Bob Stromberg

will you please welcome to the stage Bob Stromberg [Music] well thank you very much I was thinking we can pull this together we can make this work and create a sense of community and a really that's what I wanted I want to do deny want to create a sense of community a sense of family here because I'm gonna how many of you here even even tonight are from families okay just a couple so I was thinking what better way to create a sense of community than by singing a song together because some of you've heard the expression music is the universal language how many of you have heard that yeah that's a lie that's absolutely untrue few things are better than music I found that dividing families right down the middle at least that was true in my own home so I was thinking what is this song that we could sing that everybody would pull us together that everybody was would enjoy and I went right back to my roots to get this song I used to sing this song every and I little Church back in Pennsylvania we sing a song every Wednesday night and every Sunday night somebody raised their hand say pastor can we sing it again and then he look at Austria at the piano and she begin to play and we would sing and I thought what better place than right here at bananas tonight to sing this song so let's just sing it together join it or let it ladies on the high part just soar well will you laugh but if you don't soar that that's that's when the intonation starts to drop and that's when we get in trouble so just soar join in everyone and I would just say sir if at any point if you feel you feel emotionally caught up in the beauty of these lyrics from the wonderfulness a glia want to know right up front there's no manipulation happening on my part stop it we just cut that out there's no manipulation happen on my part okay it's just the power of the music here we go heroin how many of you know this son the same couple okay mr. warm up or voices just this group over here oh just that group just right there Oh keep it going picking out picking out picking out back there oh ho ho go home Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam [Music] there's our mister [Music] and the skies are not cloudy all day sing it up Oh listen home home on the range where the deer and the at where the deer and the Antelope play where so where seldom is you lady watch your first name Britt [Music] Britt maybe if you didn't sing quite so loudly right thank you and the skies are not cloudy all day exit that maybe you don't know is another song where if half of the group sings oh give me except for you Britt be a little sob the other half god bless you if the other half if the other half sings this other song at the same time so that actually technically technically we having two songs happening simultaneously it would be beautiful just glorious so let's sing it together here we are here's that other song I'll give you a line sing it back to me my homes in Montana my homes in Montana I wear a bandana my Spurs are of silver my pony is gray via my Spurs are of silver my pony is gray while out on the rages My Luck never changes with food and the stirrup I gallop oh yeah with foot in the stirrup i calif oh okay from the top now ready my horse my my man can read my net damage to put you out of the grave looking to change the butcher oh you putting a strip of nerve away can't you just smell the trail here yeah my home's in Montana I wear a bandana me Mom okay Britt maybe if you didn't sing it all right I didn't think this was gonna be necessary but fortunately I think that we're doing all right on time okay Thor okay I was just hold these up here you can read that word translate that picture will sing together my home ready let's sing my home's in Montana again I realize this could be Colorado or Wyoming but we're gonna stay in Montana just for this evening okay I wear a bandana actually my Spurs are O's strong tendency to sing my boots are of leather focus right there that's good music I know I know my pony is gray Wow out on the range is some of you are reading that first word that's good trust that mom My Luck never changes with foot in the stirrup I gallop oh wait excellent students now again I didn't think that this was really necessary use these selfic are so fortunate I think that we're still doing okay in time okay so I would just flip through these cards while strumming all right sir whenever you you mind helping out with this that variant hop right up here good hold these for me it would be you [Applause] what's first name that's right say hello Tim hello bananas now I met him he would say that hello Tim you got some friends out there to him I'd say yeah that guy right behind you there he's your best buddy I could tell cuz he was really excited when you got your first I thought he was sick but not because when I looked out there originally I was hoping for him but he put his head right in his lap that's that's why I saw you Tim so let's follow him area Kim let's get a little rhythm going here we'll sort of lean that way and then back to backtrack here we are Paulito my homes in Montana go I wear a band go McDowell Spurs are of stealth my pony is quick oh wow yeah my forget to rhythm never go with food in the Scout I gather actually Tim a little faster now my home right here dammit here we are my home to Montana I pick it up I wear a bad first boot my furs a horse my pony is Wow Wow my lilac My Luck now my luck never foot well burden duster oh yeah job thanks that's fine that's fine that's good Hey as as Tim's having a seat there I would just like to take a quick moment if I could thank you personally Tim pardon yeah for taking the time to