Classic Replay-Comedy Saved Me with Tony V.

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Host: Buzz Knight
Episode: Classic Replay-Comedy Saved Me with Tony V.
Originally Aired: October 27, 2025
Guest: Tony V., Boston comedy legend

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Overview

In this special "Classic Replay" edition, the spotlight falls on comedian Tony V., whose career stretches back to the early 1980s and includes network TV, sitcoms like Seinfeld, and decades of stand-up. Interviewed by Lynn Hoffman (host of "Comedy Saved Me"), Tony recounts his journey from Boston’s uniquely collaborative comedy scene to national recognition, the role of laughter in healing, and how music and giving back have shaped his path.

The conversation offers a candid, humorous look at what makes comedy transformative—for both the comic and the audience.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Early Days & Comedy’s Pull

• Tony V. describes a lightning-bolt moment upon discovering Boston's nascent comedy scene, reminiscing about the acceptance he found among other comics.
• Quote:
  "I found this motley crew of comedians... it really did feel like I was hit by a lightning bolt... I looked around and I went, oh my God, this is my tribe. I'm home." (Tony V., 04:49-05:11)
• Tony initially worked as a social worker in mental health ("I was working in the mental health field," 03:49), and began stand-up as a release from the stress of working with troubled families.

2. Finding His Voice

• Tony pays homage to Boston comedians Lenny Clark, Barry Crimmins, Stephen Wright, and Bobcat Goldthwait as formative influences and describes the improv-heavy, open-mic-rich ecosystem that allowed him to experiment—and improve:
  • "I sucked for a long time finding my void, and these guys stuck with me. And then it all just sort of happened." (Tony V., 06:17-06:25)
• He distinguishes his style as drawn from "a little slice of life"—often more storytelling than punchlines, sometimes even wondering aloud, "Geez, I wish these were jokes." (07:23–07:32)

3. The Reality of Comedians’ Lives

• He debunks the myth that comedians are always upbeat:
  "We are humans despite it... you still got to live. Every once in a while, it hits you." (Tony V., 09:13–09:33)
• Tony jokes about life's small annoyances:
  "I think I'm just gonna be annoyed to death... What finally killed Tony? He couldn't find an elastic band." (09:34–09:56)

4. Comedy as Coping & Healing

• Tony believes laughter lightens life’s burdens:
  "If you don't laugh at it, it's gonna suck in. It's gonna eat you up. So I don't think there's anything sacred. There should be nothing that can't be joked about." (13:58-14:19)
• He frames comedy as cathartic—even when dark:
  "You know, there's no degrees of death. They're no more dead today than they are going to be a hundred years from now." (15:36-16:20)

5. Music’s Inspiring Role

• Tony credits music—specifically Bruce Springsteen—for his work ethic:
  • "If I could have done music, I would have done music... I have no musical ability whatsoever... Bruce Springsteen is responsible for the way I approach my work." (11:32–11:47)
  • Describes seeing Springsteen to an audience of 219 as pivotal:
    "You would have thought he was in an arena." (12:22–12:38)
• He draws a “Beatles and everyone else” line about modern music (12:53), and playfully professes his strong dislike for Billy Joel.

6. Comedic Philosophy: There Are No Sacred Cows

• Tony credits comedic trailblazers—Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Robert Klein—for pushing boundaries and shaping his perspective (13:58–15:00).
• He believes anything can be funny if approached skillfully, pushing back against "too soon" criticisms.
• His playful funeral wish:
  "I want my entire funeral procession to drive through a car wash... one of my friends would go, 'I hope he paid for the undercarriage treatment.'” (16:20–17:01)

7. Comedy and Giving Back

• Despite comedy’s self-serving rush, Tony’s roots in social work translate into real-world giving—through countless fundraisers and charity gigs:
  "If I get hit by a truck, I want it to be coming out of Children's Hospital benefit." (19:15–19:47)

8. On Boston Roots

• A shared love for Boston emerges as Lynn and Tony bond over their Massachusetts upbringings, with playful riffs on who’s “really” from Boston (19:52–20:37).

