March 5, 2025 • 24 mins
John and Joyce first connected while working at the same radio station in the early ’80s and have been friends ever since. John Saville, affectionately known as “John Cadillac Saville” or “Caddy-Man,” is a beloved radio personality currently on-air with iHeartRadio's Country 92.5 and The River 105.9 in Connecticut. Beyond radio, John is a Wellness Coach, mentor, and the award-winning owner of “John Saville Entertainment.” Joyce, with dual careers in Public Relations and therapy, holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy. She ran “Fan Emporium” for over 20 years, collaborating with A-list musicians, but her true passion is helping people overcome anxiety and stress. Together, they’re a dynamic duo, bringing positivity and joy to your life.
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(00:00):
Who are you?
Well.
Hello there.
Man, this is kind of fun, you know?
Hanging out here in the studiotogether with you, Joyce.
And we're excited. And we're excited.You're here with us as well.
Yeah, absolutely.
That guy is John Seville.
Who? Yeah, this. Is Joyce Logan.
But a lot of people know you as,caddy man.
(00:22):
Yep. John Cadillac Seville, caddy man.
My wife calls me other names,which I really can't repeat. But.
How many radio stationsare you on right now?
Multiple stations for iHeart right now.
Wherever they need me,I just kind of go play.
It could be a top 40.
It could be country,
it could be classic as I just love musicand doing this long time.
Joyce, you know, you and I met,you know, years ago in WPLG in New Haven.
(00:44):
We did, we did. Yeah.
So a little bit of background about uslike like who are these people.
So John and I have known each othersince I think 1982.
And we were at to you.
Like many years ago.
And we just hit it off.
We did.
And we can go yearswithout seeing each other
(01:06):
and we just hit it off again.
So we found outthat we had something in common
with the way we speak with people.
And so I've always had a dual career
and public relations and, and wellness.
So I have a private practicewhere I help people,
(01:27):
a lot of people with anxieties and phobiasand things like that.
And when people would come in,
they want to share with youeverything that's wrong in their life.
So I started to switch that around and
welcome them in and say,so tell me what's good, what's good.
But John does the same thing.
You were like the, the, the mayor.
(01:49):
You're like the town council.
Wherever you go, peoplegravitate towards you.
And you always say something like,if it's a guy like,
so what's good, brother, right?
Don't you. Yeah.You want to correct people.
So because people go to the negativenaturally.
And there's so much negativity out thereit's like they say bad news cells
and all that.
And I don't necessarily you know by thatI believe that one step at a time.
(02:09):
Maybe it's Pollyannaon my part of Kumbaya.
But I believe that we can makea difference one person at a time.
So when I'm at the gym or the coffee shop,
I'm not going to be likelooking at my phone.
I'm going to be looking aroundto see who I could talk to.
Yeah.
And I'll look around and say, youso what's good today?
And people have to think about thatbecause they're not used to that.
Yeah.You just made their break a lot. Right.
But if you say like how you doing.
(02:30):
Oh you know, same old same old another dayanother dollar.
Yeah. Let's not go down that rabbit hole.
Let's focus on what's good.
And then all of a suddenthat person's mood is elevated.
And then they in partdo that to someone else.
And you have the domino effectof life, right?
So one by one you can make a differencein people's lives.
Especially in your own life.
(02:50):
You know, just, you know,
be aware of your wordsbecause your words really, truly shape,
your day,
your lifeand who you bring into your life.
So even if you're not feeling it,
focus on something that doesmake you feel good.
That's right.
And then you'll notice that,there's like a big shift that happens.
(03:12):
There is I mean, we live in a worldthat's full of vibrations. Yes.
And if we can go out therelike the Beach Boys song, you know, good.
And bring out those good vibrations.
I'm dating myself. I need some. Music.
Yeah, I don't,we just can't, you know, like.
Like we're working on that right now.
We're kind of low budget at the moment,but we're good, we're good.
We're going to work on that.
And that must cost a lot for people.
Play music on TVbecause they usually don't.
(03:33):
Yeah, they have to pay like,you know, they have copyright laws, right?
We could hum it. You're a singer.
We can have an apple. Oh, I can't imagine.
You want to keep our audience.
You know what we what we always hear.You guys are way.
No way.
We're going to have somebody soon.
We're going to get somebodywith so much talent
here in the Connecticut marketplaceand beyond.
Yeah, that's. Just some of those musiciansto come out and sing.
But again, you know,the whole premise of our show again,
(03:54):
in case you're just tuning in,what's good with John and Joyce?
It's just something we we just want tobring something positive to the world.
Because every timeyou look anywhere, it's all negative.
And some people say, well, negative sells,but I think positive can sell, too.
It's all about how you present it.
It's all about how you present it.
And if anyone has waited in the doctor'soffice or a grocery line lately.
(04:16):
Yeah.
Oh my lord, it's it's full of
never mind the politics
or the price of whatever eggs.
Yeah. Could be the weather. Yeah.
And so put the weatheris always going to change, doesn't it?
Doesn't it get cold where we live? Itdoesn't. Matter. I'm in New England.
They say if you don't like the weather,wait a minute. Right, right.
(04:38):
But there's this common threadwhere people gather,
and I think that's been their calling cardfor a long time.
Right.
Like, I can relate to youbecause we both hate this, right?
How about if you both loved something?
Yes. And I think if we start thatand we're going to start that with you
because you're going to help us with this,you know, form that thread of,
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hey, I'm alive today.
If you have eyes that you can see, legsthat you could walk.
