December 11, 2025 • 60 mins
In this sun-soaked, laugh-til-you-snort episode of Drinks with Dee Dee & John, our favorite dynamic duo broadcasts straight from Palm Springs — chapped lips, golf war stories, politics, travel chaos, Christmas nostalgia, and all. Fresh off 82-degree fairways, Dee Dee and John recap their desert adventures: playing golf with Guido (yes, really), skidding down wet hills, navigating injuries, and hosting an unforgettable event with the Republican Women’s group. From New York livestream highs to Palm Desert hat shopping, the conversation is one long, cozy road trip full of detours… including robot hotel luggage valets, crowded Manhattan sidewalks, Duke of Hazzard memories, police gratitude, and a surprising American Express fraud tangent. And of course — it wouldn’t be Drinks with Dee Dee & John without:
✨ A brand-new hat giveaway
🎄 Christmas movie breakdowns
🎤 Upcoming concerts
🧩 Crossword puzzle confessions
🇺🇸 Spirited debates about America, politics, and who should (or shouldn’t!) run for office
🎬 Classic Hollywood stories, Turner Classic Movies marathons, and a whole lot of singing
It’s personal, it’s patriotic, it’s a little chaotic — and it’s packed with the trademark warmth and humor that keeps listeners coming back week after week. Grab a drink, settle in, and join them for another hour of unscripted fun, heartfelt moments, and that unmistakable “we-love-you” energy. P.S. They really do love you.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/drinks-with-john-and-dee-dee--4622520/support.
✨ A brand-new hat giveaway
🎄 Christmas movie breakdowns
🎤 Upcoming concerts
🧩 Crossword puzzle confessions
🇺🇸 Spirited debates about America, politics, and who should (or shouldn’t!) run for office
🎬 Classic Hollywood stories, Turner Classic Movies marathons, and a whole lot of singing
It’s personal, it’s patriotic, it’s a little chaotic — and it’s packed with the trademark warmth and humor that keeps listeners coming back week after week. Grab a drink, settle in, and join them for another hour of unscripted fun, heartfelt moments, and that unmistakable “we-love-you” energy. P.S. They really do love you.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/drinks-with-john-and-dee-dee--4622520/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hey, hey, hey, hey everybody. That's right, it's that time again,
drinks with d D and John.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
That's me and we're in the desert.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
We're we are. We're in the desert. We can tell
you because we are chapped, our litterer chapped well.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Also from kissing a lot. We were in big on kissing.
And yeah, absolutely we are.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
We are in We are in Palm Springs right now.
We are and headed back to Indiana tomorrow, which is tough.
We love Indiana, but it's Palm Springs. Today we played golf.
It was eighty two count of eighty two degrees today
on the golf course and absolutely stunning.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
And yesterday too.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yesterday too, we played golf with this wonderful gentleman named Guido.
His name is actually Guido, and don't horry, okay, his
name is Guido, and he lives here in Palm Springs
and he hosted us for two days at this beautiful
Marriotte golf course. There were two golf courses actually, and
(01:23):
the one we played yesterday was I guess a little
bit longer than the one today and had a little
bit more water on it. But the one today was,
I mean, it was up and down hills, and I
have a tendency to hit the ball to the right,
so I would be up on the top of you know,
(01:45):
no kidding. It was like we started this morning at
eight thirty, so the grass was wet, so it was
like trying to kind of skidding on the way up
the hill. And then no breaks on the way down.
There was no sense in using any breaks. You just
lie all the way down to the bottom of the hill. Anyway,
we had a wonderful, wonderful time.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
It was actually desert Springs. There are two golf courses.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Springs, Mariott right, and I played golf courses even though
even though I still have my my injury bobos. Get it.
See what I did there, my bobos. I had to
I had to hold hold the golf club basically with
my kind of with my thumb and pinky on the
(02:29):
right of the right hand side and try and I
could not touch these fingers on the golf club at
all because it would hurt lack fire, It would hurt
like fire. But uh, it was a great time. Our
event on Monday was spectacularly what great folks, Joy and
Heidi and all the folks there at the Republican Women's
(02:52):
what is it, what is their organization called?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
It's like a county organization. But they're saying that the
biggest one in the country, don't.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Know, certainly the most organized I've ever seen. Yeah, really
terrifically wonderful. Joy, and you took and her daughter and
a bunch of wonderful volunteers. Now you took, you took
some pictures, right, good, Okay, so we'll post some pictures
of that, maybe even a little video.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
And John did a concert and they absolutely loved it.
Well I did.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I did. Uh, that's a lot of talking, and I
did that. That's She's worth it. I did, She's worth it.
I did Charlie's words. I played, uh the words. I
played I'll be home for Christmas. I showed the To
Die For trailer, which I think they a lot of
them had already seen it. Joy had shown it when
(03:43):
it first came out. She said, she showed it in
a local movie theater, which is fantastic. And then of
course we let the the good old Dukes of Hazard. Uh,
just a good old boy. We let that go and
everybody sang along, and there was some video there that
unfortunately stopped just as I was about to blow up
the outhouse, uh and something happened on my end the video.
(04:04):
I gave the crew there, the crew there, sound guys
and everybody there were great, but it was It was
a wonderful time. And we met the sheriff who is
the Fianco Sheriff Bianco, who is a Riverside county who
is right now at the very top of the polling.
Anyway to become the nominee.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
How does that work if you if you win the
nomination for the Republican Party governor for governors running.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
For that, Yeah, and then if you do that, if
you win, then you get to run governor.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Is he running again? I thought he was turned out.
I mean, you know, you never know, you never known
to tilt's over.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
He's such a turd.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
But before that, just so you want to know, it
was fascinating for us because we are John performed in
New York and that was great. It was a beautiful room,
a wonderful.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Audience, green room forty too, right.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It was great. However, and we did a live stream,
which we have not done before. Maybe I have, but anyway,
but not like this.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
So close to one thousand people live streamed it, right, Yes, yeah,
that's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's huge. So people enjoyed the live stream, and in fact,
when we announced that John was doing a show here
in Pulp Springs, people wanted the Lime live stream here
as well. We didn't do it because it's not always
going to be the setup. Every show is different, every
show is a different case in scenario. But New York
(05:32):
live stream was amazing, and we just decided because it's
New York and who knows that we're going to go
back there anytime and in our future.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
After January first, no, did not talk politics in New York,
but talked a whole lot of politics here. We did, hear,
Oh yeah, it.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Was a friendly audience. Both decided in New York would
just be cool. You know, my hat, I'll get it.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
How that's my toe. It was hurt, but you weren't
stepping on my fingers. You were.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I went a lot of money. Now that's my toe.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
So she stepped on it again, so give me that,
give me that. So this is the hat I got
at their store, right, the Patriots store. The Patriots Store
in Palm is amazing. Palm Desert, by the way, some of.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
The street or village.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I think they call it, yeah, and uh, and we
we had a great time at their store. They've got
a bunch of standis there of the president and of Tyrus.
I think they're going to put up a standy of meat. Uh.
And they've also got, of course the first lady. But
that's where I got That's where I got this hat.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
At the golf course, I was wearing this hat. And
when we finished yesterday we went to the bar restaurant,
which was really great, and the uh, the bartender, after
about we've been there about fifteen minutes, he said, excuse me,
but do you people give you any any grief for
wearing that hat? I said, actually no, but if they did,
(07:04):
I don't care. He said, that says Trump won again.
Get over it.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Maga and you know the Patriots store to ham all this.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Oh wait, it doesn't actually say maga. I thought it
said maga on it too.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
But there's another. We bought another hat that said maga
and a bunch of other things. And that is a
beautiful store.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
El Pasaio village, Pasaio pise you say paso, I say paseo.
But anyway, we had a wonderful time here, and we
have one more night. I think we're gonna have there's
a wonderful steakhouse here at this at this hotel casino resort,
(07:45):
and this is Agua Caliente, Agua Caliente, and they have
a wonderful steakhouse here, or we might go out. I'm
not sure.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Excuse me. I went down. Wow, I went down to
the pool.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Just as I finally got my towel down, the sun
went right behind the right behind the mountain. I think
I can show you the mountain. Wait a minute, let
me let me see if I can it that way.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
We don't.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
We don't have I'm gonna move this just a little bit,
just for a second. We don't have chairs to do that.
But this this is our view.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And the first first.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Morning we were here, we had just gotten here. Tell
me when this has you back in it? Baby, Okay,
there we go. We had just gotten here from Manhattan
and it was cold there. But I I would look
out our window in Manhattan in the morning, and when
I got up here, I opened the window and I
sleep really, really well. But I was actually kind of surprised.
(08:44):
It was like, well, where'd the city go?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
In Manhattan, go where are we? Where are we? But
we've had a great, great time. And I used to
come to Palm Springs when I was doing dukes. We
would come here. It's only well in those days, it
was only you know, maybe an hour and ten minutes away.
It's not any further away than it was then. But
there's a whole lot more traffic right than there was.
(09:07):
So it's really a terrific place. And if you're a golfer,
my gosh, what was that store?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
So many golf courses? What was that? So much like
the PGA Superstore.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, PGA Golf Superstore.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Never didn't even know those existed. So we didn't go.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
We really wanted to go in, but we already have
too many things, too many things in a suitcase impact
to go home.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
So buying any a couple of which are hats a couple?
Imagine that.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
And by the way, let's do the hat giveaway. Do
the hat giveaway every week we do every show we
do a hat giveaway. So we bought this hat at
the Desert Springs Resort and it's really cute and it's
brand new.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
It's a brand new hat. Yeah, this is a little
different this week because it's a brand new golf hat.
If you if you play golf, if you, I can't.
It won't fit me. I mean it could, but I
want you to. Oh kay, that's right. So it is
a it's a golf hat. It's not a vintage hat.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Really good quality. It's nothing against those trucker hats, but
it's not that it's a very very good, high end quality.
Shaan Tucker's wearing low quality hats. No, you know the
traditional trucker hats that are very you know, they're they're
economically made.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
This is very well, Yeah, this is a very economically made.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
This is very very nice.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
And uh, I think it's got a spot back here
for a ponytail if you happen to have it. Yeah,
so it's got a got a spot for a ponytail.
And it has the logo of the Rancho Mirage Marriotte
Rancho Mirage golf course, which is a little hummingbird. And
that's what we saw today when we pulled into the
(10:50):
golf course at eight o'clock this morning. Did you said,
I look at that little bird. It was a cute
little hummingbird that was, you know, doing what they do,
kind of hovering you know, science still can't explain the
hummingbird or the or the bumblebee. Go figure, show me
kind a wonderful time. What is the question?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Is one state in America has the most golf courses,
and one state in America has the most golf courses.
And that's a great question, I know, And whoever gets
that question right first will win this hat.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Boy, there's a lot of uh huh. I can't participate,
but I thought, oh, I know what that is, and
I thought, well, no, I don't think I do.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Nope, this's there's states that have a whole lot of
golf courses. But anyway, this is a great hat. Congratulations
whoever already wanted. I'm sure somebody already wanted. It's astounding
yours at how quickly people get the answer to your questions. Right, Oh,
there's an American Express charge and another one it happens.
(11:58):
Oh yeah, that was for life. That's not like three four?
What is all this I'm gonna have to wood in
the world?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Is all that?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Something is happening with American Express right now?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Times they come in all at once. Don't be alarmed,
my dear.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Okay, well that was an awful lot of.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Thing right about American numbers is if you dispute it,
they take it off. They're really great about that. So
if there's a fraudulent charge about it, if it's fraudulight,
you're going away and you might go to jail.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
So if you don't have an American Express card, you
should get one.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Not a good idea to make fraudulent charges on an
American Express card.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
They will They have a fraud department. They will track
you down.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
They will track you down. I had something happen that
I had something happened.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
My gosh, it had to be twenty five years ago.
And I've been an American Express card holder since nineteen
eighty five, thank you very much. And I had somebody
when I had I had a student ranch kind of
in Lebeck, California, and somebody somebody was there and claimed
(13:07):
that they got hit by flying debris. It was a
very windy canyon and they claimed they got hit and
they got hurt and it had nothing to do with
American Express. But I was an American Express cardholder. I
still am. And they have a fraud department and they
they paid for a lawyer to go against this guy. Yeah,
it was amazing. Now I do know that some places
(13:30):
still don't take American Express. I don't know why, but
if you don't have an American Express card, it really
is something they've they've been dealing with. They've been I
think the best at dealing with identity, theft and all
that sort of thing long before they even called it that.
