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Speaker 1: Good morning, Mindy.

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Speaker 2: How are you doing today?

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Speaker 3: Hi Ero, how are you? Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I'm very excited to share a conversation with you

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because you are exercising what I believe is a mantra

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that all should lead lead in their lives, and that is,

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share your story or somebody will write it for you.

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And I'm hearing things from your podcast and I'm going

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I didn't know, and if I wouldn't have known, then

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I would have assumed and I would have written my

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own story. So you're doing something here that is absolutely phenomenal.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're very excited about it. I mean being able to,

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as my dad always said, keep my name alive, you know,

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being able to do that and talk about my dad

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and you know, growing up and what it was like.

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And I've always sort of wanted to do that. I

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did that a little bit and stand up, but I

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really wanted to be able to have audiences listen to

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these clips. Right now, we're doing Jimmy Kimmel and also

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My Dad's Act, a clip clips of my dad in Vegas,

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you know, through the nineteen sixties on clips that people

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haven't heard before and some I haven't heard, and just

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him on stage when he did like four shows a

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night at like twelve, two, four, five o'clock in the morning,

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and just how he related to the audiences and how

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that worked, and you know, it was really exciting to

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listen to and to discuss.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but the way that you and Ed are presenting

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this is in a modern format.

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Speaker 2: And what I mean by that.

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Speaker 1: Is, sure, we could go and live in the past,

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which we're told not to do, but you're you're planting

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it in a brand new generation the same way that

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I watched Johnny Carson on we TV. I want to

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know the greats so that I can take with the

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great shared and try to move it into our present

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place of now, because they obviously figured it out before

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we got here.

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Speaker 3: Oh absolutely. I mean, yeah, my dad started doing stand up.

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You know, it might have been he might have been

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bombing in the lounge, and then he started insult seeing

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a guy at the bar, and that sort of spanned

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out and he would do imitations of his mother and

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her friends and again, you know, relating to the audience.

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And I think it shows like Carson where my dad

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would come on and it was a totally different format

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where everyone would sit on the couch. All the celebrities.

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They would stay on the couch and my dad would

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come out and it became like a party because they

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were all sitting there. My dad would insult them and

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it was just a really interesting, fabulous dynamic to watch

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that you really don't see today that I think was

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very exciting because it just was so spontaneous and just

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worked so well.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that's still stuck in my heart

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is the fact that when he would look at you

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and say, just keep my name alive. I just in

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my own personal vision, I would see that smile after

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he would say something like that. And was he that

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way to where he would say something so seriously and

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then all of a sudden he would just he would

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laugh up and he and all of a sudden, It's

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like it was like the extra soil you put on

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a seed so you have a great crop.

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Speaker 3: Definitely. I mean he always had that sort of I

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think that's what helps so much with his comedy. He

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always had that little chuckle at the end or that

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you know, I'm really a nice guy and this is

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not really who I am. You know, we make fun

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of people and we laugh and and these are the

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things he would say on stage, and you know, trying

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to bring the audience together, which you really was able

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to do all different walks of life and different ethnicities,

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I mean things, A lot of it not politically correct today,

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but in the time that it was, it worked. So

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you know, he came out at at the exact perfect time.

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There wasn't a better time for that.

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Speaker 2: Please do not move. There's more with many Rickles coming

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up next the name of the podcast Mindy Ed and

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Don Rickles. We're back with Mindy.

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Speaker 1: With all of Ed's experience in the broadcast industry, did

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he ever sit back and look at what your father

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has accomplished and said, my god, he was doing radio

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the way radio became But we needed someone like your

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father in order to open up that door for radio

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people to cut loose and to when you cross this line,

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you know, radio people are going to say some stuff.

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Well you know what, Don Rickles beat you to it.

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Speaker 3: Oh for sure. I mean he really was the start

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of all of that. And and you know, you see

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like Howard Stern and people like that today that were

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just very outlandish, I mean more so than my dad

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would ever have been. But I'm sure I know that

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Howard Stern. My dad was on him one time, and

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I know, you know Howard Stern loved my dad and

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just thought he was great. And I'm sure he took

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some of his stuff from my dad in terms of

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being able to just breakout and say what you wanted

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to say. And again, I think it brought audiences together

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in a way that was very you know, special and unique.

