"Valentines Day Special" or "The Wives of Comedy" Fun Interview

On this Special Valentines Day show, my Bride Jill Edwards and a comics wife, Bernice Worley share their point of view on the whole Life in Comedy. It is a sincere attempt to share how handling a spouse who travels, or an entrepreneur focused on a business....can be tough for every couple. I hope it is clear that this podcast is a tribute to Spouse's that support one another, and how Grateful we are to the women (or Men) that support their spouses..."Thank-you"
Road Comic Bob Worley also adds a few comments and stories as well....and he is always funny!

Transcript

Announcer 0:04

This is another episode of Stand Up Comedy, your host and MC, celebrating 40 plus years on the fringe of show business. Stories, interviews, and comedy sets from the famous and not so famous. Here's your host and MC, Scott Edwards.

Scott Edwards 0:22

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another special episode of Stand Up Comedy, your host and MC. And this week I'm doing something totally different. We've talked a lot about stand-up comedy as the as an industry, as an art form. We've uh shared stand-up comedy. We've explored talking to agents, managers, and comics galore. But on this week's show, it's special to me because it's my anniversary week with my bride, Jill. And joining us, the very funny, you've heard it many times on the podcast, Bob Warley and his bride, Bernice. Ladies and gentlemen, let me do it officially. First, let's say Bob and Bernice Warley are in the house. Say hi, Bernice.

Bernice Worley 1:05

Hi, Bernice. I mean hi, Scott.

Scott Edwards 1:08

And uh also and my lovely bride, Jill.

Bob Worley 1:11

She's the best.

Scott Edwards 1:13

Say hi, Jill.

Jill Edwards 1:14

Hi, Jill.

Scott Edwards 1:15

Hey, this is uh uh something I wanted to throw together because we've talked about uh comics and comedy, and I've had the staff on the show talking about what it's like to work at a comedy club. But these two ladies have a world of different experience. One, my bride was there in the beginning, used to work for me, and ended up uh being a well, she worked away up in the club. She was a uh hostess, and then she worked the kitchen. She was uh ended up being one of my best bartenders and eventually ended up uh running a one of my restaurants. Uh very, very talented and gifted, but she ended up marrying the boss, so she became an owner of a comedy club after many years. Uh that had to be kind of a challenge, or was it uh a fun ride?

Jill Edwards 2:02

Oh, it was challenging.

Bob Worley 2:05

Is it true that you wanted to buy him out at some point? So this guy does not know what he's doing.

Scott Edwards 2:12

But I mean, going from, you know, hostess and bartender to being an owner had to be uh a unique feeling, even in just interacting with the other staff.

Jill Edwards 2:21

Oh, definitely. Yeah. Yeah. It was going from being a friend to a boss, and it's not always comfortable. In fact, it was never comfortable.

Scott Edwards 2:28

But you did it so well.

Jill Edwards 2:30

Oh, I don't think so.

Scott Edwards 2:31

And then the other uh aspect of it is, of course, uh, as the boss and the owner of the business originally, and for over a decade before we got married, I had been your boss, and then all of a sudden we're married.

Jill Edwards 2:44

I became your boss.

Scott Edwards 2:46

Jill, I believe you were always his boss. But that was an interesting transition for me, but it it wasn't always easy for you.

Jill Edwards 2:55

No, never. It was, yeah, no, it wasn't. It wasn't easy at all. Not gonna lie.

Scott Edwards 3:00

This interview might end in divorce. Well, and in contrast to that, I invited Bob and Bernice to join me in the podcast because Bernice, uh, Bob, everybody knows Bob Orley's been in stand-up comedy for years. He did a little TV. He's a regular on the podcast. You've heard a lot of his great material. But Bernice, you and Bob met at a very early age, right?

Bernice Worley 3:22

Oh, yeah. I was still in high school.

Scott Edwards 3:24

Oh, still in high school.

Bob Worley 3:26

I never touched her.

Scott Edwards 3:28

I thought it was college.

