Wease Family Circus

Andrew Dice Clay was supposed to be on this episode. The promoter called, Wease said yes, and then Dice found out who he was doing the interview with and passed. That's how EP 35 starts, and it only gets more interesting from there. Wease pulls the full story behind the two lawsuits that still follow him around on Wikipedia, including a phone call he got at a cold rink in Fairport during one of Jake's youth hockey practices that changed the whole picture. Doreen then does something she's never done on the show before, sharing her own experience at a fraternity party in college that she's carried for 40 years, all in the middle of the Cornell Jane Doe case. It's one of the most honest stretches this family has put on tape. There are also old bits from the vault, including a call with Billy Martin's widow Jill about the real story behind the Mickey Mantle hunting trip, and a classic Uncle Morris bit played by the great Dave Kane, which Doreen didn't even recognize until Wease gave it away. The rest of the episode covers Wease winning two of his last three poker tournaments before setting sail, the Bills HOPEFULLY going for 4-0 against New England, Greg Rousseau earning the first Defensive Player of the Month in the Josh Allen era, a passenger plumber who landed a nosediving plane because he watched too many flight disaster shows, and Doreen missing Sodus Point, Lake Ontario, and her boat while Wease is perfectly content never leaving the casino. Watch it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@weasefamilycircus Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weasefamilycircus/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@weasefamilycircus Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BrotherWease/ More at https://weasefamilycircus.com Canna Corner Dispensary: https://cannabiscornerny.com/ Booking and sponsorships: [email protected] Shout out to our Production Sponsor Captivate Media: https://captivatemedia.com/ Chapters 00:00:00 Dice Clay, Facebook Hate, and the Reunion Show 00:03:23 The Lawsuits and Wikipedia Claims 00:12:17 Poker Wins and a Crowded Costco 00:17:01 The Cornell Jane Doe Case 00:23:50 A Personal College Experience 00:27:11 Football, the Bills, and Aaron Rodgers 00:32:10 Billy Martin, Reggie Jackson, and the Hunting Story 00:37:17 A Lost Credit Card and Old Radio Clips 00:39:23 Uncle Morris and National Coming Out Week 00:44:42 Coming Out Then and Now 00:45:59 Old Dreams and Radio Memories 00:48:15 The Midair Attack and the Passenger Who Helped 00:49:58 Books, Theo, and Tom Hanks 00:51:14 Bills vs. Patriots Predictions 00:53:13 Cruise Plans and Missing Home 00:54:34 Game-Day Nerves and the Sabres

Two days after the Wease Show Reunion, the two people who flew the farthest to be there sit down at Captivate Studios to unpack it. Cindy Pierce in from Toledo. B.J. Shea in from Seattle. And Wease, who couldn't hear a word of his own reunion, finally gets to find out what happened. Start there. Wease admits he was terrified his kids would watch him stink up the joint because he's deaf, and he tells the story of not recognizing Thea Vidale while B.J. screamed, texted, and sent smoke signals from three feet away. B.J.'s take: the room didn't care. They came to love the guy on stage, and the vulnerability made it better. Billy D'Ettorre texted afterward that it was the best night he's had in years, which leads into the story of how Wease married Billy to a listener from Ohio on an all-night Christmas show. Then the origin stories. B.J. lied about knowing sports to get the job in 1988, got exposed on the air during a golf report when he didn't know a birdie from a bogey, and survived the Wease diatribe that followed. A year later Wease saw the Batman movie, pulled him aside, and told him to stop trying to be Wease and embrace the geek, because something was about to happen. B.J. took that advice to Seattle and it made his career. Cindy got her job because an ex-boyfriend record rep recommended her, and Wease's interview process was one sentence: don't piss me off. The heavy one. Wease tells a story he says