Creator of the Nellie Newsletter and Husband Bob Schoonover

Today  Alison interviews creator of the Nellie Newsletter and Husband Bob Schoonover

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Now look show, and I'm Alison Argram. I mean, some
of you may recognize me as Evan Ellie Elsen from
The Little House on the Prairie. But tonight, thankfully, I'm
Alison Aringrem and this is the Allison or Graham Show.
And here on the Alison Ingham Show, we talk about
things that make you feel good, the movies and TV
shows that made us feel good and the people who
made them, and people are doing things now to make

(00:38):
the world a better and more interesting place. Now, I
have advertised this show in advance because it's gonna be bonkers.
Why I'm in the setup I normally never hear. Why
is there all this space? Because my guest is actually
going to be with me as opposed to buy Zoom.
It's very weird because today is Robert Skoonov's birth. Yes,

(01:00):
my husband, and sure, Oh why interview Bob? Yes, just
for fun, I'll gotta have Bob. No, you all know
who Bob is because Bob is the creator of the
Nelly Newsletter and all of the adventures of Secret Agent
sock Monkey. For those of you who read the newsletter,
you know what I'm talking about. And many of you
have met him. You've met him at many of our
enormous little house events, holding down the fort at the table,

(01:23):
so many of you know Bob and so yes. Finally, finally,
on the Alison Argham Show, Ladies and Gentlemen, Bob scoonover,
Oh Derek, Hello, why there he is? Now? I now

(01:44):
what are the things? Is it parking? Is parking hard?
What are the things? It opens the show always we
have the music, and you hear to live in Large
and that is a song, yes by Kato Hula, song
called Living Large. I know that you are a member
of Catahula and you play on that very song that
is from the first or second album.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
That's the first album. That's in the first album that
was actually recorded in our living room, not in a studio,
not this living room, no somebody else's. And yeah it
was fun.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
I like it. And that's the song is Living Large.
And do you remember anything particular about playing on it?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
I kept finding different things to play and the other
guitar player would say, hey, that's not the right chord.
I'm saying, oh, yeah, yeah, it's just different. I did
a lot of that, So that was fun.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
So all right, So people have they know you from
from many events, and whatnot, And today on Facebook I
even said, do you have questions for Bob and you did,
so we absolutely do have that. But you are most
known as the creator of the Nelly Newsletter. Many of
you get the Nelly Newsletter. It comes out once a
month and it tells you everywhere I'm going to be.

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But we also include is always has the little little
ally door on top, includes all the updates on the
rest of the cast. If anybody's making a movie, is
written a book, anybody from the show, If Iftean Butler
has a book out, Melissa Gilbert's and a TV show,
it's in there. It's in there. As you are the
one who does this. Now you don't just write it.
You actually do the whole thing with mail chimp and

(03:20):
the creation of it and the sending of it, and
you write the entire thing, plus the adventures of sock Monkey,
so you know.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
It starts around the twentieth of the month, I send
out an email to all of the people who you know,
cast members and people who support the effort of what
we're doing here, ask them if there's anything to report,
and then of the eighteen or twenty emails, I send
out maybe two will answer. So then I go do
some research.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
You go, that's a hint, hint for those of you
who don't answer, Yeah, he's going to call you up.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah. And then then I start writing. Takes two to
three days to write it, and they have to figure
out what sock Monkey's doing next, and that's that's never easy.
You stuck here monkey.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
When they see sock Monkey in the room with you, now, yes, yes,
sockmke he is in the room with us.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Now nobody mentioned my name?

Speaker 1 (04:11):
What secret agent sock Monkey? How do you describe the
adventures of sock Monkey? Because people love that, but people
have also said like what the hell, like, how did
that even start? And what is going on? How do
you write these?

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Well, you know, kids are older than many of you.
And when I was young, I used to go to
the movies. They would have these newsreels and little cereals,
you know, just a few minutes of an adventure, and
it was always like, stay tuned, what will happen to
Captain Rocket? Will he fall off the planet?

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Or you know the Buck Rogers stuff the Westerns and
where everything like that.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
And then many many years ago, we were going to
Tennessee for Christmas, and a friend of well frent Furs anyway,
neglected to get her a present, and he was beside himself,
It's like, what am I going to do? I don't
want to upset that one. So we were in Tennessee.

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So on the way he stopped by the University of
Tennessee and picked up a rally monkey.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
From the Games. Yes, yes, and you've noticed. You may
not have seen his tattoo, but he is a socc monkey.
Is a Tennessee holder in the center Tnesse is Yes,
he's University of Tennessee. Go yes, go falls Orangelly Monkey.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
You know, we went to lunch with everyone. Everyone exchanged
gifts and he was so embarrassed to give her the
soccer monkey, and we thought, oh, this is too good.
So we started writing the Adventures of SoC Monkey, starting
with when when he met up with the gang in
Knoxville and was introduced to Alison, and you know, pour

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Monkey was between gigs and looking for a stiff drink
and something to do, and they got him a drink
and said, hey, want to be somebody's traveling companion And
he said sure, when do I start? And they said,
now come on of here.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Literally that that is it. Yeah, Greer came in. He said,
I didn't get you anything. I got you this stupid
monkey and the stupid.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
To be like the what do you think?

