Latest / Hey BigHead: The Vegas Local Podcast / From Cougarlicious to Comedy: Donna Joy Joins BigHead | 327

Transcript

From Cougarlicious to Comedy: Donna Joy Joins BigHead | 327 · Hey BigHead: The Vegas Local Podcast

• 0:07
  SPEAKER_03: Julie, we're switching it up a little bit today.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_03: I know I'm hiding.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_03: You're hiding.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_03: You're off camera.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_02: I am.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_02: I didn't want to scare everyone with my pink hair just yet.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you you didn't you didn't uh feature or showcase the pink hair yet.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_03: The people want to see the pink hair.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_02: It needs some touch-ups.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_03: Is that what it is?
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_03: Did you do it yourself?
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_02: I did do it myself.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_02: It's way cheaper to do it that way.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_03: How much does it cost to get your hair done professionally?
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_02: Um, the way I do it, uh I mean 400 plus tip.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_03: Are you kidding me?
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_02: No.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_02: But I can do it myself for 80 bucks.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my god, even still.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_02: I know.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_03: That's why I go to Great Clips with a coupon.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_03: $12.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_02: With the coupon?
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_02: With the coupon.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_02: Good.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_02: You know, I love our Hey Big Head intro, but I think there was a different song that I wanted to hear today.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_03: You know, I I wish I had it synced up.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_02: I'll sing it.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_02: Cougarlicious.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_03: Everyone's favorite theme song, overtaking the Hey Big Head intro, is the Cougarlicious theme song.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_03: And the reason we're singing this is because we have the lovely Donna Joy with us from the Cougarlicious Podcast.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_03: For being on the show, Donna.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_03: So excited to have you.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_01: It is fun to be here.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_01: Of course.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_01: It's fun to be a guest.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_03: I know the tables have turned.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_03: When's last time you were a podcast guest?
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_01: Last time I was a podcast guest, you know what?
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_01: I think this is my first time.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_03: Julie, this is an inaugural guest.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_03: Look at this.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_03: What uh what a monumental moment this is.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_03: I love this for all of us involved.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_03: This is fantastic.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_03: Actually, so I was on uh an episode of Cougarelicious.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Cugalicious Cub House.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_03: Cougarelicious Cub House.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_03: I apologize.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_03: Cougaricious Cub House.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_03: I was on the latest episode, uh, one of the latest episodes, a lot of positive feedback.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_03: I got a lot of DMs saying it was such an incredible episode.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_03: I actually I got a fit, one of my favorite DMs I'm gonna read right now.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_03: You ready for this, Julie?
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_02: I guess.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_03: It says, Dear Andrew, your episode of Cougarelicious was by far the best piece of media I have ever laid eyes upon.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_03: No.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_03: You were funny, informative, and the chemistry between you and Donna Joy was off the charts.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I'll agree with that.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_02: That is definitely give that an applause.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_02: You know, I got a DM about it as well.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_03: You were so charming, it restored my faith in God.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_03: Please do more episodes of Cugalicious.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_03: Sincerely, JN from Las Vegas, Nevada.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_03: Do you know who JN from Las Vegas, Nevada is, Julie Nethery?
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_03: Do you know?
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_02: Certainly not me.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_02: That sounds like something you wrote for yourself.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know who you're talking about.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know what that means.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_02: Well, the DM I got about it said, I can't believe that beautiful Donna Joy called Andrew eye candy.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_03: How dare you?
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_03: That was very kind of you.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_01: Oh no, no, you are totally eye candy.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_01: You are totally eye candy.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_01: That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_01: My ratings went way up to the city.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_01: I love that.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_01: It's the promise of Cougarlicious.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_03: I would expect nothing less when I tune into Cougarelicious.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_03: I want to see eye candy when I'm watching Cougarelicious.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_01: And they come in all ages.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_03: That's right.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_03: That's right.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_03: We don't we don't discriminate on ages here.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_03: What for so how long have you started have you had Cougarlicious Cub House?
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_01: Uh the Cougarelicious Cub House started in March of 2025.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, relatively same amount of this.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_03: That's great.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, when 2025 came along, I said, what else do I want to do with the brand?
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_01: And I just went, podcast.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_01: I think I'll do a podcast.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_01: I love that.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_03: You know everybody's been a podcast.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_01: So uh yeah, so I ventured out into that and I've just been having a ball.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_01: It's so much.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_01: It's just, you know, with with all the different talents and you know, comedians and singers and entertainers that we have in this town.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you can't go wrong with it.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_03: No, you really can't.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_03: And you do such a good job at making the guest feel welcome.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_03: You have uh you know such great questions.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_03: You you really set up uh a positive experience for everybody that comes on the show.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_03: And then for anybody at home, you it's it's a fun show to watch.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, I enjoy uh conversation.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_01: I enjoy conversation with people.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_01: And and and I think it's it's it's it's it's kind of uh a lost art, uh, you know, because we're so used to you know texting and Instagramming and and things like this.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_01: It's like when you ask a question, you get an answer, and then you can elaborate on it.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_01: Hello, it's called conversation.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_03: So the art of conversation is is dying, unfortunately.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_03: Face-to-face conversation is dying.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_03: And that's that's that's such a disappointment because that you can learn so much, you can create such unique experiences, you can have podcasts like this.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_03: You can you can do so much and and learn so much and share so much with just a face-to-face conversation.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_01: Well, when you are face-to-face with a person, it's more than just what's coming out of their mouth.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_01: You can see their physical uh reaction, you can see their facial features, you know.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_01: And so a lot of a lot of that is what is sublim subliminally cute.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_01: You know, that causes your response and your reaction to people.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_01: So you can see, you know, where people uh as opposed to like I said, a text or I remember when text first came out, it was like, what is this?
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it was like okay, click, okay, click.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_01: It was like, you know, having a phone conversation, just going, hello, hang up.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, you know, it was like, but you know, we all progress along with the technology, and but no, face-to-face to me is still the most uh the most important form of communication, yeah.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_03: I wholeheartedly agree.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_03: So you said you had the Kugrelicious brand before you started the podcast.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_03: Other than the fact that you just wanted to have a podcast because you wanted to take the next step in whatever the crugelish journey is.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_03: What was the strategy or the reasoning behind starting the podcast?
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you know, it's so it's really again, it's an ever-evolving story.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I was in you know, doing my stand-up, and this is going back like maybe two or three years ago.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_01: And I was doing stand-up, and of course I focus on you know, women uh standing in their power and really celebrating themselves, celebrating who they are.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I really encourage women to do that.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so I kind of coined the phrase in my stand-up, you know, cougar licious.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_01: And after many of my shows, women would come up to me women of all ages, excuse me, and they'd say to me, You're saying exactly what I'm thinking.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_01: And I could see it in the audience.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_01: I could see the women's responses and things.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_01: So again, uh having a background in marketing and advertising, I'm saying, hmm, I'm scratching an itch here.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_01: So I started to develop it a little bit further, then the develop the website, then develop merchandise, then develop, you know, this type of thing.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and I said, you know, the podcast was just uh a natural extension of that.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_01: So it all started in stand-up and actually getting direct feedback from the audience.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_03: It's fun to build the brand like that.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_03: It's fun to to turn it from something you either just thought of or you you you spoke out loud, and now it's it's it's a thing.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_03: Now you can go to a website, now you can listen to it, now you can watch it.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and and and I and I get very excited too because I just love supporting women.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I love supporting their efforts.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_01: You know, uh uh I've grown out of that whole women's live era.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I was part of those marches, burning the bras and and that kind of stuff.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, you you got it, but you know I was.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_01: You know I was like up front and center.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_01: And um really, really always advocated for women's liberation and women's rights.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um and then of course what happened with the uh Supreme Court, you know, and they started to eradicate women's rights.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going like, this is not good.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_01: And women really need support more than ever now.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_01: And if there's any if there's one little way that I can contribute, and one little way I could support, one little way I can give an atta girl out there, do it.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_01: Hell yeah.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_01: And at the same time, you know, also encourage men.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_01: And educate men and let them know, you know, this is a equal playing field, you know, and partnerships is really what really means something, you know.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_01: And um, so it's interesting to be part of that, part of that change.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_03: You uh after we aired our after we shot our episode um i in your studio, you you shared that with me of what what your your deeper goal was with Kougaralicious.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_03: And I wanted to convey that to Julie, but I I knew I wasn't gonna do it justice.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm glad that you you were able to you know elaborate more on that.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_03: Julie, how do you feel about that?