And if you can talk,if even if you have one of those things,
you could be ahead of the gamebecause you're still on Earth.
If we're still on Earth,we're here for a purpose.
We're here to help each other.
We're here to serve.
We're here to uplift.
(05:23):
And I think that's been lostalong the way, probably because of things
like social media, which is greatin one way and the other way.
It allows people to gaggle togetherand just complain, complain, complain.
And we want to be the showwhere you can tune in to
and you're going to hear what's good,and you're going to start thinking
(05:45):
about what's good in your life or.
The old phrases,you know, misery loves company.
Yeah, but misery hatesto lose company even more.
Yeah.
I remember somebody saying that to meonce before.
Oh, yeah? Yeah.
But again, I find that
when I'm chatting with people a lot,they're gravitating toward the positive.
When you do say something positive, youcompliment somebody and make it sincere.
(06:06):
Yeah.
Because people can, you know, theythey can spot a phony in a heartbeat.
But if you really look for somethingin each and every person to compliment
and be sincere about it,it can it can change their whole day. Yes.
So that's something that I know we doinnately.
We've done that for a long time.
It's kind of like our fabric.
But I thinkI think people are good by nature.
I think so. Too.
I think people sometimes
listen to a different voice, but I think,you know, people, are good by nature.
(06:30):
Yeah.
And that's a good thing to rememberbecause a lot of people have said
people are evil by nature,and I don't believe that.
No at. All.
I think we're created by our we are,you know, our creator to be to be good.
But then as we get into the world,you know,
sometimes we listen to those disparatevoices. Yes.
You know, I hear my mom's voice a lot.
(06:51):
And of course. I love the wayyou speak about your mom.
And I love my mother.
You know, when I was a teenager,I didn't, though.
I thought she was, you know. Oh,every every every teenager.
Yeah. I really did.
And it wasn't until, you know,a little later on that I thought, wow,
this woman wasshe was a genius because she wasn't really
she wasn't college educated.
She, you know, she had immigrantparents from Austria and,
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they had learned to speaksome English and, you know,
and all of that, but boy, didshe have wisdom.
And she used to say,
if you
like something about someone, tell them,
because a lot of people think itand they don't say it, she said.
So if someone's wearing a shirtthat you like, say you like this shirt.
(07:38):
Yeah, tell them because you probablymake them feel good on top of it.
But on the other hand,if someone says to you, hey,
I really like that top you're wearing,don't ever say this old thing, right?
Right.
Say take it with grace.
Take it with take it with grace.
And say also that.
Yeah, I like it too, because that's whyI bought it, you know, because I liked it.
(08:01):
But so many times
people do not compliment othersbecause they feel it makes them vulnerable
or whatever it may be.
But when you're compliment,somebody might be the only nice thing.
They hear that they don't assume,
oh, that person's pretty or that persongets compliments all the time.
Don't don't assume it,you know, be free with your praise.
Yes, because when you bless other people,I believe that you get blessed as well.
(08:23):
You know, talking about that.
And I won't,
I won't, I won't say who it is,but I think you might remember the story.
So it was a rather famous person,
and I was complimenting to himanother famous person.
And he said, I would never tell him thatbecause his head's too big already.
I know who you're talking to. Yeah.
(08:43):
But we're not gonna we're not going to do.
No, no, but that's the thing.
I think people think people willsometimes look and say,
well, I'm not going to tell him
or her looks looks good because, it'sgoing to give them a big head.
And it's like, why?
Like, why would you say that?
Sometimes I see and I still don't knowif they're looking at me
like, wow, you know,she just made a mistake.
(09:06):
But they, you know, especially women willlook at other women kind of up and down.
And I'm thinking,oh, do I have a stain on me?
Do I have, you know that?
But they could be thinking, I like that.
Right.
And so just say it, do it and.
And you'll feel better about it.Yeah you will.
So think about it in your own life.
(09:27):
You know, who can you compliment?
Who really needsthat sometimes is the person.
Maybe you have the roughest time with?
Well, like we say many times off the airand saying it right now,
you know, on the airthat everybody is going through something.
Yes, everybody is fighting a battle.
I don't care who you are,what kind of house you live
(09:47):
and what kind of car you drive and clothesyou wear.
Everybody's battling something.
Yeah, you just scratch that surface,right? Right.
So just by being kind to that personagain, that that can make their whole day.
Yes. Yeah.
You know, when I watch old movies,I love watching movies
because I turn off the news.
Okay, turn off the news.
What's your favorite old movie?
(10:08):
Oh, there's so many.
If there's one that cameto mind is maybe, you know,
it's the man who came to dinner.
Oh, yeah.
The man who came to Twitterwith Monty Woolley and Betty Davis.
And sometimeswhen I've said old movies to people,
they've said to me, oh, well,I wasn't born then.
It's like, hey, I wasn't either.
I'm talking about movies in the 30s.
(10:29):
I wasn't born when,you know, Gone With the Wind came around.
But, you know,
I just always loved I love that,but I love the man who came to dinner.
Just makes me smilebecause the dialog is so fast and witty.
But I also love It's a Wonderful Lifewith Jimmy Stewart.
How can you not?
And that's got a great
(10:51):
moral, I guess, to that story where
he never felt fulfilledbecause he wasn't making the money.
He didn't.
He wasn't taking care of his family,as you should.
And his social mores, that of the day.
Yeah, yeah, I think a lot of peoplestill go through that nowadays.
Yeah, I think so.
Like my favorite movie of all time isField of Dreams.
Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner.
(11:11):
Yes, I watched that movie.
It's like it'skind of like The Notebook for men.
