October 11, 2024 • 34 mins
Like a classic return to the radio days of old… Brian and Trey open the phone lines to hear from the BGH listeners about the Good Humans who inspire them!
Brian Phelps is an American radio personality, actor, and comedian best known for co-hosting the nationally and globally syndicated Mark & Brian Morning Show in Los Angeles for 25 years. As the co-lead of his own television series, with multiple roles in movies, and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Phelps is also an inductee in the Radio Hall of Fame.
Trey Callaway is an American film and TV writer and producer who wrote the hit movie I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, and has produced successful TV series like CSI:NY, Supernatural, Rush Hour, Revolution, The Messengers, APB, Station 19 and 9-1-1 LONE STAR. He is also a Professor at USC.
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Trey Callaway is an American film and TV writer and producer who wrote the hit movie I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, and has produced successful TV series like CSI:NY, Supernatural, Rush Hour, Revolution, The Messengers, APB, Station 19 and 9-1-1 LONE STAR. He is also a Professor at USC.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And most importantly, Brian Phelps, are you ready to rock?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I am always ready to rock, not roll so much,
but rock rock.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I like rock.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It scabs my knees.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Good humans, Be good humans. Be good humans, or we
will think you sucked, or.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
We will thank you suck.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Welcome in everybody too, the Be Good Humans Podcast. That
is Straight Callaway. I am Brian Phelps, and this is
kind of a special show. Oh, it's so special, very
first time. We're going to attempt this an experiment. If
you will live call ins, it's the live call in show.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
That's what we're gonna do. We're gonna attempt to do it.
We are going to push the technological envelope, which is
no small feet when it comes to Luddites like you
and me.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Oh, I gotta tell you. I'm so excited. So am
I actually taking live phone calls, which I did for
twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I'm just excited. I should start by saying, I like
to just call you. Do you know why I like
to call you?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I really hesitate to ask why, but I know you
want to say whatever you're gonna say, so I can't
stop you.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I'm gonna tell you I like to call you. At
least of late. And I know that you're you're pretty
fresh with this, the way you shake things up and
change them, but at least of late. When I call you,
and if I miss you and I get your voicemail,
you're doing this bit about high caller. I want you
to meet my voicemail voicemail. It's the caller. I've wanted
to get you two together, but you're doing the calling
(01:39):
thing right, And so it's always been it's partially what
inspired this episode. Well, it's like, oh, that's Brian.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Up every couple of months, my very favorite one. Do
you remember the song Ain't nothing gonna break a mastro?
Oh yeah, gonna slow mead?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, uh, the S machine picks up and you hear
me and I had pans and play and silverware on
the counter ready for us. I ain't nothing going to
break a mastride, Ain't nothing gonna slow me? And then
I pushed everything off, leave a message, so it's I know,
it's good. It's pass a to do funny not.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Where I come from. Also, because that used to be
one of my favorite, all time favorite parts of listening
to you on the radio for all those years here
in La was was those random calling bits that could
always go I mean, they were just consistently funny, but
they could always go so right or they could just
go so wildly wrong. So I want to know what
that way. I know what it was like as an
(02:37):
audience member, but I want to know what it was
like from behind the mic to deal with that on
a daily basis.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Well, first know this, it was one of my favorite
parts of doing this show for twenty five years. I
miss a lot of things about doing Kayla west Shows
Morning show, but that's one of the things I missed
the most. And I'll be very very honest here. First
of all, I miss it because it gave me the
(03:04):
chance to the challenge, a fun challenge, to improvise and
have fun with the listeners. And for you know, ninety
nine percent of them that would call in, or the
active listeners as they're known in the business, they were
totally they totally enjoyed our show. So it was it
was just they're ready to play, and they know how
(03:25):
we play.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
And even if there's a bit involved, like it's still
very improvisational because you don't know what you're going to get.
That's what I love about it.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yes, improvisation. But also, again this is the transparent part.
It's also because sometimes we used it as a sort
of safety bumper, because you know, you talk four hours
a day, five days a week, sometimes you simply run
out of words, and that's when we say those five
(03:56):
very special words. And so yeah, I used it for
the but it was my joy of the morning. I
couldn't take enough calls.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Are there are there any that come to mind as
sort of the go to memories of like, oh, I'll
never forget this call. Yeah, Trey, it's like panning for
comedy goal. Okay, sometimes it's a bust.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, sure, but other times you always know in the
back of your head, and it happens more times than not.
There's always a chance you'll find a nugget right right. However,
there's also it's live. It's a risk, and that's the energy.
That's the way I loved so much about it. There's
also the times when it goes horribly wrong.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Instead of a nugget, you get a turny yes.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
And so here's an example. Okay, we're in the Christmas season,
we're on the air, and of course we have a
Christmas show every year, and a pretty hot ticket in town,
of course, so people would call in and do whatever
they wanted to do to try to win tickets to
the Christmas show. One time we took a phone call
and it's this incredibly sexy woman. Oh, I mean sultry okay,
(05:05):
and I'm not even going to try to imitate her,
because please don't. Yeah, okay, good, But she said, I
want to sing you Christmas Carol, and it was that
really sexy Christmas Carol Sandta baby.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Oh yeah the earth Kit, yeah said.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
And she sang it. It was it was luscious. Oh,
she brought it was she brought it. Okay, not only
could she sing, but she did it.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
She was just very very sexy, which is not easy
to do that hour of the morning.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Okay, very good, and unlike her talking voice when she
was saying what she wanted to do before she started singing,
it just became this low, kind of breathy, very very
sexy performance. All right, I'm leaning in, well, so was I.
So was I. She finishes the song and we're like,
oh my god, oh doing all that? And then I said,
(05:54):
could I take you to dinner something like that? And
she goes, I'm only fourteen.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
On the air, I hit on a fourteen year old.
I'm only fourteen. Oh, I mean, I mean, can I
take you and your parents did dinner? Because obviously great
people they raised you so well.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
All right, thank you?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Wow, I mean you might have just literally brought our
podcast to an end just by retelling that story. I
think I gave them like forty Christmas show checks. I
felt so bad. Oh yeah, her and her entire junior
high class, right exactly, Oh my god. Wow, okay, so
well you can't see that coming. And then also you
guys had to deal with like there was delay there,
(06:38):
FCC rules, there's all kinds of that. There's a lot
of pressure on your shoulders. Yeah, you just pick up
the phone.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I can't tell you the story, but that was the
reason why they incorporated the lay system.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Oh oh yeah, okay, And it was like seven seconds
or something like seven seconds. Yeah. Right, So if you
had somebody call in and just start saying things awful,
like well, if they if they did, and we would
usually love I would keeping them keeping them on airing
the call unless it's like profanity or something, Yeah, of course.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
But if it's a negative call, and sure they come
on any program, you're gonna have lovers and haters, and
if they were a hater, I just kind of let
let them go. I wanted to hear what they had
to say, and.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I don't want to say lashback, but to respond, Yes,
give back as you get in a fun way.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yes, of course I love, I adore. I miss taking
phone calls from listening.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, I never really got to do. You know. I
had a very short stint as a graveyard jock at
seventy four KRMG, Tulsah, and so I was on in
the middle of the night, so there was not there
was not call in segments per se. But what I
did get was people calling me in the middle of
the night. And in particular, I had one woman. I
(07:51):
would describe her probably better as a very lonely woman
who would routinely and repeatedly call me almost every night
while I was on the air. Her name was Melanie.
