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Well, hello, hello, I'm John
Cadillac Seville from iHeart radiowith my co-host Joyce Logan.
Welcome to another editionof What's Good with John.
And Joyce. Yeah.
And we do talk about what's good.
So please,if you need a respite from the world.
I love that word respect.
Just listen to us.
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You may learn some. Some what?
You might learn something.
Some tricks to relax.
Interesting guests that we have. Sure.
We've had so many.
We're so fortunate.
And many great shows lined up as well.
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Welcome toWhat's Good with John and Joyce.
Yes! Yay, yay. What's good? What?
What are we talking about today, Joyce?
I know we are just rhetorical toysyou're talking about.
We're talking about fall in New England.
My favorite time of year.
But I think you could talk about some ofthe places I know you visited, like,
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any time of the year. Right? Really? Yeah.
But it's really like falling in lovewith New England
because we're New England folks.
And that's whyso many hallmark movies are film.
Do you know that over 20 of themhave been filmed in Connecticut alone?
I haven't even checked the other states.
And Joyce, a dear friend of minewho is a former police officer,
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might be doing some part time police work.
Greg Newchurch or not? Sure.
You know, tomato. Tomato.
I know that name,but Greg is an amazing actor, a great guy.
We're going to try to get him as a guestat one point, but he's been on several
hot in several hallmark movies,including some of the ones
filmed at Branfordand Guilford, my hometown.
Yes. Yeah, exactly.
One of my favorite onesis, where I wrote that down.
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I wrote that down.
It was in Branford.
It's so much fun when you drive byand you see them shooting a movie.
Yeah, we were in Newport, Patty and I,because we love Newport.
They just were filming one in Newportabout a week ago.
But I think about a year, year and a halfago, we were there around Christmas time
and the hallmark folks were there,and it was a hallmark.
Yeah.
It was just so cool to see becauseall the mansions were decorated up there.
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And Newport's one of our oneof our favorite destinations.
Well, one of my favorites,and I really love
the actorstoo, was Romance at Reindeer Lodge.
And the alliteration.
Yeah, I know the house scenes were filmed,at a home in North Haven.
I do remember that.
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And, Hamden and Branford.
So it's Nicky Whalenand she's from Australia,
and I, I've seen her in a few theftthings, and I really like her.
And also Josh Kelley,who has done a lot on hallmark.
But what I love the most watching it,
I mean, they're like,I could walk to where they were
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and they had a horse and carriagegoing down the street in Branford. Yes.
And they wentinto one of my favorite stores,
but it wasn't the same name.
Like they changed the name of the store.
And then one of the placesI shop at Karen's Corner,
but you could see the name Karen's Corner,like if you're really looking for it,
and they're, they're shopping
for groceries and everythingand it it's just a different feeling.
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But the feeling of,you know really of Connecticut or Branford
where we are, it was like,
yeah, this is what it is like I love it.
And the thing is, hallmark movies,some people say,
oh, you know,they're all the same, basically.
But I get lured in all the time.
If a hallmark movie is onand my bride is watching it.
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I'm tuning in.
Yeah.
And I'm just,you know, I'm just totally honed in on.
I'm watching the whole movieand I'm enjoying the movie,
even though they're all the same.
I just love the scenery.
I knowsometimes my son will say, isn't it?
Isn't it always the same movie as well?
In this way it is.
It has a happy ending, right?
So I know it's going to end well.
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Nothing's going to upset me.
And at night time, you know,I have a friend that he's a painter.
He does. He he's a handyman.
And he told me that he keepsthat Hallmark Channel on every night.
And it's for the same reasonit's relaxing.
Yeah, it's a good story, you know?
So why not?
It's kind of like, you know, tuning in towhat's good with John and Joyce.
(05:57):
Exactly.
Oh, God. Oh, my goodness,you're listening right now.
Oh self plug here.
But but but it is in a wayI think that's how I live in my head.
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
Well, what about what about you, Joyce?
I mean, you've,you've done some traveling.
I mean,
where are some of you as much as you,but what are
what are some of your favoritedestinations that you've been to?
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Some things that are created, some greatmemories for you in during your lifetime?
Oh, first, any beach, any beach at all.
I mean, from Hammond Acid in Madison
to my little, you know what?
I love the Stoney Creek area.
Yes, Stony Creek area.
Branford is a real cool artsy.
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I've got a great vibe to visit.
It really is.
And now they have the theater there?
Yeah, the legacy theater?
Yes. Legacytheater used to be the old puppet house
for those who were local, watchingand listening to this podcast right now,
and some of the greatest beaches.You talking about beaches?
Because I love them.
Rhode Island has some of the best beacheson the planet, right?
Right.
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Lot of songs were written about thenBarry Manilow, right?
That song Weekend in New England,New England.
Oh my God, yeah.
Reba mcEntire had a song calledWhoever's in New England,
but it was a breakup song,so that's the same thing. But.
But the other Barry Manilowsong is is a great song. Wait a minute.
I think Barry's is a little bit.
Well,that's sad song too, isn't it? Yeah.
But then halfway through,he says, I feel the air like changing.
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I feel it and there's.
And you know,they're going to get back together again.
Okay. So there is ayeah, yeah, it's hopefully okay.
Not like whoever's in NewEngland by Reba, which is no,
totally different.
They.Have you ever been to Gillette Castle?
I have several times.
William Gillette,who wrote was all about Shakespeare.
Shakespeare? No, no, no.
What was that, Sherlock Holmes?
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He played Sherlock Holmes.
Oh, William Gillette, he was famous.
He played Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes.
And he had all these,
like, little nooks and crannies and, like,little tunnels underneath.
So, believe a minute this is his house?
Yeah, it's a mansion over there,a new stadium.
I knew that, and I've been there,but I love it.
I love that place.So I need to go back again.
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Baby,we need to go back to Gillette Castle.
Yes, Patty. Yeah.
And of course, the Mystic Aquarium.
Mystic aquarium.
I actually just do charter wedding there,but I like shopping.
Oh, yeah, the village stores,they're just so beautiful, Joyce.
But, you know, just.
Yeah.
And, Essex, Connecticut.
Just beautiful with the steam train.
They have the breakfast,they have the murder mystery breakfast
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is or dinner there when they were littleand my one of my sons was crying.
He was a I don't know why he was afraid.
He did not want to getI think maybe the steam.
Yeah.
Under the train, but Oh I know at Christmas time.
Yeah. They do all Christmas they do.
We were on that before,but when we went it was like 80 degrees.
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So everybody was wearing shorts.
Like when we went onit was the December. Yeah.
And it was 80 degreesbecause when I go on, like I was hoping
it was gonna be a nice crisp nightall bundled up on a sweater.
Yeah, I was wearing shorts and t shirts.
I, you know, I said to you, this morningbecause this is the first day
where it feels a little crisp in the airand you're all happy about it.
And I said, give me 80 degrees in steamthat I'm walking out to, a happy man.