Speaker 1 (06:21):
I was just having mixed snow angels in the snow
after folks playing there in Tennessee and it was just
it was it was a huge stuck. Put that on Facebook,
people went nuts, and there you go. So it's like
stream of consciousness though, because there's a different adventure every
month and they don't always make any sense.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
It's not just stream of consciousness. It's stream up my consciousness,
which is you know something else I think.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
So. Yeah, So in case you were wondering, no, I'm
not writing that newsletter. I mean, he'll say where are
you going to be next week? And I'll so, yeah,
that's the thing in Indiana or whatever. But that's that's it.
Oh yeah, the website put up the ticket sales. It's
up now. You can find the link. That's it.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
We trade roles. You know, when she wrote her book,
I was her proofes. I read that thing seventeen times anyway,
and then when I write the newsletter, she's my proofreader.
She's going n I didn't spell his name.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Right, It's very funny because he did. He did confession
is a prairie bitch. He literally was a proof reader.
They had a proofreader, sure, they had oh building a
proofread HarperCollins, and they made mistakes. They missed stuff, They
completely missed stuff, and he found it. So we made
him the official.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
I found all of them.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
It was like I actually had to call Patrick, called
my agent and say and they did. He called the
public he said, we normally don't do a final read
for the author, and my agent had to go, yeah,
but you actually screwed up and he found the mistate.
You have to do this. It was crazy. So yeah,
he does do perfect and then I I, of course
proofread the newsletter. But yeah, in case you had some

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crazy idea that I was writing Adventures a second or
the news I knew. I don't. I don't know what's
going in there until he tells me I can read it,
like no freaking idea.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Top Monkey writs part of the newsletter. He does some editing,
he jumps in and he makes my ask comments.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
You know, now you have a real job, because everyone's
very excited to see you with the events. But he's
not at all all the Prairie events be goes. Well,
why doesn't Bob come everywhere with you? I said, because
he's not just sitting around the house doing nothing.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
I don't get to be a househuseband day.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
No, he has a job, job, so I don't know.
As he said in Young Frankenstein, what is it you do?

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Do?

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Can you explain to people?

Speaker 2 (08:28):
I work for a heavy civil construction company. It's an
international company, and right now we're involved in a huge
mega project. We are building the people mover at.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Lax Yes, the fabulous little tram thing that eventually eventually
was sometime.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Next year, eventually, eventually next spring.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Next spring, we will be able to go to the
airport support and get on it instead of circling the
endless circle of death in your car around the airport
when when you're waiting for friends to pick you up
and you're breathing the exhaustion. No, you'll take me and
you'll go to the gate and it's it's going to
be lovely, sure, just like a real airport, like a
real airport in a big city.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
It is almost done. We're winding down. I've been working
on this since twenty eighteen, just just the construction part
of it is around two billion dollars. It's the joint
venture of four large construction companies.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
It's freaking huge. Yeah, now you are very popular work.
How long you've been there? Was it fifteen years? Oh?

Speaker 2 (09:25):
At the company? Yeah twenty he's.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
Been there for twenty years. Yeah, I'm just like it.
Just he gets up and go somewhere every day being
attended twenty I don't know where he is twenty years
because yeah, you got a pin and then you got
to get the fancy pin. You got to watch and
then you got the pin when you watch at the
big Christmas party, you got a pin. Okay, these people
are great. First time, I'm like, you do keep warding.
It's awesome. They have great benefits and they threw these

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kick ass Christmas parties, huge enormous things, catered to fairs
and hotels. But it's like we went to a vineyard once.
We were on the Queen Mary one time. It's just
it's really so. They did an article about him. They
have a newsletter. They have a newsletter. It's not as
much fun as ours, doesn't have stock monkey in it,
but they have a newsletter and they actually did an

(10:10):
it's this insane enormous write up on you, and they
actually called him Companies Balfour Besee British company. They actually
called him mister bell for Beati. He said, Bob, he
is essentially mister Balfa be You're a mister balf Bebi.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Yeah. Well I'm still trying to live that one now,
It's okay.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
And your boss did not argue.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
He was like, yeah, yeah, man, yeah, he's the one
to put him up to it. I know.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
It's great. So he's very popular.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
We like that.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
We like that really because you know it's it's you know,
times is hard. You don't want to, like, you know,
be not popular to drop. So he has a real job,
building real things and making stuff. Work at the airport
and making stuff happen, and building giant things freeways, train stations.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yes, worked on the freeway, the four or five and
a couple of spots, worked on the Expo line, worked
on the Port of Long Beach, a bunch of stuff.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
This is this is what he does by day. So yes,
sometimes he gets vacation and then he can come to
Kansas and Wyoming and Wisconsin and all these weird places
I go. So he is not there all the time
because they need to actually need him meet him at
the job. But then you do get to come to
the little House events, which is awesome. So do you
enjoy these outings when you interact with all of these

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fans because there are literally thousands of people there who've
come to see me.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Well, I do. It's fun, it's great fun. They all
want to see you. But it's getting weird because they're
starting to know who I am. You know, people shouldn't
ask from I autograph?

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Has that have you signed? Have you signed much?

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Oh? No, a couple, But it's weird. I mean I
understand they ask him for socc Monkey's autograph. We can
accommodate that, right, right.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
But now you signed once when one time when the
band was played Ktaculla was playing, you did actually have
some people who went nuts and wanted you to autograph
your CDs. Yeah, we did so that that would be appropriate.
He's performing somewhere now we have some modelous, insane questions
from people. We do, do we it's very good here. So, uh,

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if you were a delight your newsletters, Spark of Algonquin
round table. Uh oh, this is Marian Passfords. She's awesome, happy,
to hear your music source. You guys are a new
age Nick and Nora. Oh my god, that's really nice.
That's very cool.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Sad mean one of our cats has to be called Asta.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yes, yes, we'll have to change the names, which we
want to ask probably And then how do you come
up with the ideas for the soft Monkey chapters?

Speaker 2 (12:36):
Well, you know back in the day. Well, no, I
don't know. I have a drink, I lose a bunch
of sleep, but stay up until my eyes crossed and
start writing.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
That's very good. Now we have also very good question
from the fabulous Billgraph who who did ask us in
his Bob palindromic.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Well, yeah, it's in my blood. Yes there named me Auto.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
But the auto you give it Bob Otto that he
has a real one because he has previous before he
became the construction maven. That he is Bob and I
met actually at go Away. Stop calling here, Bob and I,
but you can't call him that it was by spam.
We'll call him back, so it's live.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
We don't want to talk to him now.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
So Bob met at the Age Project Los Angeles way
back in the nineteen eighties. And when I met Bob
he was the director, not just working there, but the
director of the Southern California AIDS hotline at Agia Los Angeles.
I mean all of Southern California, like thousands of calls.
It was absolute bokers. And he worked for years in AGHIV.

