July 30, 2021 • 17 mins
Our long-time Esteemed Newsman and still-retired Marshall Phillips joins Jack in-studio to catch up.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
We're playing lots of zz Top as Dusty hild, the
bass player from zz Top died. Yes, Dave was in
his seventies, so it's not, you know, crazy unexpected, but
um yeah, so playing a lot of easy talk. Marshall
Phillips joins us it used to be our music guy.
Before we get into even who you are? Jever meeting
me the zz Toppers, I did, indeed, surprise, Yeah, Billy,
I think I met him. You know you gotta Reverend
(00:30):
Billy F. Gibbons, the lead guitar player. Yes, yes, you
gotta fear of the beard. Hear the beards. Marshall Phillips
did our news for how many years did you do?
It was grand total of fourteen years? Really, yes, I know, wow,
I know. God time goes by and I thought about that.
You know the other thing too, because I have been
retired now for a while and it has certainly not
(00:53):
been boring. But one thing I keep wondering when I
wake up is what day is? It? Is that something
that happens to every time My kids are that way
you beat out of school, and they have never they
have have no idea if it's a Monday or a Saturday. Exactly.
You know, so I have to I have to mendally
make a cue. Okay, what date, let's look at the
all right, we know what day it is. So you
(01:13):
did you retired December nineteen? Yeah, so so had the news?
Had you done the news about a virus in China
at that point show? Yeah, we did, We did mention it,
and I was I think I had mentioned that I
heard in the BBC. I was following it because I,
(01:33):
you know, would wake up early, early in the morning
and I would be, you know, here in the BBC
they were talking about, oh, there's nineteen cases of this
mysterious and then the next day it was there's twenty
nine cases. The next day it was there's four cases.
So you retired, and then three months later the whole
world shuts down. Yes, yes, yes, to put a damper
(01:57):
on some of your plans for your first year retirement.
My first year of retirement was pretty much spent at home.
I think I I think I called one time and
was telling you how I was building this whole uh
tribute to Chardonnay bottle. I had a pyramid. I had
a Chardonnay bottle pyramid out in front of my house here,
(02:20):
you're you're in the age group that you know where
it's pretty deadly for and there was no vaccine at
the time, so heck, yeah, yeah, no, I mean, and
the good I think good thing was I did use
the time. I have moved twice in the last year
and a half, no, three twice, now twice. Yeah, I
was trying to figure out because I've been bouncing around
(02:42):
from a lot of places. But I used the time
to actually clear out the rest of the the stuff
from my mom's home. She had passed away a few
years before, So I got all of that out of
the house and then got the got it rehabbed and
everything else, and then put it up for sale. While wow,
(03:04):
all this was still going on, no vaccine, COVID restrictions
mass everywhere, and it was pretty challenging. But it did
give me something to do. I wasn't just sitting at
home going okay, now what yeah, And you know, luckily
it's the age of the internet and everything like that,
so you can be in contact with people or fallow
the news or whatever like it would have been thirty
(03:25):
years ago or whatever. Um, so just what's your overall
taking this? I mean, in terms of in terms of
interesting things that have happened on planet Earth, even for
a guy of your worldly nature, it has to stand out.
Is is A is a pretty big one. I was
not around for the Spanish flu, so this is the
first pandemic I have ever. You know, lived through things,
(03:47):
knock on wood, lived through and I I gotta tell you,
I gotta tell you you're vaccinated. At this point five times,
you know, I ben't. I used another name and got
more No, but I do have to tell you. I
know everybody wants to get back to normal, and I
(04:07):
really appreciate that. But when all of a sudden, you know,
they said, I take your mass off and have a
good time, I'm kind of going, okay, but let's be careful.
And now we've we've got this what do they call it,
the uh delta? The delta you know variety. I can
imagine it does look differently if you're a susceptible age group,
(04:29):
where you know this could really make you sick. Um,
And you know, if you're under if you're under sixty,
really it's not that deadly. And if certainly if you're
under forty, it's very unlikely you would kill you. But um,
you know you probably feel the same way my parents.