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Things we're talking about this
we know the podcast goes global,and a lot of people
from all over the country in the worldlisten and watch us.
We're grateful for that.
But we're talking about New Englandbecause doing that is a destination
for people, destinationall over the USA and globally.
We talk to people all the time.
They say,oh, we'd love to go to New England,
where I knowpeople that are in Florida now.
They say, I miss being in New England,especially this time of year
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when this podcast is running.
But just yes, the sound of the leaveswhen you're walking, rustling
under your under your feet.
I love that at night and a school nightand just having the apple cider
and going to a farm, like locally,Bishop's Orchards.
Yes. In Guilford or,you know, of rose orchards
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in North Branford,some of these places or Lyman orchards
in Middlefield, Connecticut,just some of those local to us.
You know what?
Even though I'm not a I'mnot a winter lover,
I think for physical reasons,because I've always been asthmatic,
especially as a child,and everyone be out playing in the snow
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and my lungs would start to hurt
because my asthma is brought onby a cold air right?
Hitting my lungs.
And what do you like,the sunny 80 degree and and.
Yeah.
So any time I spent time in Florida.
Oh, I was a happy, happy, happybecause I could breathe.
Because actually the moisture is good.
I know for my lungs it is so humidity,
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you know, there is well with my body.
But I do love a snowy night.
I do love to take a little walk outside,and now I wrap a scarf around my mouth.
It's so quiet.
You're talkingabout the crunch of the leaves.
Oh there's that crunch of the snow also.
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You know when you hit thatsoft snow and it's glistening,
you know, whether it's early morningand or at nighttime
there is nothing like that.
So I think we are fortunatethat we have the four seasons here.
And by the way. Oh, okay.
The other the four pieces,
I know it took me a split secondbecause I you're so fast with the music.
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It's like, why is Sherry
and I thought
of, Steve from journey singing,you know, I'll see you Perry
Singing is Sherry raised?
Oh, Sherry.
Yeah,I was that from his debut solo album. So.
But for those who don't know, the New England states are Connecticut,
Maine, Massachusetts,New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
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And do them all. Have you? Yes.
Why have you been all?
I have never been to New Hampshire.
New Hampshire? Really? Yes. Let me.
Lake Winnipesaukee donea lot of weddings up there.
And they and during the winterthey have like all these ice fairs.
The lake is just all ice.
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And everybody's just partying out there,you know, on the ice.
But I've been there many times.
The DJ weddings up there, it's justpicturesque summer, fall, winter, spring.
Right.
So that's where my, my, my brotherand my husband
went to to was it.
It's a camp. I'm trying to think.
Was it a Boy Scout camp?
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But Liquid Lake,
it's a big giant lake, but it has a it'sa big tourist destination.
So that might be it might be part of it.
The part where they were nearthat could be.
So maybe I was in New Hampshirebecause I have a picture of me
as a little tyke, you know,just standing there, but no real memory.
And of course, on my on my shirt hereI have Boothbay, Maine.
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Oh, that's nice.
And Maine, I love, love, love namemy wife and I go up there
pretty much every year.
When I was a kid,dad had a cottage up there.
We go up to Bangor, Maine.
You had Bar Harbor. These are Ogunquit.
It would have a beautiful theater upthere.
A lot of folks, I'm sure, watchingand listening right now go to Maine.
It's a destination.
It's heaven on earth.
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But Vermont, New Hampshire,Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut,
some people say, oh, Connecticut, thisand that tax I love Connecticut.
Yeah, I love it here because we're rightbetween Boston and New York.
Yeah.
We have so many places to go,so many cultural places
I think are very spoiled here.
I love it, I love I live short time and,you know, really nice place.
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I really liked, Palm Coast,which is near Saint Augustine.
Yeah. Florida.
Yes. And I really did like that.
And I liked Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
But there's no place like home.
No, there's no place like home.
And I think itis that between new York and Boston,
you know, it's just like a hop, skipand a jump to see a Broadway play.
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I love Carnegie Hall to see the Rockettes,Madison Square Garden saw Draper
Charlie there recently.
It was just so good.
And and then in Bostonyou go see the Red Sox.
So you got Quincy Market up there
and you have in New York,you get to see the Yankees.
Yeah. And Boston,you could see the Red Sox
because we don't want to leavethe Mets out.
The Mets are always like an afterthought.
You know, the poor Metsor the Jets. Right.
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You talk about that, but you get to goto those beautiful stadiums and see.
So when you say the Jets,I think West Side Story, I don't think I'm
not a sports person, butoh those poor jets.
It's like like yeah Yankees.
And you know Red Sox.
It's always the big divide.
But I'm happy for anyone.
My husband was a big Yankees fan,but his father was a huge Red Sox fan.
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Yeah.
So like my family to my momlike the Red Sox.
My dad like the Yankees.
And I grew up liking really no local teamsfor my favorites.
I always like teams from other markets.
Don't know why that was like from otherlike Saint Louis Cardinals.
Always my favorite baseball team.
You know why I love them too?
Because I love the pictureof the Cardinals. That's right.
I think that was me too, because cardinalsare my favorite birds, you know?
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But then I fell in love with the team.Yeah.
And the Dallas Cowboys,you know, my favorite football team.
And I love Dallas Cowboys.
Yeah I think because I thought, actually I think I like their uniforms.
Yeah. The logo with the star athlete.
But no I don't,but I think I bet on them once.
Oh yes. I didn't know you were better.
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Well, I worked,you know, as a waitress I was in
and people had pools and I think I didpretty well with the Cowboys.
Game three. Oh, yeah.
Well okay. All right.All right in green Bay Packers. Yep.
Yeah. Legendary Lambeau Field okay. Yes.
So that's a great destination.
That's great thing about the green BayPackers is they're owned by the town.
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They're owned by their fans.
Most people have an owner but the fans ownthe green Bay Packers did too.
Yeah I mean everyone put money.
They all put money inand they own the green Bay Packers.
Isn't that cool like a long time agoor goes back to the beginning.
Wait, can people still put money inand say,
I don't know about that, butI always thought that was kind of cool.
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I mean, the Packers, I mean, legit.
Well, see, we're talking about falland fall is baseball.
I mean, football's for baseball to be ableto do for the Fall Classic, the World
Series, basketball hockey starts later on.
And you know, but I have to mentionthis about, hallmark movies.
I want to get back to this for a minute,because one of my favorite
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Broadway people is, Michael Brady.
I hope I'm saying that right.
It's already why?
But I even watch him on YouTube.
He has a beautiful voice.
So,
and that's l r into valso I have ever heard of. Yes.
Michael Rady, he's a, he's a great actor.
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He's been in some I probably moviesif I saw him I know who it is.
But he was in two hallmark movies.
One is where are you Christmas, which wasFaith Hill sang the title track of that.
Yes, yes, yes.
And that's, that's partthat's in the movie.
And that was in, mystic, Connecticut,Waterford, Old Saybrook.
And then he also was Christmasat Pemberley Manor.