I was just going to say. Notebook for men.
That resonates more with men, doesn't it?
I still watch that movie,and every time I do Patty,
my wife has to give me some Kleenexbecause I think about my dad.
Yeah.
If you're familiar with the moviewhere he's throwing the the ball
with his dad, who comes back to lifebecause he's in the field,
(11:34):
and all these old baseball playerscome back
and he looks at his dad and goes, yeah,and he's so young.
Yeah, I remember him being olderand this and that, and he and
his dad says to Kevin Costner's character,would you like to play catch?
And every time he does that,
I just lose it.
Yeah.
With the power of good storytelling,of a good movie and also a good, like,
(11:55):
what we're trying to do here.
A good a good story, right?
Yeah.
We're going to have some great storieswaiting to hear some of the people
we're going to have on. Yeah.
And things that they went through. Right.
But you know, somethingand watching those old movies, I,
I will Google the peoplejust to see what their lives were like.
(12:15):
I am shocked at times,the things that they went through.
Looking at it, I'm thinking, wow,they had it all.
They had it. Oh no, no, no.
No, nobody has it.
All the peopleyou think have it together don't.
And they probably need youthe most, right?
They probably need you the mostto say something,
encouraging to them, you know.
And you do that all the time, John.
(12:37):
You know, I wish I were more like, oh.
Well, you're you're you're doing this.
And I think that's one of the reasons wedecided to get together to do this show.
Joyce, because we met for coffeerather innocently at a coffee place
right down the street from the studiohere in Brantford.
And we were both looking for somethinglike this.
Yeah.
I rememberwhen I talked about doing a podcast
and you said yes,I was thinking about the same thing, but
(13:00):
I just wanted to find the right,you know, co-host.
Yeah.
And I looked at you and saidwell you know, what do you think.
And, and all those years agoto quote a George Harrison song, right.
We, my favorite Beatle.
Yeah. Mine too. Mine too. Yeah.
We meet up and all of a sudden we're hereworking with some
really great people here, and, it'sjust it's a blessing to be here.
(13:22):
You know?
But you just remind meabout something in the coffee shop,
and that's when you kind of open my eyesto something.
I got there before you,and there was a young.
Which is usually the case. Which is?
John's running late.
Boy, you know.
But there was this young mansitting in the corner,
and he looked a little special,and I, I can say that
(13:45):
because I have a grandsonwho is in the, in the.
Spectrum of what is that? And.
Oh, wait a minute.
Should we be playing that song? Got it.
This is all organic, gang.
We're doing this organic rightnow, warts and all.
All right.
Hello, hello. Good good.
Good good.
Somebody forgot to turn their attention.
(14:06):
All right, all right. As you were saying.
Well, I have a grandson and a sonwho's in the spectrum and when I went,
walked into the coffee shop,I kind of got the feeling that he was.
And, he wanted to be left alone,but he was the only one in there.
I walked in, he was sitting in the corner,and I just stayed.
I just stayed away.
(14:27):
John walks in five minutes
later and, you go up to the counter,you say hello to everyone.
You look over at this guythat you never saw before.
You walked over like, hey, my man,what's up?
How are you doing today?
You put your hand on his shoulderand his face lit up.
His face lit up likeno one has ever done that to him before.
(14:50):
And that really welled me up thinking,
how many other times have I done that?
And it looked like almostI was shining someone when in my mind
I was kind of giving them spacebecause I thought,
you know, they may have special needs,but it didn't matter to you, John.
You know,and that's what I so love about you.
(15:12):
And so you teach me.
You teach me.
And I think, you know,I think I just want to be appreciated,
you know,and it's like I do a lot of the mic work
with the Tim Tebow Foundationand they're nice to shine.
And that's all about, what they have.
It's a problemfor people with special needs.
And they had the red carpetand I do my Ryan Seacrest thing.
Yeah.
Bring them all the and introduce them,
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ask him a couple questions,and they feel like this is their night.
Everybody has a crown.
The guys are wearing tuxes,the girls are wearing gowns.
And for that night, for that 2or 3 hour period, they are stars.
You know, they're a big dealas they should be because,
you know, we're all stars in our own way,right? Right.
And then I get the chance to play musicfor them dancing.
(15:54):
And it just makes their whole night.
They just want to be treatedlike everybody else.
Yeah.
You know, it's like so many, so many timespeople see somebody in a wheelchair
and they see the chair,but they don't see the person.
They'll talk to another personlike that person has to translate
to the person in the wheelchair.
Yes. You're right.
You look at the person in the wheelchairand smile at them.
(16:15):
Have a conversation with them. Right.
That's all they want.
Treat, treat people with dignity. Yes.
And again that's the kind of stuffwe're going to focus on here.
You know what's good in the world.
There's so many good peoplein the world. It's not just what I do.
There's people doing that all the time.
Joyce, you do that in your own way.
You, you know, watching right now,you do that in your own life.
Right? Yeah.
And I think about people who will say,to me, you know, just in a conversation
(16:40):
will come up like they,they hate rich people.
And it's like, yeah, all right.
So everyone's got something, but you can'tlump everyone into into one thing.
There are a lot of goodrich people and poor people and,
I guess I can't.
It goes back to my mom who said,do not Revere anyone either.
(17:03):
Don'tyou know, because the Queen of England
always rememberjust saying that the Queen of England
takes down her pantsand goes to the bathroom just like you.
It's right.
So they may have more privilegein other areas, but
there are people that she gavebirth to, children.
She did this or he did that.
We're all the same.
