Trish Suhr - From the Great Smoky Mountains to Global Comedian & TV Star

Trish Suhr is an Emmy Award winning lifestyle expert and headlining comedian.  When she's not on the road delivering her unique brand of comedy, you'll probably find her in front of a camera as one of the most sought after television hosts on the planet. Many of you remember her as the "Yard Sale Diva" on more than 300 episodes of Style Network (now Esquire Network's) mega hit Clean House. Trish also a guest starred on NBC's, The Office and Comedy Central's Reno 911. She's also hosted the Daily Draw on the Game Show Network and has delivered her comedic take on life on numerous television shows including Good Morning America, Good Day LA, Good Day New York, and The Ricki Lake Show to name a few.

Trish has a new show debuting on QVC starting on Black Friday (November 27) and several hot new projects for 2021, hopefully including the resumption of her comedy tour.

She has traveled extensively including entertaining our troops in Afghanistan. How does a girl from a small coal mining town in eastern Kentucky rise to global stardom? Listen as Trish shares her unique story and some of her global travel experiences.

You can learn more about Trish Suhr on her website Trishsuhr.com.

Transcript

David Cumberbatch: 0:00

Did you know that laughter can actually improve your health? Did you know it draws people together in ways that trigger healthy physical and emotional changes in the body. Join us today for some great laughter and some good humor. Hello, and welcome to trip cast 360, the podcast of lively banter about travel, tourism and entertainment. This is Michael Gordon Bennett coming to you from Las Vegas, Nevada. And I am joined by the Barbados flash via the Big Apple Dave Cumberbatch. And Dave before we get into our show today, which I'm really excited with our guest, I don't want to get political on you. But dammit, politics please get this presidential election over. This is November 5, and we still don't have a result? Well, I'll tell you, it's extremely stressful. You know, only only this morning, I read a recent New York Times article that says don't give into the election stress disorder. What an appropriate title at this time. Damn, it's 10 o'clock in the morning here and I got Vodka behind me. What do you mean don't give into the disorder. Oh, don't Don't, don't talk about don't talk about the adult beverages. Now we can go on forever. Well, yeah, we could. So yeah, we're gonna have a really exciting show today, our guest is is wonderful. We've just done a little pre conversation with her and trust me. As listeners out there, you'll want to listen to this when we get it posted. But before we jump into today's show, let me get to the housekeeping notes. As you are aware, you're listening to the Trip Cast 360 podcasts we are available on our website at Trip Cast 360 dot com, or wherever you get your podcasts including Apple, Google Play, Spotify, I Heart Radio, and pretty much every format on the planet. And we also are going to release our first newsletter next week. We're kind of excited about that. So you know you'll find things on there like our guests like Trish whose coming up. And you'll see things like travel deals, and we've got a few little special surprises that we're going to incorporate as we go on. So that is that, Dave, why don't you give them the social media plug. You can also find us on social media at Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and soon YouTube. And don't forget to subscribe to our newsletter, on our website at Trip Cast 360 dot com. And I have one more special announcement to make. We are starting to fill out our website now with more relevant news and information where it be travel related or entertainment related or both. And we're looking for writers especially like those of you who are in college who need some professional writing credits and things of that sort, we get probably 500 to 1000 press releases a day. So we need some of those converted into a legible, smart, intelligent writing. And it's a perfect opportunity for an intern to pick up some credits. We will work with you individually or with any college or university who wants to help us. And we also have a featured story section. So if you are one of those more enterprising people who doesn't mind getting on the phone, doing a little research, you know, doing interviews and things like that we have that available as well. You can send that information to us contact@tripcast 360.com and we will get back to you right away. So how about our photo of the week? Well tell him about it. It was your idea Well we're planning on introducing a segment called photo of the week. So we asked you to submit your photos, take some really nice intriguing photos, send them to us, we would publish them and we'll give you credit. Hey, we like that and the more embarrassing the better. That's right?

Michael Bennett: 4:07

Well, let's jump into today's show as our guest has been patiently waiting, which I wouldn't but she did it for us. I guess we're special. Um she's an Emmy Award winning lifestyle expert and headlining comedian the true embodiment of a multitasker. When she's not on the road delivering her unique brand of comedy, you'll probably find her in front of a camera as one of the most sought after hosts on television. Many of you remember her as the Yard Sale Diva on more than 300 episodes of Style Network now Esquire Network's mega hit Clean House. She's also a guest starred on NBC's, The Office and Comedy Central's Reno 911 or 911 how ever the hell you pronounce it. She's also hosted the Daily Draw on the Game Show Network and has delivered her comedic take on life on numerous television shows including Good Morning America, Good Day LA, Good Day New York, and The Ricki Lake, show Hollywood Today Live, Lifetime a she's been everywhere Trish welcome to TripCast360

Trish Suhr: 5:08

Thank you all my gosh that bio was lengthy

David Cumberbatch: 5:14

But you've done a whole lot Trish you know your comedian, you're designer, you're an organizer.

Michael Bennett: 5:23

I cleaned my office just for you. By the way.

Trish Suhr: 5:26

I was noticing how tidy maybe what the viewers don't see is that we're Of course on a Zoom where we can see each other. Everybody you guys are in your offices are incredibly put together. I am actually in my kitchen, watching the election in the background. I'll be fully transparent with the with the audience because we are all in such a state of on the edge of our seat as my girlfriend Erin Foley, one of my best friends said today she said I've never in my life thought I'd be on the edge of my seat watching people in Arizona in cargo shorts count ballots.

Michael Bennett: 6:03

Oh, well, you're actually in a place where they're also doing the ballot counting.

Trish Suhr: 6:08

You are in I was about to say yeah, Michael you are in ground zero as well of the as a matter of fact, they've got the Clark County head of ballots on the news right now. Just I can't read his lips because he has a mask on but he is saying something of importance. And so you know, we're all in the same boat of like, can you tell us what happened so we can get back to traveling?

Michael Bennett: 6:33

Well, you know what they did? They went to sleep last night. They shut down at five o'clock. Everybody else was out counting votes. The people here went to sleep.

Trish Suhr: 6:41

Well, hey, look you've got Vegas is pretty much really the city that never sleeps. More than New York. No offense, David, but Vegas. I felt like never goes to bed. Even when I'm there. I'm like, Oh, good. I don't ever sleep around here. I

David Cumberbatch: 6:54

love it. I

Trish Suhr: 6:55

got a little shut out. I love

Michael Bennett: 6:58

Alright Dave. I cut you off twice already go man.

David Cumberbatch: 7:02

Well, you know, I'm used to that I'm used to that it's you know, you know, you can't help it. Consider all that you do Trish to then you know your lifestyle expert as well. Considering all of that, how do you manage your day? How do you manage your expectations?

Trish Suhr: 7:20

Okay, great question. Um, I you know, I think it's just compartmentalizing it when you're doing it. Because I like to be 100% present, which is hard to do when you've got a lot of balls in the air. But I just, I'm grateful to do it all you know. And the great part is, is having fun and dealing with things with levity. Make everything easier, right? Like, that's the truth. So if you jump into everything with the attitude of finding the joy in it, I think it makes even stuff that's overwhelming, easier to deal with. Now, that probably sounds a little woowoo and esoteric, but even like, I travel all the time. And I think the hardest part of this, you know, pandemic has been that I am happiest in the air and in the airport. I always tell people you'll never meet anyone happier about a delay than this girl because I love being on the road. So it's been really, to me being home all the time has actually been harder than being gone?