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And that was in Essex in Old Lyme.
But here's the cool thingabout Michael Brady.
He fell in love with Connecticut and movedhere, bought a house here.
That's how much he loved, finding things when he was here.
I want to raise my kids here now.
I want to live in Connecticut.
All those towns you mentioned,Joyce, are just so charming.
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I mean, you think Norman Rockwell.
I mean,you think they're perfect for hallmark.
And, like, the Iverson Playhouseis one of my favorite places to go.
Was it Chester, Connecticut?Goodspeed. Yes.
No. And we have the Shubert.
You know, we just really haveso many great places to see theater.
They said back in the day,if a show made it in New Haven, right,
they can make it
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anywhere because New Haven audiences,a lot of shows were tested here.
Theater. Right.
Because they figured the audienceis really kind of, if you made it here,
you can be anywhere.
That line is even in some old movies.
Well, they'll say, well, you know, ifwe can make it in, make it in New Haven.
And I knew what they were talking about.
They're talking about the Shubert, right.
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Shubert was a place where they used it.
That was the place to start the show.
Yeah.
And then if the crowds liked it,they took it to Broadway.
All right. Amazing.We have just so much great history here.
And you go down by Yale and, I love the Peabody Museum.
Oh yeah I know, yesI do a museum and I'm getting to be an age
where my next class reunionis going to be at the Peabody Museum.
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Is it really going to be there?
So, because we just had a reunion.
No, I just I took thatthe next one are probably be there. Oh.
Were you just.
Guy. Oh, you got a laugh.
You got a lot of folks. Yeah.So you got to laugh.
You cry sometimes, right?
Then there's Wally Lamb'swishin and Hopin.
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That was a lifetime movie.
That took place in Norwich. Willimantic.
It was, Molly Ringwald.
Oh, sure.
Well, she was a breakfast club.
Yes. Okay. That's 600.
Oh, yeah. Great movie too.
But this movie. I have to watch this.
I know I saw it, it'snarrated by Chevy Chase.
Oh, yeah. I love those vacation movies.
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National Lampoon's vacation,so much fun. Great.
I love fun movies.
But then again, I like the dark side,but not the scary dark side.
Right?
A very merry Christmastoy store, New Britain
Melissa Joan Hart was in that Mario Lopez.
And that wasn't too long ago in that.
What is the most successfulhallmark movie of all time.
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Do you know the answer? I do
too, okay.
I had the most views and I thinkthe sequel came in number two all time.
It had a sequel. Yep.
Yep.
Oh, Virginia.
Two plays and Connecticut'snot on my list.
It was filmed at the secondmost visited private home in the USA.
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Really? Yeah.
Was the Christmas at Graceland? Yes.
What Christmas or Graceland?
What is the most watched hallmark movieof all time?
And the sequel? I, I saw both of them.
I know it's my frank least favorite moviebecause I,
I can't remember the name of the actress,but I think
the actress is also a singer.
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I think I, I don't even think I saw itthough, believe it or not.
But like the,the cast of General Hospital, right.
General hospital, they have their holidayparties every year.
I'd like to go there too.
You've been to Graceland.
I have twice
and but you've said something thatother people have said about Graceland.
I don't know.
In our minds,maybe we make things bigger. Yes.
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And everything. And it was it smaller?
It was smaller.
It was very, very well datedbecause didn't they keep everything?
Yeah.
And Elvis's taste was kind of weirdwhen it came to decorating.
Like the Jungle Room. Yeah.
It was kind of like weird in a way,but it was just so, you know,
all this new money came.
He came.
He was so poor,I know, and I think maybe he got bad
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decorators in there, right, right.
But what blew me awaywas when I went there
and went across the streetto the trophy room,
and on all the streettrash was like a big, giant complex.
And then they had the radio stationthere, the Sirius XM station,
and then, they had this big giant warehouse
with all this gold and platinum records,and they were all in at Graceland.
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No, I mean, they've gotten so many moresince they keep adding more every year
globallythat they had to put them in a warehouse.
And like from every country in the worldand keys to the city and all these, you
know, jumpsuits and, you know, movie stuffand everything, it was just really cool.
Really cool.
I and I just learneda great song in itself.
I wasn't really all that impressed with,you know.
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Yeah. Although I'd like to go to that.
Oh yeah. I mean yeah, yeah.
That's, you know,
and for General Hospital,I'm a big fan of General Hospital.
Yeah.My mom used to watch that all the time.
And of courseI got sucked into it again too.
Like the soapoperas. Right. I'll make fun of it.
And then if it's on, I'll watch itand I get into it.
So even when I'm watching it nowand because,
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you know, I, my sons are always there.
One son lives with me,my grandson lives with me.
My other son, is always helping us.
And he's so my house is like arevolving door and I swear he'll come in.
I will say, isn't this the same storyfrom, like, ten years?
Yeah, yeah.
I say, yeah, kind of, but it's slow.
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It's like molasses, right?
It's like molasses. Oh, boy.
And then my grandson will walk inand he will say the same thing is
the name of this is General Hospital.
How come they're never in a hospital?
And I said, no, no,you just missed the part.
I think they were early. Right, right.
Oh, yeah.
And and why is Sonny like a mobsterat General Hospital?
Yeah. It's like,you got to watch it. Yeah.
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It's like. Yeah, I can't explain.
It takes too long in years.
Well, we were talking aboutsome destinations too, though.
I want to Athens, Greece, because, my,Patty and I were engaged.
Her daughter was over thereon an exchange trip for Yukon,
and she was going to go visit her daughteranyway.
So I said,well, we're going to go over there anyway.
Why don't we?
We, you know, already decidedwe were going to get married
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and we got unofficially married in that.
I'm just going to askI never heard the story.
How do you get married in Greece?
But we got marriedon a rooftop of the Acropolis or the.
I saw some kind of tourists.It was just gorgeous.
Stunning. At sunset.
And we had her daughter there, Lindsay,and it was just phenomenal.
We spent week to ten days there.
I was exposed,
I tasted gelato for the first timeover there, and the streets are so narrow
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and these taxi drivers drive so fast,it's like crazy.
And nobody ever worked there on siestaall the time.
Yeah, that's why they live longer.
And yeah, but the food was incrediblebecause they don't have the preservatives
that they have here and loved it.
And I don't drink, but the wine I had overthere was actually really good.
I had even olive oil tastingolive oil was tremendous.
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And the and the vegetablesand the fruits every morning.
Incredible.
But I would go back to Athens again.
I mean,I know that there's some sad things
going on there from time to time,but it's just beautiful.
The people were amazing.
I love them that we went to Switzerlandaround the Alps area.
Didn't get it.
We we saw the Alps,but we didn't have a chance
to actually experience thembecause we stopped in
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the airport, had the best coffeeI ever had in my life in Switzerland. Wow.
And then on the way home and went to Parisand we spent a night in Paris.
Did you can you can see so many countrieswhen you go to Europe.
Right. So.