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_03: We were just talking about that today, I feel like.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_02: We were, and I I mean, obviously Andrew knows because I'm very outspoken about women's rights and how I feel about different things going on globally and within the country.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_02: So hearing you say that and knowing that's part of your platform, I adore it.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_02: I think we need more of that in not only entertainment but in media in general, especially right now.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and and I want to and I want to kind of deliver it in a fun, friendly, warm fashion.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_02: Something that's digestible for everybody.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_01: Digestible, I like that.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_01: Little side of linguini, you're great.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_03: Julie, are are you Italian too?
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_02: I am very, very Italian.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_02: When I watched y'all's episode, I was like, if I was there, it would have just been a room full of Italian.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, what's the matter?
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_03: That's so funny.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_03: Um you mentioned the the stand-up.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_03: How long have you been doing stand-up for?
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_01: Uh well I actually moved here to Las Vegas in 2018.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: And my goal at that time was to learn how to write comedy.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_03: Um just randomly?
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_01: Well, my background in my past lives, you know, I was a copywriter, I was in advertising, uh I taught copywriting, creative writing, and all that.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_01: So when it came time to retire, I just said to myself, Well, what else do I want to do?
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_01: And I thought, I'd like to learn how to write comedy.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_01: And um turns out they had a little comedy writing institute here in Las Vegas that I found online and uh I thought, oh, that's interesting and connected and uh Don Barnhart is the uh fellow who uh ran the institute.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um then I just started looking at real estate and looking at the the values because I was living in s I was in San Diego.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_01: And it was a good time to sell in San Diego.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_01: So I I did.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_01: I cashed in my chips, I hopped the fence, I came to Vegas, and I said, Okay, I'm gonna see where this journey takes me.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_01: And I started taking classes with Don and started learning about the craft of comedy writing.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_01: Uh then Don always hosted different little showcases, and he had a couple of stages that he runs, uh, he still does.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_01: And um he would put us up on stage and one thing led to another, and then that's how he just evolved.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_01: Why so so since 2018?
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_01: So if you cancel out 2020, that doesn't matter.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, remember COVID, what is about maybe six years?
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_03: Carry the one.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_03: That's about right.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_03: Let's go with that.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_03: Uh the the art of obviously conversation, but the art of comedy is is always intriguing to me too.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_03: When it comes to being funny on stage or writing comedy, what's something that you took away that's something that just pops into your mind when you look back at learning from you know the beginner to where you are now?
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_03: What's what's what's like uh a key moment for you that was like, oh, that's a great point.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_03: I never thought about that with comedy.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I think the key a key moment in comedy, in any comic's life or delivery, is finding your voice.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I think that's the biggest challenge in comedy because when you first get started, you get on stage and it's you, a mic, and an audience.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's no script, you know, there's no uh you're not doing a character, okay, unless that's part of your comedy, but but still a true com uh the most successful comics are the ones who are the most authentic.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_01: And that comes from being comfortable with who you are and what you have to say and the voice in which you want to say it.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_01: You know.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then once you understand that, and it takes a while to develop that, you know.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_01: It's not just getting up there and just telling a joke, hey, you know, hey, two men walked into a bar, you know, this kind of thing.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: But um what is it that you want to say, how can you cultivate that into a funny perspective uh or is it a funny perspective, you know, this type of thing.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_01: And uh and then delivering it in an authentic fashion.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_01: Um and that's I think the key, you know.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_01: Um and there's really no ways you can do it other than getting up and doing it.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so tell me about your first time when you were on on stage, your your first open mic.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_03: What was that like?
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_03: Was that was it a success?
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, I'm sure it was a success.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_03: A success that you got out of the way.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_03: Come on now.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_03: What was what was going through your mind, your first open mic?
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_01: Uh the performance, the performance aspect of it.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_01: And um, if you go on, if you go on my website, I have a video uh that actually has uh some um some segments of some of my original stuff.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_01: And I actually am wearing a wig, you know, because I didn't know what to do.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't know what to do with my hair.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't know it's a so I was like, okay, I'm gonna get a wig, and then this wig is gonna define who I am, you know.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_01: And it was a red-headed wig.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_01: It wasn't a fright wig or anything like Phyllis Stiller, it was just a regular wig.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_01: But I thought, so every time I go on stage, I'm gonna wear that wig, and people will know that's who I am.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_03: That's Donna Joy.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_03: There she is.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_03: Red wig and all.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_03: Red hair and all.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_01: Red hair and all.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, and I mean the way you dress and and all this, and you just basically um so the first time I got on, I was delivering my lines through my character, that who I thought I should be, you know, this type of thing.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then after a while, it was like, you know, I don't need this wig.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_01: You know, people like me better without the wig.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_01: And I started just showing up natural, and all the comics were even more supportive, you know.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_01: They go, well, that's good, that's good.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_01: And then you just, you know, do that.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_01: So I think um the first time I was I was nervous, and I just did, I think it was five minutes, and it was like the longest five minutes.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_01: Longest five minutes of your life.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, and you're just trying to remember your lines and you're trying to get it out, and you're trying to deliver it, and you're trying to go give them the pause so that people will laugh.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_01: And then if people don't laugh, what do you do?
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: You know, this type of thing.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_01: So it was uh now if people don't laugh, I just move on.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_03: It's like that's yeah, it just rolls off one of the I love having comics on the show.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_03: We've had uh Jarrett Segmiller, who was on your show.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_01: Fantastic guy, funny guy, very smart, very smart guy, very funny, and you'll find that most comics are very smart.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, very smart, very observant.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_01: Why do you think that is?
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I think in order to have a humorous perspective, you have to be able to take a look at a situation and look at the situation from all angles.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_01: And, you know, the the positive side, the negative side, upside down, right side up, you know, and everything else, and and mush it into something that that is funny.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you know, how do you take a tragedy?
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_01: I'll give you an example.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_01: Um Dave Chappelle, okay?
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_01: Love Dave Chappelle.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_01: He was on Saturday Night Live one n one time, and this is when California was having all the fires.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_01: And this the the sketch that they were doing is that they were a family sitting in a living room in California and they were being told to evacuate because of the fires.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm sitting there and I'm watching this, I'm saying, how is this gonna be funny?
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_01: How are you going to make this funny?
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_01: Well, he gets up, and the first thing he does is he goes over to the wall and he breaks through the wall and starts pulling out all this money.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_01: And the whole, the whole scene was just hysterical after that because all of a sudden the wife is looking at him like she doesn't know who this guy is, and he's over there telling him about the cartels, and then this, that, and the other.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_01: It was just hysterical.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_01: That's what I mean.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_01: I mean a genius mind.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you could take a look at how do you take this tragedy and how can you make it funny, and what angle are you going to use?
