The Wild East!

Join Dee Dee and John as they raise a glass and share stories from their latest adventure! Their journey begins in historic Philadelphia, exploring the very streets where America was born. From the Liberty Bell to Independence Hall, they take you right into the heart of our nation’s beginnings. Next stop—Valley Forge—where they walk the grounds that tested the spirit of the Continental Army. And now, the trip continues in bustling New York City, where John reconnects with his brother. Pour yourself a drink, settle in, and enjoy a spirited mix of history, travel tales, and plenty of laughs along the way!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hey, it's us again. It's us. It's drinks with d D.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
And John and we are in New York, upstate.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Ne gonna do a quiz?

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Okay, oh sorry, no it's too late.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Now Cat's out of the bag running all around the room.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Because we're at the Catskills.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
No, we're in Stamford, New York. Oh ha, that's funny,
that's anyway.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
I love you, I love you.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
So we are here. I'm slurping. That was really attractive.
But we're here in beautiful Stamford, New York. And uh
the drive here. We've just had a great couple of
days because we're doing the fifty state tour, you know.
So where have we been.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
We have been to Indiana. We kicked off in Indiana
where we live in Indiana, yes, and then went to Tennessee,
then went to Georgia. We are now in Pennsylvania. We
went through Ohio, we didn't really make a stop there.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
We're now in New York.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
We're in now are New York. So those have been
our stops.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
The last couple of days, we were in Philadelphia, right
and we went to Valley Forge. That was so so beautiful,
so amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
And that was magical there. I could kind of feel
the oh, this is where all the troops were, and
this was General Washington's headquarters.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
While right and the and the banister where a lot
of the furniture I think is They said, a lot
of the furniture is reproductions. But obviously the house is
the same, the quarters are the same. But in this
very small building there were thirty people. Thirty people were
living in this very small building. And hey, Susie, so

(01:54):
I should have turned it out. Yet, Well, the best.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Host ever yep, ye, Sie Schneider, she.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Down, she is we Schner.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
She should have a column. I had a host dinner
parties because she's so good at it.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
We had a beautiful meal last night, and so we drove.
Where was I Oh, gosh, well.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
We have Pittsburgh for the steel con. That was wonderful
and steel city.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Oh that was fun. If anybody's watching this, who was there,
thank you. It was a great wonderful. Oh check out
this picture of this little super Jackson superman. Uh. This
little fellow was there and Dede saw him about tripping
over his cape. This cape was dragging, dragging the floor.
And she went up to the little fellow Jackson's parents

(02:42):
and said, can can he come over and say hi
to John? Would love to see him. So put him
up on the table and did a little did a
little flight, a little flight with Jackson. It was really great.
But we went from there to that's when we went
to Valley Forge that day, and then later we went
to Philadelphia and almost ran over people because she was

(03:07):
videoing me trying to sing to Elton John, Sir, Elton John,
pardon me. But we went there. It was great, and
we spent some time at the Continental what is it
the Independence Hall? Pardon me? They where it all began.
It was so amazing that this was a room. Well,

(03:30):
it's not an earthquake. It's not an earthquake that we're
on the porch. We're on the porch. This was a
room where it all started. This is We were in
the room where Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of
the Constitution on let's say, I think I have a
picture of that on that table right there. We were
also in the was that where the first Supreme Court met? Yeah,

(03:56):
so we were there and we learned so much. You know,
Didi's a hit history not just a history buff. She
has a history degree. And I think every time, you know,
if you think, oh, I've read the books and I
know about it, you go into these places, you got
to be there. Yeah, you breathe the air in the
rooms where all of this actually happened, it's different.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
I mean, I was teared up. I couldn't help it.
And also with Washington's headquarters. And then because you know
it was so terrible for the troops there, they did it.
I mean, we're a country because those troops led by
Washington were able to get through that terrible weather. I mean,
And then that is how well. In fact, they were
talking about how George Washington was in the room and

(04:37):
everybody it seemed like everyone wanted him to be the president.
And John Adams started to progres process sorry, and then
he ran out of the room. That's what the docent
told us. That he was going to be there when
they weren't talking about him, and that's normal.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
He didn't want to hear that.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
You know a lot of times when you have elections
with clumbs and so forth, but this was way more important.
Fuller out of the room so people can't have the discussion.
But sounds like he won that easily and I don't think, yeah,
there was even any.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Hands down, there was no opposit.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
I don't know. I don't think there was. But it
doesn't matter because guess what he was our first president.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yep, he was wonderful. But also I'll tell you what
what when you are there and you you learn about
the process. Uh, Like we learned that when people stand trial,
they actually stand trial, there's this little looks kind of
like a yeah, like a rib high cage that you

(05:35):
can't sit down in. So you're you're in the middle
and there's jury on either side and pardon me, bubbly water,
there's the table in the front in front of the
judge where all the lawyers sit. But that's the cost,
and you're on display like standing trial.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah. So when movies or if you've been to trial,
you know you have uh, one party then the other party.
But the way they did it back then was one
round table and all and he's were sitting there together. Yeah,
that was fascinating.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
That must have been fun. But so the reason I
bring it up is when you hear how it is
supposed to work, and the elegance and the protocol of
how it's supposed to work, only then do you realize
what a violation of not only our process but also

(06:24):
of our constitution. What a lot of things that are
happening today that people are saying our constitutional absolutely are
not And you don't really realize that until you were
in these rooms learning about what the process really is
supposed to be.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
And something you don't think about even though you know
it's true. Well, when the British they were taking they
were taking all our money and all our stuff. Not
cool because it's our stuff, it was our staff, and
people didn't like that. However, with the Articles of Confederation
there was no money, there were no taxes, so that
had to be addressed, and they it wasn't dressed later

(07:01):
and then the Declaration of indepenst they talked about how
they went back and forth, back and forth, but for
the most part, you know, it stayed sound and the
same spec The first part.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
So the money that the money that was gathered here,
the taxes that were gathered here, they were gathered here
presumably so that here could be a better place wherever
you were. You know, the tax money, this was all
supposed to go to the area where it was kind
of like children's miracle network. You know, one of the
great things about Children's Miracle Network is all the money

(07:31):
that's raised stays in the area where it's raised to
help the children in the area where it's raised.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Now, I'm not going to get into this too much
because there's a lot to it. But the first bank
that was Hamilton, you know, and of course he was
the first treasurer, so he wanted it, so that's there too.
He wanted it, that's right. He wanted to centralized. But
the big bugaboo and the big buye was no, no,
we want it to the farmers. They wanted to all
go to their areas. So in the end, the system

(07:57):
it's not perfect, but it's the best system in the world.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Well absolutely. But where where the rubber met the road
was that the British were taking that money and sending
it back home or giving it to the officers who
were there to keep the peace, or they were there
to protect people. They were taking exorbitant amount of hour

(08:20):
or their tax dollars and putting it toward things that
had nothing to do with the welfare of the people.
Does that sound familiar to you? You know, when they
say that those who who ignore history are destined to
repeat it, which is why revisionist history is so bad.

