Speaker 1: This is This is Americans Live. I'm producer Andy, filling
Speaker 1: in for our host Ari, who's busy on Saturday Night Live. Yes,
Speaker 1: I wasn't joking. Last week he's joined the cast of
Speaker 1: Saturday Night Live, which is so so great for him. Anyway,
Speaker 1: he's left me in charge. Much like last week, this
Speaker 1: week's episode will also be a little different than usual.
Speaker 1: I think we've established that the best part of This
Speaker 1: is American's Live is me, producer Andy, and my ability
Speaker 1: to sift through the archives and find footage from the
Speaker 1: lives of our guest contributors during the interview. As well.
Speaker 1: This week, we're going to replay three more of my
Speaker 1: favorite interviews from this season so far. Brian Husky, Rica Shankar,
Speaker 1: and radio personality Joe Joe. Right, all right, let's get
Speaker 1: into the first interview. Brian Husky enjoy especially guest contributed
Speaker 1: Brisky you today. Oh, I'm very good. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: I'm I've only eve been listening to the show. I
Speaker 1: you know, I came to it maybe about halfway through
Speaker 1: your run. You know, I had some people so recommend
Speaker 1: it to me. I always trust her a word of
Speaker 1: mouth and um, and these people were you know, really
Speaker 1: sort of tapped into a lot of Zeitgeists podcasts and
Speaker 1: and so I really felt like that's uh that spoke
Speaker 1: to me for a long time. Yeah, and and for
Speaker 1: me to go back and sort of go find all
Speaker 1: these archives. It's also a time capsule, you know, like
Speaker 1: you're focusing on the first cell phone and you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: and then sort of you know when when small inspection
Speaker 1: stations closed down, like these big moments in society, that
Speaker 1: the shifts, we actually had that small inspections one. I've
Speaker 1: always been there, you know, we have that in the
Speaker 1: archives that when the small such as it's such a
Speaker 1: cause a family runs small inspection empire, when that goes down,
Speaker 1: that I mean, it's heartbreaking, it's really heartbreaking. Any it's
Speaker 1: number inspection house, uh, any chain of different small inspections
Speaker 1: across the Houston Metroplex area shut down for really two days.
Speaker 1: People who need to get their cars inspected and you
Speaker 1: know the status of the smock of their own cars,
Speaker 1: we're just sitting there with their pockets and ends. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well we've had this our family for must have been
Speaker 1: three years now, you have three three years and nine
Speaker 1: months this Tuesday. Yeah, we don't want to Yeah, we
Speaker 1: want to say four years, but it's not four years yet,
Speaker 1: but we will be in two months, in one week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but we didn't want to say that it was four
Speaker 1: years because we know you're a journalist and we don't
Speaker 1: want to be any gotcha journalism. We want we want
Speaker 1: to be factual for you, and also we want to
Speaker 1: be factual about we're closing down, but not for any
Speaker 1: kind of criminal reasons. We really want to emphasize that,
Speaker 1: which are you ever going to devote to people? Well,
Speaker 1: you just say any closed down. We'll divulge all the
Speaker 1: reasons why, all the reasons that are not reasons why
Speaker 1: we close down. Like will say, like, we did not
Speaker 1: close down because for criminal reasons. Yeah, well, we did
Speaker 1: not close down because theft or future arson like if that,
Speaker 1: if that happens in the future. We did not burn
Speaker 1: it for insurance money purposes because it got to be
Speaker 1: too much not having this place open very long. We
Speaker 1: got miles to feed. We did not try to cash in.
Speaker 1: I burned the place down. We do not have a
Speaker 1: gambling problem that is currently up ending our existence. Surely
Speaker 1: after the interview, all four locations burned in the hell
Speaker 1: fire and the two brothers twin brother smug inspection banished
Speaker 1: the blue deating a lot of people with no smug
Speaker 1: inspection places to go to. Yes, I would like to
Speaker 1: apply for a driver's license. Um, I am not trying
Speaker 1: to get a new identity. I'm not flying a law.
Speaker 1: They just had to accompany him to the d n V. Sir,
Speaker 1: I can only help one of y'all. So who who
Speaker 1: needs the I D and who does not? I'll do
Speaker 1: not not need it. Okay, I don't have I do
Speaker 1: not have time for this, and I am I am
Speaker 1: not a word play person. To I am not a
Speaker 1: double entendre. If you're trying to post some of that crap,
Speaker 1: you can take it right out of here. Rad Namma
Speaker 1: for him was in That was a good one. It was. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I kind of is a young me, very much a
Speaker 1: round over version, and I thought it was really interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you did the last act on her, which is honestly,
Speaker 1: I mean that there wasn't much to her. She was
Speaker 1: kind of just a woman who worked at the d
Speaker 1: m V. Yeah. Negative. So I don't want to give you,
Speaker 1: but I love your work. We do. We actually we
Speaker 1: have that too. By the way of the third act
Speaker 1: of that episode when you were talking when you followed
Speaker 1: the the m V woman around. Yeah, you guys, I
Speaker 1: have to play it. What I'm serious? What just trying
Speaker 1: to make you up here? I know you're sorry. I'm sorry, ma'am.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to I know, but I do not.
