Hooray For Hollywood!

Buckle up for another wild ride with Dee Dee and John! In this episode, the duo takes you along on their hilarious adventure from the East Coast to Hollywood — a trip that felt straight out of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Between unexpected detours and laugh-out-loud travel stories, they share how their journey turned into a true comedy of errors. Of course, no round of drinks is complete without a dash of politics. Dee Dee and John dive back into the hot topic of mail-in ballots, offering their candid takes with plenty of humor and spirited debate. John also teases his upcoming Hollywood appearance and their ambitious 50-state tour in honor of America’s 250th anniversary. From patriotic celebrations to personal anecdotes, it’s a mix of comedy, culture, and current events you won’t want to miss. Grab a drink, sit back, and join Dee Dee and John as they toast to travel mishaps, political talk, and a journey that’s just getting started!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Day.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Everybody, that's right, it is that time somehow again for
drinks with Dede and John.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
That's me. It is sunny.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
I'm sweating Hollywood, California. It's where we are now. And
we made it all away from.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
We lived through yesterday. Yesterday was tough.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
What was our toast?

Speaker 1 (00:38):
I said, I love you? You were busy talking.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
I love you too.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
I'm thinking about yesterday. I had a relapse. It's like, wow,
we really made it. It was quite a quite a
journey yesterday.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Where did we wake up? Yesterday? We were in it
was like border town going to we.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Were we were close.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Well, but we're planning on going to Maryland.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
No, we're planning on going to Providence. No, no, you Burlington, Delaware.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, Delaware, not Vermont, not Vermont, but we were we
were headed to another state. I went and did the
did the workout at the at the hotel gym, and
I came back thinking we're going to hit the ground
and she's there.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
The weather was kind of messing up flights and we.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Don't deal well yeah, we don't really deal with flights,
but but we we knew we had to be here today,
which we're recording this on what day is it Tuesday? Gosh,
it was a movie when I was a kid. If
it's Tuesday, this must be Belgium. Yeah, so we're kind
of looking at life. It meant these people were on

(01:53):
a trip. I think it was uh, Jack Lemon, and
I can't remember who else, but they were on such
a trip they didn't know where they were in the world,
so they had to check their itinerary.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Oh, if it's Tuesday, then well, this must be Belgium.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
That was us. We just had to go through three
different states to figure out where we thought we were
going to be. Yesterday, I thought.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
We were going to Delaware, so I did my research
on Delaware because we're doing, of course, the fifty state tour.
And then this one says, and this is always bad,
not bad, but this is always you know, hang on
because she says, don't hate me for this, but listen, I'm.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
Trying to prepare him because it's just like you know,
in travel is difficult, planning is difficult. The schedule of
many times is the most challenging part.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
And since we have just done ten states out of fifty,
that's pretty good. I mean, we do it.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Wow, pretty great, pretty but here at.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
The end, and trying to get to la it is
not easy. It's not just going from New Jersey to
New York. You have to go across country and then
we have to figure out where we we you know,
we're going to go to Nashville when we get back,
and we have to, you know, figure out point A
to Z.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, So we left. We left the hotel. For some reason.
I was in kind of a leisurely mode. He was,
And because when you drive, you're not You're not at
the mercy of the schedule of the trains, or of
the airports or any of that stuff until you are.
So So we finally get in the car and she says,
don't hate me for this, but you know, our flight

(03:26):
or our train is at twelve oh nine, and it
was eleven fifteen I think, and we were scheduling we
were twelve o four.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Did you did you say? Wow?

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Okay, twelve oh four. So she said, it's twelve oh four.
And I looked at the GPS and the car in
our arrival time, if everything was perfect, was eleven fifty five.
So I said, look, I'll do my best to get
us there, but but once we get there, you I'll

(04:00):
just do what you say you get there.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
But it was always the parking is an issue, and
it was.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Oh my gosh, it was. It didn't rain, the traffic
wasn't all that bad.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
We only got slowed down, slowed slowed down for one.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Little part of it with a bunch of trucks and things.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
But when we got there, there was a sign that
said short term parking, long term parking, Valet parking. We're like, okay,
we're gone two days. We'll take that. So we went
through there and there was nothing there. And there was
a woman who had a great hat. I'm surprised you

(04:37):
didn't try to buy it from her great hat, and
she was she was coming out for a smoke break,
and I said, hey, excuse me, is there any valet parking?
And she said, no valet, no valet parking, there's no valet.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
Park And then we're like, god boy.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
So we went around again to the short term parking
and this is silly. There were probably twenty spaces, but
fifteen of them were taken up with some I think
it was our sun Rent zip cars. I've never even
heard of zip cards, you know what that is?

Speaker 3 (05:04):
They had those DC and I was there.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
So the four spaces that were there for sure were
of course all taken, so we couldn't do that. And
then we came out of that parking lot and there
was a lovely gentleman saying goodbye to his son who
was blocking traffic. Was like, I'm sorry, don't worry about it.
We're already We're screwed anyway. So, uh, you know, now
I'm thinking we have to drive to New York, drive

(05:26):
to Kennedy Airport, which is my least favorite thing in
the world to do. And we came to this t
in the road and DEDI said, I think, I think
the long term parking is over there.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
So I looked.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
In order to get over there from where I was,
I had to go, I had to go up the
street for just a little bit the wrong way in
Philadelphia at noon.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
So now it's noon, and all.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
The train police right there, I mean are not They weren't, thankfully, but.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
In trains don't don't always arrive on time, but they
always leave on time. So we go in like that,
and I don't know how I mean, I think we
have to scan a code or something.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
I have no idea how we're going to get out
of there.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Because they didn't give us a ticket. It was like,
no ticket needed, no cash accepted, no got a.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Text about it.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
You're good.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
It's like when we go to a halls that parking system.
It's the same for.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Oh okay yea. So we're good there, all right. So
we finally on the fourth floor.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
So we're we finally get up on the fourth floor
and h and I pulled in and the bronco is
wide right.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
So I pull in and we.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Get out and she's she's rolling with a bag, and
we go down one one flight in the elevator and
then there's a So this is all working, and we
come into this beautiful Union station and she's looking.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
She's looking, and I knew the hall, I knew the gate,
and I knew the track, so track I had to
really quickly get it done.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
And then we go to it and the guy has
it marked up.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
She says, no, it's not And he said, okay, all right, okay, he.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
Said, excel I said exceala, right, he said, Excela. I said,
we're going. So he did.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Down the stairs. She gets in.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
So at the very first the very first car, it's
like bottom of the steps. She goes in the door
and I've got like three steps left, and she says,
come on, honey, and I hint the last the floor
after the last step, and the door is closed. But
it's only like I don't know, it's it's far enough
that I took two steps and stuck my hand in
there like no, you don't and I wan't like that,

(07:33):
and I got in. But for a split second I thought, okay,
well I'm at it. There good bye. There she goes,
and here I am, thank you. But that's how I
I don't know how you would have done that. I
would no, because once they leave the station, they're not stopping.
They don't care, and.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
Up they have that emergency like a fire alarm. I
do until I've done that?

Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah, great, great. So anyway, I got had to.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Pay a fine.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
But my god, we have to pay any works out.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
The good news is we were victorious.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
Worked at it was a wonderful train ride, you know
the attendance zone.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Those trains are great. But Sixcela took I.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Took a picture. I want you to see this picture,
Tony show. I'm going to send you this in a minute,
but show them this picture of I looked on my
app where we were, and I think it says it's
over one hundred miles an hour in a thirty five
mile an hour forty five pound hour speed zone because
we're on the excel A train.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
It was. It was great.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
I had no idea that we were going that fast,
so I took a video out the window that.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
I'm going to use in some movie somewhere.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
We're actually doing one hundred and twenty plus miles an
hour going through a neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
So it was. It was pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
Sounds great.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
And I had taken excel As many many times from
Boston to New York and the New York to DC,
and it's just a wonderful train, very fast, very clean,
the service is great. But God had not been one
before now in the regional.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
I thought it was just an express. I just it
didn't stop anymore. I didn't know it was the fat
like the bullet train.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
Yeah, and they have less stops and that sort of thing.
But really it's a great train.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
And then we had to change in uh in Jamaica
at Jamaica station.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
Oh no, we told in the Penn station. That's right.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
Station's nice now. I mean, last time was at Penny station.
It looked really bad, but it's it's a.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Bobby right back up. I'm allergic to something here this morning,
but it's.

Speaker 4 (09:24):
Patrick moynihan station and it's just pretty I mean, they've
done a nice job with that. Uh So from the
left there, we got on the Long Island Railroad to Jamaica.
And many of you who travel will know this. It's
really the best way to go. So we got on
Long Island Railroad Jamaica. That wasn't really a long trip.
And then we got on the air bus and that

(09:46):
was good too, So we really had a good trip and.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
It ain't got on the then we got on the well,
then we had to kill a couple of hours by
fast it did, and then we got on the plane
and it was a five and half hour yesterday was
something five and a half hour flight.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
And then we got to Lax and.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
At Lax, if an uber car is a mile away,
it can take them fifteen minutes to get to you,
which it did. So we're there standing on the curb
for fifteen minutes waiting waiting for the car.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
What happened before that?

Speaker 3 (10:21):
Before that?

Speaker 4 (10:21):
So so we're doing the American Airlines flagship and those
seats are.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
I don't like to fly.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah, but it was good though. It was a good trick.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
Well, we were.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Able to get here and do what we're doing tonight,
singing at the Hollywood Bowl tonight, by the way, So
it's it's great, but I hate the whole rush of it.
We were until we sat down in that plane.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
We were rush, rush, rush.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yes, we didn't issue, and that was just because we
had to change gears. We just had the change we
were doing to make it all work.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
So anyway, we were carrying luggage. But the but the
but the flight was great.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
You know. We had the seats that they lie flat,
so we both slept.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
And then I saw it in a friend of mine
before we got in planning, goes d D and I'm like,
oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
It's Stephen Ease And I dealt with Stephen.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
Stephen and Bruce Willis worked together on all kinds of movies,
and Stephen's still in the business and Bruce's to a curtain.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
Gray, I guess he looked like Custer.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yeah, it was great one, a great guy.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Nobody says, how did you recognize? How did you you were?

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Gray?

Speaker 3 (11:31):
I'm looking at him. He's looking at me and I'm
like na, and it was that he came over. Great guy.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
So yeah, and his wife and his and their dog,
little bit Doggie picked them up and as we were
waiting for the for the Uber, me me, John and
Dedi and then this little dug.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
So that was fun. So it's just a nice welcome
to La.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
It was a fun day.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
And then we uh, we got to our hotel and
my favorite hotel because it's got a great We were
going to do this from out there, you can't but it's.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
Too bright, too bright and very hot right now.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
But it's beautiful and surrounded by palm trees. And also
you got a shot this morning we should oh yeah,
Tony showed that this was it was more calm this morning.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
This is when I thought we would do it.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
So here's a picture of what the pool area looks
like in the morning. But it's a great hotel.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
The Hollywood Rose.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
About one of the now, of course, and they used
to have by the way, or maybe it was the
first one.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
Wasn't it the first.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
First Academy Awards Academy.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
So that's kind of right history.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Right here in the ballroom. So that's really.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
John's favorite I would say the Waldorf is my favorite,
but I do like other places too, but hey, you know,
we go back and forth and variety, just to splice
and watch rose.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
We stayed in the in the Waldorf Wall Wall Wall Waldorf.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
It's it's a family name.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
Right, yeah, the Astorias Waldorf. And they had two hooks
on the side by side.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
There were kind of competition and that was where the
right now the Empire State Building is. That's where they
started and then they moved to Park Avenue and it's
a beautiful hotel.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
They really did a nice job.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Oh it's gorgeous.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yeah, here in Ellington.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
There's some pictures some pictures of the Waldorf in Manhattan
which we posted on Facebook, but you need to see
them here. They're just it's stunning what they've done.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
A lot of you have a lot of people.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
They just walk through the lobby and it's so beautiful
and you get a drink or hang out. See the
clock the big thing back in the day, it's like, well,
let's meet at the clock. And everyone knew it was
the clock of the Waldorf. So just so much history
and that's what we're doing now with the fifty State Tour.
And I still am so thrilled. We're a ten states
already in six weeks.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Pretty good.

Speaker 4 (13:48):
Now that will change because when we got west, it's
a lot harder to get.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
From Montanga a lot and then the.

Speaker 4 (13:58):
Whole lot, which is a one we're going to do
is come here and then go to a whole Waii.
But we decided to do the big northeastern thing because
you know, the weather gets to be in certain months,
but in Honolulu it's always nice.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
But we're going pellam why we're going back to Tennessee.

Speaker 4 (14:12):
Oh, we are going to go to the launch of
the next governor in Tennessee, Marsha Marsha Blackburn.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
So they're doing an event of her.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
At the not the Loveless Cafe, but there's a well,
as I just said, it's not at the Lettno, because
I can't remember the name of the place. It's not
that it's not at the Loveless Cafe. It's at because
that's a diner. If you've never been to the.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Loveless Cafe, you should go to the Loveless Cafe.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
It's amazing, but get there early because there's always a big,
big line.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
No, we're going back there to.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Support her because we believe she's going to be the
next governor of the state of Tennessee.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
Now US senator.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yeah, I love the state of Tennessee, love her and her.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
Personal messages, and just a really nice lady, very smart.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
I think it's important if you're going to be in
a leadership position of a state, or of a town,
or of a village, that you need to love that place.
You need to love if you're going to run for governor,
you want to be governor of the state of anything,
you need to love that state.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
She loves Tennessee.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
H Well, the governor's the boss.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
The difference is now she's a US Senator and she
deals with forty nine other senators, one another from her state.
When you're a governor, you are the chief executive, you're
life president of your state.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
So it will be a change it. She'll be wonderful.
Oh yeah, and there's never been a woman be a governor.
That's not why you.

Speaker 4 (15:30):
Should vote for I don't believe in that you shouldn't
vote for people for their gender, but it should be
a meritocracy. But boy, she's really really wonderful. If she
doesn't want to be shocked, right.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Or for her.

