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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome back. It's another Bob and Tom extra. This is Christopher.
Not only is the Bob and Tom Show live every
weekday morning, but every afternoon. We'll give you a little
extra in case you missed anything on today's big show.
Actor comedian Billy Gardell. He's coming up in just a minute.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 3 (01:25):
And now another edition to Tuckered Out Thanksgiving Memories from
the Road with the over the Road Trucker Floyd Tucker
Fry Fathers.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
You know, most years I don't even make it home
for Thanksgiving, but I still enjoy home cook suppers around
the holidays. Tutor's Biscuit World off Our sixty four in
Charles to West Virginia is my favorite stuff. Every biscuit
that's born is bite from scratch. Might keep rising them
saltshakers so it won't clump on you them. Breakfast buraders
(01:57):
are dashboard tonight. If I know thanks Giving on the go,
I'll just say grace and have one of them. But
the last Thanksgiving I had at home was three years ago.
I was down in my back. Took almost four weeks
off the road that year. Mcdameh my first wife decided
we commenced to having dinner over at and Mother's her
mother's doing better now, not then. She always makes best desserts.
(02:21):
Of course, this time she'd made two full paans or
something she calls next best thing to Robert Redford signed
it so rich You'll thank you died and went straight
to heaven and she insisted we dessert first. On the
count of freezer was out and there was no good
way to keep it chilled. She made two big helpings
in a microwave safe dish. It said John Hopkins on
(02:43):
the side of it. I don't know who he is,
but all of his cook work kind of shape like bedpans,
didn't taste the same that yet I reckon she didn't
use enough shortnings. That's what I said. Robert Redford seen
better days, and this dessert has two. Then it was
on the sun. Well, like most families were big old tradition,
(03:03):
So we all gathered around the table Indian styles, just
like the Pilgrims did. Big Dave made enough corn bread
cast row that year defeated offensive line. We had everything,
all the sides, mash tighters, chicken fingers, and bagel bites.
The bagelo bytes or something else the size of a
hockey parker taste just like pizza. I remember my mother
(03:25):
in law couldn't pass the gravy on the County Cardinal
tunnel was acted up and I found out ketchup goes
good with corn bread. About that time, my heating pads
short it out the fuse box. I went downstairs to
change the fuse and noticed there's still a whole mess
of green beans on the stove. So I brought the
whole part of beans back upstairs and we dove into
the beans, which had plenty of season in this year.
(03:47):
I found bacon in the braith right stripping mine, figguring
my mother in law sinus infection was acting up again.
She wears under armored a help of circulation, but the
cholesterols higher than mine is. She told me I should
start eating them goglets to help my cholesterol. Thing about
Gogan says it may help you cholesterol, but I had
(04:08):
one head of a time getting my spoon out of
that little tube. Whoever designed that and needs to go
straight to hell, stupid buzzard. That may have been our
best Thanksgiving. Having same year, my uncle Ferd lost down
acres betting on the Blue Gray football game. The next year,
her tell my mother in law really started going downhill.
She select the honey bake ham with vicked vapor rub.
(04:30):
All of my in laws spent that whole night in
the emergency room and that Jewish hospital. It was quiet
a night. We watched the Cowboys win and then met
some lady with the tilted Judas, and that ain't had
as bad as next year it when she served up
deep pried Benny bass. You'd think it wouldn't work, but
they savaged most of it. And even though it won't
sing the classics anymore, the head still wiggles a little bit.
(04:54):
Happy Thanksgiving, honeys, I'm Floyd Tucker, and I'm tuckered out.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
For those of you who always need something extra, well,
here you go.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
This is Bob and Tom extra and let's go to
a celebrity corner with our own man about Hollywood. It's
Tom gris. Well, Tom, what's going on this morning? Well?
