Only Willie. Movie Money. Comedian Tom Mabe.

Wow, we have one highwayman left Yep, will He's still hanging. Yeah, old and Wrinkley Willie, but he's he's still still hanging. Rest in peace. Chris Christophferson died at age eighty eight. And Wow, we were just talking off air. What was some of the things that he did that people don't know? Like the janitor story was amazing.

We always kind of joke around, like Chris he was an ok singer, He was an okay actor, but a great songwriter, right, Yeah, not just that. Chris Christofferson was a Golden Gloves boxer.

Wow.

Played football in college, was a rugby star, was an Oxford scholar, getting his Masters in English from Merton College at Oxford. Flew helicopters as a captain in the US Army, turned down an appointment to teach at West Point to pursue songwriting in Nashville, So instead of teaching at the US Military Academy, he worked part time as a janitor at Columbia Records to try to get into the business.

Talk about chasing your dreams, man, and burning your boats like General Cortez and having that's uh. I admire that, especially in any industry where it's really really, really tough to make it, especially back then. You know, right now you can get on YouTube or whatever and you've got a broader chance of someone making wow much respect. Yeah. He uh. He passed away at his home in Maui's surrounded by families. By his family, according to his representatives,

Blade, who played his mother.

That's a dollar out, thank you, that's a dollar out. His family did issue a statement here it is says it's with a heavy heart that we shared the news our husbands, slash fathers, slash grandfather. Chris Christofferson passed away peacefully on Saturday, September twenty eighth at home.

He had a role in Payback the Mel Gibson movie. Did he where Mel Gibson was trying to get seventy thousand dollars back.

That was it.

And there were like three different bosses and he was one of the bosses, one of the crime bosses. It was pretty good.

It goes on to say that we were also blessed for our time with him, Thank you for loving him all these many years. And when you see a rainbow, you know it's him smiling down on us. So they also said that there was no cause of death listed. So he was eighty eight. He was eighty eight. I liked that he went peacefully at home. Well, that's how I hope I get to go at home, you know. Oh, comedian Tom Mabe is walking already already here, hang on, hang on, grab a seat and have some headphones. We

Okay, check one, check too. I'm not hearing. Here's the issue.

Plug your headphones here alright, trying to figure it out. All right, just talk about Chris Chris Stofferson passing away.

Oh man, was that terrible? And I saw you know the barbari striis sound.

They did a movie Stars Stars Born.

She's getting up there, she's next.

Yeah, he be he beat her by nose.

He beat me to it.

Todd Mabes joined us. You're gonna we're gonna be talking to you. Just sitting right now.

I'm early.

I'm sorry, no hang out, hang out with us, man and uh. Two juveniles were shot outside p r P High School in a football game. It looks like John. John Bradley, the spokesman for l m p D, says officer responded to a trouble run at seven point fifteen. JPS security officers requested LMPD for crowd control. Shots were fired in the parking lot a little bit after eight o'clock. Two juvenile victims, one of us sent to Saint Mary's

So the days of just getting into a fist fight and ending it are over.

It is it is. I mean, I gotta tell you it's getting bad out there.

I'm scared, Yeah, of course, I swear to God. Yeah, I'm extreme. I've never been more concerned in my life.

No, me too, Tom, I'm you know, we'll get to joking around, but that's uh. Maybe we'll go joke around on this when travelers have been stranded at the Greyhound bus stations. Get it, get it. All you want to do is take a cheap transportation, but you know it leads me down. It's not just airlines, even the bus line, thank you Carl. Even the bus lines are breaking down. When I heard this story, I thought, wait a minute. I thought we didn't have a Greyhound bus station, and

Uh.

Dozens of people are stranded at the bus station on Broadway. Evidently they shut down the all of the Greyhound bus I guess the whole organization was bought by another company and they started selling off properties, meaning bus stations, for profit. They sold the downtown Louisville one. The woman was right there at seventh of Muhammad. I believe that's where it was.

I just bought the homeless shelter, did you. I'm going to turn it into a dispensary.

Brilliant, brilliant.

But evidently some people have been stranded for hours. Some people have been stranding for days. All they wanted to do is take a bus. One man was taking a bus from Illinois to Florida. He's been here for two days.

He could walk to Florida faster.

You think. Yeah, Plus, who was to ride a Greyhound bus? I mean anyway, Greyhound has moved its Louisville stop to a strip mall West Broadway near twelfth Street. So I guess that what they did is they bought all these just Greyhound bus in general, and started taking big corner properties like the one that we had our bus station out selling it and it's running out of strip mall.

The converting remember the photo mats.