he's never told on the podcast. An endoscopy found a spot on his pancreas, surgery was scheduled, and his own doctor quietly told him to get it done out of town. Doreen got him in front of the top pancreatic surgeon in the country at Johns Hopkins, who ran his own scan and sent him home with a letter telling every other doctor not to touch him. It was nothing. He'd been booked for a surgery he didn't need. B.J. reminds him he's been announcing his own death for 35 years and gives him 20 more. Also: B.J.'s Seattle sports tour (Mariners, Kraken, Sounders, and the Sonics they still haven't forgiven), Wease's night at the Red Wings on Batman night with a walk-off win and a teenager drying the infield with a flamethrower, the soccer debate where B.J. compares the World Cup to fine dining and Wease compares it to nothing happening, why the foreigners loved America, the media negativity argument that turns into an actual fight, God and atheism, Bill Maher, and the "we're being manipulated" exchange Cindy calls the smartest thing either of them has ever said. Plus B.J. on why Comedy at the Carlson might be the best club in America, and why Millennium Games in Henrietta is the biggest board game store in the country. Shoutout to our sponsors: Electric Car Corner in Farmington, Cannabis Corner, Salvatore's Pizza, and Burke & Banyan Jewelers. Watch, subscribe, and share. New episodes weekly. Wease Family Circus. Google it, or tell Siri to take you to the Wease Family Circus. Chapters 00:00:00 we're back, finally 00:01:08 mariners city connect fits 00:02:18 sitting in the cheap seats 00:05:04 seattle has real teams now 00:05:40 soccer, sure, why not 00:09:36 someone scored a lot 00:11:56 baseball and soccer, one trip 00:16:30 back at the comedy club 00:20:22 remember when we did that 00:21:51 this show changed some lives 00:26:43 nobody saw this coming 00:28:30 look how far we came 00:31:00 nerds won, deal with it 00:32:09 real beats polished every time 00:33:14 the accidental sports guy 00:35:26 they hired him anyway 00:37:03 love, loss, and what ifs 00:38:07 when your body betrays you 00:41:19 the surgery that wasn't 00:43:35 god, doubt, and late nights 00:46:30 somebody played somebody 00:48:13 cannabis corner is open 00:49:43 wings reunion, obviously 00:50:07 carlson gets the laughs 00:51:51 millennium games, board game… 00:53:50 your junk might be gold 00:54:34 love you brothers and sisters

Recorded live at Comedy at the Carlson: the Wease Show Reunion. One night, one stage, and just about everybody who ever sat behind a microphone with Brother Wease. B.J. Shea flew in to host, and he opens with the truth: this is the send-off that should have happened on the radio and never did. A National Radio Hall of Famer, same wall as Jack Benny, Bob Hope, and Orson Welles, got walked out the door with no goodbye. So the people who lived it threw the party themselves. Wease takes the stage, calls it his funeral, and then admits to a packed room that he's deaf, he's got Parkinson's, and he just took a pill his wife told him to take. It only gets looser from there. The lineup: B.J. Shea on the four years that changed his life, the "snatch and improve" philosophy he stole from Wease, and the clean Catholic Church show at the Eastman Theatre where he performed for nuns and priests with his fly wide open. Cindy Pierce on ten years of "save it for the air," why Wease was in the operating room for her C-section instead of her husband, and the Rose tattoo she got because the boss said so. Billy D'Ettorre on Haywood Banks bombing with the toaster song, the Cindy Williams prank that went too far, and what actually happened the day Sammy got left on the bus. Bill Moran on the Christmas album parody that got him hired, the monsters Wease created (Weather Watcher Mike, Harry from Carey), the night Andrew Dice Clay hung up on them, and why Howard Stern was a businessman but Wease was the real deal. Rich "The Bull" Gensler, in from Buffalo for the first time in 30 years, on why Wease was the Josh Allen of Rochester (one out of every two people in town knew his name), the Klee Motors bit, and the