February 17, 2024 • 35 mins
Leave it to Beaver Podcast (Season 2 Episode 13) Happy Weekend
Ward takes his reluctant family to a mountain cabin, hoping to relive rustic childhood memories, and, although things don't turn out exactly as he plans, the boys are soon making memories of their own.
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Ward takes his reluctant family to a mountain cabin, hoping to relive rustic childhood memories, and, although things don't turn out exactly as he plans, the boys are soon making memories of their own.
Make sure to like and follow our Facebook page and check us on YouTube: / @leaveittobeaverpodcast
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(01:19):
All right, everybody, welcome toanother episode of That'll Leave It to Beaver
podcast. Here we are. Iam John, and joining me is always
a stand. How you doing,my friend? Hey, I'm doing good.
(01:41):
I'm a little bit of costume heretonight. Because this is the happy
weekend. They're doing a little camping. He's got that pipe again, got
a little uh, got a littlesweatshirt in here for camp. He's getting
ready to go camps. Snow oneoutside here was a big fire out side
there today. It is so coldout in the mood. Boy, got
got a little uh little drink there, something nice for the fireplace. Oh
(02:04):
boy, and boy, it's theweek after you know what? Hey guys,
Hi, George, how's it going? George? Hello? The Hello
Brian? I Hello Kathy. Greatto see everybody out tonight. How you
doing? You know? You knowwhat's good for me? We had that
super Bowl weekend. This is whyI don't bet, all right, So
I told him right before, Isaid, I never I never bet hold
(02:27):
on, hold on, I neverbet on my teams in this asshole,
I guess gotta use that word onhere. It coaxes me into it again
and take that stupid thing out ofyour mouth. Man. Oh my god,
the thing is I'm gonna I'm gonnado something with that pipe. I'm
gonna I'm gonna pull a war head. Man. He's getting me in because
I got to fork over money nowon the super Bowl that I didn't want
to bet. It's because my buddybrought Purty played so great, but unfortunately
(02:51):
we lost to those no good damnChiefs, and uh, here's your twenty
bucks. There's nothing sweeter, nothing, Christoper than twenty for winning. This
is killing him. We could doa show and the new leave it to
Beaver, you know. We coulddo one about all right, about Wally
pays Ward. That's why I don'tbet money, folks, That's why I
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don't bet money. So this iswhat it is. This is a good
show. George says. It's chillyin Florida too. Hello Brenda, Well
we're gonna have fun tonight. Wegot great episodes, so great to see
everybody out. We got seventeen peoplealready on the stream right now between all
the different things, so it's greatto see everybody out. Yes, quick
housekeeping before we get started. Makesure you like and follow the show if
you're doing it all take that thingout of your mouth. Make sure you
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It's always up on audio. Sothat's all I got for the housekeeping.
(03:58):
What is the synopsis for c intwo, episode thirteen? It is
called Happy Weekend and Hello Barbara,Hi Barbara. This is a this is
a great episode. This is anice one. This is I think really
stars Ward in June again, eventhough the kids have a big role in
this. Ward comes home and he'sall excited because he's got a cabin for
the weekend. You know, FredRutherford had this cabin and it fell through
(04:24):
and he picked it up and hewants to take the kids fishing, and
June out there, eat dinner onFriday night, get right out there that
night, you know, and havea nice weekend outside and bloph bah bah
blah. And you know what's goingto happen. Yep, it's all going
to turn to you know what,Well, it doesn't. It doesn't.
He tells the kids in June.June says, I got to get my
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hair done. I don't have oldclothes. I have to go buy new
old clothes, which is kind ofcrazy, and it's very funny. The
kids want to see a monster movie. They don't necessarily really want to go
and Ward, this is like everythinghappening today. Hey, in the twenty
first century. Ward wants to goback in the way back machine. They
want to watch movies, eating out. Yeah, he wants to sit around
(05:06):
the campfire and go fishing, andgo for a hike and do all the
things he did as a kid inthe twenties and thirties. You know when
he was a kid. You know, this is in nineteen fifty six.
So anyway, it's great great.Brian said this was one of this was
Tony Dae's favorite episode. He sharedthat in the interview. Did he really,
Brian, This is actually one ofmy sleeper I was telling you before,
(05:29):
This is one of my sleeper favoriteson the show. This is top
probably top five, top ten forme, right in that range. I
love this episode, I haven't seenit in about a year or so,
but I've seen this a bunch oftimes, and I feel for Ward in
this because any parent, any parentcan understand what Ward's going through where you're
trying to share certain things with yourkids, or you're trying to make it
fun, whether it's a weekend tripor a vacation or just telling people to
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put that cell phone down. Yeah, whatever it might be, you know,
it's every parent can relate to that. Everybody can relate to it in
some way. So this is areal phone one. Hey, amen,
house going pay to see you asalways, but it's gonna be a fun
one. So I'm glad to hearit was Tony's favorite because it's one of
mine too. So yeah, let'sget on into it. We're gonna check
it out on the on Peacocks,So whenever you watch us, join us
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if you'd like. We got ourintro real fast. Let me skip it.
Here we go, War's pulling in. Oh he's got the Ford on
here, boy, No, Iwould like to go back in the way
back machine. It looks like somebodyjust washed the ground out there. Yeah.
June is sitting on the couch rightnow, looking stunning as always,
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She's all look at Ward. Hecomes popping in here. He's so happy.
Here's June right now? What Junelooks like? I found a few
pictures This one was hard to finda bunch of pictures of I got a
few. But here's June right now. How she looks so stunning with those
pearls and that outfit that she hason. Right now? Ward is home
from work and happy. Here's thesurprise looking watch this shadow Lake. Yes,
(07:10):
have you ever seen more so animated? He's excited. Yes, he
really wants to look at him.He wants to share one of his passions
with his kids. Yeah, heactually wants to do this for him.
He wants to have two friends,his boys and her. I understand word
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struggle there though. Oh yeah,this is uh, this is a lot
of cliches here, you know,you know, she wants to get her
hair done, she wants new clothesto go up there. How many of
you would have liked if your parentstook you fishing when you were kids like
that, up to the up tothe cabin for the weekend. I would
have loved it. Well, wewere always fishing as a kid, though,
Look at this. He gets thereaction. He doesn't imagine mil You
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can tell she knows what the reactionis going to be already. Always great
to see. Amen, Hi,Amen, always wonderful, my friend.
Look at this, both of them. They want to read comic books.
They got, they got a monstermovie. They plan. This is like
every person's relatable thing right here though, where we go back to our youth
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and think it's going to be funfor the kids now or whatever. The
culture was like whatever, you know, in this day, what was taken
over for war was the movie theater, comic books, and television, just
like the radio took over for hisparents. Sure, George says, my
dad took his fishing a lot.He loved fishing. Did you like fish
and Georgia or did you just gobecause of your dad? Were you a
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fisher were you a fisherman that Didyou enjoy doing that with your dad growing
up? We did it every night? Yeah, you know, I used
to love doing because we live righton the river. So now he's mandating
fun for everybody. Yes, weare going up to the lake right now.
