Today Alison Celebrates the 7th Anniversary of The Alison Arngrim Show

Today Alison Celebrates the 7th Anniversary of The Alison Arngrim Show. Come Join The Fun with special guests:

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:11):
We'll go with em who day yay yay, Hi.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hi.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
It's the Allison Ingraham Show and I'm Alison Ingram. And
here on the Allison Ingraham Show, we talk about things
that make you feel good. Yes, for seven years now, actually,
you know.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
The movies and the TV shows that made us feel
good and the people who made them, and people are
doing things now to make the world a better and
more interesting place. And today I have to told them,
as of last week, I've been doing this for seven years. Yes,
some of you may recognize me as evil, nasty Nellie Elsen,
but luckily today I am Alison Ingram and it's the

(00:56):
seventh anniversar with the Alison Ingham Show.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
So what do I do?

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Who do I have on good buddy? Okay, I couldn't
have everybody because that's like hundreds of people. So I
invited a few and thought, well, they won't all say yes,
and then the lake all did and so I'm having
to stagger them. So it's going to be a little
nuts here, but let's start with yes. Everyone's imagine or
hashtag imaginary boyfriend. You love him. He was one of
my first guests. When I first started. I started with

(01:20):
my Prairie Folk, and Dean was one of the first
people to come on The Fabulous Adorable Dean Butler.

Speaker 5 (01:26):
Oh Allison, what a tree to be with you on
your seventh anniversary. Congratulations on. I mean, doing anything for
seven years is, you know, is quite an accomplishment. Now
you and I have known each other for forty six years.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
I got the freaking show for seven years. When I
got to how long I did Little House, It's like,
oh my god, I just like this long term. A
friend of mine I heard Lindsay played guitar with Boss
Van Katahula, said, you know, you actually really stick to things.
People think of you as flighty, but you do things
and you just boy, once you're dug in, you really
stay there. And I said, yeah, I know. My husband

(02:07):
Bob was supposed to be a one night stand. He's
still laughing. He's still laughing somewhere, still passed out from
that one. But that's sort of the warning joke. I
just I go to do things and go I think
I'm staying here, and then eight million decades, for four
decades and several years later, here we are still yapping.

(02:27):
And then we have a podcast like what the Which
Round Up People Magazine. What the hell?

Speaker 6 (02:32):
I know, I know, you know.

Speaker 5 (02:34):
I think Alison, you I think you've cited a very
important aspect of your success with all of all of
this that you do is that you are committed, You
are fully deployed, and you do it with great passion.
There's no halfway in for you. You are all the
way in and it just it just shows in everything

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you do. And I just couldn't be happier for you.
And I have to tell you, I am very very
I am proud of the association that you and I
have developed together around Little House, around the podcast. It's
just been a great ride with you. You've just been

(03:16):
exceptional and I couldn't be happier that we've.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Done it all well. Thank you. I mean, we were
talking about the lines in a meeting earlier and the
whole thing is like comparing it to Disney, and the
line came up, well, Alison's Mickey Dead.

Speaker 5 (03:36):
Yeah, Yeah, no, absolutely, that's a great comparison.

Speaker 7 (03:39):
I mean, you are you are.

Speaker 5 (03:43):
Little House's Mickey Mouse. When it comes to that love
that people have for this there is it's interesting for
you having played somebody that has perceived as being as
nasty as you are perceived a being of being.

Speaker 7 (04:00):
You've done it.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
So well, but you are so beloved at the same time,
and that's that's a you've created that you've done that
and people feel that from you. Everyone's in on the
joke with you, and it's great fun.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
I was just now talking to Bob about that. I
was looking some tape my show and I say, you know,
there's a thing that first time I did my stand
up show in New York, that was the thing. People
have been thinking these things in their head about, you know, oh,
she's such a bitch. And then but no one had
gotten up and said it, and I got him like, yes, yes,
I know, and they just like what ye on the
joke and you know, it's just it's been fabulous. Well,

(04:40):
we have a friend with us because we can detwo
at a time. This is an excellent to a time.
The fabulous Pamelo Roylance also our little house friend the Beatles,
Sarah Carter. If you know her, yes, let's skill we
throw her.

Speaker 5 (04:51):
Oh, Hanny, look at you, Hello, look all happy, seth
look at you with a cop and you've done cooking too.

Speaker 8 (05:01):
That's just yes, absolutely, you have to have a cake
and can you hear me?

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Okay, yes, okay, you want.

Speaker 9 (05:07):
To make a wish for another seven.

Speaker 10 (05:08):
Years and blow it out?

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Oh my god, I do, I do?

Speaker 11 (05:11):
I do?

Speaker 1 (05:11):
I do? All right? Okay, oh well done?

Speaker 9 (05:17):
What's all done?

Speaker 1 (05:19):
It was a big wind. There was so much on
that and the flower. I've never virtually blown out of candle.
This is a real post twenty twenty thing. I took
virtually blue out a dandle and it worked.

Speaker 7 (05:31):
It works.

Speaker 9 (05:32):
Birthday so exciting.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
That's noble. I have my gold because this is the thing.
A fan made me a giant Boston gold fish, and
they stick pictures all over it and made it weird.
But it's lovely.

Speaker 9 (05:44):
It is lovely, very exciting.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
And what are you eating, oh, gold witch crackers. I
always like to have my gold crackers.

Speaker 6 (05:53):
Okay, I run all.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Day and sometimes it's time for a nutritious stet and
they're banked, not fried. They're actually almost.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
Right almost good for you. Almost is the operative work
chocolate ranch.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
If I want to get to my dian, I have
I have unsweetened iced tea. It's particularly delicious.

Speaker 6 (06:16):
I love that very good gold.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
When I wanted to think bad, it's do rito's cool ranch.
So if I wanted something that's actually not horrible, I
go for the golf.

Speaker 9 (06:25):
Well, good for you.

Speaker 5 (06:27):
So what do you so, Penny, I'm just worrying, what
do you all? We've known Allison for quite sometimes, what.

Speaker 12 (06:32):
Are you grateful for with Allison? I'm just curious my.

Speaker 8 (06:35):
Friendship with her one hundred percent my friendship. Am I
on this screen two times? Or is it just me seeing?

Speaker 5 (06:43):
Yes, you are on, You're on twice, but only once.
You're in pre you are one and you're live in
the It's.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Okay, don't worry. They don't see you twice, just the once.
I know, it's very weird you look at Yeah.

Speaker 8 (06:54):
Yeah, yeah, no, Alison, I have appreciated your friendship for
how many forty years?

Speaker 9 (07:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (07:03):
And you just are a consistently incredible human being and friend.
And yeah, that's my most grateful And of course I'm
happy for the lass and the serious things and all
the wonderful things that I share with you and learn
from you.

Speaker 9 (07:16):
So yeah, did you already share Dean?

Speaker 1 (07:19):
Oh? He did? He did? Did I just know?

Speaker 5 (07:22):
I fell all over myself?

Speaker 1 (07:28):
I should do this more often?

Speaker 9 (07:30):
You realized it's not having a funeral.