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_01: And then a lot of times it's a surprise.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_01: If it if you can surprise the audience with it in a in a fun, positive way, you know, you've got a hit.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_03: Well said.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_03: What are you teaching your your class of the institute?
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_03: That's what I want to know.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, well, uh, I was with the uh art institutes, um uh California, San Diego.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_01: I was with them for about 15 years.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_01: And um I taught advertising, yeah, marketing, public relations, taught creative writing, I taught campaign strategy, you know, things like this.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_01: And I did that for and then um I also continue to teach uh marketing for a national university.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_01: Teach online.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_01: So I've been yeah.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_03: You're you're on them.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_03: You're oh you're busy.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_03: And I have fun.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_01: I just you know, and the thing is is is you know, staying in the teaching game keeps me relevant.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_01: It keeps me, you know, um the courses that we're teaching now is all about digital marketing and and things like this, and it keeps me uh on top of what's really happening.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_01: And the interesting thing that I find about marketing and advertising is that although the mediums have changed, you know, then the the mediums can deliver instant results.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, because I started in advertising back in 1983, okay.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_03: So a little different back then.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_03: A little different.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_03: A little bit.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: We thought the fax machine was the future.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_01: That was the future.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: That was it.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: This is great.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_01: You can pop the fax machine.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_01: You can fax the ad to the client.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my god, you know, this is weird.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_03: Julie, do you know what a fax machine is, Julie?
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_02: I do know what a fax machine is.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_02: In fact, I still remember my childhood home's fax number.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_03: Oh wow.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_03: You should fax it every now and then.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you, Donna.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_01: I couldn't I couldn't tell you that.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_01: But um so what was I saying?
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_01: The mediums may change, but the mediums may change, but the actual uh principles of marketing and sales and advertising have not.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, people buy still for the same reasons that they bought 200 years ago.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's it's it's a cost, it's a benefit, you know, and it's basically learning how to deliver that message.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_01: You know, now what's happened is that we become much more heterogeneous as a society.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_01: Everything's segmented now.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_01: So the challenge is to find that segment and to find that message that matches that segment.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_01: It was back in the 50s, for instance, everything was like really more homogeneous.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_01: It was like one size fits all.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_01: Right, you know.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you either fit or you didn't, you know, it was like nobody cared, you know, just buy it.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_01: Buy the product.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_01: So it's it's much more challenging today.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I still, you know, the principles still remain the same.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_01: And if you can still stay true to that, uh and then just follow your path with that, I think that's what helps with success.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_01: It's the same thing with comedy.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_01: You know, who's your niche?
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_01: Who are you speaking to?
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_01: Who's your audience?
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_01: You know, um uh you know, how do you deliver to them?
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_01: You know, this type of thing.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_03: And then same thing with media in terms of having a podcast, right?
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_03: Everybody can have a podcast.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_03: There while the the way you get in front of people may change over time, and it has, but I I still feel like you still need to be engaging, you still need to be informative, you still need to be find the the demographic and you know, kind of nurture that and and grow with it.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_03: Having a podcast, and being that we're both in it for just just over a year now, what have you found has worked and hasn't worked with having a podcast in terms of getting it out to the people?
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_01: I don't, you know, the thing that I find is a challenge is you can't really be too slick.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_01: You know, again, you have to maintain that authenticity.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_01: You know?
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and there are you know certain um concepts that I've tried that it just didn't hit because it just didn't resonate as as authentic.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_01: You know, if you if it if you make it too sli if you make like a sweepstakes, for instance, you know, you try to make it too slick, people aren't gonna go for it.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_01: They're gonna say, yeah, I don't need that, you know.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_01: Um that type of thing.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm finding as I'm evolving uh with the podcast that the the more real I can become, um, then the more results I get in terms of responses and and all that.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_01: And and again, I think just having the podcast.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: For yourself.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_01: For myself, for yourself as well.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_01: Is that you're establishing so much goodwill in the community.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_01: And once you establish the goodwill, you establish that trust and people will continually be engaged with you.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_01: And as long as you honor that trust, you know, you're bound for success.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_03: Well said.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_03: I think one of the most used key words in all of our guests that we've had on, ranging from chefs to com uh comedians to local business owners.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_03: Julie, do you know the word I'm gonna say?
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_02: Authenticity.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_03: Authenticity.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_03: Almost every guest that comes in.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_03: We have a lot of decision makers and a lot of people that are that make it make Vegas what it is today on the show.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_03: We've been very fortunate with that.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_03: One of the most commonly used phrases that almost all of them have said that attribute to their success is being authentic.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_03: Whether it be uh the people they work with and they're they're looking for that authenticity, or the reason they are where they are today is because they finally found that authentic self and conveyed it out to the world.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and and I think it's it's it's also indicative of our times as well uh because there's so much that comes at you every single day from the marketing world.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, you are marketed from the moment you wake up in the morning to the moment you go to sleep at night.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_01: There are things being thrown at you all the time.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, your brain just kind of like negates a whole lot of stuff.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_01: You have to there was a there was a term we used to s call uh in advertisers say breaking through the clutter.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_01: And and it's true because you are.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_01: Think of, you know, think of how many ads or how many uh you you know you you turn on your radio.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: Do we do you have radio?
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_01: Julie, do you have radio?
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_01: Do you know what that is?
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_01: I do have radio.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_01: I don't listen to you know AM and FM.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_03: Did you know?
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_02: I do know AM and FM.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, okay.
• 24:03
  unknown: All right.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_01: You can be bombarded.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_01: You can, you know, you go online and you have all these pop-ups all the time.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_01: And that's one thing that really uh causes me a little bit of concern is like you could be reading an article online and all of a sudden you have all these pop-ups that come up, right?
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_01: You have these algorithms just attacking you all the time.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_01: And it's distracting.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, what does that do to the brain waves?
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_01: You know, when you're trying to concentrate on something, you got this and this and this and this.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_01: So I think authenticity is part of the way that you break through that clutter all right, of just calming down and saying, like, yes, this is what you know I have to say, and you say, and people will appreciate it.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_01: So that's what I'm saying.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_01: I think it's indicative of the times.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_01: I think we're so distracted with so many different things that when you're authentic, you you just hit home.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_03: I th I yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_03: That's that's spot on.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_03: I unfortunately don't think it's gonna get any better.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_03: I think it's gonna continue to get worse, and they're gonna have more distractions, and it's gonna be more of the algorithm, and you're gonna see more of what you want to see, and not necessarily especially with the onset of AI.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, and what's going on with that.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_01: Have you heard the Pope, even the Pope is coming?
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_01: Did you hear what the Pope did?
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_03: No.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_01: Pope, the the Pope has just written, I don't know what you call it, uh I don't know if it's called a mandate or something like that.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_01: But he is encouraging to put a saddle on AI because he sees it as a detriment.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_01: If it keeps progressing where it's going, it's gonna be a detriment to civilization because after a while you're not even gonna be able to discern what's real and what's not.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_01: I already can't sometimes.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_03: It's tough.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_01: I know.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_03: It's hard.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_01: I know.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_02: Do you see some of those uh those those shorts that come up on it's always the animal videos for me?
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_02: The animal where I feel like I can't tell if it's a real animal or not.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_03: It's only gonna get better.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_03: The fact that you you've we've seen where it was just a few years ago, and like, oh, that's you know, obviously that's fake.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_03: But now it's it's very hard to distinguish.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_03: And even in the future, it's gonna be even harder.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_03: And it's gonna be in every industry, every every segment, the political side, the entertainment side, the whatever.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_01: And it's gonna be interesting to see what that does to entertainment as well, because a lot of the figures that you see that they they come up with, like I've seen uh uh little segments with doctors, supposed doctors speaking to you.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, you sit there and you watch it, and you just know this is an AI generated character because if you just watch it for 10 seconds, you could see they're just repeating movements and like ro pretty robotic, you know, at this at this stage of the game.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_01: But um, you know, I mean it's give it time though.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_03: Give it it's gonna be harder and harder and harder.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_01: You know, eventually it's it's well that's why the Pope is speaking.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I hope the Pope gets the Pope is in on this.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_01: Pope Leo.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_03: Come on, Leo, make it happen.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_03: Make it happen.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_03: We we love Pope Leo from Chicago, right?