So we're fans of American Express. Of course, they do
not sponsor this. This is not an ad for American Express.
(13:52):
We just are fans that we like to talk about
things that we like, like the Patriot Store in Palm Desert,
like green Room forty two at the hotel there, at
the hotel the hotel, Yo chef the hotel hotel was interesting.
Uh you could tell that that that there the people
(14:15):
we weren't used to it usually, you know, you come
into a hotel, you go to the front desk. Their
front desk was very small to hand this amazing robot
yo bot yobot, is that what it was called.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, basically it was a robot that would put your
luggage away into a drawer or into like a place
where you could go. You know, if you checked that
you can go leave your luggage, you know how you
check your luggage. Well, they don't do it at the
desk here. They put it in a novel.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
No velman and no doorman, which is very unusual in
New York.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
And then you know you would checking it out like
on the wall and yeah, but you watch it.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
It was like one of those things you see that
builds a builds a car, like a rope. It was
a robot.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah, it's a robot.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Come grab you put it on a drawer, Come and grab.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
The robot. The rotel. I think that's what it was,
like a robot at the hotel. Is a rotel? I think,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Anyway, then it would put it in a u it
would finish it like a copy. It looked kind of
like looked kind of like a muscle eam. But they
would charge like three dollars to do it. You'd put
it in there and it was fascinating. So people would
pay their three bucks and they put their their luggage
in a wall somewhere and then I guess they'd come
they'd come get it later. But the the downstairs was
(15:35):
almost always full, but there were only two people.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
It was just unusual.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
It was very like European like.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Maybe like a hostel, Love, It wasn't like a hostitle
well it was.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
It was something that students. Students are, I guess usually are.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Trying to be hit. It's like a hit thing, like
a new thing.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Yeah. But they spent they had to spend half a
million dollars on that yo bot in.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Order to not have it. Still are cheap. This is
an expensive how right? But it's not unusual? Way Love, No, no, no,
no no. Why didn't you do it? Because everyone thought
that you were Tom Jones on the mass singer. Yeah,
(16:21):
when you're the Donuts. What interesting? Like I'm not singing today,
It's not unusual.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I'm not singing today because I sang enough this week.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
I've done.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I'm done singing. And I somehow managed to play the guitar.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Kind of worried about that he did it.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I kind of kind of strummed it, and uh, I
thought for a minute I'd be able to pick it,
pick the guitar like I picked because I fingerpicked with
my my fingernails. But it didn't. It didn't really work.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Let me tell you what. John was such a trooper
and I thought when we could postpone the show and
He's like, no way, forget it. We're not doing that.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Because we don't coming back to New York for for however.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Long the term is. But you know it was upsetting.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Mom dommy, mom domni.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
But John did it, he got through it.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
It was were still look still looked kind of bad.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
An incredible concert amor in forty two. Then we have
the show we hear in Palm Springs and they went crazy.
It was great.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
And we traveled. We of course we traveled. Would you stop,
thank you? Scratch my back just now?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
So we traveled all the way from from New York
to Palm Springs. We came through Salt Lake, which was
which was great. But traveling, traveling this time of year
by air is okay, that's enough, okay? Is uh Christmas
a challenge? So tomorrow is going to be a challenge
for fly back extra day.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Forget it because there are no flights. But you all
know this, those of you have traveled during Christmas or
even all of the December. Forget about it. So we
have our wonderful seeds. We love Delta. So we're traveling
Delta and then you know, we'll get home. And I
looked at the other there were no seats, forget it.
(18:08):
Everything's sold out because people are traveling, going home, going
to see family. So we're lucky people are coming here.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
There are no hotel rooms either. People are coming here
because it's eighty two degrees, so people are coming here.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
But to be fair, it was even crowded at the hotel.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I mean it was oh yeah, well, it was crowded
the hotel, of the it was crowded the streets. We
tried to walk to the tree Rockefeller Center to see
the tree, but it was I mean, they close off
what street is that not forty second whatever, whatever street
it is. It goes by Rockefeller Center, it goes by
(18:44):
the Ice Rank and all that. It was just wall
to wall people all the way, of course on the sidewalks,
but all the way through the street.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
And we wouldn't say who were with, but one of
a couple and the light a good friend of ours
with it. She's wee. She's itty bitty and she's we
meaning no. I know.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
She's been doing the New York Times crossword puzzle, so
she's using words like we.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
How do you spell that? W e? We?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
That's how you spell we? Okay, yeah, little little she's
wee so she.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Was like, when we were just walking to the restaurant,
we're going to it. She's like, Oh, I'm so nervous,
isn't terrible. I'm I, oh, well, forget going to the tree,
because if you go to the tree, it's like being
in Times Square, New York's eve. Forget it.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, and we did.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I've done that this work to not be claustrophobic. Can
do that.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah, and haven't forbid anything, you know, anybody anything goes
wrong and people have got Yeah, there's a lot of
that going on.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Somebody goes nuts around and it's not going to get
any better. I don't think I'm We're going to not
be in New York for a while.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I'm not wishing any ill will on New York, on
New York City. But the best bankers are crossed that
it doesn't just turn into a hell hole right away.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
But one of the advisors of Mundabi just brought on
is like a convicted no felon or criminal or something.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Well, you know, then they'll say, well, so it is Trump.
So is Trump.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
So that's weird. But you know, I think he wants
to cause trouble, so we'll see. But it just butter
if we're not there, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I think he's and I hope I'm wrong, but I
think he's one of those folks. There are people who
will cause problems so that they can fix them. But
in a city like Manhattan, if there are problems, that
means people are not safe, right, And you know, I
do believe that your number one job as a public servant,
whether you're the mayor, whether you're a senator, the president, now,
(20:48):
your number one job is to protect the people that
you serve.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
And we couldn't even get a block away to the
tree in New York City because it was so proud
to imagine a real crisis. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Year, But I tell you what, every time every time
I saw two police officers, or every time we saw
a police officer, uh you say, guiding traffic anyway, they
were laughing and smiling and having a great time. But
those folks are out there on their feet for I
(21:22):
don't know what their shift is. Is it eight hours?
Probably at least eight hours, But they were great. They
were It was so great, and and every time I
saw one, I would say thank you for what you're doing,
and they were always like.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
You're welcome, Thanks for thanking us.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
You know, it was just it's really great. I love
our police officers, and I think the police officers in
Manhattan are a very special breed because it is it
is crowded, and people are kind of in a hurry,
so there's a there's a tendency I think for police
officers to come in contact with folks kind of like
at an airport. You know, everybody's kind of in a
(21:57):
rush at an airport. So I don't think the police
in Manhattan are necessarily coming in contact with people at
their best moment. But those police officers are wonderful at
making the very best of it. So my hat is
off to our Manhattan police officers, and we want.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
To thank you New York. It's even harder outside of Manhattan.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
There are police officers everywhere, right everywhere. Yep, that's a
that's an amazing job. And hopefully, of course it won't
be in New York because Mondomni is what mom domni. Yeah,
I'm getting used to saying that. It is one of
those folks who has gone on record as being a
defund the police guy. I think he's even said he
(22:39):
wants to get rid.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Of the police. Well, we're good to find out, aren't
we you know, and have like that like two weeks
maybe a little more in two weeks, and he will
be the mayor of New York. It's hard to say
the mayor of New York will be Mondale mayor. Unbelievable yep.
And this is somebody did this show.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
This is somebody who refuses to go on record as
saying the people that took down the World Trade Centers
were wrong. He won't say they were wrong, he won't
say there were bad people, he won't say anything like that.
And he's he's wanting to bring uh. I believe he
is one of the folks that wants to bring sharia
(23:21):
law into New York.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Terrible like that clown in Where is he?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
And is it Chicago? No, it's not Chicago, Well.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Minnesota is yeah? Where is that? Where? What is his name? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
He's a guy.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
That I'm Illinois, Yeah, Illinois, Minnesota. They've got terrible governor's
terrible leadership. I mean, let's hope that we can just
get them out. And it's interesting because the new maps
because of what Gabinowsen did, I know, at least thank
you Indiana.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Thank you Indiana.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Yet they change their maps. But Indiana's a smaller state.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
They redistrict and redistricted to.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Offset the Gavin Newsom issue with.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
California because they read and it's funny, they redistricted in California,
and they're all, oh, this is great and it's our
constitutional right and we are doing what we can to
conserve democracy or to preserve pardon me, democracy. But then
you go to a you go to a you go
to a red state and they want a redistrict and
they say, this is terrible. You can't do that. This
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is this is against the constitution, and this is an
existential threat to democracy.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
When we do.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
It, it's an existential threat to democracy when they do it.
It's fine and dandy. You can't have it both ways, folks.
You just can't. You just can't. So we've heard heard
in the news that Florida is going to redistrict. DeSantis
has said that he will he will do that. Of course,
Governor Rabbit in Texas has done that. And now in Indiana,
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we're we're in the process. Right. It takes a little
while in the process of I don't really understand that process.
But if it gives, if it gives people who really
care about the health and well being of their constituency
a little bit more say that I'm all for it.
I'm all for it, But that's not truly, it's not
what is happening here. He has every right to do it,
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and he did it. What was it PROMP fifty? Is
that what it was? I think it was Prop fifty.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
So it's not.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Illegal, not illegal, but it is to try to silence
the Republican voice, and we have to we have to
answer that by doing the same thing elsewhere. And we're
going to do whatever we can to help this gentleman.
We met the sheriff from Riverside have a really good
(25:51):
run at becoming governor. I think he'd make a wonderful governor.
He let us know that the California is the only
state where they tax veterans' benefits, and he said, yeah
on the world. But he said, he said, you know,
the first thing I'm going to do, and he can
do this as government as governor, pardon me, is I'm
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going to end that. I'm going to end the tax
on veterans benefits. He said. Now I'm going to end
taxes on a bunch of other things.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
And he said but.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
It's going to take me well into my second term
to be able to end income tax in the state
of California. I've never heard I've never heard someone who
was running for office be that delightfully and wonderfully transparent,
because he said, I can't do it in the first term,
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but in the second term, I'm going to attack that.
But you got to get me there. And I thought
that was great. I thought that was really really great.
And we spent quite a bit of time with him,
and he was terrific. And I checked with a friend
of mine, Jack, you're probably listening to this. They're watching
this in California. He was a highway patrolman for a very, very,
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very long time. He's an old guy but still rides
his bike every day. He's in the best shape of
anybody I've ever seen. But Jack said, oh, yeah, that's good.
That's a good guy. That's a good guy. So we're
we're our fingers are crossed. But you don't just cross
your fingers. You do what you can. So I told
him if he would like to do his own you know,
(27:26):
there's that wonderful Duke's of Maga video that's out there,
and I.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Played it at the event.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
They played it at the event. Yeah, it was so good,
very very funny.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Grant a bed Joy Heidi.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Well, but yeah, but I told him, Look, if you
want to do something like that where the sheriff finally
catches fine catches boat, I'm happy to do it, happy
to do it for you. So we'll see. So we'll see, absolutely, absolutely,
we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Well, remember, we asked every week or almost every week,
to let us know places where we can celebrate our country.
And it's interesting because we decided to visit the fifty
States before the two hundred and fiftieth birthday to lead
up to it. But it looks like the government's kind
of doing it at the year after. Like this next
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July fourth is the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of
America and they're going to celebrate for the year, and
in fact, they've even asked us to join. And we're
happy to do that, but we wanted to do it
before because we wanted this next fourth of July to
be the grand finale. However, I love there will be
another year of it. I mean, you can't celebrate it
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enough our country.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
They did that for Mickey Mouse right. They celebrated the
year before. I think it was his fiftieth birthday. It's
been a little while, but they celebrated the year before
and the year after. Why not why not do that?
What else has been going.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
On in get ahead of the game, and we're doing that.
So again, if you have any suggestions, and you've give
us great ones, and we have definitely utilized that, and
we have looked at different places and some of them
we go to. Some of them we don't, but we
do appreciate it and thank you so much for that
because it's a big help to us. You're so smart
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and you're so giving with your suggestion. We just appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Yeah, speaking of smart, this one here still every morning,
every morning she does the New York Times crossword puzzle.
