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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Kelly nash Hi Tomorrow show today Tuesday, the eighteenth
of November. About weeks in we're going to be celebrating
Christmas all over the place. As matter of fact, we
got a chance for to win some tickets for Saluta
Shells Holiday Lights on the River.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yeah. I was just reading about that on the Morning
Rest blog at ninety seven five WSS dot com. Palmetto
Smiles Winter Wonderland dual Tube slides, hay Ride train rides
along the Saluta Shoals Train, the Laser Lights show. This
is on the Wetland Trail. We got the letter to Santa.
(00:36):
You can get creative with coloring and decorating your letter
for Santa. Yeah, and then they'll make sure that it's
delivered personally to the Big Guy. Plus, I remember going
I guess it was two years ago. We went down there.
My niece Lucy had loaded up on snacks and she
asked my wife Angela to hold one of the said snacks.
(00:58):
I can't remember exactly what it was, but whatever it
was had a topping and it fell off, and.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
The topping fell off of the snack. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Whatever it was ice cream, It could have been an
ice cream. It could have been whipped cream on a
hot chocolate. It could have been candy on top of something.
Whatever it was, it fell off and it hit the ground.
And the look of disdain that my niece gave.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
One thing.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
You had one thing to hold this while I zip
my coat, and you failed, Auntie. But don't don't let
your kids down. Meet Santa. So Santa will be there
November twenty eighth and twenty ninth, and again December fifth
through the seventh, December twelfth through the fourteenth, and December
eighteenth through the twenty third. So we're and it got
(01:46):
photo opportunities, get photo packages, all of these, it's the
whole night of stuff. Yes, the Holiday Lights admission we got,
so we're going to get you in. So we got
a vehicle pass to get you in to that. And
then we're also if that's not enough, we're also going
to give you a pair of tickets to an artist
who you and I quite frankly never heard of.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It just got introduced to him.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
But he is almost At this point, I believe, I
don't think I'm overstating the case. I believe there are
less than one hundred tickets available at this point to
the Township Auditorium to see this new country.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Artist, Sam Barber.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yes, who's already made his debut at the Grand o' opry.
He has been, I guess heralded by many of the
big big country music stars. They love this guy and
apparently caught lightning in a bottle because the tickets right now,
the cheapest tickets available are about one hundred dollars to
(02:44):
get in to see him, that's the face value, and
they go all the way up to two seventy seven
on face value, and he sold that.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Well.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Again, there's probably less than one hundred tickets available.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
He's on the Zach Bryan roade. His success came up
out of the internet on TikTok. That's where he started.
And then that was gosh, two years ago. He was
a senior in college two years ago, or maybe not
even a senior because he's twenty two years old right now.
And then Luke Combs put him on the soundtrack for
(03:16):
what's that movie Twisters? And you know Ed Sharen named
him as the favorite new artist of the year, and
you know, he went double platinum with some record that
he put out, So he is hotter than a pistol.
Sam Barber the American Route Tour will be at the
Township February seventh. It's a Saturday night. So even if
(03:37):
you're like us, going never heard of him, oh you
got a hear him? Yeah, I mean double ticks, double clicks,
or at least double clicks double ticks.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
If you don't want him, sell them. They're selling them
for three hundred dollars a ticket. I mean that's six
hundred dollars in tickets. So you click on the morning
mush ball I get you go to get the answer.
Kellers are going to give you the word and give
you the answer here in just a second. If you
tell us, because we're gonna ask did you double click?
Then you win the double tikes. Yeah, if you only
if you only single clicked the yeah, I guess you
just get the We just give you the tickets to
(04:09):
the Salutor Shells and then we then we scalped the
other tickets.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Are they lights on the river at Saluta Sholls.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Parvenu is our word of the day. That's what we're
talking about. Parvenu, parvenue, parvenue, par parvenue. And just to
help you out with this, Sam Barber may be described
as a parvenue trying to help you.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Here, Uh, something that's out of left field. Nobody saw
it coming.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Kind of a person of obscure origin who suddenly gains wealth, influence,
or celebrity.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
He is the definition of part of you. Par parvenu, parvenu, parvenue. Yep.
