The Orlando Talk Show with Ross McCoy

HONK!

-- [the rest of the blog goes here]

This is now Jacki writing the rest of the blog. Ross' guest is Roo Nafasat who is the creator/host/poweroflove behind the Silly Geese Comedy Show in Orlando. Let's see what they talked about:

• Getting human interaction
• First time doing comedy
• The business of comedy
• Learning from bombing
• Loving the goose
• Honking (not a horn, but like a goose)
• Making powerpoints
• Women in comedy
• Imposter syndrome
• Comedy audiences are 60% more women
• Geese secrets
• Percy Jackson
• Golden Egg Trivia Team
• Ross' new mood lighting (repeated topic)
• Aliens & UFOs
• New Segment: Wholesome Thing I Found on the Internet
• Dr. Doom!
• Corporate culture
• Dog attack
• Never send your food back
• How to get fresh fries every time
• Find Roo at SillyRoose.com. 

HONK!!

Virtual Moe!

Byrne Pest

We get an open mic and a heart update from Logan and then we're off with another rousing edition of The Orlando Talk Show with Ross McCoy, starring... Carmen Vallone!

Here's what the fellas talked about:

• Dry January
• "The Ken Miller of it All"
• Open mics at bowling alleys
• Santa Clause with a K
• Erik Myers
• Heckling Jamie Kennedy
• Comedy classes with Carmen
• Being on the cusp of yelling
  • Focus on the funny parts instead
• Comedy curveballs
• Opening for Michael Winslow
• Becoming a dad
• Sleeping
• The Orlando Funny Bone

See y'all next time

TOTS with Ross is back for a blustery edition, some folks on the call have snow and others have gloom. Which would you prefer?

The guest: Danielle Mathis

Here's what the crew talked about:

• Feeling incredibly flammable
• Garage sale spotlights
• Curious George Goes to Town at Universal Studios
• Being a mascot
• Stuff the Magic Dragon
• Sesame Street on Ice
• Spirit splash at UCF
• How to Dougie
• Tampa has two major sports stadiums?
• Blooper the mascot
• "Untold Holiday Tales" - Next year, maybe?
• "All I Want for Christmas is You"
• Comedy shit lists
• Wall of apologists
• Types of doors
• Survivor finale (ed note: JAKE!!!)
• Wednesday nights at Bull and Bush are great when it's not only an open mic
• Hunger Games, Percy Jackson, and Matthew Perry
• Ross finally admits it!!!! (tot related)
• Trivia (Monday) and Open Mic (Tuesday) with Logan at Voodoo Brewing Company in Colorado Springs

Also important to note:

Bug free is good for me (and Ross, apparently), thanks to Byrne Pest Control

Injured on the go? Just call Moe!

 

There was a subtle shout out to Jake Ricca before the theme song.  This is Logan's first time as the producer of TOTS with Ross.  

Colorado has real East and West vs Florida's.... uhm... directions.  

Five Nights at Freddy's is culturally significant.  Some call it, "Bigger than the moon landing!"

Sausage Castle shout out.  Happy Veteran's Day!

Official word from Shit Sandwich Central:  Cap Wright is the future of Orlando Comedy.  Cap Wright responds in this episode.  What happens next will surprise you,.... not really.... but hopefully it entertains you and convinces you to support local comedy before they are no longer local comedy.  

Fresh Hot Tots with Larry Fulford!

He's a comedian, musican and all around neat person with a very creative brain. Here's some of the things we discussed on this exciting episode of podcasting:

• Having a heart!
• Seeing ghosts
• 2009?
• Falling into the fire
• Being in a real life Truman Show
• Designated driver failures
• Bonkers-type host
• Why Not Lounge Prowling the stage
• People watching
• Watching comedy sets with other comedians
• German restaurants in Orlando:
  • Willow Tree
  • Baurenstraube
• Upcoming shows for Larry and Ross
  • Maybe?
• Larry  Fulford
• Two Brothers Podcast
• Sour Skittles
• Bluey + Blue Dogs
• Wings

Hey, y'all! Here's a brand new episode of TOTS for ya!! This time the fellas welcomed comedian Kevin Deane into the studio for a fun hour+ of talking and laughing. 

There were other emotions too. 