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He was you were on the border with the age
Well there was the he worked at the Spanish AIDS hotline.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
And then the border age Education of the Deaf.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
Age Education for the deaf, because that's like a whole
thing revelation.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
I was the only person in the room who needed
an interpreter.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
State. They were all signing. I yeah, they were with
the token hearing guy.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
You know, I can't I can do this, but it
doesn't mean.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
They had to. It was fascinating because it gave a
whole new perspective of how they normally felt being outsiders.
And then it's very very clever. So Bill has a
very good question. After all your work and AIDS for
years and years and years, I have a serious question
for Bob, all that time working at Age Project Los Angeles,
seeing so much suffering and death, how did he manage

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to keep himself from falling into darkness when one is
surrounded by suffering, how does one remain light? I love
to hear his thoughts on that, and happy birthday to
my beloved friends.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
Well, thank you, Bill. First question is who says I
didn't fall into darkness to darkness? Do you think sock
monkey comes anyway? No, it was. I started when there
were like six people on the staff of the Ace Pride.
Actually they didn't know if they're going to make the
next payroll kind of thing. And you know, years later,

(15:05):
like twenty thirty million a year or whatever. Well, I
guess the people that I worked with and seeing that
we're actually able to do something, you got less frustrating
as time went on in a way, because there were
more things you could do. At the beginning, it was like, well, yeah,

(15:29):
that sounds like you're sick. Well nothing, do you know,
that's not exactly what we said.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
Well, rank in the hotline because I want to volunteer
in the Hallland you gave referrals. But in the beginning,
it's like, Okay, a referral to a doctor of a treatment,
but we haven't gotten any treatments. The referral for testing,
well they haven't gotten a test yet. There's a referral
for this that doesn't exist yet, we can we can
hang out on the phone and talk to you.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Though it was that bad, yeah, I guess being able
to I didn't go to a lot of funerals. I
went to a lot of memorials, you know, sometimes two
or three a week, and to be able to see
what people had done with their lives and how they
affected everyone around them. I just that just kind of

(16:20):
kept me going for quite a while. I mean I
remember early in the epidemic, I had an interview from
a Japanese newspaper and they said, well, how do you
stand this with all these people dying around you. My
response was like, well, I don't look at it. I
don't have time. I have things to do. And so
there was some avoidance there. I'm sure you know. Therapy

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is a wonderful thing. I've been there on both sides
of the desk. I guess, yeah. I mean that was
about it. It just it was the fact that we
were doing something, and that's what we tried to do.
I mean, in the hotline trainings and all that, to
do for the community that people. All of your friends

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are dying, not all of them, A lot of your
friends are dying around you people are getting sick, there's
nothing that could be done. What can you do? Well,
get them into the hotline, have them be able to
deal with people, to be able to try to do
something to have an effect on what was going on around.
You made people feel a little bit less powerless, and

(17:23):
over the.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
Time of the hotline, then eventually, yes we have doctors.
Yes there's treatments, Yes there's do you want to get
in an experimental drug trial? I guess there's. And there
were actually places to send people and testing. There was
some where to send them which was a little better.
I remember there was a page and it was the
only dentists in town that would see anyone with the
TV because most of the dentist said no. And there

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was also a list of funeral homes.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
Funeral homes wouldn't very shortless.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
Shortless, it was. It was. It was that weird back then.
Things are very very weird and scary. It was.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
And you know, maybe once a month I would come
in and some and well would have broken the front
window and stole some computers and stuff, and you know,
I would call the police and we would have a
bomb squat scare and that kind of thing would go on.
That was in the very early days. We got past
at but it was interesting. For a while. I was
the only one they would interview. Yes, there was only

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one crew in town that would interview people at the
Age project because they wouldn't come and they wouldn't come
into the building. I sat in a folding chair in
the driveway and talked to him. They put that little
microphone on your shirt collar there and you talk, and
you after your interview and you're done, they're about to
leave and they go, oh here and they go, it's okay,
you keep we don't need it at a drawer full.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
Part of my initiation at the hotline to let you
know how bad things were and how freaked out people weren't,
how afraid of HIV and AGE they were, was Bob
would say, here, check out my drawer and would open
this drawer and they were all the little the little
level their mics. Oh, and there were the phone the
phone covers from from and had the big mic. There
were the phone covers. And the drawer was full because

(19:04):
every TV station that came down there was not taking
that back with us and would refuse to take mike back.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yes, but that was then this is now we have
moved gone from that, and he's gotten a lot better.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
I think she would tell you see, I mean, I
know when I look back and go, God, things can
be bad, but nothing is as bad as it was then.
It's so much better.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
And I don't know. I guess finding the person I
married kind of made it work out.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
That was crazy, Okay. So we also have people saying,
you know, okay, so you met. Someone was saying was
it love at first sight?

Speaker 2 (19:40):
Now? Did you know she was?

Speaker 1 (19:40):
What they do? It was not?

Speaker 2 (19:43):
No, no, it was kind of like you were quite annoying.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
I was, well, did you see the movie When Harry
Met Sally? It was When Harry met Sally? It went
on for years. He had a girlfriend, I had a fiance.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
It was it took years for us to go on
a day year we met in eighty six.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
Eighty six.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yes, I had a girl friend and she was getting married,
and so, you know, a bunch of years later she
had gotten a divorce and I was dumping my girlfriend
and it was kind of like, well, what are we
going to do now? Because back then, the idea of
starting a new relationship in the age of rampant aids
it was kind of like were She said, I wouldn't

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want to well me, would you? And I said yeah?