And I do not because I don't have that kind
of a brain. But it reminds me of the good
old Dukes days, because I would watch Denver Pile and
Sorrel Book and Tom Wopat kind of in a race
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to see who could could finish the New York Times
crossword puzzle first.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
It's a little bit of a club.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Well, I guess, yeah, yeah, but this was when it
wasn't online. There was no such thing as online. But
Sorrel Yeah, yep, Sorrel book would win.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
He spoke eight languages, which is a big deal because
he spoke a lot of language. Eleven it's a lot
of langl that's pretty great.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Got a languages, yea.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Many times they talk about different languages and if you
don't know it, then you have to just kind of
guess or wait until you get the other letters.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Now I never did it, but I will tell you
that occasional. Well Sorrow was the first person to do
it in pen He would do the New York time.
Everybody else would use a pencil, he would just a
pen uh And I think I think later somewhere down
the line, Tom started using a sharpie. It's like, oh yeah,
because what pass very smart too. But I will I
do recall occasionally seeing here this is a a paper.
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I do recall my dear uncle Jesse, my, my sweet,
my sweet Denver Pile no doing that. He was just
checking his answers. He was not cheating. And nobody said
you couldn't cross pollinate. But I do think he would
check occasionally and looking at Sorrow, dear sorrels well.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
On Monday, and I have to admit that this last
weekend it's like I had the puzzle done, but it
wasn't right and I couldn't figure out what was wrong.
That's how hard it was. So it's it's rough by
the time you get to the weekend.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
I do not have a crossword puzzle. Uh doer's brain. See,
I can't even formulate a proper sentence.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
You do yeah? Oh, and and it really is something
And it's like, well, okay, now I've got to do tomorrow's.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Yeah, but you get You only get them in the morning, right,
They don't. They come out of the day, and.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
In fact, they even come out the night before. But
I don't do that. I went and took because iways
wake up early. John wakes up at a normal time. John,
wake what about eight hunting You're about eight o'clock.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Guy, right, I'm a good sleeper. I'm a very good sleeper.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Sometimes it depends.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
We've been in every week, been a week in the
last two weeks.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Every time out.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
We've been in California, New York, Liverpool, London, Manchester, and Madison, Indiana.
But in Nashville in the last two weeks.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
They John will adapt John is very good. It's like, Okay,
I'm in California. I'm on California time.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Not me.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
I'm on Eastern Standard time always, and that's a problem,
especially when you're in England.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
I think I did not adapt very well when we
were in England. Well yeah, but still.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Not John adapting, I mean pretty good. I think normal.
I mean, you know, it's hard for everyone to adapt,
but John does it kind of in a normal way.
Forget it.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Not me.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I'm on Eastern Standard time always. There's nothing you can
do about it. So what are you gonna do? It's
nothing to do about it. So guess what. I'm gonna
wake up tomorrow again on Eastern Standard time. It'll be
eight o'clock here at five o'clock there. I'm sorry, the
other way around eight o'clock in New York and Indiana.
We live in Eastern Standard time, and be five o'clock here,
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and I'll be up to doing a puzzle, and I'll
try to go back to sleep my mind or am
I not? And I'm just sawing logs and John is asleep.
John is like, no problem. All is well, dreaming, hanging
out whatever. And he wakes up, Oh, good morning, and
I've been up for three hours.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Yeah, I'm not quite that sure.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
I'm more like, oh, you're sweep. Yeah, but I've been like, hey,
how you doing, what's up? What's going on? What'd you dream? Advice?
Please don't be so awaken. John's like, please don't be so.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Just slow down here, slow down, let me climb aboard
your train of thought.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
And some of us are mourning people. Some of us
are not. And I don't really want to be a
morning person. What I just didn't?
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I was a morning person. So for so long, Uh,
dukes have hazard? Of course we would. We'd be on
the set at six o'clock in the morning, which meant
when we were out on person, when we're out in Look,
then I would have to get up at and get
there four thirty five o'clock at the latest. If I
just jumped out of bed and got dressed and went
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to the set, you know, the set was forty five
minutes away, so there was no real no real lag
time there, and no time to just kind of hang around.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
And then Smallville, Smallville, same thing, Smallville, same thing. Haves
and have nots, not so much haves and have nots.
We bare I don't think we started before nine o'clock. Really, uh,
And when I direct, we don't start before nine o'clock either.
We don't work late because I think tired people can't
really do a bang up job. I think the only
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thing I'll get up early for anymore is golf.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
I'll get up for a tea time this morning. Yeah,
but if you've never played golf, when you when you
had a six thirty tea time? Now, if you go,
if you if we go to Arizona, excuse me in
the summertime, Oh yeah, you want to six six o'clock
tim Yeah, because it's like seriously hot.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Binding remember, honey, when we're in Vecas, it was so hot.
And then remember when we played god what was that
comic con that was in El Paso? Oh boyd yep.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
That was hot. It was hot in El Paso. We
enjoyed Al Paso.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
We did that. We needed to start at six thirty
instead of mine thirty and the time we were done,
and I'm burned. I'm fair, I'm white, speaking of.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
But John and and and all the border the border
cities that appears to all be cleaned up. There's no more.
Remember all the all the folks that were coming over coming,
over coming, over. We don't have that issue anymore.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Well, I think the obvious ones are like done forget
about it. But I think that now President Trump is
digging deeper and he's finding the deep deep state like problems.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Oh yeah, well look at what just happened with what
is happening right now with Tim Waltz.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Yeah, Minnesota, Hello, yeah, Minnesota and a bunch of corruption
and it's all going all the money is going back
to Somalia, and they hate us not so of course not. No,
they know everybody, they know the elected official who married
a brother, I guess, I'll say allegedly, but it looks
pretty real. Uh. You know, Donald Trump said she should
(36:31):
be out, and I agreed. Look, I don't think I
think if you were not born in our country, you
should not be able to be an elected official. I'm sorry,
but I agree with that, and meaning that I don't
think that Schwarzenegger should have been able to be governor, right,
And I think you kind of disagree with me, But
he was a crappy governor anyway.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
I think that if you come through, he was not
a good governor. I was in California when he was governing,
he didn't do anything, didn't really do anything, didn't do
anything for media.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Party got him elected and he just blow him all up. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
He didn't do anything for the film industry either, which
we were all believing he was going.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
He didn't.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
But I think that if you come through the proper channels,
you come through the proper way. I know, we disagree
on this.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Okay, looks you were happy wine. Our host joy and
HEII gave us this one that gave us his lovely
gift basket. Boy, what wonderful people. We'll just say again,
oh yeah, yeah, been here, Thank you for our super
happy wine.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
It's happy wine. It makes you happy, it does. But
I think that if you uh yeah, we disagree on
this one because I used to listen to a wonderful
radio show called Life with Luigi. And in Life with Luigi,
this gentleman he was. He was an Italian, he was Italian,
and he won the bar. He was wonderful And a
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couple of the episodes were the process through which he
became a citizen, and I remember him crying with joy
when he finally became an American citizen, and when in
those days this radio show was done in the forties.
There was a quiz you had to take. There was
a test you had to take. You weren't just granted
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citizenship and it couste.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
That's what it is legally, you have to take a
real test. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
So it was that made such an impression on me
that I thought, you know, if someone wants to be
here so bad that they are willing they love this country,
the notion of the United States of America so much
that they are willing to learn about it and take
this test and pass this test, then I thought, I
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still think that this person is then never going to
take our freedom for granted. When you're born here. There
is a I believe there's a tendency for us to
be a little complacent in realizing and celebrating what an
incredible country we have.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
So that's true.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Well, so I think that, for example, I think that
if Elon Musk were to run for office, some kind
of office, I think he should be able to I absolutely.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Think he should. I disagree. I'm hardcore. I think you know,
you are lucky if you're not an American to get
into our country and be an American, and that is
your highest gift. Good for you, congratulations, But you should
not be able to run for office. I just feel
the way. I'm hardcore. You should only be able to
(39:41):
run for office if you were born in America, unless
you were born in an army base that is considered America.
Other than that, forget it, you're out.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
So Jack Reacher, Jack Riacher can run for office because
he was born on an army base in Germany, according
to the legend of Jack Creature. Okay, so nothing of that,
nothing of that, but.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
I do straight. I do think American. I think America
first in every situation. So foreigners should be able.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
To run once you're Once you once you gain your citizenship,
you're no longer a foreigner.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Well yeah, but you were well, in my opinion, not
good enough. But that's fine. John and I rarely rarely disagree,
but I'm just when we do. I don't think Arnold
Schwarzeneger should have been able to run for office. John
does I disagree with that. There you go, If you
are going to run for office, you should have been
born on American soul. Otherwise you're lucky to be an American.
(40:37):
In any way, We're all lucky.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
To be an American. We're all lucky to be if
we're born here.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
We are, we just are, and we are the best
country in America. I did not on purpose.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Who would say things like that to Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
You know Americans, But that's that's very SNL.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
We are the America is a country next to another
country that's not America.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Well, I hate to say SNL. They'd probably say George
Bush would say that.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Well, you know there are people that people also will
say I got corrected once. Yeah, that's true, that's right.
That's why I said America. There are people there, there
are folks who who corrected me because there's North America.
What are we We're the United States. We're not just America.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
You are so smart in this way because we're the
best country in America. Well, America is Canada, United States,
and Mexico, so we are for sure.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Well in South America, Argentina, there's Argentina. I think I
think the proper way to say it wa argent The
proper way to say it is we are the best
country in the America. We're the best country country, but
we're the best country in the the Americas.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Right, But we're really the best country in the world.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
Yeah, but is that what the that's what they call this?
This the America's okay, North.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
America, South America, but we're by America, South America. Anybody
what is that song?
Speaker 1 (42:12):
That's a that's a uh. They took North America, South
America and Australia. It was one of the them, not
Multiplication Rock, Schoolhouse Rock. I see that our camera is trying.
You know what I have here?
Speaker 2 (42:29):
I have.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
I have our phone, my phone on the back of
a chair, taped to the back of a chair with
the only tape that I had available, which is a
band aid, which is a band aid, So I have
you know, they say, wow, there's a problem to stick
a band aid on it. Well, my tripod today is
my cell phone taped to the back of a chair.
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And I see that I'm starting to lose my forehead,
so I should start to beat down like that.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
Maybe it is moving a little bit.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Oh, it is a little bit. But we're almost done.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
We're at uh oh, we have eighteen minutes. Oh we do?
Are you sure?
Speaker 1 (43:06):
My goodness, yeah, we're at forty two minutes.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
Try for me, Argentine. The truth is, I why don't
you go back.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
Why don't you look at the headlines today and see
what we should talk about.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
To look at the headlines. I know what they are,
I know, but we have to talk about something. What
are we going to talk about? You always say that,
excuse me, gab and gab and talking talking. People say, hey,
we love how you add live and just hang out
and do whatever. See here's the issue. I'm Scott Ivers.
So it's always a magical, lovely, fabulous party. John is German, gentleman.
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We need auna, we need auna. See, that's why you
have a soft spot. But Arnold Schwarzenegger, I know you.
I know.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
I fold my dirty clothes inside out so that I
know they're dirty when we get home.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Yeah, listen to that. Okay, by the way, okay, here's
a shirt. Here's the other.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
The other choice is this. I'm not doing that anymore. No,
not doing it, gonna do it, not gonna do it?
Speaker 2 (44:07):
Who was that?
Speaker 1 (44:07):
Who was that not gonna do it? Read my lips?
Speaker 2 (44:13):
George Bush.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
It's your old boss's dad.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Yeah, George Bush. George, But Drillie the comedian Dana Carvey
that made that popular.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Well, but George Bush did say that not gonna do
it read my lips?
Speaker 2 (44:26):
Great family. I was actually on a.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
Uh when I lived in San Antonio. I was on
the the the San Antonio they have the river, the
river walk down there, and I was on I was
on a boat. I was on a dinner, a dinner cruise,
a boot. No, that's a Canadian, that's North America. I
was on the boat with the with the George Senior's wife.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
You were lucky.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
She was amazing. She was amazing. Yeah, she was a
forced I helped it the boat, helped her off the boat.
We talked the.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Whole time White House. But the only time I was
a little like, oh, you know, celebrities or like I care,
or like ambassadors or whatever. But when Barbara Bush walked in,
I stood at the and she was nice. It's not
like she commanded it, but she just naturally did. I mean. So, yeah,
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wonderful lady. And President Bush forty one was amazing as well.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
Man, it's met Miss Nancy too. I met Miss Nancy Reagan.
I sang for President Reagan, and just Nancy was a
little bitty to you.
Speaker 2 (45:36):
Remember what are you saying? If not, I don't remember,
remember this is my country.
Speaker 1 (45:42):
I didn't say it like that, this is my country.