And from the sky.
So technically you say you were hereor here or there, but I love Paris.
I want to go back to Paris.
Oh you will. And people say,oh, the Paris people are this and that.
And there were to the Parispeople were nice.
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It you got it goesby the way you treat other people.
Yeah. If you expect them to be.I don't expect them.
I whenever I go I'm going to smileand say hello to everybody.
I wonder if in in Paris
if some shop owners,
are almost expected to be that way.
So they are that way. Yeah.
Like that.
Like the Seinfeld episode with the SoupNazi.
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Yes, yes.
Like you want to go there because it'sjust part of the ambiance of it.
But let me go back to this againbecause, first of all,
let me ask you, this is Switzerland.Best coffee. Coffee you ever.
Oh, could you ask them, like,what's the brand?
What are you using?
I know what the brand is because it'savailable in certain restaurants around,
but it doesn't tastelike I can't remember.
(25:33):
It's still you.No, it's still very good. Oh, it is, but.
But the coffee over in Switzerland,it was in an airport that I had it,
and it was phenomenal.
You are the coffee connoisseur,so I'm taking this seriously.
Yeah, I admit it.
I'm a coffee. Yes.
So I, I'm going to have to research this.
Yeah.
We have we have some great coffeeplaces around here
locally if you're ever in the Bramford,Connecticut area.
(25:54):
Yeah.
Do you have a couple of freeplugs called Common Ground and Grounds?
Common ground coffee,locally owned and moonshots?
Yeah. Locally owned.
Guilford'ssoon to expand that. Bramford. Kathy.
All right.
Yes, I'll be here.I'll be there with you tomorrow.
But I know we're talking about fallin New England and all that,
but I got to get back to Greecefor a minute.
When you got married, did you get it?
(26:14):
Did you get, like, permissionthere to get married? How?
This thing is always said tothe folks at the hotel, we want to go up.
We're just going to go up there.
Patti had her gown on.
I had my but sure sucker suit.
But is your marriage license from Greece?
No, we weren't officially marriedthere at all.
I thought it was just for optics, I see.
And then we had a ceremonyhere in the States.
(26:35):
And you did it all here?
Yeah, we got it.
We're March 27th, 2008 over there.
And then mayI always forget our real date?
Because I always countthe one in Greece is our romantic wedding.
Yeah, but then in April, we got marriedhere at a beautiful, state over.
And, Frank and Janevon Holzhausen left their place.
(26:58):
I don't you love that name and say Jim's
head in the gopher, Connecticut area,which I love the name Von Horse housing.
Yeah. To the nicest people ever.
Wells. And say,Jim said, is it's beautiful.
It's a beautiful place. Right.
So do you have two anniversaries then?
We pretty much focus on the first 1stMarch 27th.
So remember that folks. March 27th.
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That's when you could send all you know.
Yeah. And you'll remindJohn that that's the date.
That's right. Exactly.
I never remembered my date.
I have a thing with dates and I don't.
Did Wayne remember? Yes, of course he did.
Wayne remembered our anniversary.
Wayne remembered, like, Valentine's Day,things like that.
And that's why he was a keeper.
I didn't.
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Sometimes I thinkwhen people put too much on it,
maybe because that's the only dayyou get attention.
But Wayne gave me attention,like, every day.
That's awesome. You know?So it really didn't.
It didn't matter to me.
But he always made a big dealbecause I was his sweetheart, you know?
So that's great.
That's all.
Be right there.
We were like a hallmark movie. It was.
(28:00):
Yeah, we had a rough beginning,but it's almost like
people were rooting for usand we made it in the end.
You know,like some of the Barry Manilow song.
Looks like we made it.
Every time I hearBarry Manilow songs and live,
I'm exercising sometimesto keep them on in the background.
And I could deal with it,and it makes me happy.
And other timesit's like, it's my story with Wayne.
(28:24):
Yeah.
You know, it's like every songit reminds me of of him.
And sometimes itit just brings up too much emotion
where I just have to not exerciseand sit with it.
You make a really good point there
because sometimes, you know,you could be by the water,
it could be the happiest placein your life.
But if you're in a sad place, it's just,it just it could be devastating. Yes.
(28:44):
Depending on where you are,the virtually everything is a snapshot.
Yes of life.
And so whatever your snapshot isand that's why, some of my saddest times,
I would go sit downStony Creek Beach and just sit there.
And my happiest times,
I went to Stoney Creek Beach,and you'll be there at Stony Creek
and you'll see, you know, kidsplaying around.
(29:05):
You'll see these happy young couplesor some older people
holding hands. And then you'll see over in a corner
somewhere,somebody's looking very, very sad.
And you'll you're right.
You'll see both. Now,you know what I did one night?
I went there at nighttimeand I climbed up to the,
lifeguard, you know, perch.
Oh, you sit up there, too,I said, yeah, we do that, too.
And I brought,
(29:26):
I was I brought a flask of brandywith you, and I sat up there.
I was not in a good state of mind, but
it helped because I felt like a speck on this earth,
and I could feel the presenceof the universe of God.
Yeah.
And was overwhelmingly beautifulto me. Wow.
(29:48):
You know, a little bit of brandy.
It was a cold night, too.
Brandy? You're a fine girl, right?
Looking glass, 1972.
See, I knew the song I would neverremember looking was 1972, 1972.
Wow. Because if they're still playing.
Oh, neither one of us was born then,but I remember I remember this song.
In retrospect.I don't think I've been born yet. No.
(30:09):
Yeah, but just so many great locations.
And if you're not in this areain New England and you're
and you're watchingor listening to this podcast
or both, make a trip up here,it is so worth it.
This is just the place to be,especially in the fall.
And if you come hereespecially because you heard our show,
let us know and come on our show.
We want to talk to you, wantto talk to you about your experience here.
(30:31):
I I'm absolutely.
So if you have any ideas for showsby the way, please let us know.
Just, you know,how do they get in contact with us?
Joyce
I don't know.
Yeah, we I see this is this is live.
This is live stuff, right?
You know what?
The best way to get in contact with us is?
Messages. Message us on Facebook.
Yeah. Message on Facebook. Yeah.
(30:51):
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Yeah.
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We appreciate all the folks at iHeartfor being so supportive of this.
(31:13):
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Just Google it.
So thank you so much.
And, you know, many blessings to you
and your family over this holidayseason is coming our way. Yep.
We're in the beginning stages. Yes. Right.
And if you're up here in fall or whateveryou are, you know, seek us out.
And, you can always gain a new friend.
Absolutely.
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I'm John Cadillac Seville, Joyce Hogan,best to you and your family.
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Welcome toWhat's Good with John and Joyce.
Yes! Yay, yay. What's good? What?
What are we talking about today, Joyce?
I know we are just rhetorical toysyou're talking about.
We're talking about fall in New England.
My favorite time of year.
But I think you could talk about some ofthe places I know you visited, like,
(02:37):
any time of the year. Right? Really? Yeah.