Have fun. This. By theway, this theme that they're using
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here with a parent wanted to goback and do things like this was done
about a thousand times, you know, on TV back in the day and
probably today also, sure, butthis is a boy. It really shows
you how good this cast was.I was watching my three sons. I
was telling John the other day thefirst episodes. I haven't seen them in
(09:20):
decades, and boy, I'll tellyou that was on for twelve seasons.
It Couldn't Hold a Candle with theBeaver, and it used to be one
of my favorite shows as a kid. I haven't seen it in years.
Yeah, yeah, I still lovethem when I was a kid, and
check it out. George said itwas okay, but I wasn't passionate about
it. Yeah, yeah, it'sglad to This is really so good.
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Oh there's beautiful shadow Lake Lake hereit is. Wait, looks gorgeous,
doesn't it. Yeah, this ishis dream. There they are driving up
four hours away. They're going tonighttime. He's in Cabin twelve. It's
the Shadow Lake Lodge. I canremember going up to my phone this friend
Terry Keely's house for this month someplaceupstate New York, which is weird,
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and the whole place looked like itwas a haunted house and he says,
you want to stay? I said, not on your life. Man.
I was a kid. I wasafraid they were going to leave me there
overnight. Any of your parents everdo this taking you to a cabin as
a weekend out there? What aboutyou? Your parents ever take you to
cabin or you? No, Ididn't think so did that. But I
went with my father with the boyScouts to lean Toos. I was in
the Sea Scouts all that stuff.Look at all the suitcases they have for
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the weekend, like with your mother, we all got ye. What's under
his arm? There? Is thatlike your dress or something? Or is
that like food or something in thebag that she's bringing up. That's like
a pic basket. Oh no,that's her makeup case. No ward had
a it's like a it's like aoh yeah, like a suitcase with the
band around. Yeah. Yeah,I've never seen one like that. Yeah,
(10:48):
so it wouldn't hoop open jungle fever. Yeah. Can you imagine they
want to drive all the way upfour hours there and back. What time
we're going to be done fishing sowe could leave early? Yep? Yeah,
(11:09):
it's kind of spooky in there.They look at that old bed.
I don't know, it looks kindof it looks kind of rustic and nice.
I can see where he's coming from. Brian says, always went fishing
in the up very much like thisarea. Very rural. All right,
my three sons cannot compare it all. To leave it to Beaver and Stephen
Douglas was so annoying compared to wordCleaver. Yeah you think, but yeah,
(11:31):
I even says, leave it toBeaver rules guys. Yes, these
guys were actually very cute in here. You know, Wally and Beaver,
they were very cute and exploring thehouse and all their little shenanigans. They
got to look at Beaver's jacket andWally's shirt. It's almost kind of matching
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a little bit. Yeah, wheredo you see the clothing that war changes
into the next day. He's actuallylook very handsome. He's got kind of
a lumberjack shirt on. She's reallyexcited. You can see it with her
a little bit because she's going backto her young You can see it's a
smile on her face. Yep.You know the nice thing in this,
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I guess you guys probably feel verysimilar. You can see that they gradually
have an ebb and flow of fallingin love with this and also being a
little bored or finding other things.They do their own twist on it,
Oh, their own take on Theydon't like the smell, No, we
get water. Water Ward thinks thisis gonna be the greatest time right now.
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He's laughing, he's joking, folks, he's having a good time.
Kids seem to be ready and excitednow and join it. George said,
this is when the boys go tothe town by the camp and watch Jungle
Fever with their binoculars. Exactly,George, No spoilers here. Man.
Was Jungle Fever a real movie?I know, but it was a stereotype
of all monster pictures, a creaturefrom the Black Lagoon or something where they
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were going to feature to an eighthyou know, to a crocodile. Look
at that old st that old furnaceright there. No, that's a pop
belly stove. Is that a stove? Yeah, that's a stove. Interesting
you have that now, wood burningstoves very similar to that. It's a
pop belly stove. What she's cold, you can see she's Look at the
jacket she brings camping. I thinkthat's oh, that's Harves. Yeah,
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yep, the boys got wood forthe night. See, I would love
to do something like that. Surewhat they're doing, that would be fun
right there in his spot Belly Branson, yep. V said Fred McMurray made
a lot of demands and he shotmany of his scenes separately. Really me,
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I didn't know that they did.I but Fred McMurray was a very
big star. And was he alittle bit of uh uh, what's the
right word for medeeva so to speak, behind the scenes as a holly with
guy V was that? Did hehave a reputation for that? Fred m
Fred McMurray was the He was thedad on My Three Sons right, Yes,
okay. William Frawley was the originalguy. He was an I Love
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Lucy originally and then he became Gotchaand he was notorious as an alcoholic and
a very difficult guy to Ward kindof depletes the energy to the kids and
sucks it out of him when hestarts telling them when I was when when
I was a boys story to them. They don't want to hear it,
no, but that here he issaying, remember Grandpa doing this kind of
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stuff? Yes, I was talkingabout Grandpa today to a friend of mine
where we were just shooting, shootingthe breeze about it, and I said,
uh, I said he if heliked you, he gave you a
nickname. Yeah, you know everything, he'll give you a nickname. I
was Moondog. Yes, let's see. He said he was okay, but
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but really rather aloof. I sawan interview with Ernie. Okay, Kathy
said, I'm stands Asian. It'sfun watching John Learner. But the old
stuff he's never seen before, likethe populace, so absolutely, Kathy.
Sure. So I would say aboutthe show is I learned so much from
other people out there. I'm inmy forties, you know, but there's
so many things I didn't know thatI learned. The things I learned about
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my father. This is how Iwould be in bed with my brother,
who still is alive, who waseighty five. We had a pair of
bunk bets, you know, andhe was much older than me. I
was only four or five. Andhe went into the Navy. But it
was so hot in our little apartment. I used to say, George,
make us cool, like these guysare trying to get warm, and he
gosh, and he'd actually had mefreeze and tell me it was the Arctic.
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Uh huh. Look at that stoveand what it's doing. Oh yeah,
I think that's cool. I wouldlove to sleep with that. It's
distracting the kids, though, Juneand Warren get the bedroom. Sometimes the
bedroom door is open, it lookslike a double bed. Yeah, you
weren't allowed to sleep in the bedand saying that, no, not back
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not back down. Did anybody havein their bedrooms in their houses like the
men and the women? Did theysleep separately like often? Or did they
have the same bedstiffs? Sometimes theyhad like a bed over here at night
table and another bed. They didn'tsleep in the same bed, but you
know a lot of people didn't sleepin the same bed. They would have
you know, you know, doublebeds or I think they called them Hollywood
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beds or what about later on inlife for Graham and Grandpa. I know,
you guys had only a one bedroomapartment for a part of your life.
But did they did they share abed together? And they got bigger
places always always gotcha always, Soit was kind of like a fifty to
fifteen mix you'd see with people.Oh yeah, they don't see working out.
You know, you know everybody thatwas in here was Worster Jonas.
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Did any of your parents out theresleep in separate beds like like the you
know see two twin beds with thenights stand. Anybody's parents do that?