God bless her and Melanie. If you want to talk
about well, see, here's the thing. The rule at KRMG.
This was an ironclad rule because the station was top forty,
(08:11):
but they also played news and they were a respected
go to source for news. So the rule for all
the jocks was if the phone rang, you answered.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
It, okay, right, okay, So I was.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Forced to answer every time, and Melanie would call throughout
the night in a sick and twisted version of what
I called in my mind play Melanie for me. Basically,
she would call and be progressively drunk and then begin
to describe and detail her various stages of undress, and
I would have to be like, okay, thanks for calling, Melanie,
(08:43):
and then go back to spinning at the zone. Though
not no, by the end of the night drunk. But
didn't you know there was no tigillation whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
A picture of her No, thank.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
God, no, no, no. In fact, I would look both
ways every morning when I walk out of the studio
just to make sure I'm going to tell you something.
Oh yeah, we've known each other for well over five years. Yes,
and we're very very close. Yes, that was me, and
raise my voice a little bit. Wow, I thought you
had something in common with melodies undress. Yeah, okay. Well,
so here's the thing we know, good Humans that we
(09:17):
have been encouraging all of you guys for a while
now to go to our website be Good Humans podcast
dot com, and we have repeatedly asked you to tell
us about the good humans in your lives, and in fact,
God bless you, you have been doing just that. So
Brian and I decided it's finally time we want to
use some of your amazing suggestions about the good humans
(09:39):
in your lives and those stories to try our own
kind of call in show. So obviously, right, obviously it's
it's not live. It's not live because duh, that's not
how podcasts work. But at the same time, we also
haven't spoken to any of these people before, so when
we come back, we are going to hear directly from
a couple of amazing lists about the good humans in
(10:01):
their lives, and God only knows what could happen.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Don't go away. It's our very first call in Shout.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Ah of a bum bager kill the.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
Kill.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
We will thank you, suck, Thanks for coming back, everybody.
As we said, this is our very first call in show,
and we're very excited about it.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yes, and I think there's no better way for us
to kick off our very first call in show than
by you finally using those five words I know you've
been itching to say.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
The five little words that I haven't said in years,
and again one of my very favorite parts of doing
that show all that time. So are you ready?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Wait, all right, but let's go to the phones.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yes, let's go to the line. I'll tell you who's
on the line. I'm going to introduce you to our
friend and good human, Julie Rush. I'm here, Hi, Juliastic,
welcome to be good humans. We want to go to dinner. Yes,
now backfire last time. Oh stop that, Julie, Julie, where
are you calling this from?
Speaker 7 (11:20):
I've actually called him from the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
We Oh fantastic, my my home as well. And I
understand if I'm not mistaken that you are a longtime
fan of as I am, and as so many people
are of Brian Phelps. Is that true?
Speaker 7 (11:35):
Beyond a doubt?
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Goodness, very divorced, separated, remarried, head kids, got a degree.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
All in the time of listening to Mark and Bryant.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
We were responsible for many of those things. I'm sure,
all of it, all of it. That's very nice of you.
Thank you, very kind.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Indeed, thank you and thank you for hopefully being a
new fan of our show.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
And you you you you got on our website. We
ask people to do and you sent us the sweetest email,
very very kind, very beautifully written about a dear friend
of yours.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
That's right, this is a gentleman named John Loisa. Did
I get that pronounced correctly?
Speaker 9 (12:13):
Yep, you got it?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Okay, okay, okay, great. So Julie, what before we throw
it over to John, who is the good human? What
can you tell us about John? What is it? I'd
rather hear it in your words, although I can certainly
speak to your original email. What is it about John
that made you want to reach out to us?
Speaker 8 (12:32):
Well, not to have the conversation about the fourteen year old?
But John never says no. So if you need something moved,
if you need he's remodeled people's houses, he flies home
to take care of his family when his mom has surgery.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
He just never says no ever. If you need him,
he's there.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
And not only for you, he's the go to guy,
but for everybody, for everyone.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
If I correctly, you and John met on the job
at a software company and kind of been friends ever since.
Is that right?
Speaker 8 (13:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (13:06):
Yeah, it's been gosh, what has it been, John, like
seventeen years?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (13:11):
About yeah, seventeen?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
So tell us about one particular time, Julie, which I
know moved Brian and I both When you were working
at that software company, you kind of got some bad news, right,
tell us, tell us, tell us what happened and how
John responded.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
We worked for we got bought out and a guy
who put in charge was kind of a psycho, and
so he basically laid off two thirds of the IT department.
And I had never lost my job before, and so
I was pretty upset. My husband was out of town, sure,
(13:48):
and John called and he literally sat on the phone
with me for like two or three hours, just knowing
that what that felt like and that I needed that support.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
That's that's everything in those moments, right, I mean, because
like you, it's it's uh man, when you get I mean,
I think kind of feel like everybody should get fired
at some point. It's kind of one of those transitional
life experiences. But it's not easy.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
And was that the first time that you realized, Okay,
this guy's more than just a nice guy.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
No?
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Probably not.
Speaker 8 (14:20):
I mean throughout the years I've just known his he's
got a he's got an interesting family dynamic, which I'll
let him expand on. Okay, but basically Basically, he would
do things like stay in the house of his ex
is X so that he could make sure that when
(14:41):
the ex's X was out of town, that the son
didn't burn the house down, go out of his home
and into somebody else's home, just to stay there and
keep things afloat.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
I mean that's just one small second, one.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Of many, John, Can we ask you, Yeah, let's bring
John Loisa into the conversation.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Did she let you know when she emailed us? Did
she tell you that what she was doing and that
she's you know, she's basically you know, electing you the
good human in her life.
Speaker 9 (15:12):
I mean she she she shared that with me, and no,
I'm like, but, like, I'm not a good human. I
mean I'm thinking of good humans like on the level
of like Mother Teresa or something or there, you know,
every day, you know, helping the cause and all. But
I'm like, wow, I was just I was just surprised
and really flattered. Well, I mean, she she's very kind.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
From your standpoint, I just want because I want to
stick on that for a second. From from your position, John,
is it a on purpose thing, like I want to
be this guy or you just are that guy?
Speaker 7 (15:50):
I think.
Speaker 10 (15:51):
I mean, g's I evolved into that guy maybe just
because of upbringing and what I've seen in experience in
life and others go through hard times, it's like, you know,
you don't have to go through it alone.
Speaker 9 (16:04):
I mean, there's people out there that will reach out.
I mean I was I was one of those kids
that watched.
Speaker 10 (16:10):
Mister Rogers.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Yeah, you know, just you know, and and I don't.
Speaker 9 (16:14):
Recall the exact praezing that he'd use, but he was like,
you know, if you need help, just reach out. I mean,
there are people out there that will help. Yet, and
I thought that was so great. I've had that happen
to me, and and I'm like, wow, out of know
where folks are helping me out. I'm like, I I
want to be able to help folks whenever that they're
in need.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Absolutely. I mean, well, look, first of all, mister Rogers
is literally on our banner. He's one of our good
humans that we routinely point to. But the truth is
one of the things, one of the most common denominators
that we find about most good humans is they never
see themselves as good humans, right, They're just too busy
thinking about other people. And I will tell you. Like again,
we got this original email from from Julie. I should
(16:56):
just read part of it. She says, John is the
go to person for everything. Like you mentioned, He's helped
remodel her homes, He's moved furniture. He'll be a date
when your spouse is out of town, which is amazing.