Now we're giving you an opportunity to use that work
because we gave you a way to put it in
the so you could use it three times. Make it
part of your regular vocabulary.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
When you when you pick up say I want to
go see this parvenu. I want to go see that
parvenu in person. A personal destiny with the parvenu. So
we got that going on. By the way, if you
also go to the Morning Rest blog at ninety seven
five WSS dot com, we post all kinds of fun
little things over there, not just answers to win great prizes.
(05:20):
One of the things that we have up there. I
don't know if you saw this late last week. We
didn't talk about it. If you did see it, the Pope,
the Pope was I don't know how this came about,
but the Pope has now listed his favorite movies for you, okay,
And I guess the popes always do this, but because
he's the first American born pope, this is the first
(05:42):
time the pope is named the movies that Americans know?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Is this part of the age old debate of Christmas
movies or just movies? What's your favorite movies? Favorite movie?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
So, like Jonathan Rush, you would say what a few
good men?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
It's a good one. Top Gun Maverick, the top Gun.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Top Gun Maverick. Yeah, I would throw in The Godfather
is one of my choos.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I think Redemptions what Cable says is the best movie
of all time.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Pretty bad for the pope to say Godfather is one
of his favorites. Or Scarface. They don't say scarface if
you're the pope.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
You got to water it down at any Robert and
Narrow movies because I know he met Robert and Narrow recently.
I thought it was interesting the Pope walks up to
Robert de Narrow and it says, is great to meet you,
and Robert de Narrow said me too.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I don't know if Robert de Niro is in this
nineteen eighty film. It's a big picture from nineteen eighty
that I never saw because it looked boring. You're thinking,
you're not going to give me a guess. It's called
Ordinary People.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I remember the title. I don't think i've ever seen
it either.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I don't know that Robert Redford's in it, but Robert Redford,
I know, directed it.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
So is it about people in a mental institute?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I don't know. I don't know. But he liked it.
The Pope loved that nineteen eighty film. He also loved
a non American film from nineteen ninety seven that won
all the awards that year called Life Is Beautiful. And
if you remember, that guy who was the star looked
like a nut job. He was running around everywhere and
he's like, oh, like well ding, oh yeah, the life
(07:13):
is so beautiful. I love it A life I forget
that guy's name now, but he was a whack job
and everybody thought he was going to be a big
superstar and he was one and done. Now he may
be a big deal in Europe, but we've never heard
from him ever since. Okay, and then the Pope goes back,
I guess to his childhood nineteen sixty five, The Hills
are Alive. He loved the sound of music. And then
(07:37):
the Pope and our friend Tumbleweed could sit down and
have a long discussion. Because the final film he mentioned,
it's a wonderful life.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Oh my god, it's a great movie. Doubleweed quotes it
all the time, Clarence, he will quote that movie daily.
If you give just give him an opportunity.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I wonder if the pope, like Jonathan Rush is still
upset that there was no justice for uh Potter stealing
the money.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I don't get it. I don't understand knowing that there
was a law, there was a law where the bad
guy always got caught in motion pictures.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
You're saying this is a Hollywood law. That was No,
it was a law that well, a Hollywood law in
the sense that anytime a picture was made, there was
supposed to be, you know, a punishment paid a bad guy.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
But no, mister Potter got it was eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I always thinking it was ten and what.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Nineteen thirty it was like one hundred grand today or
one thousand dollars. There's a lot of frigging money. Yeah,
nobody ever called them on and he never had to
cough it up. The cops never came in nothing. He
got away with it. Potter Potter.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Understand he's still running that time.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Could there not be a sequel where Potter comes to justice.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
He's still running Bedford Falls with his iron fist. There
was a momentary, nice little moment there for the people
of Potter Falls to think that they had gotten out
from under that grasp, but they didn't. Potter still running it.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Nobody's ever been able to answer that question for me.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
The Bailey Building and loan, I don't even know if
it went on.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
We don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
We know that the fine folks of that town gave
all the money that they had and Clarence got his wings.
So that's good news. And the sole surviving cast member
I think is still with us usual. I think she's
still with us. Come on, what's what's her name?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Aga Zuzu? How does she She was the youngest z
u Zu Zuzu. Zuzu's pedals, Yeah, Zuzu's pedals. She can't
be still.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I believe she is still with us today. Carolyn Grimes
still alive. Wow, keep going, Caroline, She's eighty five.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Years old for you.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Carolyn's film debut came with six months. She was Fred
McMurray's daughter and pardon my past. Her most famous role
is Zuzu and It's a wonderful life. So she kind
of peaked at age three or whatever. That was right
all downhill from there. She was in The Bishop's Wife.