(08:42):
But it's possible. It's possible because people don't know their history.
So if you don't know their history, you don't know
your history. And someone says this is Baccarah crystal, you
may just think this is Baccara crystal. And if a
generation thinks that this aluminum can is Bacarak crystal, then

(09:02):
the generation after that is not going to question it.
So you must learn your history. You must do this
so that you can watch what's happening in the world,
especially what's happening right now in the world. What happened
for the last not the last two years, the last
two hundred days after two hundred and five or so days,
I think have been pretty spectacular. But you know when

(09:23):
when when conservatives gripe about the four years of Biden
and we gripe about what was going on the beginnings
of the when when the Obama administration was going was
going on when Clinton was doing some things and people
were saying, well, you know what he does in the privacy,

(09:44):
but you know that's hit. Well, no, there is a protocol,
and there is there's an elegance of government and an
elegance of those who have our faith to govern us,
you know, with our permission. There's an elegance that's supposed
to be about them. There's a there's a spirit of

(10:05):
that office. And I know somebody just said, yeah, well
donald Trump is swearing. Well, but Donald Trump, I think
has I'm from New York. He has a very odd elegance,
don't you think? Am I boring you? Are you looking
up something?

Speaker 2 (10:18):
No, I'm looking up a couple of days. That's all. Okay,
the Declaration of Independence and the articles a Confederation. And
I'm a geek. I love all the history. But I'll
stop in a moment.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Okay, do you have anything saying about what I was
just saying.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
I think Donald Trump's wonderful, and I also love the
fact that Donald Trump isn't wanting to put statues back up. Look,
I'm sorry if you're a buy some statues, but I mean,
it is our history and you learn from it, and
we don't know the history, like John saying, you can
repeat it if you're repulsed by it or if you
love it, you know, like can basically Confederate statues. But

(10:52):
they were talking about how they.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
Were trying to take Jefferson, George Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
They take down Theodore Roosevelt.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
So these aren't Confederates. They went after everything. They went
after everything, and because people didn't know their history, they
didn't realize what a terrible thing that was.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Honey, Yes, I'm so sorry because I wouldn't get it right.
Since I have a degree in history, I've got to
get it right. The Declaration of Independence was written in
before the Articles of Confederation and the again it was
the tax situation articles at Confederation. Then we got our constitution,
so that was the order.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Of the Documents, and it was written in that building.
That's what Jefferson. Well, Jefferson did he write the Declaration
of aybody also wrote the Constitution.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
No, that was more Madison, but.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
They did, they had him. He wrote the first draft though,
remember they said he was at this table. Was that
the Declaration of See we just we just earned it
a couple of days ago, yesterday.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
But Jefferson, it's tricky, It is tricky. But Jefferson is
definitely known for the Declaration of Independence. And James Madison
a very short president, but mighty so mom at money
fly forward.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
Know, he was like I didn't know that.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, and George Washington was one of the tallest, and
I think agree, not that it matters, but I think
he was look quite handsome. And I think John looks
like George I do. When you were in the room,
I thought, wow, do you know you look like George Blacks.
I did feel like I was at home, and and
he did talk about how he went and where he
sat and what was going on. So it was really amazing.

(12:22):
So please know your history.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Well, you know, we're still to study it because obviously
I'm I'm mixing up some of it. And I was
just in the room where the Declaration of Independence was written,
and there is Remember they said he got upset because
somebody came in and changed it. No, that's the God.
I'm pretty sure that's the Constitution. Somebody came in and
wanted to rewrite a bunch of it, and Jefferson was livid,

(12:46):
you know, don't rewrite my work. And Benjamin Franklin said, look,
you know, no matter what you write, someone is always
going to rewrite it. Just calm down.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
The only thing I know for sure, that's the Order
of the Documents. And Jefferson like, it's the credit for
the Hawaiians share of the Declaration of Independence. But James
Madison was the constitution got father of Yes, right, an
article said confederation when was not perfect by any stretch,

(13:16):
that had to be redone. So that was his second document. Anyway,
that's a number of documents. But go to Philadelphia and
then you know, and then we're in New York. Now
there's so much history of New York as well.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
This is what New York looks like. By the way,
this is what a lot of New York I will
show in Manhattan, I will say this is what most
of New York looks like. People think New York is
one long sidewalk from Broadway to Buffalo. It's not. So
we're here doing the happy Birthday. What's the word, sester Centennial.

(13:50):
That's right, Sester Centennial Tenniel two hundred and fiftieth birthday
of this glorious country of ours. And why am I
wearing a western shirt and my cowboy hat in the
state of New York. Well, I'm so glad you asked,
why are.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
You wearing a cowboy shirt and a cowboy hat?

Speaker 1 (14:08):
Well? Western, because right down the road from where we
are sitting lived a gentleman named Ned Buntline bunt Line,
and he was famous for writing the Penny Dreadfuls, which
were novelettes I believe you call them about the great

(14:30):
and wild wild West, the New Frontier. Much of what
you have heard, much of what I have heard, much
about hats and shirts and guns and fast draws and
twirling guns and gunfights was created embellished upon by Ned Buntline,

(14:50):
who lived in Stamford, New York, and one of his
best friends was Buffalo Bill. So the very first test
of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show was done. When we're
talking about Annie Oakley and Frank Butler and Sitting Bull,

(15:10):
where was that done down the road in New York State.
So when we do our fifty state tour we do,
we're going to do ten five part documentaries, five states apiece.
We're going to take you to that. You're going to
see the fairgrounds are kind of all grown over now,
but you're going to see we're going to be standing

(15:31):
and breathing the air. I think that's important from the
place where Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show got its start,
and I think that's pretty great. Look up Ned Buntline,
and I think you'll enjoy. You'll enjoy the stories that
he told. Kind of a predecessor to One of Paul's
favorite authors was Louis Lamore. So that's why I'm wearing

(15:54):
my cowboy hat, because we are kind of right here
in the birthplace of the myth of the wild wild West.
I'm a little hot. Now I'm gonna take that.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Birthplace of so many things, and we're starting something new.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
What's that?