Speaker 7 (07:32):
But you're.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Weird. Going to show this when I die? This is
what they'll show.

Speaker 9 (07:38):
God right, Well, but would that be nice? I don't
know to roast you?

Speaker 5 (07:44):
Oh my god, that's going to be a while. No
one's speeding you towards that, but that will be a
wild time.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
One day, Yes, and there will be. I mean, I'm
sure perhaps my seventieth birthday will have a roaster stuff.
Thank Okay, that's good, you'll cook it for us.

Speaker 5 (08:08):
Well, Allison, should I jump off? Because you've got I know,
you've just got like a massive.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
We do people? Are you're going to start backing up
in the hall as it were? The beautiful sheen of
medal is coming to you? Do you want to jump off?
Pam for me join in the happy Thank you so much.

Speaker 5 (08:26):
Great to see you as always, as always, have a
great show.

Speaker 9 (08:31):
Thank you, Allison. I was in the neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
It's because now Dean and I have a podcast. It's
like podcast about a podcast and about a pod. When
they say it's tonly meta, that's when it is. So
how are you? How have you been?

Speaker 9 (08:45):
Great? Wonderful?

Speaker 1 (08:46):
You've been twenty minutes since I seen you?

Speaker 8 (08:48):
I don't know it was a fabulous time and Columbia
had a great, great time.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
That that was great, out of this world.

Speaker 8 (08:55):
Yeah, do you know that so many people cried when
they played the theme songs as we left the depot
on that train. And then afterwards one of the women
who worked it.

Speaker 9 (09:03):
Was pouring the wine for everyone. She said, this is
really interesting.

Speaker 8 (09:08):
We do these things, and we did the Polar Express
whenever they were lost up and running, and.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
She said, it's that train up in northern California, up
there in Jamestown. The number three. It's always why is
train's always number three? In movies and TV? The number three.
It's almost always a number three. It was the number
three in Back to the Future. It was the number
three all the time on Little House, Hardest Work in
Training SHOWBIS and that certainly do Polar Express. They do
events and parties on the train all the time. And
then we of course had our shind but she said, well,

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people don't freak.

Speaker 8 (09:36):
Out like that. She said, it's nothing like we've had before.
It was an amazing feeling. And you know, I like
to rewrite scripture and say whenever two or more of
us are gathered in Little House, fun and there is love.

Speaker 9 (09:50):
I mean, there just is. It's this little house love.
You cannot beat it.

Speaker 12 (09:53):
It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Well that's Bob's big quote. You know. He always likes
to say, never underestimate the power of the prairie.

Speaker 9 (10:00):
It's so true. We've seen it many times. So yeah,
that train mine was fabulous.

Speaker 11 (10:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
I keep a box of Kleenex on my autograph table
because I do get the criers sometimes. When I was
in an event a fanboy and when Melissa Gilbert and
Karen Grassley were there, we had so many criers, we
had Kleenex and we started to keep a score of
who could make the most people cry. Who got Karen White,
She's mow people who saw both their mother and then

(10:30):
but I was amazed how many people to get to
the table. They just just start crying and we're like, oh,
but here I am flee once again.

Speaker 9 (10:39):
Oh I love that. Well it is it's amazing too
to be a part of. And and the fact, you know, yes,
it connected me to you.

Speaker 8 (10:46):
Yes, it connected me to Melissa Gilbert into Dean Butler
and to all the people that are now babies and
all grown up, like Wendy and Jennifer. I mean the connections.
But then all the fans, all the fan friends that
we know now it's it's a gift keeps on giving.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
It's like the NASCAR pit team, you know, they just
kind of hang yes the pit curve, they stay with us.
It's it's turned into such a thing. If anybody told me,
you know, well, I mean it certainly. If anybody told
me when I was twelve kidding the show, this is
what she'll be doing when you're in your sixties, be like,
got it. But if they even told me twenty years ago,
this thing is going to escalate to this point.

Speaker 8 (11:24):
Yeah, yeah, I know whoever would have thought that. And
you know that we still are lucky to Stan and
I still talk to each other all the time, and.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Stand are doing love letters. This is the most bonkers thing.
So remember you had the Carter's move into the Little House.
You John Carter and Sarah Carter, this beautiful couple, and
then you have that Marvel play love Letters where the
couple read the things to each other. Stan Ivar primary
lands in love letters. When is this happening, It'll be August.

Speaker 9 (11:56):
Let me think twenty eight one.

Speaker 8 (12:00):
Main Bog shows on thirty first at the White Fire
Theater and Nsino, California.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
Oh yes, and if you look at your map, it's
I think it's one of those technically Sherman Oaks. It's
on the border. I don't know, but I've been out there.
There's really good shows with the white for it's a
lovely theater.

Speaker 8 (12:13):
Yeah it is Sherman Oaks. Thank you for that. Yeah, yeah,
so it should be fun.

Speaker 9 (12:16):
We've been rehearsing.

Speaker 8 (12:17):
Susan McCrae, our casting directors, The Little House is our director, producer,
and Todd mccraft.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yeahs so much.

Speaker 9 (12:26):
Really everything. Yeah, he'll be kind of.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
Anyone who was the January twenty years is twenty twenty
four January. It was at the Sarah Madre Theater when
I did my show, Todd, you know, make that happen
and all that. So yes, Todd is the stage manager
of Doom. He's just yeah, he is, he is. Oh,
we need to bring in Machina. Do you know Sheena Battle.
I think you've met her one of my parties.

Speaker 9 (12:48):
Yeah, we did. I didn't we all do Vagina monologus
to me?

Speaker 1 (12:51):
He did Vagina monologue. Yeah, for you don't know. Tena
metal DJ extraordinaire interviewed all these rock stars. Fabulous interviewer
when someone interviewed me extensively. One of my first guests,
as she says, I'm the Gateway celebrity. She interviewed me
and then wound up interviewing everyone. Sena medal is with us.
So pop in the sena are you a good and

(13:19):
you brought the critter?

Speaker 13 (13:20):
Hello cat, the cat it's getting well passed and everything
that's happening.

Speaker 9 (13:33):
I'm I love that.

Speaker 13 (13:36):
Yeah, until he saw the camera come up and then
he was like, oh, good, well she should be out.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Here, but it's hot and she's passed out in the
other room. Or Roswell generally tries to get in on
everything I'm doing, so we could have many cats in
this thing before it's over.

Speaker 9 (13:51):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
Well, now she are you breaking up a bit? It's
on my end. I'm getting she's breaking up a little.
Do you think if I up off it might mail
you show?

Speaker 9 (14:05):
Eat your birthday cake? Oh, by myself, I'm going to
eat the show's birthdaycake for you.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
Is it chocolate?

Speaker 9 (14:14):
All that chocolate with white eyes? I could save it,
but it won't be any good by the time.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
No, no, no, go ahead, go ahead.

Speaker 9 (14:19):
Anyway, love you so much, thank you for the invitation.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
Thank you and Sweart.