And just because someonemight have more privilege
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or kids in schoolbecause they have less privilege,
doesn't mean you mark them as something.
Because here's that sayingthat Wayne Dyer always said that
when you label someone, you negate them.
Absolutely.
And you have. A tendencyto judge and label. So much.
And I just got donewatching a TV series called The Crown.
(17:47):
No, I love The Crown.
And you mentioned the Queen and privilege.
They talked about peoplethat were dysfunctional.
Yeah.
You know, you think they have it
all, all the money in the world,but all the divorces in the family.
Yeah.
Princess Diana,I'm not sure if she was ever happy.
I know she seemed like she wasthe unhappiest person in the world.
(18:08):
And yet, at the time, probably the mostpopular woman in the world.
Yes. And and her.
And, you know, now, King Charles,there was no love there.
Right.
And so for us to judge peopleand think they have it all.
And he's dealing with cancer.
Exactly.
Kate is and so everyone'sdealing with, with something in life.
So if we begin to look at people that way
(18:32):
that we're all in thistogether and just reach out,
a hand by
saying, smile at someone,even just smile at someone.
But it, it really, you know,they have the sayings on social media
which maybe it doesn't
even make sense anymorebecause you see it, but it's so true.
Your smile can change, right?
(18:53):
Everything in a person's life if you justsay something positive to them.
Yeah. And so.
So that's why your smile is your logo.
Your smile is your business card.
So you didn't tell me what's good?
What's good today, John?
What's good today is we're here.
Yeah, we're hanging out.
We've been talkingabout doing this podcast for about a year,
a little behind the scenes stuff insidebaseball stuff.
(19:14):
And we've had some stops and starts again.
What Joyce and I like to dois be very organic and transparent,
you know, and that starts right nowwith this show.
But we've had some stops and starts and,but we believe everything happens
in God's time, you know? Right.
Every setback is a set up for somethingbetter.
Right. And, Absolutely.
Beautiful studio here in Branford.
(19:35):
We're working with some great people.
Yes, David and Step, and we shoot themand all they're doing behind the scenes.
And we appreciate you, for, for,you know, watching and listening.
Right. What is it?
I mean, who knows wherethis is going to go?
And, but we're just hoping that,it goes in a direction
where we can make a big impact in people'slives one by one.
(19:55):
Yeah, well, I think we both feelthat there's no coincidence in there.
I mean, everything happens for a reason.
And this was meant. Meant to be.
And if, one person
likes listening to us, we're here for you.
And it makes. That's perfect.
I hope you're the one.
(20:16):
I really hope you're the one.
And you tell another oneand you tell another.
Yeah, the domino effect.
Well, we want a good domino effect.
We want people to think differently.
We're going to bring you a lot of waysto do that.
A lot of tools to put in your little,
tool casebefore you leave the house in the morning.
Well, you certainly. It's going to.Help your day.
You are definitely a, a wonderful author.
(20:37):
You've written some great books.
You have another onethat's coming out soon,
and we'll be talking about that very,very soon. Yes.
Maybe in an upcoming episode.
Hint hint hint. Yes yes yes.
So what's good?
Say that to yourselfwhen you wake up in the morning.
What's good about my day?
(20:57):
And just celebratethe fact that you're alive
and if you can wake upand get yourself out of bed, that's great.
If you can'tand you have someone who's taking
care of you,that's great to focus on that.
You know, I just have to remember,there was this minister years ago
who said thathe would visit a woman that in,
(21:20):
I guess it was a
nursinghome and she would not get out of bed.
And she was really closed downand was suffering with depression,
along with just being elderlyand hurting and all of that.
And he leaned into her one dayand he said,
I want you to say every morning,
this is the day the Lord has made.
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I will rejoice and be glad in it.
Just say that.
And then a couple weeks later,he went to visit her,
and she was sitting up.
And a few days after that they told himthat there was a great improvement
with her, and she started to dressand get up and about.
(22:02):
And then she told the ministershe said, when you said that to me,
I did that and I felt somethingdifferent inside of me.
Yeah, something leaped out inside, right?
But it was so wonderful that he saidthat to her than the other side.
You have to do it also.
Right, and put action to that.
(22:23):
I love that saying,because that was King David in Psalms,
you know,one of my favorite passages in the Bible.
But yeah, what's good?You always remember things like that.
So what the King David said.
King David said that King
David said that in the Bibleafter he suffered one of his worst defeats
at the time.
So he was speaking by faith, and, hisfellow warriors were ready to kill him.
They're really upset with himbecause he had lost a battle.
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And, a lot of the enemyhad come to their home and ravaged the,
the, their homes and took their kids,you know, and their their wives.
And, he went over to the sideand he encouraged himself
because nobody else was.
And he said,this is the day that the Lord has made.
And he went on to say,let's be glad and rejoice.
(23:05):
And father blessed me in such a way
that you know that nobodywill ever believe how great things are,
not because of who I am,but because of who I am. As
powerful.
But that that was always a great passagein my mind that he.
And then like eight weeks later,he became the king.
He was in the king at the time.
But Saul, you know, KingSaul was killed at the time.
(23:27):
But I digress with that.
You know,I get really deep into this stuff, but,
this has been, it's been a lot of fun.
Joyce.
I'm really excited about this, this, thisnext, you know, a chapter in our lives.
And, we want to take you along with us.
Let's leave everyone on a positive note.
What do you say? That I love. You?
I kind of like, you know, looking for thatanointment of ease in life.
(23:47):
Anointment of these?
Yeah.
Yeah, I just like that we're we'reall going to have challenges in life.