Let's see? Barbas said, uhis. George says, is this also
the one where they catch a lotof fish but found out the pond was
stocked? Yes, sir, youare correct, George, Right, you
got it one hundred percent. Theyget all excited about it. Brent says,
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just on TV though, right,wasn't that just on TV? Yeah?
You hear that one a lot fromthem too. We got a quick
commercial here, folks, what's juston TV? The separate beds? Yeah?
No, A lot of people wouldsleep in separate beds because people would
snore and people would roll over alot of people. I thought it was
maybe like more of a TV myththat you would see because they no,
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that was a TV thing because ofthe code, the behavior code. They
didn't want to, you know,people to think about sexual behavior like that
with people. Okay, but Ican't remember a lot of Yeah, George
said, right here, my grandparentsslept in separate bedrooms. Yeah, and
Brian said, my grandparents slept inseparate beds only because my grandpa snored.
All right, yeah, there yougo. See it doesn't bother me.
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I've always had a preference to sleepin a separate bed and in a separate
room. Yeah, if I can, because of growing up as a kid
with people all on top of me. And it's really funny. I don't
mind sleeping with my wife, butI have another room off to the side.
She snores, your mother snored likeshe scares you, snore like crazy.
But she also will be punching youin the middle of the night if
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you're in there. She's always freakingout in the middle of the night about
something. I don't care for that. I just want to sleep, and
says there. Ama says there wasa movie called Jungle Fever starring Wesley Snipes
and Annabella Sciora. If I saidthat right from the early nineteen nineties,
Okay, interesting, Yeah, Ithought i'd heard a movie about it.
Look at this, looking at June, Look at her. I got a
picture. I think of her righthere. She's in her version of jeans.
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Their little pedal pushes, they usedto call them. Here's what,
June, if you're not watching thisright now, here's what everybody's kind of
the word too. How handsome heloved? Huh, they're all platted out
right here. You know they were. It's very funny and maybe it's very
nostalgic the more you do the show. What a very handsome couple they were.
(18:55):
Absolutely, she's a very very handsomeone and he's a very handsome man.
Look at how physically fit he is. I mean he's at thirty five
or forty years old. He wasprobably fifty years old. His birthday was
this week. He would have beenone hundred and fifteen. Oh my god.
Yeah, I saw it posted inone of the Beaver groups. His
birthday was this week. So happyheavenly birthday to him. Yeah, Jude
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didn't get the plaid memo. Yeah, she's the only one, Brian,
she's the only one not rocking outthe plaid right now. But she's got
the checkers, the checkers, andshe's got the collar up. You know,
it's weird to see her in jeans. Yes, well that's stair portion
of jeans. Yeah, this isso funny. This is a bucket of
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cold water on him here now,he thinks that he did the greatest thing.
They're going on a hike. Yeah, the movie theater. He can't
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escape. He'll look on his faceright now, Brenda's didn't say my parents
slept in separate rooms. All right? Yeah, see here you go.
What did they have for breakfast?And they got their comic book there too?
Another one. They can't escape theworld the way that it is.
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It's nothing he can do, evenin shadow Lake. No, they built
it up. June always supports him. A good wife, she'd I think
she'd much rather have a hamburger inanisoda at the drug store too. Hey,
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she's gonna go get her hair.Oh, she doesn't want to look
a mess if she sees any.But you know, in shadow Lake four
hours away. You know this,this whole episode is wonderful in terms of
one of the classic things as apsychologist. I used to always tell myself
and everybody else, there's the worldthe way it is and the world the
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way you want it to be,And lots of times it just doesn't match.
Ward in that hat right there,hees this old gentleman here at shadow
Lake is given Ward. The He'sgiven Ward the skinny so to speak.
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He thinks Ward knows what the dealis. Yeah, he doesn't know the
deal. Ward's not in on it. This guy's sending him out to all
the good fishing spots where things stocked. You see what you see what the
work ethic was, the ethic thatWard had. If you're going to catch
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a fish, earn it. Yeah, you don't want to. You don't
want to catch a fish that's ina little pond there that's already stocked or
whatever. It's no fun. Doesn'the charge this guy charge him later on
pro fish or something that charges hima bucket a piece for the fish,
but eight dollars for the for rentingthe road book yep, and everything else
like that. Brian says, mygrandfather was three days older than Hugh Bomont.
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So, Brian, your grandfather wouldhave would have been one hundred and
fifteen then to one hundred. Imagineliving man. Yeah, Ward's kind of
he's doing the row in there.The boys are what they are they doing
a Larry mondelo they got apples orsomething, or saying, oh they did
this is what people would do.You'd want to bring up, you want
to bring a lunch, you wantto be picnicked. You know, I
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can't remember that with going with myfamily to state parks and things like that.
What were they tape something like thisif they had a set lands like
this, Yeah, like a lotthat they did. Yeah that TV shows
were done there if you were inthe water, or horror show or something.
But they really made it look goodthough. They really made it looked
like it was a legit spot.Oh sure, back in the day,
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word can tell by instinct. Hesaid, Well, he meant that,
you know that he had to havea float and they would put their hands
that their thumb on the real andfeel the little tug from the fish.
Ye see. Ward has a lotof victories here and then he has a
lot of defeats in the in thesame way. Every time he thinks it's
going great and good, it's instantfor him, you know. It's do
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anything that happens has the same thing. I love old movies in the history
of the cinema. I'm always tellingpeople, hey, look I love new
movies. Also, hey, youwant to see this old movie just to
just to check it out. It'svery, very hard to get anybody to
buy into that anymore. And that'swhat Ward wants. He wants them to
you know, to see some youknow some to do some classic things.
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You can't blame it though, forfor one, but you know, you
also have to understand the culture changes. Sure. Look what I'm was talking
to your daughter the other day,kame, So I was talking about reading,
which says I don't like to read. And probably the most simplest,
he's got a fish there and she'sa brilliant kid, and she does she
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likes to read and you know,shortened versions of everything. Yeah, the
way that things are now, thankslittle fish. He picked up a little
travel Yeah, look at that canoe. Would you want to get in that
canoe? That's so John Bowe's asquare thing on the back you could put
a little modro on. My grandfatherwas an older father. He was forty
five when my mother was When mymom was born. Oh wow, yeah
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wow, Amon says, Oh,happy birthday, one hundred and fifteenth birthday
in rest in peace, mister HughBeaumont aka Ward Cleaver. Absolutely amen.
He was an older father. Hewas forty five and my mother was born.
Nothing wrong with having kids in yourforties, so you're knowledgeable at that
point. They're enjoying all the fishthey're catching. How many of you guys
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can remember how much better a sandwichtasted when it used to be wrapped in
wax paper. Oh yeah, no, it really was. Or maybe that's
just memorabilia, but I've had acouple of those, you know, here
and there over the years. Isaid, Wow, that just tastes marvelous.
Hey, Deborah, how are you? Hey, I'm at Cracker Barrel.
(25:23):
Hate I'm not on. We'll watchthe replay. Have a great weekend.
Absolutely, never enjoy your time.Have some delicious biscuits and gravy at
the Cracker. Oh yeah, Ilove their biscuits and gravy over there.
I haven't been to the Cracker Barrelin years. Oh he's got another fish.
Yeah, let's do it one day. I'd love to go for breakfast.