Speaker 9 (14:26):
Okay, good to see you.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
So explain the Gateway celebrity. It was telling people that
you've called me the Gateway celebrity for many years ago.

Speaker 12 (14:35):
I do.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
I do so.

Speaker 13 (14:36):
On the first year that I started my show, uh
at my last venue where it was, you were one
of my first guests, and it was kind of an incident,
a coincidence. Right within the week, three people said to
me that didn't even know each other, you know who
you should get on your show, Alison Argram, And so
I thought, by the third time, well it's fate. So
I contacted your publicist, the wonderful Harlan Bowl, and I

(15:00):
convinced him to put you on this new show that
was I wasn't new in radio, but the show is new.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
And it was one of these things like what's your
listenership and that nobody yet right we just started.

Speaker 13 (15:11):
But I knew the minute I met you that we
were each other's people and we were going to be friends.
And you him it in my show and you were fantastic,
and you brought your husband, Bob CD yep.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
And then I became a Big, and we usually use
Bob's music. Used the opening scene Live in Large, that is,
how are you breaking up again? She? What are you
like in the middle of the desert or something?

Speaker 13 (15:43):
And I'm living the I live with the ocean.

Speaker 12 (15:47):
I'm literally hanging off north.

Speaker 6 (15:51):
Right.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
You're a.

Speaker 13 (16:00):
Why it's a little better and come back.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
Well you sound like you're beaming in for space. But
it's good to see it. Oh wait, that was fine.
Then just wow and come back in. Well, I guess
can you pop off and come back in? It's good
to see you too, all right?

Speaker 7 (16:20):
Oh was that good?

Speaker 13 (16:21):
All of a sudden?

Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, she'd want to pop off and come back in.
Will she? Let me try that? Try that because you're
like in the ocean or something.

Speaker 13 (16:27):
Let me try that and let me put myself.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yeah, I'll do that.

Speaker 6 (16:31):
Let me try this.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
Is that better? Oh it's better already? Oh my god.
You jiggle to handle and it's like, okay, wonderful, okay, okay, awesome.

Speaker 13 (16:42):
You never know what's gonna happen. Until about twenty ten,
the cell phone didn't even work in this house.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
So anyway, so I knew I loved.

Speaker 13 (16:50):
You right away, and I knew we were gonna be pals.
And then after you left the show, it was like
everybody you knew and everybody your publicist new was suddenly
on the show. So I started calling you the Gateway guests,
because I feel like you opened a floodgate and it
became a different show after you've been on it.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
I did, and I think it's because I did your show.
And then I started meeting all these people who did
your kinds of shows in these podcasts what we're called podcasts.

Speaker 14 (17:15):
Then there's just.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Computer internet radio and all that internet starting everyone shows,
and there were basically two companies doing the shows. And
I was going back and forth and back and forth
and tell people, would you would you like a show?
And here I am with you yes, And that's there
you are, So you got the ball rolling.

Speaker 13 (17:35):
Everything about you is what makes a good host. You're
fascinated by everything, you want to learn about everything. You
have a wonderful elephant memory that remembers everything.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
You generally like people.

Speaker 13 (17:48):
You're you're a bringer together of tribe, and you you
understand you're you're confident enough in yourself and your own
stardom that you let someone else be the start. Some
hosts are always trying to fight their guests for attention. Right,
know who you are and you don't.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
Have to do that.

Speaker 13 (18:05):
So like, literally everything about you made you a host
from the beginning.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
Wow, thank you, well I do. I tell you I'm
already famous, right, But some people you think, they think they.

Speaker 13 (18:17):
Were already famous, but they're still trying to grab attention
away from their guests, and you're not like that. That's
one of the things I like the most about you
is that you know who you are and you don't
need to fight for attention in a room because you
know that you can get the attention just by being
you and you're wonderful.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
It is so nice. I guess I said, everyone is
like this. I should do this more often. Everyone's coming
on to say nice things. A bonker. Yes, Green is here.

Speaker 12 (18:41):
Do you know Howie?

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Like I said, now, you may not have bet my
party because he's usually in Boston. For those of you
who don't know, Holly Green is Howie Green. How He
Green Design in Boston, Massachusetts, and he's done the art
for a lot of things. If you've seen murals around
Boston Baseball Stadium whatnot, it's Howie. If you've seen some
of his artwork as toys, his things he does. And
if you've been to my website boheads dot com, the

(19:03):
official Alison ar it's how We Green and you've if
you warn my t shirts, it's Howie Green. So let
us bring Howie into the mix. Is he here? Hello,
how Howie?

Speaker 6 (19:19):
How are you? I'm well? Can you see me?

Speaker 1 (19:22):
Are you a tee? Not yet? But I am playing.
Oh there you are? Yes, now I can't there you are?

Speaker 6 (19:28):
Oh you look fat?

Speaker 1 (19:33):
And I'm doing it with the doors open because it's
so freaking hot here and air conditioning is taking a break.
And then Bob just came home. So that's good. But
look I've changed I've changed the filter. It should go
kick back in soon? Is it? Is it hot in Boston? No,
it's blazing out here. So has the distinction of creating

(19:55):
the title of my show and my book Confessions of
a Prairie Bitch. That's a good it's you.

Speaker 15 (20:01):
Yes, I did, Yes, I did that because I did
that the joke poster for.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
You right, oh, which I think Bob is running into
the kitchen to get So this is crazy with eighty seven.
So there's there's no Internet, there's no there is no Internet,
there's no web page, there's no I'm not writing a
book there, I have no show. I'm just doing stand
up occasionally. And how he just went off his nut.

(20:30):
Do you love this drawing? Look at this? Love this?
You see this? Yes, you can see this here. That's
the Nelly Fae, the Prairie Bitch. And it says Alison
Arnham Prairie Bitch eighty seven tour.

Speaker 6 (20:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
And then a few years later when they after they
invented the internet, how he's sitting on my couch and
he says, ah, do you have a website? Because it's
like a new thing to have a website. I don't
everybody has a website. There was no Facebook yet, there
was nothing the website to have a webit And he
said okay and created the official Allison Aringham Confessions of

(21:01):
a Prairie Bitch Nellie Olsen website.

Speaker 6 (21:05):
Yes, yes, and now.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
We call it bonneheads dot com for ease. But I
was telling people, yet's go to the official Star Convention
very bit Elliot's website and and confess. And then when
it came time to name the show, well it's Confessions
of a Prairie Bitch. I I already have have the poster.

Speaker 6 (21:23):
I already a poster.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Yeah, I read a poster and already had the name.
And then was time for the book. It was like,
it is time, it is time, we are doing this.
So yeah, that's how it started.

Speaker 6 (21:36):
Yeah, I thought.

Speaker 12 (21:39):
You were brand before there was branding.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
I was brand branding. How he did this? And hence
the T shirts all the gorgeous T shirts or how
are you?

Speaker 15 (21:47):
And and the canvas bag I think a little T
shirt for for sock monkey.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
Too tiny t shirt? Yes, so sock monkey can wear
my T shirt. It's like hilarious, yeah yeah yeah, And
he's done the painting of me and the sort of
warhol is painting, and well how he is go with
HG D dot com.