Speaker 1: Can I get a check one too, please? In right now?
Speaker 1: Check one to check one to sibilants, sibilants like in
Speaker 1: that SNL sketch about sound. I know what y'all do.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, now, go ahead, you're you're in my living
Speaker 1: room now, in my my one evening off. I gave
Speaker 1: you my time, so let's do this interview. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was a very tough interview. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: why I included that stuff and just saying I used
Speaker 1: to have his dad back in the day when I
Speaker 1: just did everything that I've included, I would just put
Speaker 1: it out there. You know. I just really very much
Speaker 1: about transparency. You've really grown and it tells about yourself.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's a good interview question. I'm from originally
Speaker 1: from Charlotte, North Carolina, and uh now I live in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. I went to a college in Charlotte. You
Speaker 1: did in Charlotte for ten years? Oh my god, where'd
Speaker 1: you live in Charlotte? Was passing in the night? Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Queen City. You lived in New York? He moved here? Yes,
Speaker 1: I was in Uh. I moved there in ninety six. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then I moved out here in two thousand and six.
Speaker 1: But you in New York for ten years? Ten years
Speaker 1: in math? Did you enjoy your time? Dude? I I did,
Speaker 1: and then I got exhausted with it. It's an exhausting city.
Speaker 1: It takes a lot of energy, right, And I broke
Speaker 1: my toe because I kicked the wall after my car
Speaker 1: was broken into for the seventh time, and um, subways
Speaker 1: uh started to make me sad, so uh. And there's
Speaker 1: no more work there. All the work was out in
Speaker 1: l A. I was gonna say, there's no more work
Speaker 1: in New York? Right, what kind of work do you do?
Speaker 1: I've got to get there. Really seem to take a while.
Speaker 1: That was the kind of look you do. Oh, I'm
Speaker 1: an actor and a writer, mainline actor. Have I seen
Speaker 1: you and stuff? I don't know what you watch. I
Speaker 1: watch all kind of stuff. I'd watch a lot of old,
Speaker 1: old movies from the nineteen eighties, yeah. I mean I'm
Speaker 1: in most of those. Tell us about what you've been
Speaker 1: working on. Now these days you'll stop hearing record? Do
Speaker 1: we have let me step recluding? Okay, So when we're
Speaker 1: in this part, do I sort of talk about the reality,
Speaker 1: like the harsh reality we've all been through with a
Speaker 1: COVID and stuff, or do I steer away from that? Well,
Speaker 1: I would say, like, well, the past year and a half,
Speaker 1: I haven't really been doing much. I've had my own
Speaker 1: podcasts and stuff. But I got a podcast called bald
Speaker 1: Talk on. We'll talk about that, yeah, And and then um,
Speaker 1: I've auditioning. I did some commercials. I do voices for
Speaker 1: Bob's Burgers. Do that. We'll talk about that. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: so when we go when when you when you ask
Speaker 1: the question again, are you taking notes? I don't have
Speaker 1: a pen Okay, podcast, Bob's Burgers. Yeah, auditioning, but you know,
Speaker 1: trying to generate work. I think that's a you know, Okay,
Speaker 1: do you have any podcast it's going on? Oh? Sure,
Speaker 1: I've got a podcast called bald Talk. Let's just try
Speaker 1: that one again. I just I'd like a clean one
Speaker 1: and we'll just kind of Okay, do you want me
Speaker 1: to be him? Do you want me to do you
Speaker 1: want do you want to run run the lines with me? Right?
Speaker 1: Use this audio and then we'll use your your thing. Okay,
Speaker 1: So okay, um tell me about Hey, can you not
Speaker 1: do it in his voice? Because yeah, what is that?
Speaker 1: What the fund is that even you've been doing impictions
Speaker 1: to me behind my back? That's a that's a new
Speaker 1: character on Mark. You know, I don't I don't need to.
Speaker 1: I don't need the question. I'll just say okay three
Speaker 1: to one. So I have a podcast called Bald Talk.
Speaker 1: It's myself and Charlie Sanders. Uh, two bald comedians interview
Speaker 1: bald everybody. We've had actors, directors, musicians, wig makers. We
Speaker 1: just interviewed them about being bald, and then it kind
Speaker 1: of goes from there into their creative work and their
Speaker 1: insecurities and sort of the idea of like vanity and
Speaker 1: perception and stuff. Are there any things that you discovered
Speaker 1: that you didn't know of other people's perspectives and being bald?
Speaker 1: The big takeaway is that, uh, it's always a bigger
Speaker 1: hang up for you than anybody else in the whole world,
Speaker 1: and especially if you have a hang up about dating.