9. Comedy’s Healing Powers

• Tony reflects, somewhat skeptically but with warmth, on comedy’s therapeutic potential:
  "I think there is something cathartic about comedy. That abandonment of your mental faculties has got to be good for something else. It’s a 45 minute distraction from your terrible life." (20:43–21:15)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On why he performs comedy:
  "When you hear people laugh, when you could touch a chord in somebody and hit the note, that's a common experience." (08:06–08:19)
• Perspective on laughter and life:
  "None of us asked to be here. It's an absurd place. So if you don't laugh at it, they'd just consume you..." (15:27–15:35)
• On getting applause as a job:
  "Nobody ever comes over to your cubicle and goes, oh, that was a fantastic email. You're killing it." (08:21–08:52)
• On his comedic funeral wish:
  "I want my entire funeral procession to drive through a car wash..." (16:20–16:42)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Tony’s “lightning bolt” comedy moment – 04:49–05:11
• Early Boston comedy influences – 05:27–06:17
• On bad gigs and learning the craft – 06:25–07:20
• Describing his comedic style – 07:23–07:32
• Comedy as catharsis and survival – 13:58–14:19, 20:43–21:15
• The role of music & Springsteen – 11:32–12:51
• Philosophy: ‘No sacred cows’ in comedy – 13:58–15:16
• Funeral procession & car wash story – 16:20–17:01

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Tone & Style

Tony’s tone is warm, self-deprecating, and deeply rooted in storytelling, often deflecting with a joke even at life’s darkest or most mundane annoyances. The conversation is marked by camaraderie, honesty, and that distinctly Bostonian blend of wit, humility, and cynicism.

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Takeaway

Tony V.’s journey shows how comedy and community intersect to create both personal healing and shared joy. He reminds listeners that while life is unpredictable and absurd, laughter—like music—can be a powerful medicine, best enjoyed together.

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Check out more from Tony V. at Aruba Rays Comedy Club or catch him on the road—because sometimes, a 45-minute distraction is exactly what you need.

Transcript

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[Lynn Hoffman]

Comedy saved Me.

[Tony V.]

So I met a lot of these people, and, you know, we just accepted each other for the. For the idiots that we were. And it just. I can't tell you. I don't know if it's right or wrong, but it. It really did feel like. Like I was hit by a lightning bolt.

[Lynn Hoffman]

I'm Lynn Hoffman, and welcome to another edition of Comedy Saved Me. Now you know, but I host another podcast called Music Saved Me, where we uncover the healing powers of music with artists and musicians. Well, Comedy Saved Me shines a light on the powerful forces behind laughter and comedy. I should also say the healing forces of laughter and comedy. Today, I'm so lucky to be joined by Boston's own comedy legend. Not just Boston, though, nationally. Tony V. Now, Tony started his standup career in the early 80s, and ultimately he would become a veteran of the national comedy circuit. Along with becoming a fixture on network television, spending time in Los Angeles and New York led to appearances on HBO Showtime, also stints on sitcoms like Oh, a little show called Seinfeld and Boston Common. Tony's not just hysterically funny, he's also big on giving back. And he's appeared in countless benefits and fundraisers, giving his time for the American Cancer Society, Children's Hospital, the Boston Food bank, and countless other great organizations. Tony V. Welcome to comedy. Save me. It's so great to have you here.

[Tony V.]

Sweet Lord. I heard that intro. I forgot it was me.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Did you like that?

[Tony V.]

It was pretty. Yeah, that was fantastic. I was thinking, as you were saying that I gotta go see this guy. He sounds great.

[Lynn Hoffman]

You're so humble. You really are, but that's what makes you so awesome. And again, thank you for doing this with us today, because I know you're a busy guy.

[Tony V.]

Yes. Sitting in a room with. With no pants on.

[Lynn Hoffman]

If people could only see right now, Tony, what was the first moment that you knew you had a deep connection with comedy? I mean, is this going way back now?

[Tony V.]

