speaker 1: To worry about much been You know, it was a
Speaker 1: little bit warm yesterday, so I imagine they had the
Speaker 1: fans on because her hair was really messed up when
Speaker 1: she walked. Yeah, yeah, it was that from the fans.
Speaker 1: You think it was.
Speaker 3: Human and warm, so I'm sure it looked like someone
Speaker 3: took a leaflower to it.
Speaker 1: Feel so much better. Thank you guys, Thank you guys
Speaker 1: so much. All right, it is Mama Joke Monday. Uh
Speaker 1: so let's get to it. Hang on, mm hmmm, all right,
Speaker 1: here we go. Glad I got the new community music.
Speaker 1: He telling a joke in front of a professional comedian.
Speaker 1: Damn a and I'm watching, I know, damn it. Look away,
Speaker 1: Hey fellas, Hey d man, your mama is so old.
Speaker 2: Oh, come on, man, how is she.
Speaker 1: She's so old? When she was born, the dead sea
Speaker 1: was just sick. O. That's good. Hey, listen Sims Furniture.
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Speaker 1: Dixie Highway, right next to the courthouse, and also on
Speaker 1: Preston Highway, the old Target building all right, more on
Speaker 1: the way. Comedian Tom May joins the show. Caribou's gonna
Speaker 1: stop by, and then David Beck is gonna come on,
Speaker 1: David Beck, I'm on once again. We talked to when
Speaker 1: we want talk about nipples and soccer, that's when we'll
Speaker 1: call on you repeat it back to me.
Speaker 2: Nipples in soccer.
Speaker 1: Okay, thanks David Beck. Sorry, Okay, joins the show. It's
Speaker 1: all on the Way News Radio eight forty w h
Speaker 1: as Sue Sue's studio. You know that was just a
Speaker 1: placeholder word, Dave, when he was writing a song, I
Speaker 1: never knew what it meant, so it was just a placeholder.
Speaker 2: I thought Mel Tillis wrote it.
Speaker 1: He was looking it's supposed to be about a female
Speaker 1: and didn't have the name, so he just put that
Speaker 1: It's studio, just put it in as a placeholder, and
Speaker 1: he just stuck it. It just it just stayed there.
Speaker 3: You're talking about Phil Collins, Yeah, Phil calling, But Leland's Klar.
Speaker 3: He's a bass player, plays with him and it's a
Speaker 3: lot of great stories there.
Speaker 1: Uh listen. Name dropping when you leave the studio today, Dave,
Speaker 1: be careful you don't trip on any of the names
Speaker 1: that comedian.
Speaker 2: Tom drop and if any of the names leave a stain.
Speaker 3: Dude, come on, you think you think I'm bad? Brad Pitt,
Speaker 3: terrible name dropper. I can't go anywhere with it.
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Speaker 1: joins the show and he's got some big things come on.
Speaker 1: Can't wait to get into and talk about it. It's
Speaker 1: all on the Way News Radio eight forty whas Tom
Speaker 1: Mabe a comedian Keith McGill. He's a funny guy.
Speaker 3: Oh that's good.
Speaker 1: Stuff right there. So okay. Tom Abe. Comedian Tom Abe
Speaker 1: joins the show. I've never met a man who has
Speaker 1: been more brilliant about reinventing himself over and over and
Speaker 1: over and over. You start out people. Everybody hates telemarketers,
Speaker 1: and in twenty twenty four, when there's so many jobs
Speaker 1: out there, I often say, hey, really, this is the
Speaker 1: job you took to call people and bug them. But
Speaker 1: so that's how it started out. You had the idea
Speaker 1: everybody was getting bombarded with tell him yeah.
Speaker 3: And I had just gotten married and I was built
Speaker 3: a little recording studio. I'm doing jingles and whatnot. And
Speaker 3: I couldn't afford the downtown studio and the new little
Speaker 3: house we bought, so said, I just work out of
Speaker 3: the house. I got the phone number they call, and
Speaker 3: ninety percent of the calls were telemarketers trying to sell
Speaker 3: me replacement windows for a house that was brand new.
Speaker 3: And I just started here. I had this incredible digital
Speaker 3: recording studio, had like a two inch of tower tape machine.