I think electronically. Look at that handsome guy I don't
even recognize. Is that Robert Culp? Yeah? Oh man, we
(05:26):
could do I spy. Well, I guess we have got
a cost.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
I was thinking more like we could reboot The Rockford Files.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
But what do I That is the voice of actor
comedian Billy Gardell. No mustache, no mustache. No.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
After Bob Hart's iola ended, I had had that mustache
for about five years. And the day it ended, when
I came home, my wife goes, okay, get rid of
the cactus. I've hugged it long enough, I was informed
that I would be shaving that as soon as no.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Are you home right now?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
I am, sir. I am in my house, and good
morning to all of you, and thank you for having
me on. As always, I really appreciate it so.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Well to thank you for being with us.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
We love you. Now I know that the tour is
about to start. Have you named your tour?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Yeah, it's called the Less is More Tour. To get there,
I had to write the jokes first. Apparently I'm from
the old school. You actually write the material, then you
actually perform the material, present the material. It's a crazy thing.
So yeah, and it kind of plays in two ways.
One obviously my weight loss transformation and I and I
(06:38):
talk about that a lot on stage. But it also
has to do with the fact we need to slow down.
In my opinion, we cannot walk around this earth without
being plugged and tethered in filmed camera. And I've been
trying to pass the message on to the younger generation
that you need to you need to experience things with
your eyes, your ears, and your heart once in a
(06:59):
while and just with those things just for you, and
you got to take a minute to pump the brakes,
And I kind of got that from talking to my
son who's twenty two, and you know, they're you know I,
like I said, I root for these kids. I don't
rip on them. I think that's low hanging fruit and
s easy to be the crotchety old guy on lawn.
Shut up. Yeah, No, these kids are going through. I
(07:20):
mean they're going through the regular freak out we did
when we grew up, which is who am I going
to be? Is anybody going to love me? Am I
ever going to have a place to live? What's my
place in the world? Then you had social media, then
you had the state of the world. I think these
kids need to know there's an adult rooting for them,
So I kind of come at it from that actual billy.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
There's a new study out I was reading about yesterday
that showed they interviewed a bunch of children and they
asked them what they want to do most and what
they most longed for, and they said they want to
play outside without any supervision with their friends, which is
exactly what we all used to do.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
And we were gifted with the last great childhood man.
We really were, Especially if you're gen X, you were
gifted with the last great childhood and and I think
that's important, and I think we don't talk enough about
you know, when COVID hit and there were lockdowns and look,
shut up, no one knows, no one knew how to
do it. We did the best we could. Shut up.
(08:13):
You don't know, shut up everybody? Well you don't we
shooting that? Well, yeah, it's easy to look at it now,
but the fact of two years in the house with
these kids trapped on their screens, and uh, you know
the horrible way these algorithms take their brains over. You know, look,
we're adults, and this thing melts our brain. You can't
(08:35):
imagine what it's done to our kids. And so, you know,
I just try to reach out in that way for
my you know, I've started to I've got four kids
doing my whatever you call it, the Instagram, whatever the
hell all that is. I'm from Earth one. I listened
to the radio to record or whatever. I got to
do this to connect. But I I just think I
(08:57):
tell my son and his friends, you know, if you
have to use these things, use them as commerce for
your art. Like my son's a film student. He wants
to do that. Okay, do that, but don't put it down,
put it away for a little bit. You've got to
be able to take breaks from this thing. I honestly
think that if social media would have hit ten X,
I don't think it would have been as big because
we would have been like, that's great, dude, I'm going
(09:18):
to the concert tonight. I look at it Sunday. But
it hit a generation that I think we overcompensated. You know,
we raised the generation of housecats because we were feral
and no one was watching us, so we overcompensated. And
I think it just hit a very sensitive generation and
the world is chaotic, and I just I like to
be a place marker to go. Now, there's an adult
(09:40):
at the table rooting for you. If you've got a question,
ask and here's how we got through.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
That's good. We're speaking with Billy Gardell. Have you ever
to go to a concert and the guy in front
of you the entire concerts taping it on his phone
and holding it up.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
It is what thank you? It is one of my
greatest pet peeves. I'm like, dude, can you just be here?
And by the way, no one's looking at your phone.
You're not going to show anybody that you paid for
all the extra gig or whatever the hell they're called.
No one's watching that. Shut up, just enjoy the show.