Speaker 4 (15:43):
So we're going to go support and then we'll be
back in Nashville the Bluebird Cafe.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
Something you're excited.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
About doing, That's what I was confused about. Yeah, so
I'm going to be at the Bluebird, I can tell
you that. And I've not played at the Bluebird in
quite some time. So that's going to be with some
other great artists.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Well, we have a flyer. We have a flyer.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah, we've had it up.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
We always put everything on Facebook and then the app
has it as well, so always check it because we're
always updating and in fact updated today or we did
about John and me. We're going to England and November
mid no and we're still trying too.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
We're still trying to get on the ship.

Speaker 4 (16:21):
We really really really want to do the Queen Mary,
and we'll see about there.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Was like Queen Elizabeth. I think it's a q E too.
I think it's okay, it's Queen. I think you're right, sorry,
Mary is Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yeah, he's right.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
So we would love to do that. You know, we
love the planes, trains and not homobills and the ship.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
I think there'll be sert.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
We're not going to be in a rush we're going
to get there in plenty of time.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
We're not.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
No, once you get on the ship, you're not. But
we're not going to get in a rush to get
on the ship either. We're going to do it in
a nicely that.

Speaker 4 (16:51):
That was a change. I mean that, that's why it
was like that. Otherwise the woe have been rushed.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
But we did it.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
So. Yeah, I was organizing things in the car in
the back of the Bronco.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
I didn't know. We I didn't know. I didn't know.
I should have known. But what are we drinking today, miss?

Speaker 3 (17:07):
We we have We're drinking Tito's. We love Tito's.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
This is our were to.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
It was American to.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
It was sold.

Speaker 4 (17:13):
But okay with this juice, we're kind of getting into
juices more lightly. It was a wonderful juice we had
at the Waldorf that had apple and ginger and celery
and one more what was it.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
My grandmother's. No, that was a beer that had rubar strawberry. Room.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
That was pretty great. That tavern, No, that wasn't. That
wasn't the place. We've been a lot of places. Anyway.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
This is a.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Juice, A juice, A juice that we discovered today it's
called ginger snap.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
It's got Fiji apple, green apple, ginger and the lemon.
And then that's what it was. And the guy did
he said, what juices do you have? He brought them
down and said, well, that one sounds.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
Good, but he said that was his favorite.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
I said, let's do I said, let's do that, and
I said, hey, let's put let's put some vodka in it,
some tits in it.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yeah, so we did.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
It's uh, it's having a little brunch straight ginger snap
with Tito's vodka and ice and a.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
Little club soda. We like club soda and just about everything.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
Yeah, we like our drinks busy if possible, Yes we do.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
We do very much.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
So we're just having a ball, even though we make it.
The order mixed up where we've been because we've been
so many places. Last time we did the podcast, of course,
we were at Mayor Bob's. We had a great time there.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
Oh yeah, thanks Bob. Thanks Susie. What a tremendous host
and hostess they are.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Ye, Susie's amazing. She really is the hostess with the mostest. Bob.
Of course, the mayor has always got something to do.
He's very good at his job.

Speaker 4 (18:50):
Oh yeah, podcast, we had a ball with them, we did,
We had fun.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
He was talking about some friends of his that have
a place out here. Are now a sooty lot out
here in the on Pacific Palisades where one of his
paintings was.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
And got burned up in the fire.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
But yeah, it's interesting what's going there. You talk to
ten people, you'll get ten different opinions about what's happening here.
But what's not happening here is no reconstruction, no building,
no apparently no one is coming in to get rid
of the toxic.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
Dirt and soot that is here.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
Because that's one of the excuse me problems that we
hear is why they have not begun restoration in the
Pacific Palisades is because the ground is now toxic. Well
it's been a while, so how come nobody has come
in and started to fix that. And the word on
the street is that they are stalling so that people
will get fed up and move elsewhere and then be

(19:49):
more willing to sell so they can.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yeah, it's a land grab. It's what it appears to
be to.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Us, allegedly, a land grab. And you tell me something
distressing this morning. Then you say that that SAG in
New York has backed the socialist socialist horse for mayor.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
I believe, so that's what I read allegedly, Yeah, and
I'm like, how could they do that?

Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, guy that wants he wants to raise the minimum
wage to thirty dollars, you know, which sounds great if
you're a minimum wage worker.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
That's great.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
But what happens is when you do something like that
is you completely financially cripple the people who are hiring business.
So you wind up putting a lot of businesses out
of business because they just can't afford it.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
Guess wait, you just go up and push the button, and.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
That's why all of the job got away. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
You want to see what raising the minimum wage does.
It puts those little little self served chiosks at Walmart,
which I never thought it was going to be at
Walmart because one of the one of the fun things
about Walmart is you talk to people the whole time.
They had a greeter, but then if you were lost,
somebody'd say, hey, can I help you? And then on
your way out, somebody would say, how was you know,
how was your shopping experience or did you get what

(20:59):
you need?

Speaker 1 (21:00):
They always had communication with people, not anymore?

Speaker 2 (21:02):
Why because the minimum wage wage at that point. I
think it sounds good to get votes, but it doesn't
make any sense. Another thing this clown wants to do
is he wants to have free bus service all throughout Manhattan.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
Well, what's that going to do?

Speaker 2 (21:19):
You know there's going to be homeless folks in the bus,
there's gonna be homeless tents in the bus living.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
In the bus.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
I would it's a free roof, not always a free ride,
but it's a free roof. Well, who's going to pay
the bus driver? Who's going to pay for the for
the maintenance on all those buses? Who's going to pay
for the repair on all those buses if it is
true that they will then be abused? Who is going
to fund the homeless shelters?

Speaker 1 (21:47):
When? Who's going to do that? The taxpayers are.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
When you've got Kevin Newsom. But fortunately for DC, we've
got President Trump and he's cleaning up DC as we speak.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
And probably I've been watching.

Speaker 4 (21:58):
That, Yeah, and is sorely need it because we've talked
about this before. That's our nation's capital. We want to
be proud of it and we want people to be saved.
We want kids that are touring the monuments, in touring
the museums to be safe. So this will help. Also,
you know he's building a ballroom. He's building it donations

(22:19):
and he's paying for it's not taxpayer money.

Speaker 3 (22:22):
And that's you. They don't come full circle. You know
when I.

Speaker 4 (22:25):
Worked well, I've worked with Bruce, Willison Worke with Steven
and Daniel.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, it went Happy birthday Daniel, Daniel. Daniel's a mutual friend.
You don't know this, but a friend of mine for
a long time friend of d D. And Paul's for
a long time friend of d D and Paul and
Steve for a long time friend of Dan, Paul and
Stephen Bruce for a long time. It is Daniel Quinn.
Pardon me, excuse me. Daniel Quinn passed away and today
would have been his birthday. So we are saying happy

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birthday Daniel.

Speaker 4 (22:54):
And be careful when you mow the yard up through
because he died of a heart He wasn't on old
and he was doing yard and he just got a
heart attack, so be careful.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
I'm sorry and interrupted what you were saying, so good
do you remember where you were.