And my parents took it very seriously. Oh yeah, no,
there's no doubt about it. And as soon as I
could get vaccinated, I did. You know, I'm really glad
(04:50):
I did, because you know, that's one less thing you
have to worry about yourself, to be cautious. But you're
not like, oh my god, now because now when you're
in retirement, when when I don't have a job to
come to every day, every little thing becomes a huge
epic with me. I've noticed that with retired people. I
(05:12):
am on the phone daily to my friends scattered about
the country, you know, got going ranting and raving about
any number of things. Now they're kind of expecting it.
You know, if I don't call at least every couple
of days, and they called me, you know, just afraid
I may have exploded. So I was gonna ask you
(05:33):
about you and your friends in your set. So you're
an old hippie who hung around with hippies back in
the day, and um, a lot of your older liberals
that that I follow are kind of looking at some
of their fellow younger liberals and saying, what is going
on with you? People, And uh, I wonder if you've
(05:54):
noticed in you that among your crowd, amongst my crowd,
I will I will tell you something. A lot of
my crowd, people that I've known since I was thirteen
and we all went through many things together, are much
more liberal and I am so they're so they're joining
in with more of the younger wolf crown. Oh yeah,
(06:15):
very much so, very much so. And you know, we
have spirited discussions about you know, we don't get too
heavy into politics, but mostly policy. I just think it's
interesting that the crowd that was always so suspicious of
the FBI and the CIA in general, a lot of
those people now that they're they're all hail the FBI
(06:35):
and c I A. Are are our masters who will
keep us safe. And I'm like, where did that come from.
I do have a couple of friends that have surprised
me over the years, and you know, I will look
at them and pictures of them and announced that you're
looking very prosperous because I've noticed that their waist size
has expanded amazingly. Oh yeah, yes, and they're looking very
(06:59):
prosperous these days. In general, what, um, what has surprised
you about retirement, because I remember asking my dad. I
like to ask retired people this question because I hope
to be retired someday years from now. But what's what
surprised you? What didn't surprise you about retirement? Well? What has? Well, yeah,
what's to surprise me? Or what I've had to have
a realization about is make sure when you retire you
(07:23):
got some kind of hobby, something else to do, because, uh,
after my second move, now, there have been a few
days where I'm going, okay, now what But fortunately things
keep coming up and I have to deal with. So
I haven't, like I said, I haven't been born, but
I can see a time down the line if I
(07:43):
don't get bitty and start to you know, salsa dancing
or something again, you know it, you really are sort
of faced with Okay, now, I know my my dad's
younger brother. I remember him asking, he said, what are
you gonna do when you retire? You don't golf? You
don't fish, right, I mean, you know, because like Joeseph Golfer,
that's that's how he pictures retirement is playing golf. I
get it. All. I know fishermen who can't can't wait
(08:05):
to the idea that they're gonna be able to fish
every single day. But if you don't have one of
those things, I don't um, you do have to do
something um and And you know, most people, their whole
lives of working, can't wait till the day when they
don't have to work anymore. But there's a lot of
time in a day, day after day after day. You
got to do something. Oh yeah, oh yeah. The other
thing too is a lot of my really close friends
(08:26):
do not live anywhere near me. So again it's like, hey,
how you doing on the phone. How about the sense
of who you are? If you had any problem with that?
Because so many people, I think particularly men, defined themselves
by their job, by their job, And when you don't
have that, have you had any problem with? Who? Who
am I? What am I? No that I that I
haven't had any problem with? Well, now I gotta I
(08:50):
got a bullet for you. I have given up the grape.
All booze are just wine. I have given up the grape.
I'll put it that way. No, just just because how
do I put it? After I built the temple to
Chardonnay for that year and a half, I just thought,
you know, dude, let's try something else. Yeah, yes, So
(09:15):
did you feel that it was starting to play too
much of a role in your life? Yeah? The thing, Oh,
I'll tell you this, the one thing you got to
be careful of when you're when you are a retired gentleman.
If you don't have immediate family around you, you know,
occupy you. Boredom is your worst enemy, you know. Just okay,
Like we were saying, all right, it's two in the afternoon. Again,
(09:36):
it's the now what do I do? Question? So you
gotta try and figure out some other ways, new ways
to occupy yourself. You're for people who don't know Marshall
Phillips who did the news for us for many, many
years and retired a couple of years ago and never married,
no children, right, so still a couple of lady friends around. Yes,
Michael's got a question. Yeah, you're still playing the lottery, Marshall. Yes,
(09:59):
I am scratchers. You still have that hobby? Oh? Yes,
oh yes, And I will tell you this without try
bragging too much. I don't know if I mentioned on
a day if your wedding, Michael, Yeah, I had purchased
a scratcher and after your wedding I came home and
I scratched it. I won six hundred and seventy lucky day.
