Secrets Revealed: Arroyo Grande Questionnaire

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Every Arroyo Grande show, I ask a list of questions
and my guests the Arroyo Grande Questionnaire. I decided to
collect their wise answers for you. Jim Cavizel, Jonathan Rumy,
Lauren Dagil and Moore sound off, and I solved the
great You mystery all on this edition of the Arroyo
Grande Show. Come on, I'm riting an Arroyo. Welcome to

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a Arroyo Grande. Go subscribe to the show. Now turn
the notifications on. So much coming, you're not going to
believe what's coming in the weeks ahead. Before we do
our star studded Arroyo Grande Questionnaire wrap up. I saw
something on Dak Shepherd's podcast the other day that got
a lot of people talking. It was about a now

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famous or infamous you bit that occurred on Laura Ingram's
show a few years ago and involved yours truly Watch
Anything Happened to You?

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, okay, so you've been gone a couple of days.
In the meantime, I've watched two full seasons of You,
the show You, which reminds me I want to play
the thing.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
About me exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
It's about time that we revisit that because I'm watching it.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
It's such a great exchange.

Speaker 5 (01:21):
Okay's Laura Ingram?

Speaker 6 (01:23):
Yeah, do you want me to put on the tv?

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Oh? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:26):
Some of my favorite of all time.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
And now it has extra meaning because I'm watching the show.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Is it a great show?

Speaker 3 (01:33):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
It has really Veronica Mars vibes all fun, but it's
it's like Dexter meets Veronica Mars and I've never seen Dexter. Okay, okay,
let's watch this real quick.

Speaker 7 (01:44):
Yeah, I was watching an episode of You whereas came up?

Speaker 8 (01:51):
When did? I don't know?

Speaker 1 (01:54):
It was on you?

Speaker 8 (01:59):
What was on me?

Speaker 9 (02:00):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (02:03):
I never was on you.

Speaker 10 (02:09):
We never did a measles a vaccine episode.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Is this a joke?

Speaker 7 (02:12):
I don't know you're talking about?

Speaker 8 (02:13):
It was on you? It was on you?

Speaker 11 (02:15):
I never had Raymond.

Speaker 8 (02:21):
The episode of show Laura, what's it called? You?

Speaker 1 (02:27):
You on Netflix? Going to al I can't explain this
joke so stupid.

Speaker 5 (02:48):
Real life it really is.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
I still laugh when I watch it. I wish I
could tell you it was totally organic. But full confession,
well let me get to that in a moment. When
it first aired, it got tens of millions of postings.
Late night shows commented on the thing, and I still
get stopped at airports and asked, are you the you guy? Well,
let me solve the mystery. I actually wrote that back

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and forth on a plane as I went to do
Laura's show live. I remember telling Laura, whatever you do,
don't break character and stay committed to the argument, which
we both did and it worked like a charm. Though
I have to tell you honestly, we did that live
with no rehearsal, no edits, without a net, and when
it was over because of the satellite delay we were

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on satellite. I thought it was horrible. I thought it
had flopped. I was wrong. As Dak Shephard referenced, it
was based on the old Abbot and Costello, who's on
first routine Aha, And if you don't know their comic genius,
I'm going to post a clip at the end of
the show tonight so you can take a peek at them.
As I always say, there's nothing new under the sun.

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You just miss the first act. Now to our Arroyo
Grande questionnaire. Once I started this show, I thought we
needed a different way to reveal the qualities of our
guests that the interview might have missed, little tidbits that
often get glastotted over. This, too, is based on something
that went before. It's called the Proust questionnaire, and that

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questionnaire was answered in eighteen sixty six by French novelist
Marcel Proust, for whom it's name. It became a kind
of parlor game. Though Prus did not write the questions,
James Lipton and other over the years have used it
to cap their interviews. So when I started Arroyo Grande,
I decided to write my own questionnaire, which I add

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and subtract from depending on who we're interviewing. I find
the answers compelling, insightful, and really like a little confession.
You learn a lot about the soul of people if
you listen carefully to their responses. With that, here are
some of the best answers to our a Royal Grande questionnaire.
Up first, Jim Cavesl, who's the person you most admire?

Speaker 4 (05:07):
My wife?

Speaker 12 (05:08):
Why this is my life pillar? As though it's not
even have to think about that? See that was a
bad question.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Well I'm starting easy.

Speaker 5 (05:17):
I'm not good at these.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Who's the person you most despise.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
I've forgiven him.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Another good answer. What is your best feature?

Speaker 4 (05:30):
Feature? Yeah? Passion, passion, passion?

Speaker 5 (05:35):
Yeah, I thought feature.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Not feature film. What's your best feature as a person,
as a as an actor.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
Isn't that a feature?

Speaker 1 (05:47):
It can be anything. It could be a quality, it
could be a physical trait. What's your best feature?

Speaker 4 (05:52):
I don't know. I haven't thought about it.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
You know what people would say, your eyes they're older,
but that's probably what they would say, is your best feature.

Speaker 4 (06:03):
But they're smiling.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
It depends on if you're the guy you just forgave
or not.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
I guess irish eyes or smiling.

Speaker 5 (06:10):
You know, it goes well, they must be up.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
To something exactly exactly. Okay, what do you fear?

Speaker 12 (06:22):
Well, the first thing is is is resurrection the film?

Speaker 4 (06:29):
The greatest fear? Really? Oh yeah, anything can go on that.

Speaker 12 (06:33):
Well, You've got to remember though, it's I was born
to do so, but greatest fear. I worry my children,
my my family. You know, I'm not the I'm a
good husband, good father. I'm not the best father.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
I want to be.

Speaker 12 (06:52):
I one of the best husband I want to be.
You know, those are those are other things. But I
do love them deeply.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
What is the thing you know that no one else knows.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
I've heard other actors say it before. You know you're
going to fail.

Speaker 12 (07:13):
You know that it might be the great a gift
that you have, but you're always concerned about that.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
I just outwork everybody.

Speaker 12 (07:23):
I think that's a big thing, is that I have
to outwork on it and then the gift takes over
from there. What's your favorite book? The one I'm doing
right now is screw Tape Letters. It's what I'm into.
It's a lot of fun. Well, it's book and it's
very wise. Well it's very wise, but it's getting me

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ready for the Resurrection.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Really.

Speaker 13 (07:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
Oh, I'm really studying it.

Speaker 12 (07:50):
So I'm breaking it apart and going through it and
getting into the thoughts of evil, you know, the antithesis
of what I'm going to be playing. And there's something
how Jesus works is so simple. There's a reason why
I'm doing it. And it's during Lent. I'm fasting. Even

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though you and I are going to go to a
nice restaurant after this, I'm not going to have any wine.
Oh okay, well maybe we won't be going to dinner.
What is your biggest regret. I don't really have any
You don't have a professional regret. No, a role you
should have taken. No, because there were reasons for it
at the time. They've worked out, but it wasn't for me,

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you know, no regrets. I would have had a major
regret if I had not married my wife.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
That would have been and that almost happened. You know,
I threw it away, and.

Speaker 12 (08:45):
But I my soul was enough pointed in the right
direction where something from above said, you know, gave me
a bit of a broken heart and said she was
in the plan for you.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
Get back there, dummy, And I did. What's the best
piece of advice you ever got?

Speaker 12 (09:06):
I was talking to this this old priest, and he says, Jim,
don't start any new addictions.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
And so I never did. Well, that's a good piece
of advice.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
What about the old addictions?

Speaker 4 (09:21):
They're there, but don't add on to him.

Speaker 5 (09:23):
Don't add on to it.

Speaker 12 (09:24):
Well, because you know, you think about it, like some
people get into drugs and they go just one time.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
But if I think.

Speaker 12 (09:34):
You measure that, you go, what if I become so
addicted to it, how's that going to change my life? Well,
just look at the people that they couldn't get rid
of it. I was working on a movie called pay
It Forward, and I went down to the first avenue
and I was with the people that were heroin addictions

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and they're all going to die. And the man that
was working with me, he looked like he was in
a concentration camp. He was just getting bunt and he
was teaching me how to put the.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
Out looks. And I watched all of them.

Speaker 12 (10:15):
But I hear people talking about all the time when
they say this is a pay it forward program or
we're going to pay it forward.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
And then, yeah, I was in that movie.

Speaker 12 (10:24):
I played a heroin addict and I think of that
guy and so I always pray for him.

Speaker 5 (10:31):
When this is over, what happens.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
Again?

Speaker 12 (10:36):
Now I'm thinking way too far out. I want to
enjoy the process. I'm so happy that my children get
to see, you know, their father at work. But it's
a continual thing. I'm not going to buy Jesus. I
need him to play me. It's the only white way

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that this thing is going to work. But what happened
when this is over? When this is over, yeah, who knows?
If I'm still an actor, you know, if I can't
get a job. Just be a dad and be a husband.
Maybe play a little golf. We're going to go out

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to dinner. Yeah, that's what happens when this is over.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
Thank you, Jo, thank you.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Well, it's a prize winner. David Mammontt had a few
interesting comments. Watch this. Okay, there's a series of questions.
I ask everybody who's here. Oh, okay, you're ready. This
is the Royal Grande questionnaire. Who is the person you
most admire?

Speaker 4 (11:36):
David?

Speaker 13 (11:37):
The person I most admire today? Yeah, oh, that's a
very very good questions. Donald Trump, Wow, why? Probably because
of what we discussed a little earlier. Because he looked
at something that was impossible, which was the resurrection of

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forgive me, I'm going to say it, the American dream
and said, okay, what we need to have to happen?
And he was treated worse than any American citizen in
history and nothing faced him. And something I heard something
about Malania said that he came down the in before

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he ran in twenty four. She said, oh, you're going
to run again? He said yes, and she said I
hope you don't. And he said why and she said,
because you'll win.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Not great who is the person you most despise.

Speaker 13 (12:35):
Well, I despise a lot of people, But when I do,
I try to remember that I should probably despise myself first,
because the reason I find their behavior despicable is because
the potential, if not the actuality, is in myself.

Speaker 4 (12:51):
Right.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
So yes, it's jushure, but spoken like a playwright. I
like that you're empathizing with the Apparently he.

Speaker 13 (12:59):
Wrote a book, Chuck Schumer called Anti Semitism in America.
He did, and I thought, how dare he as somebody
who's dissed the Israel and just the prime minister and
withheld Israel? And now he writes a book called anti
Semitism in America? But I read the subtitle says a
quick start guide.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Is that right? It's just a quick start? Well, you
got to start somewhere, David, that's right. What's the greatest
feature and best feature in humanity?

Speaker 13 (13:31):
Am I feature film?

Speaker 1 (13:34):
No feature?

Speaker 4 (13:34):
Like feature?

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Like the feature you have the thing you possess. What
is your best feature or the best in humanity?

Speaker 13 (13:44):
I think I'm very understanding and forgiving to all the
swindero don't understand my work.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
And you write great books about them. Most importantly, your
memoirs are worth the worth the trip. What's your favorite Neil.

Speaker 13 (13:59):
Oh, that's a I could question. My wife makes this
wonderful sardine pasta, sardines and bread crumbs. It was crazy good.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Ah.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
Yeah, I've never had that.

Speaker 5 (14:11):
Yeah, it's the only sardines and bread crumbs.

Speaker 13 (14:13):
Yeah, she's been cooking out of a Sicilian cookbook.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Your favorite book and the last book you read.

