Wease buried a Burger King bag in the backyard and called it a funeral. Lucy's hamster died while the family was in Florida, so Wease threw the whole cage in the garbage. Lucy wanted a real burial. So they stuffed a Burger King bag in the ground, held a full ceremony, and mourned a Whopper wrapper. Nibbles the hamster got fast food last rites.

Full house this week. Wease, Doreen, Lucy, and Jake all in the room.

Bruno Mars in Toronto. A fire alarm at 5 a.m. Two hours outside in the cold. Eleven flights of stairs. The trip almost ruined before it started.

Tommy Turner died. Tommy Corvette. Spina bifida. A decade in Monroe Community Hospital. Wrote a children's book from his bed. Doctors said he'd be lucky to see five. He made it to 53.

The Sabres season. Jake cried multiple times this year. Game seven was the most exhilarating emotional roller coaster of his life. Montreal got destroyed by Carolina. Buffalo would have played them tougher. Everyone knows it.

Welcome to Wrexham. Ryan Reynolds bought a dead last Welsh soccer team and promoted them three straight years. Jake calls it the greatest sports story in the history of sports.

AI is getting scary. Doreen and her friend used AI to drop six hot single guys into a kitchen photo and sent it to the Portugal yoga group. Then they did it again with refrigerator repairmen. Mike Amalfi thought the guys were real.

The surprise debate. Wease hates surprises. Knowing you're going to Vegas beats being surprised with Vegas because you get to look forward to it. Then the story of Carrie the nanny popping out of a box.

The baby deer saga. Jake found a baby deer crying in Lexi's yard. The dog thought it was its mom. The next day there was one in Jake's own backyard. Mom came back at dusk and took it.

Riley thinks Wease is Mimi's dad. She's known him her whole life. These grandkids don't know anything.

Bentonville, Arkansas. Bike capital of America. The Waltons built the whole town. Subsidized ice cream, a dollar a scoop. Jake says it tastes like money.

The Contractor Store. After getting scammed by a coke head contractor, Wease is all in. Vetted pros. No cocaine. No bamboozle. thecontractorstore.com.

Electric Car Corner. John from Cannabis Corner opened Electric Car Corner on Route 96. Previously enjoyed electric cars. Wease says hybrids charge themselves.

Ronin turns off all the lights. Better than Jake. Better than Bianca. Wease tortured Jake and Lucy in Florida checking closets. Adam's closet light is always on.

Radiant Mobile. The Christian cell phone company. Blocks porn, blocks LGBTQ content, blocks parts of Yale's website. 29 bucks a month. Same network as Trump's phone.

Twins with two different fathers. Ultra rare. Two men, two eggs, days apart. Found out years later from a genealogy test.

UPCOMING:

Cannabis Corner 1 Year Block Party. June 20, 1 to 8 p.m. Wease Family Circus live podcast 4:30 to 6. Free food, DJ, vendors. Clifford Avenue next to Savoia Bakery. Books available for signing.

Wease Show Reunion. July 17. Comedy at the Carlson, part of the Rochester Comedy Festival. BJ, Cindy Cummins, surprise guests. Proceeds to the Rochester Cancer Alliance.

It's nice to be important. But it's more important to be nice.

• 00:00:00 Welcome and Bruno Mars Fire Alarm Drama
• 00:03:02 Baby Deer Rescue: The Neighborhood Wildlife Encounter
• 00:05:13 Tommy Corvette Tribute and Sabres Playoff Heartbreak
• 00:09:58 Welcome to Wrexham: The Greatest Sports Story Ever
• 00:28:09 Gay Pride Month Controversy and Taking a Stand
• 00:38:40 The Contractor Store: Lessons from Getting Scammed
• 00:44:10 Bentonville Arkansas: America's Bicycle Capital
• 00:54:21 Electric Cars and Turning Off the Lights
• 01:00:58 News Clippings: Christian Phone Service and Twin Daddies
• 01:09:13 The Surprise Debate and Upcoming Shows

The Wease Family Circus is full house this episode. Wease, Doreen, Lucy, and Jake all in the room.

We start with the show. July 17. Comedy at the Carlson. Wease Show Reunion. All the people you loved from the radio, live and in person, finishing what should have been on the air. Q&A. Surprise guests. The whole circus. Come be part of it. Tickets at https://ci.ovationtix.com/35843/production/1276829?performanceId=11813588

Then we go everywhere.

The Sabers. Wease is ready to write them off. Jake says the team that showed up in those last two games is not the team that won the division. Self inflicted. They took accountability. They said it themselves. Whoever wins Buffalo vs Montreal is getting destroyed by Carolina anyway, who got two weeks off, which Wease thinks is bullshit.