Speaker 2 (16:10):
Well, John took off his hat, and I always wear
a hat, and you know, and everyone is so sweet.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
You know, I'm saying, not everyone, and those of you
who are not yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah, it's like, why do you you know? And and
everybody says, because she wants to wear a hat every day.
I like him. I like hats, and I have so many,
And a lot of people say how many do you have?
I have no idea, but I've gone a lot.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
So I like saying, how many hairs on a cat?

Speaker 2 (16:36):
So what I wanted to do is start giving away
hats to all of you.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
Well, but wait a minute, giving away hats to all
of them.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Well, no, to all of you may be able to
be given a hat and the hair is how it's
gonna work. So here's the first hat. I think it's
a really pretty cute summary straw hat.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
You talk about it, I will display.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
It and it has flamingos on it and some greenery
as well, and it's just so cute. And I love
this hat. You know, I will give away hats and
maybe I'm kind of done with but hats that I
love as well, and they'll all be nice. So I
love this for the first hat. And this is how
to work. If you're able to answer the question whether

(17:21):
it be live or whether it be later.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Whoever it is, whoever answers it first, will get the hat.
How does it look a little small?

Speaker 2 (17:29):
A little small? It's for a lady head to be
yes for that hat or that or the hat's too small.
You look really beautiful in your cowboy.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Hat, not so much in this one.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
So in for the for the whether it's on Facebook
or it's a d M, or whoever comes up with
the answer first wins the hat.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
And it's it a guy. If a guy comes up
with the answer to the hat, where like John was, what,
I can give it. You can give it to your
lady friend. Oh, I'm actually glad I'm putting this on
so I wear a he's seven a little bit bigger
than a seven and three eighths. So so just know
that I would if you went and bought a small
medium large.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
People to buy your hat hat.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
No, no, no, I'm just so that you'll know how
you'll know what size this is because you have a
rather large head. But it's not as big as my head,
thank you very much. So I would say that that
in the world of small, medium, large, this is a medium.
I would wear a large or an extra large. Okay,
so this is probably in the world of it's probably a.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
Seven, But hats you have to try them on.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
You just do maybe a six and a six se.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
I love the old vintage hats, but a lot of times,
for some reason, I just think people were smaller than
or something, because a lot of times I'll put it on,
I'm like, this hat is way too small for me.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
Like this one.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Well, then there's that hat that I'm giving to our
wonderful hostess, Susie Schneider, and so pretty on her. But
I love this little hat and John thinks it looks
like Lois Lance not on you, but but it looks
so fun Susie, and it has little pearls in it
and it's in Juli.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
But that's not the one you're giving now, I'm giving
it does look like Lewis Lane on the Black and
White TV show.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
What looks like so to gorgeous hat and or maybe
but it's good to get things away, it's good to share.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
So what's the question.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
The question is, don't answer it. What was the first
state admitted to the union?

Speaker 1 (19:25):
That's what was the first state admitted to the Union?

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Now people will find it, okay, figured and you want
to look it up. That's how you learn history. That's
how it's like, oh my god, I know it.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
Then bam, you.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
Put it up there if you're listening live, I mean,
put it up there. Or if no one gets it,
which I think they will, but if they don't, just
put it on Facebook. Oh that's the answer.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
So right, so uh oh no, we're not. We're not
somebody just text and I thought we live, somebody not live.
So one day we should get this live, just for fun.
One time.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
I think we could when emper it's on YouTube or
you know the other places where you can see it.
People do give comments lives while is playing.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
Let's go up.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
That's where John's big about that. He's right, Well, you put.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
A hat down like this because you see that little
bend to the hat. You see that bend. Now that
the lowest lane hat is flat, So that's okay. But
you don't want to put a hat like this down
like that because it takes the bend out. So and
you know, people work, people work hard to get and

(20:37):
this when you get that bend just right.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
So you can do it like this.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
Now you're just teasing because you're giving a hat.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
I know I'm not giving it to Susi, but there
will be other hats. Let's see. It's so cute this way.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Hello Bob, but.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
We're doing that fun summary.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
On our podcast. That's my brother, the mayor. I don't
know if they can see you, and I think they can.
He just went swimming, swims every day. I'm so jealous.
Swims every day in a beautiful pool here in Stanford,
New York. And he's the one that I didn't know
anything that I knew about ned buntline. I knew about
the pen. You did it again.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Oh you're right, it's a white hat too.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
I knew. Abou's right. You have to be careful, so
it doesn't get dirty. Uh. He's the one that told
me about Ned Buntline and Buffalo Bill. So it's pretty great.
We're gonna go there later today. We're also going to
go up on the mountain where they it looks out
over the whole the beautiful, beautiful valley here. And Uh,
I just want to I want to share what New

(21:32):
York is, uh, because so many people have this picture
of what New York is, not right, That's true.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
New York State is a gigantic state. It is. It's
so big. California is obviously big as well in Texas.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
For Pennsylvania, big law it is.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
It is. It took us a long time state to
get across the state, but boy was it worth it.
We had the best time. We also choose what We
also put pennies on Benjamin Franklin's gray.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
Why did we do that again?

Speaker 2 (22:05):
A penny saved, a penny earned, a good luck, It's
supposed to be good luck, So we did that. We
put three pennies and John even twirled.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
It around a little fun a penny. That's going to
be part of our of the documentary on Pennsylvania.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
But we're so looking forward and visiting all fifty states
for this reason, and John will sing in every state.
John as a singer, he's got twenty nine albums and
five number ones and the top charting Elvis hit of all.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
Times, HiT's No. One never anyhow.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
But I really want to celebrate our country and that's
how we're going to do it. And music is such
a big part of that.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yep. So we're going to sing Happy Birthday to America.
We're going to find uh not every state. We're not
going to do this in every state, but every state
has a state song. So I'm going to learn the
state song and sing that in a couple of them.
It's going to be different. Otherwise it's going to be
five five things that are very similar with just different information.