Speaker 13 (14:21):
My favorite book, Gully. I don't know, you know, I
read the works in English a Vasily Grossman last year.
She was the greatest writer of the twentieth centuries of
Russian and he was, among other things, the reporter for
Red Star, which was their stars and stripes, and he

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was at the front all through Stalingrad. He was at
the liberation of whichever camp they liberated. I think it
was burking out.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
And why did you Why didn't you want to dive
into his complete works?

Speaker 13 (14:53):
Well, because I read one that I read them all.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
Oh, you couldn't stop.

Speaker 5 (14:56):
Yeah, you binge read them?

Speaker 14 (14:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (14:59):
Was that the last?

Speaker 3 (15:00):
No?

Speaker 13 (15:01):
No, no, what I've been reading lately? What have been
reading lately? Oh, I've been reading the works of Ross
Thomas lately, who was an American crime writer. He wrote
forty books. They're a lot of fun. And he also
said something one of the best things I ever heard.
He was an alcoholic and he was at Dan Tanis
or something with Ross MacDonald. It was another big drinker,

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the red middle of the day and they sit down
in the red booth at rust and the water comes
over and says, what can I get you, gentlemen, and
Ross Thomas says, a couple of double martinis. And the
waiter says, Oliver twist, and Ross Thomas says, we'll order later.

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Isn't it great?

Speaker 1 (15:45):
It's great? I love it. Tell me what do you fear?

Speaker 4 (15:51):
David mammontt you know what I think?

Speaker 13 (15:53):
I think. I fear disgrace, I fear doing. And that's
what a lot of my my especially about the Victorians,
and a lot of my writing is about guys who
make one false move. How close we are to That's
what film wair is most mainly about how close we are,
just stepping off the sidewalking out.

Speaker 5 (16:13):
Right over there, books right?

Speaker 1 (16:15):
What do you know that no one else knows?

Speaker 13 (16:19):
Preston Sturgis was the great comedic director.

Speaker 4 (16:22):
Movies is just brilliant.

Speaker 13 (16:24):
You don't even want to watch them, you want to
eat them. And he wrote a wonderful movie called Hail
the Conquering Hero, where this Eddie Bracken is dismissed from
the Marine Corps because he has allergies and he still
wants to be in the Marine Corps and he's going home,
but he can't tell them he's been dismissed. And so

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these marines show up and they say, come on, we'll
put you in a marine uniform. You get off the
thing and everything will be fine. When he goes there,
there are these two bands. One of them is playing
Hail the Conquering Hero, and one of them is playing
the star Spangled Banner American the Beautiful. And then I
was reading a book by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, who will
tell you about a second who describes that same scene

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written about eighteen eighty five. The hero gets off and
these two bands when playing hal So obviously I know
that Preston Sturgis read that.

Speaker 4 (17:14):
Point and that book.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
I know, But what's the But the question was what
do you know that no one else knows?

Speaker 13 (17:20):
I know that. Oh, I'll tell you another one.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
Okay, give me another one.

Speaker 4 (17:26):
This gets a.

Speaker 13 (17:27):
Little bit arcane. There was in reading about the First
World War, but flyers in the First World War, there
was a ditty they said, he died with his hand
on the throttle, and this is the reason he died.
He forgot to recall that iota is the maximum angle
of glythe right. So the question is what does that mean?

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So I'm trying to think, what does it mean iota?
What does iota mean? What does it mean by what?

Speaker 4 (17:59):
So?

Speaker 13 (18:00):
And iota is always written in caps, and think it
doesn't mean what is the maximum angle of glide? There
is no such thing, But there's such a thing called
the angle of maximum glide. So what's the angle of
maximum glide on an airplane? Right? It's indicated by the
air speed. Every airplane has a maximum angle. You're going

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to get the maximum glide on this air speed because
if you if the because the increase the air speed
by putting a nose down, you're going to increase the
air speed. But yeah, wow, so and you can and
you can put the nose up and you'll be up longer,
but you're going to smash too. So I started looking
on pictures of old airplanes and I thought, how would

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you find the angle of maximum glide. What would ioda mean?
What will be indicated on the air speed? So I
look on the air and there and it.

Speaker 5 (18:55):
Is, it's indicated.

Speaker 13 (18:57):
Yeah, so he forgot the call that indicated on the
air speed is the maximum gangl So I figured that out.

Speaker 4 (19:05):
I love that.

Speaker 13 (19:06):
I love That's what's it good for? I always thought,
you know, if it's not good for anything, I'll remember.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
You remember it, and you'll use it in a screenplay
or play. Well, which I will be staying tuned for.
What is the greatest virtue?

Speaker 13 (19:20):
I think it's courage, don't you.

Speaker 4 (19:23):
Honestly?

Speaker 14 (19:24):
Uh huh?

Speaker 4 (19:25):
Truthfulness?

Speaker 13 (19:26):
Well, the other thing is but yeah, a lot of
times you need you know, perhaps it's the preliminary virtue.
If you don't have courage, what good is honesty?

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah that is, that's very true. But if you could
live anywhere and you weren't here, where would you be?

Speaker 13 (19:39):
Why would I want to live anywhere but here?

Speaker 1 (19:42):
I don't blame you. I like it here myself.

Speaker 13 (19:45):
As a matter of fact, we live around here. My
wife likes it here. I always try to get her
out of southern California. I live here because I want
to be close to my taxes.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
Well, you can. You can see them being used in
such fascinating ways all around here.

Speaker 13 (19:58):
I wanted to get it. I wanted to get a
te should maybe me wear it today? Which said save
water support Karen Bass, I should have done that.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
Next time, we'll do that. We'll do that the next one.
What's your biggest regret? Do you have one? Well?

Speaker 13 (20:13):
Most of my regrets? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I did a
lot of stuff in my life that I regret, And
at some point you got to say that that God says,
you know, I know, you know, but they say prayer
and study and good works moderate the severity of the decree.

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So there's a lot of stuff that I regret, but
and don't have a lot of real estate regrets. Of course,
who doesn't.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
Yeah, well, especially Californians. They always have those those regrets.
What's the best piece of advice you ever received, either
professionally or personally?

Speaker 15 (20:53):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (20:53):
You know, I wrote these series of sketches they did
in Chicago in a little forty seed theater with Billy Macy
and J. J. Johnston. It was called American Buffalo. It's
a series, and then we did it in New York
at the.

Speaker 5 (21:08):
Oh that little thing.

Speaker 13 (21:09):
No it's before it's on Broadway, something called the showcase
code for a moment, actors Equity forgot that they're insane,
and so they said, well, anybody can do it in
one hundred seat theater, ninety nine seed theater. Anybody can
do twelve performances if everyone's working for nothing. So we
did this play in this little twelve performance is a

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little one hundred seat theater off Broadway. I thought it
was pretty good. And Ulu Grossbard was a director, very
good director, came up to me and said, if you
figure out the plot, I'll put you on Broadway. And
so he did.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
That's how it happened. If you can figure out the plot,
that can apply to.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
A ton of things.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
David, Sure, if you can figure out the plot, I'll
put your own Broadway. I will remember that. Oh good.
Why if you weren't doing what you're doing, if you
weren't writing, if you weren't directing, if you weren't telling stories,
what would you be doing?

Speaker 6 (22:08):
Well?

Speaker 13 (22:08):
I don't know. I flew airplanes for a number of
years and I aged out of it, and I loved
every minute of it. Had I started ten twenty thirty
years earlier, I would have liked to have been a pilot.
I'm a pilot. But what would I be doing now? Yeah,

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that's a very good question, and I think I spend
most of my days thinking about it. I'm in the
midst of various projects right now. I got a couple
books coming out, and I'm doing a lot of cartooning
for Barry Weiss at the Free Press. I do a
cartoon every week.

Speaker 5 (22:45):
I see them. What happens when this is over?

Speaker 16 (22:47):
David?

Speaker 13 (22:48):
When what is over?

Speaker 1 (22:49):
When it's all over?

Speaker 13 (22:50):
Well, it's never all over when it's over for us
or you mean we die?

Speaker 5 (22:55):
Yeah, what happens when it's over?

Speaker 6 (22:57):
Well?

Speaker 13 (22:58):
I said to my wife, I just one thing for
you to you don't marry a lawyer.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
Is that what you think is going to happen?

Speaker 13 (23:07):
I said, if you thinking about it, I want you
to bury me on a rotisserie so I can roll
over in the grave.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
All the time. David Mammoth, it's always a pleasure. I
always love being with you, and I feel full when
I finished talking to you. And it's like when I
read one of your plays or watch one of your films,
you just feel reinvigorated again.

Speaker 5 (23:33):
I think that's the whole purpose.

Speaker 13 (23:34):
Right, Well, I and all of my people love watching
you and Laura played the dozens.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
We're laughing through the pain, David, We're laughing through the pain.

Speaker 14 (23:43):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
Actor Jonathan Romy also answered our questionnaire, who is the
person you most admire?

Speaker 4 (23:51):
Jonathan Romy person I must admire?

Speaker 17 (23:58):
There's two, and it would have to be my parents,
I think, knowing the circumstances that they overcame to make
it to the United States and to raise a family,
and to basically just do everything in service to making
sure their children had a better life.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
Who's the person you most despise?

Speaker 4 (24:20):
Oh the devil? Yeah, okay, so I always trying to
get my way. I know the feeling.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
I met it once or twice or maybe more than that.

Speaker 12 (24:30):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (24:31):
What's your best feature?

Speaker 4 (24:34):
My best feature? I think it would be.

Speaker 17 (24:39):
I trust people pretty quickly, and I opened myself up
to people.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
What's your worst feature?

Speaker 4 (24:45):
I trust people pretty quickly. I opened myself up to people.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
When I when someone first asked me that question and said,
what's your best feature? I thought physical? I think, well,
my lips, I don't know my hands, I don't know
what I but everybody asked it.

Speaker 5 (24:58):
To they go to something much.

Speaker 17 (25:00):
Deeper, because it sounds prideful to answer it otherwise.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Oh, think what it is?

Speaker 5 (25:04):
Thank you, John?

Speaker 1 (25:05):
I think Jonathan romy just said I'm prideful. Thank you.
Well that's the last question. That's how John, That's how
I feel.

Speaker 17 (25:11):
I can't I couldn't allow myself to answer it any
other way.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yeah, you wanted to say your hair, go ahead, but
your feel would say mine? Oh people people would say
I would said not the makeup lady. Anyway. Your favorite meal?

Speaker 17 (25:28):
See I just was in Italy. Oh it's a combination
of steak impasta. Oh okay, well that's a good place
to be. I'd say pizza. I love pizza anyway. Yes,
what do you fear? What do you fear?

Speaker 4 (25:44):
Not fulfilling my potential?

Speaker 1 (25:47):
The greatest virtue is what Jonathan?

Speaker 4 (25:51):
Humility?

Speaker 1 (25:52):
M mother of all, mother of all the virtues. Yep,
the word you could not live without. I won't believe you.
That was it. Okay, we'll leave that there. Then, Family,

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If you could do anything else, if you couldn't do this,
what would you do? Visual art?

Speaker 4 (26:20):
Maybe musician?

Speaker 17 (26:21):
Oh yeah, maybe I would be I would have pursued
being a drummer in a band, A little more stringently.

Speaker 4 (26:29):
I love music.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Music.

Speaker 17 (26:31):
Music affects me in a way that none of the
arts do. It's just wow, it's it's uh.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
There's no thoughts.

Speaker 17 (26:38):
It takes offense, yeah almost, it's a feeling. It's a feeling. Yeah,
you can't. It just doesn't nothing else compared.