(10:21):
That came out, I guess a year or two later
she was in sixteen movies as a child actor. And
then that was the end of that. And then I
don't know what she did with the rest of her life.
I'm looking at her pictures. She looks great. I mean, well,
at least that photo from twenty nineteen. She looks great.
She's I mean she I would have never guessed it.
(10:42):
I hope she had. She said that. Oh, she apparently
got to go on tour for many years on speaking
engagements talking about this role. And it was on one
of those speaking that she met a psychologist whom she
may and then moved to the Seattle area and continues
(11:05):
to give speeches about It's a Wonderful life.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
It was a wonderful life for her. She wrote a
best rested all her life.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
She wrote a best selling holiday cookbook with recipes inspired
by It's a Wonderful Life. If my mother was Donna Reid,
these are the recipes Donna Reed my mother would have made.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
How did I not know this?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
In twenty twenty three, she recited the famous line every
time a bell rings, an Angel gets his wings for
the Christmas single A Day in the Life of a
Christmas Tree. So apparently that was a number one European
Christmas song and they got the eighty three year old
at the time, Carolyn Grimes, to.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Say, it only takes one good ball. Kelly's like the
man taught me with pinball. That's what the Winos said.
And a run down convenience store somewhere outside of Augusta, Georgia.
Life is like pinball. It only takes one good ball.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Caroline Grimes got that ball at age three and has
ridden it hard for another eighty years. For eighty years,
she's been making money off. It's a wonderful life, right.
And you know, the funny thing is from what I'm told.
I mean, I wasn't here in nineteen forty six, but
what I was told is that movie was a flop.
It was, and that it basically, you know, the whole
(12:26):
cast kind of just wrote it off, and even when
they were making it, because that was I guess back
in the era of what do they call him? It's
like studio films or whatever. There was a like Jimmy
Stewart was signed to a contract where he had to
make three movies a year, so it wasn't like today's
deals where the actors are independent contractors and they have
(12:47):
agents who can set up different things or whatever. Jimmy
Stewart's made a getting paid a crapload of money, I'm sure, sure,
probably something along the lines of a million dollars a
year in nineteen forty six. Probably, But you're basically going
to move every day. You're gonna shoot a film five
days a week, and you're gonna end up shooting three films,
and you don't know anything about him, nor do you
care anything about him, nor do you even know if
(13:09):
they're gonna be a hit. You have no idea because
sometimes he was making two or three films, I guess
at the same time. So he's like, oh, what roll
am I in?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
We'll put this hat on and now you're playing so
and so. Take the hat off. Now you're gonna play
so and so. So he doesn't know if and then
a nine.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
To five job and you get a script that says
you're shooting this beginning to seventeenth and.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Then at the end of the movie, you don't know,
you could probably did a little bit of promotion, but
not like today's going on the late night turk talk
circuit or whatever, because you didn't have time. You're busy
shooting another movie. You got to turn it out. MGM
demands another movie. And so he said he'd forgotten all
about that movie. He don't even remember it. And so
it was like nineteen seventy and then it started showing
(13:49):
up on these like black and white channels or whatever,
like they were like, well, it's midnight, late night movie,
let's fill it with this crappy movie from the forties
that nobody cares about. And then somehow that just caught
on and the audience of the seventies loved it. The
people of the forties not so much, didn't care.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
NBC airs at every Christmas Eve.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah, they bought the rights now, right, like, so only
they can show it because back in the eighties and stuff,
it used to be on like every channel, well every
cable channel, so like WPIX channel eleven out of New
York TBS was the channel seventeen back in the day
down here in Atlanta, and all these channels, WGN Chicago.
They would all air that movie to just fill time,
(14:33):
and Americans of later decades be loved, We love Usu.