The Rochester AI documentary that taught Jake more about this city than 30 years of living here. George Eastman dumping billions into Rochester. The clothing manufacturing roots. Hickey Freeman. The Rochester Royals winning an NBA championship before becoming the Sacramento Kings. The Razor Sharks. The hoodie being invented in Rochester by Knickerbocker Knitting Company, later Champion. The whole what could have been list. Kodak. Xerox. Bausch and Lomb. All shit the bed.

The conspiracy theory rant. People on Facebook saying the NHL playoffs are rigged. Wease wants to meet these people in person. Jake says one ref can shift a game but the NFL is too big a money machine to script.

Running Point on Netflix. Why everything new feels written for people scrolling. Apple TV still gets it. Shrinking. Game of Thrones. Old HBO. The whole streaming dumb down. Macaulay Culkin watching his own movies with his kids while they have no idea it's him.

Health takeover. Jake is sponsoring Function Health blood panels for the family. 100 biomarkers. Lucy is in. Doreen is out. She does not want to know. Jake explaining how he reversed pre diabetes by cutting carbs. How not eating after sundown spiked his recovery scores. Sloan Kettering moving patients onto monitoring apps as the future of medicine. Mikey Amalfi caught early because of a number on a blood test. Why screening matters.

Beach beef. Wease has thoughts on bikini bottoms and grown men with bigger tits than the women. The argument about whether topless women being legal would kill industries that depend on the mystery. Jake says you can still sell sex. Wease says ask any titty bar owner.

The Door Saga. Wease and Johnny Yarrow trying to fix two sliding doors while Doreen is out of town. The wrong number that turned into a fake door company. The guy who showed up with white powder in his nose. The bullying. The $3,000 Doreen handed over. The same number answering as an event planner the next day. Then a healthcare company. Full scam. Jake's plug for The Contractor Store hits different now. Vetted pros. No coke heads. No bamboozle. Go to thecontractorstore.com.

Jake's Target story. The woman on FaceTime asking how the other person knew she was at Target while standing inside Target.

Plus, the soldier who bet $400K on a Venezuela coup he was running. Wease says if you're going to overthrow a country, let the man cash his Kalshi ticket. The whole gambling everywhere conversation. Politics. Oil. Whatever you want to bet on.

UPCOMING:

Canna Corner 1 Year Block Party. June 20. 2 to 8pm. Free food, DJ, glass blowing, local vendors, right next to Savoias Bakery. Where Wease gets his herb.

Wease Show Reunion. July 17. Comedy at the Carlson. Part of the Rochester Comedy Festival, July 16 to 19. Proceeds to the Rochester Cancer Alliance.

It's nice to be important. But it's more important to be nice.

• 00:00:00 Welcome and Sponsor Introduction: The Contractor Store
• 00:02:48 Sabres Playoff Talk: Hope vs Reality (OLD NEWS)
• 00:07:20 Rochester History: From NBA Team to Manufacturing Hub
• 00:13:08 The Hoodie Was Invented in Rochester
• 00:15:58 Are Sports Rigged? The Conspiracy Theory Debate
• 00:20:57 Netflix Shows and Doom Scrolling: Running Point Review
• 00:30:35 Function Health: Taking Control of Your Biomarkers
• 00:42:08 Beach Beefs: Bikinis, Topless Men, and Body Politics
• 00:49:25 Jake's Water Bottle Save and Other Random Stories
• 00:52:33 The Three Thousand Dollar Door Scam: Cocaine and Chaos
• 01:05:16 Betting on Maduro: Should Soldiers Be Allowed to Gamble?

This episode is brought to you by the Contractor Store. https://thecontractorstore.com/

Elvio Fernandes walks into the Circus.

14 years in Daughtry. One of Rochester's most famous musicians, even if he won't say it himself. Wease has known him since the very beginning, when Elvio was a 28-year-old real estate agent with two kids, a mortgage, and a phone that randomly buzzed mid-showing. Chris Daughtry, fresh off American Idol, asking him to audition for the band.

Elvio said no. His wife Jess said try again. The rest is history.

This is the full origin story.

How Elvio extracted audio from YouTube clips of Daughtry doing radio acoustic sets, layered piano and harmonies over them, and sent them back so the band could hear what he'd sound like before he ever stepped in a room with them. That tape is what got him the gig. The band didn't want a new guy. Howard Benson heard the harmonies and changed their minds.

The song he wrote with Chris before he was even in the band. "Crazy." Third Daughtry album. Gold record on the wall. Came home from tour to find Jess had a hot tub, a new deck, and John Krueger doing renovations.

The Steven Tyler story. Two weeks into the band, Elvio's in a trailer at American Idol with naked mannequins everywhere while Tyler plays him the unreleased Aerosmith record and sings harmonies in his ear. JLo in the makeup chair asking what nationality he is.