(10:22):
That was Michael's wedding. Well, I told you I waited
till after the ceremony to do that. I got another
question from Marshall Phillips, a legendary newsperson. I mean we
haven't even mentioned that legendary a broadcaster at some of
the biggest stations in the history of radio over the years.
So it was a week ago tonight that Joe Biden
(10:43):
said at that CNN town hall, if you get vaccinated,
you will not have to wear a mask. I repeat,
if you get vaccinated, you will not have to wear
a mask. He said it twice, and within a couple
of days the White House changed directions. You gotta remember
there following the science or following the science. So they
claim Marshall Phillips joins us he was our news guy
(11:04):
for I didn't realize it was fourteen years that you
did that. Was that the longest radio gig you had
in your tire luster's career, Yes, yes it was. I
had a couple of eleven year runs, a couple of
eight year runs, and a whole lot of six month
runs and two year runs and you know how it has,
how it is um so without getting it we were
(11:27):
Marshall was just telling me a little story up there.
Did you run the red light? Do you think you
ran the red light? No, I I admitted, I have admitted, yes,
I I ran the red light. I wasn't aware i'd
run the red light, but they had a picture of me,
you know, And so and again I just moved into
this area and every intersection has cameras. And how big
(11:51):
is the ticket for that five and sixty chunk of money? Man? Yes?
So no, I paid it up. That's the first moving
elation I've had, probably in thirty five forty years. Well,
the only reason I bring it up is you once
went to jail, Yes, for driving tickets parking, which are
not a moving viol No. No, And you didn't pay
(12:14):
your parking tickets in l A County. It was in Fullerton,
Orange County. And you know the bottom line was no,
I paid parking tickets like crazy. But I was working nights,
sleeping in the daytime, and where I lived, you had
two hour parking in front of your house two hours,
(12:34):
so every two hours you gotta move your car. Yes,
I had to wake up, move my car, go back
to sleep, wake up, moved my car. That's unrealistic way
to live. And I went when I moved in, when
we rented this house, I moved, I went to the
police department, said, hey, listen, I've I've just moved in.
Here's my lease agreement and everything. Can I get a
(12:57):
you know, residents sticker, so you know, to deal with
the park They said, nope, no, we don't. We don't
offer those but that but that's that's crazy because you
have to be parked somewhere. So you're just gonna what
difference does it make whether you take up this spot
for four straight hours, where you take up two different
spots two hours each, It doesn't make any difference in
terms of the number of spots available. And so I
(13:19):
would still even though I was getting moving the car around,
I was still getting You would you would actually set
your alarm. So this is when you so you working nights,
This is actually like your your this is when you're
supposed to get your eight to ten hours. So you
would set your alarm and wake up every two hours
and go move your car. That's craziest night after night.
How often did you successfully do that? I would get
(13:42):
three tickets a week, maybe four. But so that means
that many, many times you woke yourself up out of
a deep sleep, like did you sleep in your clothes
or would you put on some clothes and go out
and move your car? I had my satin robot and
so and so you have to go all the way
out to your car. How far away? It wasn't very far? Oh,
you know there was a front yard, you know, a sidewalk,
(14:04):
a lawn now, and then you just moved like the
next closest spot. Yeah, pretty much, just back and forth
and back and forth. My god, I can't imagine waking
like the third time, not, you know, not the thirtieth time,
Like the third time, I'd say the screw it. And
there was an alley behind this house, but you couldn't
really park in the alley because it was one of
those like single lane, one way, a little strips. So
(14:27):
moving towards you ended up in the whosco. How many
parking tickets had you gotten before you ended up in corners?