(23:04):
So and then ten of those. So we're gonna make
this schedule.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
We don't know, we don't know our way. You know,
this is kind of like, oh we did.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
This, they can our dream come true?

Speaker 2 (23:15):
Shirley ah way, yes, ah away, it's coming on through
for me and you. But you always think that's love
is all well, because.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
When I did the Yeah, I did the something, I'm
starting to do the uh thing with we did Amdley
when I first met Marie Osmond. We did a medley
and it went from our Meghan, our dream come true
for me and love us all around. You need to
think you're gonna have a town. Yeah, so uh those
songs are always think they're written by the same person.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
What I love is that the Mary teller More throws
a hat in the air. The I love it, and
I'm just excited to give hats away every week. I'm
happy to share my life perhaps with you all.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Let me get this here.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
People when I wear that have people love it. It's
really pretty so green.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Well you can bake off those hats. It's uh and
I dot everybody can pull off those those historic hats.
We love them like I love to wear a fedora.
So I actually I when I did Grand Hotel, I
wore a fedora. I love wearing a fedora, and uh
not everybody can now. I don't think when I had

(24:24):
my long hair, you having hair stick out from under
a fedora looks a little it looks a little bad.
But so I just want to show you this. This
is what you get and you just when you go
to Independence Hall.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
We had a very nice rang drink.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
I'll give you this and it has in it a
wonderful little map so you can figure out get off
of me ant hey and what was that ant in
the yard? Bark hey an. So they give you this
and you do basically a self guided walking tour. It's free.

(25:04):
Did we have to pay for anything there? We had
to pay for the graveyard.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
The graveyard maybe like a couple of dollars or something,
and then if you wanted to pay an extra oh no, no,
through graveyard was five dollars and if you went one
morn doll you could have the map of the grave.
So we did that.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
So we did that.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
Support them basically absolutely.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
That's christ Church Cemetery and in there is the oldest,
the oldest known headstone, which I think is pretty great.
It's really it's it's really wonderful walking around there. I
know we've talked about that we're not doing a documentary
just on Philadelphia, but we were just there, so it's
really great. What else is going on?

Speaker 2 (25:45):
Time? Five states at a time. So again, I love
our friends and the fans and they are so good
about suggesting places, so please keep it coming, and we've
taken some suggestions, so thank you. You're so smart, you're
so great. And you know, it's wonderful to know your
homestay or place that you've been and say, look, you've
got to go here, you've got to eat. Food is

(26:07):
always included. We love that, you know, like in Philly
they go do the Philly Cheese steak and oh yeah,
you know, and in different areas, well, here's a pizza
place that's the oldest or the oldest building in the town.
I'm san Antonio. I mean, it goes on and on
and on. So we really really love that. And we're
so excited this year to be going to Emory State
and celebrating that state in every way.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
And you know we've always done that. You'll remember, gosh,
a month two months ago, I remember when we were
in New York. We were in Manhattan and we went to, uh,
what was that that wonderful bar restaurant. We went to
this tavern what is it France's tavern?

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Yes, and that's where and it will probably go back
because you know, when we say that we're going to
do the documentary, we're not going to use old footage.
We're going to use the footage.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
That we yeah, the footage that we take.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Yeah, So it's not going to be like, you know,
the old stuff. It's like presently during the.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Doctor going to be canned canned stuff. But that's the
tavern where now that we're watching Turn, that's.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
A George Washington say goodbye to the Continental Troops and
then right before.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
But it's it's quite possible that that's where the spies,
that's where the Loyalists had drinks. That's where the Red
Coats and the and the and the Blue Coats would
probably occasionally I may be making this up, but but
maybe share a share a grog. Yeah, while while they're there.

(27:33):
It was kind of not not so much neutral ground.
But it's funny when you go when you go through areas,
particularly in this area, you find that a lot of
a lot of places where both sides kind of met
in the middle to certainly not share secrets or not
not talking about Benedict Arnold, but a lot of neutral
ground was taverns.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yes, And in the show Turn, we cannot recommend that more.
It's so good, it's so good. But what they point
out is that New York City it was always under
British rule. It just was. It doesn't mean that there
were not people there that the Patriots were not there,
but they were really all around the city. And that
also the British took over Philadelphia, so they were in

(28:16):
the city. They were the ones for the money usually
and right, we're all around they talk. They talk a
lot about that's Long Island, right and all we up here.
I mean, even known as Mayor Bob said, this is
more frontier. Locke went on in New York and Pennsylvania

(28:38):
and Maryland and you know, more northeastern for the Revolutionary War.
And it's not just Revolutionary War, however, for the two
hundred and fiftieth birthday, it is, I mean, this is
when our country was founded. So we're going to talk
a lot about those folks, especially when we're in the northeast.
We're in New York. The next date will be.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
Uh Vermont, going to Vermont, and we're going to Maine.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
I'm sure they may and then we don't know because
we've got to go all the way out to l A.
In the middle of all that.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
You're gonna sing at the Hollywood Bowl. How about that.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
We're a pose eterb the ben who did a lot
of music, and you know, and of course since we're
celebrating every state, every state's got its own flavor.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
Well.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Obviously in California. Hollywood's Big John has been very active
in Hollywood. I have as well. Motion pictures are big.
But you know, motion pictures really started.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
In Fort Lee, New Jersey.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
That's right. And Fort Lee named actor a gentleman.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Namely the other the other the other general, the other
General Lee. Yes, but Fort Lee, New Jersey. When you
see those wonderful pictures, Actually, Tony, if you wouldn't mind
pull up one of those great I didn't send it
to you, but one of those great pictures of uh,
they're shooting silent films and they're the uh. The set
is built outside kind of on a on a bluff.