I got twenty dollars that you justgave you here. Oh, you
can treat for breakfast. Then I'meating twenty bucks. On you listen to
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Bee kind of navigating Wally and tellinghim how to fish because he was the
first even and they're having the daytime and now the real world catches up
with Yep, the reality of life. This old gentleman who owns the boat
dock here he is waiting on him, wheeling him in because Shadow Lake is
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really kind of like a little touristtrap. Okay, side note. He
was born in nineteen oh nine andWard was born in nineteen ten. All
right, Wow, George said,I had lunch at the Cracker barely they
too eight fish? What look atWard? Yeah, he's got that angry
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look on right now. Well confusedhe thinks he's being taken. He does
get so excited, Brenda when whilehe's wheeling that one in. Wow,
I thought we were out there.Yeah, these these kids, Uh and
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Ward have done a good job inmaking the kids have a really good moral
compass in the different ways. Doyou blame them for being upset about though?
Oh? I would be upset ifyou didn't know, especially you want
to you know, they don't getto do it all the time where they
live. They don't get to goto Shadow Lake all the time. You
don't want to go there, youknow. The whole point of fishing they're
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kind of fishing, or my kindof fishing, you're kind of fishing,
is you've got to out smart thefish or get lucky. Wally just said
a really uh, you know,interesting statement. He's like, all the
time we were out there, Idon't even know if we're having fun at
all now because you know, tothem, not catching that fish was the
word, you know, in theirmind, because it's a stock pond is
the worst thing in the world.Yes, it's like if you if somebody
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wants to be kind to you,you're playing a sport and they let you
win or something, they cut theirgame back an awful lot. What do
the offer to gut the fish forhim to clean the fish, and he
wants, you know, he wants. The whole point was for them to
be rustic, for them to learnsome to take care of themselves, they
(28:14):
how to handle themselves in nature andwhatever. I like how they play the
music here to kind of address thetheme. Oh yeah, Well he is
so bummed right now because he ishis little fan, rightfully, So I
get it. You see, evenit shows you the work ethic of people
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back then. Even when you're playingwith your kids, you're trying to accomplish
that. You know what I'm tryingto say. They never he never,
like I said, he never,but they're always trying to be good parents.
They never just kicked back. Jude'sgot a good idea there though,
(29:07):
Go to the lodge, have supperup there and let him, you know,
let him, you know, justget back in touch with the world
the way that it is. Let'stry to process the day a little bit.
So they're out looking for deer.Ward's going to join them. He
thinks they're out looking for deer.Yeah, but we all know that they're
(29:30):
going to be out doing something differenthere in just a moment. And they
don't think they're doing anything wrong.I don't I don't blame them as kids
doing it. Yeah m hm.Ward's sneaking up on them a little bit.
This is where all parents give inand everything else like that. This
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is when they realize they're watching amovie with the alligators. Oh he's got
another one that killed. This hasbeen the most deflating weekend in the world
for poor Ward because it's the worldthe way it is versus the way the
world the way that he wants,and it's all the technology the culture has
changed. Brian said this was Tony'sfavorite part of the episode because they give
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the reality check to poor Ward.That's the short way of putting it,
and they give him that Reality Check. Oh he's ready to get out of
there. I'm sorry. Do youthink didn't turn out the way I hope
they would? They have fun doingthe kind of things I did. Yeah,
(30:42):
it's a little sad there, youknow, for him to uh,
but he has to come to gripswith that too. He's he's growing.
He's never had boys that age.It's a shame on the new Leave it
to Beaver that he was passed awayand didn't get to join the show.
Oh yeah, when you have showslike that, Ward Clever would have been
(31:04):
an awesome grandpa too. I betah see, here's where he's been redeemed.
Though they don't want to go.We're a bunch of launch and we're
going to try together and make herround reality Check again. For Ward.
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You got to let them adjust tothe time period they're in with the things
that they have. Some of thethings from the past don't like doing you
guys, Amen says he agrees withyou that the sandwich tastes better in the
wax paper. I agree with youtoo, And then on that he really
does you know. You know weused to do this with your sister,
(31:49):
uh, you know, because welived down by the river. But I
won't spoil the ending here. See, there we go. He knows it.
He can't orchestrate the kid's experience.Now they have to experience it,
and at his age, he wantsto make it correctly, you know,
he wants to do it the waythat he knows how to do it.
At least he realizes that though nowshe's his friend. That's the way I
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should always be there. Yeah,that's that's his peer. And he's look,
he's looking at a comic book there. Maybe he's something to this.
Great episode, wasn't a good one? Next one is called Wally's Present.
That's the next. Absolutely I don'tremember that one. I do when he
when he buys a present for himself, right if you know, rather than
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Wally and oh yeah with his birthdaymoney and he breaks the set or something.
Okay, we'll talk. Yeah,I remember, you know, can
you remember what when when I start, When you guys were kids, we
go down to the river. Insteadof getting all carried away with different things,
I'd always start those big fires.Just bring a blanket and a rope
and put it over there, andto make a thing, and you guys
(32:58):
would hang, you know, makemuch. Sure, it was just being
like you know, Huckleberry Finn absolute, Tom Sawyer absolutely, and you your
John's mom would say, now becareful with those kids, And I say,
come on, I'm a psychologist.And we go down there the big,
big, big ice flows. Theseguys were hanging on tree limbs over
the water, big fires going ondown there. Good time. Did you
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have a nice time? Always?Absolutely? V said great episode? Hey,
thanks V. Wasn't it good?Well, we had a great time
with everybody. And closing thoughts myfriend before we signed off for the evening.
No, but just that this onereally hit home that it was the
technology of their day is the sameissue today twenty twenty four identical? You
could you could just be a modernversion of Ward. I love it absolutely
(33:44):
that how relevant the show is.Absolutely. Barbasays, can't wait for next
week's episode. Well, we willbe back again next week as we are,
and we try to be every Saturdaynight. Oh, don't do the
pipe. It was he's gonna flashto his twenty spot. We're going I'm
gonna make you take me out tocracker Barrel with that. No, no,
no, this is going for Idon't know what I'm gonna get here
(34:05):
some kind of a little gift formyself. There you go, bowlings nowadays,
you're not getting much for twenty bucks. Find something. I can find
something. George says, good night. All good night George. Well,
everybody else steal wards line for thenight. Have a big hook a cake
and a big tall glass or whatever. That goofy pipe in his mouth,
and I'm gonna break one night whenhe's not around. Oh boy, I
love this guy. Our group lovesto Leave It to Beaver podcast. We
(34:29):
appreciate that so much. Bran,thank you, guys. We appreciate it
with everybody. It's always a greattime to come out and join them.
So anymore anymore bets you want meto, I'm not making any more bets.
I don't care about the twenty bucks. I just don't like losing.
No, he does hear about thetwenty bucks, Sure kills him. I
just don't like losing, all right, everybody, Well, we will see
you again next week, same time, same place. Share the episode out
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if you like to like follow,do all that good stuff that we talked
about earlier, and we will seeyou again next week. Right here,
An on the Leave It to Bieberpodcast Thanks for joining us,
All right, everybody, welcome toanother episode of That'll Leave It to Beaver
podcast. Here we are. Iam John, and joining me is always
a stand. How you doing,my friend? Hey, I'm doing good.