I paid hundreds and hundreds of dollars and I even
went to the police Department's Fulton Police Department, and I
think I talked to the chief, but I said, here's
the deal. I mean, I live here, and I got
I've been paying tickets like mad. Could you double check
(14:49):
to see if I have any more outstanding tickets? And
they ran a computer check. Yes, you do. This seems
like a real spirit of the law letter the law
to thing to me too, the spirit of the law
law it is not to make people who live around
their move their cars every two hours. But they stuck
you with the letter of the law. They stuck me
with the letter of the law. And in the bottom
(15:09):
line is so I paid off those and I kept
trying to pay the tickets, you know, trying not to
get tickets and pay the tickets. And then one evening
around six o'clock, oh only till five, though after five
I didn't have to move. So it's just unfortunately had
to sleep during the day. Yes, yes, uh so one
night around six o'clock, I hear knocking him the door,
(15:31):
and I peek out through the window and I see
two long here guys, and I thought, maybe they're murdering
my roommates friends. You know, they look hippie. As I
opened the door and the two guys literally burst in
and demand, are you Marshall Phillips. Yes, down down down
to the ground, on the ground. Oh yeah, on the rug.
(15:53):
Because the confused by this is this? Did they to
something else? The whole deal was the tickets. Some of
the tickets have gone to warrant and I hadn't. Apparently
you gotta get down on the ground. Yeah. Yeah. It
was unbelievable and we're out of time. But you spent
a month in jail. I did. I did for contempt
(16:13):
at court. A month a love in jail. Absolutely unbelievable.
Our show, we really want to mate with you. Classic class, next,
a classic callback. I'm the host of final thoughts at
Jack Armstrong. Let's get a final thought from Michael Angelo.
(16:35):
My final thought is directed at Marshall. Thank you for
coming to my wedding. Even though you were had a
health condition, you snuck in there. We really appreciated you
showing up. Loved it. I did too. That was great times.
Let's get a final thought for guest newsman today and
my Marshall Fillips. Sorry, Marshall, you know it was amazed.
I drove right here without getting lost, and yeah, walked
through the back door and saw familiar faces. Now retirement
(16:58):
is okay, but make sure you've got something else to do,
so you don't just sit there and go, okay, now
what excellent point and probably not a good idea, and
wait and and to not wait until you get to
retirement to decide when you want to do. Yeah, I don't.
I don't have a thing. I don't fish, I don't golf.
I don't know what it would be. Start working on
(17:19):
it that I'm gonna come up with something, building a model,
ships in a bottle or something s
We're playing lots of zz Top as Dusty hild, the
bass player from zz Top died. Yes, Dave was in
his seventies, so it's not, you know, crazy unexpected, but
um yeah, so playing a lot of easy talk. Marshall
Phillips joins us it used to be our music guy.
Before we get into even who you are? Jever meeting
me the zz Toppers, I did, indeed, surprise, Yeah, Billy,
I think I met him. You know you gotta Reverend
(00:30):
Billy F. Gibbons, the lead guitar player. Yes, yes, you
gotta fear of the beard. Hear the beards. Marshall Phillips
did our news for how many years did you do?
It was grand total of fourteen years? Really, yes, I know, wow,
I know. God time goes by and I thought about that.
You know the other thing too, because I have been
retired now for a while and it has certainly not
(00:53):
been boring. But one thing I keep wondering when I
wake up is what day is? It? Is that something
that happens to every time My kids are that way
you beat out of school, and they have never they
have have no idea if it's a Monday or a Saturday. Exactly.
You know, so I have to I have to mendally
make a cue. Okay, what date, let's look at the
all right, we know what day it is. So you
(01:13):
did you retired December nineteen? Yeah, so so had the news?
Had you done the news about a virus in China
at that point show? Yeah, we did, We did mention it,
and I was I think I had mentioned that I
heard in the BBC. I was following it because I,
(01:33):
you know, would wake up early, early in the morning
and I would be, you know, here in the BBC
they were talking about, oh, there's nineteen cases of this
mysterious and then the next day it was there's twenty
nine cases. The next day it was there's four cases.
So you retired, and then three months later the whole
world shuts down. Yes, yes, yes, to put a damper
(01:57):
on some of your plans for your first year retirement.
My first year of retirement was pretty much spent at home.