At the it wasn't Kennedy Center.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
It was at the National.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
Country National Buildings Museum in in DC. We did a
big event there, probably nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Anyway, it was Uh, it was a wonder full time.
Got to meet him, got to meet several presidents. So
it's been great.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
What did Don know? What did uh?
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Ronald Reagan as as governor? When they were roasting Don
Rickles on the Dean Martin Celebrity Roast, yep, he said,
you know, you know, Don Rickles has been in the
business for a long time. He has he has performed
for five presidents, entertained three. Well, well, anyway, it was
(46:30):
great and what a great job. Great you want to
see some funny stuff, watch go to YouTube and watch
the funniest moments, the funniest one liners of not Rodney Dangerfield,
but watch Ronald Reagan President Reagan. And what a great
job Dennis Quaid did in that movie. If you haven't
seen that movie, it's been quite some time now. But
(46:51):
of course the the yeah, but the the liberal liberal control,
liberal controlled, uh, Hollywood kind of buried that as they did.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
It was so good.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
About two months ago we saw Truth and Treason and
we urged you to see it. I think it came
and went pretty quickly, which is very sad because it
was an amazing movie, a wonderful, wonderful movie, and we
know about wonderful movies. In fact, we are sitting here
just before we did the start of the podcast. We're
watching Turner classic movies, my favorite. And I didn't see
(47:28):
the whole thing, but what was in his mind and hours, Yeah,
something like.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
That where it's like Lucille Ball and.
Speaker 1 (47:36):
Henry Fonda and sixteen children and sixteen there are two.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Kids, okay, and then she gets pregnant, so there's another
one and now I'll forget.
Speaker 1 (47:47):
It was so cute and Tom Bosley was in it
as the doctor. And we just watched Merry Christmas that
I that I Christmas. I mean r Y Christmas. Merry Christmas. Yes,
and it's it's quite wonderful, but it was great to
see Tom Bosley was one of those folks like Carol
O'Connor and like a Sorel book where when he was
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thirty he looked fifty, and when he was forty he
looked fifty, and when he was fifty he looked fifty
and here's the magic when he was sixty, he looked.
Speaker 2 (48:20):
Fifty like getting back to the Future, Don Crown. Yeah,
it was crazy. It's the same, but he is.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
He was so good, so good in that movie. So
that's what we've we've been watching. In fact, Deedie just
said this morning, you know we're gonna go back home.
It's going to be cold. We're going to be there
for a couple of days before we go to Lebanon, Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (48:39):
Yeah, please come see John and Lebanon Tennessee at Cahoots
the Hoots.
Speaker 1 (48:43):
Yeah, Tom Deukoots.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
What's great about it is the timing because it's going
to be a week before.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
Christmas, and you know Christmas and alter the house not
a creature was stirring, nothing stressful.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
For families when they're like, oh, what are we going
to get wrapping gifts? Whenever, this is something you come
and do. Just have fun. Yes, and I think Christmas
is fun, but it can be a little harrowing. So yeah,
come out the week before the Thursday before and enjoy
at Cahood's John's Christmas Show, which is an amazing show.
Speaker 1 (49:15):
I'm so proud of me for remembering what I was
talking about. So she said that maybe what we should do,
is it me in the in the three days before
we get in the motor home and go to Tennessee,
is just stay home and watch Turner classic movies. Just
watch Turner classic movies all week.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
Will might be fun. It's my favorite. It's my favorite. Orst.
Speaker 1 (49:39):
I'll do my electrocution suit peace, still doing my play
live in I don't know, okay La, oh, we say
we watched Oklahoma, and there's a reason I'm singing that,
what is it?
Speaker 2 (49:56):
Curly?
Speaker 1 (49:57):
We saw Oklahoma yesterday and or it might have been
the day before, and you know, I forgot. I forgot
what we saw this morning. We did not see it
this morning. We were at the golf course at eight thirty.
They came my fro. No, it was not this morning.
But I forgot that Rod Steiger was in Oklahoma. He
(50:18):
was a jud fry so that was great to see him.
Speaker 2 (50:21):
But you were curly.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
Yes, I was curly, but I was not in the movie.
Rod Steiger was in the movie. And we also, I
just saw before we got on here a movie where
Rod Steiger was with Paul Newman, and I, oh, no,
Rod Steiger was with Marlon Brando went on the Waterfront.
Speaker 2 (50:40):
Oh gosh, yes.
Speaker 1 (50:41):
But I had the wonderful pleasure of when I lived
in Los Angeles, I was part of a poker game
Norby Walters, God bless you, Norby love you. You're a wonderful,
wonderful man and a terrific host. He had a poker
game every Wednesday night, and I would play once or
twice a month, and one night. It was always star
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studded and nobody ever talked about show business at all.
But I got to play poker with Rod Steiger, so
it was a great fun. I got to play poker
with Dennis Hopper. And I just saw a video, I'm sorry,
not a video, a movie which one wasn't, but Charles
Derning was in it. Charles Derning was in a whole
(51:24):
lot of movies, not the least of which was The
Muppet Movie and what are You doing Frog? Anyway, Charlie
Derning was a wonderful, wonderful guy on the beach at Normandy,
and he was part of that poker game too. So
one of the really cool things for me about watching
Turner classic movies is that I get to see people
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that I have always been a fan of but I
did brush up against them a little bit and play
three hours of poker with them at Norby Walter's house
in Westwood. So thank you Norby for making that possible
for me. I truly appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (52:00):
So we're trying to get in as many Christmas shows
as we can, and we have figured out that John.
It seems like, and you all can tell us, you
know in the group chat here that what what are
your favorite Christmas shows of John's. But it seems like will.
Speaker 1 (52:16):
Will Creek always, It's like, hands down Willo Creek. People say, yeah,
Christmas Cars.
Speaker 2 (52:23):
Those are the top two though.
Speaker 1 (52:24):
But yeah, but I was, well, jingle Smells, Jingle Smells,
you know that. That's that is really funny. If you
have them jingle smell.
Speaker 2 (52:33):
Let's get that. People get it, really like it.
Speaker 1 (52:35):
Yeah, so you just go to John Schneider dot shop
and order Jingle Smells. Also, I just put it up today,
which for you guys is yesterday. Uh. There's a concert
that Tom Wopat and I did at the Barn at
the Studio in Louisiana. It's about six years ago now,
it might be seven years ago now, but it is fantastic,
(52:57):
and it's all the music from the album Tom and
I did, which is called Home for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (53:02):
Better Yet you can buy that still right, Oh we
have it. We have it on Yeah we do we
still I forgot that. Yeah, that is actually cool.
Speaker 1 (53:09):
We have the dv that's the DVD. We have the
CD and we also have some vinyl so we have
the LP. Yeah, so check that out. Go to the
store John Schneider dot shop and some great Christmas music
there of course, Merry Christmas Baby is there? Jingle Smells
is there? Christmas Cars is there? I love Christmas Cars.
(53:31):
It was so fun. That's where the that's where the
kid says to me, Oh, would you sign I teach shop?
Speaker 2 (53:37):
Right?
Speaker 1 (53:38):
Would you automotive class? Pardon me? Would you sign this
for my I think it's for my grandpa. He has
a little generally and he says he loved Doogie Houser,
and I say, I got a sharpie in my Messac
Duke's are hazard pretty funny. And that's the first time
I jumped to generally. By the way, really jump to
generally is in that movie.
Speaker 2 (53:57):
But here's something that's really important. Those of you who
are like, what am I going to give my mother.
It's dark outside. What is something unique? What does it
get that is unique? I can get them? This is it? Oh? Yeah,
it's John Schneier a Christmas grant, meaning that John will
say at their name and Susan, Hey, Susan, Merry Christmas.
(54:20):
And now I'm gonna say Merry Christmas. Blah blah blah,
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (54:25):
Baby, you will do Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (54:28):
Christmas, Susan. I mean exactly.
Speaker 1 (54:30):
Yep. That's that's a lot of fun. What else is going?
Speaker 2 (54:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (54:34):
I just did some I did a video for our
orange Plate special and one of the things on the
orange Plate Special and we don't have many of these.
I think we might have ten. But we had a
replica made of my my sand dollar bo duke belt buckle.
Uh and that's at the store too, so check that out.
(54:55):
This has turned into an ad for the store. I
don't want it to be an ad for the store.
I want you to have wonderful Christmas.
Speaker 2 (55:01):
Yeah, because people need ideas for Christmas. And if you're watching,
I'm sure you're a fan of John's, so they need
to have ideas.
Speaker 1 (55:11):
I don't feel bad about it. I do feel bad
about wearing wearing shorts doing the podcast. I don't think
you've ever never done.
Speaker 2 (55:21):
You there for.
Speaker 1 (55:26):
To add for something that.
Speaker 2 (55:28):
Never worked, John, And I'm breaking the song all the
time for no apparent reason.
Speaker 1 (55:33):
By the way, no apparent reason.
Speaker 2 (55:34):
You think it's a better dancer, gene Kelly.
Speaker 1 (55:38):
They're different, they're different. One is elegant and one is virile.
Speaker 2 (55:42):
But you got to pick one if you had to pick,
And I think it's almost impossible personally.
Speaker 1 (55:49):
Having worked with Sid Scheriss on Grand Hotel. And by
the way, that was another movie we just saw. Yeah,
I can watch gene Kelly dance all day. I love
to watch Freda Staire dance, but I can't watch it
all day. I could. Gene Kelly just to me grabs
(56:12):
the stage. You know, he's he's the predecessor to to
Oh gosh, or his name just ran out of my head. No,
who was Bob Fosse.
Speaker 2 (56:24):
Bob Fosse.
Speaker 1 (56:25):
Bob Fosse is kind of a combination of gene Kelly
and Freda Staire because he can he can do the
regal royal stuff, but he also grabs the stage. Now,
gene Kelly when he does when he does a dance.
He can do a tuxedo, he can do the fancy things,
but it seems to me kind of like he doesn't
(56:47):
want to do that. So his his attitude when he dances,
like fred Astaire is like, you know, this is this
is good, and this is great, but you know, I'd
really rather be hoofing it. So that's my what do
you think? Who do you like? It's a toss goin,
toss a coin, okay.
Speaker 2 (57:09):
But I'm gonna go with Predistaire of course, because he
was magical two minutes left. That's just like he could
dance on the ceiling on his head, on the side
of me, and he was so quoel.
Speaker 1 (57:20):
But you know he didn't the dance on a ceiling.
Speaker 2 (57:22):
I know that was Daddy long Leg. I said that
because in the show, and you could really almost believe it,
and Jeane Kelly was athletic and fabulous. But I think
it's a straight up dancer. Fredastaire was better a top hat.
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (57:37):
Well on Ginger Rogers did everything Fredastaire did, but backwards.
Isn't that what they say?
Speaker 2 (57:41):
Yeah? Yeah, she probably. I love them both. I think
it's it's an it's an unfair Tobly you didn't get
the credit she deserved. But Centuries was the best one,
was the best dancer as a woman.
Speaker 1 (57:55):
I think, and I think they both said. They both
said that that they met their match when they met Siders.
I think I don't remember what what Freda Stair did
with Cinerie, what show it was, but I think they
danced together. I may be wrong about.
Speaker 2 (58:11):
That, but that doesn't matter. As a woman, she was
the best female dance. I mean, was great, but nobody
is beating Centuries.
Speaker 1 (58:22):
But Cideris also was like, folks, I think that's all
the time we've got.
Speaker 2 (58:28):
Oh my goodness, no, no, we got just a little bit.
Speaker 1 (58:30):
But if you want to if you want to see
some greats that, there's a wonderful movie called That's entertainment too.
Speaker 2 (58:38):
I think that they did that.
Speaker 1 (58:42):
I know, but I think I think That's entertainment. I
think the second one was the one where Gene Kelly
and Fred Astaire co hosted, and it's amazing and it
goes back through all those wonderful Busby Berkeley movies and
it's Buzzby Berkeley was the one that did this spectacular
(59:04):
stuff and kind of invented the you look down and
the dancers around the floor.
Speaker 2 (59:08):
They were like, it looks like that.
Speaker 1 (59:10):
It looks like a kaleidoscope. Looks like a kaleidoscope.
Speaker 2 (59:13):
It's amazing. But John and I also watched the Charlie
Brown Christmas Show. We kind of kicked dolls, so we
kind of kicked off the Christmas season with that. So
we encourage you to do the same. One is it
twenty nine minutes, but it's twenty nine minutes of joy,
absolute joy.