But so many times things happen for us ina positive way when we just kind of like,
you know, say what we want,
put it out to the universe,and then just go on with your day.
Right?
So like,I always like to say, you know, I'm
going to do my best todayand, and let God take care of the rest.
(24:09):
I love that we wish that for all of you,it's spirit of these.
That's right.
Till next time. Bye for now.
Who are you?
Well.
Hello there.
Man, this is kind of fun, you know?
Hanging out here in the studiotogether with you, Joyce.
And we're excited. And we're excited.You're here with us as well.
Yeah, absolutely.
That guy is John Seville.
Who? Yeah, this. Is Joyce Logan.
But a lot of people know you as,caddy man.
(00:22):
Yep. John Cadillac Seville, caddy man.
My wife calls me other names,which I really can't repeat. But.
How many radio stationsare you on right now?
Multiple stations for iHeart right now.
Wherever they need me,I just kind of go play.
It could be a top 40.
It could be country,
it could be classic as I just love musicand doing this long time.
Joyce, you know, you and I met,you know, years ago in WPLG in New Haven.
(00:44):
We did, we did. Yeah.
So a little bit of background about uslike like who are these people.
So John and I have known each othersince I think 1982.
And we were at to you.
Like many years ago.
And we just hit it off.
We did.
And we can go yearswithout seeing each other
(01:06):
and we just hit it off again.
So we found outthat we had something in common
with the way we speak with people.
And so I've always had a dual career
and public relations and, and wellness.
So I have a private practicewhere I help people,
(01:27):
a lot of people with anxieties and phobiasand things like that.
And when people would come in,
they want to share with youeverything that's wrong in their life.
So I started to switch that around and
welcome them in and say,so tell me what's good, what's good.
But John does the same thing.
You were like the, the, the mayor.
(01:49):
You're like the town council.
Wherever you go, peoplegravitate towards you.
And you always say something like,if it's a guy like,
so what's good, brother, right?
Don't you. Yeah.You want to correct people.
So because people go to the negativenaturally.
And there's so much negativity out thereit's like they say bad news cells
and all that.
And I don't necessarily you know by thatI believe that one step at a time.
(02:09):
Maybe it's Pollyannaon my part of Kumbaya.
But I believe that we can makea difference one person at a time.
So when I'm at the gym or the coffee shop,
I'm not going to be likelooking at my phone.
I'm going to be looking aroundto see who I could talk to.
Yeah.
And I'll look around and say, youso what's good today?
And people have to think about thatbecause they're not used to that.
Yeah.You just made their break a lot. Right.
But if you say like how you doing.
(02:30):
Oh you know, same old same old another dayanother dollar.
Yeah. Let's not go down that rabbit hole.
Let's focus on what's good.
And then all of a suddenthat person's mood is elevated.
And then they in partdo that to someone else.
And you have the domino effectof life, right?
So one by one you can make a differencein people's lives.
Especially in your own life.
(02:50):
You know, just, you know,
be aware of your wordsbecause your words really, truly shape,
your day,
your lifeand who you bring into your life.
So even if you're not feeling it,
focus on something that doesmake you feel good.
That's right.
And then you'll notice that,there's like a big shift that happens.
(03:12):
There is I mean, we live in a worldthat's full of vibrations. Yes.
And if we can go out therelike the Beach Boys song, you know, good.
And bring out those good vibrations.
I'm dating myself. I need some. Music.
Yeah, I don't,we just can't, you know, like.
Like we're working on that right now.
We're kind of low budget at the moment,but we're good, we're good.
We're going to work on that.
And that must cost a lot for people.
Play music on TVbecause they usually don't.
(03:33):
Yeah, they have to pay like,you know, they have copyright laws, right?
We could hum it. You're a singer.
We can have an apple. Oh, I can't imagine.
You want to keep our audience.
You know what we what we always hear.You guys are way.
No way.
We're going to have somebody soon.
We're going to get somebodywith so much talent
here in the Connecticut marketplaceand beyond.
Yeah, that's. Just some of those musiciansto come out and sing.
But again, you know,the whole premise of our show again,
(03:54):
in case you're just tuning in,what's good with John and Joyce?
It's just something we we just want tobring something positive to the world.
Because every timeyou look anywhere, it's all negative.
And some people say, well, negative sells,but I think positive can sell, too.
It's all about how you present it.
It's all about how you present it.
And if anyone has waited in the doctor'soffice or a grocery line lately.
(04:16):
Yeah.
Oh my lord, it's it's full of
never mind the politics
or the price of whatever eggs.
Yeah. Could be the weather. Yeah.
And so put the weatheris always going to change, doesn't it?
Doesn't it get cold where we live? Itdoesn't. Matter. I'm in New England.
They say if you don't like the weather,wait a minute. Right, right.
(04:38):
But there's this common threadwhere people gather,
and I think that's been their calling cardfor a long time.
Right.
Like, I can relate to youbecause we both hate this, right?
How about if you both loved something?
Yes. And I think if we start thatand we're going to start that with you
because you're going to help us with this,you know, form that thread of,
(05:02):
hey, I'm alive today.
If you have eyes that you can see, legsthat you could walk.
And if you can talk,if even if you have one of those things,
you could be ahead of the gamebecause you're still on Earth.
If we're still on Earth,we're here for a purpose.
We're here to help each other.
We're here to serve.
We're here to uplift.
(05:23):
And I think that's been lostalong the way, probably because of things
like social media, which is greatin one way and the other way.
It allows people to gaggle togetherand just complain, complain, complain.