But it's really like falling in lovewith New England
because we're New England folks.
And that's whyso many hallmark movies are film.
Do you know that over 20 of themhave been filmed in Connecticut alone?
I haven't even checked the other states.
And Joyce, a dear friend of minewho is a former police officer,
(02:57):
might be doing some part time police work.
Greg Newchurch or not? Sure.
You know, tomato. Tomato.
I know that name,but Greg is an amazing actor, a great guy.
We're going to try to get him as a guestat one point, but he's been on several
hot in several hallmark movies,including some of the ones
filmed at Branfordand Guilford, my hometown.
Yes. Yeah, exactly.
One of my favorite onesis, where I wrote that down.
(03:23):
I wrote that down.
It was in Branford.
It's so much fun when you drive byand you see them shooting a movie.
Yeah, we were in Newport, Patty and I,because we love Newport.
They just were filming one in Newportabout a week ago.
But I think about a year, year and a halfago, we were there around Christmas time
and the hallmark folks were there,and it was a hallmark.
Yeah.
It was just so cool to see becauseall the mansions were decorated up there.
(03:46):
And Newport's one of our oneof our favorite destinations.
Well, one of my favorites,and I really love
the actorstoo, was Romance at Reindeer Lodge.
And the alliteration.
Yeah, I know the house scenes were filmed,at a home in North Haven.
I do remember that.
(04:06):
And, Hamden and Branford.
So it's Nicky Whalenand she's from Australia,
and I, I've seen her in a few theftthings, and I really like her.
And also Josh Kelley,who has done a lot on hallmark.
But what I love the most watching it,
I mean, they're like,I could walk to where they were
(04:27):
and they had a horse and carriagegoing down the street in Branford. Yes.
And they wentinto one of my favorite stores,
but it wasn't the same name.
Like they changed the name of the store.
And then one of the placesI shop at Karen's Corner,
but you could see the name Karen's Corner,like if you're really looking for it,
and they're, they're shopping
for groceries and everythingand it it's just a different feeling.
(04:51):
But the feeling of,you know really of Connecticut or Branford
where we are, it was like,
yeah, this is what it is like I love it.
And the thing is, hallmark movies,some people say,
oh, you know,they're all the same, basically.
But I get lured in all the time.
If a hallmark movie is onand my bride is watching it.
(05:13):
I'm tuning in.
Yeah.
And I'm just,you know, I'm just totally honed in on.
I'm watching the whole movieand I'm enjoying the movie,
even though they're all the same.
I just love the scenery.
I knowsometimes my son will say, isn't it?
Isn't it always the same movie as well?
In this way it is.
It has a happy ending, right?
So I know it's going to end well.
(05:36):
Nothing's going to upset me.
And at night time, you know,I have a friend that he's a painter.
He does. He he's a handyman.
And he told me that he keepsthat Hallmark Channel on every night.
And it's for the same reasonit's relaxing.
Yeah, it's a good story, you know?
So why not?
It's kind of like, you know, tuning in towhat's good with John and Joyce.
(05:57):
Exactly.
Oh, God. Oh, my goodness,you're listening right now.
Oh self plug here.
But but but it is in a wayI think that's how I live in my head.
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
Well, what about what about you, Joyce?
I mean, you've,you've done some traveling.
I mean,
where are some of you as much as you,but what are
what are some of your favoritedestinations that you've been to?
(06:18):
Some things that are created, some greatmemories for you in during your lifetime?
Oh, first, any beach, any beach at all.
I mean, from Hammond Acid in Madison
to my little, you know what?
I love the Stoney Creek area.
Yes, Stony Creek area.
Branford is a real cool artsy.
(06:38):
I've got a great vibe to visit.
It really is.
And now they have the theater there?
Yeah, the legacy theater?
Yes. Legacytheater used to be the old puppet house
for those who were local, watchingand listening to this podcast right now,
and some of the greatest beaches.You talking about beaches?
Because I love them.
Rhode Island has some of the best beacheson the planet, right?
Right.
(06:59):
Lot of songs were written about thenBarry Manilow, right?
That song Weekend in New England,New England.
Oh my God, yeah.
Reba mcEntire had a song calledWhoever's in New England,
but it was a breakup song,so that's the same thing. But.
But the other Barry Manilowsong is is a great song. Wait a minute.
I think Barry's is a little bit.
Well,that's sad song too, isn't it? Yeah.
But then halfway through,he says, I feel the air like changing.
(07:24):
I feel it and there's.
And you know,they're going to get back together again.
Okay. So there is ayeah, yeah, it's hopefully okay.
Not like whoever's in NewEngland by Reba, which is no,
totally different.
They.Have you ever been to Gillette Castle?
I have several times.
William Gillette,who wrote was all about Shakespeare.
Shakespeare? No, no, no.
What was that, Sherlock Holmes?
(07:45):
He played Sherlock Holmes.
Oh, William Gillette, he was famous.
He played Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes.
And he had all these,
like, little nooks and crannies and, like,little tunnels underneath.
So, believe a minute this is his house?
Yeah, it's a mansion over there,a new stadium.
I knew that, and I've been there,but I love it.
I love that place.So I need to go back again.
(08:07):
Baby,we need to go back to Gillette Castle.
Yes, Patty. Yeah.
And of course, the Mystic Aquarium.
Mystic aquarium.
I actually just do charter wedding there,but I like shopping.
Oh, yeah, the village stores,they're just so beautiful, Joyce.
But, you know, just.
Yeah.
And, Essex, Connecticut.
Just beautiful with the steam train.
They have the breakfast,they have the murder mystery breakfast
(08:30):
is or dinner there when they were littleand my one of my sons was crying.
He was a I don't know why he was afraid.
He did not want to getI think maybe the steam.
Yeah.
Under the train, but Oh I know at Christmas time.
Yeah. They do all Christmas they do.
We were on that before,but when we went it was like 80 degrees.
(08:50):
So everybody was wearing shorts.
Like when we went onit was the December. Yeah.
And it was 80 degreesbecause when I go on, like I was hoping
it was gonna be a nice crisp nightall bundled up on a sweater.
Yeah, I was wearing shorts and t shirts.
I, you know, I said to you, this morningbecause this is the first day
where it feels a little crisp in the airand you're all happy about it.
And I said, give me 80 degrees in steamthat I'm walking out to, a happy man.
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Things we're talking about this
we know the podcast goes global,and a lot of people
from all over the country in the worldlisten and watch us.
We're grateful for that.
But we're talking about New Englandbecause doing that is a destination
for people, destinationall over the USA and globally.
We talk to people all the time.
They say,oh, we'd love to go to New England,
where I knowpeople that are in Florida now.
They say, I miss being in New England,especially this time of year
(09:38):
when this podcast is running.
But just yes, the sound of the leaveswhen you're walking, rustling
under your under your feet.
I love that at night and a school nightand just having the apple cider
and going to a farm, like locally,Bishop's Orchards.