So I wonder when the speaking tours started, like in
the seventies or the eighties. There must have been like
a thirty year drought for poor Jusu. She didn't know
what she was doing with her life, and then she
went on the speaking tours and then she was able
to meet her husband.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Be it like a drugstore one day and somebody said,
I saw your movie the other night on television. Which
one you saw? What It's a Wonderful life.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
She probably thought it was another one, the Bishop's wife.
She probably, no, No, you mean the Bishop's wife. That's the
one that I was in.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
No. One, the one with mister Potter.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Who who's mister Potter? Well you shot him? You were
Jimmy Stewart's kid, what's right. I did play that role once.
Remember that was on television. There must have been a mistake.
(15:29):
They must have accidentally not run the Bishop's wife, because
that's the hot one.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
That'd be great to find out if that's how that happened.
Could have been because she was living at that point,
And where did you say Seattle.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
She ended up moving to Seattle because she was on
a national speaking to her and she met a guy
who was a psychologist who also ran a homeless shelter.
And when she met that guy, she fell in love,
married him, moved to Seattle to be with him, and
so I guess him and her ran that homeless shelter
for many years and then. But she still tours and
(16:03):
gives like twenty five speaking dates a year where people
just pay her to.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Come on in.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
And a night with Carolyn Grimes tonight in Newberry.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
She was a precious little girl.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I could totally hear the end Newberry Opera House presents
A night with Carolyn Grimes, the last surviving member of
It's a Wonderful Life here her time.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Would do what have we had to do to give
away tickets?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I remember it wasn't that long ago they had a
night with h what's her face? I dream a genie
lady Barbara Eden. That was like three or four years ago,
wasn't it. I was like thinking, why is Barbara Eden
on tour? There's a million questions that need to be answered. Kelly,
did you really make out with Major Heally? Did you
(16:43):
make out with him. Why would you love him so much?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Oh? I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Major Heally, would you have loved him if he was Jr?
Would the Genie does she have a name or was
it just Genie Jeanie wizard name, so Jeanie would would
Jeanie have loved Jr? And just Major Heally, it's the
same guy I love j are you?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
And I'm sure somebody asked that question?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
H Anyway, we got that going on. And finally, Jonathan,
as we wrap things up for today, you know, I
can't believe that next week is Thanksgiving already it's coming, brother,
and this lady's a month into her relationship with her
new boyfriend. And the question is I really like him?
(17:36):
And I think it'd be great to invite him to
come to the Thanksgiving dinner that my parents are having.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Okay, is it too early? Though? A month? A month?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I mean, I don't know if you've ever seen him
interact with strangers, how does he interact with adults? I mean,
if he's twenty three twenty four, I mean, I know
he's an adult at twenty three twenty four, but he's
not an adult, you know, he's not. Whether they say
the brain doesn't even finish developing until you're.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Like thirty something like that. And he's a guy. That's
why we won't rent cars to people. And you up
at the table, you don't know, well, you know that, and.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
What if it just seems awkward to me that if
your mom and dad haven't met him, that the first
time mom and dad are meeting him, or like in
a high precious situation.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Everybody's welcome on Thanksgiving. This is the perfect holiday. Everybody's welcome, Okay,
Jonathan Rush says, bring them by. Absolutely, everybody's welcome to
come to the table. It's Thanksgiving. Invite your friends.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
And then think about the family photos that we can't
share when you break up with them before Christmas. Now
we've lost all these holiday bacabs.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
You do have to be careful if you're going to
take family photos, take at least a couple without him, Yeah,
because that may not age.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Well, Billy, would you mind taking the photo? Don't be
in it? Take it?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Well, we'll see what people think about that idea of
inviting a guy him month into the relationship, and how
would he respond. That's suddenly, now you're putting me in
a high pressure situation. I was planning to go into
my folks house. Now I got to decide whether or
not I got to blow off my parents and come
to your house.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yeah, we'll find out. I'm thinking back on fatesgivings past.
Oh good, this would be good. The ghost bring up
your ghost of fatesgivings tomorrow. Well, who ruined things to ruin?
What was that ghost name? And how long did it
take you to ghost him? All right? So or her?
Tomorrow Morning Get six thirty is when you get a
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(19:37):
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you some of the honor system. But if you want
to win tickets to both Sam Barbara at the Township
and Saluta shows Holiday Lights.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
On the River, can we call it like Saluta Sam
or something that sounds like a cowboy Salut Saluta Sam.