Moral support to everybody when they need it. Uh. He
flies home to Chicago, does things around the house for
his parents. He's truly amazing. I feel blessed to know him.
(17:18):
How does it feel to hear somebody say such nice
things about you? Are they all lies?
Speaker 9 (17:25):
No, they're not lies. But I'm just I'm just again,
I'm just kind of shocked about it. Again. I think
she's She's very sweet, very very kind to mention those things.
I just think of those things of like, well, they
just need to get done, you know. So that's my
point to do.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Julie, would you say that because we all have hopefully
good humans in our lives, would you say that he
inspired you, sometimes inspires you to be a better giver,
be there for people, just just by being close to.
Speaker 8 (17:59):
Him, I would say, I mean, I try to practice
being a good human. That's why I was so intrigued
by your podcast because I moved.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
By good things that people do. And I would say it's.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
Been more maybe opening an eye on you know, when
you see somebody do something good and you think, huh,
next time I come into that situation, I'm going to
make sure I do that.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
So now I'm more aware of when.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
People get laid off that they they probably need a friend.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Sure you know those kinds of things.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
Now remodeling a house that's probably above and beyond.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
God, No kidding, I'm not even going to help you
with that, Brian, So I'm not.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I wouldn't want you to seen you try to swing
a hammer.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Yeah, it's not.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
It's been a pleasure to talk with you both. The
just the reason why you you send in the email
just because you you care about this guy so much
and you cognice something so good in him was just lovely.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
That's right. Everybody should get their flowers when they can
enjoy them. So we thank you for doing that. And uh,
I just want to because you were the first caller online,
we are going to give you.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Stick sticks tickets.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Oh we're back to the sticks tickets. I'm going to
give you a stick tick and We're not going to
give you stick tickets. We are going to make sure
we're going to give you both be good humans hats.
How about that that we can do? So, so don't
say we never gave you anything, but thank you for
the gift that you have given us by Julie reaching
out and telling us about John. John, thank you for
being such a good human.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Call anytime exactly, thank you? Can I can?
Speaker 8 (19:39):
I actually bring up one thing that I thought about.
It's actually not related to John, but it is related
to being a good human. Of course, I had a
hair I had a hairstylist that would buy jackets and
things from would call those thirsh stores and you could
keep them in his trunk and when he saw a
homeless person, he would go into his trunk and he
(19:59):
would give whatever they need it.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Ooh, what a great idea.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
I think it's the coolest thing.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
And so I wanted to share because hopefully the people
that are listening to the podcast and maybe go, huh,
what a.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Great idea I just did. It was a great idea.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah, that's great, That's exactly what we're always looking for.
It likes to give away his clothes, but unfortunately it's
just always a black T shirt. It's a black T
shirt and it's the size of, you know, a king
sized bed. So know who's gonna wear it? All right?
Thanks very much, John and Julie. We appreciate it.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
Thanks guys, guys, thank you.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
That was fun.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
I know that was awesome.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I love doing that. You know what I think we
should do? What's that? I think we have time to
do it one more time.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Be my guest.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
You want to do it, you can say it once again.
Let's go to the phones. I heard a little radio
voice in there there. Once again, let's go to the phones.
Joining us now is none other than Linda Lufburrow. Are
you there, Linda, I'm here, Linda. Wait, Grant's mom one
(20:59):
in this Yes, Linda, how did you get this number? Exactly?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Exactly, constantly calling us. We've had the number change three times.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Okay, Good Humans, fullest.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
I broke into his cell phone exactly.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
That's good.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Well.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Full disclosure for anyone watching or listening. Linda is not
just any Be Good Humans fan. She also happens to
be the mother of one of our fellow Good Be
Good Humans executive producers, Grant Anderson, who Grant, you should
be on the screen by now. You guys have probably
seen and heard him before in previous episodes. So, Linda,
even though you did not, by any means reach out
(21:33):
to talk to us about your son, which is probably
with good reason, since he is, to us anyway, one
of the goodest humans we know.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
You know, there's no way that you're going to get
rid of the show without talking a little bit about
your son.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
What was it like raising the guy? What was he
like as a kid? Give us some insight.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
He was interesting. He and his brother are a year apart,
so being a single mom for most of their childhood
was challenging. They were both very athletic, very creative, very mischievous,
very their stories that I just have found out in
the last two years every Thanksgiving dinner of things.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
Happened.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yeah, well, every kid knows there's a statute of limitations.
You have to wait a little while before you let
that stuff out. But I'd like to think that Grant
was the most challenging and the most mischievous of the two.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
He was the ringleader, the instigator is really.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Clearly things have not changed a bit there, but we
still feel blessed to have him in our lives, so
we should thank you directly for bringing such a good
human into the world.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
It's been my joy to be his mom.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Okay, you know, I once asked I was very close
to my parents in great sense of humor, and I
once told Dad, I said, Dad, and mom was sitting there.
I said thank you both for having me, and my
mom got little teary eyed, and of course my father
he totally spoiled the moment. He goes, hell, I was
just having fun.
Speaker 9 (23:03):
Well, I think I think mom got lucky because it
could have gone either way. I could have gone superhuman
or super villain. I'm still not sure which Lene I'm
gonna choose.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
In our eyes, you're always the superhero.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Okay, Grant, we've had enough of you. We get to
see you every day. Get out of here. You're not
the reason we're here, but thank you don't need any
more of my mug. All right, very good? Then then
we're going to come back to you, Linda, and the
reason that you really reached out to us, and that's
because you wanted to let us know about your friend
Jess Carr. Is that right, that's right? What can you
(23:37):
tell us about her?
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Well?
Speaker 6 (23:39):
I think we met about twenty years ago. Jess was
that about it, and I moved into historic neighborhood in
Orange County and Jess was already living there. We both
got involved in the annual fundraising event that raised money
for local charities and high school scholarships, and I was
impressed with Jess and her dedication, her bigger than life persona,
(24:02):
and her the joy that she presented in the things
that she was doing, whether it was reaching out to
a lending a hand to a neighbor or a friend,
or rescuing dogs, which is one of the reasons I
nominated her. She's stt a relentless education to being committed
to things.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
We want to talk to her about that. First of all,
welcome Jess. Thank you for going on the air with us.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
We appreciate it indeed, and Jess, Linda tells us that
among these many other great things about you, that you're
one of the most caring. These are her words, one
of the most caring, one of the most supportive people
she knows. But she also spoke to us specifically about
your incredible efforts fostering dogs, and so if I have
(24:47):
this right, you foster for the Southern California Golden Retriever Rescue?
Is that right? Correct?
Speaker 9 (24:54):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
All right? What can you tell us about Southern California
Golden Retriever.
Speaker 11 (24:58):
Rescue been around for quite a while, at least, I mean,
in my memory, at least ten years, if not a
little bit longer, and primarily rescue Golden Retrievers, but golden mixes,
sometimes labradors, kind of all kinds of dogs, but generally
big dogs.
Speaker 12 (25:18):
We don't normally get little dogs.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
But young even puppies that are going to be big dogs.
Speaker 11 (25:24):
You'd be shocked at how many puppies we get, wow puppies.