David Cumberbatch: 8:21

Yeah, I was just gonna ask you that because of COVID I mean, there's so many things. Are you doing any of your shows virtually?

Trish Suhr: 8:30

No, you know, I mean, as far as work goes, in TV, we've been really lucky because they're starting to bring things back. Yeah. And so we're super grateful where that's concerned. So there's a new show I'm going to do in 2021 but I can't talk about it so we're starting the pre production on that which is quite nice. You know, God willing with the state of the world and and now I'm a spokesperson for QVC so we get to do those remotely. So basically my house becomes a studio so I guess the good news is that my house is is ready for shooting so we're doing all this stuff right now to get that ready to go because basically you're running a studio out of the house. And and more than just, you know, more than just an iPhone so it's like oh gosh, okay, now I'm pre production post production and on camera talent so grateful. And I'm so sorry if y'all hear my golden doodle whine and he's whining at a chipmunk.

David Cumberbatch: 9:23

good. That's good. That's good. Oh,

Michael Bennett: 9:25

open the door and let them chase.

Trish Suhr: 9:27

Well, I thought about it. I thought about it and then I have a bunch of landscapers in the backyard. This sounds crazy because I do everything at one time you guys I've literally turned this whole house into a studio so I feel like I'm running full of full studios dogs trying to lick them to death.

Michael Bennett: 9:42

Well that's the story of your life doing things full throttle and 9000 things at once.

Trish Suhr: 9:47

I do and I try to if things could be exploding in the background like, don't mind me that's just a little audio glitch with my golden doodle carrying on outside.

David Cumberbatch: 9:57

I actually read one of your Instagram posts They read, it's not who you are, that holds you back is who you think you are not. That's a really, that's a really, really powerful statement.

Trish Suhr: 10:09

You know, it's a, it's something else. And by the way, it's a right. It's a story we tell ourselves. And so I'm from a coal mining town in southeastern Kentucky, from a place where people don't even you know, see anything but The Smokey Mountains. So, from a little girl was like, I'm gonna go see the world and I'm gonna go win Emmys. I'm have my own show, and my family was like, go girl. nobody in my family was like, you're crazy. They were like all right. Well, whatever trick go ahead. Well, as long as that's who you genuinely believe you are in your person, then you're going to achieve those things. We all know that to be the truth. If If what you tell yourself repeatedly will come true, good or bad. So I think it's a pretty, pretty powerful lesson when you even when you don't like not believing it. If you genuinely believe that your truth Guess what? It's never too late. You're never too old. That's

Michael Bennett: 11:07

that's got to be adjusted. I've been to Western Kentucky once. I think Paducah is in Western Kentucky.

Trish Suhr: 11:18

I'm from south eastern which is where? Yes, I'm where Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia all come together at the Cumberland Gap. Lord, they love Daniel Boone. So yes, I'm from the other side. And it's really it's such a small part of this country. And people when you see it, even my husband when he went there was like, wow, and he's from a small town in Georgia. And he was like, yeah, this is small. Like, yeah, yeah, this is this is not big. And I was like, okay, like, he received it. And so you know, it's, it's what's in your person, I believe we're all it's put in us from the time we're made to be, you know, wired in our DNA to go and do and be and there's no part of me that doesn't want to always be traveling and seeing the world and, and for me, I love seeing how everybody does life. I think it's so spectacular to see how different cultures, different people, different people from different cultures moving in and respecting other cultures, I think there's just something really powerful. Because when I know for sure, I was raised in a funeral home what I know for sure, none of us. None of us are getting out alive. So you might as well love everybody while you're here and the ones that are hateful mess, let them go off and do their own thing. And we don't have to be around all them. But get to know all the people in this world that are, you know, making it a better place. And I think that's been the hardest for a lot of people that love to travel is you don't have that. Just that camaraderie with people that all want that elevated way of being right. That's what I feel traveled as for everybody's kind of

Michael Bennett: 13:02

That's what travel should do. Yeah, I really get annoyed when I see people go, especially Americans, we have this tendency to go to other people's countries. And that's like the rude ugly American do just go over there and have fun get to know the people in this country. You're they're welcoming you with open arms. Why are you going to be the ugly American?

Trish Suhr: 13:18

Oh, it sends me over the edge. I will tell you I was this time last year because it keeps coming up on my memories on social media, which upsets me. I was shooting a show in London and then my husband and I went and ran around Europe after that. So of course my Facebook keeps all my social peeps reminding me of all the fun I was having at the Eiffel Tower. And in Dublin. I'm like, Okay, thank you. So I that was saying that, that we got to London and right away, you know, instantly we were like, Oh gosh, do the same way. Well, although we have these thick Southern accents, which you can't really have my husband and I both. So we're like can we just say we're from southern Canada? Because we we don't want anyone to have all these you know predispositions to what it means to hear a southern American be or be around us because that's a lot of, you know, prejudice, for obvious reason that you don't want people to be like no, and we have to be like no, we're a good one. But the great news is we didn't know this to this level. When we got to the UK everyone was like But everybody they were like girl your fine We know you're not a mess. We know what we're not a mess either. And I was like Okay, thank you. And the same when we got to Ireland, they were like don't worry about it. We get it. We did y'all are now I was like Thank you. So it makes you feel good that at least other countries are like we know it's not y'all. We know there's some Yaywhos knows, but we can tell most people that have the good sense to travel at this time or not weirdoes. So, you know, I can't wait to be back amongst the rest of the global tribe where we all get to go, Hey,

Michael Bennett: 15:12

It matters I that Dave's gonna bring this up so I may as well tell you anyway, I wrote a book here. This book that little goober is me, let me see let me see. But subtitle is My Jounrey as America's Whitest Black Kid. The funny part is about your Southern accent. I was born in New Jersey, but my dad was in the Air Force. So in the early 70s we got stationed in Panama City, Florida and I wrote a passage in my book about I had to learn a whole new dialect because I had never spoken Southern. I do now.

Trish Suhr: 15:51

But you understand that. You you do now it's a whole nother language I completely look but say the same. I say the same for New York and Boston. Goodness. Those are some trucking and accents.

Michael Bennett: 16:05

Boston's bad Boston's bad,

Trish Suhr: 16:07

And I always joke Boston is so bad that you need a handbook. And I will say I will say two of my girlfriends in LA one is British and one is Australian. And we were all out when we could eat pre COVID we were all out to dinner and this wonderful server who's darlin walks at the table. And I'm headfirst into my food. So not appropriate to be talking with a mouthful. And she walks up and she goes, How are y'all enjoying your meal and chewing and I give a thumbs up. And then my other two girlfriends were like, I was stunning. It's lovely. And other one says in her beautiful Australian accent. She's like, hey, go go do you know all that I can't do an Australian accent. And so they're like, great, and then she looks at me again. Do you like it and I don't answer. And I'm thinking she's doing that for my two friends who are obviously from other countries. Clearly not the person from the United States. But no, she stood there waiting for me to get like hand gestures again because I don't speak you know proper English and I thought Lord God, and people will always say to me, Hey, why don't you lost your accent? And I thought I don't say that to anybody like David's accents dreamy. Why would do people ever asked you for accent All right.