And we want to be the showwhere you can tune in to
and you're going to hear what's good,and you're going to start thinking
(05:45):
about what's good in your life or.
The old phrases,you know, misery loves company.
Yeah, but misery hatesto lose company even more.
Yeah.
I remember somebody saying that to meonce before.
Oh, yeah? Yeah.
But again, I find that
when I'm chatting with people a lot,they're gravitating toward the positive.
When you do say something positive, youcompliment somebody and make it sincere.
(06:06):
Yeah.
Because people can, you know, theythey can spot a phony in a heartbeat.
But if you really look for somethingin each and every person to compliment
and be sincere about it,it can it can change their whole day. Yes.
So that's something that I know we doinnately.
We've done that for a long time.
It's kind of like our fabric.
But I thinkI think people are good by nature.
I think so. Too.
I think people sometimes
listen to a different voice, but I think,you know, people, are good by nature.
(06:30):
Yeah.
And that's a good thing to rememberbecause a lot of people have said
people are evil by nature,and I don't believe that.
No at. All.
I think we're created by our we are,you know, our creator to be to be good.
But then as we get into the world,you know,
sometimes we listen to those disparatevoices. Yes.
You know, I hear my mom's voice a lot.
(06:51):
And of course. I love the wayyou speak about your mom.
And I love my mother.
You know, when I was a teenager,I didn't, though.
I thought she was, you know. Oh,every every every teenager.
Yeah. I really did.
And it wasn't until, you know,a little later on that I thought, wow,
this woman wasshe was a genius because she wasn't really
she wasn't college educated.
She, you know, she had immigrantparents from Austria and,
(07:15):
they had learned to speaksome English and, you know,
and all of that, but boy, didshe have wisdom.
And she used to say,
if you
like something about someone, tell them,
because a lot of people think itand they don't say it, she said.
So if someone's wearing a shirtthat you like, say you like this shirt.
(07:38):
Yeah, tell them because you probablymake them feel good on top of it.
But on the other hand,if someone says to you, hey,
I really like that top you're wearing,don't ever say this old thing, right?
Right.
Say take it with grace.
Take it with take it with grace.
And say also that.
Yeah, I like it too, because that's whyI bought it, you know, because I liked it.
(08:01):
But so many times
people do not compliment othersbecause they feel it makes them vulnerable
or whatever it may be.
But when you're compliment,somebody might be the only nice thing.
They hear that they don't assume,
oh, that person's pretty or that persongets compliments all the time.
Don't don't assume it,you know, be free with your praise.
Yes, because when you bless other people,I believe that you get blessed as well.
(08:23):
You know, talking about that.
And I won't,
I won't, I won't say who it is,but I think you might remember the story.
So it was a rather famous person,
and I was complimenting to himanother famous person.
And he said, I would never tell him thatbecause his head's too big already.
I know who you're talking to. Yeah.
(08:43):
But we're not gonna we're not going to do.
No, no, but that's the thing.
I think people think people willsometimes look and say,
well, I'm not going to tell him
or her looks looks good because, it'sgoing to give them a big head.
And it's like, why?
Like, why would you say that?
Sometimes I see and I still don't knowif they're looking at me
like, wow, you know,she just made a mistake.
(09:06):
But they, you know, especially women willlook at other women kind of up and down.
And I'm thinking,oh, do I have a stain on me?
Do I have, you know that?
But they could be thinking, I like that.
Right.
And so just say it, do it and.
And you'll feel better about it.Yeah you will.
So think about it in your own life.
(09:27):
You know, who can you compliment?
Who really needsthat sometimes is the person.
Maybe you have the roughest time with?
Well, like we say many times off the airand saying it right now,
you know, on the airthat everybody is going through something.
Yes, everybody is fighting a battle.
I don't care who you are,what kind of house you live
(09:47):
and what kind of car you drive and clothesyou wear.
Everybody's battling something.
Yeah, you just scratch that surface,right? Right.
So just by being kind to that personagain, that that can make their whole day.
Yes. Yeah.
You know, when I watch old movies,I love watching movies
because I turn off the news.
Okay, turn off the news.
What's your favorite old movie?
(10:08):
Oh, there's so many.
If there's one that cameto mind is maybe, you know,
it's the man who came to dinner.
Oh, yeah.
The man who came to Twitterwith Monty Woolley and Betty Davis.
And sometimeswhen I've said old movies to people,
they've said to me, oh, well,I wasn't born then.
It's like, hey, I wasn't either.
I'm talking about movies in the 30s.
(10:29):
I wasn't born when,you know, Gone With the Wind came around.
But, you know,
I just always loved I love that,but I love the man who came to dinner.
Just makes me smilebecause the dialog is so fast and witty.
But I also love It's a Wonderful Lifewith Jimmy Stewart.
How can you not?
And that's got a great
(10:51):
moral, I guess, to that story where
he never felt fulfilledbecause he wasn't making the money.
He didn't.
He wasn't taking care of his family,as you should.
And his social mores, that of the day.
Yeah, yeah, I think a lot of peoplestill go through that nowadays.
Yeah, I think so.
Like my favorite movie of all time isField of Dreams.
Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner.
(11:11):
Yes, I watched that movie.
It's like it'skind of like The Notebook for men.
I was just going to say. Notebook for men.
That resonates more with men, doesn't it?
I still watch that movie,and every time I do Patty,
my wife has to give me some Kleenexbecause I think about my dad.
Yeah.
If you're familiar with the moviewhere he's throwing the the ball
with his dad, who comes back to lifebecause he's in the field,
(11:34):
and all these old baseball playerscome back
and he looks at his dad and goes, yeah,and he's so young.