We get senior dogs that people are just tired of
and turn them in.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Well, I'm gonna ask you a question that I frankly
already know the answer to because I had a Golden
Retriever for twelve years, my beloved Zingo. But why Golden
retrievers from your point of.
Speaker 12 (25:42):
View, you know, I don't even know.
Speaker 11 (25:44):
I just got I've always been a dog person, and
we always had dogs when I was a kid, and
I guess when I grew up, I was like, I'm
having a Golden Retriever, and I just fell in love
with the breed.
Speaker 12 (25:58):
Because they're just so goofy and lovable.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
It is smart, very smart.
Speaker 11 (26:03):
Sometimes sometimes smart sometimes you go.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Hm, I get that a lot myself, but always always lovable.
In Southern California Golden Retriever Rescue, I guess it's like
the third largest Golden Retriever rescue in the country. They
find homes for like three hundred dogs every year. That's great.
Speaker 12 (26:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the number's pretty high.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Tell us more about that. How that process works. They
get placed in foster homes right right.
Speaker 11 (26:29):
The idea is, we don't want them kenneled. We don't
want them any more stressed out than they already are
coming from the street or coming from a home. So
the idea is to get them into a foster home
so that we start assessing their behaviors and get them
used to a home environment and start working on any
behavior issues that need extra work, or just letting them
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decompress and find.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Out who they are, right right.
Speaker 11 (26:53):
And so we sometimes we hang on to them. I
had one dog for six months because she was just
so shut down. Right, Other dogs we've had for a
week and I'm like, whoa, you get whiplash?
Speaker 12 (27:04):
They go out so fat.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know how you don't fall in
love with every single one of them.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
That's it's true. It's you know, you probably knew this,
but uh maybe jes you did too. But every year
we would have the Pet Adoption Day. It was an
annual event, and this wonderful facility down in Long Beach, SBCA.
And and I had just lost my dog. Oh I
got from them years before. Oh wow, uh god, it
(27:30):
was a little little puppy. By the way, Tom Selleck
was the first person to kiss my puppy.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Oh wow. No one, no one will ever take that
away from you.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
He was gonna be a guest on the show. They
just delivered the dog. I'm holding it. They just put
it in my hands. Tom Selleck runs down the hallway.
Oh my god, so cute. Kisses the dog kisses my
puppy ruined her forever.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
I'm fairly certain the words to the first person to
kiss my puppy have never been said in the history
of the human I've.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Never said it. But my point is, and this is
how you utiful. This this was what you know.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Years later, she passes one of the hardest days, as
everyone who has a dog knows or pets and our
pet adoption day that year was was just two weeks later,
so I was not planning. I wasn't ready to get
another dog at oh, believe me. But you know you
walk through the pavilion and you see all these and
it's hundreds of people adopting dogs, and not just here's
(28:25):
the dog. They check you out, They check you out,
make sure if you have a cat, let's say, you
have to bring the cat to see if they will
get along. They're assessing your temperament just as much as
the dog.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Absolutely exactly. But I was walking through and there was
this elder dog, hair missing, one tooth broken, you know,
just slumped down old, just one of the but ugliest
dogs I'd ever seen. And of course it's going to
be the last one here. No one's going to So
I said, you know what, I'm adopting that dog. We
(28:58):
had to go out and do a break and then
when I came back in, there was a sign on
his candles saying sorry, I've been adopted. It warmed my heart.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Is this when you tell us it was Tom Selleck. Yeah,
it warmed my heart to know that there's such carrying
people out there.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Yeah, that really really wanted well, I wanted to take
care of it as much as I did.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
And people who are exactly like Jess. Yeah, not that
there's anyone frankly like you, Jess, but thank you for
doing that kind of stuff. And do we have this right?
Because I'm trying to like wrap my head around, Like
I said, I don't know how you don't fall in
love with all these dogs and all of the time
and the effort and the energy and the heart you
must put into it. Do we have this right? Is
it true? Your father was an astronaut and the commander
(29:40):
of Skylab four. This is Gerald Carr.
Speaker 12 (29:43):
That is correct?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yeow, so I've told were you when he was an astronaut?
Speaker 11 (29:49):
Uh?
Speaker 12 (29:50):
So he was chosen in sixty six. So I was
two and I believe I was nine?
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Okay was I nine?
Speaker 12 (29:57):
That was probably nine when he flipped.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
It must have been pretty dang cool, Jess, when it's uh,
what does your daddy do day? At schools? Commander commander
astronaut for it was?
Speaker 11 (30:11):
It was interesting. It was definitely a cool childhood because
we knew everybody right, all the all the astronaut kids.
We all ran around like Helen's in the neighborhood, you know,
just going crazy and it just it just seemed normal.
Speaker 12 (30:25):
And I look back and I go, that was not normal.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well no, but also I can I can also imagine,
especially for a kid like I mean, those are some
pretty big shoes to fill, right, So I guess maybe
maybe that helped you realize like you got to work
extra hard here on earth to prove yourself as a
good human and and you have clearly clearly done that.
So Jess, will you will you tell us?
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
If people want to help you support your rescue work
with Golden's or maybe just adopt a Golden themselves, is
there is there a website that they can go to
for more information?
Speaker 11 (30:57):
Yeah, you can go to scg are our dot org.
Speaker 12 (31:02):
I believe is.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Our Okay, I never go there. It's actually well, well
what we have you tell me if this is wrong?
S c g R Rescue dot org.
Speaker 12 (31:10):
Yes, that's what it is, ok So, s c g.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
R Rescue dot org. And of course we're going to
post a link to that on our Be Good Humans
podcast website as well. Uh, Linda, Yes, Well, first of all, Grant,
I do you know Grant told me her nickname in
high school?
Speaker 2 (31:28):
No, I didn't know that. I can't wait to hear
I can't wait to hear this.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Let her say, yeah, I mean a should we drop
it or should we just because she's been such a
good human, well.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
At my age, who cares?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Okay, So goofy goofy loofy, Yeah, goofy loofy. Well, listen,
you are anything but goofy as far as goofy loofy
was your nickname? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
That kind of just sums you. I know what kind
of a kid you were, exactly.
Speaker 12 (31:55):
Gets it.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Oh yeah, that's great man. Linda. First of all, thank
you for contacting us through your son, and thank Grant
for making this happen. And ma'am Jess you are so wonderful.
Thank you so much for being with us.
Speaker 12 (32:11):
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
We will make sure that you both get be good
humans hats and sticks, tickets and.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Stick I just want to use that one.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
But thank you both so much for joining us. We
really appreciate it.
Speaker 12 (32:24):
Absolutely.
Speaker 13 (32:26):
Thank you, Jess Hi, we will thank you.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Suck.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
All right, welcome back in, and I have one thing
to say. I am making the proclamation official. Yes, we
are going to do more of them.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Oh my god, yes, please, many many many more. I
love doing this, just the spot and eighty same, same, same.
All we need is your participation in that process. So
please go to our website Be Good Humans podcast dot com.
Tell us about these good humans in our life, in
your lives. We want them to be in our lives.
Tell us all of your pointers for being good humans.
Tell us everything, but connect with us so we can
(33:09):
connect with you here in another call in show, follow
us on all the socials. Thank you for being here.
Like and subscribe on YouTube. I think YouTube utube, all right,
Like and subscribe on YouTube. I think in classic radio terms, Brian, Yes,
there's really only one way to finish with a caller
and a call in show, and that in my radio
(33:30):
experience is with my four favorite words. What's your favorite podcast?