Speaker 5 (26:44):
What's the best advice you ever got? And from whom.

Speaker 4 (26:51):
Best advice I ever got?

Speaker 17 (26:54):
Uh, that's a tough one. I think that the best
advice I got was get a spiritual director?

Speaker 5 (27:07):
Yeah, when did that come?

Speaker 17 (27:13):
The one I have now my preest that spiritual director
I have now, I've had him the longest.

Speaker 4 (27:21):
But the initial advice I got probably.

Speaker 17 (27:25):
Was twenty years ago, and it was many many years
before I could find somebody. I was moving around a lot,
and I just wasn't settled in my faith and I
didn't look as hard.

Speaker 4 (27:36):
So I think once I was in La my faith.

Speaker 17 (27:40):
Funny enough, you know, people think people think of Hollywood
in La as a godless place, and there's a lot
of influence and a lot of dark influences in those
areas in that city, but there's also a lot of
light and a lot of people searching for the light
and a lot of people fighting the darkness and the
communities that I had, the faith communities that I built

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and I hadn't grew a part of, were communities of light.
And through those communities I found my spiritual director, who
has been probably about six seven years now.

Speaker 5 (28:15):
Yeah, what's your biggest regret?

Speaker 4 (28:23):
I think my biggest regret would be that I didn't
find I didn't surrender sooner to God.

Speaker 17 (28:40):
But also, on the other hand, it's hard to it's
hard to admit that because it's hard to think that
that is actually true, because you know, I believe.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
This was my path right.

Speaker 17 (28:54):
God allowed me to wander, neander until I got to
this point in my life where I finally recognized that
I couldn't do this without him, and that's when I was.

Speaker 4 (29:07):
Ready for this next step. So I don't know.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
That I can really say that I have a regret,
a deep regret. Yeah, what happens when this is over?

Speaker 4 (29:18):
This interview probably get some neat don't be a smart ass.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
What happens when the life is over? Ah? Would you
say this?

Speaker 8 (29:27):
Raymond?

Speaker 1 (29:27):
You have to step to interpretations.

Speaker 4 (29:30):
That's why I said dinner need when this is over.

Speaker 17 (29:39):
I hope that when this is over, we we go
on to the real life, the real phase of our existence,
the real purpose of our existence, which would.

Speaker 4 (29:51):
Be for me.

Speaker 17 (29:54):
To find to be reunified with our creator, the source
of all life.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
Singing sensation. Lauren Dagel also took on the Arroyo Grande questionnaire. Okay,
I ask everybody who sits in that chair these Arroyo
grande questions. Okay, these are fast questions. You don't have
to I don't want you to think about them. Just
jump in.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
We call these rapid fire the Q and A every
VIP rapid fire and it's Lauren.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
Don't take long on it, Laurn rapid fire. Who is
the person you most admire?

Speaker 3 (30:27):
Oh, my gosh, I would say collectively my family.

Speaker 15 (30:31):
If that's okay, Well, you surround yourself with them.

Speaker 5 (30:33):
I've seen you with men.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
I love that about it. That's what I think keeps
your spirit intact. It is because I've seen you in
public settings and on tour that family.

Speaker 5 (30:41):
Is always pretty close.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
Yes, yes, okay.

Speaker 1 (30:43):

Speaker 3 (30:46):
Hm, that's a tough question. You told me not to
dwell on it. I don't have There's like not one
person that I can say, I despise.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
That's I could think of one, but I'm not going
to bring her up anyway.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
I would love to have a conversation.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
Yeah, yeah, we're going to talk about that off camera.
What what is your best feature?

Speaker 18 (31:07):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (31:10):
Maybe my Oh gosh, that's tough. I would say my
I don't know what this one word would be, but
my desire to relate to anybody and everybody. What would that?

Speaker 5 (31:25):
Accessibility?

Speaker 3 (31:26):
Empathy, empathy, empathy?

Speaker 1 (31:28):

Speaker 3 (31:30):
Empathy?

Speaker 1 (31:35):
There's a double edged sword again. Your favorite book and
the last one you read?

Speaker 3 (31:40):
Okay, last one I read was called Miracle and Voodoo Mountain.
It's about this woman from or from Lafayette moved to Haiti,
started this during the earthquake. Incredible story, very simple read,
really good Miracle and Voodoo Mountain. It's because I when
we were at that event, I met at one of

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the lawyers for the Human Trafficking Division of the White House,
and I was like, this is incredible to see the
work that is done. Her story kind of weaves into
that tapestry a little bit. It was really beautiful to me.
So I find myself compelled by those stories. And then
your book favorite book Okay, this is a favorite book

(32:26):
for nostalgia's sake, if we can do that where the
red friend grows red fernd And the reason why is
because it's the first book I cried to. I remember
laying in bed. I would read it every single night
with my mom, like we would read chapter after try.
I just loved that book as a kid, and I
remember looking like reading the book and having to pause

(32:47):
for a moment and us looking at each other tears
are coming down. Touched you that way friendship and seeing
loss like real loss for what a how can understand
even in that moment, you know it was It was
complex to me.

Speaker 15 (33:05):
But this Lauren Daegel fear, Mmmm, that's a great question.

Speaker 3 (33:16):
I think there's a I talked to someone about this recently,
the fear of the unknown, and that is my nemesis.
It's the fear of because there's so many things that
can fall into that fear, the fear of the unknown.
Where it once was exhilarating, I think now I look

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with trepidation.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
A little bit age will do that to you and
responsibilities and your audience, and there's a lot more that
walks in the door when you're walking out than was before,
So that always what's your biggest regret? Do you have one?

Speaker 6 (33:56):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (33:57):
Do I have one? Okay, this is not going to
be poignant at all. Okay, this is going to be
if you're the unknown little poignant.

Speaker 14 (34:03):
Great.

Speaker 3 (34:04):
This is just real life. Chris Stapleton. We're in Why
I Chris, if you listen?

Speaker 15 (34:12):
No kidding?

Speaker 3 (34:13):
I remember it was? Was it right before? It might
have been right before twenty twenty hit? And he was
playing the Cajun Dome in Louisiana and I went with
my sister. We were backstage. I said hello to him,
that whole thing, and he said, hey, you want to
jump up on stage with me? I said, no, what

(34:35):
is wrong with me? Why?

Speaker 4 (34:37):
Right?

Speaker 13 (34:37):
Man?

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Why?

Speaker 3 (34:39):
In my hometown people that.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
They would it would have been a tsunami of love?
And I said, and you said no?

Speaker 3 (34:46):
I said no. And you want to know why this
is so silly? I thought, what if he asks me
to sing a song of his that I don't know?
What if he has a song that I'm like, it's
a deep deep deepe I don't know it.

Speaker 5 (34:59):
Oh well, that's not that's not a bad reason to
say no.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
That it's a terrible reason because any artist would know
I'm not going to put a girl on stage. He
doesn't know the suthing right.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
You'll probably ask you, do you know Swanny before?

Speaker 15 (35:12):
Exactly?

Speaker 1 (35:15):
That reminds me of something else, So I'll come back
to it in a second. The best piece of advice
you ever got.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
Oh my gosh, I was thinking about it today. Someone
gave me this advice almost ten years ago. Okay, and
it's still showing up in my life ten years later.
True freedom is giving people the permission to misunderstand you.
True freedom is giving people the permission to misunderstand you.

(35:41):
That is the greatest advice, because, let me tell you,
when I want to raise my fist, sometimes it's because
I'm not operating in true freedom, because I'm being misunderstood,
and I'm frustrated that I'm being misunderstood.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
In this last question in the questionnaire, what happens when
this is over, when.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
This careers over, when this life is over, and what
part is over?

Speaker 1 (36:03):
I'll let you define. Oh that's true freedom. Why that
I'm giving you true freedom? What happens when this is over?
I think I know what that means, but you may
have a different take on it.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
Okay, My mind went to two places immediately, so I'll
just tell you both, and okay, that's okay. First went
to Okay, if I get a whole career, I am
going to my gosh, I don't.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
I actually haven't, Ancelona, I know I've been talking to
people who know you. Well, go ahead, Okay, what happens
when this is over?

Speaker 3 (36:39):
When this is over? I have thought about going to
law school, and I'm really I'm really thinking about it,
like not sort of kind of like I want to
say I'm going to law school. I want to just
put that out instead of I think I'm going to
law school.

Speaker 14 (36:54):
Why.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
I met with some friends of mine, some that are
in government, some that are in politics, and various people,
and to understand what your platform can do from an
actual stature. For point, yes, it is important to me.

(37:16):
I think I've realized that there's kind of a brick
wall you can hit even with a platform. And if
this is a responsibility, like to be able to open
ways for people who need true justice or who need
the freedom that we get to walk around with, and
protecting the freedoms as well, like how do we how

(37:38):
do I do.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
That with the voice And you're already doing that a
little bit. The Price Fund named after your granddad, Julian Price.
Tell me about that.

Speaker 3 (37:47):
Love him. Yeah, people think it's about the money. Now
it's about It's a family name, my brother and my grandfather.
And he was someone I tell people this all the time.
He would talk to the President of the United States.
It's the same way he talked to the homeless man.
We would go to Walmart and he'd be talking to
the clerk, just chat and chatting, telling them mainly about

(38:08):
the state of the world. He was one of those
but in a way that people loved him. We had
people that would come around the table and we called
it his coffee crew. And every day at nine am,
the coffee crew would show up and they would just
talk about current events and what's going on with the world.
And I lived with my grandparents for a little while

(38:30):
while I was going to LSU, and they were I mean,
it was some of the most incredible moments of my life.
But I say I digress. He was one of the
figures that taught me the most about legacy, because whenever
he passed away was when I really found out about
ways he was given to people behind the scenes and

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for the listener, this is not He was a blue
collar worker. He worked. He was a conductor on the
railroad and we would go and throw sack lunches to him,
you know, and he would do the route from New
Orleans to Batuge and just an incredible human. But he
lived a lot of hardship Boston daughter. He overcame addiction,

(39:12):
just a lot. And the person that he became on
the other side was the person who I was like, Wow,
I'm so inspired by him. How do we see this
version of someone when they're in the worst of times,
Because sometimes you look at an addict, or you look
at it and you can only see that. But he
was actually probably to date, the most influential person in

(39:35):
my life.

Speaker 1 (39:35):
Now I see him in you. I see incredible And
the fund help help the elderly children, I mean, yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:43):
Windows and all the yeah. Because I've I've learned just
as I've gone about. I went into some of the
prisons here, I went to Angola, I went to San Quentin, Statesville,
various prisons around the country, and I would ask a
lot of these guys like, what can we do to
help the is to break this cycle? But legitimately, yes,
through legislature, But what is the core need of an

(40:06):
individual that's coming through this kind of track. You know,
they call it the public to prison pipeline. I'm sure
you've very well familiar. And I just asked them what
can we do and they all said, get involved in
after school programs, all of them across the board. They
were like, if you get to these kids in an
interim period where they're going home from from school to

(40:31):
their home and their parents aren't there, that's when a
lot of the vulnerability. Yeah, that's when it happened. And
so I said, okay, great, game on, we'll do. So
we've partnered with so many organizations around New Orleans, but
then we expanded and now every city that we go
on tour with, we partner with a local organization, whether

(40:52):
it's instruments, whether it's after school programs, whatever it is
to keep these kids kind of fortified through their adolescent years.
That's really important to me. And then we built a
school in the Congo with Bob Golf, which was really beautiful.
And then we had another opportunity to partner with some
senior citizens and the who some have Alzheimer's, but it's

(41:15):
music with Alzheimer's and kind of getting them financial aid
and things like that.