Portugal. First time he's ever played his family's country. 16 cousins in the audience. Speech in Portuguese after the fourth song. Wearing a Ronaldo jersey. The whole crowd doing the "SIU" goal celebration. Chris thinking the crowd was booing him.

The Brad Arnold tribute. Three Doors Down tours. The country song they wrote together that never came out.

Rockstar Academy. Travel sports for kids who play music instead of sports. BB Dang origin story. Why college is mostly a scam. Why "I want to be famous" is the worst possible reason to chase music. Why you have to love the grind, the shitty songs, the smoky bars, all of it.

Elvio's Portuguese coffee shop in Rochester. His brother's witchcraft in the kitchen. The pasteis de nata that Doreen brought back from Lisbon. Why Wease thinks Elvio's spot would kill it anywhere in the world.

Cancel culture is dead. Kanye sold out SoFi for two nights. Ronnie Radke shitting on Buffalo to a sold-out Darien Lake. The mumble rap debate. Sperm racing in California (don't ask).

Bentonville, Arkansas. Walmart town. Mountain biking capital. Why Wease almost died on an electric mountain bike.

Plus, the book is out. "Addie's with Wease" by Marshall Fine and Brother Wease. Amazon and weasefamilycircus.com.

UPCOMING:

Canna Corner 1-Year Block Party. June 20. 2pm to 8pm. Free food, free cocktails, live DJ, glass-blowing demos, local vendors. Where Wease gets his herb.

Rochester Comedy Festival. July 16-19. Multiple venues. All proceeds to the Rochester Cancer Alliance.

Wease Show Reunion. Friday July 17. Comedy at the Carlson. Kevin Meaney Showroom.

It's nice to be important. But it's more important to be nice.

Mark Ippolito walks into the Circus. The man behind every major comedy show in Rochester. The guy who turned a dinky pool hall into a 190-seat club in Webster, then convinced Shresh Gowell to break into an abandoned warehouse and build Comedy at the Carlson, one of the best clubs in America.

This is the origin story of Rochester comedy

Mark started at Comics Cafe in the box office. Then security. Then clearing tables before bottles became weapons. Then bartending. Then management. Then JJ bought the place and Mark became the guy.

11 years in Webster. 190 seats. Drew Carey. Dice. Super Troopers. Impractical Jokers. All on a tiny stage that got too small when Buffalo opened Helium and Syracuse got an Improv. Rochester was the tent pole. Goldilocks porridge. Right in the middle. They just needed a bigger room.

Shresh and Sheryl sat in a booth every Friday saying "we gotta do something." Morgan Stern was opening Radio Social. Wease made the intro. Mark and Shresh literally broke into the building next door. Drew the whole thing on a napkin at Salvatore's. Then they built it.

Comedy at the Carlson. 325 seats. Private parking inside the building. Private hallway to the green room. Speakers everywhere. A monitor and clock for every comedian. The kind of setup that makes pros say this is one of the best clubs in the country.

Nikki Glaser played the Carlson before she became Nikki Glaser. Tiffany Haddish was in Wease's studio the same week her movie played across the street, six months removed from living in her car. Theo Vaughn. Jamie Foxx. Jim Norton.

The Jim Norton story. Montreal festival. JJ owned Comics Cafe but didn't know comedy. Norton mentioned he'd do NYC sets for 50 bucks. JJ thought that's what comedians cost. Offered Norton 200 to come to Rochester. JJ also wanted to book "that Seinfeld guy." Had no idea who Seinfeld was.

The Rickles Room. 100 seats. Intimate. For comics who can't fill 325 yet but can pack a small room and kill. Earl David Reed this weekend.

Mark expanded again. Took over the Irish dance studio next door. Built The Carlson event venue. Weddings. Fundraisers. A church rents it Sundays at 6 a.m. Van Halen plays while they set up. Maximizing square footage.

The first annual Rochester Comedy Festival. July 16-19. Multiple venues. Carlson. Radio Social. The Vault. Photo City. Artisan Works. The Wease Show Reunion Friday night, multiple mics, surprise guests flying in. Proceeds go to the Rochester Cancer Alliance. Funniest Person in Rochester finale kicks it off Thursday. 124 entries this year.