Jill Edwards 3:29

You guys met in high school?

Bernice Worley 3:30

Yeah. I I was I was out of high school and she was I was in the drama club and we did not have enough male actors, so the director called on Bob to come back and help him out.

Bob Worley 3:43

And because some kid dropped out of a couple plays, so he was in a bind.

Jill Edwards 3:47

So we met doing theater together. What was the play?

Bob Worley 3:51

Bald Soprano?

Bernice Worley 3:52

Yeah, the Bald Soprano. We did some children's theater the summer before. Yeah.

Scott Edwards 3:57

So you were there though when and Bob, you when did you transition to comedy? Did Bernice experience that uh, you know, month by month, or were or were you already playing around with it?

Bob Worley 4:08

Uh no, I was I was doing theater with uh my friend Harden Brothers, the teacher guy, and uh we started a little theater group, and then we started doing that, and then we started doing the skit group.

Bernice Worley 4:18

It was like a repertory theater troupe. We did improv skits, um, we did dinner theater. Um it was fun.

Bob Worley 4:25

And then I went out with a couple of guys from that group and started doing the clubs.

Scott Edwards 4:28

So you were there when he was doing some acting, but when he decided to become a stand-up comic, were you like, yeah, go for it and very supportive, or were you uh you were not married at that point?

Bernice Worley 4:41

Oh no, we were married.

Bob Worley 4:42

Oh, we got married young.

Bernice Worley 4:44

We yes. I was 20, Bob was 24. We spent the tail end of our honeymoon looking for an apartment in LA. Um, I were I have been a legal secretary. Um we've been married for 42 years.

Scott Edwards 4:56

42 years?

Bernice Worley 4:56

It'll be 42 in 2010.

Bob Worley 4:58

It'll be a couple of weeks. Oh, wait a minute.

Jill Edwards 4:59

Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 5:00

42 years married!

Bob Worley 5:03

June 21st. Okay, don't forget to get us a gift.

Jill Edwards 5:05

That's my niece's birthday.

Scott Edwards 5:07

Oh.

Bernice Worley 5:07

Well, we knew that. That's when we got married. But but summer stols.

Scott Edwards 5:11

But that's that's interesting because, well, I was gonna mention it later, but um Bernice is a very, very talented and successful legal secretary, and she's held down the fort financially and medical care-wise, much like my bride Jill, after we got out of the comedy business, she went into law enforcement and works for the National Park Service, which again provides good medical and a decent income. So basically, Bob and I have been writing your coattails like leeches for the last couple decades. But let's go back to the beginning, though. So, in that transition, when Bob started becoming a a comic and going out and hitting the road, that that had to be a little difficult.

Bernice Worley 5:51

Um, sure. I mean, we're talking young people and an early early in their marriage, and you have ideas of what that marriage is supposed to be like, and when they turn out to be different. Um, yeah, there's there were some tough years there, I would say, but um For her, I never I never wavered once. We were committed to growing up together, um, and we did.

Scott Edwards 6:15

And and I maybe you were more mature than some 20-year-olds, but that that to me would be uh uh a really aware moment to say, okay, I've married this guy. He's going into it's a fun industry, but it's a challenging industry on relationships because in Bob's touring experience, he's away we you know one week, two weeks, three weeks at a time.

Bob Worley 6:38

Well, even in the beginning, because you go out almost every night to perform somewhere just to try to get your legs. Yeah, you're gone. Oh, she comes home from work and I'm see you later.

Scott Edwards 6:48

And that might have made the early years of marriage easier, but I would imagine it would make it actually difficult.

Bernice Worley 6:54

Yeah, I mean, it seems like such a long time ago. Well, it was, but um, I mean, looking back, yeah, probably. I mean, I think we're lucky that we were just committed to staying together.

Scott Edwards 7:06

And naive.

Bob Worley 7:07

That always helps.