Speaker 4 (23:09):
Then I was done really, But what we can come
on to Isoseterby.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
So this was a gentleman. This is the event.

Speaker 4 (23:17):
We're going to Donald and Dad again, of course, dear
dear friend and of ours.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
And dear dad again, d d one. It's hard to
say all that you're dear Donald Daggon.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
Indeed d one.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
So so we're going on.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Ay is the easiest thing to say in this whole sentence.

Speaker 4 (23:34):
So this is an event to honor him. And he
did a lot of movies, did a lot of music
and movies. Uh. And he was amazing. And it was
Donnell's godfather, and she always wants us to come on
this and of course we love it and we'll see friends,
we'll see Rex.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
We just and that was another thing.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
Remith at a show, Confessions of a teenage heart Throb,
and he was amazing.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
His voice is still all there, great guy.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
I believe he's not still all there, but his voice
is still all well.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
He's never been all there.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
Well I would say you all break.

Speaker 4 (24:06):
My breath, you breath away?

Speaker 1 (24:12):
Hello, No what to say? Anyhow, he does a great show.

Speaker 4 (24:16):
So we're like, yeah, we're going to see you in
a couple of days. So well was Rex tonight and
with Don now and it'll be amazing.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
And John will sing a song or two and then
it's gonna be great fun. You want to see Rex
and I together. I did a movie called Call Your
and Company, Call Your d Company and get it at
John Schneider Dodge Shop.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
It's a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
I warning, warning, I did make it out of the
back of my expedition. So it's a It is a
homemade southern horsepower comedy made in southern California with helicopters
and going crow tunnels forwards and backwards and Carol Shelby's
series one that I borrowed from Carol to do it.

(24:55):
It's it's it's a lot of fun. He played Uncle Billy.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
I did not know he Cole played. He kind of
played Uncle Billy and like Uncle John Daily not that. Yeah,
I didn't know.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
Here's a movie with you that's fantastic.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
So you got to see that. It's a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
And uh and it was done with like I said,
helicopters in tunnels forwards, in tunnels backwards, not a single
permit anywhere anytime. And uh, talk about what do you
call gorilla filmmaking, but usually gorilla filmmaking is a documentary.
You know, we came in here, we did this, and
oh no, this was gorilla filmmaking. It really looks like

(25:31):
a movie. It was when digital?

Speaker 1 (25:37):
What was it?

Speaker 2 (25:37):
What was that called? It was shot digitally, but it
was digitally on tape, but it wasn't videotape. It was
some weird hybrid in between film and videotape and pure digital.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
It wasn't ones and zeroes on a on a hard drive.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
By the way, this is two terabytes I bought at
Walmart for like two hundred and fifty bucks. When I
did Collier in Company, I bought a terabyte. I had
to transfer everything over to ones and zeros and the
terabyte costs like twenty five hundred dollars one terabyte.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
It was about this big.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
It looked like a It looked like a cinder block.
And wait, about like a cinderblock. So technology has changed
a lot, but check that out. Collier in Company a
lot of fun. The music and Collier in Company is
by a great, great band friends of mine for a
long time Los Lonely.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
Boys, Lost Lonely Boys. Yeah, and love how far is heaven.
It's morning. I don't sing in the morning. I sound
like a frog in the morning anyway, So check that out.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
People kind of got to kick out of you know.
We post a lot on Facebook and it's a lot
of fun. And John did a video with the New
York Boys. Yeah I did, and I'm gonna kept calling
is Edith and Archie. I think on the third try.
I think the third try it sounded okay.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
But yeah, so that was right to do the harmony.

Speaker 4 (27:09):
And that was the day we went to France's tavern
and it was really great because we went to the
room or of course Washington said goodbye to the continent.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
You've been a fond and tearful farewell to his to
the Continental Army because the war was over.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Was done.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
And then and they said, not so fast, George, we
want you to be the first president of the United States.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
He's like, oh, And of course had only gotten out
of the room in Philly.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
Well he did, he got out of the room and
they were talking about it. I'm like, I don't want
to hear about how you all are talking about me.
If you want me to be president?

Speaker 1 (27:43):
Oh was that for that or was that for when
he wanted to be the leader of the army. President President. Wow, yeah,
he said that. Yeah, I'm And we were in the room.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
We were in that room where he was and he
he fled and went out and not you know, he
just didn't want to be there while they.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
Were talking about it. Nobody.

Speaker 4 (28:00):
When you have elections, you usually do step out of
the room, like elections of a club. Uh, you usually
do step out of her room. And uh, and he
did and he won, of course.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
And there were no mail in ballots and there may
not be any more mail in ballads.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
God, I hope not. I hope they get rid of
those mail in ballots.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
And they're too easily tampered with.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yes, and I'm loved that.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
I will almost always asked for a paper ballot. John
and I last, because Trump, there's no way around it,
bright Red, we're good. You know, you want your vote account.
But it was like it was very, very crowded. It
was like the last day maybe before election day, remember
or were I don't know, but it was before because

(28:43):
remember President and Trump said we want you to vote early,
So John and I did.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
And then what's funny is a few.

Speaker 4 (28:50):
Days later we see these election machines going down the
alley in Madison.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
We're like, what people were dragging people in the I'm
trying to turn this shop.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
It does not look right.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
You can see how the camera is precariously positioned.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
There's a reason on a suitcase, and on the suitcase
is an upside down trash can. And on the top
of the trash can is my laptop. And on top
of my laptop, folded over gingerly, is my phone. And
that's what we're talking into. But yeah, we saw these
people with ham trucks taking voting machine because we had
voted not to those.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
It's like, those look very familiar.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
Until John I said that those were the machines.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
Well, we were in the golf cart. We were headed
over to some friends and we stopped and I said,
did that were those?

Speaker 1 (29:35):
And she said voting machines.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
I said yeah, she said yes they were, And I said, well,
let's go back and see what what's going on.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
She is a clerk, she's very nice. And this the
other day we were in.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
We went we went back, we went back and this
is in the alley. So this isn't like down main street.
This is in the alley behind the court but the men's.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
An alley isn't exactly like an alley.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
No, it's not, No, it's not.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
But we went we said hey, how are you and
they said, oh fine and there I said, but are
those are those voting machines? And they were like well yeah,
they said yeah, yeah they are and uh and we said,
well what are you Where are you taking them? You know,
because voting I don't think anything had been tabulated yet.

(30:20):
So they were there's a building, an annex building right
across Jefferson Street from where you go. What are you doing, baby,
that's tonic waters.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
That's gross. So they said there's because you know, business
as usual. They were.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
They all the voting machines were in a in a
room that they needed to do business as usual in
the in the courthouse. So they were taking them to
this annex building and We're like, oh okay, And DeeDee
immediately called the mayor and said, hey, you.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
Know what is this? Uh he said, oh yeah, that's
that's that's legit.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
So we were feeling a little maybe a little embarrassed,
but not really because we had we had we had
stopped some official people and asked them what they were
doing with the voting machines.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
And now cut to a year and a year later,
a year in change later, we were.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
Leaving town to go east to go northeast.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
We were at the tap room, the tap room on
Main Street, and this woman came over and her husband
was a fan.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
But she said, hey, I am we've met before. I
am the county clerk.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
And we are the ones that you stopped in.

