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Have you been to Sue Falls, South Dakota in the past. No, this will be my first time coming up. Well, welcome to Sioux Falls. You're gonna love it. It's a great place. You're used to the weather because you're from Michigan. Is that righty, Yes, that's correct. Yeah, So the Kodo I'll field just late home. Absolutely, You're gonna feel right at home and Sioux Falls and we're going to have a really good time. Yeah. And again the thing that's nice, Snowjam Comedy Festival is
an organization that is raising money for Dakota Academy of Performing Arts. So I love the fact that we've got a lot of stand up comics that are coming to Sue Falls to help raise money for like the next generation of performing artists. I just think that's a really neat thing. Yeah. Yeah, I'm super excited. Yeah, I've always wanted to be a part of this.
So yeah, I'm glad, unfortunate will be. I think it's the last year, right, it is the last year, and again I'm sad about that, but I also I love that they're going out on a bang. It's like one of the most popular festivals. People love to come to this and every year they have way more people submit entries than they ever have room for so it's not like the thing is fizzling out. It's just that everybody's kind of got their own stuff going on and you get to be a part
of it. We saved the best for last. We got Andrew Yang this year. And let's talk a little bit about what you've been doing as far as stand up comedy. How long have you been doing this and what was it the guy you interested in this? So I've been going about like seven issuars now, started around twenty sixteen, and yeah, it's something I've always wanted to do. I started my first open mic in ann Arbor, Michigan.
I originally just want to be a writer. I just wanted to be like a television writer for like those late night programs where you see people at monologue jokes. Yeah, and I submitted a packet I got rejected. I was pretty frustrated because I worked really hard on it, and I was like, why didn't I get accepted? So I stalked everyone who accepted who got accepted, and there I had to stand up comedy background. So I was like, I guess I'll try this and then yeah, I did that once
and got hooked. That's awesome. I'm excited for you to come and be a part of this festival. You're going to meet a lot of great people. Have you done other festivals as well? Andrew, Yes, I have. Yeah. Last year was the first year I'd ever started applying to festivals, So yeah, I've been lucky to be traveling a lot. I was in Cleveland, Chattanooga, Indianapolis, so I've been quite a bit this year. And the thing that's really cool you get to maybe even experience this more
than what I do, because I've only seen the Sioux Falls festival. But when all of these people get together from all different parts of the country, wonderful connections are made and some really neat collaborations happen, And I just think it's kind of a magical thing that happens at a comedy festival. Yeah, it does feel a lot like summer camp where you're just like all together in
like this the same place and just become good friends. Like I have real close friends that I've only hung out with like three days have the whole year, but like we're going to be friends for life now. Absolutely, And for folks who have not had a chance to hear Andrew Yang do stand up comedy. What kind of comedy do you do? Is there somebody that people compare you to at all? I guess when I first started, I just did a complete ripoff of John mulaney, so but hopefully I pivoted away from
that. But yeah, I really like his style of just like observational and anecdotal, so I try to mimic that, or I did too much in the beginning, so hopefully I've steered away from that now. Very nice. Well, I am excited to meet you in Sue Fall, South Dakota, and again, thank you for joining us at the Snowjamcomedy Festival, and thank you for your time today. Yeah, of course, thanks for having me and I'll see everyone soon again. Andrew Yang one of the thirty comics who
will be here. There's a bunch of comedians, and there's a bunch of sponsors and a bunch of volunteers that make this happen and we need you to come out and sit in those seats and enjoy it. And every year these performances sell out, and this being the final year, they're absolutely going to sell out. If you don't have tickets yet, you can get them now. It's Snowjamcomedyfest dot com. SnO Jam Snowjamcomedy Fest January eighteen, nineteen twenty
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me. I'm glad you're here. I'm excited to chat with you because today we're going to talk about something that we've kind of touched on a little bit the last couple of weeks. But this this time of year, there are a lot of people who make a resolution to quit smoking. That's one of the big ones, yep. And I can tell you my mother did that for years. She would make the resolution to quit smoking, and then I don't know, it's maybe fifteen years ago, she gave up smoking for Lent
and she just never started again. So she actually, after many, many many years of smoking, she quit. And I was just talking to her not too long ago, and she was saying, I don't know all. I mean, I can't believe it took well, you know, and the secret to committing smoking, mean to quitting smoking. I'm sorry. You know a lot of people have tried. They've decided they're going to quit, and they try and then and then they they quit for a while and they start
smoking it. But your and your mom had done that. But then she got to Lent and she did it again. And the reason she succeeded is because Lent was was important enough to her that when she made the decision to quit smoking, she was actually all in on it. That the whole Lentin thing had enough leverage on her to change the dynamic, and it changed.