Speaker 4 (41:21):
It's beautiful.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
Yeah, it's what a year you've had. Super Bowl, Andrea
Buchelli at Madison Square Gardens. I mean this tour, I
mean it's pretty incredible.

Speaker 3 (41:33):
It's been a wild time.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
You said something. You said, the Lord has shown me
what it is to have a craft and to serve
and honor him with it. Do you still feel that way?

Speaker 3 (41:44):
Absolutely? I think that I might feel that way till
I die. It's the live spring, so well spring of
it all. If you don't have the life blood, if
you will if you don't. The craft part is the diligence, Okay.
I want to honor you with the diligence of working
hard at something and loving it and actually loving it.

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I think sometimes people think it has to be arduous. No,
it's like scrubbing toilets just to hear. What is a
c chord? How do I say this?

Speaker 1 (42:15):
How do I support you?

Speaker 3 (42:16):
Do I support it? What do the harmonies teach me?

Speaker 1 (42:18):
You know?

Speaker 3 (42:19):
And that honoring God with the craft? It is the
work that you put in to say I want to
do this, but I also want to love it, so
I think that's serving it well the best that you can.
I think you're gonna say, oh, no, no, I was
going to say, sometimes when you get frustrated about having

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to work hard at something, it dilutes the potency that
God can sometimes build in those moments.

Speaker 13 (42:46):
You know.

Speaker 3 (42:46):
So if you just keep the hard work, Yoka's easy
burden is like, if you keep it light, then there's
a lot that you can do and there's a lot
that you can transform well.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
On the new album, you have a song called these
Are the Days, and I can't help but think these
are the days for you as I watch this, as
you listen to it and watch you expand and reach
more people, it is incredible. And to get Justin Timberlake
to do backups on twenty one You're a song on
the album Pretty Good Crazy. Gary Sonise offered some fascinating

(43:23):
answers to the Arroyo Grande questionnaire, Who's the person you
most admire.

Speaker 4 (43:32):
Jesus? Who do you most attest? Oh?

Speaker 5 (43:35):
I can't say that, Come on, I can't.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
Everybody tries to dodge on that. You right now? Thank you,
yeah for asking that question? You awful person? You What
is your best feature?

Speaker 16 (43:49):
I don't know, maybe hard to say. Persistence? Maybe persistence?

Speaker 1 (43:55):
What's your worst your worst feature? Persistent, the double edged
sort of persistent. Well, you don't build a foundation and
call it the Gary Sinisee foundation without a little persistent.
Your favorite meal, Gary, Oh dear.

Speaker 16 (44:15):
Gosh, maybe one of my favorite meals is chicken pacata.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
Chicken pacata. Yeah, well, I see, I evade. I like
anything Italian, So my favorite meal is one I get
to eat with family or friends.

Speaker 5 (44:27):
That's my favorite. Well, like the one I had last
night with somebody.

Speaker 16 (44:31):
But my dad used to make chicken pecata and that's
a good man.

Speaker 5 (44:35):
But I like a lot of food.

Speaker 16 (44:37):
What do you fear, Gary, failure? Maybe maybe loss?

Speaker 5 (44:55):
Your greatest virtue is what?

Speaker 1 (44:58):
What do you what do you consider the greatest You're
not your greatest virtue, but what do you consider the
greatest virtue?

Speaker 4 (45:07):
Honesty? Maybe honesty? Why?

Speaker 16 (45:11):
Well, if you're if you're not honest, you know, and
nobody's gonna trust you.

Speaker 4 (45:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
What's that old line? My great grandmother had a line.
If you lie, you cheat, if you cheat your steel,
if you steal, you're no good. I guess that's I
guess that's true.

Speaker 5 (45:28):
What could you not live without mm.

Speaker 8 (45:37):
Air.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
Well, that's a good answer. I guess that's that's kind
of universal, Gary Oxygen.

Speaker 5 (45:42):
What is your biggest regret?

Speaker 16 (45:45):
Oh gosh, you know, I've thought about this with regards
to Mac and just wishing that I had in those
final days I had asked him if he was afraid
and and let him talk to me a little bit more.

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But neither of us wanted to go there. You know,
I don't know if that's my biggest regret, but when
I think of it, I wished i'd before he was
unable to speak again, you know, because he lost mad
capacity with what was going on with his lungs. It

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went so quickly that I wished that I had spent
more time in those last days having you know, having
that having some kind of more in depth conversation with
him about his feelings, what he'd been through and what

(46:56):
he was going through. But again, like I said, I
I never wanted to feel like I was given up
and you.

Speaker 1 (47:03):
Were in the fight. And I would argue, if you'll
permit me, you helped fill his last year, and that
those last days with great joy and accomplishment for Mac.
I mean I saw that from the little piece we
did after Christmas, just on the cusp of the new year.

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The reaction he had to that, and the pride he
had in that showing it to other people, and that
was all you're doing so and it was the culmination
of his work.

Speaker 16 (47:37):
And yeah, and his mom and his two sisters. He
loved them so much and they loved him so much.
And you know, we all pulled together and they were
a big part of everything, no question. And without their support,
I couldn't have you know, I couldn't have gone gone

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through everything I was doing. And they were helping Mac
in so many ways, so many beautiful ways.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
What is the best piece of advice you've ever received?

Speaker 16 (48:13):
The one I always I always give this one to
like young actors who asked me for advice, and I
save your money?

Speaker 1 (48:24):
Is that the best piece? Scary? Save your money? That's
all the broke actors out there. I know the feeling right,
save saving.

Speaker 16 (48:33):
Things are good today, but they might not be good tomorrow.
Save your money, Save your money.

Speaker 1 (48:37):
Okay, I guess it's good advice. If you could not
do what you're doing now, what would you like to do? Hm?

Speaker 16 (48:45):
Hmm. These are these are difficult questions because I I don't.
I don't ever think about that. You know, I'm I'm
fairly at you know, I'm at peace with what I'm doing.
I've done a lot of things in my life with
a career, and I've got a great family. My family is.

Speaker 4 (49:10):
It's great.

Speaker 16 (49:11):
May maybe spend more and more time with my family,
you know, I'm still trying to accomplish a lot with
the foundation work and the band and supporting the troops,
and that takes me away sometimes. And you know, my
wife is just the best person I know, and you know,

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and I look at how she has sacrificed for this
mission that I've been on, because she's spent a lot
of time without me there because I've been going somewhere
to do something, and she's she's a real she's a
real hero and my biggest champion. You know, her brother

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served in Vietnam, and she always wanted me to go
out there and try to make sure that our service
members know they're appreciated because her brothers didn't get that
when they came home. And so she's been backing me
up every step in the way. So just you spend
more time with them and that, you know, that's the

(50:16):
important thing. And the grandkids and all.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
That final question what happens when this is over, not
the interview.

Speaker 4 (50:24):
This life. Well, I hope I'll be welcomed.

Speaker 16 (50:31):
And Lord will say good job.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
I think you'll not only be welcomed, you'll hear familiar music, music,
maybe Arctic circles played when you get there, my friend.

Speaker 4 (50:46):
So great to see you. God, bless you, thank you,
thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1 (50:50):
Rayman Tunnel to Towers founder Frank Siller answered the questionnaire
as well. Who is the person you most admire.

Speaker 19 (51:00):
My mother or father, two of them.

Speaker 1 (51:02):

Speaker 19 (51:06):
Ohsa'ma bid Latin.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
What what is the best feature that you have and
the worst?

Speaker 10 (51:14):
My best feature is my faith and the worst is
I get very angry when I see bad things happen.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
I share that with you. What do you fear, Frank?

Speaker 19 (51:26):
I fel like I feel better today than I have did.

Speaker 10 (51:29):
But I fear that America is moving away from what
has made us great, which is sacrificing and our faith
and that we are, you know, Judeo Christian country and
born from that, and that we have to we have
to have that understanding to stay in the greatness that
we that we have. So that is my biggest concern.

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But I do feel better now. I'll be honest with you.
I do feel that people are coming back to faith.
I see it all the time, the people I deal
with all the time, I'm around it all the time,
the people that you know, we just did a groundbreak
in Bayville, New Jersey, where two thousand people came out
to see us break round on a piece of property

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that we're going to be doing for homeless mens.

Speaker 19 (52:14):
Two thousand people. Yes, so I see that, And if you.

Speaker 10 (52:19):
There, you could feel the amount of energy and love
and concern and commitment people have. So, you know, I
do feel good about America. I feel so good about America.
I feel like we're heading in a really good direction.
But we got to be careful because we can't forget
you know, how we got here, and we got to

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have our faith faith as well.

Speaker 1 (52:41):
I love the Tunnel for Towers is Tunnel to Towers
is really a vehicle for so many people to express
not only their belief and the reverence, to reverence the
sacrifice of all these people. It's a beautiful way to
do that. What's the greatest virtue?

Speaker 13 (53:00):
Love?

Speaker 1 (53:03):
What is your greatest regret.

Speaker 19 (53:09):
Regrets.

Speaker 10 (53:09):
I've had a few, but too few to mention, you know.
I look, we all make mistakes growing up, you know,
on things. But I'm married for forty seven years. I
have three beautiful children, seven grandchildren.

Speaker 20 (53:25):
You know.

Speaker 4 (53:26):
You know.

Speaker 19 (53:26):
I'm sorry my brother's gone. It kills me.

Speaker 10 (53:28):
I think about them every single day, but I can't.
I can't change that.

Speaker 19 (53:33):
I don't have many.

Speaker 10 (53:34):
We all have small regrets. Yeah, there's no question about it.
But I'd have nerve to complain.

Speaker 5 (53:40):
I love that.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
What do you know that other people don't know?

Speaker 10 (53:44):
Frank Siller, Well, I don't know about that because I'm
not that smart.

Speaker 19 (53:47):
You know, I built the first smart home.

Speaker 10 (53:49):
I want to say I built a smart home, not
because I'm smart, because I got somebody smart to do it.

Speaker 6 (53:54):
You know.

Speaker 10 (53:55):
I think I think I realized I surround myself with
just good people and talented people, and that's that's how
we get it.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
I get it done.

Speaker 10 (54:04):
I consider myself like Tom Sorry a little bit. I
got a lot of people to paint defense for me,
and they come back and say, look at Frank Sila did.
Now it's all these people painting offense that are doing it.
I'm just a spokesperson for them.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
That's so great. The best piece of advice you ever
received is what, Frank.

Speaker 19 (54:24):
The best piece of advice today.

Speaker 10 (54:28):
I tell you there's something I live by, and when
I'm angry, I do wait a day or two before
I confront something. You know, my father, who was not
a very patient person, I always take, said, take a
step back, you know, before you open your mouth, because
when you open your mouth, you know, you know, if
you've two loaded, you know, you could screw terrible things.

(54:49):
I mean, I'm not eve gonna say I live that
way every day, but I try to. I try to,
and it always seems like if you wait twenty four
hours on something, it's not as bad as it was
four hours.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
Beforehand in the moment. Yeah, that's great advice, actually, and
particularly for hotheads like me, it's on me. What's your
favorite book, Frank, And the last one you read that
you really enjoyed? Well?

Speaker 10 (55:13):
Well, So I continuously read a book about Saint Francis
of ASSISSI. I keep on reading more and more books
about Sant Francis ASSISI being that my parents, uh you know,
were you know, live that life. I read daily prayers
every single day. I I I love reading the Bible.