Here's some of the stuff they covered:

• Felt octagons
• DeWitt Jingle Contest - Post your best to the Facebook Group
• Bryne Pest Control
• Heathers Party!!! Join us on Twitch - YourFavoriteEpisodePod
  • 8pm, Thursday, August 3
  • Here’s my menu:
    • Spaghetti, with lots of oregano
    • Corn Nuts
    • Pate
    • Mineral Water
• WTF is Twitch?
• Fireworks
• Fear of football and babies
• Giving the Heimlich
• Choking stories
• Chinese food
• 7/11 / Wawa / Sheets / Buccees
• Saving lives
• Wet & Wild
• Kevin Deane - TikTok - Mr407Kevin
• Living in Kissimmee
• Norlex Belma
• Hosting Open mics
• Heathers!!!
• Mr407Kevin

Hello and welcome back to a fresh hot edition of TOTS with Ross. Today, we welcome comedian, writer, director, producer (and everything else) - heck let's just say it - creative genius Jake Ricca into the studio.

Here's some of the fascinating topics they discussed:

• a large groundhog
• how do we sound
• Moe DeWitt
• Logan is officially on the heart transplant list 
• Live from a yoga ball
• Saying your own name wrong
• George Carlin
• Is there a link between insomnia and comedy?
• Content creation
• Watching your friends get famous
• Funny or Die
• Social Media

And so much more!

Hey, did you know TOTS with Ross has a Facebook Group?

This hot dish of TOTS takes a more serious turn, after a somewhat chaotic and awkward beginning. This week we welcome Mickey's son, Logan, into the studio. 

On this episode, we learn the story of how Logan got to the point of living his life with a turbo heart and what's next for him - Spoiler Alert -  its a brand new heart!!!! Donate here to help Logan with moving, living and THRIVING expenses for a 23-year old kid who unexpectedly needs a new heart. 

Here's some of the other stuff discussed: 

• Bull & Bush Anniversary
• Akkem Woods & Tom Feeney
• What Do You Want From Us? Show at Will's Pub
• Holland Michigan Tulips
• Heather Shaw on Your Favorite Episode
• Knife or Death
• Real live human cyborg!!
• Quote unquote medical professionals
• Coughing up blood
• The exact right amount of food
• Retaining water
• Tuberculosis
• Taking a helicopter ride and not knowing
• Yelp for Nurses
• The right time to order food in the hospital
• Fitness tips
• Twitch

Again, if you wanna be a part of the team helping Logan get a new heart, the easiest way to do that is donate. We don't expect it, but we do appreciate it so much. Thank y'all for being on team LoKeHo. 

 

Yes, the photograph of the episode cover is many years old. All three of us have leveled up since then. 

However, this conversation is hot and fresh, like the best TOTS should be. 

Here's some of the stuff we discussed:

• The Yellow Wallpaper
• Moe DeWitt is giving away shit (going for the rhyme, not accuracy - Moe DeWitt is giving away high quality merch at random times)
• An update on Logan, MIckey's 23 year old son, who needs a heart transplant
• Logan's on Twitch!
• Meeting another LVAD patient
• Logan's pulse is almost non-existent
• Fanny packs are back!
• Michigan's weather is weird
• Controlling the simulation
• Feeding tubes are the worst (according to Logan)
• Changing to a Tater Tot themed podcast
  • with dipping sauces
• Between Two Tots
• How old is this podcast anyways?
• Ross got Burberry glasses!
• Bifocals vs. progressives vs. bifocal contacts
• Rope in a can!
• Wanted: One (or more) mad scientist
• Mickey's stylish sweater
• Super puffy D
• Does everything glow in the daylight?
• Drip shops
• Do not freeze the strudel
• Seeing "Starry Starry Night"
• Buy Sean Beagan
• Kiss is from Detroit?!
• Fuck a wet salad!
• Weird Bull & Bush t-Shirts
• Javaris, No
• UFOs & ghosts
• RRR - is that a pirate movie? Yes.
• "The Book of Disquiet"
• "The Art of War"

Thanks for listening, now go review Ross on iTunes!

Hello and welcome to another edition of The Orlando Talk Show with Ross McCoy, AKA TOTs with Ross. This time, Ross is coming at you live from the place in his house where the wifi signal is the strongest with comedian Noel Miller. Here's just a bit of what you can expect from this episode:

• Noel Miller - Live at the Plaza in Orlando - Get tickets here
• Tiny Meat Gang
• Fringe rap
• Candy rap song
• The art of stand up comedy
• Open mics
• Houston comedy scene
• Ghosts & UFOs
• Best TOTS in town (jacki edit: one of my favorite answers yet, tbh)
• RRR
• Fundraising for a heart trasnplant

Yes, we are fundraising for a heart transplant for Mickey's youngest son, He is only 23 years old and is in need of a new heart. However, before that, there are some infections that need to clear up. That means he'll have to have a heart pump installed that will completely change his way of life. 