Oh, this goes. Yeah, this goes back. You know, I. You know, part of what you said about the giving back and doing the. The fundraisers and. And. And raising money for charities and stuff goes back to. I started out as a social worker. I was working in the mental health field. And then one night, I. I had always enjoyed comedy. And then I went into the old comedy connection back in the day, and I. You know how something hits you and you just go, oh, my God. My home's been here the whole time. This is. You know, and I found this. This other group of lunatics who thought like I did. You know, I. In my family, I was like, you know, I would. They used to say they found me in the trash because I was not like anybody that they had. I have three siblings, and I was not like any one of them, you know, and then I found this. This motley crew of comedians. I don't know if Star wars is too old of a reference for people, but I don't know if, you know, the cantinas. The cantina scene. Yeah. And I think the quote is, a more wretched hive of villainous scum you'll find nowhere in the universe. And I looked around and I went, oh, my God, this is my tribe. I'm home.

[Lynn Hoffman]

You're at the cantina?

[Tony V.]

Yeah, I'm at the cantina. And everything seems like it's going to be all right.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Can you tell us some of those early influences and maybe some of the people who were with you at the cantina that may have helped bring this out within you?

[Tony V.]

I mean, locally, there was Lenny Clark. And if there was no. If there was no Lenny Clark, there would be no Boston Connor. And then there was a fellow named Barry Crimmins. And then Stephen Wright came from that group. And then I became very good friends with Bobcat Gold Plate, who went on to, you know, great famous, now a director and stuff like that. So I met a lot of these people and, you know, we just accepted each other for the. For the idiots that we were. And it just. I can't tell you, I don't know if it's right or wrong, but it. It really did feel like. Like I was hit by a lightning bolt. Really, you know? Yeah. And. And I. I don't know that I was any good at first. I mean, I. I sucked for a long time finding my void, and these guys stuck with me. And then it all just sort of. It just sort of happened.

[Lynn Hoffman]

How did you stay, going forward if you felt like you had a particularly bad night or a bad show?

[Tony V.]

Every bad show, I would say, if I ever meet any one of the audience members again in my life, I don't want them to just to be their only memory of me, you know, I didn't want to. I didn't want them to go, hey, that's the guy who saw that night. He was off. He. You know, so I just. I just kept at it and, you know, I found a way to make it work. And I. And back then, you could do open mic nights, five, six, eight a week sometime, because it was. It was new and it was fresh to Boston. So I would go. I would do multiple shows a night and work and work at my crap, you know, and my comedy is a little bit different. It's not quite as fighting as some of my contemporaries, you know, So I had to find my own. My own way.

[Lynn Hoffman]

How would you describe your comedy?

[Tony V.]

It's, you know, a little slice of life. It's. It. You know, periodically during my show, I'll stop and go, geez, I wish these were jokes.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Do you get this reaction?

[Tony V.]

Like, recently I was just. This is just recent. And just sort of offhandedly I said to somebody, you know, just once in my life, just once, I want my GPS when I arrive somewhere to go. You know, Tony, you were right. And I said it, just not thinking it was funny. And then I was with a couple of people and they started howling, and I go, oh, I guess that's a joke. And that's how I approached it.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Do you like making people laugh?

[Tony V.]

I do. I mean, you know, it's a little bit corny to say it at this point, but, you know, when you hear people laugh, when you can. When you could touch a chord in somebody and hit the note, that's a common. A common experience.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Can you expand on that? Yeah.

[Tony V.]

I can only explain it this way, as my wife. Sometimes, you know, when I'm in the doldrums, my wife will. Will look at me and she'll go, you know, there's not many people who get applause at their jobs. Nobody ever comes over to your cubicle and goes, oh, that was a fantastic email. You're killing it. You know, so that immediate gratification for something real work means a lot to me.

[Lynn Hoffman]

You know, it's interesting that you say that, Tony, that when you're having. You said when you're sort of in the doldrums or when you're having a down day. Because when you think about comedians, the last thing you think about is that they have a bad day because you think that they're constantly at work trying to find ways to make you laugh. And how would. How could that affect them? So you're real.

[Tony V.]

Oh, yeah. I mean, you know, we are humans despite it. You know, I get. You know, I'm here in Aruba, where I'm getting calls from back home. You know, one of the burners on the stove went out. I got a broken toilet. There's a leak over here, by my book, you know, so you still got to live. And every once in a while, it hit you like, okay.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Medians get aggravated too.

[Tony V.]

Yes. It's not off. I. And it's nothing big. This. This is my lot in life. I think I'm just gonna be annoyed to death. You know what I mean? It's just gonna be little things that. That just pick away at me, and they go, what finally. What finally killed Tony? And they'll go die. He couldn't find an elastic band.