Let's be here together, man. And that's one of the
reasons I love live entertainment and stand up and music.
(10:17):
There really are last two vestiges because the movies are dead,
and it's that last place where we all decide to
take that journey together communally. And that's important. And I
hate that the kids missed out on the movies. I mean,
that was the greatest escape and you had to be
reflective and we all agreed to go into a dark
room and the lights go down and it's either going
(10:38):
to suck or it's going to make us cry, or
it's going to make us laugh. But it's going to
make us think and experience, and we're going to do
that with other people. And it just saddens me, you know.
I hear all this chatter on the internet about this
generation doesn't like that generation. I have a solution. If
you really want us Gen xers to go away, here's
my so give us the mall's back. Yeah, and here's
(11:02):
my thing. We make the second floor two bedroom apartments
right then downstairs we're going to need an arcade, We're
going to need a record store, We're going to need
a Spencer's Gifts, an Orange Julius, and a movie theater.
And you make Macy's an urgent care.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
We'll never get that is that is a profound, yeah,
and brilliant idea, and it's sort of it's sort of
happening in a couple of places. We're speaking what's again
with Billy Gardelle. Billy has mounted his tour. They got
you booked through may Are you aware of this?
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Yeah? Yeah, I am. And I you know, I I
unfortunately learned a valuable lesson and realized my age about
two weeks ago. I think sometimes you think you're a
thirty year old comic when you're on the road, and
I am not. I am no longer. And uh I was.
I got sick and I thought it was a cold.
So I was doing the road comic thing, you know.
I started eating vitamin C and zycam and day quill,
(11:58):
and turns out I had pneumonia. Here's what I don't
suggest doing five shows with pneumonia and then going to
a Steelers game. Yes, And so it put me in
the hospital for a little bit because my heart went
into a fib I've never had that happen. That's the
chapter fifty. The warranties just start running out, stuff start busting.
(12:19):
But so they got me all straightened out. But I'm
on beta blockers now and for the next sixty days.
I got to take these things. And my wife bought
me this stupid Apple watch. I can monitor my heartbeat
and I hate that. I'm an analog guy. And the
way she tricked me into it was she goes, well,
you can put snoopy on the front. You like snoopy?
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Yeah, yeah, I had one of those. I got sick
of my watch. Then get up and walk around.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Yeah, it doesn't We're the same game. Whenever I see
it saying it's time to stand, I go, shut up.
Don't tell me what.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
You mentioned. Your son, who's twenty two, will Thanksgiving be
at your place this year?
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Yes, sir, I'm very very excited. He's got a girlfriend
and uh, they're about six months in and I know
it's going good because I don't hear from him unless
he needs a debit card charged up. And so she's
coming home, uh, to our house for Thanksgiving and we
get to have my wife is just giddy and so
am I. We really like her, but I told her
(13:24):
we all got to play our best part so she
doesn't think we're crazy and we don't run her off.
We gotta we got to ease her in, you know
what I mean. So we're excited she's coming to visit
for the holidays. And like he was one of those
kids at drove late too, you know what I mean,
like for driving like twenty two, like last year, he
started driving amazingly around the time he got a girlfriend.
(13:46):
Before that, I'll take the train, and you get a girlfriend,
I need a car. Yeah, got at work. They don't
really want to ride the bus with you. You got
to get it.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Yeah, I have a technical congestion for you. When it's
time to take a photograph of the group at Thanksgiving,
figure out a delicate way to make sure you get
one without her, just in case the girlfriend isn't around
later on. Hey, just speaking from experience.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
That's it's like when you first start dating someone, you
don't play all your music around them because you don't
want to ruin any albums.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Just yes, Springsteen, Yeah, I missed the mixtape. Those were
the days.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
The mixtape was a true Sign of Love. It told stories,
it painted pictures. Man, it was so thoughtful and I
used to love making those.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
In my era, you'd go to the apartment and start
rifling through the albums.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
How about that? And I still I have my vinyl
collection with me. In fact, I have one room in
my house because after twenty five years of marriage, if
you've been a decent husband, they give you a playroom
for all your stuff. In here, it's like Indiana Jones's
dad's office. There's records And I'm not going into the
future with everybody. I've made the decision. I wish everybody well,
(15:07):
good luck with the robots. I ain't going.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Yeah, we're speaking with Billy Gardell, Mike and Molly was
and is one of my favorite shows of all time.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
I so appreciate that you always champion.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Do you Do you ever stumble upon an episode ago?