Yes. In Guilford or,you know, of rose orchards
(09:59):
in North Branford,some of these places or Lyman orchards
in Middlefield, Connecticut,just some of those local to us.
You know what?
Even though I'm not a I'mnot a winter lover,
I think for physical reasons,because I've always been asthmatic,
especially as a child,and everyone be out playing in the snow
(10:20):
and my lungs would start to hurt
because my asthma is brought onby a cold air right?
Hitting my lungs.
And what do you like,the sunny 80 degree and and.
Yeah.
So any time I spent time in Florida.
Oh, I was a happy, happy, happybecause I could breathe.
Because actually the moisture is good.
I know for my lungs it is so humidity,
(10:42):
you know, there is well with my body.
But I do love a snowy night.
I do love to take a little walk outside,and now I wrap a scarf around my mouth.
It's so quiet.
You're talkingabout the crunch of the leaves.
Oh there's that crunch of the snow also.
(11:03):
You know when you hit thatsoft snow and it's glistening,
you know, whether it's early morningand or at nighttime
there is nothing like that.
So I think we are fortunatethat we have the four seasons here.
And by the way. Oh, okay.
The other the four pieces,
I know it took me a split secondbecause I you're so fast with the music.
(11:26):
It's like, why is Sherry
and I thought
of, Steve from journey singing,you know, I'll see you Perry
Singing is Sherry raised?
Oh, Sherry.
Yeah,I was that from his debut solo album. So.
But for those who don't know, the New England states are Connecticut,
Maine, Massachusetts,New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
(11:51):
And do them all. Have you? Yes.
Why have you been all?
I have never been to New Hampshire.
New Hampshire? Really? Yes. Let me.
Lake Winnipesaukee donea lot of weddings up there.
And they and during the winterthey have like all these ice fairs.
The lake is just all ice.
(12:12):
And everybody's just partying out there,you know, on the ice.
But I've been there many times.
The DJ weddings up there, it's justpicturesque summer, fall, winter, spring.
Right.
So that's where my, my, my brotherand my husband
went to to was it.
It's a camp. I'm trying to think.
Was it a Boy Scout camp?
(12:32):
But Liquid Lake,
it's a big giant lake, but it has a it'sa big tourist destination.
So that might be it might be part of it.
The part where they were nearthat could be.
So maybe I was in New Hampshirebecause I have a picture of me
as a little tyke, you know,just standing there, but no real memory.
And of course, on my on my shirt hereI have Boothbay, Maine.
(12:54):
Oh, that's nice.
And Maine, I love, love, love namemy wife and I go up there
pretty much every year.
When I was a kid,dad had a cottage up there.
We go up to Bangor, Maine.
You had Bar Harbor. These are Ogunquit.
It would have a beautiful theater upthere.
A lot of folks, I'm sure, watchingand listening right now go to Maine.
It's a destination.
It's heaven on earth.
(13:14):
But Vermont, New Hampshire,Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut,
some people say, oh, Connecticut, thisand that tax I love Connecticut.
Yeah, I love it here because we're rightbetween Boston and New York.
Yeah.
We have so many places to go,so many cultural places
I think are very spoiled here.
I love it, I love I live short time and,you know, really nice place.
(13:35):
I really liked, Palm Coast,which is near Saint Augustine.
Yeah. Florida.
Yes. And I really did like that.
And I liked Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
But there's no place like home.
No, there's no place like home.
And I think itis that between new York and Boston,
you know, it's just like a hop, skipand a jump to see a Broadway play.
(13:58):
I love Carnegie Hall to see the Rockettes,Madison Square Garden saw Draper
Charlie there recently.
It was just so good.
And and then in Bostonyou go see the Red Sox.
So you got Quincy Market up there
and you have in New York,you get to see the Yankees.
Yeah. And Boston,you could see the Red Sox
because we don't want to leavethe Mets out.
The Mets are always like an afterthought.
You know, the poor Metsor the Jets. Right.
(14:20):
You talk about that, but you get to goto those beautiful stadiums and see.
So when you say the Jets,I think West Side Story, I don't think I'm
not a sports person, butoh those poor jets.
It's like like yeah Yankees.
And you know Red Sox.
It's always the big divide.
But I'm happy for anyone.
My husband was a big Yankees fan,but his father was a huge Red Sox fan.
(14:42):
Yeah.
So like my family to my momlike the Red Sox.
My dad like the Yankees.
And I grew up liking really no local teamsfor my favorites.
I always like teams from other markets.
Don't know why that was like from otherlike Saint Louis Cardinals.
Always my favorite baseball team.
You know why I love them too?
Because I love the pictureof the Cardinals. That's right.
I think that was me too, because cardinalsare my favorite birds, you know?
(15:04):
But then I fell in love with the team.Yeah.
And the Dallas Cowboys,you know, my favorite football team.
And I love Dallas Cowboys.
Yeah I think because I thought, actually I think I like their uniforms.
Yeah. The logo with the star athlete.
But no I don't,but I think I bet on them once.
Oh yes. I didn't know you were better.
(15:25):
Well, I worked,you know, as a waitress I was in
and people had pools and I think I didpretty well with the Cowboys.
Game three. Oh, yeah.
Well okay. All right.All right in green Bay Packers. Yep.
Yeah. Legendary Lambeau Field okay. Yes.
So that's a great destination.
That's great thing about the green BayPackers is they're owned by the town.
(15:46):
They're owned by their fans.
Most people have an owner but the fans ownthe green Bay Packers did too.
Yeah I mean everyone put money.
They all put money inand they own the green Bay Packers.
Isn't that cool like a long time agoor goes back to the beginning.
Wait, can people still put money inand say,
I don't know about that, butI always thought that was kind of cool.
(16:06):
I mean, the Packers, I mean, legit.
Well, see, we're talking about falland fall is baseball.
I mean, football's for baseball to be ableto do for the Fall Classic, the World
Series, basketball hockey starts later on.
And you know, but I have to mentionthis about, hallmark movies.
I want to get back to this for a minute,because one of my favorite
(16:27):
Broadway people is, Michael Brady.
I hope I'm saying that right.
It's already why?
But I even watch him on YouTube.
He has a beautiful voice.
So,
and that's l r into valso I have ever heard of. Yes.
Michael Rady, he's a, he's a great actor.
(16:49):
He's been in some I probably moviesif I saw him I know who it is.
But he was in two hallmark movies.
One is where are you Christmas, which wasFaith Hill sang the title track of that.
Yes, yes, yes.
And that's, that's partthat's in the movie.
And that was in, mystic, Connecticut,Waterford, Old Saybrook.
And then he also was Christmasat Pemberley Manor.
(17:12):
And that was in Essex in Old Lyme.
But here's the cool thingabout Michael Brady.
He fell in love with Connecticut and movedhere, bought a house here.
That's how much he loved, finding things when he was here.
I want to raise my kids here now.
I want to live in Connecticut.
All those towns you mentioned,Joyce, are just so charming.
(17:33):
I mean, you think Norman Rockwell.