• 00:00:00 Welcome and Sponsor Introduction: The Contractor Store
• 00:00:41 Introducing Mark Ippolito: Rochester's Comedy Kingmaker
• 00:03:14 From Comics Cafe to Comedy at the Carlson: The Journey
• 00:05:51 The Comedy Club at Webster and Finding the Perfect Location
• 00:07:11 Breaking into the Carlson: Drawing Dreams on a Bar Napkin
• 00:10:58 Building a Headliner's Room: Green Rooms and Low Ceilings
• 00:13:41 Nikki Glaser and Tiffany Haddish: Before They Were Stars
• 00:25:48 The Rickles Room: Intimate Comedy for 100
• 00:28:14 Earl David Reed and the Art of Crowd Work
• 00:30:45 Sports Talk: Giants, Knicks, and Philly Sucks
• 00:23:09 The Carlson Event Venue: Maximizing Every Square Foot
• 00:45:51 Rochester Comedy Festival Announcement: Four Days of Laughs
• 00:47:39 The Wease Show Reunion: Friday Night Anchor Event
• 00:50:12 Comedy for a Cause: Supporting the Rochester Cancer Alliance
• 00:56:00 Funniest Person in Rochester Contest: 124 Hopefuls Compete

Then sports. Mark talks Giants, Knicks, Bills. Micah Hyde befriended his nephew before he passed. Played video games with him every night. Brought him to the suite. Mark owns every Hyde jersey he could find. Hyde just launched a THC drink called Hyde's Hail Mary. Mark's bringing it to the club.

Philly tried to block Knicks fans from playoff tix. Buffalo's doing it to Montreal fans. Mark says let them come. Best games are sitting next to a rival fan, breaking stones all night, high fives by the end.

Mark's a Giants fan because his father was. Western NY was Giants territory before the Bills existed. His dad was a bookie. Hated the Yankees. Mark inherited that too.

John Sterling died. 85. Yankees broadcaster 30+ years. John DiTullio hated him. Wease used to torture DiTullio with Sterling clips on the air.

Vinnie Marcus walks in. Lost 65 pounds. Treadmill 3.1 miles a day. Looks like a different person. Jim Florentine in Endicott this weekend. Rob's Comedy Playhouse in Buffalo Saturday.

Rochester Comedy Festival. July 16-19. Tickets on sale this week. Proceeds to the Rochester Cancer Alliance.

It's nice to be important. But it's more important to be nice.

Salvatore Fantauzzo walks into the Circus.

Soccer Sam. Started with one pizza shop on Main Street in 1978. Turned it into 32 locations across New York. Financed his employees. Turned box makers into franchise owners. Built an empire on loyalty, hard work, and a high school home ec project.

This episode is the origin story.

A senior year assignment turned into a 48 year legacy. Fred's meat market almost became a pizzeria. A shoe store across the street became the first Salvatore's. Captain Tony's, Pontillo's, and Bunny Goodman were the only competition back then.

Sam talks about the 1983 pizza convention in Florida that changed everything. Mozzarella sticks. Chicken fingers. Buffalo wings from a girl who worked at the Anchor Bar. The moment Salvatore's became more than just pizza and subs.

He talks about buying Aziz Pizza's leftover boxes when they went out of business because he was broke. The Pac Man machine in the lobby that kept him afloat. His brother pushing him to that convention. Necessity forcing him to expand because pizza alone wasn't cutting it.

The franchise model that built Salvatore's. His brother and John Corgi were his first employees at 13. The second location opened inside a bar called Chadwicks. Nick from Donuts Delite started making boxes at eight, went to college for graphic design, came back, and now owns the store.

30 of 32 locations are owned by former employees. That's the Salvatore's way. You start making boxes. You work your way up. Sam finances your store. You build your life.

Sam's biggest mistake? Not recognizing talent early enough. Mike DeBull left to start the Wegmans pizza department and built the entire food court concept. Chelsea from Branca started as a 17 year old server and runs one of the biggest restaurant operations in Monroe County. Tim Archeco owns Otto Tomato in Pittsford. All former Salvatore's.

The soccer obsession. First Lancers game at 10. Every Inter Miami home game for five years straight. Last night he watched Messi blow a 3-0 lead and lose 4-3 to Orlando. 26,000 fans. Half from Uruguay, Costa Rica, Argentina. Young boys wearing pink and proud because of Messi.

The women's soccer revolution. Trinity Rodman just signed a million dollar contract. Joe Sahlen gave away the Western New York Flash years ago. Now teams sell for 220 million. Wease had women's players on the show in the 90s when nobody cared. Those same women are millionaires today.

Sam's 98 year old father in law lives alone, cooks alone, and mowed his own lawn until Sam intentionally broke the mower three months ago. Refuses senior living. Sharp as ever.

Three kids. Ten grandkids. Santino owns Bushnell's Basin at 21. Started making boxes at 12. Tried college for six months and said I can't do this. Roxy helps run Santino's spot and owns her own nail salon. The youngest works for Salvatore's. Sal is an acupuncturist. The third generation is coming up.

The Rochester versus Florida debate. Wease goes off on the guy who called Rochester a shit hole. Festivals everywhere. Music everywhere. Great hospitals. Great restaurants. Rochester is not a shit hole.

Sam's body is broken down from working so hard his whole life. Florida heat helps. Rochester hurts. Pickleball with Linda. Soccer with his boys when he's in town.