Speaker 1 (59:30):
And that's when the Snoopy licks Lucy and she says
dog germs, dog germs, and then Snoopy goes, ah, it's
pretty it's pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (59:40):
That truly is all the time we have.
Speaker 1 (59:41):
Folks. We hope you had a good time on this ramble,
this ramble again, remember miss.
Speaker 2 (59:49):
Think of a good Christmas gift.
Speaker 1 (59:51):
I know we'll pasts got some good stuff out there too,
so check that stuff out. We love you, We hope
you had a good time here. Hug those you love,
Tolerate those you don't. Come to Lebanon, Tennessee. Right, it's eleven.
It's not like Lebanon, Lebanon, Tennessee. Cahoots, It's going to
be fun we're gonna sing a couple of Christmas songs,
(01:00:12):
and of course we're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
That's why we don't give up.
Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
Hell no do that, and and hopefully these will be
much better by then. But in any any event, thanks
for putting up with us. We too appreciate it. You
take care of this has been drinks with John.
Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
Springs.
Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
You take care.
Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
Wow,
Hey, hey, hey, hey everybody. That's right, it's that time again,
drinks with d D and John.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
That's me and we're in the desert.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
We're we are. We're in the desert. We can tell
you because we are chapped, our litterer chapped well.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Also from kissing a lot. We were in big on kissing.
And yeah, absolutely we are.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
We are in We are in Palm Springs right now.
We are and headed back to Indiana tomorrow, which is tough.
We love Indiana, but it's Palm Springs. Today we played golf.
It was eighty two count of eighty two degrees today
on the golf course and absolutely stunning.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
And yesterday too.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yesterday too, we played golf with this wonderful gentleman named Guido.
His name is actually Guido, and don't horry, okay, his
name is Guido, and he lives here in Palm Springs
and he hosted us for two days at this beautiful
Marriotte golf course. There were two golf courses actually, and
(01:23):
the one we played yesterday was I guess a little
bit longer than the one today and had a little
bit more water on it. But the one today was,
I mean, it was up and down hills, and I
have a tendency to hit the ball to the right,
so I would be up on the top of you know,
(01:45):
no kidding. It was like we started this morning at
eight thirty, so the grass was wet, so it was
like trying to kind of skidding on the way up
the hill. And then no breaks on the way down.
There was no sense in using any breaks. You just
lie all the way down to the bottom of the hill. Anyway,
we had a wonderful, wonderful time.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
It was actually desert Springs. There are two golf courses.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Springs, Mariott right, and I played golf courses even though
even though I still have my my injury bobos. Get it.
See what I did there, my bobos. I had to
I had to hold hold the golf club basically with
my kind of with my thumb and pinky on the
(02:29):
right of the right hand side and try and I
could not touch these fingers on the golf club at
all because it would hurt lack fire, It would hurt
like fire. But uh, it was a great time. Our
event on Monday was spectacularly what great folks, Joy and
Heidi and all the folks there at the Republican Women's
(02:52):
what is it, what is their organization called?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
It's like a county organization. But they're saying that the
biggest one in the country, don't.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Know, certainly the most organized I've ever seen. Yeah, really
terrifically wonderful. Joy, and you took and her daughter and
a bunch of wonderful volunteers. Now you took, you took
some pictures, right, good, Okay, so we'll post some pictures
of that, maybe even a little video.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
And John did a concert and they absolutely loved it.
Well I did.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I did. Uh, that's a lot of talking, and I
did that. That's She's worth it. I did, She's worth it.
I did Charlie's words. I played, uh the words. I
played I'll be home for Christmas. I showed the To
Die For trailer, which I think they a lot of
them had already seen it. Joy had shown it when
(03:43):
it first came out. She said, she showed it in
a local movie theater, which is fantastic. And then of
course we let the the good old Dukes of Hazard. Uh,
just a good old boy. We let that go and
everybody sang along, and there was some video there that
unfortunately stopped just as I was about to blow up
the outhouse, uh and something happened on my end the video.
(04:04):
I gave the crew there, the crew there, sound guys
and everybody there were great, but it was It was
a wonderful time. And we met the sheriff who is
the Fianco Sheriff Bianco, who is a Riverside county who
is right now at the very top of the polling.
Anyway to become the nominee.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
How does that work if you if you win the
nomination for the Republican Party governor for governors running.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
For that, Yeah, and then if you do that, if
you win, then you get to run governor.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Is he running again? I thought he was turned out.
I mean, you know, you never know, you never known
to tilt's over.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
He's such a turd.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
But before that, just so you want to know, it
was fascinating for us because we are John performed in
New York and that was great. It was a beautiful room,
a wonderful.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Audience, green room forty too, right.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It was great. However, and we did a live stream,
which we have not done before. Maybe I have, but anyway,
but not like this.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
So close to one thousand people live streamed it, right, Yes, yeah,
that's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's huge. So people enjoyed the live stream, and in fact,
when we announced that John was doing a show here
in Pulp Springs, people wanted the Lime live stream here
as well. We didn't do it because it's not always
going to be the setup. Every show is different, every
show is a different case in scenario. But New York
(05:32):
live stream was amazing, and we just decided because it's
New York and who knows that we're going to go
back there anytime and in our future.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
After January first, no, did not talk politics in New York,
but talked a whole lot of politics here. We did, hear,
Oh yeah, it.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Was a friendly audience. Both decided in New York would
just be cool. You know, my hat, I'll get it.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
How that's my toe. It was hurt, but you weren't
stepping on my fingers. You were.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I went a lot of money. Now that's my toe.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
So she stepped on it again, so give me that,
give me that. So this is the hat I got
at their store, right, the Patriots store. The Patriots Store
in Palm is amazing. Palm Desert, by the way, some of.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
The street or village.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I think they call it, yeah, and uh, and we
we had a great time at their store. They've got
a bunch of standis there of the president and of Tyrus.
I think they're going to put up a standy of meat. Uh.
And they've also got, of course the first lady. But
that's where I got That's where I got this hat.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
At the golf course, I was wearing this hat. And
when we finished yesterday we went to the bar restaurant,
which was really great, and the uh, the bartender, after
about we've been there about fifteen minutes, he said, excuse me,
but do you people give you any any grief for
wearing that hat? I said, actually no, but if they did,
(07:04):
I don't care. He said, that says Trump won again.
Get over it.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Maga and you know the Patriots store to ham all this.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Oh wait, it doesn't actually say maga. I thought it
said maga on it too.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
But there's another. We bought another hat that said maga
and a bunch of other things. And that is a
beautiful store.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
El Pasaio village, Pasaio pise you say paso, I say paseo.
But anyway, we had a wonderful time here, and we
have one more night. I think we're gonna have there's
a wonderful steakhouse here at this at this hotel casino resort,
(07:45):
and this is Agua Caliente, Agua Caliente, and they have
a wonderful steakhouse here, or we might go out. I'm
not sure.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Excuse me. I went down. Wow, I went down to
the pool.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Just as I finally got my towel down, the sun
went right behind the right behind the mountain. I think
I can show you the mountain. Wait a minute, let
me let me see if I can it that way.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
We don't.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
We don't have I'm gonna move this just a little bit,
just for a second. We don't have chairs to do that.
But this this is our view.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And the first first.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Morning we were here, we had just gotten here. Tell
me when this has you back in it? Baby, Okay,
there we go. We had just gotten here from Manhattan
and it was cold there. But I I would look
out our window in Manhattan in the morning, and when
I got up here, I opened the window and I
sleep really, really well. But I was actually kind of surprised.
(08:44):
It was like, well, where'd the city go?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
In Manhattan, go where are we? Where are we? But
we've had a great, great time. And I used to
come to Palm Springs when I was doing dukes. We
would come here. It's only well in those days, it
was only you know, maybe an hour and ten minutes away.
It's not any further away than it was then. But
there's a whole lot more traffic right than there was.
(09:07):
So it's really a terrific place. And if you're a golfer,
my gosh, what was that store?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
So many golf courses? What was that? So much like
the PGA Superstore.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, PGA Golf Superstore.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Never didn't even know those existed. So we didn't go.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
We really wanted to go in, but we already have
too many things, too many things in a suitcase impact
to go home.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
So buying any a couple of which are hats a couple?
Imagine that.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
And by the way, let's do the hat giveaway. Do
the hat giveaway every week we do every show we
do a hat giveaway. So we bought this hat at
the Desert Springs Resort and it's really cute and it's
brand new.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
It's a brand new hat. Yeah, this is a little
different this week because it's a brand new golf hat.
If you if you play golf, if you, I can't.
It won't fit me. I mean it could, but I
want you to. Oh kay, that's right. So it is
a it's a golf hat. It's not a vintage hat.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Really good quality. It's nothing against those trucker hats, but
it's not that it's a very very good, high end quality.
Shaan Tucker's wearing low quality hats. No, you know the
traditional trucker hats that are very you know, they're they're
economically made.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
This is very well, Yeah, this is a very economically made.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
This is very very nice.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
And uh, I think it's got a spot back here
for a ponytail if you happen to have it. Yeah,
so it's got a got a spot for a ponytail.
And it has the logo of the Rancho Mirage Marriotte
Rancho Mirage golf course, which is a little hummingbird. And
that's what we saw today when we pulled into the
(10:50):
golf course at eight o'clock this morning. Did you said,
I look at that little bird. It was a cute
little hummingbird that was, you know, doing what they do,
kind of hovering you know, science still can't explain the
hummingbird or the or the bumblebee. Go figure, show me
kind a wonderful time. What is the question?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Is one state in America has the most golf courses,
and one state in America has the most golf courses.
And that's a great question, I know, And whoever gets
that question right first will win this hat.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Boy, there's a lot of uh huh. I can't participate,
but I thought, oh, I know what that is, and
I thought, well, no, I don't think I do.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Nope, this's there's states that have a whole lot of
golf courses. But anyway, this is a great hat. Congratulations
whoever already wanted. I'm sure somebody already wanted. It's astounding
yours at how quickly people get the answer to your questions. Right, Oh,
there's an American Express charge and another one it happens.
(11:58):
Oh yeah, that was for life. That's not like three four?
What is all this I'm gonna have to wood in
the world?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Is all that?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Something is happening with American Express right now?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Times they come in all at once. Don't be alarmed,
my dear.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Okay, well that was an awful lot of.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Thing right about American numbers is if you dispute it,
they take it off. They're really great about that. So
if there's a fraudulent charge about it, if it's fraudulight,
you're going away and you might go to jail.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
So if you don't have an American Express card, you
should get one.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Not a good idea to make fraudulent charges on an
American Express card.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
They will They have a fraud department. They will track
you down.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
They will track you down. I had something happen that
I had something happened.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
My gosh, it had to be twenty five years ago.
And I've been an American Express card holder since nineteen
eighty five, thank you very much. And I had somebody
when I had I had a student ranch kind of
in Lebeck, California, and somebody somebody was there and claimed
(13:07):
that they got hit by flying debris. It was a
very windy canyon and they claimed they got hit and
they got hurt and it had nothing to do with
American Express. But I was an American Express cardholder. I
still am. And they have a fraud department and they
they paid for a lawyer to go against this guy. Yeah,
it was amazing. Now I do know that some places
(13:30):
still don't take American Express. I don't know why, but
if you don't have an American Express card, it really
is something they've they've been dealing with. They've been I
think the best at dealing with identity, theft and all
that sort of thing long before they even called it that.
So we're fans of American Express. Of course, they do
not sponsor this. This is not an ad for American Express.
(13:52):
We just are fans that we like to talk about
things that we like, like the Patriot Store in Palm Desert,
like green Room forty two at the hotel there, at
the hotel the hotel, Yo chef the hotel hotel was interesting.
