Sal Vulcano, best known for his role in 'Impractical Jokers,' joins Ryan to discuss his upcoming 'Everything's Fine' stand-up comedy tour, including a stop at the Paramount Theatre in Denver on Friday, March 14, 2025.
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George Brauchler, GOP candidate for district attorney in the newly-formed 23rd judicial district, joins Ryan after Castle Rock is named as one of the safest suburbs to live in the country by SmartAsset.
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George Brauchler for District Attorney of CO’s 23rd District
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George Brauchler, GOP candidate for district attorney in the newly-formed 23rd judicial district, joins Ryan after Castle Rock is named as one of the safest suburbs to live in the country by SmartAsset.
Castle Rock, Colorado ranked among safest suburbs in US in 2024 (kdvr.com)
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So Volcano in mere moments, stick and stay for that
and Practical Jokers is where many of you may know
him from. But he's going on the road. He's going
on tour and he's coming here to Denver. Stay tuned
for those details. Ryan Schuling with you. This is six
point thirty k how Kelly could scare alongside She has
now found an ice pack thanks to Shannon Scott, who
(00:21):
knows where all the bodies are buried here at iHeart.
He's been here for the better part of what thirty years?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Is it, Kelly? Is that about right?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Twenty five?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Twenty five? All right, Well, that's good to know.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
And Shannon does a lot around here to help me too,
so I always want to make sure I give him
proper credit and get to some of these texts that
we got before the break reminder Friday fool the week,
voting still open and the nominees just to go through
them by name once again. Senator Tina Smith, Democrat Minnesota
denying the service that JD Vance ever was in the military,
(00:54):
which was stunning, and she was corrected by Jim Acosta.
Mika Brazinski MSNBC, a freaquent nominee, comparing Kamala rallies to
Adele and Taylor Swift concerts where the fans need water.
It means like the remember the girls in the old
Elvis concert.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Ah, they're faint. That's what people are doing at Kamala rallies.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Folks speaker Putloci sitting down, saying that Joe Biden deserved
his spot, his rightful place on Mount Rushmore, and even
Leslie Stall CBS laughed at that notion.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That was something.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
And then Gwen Walls, first Lady of Minnesota, Governor Tim's wife,
saying that you know, if you're a criminal, you should
get as many chances as you need to get it right,
no matter what crime he committed, no matter what you
did or how many chances.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
You need, you need as many as you need. So
those are the nominees.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I could provide a tease.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I'll go quickly. It's between no, no, no. I don't
want that. I want to influence the vote.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I know that there are two that are currently leading,
but I don't want the listeners to know that.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I want them to be between you and me. Get back.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
So I want to spoil the batch as it were.
I don't want to be a Democrat and like have dead.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
People voting, then I thank you for the aspron.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, I'm gonna keep drugging Kelly up here. By the way,
there was a story in the news this lawyer was
defending a Cosby like doctor who was plying women with
was it alcohol or drugs both and then having his
way with them, and his lawyer stood up and said, lot, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
One accusation here too, or eleven eleven is just like
one doesn't matter, how many don't get lost and how
many accusations use common sense? Well, okay, common sense would
tell me if a guy has eleven accusers, that might
carry more weight than just one accuser, where it's one
person's word against the other.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Kelly, am I wrong? You are not?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
But the interesting part of the story. So we taped
because Trevor was here when he had his wisdom do
you vote?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
And we taped him after when he was under It
was hilarious. Haley is having hers out next week.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Oh okay, thoughts pass californ All right, this Texter says
Kelly must be a white educated woman.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
She just complimented you. I think that's a burn, So.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
That whatever, a white college educated woman says, you should
think the opposite. So if you complimented me, then that
was really something I shouldn't value. I'm getting really confused here.
My head's spinning a little bit. And this one, Patty says,
just tuned in to hear you say Nancy took the
hammer to Biden, No doubt she did.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Question is was it the same hammer used on her husband? Oh?
I forgot about that. Ouch.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Wow, Patty from the top rope, that one's going to
leave a mark.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Oh I did it again. That's it? No, no, no,
all right, it's.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Time for my conversation with sal Volcano from Impractical Jokers.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I hope you enjoy the.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Celebration by these families at the end of the fast
money round.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It doesn't match the winnings.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
The families need to tell them down the show voting
right away.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
We got game shows giving away millions.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
This damn show has been the same price for twenty
three years.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I looked it up. It's twenty thousand dollars. Splind the books,
five grown of ducks tax let's holl telling that fan.
These families are coming on the feud.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
They're dominating.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Everybody's losing a few hundred dollars coming.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
They're kicking the heels off, guys will flick at each
other in the nuts and Houffi's doing the duddy.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
For nineteen hunds.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
You may remember that voice from Impractical Jokers, but that
is from his stand up special, which you can find
on YouTube. Terrified Sell Volcano our guest joining me, Ryan
Schuling here on six thirty k house Sale.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Welcome to it.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Hey, Ryan, thing's having me.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
But absolutely you got a busy schedule, so I'm just
so glad you could fit us in. Now about the
game show thing. You and I are jen xter As,
we grew up with this. You know you're sick at home.
You're watching the Prices right, these people nuts and you're
talking about the family feud. But just your observation about
the winnings, because that's spot on.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
It is wild.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
I mean that show's already there bron like when they're
horrible answers, but at the end it's just wild. I
mean we're now at a place where this shows. I
think I saw a show with a two million.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Dollar prize and these families they.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Win and then they're jumping up and down like they're
going to Disney World. This is insamee.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
It's something that.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Always amused me, like how wild they go. And then
I started punching the numbers and I'm like, these these
people are making nothing. They're losing money. You know, I
don't know. I'm a big game show fan, and so
I go off on a few game shows.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Oh yeah, you and me at both and this is
all part of gosh. Like I said, his schedule is
just stacked. His Everything Finds tour that's starting up in
mid November, and he'll be coming here to Denver on
March fourteenth to the Paramount Theater. Right now, Sale, you're
in the midst of the lookers drive Drive Drive Drive
Drive to or I think I got enough drives in there.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
That's fugust here.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
And then September October, first part of November is just
a cell vile Cano tour. And then you go on
the Everything's Fine Tour. What is the difference among these
three things?
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Yeah, well, so I have toured the last uh. I mean,
I guess with the guys and myself on first them
for a year and a half then me so I'm
always on the road to show with them. It's year
cruise and and and fans of that show and that material.
My tour is one hundred percent straight stand up solo material,
nothing to do with Joe Cruise. I had my first
(06:33):
comedy special to come out a couple of months ago.
It's called Terrified. It's on YouTube. Everyone can watch it
for free. And uh, and so this tour is like
my third or fourth souls are on the heels of
the special, and it's if you've seen it before, if
you've seen that special, it's gonna be one hundred percent
new material. Yeah, and so that's that's the thing you made.
The run up for the theaters is I do a
bunch of clubs as well, so trying to get into
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the clubs, and there's just really work the material out
in every single type of space.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I can Seale Volcano, our guest and Terrified. As he mentioned,
you can view it for free on YouTube. There through
the app, you can view it right through your smart television.
It's already got more than one point three million views,
and it was filmed with the historic VIC Theater in Chicago.
Now Sale Impractical Jokers just as kind of a baseline
(07:19):
for those that are familiar with you, they know this,
they know you from that show, but just the genesis
of how that all began, why you became a part
of that project, and how it kind of propelled your career.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Yeah, so the guys now on the show met when
we were thirteen years old as specimen in high school.