Speaker 6 (22:11):
Now it's how he green dot com?

Speaker 1 (22:13):
How green dot com? How he green dot com? And
you go. This stuff is truly amazing and uh well,
very Peter match and for good reason because I worked
with Peter.

Speaker 15 (22:25):
Yes, I worked with Peter and Laddies earlier in early
nine disc a number of projects for quite a few
of them, and he sort of gave me his blessing
to go. Actually, I had approached him to do a
marketing campaign that he didn't want to do, and he
said to me, well, you.

Speaker 6 (22:39):
Know you can. You can paint like me. Why don't
you do it? Just don't complement directly.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
Nice. Yeah, that's that's a pretty good deal, all right,
she and we may kick you out because Bob Burgen's
coming on. Yes, wonderful. Congratulations, my friend, this is such fun.
And use the voice the voice of Porky things here.
I'm not even Hey, what up? What up? Porky?

Speaker 6 (23:08):
You there?

Speaker 1 (23:09):
He's there? I see, Yes, the fabulous actor Bob Burkett.
He's quite brilliant as many voices, but he's best known
for Porky Pink. Hello, there he is. That's going on, Alison, congratulations,
thank you so much. I was so crazy. I was
like inviting guests and then I realized, wait, everyone's saying yes,

(23:31):
this is going to be the nuttiest show ever. Just
like bumping people on and off?

Speaker 10 (23:35):
Did everybody say?

Speaker 1 (23:37):
An insane number of people said yes, so we're staggering them.
And my friend Howie Green is with us, who is
an artist who did my website, my many T shirts.
And this is Bob.

Speaker 15 (23:46):
Bob I'm a big fan I used to have when
I was a kid, so.

Speaker 10 (23:53):
Well, you know what, Thank thank goodness, I kept mine.

Speaker 15 (23:58):
Oh I don't know where mine win. It just disappeared somewhere.

Speaker 6 (24:02):
But yeah, I just yes, that's funny, Bob.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
I haven't talked to you in ages, I know.

Speaker 16 (24:11):
I know.

Speaker 10 (24:12):
Well, you've been busy. I've been kid, you know, because
thank God for Facebook, we follow each other. I'm good.
I'm working on a couple of films that will coming
out later this year that are Nda and I can't
talk about them. And I'm writing a book, and I'm
just busy as all.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Heck, you're coming on with the book right as soon
as the book's done.

Speaker 10 (24:31):
I would this is my first booking for the book.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Absolutely, okay, your books for the book boom, there we go.

Speaker 10 (24:38):
Would you like to hear the working title?

Speaker 16 (24:41):
You know?

Speaker 1 (24:41):
I do?

Speaker 7 (24:42):
You know, I do.

Speaker 10 (24:43):
It's a memoir and I'm calling it Porky Dishes unless
the publisher wants to call it, you know, gone with
the Wind too. And if if it gets a published, great.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
What did you get? You know, Porky Speaks or Porky
the the Peaks?

Speaker 10 (25:03):
Oh my god, how many interviews have you done?

Speaker 1 (25:07):
Well? You know, I'm not sure I was looking seven
years now, I've had a lot of people repeat, and
of course when I bugger off to France, I'll say, oh,
I'll run some reruns and rerun favorite shows. But I'm
looking at how many people. It's a couple of hundred.

Speaker 6 (25:23):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Yeah, I looked at this iss and hundreds of people.
Well all these these people probably it's like, oh wait,
they're all one on. So I had to like, you know,
care Butody, calm down.

Speaker 6 (25:35):
I was really happy when you started this because I
always thought you talk right right.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Well, Howie is brilliant because he said, actually once on
the website, Alison should have her own talk show. She
doesn't need any guests.

Speaker 10 (25:46):
We could just have her talk for just have her talk,
just have her chat, post a topic and go.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
And now, of course Facebook Live and TikTok that's the thing.
Now you can do.

Speaker 10 (26:00):
And watch it over and over and over again.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
Right right, it's totally different. Well, I'm gonna I'm going
to send you off into the cornfield because Wesley, your
has arrived.

Speaker 6 (26:11):
Cool. Are you still coming into Boston next month?

Speaker 1 (26:15):
I am, I am. I have my tickets and I'm
gonna I'm gonna come in because I'm staying at Howie's.
Then I'm gonna go over to pe Town and then
I'm actually gonna come back and spend a couple of
days with you, apossible, and go for lobster rolls and chill.

Speaker 6 (26:26):
Let me look, yeah, definitely, let me know the dates.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
Okay, I will, I will text you, email you and whatnot.

Speaker 6 (26:32):
Awesome, Okay, congratu.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Thank you you. You loved him on on Land of
the Lost going down the waterfall. Now you run into it.
The autograph shows and he's got the bloody boat with
him and everything. Yes, and I did.

Speaker 6 (26:48):
I did.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
Then it is Wesley you are? How are you? I like?

Speaker 7 (26:53):
Happy?

Speaker 9 (26:53):
Seventh?

Speaker 1 (26:55):
Is this crazy? I mean yeah, you.

Speaker 17 (26:58):
Know, I find it so so for the seventh anniversary,
you either get wood or copper.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
So true, if that's right. I remember when Bob and
a Hanna the copper anniversary was fun. We had a
copper anniversary party. What are copper? I guess copper bags
of pennies?

Speaker 9 (27:13):
I can there you go, Alison.

Speaker 17 (27:15):
I remember when COVID started and I did your show
and I said, you look amazing.

Speaker 9 (27:20):
What's the secret?

Speaker 6 (27:21):
You go?

Speaker 7 (27:22):
It's a ring light?

Speaker 6 (27:24):
And I got it right here.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
I got a new one. It's very nice.

Speaker 7 (27:30):
It's thank you for this.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
Don't you feel better? Don't you feel better?

Speaker 7 (27:35):
Don't you talk about a little more.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
Women's ages. When they're young, they need looks. When then
they get older, they need lighting and they need money,
and then it's sort of just good lighting. It's I mean,
it's the good lighting age. And I have my ring light.
It really makes a difference.

Speaker 17 (27:50):
You were such a great sport at Pasadya comic kid
getting into our raft with Kathy Coleman and myself with
the Bob.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
Have you seen what he does at the autograph shows
now with the rat Yes, very ever, very close.

Speaker 10 (28:02):
I be I have been in the road. Well, I
was sitting across from Wesley and a Kan last year,
and you know you're talking to people at every two seconds.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
It's a's genius, drive a few bonkers. But I hadn't done.
I couldn't believe. I said, you said, you haven't been
in the raft. I have not been in the raft.
Melissa Gilbert had been in the raft. I hadn't been
in the raft, and I was so happy to be
in the raft. We put the pictures over. Now, this
is a question I didn't ask this question. When you
have regular customers coming and buying your autograph picture with
these things as people do, and they say, well, and

(28:33):
I'd like to get my picture taken with you and
Kathy in the beautiful yellow raft, you know, with the
thing and the oars. How much do you charge people? Generally?