Yeah, I remember him being olderand this and that, and he and
his dad says to Kevin Costner's character,would you like to play catch?
And every time he does that,
I just lose it.
Yeah.
With the power of good storytelling,of a good movie and also a good, like,
(11:55):
what we're trying to do here.
A good a good story, right?
Yeah.
We're going to have some great storieswaiting to hear some of the people
we're going to have on. Yeah.
And things that they went through. Right.
But you know, somethingand watching those old movies, I,
I will Google the peoplejust to see what their lives were like.
(12:15):
I am shocked at times,the things that they went through.
Looking at it, I'm thinking, wow,they had it all.
They had it. Oh no, no, no.
No, nobody has it.
All the peopleyou think have it together don't.
And they probably need youthe most, right?
They probably need you the mostto say something,
encouraging to them, you know.
And you do that all the time, John.
(12:37):
You know, I wish I were more like, oh.
Well, you're you're you're doing this.
And I think that's one of the reasons wedecided to get together to do this show.
Joyce, because we met for coffeerather innocently at a coffee place
right down the street from the studiohere in Brantford.
And we were both looking for somethinglike this.
Yeah.
I rememberwhen I talked about doing a podcast
and you said yes,I was thinking about the same thing, but
(13:00):
I just wanted to find the right,you know, co-host.
Yeah.
And I looked at you and saidwell you know, what do you think.
And, and all those years agoto quote a George Harrison song, right.
We, my favorite Beatle.
Yeah. Mine too. Mine too. Yeah.
We meet up and all of a sudden we're hereworking with some
really great people here, and, it'sjust it's a blessing to be here.
(13:22):
You know?
But you just remind meabout something in the coffee shop,
and that's when you kind of open my eyesto something.
I got there before you,and there was a young.
Which is usually the case. Which is?
John's running late.
Boy, you know.
But there was this young mansitting in the corner,
and he looked a little special,and I, I can say that
(13:45):
because I have a grandsonwho is in the, in the.
Spectrum of what is that? And.
Oh, wait a minute.
Should we be playing that song? Got it.
This is all organic, gang.
We're doing this organic rightnow, warts and all.
All right.
Hello, hello. Good good.
Good good.
Somebody forgot to turn their attention.
(14:06):
All right, all right. As you were saying.
Well, I have a grandson and a sonwho's in the spectrum and when I went,
walked into the coffee shop,I kind of got the feeling that he was.
And, he wanted to be left alone,but he was the only one in there.
I walked in, he was sitting in the corner,and I just stayed.
I just stayed away.
(14:27):
John walks in five minutes
later and, you go up to the counter,you say hello to everyone.
You look over at this guythat you never saw before.
You walked over like, hey, my man,what's up?
How are you doing today?
You put your hand on his shoulderand his face lit up.
His face lit up likeno one has ever done that to him before.
(14:50):
And that really welled me up thinking,
how many other times have I done that?
And it looked like almostI was shining someone when in my mind
I was kind of giving them spacebecause I thought,
you know, they may have special needs,but it didn't matter to you, John.
You know,and that's what I so love about you.
(15:12):
And so you teach me.
You teach me.
And I think, you know,I think I just want to be appreciated,
you know,and it's like I do a lot of the mic work
with the Tim Tebow Foundationand they're nice to shine.
And that's all about, what they have.
It's a problemfor people with special needs.
And they had the red carpetand I do my Ryan Seacrest thing.
Yeah.
Bring them all the and introduce them,
(15:33):
ask him a couple questions,and they feel like this is their night.
Everybody has a crown.
The guys are wearing tuxes,the girls are wearing gowns.
And for that night, for that 2or 3 hour period, they are stars.
You know, they're a big dealas they should be because,
you know, we're all stars in our own way,right? Right.
And then I get the chance to play musicfor them dancing.
(15:54):
And it just makes their whole night.
They just want to be treatedlike everybody else.
Yeah.
You know, it's like so many, so many timespeople see somebody in a wheelchair
and they see the chair,but they don't see the person.
They'll talk to another personlike that person has to translate
to the person in the wheelchair.
Yes. You're right.
You look at the person in the wheelchairand smile at them.
(16:15):
Have a conversation with them. Right.
That's all they want.
Treat, treat people with dignity. Yes.
And again that's the kind of stuffwe're going to focus on here.
You know what's good in the world.
There's so many good peoplein the world. It's not just what I do.
There's people doing that all the time.
Joyce, you do that in your own way.
You, you know, watching right now,you do that in your own life.
Right? Yeah.
And I think about people who will say,to me, you know, just in a conversation
(16:40):
will come up like they,they hate rich people.
And it's like, yeah, all right.
So everyone's got something, but you can'tlump everyone into into one thing.
There are a lot of goodrich people and poor people and,
I guess I can't.
It goes back to my mom who said,do not Revere anyone either.
(17:03):
Don'tyou know, because the Queen of England
always rememberjust saying that the Queen of England
takes down her pantsand goes to the bathroom just like you.
It's right.
So they may have more privilegein other areas, but
there are people that she gavebirth to, children.
She did this or he did that.
We're all the same.
And just because someonemight have more privilege
(17:26):
or kids in schoolbecause they have less privilege,
doesn't mean you mark them as something.
Because here's that sayingthat Wayne Dyer always said that
when you label someone, you negate them.
Absolutely.
And you have. A tendencyto judge and label. So much.
And I just got donewatching a TV series called The Crown.
(17:47):
No, I love The Crown.
And you mentioned the Queen and privilege.