So we've we've known each other for thirty four years
and we were doing the improv in Seth County and
high school, then in college and then we decided to
give it a world, you know what. We got back
from college and about ten years later or so, we
got the opportunity to pitch some shows too Networks and
(07:54):
we kind of thought this one up, and after a
lot of failures, they picked this one up. We could
have never thought like fourteen years later, three hundred episodes later,
that we'd be doing. I guess Season eleven just started
airing a few weeks ago, well on TBF. Now we
signed for season twelve. So it's just kind of wild,
and I know that's that's just my career bas is
(08:16):
basically going to work with my friends. So there, you know,
it's different in that way, and that we've known each
other each other into a little kids, so I think
that kind of we have fun and I think that
kind of comes through on the screen, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Oh, definitely truly living the dream. As he said, he
gets to work with his friends. You go to work
here with your friends, and you can find out more
about his upcoming tour. That's the Everything's Fine tour at
Volcano sal Volcanocomedy dot com. There are twenty eight dates
scheduled for the end of twenty twenty four here in
the first part of twenty twenty five. As I mentioned,
he's coming to Denver here on March fourteenth. This is
(08:47):
your second headline theater tour, sal so take us through
the first one. What launched it. I think a lot
of people are going to view this like, you know,
you're Paul McCartney. You're doing your own thing after the
Beatles within practical joke, what what the beginnings of that was,
the motivation for it was, and how that first tour went.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
So, I mean, by the way, I'll take a comparison
to Paul McCartney and the Beatles any dingy uh yeah right.
You know, I've been I've been doing sam comedy for
a long time. It's just people don't really be able
to put a special out because the show is so
demanding of the other projects I've been doing in the podcast,
but I finally just took the time down to do
it last year, and some of the material on this
(09:28):
on this specialists ten years old, so it's like I've
been doing, you know, stand up full time, and this
is more about educating people that I'm doing it to
kind of like you know, help you know, booy the
tour and you know, prior to that, I would sell
basically just on people who knew me from the Jokers.
But this time I finally have that material out there.
I'm hoping to spread spread that and find a new
audience beyond my audience, so people can see that. Yeah,
(09:51):
I've been doing a stand up you know, I started
out of college, so it's been it's been quite some time.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Sol.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I have so much respect for that craft and what
you do and how you do it, how any stand
up comedian does it.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I host a talk show, that's one thing, but I'm
talking to people I can't see.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
You're on stage.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You have to interact with these people, get a reaction
from them, you know, make me laugh, clown type of thing.
They're very demanding. They're an audience they paid for a ticket.
They want to, you know, see a funny guy up there.
And you mentioned kind of rebooting your material for the
upcoming everything's fine to her. I remember watching a documentary
called Comedian with Jerry Seinfeld and Ornie Adams and Jerry
(10:27):
scraps all of his nineties material like from the TV
show and all of his stand up. That kind of
led to that, and just starts from scratch. He goes
around to clubs, he's workshops. Take us through your act,
what you put into it, how you craft a set.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Absolutely yeah, I mean I mean, you know, just.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Books and books and notebooks and my notes apt full
of ideas and premises and this and that, and then
I finally just dig in and develop it.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
I usually bullet point something out and.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Then get on stage and try to fill them the
blanks in between. But it's something I work on like meticulously.
And when I finally knew I was filming a special,
I went back on a decade of material and pulled
the things that resonated with me the most, and then just,
I mean just worked on them like a surgeon, really
just getting up everything on night. I've recorded every set
(11:16):
I've ever done. You come home, you listen to everything,
and you know it's it's every little nuance. And this
is what I love about stand up. You know, it's
just like the journey of getting there and crafting a joke,
and a joke could never be done. You could keep
working on it forever, you know. So it's just a
lot of work about every little line, making sure, being
honest with yourself and making sure like is this is
(11:36):
strong at this work? It should just be cut and
this be changed. And I never put more work into
our project in my entire life than I didn't too
terrified the special of town now and then just like
anything else, this is why I love stand up is
like I have to go right back to square one.
And no matter who you are, the siginflds of the
world or whoever, it's like if you're a comedian, eventually
you have to go right back to that space, that
(11:57):
headspace and do it all over again and grind and
and bomb again. And so that's like the phase I'm
in right now. And it's like, you know, if you're
doing it right, that's that's that's what happens. So, uh,
you know that whole everything about it. I love. I
love comedy, and I love like I love just the
science of it, the meticulousness of it, you know what
I mean. So for me and that that's very much
(12:18):
what we do on our show too, and all the
ideas and the scenarios we create. It's all like the
effort of a bunch of people sitting down and really
thinking about like how to push this and where the
social faux pause are and what all the permutations could be,
and so that kind of stuff. But I just I
just eat it up.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Sell the old Counto, our guest and your craftsman in comedy.
So what you see, Yeah, it looks effortless, it looks spontaneous.
A lot of it is, but there's a lot of
science that goes into It's so fascinating to hear him
describe it. You can find out more sell Volcanocomedy dot com.
Get your tickets too for the upcoming show in Denver
that's coming up in March. So you can see all
(12:57):
the information that led to this in Terrified that's on
YouTube as well. Say all the question I always like
to ask for somebody like yourself that's coming through, that's
now got your own thing going, Who were your inspirations
as comedians as a young person, somebody that kind of
turned you on to doing this.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
The first person that really resonated with me when I
was younger, it was it was David Letterman, it was
Eddie Murphy with Gary Shandling. It wasn't it wasn't exclusive
to stand up right. I love the Jeffersons. Sherman Hensley,
who played George Jefferson, I thought was the funniest thing
in the planet. I used to like memorize the Jeffersons
(13:38):
and like repeat them in school and for my family
and stuff. So I do from a young age that
like I was taken with, you know, this kind of thing,
and you know, it's just you know, from mental Now
it's crazy to think now I've been doing this for
so long and some of the people that I admire
the most have become.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Like friends of mine. You know.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
It's just it's a wild thing to be a comedian.
But you know, I'm giving you the most unfunny answers.
But I promised people that's that's whose show is hysterical.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Well, I think the important part is they know that
it's a real guy behind all the jokes and so forth,
and I love that we're getting kind of the texture
of that here and what makes your tour unique among
many reasons that you're doing it individually, but that the
venues are all these great theaters we talked about earlier.
In Chicago, you know the VIC, we got the Beacon Theater,
(14:24):
the Rhyme, and the Wiltern, the Wilburg. You're coming here
to Denver, you'll be at the Paramount Theater. Were these
venues chosen by this capacity but because of the feel
of where you're going to be performing, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
I mean they're really special. It's I mean, for the
for my special terrified. I had to choose one of
the biggest decisions I had to make with what city
and what theater It plays so much interest for me,
and Chicago is great County Denver is as good as
you're going to get as far as comedy audience. Chicago's
up there too, And I wanted just a really lively, energetic,
you know, place and an iconic place.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
And then the VIC.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
You know, it's a.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Theater, but it plays like a club and you want
that intimacy. You want to feel like That's why comedy
club is a lot of times by design are low ceilings,
everyone's tightly packed. That's the most conducive for it. And
there's only a handful of theaters in the country that
really really play like that. And so we chose the
VIC for the special and it turned out Knocking Wood
to be right.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
And everything was great.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
And you know, these these theaters are have a name
for a reason, you know, through town and to play them,
it's just it will never really feel real, you know,
like it's just a wild thing to like want to
be a cont my whole life and now doing it,
and I'm coming through places like you know, the Paramount
and things like that. It's it's just a it's the best,
it's the best feeling. It really is the best.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Now sale I'm seeing in the promotional materials here that
you have twenty eight dates scheduled, it says already announced.