Speaker 1 (20:27):
And literally, So that was ninety three, So indeed seven
years we knew each of so we were friends. We
would go places together. In fact, there was that volunteer
who we were. We were always on aids panels, panels
at UCLA and stuff electric by aids and go to
hall and Alis and our girl from the speakers and
so we're everywhere, and so one vaulter started laughing and say, oh,

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look it's Bob Schoonover and the ever lovely myth of Schoonover,
because I just I was everywhere with him and this
was a running joke. And so many years later we're
married and we ran into that guy at a party
and he actually walked up when and and then the
ever lovely missis schoon Over.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
We went.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
He fell backwards, he almost went right ready to catch you.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
It almost felt so.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah, so people there are people talked. It was kind
of there was a Salm and Diane kind of thing
kind of going on, like are those two arguing or not?
Or is there something happening? But nothing, nothing for seven years.
It was like when Harry met Sally. We went through
all the different relationships and we're friends and then finally
he went on a date and wound up getting married.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah, that was fun.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
Someone did ask the marvelous question, because this is a
great story, and we have told them, but it's a
great story. What was your family's thank you, Kathy? What
was your family's initial reaction when you told them that
you were marrying the woman who played Danny Elsen.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
Yeah. Well, once we decided to get married, I figured, well,
better call my parents because I was the oldest in
my family and I was the one who vowed that
he was never going to get married.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
Never. Never. You told everyone you weren't.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
Made life easy.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
It was good.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
So I called home and I got my dad and
mom got on the extensions and I told him, well,
you know, I've got a girlfriend we're taking taking to
getting married. So I thought, I can't let you know,
and you know it's kind of interesting. Said oh, well
what's she like?

Speaker 1 (22:24):
And I.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Described her a bit and they said, well, what does
she do? Well, she's an actress, so, okay, has you
been on anything that we've seen? And I went well, probably.
So then I told him who she was and for
a minute I thought the line went dead.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
Total silence, like just like pure pin drop pindrop.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
And then my father got up the nerve and said,
she's uh not like she was on the show? Is
she anyway? Yeah, dada, I like a meme.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
Excuse, like yeah, she's horrible, that's yeah, yeah, she's a
total bitch. I'm buying mary, or what's wrong with you?
But yeah, they did. They did. She's not like she's
on the show, she says. It was hysterical they were,
and I mean they were also kind of like you know,
called fatic and it's a miracle he's getting married.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
I mean they were a little excited.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
All the other kids are married, so they were so
happy to getting married, and they were kind of horrified.
But then they found out I could cook. Then then
they came, they came to the house for the way
I made dinner at the night before and then we
had the rehearsal dinner and they found out I could.
I made uh, I made my turkey meatballs with sauce,
and one was it your sister in law, your sister
someone not since Grandma Scraffiti have we had such a

(23:47):
meat ball, which for an Irish girl, I guess is
I guess?

Speaker 2 (23:50):
And you know there was We were planning a wedding
and I had we had a date, all sat and
I figured, okay, I better invite my parents. You're not
going to come.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
They won't come, they won't come.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Things well, and my mother won.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
The lottery okay, not the like but like the Fantasy
Vive kind of thing, like the not the millions a
lot but a bunchups to.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Fly the whole family out of here.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
For church got a new roof. There's like a garden
at the church named after church got a roof. Everybody
got all the kids got some cash and they all
flew out and rented van. So we went to Disneyland
and it was it was It was bananas. It was bananas.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
That was fun.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
It was really good there you see there see that's
that's it was. Yes, they did, they did react. They
did have a bird and then they okay, and see
Grace wants to know that did you watch Little House
in the Prairie before meeting me? And did you really
know like who I was? Were you scared of dating Nelly?
Et cetera?

Speaker 2 (24:47):
And I would say not really, no, No, I didn't
watch The House on the Prairie. I would be at
the TV changing the channels names this is before remote
she'd get. So I would change the channel well, and
I'd be flipping along and I would come and I
would flip the little house on Prairie and I would
go out pretty gross, and then I would flip on

(25:07):
by and I would watch Bob Black Sheep was your competition. Well, yeah,
how of course, now that's what I watch.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
Paba Black People. Now. I had made a point years
and years ago I had to do this of really
never dating anyone who watched the show like had. I mean,
if they knew about it that existed, it's fine, but
anyone who really watched the show, because guys, especially young guys.
When I watch a show, you basically had two camps

(25:38):
who had either people who were completely horrified and did
not want to date me and were creeped out completely
that I was Nelly Elson, or they were giant weirdos
who might want me to wear the wig. Either way,
this was a non starter. I could not date people
seriously watch the show because it was just too weird.
It was just too freaking weird. So early on when

(25:59):
I realized that he was like, oh, that's nice. Yes,
oh yes, and little House in the Prairie, Yes, that
did not care?

Speaker 2 (26:07):
Did not care?

Speaker 1 (26:08):
Now he was excited when he And there's another question
about this too. He found my mother was because my
mother who I've been posting a lot of stuff about
my mother lately with the cartoons and the Casper Norma macmillan,
the voice over artist, and she was cast for the
friendly Guest. She was Gummay. She was Davy of Davy
and glib and sweet poly purebread underdog and I've been

(26:30):
posting a lot of videos of that. So guess he's
a freaking underdog.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Yeah. I mean I didn't want her autograph, but I
did want her mother.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
He made my mother had to come to He made
my mother come down to age Project gloss has She
came down to the to sign an autograph form because
he wanted sweet polypure frits autograph, not mine. And didn't
she write like Allison's mother under it or something totally
same like yeah, because she was like and yet someone
actually had a carching question about that. Yes, I believe