pick these up and put them in a nice big file because some of your friends will leave laying all over the place to him but not you and I think that speaks highly of you and your family and perhaps all you come into contact with on a daily on the day on the basis so I salute you for your neatness let's hear one more time for Tim what do you say okay let's just do this will they fight right down the middle you folks gonna sing my horse in Montana but you forced to begin Oh give me Montana I Buffalo go my Spurs and yet my phony is gray while seldom is heard my luck a chain work with foot are not cloudy i gallop last top of the course will harmony everyone oh just some women now just a man now and just Britt the skies are not cloudy all day [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank says great Tim thanks Brett I wrote my first song when I was like 12 or 13 years of age and I wrote it on guitar although just as a little musical background here because I know you're fascinated I I didn't always play guitar in fact when I was a child growing up my favorite TV program this is fascinating my favorite TV program and my parents favorite TV program and my grandparents favorite TV program this is this different or what it was Lawrence Welk and I wanted I wanted more than anything in life to be like Myron Floren so how many of you remember who Myron was is I think I think he still is he played plays the accordion I wanted to I want to be like Myron so there was a lady in my town I grew up by the way in this little town called Port Allegheny Pennsylvania just out of interest this has never happened but I wonder if anybody here has ever been to port allegany before hey Britt okay I thought you seemed vaguely familiar to me so anyway there was a lady in my town who who taught accordion we you remember and she came she came up to my house when I was five years old and she brought along a two-by-four it was like this long and I on the 2x4 she put white pieces of adhesive tape to represent the white keyboard there white keys in the keyboard and then she put shorter pieces of black tape to represent the black keys and she put the board between my shoulder and my knee and she went like this she said Bobbie can you go like this on the board and I did it she said she said young man I could teach you how to play the accordion if your folks can pay so I took lessons for seven and a half years three years on the board and then I actually got a I might have played that thing the rest of my life had I not gone away to a Bible Camp now how many of you've ever been to a Bible Camp here but it's not any summer camp without now you know it's like that it's the last night of camp but my camp it was Friday's there's a big campfire going and in the the bugs are coming in and the sunset and then the boats are shifting keys they go by on the lake and and then there's a time of sort of upbeat rah rah singing and then the head counselor at that time who was the most responsible person really in charge he was like 17 he would stand up by the by the campfire and and well first there would be a time upbeat singing and then the the speaker would speak for a really long time and and then when that was done the campfires kind of dying down getting kind of smoky there's just a little coals there now at this point is pitch black and the head counselor stand up by that smokey if I already go all right the sonam it's it's it's 11:15 you guys have down you're right you guys have down here till quarter to twelve lights out midnight absolute latest then all the college counselors would disappear and we'll be left around that romantic campfire by ourselves now do not miss the significance of one hundred and fifty junior high school boys alone around this romantic campfire and though it's true all the boys were on one side and all the girls on the other those semicircles do nudge on the edges there of course and it was pretty exciting and I remember the couple of the older junior high school boys I think they'd hung back a few years they they stood up with their folk guitars and they played these romantic folk song in retrospect they prep I as I remember them now they probably they weren't really probably all that Roma certainly the lyrics were not very romantic or even the melodies I think it was hormones I think that's what it was it caused that songs like this you know this is sing this with me my separate Michael row the boat ashore ha Michael row the boat ashore [Music] then I would stand up with my accordion and played beer barrel polka and because of this I had no friends my age and I came back from camp on them and my dad met me at the bus and I said dad I know you will understand this but I just can't play this instrument anymore I just feel too embarrassed about it he goes your mother and I will discuss this and then when we got home they went in the kitchen right outside my my door I heard the whole conversation was like 90 seconds tops he came into my room and he goes where your mom and I have discussed this at length and frankly we just feel Bob like you are throwing it away seven and a half years of lessons young man throwing it away $350 accordian young man throw away $25 bored throw it away if you want to learn guitar that's fine but your mom and I have helped you all weekend you're on your own that's this is that discouraged me one bit I went out and bought a brand new guitar $14.50 interestingly enough even in the early 60s this was not a quality instrument but it was on this guitar that I wrote the first song that I ever wrote I would like to try to perform it for you tonight the way I performed it from my parents then the night that