(29:53):
Actually it's built a lot of it's built on a palisade.
And these were the palisades of Fort Lee, New Jersey. Uh,
And they they shot that way because they didn't they
didn't have the lights to be able to pump in,
so they they didn't have roofs on the sets. So
people like Buster Keaton I believe shot Uh. Buster Keaton

(30:14):
might have only appeared in the Max Senet comedies. But
when you see the pictures of old old Hollywood, the
silent film era, much of those the oldest photographs until
we get to D. W. Griffith's Intolerance, which was shot
at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard in Highland. But those
really old pictures of the beginnings of what we now

(30:37):
call Hollywood was actually Fort Lee, New Jersey, and begun
by Thomas Alva Edison. How about that? So look all
that stuff up his studios. Oh gosh, it wasn't just Edison.
I can't remember.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
Every year we weren't talking about, Hey, maybe we do
pubs and fifty states. Maybe we do the boot a fifty.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
State pub crawl. It'll be it'll be a be a
forty five minute documentary because the rest of it will
just be out.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
But people do get excited about the food and drink.
I mean, but you know, because we can share that
and are like, hey, go to this restaurant if you've
not been. We even stopped them Bedford none for long.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
You get in Maine, I think it's a banger. I mean,
there's bangor Maine, but I think they call them bangers.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
I think that's a kind of hand bankers a mash.
No banger's a mash, you know what that is. That's
like British Oh no, No, that's like Irish.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
There's a there's maybe it's a HOGI maybe there's there's
there's a cent. We're gonna find out because we're gonna
go there a couple of days. But anyway, one of
the things that that, well, I do.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
You want to say Bedford was so cute and it's
historic as.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
Well, Not Bedford, New York. That's where they Bedford, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
That's where they put down the Whiskey Rebellion. So you
know we're all about that.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
Otherwise it would be it would be tea with d
D and.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
John and then there's that and you have a song.
What's your line?

Speaker 1 (31:59):
I don't know. Oh, it's time to toss the tea.
She's worth it. It's right, brother. I believe when it's
time to toss the tea, she's.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
To get to Boston and that's going to be a basting,
beautiful city. There's so much history there too. And I
knew this, but I don't think John, did you know
when did it all start? When was the first shot?
Now you know you're gonna have to say.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Well it was it was Lexington and Concrest, But I
don't know what. I don't know what date the first
shot was fired, and you know that was that was
a bunch of a bunch of soldiers on two different
sides of an argument, probably drunk, right, well, but but
it wasn't. I don't think that was an official battle.
I think that was it turned in, it turned into

(32:44):
a battle. But I think it was kind of like
oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, bang, Okay, Well, is that
the shot heard around the world. No, no, that's another shot.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
That's another shot, and we don't mean this kind of shot. No,
that's what you're thinking. But Fort Lee was named I'm
going to make sure Fort Lee was named after a
revolutionary war A good guy, uh, you know, And.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
I told and that's where Bennet mcdarnold was incarcerated and
he escaped from the jail in Fort Lee. And I
think the jail, I think we're going to find out.
I think the jail was actually in the back of
the tavern. Taverns had a lot to do revolutionary.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
Oh yeah, well that's what I think about. You didn't
have television at Ham Radio, you didn't. I mean, everything
happened in this tavern. You know, you drink and people
play music.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
And good books and cards cards, and I learned yesterday
they had taxes on cards because they sold a lot
of cards. Anything printed. The Stamp Act had to do
things printed. It wasn't just I always thought it was
just stamps, but apparently it was newspapers. It was periodicals
if they had them then, but it included playing cards.

(33:51):
I didn't know that. One of the things I wanted
to say that as we're driving around this amazing country
of ours, what we realized every minute of every mile
is it's so beautiful. We live in a in a
best country, in a gorgeous country. Yeah, it's so vad
politics and everything aside, it is gorgeous. I mean, look

(34:12):
at look at here.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
See that's why the day you know us going around,
you know, because that's like I think folks thought that
we're going to do concerts.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
No that's not when I didn't do concerts in some
of them.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
I mean will, but we're going to do whatever we
feel is important and it's interesting. There's so much it's
so hard to choose, but to glorify in a celebrate
our country every stay is just amazing. I mean, we
don't have enough time to do as much as we'd like.
That's why who knows. Maybe we'll do a show, maybe
we'll do a trama show every year that way.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
But it's to also encourage you to do this, to
do the same. And we don't mean go to all
fifty states, although you can learn your history, wish.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
There's so much history.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Or in the history about where you are, right where
you are. And uh, gosh, when I went to high
school in in the outside of Atlanta, and it's so
history rich in Civil War history, Marietta, amazing, amazing place, Alpharetta,
all the all those places downtown Atlanta, Conyers, Covington where

(35:11):
we shot Dukes. I mean, it's it's it really truly
is an amazing place. And you could spend the rest
of your life learning about where you live. So we're
just touching the surface on a on a bunch of things.
And obviously it's exciting to us. We hope it's exciting
to you too.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
But the two hundred and fiftieth birthday and we have
to celebrate around so we thought this was a great
idea and we're.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
Having a ball, right, So learn your history and so
that when you when you hear things told as truth
on the news, you can go wait a minute. That
doesn't sound quite right.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
And has this ever happened before? You can bet it has.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
Oh that's the big, big, the big lie we hear
on the news almost every day is this is unprecedented.
No one has ever done. Oh, come on, give me
a break, you know. And and we were just talking
about it last night, is that it is amazing to
me all of the things that Democrats have done over

(36:16):
the last couple of decades that were perfectly okay for
them to do, But now that Republicans are doing similar things, Uh,
it's unprecedented. No one has ever done this. This is
an existential threat to democracy. No, it's a it's a
necessary threat to democrats. Republican is what it is.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Yeah, we're a constitutional, non a democracy. We are public.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
It's a democracy of convenience. Uh and I don't mean
that count clearly. Well, when it's convenient for them, yes,
But majority rule is when there is no time to
debate it out, when there is no time at the
electoral college is what.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
Is what democracy cose is what they want because the
more Democrats are in cities than anywhere else. So okay, well,
guess who would make all the decisions in our country?
New York City, right, Uh, Chicago, Cago City City, Los
Angeles City, and you're kind of.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
Done because these are the most densely populated areas in
our country.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
Yeah where, of course, the way it's set up, and again,
I mean maybe it's not perfect, but it's still the
best system in the world. Every state has two senators.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
Yay.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
Guess what, Rhode Island has the same amount of senators
as California. I bet California and doesn't like that, right.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
Because Chandino County is bigger than Rhode Island.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
And they're like, well, that's not fair because of the numbers. Know,
you need to have representation all over the country.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
You know. I came up just with a new word
in my mind right now. What they're fighting for. They
are saying that that common sense is an existential threat
to democrats. See, there's a new word, democrats. See, So
don't confuse that two. All right, We've got to protect
our country. And look at what's happening in Washington, excuse me, Washington.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
D C.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
Right now. I would love to know what is happening
there today, because yesterday, as we are filming this, yesterday,
President Trump said this is it. We are. We're the
flagship city of our nation. This is where presidents and
representatives from the entire world come in. And by God