Speaker 1: Women do not give a f They really don't. So
Speaker 1: take that away. If you're if you're listening and you're bald,
Speaker 1: it's fine, it's totally fine. Well, thank you guys. Are
Speaker 1: you welcome? You usly want to leave. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It seemed like it was just I just eating. You
Speaker 1: do get very close to people's face when you talk
Speaker 1: to them, I think to make sure that they can
Speaker 1: hear any way it comes out of my mouth. Have
Speaker 1: headphones microphones? Yeah, that's what the mike's from. I mean
Speaker 1: we're literally on both on your mic. You started on
Speaker 1: the other side of the room. You are now out
Speaker 1: over with me because I don't want I don't want
Speaker 1: to throw you know, I don't want to mess up.
Speaker 1: We guys have. But it's just just some feedback. If
Speaker 1: if if you guys were to make a survey available
Speaker 1: to me, I would take it and give some feedback.
Speaker 1: But you know, actually have that survey. We have a
Speaker 1: line phone number. I have to press the button, well,
Speaker 1: you have to press several buttons because you're down the number.
Speaker 1: What is it again, It's one, It's the one and
Speaker 1: this is Americans Live Survey. This is Americans Life numbers right,
Speaker 1: it's like way too many. Oh hold on, sorry, sorry guys,
Speaker 1: my phone's ringing. Thank you for calling. This is American's
Speaker 1: Live Customer Service. This is Andy the producer. Can I
Speaker 1: are you taking the survey for me? I feel like
Speaker 1: I should take the say, would you get away from
Speaker 1: my mic so I can take the survey? Please? Please,
Speaker 1: just for this moment, step away, like a second? Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you? Yeah, Hi, Hi Brian? Yes, oh hey, how
Speaker 1: you doing. Hey you're you're calling the survey line. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to give some feedback on the interview section. Okay,
Speaker 1: how's it going so far? Are you enjoying it? I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's some problem. I mean I feel like there's some
Speaker 1: elements to it that I'm not totally psyched about. Like
Speaker 1: he gets a little close and and I felt like
Speaker 1: when you ask opening questions like tell me about yourself? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean what am I supposed to? Well? You know, free? Sorry,
Speaker 1: can your hand just one second? I'm getting another call please,
Speaker 1: All right, I've got Brian on the survey. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: know he's saying that I can see you talking to him.
Speaker 1: I can turn around if it's can you do me?
Speaker 1: Could you do me a favorite. Just turn around real quick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's that? Yeah, he's on the phoniest bitching again about again.
Speaker 1: This is what he sounds like right now, he's suing
Speaker 1: too close to me again. I'm sorry, I turn back around.
Speaker 1: You guys gave me the option, Like I just said,
Speaker 1: is there a survey? And so you're letting me do
Speaker 1: a survey? But now just now you're sort of uptended.
Speaker 1: I'm this is weird. You know, if you have a
Speaker 1: survey about your survey, I would I would give some
Speaker 1: feedback on that. As a matter of fact, we're going
Speaker 1: to end it on this. We actually have one. This
Speaker 1: is American's Live survey survey. Who's calling it? I'll do it.
Speaker 1: I have a new I have a new phone. I
Speaker 1: want to Yeah, yeah, I'm just gonna do a voicing
Speaker 1: one eight hundred. This in a shift number one hundred.
Speaker 1: This is Americans Live Survey Survey. I'm sorry, did you
Speaker 1: mean one eight hundred? This is Americans Live Survey, no
Speaker 1: survey survey. I'm sorry, did you mean this is Americans
Speaker 1: live survey? I think it might be a confusing the
Speaker 1: phone because we say survey twice tobably. I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna hang out making the call. I'm gonna call it
Speaker 1: survey quick, did it now? Hey, guys, one second, my
Speaker 1: phone's ringing. Sure, I'm gonna grab it. Thank you for
Speaker 1: calling the This is Americans Live survey line. This is Andy.
Speaker 1: How can I help you? How was your How was
Speaker 1: how's it going? Alright? We'd love it if you just
Speaker 1: let me start talking at some point. Oh, okay, I
Speaker 1: have a problem with my producer. Can I tell you
Speaker 1: what it is. He's too great, he's too great, it's
Speaker 1: too funny. He's asking me to play different parts of
Speaker 1: the archives. And you know how many tapes we have
Speaker 1: any archives? Thousands? Right? Huh? And then now we've got
Speaker 1: to end on this. I'm sorry, I got I'm getting
Speaker 1: a call. One a second. Hey, Brian. He's on the phone,
Speaker 1: always on the phone. Really good. He's like, like, what
Speaker 1: he's doing? You do it? I don't think he sounds
Speaker 1: like a yeah. He sounds like a dying librarian or tydeing. Alright,
Speaker 1: what are you doing here? I've been here the whole time.