Speaker 3 (31:39):
The alley us and she.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
Said, she says, she thank you so much. In all
the years we've been doing this, no one has ever
has ever asked us anything. So obviously you folks care
about the process and we appreciate it. So we volunteered,
you know, deck during the mid terms when they need
to move those machines. I said, hey, if we're in town,
we'll come help.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
Move the machines. We need ice. We do, but I'm
going to get to swing there.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
It's not very far away. I'm sure you can talk
without me somehow.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
I know this.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
You remember it used to be just drinks with DDI.

Speaker 4 (32:12):
However, I always had like a Hollywood squares thing and
comedians and bunny stuff or whatever.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
So then John and I got married, so we decided
to do it.

Speaker 4 (32:21):
Although we should probably do that here and air and
to have the group coming in it was fun.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
I mean we have even warm them because John.

Speaker 4 (32:29):
And I like, you know, we love talking about life
and friends and fun stuff and you know, and right
now it's just fun travels.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
And again the reason we're doing the fifty.

Speaker 4 (32:39):
State tours because we're not going to be able to
do it again, not in our lifetime. You had seventeen
seventy six the bi centennial, and now it's sister centennial
two hundred and fifty years and a lot of times
people get a little confused about this. Of course we
knowe that next July fourth is the two hundred and
fiftieth birthday.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
No I O.

Speaker 4 (33:00):
Good is a two hundred and fifty birthday, But we
are celebrating an entire year before. So we started July
fourth and minutes and then an amazing concert. It was
so packed midnight because we wanted to bring in the
new Fourth of July and we did. So we're going
to celebrate it all through the year or a year,

(33:22):
Fourth of July to fourth of July.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
And we believe or not, we have ten states we're in.

Speaker 4 (33:29):
You know, in John, we're going to do eight ten
part documentary, five states at a time, so.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
We already have enough for.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
Two of them.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
Yeah, so we're excited. We're having so much fun with that.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
I'm still trying to figure out what and they live
on this too terribied hard drive, trying to figure out
exactly what the structure of it's going to be.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
But yeah, that's much better now with a lot of ice.
Back to the voting thing.

Speaker 4 (33:57):
You know.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
What's what's funny is we just as we were getting
ready to go have breakfast this morning, we.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Hear on what is this?

Speaker 2 (34:03):
We happen to be watching I don't know, some local
local news station and to watch local news they said. Again,
we hear them saying, well, you know, of course there's
no proof whatsoever that anything was tampered with in twenty twenty. Well,
come on, we know that there was, and we knew then,
but it has been proven time and time again, particularly

(34:24):
in was it was it Pennsylvania? Oh yeah, so Pennsylvania
historically has you know, people historically, any state historically has
somewhere between maybe over fifty but between fifty and sixty
five percent of the people maybe more like between forty
and sixty five percent of the people who live in

(34:47):
that state actually turn out to vote, so everybody doesn't
make So that's a big So sixty five percent is huge.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
Forty percent kind of average, right.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Pennsylvania in twenty twenty had three hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
Well I think, honey, it was more like in Philly
in the war.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Well, I'm sorry not Pennsylvania.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
Democrat city is what they would do. I mean, we
get the strategy.

Speaker 4 (35:13):
I mean they overproduced in the Democrat areas where they
could allegedly cheat.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
Well, if you've got more boats and people living there.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
I'm thinking something's not quite right, something's not right.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
Yeah. So so for them to continue this.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
This narrative of nothing happened and we've proven that or
there is no proof that anything happened, just that dog
won't hunt it didn't and.

Speaker 4 (35:38):
It won't the world who just went out there and
just just got destroyed.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
I mean, they've just been evil to him. So and
you know, well.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
Then that they find it there one hundred million dollars,
That's what I mean.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
It's insane because he had the audacity to say something
that was true, that was true of all that where
now and we're a couple of days past the summit,
the meeting with between President Trump and Putin in Alaska,
and we don't know what that.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
We don't know what happened there. But I hear people.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
Kind of indicating that that President Trump is the.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
This is all his problem.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
It's not all his. He's trying to help. He's trying
to help. He's trying to help Zelenski. He's trying well,
i'll tell you what he's trying to help Putin. He's
trying to help people not have to die today senselessly.
You listen to him every time he talks about it,
that's what he says. Look, you know how many people
died since we started this press conference. Probably two thousand

(36:44):
people died between both sides since we started this press conference.
I don't want that to happen anymore. I'm the President
of the United States. If I can do anything about
keeping that from continuing, then that's what I'm going to do.
But what does that look like? We don't No, I
don't know that. He probably does know, but we we
don't know yet. Because guess what, if you've got some

(37:06):
sort of a military plan, and I'm not saying he does,
but if you have a military plan, or a peacekeeping
plan or a end the war plan. There's strategicy almost
in it. There's there's strategy involved that you don't want
to disclose to everybody because what's that great old saying,
Loose lips sink ships. So you don't you want to

(37:26):
you want to be the one that is actually tipping
your hand about what it is you plan to do.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
But I'm sure that there's something, there's something in the works.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
And people show pictures of h of President Trump and
and Putin, you know, like this is a terrible thing.
This is not a terrible thing. There's an age old
saying we use it in Smallville all the time. Keep
your friends close and your enemies closer. So am I
boring it?

Speaker 4 (37:55):
No, I'm doing something important just a second, not that
this it is, but you'll what I mean seconds.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
So so.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
Stop trying to pretend that you know what's going on
between President Trump and President Zelenski and President Putin.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
You don't.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
I don't, But I have faith that our country is
trying to do what we feel would be the most
humanitarian and the right thing. That's what I believe.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
What Okay, So we started.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
Last zip out of the shot.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
There Okay, so we started. We started last week to
do a.

Speaker 4 (38:31):
Heck giveaway because I have so many half that's right,
and uh, honey, will you handle me the half of
this week?

Speaker 3 (38:37):
Right there?

Speaker 1 (38:38):
Did you find? I know? I know I was. I
was printing it for just such an occasion as this.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
I love this hat.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
I do it. It's not going to.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Me made expressly for lil No ls aren't stairs.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
That's Indianapolis.

Speaker 3 (39:01):
Yeah. Ello series was big department.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Stare like I feel like Popeye it was.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
It's so cute on though a woman.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
It's a little and it's very lightweight. See see us
pretty much.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
And I've got one a joy out of that hat.

Speaker 4 (39:16):
In fact, I wore to Wrecks the show and I'm
warnant to a premier before and I just did you
worry to.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
The other night?

Speaker 3 (39:21):
I did?

Speaker 1 (39:21):
Oh fantastic.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
So we have pictures, Yeah, I hope we have pictures
of I'm sure if we have a picture of Deity
in this hat, then we will.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
We'll put it up.