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Bigger Humans?
Speaker 1 (33:37):
We'll see you next time.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
I'm only fourteen.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Good Humans, Be good Humans, Begod Humans, or we will
thank you suck.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Be Good Humans is executive produced by Brian Phelps, Trey Callaway,
and Grant Anderson, with associate producers Sean Fitzgerald and Clementine Callaway,
and partnership with st Hut Media. Please like, follow, and
subscribe and remember. Be good humans.
And most importantly, Brian Phelps, are you ready to rock?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I am always ready to rock, not roll so much,
but rock rock.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I like rock.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It scabs my knees.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Good humans, Be good humans. Be good humans, or we
will think you sucked, or.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
We will thank you suck.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Welcome in everybody too, the Be Good Humans Podcast. That
is Straight Callaway. I am Brian Phelps, and this is
kind of a special show. Oh, it's so special, very
first time. We're going to attempt this an experiment. If
you will live call ins, it's the live call in show.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
That's what we're gonna do. We're gonna attempt to do it.
We are going to push the technological envelope, which is
no small feet when it comes to Luddites like you
and me.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Oh, I gotta tell you. I'm so excited. So am
I actually taking live phone calls, which I did for
twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I'm just excited. I should start by saying, I like
to just call you. Do you know why I like
to call you?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I really hesitate to ask why, but I know you
want to say whatever you're gonna say, so I can't
stop you.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I'm gonna tell you I like to call you. At
least of late. And I know that you're you're pretty
fresh with this, the way you shake things up and
change them, but at least of late. When I call you,
and if I miss you and I get your voicemail,
you're doing this bit about high caller. I want you
to meet my voicemail voicemail. It's the caller. I've wanted
to get you two together, but you're doing the calling
(01:39):
thing right, And so it's always been it's partially what
inspired this episode. Well, it's like, oh, that's Brian.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Up every couple of months, my very favorite one. Do
you remember the song Ain't nothing gonna break a mastro?
Oh yeah, gonna slow mead?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, uh, the S machine picks up and you hear
me and I had pans and play and silverware on
the counter ready for us. I ain't nothing going to
break a mastride, Ain't nothing gonna slow me? And then
I pushed everything off, leave a message, so it's I know,
it's good. It's pass a to do funny not.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Where I come from. Also, because that used to be
one of my favorite, all time favorite parts of listening
to you on the radio for all those years here
in La was was those random calling bits that could
always go I mean, they were just consistently funny, but
they could always go so right or they could just
go so wildly wrong. So I want to know what
that way. I know what it was like as an
(02:37):
audience member, but I want to know what it was
like from behind the mic to deal with that on
a daily basis.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Well, first know this, it was one of my favorite
parts of doing this show for twenty five years. I
miss a lot of things about doing Kayla west Shows
Morning show, but that's one of the things I missed
the most. And I'll be very very honest here. First
of all, I miss it because it gave me the
(03:04):
chance to the challenge, a fun challenge, to improvise and
have fun with the listeners. And for you know, ninety
nine percent of them that would call in, or the
active listeners as they're known in the business, they were
totally they totally enjoyed our show. So it was it
was just they're ready to play, and they know how
(03:25):
we play.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
And even if there's a bit involved, like it's still
very improvisational because you don't know what you're going to get.
That's what I love about it.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yes, improvisation. But also, again this is the transparent part.
It's also because sometimes we used it as a sort
of safety bumper, because you know, you talk four hours
a day, five days a week, sometimes you simply run
out of words, and that's when we say those five
(03:56):
very special words. And so yeah, I used it for
the but it was my joy of the morning. I
couldn't take enough calls.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Are there are there any that come to mind as
sort of the go to memories of like, oh, I'll
never forget this call. Yeah, Trey, it's like panning for
comedy goal. Okay, sometimes it's a bust.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, sure, but other times you always know in the
back of your head, and it happens more times than not.
There's always a chance you'll find a nugget right right. However,
there's also it's live. It's a risk, and that's the energy.
That's the way I loved so much about it. There's
also the times when it goes horribly wrong.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Instead of a nugget, you get a turny yes.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
And so here's an example. Okay, we're in the Christmas season,
we're on the air, and of course we have a
Christmas show every year, and a pretty hot ticket in town,
of course, so people would call in and do whatever
they wanted to do to try to win tickets to
the Christmas show. One time we took a phone call
and it's this incredibly sexy woman. Oh, I mean sultry okay,
(05:05):
and I'm not even going to try to imitate her,
because please don't. Yeah, okay, good, But she said, I
want to sing you Christmas Carol, and it was that
really sexy Christmas Carol Sandta baby.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Oh yeah the earth Kit, yeah said.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
And she sang it. It was it was luscious. Oh,
she brought it was she brought it. Okay, not only
could she sing, but she did it.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
She was just very very sexy, which is not easy
to do that hour of the morning.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Okay, very good, and unlike her talking voice when she
was saying what she wanted to do before she started singing,
it just became this low, kind of breathy, very very
sexy performance. All right, I'm leaning in, well, so was I.
So was I. She finishes the song and we're like,
oh my god, oh doing all that? And then I said,
(05:54):
could I take you to dinner something like that? And
she goes, I'm only fourteen.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
On the air, I hit on a fourteen year old.
I'm only fourteen. Oh, I mean, I mean, can I
take you and your parents did dinner? Because obviously great
people they raised you so well.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
All right, thank you?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Wow, I mean you might have just literally brought our
podcast to an end just by retelling that story. I
think I gave them like forty Christmas show checks. I
felt so bad. Oh yeah, her and her entire junior
high class, right exactly, Oh my god. Wow, okay, so
well you can't see that coming. And then also you
guys had to deal with like there was delay there,
(06:38):
FCC rules, there's all kinds of that. There's a lot
of pressure on your shoulders. Yeah, you just pick up
the phone.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I can't tell you the story, but that was the
reason why they incorporated the lay system.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Oh oh yeah, okay, And it was like seven seconds
or something like seven seconds. Yeah. Right, So if you
had somebody call in and just start saying things awful,
like well, if they if they did, and we would
usually love I would keeping them keeping them on airing
the call unless it's like profanity or something, Yeah, of course.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
But if it's a negative call, and sure they come
on any program, you're gonna have lovers and haters, and
if they were a hater, I just kind of let
let them go. I wanted to hear what they had
to say, and.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I don't want to say lashback, but to respond, Yes,
give back as you get in a fun way.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yes, of course I love, I adore. I miss taking
phone calls from listening.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, I never really got to do. You know. I
had a very short stint as a graveyard jock at
seventy four KRMG, Tulsah, and so I was on in
the middle of the night, so there was not there
was not call in segments per se. But what I
did get was people calling me in the middle of
the night. And in particular, I had one woman. I
(07:51):
would describe her probably better as a very lonely woman
who would routinely and repeatedly call me almost every night
while I was on the air. Her name was Melanie.
God bless her and Melanie. If you want to talk
about well, see, here's the thing. The rule at KRMG.