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_03: Isn't it?
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_01: Chicago, the Chicago guy.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_03: Did you know that, Julie?
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_01: I did know that.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_03: You know, you're you're you're knowing a lot of things this episode, more than I thought.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_03: Of course I know.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_03: I know Italian.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_01: Italian Catholic can't be anything but Catholic.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, your fax machine number, you got everything.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_01: Were you raised Catholic too by Android?
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_03: I was.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_03: I was an altar boy.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_01: You were an altar boy.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_02: I was catching up.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_03: Never never touched you.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, good.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_02: I'm glad you weren't.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_03: Uh ultra boy, um a private high school or private school, almost my entire upbringing.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_03: Um and uh yeah, and then once I graduated and I kind of went on my own and you know left the parents, it was kind of more of along the lines of all right, well, now you're free.
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_03: You don't have to go to church every Sunday, you don't have to pray every night, and it kind of just you know dwindled away.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_01: You prayed every night?
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_03: Uh when I was when I was living at home, absolutely.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_01: Really?
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_01: You said your prayers at what was that in effect for that?
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_01: I think that's adorable.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_02: Was that AI?
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_02: No, that was that was all me.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_02: That was all June.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_02: Adorable.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, it's so funny.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_02: You prayed every night.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_03: I said the Our Father, I said the Hail Mary.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_01: He went through his whole rosary every night.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_03: I I did the rosary once a year.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I went I went to parochial grammar school.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, yeah, and uh then went to public high school because my parents moved to the suburbs and all that good stuff.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_01: But uh I was very devout as as a little girl.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_01: This, yeah.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_01: Went to I even went to I would go to mass on Saturday mornings.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I really I was you know hobnobbing with the nuns, you know.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, you know, I was always schmoozing.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_01: You're still schmoozing, Donna Joy.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_01: That's a born schmoozer, Donna Joy.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_01: Show up, get that interest.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's right.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_01: Get that body of Christ.
• 28:52
  unknown: Yeah.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_03: Donna Joy.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_03: Always a schmoozer, I tell you.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_03: That's why you're so good on stage.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_01: But still but you know, but I understand your journey, you know, after you get away from that, you know, and you start taking a look at other religions, you know.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_01: I started taking a look at what the other religions were saying, and you know, uh, you know, it's just like I could remember feeling sorry for anybody who wasn't Catholic because, well, they really don't have the real Jesus, you know.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_03: That's exactly it.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_03: It was it was once you kind of lift the blinders up and you are not surrounded by everybody saying and believing the same thing, and you kind of you're out in the world where people have different beliefs and different understandings and different experiences, it it really does open your eyes a lot more.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_03: And I remember the first time that I even questioned anything with the with the Catholic religion.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_03: It kinda I remember where I was, it just kind of blew my mind.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_03: And I really didn't feel it was an uncomfortable feeling at first because it was like this is 19.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_03: You feel like you'd be trained.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_03: It was like, you know, the 18 years of my life I I was raised believing this one way and this one thing.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_01: You prayed every night.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_03: I prayed every night.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_03: I I had a we had a family priest.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_03: We had a priest that was like pretty much you know with our family, and he was there at my brother's birth.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_03: He was, you know, our priest that we would have over for every holiday.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_03: Like he was somebody very, very important to me.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_03: And when I felt this discomfort, I wanted to reach out to him because I wanted to at least get reeled back in or at least have some sort of sense of you know what I'm feeling is normal.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_03: And I procrastinated.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_03: I procrastinated on reaching out to him.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_03: And finally, maybe a year later, I was like, all right, I'm finally gonna do it.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_03: And I got my number, I got his number from my mom, and he passed away a month prior.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, it was awful.
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_03: Oh it was such a heartbreak.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_01: Looking for the meaning of life.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_03: It was right there in front of me.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_03: And he died.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_03: He passed.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_03: Father Neil, I apologize.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_03: I miss your father Neil.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_03: It was but that was that that was like a moment.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_03: It's like, okay, well, now it's just now it's it's up to me.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_03: And I've I've spoken to other people, but you know, but I'll I'll tell you the truth.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_01: I was very thankful for the foundation that the Cat, you know, the Catholic religion brought me.
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_01: Because there was, you know, s so many times, you know, that I would encounter people that were a little abstract in their beliefs and things like this.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_01: And it gave me something to really hold on to and really think back on, and really gave me pause, you know.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_01: And I really think the foundation of that upbringing was positive.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_01: But it allowed me to springboard off and see, you know, exactly what Judaism was and Buddhism.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_03: Donna, joy.
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_03: Well said.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_03: What a great, what a great way to look at it.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_03: Because the foundation, the structure that you're raised with.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, even if even if you don't fully, you know, it's not as much of a part of your life as it used to be.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_03: You had that structure.
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_03: You still have that structure.
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_01: And it's led me into my own little philosophies of Listen, you're blowing my mind right now, Donna Joy.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_03: I wasn't expecting this conversation to go to religion and have me have a whole new outlook on life, but here I am, Donna Joy.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_03: What the hell's going on here?
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_01: I'll tell you, I'll give I'll tell you a funny story.
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_01: Uh the one thing that really made me thankful that I had a little bit of religion to fall back on, God's honest truth, was when the Exorcist came out.
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_01: When the Exorcist came out, blew me away.
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_01: I could not sleep.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_03: It scared you that bad.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_01: It scared me to death.
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_01: I could and and you have to understand, you know, when the Exorcist first came out, it was a big deal.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_01: It was a huge deal.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_01: Nobody had ever used those effects before.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_01: And the way they use it in the movie, I mean, people look at it today and they laugh, you know, because it's so obvious, you know, what you know how ridiculous it was.
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_01: But back then, the way it was shot, if you ever do watch the movie again, uh, is they would never give you, usually like in a horror movie, they give you some kind of a lead up.
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you kind of know the monster's coming, you know, this kind of thing, and then the monster shows up.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_01: Exorcists, they don't do that.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_01: The Exorcist they'll show a door and then they'll show her face.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_01: You know, they just boom, they just it was like the first shock.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, this type of thing.
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_01: And her head's twisting and she's spitting things up and she's doing it.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I was absolutely so frantic, you know, after I saw that movie because I couldn't sleep.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't sleep for weeks, you know.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_01: And so I finally started to say my prayers.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_03: That's it, huh?
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_01: That's what it was.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_03: The Exorcist bringing religions together.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_01: I love it that it was only a movie.
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_03: Julie, do you know what The Exorcist is?
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_01: I love The Exorcist.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_01: Actually, that I believe, because you know I've never seen I didn't ever watch another horror movie after.
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I'm such a horror movie person.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_01: I can't do it.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_01: I can't do it.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_02: You know, I spent uh I hate to admit this, but I spent probably every mass of my childhood waiting for what I used to say snack time because I was so little I didn't realize what the Eucharist really was.
• 34:16
  SPEAKER_00: Snack time.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_02: I I wanted my wafer, I wanted my sip of wine, and afterwards they had donuts next door.
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_02: So there you go.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_02: That's it.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_02: That's snack time.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_03: The body, blood, and donuts of Christ.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_03: Of course.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_03: So let's get back to the podcast.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_01: So Okay.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_01: And Linda Blair.