(55:37):
I'm not Bible verse that you couldn't. I can't repeat
the Bible and stuff, but I do like reading uh scripture,
Uh for sure.

Speaker 19 (55:45):
I put in a lot of the things when I
when I give a talk, I call the speech a talk.

Speaker 10 (55:52):
I usually put scripture in it because I related to
how I'm supposed to do things. So I'm a big reader,
but I read more inspirational books and stories all the time.
But it all relates around faith.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
What happens when this is over?

Speaker 10 (56:14):
Frank, Well, first of all, this is never going to
be over the foundation. That's a promise that we're building
it the last forever. At young Stephen Junior working here. Wow,
I got other family members involved because this is a
family foundation. Yet we have you know, hundreds and hundreds

(56:35):
of employees too, because we do build houses all over.
We do with the homeless veterans. You know, we have
case managers that have to work with these great heroes.
So this foundation will never be will.

Speaker 1 (56:48):
Never be over.

Speaker 10 (56:49):
I'll expire like we all do. Right, I kept it
all the time. I tell my kids I could be
gone tomorrow. You know, you just got to be ready,
you know, because we do not know the day, know
the right, as it says. So I'm not worried about
the foundation because the work we're doing is always going
to be necessary, because there's always going to be heroes.

Speaker 19 (57:09):
Dying for us.

Speaker 1 (57:10):
John Rich took on the Arroyo Grande questionnaire with fascinating answers.
Who is the person you most admire my dad? Why?

Speaker 18 (57:21):
Because he is unyielding and relentless?

Speaker 4 (57:25):
You took the lesson?

Speaker 1 (57:26):
Well, my friend, who's the person you most despise.

Speaker 18 (57:33):
Right now? Sean Combs and anybody like him?

Speaker 1 (57:38):
What is your best feature?

Speaker 18 (57:42):
Loyalty?

Speaker 1 (57:43):
Ah? And your worst?

Speaker 4 (57:49):
Hm?

Speaker 18 (57:52):
Which one should I pick?

Speaker 1 (57:54):
Pick a card? Any card?

Speaker 18 (57:58):
I would say, rushing to judgment.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
The last great book you read? And your favorite book?
I think I know the answer to this one.

Speaker 18 (58:10):
Well, I mean discounting the Bible, because I know not
counting the not counting the Bible. Hill Billy Elogy is
one of my town favorite books.

Speaker 4 (58:17):
To be honest with the book.

Speaker 18 (58:18):
Yeah, it reminds me of great book where I grew up,
My people.

Speaker 1 (58:22):
The American people. What do you fear, John.

Speaker 18 (58:28):
Something happening to my kids?

Speaker 1 (58:31):
We all fear that, all of us the greatest virtue
is what.

Speaker 18 (58:37):
Patience.

Speaker 7 (58:41):
I think we have a shared lack of that. I
guess nout the word you could not live without, idiot.

Speaker 18 (58:53):
I say that word a lot every day. Look at
this idiot. Sometimes I'm looking in the mirror and go
look at this he.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
Oh, No, you shouldn't do that.

Speaker 5 (59:00):
If you could live anywhere, where would you live?

Speaker 18 (59:05):
Probably just outside of Yellowstone?

Speaker 5 (59:08):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (59:09):
Except in the winter.

Speaker 4 (59:10):
No, in the winter too gets a little deep.

Speaker 18 (59:12):
And that's why with me.

Speaker 1 (59:13):
Wow, Yeah, I like it out there. Beautiful country, good air,
beautiful country. What is your biggest regret?

Speaker 4 (59:19):
John?

Speaker 18 (59:22):
Not jumping that train and getting the hell out of
this interview?

Speaker 1 (59:27):
We're almost done. Your biggest regret, John, besides jumping the train.

Speaker 18 (59:32):
Biggest regret probably disrespecting my father in my youth.

Speaker 1 (59:36):
Hmm.

Speaker 18 (59:38):
I've apologized since then, but still I regret it.

Speaker 5 (59:41):
The best piece of advice you ever.

Speaker 1 (59:43):
Got was what.

Speaker 18 (59:46):
You're never truly free until you can say no. Who
gave it to you, Larry Gatlin?

Speaker 1 (59:52):
Wow, you're never truly free until you can say no.

Speaker 4 (59:55):
I love that. That's right.

Speaker 1 (59:57):
If you could not do what you're doing now, you
weren't a singer and a songwriter. What would you be,
What would you like to do? What else were you
called to do? Do you think.

Speaker 18 (01:00:08):
Something where I can inspire people? Whatever that would be.
I've always thought if I'd ever gone into the military,
I would have been a guy that would have really
probably enjoyed that and excelled at it, being around other
really competent people, younger ones, especially bringing them up. I
don't know that it would have been military, but something
that would have put me in a spot where I
can communicate.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
Like that final question, what happens when this life is over?

Speaker 18 (01:00:33):
When this life is over, every single human being that's
ever lived stands directly in front of the Son of God,
and he will either say come on in or he'll
say depart from me. I never knew you one or
the other. And the only way you get into heaven
is by submitting your entire life and will to Jesus Christ.
Going to church will not get you in. Academia about

(01:00:54):
the Bible will not get you in. All of your
philosophy will not get you in. Doing good deeds will
not get you in. If that was the case, the
thief on the cross would have never gone into heaven.
That's what happens when you die.

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
Well, you're on your way there, my friend, God bless you.
Great wat John. Yes, sure see you next time. Hat
looks good, I'm I've never taken it off. Now here's
at least in town. Give me one of these.

Speaker 5 (01:01:16):
There you go, Thank you, John.

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
Legendary singer Lee Greenwood also answered our questionnaire, who is
the person you most admire?

Speaker 14 (01:01:28):
Maybe Dwright the Eisenhower.

Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
Why Eisenhower?

Speaker 21 (01:01:33):
Remember he was a five star. He was a man
that had to make decisions that no one else would.

Speaker 4 (01:01:38):
Want to make out in a snap.

Speaker 21 (01:01:40):
After the first wave in Normandy, he asked his chief
of staff, what are the losses? And he said ninety
said send the second wave.

Speaker 14 (01:01:53):
That takes courage.

Speaker 21 (01:01:54):
It takes foresight to know that he would end the
war by stopping the Germans in France. He didn't do that.
Many would Many more would have died later on. And
then he became president of the United States. A man
of great value. He knew faith. Yeah, and if he
didn't know faith, he would be able to send those
men to their death.

Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
No, even Roosevelt called it the Great Crusade. He called
that that particular invasion the Great Crusade. Interesting, Who is
the person you most despise.

Speaker 4 (01:02:22):
This is a tough one.

Speaker 1 (01:02:22):
Oh that's harder than the firstly, Yeah, go ahead, don't
look at that camera, Lee, look at me, keep your
eyes here.

Speaker 6 (01:02:29):
I'm on.

Speaker 14 (01:02:32):
I don't think I can. I can. I can say that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
Okay.

Speaker 21 (01:02:35):
You know the very few people that there's a psalm
in the Bible.

Speaker 14 (01:02:39):
It's Psalm thirty two. It's about forgiveness.

Speaker 21 (01:02:42):
And I've had some people do me wrong and I
forgive them, and I don't want to mention their names.

Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
That'd be great answer. No one's ever given me that answer.
It's my favorite answer to that. Okay, what is your
best feature?

Speaker 21 (01:02:53):
I think my distinctive voice. We all have distinctive voices,
the voice print. And I was telling my tech that
I was in a story the other day and just
talking to the clear and somebody yearly agreement.

Speaker 14 (01:03:05):
Aren't you so my voice? You know? I think that's
my distinctive feature.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):

Speaker 14 (01:03:11):
Too short?

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
That could be cuge. I would get any voice you
can't replace.

Speaker 21 (01:03:16):
I would give anything to be five to ten. I
could have been a basketball player.

Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
No, yeah, just perfect the way you are. Your favorite meal, oh,
fried chicken, fried chicken, even after cooking it, you still have.

Speaker 21 (01:03:31):
A fried chicken and my wife's lasagna. Wow, she makes
great lasagna and pumpkin pie. What do you fear losing
my voice?

Speaker 1 (01:03:40):
Have you ever loss it?

Speaker 14 (01:03:42):
Yes?

Speaker 21 (01:03:43):
I have working too hard for four or five years
doubling gigs in Vegas and actually lost my voice and
I had to stop for about three months and finally
came back.

Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
People don't realize how tender I sing a little bit
on the side, Lee, And that's why I worship what
you do. And I don't know how you do it
because people don't realize you use it every moment and
it reflects every part of how you're feeling that day,
your emotional state, it's all there.

Speaker 21 (01:04:08):
I can normally be ninety percent. A few times I'm
one hundred percent, but mostly ninety percent. In the early
days of my recording career, I was probably one hundred
percent most of the time.

Speaker 1 (01:04:18):
Wow. The greatest virtue is what in your estimation?

Speaker 14 (01:04:24):
Honesty?

Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
Why?

Speaker 14 (01:04:28):
Because you can't ever live a lie?

Speaker 1 (01:04:33):
The word you could not live without Lee Greenwood.

Speaker 4 (01:04:36):
God, it's a good answer too.

Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
If you could live anywhere but Nashville, where would it be?
And why?

Speaker 21 (01:04:48):
I think the West Coast of Florida pretty because it's
far enough below Tampa where we have a place in Anna,
Mary Island.

Speaker 4 (01:05:00):
You're out there already.

Speaker 14 (01:05:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:05:01):
And and and it's the beautiful beaches that could be
anywhere in the world.

Speaker 14 (01:05:05):
There's nothing more beautiful than the West Coast beautiful beaches.

Speaker 21 (01:05:08):
And it's as in the golf lead.

Speaker 13 (01:05:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:05:11):
We had a couple recently and we were fine.

Speaker 21 (01:05:12):
Okay, but but it just I need the sunshine on
my face as I get older. I'm very white. I'm
a real Caucasian, you know. I'm Irish, English, Scottish and uh,
I got to have a little bit of a tan.

Speaker 5 (01:05:26):
What is your biggest regret?

Speaker 21 (01:05:27):
Lee not writing God bless USA sooner during Vietnam? Wow,
that's when they needed it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
The best piece of advice you ever received was what finished?

Speaker 6 (01:05:44):
Big?

Speaker 5 (01:05:45):
Who gave it to you?

Speaker 14 (01:05:47):
My mother?

Speaker 1 (01:05:48):
Wow.

Speaker 14 (01:05:50):
I don't care what you do in the beginning or
in the middle, finished big.

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
Wow, great advice, and you're still doing it.

Speaker 5 (01:05:59):
Finale, finale.

Speaker 1 (01:06:01):
If you could not do what you're doing, if you
couldn't sing, what else would you like to have done
or think you would have been really good at?

Speaker 21 (01:06:12):
I would like to have been a soldier. I think
it would have been good in the military. I was
three a in the draft, so the draft goes back
to the Vietnam ears and I'm not old.

Speaker 14 (01:06:20):
But otherwise maybe a builder.

Speaker 21 (01:06:22):
I mean, my stepfather, Louis d'antonoli, taught me a lot
about building. My mother married him when I was fourteen,
and it was a wonderful man.

Speaker 14 (01:06:30):
I married it.

Speaker 21 (01:06:30):
I knew him till his death, and we built motels
around Disneyland. That's when I was living in California at
the time, and I learned carpentry.

Speaker 14 (01:06:41):
And there's a certain thing.

Speaker 21 (01:06:42):
When you finish something, you get it done, you know,
and it's something there, it's a structure.