I think I I think I called one time and
was telling you how I was building this whole uh
tribute to Chardonnay bottle. I had a pyramid. I had
a Chardonnay bottle pyramid out in front of my house here,
(02:20):
you're you're in the age group that you know where
it's pretty deadly for and there was no vaccine at
the time, so heck, yeah, yeah, no, I mean, and
the good I think good thing was I did use
the time. I have moved twice in the last year
and a half, no, three twice, now twice. Yeah, I
was trying to figure out because I've been bouncing around
(02:42):
from a lot of places. But I used the time
to actually clear out the rest of the the stuff
from my mom's home. She had passed away a few
years before, So I got all of that out of
the house and then got the got it rehabbed and
everything else, and then put it up for sale. While wow,
(03:04):
all this was still going on, no vaccine, COVID restrictions
mass everywhere, and it was pretty challenging. But it did
give me something to do. I wasn't just sitting at
home going okay, now what yeah, And you know, luckily
it's the age of the internet and everything like that,
so you can be in contact with people or fallow
the news or whatever like it would have been thirty
(03:25):
years ago or whatever. Um, so just what's your overall
taking this? I mean, in terms of in terms of
interesting things that have happened on planet Earth, even for
a guy of your worldly nature, it has to stand out.
Is is A is a pretty big one. I was
not around for the Spanish flu, so this is the
first pandemic I have ever. You know, lived through things,
(03:47):
knock on wood, lived through and I I gotta tell you,
I gotta tell you you're vaccinated. At this point five times,
you know, I ben't. I used another name and got
more No, but I do have to tell you. I
know everybody wants to get back to normal, and I
(04:07):
really appreciate that. But when all of a sudden, you know,
they said, I take your mass off and have a
good time, I'm kind of going, okay, but let's be careful.
And now we've we've got this what do they call it,
the uh delta? The delta you know variety. I can
imagine it does look differently if you're a susceptible age group,
(04:29):
where you know this could really make you sick. Um,
And you know, if you're under if you're under sixty,
really it's not that deadly. And if certainly if you're
under forty, it's very unlikely you would kill you. But um,
you know you probably feel the same way my parents.
And my parents took it very seriously. Oh yeah, no,
there's no doubt about it. And as soon as I
could get vaccinated, I did. You know, I'm really glad
(04:50):
I did, because you know, that's one less thing you
have to worry about yourself, to be cautious. But you're
not like, oh my god, now because now when you're
in retirement, when when I don't have a job to
come to every day, every little thing becomes a huge
epic with me. I've noticed that with retired people. I
(05:12):
am on the phone daily to my friends scattered about
the country, you know, got going ranting and raving about
any number of things. Now they're kind of expecting it.
You know, if I don't call at least every couple
of days, and they called me, you know, just afraid
I may have exploded. So I was gonna ask you
(05:33):
about you and your friends in your set. So you're
an old hippie who hung around with hippies back in
the day, and um, a lot of your older liberals
that that I follow are kind of looking at some
of their fellow younger liberals and saying, what is going
on with you? People, And uh, I wonder if you've
(05:54):
noticed in you that among your crowd, amongst my crowd,
I will I will tell you something. A lot of
my crowd, people that I've known since I was thirteen
and we all went through many things together, are much
more liberal and I am so they're so they're joining
in with more of the younger wolf crown. Oh yeah,
(06:15):
very much so, very much so. And you know, we
have spirited discussions about you know, we don't get too
heavy into politics, but mostly policy. I just think it's
interesting that the crowd that was always so suspicious of
the FBI and the CIA in general, a lot of
those people now that they're they're all hail the FBI
(06:35):
and c I A. Are are our masters who will
keep us safe. And I'm like, where did that come from.