Speaker 3: I mean, I had more money in this little bedroom
Speaker 3: that I did in the whole house. And I found
Speaker 3: I get a record deal on Virgin Records of a
Speaker 3: recording I made on a thirty seven dollars answer machine
Speaker 3: messing with telemarketers, and it just it turned out to me,
Speaker 3: like it's what a great ride. It was really that
Speaker 3: last call you just heard was on my own label
Speaker 3: on Maybe in America, and that's how that launched the
Speaker 3: TV show Maybe in America CMT. And so it's been
Speaker 3: a great ride. And you know, when you say reinvent yourself,
Speaker 3: I'm very lucky that I don't have to work as
Speaker 3: hard as I used to. But I get bored and
Speaker 3: I just want to keep I don't you know. We
Speaker 3: we talking about earlier, like when we're going to retire
Speaker 3: and whatnot, and I just want to have fun now
Speaker 3: and do things that I really want to do.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't like you just made a couple of
Speaker 1: recordings you get signed to Virgin Records. At first you
Speaker 1: read I believe it was a tractor trailer. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Well when you park it outside the house.
Speaker 3: Parked outside the house with filled with CDs and padded envelopes,
Speaker 3: and we would we would go, do you guys remember
Speaker 3: back in the old days at the old station with Gumah,
Speaker 3: Rocky and Troy and Uh and Cozy and and and
Speaker 3: we just had a website. We were on the very
Speaker 3: first websites I think you know. That was actually we
Speaker 3: had to figure it out and navigate through all that
Speaker 3: you know, commerce page and we were I'd wake Melnie
Speaker 3: up at three am. I said, I just it was,
Speaker 3: I said, I just I just ran seven hundred orders.
Speaker 3: Can you get up? We got to get this out
Speaker 3: and we would like you know, and it was. It
Speaker 3: was a great, great run. And it's not like we
Speaker 3: live in the entertainment capital of the world, Louisville, so
Speaker 3: it's it's great to be able to stay in this bit.
Speaker 3: And then the labels started knocking. We were I remember
Speaker 3: remember the when we had record stores at the back.
Speaker 1: And oh yeah.
Speaker 3: I drove in the back of my little Nissan truck.
Speaker 3: I went down to Nashville and I took five thousand
Speaker 3: dollars and I bought it and a KDI. I took
Speaker 3: five thousand against the credit card and I put it.
Speaker 3: There's a station called KDF and and I knew. I
Speaker 3: called down there. I said, you all sell CDs. I
Speaker 3: can sign my other record store like Blockbuster. Yeah, they go, yeah,
Speaker 3: we sell them an assignment. So I said, okay, great.
Speaker 3: So I put cause I knew we had a hit,
Speaker 3: and I put five thousand dollars on this radio show.
Speaker 3: I did, like you do you do a little more?
Speaker 3: I'm doing a little jingle and over and uh available
Speaker 3: at Blockbuster. And so I go to a Blockbuster. I go, hey, man,
Speaker 3: I got these CDs and go who are you?
Speaker 1: I called?
Speaker 3: He said, oh, we don't know. I don't know what
Speaker 3: this is. We're not gonna carry this. And he said,
Speaker 3: we just do like wrap albums and local artists and
Speaker 3: stuff like that. Okay, so so okay, So I went.
Speaker 3: I called my rep at the radio station. I said, man,
Speaker 3: can you please get me on the morning show? Just
Speaker 3: skip me in the morning show. And I said, look, man,
Speaker 3: if you guys go to Blockbuster and they're they're selling
Speaker 3: really fast. If they're out, we're going to replent. It's
Speaker 3: just hang tight. And I called them. I said, I
Speaker 3: got to stay another night in Nashville. So I finally
Speaker 3: I called Blockbuster just to plea one more time. Can
Speaker 3: you get me? Can you play? And hey it's Tom
Speaker 3: Maybe Tom? He said where are you? Said, I'm went
Speaker 3: to the hole, Tason, can you can you bring CDs?
Speaker 3: We had to line out the door, people trying to
Speaker 3: get and and I just it was it was. It
Speaker 3: was bittersweet because you know, I was a professional, you know,
Speaker 3: music producer and you know, and went on to do
Speaker 3: some really fun stuff and going back and forth to
Speaker 3: Nashville as a singer, sign in the Bluebird Cafes all
Speaker 3: that stuff, and I finally get a break. So it's
Speaker 3: kind of bittersweet. And uh, it was class clown, but
Speaker 3: I never set out to be a comedian.