David Cumberbatch: 17:28

You may as I just said as I'm speaking proper grammar, proper English. I'm not concerned about the accent.

Trish Suhr: 17:40

Me I always say What was I supposed to do with it? Like, like I suppose this is my this is my one trick pony. I mean David's is beautiful. He can

Michael Bennett: 17:55

You know the funny part is we use artificial intelligence is transcribe the podcast afterwards because some people are you know hearing impaired they like to read it. Well every time. It The hard part is is the intelligence hasn't picked up Dave's accent yet.

Trish Suhr: 18:08

Isn't that I found that so fascinating. I had to change my Siri on my iPhone to British UK speaking Siri. Now she understands everything because before what is on American English. She's and I would get in cussing matches, stop putting words in my mouth. Now, she's British, she's like I got you don't worry about it. You're fine. I was like, thank you.

Michael Bennett: 18:34

So you've got this. You're from this small town in Eastern Kentucky out in the mountains. How was adjusting to life in Los Angeles?

Trish Suhr: 18:43

Ah, that's a great, you know, first I went to college and Arizona State, which that in itself was a whole. Yeah, that was a big shift because Arizona has its own kind of ecosystem. Oh, yes. Yeah. It's just a different bird been there. Yeah. Yeah. It's just different. And so I think learning that was one thing and to me, LA. I know a lot of people were like, oh, gosh, it's gonna be such an adjustment. I don't know if it's just because I always felt I've never I've never not had a double negative. I've never not felt at home in Los Angeles. And, you know, I moved there at a time when we didn't have all the luxuries of you know, GPS and all that magic. We had these giant paper books called Thomas Guides, none of those Thomas Guides. Yep. Be that this big old map that was 600 pages thick. Find a grid? Yeah, I didn't care. I was like, I love it here. And I think truthfully, LA gets a bad rap for people being, you know, all to themselves and selfish and self centered. I've never found that I found people be always sweet and very lovely. I've been there. I've been in LA for 24 years. And everybody in LA is my lifelong friend. Like I don't go through people. I've had all the same friends. So I'm grateful that It's been, I think it's because it's a really transient place, meaning a lot of people aren't from LA. So when you meet people that are your people, you're so grateful to know them, no matter where they came from, I think for a lot more accepting to in Los Angeles than a lot of people probably, you know, they all think we're hippie dippie, we are to a degree crunchy. But I think it's, it's, you know, it's, uh, I always say I put the southern in Southern California. So I saw that, that and I believe it to be true, because I just keep it that extra level Californians are very, to me very welcoming people. And they're, they're real, real sweet. If you let them they I think a lot of times they get pre judged for being wackadoodle. And they're not.

Michael Bennett: 20:46

But but they're not, you know, one of the things and I love Southern California, and one of the things that I love the creative community, these guys are geniuses, you stop in and you just listen to the guy who's walking down the street in jeans and in flip flops might be the most creative person you will have ever met in your life. And they just let it it just oozes out of them. And it's it's hard to explain to somebody who's never lived there, that you have all this genius around. Yeah, I know great actors who are still living in their cars because they can't get a part. But they're really good.

Trish Suhr: 21:18

Yeah, no, look, they're what's really cool, too, I think is a level. And I've always felt in Los Angeles that I've not noticed in other bigger cities that are also creative cities, is this level of like collaboration, there's this constant level of wanting others I feel wanting others to do well, don't get me wrong, I'm sure there's a bunch of competitive people out there in any world. But in in, I've found in the people that I've run with, we all want everyone to level up. And I find that to be quite true in California, where everyone just wants that betterment. It's not like, well, I can't believe you got this. And it's not I've never found it to be that way. Because I believe that eventually it's everybody's turn, right? Eventually, it's your turn. And it's just how ready you are when that opportunity arises. Instead of sitting around going poor, poor, pitiful, may you go, Hey, man, hey, you know, my creativity is here. And I know it's here. And when it shows up, and you get to, you know, give, give that gift out to others. It's just such a blessing. And it's fun to celebrate, and other people. That's why you Michael can see what a level of creativity that is another's, because you're creative, you get it.

Michael Bennett: 22:29

I'm trying I'm trying to be I've got screenplays and projects on my plate too. But I can't execute a lot of that here, I need to be back in Southern California where I can kind of reconnect with the entertainment community that I had to walk away from when I had to take care of my mother. So it's a process but we're getting there.

Trish Suhr: 22:45

I was just about to say but it's always when you look at you know, in the in the scheme of our lives, you taking the time to be an amazing son is a blip. I mean, it's just an out and back. You handled it you were an amazing human, you were there when you needed to be and that moves your experience forward exponentially. You know, that's what that's what's amazing, because when it all does line up, and it will line up because that's how the world works. You're gonna go oh my gosh, that what what a blessing that I was put in a position to be there. Right. That's what I thought.

Michael Bennett: 23:17

Yeah. And the connection like Dave and I, Dave and I have not seen each other in person in 15 years.

Trish Suhr: 23:24

Stop it right now.

Michael Bennett: 23:26

I'm serious. We have no David Dave and I met I was we met in Bermuda. I was going to a travel hotel investors conference where I was slated to speak. And Dave was actually hired by the people who put on the conference to be the videographer of the event. And so we land at the airport in Bermuda and I'm the only one of the 35 people who were attending this conference who got his luggage. Now keep in mind, Dave's, the videographer, his camera equipments not there, there's nothing. So you know, and I just walked up next to him at the baggage claim while he's waiting for his luggage. As I'm smiling my little shit eating grin on my face. I got my bag.

David Cumberbatch: 24:09

I was wondering where you were

Michael Bennett: 24:10

And we just clicked. It was just like one of smiling? these things where we just like we just hit it off. I mean, I can see the pain on Dave's face from not having his equipment. I would be mad to what, you know, we got on we got back to the hotel. We met for drinks later that night. And it was just like we became inseparable. He eventually had to go back and get his luggage at the airport when it finally arrived. And the next thing you know, we flew on the same plane back to New York. I had a six hour layover. Well Dave lives about 10 minutes from JFK. So he goes home gets his car picks me up and we go eat jerk chicken to some restaurant in Jamaica Queens.