Wease on his Parkinson's. Walked three and a half miles this morning. Gym at 6 a.m. He doesn't want to get out of bed but he has to keep moving.

Spirit Airlines collapses the day Doreen is supposed to fly to Tampa to take care of her mom. JetBlue acquires Spirit. Wease bought the tickets with points. Now the points are gone. I need this broad. I'm no good alone.

This episode is the Salvatore's story. The soccer. The franchise. The mistakes. The loyalty. The legacy.

It's nice to be important. But it's more important to be nice.

• 00:00:00 Welcome and Sponsor Introduction: The Contractor Store
• 00:00:56 Introducing Soccer Sam: Salvador Fantuzo and the Koji Connection
• 00:02:54 The First Salvador's and Brother Wease's Early Support
• 00:03:54 From High School Project to Pizza Empire: 32 Locations and Counting
• 00:05:58 The Home Economics Class That Started It All
• 00:10:13 Pizza Philosophy: Rochester Style vs New York Style
• 00:15:20 Soccer Sam's Passion: From Lancers to Lionel Messi
• 00:16:28 Hope Solo, Women's Soccer, and Making Millions
• 00:18:12 Inter Miami VIP Experience: 26,000 Fans in Pink
• 00:31:08 Building an Empire: Turning Employees into Owners
• 00:44:22 Business Mistakes and Lost Talent: The Wegmans Story
• 00:51:06 The Importance of Family Support and Hard Work
• 00:56:28 Rochester Pride and Spirit Airlines Drama

There's a study. Parents who let their older kids swear in front of them end up with more honest relationships with their kids. Strict parents? Their kids hide everything, sneak out, lie. Lucy brings it up.

That sets the tone for the whole episode.

This week:

The peewee football game that almost made Lucy cry. The kid she babysits is about to turn 8.

Simeon stayed with the family this week. He brought tulips. Tulips are toxic to cats. They live on top of the fridge now.

Adam and Simeon walked into Blue Wolf Bistro to take down a 40-minute food challenge. Four 8-ounce patties, fries, mac and cheese, a milkshake. The pro record is 13 minutes. They didn't even finish in 40. Then they threw up.

The Fairport fight everyone's losing their mind about. And the eternal Rochester debate about whether Fairport is actually worse than the city now.

Doreen's Portugal trip we somehow forgot to talk about until now.

Lucy hit 13,000 steps babysitting Ronin because the kid decided they were running today. Sunburn included.

Cameras are everywhere now. Your Uber has one. Just assume.

Wease with the gloves off. No FCC. No corporate clock.

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It's nice to be important. It's more important to be nice.

0:00 Cold Open
0:29 Family And Sports Talk
1:42 Planning Game Day
2:49 Game Predictions
6:22 Sponsor: The Contractor Store
6:46 Sports And Personal Stories
9:35 Dreams And Unresolved Stuff
12:01 Betting Stories
15:37 Newspaper Clippings And More Dreams
16:15 The Kids Swearing Conversation
25:34 Strict Parents Make Sneaky Kids
26:33 Reading To Kids
31:24 When Reading Actually Hits You
32:11 Sports And Family Memories
33:40 Family Gift Pranks
37:31 The Ice Cream Misunderstanding
40:44 Sports Scandals
45:01 The Cruise Incident: Whose Fault Was It
47:04 Bagel Talk
47:28 The Bagel Shop That Restored Our Faith
51:01 Poker Stories And Bad Luck
57:06 Adam And Simeon vs The Blue Wolf Food Challenge
1:02:41 Where Adam Wants His Next Eating Contest
1:03:30 The Fairport Bar Fight
1:04:35 Cameras Are Everywhere Now
1:06:07 13,000 Steps Babysitting Ronan
1:07:24 Social Media In Books
1:09:30 Dash Cams Are Watching You
1:15:00 Dunkin's Portuguese Connection
1:15:23 Sign Off

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Wheels Maxwell from Wednesdays with Wheels rolls into the Circus and the whole thing goes sideways in the best way. Sabres playoff fever, Facebook jail, a $300K cruise ship lawsuit, and a story about loaning money to a degenerate poker player that ends with Doreen playing collections agent.

Buffalo is back in the playoffs for the first time in forever and Wheels is fully locked in. The family gets into the absurd ticket resale prices, why season ticket holders aren't the villains, and how the Sabres are throwing a massive free viewing party at Canalside that might be more fun than sitting in the arena. Jake remembers being at the Stanley Cup Finals as a kid. Doreen admits she's on the bandwagon. Wease drops the real take: if you don't want to pay inflated prices, don't pay them. Go to the free party.

Then it gets heavy in a good way. Wheels opens up about Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month. Getting kicked out of the Special Olympics because he wasn't mentally disabled. Playing Paralympic sled hockey in Buffalo. The dating life where people Google his life expectancy before they'll meet him for a drink. Real stories, no filter, no pity party.