We got the Saluta shoals in Sam Barber.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
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You know that when we get back here tomorrow on
conventional conventionist, on the Morning Rush, that is so funny,
Hello, Kelly nash Hi Tomorrow show today Tuesday, the eighteenth
of November. About weeks in we're going to be celebrating
Christmas all over the place. As matter of fact, we
got a chance for to win some tickets for Saluta
Shells Holiday Lights on the River.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yeah. I was just reading about that on the Morning
Rest blog at ninety seven five WSS dot com. Palmetto
Smiles Winter Wonderland dual Tube slides, hay Ride train rides
along the Saluta Shoals Train, the Laser Lights show. This
is on the Wetland Trail. We got the letter to Santa.
(00:36):
You can get creative with coloring and decorating your letter
for Santa. Yeah, and then they'll make sure that it's
delivered personally to the Big Guy. Plus, I remember going
I guess it was two years ago. We went down there.
My niece Lucy had loaded up on snacks and she
asked my wife Angela to hold one of the said snacks.
(00:58):
I can't remember exactly what it was, but whatever it
was had a topping and it fell off, and.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
The topping fell off of the snack. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Whatever it was ice cream, It could have been an
ice cream. It could have been whipped cream on a
hot chocolate. It could have been candy on top of something.
Whatever it was, it fell off and it hit the ground.
And the look of disdain that my niece gave.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
One thing.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
You had one thing to hold this while I zip
my coat, and you failed, Auntie. But don't don't let
your kids down. Meet Santa. So Santa will be there
November twenty eighth and twenty ninth, and again December fifth
through the seventh, December twelfth through the fourteenth, and December
eighteenth through the twenty third. So we're and it got
(01:46):
photo opportunities, get photo packages, all of these, it's the
whole night of stuff. Yes, the Holiday Lights admission we got,
so we're going to get you in. So we got
a vehicle pass to get you in to that. And
then we're also if that's not enough, we're also going
to give you a pair of tickets to an artist
who you and I quite frankly never heard of.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It just got introduced to him.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
But he is almost At this point, I believe, I
don't think I'm overstating the case. I believe there are
less than one hundred tickets available at this point to
the Township Auditorium to see this new country.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Artist, Sam Barber.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yes, who's already made his debut at the Grand o' opry.
He has been, I guess heralded by many of the
big big country music stars. They love this guy and
apparently caught lightning in a bottle because the tickets right now,
the cheapest tickets available are about one hundred dollars to
(02:44):
get in to see him, that's the face value, and
they go all the way up to two seventy seven
on face value, and he sold that.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Well.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Again, there's probably less than one hundred tickets available.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
He's on the Zach Bryan roade. His success came up
out of the internet on TikTok. That's where he started.
And then that was gosh, two years ago. He was
a senior in college two years ago, or maybe not
even a senior because he's twenty two years old right now.
And then Luke Combs put him on the soundtrack for
(03:16):
what's that movie Twisters? And you know Ed Sharen named
him as the favorite new artist of the year, and
you know, he went double platinum with some record that
he put out, So he is hotter than a pistol.
Sam Barber the American Route Tour will be at the
Township February seventh. It's a Saturday night. So even if
(03:37):
you're like us, going never heard of him, oh you
got a hear him? Yeah, I mean double ticks, double clicks,
or at least double clicks double ticks.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
If you don't want him, sell them. They're selling them
for three hundred dollars a ticket. I mean that's six
hundred dollars in tickets. So you click on the morning
mush ball I get you go to get the answer.
Kellers are going to give you the word and give
you the answer here in just a second. If you
tell us, because we're gonna ask did you double click?
Then you win the double tikes. Yeah, if you only
if you only single clicked the yeah, I guess you
just get the We just give you the tickets to
(04:09):
the Salutor Shells and then we then we scalped the
other tickets.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Are they lights on the river at Saluta Sholls.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Parvenu is our word of the day. That's what we're
talking about. Parvenu, parvenue, parvenue, par parvenue. And just to
help you out with this, Sam Barber may be described
as a parvenue trying to help you.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Here, Uh, something that's out of left field. Nobody saw
it coming.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Kind of a person of obscure origin who suddenly gains wealth, influence,
or celebrity.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
He is the definition of part of you. Par parvenu, parvenu, parvenue. Yep.