David Cumberbatch: 24:53

That is true. That is that is that is it for

Michael Bennett: 24:57

This is what travel does which is why Dave and I wanted to do this

Trish Suhr: 25:00

Isn't it? You know, that's beautifully said that really is what travel does. I think about now how many people You You can't at all, but by Trish, question for you and I'm you have your Instagram friends, obviously, that we're blessed with now on social media, the people that you get to know a community that's global, no matter what, because I have people that don't follow me from Good night from Belgium to Australia that I mean, if I put up a Hey, y'all, I'm making this same I have a tip that I need to put into this chilli. And you'll get it from the Netherlands from Austria, like, Yes, because that's like, it's this global phonebook that we get to have now. But the beauty of just traveling as you know, I've been stuck in Sky Clubs with people that are now lifelong friends. I'm like, honey, we've done time. We I was on a flight once reasons I only fly Delta. And I don't know, I don't get paid to say that. But I will go, I will go on a tirade of why I only I fly Delta. But anyway, why I'd flown another airline and in the middle of being on that airline at an airport that I never have to go into. So it was Chicago, Midway home, I go into O'Hare. And they just up and decided to cancel the entire flight, 300 people are without flight. For no reason. No weather, no, nothing. Just we're like. And so I turned into like the spokesperson for all of us. I just was like, No, that's on the list and No. And so I started going over our passenger rights. And then the next thing you know, oh, they magically found a sprinter vans to get us all to O'Hare in 45 minutes to get on a new flight on an entirely different carrier yet because I turned it into like---But I became The Amazing Race y'all. I really did. I was like No This and this woman was bawling because she was trying to get to her mama who was about to pass away. And when I tell you the stories of everybody trying to get somewhere. So I took 12 of the people on my bus and I was like we're getting on. So I walk them into Delta, because that was the carrier they switched it to walk them into Delta, and I get everybody upgraded. I get us all on I get everybody vouchers for future travel. I mean, they're like turning in everybody's Mama, when I tell you I still talk to 10 of the 12 people that were with me to this very day. And that was 15 years ago. Because that's what travel does. You know, if you have those experiences with people that you're like, Are you kidding me? There's a comic that I was on the road with. We met y'all would love this. And we met at LAX for the very first time on the way to Afghanistan to do shows for the troops. We met at the gate. So I'm about to go into a war zone with a person I've never met. And we met for the first time at the gate. And I'm like, okay, and he's a seasoned comic. So I was like, great, you know, he's done this before he done tours all around the world for USO. I was like, great. This was my first USO tour in 2005. And I thought, Okay, I need at least this guy knows what he's doing. And he's funny. And he gets we get to the airport. We talked on the phone, but this is pre smartphone yall. There was no FaceTime and and doing I had a pink razor phone, y'all remember that? And remember the razors. And so that's like my shirt. Yeah. And so we we got there. We both had said, Hey, he goes, What do you think is what do you have on? I said, Oh, I have on my cowboy hat cuz I didn't want to get crunched because it was gonna be it was August in Afghanistan. So I needed all my hats. So I have my cowboy hat on and he looks around the gate and he sees this woman who is in her early 60s. With a pink cowboy hat on with a sparkle glitter top. It's 6:15 in the morning. And he goes, ah, we're both on the phone. And he goes, wall color. His shirt, cowboy hat. This hat is neon pink. And I'm like, oh, no straw. Like I was like good

night 6: 28:45

15 in the morning with a cowboy hat color. And he and he goes, I go What are you wearing? He goes, I'm wearing a New Jersey Devils baseball cap. Look around. I see his little Irish self on the phone turns around looks at me. I look at him. And I go, I see you. And he goes, you do and the lady I can see the lady. He sees the back of her. And I go, oh my gosh, do you think that lady over there is me. Good night. And he turns around, and I'm standing right in front of him guys. Oh, praise God. Oh, thank you, Lord. And I go, I should have just let you think that was me that you got to have to go on with all that glamour into a war zone. And he was like, Trisha, I was scared to death. But I spent the next three weeks in the Middle East with somebody I literally met at the gate at LAX and one of the best experiences of my life. He's like my other brother. And yeah, and that was you know, good night 15 years ago. So yeah, I just love what travel does. I love that you can't replace that level of bonding. certainly you've been asked this question a million times what made you get into comedy, but I want to add a little twist to it. I read well, we hear about this all the time, laughter is the best medicine I've, I've been reading their laughter is really good for your health. And, and I know that there must have been someone or some folks in your audience that might have been having a really bad day. And your comedy might have brought some laughter to them. Was that part of the impetus for you getting into comedy? Or it was? Well, I don't want I'm not gonna ask you the question. If it was just to have a job? No. But did that play a role? Absolutely. And you're getting into comedy? That's a good question. Because yes, so Yes, it did. I grew up again in the funeral business. And so my family I always say I'm the least funny person in my family. I'm just the only one that figured out how to monetize it. So really, I come from a group of very funny people because we work in a business of grief. So you come home and when I tell you where some of the goofiest goofballs the silliest things make us laugh. We never watched horror films. I mean, we'd have on elfs in July, because we just love fun Christmas movies like we're just we love my family loves levity. So I think just knowing what joy we all love to bring into each other, and that working in the business of grief, which really that is what the funeral business is, and learning how to manage moments of levity when people are at their worst, which is what we do, and really managing that for families. I was like, What if you could do this all the time. And as a kid, one of my family's favorite shows to watch was The Carol Burnett Show. We love The Carol Burnett Show, brilliant, brilliant, everybody on that show was brilliant. And so that was a big, so I would just die laughing at how funny she was. And I thought, well, I want to do that. And then I got to see Saturday Night Live. That's how my family got me to mass as a little kid, they'd say we would record Saturday Night Live for you on a Saturday night. So I'd

be in bed at like 8: 32:04

15 on a Saturday Night. So I'd be the first one in the car for church on Sunday. So I got to watch Saturday Night Live when we were done with chruch. Because I loved the sketches. And so not that I became a sketch comic. But for me, what was really important was that watching that level of joy that people could be put in. And I wanted to be part of that. I didn't know what that looked like. But I would tell everybody all the time I was I had my own show and I loved stand up. I was obsessed with Robin Williams obsessed with him. His energy, the level at which he moved just how fast his brain worked. I thought that was just I was like, Oh, that's I I received that I wasn't a methodical. And as a comic, I'm a storyteller. And I'm quick. So I don't tell these gorgeous low draw. Like one of my dear friends is a comic named Tig Notaro, She's brilliant. And her delivery. Right about here. I mean, that would kill but she's brilliant. I couldn't deliver stuff like, Oh, she's amazing and get a chance to go watch her TIG. She's brilliant comedian. And I realized that my style most aligned with Robin Williams sensibility. And so as soon as I realized the level of joy meets the what you could do to make people happy. I was like, I'm here for this. Now what do I have to do and then you realize it's no different than becoming a great quarterback, being a doctor, the hours and hours and hours and hours you put in to the work. People you know, comics, I think a lot of people don't realize how hard people work to make an hour of comedy look effortless. And even seven minutes, you know, when you start out in comedy, especially in the bigs in LA in New York, you only get seven minutes on stage and to get your seven minutes down is it's years. And it's years of work. And right now having to come up with a new hour. You know, that's what that's what COVID for lack of a better word is done to all comedians is not only have we not had the beauty of being able to get on stage, and working things out. But then you also have this moment where you don't want to go on social media and do it because then you just gave away your material. So it's this it's this fine line of coming up with what's new, and your take on what it means because you know, everybody's got their, their version of it and and, and learning what that is I mean, you know, it's it's it's pretty powerful but not being able to get up you know, I get up in front of different audiences I get up in front of all you know, LA audiences I get up in front of Southern audiences I get up in front of all white audiences all black audiences all brown audiences and I love that because whoever laughs at what that's what you pull, and then you make that show because one audience may love another audience like I don't understand and a damn thing are saying, am I okay? So you, you just scratch scratch that but you know, when you have something that speaks to a little bit of everybody, you're like, Okay, I'm cooking with gas. And and I think that's important because that's what brings that level of joy no matter what, no matter what, and that's all you want to do. I mean, there's nothing that makes me happier than that feeling of people forgetting their life for the, you know, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 90 minutes, I'm on stage, it makes me feel amazing.