We also hit Wease's last day at iHeart. Jake captured the whole thing on camera. Doreen is the negotiator, Wease is the softie who feels bad for everyone, and somewhere in there is the story of a poker player who stiffed Wease for $150 until Doreen hunted him down so hard Wease finally caved and handed her $200 just to make her stop.

Doreen and Lucy recap Tortuga Music Festival. Beach vibes, country crowds, Toby Keith between sets. Jake admits it's not his scene. Doreen defends the country fans and says they're the nicest people at any festival.

Then Kalshi comes up. The app where you can bet on politics and weather. Wease bets $50 that Trump would name-drop the space launch and cashes out $100 in two seconds. Wheels explains how people were betting on war with Iran right before it happened. Congress is already trying to regulate it.

Then the craziest story of the episode. Wheels gets thrown in Facebook jail for child exploitation. Someone hacked his account and sent illegal content through Messenger. Month-long lockout. He panics, appeals, loses his mind, then admits it was the best digital detox of his life. Second he got his account back he was right back on it because the podcast runs on social. The family goes to war over parents suing Facebook, age verification, or whether parents just need to parent. Wease says blaming the platform is like blaming heroin dealers. Doreen pushes back: not every kid has great parents.

We close with a $300,000 cruise ship lawsuit. A 45 year old woman drinks 14 shots of tequila in nine hours, falls down a staircase, and sues Carnival for over-serving her. Wease calls BS. She could have been at six different bars. The family gets into bartender responsibility and whether cruise ships should be on the hook when someone tequilas themselves into the ER.

Plus stories about Brother Larry the bookmaker who'd settle debts for pennies on the dollar, the Wi-Fi crash that killed the recording mid-sentence, and why Wheels never got hooked up like Bull did back in the day.

Sabres hype. Facebook nightmares. Tequila lawsuits. Classic Circus.

It's nice to be important. But it's more important to be nice.

• 00:00:00 Welcome and Sponsor Introduction: Clark Peskin
• 00:01:25 Introducing Wheels Maxwell: Sabers Playoffs Excitement
• 00:02:18 Sabres Memories: Jake at the Stanley Cup Finals
• 00:04:06 Rasmus Dahlin's Journey and His Wife's Heart Transplant
• 00:05:57 Playoff Ticket Prices: The Resale Debate
• 00:10:37 The Masters and Taylor Swift: Ticket Control Done Right
• 00:14:51 Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month with Wheels
• 00:16:51 Kicked Out of Special Olympics: The Swimming Story
• 00:18:28 Paralympic Sled Hockey and Ray Maluda Connection
• 00:20:26 Wease's Final Day at iHeart: Behind the Scenes
• 00:23:29 Doreen the Negotiator vs Wease the Softie
• 00:25:11 The $150 Poker Loan That Won't Get Paid Back
• 00:31:09 Tortuga Music Festival: Country Crowds and Beach Vibes
• 00:37:10 Kalshi App: Betting on Politics and Weather
• 00:42:00 Facebook Jail: Wheels' Child Exploitation Nightmare
• 00:45:27 Phone Addiction and Digital Detox Reality
• 00:49:15 Suing Facebook: Parents vs Social Media Giants
• 00:54:25 The $300K Cruise Ship Lawsuit: 14 Shots of Tequila
• 00:57:41 Bartender Responsibility and Over-Serving
• 01:07:07 Brother Larry the Bookmaker: Settling Debts for Less
• 01:08:24 Wi-Fi Crash and Final Thoughts with Wheels