Uh you could tell that that that there the people
(14:15):
we weren't used to it usually, you know, you come
into a hotel, you go to the front desk. Their
front desk was very small to hand this amazing robot
yo bot yobot, is that what it was called.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, basically it was a robot that would put your
luggage away into a drawer or into like a place
where you could go. You know, if you checked that
you can go leave your luggage, you know how you
check your luggage. Well, they don't do it at the
desk here. They put it in a novel.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
No velman and no doorman, which is very unusual in
New York.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
And then you know you would checking it out like
on the wall and yeah, but you watch it.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
It was like one of those things you see that
builds a builds a car, like a rope. It was
a robot.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah, it's a robot.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Come grab you put it on a drawer, Come and grab.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
The robot. The rotel. I think that's what it was,
like a robot at the hotel. Is a rotel? I think,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Anyway, then it would put it in a u it
would finish it like a copy. It looked kind of
like looked kind of like a muscle eam. But they
would charge like three dollars to do it. You'd put
it in there and it was fascinating. So people would
pay their three bucks and they put their their luggage
in a wall somewhere and then I guess they'd come
they'd come get it later. But the the downstairs was
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almost always full, but there were only two people.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
It was just unusual.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
It was very like European like.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Maybe like a hostel, Love, It wasn't like a hostitle
well it was.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
It was something that students. Students are, I guess usually are.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Trying to be hit. It's like a hit thing, like
a new thing.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Yeah. But they spent they had to spend half a
million dollars on that yo bot in.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Order to not have it. Still are cheap. This is
an expensive how right? But it's not unusual? Way Love, No, no, no,
no no. Why didn't you do it? Because everyone thought
that you were Tom Jones on the mass singer. Yeah,
(16:21):
when you're the Donuts. What interesting? Like I'm not singing today,
It's not unusual.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I'm not singing today because I sang enough this week.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
I've done.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I'm done singing. And I somehow managed to play the guitar.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Kind of worried about that he did it.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I kind of kind of strummed it, and uh, I
thought for a minute I'd be able to pick it,
pick the guitar like I picked because I fingerpicked with
my my fingernails. But it didn't. It didn't really work.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Let me tell you what. John was such a trooper
and I thought when we could postpone the show and
He's like, no way, forget it. We're not doing that.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Because we don't coming back to New York for for however.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Long the term is. But you know it was upsetting.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Mom dommy, mom domni.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
But John did it, he got through it.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
It was were still look still looked kind of bad.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
An incredible concert amor in forty two. Then we have
the show we hear in Palm Springs and they went crazy.
It was great.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
And we traveled. We of course we traveled. Would you stop,
thank you? Scratch my back just now?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
So we traveled all the way from from New York
to Palm Springs. We came through Salt Lake, which was
which was great. But traveling, traveling this time of year
by air is okay, that's enough, okay? Is uh Christmas
a challenge? So tomorrow is going to be a challenge
for fly back extra day.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Forget it because there are no flights. But you all
know this, those of you have traveled during Christmas or
even all of the December. Forget about it. So we
have our wonderful seeds. We love Delta. So we're traveling
Delta and then you know, we'll get home. And I
looked at the other there were no seats, forget it.
(18:08):
Everything's sold out because people are traveling, going home, going
to see family. So we're lucky people are coming here.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
There are no hotel rooms either. People are coming here
because it's eighty two degrees, so people are coming here.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
But to be fair, it was even crowded at the hotel.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I mean it was oh yeah, well, it was crowded
the hotel, of the it was crowded the streets. We
tried to walk to the tree Rockefeller Center to see
the tree, but it was I mean, they close off
what street is that not forty second whatever, whatever street
it is. It goes by Rockefeller Center, it goes by
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the Ice Rank and all that. It was just wall
to wall people all the way, of course on the sidewalks,
but all the way through the street.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
And we wouldn't say who were with, but one of
a couple and the light a good friend of ours
with it. She's wee. She's itty bitty and she's we
meaning no. I know.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
She's been doing the New York Times crossword puzzle, so
she's using words like we.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
How do you spell that? W e? We?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
That's how you spell we? Okay, yeah, little little she's
wee so she.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Was like, when we were just walking to the restaurant,
we're going to it. She's like, Oh, I'm so nervous,
isn't terrible. I'm I, oh, well, forget going to the tree,
because if you go to the tree, it's like being
in Times Square, New York's eve. Forget it.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, and we did.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I've done that this work to not be claustrophobic. Can
do that.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah, and haven't forbid anything, you know, anybody anything goes
wrong and people have got Yeah, there's a lot of
that going on.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Somebody goes nuts around and it's not going to get
any better. I don't think I'm We're going to not
be in New York for a while.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I'm not wishing any ill will on New York, on
New York City. But the best bankers are crossed that
it doesn't just turn into a hell hole right away.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
But one of the advisors of Mundabi just brought on
is like a convicted no felon or criminal or something.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Well, you know, then they'll say, well, so it is Trump.
So is Trump.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
So that's weird. But you know, I think he wants
to cause trouble, so we'll see. But it just butter
if we're not there, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I think he's and I hope I'm wrong, but I
think he's one of those folks. There are people who
will cause problems so that they can fix them. But
in a city like Manhattan, if there are problems, that
means people are not safe, right, And you know, I
do believe that your number one job as a public servant,
whether you're the mayor, whether you're a senator, the president, now,
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your number one job is to protect the people that
you serve.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
And we couldn't even get a block away to the
tree in New York City because it was so proud
to imagine a real crisis. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Year, But I tell you what, every time every time
I saw two police officers, or every time we saw
a police officer, uh you say, guiding traffic anyway, they
were laughing and smiling and having a great time. But
those folks are out there on their feet for I
(21:22):
don't know what their shift is. Is it eight hours?
Probably at least eight hours, But they were great. They
were It was so great, and and every time I
saw one, I would say thank you for what you're doing,
and they were always like.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
You're welcome, Thanks for thanking us.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
You know, it was just it's really great. I love
our police officers, and I think the police officers in
Manhattan are a very special breed because it is it
is crowded, and people are kind of in a hurry,
so there's a there's a tendency I think for police
officers to come in contact with folks kind of like
at an airport. You know, everybody's kind of in a
(21:57):
rush at an airport. So I don't think the police
in Manhattan are necessarily coming in contact with people at
their best moment. But those police officers are wonderful at
making the very best of it. So my hat is
off to our Manhattan police officers, and we want.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
To thank you New York. It's even harder outside of Manhattan.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
There are police officers everywhere, right everywhere. Yep, that's a
that's an amazing job. And hopefully, of course it won't
be in New York because Mondomni is what mom domni. Yeah,
I'm getting used to saying that. It is one of
those folks who has gone on record as being a
defund the police guy. I think he's even said he
(22:39):
wants to get rid.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Of the police. Well, we're good to find out, aren't
we you know, and have like that like two weeks
maybe a little more in two weeks, and he will
be the mayor of New York. It's hard to say
the mayor of New York will be Mondale mayor. Unbelievable yep.
And this is somebody did this show.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
This is somebody who refuses to go on record as
saying the people that took down the World Trade Centers
were wrong. He won't say they were wrong, he won't
say there were bad people, he won't say anything like that.
And he's he's wanting to bring uh. I believe he
is one of the folks that wants to bring sharia
(23:21):
law into New York.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Terrible like that clown in Where is he?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
And is it Chicago? No, it's not Chicago, Well.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Minnesota is yeah? Where is that? Where? What is his name? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
He's a guy.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
That I'm Illinois, Yeah, Illinois, Minnesota. They've got terrible governor's
terrible leadership. I mean, let's hope that we can just
get them out. And it's interesting because the new maps
because of what Gabinowsen did, I know, at least thank
you Indiana.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Thank you Indiana.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Yet they change their maps. But Indiana's a smaller state.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
They redistrict and redistricted to.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Offset the Gavin Newsom issue with.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
California because they read and it's funny, they redistricted in California,
and they're all, oh, this is great and it's our
constitutional right and we are doing what we can to
conserve democracy or to preserve pardon me, democracy. But then
you go to a you go to a you go
to a red state and they want a redistrict and
they say, this is terrible. You can't do that. This
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is this is against the constitution, and this is an
existential threat to democracy.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
When we do.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
It, it's an existential threat to democracy when they do it.
It's fine and dandy. You can't have it both ways, folks.
You just can't. You just can't. So we've heard heard
in the news that Florida is going to redistrict. DeSantis
has said that he will he will do that. Of course,
Governor Rabbit in Texas has done that. And now in Indiana,
(24:59):
we're we're in the process. Right. It takes a little
while in the process of I don't really understand that process.
But if it gives, if it gives people who really
care about the health and well being of their constituency
a little bit more say that I'm all for it.
I'm all for it, But that's not truly, it's not
what is happening here. He has every right to do it,
(25:20):
and he did it. What was it PROMP fifty? Is
that what it was? I think it was Prop fifty.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
So it's not.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Illegal, not illegal, but it is to try to silence
the Republican voice, and we have to we have to
answer that by doing the same thing elsewhere. And we're
going to do whatever we can to help this gentleman.
We met the sheriff from Riverside have a really good
(25:51):
run at becoming governor. I think he'd make a wonderful governor.
He let us know that the California is the only
state where they tax veterans' benefits, and he said, yeah
on the world. But he said, he said, you know,
the first thing I'm going to do, and he can
do this as government as governor, pardon me, is I'm
(26:12):
going to end that. I'm going to end the tax
on veterans benefits. He said. Now I'm going to end
taxes on a bunch of other things.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
And he said but.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
It's going to take me well into my second term
to be able to end income tax in the state
of California. I've never heard I've never heard someone who
was running for office be that delightfully and wonderfully transparent,
because he said, I can't do it in the first term,
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but in the second term, I'm going to attack that.
But you got to get me there. And I thought
that was great. I thought that was really really great.
And we spent quite a bit of time with him,
and he was terrific. And I checked with a friend
of mine, Jack, you're probably listening to this. They're watching
this in California. He was a highway patrolman for a very, very,
(27:05):
very long time. He's an old guy but still rides
his bike every day. He's in the best shape of
anybody I've ever seen. But Jack said, oh, yeah, that's good.
That's a good guy. That's a good guy. So we're
we're our fingers are crossed. But you don't just cross
your fingers. You do what you can. So I told
him if he would like to do his own you know,
(27:26):
there's that wonderful Duke's of Maga video that's out there,
and I.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Played it at the event.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
They played it at the event. Yeah, it was so good,
very very funny.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Grant a bed Joy Heidi.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Well, but yeah, but I told him, Look, if you
want to do something like that where the sheriff finally
catches fine catches boat, I'm happy to do it, happy
to do it for you. So we'll see. So we'll see, absolutely, absolutely,
we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Well, remember, we asked every week or almost every week,
to let us know places where we can celebrate our country.
And it's interesting because we decided to visit the fifty
States before the two hundred and fiftieth birthday to lead
up to it. But it looks like the government's kind
of doing it at the year after. Like this next
(28:12):
July fourth is the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of
America and they're going to celebrate for the year, and
in fact, they've even asked us to join. And we're
happy to do that, but we wanted to do it
before because we wanted this next fourth of July to
be the grand finale. However, I love there will be
another year of it. I mean, you can't celebrate it
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enough our country.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
They did that for Mickey Mouse right. They celebrated the
year before. I think it was his fiftieth birthday. It's
been a little while, but they celebrated the year before
and the year after. Why not why not do that?
What else has been going.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
On in get ahead of the game, and we're doing that.
So again, if you have any suggestions, and you've give
us great ones, and we have definitely utilized that, and
we have looked at different places and some of them
we go to. Some of them we don't, but we
do appreciate it and thank you so much for that
because it's a big help to us. You're so smart
(29:08):
and you're so giving with your suggestion. We just appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Yeah, speaking of smart, this one here still every morning,
every morning she does the New York Times crossword puzzle.
And I do not because I don't have that kind
of a brain. But it reminds me of the good
old Dukes days, because I would watch Denver Pile and
Sorrel Book and Tom Wopat kind of in a race
(29:35):
to see who could could finish the New York Times
crossword puzzle first.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
It's a little bit of a club.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Well, I guess, yeah, yeah, but this was when it
wasn't online. There was no such thing as online. But
Sorrel Yeah, yep, Sorrel book would win.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
He spoke eight languages, which is a big deal because
he spoke a lot of language. Eleven it's a lot
of langl that's pretty great.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Got a languages, yea.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Many times they talk about different languages and if you
don't know it, then you have to just kind of
guess or wait until you get the other letters.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Now I never did it, but I will tell you
that occasional. Well Sorrow was the first person to do
it in pen He would do the New York time.
Everybody else would use a pencil, he would just a
pen uh And I think I think later somewhere down
the line, Tom started using a sharpie. It's like, oh yeah,
because what pass very smart too. But I will I
do recall occasionally seeing here this is a a paper.
(30:35):
I do recall my dear uncle Jesse, my, my sweet,
my sweet Denver Pile no doing that. He was just
checking his answers. He was not cheating. And nobody said
you couldn't cross pollinate. But I do think he would
check occasionally and looking at Sorrow, dear sorrels well.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
On Monday, and I have to admit that this last
weekend it's like I had the puzzle done, but it
wasn't right and I couldn't figure out what was wrong.