Now that's late November, December, January through March. Will there
be more dates added through the balance of the calendar?
You're twenty twenty five, and if so, how many more
do you think.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
I'm going through to twenty twenty six? I now am
I to announce the next three or four month shunk?
I think I'll probably end up doing another maybe sixty
cities on top of that, and then I will be
going across the pond too, to the UK and Ireland
and stuff. So yeah, it's I'm gonna I'm going everywhere.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Really now sell your routine and how you put it
about that, but just to give you an opportunity to
reach directly to our audience here to promote you know
exactly what you're going to a confident what your material
consists of. We heard the family feued bit, but just
look like and sound like for an audience when they
come to see you.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Yeah, I mean, I'm all about escapism, so like I'm
just silly on stage. I promise like it's it's very
it's more personal.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
You know.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
It's a lot of like observations but mixture real stories and.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
People come away like you know.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
People know me or they feel they really do know
me from being on televisional word, decade plan myself. But
this is not jokers, and it's a whole new side
of very personal which I'm private, but on stage really
get to know me more of you know about who
I am and what I'm about. I promise no politics,
nothing like that, you know what I mean. It's just
fun and this new tour, I've never spoken about my
(17:11):
family before, specifically like my wife and daughter, and I'm
I'm finally gonna, like, you know, talk about that kind
of stuff. So uh, you know, for people that like
like me and think they know me, you'll get.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
To see a whole other side.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
What is the funniest thing about your current family unit,
your wife and daughter?
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Uh that you just was in the room. Actually hang wait,
I'm on my left call wait on.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
The funniest thing is that they.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Could prove it.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
I'll be right out.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
That was like almost on cue. Did you did you?
Did you plan with them?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
It's a little scary how that worked out there. Sal
It certainly is. Well, I'll let you get back to
your family.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
The take away is anything, anything.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Can happen everything, and we'll look forward to just that. Sale.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I really do look forward to you coming here to
Denver and between now and then, but I'm sure we'll
touch base again. You can find out more at his
Websitecanocomedy dot com, his socials, Instagram, and x that's at
sale Volcano with a U in there kind of like volcano.
There you go, and then Facebook at sale Volcano Official.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Sale great stuff here.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I really appreciate you joining me on this Friday, and
we'll see you when you come to Denver.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
I can't thank you enough, man, thank you for taking
the time for me.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
All right, Sale Volcano joining us there, and of course
you know him best from a practical jokers, but he's
going on tour and it's going to be the Everything's
fine tour going into he said, Calendar Year twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
We'll take this time out come back with more after this.
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Ryan in the suburbs.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Suburb New at seven. Despite widespread public safety concerns, a
few metro suburbs are ranked as some of the nation's
safest if you can.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Afford to live there.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Smart I sat looking at nearly four hundred suburbs across
the country based on crime rates. The only Calital spot
to break the top fifteen was Castle Rock, landing in
at number ten, the tenth safest suburb in the country.
The community has the twenty ninth lowest crime rate, seventeenth
lowest vehicular mortality rate, and twenty third lowest drug overdose rate.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
However, on the.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
Downside, it also reports the one hundred and seventy third
lowest property crime rates, slightly better than the national average,
but not by much. The next Calital community on the list,
by the way, was Evergreen, which you didn't find until
you got until numbers spot number eighty one on that list.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
That's kind of concerning.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
You would hope to see more of Colorado's suburbs on.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
That list, all right, good for Castle Rock, Yeah, and
Evergreen just a goal. Now, we've got things to work on, right.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
So that's KADIVR Fox thirty one here locally in Denver
with the story about Castle Rock being among the safest
suburbs to live in in the United States. But there
aren't more Colorado suburbs on the list, just Evergreen down
the list like eighty one.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Why is that?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Let's ponder that for a moment, Ryan shuling with you,
six thirty k O welcome back. Could it be that
there is across the board Republican leadership in Castle Rock
and another friend of mine who is running for District
attorney in the newly created twenty third district down there
joins us now, and that is George Brockler, G brock
(21:50):
what is up.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
Man man, Thank you for having me on. What a
great story amidst all the negativity that's out there and
the crime and stuff. What a great story.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Good timing and why is that? George?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
You and I kind of went back and forth on
text about this before our listeners out there.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
What makes castle Rock stand out?
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Well?
Speaker 7 (22:11):
I wish I could say there was just one thing,
but there are a number of things that I think
put it in a position to be safer for the
community members. Now people on the left are going to say, well,
they're just so affluent, and it's like, yeah, but there
are super rich parts of Denver as well, and that
hasn't seemed to help Denver. I think what you see
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is a community that's invested in the rule of law
and invested in public safety. So you have two different
entities that call castle Rock home. The mothership for the
Douglas County Sheriff's Office, which is more than ably helmed
by a sheriff Aaron Weekley. He's phenomenal. And then you
have castle Rock Police Department helmed by Jack Cowley. These
are not departments that are wanting for resources the way
(22:56):
some other agencies do because those communities have decided to
either divest themselves from law enforcement where they don't prioritize
it as much as they do maybe housing for the
homeless or for immigrants or whatever. Castle Rock has two
great law enforcement leaders. Jack Cawley is on the cutting
edge of leadership for police. He's a part of a
nationwide group that looks at best practices. One of the
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things that he's done is to create an environment and
his policy is called one by one policing, and that
is the individualized approach each of these officers take with
any call, regardless of how big or how small it is,
and that has paid huge dividends for the town of
Castle Rock. You surround that with a largely conservative not entirely,
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and it's bluing a little bit, a largely conservative jurisdiction
that supports public safety, believes in the rule of law.
And then you add on top of that a district attorney,
John Kellner, who's willing to go to trial and try
to get people convicted and sent to prison for crimes
that maybe Denver doesn't, that maybe Jefferson County doesn't. And
I think all that stuff adds up and you see
a pretty community.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
You can find out more about his campaign for district
attorney in that newly formed twenty third district at George
Brockler dot com B A B R A U C
H L E R George Brockler dot com and he
joins us So Castle Rock a subset, a significant one
within this new district, George, that you're hoping to represent
as district attorney. You hit on some of the structural
(24:22):
reasons as to why Castle Rock is safe, but for
the surrounding areas, the people that you're talking to when
you're out campaigning, what are their top concerns? What are
going to be your priorities if you are elected.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
I gotta say when when I was going door to
door before the primary, and there's always a little lull
after the primary, especially in the jurisdiction of this composition.
While I was going during the during the primary, and
so we're knocking almost entirely on Republican or right leaning doors.
The number one concern that people had, I give you
not was immigration. Number one thing with immigration, The number
(24:59):
two thing is why are judges letting people out of jail?
Why are people being held accountable for what happened to them,
and those two things I think are interrelated, especially in
the metro area. And I've said this before, but you know,
every bad Denver puffis the results never stay in Denver.
(25:19):
They always spill over into the surrounding communities. And I
think Douglas County and Albert and Lincoln have done a
really good job of trying to build a firewall there.