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_03: How about that?
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_03: And Linda Blair.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_03: Um, you've had some really good and well-informed guests on.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_03: Is there a guest that stands out to you that it was just so much fun to have on the mic?
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_03: And I know you've had a lot of fun people on, but is there one particular and I kind of know what your answer is, but I'm curious if you're going to say it, of one guest that stands out to you that you've had on your show that hits a home run every time they're on?
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, um, there's there are a few that that do that do that.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I have to honestly say uh Seth Robeshaw.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_01: Uh just a great, I mean, just a talented individual.
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_03: He's another local comedian.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_01: Very well, he's a performer.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_01: He performs.
• 35:15
  SPEAKER_01: He actually he's a comedian, but he also sings and he performs uh at the composer's room.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_01: And he's uh he does uh impersonations.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_01: He does, you know, Liza Manelli and Judy Garland and he does all of that.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_01: But he's just um he's just a fabulous fabulous guest because he's very exuberant, very expressive, uh, very engaging, sure, uh, and very entertaining, no matter what he talks about.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_01: He's very sharp-witted.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um so yeah, I would say Seth stands out.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_01: Uh then I have some good friends, you know.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um I have uh well there's uh let me see.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_01: You say they were good friends.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_01: Evergene, yes.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_01: Evergene is a is is another guy.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_01: Sal Santiago, Sal, which is uh a very interesting character because he has his own like little shows and stuff that he does around, but he's been in you know it there's there's such a such a range because you have the people who have been in this town for 40 years, you know, the old time entertainers, okay.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_01: Um I had a a fellow on the other day, you know, Louis Cordon.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_01: He was doing stand-up 40 years ago, yeah, you know, and you listen to their stories, and then you listen to what the comics are doing today, and they're completely different dynamics uh that's going on in the town.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_03: So we are so telling the difference between because you've had entertainers who have been in Vegas forever, and you've had Seth, who's um definitely up and coming.
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_03: He he's I we haven't had the pleasure of having him on, but we've had a lot of mutual friends, and I've seen the episodes that he's had with you.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_03: He's a very, very extremely talented, very funny.
• 36:58
  SPEAKER_03: What do you see the differences between performers and entertainers from you know 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago to the entertainers that are today?
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_03: What what what difference in in talent or comedy or approach do you see in their style?
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_01: Well, back back in the day.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_01: Back in back in the day Before before Julie.
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, uh, you had hotels and casinos that actually hired and actually produced shows, lounge shows.
• 37:27
  SPEAKER_01: So it really wasn't a matter of trying to get something set up, uh trying to do an open mic or anything like that.
• 37:35
  SPEAKER_01: It was part of the entertainment in Las Vegas.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, when you came to Vegas in the I mean, I came to Vegas in the 70s.
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I remember Vegas in the 70s, and that's 50 years ago.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_01: But uh For all you do in the math at home.
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_01: That's fifty years ago.
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_01: Uh but you expected to go to a lounge show.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you the the casinos hosted these things.
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_01: You didn't have any admission, you didn't pay admission, you know.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_01: They might have had a two drink minimum or something.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_01: But they had shows that went on at eight o'clock, nine o'clock, one o'clock in the morning, two o'clock.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_01: I remember seeing Red Fox at at two o'clock in the morning.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_01: That's incredible.
• 38:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_01: So their experience was one where they came to town and they were hired by the hotels because the hotels were all individually owned, or so was said, you know, that they were.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but they you know, they were hired.
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_01: So they were hired entertainment and they were part of the lure of Las Vegas because there was really no place like Las Vegas at that time in the country.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_01: So people would come here and just this was it.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_01: This was the adult playlink, you know, and everybody got dressed and everybody was schlinking around, you know.
• 39:01
  SPEAKER_01: It was like, hey, you know, the rap pack and Donna Joy was schmoozing.
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I was schmoozing.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_00: No doubt, no doubt you were schmoozing.
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_01: I saw Dean Martin, I saw Shirley McLean.
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, just all these really great performers.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, but I never saw Sinatra.
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_01: That's too bad.
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_01: Um but but that's what you would do.
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_01: You would just go into the lounge, you'd sit down, you'd order a couple of drinks, and you'd have a show.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_01: That was it.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_01: I mean that was part of the the whole greatness about Las Vegas, about you know, living a living an living your altered life, okay?
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_01: An alter life kind of thing.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_01: And now And now it doesn't seem to be that.
• 39:43
  SPEAKER_01: Now, well, first of all, the hotels don't hire.
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_01: They they don't produce their own shows, they don't have the Follies Bergère, they don't have, you know, uh Bear Touch of Vegas, they don't have any of the glamorous shows at all anymore.
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_01: So that is all gone.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_01: And it's kind of gone by the wayside of gaming, uh, sports betting and things like this.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_01: So your whole audience is different.
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you could walk into a casino.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I went to an event, it was a uh it was a celebration event for a fundraiser that I was part of.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_01: And it was at Caesar's Palace.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_01: And of course I went and it was a dinner event, and I was dressed, you know, and as you're going to Caesar's Palace.
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_00: It's a big deal.
• 40:31
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_01: And I walked in and you got people in sweats walking in you you would never have seen that, you know, before you know, in the back in the day.
• 40:41
  SPEAKER_03: Back in the day.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_01: And it is a distinctly different attitude, but the different there's a different expectation of Vegas today.
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_01: Um it doesn't have it doesn't seem to have the kind of glamour appeal that it did back then.
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um that's too bad.
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_01: It is too bad.
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_01: It is.
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_01: And as far as the entertainers are concerned, it really limits the areas in which they could entertain.
• 41:09
  SPEAKER_01: So but one of the nice things about it is is that you've got a lot of these smaller venues that pop up around the community, smaller clubs and sure, you know, places that the entertainers can show their music, sing, do the performances.
• 41:27
  SPEAKER_03: Where do you perform rap right now, by the way?
• 41:30
  SPEAKER_01: Uh right now, I basically kind of house myself in wise guys.
• 41:34
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 41:34
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I've been with wise guys for a long time.
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_01: I was with them at the arts district and um also involved with them down in Town Square.
• 41:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um and then I just do a variety of, you know, small shows here and there.
• 41:48
  SPEAKER_03: Um Are the two biggest ones Kimmel's and Wise Guys?
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_01: Kimmel's, yeah, Kimmel's is definitely I've I've done, you know, I performed at Kimmel's as well.
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um and then I performed at Delirious and uh there was uh jokesters, okay, you know, bonkers, you know, when they were you know pretty prevalent and around.
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_01: But even then, you know, they they're a little few and far between now.
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_03: Is there a guest story that you you've had a lot of great guests on?
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_03: You listen to them, you know, Seth and Louie.
• 42:18
  SPEAKER_03: Is there is there any story that any of your guests have shared with you that's really stuck with you?
• 42:23
  SPEAKER_03: That's really been like, wow, that's that's a pretty significant story.
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_03: Good story, bad story, whatever it is.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_01: Good story, bad story.
• 42:29
  SPEAKER_03: Surprise us.
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_01: Oh goodness.
• 42:32
  SPEAKER_01: I'm putting you on the spot a lot.
• 42:35
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you know, I think I think listening to people's reasons for getting into comedy or what spurred them on into comedy, uh, as far as a general sense, is it there's usually a need for expression uh for some reason.
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_01: You know, whatever might have caused that person to want to express themselves.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_01: Um and a lot of that is, well, I'll tell you, it was like with Ed Regine, for instance, uh great comic, very funny guy.
• 43:14
  SPEAKER_01: It's been around forever, been around even before my time, okay?
