What I Learned Attending My Own Eulogy & Jeanne Sedello Tells It Like It Was

 May 8, 2026

   Have you ever been at a funeral and thought to yourself: "This eulogy is so touching. If only that dead person up there in that casket could have been alive to hear this!" 

   Well, last Saturday night I got that wish granted as the Prescott Western Heritage Foundation presented me a Western Heritage Keeper Lifetime Achievement Award. And, while it was absolutely touching and delightful, I did have some issues. Rather than nitpick my own eulogy, here is how I think Honest Abe would have responded to his.

"Lincoln Doing His Best Kramer Take"

The Top Six Complaints from Abraham Lincoln at His Own Eulogy

1. "Where does he get off saying that? The Missouri Compromise had nothing to do with my decision."

2. "I barely knew this Jackass. Why is he pontificating on my life?"

3. "Well, that's all about him and has nothing to do with me."

4. "He sure knows a lot for being so damn dumb. A couple of those dates are totally wrong!"

5. "You wanna know who was a joke? George McClellen was a joke!"

6. "I really didn't appreciate that last joke."

"Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"

—Typical Lincoln Eulogy Standup "Humor"

Jeanne Sedello's Full Tribute

   The crew at the Prescott Western Heritage Foundation had to edit Jeanne's comments for the tribute last Saturday night but here for your enjoyment is the full transcription of Jeanner's remarks:

Jeanne Sedello IS La Gata!

Jeanne's Entire Tribute

   The first thought that came in to my mind when Bob asked me to say a few words was “The nerve of this guy”!!!! But then…my second thought was “What an honor”! So here I am and it’s best to go to the beginning and give a little history!
   Bob doesn’t know this, but I knew OF him before I actually met him. I was working at Kool FM radio and you know the whole TV news, radio, journalist’s community likes to gossip a lot… so I’d heard thru the grapevine about this guy that was a nationally renowned cartoonist! I mean he had been in Playboy magazine… his character Honky-tonk Sue was world famous…and talk was.. that it was going to be made in to a movie! Bob was part of the counter-culture Razz Revue team that everyone wanted to be part of…he was close pals with Ed Mell! It was a very cool, creative and artistic gang he hung out with! His resume was very impressive!
   So the first time I met him… I went to a ball game with a guy I was dating! My guy worked at the New Times and so did Bob and they were both on the New Times slow pitch team. Well, knowing what I did about Bob, I thought he’d probably be an arrogant Ass and more than a little “full of himself”! But the person I met was, SO NOT THAT! Bob was so warm & funny, so welcoming & inviting, just really down to earth! It was like he was meeting a brand new friend and he was super excited about it! I thought to myself…’what a good guy’!! This was 1981 - ‘82?.
   Cut to April 1987: I had just been fired from KOOL Radio because…well, the program director hated me! But a couple of days later, I got a call from KSLX asking me to come in to the morning show and maybe do a soft audition. They wanted me to sit in on the Jones and Boze morning show to see how I fit in. I had done mornings on radio before (not my favorite time) but a girl’s got to work so, I jumped at the chance.
   Well, as soon as I walked in…I felt the warm, funny, welcoming vibe from this wonderful man who came to be like a brother to me. We just hit it off and I was hired that same day to work with the guys! Bob and I became partners in crime to some of the most outrageous, skits, pranks & “lawsuits” that radio has ever seen.