This was an ironclad rule because the station was top forty,
(08:11):
but they also played news and they were a respected
go to source for news. So the rule for all
the jocks was if the phone rang, you answered.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
It, okay, right, okay, So I was.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Forced to answer every time, and Melanie would call throughout
the night in a sick and twisted version of what
I called in my mind play Melanie for me. Basically,
she would call and be progressively drunk and then begin
to describe and detail her various stages of undress, and
I would have to be like, okay, thanks for calling, Melanie,
(08:43):
and then go back to spinning at the zone. Though
not no, by the end of the night drunk. But
didn't you know there was no tigillation whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
A picture of her No, thank.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
God, no, no, no. In fact, I would look both
ways every morning when I walk out of the studio
just to make sure I'm going to tell you something.
Oh yeah, we've known each other for well over five years. Yes,
and we're very very close. Yes, that was me, and
raise my voice a little bit. Wow, I thought you
had something in common with melodies undress. Yeah, okay. Well,
so here's the thing we know, good Humans that we
(09:17):
have been encouraging all of you guys for a while
now to go to our website be Good Humans podcast
dot com, and we have repeatedly asked you to tell
us about the good humans in your lives, and in fact,
God bless you, you have been doing just that. So
Brian and I decided it's finally time we want to
use some of your amazing suggestions about the good humans
(09:39):
in your lives and those stories to try our own
kind of call in show. So obviously, right, obviously it's
it's not live. It's not live because duh, that's not
how podcasts work. But at the same time, we also
haven't spoken to any of these people before, so when
we come back, we are going to hear directly from
a couple of amazing lists about the good humans in
(10:01):
their lives, and God only knows what could happen.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Don't go away. It's our very first call in Shout.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Ah of a bum bager kill the.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
Kill.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
We will thank you, suck, Thanks for coming back, everybody.
As we said, this is our very first call in show,
and we're very excited about it.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yes, and I think there's no better way for us
to kick off our very first call in show than
by you finally using those five words I know you've
been itching to say.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
The five little words that I haven't said in years,
and again one of my very favorite parts of doing
that show all that time. So are you ready?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Wait, all right, but let's go to the phones.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yes, let's go to the line. I'll tell you who's
on the line. I'm going to introduce you to our
friend and good human, Julie Rush. I'm here, Hi, Juliastic,
welcome to be good humans. We want to go to dinner. Yes,
now backfire last time. Oh stop that, Julie, Julie, where
are you calling this from?
Speaker 7 (11:20):
I've actually called him from the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
We Oh fantastic, my my home as well. And I
understand if I'm not mistaken that you are a longtime
fan of as I am, and as so many people
are of Brian Phelps. Is that true?
Speaker 7 (11:35):
Beyond a doubt?
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Goodness, very divorced, separated, remarried, head kids, got a degree.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
All in the time of listening to Mark and Bryant.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
We were responsible for many of those things. I'm sure,
all of it, all of it. That's very nice of you.
Thank you, very kind.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Indeed, thank you and thank you for hopefully being a
new fan of our show.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
And you you you you got on our website. We
ask people to do and you sent us the sweetest email,
very very kind, very beautifully written about a dear friend
of yours.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
That's right, this is a gentleman named John Loisa. Did
I get that pronounced correctly?
Speaker 9 (12:13):
Yep, you got it?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Okay, okay, okay, great. So Julie, what before we throw
it over to John, who is the good human? What
can you tell us about John? What is it? I'd
rather hear it in your words, although I can certainly
speak to your original email. What is it about John
that made you want to reach out to us?
Speaker 8 (12:32):
Well, not to have the conversation about the fourteen year old?
But John never says no. So if you need something moved,
if you need he's remodeled people's houses, he flies home
to take care of his family when his mom has surgery.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
He just never says no ever. If you need him,
he's there.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
And not only for you, he's the go to guy,
but for everybody, for everyone.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
If I correctly, you and John met on the job
at a software company and kind of been friends ever since.
Is that right?
Speaker 8 (13:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (13:06):
Yeah, it's been gosh, what has it been, John, like
seventeen years?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (13:11):
About yeah, seventeen?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
So tell us about one particular time, Julie, which I
know moved Brian and I both When you were working
at that software company, you kind of got some bad news, right,
tell us, tell us, tell us what happened and how
John responded.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
We worked for we got bought out and a guy
who put in charge was kind of a psycho, and
so he basically laid off two thirds of the IT department.
And I had never lost my job before, and so
I was pretty upset. My husband was out of town, sure,
(13:48):
and John called and he literally sat on the phone
with me for like two or three hours, just knowing
that what that felt like and that I needed that support.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
That's that's everything in those moments, right, I mean, because
like you, it's it's uh man, when you get I mean,
I think kind of feel like everybody should get fired
at some point. It's kind of one of those transitional
life experiences. But it's not easy.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
And was that the first time that you realized, Okay,
this guy's more than just a nice guy.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
No?
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Probably not.
Speaker 8 (14:20):
I mean throughout the years I've just known his he's
got a he's got an interesting family dynamic, which I'll
let him expand on. Okay, but basically Basically, he would
do things like stay in the house of his ex
is X so that he could make sure that when
(14:41):
the ex's X was out of town, that the son
didn't burn the house down, go out of his home
and into somebody else's home, just to stay there and
keep things afloat.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
I mean that's just one small second, one.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Of many, John, Can we ask you, Yeah, let's bring
John Loisa into the conversation.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Did she let you know when she emailed us? Did
she tell you that what she was doing and that
she's you know, she's basically you know, electing you the
good human in her life.
Speaker 9 (15:12):
I mean she she she shared that with me, and no,
I'm like, but, like, I'm not a good human. I
mean I'm thinking of good humans like on the level
of like Mother Teresa or something or there, you know,
every day, you know, helping the cause and all. But
I'm like, wow, I was just I was just surprised
and really flattered. Well, I mean, she she's very kind.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
From your standpoint, I just want because I want to
stick on that for a second. From from your position, John,
is it a on purpose thing, like I want to
be this guy or you just are that guy?
Speaker 7 (15:50):
I think.
Speaker 10 (15:51):
I mean, g's I evolved into that guy maybe just
because of upbringing and what I've seen in experience in
life and others go through hard times, it's like, you know,
you don't have to go through it alone.
Speaker 9 (16:04):
I mean, there's people out there that will reach out.
I mean I was I was one of those kids
that watched.
Speaker 10 (16:10):
Mister Rogers.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Yeah, you know, just you know, and and I don't.
Speaker 9 (16:14):
Recall the exact praezing that he'd use, but he was like,
you know, if you need help, just reach out. I mean,
there are people out there that will help. Yet, and
I thought that was so great. I've had that happen
to me, and and I'm like, wow, out of know
where folks are helping me out. I'm like, I I
want to be able to help folks whenever that they're
in need.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Absolutely. I mean, well, look, first of all, mister Rogers
is literally on our banner. He's one of our good
humans that we routinely point to. But the truth is
one of the things, one of the most common denominators
that we find about most good humans is they never
see themselves as good humans, right, They're just too busy
thinking about other people. And I will tell you. Like again,
we got this original email from from Julie. I should
(16:56):
just read part of it. She says, John is the
go to person for everything. Like you mentioned, He's helped
remodel her homes, He's moved furniture. He'll be a date
when your spouse is out of town, which is amazing.
Moral support to everybody when they need it. Uh. He
flies home to Chicago, does things around the house for
his parents. He's truly amazing. I feel blessed to know him.
(17:18):
How does it feel to hear somebody say such nice
things about you? Are they all lies?
Speaker 9 (17:25):
No, they're not lies. But I'm just I'm just again,
I'm just kind of shocked about it. Again. I think
she's She's very sweet, very very kind to mention those things.