I mean,you think they're perfect for hallmark.
And, like, the Iverson Playhouseis one of my favorite places to go.
Was it Chester, Connecticut?Goodspeed. Yes.
No. And we have the Shubert.
You know, we just really haveso many great places to see theater.
They said back in the day,if a show made it in New Haven, right,
they can make it
(17:53):
anywhere because New Haven audiences,a lot of shows were tested here.
Theater. Right.
Because they figured the audienceis really kind of, if you made it here,
you can be anywhere.
That line is even in some old movies.
Well, they'll say, well, you know, ifwe can make it in, make it in New Haven.
And I knew what they were talking about.
They're talking about the Shubert, right.
(18:13):
Shubert was a place where they used it.
That was the place to start the show.
Yeah.
And then if the crowds liked it,they took it to Broadway.
All right. Amazing.We have just so much great history here.
And you go down by Yale and, I love the Peabody Museum.
Oh yeah I know, yesI do a museum and I'm getting to be an age
where my next class reunionis going to be at the Peabody Museum.
(18:39):
Is it really going to be there?
So, because we just had a reunion.
No, I just I took thatthe next one are probably be there. Oh.
Were you just.
Guy. Oh, you got a laugh.
You got a lot of folks. Yeah.So you got to laugh.
You cry sometimes, right?
Then there's Wally Lamb'swishin and Hopin.
(19:01):
That was a lifetime movie.
That took place in Norwich. Willimantic.
It was, Molly Ringwald.
Oh, sure.
Well, she was a breakfast club.
Yes. Okay. That's 600.
Oh, yeah. Great movie too.
But this movie. I have to watch this.
I know I saw it, it'snarrated by Chevy Chase.
Oh, yeah. I love those vacation movies.
(19:23):
National Lampoon's vacation,so much fun. Great.
I love fun movies.
But then again, I like the dark side,but not the scary dark side.
Right?
A very merry Christmastoy store, New Britain
Melissa Joan Hart was in that Mario Lopez.
And that wasn't too long ago in that.
What is the most successfulhallmark movie of all time.
(19:45):
Do you know the answer? I do
too, okay.
I had the most views and I thinkthe sequel came in number two all time.
It had a sequel. Yep.
Yep.
Oh, Virginia.
Two plays and Connecticut'snot on my list.
It was filmed at the secondmost visited private home in the USA.
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Really? Yeah.
Was the Christmas at Graceland? Yes.
What Christmas or Graceland?
What is the most watched hallmark movieof all time?
And the sequel? I, I saw both of them.
I know it's my frank least favorite moviebecause I,
I can't remember the name of the actress,but I think
the actress is also a singer.
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I think I, I don't even think I saw itthough, believe it or not.
But like the,the cast of General Hospital, right.
General hospital, they have their holidayparties every year.
I'd like to go there too.
You've been to Graceland.
I have twice
and but you've said something thatother people have said about Graceland.
I don't know.
In our minds,maybe we make things bigger. Yes.
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And everything. And it was it smaller?
It was smaller.
It was very, very well datedbecause didn't they keep everything?
Yeah.
And Elvis's taste was kind of weirdwhen it came to decorating.
Like the Jungle Room. Yeah.
It was kind of like weird in a way,but it was just so, you know,
all this new money came.
He came.
He was so poor,I know, and I think maybe he got bad
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decorators in there, right, right.
But what blew me awaywas when I went there
and went across the streetto the trophy room,
and on all the streettrash was like a big, giant complex.
And then they had the radio stationthere, the Sirius XM station,
and then, they had this big giant warehouse
with all this gold and platinum records,and they were all in at Graceland.
(21:32):
No, I mean, they've gotten so many moresince they keep adding more every year
globallythat they had to put them in a warehouse.
And like from every country in the worldand keys to the city and all these, you
know, jumpsuits and, you know, movie stuffand everything, it was just really cool.
Really cool.
I and I just learneda great song in itself.
I wasn't really all that impressed with,you know.
(21:53):
Yeah. Although I'd like to go to that.
Oh yeah. I mean yeah, yeah.
That's, you know,
and for General Hospital,I'm a big fan of General Hospital.
Yeah.My mom used to watch that all the time.
And of courseI got sucked into it again too.
Like the soapoperas. Right. I'll make fun of it.
And then if it's on, I'll watch itand I get into it.
So even when I'm watching it nowand because,
(22:15):
you know, I, my sons are always there.
One son lives with me,my grandson lives with me.
My other son, is always helping us.
And he's so my house is like arevolving door and I swear he'll come in.
I will say, isn't this the same storyfrom, like, ten years?
Yeah, yeah.
I say, yeah, kind of, but it's slow.
(22:37):
It's like molasses, right?
It's like molasses. Oh, boy.
And then my grandson will walk inand he will say the same thing is
the name of this is General Hospital.
How come they're never in a hospital?
And I said, no, no,you just missed the part.
I think they were early. Right, right.
Oh, yeah.
And and why is Sonny like a mobsterat General Hospital?
Yeah. It's like,you got to watch it. Yeah.
(22:59):
It's like. Yeah, I can't explain.
It takes too long in years.
Well, we were talking aboutsome destinations too, though.
I want to Athens, Greece, because, my,Patty and I were engaged.
Her daughter was over thereon an exchange trip for Yukon,
and she was going to go visit her daughteranyway.
So I said,well, we're going to go over there anyway.
Why don't we?
We, you know, already decidedwe were going to get married
(23:22):
and we got unofficially married in that.
I'm just going to askI never heard the story.
How do you get married in Greece?
But we got marriedon a rooftop of the Acropolis or the.
I saw some kind of tourists.It was just gorgeous.
Stunning. At sunset.
And we had her daughter there, Lindsay,and it was just phenomenal.
We spent week to ten days there.
I was exposed,
I tasted gelato for the first timeover there, and the streets are so narrow
(23:47):
and these taxi drivers drive so fast,it's like crazy.
And nobody ever worked there on siestaall the time.
Yeah, that's why they live longer.
And yeah, but the food was incrediblebecause they don't have the preservatives
that they have here and loved it.
And I don't drink, but the wine I had overthere was actually really good.
I had even olive oil tastingolive oil was tremendous.
(24:09):
And the and the vegetablesand the fruits every morning.
Incredible.
But I would go back to Athens again.
I mean,I know that there's some sad things
going on there from time to time,but it's just beautiful.
The people were amazing.
I love them that we went to Switzerlandaround the Alps area.
Didn't get it.
We we saw the Alps,but we didn't have a chance
to actually experience thembecause we stopped in
(24:29):
the airport, had the best coffeeI ever had in my life in Switzerland. Wow.
And then on the way home and went to Parisand we spent a night in Paris.
Did you can you can see so many countrieswhen you go to Europe.
Right. So.
And from the sky.
So technically you say you were hereor here or there, but I love Paris.
I want to go back to Paris.
Oh you will. And people say,oh, the Paris people are this and that.