Now we're giving you an opportunity to use that work
because we gave you a way to put it in
the so you could use it three times. Make it
part of your regular vocabulary.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
When you when you pick up say I want to
go see this parvenu. I want to go see that
parvenu in person. A personal destiny with the parvenu. So
we got that going on. By the way, if you
also go to the Morning Rest blog at ninety seven
five WSS dot com, we post all kinds of fun
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(05:20):
One of the things that we have up there. I
don't know if you saw this late last week. We
didn't talk about it. If you did see it, the Pope,
the Pope was I don't know how this came about,
but the Pope has now listed his favorite movies for you, okay,
And I guess the popes always do this, but because
he's the first American born pope, this is the first
(05:42):
time the pope is named the movies that Americans know?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Is this part of the age old debate of Christmas
movies or just movies? What's your favorite movies? Favorite movie?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
So, like Jonathan Rush, you would say what a few
good men?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
It's a good one. Top Gun Maverick, the top Gun.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Top Gun Maverick. Yeah, I would throw in The Godfather
is one of my choos.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I think Redemptions what Cable says is the best movie
of all time.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Pretty bad for the pope to say Godfather is one
of his favorites. Or Scarface. They don't say scarface if
you're the pope.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
You got to water it down at any Robert and
Narrow movies because I know he met Robert and Narrow recently.
I thought it was interesting the Pope walks up to
Robert de Narrow and it says, is great to meet you,
and Robert de Narrow said me too.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I don't know if Robert de Niro is in this
nineteen eighty film. It's a big picture from nineteen eighty
that I never saw because it looked boring. You're thinking,
you're not going to give me a guess. It's called
Ordinary People.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I remember the title. I don't think i've ever seen
it either.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I don't know that Robert Redford's in it, but Robert Redford,
I know, directed it.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
So is it about people in a mental institute?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I don't know. I don't know. But he liked it.
The Pope loved that nineteen eighty film. He also loved
a non American film from nineteen ninety seven that won
all the awards that year called Life Is Beautiful. And
if you remember, that guy who was the star looked
like a nut job. He was running around everywhere and
he's like, oh, like well ding, oh yeah, the life
(07:13):
is so beautiful. I love it A life I forget
that guy's name now, but he was a whack job
and everybody thought he was going to be a big
superstar and he was one and done. Now he may
be a big deal in Europe, but we've never heard
from him ever since. Okay, and then the Pope goes back,
I guess to his childhood nineteen sixty five, The Hills
are Alive. He loved the sound of music. And then
(07:37):
the Pope and our friend Tumbleweed could sit down and
have a long discussion. Because the final film he mentioned,
it's a wonderful life.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Oh my god, it's a great movie. Doubleweed quotes it
all the time, Clarence, he will quote that movie daily.
If you give just give him an opportunity.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I wonder if the pope, like Jonathan Rush is still
upset that there was no justice for uh Potter stealing
the money.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I don't get it. I don't understand knowing that there
was a law, there was a law where the bad
guy always got caught in motion pictures.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
You're saying this is a Hollywood law. That was No,
it was a law that well, a Hollywood law in
the sense that anytime a picture was made, there was
supposed to be, you know, a punishment paid a bad guy.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
But no, mister Potter got it was eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I always thinking it was ten and what.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Nineteen thirty it was like one hundred grand today or
one thousand dollars. There's a lot of frigging money. Yeah,
nobody ever called them on and he never had to
cough it up. The cops never came in nothing. He
got away with it. Potter Potter.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Understand he's still running that time.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Could there not be a sequel where Potter comes to justice.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
He's still running Bedford Falls with his iron fist. There
was a momentary, nice little moment there for the people
of Potter Falls to think that they had gotten out
from under that grasp, but they didn't. Potter still running it.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Nobody's ever been able to answer that question for me.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
The Bailey Building and loan, I don't even know if
it went on.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
We don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
We know that the fine folks of that town gave
all the money that they had and Clarence got his wings.