Anything you can donate would be incredibly helpful. If you are unable to donate, please share. 

Hello and welcome to another edition of The Orlando Talk Show with Ross McCoy, AKA TOTs with Ross. This time, Ross is coming at you live from the place in his house where the wifi signal is the strongest with comedian Hunter Roberts. Here's just a bit of what you can expect from this episode:

• Family Issues
• Hecklers
• Taylor Swift
• Ticketmaster
• The Weeknd
• Entertainment based food
• Beetlejuice
• Thanksgiving meals
• Comedy Festivals
• Disney After Dark
• Summer Sausage
• Ghosts
• Houses with stories 

And so much more!

Hello and welcome to another edition of The Orlando Talk Show with Ross McCoy, AKA TOTs with Ross. This time, Ross is coming at you live from Tir Na Nog in Daytona Beach with Vinnie, Aimee LeCours, Blake Butler, Sean Murphy, Scott Harrell and Sareth Ney.

Here's just a bit of what you can expect from this episode:

• Sareth Fest
• Having warrants
• South Central
• Halloween
• Punching/ Getting punched at Halloween Horror Nights
• Navy bases
• Moms can be in the Navy too
• Playboy Club
• Anna Nicole Smith
• What a gentlemanly vampire does
• Candy corn
• Babies
• Open Mic Comedy Tuesdays at the Falcon in Orlando
• Groundhog Day
• Atlas Shrugged
• How the Tir Na Nag Open Mic began
• Karate Talk
• Sareth Fest
• Leatherface
• And of course ghosts, ufos, books and the best tots in town.

 

Krista Spankick, the General Manager of the Orlando Improv gives secrets on getting booked at the Orlando Improv.

Tune in to hear the backroom secrets like:

• How to get booked at the Improv
• A list of things to do, and avoid to get the attention of comedy bookers
• Advice for new comedians
• The future of comedy clubs
•  

We're going to take some time to sweep up the floor because we dropped so many names like...

• Earthquake
• Carmen Vallone
• Preacher lawson
• Ken Miller
• Jiggy
• Akeem Woods
• Mitch Fatel
• Cam Patterson
• Mark Gagnon
• Kermit Gonzalez
• Pedro Lima
• Danny Davenport
• Gary Menke
• Devin Seibold
• Jaime Kennedy
• Richy Leis
• Dave Coulier
• Joe Jacques
• Camen Morales
• Clay Robertson
• Todd Glass
• Bruce Bruce
• Assistant Manager Miles
• Will Smith
• True Crime Obsessed Podcast
• Ben Brainard
• Bobby Lee
• Robin Williams
• Steve Martin

Jake Ricca, however, was not mentioned.

Hello, it is Jacki here and the boys are back for another episode with the first person you should call when a movie-style accident happens:

Moe Dewitt!!!!

Here's just a few of the topics they touched on:

• Sounding extra Pittsburgh
• Adopting y'all
• Gas prices dropping
• Hot or not
• Having air conditioning
• Bucket of joints
• The big lotto
• Sole Advertiser
• Just (Puppies) Call Moe Dot Com
• Moe's Hot Sauce
• Summer of Moe
• Giving promo stuff away
• Most money won
• Being Floridian
• Johnny Cochran Law Group
• Spite lawsuits
• Using your lawyerly powers in real life
• Yard nuts
• Wanna Grow? Just Call Moe!
• I Love Lucy
• Nick @ Nite
• Birds
• The Economic Elite
• Last comedy boom
• Totchos
• Your Favorite Episode

Okay, so this should be enough information to get you interested, right? Take a lil break from your normal sounds and give the dulcet tones of TOTS with Ross a listen. (then subscribe (and then maybe leave an apple itunes review kthx))

Hello, it's Jacki here and it was really cool to see Mickey all happy to do a new podcast episode here in our new house, which we have dubbed the Professor Haus. 

Then I went upstairs and took a bath, so I didn't get to hear any of the conversation. 