That's how hard it was. So it's it's rough by
the time you get to the weekend.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
I do not have a crossword puzzle. Uh doer's brain. See,
I can't even formulate a proper sentence.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
You do yeah? Oh, and and it really is something
And it's like, well, okay, now I've got to do tomorrow's.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Yeah, but you get You only get them in the morning, right,
They don't. They come out of the day, and.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
In fact, they even come out the night before. But
I don't do that. I went and took because iways
wake up early. John wakes up at a normal time. John,
wake what about eight hunting You're about eight o'clock.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Guy, right, I'm a good sleeper. I'm a very good sleeper.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Sometimes it depends.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
We've been in every week, been a week in the
last two weeks.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Every time out.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
We've been in California, New York, Liverpool, London, Manchester, and Madison, Indiana.
But in Nashville in the last two weeks.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
They John will adapt John is very good. It's like, Okay,
I'm in California. I'm on California time.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Not me.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
I'm on Eastern Standard time always, and that's a problem,
especially when you're in England.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
I think I did not adapt very well when we
were in England. Well yeah, but still.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Not John adapting, I mean pretty good. I think normal.
I mean, you know, it's hard for everyone to adapt,
but John does it kind of in a normal way.
Forget it.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Not me.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I'm on Eastern Standard time always. There's nothing you can
do about it. So what are you gonna do? It's
nothing to do about it. So guess what. I'm gonna
wake up tomorrow again on Eastern Standard time. It'll be
eight o'clock here at five o'clock there. I'm sorry, the
other way around eight o'clock in New York and Indiana.
We live in Eastern Standard time, and be five o'clock here,
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and I'll be up to doing a puzzle, and I'll
try to go back to sleep my mind or am
I not? And I'm just sawing logs and John is asleep.
John is like, no problem. All is well, dreaming, hanging
out whatever. And he wakes up, Oh, good morning, and
I've been up for three hours.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Yeah, I'm not quite that sure.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
I'm more like, oh, you're sweep. Yeah, but I've been like, hey,
how you doing, what's up? What's going on? What'd you dream? Advice?
Please don't be so awaken. John's like, please don't be so.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Just slow down here, slow down, let me climb aboard
your train of thought.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
And some of us are mourning people. Some of us
are not. And I don't really want to be a
morning person. What I just didn't?
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I was a morning person. So for so long, Uh,
dukes have hazard? Of course we would. We'd be on
the set at six o'clock in the morning, which meant
when we were out on person, when we're out in Look,
then I would have to get up at and get
there four thirty five o'clock at the latest. If I
just jumped out of bed and got dressed and went
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to the set, you know, the set was forty five
minutes away, so there was no real no real lag
time there, and no time to just kind of hang around.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
And then Smallville, Smallville, same thing, Smallville, same thing. Haves
and have nots, not so much haves and have nots.
We bare I don't think we started before nine o'clock. Really, uh,
And when I direct, we don't start before nine o'clock either.
We don't work late because I think tired people can't
really do a bang up job. I think the only
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thing I'll get up early for anymore is golf.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
I'll get up for a tea time this morning. Yeah,
but if you've never played golf, when you when you
had a six thirty tea time? Now, if you go,
if you if we go to Arizona, excuse me in
the summertime, Oh yeah, you want to six six o'clock
tim Yeah, because it's like seriously hot.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Binding remember, honey, when we're in Vecas, it was so hot.
And then remember when we played god what was that
comic con that was in El Paso? Oh boyd yep.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
That was hot. It was hot in El Paso. We
enjoyed Al Paso.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
We did that. We needed to start at six thirty
instead of mine thirty and the time we were done,
and I'm burned. I'm fair, I'm white, speaking of.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
But John and and and all the border the border
cities that appears to all be cleaned up. There's no more.
Remember all the all the folks that were coming over coming,
over coming, over. We don't have that issue anymore.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Well, I think the obvious ones are like done forget
about it. But I think that now President Trump is
digging deeper and he's finding the deep deep state like problems.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Oh yeah, well look at what just happened with what
is happening right now with Tim Waltz.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Yeah, Minnesota, Hello, yeah, Minnesota and a bunch of corruption
and it's all going all the money is going back
to Somalia, and they hate us not so of course not. No,
they know everybody, they know the elected official who married
a brother, I guess, I'll say allegedly, but it looks
pretty real. Uh. You know, Donald Trump said she should
(36:31):
be out, and I agreed. Look, I don't think I
think if you were not born in our country, you
should not be able to be an elected official. I'm sorry,
but I agree with that, and meaning that I don't
think that Schwarzenegger should have been able to be governor, right,
And I think you kind of disagree with me, But
he was a crappy governor anyway.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
I think that if you come through, he was not
a good governor. I was in California when he was governing,
he didn't do anything, didn't really do anything, didn't do
anything for media.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Party got him elected and he just blow him all up. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
He didn't do anything for the film industry either, which
we were all believing he was going.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
He didn't.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
But I think that if you come through the proper channels,
you come through the proper way. I know, we disagree
on this.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Okay, looks you were happy wine. Our host joy and
HEII gave us this one that gave us his lovely
gift basket. Boy, what wonderful people. We'll just say again,
oh yeah, yeah, been here, Thank you for our super
happy wine.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
It's happy wine. It makes you happy, it does. But
I think that if you uh yeah, we disagree on
this one because I used to listen to a wonderful
radio show called Life with Luigi. And in Life with Luigi,
this gentleman he was. He was an Italian, he was Italian,
and he won the bar. He was wonderful And a
(37:57):
couple of the episodes were the process through which he
became a citizen, and I remember him crying with joy
when he finally became an American citizen, and when in
those days this radio show was done in the forties.
There was a quiz you had to take. There was
a test you had to take. You weren't just granted
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citizenship and it couste.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
That's what it is legally, you have to take a
real test. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
So it was that made such an impression on me
that I thought, you know, if someone wants to be
here so bad that they are willing they love this country,
the notion of the United States of America so much
that they are willing to learn about it and take
this test and pass this test, then I thought, I
(38:47):
still think that this person is then never going to
take our freedom for granted. When you're born here. There
is a I believe there's a tendency for us to
be a little complacent in realizing and celebrating what an
incredible country we have.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
So that's true.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Well, so I think that, for example, I think that
if Elon Musk were to run for office, some kind
of office, I think he should be able to I absolutely.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Think he should. I disagree. I'm hardcore. I think you know,
you are lucky if you're not an American to get
into our country and be an American, and that is
your highest gift. Good for you, congratulations, But you should
not be able to run for office. I just feel
the way. I'm hardcore. You should only be able to
(39:41):
run for office if you were born in America, unless
you were born in an army base that is considered America.
Other than that, forget it, you're out.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
So Jack Reacher, Jack Riacher can run for office because
he was born on an army base in Germany, according
to the legend of Jack Creature. Okay, so nothing of that,
nothing of that, but.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
I do straight. I do think American. I think America
first in every situation. So foreigners should be able.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
To run once you're Once you once you gain your citizenship,
you're no longer a foreigner.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Well yeah, but you were well, in my opinion, not
good enough. But that's fine. John and I rarely rarely disagree,
but I'm just when we do. I don't think Arnold
Schwarzeneger should have been able to run for office. John
does I disagree with that. There you go, If you
are going to run for office, you should have been
born on American soul. Otherwise you're lucky to be an American.
(40:37):
In any way, We're all lucky.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
To be an American. We're all lucky to be if
we're born here.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
We are, we just are, and we are the best
country in America. I did not on purpose.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Who would say things like that to Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
You know Americans, But that's that's very SNL.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
We are the America is a country next to another
country that's not America.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Well, I hate to say SNL. They'd probably say George
Bush would say that.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Well, you know there are people that people also will
say I got corrected once. Yeah, that's true, that's right.
That's why I said America. There are people there, there
are folks who who corrected me because there's North America.
What are we We're the United States. We're not just America.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
You are so smart in this way because we're the
best country in America. Well, America is Canada, United States,
and Mexico, so we are for sure.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Well in South America, Argentina, there's Argentina. I think I
think the proper way to say it wa argent The
proper way to say it is we are the best
country in the America. We're the best country country, but
we're the best country in the the Americas.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Right, But we're really the best country in the world.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
Yeah, but is that what the that's what they call this?
This the America's okay, North.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
America, South America, but we're by America, South America. Anybody
what is that song?
Speaker 1 (42:12):
That's a that's a uh. They took North America, South
America and Australia. It was one of the them, not
Multiplication Rock, Schoolhouse Rock. I see that our camera is trying.
You know what I have here?
Speaker 2 (42:29):
I have.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
I have our phone, my phone on the back of
a chair, taped to the back of a chair with
the only tape that I had available, which is a
band aid, which is a band aid, So I have
you know, they say, wow, there's a problem to stick
a band aid on it. Well, my tripod today is
my cell phone taped to the back of a chair.
(42:53):
And I see that I'm starting to lose my forehead,
so I should start to beat down like that.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
Maybe it is moving a little bit.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Oh, it is a little bit. But we're almost done.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
We're at uh oh, we have eighteen minutes. Oh we do?
Are you sure?
Speaker 1 (43:06):
My goodness, yeah, we're at forty two minutes.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
Try for me, Argentine. The truth is, I why don't
you go back.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
Why don't you look at the headlines today and see
what we should talk about.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
To look at the headlines. I know what they are,
I know, but we have to talk about something. What
are we going to talk about? You always say that,
excuse me, gab and gab and talking talking. People say, hey,
we love how you add live and just hang out
and do whatever. See here's the issue. I'm Scott Ivers.
So it's always a magical, lovely, fabulous party. John is German, gentleman.
(43:45):
We need auna, we need auna. See, that's why you
have a soft spot. But Arnold Schwarzenegger, I know you.
I know.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
I fold my dirty clothes inside out so that I
know they're dirty when we get home.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Yeah, listen to that. Okay, by the way, okay, here's
a shirt. Here's the other.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
The other choice is this. I'm not doing that anymore. No,
not doing it, gonna do it, not gonna do it?
Speaker 2 (44:07):
Who was that?
Speaker 1 (44:07):
Who was that not gonna do it? Read my lips?
Speaker 2 (44:13):
George Bush.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
It's your old boss's dad.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Yeah, George Bush. George, But Drillie the comedian Dana Carvey
that made that popular.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Well, but George Bush did say that not gonna do
it read my lips?
Speaker 2 (44:26):
Great family. I was actually on a.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
Uh when I lived in San Antonio. I was on
the the the San Antonio they have the river, the
river walk down there, and I was on I was
on a boat. I was on a dinner, a dinner cruise,
a boot. No, that's a Canadian, that's North America. I
was on the boat with the with the George Senior's wife.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
You were lucky.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
She was amazing. She was amazing. Yeah, she was a
forced I helped it the boat, helped her off the boat.
We talked the.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Whole time White House. But the only time I was
a little like, oh, you know, celebrities or like I care,
or like ambassadors or whatever. But when Barbara Bush walked in,
I stood at the and she was nice. It's not
like she commanded it, but she just naturally did. I mean. So, yeah,
(45:21):
wonderful lady. And President Bush forty one was amazing as well.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
Man, it's met Miss Nancy too. I met Miss Nancy Reagan.
I sang for President Reagan, and just Nancy was a
little bitty to you.
Speaker 2 (45:36):
Remember what are you saying? If not, I don't remember,
remember this is my country.
Speaker 1 (45:42):
I didn't say it like that, this is my country.
At the it wasn't Kennedy Center.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
It was at the National.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
Country National Buildings Museum in in DC. We did a
big event there, probably nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Anyway, it was Uh, it was a wonder full time.
Got to meet him, got to meet several presidents. So
it's been great.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
What did Don know? What did uh?
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Ronald Reagan as as governor? When they were roasting Don
Rickles on the Dean Martin Celebrity Roast, yep, he said,
you know, you know, Don Rickles has been in the
business for a long time. He has he has performed
for five presidents, entertained three. Well, well, anyway, it was
(46:30):
great and what a great job. Great you want to
see some funny stuff, watch go to YouTube and watch
the funniest moments, the funniest one liners of not Rodney Dangerfield,
but watch Ronald Reagan President Reagan. And what a great
job Dennis Quaid did in that movie. If you haven't
seen that movie, it's been quite some time now. But
(46:51):
of course the the yeah, but the the liberal liberal control,
liberal controlled, uh, Hollywood kind of buried that as they did.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
It was so good.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
About two months ago we saw Truth and Treason and
we urged you to see it. I think it came
and went pretty quickly, which is very sad because it
was an amazing movie, a wonderful, wonderful movie, and we
know about wonderful movies. In fact, we are sitting here
just before we did the start of the podcast. We're
watching Turner classic movies, my favorite. And I didn't see
(47:28):
the whole thing, but what was in his mind and hours, Yeah,
something like.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
That where it's like Lucille Ball and.