(01:41):
I'm a little bit of costume heretonight. Because this is the happy
weekend. They're doing a little camping. He's got that pipe again, got
a little uh, got a littlesweatshirt in here for camp. He's getting
ready to go camps. Snow oneoutside here was a big fire out side
there today. It is so coldout in the mood. Boy, got
got a little uh little drink there, something nice for the fireplace. Oh
(02:04):
boy, and boy, it's theweek after you know what? Hey guys,
Hi, George, how's it going? George? Hello? The Hello
Brian? I Hello Kathy. Greatto see everybody out tonight. How you
doing? You know? You knowwhat's good for me? We had that
super Bowl weekend. This is whyI don't bet, all right, So
I told him right before, Isaid, I never I never bet hold
(02:27):
on, hold on, I neverbet on my teams in this asshole,
I guess gotta use that word onhere. It coaxes me into it again
and take that stupid thing out ofyour mouth. Man. Oh my god,
the thing is I'm gonna I'm gonnado something with that pipe. I'm
gonna I'm gonna pull a war head. Man. He's getting me in because
I got to fork over money nowon the super Bowl that I didn't want
to bet. It's because my buddybrought Purty played so great, but unfortunately
(02:51):
we lost to those no good damnChiefs, and uh, here's your twenty
bucks. There's nothing sweeter, nothing, Christoper than twenty for winning. This
is killing him. We could doa show and the new leave it to
Beaver, you know. We coulddo one about all right, about Wally
pays Ward. That's why I don'tbet money, folks, That's why I
(03:14):
don't bet money. So this iswhat it is. This is a good
show. George says. It's chillyin Florida too. Hello Brenda, Well
we're gonna have fun tonight. Wegot great episodes, so great to see
everybody out. We got seventeen peoplealready on the stream right now between all
the different things, so it's greatto see everybody out. Yes, quick
housekeeping before we get started. Makesure you like and follow the show if
you're doing it all take that thingout of your mouth. Make sure you
(03:37):
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it on out right after the show, about ten minutes after the show ends.
It's always up on audio. Sothat's all I got for the housekeeping.
(03:58):
What is the synopsis for c intwo, episode thirteen? It is
called Happy Weekend and Hello Barbara,Hi Barbara. This is a this is
a great episode. This is anice one. This is I think really
stars Ward in June again, eventhough the kids have a big role in
this. Ward comes home and he'sall excited because he's got a cabin for
the weekend. You know, FredRutherford had this cabin and it fell through
(04:24):
and he picked it up and hewants to take the kids fishing, and
June out there, eat dinner onFriday night, get right out there that
night, you know, and havea nice weekend outside and bloph bah bah
blah. And you know what's goingto happen. Yep, it's all going
to turn to you know what,Well, it doesn't. It doesn't.
He tells the kids in June.June says, I got to get my
(04:44):
hair done. I don't have oldclothes. I have to go buy new
old clothes, which is kind ofcrazy, and it's very funny. The
kids want to see a monster movie. They don't necessarily really want to go
and Ward, this is like everythinghappening today. Hey, in the twenty
first century. Ward wants to goback in the way back machine. They
want to watch movies, eating out. Yeah, he wants to sit around
(05:06):
the campfire and go fishing, andgo for a hike and do all the
things he did as a kid inthe twenties and thirties. You know when
he was a kid. You know, this is in nineteen fifty six.
So anyway, it's great great.Brian said this was one of this was
Tony Dae's favorite episode. He sharedthat in the interview. Did he really,
Brian, This is actually one ofmy sleeper I was telling you before,
(05:29):
This is one of my sleeper favoriteson the show. This is top
probably top five, top ten forme, right in that range. I
love this episode, I haven't seenit in about a year or so,
but I've seen this a bunch oftimes, and I feel for Ward in
this because any parent, any parentcan understand what Ward's going through where you're
trying to share certain things with yourkids, or you're trying to make it
fun, whether it's a weekend tripor a vacation or just telling people to
(05:50):
put that cell phone down. Yeah, whatever it might be, you know,
it's every parent can relate to that. Everybody can relate to it in
some way. So this is areal phone one. Hey, amen,
house going pay to see you asalways, but it's gonna be a fun
one. So I'm glad to hearit was Tony's favorite because it's one of
mine too. So yeah, let'sget on into it. We're gonna check
it out on the on Peacocks,So whenever you watch us, join us
(06:10):
if you'd like. We got ourintro real fast. Let me skip it.
Here we go, War's pulling in. Oh he's got the Ford on
here, boy, No, Iwould like to go back in the way
back machine. It looks like somebodyjust washed the ground out there. Yeah.
June is sitting on the couch rightnow, looking stunning as always,
(06:36):
She's all look at Ward. Hecomes popping in here. He's so happy.
Here's June right now? What Junelooks like? I found a few
pictures This one was hard to finda bunch of pictures of I got a
few. But here's June right now. How she looks so stunning with those
pearls and that outfit that she hason. Right now? Ward is home
from work and happy. Here's thesurprise looking watch this shadow Lake. Yes,
(07:10):
have you ever seen more so animated? He's excited. Yes, he
really wants to look at him.He wants to share one of his passions
with his kids. Yeah, heactually wants to do this for him.
He wants to have two friends,his boys and her. I understand word
(07:30):
struggle there though. Oh yeah,this is uh, this is a lot
of cliches here, you know,you know, she wants to get her
hair done, she wants new clothesto go up there. How many of
you would have liked if your parentstook you fishing when you were kids like
that, up to the up tothe cabin for the weekend. I would
have loved it. Well, wewere always fishing as a kid, though,
Look at this. He gets thereaction. He doesn't imagine mil You
(07:56):
can tell she knows what the reactionis going to be already. Always great
to see. Amen, Hi,Amen, always wonderful, my friend.
Look at this, both of them. They want to read comic books.
They got, they got a monstermovie. They plan. This is like
every person's relatable thing right here though, where we go back to our youth
(08:16):
and think it's going to be funfor the kids now or whatever. The
culture was like whatever, you know, in this day, what was taken
over for war was the movie theater, comic books, and television, just
like the radio took over for hisparents. Sure, George says, my
dad took his fishing a lot.He loved fishing. Did you like fish
and Georgia or did you just gobecause of your dad? Were you a
(08:37):
fisher were you a fisherman that Didyou enjoy doing that with your dad growing
up? We did it every night? Yeah, you know, I used
to love doing because we live righton the river. So now he's mandating
fun for everybody. Yes, weare going up to the lake right now.
Have fun. This. By theway, this theme that they're using
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here with a parent wanted to goback and do things like this was done
about a thousand times, you know, on TV back in the day and
probably today also, sure, butthis is a boy. It really shows
you how good this cast was.I was watching my three sons. I
was telling John the other day thefirst episodes. I haven't seen them in
(09:20):
decades, and boy, I'll tellyou that was on for twelve seasons.
It Couldn't Hold a Candle with theBeaver, and it used to be one
of my favorite shows as a kid. I haven't seen it in years.