Speaker 17 (28:41):
Well, it's one million dollars, so we just need to
have one raft ride, that's it. No, No, we usually
charge fifty bucks.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
That's what I thought. That's a good cause, you know
what I'm thinking of doing. It's kind of harder to
transferring yellow raft, so I could probably do it only
on the local ones I drive to. I haven't a
teak wheelchair.

Speaker 6 (29:01):
O you do?

Speaker 2 (29:03):
I do?

Speaker 1 (29:04):
I do? It's like sitting right over there. In fact,
I'm taking with me on Thursday, I'm heading down to
San Diego to do a show and I'm taking my
own chair. So if I got the chair and I
have a fac simile of the wig with the thing,
So how much you think I should hit people up
for if they want to sit in the pretend they're
being pushed down the hill.

Speaker 10 (29:23):
Fifty idea fifty.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
That sounds very fair. That's it's a very fair price,
very good value.

Speaker 10 (29:32):
Are they going to are you are you going to
push them like likes the value hill?

Speaker 1 (29:36):
Like maybe like you know, I saw people did like
backgrounds after they got their picture in the in the
yellow raft and then they put up pictures of waterfalls behind.
So I think we could do a thing Yeah where
I go putting, I'm pushing them and then they can
they can like put in the background of the hill.

Speaker 17 (29:51):
I think, listen, you know this was Kathy's idea. Who
played Holly on land?

Speaker 13 (29:56):
Was?

Speaker 1 (29:56):
It?

Speaker 11 (29:56):
Was it?

Speaker 1 (29:57):
She's a genius because you know every but you go
to these shows and you know, people do pictures and
it's always this same same It's like.

Speaker 17 (30:06):
Okay, who cares well with the raft, we costume you
with with LFE jackets, props, with letack monster heads. We
all get in the raft, we scream, you get directed
because I don't want hands to be in people's faces
and stuff.

Speaker 9 (30:21):
And so when when.

Speaker 17 (30:22):
When when you know, when our fans leave the raft,
they've actually been in a scene with us.

Speaker 7 (30:26):
It's like it was like being on the sets.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
I think, I think that's really worked well. She is
an absolute genius. Please center my love and tell her
how smart that's been dang idea.

Speaker 17 (30:40):
I tell you we've got more hits from that picture
on the Land of the Lost website. Right, Oh my god,
I'm on Facebook on Facebook page with.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
You raft Now, Bob at autograph shows you don't have
a raft? Do you have anything in particularly you do
to people?

Speaker 10 (30:54):
You know, as we're talking about this, you know my
wills are spinning. You know, Porky doesn't wear pants. I'm
just thinking of it some kind of a trend.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Some that's not one hundred dollars. That's like only fans
you're getting it.

Speaker 10 (31:10):
I think, I think, I think I might have to
pay people for me not.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
To wear pants. All right, now, I have yet another
guest about to pop in. So who wants to pop
out or hang or do whatever you like? But we've
forgot another guest coming on.

Speaker 10 (31:26):
I can hang for a few Do you want to hang?

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Can we take three on? Or you get off?

Speaker 7 (31:37):
You guys can light.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
We'll have you backsuit Okay, okay, okay, Why it's now?
During the pandemic, I had many fabulous interviews and one
person I interviewed. I was so pleased it was the
fabulous doctor Auto Yang because while we're all flailing about
trying to find information and get ourselves tested and get
ourselves vaccinated and get tested again and find out what

(31:59):
the heck we going on? And how long I found
out about doctor Otto Yang, who is also just a
really cool dude. So, Hi, how you doing.

Speaker 7 (32:09):
All right? I'm I'm doing uh okay, okay. So far.
There are certain challenges that we're facing at the university,
but that's not unique to.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
Us, right, it's been because you're doing all this work now.
Auto was evolved heavily in age research years ago and
then got heavily into the COVID research. But things have
been a bit rough. They're getting they're getting all the
research hired.

Speaker 7 (32:35):
Yeah, well, age research. I'm still involved, still a passion,
still looking for a cure and working very actively towards that.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Yes, you have given up what you like that about it?

Speaker 7 (32:46):
Absolutely not?

Speaker 1 (32:46):
I mean you never give up.

Speaker 7 (32:48):
That pandemic is still with us, right, It's the age
pandemic is not over, nor is the COVID pandemic, although
now it's an it's endemic.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
But yeah, and then you also have an interest hobby.
We actually brought you some old staplers that time we
came by. Is a man who collects really ancient, like
weird office equipment stuff, but it has to be like antique.

Speaker 7 (33:11):
Yeah yeah, well my big one is antique fountain pens
and Stapler's. Yes. Stapler's also kind of just accumulated on
my desk. Yes.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
Well, you were great because you came on the show
and when everyone was just basically, you know, hiding under
the bed in the desk, going what the hell do
we do? And I go, I got someone will talk
and try to explain what the hell to do and
what we're doing. And you did a cool thing too.
I came down there. You had me come down right
after I'd gotten a shot and then draw the button
to like see how the ANNI button. Then come back

(33:43):
later see how long do they last?

Speaker 7 (33:46):
So?

Speaker 1 (33:46):
How long is the shot good?

Speaker 6 (33:47):
For?

Speaker 1 (33:48):
What goes on? Does it go up and down? So
how how long did my shot last?

Speaker 7 (33:52):
Well, Yount, you know you contributed to several publications that
we did. You and other really motivated volunteers. Yeah, it's
very unusual for people to be kind of knocking on
your doors saying, hey, can you draw my blood? But
that's what happened, including your generous donations, and so you
know what we found was that the antibody's after either

(34:12):
COVID or after vaccination drop in half about roughly every.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Month by month basically.

Speaker 7 (34:22):
Yeah, so a half life of about a month, which
is unusual. You know, there's a spectrum and the other
end of the spectrum, measles vaccine drops in half by
about every thousand years, right.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
So yeah, so if you live a thousand years, you
will be half as prospective.

Speaker 7 (34:40):
Yeah, you'll be you have half the antibodies against measles,
so you know, and that's a mystery. And it was
very actually controversial, and I got a huge amount of
backlash for that. Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, attacked scientifically,
you know, because.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
What would be mad because you were just finding out
how it works, which is what we're all supposed to know.

Speaker 7 (34:58):
They were mad. They were mad because it was depressing news.

Speaker 16 (35:02):
Right.

Speaker 7 (35:03):
So what I said was that we the immunity passports
would not never really be that useful because immunity wasn't
gonna last long. And the other big bookman, Yeah, and
the other big prediction I made was that we would
not have HERD immunity ever, and that, of course turned
out to be true. We don't have HERD immunity. So
the virus is going to continue to circulate.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
See ever array of sunshine you are now, I just
hundred in New Bob said, hey, we have tapes of
Auto from the Vancouver AIGE conference. We have old tapes
in everything, and we have tapes in the Vancouver AYE
conference because I was there. He's like, we've got Auto
Yang on date at the animates. So if you want

(35:46):
any tapes from the AIDS conference, we have them.