(27:01):
war and it looks like here I said thank you
for coming. Oh yes, when it was unforgotten Hollywood, I
want to know, for Bob, what was it like living
with Nelly and being the son in law of a
prolific voice actress who came from an era when women
weren't getting the credit they deserved in voice work.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yeah, well, I'd like to see anyone not give Norma credits.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
Yeah that really, don't get hurt. Yeah no, she can. Damn.
Everybody knew she was gonna be Andre Ballet and Gaspar.
She she's she's in the book. There's all big book
magic behind the voices, all the cartoons, and she's a
whole chapter. So's the entire chapter like this, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Oh she got she got credits, she got credit.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
Well, I mean, and you get to watch your mother
on TV.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
They've been running, they've been running Casper in the morning,
and now they've been running Underdog in the mornings. And
so I get up and I get my gun, I
look and I can always guests. Okay, Casper started in
the thirties, and those weren't my mother, obviously, but she
was heavily in the nineteen sixties. The Harvey tunes that was,
that's like all her and she did most of the gumbies.
You can tell them gummy as the black eyes, not
the red eyes. Very weird. And then of course she's

(28:10):
all of sweet Polly and she's davy, so I can
tell immediately when Kasper comes out, Yep, that one, that's her,
And so it's very weird. I do. I do sit there,
have my coffee in front of the TV in the
morning and watch my mother's cartoons. But yeah, you got
to hang out with my because sid did you get
You got to hang out with dinner with my parents
once without me. I was out of town and you

(28:30):
got stuck having dinner with both my parents without all
three of your parents, all three of them. Because Jess,
if you read my book Jess Peterson, who worked with
my father ar Gram and Peterson I referred to as
my third parent, that I had a mother and a
father and a Jess and you you so you had
dinner with all three of my parents.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
I did, I did. It was a an art show
this artist had I don't know. It's like a Renaissance
a Renaissance stile painting using a celebrity in some sort
of role. And she was a queen of something.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
Her neck was like a long neck, and it was
very weird.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
It was anybody knows where that is, I will buy it, right,
somebody bought it?

Speaker 1 (29:17):
We don't know. So yeah, now this is interesting. People
have asked, thanks, yep, if you could be a character
on Little House on the Prairie. I mean he has
watched it now and he likes it. If you could
be a character on the show, who would you be?

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Oh? I not thought about that. Who would you be?

Speaker 1 (29:36):
Oh? Except I didn't pay me to say that either.
But I know how to cook. That's the other crazy thing.
Do I know how to cook?

Speaker 2 (29:45):
We could do a role reversal. You could teach me.
I can't cook. I mean you have three rests. I
can cook.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
He could cook.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
I can cook.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
It's like three basically, there's three things he makes and
they're fantastic, but just like makes us three things.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
So yeah, no, I do go.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
So that's a good one. That's a good one. You
have you I don't think you have. Have you watched
all the episodes of Little House of the Prairie yet?

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Oh? Hell no?

Speaker 1 (30:11):
Oh? Wait, okay, so we had to go. We had
to go what was it like nineteen ninety five? I
think it was the one in Sonora And we had
to go up and I said, oh my god, you haven't.
You haven't seen like a whole episode. You don't know.
And they're gonna have all these panel they're going to
if these people are gonna be talking them a little
loss of the prairial a week and you gotta care bought.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
Up a yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
So I said, oh, well, we're going up to Snore
where The Lord is My Shepherd and the Mountain. I said,
let's watch this episode that allowed to get your clued
in for the weekend. And we put it on and
you try. I tried to watch very bravely The Lord
is My Shepherd with Ernest Borga And what did you say?

Speaker 2 (30:46):
How did you people stay awake to film this stuff?

Speaker 1 (30:50):
He did not fight that episode exciting.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
I mean, that wasn't a good episode to start with.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
Then you're gonna what was the one you liked to? Oh,
if I should die before I wake upout the old
lady who fakes her death and gets Doc Baker to
help her. You like that one? That that was good?
That was funny.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
There's still a bunch of them that I need to watch, yea,
like the Kanesha, the Lakes, Ezia Lake Kesa. Yes, I
mean I was at the reunion in seem Valley and
I go, hey, why is there a woman with a
heart room walking around out there?

Speaker 1 (31:24):
I didn't know there were two. There were two Kesiest.
There was Alway that that hat and the thick and
she had the Hartpool for the Kesia the lakes, and
there was other lady. She had the crow on her shoulder,
big crops.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
All security are what is she doing?

Speaker 1 (31:38):
Why was I have to do the little front up
like kids? Yeah, he's like, what do you what? Who?

Speaker 2 (31:42):
What's That's?

Speaker 1 (31:43):
E easy? And the Lake Keysia episode is hysterical. You
would like that. It's from any Badly with love Her
and you would probably liked that episode a lot. So yeah,
well we're gradually we're getting him caught up. Do you
have favorite characters?

Speaker 2 (31:56):
You do?

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Have to? He met actually way more than can as
before he'd seen the episodes. He see like two episodes,
and then he met everybody, and then it made it
like more interesting, who what characters do you like from
the show.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
Or what people? What actors do I like from the show?
What do you ask?

Speaker 1 (32:12):
Well, I hope you like them all, but which characters
do you like? Baker?

Speaker 2 (32:19):
I don't know, it's hard to separate. I mean I
like the people more than I like the characters. Yes,
you know that's that's because I've met them all and
then hung out and we've got a good time. I mean,
what were Pam Roylans? What was her character?

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Sarah?

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Sarah Carter? She's fine?

Speaker 1 (32:38):
She there you go. You haven't even seen that many
of her episodes, but you like I haven't. He likes Paramorlands,
but everybody likes Pam Royleans. Who doesn't like freaking Pam
Roylets like the nicest person?

Speaker 2 (32:46):
And then hersha oh right, missus missus Garby, missus Garby. Yeah, gy,
Well we're both from Ohio. So we got along really well.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
Well okay, okay, good Ohio questions. We get books Ohio
and we caught Akron Ohio questions, which are hysterical. So
this is this good way? Where's the hilarious one? Yes?
If I remember correctly, he says, Chris, Chris heini, If
I remember correctly, Bob is from Cayoga Falls.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
That's correct.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
I grew up in Stowe and our high schools were rivals.
They were was is Bob a fan of the Michael
Stanley band.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
Let me just say, let's get the show on the road.
That was their big hit.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yes, I was indeed fan now stance here. I haven't
lived there since the nineties, but I still love Michael
Stanley band. Oh what foods does he miss? For me?
It is laws in his chip dip, Swimson's and Stadter's
frozen custard. I have no idea what any of these are.
These are acron delicacies.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
I guess. I mean Stodter's frozen custard that was good.
And then there was a an ice cream shop up
in Highland Square, Mary Coyles. It's still there, get great
ice cream.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
Oh the pizza. Where we're going?