I think I'm gonna watch this one. Is there one
that you if you if you happen on it, you go,
I've got to watch this one one more time because
the other guys in the cast were amazing, and the
ladies are and they're they're terrific. That's a great cast.
Is there one that you just love.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Honestly, I love them all. I still watch it. We
all talk about that. We get together for lunch once
a month, the Mike and Molly gang, Melissa and Reno
and and Rondie and lou and the whole gang gets together,
and you know, it's gone from hey, what's next in
our career and how do we make the show better?
To hey, what can't you eat? What hurts some of you? Yeah,
(15:54):
that's what conversations are, but we all have that affinity
for that time. We all still watch the EPID since
they really hold up. And I honestly believe we made
a classic TV shit that one. Bob Art's was good,
but Mike and Molly I believe that was one of
those classics. And I love watching I always it always
gives me a kick. I used to watch them when
we were filming. I'd watch it like game tape, like Okay,
(16:16):
you could do that better. That entrance was good, but
you could have done this better. But I always it's
always baffled me if people get into television or the
movies and they're like, I don't watch my work, Well,
why are you doing that? Why exactly did you get involved?
I don't understand. So I'm a fan of the show.
I'm a fan of those people, and it brings back
so many warm memories when I watch that show and
(16:37):
you remember what was going on backstage or or who
was messing with who, because we always tried to break
each other up, and there was a genuine love in
that cast. I mean, we all still hang out, which
is really nice.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
My favorite episode, by the way, is the one in
which the book is getting published and the publisher has
the water that's presented in the water of the bottled
water is in a globe and it's not exactly clear
how you can actually access the water.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
No, And she was brilliant with that too, because when
they handed it to her, they at the beginning they
were trying to show her how to open it, and
she's like, no, don't don't tell me how to She goes,
I want to struggle with it on camera and spill
it all over myself, and it just became a great scene. Yeah,
so typical literary Hollywood agent. I'm like, who hands anybody
a ball of water?
Speaker 5 (17:24):
We're speaking with Billy Gardell and he's got the big
tour mounting soon and a big Thanksgiving coming up at
his place. Do you do any of the cooking or
is that assigned to al hitters.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Yeah, we have a big routine out here. We usually
have about twenty twenty five people. And I love Thanksgiving
because it's the holiday of gratitude and it's kind of
the family that you make and we take in a
few strays and there's a few family members and I
do the turkeys, and my wife and my buddy John,
they're in the kitchen and they handle all the sides
(17:58):
and we have a real routine yet here, without fail,
is what my wife will do. Now, I've been doing
this Thanksgiving for twenty three years, okay, and most of
the people have been with us that entire time. No
one has ever gotten sick in my house. But every
time it'll be in that highlight moment where you're bringing
(18:18):
the turkeys in. I cook two turkeys, I smoke them,
but bring them in, put them on a table. Without fail,
my wife for twenty three years will go is that cooked? Cook?
And it took me about twenty two years to not
bite and just go yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Well, I'm sure, I'm sure it's delicious. Each other. Uh,
Billy Gardell, thank you so much, sir.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
And I love you guys. Thank you so much for
your support of Alloyd and I hope you guys have
a beautiful holiday, beauty.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Thank you to love you.
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Welcome back. It's another Bob and Tom extra. This is Christopher.
Not only is the Bob and Tom Show live every
weekday morning, but every afternoon. We'll give you a little
extra in case you missed anything on today's big show.
Actor comedian Billy Gardell. He's coming up in just a minute.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hi, this is Kevin Harlan. The NBA on Prime crew
is back in the Quest for the Emirates NBA Cup
is center court once again. Group play is over. Now
the remaining eight teams do battle in the knockout rounds,
and Prime is your exclusive home for all the action.