Speaker 14 (01:06:46):
A man has built something like that. Salisfaction of that, yeah,
the satisfaction when.

Speaker 1 (01:06:50):
This is over.

Speaker 14 (01:06:52):
What happens when what is over?

Speaker 5 (01:06:55):
Life is over? Oh, life is over, not this interview.

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
I know what happens after this interview. You can go
have a drink and eat and be done with these
bothersome questions. I know what happens after.

Speaker 5 (01:07:05):
But what happens when this life is over?

Speaker 21 (01:07:09):
Well, hopefully I will see Jesus Christ. I you know,
that's a dream of every Christian atheists might not say that,
but I do believe there's life that I can I
can face later, I'll have to face my sins, and
I'm standing before God and opens the book and said,

(01:07:29):
this is what you did right and what you did wrong.
I hope that I've the life that's fair and inequitable
for the people that have treated me so well.

Speaker 1 (01:07:39):
Comic legend Tommy Dreesen also grabbed the Arroyo Grande questionnaire
by both Horns and Jove in I'm going to ask
you a few questions. I do a little questionnaire, okay,
and these are rapid fire. Okay. The person you most admire,
tom is.

Speaker 4 (01:07:54):
Whom you know.

Speaker 20 (01:07:58):
My dream would have been that the person I most
admire was me, but I never lived up to that. Wow,
that's really really the person I most admire.

Speaker 4 (01:08:12):
You know.

Speaker 20 (01:08:13):
I know this is going to sound hokey to a
lot of people, but even as a little boy, I
wanted to talk to Jesus.

Speaker 4 (01:08:19):
I just wanted.

Speaker 20 (01:08:20):
I can't believe that this guy, at age thirty, he
only preached three years, he only left, he never left,
he never went town thirty five miles outside of his
own town, and what he did this incredible thing. I mean,
and I mean I wanted to ask him so many questions,

(01:08:41):
you know, and I admired the courage that he went
to the cross, the courage, the beatings, the ridicule that's
spitting on him, and that life changed the lives of
so many. So so yeah, I would have to have
to go there.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
What is your best feature? Keep it clean?

Speaker 20 (01:09:06):
Tom I think I think it's always that that I
really do like people, and I really do like making
them laugh. You know, all the time I had the cancer,
I never told anybody at my country club. I never
told anybody there because every time I walk in that, hey,
here's Tommy, what's the new joke?

Speaker 5 (01:09:26):
Tell us the new latest show.

Speaker 20 (01:09:28):
I didn't want people looking at me with puppy eyes
and how you doing? Is it okay?

Speaker 4 (01:09:32):
You're going to be fine? It words.

Speaker 20 (01:09:34):
But so I think it's that that I really do
enjoy people, and I enjoy.

Speaker 1 (01:09:40):
Being around them, entertaining them.

Speaker 20 (01:09:42):
And I'll tell you, Raymond, I could be feeling if
I was home for a few days. I'm a bachelor,
you know, I'm divorced, my X ray passed away. But
if I'm if I'm at home for a couple of
days and maybe I'm not feeling good for some reason.
But if I go out and all of a sudden
with some people, I feel good. I'm a people person.

Speaker 1 (01:09:58):

Speaker 4 (01:10:01):
My temper on the golf course.

Speaker 1 (01:10:04):
Only on the golf course.

Speaker 20 (01:10:06):
Yeah, well, Irish Italian there's a war going on inside
of me.

Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
I know that I recognized that war, but believe me personally.

Speaker 20 (01:10:14):
The Irish guy says, I don't get mad at I'm
buy him a drinking. The Italian guy said, buy him
a drinking and then beat the hell up.

Speaker 1 (01:10:20):
Your greatest regret, Wow.

Speaker 20 (01:10:24):
That's a good question. My greatest regret. My greatest regret
is that when I went to a divorce, I wish
I would have done it better. I wish I would
have Frank Sinata told me when I was going to
my divorce. He said, I went into Vegas. We were
working at the MGM gran He said, hey, you're bringing

(01:10:46):
the wife with you. I said, no, Frank, we're getting
a divorce. And he said, oh, Tommy, I can't give
you any advice on marriage, but I can give you
advice on divorce.

Speaker 1 (01:10:55):
He said, stay.

Speaker 20 (01:10:56):
Friends with her, not for you, but for her. But
for the children stay friends with her and I and
I didn't.

Speaker 4 (01:11:06):
We had a bitter divorce.

Speaker 20 (01:11:08):
We later talked for a little while, and then we did.
And I carry this to my grave and I say
a prayer for her every night because I wish I
without her, I wouldn't have had my children, my grandchildren,
my great grandchildren. I wish I would have been friendly
with her. That's my greatest regret, and I feel real.

Speaker 4 (01:11:25):
Bad about that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:26):
Wow, what's the greatest piece of advice you ever got?

Speaker 20 (01:11:31):
The greatest advice I ever got was probably from the books.
I read literally hundreds of books on the powers of
the mind. But that this is your universe, and you're
in charge of this universe. This is your universe. That
you don't have to you are careful what you put
in here. So be careful what you put in here.
Negative thoughts are dirt. You don't have to they'll flow

(01:11:53):
into your mind. You don't have to let them flourish,
you know. So you are in control of this universe
of what goes in here and what goes in here.
When I'm giving the motivation talks I talked to, I
take a glass of water and I pour dirt in
it and I stir it up and I say, drink this.
Somebody drink this, and they won't. I said, you won't
put filth in here. Why would you put filth in here?

(01:12:14):
If you won't drink dirt, why would you think dirt.
You can get negative thoughts out of your mind and
replace them what positive thoughts. That's that's great advice because
it shows you that this is the universe you've been
given and you're in charge of it.

Speaker 4 (01:12:27):
You really are.

Speaker 20 (01:12:27):
You have more power. You are far more powerful than
you realize.

Speaker 1 (01:12:32):
If you could not do what you're doing now, entertaining people,
making them laugh, bringing them joy, what would you do.

Speaker 20 (01:12:42):
Well? If I couldn't do that, I probably, you know,
I've probably maybe been a writer.

Speaker 1 (01:12:51):
You know.

Speaker 20 (01:12:52):
I really liked the military. The military saved my life
in a lot of ways. I was a raggedy kid.
I went in the military the first time in my life.
I had three squares day, first time in my life.
I was equal to everybody. They shaved all of our
heads and we all had the same clothes on. I'd
been a raggedy, poor kid. I really love America. I've
been around the world. I love this country. It is

(01:13:15):
the greatest country and the people that put us into
this position, those people who founded this country, who wrote
that constitution, those are brilliant human beings. The men and
women who died, you know, in World War Two, that
if we lost that word, you want to argue with
me about wars, you can argue about every war you want,
you can argue with about World War Two, that if

(01:13:36):
we lost that word, there was no doubt what Hitler
had in mind for us, no doubt what Tojo had
in mind for us. Those men and women, the women
that went to work and went and went to war,
and the mini that they were heroes to me. You
know that again, I think I just love this country.
I wish maybe I would like to have been a
politician that would in a way that's kind of a

(01:14:00):
one who was a really who really believed in the constitution,
We believed in the Prince of nutrit You know, Harry
Truman once said, show me a politician who comes out
of office with more money than he went in with,
and I'll show you a crook. We got a lot
of them too, and they're all coming out with more money.

Speaker 1 (01:14:18):
Here's Tim Conway Junior, answering our Royal Grande questionnaire. Very
quickly some a royal grande questions. I asked, oh, good, ok,
you ready, right, who's the person you most admire?

Speaker 22 (01:14:31):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (01:14:31):
Probably my daughter?

Speaker 1 (01:14:33):
Why? Because she's the most perfect.

Speaker 11 (01:14:36):
Person and and and I don't know how that happened,
because her mom spent a lot of time with her.
I spent a lot of time with her, and she
and she surprises us all the time. And and I
would say that it would be my daughter. She is
the most beautiful person inside and out. She treats people properly,

(01:14:56):
she's nice to her friends, and the greatest thing in
the world. You know, I was never gonna have kids
that we had a daughter in two thousand and five,
by a billion light years.

Speaker 6 (01:15:06):
I get goose.

Speaker 11 (01:15:06):
I was talking about it's a great thing ever did
in my life?

Speaker 1 (01:15:09):
Oh? No, it makes you a man?

Speaker 6 (01:15:10):
And I'm real quickly, I'm somebody.

Speaker 11 (01:15:13):
She works at a school and they and some kid
was talking poorly about their mom, and she said, Hey,
that's not you. You should never do that in life.
I don't know where she got that from, not from me,
not from her mom.

Speaker 6 (01:15:23):
She created that. Well, I would say, my.

Speaker 5 (01:15:25):
Daughter, Well, she got it from the love of her parents.

Speaker 6 (01:15:27):
Maybe, maybe, maybe what is.

Speaker 1 (01:15:28):
The thing that Tim Conway Junior knows that no one
else knows?

Speaker 11 (01:15:33):
Oh that's great that I never win at the racetrack.

Speaker 1 (01:15:39):
After all those years, after all that math, crunching those
darn numbers, and nothing broke.

Speaker 6 (01:15:45):
AM a loser at the tracks.

Speaker 1 (01:15:48):
I lose all the time. Okay, what's the best advice
you've ever been given?

Speaker 11 (01:15:52):
The best advice? I would say, don't panic? You know,
never panic, And I told it to my daughter. Whatever happens,
never panic. It's not gonna get you anywhere.

Speaker 1 (01:16:02):
What's your favorite book? And the last great book you read?

Speaker 18 (01:16:05):
Man?

Speaker 6 (01:16:06):
First of all, the Racing Form is.

Speaker 1 (01:16:08):
The wonderful Superman edition for right.

Speaker 6 (01:16:12):
Somebody asked me to write a book, I go, I
didn't even read him.

Speaker 1 (01:16:14):
I would do it right one the old grutch Marks line.
I just finished the book. I think I'm gonna read
another one, you know, old final question?

Speaker 5 (01:16:25):

Speaker 4 (01:16:27):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:16:27):
You mean radio or life? I let you interpret it.

Speaker 11 (01:16:31):
Okay, Radio, We've done everything we needed to do. I
would feel if we walked away tomorrow, I'd be, you know,
totally happy with it, because you know, we got to
afternoon drive on the biggest station in the biggest market.

Speaker 5 (01:16:43):
Incredible.

Speaker 6 (01:16:44):
And we won number one on.

Speaker 11 (01:16:45):
Barrett's US two years in a row. And that's like
the Bible of talk radio. And so we've touched on
you hit the top, right, But after what after life?
I can't wait to run into grandparents, parents and run by.
I think they're all up there.

Speaker 4 (01:16:59):
Me too, I do.

Speaker 1 (01:17:00):
And I can't wait to see your dad and Harvey
Korman again, just to watch Harvey Corman break up and
not be able to hold it together for a second.

Speaker 11 (01:17:07):
I quite often have a dream about my dad, maybe
two three times a month, where I go to the racetrack.
He's there, we spend the day at the racetrack and
I'm going back down the escalator through the clouds. He goes,
won't you just stay? I said, no, I got a daughter,
I got a wife. I'll see in a couple of years.
I bet that's like a reoccurring drink. Really yeah, then
I can take it escalater up the clouds, go to

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the racetrack with my dad, and then take a come back.

Speaker 1 (01:17:29):
And then come back for a little bit.

Speaker 6 (01:17:31):
It's weird, it's odd.