Speaker 4 (39:30):
Remember warn at the h also at the Peacock Alley.
Yeah it's beautiful, Yeah, it really is. So we're doing
hat give us a giveaways gives aways gives aways hat
giveaways every week, and I have so many and it's
just good to share, share the wealth.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
Who won last week? You remember this young lady's name.
I don't darn it.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
Well, now we have to look at it.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
Yeah, please look it up. Please look it up. It's
not hard.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
We'll be hard to find because you guys have to
communicate to get the address.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
So I got it.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
Oh you have it? Well, then probably you have her name?
Who won last week?

Speaker 3 (40:06):
Carla Pierce.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
Carla Pierce won last week, and you knew what's.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
Great about Carlo? She said, Oh, I love hats. I'm
a had person too, and she came up with the
right answer. It was basically the first stid admitute to
the Union a minute to our country, and it was Delaware, Delaware,
and many of you got it.

Speaker 4 (40:21):
Right, but carl I got to write first. So Carla
has a hat on the way to her. And we're
going to do a hat giveaway every week. Very excited
about it.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
I'm going to share the wealth, and I've got plenty
of hats to share.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
So this week run out.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
In like twenty five thousand weeks, we will run out.
We won't have a single hat left.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
So we're going to do the same thing this week.

Speaker 4 (40:43):
So you know, we have Facebook, we have Facebook, we
have the YouTube and wherever, however you get is the
answer first.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
Whoever gets it to this first is going to win
the hat.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
That's the phone on the laptop, on the trash can,
on the suitcase.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
Johnny's very good at that. I think it's his. He's German,
so I think it's a German engineering thing.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
You think, so maybe that maybe that maybe.

Speaker 4 (41:15):
For this to be working on a suitcase on the
trash can, it's a nice trash can on.

Speaker 3 (41:21):
The computer and your phone hanging off of all of that,
and it's working.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
It's pretty great, pretty great, all right.

Speaker 3 (41:27):
So here's the question to win the hat. The win
the hat of the week.

Speaker 4 (41:34):
Where where was the first United States capital?

Speaker 1 (41:41):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (41:42):
Pretty good one.

Speaker 4 (41:44):
Where was the first capital of the United States of America?
Whoever gets hands at first when a hand me that
beautiful had.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
To get I love this hat. I love it gets
that hot time isn't a cute, it's so cute.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
I remember that from the other night when I want to.

Speaker 3 (42:02):
Give away, but you do want to give away, like
Johnny Cash, remember you said what if I didn't like it.
I won winning game.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
It wasn't my favorite. I wouldn't give it to you.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
I want to give you know. So yeah, so there
oyster be is a big variety.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
Thank you for not doing that.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
And I love this one. So whoever wins, I hope
you enjoy it. It's vintage. It's been around enough to know.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
I've been around enough to know.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
But I love it.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
Say what did you say? The name of that?

Speaker 2 (42:25):
And it's a size LS Airs company Indianapolis.

Speaker 4 (42:30):
It was made for LS Airs. Those of you from Indiana,
you'll know the department store. It was like the Macy's
of Indiana. Clearly vintage. I'm not sure, but I think
I got that hat in Madison. There were a lot
of hats, you know, different stores, a lot of antiques,
a lot of OLDA hats there, and I think I
got them in Madison.

Speaker 3 (42:48):
Yeah, I love it.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
It's great. So first capital of the United States of America?
Where was it? Where was it?

Speaker 1 (42:54):
Right? Is that what you're That's what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (42:56):
Whoever gets it right first wins?

Speaker 1 (42:58):
How do you want the the now? That'll okay, all right,
be as specific as you.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
Can, all right, and then we will we have pictures
of the first capital, right.

Speaker 3 (43:11):
But we're not going to show them right now.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
No, of course not. No, we have pictures of the
first capital and I didn't know that. I had no idea.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
Well, if that narrows it down to the last ten.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
States where we were, right, and we're still No, we've
been to a lot of No, that's not true. We've
been to a lot of states over the yet it's
because we have pictures that mean we took them recently,
because we didn't go to look.

Speaker 3 (43:33):
It up, and you should. We have pictures everyone to
learn about history.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
That's where we're doing, especially are United States history. No,
we have pictures that we've taken over the last two years,
year and a half. Yeah, so some in the bitter cold,
some in the blazing sun, like out in Colorado.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
Here's a spoiler alert. It was not in Colorado.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
The first first capital the United States were not in
Colorado or Monument Valley wasn't there either.

Speaker 4 (43:59):
Right, we do have some beautiful pictures from there, John,
and induce that to me, and it really is something
you should go see.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
The West is really I'm excited about. Excuse me, I'm
excited about going out there because it's so rugged. It's
so rugged, and it's one of the reasons why I
wanted to get into the movie industry anyway, because of
the John Wayne Westerns and Jimmy Stewart and all those
wonderful things that were shot out in places like Monument
Valley and Bishop California, which is.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
A beautiful, beautiful area. So we're going to do part
of the show today.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
Part of one of the documentary states, of course, will
be California, and we're gonna be shooting a little bit
of that today because I'm going to sing a song
or two for the state of California.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
The goal that song, callip.

Speaker 4 (44:49):
Is in a bank in the middle of Beverly Hills
and somebody else's.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
Thank you, Larry, thank you, Steve, thank you, Rudy. It's
the Gallan Brothers.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
Yeah, yep. So if you're.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
Anyhow so, we have fun. We hope you're having fun.
I think we're about Oh no, we've got ten minutes left.
Actually no, we've got longer than that.

Speaker 4 (45:13):
Well, great, because there's someone's to talk about. Look, California
is a huge state. It's very beautiful. A lot of
issues with the government, but it's a gorgeous state. You
get everything, and get the red ones and the ocean
and the wineries.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
You get the also Sequoia National Forest, which are actually
bigger than the Redwoods.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
Oh yeah, the giant Sequoia's. I've been up there a lot.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
Used to go there quite a bit to a wonderful
little campground in Lakes at Lake Sequoia.

Speaker 4 (45:42):
And in central California grows a ton of food, a
lot of food. And then you see oil wells. It's crazy,
you see everything in California.

Speaker 2 (45:50):
Oh, they're oil wells between here and lax they're off
of is it Redford that you come up Los Sienaga
and gosh, what was the mo I just saw that.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
A lot in.

Speaker 3 (46:03):
But then if you go central there are so mad
about Howard Hughes.

Speaker 1 (46:06):
Sorry aviator, the aviator. Aviator got a lot of that area.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
You know, they had to they had to kind of
do a shot where they got rid of all the
growth around it. But all those oil wells are still there,
just off Los Sienago.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
It's very unusual. And when you drive up the coast,
of course, we haven't been up the coast to see.
I don't even know if you.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
Can drive through Pacific Palisades right now. I think it
might be cordoned off and a place that I used
to stay in, the motor home in Malibu, Malibu RV Park,
that's gone, and I don't know if they've they've done
anything to repair that or not. You can see that
a lot in shows like Mannix, The Rockford Files, you

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can see that great area is beautiful, but no telling
what it looks like now.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
But a lot of areas still are beautiful.

