200: A Cozy Catch-Up with The Cowsills

We've received a lot of feedback about what a great great visit we had with Leland Sklar and what a great story he shared.  I would imagine there's not one person reading this that can say they were seriously mistaken for Santa Claus by a four year old.  We're just having a nice visit this week hope you enjoy the commentary lots of guests coming stay tuned

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
I saw I'm sitting in the rim.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hi, you're the Castles.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
I'm Paul, I'm Bob, and I'm Susan Cowshill.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
And welcome, welcome, one and all to The.

Speaker 4 (00:16):
Concil Podcast, where we have fun, fun, fun, even when
we're being serious every single week with our music stories
and weekly special guests from all walks of life.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
All of us can use a break sometimes take a
freezer right right right.

Speaker 5 (00:32):
Well, if that's proof for you, then you have a
ride at the right place at the right time.

Speaker 6 (00:37):
So we want you to sit.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Back, reading back and escape.

Speaker 5 (00:41):
With us and to our world of harmony, laughter and
tom foolery.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
So let's get to it.

Speaker 5 (00:47):
Here's today's episode of The Castle.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
So yeah, there we are, and I'm just congratulating Paul
Ho ho ho Merry Christmas, cancer free a fib none And.

Speaker 5 (01:01):
He just said, what I do have a fib It
came back. It came back that next morning. Shit, it
was like Sunday morning. And and so you know, I've
been waiting for the weekend to go buy and so
I called the hospital.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
You know, I'm wondering, well, when's my follow up? Here?

Speaker 5 (01:17):
You know this guy here I got and this gives
me a thing right down here to see and if
I'm in APHIB, it'll say you're in APHIB.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
So I woke up this.

Speaker 5 (01:28):
Morning and I wasn't in Aphib at all, and it
was really groovy. And then around ten thirty it's so funny,
you guys. So ten thirty I felt this kind of
like just I mean, nothing, nothing that you would even
pick up in your daily day, you know, in your
life of your day day in the life.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
But but you know, and I felt that. I went, oh, man,
maybe that's you know.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
So I throw this on and then you know, my
one twenty three over, you know, seventy nine and.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Is it the cut the thing I have?

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, I think so cool.

Speaker 5 (02:00):
And so then anyway, and so then this has an
extra feature of APHIB and it'll tell you if you're
in a FIB, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
And so at around let's see, it was like ten thirty.

Speaker 5 (02:10):
Now I wasn't in APHIB all morning, but at ten
thirty I felt that thing, you know, and I put
it on.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
And so I was in a FIB just in time
for the show. Huh, just in time for the show.

Speaker 5 (02:21):
Yeah, and so and so you know, but yesterday, so
I was calling, you know, to find nobody was calling me,
you know, And and when I left there, they went, yeah, man,
you're out of aphib your heart's in rhythm and all
that and uh and but so then there it was.
And so then I was calling to make an appointment
with the cardiologists and I have to call them today

(02:42):
because I did get a notice to do it. But
this guy was going, you know, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
You know what. She was just kind of like going, yeah,
just you know, keep track of it. And you know,
you know what did she say?

Speaker 5 (02:57):
It was so funny because she goes, well, okay, so
right now, we're not going to do anything about it,
and you know, keep track of it, she said.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
And I said, so, I don't need.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
To follow up your meeting, and she goes, no, no,
we're going to just keep an eye on it.

Speaker 6 (03:13):
You know.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
We'll probably have a meeting in a year.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Oh no, no, no no, no, no no no no,
we're calling in a couple of days ago.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
I'd like to speak to my doctor.

Speaker 6 (03:22):
Question, so you say, I have it now, how long
is an episode? Does that vary?

Speaker 5 (03:29):
No, it continues, Yeah, it does vary quite a bit
because you know, like in a little bit. I can
be sitting there or walking around or something, and then
all of the going, all of a sudden, I'll go, oh,
I bet you I'm not in a FIB. And so
then I do this and usually I am not in
ATHEB and then like and then this is just a
little bit ago, I went, oh, wow, I bet I'm
in APHIB put it on, and I was in a FEB.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
So I really do have a sense.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
The thing is is you have the opportunity of at
the house right now, in the space you're in, to
really be in a present space to be able to
feel that, because dude, all the time it was coming.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
And go and you were like, I know what the
fuck kind of not you just look at me and
go all.

Speaker 6 (04:08):
Right, right, right right, it's that device. Report back to
your doctor.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
No, no, okay, just he got that for himself to
watch it.

Speaker 5 (04:17):
This is blood pressure, Yeah, paul I'm one twenty two
over eighty one right now.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
So Paulie, when you're an aphib, is your pressure higher?

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (04:33):
That's so weird.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
They are not related. That is so weird. I can
have a perfect blood count and I can tell.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
You know wild.

Speaker 6 (04:45):
Okay, Now, Monday night, we're doing our little show in
tom Ball, Texas. Can you have that on your wrists
and we can all be a part of this, and
I mean we can.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Check it during the show.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, he wants to know. Let's let's do it during
Q and A. I have a question, Paul, are you.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
We can do that?

Speaker 1 (05:08):
I'll do it. I'll say I want to start off
Q and A.

Speaker 5 (05:11):
Pollie, Guys, I've been in APHIB for over a year,
so we went all through last summer worried about cancer.
I was in APHIB.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
You're running across the parking lot with two like twelve
packs of Ozark on your shoulder.

Speaker 6 (05:29):
If you're sitting there and it's not good, does a
light go walk? Does an alarm go off? As a manual?

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Here, we'll do it right now.

Speaker 6 (05:42):
Hang on, you don't walk around with that on all day?

Speaker 3 (05:45):
No, no, no, But it's hard not to keep checking,
isn't it, Pollie?

Speaker 1 (05:49):
A little hard?

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah, it's almost like a drug.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
It is like a drug. I have it with one pressure.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Listen.

Speaker 5 (05:55):
Listen, Oh just made a buzz noise, which it's I
don't think you can hear any of this.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Okay, but just keep us put go do it. Wait,
let's doing it.

Speaker 5 (06:05):
It's it's in process. It's squeezing in on my wrist.
Now its squeezing.

Speaker 6 (06:12):
How long is an average episode of a FIB? I mean,
do you ride it out with the monitor around you? Oh,
it's over.

Speaker 5 (06:17):
Okay, that was that's a good idea. This is just
the one and okay, here we go. So I'm one
eighteen over eighty one ninety six pulse and no aphib.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
So the episode went from ten thirty to right now.

Speaker 6 (06:33):
Hey, yeah, that would be great on stage and no
aphib Okay, next song, all right, here we go.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah, well, definitely Q and A.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
Oh now we busted it for all the Tumball attendees.
They know what we're going to do with the.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Q and A.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
Oh there'll be some there that don't listen to the podcast.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
Okay, yeah, you're right like most of them.

Speaker 6 (06:54):
Yeah yeah, yeah, bad thing. We got to promote it
even better.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Now, okay, start promoting it right now.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
Go here's one.