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Actually, so Luigi's. We're going to be there Luigi's.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
We're going to Luigi's. We are risining and we will
be at Luigi's. I've been to Lugs now I'm bringing
home more than one bottle of the salad dressing this time.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
They used to be open twenty four hours, so when
you go out to see the band and they were done,
we'd all head for Luigi's. It is really good, but
and they're very old school. I mean the food is great,
but they don't take reservations and you have to pay
in cash.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
It's kind of a problem. You got to like like
just line up and hope they just gope. It's not
too grounded. But there's celebrity photos up there. Jay Leno
goes when he's in town, gets a pizza because it's
it is apparently epic and I have eaten there and
it was fast good. Luigi's do you miss much about Akren?
You've been here?

Speaker 2 (34:42):
I Mississivic Theater.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
Oh didn't you do a concert to try to save
thea Civic Theater?

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Well? Yeah, I helped put one on. Yeah, and and
we had we had well I planned one. Well, no,
let's see, how do I how do I extrain this?
I had one plan. It was going There were three
bands lined up and the Michael Stanley Band was the headliner.
They were all ready to go. And then the organization
I was working for said, uh, you know, we really

(35:11):
can't be involved with, you know, activities where people might
do drugs. I said, you're the Summit County Regional Drug
Abuse Board, that's what you do. But they say, Dad, nevermind.
So and then I helped a local band with a
couple of benefits.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
All right, so this is good and we will do
this good. Someone asked if you were AMBI extress use
the use of your right and left hand.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
What I'm right handed.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
He's just right handed, right handed, So that's that's like hysterical.
What kind of music do you like and what kind
of bands do you like?

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Yes, well, you know, I'm a very big fan of
rock and roll, and I've played rock and roll for
many many moons, still playing, not in a band anymore,
but still playing.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
Katta Rula's kind of after the pandemic, the club where
they were all the time just never reopened. It's been
a problem. But you are playing now a lot with
your friend Timmy, who you were in a band with before.
Do you think you might play live again? Do you
think you might play live again at the opportunity maybe
made opportunity around.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
I don't have to have I'd have to get some
some stuff together. I mean, this is like, well then,
you know I had that episode with the cat where
I had to have surgery on my hand.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
You know, so yeah, but it yield up. It's coming along.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
It's coming along quite well.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
You know what was Bob's Gary Deeter, what was Bob's
favorite thing to do as a child. What did you
like to do with when you were a tiny schoonover?

Speaker 2 (36:47):
Boy? Do I remember even was I ever a child?

Speaker 1 (36:52):
I don't know. When you were in Scouts, you were
I like.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Boy Scouts, that was the Scouts. I was, uh kind of,
I don't know. I I I wanted to have a job,
so I got a paper and they got another paper.
Then I had a third pa I had three paper
raws at.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
Once at once. How did you you got up really early?

Speaker 2 (37:14):
It was the morning and evening and a weekly Come on, all.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
Right, you know, I know, thank god we're not showing it.
But I do have the photo from when you're very
small at Christmas and you've got your hop Along Cassidy
official flashlight and your it's a picture of me. He's
like three, and it's like you've never seen the child
so excited in your life. And I'm like, what is
that about it? I got a hop Along Cassidy flash
light like I was three, Like I remember, It's like

(37:38):
he really likes he still likes flash lights, flashlights.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
I can't see in the dark.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
It was Sally Carrol tag Kasi Verry won the Darker
Dy and then you were kind of in school. Okay,
who's a bit of a nerd? You liked math? I
still like math. It's weird. What was that thing you did?
Was it in middle school? High school?

Speaker 2 (38:00):
Where you Well, high school, I had played in geometry
and I became friends with the teacher and then there
are there are you know, and in geometry you have
situations and it's you try to prove different theories and
solve problems, and there are some problems that have never
been solved. And he and his friends from other schools

(38:25):
around the country at like a math club. They would
get together and do those things. And we had a
bunch of people that would go in after school and
hang out with him and work on those problems. It
was fun.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
Teacher ever solve any of them, like the lad I
don't think so. But you had to go with them
about you were It was just like high school at
junior high high school, high school. So it wasn't for
extra credit. This was just you liked hanging out at
the school and doing math so much that you voluntarily
hung out after school to do math.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
You make it sound like it wasn't fun. It was,
you know.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
I'm like that said that sounds terrifying. Okay, so slight
slight math nerd, you'd like to do that? Here we go.
What Marie says, What does Bob do for a hobby?
I know he's in a band. Is he good at
home repairs?

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (39:19):
No, Now you if you fix himself? Okay, I am
the queen of the garbage disposal that I am all about.
I can, I can. I can come to your house
right now and fix your damn garbage spell. I am
very good with the garbage dispussal. That's like my thing.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
No, you know, I've crafted a few things around the
house and done some things. But as time goes by,
I kind of go. You know, I could work at that.
I could get it done, probably do a halfway good job.
Or I can pay someone to come in do it
in one day and it'll be a great job. And
if it's not, I'll make him come back and fix it.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
And when you get old, you get things like the
a household warranty and you have a thing where people
come at a reduced rate and come and fix. Yeah,
they just you called the guy and he does the
garbage spuzzle. But I can get things unstuck from there.
You made me a spice rack, I did.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
You did?

Speaker 1 (40:07):
You made me a spice rack? So, yes, he does
because you But well, back in the day in school
you did. You did shop and all that. You can
make things?