It all starts with the quarterfinals, two consecutive nights of
(00:44):
can't miss doubleheaders this Tuesday and Wednesday night. When and
you move on to the semifinals, lose and your Quest
for the Cup is over. The stakes are high and
the intensity will be even higher. It's back to back
night some doubleheaders guaranteed to entertain, and if you're not
a Prime member, that's not a problem. Sign up for
(01:06):
a thirty day free trial to get started today. Restrictions apply.
See Amazon dot com slash Amazon Prime for details. The
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on Prime.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
And now another edition to Tuckered Out Thanksgiving Memories from
the Road with the over the Road Trucker Floyd Tucker
Fry Fathers.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
You know, most years I don't even make it home
for Thanksgiving, but I still enjoy home cook suppers around
the holidays. Tutor's Biscuit World off Our sixty four in
Charles to West Virginia is my favorite stuff. Every biscuit
that's born is bite from scratch. Might keep rising them
saltshakers so it won't clump on you them. Breakfast buraders
(01:57):
are dashboard tonight. If I know thanks Giving on the go,
I'll just say grace and have one of them. But
the last Thanksgiving I had at home was three years ago.
I was down in my back. Took almost four weeks
off the road that year. Mcdameh my first wife decided
we commenced to having dinner over at and Mother's her
mother's doing better now, not then. She always makes best desserts.
(02:21):
Of course, this time she'd made two full paans or
something she calls next best thing to Robert Redford signed
it so rich You'll thank you died and went straight
to heaven and she insisted we dessert first. On the
count of freezer was out and there was no good
way to keep it chilled. She made two big helpings
in a microwave safe dish. It said John Hopkins on
(02:43):
the side of it. I don't know who he is,
but all of his cook work kind of shape like bedpans,
didn't taste the same that yet I reckon she didn't
use enough shortnings. That's what I said. Robert Redford seen
better days, and this dessert has two. Then it was
on the sun. Well, like most families were big old tradition,
(03:03):
So we all gathered around the table Indian styles, just
like the Pilgrims did. Big Dave made enough corn bread
cast row that year defeated offensive line. We had everything,
all the sides, mash tighters, chicken fingers, and bagel bites.
The bagelo bytes or something else the size of a
hockey parker taste just like pizza. I remember my mother
(03:25):
in law couldn't pass the gravy on the County Cardinal
tunnel was acted up and I found out ketchup goes
good with corn bread. About that time, my heating pads
short it out the fuse box. I went downstairs to
change the fuse and noticed there's still a whole mess
of green beans on the stove. So I brought the
whole part of beans back upstairs and we dove into
the beans, which had plenty of season in this year.
(03:47):
I found bacon in the braith right stripping mine, figguring
my mother in law sinus infection was acting up again.
She wears under armored a help of circulation, but the
cholesterols higher than mine is. She told me I should
start eating them goglets to help my cholesterol. Thing about
Gogan says it may help you cholesterol, but I had
(04:08):
one head of a time getting my spoon out of
that little tube. Whoever designed that and needs to go
straight to hell, stupid buzzard. That may have been our
best Thanksgiving. Having same year, my uncle Ferd lost down
acres betting on the Blue Gray football game. The next year,
her tell my mother in law really started going downhill.
She select the honey bake ham with vicked vapor rub.
(04:30):
All of my in laws spent that whole night in
the emergency room and that Jewish hospital. It was quiet
a night. We watched the Cowboys win and then met
some lady with the tilted Judas, and that ain't had
as bad as next year it when she served up
deep pried Benny bass. You'd think it wouldn't work, but
they savaged most of it. And even though it won't
sing the classics anymore, the head still wiggles a little bit.
(04:54):
Happy Thanksgiving, honeys, I'm Floyd Tucker, and I'm tuckered out.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
For those of you who always need something extra, well,
here you go.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
This is Bob and Tom extra and let's go to
a celebrity corner with our own man about Hollywood. It's
Tom gris. Well, Tom, what's going on this morning? Well?