• 43:18
  SPEAKER_01: Even before me.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_01: Can you imagine?
• 43:20
  SPEAKER_03: That's how old he's I don't believe, it's unbelievable.
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um but you know, he started out, he was like uh he was like a horse trainer or something, you know, in the Bronx.
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_01: And he just kind of like got up and just started, you know, doing his shtick.
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_01: And then they started booking him and around.
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's that that type of thing where it it came from an unexpected place.
• 43:43
  SPEAKER_01: But in his he has a book and he says in the book that his father was a vaudeville uh uh performer.
• 43:52
  SPEAKER_01: So it kind of rubbed off on him, but it really didn't come out until later, and it really wasn't something that he directed his energy to.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_01: But it just happened.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_01: That's funny.
• 44:02
  SPEAKER_01: This type of stuff.
• 44:03
  SPEAKER_01: That's so interesting.
• 44:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 44:04
  SPEAKER_01: And then I'm going to have another guest that's going to be coming on to the show, which I think is going to be really fun and really interesting, is uh Meyer Lansky.
• 44:14
  SPEAKER_01: Now, do you know who Meyer Lansky is?
• 44:15
  SPEAKER_03: Is that the is that the son uh or the grandson?
• 44:18
  SPEAKER_01: The grandson of the Meyer Lansky.
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_01: He's uh he's a fan of mine.
• 44:24
  SPEAKER_03: Is he?
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_03: Hey he's a fan of Kougarlicious and fan of Donna Joy.
• 44:28
  SPEAKER_03: That's gonna be exciting.
• 44:29
  SPEAKER_01: No, it is gonna be fun.
• 44:30
  SPEAKER_01: He has it, he has a book that's just come out, and it's called The Lansky Legacy.
• 44:35
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 44:35
  SPEAKER_01: And uh we're gonna be talking about his book.
• 44:37
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, that's gonna be fun.
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_01: But um he's a very interesting character too.
• 44:41
  SPEAKER_03: When are you gonna have him on?
• 44:42
  SPEAKER_01: Uh he's gonna be on um, we're gonna be recording that on the 18th of June.
• 44:48
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, that's gonna be a great, great episode to watch.
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_01: So you hear that, Meyer?
• 44:51
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you're locked into the locked in.
• 44:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean out.
• 44:56
  SPEAKER_01: But it was, you know, he uh he again he's he's a fan, he he was a big supporter.
• 45:02
  SPEAKER_01: That's awesome.
• 45:02
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I used to perform at the A Hearn Hotel and I was there for well a little bit more than a year.
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_01: Um and you know, that's how he basically started coming to see my shows.
• 45:18
  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
• 45:18
  SPEAKER_01: And uh it was very funny one night uh I wasn't performing, but I was there to support another comedian that was uh performing.
• 45:27
  SPEAKER_01: And so I was just sitting, you know, by myself, and Meyer comes walking in and he says, Well, come on, come on, sit down with me.
• 45:35
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Okay.
• 45:38
  SPEAKER_03: Did you know who he was?
• 45:41
  unknown: That's incredible.
• 45:42
  SPEAKER_01: Meyer, as in the Meyer Lansky, as in the Meyer Lansky, yeah.
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's yeah, it really impressed my family back east.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god, are you telling me?
• 45:51
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you tell your Italian family and different lifestyle out here compared to back east.
• 45:56
  SPEAKER_03: We've we're both from back east, and yeah, that's a whole different lifestyle out here.
• 45:59
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody knows, yeah.
• 46:01
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, you remember the godfather, you know.
• 46:03
  SPEAKER_01: What was it?
• 46:04
  SPEAKER_01: Hyman Roth, I think, was the character that was played off of the Meyer Lance.
• 46:09
  SPEAKER_03: So funny.
• 46:10
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, that's gonna be that's gonna be interesting.
• 46:13
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure there's gonna be a lot of stories there.
• 46:15
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, I'm sure.
• 46:16
  SPEAKER_01: Or maybe not.
• 46:16
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 46:17
  SPEAKER_01: We'll depend.
• 46:19
  SPEAKER_03: We'll see.
• 46:19
  SPEAKER_03: We'll see what he shares.
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_03: That would be very interesting.
• 46:22
  SPEAKER_03: We had um Jonathan Jostle on, who is the CEO of the plaza, and he's very close with uh Os Mayor Oscar Goodman.
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_03: And one of the things that he said about uh Oscar is that he's such a noble, well-respected man that he has so many stories, but he'll never share any of them that will you know harm anybody in the past.
• 46:44
  SPEAKER_03: Right, you don't.
• 46:45
  SPEAKER_03: You don't.
• 46:45
  SPEAKER_03: He's he's just he's just that much of a a well-respected person.
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_03: And and and it's it's such a shame because I'm sure he could fill books on books on books of stories that he's had.
• 46:55
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I'm sure because he actually uh represented a lot of the um members of the what a life.
• 47:04
  SPEAKER_03: What a life.
• 47:06
  SPEAKER_03: Julie, you know who Mayor Oscar Goodman is, right?
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_02: Of course I do.
• 47:09
  SPEAKER_03: I'm just making sure.
• 47:10
  SPEAKER_03: I want to keep I want to make sure that you're you're aware of who we're talking about.
• 47:14
  SPEAKER_02: I know just because I'm new to Vegas doesn't mean I'm oblivious to everything.
• 47:18
  unknown: Okay, okay.
• 47:19
  SPEAKER_03: You also have uh Lana Turner coming on.
• 47:22
  SPEAKER_01: Lana Turner, yes.
• 47:23
  SPEAKER_01: That's gonna be so excited about that.
• 47:25
  SPEAKER_03: So you you met her at the screening, right?
• 47:27
  SPEAKER_01: I did.
• 47:28
  SPEAKER_01: I did, yeah.
• 47:29
  SPEAKER_01: At the um what come what come with may is the is the name of the film and uh Ralphie May.
• 47:36
  SPEAKER_03: What did you think of the doc of the documentary?
• 47:38
  SPEAKER_01: I thought it was great.
• 47:39
  SPEAKER_01: I really thought it was great.
• 47:40
  SPEAKER_01: I thought it was very well crafted because it really um allowed you to see and appreciate his comedy and his comic perspective in the very beginning.
• 47:54
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, and then as the documentary moves on, you start understanding a lot of underlying factors that was driving him, okay?
• 48:05
  SPEAKER_01: And and again, like I said, you know, in a lot of comedic lives there is some tragedy that brings them forth, you know, uh and they turn to comedy as kind of a a relief or kind of a release or whatever it is to really you know, and so the documentary takes you from the com the comedic world, the funny man, all right, and then it allows you to see the underlying tragedy, and it was a tragedy.
• 48:36
  SPEAKER_01: It was it really was um i it it sad, you know.
• 48:41
  SPEAKER_03: He was somebody that like growing up in the you know, he was early 2000s, I think, or late 90s that he was on last comic standing and um didn't win, but that probably worked out in his favor that he didn't win, he came in second, and so I I kind of grew up with his comedy.
• 48:57
  SPEAKER_03: I was always big into comedy, but uh he I kind of grew up with him, and I never knew the behind the scenes, I never knew the struggle.
• 49:04
  SPEAKER_01: Right, you wouldn't either, you wouldn't.
• 49:06
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, who knew what went on with Richard Pryor?
• 49:09
  SPEAKER_03: Right, right.
• 49:10
  SPEAKER_01: Richard Pryor is a great comic, all right?
• 49:12
  SPEAKER_01: But then when you start to understand what his underlying life was like, you're just going, like, how does that how did that happen?
• 49:19
  SPEAKER_01: Right, how did he even get there?