Speaker 11 (01:17:32):
It's a beautiful actual but eventually, you know, I'm going
to be staying up in the clouds.

Speaker 1 (01:17:35):
Right, Eventually you'll be able to stay at the track
with him. That's not a bad way to go, that's right,
Tim Comway Junior, thank you are the best.

Speaker 6 (01:17:41):
Thank you very much. It's so cool to have me on.

Speaker 1 (01:17:44):
And I love you with Laura, I love you back.
So it's a mutual. It's mutually beneficial.

Speaker 6 (01:17:49):
Dolong with you.

Speaker 1 (01:17:50):
Thank you, my friend. Great to see you. And Actor
Billy Baldwin also took the Arroyo Grande questionnaire. Who's the
person you most admire?

Speaker 4 (01:18:00):
Oh my goodness, that's.

Speaker 22 (01:18:05):
There's five answers, but the first one would be, uh,
it would be my would be.

Speaker 14 (01:18:10):
Christ or my wife?

Speaker 5 (01:18:12):
I was I thought you would say your dad.

Speaker 22 (01:18:13):
Yeah, he would be on the very short list. It
would be Christ, my wife, my mother and father, my
three children.

Speaker 1 (01:18:22):
What's your best feature? Uh?

Speaker 14 (01:18:27):
Certainly not giving short answers.

Speaker 22 (01:18:30):
I noticed that I tell stories and I love this
hold on it's coming back around.

Speaker 1 (01:18:36):
Okay, we're coming back out there and there it is. No.

Speaker 22 (01:18:39):
I think my best features feature is I'm going to
answer in a way that's probably not true, but it's
my my It's sort of all the same thing, but
my desire to grow to learn not being afraid to be,

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not being afraid to ask a question, to show that
I'm that I don't know the answer, that that's something
that I that I.

Speaker 14 (01:19:09):
Like about myself.

Speaker 1 (01:19:10):
But I also want to get better about what does
Billy Baldwin know that others don't know? I have a
really really bad answer for come on, I give it
to me.

Speaker 14 (01:19:22):
I was going to say, I could show you, but
somebody might lose an eye clip cut. That did not happen.

Speaker 5 (01:19:31):
What was the question?

Speaker 1 (01:19:32):
The question was what do you know that other people
don't know? Not?

Speaker 5 (01:19:37):
What do you have that other people don't have?

Speaker 1 (01:19:39):
Clarify?

Speaker 22 (01:19:40):
What do I show that other people don't know? Yeah,
I don't know. M that's what I don't know. I
don't know what I don't.

Speaker 19 (01:19:51):
What's your biggest regret?

Speaker 1 (01:19:56):
I don't.

Speaker 14 (01:19:57):
I don't have any major regrets.

Speaker 22 (01:19:58):
But having said that, if I could go back and
do it again, there are things that I would change.
Some things in my marriage, some things with child rearings,
a couple of things with my career. One of the
things that I will tell parents that is beautiful is
my wife has had one on one time.

Speaker 14 (01:20:16):
With each of our children.

Speaker 22 (01:20:17):
She doesn't say Daddy and Billy, Billy and mommy, jump
in the car with Jamison. She has one on one
time with Jess Jamison, with jest Vance, with Jess Brooks,
not all five of us, not three of them. And
it could be let's go for a beach walk, let's
take out the trash, let's walk the dog. And you
could go walk the dog for ten minutes or fifteen

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minutes without uttering a word. You don't have to get
to solve life's problem. Do you have a crush? Have
you ever tried drug? It doesn't You could walk in silence.
Just one on one time with your child individually will
create a bond.

Speaker 14 (01:20:50):
She's hijacked my three children for me, not even my
kids anymore. She owns all three of them. That number one.
Number two.

Speaker 22 (01:20:57):
Do not give your kids a smartphone until we should
have given our kids a clamshell that dialed five or
ten numbers so you can call her, text, Grandma, Mommy, Daddy,
three of your friends.

Speaker 1 (01:21:12):
No pictures, no social media.

Speaker 22 (01:21:13):
No access to the internet, no social media, no bullying.
And I would say, because the great thing about it
is when my daughter would go to Straight State Street
with her friends when she was twelve. I would text
her and say yo or sup, and she were right back, yo, sup.
And that just meant I hear you, I'm here everything.
If there was a complaint or she was worried or
she was scared, she would have already called.

Speaker 14 (01:21:34):
But I'm just checking in.

Speaker 22 (01:21:35):
And if you don't answer and I say sup again
and another half hour goes by, you're in trouble.

Speaker 1 (01:21:39):
Final question.

Speaker 22 (01:21:40):
So they should have those because they're like a tether
gives like having it Danny, but no access to the
internet and no access to social media.

Speaker 5 (01:21:48):
I just had a child psychologist and tell me the
same thing.

Speaker 1 (01:21:51):
Boy, she sees it.

Speaker 14 (01:21:52):
It's contributing to the mental health.

Speaker 1 (01:21:53):
Final question.

Speaker 5 (01:21:54):

Speaker 22 (01:21:58):
Well, like me, I'd like all of you you to
go to no addressmovie dot com see the film. Hopefully
it will inspire you and motivate you and and hit
that switch of compassion and empathy that will want you
to that will you know, make you take action in
any way, shape or form in your community.

Speaker 1 (01:22:18):
To be engaged no matter where you are engaged. You
certainly thank you Director John Irwin earnestly engage the arroyo
grande questionnaire. These are real quick questions because I know
you got to go and you've done it and you've got.

Speaker 5 (01:22:32):
Many a great conversation.

Speaker 1 (01:22:34):
Roy I ask everybody these arroyal It's my arroyo grande questions. Okay, great,
you ready?

Speaker 23 (01:22:39):
This is the what was the the what was the
inner James James is?

Speaker 1 (01:22:46):
That's right. I won't ask you the person you most admire,
who is the person I most admire?

Speaker 23 (01:22:55):
You know, I would say that I admire many many
people like I love a great biography, and I love
to learn from the stories of others. So of course,
you know, I think right now, in the moment that
I'm in, I would say David. Probably six months from now,
when I'm directing this movie, I would say George Washington.

Speaker 5 (01:23:12):
But Washington, yeah, But.

Speaker 23 (01:23:15):
There's something about about gleaning from other people's stories and
uh and a lot of that is whatever story I'm
presently telling, or maybe a book I've read, but but
I'm fully immersed in the story of David right now.
What is your best feature? My best feature? You know,

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probably you know, I'll tell you this. This is the
under celebrated virtue. Okay, curiosity. I think if you can
combine curiosity with pain tolerance, there is not much that
you can't achieve if you can just be constantly learning.

Speaker 5 (01:23:51):
And so I think I live I live my.

Speaker 23 (01:23:53):
Life curious a level of curiosity and learning all the time.
And I think when that is met with a level
of determination, there is there are a few things that
you can't achieve.

Speaker 5 (01:24:02):

Speaker 23 (01:24:04):
Oh, my gosh, my worst feature is probably just the
uncontrollable personality of the artist. Like if you're like, I'm
a I'm an ADHD nightmare. But my my biggest battles
are within not my biggest battles are with myself. Sometimes
I feel like I'm I'm I'm the greatest villain to
my own story, you know.

Speaker 5 (01:24:22):
And uh, And that's I think one of the reasons.

Speaker 23 (01:24:24):
Why I like telling stories, whether it's David or whether
it's Jesus Revolution. I like these stories of imperfect people
that are very flawed that God still uses because I
feel like.

Speaker 6 (01:24:34):
I fit right in.

Speaker 5 (01:24:35):
We all do.

Speaker 23 (01:24:36):
Yeah, what is the thing you know that authors don't know?
I know, boy, that's a great question and a loaded question.

Speaker 4 (01:24:47):
It is I know.

Speaker 1 (01:24:49):
That it you know what.

Speaker 5 (01:24:50):
I think the thing that I could.

Speaker 23 (01:24:51):
Most that would be most helpful to people listening is
I know that it just takes longer than you think,
in the sense that I wanted to Ice first. The
spark of curiosity for David happened when I was sixteen
years old. The first script I wrote for a movie
on David was in twenty twelve. And success is long
obedience in the same direction. If you genuinely feel like

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your call to do something, just keep going. It's going
to take a lot longer than you think, and then
you're going to get to this breakthrough moment. And I
think there's not a lot of failures in terms of stories.
There's just a lot of incomplete stories. In the sense
of there's not a lot of bad films, there's just
unfinished films. Sometimes we say, and I think sometimes people
give up and you never know when that breakthrough moment

(01:25:36):
where the fog clears was right around the corner, and
you stop too early, and you stop too early. So
if I can give any advice to anybody is if
you really feel like you're supposed to do something, as
long as you're learning, as long as you're curious, don't
give up. You just never know when that moment is
right around the corner. Final question, what happens when this
is over?

Speaker 5 (01:25:56):
Oh? Man, I take a nap.

Speaker 23 (01:25:58):
I think is But I'll tell you what I really
dream of, and this is the dream of the under project.
Is you think about the most profound outcome that could
come from all this. Somebody should make a documentary sometime
of the twenty five year mayhem that has led to
Fate film and the reemergence of this type of content
and the yahoos that God has used to do it.

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But my hope the outcome that I would be most
like this made the journey worth it is If you
watch The House of David Traylor, the first title card
that comes up is the MGM logo LEO the lionis
is one hundred years of entertainment. My hope is that
a lot of these successes for movies and television can
coalesce into an institution that can last one hundred years

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and really allow us to tell these stories on a
global scale long after I'm not able. So I joke
around that I'd love to see a studio last one
hundred years. I'd love to get it halfway. If Clint
Easwood can do it, I can do it, you know.
But the idea is that that would be a transcendent
outcome that my hope and prayer and strong belief is

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that there's now this group of creatives and we're willing
each other on to success. We're competing in the best
sense of the word, just trying to one up each other.
Like you know, I remember seeing every version of Dallas
Jenkins scene of Walking on the Water. I was shooting
the Jesus Revolution move with the Kesees DP, so we
were looking at every version on a Keith's phone and
I was con Dallas. But that was a I feel

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that that's the best version of the Walking on the
Water that I've ever seen. It was so well done,
and that just makes me want to like one up
in which the Dam.

Speaker 1 (01:27:34):
And Goliath, I'm like, wait till you see Davy Deliath.

Speaker 5 (01:27:36):
But that's happening.

Speaker 23 (01:27:37):
And my hope is that the work that we're doing
as a group of friends and partners and collaborators right
now will sort of break the dam, as it were.
It will allow creatives to come behind us and have
their voices heard, and that would be the most inspiring goal.
And to have any role in something that's emerging right
in front of you, like is a privilege. And to

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bleed on the bleeding edge, to be in the arena
at all is a great privilege.

Speaker 1 (01:28:04):
Well, John, I was not lost on me. Leo the
Lion opened the movie and David confronts Leo in the movie.
But I'm not what happened. Isn't that amazing?

Speaker 23 (01:28:13):
I just think that was actually one of the things
that that you know that you know, Samuel says to
David in the show. Uh, you know, God doesn't look
on the outward appearance. He looks in the heart. That's
what's in the Bible. And then we add, and you
have the heart of a lion, you know. And what
a lions do? They roar, he tells him.

Speaker 1 (01:28:29):
And uh.

Speaker 23 (01:28:30):
And so the fact that the trailer opens with the
lion energy, it is a good omen. I think it's great,
great interview. We could have talked for hours.

Speaker 1 (01:28:39):
I care pioneer Doctor Ming Wang offered beautiful answers to
the Arroyo Grande questionnaire. Who is the person you most admire?