Speaker 2 (40:14):
Yes, I did.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
Yeah, so he can. You can put up a damn shelf.
You can. Yeah, but yeah, it's not like I do
fix it. It's like, yeah, now marked you you worked
for an auto mechanic for years as the young person
I did.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
Do I want to work on cars now? No?

Speaker 1 (40:31):
But this was also the cars didn't all have computer
chips in them. You just normal auto parts that you
you could fix the car yourself back then.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
And spark plugs used to be like two or three
dollars each and you replace some frequent and.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
They were right there, they were right there.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
You see.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
Yeah, you took you took the little air filter off
and you looked them. They're at all want right there.
You could fix the dam You can't. You can't do
that now. You Also, I always remember the fact that
you drove a tow truck in Ohio and Akron, Ohio
in the winter and had to go How horrifying was that?

Speaker 2 (41:06):
Pretty?

Speaker 1 (41:08):
No, You've had every job known to man. You worked
for the post office.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
Were the post office? I had a paper route. I
was a stock boy in a candy factory. If you're
in Ohio, you've not been to hone Outels Candy. They
were there many many years ago. My mother worked there
and so did I. Then they went away, But now
they're back.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
Were they good? Should we get their candy? Whar we're there? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (41:33):
So good?

Speaker 1 (41:33):
We did you get the kind of your film? What
was the past scale initially when you worked? Oh?

Speaker 2 (41:39):
Well, you know, consider this was, you know, back when
dinosaurs are on the earth. So the pay scale was
a dollar an hour and all you could eat for
the first week, I got paid really well. From then
on it was a dollar an hour because how much
chocolate can you eat? I'm sorry?

Speaker 1 (41:57):
Right right? You met my parents? Okay? Hobbies repairs? No, No,
when they're repairs? Uh?

Speaker 2 (42:06):
To do? Oh?

Speaker 1 (42:07):
Yes, your favorite place is to eat? Oh? How is
your family in Tennessee? Says yes they are good? Oh yeah,
they're fine, all right, And we're going. We're going. And
who's going to read night before Christmas?

Speaker 2 (42:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
It might be the great niece. Uh, it could be you.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
Could be able to see well, I'm kind of the default.
I mean, if you can't find anyone else that wants
to do it. Yeah, good Bob, the girls, it was
kind of fun.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
We'll see, We'll see whichever over's in the mood.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
The ritual is every okay, about almost once a month,
we put out the newsletter, okay, and then on Christmas Eve,
if I sit down and write the holiday message, which
is difficult because you know, I want to make it
interesting and meaningful and all that good stuff. And you
know you saw the blank piece of paper and start writing.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
Now, you've invented so many things that are that have
helped with with all of our fandom and stuff. For instance,
a thing I call the pockets Nelly. We called the
pocket nell. So a long time ago I was getting
this fan mail from Journey, and I don't know why,
but the Germans would send these teeny tiny little envelopes.
The French love you, the French, and the British preat

(43:20):
big envelopes and you with cardboard in them and everything.
She put the eight x ten in there. But I
get there, supposed to fold an eight y ten photo
in half or some What are they thinking of? What
am I supposed to put in there.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
And then that wasn't the real impetus. The thing was
one night we were out and it was raining. I
know California doesn't do that, but he did, and it
was raining, and she got recognized in the line for
a movie and someone wanted to autograph, so she ended
up signing a wet cocktail napkin.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
This was happening. So what do you do. You're at
the beach, you're at the movies, you're somewhere. You don't
they don't have an autograph book. You're signing arms, you're
signing check registers. Days, jacket people would pull out scraps
of paper and they'd be signing that. What he did,
it's just ridiculous. And he said, this has got to stop,
This has got to stop. I have an idea.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
So we came up with.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
The pocket. Nellie the pocket, and many of you have
seen this. It's that that face.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
Wait hold on, yes, yeah, but it's tiny. It's tiny,
and this way it fits in his pocket, in all
his suit jackets, in.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
His breast packet, all of my suits. Whenever I put
on my suit jacket, it's already stocked with a bunch
of little Nellies and so look and it.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
Fits in the tiny little German envelopes. But on the back,
look at this on the back and stickers, yes, stickers
on the back.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
Now for instance, this one has we moved forward. We
have at the bottom now you have the website.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Yes, a website and stickers back here had the website
my French website and where to send fan mail and
then to you received monthly email updates that I was
his activity, it's tour scheduled, other Prairie trivia. Send a
request to loose gravel prad at aol doctor. So we
put all the info. And one of the things we're
doing was when I would have a club date forming

(45:14):
at one of the clubs.

Speaker 4 (45:15):
We would be a sticker in the middle which would
have all the info for that week's show, and so
I could go out to some public event the bars
wherever on like Thursday night and signed some autographs.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
And that way was.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
That was an awesome for the Long Center in Austin,
Texas in twenty fifteen.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
But there it is all the infests there, the Rollins center,
the phone number, the website, where to get tickets when
it is, and that was the thing as you can
and people go, oh, how do I get tickets to
the show? Oh? Look, it's the other bag, is the
vag So they became a calling card, an advertising venue, everything.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
And we started doing what I call chimpanzee marketing marketing. Yes,
it's like guerrilla marketing, except smaller, quicker, that kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
So yet he comes up with these things. No he's
not on the show, and no he's not really out
there finding autographs and social media wise you you you yeah,
you don't have an Instagram account. You had a Twitter
thing before it became extra like five minutes. Now he
has a Facebook page. However, I'm sorry, but if you
look at his Facebook page, it's not that many people
because they're all people that he like knew in person

(46:25):
before Facebook was invented. Really like, it's like regular people
he knows. I know. I mean half of France sends
him friend requests. Everyone sends him friend requests, going, well,
he's married all as an art but no, it's not.
His Facebook is not a celebrity page, and he's probably
not gonna friend you friends on there.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
I'm not really ignoring you. I'm just not accepting a
friend request. Yeah, he's just I don't need thousands of
friends his pages and for him.