I think the separation from a Rapahoe is going to
yield some really interesting results in the tuxtaposition of approaches
to crime. I have said that I would like to
make it public before I take office that in twenty
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twenty five and forward, if you come into our community
to victimize us, if you come down here to steal
from us, your expectation should be to go to jail.
And that's going to apply to everybody eighteen years and older.
We always treat juveniles differently, but nobody does that anymore.
And so when you read, when you listen to that report,
you played very insightful. I mean, Cassel Rock's doing a
(26:04):
great job. The one thing they said was but it's
one hundred and seventy third in property crime. We can
fix that, and you don't fix it with hugs. You
don't fix it with excuses, and you don't fix it
with hey, go home and think about what you've done
and reoffend. You fix it by providing a punishment, and
a recent one as soon want a quick one.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Now, George, hold on a second, I have an opposing view.
We know that we've got lawn order George Brockler over
here running in the twenty third district to be the
DA try to kind of lay down the law here
and make sure that people are not victims of crimes.
But George, what about the criminals. Here is Gwen Walls,
first Lady of Minnesota, one of our nominees for our
Friday Fool of the Week, the wife of the governor,
(26:43):
the wife of the vice presidential nominee, Tim Walls, and
this is how she feels we should treat criminals.
Speaker 9 (26:50):
And having a chance every day. How many chances do
you get? My answer to that is as many chances
as you need, which doesn't really please those law and
order people.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Doesn't really please those law and order people like you, George.
But what about this notion of giving criminals as many
chances as they need?
Speaker 7 (27:13):
Yeah, first off, it doesn't just please the not please
the law and order people. It doesn't please the many, many, many,
needless victims that they create by giving people chance after
chance after chance when they've proven an inability or an
unwillingness to correct your behavior. Let's be clear about how
theft and property crime are different. Theft is not a
crime of emotion or passion.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Right.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
Theft isn't you can't accidentally steal from someone. It is
one of the few misdemeanor charges that requires an intent
to act. Most of your intent crimes are felonies. And
you and I growing up man and everybody listening to
the show, you are taught respect for property. You know
which talka truck is yours, and you know which talka
truck belongs to the neighbor. And when you take from someone,
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your parents, if they're doing the right, they hold you accountable.
So this notion that we're just going to let people
continue to steal from us, whether it's a car, or
it's a smash and grab, or it's any other thing,
and we're just going to find a way to color
book their way out of this or put them into
some sort of restorative justice model that will fix this.
I'm sorry, I don't agree. I think for that kind
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of a crime, for that kind of an intent based crime,
that everybody without any further instruction knows right from wrong
on that there ought to be a quick penalty, and
that quick penalty ought to be you're going to jail.
How long should be the only question? And my guess
is that word gets out into the surrounding community and
pretty soon people in Denver and Aurora stopped wanting to
(28:41):
come to Castle Rock to steal because they know when
they get grabbed up, they're going to the Gray Bar Hotel.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I love it, George, final thing, and I think you
and I both know what's at stake in this upcoming election,
and it's more stark than ever with Kama La Harris
at the top of the ticket instead of Joe Biden,
who was bad. But I believe it's gone from bad
to worse, and it's gotten even worse with Walls at
the top of this ticket with a mayhem he oversaw
in Minneapolis. And the counter to what you just said,
(29:07):
I'm not even joking right now. I'm talking from the
Marxist leftist philosophy of proletariat and those the bourgeoisie, and
that is somebody that would steal, let's say, in Vada
home property crime.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Like you're talking, it's just property, George. It's just property,
first of all.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
And then secondly, what if they really needed it, what
they really needed it, and life was not fair to them?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah, you know, I'm not wrong here.
Speaker 7 (29:35):
I chuckled because I've only been doing this for thirty years,
and the mythological unicorn is more frequent in my career
than the mythological person who's stealing a loaf of bread
to feed their kids. That just doesn't happen, at least
it hasn't happened in my career. Now. What happens is
you get people who steal for greed. That's what people
(29:58):
steal for, or perhaps they're drug addicted and they're stealing
to feed their addiction. It is not a prime that
you just simply go, hey, you shouldn't. We've gone through
the trouble of expending taxpayer money to hunt you down
and arrest you, et cetera. I just don't think that works. Now.
Let me be clear about this though, too. I'm not
saying we felonize all consequences with felony. On many cases,
(30:20):
I think i'd be willing to consider trading a felony
class charge for an immediate period of time in jail.
Stretch someone out for a year, have to go to trial,
they get convicted, Judges send them to probation. What if
instead we said, you come in first appearance, you plead
guilty to this high level misdemeanor, and you agree to
go to jail for ninety days. Now I'm making up
(30:41):
those numbers, but I'm saying, do you see the consequences
being immediate? Give you a different kind of response to
behavior than this long, torture, drawn out process that's necessary
because of due process and frankly caused by the volume
of cases and the posity centers.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
I think that time in jail you mentioned that, George,
even if it's just ninety days, that's ninety days that
you're in the clink and you're sitting there thinking, and
it could change your entire perspective on life. I agree
with this approach. And if you want to support George
Brockler and his run for the twenty third district DA position,
you can do so online George Brockler dot com. George
great stuff is always best luck in the campaign, we'll
(31:17):
talk again soon.
Speaker 7 (31:18):
Thanks having all right, George.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Brockler right there, and we'll take this final time out
a final tally on our Friday Fool of the Week voting.
You heard one of the nominees, but who's going to win?
Mika Brazinski also a nominee. Nancy Pelosi wants Joe Biden
on Mount Rushmore. And you had Senator Tina Smith who
didn't realize that jd Vance served in.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
The Marines, wrapping it up after this six point thirty
k how.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Oh, yes, my request here on Rocket key how six
thirty Ryan shuling an FM voice for you. That's Kelly
shaking her head. That was for Kelly. She doesn't have
time for the pain, Carly Simon. Kelly is feeling it. Yeah,
kel how's it going over there?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
It's going well? Any more drugs maybe? Okay.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I'm very pro drug Yeah, when it comes to the pain,
naw legal ones, and I don't want you.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
To abuse them.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
But I gave your three aspirin tablets. That's three fastballs
and my grandpa's lead and go here's throwing aspirin tablets.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
I'm hoping the cocktail of that and i'd be proven.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Yeah, it's a good cocktail mine. Actually it's not tasty,
but it's a good cocktail.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
It's the one day I didn't have wine.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Foot elevated.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
If I would have had wine, you don't have wine,
it might have been tolerable.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
All right, Friday fool the week? Who wanted to what margin?
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Let's go ahead and queue up yep, our former plastic Speaker.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Of the House, Nancy Pelosi. Congratulations tough field today. But
this is our winner.
Speaker 10 (32:48):
So he wasn't a good place to make what other
decision at the top of his game. Such a consequential
president of the United States, a Mount Rushmore kind of
president of the United States.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Want to know what comes next?
Speaker 2 (33:01):
And he belongs up there on Mount Rushmore. Lincoln and
Joe Biden.
Speaker 10 (33:08):
But you got Teddy Roosevelt up there, and he's wonderful.
I don't say take him down, but you can add Biden.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Teddy Roosevelt was a rough rider. The Teddy Bear was
named after him. He was an iconic president for the
first decade of the twentieth century, universally loved.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
You have George Washington.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
He was a general for the Revolutionary War and our
first president of the United States, serving two terms you
have Abraham Lincoln, who freed the slaves and was assassinated
a hero in our country's history, kept the fabric of
this nation together. And Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration
of Independence in his early thirties, was our third president
of the United States, also served two full terms the
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first decade of the nineteenth century. And you're going to
put Joe Biden on the same monument as those four.