Aaron Gold was Brother Wease's intern in the summer of 1991. On his first day, he showed up to find out the other intern — also named Aaron — had died that weekend. That was his welcome to the Brother Wease Morning Circus.
35 years later, he's a senior editor at Motor Trend, and he's finally back to tell the stories. The Pauly Shore kick-out. The Joe Cocker bit BJ ruined on purpose. Nora Hayden and the invention of football, baseball, and ice cream sundaes on the radio. The Circle of Jerkness. And the night BJ Shaeffer walked him through his divorce over ice cream at the Grammys.
This one's for the real ones who remember the golden age of CMF mornings — and anyone who wants to know how that kind of radio actually got made.
Plus: Wease shops the new Kia Telluride, Aaron explains why he secretly loves the Cybertruck, and we learn way more than anyone needed to know about mules.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 — Clark Peskin estate planning (seriously, go to a seminar)
01:00 — Aaron Gold checks in from LA (and he's sitting next to Jake)
02:33 — Motor Trend, Toby Gold, and how Wease gave him the internship
04:30 — Telluride vs. Palisade: Wease shops for a new ride
08:49 — The summer of '91, Tom Proietti, and how the internship actually happened
12:00 — The dead intern story: "You're Toby's kid?"
15:18 — D the Killer Deadhead vs. Pauly Shore
17:40 — What it was really like to work the Brother Wease Morning Circus
19:30 — Why Wease kicked Pauly Shore out (twice) and Michael Winslow once
22:30 — The Jack Benny theory: great radio has no ego
25:30 — Why Wease says he has no talent (and why Jake calls BS)
28:00 — "Cocker? I don't even know her" — the Joe Cocker bit BJ blew up
30:30 — Nora Hayden, football, baseball, and ice cream sundaes
32:30 — "Blow me a kiss" and the joke that almost got Aaron killed
38:00 — Beagles, Corvettes, and a 100-year-old snow shovel in LA
43:00 — Rule #1 at Motor Trend: if the press launch is in Florida, the car sucks
44:00 — The Cybertruck confession
49:30 — Infiniti QX80, keypad entries, and hacking press cars
55:30 — Aaron's kids, and how BJ Shaeffer talked him through his divorce
1:00:30 — The Circle of Jerkness
1:02:00 — The crazy lady, "Scotty!", and the loudest page in CMF history
1:04:30 — Mules, baby mules, and a horse named Mercedes
1:10:30 — "Aaron takes it in the face" — how BJ worked a directional mic
1:12:30 — Kasko Gladstone, Desert Storm, and the song that gave Aaron chills
1:14:10 — 35 years later: thank you to the master
1:15:00 — Sabres vs. Tampa, Fubo TV, and the gay hockey show
1:21:30 — The wrong bed, Doreen's Irish temper, and guest-room protocol
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The Wease Family Circus is the continuation of a decades-long radio legacy — Brother Wease, Doreen, Jake, Lucy, and a rotating cast of people you already know. New long-form episodes every week. Clips, vault drops, and live call-ins in between.
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In Episode 12 of Wease Family Circus, the family opens the vault and pulls out one of the wildest motorcycle run stories ever told, a day in 1996 that started with excitement and ended with chaos, ambulances, and Doreen getting hit by a car just one mile into Jake's very first motorcycle run.

Jake was only eight years old, sitting on the back of Wease's bike with a sissy bar, ready for his first big adventure. Two hundred and fifty motorcycles lined up downtown Rochester at a tattoo shop on Main Street, engines roaring, riders pumped. But before they even made it a few hundred yards, everything went sideways.

A panicked driver, overwhelmed by the sound of hundreds of motorcycles, went around a bike blocking traffic and slammed directly into Doreen and JD, who were stopped at a red light. Doreen got thrown off the bike. JD hopped off. The paramedics arrived. The fire truck showed up. And Doreen, laying on the pavement with her pants cut off and her favorite jeans destroyed, refused to go to the hospital.

The episode breaks down the entire insane day:

• How Jake's first motorcycle run lasted exactly one mile before disaster struck

• The driver who panicked, went around the blocking bike, and hit Doreen and JD at a red light

• Wease standing in the back of the pack with Jake, having no idea what was happening up front

• The woman who pulled up to Wease's leg in her car and said she wasn't waiting, threatening to drive through the scene

• Tommy Donati getting into a screaming match with a Puerto Rican woman in the middle of the chaos

• JD jumping into the driver's car to back it up while the guy's terrified family sat inside

• Doreen crying about her favorite pair of jeans getting cut off by paramedics

• The fact that Doreen and JD both finished the run instead of going to the hospital

Wease admits he had a bad feeling about this run from the start. They were doing it downtown, which they never did. Andy's blue light on the back of the bike broke when Jake got on. And the jelly at the rest stop was mixed fruit, which every rider knew was bad luck. Strawberry or grape meant smooth sailing. Mixed fruit meant something bad was about to happen.

The audio from 1996 captures the entire story, complete with Wease, Tommy Donati, and the crew recounting the madness in real time. You hear Doreen's thick Long Island accent as she calls into the show to talk about Jake's farting situation from the night before, completely unaware that this clip would be animated and played back decades later.

But the chaos doesn't stop with the motorcycle run. The episode also dives into:

Wease reflects on how Mikey Amalfi Jr.'s dedication to fitness and clean living played a massive role in his ability to survive such aggressive cancer treatment. Doctors said his strength allowed his body to fight back in ways that wouldn't have been possible otherwise. It's a reminder that taking care of yourself matters, especially when life throws the worst at you.

The episode also features Jake's original song Going Outside, a track inspired by the lost art of disconnecting, playing in the woods, and living without screens. The lyrics hit hard, reminding listeners of a time when going outside was the plan, every single day, no phones in sight, just bikes, climbing trees, and exploring the world.

From motorcycle runs gone wrong to Tiger Woods drama to cancer survival stories to songs about unplugging, Episode 12 delivers laughs, nostalgia, and the kind of raw family storytelling that makes Wease Family Circus unforgettable.