Speaker 4 (01:28:52):
I am my Einstein? Why yeah?

Speaker 24 (01:28:55):
Because he is thinking out of the box. He was
thinking out the box that before him we recon ad
space is three dimensional three x y z. He was
able to think four dimensional, including the time, So thinking
out the box, overcoming our natural instinct. I think that's
how human being can progress. In Einstein's best.

Speaker 1 (01:29:17):
Example is the person you most despise.

Speaker 24 (01:29:21):
Adolf Hitler, because he's self proclaimed superority, which is human nature.
By the way, as I said, we are so polarized
because we think I'm better than the next person, and
he has taken that to an extreme.

Speaker 1 (01:29:37):
What is your best feature? My best feature? I'm not
the smartest.

Speaker 24 (01:29:43):
I'm like medium high IQ, but I recognize I can
be the best student.

Speaker 4 (01:29:50):
So I'm actually learning all the time. I learned.

Speaker 24 (01:29:53):
I give you my little books, Supan combet how I
learned from some very successful business people like Today's interestion
with you, I'm learning from you.

Speaker 5 (01:30:00):
I'm observing. I'm learning a lot from.

Speaker 24 (01:30:02):
Yeah, I'm observing. I'm thinking while you're effective in what
you do. So my best feature is I'm the good student.

Speaker 1 (01:30:11):

Speaker 5 (01:30:14):
Worst feature.

Speaker 4 (01:30:16):
Probably being a vorholic, and it's very different.

Speaker 24 (01:30:21):
In my autobiography, I talk about some imbalance, beaten work
and family, and because I'm so driven by work to
help these kids, and it's a challenge how to achieve
the balance.

Speaker 1 (01:30:35):
That balance is always difficult, I think for every for
every mother or father, it's hard. What is your favorite meal?

Speaker 4 (01:30:42):
M favorite meal?

Speaker 24 (01:30:45):
I think it's a sudden Chinese dish with some spice
and some tofu, lots of vegetables, lots of green, good
for the eyes, good for the eyes, vitamins C and E,
A and E.

Speaker 4 (01:31:04):
That's my favorite dish.

Speaker 5 (01:31:05):
Wow, tell me your what do you fear?

Speaker 4 (01:31:09):
Doctor?

Speaker 24 (01:31:11):
I fear that human nature will d even allow our
human nature, the polarizing nature, that self proclaim the superiority,
that take better control better of us, and human being
just sliding into the dead is spiral polarization and self destruction.

Speaker 5 (01:31:28):
Into the abyss. Yes, what's the last great book you read?

Speaker 4 (01:31:34):
Ah? Great question.

Speaker 24 (01:31:37):
I think one of the last great books I read
is del Cornnegies How to Win friends.

Speaker 5 (01:31:42):
And Influence people.

Speaker 4 (01:31:44):
And what I learned here is this.

Speaker 24 (01:31:46):
Sometimes I argue with someone saying, hey, Johnny, this is
this is wrong, this is and I couldn't get anywhere.
And del Connie said, you know what, if you had
good things to say, say, if you only have bad
things to say, don't bother. So if I can change
Johnny's mind, let him be. He's the only person I
can change on this planet.

Speaker 4 (01:32:07):
It's myself.

Speaker 16 (01:32:08):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (01:32:09):
That's that's wise, that's wise.

Speaker 5 (01:32:11):
What is the word you could not live without?

Speaker 4 (01:32:15):
Mmm? Mmmm?

Speaker 24 (01:32:22):
I think love for me because it's it's for example,
I love dancing, ballroom dancing, and oh it's exercise, yes,
But it is their love for music, love for the moment,
transcendental moment where we bring the beautiful costumes and music
together to experience a deep passion amoung human being for

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those beautiful things in our life. So that love for
music and beauty, love for family, love for my work
to help us plong off with children is what drives me.
And love for human kind it self. That to recoon,
we need to overcome polarization, find the common ground.

Speaker 5 (01:33:03):
What is the greatest virtue in the world. What's the
greatest virtue?

Speaker 4 (01:33:09):
Humbleness? M humbleness.

Speaker 24 (01:33:12):
It's very difficult because we tend to as human being,
we learned something myself included. I think I know this,
I know that, but to recognize what I still don't
know is.

Speaker 1 (01:33:21):
The greatest virtue? What's your biggest regret? Do you have one?

Speaker 24 (01:33:26):
I probably would desire to have been more balanced work
and family.

Speaker 4 (01:33:34):
That is probably my biggest regret.

Speaker 1 (01:33:37):
The best piece of advice you ever received was what.

Speaker 4 (01:33:45):
In my little book.

Speaker 24 (01:33:47):
I met a professor and he always got the diagnosis right.
We are arguing all this eye problem could be this,
and he walked in, doctor Savino. He comes in, he's
this one and as doctor Vino, how'd you get it right?

Speaker 4 (01:34:00):
I want advice? This is what he said.

Speaker 24 (01:34:02):
He said, I mean, as human being, we tend to swimming,
swim among uncertainties or could be this, or could be that.
But I change my nature as such, I delivered to
something different. I'll go into a situation where you all
arguing about uncertainties or this next month, to this programming
or maybe this programming audience like more and a lot

(01:34:24):
of our different possibilities. I change my focus from looking
at the uncertainties to looking for is there anything certain here?
I will be only one or two certainties, and I
hand my head on top of that. So overcome a
human natural tendency of swimming around among uncertainties, but deliberty, rationally,

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logically look for certainties lb.

Speaker 4 (01:34:51):
It could be few. It's the best advice I've learned,
great advice.

Speaker 5 (01:34:55):
If you could not do what you're doing, what do
you think you would do?

Speaker 1 (01:34:58):
What would you like to do?

Speaker 4 (01:34:59):
If think if.

Speaker 24 (01:35:00):
I, if I'm not an eye doctor today, I probably
will be our hoole player.

Speaker 4 (01:35:05):
That chan's volid. I love it.

Speaker 24 (01:35:07):
I love music, composition. I compose some songs my self. Dancer,
ballroom dancer. I love volun dance.

Speaker 1 (01:35:14):
It's amazing to me though these are things you did
out of survival. You discovered the amount of survival, but
you found a deep passion as both of them.

Speaker 24 (01:35:23):
Yes, and sometimes they say, how come right? It's Here's interesting.
If we like something as human being, we have to
deeply appreciate it. M we have different ways to appreciate
it. It could be something grandfather grandfather that they can inherit
it right imprinted, or it could be something that through

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life experience we learn the importance of it. In my case,
I learned the dancing and also musing instruments out of
need to survive, so they are more important to me
because I literally without being able to without learning, will
not be able to survive, so they take more importance
to me than just a music instrument and hobby.

Speaker 4 (01:36:06):
Wow, beautiful.

Speaker 5 (01:36:08):

Speaker 4 (01:36:12):
This meaning the work?

Speaker 5 (01:36:14):
I'll let you interpret it.

Speaker 1 (01:36:16):
Could be this life, could be this interview. What happens
when this is over?

Speaker 24 (01:36:21):
I would say if I interpret this as my life,
I wanted to be able to make Sometimes what's the
purpose and need the study of science and medicine?

Speaker 4 (01:36:37):
These are tools? What's the purpose to help these kids? Yes?

Speaker 24 (01:36:42):
But overall all of these what I do, I have
one single purpose behind all of these medical work is
to help make this world a little better place to
live when I.

Speaker 1 (01:36:52):
Leave one of these days. I'm going to answer the
whole questionnaire, but for now, I'm going to take a
bat at this one. What is the best book you've
read recently? I think it would be Graham Green's A
Life in Letters. If you don't know who Graham Green is,
He's really one of the greatest authors in the English tongue.

(01:37:13):
I've read all of his books multiple times, three biographies,
his short stories, even his film reviews. I've gone through.
But this was a fantastic book because it allowed you
behind the veil, his bouts with faith, his romantic entanglements.
The end of the affair was only barely fiction. Boys
and girls. There is a great line in the letters

(01:37:35):
that I found myself highlighting. Writing a novel is a
little like putting a message in a bottle and flinging
it into the ocean. Unexpected friends or enemies retrieve it.
It's food for thought. Okay, to fulfill my promise that you.
Sketch that we opened the show with was based on

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Abbot and Costello's Who's on First, which they called baseball
they labeled it. It evolved when the team hit vaudeville,
and it's based on a lot of those wordplay sketches
of the day, this particular sketch, and it constantly evolved.
They never did it the same way twice. It dates
back from the nineteen thirties.

Speaker 8 (01:38:15):
Watch well, I see that we have on our team.

Speaker 9 (01:38:18):
We have who's on first? What's on second? I don't
know he's on third.

Speaker 8 (01:38:21):
That's what I want to find out, the guy's name.
And that's what I want to find out, the guy's name.

Speaker 9 (01:38:24):
I'm telling me who's on first, what's on second?

Speaker 1 (01:38:26):
I don't know?

Speaker 13 (01:38:26):
's on third?

Speaker 8 (01:38:27):
Have you got to be a manager in a baseball team.
Yet you know the guy's names. Why are you tell
me the guy's names on a baseball Say?

Speaker 9 (01:38:32):
Who's on first? What's on second? I don't know's on third?
You ain't saying that to me yet.

Speaker 8 (01:38:35):
Tell me.

Speaker 9 (01:38:37):
I'm telling you none yet, Malen temmy, who's on first?
What's on second? I don't know?

Speaker 8 (01:38:42):
Is on third? You know a guy's names? Any baseball team?

Speaker 13 (01:38:44):
Well?

Speaker 8 (01:38:44):
The heck? Who's on first? Yes? I mean the guy's name?
Who they got planing fights? Whoh they got planning fights?
Bess poo? They got a fust base? Who is on first?
What are you asking me fighting?

Speaker 1 (01:38:53):
How?

Speaker 6 (01:38:54):
Wait?

Speaker 8 (01:38:54):
I'm asking you who's on first? That's to me? Man tummy?
Who they got on first? That's it? That's his name?

Speaker 6 (01:39:01):
He said.

Speaker 8 (01:39:02):
I asked you want a guy's name?

Speaker 13 (01:39:04):
A push base?

Speaker 4 (01:39:05):
Coming?

Speaker 8 (01:39:05):
The guys name a push baby?

Speaker 1 (01:39:06):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:39:09):
You guys playing first? Make who is on first?

Speaker 6 (01:39:11):
Leap?

Speaker 8 (01:39:13):
I'll get excited. I'm saying, I'm asking you a simple question.
Who's on first?

Speaker 13 (01:39:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:39:16):
For good coming?

Speaker 12 (01:39:17):
That's it.

Speaker 8 (01:39:18):
That's who I'm asking you. What's the guy's name on pushbab?

Speaker 13 (01:39:22):
No?

Speaker 8 (01:39:22):
What's on second? I'm not asking you who's on second?
I'm going for one base.

Speaker 1 (01:39:28):
They are comic geniuses, you know, and it's rare to
find comics who go on the road and work material
for this long. They did it for a decade before
they bring it to a mass audience. I mean they
worked it in radio, they worked at in vaudeville, they
worked it on the road, then they finally brought it
to TV. I hope you'll come back to a Royal
Grande soon. Why live a dry, constricted life when if

(01:39:50):
you fill it with good things, it can flow into
a broad driving a Royo Grande. I'm raimont Arroyo. Make
sure you subscribe like this episode, Thank you for diving in,
and we'll see you next time. Royal Grande is produced
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