Michael Bennett: 35:22

Well, that's what you did for those troops in Afghanistan. Oh, as an as an Air Force veteran, myself, I get it. You know, when you're, you know, in a battle zone, and you're stressed out beyond belief that 30 minutes that you provide them with relief is priceless. And I'm gonna thank you myself for that, that, that that you can't get back. I remember all the people who used to come we used to get entertainers and musicians and all the, you know, rock bands and the r&b groups back in the day. And then we'd get the occasional comedian that would come in was like, oh, gosh, I got a half hour to think about somebody shooting at me.

Trish Suhr: 35:56

That's right. That's right. And it's it. Look, first of all, thank you for your service. It's beyond. I've said a million times, I'll say it again. I look like absolute crap in a burqa, and we'll do anything in my power to support the people that keep me from that on a daily basis and protect all that and let us all be one big hot mess express where we have to deal with the reality star as a president. I mean, think about it, what are the privileges It is to be in this this country, so you protect and support the troops that that do that for us? So I'm so grateful to do it. My little brother is a Navy Seal. We joke right now, because he's not Yeah, he's been doing this for 25 years active duty, grateful that he's got all his fingers and toes. And he quietly of his right mind, again, you know, I talk about a sister though. And, but I started doing it because I thought he could do that. And he does what he does, and doesn't want to do anything else and believes in everything that he does to serve, serve and protect, I'm like, the least I can do is get on a plane and go to some crazy parts of this world, and bring some joy and, and, and just and hear what everybody has to say. Because it's one thing to get up and tell jokes. But I was so grateful. I mean, obviously, the world's not going to be the same again for us to be able to do that. But I would say for hours, hours and hours after a show to hear every single truth from what people don't realize. And you can speak to this, Michael, a lot of those bases are, you know, their international bases, or I think they're called --- bases or within the International. Everyone's on it. So you got to hear from everyone from Germany to Italy to Australia that you name and they come up just like you know, you've no idea what this means. Because this we felt normal. This felt like a cool night out. And I was like, like that joy level. I cannot put it I can never put it into words because it's priceless.

Michael Bennett: 37:56

Yeah, I got my first taste of USO. So my dad went to Vietnam in 1969. And I remember he told me when he was there that Bob Hope came through. Oh, and of course I'm a 12 year old kid. I don't know any better. I mean, I know Bob Hope from TV, but you know, I'm like, Okay, dad, here. You're laughing Bob Hope jokes at a USO tour in Vietnam. It was you know, when I went on active duty I finally got what Bob Hope meant to him. And he never forgot that he never forgot that

Trish Suhr: 38:24

Isn't that powerful I think it's such a powerful experience really, there's nothing like it. I would love to be at the Bob Hope level but I'm just grateful I got to give give some love love levity.

Michael Bennett: 38:36

Yeah, I actually cried when Bob Hope died. He used to live Toluca Lake. I used to live in Toluca, Toluca Lake, and there's a Von's over there. But yeah, there you go. I used to shop at that Von's all the time. And when Bob Hope got around 98 99 years old, he had some form of dementia. And his driver would drop him off and he just walked around the store for hours just staring at stuff. Oh, yeah, he was engaging and things like that, although he didn't know who anybody was anymore. And so when he passed away a couple years later, I just sat in my my home over across the street from Warner Brothers Studio, and I just cried for like, 15 minutes. Yes, I grew up with.

Trish Suhr: 39:15

Oh, honey, there's okay. So you'll remember in Toluca Lake, there's a little Honey Bake Ham on Riverside Drive right there beside drive. So I would go in because I'm Southern and you know, we love a ham sandwich. And so this is Bob Hope would be in there was sweet as Doris was at our door and what was his wife's name? Doris. Doris. Yeah. And they would be in there with Dolores. Yeah, that was the day I bought. Forgive me for no one. But they'd be in the Honey Baked Hame hanging out, having them a little sandwich snack and a tea and I'm like, and they don't have wave because I didn't have the I was so in all I didn't have the hutzpah to go over and be like, I love you. You raised me. But I just wave at them like they were my Nana and granddad from across the room. I don't know why. Did that, but I would wave and they would always just and he and he gives a big How are you? So good as all I got out of my mouth to Bob Hope. But I'd be so tickled and you're right. He was probably good night he was in his 90s. I mean, I had just moved to LA. So he was in his 90s. And I'd be so tickled to see him sitting at the Honey Baked Ham.

Michael Bennett: 40:21

Yeah. And that's one of the things you get in LA a lot. You just see people and they just like, oh, wow, hey, that's Bob Hope. You know, I was over. I was over at the Grove over by CBS Television City at with a thing and I took my son to a movie. He was like 14. sitting right next to me is Raquel Welch. Oh, yeah. I looked over at my son. I said, Do you know who she is? And he said, naw Dad, I don't know who she is. I mean, she was drafted because she was in her 70s then. Then she was dropped a gorgeous and she sat right next to me. She put her hand on me. So that's okay, young man. Your son doesn't need to know who I am. That was kept on going. So yeah, that was some fun. I'm gonna make a little bit of a pivot. Because Dave and I were having a conversation before we got you on how did you get into Yard Sale Diva and teaching people how to declutter and all that stuff. Because I am the notorious I'm not a packrat. I keep notes on everything. And I'm going to show you what I mean.

Trish Suhr: 41:17

Oh, boy. Oh, yeah, I

Michael Bennett: 41:19

write every I write everything organized. I know what's there. You know,

Trish Suhr: 41:23

papers, you got paper, I

David Cumberbatch: 41:24

just keep it. I got papers, I'm trying to teach myself to stay on the computer instead of doing that. Same.

Trish Suhr: 41:32

I like to write down to Michael. So you know what I do. Now, if you have an iPhone, they if you go under notes, you can hit scan, scan document, and you can scan that I got an iPad.