I just think of those things of like, well, they
just need to get done, you know. So that's my
point to do.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Julie, would you say that because we all have hopefully
good humans in our lives, would you say that he
inspired you, sometimes inspires you to be a better giver,
be there for people, just just by being close to.
Speaker 8 (17:59):
Him, I would say, I mean, I try to practice
being a good human. That's why I was so intrigued
by your podcast because I moved.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
By good things that people do. And I would say it's.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
Been more maybe opening an eye on you know, when
you see somebody do something good and you think, huh,
next time I come into that situation, I'm going to
make sure I do that.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
So now I'm more aware of when.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
People get laid off that they they probably need a friend.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Sure you know those kinds of things.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
Now remodeling a house that's probably above and beyond.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
God, No kidding, I'm not even going to help you
with that, Brian, So I'm not.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I wouldn't want you to seen you try to swing
a hammer.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Yeah, it's not.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
It's been a pleasure to talk with you both. The
just the reason why you you send in the email
just because you you care about this guy so much
and you cognice something so good in him was just lovely.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
That's right. Everybody should get their flowers when they can
enjoy them. So we thank you for doing that. And uh,
I just want to because you were the first caller online,
we are going to give you.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Stick sticks tickets.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Oh we're back to the sticks tickets. I'm going to
give you a stick tick and We're not going to
give you stick tickets. We are going to make sure
we're going to give you both be good humans hats.
How about that that we can do? So, so don't
say we never gave you anything, but thank you for
the gift that you have given us by Julie reaching
out and telling us about John. John, thank you for
being such a good human.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Call anytime exactly, thank you? Can I can?
Speaker 8 (19:39):
I actually bring up one thing that I thought about.
It's actually not related to John, but it is related
to being a good human. Of course, I had a
hair I had a hairstylist that would buy jackets and
things from would call those thirsh stores and you could
keep them in his trunk and when he saw a
homeless person, he would go into his trunk and he
(19:59):
would give whatever they need it.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Ooh, what a great idea.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
I think it's the coolest thing.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
And so I wanted to share because hopefully the people
that are listening to the podcast and maybe go, huh,
what a.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Great idea I just did. It was a great idea.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah, that's great, That's exactly what we're always looking for.
It likes to give away his clothes, but unfortunately it's
just always a black T shirt. It's a black T
shirt and it's the size of, you know, a king
sized bed. So know who's gonna wear it? All right?
Thanks very much, John and Julie. We appreciate it.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
Thanks guys, guys, thank you.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
That was fun.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
I know that was awesome.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I love doing that. You know what I think we
should do? What's that? I think we have time to
do it one more time.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Be my guest.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
You want to do it, you can say it once again.
Let's go to the phones. I heard a little radio
voice in there there. Once again, let's go to the phones.
Joining us now is none other than Linda Lufburrow. Are
you there, Linda, I'm here, Linda. Wait, Grant's mom one
(20:59):
in this Yes, Linda, how did you get this number? Exactly?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Exactly, constantly calling us. We've had the number change three times.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Okay, Good Humans, fullest.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
I broke into his cell phone exactly.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
That's good.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Well.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Full disclosure for anyone watching or listening. Linda is not
just any Be Good Humans fan. She also happens to
be the mother of one of our fellow Good Be
Good Humans executive producers, Grant Anderson, who Grant, you should
be on the screen by now. You guys have probably
seen and heard him before in previous episodes. So, Linda,
even though you did not, by any means reach out
(21:33):
to talk to us about your son, which is probably
with good reason, since he is, to us anyway, one
of the goodest humans we know.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
You know, there's no way that you're going to get
rid of the show without talking a little bit about
your son.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
What was it like raising the guy? What was he
like as a kid? Give us some insight.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
He was interesting. He and his brother are a year apart,
so being a single mom for most of their childhood
was challenging. They were both very athletic, very creative, very mischievous,
very their stories that I just have found out in
the last two years every Thanksgiving dinner of things.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
Happened.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yeah, well, every kid knows there's a statute of limitations.
You have to wait a little while before you let
that stuff out. But I'd like to think that Grant
was the most challenging and the most mischievous of the two.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
He was the ringleader, the instigator is really.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Clearly things have not changed a bit there, but we
still feel blessed to have him in our lives, so
we should thank you directly for bringing such a good
human into the world.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
It's been my joy to be his mom.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Okay, you know, I once asked I was very close
to my parents in great sense of humor, and I
once told Dad, I said, Dad, and mom was sitting there.
I said thank you both for having me, and my
mom got little teary eyed, and of course my father
he totally spoiled the moment. He goes, hell, I was
just having fun.
Speaker 9 (23:03):
Well, I think I think mom got lucky because it
could have gone either way. I could have gone superhuman
or super villain. I'm still not sure which Lene I'm
gonna choose.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
In our eyes, you're always the superhero.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Okay, Grant, we've had enough of you. We get to
see you every day. Get out of here. You're not
the reason we're here, but thank you don't need any
more of my mug. All right, very good? Then then
we're going to come back to you, Linda, and the
reason that you really reached out to us, and that's
because you wanted to let us know about your friend
Jess Carr. Is that right, that's right? What can you
(23:37):
tell us about her?
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Well?
Speaker 6 (23:39):
I think we met about twenty years ago. Jess was
that about it, and I moved into historic neighborhood in
Orange County and Jess was already living there. We both
got involved in the annual fundraising event that raised money
for local charities and high school scholarships, and I was
impressed with Jess and her dedication, her bigger than life persona,
(24:02):
and her the joy that she presented in the things
that she was doing, whether it was reaching out to
a lending a hand to a neighbor or a friend,
or rescuing dogs, which is one of the reasons I
nominated her. She's stt a relentless education to being committed
to things.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
We want to talk to her about that. First of all,
welcome Jess. Thank you for going on the air with us.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
We appreciate it indeed, and Jess, Linda tells us that
among these many other great things about you, that you're
one of the most caring. These are her words, one
of the most caring, one of the most supportive people
she knows. But she also spoke to us specifically about
your incredible efforts fostering dogs, and so if I have
(24:47):
this right, you foster for the Southern California Golden Retriever Rescue?
Is that right? Correct?
Speaker 9 (24:54):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
All right? What can you tell us about Southern California
Golden Retriever.
Speaker 11 (24:58):
Rescue been around for quite a while, at least, I mean,
in my memory, at least ten years, if not a
little bit longer, and primarily rescue Golden Retrievers, but golden mixes,
sometimes labradors, kind of all kinds of dogs, but generally
big dogs.
Speaker 12 (25:18):
We don't normally get little dogs.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
But young even puppies that are going to be big dogs.
Speaker 11 (25:24):
You'd be shocked at how many puppies we get, wow puppies.
We get senior dogs that people are just tired of
and turn them in.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Well, I'm gonna ask you a question that I frankly
already know the answer to because I had a Golden
Retriever for twelve years, my beloved Zingo. But why Golden
retrievers from your point of.
Speaker 12 (25:42):
View, you know, I don't even know.
Speaker 11 (25:44):
I just got I've always been a dog person, and
we always had dogs when I was a kid, and
I guess when I grew up, I was like, I'm
having a Golden Retriever, and I just fell in love
with the breed.
Speaker 12 (25:58):
Because they're just so goofy and lovable.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
It is smart, very smart.