She learned that this other thing was important enough that she could now stick to what she had decided to do. So this is how I talk to people when they commit quitting smoking starts with a decision, all right, and you have to be all in on it. You did you ever see Karate Kid,
the first one? Yeah? Yeah, okay, So do you remember that scene where okay, so Daniel he has to learn karate now, right, because he's got to go fight in this tournament because it's the only way those boys aren't going to beat him up everyday for the rest of the school year. Yeah. So he rides his bike and he arrives at mister Maggie's house. It's that scene where he has to wash and wax all the cars, and he's walking up to the house and you see mister Mayagi walking out
with that bucket of water and he walks up there. He looks at Daniel and he says, are you ready to learn karate? And Daniel says, I think so or I guess so one of the two. And you see mister Maggie stop and he puts that bucket down and he squats down over that bucket and he says, first, make sacred packed. I promise teach karate. You promise learn, teacher, say student? Do he said learning Karate's like walking on the road. If you walk on the right side, you're
safe. If you walk on the left side, you're safe. If you walk in the middle, pretty soon you get the squish, just like grape. You karate do same, you karate do yes, or you karate do no, You karate do guess. So I'll try, I'll do my best. I'll give it a shot. What else do I have to do? I gotta try something. I might as well do this. I've tried everything. You do any of that that will be the reason you fail. What he was telling Aniels if you have to make a change, if it's time
to time to become something you're not. You have to decide you're going to succeed before you ever begin, because if you begin, we're all desperately afraid of failure, and in order to protect ourselves, we want to start any difficult thing safely, safely from the middle of the road. And what he
was telling them is that doesn't work because you're leaving open the door. Your safety comes when you leave open a door where you can where if it gets tough or weird or stressful, you can run out and still look at yourself in the mirror and say like, well, I did my best or I tried, and then we get to feel better about that. And what he was telling him is, if you really have to make a change, you've got to shut the door behind you, and you've got to be all in
on it. And your mom the lent thing was enough to make her all in on that decision where she had she'd kind of she'd always been in the middle of the road before, but the lenten thing had enough leverage to get her to shut the door and stay in it. That's awesome, And that's the bag when she says, I don't think about it anymore. That's really hard for people to wrap their head arounds. But hopping smoking is a decision. It's a choice you have to make now. I always tell people whose
job is to quit smoking, it's yours. My job is to make it easy, okay. But the only way I get to do my job is if you actually are a yes. If you walked out of the middle of the road, decided you're a yes, and went all in on it, then like called like your mom, like many many other people, it's easy. If you can certainly don't want to quit, you can't make me right, and even inside your head, because people will say out loud, do I really want to quit? But in their head they're like, well,
really, I kind of. I hope this works. I hope it works this time. And you can't even be in the middle of the road inside your own head. You've got to actually commit, You've got to be you've got to be outside the safety zone and have made a decision for yourself and be all in on it. I should have asked this before we got this far down the road. But does this same thing apply when it comes to like, I know it's a newer technology, the vaping anything, Yeah,
is that the same like the same thing. If I'm trying to quit vaping, it's the same as trying to quit smoking. Yep, yep, it's all the same thing. I was gonna say, I kind of chewing that is as well. It's you know, any substance like that in that genre, and really anything that you're drinking, eating, whatever that you would like to stop change, the same logic applies. Okay, it is a decision.
The problem is is that most people, most smokers, most vapors, most I don't know, maybe I'm drinking too much pop or whatever people will say, are running around the world trying to find the pill, the plan, the person, the patch. It's going to do the heavy lifting for them, a magic pill, that's all we need. Well that they want something that will that that will take on the heavy lifting, so they don't
ever have to kind of decide there. Yes, they don't ever actually have to commit because remember, then then we're not in a safe place anymore. We could actually fail now, and so the risk is higher and they're looking for something that will take away that risk. And so my job is to help you actually make that decision and realize that you can do it safely and be okay. I mean, one of the things you can do is you can go to my website, Soofalls hypnosis dot com and I've got there's a
link there to my YouTube page. You can go see I have break it up into playlist. You can see people come and quit smoking all the time. They're happy to tell you how it went for them, and you'll hear a lot well, I realized it was just a choice. Yeah, And as soon as people do that and they go all in on it, everything becomes easy. If somebody listening would like to make that choice. What is
the best way for them to connect with you? You certainly can go to my website, Sufalse Hypnosis dot com or you can reach me directly at six oh five seven zero two sixty six y nine one, happy to talk to anyone. Very nice, Thank you sir, Thank you again, Suefaalse Hypnosis dot com. And I'll throw a link to that at Facebook dot com slash Sunny Radio and Facebook dot com slash Sue Falls News. What could you do
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Page West Sioux Studios and Sunny ninety three point three. It was on this day, January sixteenth, nineteen fifty seven, her Royal Highness Elena, Princess of Romania, spends the evening in sue Fall, South Dakota, daughter of King fernand the First and granddaughter of Queen Victoria saw Alexander the Second and Queen Maria the Second of Portugal. Winter nephew, King Michael the First abdicated the throne in December of nineteen forty eight and the Communist Party took over in Romania.
Princess Elena and her family were exiled from the country. After brief stints in Vienna, Switzerland, and Argentina, she would end up in Newton, Massachusetts, in nineteen fifty. She would spend the next eleven years working with the Romanian Orthodox Church, speaking around the country educating Americans about the dangers of communism. While one of those speaking engagements brought her to our Fair City, Princess Elena warned sux Fall citizens and America of the slow spread of Communism.
She warned of a take not through brute force, but with a few key positions in American government being held by the wrong people. She wanted to warrant that the takeover America was the goal of the Communist Party and not likely to be abandoned. The princess became well versed in communists and socialist politics as she fought against it as it spread in Romania for ten years, first battling for six years against the encroaching Nazis and then for four against the Soviet government after
the war. After her exile, Elenya also spent two years in Argentina during the liberal presidency of Juan Perone. Princess Elenya would retire from speaking and would become part of the Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration in Pennsylvania, eventually becoming Mother Superior. She would remain at the monastery until her death in nineteen ninety one. This day in Sioux Fall's history has been brought to you by the Siux Falls Fund, Page West Sioux Studios and Sonny ninety three point three. Do
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