That might be a winner for the year, not just
full of the week, full of the year.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Thanks for voting. Stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Heidi Gonal co hosting with Dan Kaplis on a Friday
edition after this on six point thirty Camp
So Volcano in mere moments, stick and stay for that
and Practical Jokers is where many of you may know
him from. But he's going on the road. He's going
on tour and he's coming here to Denver. Stay tuned
for those details. Ryan Schuling with you. This is six
point thirty k how Kelly could scare alongside She has
now found an ice pack thanks to Shannon Scott, who
(00:21):
knows where all the bodies are buried here at iHeart.
He's been here for the better part of what thirty years?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Is it, Kelly? Is that about right?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Twenty five?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Twenty five? All right, Well, that's good to know.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
And Shannon does a lot around here to help me too,
so I always want to make sure I give him
proper credit and get to some of these texts that
we got before the break reminder Friday fool the week,
voting still open and the nominees just to go through
them by name once again. Senator Tina Smith, Democrat Minnesota
denying the service that JD Vance ever was in the military,
(00:54):
which was stunning, and she was corrected by Jim Acosta.
Mika Brazinski MSNBC, a freaquent nominee, comparing Kamala rallies to
Adele and Taylor Swift concerts where the fans need water.
It means like the remember the girls in the old
Elvis concert.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Ah, they're faint. That's what people are doing at Kamala rallies.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Folks speaker Putloci sitting down, saying that Joe Biden deserved
his spot, his rightful place on Mount Rushmore, and even
Leslie Stall CBS laughed at that notion.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That was something.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
And then Gwen Walls, first Lady of Minnesota, Governor Tim's wife,
saying that you know, if you're a criminal, you should
get as many chances as you need to get it right,
no matter what crime he committed, no matter what you
did or how many chances.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
You need, you need as many as you need. So
those are the nominees.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I could provide a tease.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I'll go quickly. It's between no, no, no. I don't
want that. I want to influence the vote.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I know that there are two that are currently leading,
but I don't want the listeners to know that.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I want them to be between you and me. Get back.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
So I want to spoil the batch as it were.
I don't want to be a Democrat and like have dead.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
People voting, then I thank you for the aspron.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, I'm gonna keep drugging Kelly up here. By the way,
there was a story in the news this lawyer was
defending a Cosby like doctor who was plying women with
was it alcohol or drugs both and then having his
way with them, and his lawyer stood up and said, lot, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
One accusation here too, or eleven eleven is just like
one doesn't matter, how many don't get lost and how
many accusations use common sense? Well, okay, common sense would
tell me if a guy has eleven accusers, that might
carry more weight than just one accuser, where it's one
person's word against the other.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Kelly, am I wrong? You are not?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
But the interesting part of the story. So we taped
because Trevor was here when he had his wisdom do
you vote?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
And we taped him after when he was under It
was hilarious. Haley is having hers out next week.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Oh okay, thoughts pass californ All right, this Texter says
Kelly must be a white educated woman.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
She just complimented you. I think that's a burn, So.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
That whatever, a white college educated woman says, you should
think the opposite. So if you complimented me, then that
was really something I shouldn't value. I'm getting really confused here.
My head's spinning a little bit. And this one, Patty says,
just tuned in to hear you say Nancy took the
hammer to Biden, No doubt she did.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Question is was it the same hammer used on her husband? Oh?
I forgot about that. Ouch.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Wow, Patty from the top rope, that one's going to
leave a mark.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Oh I did it again. That's it? No, no, no,
all right, it's.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Time for my conversation with sal Volcano from Impractical Jokers.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I hope you enjoy the.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Celebration by these families at the end of the fast
money round.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It doesn't match the winnings.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
The families need to tell them down the show voting
right away.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
We got game shows giving away millions.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
This damn show has been the same price for twenty
three years.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I looked it up. It's twenty thousand dollars. Splind the books,
five grown of ducks tax let's holl telling that fan.
These families are coming on the feud.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
They're dominating.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Everybody's losing a few hundred dollars coming.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
They're kicking the heels off, guys will flick at each
other in the nuts and Houffi's doing the duddy.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
For nineteen hunds.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
You may remember that voice from Impractical Jokers, but that
is from his stand up special, which you can find
on YouTube. Terrified Sell Volcano our guest joining me, Ryan
Schuling here on six thirty k house Sale.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Welcome to it.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Hey, Ryan, thing's having me.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
But absolutely you got a busy schedule, so I'm just
so glad you could fit us in. Now about the
game show thing. You and I are jen xter As,
we grew up with this. You know you're sick at home.
You're watching the Prices right, these people nuts and you're
talking about the family feud. But just your observation about
the winnings, because that's spot on.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
It is wild.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
I mean that show's already there bron like when they're
horrible answers, but at the end it's just wild. I
mean we're now at a place where this shows. I
think I saw a show with a two million.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Dollar prize and these families they.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Win and then they're jumping up and down like they're
going to Disney World. This is insamee.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
It's something that.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Always amused me, like how wild they go. And then
I started punching the numbers and I'm like, these these
people are making nothing. They're losing money. You know, I
don't know. I'm a big game show fan, and so
I go off on a few game shows.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Oh yeah, you and me at both and this is
all part of gosh. Like I said, his schedule is
just stacked. His Everything Finds tour that's starting up in
mid November, and he'll be coming here to Denver on
March fourteenth to the Paramount Theater. Right now, Sale, you're
in the midst of the lookers drive Drive Drive Drive
Drive to or I think I got enough drives in there.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
That's fugust here.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
And then September October, first part of November is just
a cell vile Cano tour. And then you go on
the Everything's Fine Tour. What is the difference among these
three things?
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Yeah, well, so I have toured the last uh. I mean,
I guess with the guys and myself on first them
for a year and a half then me so I'm
always on the road to show with them. It's year
cruise and and and fans of that show and that material.
My tour is one hundred percent straight stand up solo material,
nothing to do with Joe Cruise. I had my first
(06:33):
comedy special to come out a couple of months ago.
It's called Terrified. It's on YouTube. Everyone can watch it
for free. And uh, and so this tour is like
my third or fourth souls are on the heels of
the special, and it's if you've seen it before, if
you've seen that special, it's gonna be one hundred percent
new material. Yeah, and so that's that's the thing you made.
The run up for the theaters is I do a
bunch of clubs as well, so trying to get into
(06:56):
the clubs, and there's just really work the material out
in every single type of space.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I can Seale Volcano, our guest and Terrified. As he mentioned,
you can view it for free on YouTube. There through
the app, you can view it right through your smart television.
It's already got more than one point three million views,
and it was filmed with the historic VIC Theater in Chicago.
Now Sale Impractical Jokers just as kind of a baseline
(07:19):
for those that are familiar with you, they know this,
they know you from that show, but just the genesis
of how that all began, why you became a part
of that project, and how it kind of propelled your career.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Yeah, so the guys now on the show met when
we were thirteen years old as specimen in high school.