Speaker 11 (26:03):
Sometimes sometimes smart sometimes you go.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Hm, I get that a lot myself, but always always lovable.
In Southern California Golden Retriever Rescue, I guess it's like
the third largest Golden Retriever rescue in the country. They
find homes for like three hundred dogs every year. That's great.
Speaker 12 (26:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the number's pretty high.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Tell us more about that. How that process works. They
get placed in foster homes right right.
Speaker 11 (26:29):
The idea is, we don't want them kenneled. We don't
want them any more stressed out than they already are
coming from the street or coming from a home. So
the idea is to get them into a foster home
so that we start assessing their behaviors and get them
used to a home environment and start working on any
behavior issues that need extra work, or just letting them
(26:50):
decompress and find.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Out who they are, right right.
Speaker 11 (26:53):
And so we sometimes we hang on to them. I
had one dog for six months because she was just
so shut down. Right, Other dogs we've had for a
week and I'm like, whoa, you get whiplash?
Speaker 12 (27:04):
They go out so fat.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know how you don't fall in
love with every single one of them.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
That's it's true. It's you know, you probably knew this,
but uh maybe jes you did too. But every year
we would have the Pet Adoption Day. It was an
annual event, and this wonderful facility down in Long Beach, SBCA.
And and I had just lost my dog. Oh I
got from them years before. Oh wow, uh god, it
(27:30):
was a little little puppy. By the way, Tom Selleck
was the first person to kiss my puppy.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Oh wow. No one, no one will ever take that
away from you.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
He was gonna be a guest on the show. They
just delivered the dog. I'm holding it. They just put
it in my hands. Tom Selleck runs down the hallway.
Oh my god, so cute. Kisses the dog kisses my
puppy ruined her forever.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
I'm fairly certain the words to the first person to
kiss my puppy have never been said in the history
of the human I've.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Never said it. But my point is, and this is
how you utiful. This this was what you know.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Years later, she passes one of the hardest days, as
everyone who has a dog knows or pets and our
pet adoption day that year was was just two weeks later,
so I was not planning. I wasn't ready to get
another dog at oh, believe me. But you know you
walk through the pavilion and you see all these and
it's hundreds of people adopting dogs, and not just here's
(28:25):
the dog. They check you out, They check you out,
make sure if you have a cat, let's say, you
have to bring the cat to see if they will
get along. They're assessing your temperament just as much as
the dog.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Absolutely exactly. But I was walking through and there was
this elder dog, hair missing, one tooth broken, you know,
just slumped down old, just one of the but ugliest
dogs I'd ever seen. And of course it's going to
be the last one here. No one's going to So
I said, you know what, I'm adopting that dog. We
(28:58):
had to go out and do a break and then
when I came back in, there was a sign on
his candles saying sorry, I've been adopted. It warmed my heart.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Is this when you tell us it was Tom Selleck. Yeah,
it warmed my heart to know that there's such carrying
people out there.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Yeah, that really really wanted well, I wanted to take
care of it as much as I did.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
And people who are exactly like Jess. Yeah, not that
there's anyone frankly like you, Jess, but thank you for
doing that kind of stuff. And do we have this right?
Because I'm trying to like wrap my head around, Like
I said, I don't know how you don't fall in
love with all these dogs and all of the time
and the effort and the energy and the heart you
must put into it. Do we have this right? Is
it true? Your father was an astronaut and the commander
(29:40):
of Skylab four. This is Gerald Carr.
Speaker 12 (29:43):
That is correct?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yeow, so I've told were you when he was an astronaut?
Speaker 11 (29:49):
Uh?
Speaker 12 (29:50):
So he was chosen in sixty six. So I was
two and I believe I was nine?
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Okay was I nine?
Speaker 12 (29:57):
That was probably nine when he flipped.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
It must have been pretty dang cool, Jess, when it's uh,
what does your daddy do day? At schools? Commander commander
astronaut for it was?
Speaker 11 (30:11):
It was interesting. It was definitely a cool childhood because
we knew everybody right, all the all the astronaut kids.
We all ran around like Helen's in the neighborhood, you know,
just going crazy and it just it just seemed normal.
Speaker 12 (30:25):
And I look back and I go, that was not normal.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well no, but also I can I can also imagine,
especially for a kid like I mean, those are some
pretty big shoes to fill, right, So I guess maybe
maybe that helped you realize like you got to work
extra hard here on earth to prove yourself as a
good human and and you have clearly clearly done that.
So Jess, will you will you tell us?
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
If people want to help you support your rescue work
with Golden's or maybe just adopt a Golden themselves, is
there is there a website that they can go to
for more information?
Speaker 11 (30:57):
Yeah, you can go to scg are our dot org.
Speaker 12 (31:02):
I believe is.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Our Okay, I never go there. It's actually well, well
what we have you tell me if this is wrong?
S c g R Rescue dot org.
Speaker 12 (31:10):
Yes, that's what it is, ok So, s c g.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
R Rescue dot org. And of course we're going to
post a link to that on our Be Good Humans
podcast website as well. Uh, Linda, Yes, Well, first of all, Grant,
I do you know Grant told me her nickname in
high school?
Speaker 2 (31:28):
No, I didn't know that. I can't wait to hear
I can't wait to hear this.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Let her say, yeah, I mean a should we drop
it or should we just because she's been such a
good human, well.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
At my age, who cares?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Okay, So goofy goofy loofy, Yeah, goofy loofy. Well, listen,
you are anything but goofy as far as goofy loofy
was your nickname? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
That kind of just sums you. I know what kind
of a kid you were, exactly.
Speaker 12 (31:55):
Gets it.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Oh yeah, that's great man. Linda. First of all, thank
you for contacting us through your son, and thank Grant
for making this happen. And ma'am Jess you are so wonderful.
Thank you so much for being with us.
Speaker 12 (32:11):
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
We will make sure that you both get be good
humans hats and sticks, tickets and.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Stick I just want to use that one.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
But thank you both so much for joining us. We
really appreciate it.
Speaker 12 (32:24):
Absolutely.
Speaker 13 (32:26):
Thank you, Jess Hi, we will thank you.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Suck.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
All right, welcome back in, and I have one thing
to say. I am making the proclamation official. Yes, we
are going to do more of them.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Oh my god, yes, please, many many many more. I
love doing this, just the spot and eighty same, same, same.
All we need is your participation in that process. So
please go to our website Be Good Humans podcast dot com.
Tell us about these good humans in our life, in
your lives. We want them to be in our lives.
Tell us all of your pointers for being good humans.
Tell us everything, but connect with us so we can
(33:09):
connect with you here in another call in show, follow
us on all the socials. Thank you for being here.
Like and subscribe on YouTube. I think YouTube utube, all right,
Like and subscribe on YouTube. I think in classic radio terms, Brian, Yes,
there's really only one way to finish with a caller
and a call in show, and that in my radio
(33:30):
experience is with my four favorite words. What's your favorite podcast?
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Bigger Humans?
Speaker 1 (33:37):
We'll see you next time.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
I'm only fourteen.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Good Humans, Be good Humans, Begod Humans, or we will
thank you suck.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Be Good Humans is executive produced by Brian Phelps, Trey Callaway,
and Grant Anderson, with associate producers Sean Fitzgerald and Clementine Callaway,
and partnership with st Hut Media. Please like, follow, and
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