Steve's Kay's Variety Show

It's the day after election day. Depending upon where your beliefs are, you are all feeling very differently. Or maybe you are not feeling anything at all. When is it time to let go a little from our political investments? For our own health, I mean, just like any other obsession.

Being courteous to others makes the world a happier place and affects another person's day immensely. Simple things,  like being mindful and not hogging all the space around you on a bus.

It is Saturday morning and I feel like complaining, about: Speeding motorists and cops on the road. Pandhandlers everywhere you go talking directly to us. Dogs everywhere we go, even in restauraunts now E bikes coming right at you on the sidewalk, which is not a speedway. Hey, I'm Walkin' here! do you mind!

Do you ever keep humming a song in your head over and over again? or think of a joke in your mind and you are laughing to yourself? That is the radio inside of your head.  Sometimes you have nasty people who say something mean to you, catch you off guard when you are feeling good and it turns off the music and ruins your day because all you can do is feel bad about what they said to you. Those are...

I read an article recently, about a comedian/podcaster named Ron Bennington, who is 67 years old and diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. And everything he talked about, resonated with me, I could relate to it. And for once, I do not feel so all alone.

Hey,  It's a valid question. If you were listening to your own podcast, watching your own U tube Channel, at your own comedy show. Would you be interested? or would you find yourself to be boring and liose your own attention? These are things you ought to think about, when putting out conent. Often we have to be our own best critic.

Most of us have felt this way, at least one point in our lives. And it feels good when we act out that fantasy above, whether intentionally or passively, but then the regret, when we find ourselves falling short of $$$$$$ at the end of the month. Here are some ways I screwed up jobs when I was just tired of them.

It is easy to look at the success of others and wondering what magic trick they pulled to get to the level they are at. While you feel that you could be at that level too. Sometimes we get jealous and bitter. But they got where they are by working on themselves, hard work grinding it. They never gave up. And that is what we all should be working on too!

By lowering the bar, we are lowering our expectations of other people, not to give them a free pass to be non reciprocating mindless jerks. But to free up our mind from disappointment and anger, so that we may expand our energy into creating things, rather than eating ourselves away.

The musical world, at least for me, can give out mixed signals. There are arenas where I really feel like I do not fit in, as a trumpet player, and as a person, that almost everyone there is stuffy and schmoozy and shallow. But then there are other arenas in which I am praised for being a wonderful musician and even asked if I am professionally trained. And it confuses the hell out of me, I would...

We are all in the sea of life. Some of us lurk at the bottom with all the sand, and crawling sea life.  Other's are mid level surviving. And others are at the top, the biggest, strongest, the fewest, reaching out to the universe. Seems like the universe only sees them. But do not expect the big fish to recognize you, you need to make yourself into a bigger, stronger fish that everyone will se...

I remember seeing the movie "Fruitvale Station" around 2009  on cable. The movie is based on a tragic true story. There was something the main character did at the beginning of the movie, he "ghetto rigged" his phone, and from time to time, I thank him for teaching me that when I need a quick place to hold my phone hands free.

Hoarding is an obsessive compulsive type behavior and can manifest itself in many forms. There are people who hoard animals, people who hoard magazines and newspapers, any kind of junk they find. This material, they think they need it, and the idea of seperating from it gives them anxiety.

Sometimes you actually are living in the moment more if you just take in what you are experiencing and leave the video recording for another time, One of the perils of being tall is people are always telling you to move when you are in their way. I am musically illiterate and I play by ear mostly. Stay tuned to K-Central Comedy Radio later today for "The Dental Episode"  My journey home...

Last I checked, I had ten minutes left of recording time on this platform, so I used it to read off some of my old jokes, half of which I immediately threw away in the trash can after reciting.

I do not even have enough time for my last meal here, I would choke if I had to wolf it down. So I just talk about my Friday night plans here, like anybody really cares lol.

These were my final 7 minutes of free recording for the month, so I use it to talk about what I have learned so far about upgrading on the Buzzsprout platform, and I discuss this as a viable option. Steve Kay's Variety Show will always be active in at least one form, whether it  be on U Tube in the video form, or the various podcasting platforms out there. But for now, at least until I decide...

As I near the final 30 minutes that I have available for the month on this free plan here, on Buzzsprout, I weigh my options, and I reflect on the history of this podcast, which has survived a few platforms before winding up here.  I consider various options, including remaining here, or returning to a previous platform and upgrading there. For older episodes of Steve Kay's Variety Show, do a...

There are all types of Comics out there, but I am talking about MC's, hosts now, folks who run their own shows, or run a show for someone else. There are all different types of MC's out there, and some of them are comatose. And that's about it!

Sept.25 will be one year since I had a drink. I was a functional drinker, and I stopped because I want to remain healthy. Someone scared me by telling me about their parent, who was healthy his whole life, and then one day had back pain, and is now on dialysis and waiting for a kidney transplant. That was enough to make me want to stop drinking. I am planning to step up my crusuade another notch n...

Not all of them have an attitude. But enough of them, to have pissed me off to go off on a mini-rant here.

"I'll see you on the other side" How many times have you heard people say that to their departed loved ones? Do you think you are going to meet them in the afterlife?

People create their own issues and dilemnas, and they try to gaslight everyone else into "fixing" the problem for them. It permeates, all the way from your entitled customer making a scene, down to your local meth head standing right in front of the door to store between you and that sandwich you need to get you through the work day.

There was an episode of The Brady Bunch in which Peter Brady throws himself a birthday party and nobody shows up. That is how I have felt my whole life. Oh by the way, I forgot to add Bobby, yes, there was Greg, Peter, and Bobby. Let's not get started about Jan, Cindy, and Marsha. That would take hours.

Weed can be a mirror of whatever is going on inside of you. Be mindful and in touch with the way you feel that day before you blaze, because whatever kind of mood you are in, might be magnified by that high.