I said to them mom and dad just signed up I've decided what I want to become a professional songwriter and now I'd like to sing for you the first song that I ever just wrote incidentally I know just a quick aside here I know long I know you're anxious but I no longer have I no longer have that guitar I have it but I don't play it very hardly ever I the following Christmas my 13th I was starting to realize the importance of developing a macho image which is so evident in me today so I wanted to learn how to hunt but unfortunately my dad did not hunt and my mother didn't hunt and my older sister didn't hunt with a gun so it was a problem for me at that point but my uncle my favorite uncle because he always had solutions to everything he came up with a solution for my dad he said to my dad his name was also Bob my uncle said hey Bob how about it for Christmas if you buy Bobby a bow so for my 13th Christmas he bought me this this bow and then the following year he got me this arrow and the bow was 30 pound test anybody know what that means 30 pound test is that very powerful young man 30 pounds yeah I mean could it kill something good I don't I mean if there was a bug on the tip already I had no idea how powerful was thirty pounds that meant nothing nothing to me in fact I didn't even say 30 pounds I said thirty libs so I was completely confused and I went down in my bedroom on Christmas morning I didn't want to shoot the arrow outside because there's a lot of snow in Pennsylvania where I live so I went down to my bedroom on Christmas morning and on my dresser left over from Halloween there's this pumpkin which wasn't gross actually because it was all flat green and fuzzy that's my mom my mom hadn't moved I thought would thirty Libs be powerful enough to penetrate what had once after all been a living creature so I pulled this thing back thirty maybe thirty one the fuzz the seed the Rhine one pair of socks disappeared from the top of my dresser there was a kind of an eerie sound and there was a green mist and there was a fragrance I looked all over that room to find that that arrow it was nowhere I mean it was just it was gone several days later I went to take my guitar off the wall was hanging on this wall strap I couldn't move my guitar because the arrow had gone through the center hole out the wall and pinned it right to the wall so I no longer have that guitar I have it it's just real uncomfortable with that point but it was on that guitar I wrote the first song I ever wrote like to try to perform it for you now the way I performed from my parents then the night that I said to them mom and dad decide that I'm just I know that one become a professional songwriter now the first song I ever just wrote one two tres cuatro so I could do it I could do it Oh Shay going to go and see surfer stamp well you know they say that he's a real neat man he plays the guitar and he hits a beat man that guy's really neat ooh everybody in the chorus come on like you mean it [Music] my mom was really moved by this no I she was I knew because she had her face in her hands and she was just shaking all over so I knew she was deeply touched my dad just mumbled something about my life [Laughter] I would like now to perform for you one of the simplest things yet I think one of the most effective illusions that I've ever discovered and perfected all by myself all right I realize some of you were saying why would you want to discover or perfect that all by yourself this was an accident I was working for kindergarten through third grade 600 K to three or seated on cross-legged on a gymnasium floor I was trying to teach them another illusion in fact they did learn this so being more coordinated mostly you could probably receive more quickly try this once everybody just put your hands like this yes good now begin with one of your pointing fingers not both just one straight not one and then the next finger to it straightens out and the next and the little finger now if your hands on the right position you have another little finger right there that would be good be thankful for that that one opens up right down the row till they're all open now the last one of you just opened that's the first one you close right down the row there's a little one another little one till they're all closed that's very simple and very boring I know and unless unless you practice this every day you can start to speed it up starts to look kind of neat well that that maybe even the awesome that I heard there that that's the kind of response I was trying to get from this k23 group I got nothing zip squat and I knew why it was 8:15 in the morning I had been driving for four hours to get to the school from the in New England at the time icy roads terribly icy roads I'm looking through one little piece of clear window down by the white bottom of the wiper there white knuckling at nervous wreck I'm a half an hour late to the school I went in and I said you know I'm so sorry you know I know I'm supposed to be here but the roads are terrible they closed the Turnpike and he said no no you didn't miss the show I have the children waiting for you he had 600k to three years in there for half an hour on a cold gym floor waiting for me to get there you people know the attention span of a K to 3 R and a good day total maximum was 30 to 40 seconds they've been in there for a half an hour I just had children try this put your hands just like this anything to get their attention put your hands like this they all did it even the youngest kindergarten students in the front put their hands together I said let's begin slowly and go down the road they did just fine I said no children it