Speaker 1 (46:53):
My page, everybody follow it. So no, he's not like
celebrity page. He doesn't have a blue check. You can't
follow him and say it's not that kind of thing.
It's just like a person page. Now, if there is
a page on Facebook Loose Gravel Productions where you could
look there, we need some nice post stuff there, and
of course Loose Gravel Prague Loose with two o's Loose
Gravel p r o d at aol dot com. If

(47:15):
you email there and say I watch the natal newsletter,
he collects those and sends puts you on the list,
and then once you're getting the n only newsletter, there's
a response thing and that goes to that whole.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
Yeah, there's his own special email.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
Mail box, the Loose Gravel email box, and he reads
all of those. Yes, so yes, you absolutely via the
newsletter via via Loose Gravel Pard you may communicate with
him and ask for the newsletter.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
I try to read all those, but they're kind of
boring because most of them are high am out of
the office this week. So if you want to talk
to we get enough of that, you know, we do
get that sweet fifteen responses thirteen or high a mode
of the office this week.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
So, as someone who has been just like Shangh into
the whole prairie fandom scene, whatever, what do you think
it is about Little House in the Prairie that makes
people love it so much that that it is like
this now.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
I I landed. The writing was great, the acting was great.
There's there's there's not a there's nobody is slacking on
that show. The acting is great, the directing is great.
It was shot on filming. It was shot like you
were doing a movie, you know. So things don't last forever.

(48:36):
The themes are universal. Things are we're going to make
the harvest? Will we have any money?

Speaker 1 (48:43):
What?

Speaker 2 (48:43):
What are we going to do? And that that mean
girl down the road is being nasty to you, John,
how do you deal with that without you know, hitting
her with.

Speaker 1 (48:51):
Something or hitting her with something as they did ye that.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
Push her down a wheelchair something? And its to every
society everywhere. There are people in grass huts in Africa
who have managed to get a TV and are watching
Little House on the Prairie and they can relate. If
the crops don't come in, we might have to move.
What are we going to do so you know, it's

(49:19):
it's universal, and yeah, you.

Speaker 1 (49:23):
Are very you come up with things, he doesn't plan
to come up with these things. With these things, where what.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
Are you blaming me on? That way?

Speaker 1 (49:33):
Become so quotable. One day he came up with never
underestimate the power of the prairie.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
I think that was my best one.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
I think so, and we use that a lot things
will happen. Never underestimate the power of the prairie.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
Right right, Yeah, I'm eternally quotable. I don't make a
lot of sense, but I'm quotable.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
So would see what event are you're coming to next? Well,
you're not. You're not coming to Indiana. I'm going to
be in Indiana and and then I'm going to be
in Pepin, Wisconsin. You're not coming to you.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
I have to read God, you know, I have to work.

Speaker 1 (50:11):
They actually they like him and they want him there.
And then I got frosts. Now someone asks, how do
you manage when I am gone so long? And the
cats and how do the cats behave? Yes, I saw
that one you asked about the cats. I saw the
mass of cats. So the cat ever behave? What do
you tart? You about what are the cats like what
I've gone.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
It's just like when you're here, except they don't have
you to pick on. They have to pick on me.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
Yeah, but yeah, so it is it is. I mean
we've been married now thirty thirty thirty two years, yes,
thirty two years November gotay, all right? And and yet
I bumger off to other countries. And you know we
both work, so you have you manage when I'm not here.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
Well, i mean someone said, well, what's the secret to
a successful marriage? Oh? This is going on? Well, one
tip we got from Larry Hagman asked him the question.
He had two words, separate bathrooms.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
Oh my god, you're right.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
That was his whole answer.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
And you know he was very astute, and he was
married for a very long time.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
And we do have two bathrooms, Yeah, we did.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
It's the one great luxury that we're like, yeah, we
gotta go for that one air conditioning in two bathrooms.
I'm gonna die on that hill that we're gonna have to.
And you know it's it's not a big house, but
it's got two bathrooms.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
By god, there's gotta be a lot of respect for
what the other person does. You know, and who the
other person is. And I never wanted to be in
a relationship where someone would become a clone of me.
And boys, any danger of that happening here, I'll tell you.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
And and.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
You don't want to have someone to just agreed with
everything you say. And that ain't happened here. I'm just saying. Oh.
And the other thing is communication. Yeah, she'll be in
France or Belgium or somewhere. But we saw at least
once a day, sometimes two or three times.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
I got a great phone plan, and they got WhatsApp
and Facebook and all that.

Speaker 2 (52:12):
Stuff you can write. You know, back in the day
before there were cell phones that costs a lot of money,
you had to figure.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
Out what time it was, like, oh, it's it's weekend
or it's after seven, and you'd like it a oh
operator wle you have to like this stuff like that. Now,
long distance it's like, oh my god. You can phone.
You can get a burner phone with a chip for
the country you're in. You can use WhatsApp, you can
use all the ten thousand communication apps, and you can
you can call people. So it's not like a big
deal to talk to someone every day, even if you're

(52:39):
on the other side of the planet. Yep. Well, I
think that's it. Do you have anything else you want
to tell them before it turn you loose?

Speaker 2 (52:51):
I don't know. Stalk Monkey may have a few things
he wants to say.

Speaker 1 (52:55):
Well, it'll be in the next reason for you all
to sign it for the newsletter. What will stock monkey think?

Speaker 2 (52:59):
Right? I mean it's it's like, in a few days,
I'll send out the email to all the other people
to get their input and I we shoot for somewhere
in the first five days of the month.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
Sometimes we're a little late. Sometimes we mit a month.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
We get busy.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
I'm sorry, but yeah, sign up.

Speaker 1 (53:22):
All right, Well, this has been the Allison Aringram Show.
And thank you all for watching, and thank you Bob
scoonover for being on the Alison Aringham Show. And I'm
Alison Argham and.

Speaker 2 (53:36):
And I'm not co