Scott Edwards 7:08

Because you don't know anybody. Yeah, you're young. I guess, you know, you're kind of going, as you mentioned, Bernice, you're kind of you you plan to spend your life together, so whatever came up, you kind of went with the flow, you found a way to make it work.

Bernice Worley 7:20

Yeah. I mean, um I'm I'm not gonna um I don't know what the word is when you uh coat it with icing or frosting. Sugarcoat it. Thank you, Jill. That's why I'm here. Thank you. But uh I spent some years in therapy and and talking about not being happy and m being mildly depressed, and I think it's because I had expectations about you know our marriage was nothing like my parents, and thank God now, but um I I had to ha have someone from a different perspective say, Well, what do you love about the guy? And it always came back to, you know, what I love about him is worth anything, putting up with being alone or putting up with financial problems. I mean I'm well worth it, ladies.

Scott Edwards 8:10

Well, uh I was joking about this. We had brunch together earlier, and I was saying that uh from a male's point of view, when we hear about women and how they choose their their mate, that you know it's not always the the large penis or the great looks or maybe even the muscles, but a good personality and a good sense of humor.

Bob Worley 8:30

Wait, wait, I gotta stop you. Who goes out and looks at somebody and goes, God, I bet that person has a large penis? Excuse me, miss. You had a large penis.

Scott Edwards 8:38

I've heard that's how women think. I know. No, no, no.

Jill Edwards 8:40

That's how I think you think you want to know where you heard this.

Scott Edwards 8:43

Because we know German think that.

Bob Worley 8:45

Boy Scott, he must be a homemade.

Scott Edwards 8:51

My point was that Bob having a good personality, a good sense of humor.

Bob Worley 8:55

And a very large penis. No, no, I'm I'm built like a Kental. Completely smooth. Anyway, it was a welding accident. We don't want to get into it.

Scott Edwards 9:03

So, Bernice, his personality and a sense of humor had to help the relationship and the marriage.

Bernice Worley 9:08

Well, obviously, but yes, but the initial attraction we were auditioning for children's theater, and he was doing a monkey impression. And I just thought he was the most adorable thing. I just thought as a pet.

Bob Worley 9:24

She thought that would make a really nice pet.

Bernice Worley 9:26

It was, I would say the initial attraction was physical, yes.

Scott Edwards 9:29

Oh, physical, not his sense of humor. See, I had it. I was kind of right. Well, Jill, I know.

Jill Edwards 9:37

We're not going there.

Scott Edwards 9:39

We're not going there. How you found me attractive. Okay. Well, maybe that would have been wrong because I was your.

Bob Worley 9:45

Wow, you live in this house?

Scott Edwards 9:48

I did have a nice. Okay, okay. Yeah. Well, actually, let's uh I I know Jill's okay with this. I was married previously. And in that marriage, which lasted and it's been mentioned a couple times, 18 months, even though I had 18 years of payments. Um the thing that was difficult there was she met me when I already had the comedy club, my first wife, Patty, and she would literally stand in the doorway with our son and scream at me and saying, Why aren't you getting up and mowing the lawn? And, you know, why don't we have the white picket fence? You know, she wanted like that 50s black and white TV show kind of marriage. And I go, I work nights. You know, I get I get home at 2 in the morning, I go to bed at 4 a.m. I get up at noon. Just live with it.

Jill Edwards 10:37

That's crack a noon.

Scott Edwards 10:38

Yeah. And that's but I mean, that's what she married, so I assume she was okay with it. And yet a few months into the marriage, she was like, Why aren't you working nine to five and home with me every night? But that's everybody kind of yeah.

Bernice Worley 10:51

Couples go in with expectations, and a lot of people unrealistically expect their partner to change or yeah.

Scott Edwards 10:58

She thought, even though she married a comedy club owner, that I was gonna become, you know, uh the Mr. CPA that was home at five o'clock every night. Mr. Cleaver, yeah, thank you. Now did you have a yard?

Bob Worley 11:10

That's why I'm here.