So we've we've known each other for thirty four years
and we were doing the improv in Seth County and
high school, then in college and then we decided to
give it a world, you know what. We got back
from college and about ten years later or so, we
got the opportunity to pitch some shows too Networks and
(07:54):
we kind of thought this one up, and after a
lot of failures, they picked this one up. We could
have never thought like fourteen years later, three hundred episodes later,
that we'd be doing. I guess Season eleven just started
airing a few weeks ago, well on TBF. Now we
signed for season twelve. So it's just kind of wild,
and I know that's that's just my career bas is
(08:16):
basically going to work with my friends. So there, you know,
it's different in that way, and that we've known each
other each other into a little kids, so I think
that kind of we have fun and I think that
kind of comes through on the screen, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Oh, definitely truly living the dream. As he said, he
gets to work with his friends. You go to work
here with your friends, and you can find out more
about his upcoming tour. That's the Everything's Fine tour at
Volcano sal Volcanocomedy dot com. There are twenty eight dates
scheduled for the end of twenty twenty four here in
the first part of twenty twenty five. As I mentioned,
he's coming to Denver here on March fourteenth. This is
(08:47):
your second headline theater tour, sal so take us through
the first one. What launched it. I think a lot
of people are going to view this like, you know,
you're Paul McCartney. You're doing your own thing after the
Beatles within practical joke, what what the beginnings of that was,
the motivation for it was, and how that first tour went.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
So, I mean, by the way, I'll take a comparison
to Paul McCartney and the Beatles any dingy uh yeah right.
You know, I've been I've been doing sam comedy for
a long time. It's just people don't really be able
to put a special out because the show is so
demanding of the other projects I've been doing in the podcast,
but I finally just took the time down to do
it last year, and some of the material on this
(09:28):
on this specialists ten years old, so it's like I've
been doing, you know, stand up full time, and this
is more about educating people that I'm doing it to
kind of like you know, help you know, booy the
tour and you know, prior to that, I would sell
basically just on people who knew me from the Jokers.
But this time I finally have that material out there.
I'm hoping to spread spread that and find a new
audience beyond my audience, so people can see that. Yeah,
(09:51):
I've been doing a stand up you know, I started
out of college, so it's been it's been quite some time.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Sol.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I have so much respect for that craft and what
you do and how you do it, how any stand
up comedian does it.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I host a talk show, that's one thing, but I'm
talking to people I can't see.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
You're on stage.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You have to interact with these people, get a reaction
from them, you know, make me laugh, clown type of thing.
They're very demanding. They're an audience they paid for a ticket.
They want to, you know, see a funny guy up there.
And you mentioned kind of rebooting your material for the
upcoming everything's fine to her. I remember watching a documentary
called Comedian with Jerry Seinfeld and Ornie Adams and Jerry
(10:27):
scraps all of his nineties material like from the TV
show and all of his stand up. That kind of
led to that, and just starts from scratch. He goes
around to clubs, he's workshops. Take us through your act,
what you put into it, how you craft a set.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Absolutely yeah, I mean I mean, you know, just.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Books and books and notebooks and my notes apt full
of ideas and premises and this and that, and then
I finally just dig in and develop it.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
I usually bullet point something out and.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Then get on stage and try to fill them the
blanks in between. But it's something I work on like meticulously.
And when I finally knew I was filming a special,
I went back on a decade of material and pulled
the things that resonated with me the most, and then just,
I mean just worked on them like a surgeon, really
just getting up everything on night. I've recorded every set
(11:16):
I've ever done. You come home, you listen to everything,
and you know it's it's every little nuance. And this
is what I love about stand up. You know, it's
just like the journey of getting there and crafting a joke,
and a joke could never be done. You could keep
working on it forever, you know. So it's just a
lot of work about every little line, making sure, being
honest with yourself and making sure like is this is
(11:36):
strong at this work? It should just be cut and
this be changed. And I never put more work into
our project in my entire life than I didn't too
terrified the special of town now and then just like
anything else, this is why I love stand up is
like I have to go right back to square one.
And no matter who you are, the siginflds of the
world or whoever, it's like if you're a comedian, eventually
you have to go right back to that space, that
(11:57):
headspace and do it all over again and grind and
and bomb again. And so that's like the phase I'm
in right now. And it's like, you know, if you're
doing it right, that's that's that's what happens. So, uh,
you know that whole everything about it. I love. I
love comedy, and I love like I love just the
science of it, the meticulousness of it, you know what
I mean. So for me and that that's very much
(12:18):
what we do on our show too, and all the
ideas and the scenarios we create. It's all like the
effort of a bunch of people sitting down and really
thinking about like how to push this and where the
social faux pause are and what all the permutations could be,
and so that kind of stuff. But I just I
just eat it up.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Sell the old Counto, our guest and your craftsman in comedy.
So what you see, Yeah, it looks effortless, it looks spontaneous.
A lot of it is, but there's a lot of
science that goes into It's so fascinating to hear him
describe it. You can find out more sell Volcanocomedy dot com.
Get your tickets too for the upcoming show in Denver
that's coming up in March. So you can see all
(12:57):
the information that led to this in Terrified that's on
YouTube as well. Say all the question I always like
to ask for somebody like yourself that's coming through, that's
now got your own thing going, Who were your inspirations
as comedians as a young person, somebody that kind of
turned you on to doing this.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
The first person that really resonated with me when I
was younger, it was it was David Letterman, it was
Eddie Murphy with Gary Shandling. It wasn't it wasn't exclusive
to stand up right. I love the Jeffersons. Sherman Hensley,
who played George Jefferson, I thought was the funniest thing
in the planet. I used to like memorize the Jeffersons
(13:38):
and like repeat them in school and for my family
and stuff. So I do from a young age that
like I was taken with, you know, this kind of thing,
and you know, it's just you know, from mental Now
it's crazy to think now I've been doing this for
so long and some of the people that I admire
the most have become.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Like friends of mine. You know.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
It's just it's a wild thing to be a comedian.
But you know, I'm giving you the most unfunny answers.
But I promised people that's that's whose show is hysterical.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Well, I think the important part is they know that
it's a real guy behind all the jokes and so forth,
and I love that we're getting kind of the texture
of that here and what makes your tour unique among
many reasons that you're doing it individually, but that the
venues are all these great theaters we talked about earlier.
In Chicago, you know the VIC, we got the Beacon Theater,
(14:24):
the Rhyme, and the Wiltern, the Wilburg. You're coming here
to Denver, you'll be at the Paramount Theater. Were these
venues chosen by this capacity but because of the feel
of where you're going to be performing, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
I mean they're really special. It's I mean, for the
for my special terrified. I had to choose one of
the biggest decisions I had to make with what city
and what theater It plays so much interest for me,
and Chicago is great County Denver is as good as
you're going to get as far as comedy audience. Chicago's
up there too, And I wanted just a really lively, energetic,
you know, place and an iconic place.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
And then the VIC.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
You know, it's a.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Theater, but it plays like a club and you want
that intimacy. You want to feel like That's why comedy
club is a lot of times by design are low ceilings,
everyone's tightly packed. That's the most conducive for it. And
there's only a handful of theaters in the country that
really really play like that. And so we chose the
VIC for the special and it turned out Knocking Wood
to be right.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
And everything was great.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
And you know, these these theaters are have a name
for a reason, you know, through town and to play them,
it's just it will never really feel real, you know,
like it's just a wild thing to like want to
be a cont my whole life and now doing it,
and I'm coming through places like you know, the Paramount
and things like that. It's it's just a it's the best,
it's the best feeling. It really is the best.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Now sale I'm seeing in the promotional materials here that
you have twenty eight dates scheduled, it says already announced.
Now that's late November, December, January through March. Will there
be more dates added through the balance of the calendar?