I think electronically. Look at that handsome guy I don't
even recognize. Is that Robert Culp? Yeah? Oh man, we
(05:26):
could do I spy. Well, I guess we have got
a cost.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
I was thinking more like we could reboot The Rockford Files.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
But what do I That is the voice of actor
comedian Billy Gardell. No mustache, no mustache. No.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
After Bob Hart's iola ended, I had had that mustache
for about five years. And the day it ended, when
I came home, my wife goes, okay, get rid of
the cactus. I've hugged it long enough, I was informed
that I would be shaving that as soon as no.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Are you home right now?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
I am, sir. I am in my house, and good
morning to all of you, and thank you for having
me on. As always, I really appreciate it so.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Well to thank you for being with us.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
We love you. Now I know that the tour is
about to start. Have you named your tour?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Yeah, it's called the Less is More Tour. To get there,
I had to write the jokes first. Apparently I'm from
the old school. You actually write the material, then you
actually perform the material, present the material. It's a crazy thing.
So yeah, and it kind of plays in two ways.
One obviously my weight loss transformation and I and I
(06:38):
talk about that a lot on stage. But it also
has to do with the fact we need to slow down.
In my opinion, we cannot walk around this earth without
being plugged and tethered in filmed camera. And I've been
trying to pass the message on to the younger generation
that you need to you need to experience things with
your eyes, your ears, and your heart once in a
(06:59):
while and just with those things just for you, and
you got to take a minute to pump the brakes,
And I kind of got that from talking to my
son who's twenty two, and you know, they're you know I,
like I said, I root for these kids. I don't
rip on them. I think that's low hanging fruit and
s easy to be the crotchety old guy on lawn.
Shut up. Yeah, No, these kids are going through. I
(07:20):
mean they're going through the regular freak out we did
when we grew up, which is who am I going
to be? Is anybody going to love me? Am I
ever going to have a place to live? What's my
place in the world? Then you had social media, then
you had the state of the world. I think these
kids need to know there's an adult rooting for them,
So I kind of come at it from that actual billy.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
There's a new study out I was reading about yesterday
that showed they interviewed a bunch of children and they
asked them what they want to do most and what
they most longed for, and they said they want to
play outside without any supervision with their friends, which is
exactly what we all used to do.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
And we were gifted with the last great childhood man.
We really were, Especially if you're gen X, you were
gifted with the last great childhood and and I think
that's important, and I think we don't talk enough about
you know, when COVID hit and there were lockdowns and look,
shut up, no one knows, no one knew how to
do it. We did the best we could. Shut up.
(08:13):
You don't know, shut up everybody? Well you don't we
shooting that? Well, yeah, it's easy to look at it now,
but the fact of two years in the house with
these kids trapped on their screens, and uh, you know
the horrible way these algorithms take their brains over. You know, look,
we're adults, and this thing melts our brain. You can't
(08:35):
imagine what it's done to our kids. And so, you know,
I just try to reach out in that way for
my you know, I've started to I've got four kids
doing my whatever you call it, the Instagram, whatever the
hell all that is. I'm from Earth one. I listened
to the radio to record or whatever. I got to
do this to connect. But I I just think I
(08:57):
tell my son and his friends, you know, if you
have to use these things, use them as commerce for
your art. Like my son's a film student. He wants
to do that. Okay, do that, but don't put it down,
put it away for a little bit. You've got to
be able to take breaks from this thing. I honestly
think that if social media would have hit ten X,
I don't think it would have been as big because
we would have been like, that's great, dude, I'm going
(09:18):
to the concert tonight. I look at it Sunday. But
it hit a generation that I think we overcompensated. You know,
we raised the generation of housecats because we were feral
and no one was watching us, so we overcompensated. And
I think it just hit a very sensitive generation and
the world is chaotic, and I just I like to
be a place marker to go. Now, there's an adult
(09:40):
at the table rooting for you. If you've got a question,
ask and here's how we got through.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
That's good. We're speaking with Billy Gardell. Have you ever
to go to a concert and the guy in front
of you the entire concerts taping it on his phone
and holding it up.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
It is what thank you? It is one of my
greatest pet peeves. I'm like, dude, can you just be here?