Speaker 6 (07:00):
Here's an observation. We're gonna leave. We've just had Leland
Sklar the Great bass Player okay on for a week.
But the but the video didn't go up. I noticed
the video didn't go up so we're gonna leave it
up a second week for everybody so you can see him,
because with Leland, you gotta see him, you.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
Really want to see him. He's like Santa Claus.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Want to online.

Speaker 6 (07:23):
Yeah, it looked like Santa was in one of our squares,
the little squares and what's great. So you know, AI,
it inserts itself in everything, right, So I wanted to
make sure the episode was up and we could see Leland.
But the first thing I get is this AI overview
Leland Sclar. This is under the Costles and Leland Sclar. Okay,

(07:46):
Leland Sklar, the legendary session basis for artists like James
Hall and Phil Collins, recently appeared as a guest on
The Coucles podcast, specifically in episode one ninety nine, titled
Unbelievable Stories with Leland Score, where the famous musicians shared
his vast experiences connecting his legendary career with the music family.

(08:08):
Sclar's involvement isn't about him joining the Coscles, but rather
a fantastic interview where he discusses his storied work with
numerous artists, a story many fans find fascinating, as noted
by the cosciles key points from the podcast. This is
the Link Between Them is a recent podcast episode where
Scar tells stories about his extensive musical career. He's renowned

(08:30):
for playing on thousands of albums with major stars, known
for his distinctive beard and incredible session. The Costles our
Family musical group who hosted the podcast, featuring Sclar. It's
a recent exciting interview from late twenty twenty five, not
a musical collaboration. I'm going this is a great promo

(08:51):
for the episode. We ought to just copy and paste
it and throw it up there.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Oh my gosh, maybe we should follow AI around talking
about us and use it as our press.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Don't have to play a publicity person.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
We just we just use our AI explanations as.

Speaker 6 (09:06):
I didn't know all this stuff. It's just it's kind
of spooky in a way, but whatever, it's there.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
In a way. I call these the Orwell years.

Speaker 6 (09:15):
Yeah, man, there he is there, he is anyway you
can see you see Beard is what you see.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
He wants to record on one of our records. He
said he would record with us.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
He wants to know when.

Speaker 6 (09:33):
Just all I can say at that point is we
all need to stay alive and uh, I'm trying and
come up with some kind of I don't know. We've
got to finish the acappella album. We've always said we're
going to do a Christmas album. We could have Leland
be our bass player on the Christmas album.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
Well, and also what we could do something in the
quite honestly, EPs are very popular. We can just create
a one to two some moment that we'll do with Leland,
make it somehow.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Fit and put the puppy out. Yeah, like the rest.

Speaker 6 (10:02):
Of the kids do.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yeah, it's our We can do it on the apapella.

Speaker 5 (10:06):
He could come come on the a cappella and do
with his voice, do a little baseline.

Speaker 6 (10:13):
Oh wow, that's are That's a cool acapella.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
You want to do that?

Speaker 6 (10:19):
And now that we kind of know him, he would
totally be down with that.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
We we're on.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
We are private f beers now him Waddy and they're like, funny,
there's these old guys really love chatting.

Speaker 6 (10:30):
I love it. I love it.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
Oh and f Y I gens uh So of course
Watty knows Leland was on and I said, you little.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Whipper snapper, you know you're coming. He said, yeah, yeah,
we're going to get that done one day, so he knows,
he knows.

Speaker 6 (10:45):
Now his buddy's up intimidated because our history with Watty
is vast and magnificent. But personally, I want to go
to the Newport days when they're at Dorians with his
be we're up at.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
We're gonna give him a little outline of what we
want to talk to him about, and he'll be up.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
He knows, he knows, he knows his days are numbered.

Speaker 6 (11:06):
And the benefit how he just stepped forward and said,
I am in. And it's so funny if you see this,
it's funny every time. Waddy is the only musician that
was so busy, uh that through my life I would
see tons and tons of whether it's Lynda Ronstadt or

(11:27):
James Taylor or this guy or that guy.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Here a buddy Jackson Brad saw.

Speaker 6 (11:32):
All you had to see was the musician with with hair,
with the hair, and it was Waddy. He never had
to look up. He never had land like that.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
They got to look. You know who those dudes are.
There's no it's Timothy B. Schmidt. There's only one Timothy,
one Waddi one Leland.

Speaker 6 (11:47):
You know what I'm saying, I do in our generation
and with Waddy.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
It's it's interesting because.

Speaker 5 (11:57):
So through everything and everything and everybody in this and
that and this and that, I'm the only guy that
really had him produce my record.

Speaker 6 (12:05):
One of the great you are so right and played
the music on and one of the best council. I mean,
it's bridey muricy, but you know what I'm saying. I
mean that was the great lead vocals of your life.
And you did it when you were I don't know
how old you were, twenty something, it was twenties, yeah, frankly, yeah,

(12:28):
right right.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
I know, buddy, I could keep track of us so
good because of my move in date.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
I know exactly.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Military Yeah yeah, yeah, Well we were on.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Wedding team or something like that, I believe.

Speaker 6 (12:40):
Yeah, played with those was that the Billy Benefit concert
with Needles, although he.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Also came and played on river Alove my on my
record when we all came to sing at Jackson's. He
came and played guitar.

Speaker 6 (12:52):
And river Alove Yeah, yeah, yeah, And we did take
his arrangement on Silver Threats and Golden Needles and on
the two by two album he produced that track I
feel like we have him on and played the lead guitar,
you know, so that was that was kind of cool too.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
So you're right back, you guys, keep it fro.

Speaker 6 (13:08):
Yeah, this is a great history with body and you know,
there's just things he does that are so great. He's
just such a great guitarist man, one of the early
session guys that made a career out of being a
session guy. But anyway, we call Leland. We got on
him from Leland Boy. That was a great it's up
there still, folks.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yes, people need to go to that.

Speaker 5 (13:30):
Well, obviously all the people that are listening to as
have already gone to it.

Speaker 6 (13:33):
Oh, this is coming out Wednesday night and he just down.
So basically for Wednesday night we could thank all of
you people that came to the Tomball concert. We had
a blast. The Q and A was really good, and
we love Tomball. We're coming back December tenth, twenty twenty sixth.
It's a little residency we have, but it was a

(13:55):
great crowd Monday night and we had a great time. Yeah,
this show's coming up next one Tnesday night after Leland's
second week where they could look at him now while
he talks, which is really important.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
I didn't know that we had audio at all. I
thought we were always video.

Speaker 6 (14:10):
Now oh, no audio and video. Not everyone has a video, man.
I mean people want to listen to things in.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
There a while.

Speaker 6 (14:18):
I want to be in the car. You want to
be everywhere.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
Bob. How was your travel yesterday?

Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah, good question.