doesn't look like much if you do it slowly does it a little bit of practice you can start to speed it up starts to look kind of neat watch see I wasn't thinking how tense I had been for four hours starts to look kind of neat 600 kids going so I would like this just to kind of shake out the tension kind of a natural thing to do I thought but I must have held onto it for like a nanosecond too long cuz his kindergarten boy over here in the front made this time with this nose he went and his teacher went so I held on to a little bit longer till I heard the child say it's rubber I got the impression he was the kind of little boy at the end of the week she'd off me going so I held on to a little bit longer this is true people I actually heard his teacher say it is rubber okay I'll show you another fun illusion watch this [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hi I brought along a prop here see if I get this lots of fun things you can do with it a simple prop like this I'll show you a couple watch this [Laughter] [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] now all I'm doing of course is bending my knees and going down and most of you will find when you bend your knees you will go down you almost have to do that you also have to keep your back straight if you don't keep your back straight you bend your knees you still go down that's called what falling that's just that's the scientific word but it's not as effective as an illusion if you don't keep your back straight I don't think it's just I mean maybe you won't even notice the difference but by the way I noticed you people were laughing and enjoying this and these people back here are going I don't get it this is like educational theatre for you people over there what's this this is if you don't keep your back straight I don't think it says you see for yourself I mean come on people you tell me what is this so you have to keep your back nice and straight I'll show you how I do this I take a step behind a do in front so you can see I take a step behind I bend my knee but I keep my back straight that's easy I take another step it's straight its straight its straight I'm on my knee now my back is still straight but now I can bend my back why is it ok you can't see it right so I can go down like this and you people think that my head is connected well it is it's connected you also want to make sure you get behind whatever you're using okay and by the way just you're being very nice you're very nice much better than with you were fourth or I think work we're coming together now it feels like we're back at least to where when he started so that's a good thing but I can just tell with some of the man we're kinda looking at your whys and going I'm never gonna try that you know but you will and when you do you want to keep your back straight make sure you get behind this is not effective out here alright so get behind there and you also want to make sure you keep behind the couch of the counter or the the table there you also want to make sure that each step that you take is about the size of the steps that you took and about the size of the next steps that you're going you may not think this is important I just don't think it's nearly as effective when that second step is not the same time my family and I we went on this vacation and we went to this McDonald's in southern Illinois that was not the goal of our vacation we were just passed we're passing through there and they're all the same there's like a serving area here in there's like I mean eating area and there's a divider and a serving area back here this particular McDonald's was a little different because the divider we usually it's a brass railing or a planter box or something this divider was an aquarium that sat upon a a box with dimensions about like my curtain the aquarium went into the ceiling it's like eight nine feet long two three feet thick and from the serving area back here you kind of find yourself drawn to looking through past those plants and the fish to the squiggly shapes of people leading their burgers on the other sides this is one of the few times in my life have actually ever gone into a public place uninvited unpaid certainly and largely unappreciated though I'll show you what I did what this is something I did I'm not recommending this to any of you just so you know [Laughter] [Applause] [Applause] thank you could you sort of grab that there sir yeah thank you very much just anywhere it'll go my wife Judy and I have two sons Natan Lars they're now 25 and 23 and they're both married Lars just got married last May so I'll tell you after 25 years and our boys went to to college locally a near us so we saw him a lot during their their four years of college so I mean after 25 years it's like they're gone and man we are just we are free you know it's like they Lars got married nice and said to Lars and Kate you know goodbye it's been great you know come on back when you can show me some grandkids that kind of thing so anyway we were we're free now and so last summer we decided to go on this road trip and it was great we am in a road trip you know just the two women on road trips since the boys weren't car seats you know so we just took off and went to we went well to visit the kids now I'm actually kind of struggling with this whole thing about having having them gone like I can't fake it really I remember when Nate was like this little four-and-a-half he's 6 2 and about 200 pounds in the 6-3 and now he was that little four and a half pound little 21 inch slur slippery purple guy there in my hands you knows seconds after he was born I didn't get to hold him long because the