Of course, yeah, and you had to wait. You had to wait for two or three weeks to get your film back, and then when you did, there's a damn thumb print or something over yes yes, or the skin marker. What are the box office receipts? Real quick? Da mm hmm. All right, let's do that then see what happened. See how many these movies we actually know? I rarely know any of them. See what you know? Tom uh coming in,

Do you not a thing?

Four million? It came in.

It's not like a Transformer thing.

I know. It's a Francis Ford Coppola thing. And they said it was a it was a big deal, but it came in six Uh.

I thought Meganapolis was that big, the big elephant look a thing on Sesame Street.

No, that's a snuff.

Okay. Here is Megalopolis a conflict between Caesar, a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic feature, and his opposition, Mayor Franklin Cicero, who remains committed to a regress of status quo, perpetuating greed, special interest in partisan warfare. But that sounds fun, hilarious. Cost one hundred and twenty million to make in four million.

Brought in four million dollars.

So fifty weeks from now they're go and break even.

Coming in at five. Uh. I'm sure I'm mispronounced this, but here we go. De Vera Part one who d e v ar a devau deva deva devora Part one.

A twenty twenty four Indian Telugu language action drama directed by kaddi Ya Silva and jointly produced by You Have Shitty Arts and antr Arts.

Oh that's he's my right, he's good, he's really.

In nineteen ninety six, in a high level security meeting discussing the security threats to the nineteen ninety six Cricket World Cup in India, the police capture ye these henchmen to interrogate him about yet these whereabouts. I think it wouldn't do better if it were in three D action movie.

You know. So let's get to regular guy movies. Here we go, coming at number four. Well, this is animated, so it's not a regular guy movie. Transformers one an animated movie. Felt at third place, nine point three million dollars is pretty strong. Beetle juice. Beetle juice. Damn it, Dave?

Is that any good? Have you guys seen it?

I wait until it comes on TBS for us.

Nope, haven't seen it.

I'm old school MANSA network, USA Network or TBS.

Those are only two channels we have.

It's takes four and a half hours with commercials.

Yeah, it doesn't matter. Hey, that's what VCRs are for, Dave, that's true. Beetle Juice. Beetle Juice took in second place, sixteen million. That's pretty strong. Yeah, and The Wild Robot won the North American box office this weekend. An animated movie. These cartoon movies thirty five million dollars in the debut weekend.

Not cartoons and superheroes. That's all we have.

You notice on Netflix the top ten movies, seven of them are always animated.

I don't understand that.

I don't know. I don't like it. I'm like, I get kind of ticked off, like I just want to see something.

I want to see. You know, people you want to see full frontal nudity and explosions, you know, And I.

Tell you what they do not knock their full frontal nudi animators.

Watch Watch the Piano Dight Ye?

Is that a really good one?

You get to see Harvey Kaitel full frontal.

So there, Why would you.

Adrian Brody right? Who Adrian Brody was?

Helen Hunt was in it. I'm not sure who else it was born?

Is it about a piano?

Piano's in it?

Yeah?

Good? What's that movie about my left foot?

That's oh that twit's his face, Daniel day Lewis.

Is it just about a left foot?

Yeah, and a famous.

A famous left foot, my left foot and Oliver neural. No one expects much from Christy Brown. That's Daniel day Lewis. A boy was Sarah bra Palsy, born into a working class Irish family. Though Christie is a spastic quadriplegic, band name and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of five, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using.

Chalk so he's drawing with it or.

To scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his mother, Brenda Fricker and no shortage of grit and determination, Christie overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.

Wow, Okay, hang on, spastic quadriplegiastic quadriplegic plural, that's just him. Just no, I'm just saying a band name.

Well, it could be Christie in the spastic quadriplegics, you know something like that.

Okay, hang on, let me log it in right now? Is logged in?

All right?

All right? Then? What final thing louder in life went off without a hits kind of Friday, of course got rained out. Luckily that was one of them.

I saw the Monarchs there. Boy, they were.

Uh, the only two days because the Susan's scheduled only two days we could go is Friday and Sunday, and Friday got rained down.

She saw her like hero guy right.

Well no, yeah, so yesterday, Uh, the main reason we wanted to go yesterday was to see the Eagles of death Metal, one of my favorite bands, one of her favorite bands, and they absolutely crushed it. And then as he was walking off the stage, I yelled, you know hey, because we were right on the side of stage, Hey, Boots, great show, and he gives a hug. And then later we ran into him at like a little private function thing they have there, and he came up to her.

Yeah, you know they're you know they're doing Do you think so, dude? She cheating on you with that? Dude?

Well, they went they went into craft services, and they were gone for about twenty five.

Minutes, and there's some really good food in the crafts, so that into that day they got some really good crafts craft services.