Michael Bennett: 41:41

So yeah, I got them. So

Trish Suhr: 41:42

You can scan that document right in like a PDF. So

Michael Bennett: 41:44

Leaves me out, you have those notes digitally now, because I like a paper note

Trish Suhr: 41:47

Yeah. Listen, hey, I will tell you right now I says too. But I now save it. So I've got it in an email form. So I basically become my own assistant. Let me tell you, because look, this is how I got into it. My family is in the funeral business, my papa owned the bank, his brother on the anything now can be an estate sales. Like if you truthfully if realty company. So I used to joke that we got you coming and and going. And at a young age, hey were like, Listen, you nee to understand what this looks ike and what it looks like to ma age estates and manage stuff. And there's no school for that We all know that. I mean, yes, you can go to school for apprai al, yes. But there's not on to teach people how to deal ith organization clutter. And to get people on the other side of hat it looks like when people ass and then have to manage al of their items. And I was l cky enough to have a family that was like here, we're going to ive you the fast track into this and southerners. Everybody k ows Southern people we'd love a ard sale we would love a yard sa e. The bourgeois version is an estate sale if you're in nicer property or technical you're no longer living as a true estate sale supposed to be y it's over a certain size pr that they got a little, you know, loosey goosey with the terminology. So I grew up doing that. And when I actually got Clean House, which is this is such a great moment story. The morning that I tested for it went in to do like Final audition for Clean House. And I was going that afternoon, I was getting on a flight with a comic named Paul Provenza and going to want to Europe for three months to do an expatriate kind of club tour. I was about to be gone. So I came in and Clean House I was only supposed to do five episodes. And they were like hey, can you come in I was again final come to this test on it. I just came in and I was me and Niecy Nash and I, who's amazing actress, dear friend now who was the main host on the show. And she and I tested with the other the other character character, the other cast member of the show at the time. And she you thought she and I'd worked together our entire lives. It was Lucy and Ethel. It was Laverne and Shirley. And at the same time, she in Niecy can cry like nobody's business on cue. She's an amazing actress and she starts bawling during the --- playing a mother who didn't want to get rid of an item because she couldn't give up the fact that her baby was grown. And I just talked to right through it. And of course I am an emotional person. I am very aware when people are going through something and I start tearing up while she's doing all this. And I said I scrubs the girl I got you your baby's 15 we don't need to keep the crib anymore. We're going to wrap my head and she was like okay and we're doing and that was it and I'm Niecy told me this after the fact but that was it and I finished and I went got went to LAX got my plane flew to Barcelona and 10 days later, I get a call in Barcelona you need to come back and ask them for why and they said will you booked Clean House and I stumbled for but for how long? They're like, as well. When can I come back? They're like no, you booked the episode. So you'll be here for you know, just five weeks and I said and that's it like yeah, and then eight years of my life later, that was that was the show. But Niecy said she walked out of that room and I went, she goes out well, they don't get better than that. Y'all better hire now. I did. So I was grateful because that, you know, it was a it was a big moment, and I got to be me. And, you know, as we know, reality television has evolved so much. But a lot of people aren't them. We were lucky enough to be on the show when there was no agenda. Literally, we went on camera, they hit record and what came out of our mouths was real life. So it was very different and and wonderful, because I got to see people at their worst. I know organization because of the funeral business and knowing you can't take things with you and learning what you don't want to leave behind for others to deal with and not burdening family members with stuff that you think's important. That's really, why are you holding on to it? I've got a really big, we could go on for hours about people's emotional attachment to things and things

David Cumberbatch: 45:59

And its funny that I you know, I you know, it's funny you say that I, I watched a recent episode of that. I remember the name of it, but it's about folks who just hoard Hoarders, they just keep orders down, and they get and they get really emotional about

Trish Suhr: 46:16

What you know, isn't it true at all you What's so great when you get in the psychology of stuff, right? That's just it's the psychology of stuff, not necessarily clutter, because a lot of people still have an emotional attachment to things that are clutter. You don't you it's just stuff like, we get my husband, I were just laughing because I was going through a bunch of stuff. And we just we just moved into this house here in Atlanta. We've gone through stuff in the garage. And from that trip, I was telling you this time last year, Air France broke a suitcase of mine. And it and I and I looked at each other and why in goodness name is this suitcase, stolen the garage. And I was like Do we have such a good time on that trip that we got? Lord, let's hold on to this broken suitcase like what in goodness name were we doing? I laugh when I was like, Oh no, no, we got to get rid of like, let's go. But But you you hold on to things because there's an emotional attachment to that thing.

David Cumberbatch: 47:07

That's almost like Linda Tripp, holding on to the stained dress? Yeah.

Michael Bennett: 47:14

You're rubbing off on Dave. He got jokes now. I've heard that one. I think we're gonna have you back tomorrow. So just to let you know that now. Dave, Dave, Dave comes up with lines every once in awhile. Like Did you just say that?

Trish Suhr: 47:41

You guys are just fine. So thanks for having me on here. So fun.

David Cumberbatch: 47:45

We want to thank you. This has been fun for us. Hey, I've heard you've talked about Barcelona, Afghanistan, London, Ireland. I'm not gonna ask you your favorite place to be but I know you've got to have some places you'd like to go. You've never been

Trish Suhr: 47:58

Oh, gosh. Well, Barbados, David for sure. Ah, for sure.

Michael Bennett: 48:02

David's got connections. David's got connection. Okay, let's I'm going to call that in. Because Barbados for sure. I've never been to like the British West Indies like I want to go do a Maldives. Are you kidding me? I want to go to Namibia Africa cannot wait to see Africa. Like I'm a person that just wants to go and do and at Scotland. --- I'm usually a warm weather vacation person if it's relaxed, but as far as when I turn into Dora the Explorer. I like to go to do the things that are a little bit more out of my comfort zone. Because my like my happy place on planet Earth is Kailua Beach, Hawaii. You could drop me there tomorrow, me and President Obama and I will be just Hey, I'll do all the vacations there. That's my happy place. Lanikai Beach. That's my sweet spot on Earth. But as far as all the places I haven't I mean, I feel like I it's just a drop in the bucket. I can't wait to just I want to do like the Delta 360 Global ticket pass and just go take two months just go all around the world and I I yeah, I totally get it we this this COVID thing is so disconcerting. I mean, I'm driving to California I have a seat only four hours away. But I've only been on a plane once since COVID broke out and that was only a 45 minute flight from LA to here. And I had been reading all these articles and Dave to for that matter. We've been seeing all these special reports was really safe on the airplane. But it's how you get to the airplane waiting a baggage claim and waiting at the gate that's when you're most susceptible to this so I keep running this filter through the back of my head saying Am I really going to risk this

Trish Suhr: 49:39

well then I

Michael Bennett: 49:40

got myself out of it. So

Trish Suhr: 49:41

I'll tell you I've I've flown a few times even during I started having to travel for work in April. And I it's so funny because it sounds so like oh it's never been safer. But for people that fly all the time. The I wish they would keep this protocol up forever to be honest with you. As far as Delta goes, I know Delta and Southwest are the only ones doing it. But there's no passengers in the middle seat. And I will say, this is what I feel. And maybe this is a snotty. I don't know what the word is elitist, if you will, as far as traveling goes, if airlines created a flight that was just for frequent fliers, like if there were a couple of flights a day that were just for your seasoned travelers, I wou d pay because when you get on a d somebody's got on like a tu a fish sandwich, first of a l that's on the list of things y u don't bring on a plane, I don t care how much you love tuna. I do love a tuna sandwich. But I am not going to bring that on n airplane, people coming in o pajama bottoms pillows fr m home, I'm like, No, we're i a time of COVID you can' be bringing up a bunch of c azy mess on the plane, doing c azy mouse. I'm like, I wish t ere was a a flight that all airl nes like if you're gonna take the time to do it, because I'm ure they're gonna find a wa to charge a fee for, you k ow, cleanliness. That should be art of your job that your planes are clean, but I'm sure they'll ind a cleaning fee to charges. B t I would I would pay an elev ted rate for a status. Lik if everyone just was at a cer ain flying status. I don't mean you have to all be platinu or diamond. I mean, jus if everyone was at a certain tr vel level, because then we all are on the same page of how to ave a giant glass to act righ in the air. And for me, if w're all kinder to each other, but you get people that don't now how to travel. And it's l ke, you know Zach Galifianakis i from the movie Due Date you'r going, Oh my gosh, what is g ing on? Like just ill beha ior and putting their feet up on say, I'm like, we are in a time of pandemic, like, please just be respectful. And there' people that just don't know, g nuinely how to travel. And it's it's a lo

Michael Bennett: 51:49

Yeah, the guy who takes his shoes off and puts him on the tray where your food is.