nurse took him out of my hands I took him over those heating recall is heating yeah wasn't a cab in microwave who said that [Applause] however how old are you 12 we'll be watching the TV thing about you someday I have a feeling about that no you know those machines they haven't make it McDonald's to keep the French fries warm I mean that's what it was it's just same unit she put him in there she was doing what nurses doing and she said mr. Strummer look at this I went over to the machine and there was a little a digital readout there said 4.5 pounds and then there was a ruler right in the edge of the machine there she took my baby by the top of the head and Obama's feet and she went 20 why don't we say 21 and then she she let go of him and you know what he did don't you went bowing right right back in the boy was it shaped because he'd been in this bowing position since he was like pre peanut same since the pre peanut Oh phase of pregnancy I think that's the proper term he had been this little boy here he didn't like sprawling out you point like this and then nurses do this other nurses here at night nurses oh gee I know I'm not supposed to say this but nurses do this thing called these 12-step tuck and fold which I say carefully and they do it quickly they do it very quickly they put this little naked baby in the piece in the middle of a piece of material about the size of a small tent and then with blinding speed they go and when they are done this baby is wrapped up tight seamlessly tight around the neck turning slightly blue and father's always say yes excuse me to the nurse excuse me ma'am this is my baby yeah I'm concerned about the color is it isn't that a little bit tight and of course nurses always say the same size same thing you know they do they say no they like it like that you know and they probably do where they know no better from lack of oxygen to their brain at that very moment this was the child I brought home from the hospital little four and a half pound ball with a head on top there and I did not bring this child home to an empty house or because my mom was there I just a quick aside here I love my mom and she loves me and I tell her we tell each other that often and if she were here I'm not talking behind her back because she if she were here tonight and and I said these things I mean she's heard these before and if she were here she would find them once again mildly amusing but I always thought that my mom was kind of nervous she would say I'm not nervous just concerned I thought my mom was kind of fidgety kind of jittery I'm not fidgety jittery just careful my mom was the kind of mom who but my whole boyhood it was like oh don't don't sit on that stool you know you're you might fall off and hurt yourself well don't just stand by that stool there your little legs are getting it tired oh don't put on that scarf you know you you're gonna get a rash oh don't take off the scarf you're gonna catch pneumonia anything could give one pneumonia in my family pneumonia was a constant threat don't stand by that door you're gonna get pneumonia don't sleep by that bed by the window you're gonna get enough don't open the fridge you're gonna get pneumonia don't climb that tree you could fall down and get pneumonia last week I was sharing this I had a doctor come up to me and he said you know your mom's not so stupid I have a guy right now he may not make it he's gotten him on your table fell out of a tree this is my mom who came to help out for two and a half weeks it was her idea totally I said we I said two I'm gonna go over to the hospital get Judy and the baby I'll be back an hour maybe an hour and a half she said well which I don't know mom could be an hour could be an hour and a half well why would it be an hour an hour and a half it could be an hour I I don't know Mom I don't I don't know the few I could I could get a flat and catch pneumonia anything could happen along the way went over the hospital got cheating the baby came back several hours later okay get the picture drove in the driveway there I took this little baby I said let me take him and I got my got my first child there and I and I got my hand up in this 12-step tuck and fold and I weaseled my hands up behind there until the my fingers were behind his head so I got out I might mean I understand this I went through the courses and then on the bottom the bottom of my hand is against the bottom of my baby so I I'm in there with he's not coming out you get the picture okay I went to the screen door hey mom that's okay when we put that baby in his crib we knew he was safe you wanna know why do you wanna know why do you wanna know why cuz he couldn't move if we put him like this we came back an hour later he's like this he can't move he has no muscles in his neck I mean they're there but they're like rubber bands sighs and then you forget this his parents whether it's two weeks or six weeks or three months I don't know but he was laying on his tummy in the living room rug one day was so exciting he had his head like this you know laying on the floor he went like this one and then the danger begins cuz then these babies learn how to crawl fast we clocked our second son lar 17 miles an hour linoleum floor was a remarkable thing and coffee tables are built at the exact height to hit babies right on that painful crown of the head there remember Lars came spinning in there oh that hurts I'm so sorry you see that bad table right there here let's try this you duck your head and crawl under that a boy and a boy all the way and then up we go okay now you try on your own here we go crawl crawl duck good boy up we here he up we go but never hit that