(38:30):
and all that's holy, when they come down Pennsylvania Avenue,
they're not going to see broken marble and broken medians.
They are not going to see graffiti. We are going
to represent we are the gateway to the United States
of America for the most important and powerful people in
the world. And we are not going to have tents

(38:51):
and homeless shelters, and not even shelters, tent cities. We
are not going to do it. And obviously DC is
not going to take care of it's not going to
police itself. So the federal government is coming in. I'm
going to exercise my rights as the President of the
United States, and we are taking over these things, and
we are going to clean this up. And I hope

(39:14):
this is what he said. I hope that Detroit and
Chicago and Portland and and and and and and and
all of these other cities who are currently in a
terrible state of disarray are going to take it. We
used to say, and the Duke's take a page out
of my book. Hopefully they're going to take a page

(39:35):
out of my book, and they are going to do
the same in their city because Detroit is a beautiful city.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
Uh, I went to go there. We're talking about maybe
Detroit's Kansas City.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
I love, I love Detroit.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
And the Henry Forton. I'm a forward girl.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
Well, the Greenfield Village is not just about cars. We
just happen to have some cars.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
Yeah, but where's the board well born?

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Yeah, but the plants and all that which are we're.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
Building American board in my opinion, just what I know
is the most American car company, you know, and they
didn't take the bail.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
Out because it didn't take the bail out, and they've.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
Been around, you know, a long time. You know a
lot of people think of it as Ford and Chevy,
a prepper Ford for that reason.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
Wis Ford Chevy still the last ten years black na
people back there. That doesn't usually happen because back there
on the Fortune Madison is a forty forty foot drop.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
Sure where John and people are still like fascinating with
John fishing to get his pants off the roof for
the neighbors.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
But he did what happened, and in fact, I'm embarrassed
to say I did my h I'm not embarrassed to
say I did my electrocution suit workout this morning. But
when you do that, you you it sounds odd. You wet,
the electric pads get and then you put the shower
and it's not quite like that, not quite like that,

(41:02):
but it's it's wet. And then you work out for
twenty minutes and you have you do sweat in this suit.
So it's a long way around the rooftop.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
He was getting electrocuted for real.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
No, we said, yes I did. That's not the point.
The point is I did that this morning. I feel
great that I did it. But right over there on
the other side of our camera, on a banisters the
shorts and the shirt. So that's how in Madison, I
put the shorts and a shirt on a chair on
the back porch. Yes I am that. I am that

(41:38):
kind of a guy. And it blew off. Well, now
if it blows off, it'll just be in the driveway.
But anyway, I'm saying all of that about these amazing
cities to applaud the efforts of President Trump in DC.
And I'm quite sure that a lot of things have
changed today because he said this is not going to

(41:59):
be a long, tedious process. This is going to happen quick.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
D's that big, and it is a beautiful city.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
But yeah, but it's got the most beautiful And they
and and somebody had the audacity, and I think they
realized it was a stupid question after they asked it,
but they said, well, you know, why do why do
you know how long this is going to take? How
do you he said, It's what I do. It's what
I used to do all the time. So if you want,

(42:25):
if somebody is going to come in and clean up
your city architecturally, uh, infrastructure wise, through your plumbing and
your water and your sewage and all that, somebody is
going to fix the median on your glorious streets, it'd
kind of be a good idea if it was Donald J. Trump.
So I'm very excited to see what she's wearing. The hat.

(42:50):
I'm very excited to see what d C is going
to look like.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
I love this hat. That does not work for you, Gilligan.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
No, it doesn't does not work at all.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
It's so cute and so summary.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
Well, I'm very excited, and I do hope if you
were in if you're in one of those other cities,
if you're in Saint Louis. My god, Saint Louis is beautiful.
We went and saw the arch a couple of months ago.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
We did everything, but because they were full. But we're
going to do that. The good news is that it
was full to the west. Yeah, but they said also
it's not safe that I you know, the same thing
about Philip. But during the day we felt totally safe.
No problem.

Speaker 1 (43:30):
Well it's always yeah, that's always been an issue. So anyway,
I am hoping that wherever you are, I tell you
another city that that was cleaned up. It looks beautiful,
beautiful is El Paso. I was amazed at how beautiful.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
El Paso was in the border.

Speaker 1 (43:47):
We were there for a comic con. So San Antonio
is beautiful. But if you were in a city that
has been ravaged over the last four years and you'd
like to be proud of your city once again, then
urge your representatives to take a page out of President
Trump's book and implement the same clean up that's happening

(44:11):
in DC right now in your city.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
COVID had a lot to do with that. Even in Indianapolis,
I mean downtownmas voted clean a city for years over
and over again, and then we took a picture, took
a picture.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
We were just an Indianapolis monument.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
Like John, They go, oh, be careful, and it's just
like with Philly. Oh be careful. Well we are, but
you know you have to watch it at night. Probably
any city, but I think after COVID it got a
little worse everywhere. So just you know, use common sense
like Thomas Paine.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
Thomas common Sense, wrote.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
Common Sense for and basically galvanized the thirteen colonies.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
We have to leave sixteen minutes left.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
I've got one more days.

Speaker 1 (44:54):
Would you like to be on a podcast?

Speaker 2 (44:56):
Pull up a chair before Mayor Bob comes in. Remember
this is yours. If you're the first person that comes
up with the first uh, with the first date. That
was a minute to the well.

Speaker 1 (45:07):
Don't don't sit down yet. You got to come over
here because it's a narrow it's a narrow well. No, no,
sit back down, you sit down? Okay there? Oh my brother,
Oh you look small back there. He's not small. He's
bigger than I am. He's taller than I am. This

(45:30):
is the Mayor of Stanford, New York. Honorable, the honorable,
the honorable. Yes, that's the title as keep for him.
That's right now. Some people Fred used to call you Rob.
Somebody used to call you Rob. A lot of people
call me Rob, especially up here. It seems that this
in this part of New York State, Rob is rather.