Speaker 1: Evil Knievud is something similar to that. When he wanted
Speaker 1: to jump Caesar's palace.
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: He started to call up every other every day as
Speaker 1: somebody else, disguising his voice, saying he know he was
Speaker 1: Bob Henderson from ABC. Why World Sports wanted to know
Speaker 1: who this and he would mispronounce the name. Who is,
Speaker 1: says Evil Carnival. That's going to be jumping your brill.
Speaker 1: The president of Caesar's contacted Evil Knieve and that's how
Speaker 1: that got done. Wow, there's a uh, there's a documentary
Speaker 1: called Being Evil. Let's get back to you though. So okay,
Speaker 1: so that's how let's not dismiss writing jingles because some
Speaker 1: of your jingles still get played today Cunningham Cunningham overhead.
Speaker 3: Door, call the plumber whose name is the number? And
Speaker 3: right now in every four years, I get in this
Speaker 3: political uh political, I'm doing jingles for I guess people
Speaker 3: a running for school district or whatever. The agency that
Speaker 3: I've worked with for years still call me call me
Speaker 3: and uh I've been Uh I went by. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm I don't do it full time, but when they call,
Speaker 3: I do them. But yeah, does it?
Speaker 1: Did it ever irritate you that? You know? So maybe
Speaker 1: you come up with call the man whose name is
Speaker 1: his number? And you hear it every single day, every
Speaker 1: commercial break, and you just sold it because Barry Manilo
Speaker 1: did that before broke in. He he did, you know,
Speaker 1: like a good neighbors stay for me so many of these. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he just got paid one flat fee and that
Speaker 1: was that.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's the thing about well that the
Speaker 3: college plumber's name is number. That was I think it
Speaker 3: was Nika Singer Rick Shardine at Current Marketing who said that.
Speaker 3: And usually they come with an idea on the concept. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, I remember the whole tumbleweeds. Tumblewee cooks cerious things.
Speaker 3: So I can't fi in the kitchen and I want
Speaker 3: the Best of Show in the Louis Awards for that,
Speaker 3: And I felt bad because you know, it was that
Speaker 3: Rick Shardin. It was actually it was his idea. I
Speaker 3: just put the music to it. But so but you know,
Speaker 3: local commercials. But I've gotten really lucky where I'll get
Speaker 3: at a show with Kennedy from MTV, I called friend
Speaker 3: or Phone and at that thing, they reran a hell
Speaker 3: of that for like six years. I get as cat money.
Speaker 3: So a lot of times we get sag after on
Speaker 3: the national and the national commercials. And one thing I
Speaker 3: was more excited about with Maybe in America on CMT,
Speaker 3: I was more excited about I got to do the
Speaker 3: music for the whole show, the theme, all the incidental music.
Speaker 3: I was more excited about doing the music than being
Speaker 3: the star of the show.
Speaker 1: Another time that you reinvented yourself is and we'll talk,
Speaker 1: we'll tell the story later, is when you and I
Speaker 1: were supposed to do the Amazing Race together, but you're
Speaker 1: a corporate comedian, uh huh, and the corporate comedian. The
Speaker 1: time when you make the hey the most would be
Speaker 1: the holiday season. You beat November, be November, December, and
Speaker 1: that's when they had slated for you and I to
Speaker 1: go on this. So you canceled, and corporate comedy pays
Speaker 1: really well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you do the clubs for love and you do
Speaker 3: the corporate for cash, right, And I mean I could
Speaker 3: do one. I mean at and T would fly me
Speaker 3: in and fly me home the next the next morning
Speaker 3: and to do forty five minutes. And it was like, wow,
Speaker 3: this is a lot different than drive across country, do
Speaker 3: the Funny Bone or something.
Speaker 1: And the payday was great. Yeah. Yeah, And she had
Speaker 1: all these corporate gigs lined.
Speaker 3: Up and they got and when you and I were
Speaker 3: going out, and I'm like, I mean, I said, I
Speaker 3: don't know, I'm actually gonna lose money doing this, but yeah,
Speaker 3: you and I get to hang because of a good fellowship,
Speaker 3: will go to LA and do the amazing race and yeah,
Speaker 3: the night before well and.