Speaker 9 (35:49):
I don't love that.

Speaker 7 (35:50):
Yeah, if you could, we will.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
Hook you up.

Speaker 12 (35:53):
Now.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
I think I'm gonna they're they're coming in and lining
up at the door. I'm going to kick you both off.

Speaker 10 (36:00):
I'm gonna say goodbye, congratulations.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
Thank you. As soon as this book comes out, you're on.
And then we'll have you on before the next massive,
next disease outbreak. And now we're going to have another
prairie person.

Speaker 10 (36:17):
Bye guys, bye bye.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
So yes, so on our prairie, we had, you know,
many of us folks, and then we had the really
young folk because everybody kept having babies, and Neil, your
baby Grace and your baby Carrie and your baby and
baby Rose, baby Rose who grew up to be fabulous
and we have Jennifer Donati is in the queue.

Speaker 6 (36:37):
Well, who know, Oh, it's.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
Good to see you.

Speaker 12 (36:41):
I am orange on my computer.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
All you're a little dark. I had it.

Speaker 12 (36:47):
Then, And now what is this?

Speaker 1 (36:50):
I mean, you have lovely olive skin and you take it,
but just not that much.

Speaker 12 (36:55):
This is not right.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
It's oomploopa. It's very oom ploopa.

Speaker 12 (37:01):
Okay, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
And what is your shirt day glow yellow? Or is
that part of the light into No, this.

Speaker 14 (37:08):
Is I came from work and I have not changed,
but I really don't like that I look like this.

Speaker 12 (37:14):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
So dark, so dark? You have more light make you
she's four work colors, yes.

Speaker 14 (37:21):
Two lamps, a ring lamp, the big there's tons of lights.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
It's so weird, it's so well. She's she's generally more
a nice, you know, sort of vaguely tan, olive skinned,
lovely woman. There you were, and tell people what you
do for work? When you say you just came from work,
tell people what you did for work, as they would
crack up.

Speaker 14 (37:40):
I am a heavy equipment operator, so I've been playing
in the dirt all day.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
We love this. Everybody loves this. And we were actually
at a museum in the thing in Connecticut we did
where they had this player is a children's museum with
all this stuff and they had a pile of rocks
and this, and I was like, wait, you actually have
to work the real one, would you do? And you did?
You sat on that thing, went okay and started picking

(38:07):
up rocks.

Speaker 14 (38:08):
M hmm.

Speaker 12 (38:09):
It was a little different than the ones I used
that work.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
There we go, hey, oh you look fabulous. There, there
you are. That's that's you know, on O Philoma Jennifer
I know, Oh my god. Yeah, it's always a crackup
because people, what does she do? She's heavy equipment operators.

Speaker 12 (38:25):
Yeah, with a bulldozer, an unusual thing. There we go.
Now everything's normal. Yes, qush, enough buttons and I'll start working.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
So we had on Dean, Pam Horing, lng ri Leance
popped in. I don't know who's getting next. We got
Oh of the fabulous David Levy, a cartoonist is popping
in in a second tier.

Speaker 10 (38:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (38:46):
I turned it on on my drive home, so I
got to I thought I could get home in time
to not miss Pam and Dean, but.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
Well, this is this is lovely. So yeah, it's just
I can't believe it's been seven years I've been doing
this and now I'm just like what I what do
I do? We'll all have everybody on.

Speaker 12 (39:04):
No, that's a great idea. You get to have a
little party.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
Yeah, it's a little bit. Pam had a cup.

Speaker 12 (39:10):
Cais that was brilliant.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
So we just did an event together in Colombia and
we're probably going to three or four other cities eventually.
So how was that. How did you like Columbia and
the train and all.

Speaker 14 (39:24):
I really loved that place, I really I wish I
could have come in a few days early like everyone else.
There's a lot of really cool stuff to see there.
But this event, that event went so well. It was
a nice refreshing. We got a lunch break that was.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
What Oh my god. And yes there was a lunch
break and everything, and I had my own bathroom.

Speaker 12 (39:45):
I was like, no, it's great.

Speaker 14 (39:50):
Looking forward to what you guys cook up next.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Might be Tennessee, might be
Tennessee and more eyeball in Tennessee. Could be, could be
that could be fun. That could be fun. But yes,
you're always well, let's let's bring in mister David Levy.
You can meet him. We'll have a two for here.
It'll be fun. Ah, here he comes. Yes, so, hey,

(40:15):
how are you? I just just saw you recently, but
how are you?

Speaker 15 (40:18):
So?

Speaker 1 (40:19):
Does everybody like things like oh, Blues Clues and shows
like that? Well, there you go, so yes, give give
Jennifer your resume, sir.

Speaker 18 (40:28):
Oh my gosh, Hi Jennifer Alison, thanks for having me.

Speaker 6 (40:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (40:32):
So my background is in animation, so worked on the
original Blues Clues for eight years of the original run
of the production of the show. I've done other things
like I produced the animation for the Bob's Burgers pilot
for Fox that got the pick up for that show,
which was crazy. I was at Disney for ten years,
running a short form at the end for social for Lucasfilm,

(40:54):
Pixar and Disney Feature Animation. But I'm currently the head
of studio at Ping Pong. You say, which is the
Baby Shark?

Speaker 12 (41:01):
People, Baby Shark? You're responsible for that?

Speaker 1 (41:05):
You're not respond a terrible song?

Speaker 18 (41:08):
Well it's an earworm for sure, So yeah, and my
apologies were ten Baby Shark is ten years old this year,
so we're celebrating a birthday wow.

Speaker 9 (41:16):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
And she and I have been talking because we're plotting
cartoons together because we both have weird ideas.

Speaker 7 (41:24):
Oh yeah, so it.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
All may them to bath. But yeah, so thank you.
I've had you as a guest and now having you
pop in. I had you also as a guest because
you know, you also wrote books which were you know,
very useful to people.

Speaker 18 (41:38):
Oh gosh, well, yeah, when I was on your show
last we were talking about this book, yeah, which Allison
is in. She's in the book, very very cool. Yes,
I can't remember the page she's on, but you know,
or page is she's.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
Go slip through it. I have it, and yeah, and
it was greaty because it's all about animation. But I
was like, all of this advice is totally good for
anyone in any careers having to pitch or go to
a job interview, were doing anything. I said, every single
one of these roles applies, you know, whether the cartoon
or not. So no, those are so much fun, so
much fun. So yeah, weren't we I guess we can't.
We can't really tell her what it's about because we're

(42:12):
like plotting.

Speaker 18 (42:13):
Yeah, but it's it's very exciting where we're kind of
reviving a project that Elison and I had a few
years back, and we brought in another creative person to
help us, and we had a great brainstorm the other
day and we're already our juices were flowing and it's
getting on the paper now, getting you know, getting those
ideas down in any.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
Small qute animals, small qt animals. Thanks, you'll love it.