Yeah, yeah, I still lovethem when I was a kid, and
check it out. George said itwas okay, but I wasn't passionate about
it. Yeah, yeah, it'sglad to This is really so good.
(09:43):
Oh there's beautiful shadow Lake Lake hereit is. Wait, looks gorgeous,
doesn't it. Yeah, this ishis dream. There they are driving up
four hours away. They're going tonighttime. He's in Cabin twelve. It's
the Shadow Lake Lodge. I canremember going up to my phone this friend
Terry Keely's house for this month someplaceupstate New York, which is weird,
(10:03):
and the whole place looked like itwas a haunted house and he says,
you want to stay? I said, not on your life. Man.
I was a kid. I wasafraid they were going to leave me there
overnight. Any of your parents everdo this taking you to a cabin as
a weekend out there? What aboutyou? Your parents ever take you to
cabin or you? No, Ididn't think so did that. But I
went with my father with the boyScouts to lean Toos. I was in
the Sea Scouts all that stuff.Look at all the suitcases they have for
(10:26):
the weekend, like with your mother, we all got ye. What's under
his arm? There? Is thatlike your dress or something? Or is
that like food or something in thebag that she's bringing up. That's like
a pic basket. Oh no,that's her makeup case. No ward had
a it's like a it's like aoh yeah, like a suitcase with the
band around. Yeah. Yeah,I've never seen one like that. Yeah,
(10:48):
so it wouldn't hoop open jungle fever. Yeah. Can you imagine they
want to drive all the way upfour hours there and back. What time
we're going to be done fishing sowe could leave early? Yep? Yeah,
(11:09):
it's kind of spooky in there.They look at that old bed.
I don't know, it looks kindof it looks kind of rustic and nice.
I can see where he's coming from. Brian says, always went fishing
in the up very much like thisarea. Very rural. All right,
my three sons cannot compare it all. To leave it to Beaver and Stephen
Douglas was so annoying compared to wordCleaver. Yeah you think, but yeah,
(11:31):
I even says, leave it toBeaver rules guys. Yes, these
guys were actually very cute in here. You know, Wally and Beaver,
they were very cute and exploring thehouse and all their little shenanigans. They
got to look at Beaver's jacket andWally's shirt. It's almost kind of matching
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a little bit. Yeah, wheredo you see the clothing that war changes
into the next day. He's actuallylook very handsome. He's got kind of
a lumberjack shirt on. She's reallyexcited. You can see it with her
a little bit because she's going backto her young You can see it's a
smile on her face. Yep.You know the nice thing in this,
(12:13):
I guess you guys probably feel verysimilar. You can see that they gradually
have an ebb and flow of fallingin love with this and also being a
little bored or finding other things.They do their own twist on it,
Oh, their own take on Theydon't like the smell, No, we
get water. Water Ward thinks thisis gonna be the greatest time right now.
(12:39):
He's laughing, he's joking, folks, he's having a good time.
Kids seem to be ready and excitednow and join it. George said,
this is when the boys go tothe town by the camp and watch Jungle
Fever with their binoculars. Exactly,George, No spoilers here. Man.
Was Jungle Fever a real movie?I know, but it was a stereotype
of all monster pictures, a creaturefrom the Black Lagoon or something where they
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were going to feature to an eighthyou know, to a crocodile. Look
at that old st that old furnaceright there. No, that's a pop
belly stove. Is that a stove? Yeah, that's a stove. Interesting
you have that now, wood burningstoves very similar to that. It's a
pop belly stove. What she's cold, you can see she's Look at the
jacket she brings camping. I thinkthat's oh, that's Harves. Yeah,
(13:26):
yep, the boys got wood forthe night. See, I would love
to do something like that. Surewhat they're doing, that would be fun
right there in his spot Belly Branson, yep. V said Fred McMurray made
a lot of demands and he shotmany of his scenes separately. Really me,
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I didn't know that they did.I but Fred McMurray was a very
big star. And was he alittle bit of uh uh, what's the
right word for medeeva so to speak, behind the scenes as a holly with
guy V was that? Did hehave a reputation for that? Fred m
Fred McMurray was the He was thedad on My Three Sons right, Yes,
okay. William Frawley was the originalguy. He was an I Love
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Lucy originally and then he became Gotchaand he was notorious as an alcoholic and
a very difficult guy to Ward kindof depletes the energy to the kids and
sucks it out of him when hestarts telling them when I was when when
I was a boys story to them. They don't want to hear it,
no, but that here he issaying, remember Grandpa doing this kind of
(14:33):
stuff? Yes, I was talkingabout Grandpa today to a friend of mine
where we were just shooting, shootingthe breeze about it, and I said,
uh, I said he if heliked you, he gave you a
nickname. Yeah, you know everything, he'll give you a nickname. I
was Moondog. Yes, let's see. He said he was okay, but
(14:54):
but really rather aloof. I sawan interview with Ernie. Okay, Kathy
said, I'm stands Asian. It'sfun watching John Learner. But the old
stuff he's never seen before, likethe populace, so absolutely, Kathy.
Sure. So I would say aboutthe show is I learned so much from
other people out there. I'm inmy forties, you know, but there's
so many things I didn't know thatI learned. The things I learned about
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my father. This is how Iwould be in bed with my brother,
who still is alive, who waseighty five. We had a pair of
bunk bets, you know, andhe was much older than me. I
was only four or five. Andhe went into the Navy. But it
was so hot in our little apartment. I used to say, George,
make us cool, like these guysare trying to get warm, and he
gosh, and he'd actually had mefreeze and tell me it was the Arctic.
(15:39):
Uh huh. Look at that stoveand what it's doing. Oh yeah,
I think that's cool. I wouldlove to sleep with that. It's
distracting the kids, though, Juneand Warren get the bedroom. Sometimes the
bedroom door is open, it lookslike a double bed. Yeah, you
weren't allowed to sleep in the bedand saying that, no, not back
(16:00):
not back down. Did anybody havein their bedrooms in their houses like the
men and the women? Did theysleep separately like often? Or did they
have the same bedstiffs? Sometimes theyhad like a bed over here at night
table and another bed. They didn'tsleep in the same bed, but you
know a lot of people didn't sleepin the same bed. They would have
you know, you know, doublebeds or I think they called them Hollywood
(16:22):
beds or what about later on inlife for Graham and Grandpa. I know,
you guys had only a one bedroomapartment for a part of your life.
But did they did they share abed together? And they got bigger
places always always gotcha always, Soit was kind of like a fifty to
fifteen mix you'd see with people.Oh yeah, they don't see working out.
You know, you know everybody thatwas in here was Worster Jonas.
(16:44):
Did any of your parents out theresleep in separate beds like like the you
know see two twin beds with thenights stand. Anybody's parents do that?
Let's see? Barbas said, uhis. George says, is this also
the one where they catch a lotof fish but found out the pond was
stocked? Yes, sir, youare correct, George, Right, you
got it one hundred percent. Theyget all excited about it. Brent says,
(17:06):
just on TV though, right,wasn't that just on TV? Yeah?
You hear that one a lot fromthem too. We got a quick
commercial here, folks, what's juston TV? The separate beds? Yeah?