And there were to the Parispeople were nice.
(24:51):
It you got it goesby the way you treat other people.
Yeah. If you expect them to be.I don't expect them.
I whenever I go I'm going to smileand say hello to everybody.
I wonder if in in Paris
if some shop owners,
are almost expected to be that way.
So they are that way. Yeah.
Like that.
Like the Seinfeld episode with the SoupNazi.
(25:12):
Yes, yes.
Like you want to go there because it'sjust part of the ambiance of it.
But let me go back to this againbecause, first of all,
let me ask you, this is Switzerland.Best coffee. Coffee you ever.
Oh, could you ask them, like,what's the brand?
What are you using?
I know what the brand is because it'savailable in certain restaurants around,
but it doesn't tastelike I can't remember.
(25:33):
It's still you.No, it's still very good. Oh, it is, but.
But the coffee over in Switzerland,it was in an airport that I had it,
and it was phenomenal.
You are the coffee connoisseur,so I'm taking this seriously.
Yeah, I admit it.
I'm a coffee. Yes.
So I, I'm going to have to research this.
Yeah.
We have we have some great coffeeplaces around here
locally if you're ever in the Bramford,Connecticut area.
(25:54):
Yeah.
Do you have a couple of freeplugs called Common Ground and Grounds?
Common ground coffee,locally owned and moonshots?
Yeah. Locally owned.
Guilford'ssoon to expand that. Bramford. Kathy.
All right.
Yes, I'll be here.I'll be there with you tomorrow.
But I know we're talking about fallin New England and all that,
but I got to get back to Greecefor a minute.
When you got married, did you get it?
(26:14):
Did you get, like, permissionthere to get married? How?
This thing is always said tothe folks at the hotel, we want to go up.
We're just going to go up there.
Patti had her gown on.
I had my but sure sucker suit.
But is your marriage license from Greece?
No, we weren't officially marriedthere at all.
I thought it was just for optics, I see.
And then we had a ceremonyhere in the States.
(26:35):
And you did it all here?
Yeah, we got it.
We're March 27th, 2008 over there.
And then mayI always forget our real date?
Because I always countthe one in Greece is our romantic wedding.
Yeah, but then in April, we got marriedhere at a beautiful, state over.
And, Frank and Janevon Holzhausen left their place.
(26:58):
I don't you love that name and say Jim's
head in the gopher, Connecticut area,which I love the name Von Horse housing.
Yeah. To the nicest people ever.
Wells. And say,Jim said, is it's beautiful.
It's a beautiful place. Right.
So do you have two anniversaries then?
We pretty much focus on the first 1stMarch 27th.
So remember that folks. March 27th.
(27:18):
That's when you could send all you know.
Yeah. And you'll remindJohn that that's the date.
That's right. Exactly.
I never remembered my date.
I have a thing with dates and I don't.
Did Wayne remember? Yes, of course he did.
Wayne remembered our anniversary.
Wayne remembered, like, Valentine's Day,things like that.
And that's why he was a keeper.
I didn't.
(27:38):
Sometimes I thinkwhen people put too much on it,
maybe because that's the only dayyou get attention.
But Wayne gave me attention,like, every day.
That's awesome. You know?So it really didn't.
It didn't matter to me.
But he always made a big dealbecause I was his sweetheart, you know?
So that's great.
That's all.
Be right there.
We were like a hallmark movie. It was.
(28:00):
Yeah, we had a rough beginning,but it's almost like
people were rooting for usand we made it in the end.
You know,like some of the Barry Manilow song.
Looks like we made it.
Every time I hearBarry Manilow songs and live,
I'm exercising sometimesto keep them on in the background.
And I could deal with it,and it makes me happy.
And other timesit's like, it's my story with Wayne.
(28:24):
Yeah.
You know, it's like every songit reminds me of of him.
And sometimes itit just brings up too much emotion
where I just have to not exerciseand sit with it.
You make a really good point there
because sometimes, you know,you could be by the water,
it could be the happiest placein your life.
But if you're in a sad place, it's just,it just it could be devastating. Yes.
(28:44):
Depending on where you are,the virtually everything is a snapshot.
Yes of life.
And so whatever your snapshot isand that's why, some of my saddest times,
I would go sit downStony Creek Beach and just sit there.
And my happiest times,
I went to Stoney Creek Beach,and you'll be there at Stony Creek
and you'll see, you know, kidsplaying around.
(29:05):
You'll see these happy young couplesor some older people
holding hands. And then you'll see over in a corner
somewhere,somebody's looking very, very sad.
And you'll you're right.
You'll see both. Now,you know what I did one night?
I went there at nighttimeand I climbed up to the,
lifeguard, you know, perch.
Oh, you sit up there, too,I said, yeah, we do that, too.
And I brought,
(29:26):
I was I brought a flask of brandywith you, and I sat up there.
I was not in a good state of mind, but
it helped because I felt like a speck on this earth,
and I could feel the presenceof the universe of God.
Yeah.
And was overwhelmingly beautifulto me. Wow.
(29:48):
You know, a little bit of brandy.
It was a cold night, too.
Brandy? You're a fine girl, right?
Looking glass, 1972.
See, I knew the song I would neverremember looking was 1972, 1972.
Wow. Because if they're still playing.
Oh, neither one of us was born then,but I remember I remember this song.
In retrospect.I don't think I've been born yet. No.
(30:09):
Yeah, but just so many great locations.
And if you're not in this areain New England and you're
and you're watchingor listening to this podcast
or both, make a trip up here,it is so worth it.
This is just the place to be,especially in the fall.
And if you come hereespecially because you heard our show,
let us know and come on our show.
We want to talk to you, wantto talk to you about your experience here.
(30:31):
I I'm absolutely.
So if you have any ideas for showsby the way, please let us know.
Just, you know,how do they get in contact with us?
Joyce
I don't know.
Yeah, we I see this is this is live.
This is live stuff, right?
You know what?
The best way to get in contact with us is?
Messages. Message us on Facebook.
Yeah. Message on Facebook. Yeah.
(30:51):
And everything is under theI know the YouTube one.
Yeah.
We have all the links to everything.Our Facebook pages.
You can subscribe anywhere.But we'd love to have you go to YouTube.
You know, just type inwhat's good with John and Joyce.
It's free.Share it with everybody you know.
But again, we're available
on all the platforms, including the iHeartradio podcast Network.
We appreciate all the folks at iHeartfor being so supportive of this.
(31:13):
And, you know, you'll be able to find us
and hope to have a bunch of different,you know, find us.
Just Google it.
So thank you so much.
And, you know, many blessings to you
and your family over this holidayseason is coming our way. Yep.
We're in the beginning stages. Yes. Right.
And if you're up here in fall or whateveryou are, you know, seek us out.
And, you can always gain a new friend.
Absolutely.
Thank you for watching and listening.We love you.
(31:35):
I'm John Cadillac Seville, Joyce Hogan,best to you and your family.
Bye for now.
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