sex surrogate hotel room story he finally gets to finish after 35 years. Thea Vidale, the surprise guest who flew in and sat down next to Wease before he figured out who she was. Her take on getting old, grandkids, and in-laws is worth the ticket alone. Doreen Levin with her side of the bus story (five-year-old Sammy, a Power Rangers backpack, and a kid who only knew his dad's name was Wease), plus the baby powder story and the apple pie story. You've been warned. Plus Mark the Soldier on "Who's Castro?", Brian Dart on being the bottle boy (yes, that), the intern who didn't know who O.J. Simpson was, Wease's kindergarten classmates from No. 1 School, the jockstrap reveal nobody asked for, and Wease's tattoo of Doreen. It ends the way it should. B.J. asks Wease what he'd say if this were his last broadcast, and he answers. Then he tells the room he doesn't want a funeral. Just a party. This was the party. Wease's book by Marshall Fine is out now. Shoutout to our sponsor Cannabis Corner, and to Bill Moran's podcast, wherever you get yours. Watch, subscribe, and share. New episodes weekly. Wease Family Circus. Google it, or tell Siri to take you to the Wease Family Circus. [FLIGHTCAST_CHAPTERES]

Wease has known Jimmy Flynn for 75 years. They grew up a block apart on Park Avenue, Jimmy the Irish Catholic kid from a family of 11 with one bathroom, Wease the Jewish kid down the street. This week Jimmy finally sits down at Captivate Media Studios, and Wease admits he's never actually heard most of these stories until now. Start with the basics: Jimmy was born in the vestibule of the family house and didn't find out until he was 45. Three of his sisters became nuns. He got thrown out of three grammar schools and three high schools without ever changing his address. His dad caught him smoking at 12 and made him finish the whole pack of Pall Malls. And the time he launched himself off the Colby Street footbridge on a bike that wasn't his, cleared a flight of stairs in midair, and ruptured a kidney. That injury is the only reason he never went to Vietnam, while four of his brothers went in as Marines. Then it gets serious. In the late 60s, Jimmy and his wife Chris (married 57 years now) volunteered with VISTA and got sent to Georgetown, South Carolina, two white Yankees nobody wanted. They were housed in an abandoned plantation house, told to sit still and not stir anything up, and instead Jimmy teamed up with a Black lawyer named Cleveland Stevens to build a lawsuit that measured every streetlight, fire hydrant, and open sewer in the Black part of town versus the white part. The Klan was active. The water fountains still said whites only. And he walked his friend John Graham onto a beach no Black man in town had ever set foot on. Wease's point: people his age lived this, and it wasn't that long ago. Also in this one: driving the old neighborhood and finding a flag on Wease's childhood house that sent him down a rabbit hole, Jake's Harley School exit and the in-school suspension he brought a pillow to, the Del Lago parking lot rant, and a listener's text that lists 30 years of Wease Show memories so specific Wease calls him the ultimate fan. And yes, it goes political. Wease and Jimmy are two old liberals who don't hold back, and they get into veterans, socialism, USAID, "Lake America," and why the fights we're told to have are usually the small ones. Wease apologizes to the audience at the end. Sort of. Shoutout to our sponsors: Electric Car Corner in Farmington (the hybrid Jeep is still on the same tank of gas) and Cannabis Corner. Visit captivatemedia.com for your Video Marketing needs Watch, subscribe, and share. New episodes weekly. Wease Family Circus. Google it, or tell Siri to take you to the Wease Family Circus. Chapters 00:00:00 Welcome and Jimmy Flynn Joins: Childhood Friends Reunite 00:00:24 The Flynn Family: 11 Kids, One Bathroom, and Catholic School 00:01:25 Catholic School Troublemaker: Three High Schools Without Moving 00:05:45 The Pell-Mell Punishment: When Dad Made Jimmy Smoke a Whole Pack 00:08:41 The Bicycle Bridge Crash: How Jimmy Avoided Vietnam 