[Lynn Hoffman]

I'm curious, Tony. We were just talking about a bad day, and you were saying that it brings you a lot of joy to make people laugh. What a lot of comedians have told me through the years, and I've never done an interview show like this with them, but just in passing, running into them through television and jobs, that a lot of times there was some kind of really horrible moments in their life that. That pushed them into comedy or made them see. Like this epiphany you spoke of when you just knew when it hit you. Did anything like that happen to you as a kid or growing up or at any point in your life?

[Tony V.]

Yeah, I was a Middle child.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Oh, well, that explains everything.

[Tony V.]

Yeah, nobody, nobody paid attention to me at all, you know, and I sought attention and I had two older siblings and then a younger sibling that was, you know, like five or six years on either side of me, you know, so I was the mistake. And then my sister was the, the try for the girl, which they got thrilled about. I was just sort of, you know, running around going, hey, hey, I'm over here. You know, that kind of thing. So, you know, my parents are great. They had good, long life. My mother lived to be 94. Good for her. Yeah, obviously. She died in a skateboard accident. She was 94. She'd never been on a skateboard. I guess we could have sex, something. Oh my goodness.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Well, I don't know if you know, but I do host another podcast called Music Saved Me. Who are some of your favorite artists musically, like comedy that has impacted you during difficult times?

[Tony V.]

Well, let me say this, and I think this is true for a lot of comedians. If I could have done music, I would have done music. You know, there was something about me that wanted to perform. I have no musical ability whatsoever.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Interesting.

[Tony V.]

That being said, you know, music became my religion and then by extension, comedy after that. The first time I, you know, I'm a die hard rock guy and Bruce Springsteen is, is responsible for the way I approach my work. I, I, I continue to, to listen to him and be inspired by his work ethic. And that's the kind of thing, the approach I like to take in my world in comedy, you know, that's fascinating.

[Lynn Hoffman]

So, so really was music that initially.

[Tony V.]

Got you, that initially gave me that spark, you know, seeing him, you know, I saw Springsteen perform in Boston to 19 people, and you would have thought he was in an arena.

[Lynn Hoffman]

He reads it all on the stage.

[Tony V.]

Yeah. You know, two, 19 people at the Cask and Flagon, you know, 16ft from Fenway Park. And I go, oh my God, this guy, you know, and that stuck me forever.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Wow. That's.

[Tony V.]

Musically, if the young people are listening or whoever's listening in modern age music, there's the Beatles and everyone else. That's just the way life is. You gotta accept that. That and I hate Billy Joel. Oh, I dislike Billy Joel. Do I dare ask why? With the. It's a passion that Tita's on psychotic. I've never met the man. I just, his music is insipid. How about that? Okay.

[Lynn Hoffman]

The views that are expressed on this show are specifically by the guest.

[Tony V.]

Yes, you, you, I take nothing away from these. A very famous man, if people seem to him. I just do not, that's all.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Well, at least you're honest. And that's.

[Tony V.]

That's.

[Lynn Hoffman]

You get points for honesty.

[Tony V.]

Yeah.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Hey, before we move on, I just. For my, My producer Bob, who edits all this together, I wanted to get that question out right for him so that it doesn't go too far. Is laughter the best medicine?

[Tony V.]

It seems like those epics right up there right now. Pennischillin, I think, was pretty good. Listen, without getting too into the weeds here, you know, the world is a bizarre place, and if you don't laugh at it, you. It's gonna suck in. It's gonna. It's gonna eat you up. So I don't think there's anything sacred. There should be nothing that can't be joked about. I'm one of those guys. My influence is comedy. Go back to fella by the name of Lenny Bruce and then. I don't know if that will ring, but you should look. Yeah, he basically died so we could do what we're doing. Then George Carlin took up that mantle, and then Richard Pryor, and it goes that way. And then I give a lot of props to Robert Klein. Bill Burr currently is a big. Is a friend of mine. I actually opened for him at Fenway park couple years ago. There's a through line there that, you know, that's my sensibility.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Yeah, they broke all the barriers. Well, it's interesting you say that. Do you think because one of my best friends is like that his comedy is like. Everything's funny. There is nothing that can't be funny, you know, even if you do something and then at the bottom, what, Too soon, you know?