Luckily, the bois took some notes for me. Here's what they say:

• Westchester County, NY
• UCF
• Stuck in sand
• Longwood: State home of people sitting on the sidewalk
• Casselberry: People on meth wandering around
• Parking lot adventures
• Organ meats
• TikTok Manager
• Whatcha reading?
• Merritt Island: The Casselberry of the Coast
• Second Harvest
• Advice for new writers
• Music scene in Orlando
• Moe (Orland rapper)
• Local comedians 
• Garden design
• Exotic dancer at 50
• ChildishKinbar on TikTok
• Hot Hot Creative
• Hot Hot Music and Laffs

You've spent enough time reading this... now go listen!

p.s. I should also note that when Mickey came upstairs after the recording (yes, I was still in the bath), the very first thing he said to me was, "I think you and Sarah should be friends" and then told me a list of reasons why. I'm in if you are, Sarah!

Hello, Jacki here to give you a recap of this episode and I'm sorry to report that I am noteless. 

So I'm winging it. 

Now, Busdeker is one of the hippest cats I know and, lately, he's been a roller skating fiend. 

He also is one of the biggest cheerleaders for Detroit that I've been lucky to meet!

Some other things I know about Busdeker is that you never call him by his first name for some reason. Or at least I don't- he's always simply Busdeker to me. 

Now this might also be partly because he has a podcast with the other half of the sunniest duo I know, Brendan from the Bungalower. 

Their podcast is called "Bungalower & The Bus" and it's a bop of a show set all over (and all about) Orlando. 

Okay, so now I've told you about the dood, now go listen, okay?

Ok, y'all this is so weird, but we had Jack Bradshaw last time and I guess Akeem got jealous, cause now he's back too? (just kidding, we totally asked him)

It's awesome to have him back, though, cause he's got a lot of awesome things happenin' lately.

Ross and Akeem talk about all that and so much more:

• Time Man of the Year 2009
• Akeem Brand suits
• Being a bi-coastal bitch
• Please dumb it down
• Wanda Sykes
• Touring with Godfrey
• Bombing to the old boat people
• Path to fashion
• If you want something fried - go to Atlanta
• @AkeemWoods on social
• AkeemWoods.com
• Akeem's nighmare in life

And of course more stuff that we didn't write down. Why don't you go listen to it and fill in the holes in my notes for me, okay? Thank you. 

Jack Bradshaw is taking a solo seat today, after doing a dual ep with Akeem Woods when TOTS with Ross was just little baby podcast. Listen to it here. 

Here's some of the stuff they talked about:

• Tulsa
• The Pandemic
• Behind the Scenes
• Bane mask
• Socks
• HD Radio
• Jim Phillips
• The Prize Closet
• Neil Bortz
• New Jersey Accents
• Wolf wash Mario
• Carmen the Intern
• Ba-ba-booey
• Long distance
• Thermostat Contract
• Intern Olympics
• The Sopranos

And so much more. 

See y'all next time?

Welp, for this episode with Florida Man, Ben Brainard, Ross is coming at you live from his Dodge Minivan!

You might have seen Ben Brainard all over the Internet as the "States Guy". If not, I totally recommend  checking him out! (this is Jacki, btw)

Here's some of the stuff they talked about:

• Being born in Florida
• People moving to Daytona to watch their dad's die
• Daytona female serial killers
• Moving to Los Angeles
• Living on the road
• Getting someone to drive for you
• John Madden
• Audiobooks
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Tommy O'Neill (listen to his episode here.)
• The "Iron Giant" drinking game
• Taking photos at an adult party

And so so much more. 

See y'all next time?

Yeah buddy your favorite Orlando-centric talk show TOTS with Ross is back with illustrious host Ross McCoy and guest Angel Rivera who would have towered over both Ross and I had we been recording in person. 

Seriously, I think I come up to his waist. (This is Jacki, btw.) 

So, uh, I sat in the producer's chair for this episode and, um, didn't realize taking notes were part of the gig, so I don't have a clever list of topics that were covered during this episode, but I can gush about both Ross and his guest. 

1. I dunno if it will make the episode, but Ross helped me solve a very important train issue I had been pondering in my brain and I am very grateful for that. 

2. Angel Rivera, host of What The Hell is Angel Listening To?, has the best music taste of almost everyone I've ever met. I remember when I used to listen to the morning show he is on, messaging every time I heard a banging bop of a bump to find out what new artist I was about to become obsessed with. 

3. Ross has the best Hitler bit I know in his stand up act. Which is saying a lot, because there are a lot of comics in Orlando with Hitler bits for some reason. 

4. Angel Rivera, AKA the Angel of Boom,  knows how to read a room as a DJ. I trusted him more than once with my parties at Fairvilla and the energy in the room of every single party was palpable. 

5. Together on mic, they are magical. I laughed, I learned things, and I think you will too. 

And hey, if you like it, leave Ross a dang review, okay?