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Speaker 1: But what a brilliant plan for your father though, to

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go on Jimmy Fallon and to continue that journey of

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comedy forward, because all of a sudden he was sitting

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there with Generation Z and X and the millennials and everything,

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and your father now was still shining that star that

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was just as bright as those early days.

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Speaker 3: Oh definitely he was able to continue. I mean, so

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many comics can't say this. His career spanned, you know,

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like forty five years. He was able to really go

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from the early days in the sixties through the seventies, eighties, nineties,

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and his audiences stayed with him. He had new audiences.

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He always had young people in his audience. It wasn't

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like as he aged the audience age. You know, there

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were older people, there were younger people, there were all

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different walks of life and that was an incredible thing

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that he was able to keep going, and audiences still

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wanted to see him all through the years. With all

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the different comics coming up, they still loved my dad.

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And all these comics that worshiped my dad that I

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met doing stand up that said, oh my god, your

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dad was such a legend and he's the reason I

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do stand up and different things like that were just really,

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you know, great to hear.

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Speaker 1: What about all of the writing, because your dad comes

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across to me as somebody who was a writer? What

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are you doing with that? And he was, wasn't he?

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Because I mean with the way that he expressed himself,

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that had to have started on a page, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, actually Arrow, it didn't. He really did not write.

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Bob Newhart's best friend was the opposite. He wrote. He

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was very meticulous, you know, like a Jerry Seinfeld, and

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the actor was brilliant. But my dad never wrote a joke,

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and he sort of got a sense of what kind

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of an act he was doing depending on stories he

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might have told about his mother, his mother's friends, or

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different imitations he did and the insults or whatever, and

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it sort of formed an act. I don't know how

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he did it, but he did, and he was able

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to do that, and yet there was so much spontaneity

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in his act because when he spoke to people in

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the audience, that was right off the top of his head.

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So and yet it was always brilliant. So how he

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did that, I would not know, because I wrote, and

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every comic I know says they write. And he never

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wrote a joke. He never really told jokes per se,

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but he really never wrote anything down. It was all

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sort of in his head. And he would listen to

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his act certainly, but it was all in his head,

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which was truly amazing.

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Speaker 1: Would you say then, that he was a stream thinker

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and that he trusted improv where so many other people

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would rather sit there and ask a question when they're

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an improv when in reality it's about forward motion.

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Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, I mean he wouldn't even go what the

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hell is improv? But he was doing that all the time.

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You know, he was just off the top of his head,

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and whatever he was getting back from the audience, things

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would just come out and they would love it. And

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the more the audience, of course laughed, the more it

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fueled his energy and his spontaneity, and he just went

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from there. Yeah, and it worked, you know, And he

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did all the friars roasts of all these big stars.

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He didn't know what he was going to say about them,

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and he just kind of got up there and whoever

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he was roasting, Orson Wells or Frank Sinatra or Dean

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Martin or whoever these people were, he just kind of

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went off the cuff. And you know, he was often

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he was usually the funniest one up there, so it

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always it always worked.

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Speaker 1: I can't thank you enough for this podcast because I

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feel like that you and Ed have invited me over

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for dinner and we're talking about your dad and we're

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just having this honest to god conversation and your format

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with Ed is just so much mind blowing and so addictive.

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I just it is such a beautiful place to be

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to put your dat up on display like that, just

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so we can love him even more.

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Speaker 3: Oh Aero, thank you so much. That's exactly what we're

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hoping to get across. So I really am thrilled that

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you feel that way, because that's what we want the

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audience to listen to here.

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Speaker 1: Well, please come back to this show anytime in the future.

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The door is always going to be open for you.

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Speaker 3: Mindy, thank you, Ero, thank you, it was great to

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join you.

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Speaker 2: Would you'd be brilliant today?

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, thank you, thank you,