[Tony V.]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Lynn Hoffman]

But do you think that if. If more people had the ability to laugh at themselves that the world would be a better place? I know it's an odd question.

[Tony V.]

No, no, clearly it's. I mean, listen, none of us asked to be here. It's an absurd. It's an absurd place. You know what I mean?

[Lynn Hoffman]

If.

[Tony V.]

If you stop to think about all the tragedy and, and. And bad things in the world, they would just consume you. And you would. You would sit, you know, with just like the, you know, like a going through your head, you wouldn't be able to think. Right. So if you don't laugh at it, you know, we get called out a lot from, you know, being morbid about stuff. Listen, when you make fun of someone who died, say, right, and they'll go, oh, too soon. As you pointed out, you know, they're no more dead today than they are going to be a hundred years from now. Listen, there's no degrees of death. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. Not going to change anything now. I'm not reverence that Reverend about my. My own demise. I. I have one last request, and I want my entire funeral procession to drive through a car wash. Are you serious? Yeah. Yes. Why? That's funny. You. We've all been in funeral processions, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Every car has to follow the one in front of it, no questions asked.

[Lynn Hoffman]

True.

[Tony V.]

So that by the time car 8 of 10 gets up to the front of the line, the hearse will be coming out in some rule grieving. We'll have to look at someone else in a car and go, are we going through a car wash? And then I know one of my friends would go, I hope. I hope he pay for the undercarriage treatment.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Don't forget the tires. The wheel.

[Tony V.]

Brake the wheel. Yeah, you got to get some wheel bright on there. Yeah.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Tony, what do we do? We have a specific car wash in mind, just in case, you know.

[Tony V.]

Well, you know, I. I'm. I'm. I'm a monthly member of the executive car wash in and around Boston.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Okay.

[Tony V.]

So they get. If someone's in my car, they can get the wash for free.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Oh, my God.

[Tony V.]

Why so prepay? I'll prepay.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Good for you that you do that, though. I do have some friends that do that. I always wondered. I don't. You don't know a lot of people that prepay for car washes?

[Tony V.]

Yeah, I do. I go. I can go get my car washed four or five times a month if I want.

[Lynn Hoffman]

That's great.

[Tony V.]

Do you do it 20 bucks.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Do you. Does it bother you when people try to be funny when they talk to you just because you're a comedian?

[Tony V.]

No. You know, funny's funny when people try too hard. I go like, all right, all right, let's fake this guy. Look back. Let's leave it to the profession. It's simmer down.

[Lynn Hoffman]

So you mentioned something, Tony, up in front that you were a social worker, which I find fascinating because I've met a lot of people who want to give back in society that didn't always start out in the jobs they have. Like you are a comedian. In 1982, you. Your high pressure job was a caseworker for the Somerville Health Center.

[Tony V.]

Yeah, I work for the Somerville Cambridge Mental Health Center.

[Lynn Hoffman]

There's nothing more giving of yourself in your job especially, you know, it was.

[Tony V.]

Very stressful because I Worked with families and, you know, they were often abused children and, you know, we had to make decisions to keep kids safe and take them out of the environment we was in. I dealt with some really damaged people and, you know, that's how it started. I would go to comedy club, you know, when I say it was news, like six months, the comedy scene when I started. So I would go to relieve that thinking. And as I said, I always enjoyed comedy, you know. And then one day, an NC didn't show up. They asked me to introduce people and I was hooked.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Now, since then, obviously you were helping people before. When you make people laugh, you're helping them whether you did it for that reason or not. Have you always wanted to make people happy or entertain or help people?

[Tony V.]

Yeah, I think I've always seen the, you know, the downside of the world and if you can, you know, make somebody's way a little bit easier anyway, I think it's useful and has a purpose. And there's also the dark side of me. I had my moments with partying and, you know, some questionable ways of bribing. So, you know, if I get hit by a truck, I want it to be coming out of Children's hospital benefit. You know, maybe I get some points for that patterns.

[Lynn Hoffman]

You got a lot of points in my book, but not just because you're from Boston, and I'm from Boston, too.

[Tony V.]

Where did you grow up?

[Lynn Hoffman]

My first 10 years was Waltham, Massachusetts, and then Newton until I left town.