I do have a couple of friends that have surprised
me over the years, and you know, I will look
at them and pictures of them and announced that you're
looking very prosperous because I've noticed that their waist size
has expanded amazingly. Oh yeah, yes, and they're looking very
(06:59):
prosperous these days. In general, what, um, what has surprised
you about retirement, because I remember asking my dad. I
like to ask retired people this question because I hope
to be retired someday years from now. But what's what
surprised you? What didn't surprise you about retirement? Well? What has? Well, yeah,
what's to surprise me? Or what I've had to have
a realization about is make sure when you retire you
(07:23):
got some kind of hobby, something else to do, because, uh,
after my second move, now, there have been a few
days where I'm going, okay, now what But fortunately things
keep coming up and I have to deal with. So
I haven't, like I said, I haven't been born, but
I can see a time down the line if I
(07:43):
don't get bitty and start to you know, salsa dancing
or something again, you know it, you really are sort
of faced with Okay, now, I know my my dad's
younger brother. I remember him asking, he said, what are
you gonna do when you retire? You don't golf? You
don't fish, right, I mean, you know, because like Joeseph Golfer,
that's that's how he pictures retirement is playing golf. I
get it. All. I know fishermen who can't can't wait
(08:05):
to the idea that they're gonna be able to fish
every single day. But if you don't have one of
those things, I don't um, you do have to do
something um and And you know, most people, their whole
lives of working, can't wait till the day when they
don't have to work anymore. But there's a lot of
time in a day, day after day after day. You
got to do something. Oh yeah, oh yeah. The other
thing too is a lot of my really close friends
(08:26):
do not live anywhere near me. So again it's like, hey,
how you doing on the phone. How about the sense
of who you are? If you had any problem with that?
Because so many people, I think particularly men, defined themselves
by their job, by their job, And when you don't
have that, have you had any problem with? Who? Who
am I? What am I? No that I that I
haven't had any problem with? Well, now I gotta I
(08:50):
got a bullet for you. I have given up the grape.
All booze are just wine. I have given up the grape.
I'll put it that way. No, just just because how
do I put it? After I built the temple to
Chardonnay for that year and a half, I just thought,
you know, dude, let's try something else. Yeah, yes, So
(09:15):
did you feel that it was starting to play too
much of a role in your life? Yeah? The thing, Oh,
I'll tell you this, the one thing you got to
be careful of when you're when you are a retired gentleman.
If you don't have immediate family around you, you know,
occupy you. Boredom is your worst enemy, you know. Just okay,
Like we were saying, all right, it's two in the afternoon. Again,
(09:36):
it's the now what do I do? Question? So you
gotta try and figure out some other ways, new ways
to occupy yourself. You're for people who don't know Marshall
Phillips who did the news for us for many, many
years and retired a couple of years ago and never married,
no children, right, so still a couple of lady friends around. Yes,
Michael's got a question. Yeah, you're still playing the lottery, Marshall. Yes,
(09:59):
I am scratchers. You still have that hobby? Oh? Yes,
oh yes, And I will tell you this without try
bragging too much. I don't know if I mentioned on
a day if your wedding, Michael, Yeah, I had purchased
a scratcher and after your wedding I came home and
I scratched it. I won six hundred and seventy lucky day.
(10:22):
That was Michael's wedding. Well, I told you I waited
till after the ceremony to do that. I got another
question from Marshall Phillips, a legendary newsperson. I mean we
haven't even mentioned that legendary a broadcaster at some of
the biggest stations in the history of radio over the years.
So it was a week ago tonight that Joe Biden
(10:43):
said at that CNN town hall, if you get vaccinated,
you will not have to wear a mask. I repeat,
if you get vaccinated, you will not have to wear
a mask. He said it twice, and within a couple
of days the White House changed directions. You gotta remember
there following the science or following the science. So they
claim Marshall Phillips joins us he was our news guy
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for I didn't realize it was fourteen years that you
did that. Was that the longest radio gig you had
in your tire luster's career, Yes, yes it was. I
had a couple of eleven year runs, a couple of
eight year runs, and a whole lot of six month
runs and two year runs and you know how it has,
how it is um so without getting it we were
(11:27):
Marshall was just telling me a little story up there.
Did you run the red light? Do you think you
ran the red light? No, I I admitted, I have admitted, yes,
I I ran the red light. I wasn't aware i'd
run the red light, but they had a picture of me,
you know, And so and again I just moved into
this area and every intersection has cameras. And how big
(11:51):
is the ticket for that five and sixty chunk of money? Man? Yes?
So no, I paid it up. That's the first moving
elation I've had, probably in thirty five forty years. Well,
the only reason I bring it up is you once
went to jail, Yes, for driving tickets parking, which are
not a moving viol No. No, And you didn't pay
(12:14):
your parking tickets in l A County. It was in Fullerton,
Orange County. And you know the bottom line was no,
I paid parking tickets like crazy. But I was working nights,
sleeping in the daytime, and where I lived, you had
two hour parking in front of your house two hours,
(12:34):
so every two hours you gotta move your car. Yes,
I had to wake up, move my car, go back
to sleep, wake up, moved my car. That's unrealistic way
to live. And I went when I moved in, when
we rented this house, I moved, I went to the
police department, said, hey, listen, I've I've just moved in.