David Cumberbatch: 51:53

Ah, but I'll tell you something that drives me crazy. Even before COVID you would see folks will have the little toddlers on on the plane. And the toddler will be running up and down the plane. They'll be sitting, they'll be doing everything on the floor. People go to the bathroom and they walk in there shows and they you know, and you've got your little kids sitting on the floor of the plane. That's

Trish Suhr: 52:21

When I tell you guys me crazy. All my friends all my comedic friends that travel with me when we're on the road they've all joked and said Well, well, well. The world just caught up to Trish Suhr's germophobia. I have every protocol that's been in place for COVID honey I've been doing since 2005. When I tell you I'm going people get on the plane. I will Clorox wipes the tray table. I tell people the nastiest thing on the plane is the tray table and the seat.

Unknown: 52:48

Know the seat belt buckle the seat belt, the seat belt buckle. Yeah, that's right. I'm

Trish Suhr: 52:52

like Do you know how much funk-a-do is on a seat belt buckle. Oh, that hasn't been cleaned since that plane was made in 1954 we're all still flying on planes. In the 60s. I was like my mom was built in the 60s. She's not blonde. You know what I'm saying? Like we need to update what's going on.

David Cumberbatch: 53:10

Folks, I use a blanket the blanket that's not seeing Yeah, no, no, hell

Trish Suhr: 53:13

no. Ha ha No sir. Now though, I'll tell you I've flown enough that when you get on the plane now Y'all better be ready because they will Chuck a baggie of snacks at you like everything's in a Ziploc bag that flight attendant the other day was out of her mind but I flew back from LA because you know just like anywhere else you go to a restaurant in LA we still eat outdoors we don't have in in restaurant dining but and I know our weather permits that in LA but we were on the plane and I told my mask down to eat or as my husband calls it my chin diaper. So I pulled it down to eat and then and she I guess applied to look quickly and did not see me chewing which is getting put your mask back up. I'm like, I've got my I've got my hummus and carrots on the tray. And I've got a whole layout of like protectiveness on top of my tray surface. So it's not touching the tray directly. And she's looking at me. I'm like, Look, I'm chewing it just Oh, okay. I was like Lady trust. I'm like, I'm the last person you didn't tell put their mask ack up. I'm solid. Thank you. t's like,

David Cumberbatch: 54:18

How many? How many chin diapers Do you own by the way?

Trish Suhr: 54:21

At least 30 I wash them daily. Yeah, I have disposables. I have of course the disposables. And I had a 95 like I have ever. Y'all. This was my way of life pre COVID I travel enough. Yeah. And I'm lucky enough to not be sick. You know, when you travel all the time and you have to work on the other side of that. You're really cautious. Because we're you're in a giant metal tube with recycled air. And I swear people don't have a lick of sense when they're on a plane pre masks. They're like amazing. I'm floored. Oh gosh. Like if I could have got on in a hazmat suit I would have. I look like one of those little minions from Despicable Me because I'm like goggles with so now I just have glasses that were so some kid had Jeb got my you know nose and mouth covered properly with a mask and I not Clorox wipe everything down and I'm grateful to not have somebody in the middle seat that's been refreshing. For sure. And I just I just wouldn't wish they would get off. This is what I wish. I wish airlines would have a video that when you buy a ticket much like when you get on soaring over California at Disneyland it just explains to people how not to be a butthead in the air. Like hey, here's the things to do not be an actual butthead when you're flying. Yeah, there's nothing that gives anybody any education on flight protocol. Maybe we need to make that video amongst the three of us and just

Michael Bennett: 55:48

have a good I would have a good time with that.

Trish Suhr: 55:50

Why don't you think just just like cuz McCarran. I love flying in Nevada because they have the funniest TSA Pre video with like, you know, showgirls, and magicians and craziness. Why is everybody on like, Hey, here's how to speed up your TSA process. And I'm like, great, because these people need that for the flight like people need that. They get on a plane because some people just and now people haven't people that did fly haven't flown in almost a year. So it's like, could you just educate everybody on how to have a giant glass act right when we get on the air? Yep.

Michael Bennett: 56:29

Oh, yeah. So okay, we're, we're getting close to the end of our time with you. Tell, tell us what your future holds. I know, there's a project you're working on which you're not at liberty to discuss, I get that being in Hollywood myself. This, there's got to be some other things you got or that, you know, coming up in 2021, the things you want to do is your comedy tour going to start?

Trish Suhr: 56:52

Well, we as soon as we're on greenlight to be back in front of live audiences, I think all this we're gonna be jumping to do it. So that's gonna be a matter of, you know, what we're looking at now is late 2021 is what everybody's realizing as far as people back together. And then I start with QVC, starting Black Friday, so I'm the face of their tool line and their own power. So thank you. So if you want to just tune into qvc.com you can get some awesome Black Friday deals, but I do all the things for lifestyle on home. So all the cool stuff we need. And I shoot live here in my house. Oh, by the way, you'll get to see my house every day. So my house has become one bigger work in studio. We call my house here in Atlanta, the beach barn because I basically took big old barn house and turned it into a California beach house. Even though I'm at landlocked Atlanta that goes top me. So we have, we have a really fun, have fun house to shoot in. So I'll be doing that. And that goes, I'll be doing that all through 2021 as well. And then as soon as this new project is talkable. But that's gonna be back to the home makeover space because there's nothing I love more than helping families. So I'm really excited to get back to do that. Oh, gosh, I

Michael Bennett: 58:03

can't wait. I can't wait to get that. When is your QVC show on

Trish Suhr: 58:05

I start Black Friday, which is the 29th of November. So you choose right in and then I'll Of course put that on my social media. And I'm@TrishSuhr, on all platforms on social media. So I do answer everything. So if y'all reach out, I will always say hi. And I have a question for y'all. Before we go, where is the place? You guys are dying to go? As soon as we are all cleared for travel. I want to hear from both of you.

David Cumberbatch: 58:31

Well, I would love to go to China.

Trish Suhr: 58:34

Oh really?

David Cumberbatch: 58:36

Right. Right. I would love to go to Morocco. I've got a couple on my lists. A we interviewed someone from Nevis, Nevis happens to be COVID free. That's one of the first places that I'll go. I want to go to Nevis Oh,

Trish Suhr: 58:53

yeah, that's amazing.