Speaker 1: He's listening to here. Got a bit of shit. I'm
Speaker 1: really sorry. I'm sorry. I think I I caused the
Speaker 1: problem in this problem, just like the thing is that
Speaker 1: I do my best to move these it's along. Sometimes
Speaker 1: my producer gets a little archive crazy, and then we
Speaker 1: started dipping into things and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: we have no time for nothing. I really like the
Speaker 1: way that you're tired. I'm gonna call the survey. Here
Speaker 1: we go again. Hold on lift phones. Hello, Hey, it's me. Hey,
Speaker 1: what's up? Well? Ari is kind of being a dick
Speaker 1: right now to you? I know, okay? Well by zero
Speaker 1: stars guys contributed by NSKY, Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: this opportunity. Yeah, coming up, our interview with Ka Shankar.
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Speaker 1: high quality show possible. Stay with us. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: This Is Americans Live. I'm producer Andy filling in for
Speaker 1: our host, Ari, who was away in New York as
Speaker 1: an SNL cast member. Which is really something, really really something.
Speaker 1: I'm here playing some of my favorite guest contributor interviews
Speaker 1: that we've had during this first season of this amazing
Speaker 1: top shell show. Up next, Raka Shankar, enjoy my especially
Speaker 1: guys contributor. Hello, how are you doing today? I'm great?
Speaker 1: Thank you so tell us how long have you been
Speaker 1: listening to our show? As long as it's been on,
Speaker 1: which is maybe you've released five episodes, but there's been
Speaker 1: ten recorded. We've released more than five. You're something you
Speaker 1: told me before and a number I'm forgetting, but that's
Speaker 1: how many I've listened to. So you've been listening for
Speaker 1: three years? Yeah, decades? Even Do you remember any of
Speaker 1: the shows that I was on prior to doing this show?
Speaker 1: I do remember? Which one ed? A cooking show? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Can I finished? What else? What other shows did I have? Oh?
Speaker 1: I mean we both remember, right, all the stuff that
Speaker 1: you've done. So it goes without saying almost, but I
Speaker 1: I'm asking you to say it, right, a cooking show?
Speaker 1: You probably did something with Poe Hi. You say politics, pe,
Speaker 1: Politics pot Pie. We actually have shows. Yeah, we actually
Speaker 1: have that in the archives that your episode of Politics,
Speaker 1: one of the highest rated episodes of Politics pot Pie,
Speaker 1: which was episode forty eight. Who was that? Um? You
Speaker 1: I know that? And Hillary Rodham Clinton, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: that was an incredible episode. Remember, Yeah, we use that
Speaker 1: too thousand and sixteen when she was running for president.
Speaker 1: I remember my especially guys written thank you for Kenning,
Speaker 1: thank you for having me. I'm so happy to be here.
Speaker 1: Tell you've been speaking of that in different times. Feeling
Speaker 1: very rasped, I am not doing too good. The only
Speaker 1: thing that would make me feel better is a hot
Speaker 1: piping pot. Bye, let's make them. That was the show
Speaker 1: for the most part. I don't know if you remember.
Speaker 1: I just have a guest on even though its supposed
Speaker 1: to be political, It's called political Popeye. I just have
Speaker 1: somebody on the show who was politically and poet. Again,
Speaker 1: it was the things we were going to talk about,
Speaker 1: dicks maybe just talked about Poppy. I'm sure it was
Speaker 1: a relief to a lot of the politicians are sick
Speaker 1: with talking about politics. Just sit down with a pop pie.
Speaker 1: It's nice. Can you imagine to pick a politician and
Speaker 1: I do an episode with him? Okay, pick a politician, anyone,
Speaker 1: Pete Pewter, judge, Pete Poota judge. It was my What
Speaker 1: episode is that I was? That was one of the
Speaker 1: later ones, with a more recent right now, I don't
Speaker 1: know if we have that one in the archive. Welcome
Speaker 1: to Politic Poppy. Very happy to be here. I'm oh my,
Speaker 1: I think I need a lozenge. And the only thing
Speaker 1: that's going to help if pop Piping pot Pie the thing.
Speaker 1: If I'm most compelling about that show, it was like
Speaker 1: when I feel sick or like like my throat hurts,
Speaker 1: and I don't really reach for a pot pie super something.
Speaker 1: So it's interesting a lot of your guests seem to
Speaker 1: have like a throat issue and we're like, oh, I
Speaker 1: want like a big, thick pot pie. Yeah you could see, yeah,
Speaker 1: would you had more of that kind of consistency, but
Speaker 1: they did swallowing like chicken chunks. Well, I hate to
Speaker 1: break it to the two of you, but I think
Speaker 1: that's all we have in the archives anyway. So okay, Wow,
Speaker 1: do you think I learned? There won't be a third example?