Speaker 4 (46:57):
There's still some earthquakes going on here, and I'm always,
you know, scared that the big one's coming.

Speaker 1 (47:03):
Yeah, but what can you do about it? Nothing you
can do with that.

Speaker 3 (47:05):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (47:06):
I was here in the ninety fourth.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
It was ninety four, ninety four earthquake. I was doing
a show I lived up in. I lived up in
Fraser Park and was working down in a Go not
Agora in Santa Clarita. Simple drive, but the earthquake took
out the interstate and took out the overpassage, so I

(47:28):
had to I took a what was a forty five
minute drive, and it wound up being a four hour
drive because I had to go all the way around
Oh yeah, through Pear Blossom Highway and all that.

Speaker 4 (47:37):
So now whenever they had the game and the baseball
game in San Francisco and Candlstoke Park, I think and
was shaking.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
It was on TV. I remember watching an on TV.
If this is the same mirror, but maybe.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I was just doing.

Speaker 4 (47:52):
Show and it's like it's not if it's when when
it's like the big one's coming, well, I mean, who knows.

Speaker 3 (47:59):
They say it's over, but it is fascinating.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
There's nothing you can do about it. Back in the gosh,
way way back before that, and give me ice, PAMs.
I had a place. Yeah, I had a place. I
had a place near.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
Lake Lake Hollywood off of bar Ham Boulevard, and I
had you know, in those days, we had the.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
Might be North Hollywood, just a house.

Speaker 3 (48:28):
You had all the cars.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
No, no, So this one I had. You had big
televisions at that point. It was before the plasma screens.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
So I had a big.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
Television sat about on the floors about that tall, and
had a speaker on either side of it with a
candle on the speakers on each speaker, and the speakers
were a little taller than the TV.

Speaker 1 (48:52):
I got back.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
I wasn't here when the earthquake happened, but I got
back and the television had fallen over. But the speakers
with the candles on them still there. We're still there.
It's so crazy, So it makes no sense. Same thing
with flooding in tornados.

Speaker 3 (49:09):
Tornado's the same thing. You can have like obliterated house
in the other house.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
Nothing. It's insane.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
So anybody who thinks they can figure out Mother Nature
was that? Was it marginin Bluebonne or Yeah, it's not
nice to fool Mother Nature.

Speaker 1 (49:22):
Those are great commercials. If you haven't seen them, you
can YouTube them.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
They're pretty great. But be careful out there. We've got
what is what is reportedly. But of course it's tough
to believe what they say on television about politics. It's
tough what they's tough to believe what they say about weather.

Speaker 1 (49:39):
Too, because oftentimes they.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
Will try to get better ratings by by pretending to
know that this is a category five or no, my god,
it's a category six. You know they will they will
play it up. But if you hear that there's a
hurricane of any magnitude coming your way, do all the
necessary precautions. If they are saying, we are thinking about evacuating.

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Go ahead and go, go ahead and go, because you
don't want to deal with the traffic of trying to leave.

Speaker 1 (50:12):
And if you're wrong, be wrong eating.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
Popcorn from a bar somewhere, or be wrong at an Applebee's,
and then come back and find that out. All your
stuff is just fine, but don't sit there and just
and wait it out.

Speaker 4 (50:25):
The temperature went down twenty thirty degrees one day to
the next. We woke up, We're like, oh my gosh,
it's cold. That would never happen if that if the ice.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
Yeah, so something's going on.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
Something's going on in the Eastern Arin is going on
in the Eastern seaboard.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
You have to go back, so we'll see what's up.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
But our car is on the fourth floor, so I
think it'll be okay, should be, should be okay. Let's
the building falls down and then you know, I'll just
hit the button.

Speaker 1 (50:52):
Listen. But we're going back and have another wonderful trip back.
We're gonna leave tomorrow night.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
The flight leaves I think at nine point thirty something
like that, so hopefully we'll sleep and then then then
well we're going to sleep and then we're going to
get on a train to go back to Jamaica. The
train from Jamaica back to Kennedy. No, I'm sorry, back
to uh Penn station. Then on the what's the fast
train called.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
On the air train.

Speaker 4 (51:21):
Air train from Kennedy you take the air train to
the Long Island rail Road and then we end.

Speaker 5 (51:27):
Up we go to Hilly and then we're going to
chick up the car and we're going to try to
find our car and then we're gonna drive at least
six hours uh and then six more hours because we're
going to take money to the Bluebird.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
No, that's not when I'm doing the Bluebird cafe. Check
check when.

Speaker 4 (51:43):
We're when I'm gonna you check Facebook and the app.
You're always going to get a heads up. You want
to check frequently.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
That's how we know where we're going.

Speaker 4 (51:51):
Yeah, you have to check fruquently because things do change
all the time. We're very fluid with this tour because
it's not like a concert tour where it's like there's
no one that's about it's about educating, it's about inspiring,
it's about learning.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
Celebrating, celebrating our wonderful state.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
So it's like, you know, you can't be that set
in stone because oh, well, we want to do this instead,
because this is more important. We feel to the mission right.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
And also we're not only going We're not going to
the places everybody always goes. Sometimes we will we are
going to go to Boston because we want the clam chowder.
But you got to go to Boston. You got to
go to where they did the Boston Tea Party. You've
got to do that.

Speaker 4 (52:29):
But a lot of people, honey, think we've skipped their stay.
And let me tell you the only place we skip
because Massachusetts so much happened.

Speaker 3 (52:36):
We've got to go back for that.

Speaker 4 (52:38):
There was no way we could just dip the toe
in and go. I mean, so we have done.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
But we had a great time in Massachusetts. It was great.
We did it. We did some good stuff in Massachusetts.
But I think we're going to go back and do
a little more. Right.

Speaker 4 (52:51):
So, we've done Indiana, Tennessee, and we're going to go
back and do more Tennessee, Georgia and New York, Vermont,
New Hampshire, Maine.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
Jersey, New Jersey, May, Rhode Island.

Speaker 3 (53:08):
Rhode Island.

Speaker 4 (53:09):
I think we're missing one Connecticut Connecticut, connect connect Connecticut, Connecticut.

Speaker 2 (53:17):
So yes, we've done all those, We've done ten and uh,
like I said, I'm still trying to figure out what
the exact uh structure of the show is going to
be because I've written a bunch of like, uh, newscaster,
you know, hey, we're here in Trenton, New Jersey, and
you know what happened in Trenton, New Jersey.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
You know that sort of thing from that spot.

Speaker 2 (53:40):
Then there's also a bunch of footage that we took
around those areas, and there's going.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
To be.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
Some music involved in most of them. Like we sang
the state song, I was thinking of, well, some people.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
Rhode Island? Is it for me? Rhode Island, Rhode Island.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
Everybody has a state song and actually, except New Jersey,
there's no state song. So they tried to say, well,
then we thank the boss ought to have the state song.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
No, no, well we did.

Speaker 4 (54:12):
He in a great restaurant there though, in Trenton, and unlike,
oh my god, a lot of.

Speaker 3 (54:17):
People would say, why don't you go somewhere better than Trenton. Treadon.