Speaker 6 (14:26):
I did experience the horrors of holiday travel and the
horrors of and believe me, it's to me it was
nothing unusual because I've learned. I've been traveling my whole life,
and I know the later you book a flight, and
especially stay away from Sunday evening, you're gonna have trouble.
And if you book your flight at five am, it's

(14:48):
never going to cancel. So but I couldn't do that.
I had to go later in the day. Later in
the day, I mean I went to grandkids in Rhode Island,
but the grandkids in Texas. One day I took off
from like for three in the morning, and you know,
the fit hit the shan on those boys because they
didn't say goodbye to me. So now I'm oxas so

(15:08):
they can get them go bye, good bye, good bye.
You know you gotta But yeah, we had an eight
hour delay once eight hours, uh, and then a five
hour delay. Wow, I got to tell you one thing, guys,
These new Southwest airplanes are money there. And I bumped
into a cup. Now this hasn't flipped yet where you

(15:30):
got to pick a seat and all that. But the
new planes are coming and they are gorgeous, you know.
And guess what Southwest has decided to do, Susan, because
I had one of the greatest lounge experiences in airport
in my life when when Ruscott is all into the
Delta lounge that time, then you found out this is

(15:50):
not a lounge. This is an empire. This is a
This lounge is is you know you could you could
feed the homeless and house them.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
It's a destination.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
It is in itself.

Speaker 6 (16:04):
Southwest is going to put lounges in the airports now,
it's going to take a while. We want them, everyone wants, and.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
We're getting Southwest lounges.

Speaker 6 (16:14):
Look, look, look, I'm not naive enough to think that
a Southwest lounge is going to compare in any way
from the lounge I was in on Delta that time.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
That they are metropolis.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah, if you so, Bob, So I want to go
back a little bit.

Speaker 5 (16:30):
So you had an eight hour delay. It was that
your connecting flight.

Speaker 6 (16:35):
Uh no, it was the Yes, you're right, it was
a connecting flight. And it was all in Baltimore. Baltimore
was the nightmare, which isn't usual. I mean, there are
patterns you want certain layovers. Was it raining because of
the pattern? No, all they would all they would say
is that because I finally went up. Because here's how

(16:58):
it happens. You're delayed hour, another text, you delayed, another hour,
another text, you're delayed, And I'm going, what's going on
this plane? Like hopping up and down or something?

Speaker 1 (17:08):
So I find out what's the deal.

Speaker 6 (17:10):
Finally became one of the guys, one of the people
that went up, and it was just curious. I said,
I want to know what's happening with the plane. And
all she could say is it got in trouble once
it took off from Columbus, Ohio. That's all they would
tell me.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
She said the words it got in trouble.

Speaker 6 (17:28):
I said, well, what do you? Of course, what's the
follow up? Well, what kind of trouble? Well, we don't
really know. Uh, And it just it just bounced along. Time.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
I would have started looking into trains. You ran into trouble.

Speaker 6 (17:42):
Did you you know I got to say this. Airports.
I guess it's a personality issue. Airports have everything I need,
and anything I need is at an airport. And I'm
the good kind of delayed person. I don't I don't
get upset, but but I look for others to because
I enjoyed that would people are mad and.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah, yeah, you know that human thing. They're speaking your truth.

Speaker 6 (18:06):
Yeah right, the little league father who's gonna say everything
you want to say, you know what, the game we
want them.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
I am not that girl either.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
I have I always have at least three general hospitals
that are gonna get me through and security lines guys
pods in forty eight hours on what security line, I
don't even notice the thing. I'm like, oh shit, I
got to put my things up and get going.

Speaker 6 (18:31):
We've all been delayed.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
I have.

Speaker 6 (18:33):
I have walked in during a delay and walked past
a group of seats, and I have found my sister
Susan curled up in a butter ball, asleep in a
corner of somewhere, out of everybody's way.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
Looking cozy and comfy.

Speaker 6 (18:45):
Right, that's what you do, you know, But.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
One time people came by and gave me money.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah, so, Susan, are you bringing some lights? Oh?

Speaker 3 (18:58):
Of course absolutely, I've got red and green and I
might just grab a multiple. I see that we have
excess now that we're up and running over here. Our
trees up going, so yeah, I will also hook us up.

Speaker 6 (19:11):
That's good.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
And of course this great hat that I have here
because man, and.

Speaker 5 (19:15):
I talked to Matt yesterday and he's I didn't say, hey, Howard,
tickets going.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
I never would ask him now, but I.

Speaker 6 (19:22):
Never can do it.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
I would be able to hear it in his voice.
I said, so are we good? He goes man, and
I'm so excited. I love you.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
Guys so cute.

Speaker 6 (19:31):
Well, when they book us for next year before we've
played this year, I think a good thing is happening,
just because they did that December tenth. Okay, we haven't
played December fifteenth this year. Yet. We have faith. We
have faith, and we do love that. That group of
you guys are awesome. Now we're talking about tom Ball.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
It's hey, Carrie and the boys are coming, Carrie, Jason and.

Speaker 6 (19:54):
The boys excellent, excellent. Our web master is coming. Vick
and Paul are coming. We're gonna very.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Nice, very nice. We have guests.

Speaker 5 (20:02):
How were they able to be coming to Tomball, Texas?

Speaker 6 (20:05):
They're using a plane?

Speaker 2 (20:07):
No, no, I mean and this is Vicky Sedgwick.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah, our web ness live there.

Speaker 6 (20:14):
No, they want to go somewhere and go to a show.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
You're retired. We're going to see the councils in Texas.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Boomay vea. They all do that.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, retirement looks fun.

Speaker 6 (20:27):
Are you going to really fly to see us? You
know you almost can't?

Speaker 2 (20:32):
You don't.

Speaker 6 (20:32):
You don't feel we're worthy, You're gonna.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
Oh god, No, it's not like we're like, who who.

Speaker 6 (20:38):
Would you go see that?

Speaker 2 (20:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (20:41):
I don't even know, but I'll tell you these shows
we've been doing that are kind of new places and stuff.
It's the old feeling. We're responsible for ticket sales. It's
the old feeling. We we do get concerned about the crowd.
I'm always afraid to look, so I don't because it's
gonna be what it's going to be. I'm scared.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
I don't even worry about it anymore.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
We're like, I'm so old now and I have a
secure job in the summer, so when that happens I'm like,
I feel bad for the place, but I don't feel
I don't feel that sick in my stomach routine that
I used to have my whole life playing any gig
I ever played.

Speaker 5 (21:15):
So that's we're also going to be doing the American Harmony, guys.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
Like, So we're going to get.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
Home from Tumble on about Tuesday, right, and then we
have just about seven days and then we're hitting it
back out for.

Speaker 6 (21:31):
And that's at the Arcada Theater and Saint Charles, you
guys on December twenty eighth with the Association and the Bogues.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
And it's a five o'clock show.

Speaker 6 (21:39):
How awesome. Our set will be done by five thirty
five at the latest. And uh, because we're going to
open and this is a mini happy together kind of
you know event with the boys that we know so
well at Troy. I heard from Tory you bringing back line.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
I'm going Roy's been a NonStop and touch all winter long.

Speaker 6 (22:03):
I said Troy. I told him because remember Troy mentioned
this gig and we would always say we don't know
anything about it, because yeah, they forgot didn't give us
a contract. Susan, we need to mention you.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Do you do because this is a New Orleans iconic figure.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
I'm holding.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
It's a Christmas episode. No, but this is involved.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
So who you're looking at is known as mister Bingle
and he is an iconic New Orleans character.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
He's up on the side of the department stores.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
I'm trying to show him entirely to you. Yeah and so,
but really this guy is like like kids in New
Orleans grew up with him, like we know Salty Bryant copy.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
So if there's any New Orleans people out there, I
just wanted him to say Merry Christmas from mister Bingle.
That's all.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
Thank you, absolutely, so bro back to Troy.