Speaker 1: So it was two nights before production started and they
Speaker 1: flipped the cast. But the reason I bring that up
Speaker 1: is because now you're out a ton of money. We're
Speaker 1: not gonna talk how much it is, but you're out
Speaker 1: a ton of money.
Speaker 2: I lost.
Speaker 3: I think I lost because I would be in a
Speaker 3: different city for data and corporate shows. Yeah, holiday season. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so I remember I kind of recouped this. And I
Speaker 3: think what you're leading to is when I I had
Speaker 3: an idea for a video and I put on Facebook
Speaker 3: because I'm looking for four or five black guys and
Speaker 3: you're saying their asses off. And I held auditions and
Speaker 3: we had and our friend Kimmick camp Well actually named
Speaker 3: them and I can't apparently I can't say their name,
Speaker 3: which is ridiculously got four million followers. They don't want
Speaker 3: me to say, where you stupid? And uh but anyway,
Speaker 3: and it was I sided, we're gonna, you know, uh,
Speaker 3: go door to door knock on people's tours and you're
Speaker 3: not going to and people think that they're the rob them,
Speaker 3: but they're actually there singing Christmas carols and uh and uh.
Speaker 1: How many how many it was in the was it
Speaker 1: in the billions? Like? Uh? Billions?
Speaker 3: Got that?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: That my no. I got over three billion cumulative, but
Speaker 3: that one it depends on what upload it was. But
Speaker 3: I've gotten over one hundred million views on those things.
Speaker 1: And then it leads to America's got talent. Yes, you
Speaker 1: and Kim and are flying out there with him because
Speaker 1: you're you're managing That's what I'm talking about when you
Speaker 1: reinvent yourself, because you did that out of necessity, because
Speaker 1: you need.
Speaker 3: I lost all this money and I needed to recoup
Speaker 3: and you know, and you know, we did the same
Speaker 3: thing with almost Herbie. Herbie. Herbie's got well over. He
Speaker 3: outperformed the band the Uh and he's the one saying,
Speaker 3: Holly louj and stuff when we're right outside your office
Speaker 3: is here, you know, singing and whatnot. And got him
Speaker 3: on a GT.
Speaker 1: So he did get on Americans.
Speaker 3: He got his well. Another girl I worked with for
Speaker 3: like three years as Kelsey Ballerini, who's a big country
Speaker 3: star now and she's she's rocking it. So so yeah,
Speaker 3: So when you say reinventing yourself, it's always felt like
Speaker 3: it's like, honey, I tried the amway. It didn't work all,
Speaker 3: not at.
Speaker 1: All what I mean at all. I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: it seems like that you don't stay the course, so
Speaker 1: it seems like you get almost bored.
Speaker 3: I get my, you know my, and when you're self employed,
Speaker 3: you can't live or die by one revenue stream. And
Speaker 3: always tell my kids, I said, you know, you gotta
Speaker 3: have ten different things out there and You may not
Speaker 3: make a whole lot from any given stream, but you
Speaker 3: add them together, you eat out a house payment. And
Speaker 3: the big thing one thing that I did very smart
Speaker 3: when I started making money because I got a lot
Speaker 3: of famous friends who don't have money. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: a whole lot of friends. And I just started buying
Speaker 3: you know properties, you know about twelve years ago and
Speaker 3: uh and this property led to this property, this lead
Speaker 3: I got into Bourbon Trail, Bungalow and this one. I
Speaker 3: would build up so much equity and I know A
Speaker 3: bought the place on the beach on Hilton Head and
Speaker 3: get reado that again. And I'm not trying to bring
Speaker 3: but those are little those are just like little annuities,
Speaker 3: little cash cows. I do the short term rentals. So
Speaker 3: I'm I'm uh, I guess what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 3: I got a lot of money. I'm not saying that
Speaker 3: at all, But I still do this social. You know,
Speaker 3: social is our biggest stream, and we worked that quite
Speaker 3: a bit. I'm getting ready, I told you very drive across.
Speaker 3: I'm leaving the day to go out to California.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Tom Mabe is our guest. Me and Tom May
Speaker 1: what many hats you wears in your entertainment industry. But
Speaker 1: Big Beer Comedy Festival, You're gonna be performing with Kevin
Speaker 1: Neeland and Adam Croll out there.