No, A lot of people wouldsleep in separate beds because people would
snore and people would roll over alot of people. I thought it was
maybe like more of a TV myththat you would see because they no,
(17:26):
that was a TV thing because ofthe code, the behavior code. They
didn't want to, you know,people to think about sexual behavior like that
with people. Okay, but Ican't remember a lot of Yeah, George
said, right here, my grandparentsslept in separate bedrooms. Yeah, and
Brian said, my grandparents slept inseparate beds only because my grandpa snored.
All right, yeah, there yougo. See it doesn't bother me.
(17:47):
I've always had a preference to sleepin a separate bed and in a separate
room. Yeah, if I can, because of growing up as a kid
with people all on top of me. And it's really funny. I don't
mind sleeping with my wife, butI have another room off to the side.
She snores, your mother snored likeshe scares you, snore like crazy.
But she also will be punching youin the middle of the night if
(18:10):
you're in there. She's always freakingout in the middle of the night about
something. I don't care for that. I just want to sleep, and
says there. Ama says there wasa movie called Jungle Fever starring Wesley Snipes
and Annabella Sciora. If I saidthat right from the early nineteen nineties,
Okay, interesting, Yeah, Ithought i'd heard a movie about it.
Look at this, looking at June, Look at her. I got a
picture. I think of her righthere. She's in her version of jeans.
(18:33):
Their little pedal pushes, they usedto call them. Here's what,
June, if you're not watching thisright now, here's what everybody's kind of
the word too. How handsome heloved? Huh, they're all platted out
right here. You know they were. It's very funny and maybe it's very
nostalgic the more you do the show. What a very handsome couple they were.
(18:55):
Absolutely, she's a very very handsomeone and he's a very handsome man.
Look at how physically fit he is. I mean he's at thirty five
or forty years old. He wasprobably fifty years old. His birthday was
this week. He would have beenone hundred and fifteen. Oh my god.
Yeah, I saw it posted inone of the Beaver groups. His
birthday was this week. So happyheavenly birthday to him. Yeah, Jude
(19:18):
didn't get the plaid memo. Yeah, she's the only one, Brian,
she's the only one not rocking outthe plaid right now. But she's got
the checkers, the checkers, andshe's got the collar up. You know,
it's weird to see her in jeans. Yes, well that's stair portion
of jeans. Yeah, this isso funny. This is a bucket of
(19:41):
cold water on him here now,he thinks that he did the greatest thing.
They're going on a hike. Yeah, the movie theater. He can't
(20:03):
escape. He'll look on his faceright now, Brenda's didn't say my parents
slept in separate rooms. All right? Yeah, see here you go.
What did they have for breakfast?And they got their comic book there too?
Another one. They can't escape theworld the way that it is.
(20:26):
It's nothing he can do, evenin shadow Lake. No, they built
it up. June always supports him. A good wife, she'd I think
she'd much rather have a hamburger inanisoda at the drug store too. Hey,
(20:51):
she's gonna go get her hair.Oh, she doesn't want to look
a mess if she sees any.But you know, in shadow Lake four
hours away. You know this,this whole episode is wonderful in terms of
one of the classic things as apsychologist. I used to always tell myself
and everybody else, there's the worldthe way it is and the world the
(21:12):
way you want it to be,And lots of times it just doesn't match.
Ward in that hat right there,hees this old gentleman here at shadow
Lake is given Ward. The He'sgiven Ward the skinny so to speak.
(21:34):
He thinks Ward knows what the dealis. Yeah, he doesn't know the
deal. Ward's not in on it. This guy's sending him out to all
the good fishing spots where things stocked. You see what you see what the
work ethic was, the ethic thatWard had. If you're going to catch
(21:56):
a fish, earn it. Yeah, you don't want to. You don't
want to catch a fish that's ina little pond there that's already stocked or
whatever. It's no fun. Doesn'the charge this guy charge him later on
pro fish or something that charges hima bucket a piece for the fish,
but eight dollars for the for rentingthe road book yep, and everything else
like that. Brian says, mygrandfather was three days older than Hugh Bomont.
(22:21):
So, Brian, your grandfather wouldhave would have been one hundred and
fifteen then to one hundred. Imagineliving man. Yeah, Ward's kind of
he's doing the row in there.The boys are what they are they doing
a Larry mondelo they got apples orsomething, or saying, oh they did
this is what people would do.You'd want to bring up, you want
to bring a lunch, you wantto be picnicked. You know, I
(22:44):
can't remember that with going with myfamily to state parks and things like that.
What were they tape something like thisif they had a set lands like
this, Yeah, like a lotthat they did. Yeah that TV shows
were done there if you were inthe water, or horror show or something.
But they really made it look goodthough. They really made it looked
like it was a legit spot.Oh sure, back in the day,
(23:07):
word can tell by instinct. Hesaid, Well, he meant that,
you know that he had to havea float and they would put their hands
that their thumb on the real andfeel the little tug from the fish.
Ye see. Ward has a lotof victories here and then he has a
lot of defeats in the in thesame way. Every time he thinks it's
going great and good, it's instantfor him, you know. It's do
(23:30):
anything that happens has the same thing. I love old movies in the history
of the cinema. I'm always tellingpeople, hey, look I love new
movies. Also, hey, youwant to see this old movie just to
just to check it out. It'svery, very hard to get anybody to
buy into that anymore. And that'swhat Ward wants. He wants them to
you know, to see some youknow some to do some classic things.
(23:53):
You can't blame it though, forfor one, but you know, you
also have to understand the culture changes. Sure. Look what I'm was talking
to your daughter the other day,kame, So I was talking about reading,
which says I don't like to read. And probably the most simplest,
he's got a fish there and she'sa brilliant kid, and she does she
(24:15):
likes to read and you know,shortened versions of everything. Yeah, the
way that things are now, thankslittle fish. He picked up a little
travel Yeah, look at that canoe. Would you want to get in that
canoe? That's so John Bowe's asquare thing on the back you could put
a little modro on. My grandfatherwas an older father. He was forty
five when my mother was When mymom was born. Oh wow, yeah
(24:37):
wow, Amon says, Oh,happy birthday, one hundred and fifteenth birthday
in rest in peace, mister HughBeaumont aka Ward Cleaver. Absolutely amen.
He was an older father. Hewas forty five and my mother was born.
Nothing wrong with having kids in yourforties, so you're knowledgeable at that
point. They're enjoying all the fishthey're catching. How many of you guys
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can remember how much better a sandwichtasted when it used to be wrapped in
wax paper. Oh yeah, no, it really was. Or maybe that's
just memorabilia, but I've had acouple of those, you know, here
and there over the years. Isaid, Wow, that just tastes marvelous.
Hey, Deborah, how are you? Hey, I'm at Cracker Barrel.
(25:23):
Hate I'm not on. We'll watchthe replay. Have a great weekend.
Absolutely, never enjoy your time.Have some delicious biscuits and gravy at
the Cracker. Oh yeah, Ilove their biscuits and gravy over there.
I haven't been to the Cracker Barrelin years. Oh he's got another fish.
Yeah, let's do it one day. I'd love to go for breakfast.