• 49:21
  SPEAKER_01: How did he even survive that?
• 49:23
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's just it's the same thing with Ralphie Mae.
• 49:25
  SPEAKER_01: You know, how did he even survive?
• 49:27
  SPEAKER_03: Um and Jay Jay Moore had a great line in that documentary where he said, like, you we'll we'll go out, we'll give you one hour of the best of me, and then we'll fade into the black.
• 49:37
  SPEAKER_03: And and then that's where you know everything else kind of spirals and the struggles happen.
• 49:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and all of a sudden, you know, you're the stage becomes that home, yeah, that safe place.
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, and and the audience's response.
• 49:53
  SPEAKER_01: And again, this is getting into live interaction.
• 49:56
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you can't get that, you know, on uh on a YouTube.
• 50:01
  SPEAKER_01: You can't get that and I really experienced that during COVID.
• 50:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 50:06
  SPEAKER_01: When you try to do comedy, you know, online.
• 50:10
  SPEAKER_01: That's like how would you even do it you don't have that, you know, it's like, okay, I said a joke, are you laughing?
• 50:17
  SPEAKER_03: You know, it's like you're just talking you're talking into the camera and not getting any reaction.
• 50:21
  SPEAKER_01: So when you have a comic that that really finds that place uh on stage as their home, it's a place that they can they can trust it and the audience reciprocates, okay, with their laughter and their love and their positive response.
• 50:39
  SPEAKER_01: You know, that's an interaction that is wonderful.
• 50:43
  SPEAKER_01: It's a it's a one and you you you really kind of get addicted to it.
• 50:47
  SPEAKER_01: You really want more of it.
• 50:48
  SPEAKER_01: It's like I said, when women came up to me and said, you know, you're saying what I'm thinking, I know I'm connecting.
• 50:56
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and that's a a great place to be.
• 50:59
  SPEAKER_01: You know, so even Gilda Radner even would talk about that um in some uh a documentary that I saw where she uh she lost her father, I think, when she was young.
• 51:12
  SPEAKER_01: And to her, whenever she held felt the laughter, she felt her father's love, you know, type of thing.
• 51:19
  SPEAKER_03: That's interesting.
• 51:19
  SPEAKER_03: I bet you five dollars, Donna, that Julie has no idea who Gilda Radner is.
• 51:23
  SPEAKER_02: That one's true.
• 51:24
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 51:26
  SPEAKER_02: Julie, are you kidding me?
• 51:28
  SPEAKER_02: No, I'm not kidding.
• 51:29
  SPEAKER_02: How dare you?
• 51:30
  SPEAKER_02: I'll do my homework after the show.
• 51:32
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you have to do that.
• 51:33
  SPEAKER_03: Donna Joy is very disappointed.
• 51:35
  SPEAKER_01: She is she uh was an icon on the original's SNL.
• 51:40
  SPEAKER_03: Um Donna's not mad, she's just disappointed.
• 51:43
  SPEAKER_01: Now I have to look up her face.
• 51:44
  SPEAKER_01: No, you you have to look up Gilda Radner.
• 51:46
  SPEAKER_01: She was fabulous.
• 51:47
  SPEAKER_03: She was great.
• 51:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um great sketch, great sketch comedian.
• 51:51
  SPEAKER_03: Lonna Turner's gonna be a great guest, she should be a little bit.
• 51:52
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, Lana Turner, yes, she's gonna be and she was and she's a great comedian too.
• 51:56
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, well, she was I saw a little bit of her.
• 51:58
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 51:59
  SPEAKER_01: A little bit of her act.
• 52:00
  SPEAKER_01: And she is very funny, very gracious, again, a very genuine person.
• 52:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, authentic.
• 52:05
  SPEAKER_01: You know, all I had yes, all I had to do was just walk up, introduce myself, invite her onto the podcast, and she was all for it.
• 52:12
  SPEAKER_03: I love that.
• 52:12
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I love that too.
• 52:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know?
• 52:14
  SPEAKER_03: Have you looked her up, Julie?
• 52:16
  SPEAKER_02: I have.
• 52:16
  SPEAKER_02: And I still don't recognize her.
• 52:19
  SPEAKER_03: That's all right.
• 52:20
  SPEAKER_02: I feel like I would maybe know if I saw her doing her comedy because I I know Gene Wilder very well, and obviously she was married to him at one point.
• 52:29
  SPEAKER_03: You're just digging a hole now, Julie.
• 52:30
  SPEAKER_03: It's fine.
• 52:31
  SPEAKER_03: Whatever.
• 52:31
  SPEAKER_03: It's fine.
• 52:32
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm on I'm on your website, cougar cougarhy-licious.com.
• 52:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 52:37
  SPEAKER_03: I'm looking at you got all sorts of branding, all sorts of products here.
• 52:41
  SPEAKER_03: You got cougarlicious mugs, cougarlicious bags.
• 52:45
  SPEAKER_03: Tell me about the cougarlicious panties.
• 52:46
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 52:48
  SPEAKER_03: Julie was very curious on the on the cougarlicious panties.
• 52:50
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I was wondering if we could get some for Andrew.
• 52:53
  SPEAKER_03: Do you have any double XL for me?
• 52:56
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you know, that's that's a line that I'm that I'm working on.
• 53:00
  SPEAKER_01: Um I just, well, you're cougarlicious.
• 53:04
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you have to have a panty.
• 53:05
  SPEAKER_01: You have to have a wine glass and a panty.
• 53:07
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that seems like that should be the uniform.
• 53:09
  SPEAKER_02: I feel like you also need to add like a robe, pardon me.
• 53:13
  SPEAKER_02: I feel like you need to add a robe to it as a cougarelicious.
• 53:15
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 53:16
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I think that's a great idea.
• 53:17
  SPEAKER_03: Silk robe.
• 53:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, a silk robe.
• 53:19
  SPEAKER_01: It would be perfect.
• 53:20
  SPEAKER_01: And then I then I generated um the phrase kiss my assets.
• 53:26
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 53:27
  SPEAKER_01: And that again also came out of my stand-up.
• 53:30
  SPEAKER_00: Love that.
• 53:30
  SPEAKER_01: Because I talk about um not being married and I don't have kids.
• 53:36
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, people say to me, Well, good for you.
• 53:39
  SPEAKER_01: You've got that can-do attitude.
• 53:41
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like, well, it's really not a can-do attitude, it's more of a kiss my assets attitude, you know.
• 53:47
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you're never gonna get a job if you don't know how to type.
• 53:51
  SPEAKER_01: Kiss my assets.
• 53:52
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I'm gonna have my own secretary, you know, this type of thing.
• 53:56
  SPEAKER_01: And but that's again, that's who I am.
• 53:59
  SPEAKER_01: That's it.
• 53:59
  SPEAKER_01: That's always been my attitude.
• 54:01
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't care, you know.
• 54:02
  SPEAKER_03: That's so funny.
• 54:03
  SPEAKER_01: And I have had a teacher tell me I would never get a job if I didn't know how to type.
• 54:07
  SPEAKER_01: You know what?
• 54:08
  SPEAKER_01: And to today, I still don't know how to type.
• 54:10
  SPEAKER_01: Really?
• 54:11
  SPEAKER_01: I still don't know how to type.
• 54:13
  SPEAKER_01: I still do the hunting on my on my computer brother, like a monkey on a keyboard when it comes to typing.
• 54:20
  SPEAKER_03: That's pretty funny.
• 54:20
  SPEAKER_03: Well, you you've you've you've done well without knowing how to type.
• 54:24
  SPEAKER_03: You've done very well with Hudding.
• 54:25
  SPEAKER_01: There's plenty of people out there who know how to type.