You're twenty twenty five, and if so, how many more
do you think.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
I'm going through to twenty twenty six? I now am
I to announce the next three or four month shunk?
I think I'll probably end up doing another maybe sixty
cities on top of that, and then I will be
going across the pond too, to the UK and Ireland
and stuff. So yeah, it's I'm gonna I'm going everywhere.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Really now sell your routine and how you put it
about that, but just to give you an opportunity to
reach directly to our audience here to promote you know
exactly what you're going to a confident what your material
consists of. We heard the family feued bit, but just
look like and sound like for an audience when they
come to see you.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Yeah, I mean, I'm all about escapism, so like I'm
just silly on stage. I promise like it's it's very
it's more personal.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
You know.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
It's a lot of like observations but mixture real stories and.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
People come away like you know.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
People know me or they feel they really do know
me from being on televisional word, decade plan myself. But
this is not jokers, and it's a whole new side
of very personal which I'm private, but on stage really
get to know me more of you know about who
I am and what I'm about. I promise no politics,
nothing like that, you know what I mean. It's just
fun and this new tour, I've never spoken about my
(17:11):
family before, specifically like my wife and daughter, and I'm
I'm finally gonna, like, you know, talk about that kind
of stuff. So uh, you know, for people that like
like me and think they know me, you'll get.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
To see a whole other side.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
What is the funniest thing about your current family unit,
your wife and daughter?
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Uh that you just was in the room. Actually hang wait,
I'm on my left call wait on.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
The funniest thing is that they.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Could prove it.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
I'll be right out.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
That was like almost on cue. Did you did you?
Did you plan with them?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
It's a little scary how that worked out there. Sal
It certainly is. Well, I'll let you get back to
your family.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
The take away is anything, anything.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Can happen everything, and we'll look forward to just that. Sale.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I really do look forward to you coming here to
Denver and between now and then, but I'm sure we'll
touch base again. You can find out more at his
Websitecanocomedy dot com, his socials, Instagram, and x that's at
sale Volcano with a U in there kind of like volcano.
There you go, and then Facebook at sale Volcano Official.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Sale great stuff here.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I really appreciate you joining me on this Friday, and
we'll see you when you come to Denver.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
I can't thank you enough, man, thank you for taking
the time for me.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
All right, Sale Volcano joining us there, and of course
you know him best from a practical jokers, but he's
going on tour and it's going to be the Everything's
fine tour going into he said, Calendar Year twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
We'll take this time out come back with more after this.
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Speaker 3 (20:01):
Suburb New at seven. Despite widespread public safety concerns, a
few metro suburbs are ranked as some of the nation's
safest if you can.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Afford to live there.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Smart I sat looking at nearly four hundred suburbs across
the country based on crime rates. The only Calital spot
to break the top fifteen was Castle Rock, landing in
at number ten, the tenth safest suburb in the country.
The community has the twenty ninth lowest crime rate, seventeenth
lowest vehicular mortality rate, and twenty third lowest drug overdose rate.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
However, on the.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
Downside, it also reports the one hundred and seventy third
lowest property crime rates, slightly better than the national average,
but not by much. The next Calital community on the list,
by the way, was Evergreen, which you didn't find until
you got until numbers spot number eighty one on that list.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
That's kind of concerning.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
You would hope to see more of Colorado's suburbs on.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
That list, all right, good for Castle Rock, Yeah, and
Evergreen just a goal. Now, we've got things to work on, right.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
So that's KADIVR Fox thirty one here locally in Denver
with the story about Castle Rock being among the safest
suburbs to live in in the United States. But there
aren't more Colorado suburbs on the list, just Evergreen down
the list like eighty one.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Why is that?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Let's ponder that for a moment, Ryan shuling with you,
six thirty k O welcome back. Could it be that
there is across the board Republican leadership in Castle Rock
and another friend of mine who is running for District
attorney in the newly created twenty third district down there
joins us now, and that is George Brockler, G brock
(21:50):
what is up.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
Man man, Thank you for having me on. What a
great story amidst all the negativity that's out there and
the crime and stuff. What a great story.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Good timing and why is that? George?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
You and I kind of went back and forth on
text about this before our listeners out there.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
What makes castle Rock stand out?
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Well?
Speaker 7 (22:11):
I wish I could say there was just one thing,
but there are a number of things that I think
put it in a position to be safer for the
community members. Now people on the left are going to say, well,
they're just so affluent, and it's like, yeah, but there
are super rich parts of Denver as well, and that
hasn't seemed to help Denver. I think what you see
(22:33):
is a community that's invested in the rule of law
and invested in public safety. So you have two different
entities that call castle Rock home. The mothership for the
Douglas County Sheriff's Office, which is more than ably helmed
by a sheriff Aaron Weekley. He's phenomenal. And then you
have castle Rock Police Department helmed by Jack Cowley. These
are not departments that are wanting for resources the way
(22:56):
some other agencies do because those communities have decided to
either divest themselves from law enforcement where they don't prioritize
it as much as they do maybe housing for the
homeless or for immigrants or whatever. Castle Rock has two
great law enforcement leaders. Jack Cawley is on the cutting
edge of leadership for police. He's a part of a
nationwide group that looks at best practices. One of the
(23:19):
things that he's done is to create an environment and
his policy is called one by one policing, and that
is the individualized approach each of these officers take with
any call, regardless of how big or how small it is,
and that has paid huge dividends for the town of
Castle Rock. You surround that with a largely conservative not entirely,
(23:40):
and it's bluing a little bit, a largely conservative jurisdiction
that supports public safety, believes in the rule of law.
And then you add on top of that a district attorney,
John Kellner, who's willing to go to trial and try
to get people convicted and sent to prison for crimes
that maybe Denver doesn't, that maybe Jefferson County doesn't. And
I think all that stuff adds up and you see
a pretty community.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
You can find out more about his campaign for district
attorney in that newly formed twenty third district at George
Brockler dot com B A B R A U C
H L E R George Brockler dot com and he
joins us So Castle Rock a subset, a significant one
within this new district, George, that you're hoping to represent
as district attorney. You hit on some of the structural
(24:22):
reasons as to why Castle Rock is safe, but for
the surrounding areas, the people that you're talking to when
you're out campaigning, what are their top concerns? What are
going to be your priorities if you are elected.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
I gotta say when when I was going door to
door before the primary, and there's always a little lull
after the primary, especially in the jurisdiction of this composition.
While I was going during the during the primary, and
so we're knocking almost entirely on Republican or right leaning doors.
The number one concern that people had, I give you
not was immigration. Number one thing with immigration, The number
(24:59):
two thing is why are judges letting people out of jail?
Why are people being held accountable for what happened to them,
and those two things I think are interrelated, especially in
the metro area. And I've said this before, but you know,
every bad Denver puffis the results never stay in Denver.
(25:19):
They always spill over into the surrounding communities. And I
think Douglas County and Albert and Lincoln have done a
really good job of trying to build a firewall there.
I think the separation from a Rapahoe is going to
yield some really interesting results in the tuxtaposition of approaches
to crime. I have said that I would like to
make it public before I take office that in twenty
(25:42):
twenty five and forward, if you come into our community
to victimize us, if you come down here to steal
from us, your expectation should be to go to jail.
And that's going to apply to everybody eighteen years and older.
We always treat juveniles differently, but nobody does that anymore.