Speaker 3 (45:52):
Than Oh I see, So everyone at my office calls
me Rob, for example.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
Well, I bring that's that's interesting because dear friend of
mine is John Schneider, and every morning, uh, he says
good morning to to Dedie and John, and he's always
fascinated about where we are. And his brother is Rob Schneider,
the actor, and people used to used to come up
to him, or they'd call his office thinking he was me,

(46:21):
and they'd call my office thinking I was him. And
I think to add insult to injury, it's so funny
that that my brother's name is Rob as well, you
can do it. You can't do it?

Speaker 4 (46:33):
Questions about him every once in a while. Yeah, well
Rob is much much shorter than we are. Yes, so funny.
We just saw Happy Gilmore too, and it was great.
You want to brag about your h we are.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
This is a podcast, so you want to do don't
cat yourself in any trouble. Well, I don't know what
I can brag about the well the pool you just
swam in, pools built primarily by yours. Truly love it.
I love it. So that's nice. Yeah, three million dollar

(47:08):
project for a little town. Well dd he just left,
so it's now drinks with the with Bob and John Robin.
John Well, I didn't mean to to chase right. Oh, no,
she was. She was just on a tear anyway. So
it's it's great. She's going to start giving away hats,
one hat every podcast. It's nice. We did the podcast

(47:30):
every week and we have quite a quite a few
thousands of people people watching. Yes they're not watching right now,
but once your broadcast, Yes, right now, it's just it's
being taped. So were you going to take us up
to h what is the place up on? We're going
to go up to the top of mountain, let's say, On,
which is.

Speaker 3 (47:51):
One of the tallest, the tallest peak and the catskills
that you can get to in a car.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
Oh, terrific road that goes out there. So we'll go up.

Speaker 3 (47:58):
There's a fire tower there, you're welcome to climb up
to the top of it, and there's a bunch of
communication towers up there. Okay, oh, we're talking about that
earlier today.

Speaker 1 (48:09):
Is that where you you watch fireworks from.

Speaker 3 (48:11):
No, we actually don't do fireworks on the fourth of
July here for some reason. They're done later at the
end of the month by the fire and apartment.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
That's a good idea.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
But up on the mountain, up in the meadow of
the road hearth so, no, the the there's a park
that belongs to the village at the top of the mountain.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
So that's basically what that's about. Okay, there's pitment, tables
and fire pits. I love it. It's nice. I was
just telling the folks that we're going to go see
butnt Line. It's Ned right, Ned but front Line.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
He is a native son from the village of Stafford
here who actually is responsible for the myth of the
American West.

Speaker 1 (48:59):
Thank you please elaborating.

Speaker 3 (49:01):
Well, any any time you look at Eddie Western movies
or any Bannsa television shows, the Sheriff and the whole
concept of the cowboys and Indians that was basically invented
by Ned butt Line. He wrote what we're called dime
novels that were sold right at any dreadful kind of

(49:23):
like that and he was great friends with Buffalo Bill,
and Buffalo Bill put together this Wild West show, and
that was conceived by ned Buttline and Buffalo Bill, and
the first incarnation of that was done here at the
Stanford Prolograms.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
I love it. We're gonna go see those that polo
grounds still around. No, they're not around anymore.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
Stafford was a very popular summer resort of the latter
part of the nineteenth century, and met by my being
from here, you know, he attracted a lot of fanfare
and right, so any anytime you look at a at
a the Western film or read a Western novel, you have.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
That to think. So he was before we were talking
about him earlier, before Louis Lamore. Well, let's see I
met Louis Lamore.

Speaker 3 (50:13):
So yeah, so he had was in the eighteen in
the in the post figures immediately following the Civil War.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
But who's got to show the keeps a wild last while?
Who's the today every man and child? Who keeps on
the show? Colonel Butfalo Bell, are you coming back to
toast walk walk gently? It looks like we're we're is
the problem or wabbles a little bit? Are we having

(50:40):
talked to we are that's called drinks with Dedie and
John and uh, we're talking. We talked about a lot
of things. One of the things we were we were
we get into, like you and I talked about, was, uh,
what's happening out in the Pacific Palisades or what's not?
And you said something interesting, because I just want to
blast California for it, but you said there was some

(51:02):
actually some logical reason why they why they'd not been
able to start rebuilding yet. Come over here, baby, because.

Speaker 3 (51:11):
A client of mine, because I'm also a landscape painter.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
Amazing, what's your website?

Speaker 2 (51:18):
I don't have a website, no website.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
Why are you a jack in the box? Very old
fashioned anyway. So this, this.

Speaker 3 (51:27):
Family from Cooperstown also has a home and had a
home in Pacific Palisades. So my painting that was over
their fireplace was destroyed in the fire alarm of everything else.
So I asked her when she was going to be
rebuilding her house, and she thought they would be able
to start in the spring of twenty twenty six. And

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I said, well, it seems like there's a lot of
a lot of hold up in all of that. And
she said that, you know a great deal of that
was due to the amount of contaminating material that's everywhere.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
So the material that was there because it got burned,
is now a contaminant. Why wasn't it a contaminant before?
Because it's an ash form.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
You can imagine like like plastics aren't dangerous, but there
in ash.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
Oh like when the ping pong ball factory and airborne
and so forth, Yeah, it becomes all of these materials
become toxic. Well, it's funny when when they first were
talking about h repairing Gaza, the Gaza Strip, Wow, they
were that's all that is. That's yeah, that you have
to wait for the ice to turn the water. I

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have never in all my life heard my brother take
a sip of anything and go wow. But I was
hoping it was because I'm talking about the Gaza Strip.
But but one of the first things that that President
Trump said was well, there has to be a tremendous
amount of cleanup worse. Yeah, and he would know. I mean,
he's yeah, a the builder.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
So that's part of what was part of the process
out there that is probably going to take time.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
You can't, I.