table again it's a smart kid not our first child oh I'm so sorry that hurts doesn't it here we try it on your own duck underneath okay crawl can you scraping you feel like scraping your scrapings how big oh can you try it on your own crawl crawl croco no no no no hit the duck your head crack up no no it's like let me help you up it was like the kid the kid was denying his own dimensions which we're changing as his head got bigger and bigger and bigger this is the same boy decide not to watch at least fifteen months old that's fine with me you know I said you know what you're safe for sitting right where you are right there but when he could walk I said Nate didn't come to dad he went right for the screen door I couldn't believe it he'd been watching me for months doing that little thing with my open the screen or he knew just how to do it went down the stairs down the driveway heading right we're watching we know we could catch him but he's going right for the road lived in New England at the time little country idyllic little country road going through this New England town but it was really a state highway it's supposed to go 15 miles an hour it's right by our house there but the town police said you know as long as you have a town sticker 50s fine just don't be drinking this scared us you know so I told my friend Roger about this he's a child psychologist part time mainly just does it in the evenings on his own kids I said Roger I'm a little concerned because Nate's you know 15 months old and wonderful little boy but he does seem pretty suicidal for that age and Roger I explained it to him he said no Roger said why don't you just try the diversion method I said well what is it exactly so well your boy will go toward the road you divert him away and he'll go toward and you die ever it's called the diversion method I said Roger I I know this child I'll I'll divert and he'll just re in he'll vert on me yeah well of course you will Bob but you're the parent you have more patience so you'll went out first day of the diversion method we put this boy's sandbox clear back here but the arborvitaes bushes that you could not see or hear the road the garage in the arborvitaes bushes first day by the sandbox the diversion method having a good time there buddy and a boy playing your sandbox whoa there fella where are you going now no no no you stay in that sandbox yeah boy oh there's skipper no no no you stay in your sandbox don't eat the sand you're getting them on you I mean after the four or five thousandth vert of the day you just think you're gonna go out of your mind the wood stove in our house it used to get so hot maybe I over packed it it used to glow orange on the bottom black cast iron quarter it used to glow and I was afraid it was gonna crack her drip or burn down the chimney whatever these wood stoves do and my boys as soon as they are old enough to talk they're saying oh damn please could we make that sound with our hands you know my friend Roger he said I had an idea you want to keep those boys from touching that stove let them touch it one time hey Bob they'll never touch it again I said you're right Roger they'll have no hands I actually thought let's put the kids in the Attic you know put a hose up there feed them a couple times a day it's not a great life but at least they're not gonna burn their hands off or get run over in the road well I'm rambling here I shouldn't even gotten into this but well I guess I should finish the story the problem with the road was solved by accident we had this cat [Laughter] notice I say we had this cat cat's name was lucky one for a walk one day Nate's about four I've got one of his hands his mom's got the other beautiful autumn day in New England navy blue sky Maple Leafs pinning down frost on the grass walking down the edge of the driveway I saw first what had been lucky and lucky was really long I don't want to see that cat Nate loved that cat Nate used to swing that cat so I pulled him out of the way his mom got in there but he saw something in there look familiar I don't know hunka collar piece of hard to tell right at that moment bad cat oh you want to talk about a teachable moment I got write down and I sat down I was at all Nate you're right lucky was a bad kid and that's how he got so long he never won in that road again cuz he'd seen the cat in the road of course we had to go through this business all over again two years later when his younger brother came along so his heart thrown those cats under trucks it is this chasm hang on I'm getting uh I hear ya I'm getting a message here okay move it along move it along okay I don't actually have an earpiece I'm just hearing voices tonight though but I will try to wrap things up here you know as long as I feel I feel like we've come so far tonight as an audience certainly from when well when I came up on stage we you've gelled I feel like we've come together as a family and and you're gonna be able to leave happy now and I'm and I'm pleased that we were able to do that feel like a community and I I feel like I feel well I feel like I feel like your weight it's not like your family but I feel like you're a a strange audience er I don't know anybody and that makes me vulnerable I feel like I can share things with you that I couldn't with my own family so I'd like to just end with a confession tonight which I've never told anybody but I did something as a child and sometimes if you say if you just share it this is not a funny part now all right sometimes if you just share it it makes you feel better so I I did this when I was six and my cousins and I and actually I could show you it might be better than always an acting