And by the way, no one's looking at your phone.
You're not going to show anybody that you paid for
all the extra gig or whatever the hell they're called.
No one's watching that. Shut up, just enjoy the show.
Let's be here together, man. And that's one of the
reasons I love live entertainment and stand up and music.
(10:17):
There really are last two vestiges because the movies are dead,
and it's that last place where we all decide to
take that journey together communally. And that's important. And I
hate that the kids missed out on the movies. I mean,
that was the greatest escape and you had to be
reflective and we all agreed to go into a dark
room and the lights go down and it's either going
(10:38):
to suck or it's going to make us cry, or
it's going to make us laugh. But it's going to
make us think and experience, and we're going to do
that with other people. And it just saddens me, you know.
I hear all this chatter on the internet about this
generation doesn't like that generation. I have a solution. If
you really want us Gen xers to go away, here's
my so give us the mall's back. Yeah, and here's
(11:02):
my thing. We make the second floor two bedroom apartments
right then downstairs we're going to need an arcade, We're
going to need a record store, We're going to need
a Spencer's Gifts, an Orange Julius, and a movie theater.
And you make Macy's an urgent care.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
We'll never get that is that is a profound, yeah,
and brilliant idea, and it's sort of it's sort of
happening in a couple of places. We're speaking what's again
with Billy Gardelle. Billy has mounted his tour. They got
you booked through may Are you aware of this?
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Yeah? Yeah, I am. And I you know, I I
unfortunately learned a valuable lesson and realized my age about
two weeks ago. I think sometimes you think you're a
thirty year old comic when you're on the road, and
I am not. I am no longer. And uh I was.
I got sick and I thought it was a cold.
So I was doing the road comic thing, you know.
I started eating vitamin C and zycam and day quill,
(11:58):
and turns out I had pneumonia. Here's what I don't
suggest doing five shows with pneumonia and then going to
a Steelers game. Yes, And so it put me in
the hospital for a little bit because my heart went
into a fib I've never had that happen. That's the
chapter fifty. The warranties just start running out, stuff start busting.
(12:19):
But so they got me all straightened out. But I'm
on beta blockers now and for the next sixty days.
I got to take these things. And my wife bought
me this stupid Apple watch. I can monitor my heartbeat
and I hate that. I'm an analog guy. And the
way she tricked me into it was she goes, well,
you can put snoopy on the front. You like snoopy?
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Yeah, yeah, I had one of those. I got sick
of my watch. Then get up and walk around.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Yeah, it doesn't We're the same game. Whenever I see
it saying it's time to stand, I go, shut up.
Don't tell me what.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
You mentioned. Your son, who's twenty two, will Thanksgiving be
at your place this year?
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Yes, sir, I'm very very excited. He's got a girlfriend
and uh, they're about six months in and I know
it's going good because I don't hear from him unless
he needs a debit card charged up. And so she's
coming home, uh, to our house for Thanksgiving and we
get to have my wife is just giddy and so
am I. We really like her, but I told her
(13:24):
we all got to play our best part so she
doesn't think we're crazy and we don't run her off.
We gotta we got to ease her in, you know
what I mean. So we're excited she's coming to visit
for the holidays. And like he was one of those
kids at drove late too, you know what I mean,
like for driving like twenty two, like last year, he
started driving amazingly around the time he got a girlfriend.
