Brian Marshall & The ROCK 108 Morning Show - "Patrick Loeffler on The Family Feud"

You know how we have this fascination with reality television and game shows and stuff like that and

so many have come from Cedar Rapids over the past year We have somebody on the voice right now.

Yeah, we had Elizabeth Von Pressley who was also on the voice She had there was another variation on

it

was an NBC show another live singing show

J. Ellen right

from

the voice.

Yeah, and we have the

Councilman from Cedar Rapids.

Yeah Councilman Patrick Loeffler

He's joining us right now.

Good morning, council member.

Morning, guys.

How's it going?

It's going great.

You're live here on rock 108 here this morning.

And the family feud, you guys got involved in this.

And Russ and I got to know what's that audition process like?

Well, it's, it's quite the process.

We started back in 2014.

Oh

my

God.

You know, over the past six, seven years have been quite, you know, extreme a little bit.

So we, we went, my wife,

Well, let me start this way.

I guess it all started when we first got married.

We had a daughter and my wife made the comment to me back in when we, oh boy, 89.

We're going to have to have two more kids to when we're going to be on Family Feud.

That's at the tone.

Yes, a kid you're not.

Yeah.

So years later, back in 14, she went through the application process, told us that we were going to do it.

We went through it went through an audition live auditions We made it to the live audition in Chicago and I think it was in like roughly early 16 Did great my daughters and my son my wife and myself.

We did great.

We killed it We made it on to the list to be one of the contestant family Going forward, you know over the years there we get into COVID in 1920 and 1920 and then

you know didn't hear nothing well last year in january or in january of this year i should say my wife got an email saying if are you guys still interested in being a family feud

so after well

yeah we're all in after four years

they can't hear me i don't think can you hear me okay

i can i can hear you fine yep so

after after four years of going dark you just

out

of the blue get a notification from them

we did

So I think we left, I don't know if they, you know, during the COVID times and everything, they went through the reviewing processes of the past interviews and everything, because they didn't have the open interviews like they did.

They sent us that email, we jumped on it, went through live auditions again, interviews on the internet with them, and then we got the invitation to be down there.

May 19th, we

Taped our shows on my birthday this last year.

So Patrick Loeffler is joining us Cedar Rapids City Council member and his family was on the family feuds So your your episodes were airing this week, right?

Yes, yep Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday,

but they were recorded in May

Correct,

so you've been sitting

thing I ever had to do.

Yeah, really you've been sitting on this for so long

Wow How in the world I can

How do you keep it quiet from family, from anybody else that wasn't involved?

It's called an NDA.

I can honestly say it was easy for me and my wife to talk about it because we were both on the show.

We could interact,

but my

daughters, both my daughters and my son, they're significant others.

They had no idea.

And

we

really didn't know have an idea on the other outcomes of the show.

You know, the last one, we didn't see how the standards family, when they, they beat us, we didn't know if they want any money because they shuffled us off the set really quick.

So, you know, just because of that NDA, they don't want you knowing any more than you, than you have to.

And, but it was the hardest thing we had because everybody's always prying at you, trying to get that little bit of, you know, information out of you and everything.

So you went,

you went two for three.

Did it all happen in one day?

Oh my goodness.

Yeah, it was a eight to ten hour day, most days, maybe a little bit longer, depending on how funny Steve was.

Or, you know, if you answer a silly question or answer something questionable, he's going to take advantage of that.

He's a comedian.

I mean, he feeds off that real life stuff.

So it was hilarious.

I had a gutache after the first day because what was really neat is we were in the audience for like the five, six shows before us.

as the audience members, the contestants are the audience members and there's people in the background, you know, a few people who get audience tickets.

But that was really neat to see our friends who we had bonded over that time frame play the games also.

And

did you win the big prize in any of the, you know, what's the last thing called that you do?

The fast money?

Yeah.

Yeah, we did we won 20,000 we won 20,875 dollars over the two games that we got to play

That's amazing.

I've got one question.

We got Patrick Lawfler with us.

He's a Rapid City Council member.

He and his family were on Family Feud this week, and Patrick went up against Ron from the opposing family, and this is up on YouTube.

Six things a wife might spread on her naked

husband.

Top six answers on the board, gentlemen.

Here we go.

Name something spread on bread that a wife might spread on her naked husband friend.

Ron.

Butter.

Butter.

Chocolate.

Chocolate.

Uh, tie score, first one gets it.

Pass or play?

We're gonna play.

We're gonna play.

Hey, Ron, I gotta keep an eye on you, Ron.

Ron got through my eyes, and it's open, but not really.

Man,

A's!

So

it goes over to the lawfully family here

gravy

You got a freaky

wife there, don't you?

We didn't listen to my wife.

She said cream cheese, and if we would have said cream cheese, we would have won

it.

We would have taken that round.

So I've got two questions.

First off, I know I can yell it out from the house, you know, whenever I'm, oh, I know what it is.

How hard is it not to blank when you're standing right there and being asked those questions?

It's so hard.

I mean, it's, it's, it's.

Like you said, you can sit on the couch and yell it out, but until you're standing there with the lights in your suits, we were up there for six and a half hours for our three episodes.

Yeah.

Time for Steve to change his outfits and come back out when we play again.

It was so grueling up there.

I mean, yeah, when you're standing at that podium with your hand on there, just waiting, the timing and everything, and just, it's so surreal.

When we got back home and me and my wife, we were running, coming to work down to our shop the next day.

Cause we got in late on Friday night.

I looked at her and I had to ask her, I go, was that, did that really happen or was that a universal dream we all had?

I

mean, it was, it was incredible.

That's awesome.

The other question I had that family feud strike noise is probably the hardest noise in any lifetime.

Does that play live in the studio?

Absolutely does.

And they give you that second or two pause and it's like, you're killing me.

Patrick Lawyer, doing his family.

We're on the family feud and you guys won some great cash.

Tell us a little bit more.

You said the shop that you had down there.

Yeah, promote your weed business.

Why don't you?

Nice.

You know, my wife owns Corner Store Pop, Carrying Wellness down in Czech Village.

16th Avenue and C Street Southwest.

It's a derivative of love.

That's how I drive.

Myself having epilepsy, seizure disorders is why we sell the CBD oils.

It saved my life.

My wife, my son worked to work with us and they're the ones I attribute to that, saving my life.

That's awesome.

That gave us the free time.

We actually closed our shop down for those four days to go down there, to be as a family and bond as a family.

That was the best part about it, was bonding with my family.

Did they put you up in a nice enough hotel?

Oh my goodness, fantastic.

It was a class act.

I mean, we didn't get to do much.

They shuffled us from the airport.

They got our airplane accommodations down to the hotel, back to the studio, back to the hotel.

It was a four day experience.

It was just top notch.

Treated my daughter who just had a child, gave us our own air conditioning trailers, makeup.

bathrooms and stuff like that.

It was, it was fantastic.

We're three miles away from Tyler Perry studios down there in Atlanta, Georgia, class at can't say anything bad about him.

Patrick Lawfler joining us, his family on family feud here from Eastern.

I would say you're a Cedar Rapids city council member.

So how soon before your shop is going to carry a Steve Harvey strain to

CBD?

Good question.

He was really interested.

He loved when my son, they started talking about it.

I think my boy Jordan, our CBD Specialist was his favorite one.

He told us when he gets to see the rapids, he's going to come visit us.

That's awesome.

I think he would.

Patrick, thanks for being on the Rock What A Way Morning show with us today.

That's awesome and congratulations to you guys and your family.