[Tony V.]

Newton.

[Lynn Hoffman]

And I did a little in Boston because my boyfriend at the time lived right downtown. So I got a little taste of living in the city.

[Tony V.]

But, you know, listen, Boston, when you travel, you find this out. Boston goes from Boston into Vermont in the north, and then as far as Rhode island south. So anywhere people gone from Boston, you go, oh, you're from Boston. They go, oh, yeah, Chelmsby. I go, okay, close enough.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Close enough. Yeah. Awesome.

[Tony V.]

Yeah.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Well, yeah, you're right. You could be from Springfield and you're still from Boston.

[Tony V.]

From Boston.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Yeah.

[Tony V.]

Yeah. People know.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Do you believe comedy has healing powers?

[Tony V.]

You know, it might be a little bit of a stretch in general, but I also have had people come up to me after shows and go, you know, I was in a really bad mood for some reason. I decided to come to a comedy show, and I feel much better now. So I think there is something cathartic about comedy. You know, that abandonment of your mental faculties has got to be good for something else. It's a 45 minute distraction from your terrible Life.

[Lynn Hoffman]

No. And, you know, it's funny you say that. We just had a neuroscientist on the Music Saved Me podcast, and he literally said that something does happen in your brain with the vibration and rhythm of music. And so all I can think of was maybe comedy and laughter. That. That vibration of laughter or the exhalation of the air, and that may actually be therapeutic.

[Tony V.]

I mean, it. You know, when you can get somebody to laugh uncontrollably, that's. That's as good as it gets. To me, if I can get somebody to. To pass beer to their nose, I think that it's the best thing that can ever happen.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Well, Tony, you're really just amazing, and I'm so grateful that I got a chance to take some of your time away from your vacation. Although it's a working vacation, because in Aruba, they have a club that you perform at. Is that right?

[Tony V.]

Yes, Aruba Rays Comedy Club. Awesome beach resort. It's a great club. And even when I'm not here, it's worth going to. And, you know, I have to get back to smoking a cigar sitting son.

[Lynn Hoffman]

That's right. Can you do a little more of that for me, too?

[Tony V.]

I will do as much of it as needed. Yes.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Thank you. I appreciate that.

[Tony V.]

100%.

[Lynn Hoffman]

Work on that tan. Don't forget to flip in 30 minutes. Thanks so much for coming on Comedy. Save me, Tony V. Check him out. He's amazing. And even if you're not in Aruba, because he'll be back up in Boston before you know it and around the world.

[Johnny Knoxville]

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[Johnny Knoxville]

It's a damn near inspiring true story for anyone out there who's ever shot for the moon, then just totally muffed up the landing. They stole $17 million and had not bought a ticket to help him escape.

[Tony V.]

So we're sitting like, oh, God, what do we do? What do we do?

[Unknown Male Speaker (Crimeless Hillbilly Heist)]

That was dumb. People, do not follow my example.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Listen to Crimeless Hillbilly Heist on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Ana Ortiz]

Sami Gente. It's Ana Ortiz.

[Mark Indelicato]

And I'm Markin Delicato.

[Ana Ortiz]

You might know us as Hilda and.

[Mark Indelicato]

Justin from Ugly Betty.

[Ana Ortiz]

Welcome to our new podcast, Viva Betty.

[Tony V.]

Yay.

[Ana Ortiz]

We're rewatching the series from start to.

[Mark Indelicato]

Finish and talking to iconic guests like Betty herself, America Ferreira.

[Ana Ortiz]

There was this moment when the glasses went on and it was like, this is our Betty.

[Mark Indelicato]

Listen to Viva Betty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Dr. Elizabeth Poynter]

Welcome to Decoding Women's Health. I'm Dr. Elizabeth Poynter, Chair of Women's health and Gynecology at the Atria Health Institute in New York City. I'll be talking to top researchers and clinic clinicians and bringing vital information about midlife women's health directly to you.

[Unknown Female Speaker (Menopause Advocate)]

100% of women go through menopause. Even if it's natural, why should we suffer through it?

[Dr. Elizabeth Poynter]

Listen to Decoding Women's Health with Dr. Elizabeth Poynter on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an iHeart podcast.