JW: Where is your gold medal right now?

Jeff: Hanging in my office. Covering up my bronze medal.

Jay: In my living room.

Mick: Under my pillow.

 

JW: What you've done for the competitions isn't your normal material, is it?

Mick: We do a comedy juggling show.

Jay: Have we mentioned that?

Mick: Something that we've never done for the IJA.

 

JW: What is comedy?

Jeff: Anything that makes people laugh.

 

JW: I understand you three did a lot of writing at Hardees?

Jeff: But if any other fast food establishment would like an endorsement....... (thinking) ...We wear Zubaz, Nikes and drink Gatorade!

 

JW: How many servings of Jello would Greg Kennedy's bowl hold?

Jeff: One.

Mick: I thought what he did was very cool.

Jay: I liked the concept.

 

JW: Who are the Dew Drop heroes?

Jay: When we first started off, the Flying Karamazov Brothers. Though, we tried not to imitate anybody.

Jeff: We're influenced by the local guys ­Jeff Mason (gold medal in Denver, first to win with diabolos), Scott Burton (juggling hero), Jerry Martin OW "Funnies" editor, magician, P.T. Flamdazzle).

 

JW: Why is it we will never see a Dew Drop with a juggling ring around his neck?

Jeff: Trite.

Mick: Common.

Jay: All the Vegas acts put rings around their heads. Like, catching a ring on your neck is the only way to end a ring routine?!

 

JW: What do you feel is the most under­utilized prop in juggling?

Jay: Bouncing rings,

Jeff: We own 15.

Mick: Toasters... Porcelain dog dishes.

 

JW: What historical figure would make a good Dew Drop?

Jeff: Elvis... No, not Elvis.

Mick: Little Caesar, the pizza guy. Hercules. Jeff: Bugs Bunny.

Mick: Art Jennings. Talking with him was a highlight of my Montreal convention.

 

JW: What's the ideal venue for a Dew Drop show?

Jay: Senior citizens homes. They love us.

Mick: We should be saying colleges. That's the market we want.

Jeff: Somewhere with a large stage.

Jay: A place where people have come to see us.

Mick: We've performed on boats, indoors, outdoors, in heat on scaffolding...

Jeff: ...for the fashion show. Mick was up 30 feet above the stage.

Jay: Wanna talk about the toughest show we ever did?

 

It was the Marshall Fields fashion show. The Dew Drops got hired to juggle for a fashion show in Minneapolis and Chicago. They showed the producers everything they had - comedy, club passing, unique props. What they finally ended up doing was...

 

Jeff: Three minutes of the basic cascade. Mick: We were a very small part of a very

large production.

Jay: No one ever addressed the possibility of dropping.

 

They did enjoy the benefit of being stuck backstage with all the beautiful fashion models!

 

JW: What's your favorite moment in the show?

Mick: I look out at the people smiling and think how much I love doing what I do.

Jeff: The back to back to back moment... (He pauses.) Being able to watch the audience... Knowing how they're going to react.

 

JW: You three also playa lot of combat.

Jeff: We love combat.

Jay: We would love for there to be an organized combat championship.

Mick: Combat should be an Olympic sport.

 

JW: What is the responsibility of a juggler?

Jay: Not to suck. Not to be lousy.

Mick: To entertain the audience. A lot of performers don't consider the safety of the audience. I've seen someone drop a flaming diabolo into an audience. Too many jugglers don't think about safety until after they've hurt someone.

 

JW: What do you see as the future of juggling?

Mick: In youth. We've got to keep practicing to keep up with the juniors.

Jeff: It's hard to see juggling as mainstream entertainment. It'll be a long time before we see a two-hour special on "The World's Greatest Jugglers." Though we'd love to see it.

 

JW: What's next for the Dew Drops?

Mick: Leno, national T.V. shows, corporations.

Jay: Bar mitzvas...

Jeff: We're interested in competing again.

Jay: We're definitely competing again.

M: We're hoping more people will compete.