• 54:27
  SPEAKER_01: I don't even know.
• 54:28
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
• 54:28
  SPEAKER_01: That's yeah, I'll tire you.
• 54:29
  SPEAKER_03: That sounds like a problem for future Donna to worry about.
• 54:32
  SPEAKER_03: You know, current Donna doesn't need to worry about it.
• 54:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so no, I've got lots of uh lots of merchandise on there, all kinds of things that I think ladies would like.
• 54:39
  SPEAKER_03: I think so too.
• 54:40
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe some men too.
• 54:41
  SPEAKER_01: Who knows?
• 54:41
  SPEAKER_03: Listen, I'm I'm gonna buy a pair of cougar licious panties.
• 54:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 54:44
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, and I want them autographed by Donna Joy.
• 54:47
  SPEAKER_01: I'd be happy.
• 54:48
  SPEAKER_01: I would be honored.
• 54:48
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
• 54:49
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
• 54:50
  SPEAKER_03: Jill, did you hear that?
• 54:51
  SPEAKER_01: I did.
• 54:51
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 54:53
  SPEAKER_03: Well, Donna, this was incredible.
• 54:55
  SPEAKER_02: Are we through?
• 54:57
  SPEAKER_02: I think we're an hour, isn't it?
• 54:58
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we're at an hour.
• 54:59
  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
• 55:00
  SPEAKER_03: See, just like I said on your episode, we talk and we just go.
• 55:04
  SPEAKER_03: I know.
• 55:04
  SPEAKER_03: We have to have you back in the news studio.
• 55:06
  SPEAKER_03: We'll have you back in the news studio.
• 55:07
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, great.
• 55:08
  SPEAKER_03: You are, as I mentioned, you are our third to last guest in this old studio.
• 55:13
  SPEAKER_03: We're counting down the days.
• 55:15
  SPEAKER_03: We have hopefully uh a week left here.
• 55:19
  SPEAKER_03: And so uh when we're all set up in the news studio, we'll have you back on.
• 55:23
  SPEAKER_03: I'd love to.
• 55:23
  SPEAKER_03: And I I want you to to bring the kiss my ass that's panties.
• 55:27
  SPEAKER_01: I will.
• 55:27
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, please.
• 55:28
  SPEAKER_01: I will yes, I will bring it to you.
• 55:30
  SPEAKER_02: What did you say, Jim?
• 55:31
  SPEAKER_02: I was gonna say, before you hit that outro music.
• 55:33
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not hitting the outro music yet.
• 55:34
  SPEAKER_02: Your hands on the mouse.
• 55:36
  SPEAKER_03: I I wanna I want to talk about before we go, I want to talk about Donna Joy and the Cougarlicious Cub House.
• 55:41
  SPEAKER_03: Where can people find more Cougarlicious Cub House?
• 55:44
  SPEAKER_01: Well, it's a YouTube channel, so they can go to YouTube at the Cougarlicious Cub House and see you C U B Cub.
• 55:52
  SPEAKER_01: It's a play on Club because Cubs are what the guys are called on the Cougar sites.
• 56:00
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, that's that's what I'm called on the Cougar sites, Julie.
• 56:03
  SPEAKER_01: You're a cub.
• 56:04
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, I'm a cub, Julia.
• 56:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 56:05
  SPEAKER_01: Uh or real simple, they could just go on to my they could go right onto my website because I carry the uh and they could go to Donna Joycomedy.com Donna Joy Comedy and get to the website.
• 56:19
  SPEAKER_03: Donna Joy Comedy.
• 56:21
  SPEAKER_03: I am going on the site right now.
• 56:23
  SPEAKER_03: Let's take a look at this.
• 56:24
  SPEAKER_03: Donna Joy Cougarlish, there she is, Donna Joy.
• 56:27
  SPEAKER_03: Stand up in your place.
• 56:28
  SPEAKER_01: And you can just go to the TV.
• 56:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 56:31
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you go to the top bar.
• 56:33
  SPEAKER_03: Mm-hmm.
• 56:34
  SPEAKER_03: And Donna Joy TV.
• 56:36
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 56:37
  SPEAKER_03: And here you are.
• 56:38
  SPEAKER_01: I love it.
• 56:39
  SPEAKER_01: You can just link right to the show from there.
• 56:41
  SPEAKER_01: I love it.
• 56:41
  SPEAKER_01: Makes it a lot easier.
• 56:42
  SPEAKER_01: It's so much easier.
• 56:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I just make it a one-stop shop.
• 56:44
  SPEAKER_03: Listen, listen, that's all we need.
• 56:46
  SPEAKER_03: We don't need all the distractions.
• 56:47
  SPEAKER_03: We don't need all the pop-ups.
• 56:48
  SPEAKER_03: Don't.
• 56:48
  SPEAKER_03: We don't need any of that.
• 56:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, just just press subscribe.
• 56:51
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 56:52
  SPEAKER_01: Just get to the just get to the show and enjoy it.
• 56:54
  SPEAKER_03: You do a very good job at every episode doing the like and subscribe.
• 56:58
  SPEAKER_03: Can you do a like and subscribe for us for us right now?
• 57:00
  SPEAKER_03: Your your your like and subscribe spiel?
• 57:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, absolutely.
• 57:04
  SPEAKER_01: Remember, if you you really just turned it on.
• 57:12
  SPEAKER_01: If you want to make sure that you keep up with these episodes and you don't miss a one, be sure to like, share, and subscribe because you really help this channel and we love you for it.
• 57:22
  SPEAKER_01: And it's free.
• 57:23
  SPEAKER_01: And it's free.
• 57:24
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, Donna George.
• 57:25
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, and it's free.
• 57:26
  SPEAKER_03: And it's free, yes.
• 57:27
  SPEAKER_03: Donna, this was fantastic.
• 57:28
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you so much for that.
• 57:29
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you, Andrew.
• 57:31
  SPEAKER_01: I just can't believe a whole hour's gone by.
• 57:33
  SPEAKER_03: We'll have you back.
• 57:34
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 57:34
  SPEAKER_03: We'll do two hours next time.
• 57:36
  SPEAKER_03: Julie's exciting.
• 57:37
  SPEAKER_01: You'll be back online.
• 57:38
  SPEAKER_03: And we'll be and I'll be back on yours.
• 57:40
  SPEAKER_03: Julie wants to come on too.
• 57:41
  SPEAKER_03: I do.
• 57:42
  SPEAKER_03: She felt very left out.
• 57:43
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 57:43
  SPEAKER_03: It's very left out.
• 57:44
  SPEAKER_03: Well, this is great.
• 57:45
  SPEAKER_03: No.
• 57:46
  SPEAKER_03: Julie, any last questions before I hit the outro?
• 57:48
  SPEAKER_03: No, no last questions.
• 57:49
  SPEAKER_03: Alright, well, here's the outro.
• 57:51
  SPEAKER_03: Well, boys and girls, this is another fun episode.
• 57:54
  SPEAKER_03: Catch new episodes each week.
• 57:56
  SPEAKER_03: Like, share, and subscribe.
• 57:58
  SPEAKER_03: It's free.
• 57:58
  SPEAKER_03: We love that.
• 58:00
  SPEAKER_03: And uh we'll see you next week, Julie.
• 58:02
  SPEAKER_03: You uh you got any final words before we head out?
• 58:05
  SPEAKER_03: Cougarlicious.
• 58:08
  SPEAKER_03: We need a cougaritious out, though.
• 58:10
  SPEAKER_03: Perfect.
• 58:11
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, nicely.
• 58:13
  SPEAKER_03: Let's do that.
• 58:15
  SPEAKER_03: That was awesome.