Here's my lease agreement and everything. Can I get a
(12:57):
you know, residents sticker, so you know, to deal with
the park They said, nope, no, we don't. We don't
offer those but that but that's that's crazy because you
have to be parked somewhere. So you're just gonna what
difference does it make whether you take up this spot
for four straight hours, where you take up two different
spots two hours each, It doesn't make any difference in
terms of the number of spots available. And so I
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would still even though I was getting moving the car around,
I was still getting You would you would actually set
your alarm. So this is when you so you working nights,
This is actually like your your this is when you're
supposed to get your eight to ten hours. So you
would set your alarm and wake up every two hours
and go move your car. That's craziest night after night.
How often did you successfully do that? I would get
(13:42):
three tickets a week, maybe four. But so that means
that many, many times you woke yourself up out of
a deep sleep, like did you sleep in your clothes
or would you put on some clothes and go out
and move your car? I had my satin robot and
so and so you have to go all the way
out to your car. How far away? It wasn't very far? Oh,
you know there was a front yard, you know, a sidewalk,
(14:04):
a lawn now, and then you just moved like the
next closest spot. Yeah, pretty much, just back and forth
and back and forth. My god, I can't imagine waking
like the third time, not, you know, not the thirtieth time,
Like the third time, I'd say the screw it. And
there was an alley behind this house, but you couldn't
really park in the alley because it was one of
those like single lane, one way, a little strips. So
(14:27):
moving towards you ended up in the whosco. How many
parking tickets had you gotten before you ended up in corners?
I paid hundreds and hundreds of dollars and I even
went to the police Department's Fulton Police Department, and I
think I talked to the chief, but I said, here's
the deal. I mean, I live here, and I got
I've been paying tickets like mad. Could you double check
(14:49):
to see if I have any more outstanding tickets? And
they ran a computer check. Yes, you do. This seems
like a real spirit of the law letter the law
to thing to me too, the spirit of the law
law it is not to make people who live around
their move their cars every two hours. But they stuck
you with the letter of the law. They stuck me
with the letter of the law. And in the bottom
(15:09):
line is so I paid off those and I kept
trying to pay the tickets, you know, trying not to
get tickets and pay the tickets. And then one evening
around six o'clock, oh only till five, though after five
I didn't have to move. So it's just unfortunately had
to sleep during the day. Yes, yes, uh so one
night around six o'clock, I hear knocking him the door,
(15:31):
and I peek out through the window and I see
two long here guys, and I thought, maybe they're murdering
my roommates friends. You know, they look hippie. As I
opened the door and the two guys literally burst in
and demand, are you Marshall Phillips. Yes, down down down
to the ground, on the ground. Oh yeah, on the rug.
(15:53):
Because the confused by this is this? Did they to
something else? The whole deal was the tickets. Some of
the tickets have gone to warrant and I hadn't. Apparently
you gotta get down on the ground. Yeah. Yeah. It
was unbelievable and we're out of time. But you spent
a month in jail. I did. I did for contempt
(16:13):
at court. A month a love in jail. Absolutely unbelievable.
Our show, we really want to mate with you. Classic class, next,
a classic callback. I'm the host of final thoughts at
Jack Armstrong. Let's get a final thought from Michael Angelo.
(16:35):
My final thought is directed at Marshall. Thank you for
coming to my wedding. Even though you were had a
health condition, you snuck in there. We really appreciated you
showing up. Loved it. I did too. That was great times.
Let's get a final thought for guest newsman today and
my Marshall Fillips. Sorry, Marshall, you know it was amazed.
I drove right here without getting lost, and yeah, walked
through the back door and saw familiar faces. Now retirement
(16:58):
is okay, but make sure you've got something else to do,
so you don't just sit there and go, okay, now
what excellent point and probably not a good idea, and
wait and and to not wait until you get to
retirement to decide when you want to do. Yeah, I don't.
I don't have a thing. I don't fish, I don't golf.
I don't know what it would be. Start working on
(17:19):
it that I'm gonna come up with something, building a model,
ships in a bottle or something s
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