Speaker 6 (23:02):
I gotta finish up. Troy.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
Yeah, go ahead, Yeah, Troy, well.

Speaker 6 (23:05):
You bring him back. I said no, and then he does,
and then he mentioned his guitars. I said, well, yeah,
we bring our guitars, you know, But I said, Troy.
The only thing we know about this gig to this
day is that they and the reason we found out
about it is because somebody contacted Paul and wanted a

(23:25):
twenty one room hotel list of twenty one people, and
we were wondering, God, what did we say yes to?
Did we are all the relatives of the cousins coming.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
Get We are a little forgetful, but geez, it was wild.

Speaker 6 (23:40):
So I told him no. And I've still heard nothing
from anybody about that gig. We're just gonna land at
the air. They're supposed to pick us up and they're
supposed to handle everything.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
All right, all right?

Speaker 5 (23:49):
So this is this is one twenty four over seventy six.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
That's terrific. Sixty is my pulse?

Speaker 5 (23:57):
Incredible And I'm in a fib you are seeing it?

Speaker 2 (24:05):
This is okay.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
Can we talk a little bit more about this? May
I follow up?

Speaker 3 (24:09):
I mean, this is our episode, so we're going to
be us, Paul Cowsill.

Speaker 6 (24:12):
We're feeling Oh, I'm.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
Sorry, go ahead, I'm sorry. How are you feeling feeling?

Speaker 5 (24:17):
I was just sitting here and it was like just
so I just felt a little.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
I felt something. I don't know where it is. So
and that's when you thought, oh, let.

Speaker 5 (24:28):
Me check it, because I wasn't in aphib when we
first came on. Okay now, And so that lasted twenty
five minutes.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
To answer Bob's original question, how long these episodes?

Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (24:41):
But but I'm not feeling I mean, I feel fine.
I could do a whole show right now.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
I mean, I got so you.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Don't have that shortness of breath you were having.

Speaker 5 (24:49):
Well no, I mean it's a little bit of a
dally deally, but that's whatever.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
You know, all right, you don't feel like dealing.

Speaker 6 (24:57):
With it a long time, I guess Paul disappeared from
his square. Don't anyone panic. Okay, he's okay, that's okay.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
Oh now may I say the follow up to PAULI though,
for real? Though, So the.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Nice lady who said, ah, we're gonna look at it,
see you in a year, We're not gonna let land
with that is our answer. We we want to call
back next week and talk to our doctor and say, hey.

Speaker 5 (25:21):
Doc, what I got a I got a I got
a sheet from doctor Mott, my cardiologist, and he.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Wants to follow up. He wants to follow up. I
talked to that lady.

Speaker 5 (25:30):
Who at reservations or appointments, and she was going, oh, yeah, no,
you're good. You know, we're not gonna ready to see
you baboo. And I didn't have this though. I was wondering,
where's doctor Mott. That's what I wanted to follow up. Well,
it came in yesterday, you know, last night, and there
it was. And so now I have to call them
today and I know I'm going to get the same gal.

Speaker 6 (25:51):
You know, if you wouldn't mind, because when Paul was
trying to explain this to us before in words, you know,
you do the best you can. But then he imitated
his heart, and then I understood, would you mind taking
them through what you You said, Well, it's like this,
it goes the normal heart, and then you shifted to

(26:13):
something else sound wise, what was that?

Speaker 1 (26:17):
So do that try and explain it for others. You
could beat public servicing big time. Right now, he's double
triple here.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Hold on, I'm checking my pulse.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
I'm checking mine and so it goes.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
It goes, but doep yep up and nothing. And now
I was like, but you.

Speaker 5 (26:39):
Can feel it when you feel it, And I told
my cardiologists. I go, you know, I was checking my pulse,
you know, and I mean I can't really find it.
It beats and then it goes I can't find.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
And he goes, yeah, you're in athib Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
All right, look now what's the next thing. If this
is like if so, you're following up? But then so
will you do the thing Shaner did.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
I don't know. Eventually, maybe what I'm going to be
is like I'm going to have to be Polly. I'm
going to wear this all around. Yeah, and then I'll care.

Speaker 5 (27:12):
I'll wear the other thing around and I'll know what
I'm doing all the time.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
And I'll wear mine and Bobby, what do you have?

Speaker 6 (27:19):
If I had to wear that, If I had to
wear that in public, I'd walk around every once in
a while, I'm talking to it, so people think I'm
like a spy just around the corner.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
I see Bob's got an extra big smartest.

Speaker 6 (27:34):
That's amazing.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
I wonder if people are offended at how we handle illness.

Speaker 6 (27:40):
Hey, listen, I brought you know, the blood person machine.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
Let us know.

Speaker 6 (27:43):
Yeah, I had to have the physical I had last spring.
I came in with my blood person machine. I put
it and I said, this thing sucks. And he goes, why,
I said, because I can't. Every time I do a
reading it's different. He goes, and what I learned it's
supposed to be that's what your blood pressure was up
and down like that. I didn't know that. I thought

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if it said one twenty old Brady, the next one
should say one twenty.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
Over exactly, and not only.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Lower, it'll lower.

Speaker 5 (28:11):
They want it lower now, and you take your three
times is what you should be taking your your all?
This is three times in a row ractively. Yes, and
by the third one you're way down.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
You're even less to that.

Speaker 6 (28:26):
Let me respond ahead. Oh, because I had my machine, okay,
and I'm new to this and I think what I think, right,
So what I did and and I had to do it.
It was a blood pressure study because I would get it.
It go up when I see a doctor. I got
that coat, I have it, okay, but they didn't know
at the time I'm charting. I'm charing charting what I
started to do, publish that. I said, Wow, by the

(28:49):
third time, that's a reportable blood pressure. So I would
only write down the lowest sidle the series I was
taking and call that my food pressure. To make that
on my note, well, I just store the high.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
I stopped taking them. I was supposed to do a
week and I didn't like the midweek. I was doing
really good, and then I didn't like some of these.
I'm like, I'm going to come back to this, but
here's what I asked my doctor. I said, look, so
you're supposed to sit down five minutes, rest, breathe, think
of Yosemite. Then do your blood pressure? Well, right, but
here's the deal. I'm like, but lady, when I'm running

(29:22):
around doing what I'm doing, don't you think that's a
more accurate blood pressure? I mean, she goes, well, yes,
that's where you're at right now. But your blood pressure
elevates when you're doing activity like it's supposed to copy
because it's what pushes more blood and gets everything going
to kiki okay, Because I'm like, how is this accurate?

(29:43):
If I've slowed down, my stroke's going to happen when
I was running around and it was one hundred and eighty,
not when I sit for five minutes.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
It's like, how does this make sense?

Speaker 3 (29:52):
But evidently it can get very high up there, oh
normal moment, So don't take it right after You'll be
two hundred and some freaking ambulance.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
You don't need to be in.