David Cumberbatch: 58:54

I'm from Barbados. And I'm from Barbados. So my Bajan friends, friends would probably kill me but I love to go to Nevis

Trish Suhr: 59:01

No, no. Why would I with you on that, Michael, I can't wait to hear yours because those are great choices. But

Michael Bennett: 59:08

My list is extensive. Uh, keep in mind that my girlfriend was born in Valencia, Spain. Oh, and I I grew up in Spain. I spent three years of my childhood in Spain with my dad's military career in Madrid, but I'd never made it to the Mediterranean. So somewhere along that Mediterranean corridor from Valencia up to Nice France. I can't wait for that would be one this is this is gonna sound really bizarre. I don't know why I have this fascination with it. But you don't want to go to Antarctica. I knew something about Antarctica. I just want to go. Don't ask me to explain it. Because I can't. Maybe the four years I lived in northern Maine and I got used to cold. I have no idea but I just want to see with my own two eyes. And then Dave and I also share a joint adventure. Morocco. Oh my dad. Yeah, my dad was stationed in Morocco in the early 60s and the reason that we went up in Spain was they actually closed down the Air Force Base in Morocco. My dad had a choice. You either go someplace for a year, and without your family and then come back to the US. Or you can bring your family and choose a place in Europe. So he chose Madrid. And that's how I grew up in the streets of Madrid,

Trish Suhr: 1:00:16

Madrid. And how cool is that? What a great idea. That was it.

Michael Bennett: 1:00:21

Oh, it was awesome. I can't have your kid who spoke Spanish. Wow.

Trish Suhr: 1:00:25

Hello. And no wonder no wonder you have that love of that whole Mediterranean post because it's by the way.

Michael Bennett: 1:00:31

I love it. I love it. Love it. Love it. Those are the three. Oh, thank you. Those. Those are the three plus my girlfriend and I've been toying with the idea, we went to Costa Rica three years ago and we toying with the idea of buying a piece of property in Costa Rica.

David Cumberbatch: 1:00:46

Is that really your plan? Is that are you planning to get married? Then?

Michael Bennett: 1:00:51

Why don't even try to get me. He's been trying to get me married for seven years. Oh,

Trish Suhr: 1:00:56

I love it. He's got a plan. Yeah, he

Michael Bennett: 1:00:59

does. He does. He wants to be the pastor discern money. I'm gonna have to come I have to. I have to clear it with the girlfriend first man. We've been together almost eight years.

Trish Suhr: 1:01:10

We'll record that on a record that

David Cumberbatch: 1:01:13

right? I'm gonna record it to my Trish. I'll tell you if you go to Morocco. Every camel in Morocco is Jimmy. It is funny. Every camera has a name Jimmy. Alright, let's let's put it this way. Every other camel

Trish Suhr: 1:01:28

is named Jimmy. His name. His name is Jim. This but I will be sure to go I'll only get on a Jimmy.

David Cumberbatch: 1:01:35

Yeah. We actually spoke to a lady who we had on our show earlier this year. Her husband's Moroccan and they were in Morocco right now. We did a Zoom call with him yesterday. And they were talking about how friendly Jimmy was. Well, the week before we had a young lady who now lives in Copenhagen. She's an American, but she didn't move there she goes to was it her somebody who's one of our other guests also met another camel named Jimmy who was rude to him. And you know, hey, it's threw him of the saddle. Oh, it was it was very Ray. Right? threw him off the saddle a couple of times. And I'm like, okay, we had to Jimmy camels back to back days in Morocco. This can't be a coincidence. So we thought they were the same one. But No, they're not.

Trish Suhr: 1:02:13

So we all No, no, no. Now that all camels are named Jimmy and Morocco. I love that. protip.

Michael Bennett: 1:02:19

Yeah, you got to hook up with Jimmy. Jimmy Jimmy. Yep. Morocco actually open now they actually gave a standing invitation for David and I to come, which will probably take them up on next podcast live from there. I have some I don't know if you know this about my background, but I used to be the head producer for the West Coast office of the Travel Channel back in the day. They never saw fit to put me on the air. But I'm gonna solve that myself.

Trish Suhr: 1:02:45

Yes, you are. Honey. Don't ever leave it up to the network's they sure don't know better. You got to go do you? That's what I know.

Michael Bennett: 1:02:53

Exactly. And a lot of times, they wouldn't know talent if it slapped him in the face. I mean, I've been fortunate because as a producer, I've been on the one side of the table while I'm actually interviewing talent. And then I've also been the one walking into the audition with a pair of sides in my hands acting like a fool trying to impress somebody on the other side of the desk who has no clue what they're looking at.

Trish Suhr: 1:03:10

Right? That's right. Right. And when you know better, you do better. So you're like, you know what, let me just go ahead and create this on my own. It's the shortcut anyway, people would rather that's what I've learned.

Michael Bennett: 1:03:20

Yeah, especially now technology is is enabled us to do things on our own,

Trish Suhr: 1:03:24

and do it and do it better.

David Cumberbatch: 1:03:26

Yeah, and I got Dave, who's a videographer in the first place,

Trish Suhr: 1:03:29

And a dream team right here, because that's the best part. What your audience doesn't see is seeing you to play off each other, which is so nice visually.

David Cumberbatch: 1:03:38

Hey, I'm from I'm from the Caribbean. Okay.

Michael Bennett: 1:03:42

And he gets a pass, you know, just like, you know, you know, because I have, I spent 10 years of my life in Panama City, Florida. I have a Ph. I have a PhD in southern so your your speech patterns don't offend me at all. I remember we were talking to a Lieutenant General Russel Honore last week.

Trish Suhr: 1:04:03

Awesome.

David Cumberbatch: 1:04:05

He's got a very strong accent. He's got a very strong accent but the man the man is funny. I mean, he's serious on TV, but the man is funny as hell. He's funny. He had me laughing my ass off. He's Yeah,

Michael Bennett: 1:04:16

I love that. Yeah, so Well, anyway, ah, I want to thank you for doing this. Uh, you know, we, we'd like to have fun as you jokes are definitely allowed. And, you know, this was this was not about anything serious. We just wanted to lighten the load a little bit and get you to forget about politics for hour and 15 minutes now.

Trish Suhr: 1:04:37

I put my TV on screensaver. So I could enjoy y'all because I was like, we don't need to see this mkess

Michael Bennett: 1:04:42

I actually turned mine off. Are you? Yeah, maybe that'll inspire the people in Nevada to get off their rear ends and actually count the votes instead of going home at five o'clock.

Trish Suhr: 1:04:53

They were on they were on a clock they had to go back.

Michael Bennett: 1:04:56

Yeah, well, good. Well, again, on behalf of Dave We really want to thank you for doing trip cast 360. And by the way, we hope you'll come back and yeah, we've got all kinds of material to talk about. You can warm up some of your stuff that you're not afraid to give out with us. We'll let you know if it works perfect. Yeah, we used to do that. Yeah. Jay Leno did that Jay Leno used to go to his club in Hermosa Beach. On Sunday nights. Yeah, he would perform there for a couple hours and test the stuff out in the next thing I no I would see it on the Tonight Show a few days later.

Trish Suhr: 1:05:27

It was one of my favorites.

Michael Bennett: 1:05:29

Yeah. So again, thank you so much for doing this. We really love you. We appreciate you and we will be in touch. Hey, thanks.