Speaker 1: I mean, my god, I'm trying to remember some of
Speaker 1: my other favorite episodes Politicians and pot Pie only recorded
Speaker 1: to numbered them. Strangely, there wasn't like a weird Mike
Speaker 1: Pence one. Did I dream that? Wait? Wait, I think
Speaker 1: there is. I think the Mike pens one though, sounded
Speaker 1: a lot like people. Oh it did, Yeah, we can
Speaker 1: check it. When would that have been? It was episode
Speaker 1: just as MP fans and military police. Oh interesting how
Speaker 1: it could mean both? It could be where they were
Speaker 1: a press play. Now I have been working for the
Speaker 1: military police more quite some time. I'm sorry, my throat hurts.
Speaker 1: I need a a cold, papa. Yeah, that's a little
Speaker 1: bit about yourself. Okay. Great. Um, I'm a comedy writer.
Speaker 1: I knew that. Okay, great, you're on top of it.
Speaker 1: You're writing on the show now, are you guys talking
Speaker 1: about it? Yeah? I was writing for Animaniacs recently, and
Speaker 1: now I'm writing for show called Grand Crew that's on NBC.
Speaker 1: It's come out in January. When you're writing for the
Speaker 1: show like Animaniacs and those characters have been around for
Speaker 1: a long time, Yeah, do they give you a little
Speaker 1: bit of attitude when you write something for them and
Speaker 1: they just don't want to do it? Yeah? So their
Speaker 1: their cartoons, so they don't really give you much attitude
Speaker 1: since they're not people. Um, I mean is that supposed
Speaker 1: to mean? Yeah, I guess that was fucked up. Just
Speaker 1: because you hear someone's voice you don't necessarily see their face,
Speaker 1: doesn't mean they're not And I wasn't meaning to insult
Speaker 1: you as a radio person, for sure. All those people
Speaker 1: are are people, and you know those voice act their
Speaker 1: voice actors is the thing. And you know, so I
Speaker 1: didn't mean in any offense to you. I think people
Speaker 1: who work in radio are really talented and and and
Speaker 1: you know, it's justesting this happens to be something entirely
Speaker 1: different from what you do. So you write jokes cartoons. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're working on a new show, Yes, a live action
Speaker 1: show called Grand Crew, and it's been a blast. It's
Speaker 1: you know, about friends hanging out at a wine bar. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's very cool. Are you a wine guy? Am I
Speaker 1: allowed to flip the interview a little bit. I think
Speaker 1: that's some wine. And what I think, you know, back
Speaker 1: in the day when we first started doing this show,
Speaker 1: which was back in what you was that the Topeak
Speaker 1: a year, I used to drink a yeah, and then
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to hear excipt from that episode,
Speaker 1: you can see you could just tell, yeah, welcome to
Speaker 1: episode of This is America's Live. I mean, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I mean you can tell the difference. Yeah, you sound.
Speaker 1: I mean that was like clearly in Toxic is a
Speaker 1: Big Year. No doubt was lasting through heart, No doubt
Speaker 1: it was. But you were also on the show another recently. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did a little cameo on hacks total total blasts made.
Speaker 1: They made a makeshift casino in downtown l A really
Speaker 1: fun Yeah, you get started in comedy comedy. I actually
Speaker 1: I started as an assistant video editor for true crime television.
Speaker 1: That was a racket, and so I did that for
Speaker 1: a while and then was what was writing comedy on
Speaker 1: the side, and transitioned out of it by just um
Speaker 1: quitting and then freelancing. You mean, by writing comedy on
Speaker 1: the side that you were writing jokes in the side,
Speaker 1: writing sketches, you know how, and dditing background so right,
Speaker 1: and direct sketches and then cut them myself and that
Speaker 1: kind of wrote little articles for places like Protectress and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, and putting my sketches out online, and
Speaker 1: then started applying to more comedy things. Um, it was
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. Do you always make a funny
Speaker 1: type put up? No? Um? I mean I wanted to be,
Speaker 1: but you know, I wasn't like class clown type of person.
Speaker 1: I was a pretty academic person. I went to biomedical
Speaker 1: research camp when I was fifteen. That's the only overnight
Speaker 1: camp I've been to, so pretty academic. And then only
Speaker 1: in college did I decided to go into film and
Speaker 1: TV production. Does most child memory. I remember going mini
Speaker 1: golfing with my cousin and there's a bug on his
Speaker 1: back and I don't know why didn't just flick it
Speaker 1: off or whatever. I was little and I was like,
Speaker 1: there's a bug on your back. And he freaked out
Speaker 1: and he's like, get off, get it off. And I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, here's the way I think you think
Speaker 1: of to do that. And I took my mini golf
Speaker 1: club and just swung it and hit him in the head.
Speaker 1: So we we have we do we have We have
Speaker 1: the hospital, visip, we have the hospital. I can't believe
Speaker 1: you guys have that. Yeah, we have that. Actually the hospital. Um,
Speaker 1: so can you tell us where you're here? By the way,
Speaker 1: there was a bug on me and and I did
Speaker 1: everything I could, did everything I could to help him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then why is he here because he has a
Speaker 1: bug on his back? I had one, and she she m,
Speaker 1: can I hear explaining this? If I talked to you like,
Speaker 1: it's just one on one real quick, I'm just kiding comfortables.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, man, I'm okay. But let me just say
Speaker 1: he's a vicious slyer. He's a viciously a troll and
Speaker 1: a free and everything that he says, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lie. If you want the real story, you kind
Speaker 1: of me afterwards afterwards, Okay, you gotta help me. What happened?