(13:46):
Before that, I'll take the train, and you get a girlfriend,
I need a car. Yeah, got at work. They don't
really want to ride the bus with you. You got
to get it.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Yeah, I have a technical congestion for you. When it's
time to take a photograph of the group at Thanksgiving,
figure out a delicate way to make sure you get
one without her, just in case the girlfriend isn't around
later on. Hey, just speaking from experience.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
That's it's like when you first start dating someone, you
don't play all your music around them because you don't
want to ruin any albums.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Just yes, Springsteen, Yeah, I missed the mixtape. Those were
the days.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
The mixtape was a true Sign of Love. It told stories,
it painted pictures. Man, it was so thoughtful and I
used to love making those.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
In my era, you'd go to the apartment and start
rifling through the albums.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
How about that? And I still I have my vinyl
collection with me. In fact, I have one room in
my house because after twenty five years of marriage, if
you've been a decent husband, they give you a playroom
for all your stuff. In here, it's like Indiana Jones's
dad's office. There's records And I'm not going into the
future with everybody. I've made the decision. I wish everybody well,
(15:07):
good luck with the robots. I ain't going.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Yeah, we're speaking with Billy Gardell, Mike and Molly was
and is one of my favorite shows of all time.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
I so appreciate that you always champion.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Do you Do you ever stumble upon an episode ago?
I think I'm gonna watch this one. Is there one
that you if you if you happen on it, you go,
I've got to watch this one one more time because
the other guys in the cast were amazing, and the
ladies are and they're they're terrific. That's a great cast.
Is there one that you just love.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Honestly, I love them all. I still watch it. We
all talk about that. We get together for lunch once
a month, the Mike and Molly gang, Melissa and Reno
and and Rondie and lou and the whole gang gets together,
and you know, it's gone from hey, what's next in
our career and how do we make the show better?
To hey, what can't you eat? What hurts some of you? Yeah,
(15:54):
that's what conversations are, but we all have that affinity
for that time. We all still watch the EPID since
they really hold up. And I honestly believe we made
a classic TV shit that one. Bob Art's was good,
but Mike and Molly I believe that was one of
those classics. And I love watching I always it always
gives me a kick. I used to watch them when
we were filming. I'd watch it like game tape, like Okay,
(16:16):
you could do that better. That entrance was good, but
you could have done this better. But I always it's
always baffled me if people get into television or the
movies and they're like, I don't watch my work, Well,
why are you doing that? Why exactly did you get involved?
I don't understand. So I'm a fan of the show.
I'm a fan of those people, and it brings back
so many warm memories when I watch that show and
(16:37):
you remember what was going on backstage or or who
was messing with who, because we always tried to break
each other up, and there was a genuine love in
that cast. I mean, we all still hang out, which
is really nice.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
My favorite episode, by the way, is the one in
which the book is getting published and the publisher has
the water that's presented in the water of the bottled
water is in a globe and it's not exactly clear
how you can actually access the water.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
No, And she was brilliant with that too, because when
they handed it to her, they at the beginning they
were trying to show her how to open it, and
she's like, no, don't don't tell me how to She goes,
I want to struggle with it on camera and spill
it all over myself, and it just became a great scene. Yeah,
so typical literary Hollywood agent. I'm like, who hands anybody
a ball of water?
Speaker 5 (17:24):
We're speaking with Billy Gardell and he's got the big
tour mounting soon and a big Thanksgiving coming up at
his place. Do you do any of the cooking or
is that assigned to al hitters.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Yeah, we have a big routine out here. We usually
have about twenty twenty five people. And I love Thanksgiving
because it's the holiday of gratitude and it's kind of
the family that you make and we take in a
few strays and there's a few family members and I
do the turkeys, and my wife and my buddy John,
they're in the kitchen and they handle all the sides
(17:58):
and we have a real routine yet here, without fail,
is what my wife will do. Now, I've been doing
this Thanksgiving for twenty three years, okay, and most of
the people have been with us that entire time. No
one has ever gotten sick in my house. But every
time it'll be in that highlight moment where you're bringing
(18:18):
the turkeys in. I cook two turkeys, I smoke them,
but bring them in, put them on a table. Without fail,
my wife for twenty three years will go is that cooked? Cook?
And it took me about twenty two years to not
bite and just go yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Well, I'm sure, I'm sure it's delicious. Each other. Uh,
Billy Gardell, thank you so much, sir.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
And I love you guys. Thank you so much for
your support of Alloyd and I hope you guys have
a beautiful holiday, beauty.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Thank you to love you.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
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