00:11:06 Four Brothers in the Marines: The Flynn Military Legacy 00:30:50 57 Years of Marriage: Chris Flynn and a Life Well Lived 00:32:32 VISTA and the Deep South: Going to South Carolina in the 1960s 00:34:37 Living on a Plantation: The Pawleys Island House 00:36:26 Fighting Segregation: Municipal Services Lawsuit and Community Action 00:38:37 Whites Only Water Fountains: Witnessing Jim Crow Laws Firsthand 00:41:41 The First Black Guy on the Beach: John Graham's Historic Moment 00:45:11 Electric Car Corner: Hybrid Jeeps and Previously Owned EVs 00:51:13 Sobriety Journey: 40 Years Clean and the Temptation of Cannabis 00:55:04 Politics and Veterans: The Great Debate on Military Benefits 01:02:58 Healthcare and Education: What America is Missing 01:10:12 Trump, Lake America, and Political Madness 01:16:00 Cannabis Corner: Gummies for Every Mood 01:26:28 The Ultimate Fan Message: A Lifetime of Brother Wease Memories 01:30:22 Reflecting on Life: Gratitude, Luck, and the Road Ahead

Sports edition. Wease and Jake bring in Dan Borrello, sports columnist for the Times of Wayne County (Wease's favorite newspaper), to break down the Buffalo Bills before a single snap of the season. New head coach, new defense, new stadium, new grass, and a franchise quarterback who Dan says just ran out of excuses. Josh Allen signed off on the coach, the GM, and the field. Now it's on him. Dan walks through the whole picture: why Joe Brady ("Slim Brady") calling every play as a rookie head coach is the biggest question on the team, how Jim Leonhard's switch from a 4-3 to a 3-4 actually works, why DJ Moore could be the true number one receiver the Bills haven't had since Diggs, and the trade that fell into Brandon Beane's lap when Chicago was about to cut him for nothing. Plus the linebacker depth problem, why James Cook sits on third down, and the rookie Dan says to watch. For the people who love the Bills but don't know a nickel from a dime, Wease asks the questions you're too embarrassed to: what does a head coach actually do on game day, what are those guys in the booth doing, and what is a blitz. Dan answers all of it. Also: why the NFL isn't rigged (and why the league likes it when you think it is), the Brandin Cooks overtime call that still hurts, the Patriots' scoreboard camera trick that fooled kickers for years, the Michigan clock mess, Doug Flutie getting screwed by Ralph Wilson, the Sabres with an actual season ticket waiting list, and Dan's Super Bowl pick: Bills over the Bears. Shoutout to our sponsors: Electric Car Corner in Farmington (Dan wants to buy Wease's Jeep out from under him) and GVIII Barber Academy on East Avenue, where you can learn the trade or get a $20 haircut from a student. And go pick up the Times of Wayne County. Watch, subscribe, and share. New episodes weekly. Wease Family Circus. Google it, or tell Siri to take you to the Wease Family Circus. Chapters 00:00:00 Welcome and Sports Season Preview 00:00:41 Electric Car Corner Sponsor Spot 00:02:17 Bills Season Opener Discussion and Houston Texans Preview 00:05:02 Denver Playoff Game Controversy: The Brandon Cooks Catch 00:06:09 Is Football Rigged? The Great Debate 00:08:38 College Football Clock Controversy and Patriots Cheating Allegations 00:12:46 Bills New Defense: Jim Leonard's 3-4 Scheme 00:23:17 Understanding Football Positions: Nickelbacks, Dimes, and Coaching Roles 00:24:22 Joe Brady as Head Coach: Can He Handle Play Calling and Leadership? 00:28:11 DJ Moore and the Bills Receiving Corps 00:31:00 Running Backs: James Cook, Ray Davis, and the Bills Ground Game 00:39:38 Preseason Analysis and Bills Offensive Line Concerns 00:43:00 Josh Allen's Leadership Style: Does He Need to Be More Demanding? 00:46:32 College Football Money Machine and Lopsided Games 00:51:23 Doug Flutie Gets Screwed: The Rob Johnson Playoff Controversy 00:52:24 Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City Chiefs, and Championship Predictions 00:53:53 LA Rams Analysis and Matthew Stafford's Health Concerns 00:58:12 Jessica Pegula's US Open Run and Tennis Talk 01:08:11 GVIII Barber Academy Spotlight and Closing Thoughts