Scott Edwards 11:10

I actually I actually had uh I adopted her daughter who was into animals. I actually was trying to make it a good I bought a ranch. We had horses and geese and cows and the whole bit because I was trying to make up for not being at home. I had money at the time.

Bob Worley 11:25

You gotta take care of all that stuff if you buy all that stuff.

Scott Edwards 11:27

Well, no, I let them do that.

Jill Edwards 11:30

Understandable.

Scott Edwards 11:31

But Jill, and when we started dating, we were already um in the comedy club business. And so when we got married, of course, she was all part of it.

Bob Worley 11:41

Well, she's seen everything.

Jill Edwards 11:42

I mean, yeah, and it wasn't trust me, I saw everything.

Bob Worley 11:45

I know, and I apologize for that night.

Scott Edwards 11:48

But you know, and it wasn't until we sold the club and and I said, Okay, I've lived my dream. What do you want to do? We ended up opening a travel agency, but at the time it was your dream.

Jill Edwards 12:00

I remember that week. Yeah, I wish it was a week. A grand opening and then 9-11. Yeah, it was it was didn't you open like September 10th or something like that?

Scott Edwards 12:09

No, it was the week before. The week before, but still we lost so much money, and then I'm I'm persistent and demanding, so I kept it open for like a little bit.

Jill Edwards 12:17

Yeah, I I woke up September 12th, 2001 and said, I think we need to close. I don't see this going anywhere after yesterday, and him going, No, we have to persevere.

Scott Edwards 12:28

You can't there's gonna be an uptick from here, and instead they canceled all commissions, the travel business just ended, hotels planes in the air for like two or three weeks. Yeah, yeah, we just got creamed. But but you live and learn. I got a lot of nice swags.

Jill Edwards 12:42

But have you learned, Scott? No, he hasn't.

Scott Edwards 12:46

Okay, I've opened a few businesses since then, but most of them have been okay. But my uh getting back to comedy, when Jill and I met, started dating, and then married, she kind of had an idea of what she was getting in for. She'd been out with me to events, she'd been living in the nightclub industry. In fact, towards the in the beginning of our marriage and towards the end of the comedy club years, she would work days at the club and I worked nights, so we didn't have the same shift. We would pass, like you said, Bob, only we would pass at the club. She'd come in, hi honey, and then she'd go home and I'd stay and work all night. Yep. So there was still that transition and adjustment period. But in the case of a comedy, a comic like Bob, Worley, you would go out for weeks at a time, and Bernice was holding down the fort, and then she got a great job as a legal secretary, so she was helping financially.

Bernice Worley 13:42

That's why we moved to LA.

Bob Worley 13:43

Yeah, that's why we moved to L. She got the job in LA. Great.

Jill Edwards 13:45

Oh, where are you guys from? I thought you were always from in LA.

Bob Worley 13:47

No, we grew up in Upland, which is about 30 miles east of LA.

Jill Edwards 13:50

I did not know that. Yeah.

Bob Worley 13:51

So, and then on our, like she said on our honeymoon, hey, let's get this apartment. It doesn't have a yard. I won't have to cut it. So that's what you do.

Scott Edwards 13:59

I didn't think of that. See, I would have avoided that whole thing.

Bob Worley 14:02

I'm always thinking, Scott.

Scott Edwards 14:04

Well, uh, my point of bringing that up was that soon children came. You have two amazing kids.

Bob Worley 14:10

About 10 years later. Was it 10 years? About nine. She says, Look, by the time I'm 30, can we please let me just just give me a little more time? I'm almost there.

Scott Edwards 14:19

So that was the decade that you were really a dedicated comic. You're working my club all the time, you're on the road all the time. What I was leading up to was that they did eventually have kids, and then you guys made a family decision that instead of paying for daycare and everything, Bob pulled way back on the stand-up comedy and helped stay home and take care of the kids while you were a legal secretary. Is that about right?