Speaker 5 (30:03):
Well, when I go in and they take it and
it's if it's a little high, and she'll go, oh,
a little high, I go, well, yeah, but take it
two more times and it's going to be below good,
you know, good one.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
To get your weight.

Speaker 5 (30:18):
You walk in there, you got your shoes, you got
all your clothes on, you walk.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
On the scale and they go, oh, okay, you're two three.

Speaker 5 (30:25):
And I immediately go, okay, five pounds, so I'm one
ninety something.

Speaker 6 (30:31):
Hey, listen, when I first got the machine, because I
was kind of new to all this, I first got it,
and that first one was high. Every time, what is
going on from here? And maybe time and I'll be
sitting there and if I was watching football something that
I laughed at. The five minutes of serenity you're supposed
to spend before you do it. But I would go,
oh my god, my blood pressure. And I got, you know,

(30:53):
a winning football drive going on the TV. We're all
ten stuff, you know, and I got the blood pressure,
come and go this is And then it could say
it could say one's seventy over something. I'm going, what do.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
I need to get in the car. That's what I'm
always like, is this the moment?

Speaker 2 (31:10):
No?

Speaker 1 (31:12):
No, But look look guys, it depends and it's whatever, right.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
But dudes, when I was in LA for that Warren
Ze one thing, because I'm in the constant monitoring trying
to figure out where mine's coming from. Because I'm not obese,
i don't drink, and I don't smoke cigarettes, So where's
this high blood pressure coming from? So I'm I was
the night before and I was doing a lot of
thinking and a lot of stuff, and man, so for
the first time ever, I felt the feeling I'm probably

(31:38):
pumping up here.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
But then my little hands got sweaty.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
And I'm like, oh, hell's no, Oh, Hell's no, dude,
I have I'm just going to say this publicly. Look, folks,
I've had a long and very illustrious life, and I
have walked myself down from things that would take other
people out. Let me just tell you that my mind
over matter has saved my life more times than I
here to tell you in the.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
Seventies and eighties. So I'm sitting there at Barbie's house.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
I'm getting ready to this warns you on Jackson Browne moment,
and all of a sudden, I'm starting to break out
in a little sweat and I checked my thing.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
Oh the big two sitting there.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
I'm like, okay, we're either gonna call so I'm all alone.
But instead I just picked up my nineteen eighty one self,
and I said, young lady, you are in command of
your body. You need to relax, calm down. And boy,
if I didn't just turn that puppy.

Speaker 6 (32:32):
Around, hey distress. Fact, you're right, I assume so.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
And I wasn't feeling it intellectually, but it, you know, and.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
So so I don't recommend that for anybody at home.
You see something insane like I saw you get you
get on the phone, don't do it.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
I did.

Speaker 6 (32:50):
I have to live with Pac. Now here's what I
learned when I went for that physical. I thought my
heart was skipping a beat, which drove me in to
the emergency room. And it's and and they find They
tell me, oh, no, you're not skipping a beat. It's
just miss firing. As if that was good news, right,
I go, what do you mean miss firing? It's just
a little misfire that the heart does. If you have

(33:12):
p if you have PBC, you're in trouble. But Pac,
you can live with I'm going to live with this.
And he goes, yeah, I said, and you're saying it's
I said, people shoot guns and miss fire and kill people.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
Analogize a different analogy.

Speaker 6 (33:28):
The fear of like, well, if it miss fires in
the wrong direction, well what can happen? Oh no, it
doesn't do that, It just miss fires. Sometimes. The doctors,
I learned with my one run through, they're very nonchalant
is that a good word? Very nonchal about what's wrong
with you? Because I know they've seen a thousand of me,

(33:49):
and so now they're nonchalant, you know. And I'm not nonchalant,
and I'm a mess in front of them and they
deal with but they still have that attitude they do.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
I hate it.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
But the thing is good. No, well, I was just
going to say. The thing is is the doctors have
to do that.

Speaker 6 (34:06):
Man.

Speaker 5 (34:06):
They can't have you come in and you know you're
doing something good and they go, man, this is incredible.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
Because it's not.

Speaker 5 (34:13):
Everything is right here, you know, And so the doctors
they're just gonna holdhum you. The lady finally said to me,
she goes, well, look at if you feel like you're
in in you having a problem, go to the er.

Speaker 6 (34:26):
Yeah, yeah, don't.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
Call what's what's the name of your thing? PC?

Speaker 6 (34:30):
What PAC? Premature? A throol contraction? And and and the
same visit. So I've had like a herdia for years,
I think, because I just found it, and and without
even looking at me, I go, well, I haven't heard
of you too. He goes, is it bob and your
I go no. He goes, well, why bother it? I go,

(34:50):
that's the example.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
What oh wow, it's why.

Speaker 6 (34:56):
It gives me no trouble. You know, he says, if
it acts up, come on in.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
Look they've defined you as a common a common heart,
a common heart rhythm issue.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
Come on.

Speaker 6 (35:08):
Your word electrical misfiring. I don't like those words. No kidding,
it doesn't. I don't understand it. Even it goes this way,
it goes that way.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (35:18):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (35:18):
There is a surgery to monitor, so yeah, keep your
eye on it. Your instincts are good.

Speaker 6 (35:22):
Oh I'm never having a physical again. I'm done with
that man.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
You hadn't before for a good reason.

Speaker 6 (35:27):
I had because you know, he puts on my chart
history of prostate cancer in the family. Well, all that
opened all the doors. Yeah, okay, I'm getting cats. I'm
getting it's crazy and and how vulnerable do you feel if.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
I hate it more than almost anything.

Speaker 6 (35:50):
It's horrible, horrible, I have to say.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
I'm going to start crying in a minute.

Speaker 6 (35:54):
So no, I'm telling you. It's like, okay, I need symptoms.
You know, that's what we need.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
O Lordie.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
Well look everybody's sitting there out there, they're going, wow,
medical barrel with the cowcil.

Speaker 6 (36:10):
Our medical episode. Thanks. I still want.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
Even Oh I've got one.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
It's gonna cost me eight hundred dollars to get my
blood work now, but anyway, we'll move along.

Speaker 6 (36:19):
What Bob, it's a lot of blood work.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
No, it's actually not. It's just my new condition on
account of things. I don't things anymore, well happen.

Speaker 6 (36:28):
You're rather vague. We're being very specific people.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
I like to be intriguing a woman of intrigued. Okay,
So who's making a bird for Christmas?

Speaker 6 (36:40):
Oh no, I won't do that.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
Okay, Poully, you're doing it. I'm doing it.

Speaker 5 (36:43):
Yeah, because we went to somebody's house on we went
to Dean's house on Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
Yeah you left no leftovers?

Speaker 2 (36:50):
Oh no, no, nothing?

Speaker 6 (36:52):
Well, I you know me. You know what happened to me.
I got introduced to the Honeybake Cam for Christmas and
that it did replace my turkey, you know.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
And that happens. That happens.