Speaker 1 (47:36):
Henry Fonda and sixteen children and sixteen there are two.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Kids, okay, and then she gets pregnant, so there's another
one and now I'll forget.
Speaker 1 (47:47):
It was so cute and Tom Bosley was in it
as the doctor. And we just watched Merry Christmas that
I that I Christmas. I mean r Y Christmas. Merry Christmas. Yes,
and it's it's quite wonderful, but it was great to
see Tom Bosley was one of those folks like Carol
O'Connor and like a Sorel book where when he was
(48:10):
thirty he looked fifty, and when he was forty he
looked fifty, and when he was fifty he looked fifty
and here's the magic when he was sixty, he looked.
Speaker 2 (48:20):
Fifty like getting back to the Future, Don Crown. Yeah,
it was crazy. It's the same, but he is.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
He was so good, so good in that movie. So
that's what we've we've been watching. In fact, Deedie just
said this morning, you know we're gonna go back home.
It's going to be cold. We're going to be there
for a couple of days before we go to Lebanon, Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (48:39):
Yeah, please come see John and Lebanon Tennessee at Cahoots
the Hoots.
Speaker 1 (48:43):
Yeah, Tom Deukoots.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
What's great about it is the timing because it's going
to be a week before.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
Christmas, and you know Christmas and alter the house not
a creature was stirring, nothing stressful.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
For families when they're like, oh, what are we going
to get wrapping gifts? Whenever, this is something you come
and do. Just have fun. Yes, and I think Christmas
is fun, but it can be a little harrowing. So yeah,
come out the week before the Thursday before and enjoy
at Cahood's John's Christmas Show, which is an amazing show.
Speaker 1 (49:15):
I'm so proud of me for remembering what I was
talking about. So she said that maybe what we should do,
is it me in the in the three days before
we get in the motor home and go to Tennessee,
is just stay home and watch Turner classic movies. Just
watch Turner classic movies all week.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
Will might be fun. It's my favorite. It's my favorite. Orst.
Speaker 1 (49:39):
I'll do my electrocution suit peace, still doing my play
live in I don't know, okay La, oh, we say
we watched Oklahoma, and there's a reason I'm singing that,
what is it?
Speaker 2 (49:56):
Curly?
Speaker 1 (49:57):
We saw Oklahoma yesterday and or it might have been
the day before, and you know, I forgot. I forgot
what we saw this morning. We did not see it
this morning. We were at the golf course at eight thirty.
They came my fro. No, it was not this morning.
But I forgot that Rod Steiger was in Oklahoma. He
(50:18):
was a jud fry so that was great to see him.
Speaker 2 (50:21):
But you were curly.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
Yes, I was curly, but I was not in the movie.
Rod Steiger was in the movie. And we also, I
just saw before we got on here a movie where
Rod Steiger was with Paul Newman, and I, oh, no,
Rod Steiger was with Marlon Brando went on the Waterfront.
Speaker 2 (50:40):
Oh gosh, yes.
Speaker 1 (50:41):
But I had the wonderful pleasure of when I lived
in Los Angeles, I was part of a poker game
Norby Walters, God bless you, Norby love you. You're a wonderful,
wonderful man and a terrific host. He had a poker
game every Wednesday night, and I would play once or
twice a month, and one night. It was always star
(51:04):
studded and nobody ever talked about show business at all.
But I got to play poker with Rod Steiger, so
it was a great fun. I got to play poker
with Dennis Hopper. And I just saw a video, I'm sorry,
not a video, a movie which one wasn't, but Charles
Derning was in it. Charles Derning was in a whole
(51:24):
lot of movies, not the least of which was The
Muppet Movie and what are You doing Frog? Anyway, Charlie
Derning was a wonderful, wonderful guy on the beach at Normandy,
and he was part of that poker game too. So
one of the really cool things for me about watching
Turner classic movies is that I get to see people
(51:45):
that I have always been a fan of but I
did brush up against them a little bit and play
three hours of poker with them at Norby Walter's house
in Westwood. So thank you Norby for making that possible
for me. I truly appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (52:00):
So we're trying to get in as many Christmas shows
as we can, and we have figured out that John.
It seems like, and you all can tell us, you
know in the group chat here that what what are
your favorite Christmas shows of John's. But it seems like will.
Speaker 1 (52:16):
Will Creek always, It's like, hands down Willo Creek. People say, yeah,
Christmas Cars.
Speaker 2 (52:23):
Those are the top two though.
Speaker 1 (52:24):
But yeah, but I was, well, jingle Smells, Jingle Smells,
you know that. That's that is really funny. If you
have them jingle smell.
Speaker 2 (52:33):
Let's get that. People get it, really like it.
Speaker 1 (52:35):
Yeah, so you just go to John Schneider dot shop
and order Jingle Smells. Also, I just put it up today,
which for you guys is yesterday. Uh. There's a concert
that Tom Wopat and I did at the Barn at
the Studio in Louisiana. It's about six years ago now,
it might be seven years ago now, but it is fantastic,
(52:57):
and it's all the music from the album Tom and
I did, which is called Home for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (53:02):
Better Yet you can buy that still right, Oh we
have it. We have it on Yeah we do we
still I forgot that. Yeah, that is actually cool.
Speaker 1 (53:09):
We have the dv that's the DVD. We have the
CD and we also have some vinyl so we have
the LP. Yeah, so check that out. Go to the
store John Schneider dot shop and some great Christmas music
there of course, Merry Christmas Baby is there? Jingle Smells
is there? Christmas Cars is there? I love Christmas Cars.
(53:31):
It was so fun. That's where the that's where the
kid says to me, Oh, would you sign I teach shop?
Speaker 2 (53:37):
Right?
Speaker 1 (53:38):
Would you automotive class? Pardon me? Would you sign this
for my I think it's for my grandpa. He has
a little generally and he says he loved Doogie Houser,
and I say, I got a sharpie in my Messac
Duke's are hazard pretty funny. And that's the first time
I jumped to generally. By the way, really jump to
generally is in that movie.
Speaker 2 (53:57):
But here's something that's really important. Those of you who
are like, what am I going to give my mother.
It's dark outside. What is something unique? What does it
get that is unique? I can get them? This is it? Oh? Yeah,
it's John Schneier a Christmas grant, meaning that John will
say at their name and Susan, Hey, Susan, Merry Christmas.
(54:20):
And now I'm gonna say Merry Christmas. Blah blah blah,
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (54:25):
Baby, you will do Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (54:28):
Christmas, Susan. I mean exactly.
Speaker 1 (54:30):
Yep. That's that's a lot of fun. What else is going?
Speaker 2 (54:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (54:34):
I just did some I did a video for our
orange Plate special and one of the things on the
orange Plate Special and we don't have many of these.
I think we might have ten. But we had a
replica made of my my sand dollar bo duke belt buckle.
Uh and that's at the store too, so check that out.
(54:55):
This has turned into an ad for the store. I
don't want it to be an ad for the store.
I want you to have wonderful Christmas.
Speaker 2 (55:01):
Yeah, because people need ideas for Christmas. And if you're watching,
I'm sure you're a fan of John's, so they need
to have ideas.
Speaker 1 (55:11):
I don't feel bad about it. I do feel bad
about wearing wearing shorts doing the podcast. I don't think
you've ever never done.
Speaker 2 (55:21):
You there for.
Speaker 1 (55:26):
To add for something that.
Speaker 2 (55:28):
Never worked, John, And I'm breaking the song all the
time for no apparent reason.
Speaker 1 (55:33):
By the way, no apparent reason.
Speaker 2 (55:34):
You think it's a better dancer, gene Kelly.
Speaker 1 (55:38):
They're different, they're different. One is elegant and one is virile.
Speaker 2 (55:42):
But you got to pick one if you had to pick,
And I think it's almost impossible personally.
Speaker 1 (55:49):
Having worked with Sid Scheriss on Grand Hotel. And by
the way, that was another movie we just saw. Yeah,
I can watch gene Kelly dance all day. I love
to watch Freda Staire dance, but I can't watch it
all day. I could. Gene Kelly just to me grabs
(56:12):
the stage. You know, he's he's the predecessor to to
Oh gosh, or his name just ran out of my head. No,
who was Bob Fosse.
Speaker 2 (56:24):
Bob Fosse.
Speaker 1 (56:25):
Bob Fosse is kind of a combination of gene Kelly
and Freda Staire because he can he can do the
regal royal stuff, but he also grabs the stage. Now,
gene Kelly when he does when he does a dance.
He can do a tuxedo, he can do the fancy things,
but it seems to me kind of like he doesn't
(56:47):
want to do that. So his his attitude when he dances,
like fred Astaire is like, you know, this is this
is good, and this is great, but you know, I'd
really rather be hoofing it. So that's my what do
you think? Who do you like? It's a toss goin,
toss a coin, okay.
Speaker 2 (57:09):
But I'm gonna go with Predistaire of course, because he
was magical two minutes left. That's just like he could
dance on the ceiling on his head, on the side
of me, and he was so quoel.
Speaker 1 (57:20):
But you know he didn't the dance on a ceiling.
Speaker 2 (57:22):
I know that was Daddy long Leg. I said that
because in the show, and you could really almost believe it,
and Jeane Kelly was athletic and fabulous. But I think
it's a straight up dancer. Fredastaire was better a top hat.
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (57:37):
Well on Ginger Rogers did everything Fredastaire did, but backwards.
Isn't that what they say?
Speaker 2 (57:41):
Yeah? Yeah, she probably. I love them both. I think
it's it's an it's an unfair Tobly you didn't get
the credit she deserved. But Centuries was the best one,
was the best dancer as a woman.
Speaker 1 (57:55):
I think, and I think they both said. They both
said that that they met their match when they met Siders.
I think I don't remember what what Freda Stair did
with Cinerie, what show it was, but I think they
danced together. I may be wrong about.
Speaker 2 (58:11):
That, but that doesn't matter. As a woman, she was
the best female dance. I mean, was great, but nobody
is beating Centuries.
Speaker 1 (58:22):
But Cideris also was like, folks, I think that's all
the time we've got.
Speaker 2 (58:28):
Oh my goodness, no, no, we got just a little bit.
Speaker 1 (58:30):
But if you want to if you want to see
some greats that, there's a wonderful movie called That's entertainment too.
Speaker 2 (58:38):
I think that they did that.
Speaker 1 (58:42):
I know, but I think I think That's entertainment. I
think the second one was the one where Gene Kelly
and Fred Astaire co hosted, and it's amazing and it
goes back through all those wonderful Busby Berkeley movies and
it's Buzzby Berkeley was the one that did this spectacular
(59:04):
stuff and kind of invented the you look down and
the dancers around the floor.
Speaker 2 (59:08):
They were like, it looks like that.
Speaker 1 (59:10):
It looks like a kaleidoscope. Looks like a kaleidoscope.
Speaker 2 (59:13):
It's amazing. But John and I also watched the Charlie
Brown Christmas Show. We kind of kicked dolls, so we
kind of kicked off the Christmas season with that. So
we encourage you to do the same. One is it
twenty nine minutes, but it's twenty nine minutes of joy,
absolute joy.
Speaker 1 (59:30):
And that's when the Snoopy licks Lucy and she says
dog germs, dog germs, and then Snoopy goes, ah, it's
pretty it's pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (59:40):
That truly is all the time we have.
Speaker 1 (59:41):
Folks. We hope you had a good time on this ramble,
this ramble again, remember miss.
Speaker 2 (59:49):
Think of a good Christmas gift.
Speaker 1 (59:51):
I know we'll pasts got some good stuff out there too,
so check that stuff out. We love you, We hope
you had a good time here. Hug those you love,
Tolerate those you don't. Come to Lebanon, Tennessee. Right, it's eleven.
It's not like Lebanon, Lebanon, Tennessee. Cahoots, It's going to
be fun we're gonna sing a couple of Christmas songs,
(01:00:12):
and of course we're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
That's why we don't give up.
Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
Hell no do that, and and hopefully these will be
much better by then. But in any any event, thanks
for putting up with us. We too appreciate it. You
take care of this has been drinks with John.
Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
Springs.
Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
You take care.
Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
Wow,
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