Speaker 3 (53:08):
Mean, you just think of a house it is full
of of you know, every kind of material.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
Yeah, but are they doing it? I mean, are they
out there? Are they out there with skiploaders? And they
I believe so? And where are they going to put
that contaminated Well, it has to.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
Go into an appropriate landfill, I suppose. Okay, you know,
if you like asbestos madeen materials have to go to the.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
Special landfill, right. But I think they got their federal
permits right away and they have to wait on the
But well, it's California. Let's don't forget. Yeah, and there's
no there's a there's as far as I can see,
there's really not an excuse for why that happened in
the first place. I don't know if I've shared this
with you, but there's a movie called the Recipe documentary

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called Recipe for Disaster that was done in nineteen sixty two,
right after the bell Air Fires, and it was the
same thing. There were there was no water in the
hydrants at the top of the hill. I mean, I
realized waterfalls water water has gravity fed. But this was
nineteen sixty two and all of the things that they
said two years ago. When has it been two years

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almost two years since specific palisades went up? They're saying
we're unprecedented, but they aren't.

Speaker 3 (54:23):
Well, I think that there was a lax effort and
keeping the rush rush flow, and you know that kind
of brush, even when we were.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
Up at Yosemite and then went to see.

Speaker 3 (54:36):
The the sequoia.

Speaker 1 (54:40):
Giant sequoia is beautiful, by the way, gorgeous.

Speaker 3 (54:43):
The ground there burns on a regular basis and it
doesn't harm the trees. There was such an effort to
stop fires and all of that brush grew up underground,
grew up to such an extent that when it burn
it did damage.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
These big trees.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
Right, So, I think the natural events out there before
people had developed all the California and southern California wasn't
the There'd be lightning strikes and on a regular basis
and all of that brush would burn and it never
got to the out of control because it burned on
a regular basis.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
Well, when I used to garden, makes any sense well,
and it also makes for for some of that makes
for for better soil. I used to put ash from
the fireplace when I did a lot of gardening. I
would look ash in the garden and I would mix
it in with composts and it was. It was great.
That's true. Hey, this is a painting called Twilight Storm

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there is from the honorable Robert rob Schneider. Yes, and
you just had a show right now.

Speaker 2 (55:54):
I'm going to show this again. And I love this
so much. Bob is so talented.

Speaker 1 (55:58):
Me and Bob to.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
Go looks.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
Is that the Hudson Valley? I don't know. We see
it unfair? Yeah? Maybe.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
I love the color.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
It's just a sketch, you can see.

Speaker 3 (56:14):
I love the background. It's a you know, a study
done very spontaneously.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
So we bought this last year. We bought this. We
bought this last year. Bob had a show here. I
was in town, right I wasn't I was in town.
So we can really take it off the wall we
wanted to. We got it anyway, so we're excited to
be able to take it home with us. And guess

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where we're putting it, honey.

Speaker 1 (56:46):
You know that's fota perfect. We have a perfect spot,
that very good, perfect spot.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
We're trying to figure out where we're going to put kids.

Speaker 1 (56:52):
We got.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
We love our porch. We love it like this, and
we go there a lot, but there's like an empty wall.
It's about like that perfect.

Speaker 1 (57:01):
Actually I just measured twenty five inches across, So that's it.
And we've got to put up a Susie painting too,
because Bob's wife, Susie paints portrait. Oh my gosh, they're beautiful.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
Best hostess in the world. And again I'm going to
show you the hat I'm giving her.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
So we have we have a couple of those paintings
on the loan. Actually I have I have one that
I bought forty years ago, Dick Dick Any of the
wild West. Hello. It was painted in Bedford Village, New York,
and it's the Wild West. And I have some beautiful

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paintings of yours and paintings of the children down hopefully
you have this. It's question, Well they're under there, unwell, well,
well we're working on that.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
We got a little wild long Western our life right now.
But we'll do the best we have.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
We have people who have no knowledge of art and
what its value is. And also no honor, no, no honor.
I'll just say that, no honor and no understanding of
ownership either. So we're gonna deal with that. They want
to go down that rabbit hole because I hate that
rabbit fifty seven minute. We got two and a half
minutes left. Anything you want to Uh, did you have

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an ups store?

Speaker 2 (58:14):
Here?

Speaker 1 (58:16):
We have a drop lot okay, right, we've got a
bunch of dukes and hazard deck. This one bought a
whole bunch in the back.

Speaker 3 (58:25):
That fellow that just left, he was a race car driver.
He asked me about you. Everybody knows about related to you.
I never tell anybody.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
They just know. They figure it out. They figured it out.
So and I said, we'll get sitting right there on
the foreca. Yeah, well you could have been on the podcast.

Speaker 2 (58:42):
Well, I know we mentioned the paintings and you don't
have a website. If they really wanted you to paint something,
they could go to Facebook.

Speaker 3 (58:49):
Right, Yes, it's Robert Schneider Fine Art. Okay, maybe Robert
Schneider Fine Art on Facebook. And I have a I
think I have a Facebook marketplace.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
Thing or store there you go, right, so, yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:06):
You can find me there. You know you can sell
a lot of paintings on that.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
I really could.

Speaker 1 (59:10):
Yeah, it's the number one way people sell anything today
on Facebook. Yes.

Speaker 3 (59:14):
Well I'm I'm sadly far behind them.

Speaker 1 (59:17):
It's because you're busy running the town. The techno curve.

Speaker 3 (59:20):
I just updated it a couple of days ago with
some images of things.

Speaker 2 (59:24):
Don't surprise you request now.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
Ja Schneider fine art on Facebook. Once Tony, would you
mind looking that up and just putting up a picture
of what that looks like. So now you're going to
have I think it's I think, Okay, it might be
a store. It might be. It might be, but look
at it. And so if someone buys something, you're gonna

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have to look at it. Now you're gonna start looking
at it.

Speaker 3 (59:54):
I will start looking at it.

Speaker 1 (59:58):
We're coming to the end here, we're forty four or seconds. Hey,
we're sold. Thank you, brother Bob, my pleasure. Glad that
you're here. Thank you for hosting us. We had a
wonderful last night. Susie did an amazing guy. You got
to look up Susie. Susan gets Susan gets no herr yeah,

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g O E t Z. We hope you had fun.
We had a lot of time. We fixed all the
problems in the world, and we we encourage you to
look at this great country of ours, learn about where
you live, and uh, you'd be surprised. You probably live
in a much better place. A greater place, more historically
rich place than you think. This is Drinks with d
D and John and Bob. We love you. Take care,

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