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

• 00:00:00 Welcome and Sponsor Introduction: Clark Peskin
• 00:07:30 No Trespassing Signs and Tiger Woods DUI Drama
• 00:15:20 Taylor Swift Lawsuit and Josh Allen's Baby Girl
• 00:19:30 Introducing Jake's First Motorcycle Run Story
• 00:30:00 The Run Begins: Bad Vibes and Mixed Fruit
• 00:35:00 Doreen Gets Hit by a Car One Mile In
• 00:37:50 The Ambulance Scene: Cut My Effing Pants
• 00:40:20 The Puerto Rican Lady Incident
• 00:20:00 Audio Flashback: Farting and Doreen's Long Island Accent
• 00:45:30 Lucy's Low-FODMAP Diet and Mikey Malfi's Cancer Victory
• 00:51:00 Going Outside: Jake's New Song and Final Thoughts

Clark Peshkin is the presenting sponsor of Wease Family Circus.

Clark Peshkin hosts free estate planning workshops that explain what actually works for New York families, especially if you own a home and want to keep things private and simple for the people you love.

Register at https://clarkpeshkin.com/wease

In this episode of Wease Family Circus, the family gathers to share one of the wildest, most chaotic nights in recent memory—a night that started with tequila, marijuana, and the Academy Awards, and ended with a 4 a.m. emergency room visit, a cracked skull, and paramedics trying to figure out what the hell just happened.

Wease admits his Parkinson's has been kicking his ass lately, and when you combine that with too much tequila and smoking weed, things can go sideways fast. He got up in the middle of the night to grab hearing aid batteries from the bathroom, and the next thing he knew, he was waking up on the tile floor with a gash on his head and Doreen calling 911.

The episode breaks down the entire ordeal:

• How Wease passed out in the bathroom, cracked his head on the tile, and didn't even realize what happened

• Doreen's frantic efforts to break his fall while he went down completely unconscious

• The house guests who walked in on the chaos and called for help

• Fire rescue showing up to find Wease naked, confused, and asking what the hell he was doing in the bathroom

• The ambulance ride to the hospital, where Wease complained to paramedics about what Doreen was putting him through

• Hours in the ER getting X-rays, CAT scans, blood tests, EKGs, and IVs while Doreen stood around like a zombie at 3 in the morning

• Getting discharged at 4:30 a.m. after Doreen kept the staff on their toes to speed things up

Wease admits he was in bad shape that night. The Parkinson's, the tequila, the weed—it all hit at once. Doreen was terrified he had a brain bleed, which is why she insisted on the ER trip. The hospital staff was phenomenal, checking everything to make sure he was okay, but Wease spent the whole time annoyed that Doreen kept telling everyone the story over and over again.

But the chaos didn't end there. When they finally got home, the elevator in their building was out. Completely out. No elevator service for a 12-story building, which meant the only way up was to walk the stairs or take a bizarre detour through someone else's condo on the 23rd floor.

The episode also covers:

• Jake's wild coincidence of meeting two people separately—one in London, one in New York—who are now dating each other

• Lucy's trip to McSorley's, the oldest Irish pub in New York City, where the waiter snapped at her and held 10 beers in one hand

• The debate over whether Timothy Chalamet or Michael B. Jordan deserved the Oscar for best actor

• How Michael B. Jordan physically created dimples for one of his twin characters without makeup

• The Cannabis Corner event at the Carlson Lounge, where guests get VIP treatment before comedy shows

• Wease's ongoing struggle with finding the right marijuana dosage for sleep without getting too high

• The Sabres' playoff push and why Wease is convinced they're winning the Stanley Cup this year

• The psychic who predicted the Bills would win the Super Bowl in 2027 and the Sabres would win the Cup in 2026

This episode is raw, chaotic, and filled with the kind of real-life drama that only happens to the Wease family. From emergency room visits to elevator nightmares to neighbor feuds and reality TV controversies, it's another wild ride through the circus.

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

• 00:00:00 Welcome and Sponsor Introduction: Clark Peskin
• 00:01:58 The Hospital Visit: Parkinson's, Tequila, and a 4 AM ER Trip
• 00:10:29 The Elevator Crisis: Trapped on the 12th Floor
• 00:14:46 Poker Life and Casino Adventures
• 00:17:17 The Bachelorette Controversy: Whitney Leavitt Drama
• 00:22:24 Reality TV Deep Dive: Bachelor vs Love Island
• 00:26:02 The Insane Connection: London to Love Island
• 00:31:08 Academy Awards Recap and JFK Series Review
• 00:40:57 The Neighbor Leaf Burning Dispute
• 01:00:09 Sabers Playoff Fever and Stanley Cup Dreams