Speaker 6 (37:03):
But we grew up Turkey, Turkey. We grew up Turkey.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
Yeah, Turkey, Turkey.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
Grew up Turkey, Turkey.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
Turned up, grew up Turkey, Turkey. So I thought it
was a Northeastern thing.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
Yeah, you know, I'm thinking so.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
But I'm having the I have my my grown grands coming,
Diane and Drew and the three grown grandchildren and Savannah
all here for Christmas Eve.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
It's going to be quite stravaganza.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (37:31):
What they do in Texas now, the boys have a
red mailbox in front of the fireplace. Okay, so Ben's
the oldest one, he's four, and they put letters to
Santa in there, continual letters, and to takes them at
night and they're gone in the morning. But but Ben
was nervous. He said, well, how's how's he gonna the

(37:54):
first time? How's he gonna know the letters here? Ryan?
Ryan goes, well, he just knows it's magic. He goes no,
and he runs, yeah, makes a flag for the mailbox
that he can put up to show there's mail.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
In it, like like, oh my god.

Speaker 6 (38:13):
Yeah, he knows that the flag up on a mailbox
and then you get it, there's mail in there for
the mail undertake. Wow. So they're going to put a
flag on it.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Yeah, how was the Christmas pageants?

Speaker 6 (38:26):
Oh, oh, my gosh, beautiful. So it's fourth grade and
second grade, okay, and there's like fifteen kids per class.
They're all dressed up with the antlers and the costumes
and everything. And uh, we saw the moves, you know,
they all learn the hand moves with the second grade.
The teachers off to the side. But my grandsons were

(38:48):
the only two boys who stood at attention during the
performance with the class.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
But the two council kids.

Speaker 6 (38:57):
Look, they put on the antlers, they put on the hats,
they love the whole seat. They're standing with the class.
But on the downbeat time it's if they freeze. I
think part of it. No, it probably it's just their personality.
I was going to say, there's a big monitor in
the sky you could watch it on. And boy, once

(39:18):
Ben saw that and he sees himself on this gi monitor,
he was going to be gone anyway. Oh wow, you know, no,
so nothing. Now he's the four year olds older now
and confessed to us that he doesn't mind being there,
but he's uncomfortable singing in public in front of everybody.

(39:44):
The granddaughter of Rhode Island, who went to every Christmas
show but when she was young, as soon as they started,
she ran from her position to her mother's lap in
the audience.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
That was her.

Speaker 6 (40:01):
But every year should take the position, get that far
and then just freak out stage fright.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
I guess you, guys, I was still Santa.

Speaker 6 (40:10):
Claus, don't move, they love them.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
I was terrified of Santa.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
I was terrified of everything Christmas, honestly, including the pageant.
Everything seemed like it was but I loved it, but
I was it was all. It was just more than
any regular type of life we ever have. All of
a sudden it was December and everything you did was
a little scary.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
In the best way. So you know, a pageant, man,
I remember those things.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
Into this Howland's school, I remember that Christmas pageant was
the first thing I was.

Speaker 6 (40:43):
Now Paul and I were a Saint Joseph's Catholic school.
This way beyond a little Christmas show hitting, it was huge,
huge production.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
It was pageants.

Speaker 6 (40:54):
It was loud at the choir, we had a full choir.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
A huge organ.

Speaker 5 (40:59):
In your Susan's your point about December, boy, December would
hit and we'd start rehearsing. We'd start practicing, and you
always went to the church to do it. You know
this is happening.

Speaker 6 (41:12):
Man, Yeah, this is church pipe organ shirts. Okay, this
is a big production, oh my god.

Speaker 2 (41:20):
And it was flashlights with red cellophane under our man.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
There were those little guys in the drawings.

Speaker 6 (41:27):
They were them, we were little.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
That was awesome.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
But you have altar boy outfits, well.

Speaker 6 (41:33):
They were choir boy outfits not they were the different
color red and white. And we had you had.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
A white cloak and a red little tie.

Speaker 6 (41:43):
No red red smock kind of thing with a white clothes,
you know, like a author boy. And then well some
kind of give.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
With red.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
There used to pictures in Mom's thing. There's a couple
of black and whites that died with Katrina. Of you
guys in altar boy outfits. I see it in my history.

Speaker 6 (42:03):
Choir we like the pomping circumstance. Now, like like on
the passes the Midnight Mass, we didn't just go up
to the choiry loft. We came on two files down
to the altar, through the altar behind the altar, came
over the altar, down the procession, down up to the
loft and I remember one year now, Richard was in

(42:24):
the choir with us in the in the fourth grade
or third grade, I can't remember, and me and Bill
and Richard were all in the choir and Richard didn't
want to be in the choir anymore, okay, so he
quit and they let him quit. Dad let him quit.
Couldn't believe it. So the first Sunday where he's not
in the choir, but he's in the pew, we come
down doing our song, you know, and our procession up

(42:47):
to the loft, and when we passed Richard, he laughed
at us and smirked, and Dad put him back in
the choir. The next day.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
Caught happened that, yeah, and Dad was even cool about
it originally.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
Blew that No, he let him.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
Yeah, that's what I mean, he let him quit. You
don't like it, it's cool?

Speaker 3 (43:10):
Oh you think it's not. And now you're poking your brothers.
Well that's a different story.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
But it's like our mohawks. He made us go to church.

Speaker 5 (43:19):
He was going to cut him off, he was, he
knew what he was doing, but he made us go
to church.

Speaker 3 (43:23):
At first, let me ask you, guys, something, did you
actually learn anything from that moment, because supposedly that's a mohawk.

Speaker 6 (43:32):
Now, the mohawk we're we're in Ohio and you know
what I mean though, the haircut with the mohawk down
the middle. Now, now, well yeah, we Paul, We must
have just annoyed them to have it, because you can
tell the reaction when we didn't we.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
Want You guys wanted it because of the cowboys and
Indian movies that we were obsessed with.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
Correct.

Speaker 5 (43:49):
Now, look the Mighty Mighte Little League field. There was
a catcher. He was a little kid just like this,
but he had a mohawk and he was a catcher
at the Mighty Mite Field in Canton.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
That's why you want.

Speaker 5 (44:03):
You got us crazed about we got to get a mohawk.
We got to get a mohawk.

Speaker 6 (44:06):
Now luckily we didn't like it anymore and Dad wasn't
going to have it. You wanted it, you wear it,
but we wore baseball caps, okay, and you could hide
it with the baseball.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
How long did you keep the mohawks?

Speaker 6 (44:18):
So the hair grew in me?

Speaker 1 (44:20):
He made you keep it.

Speaker 6 (44:21):
Keep it one time, I can't remember.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
I don't think he he shaved mine. I remember he
shaved it because I was freaking out. Man, I couldn't
deal with it.

Speaker 6 (44:30):
Yeah, and rich didn't play baseball, so he had no cap.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
God, it was getting him.

Speaker 6 (44:38):
We all got him, and then we all had to
keep him.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
Richard stiff kept backfiring.

Speaker 6 (44:45):
That was good. But I can't imagine the Cowsles coming
in their church with the mohawk kids. Oh the kids
got mohawks.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Guys, think of how many backfired, how many blackfired.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
Moments in our lives, like John and him going blind
and then Mom freaking out and slapping the crowd of
all of both of us speaking. You know, you think
you're doing something funny, you think you're getting away with
something you're not.