Craft services was closed. Do you think they made him like a special meal.

Was it like an r V?

Yeah?

Yeah, yeah.

Do you want to keep the special special food like the rock star food?

Is that the rock star and the Uh?

There must have been some great drinks because I think starts shaking and so the bartender really.

Knew what he was doing and blenders good. If you put too much in him sometime they will kind of vibrate.

A whole lot.

Okay, So nothing to worry about.

To worry about much been You know, it was a little bit warm yesterday, so I imagine they had the fans on because her hair was really messed up when she walked. Yeah, yeah, it was that from the fans. You think it was.

Human and warm, so I'm sure it looked like someone took a leaflower to it.

Feel so much better. Thank you guys, Thank you guys so much. All right, it is Mama Joke Monday. Uh so let's get to it. Hang on, mm hmmm, all right, here we go. Glad I got the new community music. He telling a joke in front of a professional comedian. Damn a and I'm watching, I know, damn it. Look away, Hey fellas, Hey d man, your mama is so old.

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Okay, thanks David Beck. Sorry, Okay, joins the show. It's all on the Way News Radio eight forty w h as Sue Sue's studio. You know that was just a placeholder word, Dave, when he was writing a song, I never knew what it meant, so it was just a placeholder.

I thought Mel Tillis wrote it.

He was looking it's supposed to be about a female and didn't have the name, so he just put that It's studio, just put it in as a placeholder, and he just stuck it. It just it just stayed there.

You're talking about Phil Collins, Yeah, Phil calling, But Leland's Klar. He's a bass player, plays with him and it's a lot of great stories there.

Uh listen. Name dropping when you leave the studio today, Dave, be careful you don't trip on any of the names that comedian.

Tom drop and if any of the names leave a stain.

Dude, come on, you think you think I'm bad? Brad Pitt, terrible name dropper. I can't go anywhere with it.

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Stuff right there. So okay. Tom Abe. Comedian Tom Abe joins the show. I've never met a man who has been more brilliant about reinventing himself over and over and over and over. You start out people. Everybody hates telemarketers, and in twenty twenty four, when there's so many jobs out there, I often say, hey, really, this is the job you took to call people and bug them. But so that's how it started out. You had the idea everybody was getting bombarded with tell him yeah.

And I had just gotten married and I was built a little recording studio. I'm doing jingles and whatnot. And I couldn't afford the downtown studio and the new little house we bought, so said, I just work out of the house. I got the phone number they call, and ninety percent of the calls were telemarketers trying to sell me replacement windows for a house that was brand new. And I just started here. I had this incredible digital recording studio, had like a two inch of tower tape machine.

But it wasn't like you just made a couple of recordings you get signed to Virgin Records. At first you read I believe it was a tractor trailer. Oh yeah, yeah, Well when you park it outside the house.

Parked outside the house with filled with CDs and padded envelopes, and we would we would go, do you guys remember back in the old days at the old station with Gumah, Rocky and Troy and Uh and Cozy and and and we just had a website. We were on the very first websites I think you know. That was actually we had to figure it out and navigate through all that you know, commerce page and we were I'd wake Melnie up at three am. I said, I just it was, I said, I just I just ran seven hundred orders.

And oh yeah.

I drove in the back of my little Nissan truck. I went down to Nashville and I took five thousand dollars and I bought it and a KDI. I took five thousand against the credit card and I put it. There's a station called KDF and and I knew. I called down there. I said, you all sell CDs. I can sign my other record store like Blockbuster. Yeah, they go, yeah, we sell them an assignment. So I said, okay, great. So I put cause I knew we had a hit, and I put five thousand dollars on this radio show.

I called?

He said, oh, we don't know. I don't know what this is. We're not gonna carry this. And he said, we just do like wrap albums and local artists and stuff like that. Okay, so so okay, So I went. I called my rep at the radio station. I said, man, can you please get me on the morning show? Just skip me in the morning show. And I said, look, man, if you guys go to Blockbuster and they're they're selling really fast. If they're out, we're going to replent. It's

Evil Knievud is something similar to that. When he wanted to jump Caesar's palace.

Uh huh.

He started to call up every other every day as somebody else, disguising his voice, saying he know he was Bob Henderson from ABC. Why World Sports wanted to know who this and he would mispronounce the name. Who is, says Evil Carnival. That's going to be jumping your brill. The president of Caesar's contacted Evil Knieve and that's how that got done. Wow, there's a uh, there's a documentary

Door, call the plumber whose name is the number? And right now in every four years, I get in this political uh political, I'm doing jingles for I guess people a running for school district or whatever. The agency that I've worked with for years still call me call me and uh I've been Uh I went by. So yeah, I'm I don't do it full time, but when they call, I do them. But yeah, does it?