And so when you read, when you listen to that report,
you played very insightful. I mean, Cassel Rock's doing a
(26:04):
great job. The one thing they said was but it's
one hundred and seventy third in property crime. We can
fix that, and you don't fix it with hugs. You
don't fix it with excuses, and you don't fix it
with hey, go home and think about what you've done
and reoffend. You fix it by providing a punishment, and
a recent one as soon want a quick one.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Now, George, hold on a second, I have an opposing view.
We know that we've got lawn order George Brockler over
here running in the twenty third district to be the
DA try to kind of lay down the law here
and make sure that people are not victims of crimes.
But George, what about the criminals. Here is Gwen Walls,
first Lady of Minnesota, one of our nominees for our
Friday Fool of the Week, the wife of the governor,
(26:43):
the wife of the vice presidential nominee, Tim Walls, and
this is how she feels we should treat criminals.
Speaker 9 (26:50):
And having a chance every day. How many chances do
you get? My answer to that is as many chances
as you need, which doesn't really please those law and
order people.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Doesn't really please those law and order people like you, George.
But what about this notion of giving criminals as many
chances as they need?
Speaker 7 (27:13):
Yeah, first off, it doesn't just please the not please
the law and order people. It doesn't please the many, many, many,
needless victims that they create by giving people chance after
chance after chance when they've proven an inability or an
unwillingness to correct your behavior. Let's be clear about how
theft and property crime are different. Theft is not a
crime of emotion or passion.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Right.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
Theft isn't you can't accidentally steal from someone. It is
one of the few misdemeanor charges that requires an intent
to act. Most of your intent crimes are felonies. And
you and I growing up man and everybody listening to
the show, you are taught respect for property. You know
which talka truck is yours, and you know which talka
truck belongs to the neighbor. And when you take from someone,
(27:58):
your parents, if they're doing the right, they hold you accountable.
So this notion that we're just going to let people
continue to steal from us, whether it's a car, or
it's a smash and grab, or it's any other thing,
and we're just going to find a way to color
book their way out of this or put them into
some sort of restorative justice model that will fix this.
I'm sorry, I don't agree. I think for that kind
(28:19):
of a crime, for that kind of an intent based crime,
that everybody without any further instruction knows right from wrong
on that there ought to be a quick penalty, and
that quick penalty ought to be you're going to jail.
How long should be the only question? And my guess
is that word gets out into the surrounding community and
pretty soon people in Denver and Aurora stopped wanting to
(28:41):
come to Castle Rock to steal because they know when
they get grabbed up, they're going to the Gray Bar Hotel.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I love it, George, final thing, and I think you
and I both know what's at stake in this upcoming election,
and it's more stark than ever with Kama La Harris
at the top of the ticket instead of Joe Biden,
who was bad. But I believe it's gone from bad
to worse, and it's gotten even worse with Walls at
the top of this ticket with a mayhem he oversaw
in Minneapolis. And the counter to what you just said,
(29:07):
I'm not even joking right now. I'm talking from the
Marxist leftist philosophy of proletariat and those the bourgeoisie, and
that is somebody that would steal, let's say, in Vada
home property crime.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Like you're talking, it's just property, George. It's just property,
first of all.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
And then secondly, what if they really needed it, what
they really needed it, and life was not fair to them?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah, you know, I'm not wrong here.
Speaker 7 (29:35):
I chuckled because I've only been doing this for thirty years,
and the mythological unicorn is more frequent in my career
than the mythological person who's stealing a loaf of bread
to feed their kids. That just doesn't happen, at least
it hasn't happened in my career. Now. What happens is
you get people who steal for greed. That's what people
(29:58):
steal for, or perhaps they're drug addicted and they're stealing
to feed their addiction. It is not a prime that
you just simply go, hey, you shouldn't. We've gone through
the trouble of expending taxpayer money to hunt you down
and arrest you, et cetera. I just don't think that works. Now.
Let me be clear about this though, too. I'm not
saying we felonize all consequences with felony. On many cases,
(30:20):
I think i'd be willing to consider trading a felony
class charge for an immediate period of time in jail.
Stretch someone out for a year, have to go to trial,
they get convicted, Judges send them to probation. What if
instead we said, you come in first appearance, you plead
guilty to this high level misdemeanor, and you agree to
go to jail for ninety days. Now I'm making up
(30:41):
those numbers, but I'm saying, do you see the consequences
being immediate? Give you a different kind of response to
behavior than this long, torture, drawn out process that's necessary
because of due process and frankly caused by the volume
of cases and the posity centers.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
I think that time in jail you mentioned that, George,
even if it's just ninety days, that's ninety days that
you're in the clink and you're sitting there thinking, and
it could change your entire perspective on life. I agree
with this approach. And if you want to support George
Brockler and his run for the twenty third district DA position,
you can do so online George Brockler dot com. George
great stuff is always best luck in the campaign, we'll
(31:17):
talk again soon.
Speaker 7 (31:18):
Thanks having all right, George.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Brockler right there, and we'll take this final time out
a final tally on our Friday Fool of the Week voting.
You heard one of the nominees, but who's going to win?
Mika Brazinski also a nominee. Nancy Pelosi wants Joe Biden
on Mount Rushmore. And you had Senator Tina Smith who
didn't realize that jd Vance served in.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
The Marines, wrapping it up after this six point thirty
k how.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Oh, yes, my request here on Rocket key how six
thirty Ryan shuling an FM voice for you. That's Kelly
shaking her head. That was for Kelly. She doesn't have
time for the pain, Carly Simon. Kelly is feeling it. Yeah,
kel how's it going over there?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
It's going well? Any more drugs maybe? Okay.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I'm very pro drug Yeah, when it comes to the pain,
naw legal ones, and I don't want you.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
To abuse them.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
But I gave your three aspirin tablets. That's three fastballs
and my grandpa's lead and go here's throwing aspirin tablets.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
I'm hoping the cocktail of that and i'd be proven.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Yeah, it's a good cocktail mine. Actually it's not tasty,
but it's a good cocktail.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
It's the one day I didn't have wine.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Foot elevated.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
If I would have had wine, you don't have wine,
it might have been tolerable.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
All right, Friday fool the week? Who wanted to what margin?
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Let's go ahead and queue up yep, our former plastic Speaker.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Of the House, Nancy Pelosi. Congratulations tough field today. But
this is our winner.
Speaker 10 (32:48):
So he wasn't a good place to make what other
decision at the top of his game. Such a consequential
president of the United States, a Mount Rushmore kind of
president of the United States.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Want to know what comes next?
Speaker 2 (33:01):
And he belongs up there on Mount Rushmore. Lincoln and
Joe Biden.
Speaker 10 (33:08):
But you got Teddy Roosevelt up there, and he's wonderful.
I don't say take him down, but you can add Biden.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Teddy Roosevelt was a rough rider. The Teddy Bear was
named after him. He was an iconic president for the
first decade of the twentieth century, universally loved.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
You have George Washington.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
He was a general for the Revolutionary War and our
first president of the United States, serving two terms you
have Abraham Lincoln, who freed the slaves and was assassinated
a hero in our country's history, kept the fabric of
this nation together. And Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration
of Independence in his early thirties, was our third president
of the United States, also served two full terms the
(33:46):
first decade of the nineteenth century. And you're going to
put Joe Biden on the same monument as those four.
That might be a winner for the year, not just
full of the week, full of the year.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Thanks for voting. Stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Heidi Gonal co hosting with Dan Kaplis on a Friday
edition after this on six point thirty Camp
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