Speaker 6 (45:08):
You never was it. We were told to stop telling
them they were adopted, but we were telling John or Susan.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
That I think it was me.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
You No, it was me. It was you were adopted
and I was a monkey. I came from a family
of monkeys.

Speaker 6 (45:24):
This was earlier, earlier, early.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
Early stuff telling me I was adopted. It was just
the four of us. Susan.

Speaker 5 (45:33):
If you think about this, I am just like you
because I had three brothers above me. They had to
take care of me for years while they waited for
John and Barry and John get online.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
Were they as nice as you were to me?

Speaker 6 (45:50):
Let me tell you one thing.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
Doubt that.

Speaker 6 (45:52):
I'll give you an example for about it until Dad
Mom stopped it because Paul was getting bruises. For a
long time, we would come up to Paul. He was
called loose leaf. He was all over the place, I remember,
and me, Bill and rich we could at any time
come up to Paul, go hey, loose Leaf and slug
him in the arm. And then his arms started getting
bruised because I remember being told, hey, you better stop

(46:15):
hitting your brother.

Speaker 2 (46:17):
Yeah, yeah, Susan.

Speaker 5 (46:18):
We be in school the one year I'm in the
eighth grade and they put us at the Middletown High School.
So now I'm in the same school with Richard and
Bob and Bill. And when they saw me in the hallway,
they would come, hey, Paul, just.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
Good times, good times.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
Just welcome.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
And then we were nice to each other in school
when we were in school together, you mean Berry and John.

Speaker 6 (46:41):
But Paul never whined. Paul never cried in Daddy. He
took the hit as being maybe you thought we were bonding.
I don't know what was going through your head. He
did so well. He never told it was the bruises.
What are these bruises? What are these bruises on your brother? Oh,
we don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (46:59):
Maybe that's funny nowadays, guys, guys, nowadays, Paul would like
Paul's parents would be brought in and they'd.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
Be like, his brothers have beating the crap out of them.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
Sure they are, sure they today totally.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
The teachers would see you with bruises and they'd call
the parents in and it'd be the old thing.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
Now they would have been right, but not in that case.

Speaker 6 (47:19):
But anyway, I agree, if that's what's going to happen,
they would have carted the four of us in, dropped
our pants and asked dad, what are these marks on
their bucks?

Speaker 1 (47:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (47:29):
Hey, guys, but.

Speaker 5 (47:31):
It is out officially the lineup of the Happy Together
Tour twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Lay it out, Say it here, say it loud.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
You go to Happy Together Tour. That's the title of it.
And that one will show you the bands.

Speaker 5 (47:46):
And yeah, it takes two sheets now to tell all
the bands because there's eight.

Speaker 6 (47:52):
Hey, listen, we're going to have the members of each
of the new bands on the podcast. And I have
to give kudos to the Fortunes because their guy, uh god,
Verry forgotten his name, but we're gonna have a lot.
They're all from England, okay, Fortunes. Yeah, the Fortunes are
an Englishman. So are the Trogs. Then the Drugs were

(48:13):
totally English. The Fortunes, you know how it is. They
had their two or three hits here, but they had
a lot more in the world. The Fortunes. You know, right,
we'll have mom, we'll hit all about it. But he
reached out and said, hey, we are confirmed for the tour.
We can't wait. We've talked to around Dante about it, and.

Speaker 3 (48:29):
Uh, you know, Ronnie texted me just all. He sent
me the poster, our new poster.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
He said to me the poster that what does it
look like?

Speaker 1 (48:41):
It looks like the other ones.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
The graphic he sent me was was kind of rectangular,
so I don't you know, of course it won't. But
it looks wild because he's got all these names on it,
like and it goes kind of new guys over here
and then us over here, like old people over here,
vogues Dante coucils over all over here home team and.

Speaker 6 (49:00):
Then you know, but we can say, uh. One of
the video distance, which I think is so cool because
you learn way more about ron Dante than he was
a great singer, is he's getting his own set. Okay,
so you're going to have a Ron Dante set.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
And he also said in the tech he goes, I
want my set to be in the front with you guys.

Speaker 1 (49:19):
I went, will work it out, brother.

Speaker 6 (49:23):
Well, just so as long as he didn't use the
preposition word of in front of you guys.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
No, no, no, no.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
I have been promised by might probably I have been
promised by who's whose name will not be mentioned, that
that will not happen.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
That we are going on first like we always have.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
Yeah, that didn't change there. That's why we have to
make sure.

Speaker 5 (49:45):
We want to make sure that when we're in uh
Saint Charles, we're opening.

Speaker 6 (49:51):
Well.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
I thought that was is that that one we don't
know anything about.

Speaker 6 (49:56):
No, that was the gig we didn't know anything about.
That's right, just have atween.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
I just wanted to German if we're talking about this.

Speaker 6 (50:02):
I had to literally finally contact Paradise and say, look
and this is only two weeks ago. Look, guys, this
gig is so weird. We still don't have a contract, okay,
And they finally said when I signed it.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
I was going to say, let me know, if I'm
not going to the airport with my family, there's whatever
we're leaving that day.

Speaker 6 (50:21):
In the correspondence, I put, all we know about this
is we're doing it, And we said we're do it
because they're kind of bailing them out in a way.
But that's okay, we're gonna do it. I said, all
we know is we're gonna do it, and we are opening,
and they want a half hour set. It's actually said,
and I was just reuted why I wrote that without

(50:43):
reiterating in writing we are opening, you know so, But
you get nervous about it because when you get them no,
we're not gonna have it that way. We're gonna have
it that way. Say we're gonna go, well, no, you're not.

Speaker 5 (50:53):
Say well, it'll all be clear as soon as I
get a sound check time from them, because.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
We're gonna sound check last.

Speaker 6 (51:01):
Yes, which is what we want. Just one of the
drivers of wanting to open any show. Anytime you go
to a concert, anytime you see who opened. The good
news for the opening act is always that they get
to do the sound check last. So let's say, yeah,
I'm gonna explain it. Let's say this three groups. Okay,

(51:23):
you've got the headliner sound they have to sound check first,
and then you back up to the opening act who
gets check last. The reason you want to sound check
glass is all the knobs are set, all the board
is set for your set, and they don't have to
redo it. When you come on the stage. It's ready
to go. And that's why we love to open. Other

(51:47):
than we like first crack at the audience. We like
there's a lot of reasons to open. You know, watch
the show, love them all, and then we get to
watch the rest of the show.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
Watch the show, darn it and have fun.

Speaker 6 (51:58):
They go, well, you can still watch the show if
you later. No, differently, if you're done. I've come off
our set and joked with the vogues. I said, well,
we've worked and you haven't, you know, And then they
you know that kind of fun, and so we have
lots of the rest of the show without wondering about
our set or the audience or anything about it. We're
done and we did our job, and now we get

(52:19):
to sit back and relax my phone, and we do
love the show every night. What else are we going
to do every night?

Speaker 1 (52:26):
And now we have all these new songs to trip
out to. Are you guys digging what I'm saying? It's
like we're going bong.

Speaker 6 (52:34):
I'd have a confirmation to give you about the fortunes.
Because I did ask the guy. I got to get
his name, it's so rude. Anyway, I did ask him.
I said, so, how is it that four of you
are coming?