Speaker 18 (42:37):
I'm looking forward to it, and congratulations. This is seven
years of this show.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
That's so I didn't even know what it was Tony.
The studio said, you know, you said, do you want
to do something? It's your anniversary and it was like
last week and I could. They said how long? You said,
it's been seven years. No, it hasn't. And then I'm going, wait, yeah,
because how long was I doing it? Even before twenty
twenty when I went to zooms with oh my god,
it's been seven years. And then I looked at how
many people I had on, I went, well, I can't
have them all on. So I invited like a bunch

(43:05):
like good all the prairie folk, and then like a
random selection and then everybody said yes, and I went,
I'm gonna have to just like start stacking them like
due by dude in five minutes. I don't know how
I'm going to do this. I say this is good.
I think we're okay, Like, who who's after this? Okay? Yeah, oh,
say Pamela. Bob said she'd run late Kate Linder from
Young and the Restless will be popping in and then yeah, okay,

(43:27):
I think we'll make it.

Speaker 18 (43:30):
It's delight and luckily Zoom will accommodate as many squares
as you want it at one time.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
Right right, Well, of course have to make Tony at
the studio, as he said, I said, maybe fourteen people,
but not all at once, and they said, well, too,
is easy, we can do my gosh.

Speaker 6 (43:45):
Wow.

Speaker 18 (43:46):
Yeah, but yeah, it's a thrill. And how many more
years are you? Are we going to be coming back
in another seven years to celebrate again?

Speaker 1 (43:52):
Well that's what you know. And as Pamela was saying,
in another seven I don't know. I guess I'm still
doing this And now it's work to have the other one,
the Little House podcast Dean Butler, which is jen Did
you see that thing where we seeing People Magazine? No,
it was really weird People Magazine online and they did
a thing where it was because one of the episodes.
We're talking about the pig Farmer episode, and they just

(44:14):
went that that that talking about Pamela, Bob and me indeed,
and we all kind of went, we're in People and
the other magazine. So that's like a fan it's a
FAS's famous podcast. So we're all like slightly hysterical over that.

Speaker 6 (44:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
Yeah, So it's all of these things seem to be
working out, all of these things. When they first started,
the people said what are you doing that for? And
and they work out. That's sort of how things work generally, though, isn't.

Speaker 12 (44:42):
It for you everything you touched?

Speaker 1 (44:44):
Yes, oh, thank you.

Speaker 12 (44:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
But I do find it's the things you do the
project when people go, are you sure about that? That
sounds weird, that's crazy, Why do you want to do that?

Speaker 10 (44:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (44:55):
I tell people that's the one you should probably do that.

Speaker 6 (44:57):
Yeah. Oh yeah.

Speaker 18 (44:59):
And the one that you can't forget or you can't
let go of, you know, just like the one we're
reviving from our projects, like that's probably five years ago
at this point, and so we still want to work
on it.

Speaker 6 (45:09):
You know.

Speaker 18 (45:10):
That's a good sign.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
And it's so weird. I mean, who'd have thought we'd
still be talking about Little Households years later. I mean, Jennifer,
how weird for you? I mean, it's as I said,
it's we did our fifty first Universe show starting and
you were gill an infant when when you started show.
To now have us in your life and all these
events in your life, how just how.

Speaker 6 (45:34):
Weird is it?

Speaker 14 (45:35):
I say, it's like the Twilight I walked into that
fair ground and it was like I went into a
door and entered the Twilight Zone. And it's just never,
never in a million years that I think that I
would get to meet all of you, but that people
would still be interested in it and still want to
come see everyone. It's incredible. Just never would have.

Speaker 1 (45:54):
Thought that they'd still come up and go, oh look
it's Baby Roads, because it's like, you know.

Speaker 12 (45:59):
They would even cares that.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
I'm yes, absolutely, and yet they are lined up at
your table buying your stuff. But you have stuff, you
have stuff. Now you have like she thinks, she's like
jewelry and you make things?

Speaker 12 (46:09):
Do you make things?

Speaker 1 (46:11):
I make things to make things. A book like you?
She wrote a book. She read a really good book.
I know it's like, oh ha, baby Rose wrote a book.
No wait, it's like actually good.

Speaker 12 (46:20):
So it's a memoir.

Speaker 14 (46:24):
It's about my life. There's about one chapter about Little
House because uh, in the grand scheme, I about one
chapter of my life was Little House. But it just
tells my whole story. My I had a twin that
played Baby Rose as well, and she passed when we
were kids. So it tells that story all the way
to meeting all the cast again and joining up for

(46:46):
all these tours.

Speaker 18 (46:47):
Wow, wow, amazing, the show will never die and folk arriving.

Speaker 1 (46:57):
So let's let's bring in mister Ashley Hall who just arrived,
who is also hilarious and an author. And if either
one of you are tired of this, you want to
go drop out and take a showers. I gotta go eat.

Speaker 18 (47:16):
I'm going to to grab dinner with the family because
they're there waiting.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
Absolutely because it looks like mister Ashley Hoff and miss
Kate Linder are banging on the door. So there you go.
All right, all right, thank.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
You, Ashley Ashley d Hello, Hello, how are you?

Speaker 12 (47:36):
How are you?

Speaker 9 (47:37):
I am good, I'm good. I'm actually in New York.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
Right now doing book fantastic book promotion for my promotion
your book, Mommy dearest, we have with us the stunning,
beautiful Kate Linders all of you know, yes, Young and
the Restless and everything else.

Speaker 1 (47:54):
He's a fabulous Hello.

Speaker 12 (47:56):
Kate, I.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
Know.

Speaker 4 (48:00):
Congratulations by the way.

Speaker 1 (48:02):
Yeah, it's just so crazy. It's just like I got
started doing this show and it kind of got away
from me, and now it's been seven years.

Speaker 4 (48:08):
Oh yeah, that's that's a good thing. That's a very
good thing. So good for you.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
Now are you in town? I mean, Ashley's in New York.
Where are you? Are you in town?

Speaker 12 (48:18):
Yeah, I'm here.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
Yeah, I'm awesome, awesome, awesome, Well you look mobulous. What
are you doing now?

Speaker 4 (48:24):
Well, Young and the rest of my show. I just
celebrated my forty third anniversary and counting, so forty three
years in counting. I'm hanging in there, so you know.
And then I'm one of the governors for a television
academy for the performers peer group, and uh, that keeps
me very busy as well.

Speaker 12 (48:46):
So yeah, just.

Speaker 4 (48:50):
Working, trying to put one foot in front of the other,
like everybody, like we all have to do now right now?

Speaker 1 (48:56):
Yeah, now, Ashley, how many books have you written?

Speaker 11 (49:00):
I've written the introduction to one but to myself, match on,
backstage history of Match Game and with love, Mommy Dearest,
the making of an unintentional camp classic. I'm basically doing
my Jacqueline Suzanne book plug thing.

Speaker 1 (49:17):
Right now, right And yeah, the match Games, I think,
is that how we we started talking over that. That's
I think how you want up on the show, because
I had done when they did that weird thing where
they did match Game and Hollywood Squares at the same time.
It was a brief kind of weird experiment where they
had Geen Rayburn doing the match game and then they

(49:38):
had the guy who was Bowser and Shannanah Yeah, John
Oh Joan Bowman hosting a portion that was Hollywood Squares
and the same celebrities to walk over. It was very
strange but really fun because you got to play both
match Games and Hollywood Squares in one ship.