The Jones, Boze & Jeanne Show

1986-1994-ish, then

   Let me explain morning radio programs in the 80’s and 90’s:
   That time on morning radio was super-charged! It was the dawn of shock jocks like Howard Stern and others! Here in Phoenix it was very competitive! The goal was to be number one in the market and every morning show was trying to out-do the other morning jocks to get the highest ratings. The more controversial, the more outrageous…the better! Proud to say we were number 1 a few times!
   Our morning show was from 5:30 to 10 a.m! David K. Jones worked the board, and was anchor. Bob was the pretty much the Star of the show. He put his spin on the news and was the primary participant and story teller in mostly all of our stunts. I was hired to be the producer, which was a throw-away title because we all produced the show, but I reported the traffic, I added color, in more ways than one, and I did whatever was necessary to set up a skit or a stunt and to facilitate all of Bob’s antics.
   So…One of the most memorable shows was the Indian Uprising! (of course we don’t say Indians anymore we call them Native American’s or Indigenous people) It was April 1…April fool’s day and we decided to play a prank on the people who start listening after 7 a.m.! The way we did it was we told the people who listened from 5:30 to 6:59 to help us fool the after 7 a.m. audience… by calling in to our program to report that the Pima/Maricopa Native Americans were mad and were rising up and taking over Pima Road! (Pima road boarders the Reservation & the city of Scottsdale.) In any case they were to report that the natives were really raising hell, blocking traffic, taking over businesses in Scottsdale, it was happening now and it was a mess! That was the premise and Bob told them to use their imagination! I’ll tell you… they sure did! After 7 o’clock we kept getting calls from our listeners about Indians on horseback in Scottsdale, setting up blockades on Pima Road, riding down Scottsdale Road, stopping cars… reports of a fire at the corner Safeway Store…everything was chaotic! It was outrageous and it was getting worse by the minute! We had set up a native American friend of Bob’s to come in to the studio… his name was Wally Hualipai! David K. was playing sound effects of a native ceremonial drum in the background. Wally was there to tell us what the native were demanding! We had prepared him with a couple of lines to say…and I’ll never forget how he flubbed his lines and made the funniest mistake! The drums were playing in the background and he was supposed to say “These native drums get my blood boiling” …BUT he was so nervous and not used to talking on the air… so instead he said, “These native drums bring back my boil”! We all burst out laughing so hard! BUT just then we saw a Scottsdale police officer come in to the studio! Apparently we had overloaded or flooded the 911 system and we were in big trouble!! We had to shut everything down immediately and that was just the tip of the ice berg! I mentioned lawsuits earlier??? Well, the FCC didn’t find us funny and fined us somewhere around $35,000 for perpetrating a fraud or something legal like that! But, we did get a lot of publicity from the stunt!
   There were countless other stunts like “Bob is a Woman”! In this skit, I put make-up and a wig on Bob, dressed him like a woman and drove him in my little Fiat convertible to a couple construction sites. You understand Bob is broadcasting remotely all the time! We drive up to this construction site where the guys are up a couple of stories and Bob is waving to the guys, making his voice higher, trying to sound like a female… and asking them to come down. The guys are wolf whistling or cat calling and waving back…VERY excited! Then a couple of guys came down to get a closer look! I’ll tell you they couldn’t run away fast enough!
   Another brilliant stunt came about when Bob decided that he would test out the durability and strength of adult diapers! On this day, he and I drove to the corner Safeway where he would remotely broadcast in front of the store! People were going in and out, he’s interviewing them, and he’s constantly drinking water and explaining what he’s trying to do! He’s standing there in his cowboy boots, his hat and his adult diaper! Can you picture it? Finally, after a couple of hours…he drank enough water…and sure enough, that diaper held the flow!
   On the “Black like Bob” show, Bob went in to a community park, a predominately black park… “Eastlake Park”, and tried to fit in! I was on vacation on that day so I don’t know what the guys were thinking but if I’d have been there I would have told him, “there’s no way they’re gonna believe you’re black Bob!” On the most memorable part of the show, one of the guys in the park told Bob to buy him some crack or else! This is on the air! I don’t remember if Bob actually bought the crack but I do know his life was threatened! Eventually he was run out of there.
   In other more innocent shows, there was a time I went on vacation to Mazatlan in Mexico. A couple of days in to my vacation, Bob thought it would be a cute bit to try to find me. He called a few hotels in Mazatlan and said, “I’m trying to find our co-host…and wonder if she’s in your hotel! She’s easy to spot, she’s got long dark hair, and oh yeah, she’s Mexican!”
   We ran a contest once, a scavenger hunt where we asked for all kinds of outrageous stunts to win a $10,000 prize. One stunt that our listeners had to accomplish was a poster promoting “The Jones, Boze and Jeanne show on KSLX” on local TV remote broadcasts of the news. For weeks, you would see our fans “photobombing” evening news broadcasts…running across in the background holding up a sign! It was fun and so funny!
   I could go on and on…there were so many shows, so many different stunts, so many characters that Bob portrayed. And you know, he did it all with the same good humor, the same “why not” attitude that he shows in everyday life. If you know him, you know he lives his life with a genuine honesty that’s very rare. I always tell him he’s the most honest person I know. And, he’s the BEST, BEST, BEST story teller! If you’ve ever heard one of his stories, you know he even adds sound effects…it’s fantastic! He makes me laugh so heartily and so easily! I know it’s probably one of the main reasons he was able to catch Cathy! Yeah, he’s a great story teller! Just look at his BLOG! I challenge anyone to try and be that creative, that interesting, that authentic and dedicated every day! Awesome stories, amazing daily art whip-outs, fantastic ‘old vaquero sayings’, it’s at once a snapshot of history and a present day jewel! “Bob Boze Bell’s Big Bad Book of Bad Diary Entries” He’s so talented.
   I’m not even going to touch on his books or his love for the Old West and True West magazine. I’ll just say that we’re all lucky to him in our back yard, representing for Arizona as a nationally recognized “old west historian”!
   The glory days are gone and I had the privilege of working with Bob in radio for 10 years! But more importantly, I’ve had the honor of being his friend for 39 years. He deserves every accolade and award you can give him, especially this lifetime achievement award because, as we older folks say, “they’re plowing in our field”! Seriously though, no one is more deserving! He’s got an incredibly kind heart, and a passion that could fill this room. His laugh is warm and inviting and gives you a big ol’ hug that says…he doesn’t know any strangers…...­except maybe a couple of you guys! He’s honest and true, a genuine good guy. I’m so proud of him and so very proud to be called his friend. I love you brother!

—Jeanne Sedello

   Well, thank you Jeanner. One thing is certain: for a brief moment in time we rocked this town!

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