Did it ever irritate you that? You know? So maybe you come up with call the man whose name is his number? And you hear it every single day, every commercial break, and you just sold it because Barry Manilo did that before broke in. He he did, you know, like a good neighbors stay for me so many of these. Yeah, but he just got paid one flat fee and that was that.

Well, you know, it's the thing about well that the college plumber's name is number. That was I think it was Nika Singer Rick Shardine at Current Marketing who said that. And usually they come with an idea on the concept. Yeah, you know, I remember the whole tumbleweeds. Tumblewee cooks cerious things. So I can't fi in the kitchen and I want the Best of Show in the Louis Awards for that, And I felt bad because you know, it was that Rick Shardin. It was actually it was his idea. I

Another time that you reinvented yourself is and we'll talk, we'll tell the story later, is when you and I were supposed to do the Amazing Race together, but you're a corporate comedian, uh huh, and the corporate comedian. The time when you make the hey the most would be the holiday season. You beat November, be November, December, and that's when they had slated for you and I to go on this. So you canceled, and corporate comedy pays really well.

Yeah, you do the clubs for love and you do the corporate for cash, right, And I mean I could do one. I mean at and T would fly me in and fly me home the next the next morning and to do forty five minutes. And it was like, wow, this is a lot different than drive across country, do the Funny Bone or something.

And the payday was great. Yeah. Yeah, And she had all these corporate gigs lined.

Up and they got and when you and I were going out, and I'm like, I mean, I said, I don't know, I'm actually gonna lose money doing this, but yeah, you and I get to hang because of a good fellowship, will go to LA and do the amazing race and yeah, the night before well and.

So it was two nights before production started and they flipped the cast. But the reason I bring that up is because now you're out a ton of money. We're not gonna talk how much it is, but you're out a ton of money.

I lost.

I think I lost because I would be in a different city for data and corporate shows. Yeah, holiday season. Yeah, so I remember I kind of recouped this. And I think what you're leading to is when I I had an idea for a video and I put on Facebook because I'm looking for four or five black guys and you're saying their asses off. And I held auditions and we had and our friend Kimmick camp Well actually named them and I can't apparently I can't say their name,

How many how many it was in the was it in the billions? Like? Uh? Billions?

Got that?

No?

That my no. I got over three billion cumulative, but that one it depends on what upload it was. But I've gotten over one hundred million views on those things.

And then it leads to America's got talent. Yes, you and Kim and are flying out there with him because you're you're managing That's what I'm talking about when you reinvent yourself, because you did that out of necessity, because you need.

I lost all this money and I needed to recoup and you know, and you know, we did the same thing with almost Herbie. Herbie. Herbie's got well over. He outperformed the band the Uh and he's the one saying, Holly louj and stuff when we're right outside your office is here, you know, singing and whatnot. And got him on a GT.

So he did get on Americans.

He got his well. Another girl I worked with for like three years as Kelsey Ballerini, who's a big country star now and she's she's rocking it. So so yeah, So when you say reinventing yourself, it's always felt like it's like, honey, I tried the amway. It didn't work all, not at.

All what I mean at all. I mean, it's just it seems like that you don't stay the course, so it seems like you get almost bored.

I get my, you know my, and when you're self employed, you can't live or die by one revenue stream. And always tell my kids, I said, you know, you gotta have ten different things out there and You may not make a whole lot from any given stream, but you add them together, you eat out a house payment. And the big thing one thing that I did very smart when I started making money because I got a lot of famous friends who don't have money. Yeah, I mean

Yeah. Tom Mabe is our guest. Me and Tom May what many hats you wears in your entertainment industry. But Big Beer Comedy Festival, You're gonna be performing with Kevin Neeland and Adam Croll out there.

I did a lot of comics in there. Yeah, And I said, they invited me, and I said, you know, I've always didn't want to do this. Maybe in America where I go all these landmarks. And I was just talking in there. We had a zoom meeting with me and my seven other people out there, and I said I and they were like, well, talk about that that maybe in America as well as it was a TV show. I always wanted maybe in America to be where I

I couldn't believe it.

And I'm like, what's your comment. I'm like, my heartbroken.

Yeah.

And one of the guys in the group, uh, and he just passed away. He got killed. Echo Jeremiah Buckner, dear friend. He quit that band that day. He quit and he finished some gigs and he and I started doing some things together, and uh, he was just trying to I'm like, he's like, what different Tom. You know they created it. We're not even the original. You know, Kevin had named him, this is that whatever, And it was so it was just so uh uh it was so uh. And I heard that he got Jeff Fister

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