Bob Worley 14:42

Our original agreement was okay, why don't you go out for two weeks and then you're home for a week, work around town, be with the kids, and then go out and then I so he did that for about maybe a month or two. And then it's why don't you go out every other week and then you know work around and I did that for about a couple of months, and then it's why don't you just work a week and then why are we, you know, and it's like, well, why am I going out working?

Bernice Worley 15:02

We're just giving the money to the uh I have to hand it to single parents because it is freaking hard to raise kids on your own. And when your mate is gone, you are basically a single parent.

Bob Worley 15:13

Well, I I told you the story about where she called. I called one day, hey, how's it going? She goes, Oh, the kids are driving. I don't have I've been working hard all day, and I just, hey, honey, I gotta go. A couple of people want to buy me a couple of drinks and tell me how great I am.

Bernice Worley 15:23

I'll talk to you soon. Good luck. Yeah, so yeah, no. Adjustments, you that's what that's what partnerships are. You make uh adjustments, and um Jill, help me out here. Compromises?

Speaker 4 15:38

Compromise, yes. Big word. Right, thanks.

Speaker 2 15:41

Death threats?

Speaker 4 15:42

Uh or the third Mrs. Edwards.

Speaker 2 15:47

Like that's never gonna happen.

Speaker 3 15:51

So yeah, you just you roll with it and you just keep making adjustments to make it work.

Scott Edwards 15:56

Well, I think that's good advice for any couple out there listening to this podcast, whether you're in show business or not, it is about compromises, but it's a lot about communication. It sounds like you and Bob. I know that Jill and I had several conversations in our marriage because I've gone through several businesses. I'm quite the uh serial entrepreneur and and not always good. You guys at least communicated and had and tried to form plans, even if they morphed over years.

Speaker 2 16:21

Right, and they did morph because when the kids were little, we thought, well, I'll stick around when they get older, I'll go up. But as they got older and hitting high school, you know, they started playing sports, cheerling. I don't want to miss that stuff. So I really wanted to be around. Yeah, you know, that's you only go through that once and then it's gone, it's over.

Speaker 4 16:36

I remember you telling me a story where you realized you needed to get off the road when you said when Bernice said Right.

Speaker 2 16:43

This is when Lisa Ann was really. Yes, tell the story, it's a great story. She says, Honey, Daddy wants to talk to you, and I'm sitting in a chair, and she walks by me and picks up the phone. Hello? Honey, Daddy, right here. Here's Daddy. Hi, Daddy, bye.

Scott Edwards 16:59

Bernice, is that a two-story? How old is Lise Ann?

Speaker 2 17:01

I'm on the city. Oh, she was, she was like two or three. I mean, barely talking. Well, watching to talk to daddy. Yeah, like a handle burger, too.

Speaker 3 17:08

I thought I've heard all of your jokes a million times, but I don't think I've ever heard that. Yeah, that's what happened.

Speaker 2 17:13

And I love the ones who were vacuuming the house. Like that, I'm gonna get this house spotless for when Bernice gets home. And I turn around and Lise Ann was following around the whole time eating saltine crack. What the come on, kid?

Scott Edwards 17:26

The kids weren't working with you.

Speaker 2 17:28

No, it's it's tough.

Scott Edwards 17:29

Well, it that explains a lot because just to explain to the listening audience, uh Bob Worley was a mainstay at my club's Laughs Unlimited for many, many years. He he started off as an opening and feature act and became a very qualified headliner and worked uh many, many times uh over the years. But when the kids came along, you pulled back and we'd only get you maybe once or twice a year instead of five or six times a year.

Speaker 4 17:55

But he brought the kids. I did bring the kids.

Scott Edwards 17:57

He did bring the kids, but even that at a certain point when the kids got into school and stuff, we didn't see you at all. You basically retired from stand-up comedy. Pretty much, yeah. You were doing some writing and you would go out and do uh maybe a uh stage once in a while, but even that faded eventually, right?