Speaker 1: She claimed that there was a bug on my back.
Speaker 1: There would have been no way for me to know
Speaker 1: because it was on my back, and then she just
Speaker 1: started hitting me over and or where a mini golf club.
Speaker 1: I have to call somebody. Okay, wait, wait to see
Speaker 1: a phone. I see and let me fine. I love
Speaker 1: I love my cousin. She loves me. Okay, I'm calling
Speaker 1: the authorities. Now, okay, you're calling the authorities where you
Speaker 1: can call it. I saw a bug on his back.
Speaker 1: It was huge. I don't know what to do. He said,
Speaker 1: get it off. I was like, okay, well, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna touch with my hands. It's disgusting. It's big. So
Speaker 1: I took the golf cloth. If they wouldn't die. She
Speaker 1: calls me the thing the leads game. Next thing, because
Speaker 1: it was in a questioning room looking at the lineup
Speaker 1: of different people. It's cousin being one of the people.
Speaker 1: All right, step forward and say the line, please, the
Speaker 1: line with you. You have a bug on your back,
Speaker 1: Come here. Let me hit you with this. All right,
Speaker 1: step forward, seeing it's her hold on, I mean, suspect
Speaker 1: number one. Please step forward to the line identified. You
Speaker 1: have a book on your back. Let me hit you
Speaker 1: with this. She's doing an accent the number two. Step forward,
Speaker 1: you have a book on your back. Let me just
Speaker 1: go club. It was the first one. She was just
Speaker 1: doing a different accent. It is my COVID, A bug
Speaker 1: on your bab me with this Gulf club? What the
Speaker 1: hell I'm know? Why do we have to have a lineup?
Speaker 1: I already identified my cousin as being the one who
Speaker 1: didn't swiftly with eating as I sentence you to six weeks,
Speaker 1: said Bio medical Camp. That's a fucking lime. Yes, it's
Speaker 1: been a pleasure. Great to be here. Thanks guys. Coming
Speaker 1: up our interview with radio personality Joe Joe. Right, But
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to This is Americans Live. I'm producer Andy
Speaker 1: filling in for our host Ari, who has joined the
Speaker 1: cast of Saturday Night Live and things are going great
Speaker 1: for him. He'll be back, but this week he left
Speaker 1: it up to me to re air some of our
Speaker 1: favorite interviews from our guest contributors. Up next, you know
Speaker 1: him from l A's number one hit music station one
Speaker 1: or two point seven, Kiss Him and the I Heart
Speaker 1: Radio Countdown. A very well produced show. By the way,
Speaker 1: Jojo Rights enjoy Jojo Thanks, It's a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 1: It's a pleasure to have you. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Good to see you. How long have you have you
Speaker 1: been a fan of the show. Well, this is uh
Speaker 1: my first experience with the show. I've never le chant again.
Speaker 1: I've been a huge, huge fan for very good years years.
Speaker 1: And what was the first episode that you The first
Speaker 1: one that I listened to was the thing where you
Speaker 1: guys had and the lady was she was kind of
Speaker 1: screaming and then you guys you know, had the she
Speaker 1: was eating a sandwich. Don't we have that in the archives? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess we do. Unfortunately, Ellen was a very experimental
Speaker 1: one because nobody knew she was making a sandwich. That's
Speaker 1: kind of where I stopped listening is with the sandwich.
Speaker 1: But it hooked me. It was a second favorite. That
Speaker 1: was episode was my second favorite there in that one.
Speaker 1: Episode sixty four was when the UFO blew in and
Speaker 1: then um he picked it, went to pick up the cow,
Speaker 1: but it was you know it was actually it wasn't
Speaker 1: a cow. It's like the school teacher. We have that
Speaker 1: though that episode that we find it and what I
Speaker 1: did find it? You me, me, me, me me me,
Speaker 1: I have thought at a young cow school. Get that cow.
Speaker 1: It's pretty heavy. I don't know if we can. You
Speaker 1: trying to take my COWT know, no, not of course not,
Speaker 1: but you're just trying to had this guy a little
Speaker 1: tick down. More tic tics are on my my cows
Speaker 1: of God. I saw one NBC news reports, are you
Speaker 1: are full sighting over the hillside of Kentucky a cow
Speaker 1: is being looted off the ground. So he ran outside
Speaker 1: and he said, I think I said, TikTok up in
Speaker 1: the sky and he said, I'm coking my shotgun. I said,
Speaker 1: there ain't no way there is a unfelop in that
Speaker 1: skuy and uh he ran outside. Damn near from your
Speaker 1: damn near name dad ding. No, that was that was
Speaker 1: a great episode. That was pretty pretty wild. I couldn't
Speaker 1: believe that they have the UFOs right now. We had
Speaker 1: to cut that episode as that lady kept going on
Speaker 1: and on because you can finish your sentence, the name
Speaker 1: and name name, but it's that on North Sam Hill,
Speaker 1: Sam Hill up on the end. Still. I was decided
Speaker 1: to play it one more time to see if I
Speaker 1: could find the point where you finished. But she never dies.