Speaker 3: I did a lot of comics in there. Yeah, And
Speaker 3: I said, they invited me, and I said, you know,
Speaker 3: I've always didn't want to do this. Maybe in America
Speaker 3: where I go all these landmarks. And I was just
Speaker 3: talking in there. We had a zoom meeting with me
Speaker 3: and my seven other people out there, and I said
Speaker 3: I and they were like, well, talk about that that
Speaker 3: maybe in America as well as it was a TV show.
Speaker 3: I always wanted maybe in America to be where I
Speaker 3: go to these landmarks. Yeah, the Arch, you know whatever,
Speaker 3: Mount Rushmore, which is out of the way, we can't go,
Speaker 3: but you know Grand Canyon they go. We will pay
Speaker 3: everything if you do that, and then plug the festival.
Speaker 3: Really Yeah, Hey, guys, Tom Abra and Mae and I
Speaker 3: met up to the Big Bear Comedy Festival in Big Bear, California,
Speaker 3: and uh, and then you know, do something, do some
Speaker 3: kind of gag. I want to see the world's biggest
Speaker 3: ball of yarn and you know, and then something majestic
Speaker 3: like you know, Grand Cadillac Ranch and Mamorarella or whatever,
Speaker 3: Colorado Guard of the Gods in Colorado Springs, which is beautiful.
Speaker 3: I was there out there with the Lincoln Uh we'll
Speaker 3: call me in part and and uh and uh, you
Speaker 3: know what's really was really really sad. And this is
Speaker 3: the big the worst thing about that. When I got
Speaker 3: the call from a newspaper reporter saying, hey, you're being sued.
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, what's your comment. I'm like, my heartbroken.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And one of the guys in the group, uh, and
Speaker 3: he just passed away. He got killed. Echo Jeremiah Buckner,
Speaker 3: dear friend. He quit that band that day. He quit
Speaker 3: and he finished some gigs and he and I started
Speaker 3: doing some things together, and uh, he was just trying
Speaker 3: to I'm like, he's like, what different Tom. You know
Speaker 3: they created it. We're not even the original. You know,
Speaker 3: Kevin had named him, this is that whatever, And it
Speaker 3: was so it was just so uh uh it was
Speaker 3: so uh. And I heard that he got Jeff Fister
Speaker 3: called me. He said, well, yeah, theyal little gain my
Speaker 3: old change said what do you do? I said, hey,
Speaker 3: may I talk to her? He said, Echo got cut
Speaker 3: and they called me from the and I knew what
Speaker 3: was going to happen when heat seekers and opportunists getting
Speaker 3: new band, you know, they're going to find you out.
Speaker 3: And they said, what do you think? And I saw,
Speaker 3: I said, he should have been Uber rich. He's because
Speaker 3: he's Uber talented. Should have been Uber famous, not driving
Speaker 3: from not driving for Uber, and that's why he was
Speaker 3: driving an Uber Well not that's nothing wrong with not
Speaker 3: so much talent, and he and Jeremy he is by far.
Speaker 3: It was like, you know, and I know I met
Speaker 3: a lot of talented people that are this guy was
Speaker 3: like easy on the eyes, incredible voice. God, just just
Speaker 3: I mean, his arrangement, everything you heard from that group,
Speaker 3: he arranged it all. And just when he came in
Speaker 3: because two of the guys didn't want to do they
Speaker 3: let they quit and we got two more and those
Speaker 3: and I remember we're sitting in my office and there
Speaker 3: they came in to say and Kim and I just
Speaker 3: looked at each other like damn wow. And we're both
Speaker 3: we're both musicians, very we're established professional musicians, and we
Speaker 3: were like freaking blown, I mean, goosebumps now thinking about
Speaker 3: their arrangements that I called it, so it's it's sad,
Speaker 3: you know that. Uh, but I hear that I talked
Speaker 3: to one of the guys. Uh uh I got a
Speaker 3: I got a wonderful call from a famous person here
Speaker 3: and and uh anyway, it was great. And uh so
Speaker 3: where where where we're find me? And uh echo and
Speaker 3: I made up and me and Sean China Lacey we
Speaker 3: uh we we talked from time to time. He yeah,
Speaker 3: so it's all good.
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