Speaker 1 (52:51):
Oh? Good question?

Speaker 6 (52:53):
What we heard?

Speaker 2 (52:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (52:54):
What he say?

Speaker 6 (52:56):
He just answered logically, he said, well, you know, everyone's
got an English accent. Although I could understand him very well.
You know, I'm never well. The day I met Billy J. Kramer,
I thought he was I'll never forget.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
That deep deep cockney move on.

Speaker 6 (53:15):
We had to have his wife interpret for him. Get
that it's crazy okay, fortunes anyway, anyway, it made sense
to him, and I don't think that Eddie Mooney. I
remember thinking, Eddie money, it's Eddie Mooney, Eddie Eddie goes, well,
forgot the harmonies. I go, okay, but we need those.

(53:39):
I go, well, sometimes the band backs up harmonies. You know,
he goes so, you know, so we bring the band
and I didn't tell him the history of this tour
where it says, listen, there was a time you didn't
even dream of doing that, you know, just shelve that.
And for some reason the strings have loosened. And okay,
we don't get too fine. The Trogs. We heard the

(54:02):
same thing about the Trogs and the Fortunes. And but
I will tell you this.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
Is a fortune.

Speaker 6 (54:10):
Chef is the leads. Was the lead singer of Chicago
from two thousand and whatever nine to nineteen something like that.
Great singer still a great singer, has that voice that
you know, oh he didn't lose a thing, you know
when you hear him sing. So that's gonna be a
lot of fun. So and was there a fourth one
or just three new ones? Right? Three Chicago Fortunes, Trogs,

(54:31):
Chicago Fortunes Trucks, right, okay?

Speaker 2 (54:33):
Cool?

Speaker 1 (54:34):
And then us Ronnie.

Speaker 6 (54:36):
Vogues, Gary association, I don't know association, Gary Pucket.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
I just found those under here.

Speaker 6 (54:45):
Hey, you know, Gary, I've been getting feedback from his
shows during the winter. People see Gary Pucket. Yeah, everyone says, Hey, Russy.
Everyone says that Gary Pucket's gotten and we know why.
But everyone's reporting back from the Gary Pucket front that
Gary's doing better than he's ever done.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
That's so great for him. Grady's gonna feel coming out there.

Speaker 6 (55:10):
I love this one too.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
Oh yeah, I'm better than ever Get out of here.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
Yeah, I don't want to hear about me.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
How our friends.

Speaker 3 (55:21):
Yeah, it's a vocal, Miss Paulie.

Speaker 1 (55:24):
You're not even kidding though. Guys in town, everybody is
saying to me, why is your voice so clear? I
am not I'm not kidding.

Speaker 3 (55:33):
It's like nobody can figure out what's happening, and I'm
just talking this miss.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
Yeah, hopefully I get mine before I leave tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
But let me say, what happened?

Speaker 6 (55:44):
Did you ever get in touch with You should get
in touch with those people, vocal missed.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
It's saving my life, my career, it is.

Speaker 6 (55:53):
I'm not even right there. I'm just saying. I mean,
we don't do that kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (55:57):
I'd be washed up, I tell you.

Speaker 6 (56:00):
I mean, I honestly think the only reason we made
the only guitar deal we ever made with anyone was
with Hoffner. And I think it's because we wanted that
bass guitar, so we took all their rather junkie guitars. Oh,
I shouldn't have said that Hoffner.

Speaker 1 (56:15):
Wait, wait, was Barri's Hoffner or real Hoffner?

Speaker 6 (56:19):
Yeah, I didn't know that.

Speaker 1 (56:21):
I thought it was a knockoff. I don't know why.

Speaker 6 (56:23):
No, you know the knockoffs, they're not called Hoffner. They
look like them. I probably wouldn't, but that's it. You know,
you're in jazz Fest.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
Oh, I got asked to jazz Fest, which I don't
ever submit, So that was a surprise.

Speaker 6 (56:39):
Yet another non jazz artist be invited to the party.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
That's oh my god.

Speaker 3 (56:44):
Yes, if they can have John bon Jovi, they can
most death have me the Eagles. Yeah, maybe wonder but
it's been the non jazz heritage festival for quite a long.
I mean, Nola, we know here, like when we're here,
Like the first time it happened, I think it was.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
I think it was something like Hall and Oates and
we all went Hall and.

Speaker 6 (57:10):
Who I love was Bruce Springsteen. What they used to.

Speaker 1 (57:16):
The Drifters in the beginning, because half of us were from.

Speaker 6 (57:19):
LA to any of these main acts like that, who
are really just brought to New Orleans to bring in money, right,
that's all they're hired for. Of course, any of them
make any attempt at jazz jazz fusion, No.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
No, no history not required, not required to go to
the jazz.

Speaker 6 (57:36):
Look.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Special has been allotted
to a tenth the jazz tent.

Speaker 1 (57:43):
It's like, what.

Speaker 6 (57:46):
Would at least play offender jazz bass if it's just
wild aborn in that jazz tents.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
That's correct.

Speaker 3 (57:54):
So that's where all the It's like, we have legends
in this town of crawling in this little tiny tent
in their legendaries, you.

Speaker 1 (58:02):
Know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (58:02):
But I gotta be quiet or I could get my
thing yanked.

Speaker 1 (58:06):
That guy don't like me much. He has to do
it every once in a while.

Speaker 6 (58:09):
We'll be wrapping this up anyway.

Speaker 1 (58:12):
Oh yeah, I got by the way.

Speaker 6 (58:14):
People, we know, last week's episode with Leland was an
hour and a half. I mean, you know, but you
also get forty minute ones from us, so we don't
want any moaning and groaning.

Speaker 1 (58:23):
Why would they moan about more information and entertainment.

Speaker 6 (58:26):
It's a long sit, so you can split it in
two parts. We used to split them for you. We
don't do that anymore.

Speaker 3 (58:32):
We talk about all those guys like they're up the street,
like on bikes together.

Speaker 1 (58:37):
Give me a break.

Speaker 6 (58:39):
Where it used to be in the early days of
the podcast. If we saw an hour and a half,
we said, that's two episodes.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
We break out. That's a week off.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
It's snowing.

Speaker 6 (58:54):
It was great. Yeah, it's snowing.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
Yeah, right, it's going to be snowing on the twenty
second to twenty third, to twenty fourth and the twenty
fifth here perfect, won't cry again?

Speaker 6 (59:03):
Perfect? Okay, everybody, thank you.

Speaker 1 (59:06):
Love you guys. Where you are? Are you in or out?
All right, buddy, let us know go ahead, check Jack.
We could have an a fib thread. Paul could just
report all day, love you guys.

Speaker 5 (59:20):
Yeah, all right, for Portland tomorrow and then flying out
the next morning.

Speaker 6 (59:27):
All right, yeah, good, everybody a look for us on
Wednesday night. Goodbye.

Speaker 2 (59:35):
Okay, everybody. We hope you enjoyed visiting with us today.
We definitely had a blast visiting with you. Don't forget.

Speaker 5 (59:42):
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Speaker 1 (59:48):
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