Speaker 1: So tell us a little bit about yourself, what you've
Speaker 1: done well. I live in l A. I'm originally from Texas,
Speaker 1: but I live in l A for the last twenties
Speaker 1: something years to a radio show on FM in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Was at a big dream come shooting you. It was
Speaker 1: when I got the offer come to kiss. It was
Speaker 1: I was in San Francisco. Nice. Then they said you
Speaker 1: want to come to l A. I'm like, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: so I came to l A. And that's surely after
Speaker 1: that's where I heard your first podcast twenty years twenty
Speaker 1: years ago. The first Wow, it's I know you're a
Speaker 1: long time you're a you're a long hauler. That's a
Speaker 1: that's go. The first episode of that, I guess, all right,
Speaker 1: this is ari uh and uh, this is uh my throat,
Speaker 1: let's talking. My Throat'll be fine. Oh good, because there's
Speaker 1: no way that we can maintain that for the entire
Speaker 1: length of the show. What my voice eyes is so Horse,
Speaker 1: that's better. Oh good, because nobody wants to hear that. Alright,
Speaker 1: so let's start the first show. That was a great episode,
Speaker 1: It was amazing. But that's when I first moved to
Speaker 1: l A. Yeah, right about that time. Well, what was
Speaker 1: it about l A that made you feel like it's
Speaker 1: just gonna be your new home? I think there were
Speaker 1: more opportunities in l A. Uh in Hollywood is here.
Speaker 1: So you want to do anything in the world of entertainment,
Speaker 1: this is this is where it's at. Because you feel
Speaker 1: like in Houston, Europe, big fishing, a little tiny, you know,
Speaker 1: Houston bond um. In Houston, I felt like I was,
Speaker 1: you know, I was still surrounded by my childhood friends.
Speaker 1: Maybe I needed to branch out and meet new people.
Speaker 1: They just didn't believe in you. They didn't believe me.
Speaker 1: It hurt. I think we have that in the archives.
Speaker 1: You fucking suck alone. I wanna be big, yeah big?
Speaker 1: Like what that dude? God, I hate you. Get out
Speaker 1: of your Jojo, You'll never leave this Houston pie. And
Speaker 1: then we cut to the high school reunion. Oh hey, Jojo, good,
Speaker 1: good to see you again. Uh, I haven't han't seen
Speaker 1: you in a while. I mean, what do we do?
Speaker 1: You want to meet my five kids? Um? No, I would.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're fine, but I don't want to meet
Speaker 1: you want to meet my seven kids? I don't. He's
Speaker 1: got seven? I got a from four different wives. Are
Speaker 1: all four wives here tonight? Um? They're all in prison,
Speaker 1: every single one of them? What do you do? What
Speaker 1: are you doing now? Of them? Are you know? Parents
Speaker 1: gave birth to the stuff? The stutter never went away?
Speaker 1: What do you what are you doing now? Man? I
Speaker 1: do a radio show in Los Angeles? Wait, you're Jojo? No, no,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, you're Jojo wait on the radio from
Speaker 1: kissing him? I know, I know, it's a yeah, it's
Speaker 1: pretty crazy to think it is me? It's me? What
Speaker 1: did we do with our lives? Dude? Literally nothing? Are
Speaker 1: you in the same Jojo? That hosty? I heard radio countdown?
Speaker 1: That that is that is me? Yes? I love that
Speaker 1: you listen a lot? Yeah, I love it. I love
Speaker 1: the way I love I love the way you you pull.
Speaker 1: You pull a lot out of all the guests and
Speaker 1: the guy who who says the numbers and the song titles,
Speaker 1: and I guess what you were like in high school? Sure?
Speaker 1: Are you like a heavy metal dude. I would have
Speaker 1: take you for like a skater artist type. Know. I
Speaker 1: was pretty pretty shy as a kid, very shy. And
Speaker 1: then uh, it hit me that I wanted to try
Speaker 1: something in the entertainment world, maybe just so I can
Speaker 1: break down on my shell. And radio became the thing.
Speaker 1: My dad got me a job at a small, little
Speaker 1: bity small radio station and a M radio station. What
Speaker 1: was it called k b U k K buck. That
Speaker 1: was the first place that I had a job. Wait
Speaker 1: a minute, I think I remember you know. Let's play
Speaker 1: the art, guys I have. My name is Darry. What's
Speaker 1: your name? This is my son, my son Jojo. Are
Speaker 1: you doing today's first day? I want you to show
Speaker 1: him around the studio. I could be on the radio today. Yes,
Speaker 1: you get to be on the radio. I promised you.
