54: Mindy Rickles on her comedy career and the influence she got from her dad, Don Rickles

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Education, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 11 May 2017

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Mindy Rickles joins Rachael today and it's a good one! Mindy tells Rachael about growing up "in virtual squalor in Beverly Hills," survived her upbringing by Barbara and Don Rickles and spent most every Christmas and Hannukah in Las Vegas on the lawn of the Sahara Hotel where she was entertained by the cooks and maids. They discuss Mindy's comedy career and how Jeff Garlin encouraged her to start doing standup. Mindy has performed all around the country at the most prominent comedy clubs and has been in several movies and TV shows. Mindy tells Rachael her early years dating in Los Angeles, before she met her husband, who plays so many roles in Mindy's life in between her naps and bubble baths. Rachael is fascinated by her growing up around people like Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, but that was just a typical Tuesday for Mindy. They also touch on their mutual love for true crime. Mindy could definitely be a forensic scientist. Mindy's natural knack for self-deprecating humor makes this episode a must listen!!

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0:00.0	Hello everyone welcome back to the episode of B here for a while I have such a
0:19.0	fun guest today I'm super super excited about her she's a hilarious comedian who's performed all over the country.
0:26.2	She's an actress who recently had a role in Jeff Garland's movie
0:29.2	dealing with idiots.
0:30.5	She grew up in a legendary comedy household, as she's the daughter of the late Don Rickles.
0:35.0	She's a wife, mother of two, and she doesn't age. She looks freakishly young.
0:40.0	The lovely Mindy Rickles.
0:42.0	Thank you so much.
0:43.6	I love that intro, Rachel.
0:45.4	You really don't age.
0:46.4	It freaks me out.
0:47.4	Oh, please, you don't know how much is going on
0:50.1	and what kind of strapping of the head I have and strings like a puppet.
0:54.0	I have a puppeteer behind me that you don't notice who's pulling everything back.
0:59.0	Yes.
1:00.0	It's just an elaborate like system back here.
1:02.0	So much happening there. There's chords and
1:03.5	wires and buttons. It's very, Elon Musk is running it behind me. It's very major
1:08.8	what's going on there. I wonder if that's how they did plastic surgery like back in like the old days where they would just like have like a big headpiece over and then just somehow
1:16.4	Oh they did like Joan Crawford. Really? Yeah, they actually have oh please I studied this yes they had like a strap you you know, like a chin strap, they slept in at night,
1:24.6	which of course did nothing.
1:26.4	And then they would pull with like some kind of cords in their behind their ear in the
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