They talked about peoplethat were dysfunctional.
Yeah.
You know, you think they have it
all, all the money in the world,but all the divorces in the family.
Yeah.
Princess Diana,I'm not sure if she was ever happy.
I know she seemed like she wasthe unhappiest person in the world.
(18:08):
And yet, at the time, probably the mostpopular woman in the world.
Yes. And and her.
And, you know, now, King Charles,there was no love there.
Right.
And so for us to judge peopleand think they have it all.
And he's dealing with cancer.
Exactly.
Kate is and so everyone'sdealing with, with something in life.
So if we begin to look at people that way
(18:32):
that we're all in thistogether and just reach out,
a hand by
saying, smile at someone,even just smile at someone.
But it, it really, you know,they have the sayings on social media
which maybe it doesn't
even make sense anymorebecause you see it, but it's so true.
Your smile can change, right?
(18:53):
Everything in a person's life if you justsay something positive to them.
Yeah. And so.
So that's why your smile is your logo.
Your smile is your business card.
So you didn't tell me what's good?
What's good today, John?
What's good today is we're here.
Yeah, we're hanging out.
We've been talkingabout doing this podcast for about a year,
a little behind the scenes stuff insidebaseball stuff.
(19:14):
And we've had some stops and starts again.
What Joyce and I like to dois be very organic and transparent,
you know, and that starts right nowwith this show.
But we've had some stops and starts and,but we believe everything happens
in God's time, you know? Right.
Every setback is a set up for somethingbetter.
Right. And, Absolutely.
Beautiful studio here in Branford.
(19:35):
We're working with some great people.
Yes, David and Step, and we shoot themand all they're doing behind the scenes.
And we appreciate you, for, for,you know, watching and listening.
Right. What is it?
I mean, who knows wherethis is going to go?
And, but we're just hoping that,it goes in a direction
where we can make a big impact in people'slives one by one.
(19:55):
Yeah, well, I think we both feelthat there's no coincidence in there.
I mean, everything happens for a reason.
And this was meant. Meant to be.
And if, one person
likes listening to us, we're here for you.
And it makes. That's perfect.
I hope you're the one.
(20:16):
I really hope you're the one.
And you tell another oneand you tell another.
Yeah, the domino effect.
Well, we want a good domino effect.
We want people to think differently.
We're going to bring you a lot of waysto do that.
A lot of tools to put in your little,
tool casebefore you leave the house in the morning.
Well, you certainly. It's going to.Help your day.
You are definitely a, a wonderful author.
(20:37):
You've written some great books.
You have another onethat's coming out soon,
and we'll be talking about that very,very soon. Yes.
Maybe in an upcoming episode.
Hint hint hint. Yes yes yes.
So what's good?
Say that to yourselfwhen you wake up in the morning.
What's good about my day?
(20:57):
And just celebratethe fact that you're alive
and if you can wake upand get yourself out of bed, that's great.
If you can'tand you have someone who's taking
care of you,that's great to focus on that.
You know, I just have to remember,there was this minister years ago
who said thathe would visit a woman that in,
(21:20):
I guess it was a
nursinghome and she would not get out of bed.
And she was really closed downand was suffering with depression,
along with just being elderlyand hurting and all of that.
And he leaned into her one dayand he said,
I want you to say every morning,
this is the day the Lord has made.
(21:42):
I will rejoice and be glad in it.
Just say that.
And then a couple weeks later,he went to visit her,
and she was sitting up.
And a few days after that they told himthat there was a great improvement
with her, and she started to dressand get up and about.
(22:02):
And then she told the ministershe said, when you said that to me,
I did that and I felt somethingdifferent inside of me.
Yeah, something leaped out inside, right?
But it was so wonderful that he saidthat to her than the other side.
You have to do it also.
Right, and put action to that.
(22:23):
I love that saying,because that was King David in Psalms,
you know,one of my favorite passages in the Bible.
But yeah, what's good?You always remember things like that.
So what the King David said.
King David said that King
David said that in the Bibleafter he suffered one of his worst defeats
at the time.
So he was speaking by faith, and, hisfellow warriors were ready to kill him.
They're really upset with himbecause he had lost a battle.
(22:45):
And, a lot of the enemyhad come to their home and ravaged the,
the, their homes and took their kids,you know, and their their wives.
And, he went over to the sideand he encouraged himself
because nobody else was.
And he said,this is the day that the Lord has made.
And he went on to say,let's be glad and rejoice.
(23:05):
And father blessed me in such a way
that you know that nobodywill ever believe how great things are,
not because of who I am,but because of who I am. As
powerful.
But that that was always a great passagein my mind that he.
And then like eight weeks later,he became the king.
He was in the king at the time.
But Saul, you know, KingSaul was killed at the time.
(23:27):
But I digress with that.
You know,I get really deep into this stuff, but,
this has been, it's been a lot of fun.
Joyce.
I'm really excited about this, this, thisnext, you know, a chapter in our lives.
And, we want to take you along with us.
Let's leave everyone on a positive note.
What do you say? That I love. You?
I kind of like, you know, looking for thatanointment of ease in life.
(23:47):
Anointment of these?
Yeah.
Yeah, I just like that we're we'reall going to have challenges in life.
But so many times things happen for us ina positive way when we just kind of like,
you know, say what we want,
put it out to the universe,and then just go on with your day.
Right?
So like,I always like to say, you know, I'm
going to do my best todayand, and let God take care of the rest.
(24:09):
I love that we wish that for all of you,it's spirit of these.
That's right.
Till next time. Bye for now.
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