Speaker 1: I promised you got you would get to be on
Speaker 1: the radio, and then I would take you out for
Speaker 1: ice cream after your air shift a r K k K.
Speaker 1: Let me just talk to Jojo. Okay, by, guys, I
Speaker 1: did'd see you later. Just stay close by, Jojo. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you something. Yeah, no, funk with me. This
Speaker 1: is my realm. If each had to take my spot.
Speaker 1: I'll fucking kick your ass all right now, you guys
Speaker 1: got reacquainted. Isn't always such a nice guy? It's carefully
Speaker 1: he's great, right what what? Why? Crying? Son? Bug? Bit me?
Speaker 1: Ari will will make you feel better because he's a
Speaker 1: real nice guy. I'm gonna step away from it a second.
Speaker 1: Funk with me, don't with my radio. I just want
Speaker 1: to be on the radio. Are you telling me? All right? Guys?
Speaker 1: Mac hey, hey, why you Your face is even redder
Speaker 1: than before, and you're crying even more profusely than you
Speaker 1: were when I'm back. I'm sorry. Yeah, I want to
Speaker 1: thank you for comforting him and his time and need
Speaker 1: right now. Thank you, just preemptively. Okay, you know what
Speaker 1: I think, y'all are gonna be best friends for life.
Speaker 1: And I can't wait until thirty years from an hours
Speaker 1: so when he's a guest on your show, all right,
Speaker 1: by forever. I didn't realize it. I was. I was
Speaker 1: that mean to you. I'm so sorry that was It
Speaker 1: was uncalled for the whole you know I was. I
Speaker 1: was very aggressive in my early days in radio. You
Speaker 1: have a podcast, yes, you tell us about it. I
Speaker 1: have podcast called paranormal Ish. Which is you know about ghost, UFOs,
Speaker 1: anything under that umbrella of paranormal. If you've had a
Speaker 1: paranormal experience, I'd love to hear it you personally have
Speaker 1: any experience with paranormal. I have had doors slam on
Speaker 1: me with no other explanation other than something being paranormal.
Speaker 1: Did they have been spring hinged? I forgot to check
Speaker 1: for the spring. I guess it's possible, but I don't
Speaker 1: think it was. Do you have guests on your show
Speaker 1: How to Do It? Can? Well? Tell me the format?
Speaker 1: On the podcast, I'll have guests who have had paranormal encounters,
Speaker 1: and then they'll tell me their story, and sometimes I'll
Speaker 1: do research on a particular location where they had this
Speaker 1: incident happened. Sometimes we just take their story. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: have the UFO investigators jump on and talk about, you know, working,
Speaker 1: you know, researching people's claims of experiencing a UFO or
Speaker 1: an abduction or a lot of a lot of crazy things.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you believe them, sometimes you don't. You want to
Speaker 1: hear a paranormal story. Yeah, this girl, she lived in Northridge.
Speaker 1: This was she was when she told me the story.
Speaker 1: She's probably mid twenties. But this happened when they were younger.
Speaker 1: Three sisters seven, eight, nine ish years old, and they
Speaker 1: live with mom and dad and grandmother in Northridge. Grandmother
Speaker 1: passed away um, but the family were so torn up
Speaker 1: about it they didn't tell the daughters that grandmother had passed.
Speaker 1: They kept this on for about a year. They didn't
Speaker 1: know grandmother had passed for an entire year. They would
Speaker 1: use excuses like she's with Uncle so, and so, she's
Speaker 1: with Aunt so and so, she's in the hospital, back
Speaker 1: and forth, you know, because that would be things she
Speaker 1: would typically do. So they didn't know once again that
Speaker 1: she had passed away until a year later, well about
Speaker 1: a week after the funeral, Mom calls upstairs and says, hey,
Speaker 1: come down for dinner, and uh one of the daughters.
Speaker 1: Keeping in mind they don't know for another year that
Speaker 1: she's gone, one of the daughters says, I can't come down, Mom,
Speaker 1: I'm braiding grandmother's hair. She had a ladies, a lady
Speaker 1: her grandmother in the room. She was braiding her hair.
Speaker 1: She thought it was her, and she of course just disappeared.
Speaker 1: Mom came up running and she told Mom, you made
Speaker 1: you made Grandma leave. They never spoke about it until
Speaker 1: years later. Crazy story. Right, I didn't like that story
Speaker 1: at all. Well, where can we hear that show? By
Speaker 1: the way, you can hear that show on the radio
Speaker 1: app Spotify, Apple podcast most podcast platform, jo Right, thank
Speaker 1: you again for being a guest on the show. For
Speaker 1: our host are special guest contributors Brian Husky, Kashankar, and
Speaker 1: Jojoe Right. I'm producer Andy and this was This is
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