Speaker 2 18:13

Well, again, like I said, especially when they were playing sports and stuff, it's you know, hey, basketball is happening. Yeah, hey, can you come in tonight? Like the ISIS. Hey, can you get up with somebody follow up? Well, I got a game tonight, I'm gonna go watch the game. It's after a while, they just go, I guess I can't call in.

Scott Edwards 18:26

Yeah, well, you know, and it's important to know that the kids come first, and that's not easy for any people.

Speaker 2 18:32

He wasn't even playing basketball. I just love basketball.

Scott Edwards 18:37

But for br uh uh for you, Ben Bernice, it had to have been kind of comforting in the sense that, you know, even though Bob maybe wasn't bringing in as much money, but he was home, he was helping with the kids, he was helping around the house, so you communicated and found a balance.

Speaker 3 18:54

Exactly. I was gonna say every relationship needs stability, and my paycheck was that part of the stability, but Bob couldn't relate to that at all. I mean, somebody has to have that steady income coming in. And and that was me and our partnership. We had kind of uh reverse typical roles. He did, he keeps and to this day, he keeps an excellent house and he raised our kids. He did a wonderful job raising our kids, and he balances me out. It's not about Bob bringing money into the house, it's about making me laugh at the end of the day.

Scott Edwards 19:28

Oh, right. That's that's uh that's good psychologically. I mean, Jill is we can't go into detail because she's a spy. But uh Jill has uh the kind of job where she can't talk about it, but I can tell when she has a bad day, and so I try to go out of my way. There's always uh hot meal waiting for her, and I try to uh engage her in topics other than work uh because we can't talk about her work, and and Bob, I I wanted to use this sound effect. Uh, and the kids were so happy you were home.

Speaker 4 20:00

Oh that's maybe huge.

Speaker 2 20:02

Most of the time, I did say to Bryce once when he was in high school, unfortunately for you, all my good times are gonna run all your good times. Because I you know I knew I could tell with the guys he was hanging out with, I go, Oh boy, these are guys I knew, so it's gonna be some crazy stuff.

Speaker 3 20:16

Do you remember the night that Bryce tried to sneak out of the house?

Speaker 2 20:19

Oh, and he climbed out the out of our out of his bedroom window outside. We heard him coming out, I heard him on the roof. So I went around the front, and when he hit the ground punk, I go, I go, have fun.

Scott Edwards 20:28

And so it's a scared straight moment, right?

Speaker 2 20:34

Yeah, yeah, exactly. Oh, I uh yeah, hey, I just want to see if I can climb out of that roof.

Speaker 3 20:39

So well so at the time the kids may not have always appreciated having dads so closely involved, but I think in retrospect, I I think they have a lot of appreciation for No, definitely.

Scott Edwards 20:51

And and I I want to be honest and open to my listeners and to the people sitting at this table. I always wanted to be uh an ace number one dad, and I failed. I was not a great dad because I did. I worked nights, and my business was my marriage, and that's why my first marriage didn't.

Speaker 2 21:09

But despite that, they still came out as pretty good kids.

Scott Edwards 21:11

Oh no, no, they're they're great kids. And and my son's about to get his doctorate and his teaching in San Diego. You see San Diego, where boys went. Wow. And uh, you know, I'm very proud of him, but I wasn't the hands-on father you were. And since we're talking about being parents and stuff, I just wanted to be honest that I did what I could when I could, but I wasn't an ever-present father, and I have always carried some regrets about that. But I will say we've made it up in the years since Jill and I are we we say we're amazing grandparents, but the reality is we're uh godparents and the aunts and uncle to several children, and we've had several generations go through our house, and it's always been a joy, right?

Speaker 4 21:50

Yes.

Scott Edwards 21:51

And we've done well. No, my kids love love going up to her house.

Speaker 4 21:55

Yeah, yes, and we had a very funny incident the other day with Kelsey. She, you know, Auntie Jill, do you still have minty cookies in the freezer? It's like, how long have you been coming here, Kelsey?

Scott Edwards 22:06

Yeah, Kelsey grew up at our house. She's our goddaughter. And when she's, we should say, she's like 20.