So that's good news. And the sole surviving cast member
I think is still with us usual. I think she's
still with us. Come on, what's what's her name?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Aga Zuzu? How does she She was the youngest z
u Zu Zuzu. Zuzu's pedals, Yeah, Zuzu's pedals. She can't
be still.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I believe she is still with us today. Carolyn Grimes
still alive. Wow, keep going, Caroline, She's eighty five.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Years old for you.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Carolyn's film debut came with six months. She was Fred
McMurray's daughter and pardon my past. Her most famous role
is Zuzu and It's a wonderful life. So she kind
of peaked at age three or whatever. That was right
all downhill from there. She was in The Bishop's Wife.
(10:21):
That came out, I guess a year or two later
she was in sixteen movies as a child actor. And
then that was the end of that. And then I
don't know what she did with the rest of her life.
I'm looking at her pictures. She looks great. I mean, well,
at least that photo from twenty nineteen. She looks great.
She's I mean she I would have never guessed it.
(10:42):
I hope she had. She said that. Oh, she apparently
got to go on tour for many years on speaking
engagements talking about this role. And it was on one
of those speaking that she met a psychologist whom she
may and then moved to the Seattle area and continues
(11:05):
to give speeches about It's a Wonderful life.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
It was a wonderful life for her. She wrote a
best rested all her life.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
She wrote a best selling holiday cookbook with recipes inspired
by It's a Wonderful Life. If my mother was Donna Reid,
these are the recipes Donna Reed my mother would have made.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
How did I not know this?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
In twenty twenty three, she recited the famous line every
time a bell rings, an Angel gets his wings for
the Christmas single A Day in the Life of a
Christmas Tree. So apparently that was a number one European
Christmas song and they got the eighty three year old
at the time, Carolyn Grimes, to.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Say, it only takes one good ball. Kelly's like the
man taught me with pinball. That's what the Winos said.
And a run down convenience store somewhere outside of Augusta, Georgia.
Life is like pinball. It only takes one good ball.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Caroline Grimes got that ball at age three and has
ridden it hard for another eighty years. For eighty years,
she's been making money off. It's a wonderful life, right.
And you know, the funny thing is from what I'm told.
I mean, I wasn't here in nineteen forty six, but
what I was told is that movie was a flop.
It was, and that it basically, you know, the whole
(12:26):
cast kind of just wrote it off, and even when
they were making it, because that was I guess back
in the era of what do they call him? It's
like studio films or whatever. There was a like Jimmy
Stewart was signed to a contract where he had to
make three movies a year, so it wasn't like today's
deals where the actors are independent contractors and they have
(12:47):
agents who can set up different things or whatever. Jimmy
Stewart's made a getting paid a crapload of money, I'm sure, sure,
probably something along the lines of a million dollars a
year in nineteen forty six. Probably, But you're basically going
to move every day. You're gonna shoot a film five
days a week, and you're gonna end up shooting three films,
and you don't know anything about him, nor do you
care anything about him, nor do you even know if
(13:09):
they're gonna be a hit. You have no idea because
sometimes he was making two or three films, I guess
at the same time. So he's like, oh, what roll
am I in?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
We'll put this hat on and now you're playing so
and so. Take the hat off. Now you're gonna play
so and so. So he doesn't know if and then
a nine.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
To five job and you get a script that says
you're shooting this beginning to seventeenth and.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Then at the end of the movie, you don't know,
you could probably did a little bit of promotion, but
not like today's going on the late night turk talk
circuit or whatever, because you didn't have time. You're busy
shooting another movie. You got to turn it out. MGM
demands another movie. And so he said he'd forgotten all
about that movie. He don't even remember it. And so
it was like nineteen seventy and then it started showing
(13:49):
up on these like black and white channels or whatever,
like they were like, well, it's midnight, late night movie,
let's fill it with this crappy movie from the forties
that nobody cares about. And then somehow that just caught
on and the audience of the seventies loved it. The
people of the forties not so much, didn't care.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
NBC airs at every Christmas Eve.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah, they bought the rights now, right, like, so only
they can show it because back in the eighties and stuff,
it used to be on like every channel, well every
cable channel, so like WPIX channel eleven out of New
York TBS was the channel seventeen back in the day
down here in Atlanta, and all these channels, WGN Chicago.
They would all air that movie to just fill time,
(14:33):
and Americans of later decades be loved, We love Usu.