school they said show don't tell so I'll show you this is I'm six years old my mom has sent me to my room for yes I am wrapping up my mom has sent me to my room with these words wait until your father gets on that's what I'm doing as this piece begins and then you can witness our conversation Thor left this sticky stuff all over the seat up okay waiting for my father what know what wasn't bad it wasn't bad only reason mom's service to my room she says that we shouldn't do it what do you was it bad you know well me and her me and Earl and John climbed up in the apple tree and as soon as soon as we got up at all these cows came underneath it about 50 of them that's why the reason why we couldn't get down on the tree cuz they're so mean we would we would climb down to the owls all over the place and that's what we didn't and that's where we say we should do we wasn't bad telling you well they almost cows they still win mousou we peed up [Applause] all they'd like to thank you everybody great to be with you thank you okay I would like to I need to get a volunteer here tonight so you can cut the guy in the plaid red plaid kind of plaid --is-- red I can't really talk yeah come on up here yeah come on up we're sort of on a time schedule what's your name Paul good to meet you Paul I'm gonna have you do something for me okay now just so that they so they know we have not you don't you do not know what we're doing here you've not done this before is that correct okay all right so Paul here's I want you to do if you would just roll up your left sleeve that's the hardest part getting that button undone there good boy all right okay Paul now I'm gonna do this with my hands my hands are gonna be in this exact position now all I want you to do Paul is to bring up your left hand and rest the the bottom of your hand right here and then just kind of kind of like this and then while that's rested kind of scratch right there kind of slowly scratch right there yeah I can do it even more even though more slowly if you do it if you do it you'll be the star honest I promise you okay that's right okay then from that position I want you to bring your index finger up and I want you to bring it up you'll bring it up and you'll put it right there go ahead and put it right there your index finger put it right in there you can you can actually bring it your hand up at that point and just kind of move it don't push real hard cuz I won't be able to hold much sure but just kind of wiggle it back and forth right there that's the spot okay look real careful so you can see which knuckle that is Paul do you see which one it is okay all right then bring it back down where it was and then like you have a steel in your hand kind of go like that alright or BB I mean okay and then hold that finger up and a little bit closer to this place right here and I'm gonna go like this and I'm just gonna pinch right like that and then you pull your whole hand away okay go ahead pull it away okay I pinch and then you pull away it would not you're not doing real fast just kind of pull away in this slide your hand away okay that's good okay now let's try it you can actually slide your hand all the way away okay so I'll be going like this and I'll just whisper I'll say okay Paul that'll be a really good cue and then you'll bring up your left hand that's right right there nice low kind of scratch then that's right and then the index finger comes up to that place kind of moves right back and forth that's right and you can wiggle a little bit more that's right okay and then bring it down and then like you have a BB that's right and then bring up the index finger by this place and I'll not not quite that far though right about there and then I'll pinch it and then you pull it all your whole hand just pull it right away that's right okay all right Paul just stay right here I'm gonna bring this prop up on stage all right we'll put that right here and we'll begin look we have the lights please that would be great I'll tell you a story [Laughter] when I was a child I slept every night in the room by my father's study with a light from the hall shirred on the wall and gave life to my shadow buddies a play in three acts written by big Bobby Stromberg age seven entitled the rabbit in the Hound Act one this would be the rabbit hey Dad can you open up the door just a little bit more please then my father's shadow would loom on the side of the room exceeding his normal size and almost bleeding he'd say I don't mind if you play but no more horsing around with those guys you hear horsing around dad come on son I'm talking to you the rabbit who will ever forget the first time they heard the beautiful and yet horrific tale of Bambi [Laughter] hey Dad come another drink of water please no son you need more water you can wait until morning oh yeah dad that's right I don't need any water I could cross the Sirah ha desert with no the rabbit and the Hound act the final act Wilson I said go to sleep no more monkey business monkey business monkey business indeed [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] hey Dad the end [Applause] you

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Keywords: Bob Stromberg, Bananas Comedy, Funny Bone, Clean Comedy, Clean Humor, Bananas, Comedy, Hilarious, Humor, Hysterical, Comic, Laugh, Entertainment, Entertaining, Witty, Clever, Christian, Christian Comedian, Family, Comedian, Amusing, Comical, Laughable, Merry, Joking, Clean Jokes, Crazy, LOL, ROTFLOL, Silly, Shadow Puppets, Cows, Like, Mom, Dad, Pony, Spurs, Cowboy, Montana, Bandana

Id: RI4UDwYGtzE

Length: 58min 9sec (3489 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 14 2019