Speaker 4 22:11

She's 27.

Scott Edwards 22:12

27 now. And she still wants to, you know, where's the minty cookies? But uh my my point of doing this podcast was to try to share with the listeners that uh uh stand-up comedy is a terrific art form. It can be a good career. I I still encourage people to get on stage, even if you're gonna do it once or twice to find out more about yourself. But if you do get into it as a career, it is challenging on relationships. And sitting before me, Bob and Bernice, through communication, through many years and at this point decades of being together, have found a way to really succeed at it. And so, congratulations on that.

Speaker 2 22:49

Yeah, thank you. Well, thank you. So far, so good.

Scott Edwards 22:52

And I have to thank my bride. Now we're recording this, it won't air anytime soon.

Speaker 4 22:56

But the next anniversary.

Scott Edwards 22:59

It's uh being recorded during our anniversary week, 23 years married, but we dated.

Speaker 2 23:04

This is what he's giving you for your anniversary.

Scott Edwards 23:05

Yeah, happy anniversary, honey. And we but we dated for about 13 years, so we've been together a long time.

Speaker 4 23:10

I was a fetus.

Scott Edwards 23:11

Yeah, and she still looks young.

Speaker 4 23:14

Uh so we got carted the other night.

Scott Edwards 23:16

Yeah, we went out and she got carted. Yeah.

Speaker 4 23:20

It was so it was really dark.

Speaker 2 23:22

Well, Jill, I don't want to brag, but so did I. And the guy said, How do you know how fast you were driving?

Scott Edwards 23:33

So, anyway, so I was trying to wrap this up. Jill, you married an entrepreneur who's gone through uh good businesses and bad, uh, in show business and out of show business. Any advice for the young ladies out there?

Speaker 4 23:46

Yeah, I got nothing.

Scott Edwards 23:49

Okay, just that okay, nothing. There was a blank look on my face. Like, what have I done?

Speaker 2 23:56

Nothing was there. Some kind of music.

Speaker 4 23:57

Well, I wish you you gotta be a little prepared. I wish I would have been, you know.

Scott Edwards 24:01

Yeah, I I kind of threw the ladies under the bus on this.

Speaker 4 24:04

Yeah.

Speaker 2 24:04

Yeah, it's all started with, hey, let's get together for breakfast. Yeah. Hey, while I have all this set up.

Scott Edwards 24:10

So and then to my good friends Bob and Bernice Warley. Bob continues to be a huge addition to this podcast. I know you've heard his special bonus shows, his holiday specials, and him on several of the podcasts. So thank you for that, young man. But Bernice, um, you have had over 40 years with a very funny, very generous and giving, and as we all have said, cute guy, Bob Orley, who was, though, for over a decade, a very successful stand-up comic, and and there was a lot of adjustment. Any advice, any final words on being married to a comic?

Speaker 3 24:51

Um, no, it's about commitment and communication and um, yeah, just rolling with the punches.

Speaker 2 24:58

Okay, well, now I never punched her. I was afraid that might come up. That never happened.

Scott Edwards 25:04

Okay, okay, okay. Well, uh, I I was hoping the ladies would say that living with guys like us that are kind of outgoing and had a good sense of humor would make lives more full.

Speaker 4 25:15

You know, honey, since you speak for me 90% of the time anyway, you know, she has a gun now.

Speaker 2 25:23

Um, there are nights when I come, when she comes home and I I go, oh she needs to turn up, and I'll start to say something. She'll just go, not tonight.

Scott Edwards 25:31

Well, ladies and gentlemen, this has been a special episode, at least for me. I hope you enjoyed listening. Uh, Bob, Bernice, and my lovely bride Jill, thanks very much for joining us. Everybody say goodbye.

Speaker 4 25:43

Goodbye.

Scott Edwards 25:44

And we'll see you next week for another great show. Thanks for listening. Be sure to rate us when you can and share with your friends.

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