So I wonder when the speaking tours started, like in
the seventies or the eighties. There must have been like
a thirty year drought for poor Jusu. She didn't know
what she was doing with her life, and then she
went on the speaking tours and then she was able
to meet her husband.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Be it like a drugstore one day and somebody said,
I saw your movie the other night on television. Which
one you saw? What It's a Wonderful life.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
She probably thought it was another one, the Bishop's wife.
She probably, no, No, you mean the Bishop's wife. That's the
one that I was in.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
No. One, the one with mister Potter.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Who who's mister Potter? Well you shot him? You were
Jimmy Stewart's kid, what's right. I did play that role once.
Remember that was on television. There must have been a mistake.
(15:29):
They must have accidentally not run the Bishop's wife, because
that's the hot one.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
That'd be great to find out if that's how that happened.
Could have been because she was living at that point,
And where did you say Seattle.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
She ended up moving to Seattle because she was on
a national speaking to her and she met a guy
who was a psychologist who also ran a homeless shelter.
And when she met that guy, she fell in love,
married him, moved to Seattle to be with him, and
so I guess him and her ran that homeless shelter
for many years and then. But she still tours and
(16:03):
gives like twenty five speaking dates a year where people
just pay her to.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Come on in.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
And a night with Carolyn Grimes tonight in Newberry.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
She was a precious little girl.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I could totally hear the end Newberry Opera House presents
A night with Carolyn Grimes, the last surviving member of
It's a Wonderful Life here her time.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Would do what have we had to do to give
away tickets?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I remember it wasn't that long ago they had a
night with h what's her face? I dream a genie
lady Barbara Eden. That was like three or four years ago,
wasn't it. I was like thinking, why is Barbara Eden
on tour? There's a million questions that need to be answered. Kelly,
did you really make out with Major Heally? Did you
(16:43):
make out with him. Why would you love him so much?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Oh? I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Major Heally, would you have loved him if he was Jr?
Would the Genie does she have a name or was
it just Genie Jeanie wizard name, so Jeanie would would
Jeanie have loved Jr? And just Major Heally, it's the
same guy I love j are you?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
And I'm sure somebody asked that question?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
H Anyway, we got that going on. And finally, Jonathan,
as we wrap things up for today, you know, I
can't believe that next week is Thanksgiving already it's coming, brother,
and this lady's a month into her relationship with her
new boyfriend. And the question is I really like him?
(17:36):
And I think it'd be great to invite him to
come to the Thanksgiving dinner that my parents are having.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Okay, is it too early? Though? A month? A month?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I mean, I don't know if you've ever seen him
interact with strangers, how does he interact with adults? I mean,
if he's twenty three twenty four, I mean, I know
he's an adult at twenty three twenty four, but he's
not an adult, you know, he's not. Whether they say
the brain doesn't even finish developing until you're.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Like thirty something like that. And he's a guy. That's
why we won't rent cars to people. And you up
at the table, you don't know, well, you know that, and.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
What if it just seems awkward to me that if
your mom and dad haven't met him, that the first
time mom and dad are meeting him, or like in
a high precious situation.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Everybody's welcome on Thanksgiving. This is the perfect holiday. Everybody's welcome, Okay,
Jonathan Rush says, bring them by. Absolutely, everybody's welcome to
come to the table. It's Thanksgiving. Invite your friends.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
And then think about the family photos that we can't
share when you break up with them before Christmas. Now
we've lost all these holiday bacabs.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
You do have to be careful if you're going to
take family photos, take at least a couple without him, Yeah,
because that may not age.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Well, Billy, would you mind taking the photo? Don't be
in it? Take it?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Well, we'll see what people think about that idea of
inviting a guy him month into the relationship, and how
would he respond. That's suddenly, now you're putting me in
a high pressure situation. I was planning to go into
my folks house. Now I got to decide whether or
not I got to blow off my parents and come
to your house.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yeah, we'll find out. I'm thinking back on fatesgivings past.
Oh good, this would be good. The ghost bring up
your ghost of fatesgivings tomorrow. Well, who ruined things to ruin?
What was that ghost name? And how long did it
take you to ghost him? All right? So or her?
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On the River, can we call it like Saluta Sam
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We got the Saluta shoals in Sam Barber.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
There you go, Tomorrow Morning, Get six thirty. The numbers
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