Speaker 11 (49:56):
No, yeah, well that's that's how we initially met. And
then we've been friends.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
Ever since, cavorting ever since. Yes, yes, yes, And then
I had I had you on to the Mommy Darris one.
And that one's fascinating too, because everybody makes fun of
the of the Mommy Darris movie. But actually reading your book,
what actually went into it is actually much more interesting
than they just oh ha ha ha was a silly movie.

Speaker 11 (50:19):
Well, and nobody sets out to make a quote unquote
law and it was never a commercial failure. It was
always a commercial hit. It's just it was not a
critical success. But at the same time, Christina Crawford, whom
I had met long before I ever thought about writing
this book, she dislikes the film, but she recognizes the

(50:41):
fact that its continued popularity has helped kind of bring
the subjects of child abuse and bullying and how to
overcome them into the mainstream conversation. So it's done kind
of a public service in that regard.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
I know, in a weird way. But then it did
it did actually, so yeah, So it's always these behind
the scene things, so people find absolutely fascinating. Are you
going to write a book, Kate? Do you think you'll
write a book? Have you written a memoir? Wow?

Speaker 4 (51:08):
That is so weird that you brought that up, because
I want you to because I have the Actually Ron
had started writing it, but I love to think a minute.
Unfortunately he passed away and I can't find what he
did with any of it. So I think he had

(51:29):
taken it with him somewhere and lost it. Oh no,
but I but someone else just said this to me
yesterday that you should write. So it's really interesting that
I have the title. I know the title.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
What's the title?

Speaker 4 (51:43):
The title is Dinner is served? Because that was my
first dad's line on Young and the Restless.

Speaker 1 (51:51):
Oh my god, Okay, you have to do this. Okay, now,
it's a sign. It's a sign so much. Just ask
you the other day. I have you on this insane
random multi guest show and saying out of my mouth
it's like, oh my god, when are you writing a book?

Speaker 4 (52:02):
But you know, so, I'm just trying to figure all
that out. I'm good at editing. I'm not good at writing.
I'm good at you know, say no, you need to
say this or that or change this to that.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
But so trying, which is funny because editing is usually
the hard part.

Speaker 4 (52:18):
Well, I'll know, like that doesn't work, you know, say
it this way instead. I mean, you know, I can
fix that. Like my lines, I'll you know, I'll ask
them if something. I'll always know when a writer that
doesn't normally write my character is writing writing that day,
because I'll have trouble learning it, and then it's something wrong.

(52:41):
It's just not how my character would talk. Yeah, so
then I'll say, hey, can I say this in that instead?
You know, because usually you know, I know, you can't
change anything.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
So but after forty three years, you probably know the
character better.

Speaker 4 (52:59):
Yeah, I know the character better than I know me.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
That's oh my god? Can we do Tony? Can we
do three? And just throw Pamela Bob in because we're
almost done and she's our last man standing. We sure
can here she comes, all right. So I'm babbling on
about how this seven years of me doing this podcast,
Allison Arkham Show, and now it's completely crazy because my
very first guest at the night's mister Dean Butler. I'm

(53:24):
now doing a podcast with him and this marvelous woman,
miss Pamela Bob of New York. She's in New York
with where Ashley hoff is, so there you two couldn't
meet up. And she's amazing. And we're all hysterical because
we all made it into People magazine and it was
a total fluke thing the online people randomly because of
one episode we did where I was talking about the

(53:45):
pig farmer episode and kissing. An older guy went crazy
and wrote this huge article about our show and mentioned
Pamela and me and Dean, and I called harlely, It's like,
I did not do that. I did not do that.
That's not someone I called to have no idea what happened?
So well, Pamela bob the newly famous for People magazine,
tambla bah, that's what you said. Welcome being famous.

Speaker 6 (54:06):
But this was fun.

Speaker 14 (54:08):
Yeah, no, it was such a well.

Speaker 19 (54:10):
First of all, I like that I found it just
scrolling on social media, like I had no idea, and
then I texted you and went, oh my god, I
touched you indeed, and we're like, oh my god, we're people,
and you know, Dan didn't even that and I and
then you were like, oh yeah, we're in people like
yesterday here.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
Cause I get the Google alert, I do the thing
I put in the Google alert. I know, I'm putting
keyboards that I want to be like. I put in
Alison or and Nellielsen. So anytime anybody says Nelli elser
ding Ding, I get an email.

Speaker 16 (54:41):
So it was a great article and like awesome shout
outs for all of all three of us.

Speaker 19 (54:46):
I was very happy for our little podcast that we
got that coverage, but like, obviously there's a bonnet head
working at People.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
Magazine because Harlan was dumbfound and I cast it. Harlan, oh,
you know about the people think of the what I said?
You didn't do this. I know you didn't do this
as a grand and he goes was it and rattled
off a couple of names a people he has worked
with and pitched it and he's like, nope, nope, and
he's like, okay, donkey. So yeah, so he's posted on
his Facebook and track it down who it is.

Speaker 16 (55:13):
And sure it was him too, but it's not the
only thing. There must be a bonnet headed People magazine
and that he.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
Was totally He was like, wait, what, that's great.

Speaker 12 (55:24):
I love it.

Speaker 16 (55:25):
We're everywhere, We're everywhere everywhere.

Speaker 1 (55:29):
Well, we're winding down because it's going to be bloody
sick soon. We've already going into overtime. I can't believe
it did this for many years of the Ellison Ingram Show.

Speaker 6 (55:39):
This is a big well.

Speaker 1 (55:40):
Let us hope that that the the fiftieth anniversary podcast
of Little House keeps running as long. I know we
managed to have on Dean Butler, Pam Roy Lance, Sheena Metal,
Howie Green, Bob Berg and Wesley or Auto Yang, Jennifer Donati,
David Levy, Pamela Bob, Kate Linder, and Ashley Hoff. We
did it. We did it all in one show. I

(56:01):
can't believe we've been doing this for seven years. Thank
you so much, Thank you so much for coming on
all for you.

Speaker 16 (56:06):
I was just talking to people here in New York
a couple of days ago about how they listened to
you reading during the.

Speaker 1 (56:15):
Online during the pandemic, and I said she did that
for two full years.

Speaker 6 (56:19):
So seven years of the podcast.

Speaker 1 (56:21):
Hey, there you go. He used to cake. And we're
gonna make Kate Kate Linder write a book. Everybody make
Kate Linder write a book.

Speaker 11 (56:29):
Yabsolutely absolutely, I would buy it. I have friends who
are big fans of the show. They would buy it too.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
There's a pre sales are happening. Now you need to Okay,
I have to figure all right, Thank you so much.
I'll see you all again soon. And this has been
seventh anniversary of seventh anniversary yes of yet the Ellison
Ingram Show, and I'm Alison. Thank you.

Speaker 4 (56:58):
Congratulates about pos