I got twenty dollars that you justgave you here. Oh, you
can treat for breakfast. Then I'meating twenty bucks. On you listen to
(25:48):
Bee kind of navigating Wally and tellinghim how to fish because he was the
first even and they're having the daytime and now the real world catches up
with Yep, the reality of life. This old gentleman who owns the boat
dock here he is waiting on him, wheeling him in because Shadow Lake is
(26:11):
really kind of like a little touristtrap. Okay, side note. He
was born in nineteen oh nine andWard was born in nineteen ten. All
right, Wow, George said,I had lunch at the Cracker barely they
too eight fish? What look atWard? Yeah, he's got that angry
(26:45):
look on right now. Well confusedhe thinks he's being taken. He does
get so excited, Brenda when whilehe's wheeling that one in. Wow,
I thought we were out there.Yeah, these these kids, Uh and
(27:08):
Ward have done a good job inmaking the kids have a really good moral
compass in the different ways. Doyou blame them for being upset about though?
Oh? I would be upset ifyou didn't know, especially you want
to you know, they don't getto do it all the time where they
live. They don't get to goto Shadow Lake all the time. You
don't want to go there, youknow. The whole point of fishing they're
(27:30):
kind of fishing, or my kindof fishing, you're kind of fishing,
is you've got to out smart thefish or get lucky. Wally just said
a really uh, you know,interesting statement. He's like, all the
time we were out there, Idon't even know if we're having fun at
all now because you know, tothem, not catching that fish was the
word, you know, in theirmind, because it's a stock pond is
the worst thing in the world.Yes, it's like if you if somebody
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wants to be kind to you,you're playing a sport and they let you
win or something, they cut theirgame back an awful lot. What do
the offer to gut the fish forhim to clean the fish, and he
wants, you know, he wants. The whole point was for them to
be rustic, for them to learnsome to take care of themselves, they
(28:14):
how to handle themselves in nature andwhatever. I like how they play the
music here to kind of address thetheme. Oh yeah, Well he is
so bummed right now because he ishis little fan, rightfully, So I
get it. You see, evenit shows you the work ethic of people
(28:42):
back then. Even when you're playingwith your kids, you're trying to accomplish
that. You know what I'm tryingto say. They never he never,
like I said, he never,but they're always trying to be good parents.
They never just kicked back. Jude'sgot a good idea there though,
(29:07):
Go to the lodge, have supperup there and let him, you know,
let him, you know, justget back in touch with the world
the way that it is. Let'stry to process the day a little bit.
So they're out looking for deer.Ward's going to join them. He
thinks they're out looking for deer.Yeah, but we all know that they're
(29:30):
going to be out doing something differenthere in just a moment. And they
don't think they're doing anything wrong.I don't I don't blame them as kids
doing it. Yeah m hm.Ward's sneaking up on them a little bit.
This is where all parents give inand everything else like that. This
(29:52):
is when they realize they're watching amovie with the alligators. Oh he's got
another one that killed. This hasbeen the most deflating weekend in the world
for poor Ward because it's the worldthe way it is versus the way the
world the way that he wants,and it's all the technology the culture has
changed. Brian said this was Tony'sfavorite part of the episode because they give
(30:18):
the reality check to poor Ward.That's the short way of putting it,
and they give him that Reality Check. Oh he's ready to get out of
there. I'm sorry. Do youthink didn't turn out the way I hope
they would? They have fun doingthe kind of things I did. Yeah,
(30:42):
it's a little sad there, youknow, for him to uh,
but he has to come to gripswith that too. He's he's growing.
He's never had boys that age.It's a shame on the new Leave it
to Beaver that he was passed awayand didn't get to join the show.
Oh yeah, when you have showslike that, Ward Clever would have been
(31:04):
an awesome grandpa too. I betah see, here's where he's been redeemed.
Though they don't want to go.We're a bunch of launch and we're
going to try together and make herround reality Check again. For Ward.
(31:27):
You got to let them adjust tothe time period they're in with the things
that they have. Some of thethings from the past don't like doing you
guys, Amen says he agrees withyou that the sandwich tastes better in the
wax paper. I agree with youtoo, And then on that he really
does you know. You know weused to do this with your sister,
(31:49):
uh, you know, because welived down by the river. But I
won't spoil the ending here. See, there we go. He knows it.
He can't orchestrate the kid's experience.Now they have to experience it,
and at his age, he wantsto make it correctly, you know,
he wants to do it the waythat he knows how to do it.
At least he realizes that though nowshe's his friend. That's the way I
(32:15):
should always be there. Yeah,that's that's his peer. And he's look,
he's looking at a comic book there. Maybe he's something to this.
Great episode, wasn't a good one? Next one is called Wally's Present.
That's the next. Absolutely I don'tremember that one. I do when he
when he buys a present for himself, right if you know, rather than
(32:36):
Wally and oh yeah with his birthdaymoney and he breaks the set or something.
Okay, we'll talk. Yeah,I remember, you know, can
you remember what when when I start, When you guys were kids, we
go down to the river. Insteadof getting all carried away with different things,
I'd always start those big fires.Just bring a blanket and a rope
and put it over there, andto make a thing, and you guys
(32:58):
would hang, you know, makemuch. Sure, it was just being
like you know, Huckleberry Finn absolute, Tom Sawyer absolutely, and you your
John's mom would say, now becareful with those kids, And I say,
come on, I'm a psychologist.And we go down there the big,
big, big ice flows. Theseguys were hanging on tree limbs over
the water, big fires going ondown there. Good time. Did you
(33:21):
have a nice time? Always?Absolutely? V said great episode? Hey,
thanks V. Wasn't it good?Well, we had a great time
with everybody. And closing thoughts myfriend before we signed off for the evening.
No, but just that this onereally hit home that it was the
technology of their day is the sameissue today twenty twenty four identical? You
could you could just be a modernversion of Ward. I love it absolutely
(33:44):
that how relevant the show is.Absolutely. Barbasays, can't wait for next
week's episode. Well, we willbe back again next week as we are,
and we try to be every Saturdaynight. Oh, don't do the
pipe. It was he's gonna flashto his twenty spot. We're going I'm
gonna make you take me out tocracker Barrel with that. No, no,
no, this is going for Idon't know what I'm gonna get here
(34:05):
some kind of a little gift formyself. There you go, bowlings nowadays,
you're not getting much for twenty bucks. Find something. I can find
something. George says, good night. All good night George. Well,
everybody else steal wards line for thenight. Have a big hook a cake
and a big tall glass or whatever. That goofy pipe in his mouth,
and I'm gonna break one night whenhe's not around. Oh boy, I
love this guy. Our group lovesto Leave It to Beaver podcast. We
(34:29):
appreciate that so much. Bran,thank you, guys. We appreciate it
with everybody. It's always a greattime to come out and join them.
So anymore anymore bets you want meto, I'm not making any more bets.
I don't care about the twenty bucks. I just don't like losing.
No, he does hear about thetwenty bucks, Sure kills him. I
just don't like losing, all right, everybody, Well, we will see
you again next week, same time, same place. Share the episode out
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if you like to like follow,do all that good stuff that we talked
about earlier, and we will seeyou again next week. Right here,
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