Speaker 4 (54:20):
Look, there was a huge battle there that was super
If it weren't for Trenton.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
We wouldn't have a country. Yeah, we would not have
a country.

Speaker 4 (54:27):
Very happy to have stopped in Trenton and went to
the Blue Daniube.

Speaker 1 (54:32):
Blue Daniube was wonderful, was so good. Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
We took pictures and showed showed you some. So we
had a wonderful time there, great great people, Margaret right,
Margaret and and some locals that were in there. And
when we got out of the car, it was it
had come a storm, as my grandmother would say, So
we didn't see where we were, and we didn't see
that the sign out front was barely visible because it

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had the biggest this like the stalk on the on
the sunflowers outside.

Speaker 1 (55:04):
So it was beautiful.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
And then we were there and half an hour an
hour later, the sun came out and it was gorgeous
and we said, oh my gosh, this is beautiful here.

Speaker 4 (55:11):
But the reason we're motivated because we prefer mom and
pop here and there. It's not going to work out,
but we prefer moment pop in. That restaurant been there
for decades, I think, been there a while.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
Oh yeah, it's been there since I think since nineteen
sixty five.

Speaker 3 (55:26):
And the Blue dam of the reason.

Speaker 4 (55:28):
The big reason was because with Trenton, we surprised the
Hessians on Christmas Night, so I thought Hessians Germans.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
Okay, they've got German food. That's why my head things,
let's just go there. But boy, they have more than that.
They had all these old world favorites.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
This Hungarian food, the souper, you gotta potato tomato soup,
which I believe she said was Hungarian.

Speaker 1 (55:53):
I think, oh my gosh, actually did the.

Speaker 3 (55:56):
Boat sour Broughton, I mean.

Speaker 1 (56:00):
Hungarian cabbage, stuffed cabbage.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
The dessert was Romanian.

Speaker 1 (56:03):
You can't pronounce it. Don't know what it was, but
it looked kind of like a lady finger chopped.

Speaker 2 (56:07):
Up with with the some ice. No it had it
had whipped cream on it, not ice cream. We had Pemoni.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
Somewhere we've been doing we've been eating a lot, and
we learned.

Speaker 2 (56:17):
Where we were, New London and we're sitting on the
south on the back porch there at a restaurant, and uh,
is that where the river was called the Thames River.

Speaker 1 (56:30):
Yeah, it's called the town.

Speaker 3 (56:31):
Hello, it's New London, so the town so the.

Speaker 1 (56:33):
Thames River was right there, the New Thames river.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
And let me tell you about that city.

Speaker 4 (56:39):
Uh, Benedict Darnald wasn't nice to any Americans, but they were.

Speaker 3 (56:42):
He was really mean to New London and basically burling
Pics town. They have a.

Speaker 4 (56:47):
Memorial across the way, a gigantic one for these poor people.

Speaker 1 (56:51):
It looks like the Washington Monument.

Speaker 4 (56:53):
Uh, you know soldiers, the people. He was just ruthless.
So yeah, New London. But but hey, they we had
all the people were nice.

Speaker 1 (57:01):
We learned a lot about that at Arnold.

Speaker 2 (57:02):
Not only did he try to he made a deal
to sell basically West Point, but once once he once
he turned, he was vicious.

Speaker 1 (57:13):
He was like Simcoe on.

Speaker 3 (57:16):
Crack, but on his deathbed was different.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
You tell me, tell me what happened to Okay, because
then we're we're we're about done here.

Speaker 3 (57:24):
Okay, I think this is great.

Speaker 4 (57:26):
So at the end he said, bury me in my
old uniform, and I wish I had never put on
the other So at the end he regretted turning.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
Not that matters, but he did some awful things.

Speaker 4 (57:38):
Awful he turned, but he you know, he fought for freedom,
thought for liberty, and something a bad nature buried me,
my old you know, and I wish I had never
gone to the other So he was very sorry at
the end. And but a lot of people died and
a lot of people suffered under his hand, unfortunately.

Speaker 3 (57:54):
But then in the beginning he was helpful. So it's
too bad.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
Oh, he was a hero in the beginning. But apparently
he felt stilted by something. He had some money, some
beef with with George Washington, where he felt he should
have been been paid more handsomely.

Speaker 3 (58:08):
Nobody got paid. Everybody was starving, everybody was struggling.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
And there was no money. And the money that there was,
the Continental paper was worthless. It was kind of like
confederate confederate is it silverbacks? Confederate dollars were worthless, and
and so nobody had any money to pay anybody. I
just mentioned two wars a very long distance apart. I
don't want a historian out there saying, no, no confederacy

(58:33):
during the Revolution. I know there was no confederacy. Wait
a minute, but there were American histories, the articles of Confederation.

Speaker 1 (58:42):
So confederation, what does that word mean.

Speaker 3 (58:45):
It means you're kind of a group.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
You're a group.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
You are a confederation joined in opposition to another.

Speaker 1 (58:51):
Group.

Speaker 2 (58:52):
Right, So confederate does is not a there's not a
derogatory Uh, it's not a derogatory word. People history of
people who revision as historians have tried to make the
word confederate a derogatory term.

Speaker 1 (59:06):
It's not.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
If we disagree about something too, friends about con is.

Speaker 3 (59:12):
Conflict federation and is like conflict with the you know.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
Yeah, you're in contact with something else. Doesn't mean you're wrong.
It doesn't mean you're doing something underhanded. And really even
the term it holds something another another.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
Time, but I don't get it.

Speaker 4 (59:26):
More like it's just a group of people to come
together to have a different way of thinking.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
Yeah. Yeah, So we'll talk more about that.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
We'll talk about stuff like one of these days, we'll
talk about the Civil War. We'll talk about all because
we're learning and hopefully you're learning right along with us.

Speaker 1 (59:41):
We are.

Speaker 3 (59:41):
We're excited about it.

Speaker 1 (59:43):
And when you see the documentaries, we hope that you
like them and let us know. And remember, this is
a hat.

Speaker 2 (59:49):
I'm sure someone is already well, I'm sure twenty people
have already got that.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
Right.

Speaker 4 (59:53):
We just to get this hat and we'll send it
to you and you can you have my email, and
if you don't, won't post it, but send me your
in dress and we'll mail it to you. But whoever's
the first person to get this right? What was the
first state capital? Where was the first scratch that? Where
was the first United States capital?

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
And I tell you what when you when you answer
the question, if you are amenable to this, put your
email in there because I don't want you giving out
your email.

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
It's turney on there, big deal.

Speaker 1 (01:00:27):
All right, that's it, that's it. Yep, we are we
are almost over here. Take that. This has been a
lot of fun. It's been drinks with d and John.
That's me. You all take care until next week.

Speaker 3 (01:00:39):
Buy from Hollywood.

Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
I don't know how we're orry for Hollywood people. Wait,
wait a valley valley? Who in Hollywood?

Speaker 3 (01:00:48):
Hey, in Hollywood history. So we go to the Hollywood
Museum because the Dukes of Hazard exhibit is there?

Speaker 1 (01:00:59):
Yes? Still there? Now check it out. We love it.
You all take care of Thanks Tony,